- It sucks ass getting a flat in a car on a long trip, since most modern cars have a toy tire, or worse, tire goop and an inflator ("clown shoes" as I like to call it). Many SUVs offer a full size spare--extremely handy!
One can purchase a full size spare and doing so is cheaper than buying an SUV for the option of a full size spare.
Hope you don't ever intend to carry anything, because a full size wheel likely won't fit where the skinny wheelbarrow tyre of a spare used to be. There's a reason they're called space savers.
I absolutely HATE HATE HATE those things. AC is right, those things suck major balls. I used to get a lot of punctures because the street where I lived was basically a tip strewn with rubbish (there was an alleyway where people would dump things, then bored yobs would come along and smash the things). Wasn't uncommon to start the day with a flat tyre.
Space saver spares are no good if you do a lot of motorway driving like I do, because you can't go over 50mph with them. Get used to having lorries tailgating you because to them it seems like you're just needless slowing down traffic. The sensible thing to do in that situation is wait for a tyre shop to open and get it fixed before going to work but then you'll have your asshole boss bitch at you for being late (and he's terribly suspicious about yet another flat tyre...). I know that you're supposed to use the compact spare to go to the nearest tyre shop ASAP to get the proper wheel fixed, because it's a scientifically proven fact that punctures only ever happen during business hours and everyone knows the location of all tyre shops throughout the country. It's impossible to get a puncture after 5pm...
Remember I wrote that the fullsize wheel won't fit where the compact one is? You'll have to put it in the boot (trunk), hope you were not carrying anything there. Enjoy having the filthy wheel muck up the boot. In my last car the wheel wouldn't even fit in the boot unless the rear seats where put down. I guess I'm supposed to just dump my rear passengers (and their stuff in the boot to make room for the wheel) on the side of the road.
In summary, fuck compact spares. Next time I'm car shopping those things are going to be a deal breaker for me.
Yeah, so what if the box is hard to open? Big deal.
It made me think of the animated Dilbert episode where he accidentally introduces a marketing departmental to a successful company:
Marketing:...and there's a squeaking sound when you take it out of the box. Dilbert: You mean the styrofoam? Marketing: That's a LOSER sound! It field tested very badly!
I agree you with, I just didn't express my point well. I think I've heard some linguistics express objections at English being the world's defacto technical language. A sign of the evil oppressive colonial past and an artefact of Anglo-centric privilege! And it's crass too, we should embrace the full gamut of how the human experience is expressed! Where is the soul in writing everything in English?!
Unfortunately I could see Babylscript being embraced by those with nationalistic axes to grind. Kind of like how French ATC will speak to French pilots in French (while everyone else uses English).
I don't really see the advantage in this. You would be deliberately segregating yourself from the wider development community, and for what?
Yeah, it's just national pride. Good job trying to use libraries. I guess we can look forward to the day when jQuery, etc, has to be translated into all the worlds languages! Can you imagine a Arabic programmer trying to use a French and Russian libraries in a project? This sounds like some linguist's wet dream for preserving the diversity, heritage, and beauty of human languages.
Finally use English programmers change the appearance of GUI widgets by their colour property!
This might be a bit imperialistic, but is a programmer who is not comfortable with English a good programmer? Since there is so much technical info in English, if your English skill aren't they good then you are going to miss out on a lot of good info. I seem to recall an interview with Linus Torvalds where he said that because all source code, etc, he ever saw was in English it never even occurred to him to code in his native language. Someone who wants JavaScript in their native tongue has probably only just picked up "Learn JavaScript in 24 hours"...two hours ago.
It sucks, but that's just the world today. In a related way. notice how employment contracts mention that you're liable for any damage you cause to company property, but they're not liable if they damage your property? Or how they expect you to consistently work unpaid overtime; expect you to be available on call when you're at home/on leave; and generally expect it to be no big deal to impose on your own time outside work. But if you have to spend some work time to deal with even an minor personal issue then suddenly there's a huge stink made about the impact it's having on business continuity; costing the company time etc. I'm talking about small things like phoning the doctor to make an appointment (using your own mobile!), personal conversations with other staff (they want team bonding, but you can only talk about things immediately relating to work?), being ten minutes late become of unexpected roadworks, etc.
It seems we're just here to be used by companies (either as customers or employers), we exist only to make other people wealthy.
Agree, this is not remarkable (unless maybe they got the new space one ported too). The N9 already has Angry Birds (not the new space one) so it's probably damn near the same code and so likely only a small effort to bring it to their phone.
So not only is it like spending time with the local prostitute, but she already happened to be in the hotel you booked anyway because she was already hired to service another client there anyway!
I know, but I can avoid the obviously Sony branded stuff. It would be like trying to buy a phone that doesn't have some Samsung parts inside it. Samsung would rather you buy a Galaxy instead of an iPhone, even though the iPhone has Samsung parts.
The Nokia N9 (MeeGo based) scores well on those points. That's why people are trying to give MeeGo a 2nd chance even though Nokia gave MeeGo a death sentence.
Who among us treats a rental with the same tender care we treat our own cars?
Well since you were asking, me. I don't know why I'm like this, but I don't feel that just because something isn't mine I can basically vandalise it.
I think I returned the last hire car I had cleaner than how I received it, heh. Mostly because I wanted to avoid the bogus sounding "£50 valeting charge if returned dirty" penalty.
The world doesn't need another mobile OS, it doesn't matter how good it is..
Why not? I've heard that statement before and I don't think I entirely go along with it. Is it because those other players don't stand a chance against the current evil empire? If a new mobile OS can do something better than the existing ones then why wouldn't you want it. The world benefits from someone introducing a disruptive new technology. That's true for more than just mobile phones.
it is pretty difficult to unlock the handcuffs even you if had and could reach the key
Difficult is not impossible and with enough practice difficult becomes easy.
Keys can be in the mouth, swallowed
Swallowed?! I'd like to see someone escape using that one! Actually no I wouldn't like to see that. It's probably already on the Internet one some sick fetish site I want no part of.
As an N9 owner it's been a shame to see a great phone not achieve it's potential. I wish them luck, but I can't get excited about this just yet. Without the N9's excellent swipe UI MeeGo could just turn out to be yet another plain phone. The swipe UI, which seems to be what a lot of people seem to be mistaking for "MeeGo" is actually Nokia's own proprietary UI. The N9 is not straight pure MeeGo, any future products are unlikely to resemble the N9.
Unfortunately I can't help but be reminded of the Amiga's dying days when it seemed to be getting passed from one owner to another with promises of future models and the community eagerly believing in that news...and then nothing ever showing up. I'd like to see some diversification of the Apple/Android split of the smartphone market, but I'll only believe it when I see it.
Services going off are just a part of life. I don't expect to claim compensation when I burn more fuel stuck in roadworks, or for when I have to buy bottled water because the mains are turned off for emergency repairs. Not having phone service for two days that you've paid for is inconvenient, but the mobile networks seem to do well enough when it comes to uptime. I've had a mobile for 12 years and I've only ever noticed the service being down two maybe three times. YMMV but that's been my experience on a plain consumer contract.
If we get compensated for the slightest outage all that'll happen is costs will go up and lawyers will get rich writing up the rules about when and how compo gets paid out. I'm not in favour of doing things that end up just making lawyers richer, they're doing alright as is! But I wouldn't challenge the claim that regular people do get financially dinged a lot by employers and organisations when it comes to charges for "damages", unusual requests, etc. I'm not a corporate apologist.
Now we're finally hearing of the important consequences of O2's network being down. I couldn't help but be irritated at how this was being reported in the news. Hysterical accounts of how Joe. Q. Public couldn't use their mobile. One news paper even found it news worthy to report that someone on twitter said they missed a phone call from their daughter! Wow, that really sounds like a living nightmare. Of course, there is also the inevitable talk of compensation... SPOILER: most people use their phones for inconsequential, inane yacking. For most people mobiles are a convenient toy they can live without. I hope it was just the news stirring things up and that we haven't all been reduced to being whiny cry babies. My mobile was affected (GiffGaff) but somehow I managed to deal with it and get on with life.
My sympathy is entirely with the engineers who would have certainly been under immense pressure to get this fixed ASAP, and to also provide a totally useless "ETA to resolution". Urgh, I've been there:(
I think in reality that girlintraining was going for the +Funny mods with that one. I could not imagine anything more absurd or implausible to present to the/. crowd. Seriously.
You're absolutely spot on there. This is my pet peeve because my employer is doing the same thing. My employer's product is getting outdated, the competitors are closing in. We know what needs to be done but I'm never given the go-ahead (I'm the s/w dev manager) because...it'd cost money. My employer's company is loaded (for now), so money should not be an issue.
Unless a customer is paying for a change (like you said, changes need to be paid for in an order) it doesn't get done. Some changes are very important, like making the product truly client/server (running as a Windows service) instead of a desktop app someone has to start. Customers have asked for that because our competition has this, I say "Give me two developers and six months", management say "it'll cost the customer too much in dev time". I'll never know why they imagine our customers will us pay to improve our product. And this isn't developmen bespoke to that customer, this is getting our customers to pay for changes that we'll roll into the main product for all our other customers. It's considered that if the dev's salary isn't being paid for by orders then the developer is losing the company money. HUH? Let's see how much it'll cost once sales start being lost to competitor products.
Sorry, off-topic rant over! But it's nice to see that my employer is keeping up with the latest business trends, heh.
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- It sucks ass getting a flat in a car on a long trip, since most modern cars have a toy tire, or worse, tire goop and an inflator ("clown shoes" as I like to call it). Many SUVs offer a full size spare--extremely handy!
One can purchase a full size spare and doing so is cheaper than buying an SUV for the option of a full size spare.
Hope you don't ever intend to carry anything, because a full size wheel likely won't fit where the skinny wheelbarrow tyre of a spare used to be. There's a reason they're called space savers.
I absolutely HATE HATE HATE those things. AC is right, those things suck major balls. I used to get a lot of punctures because the street where I lived was basically a tip strewn with rubbish (there was an alleyway where people would dump things, then bored yobs would come along and smash the things). Wasn't uncommon to start the day with a flat tyre.
Space saver spares are no good if you do a lot of motorway driving like I do, because you can't go over 50mph with them. Get used to having lorries tailgating you because to them it seems like you're just needless slowing down traffic. The sensible thing to do in that situation is wait for a tyre shop to open and get it fixed before going to work but then you'll have your asshole boss bitch at you for being late (and he's terribly suspicious about yet another flat tyre...). I know that you're supposed to use the compact spare to go to the nearest tyre shop ASAP to get the proper wheel fixed, because it's a scientifically proven fact that punctures only ever happen during business hours and everyone knows the location of all tyre shops throughout the country. It's impossible to get a puncture after 5pm...
Remember I wrote that the fullsize wheel won't fit where the compact one is? You'll have to put it in the boot (trunk), hope you were not carrying anything there. Enjoy having the filthy wheel muck up the boot. In my last car the wheel wouldn't even fit in the boot unless the rear seats where put down. I guess I'm supposed to just dump my rear passengers (and their stuff in the boot to make room for the wheel) on the side of the road.
In summary, fuck compact spares. Next time I'm car shopping those things are going to be a deal breaker for me.
Yeah, so what if the box is hard to open? Big deal.
It made me think of the animated Dilbert episode where he accidentally introduces a marketing departmental to a successful company:
Marketing: ...and there's a squeaking sound when you take it out of the box.
Dilbert: You mean the styrofoam?
Marketing: That's a LOSER sound! It field tested very badly!
I agree you with, I just didn't express my point well. I think I've heard some linguistics express objections at English being the world's defacto technical language. A sign of the evil oppressive colonial past and an artefact of Anglo-centric privilege! And it's crass too, we should embrace the full gamut of how the human experience is expressed! Where is the soul in writing everything in English?!
Unfortunately I could see Babylscript being embraced by those with nationalistic axes to grind. Kind of like how French ATC will speak to French pilots in French (while everyone else uses English).
I don't really see the advantage in this. You would be deliberately segregating yourself from the wider development community, and for what?
Yeah, it's just national pride. Good job trying to use libraries. I guess we can look forward to the day when jQuery, etc, has to be translated into all the worlds languages! Can you imagine a Arabic programmer trying to use a French and Russian libraries in a project? This sounds like some linguist's wet dream for preserving the diversity, heritage, and beauty of human languages.
Finally use English programmers change the appearance of GUI widgets by their colour property!
This might be a bit imperialistic, but is a programmer who is not comfortable with English a good programmer? Since there is so much technical info in English, if your English skill aren't they good then you are going to miss out on a lot of good info. I seem to recall an interview with Linus Torvalds where he said that because all source code, etc, he ever saw was in English it never even occurred to him to code in his native language. Someone who wants JavaScript in their native tongue has probably only just picked up "Learn JavaScript in 24 hours"...two hours ago.
It sucks, but that's just the world today. In a related way. notice how employment contracts mention that you're liable for any damage you cause to company property, but they're not liable if they damage your property? Or how they expect you to consistently work unpaid overtime; expect you to be available on call when you're at home/on leave; and generally expect it to be no big deal to impose on your own time outside work. But if you have to spend some work time to deal with even an minor personal issue then suddenly there's a huge stink made about the impact it's having on business continuity; costing the company time etc. I'm talking about small things like phoning the doctor to make an appointment (using your own mobile!), personal conversations with other staff (they want team bonding, but you can only talk about things immediately relating to work?), being ten minutes late become of unexpected roadworks, etc.
It seems we're just here to be used by companies (either as customers or employers), we exist only to make other people wealthy.
And (optionally I think) a DirectX 10 graphics card. I think that's even more implausible than the 1GB RAM. Did they port Office to WPF or something?
Yeahyeah I know, Direct 2D, fancy hardware accelerated text, etc. It's still kind of funny needing a GPU for documents.
Agree, this is not remarkable (unless maybe they got the new space one ported too). The N9 already has Angry Birds (not the new space one) so it's probably damn near the same code and so likely only a small effort to bring it to their phone.
So not only is it like spending time with the local prostitute, but she already happened to be in the hotel you booked anyway because she was already hired to service another client there anyway!
I know, but I can avoid the obviously Sony branded stuff. It would be like trying to buy a phone that doesn't have some Samsung parts inside it. Samsung would rather you buy a Galaxy instead of an iPhone, even though the iPhone has Samsung parts.
To judge from the amount of hate directed towards geohot, PS3 fans are a very vocal bunch...
The Nokia N9 (MeeGo based) scores well on those points. That's why people are trying to give MeeGo a 2nd chance even though Nokia gave MeeGo a death sentence.
It'll probably only work when it's placed between a chip manufactured with a genuine Sony Heat Spreader, and genuine Sony Heat Sink.
Who among us treats a rental with the same tender care we treat our own cars?
Well since you were asking, me. I don't know why I'm like this, but I don't feel that just because something isn't mine I can basically vandalise it.
I think I returned the last hire car I had cleaner than how I received it, heh. Mostly because I wanted to avoid the bogus sounding "£50 valeting charge if returned dirty" penalty.
And my sock drawer is a virtual gold mine!
I'm just glad it's not your underwear drawer.
The world doesn't need another mobile OS, it doesn't matter how good it is..
Why not? I've heard that statement before and I don't think I entirely go along with it. Is it because those other players don't stand a chance against the current evil empire? If a new mobile OS can do something better than the existing ones then why wouldn't you want it. The world benefits from someone introducing a disruptive new technology. That's true for more than just mobile phones.
it is pretty difficult to unlock the handcuffs even you if had and could reach the key
Difficult is not impossible and with enough practice difficult becomes easy.
Keys can be in the mouth, swallowed
Swallowed?! I'd like to see someone escape using that one! Actually no I wouldn't like to see that. It's probably already on the Internet one some sick fetish site I want no part of.
As an N9 owner it's been a shame to see a great phone not achieve it's potential. I wish them luck, but I can't get excited about this just yet. Without the N9's excellent swipe UI MeeGo could just turn out to be yet another plain phone. The swipe UI, which seems to be what a lot of people seem to be mistaking for "MeeGo" is actually Nokia's own proprietary UI. The N9 is not straight pure MeeGo, any future products are unlikely to resemble the N9.
Unfortunately I can't help but be reminded of the Amiga's dying days when it seemed to be getting passed from one owner to another with promises of future models and the community eagerly believing in that news...and then nothing ever showing up. I'd like to see some diversification of the Apple/Android split of the smartphone market, but I'll only believe it when I see it.
Services going off are just a part of life. I don't expect to claim compensation when I burn more fuel stuck in roadworks, or for when I have to buy bottled water because the mains are turned off for emergency repairs. Not having phone service for two days that you've paid for is inconvenient, but the mobile networks seem to do well enough when it comes to uptime. I've had a mobile for 12 years and I've only ever noticed the service being down two maybe three times. YMMV but that's been my experience on a plain consumer contract.
If we get compensated for the slightest outage all that'll happen is costs will go up and lawyers will get rich writing up the rules about when and how compo gets paid out. I'm not in favour of doing things that end up just making lawyers richer, they're doing alright as is! But I wouldn't challenge the claim that regular people do get financially dinged a lot by employers and organisations when it comes to charges for "damages", unusual requests, etc. I'm not a corporate apologist.
Now we're finally hearing of the important consequences of O2's network being down. I couldn't help but be irritated at how this was being reported in the news. Hysterical accounts of how Joe. Q. Public couldn't use their mobile. One news paper even found it news worthy to report that someone on twitter said they missed a phone call from their daughter! Wow, that really sounds like a living nightmare. Of course, there is also the inevitable talk of compensation... SPOILER: most people use their phones for inconsequential, inane yacking. For most people mobiles are a convenient toy they can live without. I hope it was just the news stirring things up and that we haven't all been reduced to being whiny cry babies. My mobile was affected (GiffGaff) but somehow I managed to deal with it and get on with life.
My sympathy is entirely with the engineers who would have certainly been under immense pressure to get this fixed ASAP, and to also provide a totally useless "ETA to resolution". Urgh, I've been there :(
Me too, but only because I thought they had photographed Pac-Man or Mario in space :(
I think in reality that girlintraining was going for the +Funny mods with that one. I could not imagine anything more absurd or implausible to present to the /. crowd. Seriously.
slashdot appreciates your efforts!
Say what? How would the typical /. reader appreciate women having easy access to contraception!?
(yeah yeah, someone has to write it).
You're absolutely spot on there. This is my pet peeve because my employer is doing the same thing. My employer's product is getting outdated, the competitors are closing in. We know what needs to be done but I'm never given the go-ahead (I'm the s/w dev manager) because...it'd cost money. My employer's company is loaded (for now), so money should not be an issue.
Unless a customer is paying for a change (like you said, changes need to be paid for in an order) it doesn't get done. Some changes are very important, like making the product truly client/server (running as a Windows service) instead of a desktop app someone has to start. Customers have asked for that because our competition has this, I say "Give me two developers and six months", management say "it'll cost the customer too much in dev time". I'll never know why they imagine our customers will us pay to improve our product. And this isn't developmen bespoke to that customer, this is getting our customers to pay for changes that we'll roll into the main product for all our other customers. It's considered that if the dev's salary isn't being paid for by orders then the developer is losing the company money. HUH? Let's see how much it'll cost once sales start being lost to competitor products.
Sorry, off-topic rant over! But it's nice to see that my employer is keeping up with the latest business trends, heh.
Yes. They killed the N9 so they could have:
1) A bite at Android's near 50% market share.
2) A bite at WP7's 2% market share.
I didn't realise that Elop meant that he wanted to jump onto a burning platform!