If you want to use if for a couple of months at $20/month you'll have to steal it. The $20 a month plan is only available to people who bought the perpetual license and are willing to sign up for a 12 month contract.
>difficulties many users have had with mastering the software, she added: 'The learning curve is definitely real.'"
Wow, just wow. It's not their fault it sucks, it's our fault for being too stupid to realize how awesome it is.
That is exactly what I thought. Microsoft, we are sorry that we can not figure out that our PC is also a tablet, somehow, even without a touch screen, or any desire to do tablet things with it.
We just want a checkbox to turn off the fucking Metro shit! Just the *OPTION* to turn it off.
I used to (had no choice at a previous place I was renting out on the Oregon Coast) - service was crap but usable. However, it was their billing department who turned a 'first two months free!' promotion into a 'I'm sorry sir, but you owe us $126 before we can re-instate your service', in spite of never missing a payment. The nanosecond Charter showed up in the neighborhood a month later, I switched so fast that I could have almost not dropped a packet.
All I can say is - never again. Compare Centurylink's $70/mo for 3.5 Mb/sec and maybe 70-75% uptime, with Charter's $30/mo 30 Mb/sec and 99.999% uptime.
I'm sorry to hear about that. Thank you for sharing the details. I'm sorry that the doctors jumped the gun based on a family history without considering the other possible physical and organic causes. That's the whole point of psychiatrists being M.D.'s: they're supposed to think like medical doctors so that they can rule out things like tumors in the brain or infections that could cause symptoms. I'm also glad you're healthy again. Best wishes for the future.
Yeah, the DSM says you are depressed, take this SSRI.
Sure, they can build a flying car, but it will never become mainstream. It doesn't matter how safe you can make them, the drivers are still going to be idiots. Think about all the morons you see causing or nearly causing accidents every day. Now imagine those same idiots trying to deal with three dimensions. "All of humanity" are too stupid to drive a flying car.
I think that two dimensions of movement is already too confusing for many drivers, so god knows they don't need three! I can think of some drivers that would be better off with one, kinda like a car on rails, or train car.
I wish LibreOffice would adopt it instead of huge wall-of-text menus I have to hunt through.
Add an emphatic, "no I do not want this feature in LibreOffice", vote. Most of the reason that I use LibreOffice is because MS Office is a bloated confusing piece of shit.
You are right, from the lens of preventing that spontanious type of violence, the polymer gun is a pretty different and difficult problem. In that scenario, unlike with a shooting spree, the offender really only needs one bullet to do something horrible. One or two.22LR bullets would be very easy to smuggle through a metal detector checkpoint.
Another concern is that someone could readily make something that did not even look like a gun at all.
Right, just like existing polymer weapons are smuggled everywhere.
Well, okay, existing polymer weapons are (presumably expensive) black-market items designed specifically for getting past security checkpoints, and thus likely to only be used by profesionals, wheras these are non-metalic by default unless you go out of your way to make them detectable...
I suppose this bodes ill for security checkpoints in schools and elsewhere - if the cheapest and easiest weapons for an unbalanced teenager to get their hands on can't be easily detected then we're faced with the choice of either letting underpaid security guards strip-search our children on a daily basis (either physically or with scanners of some sort), or admit that the security checkpoints are pointless. Gods I hope we choose the latter.
But the cheepest and easiest weapons for unbalanced teenagers will *not* be polymer guns with rare, exotic, possibly imaginary, non-metallic ammunition. Conventional bullets are made of metal, lots of metal. Even more-so in all plastic guns than in any other weapon, the shell casing is essential, because it is then the only part of the gun which can handle the forces and pressures involved in firing a bullet.
Security checkpoints are a little better than putting up a GUN FREE ZONE sign (which by definition keeps only those who abide by laws out), but do you think that a rent-a-cop with a metal detector will be a major hurdle to someone on a shooting spree?
I don't think this gun is designed to be smuggled through metal detectors. It's designed to be made at home, hence the reason it's made primarily of plastic.
The article opines deeply and incessantly about how these terrible made at home guns will be smuggled by anyone and everyone into secured areas.
Visual Studio with a refactoring plugin (for example ReSharper) can mitigate this problem a lot. You should get licenses to the both and I can guarantee that working with your colleague will be much easier from that point on.
We are ignoring a good point here though, a code re-format tool can mitigate the rage associated with many code format styles.
Elegant is supposed to be readable. They're supposed to be the same. If you write code no one understands, it's not elegant, it's obtuse.
I think the word alen was looking for was "clever" code. This is where someone works the code down in to 3 lines, or uses an obtuse feature of the language to do something because it just packs everything into an "elegant" little package. Sure, it looks really good when you write it. When you explain it to people they say, wow that makes a lot of sense. Still, three years down the road maybe even the programmer looks at it and has no clue.
There's getting the job done, and there's getting the job done in a way that can be maintained by someone else in the future. The only way you should let someone continue developing an unmaintainable mess is when there is absolutely no chance it will ever need to be fixed or added to. I have yet to see that happen.
We only know that his coworker is whiiiining about his diagrams. Odds are the diagrams are in the trash by the time the code works, so not much to do with a maintainer anyways. The code could be perfectly maintainable.
Nothing short of a Soviet Workers America can stop the genocidal depradations of the killer gang of Wall Street/Washington.
Because I am sure that there is not ubiquitous surveillance and drones operating after these fabulous revolutions. Kinda like in China, North Korea, Russia, Cuba,.... Maybe you better rethink that plan.
But they are used extensively while processing audio signals to digital ones.
little credit card readers that attach to your phone via headphone jacks.
The OP specified something that plugs into the analog microphone jack of a phone to transfer digital information from a credit card, so I would say a DFT is probably occurring somewhere in there.:)
because imagine a world where 98% of sites were made with flash because flash worked everywhere. imagine a world where every fucking site had right click disabled because "hey it's cool and protects our images!"(IT DOES FUCKING NOT, it's just annoying).
Usually I discover this by accident while doing something completely unrelated to saving any image at all... at this point I download the picture out of principle.
I've never heard of a free operating system called "GNU/Linux!"
In Stallman's GNU/Linux, every utility is a reinvention of an existing project, and every package is brutally out of date, if even present. Think Debian...
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I can't be the only one who's thinking it needs to support a Fleshlight attachment...
This prosthetic hand is for a woman, who is going to lose her hands. Are you fucking serious that this is the best thing you can think of to say?
If you want to use if for a couple of months at $20/month you'll have to steal it. The $20 a month plan is only available to people who bought the perpetual license and are willing to sign up for a 12 month contract.
The contract termination fee is negligible.
"Cloud" storage. And I'm not going to pay for it.
Why would you? "Clouds" can easily disintegrate in a matter of minutes, leaving nothing but blue sky behind.
The water vapor in clouds can sometimes condense, and fall from the sky to earth in the form of rain or snow.
>difficulties many users have had with mastering the software, she added: 'The learning curve is definitely real.'"
Wow, just wow. It's not their fault it sucks, it's our fault for being too stupid to realize how awesome it is.
That is exactly what I thought. Microsoft, we are sorry that we can not figure out that our PC is also a tablet, somehow, even without a touch screen, or any desire to do tablet things with it.
We just want a checkbox to turn off the fucking Metro shit! Just the *OPTION* to turn it off.
Are the majority of /. readers using Centurylink?
I used to (had no choice at a previous place I was renting out on the Oregon Coast) - service was crap but usable. However, it was their billing department who turned a 'first two months free!' promotion into a 'I'm sorry sir, but you owe us $126 before we can re-instate your service', in spite of never missing a payment. The nanosecond Charter showed up in the neighborhood a month later, I switched so fast that I could have almost not dropped a packet.
All I can say is - never again. Compare Centurylink's $70/mo for 3.5 Mb/sec and maybe 70-75% uptime, with Charter's $30/mo 30 Mb/sec and 99.999% uptime.
Fuck Centurylink.
We went Cox Business and never looked back!
I'm sorry to hear about that. Thank you for sharing the details. I'm sorry that the doctors jumped the gun based on a family history without considering the other possible physical and organic causes. That's the whole point of psychiatrists being M.D.'s: they're supposed to think like medical doctors so that they can rule out things like tumors in the brain or infections that could cause symptoms. I'm also glad you're healthy again. Best wishes for the future.
Yeah, the DSM says you are depressed, take this SSRI.
I would mod this +1
Sure, they can build a flying car, but it will never become mainstream. It doesn't matter how safe you can make them, the drivers are still going to be idiots. Think about all the morons you see causing or nearly causing accidents every day. Now imagine those same idiots trying to deal with three dimensions. "All of humanity" are too stupid to drive a flying car.
I think that two dimensions of movement is already too confusing for many drivers, so god knows they don't need three! I can think of some drivers that would be better off with one, kinda like a car on rails, or train car.
I wish LibreOffice would adopt it instead of huge wall-of-text menus I have to hunt through.
Add an emphatic, "no I do not want this feature in LibreOffice", vote. Most of the reason that I use LibreOffice is because MS Office is a bloated confusing piece of shit.
I am STILL running Vista on one of the computers I use daily. I find it to be equally stable and useful to Windows 7.
We can see why the new XKCD comics have been lacking any humor or quality....
You are right, from the lens of preventing that spontanious type of violence, the polymer gun is a pretty different and difficult problem. In that scenario, unlike with a shooting spree, the offender really only needs one bullet to do something horrible. One or two .22LR bullets would be very easy to smuggle through a metal detector checkpoint.
Another concern is that someone could readily make something that did not even look like a gun at all.
Right, just like existing polymer weapons are smuggled everywhere.
Well, okay, existing polymer weapons are (presumably expensive) black-market items designed specifically for getting past security checkpoints, and thus likely to only be used by profesionals, wheras these are non-metalic by default unless you go out of your way to make them detectable...
I suppose this bodes ill for security checkpoints in schools and elsewhere - if the cheapest and easiest weapons for an unbalanced teenager to get their hands on can't be easily detected then we're faced with the choice of either letting underpaid security guards strip-search our children on a daily basis (either physically or with scanners of some sort), or admit that the security checkpoints are pointless. Gods I hope we choose the latter.
But the cheepest and easiest weapons for unbalanced teenagers will *not* be polymer guns with rare, exotic, possibly imaginary, non-metallic ammunition. Conventional bullets are made of metal, lots of metal. Even more-so in all plastic guns than in any other weapon, the shell casing is essential, because it is then the only part of the gun which can handle the forces and pressures involved in firing a bullet.
Security checkpoints are a little better than putting up a GUN FREE ZONE sign (which by definition keeps only those who abide by laws out), but do you think that a rent-a-cop with a metal detector will be a major hurdle to someone on a shooting spree?
I don't think this gun is designed to be smuggled through metal detectors. It's designed to be made at home, hence the reason it's made primarily of plastic.
The article opines deeply and incessantly about how these terrible made at home guns will be smuggled by anyone and everyone into secured areas.
You might smuggle the gun through a metal detector, but has nobody stopped to think that BULLETS ARE MADE OF METAL?!?!?
Visual Studio with a refactoring plugin (for example ReSharper) can mitigate this problem a lot. You should get licenses to the both and I can guarantee that working with your colleague will be much easier from that point on.
We are ignoring a good point here though, a code re-format tool can mitigate the rage associated with many code format styles.
And do your job the best you can. Talking about quality code of seniors only can get you fired, or instead, more work.
At the very least you are wasting yourself a lot of time cleaning up someone's functional mess.
What would Linus Torvalds do?
He would probably be the old guy that the OP is complaining about, and the OP might just figure out EWTF Linus Torvalds would do....
Elegant is supposed to be readable. They're supposed to be the same. If you write code no one understands, it's not elegant, it's obtuse.
I think the word alen was looking for was "clever" code. This is where someone works the code down in to 3 lines, or uses an obtuse feature of the language to do something because it just packs everything into an "elegant" little package. Sure, it looks really good when you write it. When you explain it to people they say, wow that makes a lot of sense. Still, three years down the road maybe even the programmer looks at it and has no clue.
There's getting the job done, and there's getting the job done in a way that can be maintained by someone else in the future. The only way you should let someone continue developing an unmaintainable mess is when there is absolutely no chance it will ever need to be fixed or added to. I have yet to see that happen.
We only know that his coworker is whiiiining about his diagrams. Odds are the diagrams are in the trash by the time the code works, so not much to do with a maintainer anyways. The code could be perfectly maintainable.
Nothing short of a Soviet Workers America can stop the genocidal depradations of the killer gang of Wall Street/Washington.
Because I am sure that there is not ubiquitous surveillance and drones operating after these fabulous revolutions. Kinda like in China, North Korea, Russia, Cuba, .... Maybe you better rethink that plan.
FFTs are not used in magstrip reading software.
But they are used extensively while processing audio signals to digital ones.
little credit card readers that attach to your phone via headphone jacks.
The OP specified something that plugs into the analog microphone jack of a phone to transfer digital information from a credit card, so I would say a DFT is probably occurring somewhere in there. :)
No.
No thank you very much.
Not at all.
because imagine a world where 98% of sites were made with flash because flash worked everywhere. imagine a world where every fucking site had right click disabled because "hey it's cool and protects our images!"(IT DOES FUCKING NOT, it's just annoying).
Usually I discover this by accident while doing something completely unrelated to saving any image at all... at this point I download the picture out of principle.
I've never heard of a free operating system called "GNU/Linux!"
In Stallman's GNU/Linux, every utility is a reinvention of an existing project, and every package is brutally out of date, if even present. Think Debian...