Damnit! My house didn't come with free beer. I have to go to the grocery store and buy mine. That's the last straw, I'm selling my house and moving to one that has free beer.
I've never known a single developer who could get away with wearing a hoodie in an office, and I've worked at quite a number of offices over the years during my contractor days.
What I find more amusing that the Basement dwelling Cheetovore programmer is the Hacker extrordinaire character in movies.
The guy who can log into any web site- and after only observing it for a few seconds can hack into it by pecking at 5 characters on his keyboard. From there it opens up the backend. So many movie have a similar hacker character who can't even type properly, he pecks- and can hack any computer system in seconds without only 5 keystrokes.
More cores should have been the next step, but they have been slapping huge markups on anything with >4 cores for years. At least now there is some actual competition and they might wake up and start trying again.
Until you try running something that isn't optimized for multiple-core support. Then no matter how many cores you have it doesn't help a bit. I'm not arguing that we shouldn't strive for more cores- I'm merely saying that's only one part of the puzzle.
Number of Transistors may still be increasing in density but computers aren't seeing the revolutionary jumps in power and performance- it's not scaling to us end users. I have a 5 year old PC at home I built, and it rivals most of the mainstream PCs being put out today. Even if Moore's law is still holding true, it's not really relevant anymore.
Computers aren't getting much faster any more. Processors may be getting smaller as transistors density gets higher, but your average home PC isn't getting much better.
You're absolutely right Mr. S. E. Xconker they had a terrible name!
They deserved an awful name, that site drove me nuts with it's pay wall and I'd occasionally accidentally click on one of their links when searching for how to solve something. I had to block them in google.
Yahoo's brand is so poisoned it has negative value now. They still have intellectual property, trained staff, and network and hardware in place that has value. Maybe in 10 years Yahoo's brand will have retro-value again. Occasionally failed brands are brought back years later and met with appreciation as people remember them with nostalgia rather than for how bad they were. You see car companies do this all the time.
Wouldn't surprise me if GM brings back Pontiac in a few years, now everyone's forgotten how bad they were and only remember it as "hey Granddad had a Ponitiac".
Now that everyone knows that Oaf is the new Yahoo, every other brand they lump into the Oaf brand is going to be viewed as being as toxic as yahoo itself.
So I can expect my salary to go up $20k a year overnight now right? Now my fellow foreigners are no longer allowed in it's going to be land of milk and honey for all us developers... right?
So about 1 in 200 people reported an issue. (and that's if each incident was from a unique individual). That's a lot. But not really a staggering amount of incidents in the grand scheme of things. There were probably more cases of bestiality than that. Especially in Wales.
the arrest of Daniel Kelly, 27, last year, who became the first person in the U.K. to be jailed for smuggling items into prisons
I find that unlikely. Probably the first person to be jailed smuggling items into prisons using a drone, but I find it unlikely in Britain's long history there has never been anyone jailed for smuggling items into prisons before.
Oh, and during times when customer demand is low (lunch time matinees, during the week)- you need only have half the rooms open. Save electricity by not running air conditioning in the rooms that aren't going to be used for several hours.
I've often wondered if something of a "Micro-theatre" experience would work better.
Instead of 12 screens that seat a hundred people each- why not 50 smaller screens (but still big compared to what people have at home) in smaller rooms that seat 20 people each.
* It would be a much more intimate experience * They can fill rooms as needed with a constantly revolving start time. * Instead of a movie starting at 6:30 or 9:00, if it's popular it can start every 30 mins. Everyone can fit it in their schedule- no lost sales because the movie started at a time that didn't fit a potential client's schedule. * 20 people in a room instead of 100 means you're 80% less likely to have someone annoying in the room with you. * Easier to optimize 20 seats for seeing a screen comfortably than it is for 100 seats- where if you arrive late you're either creaking your neck looking up and straining your eyes from a distance.
I'd love to, but for the price of seeing one movie at a set time (admittedly in a very nice environment) I can subscribe to Netflix and watch anything they have the time of my choosing for a month.
People must have nicer cinemas around them than me. To me a cinema experience includes:
* Sticky Floors * Uncomfortable Seats * Way too loud Sound System * AC that is almost always freezing my nads off.
I don't remember ever going to a cinema that I would consider a nice environment. Some are nicer than others, but every cinema I have been to has been dirty and uncomfortable.
I've never even heard of the concept. I look forwards to them reaching my neck of the woods, although, if I'm honest, it won't make me go to the cinema more often- it'll just make me go to the no-kid theatres instead of the kid-theatres.
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and besides, free beer at home!
Damnit! My house didn't come with free beer. I have to go to the grocery store and buy mine. That's the last straw, I'm selling my house and moving to one that has free beer.
I've never known a single developer who could get away with wearing a hoodie in an office, and I've worked at quite a number of offices over the years during my contractor days.
What I find more amusing that the Basement dwelling Cheetovore programmer is the Hacker extrordinaire character in movies.
The guy who can log into any web site- and after only observing it for a few seconds can hack into it by pecking at 5 characters on his keyboard. From there it opens up the backend. So many movie have a similar hacker character who can't even type properly, he pecks- and can hack any computer system in seconds without only 5 keystrokes.
More cores should have been the next step, but they have been slapping huge markups on anything with >4 cores for years. At least now there is some actual competition and they might wake up and start trying again.
Until you try running something that isn't optimized for multiple-core support. Then no matter how many cores you have it doesn't help a bit. I'm not arguing that we shouldn't strive for more cores- I'm merely saying that's only one part of the puzzle.
Number of Transistors may still be increasing in density but computers aren't seeing the revolutionary jumps in power and performance- it's not scaling to us end users. I have a 5 year old PC at home I built, and it rivals most of the mainstream PCs being put out today. Even if Moore's law is still holding true, it's not really relevant anymore.
Computers aren't getting much faster any more. Processors may be getting smaller as transistors density gets higher, but your average home PC isn't getting much better.
So is Yahoo to most people.
buy.com to Rakutan.
They went from an easy to remember really valuable .com address to something I'm not even sure I spelled correctly.
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You're absolutely right Mr. S. E. Xconker they had a terrible name!
They deserved an awful name, that site drove me nuts with it's pay wall and I'd occasionally accidentally click on one of their links when searching for how to solve something. I had to block them in google.
I bet it will anyway. There is no way Yahoo will start being trustworthy just because they changed their name to hide their true identity.
She would even screw that up.
Yahoo's brand is so poisoned it has negative value now. They still have intellectual property, trained staff, and network and hardware in place that has value. Maybe in 10 years Yahoo's brand will have retro-value again. Occasionally failed brands are brought back years later and met with appreciation as people remember them with nostalgia rather than for how bad they were. You see car companies do this all the time.
Wouldn't surprise me if GM brings back Pontiac in a few years, now everyone's forgotten how bad they were and only remember it as "hey Granddad had a Ponitiac".
Now that everyone knows that Oaf is the new Yahoo, every other brand they lump into the Oaf brand is going to be viewed as being as toxic as yahoo itself.
Marvelous. That's what I'm going to call it.
So, the reason the drone guy was charged is because he was cutting out the middle man and not letting the guards have their cut of the profit?
Works at night correcting signs because if he did it during the day someone would surely correct his face.
Whereas, grammar may have reached an epidemic of horribleness*, I think grammar Nazis are perhaps more of a problem than grammer**.
* deliberate use of an unword
** I wanted to make someone's skin crawl with that spelling mistake.
So I can expect my salary to go up $20k a year overnight now right? Now my fellow foreigners are no longer allowed in it's going to be land of milk and honey for all us developers... right?
Last year incidents rose to 3,456
So about 1 in 200 people reported an issue. (and that's if each incident was from a unique individual). That's a lot. But not really a staggering amount of incidents in the grand scheme of things. There were probably more cases of bestiality than that. Especially in Wales.
the arrest of Daniel Kelly, 27, last year, who became the first person in the U.K. to be jailed for smuggling items into prisons
I find that unlikely. Probably the first person to be jailed smuggling items into prisons using a drone, but I find it unlikely in Britain's long history there has never been anyone jailed for smuggling items into prisons before.
Oh, and during times when customer demand is low (lunch time matinees, during the week)- you need only have half the rooms open. Save electricity by not running air conditioning in the rooms that aren't going to be used for several hours.
I've often wondered if something of a "Micro-theatre" experience would work better.
Instead of 12 screens that seat a hundred people each- why not 50 smaller screens (but still big compared to what people have at home) in smaller rooms that seat 20 people each.
* It would be a much more intimate experience
* They can fill rooms as needed with a constantly revolving start time.
* Instead of a movie starting at 6:30 or 9:00, if it's popular it can start every 30 mins. Everyone can fit it in their schedule- no lost sales because the movie started at a time that didn't fit a potential client's schedule.
* 20 people in a room instead of 100 means you're 80% less likely to have someone annoying in the room with you.
* Easier to optimize 20 seats for seeing a screen comfortably than it is for 100 seats- where if you arrive late you're either creaking your neck looking up and straining your eyes from a distance.
I'd love to, but for the price of seeing one movie at a set time (admittedly in a very nice environment) I can subscribe to Netflix and watch anything they have the time of my choosing for a month.
People must have nicer cinemas around them than me. To me a cinema experience includes:
* Sticky Floors
* Uncomfortable Seats
* Way too loud Sound System
* AC that is almost always freezing my nads off.
I don't remember ever going to a cinema that I would consider a nice environment. Some are nicer than others, but every cinema I have been to has been dirty and uncomfortable.
That hasn't made it "all over" yet.
I've never even heard of the concept. I look forwards to them reaching my neck of the woods, although, if I'm honest, it won't make me go to the cinema more often- it'll just make me go to the no-kid theatres instead of the kid-theatres.
I'm fairly sure the National Association of Theatre Owners have not been putting 2% of their budget towards defense spending.
Would a nice glass of Pizza-ade do instead?
Someone needs to write the algorithms that help determine who the liberals are based upon their now publicly available internet browsing history.
Let me guess, hetried to throw you, but you were caught?
I take exception to that.