yes, yes you are. but it's ok. it was bound to happen when you admittedly make presumptions about things which you know not. because at least you show signs of understanding that you were having a dumb thought, plus your sig contains the appropriate disclaimer about stupid comments.
I don't really follow comics so the way that I misunderstand it both DC and Marvel routinely rewrite their universes...
and i only killed her because she was cheating on me. and i only robbed that bank because i was poor. and i only hit that lady with my car because i was drunk.
does not work. i'm gonna take a break from trolling and try to actually be helpful here. i have personally seen instances where the same code that works in IE6 behaves differently in IE7, differently again in IE8, and again in IE8 with compatibility mode, and again in IE8 with compat mode and IE7 standards, and again with all those combinations but this time with Quirks mode. i have had CSS headaches where an IE hack meant to solve an issue in IE7 ends up breaking the layout in IE8. after that, the * hack no longer applies. i find that loading separate css files for each browser version supported helps a lot.
I don't see the point of busting your ass to make things compatible for people (or companies) who are too lazy or uninformed to upgrade, or why companies pay people to bust their asses to do this
i'll make it simple for you to understand. it's called the LCD - Lowest (or Least) Common Denominator. many people far more clever than you at making money and manipulating people through marketing have determined that the more people to whom you can get your message across, the higher the return on investment. just like how you keep getting flyers in the (snail) mail that have nothing to do with your needs. ignorance of how to make your clients money is the source of all your questions.
who is your demographic? for quite a few markets, the elderly are prime targets. the elderly make up a majority of those people who you wish would get off the internet. for the companies that make money on this demographic, they want these people to stay on the internet. sure, it would be nice if they upgraded their crap, but if all it takes is making a bunch of web developers stay late to accomodate their old browser, then so be it.
another real world example: the LCD is why nintendo put out that really shitty wii console that immediately outsold all other consoles, despite inferior hardware and games. it wasn't until developers showed the greater video game market that kinect games could be just as shitty as wii games that the market shifted again. god forbid an awesome game came out for use with kinect, it might have killed the tech off altogether.
if you think IE is ubiquitous because web developers never took a stand against it, you are hopelessly naive. the microsoft standard wasn't created by developers, it was created by businesses who put millions of IE browsers in front of their workers. IE won't go away simply because some other browser developer will make a better browser -- that's already been done! good lord, you are naive.
your idyllic utopia:
pogue: look boss, this website we developed for the company looks like crap on IE browsers when we follow web standards.
boss: oh that's alright. you did it the right way, despite that the majority of users have IE. i'll just complain to microsoft and they should have their browsers fixed before our launch deadline.
reality:
pogue: look boss, this website we developed for the company looks like crap on IE browsers when we follow web standards.
boss: well make it look good in IE (as well as other browsers that follow web standards to differing degrees), and your deadline still stands. oh, and there's a list of features we'd like to add while you're in there testing. some of them contradict the user stories you've been building for. make it work in IE 5.5 for mac too. because my mom uses that, and when i show it off to her i want it to look perfect.
not from Planet Dumbshit, i'm from Planet Over-Your-Retarded-Head. i don't give a hairy fuck about your factory farms. my points are:
1. the best thing about goat better not be that it's not raised on a factory farm. there are plenty of horrible tasting things out there that grow free-range or wild, that not being from a factory farm does not necessarily make it good. the commenter was convincing me that goat tasted good until this ridiculous claim.
2. yes, i have eaten food that i've killed. i've also sampled many kinds of exotic meats, like crocodile, emu, ostrich and kangaroo. i understand the term gamey to describe the taste of meat. that grassy is a term you understand just won you a gold star sticker and a serenade from the 1cm orchestra. they had a hit on the the top 40 billboard charts, titled "Purge that goat before you slice his throat." gfy.
overheard at mcdonald's
guy #1: you gonna get the big mac again?
guy #2: naw, it's not grassy enough for me. tastes like it wasn't purged before slaughter.
guy #1: i know what you mean. i hate it when they don't care about our hyper sensitive taste buds
guy #2: unless we're talking about fries, they invented a whole new field of science just for that
guy #1: you'd think if the "grassy" quality in the taste of food were important they'd find a way to simulate that with a pheromone, like they do with the fries...
guy #2: right, like they could make the soy patty taste like it was once alive and fed grass to eat, maybe while it wandered around some open land....
guy #1: what toy came with your meal?
guy #2: nothing much, just some literature on how to purge your intended kill so as not to contaminate the meat...
guy #1: sounds like fun, definitely not the buzzkill on a joke i don't get that wasn't intended for me
overheard at specialty grass-fed burger joint:
guy #1: does this burger taste corny to you?
guy #2: you mean, does it taste like it was fed corn? nah, i would say it tastes more...grassy...
guy #1: either way it tastes better than mcdonald's
guy #2: yeah but i can never tell if that's because actual better food tastes better than pheromones, or because i'm paying 3x as much for the grass-fed burger.
zuckerberg, to the best of everyone's knowledge, does not live on a farm. nor do we believe he was raised on one. it is perfectly normal for hicks to slaughter their own food. they're hicks. they don't live in cities (not most of em anyway). to live in a city, to live a modern high-tech lifestyle and then announce a preference for the inconvenience and violence required to slaughter one's own food, does imply that his mind may be out to lunch.
i wonder if he allows his employees time in their schedule to slaughter their own meat? it would be awfully unfair to promote a "better" practice and then prohibit others from following suit.
i wonder if he'll start making his own clothes now? after all, if it's more humane to slaughter your own food, then it is definitely more humane to make your own shoes than to get a pair made in a sweatshop. maybe he'll give up cars and whittle his own conestoga wagon from a single tree. shit, maybe he'll give up on facebook and start writing actual letters to people he knows to keep them informed.
i wouldn't say it's crazy or "off the deep end" to slaughter your own food, but if you aren't going to give up on society and technology altogether and go become a quaker, then it is definitely stupid, and maybe even just for attention.
mikejuk must have forgotten where he was posting. this is slashdot, however normal people do think that linguistics, physics and chemistry are not really useful. after all, it doesn't directly help them get laid, surf facebook, or masturbate on their ipad.
it's to let the guy hiding in the shadows know that the ATM has successfully dispensed money to you, and he can commence to rob you as soon as you step away from the camera.
i once got admin access to an ATM that had, for some reason, decided to display an error screen telling users the ATM was down along with an input field for a tech to enter a password. knowing that the default password for BREW was either 000000 or 111111, i followed a hunch and tried the former and was successful on the first attempt. i didn't take any money -- not that i have anything against stealing from insurance companies -- but the camera was on me. so i changed the messaging, using the keypad like you would type a text message on an old flip phone. lots of fun. not sure how to reproduce the error screen, though. unless you have a plan, you may just have to get lucky.
sorry, you're wrong. if you're sitting in a crowded theater watching a movie, and some asshole bursts in from the hallway screaming that there's a fire, most people are going to believe that there is a fire they can't detect. it doesn't happen often enough -- that people cry wolf about something like that -- to where people will doubt it right off the bat. a crowd full of people who are not at their most critcal-thinking best (they are mentally escaping into the movie) will most likely react to this with panic. and you should know better, honestly.
Who expects a real fire to be announced by some dummy in the middle of the crowded room noticing it when nobody else does?
who expects the example of yelling fire in a crowded theater to be about someone already sitting in the room? not captain friggin obvious, that's for sure.
marshall mcluhan defined money as a translation of work. we work for our money, and the amount that we get paid is determined by a standard number (a wage) multiplied by hours. you can argue that you're salary or contracted, and your standard number is a much higher number divided by years, but you don't get paid annually either.
with people who don't work for money, it's still a translation of work. and when you've got people to pay for work you want done, you realize that the longer it takes to get the work done, the more it costs.
yeah Cheney did that in the office of VP. a watchdog group showed up at the White House to serve him a subpoena, but the server was threatened with imprisonment at the front gate. wish i had that kind of power -- I'd have Cheney's head blown off (peppered?), with the recording on YouTube...
there are a lot of things that are not explicitly law because we've either never encountered the situation, or because it's assumed that we all know better. thank god, too, because we don't need laws that say things like "don't stick your hand in the garbage disposal." it's common sense that we should not have to be told not to enable torturing and oppression of any peoples. we all know that's bad, right? all men (not just men (and women) born in America) are created equal, right?
there is no point of saying you, as a country called the United States of America, believe in equal rights among humanity, but somehow condone these violations simply because they're not in America. that's hypocrisy, and negates any stand we take in preference of human rights.
they say that all it takes for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing...but if good men do nothing, are they still good men? silence is acceptance. silence is complacence. Cisco may not have any legal obligation not to oppress groups from other countries, but if they have a corporate charter that grants them the same rights as humans, then i reserve my right to criticize them as a human, and say that they are, as a corporation, a bad person.
Cisco could have set an example for the world, and made it that much more difficult for China to acquire quality products and services to carry out their oppression. instead they chose to do evil and make a short-term buck in the name of capitalism.
you type ampersand & then reg then a semi colon. '®'
how is it you know whether IBM® was sued for actions in WWII but you can't look up an html entities table?
by the way, if you're not publishing adverts for IBM, or if the registration mark for the brand already appears on the medium once, the mark is not required again. once is all it takes.
super mario bros and tetris were the opposite of open ended and didn't allow much creativity, and still were hugely popular games. i think your description is valid only when applied to certain types of games. if a game world like GTA 3 was created but you couldn't roam it, then the lost potential would be a glaring setback. the fact that you can't create your own block shapes in tetris, or design your own levels in super mario bros didn't detract from their success.
then again, maybe game expectations were different back then and guided opinions about success differently as well. if that's true then what makes games successful is relative to many things like culture and technology.
i still think it largely depends on the type of game, though. there are plenty of games that don't offer wide freedoms in gameplay, but are still very popular. online poker anyone?
i wish you could easily accept that the devices being discussed are not phones. they are computers that can, among many other things, do what a phone does.
let's say you run skype on a desktop pc. technically the pc is now equivalent to a smart phone, it just can't fit in your pocket. if you used the pc primarily for using skype, wouldn't you still want to put a firewall on it?
i use my android phone more for search, maps and hockey scores than i do for making and receiving calls. the fact that it makes calls is incidental, and is merely convenient so i don't have to carry a separate phone and a pocket computer. it is primarily a computer, no matter what you use it for most. thus common sense dictates securing it in the manner appropriate to a computer, i.e. antivirus, firewalls, etc.
since you don't even use a smart phone, why should anyone listen to you rant about them? hell, even i played world of warcraft for 9 days before i went around telling everyone i think it sucks. is it too much to ask that you know what you're talking about when you give an opinion?
first, you couldn't tell the difference between a phone (hardware device), and a multifunctioning computer running a phone application. then when the realization struck, you got scared. now it's your life mission to ensure that everyone who uses a portable-OS-with-phone-app is just as scared as you?
ffs just be responsible. if that's too difficult, no big deal. karma works it all out. or you win a darwin award first. w/e
or do what other sane people do and find a random matchup, add the nerd to your friend list, complete the game, and then delete the nerd. easy. why do you have to be such a bitch about it?
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don't tell me you're taking aim at Jim Lee because he worked on DC vs Mortal Kombat. if so...seriously, be a man. if in fact you are male.
I don't really follow comics so the way that I misunderstand it both DC and Marvel routinely rewrite their universes...
ftfy
and i only killed her because she was cheating on me. and i only robbed that bank because i was poor. and i only hit that lady with my car because i was drunk.
does not work. i'm gonna take a break from trolling and try to actually be helpful here. i have personally seen instances where the same code that works in IE6 behaves differently in IE7, differently again in IE8, and again in IE8 with compatibility mode, and again in IE8 with compat mode and IE7 standards, and again with all those combinations but this time with Quirks mode. i have had CSS headaches where an IE hack meant to solve an issue in IE7 ends up breaking the layout in IE8. after that, the * hack no longer applies. i find that loading separate css files for each browser version supported helps a lot.
I don't see the point of busting your ass to make things compatible for people (or companies) who are too lazy or uninformed to upgrade, or why companies pay people to bust their asses to do this
i'll make it simple for you to understand. it's called the LCD - Lowest (or Least) Common Denominator. many people far more clever than you at making money and manipulating people through marketing have determined that the more people to whom you can get your message across, the higher the return on investment. just like how you keep getting flyers in the (snail) mail that have nothing to do with your needs. ignorance of how to make your clients money is the source of all your questions.
who is your demographic? for quite a few markets, the elderly are prime targets. the elderly make up a majority of those people who you wish would get off the internet. for the companies that make money on this demographic, they want these people to stay on the internet. sure, it would be nice if they upgraded their crap, but if all it takes is making a bunch of web developers stay late to accomodate their old browser, then so be it.
another real world example: the LCD is why nintendo put out that really shitty wii console that immediately outsold all other consoles, despite inferior hardware and games. it wasn't until developers showed the greater video game market that kinect games could be just as shitty as wii games that the market shifted again. god forbid an awesome game came out for use with kinect, it might have killed the tech off altogether.
if you think IE is ubiquitous because web developers never took a stand against it, you are hopelessly naive. the microsoft standard wasn't created by developers, it was created by businesses who put millions of IE browsers in front of their workers. IE won't go away simply because some other browser developer will make a better browser -- that's already been done! good lord, you are naive.
your idyllic utopia:
pogue: look boss, this website we developed for the company looks like crap on IE browsers when we follow web standards.
boss: oh that's alright. you did it the right way, despite that the majority of users have IE. i'll just complain to microsoft and they should have their browsers fixed before our launch deadline.
reality:
pogue: look boss, this website we developed for the company looks like crap on IE browsers when we follow web standards.
boss: well make it look good in IE (as well as other browsers that follow web standards to differing degrees), and your deadline still stands. oh, and there's a list of features we'd like to add while you're in there testing. some of them contradict the user stories you've been building for. make it work in IE 5.5 for mac too. because my mom uses that, and when i show it off to her i want it to look perfect.
if you can't do it with a telegraph then you don't need to do it.
not from Planet Dumbshit, i'm from Planet Over-Your-Retarded-Head. i don't give a hairy fuck about your factory farms. my points are:
1. the best thing about goat better not be that it's not raised on a factory farm. there are plenty of horrible tasting things out there that grow free-range or wild, that not being from a factory farm does not necessarily make it good. the commenter was convincing me that goat tasted good until this ridiculous claim.
2. yes, i have eaten food that i've killed. i've also sampled many kinds of exotic meats, like crocodile, emu, ostrich and kangaroo. i understand the term gamey to describe the taste of meat. that grassy is a term you understand just won you a gold star sticker and a serenade from the 1cm orchestra. they had a hit on the the top 40 billboard charts, titled "Purge that goat before you slice his throat." gfy.
overheard at mcdonald's
guy #1: you gonna get the big mac again?
guy #2: naw, it's not grassy enough for me. tastes like it wasn't purged before slaughter.
guy #1: i know what you mean. i hate it when they don't care about our hyper sensitive taste buds
guy #2: unless we're talking about fries, they invented a whole new field of science just for that
guy #1: you'd think if the "grassy" quality in the taste of food were important they'd find a way to simulate that with a pheromone, like they do with the fries...
guy #2: right, like they could make the soy patty taste like it was once alive and fed grass to eat, maybe while it wandered around some open land....
guy #1: what toy came with your meal?
guy #2: nothing much, just some literature on how to purge your intended kill so as not to contaminate the meat...
guy #1: sounds like fun, definitely not the buzzkill on a joke i don't get that wasn't intended for me
overheard at specialty grass-fed burger joint:
guy #1: does this burger taste corny to you?
guy #2: you mean, does it taste like it was fed corn? nah, i would say it tastes more...grassy...
guy #1: either way it tastes better than mcdonald's
guy #2: yeah but i can never tell if that's because actual better food tastes better than pheromones, or because i'm paying 3x as much for the grass-fed burger.
because lul_wat is a famous interwebs handle that can easily be tracked to his real life identity. breathe through your nose.
have you seriously never heard of the video game called 1943? it's from the late 80s. lmao
zuckerberg, to the best of everyone's knowledge, does not live on a farm. nor do we believe he was raised on one. it is perfectly normal for hicks to slaughter their own food. they're hicks. they don't live in cities (not most of em anyway). to live in a city, to live a modern high-tech lifestyle and then announce a preference for the inconvenience and violence required to slaughter one's own food, does imply that his mind may be out to lunch.
i wonder if he allows his employees time in their schedule to slaughter their own meat? it would be awfully unfair to promote a "better" practice and then prohibit others from following suit.
i wonder if he'll start making his own clothes now? after all, if it's more humane to slaughter your own food, then it is definitely more humane to make your own shoes than to get a pair made in a sweatshop. maybe he'll give up cars and whittle his own conestoga wagon from a single tree. shit, maybe he'll give up on facebook and start writing actual letters to people he knows to keep them informed.
i wouldn't say it's crazy or "off the deep end" to slaughter your own food, but if you aren't going to give up on society and technology altogether and go become a quaker, then it is definitely stupid, and maybe even just for attention.
a hot steamy pile of shit was also not raised on a factory farm. and i've never described any meat i've eaten as grassy. what planet are you from?
mikejuk must have forgotten where he was posting. this is slashdot, however normal people do think that linguistics, physics and chemistry are not really useful. after all, it doesn't directly help them get laid, surf facebook, or masturbate on their ipad.
it's to let the guy hiding in the shadows know that the ATM has successfully dispensed money to you, and he can commence to rob you as soon as you step away from the camera.
i once got admin access to an ATM that had, for some reason, decided to display an error screen telling users the ATM was down along with an input field for a tech to enter a password. knowing that the default password for BREW was either 000000 or 111111, i followed a hunch and tried the former and was successful on the first attempt. i didn't take any money -- not that i have anything against stealing from insurance companies -- but the camera was on me. so i changed the messaging, using the keypad like you would type a text message on an old flip phone. lots of fun. not sure how to reproduce the error screen, though. unless you have a plan, you may just have to get lucky.
but it does cure cancer. didn't you watch the video?
Who expects a real fire to be announced by some dummy in the middle of the crowded room noticing it when nobody else does?
who expects the example of yelling fire in a crowded theater to be about someone already sitting in the room? not captain friggin obvious, that's for sure.
then why do we get paid over periods of time?
marshall mcluhan defined money as a translation of work. we work for our money, and the amount that we get paid is determined by a standard number (a wage) multiplied by hours. you can argue that you're salary or contracted, and your standard number is a much higher number divided by years, but you don't get paid annually either.
with people who don't work for money, it's still a translation of work. and when you've got people to pay for work you want done, you realize that the longer it takes to get the work done, the more it costs.
time is money, and algebra can prove it.
yeah Cheney did that in the office of VP. a watchdog group showed up at the White House to serve him a subpoena, but the server was threatened with imprisonment at the front gate. wish i had that kind of power -- I'd have Cheney's head blown off (peppered?), with the recording on YouTube...
excellent point.
there are a lot of things that are not explicitly law because we've either never encountered the situation, or because it's assumed that we all know better. thank god, too, because we don't need laws that say things like "don't stick your hand in the garbage disposal." it's common sense that we should not have to be told not to enable torturing and oppression of any peoples. we all know that's bad, right? all men (not just men (and women) born in America) are created equal, right?
there is no point of saying you, as a country called the United States of America, believe in equal rights among humanity, but somehow condone these violations simply because they're not in America. that's hypocrisy, and negates any stand we take in preference of human rights.
they say that all it takes for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing...but if good men do nothing, are they still good men? silence is acceptance. silence is complacence. Cisco may not have any legal obligation not to oppress groups from other countries, but if they have a corporate charter that grants them the same rights as humans, then i reserve my right to criticize them as a human, and say that they are, as a corporation, a bad person.
Cisco could have set an example for the world, and made it that much more difficult for China to acquire quality products and services to carry out their oppression. instead they chose to do evil and make a short-term buck in the name of capitalism.
you type ampersand & then reg then a semi colon. '®' how is it you know whether IBM® was sued for actions in WWII but you can't look up an html entities table? by the way, if you're not publishing adverts for IBM, or if the registration mark for the brand already appears on the medium once, the mark is not required again. once is all it takes.
super mario bros and tetris were the opposite of open ended and didn't allow much creativity, and still were hugely popular games. i think your description is valid only when applied to certain types of games. if a game world like GTA 3 was created but you couldn't roam it, then the lost potential would be a glaring setback. the fact that you can't create your own block shapes in tetris, or design your own levels in super mario bros didn't detract from their success.
then again, maybe game expectations were different back then and guided opinions about success differently as well. if that's true then what makes games successful is relative to many things like culture and technology.
i still think it largely depends on the type of game, though. there are plenty of games that don't offer wide freedoms in gameplay, but are still very popular. online poker anyone?
i wish you could easily accept that the devices being discussed are not phones. they are computers that can, among many other things, do what a phone does.
let's say you run skype on a desktop pc. technically the pc is now equivalent to a smart phone, it just can't fit in your pocket. if you used the pc primarily for using skype, wouldn't you still want to put a firewall on it?
i use my android phone more for search, maps and hockey scores than i do for making and receiving calls. the fact that it makes calls is incidental, and is merely convenient so i don't have to carry a separate phone and a pocket computer. it is primarily a computer, no matter what you use it for most. thus common sense dictates securing it in the manner appropriate to a computer, i.e. antivirus, firewalls, etc.
since you don't even use a smart phone, why should anyone listen to you rant about them? hell, even i played world of warcraft for 9 days before i went around telling everyone i think it sucks. is it too much to ask that you know what you're talking about when you give an opinion?
let me get this straight.
first, you couldn't tell the difference between a phone (hardware device), and a multifunctioning computer running a phone application. then when the realization struck, you got scared. now it's your life mission to ensure that everyone who uses a portable-OS-with-phone-app is just as scared as you?
ffs just be responsible. if that's too difficult, no big deal. karma works it all out. or you win a darwin award first. w/e
or do what other sane people do and find a random matchup, add the nerd to your friend list, complete the game, and then delete the nerd. easy. why do you have to be such a bitch about it?