It's working ok. Not perfect, but not terrible either.
You've got to be kidding. Look the fruits of the pudding. Look at the crap posts here that we suffer through. Look at the politicos that you elect. You've high school graduates who can't read, much less add or subtract. Your colleges have crash-course upgrading courses that attempt to winch enrolees into a position of being capable of learning what they offer to teach.
Fat, ignorant, lazy, and arrogant appears to be what USA education excels at these days. Your teachers, at every level, have the hardest job in existence.
I see this ending with states succeeding from the union...
Just a nit:
Secede \Se"cede"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Seceded}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Seceding}.] [L. secedere, secessum; pref se- aside +
cedere to go, move. See {Cede}.]
To withdraw from fellowship, communion, or association; to
separate one's self by a solemn act; to draw off; to retire;
especially, to withdraw from a political or religious body.
I dunno, but you're certainly out of touch with Christianity in the US. Most American Christians think of Catholicism as a totally different (i.e. fundamentally non-Christian) religion, like with Mormons and Witnesses.
I thought they'd got beyond that when they elected JFK. I guess they've forgotten that lesson.
... but yeah, treason would not work since you have to be aiding an external state.
Do you? These are elected employees of the gov't. and so have sworn to defend the Constitution. Going out of your way to dumb down the populace is intentionally weakening the country, which is treasonous.
Gimme a program that I can take a picture of the nutritional label that comes on EVERYTHING, and log that I ate it.
That's stupid, as another poster mentioned.
Better, write a program that runs on beowulf that does something useful, such as predicting the orbits of Pluto's mini-moons, then sell it to NASA; they have deep pockets.
Since our friend seems to have some spare time I would encourage him to address the problem of makery by creating a decent build tool to substitute "make".
Okay, I guess/. is going downhill, if it's letting in people who diss make. $deity! "O'Really" published a very usable book on make. Read it. Be enlightened. I love make.
Bugger the installation, it's actually using the goddam things that drives me nuts. You can never find anyone reporting the same issue, and then 30 seconds after posting, your report is trashed as "Duplicate of #32786". If not, they then get the wrong end of the stick and spend the next decade discussing the wrong thing.
Huh. I just run "reportbug." I've met some very interesting people that way.
[I'd explain but/. says "Filter error: Please use fewer 'junk' characters" when I try. !@#$ing annoying, brainless filter, which is kinda funny because apk gets away with purely contentless posts all the time. How about, "if ($karma != "Excellent") then filter();"? Just a suggestion. Rasafrackin, jiggafriggin, "kroshnit!", and double marshmallows.]
Why can they sell it to the "poor people" (your words) at a much cheaper price and still make a profit? But if you're "richer" they sell it to you for more. Does that make any sense at all?
Think about it. Of course it makes sense. You don't think it's worth the price? Don't buy it. It's as simple as that.
We all do this all the time. You think Beemers are too expensive? Buy a Yugo. Jello costs $1/box but no-name brand is half the price for pretty much the same stuff? Choose, or do without, or get something else. I often find that the chain store no-name brand stuff is fresher, better, not to mention less expensive. Orville Redenbacker's popcorn is crap, for instance.
Nobody's holding a gun to your head forcing you to buy anything that you don't think is worth paying the asking price.
Er, I was doing an off-topic mini-rant (grammar Nazi stuff) clarification about:
... the odd typo, and even ignorance of the correct use of apostrophes, contractions, possesives & etc.
... so your reply was obviously intended for someone else (not a problem). I've often wondered what all of you see in web development. That's the last kind of work I'd want to get into. I've never seen any html code that looked beautiful.
Great rant, though, and I pretty much agree with you.
It's sad how many people here seem to genuinely think that "saving money" is a good reason not to have children. What exactly are you saving money for? Buying your next gadget? There are much more important things in life. And I quite frankly don't see the sense in not leaving a legacy.
Yeah, saving money is a dumb reason not to have kids. I can think of lots of better ones. Two (five?) years of toilet training each and a small fortune in diapers in landfills, still being tied to your ex-wife by child support long after the divorce, finding out your kid just pulled a Columbine (or murdered you and did a Newtown).
There are much better ways to leave a legacy. Do you know the names of Einstein's children? Q.E.D.
I like how the barely literate whine about minor typos rather than contributing something to society.
I can live with the odd typo, and even ignorance of the correct use of apostrophes, contractions, possesives & etc. However, outright laziness (not bothering to proofread) is just insulting. If you care enough to write it, care enough for me to want to read it. Don't go just puking out anybody's dog's breakfast and expect me to thank you for it.
American democracy is far more powerful to effect change than that Colt.45 under your pillow ever will be.
Look back a few decades to the VietNam war. A bunch of peasants armed with AK-47s and Pungi sticks routed two Superpowers (first France, then the USA) armed with tanks, jet fighters, B-52s, Air Cavalry, & etc. Look at the US today. The DHS is terrified of shoe bombers. The FBI is manufacturing plots with willing dupes.
That voting box is looking pretty pathetic these days, and more so every passing day. When your front runners are Obama and Romney, or Clinton and Palin, it's not working.
How big is an IED or a dirty bomb? I suspect I could fit five of the former in the pack I carry around with me. Their boat might contain five hundred or a thousand. TSA! [$chuckle].
You couldn't even spell shysters correctly?!? I know it's early Saturday morning, but even I'm doing better than that, and I've only had about two hours sleep. Geez, mon!
You know why Columbus had a hard time getting funding for his expedition west for a shortcut to India? It was well known that he was wrong -- he was going the long way around.
That will be an interesting factoid to research, thanks. I don't believe it, but admit I'm fairly ignorant of the background details. They'd been suffering the trip along the west coast of Africa around the South African Cape and across the Indian Ocean for a long time. A (Columbus) direct route to Cathay would've been much welcomed at the time.
Did you know that the strongest argument for the world being round was that elephants inhabited India/and/ Africa...
I thought it was the fact that mariners looking at the horizon at sea saw a curve.
You mention Galileo, but you don't appear to be familiar with the actual reason for his censure.
Oh yes, I am. Oldest story in the book. "What've you been doing, busy little bee? Tell me, or I shall strike down everyone you love. You shall watch as I bathe in their blood!" && etc. Power (the dominant religion at the time, Catholicism) hates to be questioned, else it be shown to be non-immortal/non-divine.
"Proximo, are you in danger of becoming a good man?" Shadows and dust.:-)
[Sorry for all the "Gladiator" quotes. I'm pretty much addicted to the heroic.]
Have you ever actually tried to use a Phillips or Robertson screw on the end of a screwdriver?
Yes. The Phillips "cams out" and if I want to drive it in with more than the design torque, I have to push axially quite hard to do so.
Feature? When a Roberton's in, it's in. If a Phillips isn't in, you need to push and grind it until it's in or the bit is rounded enough to throw away, then try again with a new bit. "Brillant!" [sic]. This's exactly the problem that Robertson was trying to eliminate!
As other commenters have said, the issue was with Robertson not coming to an agreement with Ford.
As I understand it, Ford wanted to buy it outright and Robertson wanted to retain ownership, which wasn't good enough for Ford.
As well, there was an advantage in production that Phillips heads had over Robertson, in that the driver bit pops out of the screw head when the screw tightens up.
Yeah, and when held there and continuing to drill, you round the bithead, forcing replacement of the bithead. Great.
... obvious American-market electrical fittings that only have a slotted head. Seriously?
You forget that *everything's* made in China these days.
If Galileo's critics had a track record of using the theory epicycles to (e.g.) firing off a hunk of metal to slingshot around each or the outer planets in turn then they might have been in a better position to criticise.
Kepler (and Brahe) had no such capabilities, yet they managed to come up with (essentially) the right answer. Not every question demands a physical demonstration for proof of utility.
Yours is the first sensible reply I've seen to what I wrote. However, I'd s/cost/greed/. Ford wanted to own it, and Robertson didn't want to sell it outright.
Phillips screws are specifically designed to cam out to protect the drivers since good torque limiting systems didn't exist then, and Robertson screws are [designed] specifically not to cam out.
i) BS.
ii) You must be a physicist or a mathematician (or an economist, finance major, manager,...). Have you ever actually tried to use a Phillips or Robertson screw on the end of a screwdriver? Empirical observation is a good thing.
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It's working ok. Not perfect, but not terrible either.
You've got to be kidding. Look the fruits of the pudding. Look at the crap posts here that we suffer through. Look at the politicos that you elect. You've high school graduates who can't read, much less add or subtract. Your colleges have crash-course upgrading courses that attempt to winch enrolees into a position of being capable of learning what they offer to teach.
Fat, ignorant, lazy, and arrogant appears to be what USA education excels at these days. Your teachers, at every level, have the hardest job in existence.
I see this ending with states succeeding from the union ...
Just a nit:
Secede \Se"cede"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Seceded}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Seceding}.] [L. secedere, secessum; pref se- aside +
cedere to go, move. See {Cede}.]
To withdraw from fellowship, communion, or association; to
separate one's self by a solemn act; to draw off; to retire;
especially, to withdraw from a political or religious body.
I dunno, but you're certainly out of touch with Christianity in the US. Most American Christians think of Catholicism as a totally different (i.e. fundamentally non-Christian) religion, like with Mormons and Witnesses.
I thought they'd got beyond that when they elected JFK. I guess they've forgotten that lesson.
... but yeah, treason would not work since you have to be aiding an external state.
Do you? These are elected employees of the gov't. and so have sworn to defend the Constitution. Going out of your way to dumb down the populace is intentionally weakening the country, which is treasonous.
"od -x" not working for you?
I'm on Windows, you insensitive clod!!
Sucks to be you. :-)
I could fix that for you.
Gimme a program that I can take a picture of the nutritional label that comes on EVERYTHING, and log that I ate it.
That's stupid, as another poster mentioned.
Better, write a program that runs on beowulf that does something useful, such as predicting the orbits of Pluto's mini-moons, then sell it to NASA; they have deep pockets.
Couple of routines to dump binary data into hex would greatly benefit humanity.
"od -x" not working for you?
Since our friend seems to have some spare time I would encourage him to address the problem of makery by creating a decent build tool to substitute "make".
Okay, I guess /. is going downhill, if it's letting in people who diss make. $deity! "O'Really" published a very usable book on make. Read it. Be enlightened. I love make.
Bugger the installation, it's actually using the goddam things that drives me nuts. You can never find anyone reporting the same issue, and then 30 seconds after posting, your report is trashed as "Duplicate of #32786". If not, they then get the wrong end of the stick and spend the next decade discussing the wrong thing.
Huh. I just run "reportbug." I've met some very interesting people that way.
[I'd explain but /. says "Filter error: Please use fewer 'junk' characters" when I try. !@#$ing annoying, brainless filter, which is kinda funny because apk gets away with purely contentless posts all the time. How about, "if ($karma != "Excellent") then filter();"? Just a suggestion. Rasafrackin, jiggafriggin, "kroshnit!", and double marshmallows.]
When you're using titanium for the case and sapphire for the screen, you cant spring for a 2GB chip instead of 1GB? Seriously?
Performance is not their priority. Cachet is.
Fears of the rich exerting undue influence seem to be justified.
FTFY. Surprise, surprise! Lawyers, politicians, bureaucrats and lobbyists. Did anyone expect anything other than this result?!?
Why can they sell it to the "poor people" (your words) at a much cheaper price and still make a profit? But if you're "richer" they sell it to you for more. Does that make any sense at all?
Think about it. Of course it makes sense. You don't think it's worth the price? Don't buy it. It's as simple as that.
We all do this all the time. You think Beemers are too expensive? Buy a Yugo. Jello costs $1/box but no-name brand is half the price for pretty much the same stuff? Choose, or do without, or get something else. I often find that the chain store no-name brand stuff is fresher, better, not to mention less expensive. Orville Redenbacker's popcorn is crap, for instance.
Nobody's holding a gun to your head forcing you to buy anything that you don't think is worth paying the asking price.
Er, I was doing an off-topic mini-rant (grammar Nazi stuff) clarification about:
... the odd typo, and even ignorance of the correct use of apostrophes, contractions, possesives & etc.
... so your reply was obviously intended for someone else (not a problem). I've often wondered what all of you see in web development. That's the last kind of work I'd want to get into. I've never seen any html code that looked beautiful.
Great rant, though, and I pretty much agree with you.
It's sad how many people here seem to genuinely think that "saving money" is a good reason not to have children. What exactly are you saving money for? Buying your next gadget? There are much more important things in life. And I quite frankly don't see the sense in not leaving a legacy.
Yeah, saving money is a dumb reason not to have kids. I can think of lots of better ones. Two (five?) years of toilet training each and a small fortune in diapers in landfills, still being tied to your ex-wife by child support long after the divorce, finding out your kid just pulled a Columbine (or murdered you and did a Newtown).
There are much better ways to leave a legacy. Do you know the names of Einstein's children? Q.E.D.
I like how the barely literate whine about minor typos rather than contributing something to society.
I can live with the odd typo, and even ignorance of the correct use of apostrophes, contractions, possesives & etc. However, outright laziness (not bothering to proofread) is just insulting. If you care enough to write it, care enough for me to want to read it. Don't go just puking out anybody's dog's breakfast and expect me to thank you for it.
American democracy is far more powerful to effect change than that Colt .45 under your pillow ever will be.
Look back a few decades to the VietNam war. A bunch of peasants armed with AK-47s and Pungi sticks routed two Superpowers (first France, then the USA) armed with tanks, jet fighters, B-52s, Air Cavalry, & etc. Look at the US today. The DHS is terrified of shoe bombers. The FBI is manufacturing plots with willing dupes.
That voting box is looking pretty pathetic these days, and more so every passing day. When your front runners are Obama and Romney, or Clinton and Palin, it's not working.
You only think you were unobserved.
How big is an IED or a dirty bomb? I suspect I could fit five of the former in the pack I carry around with me. Their boat might contain five hundred or a thousand. TSA! [$chuckle].
"Imbeciles! Ultra-maroons!" -- Bugs Bunny.
... next step is they say it applies to airports too.
... and bus stations, train stations, football stadiums, ...
We're so fucked.
Yes, you are. Welcome to that long, dark night. I feel sorry for all of you.
CanukShisters.org?
You couldn't even spell shysters correctly?!? I know it's early Saturday morning, but even I'm doing better than that, and I've only had about two hours sleep. Geez, mon!
You know why Columbus had a hard time getting funding for his expedition west for a shortcut to India? It was well known that he was wrong -- he was going the long way around.
That will be an interesting factoid to research, thanks. I don't believe it, but admit I'm fairly ignorant of the background details. They'd been suffering the trip along the west coast of Africa around the South African Cape and across the Indian Ocean for a long time. A (Columbus) direct route to Cathay would've been much welcomed at the time.
Did you know that the strongest argument for the world being round was that elephants inhabited India /and/ Africa ...
I thought it was the fact that mariners looking at the horizon at sea saw a curve.
You mention Galileo, but you don't appear to be familiar with the actual reason for his censure.
Oh yes, I am. Oldest story in the book. "What've you been doing, busy little bee? Tell me, or I shall strike down everyone you love. You shall watch as I bathe in their blood!" && etc. Power (the dominant religion at the time, Catholicism) hates to be questioned, else it be shown to be non-immortal/non-divine.
"Proximo, are you in danger of becoming a good man?" Shadows and dust. :-)
[Sorry for all the "Gladiator" quotes. I'm pretty much addicted to the heroic.]
Have you ever actually tried to use a Phillips or Robertson screw on the end of a screwdriver?
Yes. The Phillips "cams out" and if I want to drive it in with more than the design torque, I have to push axially quite hard to do so.
Feature? When a Roberton's in, it's in. If a Phillips isn't in, you need to push and grind it until it's in or the bit is rounded enough to throw away, then try again with a new bit. "Brillant!" [sic]. This's exactly the problem that Robertson was trying to eliminate!
As other commenters have said, the issue was with Robertson not coming to an agreement with Ford.
As I understand it, Ford wanted to buy it outright and Robertson wanted to retain ownership, which wasn't good enough for Ford.
As well, there was an advantage in production that Phillips heads had over Robertson, in that the driver bit pops out of the screw head when the screw tightens up.
Yeah, and when held there and continuing to drill, you round the bithead, forcing replacement of the bithead. Great.
... obvious American-market electrical fittings that only have a slotted head. Seriously?
You forget that *everything's* made in China these days.
If Galileo's critics had a track record of using the theory epicycles to (e.g.) firing off a hunk of metal to slingshot around each or the outer planets in turn then they might have been in a better position to criticise.
Kepler (and Brahe) had no such capabilities, yet they managed to come up with (essentially) the right answer. Not every question demands a physical demonstration for proof of utility.
Yours is the first sensible reply I've seen to what I wrote. However, I'd s/cost/greed/. Ford wanted to own it, and Robertson didn't want to sell it outright.
Phillips screws are specifically designed to cam out to protect the drivers since good torque limiting systems didn't exist then, and Robertson screws are [designed] specifically not to cam out.
i) BS.
ii) You must be a physicist or a mathematician (or an economist, finance major, manager, ...). Have you ever actually tried to use a Phillips or Robertson screw on the end of a screwdriver? Empirical observation is a good thing.