To the tune of the Mormon song in that episode of Southpark....
First the guy starts off with a reference to Potheads. Danger sign right there.
Then he goes off about how fair VAT is. Second danger sign.
Then he opines about how he can come up with all these ways that people can't cheat, like one guy rolls two joints and the other guy picks which one he wants to smoke, and pretends like this idea can scale.
Want to bet there isn't a way to cheat at cut and choose? Let's try it to elect a politician and see if someone can't find a way to cheat.
I think Microsoft is going to equally likely cause Google's death spiral. I'm already getting used to BING and hell I talked about BINGing something the other day. Google's key differentiator - providing information -- can be replicated.
I think that it's very likely that Google's first mover advantage could get trumped the usual Microsoft way.
The ironic thing is the original definition of Proletariat or "Prole" in 1984 in Latin were people who offered no benefit to the state other than raising children. The Proles didn't have Big Brother in their homes, and Winston longed to live like them. Somebody should tell the UK they're not doing it right:-)
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The only reason other people can "be cool with people" is there is one military hyperpower. If we were "cool with people" too eight zillion wars would break out instantly - balance of power, WWI again.
I use AdBlock and mostly just look at the Articles section, it's still mostly the same old Tom's we remember.
I think there just aren't that many articles about cards coming out lately, and they have to do something to fill the time. I still like it okay (with adblock).
If one only increments the major number when you break backward compatibility, then you can get 1.10, 1.11, 1.12, etc. But I think that looks awful! It doesn't sort right in text anymore, and 1.01.5 isn't going to make any friends.
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Oh, I remember my first days of trying to get anything to work in C. (This was in the days of DOS, before Windows). Hopeless! I'd be trying to program Hello World or a very small addition to hello world like type in a character, and have to reboot the PC because I overwrote system memory:-)
It's Linux! And you can only run the web browser on it! Because, you know, if all you want to do is surf the web, and the stuff you need to do all runs on the web, then it doesn't matter if it's Linux or Windows!
Oh, wait, you mean I can't do that? Oh, um, how do I get updates on this thing? Oh, um, that doesn't work quite the way I want it to.
Can I return this thing and get one that works like a normal computer I'm used to?
:-) That was that the first one I did. Let's see, each CD has an Artist, and multiple Tracks, and each Track can have multiple Artists, each CD has a year, each track has a year, genre, cd has a name, bleh bleh bleh bleh.
Write some program to keep track of your CDs. Then, realize what a dumb-ass you are, and get a job:-) rinse lather repeat
Wittgenstein said: That the world is, is the mysterious.
In other words, why is there anything rather than nothing at all? That's the definition of God.
It's good to see science people accepting the Mystery again, thinking you have all the answers was the mistake of the religion people. It's all just this big Mystery that somebody set up for us.
MOD PARENT UP. Not to mention it's multithreaded, so it's not really the same as copy/paste - it's the same as a whole bunch of copy/pastes as the same time.
Why do people keep fighting the Robocopy, I'll never know.
Okay, at one time, there were standards around CSS and DOM being implemented, and Microsoft implemented a version of those standards before they were standards, and became the Defacto Quirks Mode way things were done for a long time, and that was deemed Evil.
Now there are standards around HTML5 being proposed, but probably 10 years off, or at least way off, and Firefox and Google are implementing a version of these standars before they are standards, and are trying to become the Defactor Quirks Mode way things are done for a long time, and that is deemed Good.
When I drove from California to NC, I wrote a custom app that read the GPS lat/long coordinates, searched a database of 5000 fast food places, gas stations, and hotels within 1 mile of I-40, so I could find where I wanted to go even if it was 70 miles up the road, and hit a great big button to search for it so I wouldn't wreck my car, and then enter the coordinates in the navsat program to start driving me there.
Does that count as hacking it?
I did it on my PocketPC. Does that mean Windows Mobile still sucks and is useless for hackers?
I think that when the metric is to reduce the number of calls, the natural human tendency is to ignore calls, shift calls to other people, etc. to make it look like you're doing better when you're not.
So that's why most people look at your find versus fix ratio, the number of bugs you find versus the number you fix / the length of time it takes to fix them. It's not great to have zillions of issues, but you should always try to fix the issues as quickly as possible.
I have bing set as the default search engine in IE8 and use the Firefox home page portal to google in Firefox. I use each about 50% of the time. I'm still learning how to use Bing properly; i.e. typing in the name of a town doesn't always take me to a map; but it took me a while how to use google too.
I'd say that competition is great these days; I use multiple things and bounce back and forth.
Slashdot Mirror
Or even sinister.
To the tune of the Mormon song in that episode of Southpark....
First the guy starts off with a reference to Potheads. Danger sign right there.
Then he goes off about how fair VAT is. Second danger sign.
Then he opines about how he can come up with all these ways that people can't cheat, like one guy rolls two joints and the other guy picks which one he wants to smoke, and pretends like this idea can scale.
Want to bet there isn't a way to cheat at cut and choose? Let's try it to elect a politician and see if someone can't find a way to cheat.
Fail! Mr big idea.
I think Microsoft is going to equally likely cause Google's death spiral. I'm already getting used to BING and hell I talked about BINGing something the other day. Google's key differentiator - providing information -- can be replicated.
I think that it's very likely that Google's first mover advantage could get trumped the usual Microsoft way.
Apparently, so Robespierre during the French Revolution, and we all know how THAT turned out.
I remember this, a million years ago, when IE 5.5 supported HTML + time.
The ironic thing is the original definition of Proletariat or "Prole" in 1984 in Latin were people who offered no benefit to the state other than raising children. The Proles didn't have Big Brother in their homes, and Winston longed to live like them. Somebody should tell the UK they're not doing it right :-)
The only reason other people can "be cool with people" is there is one military hyperpower. If we were "cool with people" too eight zillion wars would break out instantly - balance of power, WWI again.
I use AdBlock and mostly just look at the Articles section, it's still mostly the same old Tom's we remember.
I think there just aren't that many articles about cards coming out lately, and they have to do something to fill the time. I still like it okay (with adblock).
It's not really the sorting issue, per say, it just LOOKs wierd.
1.10 does not look normal.
1.27 still seems like it's 1.2-ish. It's just wrong. :-)
I don't know how to handle it.
If one only increments the major number when you break backward compatibility, then you can get 1.10, 1.11, 1.12, etc. But I think that looks awful! It doesn't sort right in text anymore, and 1.01.5 isn't going to make any friends.
Oh, I remember my first days of trying to get anything to work in C. (This was in the days of DOS, before Windows). Hopeless! I'd be trying to program Hello World or a very small addition to hello world like type in a character, and have to reboot the PC because I overwrote system memory :-)
I still use my Windows Mobile Tilt, and it does every damn thing the iPhone does, and doesn't melt my nuts and costs me less money.
Okay, it doesn't do IPOD stuff, but I have an ipod touch for that. For a phone I use all over bumfouck egypt to do internet stuff, my tilt rox.
Sync's my hotmail 'n everything.
seeing the whole screen zoomed out is a useless feature - you can't read anything.
Generalize much?
Let's see now.
It's Linux! And you can only run the web browser on it! Because, you know, if all you want to do is surf the web, and the stuff you need to do all runs on the web, then it doesn't matter if it's Linux or Windows!
Oh, wait, you mean I can't do that? Oh, um, how do I get updates on this thing? Oh, um, that doesn't work quite the way I want it to.
Can I return this thing and get one that works like a normal computer I'm used to?
:-) That was that the first one I did. Let's see, each CD has an Artist, and multiple Tracks, and each Track can have multiple Artists, each CD has a year, each track has a year, genre, cd has a name, bleh bleh bleh bleh.
Write some program to keep track of your CDs. Then, realize what a dumb-ass you are, and get a job :-) rinse lather repeat
Wittgenstein said: That the world is, is the mysterious.
In other words, why is there anything rather than nothing at all? That's the definition of God.
It's good to see science people accepting the Mystery again, thinking you have all the answers was the mistake of the religion people. It's all just this big Mystery that somebody set up for us.
MOD PARENT UP. Not to mention it's multithreaded, so it's not really the same as copy/paste - it's the same as a whole bunch of copy/pastes as the same time.
Why do people keep fighting the Robocopy, I'll never know.
Okay, at one time, there were standards around CSS and DOM being implemented, and Microsoft implemented a version of those standards before they were standards, and became the Defacto Quirks Mode way things were done for a long time, and that was deemed Evil.
Now there are standards around HTML5 being proposed, but probably 10 years off, or at least way off, and Firefox and Google are implementing a version of these standars before they are standards, and are trying to become the Defactor Quirks Mode way things are done for a long time, and that is deemed Good.
If it quacks like a duck, it's a duck.
When I drove from California to NC, I wrote a custom app that read the GPS lat/long coordinates, searched a database of 5000 fast food places, gas stations, and hotels within 1 mile of I-40, so I could find where I wanted to go even if it was 70 miles up the road, and hit a great big button to search for it so I wouldn't wreck my car, and then enter the coordinates in the navsat program to start driving me there.
Does that count as hacking it?
I did it on my PocketPC. Does that mean Windows Mobile still sucks and is useless for hackers?
I think Stalin used quite similar reasoning for the forced starvation programs: the greater good, to bring Russia as a whole into the modern era.
Seriously, you thinking you have an answer to a problem -- that scares the hell out of me.
f(x) = x
Did anyone else read that as Moon Enchiladas?
Mmmm.. Moon enchiladas...
I pay $100 a year for a Panix shell account and keep my data there. My own little server in the sky :-)
I think that when the metric is to reduce the number of calls, the natural human tendency is to ignore calls, shift calls to other people, etc. to make it look like you're doing better when you're not.
So that's why most people look at your find versus fix ratio, the number of bugs you find versus the number you fix / the length of time it takes to fix them. It's not great to have zillions of issues, but you should always try to fix the issues as quickly as possible.
I have bing set as the default search engine in IE8 and use the Firefox home page portal to google in Firefox. I use each about 50% of the time. I'm still learning how to use Bing properly; i.e. typing in the name of a town doesn't always take me to a map; but it took me a while how to use google too.
I'd say that competition is great these days; I use multiple things and bounce back and forth.