The people running the program understood this stuff at least as well as you. The girls picking out the balls would have been working with exceptionally clear and inflexible rules.
God yes, well put. I blocked Jon for a while after he made me throw up in my mouth a little bit, but I had to come back for more. It was like reading love-sick teenage poetry - you always thought this is bad as writing can possibly get and then he would outdo himself again . If the first few posts from him hadn't been relatively sane I would never have believed that his preposterously self-obsessed, patronising, cloying and presumptuous drivel wasn't a fabulous wind up. All his crying for the emo victims following the columbine event must surely have been displaced self-pity for the times when he was bullied at school because it made so little sense otherwise. Knowing that the whiny little fuck must have been terribly abused at some stage gave me warm glow inside. Pre-emptive punishment for inflicting his god-awful crap on the world.
1. Helmets give the cyclist a false sense of security. 2. Helmets give drivers a false sense of security.
You may think [1] does not apply to you, and possibly it doesn't but people are incredibly bad at judging that kind of thing. It's very likely that you take more risks when wearing a helment.
The second point is far more important and it's not something you as a cyclist can do anything about. Studies have shown that cars pass closer and faster to bikes when the cyclist is wearing a helmet. On some subconscious level they see the cyclist as being less vulnerable and hence they drive more dangerously around them.
For these reasons I discourage my three daughters from riding helmets when they cycle and I don't wear them myself.
However, even if one discounted both these reasons, mandatory helmets are horrible on principle. Its my own life I may be putting in danger, so if you want to wear a helmet, go ahead, if you want to tell other people to wear a helmet, go fuck yourself.
I'm an employer in the UK but lived in US for 5 years. UK's pretty good for employers really. You have to provide more time off (minimum of 5.5 weeks off per year) but that's offset by not having to provide health insurance. You have to be a bit more careful about firing people (if they've been with you more than a year) than fire-at-will states, but you're less likely to be sued for some random bullshit because people just don't pull that crap as much here. Compared to the rest of Europe -Italy:paperwork and regulations are horrendous, france:everyone is on holiday all the time, hungary: tax doubles your costs, etc.. the UK is very employer friendly.
I'd buy a new PC if I could be bothered installing everything and getting my environment/drivers/etc right, and that's on Linux... for windows it was 3 times worse (except thunderbird which is worse than anything windows threw at me. I genuinely found it easier to move continents than cleanly migrate thunderbird.)
These days, its not the price but the pain of migration that stops most people from buying a new PC.
I'll bother when the speed etc improvements are worth the grief. Dumb software slows hardware upgrades.
"ML, also developed by MSR"... is only remotely true if one reads "developed by" as "worked on at some stage" rather than the implied "invented" by which is patently false (ML was invented at Edinburgh university in the 70s). Its sentences like that which make me doubt the honesty of this post: there's far too much spin in it.
Its the old pointy click interface that is endangered. The command line is coming back because language is a fundamentally more powerful paradigm. Its just that the input device is switching from keyboard to voice.
I've had two worse ideas as offers for startup ideas this week.. a scheme for smelly linux geeks to exchange mum's basements is a fucking brainwave by comparison
Fuck me sideways with a rusty spoon that is some painful shit. Curiosity got the better of me and I clicked on the chrome.. song. It's done now, I can never unhear it, fuck.. and I had almost recovered from highlander 2 too. I mean, I still occaasionally wake up sweating with vague notions of experiencing some nameless horror with a background smell of rancid popcorn but that's the best one can hope for - the actual memories of highlander 2 have mostly faded. Now I'm going to need powerful psychotropics or a powerful shamen to get that Chrome song exorcised - thanks.
Your rules are all made up pieces of crap you pulled from your ass. They're not scientific rules that were taught in some fictional classes in the distant past when scientists were scientists, they're loaded lumps of rhetoric which don't even happen to be true. Point 2 for instance: "data collected from identical instruments cannot be compared if one of them lacks traceable calibration"... oooh 'traceable'... yeah, lets bow down to your insight.
Somehow your vague hint at a past as a lab tech qualifies you to heap scorn upon the thousands of phds who actually work in the field. It's like listening to some moron in a bar shouting out about how the coach of [sports team] is an idiot and should do such and such because obviously glancing up from his beer at the TV on a regular basis has given him greater insight into what plays to make than the coach who spent 10 years as a top level player himself, then 15 years rising to the top of his profession and who sees the players every day in training.
is the best introduction to this subject I've seen. Until someone can explain the pros of hyperdex with a funny video featuring cute animals I'm sticking with technology that's been tested more thoroughly.
I love rockbox but my gigabeat died and I need a replacement, what can I get today that'll run rockbox nicely that's >=40G ?
Gigabeats were great but they're getting on a bit now to the point where the harddrives are dying and replacing them is more faffing than I'm interested in.
> HDMI sucks terribly too. I gave up trying to get HDMI to work on my computer with an ATI card. It may work but then an updated driver will put black spaces around the edges with an underscan or some other BS. Its all based on HDCP and bad programming.
WTF are you talking about ? I've never had a problem with HMDI connections, they've all just worked for me. Linux/Windows/iOS, whatever.
> I can't imagine how stupid people aka average joes would deal with this?
By not using broken hardware/software. Stick the cable in the computer, connect it to the TV/monitor, done.
I have a CS/AI degree, 20 years experience in C/C++/java/Lisp/etc.. but css, save me. Complex css menus that work in ie6+, fuck me.. that made my brain hurt worse than coding efficient but stable parallel matrix inversion in a mix of OCCAM/C on a mix of sun workstations and transputers or any other hairy crap I've encountered.
You do hear a lot of elitist distain for web monkeys, but I'm wondering how many of those people have truly got their hands dirty in webdev. Sure, php is mostly derp but it has pitfalls just as nasty as c++, while css hackery is just plain awful. Then there's the language proliferation, one has to deal with at least: html/css/javascript + 1 server language + sql + the platform issues. There's a lot of details for devils to lurk in.
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The people running the program understood this stuff at least as well as you. The girls picking out the balls would have been working with exceptionally clear and inflexible rules.
or braveheart ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybQCNb4AuW4 )
God yes, well put. I blocked Jon for a while after he made me throw up in my mouth a little bit, but I had to come back for more. It was like reading love-sick teenage poetry - you always thought this is bad as writing can possibly get and then he would outdo himself again . If the first few posts from him hadn't been relatively sane I would never have believed that his preposterously self-obsessed, patronising, cloying and presumptuous drivel wasn't a fabulous wind up. All his crying for the emo victims following the columbine event must surely have been displaced self-pity for the times when he was bullied at school because it made so little sense otherwise. Knowing that the whiny little fuck must have been terribly abused at some stage gave me warm glow inside. Pre-emptive punishment for inflicting his god-awful crap on the world.
Here's two reasons:
1. Helmets give the cyclist a false sense of security.
2. Helmets give drivers a false sense of security.
You may think [1] does not apply to you, and possibly it doesn't but people are incredibly bad at judging that kind of thing. It's very likely that you take more risks when wearing a helment.
The second point is far more important and it's not something you as a cyclist can do anything about. Studies have shown that cars pass closer and faster to bikes when the cyclist is wearing a helmet. On some subconscious level they see the cyclist as being less vulnerable and hence they drive more dangerously around them.
For these reasons I discourage my three daughters from riding helmets when they cycle and I don't wear them myself.
However, even if one discounted both these reasons, mandatory helmets are horrible on principle. Its my own life I may be putting in danger, so if you want to wear a helmet, go ahead, if you want to tell other people to wear a helmet, go fuck yourself.
I'm an employer in the UK but lived in US for 5 years. UK's pretty good for employers really. You have to provide more time off (minimum of 5.5 weeks off per year) but that's offset by not having to provide health insurance. You have to be a bit more careful about firing people (if they've been with you more than a year) than fire-at-will states, but you're less likely to be sued for some random bullshit because people just don't pull that crap as much here. Compared to the rest of Europe -Italy:paperwork and regulations are horrendous, france:everyone is on holiday all the time, hungary: tax doubles your costs, etc.. the UK is very employer friendly.
I'd buy a new PC if I could be bothered installing everything and getting my environment/drivers/etc right, and that's on Linux... for windows it was 3 times worse (except thunderbird which is worse than anything windows threw at me. I genuinely found it easier to move continents than cleanly migrate thunderbird.)
These days, its not the price but the pain of migration that stops most people from buying a new PC.
I'll bother when the speed etc improvements are worth the grief. Dumb software slows hardware upgrades.
sweet, while you're there could you register some domain names for me.. i think sex.com might be available. thanks...
"ML, also developed by MSR" ... is only remotely true if one reads "developed by" as "worked on at some stage" rather than the implied "invented" by which is patently false (ML was invented at Edinburgh university in the 70s). Its sentences like that which make me doubt the honesty of this post: there's far too much spin in it.
You need http://geomagic.com/en/ - good software, also happens to be run by one of the most fascinating people on the planet.
Its the old pointy click interface that is endangered. The command line is coming back because language is a fundamentally more powerful paradigm. Its just that the input device is switching from keyboard to voice.
> Watches are possible, but I haven't seen a single person wearing a watch in the past five years.
Hermit, prisoner or blind ?
I've had two worse ideas as offers for startup ideas this week.. a scheme for smelly linux geeks to exchange mum's basements is a fucking brainwave by comparison
The DMCA is an American law, it has nothing to do with NZ.
Check out the interview with Neri, she's awesome looking too. Damn, I think I'm in love.
Fuck me sideways with a rusty spoon that is some painful shit. Curiosity got the better of me and I clicked on the chrome.. song. It's done now, I can never unhear it, fuck.. and I had almost recovered from highlander 2 too. I mean, I still occaasionally wake up sweating with vague notions of experiencing some nameless horror with a background smell of rancid popcorn but that's the best one can hope for - the actual memories of highlander 2 have mostly faded. Now I'm going to need powerful psychotropics or a powerful shamen to get that Chrome song exorcised - thanks.
you were programming at EA and you got to sleep ? don't know your born....
States are governments too.
So, you're saying governments don't have money because governments have taken all the money.
Sure.. hey, pass that over here.. that must be some good shit you're smoking.
Your rules are all made up pieces of crap you pulled from your ass. They're not scientific rules that were taught in some fictional classes in the distant past when scientists were scientists, they're loaded lumps of rhetoric which don't even happen to be true. Point 2 for instance: "data collected from identical instruments cannot be compared if one of them lacks traceable calibration" ... oooh 'traceable'... yeah, lets bow down to your insight.
Somehow your vague hint at a past as a lab tech qualifies you to heap scorn upon the thousands of phds who actually work in the field. It's like listening to some moron in a bar shouting out about how the coach of [sports team] is an idiot and should do such and such because obviously glancing up from his beer at the TV on a regular basis has given him greater insight into what plays to make than the coach who spent 10 years as a top level player himself, then 15 years rising to the top of his profession and who sees the players every day in training.
Dale you giblet head, we live in Texas. It's already 110 in the summer, and if it gets one degree hotter I'm gonna kick your ass!
Wearing that DRM it was just asking for it.
They had to wait for the statue of limitations to run out otherwise he could have been posthumously deported to US for DMCA violations.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URJeuxI7kHo
is the best introduction to this subject I've seen. Until someone can explain the pros of hyperdex with a funny video featuring cute animals I'm sticking with technology that's been tested more thoroughly.
I love rockbox but my gigabeat died and I need a replacement, what can I get today that'll run rockbox nicely that's >=40G ?
Gigabeats were great but they're getting on a bit now to the point where the harddrives are dying and replacing them is more faffing than I'm interested in.
> HDMI sucks terribly too. I gave up trying to get HDMI to work on my computer with an ATI card. It may work but then an updated driver will put black spaces around the edges with an underscan or some other BS. Its all based on HDCP and bad programming.
WTF are you talking about ? I've never had a problem with HMDI connections, they've all just worked for me. Linux/Windows/iOS, whatever.
> I can't imagine how stupid people aka average joes would deal with this?
By not using broken hardware/software. Stick the cable in the computer, connect it to the TV/monitor, done.
Amen brother.
I have a CS/AI degree, 20 years experience in C/C++/java/Lisp/etc .. but css, save me. Complex css menus that work in ie6+, fuck me.. that made my brain hurt worse than coding efficient but stable parallel matrix inversion in a mix of OCCAM/C on a mix of sun workstations and transputers or any other hairy crap I've encountered.
You do hear a lot of elitist distain for web monkeys, but I'm wondering how many of those people have truly got their hands dirty in webdev. Sure, php is mostly derp but it has pitfalls just as nasty as c++, while css hackery is just plain awful. Then there's the language proliferation, one has to deal with at least: html/css/javascript + 1 server language + sql + the platform issues. There's a lot of details for devils to lurk in.