By "Tesco buyer", they don't mean a normal retailer customer
Since they're so worried about the customer, do you think they could find a way to speed up the huge lines you have to wait in to buy stuff. The Tesco in Edinburgh I frequented was as big as a shoebox and had 1/2 hour waits:-P
Sex may not be that way *to you*, but sex means different things to different people and people define their relationships in different ways
I refer you to the movie Dangerous Liasons for a lesson in how dangerous sex can be for those who indulge in it wantanly. Your friends may think they are going along fine, but any one of those people could suddenly turn on their partners if slighted and make a real mess of things. I have seen this happen. Yes, anybody can hurt anybody, but when sex is involved, because of its great intimacy, the pain will be much greater.
Go ahead and stick to your opinions. But I hope nothing ill will come of them.
Oh get over yourself. Sex is just a physical activity, the very same as sports.
Ok, go put this to the test. Go have physical activity sex with some person you pick up at a bar, then explain to your wife how it's just like sports. I'm sure she will understand.
If sex is just the good clean fun some people say it is, then why do people's partners get so angry when they cheat? Answer: its more than fun, it is a sharing of yourself with another person on a very intimate level. I think to compare it to simple recreation is to rob sex and people of their great dignity.
there is too much of a chance that it would eventually get used for reducing more than just the harmful activities, it could get used for reducing the amount of people in the public that have dissenting opinons.
Yup, I would rather deal with spam then live with the knowledge that Chinese dissendents were being silenced or jailed. Assuming that to be the case, then the price to reduce annoyances is too high.
I never said the response was sane, just that it was a response.
Huh? I was agreeing with you about the response to prevocation while at the same time making the point that it is not that way anymore. I happen to believe that the previous doctrine of attack only when attacked was sane. I think we are totally in agreement here. Sorry if it came off differently.
America only got involved because it was directly provoked, not because of some altruistic / noble motive
That was how it used to be when we were still sane. Now, we have the doctrine of pre-emptive strike which states that we attack before you attack us, because we know that you are about to attack us...uh... someday in the future. Can you say Iraq?
US should reaffirm its innovation and move out of the old systems, like the metric one. They should break up the day into 100 hours instead of stupid 24. Potential benefits:
Why don't we all just go to Internet Time? We will just get used to it eventually. The only thing I can't figure out about it is why it does not have decimal points for finer timing.
if my best friend says I'm a jerk, I might feel hurt.
The reactions are MINE, not imposed upon me.
Are you by that saying that your friend would not be responsible for using words that make you feel hurt? Just because you could theoretically choose not to be hurt by hurtful words does not mean using hurtful words is morally ok. Many evil people have chosen words that whip people up into killing frenzys. Yes, those listeners were wrong, but the talkers are culpable as well.
I remember a short story where a guy meets another guy who has come from the future. The future man describes how the process of traveling to the past destroyed the universe, but "it was worth it." When asked from how far in the future he came from, he looks at his watch and says "twelve minutes." Last line from the first guy: "It wasn't worth it."
Serviously, if you want people to use a method or product, give them a name they can pronounce. At least you can say QWERTY. Dvorak, how the heck do you say that if you're not from Russia?
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3) Some people will read it and decide that they either don't like it, or that they are satisfied with just having the book in its electronic format.
In the case described in the article, you have to buy the book first to get the beta copy. Later, they give the the final version when it's finished. I got it and I have already shelled out the money. I didn't really get it to provide feeback, I just like to read the books those Pramatic guys write and I'm finished with all the other ones I have.
Over the last ten years I have lost numerous paychecks (electronic deposit) and had several physical deposits that ended up in someone else's account. I've also had a machine steal my atm card
For instance, pictures. For these meta based search systems each picture needs to have a comment attatched (if not searching by date).. and who really does that? I tried adding notes to my pics in iphoto but after a while it gets tiresome.
In iPhoto you can create keywords and drag photos to the keywords. You can also create folders in the viewing window and drag photos to those. You can even make smart folders which pick photos based on existing metatdata. This is easier than making a heirarchical file system for your photos and it works with Spotlight. I think the idea that applications should allow drag&drop assignment of metadata to their files is a pretty decent idea and beats having to set up directories.
You really do deserve the rights we Europeans take for granted. Unfortunately you now need to fight for these.
You mean like the right to not be offended by your classmate's or teacher's headscarf? Seriously, what rights do we not have that you have?
Don't get me wrong, I love Europe. I'm all for universal health care, etc. I think we need to do some things in the US to be more like them. I'm not sure that you have more rights than us though.
It can keep track of all my passwords for various email accounts, websites, etc. It's a simple program that (based on my experience so far), just works!
Apple's been doing this with their Keychain Access app for years. Not dissin', just sayin'.
The technical people in India and other third-world countries already have a standard of living that's equal or above their counterparts in the USA and Europe. Their wages only seem so low because the money exchanges aren't linear.
Which is fine for them, but won't be all that great for foreigners; they will need much more money to offset the inconvenience of living overseas and they will need subsidized housing, etc. so they can amass nestegg money for their eventual return. That's the only way India is going to get them. This has been the way ESL teachers have done it for years.
Doesn't even one of them think for a moment - "Huh? I wonder what we are doing to make sure that this doesn't happen to us?"
What might work is if one of the companies were to make it a selling point. If a credit company were to advertise their excellent record of protecting data, it might make people use them instead of the competition. Then the other companies would take notice as they lost customers.
The problem with it is futility. Others like me, myself included, find it futile at times to do anything, since we've done everything we're interested in doing. Us general-purpose, disposable task people have to cast ourselves into single purpose, repetitive task people, and that's really hard for us, in college, and in life.
Why not use your talents to alleviate human suffering? At least that has value.
Besides, if you put "I'll probably get modded down for this", it's like an instant bonus as they normally get modded up. Of course this post will be the exception to the rule.
I'll probably get modded down for this, but what data do you have to support this claim? Perhaps people who write it get modded down more than not, you just don't see them at your threshhold.
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By "Tesco buyer", they don't mean a normal retailer customer
Since they're so worried about the customer, do you think they could find a way to speed up the huge lines you have to wait in to buy stuff. The Tesco in Edinburgh I frequented was as big as a shoebox and had 1/2 hour waits :-P
Sex may not be that way *to you*, but sex means different things to different people and people define their relationships in different ways
I refer you to the movie Dangerous Liasons for a lesson in how dangerous sex can be for those who indulge in it wantanly. Your friends may think they are going along fine, but any one of those people could suddenly turn on their partners if slighted and make a real mess of things. I have seen this happen. Yes, anybody can hurt anybody, but when sex is involved, because of its great intimacy, the pain will be much greater.
Go ahead and stick to your opinions. But I hope nothing ill will come of them.
Oh get over yourself. Sex is just a physical activity, the very same as sports.
Ok, go put this to the test. Go have physical activity sex with some person you pick up at a bar, then explain to your wife how it's just like sports. I'm sure she will understand.
If sex is just the good clean fun some people say it is, then why do people's partners get so angry when they cheat? Answer: its more than fun, it is a sharing of yourself with another person on a very intimate level. I think to compare it to simple recreation is to rob sex and people of their great dignity.
there is too much of a chance that it would eventually get used for reducing more than just the harmful activities, it could get used for reducing the amount of people in the public that have dissenting opinons.
Yup, I would rather deal with spam then live with the knowledge that Chinese dissendents were being silenced or jailed. Assuming that to be the case, then the price to reduce annoyances is too high.
I never said the response was sane, just that it was a response.
Huh? I was agreeing with you about the response to prevocation while at the same time making the point that it is not that way anymore. I happen to believe that the previous doctrine of attack only when attacked was sane. I think we are totally in agreement here. Sorry if it came off differently.
America only got involved because it was directly provoked, not because of some altruistic / noble motive
That was how it used to be when we were still sane. Now, we have the doctrine of pre-emptive strike which states that we attack before you attack us, because we know that you are about to attack us...uh... someday in the future. Can you say Iraq?
US should reaffirm its innovation and move out of the old systems, like the metric one. They should break up the day into 100 hours instead of stupid 24. Potential benefits:
Why don't we all just go to Internet Time? We will just get used to it eventually. The only thing I can't figure out about it is why it does not have decimal points for finer timing.
Here are some I had found that were really good... Off the wall and calssic horror movies.
There are some decent ones out there. I got Night of the Living Dead for one buck at Target. I thought that was an awsome deal.
Who else thinks this story should be here
if my best friend says I'm a jerk, I might feel hurt. The reactions are MINE, not imposed upon me.
Are you by that saying that your friend would not be responsible for using words that make you feel hurt? Just because you could theoretically choose not to be hurt by hurtful words does not mean using hurtful words is morally ok. Many evil people have chosen words that whip people up into killing frenzys. Yes, those listeners were wrong, but the talkers are culpable as well.
I remember a short story where a guy meets another guy who has come from the future. The future man describes how the process of traveling to the past destroyed the universe, but "it was worth it." When asked from how far in the future he came from, he looks at his watch and says "twelve minutes." Last line from the first guy: "It wasn't worth it."
Well, I thought it was funny.
Serviously, if you want people to use a method or product, give them a name they can pronounce. At least you can say QWERTY. Dvorak, how the heck do you say that if you're not from Russia?
3) Some people will read it and decide that they either don't like it, or that they are satisfied with just having the book in its electronic format.
In the case described in the article, you have to buy the book first to get the beta copy. Later, they give the the final version when it's finished. I got it and I have already shelled out the money. I didn't really get it to provide feeback, I just like to read the books those Pramatic guys write and I'm finished with all the other ones I have.
Over the last ten years I have lost numerous paychecks (electronic deposit) and had several physical deposits that ended up in someone else's account. I've also had a machine steal my atm card
My friend, you need to switch banks.
For instance, pictures. For these meta based search systems each picture needs to have a comment attatched (if not searching by date).. and who really does that? I tried adding notes to my pics in iphoto but after a while it gets tiresome.
In iPhoto you can create keywords and drag photos to the keywords. You can also create folders in the viewing window and drag photos to those. You can even make smart folders which pick photos based on existing metatdata. This is easier than making a heirarchical file system for your photos and it works with Spotlight. I think the idea that applications should allow drag&drop assignment of metadata to their files is a pretty decent idea and beats having to set up directories.
You really do deserve the rights we Europeans take for granted. Unfortunately you now need to fight for these.
You mean like the right to not be offended by your classmate's or teacher's headscarf? Seriously, what rights do we not have that you have?
Don't get me wrong, I love Europe. I'm all for universal health care, etc. I think we need to do some things in the US to be more like them. I'm not sure that you have more rights than us though.
It can keep track of all my passwords for various email accounts, websites, etc. It's a simple program that (based on my experience so far), just works!
Apple's been doing this with their Keychain Access app for years. Not dissin', just sayin'.
The technical people in India and other third-world countries already have a standard of living that's equal or above their counterparts in the USA and Europe. Their wages only seem so low because the money exchanges aren't linear.
Which is fine for them, but won't be all that great for foreigners; they will need much more money to offset the inconvenience of living overseas and they will need subsidized housing, etc. so they can amass nestegg money for their eventual return. That's the only way India is going to get them. This has been the way ESL teachers have done it for years.
Doesn't even one of them think for a moment - "Huh? I wonder what we are doing to make sure that this doesn't happen to us?"
What might work is if one of the companies were to make it a selling point. If a credit company were to advertise their excellent record of protecting data, it might make people use them instead of the competition. Then the other companies would take notice as they lost customers.
... because I'm going to need a service robot in 2010 to fix my flying car!
The problem with it is futility. Others like me, myself included, find it futile at times to do anything, since we've done everything we're interested in doing. Us general-purpose, disposable task people have to cast ourselves into single purpose, repetitive task people, and that's really hard for us, in college, and in life.
Why not use your talents to alleviate human suffering? At least that has value.
Besides, if you put "I'll probably get modded down for this", it's like an instant bonus as they normally get modded up. Of course this post will be the exception to the rule.
I'll probably get modded down for this, but what data do you have to support this claim? Perhaps people who write it get modded down more than not, you just don't see them at your threshhold.
This is purely for that cute blonde in that line over there...
I'm thinking the amount of titillation produced by viewing cute blonds will be more than offset by having to view fat old people. "Eeeewww!"
Oh man, you made my day. I haven't laughed so hard in weeks. Wish I had mod points today.
The question is not "Can Johnny still program?", the question is "Can Johnny still program for 25K a year?"