You forgot: he's using 90% of his energy trying to get Bush re-elected, despite the fact that during his campaign, Romney indicated that he'd be apolitical and essentially independent.
I just don't understand this. As far as I know, the British conjugate the verb "to be" the same way we do here in the states: I am, you are, he is, she is, is is, we are, they are. So a single entity (like British Telecom) should be conjugated as "is". Do brits really use "are" in this case"? Why?
I think that (from the Slashdot submission), it must not be British Telecom. See:
...saying that BT are planning....
Clearly, whatever BT that we're talking about here happens to be a plural entity, whereas British Telecom is a single company (and should use the sinuglar "is" rather than "are"). So, maybe it's "British Twits" who are planning on using VOIP, or "Boring Tarts" or even "Big Testicles", but surely not "British Telecom".
I wonder if there's also a web page describing every episode their cars have been wrecked
[to the tune of the Flinstones theme]
Simpson, Homer Simpson
he's the greatest guy in history
from the town of Springfield,
he's about to hit a chestnut tree.
And that's only if the cracker knows what pattern you're using. How would he know that?
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Er, it's not just about transportation. How do you think they run the tractors that harvest your food? So when we go back to a team of oxen pulling a plow, do you think we can feed all of the people that we've got? How about getting the grains from where they're grown to the big cities that were made possible by efficient transportation? Our ancestors survived without them, but there weren't so damn many of our ancestors....
You're right, what's going on here is on a completely different scale, so it's unfair to call bush a Nazi. But I'm really afraid of what must be going on in that head of his. He's got a long way to go on his "crusade" (his word, not mine) against the terrorists, so we really don't know what he's going to try to do (and what he would do if he were elected for a second term, without Colin Powell to counter all of the hawks in his administration). I really am afraid that they might lose what little perspective they have left. It's time to cut this off before it really gets out of hand - get somebody else in the white house.
You must admit there are parallels with 1930's Germany here, with the whole prison camps without due process (containing one particular ethnic/religious group). Look elsewhere in this discussion for a quote by Hermann Goering.
Exactly. The government has known about the abuse for several months (possibly more than 6). It's only because somebody couldn't keep their mouth shut like they were told that it leaked.
You help him make his point, only it's not Jewish people. You're not hearing about all of the Muslims that they're keeping down at Guantanamo without charges or evidence or notification or anything like that. And that's the problem with this administration and the Patriot Act - georgie's boys can do whatever the hell they want and just say "It's a secret - you can't stop me".
I think that the sorts of jobs where this works well are the sorts of jobs that are most likely to be outsourced. If all the communication that you need to do your job is some emailed spec docs and an occasional phone conversation, why couldn't the email be to somebody in India?
I occasionally work from home, but it wouldn't work for me to work from home too much. I spend a lot of time talking to various people around the office - marketing people who have ideas about what they want to see in the software that I'm working on, internal clients who actually use the software, other technical resources on what's in our data and how to use it, etc. It's my communication skills that ensure that my job isn't going to get outsourced - if a job could be outsourced, it isn't something that I'm interested in.
The problem that I see is this: a really good programmer will spend time considering the best data structures to use. Sometimes those will be Vectors (though I'm not sure that off the top of my head I can think of when you'd want to use a vector instead of a synchronized List of some sort), sometimes they will be ArrayLists and sometimes something else. But the fact that you don't know anything about an ArrayList suggests to me that you might be the sort of programmer who assumes that everything is a nail when you have a hammer. Am I wrong?
Sorry, but the only way that this indicates that Apple is the same as other large companies is that it indicates that they are interested in protecting their business. Really. As other people have mentioned in other threads, this is similar to the FSF or somebody like that going after GPL violators. People who download iTunes songs agree to the terms. They don't want to follow them? Then that's a violation of that contract. You do think that the GPL should be enforced?
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If I'm going to sell my soul, I'm going to sell it for a lot more than that!
Why is this modded as insightful? Anybody who knows how to run something as root (and how to do it) would know how to look at the script and decide what it's doing. It's not like OS X has a "Run as Root" button on the toolbar or anything.
Yes, people can do stupid things. But if you sent that to your average OS X non-power-user, they would do absolutely no damage whatsoever, no matter how much they tried.
lights should be consistent, always taking the same amount of time to turn from yellow to red
Where does the article say anything about shortening the yellow to red part of the cycle? It only mentions shortening the green part of the cycle. Everybody still has the same amount of time to stop, it's just that people speeding will have to stop. The only way that people will be blowing through the red light is if they choose to, the same as it is now.
Want proof? Look at how many times local law enforcement gets caught with their hand in the cookie jar, changing speed limits, moving stop signs, and in general, making traffic laws become a big fat cash cow instead of a safety precaution.
Err, not to be rude, but how is this proof of anything? It's just a blanket statement with nothing to back it up. No logic, no links to studies, etc.
Not weighing into the gun discussion at all (though I certainly have opinions about that!), but weighing in on the overrated thing. Sometimes I think that a comment is so bad that it's overrated if it has not been modded down. So its default score of 1 is too high, thus it's overrated.
Uh, you just described trespassing. Clearly, in the bars vs. Cubs issue, there's no trespassing going on - people have permission to be on the property that they're on.
Although I think it would be a bad decision for them as it would allow for rise in alternative operating systems which could come back to hurt them in the US and other countries
... which is why it's the last thing that Microsoft wants to do. They want people buying their products. Many people buy Microsoft products because they view MS as the only choice. MS doesn't want to change that.
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You forgot: he's using 90% of his energy trying to get Bush re-elected, despite the fact that during his campaign, Romney indicated that he'd be apolitical and essentially independent.
Maybe you're joking and I don't get it....
I just don't understand this. As far as I know, the British conjugate the verb "to be" the same way we do here in the states: I am, you are, he is, she is, is is, we are, they are. So a single entity (like British Telecom) should be conjugated as "is". Do brits really use "are" in this case"? Why?
I think that (from the Slashdot submission), it must not be British Telecom. See:
Clearly, whatever BT that we're talking about here happens to be a plural entity, whereas British Telecom is a single company (and should use the sinuglar "is" rather than "are"). So, maybe it's "British Twits" who are planning on using VOIP, or "Boring Tarts" or even "Big Testicles", but surely not "British Telecom".
I wonder if there's also a web page describing every episode their cars have been wrecked
[to the tune of the Flinstones theme]
Simpson, Homer Simpson
he's the greatest guy in history
from the town of Springfield,
he's about to hit a chestnut tree.
And that's only if the cracker knows what pattern you're using. How would he know that?
Er, it's not just about transportation. How do you think they run the tractors that harvest your food? So when we go back to a team of oxen pulling a plow, do you think we can feed all of the people that we've got? How about getting the grains from where they're grown to the big cities that were made possible by efficient transportation? Our ancestors survived without them, but there weren't so damn many of our ancestors....
You're right, what's going on here is on a completely different scale, so it's unfair to call bush a Nazi. But I'm really afraid of what must be going on in that head of his. He's got a long way to go on his "crusade" (his word, not mine) against the terrorists, so we really don't know what he's going to try to do (and what he would do if he were elected for a second term, without Colin Powell to counter all of the hawks in his administration). I really am afraid that they might lose what little perspective they have left. It's time to cut this off before it really gets out of hand - get somebody else in the white house.
You must admit there are parallels with 1930's Germany here, with the whole prison camps without due process (containing one particular ethnic/religious group). Look elsewhere in this discussion for a quote by Hermann Goering.
Exactly. The government has known about the abuse for several months (possibly more than 6). It's only because somebody couldn't keep their mouth shut like they were told that it leaked.
You help him make his point, only it's not Jewish people. You're not hearing about all of the Muslims that they're keeping down at Guantanamo without charges or evidence or notification or anything like that. And that's the problem with this administration and the Patriot Act - georgie's boys can do whatever the hell they want and just say "It's a secret - you can't stop me".
I think that the sorts of jobs where this works well are the sorts of jobs that are most likely to be outsourced. If all the communication that you need to do your job is some emailed spec docs and an occasional phone conversation, why couldn't the email be to somebody in India?
I occasionally work from home, but it wouldn't work for me to work from home too much. I spend a lot of time talking to various people around the office - marketing people who have ideas about what they want to see in the software that I'm working on, internal clients who actually use the software, other technical resources on what's in our data and how to use it, etc. It's my communication skills that ensure that my job isn't going to get outsourced - if a job could be outsourced, it isn't something that I'm interested in.
The problem that I see is this: a really good programmer will spend time considering the best data structures to use. Sometimes those will be Vectors (though I'm not sure that off the top of my head I can think of when you'd want to use a vector instead of a synchronized List of some sort), sometimes they will be ArrayLists and sometimes something else. But the fact that you don't know anything about an ArrayList suggests to me that you might be the sort of programmer who assumes that everything is a nail when you have a hammer. Am I wrong?
Now, let's not forget inflation. If you factor that in, I think that you were pretty close to where things are today....
Uhh, I'll assume that you mean free databases, because Oracle was certainly usable then....
Sorry, but the only way that this indicates that Apple is the same as other large companies is that it indicates that they are interested in protecting their business. Really. As other people have mentioned in other threads, this is similar to the FSF or somebody like that going after GPL violators. People who download iTunes songs agree to the terms. They don't want to follow them? Then that's a violation of that contract. You do think that the GPL should be enforced?
If I'm going to sell my soul, I'm going to sell it for a lot more than that!
Why is this modded as insightful? Anybody who knows how to run something as root (and how to do it) would know how to look at the script and decide what it's doing. It's not like OS X has a "Run as Root" button on the toolbar or anything.
Yes, people can do stupid things. But if you sent that to your average OS X non-power-user, they would do absolutely no damage whatsoever, no matter how much they tried.
lights should be consistent, always taking the same amount of time to turn from yellow to red
Where does the article say anything about shortening the yellow to red part of the cycle? It only mentions shortening the green part of the cycle. Everybody still has the same amount of time to stop, it's just that people speeding will have to stop. The only way that people will be blowing through the red light is if they choose to, the same as it is now.
Want proof? Look at how many times local law enforcement gets caught with their hand in the cookie jar, changing speed limits, moving stop signs, and in general, making traffic laws become a big fat cash cow instead of a safety precaution.
Err, not to be rude, but how is this proof of anything? It's just a blanket statement with nothing to back it up. No logic, no links to studies, etc.
You're clearly not from Boston, where about half of the drivers only stop for a red light if the driver in front of them did.
Not weighing into the gun discussion at all (though I certainly have opinions about that!), but weighing in on the overrated thing. Sometimes I think that a comment is so bad that it's overrated if it has not been modded down. So its default score of 1 is too high, thus it's overrated.
Have you reported these occurrences?
Uh, you just described trespassing. Clearly, in the bars vs. Cubs issue, there's no trespassing going on - people have permission to be on the property that they're on.
t wont' be until these devices become as small as ipods that they could really be considered "Ipod killers"
I don't think that anybody wants a video device as small as an ipod. What, a 1" screen or something? These will always be entirely different segments.
Although I think it would be a bad decision for them as it would allow for rise in alternative operating systems which could come back to hurt them in the US and other countries
... which is why it's the last thing that Microsoft wants to do. They want people buying their products. Many people buy Microsoft products because they view MS as the only choice. MS doesn't want to change that.
The very last thing that Microsoft wants to do is to force a very large number of people and business to use alternative software.