Actually, this states that I am allowed to record them:
may 1 |mÄ|
modal verb ( 3rd sing. present may ; past might |mÄt|)
expressing possibility : that may be true | he may well win.
used when admitting that something is so before making another, more important point : they may have been old-fashioned, but they were excellent teachers.
expressing permission : you may use a sling if you wish | may I ask a few questions?
expressing a wish or hope : may she rest in peace.
They probably meant #1, but #2 is perfectly normal, common English and that's the definition I choose to accept.
For what most people use a computer for, a single-board 1.6Ghz atom machine with a GMA950 is more than they'll ever need for web browsing, e-mail, playing youtube videos and running Word. A faster machine doesn't make you type faster or make web pages load faster.
I'm typing this on a 1.2GHz G4 Mac. I promise you that any browser improvements that make the new AJAXey Slashdot load faster than frozen molasses will be quite welcome.
Careful there. In some jurisdictions, including mine (I just looked it up), they are indeed licensed as doctors. Although you're entitled to your own opinion about what that actually means, the people who get to make the official decision have said (here) that they are doctors.
People should be willing to step back and recognize the contributions that women in computer science have made.
Why? I don't care what contributions can be directly attributed to which race, sex, or nationality. Whether you're a WASP male or a lesbian in Singapore, if your work is good, it's good. If it's bad, your demographic status doesn't make it better.
I guess I don't get this "minority" hangup from either side of the debate. People who dismiss the contribution of women or treat them badly are ignorant jackasses. Others who want me to put a woman on a pedestal and give her a cookie because she managed to write a linked list with proper error handling are at least as mystifying. You can code? Great! Let's get back to work, shall we?
The key word in that wall of text is "chiropractic". Chiropractors are not doctors. By and large they are quacks trying to cure things by supposedly realigning the vertebrae (which they don't in fact).
I've heard the arguments pro and con, but have a personal anecdote. For about 6 months of my life, I had excruciating back pain. It got much worse when laying down, so my nightly routine was to eat four Advil or a couple of Alleve and maybe some sleeping pills and try to get a couple of hours of sleep before the little gremlin shoved the rusty knife into my spine. I went to several well-respected doctors who gave me painkillers and muscle relaxants and told me that it would go away on its own - but it didn't. Although I never became suicidal, I now understand why people would start considering that as an option.
I eventually agreed to go to a chiropractor that my dad recommended. He ran that goofy, debunked "alignment meter" up my spine a few times, then cracked my back. When my eyes uncrossed and I stopped yelling, he gave me a bill for $40 and told me I didn't need to come back. From that moment on, from the instant he cracked my back, it stopped hurting. Permanently. I was fixed.
Now, I understand why people write off chiropractors, and as the husband of a surgeon, I'm extremely pro traditional medicine. In this one specific case, though, a chiropractor flat-out cured my problem in a single visit after other doctors had failed for half a year. Maybe he (or I) was just extremely lucky, but I can't dismiss the whole category of doctors.
Now, "natural health care" is at least as good an indicator of potential quackery.
They're garden variety con-artists who belong hanging by their necks from a tree at a crossroads.
You know, I'm starting to think we need some more of that. I can't think of a great reason why Madoff, Stamford, and the Enron crew aren't dangling. I mean, can you really imagine a jury convicting a retiree who lost their life's savings to one of those cretins?
Vigilante justice is a poor substitute for the real thing, but as the State has shown itself unwilling to mete out the legal kind, I won't be surprised when the citizenry steps forward.
For example, if there had been 5 Phoenix landers instead of one (five landers incidentally would have cost less than five times the cost of one Phoenix lander), we'd be able to compare the legs of the working vehicles.
You're assuming that any two were within traveling distance of each other after after flying for months and landing via superball.
Presumably someone who doesn't mind being 15 miles outside St. Louis.
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Like a complete moron who has not even the slightest clue what a computer is never mind how to use it for even the most basic functions.
So, you've never even heard of usability testing? Note that almost every question he asked was rhetorical. He was putting himself in the position of a non-technical user who wanted to do something that should be simple but who was getting thwarted at every turn.
But hes a business man not a nerd he gust acts like one so as not to make the employees uncomfortable.
OK, I like Gates about as much as the next person who doesn't like him, but he's definitely geekier than 90% of Slashdotters. The fact that he can step back and look at things from an outsider's perspective is actually a good thing and something you should give him credit for.
You're wrong. In the last 6 years of our company using Python for business logic development, we've never had a single bug that was traced back to indentation or an end-of-line problem.
You're old fashioned. Besides, iPhones share applications with the iPod Touch, which starts at around $230 and never needs a service contract. I bought one so I can run all the fun iPhone apps without actually having to have an iPhone.
As far as their reputation for ridiculing people serving them legal notices... why shouldn't they?
And more to the point, we (Americans) do it all the time. If someone in Lesser Berzerkistan sued an American for uploading pictures of women with uncovered faces, we'd all have a hoot at the backward little country trying to inflict its will in our jurisdiction. To TPB, this is exactly what we've done to them and they're responding just as we would.
You had the opportunity to read the EULA, refuse it, and return the software. When did they have an opportunity to read your SPLA?
They had as much opportunity as to read the SPLA as he had to read the EULA - it's not his fault if they didn't take advantage of it.
Further along those lines, what if he did give them notice, say via email, that he was amending their EULA unless they took a very specific set of instructions (creating an account on his website (after agreeing to its Terms Of Service), clicking "I DO NOT AGREE AND GuyverDH IS ENTITLED TO A FULL REFUND")?
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Actually, this states that they might record you.
Actually, this states that I am allowed to record them:
They probably meant #1, but #2 is perfectly normal, common English and that's the definition I choose to accept.
For what most people use a computer for, a single-board 1.6Ghz atom machine with a GMA950 is more than they'll ever need for web browsing, e-mail, playing youtube videos and running Word. A faster machine doesn't make you type faster or make web pages load faster.
I'm typing this on a 1.2GHz G4 Mac. I promise you that any browser improvements that make the new AJAXey Slashdot load faster than frozen molasses will be quite welcome.
They're not doctors.
Careful there. In some jurisdictions, including mine (I just looked it up), they are indeed licensed as doctors. Although you're entitled to your own opinion about what that actually means, the people who get to make the official decision have said (here) that they are doctors.
This is why you should always record your phone calls when you call a call center.
Absolutely. They almost always give you explicit permission to do so: "this call may be recorded for quality assurance." Thanks! I might just do that!
People should be willing to step back and recognize the contributions that women in computer science have made.
Why? I don't care what contributions can be directly attributed to which race, sex, or nationality. Whether you're a WASP male or a lesbian in Singapore, if your work is good, it's good. If it's bad, your demographic status doesn't make it better.
I guess I don't get this "minority" hangup from either side of the debate. People who dismiss the contribution of women or treat them badly are ignorant jackasses. Others who want me to put a woman on a pedestal and give her a cookie because she managed to write a linked list with proper error handling are at least as mystifying. You can code? Great! Let's get back to work, shall we?
The key word in that wall of text is "chiropractic". Chiropractors are not doctors. By and large they are quacks trying to cure things by supposedly realigning the vertebrae (which they don't in fact).
I've heard the arguments pro and con, but have a personal anecdote. For about 6 months of my life, I had excruciating back pain. It got much worse when laying down, so my nightly routine was to eat four Advil or a couple of Alleve and maybe some sleeping pills and try to get a couple of hours of sleep before the little gremlin shoved the rusty knife into my spine. I went to several well-respected doctors who gave me painkillers and muscle relaxants and told me that it would go away on its own - but it didn't. Although I never became suicidal, I now understand why people would start considering that as an option.
I eventually agreed to go to a chiropractor that my dad recommended. He ran that goofy, debunked "alignment meter" up my spine a few times, then cracked my back. When my eyes uncrossed and I stopped yelling, he gave me a bill for $40 and told me I didn't need to come back. From that moment on, from the instant he cracked my back, it stopped hurting. Permanently. I was fixed.
Now, I understand why people write off chiropractors, and as the husband of a surgeon, I'm extremely pro traditional medicine. In this one specific case, though, a chiropractor flat-out cured my problem in a single visit after other doctors had failed for half a year. Maybe he (or I) was just extremely lucky, but I can't dismiss the whole category of doctors.
Now, "natural health care" is at least as good an indicator of potential quackery.
They're garden variety con-artists who belong hanging by their necks from a tree at a crossroads.
You know, I'm starting to think we need some more of that. I can't think of a great reason why Madoff, Stamford, and the Enron crew aren't dangling. I mean, can you really imagine a jury convicting a retiree who lost their life's savings to one of those cretins?
Vigilante justice is a poor substitute for the real thing, but as the State has shown itself unwilling to mete out the legal kind, I won't be surprised when the citizenry steps forward.
There's no need to be an ass about it.
I also found the vi mode in zsh to be inferior to the equivalent in bash last time I tried it, but maybe it's improved since then.
That's because Emacs's bindings are far more logical than Vi's, especially when running on FreeBSD instead of Linux. Oh, and indent with spaces.
Did I miss anything?
unmanaged code is dead.
Yes, because it warms my heart to think of reference crypto code that would crash if it wasn't running in a sandbox.
Isn't Mars generally pretty windy?
Yes, but with only about 1% of the density of Earth's atmosphere, the wind would be nearly imperceptible.
We must by now be 100% confident there is H20 there now, and 99.98% certain that there is no, and never has been, life.
I thought those were more like 99% and 0%, respectively.
For example, if there had been 5 Phoenix landers instead of one (five landers incidentally would have cost less than five times the cost of one Phoenix lander), we'd be able to compare the legs of the working vehicles.
You're assuming that any two were within traveling distance of each other after after flying for months and landing via superball.
But who wants to live in Festus, MO?
Presumably someone who doesn't mind being 15 miles outside St. Louis.
Like a complete moron who has not even the slightest clue what a computer is never mind how to use it for even the most basic functions.
So, you've never even heard of usability testing? Note that almost every question he asked was rhetorical. He was putting himself in the position of a non-technical user who wanted to do something that should be simple but who was getting thwarted at every turn.
But hes a business man not a nerd he gust acts like one so as not to make the employees uncomfortable.
OK, I like Gates about as much as the next person who doesn't like him, but he's definitely geekier than 90% of Slashdotters. The fact that he can step back and look at things from an outsider's perspective is actually a good thing and something you should give him credit for.
Since we got an Applebee's?
Maybe i'm wrong
You're wrong. In the last 6 years of our company using Python for business logic development, we've never had a single bug that was traced back to indentation or an end-of-line problem.
Call me old fashioned
You're old fashioned. Besides, iPhones share applications with the iPod Touch, which starts at around $230 and never needs a service contract. I bought one so I can run all the fun iPhone apps without actually having to have an iPhone.
Urban Spoon has restaurants for most cities.
I second that. I like in a small (25,000) city in the Midwest, and Urban Spoon has 160 restaurant listings here.
Sometimes I feel like a bot whose only real purpose is to paste this quote.
I'm sorry. I'll try to add more functionality in the next release.
Dubbed "Windows Live ID Sign-in Assistant 6.5,"
Apple would've called it "iShare" or something else friendly and inviting. Who does MS hire to come up with those horrid, unwieldy names?
What's the world coming to when a perfectly good low-Slashdot-ID pissing match gets downmodded?
As far as their reputation for ridiculing people serving them legal notices... why shouldn't they?
And more to the point, we (Americans) do it all the time. If someone in Lesser Berzerkistan sued an American for uploading pictures of women with uncovered faces, we'd all have a hoot at the backward little country trying to inflict its will in our jurisdiction. To TPB, this is exactly what we've done to them and they're responding just as we would.
Because I'm not new here
Sez you. Get off my lawn.
You had the opportunity to read the EULA, refuse it, and return the software. When did they have an opportunity to read your SPLA?
They had as much opportunity as to read the SPLA as he had to read the EULA - it's not his fault if they didn't take advantage of it.
Further along those lines, what if he did give them notice, say via email, that he was amending their EULA unless they took a very specific set of instructions (creating an account on his website (after agreeing to its Terms Of Service), clicking "I DO NOT AGREE AND GuyverDH IS ENTITLED TO A FULL REFUND")?