If they are having problems with the gas tax not keeping up with inflation and average fuel economy, why the hell don't they change the law to automatically increase the tax every year to cover inflation and increased fuel economy?
If the voters complain, then the state should just start shutting down highways until the people learn that they have to pay for what they use.
No one is garunteed [sic] job security, so why does uncle sam [sic] try so damned hard to never fire anyone? Ohhh [sic] yeah I forgot... [sic] uncle sam [sic] is the only stupid employer to still over [sic] pention [sic] plans.
Lay um [sic] off, change hiring practices, or whatever just quit trying to raise my damned taxes.
I think your post proves that we need to raise taxes so we can afford better education...
So the very best way to sell a game today probably one of the following:
(1) Shop publishers an alpha-quality game that's playable.
I imagine you could save a lot of time by leaving off the soundtrack, titles and menus, and by not spending too much time on the graphics or speed optimization. I assume publishers would be able to see past those "implementation details" and they probably have or know a bunch of people who can help you out with that if they decide to publish.
I bring this up because I've seen people write software (not games) and focus on the wrong things first: the splash screen, the website, the readme, the UI...
Some of the HR folks at work use a console app to access employee records while others use a Windows GUI. The console folk can lookup and update three records in the time it takes the the GUI folk to clicky-clicky through one.
A well-designed GUI app is not necessarily less efficient to use than a well-designed console app. The problem is that many GUI apps, especially custom-written apps or vertical apps, are based on the horrible "forms" or "screens" paradigm, where the app is just a series of screens, each with lots of fields. (And all web-based apps are like this so I also classify them as "horrible", despite (or maybe because) the fact that I currently write web-based apps for a living (because that's what people like to pay for).)
In fact, given talented UI (GUI or console) designers and application developers, I'd guess that a GUI app could be more efficient to use than a console app at least 75% of the time.
And of course, a well-designed GUI app should be easier to learn than a console app almost 100% of the time.
I think it is a good thing, it will speed deployment of mozilla, and other browsers with pop-up blocking features.
Most people will just use whatever browser comes with their computer and will leave the default settings (because most people won't change the preference settings because the settings dialogs are too complicated, or because the user is afraid of messing something up, or because the user is just plain intimidated by the computer, or because the user just wants the computer to work correctly to start with).
This means that they will see these crappy ads, and they will end up hating the web just like they hate email now because of all the spam.
True, it might be a bug in the analysis, but checking for nulls is not a great practice. Try using the "null object" pattern. Mark Grand describes it thusly:
The Null Object pattern provides an alternative to using null to indicate the absence of an object to delegate an operation to. Using null to indicate the absence of such an object requires a test for null before each call to the other object's methods. Instead of using null, the Null Object pattern uses a reference to an object that doesn't do anything.
The null instance of whatever class your labels variable is could do the locale stuff. (Or maybe it wouldn't work in your case; it's hard to say without the context.)
I can feel it, but it doesn't hurt. And it doesn't hurt afterwards. But I only prick my ring finger and pinky on my non-dominant hand, and I don't use those fingers as much as the others.
Try it on the side of your finger (last segment)
I actually do it in the middle (laterally) of the finger, just above the top segment's joint. That part of the finger rarely hits the keyboard. My fingers are really skinny so there's not enough padding on the sides for me to prick the sides without pain.
"The ideal is that it's on the bottom edge of the lens and the diabetic patient would look in a mirror and see a color and relate it to a color wheel to [determine the] concentration of glucose," says Ascher.
Visually matching against a color wheel? This doesn't seem very accurate. Accuracy is key. The existing way seems much better.
Instead of needles, the diabetic need only a mirror.
Diabetics don't use needles to test their blood sugar. They use tiny pins that create a small drop of blood which gets absorbed by a small strip of paper coated with chemicals which gets read by a small machine.
And it doesn't hurt. There's no pain involved in testing your blood sugar, other than the fact that it's a pain in the ass to have to do it all the time.
> > It's hard to add storage space to a TiVo. You have to crack the case, remove the existing drive, and replace it with a new one.
> Please explain how this is more challenging than building an entire machine, hard drive and all, to host one of the opensource solutions?
I wasn't clear: building a PVR would certainly be more work than replacing the hard drive in my TiVo. But I don't want to replace my TiVo's drive, I want to add an additional one. If I rolled my own, I could plug in an external drive and be done with it.
And if I plugged in a portable external firewire hard disk (like my iPod for example), I could watch TV on my laptop if I was on a plane or something.
Anyway, building an entire machine is not hard. It's not like you're building a machine, you're just screwing together some parts. Opening a TiVo and adding another hard disk is almost certainly less work than building a computer, but there is the problem that it might be a lot harder to fix a broken TiVo than a broken PC.
> > $13 monthly fee.
> Yeah. So? You can also pay $300 for a lifetime subscription.
So, there's a fee. A roll-my-own would hopefully be cheaper.
> It keeps track of the last 28 days of programming. If an episode airs again >28 days later (and your unit is set up to record that program), it will record it again. So what? Nobody's forcing you to watch it again. Delete it.
Because I want to see every episode of Seinfeld. I've seen about 90% of them and I don't want the rest of them clogging up my TiVo. It's like spam: sure, I can delete spam, but it's a pain in the ass to wade through the filter results and I'd rather have a smart machine do it for me. I'm sure that you have nothing better to do than sit on your fat ass and delete stuff from your TiVo, but I'd rather do other things while I have my computers work for me.
> Yeah. So? Multi-tuner home built systems are few and far between. Good luck actually building one and getting it to work well.
Two home built systems that can talk to each other and figure out which one would record what would be pretty easy. Also, MythTV apparently supports dual tuners.
> Bzzzt! Thanks for playing. Here's a look at our parting gifts. Only the oldest Tivos need a phone line
That's the one I have, dickface.
> > It's hard to add storage space to a TiVo. You have to crack the case, remove the existing drive, and replace it with a new one.
> Yeah. So? Like that's harder than building a PVR from scratch? Use your head.
No, asswipe, I want to buy an external firewire hard disk and plug it into my PVR so it can use both the existing drive plus the new one. And keep adding new ones if I want.
TiVo doesn't remember what shows you've seen, so it keeps recording the same ones over and over.
TiVo doesn't understand that there might be multiple people who use the same TiVo. Therefore there's no way to tell it that one person is ready to delete a program but the other person isn't.
If you want to record two shows simultaneously and don't have DirecTV, you need to get two TiVos (which is fine) but you also have to pay two monthly fees.
TiVo requires a phone line.
It's hard to add storage space to a TiVo. You have to crack the case, remove the existing drive, and replace it with a new one.
I didn't like it all that much. Parts of it didn't make sense while I was watching, and afterwards I started thinking about it and very little of it made sense.
And the article linked above was way too long and detailed for me to read. It would have been a lot better had the movie just made sense in the first place.
I did think it was pretty well produced, though I was pretty tired of the effects by the end of the movie. (And I'm really tired of all "wire work" now.)
No company has ever taken photocopies of my drivers license. That would be considered inappropriate.
Ever tried to rent an apartment? Or get a job? That's two places that always ask to photocopy my driver's license.
I'm all for having something that can help me prove my identity to random folks like apartment managers, but not something that they can use to get other information about me.
I think your question boils down to: "I want to watch one video signal on multiple televisions", right?
Get a video splitter/amplifier and a bunch of coax.
Let developers know what they are building BEFORE they start building it.
But only if you want to end up with a program that is already out of date.
(If you specify a program and it takes six months to write, then you end up with a program that's doing what you wanted six months ago. But instead if you specify it while it's being written, and release it often, and allow change (and plan for change, and dare I say embrace change), then you'll end up with a program that does what you want today.)
Who wants to have to look at someone while you talk to them on the phone? For what?
I do. I miss my family and I think seeing them while talking to them would be really nice. (Of course it will never happen because they'll never pay for broadband.)
Certainly I wouldn't want to use it to talk to strangers. Work associates occasionally. Friends now and then. But definitely family.
There are too many loopholes in this law. Even if you are on the list, you can get calls from political parties, calls from charities, calls from business smaller than 5 people, and calls from companies with whom you have done business in the last 18 months.
It looks like I'll still have to pay the fee to my phone company to block all the telemarketers. (It costs me something like $7 per month, which sucks, but at least I don't get any more calls.)
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If the voters complain, then the state should just start shutting down highways until the people learn that they have to pay for what they use.
Lay um [sic] off, change hiring practices, or whatever just quit trying to raise my damned taxes.
I think your post proves that we need to raise taxes so we can afford better education...
(1) Shop publishers an alpha-quality game that's playable.
I imagine you could save a lot of time by leaving off the soundtrack, titles and menus, and by not spending too much time on the graphics or speed optimization. I assume publishers would be able to see past those "implementation details" and they probably have or know a bunch of people who can help you out with that if they decide to publish.
I bring this up because I've seen people write software (not games) and focus on the wrong things first: the splash screen, the website, the readme, the UI...
A well-designed GUI app is not necessarily less efficient to use than a well-designed console app. The problem is that many GUI apps, especially custom-written apps or vertical apps, are based on the horrible "forms" or "screens" paradigm, where the app is just a series of screens, each with lots of fields. (And all web-based apps are like this so I also classify them as "horrible", despite (or maybe because) the fact that I currently write web-based apps for a living (because that's what people like to pay for).)
In fact, given talented UI (GUI or console) designers and application developers, I'd guess that a GUI app could be more efficient to use than a console app at least 75% of the time.
And of course, a well-designed GUI app should be easier to learn than a console app almost 100% of the time.
Most people will just use whatever browser comes with their computer and will leave the default settings (because most people won't change the preference settings because the settings dialogs are too complicated, or because the user is afraid of messing something up, or because the user is just plain intimidated by the computer, or because the user just wants the computer to work correctly to start with).
This means that they will see these crappy ads, and they will end up hating the web just like they hate email now because of all the spam.
The null instance of whatever class your labels variable is could do the locale stuff. (Or maybe it wouldn't work in your case; it's hard to say without the context.)
If it really can't happen, why not this:
That way, if it really does happen, you'll find out about it.
I can feel it, but it doesn't hurt. And it doesn't hurt afterwards. But I only prick my ring finger and pinky on my non-dominant hand, and I don't use those fingers as much as the others.
Try it on the side of your finger (last segment)
I actually do it in the middle (laterally) of the finger, just above the top segment's joint. That part of the finger rarely hits the keyboard. My fingers are really skinny so there's not enough padding on the sides for me to prick the sides without pain.
Visually matching against a color wheel? This doesn't seem very accurate. Accuracy is key. The existing way seems much better.
Diabetics don't use needles to test their blood sugar. They use tiny pins that create a small drop of blood which gets absorbed by a small strip of paper coated with chemicals which gets read by a small machine.
And it doesn't hurt. There's no pain involved in testing your blood sugar, other than the fact that it's a pain in the ass to have to do it all the time.
(I know because I do it 6 to 10 times a day.)
I don't want to have to check with everyone in the house. I want my computer (TiVo) to do work for me. That's the whole point of computers.
> Please explain how this is more challenging than building an entire machine, hard drive and all, to host one of the opensource solutions?
I wasn't clear: building a PVR would certainly be more work than replacing the hard drive in my TiVo. But I don't want to replace my TiVo's drive, I want to add an additional one. If I rolled my own, I could plug in an external drive and be done with it.
And if I plugged in a portable external firewire hard disk (like my iPod for example), I could watch TV on my laptop if I was on a plane or something.
Anyway, building an entire machine is not hard. It's not like you're building a machine, you're just screwing together some parts. Opening a TiVo and adding another hard disk is almost certainly less work than building a computer, but there is the problem that it might be a lot harder to fix a broken TiVo than a broken PC.
> Yeah. So? You can also pay $300 for a lifetime subscription.
So, there's a fee. A roll-my-own would hopefully be cheaper.
> It keeps track of the last 28 days of programming. If an episode airs again >28 days later (and your unit is set up to record that program), it will record it again. So what? Nobody's forcing you to watch it again. Delete it.
Because I want to see every episode of Seinfeld. I've seen about 90% of them and I don't want the rest of them clogging up my TiVo. It's like spam: sure, I can delete spam, but it's a pain in the ass to wade through the filter results and I'd rather have a smart machine do it for me. I'm sure that you have nothing better to do than sit on your fat ass and delete stuff from your TiVo, but I'd rather do other things while I have my computers work for me.
> Yeah. So? Multi-tuner home built systems are few and far between. Good luck actually building one and getting it to work well.
Two home built systems that can talk to each other and figure out which one would record what would be pretty easy. Also, MythTV apparently supports dual tuners.
> Bzzzt! Thanks for playing. Here's a look at our parting gifts. Only the oldest Tivos need a phone line
That's the one I have, dickface.
> > It's hard to add storage space to a TiVo. You have to crack the case, remove the existing drive, and replace it with a new one.
> Yeah. So? Like that's harder than building a PVR from scratch? Use your head.
No, asswipe, I want to buy an external firewire hard disk and plug it into my PVR so it can use both the existing drive plus the new one. And keep adding new ones if I want.
- $13 monthly fee.
- If TiVo goes out of business, you're screwed.
- TiVo doesn't remember what shows you've seen, so it keeps recording the same ones over and over.
- TiVo doesn't understand that there might be multiple people who use the same TiVo. Therefore there's no way to tell it that one person is ready to delete a program but the other person isn't.
- If you want to record two shows simultaneously and don't have DirecTV, you need to get two TiVos (which is fine) but you also have to pay two monthly fees.
- TiVo requires a phone line.
- It's hard to add storage space to a TiVo. You have to crack the case, remove the existing drive, and replace it with a new one.
That's just some of the problems with TiVo.I didn't like it all that much. Parts of it didn't make sense while I was watching, and afterwards I started thinking about it and very little of it made sense.
And the article linked above was way too long and detailed for me to read. It would have been a lot better had the movie just made sense in the first place.
I did think it was pretty well produced, though I was pretty tired of the effects by the end of the movie. (And I'm really tired of all "wire work" now.)
Ever tried to rent an apartment? Or get a job? That's two places that always ask to photocopy my driver's license.
I'm all for having something that can help me prove my identity to random folks like apartment managers, but not something that they can use to get other information about me.
WTF!?!?!? The commercial is critizing the "other guys", but obviously this customer is making no sense! Who the hell came up with this commercial?
Oh yeah, RadioShack people...
I think your question boils down to: "I want to watch one video signal on multiple televisions", right? Get a video splitter/amplifier and a bunch of coax.
But only if you want to end up with a program that is already out of date.
(If you specify a program and it takes six months to write, then you end up with a program that's doing what you wanted six months ago. But instead if you specify it while it's being written, and release it often, and allow change (and plan for change, and dare I say embrace change), then you'll end up with a program that does what you want today.)
If you pair promiscuously (i.e., change pairs many times a day) you'll transfer knowledge between many people.
I do. I miss my family and I think seeing them while talking to them would be really nice. (Of course it will never happen because they'll never pay for broadband.)
Certainly I wouldn't want to use it to talk to strangers. Work associates occasionally. Friends now and then. But definitely family.
I was wrong, it's Terminal A. Somebody (of course) has a web page about the fried apple pies.
No bacon. Just burger, lettuce and tomato.
These days, they achieve the same effect by not making the burgers hours in advance.
The apple pies at the McDonald's in Terminal C of San Jose (CA, USA) International Airport are fried. (At least they were a month ago.)
I'm not sure what straight shizzle is, but the fried pies are yummy.
There are too many loopholes in this law. Even if you are on the list, you can get calls from political parties, calls from charities, calls from business smaller than 5 people, and calls from companies with whom you have done business in the last 18 months.
It looks like I'll still have to pay the fee to my phone company to block all the telemarketers. (It costs me something like $7 per month, which sucks, but at least I don't get any more calls.)