I'd write this off as a troll, but it's modded insightful so I'll debate.
CSS is an incredibly useful thing. Though it is only for decoration, it's still nice to be able to change fonts on all pages of a website with just a few keystrokes. Sure you could use PHP variables for the same purpose, but why when it's already built in?
I'll admit that frames are usually used poorly, and in such cases take away from a website. However, in some scenarios it's incredibly useful. When I'm working with a database, I often need to switch between tables for whatever reason. The frame on the left side of the window saves lots of time that would be otherwise spent scrolling.
Basically, I'd hate to get rid of features such as CSS and frames, as that would make things I do much harder.
CompUSA isn't particularly worse than anyone else in rebates.
False. CompUSA is the worst when it comes to rebates. I've bought electronics from all the stores around here. Not only do they do tricks with barcodes like you said, having very similar barcodes so you don't know what to send. You have to actually track every rebate (they like to use more than one per product) or else they'll forget about it. In no other store have I had nearly as bad of an experience then at CompUSA. I no longer will buy a product from them because of a mail-in rebate.
I *do* agree with the rest of your comment, but that last bit doesn't sit well with me.
A waste of time is investing literally hundreds of hours a week on a video game.
Not to be picky, but there are 168 hours in a week. Unless there's some time machine involved, I'm not sure how you'd go about getting "hundreds of hours" of gameplay in that time.
Only after the user knows how to customize the GUI does he become king. Unfortunately, many users don't know how to do much more than to connect to the internet and check their email.
Note: there's also the tricky business of using a bad GUI to customize itself. If the GUI intuitive, how will Joe User find your way to making it so?
Try not putting totally unrelated phrases in the same sentance wiht only a comma to buffer them.
I agree with this. I'd go for maybe 2 or 3 commas in this case.
Your first sentance has no subject.
The subject of the sentence, "it", obviously refers to this person's friend, probably because the original poster would've killed his friend for doing something that stupid while he was doing so well.
Your second sentance has no verb.
The verb in his second sentence is "was right." He was pointing out that he was right in thinking that he was in the middle of a kick-ass pacman record. Unfortunately, he didn't convey this correctly.
It's not actually a "system;" the idea is to buy a laptop "box," and then add all the components yourself. So really, this laptop isn't low-performance, it's no-performance.
While it does suck to be on the 11th page of the results, you're linked to by every page on the first page of results. So, IMO, it's not really that bad.
Does Mozilla take you to a nice pleasant red screen then perhaps?
Actually, it does:
And the beast shall be made legion. Its numbers shall be increased a thousand thousand fold. The din of a million keyboards like unto a great storm shall cover the earth, and the followers of Mammon shall tremble.
from The Book of Mozilla, 3:31
(Red Letter Edition)
For over 200 years, the United States Postal Service is the brand that has been built on trust and service.
Now we're selling our unique space. Think of us as your Multi-channel Communications Service. Marketers can get the visibility and reach through the Postal Ad Network.
Place your big message on our trucks, collection boxes and even in our postal facilities. Or small space ads on our stamp packages and banner ads on our website.
That's funny because I am thinking how this damn holiday makes me $200 poorer than I was two days ago. Not sure that I wouldn't be willing to trade with you so that I can play some AOM online tonight.
Again I notice the problems of Valentine's Day. Single folk use it as a day to be miserable, and coupled folk have to spend a lot of money so that their SO will still think they love them (which had been taken for granted the past weeks/months).
Perhaps I'm being pessimistic. A better way to look at it is that it makes every other day of the year look that much better. It's sort of like Calvin's dad explained one time: they go on awful vacations so that when they come back home they're not disappointed, but in fact gleeful.
It boots nicely, but after that - forget about it.
Odd, that's exactly the opposite of my machine. Mine boots slow as hell, but after that runs real nice. I've got a Athlon 1700+ (1.47 GHz) with 512 MB DDR.
Why? It's just as good a term as Einstein's cosmological constant. It's just a label.
Exactly. It is just a label. What the original poster was trying to get across is that there's a problem with calling this force "dark energy" and moving on. I think that we should wait until we know *anything* about dark energy before we give it a holding name.
Currently, dark energy can be defined as "whatever force causes the universe to expand." This is significantly less specific than definitions of any other forces, so I've got a problem with it. AFAIK, forces we already know of could possibly be used to describe universal expansion instead of something radical like dark energy.
The universe will be wiped out by the heat death of the universe instead.
IANA Physicist, but temperature is the average energy of all particles in the object to which we are referring; in this case, it's the universe. Since the number of particles and the amount of energy is supposed to be constant, shouldn't the universe have a constant temperature?
It's my guess that Clear Channel has probably made sure it'd be legal for them to make these CDs. I bet the RIAA lets them do it as payback for promoting the concerts, which means more money for RIAA anyway.
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I'd write this off as a troll, but it's modded insightful so I'll debate.
CSS is an incredibly useful thing. Though it is only for decoration, it's still nice to be able to change fonts on all pages of a website with just a few keystrokes. Sure you could use PHP variables for the same purpose, but why when it's already built in?
I'll admit that frames are usually used poorly, and in such cases take away from a website. However, in some scenarios it's incredibly useful. When I'm working with a database, I often need to switch between tables for whatever reason. The frame on the left side of the window saves lots of time that would be otherwise spent scrolling.
Basically, I'd hate to get rid of features such as CSS and frames, as that would make things I do much harder.
False. CompUSA is the worst when it comes to rebates. I've bought electronics from all the stores around here. Not only do they do tricks with barcodes like you said, having very similar barcodes so you don't know what to send. You have to actually track every rebate (they like to use more than one per product) or else they'll forget about it. In no other store have I had nearly as bad of an experience then at CompUSA. I no longer will buy a product from them because of a mail-in rebate.
I *do* agree with the rest of your comment, but that last bit doesn't sit well with me.
Not to be picky, but there are 168 hours in a week. Unless there's some time machine involved, I'm not sure how you'd go about getting "hundreds of hours" of gameplay in that time.
About 14 billion years.
I hope so...
Only after the user knows how to customize the GUI does he become king. Unfortunately, many users don't know how to do much more than to connect to the internet and check their email.
Note: there's also the tricky business of using a bad GUI to customize itself. If the GUI intuitive, how will Joe User find your way to making it so?
Okay, i definitely expected you to say they had missing passenger side front doors. Boy would that have been interesting...
I agree with this. I'd go for maybe 2 or 3 commas in this case. Your first sentance has no subject.
The subject of the sentence, "it", obviously refers to this person's friend, probably because the original poster would've killed his friend for doing something that stupid while he was doing so well. Your second sentance has no verb.
The verb in his second sentence is "was right." He was pointing out that he was right in thinking that he was in the middle of a kick-ass pacman record. Unfortunately, he didn't convey this correctly.
Only in Soviet Russia.
It's not actually a "system;" the idea is to buy a laptop "box," and then add all the components yourself. So really, this laptop isn't low-performance, it's no-performance.
I'm not sure if you realized, but the parent poster was an Anonymous Coward, which means he was lying.
While it does suck to be on the 11th page of the results, you're linked to by every page on the first page of results. So, IMO, it's not really that bad.
Mmmm. Women with leatherman pocketknives slicing bread...
Yes, just like how the RIAA is so successful. Oh wait...
Actually, it does:
And the beast shall be made legion. Its numbers shall be increased a thousand thousand fold. The din of a million keyboards like unto a great storm shall cover the earth, and the followers of Mammon shall tremble.
from The Book of Mozilla, 3:31 (Red Letter Edition)
It is however a very informative post, and much shorter than the actual letter. It's also a nice trick to get people to read the RTFA. :)
You gave CD-R's of open source software to a bunch of French people?
Now we're selling our unique space. Think of us as your Multi-channel Communications Service. Marketers can get the visibility and reach through the Postal Ad Network.
Place your big message on our trucks, collection boxes and even in our postal facilities. Or small space ads on our stamp packages and banner ads on our website.
Again I notice the problems of Valentine's Day. Single folk use it as a day to be miserable, and coupled folk have to spend a lot of money so that their SO will still think they love them (which had been taken for granted the past weeks/months).
Perhaps I'm being pessimistic. A better way to look at it is that it makes every other day of the year look that much better. It's sort of like Calvin's dad explained one time: they go on awful vacations so that when they come back home they're not disappointed, but in fact gleeful.
Odd, that's exactly the opposite of my machine. Mine boots slow as hell, but after that runs real nice. I've got a Athlon 1700+ (1.47 GHz) with 512 MB DDR.
Look, we have Open Office and Star Office; they're almost as good as Microsoft Office.
Not confused enough by one desktop? Well we've got more!
Actually, IN SOVIET RUSSIA, they use elgooG.
Exactly. It is just a label. What the original poster was trying to get across is that there's a problem with calling this force "dark energy" and moving on. I think that we should wait until we know *anything* about dark energy before we give it a holding name.
Currently, dark energy can be defined as "whatever force causes the universe to expand." This is significantly less specific than definitions of any other forces, so I've got a problem with it. AFAIK, forces we already know of could possibly be used to describe universal expansion instead of something radical like dark energy.
IANA Physicist, but temperature is the average energy of all particles in the object to which we are referring; in this case, it's the universe. Since the number of particles and the amount of energy is supposed to be constant, shouldn't the universe have a constant temperature?
It's my guess that Clear Channel has probably made sure it'd be legal for them to make these CDs. I bet the RIAA lets them do it as payback for promoting the concerts, which means more money for RIAA anyway.