I consider it an improvement. Instead of not reading a 10 paragraph blog, I can now not read a 140-character snark.
But seriously, I think twitter has ruined the web. Not twitter itself, but other people's integration with twitter. Used to be, you had a blog or news story or something,
people would comment on it. 99.99% of the time, I won't ever see the blog and won't give a a shit. But let's say I do and I do. Instead of some potentially interesting comments,
I see "@zyx retweeted this". Or "xyz liked this". Or "zyz pingback".
And even in forums that support threading, you'll see this gay @shit, #suckmydick, etc. It's worse than posting bbcode on slashdot.
TOR has boilerplate legal responses on their website. Running an exit relay also gives you plausible deniability for any traffic. That doesn't help if you do have kiddy porn on your hard drive, of course. Or if you call Dear Leader a prick.
Engineers can't get pussy so they get frustrated. Then they get even. Women of the world: please give up your ass to an engineer. Just a pity fuck or two can prevent the next terrorist attack.
A lot of candy manufacturers have moved out of the US, relocating to Canada or Mexico where they have access to cheap sugar. I'll bet the jobs lost from sugar tariffs exceeds the jobs saved (or "touched", as it's now measured) by sugar tariffs.
Let's say you have a friend. One day, he invites you to go camping. You wake in the middle of the night and he's raping your asshole. You beg him to stop and he does, after making you lick the shit off his dick. A couple months later, he asks you to go camping again.
There's only one linux kernel. At the time, there were no free kernels -- HURD was (and is) vaporware and BSD was mired in legal confusion. Ubuntu is yet another distro. been there, done that.
Consider: You have 1 car and it gets stolen vs you have 10 cars and 1 gets stolen.
Yes, it sucks that the market for candles disappeared but you have to adapt and compete. If you can't make CFLs competitively, then you lose your job. It's that simple.
This isn't that the market for candles disappeared but rather the government banned candles. This is not the free market at work but rather the government screwing us (again)
When electric lighting became available, the government didn't ban candles and lanterns. They didn't need to because people preferred electric lighting. Given a choice between CFL and incandescent light bulbs, many people prefer incandescents. I've heard stores of people in Europe and the US filling up their garages and closets with incandescents so they'll have a lifetime supply. I doubt that will happen when CFLs are replaced with LEDs (or something else).
We hate flash, but we hate Apple more. So whenever it's an Apple story, we love flash and hate Apple because they prevent us from using flash, which we hate.
Eric Schmidt insisted that safe search filtering be put in place. Seems he was giving a demo and it suggested "mountain view glory holes". Must have been a bug, eh Schmidt?
They're just accumulating. If they did pay dividends, it would mean some of that cash that's sitting in corporate mattresses would actually end up in the economy.
That money isn't in a corporate mattress, it's in the economy through bank accounts, commercial paper, investment grade bonds, etc. But let's pretend that's somehow not in the economy (by whatever bizarre and tortured definition you're using), 72% of Apple stock is owned by institutional investors and mutual funds, which are no doubt excluded from your economy as well. And the other 28% of Apple stock owners are most likely not desperate for money (if they were, maybe they should sell their shares), so those dividends would sit in a bank account -- also excluded from your economy.
shut the company down and return anything left to the investors. Seriously. The assemble shitty computers and need secret intel cash to be "profitable".
My PS 3 (first generation) makes way too much noise when playing DVDs or BluRay. And I can't play online games unless I update the firmware and lose the Other OS option. Makes a good dust collector, though.
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I consider it an improvement. Instead of not reading a 10 paragraph blog, I can now not read a 140-character snark.
But seriously, I think twitter has ruined the web. Not twitter itself, but other people's integration with twitter. Used to be, you had a blog or news story or something, people would comment on it. 99.99% of the time, I won't ever see the blog and won't give a a shit. But let's say I do and I do. Instead of some potentially interesting comments, I see "@zyx retweeted this". Or "xyz liked this". Or "zyz pingback".
And even in forums that support threading, you'll see this gay @shit, #suckmydick, etc. It's worse than posting bbcode on slashdot.
fun fact: Google had been in talks to license skyhook's tech/database before deciding to do it themselves.
fun fact: Knowing where you are helps google make money.
fun fact: Companies go to the trouble of doing shit if it makes them money.
bonus fun fact: Apple used skyhook until iPhone OS (as it was then called) version 3, at which point they started doing it in house.
Those "ladies" that want to watch you jack off are actually dudes.
The Unix name is owned by the Open Group, which certifies a system (eg, AIX, OS X, Solaris) as being Unix.
TOR has boilerplate legal responses on their website. Running an exit relay also gives you plausible deniability for any traffic. That doesn't help if you do have kiddy porn on your hard drive, of course. Or if you call Dear Leader a prick.
Engineers can't get pussy so they get frustrated. Then they get even. Women of the world: please give up your ass to an engineer. Just a pity fuck or two can prevent the next terrorist attack.
A lot of candy manufacturers have moved out of the US, relocating to Canada or Mexico where they have access to cheap sugar. I'll bet the jobs lost from sugar tariffs exceeds the jobs saved (or "touched", as it's now measured) by sugar tariffs.
I thought the KFC rename was due to "Kentucky" stigma
Newton wasn't a genius when it came to getting the pussy.
But I'm sure he learned from his mistakes.
There's only one linux kernel. At the time, there were no free kernels -- HURD was (and is) vaporware and BSD was mired in legal confusion. Ubuntu is yet another distro. been there, done that.
Consider: You have 1 car and it gets stolen vs you have 10 cars and 1 gets stolen.
Maybe he'll invite him over to have a case of beer or two.
Remember when the recession hit, and energy demand went down a few percent, and oil prices shot down 40%?
Oil prices were artificially high due to speculation and market manipulation, not excess demand.
Yes, it sucks that the market for candles disappeared but you have to adapt and compete. If you can't make CFLs competitively, then you lose your job. It's that simple.
This isn't that the market for candles disappeared but rather the government banned candles. This is not the free market at work but rather the government screwing us (again)
When electric lighting became available, the government didn't ban candles and lanterns. They didn't need to because people preferred electric lighting. Given a choice between CFL and incandescent light bulbs, many people prefer incandescents. I've heard stores of people in Europe and the US filling up their garages and closets with incandescents so they'll have a lifetime supply. I doubt that will happen when CFLs are replaced with LEDs (or something else).
Yep, good old government, breaking windows to stimulate jobs for window replacers. Oops. I'm sure it'll work out better next time.
With Chrome, you can focus all your attention on ads without being distracted with other software.
We hate flash, but we hate Apple more. So whenever it's an Apple story, we love flash and hate Apple because they prevent us from using flash, which we hate.
Eric Schmidt insisted that safe search filtering be put in place. Seems he was giving a demo and it suggested "mountain view glory holes". Must have been a bug, eh Schmidt?
You seem to have forgotten how google rolled out buzz.
They're just accumulating. If they did pay dividends, it would mean some of that cash that's sitting in corporate mattresses would actually end up in the economy.
That money isn't in a corporate mattress, it's in the economy through bank accounts, commercial paper, investment grade bonds, etc. But let's pretend that's somehow not in the economy (by whatever bizarre and tortured definition you're using), 72% of Apple stock is owned by institutional investors and mutual funds, which are no doubt excluded from your economy as well. And the other 28% of Apple stock owners are most likely not desperate for money (if they were, maybe they should sell their shares), so those dividends would sit in a bank account -- also excluded from your economy.
shut the company down and return anything left to the investors. Seriously. The assemble shitty computers and need secret intel cash to be "profitable".
My PS 3 (first generation) makes way too much noise when playing DVDs or BluRay. And I can't play online games unless I update the firmware and lose the Other OS option. Makes a good dust collector, though.
google and apple.
Apple wants a good user experience and to differentiate themselves from competitors. Flash doesn't allow either.
Google wants to sell advertising. Flash ads are more expensive.
there are only two photos. But if you look again, the watch is blacked out in both pictures.
sure, maybe, if you exclude all the sub-surface oil. And there's a lot of subsurface oil.