Everybody thinks New Jersey looks like the area around the Turnpike as shown in the opening credits of The Sopranos.
Actually, southern New Jersey is much cleaner. The 1.1 million acre Pinelands National Preserve sits over the Cohansey Aquifer, an underground lake that contains more than 17 trillion gallons of clean fresh water.
How my town manages to screw up that water so badly by the time it gets to our faucets is beyond me.
You're misinformed. Wellbutrin is NOT an SSRI. It acts primarily on dopamine, which is, loosely speaking, the opposite of serotonin.
I, for one, did not respond to SSRIs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors) like Prozac, Zoloft and Serzone. But after just four days on on Wellbutrin I felt much better and knew I would happily stay on this stuff the rest of my life. That was about eight years ago. Since then I have gone off Wellbutrin when feeling really well and I almost aways become depressed again.
"Techincally, (sic) everything you buy ( as a consumer anyway ) has a local sales tax."
You're misinformed. Some states do not have sales taxes. I know Delaware doesn't and IIRC neither does Oregon and one or two other states. They may have tobacco taxes though. I don't know.
This will happen no matter what.
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The Sub-$100 Laptop?
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Dell, a big fat name brand is selling a $600 laptop. I recently read in TWICE (This Week in Consumer Electronics) that LCD screens are expected to drop 50% this year and another 50% in 2006 as increased production and yields forces prices down. So I'm guesstimating we should be below $200 for conventional laptops some time in 2008.
I think a bigger challenge than getting cheap screens is making the machines rugged enough. Kids + Third World living conditions = MDL. (many dead laptops).
"Stanford University estimates the global cost of spam in terms of lost productivity to be at 50 billion $ and 17 billion $ in the US alone."
In my country we would have written that something like this:
"Stanford University estimates the global cost of spam in terms of lost productivity to be at $50 billion with $17 billion of the loss in the US alone."
So Interbrand asks some people who are very interested in branding what they think the top brands are. Who cares? The whole concept of a brand is to make a lasting, favorable on your customers and potential customers.
Pixar is the fifth-highest rated brand in North America? Come off it. I bet not one person in five could say who they are, let alone what they like about them. Coke, Pepsi, Levis, McDonald's, Sony, Toyota, VW all would have much higher name recognition and positive associations than Pixar not matter how good a company Pixar is (or, for example, how gross a lot of people think Mickey D's burgers are).
You know it's nice to have so many links in a story to provide context and background but it gets a little tough to figure out which link is the key one the story is about.
Maybe we should make it a practice that when you put a lot of links in a story you make the key link boldfaced.
You're wrong. Here's definition 2a of "irony" from yourdictionary.com:
"Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs."
One wouldn't expect that having stumbled upon an open wireless connection that the first thing one would read online would be a/. article on sharing wireless connections.
I'm an independent film producer. For my latest shoot I placed an ad on Craig's List. Here's a reply I got:
"hello, i am a freelance makeup artist who is also a film student. i have worked on many productions in the philadelphia area including film, video, commercial, print etc.. i would love to work on your project. give ma a call @ 267-nnn-nnnn. thank you Christy McCabe"
My reply:
"Hello,
I appreciate your interest in Dangerous Movies. We're hip, we're independent and we're unconventional. We have no confidence, however, in people who do not know enough to use proper grammar in business correspondence. The rules for capitalization have not been repealed. And it's obvious you did not proofread your email before sending it out. If you're that careless in trying to get the gig, how careful are you going to be on the job?
I hope you accept this advice in the spirit in which it was given: not to put you down, but to educate you."
Her reply to my reply:
"you are a complete asshole. it is common knowledge that when sending an e mail, all rules of capitalization are thrown out the window. thank you for saving me from having to work on a shitty movie with a bunch of pompous assholes such as yourself. i hope your movie never makes any money. fuck off."
I'm afraid Miss McCabe's attitude is not unusual among young people these days. She's not merely ignorant. She's indignant when someone is kind enough to try to help her out. Not to mention vulgar and hateful.
The statement is ambiguous. The term "pre-chosen set" certainly appears to mean a particular model. But that would be insane.
The article also uses the term "serial number" which would seem to me to indicate one particular player in the whole world. Your kid hacks your player and through revocation it can no longer play disks. That's reasonable. You slap the kid upside his head, make him pay for a new player and you're back in business.
Maybe you can't find the article because it was a RUSSIAN ship that the pilot was observing when he got hit.
Here's a quote from recent article that mentions the incident:
"In one case, Naval Lt. Cmdr. Jack Daly and Canadian helicopter pilot Capt. Pat Barnes suffered eye injuries hours after an aerial surveillance mission to photograph a Russian merchant ship that had been shadowing the ballistic-missile submarine USS Ohio in Washington state's Strait of Juan de Fuca."
Ummm. Perhaps you might have mentioned you're talking about a MOTHERBOARD. The article is about a MOTHERBOARD. Yeah, yeah, one click and you get to the article but still, is it too much to ask that you actually say what TYPE of gizmo you're talking about? It's a MOTHERBOARD. Just say MOTHERBOARD. Just use the word once. Just once.
Your public confession that you couldn't possibly figure out what features of a program will be "most popular" tends to reflect poorly on your competence as a programmer.
First of all, work on your reading comprehension. You don't even understand what Sowell was talking about. It's not the most popular features he says should be easy. He just wants SIMPLE things to BE SIMPLE:
"One of the maddening things about some computer programs and computerized products is their making you fight your way through a maze of complications to do simple things."
The reason you believe you would have to "read users' (not user's) minds" is because you are so far divorced from what normal human beings need and how they think.
Get your head out of your... cube and talk to some people who are neither computer professionals nor computer hobbyists. You will learn that almost everything you think is important is not important to most users, most of the time. You will learn that your arrogance and high IQ have blinded you so completely that you are, in effect, a moron when it comes to serving your customers.
And finally, it appears that you no idea who "the jackass who wrote this article" is. He's Thomas Sowell, one of the most brilliant philosophers of our time. The fact that you don't know who his is, is yet another indication that you have spent way too much time in that cube.
"The Society of Automotive Engineers, which established the existing VIN system in 1981 and expected it to last 30 years, has formed a committee to address the impending shortage."
So they only allowed for enough to last until 2011 anyway! What was going to happen then? What were they thinking? If they had used numbers in the form AA1-AA1-AA1 they'd have had more then 300 trillion freaking VINs. Sure it wouldn't have been as easily decoded by humans but jeez man, these guys didn't even try.
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Everybody thinks New Jersey looks like the area around the Turnpike as shown in the opening credits of The Sopranos.
Actually, southern New Jersey is much cleaner. The 1.1 million acre Pinelands National Preserve sits over the Cohansey Aquifer, an underground lake that contains more than 17 trillion gallons of clean fresh water.
How my town manages to screw up that water so badly by the time it gets to our faucets is beyond me.
I like the idea of wi-fi everywhere. I have no great love for or trust in telecom and cable companies.
But I don't have a lot of confidence that local governments could do a better job of delivering a high-tech service.
I don't buy my electricity from my town.
I don't buy my telephone service from my town.
I don't buy my cable service from my town.
I do buy my water from my town (Barnegat, NJ).
It's expensive and everybody I know has a filter on their kitchen faucets or under their sinks.
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You're misinformed. Wellbutrin is NOT an SSRI. It acts primarily on dopamine, which is, loosely speaking, the opposite of serotonin.
I, for one, did not respond to SSRIs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors) like Prozac, Zoloft and Serzone. But after just four days on on Wellbutrin I felt much better and knew I would happily stay on this stuff the rest of my life. That was about eight years ago. Since then I have gone off Wellbutrin when feeling really well and I almost aways become depressed again.
Wellbutrin bin bery, bery good to me.
"Techincally, (sic) everything you buy ( as a consumer anyway ) has a local sales tax."
You're misinformed. Some states do not have sales taxes. I know Delaware doesn't and IIRC neither does Oregon and one or two other states. They may have tobacco taxes though. I don't know.
Can legislation be far behind?
Dell, a big fat name brand is selling a $600 laptop. I recently read in TWICE (This Week in Consumer Electronics) that LCD screens are expected to drop 50% this year and another 50% in 2006 as increased production and yields forces prices down. So I'm guesstimating we should be below $200 for conventional laptops some time in 2008.
I think a bigger challenge than getting cheap screens is making the machines rugged enough. Kids + Third World living conditions = MDL. (many dead laptops).
VoIP providers have been letting customers pick their area codes and phone numbers for quite a while now.
The only thing that's new is that they don't have to go through the rigarmarole they used to have to go through to offer them.
I estimate that by late next month 99% of all Internet traffic will be either spam or p2p traffic.
Oops, didn't mean to address that necessarily to CmdrTaco, but the guy who wrote the blurb.
Hey there Cmdr,
You wrote:
"Stanford University estimates the global cost of spam in terms of lost productivity to be at 50 billion $ and 17 billion $ in the US alone."
In my country we would have written that something like this:
"Stanford University estimates the global cost of spam in terms of lost productivity to be at $50 billion with $17 billion of the loss in the US alone."
Reads better, doesn't it?
Yeah, I considered that but I think for most people the Disney name overshadows Pixar's. Maybe now that they're divorced that will change.
So Interbrand asks some people who are very interested in branding what they think the top brands are. Who cares? The whole concept of a brand is to make a lasting, favorable on your customers and potential customers.
Pixar is the fifth-highest rated brand in North America? Come off it. I bet not one person in five could say who they are, let alone what they like about them. Coke, Pepsi, Levis, McDonald's, Sony, Toyota, VW all would have much higher name recognition and positive associations than Pixar not matter how good a company Pixar is (or, for example, how gross a lot of people think Mickey D's burgers are).
Remember those super-low cost DISPOSABLE cell phones that were just around the corner in early 2001? Was that just a dot com bubble wet dream or what?
They sure fell off the radar.
That must be a record.
You know it's nice to have so many links in a story to provide context and background but it gets a little tough to figure out which link is the key one the story is about.
Maybe we should make it a practice that when you put a lot of links in a story you make the key link boldfaced.
Hey tool,
/. article on sharing wireless connections.
You're wrong. Here's definition 2a of "irony" from yourdictionary.com:
"Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs."
One wouldn't expect that having stumbled upon an open wireless connection that the first thing one would read online would be a
That is ironic--sorry.
I'm an independent film producer. For my latest shoot I placed an ad on Craig's List. Here's a reply I got:
"hello, i am a freelance makeup artist who is also a film student. i have worked on many productions in the philadelphia area including film, video, commercial, print etc.. i would love to work on your project. give ma a call @ 267-nnn-nnnn. thank you
Christy McCabe"
My reply:
"Hello,
I appreciate your interest in Dangerous Movies. We're hip, we're independent and we're unconventional. We have no confidence, however, in people who do not know enough to use proper grammar in business correspondence. The rules for capitalization have not been repealed. And it's obvious you did not proofread your email before sending it out. If you're that careless in trying to get the gig, how careful are you going to be on the job?
I hope you accept this advice in the spirit in which it was given: not to put you down, but to educate you."
Her reply to my reply:
"you are a complete asshole. it is common knowledge that when sending an e mail, all rules of capitalization are thrown out the window. thank you for saving me from having to work on a shitty movie with a bunch of pompous assholes such as yourself. i hope your movie never makes any money.
fuck off."
I'm afraid Miss McCabe's attitude is not unusual among young people these days. She's not merely ignorant. She's indignant when someone is kind enough to try to help her out. Not to mention vulgar and hateful.
The statement is ambiguous. The term "pre-chosen set" certainly appears to mean a particular model. But that would be insane.
The article also uses the term "serial number" which would seem to me to indicate one particular player in the whole world. Your kid hacks your player and through revocation it can no longer play disks. That's reasonable. You slap the kid upside his head, make him pay for a new player and you're back in business.
I'd like them clarify what they mean.
When you're talking about video "HD" is generally taken to mean "high definition" not "hard disk."
You should have spelled it out in your headline or at least used the term "hard disk" in your story.
Help me out here somebody. Why is this a /. story?
Maybe you can't find the article because it was a RUSSIAN ship that the pilot was observing when he got hit.
Here's a quote from recent article that mentions the incident:
"In one case, Naval Lt. Cmdr. Jack Daly and Canadian helicopter pilot Capt. Pat Barnes suffered eye injuries hours after an aerial surveillance mission to photograph a Russian merchant ship that had been shadowing the ballistic-missile submarine USS Ohio in Washington state's Strait of Juan de Fuca."
You don't have any anti-American bias do you?
Ummm. Perhaps you might have mentioned you're talking about a MOTHERBOARD. The article is about a MOTHERBOARD. Yeah, yeah, one click and you get to the article but still, is it too much to ask that you actually say what TYPE of gizmo you're talking about? It's a MOTHERBOARD. Just say MOTHERBOARD. Just use the word once. Just once.
There, that didn't hurt, did it?
Talk about burying the lead. Sheeesh.
Your public confession that you couldn't possibly figure out what features of a program will be "most popular" tends to reflect poorly on your competence as a programmer.
First of all, work on your reading comprehension. You don't even understand what Sowell was talking about. It's not the most popular features he says should be easy. He just wants SIMPLE things to BE SIMPLE:
"One of the maddening things about some computer programs and computerized products is their making you fight your way through a maze of complications to do simple things."
The reason you believe you would have to "read users' (not user's) minds" is because you are so far divorced from what normal human beings need and how they think.
Get your head out of your... cube and talk to some people who are neither computer professionals nor computer hobbyists. You will learn that almost everything you think is important is not important to most users, most of the time. You will learn that your arrogance and high IQ have blinded you so completely that you are, in effect, a moron when it comes to serving your customers.
And finally, it appears that you no idea who "the jackass who wrote this article" is. He's Thomas Sowell, one of the most brilliant philosophers of our time. The fact that you don't know who his is, is yet another indication that you have spent way too much time in that cube.
"The Society of Automotive Engineers, which established the existing VIN system in 1981 and expected it to last 30 years, has formed a committee to address the impending shortage."
So they only allowed for enough to last until 2011 anyway! What was going to happen then? What were they thinking? If they had used numbers in the form AA1-AA1-AA1 they'd have had more then 300 trillion freaking VINs. Sure it wouldn't have been as easily decoded by humans but jeez man, these guys didn't even try.
Just doesn't work right in my PC. Sending it back to Newegg and paying the restocking fee.