Can I make up a funny story about the owner of that website getting cancer and slowly dying in agony? I think that would be very funny.
Post a link! I will read it. But it better be funny, or tomorrow you just might find a satirical blog post about a certain jerk who criticized another jerk and then couldn't back his claims up.
Because, perhaps, his web host is about as friendly about bandwidth as he is friendly about cat owners? Slashdotting, ftl. Now I can't see what else that raging asshole has to say about people that annoy him but apparently hold enough consequence for him to prepare some VERY lengthy responses, AND keep them all catalogged on a web site.
Golf clap. Us un-creative peons would just *ignore* the annoying people.
If someone walked up to you at work and called out "marvin!" despite that not being your name, would you give it more than a passing glance? No? Ok, let's move on. Try this next time you see your cat: say name, offer treat. Wait 5 minutes and repeat, alternate between treat and petting or playing with a toy. Any animal with ears and an attention span can learn a "name" if provided with the right motivation. Did you expect your cat to be attached to you for the scintillating conversations the two of you share?
Despite being incredibly funny (to the point of an uncomfortably loud outburst in an otherwise quiet office) I have to think that those two would make quite the couple. She didn't seem to badger the designer about the poster, she sent just one brief email that he could have ignored as easily as he no doubt ignores all the others. Although it was a project that would take a complete amateur no more than 5 minutes to perfect in MS Word, and a "pro" probably 10 minutes out of insistence on plodding through Frame Maker or Illustrator to achieve the same thing, the designer is understandably upset that his workload is going up. Good thing he decided to carry out 5 design projects, all off-spec, in order to spite her for asking for one very simple thing.
The special offtopic character is (not displaying here properly, alt-F4) used when you want to steer the conversation toward a disastrous end, a.k.a. trolling. PS I left out the troll I had prepared for the end of this post because Slashdot doesn't display the alt-F4 character.
I only hope you are still in school and as such have not taken the appropriate History or Government classes that cover the first amendment. Let me give you a head start, it reads:
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
Let me give you a hint here: the FIRST TEN WORDS might be of interest to you.
Maybe he doesn't want the videos to be released in the (de facto) public domain? Sure, borrowing their compression, storage, and CDN skills would save a lot of time and money, but if you ever hoped to make money off of the videos you are publishing then youtube probably isn't the way to go.
The FCC's rush to takeover the Internet is just the latest example of the need for fundamental reform to protect consumers.
The FCC is trying to protect consumers, you fuck. Honestly, do these people believe that anyone will swallow lies like that?
The strategy of "if you say something enough times, it becomes true" is so common in politics these days that it might as well get it's own sunday morning talk show. If his statement upsets you, seriously, either your ears just started working or your head is about half a second away from exploding.
"Say whatever puts you in the best light and hope at least half of the people believe it" is a staple of the brave new partisan world we find ourselves in. Good luck out there.
The sad thing: This video clip IS BUSH-ERA. It's from 3 years ago.
This is just another testament to the fact that if an ignorant person wants to believe something (say, that the government is out to get you) that they will seek out any information that validates the theory (like the top 80% of the image in that video), and ignore anything that challenges that belief (like the bottom 20% of the image, which clearly proclaims that the speech is from a fake senator, AND telecast by a fake news site.)
This is funny, and then meta-funny, but sadly it happens all the time *cough*talkradio*cough*.
For me, in both FF and IE, the tag interface is simply static, I can't even try to add a tag. If I log out and clear my cookies (on either browser) the interface starts working again, and I can even post a tag if I carefully use the interface to add a tag and *then* log in as it prompts me to do so... and it will become a tag that appears on the main page.
I have to think this is some sort of poorly implemented tag-ban, as I used to be able to (and did) tag stories up until a few months ago.
It often takes more energy to de-orbit something (so it burns up) than it does to escape-orbit it (so it flies off into space)... A "shoot-down" pretty much always means "we scattered it into several lower and higher orbits". The only hopes for it removing itself from orbit are by atmospheric drag causing it to decay until it falls to earth.
Thanks to the free market, there would be no incentive for someone with such a patent to just sit on it for a number of years, unless they also held (and licensed) a patent for "mammalian apparatus of equine variety that facilitates locomotion"...
Patents are only there to prevent the sort of "clandestine creativity" that surrounds an expensive project that is faced with the very real threat that it will be stolen right out from under the inventors. Look at China for a very real example of why a working (if less than ideal) patent system is better than no patent system: the only reward for creativity is obtained through going to market faster than your competitors, who will undoubtedly "borrow" your creations for their very next product cycle. This leads to one hastily released, poorly developed product after another, with no time spent on refining and perfecting new technologies. Companies with long development cycles like Apple, Cisco, Microsoft, IBM, and others would be completely unviable without a patent system. Love them or hate them, they have made the Western (and patent-friendly) world what it is today.
By then, the reasoning goes, you will either realize that like Steve says, "there is no problem" or you will simply price the bumper in with the rest of your purchase since you have had two months of full Apple acknowledgment to familiarize yourself with the phone's drawbacks.
I mean, who can't look at a picture of a huge anechoic chamber and just, you know, "get it".
Seriously, wtf does an anechoic chamber have to do with cell phone reception? Are loud noises really that detrimental to signal strength?
That Seiko watch I had about 10 years ago must have been from the future since it was able to power itself from a human battery. So far, no sign of them taking over the world either.
This isn't a debate on the economy, but put simply the problem is too few people *willing to contribute* because they have a salary expectation that cannot be met by currently available jobs. If underemployment benefits were stronger than unemployment benefits (meaning you could earn more by taking a low wage job and collecting benefits than by taking no job and collecting benefits) our overall productivity might start to recover. As it is the only thing keeping 10%+ of the country "contributing" is that they get to spend the government's money...
It's a one-time registration... Plus, someone willing to spend hours and hours scouring online news sites and comment forums to leave little gems of "hah they got what they deserved" or "it's [insert x politicians name] fault" would probably be willing to part with a few dollars here and there to get their fix, for god's sake if every person who posted "the economy is in the shitter and it's so-and-so's fault" would just *get a job* we probably wouldn't have a recession any more to complain about. On second thought, it makes perfect sense. *cries*
The real problem I see if this catches on is that these online forums will become even more stratified; people will only bothering signing up and posting where they agree with everyone else (in case they didn't take this step already) since the truth of the day in news forums is determined by whomever has the larger/more persistent mob.
If you thought the blogosphere (or forumsphere) couldn't get more partisan and petty... you aint seen nothin yet!
Given that stock pricing has a lot to do with how many buy/sell orders get placed and not quite as much with how many shares get bought/sold, churn in that little 28% can have a huge effect on price considering they are probably 99% of the shareholders by headcount.
User testing has been done mainly in schools with groups that included sixth graders, high school girls, nursing students and university undergraduates who are not CS majors.
How about including my 96 year old grandma, the guy who lives across the street and is always talking to his dog, and why not throw in my pet goldfish while we're at it. That should round out the testing.
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Can I make up a funny story about the owner of that website getting cancer and slowly dying in agony? I think that would be very funny.
Post a link! I will read it. But it better be funny, or tomorrow you just might find a satirical blog post about a certain jerk who criticized another jerk and then couldn't back his claims up.
I think this might be the original - why not start there? There are some other articles that are funny as well.
http://www.27bslash6.com/missy.html
Because, perhaps, his web host is about as friendly about bandwidth as he is friendly about cat owners? Slashdotting, ftl. Now I can't see what else that raging asshole has to say about people that annoy him but apparently hold enough consequence for him to prepare some VERY lengthy responses, AND keep them all catalogged on a web site.
Golf clap. Us un-creative peons would just *ignore* the annoying people.
If someone walked up to you at work and called out "marvin!" despite that not being your name, would you give it more than a passing glance? No? Ok, let's move on. Try this next time you see your cat: say name, offer treat. Wait 5 minutes and repeat, alternate between treat and petting or playing with a toy. Any animal with ears and an attention span can learn a "name" if provided with the right motivation. Did you expect your cat to be attached to you for the scintillating conversations the two of you share?
Despite being incredibly funny (to the point of an uncomfortably loud outburst in an otherwise quiet office) I have to think that those two would make quite the couple. She didn't seem to badger the designer about the poster, she sent just one brief email that he could have ignored as easily as he no doubt ignores all the others. Although it was a project that would take a complete amateur no more than 5 minutes to perfect in MS Word, and a "pro" probably 10 minutes out of insistence on plodding through Frame Maker or Illustrator to achieve the same thing, the designer is understandably upset that his workload is going up. Good thing he decided to carry out 5 design projects, all off-spec, in order to spite her for asking for one very simple thing.
Those two should hook up already.
The special offtopic character is (not displaying here properly, alt-F4) used when you want to steer the conversation toward a disastrous end, a.k.a. trolling. PS I left out the troll I had prepared for the end of this post because Slashdot doesn't display the alt-F4 character.
I only hope you are still in school and as such have not taken the appropriate History or Government classes that cover the first amendment. Let me give you a head start, it reads:
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
Let me give you a hint here: the FIRST TEN WORDS might be of interest to you.
Maybe he doesn't want the videos to be released in the (de facto) public domain? Sure, borrowing their compression, storage, and CDN skills would save a lot of time and money, but if you ever hoped to make money off of the videos you are publishing then youtube probably isn't the way to go.
The FCC's rush to takeover the Internet is just the latest example of the need for fundamental reform to protect consumers.
The FCC is trying to protect consumers, you fuck. Honestly, do these people believe that anyone will swallow lies like that?
The strategy of "if you say something enough times, it becomes true" is so common in politics these days that it might as well get it's own sunday morning talk show. If his statement upsets you, seriously, either your ears just started working or your head is about half a second away from exploding.
"Say whatever puts you in the best light and hope at least half of the people believe it" is a staple of the brave new partisan world we find ourselves in. Good luck out there.
- What if they develop a drone that can feed off sugars, and empty's your kitchen every day? No worries?
I would feed a spy drone some sugar if it kept the terrorists away... gotta keep the terrorists away. that's how they get ya...
The sad thing: This video clip IS BUSH-ERA. It's from 3 years ago.
This is just another testament to the fact that if an ignorant person wants to believe something (say, that the government is out to get you) that they will seek out any information that validates the theory (like the top 80% of the image in that video), and ignore anything that challenges that belief (like the bottom 20% of the image, which clearly proclaims that the speech is from a fake senator, AND telecast by a fake news site.)
This is funny, and then meta-funny, but sadly it happens all the time *cough*talkradio*cough*.
For me, in both FF and IE, the tag interface is simply static, I can't even try to add a tag. If I log out and clear my cookies (on either browser) the interface starts working again, and I can even post a tag if I carefully use the interface to add a tag and *then* log in as it prompts me to do so... and it will become a tag that appears on the main page.
I have to think this is some sort of poorly implemented tag-ban, as I used to be able to (and did) tag stories up until a few months ago.
I'm not allowed to tag stories, but the moron who managed to misspell "cyberwarfare" as "cyberwarefare" is free and clear, huh? Nice job, Slashdot.
I think that's why this is in idle... nothing more than another dumb criminal story.
TTIWWOP!!!
It often takes more energy to de-orbit something (so it burns up) than it does to escape-orbit it (so it flies off into space)... A "shoot-down" pretty much always means "we scattered it into several lower and higher orbits". The only hopes for it removing itself from orbit are by atmospheric drag causing it to decay until it falls to earth.
Thanks to the free market, there would be no incentive for someone with such a patent to just sit on it for a number of years, unless they also held (and licensed) a patent for "mammalian apparatus of equine variety that facilitates locomotion"...
Patents are only there to prevent the sort of "clandestine creativity" that surrounds an expensive project that is faced with the very real threat that it will be stolen right out from under the inventors. Look at China for a very real example of why a working (if less than ideal) patent system is better than no patent system: the only reward for creativity is obtained through going to market faster than your competitors, who will undoubtedly "borrow" your creations for their very next product cycle. This leads to one hastily released, poorly developed product after another, with no time spent on refining and perfecting new technologies. Companies with long development cycles like Apple, Cisco, Microsoft, IBM, and others would be completely unviable without a patent system. Love them or hate them, they have made the Western (and patent-friendly) world what it is today.
I remember the last time a sci-fi franchise I enjoyed made a Christmas Special...
*barfs*
Farewell, Matt Smith!
By then, the reasoning goes, you will either realize that like Steve says, "there is no problem" or you will simply price the bumper in with the rest of your purchase since you have had two months of full Apple acknowledgment to familiarize yourself with the phone's drawbacks.
I mean, who can't look at a picture of a huge anechoic chamber and just, you know, "get it".
Seriously, wtf does an anechoic chamber have to do with cell phone reception? Are loud noises really that detrimental to signal strength?
That Seiko watch I had about 10 years ago must have been from the future since it was able to power itself from a human battery. So far, no sign of them taking over the world either.
This isn't a debate on the economy, but put simply the problem is too few people *willing to contribute* because they have a salary expectation that cannot be met by currently available jobs. If underemployment benefits were stronger than unemployment benefits (meaning you could earn more by taking a low wage job and collecting benefits than by taking no job and collecting benefits) our overall productivity might start to recover. As it is the only thing keeping 10%+ of the country "contributing" is that they get to spend the government's money...
It's a one-time registration... Plus, someone willing to spend hours and hours scouring online news sites and comment forums to leave little gems of "hah they got what they deserved" or "it's [insert x politicians name] fault" would probably be willing to part with a few dollars here and there to get their fix, for god's sake if every person who posted "the economy is in the shitter and it's so-and-so's fault" would just *get a job* we probably wouldn't have a recession any more to complain about. On second thought, it makes perfect sense. *cries*
The real problem I see if this catches on is that these online forums will become even more stratified; people will only bothering signing up and posting where they agree with everyone else (in case they didn't take this step already) since the truth of the day in news forums is determined by whomever has the larger/more persistent mob.
If you thought the blogosphere (or forumsphere) couldn't get more partisan and petty... you aint seen nothin yet!
"So, I'm thinking that MS had better take a really good at their logs for that time."
He stole that word (I assume it was "look") from right under your nose! We are in some serious trouble!
Given that stock pricing has a lot to do with how many buy/sell orders get placed and not quite as much with how many shares get bought/sold, churn in that little 28% can have a huge effect on price considering they are probably 99% of the shareholders by headcount.
We have "learned" to distrust news providers that tell us what we don't like to hear...
There's your ringer.
...I tell my kids not to open a can of whoops-arse, but rather take the issue to the principle. If that doesn't work I call the cops.
"If principle doesn't work," I tell my kids; "take it to the principal."
User testing has been done mainly in schools with groups that included sixth graders, high school girls, nursing students and university undergraduates who are not CS majors.
How about including my 96 year old grandma, the guy who lives across the street and is always talking to his dog, and why not throw in my pet goldfish while we're at it. That should round out the testing.