For what it's worth, Microsoft makes more in a good quarter than Google makes in a year. I can't tell if that affects your point because I couldn't actually figure out what that was.
I have no idea what the hell you're talking about. The only "complain" I have about the new iPhone is that there's too much chatter about it. I certainly wasn't attempting to review an item I've never seen in person, much less held in my hand.
Relax. I'm not attacking your toy. And rest easy in the knowledge that I WAS on topic within the context of the post I was replying to, and that the original poster understood my little joke.
No, they aren't. Options are only potentially shares. Companies--by which I mean the board of directors and the current shareholders--can issue [arbitrary amount] more shares at any time. Options simply set a price on a certain number of shares and set who can buy them at that price, but before they are exercised the shares don't exist and aren't counted.
There's not nearly as much low-hanging fruit available as you (and Boeing, who "back-burnered" this project after several years of shouting it from the mountaintops back in the first half of the decade) seem to think. Every single suggestion you made would be somewhere between useless and obstructive. It's not easy to think of ways to (further) fine tune systems that have been in use by thousands of people for decades. The FAA has been trying to improve the systems that controllers work with for years, and at least half of the "improvements" end up being half-assed. Worse, they keep kidding themselves that they've made our jobs easier, so they can allow staffing to erode.
That's not to say the system can't be improved. It IS to say that the problem is very difficult. NATCA has said for years that the quickest and cheapest increases in capacity would come from adding runways. The fifth runway at ATL has more than borne out that position, taking airborne delays from a bi-hourly occurrence to something that is rarely seen in good weather.
If your dad can use software right out of the box, I'm envious. Mine finds ways to fuck up surfing the web. It's not entirely his fault--an astonishing number of websites that appeal to right wing, fundamentalist Christian, stock tip-hunting hypochondriacs only "work" with Internet Explorer.
Speaking of huge numbers of mod points, does anyone know why I suddenly have 15 mod points? I've looked around the/. docs and can't find anything about triple bonus mod point awards.
Here's what we do. Everybody over the age of 60 has to ride a motorcycle or a scooter or a moped. No giant Buicks-of-death. If they can stand the risk to themselves, I can stand the risk to me. If the trip is important enough for them to suit up and climb on, I say God Bless.
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This is a joke.
I'm 48, so I'm targeting myself more than most with this "humor," which is fair game.
Funny note, he takes his pants off while he's in there during flight.
Sad note, the older men get, the more sensitive their testicles get to pressure, and the more their mass drops into the part of the abdomen constricted by a belt. Business slacks become pretty uncomfortable for long periods of sitting. I'm 48, and I can already see where things are headed.
Just something for you to look forward to (assuming you're male).
I think there is a very good case to be made that this is Constitutionally protected political speech. If burning a flag can be speech, then selling your vote in a very public way is speech too.
I'm not exactly sure what it means to say, but I can think of several valid possibilities.
Well, yeah, except that Wyoming isn't in the center of Europe (as Bavaria nearly is), doesn't have Munich as a capital, wasn't the site of Dachau concentration camp, and has in general been of no importance to anyone throughout western history. Trust me, even living in the U.S., not knowing where Bavaria is, is ridiculous.
Do you honestly think that's the source of most objections? You've never been involved in a sales call, on either side of the table, then.
Hell yes, I would have thought that would be the source of most objections. And you're right, I've never been involved in any sales calls. So now I'm curious how much easier you think sales would be if the product WERE a perfect fit (and appropriately priced) for most customers. Could "better engineers" (by any definition) make a salesman's life 30% easier? 50%? none?
I can't understand why women choose the jerks they do, and I wish they would pick me instead because I do all the things they profess to want men to do.
I noticed that women were lying about what they want in a man long ago and chose to give them what they want, not what they say they want.
The interesting thing is that nobody denies that the jerks often get the girls, but most guys can't remake themselves into jerks even for sex. In my opinion, THIS is what makes fucking the jerks and getting the nice guys to help raise the babies a viable strategy. We should all just decide "fuck nice" and be the assholes that women reward with sex, and maybe a couple generations from now nice will be back in vogue.
Except, of course, that we can't. But it's fun to think about.
I had forgotten about that one. Maybe these guys missed a correlation between content and consequence after all. Reading that pisses me off more than being flipped off does.
Um, "ingerence" is French. I had to get a Google translation of a web page to find out it meant "intervention."
The fun part is thinking of reasons you would have made that mistake. Perhaps posting on Slashdot, in English, makes you think of Americans. Perhaps every time the French people you know mention America it's in the same breath as "ingerence" because of our indiscretion in Iraq. Perhaps your brain did a double back flip with a twist and ended up inserting "ingerence" instead of "intervention" by some process of association. Perhaps.
Or perhaps everybody here says "ingerence" except the hicks I know. It doesn't matter, I'm just teasing anyway.
That's a cute question. They're untrackable when they want to be, but unless they're on a mission over enemy territory they file flight plans and turn their transponders on lest their billion-dollar selves end up in a midair collision. There's not a lot of work put into keeping their movements secret.
Possibly funny story: when the FAA came out with the first generation of the Aircraft Situation Display (since superceded by the amazingly similar Traffic Situation Display), one of the filters available when selecting flights to display was "aircraft type". That lasted for a while, and then somebody giving a tour to some Air Force generals decided to impress them with the Agency's technowizardry and said "Wanna see where all your B52's are?" (This was almost 20 years ago--before the B2--and the B1's never go anywhere.) He made a couple entries on a keyboard and all the little airplane silhouettes dropped off except the B52's over the continental U.S. The generals promptly crapped themselves, and soon thereafter the FAA got a phone call from somebody important, and since then it's a little harder to track the bombers and the fighters. But not very hard.
I thought pretty hard about my (apparently ignored) reply. I had to make some guesses about the situation: why would the parents tolerate a password-protected computer in a seven year-old's hands at all? How old is the OP? Is the OP well-intentioned but confused, or is there more to this? How present are these parents that are trying to use software as a substitute for personally monitoring their children's behavior?
In the end I assumed good intentions on big brother's part and basically absent parents. I was pretty sure that just calling the OP misguided wasn't going to change his plans, so I went a bit of pandering and an appeal to his sense of responsibility.
Seven year-old children have no need of privacy outside their own head. They must not be allowed to interact with adults (that's who's on the internet, if you haven't looked) without the direct supervision/protection of a trusted guardian.
Obviously you object strenuously to your parents "techniques", and I have to agree it sounds like bullshit. But you don't help matters by showing your little sister how to hide everything from them. She's as unready for that kind of freedom as she is for remembering a password. Obviously she trusts you, and you care about her (it's not just getting back at your parents, right?). Why not have her let YOU remember the password, so she can log in when you're around to provide a little gentle guidance as to what's appropriate for her young self.
Thank you for anonymously bringing this out, as it was the first thing I thought of when I read TFA. I guess if we hadn't already figured out that those experiments were fucked by shared prenatal nutrition (minor oversight, that), we could now stop loudly announcing that intelligence is 80% heritable.
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For what it's worth, Microsoft makes more in a good quarter than Google makes in a year. I can't tell if that affects your point because I couldn't actually figure out what that was.
Good God, that was obvious--in retrospect. Thanks.
Your simple little sig made me think. Is it a quote from this guy?
Relax. I'm not attacking your toy. And rest easy in the knowledge that I WAS on topic within the context of the post I was replying to, and that the original poster understood my little joke.
Better yet, cut-n-pasted typos.
No, they aren't. Options are only potentially shares. Companies--by which I mean the board of directors and the current shareholders--can issue [arbitrary amount] more shares at any time. Options simply set a price on a certain number of shares and set who can buy them at that price, but before they are exercised the shares don't exist and aren't counted.
A very wise soul once said, "Raging in an online forum won't do anything for the world around you. To see change, you must take action."
That's not to say the system can't be improved. It IS to say that the problem is very difficult. NATCA has said for years that the quickest and cheapest increases in capacity would come from adding runways. The fifth runway at ATL has more than borne out that position, taking airborne delays from a bi-hourly occurrence to something that is rarely seen in good weather.
If your dad can use software right out of the box, I'm envious. Mine finds ways to fuck up surfing the web. It's not entirely his fault--an astonishing number of websites that appeal to right wing, fundamentalist Christian, stock tip-hunting hypochondriacs only "work" with Internet Explorer.
If you give me your address, I'll have my three on a plane tomorrow.
Speaking of huge numbers of mod points, does anyone know why I suddenly have 15 mod points? I've looked around the /. docs and can't find anything about triple bonus mod point awards.
Disclaimers:
Sad note, the older men get, the more sensitive their testicles get to pressure, and the more their mass drops into the part of the abdomen constricted by a belt. Business slacks become pretty uncomfortable for long periods of sitting. I'm 48, and I can already see where things are headed.
Just something for you to look forward to (assuming you're male).
I'm not exactly sure what it means to say, but I can think of several valid possibilities.
Well, yeah, except that Wyoming isn't in the center of Europe (as Bavaria nearly is), doesn't have Munich as a capital, wasn't the site of Dachau concentration camp, and has in general been of no importance to anyone throughout western history. Trust me, even living in the U.S., not knowing where Bavaria is, is ridiculous.
Hell yes, I would have thought that would be the source of most objections. And you're right, I've never been involved in any sales calls. So now I'm curious how much easier you think sales would be if the product WERE a perfect fit (and appropriately priced) for most customers. Could "better engineers" (by any definition) make a salesman's life 30% easier? 50%? none?
The interesting thing is that nobody denies that the jerks often get the girls, but most guys can't remake themselves into jerks even for sex. In my opinion, THIS is what makes fucking the jerks and getting the nice guys to help raise the babies a viable strategy. We should all just decide "fuck nice" and be the assholes that women reward with sex, and maybe a couple generations from now nice will be back in vogue.
Except, of course, that we can't. But it's fun to think about.
I had forgotten about that one. Maybe these guys missed a correlation between content and consequence after all. Reading that pisses me off more than being flipped off does.
See, /. posts can be informative, unlike this one's similarly-modded grandparent, which was mostly just snarky.
The fun part is thinking of reasons you would have made that mistake. Perhaps posting on Slashdot, in English, makes you think of Americans. Perhaps every time the French people you know mention America it's in the same breath as "ingerence" because of our indiscretion in Iraq. Perhaps your brain did a double back flip with a twist and ended up inserting "ingerence" instead of "intervention" by some process of association. Perhaps.
Or perhaps everybody here says "ingerence" except the hicks I know. It doesn't matter, I'm just teasing anyway.
That sounds like a good deal. Is it hard to get health coverage for her slave?
Possibly funny story: when the FAA came out with the first generation of the Aircraft Situation Display (since superceded by the amazingly similar Traffic Situation Display), one of the filters available when selecting flights to display was "aircraft type". That lasted for a while, and then somebody giving a tour to some Air Force generals decided to impress them with the Agency's technowizardry and said "Wanna see where all your B52's are?" (This was almost 20 years ago--before the B2--and the B1's never go anywhere.) He made a couple entries on a keyboard and all the little airplane silhouettes dropped off except the B52's over the continental U.S. The generals promptly crapped themselves, and soon thereafter the FAA got a phone call from somebody important, and since then it's a little harder to track the bombers and the fighters. But not very hard.
In the end I assumed good intentions on big brother's part and basically absent parents. I was pretty sure that just calling the OP misguided wasn't going to change his plans, so I went a bit of pandering and an appeal to his sense of responsibility.
Obviously you object strenuously to your parents "techniques", and I have to agree it sounds like bullshit. But you don't help matters by showing your little sister how to hide everything from them. She's as unready for that kind of freedom as she is for remembering a password. Obviously she trusts you, and you care about her (it's not just getting back at your parents, right?). Why not have her let YOU remember the password, so she can log in when you're around to provide a little gentle guidance as to what's appropriate for her young self.
Thank you for anonymously bringing this out, as it was the first thing I thought of when I read TFA. I guess if we hadn't already figured out that those experiments were fucked by shared prenatal nutrition (minor oversight, that), we could now stop loudly announcing that intelligence is 80% heritable.