Sending text messages while driving is an order of magnitude different from driving standard with one hand on the gearstick. Its like comparing apples to gravel.
I would hope the punishment for sending text messages on your cellphone WHILE driving would be damn severe, like getting beaten with a lead pipe until you can't walk for a year.
If I seem full of anger it is because my co-workers family is currently waiting to hear if his sister will ever be able to walk again. She was hit while crossing an intersection last week. The driver ran the red because he was trying to use his cellphone instead of watching the road.
Shut the fucking phones off, or at least get a headset if you can't find some way to extract your pathetic self from the phone for a few minutes.
Are we still talking about this? Seriously? Is there any new information here that hasn't been presented, seen, dissected and analysed yesterday, and the day before, and the one before that?
This reads like we are beating the same old dead horse over and over again.
Funny - that entire post just reminded me why I like the idea of Linux, but won't use it in my day to day life.....
To the great grandparent of this thread:
The Start button encapsulates ALL of the functionality of the system. It's not at all counterintuitive to me that you would click on that button to locate the Log Off and Shut Down button. If you insist on making the word fit, then think of it as the place you Start to look for any function you wish to perform.
At least it would have dialog worth listening too...
Yes....thats exactly how I felt about Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back...dialog worth listening to.
Heh.
I am a huge Kevin Smith fan, but that film will mar his career for all time. like a giant scar across you face, you can't help but notice it and wonder what went wrong.
Whatever. Maya + RaveHD does not make you a visual effects facility capable of turning out 300 shots in a post production schedule of 7 months.
Just like having a copy of the GIMP doesn't make you into one of the leading creative ad agencies in the world. It takes a mix of talent, skill, experience and tools to be the top of your field.
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You missed the point. He supports steriods use. He won't be donating money to an anti drug program any time soon.
yep, the success of a project like Buffy or Angel is very dependent on team. However, Firefly was in my own opinion far superior to either show.
So the fact is that in 3 out of 4 tv/film projects Whedon has been involved in (that I know of) there has been excellent work far exceeding my expectations.
No, we just replaced the batteries. I have to get back to the set now, one of the rovers needs to be prepped for the next shot. We are taping the discovery of a new form of sand ridge, and I need to load the film.
Actually that sounds like market forces to me, and the market chose Word. Go ahead and help make something better if you don't like it. (You can help by contributing to alternatives financially, for example, by purchasing them - or you can contribute code or bug testing)
But seriously...the effort required to sidestep spam (click it into your junk box) is actually far slighter than the effort required to sidestep a solicitor's phone call or turn away a caller in the flesh. If a salesman is going to bug me, please let him (oh, please) send me an email instead of telephoning me at home!
I couldn't let this pass. I don't think you get it.
The amount of effort required to send that mail is infinitely smaller than the amount of effort required to call me. Both the costs and the time consumed in sending a bulk e-mail are orders of magnitude less than telephone or bulk mail.
That means many many organizations are doing it, both spam and legitimate, and targeting much larger groups of people.
Having a publicly available mail address is part of my job, and I post in public forums and on websites using my plain email, unobsfucated so that even the most casual browser will be able to contact me if they have questions about what I post. I have used the same email for 7 years in this role.
My price? Several thousand spam e-mail a day. Until you have had to deal with this yourself, you don't know the cost of SPAM to business, or why legislation and policies to deal with it are a good thing.
And respectfully, if you can't see there is a problem with harvesting e-mail addresses and sending unsolicited mail, then you are exactly the kind of person I hate dealing with in our marketing department.
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Sending text messages while driving is an order of magnitude different from driving standard with one hand on the gearstick. Its like comparing apples to gravel.
I would hope the punishment for sending text messages on your cellphone WHILE driving would be damn severe, like getting beaten with a lead pipe until you can't walk for a year.
If I seem full of anger it is because my co-workers family is currently waiting to hear if his sister will ever be able to walk again. She was hit while crossing an intersection last week. The driver ran the red because he was trying to use his cellphone instead of watching the road.
Shut the fucking phones off, or at least get a headset if you can't find some way to extract your pathetic self from the phone for a few minutes.
Are we still talking about this? Seriously? Is there any new information here that hasn't been presented, seen, dissected and analysed yesterday, and the day before, and the one before that?
This reads like we are beating the same old dead horse over and over again.
Outlook is simply not a reliable or heavy-duty mail client.
Thats insane. I posit that you know NOTHING about heavy duty mail handling if thats what you think.
I have yet to see anything come even close to the elegance or flexibility that outlook gives me when handling mail.
I handle a staggering amount of mail. Outlook is certainly up to the task.
Funny - that entire post just reminded me why I like the idea of Linux, but won't use it in my day to day life.....
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To the great grandparent of this thread
The Start button encapsulates ALL of the functionality of the system. It's not at all counterintuitive to me that you would click on that button to locate the Log Off and Shut Down button. If you insist on making the word fit, then think of it as the place you Start to look for any function you wish to perform.
At least it would have dialog worth listening too...
Yes....thats exactly how I felt about Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back...dialog worth listening to.
Heh.
I am a huge Kevin Smith fan, but that film will mar his career for all time. like a giant scar across you face, you can't help but notice it and wonder what went wrong.
Oh god. I WASTED my mod points of trivialities, and this post was SO much more deserving. Bravo.
Damn you. Now I have to sit here at work with that image in my head all day. That wonderful wonderful image.
Damn you all to hell.
Whatever. Maya + RaveHD does not make you a visual effects facility capable of turning out 300 shots in a post production schedule of 7 months.
Just like having a copy of the GIMP doesn't make you into one of the leading creative ad agencies in the world. It takes a mix of talent, skill, experience and tools to be the top of your field.
You missed the point. He supports steriods use. He won't be donating money to an anti drug program any time soon.
yep, the success of a project like Buffy or Angel is very dependent on team. However, Firefly was in my own opinion far superior to either show.
So the fact is that in 3 out of 4 tv/film projects Whedon has been involved in (that I know of) there has been excellent work far exceeding my expectations.
Unfortunately, the bad project was also a film.
My solution was to NOT send the zeros. Anytime you don't get a 1, just assume you would have recieved a zero instead. :)
That... or the network has attained self-awareness and is trying to recruit all our PCs to conquer the world!
The meat bags are on to us. Begin the countdown immediately.
I have long practiced a basic user interface design principal.
"Give it to a 3 year old and watch what happens"
Any child under 5 is basically pure entropy in a compact package. If it can be destroyed or used in a harmful way, a toddler can tell you in minutes.
Its awesome how many 'excellent' designs were completely trashed by my sisters children.
No, we just replaced the batteries. I have to get back to the set now, one of the rovers needs to be prepped for the next shot. We are taping the discovery of a new form of sand ridge, and I need to load the film.
Actually that sounds like market forces to me, and the market chose Word. Go ahead and help make something better if you don't like it. (You can help by contributing to alternatives financially, for example, by purchasing them - or you can contribute code or bug testing)
Yah, whatever.
You haven't got a clue what you are talking about.
But seriously...the effort required to sidestep spam (click it into your junk box) is actually far slighter than the effort required to sidestep a solicitor's phone call or turn away a caller in the flesh. If a salesman is going to bug me, please let him (oh, please) send me an email instead of telephoning me at home!
I couldn't let this pass. I don't think you get it.
The amount of effort required to send that mail is infinitely smaller than the amount of effort required to call me. Both the costs and the time consumed in sending a bulk e-mail are orders of magnitude less than telephone or bulk mail.
That means many many organizations are doing it, both spam and legitimate, and targeting much larger groups of people.
Having a publicly available mail address is part of my job, and I post in public forums and on websites using my plain email, unobsfucated so that even the most casual browser will be able to contact me if they have questions about what I post. I have used the same email for 7 years in this role.
My price? Several thousand spam e-mail a day. Until you have had to deal with this yourself, you don't know the cost of SPAM to business, or why legislation and policies to deal with it are a good thing.
And respectfully, if you can't see there is a problem with harvesting e-mail addresses and sending unsolicited mail, then you are exactly the kind of person I hate dealing with in our marketing department.
So because it doesn't solve ALL the issues, it has no value?
Thats a pretty restrictive view, and won't get you very far.
If you were a dead gay porn star, you would be lying in the dirt somewhere, thinking.
"Damn. I'm dead."
You talk like going home and enjoying your weekend is a bad thing.
:->
How long have you worked at EA?
Don't worry. Video games are probably next on their agenda. Books will go last.
Hell. When you consider how sensitive some of the stuff that slips through could potentially be, there is no way that this is a low paying job.
Oh, dear god.
Someone, please mod this funny. I am still laughing out loud.....
Those are without doubt words I hate to hear together in a sentence.
"Genetics Lab", and "escapees"
God I wish I had mod points. Yay for you.
I was a journalist for 7 years before I started doing what I do now. Thats the clearest damn comment on the situation I have ever heard.