If it helps society (science/education), I'm all for piracy. I think free information is good for society. It costs close to nothing to share information, so artificially trying to charge for it seems shady.
They aren't powered by electrity, but hampsters. Now hampsters normally are not enough to power a car, but put some snakes in with them, and they make orders of magnitude more energy trying to run away. This is the only possible reason you hear squeeks and rattles.
Mainline thoughts are that long variable names are better since you can remember what they do. I like short variable names if they're just used for a short time and not continually used throught the global scope. Short variable names have the following strengths: quicker to type so code is written faster, doesn't make you do mental work of focusing on the variable name very long so you can stay focused on the code, and job security since your code can't be read by anyone besides yourself. That last part is mostly a joke.
Rc aircraft has been around for a long time. Now suddenly hobbyists are a threat to people? Everyone figured thats why the redesignation with drones. Either rc aircraft was to be made sounding more dangerous or military aircraft to sound more tame. Ps, whats with the advertisements on mobile that cover up the submit button.
What if it is both "fun" and "art"? We can call it funart or fart for short. Hey have you downloaded any award winning, critically acclaimed fart apps lately?
Money gets people elected because most people are suckers for a convincing television ad. Now if someone doesn't accept bribes(campaign contributions), they can't get elected because they don't have enough money for advertisements. The way the system works is that honest people who won't accept bribes don't have a chance.
Be that as it may, you can still meet lots of cool friends and get a good education in the USA. We've had a corrupted system by money since at least the late 1800s judging by political comics, but still living as a citizen of the USA is better than any other country.
The thing I hate most is how politics and the illusion of choice has to make people so argumentative. I guess right wing vs left wing news needs to make people argue, otherwise grassroots campaigns can start up. It's just sad seeing someone brain washed with right or left wing propaganda and always living life angry.
Apps for Window Phone and Windows 8+ will take a long time for a adoption. But once some good ones are out there, people will like Windows for its ability to run apps without getting a virus. If Microsoft designed Windows98 from the ground up for the Internet, they could have made it so.exes could have been run safely without getting a virus. I'm surprised they waited 15 years before making the apps that are run unable to give the computer a virus. It should catch on eventually, but adoption is slow.
TIL Darth Vader works at Verizon: I've altered the deal, pray I don't alter it further.
I always kinda expected it because once I had a phone that didn't work well(dropped 50% of calls within a few minutes), yet Verizon wouldn't bow out of the contract. Verizon made me pay for a phone that didn't work because contracts only benefited them and not the customer.
I think either yours or my idea or even both would be a good move to add more Windows Phone users. The nice thing about your idea is that it requires less hoop jumping to keep things up to date as Apple/Android update. And even for a big corporation, constant reverse engineering and updating gets old and costly.
I'm not sure if this is legal or not, but if they made an iOS and Android emulator so you could run both iOS and Android apps on the Windows phones, some people might get a Windows Phone then who'd otherwise be getting one or the other because they figure they get all types of compatibility.
Then I'd make backwards compatibility to Windows Vista where all windows versions could run: Windows Phone apps, iOS apps, and Android apps. It is very very important to do this similar to a sandbox where the apps can't escalate privileges and whammy system files like the old Windows.exes do.
Then suddenly you not only fixed the windows phone, but the #1 problem with the Windows operating system in the Internet age. The windows operating system is just not designed to download random.exes with wild abandon like it should. Part of the reason Windows lost share to Apple in the late 90s is because Windows was targetted by viruses more. If you're doing sandboxed apps as the future of Windows, suddenly it is very very hard to get a virus all of a sudden. Windows users would rejoice with having Windows Apps they could run on their PC without worrying about being hosed. Windows could even allow an app data backup cloud, so in the case you do get a virus in the old ways, when you reinstall your PC, all the apps can reinstall with your saved data. Just being able to explore downloading lots of free app software without worrying it making your computer die would be awesome. It is what we should have had with Windows 98 if Microsoft took the hard road and completely redesigned their operating system that an.exe couldn't make changes outside its install directory and other virus resistant moves. Instead of downloading every piece of cool looking software on the Internet, the slight chance it could be a virus means we just roll with the software we need to use.
I think a lot of Windows users would love to be able to use Android and iOS apps also. Throw in the weird functionality of a Surface pro they're trying to market of being a touch screen PC, and running Windows/iOS/Android apps on them only make sense.
You'd think for being educated, they'd have a higher level of wit. I find in life the smarter someone is, the more entertaining their jokes can be. But enough of the show, if you want some cheap laughs, go back and read all the comments in this thread in Sheldon's voice. It is comedy gold since everyone is over analyzing.
I either used Newegg.com or pricewatch.com. I ordered all my parts custom to save a couple bucks and it was good to run the latest 3d games. Everything came in the mail and I was happy... Until I realized I forgot to order a case. And not to be defeated, I took the UPS box it was shipped in, and carved out port holes. It worked well as a case. The only downside is I couldn't leave my computer on overnight to automatically play video games for me because I worried about it catching fire.
Announcer: Can a single luxury car be both the most spacious and the most compact on the market? Lexon asks you to consider a paradox.
Female Voiceover: Paradox..
Announcer: Introducing the all-new Lexon Paradox. Smaller than the competition, yet bigger.
Female Voiceover: We are through the looking glass..
[ show two groups of Lexon engineers standing on opposite sides of the screen ]
Announcer: This remarkable automobile is the synthesis of the work of two teams of Lexon engineers. Team A was asked to decrease the size of Lexon's most popular model.. while Team B searched for ways to make it bigger.
Announcer: While one team made Paradox the most expensive car in the world.. another made it the most affordable.
Announcer: One designed the Paradox to be an elegant, white luxury Sedan.
Female Voiceover: White Sedan..
Announcer: The others, a sporty red Coupe.
Female Voiceover: Red Coupe..
Announcer: One team gave it incredible stopping power.. the other gave it no brakes of any kind.
Announcer: One team was asked to give the Paradox four doors.. another designed it to have only two.. while still another gave it six doors.. and the final team, one gigantic all-purpose door.
Female Voiceover: One.. big.. door..
Announcer: And, while one team gave the Paradox dual airbags.. another designed it to shatter on impact, throwing passengers up to 300 yards.
Female Voiceover: Very, very dangerous..
Announcer: The new Paradox. The best car money can buy.
If you're going to make out of the ordinary purchases for overseas, or travel overseas, you always want to call your bank ahead of time. This is a standard operating procedure, and nothing to complain about on Slashdot.
In 1999, everyone was using Napster and such to freely share music and media. I honestly didn't think itunes would catch on since I thought as a generation we learned the power of the Internet to share free music. I thought the concept of charging for bits of information that cost nothing to copy would go out like the buggy whip lobby. I thought music would be distributed for free, and musicians would make their money on merchandising and concerts. So for itunes to be successful caught me by surprise too.
People still write books even though there's more books out there than a person can read in their lifetime. Software will keep on being written. Considering it is a low cost endevour to start a software business, it is good for lots of people not willing to take monetary risks.
Coding is great because it gives a person a real appreciation for math. Though, I already see the transition though that a person who knows which apps to use for a project can be more valuable to general companies than someone who writes custom apps. Until we invent natural language inputs, there will be a use for a coder, but even after then, we'll just be coding, but in natural language.
The state I'm in allows people of a certain age to not wear a helmet. I wasn't aware the other states did it much differently. We have a law here, but it is only for younger and inexperienced riders.
I agree that US cars are safe. I just think the safety laws in the USA aren't right. We have big time safety laws on cars which raise the price of the car thousands of dollars, but no real safety rules on motorcylists. It is the law to wear a seatbelt in a car, but a motocyclist doesn't have to wear a helmet. Part of me thinks this is just because we don't want cheap foreign cars competing with expensive brands.
I think safety is great and worth a premium. Maybe if we let cheap foreign cars in, people would have a lot less safety. So maybe its good where we have it. The problem I have is that we force people to wear a seatbelt, but we don't force motorcyclists to wear a helmet. The laws don't make sense.
If this system finds all known human viruses in a person's blood, my guess is it has to put them there. How else can one person get all human viruses at once?
Sometimes I play NES/SNES games for achievements and lately I've been documenting them on youtube. I got close to getting 30 lives the hard way in Contra. I either got 29 or 30, not sure. I think I just got up to 29. I mean I earned 27 lives but lost a couple a long the way.
My next thing I was going to try was Super Mario Bros 1 without any powerups, no warps and no KOs. I figured it might give me a couple months of entertainment and I could share it with others. But if I'm not allowed to do this, I guess I'll start distancing myself from Nintendo instead of embracing them.
I think he was making a joke that anyone with enough money to fly on this plane isn't going to want to go to a country where 15 or the 12 deadliest snakes and spiders live.
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I like that they may have changed some people's perception of science that it is cool.
If it helps society (science/education), I'm all for piracy. I think free information is good for society. It costs close to nothing to share information, so artificially trying to charge for it seems shady.
They aren't powered by electrity, but hampsters. Now hampsters normally are not enough to power a car, but put some snakes in with them, and they make orders of magnitude more energy trying to run away. This is the only possible reason you hear squeeks and rattles.
Mainline thoughts are that long variable names are better since you can remember what they do. I like short variable names if they're just used for a short time and not continually used throught the global scope. Short variable names have the following strengths: quicker to type so code is written faster, doesn't make you do mental work of focusing on the variable name very long so you can stay focused on the code, and job security since your code can't be read by anyone besides yourself. That last part is mostly a joke.
Wasn't there a Mitch Hedberg on this? "I'll pay you minimum wage, but if I could pay you less, I would"
Rc aircraft has been around for a long time. Now suddenly hobbyists are a threat to people? Everyone figured thats why the redesignation with drones. Either rc aircraft was to be made sounding more dangerous or military aircraft to sound more tame. Ps, whats with the advertisements on mobile that cover up the submit button.
What if it is both "fun" and "art"? We can call it funart or fart for short. Hey have you downloaded any award winning, critically acclaimed fart apps lately?
Money gets people elected because most people are suckers for a convincing television ad. Now if someone doesn't accept bribes(campaign contributions), they can't get elected because they don't have enough money for advertisements. The way the system works is that honest people who won't accept bribes don't have a chance.
Be that as it may, you can still meet lots of cool friends and get a good education in the USA. We've had a corrupted system by money since at least the late 1800s judging by political comics, but still living as a citizen of the USA is better than any other country.
The thing I hate most is how politics and the illusion of choice has to make people so argumentative. I guess right wing vs left wing news needs to make people argue, otherwise grassroots campaigns can start up. It's just sad seeing someone brain washed with right or left wing propaganda and always living life angry.
Apps for Window Phone and Windows 8+ will take a long time for a adoption. But once some good ones are out there, people will like Windows for its ability to run apps without getting a virus. If Microsoft designed Windows98 from the ground up for the Internet, they could have made it so .exes could have been run safely without getting a virus. I'm surprised they waited 15 years before making the apps that are run unable to give the computer a virus. It should catch on eventually, but adoption is slow.
TIL Darth Vader works at Verizon: I've altered the deal, pray I don't alter it further.
I always kinda expected it because once I had a phone that didn't work well(dropped 50% of calls within a few minutes), yet Verizon wouldn't bow out of the contract. Verizon made me pay for a phone that didn't work because contracts only benefited them and not the customer.
If(isThisAnAdvertisement)
Block();
Mozilla is seemingly saying:
if(isThisAnAdvertisement && !weveBeenBribed)
Block();
I think either yours or my idea or even both would be a good move to add more Windows Phone users. The nice thing about your idea is that it requires less hoop jumping to keep things up to date as Apple/Android update. And even for a big corporation, constant reverse engineering and updating gets old and costly.
I'm not sure if this is legal or not, but if they made an iOS and Android emulator so you could run both iOS and Android apps on the Windows phones, some people might get a Windows Phone then who'd otherwise be getting one or the other because they figure they get all types of compatibility.
.exes do.
.exes with wild abandon like it should. Part of the reason Windows lost share to Apple in the late 90s is because Windows was targetted by viruses more. If you're doing sandboxed apps as the future of Windows, suddenly it is very very hard to get a virus all of a sudden. Windows users would rejoice with having Windows Apps they could run on their PC without worrying about being hosed. Windows could even allow an app data backup cloud, so in the case you do get a virus in the old ways, when you reinstall your PC, all the apps can reinstall with your saved data. Just being able to explore downloading lots of free app software without worrying it making your computer die would be awesome. It is what we should have had with Windows 98 if Microsoft took the hard road and completely redesigned their operating system that an .exe couldn't make changes outside its install directory and other virus resistant moves. Instead of downloading every piece of cool looking software on the Internet, the slight chance it could be a virus means we just roll with the software we need to use.
Then I'd make backwards compatibility to Windows Vista where all windows versions could run: Windows Phone apps, iOS apps, and Android apps. It is very very important to do this similar to a sandbox where the apps can't escalate privileges and whammy system files like the old Windows
Then suddenly you not only fixed the windows phone, but the #1 problem with the Windows operating system in the Internet age. The windows operating system is just not designed to download random
I think a lot of Windows users would love to be able to use Android and iOS apps also. Throw in the weird functionality of a Surface pro they're trying to market of being a touch screen PC, and running Windows/iOS/Android apps on them only make sense.
You'd think for being educated, they'd have a higher level of wit. I find in life the smarter someone is, the more entertaining their jokes can be. But enough of the show, if you want some cheap laughs, go back and read all the comments in this thread in Sheldon's voice. It is comedy gold since everyone is over analyzing.
I either used Newegg.com or pricewatch.com. I ordered all my parts custom to save a couple bucks and it was good to run the latest 3d games. Everything came in the mail and I was happy... Until I realized I forgot to order a case. And not to be defeated, I took the UPS box it was shipped in, and carved out port holes. It worked well as a case. The only downside is I couldn't leave my computer on overnight to automatically play video games for me because I worried about it catching fire.
Announcer: Can a single luxury car be both the most spacious and the most compact on the market? Lexon asks you to consider a paradox.
Female Voiceover: Paradox..
Announcer: Introducing the all-new Lexon Paradox. Smaller than the competition, yet bigger.
Female Voiceover: We are through the looking glass..
[ show two groups of Lexon engineers standing on opposite sides of the screen ]
Announcer: This remarkable automobile is the synthesis of the work of two teams of Lexon engineers. Team A was asked to decrease the size of Lexon's most popular model.. while Team B searched for ways to make it bigger.
Announcer: While one team made Paradox the most expensive car in the world.. another made it the most affordable.
Announcer: One designed the Paradox to be an elegant, white luxury Sedan.
Female Voiceover: White Sedan..
Announcer: The others, a sporty red Coupe.
Female Voiceover: Red Coupe..
Announcer: One team gave it incredible stopping power.. the other gave it no brakes of any kind.
Announcer: One team was asked to give the Paradox four doors.. another designed it to have only two.. while still another gave it six doors.. and the final team, one gigantic all-purpose door.
Female Voiceover: One.. big.. door..
Announcer: And, while one team gave the Paradox dual airbags.. another designed it to shatter on impact, throwing passengers up to 300 yards.
Female Voiceover: Very, very dangerous..
Announcer: The new Paradox. The best car money can buy.
Female Voiceover: Or is it.. the worst?
If you're going to make out of the ordinary purchases for overseas, or travel overseas, you always want to call your bank ahead of time. This is a standard operating procedure, and nothing to complain about on Slashdot.
In 1999, everyone was using Napster and such to freely share music and media. I honestly didn't think itunes would catch on since I thought as a generation we learned the power of the Internet to share free music. I thought the concept of charging for bits of information that cost nothing to copy would go out like the buggy whip lobby. I thought music would be distributed for free, and musicians would make their money on merchandising and concerts. So for itunes to be successful caught me by surprise too.
> Kids are much more likely to eat their vegetable portion when it's paired with a food that isn't so delicious
Here you go kid,"Spam, dirt and carrots."
"Ewww, I'll eat the carrots"
"Excellent, I thought you might choose that."
People still write books even though there's more books out there than a person can read in their lifetime. Software will keep on being written. Considering it is a low cost endevour to start a software business, it is good for lots of people not willing to take monetary risks.
Coding is great because it gives a person a real appreciation for math. Though, I already see the transition though that a person who knows which apps to use for a project can be more valuable to general companies than someone who writes custom apps. Until we invent natural language inputs, there will be a use for a coder, but even after then, we'll just be coding, but in natural language.
The state I'm in allows people of a certain age to not wear a helmet. I wasn't aware the other states did it much differently. We have a law here, but it is only for younger and inexperienced riders.
I agree that US cars are safe. I just think the safety laws in the USA aren't right. We have big time safety laws on cars which raise the price of the car thousands of dollars, but no real safety rules on motorcylists. It is the law to wear a seatbelt in a car, but a motocyclist doesn't have to wear a helmet. Part of me thinks this is just because we don't want cheap foreign cars competing with expensive brands.
I think safety is great and worth a premium. Maybe if we let cheap foreign cars in, people would have a lot less safety. So maybe its good where we have it. The problem I have is that we force people to wear a seatbelt, but we don't force motorcyclists to wear a helmet. The laws don't make sense.
If this system finds all known human viruses in a person's blood, my guess is it has to put them there. How else can one person get all human viruses at once?
Sometimes I play NES/SNES games for achievements and lately I've been documenting them on youtube. I got close to getting 30 lives the hard way in Contra. I either got 29 or 30, not sure. I think I just got up to 29. I mean I earned 27 lives but lost a couple a long the way.
My next thing I was going to try was Super Mario Bros 1 without any powerups, no warps and no KOs. I figured it might give me a couple months of entertainment and I could share it with others. But if I'm not allowed to do this, I guess I'll start distancing myself from Nintendo instead of embracing them.
I think he was making a joke that anyone with enough money to fly on this plane isn't going to want to go to a country where 15 or the 12 deadliest snakes and spiders live.