slovenly (adj.)
1510s, "low, base, lewd," later "untidy, dirty" (1560s), from sloven + -ly (1). sloven (n.)
mid-15c., "immoral woman," later also "rascal, knave" (regardless of gender); probably from Middle Flemish sloovin "a scold," related to sloef "untidy, shabby," from Proto-Germanic *slup- (cf. Dutch slof "careless, negligent") + Old French suffix -ain, from Latin -anus.
Doesn't look like it has absolutely anything to do with the Slavs.
Balkanization obviously does have to do with the Balkans, but it's not really so much culture, as current politics: you can't really argue that balkanization is a thing that has happened and is happening in the Balkans, can you? At least, not without being wrong?
Yet they're still orders of magnitude easier to use... (because you can't accidentally hit several keys around the one you were trying to hit. You either press the right key, or nothing.)
That said, I would argue, while ageism is *mostly* an aversion to spending money hiring pros who know what they're doing when they could hire novices for cheaper, coupled with an unassailable feeling (perhaps justified, perhaps not) that those older, more experienced people would be so offended at making less than ridiculous money that they would rather be unemployed than making less than what they did last time they had a job... it is also unarguably true that just because something is "new", doesn't always make it "better".
Sometimes it *does* make it better, granted, at least for certain things (managed languages are fantastic, for instance - I never want to go back to c++ if I don't have to - but I am aware that if I ever want to program a chip with a tiny sliver of memory, or do anything that requires to-the-wire speed, or write a compiler or an OS or a driver, a managed language is not the right tool.) But sometimes there's just no point in a new technology at all except to be buzzword-compliant. So why would people learn them, unless they're bedazzled by buzzwords? Probably less experienced people doing that, as far as programmers go (pointy haired bosses will do it at any age.:p)
The issue isn't DRM, the issue is *invasive* DRM. "Look something up in the manual" is DRM. "Type this key I sent you into the installer" is DRM. The purpose of DRM should be to encourage people who haven't decided yet whether they're going to buy your stuff or pirate it, to do the former, because it would be easier. People who have already decided to pirate your stuff, are going to pirate it *anyway*, and if you make your DRM suck balls, people who haven't decided yet will decide to pirate it. But there is a legitimate reason to have *some* kind of DRM, because otherwise, people who haven't decided might decide to just grab a copy from their friend, cause hey, free!
A law can be universally ignored by virtue of the police, or the people managing the police, mandating that their time is better spent elsewhere. Local lawbooks are *full* of ridiculous stupid laws that technically still exist but that nobody has gotten arrested or fined for in centuries. More importantly, in many places, despite it still being entirely illegal, it's stated that making arrests for marijuana possession should be "lowest priority". That was my point about either actually removing laws or just making them "might as well be gone".
We already have an order of magnitude more prisoners because we have a messed up system. The proper fix would be to actually fix what's broken, stop arresting people who didn't do anything, or who did things that shouldn't be arrestable offenses.
We will also always have corrupt cops. The proper course of action there is to freaking arrest *them*. Yes, I do imagine that recording a police station would get you in trouble, which is all kinds of absurd, but that doesn't really have anything to do with it. Sure, corrupt cops could use a CCTV system to do harm, but corrupt cops can do a frelling lot of harm with any such systems; how much more could they really do with one that they can't do now? How about we pass laws that if a cop is corrupt, *they* frelling go to jail? (Yes, there are too many people in jail, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't still be jailing people who actually deserve it...)
Because they make you? Or because it's still cheaper?
I bought a refurb phone for 75$ (and got a 50 dollar credit for signing up, so I really got it for 25$). But I don't think it would've been nearly so easy to do that at any other phone provider than Ting (and sadly, few people have still heard of Ting. Then again, that's probably why their service is so good, because they *don't* have millions of customers.)
If you want to install any kind of snooping devices of any sort in my private property, you can go frack yourself. If you want to install any kind of snooping devices in *public* property, though? Why not. It's public property, we already don't have any reason to expect privacy there, so... why *not* install cameras everywhere, as long as they don't get in the way of being able to do things? I'm all for police being able to catch criminals better.
Now, you might argue, yes, but then we wouldn't be able to break laws that we don't agree with, that right now we can break because nobody is watching us. And I would say, the proper course of action then is to try to get those laws eradicated or at least made to be universally ignored. We should be objecting to those laws themselves in such cases, *not* to better ability to enforce them as a byproduct of better ability to enforce other laws that we actually want to be better enforced (murder, rape, theft, etc.)
Indeed. I'm sure corporations would *love* to lock young desperate engineers into five or ten years of indentured servitude for 500$. Generally it's at still at least a few tens of thousands, but I'm sure they'd love to change that.:p
one of many articles that read like valentines to the company and the concept."
No, no I have not. If you're two paragraphs into your summary, and you've told me several times that a company is amazing, but have not yet told me (other than in link form) anything about what that company frelling *does*, I will assume that you don't care whether I know what it does, and will respond with a big fat screw you to said article.
Indeed, it is in the same boat as Firefly. Like Firefly, I had never even heard of Arrested Development until long after it had failed to attract enough attention to survive on the air, and immediately fell in love with it once I had been introduced. I claim that, in both cases, it was less about being too much of a niche show, and more about completely failing to ADVERTISE just what an awesome show it was. It doesn't matter how many people *would* have loved it, if they never even knew it existed (or, frequently in the case of Firefly at least, knew it existed but thought from the ads that it was a completely different sort of show than it was.)
Ah, fair enough. Yeah, they can't help coverage, since they don't control it. Sprint has great coverage in my area, just crap service and mediocre prices.
I was just saying, there is at least one phone service provider that actually still believes in the power of proper customer service and low prices to get people interested, instead of just saying "everyone else antagonizes and rips off their customers in an attempt to make more money, so why not us too?" Whether they cover your area or not is irrelevant.:p
I recommend looking at Ting. It's really changed the way I think about cell phone providers (namely: because I used to think they were all collectively evil bastards with the primary goal of screwing you, now I only think they *mostly* are that.:p)
I do -get- a couple magazines, that were touted as added bonuses for joining things that I joined for other reasons, but I don't really read the associated magazines.
That said, I keep meaning to look into resubscribing to Technology Review. I had at one point gotten it for free, and quite liked it. I haven't yet, though.
Yeah, but the difference is, if something breaks, you can fix it. (Unless the something is your internet connection, I suppose. But then, if your internet connection died, you wouldn't really be able to use services in the cloud, either.)
One of the first principles in UI design: if users are consistently making the same type of error, that *is* a problem with the software, not the user.
I'm totally fine with that. I feel like regardless of how smart cars will get, they should always have a fully mechanical failsafe, and should always be driveable in fully-AI-disabled mode. At that point, I'd argue an accident should only be the fault of the car manufacturer if it could be clearly proven that either a. no reasonable human driver would have done what the car did (like, say, it just decided to drive off a bridge suddenly and without warning), or b. the failsafe didn't work when engaged. I'd be fine with an agreement like that. If I wanted to zone out and not have someone who wasn't zoning out in the driver's seat, and my car got into an accident because something unexpected happened, it would totally be my fault (or maybe the fault of someone else on the road, but not the car manufacturer's.)
In any case. We should *never* remove the steering wheel. Ever.
I pay 50 bucks a month (plus taxes) for a whopping 5mbps down on average (supposedly it's 7, but I'd say on average it's about 5; I do see close to 7 occasionally). At least I got free long distance out of verizon as a "we're sorry" present for them having completely fracked up our order and making me take a whole day of vacation to be on the phone with them trying to fix it, even though I told them in advance several times that it looked like my order was messed up, and they promised, several times, that they had fixed it, until the guy came down to turn on our phone and discovered, what a surprise, that no they totally hadn't, and he couldn't do anything about it. Ugh.
Not that I would trust Sony to be any better, but they could hardly be frelling *worse*. (Yes, I don't think I could really use 2 gbps, but I could definitely use at least in the hundreds of mbps range... but not for hundreds of dollars a month, I couldn't.)
What he said. We've had the power for many years; I don't know why nobody seems to be making many of them any more. I finally bought a smartphone a few months ago, and I basically had a choice: did I want a phone with a proper, useful keyboard, or did I want a current version of Android on it? I went with the former; my phone runs Android 2.3, but I can actually freaking type on it.
Apparently you're a troll? A weird one, because I kind of agree with you (except about Express: yes, it's free, but it's also so limited as to be basically crap.) VS *is* really the greatest IDE I've ever used. It's not perfect, but it is the best I've used. I obviously have not used every IDE ever, and I will also admit that it's much better at debugging.net code than unmanaged c++ code, but still. Microsoft has pushed a lot of crappy, worthless software, but VS 2008 was quality, and 2010 even better (apart from a couple minor UI mistakes, easily fixable with free extensions). Notably, at least far as the summary went, it's done everything this guy is claiming he invented, since basically forever. (Though I personally leave the "recompile on the fly" option turned off; I think it's more trouble than it's worth.)
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slovenly (adj.)
1510s, "low, base, lewd," later "untidy, dirty" (1560s), from sloven + -ly (1).
sloven (n.)
mid-15c., "immoral woman," later also "rascal, knave" (regardless of gender); probably from Middle Flemish sloovin "a scold," related to sloef "untidy, shabby," from Proto-Germanic *slup- (cf. Dutch slof "careless, negligent") + Old French suffix -ain, from Latin -anus.
Doesn't look like it has absolutely anything to do with the Slavs.
Balkanization obviously does have to do with the Balkans, but it's not really so much culture, as current politics: you can't really argue that balkanization is a thing that has happened and is happening in the Balkans, can you? At least, not without being wrong?
Yet they're still orders of magnitude easier to use... (because you can't accidentally hit several keys around the one you were trying to hit. You either press the right key, or nothing.)
Betteridge's Law is wrong for once.
That said, I would argue, while ageism is *mostly* an aversion to spending money hiring pros who know what they're doing when they could hire novices for cheaper, coupled with an unassailable feeling (perhaps justified, perhaps not) that those older, more experienced people would be so offended at making less than ridiculous money that they would rather be unemployed than making less than what they did last time they had a job... it is also unarguably true that just because something is "new", doesn't always make it "better".
Sometimes it *does* make it better, granted, at least for certain things (managed languages are fantastic, for instance - I never want to go back to c++ if I don't have to - but I am aware that if I ever want to program a chip with a tiny sliver of memory, or do anything that requires to-the-wire speed, or write a compiler or an OS or a driver, a managed language is not the right tool.) But sometimes there's just no point in a new technology at all except to be buzzword-compliant. So why would people learn them, unless they're bedazzled by buzzwords? Probably less experienced people doing that, as far as programmers go (pointy haired bosses will do it at any age. :p)
Wish granted. You are now being serviced by baby chickens that have been lit on fire. Enjoy!
The issue isn't DRM, the issue is *invasive* DRM. "Look something up in the manual" is DRM. "Type this key I sent you into the installer" is DRM. The purpose of DRM should be to encourage people who haven't decided yet whether they're going to buy your stuff or pirate it, to do the former, because it would be easier. People who have already decided to pirate your stuff, are going to pirate it *anyway*, and if you make your DRM suck balls, people who haven't decided yet will decide to pirate it. But there is a legitimate reason to have *some* kind of DRM, because otherwise, people who haven't decided might decide to just grab a copy from their friend, cause hey, free!
A law can be universally ignored by virtue of the police, or the people managing the police, mandating that their time is better spent elsewhere. Local lawbooks are *full* of ridiculous stupid laws that technically still exist but that nobody has gotten arrested or fined for in centuries. More importantly, in many places, despite it still being entirely illegal, it's stated that making arrests for marijuana possession should be "lowest priority". That was my point about either actually removing laws or just making them "might as well be gone".
We already have an order of magnitude more prisoners because we have a messed up system. The proper fix would be to actually fix what's broken, stop arresting people who didn't do anything, or who did things that shouldn't be arrestable offenses.
We will also always have corrupt cops. The proper course of action there is to freaking arrest *them*. Yes, I do imagine that recording a police station would get you in trouble, which is all kinds of absurd, but that doesn't really have anything to do with it. Sure, corrupt cops could use a CCTV system to do harm, but corrupt cops can do a frelling lot of harm with any such systems; how much more could they really do with one that they can't do now? How about we pass laws that if a cop is corrupt, *they* frelling go to jail? (Yes, there are too many people in jail, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't still be jailing people who actually deserve it...)
Because they make you? Or because it's still cheaper?
I bought a refurb phone for 75$ (and got a 50 dollar credit for signing up, so I really got it for 25$). But I don't think it would've been nearly so easy to do that at any other phone provider than Ting (and sadly, few people have still heard of Ting. Then again, that's probably why their service is so good, because they *don't* have millions of customers.)
If you want to install any kind of snooping devices of any sort in my private property, you can go frack yourself. If you want to install any kind of snooping devices in *public* property, though? Why not. It's public property, we already don't have any reason to expect privacy there, so... why *not* install cameras everywhere, as long as they don't get in the way of being able to do things? I'm all for police being able to catch criminals better.
Now, you might argue, yes, but then we wouldn't be able to break laws that we don't agree with, that right now we can break because nobody is watching us. And I would say, the proper course of action then is to try to get those laws eradicated or at least made to be universally ignored. We should be objecting to those laws themselves in such cases, *not* to better ability to enforce them as a byproduct of better ability to enforce other laws that we actually want to be better enforced (murder, rape, theft, etc.)
Indeed. I'm sure corporations would *love* to lock young desperate engineers into five or ten years of indentured servitude for 500$. Generally it's at still at least a few tens of thousands, but I'm sure they'd love to change that. :p
one of many articles that read like valentines to the company and the concept."
No, no I have not. If you're two paragraphs into your summary, and you've told me several times that a company is amazing, but have not yet told me (other than in link form) anything about what that company frelling *does*, I will assume that you don't care whether I know what it does, and will respond with a big fat screw you to said article.
Screw you.
Modded +1 funny? More like +1 "depressingly likely"...
Indeed, it is in the same boat as Firefly. Like Firefly, I had never even heard of Arrested Development until long after it had failed to attract enough attention to survive on the air, and immediately fell in love with it once I had been introduced. I claim that, in both cases, it was less about being too much of a niche show, and more about completely failing to ADVERTISE just what an awesome show it was. It doesn't matter how many people *would* have loved it, if they never even knew it existed (or, frequently in the case of Firefly at least, knew it existed but thought from the ads that it was a completely different sort of show than it was.)
Why not just tell people a salary, and if a 55 year old dude is the most qualified, and *accepts* that salary, then you hire him?
Hey! I object to that remark! I totally don't have a costume, well-made or otherwise. :p
Ah, fair enough. Yeah, they can't help coverage, since they don't control it. Sprint has great coverage in my area, just crap service and mediocre prices.
I was just saying, there is at least one phone service provider that actually still believes in the power of proper customer service and low prices to get people interested, instead of just saying "everyone else antagonizes and rips off their customers in an attempt to make more money, so why not us too?" Whether they cover your area or not is irrelevant. :p
Put succinctly by Leverage: "If you and I kill a guy, we go to prison. If my *company* kills a guy, pay a fine, that's the cost of doing business."
I recommend looking at Ting. It's really changed the way I think about cell phone providers (namely: because I used to think they were all collectively evil bastards with the primary goal of screwing you, now I only think they *mostly* are that. :p)
I do -get- a couple magazines, that were touted as added bonuses for joining things that I joined for other reasons, but I don't really read the associated magazines.
That said, I keep meaning to look into resubscribing to Technology Review. I had at one point gotten it for free, and quite liked it. I haven't yet, though.
Yeah, but the difference is, if something breaks, you can fix it. (Unless the something is your internet connection, I suppose. But then, if your internet connection died, you wouldn't really be able to use services in the cloud, either.)
One of the first principles in UI design: if users are consistently making the same type of error, that *is* a problem with the software, not the user.
I didn't, but I'd give you +1 funny for the visual (if I had any mod points, and if I hadn't already posted a comment :p)
I'm totally fine with that. I feel like regardless of how smart cars will get, they should always have a fully mechanical failsafe, and should always be driveable in fully-AI-disabled mode. At that point, I'd argue an accident should only be the fault of the car manufacturer if it could be clearly proven that either a. no reasonable human driver would have done what the car did (like, say, it just decided to drive off a bridge suddenly and without warning), or b. the failsafe didn't work when engaged. I'd be fine with an agreement like that. If I wanted to zone out and not have someone who wasn't zoning out in the driver's seat, and my car got into an accident because something unexpected happened, it would totally be my fault (or maybe the fault of someone else on the road, but not the car manufacturer's.)
In any case. We should *never* remove the steering wheel. Ever.
I pay 50 bucks a month (plus taxes) for a whopping 5mbps down on average (supposedly it's 7, but I'd say on average it's about 5; I do see close to 7 occasionally). At least I got free long distance out of verizon as a "we're sorry" present for them having completely fracked up our order and making me take a whole day of vacation to be on the phone with them trying to fix it, even though I told them in advance several times that it looked like my order was messed up, and they promised, several times, that they had fixed it, until the guy came down to turn on our phone and discovered, what a surprise, that no they totally hadn't, and he couldn't do anything about it. Ugh.
Not that I would trust Sony to be any better, but they could hardly be frelling *worse*. (Yes, I don't think I could really use 2 gbps, but I could definitely use at least in the hundreds of mbps range... but not for hundreds of dollars a month, I couldn't.)
What he said. We've had the power for many years; I don't know why nobody seems to be making many of them any more. I finally bought a smartphone a few months ago, and I basically had a choice: did I want a phone with a proper, useful keyboard, or did I want a current version of Android on it? I went with the former; my phone runs Android 2.3, but I can actually freaking type on it.
Apparently you're a troll? A weird one, because I kind of agree with you (except about Express: yes, it's free, but it's also so limited as to be basically crap.) VS *is* really the greatest IDE I've ever used. It's not perfect, but it is the best I've used. I obviously have not used every IDE ever, and I will also admit that it's much better at debugging .net code than unmanaged c++ code, but still. Microsoft has pushed a lot of crappy, worthless software, but VS 2008 was quality, and 2010 even better (apart from a couple minor UI mistakes, easily fixable with free extensions). Notably, at least far as the summary went, it's done everything this guy is claiming he invented, since basically forever. (Though I personally leave the "recompile on the fly" option turned off; I think it's more trouble than it's worth.)