And on the third hand, it's a shitty way to treat people. It's saying "we don't trust you, so we're going to require that you prove, down to the second, when you come and go" -- which if it were me, I'd be sure I was in at 8:00:00 and out at 5:00:00 and I'd do a shitty job all day long, filled to the eyeballs with resentment. And if I had to stop actually doing work early to make sure I'm at the machine at 5:00:00, so be it.
Question: are the managers and up required to clock in and out like this, or just the lowly tube-cleaning peons? I can guess the answer, and the reason.
Since 98 or 2k, IIRC: control-click to select multiple (not just two!) items in the taskbar, right-click, and choose "tile horizontally" or "tile vertically".
For fuck's sake, the grandmother had exactly NOTHING to do with it. There was tons of engineering behind it that made it happen. All the grandmother did was happen to be the first user. She didn't pioneer a DAMN THING.
Next week on Bullshit Modern Journalism: How a Snail that Got Run Over by the Wright Brothers' Airplane on the Runway at Kitty Hawk Ushered in the Era of Modern Aviation.
PS: Dan Brown, I loved (I'll admit it) your first four books, but I thought The Lost Symbol was only OK, and I gave up reading Inferno after just a few chapters. I didn't discover how "The coo of a single dove had changed everything," despite the fact that you mentioned it fifty-eleven times in the first nine pages.
> The correct, elegant mad scientist method is to use the power > contained in the vaporized mass to power the vaporization.
Let me guess... you're the guy who wrote the "the dead were fed to the living to produce energy" scene in The Matrix? And no one has pointed these out to you in the last 15 years?
Originally, The Verve had negotiated a licence to use a sample from the Oldham recording, but it was successfully argued that the Verve had used "too much" of the sample. Despite having original lyrics... [t]he matter was eventually settled, with copyright of the song reverting to Abkco. Songwriting credits were changed to Jagger/Richards/Ashcroft, with 100% of royalties going to the Rolling Stones.
The construction has been around and in use longer than you've been alive. It's regional, but it's as correct as any other regionalism. It just depends on which side of this fence you fall on.
"needs solved" is a common construction in the northeast US. And while it might sound weird, think about it -- is it actually any worse than "needs solving", other than you're just not used to how it sounds?
> It feels like too small of an incremental enhancement and not anything > singularly so substantial that it's worth plunking down money for.
Yes, and that's for 2 reasons:
1) They already got all the low-hanging fruit. The original iPhone was amazing in many ways but was missing quite a few state-of-the-art features when it was introduced. The 3G added GPS. The 3GS could shoot video. The 4 could shoot HD video. Since then, there's not a lot of big things missing. The biggest single improvement each year is now the camera -- especially since they've stuck with 16 GB storage on the entry-level model for 5 years now.:-( Seriously -- what could they possible add today that would be an "amazing" upgrade from the 5, comparable to gaining GPS, videorecording, or the retina screen? 3D? Surround sound? Tricorder?
That said, you, my wife, and many other people would appreciate an iPhone at the same resolution on a larger screen to make all elements bigger. Hopefully Apple will make one someday, but I wouldn't count on it.
2) Each iPhone is only a bit better than the previous, but it's quite a bit better than the second-previous, which is their main market -- people who are upgrading when they become eligible, 2 years after their last new phone. I bought an iPhone shortly after it came out in 2007 and for various reasons I was eligible to upgrade annually so since then I've had a 3G, 4, and 4S because hey, why not -- each old one sold for enough to pay for its replacement and I was almost always within the original warranty period. I wasn't eligible to get a 5, though, so moving from a 4S to a 5S will be quite a nice upgrade for me. 120fps video... CAN'T WAIT!:-)
> The mail apps now make it almost impossible to > delete email in any other way but one at a time... > Is there some committee at Microsoft and Yahoo > that goes around finding anything that's simple, > obvious and workable and making sure that it's > made unusable as quickly as possible?
Another gem from the last mail update: instead of clicking column headings to sort, there is now a DROPDOWN MENU to sort. And no column headings. Also, you can't sort by size anymore.
Holy cow, your fanboy hat must be cutting off the flow of blood to your brain. Explain again why an OS with 4x the market share garners 100x the exploits?
Maybe, just maybe, there's more to it than market share.
"... it fell 3% in marketshare in just the last three months..."
iPhone sales ALWAYS drop this time of year because everyone knows a new one is coming this Fall. It'll be back up in another few months... and then maybe down again, and then up again...
Was going to post that but you beat me to it. The details:
Headline: "Four Out of Five Malware Menaces Choose Android"
80%? They make it sound so close! It's actually 100:1 for Android:iOS: "Android was targeted by an astonishing 79 percent of all smartphone malware that year... iOS was targeted by 0.7 percent of malware attacks."
The rest? Windows Phone and BlackBerry, 0.3%; Symbian, 19%.
> This isn't a religion issue... I'm sure your local > sporting stadium contributes to the spread of > disease on an ongoing basis.
Wrong.
"Terri Pearsons, a senior pastor of Eagle Mountain International said she has had concerns about possible ties between early childhood vaccines and autism."
I don't remember any quarterbacks or pitches preaching to the crowds about how they should avoid vaccinations. The risk is higher to members of the church because of the actions of their religious leaders.
... and probably still will, as long as it's able to play any arbitrary content from Chrome. My idea was to drop all my media into a web-servable directory on a small server in my house and use Chrome on my laptop or phone to browse to that directory, then click the "send to chromecast" button to send it to my TV. That should still work, right? Is there anyone here who has one and is using it in that way? It's the only reason I'd get one -- I have no use at all for Yet Another Way to play hulu, netflix, youtube, etc.
> This is/. , why isn't there some hipster maker with a kickstartr to build a > arduinio-driven robot recycling bin that can sort our plastics for us?!!
This is 2013, why don't companies make the little triangle-number recycling symbol more than 8mm across? It's damn hard to read embossed plastic on the same color plastic (especially as you advance in years) and for fuck's sake, it's usually on the bottom of the container in the first place! It should be 5cm wide or 80% the width of the container.
Really? $8k/month? "Some parts"? There are about TWO parts of the U.S. that might qualify there, and even in those two -- San Francisco and Manhattan -- there are plenty of decent places for less than half that. Closer to 1/3, even in the best neighborhoods. Methinks the man doth exaggerate a bit.
Citation: my family owns a two-flat house on 19th Avenue in San Francisco and we're renting it out for $1800/mo. That's less than ONE QUARTER your cited figure. 2br/1ba with a decent dining room and a good-sized living room. It is quite a bit nicer than "decent." All remodeled in the last 5-10 years. You could rent the entire house -- 2 floors each containing what's described above above, with 2-car garage, small yard, and laundry area -- for $43k/yr. You could rent TWO such houses and not break $100k. I don't know what your definition of "decent" entails but if you need more than 8 bedrooms and 4 full bathrooms then maybe you shouldn't be looking at apartments.
The answer will forever be NO, until the bandwidth between me and the server == the bandwidth between my CPU and its main memory. AND latency, AND availability.
The fastest web apps TODAY are still slower than the native apps that shipped on the first iPhone in 2007.
Besides that, both kinds have their own unique advantages. The first two: web apps allow you to get at the data from any device with an Internet connection and browser, but native apps work when you don't have network connectivity at all. If neither of those is a make-it-or-break-it aspect of your app, then you look at all the other advantages each offers, which have been discussed ad nauseum elsewhere.
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And on the third hand, it's a shitty way to treat people. It's saying "we don't trust you, so we're going to require that you prove, down to the second, when you come and go" -- which if it were me, I'd be sure I was in at 8:00:00 and out at 5:00:00 and I'd do a shitty job all day long, filled to the eyeballs with resentment. And if I had to stop actually doing work early to make sure I'm at the machine at 5:00:00, so be it.
Question: are the managers and up required to clock in and out like this, or just the lowly tube-cleaning peons? I can guess the answer, and the reason.
Treat others as you'd want to be treated.
> How do you snap two windows side by side in XP?
Since 98 or 2k, IIRC: control-click to select multiple (not just two!) items in the taskbar, right-click, and choose "tile horizontally" or "tile vertically".
For fuck's sake, the grandmother had exactly NOTHING to do with it. There was tons of engineering behind it that made it happen. All the grandmother did was happen to be the first user. She didn't pioneer a DAMN THING.
Next week on Bullshit Modern Journalism: How a Snail that Got Run Over by the Wright Brothers' Airplane on the Runway at Kitty Hawk Ushered in the Era of Modern Aviation.
PS: Dan Brown, I loved (I'll admit it) your first four books, but I thought The Lost Symbol was only OK, and I gave up reading Inferno after just a few chapters. I didn't discover how "The coo of a single dove had changed everything," despite the fact that you mentioned it fifty-eleven times in the first nine pages.
> The correct, elegant mad scientist method is to use the power
> contained in the vaporized mass to power the vaporization.
Let me guess... you're the guy who wrote the "the dead were fed to the living to produce energy" scene in The Matrix? And no one has pointed these out to you in the last 15 years?
It says Massachusetts is going to repeal a tax but we all know that can't possibly be right. ;-)
Don't forget about lawsuits! The Rolling Stones sued the piss out of The Verve for a sample used in Bittersweet Symphony.
Originally, The Verve had negotiated a licence to use a sample from the Oldham recording, but it was successfully argued that the Verve had used "too much" of the sample. Despite having original lyrics... [t]he matter was eventually settled, with copyright of the song reverting to Abkco. Songwriting credits were changed to Jagger/Richards/Ashcroft, with 100% of royalties going to the Rolling Stones.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh_English#Grammar
The construction has been around and in use longer than you've been alive. It's regional, but it's as correct as any other regionalism. It just depends on which side of this fence you fall on.
"needs solved" is a common construction in the northeast US. And while it might sound weird, think about it -- is it actually any worse than "needs solving", other than you're just not used to how it sounds?
I've never seen that emoticon before: ,/p>
Um, winking guy with a bandana over his nose, sticking his tongue out, with a goatee? ;-)
> It feels like too small of an incremental enhancement and not anything
> singularly so substantial that it's worth plunking down money for.
Yes, and that's for 2 reasons:
1) They already got all the low-hanging fruit. The original iPhone was amazing in many ways but was missing quite a few state-of-the-art features when it was introduced. The 3G added GPS. The 3GS could shoot video. The 4 could shoot HD video. Since then, there's not a lot of big things missing. The biggest single improvement each year is now the camera -- especially since they've stuck with 16 GB storage on the entry-level model for 5 years now. :-( Seriously -- what could they possible add today that would be an "amazing" upgrade from the 5, comparable to gaining GPS, videorecording, or the retina screen? 3D? Surround sound? Tricorder?
That said, you, my wife, and many other people would appreciate an iPhone at the same resolution on a larger screen to make all elements bigger. Hopefully Apple will make one someday, but I wouldn't count on it.
2) Each iPhone is only a bit better than the previous, but it's quite a bit better than the second-previous, which is their main market -- people who are upgrading when they become eligible, 2 years after their last new phone. I bought an iPhone shortly after it came out in 2007 and for various reasons I was eligible to upgrade annually so since then I've had a 3G, 4, and 4S because hey, why not -- each old one sold for enough to pay for its replacement and I was almost always within the original warranty period. I wasn't eligible to get a 5, though, so moving from a 4S to a 5S will be quite a nice upgrade for me. 120fps video... CAN'T WAIT! :-)
"Al-Qaeda has a long history of attracting trained engineers..."
More evidence that the STEM crisis is a myth.
> The mail apps now make it almost impossible to
> delete email in any other way but one at a time...
> Is there some committee at Microsoft and Yahoo
> that goes around finding anything that's simple,
> obvious and workable and making sure that it's
> made unusable as quickly as possible?
Another gem from the last mail update: instead of clicking column headings to sort, there is now a DROPDOWN MENU to sort. And no column headings. Also, you can't sort by size anymore.
1990s: "... on a computer!"
2000s: "... on the Internet!"
2010s: "... on a mobile device!"
.... because it's their job to crash helicopters. That it resulted in good data is secondary. :-)
Holy cow, your fanboy hat must be cutting off the flow of blood to your brain. Explain again why an OS with 4x the market share garners 100x the exploits?
Maybe, just maybe, there's more to it than market share.
"... it fell 3% in marketshare in just the last three months..."
iPhone sales ALWAYS drop this time of year because everyone knows a new one is coming this Fall. It'll be back up in another few months... and then maybe down again, and then up again...
Was going to post that but you beat me to it. The details:
Headline: "Four Out of Five Malware Menaces Choose Android"
80%? They make it sound so close! It's actually 100:1 for Android:iOS: "Android was targeted by an astonishing 79 percent of all smartphone malware that year... iOS was targeted by 0.7 percent of malware attacks."
The rest? Windows Phone and BlackBerry, 0.3%; Symbian, 19%.
I am totally safe.
> This isn't a religion issue... I'm sure your local
> sporting stadium contributes to the spread of
> disease on an ongoing basis.
Wrong.
"Terri Pearsons, a senior pastor of Eagle Mountain International said she has had concerns about possible ties between early childhood vaccines and autism."
I don't remember any quarterbacks or pitches preaching to the crowds about how they should avoid vaccinations. The risk is higher to members of the church because of the actions of their religious leaders.
"For 200 years, the best thing you could be was a white guy with a few bucks in the bank. I come along, *pfft,*, fuck you, party's over."
- Richard Jeni
... because only 1.1 million other people already know this.
FUCKING SERIOUSLY?!?!?!??!1111
... and probably still will, as long as it's able to play any arbitrary content from Chrome. My idea was to drop all my media into a web-servable directory on a small server in my house and use Chrome on my laptop or phone to browse to that directory, then click the "send to chromecast" button to send it to my TV. That should still work, right? Is there anyone here who has one and is using it in that way? It's the only reason I'd get one -- I have no use at all for Yet Another Way to play hulu, netflix, youtube, etc.
> This is /. , why isn't there some hipster maker with a kickstartr to build a
> arduinio-driven robot recycling bin that can sort our plastics for us?!!
This is 2013, why don't companies make the little triangle-number recycling symbol more than 8mm across? It's damn hard to read embossed plastic on the same color plastic (especially as you advance in years) and for fuck's sake, it's usually on the bottom of the container in the first place! It should be 5cm wide or 80% the width of the container.
Really? $8k/month? "Some parts"? There are about TWO parts of the U.S. that might qualify there, and even in those two -- San Francisco and Manhattan -- there are plenty of decent places for less than half that. Closer to 1/3, even in the best neighborhoods. Methinks the man doth exaggerate a bit.
Citation: my family owns a two-flat house on 19th Avenue in San Francisco and we're renting it out for $1800/mo. That's less than ONE QUARTER your cited figure. 2br/1ba with a decent dining room and a good-sized living room. It is quite a bit nicer than "decent." All remodeled in the last 5-10 years. You could rent the entire house -- 2 floors each containing what's described above above, with 2-car garage, small yard, and laundry area -- for $43k/yr. You could rent TWO such houses and not break $100k. I don't know what your definition of "decent" entails but if you need more than 8 bedrooms and 4 full bathrooms then maybe you shouldn't be looking at apartments.
Hell, I figured that out just from watching a few seasons of Burn Notice.
The answer will forever be NO, until the bandwidth between me and the server == the bandwidth between my CPU and its main memory. AND latency, AND availability.
The fastest web apps TODAY are still slower than the native apps that shipped on the first iPhone in 2007.
Besides that, both kinds have their own unique advantages. The first two: web apps allow you to get at the data from any device with an Internet connection and browser, but native apps work when you don't have network connectivity at all. If neither of those is a make-it-or-break-it aspect of your app, then you look at all the other advantages each offers, which have been discussed ad nauseum elsewhere.