You do recognize that most of the protocols and specifications running the Internet are decades old, right? The fact that they've lasted this long is really rather impressive.
Besides, if we redesigned it now, it would be insanely complex and bloated, not to mention never fully implemented (CSS? ha!), as there would be too many parties "contributing".
It's turned into something where people listen to canned music while working exercise machines in gyms, trying to turn themselves into machines.
I ride both outside as well as in a gym. One factor: weather. In the summer here, it's really hot and humid and it rains frequently. The gym solves that problem. Another factor: I often listen to audiobooks while biking in the gym. It's illegal to use headphones on the road.
Your singular experience isn't really relevant to a discussion of MBP build quality. To say that they have better build quality is not to say that none of them fail. It is to say that they fail less often than competitor machines. Obviously, with a non-zero failure rate, someone will get the failed machine. So, you pointing out that you have one of the failed machines really has no bearing on whether or not the build quality is better. You tacked on an "IMHO", but it's not a matter of opinion, there exists data to say whether or not they fail at a higher or lower rate.
I was given an HP Photosmart a few years back and I hate it with a passion. It doesn't have a real driver, it has some kind of app that you print to. This means no network printing (only direct attached USB). The app never quits, so it's running all the time and it pops up useless messages for you to clear out. I'm sure that spec isn't written in the marketing materials ("Subverts Windows and Mac print systems with proprietary app").
To quote Wikipedia: "Kafka's work, in this sense, is not a written reflection of any of his own struggles, but a reflection of how people invent struggles." So, this guy whining about his app submission being to trying, is actually Kafkaesque - he's inventing a struggle so he can whine about it on the Internet to satisfy his narcissism.
I'd be happy to imagine that the doctor actually knew what was in the drug and wasn't giving it to me because he likes playing golf with the pharma rep.
Yes, it has. Calculus was only begun by Newton and Liebnitz and took quite a long time to develop (it is still being updated, though the changes are less drastic now).
Online classes are fairly simple for student evaluation. For local students, have the examinations in a classroom. For distance learning, use proctors.
Sure, it's sad you lost your leg, but you wouldn't have made ten million in ten life times. If the think the doctor made a mistake, settle for something reasonable, don't make the rest of us pay for the mistake.
What's the reasonable amount of money for the loss of a leg? No more walking, running, biking, basketball, soccer, etc. No more running around chasing after your kids in the park. No more being able to easily move the furniture around in your own home.
I hate the sue happy culture as much as anyone, but this is an example of when you should sue for big bucks.
Drive a Toyota and then drive the corresponding Lexus. While there are a number of identical parts, the feel and performance simply are not the same. Whether that comes down to the tuning in the suspension or in some other aspect of the car, they don't drive the same. When you get over the comfort/trim of the interior, Lexus destroys Toyota. The interior of a Lexus is comfortable and well designed. The interior of a Toyota is functional. You may well find these differences to be cosmetic, but to some, the handling and comfort are worth the price difference.
They want to take what's probably the single most reviled "feature" of MS Office 2007 and put it into OpenOffice? When one of the big selling points of OpenOffice, among people I've talked to, is that it looks and feels more like the Office they're used to?
People revile change, not the interface itself. Change is difficult, even if the change is for the better, because you have to break existing habits and form new ones. In our experience in rolling it out, everyone hates the ribbon at first, then comes to like it and prefer it over the old menu based version.
I found all the Need For Speed games to be mostly the same and not very fun. The Mario games have a little more variety and have been getting more interesting.
the school I attended (which shall remain nameless) made a huge to-do about their career assistance programs
These schools need to learn that they cannot get away with making false promises to get you in the door, it is false advertising, and is nothing less than grand larceny.
Did you ask what they were actually going to do or did you just imagine that it would be awesome? Unless they specifically committed to certain actions and then failed to perform them, I don't see why the problem is with them. If you're going to pay someone that much money for something, you should get it in writing what you're going to get.
Hardly. Once people get over their need to hide shit and likewise the superiority feeling they get from pointing out someone's mistakes, that will be one less thing for the powerful to lord over the weak, and subsequently more freedom for everyone because they don't have the risk of public shaming by hypocritical nitwits who probably did the same thing but are hiding it. This whole pretending to be pure in public is tyranny, and we need freedom from it. As a plus, these people willingly posting their stuff on the Internet seem at least more willing to own up to who they are than the older generation that wants to hide behind a public face.
Your "antithesis of a free society" argument fails. I'm sorry, but a bunch of fakes making up a moral lynch mob is not freedom - it's tyranny.
Seriously. Email/write/call your state representative about this bill and tell them how this bill is severely diminish the quality of all radios out there. Urge them to vote against it!!
So, you're saying that you don't care about justice or fairness, only what personally benefits you? Spoken like a true American. And people wonder what's wrong with this country.
Only possible solution I could see is a subcription service that covers hundreds of sites. You pay $4.99 a month and the money gets divided up between sites based on page views. However this is a nightmare to set up and get people on board and you may find it's about as successful as regular subscriptions.
Sounds like cable television. One would hope it doesn't fall prey to the same problem cable has - they keep adding crappy channels to increase the channel count and justify even higher prices. I'd have cable if I could pay $10/month for around 10 or so channels.
Just so I know how to direct my rage properly: am I supposed to be mad that the government is going to launch a site to add sunshine to the recovery bill grant process, or that they couldn't make it appear online for free?
Many Slashdot readers (myself included) write software and/or websites for a living, so we have some perspective on the costs of such a project. If you're not familiar with that subject, let me be one of many to tell you that $18 million is so far beyond reasonable as to make people want to cry.
I wish it were that simple. There are stations where I have given thumbs up and thumbs down to over 100 songs, but it still pulls out songs by artists that I have given at least 4 or 5 thumbs down to on that station. It would be nice to have a little more control. I don't care how similar it thinks that artist is to some other things I have given a thumbs up to, I don't want to ever hear that artist on here again. How about that option?
Well, then you don't have to worry. There are literally billions of people on this planet who are dying from "easily curable illnesses and such". At some point, we need to quit talking about the economy as if we're the only country on the planet (applicable in USA, I assume it's applicable in the other industrialized nations). Many of these other countries are in turmoil because rich white people exploited them at the point of a sword for hundreds of years and prevented them from developing.
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Because you recognize that order has a value higher than that of what you stole.
If you're so strapped for cash that you need to pirate a $1.99 game, then you shouldn't have purchased an iPhone and its associated monthly plan.
He couldn't have made five times as much, but he could be paying for 1/5 as much bandwidth on his server...
You do recognize that most of the protocols and specifications running the Internet are decades old, right? The fact that they've lasted this long is really rather impressive.
Besides, if we redesigned it now, it would be insanely complex and bloated, not to mention never fully implemented (CSS? ha!), as there would be too many parties "contributing".
Thanks. Now I'm depressed.
I ride both outside as well as in a gym. One factor: weather. In the summer here, it's really hot and humid and it rains frequently. The gym solves that problem. Another factor: I often listen to audiobooks while biking in the gym. It's illegal to use headphones on the road.
Your singular experience isn't really relevant to a discussion of MBP build quality. To say that they have better build quality is not to say that none of them fail. It is to say that they fail less often than competitor machines. Obviously, with a non-zero failure rate, someone will get the failed machine. So, you pointing out that you have one of the failed machines really has no bearing on whether or not the build quality is better. You tacked on an "IMHO", but it's not a matter of opinion, there exists data to say whether or not they fail at a higher or lower rate.
I was given an HP Photosmart a few years back and I hate it with a passion. It doesn't have a real driver, it has some kind of app that you print to. This means no network printing (only direct attached USB). The app never quits, so it's running all the time and it pops up useless messages for you to clear out. I'm sure that spec isn't written in the marketing materials ("Subverts Windows and Mac print systems with proprietary app").
To quote Wikipedia: "Kafka's work, in this sense, is not a written reflection of any of his own struggles, but a reflection of how people invent struggles." So, this guy whining about his app submission being to trying, is actually Kafkaesque - he's inventing a struggle so he can whine about it on the Internet to satisfy his narcissism.
I'd be happy to imagine that the doctor actually knew what was in the drug and wasn't giving it to me because he likes playing golf with the pharma rep.
Which country? My uncle is red-green color blind and served in the US Army for years.
Yes, it has. Calculus was only begun by Newton and Liebnitz and took quite a long time to develop (it is still being updated, though the changes are less drastic now).
The Teaching Company stuff is great. In fact, it's worth paying for.
Online classes are fairly simple for student evaluation. For local students, have the examinations in a classroom. For distance learning, use proctors.
What's the reasonable amount of money for the loss of a leg? No more walking, running, biking, basketball, soccer, etc. No more running around chasing after your kids in the park. No more being able to easily move the furniture around in your own home.
I hate the sue happy culture as much as anyone, but this is an example of when you should sue for big bucks.
Drive a Toyota and then drive the corresponding Lexus. While there are a number of identical parts, the feel and performance simply are not the same. Whether that comes down to the tuning in the suspension or in some other aspect of the car, they don't drive the same. When you get over the comfort/trim of the interior, Lexus destroys Toyota. The interior of a Lexus is comfortable and well designed. The interior of a Toyota is functional. You may well find these differences to be cosmetic, but to some, the handling and comfort are worth the price difference.
People revile change, not the interface itself. Change is difficult, even if the change is for the better, because you have to break existing habits and form new ones. In our experience in rolling it out, everyone hates the ribbon at first, then comes to like it and prefer it over the old menu based version.
I found all the Need For Speed games to be mostly the same and not very fun. The Mario games have a little more variety and have been getting more interesting.
Did you ask what they were actually going to do or did you just imagine that it would be awesome? Unless they specifically committed to certain actions and then failed to perform them, I don't see why the problem is with them. If you're going to pay someone that much money for something, you should get it in writing what you're going to get.
Hardly. Once people get over their need to hide shit and likewise the superiority feeling they get from pointing out someone's mistakes, that will be one less thing for the powerful to lord over the weak, and subsequently more freedom for everyone because they don't have the risk of public shaming by hypocritical nitwits who probably did the same thing but are hiding it. This whole pretending to be pure in public is tyranny, and we need freedom from it. As a plus, these people willingly posting their stuff on the Internet seem at least more willing to own up to who they are than the older generation that wants to hide behind a public face.
Your "antithesis of a free society" argument fails. I'm sorry, but a bunch of fakes making up a moral lynch mob is not freedom - it's tyranny.
So, you're saying that you don't care about justice or fairness, only what personally benefits you? Spoken like a true American. And people wonder what's wrong with this country.
Sounds like cable television. One would hope it doesn't fall prey to the same problem cable has - they keep adding crappy channels to increase the channel count and justify even higher prices. I'd have cable if I could pay $10/month for around 10 or so channels.
Many Slashdot readers (myself included) write software and/or websites for a living, so we have some perspective on the costs of such a project. If you're not familiar with that subject, let me be one of many to tell you that $18 million is so far beyond reasonable as to make people want to cry.
I wish it were that simple. There are stations where I have given thumbs up and thumbs down to over 100 songs, but it still pulls out songs by artists that I have given at least 4 or 5 thumbs down to on that station. It would be nice to have a little more control. I don't care how similar it thinks that artist is to some other things I have given a thumbs up to, I don't want to ever hear that artist on here again. How about that option?
Well, then you don't have to worry. There are literally billions of people on this planet who are dying from "easily curable illnesses and such". At some point, we need to quit talking about the economy as if we're the only country on the planet (applicable in USA, I assume it's applicable in the other industrialized nations). Many of these other countries are in turmoil because rich white people exploited them at the point of a sword for hundreds of years and prevented them from developing.