More importantly is it gonna finally fix the memory leak issue?
Tell me about it. Do you how annoying it is to walk into the office and see memory dribbling out of the computer because of the browser?! I hate it! And my IT support company: PHB IT Services says that memory leaks are actually an OSHA violation and if someone slips on that memory, I could be sued for MILLIONS! So I pay them to come in a clean up all that memory leaking.
Based on portability, performance and cost, you could make a case for using them both to lower health care costs in developed countries...
Not in the US. And it never will until medical costs and fees become transparent to the consumer; people start taking care of themselves (eat and drink less, stop smoking, and get some exercise) and stop the cost is no object mentality when people are dieing. We're supposed to die. Spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to keep someone alive for another few days (if at all), drugged out of their mind is just a waste of resources.
As one doctor said to me once, sometimes medicine does too much.
Who do you blame...the media for its influence, or the people that allow themselves to be influenced by it?
The people.
And I think it's even worse when folks discount news from one source but believe another source - all because that particular source has a narrative that agrees with their belief system. No, it's not just Fox News viewers. Folks on the "other side" can be just as culpable.
And from the handful of Chinese people I know (sample are those who emigrated to the US so there's my grain of salt), they're pretty skeptical of the media and they've given me the impression that the average Chinese citizen is too.
Well, if we start using the Social Security money, then there wouldn't be a problem. NASA == Social Security. You could never cut the budget then!
Ah, the old people. Send them into space. Shit blows up? Pfft. They're old and were going to die soon anyway.
It's a win/win! NASA gets funded. We have an unlimited supply of expendable astronauts. And, it takes care of all those old people burdening our system. And lastly, the old people get first dibs into going into space - it could even be a one way trip!
Yeah! What a gimmick! Hey old farts! Say good bye to your loved ones and go into space!
As far as the senile ones are concerned just say, here you Gramps! There's a Matlock marathon in that rocket and all the chocolate and banana pudding you can eat!
*The mods* Ooo! What to do...what to do... Moderation guide:
Like old people -> Flamebait
Don't like AnonymousClown->Troll
Some old guy pissed you off today-> Funny.
Seeing the budget deficit going horribly into the Red and all that Medicare money go out of your paycheck while you see the old farts in their Cadilacs, Land Yachts, and telling you to get a job and compete with the Asians because they had to work hard in the snow (with virtually no overseas competition) and you're just a slacker-> Insightful
Huh. Gramps always wanted to go into space and get away from Grandma-> Interesting
Bile? I was just making an observation in somewhat colorful terms. And it annoys me when people justify fads.
When I show up in a suit, you don't see any ink. My eyebrow piercing is long gone, and nobody seems to even notice my earrings anymore. By choice, I don't have anything more extreme that is visible to anybody unless I want it to be.
It's amazing how the dress and look of common trash becomes popular. Yes, tattoos and piercings make one look like trash. It's really hard to take some seriously when there's shit sticking out of their eyebrows, ear lobe things that make one look like a yuppie Bush tribesmen, and a tongue piercing.
yeah, yeah, yeah....don't judge someone by the way they look and I got a problem, blah blah blah blah.
People make snap judgments about others. Get over it. That's why you show up for an interview in a suit. That's why you show up for a date bathed and with your teeth brushed.
Sure, eventually you can win someone over when they get to know you but many folks won't give you the chance if you look like a fad chasing lemming that permanently disfigures themselves to follow a trend.
It makes you look stupid.
I tell you, years ago, I knew this plastic surgeon that was making mega bucks removing tattoos from bikers and I just see all those young folks getting their tattoos removed and his business increasing.
Career hint: Go to medical school and specialize in tattoo removal! Lots of business ahead.
There's a new fashion trend/fad forming. I see a lot of black kids dressing like the 60's brat pack: the hats, plaid shorts, the shoes are contemporary though, and the sun glasses - it's actually a good look. And since black culture drives fashion, music and everything else that's cool in this country, folk's tattoos are about to look REAL dated.
Oh please. I took the special PHB IT security class and they told us how Open Source allows the bad guys to see all the APIs that allows one to break in. Such as: BreakInThoughTheBack, SQLInjectTion, GetAroundEcrytpion, and ReplaceLegitimatCodeHere classes.
They had PowerPoint slides and everything so they knew what they were talking about!
I agree entirely with everything you say. And I'm completely for the.xxx domain.
The thing that's coming up in my cynical fuzzy little brain is that it could be a pressure point by some groups to bully ISPs into banning the entire domain.
I'm imaging protests against AT&T by some religious groups wanting "their" local ISP to ban "indecent" material.
ISPs wanting to do what's "right" cave in and blocks everything from the.xxx domain and we're back to where we've started.
On the plus side, it'll make finding and blocking that material easier for individuals - at least for those sites that participate.
Companies will need to protect their names and if someone starts a.xxx site with an other companies website, it would damage their reputation. I don't think the general public is capable of understanding that Slashdot.org and Slashdot.xxx are really two different entities. Or BP.com and BP.xxx or etc....
OTH, folks do seem to know that Whitehouse.com and Whitehouse.gov are two different entities. Would they with a business or other entity?
I believe that when we go 'full bore' we'd exhaust our supplies fairly quickly and have increased expenses.
Not to worry. My engineers are working on a system of getting the gaseous emissions from folks who eat pizza, Mexican, and drink lots of beer. Part of the plan is to open restaurants where you eat and capture the gas at the same time.
We're also working on a capture of gas from cattle.
Our mottoes are "Fart Powered", "Flatulence For Freedom!", "Passing the Wind and the Bucks" and "Make a Stink. Cut out the Terrorists!"
The patent is actually for utilizing a predictive process to change pricing based upon expected future load. Still not necessarily new, but very different than the summary implies.
That's 17% fewer movies sent and received by Netflix every week. I would expect them to also want more public holidays in a year as well
They don't need to. From their current Terms and Conditions:
We reserve the right to process orders and otherwise allocate and ship DVDs among our members in any manner that we, in our sole and absolute discretion, determine. In addition, we will, in our sole and absolute discretion, determine the quantity of DVDs we purchase for any particular movie, their location within our distribution network and the level of staffing and number of shipments to be processed at each distribution center.
Every new Terms and Conditions, they're putting things in their agreement that allows them not to give you "unlimited" whatever....
There's verbiage in it that limits your "unlimited" online viewing too now.
I wouldn't want a.xxx suffix - it would make it even easier for firewalls and parental controls to filter/block my site's content. If anything, I'd register it as a supplement to my.com or.net URL.
Wait. Are you joking? Satire? At this time of day my satire and joke meter doesn't work.
If you're not.... Why can't you or anyone else respect the wishes of someone who wants to block that kind of content from their machine?
This idea for a.xxx domain is a brilliant idea! Folks who don't want it can easily block it and it will also make the "think of the children" argument moot when folks start crying "Let's regulate the internet and remove the porn!" We can point out that the "internet" has come up with its own solution and there's no need for any regulation on that point. The marketplace solved the problem on its own.
I once asked someone about different companies for a service - what service and why is beside the point.
Anyway, he then Googles and send me a list. I responded, "Yes, I've Googled myself, thank you. I asked you for your opinion because I trust you and not the thousands and thousands of random opinions - many of which are outright plagiarism of other websites and if one was BSing, then thousands were BSing too."
I would also like to point out, many many web pages are the postings by folks who are paid shills.
In short: Google does not offer trusted individual opinions and most of the reviews and opinions on the web are highly suspect.
I'm tired of getting those ads in the lower right hand corner of those girls that say, "I'm hot for you!" or "I'm ready to have sex." only to see that they're several towns over. I want the sluts in my local area!
So I think the key factors that need to be considered are: how much damage a moratorium does to the local economy, the likelihood of a second spill during the next several months (and how much that likelihood can be reduced through simply properly enforcing existing regulation), and the potential damage to the local economies in the event of a second spill.
There you go - somehow you figured out what I was trying to get at when I was have trouble expressing it. Oy! Afternoon slump!
That's what I was trying to say: drilling needs to stop to get a handle on exactly what happened. Someone somewhere wasn't following the regulations and laws and this is what happened. And until the issues are completely cleared up, it is quite possible that this will happen again. And if it does, I really think the local economy will be hurt badly enough that it will take decades to come back if, at all. Then there's the fact that the political fallout will cause an obscene amount of unnecessary and wasteful regulation.
The drilling industry really needs to stay low and voluntarily stop drilling in light of this judges decision.
Just that the moratorium will likely have significant impact on the Gulf economy, and that the state of Louisiana's concerns are quite valid, and that the Federal government's dismissal of them here is misleading and likely inaccurate.
That's the thing: I don't know enough about the Gulf economy to say, but all things considered over the long term, fishing shrimping, tourism (have to include Florida on this one ), possible health consequences to the population, and every other thing that matter to an economy (I'll skip the "worthless" wildlife that offers no economic benefit to the region), will this moratorium really have that much of an effect on the economy? And if you consider the region wide damage, what are the net costs - meaning, after this spill, how long before the regions economy is back in the black? Tourism in that area is going to be affected until tarballs stop washing up on shore and I'm afraid, the Gulf fisheries are going to be going through some horrible times - fishermen on Government assistance (being paid to sit home).
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More importantly is it gonna finally fix the memory leak issue?
Tell me about it. Do you how annoying it is to walk into the office and see memory dribbling out of the computer because of the browser?! I hate it! And my IT support company: PHB IT Services says that memory leaks are actually an OSHA violation and if someone slips on that memory, I could be sued for MILLIONS! So I pay them to come in a clean up all that memory leaking.
That's my management secret: hire only the best!
Based on portability, performance and cost, you could make a case for using them both to lower health care costs in developed countries...
Not in the US. And it never will until medical costs and fees become transparent to the consumer; people start taking care of themselves (eat and drink less, stop smoking, and get some exercise) and stop the cost is no object mentality when people are dieing. We're supposed to die. Spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to keep someone alive for another few days (if at all), drugged out of their mind is just a waste of resources.
As one doctor said to me once, sometimes medicine does too much.
Who do you blame...the media for its influence, or the people that allow themselves to be influenced by it?
The people.
And I think it's even worse when folks discount news from one source but believe another source - all because that particular source has a narrative that agrees with their belief system. No, it's not just Fox News viewers. Folks on the "other side" can be just as culpable.
And from the handful of Chinese people I know (sample are those who emigrated to the US so there's my grain of salt), they're pretty skeptical of the media and they've given me the impression that the average Chinese citizen is too.
Ah, the old people. Send them into space. Shit blows up? Pfft. They're old and were going to die soon anyway.
It's a win/win! NASA gets funded. We have an unlimited supply of expendable astronauts. And, it takes care of all those old people burdening our system. And lastly, the old people get first dibs into going into space - it could even be a one way trip!
Yeah! What a gimmick! Hey old farts! Say good bye to your loved ones and go into space!
As far as the senile ones are concerned just say, here you Gramps! There's a Matlock marathon in that rocket and all the chocolate and banana pudding you can eat!
*The mods* Ooo! What to do...what to do... Moderation guide:
Like old people -> Flamebait
Don't like AnonymousClown->Troll
Some old guy pissed you off today-> Funny.
Seeing the budget deficit going horribly into the Red and all that Medicare money go out of your paycheck while you see the old farts in their Cadilacs, Land Yachts, and telling you to get a job and compete with the Asians because they had to work hard in the snow (with virtually no overseas competition) and you're just a slacker-> Insightful
Huh. Gramps always wanted to go into space and get away from Grandma-> Interesting
I'll have use the anti-pedantic defense....
Bile? I was just making an observation in somewhat colorful terms. And it annoys me when people justify fads.
When I show up in a suit, you don't see any ink. My eyebrow piercing is long gone, and nobody seems to even notice my earrings anymore. By choice, I don't have anything more extreme that is visible to anybody unless I want it to be.
So, you are ashamed of some of your tattoos.
Check and mate.
Tattoos aren't in and of themselves lame.
It's a fad.
It's amazing how the dress and look of common trash becomes popular. Yes, tattoos and piercings make one look like trash. It's really hard to take some seriously when there's shit sticking out of their eyebrows, ear lobe things that make one look like a yuppie Bush tribesmen, and a tongue piercing.
yeah, yeah, yeah....don't judge someone by the way they look and I got a problem, blah blah blah blah.
People make snap judgments about others. Get over it. That's why you show up for an interview in a suit. That's why you show up for a date bathed and with your teeth brushed.
Sure, eventually you can win someone over when they get to know you but many folks won't give you the chance if you look like a fad chasing lemming that permanently disfigures themselves to follow a trend.
It makes you look stupid.
I tell you, years ago, I knew this plastic surgeon that was making mega bucks removing tattoos from bikers and I just see all those young folks getting their tattoos removed and his business increasing.
Career hint: Go to medical school and specialize in tattoo removal! Lots of business ahead.
There's a new fashion trend/fad forming. I see a lot of black kids dressing like the 60's brat pack: the hats, plaid shorts, the shoes are contemporary though, and the sun glasses - it's actually a good look. And since black culture drives fashion, music and everything else that's cool in this country, folk's tattoos are about to look REAL dated.
and wrote their own native decoder
It sounds like more of a dec than a codec.
I don't understand.
I'm just hoping that I stop seeing the missing codec errors when viewing some of my porn.
They tried to make the training video 'light' and humorous, but it still doesn't negate the fact that these plans have already been put into action.
There's a reason why their customer satisfaction has gotten lower than even the kings of shit customer service - the airlines.
They had PowerPoint slides and everything so they knew what they were talking about!
No sir! Closed obfuscated source for me!
The thing that's coming up in my cynical fuzzy little brain is that it could be a pressure point by some groups to bully ISPs into banning the entire domain.
I'm imaging protests against AT&T by some religious groups wanting "their" local ISP to ban "indecent" material.
ISPs wanting to do what's "right" cave in and blocks everything from the .xxx domain and we're back to where we've started.
On the plus side, it'll make finding and blocking that material easier for individuals - at least for those sites that participate.
OTH, folks do seem to know that Whitehouse.com and Whitehouse.gov are two different entities. Would they with a business or other entity?
I believe that when we go 'full bore' we'd exhaust our supplies fairly quickly and have increased expenses.
Not to worry. My engineers are working on a system of getting the gaseous emissions from folks who eat pizza, Mexican, and drink lots of beer. Part of the plan is to open restaurants where you eat and capture the gas at the same time.
We're also working on a capture of gas from cattle.
Our mottoes are "Fart Powered", "Flatulence For Freedom!", "Passing the Wind and the Bucks" and "Make a Stink. Cut out the Terrorists!"
The patent is actually for utilizing a predictive process to change pricing based upon expected future load. Still not necessarily new, but very different than the summary implies.
I think the airlines may have some prior art.
...both the Brazilian police and the FBI tried dictionary attacks against it
They should have used a Portuguese dictionary not an English one! Geeze! Folks are soooooo US centric!
He was hired at a time that anyone with an American accent could get a CEO job in Australia.
Any particular American accent?
Southern: "Hi y'all! I rek'on I cane I run this company reaaall good! Bless your hearts!"
Black: "Yo homes. I'll get this bitch going on the slick, man."
Surfer: "Duuuuuuuude! I'd run this company, like, so, like, knarly, dude! Duuuuuuuuuuuuude!"
New York: "I'm hear to help uze gize. What the fuck are uze look'in at! You wanna piece of me!?"
Fargo: "Ya! I kan Run dis kompany. Ya - sur kan."
I'm only asking because I need a job and who knows, there may be still some Australian companies that haven't learned their lesson yet.
That's 17% fewer movies sent and received by Netflix every week. I would expect them to also want more public holidays in a year as well
They don't need to. From their current Terms and Conditions:
We reserve the right to process orders and otherwise allocate and ship DVDs among our members in any manner that we, in our sole and absolute discretion, determine. In addition, we will, in our sole and absolute discretion, determine the quantity of DVDs we purchase for any particular movie, their location within our distribution network and the level of staffing and number of shipments to be processed at each distribution center.
Every new Terms and Conditions, they're putting things in their agreement that allows them not to give you "unlimited" whatever ....
There's verbiage in it that limits your "unlimited" online viewing too now.
I wouldn't want a .xxx suffix - it would make it even easier for firewalls and parental controls to filter/block my site's content. If anything, I'd register it as a supplement to my .com or .net URL.
Wait. Are you joking? Satire? At this time of day my satire and joke meter doesn't work.
If you're not.... Why can't you or anyone else respect the wishes of someone who wants to block that kind of content from their machine?
This idea for a .xxx domain is a brilliant idea! Folks who don't want it can easily block it and it will also make the "think of the children" argument moot when folks start crying "Let's regulate the internet and remove the porn!" We can point out that the "internet" has come up with its own solution and there's no need for any regulation on that point. The marketplace solved the problem on its own.
Anyway, he then Googles and send me a list. I responded, "Yes, I've Googled myself, thank you. I asked you for your opinion because I trust you and not the thousands and thousands of random opinions - many of which are outright plagiarism of other websites and if one was BSing, then thousands were BSing too."
I would also like to point out, many many web pages are the postings by folks who are paid shills.
In short: Google does not offer trusted individual opinions and most of the reviews and opinions on the web are highly suspect.
How was it not awful?
Vacuous remakes make a shit loads of money?
In the original book, didn't everyone have to die at 17?
Yeah!
I'm tired of getting those ads in the lower right hand corner of those girls that say, "I'm hot for you!" or "I'm ready to have sex." only to see that they're several towns over. I want the sluts in my local area!
I gotta stop.
So I think the key factors that need to be considered are: how much damage a moratorium does to the local economy, the likelihood of a second spill during the next several months (and how much that likelihood can be reduced through simply properly enforcing existing regulation), and the potential damage to the local economies in the event of a second spill.
There you go - somehow you figured out what I was trying to get at when I was have trouble expressing it. Oy! Afternoon slump!
That's what I was trying to say: drilling needs to stop to get a handle on exactly what happened. Someone somewhere wasn't following the regulations and laws and this is what happened. And until the issues are completely cleared up, it is quite possible that this will happen again. And if it does, I really think the local economy will be hurt badly enough that it will take decades to come back if, at all. Then there's the fact that the political fallout will cause an obscene amount of unnecessary and wasteful regulation.
The drilling industry really needs to stay low and voluntarily stop drilling in light of this judges decision.
Just that the moratorium will likely have significant impact on the Gulf economy, and that the state of Louisiana's concerns are quite valid, and that the Federal government's dismissal of them here is misleading and likely inaccurate.
That's the thing: I don't know enough about the Gulf economy to say, but all things considered over the long term, fishing shrimping, tourism (have to include Florida on this one ), possible health consequences to the population, and every other thing that matter to an economy (I'll skip the "worthless" wildlife that offers no economic benefit to the region), will this moratorium really have that much of an effect on the economy? And if you consider the region wide damage, what are the net costs - meaning, after this spill, how long before the regions economy is back in the black? Tourism in that area is going to be affected until tarballs stop washing up on shore and I'm afraid, the Gulf fisheries are going to be going through some horrible times - fishermen on Government assistance (being paid to sit home).
We really need to think of the big picture here.