In this economy I'd take a salary (certainty) over the kudos of being an entrepreneur (uncertainty) any day of the week.
When companies tighten their belts, salaried employees can be (and are) terminated at the drop of a hat. Nothing is "certain" about a salary. In fact, consultants are often the last to go, and the first to be hired after FT staff is let go.
How annoying. If I wanted to visit pepsi.com, I would have entered "pepsi.com" into my browser's URL bar. If, on the other hand, I want to see Google search results for the word "pepsi", I enter "pepsi" into the Google search field.
90% of my day job is a bunch of engineers standing around scratching our heads trying to brainstorm ways to figure out what the hell is going on with our system. We don't even know what it is doing, let along being able to tell it what to do.
OMFG. The concept of paging has been around for eons. You may be too young to remember this but before 1990 there was no such thing as the "Web". We installed standalone programs on our PCs, kind of like how you install apps on your smart phone now. You may also find it hard to believe but at one point there was no such thing as a GUI with scroll bars. How did we see the rest of the page? Simple: we pressed a button on the keyboard which brought us to the next page. Kind of like the swipes and other multi-touch gestures on your fancy-ass iTablet thingy, only much, much simpler: you only needed one finger, and all you had to do was press the button (which was clearly labeled) on the keyboard. Crazy, right?
Space travel? No, thanks. I predict space ship security will be so tight that alien anal probes will be a welcome relief compared to TSA's standard procedure. Luckily, in space, nobody can hear you scream.
That's why I still use Eudora (yes, really). I have about 21,000 email messages going back to 1994. Eudora's indexed search function is not only fast but incredibly flexible and fine-grained, far more so than any other interface I've seen to date. Oh, and I store my messages in folders and use search.
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Oh, so you're saying you prefer astroturf and sock puppets?
The world's population is continuously growing. That means more potential FB users every day.
Fastest reply always goes to the person who gets "first post".
In this economy I'd take a salary (certainty) over the kudos of being an entrepreneur (uncertainty) any day of the week.
When companies tighten their belts, salaried employees can be (and are) terminated at the drop of a hat. Nothing is "certain" about a salary. In fact, consultants are often the last to go, and the first to be hired after FT staff is let go.
Haven't you ever seen the commercial where the little girl picking daisies suddenly gets vaporized in a nuclear explosion?
Have they swapped out all mechanical mice with optical mice?
Won't work. Somebody will just form Occupy "Occupy Occupy" and it will eventually recurse infinitely to become "Occupy" all the way down.
snatching up .xxx domain names
FTFY
I found the C-64's PEEK and POKE commands to be incredibly exciting, you insensitive clod.
You're saying that if my company's stock price plummets, the shareholders and board of directors won't care?
How annoying. If I wanted to visit pepsi.com, I would have entered "pepsi.com" into my browser's URL bar. If, on the other hand, I want to see Google search results for the word "pepsi", I enter "pepsi" into the Google search field.
The higher incidents of Javascript questions may be due to n00bs asking about Javascript when in fact they are using Java.
90% of my day job is a bunch of engineers standing around scratching our heads trying to brainstorm ways to figure out what the hell is going on with our system. We don't even know what it is doing, let along being able to tell it what to do.
Oh, you work for Microsoft?
Love the Hippity Hop landing cushion.
As opposed to the health care system we have now, where insurance companies routinely deny claims even if you filled out the form correctly.
Only 1 in 10 of those will be any good at it.
Depending on where he was picking the M&Ms out of, all of them could have been brown.
Another reason: to be able to address the RAID as a single, contiguous (virtual) volume.
My real name is Cyber McCool, you insensitive clod.
OMFG. The concept of paging has been around for eons. You may be too young to remember this but before 1990 there was no such thing as the "Web". We installed standalone programs on our PCs, kind of like how you install apps on your smart phone now. You may also find it hard to believe but at one point there was no such thing as a GUI with scroll bars. How did we see the rest of the page? Simple: we pressed a button on the keyboard which brought us to the next page. Kind of like the swipes and other multi-touch gestures on your fancy-ass iTablet thingy, only much, much simpler: you only needed one finger, and all you had to do was press the button (which was clearly labeled) on the keyboard. Crazy, right?
One word: RoboCop.
Space travel? No, thanks. I predict space ship security will be so tight that alien anal probes will be a welcome relief compared to TSA's standard procedure. Luckily, in space, nobody can hear you scream.
Hmmm, last time they stuck to their guns in a war of attrition, Sony's Betamax format got beat out by VHS, despite being technically superior.
That's why I still use Eudora (yes, really). I have about 21,000 email messages going back to 1994. Eudora's indexed search function is not only fast but incredibly flexible and fine-grained, far more so than any other interface I've seen to date. Oh, and I store my messages in folders and use search.
With winter coming, pretty soon it will be illegal to wear a ski mask, balaclava, or scarf. Homeless and street vendors will be further marginalized.