Being over and under various amounts can usually be accounted for. It's very rare that you actually give out incorrect change - or think the bill you are being handed is somethig else (here in Canada our money is coloured). So usually if you are short, it ends up meaning the other till is over, because your coworker needed to grab a quarter for change real quick or something. More often than being short is being over, for there are quite a few people who don't want their pennies.
So - when your till is repeatedly, every shift, 5 dollars give or take short, and it can't be found in the other till, or in one of your safe drops, or any other place you move the money around... it starts looking suspicious and you start watching the security feed.
Some things are best left to Google ("What's the capital of Assyria" etc), but turning that into "anything should just be Googled" is pretty counter-productive.
I've never disagreed with a sentiment so much before online. The internet is an incredibly vast wealth of knowledge and I feel that any time you have any question, it should be used accordingly.
It's amazing how much information you have access to, it is not difficult to self teach yourself computer programming, car mechanics, advanced physics, art techniques, or almost anything else using just internet information sources, and supplies at home to get you started. Obviously if you want to do car repair you should have a car and the tools necessary for the job, but understanding what to do and whats needed can easily be found online, with step by step guides!
The simple question "How does one do something" is the BEST kind of question the internet handles. There is even a popular site dedicated to it, howto.com - and Youtube will have tons of videos on topics like that.
The problem is that handy did not ask for backgruond information on where it comes from, he did not ask how to acquire those materials in prison, he did not ask about smuggling or manufacturing equipment - he merely asked how to light a cigarette with batteries. The video addresses that.
If, perhaps, he's interested on how to Smuggle items into prison - he should google "How to smuggle items into prison" and he can see the news reports on how people have tried to smuggle things in before.
The problem with trying to hide something in a tl;dr changelog is that Someone - somewhere - WILL read the change log, and likely make mention of anything out of the ordinary on their blog.
In fact - I went to renew my Xbox live Gold membership a month ago or so... And they said that the terms and conditions of the service had changed since I last was on Gold. So I decided I would read through them. However - to continue this anecdote and help explain why it might be remotely funny - is that I had previously set my regional settings of my Xbox to Spain, and language to Spanish - so that when I got achievements in Halo 3 they came up as a different language. It's true, you can go and change it to like, Korean, then get some achievements, and no matter what language you go from there on out - they will come up in whatever language you achieved them in. I did this for a while, finding it to be of great amusement when someone new came over to my house and just happened to look at which achievements I had.
Anyways, so this ended up backfiring on me because the EULA and TOC of Live was now in Spanish, but I thought perhaps there was English at the bottom. However, there is no fast scroll when looking at the TOC - its very slow and you have to hold the analog stick down. To my dismay, there wasn't English. Afraid that going next would Mean I accepted to terms I didn't actually agree too - I quickly pulled up my computer and typed it in verbatim the entire thing into Google Translator.
If you've ever tried reading legalese in a language you do not understand - I highly recommend you NEVER EVER try it. Even after going through an internet translator you still will have no idea what the heck they are saying.
In hindsight I probably just should have not accepted the terms, gone and changed my language settings, and then gone through it - but I guess that seems obvious now, it didn't back then.
Congrats NoMachine! No matter how often I try to sneakily reveal something, I'm either too sneaky and nothing is revealed, or its revealed and not very sneaky at all!
I don't know if you've heard of this website, it's kind of up and coming, called Google. You just type in something you don't know, and in about 10 minutes, you'll know it.
When I worked at a Gas Station, for 2 years, it was robbed twice by non-employees, and about 100 times by employees. 5 Bucks here or there, it adds up. In terms of how many employees stole that I knew of, at least a dozen!
And employees weren't treated any less decent than any other job. In fact there wasn't much pressure to do anything but breathe and work the counter - the other chores were almost optional. You got paid minimum wage to stand and breathe.
I think you are being more generous than when people said Schwarzenegger was an Actor.
Which was a surprise to Arnie, because all throughout his 'acting career' people basically bashed him for not really acting, just having enough muscles to hold up big guns. Then he runs for Governor and everyone goes "Ha! An Actor running for California Governor!" - greatest compliment he ever received.
comparing things like this is totally unfair and lying to yourself
I closed the IE process. Killed Process tree. Terminated, wasn't listed. Then I opened 1 IE browser, navigated to this article. Then I opened Firefox, navigated to this article.
It may be unfair that Firefox can't get its components built into the operating system - but the fact of the matter remains that IE, it's two processes combined, one likely handling the browser application and the other one handling the tab (You'll notice that opening a new tab creates a new IE Process) - those two combined still didn't add up to Firefox's usage.
It IS using less memory on my system to use IE, even if the OS is hiding some of the memory costs in another process thats constantly running, thats memory thats going to be used regardless if I use IE or FF.
It's not an unfair comparison - it's just a slanted competition.
Honestly, a phone is designed for social interaction, you can't have 100% privacy while audibly conversing with someone, they are bound to at least know the sound of your voice...
You want a phone that doesn't have a GPS built in to track you, a camera to be logged, or a microphone to listen in on, go to a shady pawn shop, find a flip phone from 2001, call your telco about setting up the new phone, it might be as simple as moving the sim card over and having them change the device ID they have listed.
Seriously, strong privacy options are out there but most people want to be able to snap a pic and upload to facebook right away - so of course you don't get phones designed with privacy in mind.
Oh don't get me wrong, there's plenty of reasons to use Firefox and you've compiled a nice list.
Thing is people are claiming it's this much slimmer streamlined browser, like something really lightweight. If you've got a decent computer you obviously won't have any problems running Firefox as a regular browser.
However, there are people who will set up their Dual Monitors, and they'll want to have Crysis on highest settings on One monitor while a Youtube video plays their favourite song on the other with MSN Live chat open and a wikipedia page tab on some topic or another, meanwhile they are also downloading a game from Steam.
It's in these kinds of setups that I wouldn't recommend firefox to most people because having that nice lightning theme which most 'non-power-users' tend towards is entirely useless and doesn't really provide them with any benefit and then they'll complain when they don't get +30FPS in their game when they try to do all this stuff. It's when you have mutliple processes running and actually maxing out your RAM that you find a nice lightweight browser handy. And there are people who do that. As a developer I find Visual Studio can be resource hoggy at times, oink oink.
Great browser, not dissing Firefox, just arguing the claim that it doesn't use as much Memory as other browsers.
It is in fact faster or as fast as chrome in version 4 from a javascript perspective, and it has always run on less ram. So it should be much snappier now.
There is a reason people have been calling FF bloated lately. This is without any addons, plugins (besides maybe Java), or themes or any crap built into FF. This is a fresh install.
Sure, FF may be working on good Javascripting engines, I haven't looked at the benchmarks recently, but the claim "It runs on Less Ram" died a long time ago.
Well "Doesn't let you try anything new" might have been exagerating iPhone's closed situation. Sure you CAN develop new things for it, but not with the same amount of freedom...
I'm actually straining to really grasp your situation here.
So you've got a phone that's well built from top to bottom that's stable but doesn't let you try anything new. We'll call it an iPhone.
And you've got a phone that will work as a phone, and handle the basic smartphone functionalities like email/text/weather/music pretty much as well as an iPhone. We'll call it a Droid.
So I understand that you might get frustrated with certain things on the droid, with fragmentation being the first problem to pop up in my mind. Apps written for a later version of the OS which your carrier has kindly decided not to use. A hassle to go through the work yourself just to get things up and running. Not an appealing situation, I agree. In that regard I can understand why you would just want to go with an iPhone because it "Just Works" and the App market is strong and intuitive enough that you can find new applications for various tasks you might want and it'll work all fine because of the rigorous testing.
But your assembly kit analogy is was really kind of throws me off. 80% of what you use your droid for will be built into it, no assembly required. Particularily the line "With the increased power to do your own thing all to frequently comes the need to do your own thing" - I honestly have no idea where thats coming from or what you mean by it. So your phone is more flexible... so you feel pressured to use its flexibility? Can you elaborate on the situation where you felt the need to "Do your own thing" - what that thing was and how an iPhone got you around that problem? This is what is absolutely perplexing me.
Window's dominance of the PC market has been good in many ways... increased IT literacy
What?! That's like saying McDonald's did anything for fine cuisine. Gimme a break!
Clearly you've never eaten a McPizza.
It was, without a doubt, the finest piece of cullinary art that this world has ever known and they pulled it from their menu just like that. I'm pretty sure they sold the recipe to Gordon Ramsay for something like a quarter of a million dollars. Gordon didn't know however that Pizza was not a popular pick in fancy restaurants where the entrees go for over 50 dollars. That's why he always seems pissed off on TV, he got a raw deal.
It was never really meant as a meme but rather a quick way to convey your concurrence to a statement.
Like the whole tl;dr = Too Long Didn't Read IANAL = I am not a Lawyer LoL = Laugh out Loud
This = Indubitably my good sir! Your clever insight and concise conveyance of the subject matter at hand was quite enjoyable and I agree with your statement in every facet that one might be agreeable.
I imagine you probably had to open the page, take a screenshot of it, paste it in a word document, attach it to an email and send it to some link extraction service!
That's a lot of work just to post the link man, you expect editors to just find this kind of time?
But then you get a whole sticky mess on how to treat things with equality.
For years the HTTP packets have acted as an elitist class that utilizes the ARP packets like slaves, and to a lesser extent the DNS packets as house servants.
Now that change is a comin' on this tidal wave of equality and packetarian efforts - we need to learn from past mistakes how to properly handle the situation. Obviously, reparations should be made for those packets who suffered some form of abuse. I mean, it gets pretty bad sometimes. Sometimes a packet can't even get a simple ACK. It gets ignored. And that's a slippery slope, because soon those non-ACK'd packets fall into the wrong crowd, start some packet gang violence, and eventually get dropped by some new up and coming packet who is packing some heat.
And we obviously don't want to over-do it either. Start treating one packet more "fairly" than another, for the mistreatment of that packets ancestors, well its like making some packets pay for a crime they didn't commit. It wouldn't be neutral at all. Next thing you know we got strong arm Feminist Packets, some packets shouting "DATA POWER" and a whole bunch of social instability on the net, which is bad enough as it is.
I mean, we've all got a set TTL, the most we can do is try and make sure most packets are happy for as many hops as possible.
If you've got a perfect solution to Net Neutrality, lets hear it.
I think the crocodiles have increased their sex drive for their own reasons, and through an incredibly long chain of butterfly effects, like a Rube Goldberg machine, this has caused more pilots than usual to break the sound barrier.
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I actually meant it ENTIRELY as pun off the whole idea of a 'Sex Game' - clearly the rebuttle should be the one to deal with fornification.
However, the winkie smile did not convey that as well as I had hoped.
Being over and under various amounts can usually be accounted for. It's very rare that you actually give out incorrect change - or think the bill you are being handed is somethig else (here in Canada our money is coloured). So usually if you are short, it ends up meaning the other till is over, because your coworker needed to grab a quarter for change real quick or something. More often than being short is being over, for there are quite a few people who don't want their pennies.
So - when your till is repeatedly, every shift, 5 dollars give or take short, and it can't be found in the other till, or in one of your safe drops, or any other place you move the money around... it starts looking suspicious and you start watching the security feed.
Some things are best left to Google ("What's the capital of Assyria" etc), but turning that into "anything should just be Googled" is pretty counter-productive.
I've never disagreed with a sentiment so much before online. The internet is an incredibly vast wealth of knowledge and I feel that any time you have any question, it should be used accordingly.
It's amazing how much information you have access to, it is not difficult to self teach yourself computer programming, car mechanics, advanced physics, art techniques, or almost anything else using just internet information sources, and supplies at home to get you started. Obviously if you want to do car repair you should have a car and the tools necessary for the job, but understanding what to do and whats needed can easily be found online, with step by step guides!
The simple question "How does one do something" is the BEST kind of question the internet handles. There is even a popular site dedicated to it, howto.com - and Youtube will have tons of videos on topics like that.
The problem is that handy did not ask for backgruond information on where it comes from, he did not ask how to acquire those materials in prison, he did not ask about smuggling or manufacturing equipment - he merely asked how to light a cigarette with batteries. The video addresses that.
If, perhaps, he's interested on how to Smuggle items into prison - he should google "How to smuggle items into prison" and he can see the news reports on how people have tried to smuggle things in before.
The problem with trying to hide something in a tl;dr changelog is that Someone - somewhere - WILL read the change log, and likely make mention of anything out of the ordinary on their blog.
In fact - I went to renew my Xbox live Gold membership a month ago or so... And they said that the terms and conditions of the service had changed since I last was on Gold. So I decided I would read through them. However - to continue this anecdote and help explain why it might be remotely funny - is that I had previously set my regional settings of my Xbox to Spain, and language to Spanish - so that when I got achievements in Halo 3 they came up as a different language. It's true, you can go and change it to like, Korean, then get some achievements, and no matter what language you go from there on out - they will come up in whatever language you achieved them in. I did this for a while, finding it to be of great amusement when someone new came over to my house and just happened to look at which achievements I had.
Anyways, so this ended up backfiring on me because the EULA and TOC of Live was now in Spanish, but I thought perhaps there was English at the bottom. However, there is no fast scroll when looking at the TOC - its very slow and you have to hold the analog stick down. To my dismay, there wasn't English. Afraid that going next would Mean I accepted to terms I didn't actually agree too - I quickly pulled up my computer and typed it in verbatim the entire thing into Google Translator.
If you've ever tried reading legalese in a language you do not understand - I highly recommend you NEVER EVER try it. Even after going through an internet translator you still will have no idea what the heck they are saying.
In hindsight I probably just should have not accepted the terms, gone and changed my language settings, and then gone through it - but I guess that seems obvious now, it didn't back then.
It would appear they've achieved the impossible.
Congrats NoMachine! No matter how often I try to sneakily reveal something, I'm either too sneaky and nothing is revealed, or its revealed and not very sneaky at all!
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/866007/how_to_light_a_cigarette_with_batteries/
I don't know if you've heard of this website, it's kind of up and coming, called Google. You just type in something you don't know, and in about 10 minutes, you'll know it.
What happens if you are hit by a bus and don't serve your penalty?
Here in Canada its pretty high.
When I worked at a Gas Station, for 2 years, it was robbed twice by non-employees, and about 100 times by employees. 5 Bucks here or there, it adds up. In terms of how many employees stole that I knew of, at least a dozen!
And employees weren't treated any less decent than any other job. In fact there wasn't much pressure to do anything but breathe and work the counter - the other chores were almost optional. You got paid minimum wage to stand and breathe.
I was afraid that might happen.
Everything but the last two are already done in a lot of cases, where have you been?
Then and Actor,
I think you are being more generous than when people said Schwarzenegger was an Actor.
Which was a surprise to Arnie, because all throughout his 'acting career' people basically bashed him for not really acting, just having enough muscles to hold up big guns. Then he runs for Governor and everyone goes "Ha! An Actor running for California Governor!" - greatest compliment he ever received.
And we never say anything unless it is worth taking a long time to say.
comparing things like this is totally unfair and lying to yourself
I closed the IE process. Killed Process tree. Terminated, wasn't listed. Then I opened 1 IE browser, navigated to this article. Then I opened Firefox, navigated to this article.
It may be unfair that Firefox can't get its components built into the operating system - but the fact of the matter remains that IE, it's two processes combined, one likely handling the browser application and the other one handling the tab (You'll notice that opening a new tab creates a new IE Process) - those two combined still didn't add up to Firefox's usage.
It IS using less memory on my system to use IE, even if the OS is hiding some of the memory costs in another process thats constantly running, thats memory thats going to be used regardless if I use IE or FF.
It's not an unfair comparison - it's just a slanted competition.
Yes. It's called a brick.
Honestly, a phone is designed for social interaction, you can't have 100% privacy while audibly conversing with someone, they are bound to at least know the sound of your voice...
You want a phone that doesn't have a GPS built in to track you, a camera to be logged, or a microphone to listen in on, go to a shady pawn shop, find a flip phone from 2001, call your telco about setting up the new phone, it might be as simple as moving the sim card over and having them change the device ID they have listed.
Seriously, strong privacy options are out there but most people want to be able to snap a pic and upload to facebook right away - so of course you don't get phones designed with privacy in mind.
Oh don't get me wrong, there's plenty of reasons to use Firefox and you've compiled a nice list.
Thing is people are claiming it's this much slimmer streamlined browser, like something really lightweight. If you've got a decent computer you obviously won't have any problems running Firefox as a regular browser.
However, there are people who will set up their Dual Monitors, and they'll want to have Crysis on highest settings on One monitor while a Youtube video plays their favourite song on the other with MSN Live chat open and a wikipedia page tab on some topic or another, meanwhile they are also downloading a game from Steam.
It's in these kinds of setups that I wouldn't recommend firefox to most people because having that nice lightning theme which most 'non-power-users' tend towards is entirely useless and doesn't really provide them with any benefit and then they'll complain when they don't get +30FPS in their game when they try to do all this stuff. It's when you have mutliple processes running and actually maxing out your RAM that you find a nice lightweight browser handy. And there are people who do that. As a developer I find Visual Studio can be resource hoggy at times, oink oink.
Great browser, not dissing Firefox, just arguing the claim that it doesn't use as much Memory as other browsers.
It is in fact faster or as fast as chrome in version 4 from a javascript perspective, and it has always run on less ram. So it should be much snappier now.
I Beg to Differ
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There is a reason people have been calling FF bloated lately. This is without any addons, plugins (besides maybe Java), or themes or any crap built into FF. This is a fresh install.
Sure, FF may be working on good Javascripting engines, I haven't looked at the benchmarks recently, but the claim "It runs on Less Ram" died a long time ago.
Why?
What is a corporation BUT a group of people working cooperatively and corporately towards a common goal?
Are those people not to be served by our government?
They are served by the government, individually in their own right, in the way that every citizen is treated.
Treating a corporation is like treating every citizen once, then treating those inside a corporation a second time, double dipping.
Well "Doesn't let you try anything new" might have been exagerating iPhone's closed situation. Sure you CAN develop new things for it, but not with the same amount of freedom...
I'm actually straining to really grasp your situation here.
So you've got a phone that's well built from top to bottom that's stable but doesn't let you try anything new. We'll call it an iPhone.
And you've got a phone that will work as a phone, and handle the basic smartphone functionalities like email/text/weather/music pretty much as well as an iPhone. We'll call it a Droid.
So I understand that you might get frustrated with certain things on the droid, with fragmentation being the first problem to pop up in my mind. Apps written for a later version of the OS which your carrier has kindly decided not to use. A hassle to go through the work yourself just to get things up and running. Not an appealing situation, I agree. In that regard I can understand why you would just want to go with an iPhone because it "Just Works" and the App market is strong and intuitive enough that you can find new applications for various tasks you might want and it'll work all fine because of the rigorous testing.
But your assembly kit analogy is was really kind of throws me off. 80% of what you use your droid for will be built into it, no assembly required. Particularily the line "With the increased power to do your own thing all to frequently comes the need to do your own thing" - I honestly have no idea where thats coming from or what you mean by it. So your phone is more flexible... so you feel pressured to use its flexibility? Can you elaborate on the situation where you felt the need to "Do your own thing" - what that thing was and how an iPhone got you around that problem? This is what is absolutely perplexing me.
Window's dominance of the PC market has been good in many ways ... increased IT literacy
What?! That's like saying McDonald's did anything for fine cuisine. Gimme a break!
Clearly you've never eaten a McPizza.
It was, without a doubt, the finest piece of cullinary art that this world has ever known and they pulled it from their menu just like that. I'm pretty sure they sold the recipe to Gordon Ramsay for something like a quarter of a million dollars. Gordon didn't know however that Pizza was not a popular pick in fancy restaurants where the entrees go for over 50 dollars. That's why he always seems pissed off on TV, he got a raw deal.
It was never really meant as a meme but rather a quick way to convey your concurrence to a statement.
Like the whole
tl;dr = Too Long Didn't Read
IANAL = I am not a Lawyer
LoL = Laugh out Loud
This = Indubitably my good sir! Your clever insight and concise conveyance of the subject matter at hand was quite enjoyable and I agree with your statement in every facet that one might be agreeable.
https://flattr.com/profile/wikileaks
Really editors, was that so hard?
Holy Crap, how did you do that?
I imagine you probably had to open the page, take a screenshot of it, paste it in a word document, attach it to an email and send it to some link extraction service!
That's a lot of work just to post the link man, you expect editors to just find this kind of time?
But then you get a whole sticky mess on how to treat things with equality.
For years the HTTP packets have acted as an elitist class that utilizes the ARP packets like slaves, and to a lesser extent the DNS packets as house servants.
Now that change is a comin' on this tidal wave of equality and packetarian efforts - we need to learn from past mistakes how to properly handle the situation. Obviously, reparations should be made for those packets who suffered some form of abuse. I mean, it gets pretty bad sometimes. Sometimes a packet can't even get a simple ACK. It gets ignored. And that's a slippery slope, because soon those non-ACK'd packets fall into the wrong crowd, start some packet gang violence, and eventually get dropped by some new up and coming packet who is packing some heat.
And we obviously don't want to over-do it either. Start treating one packet more "fairly" than another, for the mistreatment of that packets ancestors, well its like making some packets pay for a crime they didn't commit. It wouldn't be neutral at all. Next thing you know we got strong arm Feminist Packets, some packets shouting "DATA POWER" and a whole bunch of social instability on the net, which is bad enough as it is.
I mean, we've all got a set TTL, the most we can do is try and make sure most packets are happy for as many hops as possible.
If you've got a perfect solution to Net Neutrality, lets hear it.
Fuck you, Microsoft. ;-)
I actually think they have it backwards.
I think the crocodiles have increased their sex drive for their own reasons, and through an incredibly long chain of butterfly effects, like a Rube Goldberg machine, this has caused more pilots than usual to break the sound barrier.