Tell me, what other subject forces you to wrap your mind around a problem to figure out what they are asking, then figure out a way to get from what your given, to the final solution, to the exclusion of math?
Yeah, it starts looking silly when I apply that attitude to everything, huh?
I totally understand you were trying to be silly, but I read it initially nodding my head thinking, yes, that would solve a lot of problems. People SHOULD know how what they eat affects their body, and understanding when you are being gouged at the pump versus justifiable price increases is good.
I am quite happy I took those courses and that they were available to me to take. Of course, there is something to say for the mindless happiness of ignorance, too.
At NO time however, did I say anything that would imply in any way that cell phones work in New Orleans. So, on this point, you have demonstrated that you will lie to try and make an argument. Pathetic.
I made it very clear both through wording and context, that I was talking about MY experience with MY cellphone in MY city during the hurricane that hit ME.
You won't find New Orleans mentioned once. SO, fuck you, don't ever put words in my mouth again.
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Funny, I was going to ask YOU if you'd just leared how to read. Clearly context and understanding main ideas are beyond you, so I was going to ask why you find it so difficult to NOT READ YOUR OWN MEANING INTO SOMEONE ELSE'S POST.
Since I need to spell it out for the retarded boy, here we go.
Initial post CLEARLY references New Orleans.
Look at the destruction in New Orleans and Biloxi. Do you really think that there are any/many people filing FEMA claims via the internet?
This is the topmost post of interest in this thread. The child of thie post goes on to ask the possibly retorical question:
What do think they're going to be using? Their cell phones? Their land lines? The mail?
sadly, I now need to quote you to yourself, since you do not understand things like context..here's what you say:
"Their cell phones?"
Yes. As someone who made it through two hurricanes in Central Florida, I can say with certainty that the cell phones were up. In fact, they worked flawlessly during and immediatley after the storms. They eventually became overloaded with calls, but my service never stopped working.
Meanwhile, power was out, so I have no idea if the landlines worked or not (cordless phone) but I imagine they did as well.
So maybe now you understand how "New Orleans" came into the conversation. THIS ISN'T ABOUT YOU. There are people living in the worst of conditions, and YOU feel you need to interject about some story about how your cell phone worked in FL and that you HAD NO IDEA ABOUT LANDLINES. No shit I had to come back and point out to you that you are a fuckwit.
There was NO discussion about families in Texas you ass, it was about New Orleans.. This is where you are wrong. Incredibly wrong. When someone says "destruction in new orleans, do you think people are posting using the internet" and someone else says what about cell phones, and YOU say Yes!!! CEll phones worked in FL all we can do is collectively shake our heads and hope you don't drown in your own drool. I bet you were just so darn excited to post, yay!!! pizza party! Pizza party!!!
I'm axiously awaiting a reply. Your discourse is so civilized.. a breath of fresh air. Well, ok, at least you can spell. Oh, and how did your post get to -1? Is that because of the evil moderators and how they are conspiring against you?
Oh, almost forgot.. I was just chatting with Jesus and he said that you are jerking off too much... God hates you and your inadequacies. Just kind of an FYI.
You didn't suggest it, someone else did. You said your cell phone worked in FL which really doesn't matter. Prior facts indicated that the cell system was NOT up at all, and your post suggested that the cell system could be viable. WITH NO BASIS OF FACT ON THE SITUATION AT HAND.
No it isn't that the moderation system justifies me, just that you are exactly the only person that thinks you are "right". As for all the things you hate about slashdot, look into the mirror my friend.
The fine person who posted this based it on some facts that he had, not random speculation.
Look, I have nothing to apologize for, I'm not the one that has dropped to 10 year old name calling and whining. I'm very sure you will reply to this, because you are incapable of letting it go. I'll be waiting, amused to see your response. Please tell me again that I have never been in a hurricane. Please?
Now as to whether other people think I am an asshole/dickhead, I refer you to moderation on your post and my reply, and to sibling comments. I really think you went overboard in your lashing back of me.
However, I understand that the particular topic we are discussing does create an emotional response. I may have completely misinterpreted what your point was, or you could have typed something and were misinformed. Could you please review you inital post and let me know if there was perhaps a mistake?
Thank you for applying a perspective that has no bearing whatsoever.
The perspective that you are wrong is perfectly relevant. I really want to get to understand where you anger is coming from. How's your home life? Any issues getting an erection? Maybe you car didn't start this morning and you spilled coffee on your desk. No no, it must be that guy on slashdot "shooting his idiot mouth off" that is wrong with the world.
Yes you did, in response to whether cell phones would be an option, you said YES. Then went on to blather about something unrelated which provided false support for your statement. I call you on it, you start pissing and moaning. OF COURSE we all knew it was anecdotal, and we all knew it had absolutely no bearing on the conversation at hand.
Which am I, an asshole or a dickhead? Have you just learned to swear? I think you are just taking it personally.
Please, by all means, take your ball and go home. I encourage it.
There are no towers. Central Offices are down. Emergency power generation is flooded. How can you say that cell phones work? Please note the massive demand for sat phones right now precisely because of this. But thank you for applying annecdotal evidence that isn't applicable.
Spirituality is what you have left when you stop thinking.
You are obviously a spiritual person. Many years of practice, I'd guess, judging from the disconnected blather you call a post. But thank you for posting. It makes the people reading it feel really smart.
...who really needs a countdown timer to the next episode of Battlestar Galactica just one keypress away at any moment?
You mean people don't have it memorized?!?
I use it for extremely quick access to calendar, network status, battery status.. things I don't want in my face all day long but are only wrist flick away. Almost worth the 20Mb per widget;)
Valid points in your first paragraph on forum complaints of hardware and software not working, but that is merely a fact of software development.
Aso I noticed: when anyone asks about office software in general, most people say MS is simply the best. Neo Office lacks many features, and nothing Apple themselves provides even approaches the features of MS Office. Often you don't need all those features, but when you do nothing else has them. And note: these are current Mac owners, not my opinions.
Even though MS Office on Mac has been heralded for many years as better than the windows version, they are not referring to the office suite in general. They are referring specifically to Word and Excel. Open Office does not have a native port, and NeoOffice/J WORKS but is slow to load. But then, Office is clearly the best product put out by MS and this simply means that staying on windows just for office isn't necessary.
I'm still intrigued by running OSx86, but would have to buy the hardware to do it fully. The other thing Mac users gush so much about is that "kick-ass graphical interface", but I'd just have to spend time trying to use one to comment on that--but I have not yet heard of anything involving it that is really significant. I *do* like the Linux GUI feature of multiple desktops--especially if you only have one screen--but then, what's even better than multiple desktops is having the hardware priced cheaper, so that you can [i]afford to buy two screens[/i]. But when I think of "Apple" and "low-priced hardware", somehow that just doesn't compute.....
I had a 2 year cycle for the longest time with windows boxes.. basically with new releases of windows, older hardware wasn't acceptable for me. Part of this is the fact that windows comes out MUCH thicker with minimal actual enhancements (mostly due to backward compatibility issues), and partly due to the fact that competing hardware vendors would not necessarily include forward thinking interfaces.
My powerbook has firewire 800. I have never used it. I also didn't get an option to not include it. I basically paid for something that I didn't need. However, my laptop is almost two years old and I have had exactly no issues with it. I can wipe down the aluminum and it is effectively as good as new. Speedwise, I have lost very little since newer OS revisions have been FASTER, instead of more bloated.
I have a piece of hardware 2 years old that I could sell for 80% of purchase price, but I won't. Making the choice to spend $2000 instead of $1400 turned out to be wise in my particular situation. I am not turning around and spending (ok, it gets cheaper every day) $1000 for a new machine.
What everyone is talking about in terms of interface is the ease in using the device as a tool (like a calculator) instead of trying to figure it out. When you want to do something you have never done before, usually your first guess on how to go about doing it is correct. You wouldn't believe the productivity increase. Things like networking (ethernet and airport) and program installation have been effectively solved in my mind in the Apple world. Make it an appliance and make installation/uninstalls as simple as a drag and drop.
YMMV of course. This won't work if you LIKE to tinker with systems.
I run many MSEXCH servers and for the most part they are barely a blip on the radar. Simple to manage day to day. However, my complaint is when it does break, it breaks HARD.
"Best Practice" from MS says to bring it down once a week and defrag the database. This, of course, brings us to the WORST part of Exchange: JET DB backend. When there are JET errors in your MDB, it takes freaking FOREVER to repair. I'm talking a GB per hour, and in a corporate environment where it is not unusual to have a GB pre person, that is insane.
AD integration gained nothing (exchange 2000+ versus 5.5). In fact, I can't easily associate old/multiple mailboxes with user accounts.
SQL is a much better choice than Jet.. why don't they use it?
The repair tools are so infrquently used, but when they are, a type or put in the wrong order can be catastophic. They clearly should have a GUI front end.
That's why I ended up "switching" with a phone from Lost my Phone (just moved my SIM over) as I still have the original at&t $99/mo unlimited minutes/roaming/LD that cingular won't honor/renew. At&t had happily renewed, so in order to at least finish out the last of my contract, I needed a phone that worked. I even have a laser engraved "cingular" logo on the back so I can walk in to any shop and they will help me.
Yeah, that's kind of where I am picking nits.. Band usually refers to a single range (think equalizer) whereas fun broadband things like TDMA or CDMA use mutiple frequencies (non-sequential, hop around, etc) in which case the adjective "Broad" is less obvious..
Not like we are disagreeing, I just think that it is a confusing measurement term to say broad when that discriptiveness is inherent in the concept of bandwidth. Bandwidth is a useful objective measurement, and broad is less so as it doesn't MEAN anything interesting. If I have a broad band (in the wide sense of the word) then the frequency within which this band lies directly affects bandwidth but the width doesn't... sometimes;)
I think you are over simplifying and making a generalization on the meaning of broadband which is misleading.
Broadband is analog versus baseband which is digital. The fact that using broadband allows using mulitple channels means that overall, yes, can allow for higher bandwidth.. Compare ISDN to DSL. Baseband ISDN has a limitation due to the total amount of bits it can send (compressed lossless) over very specific channels/frequencies. Broadband DSL on the other hand, converts to analog, sends over multiple channels/frequencies.. More channels means aggregation, plus with higher frequencies, higher bandwidths can be accomodated.
You say that broadband is BROADER than things like dialup.. Dialup is technically broadband, but uses frequencies that are lower and thus do not have "distance to central office" limitations that DSL would have. You simply tradeoff speed for compatibility with almost any infrastructure. Your example is correct in colloquial usage of the word broadband, yet I felt some small clarification was in order.
The innovation isn't in the number of buttons. It's the ability to not confuse the hell out of users in West Virginia. It satifies both grandma and power users by not throwing 7 buttons at them unless they want it.
I have never found the "quick scroll" buttons useful in the least.. On a keyboard I use pgup/pgdn which I assume these map to logically, yet I prefer to wheel down so I can put the last line as the first line and read a pagefull. I am constantly pressing the nav forward / back buttons with my thumb on mice that have them (and thus try to avoid these mice).
I certainly don't understand mapping buttons to applications. I think that really makes moving from machine to machine harder. Remember when you first went from a mouse with a scroll wheel back to a mouse without one? That was really frustrating. I think with the new Apple mouse, just be glad you can get a second button and they will be prevalent going forward. Is it the best mouse? Probably not. Is it a monstrosity... not like the Logitech;)
Wow. You chose a perfect counter example. All those people that bought a new mac that only came with a one button mouse and use shake are SCREWED. "What? I have to go out and buy additional hardware?!"
What about all those people that bought a mac mini? It doesn't come with a mouse at all.. I mean WTF? Is Apple whack?
Of course, your reply completely ignored the point. Did you do that intentionally? You realize that shipping a one button mouse made thousands of third party developers create usable applications automatically? Oh no, you decide to reference a $3000 application that DOESN'T adhere to Apple design philosophy and feel a completely underserved sense of self-satisfaction: "See? SEE? Apple must be wrong!!" Jackass.
Regarding "I stopped using non-Microsoft browsers over two years ago because I found them to be unpolished. ", isn't there a term used when a consultant has completed the 80/20 rule, then completes the 80/20 on the remaining 20, then prevents release until that last little bit can be finished even though all major functionality is in place? (Or a designer who spends 8 hours editing a picture in such a way that nobody but the designer can tell the pre/post difference... "oh you changed that one pixel from #FFFFFF to #FFFFFE... great")
ah yes, I remember, it's called Polishing the Turd
Rather the child had a sophisticated device / sledgehammer with which to break through a cement wall behind which is probably the WORST porn ever. It is so bad that if you had purchased it with the intent of seeing porn, you would want to sue for mental anguish.
BTW, your 2nd, 3rd, and 4th paragraphs initial letters spell out the word "ShIT".. I am extremely offended by that. It's quite obvious that you as a corporation deliberately put that content into your post. Of course, instead of giggling and getting on with my life, my grandmother has to sue your ass to maintain her dignity.
Does every comment need to be positive or negative? But to answer your question since you didn't get it the first time, it's negative regarding evolution. I am pointing out that the theory of evolution has many holes. But that's fine since it's just a theory and I am sure it will be refined over time.
Actually, my point was you were using passive-aggressive language to say something meaningless. Using the word "just" to talk about a theory makes you sound pretty ignorant, as if you are confusing the word theory with hypothesis. This short article explains your misconception, which I will assume was not a blatant, false attack and merely an error on your part
I challenge you give a single example where Evolution is wrong.
I agree with you. Where the "staged" lifecycle came from is a gigantic question mark that evolution has not explained.
How does that mean anything either postive or negative re: evolution? I believe that gigantic question mark exists in any attempt to explain this topic. Meaning, what's your point?
Anyway, the theory of evolution is inconclusive and is likely not the sole mechanism for speciation, and thus it should not be treated as the only mechanism in many text books and by those who claim they are scientific.
I don't know of any other scientific theories that should be included in a scientific textbook, so therefore it HAS to be dealt with alone. The beauty of scientic theories is that as knew knowledge is obtained, these theories can be adapted or even thrown out completely (reference newtonian mechanics). Theories are simply the best bet you get at any current time.
Or are you complaining that scientology based Xenu is not being referenced? No, I think Xenu belongs in the "Stuff that has just been made up" book.
The entire problem is when things exist in context menus and nowhere else. Vey frustrating that you need to "know" to click in the right spot for a feature. Not relying on context menus mean developers must have an alternative way of doing something...
Context menus are great, but you shouldn't hide things in there, they should just provide better ways.
The point is that the terms "spiral" and "concentric rings" are in opposition.
Though I agree that the periodic table is essentially linear and this is simply another way to fold it up in a visual representation, I think there NEEDS to be that disconnect between noble gasses and the next element as it is inherent chemically.. you fill up your shell, bam... onto the next shelf/row/spiral groove/etc.
Well, to begin with, 1 TB isn't a lot of space either size or cost wise for a MMORG, especially when you take into account the threat that duping poses to the entire system. and secondly, the ID can be inherent in the structure of the storage mechanism. I don't need to store all the numbers, I just need to know where each number points to (think hash table). For the sake of this discussion, let's say that location is the validation device, such that each gold coin has an ID and a location. This way, I don't need to store 64 bits * # of GP, but merely x bits * # of GP where x is the number of unique locations which will be tremendously less than 2^64
All math will take place on transfer (finding, earning, spending, stealing, etc) to determine that the gold is valid (maybe just by being where it is supposed to be.. you can't pick it off the ground if it is being held by a player for instance).
All these operations take place on a central DB. But even with your analogy of transferring 8MB of data, wouldn't that fit right into the game? I mean, people spend weeks at a time freakin' fishing!
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I totally understand you were trying to be silly, but I read it initially nodding my head thinking, yes, that would solve a lot of problems. People SHOULD know how what they eat affects their body, and understanding when you are being gouged at the pump versus justifiable price increases is good.
I am quite happy I took those courses and that they were available to me to take. Of course, there is something to say for the mindless happiness of ignorance, too.
Initial post CLEARLY references New Orleans.
This is the topmost post of interest in this thread. The child of thie post goes on to ask the possibly retorical question:
sadly, I now need to quote you to yourself, since you do not understand things like context..here's what you say:
So maybe now you understand how "New Orleans" came into the conversation. THIS ISN'T ABOUT YOU. There are people living in the worst of conditions, and YOU feel you need to interject about some story about how your cell phone worked in FL and that you HAD NO IDEA ABOUT LANDLINES. No shit I had to come back and point out to you that you are a fuckwit.There was NO discussion about families in Texas you ass, it was about New Orleans.. This is where you are wrong. Incredibly wrong. When someone says "destruction in new orleans, do you think people are posting using the internet" and someone else says what about cell phones, and YOU say Yes!!! CEll phones worked in FL all we can do is collectively shake our heads and hope you don't drown in your own drool. I bet you were just so darn excited to post, yay!!! pizza party! Pizza party!!!
I'm axiously awaiting a reply. Your discourse is so civilized.. a breath of fresh air. Well, ok, at least you can spell. Oh, and how did your post get to -1? Is that because of the evil moderators and how they are conspiring against you?
Oh, almost forgot.. I was just chatting with Jesus and he said that you are jerking off too much... God hates you and your inadequacies. Just kind of an FYI.
No it isn't that the moderation system justifies me, just that you are exactly the only person that thinks you are "right". As for all the things you hate about slashdot, look into the mirror my friend.
The fine person who posted this based it on some facts that he had, not random speculation.
Look, I have nothing to apologize for, I'm not the one that has dropped to 10 year old name calling and whining. I'm very sure you will reply to this, because you are incapable of letting it go. I'll be waiting, amused to see your response. Please tell me again that I have never been in a hurricane. Please?
However, I understand that the particular topic we are discussing does create an emotional response. I may have completely misinterpreted what your point was, or you could have typed something and were misinformed. Could you please review you inital post and let me know if there was perhaps a mistake?
The perspective that you are wrong is perfectly relevant. I really want to get to understand where you anger is coming from. How's your home life? Any issues getting an erection? Maybe you car didn't start this morning and you spilled coffee on your desk. No no, it must be that guy on slashdot "shooting his idiot mouth off" that is wrong with the world.I wasn't aware of that, that is good to hear. Sadly, everywhere is higher elevations...
Which am I, an asshole or a dickhead? Have you just learned to swear? I think you are just taking it personally.
Please, by all means, take your ball and go home. I encourage it.
There are no towers. Central Offices are down. Emergency power generation is flooded. How can you say that cell phones work? Please note the massive demand for sat phones right now precisely because of this. But thank you for applying annecdotal evidence that isn't applicable.
You are obviously a spiritual person. Many years of practice, I'd guess, judging from the disconnected blather you call a post. But thank you for posting. It makes the people reading it feel really smart.
I use it for extremely quick access to calendar, network status, battery status.. things I don't want in my face all day long but are only wrist flick away. Almost worth the 20Mb per widget ;)
Even though MS Office on Mac has been heralded for many years as better than the windows version, they are not referring to the office suite in general. They are referring specifically to Word and Excel. Open Office does not have a native port, and NeoOffice/J WORKS but is slow to load. But then, Office is clearly the best product put out by MS and this simply means that staying on windows just for office isn't necessary.
I had a 2 year cycle for the longest time with windows boxes.. basically with new releases of windows, older hardware wasn't acceptable for me. Part of this is the fact that windows comes out MUCH thicker with minimal actual enhancements (mostly due to backward compatibility issues), and partly due to the fact that competing hardware vendors would not necessarily include forward thinking interfaces.
My powerbook has firewire 800. I have never used it. I also didn't get an option to not include it. I basically paid for something that I didn't need. However, my laptop is almost two years old and I have had exactly no issues with it. I can wipe down the aluminum and it is effectively as good as new. Speedwise, I have lost very little since newer OS revisions have been FASTER, instead of more bloated.
I have a piece of hardware 2 years old that I could sell for 80% of purchase price, but I won't. Making the choice to spend $2000 instead of $1400 turned out to be wise in my particular situation. I am not turning around and spending (ok, it gets cheaper every day) $1000 for a new machine.
What everyone is talking about in terms of interface is the ease in using the device as a tool (like a calculator) instead of trying to figure it out. When you want to do something you have never done before, usually your first guess on how to go about doing it is correct. You wouldn't believe the productivity increase. Things like networking (ethernet and airport) and program installation have been effectively solved in my mind in the Apple world. Make it an appliance and make installation/uninstalls as simple as a drag and drop.
YMMV of course. This won't work if you LIKE to tinker with systems.
"Best Practice" from MS says to bring it down once a week and defrag the database. This, of course, brings us to the WORST part of Exchange: JET DB backend. When there are JET errors in your MDB, it takes freaking FOREVER to repair. I'm talking a GB per hour, and in a corporate environment where it is not unusual to have a GB pre person, that is insane.
AD integration gained nothing (exchange 2000+ versus 5.5). In fact, I can't easily associate old/multiple mailboxes with user accounts.
SQL is a much better choice than Jet.. why don't they use it?
The repair tools are so infrquently used, but when they are, a type or put in the wrong order can be catastophic. They clearly should have a GUI front end.
That's why I ended up "switching" with a phone from Lost my Phone (just moved my SIM over) as I still have the original at&t $99/mo unlimited minutes/roaming/LD that cingular won't honor/renew. At&t had happily renewed, so in order to at least finish out the last of my contract, I needed a phone that worked. I even have a laser engraved "cingular" logo on the back so I can walk in to any shop and they will help me.
Not like we are disagreeing, I just think that it is a confusing measurement term to say broad when that discriptiveness is inherent in the concept of bandwidth. Bandwidth is a useful objective measurement, and broad is less so as it doesn't MEAN anything interesting. If I have a broad band (in the wide sense of the word) then the frequency within which this band lies directly affects bandwidth but the width doesn't... sometimes ;)
Broadband is analog versus baseband which is digital. The fact that using broadband allows using mulitple channels means that overall, yes, can allow for higher bandwidth.. Compare ISDN to DSL. Baseband ISDN has a limitation due to the total amount of bits it can send (compressed lossless) over very specific channels/frequencies. Broadband DSL on the other hand, converts to analog, sends over multiple channels/frequencies.. More channels means aggregation, plus with higher frequencies, higher bandwidths can be accomodated.
You say that broadband is BROADER than things like dialup.. Dialup is technically broadband, but uses frequencies that are lower and thus do not have "distance to central office" limitations that DSL would have. You simply tradeoff speed for compatibility with almost any infrastructure. Your example is correct in colloquial usage of the word broadband, yet I felt some small clarification was in order.
I have never found the "quick scroll" buttons useful in the least.. On a keyboard I use pgup/pgdn which I assume these map to logically, yet I prefer to wheel down so I can put the last line as the first line and read a pagefull. I am constantly pressing the nav forward / back buttons with my thumb on mice that have them (and thus try to avoid these mice).
I certainly don't understand mapping buttons to applications. I think that really makes moving from machine to machine harder. Remember when you first went from a mouse with a scroll wheel back to a mouse without one? That was really frustrating. I think with the new Apple mouse, just be glad you can get a second button and they will be prevalent going forward. Is it the best mouse? Probably not. Is it a monstrosity... not like the Logitech ;)
What about all those people that bought a mac mini? It doesn't come with a mouse at all.. I mean WTF? Is Apple whack?
Of course, your reply completely ignored the point. Did you do that intentionally? You realize that shipping a one button mouse made thousands of third party developers create usable applications automatically? Oh no, you decide to reference a $3000 application that DOESN'T adhere to Apple design philosophy and feel a completely underserved sense of self-satisfaction: "See? SEE? Apple must be wrong!!" Jackass.
What is a metonome?
ah yes, I remember, it's called Polishing the Turd
BTW, your 2nd, 3rd, and 4th paragraphs initial letters spell out the word "ShIT".. I am extremely offended by that. It's quite obvious that you as a corporation deliberately put that content into your post. Of course, instead of giggling and getting on with my life, my grandmother has to sue your ass to maintain her dignity.
I challenge you give a single example where Evolution is wrong.
Or are you complaining that scientology based Xenu is not being referenced? No, I think Xenu belongs in the "Stuff that has just been made up" book.
Context menus are great, but you shouldn't hide things in there, they should just provide better ways.
Though I agree that the periodic table is essentially linear and this is simply another way to fold it up in a visual representation, I think there NEEDS to be that disconnect between noble gasses and the next element as it is inherent chemically.. you fill up your shell, bam... onto the next shelf/row/spiral groove/etc.
All math will take place on transfer (finding, earning, spending, stealing, etc) to determine that the gold is valid (maybe just by being where it is supposed to be.. you can't pick it off the ground if it is being held by a player for instance).
All these operations take place on a central DB. But even with your analogy of transferring 8MB of data, wouldn't that fit right into the game? I mean, people spend weeks at a time freakin' fishing!