While mechanical failures may have decreased, design problems are all over the place, from Toyota's gas pedals getting stuck to the visibility-destroying A-columns in Dodge pickups. There is so much focus on appearance and stopping mechanical failure, they've stopped paying attention to how people actually drive and are decreasing safety because of it.
Some I see woefully-uninformed users posting on politically-sensitive topics on a variety of forums. For a while I was half convinced that they were paid shills posting their re-wording of directions given to them.
Then I realized mostly they were just idiots.
The bubble, I mean. Yes, it caused serious issues at the end, but during the run up of the bubble, all of the major technology we currently used was developed by that massive influx of capital. Slashdot could not have become what it is without the bubble, and you could say the same about just about every other major technology player in the current market.
As for LinkedIn specifically, I'm a bit stunned by the IPO. My LinkedIn account was the 2530th created. That's even better than my Slashdot and ICQ account numbers.
Take, for example, Piers Anthony's Bio of a Space Tyrant series...brother and sister sleep together and their relationship is an important theme throughout the book. However, the basic plot is not about incest, it's about the rise of a diplomat in a Space Opera.
So, is it just books that are "about incest" or those that have that element within them? Where's the dividing line?
Everyone is ok with this coming from 8 year olds, and actively promote 14 year olds doing DNA research (for example). They don't care that these come from those without a portfolio of degrees and 20 characters behind their name. But if a 40 year old does the same after finding something interesting and studying it, they are extremely dismissive of the "amateur" doing what "professionals" should do.
This seems so much like the Wii/Homebrew/DVD player situation. Wii's all have DVD-playing capability, but Nintendo doesn't make or sell a DVD app, leaving it to hackers to make one. By doing this they direct the Wii's use to applications and games provided by Nintendo (ie. if they provide DVD ability, then the Wii will be used less often for purchased products).
It's scummy. Glad I don't have any Apple products.
....we used two rocks to beat binary into each others heads. Uh, I mean...
When I was programming, which was about 75% of my job, I'd say that of that 75%, 50% was actual programming, but in that I include mapping out the next planned code to be written and doing pseudo-code and documentation to make the next task easier. The other 25% of the day was meetings of slacking/research.
Ediie Murphy still makes absolutely crappy movies, and they still keep paying him!:)
On the serious side...I think this is good. I was an intelligent kid with absolutely no motivation. Paying me might have made me exceed earlier (I did eventually become successful, but I wasted a lot of years)
We buy a ton of computers from Dell and HP and the one thing that really bugs me about Dell is that they give price breaks on the same models to consumers first, and then we 'premium' buyers basically have to beg them to match that price. Same models, crappier prices for their business customers. I just don't understand....do they think we can't see their banner ads all over the internet?
Yeah, it's not quite kosher that the program reads this stuff, but what's more important is tracking what goes from the program back to Skype headquarters. Has anyone tried reading the traffic from it while not connected to a voice call, etc.? Want to get mad about something? Then at least ensure there's a valid and serious reason to do so.
You are assuming common sense in the halls of justice. Once the cop finds someone using an access point, how is that cop going to find out who owns the unsecured router based on the advertised name ("LINKSYS")?
It's worth noting the FF+Google Toolbar pays webmasters who supply links for the download and install. How much of the discrepancy is because of webmasters scamming the pay-for-install system?
(I'm in Canada, with many of the same issues as the US)
I just bought an HTC P4000 and I've got to say that it, like the iPhone, blows just about everything else out of the water. It has features that realistically should be much more widespread and popular than they are, and while looking around at other phones around the world it appears to be well inside the range of non-N.A. phones' features.
Things like wi-fi connectivity, camera, video player, bluetooth, pda capabilities, voco, maps (with GPS, which is not on the P4000 unfortunately), mobile versions of Word and Excel, blah blah, blah....should be on the majority of devices now, but a lack of competition is holding things back.
In Canada, where much of the country has one choice of provider or no signal at all, or even two providers using the same towers (as Bell and Telus do many places) with the same phones and plans, there is no incentive for the companies to provide good service or any innovation. All you have to do for proof in this regard is look at the massive outcry in the last few years with Telus, requiring major CRTC intervention.
...should be peeing their pants right now. Whoever wins, this will dramatically alter the landscape of broadband access.
FWIW, given the horrible customer service records of all the other players, I hope Google comes out ahead.
One note though, why is it so common for government agencies to give massive-scale abilities and income to other large companies through policies such as this, but when it comes to a tech company like Google venturing into that scale everyone gets nervous? Shouldn't people be much, much more nervous about large-scale deal such as those done with ClearChannel, Halliburton, or even that company that runs most of the prisons in the US?
I wonder if they fixed the horrible torrent support. It always starts fast then bogs down and slows to a crawl. What makes it worse is the inability to see the actual torrent peers information to see if it's a problem with the torrent network or something closer to home.
here, though a little bit before archive.org found it as shown in the link. Unfortunately, a domain scammer went in and grabbed it just as it expired and I lost my first domain name.
Huge problem. I just had to change my CC# after someone double-swiped it and read the info off the card to create a new bogus one. The info they used could just as easily come from a compromised online processor to create this new card.
In my case they used it for an $18 Starbucks purchase and then a $581 dinner out.
Essjay was the reason I quit Wikipedia, after he suspended a user for just asking a question that had been previously asked. When I called him on his overreaching and ignorant behaviour, he refused to participate in the very processes he helped put in place to deal with dispute resolution on Wikipedia.
Being that he was so high up in the admin ranks, there was no way to argue against his wrong actions.
I feel completely elated that one of the biggest jerk admins on Wikipedia got caught being a fraud. Now, I only hope that those others who have been claiming false credentials will either disappear or get similarly nailed. And then hopefully Jimmy Wales will put some real teeth into controlling rogue admins. Maybe then I'll come back and enjoy editing there.
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Maybe I was being too conservative in my timeframe when I posted this nine-ten years ago: http://longbets.org/16/
Once again, undeniable proof that I've been working in IT too long. I remember trying to convince scaremongers it wouldn't be that bad.
While mechanical failures may have decreased, design problems are all over the place, from Toyota's gas pedals getting stuck to the visibility-destroying A-columns in Dodge pickups. There is so much focus on appearance and stopping mechanical failure, they've stopped paying attention to how people actually drive and are decreasing safety because of it.
Some I see woefully-uninformed users posting on politically-sensitive topics on a variety of forums. For a while I was half convinced that they were paid shills posting their re-wording of directions given to them. Then I realized mostly they were just idiots.
So, why do people stop caring about autism at Christmas? http://correlate.googlelabs.com/search?e=autism&e=christmas&t=weekly#
The bubble, I mean. Yes, it caused serious issues at the end, but during the run up of the bubble, all of the major technology we currently used was developed by that massive influx of capital. Slashdot could not have become what it is without the bubble, and you could say the same about just about every other major technology player in the current market. As for LinkedIn specifically, I'm a bit stunned by the IPO. My LinkedIn account was the 2530th created. That's even better than my Slashdot and ICQ account numbers.
Take, for example, Piers Anthony's Bio of a Space Tyrant series...brother and sister sleep together and their relationship is an important theme throughout the book. However, the basic plot is not about incest, it's about the rise of a diplomat in a Space Opera. So, is it just books that are "about incest" or those that have that element within them? Where's the dividing line?
Everyone is ok with this coming from 8 year olds, and actively promote 14 year olds doing DNA research (for example). They don't care that these come from those without a portfolio of degrees and 20 characters behind their name. But if a 40 year old does the same after finding something interesting and studying it, they are extremely dismissive of the "amateur" doing what "professionals" should do.
This seems so much like the Wii/Homebrew/DVD player situation. Wii's all have DVD-playing capability, but Nintendo doesn't make or sell a DVD app, leaving it to hackers to make one. By doing this they direct the Wii's use to applications and games provided by Nintendo (ie. if they provide DVD ability, then the Wii will be used less often for purchased products). It's scummy. Glad I don't have any Apple products.
....we used two rocks to beat binary into each others heads. Uh, I mean... When I was programming, which was about 75% of my job, I'd say that of that 75%, 50% was actual programming, but in that I include mapping out the next planned code to be written and doing pseudo-code and documentation to make the next task easier. The other 25% of the day was meetings of slacking/research.
Ediie Murphy still makes absolutely crappy movies, and they still keep paying him! :)
On the serious side...I think this is good. I was an intelligent kid with absolutely no motivation. Paying me might have made me exceed earlier (I did eventually become successful, but I wasted a lot of years)
Have you considered humor training?
*cough*end-scene-of-fight-club*cough*
We buy a ton of computers from Dell and HP and the one thing that really bugs me about Dell is that they give price breaks on the same models to consumers first, and then we 'premium' buyers basically have to beg them to match that price. Same models, crappier prices for their business customers. I just don't understand....do they think we can't see their banner ads all over the internet?
Yeah, it's not quite kosher that the program reads this stuff, but what's more important is tracking what goes from the program back to Skype headquarters. Has anyone tried reading the traffic from it while not connected to a voice call, etc.? Want to get mad about something? Then at least ensure there's a valid and serious reason to do so.
You are assuming common sense in the halls of justice. Once the cop finds someone using an access point, how is that cop going to find out who owns the unsecured router based on the advertised name ("LINKSYS")?
It's worth noting the FF+Google Toolbar pays webmasters who supply links for the download and install. How much of the discrepancy is because of webmasters scamming the pay-for-install system?
And Video killed the Radio star too, eh?
(I'm in Canada, with many of the same issues as the US)
I just bought an HTC P4000 and I've got to say that it, like the iPhone, blows just about everything else out of the water. It has features that realistically should be much more widespread and popular than they are, and while looking around at other phones around the world it appears to be well inside the range of non-N.A. phones' features.
Things like wi-fi connectivity, camera, video player, bluetooth, pda capabilities, voco, maps (with GPS, which is not on the P4000 unfortunately), mobile versions of Word and Excel, blah blah, blah....should be on the majority of devices now, but a lack of competition is holding things back.
In Canada, where much of the country has one choice of provider or no signal at all, or even two providers using the same towers (as Bell and Telus do many places) with the same phones and plans, there is no incentive for the companies to provide good service or any innovation. All you have to do for proof in this regard is look at the massive outcry in the last few years with Telus, requiring major CRTC intervention.
...should be peeing their pants right now. Whoever wins, this will dramatically alter the landscape of broadband access. FWIW, given the horrible customer service records of all the other players, I hope Google comes out ahead. One note though, why is it so common for government agencies to give massive-scale abilities and income to other large companies through policies such as this, but when it comes to a tech company like Google venturing into that scale everyone gets nervous? Shouldn't people be much, much more nervous about large-scale deal such as those done with ClearChannel, Halliburton, or even that company that runs most of the prisons in the US?
I wonder if they fixed the horrible torrent support. It always starts fast then bogs down and slows to a crawl. What makes it worse is the inability to see the actual torrent peers information to see if it's a problem with the torrent network or something closer to home.
here, though a little bit before archive.org found it as shown in the link. Unfortunately, a domain scammer went in and grabbed it just as it expired and I lost my first domain name.
Huge problem. I just had to change my CC# after someone double-swiped it and read the info off the card to create a new bogus one. The info they used could just as easily come from a compromised online processor to create this new card.
In my case they used it for an $18 Starbucks purchase and then a $581 dinner out.
Essjay was the reason I quit Wikipedia, after he suspended a user for just asking a question that had been previously asked. When I called him on his overreaching and ignorant behaviour, he refused to participate in the very processes he helped put in place to deal with dispute resolution on Wikipedia.
Being that he was so high up in the admin ranks, there was no way to argue against his wrong actions.
I feel completely elated that one of the biggest jerk admins on Wikipedia got caught being a fraud. Now, I only hope that those others who have been claiming false credentials will either disappear or get similarly nailed. And then hopefully Jimmy Wales will put some real teeth into controlling rogue admins. Maybe then I'll come back and enjoy editing there.
but as soon as you have 'mastered' that, go onto something more enjoyable like Ruby. Your brain will thank you for it.