We must secure the air! Did you know anyone can just reach out and touch it!?! Anything could be in the air. From now on we will be providing government-issued plastic bags to all citizens. Simply place the bag over your head, secure with the included duct t... I mean, highly technical securing device and enjoy your new-found safety. You won't come into contact with any unsecured air particles for the rest of your life!
You think code doesn't matter the same way software developers don't think hardware matters. You have never had to maintain code; how the hell would you know how easy your code-monkey written code is to maintain? What makes you think that design matters only at the level of the interface?
Every line of code written is design, and if the software is going to be used that design matters.
We're not even the only animal that does that: http://www.sciencemag.org/feature/data/crow/
But they haven't figured out how to make tools that make tools yet. When dolphins invent the microprocessor, humanity will finally have our worthy opponent!
Microsoft has been putting resourced into touch screens and tablet research for years. It has been foiled by internal politics, hardware and being a huge company that's not designed to innovate. Apple spent more than a decade on the iPad. One theory I've heard had the iPhone was produced when they were trying to get the iPad and couldn't make it work. Microsoft, on the other hand, has sort of produced some videos sometimes on projects that later got cancelled because they didn't fit with the Windows Mobile strategy.
I will believe a Microsoft tablet device (and not just a computer with a touch screen) when I see it, just like I will believe a Linux tablet when I see it. They have been talking about these things for years and yet somehow they never happen.
Apple doesn't have to produce the best product, they just have to produce a usable product and they've beaten everyone else out there right now.
Well, rather than provide a single specific example of someone who was fired for being unfairly accused of racism, the parent asserts without citation that some people were accused of racism (unfairly or not), and then reports the falsehood that the NAACP declared "the entire Tea Party" racist (they didn't; they criticized them for not denouncing or discouraging the racist elements associated with them), and that there "is no official Tea Party organization" (false: the original protests were organized by FreedomWorks, the National Tea Party Organization is an association of those leaders who feel themselves affiliated with the Tea Party movement, including The Tea Party Patriots, which proclaims itself to be the "Official Home of the Tea Party Movement" and is funded by FreedomWorks).
They then go off on a tangent about "playing the race card" in 2010. In response to the NAACP's call for the Tea Party to denounce the racists among it, Mark Williams, the head of the Tea Party Express (a protest organization funded by FreedomWorks and considered the protest arm of The Tea Party Patriots), published an incredibly racist letter (available here: http://blog.reidreport.com/2010/07/tea-partier-mark-williams-writes-open-letter-to-lincoln-from-the-coloreds/). Predictably, the Tea Party Express refused to denounce him, and certainly didn't fire him without having checked to make sure that he actually wrote the letter (he had). It's not playing the race card to point out racism that is actually there, and it is certainly not inappropriate. Besides which, as should be clear from the firing of Sharrod, this administration won't call actual racists racists and is doing their level best to appear post-racial to a fault, so I don't see how Obama comes into this at all.
You don't have to have terrible grammar to be a troll; lying about politically continuous issues certainly seems troll-ish to me.
Actually, McDonalds isn't hiring nearly as many workers as want to work at McDonalds right now. They are getting hundreds of applications for every opening that comes up. Even when they are hiring they prefer not to hire overqualified people they expect to quit soon. It is not as simple as just "walk into McDonalds, get job".
Computers have shifted a lot of work back onto white collar professionals. Instead of secretaries we have email and Outlook scheduling, instead of underlings to fly around we have video conferencing. Formerly-unskilled positions now require familiarity with sometimes-complex software (the auto industry, for example, is adding jobs, but they are no longer unskilled positions and the people they laid off before don't have the qualifications they want.)
Employment has declined since the start of this recession and output hasn't. That is a direct result of how computers have changed the way we work.
Newspapers are trying to make money with ads because they always have. Additionally, relying on ad revenue greatly increases the number of readers who may come to your site, moreso if it allows linking of individual articles by sites like Slashdot. For smaller papers without established readers, the walled garden approach simply doesn't work.
The Economist might be able to get away with paid access to articles, but that is only because it has a significant reputation, has additional daily blog content and is targeting that limited audience (CNN never runs ads for extremely expensive MBA programs, for example.)
Interestingly, this has somehow had the side effect of producing interesting, articulate and mostly civil, if extreme, comments sections, which are read and taken seriously by the authors. Nothing like posting a comment and having the question I asked show up in their weekly poll the next week. Essentially, even when it is ad-supported, the people who routinely read those sorts of articles are already a self-selected group.
For a while, The Economist offered access to the headline articles, but not the smaller side bar articles. It was never enough to get me to subscribe, but it was also not enough to drive me off the site.
Now, of course, they appear to be following The Times' lead, for unknown reasons. Though I've long since stopped reading anything but their still-free blogs.
Or the plane that was flown into the IRS building. Or the shooting in Fort Hood. Or U.S. Rep. Tom Perriello's brother's gas line being cut.
Then again, I thought 9/11 wasn't supposed to count either, because it happened while George W. Bush was president and we're supposed to pretend that things were better back then.
His criminal history was for fraud. Even if the mother had run a background check, if she had assumed he was likely to rape her daughter she'd be accused of being a man-hating harpy. He, being a horrible human being, raped a 12 year old girl, for which hopefully they will succeed in prosecuting him for (though the odds of conviction if it goes to trial are about 40%; the best hope is a plea bargain), but the mother is not responsible for his monstrous actions.
I suspect the dollar will do far more to dissuade trolls than real names will, though it also means they can probably post the story "poor people all lazy, undeserving" and not get anyone disagreeing.
To be fair, I'd never post with my real name (and don't comment on the Pragmatic Bookshelf, for example because it uses real names), but I have a unique name (no, really, hyphenated last names from two disparate cultures guarantees everyone with my surname is immediate family) and work in a tech-savvy profession. People have been writing stupid letters to the editor for generations using their real names.
Speaking from experience, the real world is a cake walk in comparison to current schooling. For one thing, physical assault in the workplace isn't a common occurrence and sexual harassment laws exist.
In BioWare's world, everyone is either straight or bi, and everyone but Shale (who was awesome!!) conforms to gender norms. Maybe in this one we'll have a female fighter or a male healer, a gay dwarf or a straight elf.
They created the real id automatically by scraping your payment details; you can choose not to use it, but unless the credit card wasn't in your name or you have always used game cards, they already have your info and didn't even bother asking.
There is also a security breech in the wild that allows people to view these real names, whether or not you've ever signed up for anything. Bit of a mess, really.
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It also does it if you modify a search you've already made.
I keep forgetting what I'm typing half way through when random pages start jumping out at me half way through.
We must secure the air! Did you know anyone can just reach out and touch it!?! Anything could be in the air. From now on we will be providing government-issued plastic bags to all citizens. Simply place the bag over your head, secure with the included duct t... I mean, highly technical securing device and enjoy your new-found safety. You won't come into contact with any unsecured air particles for the rest of your life!
You think code doesn't matter the same way software developers don't think hardware matters. You have never had to maintain code; how the hell would you know how easy your code-monkey written code is to maintain? What makes you think that design matters only at the level of the interface?
Every line of code written is design, and if the software is going to be used that design matters.
Did you read the link? It says you are empirically wrong. Your anecdote is not greater than their data.
And why would that be a bad thing? I'd love to know that everyone in the country I lived in wasn't made extra unhappy in easily-preventable ways.
But who will do the dishes?
We're not even the only animal that does that: http://www.sciencemag.org/feature/data/crow/ But they haven't figured out how to make tools that make tools yet. When dolphins invent the microprocessor, humanity will finally have our worthy opponent!
Oh, don't worry, he didn't write the "Communications, Consumer Choice, and Broadband Deployment Act". That would be AT&T and Verizon.
Zero divided by anything is infinity
Microsoft has been putting resourced into touch screens and tablet research for years. It has been foiled by internal politics, hardware and being a huge company that's not designed to innovate. Apple spent more than a decade on the iPad. One theory I've heard had the iPhone was produced when they were trying to get the iPad and couldn't make it work. Microsoft, on the other hand, has sort of produced some videos sometimes on projects that later got cancelled because they didn't fit with the Windows Mobile strategy.
I will believe a Microsoft tablet device (and not just a computer with a touch screen) when I see it, just like I will believe a Linux tablet when I see it. They have been talking about these things for years and yet somehow they never happen.
Apple doesn't have to produce the best product, they just have to produce a usable product and they've beaten everyone else out there right now.
When they started grasping at straws.
Well, rather than provide a single specific example of someone who was fired for being unfairly accused of racism, the parent asserts without citation that some people were accused of racism (unfairly or not), and then reports the falsehood that the NAACP declared "the entire Tea Party" racist (they didn't; they criticized them for not denouncing or discouraging the racist elements associated with them), and that there "is no official Tea Party organization" (false: the original protests were organized by FreedomWorks, the National Tea Party Organization is an association of those leaders who feel themselves affiliated with the Tea Party movement, including The Tea Party Patriots, which proclaims itself to be the "Official Home of the Tea Party Movement" and is funded by FreedomWorks).
They then go off on a tangent about "playing the race card" in 2010. In response to the NAACP's call for the Tea Party to denounce the racists among it, Mark Williams, the head of the Tea Party Express (a protest organization funded by FreedomWorks and considered the protest arm of The Tea Party Patriots), published an incredibly racist letter (available here: http://blog.reidreport.com/2010/07/tea-partier-mark-williams-writes-open-letter-to-lincoln-from-the-coloreds/). Predictably, the Tea Party Express refused to denounce him, and certainly didn't fire him without having checked to make sure that he actually wrote the letter (he had). It's not playing the race card to point out racism that is actually there, and it is certainly not inappropriate. Besides which, as should be clear from the firing of Sharrod, this administration won't call actual racists racists and is doing their level best to appear post-racial to a fault, so I don't see how Obama comes into this at all.
You don't have to have terrible grammar to be a troll; lying about politically continuous issues certainly seems troll-ish to me.
Not to mention wide-spread adoption of Mercerism and the embrace of empathy as the defining factor of humanity.
Actually, McDonalds isn't hiring nearly as many workers as want to work at McDonalds right now. They are getting hundreds of applications for every opening that comes up. Even when they are hiring they prefer not to hire overqualified people they expect to quit soon. It is not as simple as just "walk into McDonalds, get job".
Computers have shifted a lot of work back onto white collar professionals. Instead of secretaries we have email and Outlook scheduling, instead of underlings to fly around we have video conferencing. Formerly-unskilled positions now require familiarity with sometimes-complex software (the auto industry, for example, is adding jobs, but they are no longer unskilled positions and the people they laid off before don't have the qualifications they want.)
Employment has declined since the start of this recession and output hasn't. That is a direct result of how computers have changed the way we work.
Newspapers are trying to make money with ads because they always have. Additionally, relying on ad revenue greatly increases the number of readers who may come to your site, moreso if it allows linking of individual articles by sites like Slashdot. For smaller papers without established readers, the walled garden approach simply doesn't work.
The Economist might be able to get away with paid access to articles, but that is only because it has a significant reputation, has additional daily blog content and is targeting that limited audience (CNN never runs ads for extremely expensive MBA programs, for example.)
Interestingly, this has somehow had the side effect of producing interesting, articulate and mostly civil, if extreme, comments sections, which are read and taken seriously by the authors. Nothing like posting a comment and having the question I asked show up in their weekly poll the next week. Essentially, even when it is ad-supported, the people who routinely read those sorts of articles are already a self-selected group.
For a while, The Economist offered access to the headline articles, but not the smaller side bar articles. It was never enough to get me to subscribe, but it was also not enough to drive me off the site. Now, of course, they appear to be following The Times' lead, for unknown reasons. Though I've long since stopped reading anything but their still-free blogs.
Almost all of them. The USA accounted for 48% of all military spending in 2009, more than the rest of the world excluding Italy.
Or the plane that was flown into the IRS building. Or the shooting in Fort Hood. Or U.S. Rep. Tom Perriello's brother's gas line being cut.
Then again, I thought 9/11 wasn't supposed to count either, because it happened while George W. Bush was president and we're supposed to pretend that things were better back then.
No one but the rapist is to blame for rape.
His criminal history was for fraud. Even if the mother had run a background check, if she had assumed he was likely to rape her daughter she'd be accused of being a man-hating harpy. He, being a horrible human being, raped a 12 year old girl, for which hopefully they will succeed in prosecuting him for (though the odds of conviction if it goes to trial are about 40%; the best hope is a plea bargain), but the mother is not responsible for his monstrous actions.
Right, because blaming people other than the rapist has worked so well at preventing rape thus far.
I suspect the dollar will do far more to dissuade trolls than real names will, though it also means they can probably post the story "poor people all lazy, undeserving" and not get anyone disagreeing.
To be fair, I'd never post with my real name (and don't comment on the Pragmatic Bookshelf, for example because it uses real names), but I have a unique name (no, really, hyphenated last names from two disparate cultures guarantees everyone with my surname is immediate family) and work in a tech-savvy profession. People have been writing stupid letters to the editor for generations using their real names.
Speaking from experience, the real world is a cake walk in comparison to current schooling. For one thing, physical assault in the workplace isn't a common occurrence and sexual harassment laws exist.
Only if you were playing a male character.
In BioWare's world, everyone is either straight or bi, and everyone but Shale (who was awesome!!) conforms to gender norms. Maybe in this one we'll have a female fighter or a male healer, a gay dwarf or a straight elf.
Somehow, though, I'm not holding my breath.
They created the real id automatically by scraping your payment details; you can choose not to use it, but unless the credit card wasn't in your name or you have always used game cards, they already have your info and didn't even bother asking.
There is also a security breech in the wild that allows people to view these real names, whether or not you've ever signed up for anything. Bit of a mess, really.