Yeah, tipping pisses me off. No other jobs get tips. You don't tip builders, or bin men, or shelf stackers, so why tip waiters? Say they expect 10%. If you have a £200 meal, that's £20. For doing what? Bringing a few plates, opening a couple of bottles of wine, taking the plates away again. Maybe 5 minutes work. That's £240/hour.
Personally I'd rather tip the chefs, they're the ones who do all the work and have all the skill.
But that doesn't change the fact that I think that waiters should be paid a real wage, and not have this bullshit run around them where their employers can do this.
Problem with that is that most waiters are not proper professional waiters who'd deserve a real wage. A lot of waiters are unskilled amateurs, probably still at school/college. There's no reason they should be paid the same as proper waiters who are trained.
It's OK for you, if you live close enough to work to be able to walk every day. Other people might not want to walk for 2 hours each way in the rain, five days a week, through dangerous run-down areas.
And god forbid you have something to take to worry, like briefcases, equipment, clothes, books (they'll get wet even in a bag), or in fact any of the millions of things people might need to transport anywhere. Such as shopping. Or kids. Or anything.
Walking might work for you, but you've made the mistake that a lot of people in discussions like this have in assuming something that works for you will work for everyone.
In one paragraph you say abandon cars altogether, then in the next you're saying you use cars? Why don't you walk through the outback, enjoy your health, fight your own personal laziness on all fronts?
Nonsense! With truely modern technology, we would just change the values of G, c and/or pi.
Thank fuck for that. Increase c to make travel go faster, increase G on Mars and the Moon for better gravity. I don't know how we could increase pi, are you sure that's possible?
Can these be used for making a space elevator? If so, why hasn't one been made? We could attach one from the Earth to the Moon. A really strong one, what would that do? We could then go on trips to the Moon.
I know the rotation of the Earth and the orbit of the Moon don't quite work like that, but with modern technology that could be solved, either by altering the rotation of the Earth or the orbit of the Moon. Or a moving elevator that goes along on a track so it keeps in line with the Moon.
The main issue is that when a game gets to a complicated bit, like where there are a hundred characters on the screen, the framerate goes down. If your framerate is 30fps, then in a busy bit it might go down to 10, hwich the eye can detect. If you start with 90, it might go down to 30.
Then perhaps the poor should be taxed for being murderous cannibals? They don't have much money so they could be taxed in cigarettes and scratch cards.
And pay about 90% of the taxes, but don't let that ruin your rant against the people bankrolling the schools, public services, roads and benefits for dole scroungers with 18 kids.
No-one was forced to live in a hurricane zone, in a place underwater, there was always a risk. Why should the rich all over America have their bank accounts raped to build even more giant levees for the sake of a single city living on reclaimed land?
If I decided to live on a leaky boat in a lake, and it sank, I couldn't blame tax payers for not building me a better boat. New Orleans should have been responsible for its own defences.
If someone can't walk fifty miles in a couple of days, with the threat of a HURRICANE motivating them, then there really is no hope for them. I suppose they just expected to sit there and be saved by someone else.
If they're not fit enough to walk that far, WHOSE FAULT IS THAT? Perhaps they shouldn't spend their entire lives in front of the TV eating donuts. I often work strenuously 13 hours a day 5 days a week, if a hurricane was coming my way I wouldn't think twice about walking a hundred miles to get out of the way.
Feeling sorry for youself doesn't get you out of trouble.
Just makes you wonder how America would cope with a nuclear attack, or a tsunami. After just a localised flood an entire city is reduced to third-world status. Anarchy, starvation, disease, rape, police unable to keep control, martial law, helicopters being attacked, it's something you'd expect in Baghdad or Afghanistan.
And the idea of armed gangs going round stealing, looting and raping, shooting at helicopters and the police, just shows what a disgrace the 2nd Ammendment is.
Well it's wikipedia. Very vague, very brief, very shallow, sometimes inaccurate information on lots of subjects. It's the place you to go for a brief overview of something you've never heard of, but don't expect it to give you the same information you'd get in a book.
That's what encyclopedias are, they're brief summaries. Otherwise they'd be 300m thick.
At least he's passionate about his job. That's more than you can say about a lot of executives. What's wrong with wanting to crush the competition? That's what capitalism's all about.
Because you don't need to: 1. Find the drivers. 2. Download them. 3. Use the command line to use them. 4. Exit X and use some complicated program to install them. 5. It JFW.
Same with all that other crap. Yeah if you were a computer nerd you could spend a while downloading and installing it all, but if you're not a technical genius, you want something that just fucking works, so you can concentrate on important stuff, like actually using your computer.
It's positive to see that companies aren't just out to screw everyone, they can help society by investigating crimes like cracking, spam, piracy, fraud and spying.
If more companies were this positive, there might not be such an anti-corporate agenda on this site. I know it's Microsoft but they're not all as moronic as Steve Balmer!
So what? Bill Gates gives plenty to charity. Billions and billions and billions. And that's all over the world, to people in obscure countries, not just in big, rich countries like America where donations get more publicity.
How much has Toyota given to AIDS in Africa? It's easy to give to popular, flash-in-the-pan causes. There are people in the world whose daily lives are like in the current New Orleans, but most Americans don't give a shit about them.
I for one don't give a damn about preparing for 1000 years in the future. The way I see it, I've got a maximum of half a century to live. After that, I don't give a shit.
I look after myself. I have to, no-one else will. Why would I cut the standard of my living so someone in a millenium can go on holiday to Mars?
Damnit I've drunk too much, you know the point where you sort of feel sick, you can't go to sleep because when you close your eyes it makes you feel like you're going to throw up. I hate that. I should switch to spirits, beer and wine are the worst.
I couldn't give a damn about 'higher ideals'. Why should I care what future generations get up to?
The way I see it, you're only on this world for a very short time. Therefore you should make the most possible use out of it. This means doing what gives you the most benefit during your lifetime. Nothing else matters.
Argue if you want, but don't mod me down because you disagree, that's not what the mod system is for.
That would be an abuse of the system. It would mean slashdot could not then accuse companies of abusing the patent system as they would have been doing the same.
Surely that would punish big companies who invent lots of things? Many inventions require lots of money, lots of infrastructure and equipment, and lots of employees.
And what if it's a valid invention and it's denied?
Maybe the solution should be allowing judge to throw out dodgy patents if the owner uses them in a court case. For example if amazon patents having links on the right side on the right side of the screen, and sues slashdot, the judge can declare the patent to be void.
Will the fees affect large corporations? Hell yes. The company I work for files thousands of patent applications a year. Their whole business is intellectual property. They would shit bricks if the fees were to double.
As a small-time inventor, I'd shit bricks if fees were to double. Patents shouldn't be just for the rich. It should be a democratic system where all you need is ingenuity and hard work, not a giant bank account.
Increasing the fees just means that if you invent something and you're poor, you need to get a loan from a giant corporation (a bank), just to patent it. How does it help anyone by making indepedents and small companies rely on big corporations to get on the ladder?
For the record, I think DVD regions are a big bag of shit. I will never buy a non-regionless player. If there's a point where that's all that are sold, I just won't buy any.
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There's always been localised slang, since the start of language in fact. In fact language has never been more homogenised.
Yeah, tipping pisses me off. No other jobs get tips. You don't tip builders, or bin men, or shelf stackers, so why tip waiters? Say they expect 10%. If you have a £200 meal, that's £20. For doing what? Bringing a few plates, opening a couple of bottles of wine, taking the plates away again. Maybe 5 minutes work. That's £240/hour.
Personally I'd rather tip the chefs, they're the ones who do all the work and have all the skill.
But that doesn't change the fact that I think that waiters should be paid a real wage, and not have this bullshit run around them where their employers can do this.
Problem with that is that most waiters are not proper professional waiters who'd deserve a real wage. A lot of waiters are unskilled amateurs, probably still at school/college. There's no reason they should be paid the same as proper waiters who are trained.
It's OK for you, if you live close enough to work to be able to walk every day. Other people might not want to walk for 2 hours each way in the rain, five days a week, through dangerous run-down areas.
And god forbid you have something to take to worry, like briefcases, equipment, clothes, books (they'll get wet even in a bag), or in fact any of the millions of things people might need to transport anywhere. Such as shopping. Or kids. Or anything.
Walking might work for you, but you've made the mistake that a lot of people in discussions like this have in assuming something that works for you will work for everyone.
In one paragraph you say abandon cars altogether, then in the next you're saying you use cars? Why don't you walk through the outback, enjoy your health, fight your own personal laziness on all fronts?
How on earth would you pick it up?
Nonsense! With truely modern technology, we would just change the values of G, c and/or pi.
Thank fuck for that. Increase c to make travel go faster, increase G on Mars and the Moon for better gravity. I don't know how we could increase pi, are you sure that's possible?
To be fair I don't know much about carbon nanodiamonds, and I'm very drunk, I can't be a karma whore cos I'm banned from getting karma by Zork.
Can these be used for making a space elevator? If so, why hasn't one been made? We could attach one from the Earth to the Moon. A really strong one, what would that do? We could then go on trips to the Moon.
I know the rotation of the Earth and the orbit of the Moon don't quite work like that, but with modern technology that could be solved, either by altering the rotation of the Earth or the orbit of the Moon. Or a moving elevator that goes along on a track so it keeps in line with the Moon.
The main issue is that when a game gets to a complicated bit, like where there are a hundred characters on the screen, the framerate goes down. If your framerate is 30fps, then in a busy bit it might go down to 10, hwich the eye can detect. If you start with 90, it might go down to 30.
Then perhaps the poor should be taxed for being murderous cannibals? They don't have much money so they could be taxed in cigarettes and scratch cards.
It'd have to go about a hundred miles, and such a journey would take all day. Maybe 10,000 people could have gotten out.
about 5% of Americans own 50% of American wealth.
And pay about 90% of the taxes, but don't let that ruin your rant against the people bankrolling the schools, public services, roads and benefits for dole scroungers with 18 kids.
No-one was forced to live in a hurricane zone, in a place underwater, there was always a risk. Why should the rich all over America have their bank accounts raped to build even more giant levees for the sake of a single city living on reclaimed land?
If I decided to live on a leaky boat in a lake, and it sank, I couldn't blame tax payers for not building me a better boat. New Orleans should have been responsible for its own defences.
The rest of your post is just a mindless rant.
If someone can't walk fifty miles in a couple of days, with the threat of a HURRICANE motivating them, then there really is no hope for them. I suppose they just expected to sit there and be saved by someone else.
If they're not fit enough to walk that far, WHOSE FAULT IS THAT? Perhaps they shouldn't spend their entire lives in front of the TV eating donuts. I often work strenuously 13 hours a day 5 days a week, if a hurricane was coming my way I wouldn't think twice about walking a hundred miles to get out of the way.
Feeling sorry for youself doesn't get you out of trouble.
Just makes you wonder how America would cope with a nuclear attack, or a tsunami. After just a localised flood an entire city is reduced to third-world status. Anarchy, starvation, disease, rape, police unable to keep control, martial law, helicopters being attacked, it's something you'd expect in Baghdad or Afghanistan.
And the idea of armed gangs going round stealing, looting and raping, shooting at helicopters and the police, just shows what a disgrace the 2nd Ammendment is.
I suppose to autistic, lethargic geeks, any expression of emotion and anger can be seen as psychotic.
It's OK it's downhill so it can just roll.
Well it's wikipedia. Very vague, very brief, very shallow, sometimes inaccurate information on lots of subjects. It's the place you to go for a brief overview of something you've never heard of, but don't expect it to give you the same information you'd get in a book.
That's what encyclopedias are, they're brief summaries. Otherwise they'd be 300m thick.
At least he's passionate about his job. That's more than you can say about a lot of executives. What's wrong with wanting to crush the competition? That's what capitalism's all about.
Because you don't need to:
1. Find the drivers.
2. Download them.
3. Use the command line to use them.
4. Exit X and use some complicated program to install them.
5. It JFW.
Same with all that other crap. Yeah if you were a computer nerd you could spend a while downloading and installing it all, but if you're not a technical genius, you want something that just fucking works, so you can concentrate on important stuff, like actually using your computer.
It's positive to see that companies aren't just out to screw everyone, they can help society by investigating crimes like cracking, spam, piracy, fraud and spying.
If more companies were this positive, there might not be such an anti-corporate agenda on this site. I know it's Microsoft but they're not all as moronic as Steve Balmer!
So what? Bill Gates gives plenty to charity. Billions and billions and billions. And that's all over the world, to people in obscure countries, not just in big, rich countries like America where donations get more publicity.
How much has Toyota given to AIDS in Africa? It's easy to give to popular, flash-in-the-pan causes. There are people in the world whose daily lives are like in the current New Orleans, but most Americans don't give a shit about them.
I for one don't give a damn about preparing for 1000 years in the future. The way I see it, I've got a maximum of half a century to live. After that, I don't give a shit.
I look after myself. I have to, no-one else will. Why would I cut the standard of my living so someone in a millenium can go on holiday to Mars?
Damnit I've drunk too much, you know the point where you sort of feel sick, you can't go to sleep because when you close your eyes it makes you feel like you're going to throw up. I hate that. I should switch to spirits, beer and wine are the worst.
I couldn't give a damn about 'higher ideals'. Why should I care what future generations get up to?
The way I see it, you're only on this world for a very short time. Therefore you should make the most possible use out of it. This means doing what gives you the most benefit during your lifetime. Nothing else matters.
Argue if you want, but don't mod me down because you disagree, that's not what the mod system is for.
That would be an abuse of the system. It would mean slashdot could not then accuse companies of abusing the patent system as they would have been doing the same.
Surely that would punish big companies who invent lots of things? Many inventions require lots of money, lots of infrastructure and equipment, and lots of employees.
And what if it's a valid invention and it's denied?
Maybe the solution should be allowing judge to throw out dodgy patents if the owner uses them in a court case. For example if amazon patents having links on the right side on the right side of the screen, and sues slashdot, the judge can declare the patent to be void.
Will the fees affect large corporations? Hell yes. The company I work for files thousands of patent applications a year. Their whole business is intellectual property. They would shit bricks if the fees were to double.
As a small-time inventor, I'd shit bricks if fees were to double. Patents shouldn't be just for the rich. It should be a democratic system where all you need is ingenuity and hard work, not a giant bank account.
Increasing the fees just means that if you invent something and you're poor, you need to get a loan from a giant corporation (a bank), just to patent it. How does it help anyone by making indepedents and small companies rely on big corporations to get on the ladder?
It was a typo. I meant:
For the record, I think DVD regions are a big bag of shit. I will never buy a non-regionless player. If there's a point where that's all that are sold, I just won't buy any.