Don't worry, our currency isn't based on our gold stores anymore. Didn't Ron Paul teach you people anything?
OTOH, 2 kg of gold is worth about $77k. Price of a similar amount of lead? Less than $5. Oh... you don't want it to react to the atmosphere (um... in space)? Plate it in gold, or better yet, cover it in enamel for $5 more. Makes you wonder how they spend the rest of the billions of dollars, doesn't it? I whole-heartedly support our space program, but this just pisses me off.
Problem with your "outside of the box" solution. Locks don't grow on trees, so unless you're suggesting that he manually re-key the locks himself (and if he was an experienced locksmith, he probably wouldn't be complaining about this problem), his "don't want to pay for it" complaint holds no matter who does the labor of replacing the cores.
My parents laugh whenever they see me writing down directions on a piece of paper -- after all, I'm the computer person, why don't I use the printer? 10 years ago, she thought I was whack not to use Mapquest, and now it's Google. My directions are much less complex and faster, and I can read the map I draw while driving. And 99% of the hard-copy information I need from a computer is directions (though I'm fine with a paper map) -- why the hell would I buy a printer? For the other 1%, I'd rather pay somebody $.05 a page to purchase and maintain the hardware -- if I didn't have access to printers at work.
This is one nice thing about working on open source software. Somebody implemented something in a project I work on two years ago, when I didn't want to. The other day, I found a bug in it. After a few hours of thinking hard about the problem, I fixed the bug, and made the thing about ten thousand times faster. Had I written the original code, it'd have been the same as the original author -- but since I waited until inspiration hit, the result is much better.
Naw, it's like that in Washington, too. But, the traffic cameras (speaking from experience here) are pretty sophisticated. They take one picture of the vehicle behind the line, one with it in the middle of the intersection and one very high resolution picture of the license plate. If the light was red before you entered the intersection, no contest. And, there are timestamps on the pictures so it's pretty clear that they were taken fractions of a second apart.
No... I think they make the OS work the way they want it to. Because, y'know, they use it. This has been the nature of OSS since the dawn of... OSS, I guess.
I think the media makes much ado of nothing to grab reader attention.
Don't blame the tool, dumbass. Kitchen knives are dangerous in the hands of a klutz. That doesn't make a kitchen knife a bad tool. Moreover, a sharp knife is less dangerous in the hands of somebody who knows what they're doing -- this is the nature of good tools.
PHP is wonderful for web development. I used mod-perl, c/cgi, coldfusion, and asp before I found PHP -- it saved my world. I wasn't scared off by these other tools -- but my productivity went through the roof when I found PHP. OTOH, I'm now I use Python / Cython for 99% of what I do, and I refute your claim that Python has a steeper learning curve than PHP.
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Oh bullshit. Those are both overt and ridiculous generalizations. First off, many scientists use statistics every day (at the least, much more than "never"). Second, not all scientists use calculus "every day", and many use it almost never.
As a calculus teacher, I can tell you this: you need skills in symbolic manipulation. Your algebra needs to be rock solid before you attempt college level calculus. In my experience, you need dozens of hours of practice before you get it. Buy an algebra textbook, and do every odd problem in every section until you are reliably getting everything right. My experience = flunked high school math and went back to college 10 years later, and am now working towards a PhD in math.
b) This is generally true about people. If people I don't know personally think I'm pathetic, well, fuck them, they don't know me. Otherwise, people would have long ago been shamed out of spamming, patent trolling, consuming child pornography and engaging in bestiality, to name a few. But guess what? The internet is here to stay.
If brains are equated to IP, then the comparison is apt. Zombies eat the brains of the living, to the detriment of the living, just to prolong the zombies' pathetic existence. McBride wants to harvest the IP of others, to the detriment of the originators of said IP, only to prolong his pathetic existence.
McFact No. 9. McDonalds wouldn't make their coffee that hot if people didn't want it that hot. If its hotter than other restaurants, presumably that is their competitive advantage.
This came up in the trial. Managers were encouraged to turn the heat up because the ultra-hot coffee wouldn't cool down enough for the customers to cash in on the free refill unless they loitered long after they'd finished eating the food they'd ordered.
Wut? It is NOT hard to buy guns. I implore you to buy a used.22 rifle. I got mine for $100, walked in, plunked down the money and left with my gun. And this is in Seattle, where we have lots of kneejerk nannystate-ists.
You won't fight an army with a handgun. They've got rifles with scopes, and armor. Of course... you couldn't do much with my.22 bolt-action plinker either, but military-grade weapons aren't that hard to get either (though, they're out of my price range). You don't have a gun because you haven't bothered to by one.
Buy a gun. If you don't exercise the right, you'll lose it. Then, you can learn to hunt, and you can help keep the deer and rabbit population down in your state, and feed your family, too! And, if the government ever unleashes its rapidly growing army of lethal robots on the people, you'll be able to shoot one (and only one, unfortunately, as its redundant systems will alert the network to your presence and call in an airstrike).
Oh snap! Your computer crashed because it had malware! Harsh man, that was real harsh. Couldn't the rootkit like, call you up and say "hey man, I'm in ur system, mining ur dataz", rather than just crash? That would be a lot more convenient, and significantly less harsh. I mean, what are they going to do next -- make the computer insult you, too?
No, he hunted it down. Went into the woods, found some cracked version tracks, lied in wait, and *bang*, bagged him a cracked version. Damn kids with your newfangled internets and webgasms. Why, back in my day, when we wanted to pirate a game, we hunted it down. We'd go into the woods, search around for cracked version tracks, and then once we found them, see, we'd lie in... oh, you've heard this story already? Well... get off my lawn!
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Don't worry, our currency isn't based on our gold stores anymore. Didn't Ron Paul teach you people anything?
OTOH, 2 kg of gold is worth about $77k. Price of a similar amount of lead? Less than $5. Oh... you don't want it to react to the atmosphere (um... in space)? Plate it in gold, or better yet, cover it in enamel for $5 more. Makes you wonder how they spend the rest of the billions of dollars, doesn't it? I whole-heartedly support our space program, but this just pisses me off.
Problem with your "outside of the box" solution. Locks don't grow on trees, so unless you're suggesting that he manually re-key the locks himself (and if he was an experienced locksmith, he probably wouldn't be complaining about this problem), his "don't want to pay for it" complaint holds no matter who does the labor of replacing the cores.
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"The trick to telling a good joke, is to know when stop talking and let the audience figure out the punchline."
The first line was very funny (particularly given the forum that we're in). There was no need for the overclarification.
I don't get it. Can you explain this joke further?
My parents laugh whenever they see me writing down directions on a piece of paper -- after all, I'm the computer person, why don't I use the printer? 10 years ago, she thought I was whack not to use Mapquest, and now it's Google. My directions are much less complex and faster, and I can read the map I draw while driving. And 99% of the hard-copy information I need from a computer is directions (though I'm fine with a paper map) -- why the hell would I buy a printer? For the other 1%, I'd rather pay somebody $.05 a page to purchase and maintain the hardware -- if I didn't have access to printers at work.
Parasites that kill their host too quickly don't survive...
... and yours wouldn't even compile. The problem with gp's code and your own is that you don't type out < when you want a < symbol.
This is one nice thing about working on open source software. Somebody implemented something in a project I work on two years ago, when I didn't want to. The other day, I found a bug in it. After a few hours of thinking hard about the problem, I fixed the bug, and made the thing about ten thousand times faster. Had I written the original code, it'd have been the same as the original author -- but since I waited until inspiration hit, the result is much better.
Naw, it's like that in Washington, too. But, the traffic cameras (speaking from experience here) are pretty sophisticated. They take one picture of the vehicle behind the line, one with it in the middle of the intersection and one very high resolution picture of the license plate. If the light was red before you entered the intersection, no contest. And, there are timestamps on the pictures so it's pretty clear that they were taken fractions of a second apart.
Go with Hopper. It's better to ask forgiveness than permission.
No... I think they make the OS work the way they want it to. Because, y'know, they use it. This has been the nature of OSS since the dawn of... OSS, I guess.
I think the media makes much ado of nothing to grab reader attention.
I think of it more as a 1/3" socket wrench. It'll turn an 8mm bolt, but not without damaging it. But if you've got a 1/3" bolt, it's awesome.
Don't blame the tool, dumbass. Kitchen knives are dangerous in the hands of a klutz. That doesn't make a kitchen knife a bad tool. Moreover, a sharp knife is less dangerous in the hands of somebody who knows what they're doing -- this is the nature of good tools.
PHP is wonderful for web development. I used mod-perl, c/cgi, coldfusion, and asp before I found PHP -- it saved my world. I wasn't scared off by these other tools -- but my productivity went through the roof when I found PHP. OTOH, I'm now I use Python / Cython for 99% of what I do, and I refute your claim that Python has a steeper learning curve than PHP.
Oh bullshit. Those are both overt and ridiculous generalizations. First off, many scientists use statistics every day (at the least, much more than "never"). Second, not all scientists use calculus "every day", and many use it almost never.
As a calculus teacher, I can tell you this: you need skills in symbolic manipulation. Your algebra needs to be rock solid before you attempt college level calculus. In my experience, you need dozens of hours of practice before you get it. Buy an algebra textbook, and do every odd problem in every section until you are reliably getting everything right. My experience = flunked high school math and went back to college 10 years later, and am now working towards a PhD in math.
I've memorized at least two 256-bit binary strings... took me no time at all. I bet you can guess them, though.
But there is such a thing as "former NSA technical director". As in, no longer the technical director of NSA, and now cannot divulge his proper title.
a) Rich doesn't imply "not pathetic".
b) This is generally true about people. If people I don't know personally think I'm pathetic, well, fuck them, they don't know me. Otherwise, people would have long ago been shamed out of spamming, patent trolling, consuming child pornography and engaging in bestiality, to name a few. But guess what? The internet is here to stay.
If brains are equated to IP, then the comparison is apt. Zombies eat the brains of the living, to the detriment of the living, just to prolong the zombies' pathetic existence. McBride wants to harvest the IP of others, to the detriment of the originators of said IP, only to prolong his pathetic existence.
McFact No. 9. McDonalds wouldn't make their coffee that hot if people didn't want it that hot. If its hotter than other restaurants, presumably that is their competitive advantage.
This came up in the trial. Managers were encouraged to turn the heat up because the ultra-hot coffee wouldn't cool down enough for the customers to cash in on the free refill unless they loitered long after they'd finished eating the food they'd ordered.
c.f. Wikipedia: "Denatured alcohol is ethanol that has additives to make it poisonous and/or unpalatable, and thus, undrinkable."
Wut? It is NOT hard to buy guns. I implore you to buy a used .22 rifle. I got mine for $100, walked in, plunked down the money and left with my gun. And this is in Seattle, where we have lots of kneejerk nannystate-ists.
You won't fight an army with a handgun. They've got rifles with scopes, and armor. Of course... you couldn't do much with my .22 bolt-action plinker either, but military-grade weapons aren't that hard to get either (though, they're out of my price range). You don't have a gun because you haven't bothered to by one.
Buy a gun. If you don't exercise the right, you'll lose it. Then, you can learn to hunt, and you can help keep the deer and rabbit population down in your state, and feed your family, too! And, if the government ever unleashes its rapidly growing army of lethal robots on the people, you'll be able to shoot one (and only one, unfortunately, as its redundant systems will alert the network to your presence and call in an airstrike).
No, but apparently somebody thinks your computer is.
Legos are fake because they're made of plastic. Duh.
FWIW, this bot is MUCH cooler than the one from 9 years ago. Faster, at the very least.
Oh snap! Your computer crashed because it had malware! Harsh man, that was real harsh. Couldn't the rootkit like, call you up and say "hey man, I'm in ur system, mining ur dataz", rather than just crash? That would be a lot more convenient, and significantly less harsh. I mean, what are they going to do next -- make the computer insult you, too?
No, he hunted it down. Went into the woods, found some cracked version tracks, lied in wait, and *bang*, bagged him a cracked version. Damn kids with your newfangled internets and webgasms. Why, back in my day, when we wanted to pirate a game, we hunted it down. We'd go into the woods, search around for cracked version tracks, and then once we found them, see, we'd lie in... oh, you've heard this story already? Well... get off my lawn!