Typical. You go to all the trouble of flying a plane on Venus and all you get is petty criticism of minor teething troubles. There's no pleasing some people.
I remember those halcyon days when Java had just emerged, acorn like if you will, from Oak. It promised a brave new world of write once, run anywhere programming that was to usher in a wonderful alternative to all that dangerous mucking about with C++ and flatten the disparate paradigms of software development from Microsoft, Apple and others. I went to trade shows and conferences with like minded souls all excited about this Next Big Thing. Hell, I even bought books and marvelled how easy it was to get Duke to cartwheel on any OS with a JVM.
Then it all went to shit with internecine wars and disparate implementations.
But it didn't stop there. It then carved out of the psyches of beleaguered programmers the world over a new level of hell just for itself.
Not with my ISP. Signing up to BTFON means a QoS controlled open network is created on my router (private gets priority but with fibre I don't care) and I have unlimited use of any Openzone / FON access point on the planet as a reward.
I'll see your fuzzy detail from Google and raise you erased buildings; the car parks to north and south are shown but the building I may or may not have worked in is a badly 'shopped grassy knoll...
It's a simple rule: the interesting buildings have a few windows, the *really* interesting ones have no windows at all. The latter tend to be surrounded by the former or otherwise obscured.
Who were these customers who made McDonald's think a milkshake needs to be of such a consistency that you have to use an industrial suction pump to get it through the straw? I want to go back in time and kick them all in the nuts.
That's the thing though. When you buy a beefburger that isn't 100% beef you aren't expecting the percentage that isn't beef to be from some other animal without that being pointed out on the labelling.
You buy a pork and beef sausage you expect pork and beef in it. Not ocelot.
Everyone is latching on to the Death Star petition (which got a reasonable answer in my opinion. An aide who loves Star Wars took the time to compose that response. Compare with more serious petitions that just got a boilerplate answer).
I don't think this is about the joke petitions but about the speed of getting 25000 signatories for the removal of publicity hound Carmen Ortiz because of her part in Aaron Swartz's suicide. She's part of The Establishment, they want to keep her so it is far better to raise the bar than address a perceived problem.
So due to some "rules" declared as societal law (and thus differ depending on what society you're living in) your life isn't yours? Whose is it then? You declare in your same argument that it isn't someone else's or the government's so are you saying it is nobody's?
We can narrow it down to someone who is particular about correct capitalisation (and therefore probably spelling, punctuation and grammar) denoting an education and attention to detail not normally seen in forum posts. As this is a more technical forum you most likely program in a language where letter case is of paramount importance and have done so for at least 5 years in a professional position. You probably also write reports indicating a level of seniority.
That should reduce the number of likely candidates somewhat.
postMessage working across tabs / child windows would have been nice for IE10. IE 8+ supports just iframe communication and only strings can be passed, (W3C spec says *anything* can be passed) and IE9 silently fails if you try to polyfill it to support simple objects.
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"on fire the whole time"
Typical. You go to all the trouble of flying a plane on Venus and all you get is petty criticism of minor teething troubles. There's no pleasing some people.
The EU hasn't outlawed "possession" but they are a bit funny about grey imports.
I remember those halcyon days when Java had just emerged, acorn like if you will, from Oak. It promised a brave new world of write once, run anywhere programming that was to usher in a wonderful alternative to all that dangerous mucking about with C++ and flatten the disparate paradigms of software development from Microsoft, Apple and others. I went to trade shows and conferences with like minded souls all excited about this Next Big Thing. Hell, I even bought books and marvelled how easy it was to get Duke to cartwheel on any OS with a JVM.
Then it all went to shit with internecine wars and disparate implementations.
But it didn't stop there. It then carved out of the psyches of beleaguered programmers the world over a new level of hell just for itself.
Adieu. At least it was fun in the beginning.
My membership of the private club is the reward for allowing someone else to not need to.
Not with my ISP. Signing up to BTFON means a QoS controlled open network is created on my router (private gets priority but with fibre I don't care) and I have unlimited use of any Openzone / FON access point on the planet as a reward.
... but a feature. How else are the cops supposed to erase footage that condemns them and exonerates you?
Mine does that as well. The all white "screen saver" has to be manually activated.
My decade old plasma has a anti burnin feature to prevent this. It's basically set all pixels on (so bright white) for a few minutes a month.
I'll see your fuzzy detail from Google and raise you erased buildings; the car parks to north and south are shown but the building I may or may not have worked in is a badly 'shopped grassy knoll...
Doesn't it require a Facebook signin?
It's a simple rule: the interesting buildings have a few windows, the *really* interesting ones have no windows at all. The latter tend to be surrounded by the former or otherwise obscured.
Actually, they tend to get fed to big cats in zoos and safari parks.
Who were these customers who made McDonald's think a milkshake needs to be of such a consistency that you have to use an industrial suction pump to get it through the straw? I want to go back in time and kick them all in the nuts.
That's the thing though. When you buy a beefburger that isn't 100% beef you aren't expecting the percentage that isn't beef to be from some other animal without that being pointed out on the labelling.
You buy a pork and beef sausage you expect pork and beef in it. Not ocelot.
Everyone is latching on to the Death Star petition (which got a reasonable answer in my opinion. An aide who loves Star Wars took the time to compose that response. Compare with more serious petitions that just got a boilerplate answer).
I don't think this is about the joke petitions but about the speed of getting 25000 signatories for the removal of publicity hound Carmen Ortiz because of her part in Aaron Swartz's suicide. She's part of The Establishment, they want to keep her so it is far better to raise the bar than address a perceived problem.
My racer was advertised as having 21 "speeds"...
I turn my phone face down so the gyroscope and proximity / light sensors trigger to silence it. Prior art, anyone?
So due to some "rules" declared as societal law (and thus differ depending on what society you're living in) your life isn't yours? Whose is it then? You declare in your same argument that it isn't someone else's or the government's so are you saying it is nobody's?
Didn't the X-Files have that storyline?
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Never had this chance before in all the years I've been here.
We can narrow it down to someone who is particular about correct capitalisation (and therefore probably spelling, punctuation and grammar) denoting an education and attention to detail not normally seen in forum posts. As this is a more technical forum you most likely program in a language where letter case is of paramount importance and have done so for at least 5 years in a professional position. You probably also write reports indicating a level of seniority.
That should reduce the number of likely candidates somewhat.
postMessage working across tabs / child windows would have been nice for IE10. IE 8+ supports just iframe communication and only strings can be passed, (W3C spec says *anything* can be passed) and IE9 silently fails if you try to polyfill it to support simple objects.
Firefox first supported it - fully - in 3.6...
They're French. They can be cheese eating surrender monkeys or resistance fighters but never neutral.
Remember last time something was supposed to be put in orbit and imperial units were accidentally used instead of metric? That didn't end well...
... the mosquito