Look, the cow is home. I guess she finally got that check I sent in the mail. She just told the pig the news and he took off with it. The devil will know tomorrow.
Concorde was the future. When I was a kid, I sometimes caught glimpses of it around Dulles airport near DC, and as a young man I got to see some fantastic take-offs. I'd like to see commercial SST and humans on the Moon again in my lifetime. I was too young to have a clear memory of the latter. All I have is a vague memory of being kept up late for a change because "he should see this", and a lot of people being proud of what we were doing. We've regressed to not have these things, even if they are only for a select few. We've learned a lot since then. We can probably do it much more efficiently and safely now.
Literally decades ago in Virginia, a state not considered progressive at all, they were measuring gasses at the tailpipe. This may have only been NoVa though, which is part of the DC metro. I'm not sure what they did in the rest of the state; but IIRC it was a state program not county. I've been away from there a while but I have a hard time believing it changed. I seem to recall there being some confusion about what they would do when an EV pulled in. I guess they got waivers or something.
I didn't actually pay attention to what the CA smog inspector did. It was hands-off on my part. I seem to recall that some of those Virginia inspections would actually require me to sit in the car and rev it. I wonder if they still do that because you figure it's only a matter of time before some idiot puts it in gear.
So VW incorporated stuff you see advertised in the back of hot-rod mags into the car. Now they'll have to go after those after-market guys, assuming the chips actually do what they say. It's not like anybody even tells state inspectors they swapped out the chips. I'm not sure how much this goes on. I've got a relatively new car and have only had it smogged once since I bought it. No, I don't plan on ever messing with it. I just know that such things exist.
A lot of people can't wrap their head around this. I once posed the question, "What would happen if one king owned all the gold?", and I got some pretty bizarre responses. Some people just couldn't wrap their head around the fact that when money leaves the economy, the economy switches to a different form of money and becomes degenerate before that happens. One poster seemed to think that gold would somehow still be required for tax payments, despite the fact that all the gold was already in the treasury and was thus impossible to render as payment. Many refused to see the king as being potentially capital and/or government. They were locked into the idea that he was one or the other, based on their ingrained political philosophy.
Editor: We have the code.
Commander: Can you authenticate?
Editor: Yes, the story is authentic.
Commander: Can you verify?
Editor: Turning key.
Commander: WTF? The procedure is authenticate and ver--BOOM!
No idea what "Qwikster" does. Burn money quickly? I forgot to mention the king of those awful names: Accenture. The only way I can ever remember that is to google Anderson Consulting, which pulls up the name-change story. OK.. had to look up Qwikster... it was apparently a failed initiative by Netflix. BTW, Netflix is a great name. It practically sums up their whole business model, right there in the name. It makes sense. It's easy to remember and pronounce. It sounds like English, not a Yoga chant. If Netflix had been named in 1999, it'd be Vidato... OK... googling... LOL, some furniture company in Europe uses that.
Not quite. Mechanics are technicians. The engineer takes a few simple rules and uses them to design complex systems. The technician examines complex systems and attempts to find the simple rule that isn't being followed.
IMHO, it's somewhat elitist or prejudicial on the part of engineers to look down on technicians.
It's more like they are confusing a certified mechanic or an automotive engineer with somebody who read a few hotrod magazines.
These things are definitely trendy. Remember the late 90s when there was a trend in corporate naming towards neologisms using certain syllables? We got Verizon, Altria, Avaya, etc. I seem to recall writing a script that could generate such names, and they all looked plausible. I think the script could generate 1000s of possible combinations, so it was pretty spooky when it actually generated Altria.
Even if there were no other reasons, it would be a good idea to send the new people up on a short mission. I'm going to guess that people on long missions did short ones before.
Maintenance, fuel, registration and insurance aren't expensive enough. I need another recurring fee and some privacy invasion. I'm sold if it's compatible with my Zune though.
I remember the Weezer video that came on the CD. It was amazing to me that my PC could finally play video in a window like on Knight Rider. Now it's just part of every day life.
I was a victim of voter suppression in Virginia, and I'm "white". How did this happen? I was attending the University of Virginia. A local official lied and said that students must register in their home county. There were locals who didn't want students affecting local politics. IIRC, there was a lawsuit over this. Obviously there is no remedy to recall the lost vote. What's done is done.
For the record, I support voter ID. It seems fundamental to me. The DMV will issue non-driving IDs to anybody who wants one. If you cannot get to the DMV, somebody will get you there. Virginia is no exception. They even visited my mother when she was incapacitated, checking to see if she could make a rational response to questions. It may have been a party operative; but she would have been able to register without leaving her bed, had she been able.
The arguments against voter ID based on statistics are just that--they know that certain parties might vote less frequently if they were subject to some minor inconvenience. It's a red herring though. You can also subject people to other inconveniences such as changing the polling place or the times at which polls open. Any change in the voting process is likely to make things more or less convenient for some people or others.
To reiterate though, voter ID is fundamental. You cannot ensure "one person, one vote" without it. Voter ID would not have increased or decreased the type of fraud to which I was subjected, and which is not legal by any stretch of the imagination. Maybe they should spend more time going after that, and if they're that concerned about certain groups not being registered, they're welcome to engage in the time-honored practice of giving people free bus rides, which is also perfectly legal AFAIK.
It took me a minute or two to realize you aren't checking the length of both strings. The real red flag for me was that it doesn't use the standard library's comparison function.
This. Said before and will say again. MS is following the "let's kick our existing customers to the curb to pursue somebody else's business model" strategy.
When the whole Metro/8.0/Windows Store fiasco started, I said something like "If I wanted a Mac I'd already have one" and got modded into oblivion for it. It seems like Slashdot caught on though.
I also have the option to turn off Slashdot's ads; but I've never seen one. I think they get caught up in the dragnet of my blockers. If Slashdot served old-school banners hosted from slashdot.org, and if they were just plain old GIFs or JPEGs with a hyperlink, I probably wouldn't turn them off. Others have expressed a similar idea--bomb advertising back to the mid 1990s, and we'd be OK with it.
Didn't parts of China switch traffic lights so red meant go? I think the idea was red==communism==forward. IIRC, it caused so many problems that they quietly decided the symbolism wasn't that important.
If I had to compile to JS I like to think I could use emscripten, but not being involved in such a project I'm not sure how well it works. When it's supported by the browser, it's designed to strip away most of the layers of crap we've put between ourselves and the machine. IIRC, you can get half the speed of native C by running C compiled to JS this way. Once again though, the browser has to support it. I think in theory it can support any language that LLVM supports on the front end; but I think they've only tested it with C and C++.
Anyway, if you're starting a new project I don't see why you'd want to use a language designed just for compiling to JS when you could use something more general purpose that will potentially run very fast with the proper compiler.
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Look, the cow is home. I guess she finally got that check I sent in the mail. She just told the pig the news and he took off with it. The devil will know tomorrow.
You got bumped from 747 to Concorde? That's the real story here.
Concorde was the future. When I was a kid, I sometimes caught glimpses of it around Dulles airport near DC, and as a young man I got to see some fantastic take-offs. I'd like to see commercial SST and humans on the Moon again in my lifetime. I was too young to have a clear memory of the latter. All I have is a vague memory of being kept up late for a change because "he should see this", and a lot of people being proud of what we were doing. We've regressed to not have these things, even if they are only for a select few. We've learned a lot since then. We can probably do it much more efficiently and safely now.
Weren't you paying attention? His ass is an illusion. His turtles, however, are all the way down.
Literally decades ago in Virginia, a state not considered progressive at all, they were measuring gasses at the tailpipe. This may have only been NoVa though, which is part of the DC metro. I'm not sure what they did in the rest of the state; but IIRC it was a state program not county. I've been away from there a while but I have a hard time believing it changed. I seem to recall there being some confusion about what they would do when an EV pulled in. I guess they got waivers or something.
I didn't actually pay attention to what the CA smog inspector did. It was hands-off on my part. I seem to recall that some of those Virginia inspections would actually require me to sit in the car and rev it. I wonder if they still do that because you figure it's only a matter of time before some idiot puts it in gear.
So VW incorporated stuff you see advertised in the back of hot-rod mags into the car. Now they'll have to go after those after-market guys, assuming the chips actually do what they say. It's not like anybody even tells state inspectors they swapped out the chips. I'm not sure how much this goes on. I've got a relatively new car and have only had it smogged once since I bought it. No, I don't plan on ever messing with it. I just know that such things exist.
MS is in the process of switching from a "software as product" to "customer as product" or "spyvertising" business model.
This shouldn't be a surprise to anybody who has read Satya Nadella's speeches about the direction in which he wants to take the company.
A lot of people can't wrap their head around this. I once posed the question, "What would happen if one king owned all the gold?", and I got some pretty bizarre responses. Some people just couldn't wrap their head around the fact that when money leaves the economy, the economy switches to a different form of money and becomes degenerate before that happens. One poster seemed to think that gold would somehow still be required for tax payments, despite the fact that all the gold was already in the treasury and was thus impossible to render as payment. Many refused to see the king as being potentially capital and/or government. They were locked into the idea that he was one or the other, based on their ingrained political philosophy.
It's less than $2000. Your heating bill alone will be more than that.
This is just like the define obscenity problem. You know it when you see it.
Windows "telemetry". Malware--and after years of zealots on this site tossing that around and me disagreeing, this is not something I say lightly.
Xeonphobia? I think parent might be more Intelligent than he lets on.
Editor: We have the code.
Commander: Can you authenticate?
Editor: Yes, the story is authentic.
Commander: Can you verify?
Editor: Turning key.
Commander: WTF? The procedure is authenticate and ver--BOOM!
The Wiki article does not currently cite an earliest known usage.
No idea what "Qwikster" does. Burn money quickly? I forgot to mention the king of those awful names: Accenture. The only way I can ever remember that is to google Anderson Consulting, which pulls up the name-change story. OK.. had to look up Qwikster... it was apparently a failed initiative by Netflix. BTW, Netflix is a great name. It practically sums up their whole business model, right there in the name. It makes sense. It's easy to remember and pronounce. It sounds like English, not a Yoga chant. If Netflix had been named in 1999, it'd be Vidato... OK... googling... LOL, some furniture company in Europe uses that.
Not quite. Mechanics are technicians. The engineer takes a few simple rules and uses them to design complex systems. The technician examines complex systems and attempts to find the simple rule that isn't being followed.
IMHO, it's somewhat elitist or prejudicial on the part of engineers to look down on technicians.
It's more like they are confusing a certified mechanic or an automotive engineer with somebody who read a few hotrod magazines.
These things are definitely trendy. Remember the late 90s when there was a trend in corporate naming towards neologisms using certain syllables? We got Verizon, Altria, Avaya, etc. I seem to recall writing a script that could generate such names, and they all looked plausible. I think the script could generate 1000s of possible combinations, so it was pretty spooky when it actually generated Altria.
Even if there were no other reasons, it would be a good idea to send the new people up on a short mission. I'm going to guess that people on long missions did short ones before.
Maintenance, fuel, registration and insurance aren't expensive enough. I need another recurring fee and some privacy invasion. I'm sold if it's compatible with my Zune though.
I remember the Weezer video that came on the CD. It was amazing to me that my PC could finally play video in a window like on Knight Rider. Now it's just part of every day life.
I was a victim of voter suppression in Virginia, and I'm "white". How did this happen? I was attending the University of Virginia. A local official lied and said that students must register in their home county. There were locals who didn't want students affecting local politics. IIRC, there was a lawsuit over this. Obviously there is no remedy to recall the lost vote. What's done is done.
For the record, I support voter ID. It seems fundamental to me. The DMV will issue non-driving IDs to anybody who wants one. If you cannot get to the DMV, somebody will get you there. Virginia is no exception. They even visited my mother when she was incapacitated, checking to see if she could make a rational response to questions. It may have been a party operative; but she would have been able to register without leaving her bed, had she been able.
The arguments against voter ID based on statistics are just that--they know that certain parties might vote less frequently if they were subject to some minor inconvenience. It's a red herring though. You can also subject people to other inconveniences such as changing the polling place or the times at which polls open. Any change in the voting process is likely to make things more or less convenient for some people or others.
To reiterate though, voter ID is fundamental. You cannot ensure "one person, one vote" without it. Voter ID would not have increased or decreased the type of fraud to which I was subjected, and which is not legal by any stretch of the imagination. Maybe they should spend more time going after that, and if they're that concerned about certain groups not being registered, they're welcome to engage in the time-honored practice of giving people free bus rides, which is also perfectly legal AFAIK.
It took me a minute or two to realize you aren't checking the length of both strings. The real red flag for me was that it doesn't use the standard library's comparison function.
This. Said before and will say again. MS is following the "let's kick our existing customers to the curb to pursue somebody else's business model" strategy.
When the whole Metro/8.0/Windows Store fiasco started, I said something like "If I wanted a Mac I'd already have one" and got modded into oblivion for it. It seems like Slashdot caught on though.
I also have the option to turn off Slashdot's ads; but I've never seen one. I think they get caught up in the dragnet of my blockers. If Slashdot served old-school banners hosted from slashdot.org, and if they were just plain old GIFs or JPEGs with a hyperlink, I probably wouldn't turn them off. Others have expressed a similar idea--bomb advertising back to the mid 1990s, and we'd be OK with it.
Didn't parts of China switch traffic lights so red meant go? I think the idea was red==communism==forward. IIRC, it caused so many problems that they quietly decided the symbolism wasn't that important.
If I had to compile to JS I like to think I could use emscripten, but not being involved in such a project I'm not sure how well it works. When it's supported by the browser, it's designed to strip away most of the layers of crap we've put between ourselves and the machine. IIRC, you can get half the speed of native C by running C compiled to JS this way. Once again though, the browser has to support it. I think in theory it can support any language that LLVM supports on the front end; but I think they've only tested it with C and C++.
Anyway, if you're starting a new project I don't see why you'd want to use a language designed just for compiling to JS when you could use something more general purpose that will potentially run very fast with the proper compiler.