I remember my grandfather, diagnosed with lung cancer, coming back from a chemo treatment several weeks into it - which his physician had said would not do any good because he was too far gone - annoucing that he was going to quit smoking. It was one of the more ridiculous things I've ever heard.
Great. I had the misfortune of living in Houston for 3 years and now I won't even change planes in Texas. So, if it is part of the south, maybe that explains I hated it so much when I loved living in Missouri.
Fact: whether we are the ones who are causing the change is irrelevant.
Please define "we". If by "we" you mean "humans", I think it is relevant. If by "we" you mean "non-americans", or "non-SUV drivers", or "non-energy industry executives", then OK.
1. We're pretty sure that we can avert a total disaster if everyone would just DRINK MORE WATER. We will make sure this happens through a sort of "anti ration" where it is required by law that you drink x amount of water every day.
That is an excellent idea. I suggest an initial target figure of 5 gallons per day with the quota increasing by 5% each quarter.
Of course, to really gain the maximum benefit, we will need to ration how much people can piss. I suggest we limit that to 20% of the water taken in on a daily basis with bonus system for people who piss less than that amount and stiff penalties for people who piss more.
Also, of course we will need to limit the amount people are allowed to sweat.
I hear what you are saying. When I was in middle school, though, we had a bomb threat every f***ing week. And every time we evacuated the building and then they called the fire department, etc. It sucked standing out in the cold in Winter.
The high school kids were calling in all the bomb threats from a pay phone. I don't know how they eventually put a stop to it - or if they ever did, but it happened all the time I was in middle school.
I write MacOS X applications these days. I'd want a PowerMac G5 and a 30" Cinema display. I'd want a nice keyboard and a better mouse than Apple makes.
I already use XCode which is a very nice IDE and Obj-C + Cocoa.
Maybe T-mobile will get their act together now and fix all the problems
I wish they would. I have several problems for them to solve.
First, I have a stomach ache. Once they solve that, then I need them to solve the energy crisis. And I have an application my intern wrote that has a lot of bugs in it they could fix.
Didn't we have some kind of Mars probe that crashed or something because someone couldn't convert properly between Farenheit and Kiloliters?
And then on Cassini some bozo coder forgot the line of code to turn on one of the cameras?
I would think there is a huge risk of wasting a zillion dollars. Not to mention the risks for NASA to be the target of countless jokes on Letterman/Leno.
Someone once mentioned that the Saturn V's electronics were designed to cope with the electronic lag in transmissions by sending commands early. If the same design were followed in an update, the rocket would destroy itself because those early commands would be transmitted instantanously.
I don't understand this. Isn't the lag due to radio signals taking a while to reach the rocket as it moves farther away? Did the speed that radio signals travel increase since the 1970s? Or are you referring to some kind of lag on the computer on the rocket, or perhaps the computer on the ground?
Yeah, the same kind of head start you get by inheriting a buggy codebase with an inappropriate design. It will probably only set them back 5 or 6 years.
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He then resold the laptop on eBay for $1,159 - just $18,805 short of his bail after police arrested him.
Ha ha!
Right. I drive with two feet, both hands and arms, and move my head.
I drive with one foot and my knee.
Apple's management once asked one of their employees to develop a video game system. Instead he created the Macintosh.
Oh, and also there was the Pippin. It was a pretty crappy game system and went nowhere.
...and that robot!
I remember my grandfather, diagnosed with lung cancer, coming back from a chemo treatment several weeks into it - which his physician had said would not do any good because he was too far gone - annoucing that he was going to quit smoking. It was one of the more ridiculous things I've ever heard.
Great. I had the misfortune of living in Houston for 3 years and now I won't even change planes in Texas. So, if it is part of the south, maybe that explains I hated it so much when I loved living in Missouri.
I eat buffalo steak all the time. Its very good.
Fact: whether we are the ones who are causing the change is irrelevant.
Please define "we". If by "we" you mean "humans", I think it is relevant. If by "we" you mean "non-americans", or "non-SUV drivers", or "non-energy industry executives", then OK.
1. We're pretty sure that we can avert a total disaster if everyone would just DRINK MORE WATER. We will make sure this happens through a sort of "anti ration" where it is required by law that you drink x amount of water every day.
That is an excellent idea. I suggest an initial target figure of 5 gallons per day with the quota increasing by 5% each quarter.
Of course, to really gain the maximum benefit, we will need to ration how much people can piss. I suggest we limit that to 20% of the water taken in on a daily basis with bonus system for people who piss less than that amount and stiff penalties for people who piss more.
Also, of course we will need to limit the amount people are allowed to sweat.
We can give a government tax break to companies that advertise with Sky Writing.
People always say bad things aboutt New Jersey. I visited New Jersey for a couple of days last year and I thought it was very pretty.
I've lived all my life either on the west coast (Washington, Oregon, California)or in the mid west (Missouri, Texas).
I visited Tenafly, NJ on business.
I hear what you are saying. When I was in middle school, though, we had a bomb threat every f***ing week. And every time we evacuated the building and then they called the fire department, etc. It sucked standing out in the cold in Winter.
The high school kids were calling in all the bomb threats from a pay phone. I don't know how they eventually put a stop to it - or if they ever did, but it happened all the time I was in middle school.
It is like saying that having a QA department lowers your quality. Sometimes true. Sometimes not.
I write MacOS X applications these days. I'd want a PowerMac G5 and a 30" Cinema display. I'd want a nice keyboard and a better mouse than Apple makes.
I already use XCode which is a very nice IDE and Obj-C + Cocoa.
I personally like to use my vintage Parker 51 fountain pen for this purpose.
There is a huge difference between video recording and video playback.
There is also a huge difference in the skill necessary to shoot video footage well and shoot still pictures well.
Maybe T-mobile will get their act together now and fix all the problems
I wish they would. I have several problems for them to solve.
First, I have a stomach ache. Once they solve that, then I need them to solve the energy crisis. And I have an application my intern wrote that has a lot of bugs in it they could fix.
I think 11 months is a reasonable sentence for the first offense of someone who committed a serious crime, but not a violent one.
Yeah, that's a skanky hack.
...Plus I threw up a lot and no one liked spending a week with me.
unmanned space flight where there are no risks.
Didn't we have some kind of Mars probe that crashed or something because someone couldn't convert properly between Farenheit and Kiloliters?
And then on Cassini some bozo coder forgot the line of code to turn on one of the cameras?
I would think there is a huge risk of wasting a zillion dollars. Not to mention the risks for NASA to be the target of countless jokes on Letterman/Leno.
Someone once mentioned that the Saturn V's electronics were designed to cope with the electronic lag in transmissions by sending commands early. If the same design were followed in an update, the rocket would destroy itself because those early commands would be transmitted instantanously.
I don't understand this. Isn't the lag due to radio signals taking a while to reach the rocket as it moves farther away? Did the speed that radio signals travel increase since the 1970s? Or are you referring to some kind of lag on the computer on the rocket, or perhaps the computer on the ground?
How about we get off this rock and finally do something other than IM each other about Britney Spears or Paris Hilton?
Yeah, because IMing each other about Paris Hilton would be so totally awesome on the moon!
Yeah, the same kind of head start you get by inheriting a buggy codebase with an inappropriate design. It will probably only set them back 5 or 6 years.
Is it possible they can find some way to take it back?