How about you go support your -local- brick-and-mortar bookstore instead? Don't have one cause the megastores drove them all out of business? Then screw you twice.
Barnes and Nobles deserves to die to Amazon, same way Borders did.
Glad I wasn't the only one to think about that Cracked article when I saw the headline. I wrote in the comments there at the time - that that request was the odd man out. The rest were obvious jokes, requesting that the computer read your mind, time-travel, break the laws of physics, murder people, etc., but that one seemed completely reasonable, and should really actually be implemented. Now here we are, Chrome is doing it - wonder if they got the idea from the Cracked article.:)
(I do also hope it gets into Firefox, but everyone knows the Firefox dev team doesn't actually add features people -want- anymore...)
I agree with you. Why should our government care if Microsoft provides us with the ability to require privileges to load custom assemblies via Code Access Security? It's not like you have to use it if you don't want to...
Until last year, I had never gotten a flu shot, or the flu (at least, like you, not since I was a kid). Last year, my girlfriend made me get a flu shot, and I also haven't gotten a flu. Therefore, I can state that getting a flu shot is 100% effective, not getting a flu shot is also 100% effective, and the best way to prevent getting a flu is "don't be a kid".
A couple months ago I was informed, in an email that had absolutely every telltale sign of being a phish (other than mispellings, I suppose; it was written in proper English), that someone had probably stolen my card, and I should click on this link if I agreed, or this other one if I had made the charges. The links didn't go to the bank's site. I almost threw it away.
It was a legitimate email; my card had actually been stolen.
I emailed their phishing department with a copy of it, and a pointed "this looks like a phish. I know it's legitimate, but here are all the ways it looks like it isn't. Perhaps you should rethink this email you're sending out?" Their response: "this is not a phish". Yes, I know that. I SAID that. Apparently nobody in that department can think, or read? (Fun fact: this is coming from one of the "big four" banks, according to wikipedia.)
I was going to post that, too. I don't give a crap about my wireless speed. My wireless speed's limiting factor is my internet speed, which is quite frankly crap, and I don't have a choice. And I live in the heart of the downtown of one of the bigger cities in one of the biggest states in the US. It's pretty ridiculous. (You want to talk about monopolies... I miss the days when if an ISP sucked, you could use a different one...)
You know, I do believe that's an even funnier suggestion than the standard upside-down-ternet. (Though I wouldn't do it for every page. I'd just capture all their pages to a folder, then go through it and find some really juicy ones. Bonus points if they have banking information in them! (Would make it easier to track the guy down, too!))
Obvious answer: because games are better in color. Corollary fact: if you're fiddling about with a gameboy in a high school lecture, you'll get in trouble. If you're fiddling about with a TI in a high school lecture, you probably won't unless the teacher sees what you're doing (ever notice just how many variations on the "hide what you're doing screen" program have been written for TIs?)
Color makes sense.;)
Yes, I fully admit, I played the *crap* out of Tetris in calc in high school.
There are *plenty* of things wrong with the seeds evolution has provided - that is why we've been modifying them (through *human* selection) since well back into prehistoric times.
I have no issue with trying to make plants "better" - there are loads of things we could improve in just about any plant. I don't even have any issue with trying to make plants better by fiddling with their genes in a lab and seeing what comes out, as opposed to the standard way: fiddling with their offspring and seeing what comes out (which really amounts to much the same thing, just takes a lot longer and is a lot harder to control). I only have issue with any plants getting out that threaten to destroy their *parent* subspecies. After all, *diversity* is key to long-term survival, evolution teaches that, too. If you want a plant that's better, but can't reproduce? Fine. That's no different from a mule. Just as long as you don't try to force every donkey and horse to only have mulish offspring, none of their own species, then kill all the donkeys and horses, so you can reign supreme in the mule-cloning business, bwahaha! Cause that's just evil.
(Yes, I am totally willing to agree, Monsanto is rather evil. Just not for GMO *generally*, only for their own behaviors specifically.)
Ugh, how I *don't* miss LFR. Or grinding stupid reputation points/tokens/whatever crap they decided to call it this patch.
(Has it really been a whole year since I got out? Dang. I still miss it sometimes, until I remember having to log in every day for a couple months, for a half hour of the same boring rep grind... and then after a couple month reprieve a new patch would pop, and I'd be all excited about the content until I realized that it meant another long rep slog... ugh. Or alternatively, now I can just think about pandas, and how they thought it was a great idea to base a whole xpac around an April Fools joke...)
I do still miss it occasionally though. Mostly while intoxicated (/2 was always more amusing in such a state.:p)
Then don't drink it? You might not be drinking the right stuff, but you might also just loathe the taste, which is totally your right. I, for instance, can't stand beer, but I know loads of people love it. My girlfriend can't stand the taste of scotch, which I think tastes wonderful.
And if you don't like your mental functions impaired, then that's your right, too. But some people, myself included, find it fun occasionally. I wouldn't do it all the time - I like being at full mental capacity - but every once in a while it's an enjoyable experience. (But I do wish science could do something about the day-after effects... back in college I never used to get hangovers unless I drank to excess, which I tried to avoid doing. These days I can get one even drinking in moderation.)
Well, waking up with a hangover describes almost everyone who drinks more than a tiny amount, sadly. And alcohol *does* massively lower inhibitions, so while most people might still not be jerks after drinking, it also true that people can be nice enough people while sober because they make themselves be, and way more obnoxious while drunk. (And even more so if you include just being obnoxiously *loud* as being obnoxious, as lowering inhibitions also tends to lower one's ability to control their volume...)
But if you're blacking out, it means you're doing it wrong. (Which is not to say that I've never done it; I have a couple times. But I wasn't proud of it, nor even happy, and would admit completely that I was doing it wrong - namely, in drinking a lot of something because it tasted good, without ascertaining first just how potent it was.)
There is booze that I would only drink if I wanted to get drunk, but there is definitely also booze that I would drink even if it was entirely nonalcoholic. You don't buy good scotch for the booze, you buy good scotch because it's good scotch.
If you came up with something that would basically give you a super-hangover from alcohol, by blocking the breakdown of a chemical responsible for hangovers... it seems to reason you could also figure out how to cause faster breakdown of the same chemical. If it was really mostly responsible for hangovers, it seems like that would make billions of dollars as the first truly reliable hangover preventative. I know I'd buy it (if there weren't other worse side effects).
Meanwhile, I can't imagine many alcoholics would care. They'd just *drink more* to counteract the effects of the hangover. You know, like they already do?
2013 is going to be awful anyway. So were 2010 and 2007. I still have 2003 (which... I think I yoinked a copy of from my stepdad's work at the time, with his permission but not necessarily his work's). I see no reason to ever bother with any newer version. What have they actually added that I would want? What have they added at all, other than more bloat, and a crappy ribbon?
They can do what they like with that franchise; unlike with their OSes (where you're pretty much tied to the newest version when you buy a new computer), I'm under no compulsion to ever "upgrade".
Highly interesting, considering the heart of San Diego is less than 20 miles from Tijuana. Does that mean police anywhere in San Diego can now seize anybody's electronics for no reason with no warrant? I'm sure their police department would be happy to hear that.
Heh. I wasn't even alive when that change was made; I still heard that song as a kid and was amused by it, even if its context was relegated to "historical curiosity".
As much as I endorse, in general, speaking with your wallet and avoiding purchasing things that should really die a firey death - and Windows 8 is definitely in that category... sometimes there aren't any good alternatives, and you just have to suck it up.
That said, I already mod out basically as much of the Windows 7 UI as I possibly can, and I know all the stuff I use to get rid of crappy UI design in 7 also works in 8 (Classic Shell, XYPlorer, FileLocator, and 7 Taskbar Tweaker (now renamed to 7+ Taskbar Tweaker)). So at this point, I figure if I'm ever forced to use Win8, there's a good chance once I reinstall all that stuff, nothing will really change significantly.
Yep, that was my thought. "How is it news that someone discovered iOS had a couple hidden UI elements? They must toggle on some pretty spectacular option...
Or just use a private torrent site and be done with it. They're not watching private torrent sites, because that would require that someone gave them an account, which would be pretty monumentally stupid.
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No, screw you.
How about you go support your -local- brick-and-mortar bookstore instead? Don't have one cause the megastores drove them all out of business? Then screw you twice.
Barnes and Nobles deserves to die to Amazon, same way Borders did.
Glad I wasn't the only one to think about that Cracked article when I saw the headline. I wrote in the comments there at the time - that that request was the odd man out. The rest were obvious jokes, requesting that the computer read your mind, time-travel, break the laws of physics, murder people, etc., but that one seemed completely reasonable, and should really actually be implemented. Now here we are, Chrome is doing it - wonder if they got the idea from the Cracked article. :)
(I do also hope it gets into Firefox, but everyone knows the Firefox dev team doesn't actually add features people -want- anymore...)
I agree with you. Why should our government care if Microsoft provides us with the ability to require privileges to load custom assemblies via Code Access Security? It's not like you have to use it if you don't want to...
Until last year, I had never gotten a flu shot, or the flu (at least, like you, not since I was a kid). Last year, my girlfriend made me get a flu shot, and I also haven't gotten a flu. Therefore, I can state that getting a flu shot is 100% effective, not getting a flu shot is also 100% effective, and the best way to prevent getting a flu is "don't be a kid".
A couple months ago I was informed, in an email that had absolutely every telltale sign of being a phish (other than mispellings, I suppose; it was written in proper English), that someone had probably stolen my card, and I should click on this link if I agreed, or this other one if I had made the charges. The links didn't go to the bank's site. I almost threw it away.
It was a legitimate email; my card had actually been stolen.
I emailed their phishing department with a copy of it, and a pointed "this looks like a phish. I know it's legitimate, but here are all the ways it looks like it isn't. Perhaps you should rethink this email you're sending out?" Their response: "this is not a phish". Yes, I know that. I SAID that. Apparently nobody in that department can think, or read? (Fun fact: this is coming from one of the "big four" banks, according to wikipedia.)
I was going to post that, too. I don't give a crap about my wireless speed. My wireless speed's limiting factor is my internet speed, which is quite frankly crap, and I don't have a choice. And I live in the heart of the downtown of one of the bigger cities in one of the biggest states in the US. It's pretty ridiculous. (You want to talk about monopolies... I miss the days when if an ISP sucked, you could use a different one...)
You know, I do believe that's an even funnier suggestion than the standard upside-down-ternet. (Though I wouldn't do it for every page. I'd just capture all their pages to a folder, then go through it and find some really juicy ones. Bonus points if they have banking information in them! (Would make it easier to track the guy down, too!))
Obvious answer: because games are better in color. Corollary fact: if you're fiddling about with a gameboy in a high school lecture, you'll get in trouble. If you're fiddling about with a TI in a high school lecture, you probably won't unless the teacher sees what you're doing (ever notice just how many variations on the "hide what you're doing screen" program have been written for TIs?)
Color makes sense. ;)
Yes, I fully admit, I played the *crap* out of Tetris in calc in high school.
Even better example (not being distracted by one link that happens to be a redirect to itself): http://www.something.com/
Have fun getting from *there* to anywhere else...
There are *plenty* of things wrong with the seeds evolution has provided - that is why we've been modifying them (through *human* selection) since well back into prehistoric times.
I have no issue with trying to make plants "better" - there are loads of things we could improve in just about any plant. I don't even have any issue with trying to make plants better by fiddling with their genes in a lab and seeing what comes out, as opposed to the standard way: fiddling with their offspring and seeing what comes out (which really amounts to much the same thing, just takes a lot longer and is a lot harder to control). I only have issue with any plants getting out that threaten to destroy their *parent* subspecies. After all, *diversity* is key to long-term survival, evolution teaches that, too. If you want a plant that's better, but can't reproduce? Fine. That's no different from a mule. Just as long as you don't try to force every donkey and horse to only have mulish offspring, none of their own species, then kill all the donkeys and horses, so you can reign supreme in the mule-cloning business, bwahaha! Cause that's just evil.
(Yes, I am totally willing to agree, Monsanto is rather evil. Just not for GMO *generally*, only for their own behaviors specifically.)
Ugh, how I *don't* miss LFR. Or grinding stupid reputation points/tokens/whatever crap they decided to call it this patch.
(Has it really been a whole year since I got out? Dang. I still miss it sometimes, until I remember having to log in every day for a couple months, for a half hour of the same boring rep grind... and then after a couple month reprieve a new patch would pop, and I'd be all excited about the content until I realized that it meant another long rep slog... ugh. Or alternatively, now I can just think about pandas, and how they thought it was a great idea to base a whole xpac around an April Fools joke...)
I do still miss it occasionally though. Mostly while intoxicated (/2 was always more amusing in such a state. :p)
Sounds like an episode of Castle. (Not a specific one that was already done, just sounds like something the show would do.)
I totally heard the Castle duh-duh-duh duh DUH twang in your post.
Presumably the nerve called "not liking people who state incorrect things as fact". That gets on my nerves, too.
Then don't drink it? You might not be drinking the right stuff, but you might also just loathe the taste, which is totally your right. I, for instance, can't stand beer, but I know loads of people love it. My girlfriend can't stand the taste of scotch, which I think tastes wonderful.
And if you don't like your mental functions impaired, then that's your right, too. But some people, myself included, find it fun occasionally. I wouldn't do it all the time - I like being at full mental capacity - but every once in a while it's an enjoyable experience. (But I do wish science could do something about the day-after effects... back in college I never used to get hangovers unless I drank to excess, which I tried to avoid doing. These days I can get one even drinking in moderation.)
Well, waking up with a hangover describes almost everyone who drinks more than a tiny amount, sadly. And alcohol *does* massively lower inhibitions, so while most people might still not be jerks after drinking, it also true that people can be nice enough people while sober because they make themselves be, and way more obnoxious while drunk. (And even more so if you include just being obnoxiously *loud* as being obnoxious, as lowering inhibitions also tends to lower one's ability to control their volume...)
But if you're blacking out, it means you're doing it wrong. (Which is not to say that I've never done it; I have a couple times. But I wasn't proud of it, nor even happy, and would admit completely that I was doing it wrong - namely, in drinking a lot of something because it tasted good, without ascertaining first just how potent it was.)
There is booze that I would only drink if I wanted to get drunk, but there is definitely also booze that I would drink even if it was entirely nonalcoholic. You don't buy good scotch for the booze, you buy good scotch because it's good scotch.
If you came up with something that would basically give you a super-hangover from alcohol, by blocking the breakdown of a chemical responsible for hangovers... it seems to reason you could also figure out how to cause faster breakdown of the same chemical. If it was really mostly responsible for hangovers, it seems like that would make billions of dollars as the first truly reliable hangover preventative. I know I'd buy it (if there weren't other worse side effects).
Meanwhile, I can't imagine many alcoholics would care. They'd just *drink more* to counteract the effects of the hangover. You know, like they already do?
2013 is going to be awful anyway. So were 2010 and 2007. I still have 2003 (which... I think I yoinked a copy of from my stepdad's work at the time, with his permission but not necessarily his work's). I see no reason to ever bother with any newer version. What have they actually added that I would want? What have they added at all, other than more bloat, and a crappy ribbon?
They can do what they like with that franchise; unlike with their OSes (where you're pretty much tied to the newest version when you buy a new computer), I'm under no compulsion to ever "upgrade".
I dunno. I'm kind of enjoying it - I need to fill my daily quota of snarkiness and complaining. These kind of threads are perfect for that.
Highly interesting, considering the heart of San Diego is less than 20 miles from Tijuana. Does that mean police anywhere in San Diego can now seize anybody's electronics for no reason with no warrant? I'm sure their police department would be happy to hear that.
Heh. I wasn't even alive when that change was made; I still heard that song as a kid and was amused by it, even if its context was relegated to "historical curiosity".
As much as I endorse, in general, speaking with your wallet and avoiding purchasing things that should really die a firey death - and Windows 8 is definitely in that category... sometimes there aren't any good alternatives, and you just have to suck it up.
That said, I already mod out basically as much of the Windows 7 UI as I possibly can, and I know all the stuff I use to get rid of crappy UI design in 7 also works in 8 (Classic Shell, XYPlorer, FileLocator, and 7 Taskbar Tweaker (now renamed to 7+ Taskbar Tweaker)). So at this point, I figure if I'm ever forced to use Win8, there's a good chance once I reinstall all that stuff, nothing will really change significantly.
Why not? Granted, I'd mod it up "+1 Funny: Smartass" rather than "Insightful", but it is technically a completely valid answer to the guy's question.
Yep, that was my thought. "How is it news that someone discovered iOS had a couple hidden UI elements? They must toggle on some pretty spectacular option...
Or just use a private torrent site and be done with it. They're not watching private torrent sites, because that would require that someone gave them an account, which would be pretty monumentally stupid.