From when WOOT Shirts were a new thing.
I can't remember If I actually went through airport security with it on, but it sounds like something I would do. The security personnel at my air port never seem all that observant or bright, but I don't fit the profile.
We do get sick time back from vacation at some companies, but long work weeks are very common for a lot of jobs.
Control has swung to far to the Corporate side here in the US and I am afraid that the Citizens Vs United case has made it so that its still going that direction.
We don't let other countries contribute because they should not get a say in who our leaders are. Why should it be any different between states or congressional districts.
The elected officials are supposed to be by the people and for the people. The outside money is making the representative be for the corporations/special interests and not the local people. Money can be used for free speech but it is fundamentally different because of the influence that it has over the politician.
Essentially I am saying that the system is corrupt. Corporations are buying votes and there not just one vote that is local to them their buying as many as they can afford because it pays off in the legislation that gets passed. Most individuals can't afford to do that and its not fair that our representative is representing some company or industry group that is based in some other state on the other side of the country. We have lost our equal representation.
Money buys the means to allow millions of people see/hear your free speech, but it does so much more than that. There is no right to Money.
Anonymous Coward does not live in his district either.
I have as a semi fix for campaign finance by corporations/special interests: No funding sources from outside of the applicable district. So if you live outside of Mr. Grayson's District then you can't contribute to his or his opponents campaign and only companies that are headquartered there could contribute either.
The book: The End Of Overeating
Details how the food industry manipulates the physical and physiological aspects of eating to get us to come back for more food (there product).
Very, Very interesting how complex food design and marketing is.
... and triangles are easier to eat. You always eat from the corners not from the center of the side of the slice.
One of the sought after features of a food for the producer is being faster to eat. The quicker you eat something the less it satisfy, causing you to eat more.
When I worked at a pizza place we would cut the "by the slice" 24inch pizza into 10 slices... the personals (mini pizza) 8 inch into 6 slices... everything in between 12", 14", 16" were 8 slices unless requested otherwise.
Pizza slice count is determined by size of the pie and number of people your feeding per pizza.
It is easier for the server to put up a busy page... the busy HTML is cached where the redirect requires a query to the database. If the Database is down or congested then the server returns a busy signal rather than telling the user were broken or timing out.
We agree. They are not the cause of the problem, but they should have taken reasonable precautions. Unlike the a random act they had opportunity to take reasonable precautions to protect there interests.
They should have seen it coming since everything else gets repeatedly hacked/Unlocked and its not hard to see some capability that would enable given the devices specs.
Yes you can expect it to be broken. If you know that its highly likely that you will get stabbed in the face, maybe you should wear a steel mask. There is only so much you can do on the device, but the network is a different story.
yes, companies lobby for unbalance regulation and congress plays along for campaign contributions and that is part of the problem... most politicians are in the pockets of the big corporations.
But that does not mean that we should remove all the regulations. That would not change anything... The big companies would still have a giant advantage and would probably get even more dominance in the market.
We need that market to shifted in the favor of competition. We need to require honest and fair business practices because consumers in general can't always protect them selves when corporations are trying to fleece them.
Why do you trust your dentist to only fix the tooth that needs and not one that is fine. The regulations and standards are there to protect the consumer.
re evaluate the regulations we have... get ridde of the bad and add new ones only if needed to create the "Fair Market" that we need for competition.
No, because they each use different encryption so nobody is going to be able to produce a device that will work reliably with any one cable providers network encoding or set of features.
Free market is a great concept, but it only works if the competition is fair and balanced. Your never going to have that for long in an industry like cable/phones lines with out regulation and standards. In Free markets companies always strive for advantage over there competitors, witch inevitability ends up as unfair practices.
I do think that there is bad regulation, but that does not mean that its all bad. We just need to re-balance the market so that the consumers can benefit from the positive aspects of capitalism like lower prices, better quality and more choices. The same goes for health care insurance and banking/credit.
With out regulation the Free market stops being a "Free Market" and instead becomes a rigged market.
You must be new here! On the internet I mean... In the past few years a lot of filtering has been added on all the major search engine's to hide the darker side. Ten years ago it was much more common to get porn mixed in with you search results even when you searched for benign things like puppies pictures (keyword pic). While porn and warez sites are still plentiful... much of it has been hidden with great effort.
Much of the porn is behind paywall anyway.
Agreed! Any time you get beyond small scale or low complexity, it fails to deliver on time, the features actually don't meet the business needs or the need have changed.
You can't hit the moving goal if it takes a year and a half or more to get your project through the development cycle.
I think that sort of comment is useful when the person reading it might not be looking at the code like a the Java docs for an API.
In the real world poor spelling and punctuation don't necessarily mean poor code. There are a lot of developers that are commenting in English but its not there first language, they know perfectly well what the code does and is supposed to do but they can't articulate it in English. While modern IDE's do a good job of detecting syntax problems in code, many don't do much if anything for spelling/grammar suggestions on comments.
I like to descriptive explanation of larger code blocks but not every line likes some of my college professors make their students do. I understand that is to get students in the practice of making comments, but there is such a thing as over board.
Its not just that, but they bundle a bunch of crap nobody wants and they charge you extra... Nobody wants 12 channels of CSAN... I only have time for a few shows a week and I am usually not ready to watch one when it comes on. The Internet beat the cable companies to on demand and there is no going back now. NetFlicks, Hulu and other providers putting whole seasons on demand online is the point when the Cable COs missed the boat... not enough content and you have to pay extra for each movie on top of the extra expensive HD service that still provides hardly and HD Quality shows.
If Hulu added the major cable channels as payed al cart service where you get a live stream or you can watch the previous weeks broadcasted shows then I just might subscribe to a channel or two. I think if they make most of there content require a subscription then they are going see a big drop in there user base. I do have a media PC so I think I would find it worth while.
I think that the Eclipse Application Platform looks fairly good and is highly functional too. I never like the windows look all that much. But why does it have to look the same. A lot of Apps are now design like web-pages now, Flash applications, they don't look like the any of the native UIs anyway.
Hasn't the internet been changing rapidly since you were a kid? While porn has long been on the internet, there is a lot more Adult content online now besides porn. Violent movies and games often have far less safe guards for restricting access to minors. While I don't think that the government is capable of comprehensively protecting kids from the evils of the internet, some guide lines for larger content providers would not be out of the order. Parents need to be the responsible party and pay attention to what there kids are doing/seeing with all the content devices out there like consoles, PCs, Cell Phones and now e-readers! I have yet to hear about Sex-ting with calculators yet though.
It was a generalization. But they could also go by the gig... charging you the whole price even when you only go over by a byte. Or capping the max you can download and then slapping you with a $50 overage charge if you exceed the limit like the banks do.
There not going to track down to the bit because the there is a minimum packet size... even if your data is only one byte the packet gets padded to the minimum size. I think ATM packets are the crazy 48 byte.
The FCC is already regulating the companies that provide internet infrastructure. Telecoms and Cable companies tubes carry voice and video over the same hardware/physical layer that data does and that is Regulated by the FCC. Was it not the FCC that fined Comcast for playing man in the middle and sending stop packets to torrent users.
Just because the internet has been fine so far does not mean that it will be fine in the future... As the internet provides more and better competition to the traditional services of the Telecoms and Cable COs they will have more and more incentive to use there control over the network to crush their competitors or to extort companies to pay for fast lane service over their portion of the network. If their allowed to do that the internet will stop being a free market. The providers will still charge customers for the last mile, but inside the cloud you packets will be free to go as fast as the network can handle.
You don't want your home service to be come outrageously expensive, being charged by the megabyte do you?
It seems like there are some decent camera phones on some symbian phones from nokia, samsung and sony ericson.
like this one:
http://www.sonyericsson.com/cws/products/mobilephones/overview/satio?lc=en&cc=gb
android does seem to lack some megapixels. I think that most of the people here are right that the lack of optical zoom makes for shity pictures in most instances accept portrait photos, but for a phone that's all you need to snap a quick picture and post it on flicker or facebook for family and friends. Nobody is printing them out at poster size. Even my 2MP photos from my 3 year old sony ericson phone are only seen at a quarter of the original size most of the time.
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From when WOOT Shirts were a new thing. I can't remember If I actually went through airport security with it on, but it sounds like something I would do. The security personnel at my air port never seem all that observant or bright, but I don't fit the profile.
We do get sick time back from vacation at some companies, but long work weeks are very common for a lot of jobs.
Control has swung to far to the Corporate side here in the US and I am afraid that the Citizens Vs United case has made it so that its still going that direction.
Does not matter, the point is that it will taste horrible!
[sarcasm]But we will be safe from Terrorists.[/sarcasm]
Haven't you seen is infomercials for the Total Gym? He is a real dude and he is going to break your face.
We don't let other countries contribute because they should not get a say in who our leaders are. Why should it be any different between states or congressional districts.
The elected officials are supposed to be by the people and for the people. The outside money is making the representative be for the corporations/special interests and not the local people. Money can be used for free speech but it is fundamentally different because of the influence that it has over the politician.
Essentially I am saying that the system is corrupt. Corporations are buying votes and there not just one vote that is local to them their buying as many as they can afford because it pays off in the legislation that gets passed. Most individuals can't afford to do that and its not fair that our representative is representing some company or industry group that is based in some other state on the other side of the country. We have lost our equal representation.
Money buys the means to allow millions of people see/hear your free speech, but it does so much more than that. There is no right to Money.
Anonymous Coward does not live in his district either.
I have as a semi fix for campaign finance by corporations/special interests: No funding sources from outside of the applicable district. So if you live outside of Mr. Grayson's District then you can't contribute to his or his opponents campaign and only companies that are headquartered there could contribute either.
The book: The End Of Overeating Details how the food industry manipulates the physical and physiological aspects of eating to get us to come back for more food (there product). Very, Very interesting how complex food design and marketing is.
... and triangles are easier to eat. You always eat from the corners not from the center of the side of the slice.
One of the sought after features of a food for the producer is being faster to eat. The quicker you eat something the less it satisfy, causing you to eat more.
When I worked at a pizza place we would cut the "by the slice" 24inch pizza into 10 slices... the personals (mini pizza) 8 inch into 6 slices... everything in between 12", 14", 16" were 8 slices unless requested otherwise. Pizza slice count is determined by size of the pie and number of people your feeding per pizza.
It is easier for the server to put up a busy page... the busy HTML is cached where the redirect requires a query to the database. If the Database is down or congested then the server returns a busy signal rather than telling the user were broken or timing out.
We agree. They are not the cause of the problem, but they should have taken reasonable precautions. Unlike the a random act they had opportunity to take reasonable precautions to protect there interests.
They should have seen it coming since everything else gets repeatedly hacked/Unlocked and its not hard to see some capability that would enable given the devices specs. Yes you can expect it to be broken. If you know that its highly likely that you will get stabbed in the face, maybe you should wear a steel mask. There is only so much you can do on the device, but the network is a different story.
yes, companies lobby for unbalance regulation and congress plays along for campaign contributions and that is part of the problem... most politicians are in the pockets of the big corporations.
But that does not mean that we should remove all the regulations. That would not change anything... The big companies would still have a giant advantage and would probably get even more dominance in the market.
We need that market to shifted in the favor of competition. We need to require honest and fair business practices because consumers in general can't always protect them selves when corporations are trying to fleece them.
Why do you trust your dentist to only fix the tooth that needs and not one that is fine. The regulations and standards are there to protect the consumer.
re evaluate the regulations we have... get ridde of the bad and add new ones only if needed to create the "Fair Market" that we need for competition.
No, because they each use different encryption so nobody is going to be able to produce a device that will work reliably with any one cable providers network encoding or set of features.
Free market is a great concept, but it only works if the competition is fair and balanced. Your never going to have that for long in an industry like cable/phones lines with out regulation and standards. In Free markets companies always strive for advantage over there competitors, witch inevitability ends up as unfair practices.
I do think that there is bad regulation, but that does not mean that its all bad. We just need to re-balance the market so that the consumers can benefit from the positive aspects of capitalism like lower prices, better quality and more choices. The same goes for health care insurance and banking/credit.
With out regulation the Free market stops being a "Free Market" and instead becomes a rigged market.
You must be new here! On the internet I mean... In the past few years a lot of filtering has been added on all the major search engine's to hide the darker side. Ten years ago it was much more common to get porn mixed in with you search results even when you searched for benign things like puppies pictures (keyword pic). While porn and warez sites are still plentiful... much of it has been hidden with great effort. Much of the porn is behind paywall anyway.
Agreed! Any time you get beyond small scale or low complexity, it fails to deliver on time, the features actually don't meet the business needs or the need have changed. You can't hit the moving goal if it takes a year and a half or more to get your project through the development cycle.
I think that sort of comment is useful when the person reading it might not be looking at the code like a the Java docs for an API.
In the real world poor spelling and punctuation don't necessarily mean poor code. There are a lot of developers that are commenting in English but its not there first language, they know perfectly well what the code does and is supposed to do but they can't articulate it in English. While modern IDE's do a good job of detecting syntax problems in code, many don't do much if anything for spelling/grammar suggestions on comments.
I like to descriptive explanation of larger code blocks but not every line likes some of my college professors make their students do. I understand that is to get students in the practice of making comments, but there is such a thing as over board.
Oh and I don't have cable anymore.
Its not just that, but they bundle a bunch of crap nobody wants and they charge you extra... Nobody wants 12 channels of CSAN... I only have time for a few shows a week and I am usually not ready to watch one when it comes on. The Internet beat the cable companies to on demand and there is no going back now. NetFlicks, Hulu and other providers putting whole seasons on demand online is the point when the Cable COs missed the boat... not enough content and you have to pay extra for each movie on top of the extra expensive HD service that still provides hardly and HD Quality shows.
If Hulu added the major cable channels as payed al cart service where you get a live stream or you can watch the previous weeks broadcasted shows then I just might subscribe to a channel or two. I think if they make most of there content require a subscription then they are going see a big drop in there user base. I do have a media PC so I think I would find it worth while.
I think that the Eclipse Application Platform looks fairly good and is highly functional too. I never like the windows look all that much. But why does it have to look the same. A lot of Apps are now design like web-pages now, Flash applications, they don't look like the any of the native UIs anyway.
Hasn't the internet been changing rapidly since you were a kid? While porn has long been on the internet, there is a lot more Adult content online now besides porn. Violent movies and games often have far less safe guards for restricting access to minors. While I don't think that the government is capable of comprehensively protecting kids from the evils of the internet, some guide lines for larger content providers would not be out of the order. Parents need to be the responsible party and pay attention to what there kids are doing/seeing with all the content devices out there like consoles, PCs, Cell Phones and now e-readers! I have yet to hear about Sex-ting with calculators yet though.
It was a generalization. But they could also go by the gig... charging you the whole price even when you only go over by a byte. Or capping the max you can download and then slapping you with a $50 overage charge if you exceed the limit like the banks do.
There not going to track down to the bit because the there is a minimum packet size... even if your data is only one byte the packet gets padded to the minimum size. I think ATM packets are the crazy 48 byte.
The FCC is already regulating the companies that provide internet infrastructure. Telecoms and Cable companies tubes carry voice and video over the same hardware/physical layer that data does and that is Regulated by the FCC. Was it not the FCC that fined Comcast for playing man in the middle and sending stop packets to torrent users.
Just because the internet has been fine so far does not mean that it will be fine in the future... As the internet provides more and better competition to the traditional services of the Telecoms and Cable COs they will have more and more incentive to use there control over the network to crush their competitors or to extort companies to pay for fast lane service over their portion of the network. If their allowed to do that the internet will stop being a free market. The providers will still charge customers for the last mile, but inside the cloud you packets will be free to go as fast as the network can handle.
You don't want your home service to be come outrageously expensive, being charged by the megabyte do you?
It seems like there are some decent camera phones on some symbian phones from nokia, samsung and sony ericson. like this one: http://www.sonyericsson.com/cws/products/mobilephones/overview/satio?lc=en&cc=gb android does seem to lack some megapixels. I think that most of the people here are right that the lack of optical zoom makes for shity pictures in most instances accept portrait photos, but for a phone that's all you need to snap a quick picture and post it on flicker or facebook for family and friends. Nobody is printing them out at poster size. Even my 2MP photos from my 3 year old sony ericson phone are only seen at a quarter of the original size most of the time.