Whats wrong with the date notation? It matches the exact way dates are spoken.
You say "March 8th 2013"
That exactly matches 3/8/2013
Because it's ambiguous in shorthand. How do I know it's not actually August 3rd? Some nations do use that notation for the very same flawed reasoning: because that's how you say it. But even in the same language, some locales use different expressions.
US English expresses it as "March eighth", where British English would normally say "eighth of March", hence the different shorthand notations. I don't think I need to explain how this ambiguity can cause confusion and mix-ups.
2013-03-08 is perfectly clear and logical, it's expressed on the order of most-to-least significant, it sorts numerically without additional computation and there's no ambiguity.
DST is the one of the stupidest concepts ever created to "save energy".
You want to save energy? Build more efficient buildings with better insulation. Use better windows with better seals and better weather protection when closed. Use your fucking brain and open those windows on a breezy day for cooling and fresh air, close them if it gets too warm or the when the wind dies down. Have larger windows that allow in light and heat from that gigantic free glowing energy source outside, with good blinds when you need to block it.
Guess what? In winter, hot incandescent lights are a *good* thing (and they don't contain carcinogens, which is nice), and you'll use them more in winter when you naturally have less daylight anyway.
But in summer? There's enough daylight that you should really never even need to use artificial light in a properly designed building. One hour either way isn't going to make a shit of a difference.
Look, yes, it's important to be respectful and polite and blah, blah, blah... but, at some point, you have to admit it that a lot of it smells like bullshit snobbery. And, at some point, all those invented "manners" are superseded by what's simply reasonable. Others, like not chewing with your mouth open, are so obvious that they're not even worth mentioning.
But, I mean, the correct way to cut a piece of meat or the correct order in which to slice it? Who the hell cares?
Small wonder business people take so damn long to do anything, they're so caught up in all the piddly, useless bullshit that they have no brain space left to concentrate on getting shit done.
Funny thing is, piracy, as it were, is actually a *good* thing for the fashion industry and any other industry (including iDoodads) that sells snobism.
Copycats drive more business for the brands that they copy as customers want the "real thing" in its latest iteration rather than the knockoff, even if only so they can scoff at people who buy the cheap stuff.
Yeah, I don't get it either, but that's really how it works.
I struggle to think of a situation more aptly described with the term "prosecutorial misconduct"
He was intimidated and bullied by the force of the US government, which stretched, contorted and perverted a dated and obsolete law designed to prevent people from hacking ATMs, not copy documents (created with public money) from a computer in a slightly and ambiguously shady way.
But we all know they acted with extreme prejudice and vengeance because of the PACER situation (even though he didn't actually do anything illegal, just pissed off the establishment which moved too slowly in the age of digital technology)
Fun trivia: by the definition they extrapolated from the CFAA, you're committing a felony just by browsing public websites everyday. Selective enforcement for everyone!
Or, in the situations where you're initiating contact... just don't. It's seriously getting to the point where, unless your life is in grave and immediate danger, it's just better not to involve the police.
Watch that. Then watch it again. Then watch it a million times and memorize it.
Also expand it to apply to prosecutors, potential witnesses and, frankly, *anyone* that might possibly have the slightest reason not to have your best interests in mind (ie.: anyone other than your retained counsel)
There is nothing you can say, do, express, explain or expound that can help you in any way. You have the right to remain silent and it is *ALWAYS* in your best interest to do so. It's not that anything you say may be used against you, it's that it absolutely, most definitely, most assuredly will be. And they will twist, manipulate and pervert anything and everything to fit the preconceived ends they already had in mind before they even met you.
As they say, you can beat the rap, but you can't beat the ride. Give them nothing.
x86 runs practically every desktop, laptop, server and every dedicated, non- embedded computing device (with the exception of phones and tablets, but those are so crippled by comparison to a real computer that I struggle to identify them as non-embedded). The general software support is inescapably vast and the user base even more so.
ARM software still sucks and is comparatively crippled. My phone is roughly as powerful as the laptop I bought 5 years ago, but is nowhere near half as capable because it's hogtied by piddly, ad-laden, consumption-centric software (y'know all that great freeware that you can get for x86 systems that people wrote because they enjoyed it and not just to squeeze ten fucking dollars a month from ads and other bullshit? Yeah, that doesn't really exist in the mobile software space, at least not yet)
Yes, at this point, maybe it is a kludge of workarounds on top of compatibility layers on top of conversion systems, but it works and works well nonetheless.
Every company is getting way too fucking greedy, forcing upgrading when it's *really* not necessary (who needs anything since Office 2000?), general computing is going the way of the dodo in favor of Apple-esque walled gardens, every laptop has turned into a glorified VCR with shit-for-keyboards, every awesome technological development is shut down for bullshit legal reasons because paper pushing middleman jackass wouldn't get his cut for doing something useless and obviated by technology...
Remember when tech companies used to do things because they were genuinely useful?
Fuck this whole damn planet, we can't get to Mars soon enough and establish a technocracy ruled by logic, science and reason.
Yeah, OK, that rant was a little off topic, so I'll balance it out by signing off with, fuck you Microsoft with your bullshit greed-based business models.
Those weren't exactly the words that entered my mind when I watched Shuttleworth demo the OS (go see it for your yourself on YouTube). No, for me, it was more like "clunky" and "cumbersome".
I'm not sure am interface that's based entirely on various swipe gestures is really the best balance.
The way the left app bar shows up every time you swipe left through your running programs will get annoying pretty quickly.
Or the fact that you need to swipe through your running programs in a next/previous fashion (I actually need to manually remember all the software I'm running at any given moment? How quaint). Google got this one right with Android 4: a dedicated button that opens a list with previews of everything running in its most recently used state.
The perceived lack of a main "get me outta here and back to where I started" screen makes it feel very claustrophobic.
I really want to like Ubuntu Mobile, but I don't think it's going to happen. Swipe is great for a number of things, but not everything. They took what was a neat, and sometimes useful element of UI design and went overkill with it.
It's probably more like: we don't want to actually spend the money to build out the infrastructure, we'd rather just keep providing service that's as piss-poor as we can get away with while continuing to jack the rates and bitch at the government for more handouts.
No, they believe (and rightly so) that *certain* rules shouldn't apply to *anyone* on the basis that those rules are bullshit, oppressive policies bought and paid for by powerful and connected corporations with the purpose of maintaining and increasing that power.
Yes, I will even defend FOX News on this. This is absolutely newsworthy and applicable to freedom of the press.
The extremely obvious reason why they want to suppress it is to minimize loss of fanship (though their fans have a pretty hardcore dedication, is that even possible anyway?) and loss of profit.
Fuck off NASCRAP.
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Whats wrong with the date notation? It matches the exact way dates are spoken.
You say "March 8th 2013"
That exactly matches 3/8/2013
Because it's ambiguous in shorthand. How do I know it's not actually August 3rd? Some nations do use that notation for the very same flawed reasoning: because that's how you say it. But even in the same language, some locales use different expressions.
US English expresses it as "March eighth", where British English would normally say "eighth of March", hence the different shorthand notations. I don't think I need to explain how this ambiguity can cause confusion and mix-ups.
2013-03-08 is perfectly clear and logical, it's expressed on the order of most-to-least significant, it sorts numerically without additional computation and there's no ambiguity.
DST is the one of the stupidest concepts ever created to "save energy".
You want to save energy? Build more efficient buildings with better insulation. Use better windows with better seals and better weather protection when closed. Use your fucking brain and open those windows on a breezy day for cooling and fresh air, close them if it gets too warm or the when the wind dies down. Have larger windows that allow in light and heat from that gigantic free glowing energy source outside, with good blinds when you need to block it.
Guess what? In winter, hot incandescent lights are a *good* thing (and they don't contain carcinogens, which is nice), and you'll use them more in winter when you naturally have less daylight anyway.
But in summer? There's enough daylight that you should really never even need to use artificial light in a properly designed building. One hour either way isn't going to make a shit of a difference.
DST is fucking stupid.
That's not at all surprising and I'm sure it's true of any industry, business and trade.
Just like we have PEBKAC, Luser and so on...
Please, oh, please let them be in some cameo, secondary or supportive-only roles. The last thing Episode VII needs to be is Return of the Geriatrics.
For NoScript!
Look, yes, it's important to be respectful and polite and blah, blah, blah... but, at some point, you have to admit it that a lot of it smells like bullshit snobbery. And, at some point, all those invented "manners" are superseded by what's simply reasonable. Others, like not chewing with your mouth open, are so obvious that they're not even worth mentioning.
But, I mean, the correct way to cut a piece of meat or the correct order in which to slice it? Who the hell cares?
Small wonder business people take so damn long to do anything, they're so caught up in all the piddly, useless bullshit that they have no brain space left to concentrate on getting shit done.
Funny thing is, piracy, as it were, is actually a *good* thing for the fashion industry and any other industry (including iDoodads) that sells snobism.
Copycats drive more business for the brands that they copy as customers want the "real thing" in its latest iteration rather than the knockoff, even if only so they can scoff at people who buy the cheap stuff.
Yeah, I don't get it either, but that's really how it works.
Oh, c'mon, every week? You're exaggerating.
It's every day.
Horse and Shit.
I struggle to think of a situation more aptly described with the term "prosecutorial misconduct"
He was intimidated and bullied by the force of the US government, which stretched, contorted and perverted a dated and obsolete law designed to prevent people from hacking ATMs, not copy documents (created with public money) from a computer in a slightly and ambiguously shady way.
But we all know they acted with extreme prejudice and vengeance because of the PACER situation (even though he didn't actually do anything illegal, just pissed off the establishment which moved too slowly in the age of digital technology)
Fun trivia: by the definition they extrapolated from the CFAA, you're committing a felony just by browsing public websites everyday. Selective enforcement for everyone!
The main regional ISP in my area (Canada) just ran a TV spot about how the throughput is unlimited on all their plans.
http://xkcd.com/938/
That job better have also included lowering the max cache size, because dayum...
The correct answer is: "nope, sorry"
Or, in the situations where you're initiating contact... just don't. It's seriously getting to the point where, unless your life is in grave and immediate danger, it's just better not to involve the police.
And always worth reposting:
Don't Talk To The Police
Watch that. Then watch it again. Then watch it a million times and memorize it.
Also expand it to apply to prosecutors, potential witnesses and, frankly, *anyone* that might possibly have the slightest reason not to have your best interests in mind (ie.: anyone other than your retained counsel)
There is nothing you can say, do, express, explain or expound that can help you in any way. You have the right to remain silent and it is *ALWAYS* in your best interest to do so. It's not that anything you say may be used against you, it's that it absolutely, most definitely, most assuredly will be. And they will twist, manipulate and pervert anything and everything to fit the preconceived ends they already had in mind before they even met you.
As they say, you can beat the rap, but you can't beat the ride. Give them nothing.
x86 runs practically every desktop, laptop, server and every dedicated, non- embedded computing device (with the exception of phones and tablets, but those are so crippled by comparison to a real computer that I struggle to identify them as non-embedded). The general software support is inescapably vast and the user base even more so.
ARM software still sucks and is comparatively crippled. My phone is roughly as powerful as the laptop I bought 5 years ago, but is nowhere near half as capable because it's hogtied by piddly, ad-laden, consumption-centric software (y'know all that great freeware that you can get for x86 systems that people wrote because they enjoyed it and not just to squeeze ten fucking dollars a month from ads and other bullshit? Yeah, that doesn't really exist in the mobile software space, at least not yet)
Yes, at this point, maybe it is a kludge of workarounds on top of compatibility layers on top of conversion systems, but it works and works well nonetheless.
He didn't have to deal with an installed base.
Nothing puts people at ease like those wacky North Koreans!
Yeah, I think what he actually meant was that the law works darn near close to perfect *for them* ... as in "job security".
Every company is getting way too fucking greedy, forcing upgrading when it's *really* not necessary (who needs anything since Office 2000?), general computing is going the way of the dodo in favor of Apple-esque walled gardens, every laptop has turned into a glorified VCR with shit-for-keyboards, every awesome technological development is shut down for bullshit legal reasons because paper pushing middleman jackass wouldn't get his cut for doing something useless and obviated by technology...
Remember when tech companies used to do things because they were genuinely useful?
Fuck this whole damn planet, we can't get to Mars soon enough and establish a technocracy ruled by logic, science and reason.
Yeah, OK, that rant was a little off topic, so I'll balance it out by signing off with, fuck you Microsoft with your bullshit greed-based business models.
Those weren't exactly the words that entered my mind when I watched Shuttleworth demo the OS (go see it for your yourself on YouTube). No, for me, it was more like "clunky" and "cumbersome".
I'm not sure am interface that's based entirely on various swipe gestures is really the best balance.
The way the left app bar shows up every time you swipe left through your running programs will get annoying pretty quickly.
Or the fact that you need to swipe through your running programs in a next/previous fashion (I actually need to manually remember all the software I'm running at any given moment? How quaint). Google got this one right with Android 4: a dedicated button that opens a list with previews of everything running in its most recently used state.
The perceived lack of a main "get me outta here and back to where I started" screen makes it feel very claustrophobic.
I really want to like Ubuntu Mobile, but I don't think it's going to happen. Swipe is great for a number of things, but not everything. They took what was a neat, and sometimes useful element of UI design and went overkill with it.
It's probably more like: we don't want to actually spend the money to build out the infrastructure, we'd rather just keep providing service that's as piss-poor as we can get away with while continuing to jack the rates and bitch at the government for more handouts.
No, they believe (and rightly so) that *certain* rules shouldn't apply to *anyone* on the basis that those rules are bullshit, oppressive policies bought and paid for by powerful and connected corporations with the purpose of maintaining and increasing that power.
Best comment ever.
Yeah, no. What we'll get then is: "mandatory scans, no patdowns".
Yes, I will even defend FOX News on this. This is absolutely newsworthy and applicable to freedom of the press. The extremely obvious reason why they want to suppress it is to minimize loss of fanship (though their fans have a pretty hardcore dedication, is that even possible anyway?) and loss of profit. Fuck off NASCRAP.