Why do you Americans want to be so huge? I swear, last time I was visiting your country more than half the people I saw were visibly overweight and about a third were obese to the point of imminent and serious medical risk.
It must offer some sort of advantage, but I can't imagine what it might be.
Allow me to disagree. Where I live we have a rapid transit system that many thousands of people use every day. Almost all the stations have escalators. People who want to ride stand on the right, people who want to walk up, they walk on the left. On the rare occasion someone is blocking the way, you politely say "excuse me" and they politely let you by. It all seems very simple to me.
My estimate 60% walk 40% ride. I note that the escalators are wide enough for 2 non-morbidly-obese people to pass without touching. Personal observation: skinny people mostly walk, fat bastards always ride.
"Better to disperse them back to subsistence farming; at least that's SOME living, rather than NO living."
This may not be true. I remember learning about England during the Industrial Revolution. Hordes of people flocking into the cities to work endless hours for low wages in dirty, dangerous mills. Somebody asked "If it was so horrible for the factory workers why did they all go there" The teacher made the point that as bad as the factories were, it was still better than farming. Farmers worked as many hours or more than the factory workers, and the conditions were often just as dangerous. On top of that weather, disease and pests could wipe out your crops and leave you with nothing and you would starve. In the mills, as long as you worked you could feed your family; on the farms you could work hard and still starve.
"Are the screen sizes a big deal? Application and web developers have dealt with this problem for decades now."
Yes.
From what I've seen, they often deal with it poorly or not at all.
Now that 24" screens are cheap and plentiful a lot of bad web design is starting to show. For example "fixed width" layouts where all the content is in a narrow vertical strip bordered by eight inches of whitespace on both sides. Also sites that can't deal with anything but 96 dpi and overlap text or have it hanging off the sides of buttons when the resolution is set to, say, 120 dpi.
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Just slightly off-topic, but if Apple is trying to entice Windows users to the superior Apple experience, you might think they would make sure that i-Tunes, where most Windows users get their first taste of Apple, wasn't such a randomly annoying pain to use.
The only problem with blowing up the whale was that they didn't use enough explosives. The whale was fragmented just as they planned, but the fragments were too big. More dynamite = blown to (smaller) bits.
"Software engineers fit this definition just as well as any ME/CE/EE "
Arguably this may be true. Here's a question: - Does every person who writes code qualify as a software engineer?
Here is a possible test: Civil engineers are personally responsible for errors in their work. If they design a structure and it falls down because of their errors, they are personally responsible. Do coders accept this level of responsibility for the bugs in their code? If so, maybe they are engineers.
1. Galaxies all Red Shifted, Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation. How does your theory account for these observations?
2. Evolution is the explanation for the variety of species that exist on Earth. It has nothing to do with life from non-life. Why is this so hard to understand?
I'm fully aware that "White Pride" is usually associated with people who live in compounds in the woods in Idaho. That being said, if black pride (pride in one's black heritage) is good, why is white pride bad? Must white pride be inherently racist or is there any way a white person can be proud of their heritage and not be lumped in with the Nazis?
Another (possibly true) example. The golf course at Whistler originally charged $85 a round. None of the out of town visitors would play because how good could a $85 golf course be. They jacked up the price to $180 a round and were inundated with tourists.
Well, ok, it is. But in my day we called them chips. A micro was a microprocessor. So unless you were talking about a microprocessor chip, using the word microchip marked you as a clueless non-technical luser of the sort that writes the science articles for the local paper. Now get off my lawn, uphill both ways, in the snow.
Ive heard this actually works, but not as a repellant, rather as a homemade insecticide. The theory is that any species has some individuals that are infected with disease, so you spread the disease around. I've seen it done with aphids. Collect a pile of aphid covered leaves, drop into a blender with some water and a little soap and make a dead aphid smoothy. Strain and spray all over the affected plants. Instant aphid epidemics as the pathogens are distributed over the entire aphid infestation.
You are likely an exception. My wife uses landmarks to navigate, I prefer addresses. She'll tell me to pick up my daughter at Suzy's house, assuming that I know exactly where that is because I was there once a year ago. If I ask where is that, she'll say "it's on the street by the golf course in the green house on the same side as where Bob and Judy used to live", which still hasn't conveyed any useful information to me. What I want to hear is "1234 Trent Avenue" which uniquely identifies the house. That way I'm not standing there like a dumbass in front of the wrong green house.
"All the deaths that have occurred have happened when the individual who has died was on some sort of illegal substance that fucks with your heart and CNS" That in a nutshell is the company line. Unfortunately it isn't always true. Google "Robert Dziekanski Taser incident" for an example. (I would post a link to wikipedia but crappy slashdot code can't handle the url). Autopsy showed Robert Dziekanski had no trace of alcohol or drugs in him when he died and was a reasonably healthy man in his forties.
Way off Politically Correct here (and I'm not saying we shouldn't have women or asian police officers), but it has been observed that use of tasers went way up in step with the hiring of women and some minorities. The stereotypical 6'2" 240 lb Irish beat cop has more "intimidation factor" going for him than a 5' 4" 140 lb woman or Asian guy.
It's all true. If Steve Jobs hadn't been off flying his private plane the day IBM came to buy an OS PC's would have all been running MacDOS, and Bill Gates would be selling snow tires to Hutterites in Minot, North Dakota.
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Why do you Americans want to be so huge? I swear, last time I was visiting your country more than half the people I saw were visibly overweight and about a third were obese to the point of imminent and serious medical risk.
It must offer some sort of advantage, but I can't imagine what it might be.
Allow me to disagree. Where I live we have a rapid transit system that many thousands of people use every day. Almost all the stations have escalators. People who want to ride stand on the right, people who want to walk up, they walk on the left. On the rare occasion someone is blocking the way, you politely say "excuse me" and they politely let you by. It all seems very simple to me.
My estimate 60% walk 40% ride. I note that the escalators are wide enough for 2 non-morbidly-obese people to pass without touching. Personal observation: skinny people mostly walk, fat bastards always ride.
Well played Sir!
Some women like the smell of Old Spice because that's what their Daddy smelled like.
"Better to disperse them back to subsistence farming; at least that's SOME living, rather than NO living."
This may not be true. I remember learning about England during the Industrial Revolution. Hordes of people flocking into the cities to work endless hours for low wages in dirty, dangerous mills. Somebody asked "If it was so horrible for the factory workers why did they all go there" The teacher made the point that as bad as the factories were, it was still better than farming. Farmers worked as many hours or more than the factory workers, and the conditions were often just as dangerous. On top of that weather, disease and pests could wipe out your crops and leave you with nothing and you would starve. In the mills, as long as you worked you could feed your family; on the farms you could work hard and still starve.
"Are the screen sizes a big deal? Application and web developers have dealt with this problem for decades now."
Yes.
From what I've seen, they often deal with it poorly or not at all.
Now that 24" screens are cheap and plentiful a lot of bad web design is starting to show. For example "fixed width" layouts where all the content is in a narrow vertical strip bordered by eight inches of whitespace on both sides. Also sites that can't deal with anything but 96 dpi and overlap text or have it hanging off the sides of buttons when the resolution is set to, say, 120 dpi.
All the really cool kids like George Lazenby.
Just slightly off-topic, but if Apple is trying to entice Windows users to the superior Apple experience, you might think they would make sure that i-Tunes, where most Windows users get their first taste of Apple, wasn't such a randomly annoying pain to use.
The only problem with blowing up the whale was that they didn't use enough explosives. The whale was fragmented just as they planned, but the fragments were too big. More dynamite = blown to (smaller) bits.
By God, you're right!
Your wise advice has galvanized me to action!
I am switching the entire company over to Linux this very instant.
Just as soon as I find the AutoCAD for Linux install CDs.
"Software engineers fit this definition just as well as any ME/CE/EE "
Arguably this may be true. Here's a question: - Does every person who writes code qualify as a software engineer?
Here is a possible test: Civil engineers are personally responsible for errors in their work. If they design a structure and it falls down because of their errors, they are personally responsible. Do coders accept this level of responsibility for the bugs in their code? If so, maybe they are engineers.
1. Galaxies all Red Shifted, Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation. How does your theory account for these observations?
2. Evolution is the explanation for the variety of species that exist on Earth. It has nothing to do with life from non-life. Why is this so hard to understand?
3. Why am I feeding a troll?
I'm fully aware that "White Pride" is usually associated with people who live in compounds in the woods in Idaho. That being said, if black pride (pride in one's black heritage) is good, why is white pride bad? Must white pride be inherently racist or is there any way a white person can be proud of their heritage and not be lumped in with the Nazis?
Another (possibly true) example. The golf course at Whistler originally charged $85 a round. None of the out of town visitors would play because how good could a $85 golf course be. They jacked up the price to $180 a round and were inundated with tourists.
No true Scotsman....
No such thing as a "Cornish Pastry" - should be "Cornish Pasty", without the r.
Well, ok, it is. But in my day we called them chips. A micro was a microprocessor. So unless you were talking about a microprocessor chip, using the word microchip marked you as a clueless non-technical luser of the sort that writes the science articles for the local paper. Now get off my lawn, uphill both ways, in the snow.
This is technically called "desperation", but oddly enough is sometimes called "the stench of death" by some women.
Ive heard this actually works, but not as a repellant, rather as a homemade insecticide. The theory is that any species has some individuals that are infected with disease, so you spread the disease around. I've seen it done with aphids. Collect a pile of aphid covered leaves, drop into a blender with some water and a little soap and make a dead aphid smoothy. Strain and spray all over the affected plants. Instant aphid epidemics as the pathogens are distributed over the entire aphid infestation.
You are likely an exception. My wife uses landmarks to navigate, I prefer addresses. She'll tell me to pick up my daughter at Suzy's house, assuming that I know exactly where that is because I was there once a year ago. If I ask where is that, she'll say "it's on the street by the golf course in the green house on the same side as where Bob and Judy used to live", which still hasn't conveyed any useful information to me. What I want to hear is "1234 Trent Avenue" which uniquely identifies the house. That way I'm not standing there like a dumbass in front of the wrong green house.
"Why can't you just look up at the sky and see where the sun is"
Maybe he lives in Seattle?
"All the deaths that have occurred have happened when the individual who has died was on some sort of illegal substance that fucks with your heart and CNS" That in a nutshell is the company line. Unfortunately it isn't always true. Google "Robert Dziekanski Taser incident" for an example. (I would post a link to wikipedia but crappy slashdot code can't handle the url). Autopsy showed Robert Dziekanski had no trace of alcohol or drugs in him when he died and was a reasonably healthy man in his forties.
Way off Politically Correct here (and I'm not saying we shouldn't have women or asian police officers), but it has been observed that use of tasers went way up in step with the hiring of women and some minorities. The stereotypical 6'2" 240 lb Irish beat cop has more "intimidation factor" going for him than a 5' 4" 140 lb woman or Asian guy.
Ok. You win. Yours is bigger than mine.
It's all true. If Steve Jobs hadn't been off flying his private plane the day IBM came to buy an OS PC's would have all been running MacDOS, and Bill Gates would be selling snow tires to Hutterites in Minot, North Dakota.