I liked this thought tremendously. Slashdot needs a moderation category for this. "Troll", "Overatted", "Underrated", "Being a sanctimonious dick-head"
You're not the only one. He probably has a point buried in there somewhere with with all of the sanctimonious bullshit and posturing. When it takes him 400 words (thank you wc) to explain why he's qualified to make the criticism in the first place, something is terribly wrong.
The only place that doesn't server beer in pints....
---
The old man whom he had followed was standing at the bar, having some kind of altercation with the barman, a large, stout, hook-nosed young man with enormous forearms. A knot of others, standing round with glasses in their hands, were watching the scene.
'I arst you civil enough, didn't I?' said the old man, straightening his shoulders pugnaciously. 'You telling me you ain't got a pint mug in the 'ole bleeding boozer?'
'And what in hell's name is a pint?' said the barman, leaning forward with the tips of his fingers on the counter.
'Ark at 'im! Calls 'isself a barman and don't know what a pint is! Why, a pint's the 'alf of a quart, and there's four quarts to the gallon. 'Ave to teach you the A, B, C next.'
'Never heard of 'em,' said the barman shortly. 'Litre and half litre -- that's all we serve. There's the glasses on the shelf in front of you.
'I likes a pint,' persisted the old man. 'You could 'a drawed me off a pint easy enough. We didn't 'ave these bleeding litres when I was a young man.'
'When you were a young man we were all living in the treetops,' said the barman, with a glance at the other customers.
There was a shout of laughter, and the uneasiness caused by Winston's entry seemed to disappear. The old man's whitestubbled face had flushed pink. He turned away, muttering to himself, and bumped into Winston. Winston caught him gently by the arm.
'May I offer you a drink?' he said.
'You're a gent,' said the other, straightening his shoulders again. He appeared not to have noticed Winston's blue overalls. 'Pint!' he added aggressively to the barman. 'Pint of wallop.'
The barman swished two half-litres of dark-brown beer into thick glasses which he had rinsed in a bucket under the counter. Beer was the only drink you could get in prole pubs. The proles were supposed not to drink gin, though in practice they could get hold of it easily enough. The game of darts was in full swing again, and the knot of men at the bar had begun talking about lottery tickets. Winston's presence was forgotten for a moment. There was a deal table under the window where he and the old man could talk without fear of being overheard. It was horribly dangerous, but at any rate there was no telescreen in the room, a point he had made sure of as soon as he came in.
"E could 'a drawed me off a pint,' grumbled the old man as he settled down behind a glass. 'A 'alf litre ain't enough. It don't satisfy. And a 'ole litre's too much. It starts my bladder running. Let alone the price.'
'You must have seen great changes since you were a young man,' said Winston tentatively.
The old man's pale blue eyes moved from the darts board to the bar, and from the bar to the door of the Gents, as though it were in the bar-room that he expected the changes to have occurred.
'The beer was better,' he said finally. 'And cheaper! When I was a young man, mild beer -- wallop we used to call it -- was fourpence a pint. That was before the war, of course.'
'Which war was that?' said Winston.
'It's all wars,' said the old man vaguely. He took up his glass, and his shoulders straightened again. 'Ere's wishing you the very best of 'ealth!'
I wish there were hints at to which hospital this was. OP really needs to be led out by security *today* with his box of belongings -- after it's been carefully searched and any recording media erased and confiscated. The server needs to be confiscated and picked over by competent professionals to make sure it hasn't been doing god-knows-what on their network. (And the bill for this sent to OP, deducted from his last check.)
The tech that opened the port -- or was considering it -- doesn't really have a clue what kind of of trouble he's tacitly authorizing. HIPAA violations are some serious shit, up to $1.5 million a year. Even if we weren't talking about a hospital: any reasonable management of an organization with IP or trade secrets would be having a fit about this.
Shlomi has been bugging the Perl folk for years. I went through his posts years ago to figure out if he was a troll, or just really... dense. Socially inept with at thick crust of stupid all around. After a few weeks I figured it didn't matter. Some folk treated him charitably, others decided to troll him back, and I just decided he wasn't worth the effort either way. Eventually he got bored with my social circle and moved on.
1. Give me a "search preference" where I can say "never this site in my results." You track my "safe search" and other preferences, just add this one.
2. Along with the star, preview, cached, etc... buttons in the results, give me a "this site's results are shit" button. A turd icon would do nicely.
3. Extend your search keywords to add "nosite". i.e. nosite:experts-exchange.com
All of these you could track and adjust your algorithms based on trends of "real life" searchers who utilize these features.
In 2008, they said if I voted for John McCain my civil liberties would be further eroded for sake of the safety of the State. My freedoms would be restricted without legislation with the complicity of the courts....
That's what I'm talking about, I think the fact that a large portion of gawker's users used common passwords that are part of every cracker's dictionary says more about the users than the platform.
Or the attitude of the users towards the system.
For the vast majority, hoi polloi, unwashed masses, commoners: "Gawker? Just use a throwaway password. Like I give two shits if it's hacked." If I were inclined to comment on a Gawker site -- I'm really not -- I'd use a junk password as well.
The *admins* or featured users being the only real dumbasses here.
Amazon pays fuel taxes for the trucks it uses to cart that stuff around.
Doubtful. More likely FedEx, UPS, and the truckload carriers pay the fuel costs.
Those FedEx trucks have to fuel up somewhere. Fuel taxes are unavoidable and *someone* is paying it on behalf of Amazon.
Amazon pays the employer portion of payroll taxes (state worker's compensation, employer-paid portions of state income taxes, and a host of other crazy employer-paid taxes and fees you would not believe)
Employers pay a matching amount on FICA taxes, at a federal level. Employee's pay the full amount of any income or earnings taxes.
Here you are mistaken. Several states and municipalities have employer-paid taxes and fees for the privilege of paying people that live or work in their jurisdictions. Not traditional local/state income taxes -- which the employee pays, of course -- but fees assessed to employers directly either based on income or by head-count. Depending on where, they're filed quarterly or annually. (And dreadfully, often on *paper*. Ugh.)
This often happen regardless of where the company is chartered or has a business presence. As someone who does payroll for a living, I can assure you it happens.
I'm sure these can be waived if the right palms are greased.
Amazon's generating a lot of taxes revenue for those states, just not in direct sales taxes:
Amazon pays property taxes on the warehouses it owns/leases. Amazon pays fuel taxes for the trucks it uses to cart that stuff around. Amazon pays the employer portion of payroll taxes (state worker's compensation, employer-paid portions of state income taxes, and a host of other crazy employer-paid taxes and fees you would not believe)
Plus, there's all of the taxes the workers are paying:
The workers pay income taxes and sales taxes on day-to-day things they buy. The workers pay property taxes on any property they own/lease. The workers pay fuel taxes commuting to their jobs.
Yes, they are dodging some taxes (albeit, legally). It's the American way. *flag waving ensues* And they're welcome to move into my state (Michigan), employ thousands of people (directly or indirectly), and dodge sales taxes here too if they can.
In my experience, the only time it's worth having a discrete sound card is if you have a kick-ass set of headphones (or speaker setup). For the average $100 set of headphones/$400 speaker setup? Totally unecessary. Now, it's worth it if you want "surround" virtualization with headphones, but otherwise, again, totally unecessary.
Of course, if you truly care about sound quality, you'll just use a digital output (either through USB or Optical) and buy a nice external DAC, thereby completely bypassing any potential electrical interference generated from a sound card.
Note: I run an ATH-AD700 off my built-in sound card and I think it sounds great, so no accusations of audiodouchebaggery on my part, please.
She only looked embarrassed for a moment, then you will observe the training kicked in.
Not sure what you mean by "training kicked in", so I watched it again. At first, the female officer is smiling. Then OB threatens the girl with arrest if a bubble hits him. Then it cuts back to the female officer looking embarrassed. Then we cut back to the girl and OB. Then it cuts back to the female officer, and she's smirking. That's the last we see of her in this video, and even if my reading of her facial expression is subjective, the fact that shows no other physical or verbal reaction is not.
I'm with you and I think the grandparent post is full of shit. The female officer's reaction was friendly authority: a uniformed presence, hat back, glasses off, relaxed but observant stance holding her ground, and a pleasant smile on her face. I have no doubt should could easily have turned just as nasty and rude as Officer Bubbles, but did not. Her training was working before to keep the situation calm.
Her embarrassment and subsequent smirk probably more than likely stemmed from the idiotic behavior of her colleague. As if to say, "Oh hell, Bubbles is at it again..." and then "Shit, this is gonna get nasty now...." Knowing that she's obliged to back up Officer Bubbles if it does get out of hand -- even if he caused it. Face it, we all get that same embarrassment and smirk when one of our colleagues goes after a n00b, and there's no way to stop it.
Agreeing to a contract ("put out the fire, I'll pay you later") under duress or coercion is a surefire way of having the contract rendered void.
So how do emergency rooms and hospitals do it? Often the person isn't even concious when they come in.
In the US, Emergency Rooms are required by law to stabilize you regardless of your ability to pay. This is part of the EMTALA Act of 1986 and very often hospitals don't get paid for ER services.
Which is precisely why it won't ever happen that way. The homeowner will never have to pay. Agreeing to a contract ("put out the fire, I'll pay you later") under duress or coercion is a surefire way of having the contract rendered void.
Where is that? The 1980s? There are plenty of CFLs that give "warm" light. And modern ones don't take minutes to come on either (although it does get a bit worse with age).
In 2010, go to a random store in the US and blindly grab a cheap CFL bulb and a cheap incandescent. Plug both in, observe. Chances are the CFL will be off-color, slow to start, and wear out (not burn out right away, just "dim" over time), and fail if you put it into a dimmer socket. The incandescent will come on instantly, have warm color, can be dimmed using existing controlling hardware, and give consistent light over its lifespan. The incandescent cost less than $.75/bulb if you grabbed a cheap one; the CFL a significant multiple of that amount.
You could spend your time reading Consumer Reports, researching CFL's, experimenting on your own, change out your hardware, and find the one manufacturer that makes a bulb that might not have these flaws -- it's out there somewhere. Or, you can just grab any old regular bulb and it'll work.
The European solution was, of course, to ban the incandescent and legislate the use of CFL's. That'll fix the technical problems, for sure!
Even so, CFLs aren't the solution. LED lights use even less energy, and you can do ridiculously cool stuff with them. The big downside is that you need special dimmers, though.
And don't forget the much, much higher cost for LED lighting solutions.
You're just not using them right. CFLs should not....
Warning: Pregnant women, the elderly, and children under 10 should avoid prolonged exposure to CFL bulb.
Caution: CFL bulb may suddenly accelerate to dangerous speeds.
CFL bulb contains a mercury core, which, if exposed due to rupture, should not be touched, inhaled, or looked at.
Do not use CFL bulb on concrete.
Discontinue use of CFL bulb if any of the following occurs:
* itching
* vertigo
* dizziness
* tingling in extremities
* loss of balance or coordination
* slurred speech
* temporary blindness
* profuse sweating
* or heart palpitations.
If CFL bulb begins to smoke, get away immediately. Seek shelter and cover head.
CFL bulb may stick to certain types of skin.
When not in use, CFL bulb should be returned to its special container and kept under refrigeration. Failure to do so relieves the makers of CFL bulbs, Wacky Products Incorporated, and its parent company, Global Chemical Unlimited, of any and all liability.
Ingredients of CFL bulb include an unknown glowing green substance which fell to Earth, presumably from outer space.
CFL bulb has been shipped to our troops in Saudi Arabia and is being dropped by our warplanes on Iraq.
When I own an iphone dev kit, then it is exactly my business. Libertarian Fail.
If you have a dev kit and believe this then you are a failed libertarian. Under a strict libertarian model Jobs and Apple can *still* do whatever the hell they please even if you have a contract, license, and blood pact with them. Contracts and lawyer lingo are just niceties, and perhaps give you some guidance for recourse after -- but they can't force anyone to do anything.
It's your job to round up your friends and shove Steve out an airlock until he learns to cooperate.
"I have altered the deal. Pray I do not alter it any further."
There's your new Steve Jobs logo: a Vader/Jobs mashup. The Empire has neat gadgets, sure. They have Death Stars, destroyers, cruisers, really big mechanical camels, and they all have a similar conformist look to them. No rag-tag mismatched fleet of rebel ships here.
Not to mention they have hoards of cookie-cutter foot soldiers ready to sacrifice themselves without questioning the leader. (That'll just get you choked out.)
Or maybe there some longer cycle of...cycles;) With the Sun now manifesting a shift of this ubercycle, which will give "short" cycle of different lenght.
Epicycles! Ptolemy was right, just not about the planets.
It always seemd too me, that XML, XSLT CSS and Java servlets are really all you need and you can build marvelous interfaces. Tried that once, but the response I got was (thats too hard, lets use javascript).... [other tech] All of which is crap in my opinion... The closest I have come to a decent application framework for building web apps is Java.
Whereas I read your comment and that of many others in here and see tool bigotry. Maybe my preferred methods are Perl and HTML4 + CSS. Bob has a boner for Ruby and Rails. Both of us think XSLT is a dead methodology, and bicker constantly over whether to do Ajax with jQuery alone or to use YUI. We'll all glue our crap together hope it works. In the end, any product we three produce will suck just like the topic web product.
Even if we settle on a framework and a set of technologies my Java will read like finely crafted Perl, and Bobs will reek of Ruby. Neither one of us will be happy with our XSLT and they will work like hell until you re-code them (or try to anyway). Our biases will be reflected in our styles, at least until we've used enough of this alien toolset to become comfortable in it.
Now consider an innocent bystander on a different project maybe in a different company. He's selected (or had selected for him) a PHP/HTML/YUI based framework. If he likes our widgets and layouts and our product is "open", he's now down to patching together dissimilar technologies to get what he wants. Our advice to him is a mish-mash of opinions and crap. His product will also suck just like ours.
Web development is a patchwork quilt laid out by the geometrically challenged and color blind.
Slashdot Mirror
I liked this thought tremendously. Slashdot needs a moderation category for this. "Troll", "Overatted", "Underrated", "Being a sanctimonious dick-head"
You're not the only one. He probably has a point buried in there somewhere with with all of the sanctimonious bullshit and posturing. When it takes him 400 words (thank you wc) to explain why he's qualified to make the criticism in the first place, something is terribly wrong.
TL;DR. Skimmed only.
The only place that doesn't server beer in pints....
---
The old man whom he had followed was standing at the bar, having some kind of altercation with the barman, a large, stout, hook-nosed young man with enormous forearms. A knot of others, standing round with glasses in their hands, were watching the scene.
'I arst you civil enough, didn't I?' said the old man, straightening his shoulders pugnaciously. 'You telling me you ain't got a pint mug in the 'ole bleeding boozer?'
'And what in hell's name is a pint?' said the barman, leaning forward with the tips of his fingers on the counter.
'Ark at 'im! Calls 'isself a barman and don't know what a pint is! Why, a pint's the 'alf of a quart, and there's four quarts to the gallon. 'Ave to teach you the A, B, C next.'
'Never heard of 'em,' said the barman shortly. 'Litre and half litre -- that's all we serve. There's the glasses on the shelf in front of you.
'I likes a pint,' persisted the old man. 'You could 'a drawed me off a pint easy enough. We didn't 'ave these bleeding litres when I was a young man.'
'When you were a young man we were all living in the treetops,' said the barman, with a glance at the other customers.
There was a shout of laughter, and the uneasiness caused by Winston's entry seemed to disappear. The old man's whitestubbled face had flushed pink. He turned away, muttering to himself, and bumped into Winston. Winston caught him gently by the arm.
'May I offer you a drink?' he said.
'You're a gent,' said the other, straightening his shoulders again. He appeared not to have noticed Winston's blue overalls. 'Pint!' he added aggressively to the barman. 'Pint of wallop.'
The barman swished two half-litres of dark-brown beer into thick glasses which he had rinsed in a bucket under the counter. Beer was the only drink you could get in prole pubs. The proles were supposed not to drink gin, though in practice they could get hold of it easily enough. The game of darts was in full swing again, and the knot of men at the bar had begun talking about lottery tickets. Winston's presence was forgotten for a moment. There was a deal table under the window where he and the old man could talk without fear of being overheard. It was horribly dangerous, but at any rate there was no telescreen in the room, a point he had made sure of as soon as he came in.
"E could 'a drawed me off a pint,' grumbled the old man as he settled down behind a glass. 'A 'alf litre ain't enough. It don't satisfy. And a 'ole litre's too much. It starts my bladder running. Let alone the price.'
'You must have seen great changes since you were a young man,' said Winston tentatively.
The old man's pale blue eyes moved from the darts board to the bar, and from the bar to the door of the Gents, as though it were in the bar-room that he expected the changes to have occurred.
'The beer was better,' he said finally. 'And cheaper! When I was a young man, mild beer -- wallop we used to call it -- was fourpence a pint. That was before the war, of course.'
'Which war was that?' said Winston.
'It's all wars,' said the old man vaguely. He took up his glass, and his shoulders straightened again. 'Ere's wishing you the very best of 'ealth!'
Un-frigging believable.
I wish there were hints at to which hospital this was. OP really needs to be led out by security *today* with his box of belongings -- after it's been carefully searched and any recording media erased and confiscated. The server needs to be confiscated and picked over by competent professionals to make sure it hasn't been doing god-knows-what on their network. (And the bill for this sent to OP, deducted from his last check.)
The tech that opened the port -- or was considering it -- doesn't really have a clue what kind of of trouble he's tacitly authorizing. HIPAA violations are some serious shit, up to $1.5 million a year. Even if we weren't talking about a hospital: any reasonable management of an organization with IP or trade secrets would be having a fit about this.
[Howdy, old timer.]
Warning: did not read article.
Shlomi has been bugging the Perl folk for years. I went through his posts years ago to figure out if he was a troll, or just really ... dense. Socially inept with at thick crust of stupid all around. After a few weeks I figured it didn't matter. Some folk treated him charitably, others decided to troll him back, and I just decided he wasn't worth the effort either way. Eventually he got bored with my social circle and moved on.
Tits or GTFO
D'oh! Missed #3 as an existing option. I'll probably keep something around so that I can just paste that onto messy tech-related searches.
"searchterm1 searchterm2 searchterm3 [paste] -nosite:lousysite1.com -nosite:lousysite2.com -nosite:lousysite3.com"
But options #1 and #2 should be trivial for Google to implement and haven't. Another FAIL in a long string of them for Google recently.
Dear Google,
Screw the plugin.
1. Give me a "search preference" where I can say "never this site in my results." You track my "safe search" and other preferences, just add this one.
2. Along with the star, preview, cached, etc... buttons in the results, give me a "this site's results are shit" button. A turd icon would do nicely.
3. Extend your search keywords to add "nosite". i.e. nosite:experts-exchange.com
All of these you could track and adjust your algorithms based on trends of "real life" searchers who utilize these features.
Sincerely,
Me
In 2008, they said if I voted for John McCain my civil liberties would be further eroded for sake of the safety of the State. My freedoms would be restricted without legislation with the complicity of the courts....
And they were right!
That's what I'm talking about, I think the fact that a large portion of gawker's users used common passwords that are part of every cracker's dictionary says more about the users than the platform.
Or the attitude of the users towards the system.
For the vast majority, hoi polloi, unwashed masses, commoners: "Gawker? Just use a throwaway password. Like I give two shits if it's hacked." If I were inclined to comment on a Gawker site -- I'm really not -- I'd use a junk password as well.
The *admins* or featured users being the only real dumbasses here.
Amazon pays fuel taxes for the trucks it uses to cart that stuff around.
Doubtful. More likely FedEx, UPS, and the truckload carriers pay the fuel costs.
Those FedEx trucks have to fuel up somewhere. Fuel taxes are unavoidable and *someone* is paying it on behalf of Amazon.
Amazon pays the employer portion of payroll taxes (state worker's compensation, employer-paid portions of state income taxes, and a host of other crazy employer-paid taxes and fees you would not believe)
Employers pay a matching amount on FICA taxes, at a federal level. Employee's pay the full amount of any income or earnings taxes.
Here you are mistaken. Several states and municipalities have employer-paid taxes and fees for the privilege of paying people that live or work in their jurisdictions. Not traditional local/state income taxes -- which the employee pays, of course -- but fees assessed to employers directly either based on income or by head-count. Depending on where, they're filed quarterly or annually. (And dreadfully, often on *paper*. Ugh.)
This often happen regardless of where the company is chartered or has a business presence. As someone who does payroll for a living, I can assure you it happens.
I'm sure these can be waived if the right palms are greased.
Amazon's generating a lot of taxes revenue for those states, just not in direct sales taxes:
Amazon pays property taxes on the warehouses it owns/leases.
Amazon pays fuel taxes for the trucks it uses to cart that stuff around.
Amazon pays the employer portion of payroll taxes (state worker's compensation, employer-paid portions of state income taxes, and a host of other crazy employer-paid taxes and fees you would not believe)
Plus, there's all of the taxes the workers are paying:
The workers pay income taxes and sales taxes on day-to-day things they buy.
The workers pay property taxes on any property they own/lease.
The workers pay fuel taxes commuting to their jobs.
Yes, they are dodging some taxes (albeit, legally). It's the American way. *flag waving ensues* And they're welcome to move into my state (Michigan), employ thousands of people (directly or indirectly), and dodge sales taxes here too if they can.
In my experience, the only time it's worth having a discrete sound card is if you have a kick-ass set of headphones (or speaker setup). For the average $100 set of headphones/$400 speaker setup? Totally unecessary. Now, it's worth it if you want "surround" virtualization with headphones, but otherwise, again, totally unecessary.
Of course, if you truly care about sound quality, you'll just use a digital output (either through USB or Optical) and buy a nice external DAC, thereby completely bypassing any potential electrical interference generated from a sound card.
Note: I run an ATH-AD700 off my built-in sound card and I think it sounds great, so no accusations of audiodouchebaggery on my part, please.
Don't forget your gold-plated cables.
She only looked embarrassed for a moment, then you will observe the training kicked in.
Not sure what you mean by "training kicked in", so I watched it again. At first, the female officer is smiling. Then OB threatens the girl with arrest if a bubble hits him. Then it cuts back to the female officer looking embarrassed. Then we cut back to the girl and OB. Then it cuts back to the female officer, and she's smirking. That's the last we see of her in this video, and even if my reading of her facial expression is subjective, the fact that shows no other physical or verbal reaction is not.
I'm with you and I think the grandparent post is full of shit. The female officer's reaction was friendly authority: a uniformed presence, hat back, glasses off, relaxed but observant stance holding her ground, and a pleasant smile on her face. I have no doubt should could easily have turned just as nasty and rude as Officer Bubbles, but did not. Her training was working before to keep the situation calm.
Her embarrassment and subsequent smirk probably more than likely stemmed from the idiotic behavior of her colleague. As if to say, "Oh hell, Bubbles is at it again..." and then "Shit, this is gonna get nasty now...." Knowing that she's obliged to back up Officer Bubbles if it does get out of hand -- even if he caused it. Face it, we all get that same embarrassment and smirk when one of our colleagues goes after a n00b, and there's no way to stop it.
Agreeing to a contract ("put out the fire, I'll pay you later") under duress or coercion is a surefire way of having the contract rendered void.
So how do emergency rooms and hospitals do it? Often the person isn't even concious when they come in.
In the US, Emergency Rooms are required by law to stabilize you regardless of your ability to pay. This is part of the EMTALA Act of 1986 and very often hospitals don't get paid for ER services.
They have a *very* strong bargaining position.
Which is precisely why it won't ever happen that way. The homeowner will never have to pay. Agreeing to a contract ("put out the fire, I'll pay you later") under duress or coercion is a surefire way of having the contract rendered void.
Where is that? The 1980s? There are plenty of CFLs that give "warm" light. And modern ones don't take minutes to come on either (although it does get a bit worse with age).
In 2010, go to a random store in the US and blindly grab a cheap CFL bulb and a cheap incandescent. Plug both in, observe. Chances are the CFL will be off-color, slow to start, and wear out (not burn out right away, just "dim" over time), and fail if you put it into a dimmer socket. The incandescent will come on instantly, have warm color, can be dimmed using existing controlling hardware, and give consistent light over its lifespan. The incandescent cost less than $.75/bulb if you grabbed a cheap one; the CFL a significant multiple of that amount.
You could spend your time reading Consumer Reports, researching CFL's, experimenting on your own, change out your hardware, and find the one manufacturer that makes a bulb that might not have these flaws -- it's out there somewhere. Or, you can just grab any old regular bulb and it'll work.
The European solution was, of course, to ban the incandescent and legislate the use of CFL's. That'll fix the technical problems, for sure!
Even so, CFLs aren't the solution. LED lights use even less energy, and you can do ridiculously cool stuff with them. The big downside is that you need special dimmers, though.
And don't forget the much, much higher cost for LED lighting solutions.
You're just not using them right. CFLs should not....
Warning: Pregnant women, the elderly, and children under 10 should avoid prolonged exposure to CFL bulb.
Caution: CFL bulb may suddenly accelerate to dangerous speeds.
CFL bulb contains a mercury core, which, if exposed due to rupture, should not be touched, inhaled, or looked at.
Do not use CFL bulb on concrete.
Discontinue use of CFL bulb if any of the following occurs:
* itching
* vertigo
* dizziness
* tingling in extremities
* loss of balance or coordination
* slurred speech
* temporary blindness
* profuse sweating
* or heart palpitations.
If CFL bulb begins to smoke, get away immediately. Seek shelter and cover head.
CFL bulb may stick to certain types of skin.
When not in use, CFL bulb should be returned to its special container and kept under refrigeration. Failure to do so relieves the makers of CFL bulbs, Wacky Products Incorporated, and its parent company, Global Chemical Unlimited, of any and all liability.
Ingredients of CFL bulb include an unknown glowing green substance which fell to Earth, presumably from outer space.
CFL bulb has been shipped to our troops in Saudi Arabia and is being dropped by our warplanes on Iraq.
Do not taunt CFL bulb.
CFL bulb comes with a lifetime warranty.
CFL bulb! Accept no substitutes!
Perhaps we could use "lazywebbed"?
A quick poll of the users in the house, and ... yeah, we all do the same thing and it works quite well. Slow news day?
Lots of tabs got you down?
1. Drag a Firefox tab of onto the desktop, you get a new window.
2. Drag related tabs onto that new window.
Look! Grouped! The tabs retain their individual histories as well.
When I own an iphone dev kit, then it is exactly my business. Libertarian Fail.
If you have a dev kit and believe this then you are a failed libertarian. Under a strict libertarian model Jobs and Apple can *still* do whatever the hell they please even if you have a contract, license, and blood pact with them. Contracts and lawyer lingo are just niceties, and perhaps give you some guidance for recourse after -- but they can't force anyone to do anything.
It's your job to round up your friends and shove Steve out an airlock until he learns to cooperate.
"I have altered the deal. Pray I do not alter it any further."
There's your new Steve Jobs logo: a Vader/Jobs mashup. The Empire has neat gadgets, sure. They have Death Stars, destroyers, cruisers, really big mechanical camels, and they all have a similar conformist look to them. No rag-tag mismatched fleet of rebel ships here.
Not to mention they have hoards of cookie-cutter foot soldiers ready to sacrifice themselves without questioning the leader.
(That'll just get you choked out.)
Wherever he damn well pleases, apparently.
And just as important, it's none of your business where he wants to draw it.
Or maybe there some longer cycle of...cycles ;) With the Sun now manifesting a shift of this ubercycle, which will give "short" cycle of different lenght.
Epicycles! Ptolemy was right, just not about the planets.
It always seemd too me, that XML, XSLT CSS and Java servlets are really all you need and you can build marvelous interfaces. Tried that once, but the response I got was (thats too hard, lets use javascript). ... [other tech] All of which is crap in my opinion ... The closest I have come to a decent application framework for building web apps is Java.
Whereas I read your comment and that of many others in here and see tool bigotry. Maybe my preferred methods are Perl and HTML4 + CSS. Bob has a boner for Ruby and Rails. Both of us think XSLT is a dead methodology, and bicker constantly over whether to do Ajax with jQuery alone or to use YUI. We'll all glue our crap together hope it works. In the end, any product we three produce will suck just like the topic web product.
Even if we settle on a framework and a set of technologies my Java will read like finely crafted Perl, and Bobs will reek of Ruby. Neither one of us will be happy with our XSLT and they will work like hell until you re-code them (or try to anyway). Our biases will be reflected in our styles, at least until we've used enough of this alien toolset to become comfortable in it.
Now consider an innocent bystander on a different project maybe in a different company. He's selected (or had selected for him) a PHP/HTML/YUI based framework. If he likes our widgets and layouts and our product is "open", he's now down to patching together dissimilar technologies to get what he wants. Our advice to him is a mish-mash of opinions and crap. His product will also suck just like ours.
Web development is a patchwork quilt laid out by the geometrically challenged and color blind.