Why anyone would expect this to work 100% till the first service patch is beyond me.
Why anyone would expect brakes on cars to work 100% till the first service visit it beyond me.
Yes, I know the car analogy is always flawed, but why the hell should we always expect to have to wait $deity how long till the company decides that they'll finish getting things working?
If they say they support $techonology, I expect them to support it. Not halfway or a quarter way. Same with cars - if they advertise a car as having a feature, it bloody well has to have the feature, not just half of it or something like that.
I've had the unenviable pleasure of talking to support and not being able to follow their instructions because they only knew how to service the Danish (localized) version of Windows XP, and were completely unable to even figure out what programs they were running (file wise).
When they can't tell you, what information they want - only what the program is called in $random_language, it's kinda hard to help them help you.
Hell, I've had support people be in problems because I wasn't using Windows XP's native theme...
[...] I would want to make sure that any home I built in a disaster-prone area can survive the worst mother nature can throw at it[...]
How do you build a home that'll survive something like a 10 km diameter meteor hitting it? While that isn't the WORST mother nature can throw at it, I think it's pretty high up there...
Sentinel CEO John Cardillo told ABC News that the system functioned properly, because an actual sex offender existed with the same name, and a date of birth two years and two days apart from Davis.
I wonder how many Johbn Cardillo's exist in the sex offender databases. And I wonder how many kinda sorta have a similar birthday?
Nissan should simply state, that the car owners only bought the right to use a specific version of the key, and that they'll have to buy a new car, if they ruin the old key.
Ahh yes, and overnight put thousands of small businesses out of business. Again, like it or not, illegal immigrants do the work americans refuse to do.
Without coming out for or against the issue, I'd like to add something to that statement. "Illegal immigrants do the work Americans refuse to do at the current market price."
I think you mean "Illegal immigrants do the work Americans refuse to pay fair market price for".
After all, if there were not illegal immigrants to do the work, the market price would most likely rise to meet the demands of the market (ie buying work from workers), but hey - the employers are too cheap to pay for that.
I don't care what you really meant, but speaking as someone who saw tubgirl by accident, you're not enticing me in any way with a prase like "brown liquid" followed by "heaven". You keep that crap to yourself, ya hear?
First off, I'd love if you had a toggle (hard- or software, I don't care) on all the stuff that has lights, so those who wants them can turn them on, those who don't want them can turn them off to save power (and aparently frayed nerves) and maybe an option where you activates the lights for a short period of time to check a status and it'll die after that.
But some of these lights are idiotic. Not because they light, but because of the way they're made.
My Acer Aspire 1520 currently has two LEDs on the inside (under the screen and above the keyboard) indicating that it's turned on. And two that indicates that the wireless network is turned on. There's maybe 3" between the WiFi LEDs and maybe 5 between the ON LEDs. That's just fucking stupid. There's no idicattor that it's running on battieries, but there's one that indicates that it's charging the battery.
Then there's the on on the end of the power cord, sticking into the computer. That one's always on, if the powerbrick has power. That, to me, is something I'd love to have a temporary check on, but not permanent. I don't ALWAYS need to know that it's being fed power.
Lights on keyboards aren't really that easy to avoid. As someone said, you really need an indicator and short of fixed signs, that's not going away.
But why do I need to be reminded that my computer is sleeping by it blinking constantly? What's the point? Either it's off or it's not.
And what's with the insanely bright LEDs? As someone said, sure, we can cover them with tape, but that's not an ideal sollution.
Sure, each LED may only eat up something like 1 W each, and I've only got 3 ones that aren't needed on this laptop. But add it up for each and every item you have, it gets "bad". Sure, it may only be 20$ or so a year for an average household in the US. Then multiply that by 50 million households or however many there are in the US. Why waste a billion dollars on silly lighting, that noone "ever" uses? It's not like you're staring on your indicator LEDs constantly. Nor do you need them to light up your room when you're not there. And you can't really use them to read by either (just remember all the bithcing and moaning every time that's suggested in discussions about incandessent lightbulbs).
Is it having sex with a 6 year old girl? I would definately say so.
Is it having sex with a 16 year old girl? I would say no (age of concent in Denmark is 15), but others would say yes.
Is it having sex with a 75 year old elf girl? If you go by normal standards, 120 elf years roughly equates 18 human years, so I'd say yes.
Is it having sex with a 3 year old woman? Depending on the species I'd say no if it was Kes from ST:Voyager, as she's obviously sexually mature (and played by a 30-year old woman in the series).
When dealing with regular humans, it's easy to tell.
When dealing with human characters, as others act out their feelings and reactions (as in Juliette, as someone pointed out above, who is only 13 years old), it becomes a bit more tricky.
How about furries? A skunk is sexually mature at 4-5 months(!) old, definately outside the range of 18 years, which many seem to think should be a solid mark for when it's no longer child pornography/exploitation. So, is a 2 year old skunk furry getting it on with a 6 year old Ocampan really child pornography/exploitation?
What kind of line can you possibly draw, that doesn't end up being completely fucked up in the first place?
And why settle for 18 years of age? Some countries have an age of concent of 21. And some outright outlaw prematital sex, so that's right out too. Oh, and killing... that's really bad too. And gambling. And I'm sure some would argue that women walking around outside without being escorted by men while wearing a burkha or worse, should result in stoning, so women aren't allowed either.
Matt Boyd Matt Boyd Watcha gonna do, whatcha gonna do when they come for you Matt Boyd, Matt Boyd Watcha gonna do, watcha gonna do when they come for you
Hrmm... sounds like it's able to output values to a monitor?
How about putting a capture unit in between the controller and the monitor?
That'd allow you to do all kinds of manipulations to the data you get, without altering the controller, and without affecting the direct output to the monitors.
You'd be working on graphics, but you already know where all the interesting numbers are, so you "simply" do OCR on the interesting parts of the picture. Then dump the numbers into an appropriate database and do your datamining from there.
Would be doable for the price of a capture unit, small computer and a few days (maybe a week) programming I'd think.
The main problem (as I see it) is that society seems to have a problem with people being sexually active - especially the women. After all, if men go out and have sex with four women in one night, we're cool cats, but if a woman has sex with four men in one night, she's a sleezy tramp and a cheap whore.
Someone mentioned swingers, but seems to think that they'll nail anything that walks, which isn't the case. They still need people they're sexually attracted to, and that their partners are okay with.
What they need is to find people who aren't just fit for the task, but are also mentally prepared for situations where they're constantly around women (women rarely have a problem being around men all the time - it's men that have the problem with those urges), who aren't prone to jealousy, who don't buy in to the whole preconceived notion of "one person for life", and who's not too worried about sharing sexual partners with others (doesn't have to be at the same time though).
Sure, this doesn't stop people from falling in love and getting their feelings hurt, but reasonable people can cope with that - even when they're stuck with the same people constantly.
In other words, what they really need is a public and astronauts who aren't uptight against casual sex with random partners. Personally I think you'll find the biggest problem with society.
I fully agree with the GP post. An unlimited number of copies is unacceptable. I think we should be limited to a number of copies equaling our age in days - plus 70.
After all - that's not an unlimited copyright. I mean...
I don't troll for that... just seemed like you said you were an English teacher. That made those mistakes rather funny - or some would say rather typical of todays educational system.
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Yes, I know the car analogy is always flawed, but why the hell should we always expect to have to wait $deity how long till the company decides that they'll finish getting things working?
If they say they support $techonology, I expect them to support it. Not halfway or a quarter way. Same with cars - if they advertise a car as having a feature, it bloody well has to have the feature, not just half of it or something like that.
Why should software be any different?
I wouldn't be too sure ...
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I've had the unenviable pleasure of talking to support and not being able to follow their instructions because they only knew how to service the Danish (localized) version of Windows XP, and were completely unable to even figure out what programs they were running (file wise).
When they can't tell you, what information they want - only what the program is called in $random_language, it's kinda hard to help them help you.
Hell, I've had support people be in problems because I wasn't using Windows XP's native theme
Brane the size of a universe and they tell me to get ready to rumble...
Nissan should simply state, that the car owners only bought the right to use a specific version of the key, and that they'll have to buy a new car, if they ruin the old key.
After all, if there were not illegal immigrants to do the work, the market price would most likely rise to meet the demands of the market (ie buying work from workers), but hey - the employers are too cheap to pay for that.
I'm not sure which is worse ... knowing exactly what you're talking about OR getting turned on by the way you explained it ...
Kate Winslet? Nah ...
Kate Beckinsale? Hell yes!
First off, I'd love if you had a toggle (hard- or software, I don't care) on all the stuff that has lights, so those who wants them can turn them on, those who don't want them can turn them off to save power (and aparently frayed nerves) and maybe an option where you activates the lights for a short period of time to check a status and it'll die after that.
But some of these lights are idiotic. Not because they light, but because of the way they're made.
My Acer Aspire 1520 currently has two LEDs on the inside (under the screen and above the keyboard) indicating that it's turned on. And two that indicates that the wireless network is turned on. There's maybe 3" between the WiFi LEDs and maybe 5 between the ON LEDs. That's just fucking stupid. There's no idicattor that it's running on battieries, but there's one that indicates that it's charging the battery.
Then there's the on on the end of the power cord, sticking into the computer. That one's always on, if the powerbrick has power. That, to me, is something I'd love to have a temporary check on, but not permanent. I don't ALWAYS need to know that it's being fed power.
Lights on keyboards aren't really that easy to avoid. As someone said, you really need an indicator and short of fixed signs, that's not going away.
But why do I need to be reminded that my computer is sleeping by it blinking constantly? What's the point? Either it's off or it's not.
And what's with the insanely bright LEDs? As someone said, sure, we can cover them with tape, but that's not an ideal sollution.
Sure, each LED may only eat up something like 1 W each, and I've only got 3 ones that aren't needed on this laptop. But add it up for each and every item you have, it gets "bad". Sure, it may only be 20$ or so a year for an average household in the US. Then multiply that by 50 million households or however many there are in the US. Why waste a billion dollars on silly lighting, that noone "ever" uses? It's not like you're staring on your indicator LEDs constantly. Nor do you need them to light up your room when you're not there. And you can't really use them to read by either (just remember all the bithcing and moaning every time that's suggested in discussions about incandessent lightbulbs).
Is it having sex with a 6 year old girl?
... that's really bad too. And gambling. And I'm sure some would argue that women walking around outside without being escorted by men while wearing a burkha or worse, should result in stoning, so women aren't allowed either.
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I would definately say so.
Is it having sex with a 16 year old girl?
I would say no (age of concent in Denmark is 15), but others would say yes.
Is it having sex with a 75 year old elf girl?
If you go by normal standards, 120 elf years roughly equates 18 human years, so I'd say yes.
Is it having sex with a 3 year old woman?
Depending on the species I'd say no if it was Kes from ST:Voyager, as she's obviously sexually mature (and played by a 30-year old woman in the series).
When dealing with regular humans, it's easy to tell.
When dealing with human characters, as others act out their feelings and reactions (as in Juliette, as someone pointed out above, who is only 13 years old), it becomes a bit more tricky.
How about furries? A skunk is sexually mature at 4-5 months(!) old, definately outside the range of 18 years, which many seem to think should be a solid mark for when it's no longer child pornography/exploitation. So, is a 2 year old skunk furry getting it on with a 6 year old Ocampan really child pornography/exploitation?
What kind of line can you possibly draw, that doesn't end up being completely fucked up in the first place?
And why settle for 18 years of age? Some countries have an age of concent of 21. And some outright outlaw prematital sex, so that's right out too. Oh, and killing
And on and on and on
Matt Boyd Matt Boyd
Watcha gonna do, whatcha gonna do
when they come for you
Matt Boyd, Matt Boyd
Watcha gonna do, watcha gonna do
when they come for you
Hrmm ... sounds like it's able to output values to a monitor?
How about putting a capture unit in between the controller and the monitor?
That'd allow you to do all kinds of manipulations to the data you get, without altering the controller, and without affecting the direct output to the monitors.
You'd be working on graphics, but you already know where all the interesting numbers are, so you "simply" do OCR on the interesting parts of the picture. Then dump the numbers into an appropriate database and do your datamining from there.
Would be doable for the price of a capture unit, small computer and a few days (maybe a week) programming I'd think.
And then the trick is to get around the lamenessfilter
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The fun part is that so far you have 1 (one!) non-caucasian school shooter. Why don't they arrest all the caucasian kids in those schools?
The main problem (as I see it) is that society seems to have a problem with people being sexually active - especially the women. After all, if men go out and have sex with four women in one night, we're cool cats, but if a woman has sex with four men in one night, she's a sleezy tramp and a cheap whore.
Someone mentioned swingers, but seems to think that they'll nail anything that walks, which isn't the case. They still need people they're sexually attracted to, and that their partners are okay with.
What they need is to find people who aren't just fit for the task, but are also mentally prepared for situations where they're constantly around women (women rarely have a problem being around men all the time - it's men that have the problem with those urges), who aren't prone to jealousy, who don't buy in to the whole preconceived notion of "one person for life", and who's not too worried about sharing sexual partners with others (doesn't have to be at the same time though).
Sure, this doesn't stop people from falling in love and getting their feelings hurt, but reasonable people can cope with that - even when they're stuck with the same people constantly.
In other words, what they really need is a public and astronauts who aren't uptight against casual sex with random partners. Personally I think you'll find the biggest problem with society.
Like this guy? I think that's completely mess with them
I fully agree with the GP post. An unlimited number of copies is unacceptable. I think we should be limited to a number of copies equaling our age in days - plus 70.
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After all - that's not an unlimited copyright. I mean
I don't troll for that ... just seemed like you said you were an English teacher. That made those mistakes rather funny - or some would say rather typical of todays educational system.
But her liver condition certainly has nothing to do with that.