Netflix is being evil. Patenting an on-line business model is retarded. It might make since to get the patents before someone else does to protect yourself, but to enforce them? That's just wrong. I hope they either 1) make things right or 2) lose all their customers. I just terminated my service. I was hoping they'd have a comment box asking why. Was going to link to this slashdot article.
Oh, I have no doubt that a family could buckle down get by on a single income. However, that will drastically reduce the quality of life. So it becomes a trade off. Live poor and be a "good parent" or live comfortable and take crap from people like you. Fact of the matter is that the average american family simply cannot afford to live comfortably on one income.
Firefox IMHO is a much better user expierence with tabs (once you get use to the idea) and having a little search box.
I just wanted to comment on tabs and the little search box. I was helping a not-so-computer-literate friend out the other day. When I suggested he google something, he clicked on the icon to open up a new browser. I then suggested he close that new window and open a new tab. Which I had to teach him how. Then he started to goto google.com, and I stopped him suggesting he type it in the search box. Which he did, but instead of pressing enter to submit it, he pressed the go button just to the left of it. That go button only works for the URL, not for the search. So i had him put the cursor back in the search box and press enter.
A simple task turned into a crash course on web surfing. Is he the only idiot out there or are there thousands of other firefox users out there not using firefox's ease of browsing features simply because they don't know how?
You follow Jeff over to his computer, where he sits down and violently moves the mouse to wake it up. "Why didn't you leave the screen as is when you came to get me?" you ask. "Oh, this problem is from last Tuesday," he answers. You wonder if you can move the Doctor's appointment up. "Okay," he says, as he opens Acrobat Reader. He presses some buttons, not caring if you're able to see what he's doing, and suddenly gets a blue screen of death. "See?" You realize that all he did was somehow hard crash Acrobat Reader- a program completely unrelated to your work.
Action:>blame problem on Jeff surfing porn at work
Jeff offers $20 to not tell anyone about his web surfing habits. You accept it and walk back to to your desk to continue your work. Susan, a hottie from sales calls you 10 minutes later and asks if you have plans for lunch.
You have: -a headache -pencils -potential high blood pressure -a deadline -$20
Almost every locked door can be opened quickly with the right tools. This lock though, would allow an intruder to hide in the bushes and listen to the knock code. That seems a little too easy. I also imagine a visitor could knock on one of these doors and unintentinally unlock it as well.
The cost for hand holding is already built into their price. People buy from Dell because they want "Kyle" from India to tell them how to turn on their computer. If support is not what you're wanting/needing, you're welcome to purchase a PC elsewhere.
I know all about abstraction and re-using code. If you don't know what it's doing, they why are you using it? I had an operating systems class where we were to expand upon a basic OS, giving it a file system, page caching, multithreading, etc. The instructor graded you just like this judge did, he pointed at a section of code and asked you what it did. You grade was determined more on knowing what the code did than if it actually worked. (this was to detour cheaters of course). You may or may not have written that particular section, but you were still asked to know what it was. It wasn't that hard to read a comment or read the code as if it we english. I mean seriously. "That section creates a new thread process". "That line concatenates variable a and b." If you can't read your own code it means one of two things. 1) you write poor code or 2) you didn't write the code.
A programmer doesn't always have the glorious job of new development. They are often faced with maintaining legacy code. So a programmer needs to be able to read not only the code they write, but the code that others have written as well.
Do the math. Drop the landline and get a cell phone and upgrade your cable to cable internet. It costs about the same. Too expensive argument doesn't fly.
What?!? They get rid of his second head? If the director didn't want to take on the challenge of having a character with two heads, he shouldn't have taken on the movie. >:( I'll likely watch the movie this weekend, but my hopes arn't very high.
I think you are right, I don't recall him ever saying where they are placed. But I am pretty sure I remember reading scenes where he says stuff like the right head continues eating while the left head talks.
I think CGI could do the wacky images, but as the author of the article mentions, the narriation played a HUGE role in the humor.
I noticed your name was 'BigZaphod'. If I recall correctly, Zaphod had two heads side by side. I havn't seen the movie yet, but in the trailor it looked like he only had one head. How wrong is that!?!? Couldn't they have done a CGI version of him?
No. It's purpose is not to take you on a trip or drive your around town. It's purpose is to be an auto-pilot on highways for about 10 seconds. "the ADAS system will beep every 10 seconds to make sure you're paying attention, requiring you to touch the steering wheel to inform the car you're still in charge" Might be useful for things like finding a CD to play, dialing a cell phone, dipping a chiekn nugget in BBQ sauce, etc. If something walks infront of you car during that 10 seconds, you will hit it.
* Why is Google keeping this information? -Because it's theirs.
* On what grounds is Google fighting the Government and does their position hold water? -right to privacy.. and we'll see if it holds water in court soon enough.
* Do web users have a "right to privacy" when searching on the net/submitting information to a private company? -Yes.
Anymore questions?
If Google looses, I think they should hand over printed hard copies of the data. "Here ya go!"
With the the release of Googles search records, I have reviewed some of my search history and felt some of my searches could be taken the wrong way and would like to take this chance to clarify...
'child porn' - was doing research for a college essay paper.
'Olson Twins' - I wanted to see if they were releasing any new movies
'how to build a bomb' - was a typo. I wanted to know how egyptions built their tomb's
'miserable failure' - How did that one get in there?
'preteen amature fuck daddy child molesting whore slut kiddie screw young tits who suck big cock' - I read this article on slashdot..and wanted to see if you'd actually come knocking on my door.
Slashdot Mirror
Netflix is being evil. Patenting an on-line business model is retarded. It might make since to get the patents before someone else does to protect yourself, but to enforce them? That's just wrong. I hope they either 1) make things right or 2) lose all their customers. I just terminated my service. I was hoping they'd have a comment box asking why. Was going to link to this slashdot article.
Oh, I have no doubt that a family could buckle down get by on a single income. However, that will drastically reduce the quality of life. So it becomes a trade off. Live poor and be a "good parent" or live comfortable and take crap from people like you. Fact of the matter is that the average american family simply cannot afford to live comfortably on one income.
If my bedframe broke, I'd just put the mattress on the floor so I wouldn't have to sleep at an angle. But that's just me.
The mice will be disappointed.
Aachoo!
Firefox IMHO is a much better user expierence with tabs (once you get use to the idea) and having a little search box.
I just wanted to comment on tabs and the little search box. I was helping a not-so-computer-literate friend out the other day. When I suggested he google something, he clicked on the icon to open up a new browser. I then suggested he close that new window and open a new tab. Which I had to teach him how. Then he started to goto google.com, and I stopped him suggesting he type it in the search box. Which he did, but instead of pressing enter to submit it, he pressed the go button just to the left of it. That go button only works for the URL, not for the search. So i had him put the cursor back in the search box and press enter.
A simple task turned into a crash course on web surfing. Is he the only idiot out there or are there thousands of other firefox users out there not using firefox's ease of browsing features simply because they don't know how?
You follow Jeff over to his computer, where he sits down and violently moves the mouse to wake it up. "Why didn't you leave the screen as is when you came to get me?" you ask. "Oh, this problem is from last Tuesday," he answers. You wonder if you can move the Doctor's appointment up. "Okay," he says, as he opens Acrobat Reader. He presses some buttons, not caring if you're able to see what he's doing, and suddenly gets a blue screen of death. "See?" You realize that all he did was somehow hard crash Acrobat Reader- a program completely unrelated to your work.
Action:>blame problem on Jeff surfing porn at work
Jeff offers $20 to not tell anyone about his web surfing habits. You accept it and walk back to to your desk to continue your work. Susan, a hottie from sales calls you 10 minutes later and asks if you have plans for lunch.
You have:
-a headache
-pencils
-potential high blood pressure
-a deadline
-$20
Action:>
73% of all statistics are made up.
Can anybody here suggest some plausible alternatative explanations?
a) bullshit
b) bullshit
c) bullshit
d) all of the above
Almost every locked door can be opened quickly with the right tools. This lock though, would allow an intruder to hide in the bushes and listen to the knock code. That seems a little too easy. I also imagine a visitor could knock on one of these doors and unintentinally unlock it as well.
The cost for hand holding is already built into their price. People buy from Dell because they want "Kyle" from India to tell them how to turn on their computer. If support is not what you're wanting/needing, you're welcome to purchase a PC elsewhere.
I challenge you to a game of Madden 06! There's a game that takes some skill and not 32 hours a week to be good at.
I know all about abstraction and re-using code. If you don't know what it's doing, they why are you using it? I had an operating systems class where we were to expand upon a basic OS, giving it a file system, page caching, multithreading, etc. The instructor graded you just like this judge did, he pointed at a section of code and asked you what it did. You grade was determined more on knowing what the code did than if it actually worked. (this was to detour cheaters of course). You may or may not have written that particular section, but you were still asked to know what it was. It wasn't that hard to read a comment or read the code as if it we english. I mean seriously. "That section creates a new thread process". "That line concatenates variable a and b." If you can't read your own code it means one of two things. 1) you write poor code or 2) you didn't write the code.
A programmer doesn't always have the glorious job of new development. They are often faced with maintaining legacy code. So a programmer needs to be able to read not only the code they write, but the code that others have written as well.
If you didn't know what a line of code in YOUR code did, then you deserved a low score.
My point is, your downloads are limited to 56K.
Great. Until you try to download some songs and burn them to a CD.
Do the math. Drop the landline and get a cell phone and upgrade your cable to cable internet. It costs about the same. Too expensive argument doesn't fly.
Phone - $40/mth
Dialup - $20/mth
Cable - $50/mth
Total --------
$120/mth
Cell (no landline) - $40/mth
Cable W/Internet - $80.00
------------
$120/mth
What?!? They get rid of his second head? If the director didn't want to take on the challenge of having a character with two heads, he shouldn't have taken on the movie. >:( I'll likely watch the movie this weekend, but my hopes arn't very high.
I think you are right, I don't recall him ever saying where they are placed. But I am pretty sure I remember reading scenes where he says stuff like the right head continues eating while the left head talks.
I think CGI could do the wacky images, but as the author of the article mentions, the narriation played a HUGE role in the humor.
I noticed your name was 'BigZaphod'. If I recall correctly, Zaphod had two heads side by side. I havn't seen the movie yet, but in the trailor it looked like he only had one head. How wrong is that!?!? Couldn't they have done a CGI version of him?
1) Find cheese 2) Eat 3) Reproduce 4) Find burrow and Sleep 5) ??? 6) Profit!!! 7) Return to procedure 1)
I am one who has beat my head against a problem all day, went to sleep, and woke up with a working solution in mind. It's weird when that happens.
No. It's purpose is not to take you on a trip or drive your around town. It's purpose is to be an auto-pilot on highways for about 10 seconds. "the ADAS system will beep every 10 seconds to make sure you're paying attention, requiring you to touch the steering wheel to inform the car you're still in charge" Might be useful for things like finding a CD to play, dialing a cell phone, dipping a chiekn nugget in BBQ sauce, etc. If something walks infront of you car during that 10 seconds, you will hit it.
* Why is Google keeping this information?
-Because it's theirs.
* On what grounds is Google fighting the Government and does their
position hold water?
-right to privacy.. and we'll see if it holds water in court soon enough.
* Do web users have a "right to privacy" when searching on the net/submitting information to a private company?
-Yes.
Anymore questions?
If Google looses, I think they should hand over printed hard copies of the data. "Here ya go!"
With the the release of Googles search records, I have reviewed some of my search history and felt some of my searches could be taken the wrong way and would like to take this chance to clarify...
'child porn' - was doing research for a college essay paper.
'Olson Twins' - I wanted to see if they were releasing any new movies
'how to build a bomb' - was a typo. I wanted to know how egyptions built their tomb's
'miserable failure' - How did that one get in there?
'preteen amature fuck daddy child molesting whore slut kiddie screw young tits who suck big cock' - I read this article on slashdot..and wanted to see if you'd actually come knocking on my door.