Seriously, navigating that story was absolutely painful. Would it have been so difficult to add "Next" or an arrow or something so you could read it like, oh I don't know, an actual piece of news?
Problem with that is very few developers use tabs correctly. They insert tabs inside comments, or use them to the right of a set of variable assignments for alignment, or god forbid they use right-aligned block comments with tabs for the right-alignment. At that point the file is screwed. Use any other tabstop and it looks like a horrible mess. I used to be all for tabs. Now that I've seen how most coders work, even those with 30+ years experience, I push 4-space softtabs, no hard tabs. Not everybody is happy, but the file looks correct for everybody.
This is a good reason to not switch to Cingular, or I assume any GSM carrier. I switched to Cingular because they were the only local service offering the Siemens S66 and now I get interference in audio (static and popping) *and* video (CRT goes wiggly). Apparently it happens during certain phone/tower communication and it *always* happens immediately preceding an incoming call. Which is actually kinda neat because I know the phone is going to ring before it actually does.
You'll get comments about "Well your speakers are unshielded" but that's all excuses to cover up the deficiency of GSM. This happens to my work speakers, home speakers, home monitors, and most annoyingly of all my car speakers. It isn't like I'm going to rip into my Honda to protect it from my phone interference.
I will be leaving Cingular once my contract is up.
And don't buy the Siemens S66 phone. 1.3 megapixel camera means nothing if the quality is shite.
Hmm... maybe they could build that into the digital ones. Flip a few bits at random each time it is played, so people who wait until 4 weeks after the movie comes out can get that warm-fuzzy popping and twitching-hair-on-the-screen effect.
Given the difficulty getting past the roadblocks erected by the current two-party system, why did you decide to run as a Libertarian instead of one of the big two? I think you'd have a better chance affecting change from the inside... wear the wool to get in the door, then go Zell Miller on their asses.;)
A Willow spinoff wouldn't work. Believe me, I love Alyson Hannigan but I don't think she could hold her own as the lead role. (Does anybody else want to scream "Blow your nose!" when she's talking?) Faith couldn't pull it off either... Eliza Dushku is mega-hot but anybody who has watched her new show should agree that her acting is often painful. Xander... please. Couldn't possibly build a show off that character. Tony Head has the best acting skills of them all but let's face it, Giles spent most of the battles knocked out. Now that he's even older, how exactly is he going to kick ass in true Buffy/Angel style? It'd be like watching Star Trek Generations all over again... a bunch of old farts scrabbling around on rocks.
On the topic of Buffy characters, I wouldn't mind seeing Amber Benson and Emma Caulfield pop onto the set of Angel. Heavenly helpers and all. But I suppose they already played that with Cordy. *shrug* And did anybody else feel guilty watching the preview for Eurotrip when Michelle Trachtenberg yanks off her shirt? Although I suppose she's old enough now that I don't have to feel *too* guilty.:)
But back to the subject, the end of Buffy and Angel is the end of an era. Two of my all-time favorite shows down the tubes. Sad.
But I have to admit, I'd have sacrificed them both anyway to get a few more episodes of Firefly.;)
ThinkGeek is too easy. Here's an idea that is sure to please:
1. Go to Molecular Expressions Beershots, locate the microscopic photo of his favorite beer, and order the poster. 2. While it is shipping, go have a custom frame made for the poster. 3. Give framed poster and 6-pack of favorite beer as Valentine's Day presents.
You should be able to accomplish this for around $100, and it will appeal to many geek traits: Science, Art, the Unusual and Extraordinary, and Love of Alcohol. He'll totally dig it. And as an added bonus for you, after a few beers he'll probably be better in bed.;)
Makes sense to me. Generally, the people at the lowest pay fall into three categories:
1. Students trying to pick up a bit of cash on the side. 2. Retirees who want to keep busy. 3. People who couldn't get a better job.
It is categories 1 and 3 that need watching. Category 1 because they are "above" the job and probably not too worried about getting fired (and hence more likely to risk putting a millipede in your Big Mac), and category 3 because these are people who cannot follow instructions reliably (and hence are more likely to forget to turn on the grill when cooking your burger).
Using new technology to monitor when these employees arrive and leave seems fine to me.
(As an aside, my second rule of life is "Don't expect excellence from a McDonalds employee." On bad days, the corollary to that is "Everybody is a McDonalds employee.")
It isn't a degree of control, it's expecting workers to show up on time. Nothing wrong with that. All it does is weed out the dishonest folk, who are also probably the ones who would spit in your fries. Yay for technology.
I think the problem is that the birds flying into your house aren't eagles or hawks... probably just suicidal sparrows. I'm all for protecting the rarer and more "majestic" birds, but as far as the little buggers are concerned, fuck 'em.;)
I like another poster's suggestion of painting the blades to make them more bird-visible. Another option might be some sort of bird-whistle outside the range of human hearing. Does such a thing exist? Would it drive the local dogs crazy?
Ack! Wrong, wrong, wrong! I am a firm believer that, if at all possible, you should see the movie first and read the book second. In my opinion watching the movie is like reading an abstract or cliff notes... it hits the main points and gives you a good idea of what happens without a major time investment (granted the investment for LotR is a bit higher than the norm!). Then if you like the ideas and plot you can progress to the book and find out what *really* happens.
I love the LotR book trilogy, but when watching RotK I honestly wished for a few seconds that I hadn't read the books... that all the explanations, twists and developments could have been new and surprising. Instead while I enjoyed it greatly I also caught myself thinking "Sam never put on the ring!" and "Why aren't Merry and Pippin taller from the Ent-draughts?" and "What about replanting the Shire?"
My experience with Harry Potter solidified my watch-first belief... I watched the first movie and loved it, so much so that I went out and bought the first four books (which I had been avoiding for that absurdly stupid geek reasoning "They're popular and thus must be evil."). Then I watched the second move (after reading the book) and had that same nitpicking experience. "Why is Harry falling out of the car? He never fell out of the car! That's gratuitous nonsense!"
Agreed. I feel like telling the brothers "Ok, you're joking right? You're releasing the real movie in 6 months?"
What a pathetic steaming pile of crap that movie was. Bad lines, bad acting, ripped-off ideas, unanswered questions, chock-full of deus ex machina, and not nearly enough of Monica Bellucci's breasts. They got everything wrong except the special effects, and those alone don't make a movie.
Randal Graves: The jizz-mopper's job is to clean off the glass after each guy shoots a load. I don't know if you noticed, but cum leaves streaks if you don't clean it right away.
Follow the links into the site as deep as you can go. Maintain a list of all the links you find. Hit them all one-by-one and repeat. Not only drive up the bandwidth, but if you're lucky (not likely, but could happen) you will start hitting disk.
Find every link to submit information (e-mail, feedback, etc.) and submit your two cents. In a very, very long way. With attachments... Matrix trailers perhaps? And multiple copies of the script of Monty Python and the Holy Grail (make sure you quote a line so as to make it relevant). This will certainly hit disk. Heat those puppies up, see if they invested in RAID.
As another mentioned, fax them. Again, submit info (request to be removed from calling list, inform of a product you are selling, etc.) to make it relevant. But do it on black paper with white lettering. One letter per page. Hmm... how many pages can a fax be?
I'd love to comment on their ethics page but the dang thing just won't load.;)
Slashdot Mirror
Seriously, navigating that story was absolutely painful. Would it have been so difficult to add "Next" or an arrow or something so you could read it like, oh I don't know, an actual piece of news?
Problem with that is very few developers use tabs correctly. They insert tabs inside comments, or use them to the right of a set of variable assignments for alignment, or god forbid they use right-aligned block comments with tabs for the right-alignment. At that point the file is screwed. Use any other tabstop and it looks like a horrible mess. I used to be all for tabs. Now that I've seen how most coders work, even those with 30+ years experience, I push 4-space softtabs, no hard tabs. Not everybody is happy, but the file looks correct for everybody.
This is a good reason to not switch to Cingular, or I assume any GSM carrier. I switched to Cingular because they were the only local service offering the Siemens S66 and now I get interference in audio (static and popping) *and* video (CRT goes wiggly). Apparently it happens during certain phone/tower communication and it *always* happens immediately preceding an incoming call. Which is actually kinda neat because I know the phone is going to ring before it actually does.
You'll get comments about "Well your speakers are unshielded" but that's all excuses to cover up the deficiency of GSM. This happens to my work speakers, home speakers, home monitors, and most annoyingly of all my car speakers. It isn't like I'm going to rip into my Honda to protect it from my phone interference.
I will be leaving Cingular once my contract is up.
And don't buy the Siemens S66 phone. 1.3 megapixel camera means nothing if the quality is shite.
-FF
Hmm... maybe they could build that into the digital ones. Flip a few bits at random each time it is played, so people who wait until 4 weeks after the movie comes out can get that warm-fuzzy popping and twitching-hair-on-the-screen effect.
I love a good programme. I also like eggs and hamme with toast and jamme.
-FF
Given the difficulty getting past the roadblocks erected by the current two-party system, why did you decide to run as a Libertarian instead of one of the big two? I think you'd have a better chance affecting change from the inside... wear the wool to get in the door, then go Zell Miller on their asses. ;)
Please tell us, when Java is Open Source, how will standards compliance be enforced?
Big fucking sticks.
...an embedded processor has a 16 bit word.
*boggle* *boggle* *splat*
Did you hear that? It was my brain exploding. Congratulations, you've killed me. Now I'll have to set the building on fire.
Why do people keep bothering with that ridiculous double-dash crap? Take the route that doesn't rely on an option flag being interpreted correctly:
./-rf
rm
Show me a solution more portable than that.
A Willow spinoff wouldn't work. Believe me, I love Alyson Hannigan but I don't think she could hold her own as the lead role. (Does anybody else want to scream "Blow your nose!" when she's talking?) Faith couldn't pull it off either... Eliza Dushku is mega-hot but anybody who has watched her new show should agree that her acting is often painful. Xander... please. Couldn't possibly build a show off that character. Tony Head has the best acting skills of them all but let's face it, Giles spent most of the battles knocked out. Now that he's even older, how exactly is he going to kick ass in true Buffy/Angel style? It'd be like watching Star Trek Generations all over again... a bunch of old farts scrabbling around on rocks.
:)
;)
On the topic of Buffy characters, I wouldn't mind seeing Amber Benson and Emma Caulfield pop onto the set of Angel. Heavenly helpers and all. But I suppose they already played that with Cordy. *shrug* And did anybody else feel guilty watching the preview for Eurotrip when Michelle Trachtenberg yanks off her shirt? Although I suppose she's old enough now that I don't have to feel *too* guilty.
But back to the subject, the end of Buffy and Angel is the end of an era. Two of my all-time favorite shows down the tubes. Sad.
But I have to admit, I'd have sacrificed them both anyway to get a few more episodes of Firefly.
-FF
ThinkGeek is too easy. Here's an idea that is sure to please:
;)
1. Go to Molecular Expressions Beershots, locate the microscopic photo of his favorite beer, and order the poster.
2. While it is shipping, go have a custom frame made for the poster.
3. Give framed poster and 6-pack of favorite beer as Valentine's Day presents.
You should be able to accomplish this for around $100, and it will appeal to many geek traits: Science, Art, the Unusual and Extraordinary, and Love of Alcohol. He'll totally dig it. And as an added bonus for you, after a few beers he'll probably be better in bed.
-FF
Makes sense to me. Generally, the people at the lowest pay fall into three categories:
1. Students trying to pick up a bit of cash on the side.
2. Retirees who want to keep busy.
3. People who couldn't get a better job.
It is categories 1 and 3 that need watching. Category 1 because they are "above" the job and probably not too worried about getting fired (and hence more likely to risk putting a millipede in your Big Mac), and category 3 because these are people who cannot follow instructions reliably (and hence are more likely to forget to turn on the grill when cooking your burger).
Using new technology to monitor when these employees arrive and leave seems fine to me.
(As an aside, my second rule of life is "Don't expect excellence from a McDonalds employee." On bad days, the corollary to that is "Everybody is a McDonalds employee.")
It isn't a degree of control, it's expecting workers to show up on time. Nothing wrong with that. All it does is weed out the dishonest folk, who are also probably the ones who would spit in your fries. Yay for technology.
I think the problem is that the birds flying into your house aren't eagles or hawks... probably just suicidal sparrows. I'm all for protecting the rarer and more "majestic" birds, but as far as the little buggers are concerned, fuck 'em. ;)
I like another poster's suggestion of painting the blades to make them more bird-visible. Another option might be some sort of bird-whistle outside the range of human hearing. Does such a thing exist? Would it drive the local dogs crazy?
Ack! Wrong, wrong, wrong! I am a firm believer that, if at all possible, you should see the movie first and read the book second. In my opinion watching the movie is like reading an abstract or cliff notes... it hits the main points and gives you a good idea of what happens without a major time investment (granted the investment for LotR is a bit higher than the norm!). Then if you like the ideas and plot you can progress to the book and find out what *really* happens.
I love the LotR book trilogy, but when watching RotK I honestly wished for a few seconds that I hadn't read the books... that all the explanations, twists and developments could have been new and surprising. Instead while I enjoyed it greatly I also caught myself thinking "Sam never put on the ring!" and "Why aren't Merry and Pippin taller from the Ent-draughts?" and "What about replanting the Shire?"
My experience with Harry Potter solidified my watch-first belief... I watched the first movie and loved it, so much so that I went out and bought the first four books (which I had been avoiding for that absurdly stupid geek reasoning "They're popular and thus must be evil."). Then I watched the second move (after reading the book) and had that same nitpicking experience. "Why is Harry falling out of the car? He never fell out of the car! That's gratuitous nonsense!"
You're right about that. If I were going to hire sorcs, then dammit I'd hire them right here in America.
So Segway has 2 wheels, Embrio has 1 (or 1.5 if you prefer), what's the logical progression?
No wheels!
Wait, I guess we've already done that...
Agreed. I feel like telling the brothers "Ok, you're joking right? You're releasing the real movie in 6 months?"
What a pathetic steaming pile of crap that movie was. Bad lines, bad acting, ripped-off ideas, unanswered questions, chock-full of deus ex machina, and not nearly enough of Monica Bellucci's breasts. They got everything wrong except the special effects, and those alone don't make a movie.
"Tomatsup"? Please post your "D'oh!" now or we will be forced to do it for you.
Randal Graves: The jizz-mopper's job is to clean off the glass after each guy shoots a load. I don't know if you noticed, but cum leaves streaks if you don't clean it right away.
- Follow the links into the site as deep as you can go. Maintain a list of all the links you find. Hit them all one-by-one and repeat. Not only drive up the bandwidth, but if you're lucky (not likely, but could happen) you will start hitting disk.
- Find every link to submit information (e-mail, feedback, etc.) and submit your two cents. In a very, very long way. With attachments... Matrix trailers perhaps? And multiple copies of the script of Monty Python and the Holy Grail (make sure you quote a line so as to make it relevant). This will certainly hit disk. Heat those puppies up, see if they invested in RAID.
- As another mentioned, fax them. Again, submit info (request to be removed from calling list, inform of a product you are selling, etc.) to make it relevant. But do it on black paper with white lettering. One letter per page. Hmm... how many pages can a fax be?
I'd love to comment on their ethics page but the dang thing just won't load.Oh no! The Chewbacca defense! *head explodes*
Then you should buy an American hybrid. American cars break all the time. ;)
You can tell it's Friday... AC would never get away with that shit on a Monday. ;)
Screw your base ten nonsense. We're waiting for the hextric system to roll out.