"Cars are a niche, people will always ride horses for transportation."
"Computers are a niche, they take up a whole room, there isn't really demand for more than six or so of them."
"Planes are a niche, they're useful in war but that's about it."
We the taxpayers should finance this company, and not bail out the "big 3" (two, really, Ford didn't need as much help), because they're proving that they can make something revolutionary that will work its way down to being affordable to everyone. The big 3 are just doing more of the same. And slower.
It's completely fair and moral for a country's citizens to have their own culture, government, and economy.
There are folks in Vermont who are working hard and fighting for it, which I read about this morning: they're attempting to secede from the USA. I fear for their lives.
something like this happened with aluminium - it used to be a very expensive metal, because it was difficult to extract it from the ore, so there was a lot of aluminium jewelery. then some guy came up with a new way to extract it, and it became the cheap-ass metal we all know and love today.
A little OT, but aluminum is not loved in my household; it is a toxic poison. Replace aluminum cookware with stainless steel, and buy your beer in bottles, not cans.
Hanging my post randomly: I think we now need a "Twitter feed blocker" extension. It's all text, so I can't block it with AdBlock Plus. And it's constantly changing, which is very distracting from reading the text that you went to that page to read to begin with (which is of course their goal, to get more "stick time", but that's not my goal, and I'll view only the content I want thankyouverymuchgetoffmylawn).
One of the contractors said to me, "do you realise they only employ you because you cost half what I cost? You're currently working twice as hard as well, next time I walk past your desk I ought to see Facebook, not Java".
If you haven't seen it yet, watch "Big" with Tom Hanks. There's a scene where he's working in an office and is so efficient that a coworker says to him, "Stop working so fast, you're making the rest of us look bad!" I saw that as a teenager and it greatly helped prepare me for the real world (not that I knew or understood it at the time).
With the Na'vi, what made their tech seem consistent was that they very clearly had the attitude of "we CAN do this, but we don't do things just because we can, and we don't take it lightly even when we need to" - the humans had no such restrictions.
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The only agenda I have is to be treated like a human being.
Of course, your.sig then doesn't exactly say it the way you meant it...:)
So the burden's on the defendant; he or she has to prove that the damages suffered by the plaintiff are not the amount the latter claims.
Weird. That really, really does not sound like "innocent until proven guilty" to me... Oh, also, we tend to like the phrase "extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof", but apparently the courts will accept a plaintiff's extraordinary claims, with no proof?
Yeah, I dunno if your stating that we should "give him a pass" is useful seeing as your.sig states that you want to kill us all, as long as I'm sexy... And your mother...
The real problem with documentation is that as much as we would like to keep it up to date, it does not happen. I personally would prefer modular code that works without tricks than code with comments and tricks.
It sounds like you would prefer unit tests that function, in place of comments.
I don't disagree -- although useful comments would be a helpful addition...
I personally like how my arrays 'call home' and an HDS/EMC engineer shows up with a new drive, replaces the failed one and walks out the door, without me having to do anything about it.
I personally like how my source code doesn't randomly walk out the door, but then that's just me I guess...
[...] "How to get all the content off a TiVo and burn it to anything you want!!" tutorials and either TiVo would go broke from lack of subscriptions or more likely big content would have those things banned faster than you can say DMCA.
This is somewhat OT: I own a TiVo. I followed one of these tutorials (Galleon, and Direct Show Dump). I am able to get all the content off my TiVo and burn it to anything I want (which is really just the hard drive; my Xbox can watch it from there via XBMC).
TiVo is not going broke as I am continuing to pay my subscription (getting my shows from the TiVo to my computer is orthogonal to not paying the subscription), and likewise big content has not banned this device.
They have, however, banned the device that I am switching to: my ReplayTV, from eBay with lifetime subscription, which also includes the commercial skipping feature (said feature being the reason big content sued it to death). I am already using it as the primary TV entertainment device, and am about ready to call TiVo and stop the subscription.
In addition to the satire angle pointed out by the other responder, there's also the disenfranchisement angle: could the "test of means to vote" be slanted towards white males? (It has happened in the past.)
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Nice sentiment, but wrong. A car example: high-end sports cars are about 2-3x faster than a Tata, and cost well over 10x more.
From a business perspective, it can sometimes be worth spending a large amount of money in order to gain a very slight performance advantage.
Um, yeah, something that others are doing better at...
Imagine a sneakernet.
Agree, and strongly disagree.
"Cars are a niche, people will always ride horses for transportation."
"Computers are a niche, they take up a whole room, there isn't really demand for more than six or so of them."
"Planes are a niche, they're useful in war but that's about it."
We the taxpayers should finance this company, and not bail out the "big 3" (two, really, Ford didn't need as much help), because they're proving that they can make something revolutionary that will work its way down to being affordable to everyone. The big 3 are just doing more of the same. And slower.
And besides, it's not a gift, it's a loan.
There are folks in Vermont who are working hard and fighting for it, which I read about this morning: they're attempting to secede from the USA. I fear for their lives.
The .sig indicates the sovereign state of Alaska...
Well, installing Nero already destroyed two of my computers, so yeah, I can see how you'd be right.
Uh, yeah, that or a cello...
A little OT, but aluminum is not loved in my household; it is a toxic poison. Replace aluminum cookware with stainless steel, and buy your beer in bottles, not cans.
Absolutely! Just rub this grey goo into your hair, and all your problems will be solved... forever...
Cool, thanks (not a Twitter user, either).
Hanging my post randomly: I think we now need a "Twitter feed blocker" extension. It's all text, so I can't block it with AdBlock Plus. And it's constantly changing, which is very distracting from reading the text that you went to that page to read to begin with (which is of course their goal, to get more "stick time", but that's not my goal, and I'll view only the content I want thankyouverymuchgetoffmylawn).
I always thought it was "for all intensive porpoises", about concentrating dolphins. I guess your way makes more sense.
You said a lot, but I tuned out after the insult in the first paragraph. Next!
If you haven't seen it yet, watch "Big" with Tom Hanks. There's a scene where he's working in an office and is so efficient that a coworker says to him, "Stop working so fast, you're making the rest of us look bad!" I saw that as a teenager and it greatly helped prepare me for the real world (not that I knew or understood it at the time).
Of course, your .sig then doesn't exactly say it the way you meant it... :)
So, is that a visual fetish of yours, or are you just short? (Or, perhaps, related to a white doll with red spirals on its cheeks?)
Weird. That really, really does not sound like "innocent until proven guilty" to me... Oh, also, we tend to like the phrase "extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof", but apparently the courts will accept a plaintiff's extraordinary claims, with no proof?
Once I had learned about encryption, I figured that was the next step. 15 years later, I'm still waiting...
Yeah, I dunno if your stating that we should "give him a pass" is useful seeing as your .sig states that you want to kill us all, as long as I'm sexy... And your mother...
It sounds like you would prefer unit tests that function, in place of comments.
I don't disagree -- although useful comments would be a helpful addition...
I personally like how my source code doesn't randomly walk out the door, but then that's just me I guess...
This is somewhat OT: I own a TiVo. I followed one of these tutorials (Galleon, and Direct Show Dump). I am able to get all the content off my TiVo and burn it to anything I want (which is really just the hard drive; my Xbox can watch it from there via XBMC).
TiVo is not going broke as I am continuing to pay my subscription (getting my shows from the TiVo to my computer is orthogonal to not paying the subscription), and likewise big content has not banned this device.
They have, however, banned the device that I am switching to: my ReplayTV, from eBay with lifetime subscription, which also includes the commercial skipping feature (said feature being the reason big content sued it to death). I am already using it as the primary TV entertainment device, and am about ready to call TiVo and stop the subscription.
Recall fail: "The winking emoticon in the early "DivX ;-)" codec name was a tongue-in-cheek reference to the failed DIVX system.[2]"
From wikipedia.
In addition to the satire angle pointed out by the other responder, there's also the disenfranchisement angle: could the "test of means to vote" be slanted towards white males? (It has happened in the past.)