EVs cost significantly more than gas cars, don't have the range of gas cars, and apartment dwellers have no way to charge them overnight.
A friend has an electric, she loves it. She also drives 20 miles to work, charges the car in her garage overnight, and her road trips are with her kids and grandkids, who drive their gas vehicles.
The problem comes with playing a game on a device with a totally inappropriate input system. They already make gaming laptops but they suck for gaming because the laptop form factor sucks for gaming.
This. Last month I bought Starcraft 2 for my laptop. Game runs fine, but I just can't use the laptops touchpad/keyboard to access my units anywhere near fast enough to be successful. Back in Starcraft 1 days I was a demon at it.
I've written a lot of software, from ethernet drivers in the 90's, to 802.11 drivers in the '00s, PCI drivers, automatic robotic testing platforms, cell phone base stations, and missile telemetry decoders, to name some of the hardest I've done. The #1 hardest thing I've had to write? GUIs. First off, assuming you can get the GUI to do what you want, it's very easy to say "that sux". It's much harder to say "here's how you fix it".
That's assuming you can get the GUI to work the way you want it to. I've been writing Java/Swing apps for a few months now. I don't care how many web pages or books you read, shit just don't work like you think it should. My last GUI was a good 20 years ago using Tcl/Tk, and I thought it was a bitch to learn. But Swing is just kicking me in the balls morning, noon, and night. Cut and paste code from some webpage that you think you understand, tinker with it to make it match what you need to do, and it just don't fricken work.
is she was ordered to give up her email to investigators. She gave them some of the mail and deleted the rest.
Whether we'd actually done anything wrong or not, if one of us little people had pulled such a stunt we'd be rotting in jail awaiting trial for destroying evidence, not running for president.
Some 30 years ago I worked for a company where discussing salary info with co-workers was cause for dismissal. Problem was, they had a boatload of titles, each title had maybe a 5k range in salary. The titles and salaries with each said title was easily available.
The problem? Everyone had their title printed on the business cards, and the company directory listed everyone's title. So I didn't need to ask how much you made. You were a widget master 3, therefor you made from 20-25k.
CSB time. I went to a community college the first 2 years it was open (Cuyamaca college, San Diego county if you're in the area). In my first semester computer class the instructor took us on a field trip, on a Saturday. There were 3-4 of us who agreed to go, we met on campus. Got in teach's pickup, he drove us to the midway district, into an industrial park, and into an alley going behind a bunch of buildings. There we saw a PDP-8 sitting by a door. Turns out the PDP-8 belonged to my instructor's old company and they were donating it to the school. Our "field trip" was providing muscle to get the thing into the pickup truck, back to school, then into the computer lab.
Used that PDP-8 for the next 2 years, it was the only computer they had.
Dafuq you talking about? Why would the gun need to be aerodynamically sound? Do you thing a GoPro is aerodynamically sound?
Are you implying the bullet would start tumbling right out of the barrel? Why would it do that? The bullet would be spinning nicely, it will go wherever the barrel was pointed when it left the muzzle. Or are you implying the gun would start tumbling right out of the, um, huh. That makes no sense either.
If you don't know jack about a subject then have the decency to STFU, not spout nonsense.
So, "you vote for my pork and I'll vote for yours" is compromise. This is why the system fails. Everybody is concerned with bringing the money home, and not concerned past their own political future.
Lillian could write a letter and send a fax. We bought a fax for her assisted living home, and one for our house. She died at, I think, 96, in '07. But for the 3 years she was in that assisted living home my ex talked to her mom daily over that fax connection.
About a year after she died I tried to craigslist the 2 fax machines, no joy. I gave them to goodwill and took a nice tax deduction. I can admit to that because the statue of limitations has passed:)
Back in late '07/early '08 I bought an iPod. Dumped it about 6 month later because I could not get it to organize my music by album. An example of the problem is a soundtrack: 1 album with several different artists. iTunes insisted on grouping songs by artist and wouldn't let me group them by album.
It's been a while and they may have fixed this, but I have no intention of every tying myself to iTunes ever again.
Signed up for UVerse, got it installed a couple weeks ago. 2 surprises. First, I got a "welcome to ATT UVerse" email that contained my account password in cleartext. Not cool UVerse.
Then I logged into my router at 192.168.1.254. There on the welcome page was my wifi password for all the world to see.
It's turning out the UVerse DVR is a steaming pile, at this point I can't really recommend it.
Arrive at office. Read email. Get coffee. Figure out what I need to code today. Start a for loop. Change CDs. More coffee. Flesh out for loop. Look up String API, find a method better than what I was after. Scrap everything. Lunchtime!
Collaborate with a colleague. Get a Mountain Dew. Change CDs. Write glue code to make shiney new String API do what's required. Waste an hour explaining something basic to some marketing dude in a different state. Get code to compile. Scratch butt. Test/debug. Change CDs. Check working code into git. Figure out what needs to be coded next. Manager enters office, informs me requirements have changed and what I just checked into git is now wrong. Read/.. Go home.
I'm only using 8 addresses out of my 192.168.1.1/24 class C block, I could probably be talked into auctioning off the other 240+ addresses. Call me, maybe?
Back in 91 or so we used the Cadre CASE tool. It's main claim to fame was "anyone can learn to use it in 30 minutes". They were right, you could. Problem was, you could because the editor was a weak PoS.
I wrote a script that would pull files out of the tool, we then ran vi/emacs on them and put them back into the tool as needed. In other words, we used this uber-expensive tool just like we used RCS.
Best part? After I left the company they ran an audit. Turned out every time you added the file to the tool it treated it like a brand new file, erasing all previous versions and history. whoops.
4-5 lbs over 6 months? Jeez, I typically gain 20 lbs over the winter, then lose it over the summer. Winter has Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas, plus rain and crappy weather. Summer has nice bike-riding days.
I'm the opposite. A private office with phones, email, coffee klatch, etc are all I need to be at my best. Stick me in a shared office and my productivity goes down. I've never been forced into the open office format, but I can pretty much guarantee that if I am my productivity will shrink to close to 0.
Just because I've got an office doesn't mean I can't walk down the hall to collaborate when I need to.
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EVs cost significantly more than gas cars, don't have the range of gas cars, and apartment dwellers have no way to charge them overnight.
A friend has an electric, she loves it. She also drives 20 miles to work, charges the car in her garage overnight, and her road trips are with her kids and grandkids, who drive their gas vehicles.
The problem comes with playing a game on a device with a totally inappropriate input system. They already make gaming laptops but they suck for gaming because the laptop form factor sucks for gaming.
This. Last month I bought Starcraft 2 for my laptop. Game runs fine, but I just can't use the laptops touchpad/keyboard to access my units anywhere near fast enough to be successful. Back in Starcraft 1 days I was a demon at it.
I've written a lot of software, from ethernet drivers in the 90's, to 802.11 drivers in the '00s, PCI drivers, automatic robotic testing platforms, cell phone base stations, and missile telemetry decoders, to name some of the hardest I've done. The #1 hardest thing I've had to write? GUIs. First off, assuming you can get the GUI to do what you want, it's very easy to say "that sux". It's much harder to say "here's how you fix it".
That's assuming you can get the GUI to work the way you want it to. I've been writing Java/Swing apps for a few months now. I don't care how many web pages or books you read, shit just don't work like you think it should. My last GUI was a good 20 years ago using Tcl/Tk, and I thought it was a bitch to learn. But Swing is just kicking me in the balls morning, noon, and night. Cut and paste code from some webpage that you think you understand, tinker with it to make it match what you need to do, and it just don't fricken work.
is she was ordered to give up her email to investigators. She gave them some of the mail and deleted the rest.
Whether we'd actually done anything wrong or not, if one of us little people had pulled such a stunt we'd be rotting in jail awaiting trial for destroying evidence, not running for president.
Some 30 years ago I worked for a company where discussing salary info with co-workers was cause for dismissal. Problem was, they had a boatload of titles, each title had maybe a 5k range in salary. The titles and salaries with each said title was easily available.
The problem? Everyone had their title printed on the business cards, and the company directory listed everyone's title. So I didn't need to ask how much you made. You were a widget master 3, therefor you made from 20-25k.
As all my recent encounters have been of the 127.0.0.1 variety, if they take that away I'm in trouble.
CSB time. I went to a community college the first 2 years it was open (Cuyamaca college, San Diego county if you're in the area). In my first semester computer class the instructor took us on a field trip, on a Saturday. There were 3-4 of us who agreed to go, we met on campus. Got in teach's pickup, he drove us to the midway district, into an industrial park, and into an alley going behind a bunch of buildings. There we saw a PDP-8 sitting by a door. Turns out the PDP-8 belonged to my instructor's old company and they were donating it to the school. Our "field trip" was providing muscle to get the thing into the pickup truck, back to school, then into the computer lab.
/CSB
Used that PDP-8 for the next 2 years, it was the only computer they had.
There's a certain level of stupidity you just can't deal with. Don't bother trying.
Dafuq you talking about? Why would the gun need to be aerodynamically sound? Do you thing a GoPro is aerodynamically sound?
Are you implying the bullet would start tumbling right out of the barrel? Why would it do that? The bullet would be spinning nicely, it will go wherever the barrel was pointed when it left the muzzle. Or are you implying the gun would start tumbling right out of the, um, huh. That makes no sense either.
If you don't know jack about a subject then have the decency to STFU, not spout nonsense.
AM quality is horrendous, and FM isn't as good as the average MP3 file. So, Neil, you gonna make radio quit playing your songs?
So, "you vote for my pork and I'll vote for yours" is compromise. This is why the system fails. Everybody is concerned with bringing the money home, and not concerned past their own political future.
I'll be 72 in 2030 with no kids to worry about. Should I care if Earth turns into an ice cube that my cremation will do little to help?
Yeah, this is the scariest part of the story. No way can you trust the "authorities" do Do The Right Thing nowdays.
Lillian could write a letter and send a fax. We bought a fax for her assisted living home, and one for our house. She died at, I think, 96, in '07. But for the 3 years she was in that assisted living home my ex talked to her mom daily over that fax connection.
:)
About a year after she died I tried to craigslist the 2 fax machines, no joy. I gave them to goodwill and took a nice tax deduction. I can admit to that because the statue of limitations has passed
Back in late '07/early '08 I bought an iPod. Dumped it about 6 month later because I could not get it to organize my music by album. An example of the problem is a soundtrack: 1 album with several different artists. iTunes insisted on grouping songs by artist and wouldn't let me group them by album.
It's been a while and they may have fixed this, but I have no intention of every tying myself to iTunes ever again.
This article has been up for over 3 hours, yet nobody knows yet WTF Worldwide Telescope is.
Sad state of affairs for a summary and an article.
Signed up for UVerse, got it installed a couple weeks ago. 2 surprises. First, I got a "welcome to ATT UVerse" email that contained my account password in cleartext. Not cool UVerse.
Then I logged into my router at 192.168.1.254. There on the welcome page was my wifi password for all the world to see.
It's turning out the UVerse DVR is a steaming pile, at this point I can't really recommend it.
You still listen to CD's?! Get with the times grandpa!
They're MP3 format but yeah, I still listen to CDs. I prefer whole albums over random songs.
// Next up: Tribute to Ronnie James Dio
/ Now playing: Amplifier: The Octopus
Arrive at office. Read email. Get coffee. Figure out what I need to code today. Start a for loop. Change CDs. More coffee. Flesh out for loop. Look up String API, find a method better than what I was after. Scrap everything. Lunchtime!
/.. Go home.
Collaborate with a colleague. Get a Mountain Dew. Change CDs. Write glue code to make shiney new String API do what's required. Waste an hour explaining something basic to some marketing dude in a different state. Get code to compile. Scratch butt. Test/debug. Change CDs. Check working code into git. Figure out what needs to be coded next. Manager enters office, informs me requirements have changed and what I just checked into git is now wrong. Read
Sure, what is your phone number?
It's in my IPv6 address.
I'm only using 8 addresses out of my 192.168.1.1/24 class C block, I could probably be talked into auctioning off the other 240+ addresses. Call me, maybe?
Back in 91 or so we used the Cadre CASE tool. It's main claim to fame was "anyone can learn to use it in 30 minutes". They were right, you could. Problem was, you could because the editor was a weak PoS.
I wrote a script that would pull files out of the tool, we then ran vi/emacs on them and put them back into the tool as needed. In other words, we used this uber-expensive tool just like we used RCS.
Best part? After I left the company they ran an audit. Turned out every time you added the file to the tool it treated it like a brand new file, erasing all previous versions and history. whoops.
It was designed to send money to certain locales and pockets. It's done a great job of it.
Not much of a plane tho.
4-5 lbs over 6 months? Jeez, I typically gain 20 lbs over the winter, then lose it over the summer. Winter has Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas, plus rain and crappy weather. Summer has nice bike-riding days.
I'm the opposite. A private office with phones, email, coffee klatch, etc are all I need to be at my best. Stick me in a shared office and my productivity goes down. I've never been forced into the open office format, but I can pretty much guarantee that if I am my productivity will shrink to close to 0.
Just because I've got an office doesn't mean I can't walk down the hall to collaborate when I need to.