I hope more developers have a spine as stiff as yours.
It's the only thing that can carry the load of his enormous balls.
uh, you probably are not familiar with human anatomy and while your sentiment is admirable, I suggest that the spine does not bear much of the load of typical balls, enormous or otherwise. Maybe you were confused between breasts and balls?
Well, he's proven to have plenty of guts, so maybe's that's what the spine is supporting?:)
Somehow "I hope more developers have a pelvis as sturdy as yours" just doesn't have the same ring...
Once you deactivate the alarm, users are prompted to record their dreams either via voice or typing text.
Haha, too funny. I can barely type on those damn little touchscreens with a relatively low rate of autocorrect goof-ups when I'm wide awake, good luck getting anything coherent out of me right after waking from a deep sleep...and voice would wake up my spouse.
I guess there's always pen and paper, but again, my handwriting is guaranteed to be illegible if I'm still half asleep. Legibility and/or coherency is simply not achievable for me until after my second or third cup of coffee.
OR... you could buy the phone WITHOUT the subsidy and choose your carrier right away.
OR...you could purchase your phone using an explicit loan plan from the carrier, and contract for your service plan completely separately. Kind of like, you know, how you get a car loan from the dealer for the purchase cost of the car, then pay for gas and oil changes separately...
This could clean up some of the confusion surrounding mobile phone plan pricing, by making it clear that you have two obligatory payments per month: one to pay down the phone loan, and one for the actual service plan. You could even switch carriers whenever you like (like you can switch gas stations or oil change providers) and continue to pay off your phone loan with carrier 1 until it's complete.
I don't see this as anything but a win for customers. Carriers are under the onus to provide the most attractive service packages if they want to keep their customers, so we may even see packages morph to what people actually use...I mean, if I could find a data-heavy (5 GB or better), minutes light (*maybe* 60 minutes per month), unlimited texting plan for $30 or $40 a month, I'd jump all over that...
The Firefox team needs to REMOVE the 'Top Sites' tab, or at least make it possible for the user to disable it, on Android. The existence of the 'Privacy Tab Browsing' is nice, but it's totally outrageous that for normal browsing there is a permanent indelible record of where you have browsed on display every time you load the browser.
This is different from the browser history how?
If you want your browsing to stay private, use "Private Browsing". It's right in the name!
That said, The Firefox Android browser is one of the main reasons it's even reasonable to browse the web on Android. If you use the default browser or Chrome, everywhere you browse is known to the Googleplex. I specifically NEVER log onto any Google Services from Firefox on my Samsung phone.
Son, Google Play Services runs as root. If they want your Firefox browsing history, they can get it easily.
I think he's more miffed by the fact that they have no 'disable history' or 'automatically clear history when firefox closes' options on the mobile version, as they do on the desktop version. Thus your 'Top Sites' page is spammed with all your incidental browsing history, unless you remember to manually clear your history each time you close the mobile browser...
That being said, he should really take a look at Clean Quit. It adds a quick-exit option to your popup toolbar on FF mobile, and (the most important part) it automatically clears whichever privacy settings you select if you exit via that button. That way, your 'Top Sites' page is only populated by your bookmarked sites, not by every little address search, imdb query or wikipedia article you happened to have browsed over the last few days...seems to work pretty well so far:)
If you want clarity in climate science then try browsing the articles on realclimate. Of course you could just read the IPCC reports, they are easy to find on the net too.
Thing is, I can't tell if you're a) trying to be funny, b) being sarcastic, or c) trolling.
No, as a parent, it's not your job to "cater to your child's every whim" -- but on the flip side? I'm not so sure I buy into what seems to be a general assumption out there today that video games, computers, tablets, and other such tech is "bad" for a kid if he/she uses too much of it in a day?
When I was growing up in the 80's myself, I latched onto early computer tech. like a fish to water. I knew right away that THIS was the stuff I truly had a deep interest in and that some day, it was going to be my career as well. I spent an awful lot of time holed up in my bedroom with a little TImex Sinclair 1000 attached to a small black and white TV learning BASIC programming and playing around with all of the early software titles I could get my hands on. I'm thankful that both of my parents weren't really the "outdoorsy" types and were busy enough themselves (both college teachers) that they didn't harp on me to "get off that computer and go play outside!" like what happened to some of my peers.
Because truthfully, I learned FAR more useful skills on that computer than I ever would have running around outside with the neighbor kids. And don't get me wrong. I still had friends I wanted to go outside and do things with once in a while. But screw the self-righteous parents who were SO sure they knew just how many hours of time spent with technology was supposed to be "ok" and how much was suddenly "bad" or "unhealthy". Most great things are accomplished by those with obsessions over what they do... not just a rationed, limited engagement with it for X number of hours per day or week.
That's good, I'm glad it worked out for you. Unfortunately, especially in today's consumption-only environment, allowing your kids the same latitude would more likely result in a display like this sooner or later.
Thing is, in the 80's if you wanted to do something *really* cool with a computer, you pretty much needed to dig in and learn enough about it to be able to tinker with the code. Today it's all point, click, drag, drop, throw the bird at the pigs, etc, etc. The code is very much hidden from the target users at all times, and the only goals are 'sparkly' ones (stars, achievements, etc.). How cool would it be to hack Angry Birds and put zombie heads on the Pigs, and Ash's face on the Birds, for example? Or create a new flaming Bird that sets flammable structures on fire, while not affecting stone (this may exist already, haven't played in quite a while...)? But no, kids are content with playing the games as is, and don't have any reason to look under the hood anymore...
I know this is way off topic, but does anyone know of a similar plugin for Gmail? One that maybe rolls back some of the stupider 'improvements' they've made to their interface?
Specifically, something that will axe the awkward and idiotized new 'compose' and 'reply' interfaces, rolling them back a version? Oh, and restoring a one-click logout option would be sweet, too:) I understand why they hid the logout button way back when, since they definitely have a vested interest in people not logging out...ever...but it's just one more annoyance in the pot.
Oh, and while we're talking UI modifications, I wouldn't say no to the ability to sort by columns in the webclient, something that Froogle has never offered...I'm just sayin':) Oh yeah, and being able to see the size of emails (especially ones with attachments, obviously) would be a sweet bonus.
I know, I know, I can get all this in an offline client, but the three things I do like about Gmail is 1) it's portability, 2) tags instead of folders, and 3) conversation view. The conversation view could be replicated in an offline client, but I haven't yet found one that supports tags instead of folders, and of course any offline client is by definition not portable unless you carry it around on a thumb drive with you...then just hope you have a USB port available on the right platform to plug it into...
Of course, you'll have to find a way to format-shift your content to a non-DRM-riddled version, so it's shareable...and good luck finding a legal way to do that (see section on Fair Use), even though it is technically legal for you to do so...
IMO, sharing media via Plex is no different than lending s DVD or a CD to a friend, since they don't have a local copy, it's all being streamed from your server. AFAIK, sharing purchased physical media with friends and family isn't illegal...yet.
The point is that tablets can come out with full Windows 8, which would be a game changer. You'd have full PC functionality in a laptop. Buh-Bye both Android and Apple.
Yes...for only a 10-15 GB tax on storage space. Compare that to Android, at typically 1GB to 3 GB (barring greedy developers over-reserving space for their proprietary pre-installed bloatware...)
Even on a 64 GB device, that's still a 16-24% loss, and of course it's significantly worse on a 16 or 32 GB device unless you're willing (and able) to keep *everything* else on a micro SD card. Good luck installing all of the rest of those bloaty legacy Windows programs you 'need'...however if these prove viable, maybe they'll have a chance.
It's like convention goers at Vegas cruising the all-you-can-eat buffets..."I don't like the quality of mammals at this beach, honey, they taste too gamey. How about we try that cozy little cove over there instead?"
As much as I despise ALL CAPS posting, I don't think it has anything to do with creditworthiness. You (and lenders in the article) are making financial decisions based on non-financial characteristics.
I would say it is linked to poor education, which is linked with credit worthiness.
What, you mean all those cute kittens wanting cheeseburgers aren't educated? Oh...wait...that would also explain the atrocious spelling!
What hate? The mention in the summary is because Pluto Nash was an enormous flop. A "flop" is not a hate thing. A "flop" is a movie that cost far more to make than it made in revenue, and Pluto Nash is one of the worst, or the worst flop in history.
Yeah, sorry, didn't mean to imply specific hate here, I just meant generalized overall hate...I just don't understand why it did so poorly in the box office, when so many other movies of comparable quality did well or even great. I mean, even the Nutty Professor 2, a movie in which people should have known what they were getting into, turned a profit, and it cost nearly as much! For a sci-fi movie of any caibre to do that badly, there had to have been some sort of semi-organized smear campaign going on, either that or it was released opposite some heavy-hitters...but scanning the list, I just can't see that either.
If these type of cars catch on, they might designate areas of the lots for 'armadillos only', just like some do for compact cars and motorcycles. If that were the case for paid parking, I could see the smaller spots being offered at a reduced rate
Hmmm...so, you're saying I can split my parking area up into five slots for an armadillo, or three for regular cars...and I can charge 40% LESS for the armadillo spaces, or make 40 MORE on the five spaces....
SO hard to decide....
Yeah, parking lot owners may just take the opportunity to jack up the number of stalls without actually reducing the cost per stall...but that would bite them on the ass once they see those stalls sitting empty because even people with an armadillo say 'fuck it, if it's the same price, I'll just grab a full sized stall'
OTOH, if they offer those stalls at even a 10 to 20% discount...well, in some cities in the world, that small savings on an ongoing basis would do a *lot* towards defraying the purchase cost of one of these (unless they're priced like hybrids). Now the trick is to be sure that your lot has been able to add at least 10% to 20% more parking spots in a given area by converting some of it to 'dillo parking...profit!
I never did understand that...I mean, yeah, the plot, acting and special effects weren't top shelf, but frankly I felt that the same could have been said about Spiderman or Resident Evil: Apocalypse or Signs, all movies that also came out in 2002...in fact, I was so disappointed in Spiderman that I haven't even bothered to see 2 or 3 (is there even a third one now? Bleah, who cares?)
Basically I found it a fun, light story with a little action, a little (okay, very corny) humour, and a couple of interesting 'background tech' concepts (the body shop, pizza vending machine, cars, even the virtual pool table). The cameos were good, I really loved John Cleese's character as a smartass vehicle AI:) Overall, I wouldn't call it a blockbuster, but it's certainly no Ultraviolet...so why the extreme hate? It's basically Beverly Hills Cop set on the moon, is what the plot and acting felt like to me, and I always liked the BHC movies...
Parallel parking, drivers test??? I never had to do that for my license. Seriously we drove around the block and navigated both forwards and backwards through some cones and that was it.
I did however take a much more advanced driving course a few months later as part of a law enforcement course. In that course I learned and practiced enough that I can parallel park almost as quickly as I can back into a spot. The lack of driving skills all around is pretty scary when you consider the amount of damage that can be done in very short order with a vehicle. I mean look at the training requirements they frequently put on firearms, I had to take 20 hours of instruction before I could carry for a job.
I know what you mean, the advanced courses are so much better! I also had to take an advanced driving course for work, one with an actual practical driving component (two or three days, can't remember), and I was so much more comfortable with my vehicle afterwards. I basically got my drivers license with only rudimentary backing skills and pretty much no crash avoidance training whatsoever other than 'stop at a red light or stop sign' and 'look both ways before proceeding, even after the light turns green'. Oh, and I could parallel park, as long as the space was approximately 1.75 x the length of my car (they were pretty lax in testing that...) After that advanced course, I had a much better awareness of where my vehicle was, and why it reacts like this when I do that. We even got to play around in a skid car, to simulate icy conditions and practice steering out of a skid.
If only such training were mandatory, I would think that many of the problems on the road today would be very much reduced, if not eliminated altogether. It's not going to solve everything, obviously, but I know I would feel safer on the roads!
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If you didn't read that in context. Your pretty dumb.
...and you suck at haiku...and spelling, and reading comprehension, and irony...
I hope more developers have a spine as stiff as yours.
It's the only thing that can carry the load of his enormous balls.
uh, you probably are not familiar with human anatomy and while your sentiment is admirable, I suggest that the spine does not bear much of the load of typical balls, enormous or otherwise. Maybe you were confused between breasts and balls?
Well, he's proven to have plenty of guts, so maybe's that's what the spine is supporting? :)
Somehow "I hope more developers have a pelvis as sturdy as yours" just doesn't have the same ring...
Hopefully it involves Sriracha, bears, and blasphemous sexual positions.
Not to mention yo' mamma...well, Carreon's mamma, at any rate :)
Once you deactivate the alarm, users are prompted to record their dreams either via voice or typing text.
Haha, too funny. I can barely type on those damn little touchscreens with a relatively low rate of autocorrect goof-ups when I'm wide awake, good luck getting anything coherent out of me right after waking from a deep sleep...and voice would wake up my spouse.
I guess there's always pen and paper, but again, my handwriting is guaranteed to be illegible if I'm still half asleep. Legibility and/or coherency is simply not achievable for me until after my second or third cup of coffee.
I guess she's one of them.
Unfortunately, this is a much less delightful revelation...and, well, she's Brazilian not American...but c'mon lady.
OR... you could buy the phone WITHOUT the subsidy and choose your carrier right away.
OR...you could purchase your phone using an explicit loan plan from the carrier, and contract for your service plan completely separately. Kind of like, you know, how you get a car loan from the dealer for the purchase cost of the car, then pay for gas and oil changes separately...
This could clean up some of the confusion surrounding mobile phone plan pricing, by making it clear that you have two obligatory payments per month: one to pay down the phone loan, and one for the actual service plan. You could even switch carriers whenever you like (like you can switch gas stations or oil change providers) and continue to pay off your phone loan with carrier 1 until it's complete.
I don't see this as anything but a win for customers. Carriers are under the onus to provide the most attractive service packages if they want to keep their customers, so we may even see packages morph to what people actually use...I mean, if I could find a data-heavy (5 GB or better), minutes light (*maybe* 60 minutes per month), unlimited texting plan for $30 or $40 a month, I'd jump all over that...
This is different from the browser history how?
If you want your browsing to stay private, use "Private Browsing". It's right in the name!
Son, Google Play Services runs as root. If they want your Firefox browsing history, they can get it easily.
I think he's more miffed by the fact that they have no 'disable history' or 'automatically clear history when firefox closes' options on the mobile version, as they do on the desktop version. Thus your 'Top Sites' page is spammed with all your incidental browsing history, unless you remember to manually clear your history each time you close the mobile browser...
That being said, he should really take a look at Clean Quit. It adds a quick-exit option to your popup toolbar on FF mobile, and (the most important part) it automatically clears whichever privacy settings you select if you exit via that button. That way, your 'Top Sites' page is only populated by your bookmarked sites, not by every little address search, imdb query or wikipedia article you happened to have browsed over the last few days...seems to work pretty well so far :)
If you want clarity in climate science then try browsing the articles on realclimate. Of course you could just read the IPCC reports, they are easy to find on the net too.
Thing is, I can't tell if you're a) trying to be funny, b) being sarcastic, or c) trolling.
My people meter must be out of whack today...
If you want science read some articles with a fair number of citations. You won't ever get science out of journalists.
Sometimes even that's not enough.
No, as a parent, it's not your job to "cater to your child's every whim" -- but on the flip side? I'm not so sure I buy into what seems to be a general assumption out there today that video games, computers, tablets, and other such tech is "bad" for a kid if he/she uses too much of it in a day?
When I was growing up in the 80's myself, I latched onto early computer tech. like a fish to water. I knew right away that THIS was the stuff I truly had a deep interest in and that some day, it was going to be my career as well. I spent an awful lot of time holed up in my bedroom with a little TImex Sinclair 1000 attached to a small black and white TV learning BASIC programming and playing around with all of the early software titles I could get my hands on. I'm thankful that both of my parents weren't really the "outdoorsy" types and were busy enough themselves (both college teachers) that they didn't harp on me to "get off that computer and go play outside!" like what happened to some of my peers.
Because truthfully, I learned FAR more useful skills on that computer than I ever would have running around outside with the neighbor kids. And don't get me wrong. I still had friends I wanted to go outside and do things with once in a while. But screw the self-righteous parents who were SO sure they knew just how many hours of time spent with technology was supposed to be "ok" and how much was suddenly "bad" or "unhealthy". Most great things are accomplished by those with obsessions over what they do ... not just a rationed, limited engagement with it for X number of hours per day or week.
That's good, I'm glad it worked out for you. Unfortunately, especially in today's consumption-only environment, allowing your kids the same latitude would more likely result in a display like this sooner or later.
Thing is, in the 80's if you wanted to do something *really* cool with a computer, you pretty much needed to dig in and learn enough about it to be able to tinker with the code. Today it's all point, click, drag, drop, throw the bird at the pigs, etc, etc. The code is very much hidden from the target users at all times, and the only goals are 'sparkly' ones (stars, achievements, etc.). How cool would it be to hack Angry Birds and put zombie heads on the Pigs, and Ash's face on the Birds, for example? Or create a new flaming Bird that sets flammable structures on fire, while not affecting stone (this may exist already, haven't played in quite a while...)? But no, kids are content with playing the games as is, and don't have any reason to look under the hood anymore...
Three score barrels of powder below,
Poor old England to overthrow:
By God's providence he was catch'd
With a dark lantern and burning match.
It's only because 'caught' doesn't rhyme with 'match'. It's not insurmountable:
Three score barrels of powder below,
Poor old England to overthrow:
By God's providence he was caught
With a dark lantern and burning knot.
To be fair, the use of "catch'd" does produce cognitive dissonance in English speakers, making it more memorable.
On things I've never wondered about, this would be pretty much right at the top of the list...now how much energy is required on the 'stun' setting?
Must be Friday the 13th or something. :)
I know this is way off topic, but does anyone know of a similar plugin for Gmail? One that maybe rolls back some of the stupider 'improvements' they've made to their interface?
Specifically, something that will axe the awkward and idiotized new 'compose' and 'reply' interfaces, rolling them back a version? Oh, and restoring a one-click logout option would be sweet, too :) I understand why they hid the logout button way back when, since they definitely have a vested interest in people not logging out...ever...but it's just one more annoyance in the pot.
Oh, and while we're talking UI modifications, I wouldn't say no to the ability to sort by columns in the webclient, something that Froogle has never offered...I'm just sayin' :) Oh yeah, and being able to see the size of emails (especially ones with attachments, obviously) would be a sweet bonus.
I know, I know, I can get all this in an offline client, but the three things I do like about Gmail is 1) it's portability, 2) tags instead of folders, and 3) conversation view. The conversation view could be replicated in an offline client, but I haven't yet found one that supports tags instead of folders, and of course any offline client is by definition not portable unless you carry it around on a thumb drive with you...then just hope you have a USB port available on the right platform to plug it into...
Plex.
Of course, you'll have to find a way to format-shift your content to a non-DRM-riddled version, so it's shareable...and good luck finding a legal way to do that (see section on Fair Use), even though it is technically legal for you to do so...
IMO, sharing media via Plex is no different than lending s DVD or a CD to a friend, since they don't have a local copy, it's all being streamed from your server. AFAIK, sharing purchased physical media with friends and family isn't illegal...yet.
The point is that tablets can come out with full Windows 8, which would be a game changer. You'd have full PC functionality in a laptop. Buh-Bye both Android and Apple.
Yes...for only a 10-15 GB tax on storage space. Compare that to Android, at typically 1GB to 3 GB (barring greedy developers over-reserving space for their proprietary pre-installed bloatware...)
Even on a 64 GB device, that's still a 16-24% loss, and of course it's significantly worse on a 16 or 32 GB device unless you're willing (and able) to keep *everything* else on a micro SD card. Good luck installing all of the rest of those bloaty legacy Windows programs you 'need'...however if these prove viable, maybe they'll have a chance.
even though an American team wins the world series every time
Incorrect.
Oh yeah, I forgot about that! And that whole flag thing is so funny now, but it sure wasn't at the time!
Ahhh...good times :)
Or this
"Previously Reputable Forums Like Slashdot: Pimping for Page Views?"
News at 11...
It's like convention goers at Vegas cruising the all-you-can-eat buffets..."I don't like the quality of mammals at this beach, honey, they taste too gamey. How about we try that cozy little cove over there instead?"
As much as I despise ALL CAPS posting, I don't think it has anything to do with creditworthiness. You (and lenders in the article) are making financial decisions based on non-financial characteristics.
I would say it is linked to poor education, which is linked with credit worthiness.
What, you mean all those cute kittens wanting cheeseburgers aren't educated? Oh...wait...that would also explain the atrocious spelling!
Sir, I think you may be on to something here...
Oops...misprint. I mean never owned an automatic transmission.
Dammit..that changes my entire post
Ahhh, that makes much more sense now! Ah well, got to talk about one of my favorite things, so thanks for the oops! :)
What hate? The mention in the summary is because Pluto Nash was an enormous flop. A "flop" is not a hate thing. A "flop" is a movie that cost far more to make than it made in revenue, and Pluto Nash is one of the worst, or the worst flop in history.
Yeah, sorry, didn't mean to imply specific hate here, I just meant generalized overall hate...I just don't understand why it did so poorly in the box office, when so many other movies of comparable quality did well or even great. I mean, even the Nutty Professor 2, a movie in which people should have known what they were getting into, turned a profit, and it cost nearly as much! For a sci-fi movie of any caibre to do that badly, there had to have been some sort of semi-organized smear campaign going on, either that or it was released opposite some heavy-hitters...but scanning the list, I just can't see that either.
It's just one of those things, I guess...
Hmmm...so, you're saying I can split my parking area up into five slots for an armadillo, or three for regular cars...and I can charge 40% LESS for the armadillo spaces, or make 40 MORE on the five spaces....
SO hard to decide....
Yeah, parking lot owners may just take the opportunity to jack up the number of stalls without actually reducing the cost per stall...but that would bite them on the ass once they see those stalls sitting empty because even people with an armadillo say 'fuck it, if it's the same price, I'll just grab a full sized stall'
OTOH, if they offer those stalls at even a 10 to 20% discount...well, in some cities in the world, that small savings on an ongoing basis would do a *lot* towards defraying the purchase cost of one of these (unless they're priced like hybrids). Now the trick is to be sure that your lot has been able to add at least 10% to 20% more parking spots in a given area by converting some of it to 'dillo parking...profit!
I never did understand that...I mean, yeah, the plot, acting and special effects weren't top shelf, but frankly I felt that the same could have been said about Spiderman or Resident Evil: Apocalypse or Signs, all movies that also came out in 2002...in fact, I was so disappointed in Spiderman that I haven't even bothered to see 2 or 3 (is there even a third one now? Bleah, who cares?)
Basically I found it a fun, light story with a little action, a little (okay, very corny) humour, and a couple of interesting 'background tech' concepts (the body shop, pizza vending machine, cars, even the virtual pool table). The cameos were good, I really loved John Cleese's character as a smartass vehicle AI :) Overall, I wouldn't call it a blockbuster, but it's certainly no Ultraviolet...so why the extreme hate? It's basically Beverly Hills Cop set on the moon, is what the plot and acting felt like to me, and I always liked the BHC movies...
Meh.
Parallel parking, drivers test??? I never had to do that for my license. Seriously we drove around the block and navigated both forwards and backwards through some cones and that was it.
I did however take a much more advanced driving course a few months later as part of a law enforcement course. In that course I learned and practiced enough that I can parallel park almost as quickly as I can back into a spot. The lack of driving skills all around is pretty scary when you consider the amount of damage that can be done in very short order with a vehicle. I mean look at the training requirements they frequently put on firearms, I had to take 20 hours of instruction before I could carry for a job.
I know what you mean, the advanced courses are so much better! I also had to take an advanced driving course for work, one with an actual practical driving component (two or three days, can't remember), and I was so much more comfortable with my vehicle afterwards. I basically got my drivers license with only rudimentary backing skills and pretty much no crash avoidance training whatsoever other than 'stop at a red light or stop sign' and 'look both ways before proceeding, even after the light turns green'. Oh, and I could parallel park, as long as the space was approximately 1.75 x the length of my car (they were pretty lax in testing that...) After that advanced course, I had a much better awareness of where my vehicle was, and why it reacts like this when I do that. We even got to play around in a skid car, to simulate icy conditions and practice steering out of a skid.
If only such training were mandatory, I would think that many of the problems on the road today would be very much reduced, if not eliminated altogether. It's not going to solve everything, obviously, but I know I would feel safer on the roads!