I look at this the other way - tablets can do everything smartphone can (including texting!), minus place calls, plus a few more things because of the screen real estate.
Right, so eventually the smartphone will replace the tablet when Samsung makes 7"-10" phones. (Yeah, I know, it's as funny as the 5-blade razor)
Best I can tell, his bankruptcies are a strategy. He has companies which own a lot of real estate. He has companies which need real estate, like casinos. He has the second set of companies lease the real estate from the first. They go bankrupt, wipe out their debts (but they still have to pay their leases; they're dischargable but at the price of eviction), and continue on debt free. What I can't figure out is why anyone else would continue to lend to the non-RE companies.
Except there is actually an engineering organisation that actually owns the word Engineering
No, they have managed to hold "Professional Engineering". They claim "engineering" but outside of Canada they've been unable to hold it. Which is why I, without any engineering degree at all, and without any lengthy supervised apprenticeship or comprehensive exam, can call myself a Software Engineer.
In the US, Texas is one of the few states which has a "Professional Engineering" license for software. Between 1998 and 2006, if you had only a CS degree (not an approved engineering degree), you needed 16 years "creditable experience" (meaning experience under the supervision of a P.E.) plus 9 references, 5 of which had to be P.E.s, plus a few other requirements, to qualify as a P.E. in software. From 2006 to 2013, it was not possible to qualify as a P.E. in software in Texas. It's just a guild thing, an attempt to make sure you "pay your dues" before you can actually do the job.
In America, if you're born in the Lower Classes, you should fucking stay there. We don't want you in our neighborhoods. We don't want you hanging out where we work, unless you're cleaning up the yard/garden, serving us food, driving our cars, or holding the doors open for us.
You know, I have this sneaking suspicion that my landscaper makes more than I do.
The word "engineer" has a specific meaning that shouldn't be diluted. There are electrical, mechanical, civil, etc. engineers (of which the study and practice relies on physics and rigorous training). Software is no more of an engineering discipline than the guy who guides a train down the tracks
You angry P.E.s really need to watch who you're picking on. You can beat up on software engineers all you like, because let's face it, we're in general neither physically tough nor politically connected. But messing with the guys who drive the trains (railroad engineers), and their operating engineer bretheren (as in union bretheren) in the construction industry is a different matter entirely.
solar and wind power aren't insane people set out to selfishly ruin the country.
No, they're insane people set out to ruin the world for eminently altruistic reasons.
By "ruining the world" I don't mean the relatively benign side-effects of solar and wind power; I mean the power budget imposed upon the world by the concentration on those technologies over all else.
If you're trying to be a better filter than the typical HR department, it's not hard. An algorithm based mostly on a random number generator would likely work. Including the xkcd RNG.
Ha, if my mother were technically adept that's probably about what she'd say. Since she's not, she'd call me up and tell me to stop texting her and just call, and get so busy yelling at me about how she doesn't like to text that she'd forget the content of the message.
Honestly the police option seems the least disgusting, I'd rather risk prison rape than people talking to me in soft voices about how I feel. I might be tempted to kill them, and I might lack the impulse control to stop myself after a few days in the program.
The program is better. If you don't like it, you kill someone who really needs killing and go to jail anyway, only for a better reason.
The guy represents West Virginia. It is a part of the US in need of dreams.
Ha... good news, West Virginia introduces âoegrade-appropriate science fiction literature" into the curriculum. Bad news: it's "The Hunger Games" trilogy.
Most people that like reading see science fiction as garbage. It's the geek equivalent of romance novels that are sold at the supermarket for a dollar.
Kurt Vonnegut, aren't you supposed to be dead?
The literary classic "The Scarlet Letter" was a romance novel that sold for $0.75, though I'll admit a dollar then was worth a bit more than a dollar now.
In my experience, requiring certain books to be read is the quickest way to make people hate them. Or was it just that all of (Dutch) "literature" I was forced to read actually is bloody awful?
I don't know about Dutch, but I think in American literature it's a bit of both. First problem in English is the canon tends to consist of books which are old -- for example, Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" was popular fiction in its day, but its day was 1850. Shakespeare is even worse, being 16th century. A modern reader has trouble with the language and style that a contemporary reader would not have had (and further, Shakespeare wasn't writing to be _read_).
And then there's the bad. There's a good story in Melville's Moby Dick, which is why it has been copied so many times... but the writing is absolutely awful. Willa Cather's "My Antonia" has absolutely no saving grace so far as I can tell. Not sure about Conrad (Polish then English), all I remember is "the horror, the horror".
If you want to kill a kid's joy in something, make it a school assignment. If you want to make absolutely sure, make them write a paper on it. For extra credit, give them a reading assignment they absolutely do not have the background to understand (e.g. Slaughterhouse 5 before they've even heard about WWII).
Let's let the schools continue to ruin horrid bits of literature, like Willa Cather and Herman Melville. Leave the SF to people who like reading.
We could put our shows out for a bunch of geeks to watch and judge by a demographic known to be rather critical of everything and hostile to advertising...OR we could just make 3 more reality shows, 2 more police procedurals, a lawyer show, and whatever dumb idea the boss's nephew comes up with, and come out way ahead the masses.
Seriously, if they really want to use the Internet for pilots, they should first spam out links to the videos, then halfway through demand people for their Facebook ids and passwords to see the rest. Shows which get the most Facebook passwords are most popular with fools who are easily separated from their money, and should be picked up.
You can't read it and store later, but you can have your helper read an NFC card while you use your phone to pay for something. NFC Proxy basically captures the data sends it to the other phone which sends it to the card, then captures the card's response, sends it back, and your phone echoes the response to the terminal.
Not even a helper needed... just keep one phone in your back pocket reading the cards of the sucker behind you in line.
I hope that term doesn't generically start referring to single, male programmers.
The idea of "brogrammers" was a successful attempt to hoax the tech press. Dice being a little slower than the rest, they haven't caught on that it's a hoax yet, and also they don't get the reference ("brogrammers" are programmers who otherwise act like "bros" -- they write code, pump iron, and chug Red Bull. Yes, they're young, single, and male, but that's only part of it).
I suppose there may be a few cases of life imitating hoax (as with the 5-blade razor) but it isn't any less a hoax.
Right. Hofstatder's law, and the earlier-noted problem of "You demanded I give bogus numbers, so I did", are the main reasons software estimates given by competent and experienced developers are still BS.
The cause of this is mainly that the estimate becomes an input to the system. Tell someone a small project will take 2 weeks, they'll add crap to it until it takes longer. Tell them it will take 4 weeks, they'll add even more crap. Tell them it will take 6 months and they won't accept the estimate.
I can't wrap my brain around the no-fly list. You can't find out if your on it until you're denied boarding. You can't find out how you got on it. You can't get off it once your on it. That's constitutional how?
It only violates the bill of attainder provision of the main constitution and the fifth amendment. You need to violate at least three more provisions before something can be considered unconstitutional.
3) The batter could have not hit the ball, in which case we'd be left with the same situation that actually played out: Braun would be out since he can't advance to an occupied base.
There is no rule against advancing to a base that another runner is entitled to. It just doesn't entitle the trailing runner to the base (so he can still be tagged out) except on a force play. Yahoo sports got that wrong; Braun was not out until tagged. So in your #3 scenario, if Segura reached third, Braun would have been safe at second regardless of whether he reached before or after Segura reached third.
The umps are wrong. Each runner has an entitled base. They are only safe at that base, and no others... If the runner behind you takes your base, you must advance to the next to be safe, you aren't safe anywhere else..
Rule 7.01 states that "He is then entitled to [the base] until he is put out, or forced to vacate it for another runner legally entitled to that base."
However, rule 7.03(a) states:
Two runners may not occupy a base, but if, while the ball is alive, two runners are touching a base, the following runner shall be out when tagged and the preceding runner is entitled to the base, unless Rule 7.03(b) applies.
7.03(b) applies when the following runner is forced, which wasn't the case; this was a steal. So the umps called it right.
This is very, very clearly spelled out in the rules of baseball. You can't run backwards, it's against the rules
I thought so too, but the baseball rules do allow for going backwards:
Rule 7.02 In advancing, a runner shall touch first, second, third and home base in order. If forced to return, he shall retouch all bases in reverse order, unless the ball is dead under any provision of Rule 5.09. In such cases, the runner may go directly to his original base.
Which part of that statement are you having apparent difficulty with?
Few of us here are under the authority of the FBI (and those that are ain't saying). Furthermore, the FBI didn't even say not to post random photos on the Internet; rather, they said don't bother them with anything from other photos.
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Right, so eventually the smartphone will replace the tablet when Samsung makes 7"-10" phones. (Yeah, I know, it's as funny as the 5-blade razor)
Best I can tell, his bankruptcies are a strategy. He has companies which own a lot of real estate. He has companies which need real estate, like casinos. He has the second set of companies lease the real estate from the first. They go bankrupt, wipe out their debts (but they still have to pay their leases; they're dischargable but at the price of eviction), and continue on debt free. What I can't figure out is why anyone else would continue to lend to the non-RE companies.
No, they have managed to hold "Professional Engineering". They claim "engineering" but outside of Canada they've been unable to hold it. Which is why I, without any engineering degree at all, and without any lengthy supervised apprenticeship or comprehensive exam, can call myself a Software Engineer.
In the US, Texas is one of the few states which has a "Professional Engineering" license for software. Between 1998 and 2006, if you had only a CS degree (not an approved engineering degree), you needed 16 years "creditable experience" (meaning experience under the supervision of a P.E.) plus 9 references, 5 of which had to be P.E.s, plus a few other requirements, to qualify as a P.E. in software. From 2006 to 2013, it was not possible to qualify as a P.E. in software in Texas. It's just a guild thing, an attempt to make sure you "pay your dues" before you can actually do the job.
You know, I have this sneaking suspicion that my landscaper makes more than I do.
You angry P.E.s really need to watch who you're picking on. You can beat up on software engineers all you like, because let's face it, we're in general neither physically tough nor politically connected. But messing with the guys who drive the trains (railroad engineers), and their operating engineer bretheren (as in union bretheren) in the construction industry is a different matter entirely.
No, they're insane people set out to ruin the world for eminently altruistic reasons.
By "ruining the world" I don't mean the relatively benign side-effects of solar and wind power; I mean the power budget imposed upon the world by the concentration on those technologies over all else.
If you're trying to be a better filter than the typical HR department, it's not hard. An algorithm based mostly on a random number generator would likely work. Including the xkcd RNG.
Ha, if my mother were technically adept that's probably about what she'd say. Since she's not, she'd call me up and tell me to stop texting her and just call, and get so busy yelling at me about how she doesn't like to text that she'd forget the content of the message.
The program is better. If you don't like it, you kill someone who really needs killing and go to jail anyway, only for a better reason.
Ha... good news, West Virginia introduces âoegrade-appropriate science fiction literature" into the curriculum. Bad news: it's "The Hunger Games" trilogy.
Kurt Vonnegut, aren't you supposed to be dead?
The literary classic "The Scarlet Letter" was a romance novel that sold for $0.75, though I'll admit a dollar then was worth a bit more than a dollar now.
I don't know about Dutch, but I think in American literature it's a bit of both. First problem in English is the canon tends to consist of books which are old -- for example, Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" was popular fiction in its day, but its day was 1850. Shakespeare is even worse, being 16th century. A modern reader has trouble with the language and style that a contemporary reader would not have had (and further, Shakespeare wasn't writing to be _read_).
And then there's the bad. There's a good story in Melville's Moby Dick, which is why it has been copied so many times... but the writing is absolutely awful. Willa Cather's "My Antonia" has absolutely no saving grace so far as I can tell. Not sure about Conrad (Polish then English), all I remember is "the horror, the horror".
It's not. RTFS: The Europeans do the whining, the Americans and the Australians do the work.
If you want to kill a kid's joy in something, make it a school assignment. If you want to make absolutely sure, make them write a paper on it. For extra credit, give them a reading assignment they absolutely do not have the background to understand (e.g. Slaughterhouse 5 before they've even heard about WWII).
Let's let the schools continue to ruin horrid bits of literature, like Willa Cather and Herman Melville. Leave the SF to people who like reading.
We could put our shows out for a bunch of geeks to watch and judge by a demographic known to be rather critical of everything and hostile to advertising...OR we could just make 3 more reality shows, 2 more police procedurals, a lawyer show, and whatever dumb idea the boss's nephew comes up with, and come out way ahead the masses.
Seriously, if they really want to use the Internet for pilots, they should first spam out links to the videos, then halfway through demand people for their Facebook ids and passwords to see the rest. Shows which get the most Facebook passwords are most popular with fools who are easily separated from their money, and should be picked up.
A movie studio making a deal with the Devil? So it's business as usual, right?
Not even a helper needed... just keep one phone in your back pocket reading the cards of the sucker behind you in line.
The idea of "brogrammers" was a successful attempt to hoax the tech press. Dice being a little slower than the rest, they haven't caught on that it's a hoax yet, and also they don't get the reference ("brogrammers" are programmers who otherwise act like "bros" -- they write code, pump iron, and chug Red Bull. Yes, they're young, single, and male, but that's only part of it).
I suppose there may be a few cases of life imitating hoax (as with the 5-blade razor) but it isn't any less a hoax.
So they're patenting the use of a metal-air battery to power a car?
Exhausted combination patent anyone?
Right. Hofstatder's law, and the earlier-noted problem of "You demanded I give bogus numbers, so I did", are the main reasons software estimates given by competent and experienced developers are still BS.
The cause of this is mainly that the estimate becomes an input to the system. Tell someone a small project will take 2 weeks, they'll add crap to it until it takes longer. Tell them it will take 4 weeks, they'll add even more crap. Tell them it will take 6 months and they won't accept the estimate.
It only violates the bill of attainder provision of the main constitution and the fifth amendment. You need to violate at least three more provisions before something can be considered unconstitutional.
There is no rule against advancing to a base that another runner is entitled to. It just doesn't entitle the trailing runner to the base (so he can still be tagged out) except on a force play. Yahoo sports got that wrong; Braun was not out until tagged. So in your #3 scenario, if Segura reached third, Braun would have been safe at second regardless of whether he reached before or after Segura reached third.
Rule 7.01 states that "He is then entitled to [the base] until he is put out, or forced
to vacate it for another runner legally entitled to that base."
However, rule 7.03(a) states:
7.03(b) applies when the following runner is forced, which wasn't the case; this was a steal. So the umps called it right.
I thought so too, but the baseball rules do allow for going backwards:
Is the Pope Catholic?
Few of us here are under the authority of the FBI (and those that are ain't saying). Furthermore, the FBI didn't even say not to post random photos on the Internet; rather, they said don't bother them with anything from other photos.