I can't stand the rest of Disney's lineup, but that show is one of my favorite pieces of television ever. A light and pleasantly self-aware show where the protagonists build fantastic things to enjoy and play with? All the fun of Family Guy without the grossness and empty cynicism? Yes, more please.
The Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, Canada, and Spain are the only countries where Taco Bell offers French fries. Having this product in 2 varieties: Fiesta Fries (Topped Fries in Spain) (Like Nachos Supreme, changing nachos for fries) and regular French fries.
Taco Bell test marketed french fries in the south eastern US several years ago. The fries themselves were basic and kind on run-of-the-mill. They didn't last very long.
Cool! But parallel viewing works just fine, too. How 'bout a version in that?
I have always preferred cross-eyed free-viewing. I can't cross my eyes outward, so I can only use parallel for images smaller than my ocular distance. Anyone who has never tried either one should look into it.
leaving the dev to sputter "but, but, you're not supposed to do that".
My favorite quote on this subject: "If there is a button there, somebody is going to push it." Over and over again, I have been surprised by users who have put normally safe options together in ways that result in disaster. As a developer, it is my responsibility to make sure that the self destruct button is NOT right next to the refresh button, and that the self-destruct button has an obvious warning message before the countdown starts. Even though user insanity is not something you can test for, you can minimize its impact with an effective user interface design.
Unit testing has saved my ass numerous times. One test in particular pumps a bunch of random data into the system and writes out every possible output format with said random data. Garbage in, garbage out, but its repeatable garbage, and each release establishes a baseline for these output files. Prior to the next release, I repeat the test, and diff the output against the baseline. Any changes that can't be attributed to fixes in the new release are bugs that need to be tracked down. This test is good for catching problems from small code changes that ripple to unintended places.
I'm leaning towards your interpretation that it would be foolish to eliminate Darwinian evolution entirely from human experience and that the fuss about Toyota accelerators is just such foolishness.
When a conscious decision is made to allow Darwinian evolution to take its course, it is called "Applied Darwinism".
"Cheating" is called cheating for a reason. Cheating is breaking the rules. In marriage, there are a number of rules, some traditional (the vows), some legal (pre-nups, adultery, alienation of affection), but most of the rules are agreed upon by the spouses (you take out the trash, and I do the laundry).
If the spouses agree to an open marriage, then sex with other partners is not cheating. By agreement, the rules allow for it. In this context cheating is when you do something that you said you wouldn't do.
In which case it is breaking your word that is causing all the trouble, and that could be on sex, but also on a lot of other things.
Agreed.
There are no simple answers.
I respectfully disagree. The simple answer is "Keep Your Word", or even more simply "Don't Be an Asshole".
It may violate your ethics, moral guidelines, religion or what-have-you. But it is not stupid.
Cheating is not about ethics or morals or religion. It's not even about sex. Its about your commitment (or lack thereof) to your spouse, and to all of the other people in your marriage (kids, in-laws, parents, neighbors, etc.). And if you are not smart enough to find an acceptable outlet for your biological urges, I would have to say that's pretty stupid.
Working with computers, we deal with hard facts, boolean truth values. Separating what we know from what we don't know is a large portion of this job. Therefore, being right about what you do and do not know is important.
To me personally, being right is so important that I will admit when I am wrong, so I can be right about that.
I realize that my experience is not typical. I learned reasonably early in life to put little stock in other peoples opinions of me and my actions, largely because the opinions of others are non-deterministic with respect to my actions. I did not realize it at the time, but by doing so I freed myself from the burden of lifelong guilt and shame. Over the last couple of years, I have been able to see the difference that this freedom has made in my point of view, and it really is astounding.
The stigma of mistakes in Eastern culture is not absent from Western culture, just more subtle.
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If "Fgpyyih804423" had at least one non-alpha-numeric character in it, it would have survived at least the free download ophcrack.
Phineas and Ferb.
I can't stand the rest of Disney's lineup, but that show is one of my favorite pieces of television ever. A light and pleasantly self-aware show where the protagonists build fantastic things to enjoy and play with? All the fun of Family Guy without the grossness and empty cynicism? Yes, more please.
Oh, there you are, Perry.
C-x, C-u, FTW!
Not exactly true. From Wikipedia:
The Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, Canada, and Spain are the only countries where Taco Bell offers French fries. Having this product in 2 varieties: Fiesta Fries (Topped Fries in Spain) (Like Nachos Supreme, changing nachos for fries) and regular French fries.
Taco Bell test marketed french fries in the south eastern US several years ago. The fries themselves were basic and kind on run-of-the-mill. They didn't last very long.
Just wash it down with a little Holy Water, and everyone will be OK before sunrise.
That's what makes the t-shirt funny.
Cool! But parallel viewing works just fine, too. How 'bout a version in that?
I have always preferred cross-eyed free-viewing. I can't cross my eyes outward, so I can only use parallel for images smaller than my ocular distance. Anyone who has never tried either one should look into it.
Offtopic? Really?
In that post he also expresses dislike for the American style of politics in which he will now be able to participate directly.
What form of participation is more direct than running for office?
no, no, no... the proper term is GNU/Anchor Baby.
Congratulations on coming up with the newest ThinkGeek shirt design.
Oh, wait never mind. I thought of something else FIRST.
I said 72 Virginians would be waiting. What did you think I said?
"All your search are belong to us!"?
Somebody set up us the doodle.
Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra?
Best. Episode. Ever.
We've come a long way since then. These days, the stewardesses can speak ebonics with needing any help translating.
leaving the dev to sputter "but, but, you're not supposed to do that".
My favorite quote on this subject: "If there is a button there, somebody is going to push it." Over and over again, I have been surprised by users who have put normally safe options together in ways that result in disaster. As a developer, it is my responsibility to make sure that the self destruct button is NOT right next to the refresh button, and that the self-destruct button has an obvious warning message before the countdown starts. Even though user insanity is not something you can test for, you can minimize its impact with an effective user interface design.
Unit testing has saved my ass numerous times. One test in particular pumps a bunch of random data into the system and writes out every possible output format with said random data. Garbage in, garbage out, but its repeatable garbage, and each release establishes a baseline for these output files. Prior to the next release, I repeat the test, and diff the output against the baseline. Any changes that can't be attributed to fixes in the new release are bugs that need to be tracked down. This test is good for catching problems from small code changes that ripple to unintended places.
I like the looks of this one better.
You should totally spend some quality time with Blender and animate that. That could go viral in a heartbeat.
I'm leaning towards your interpretation that it would be foolish to eliminate Darwinian evolution entirely from human experience and that the fuss about Toyota accelerators is just such foolishness.
When a conscious decision is made to allow Darwinian evolution to take its course, it is called "Applied Darwinism".
What if the thief sold the laptop on Ebay or at a flee market the day after he stole it.
Best Typo Ever.
As I see it, the Chinese authoritarian attitude and the Republican authoritarian attitudes differ only in degree, not in kind.
Wow, they really do hate our freedom.
"Cheating" is called cheating for a reason. Cheating is breaking the rules. In marriage, there are a number of rules, some traditional (the vows), some legal (pre-nups, adultery, alienation of affection), but most of the rules are agreed upon by the spouses (you take out the trash, and I do the laundry).
If the spouses agree to an open marriage, then sex with other partners is not cheating. By agreement, the rules allow for it. In this context cheating is when you do something that you said you wouldn't do.
In which case it is breaking your word that is causing all the trouble, and that could be on sex, but also on a lot of other things.
Agreed.
There are no simple answers.
I respectfully disagree. The simple answer is "Keep Your Word", or even more simply "Don't Be an Asshole".
It may violate your ethics, moral guidelines, religion or what-have-you. But it is not stupid.
Cheating is not about ethics or morals or religion. It's not even about sex. Its about your commitment (or lack thereof) to your spouse, and to all of the other people in your marriage (kids, in-laws, parents, neighbors, etc.). And if you are not smart enough to find an acceptable outlet for your biological urges, I would have to say that's pretty stupid.
Marriage should not restrict you to have sex to only one person in any way
Ummm, yeah, that's what marriage IS. Everybody's not cut out for it. If you want to play the field, don't get married.
(or have your marriage broken with the person being 'cheated on' getting all your money).
If you are worried about someone taking your money, then don't get married. Do we see a pattern forming here? Yes. Yes, we do.
As a rule though, infidelity anywhere is just plain stupid,
FTFY
Working with computers, we deal with hard facts, boolean truth values. Separating what we know from what we don't know is a large portion of this job. Therefore, being right about what you do and do not know is important.
To me personally, being right is so important that I will admit when I am wrong, so I can be right about that.
I realize that my experience is not typical. I learned reasonably early in life to put little stock in other peoples opinions of me and my actions, largely because the opinions of others are non-deterministic with respect to my actions. I did not realize it at the time, but by doing so I freed myself from the burden of lifelong guilt and shame. Over the last couple of years, I have been able to see the difference that this freedom has made in my point of view, and it really is astounding.
The stigma of mistakes in Eastern culture is not absent from Western culture, just more subtle.