Please slide a physical latch and tell me how you were able to fool your eyes, and everyone else in the room, into thinking the latch had not opened/moved?
Yeah, I am pretty sure the latch has a way of "presenting an image" and even "moving the image".
What about the LG phone my wife has? You can "double tap" (kinda sounds nasty, huh) it to unlock. How many patents are there!!!
Can I patent the "technology" to "circle to open"? Can improve upon multi touch and create a "pinch to open" that even shows a visual image representing me squeezing your head to unlock the phone?
How many other patent-able ideas can we come up with in this thread?
What's funny is that SSNs and MACs are very similar. They are both unique identifiers. The only reason you see it as different is that SSN has been treated more like a password than a serial number.
You don't understand cloud computing as it is discussed today. It refers to putting storage (and maybe utilizing apps) on a remote machine that you don't own (and most likely in a place that you can't directly access). That isn't in the same ballpark as colo or even shared hosting. In the latter you have full access to your account, usually with a great connection, and can download your data quickly. Also if you have important data at a colo, you better have 2 servers replicating.
Really?? You might want to read something by Bertrand Russell. There are others as well, which you can google, that will tell you of the massive amount of evil done by believing in such fairy tales. There are entire books on this subject, so I won't try to convince you in a/. post, but that line of thinking is dangerous and you should really put more thought into what you support.
I have no idea what AT&T's network is like, but this affected us in San Antonio as well. But there are approximatly 14 geeks in SA, so nobody really noticed. I have a feeling it probably affected most of Central Texas.
All cities? or just some? Many large, but not NYC cities don't have 75% without a car. I live in one of the top 10 largest cities in the US, but do I know a single person that doesn't own a car (or at least one in the family)? Nope. Single person that doesn't drive daily? Only a few. It it about infrastructure... and our governments have screwed that up. Retarted zoning practices are the prime example. You can work here, but you can't live within a mile because that is "industrial" land. Have you ever walked to a Wal-Mart? It's 3/4 of a mile just to get out of the parking lot! I agree that cities are probably more efficient, but we can make them much better.
You should go try some of the new "pub" theaters. I just tried one for the first time. Pervious to that I was the same as you about going to the movies (and have the home theater to prove it). I hated the cramped seating, morons eating and whispering and so on. This new theater has a full bar and restaraunt. Every other row of seats was removed and they put in tables for your drinks and food. It was really nice (the theater not so much, but the whole experience). There are a few more distractions (waiters, people eating even louder food) but the uncramped conditions makes up for it (no seat kicks!!).
And these aren't nerds only anymore. Now my sister is in on the action (she is kinda a nerd), but so are all of her housewife friends - they all know how to get free movies, they trade them, they download telly-tubby dvd's for the kids and all that crap. So yes, it is starting to affect movie ticket sales. However I don't want her and her 3 boys at the movie theater anyways.
But it is a two week event, held a special location where the entire world will converge... not exactly like internet choices at home. This is the price of covering the olympics. Also I am willing to bet there was some sort of competition in the form of bids/quotes on running the connections.
Ergo archaeological "proof" is not some Holy Grail like it is for the Fundamentalists; we don't need everything to be a true historical event, we don't need the Prodigal Son to have existed to understand what the moral of the story is
HUH? You don't need any proof, you don't care if the center of your religion didn't exist? So basically you setup a religion based on a story - used some old texts to make it "real" and then when people finally start to refute your claims (in mass, science and tech helping) you all say, "Well we don't really base our beliefs on that book... it's the moral of the story." What a fucking hoax. Christianity == Worlds_Biggest_Cult
Well, when I did it from here in the USA, I didn't get any ads, as promised. I immediately considered buying some "flash development" ads, but alas, I am not that good with flash. Perhaps those Belgium flash programmers just jumped on the opportunity quickly.
I hate the bombardment of updates I have to run now. Windows, Adobe, some install manager, Adobe, Java, Abobe... You get the idea.
But the reality is that this "agile" stuff only makes sense if you are improving the product. I don't want to install 38 updates to get acrobat 8.1.4 and get nothing (read: improved or added features) in return! Make the product stable for 6 fscking months! Also don't realease a major update every year!
So companies that like to sell software based on 12-18 month releases will never move to a true "agile" development... that would mean upgrading features and basic functionality without the end user paying for it... GASP!
I am not really familiar with Asperger's, but it just seems a little out there and a little like a get-out-of-jail-free card. I will read up on it, perhaps that will soften my opinion.
But just like you and the other guy said, it was installed by someone that "gets it" or forced by people that "get it"... not installed by the regular users. Also that 20-30% isn't even close to the percentages on my websites. We see around 10% (they are not computer related websites).
I realize we are home users, as well as professional. The reason I gave that guy crap was that I am a "run-of-the-mill" writer, but I don't hang out on pentopaper.com (no idea what that site is) and bitch when professional writers discuss things that don't apply to me or that I don't understand. The OP was relavent, his reply was just dumb.
As to all your questions, yes I am paid to do that. But even if not, most developers don't make hardware decisions, but they probably have an MSDN sub, or can talk to their IT dept and get XP (yes legally).
You are completely wrong. You can resell retail versions of XP with no problem. Possibly OEM as well. You just can't resell the copy that came with your Dell, as it is marked "not for resell".
Asperger's, like autism, makes cause and effect a little difficult to process.
All programming is, is cause and effect. I call this, pass this value, this happens, this returns, net effect is...
So if he can code an exploit or botnet or whatever, he can understand it was against the law. Also if he can conclude that "doing this to prove his skills" is beneficial, he can conclude that actually releasing and using it will not be beneficial.
And you just proved his point. You just told half of the population that if they want to work in research related fields, they can't have a natural born child. It doesn't affect men, but this might be a real problem with some women.
Culture didn't force women to have less valuable interests, but rather it took interests that women already had and devalued them socially.
In the 60's and 70's when droves of women entered the workforce, Men already had all the good jobs, and the jobs lined up to get these jobs. Men already had all the crummy jobs too.
Women took the cheaper paying jobs to "get in the door". Men moved up. Really, we are only 50 years past when most Women didn't have a job ever! I am probably wrong, and I am sure someone will let me know.
I got modded a troll the last time I said something like this...
One of the strengths of OS X is that it runs on a limited, well-understood suite of hardware. Bugs are easier to fix, components are easier to tweak, and new features are more easily added. I do not, and never have, believed that Apple would be well served by opening up OS X. It's a tightly run ship (for the most part), and opening it up to all hardware would serve neither Apple nor end users.
So you are saying...
MS is full of better programmers than Apple... or
It really isn't PC's fault!!!... It's all Mac's fault.
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Please slide a physical latch and tell me how you were able to fool your eyes, and everyone else in the room, into thinking the latch had not opened/moved?
Yeah, I am pretty sure the latch has a way of "presenting an image" and even "moving the image".
What about the LG phone my wife has? You can "double tap" (kinda sounds nasty, huh) it to unlock. How many patents are there!!!
Can I patent the "technology" to "circle to open"? Can improve upon multi touch and create a "pinch to open" that even shows a visual image representing me squeezing your head to unlock the phone?
How many other patent-able ideas can we come up with in this thread?
What's funny is that SSNs and MACs are very similar. They are both unique identifiers. The only reason you see it as different is that SSN has been treated more like a password than a serial number.
You don't understand cloud computing as it is discussed today. It refers to putting storage (and maybe utilizing apps) on a remote machine that you don't own (and most likely in a place that you can't directly access). That isn't in the same ballpark as colo or even shared hosting. In the latter you have full access to your account, usually with a great connection, and can download your data quickly. Also if you have important data at a colo, you better have 2 servers replicating.
Really?? You might want to read something by Bertrand Russell. There are others as well, which you can google, that will tell you of the massive amount of evil done by believing in such fairy tales. There are entire books on this subject, so I won't try to convince you in a /. post, but that line of thinking is dangerous and you should really put more thought into what you support.
EPIC FAIL.
You did get the last two words right.
I have no idea what AT&T's network is like, but this affected us in San Antonio as well. But there are approximatly 14 geeks in SA, so nobody really noticed. I have a feeling it probably affected most of Central Texas.
All cities? or just some? Many large, but not NYC cities don't have 75% without a car. I live in one of the top 10 largest cities in the US, but do I know a single person that doesn't own a car (or at least one in the family)? Nope. Single person that doesn't drive daily? Only a few. It it about infrastructure... and our governments have screwed that up. Retarted zoning practices are the prime example. You can work here, but you can't live within a mile because that is "industrial" land. Have you ever walked to a Wal-Mart? It's 3/4 of a mile just to get out of the parking lot! I agree that cities are probably more efficient, but we can make them much better.
You should go try some of the new "pub" theaters. I just tried one for the first time. Pervious to that I was the same as you about going to the movies (and have the home theater to prove it). I hated the cramped seating, morons eating and whispering and so on. This new theater has a full bar and restaraunt. Every other row of seats was removed and they put in tables for your drinks and food. It was really nice (the theater not so much, but the whole experience). There are a few more distractions (waiters, people eating even louder food) but the uncramped conditions makes up for it (no seat kicks!!).
And these aren't nerds only anymore. Now my sister is in on the action (she is kinda a nerd), but so are all of her housewife friends - they all know how to get free movies, they trade them, they download telly-tubby dvd's for the kids and all that crap. So yes, it is starting to affect movie ticket sales. However I don't want her and her 3 boys at the movie theater anyways.
Well, I thought it was clever.
But it is a two week event, held a special location where the entire world will converge... not exactly like internet choices at home. This is the price of covering the olympics. Also I am willing to bet there was some sort of competition in the form of bids/quotes on running the connections.
Ergo archaeological "proof" is not some Holy Grail like it is for the Fundamentalists; we don't need everything to be a true historical event, we don't need the Prodigal Son to have existed to understand what the moral of the story is
HUH? You don't need any proof, you don't care if the center of your religion didn't exist? So basically you setup a religion based on a story - used some old texts to make it "real" and then when people finally start to refute your claims (in mass, science and tech helping) you all say, "Well we don't really base our beliefs on that book... it's the moral of the story." What a fucking hoax. Christianity == Worlds_Biggest_Cult
You know MS has this little known program called MSSQL. At least flame apples to apples.
Well, when I did it from here in the USA, I didn't get any ads, as promised. I immediately considered buying some "flash development" ads, but alas, I am not that good with flash. Perhaps those Belgium flash programmers just jumped on the opportunity quickly.
I hate the bombardment of updates I have to run now. Windows, Adobe, some install manager, Adobe, Java, Abobe... You get the idea.
But the reality is that this "agile" stuff only makes sense if you are improving the product. I don't want to install 38 updates to get acrobat 8.1.4 and get nothing (read: improved or added features) in return! Make the product stable for 6 fscking months! Also don't realease a major update every year!
So companies that like to sell software based on 12-18 month releases will never move to a true "agile" development... that would mean upgrading features and basic functionality without the end user paying for it... GASP!
I am not really familiar with Asperger's, but it just seems a little out there and a little like a get-out-of-jail-free card. I will read up on it, perhaps that will soften my opinion.
But just like you and the other guy said, it was installed by someone that "gets it" or forced by people that "get it"... not installed by the regular users. Also that 20-30% isn't even close to the percentages on my websites. We see around 10% (they are not computer related websites).
I realize we are home users, as well as professional. The reason I gave that guy crap was that I am a "run-of-the-mill" writer, but I don't hang out on pentopaper .com (no idea what that site is) and bitch when professional writers discuss things that don't apply to me or that I don't understand. The OP was relavent, his reply was just dumb.
As to all your questions, yes I am paid to do that. But even if not, most developers don't make hardware decisions, but they probably have an MSDN sub, or can talk to their IT dept and get XP (yes legally).
You are completely wrong. You can resell retail versions of XP with no problem. Possibly OEM as well. You just can't resell the copy that came with your Dell, as it is marked "not for resell".
[we] are, in fact, normal home users
Then your not really the target audience for this website. I have no idea how you got modded informative, much less anything.
Asperger's, like autism, makes cause and effect a little difficult to process.
All programming is, is cause and effect. I call this, pass this value, this happens, this returns, net effect is...
So if he can code an exploit or botnet or whatever, he can understand it was against the law. Also if he can conclude that "doing this to prove his skills" is beneficial, he can conclude that actually releasing and using it will not be beneficial.
You don't have to lie to impress us.
And you just proved his point. You just told half of the population that if they want to work in research related fields, they can't have a natural born child. It doesn't affect men, but this might be a real problem with some women.
Culture didn't force women to have less valuable interests, but rather it took interests that women already had and devalued them socially.
In the 60's and 70's when droves of women entered the workforce, Men already had all the good jobs, and the jobs lined up to get these jobs. Men already had all the crummy jobs too.
Women took the cheaper paying jobs to "get in the door". Men moved up. Really, we are only 50 years past when most Women didn't have a job ever! I am probably wrong, and I am sure someone will let me know.
One of the strengths of OS X is that it runs on a limited, well-understood suite of hardware. Bugs are easier to fix, components are easier to tweak, and new features are more easily added. I do not, and never have, believed that Apple would be well served by opening up OS X. It's a tightly run ship (for the most part), and opening it up to all hardware would serve neither Apple nor end users.
So you are saying...
MS is full of better programmers than Apple... or
It really isn't PC's fault!!!... It's all Mac's fault.