oh, and the right way to write dates is the ISO way... yyyy-mm-dd
Completely agree. It's big-endian, sortable by a normal text sort, and putting the 4-digit year in front removes all the ambiguity of people wondering whether it's a "US" or "Euro" date.
No, the government will buy mortgage-backed securities. This means the banks who are stuck holding these 'junk' securities get a bailout. The individual mortgage holders are still boned.
That usage of 'my' is not at all limited to Japan. I mean, it's not like the creator of myspace.com was trying to say that it was 'my' 'space'. They meant, it's a personal space for each person who uses it.
Metaphor, metaphor... is that the thing in dynamically-typed languages where you end up with two unrelated objects that have the same properties defined?
Liar. Antiswitzerland couldn't have a budget for fundamental research - all their money would be spent supporting their enormous military in aggressive wars.
The iPhone data plan covers unlimited data but not SMS. Unfortunately, it's not feasible (yet) to use IM as a substitute for SMS without jailbreaking the iPhone, since Apple doesn't allow apps to run in the background - you can only receive messages when your IM client is the active app.
It's easy to say 'build your own and rake in the cash', but I don't see that being realistic. Suppose someone invests the massive amount of money needed to create a viable fifth cell phone network provider. Their big plan is to give away text messaging, and thus attract big crowds. Except, as soon as they start giving away text messaging, the other four do the exact same thing, since, after all, SMS costs virtually nothing to provide. So now, the investor in the fifth company has no competitive advantage and no pre-established customer base. The new company will go bankrupt, and one of the existing companies will be happy to buy him out for cheap (along with whatever customers he's picked up on the way) so they can all go back to charging 40 cents (yes, it's 40 cents, since the sender and recipient are each charged 20 cents) to send less data than you can scrawl on a Post-It note.
If there's a flaw in my logic, I'd love to hear about it. As it is, I can't see anyone sinking all that money just for the chance to compete with a well-entrenched cartel.
Good point. It's much better to be full of hubris and act as though you will never make mistakes than to take precautions that reduce the harm a mistake could cause.
I haven't, and I don't. I agree with your conclusions - witness the falling profits of Big Music as they struggle to understand why 'hit you til you love us' hasn't proven to be a successful strategy with regards to potential customers.
Holy Christ on crutches; I always assumed that Baskerville had been created recently and named as an homage to The Hound of the Baskervilles, since it's a good font for Victorian detective stories. Thanks for the information.
Well put. I'll be honest - it takes slightly longer to place a call using my iPhone than it did with my old freebie phone, particularly if the person is not in my 'favorites' list.
On the other hand, I stopped carrying a standalone music player, and my Nintendo DS mostly sits at home collecting dust. For short trips, I sometimes leave my laptop at home, since the iPhone is 'good enough' at web browsing to check travel information, and email/VNC have me covered in case of some emergency at work. Now, sometimes this doesn't work out perfectly - last weekend, on a family vacation, my brother-in-law wanted to hear some music that I didn't have on my iPhone, since the storage space isn't enough to carry my entire music library. And if the production systems go up in a glorious inferno of electronic hellfire, I'd rather have a full-sized keyboard to type out emails and a full-sized screen to poke around on machines with VNC. But the point is, it covers so many different use cases 'well enough' that the convenience of having them all covered in a small package is often worth the trade-off in terms of the hassle of carrying a multitude of more purpose-specific devices, or a larger general-purpose device.
I can't. If these people have committed crimes, and we know who they are and where they live, then fucking arrest them already. Otherwise, leave them alone.
It's not just possible for yellows to be shortened, it's already done. A reporter in Beaverton, Oregon, showed that stoplights with cameras in that city had shorter yellow times than those without. Union City, California, had to return over a million dollars in camera-generated traffic fines after someone proved that their yellow light times were more than a second lower than the minimum established by state law.
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oh, and the right way to write dates is the ISO way... yyyy-mm-dd
Completely agree. It's big-endian, sortable by a normal text sort, and putting the 4-digit year in front removes all the ambiguity of people wondering whether it's a "US" or "Euro" date.
What bad luck! If you had just waited for this story, it would have been so easy!
I was telling off nuns in a very articulate fashion at the age of 6, no general respect for authority at all.
Sounds properly American to me. Was your dad a Communist or something?
No, the government will buy mortgage-backed securities. This means the banks who are stuck holding these 'junk' securities get a bailout. The individual mortgage holders are still boned.
That usage of 'my' is not at all limited to Japan. I mean, it's not like the creator of myspace.com was trying to say that it was 'my' 'space'. They meant, it's a personal space for each person who uses it.
Some people like the wallpaper.
Good point. If people don't have enough memory to run WoW after the operating system loads, they'll go apeshit.
Metaphor, metaphor... is that the thing in dynamically-typed languages where you end up with two unrelated objects that have the same properties defined?
Vulnerability to false flag attacks is one of the penalties you pay in exchange for the benefits of anonymity.
Clearly, you've never visited the Pirate Bay before...
Liar. Antiswitzerland couldn't have a budget for fundamental research - all their money would be spent supporting their enormous military in aggressive wars.
Sounds like the work of a high-level Thread Necromancer. Maybe someone with practice from the WoW boards?
The iPhone data plan covers unlimited data but not SMS. Unfortunately, it's not feasible (yet) to use IM as a substitute for SMS without jailbreaking the iPhone, since Apple doesn't allow apps to run in the background - you can only receive messages when your IM client is the active app.
It's easy to say 'build your own and rake in the cash', but I don't see that being realistic. Suppose someone invests the massive amount of money needed to create a viable fifth cell phone network provider. Their big plan is to give away text messaging, and thus attract big crowds. Except, as soon as they start giving away text messaging, the other four do the exact same thing, since, after all, SMS costs virtually nothing to provide. So now, the investor in the fifth company has no competitive advantage and no pre-established customer base. The new company will go bankrupt, and one of the existing companies will be happy to buy him out for cheap (along with whatever customers he's picked up on the way) so they can all go back to charging 40 cents (yes, it's 40 cents, since the sender and recipient are each charged 20 cents) to send less data than you can scrawl on a Post-It note.
If there's a flaw in my logic, I'd love to hear about it. As it is, I can't see anyone sinking all that money just for the chance to compete with a well-entrenched cartel.
We have an FTC and a Department of Justice which are tasked with antitrust enforcement
I lol'd.
Good point. It's much better to be full of hubris and act as though you will never make mistakes than to take precautions that reduce the harm a mistake could cause.
If I may quote the late George Carlin: "Selling is legal. Fucking is legal. Why isn't selling fucking legal?"
I haven't, and I don't. I agree with your conclusions - witness the falling profits of Big Music as they struggle to understand why 'hit you til you love us' hasn't proven to be a successful strategy with regards to potential customers.
The point is, the net effect of this crap is to treat paying customers WORSE than pirates.
Holy Christ on crutches; I always assumed that Baskerville had been created recently and named as an homage to The Hound of the Baskervilles, since it's a good font for Victorian detective stories. Thanks for the information.
So you're saying you want to see every single page that includes the text you searched for, ordered randomly?
I wouldn't recommend it. All the versions I've ever seen were just delivery methods for Trojan horses - "win2k" or "vista" or other malware crap.
Well put. I'll be honest - it takes slightly longer to place a call using my iPhone than it did with my old freebie phone, particularly if the person is not in my 'favorites' list.
On the other hand, I stopped carrying a standalone music player, and my Nintendo DS mostly sits at home collecting dust. For short trips, I sometimes leave my laptop at home, since the iPhone is 'good enough' at web browsing to check travel information, and email/VNC have me covered in case of some emergency at work. Now, sometimes this doesn't work out perfectly - last weekend, on a family vacation, my brother-in-law wanted to hear some music that I didn't have on my iPhone, since the storage space isn't enough to carry my entire music library. And if the production systems go up in a glorious inferno of electronic hellfire, I'd rather have a full-sized keyboard to type out emails and a full-sized screen to poke around on machines with VNC. But the point is, it covers so many different use cases 'well enough' that the convenience of having them all covered in a small package is often worth the trade-off in terms of the hassle of carrying a multitude of more purpose-specific devices, or a larger general-purpose device.
I can't. If these people have committed crimes, and we know who they are and where they live, then fucking arrest them already. Otherwise, leave them alone.
It's not just possible for yellows to be shortened, it's already done. A reporter in Beaverton, Oregon, showed that stoplights with cameras in that city had shorter yellow times than those without. Union City, California, had to return over a million dollars in camera-generated traffic fines after someone proved that their yellow light times were more than a second lower than the minimum established by state law.