Mold-A-Rama is more than a cheap souvenir, it's a minute-long event. The noise, holding them upside down, the almost-too-hot plastic, the smell...they're a flash to childhood that only costs $1.
The smell... thats what I remember most from around 25 years ago. Why, I have no idea...but its well-imprinted. Can't even remember what grey plastic animal it was, just the smell.
The idea of punitive damages is to, well, punish the guilty. It does not matter, where the money goes -- the consumers benefit from the companies' not doing it again.
Oh... I thought it was to inflate the legal team's percentage...
Better make the distinction between "good" writing and valuable techincal writing. From my experience, any manifestation of literary skill (beyond good grammar and concise description) is not valued in the technical world. The audience is of mixed background (in terms of native language) and struggles to comprehend more than simple sentance structure and very direct, unambiguous language.
Now if you're asking how to teach engineers to write well outside of work, then bravo & I'm all ears...
In the latest step to protect us all from terrorists, the bill of rights has been re-classified. Dick Cheney revealed that he has been given the executive power by the president to classify specific portions of the constitution. "If they know their rights, it will give them an edge in the war on terror. Agents have shown time and again that they can move much faster and more effectively without any constitutional entanglements. Americans understand that this is a necessary measure."
Rumors that a secret house-to-house gun collection program is underway have been vehemently denied by Whitehouse spokesman Scott McCleanone. Mr McC also deflected a question about the house's mysterious inability to find procedural documents relating to the drawing of articles of impeachment.
Just a matter of time until this terroristic crime brings the CIA to each and every one of our homes. In fact, they're already watching and listening to us without court permission because we are SUSPECTED of PLANNING the heinous crime of refreshing a web page.
Its just the way engineering for reliability works. To GUARANTEE with any certainty that something will last for 3 months, you have to build it with a much longer expected lifetime. You'll probably get "lucky" and it will work much longer (10x is not unrealistic).
FWIW: Thats hypothetically why they can push the Enterprise to 110% and not instantly explode...
Private companies chisel away at all of the freedoms and protections that have been won throughout history. Sheep that we are, we sign them all away with the stroke a pen without even reading the "agreement". (Employment, service agreements, product purchases, money lending, etc) In some cases all you need to do is "open the packaging" to implicitly agree with their version of the law.
With the media, you don't even sign anything. They just show us whatever they want us to see.
These practices were much more effective now than ever because there is a decreasing degree of competition out there (larger & more powerful companies with increasing power). You have fewer alternatives every day.
And since the trend is international, its hard to say that this is really an "American" pheomenon. Maybe we're just noticing it first.
to install some of the plugins that couldn't be found (like imagezoom) when they first went to the new extension manager !
Imagine my annoyance when I realized that my latest build 0.9.1 of Firefox somehow doesn't install extensions. You click on the link, it downloads the xpi, and nothing happens. Whoohooo !
A year ago I finally got to see one of these face to face just in time to hear the owner say "Did you know the company just went out of business 2 days ago ?". What a bummer !
So now its back and I'm not sure I want one anymore...
These days I'm thinking more about converting an old car for vegetable oil or using biodiesel
People often complain about how buggy and how full of security holes. Bugs are what occur when you make something that is very large and very complex.
Is this what you tell yourself when you board a commercial jetliner ?
You are spouting excuses. The software industry is still very immature in terms of quality and reliabilty. The standard is "if it kind-of works, ship it". Try that in the household, automotive, aviation, etc and the lawyers would eat you alive
Monopoly or not, you and I should be angry with MS for siphoning their gobs of cash (into pockets, FUD, XBOX, MSBOB, etc) instead of fixing their product.
Always thought this would be a good idea.
Didn't know it was technically possible alread.
Never really tried to find out...
Maybe if I was SCO I would be suing them for stealing my (undisclosed) idea.
Was also thinking as an ID, you could instruct it how much info to disclose:
a> only age
b> also name
c> blood type
d> also phone #
e> also address . .
z> also social security #
But its worse than that... there's scheme/guile too.
Managed to write and submit one report for it but the time invested getting used to guile parenthses hell and the poorly documented (at least at the time) lib funcs was just not feeling worth it. After a few days all I could think was "Why am I doing this?". I remember wondering often if using C would've been easier and faster !
Low bang for the buck kills OSS projects where nobody has the time to put in solid days to get anything done !
Having said all that I've been using it for more than 3 years now. Despite its quirks and build hassles, it does deliver as a useful home banking app !
So just about every open source program has a copyright notice. Will it now, according to the law, be illegal to upload this material ? Then they will start excavating bits of your gray matter for whistling the tune you just heard on the radio...
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Mold-A-Rama is more than a cheap souvenir, it's a minute-long event. The noise, holding them upside down, the almost-too-hot plastic, the smell...they're a flash to childhood that only costs $1.
... thats what I remember most from around 25 years ago.
The smell
Why, I have no idea...but its well-imprinted.
Can't even remember what grey plastic animal it was, just the smell.
Yes, there is life after gentoo. Much better life.
Get a life, ditch gentoo...
The idea of punitive damages is to, well, punish the guilty. It does not matter, where the money goes -- the consumers benefit from the companies' not doing it again.
Oh... I thought it was to inflate the legal team's percentage...
Interesting that their CEO was recently crucified by the SEC...
Coincidence ?
Better make the distinction between "good" writing and valuable techincal writing. From my experience, any manifestation of literary skill (beyond good grammar and concise description) is not valued in the technical world. The audience is of mixed background (in terms of native language) and struggles to comprehend more than simple sentance structure and very direct, unambiguous language.
Now if you're asking how to teach engineers to write well outside of work, then bravo & I'm all ears...
This just in:
In the latest step to protect us all from terrorists, the bill of rights has been re-classified.
Dick Cheney revealed that he has been given the executive power by the president to classify specific portions of the constitution. "If they know their rights, it will give them an edge in the war on terror. Agents have shown time and again that they can move much faster and more effectively without any constitutional entanglements. Americans understand that this is a necessary measure."
Rumors that a secret house-to-house gun collection program is underway have been vehemently denied by Whitehouse spokesman Scott McCleanone. Mr McC also deflected a question about the house's mysterious inability to find procedural documents relating to the drawing of articles of impeachment.
Google for "santorum" some time, and hit "I'm feeling lucky".
Try the same for the word "failure" for that matter...
A number of US brewpubs are serving their own batches of Poor Richard's which was formulated to the researched preferences of Bejamin Franklin
FWIW: its an "Open Recipe" beer.
(mmmmmm, beeer)
Just a matter of time until this terroristic crime brings the CIA to each and every one of our homes. In fact, they're already watching and listening to us without court permission because we are SUSPECTED of PLANNING the heinous crime of refreshing a web page.
Yup. Britney.
Its the best we've got to offer these days...
Its just the way engineering for reliability works.
...
To GUARANTEE with any certainty that something will last for 3 months, you have to build it with a much longer expected lifetime. You'll probably get "lucky" and it will work much longer (10x is not unrealistic).
FWIW: Thats hypothetically why they can push the Enterprise to 110% and not instantly explode
This is the new Amerika -
Private companies chisel away at all of the freedoms and protections that have been won throughout history. Sheep that we are, we sign them all away with the stroke a pen without even reading the "agreement". (Employment, service agreements, product purchases, money lending, etc)
In some cases all you need to do is "open the packaging" to implicitly agree with their version of the law.
With the media, you don't even sign anything. They just show us whatever they want us to see.
These practices were much more effective now than ever because there is a decreasing degree of competition out there (larger & more powerful companies with increasing power). You have fewer alternatives every day.
And since the trend is international, its hard to say that this is really an "American" pheomenon.
Maybe we're just noticing it first.
Please, plug me back into the collective - I feel alone, empty, when away from it...
Ok, thats fair - though I did try to load the extension directly from a local file & it still wouldn't work (semantics...).
So did it get changed in the latest upgrade ? (Also lost all of my extensions at that time)
to install some of the plugins that couldn't be found (like imagezoom) when they first went to the new extension manager !
Imagine my annoyance when I realized that my latest build 0.9.1 of Firefox somehow doesn't install extensions. You click on the link, it downloads the xpi, and nothing happens. Whoohooo !
A year ago I finally got to see one of these face to face just in time to hear the owner say "Did you know the company just went out of business 2 days ago ?". What a bummer !
So now its back and I'm not sure I want one anymore...
These days I'm thinking more about converting an old car for vegetable oil or using biodiesel
Where do you put your big-gulp ?
Do you mean this?
Was referenced on the RIOT website...
You are spouting excuses. The software industry is still very immature in terms of quality and reliabilty. The standard is "if it kind-of works, ship it". Try that in the household, automotive, aviation, etc and the lawyers would eat you alive
Monopoly or not, you and I should be angry with MS for siphoning their gobs of cash (into pockets, FUD, XBOX, MSBOB, etc) instead of fixing their product.
Didn't know it was technically possible alread.
Never really tried to find out...
Maybe if I was SCO I would be suing them for stealing my (undisclosed) idea.
Was also thinking as an ID, you could instruct it how much info to disclose:
.
.
a> only age
b> also name
c> blood type
d> also phone #
e> also address
z> also social security #
Still waiting for the implantable math co-processor, ideally with optically interfaced plotting/visualization capability ...
Imagine the possibilities.
We all know what "permanent and irrevocable" means to SCO ...
Shut up, portknocker.
Managed to write and submit one report for it but the time invested getting used to guile parenthses hell and the poorly documented (at least at the time) lib funcs was just not feeling worth it. After a few days all I could think was "Why am I doing this?". I remember wondering often if using C would've been easier and faster !
Low bang for the buck kills OSS projects where nobody has the time to put in solid days to get anything done !
Having said all that I've been using it for more than 3 years now. Despite its quirks and build hassles,
it does deliver as a useful home banking app !
So just about every open source program has a copyright notice.
Will it now, according to the law, be illegal to upload this material ?
Then they will start excavating bits of your gray matter for whistling the tune you just heard on the radio...