I have a phone for that, and ensure everyone knows I don't read email on my phone. If it's important send a text, else I'll hit my email in the next hour or two. Feel free to send a text telling me to read my email ASAP.
Not to mention, on my phone I'm $diety knows where I am with potentially limited resources. With email I'm at a computer with all sorts of resources, from a big ass pipe to Google, a big ass hard drive I can search, and maybe even an environment where I can lean back and think "Oh yeah, I remember that".
I do that with my 14" laptop. Only problem is, the cat decides to sleep between me and the laptop, $diety knows why, and I can't read the bottom half of the screen.
I show up 20 minutes late to avoid both them and the commercials, which seems to piss off half the women I take to the movies (they know I set the time for x:20, instead of x, where the movie 'starts' at x).
Then again, the 50% that don't get pissed off I seem to get along better with. huh.
Why do I hate trailers? Long time ago there was a movie where Forrest Whittaker (first time I noticed him) was a chick with a dick. Those last 4 words were the entire movie's pivot. And a fucking trailer gave it away. If memory serves the whole media campaign was "don't give this away", yet the trailer gave it away.
Dont get me started on the comedies where the funniest lines get cut out of the movie, only surviving to the trailer.
6 years ago didn't see the need for a tablet. 4 years ago didn't see the need for a tablet. 4 weeks ago I had a hard drive crash, 100% dead, no recovery possible, thank $diety for decent backups. Tablet would not do half of what I need to do (half: web browsing and email. Other half: everything else).
Back in the 80's there was a, shit, not sure what, but you could run a doc through it and it sounded like a black guy wrote it. Funny as hell, controversial even at the time. Stuff like "We support" turned into "We be, all, like, like this". Soon there were 2-3 other dialects you could run, all funny as hell.
Now having anything like that available brings down the wrath of the SJWs. You'll get fired for even having the output of such a program. Never mind it was probably a Yacc/Lex thing.
Around the same time we had terminals in our cubes connected to a VAX. Go get a cuppa coffee and not lock your terminal? Russian Roulette. We looked for this kind of thing, only took a minute on an unlocked terminal to cause lots of fun (make the first line of.login be logout, etc). I ended up with a hardware RS-232 analyzer on my desk. What did I do? I fucking plugged it into Dennis' Vt100 connection to the VAX, Dennis was my biggest shenanigans trickster. Grabbed his password and don't remember what I did, but it was fun.
Now that would get me thrown in jail.
Pranks were a ton of fun, and an effective teaching tool on personal security. Nowdays they're more likely to get you fired, thrown in jail, and facing $100k in legal fees.
A few months back they started referring to freeway exits as "2A", or somesuch. I know my exit is coming up because it's less than 1/2 mile away But all the signs say "Bancroft", not "2A".
I've driven enough in rural areas to know that that's how they mark a lot of their roads. But I'm guessing 90% of the exits here in the USA use "Bancroft", not "2A".
Half of your co-workers are walking out. You either think they're wrong, or flat out don't care and would rather keep working. If you keep working you're The Enemy in a highly SJW work environment.
Some 3 years ago I decided to learn Java, after being an embedded guy for 30 years or so. I learn best by being given problems to solve (I was a math major, learned C/C++ on my own, long story deleted). I could not find a single book, nor course, that would help me. Lots of disjointed tutorials on how to do this, or that. But absolutely nothing to take me from installing java/javac, to learning the libraries (yeah, libraries. They're all C++ like, you'll learn the syntax in a day, but it's the libraries and philosophy of the language that counts.)
Seems we could put off gassing up an F-35 to fail the latest test to pay for a free course on how to learn Java. Hell, for the price of gassing up an F-35, then paying to maintain that aircraft after a 1 hour flight, they could come up with free courses on 3-4 languages, plus another for OO design.
Why do I still have to add markup paragraph breaks between paragraphs? I remember when it was normal, but now the "leading" tech site,/., is the only one that requires them. Stuck on stupid.
Forget about the kids on the bus, they ain't mine so when a bug is found so sad, too bad, I'm good. But I drive on those roads. If that damned bus hits me I'm toast. This is a problem.
Some 15-20 years ago they bought a company with a display based on, I think, butterfly wings (it's been a while, forgive my memory). I worked there at the time, and a friend of mine ended up software lead on it. If everything was good the tech worked very well, you could see your phone in daylight with less battery than using it in a darkened room.
But
Key phrase: "When things were good". When things weren't good you couldn't see the screen for shit. Go out into the sunlight for that nice, bright display? The screen warmed up and all those butterfly cells (or whatever) quit working. Voltage/current changed? Same thing. Go into a darkened room? Regular screens worked fine, who needs fancy ass butterfly wings.
I could google the name of that but, hell I'm not doing anything right now. Mirasol. Google that, found a link to "what went wrong" but too tired to figure out how to turn it into an HTML link.
Funny thing is, that link says video performance sucked. I assume that was Mediaflow, which if memory serves was a year or two after Mirasol crapped out. The real problem was that Mirasol flat out didn't work outside of the lab.
I no longer lose gmail, g++ (whatever they called it), my google office files, and all other google related content? And my only recourse is a web thingie that humans never read?
Doesn't matter. Soon as I heard they were disabling gmail and goffice (whatever it's called, never used it) when you said something they didn't like on their "platform" I switched to duckduckgo, thunderbird (thank you google for giving me IMAP/POP3 support), and LibreOffice. The only google services I use now are mail (via Thunderbird and IMAP/POP3) and driving (on my phone).
While I have your attention, my laptop took a dump a couple days ago and can't be recovered (hard drive failure). Everything is backed up,I paid lots for my new laptop to be delivered tomorrow (wednesday), but I don't remember how I set up Thunderbird to download my gmail and let me deal with 2 accounts in a reasonable way (default gmail sux ass. Tagged messages as opposed to folders? Stupid beyond belief). You can save me 5 minutes of duckduckgo searches by providing a link in this thread. Yeah, I'm lazy:)
Not to mention the average web page's download size will probably go up 10x because they can. Maybe it's me, but a 6 meg download to view a 32k cat picture seems, um, not right.
I go to a gym. I can ride a bike, climb a mountain, or row a boat. Every fricken one of these machines has a display that shows me the exact same info, plus more regarding how hard I've been working.
Somebody explain to me with a straight face how Walmart can patent something that I've seen in use for a good 4.5 years now.
Hell, it's the tax on blank cassette tapes again. When they imposed it I lost all qualms about copying friends records, and making copies of my records for them.
All they'll get from me is I watch a lot of news (maybe 20% of my viewing) and a lot of Plex (good luck figuring out what those bits streaming through represent).
Actually, now that I think about it, all they'll see is 50% of my TV viewing is via Roku, the rest being my Playstation.
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I have a phone for that, and ensure everyone knows I don't read email on my phone. If it's important send a text, else I'll hit my email in the next hour or two. Feel free to send a text telling me to read my email ASAP.
Not to mention, on my phone I'm $diety knows where I am with potentially limited resources. With email I'm at a computer with all sorts of resources, from a big ass pipe to Google, a big ass hard drive I can search, and maybe even an environment where I can lean back and think "Oh yeah, I remember that".
I do that with my 14" laptop. Only problem is, the cat decides to sleep between me and the laptop, $diety knows why, and I can't read the bottom half of the screen.
I show up 20 minutes late to avoid both them and the commercials, which seems to piss off half the women I take to the movies (they know I set the time for x:20, instead of x, where the movie 'starts' at x).
Then again, the 50% that don't get pissed off I seem to get along better with. huh.
Why do I hate trailers? Long time ago there was a movie where Forrest Whittaker (first time I noticed him) was a chick with a dick. Those last 4 words were the entire movie's pivot. And a fucking trailer gave it away. If memory serves the whole media campaign was "don't give this away", yet the trailer gave it away.
Dont get me started on the comedies where the funniest lines get cut out of the movie, only surviving to the trailer.
6 years ago didn't see the need for a tablet. 4 years ago didn't see the need for a tablet. 4 weeks ago I had a hard drive crash, 100% dead, no recovery possible, thank $diety for decent backups. Tablet would not do half of what I need to do (half: web browsing and email. Other half: everything else).
Back in the 80's there was a, shit, not sure what, but you could run a doc through it and it sounded like a black guy wrote it. Funny as hell, controversial even at the time. Stuff like "We support" turned into "We be, all, like, like this". Soon there were 2-3 other dialects you could run, all funny as hell.
.login be logout, etc). I ended up with a hardware RS-232 analyzer on my desk. What did I do? I fucking plugged it into Dennis' Vt100 connection to the VAX, Dennis was my biggest shenanigans trickster. Grabbed his password and don't remember what I did, but it was fun.
Now having anything like that available brings down the wrath of the SJWs. You'll get fired for even having the output of such a program. Never mind it was probably a Yacc/Lex thing.
Around the same time we had terminals in our cubes connected to a VAX. Go get a cuppa coffee and not lock your terminal? Russian Roulette. We looked for this kind of thing, only took a minute on an unlocked terminal to cause lots of fun (make the first line of
Now that would get me thrown in jail.
Pranks were a ton of fun, and an effective teaching tool on personal security. Nowdays they're more likely to get you fired, thrown in jail, and facing $100k in legal fees.
That's what happened to the tricksters.
A few months back they started referring to freeway exits as "2A", or somesuch. I know my exit is coming up because it's less than 1/2 mile away But all the signs say "Bancroft", not "2A".
I've driven enough in rural areas to know that that's how they mark a lot of their roads. But I'm guessing 90% of the exits here in the USA use "Bancroft", not "2A".
Half of your co-workers are walking out. You either think they're wrong, or flat out don't care and would rather keep working. If you keep working you're The Enemy in a highly SJW work environment.
wat do? Work, or fuckit take a break?
how does it's maiden voyage start in Dubai?
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I spent a year writing C programs in Java, that's why.
Some 3 years ago I decided to learn Java, after being an embedded guy for 30 years or so. I learn best by being given problems to solve (I was a math major, learned C/C++ on my own, long story deleted). I could not find a single book, nor course, that would help me. Lots of disjointed tutorials on how to do this, or that. But absolutely nothing to take me from installing java/javac, to learning the libraries (yeah, libraries. They're all C++ like, you'll learn the syntax in a day, but it's the libraries and philosophy of the language that counts.)
/., is the only one that requires them. Stuck on stupid.
Seems we could put off gassing up an F-35 to fail the latest test to pay for a free course on how to learn Java. Hell, for the price of gassing up an F-35, then paying to maintain that aircraft after a 1 hour flight, they could come up with free courses on 3-4 languages, plus another for OO design.
Why do I still have to add markup paragraph breaks between paragraphs? I remember when it was normal, but now the "leading" tech site,
It told me which app wanted to access the network, where they connected to, and the time.
Most shocking? My flashlight app, which I hadn't used in 6 months, was connecting every 30 seconds or so.
Needless to say that sucker got uninstalled ASAP, as did a handful of other apps.
Sad to say I had to uninstall the firewall, it was sucking up my battery like nobodies business. But I haven't installed any apps since then.
Forget about the kids on the bus, they ain't mine so when a bug is found so sad, too bad, I'm good. But I drive on those roads. If that damned bus hits me I'm toast. This is a problem.
:)
Gonna be fun reading the comments to this
Some 15-20 years ago they bought a company with a display based on, I think, butterfly wings (it's been a while, forgive my memory). I worked there at the time, and a friend of mine ended up software lead on it. If everything was good the tech worked very well, you could see your phone in daylight with less battery than using it in a darkened room.
But
Key phrase: "When things were good". When things weren't good you couldn't see the screen for shit. Go out into the sunlight for that nice, bright display? The screen warmed up and all those butterfly cells (or whatever) quit working. Voltage/current changed? Same thing. Go into a darkened room? Regular screens worked fine, who needs fancy ass butterfly wings.
I could google the name of that but, hell I'm not doing anything right now. Mirasol. Google that, found a link to "what went wrong" but too tired to figure out how to turn it into an HTML link.
Funny thing is, that link says video performance sucked. I assume that was Mediaflow, which if memory serves was a year or two after Mirasol crapped out. The real problem was that Mirasol flat out didn't work outside of the lab.
They haven't had time to fix Spectre and Meltdown, I think I'll pass.
and ultimately the hard-earned pensions of thousands of New York City workers," New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer said
Um, you could, I dunno, maybe *sell* all your FB stock and protect the pensions that way?
I no longer lose gmail, g++ (whatever they called it), my google office files, and all other google related content? And my only recourse is a web thingie that humans never read?
:)
Doesn't matter. Soon as I heard they were disabling gmail and goffice (whatever it's called, never used it) when you said something they didn't like on their "platform" I switched to duckduckgo, thunderbird (thank you google for giving me IMAP/POP3 support), and LibreOffice. The only google services I use now are mail (via Thunderbird and IMAP/POP3) and driving (on my phone).
While I have your attention, my laptop took a dump a couple days ago and can't be recovered (hard drive failure). Everything is backed up,I paid lots for my new laptop to be delivered tomorrow (wednesday), but I don't remember how I set up Thunderbird to download my gmail and let me deal with 2 accounts in a reasonable way (default gmail sux ass. Tagged messages as opposed to folders? Stupid beyond belief). You can save me 5 minutes of duckduckgo searches by providing a link in this thread. Yeah, I'm lazy
Now I can blow through my data cap in 5 seconds.
Not to mention the average web page's download size will probably go up 10x because they can. Maybe it's me, but a 6 meg download to view a 32k cat picture seems, um, not right.
I go to a gym. I can ride a bike, climb a mountain, or row a boat. Every fricken one of these machines has a display that shows me the exact same info, plus more regarding how hard I've been working.
Somebody explain to me with a straight face how Walmart can patent something that I've seen in use for a good 4.5 years now.
killing 20 people for no good reason.
Me? PPV of the person(s) responsible execution, with proceeds going to the victim's families.
Seriously, someone needs to at least go to prison for 10+ years on this. And don't go blaming the dead driver, sounds like he wasn't happy either.
Oh, you're hiding in Pakistan? Guess what? We have people trained for exactly that, shitstick.
the next guy will be smarter and not too worried about the risk/reward balance.
Hell, it's the tax on blank cassette tapes again. When they imposed it I lost all qualms about copying friends records, and making copies of my records for them.
with a drunken Ivy League frat boy and see if it triggers when she's thrown down and held down.
All they'll get from me is I watch a lot of news (maybe 20% of my viewing) and a lot of Plex (good luck figuring out what those bits streaming through represent).
Actually, now that I think about it, all they'll see is 50% of my TV viewing is via Roku, the rest being my Playstation.