Listen dickhole, they might not have a policy in writing that says you can't hula-hoop in there, either, but if you try to do it, I guarantee they'll ask you to stop, and you're an asshole if you don't. Fucking idiot.
If they communicate their wishes to you, you either follow their wishes or you fucking leave. It doesn't matter how they communicate to their wishes to you. It's their fucking place.
... why do I suspect it'll be the managers who are the last to be dragged, kicking and screaming, from Outlook?
I use Yahoo mail and Outlook. Outlook definitely has its place, especially in a business. Tell me though, because I haven't looked: can Yahoo's calendar let you see everyone else's free time when inviting people to a meeting? As easily as Outlook does?
Careful there, Z -- that might count as a "public performance" of Happy Birthday. I know you're rich, but the payment for and audience of 10 million might be kinda high.
> it does cast light on the difference between what > can be done by a small group of experts, steeped > in Silicon Valley's anything-is-possible mentality, > and a massive government project in which politics > and bureaucracy seem to have helped create an > unwieldy mess
It also casts light on the 90/10 rule. As if we needed more examples.
Not so fast. Those 250 million cars have been sold over the course of DECADES. There are only about 14.5 million cars that are about one year old, like the Tesla in question. Multiply your result by 250/14.5, which is 17.24. If you round that down to 16 to make the math easier, all of a sudden the answer is 4, not 0.25 -- which means you're 4 times MORE likely to be in a fire in a Tesla, not the other way around.
Came here to say this. Let's just guess that the average age of a car on the road is 5 years. It's entirely possible it's closer to 10 years. The average age of a Tesla is less than one year.
I *guarantee* you those fires are not equally distributed among cars of all ages. Most happen in cars that are older, with parts that are wearing out -- fuel filler neck starting to corrode or crack; old fuel and oil lines becoming brittle; seals getting old, brittle, and leaking.
If you look at "car fires in cars less than 1 year old" it's probably 100 to 1 for Tesla vs. everyone else.
> Tolkien sold the rights to Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, which eventually > came into Jackson's hands, but not any of the materials he had written since, > and the Tolkien estate (read: Christopher Tolkien) has refused to consider selling > the rights to any other Tolkien works. So Jackson has access to The Hobbit, and > he has access to parts of the story that are in Return of the King. He wanted to do > The Quest for Erebor (for whatever reason, imagine dollar signs if that works for > you) as two films (later three) but couldn't get the rights to Tolkien's other notes > on the rewrite, because Christopher Tolkien wouldn't deal.
No problem -- Tolkien wrote these a long time ago, so all Jackson has to do is wait a few more years until the copyright lapses and they become public domain, then he can... oh, right.
Funny, it worked for Disney for decades, on everything from Snow White and Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty to Beauty and the Best and The Little Mermaid, not sure what's different here.
When I first started doing web apps, I made a basic demo of a contacts app and used links for the add, edit, and delete functions. One day I noticed all the data was gone. I figured someone had deleted it all for fun so I went in to restore from a backup and decided to look at the logs and see who it was. It was googlebot -- it had come walking through, dutifully clicking on every "delete" and "are you sure?" link until the content was gone.
(I knew about when to use GET versus POST -- it was just easier to show what was happening when you could mouse over the links and see the actions.)
It's probably laziness, but it could also be a shortened version of "I could care less, but I'd have to try."
"Sure as hell" and "sure as shit" have no meaning either, right? How sure is hell, or shit? Those are shortened versions of "as sure as hell is hot" and "as sure as shit stinks". Language happens.
I'm more concerned with errors on non-idiomatic speech, like "should of" and "could of" instead of "should have" and "could have", "try and" instead of "try to", and #1 on my list, "literally" meaning "figuratively".
After we sort that out, we can come to an agreement on split infinitives, the Harvard comma, and people whether punctuation that isn't part of a quote should be inside quotation marks or out.:-)
> I have no idea what people struggling to find food would do > with the internet. Would it enrich their lives? I don't see how. > Would it save them from disease? Would it allow their > children greater likelyhood to see their fifth birthday?
Starvation is not the ONLY problem in the world. There are plenty of people who do have food, and have other problems instead, for whom the Internet would be a great help. Technology isn't the answer to everything, but that doesn't mean it's useless. It's not an either/or.
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Listen dickhole, they might not have a policy in writing that says you can't hula-hoop in there, either, but if you try to do it, I guarantee they'll ask you to stop, and you're an asshole if you don't. Fucking idiot.
If they communicate their wishes to you, you either follow their wishes or you fucking leave. It doesn't matter how they communicate to their wishes to you. It's their fucking place.
... the justice system simply doesn't work.
... why do I suspect it'll be the managers who are the last to be dragged, kicking and screaming, from Outlook?
I use Yahoo mail and Outlook. Outlook definitely has its place, especially in a business. Tell me though, because I haven't looked: can Yahoo's calendar let you see everyone else's free time when inviting people to a meeting? As easily as Outlook does?
If the submitters actually took the time to read the articles, the quantity of stories posted here would drop substantially. NEXT PLEASE!
> People are really bad at understanding statistics.
Agree.
On that note, how many of those gasoline fires and deaths were in sub-one-year-old cars?
I think they should do exactly that, and call it "And now for something completely the same."
There are two kinds of programmers:
1) Those who start an index at 1
1) Those who start an index at 0
Careful there, Z -- that might count as a "public performance" of Happy Birthday. I know you're rich, but the payment for and audience of 10 million might be kinda high.
So, is that (dec) ten million kids or (dec) two million?
> on dialup
My cell carrier gives me limited data but unlimited voice. So yeah, fuck'em, I'm using a modem. For spite. :D
> That's entirely ignoring the fact that any statistical method
> using a population size of five is utterly meaningless.
Not true. Once, I flipped a coin five times, and I got 2 heads, 2 tails, and the last time it landed on the edge.
> Yahoo is adopting this method as MSFT ditches it
Well, that's certainly one way to keep ex-Microsofties from applying. :-) "What did you hate most about your last employer? Uh, yeah, we got that now."
> it does cast light on the difference between what
> can be done by a small group of experts, steeped
> in Silicon Valley's anything-is-possible mentality,
> and a massive government project in which politics
> and bureaucracy seem to have helped create an
> unwieldy mess
It also casts light on the 90/10 rule. As if we needed more examples.
Good plan. One-ton satellite at thousands of miles an hour... that extra floor oughtta do the trick. :-)
>Get a Tesla, so as to avoid vehicle fires.
Not so fast. Those 250 million cars have been sold over the course of DECADES. There are only about 14.5 million cars that are about one year old, like the Tesla in question. Multiply your result by 250/14.5, which is 17.24. If you round that down to 16 to make the math easier, all of a sudden the answer is 4, not 0.25 -- which means you're 4 times MORE likely to be in a fire in a Tesla, not the other way around.
Came here to say this. Let's just guess that the average age of a car on the road is 5 years. It's entirely possible it's closer to 10 years. The average age of a Tesla is less than one year.
I *guarantee* you those fires are not equally distributed among cars of all ages. Most happen in cars that are older, with parts that are wearing out -- fuel filler neck starting to corrode or crack; old fuel and oil lines becoming brittle; seals getting old, brittle, and leaking.
If you look at "car fires in cars less than 1 year old" it's probably 100 to 1 for Tesla vs. everyone else.
> Tolkien sold the rights to Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, which eventually
> came into Jackson's hands, but not any of the materials he had written since,
> and the Tolkien estate (read: Christopher Tolkien) has refused to consider selling
> the rights to any other Tolkien works. So Jackson has access to The Hobbit, and
> he has access to parts of the story that are in Return of the King. He wanted to do
> The Quest for Erebor (for whatever reason, imagine dollar signs if that works for
> you) as two films (later three) but couldn't get the rights to Tolkien's other notes
> on the rewrite, because Christopher Tolkien wouldn't deal.
No problem -- Tolkien wrote these a long time ago, so all Jackson has to do is wait a few more years until the copyright lapses and they become public domain, then he can... oh, right.
Funny, it worked for Disney for decades, on everything from Snow White and Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty to Beauty and the Best and The Little Mermaid, not sure what's different here.
... I'd change my name to Gil. Gil Bates. It's a proven fact that familiar names get more votes on a ballot.
Go Tony! Er, Gil!
When I first started doing web apps, I made a basic demo of a contacts app and used links for the add, edit, and delete functions. One day I noticed all the data was gone. I figured someone had deleted it all for fun so I went in to restore from a backup and decided to look at the logs and see who it was. It was googlebot -- it had come walking through, dutifully clicking on every "delete" and "are you sure?" link until the content was gone.
(I knew about when to use GET versus POST -- it was just easier to show what was happening when you could mouse over the links and see the actions.)
It's probably laziness, but it could also be a shortened version of "I could care less, but I'd have to try."
"Sure as hell" and "sure as shit" have no meaning either, right? How sure is hell, or shit? Those are shortened versions of "as sure as hell is hot" and "as sure as shit stinks". Language happens.
I'm more concerned with errors on non-idiomatic speech, like "should of" and "could of" instead of "should have" and "could have", "try and" instead of "try to", and #1 on my list, "literally" meaning "figuratively".
After we sort that out, we can come to an agreement on split infinitives, the Harvard comma, and people whether punctuation that isn't part of a quote should be inside quotation marks or out. :-)
... but how many successors does it need?
> Snowden is a freaking hero just like Manning.
Agree. Too early to start printing "Snowden/Manning 2016" bumper stickers?
As long as ten million people don't need to fly it the first day, it'll probably be OK.
> I have no idea what people struggling to find food would do
> with the internet. Would it enrich their lives? I don't see how.
> Would it save them from disease? Would it allow their
> children greater likelyhood to see their fifth birthday?
Starvation is not the ONLY problem in the world. There are plenty of people who do have food, and have other problems instead, for whom the Internet would be a great help. Technology isn't the answer to everything, but that doesn't mean it's useless. It's not an either/or.