Growing up, if I tried to outsmart my dad he'd kindly state that he had forgotten more than I knew. At the time, of course, I chalked it up to an old man's defense mechanisms, but the older I get the more true his words ring!
there is a HUMONGOUS difference between sex and prostitution.
Not really, just the currency.
If you really believe this statement to be true either you've:
Never had sex, period
Never had sex with a prostitute
Never had sex with a non-prostitute
Have had sex with both prostitutes and non-prostitutes, but clearly the sex was meaningless with the non-prostitute, in which case I feel sorry for you
Being/., the odds on favorite is #1, followed by #3.;-)
People become prostitutes because they have nothing left and need money
Maybe some people do, but I think many more turn to prostitution because their brain is baked either due to childhood sexual abuse and/or drug addiction. I would wager that virtually no non-drug using, non-abused adults turn to hooking, even when fiscally strapped.
Not that I condone either action, but, personally, I'd steal before renting out my anus.
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I agree with your comments. Kind of like how I've read that Wal-Mart wants to become a 'bank' not to lend out money and compete against the MBNAs and BoAs out there, but rather to reduce their credit card charges, to streamline payments, and so forth.
This also could be a lot of hot air. Fire and Motion - it's something that GOOG does quite well, actually.
Your assumption - and I think the assumption most everyone posting here is making - is that all traffic on the network should be considered "equal" and therefore in no way should one packet be given preference over another. But that's hogwash.
There should be, innately, three tiers of service. General, for which we pay our flat standard amount. Low latency, which those who require it would pay for. (Hopefully it could be bought when needed.) And then "Emergency" traffic, which would be for special types of applications or reasons society deems important enough. For example, if a security system detects an intruder, and tries to start streaming video of the break-in to the cops or some security company, that should have presedence over that person's neighbor's 14 year old son playing WoW.
The types of applications that would qualify as "Emergency" applications would have to be defined "by society," but such provisions are needed IMO.
Not seeing many sports games on the lists here. I would hope some people here would enjoy this genre. I guess the more modern incarnation of sports games reduce the playability because each year there's a new title, but back in the day, before licensing the official teams/players, there wasn't this push to sell you a new version each year. The old NES had some of the best, most replayable sports games. What could be more fun than Baseball Stars? Even games like the Nintendo brand Golf were fun and kept their playability for quite some time.
Here are some other games on my list (not necessarily sports-related), most of these chewing up significant time at college:
GoldenEye
Super Tetris for N64
Civilization II and its clones (even CivI was pretty cool back in the day)
I don't really play computer games anymore, I'm not into keeping up with the hardware requirements and whatnot. I prefer the consoles, just stick a disc in and it works, no worrying if your video card won't be able to pump out an acceptable number of fps. For XBOX the Brothers in Arms game has been my main game over the past several months, as I'm now about half way through the Authentic setting.
You kids have it easy these days! I went to an engineering-focused school where there was 4 guys to every 1 girl. (But the old timers told me that we had it good... after all, the school started in the 1800s with an all-male role.)
I would have been happier with a college experience even with 2 guys to every girl, let alone the majority of students being women.
I disagree. This is a specious argument that's inflating the gold market, much like the 'There's a finite supply of land!' argument inflated the housing bubble in the fist half of this decade.
If there's a very hard and serious economic collapse, those metal coins you 'own' in some investment vehicle are going to be worthless. If my net worth - and everyones' around me - suddenly goes to $0.00, gold coins are going to be the last thing on my mind. I will be happy to work/barter for:
Food
Household items/toiletries/etc.
Clothes
Guns and ammo
My goods and services, nor anyone elses', will be parting for some alloy.
Radio has some targetted ads, but if I'm not mistaken a lot of advertisers buy run of the station-type ads, probably cheaper in volume? That means, their ad runs a set number of times per day, at random intervals, which can lead to hearing ads that are out of place (like credit card ads on the Dave Ramsey show, or ads for websites for single parents dating on the Dr. Laura show).
Perhaps Google's idea is to somehow allow more targetted selection from advertisers across a broader range of shows/locations? I dunno, just pulling at straws here. As another commenter posted, perhaps the ulterior motive is just to ween away the top salespeople.
... is a law that allows posses to castrate those who comment spam blogs. I don't know if this law applies to comment spammers, but even if it does I'm going to bet that there is no castration provision.
My wife's company required that all developers (i.e., anyone who has access to source control), uninstall all IM programs from their computer (a requirement for some security certification). The devs just use the web-based IM clients MSN and AIM provide to do their IMing (both internally and externally). Yeah, the IM client sucks eggs compared to the desktop client, but it's better than nothing, and it's something I'm surprised the employees you talk about didn't start using...
He owns the Portland Trailblazers, too (an NBA team). But they've not been any good since 2000.
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You said: "Guess you don't do textbooks. That's what he's refering to likely. Many of them come out with a new edition every year, or every other year."
But if you read the guy's post he said: "You're missing the beauty of publishing a book about a web browser. You rake in cash from sales, and 6 months later the thing is obsolete so you can crank out a "2nd Edition" and cash in again."
Hrm. I don't think there are many textboxes about web browsers.
In any event, yes, the textbook publishing world is very different than the computer trade book publishing world, in large part because it's more of an all or nothing sort of thing. That is, with books on, say, Perl, each publisher can put out several books, and the bookstores will happily line their shelves with them. With academic books, one is selected and all students buy that one copy. Not as 'free market' in a sense, as with computer trade books.
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I know your comment is probably said in a lighthearted manner, but being an author of computer trade books, "cranking out a '2nd Edition'" is no walk in the park. It can take several months of several hours per day. Also, I don't think anyone "cashes in" with computer trade books, especially not the authors! Don't get me wrong, authors do get paid, but it's usually not enough to do for a full time job unless you're cranking out four to eight books per year.
But the real problem is that people can love cheap trashy food and enjoy it day after day
Thanks to millions of years of evolution, we're wired to really like high calorie foods. Yes, I know an apple is a healthier choice, but fries taste a whole helluva lot better. If I was ignorant to the health effects and ignorant to the fact that fast food is more expensive than grocery store food, I'm sure I'd be pigging out there everyday. (Well, maybe not McDonalds, but Jack In the Box would likely be a place I'd hit up daily.)
I think it's fear of upsetting the computer. They've used IE. It works, for the most part, so why rock the boat? Plus some people don't like change. My wife has some great recipes, but she won't deviate from them. Even when I cook them a couple weeks later with some twists, when it's her turn, she goes straight back to the old faithful approach rather than using my admittedly tasty customizations or trying her own new mix.
It can be frustrating if you're one who thinks the "new" recipe is a lot better than the "old," but it's not worth getting to excited about, one way or the other.
My wife purposefully sets MSN as her default homepage, even on FireFox. Personally, it boggles my mind, but she says she likes their fluff (their articles on movies, entertainment, life style, etc.). She searches on Google, but I guess their homepage is too bare. To each their own, I guess.
I'm not convinced that Google has the world's "best intentions" in mind - after all, they are in business to stay in business, not win the World's Best Company prize. But regardless, does it really matter? At home for Thanksgiving I was able to observe my parents and brother on the Internet, see how they use the Web, see what email programs they use, what search engines, and so on.
And even though they bitched about a number of things, when there were simple solutions (like, "Try Google," or, "Try FireFox"), they'd rather just keep doing it their old way. I think it is a combination of their complaints being just minor nitpicks more than real, aggrevating issues, the barrier to moving to something new, and perhaps a little bit of intimidation, since none of them are computer savvy. That is, they have a relationship with their computer currently that is like the trenches in WWI. Trying something new would be like making an assualt - it might work, but probably won't, and it's probably going to involve a lot of casualties either way. Best to just sit tight in the trench, and hope the computer is happy to do the same.
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Not only that, but be able to have these RSS feeds show up on the personalized homepage. There needs to be synergy between their customized homepage, the Google RSS Reader, and Web Clips in the email, so folks don't have to enter the same RSS feeds three times.
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Teh end is neigh!!!11!!
Growing up, if I tried to outsmart my dad he'd kindly state that he had forgotten more than I knew. At the time, of course, I chalked it up to an old man's defense mechanisms, but the older I get the more true his words ring!
It's because you were drunk!
- Never had sex, period
- Never had sex with a prostitute
- Never had sex with a non-prostitute
- Have had sex with both prostitutes and non-prostitutes, but clearly the sex was meaningless with the non-prostitute, in which case I feel sorry for you
BeingMaybe some people do, but I think many more turn to prostitution because their brain is baked either due to childhood sexual abuse and/or drug addiction. I would wager that virtually no non-drug using, non-abused adults turn to hooking, even when fiscally strapped.
Not that I condone either action, but, personally, I'd steal before renting out my anus.
This also could be a lot of hot air. Fire and Motion - it's something that GOOG does quite well, actually.
There should be, innately, three tiers of service. General, for which we pay our flat standard amount. Low latency, which those who require it would pay for. (Hopefully it could be bought when needed.) And then "Emergency" traffic, which would be for special types of applications or reasons society deems important enough. For example, if a security system detects an intruder, and tries to start streaming video of the break-in to the cops or some security company, that should have presedence over that person's neighbor's 14 year old son playing WoW.
The types of applications that would qualify as "Emergency" applications would have to be defined "by society," but such provisions are needed IMO.
Here are some other games on my list (not necessarily sports-related), most of these chewing up significant time at college:
- GoldenEye
- Super Tetris for N64
- Civilization II and its clones (even CivI was pretty cool back in the day)
I don't really play computer games anymore, I'm not into keeping up with the hardware requirements and whatnot. I prefer the consoles, just stick a disc in and it works, no worrying if your video card won't be able to pump out an acceptable number of fps. For XBOX the Brothers in Arms game has been my main game over the past several months, as I'm now about half way through the Authentic setting.You kids have it easy these days! I went to an engineering-focused school where there was 4 guys to every 1 girl. (But the old timers told me that we had it good... after all, the school started in the 1800s with an all-male role.)
I would have been happier with a college experience even with 2 guys to every girl, let alone the majority of students being women.
If there's a very hard and serious economic collapse, those metal coins you 'own' in some investment vehicle are going to be worthless. If my net worth - and everyones' around me - suddenly goes to $0.00, gold coins are going to be the last thing on my mind. I will be happy to work/barter for:
- Food
- Household items/toiletries/etc.
- Clothes
- Guns and ammo
My goods and services, nor anyone elses', will be parting for some alloy.Perhaps Google's idea is to somehow allow more targetted selection from advertisers across a broader range of shows/locations? I dunno, just pulling at straws here. As another commenter posted, perhaps the ulterior motive is just to ween away the top salespeople.
... is a law that allows posses to castrate those who comment spam blogs. I don't know if this law applies to comment spammers, but even if it does I'm going to bet that there is no castration provision.
(Ok, not quite as funny as doing it in person, but I've not left my parent's basement for months now.)
My wife's company required that all developers (i.e., anyone who has access to source control), uninstall all IM programs from their computer (a requirement for some security certification). The devs just use the web-based IM clients MSN and AIM provide to do their IMing (both internally and externally). Yeah, the IM client sucks eggs compared to the desktop client, but it's better than nothing, and it's something I'm surprised the employees you talk about didn't start using...
He owns the Portland Trailblazers, too (an NBA team). But they've not been any good since 2000.
But if you read the guy's post he said: "You're missing the beauty of publishing a book about a web browser. You rake in cash from sales, and 6 months later the thing is obsolete so you can crank out a "2nd Edition" and cash in again."
Hrm. I don't think there are many textboxes about web browsers.
In any event, yes, the textbook publishing world is very different than the computer trade book publishing world, in large part because it's more of an all or nothing sort of thing. That is, with books on, say, Perl, each publisher can put out several books, and the bookstores will happily line their shelves with them. With academic books, one is selected and all students buy that one copy. Not as 'free market' in a sense, as with computer trade books.
I know your comment is probably said in a lighthearted manner, but being an author of computer trade books, "cranking out a '2nd Edition'" is no walk in the park. It can take several months of several hours per day. Also, I don't think anyone "cashes in" with computer trade books, especially not the authors! Don't get me wrong, authors do get paid, but it's usually not enough to do for a full time job unless you're cranking out four to eight books per year.
I believe Joel's company makes bug tracking software, not source versioning software...
Thanks to millions of years of evolution, we're wired to really like high calorie foods. Yes, I know an apple is a healthier choice, but fries taste a whole helluva lot better. If I was ignorant to the health effects and ignorant to the fact that fast food is more expensive than grocery store food, I'm sure I'd be pigging out there everyday. (Well, maybe not McDonalds, but Jack In the Box would likely be a place I'd hit up daily.)
It can be frustrating if you're one who thinks the "new" recipe is a lot better than the "old," but it's not worth getting to excited about, one way or the other.
My wife purposefully sets MSN as her default homepage, even on FireFox. Personally, it boggles my mind, but she says she likes their fluff (their articles on movies, entertainment, life style, etc.). She searches on Google, but I guess their homepage is too bare. To each their own, I guess.
And even though they bitched about a number of things, when there were simple solutions (like, "Try Google," or, "Try FireFox"), they'd rather just keep doing it their old way. I think it is a combination of their complaints being just minor nitpicks more than real, aggrevating issues, the barrier to moving to something new, and perhaps a little bit of intimidation, since none of them are computer savvy. That is, they have a relationship with their computer currently that is like the trenches in WWI. Trying something new would be like making an assualt - it might work, but probably won't, and it's probably going to involve a lot of casualties either way. Best to just sit tight in the trench, and hope the computer is happy to do the same.
Not only that, but be able to have these RSS feeds show up on the personalized homepage. There needs to be synergy between their customized homepage, the Google RSS Reader, and Web Clips in the email, so folks don't have to enter the same RSS feeds three times.
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