goverments and her paper. Sometimes I wonder if I'm having just a touch of early senility, or/.'s spell checker is doing something to me, or some combination of both.
We need to do something to prohibit governments from bargaining away the laws. We've devolved into a system where the law is for sale to the highest bidder. The USA's reputation for being less corrupt than other nations is becoming more and more of a joke every day because of stuff like this. Either justice is blind, or it's lame. No "different rules for different folks". Either your state has a code applied equally to all comers, or it's arguable that it has no code at all.
California isn't OOB. It's just cheating because all the other kids in class are cheating. Johnny looked at Joe's paper. Didn't get caught. What am I knocking myself out for? Jane knows math. I'll look at here paper. It works great until nobody in class knows math any more.
, go bored after three and delete the other twenty.
Don't worry. Soon permanent storage space will be so big that nobody deletes anymore. After a while, rm will be removed from Linux distros. You'll just revision the data on your drive, never actually deleting anything. Ha-ha, only serious.
If you're not writing x86 assembly by hand, you have no right to complain. Then an even older guy goes, "if you're not punching cards, you have no right to complain". Then an even older guy goes, "If you're not flipping switches and soldering wires you have no right to complain". Finally, the oldest man in the room stands up and says: "Before there were machines called computers, there were people who did calculations by hand. They were called computers. Most of them were women. If you didn't marry her, you have no right to complain".
it's all about advertising, page views and the sale of your personal data.
I've attempted to coin the term "surveillatizing" for this; but I'm not famous. Many companies are on the spectrum between surveillance and advertising. Anything labeled "security" tends to get corrupted into surveillance. It has become a cliche that when the product is free, you're the product. Most of the casual gaming, cute little app companies are shoving ads at you in some way. IMHO, there's no such thing as pure advertising apps though. Print ads would be an example of pure advertising, since the ad can't pull data from the reader. The aggregation and monitoring aspects of web/mobile ads throw in the element of surveillance. Surveillatizing.
It was really hard for me to get passionate about surveillance or advertising. I've dropped out.
If wiki is to be believed, you're not going to have much luck. I was aware that "wardriving" came from "wardialing" but didn't know that the "war" part was a War Games reference. TIL (Today I Learned, for those not familiar with Reddit).
Before the Internet, Chinese in their villages wondered what was happening in the world. After the Internet, Chinese in their villages looked at their mobile phones and wondered what is happening in the world.
You can't grow much food either. If you're lucky, you can grow a few tomatoes in pots on the balcony. You knew that going in. The trade-off is that you can walk to a farmer's market.
I have no sympathy, assuming that you're actually serious about looking at things this way. Aside from that, power companies aren't the only thing that we have to pay into. If you moved back to suburbia, you're buying more gasoline, you're having to figure out what to do with grass, trees, and garden pests.
I'm guessing it's because the BBS operator didn't sell that as a reliable service. You knew those machines were there. You knew you could route through the BBS to those machines. You had passwords for those machines.
If your BBS's sysop had known a teacher or something, gotten a password, and then re-sold that service... TROUBLE.
FWIW, I was a bit taken aback by TFA because I was under the impression that there was no commercial dial-up Internet until some kind of law was passed in the early 90s, and that AOL and/or CompuServe had something to do with lobbying for it.
Requisition item 453/67-A2NX, drag buoy and speedboat package. Secure an ordinary ski rope to the drag buoy, and detail personnel to effect rescue with speedboat if you lose your grip. Don't you guys know anything?
Raise your hand if you never heard of it. There's just too many people that want to do this kind of thing. I don't think it would have helped them, but the site design sucks too. 1. Metro-like on the front page, always a bad sign. 2. Read the article on Zanskar, which is interesting except that the borderless wall of photos that fill the window is too hard to scroll through on my machine... It jerk, Jerk, JERKS and I have to play finger games to maybe get it to line up right. Don't make it hard on your users like that.
I suppose it all looks great on an iPad, but really... writing code that accomodates different (and not nearly as uncommon as you think) browsers really shouldn't be that hard.
Of course none of that would have saved them because like I said, there's too much of this stuff already.
I look forward to more $unknown_site is shutting down articles on/. in the future.
Of course you also have the option of throwing an ice chest in your car, stocked with whatever sizes of soda you prefer. You could save tons of money, and entirely eliminate waste, by buying 3 litre bottles of generic sodas for $1, and using whatever size cup/bottle you prefer.
That's not a solution. Go back and re-read what I said about the 20 oz. going flat before I could finish it.
Generally, you didn't comprehend much of what I wrote. Coca Cola is a *treat* for me now, not a staple like once was.
That said, it's interesting that through your mist of incomprehension you actually came close to mentioning some things I do now.
If I'm on something other than a grocery run, like a day trip to the beach or something, I do pack a cooler. I have a couple of Glacier (TM) water bottles that are reusable. Theae are available at Whole Foods near here. You pay $6.99 for 750ml of water, which sounds crazy until you factor in the fact that you're getting a reusable stainless bottle for much less than what empty stainless is often sold for. I'm not affiliated with either company.
For the fizzy craving, travel sized Welch's grape juice + Perrier. Once again, not affiliated with either company. This makes a fantastic grape soda, and you know that everything in it is good. Once again though, this is only for an all-day trip. Yes, Perrier makes a difference--it's got a "bite" that I only used to find in Calistoga sparkling water, which is no longer available here.
Maybe now you get the idea that I'm not going to be satisfied lugging over-sized bottles of ever-flattening generic HFCS infused soda around in my car.
The problem of right-sized Coca Cola not being widely available remains. Also noted, It's definitely a "first world problem" we're whining about here.
Who said anything about drinking from a cup? Not every convenience store has a fountain, and even if they do the performance is inconsistent. Vending machines are definitely not fountains. There's no "cup" a lot of times.
There were many times in my Coke-drinking days when I'd partially empty a 20 oz. I just hated wasting the stuff; but I knew I didn't want to drink all of it. It always went flat before I wanted any more.
BTW, the Mexican cokes are still a bit too big. 12 oz. (355 ml) or half-liter. I find 12 oz., poured over ice and shared with somebody is best; although I can tolerate 12 oz. The half-liter is a disturbing trend. The Mexicans certainly don't need it, since they just surpassed the US in obesity.
BTW, I knew the original coke bottle was smaller and found this article about 6.5 oz. bottles.. Sigh... apparently this was available in the UK not that long ago? Maybe they'll bring it back to the US and finally reverse the trend. The original size was just about right. Yes, I'd pay more per oz., but I'd pay the same per *serving*.
Can the Coke executives get that through their heads? Some of us are desiring a *serving*, not a "most ounces for the buck". Wondering what to do with the excess soda, or being suckered into finishing more than you need... is not a pleasant experience. Having a right-sized glass bottle with real sugar in it, that's what some of us want.
Firms often fail to supply products or services that are plainly in demand. Sometimes it's a regulatory perversion that interferes with capitalism. Other times the companies are just dicks. For example, CocaCola with real sugar. For years it was very hard to get because of government interference with the sugar market. Now due to NAFTA we can get Mexican Coke with real sugar. If you want a real American drink, you have to get it from Mexico? How fucked up is that? This would be an example of regulatory perversion.
Not to harp on the soda companies, but they also provide an example of companies being dicks. PepsiCo is a big offender. They buy up restaurants, and you can only get Pepsi there. Coke does this too; but not as aggressively. Both companies bully around small convenience stores. I once met an operator in Virginia who found a way to stock Coke and Pepsi. She actually told me that she was getting away with hiding the competing soda from a distributor when they came around. Possibly she trading wholesale lots with a friendly operator across town. This was a long time ago; but I bet it hasn't changed. These companies are dicks.
They also super-sized their beverages to the exclusion of those of us who wanted smaller portions. I really noticed this in my 20s, when suddenly 20 oz. was the only bottle size you could get a lot of places.
I was able to make the long-run decision to reduce soda consumption dramatically, all but eliminating it. I now enjoy the occasional Mexican coke and that's about it. Many others are not so disciplined, and we all know about proposed government fixes for this but really, you can't fix the fact that the companies are just dicks.
I can't help but be reminded of the Rolly. Does this mean the next stock market crash and recession is next year? Frivolity like this just seems "toppy".
I was kind of assuming that people knew all the cited examples were skewed in favor of women. I specifically put in models as an example to counter the argument that these are not highly paid positions. So since we're ruining the humor by explaining this, we might as well go all the way and cite Forbes for some model examples.
States Rights has always been nothing more than a tool used by people who want something. Usually what they want is to take something from other people. They would just as easily use religion, economics, erroneous statistics, philosophy, or any other intellectual tool they could find.
IMHO, ultimately states don't have rights any more than corporations do. PEOPLE have rights. The PEOPLE should have the right to freely associate and provide broadband. If they want to do that through their city government, fine. There's no need to appeal to "states rights" which has quite a checkered past.
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goverments and her paper. Sometimes I wonder if I'm having just a touch of early senility, or /.'s spell checker is doing something to me, or some combination of both.
We need to do something to prohibit governments from bargaining away the laws. We've devolved into a system where the law is for sale to the highest bidder. The USA's reputation for being less corrupt than other nations is becoming more and more of a joke every day because of stuff like this. Either justice is blind, or it's lame. No "different rules for different folks". Either your state has a code applied equally to all comers, or it's arguable that it has no code at all.
California isn't OOB. It's just cheating because all the other kids in class are cheating. Johnny looked at Joe's paper. Didn't get caught. What am I knocking myself out for? Jane knows math. I'll look at here paper. It works great until nobody in class knows math any more.
, go bored after three and delete the other twenty.
Don't worry. Soon permanent storage space will be so big that nobody deletes anymore. After a while, rm will be removed from Linux distros. You'll just revision the data on your drive, never actually deleting anything. Ha-ha, only serious.
If you're not writing x86 assembly by hand, you have no right to complain. Then an even older guy goes, "if you're not punching cards, you have no right to complain". Then an even older guy goes, "If you're not flipping switches and soldering wires you have no right to complain". Finally, the oldest man in the room stands up and says: "Before there were machines called computers, there were people who did calculations by hand. They were called computers. Most of them were women. If you didn't marry her, you have no right to complain".
it's all about advertising, page views and the sale of your personal data.
I've attempted to coin the term "surveillatizing" for this; but I'm not famous. Many companies are on the spectrum between surveillance and advertising. Anything labeled "security" tends to get corrupted into surveillance. It has become a cliche that when the product is free, you're the product. Most of the casual gaming, cute little app companies are shoving ads at you in some way. IMHO, there's no such thing as pure advertising apps though. Print ads would be an example of pure advertising, since the ad can't pull data from the reader. The aggregation and monitoring aspects of web/mobile ads throw in the element of surveillance. Surveillatizing.
It was really hard for me to get passionate about surveillance or advertising. I've dropped out.
If wiki is to be believed, you're not going to have much luck. I was aware that "wardriving" came from "wardialing" but didn't know that the "war" part was a War Games reference. TIL (Today I Learned, for those not familiar with Reddit).
This reminds me of ls.bat and various other little .bat files people put on DOS and Windows machines for obvious reasons.
bugs per kg of code
That code is heavy, man /hippie.
Before the Internet, Chinese in their villages wondered what was happening in the world. After the Internet, Chinese in their villages looked at their mobile phones and wondered what is happening in the world.
The spec said 18 meters, not 1.8 mm!.
You can't grow much food either. If you're lucky, you can grow a few tomatoes in pots on the balcony. You knew that going in. The trade-off is that you can walk to a farmer's market.
I have no sympathy, assuming that you're actually serious about looking at things this way. Aside from that, power companies aren't the only thing that we have to pay into. If you moved back to suburbia, you're buying more gasoline, you're having to figure out what to do with grass, trees, and garden pests.
Trade-offs. Life is full of them.
I'm guessing it's because the BBS operator didn't sell that as a reliable service. You knew those machines were there. You knew you could route through the BBS to those machines. You had passwords for those machines.
If your BBS's sysop had known a teacher or something, gotten a password, and then re-sold that service... TROUBLE.
FWIW, I was a bit taken aback by TFA because I was under the impression that there was no commercial dial-up Internet until some kind of law was passed in the early 90s, and that AOL and/or CompuServe had something to do with lobbying for it.
Requisition item 453/67-A2NX, drag buoy and speedboat package. Secure an ordinary ski rope to the drag buoy, and detail personnel to effect rescue with speedboat if you lose your grip. Don't you guys know anything?
Raise your hand if you never heard of it. There's just too many people that want to do this kind of thing. I don't think it would have helped them, but the site design sucks too. 1. Metro-like on the front page, always a bad sign. 2. Read the article on Zanskar, which is interesting except that the borderless wall of photos that fill the window is too hard to scroll through on my machine... It jerk, Jerk, JERKS and I have to play finger games to maybe get it to line up right. Don't make it hard on your users like that.
I suppose it all looks great on an iPad, but really... writing code that accomodates different (and not nearly as uncommon as you think) browsers really shouldn't be that hard.
Of course none of that would have saved them because like I said, there's too much of this stuff already.
I look forward to more $unknown_site is shutting down articles on /. in the future.
To be fair, he was only confused about this because the summary was complete and utter crap.
Yeah, the summary is shit. Maybe we should have it tested.
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Of course you also have the option of throwing an ice chest in your car, stocked with whatever sizes of soda you prefer. You could save tons of money, and entirely eliminate waste, by buying 3 litre bottles of generic sodas for $1, and using whatever size cup/bottle you prefer.
That's not a solution. Go back and re-read what I said about the 20 oz. going flat before I could finish it.
Generally, you didn't comprehend much of what I wrote. Coca Cola is a *treat* for me now, not a staple like once was.
That said, it's interesting that through your mist of incomprehension you actually came close to mentioning some things I do now.
If I'm on something other than a grocery run, like a day trip to the beach or something, I do pack a cooler. I have a couple of Glacier (TM) water bottles that are reusable. Theae are available at Whole Foods near here. You pay $6.99 for 750ml of water, which sounds crazy until you factor in the fact that you're getting a reusable stainless bottle for much less than what empty stainless is often sold for. I'm not affiliated with either company.
For the fizzy craving, travel sized Welch's grape juice + Perrier. Once again, not affiliated with either company. This makes a fantastic grape soda, and you know that everything in it is good. Once again though, this is only for an all-day trip. Yes, Perrier makes a difference--it's got a "bite" that I only used to find in Calistoga sparkling water, which is no longer available here.
Maybe now you get the idea that I'm not going to be satisfied lugging over-sized bottles of ever-flattening generic HFCS infused soda around in my car.
The problem of right-sized Coca Cola not being widely available remains. Also noted, It's definitely a "first world problem" we're whining about here.
Who said anything about drinking from a cup? Not every convenience store has a fountain, and even if they do the performance is inconsistent. Vending machines are definitely not fountains. There's no "cup" a lot of times.
There were many times in my Coke-drinking days when I'd partially empty a 20 oz. I just hated wasting the stuff; but I knew I didn't want to drink all of it. It always went flat before I wanted any more.
BTW, the Mexican cokes are still a bit too big. 12 oz. (355 ml) or half-liter. I find 12 oz., poured over ice and shared with somebody is best; although I can tolerate 12 oz. The half-liter is a disturbing trend. The Mexicans certainly don't need it, since they just surpassed the US in obesity.
BTW, I knew the original coke bottle was smaller and found this article about 6.5 oz. bottles.. Sigh... apparently this was available in the UK not that long ago? Maybe they'll bring it back to the US and finally reverse the trend. The original size was just about right. Yes, I'd pay more per oz., but I'd pay the same per *serving*.
Can the Coke executives get that through their heads? Some of us are desiring a *serving*, not a "most ounces for the buck". Wondering what to do with the excess soda, or being suckered into finishing more than you need... is not a pleasant experience. Having a right-sized glass bottle with real sugar in it, that's what some of us want.
Firms often fail to supply products or services that are plainly in demand. Sometimes it's a regulatory perversion that interferes with capitalism. Other times the companies are just dicks. For example, CocaCola with real sugar. For years it was very hard to get because of government interference with the sugar market. Now due to NAFTA we can get Mexican Coke with real sugar. If you want a real American drink, you have to get it from Mexico? How fucked up is that? This would be an example of regulatory perversion.
Not to harp on the soda companies, but they also provide an example of companies being dicks. PepsiCo is a big offender. They buy up restaurants, and you can only get Pepsi there. Coke does this too; but not as aggressively. Both companies bully around small convenience stores. I once met an operator in Virginia who found a way to stock Coke and Pepsi. She actually told me that she was getting away with hiding the competing soda from a distributor when they came around. Possibly she trading wholesale lots with a friendly operator across town. This was a long time ago; but I bet it hasn't changed. These companies are dicks.
They also super-sized their beverages to the exclusion of those of us who wanted smaller portions. I really noticed this in my 20s, when suddenly 20 oz. was the only bottle size you could get a lot of places.
I was able to make the long-run decision to reduce soda consumption dramatically, all but eliminating it. I now enjoy the occasional Mexican coke and that's about it. Many others are not so disciplined, and we all know about proposed government fixes for this but really, you can't fix the fact that the companies are just dicks.
I can't help but be reminded of the Rolly. Does this mean the next stock market crash and recession is next year? Frivolity like this just seems "toppy".
I was kind of assuming that people knew all the cited examples were skewed in favor of women. I specifically put in models as an example to counter the argument that these are not highly paid positions. So since we're ruining the humor by explaining this, we might as well go all the way and cite Forbes for some model examples.
Yeah, but how many male kindergarten teachers are in those districts, and how many boys in home ec?
Now excuse me, I'm a busy man. I'm off on a photo-shoot as the top payed model in the world.
At least they weren't gzipped.
Honey, don't log on. That copy of To Serve Man just arrived. It's a cookbook!
States Rights has always been nothing more than a tool used by people who want something. Usually what they want is to take something from other people. They would just as easily use religion, economics, erroneous statistics, philosophy, or any other intellectual tool they could find.
IMHO, ultimately states don't have rights any more than corporations do. PEOPLE have rights. The PEOPLE should have the right to freely associate and provide broadband. If they want to do that through their city government, fine. There's no need to appeal to "states rights" which has quite a checkered past.