If the dumbasses that got their auction "stolen" at the last minute didn't put in the absolute maximum that they wanted to pay for the item, then that's their own fault.
Sure, but who knows the absolute max they will pay? The whole point of an auction is to compete directly with other bidders to find that maximum.
If you don't put your maximum bid in straight off and keep incrementing your bid, you are really just engaging in really inefficient sniping.
Yeah, that is what real actions are.... really inefficient sniping. There is nothing wrong with it, per se. The problem is that eBay does not provide a proper mechanism for "really inefficient sniping." It comes down to timing with your web browser.
Adding a ten minute extension wouldn't really solve this. It would work great for sellers because the emotionally invested bidders would run up their bids more than they otherwise would.
It woudl totally solve it. The whole point of an auction to give emotionally invested bidders a place to run up bids. Otherwise it isn't really an auction.
The buyers however would be better off just joining the snipers rather than fighting them. If everyone sniped it would basically revert to the pre-sniping days.
But the "max" is just an approximation. I might put down $100 as my max, but if paying $101 means I can get the item over someone else who also put $100 as max, I'll pay the extra $1. That is where sniping come in. As the summary said, i always took sniping for granted. If you really want an ebay item, you almost always have to be there at the very last second of the auction to get that final bid in.
Why should every site have to implement a translation/dictionary tool? With a browser extension I can tranlate anything on any site. And it works exactly as I want. There is no complaining about how a particular site decides to implement translation or dictionary lookups. I've even gone so far as to convert a German novel (eBook) to HTML just so I can use gTranslate to help me along. The browser extension is WAY better than anything AJAX on a specific site could deliver.
AJAX may be good for web site developers who want to implement translations. But for users, a browser extension is better.
Oh come on, Edlin is all you need to start developing serious web apps in Ruby. Get a DOS machine and you are set. For the sarcasm-impaired the parent is typical of the "We haven't implemented it, so you don't need it" crowd.
More like the "Quit your whining and start coding if you are really that interested in it" crowd. He's complaining about not having a "single installer." And he goes on to wish Ruby was more like MS Access, of all things. MS Access!? What kind of point of comparison is that?
Many times, I have tried learning it on my own and have been frustrated by missing or conflicting versions of components. I'm waiting for some folks to develop a one install package that will take care of all packages needed to develop serious apps on Ruby. An IDE like Access on the JET database engine would be very welcome.
Oh come on. Settting up a Rails environment isn't that hard. And that is all you need to start developing "serious" (web) apps in Ruby. Get a Mac and run Textmate and you are set. I tried RADRails for an IDE and found it to be slow (Java GUIs suck ass) and didn't offer much over Textmate.app + Terminal.app.
The pay movie channels really aren't all that great, IMO. Except for the homegrown series that can be pretty good, the movie selection sucks. They just repeat the same limited set of movies all month long. And if you have a cable provider that does on-demand, you can usually watch most of them for free anytime you want. For the cost of just one or two premium channels you can get a Netflix account and get just about any movie you want. Spend a month or three seriously abusing Netflix and you can end up with a pretty big collection of ripped movies which you can reencode however you want and put on whatever device you want.
Heck, I don't even have cable anymore. I used to use a MythTV box to record TV, but now I just use it to play shows downloaded from Bittorrent. That is, when it is too early to get the show on DVD from Netflix. I wasn't watching the commercials anyway, so I don't feel like a pirate. (they were being broadcast for free originally). Saves a lot of money per month. Cable is just too damn expensive.
I once played this web based role playing game a while ago. It was just a so-so game, but one exceptional thing I did notice was that while playing from a Mac I would get randomly named.exe files downloaded to my desktop. Turns out that ads on this game site were just full of malware. Visiting from a Windows computer, I was getting prompted to install crap. So I went to report it on their forums and find out what was being done about it. They didn't care! The site maintainers claimed there was nothing they could do about it. It was their ad provider's fault. All they could say was "you should be running malware protections.." Needless to say, I was outraged by this irresponsibility. I told them off and never visited their god forsaken site again.
How can you NOT take responsibility for malware spread through your own site? I understand that people contract out ads, but geez, come on. No need to draw from the bottom of the barrel.
Except the Tylenol PM bit. If you're trying to avoid strange chemicals in your body you may as well avoid this one, too. Plus the lack of caffeine for a few days will help you get to bed early -- and sleep better, too. But I wouldn't go to bed at 6pm unless the exam is very early the next morning. Waking up an hour early is a good idea, though...
I have a tough time going to bed early. I've tried. And when I can managed to fall asleep, I will rarely sleep through the night. I will usually wake up often and have a difficult time getting back to sleep. If I go to sleep later (not too late, obviously) I can get better quality sleep (even if it is less quanitity). But maybe that is because I am a night owl....
A similar thing has happened to me, albeit not as seriously. Just use cold, hard logic. Do not let emotions get the best of you. Reason it out, you know this, you've been studying this for months, you have done countless other problems like it.
Unless you've had all out panic where you feel like jumping out of your skin and fleeing from the room, you don't really know what it is like. I've had my share of panic situations, and I can honestly say that "cold hard logic" is worthless in these situations. It only feeds the paranoia and perpetuates the feedback loop that eventually snowballs out of control. No matter how logical the thoughts, there is always a "what if." For example, "I've studied this for months. I know this material... but what if I freeze up and draw a blank? Oh no! I think I've freezing up! I can't remember anything! What am I going to do? Oh God, the teacher can see that I am panicking! He's gonna fail me for interrupting the exam..."
Best thing to do is to simply (or maybe not so simply) stop the thoughts. Take pause. Breath. Focus on breath. Maybe breath into a paper bag if available. Have someone comfort you (probably not appropriate in an exam situation though). There is no reasoning through a panic attack in most cases unless the reasoning is coming from someone else that you trust.
Unfortunately pot actually contributes to/causes panic attacks for some people (me, for one). Yeah, sucks, I know.:-P
-matthew
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I seem to remember reading that the Ren and Stimpy characters were sold to Nickelodeon or the creator was fired or something like that after the first batch of episodes. So there is good reason why it changed dramatically. As long as Futurama keeps the same creative bunch, there is a good chance that it will be good as ever.
look at it this way, with private entities doing the work, competeing with each other, we will may end up with different cures for the same problems allowing a broader range of people to benefit.
See, the problem with that is private entities are quite often not interested in finding cures. More than anything, they try to come up with long term treatments that will bring in recurring profits from each and every user over the lifetime of their patent. Privatization is not the answer to everything. I'd almost rather entrust research to entities whose only motivation is prestige. Treatments are good. Cures are better... and not just for the people, but also for the prestige.
So what you need is a gameboy emulator that doesn't say "GAMEBOY" in the taskbar. alt-tab would hide it real quick. Alt-tab vs. alt-pgup in Firfox.... hmm seems like a pretty trivial reason to make a Firefox gameboy emulator.
Actually, after some more thought i realized that it would require an extension to make the phone number clickable in the first place which could be done in a relatively simple extension and then call an external app as you say.
Yeah, because you know everyone is just dying to be able to make personal phone calls from their web browser. Seriously, the only VoIP services that pose any serious threat to the big phone companies are real POTS replacements like Vonage or Speakeasy VoIP, etc. You know, the services that you can plug your regular phone into and not be chained to your computer. Services that offer 911.
Good question. It isn't like it is cross platform or anything. So not only is it limited to Firefox, but also Windows. Seems like a silly set of restrictions just to get the "convenience" of clicking on a phone number and calling or whatever it does. How often does that happen, anyway? Calling tech support from a vendor support page?
Surely there is something to be said for someone who is willing to use *meetings* to get out of doing work. That takes some real dedication to not working. Everyone loves dedication, right?
The real market share is the number of pages on the net that are coded to some IE standard rather than the open standard. That's the real market share here.
And had DOS not been supplanted by Windows or OS/2, it would have native support for those too.
Native? Hardly. DOS had no native mechanism for abstracting anything but the disk (Disk Operating System).
Remeber VESA extensions?
BIOS exension, not OS.
Do you remember when DOS had no support for fixed disk drives?
Again, DOS only handles disks. Almost everything else, graphics, network, memory management, etc was left to the application or some third party TSR.
DOS has as much kernel support for printing as Linux does today. LP, IPP, and CUPS are all userspace programs.
Userspace or kernel space, doesn't matter. The printing support ships with the OS and applications are not required to access the hardware directly. That is what matters.
Again, your blame is misplaced. The majority of those problems could be placed squarely on the shoulders of users' love of TSR programs. When users tried to make DOS into a pseudo multitasking OS with no VMM support and limited addressing due to real mode operation, you can expect problems like that.
They were trying to utilize the hardware that they paid for, you moron. You are blaming users for trying to find ways to work around the massive shortcomings of an OS that was designed to run a computer from 1981? I've heard of OS apolgetics, but your flavor take the cake.
DOS was easy in the same way that using a large stone as a hammer is easy. It'll probably get a nail into a board, but anything beyond that you have to make/buy your own tools.
Spoken like an individual who hasn't spent much time troubleshooting registry problems, DLL inconsistencies, viruses, spyware, and keyloggers. I'd much rather try to find extra conventional memory under DOS.
Indeed, I got off the Microsoft boat a long time ago. Some time around Windows 95. If you are simply comparing DOS to Windows, then maybe you have a point. But that doesn't make DOS any less of a piece of shit OS in my eyes.
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Sure, but who knows the absolute max they will pay? The whole point of an auction is to compete directly with other bidders to find that maximum.
Yeah, that is what real actions are.... really inefficient sniping. There is nothing wrong with it, per se. The problem is that eBay does not provide a proper mechanism for "really inefficient sniping." It comes down to timing with your web browser.
It woudl totally solve it. The whole point of an auction to give emotionally invested bidders a place to run up bids. Otherwise it isn't really an auction.
But joining hte snipers to fight them.
-matthew
But the "max" is just an approximation. I might put down $100 as my max, but if paying $101 means I can get the item over someone else who also put $100 as max, I'll pay the extra $1. That is where sniping come in. As the summary said, i always took sniping for granted. If you really want an ebay item, you almost always have to be there at the very last second of the auction to get that final bid in.
-matthew
Or you can just find/make a browser extension that does it for ANY site the way you want.
-matthew
Why should every site have to implement a translation/dictionary tool? With a browser extension I can tranlate anything on any site. And it works exactly as I want. There is no complaining about how a particular site decides to implement translation or dictionary lookups. I've even gone so far as to convert a German novel (eBook) to HTML just so I can use gTranslate to help me along. The browser extension is WAY better than anything AJAX on a specific site could deliver.
AJAX may be good for web site developers who want to implement translations. But for users, a browser extension is better.
-matthew
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/918/
More like the "Quit your whining and start coding if you are really that interested in it" crowd. He's complaining about not having a "single installer." And he goes on to wish Ruby was more like MS Access, of all things. MS Access!? What kind of point of comparison is that?
-matthew
Stop pushing your meta-PC agenda.
-matthew
Oh come on. Settting up a Rails environment isn't that hard. And that is all you need to start developing "serious" (web) apps in Ruby. Get a Mac and run Textmate and you are set. I tried RADRails for an IDE and found it to be slow (Java GUIs suck ass) and didn't offer much over Textmate.app + Terminal.app.
-matthew
Beta blockers so you can smoke pot? Or to treak general panic attacks? I think I'll just stay away from pot in public places, thanks. ;-)
-matthew
Time for me to subscribe to HBO.
The pay movie channels really aren't all that great, IMO. Except for the homegrown series that can be pretty good, the movie selection sucks. They just repeat the same limited set of movies all month long. And if you have a cable provider that does on-demand, you can usually watch most of them for free anytime you want. For the cost of just one or two premium channels you can get a Netflix account and get just about any movie you want. Spend a month or three seriously abusing Netflix and you can end up with a pretty big collection of ripped movies which you can reencode however you want and put on whatever device you want.
Heck, I don't even have cable anymore. I used to use a MythTV box to record TV, but now I just use it to play shows downloaded from Bittorrent. That is, when it is too early to get the show on DVD from Netflix. I wasn't watching the commercials anyway, so I don't feel like a pirate. (they were being broadcast for free originally). Saves a lot of money per month. Cable is just too damn expensive.
I once played this web based role playing game a while ago. It was just a so-so game, but one exceptional thing I did notice was that while playing from a Mac I would get randomly named .exe files downloaded to my desktop. Turns out that ads on this game site were just full of malware. Visiting from a Windows computer, I was getting prompted to install crap. So I went to report it on their forums and find out what was being done about it. They didn't care! The site maintainers claimed there was nothing they could do about it. It was their ad provider's fault. All they could say was "you should be running malware protections.." Needless to say, I was outraged by this irresponsibility. I told them off and never visited their god forsaken site again.
How can you NOT take responsibility for malware spread through your own site? I understand that people contract out ads, but geez, come on. No need to draw from the bottom of the barrel.
-matthew
I have a tough time going to bed early. I've tried. And when I can managed to fall asleep, I will rarely sleep through the night. I will usually wake up often and have a difficult time getting back to sleep. If I go to sleep later (not too late, obviously) I can get better quality sleep (even if it is less quanitity). But maybe that is because I am a night owl....
-matthew
Unless you've had all out panic where you feel like jumping out of your skin and fleeing from the room, you don't really know what it is like. I've had my share of panic situations, and I can honestly say that "cold hard logic" is worthless in these situations. It only feeds the paranoia and perpetuates the feedback loop that eventually snowballs out of control. No matter how logical the thoughts, there is always a "what if." For example, "I've studied this for months. I know this material... but what if I freeze up and draw a blank? Oh no! I think I've freezing up! I can't remember anything! What am I going to do? Oh God, the teacher can see that I am panicking! He's gonna fail me for interrupting the exam..."
Best thing to do is to simply (or maybe not so simply) stop the thoughts. Take pause. Breath. Focus on breath. Maybe breath into a paper bag if available. Have someone comfort you (probably not appropriate in an exam situation though). There is no reasoning through a panic attack in most cases unless the reasoning is coming from someone else that you trust.
-matthew
Unfortunately pot actually contributes to/causes panic attacks for some people (me, for one). Yeah, sucks, I know. :-P
-matthew
I seem to remember reading that the Ren and Stimpy characters were sold to Nickelodeon or the creator was fired or something like that after the first batch of episodes. So there is good reason why it changed dramatically. As long as Futurama keeps the same creative bunch, there is a good chance that it will be good as ever.
-matthew
See, the problem with that is private entities are quite often not interested in finding cures. More than anything, they try to come up with long term treatments that will bring in recurring profits from each and every user over the lifetime of their patent. Privatization is not the answer to everything. I'd almost rather entrust research to entities whose only motivation is prestige. Treatments are good. Cures are better... and not just for the people, but also for the prestige.
-matthew
Wow, you actually *turned into* a pasty-skinned freak in front of your computer all day long? I though we were all born that way.
-matthew
So what you need is a gameboy emulator that doesn't say "GAMEBOY" in the taskbar. alt-tab would hide it real quick. Alt-tab vs. alt-pgup in Firfox.... hmm seems like a pretty trivial reason to make a Firefox gameboy emulator.
-matthew
Actually, after some more thought i realized that it would require an extension to make the phone number clickable in the first place which could be done in a relatively simple extension and then call an external app as you say.
-matthew
You do know that if you run Windows, you have your applications in little "tabs" in the bottom of the screen, right? Is alt-tab really that hard?
Yeah, because you know everyone is just dying to be able to make personal phone calls from their web browser. Seriously, the only VoIP services that pose any serious threat to the big phone companies are real POTS replacements like Vonage or Speakeasy VoIP, etc. You know, the services that you can plug your regular phone into and not be chained to your computer. Services that offer 911.
-matthew
Good question. It isn't like it is cross platform or anything. So not only is it limited to Firefox, but also Windows. Seems like a silly set of restrictions just to get the "convenience" of clicking on a phone number and calling or whatever it does. How often does that happen, anyway? Calling tech support from a vendor support page?
-matthew
Surely there is something to be said for someone who is willing to use *meetings* to get out of doing work. That takes some real dedication to not working. Everyone loves dedication, right?
-matthew
BTW, what *is* the IE alternative to CSS?
-matthew
Native? Hardly. DOS had no native mechanism for abstracting anything but the disk (Disk Operating System).
BIOS exension, not OS.
Again, DOS only handles disks. Almost everything else, graphics, network, memory management, etc was left to the application or some third party TSR.
Userspace or kernel space, doesn't matter. The printing support ships with the OS and applications are not required to access the hardware directly. That is what matters.
They were trying to utilize the hardware that they paid for, you moron. You are blaming users for trying to find ways to work around the massive shortcomings of an OS that was designed to run a computer from 1981? I've heard of OS apolgetics, but your flavor take the cake.
Indeed, I got off the Microsoft boat a long time ago. Some time around Windows 95. If you are simply comparing DOS to Windows, then maybe you have a point. But that doesn't make DOS any less of a piece of shit OS in my eyes.
-matthew