EFC, if there was one thing that got everyone at my usual table in the dining hall laughing till they fell out of their chair was to mention EFC.
It'd be one thing if the family actually contributed that amount but usually it was just a ding against any aid you could get.
Reciprocity was another good one. When you saw a Benz in the parking lot you could be 99% sure a student from Chicago owned it and they got to pay the same, or less, than the rust bucket driving (in-state) locals.
And here I was paying for food because I ordered it. To think of all the people I missed out on impressing because I treated paying for a service as a matter of fact thing. And tipping, I could've saved a lot by not tipping when I've gone out to eat without a date. Why didn't you tell the world this sooner?
This is/., so Apple is bad, therefore anything Apple doesn't like is Good even if it was so evil it made the devil envious before Apple didn't like it.
I find/. rather handy for that. The more/. hates something the better it is.
That fashion statement pantsed all the "real" tablet makers in one go, who are now desperately trying to play me-too in what used to be their own game. Give it a bit more credit.
Cheap is the key word. Apple will happily concede the cheap tablet market to Android. (Note the lack of cheap tower systems from Apple? It's not an oversight.)
Getting the cheap, crappy user experience associated with your competitor is a big marketing win.
Also, the Xoom and co. may be better on specs but it does not sound like it has nearly the polish as the iPad. A good tablet will have better specs and at least as much polish as the iPad.
A "good" tablet will only have better specs. Geeks will excrete bodily fluids over it but everyone else will be back to the iPad.
April Fools jokes poison the never-forgets-anything-except-the-date-it-appear web for months (if not years if the topic doesn't generate enough non-joke content to push the joke content off the first page).
Google should ignore anything indexed on or around April 1st unless you tell it to specifically allow them.
"or carefully rigging the final, "real" effort to produce the desired result"
Since you've only seen a small number of their show you may not know that the "final, real effort" is generally the step where they do what it takes to replicate the myth with little reliance on chance to make it work.
From Car vs. Snowplow, we know the 'reality' point is somewhere between (but not including) a conventional snowplow and a rocket powered wedge. Where that point is other than beyond a conventional snowplow isn't important. A car can be split in half by a moving object but that object is not a snowplow.
For a time it was thought that the safest/best place for the treasures of Egypt was England, whether the Egyptians liked it or not.
In the days of proto-archaeology it was about profit and there was a fair bit of destruction of "unimportant" stuff but unlike old style tomb robbers stuff did get documented and preserved.
While stealing does not mean preserving outright, it can lead to preserving if the thief (or who he fences it to) places more (non-monetary) value in the object than the owner.
So if someone writes a piece of GPL software like it was minified would it be violating the GPL? Is it their responsibility to make sure you can understand it?
Fly for a three hour road trip? You'd be a special kind of daft if think you'd arrive before the person driving a car.
You have to get to the airport, through the airport, lift off from the airport, here's the fast bit fly to the other airport, land, get off the airplane, get any luggage, get a rental car and then you get to do all that again to go home.
Nope, you're not alone, it just seems like it on this site where most are unlikely to do a commute longer than the trip from the basement to the kitchen.
An hour's drive to someplace fun on the weekend is rare for me. It's usually a three hour (one way) drive on the weekend.
Though I do miss out on that 15 mile walk to the nearest car rental place. If only I had an electric, it'd sit in my garage and look pretty while I drive a different ICE car every weekend.
I wouldn't call it irrational. You can't "top off" at a 24hr station and be on your way and have a safe margin of range to get where you're going if you're passing through desolate (or unsafe) areas.
My motorcycle has about a 6 gallon tank, and depending on conditions gets 35-45mpg. 2 hours interstate (140 miles) or 3 hours highway (180 miles) is about as long as I'll go between fills. I should have 240 or so miles between fills but head winds, speed, amount of traffic (you don't have to tailgate to get the benefits of someone else breaking up the air) can make that vary wildly. My motorcycle can be filled at any station. An electric is dead in the water if it can't be charged at home, which it very well may not make it back to.
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It's more expensive if you can't/don't/won't store what you don't use for that single meal.
Common sense isn't.
It's Spawning Induced Stupidity SYndrome.
EFC, if there was one thing that got everyone at my usual table in the dining hall laughing till they fell out of their chair was to mention EFC.
It'd be one thing if the family actually contributed that amount but usually it was just a ding against any aid you could get.
Reciprocity was another good one. When you saw a Benz in the parking lot you could be 99% sure a student from Chicago owned it and they got to pay the same, or less, than the rust bucket driving (in-state) locals.
And here I was paying for food because I ordered it. To think of all the people I missed out on impressing because I treated paying for a service as a matter of fact thing. And tipping, I could've saved a lot by not tipping when I've gone out to eat without a date. Why didn't you tell the world this sooner?
This is /., so Apple is bad, therefore anything Apple doesn't like is Good even if it was so evil it made the devil envious before Apple didn't like it.
I find /. rather handy for that. The more /. hates something the better it is.
That fashion statement pantsed all the "real" tablet makers in one go, who are now desperately trying to play me-too in what used to be their own game. Give it a bit more credit.
Cheap is the key word. Apple will happily concede the cheap tablet market to Android. (Note the lack of cheap tower systems from Apple? It's not an oversight.)
Getting the cheap, crappy user experience associated with your competitor is a big marketing win.
I'd say Flash is a format that requires constant excuses.
Also, the Xoom and co. may be better on specs but it does not sound like it has nearly the polish as the iPad. A good tablet will have better specs and at least as much polish as the iPad.
A "good" tablet will only have better specs. Geeks will excrete bodily fluids over it but everyone else will be back to the iPad.
Nail files are the last thing you learn to use, first the rifle, then the pistol, then the knife, then finally the nail file.
Did they pull a Google and delete it from your phone?
April Fools jokes poison the never-forgets-anything-except-the-date-it-appear web for months (if not years if the topic doesn't generate enough non-joke content to push the joke content off the first page).
Google should ignore anything indexed on or around April 1st unless you tell it to specifically allow them.
"or carefully rigging the final, "real" effort to produce the desired result"
Since you've only seen a small number of their show you may not know that the "final, real effort" is generally the step where they do what it takes to replicate the myth with little reliance on chance to make it work.
From Car vs. Snowplow, we know the 'reality' point is somewhere between (but not including) a conventional snowplow and a rocket powered wedge. Where that point is other than beyond a conventional snowplow isn't important. A car can be split in half by a moving object but that object is not a snowplow.
For a time it was thought that the safest/best place for the treasures of Egypt was England, whether the Egyptians liked it or not.
In the days of proto-archaeology it was about profit and there was a fair bit of destruction of "unimportant" stuff but unlike old style tomb robbers stuff did get documented and preserved.
While stealing does not mean preserving outright, it can lead to preserving if the thief (or who he fences it to) places more (non-monetary) value in the object than the owner.
So if someone writes a piece of GPL software like it was minified would it be violating the GPL? Is it their responsibility to make sure you can understand it?
How dare they try to reduce the size of the pages the serve!
I wonder if GPLv4 will have clauses stating which indentation style is allowable.
It's common for anyone not living in the urban blight zone of my state. And for the adjacent states to the west.
How many times have you left your city? Block?
If only the filibusticans had thought of that one.
They'd never do that though, requires more effort than just agreeing to filibuster.
The barbarian made it to the gate, best to watch him for awhile before we let him in.
"Why do Republicans have this preoccupation with things being shoved down their throats ?"
They secretly wish they were porn stars?
Fly for a three hour road trip? You'd be a special kind of daft if think you'd arrive before the person driving a car.
You have to get to the airport, through the airport, lift off from the airport, here's the fast bit fly to the other airport, land, get off the airplane, get any luggage, get a rental car and then you get to do all that again to go home.
Nope, you're not alone, it just seems like it on this site where most are unlikely to do a commute longer than the trip from the basement to the kitchen.
An hour's drive to someplace fun on the weekend is rare for me. It's usually a three hour (one way) drive on the weekend.
Though I do miss out on that 15 mile walk to the nearest car rental place. If only I had an electric, it'd sit in my garage and look pretty while I drive a different ICE car every weekend.
I wouldn't call it irrational. You can't "top off" at a 24hr station and be on your way and have a safe margin of range to get where you're going if you're passing through desolate (or unsafe) areas.
My motorcycle has about a 6 gallon tank, and depending on conditions gets 35-45mpg. 2 hours interstate (140 miles) or 3 hours highway (180 miles) is about as long as I'll go between fills. I should have 240 or so miles between fills but head winds, speed, amount of traffic (you don't have to tailgate to get the benefits of someone else breaking up the air) can make that vary wildly. My motorcycle can be filled at any station. An electric is dead in the water if it can't be charged at home, which it very well may not make it back to.