Next thing you know, they'll be outlawing alcohol and chopping your hand off if you badmouth Allah. Think the British parliament would respond if I told them this law is unconstitutional? I suppose Gordon Brown wants to one-up Tony Blair by, rather than just playing George Bush's puppet, actually doing things Bush wishes he could do but can't.
I can't imagine what logical reason there is for removing views, unless queries are removed too. Then I'd see where he's really going with this.
And removing stored procedures seems to be more accomidating to the way developers actually write rather than the way they should. Just think how great it will be when all of the processing on every web page is done by php rather than in the database!
I think you took that a bit more seriously than I meant. No need to question my relationship with my wife. But "call me" isn't interesting, no matter who says it. If I see my wife called I call back without a voicemail. If she said anything worth saying in the voicemail, she'll say it again.
I don't think the OpenAjax Alliance's poll reaches quite what would constitute the "web browser users" community. I'm also trying to figure out what the "particularly Internet Explorer" comment meant. Not that I read the article..
Incorrect method 1:
"Hi! This is *name*. Call me."
Unless you are the girlfriend/boyfriend. Then it is allowable.
I'm trying to think of something clever to say but I've got nothing, so I'll just say it. What the hell is wrong with you? When I see a voicemail from my wife I almost immediately push 7 to delete it. "The girlfriend" doesn't have anything to say, so it's never allowable. The fact that they leave a voicemail at all is the root of the problem.
No, it's not like that at all. It's like saying "Ice melts and gets stuff wet." Ice didn't do anything, water did. But now you know not to leave ice cubes sitting on your xbox. If you are downloading music, you need to look out for what appear to be mp3s.
The original post seems to be pretty carefully worded so as to not imply that mp3s are the problem. Where is anyone blaming mp3s?
I had to reread because after a once through it seemed there was no risk to me, as I don't download wma/asf. Then I realized it said the extension remains the same. Which makes sense -- I know Windows Media Player will open any supported media type by reading the headers, and double clicking on a file with a media extension will open WMP. So there's your problem -- WMP, not Windows.
Then I also remembered that I'm not using Windows anymore, so I'm safe after all.
Thank god the editorial comment called for a thesaurus, lest everyone pointlessly and annoyingly nitpicking about a term that perfectly communicates what the author intended should be marked off topic.
I'd like to know how long they were trying to determine the differences without considering wood density. Other than the shape and size, what other differences could there be?
Con'tulations, on not texting and on inventing your own contraction. I wish 6 billion people worldwide could say the same thing. What a horrible technology.
"I'm afraid too many users (and stores) over here are too lazy to try something new. It makes sense that supermarkets (the ad was from one) might try to sell XP rather than linux, so they can sell some other software that's needed."
It's not called lazy, it's called unproductive. When I sit down on my computer at work, they pay me to produce. When I sit down on my computer at home, I want to do something specific (my days of sitting at the computer for the sake of it are long past), not fight with an OS that isn't familiar to me. And that's exactly what I've been doing for the last couple weeks since I installed Ubuntu. I've spent hours trying to do extremely simple things. It's a learning curve, and for all of the trouble Windows has given me, for at least the forseeable future it's a whole lot more useful to me.
There are a whole bunch of things that make you think they'd be useful. "Oh man, that would be so cool if only I [insert something you don't do, and realize that even then it probably wouldn't be very useful]." I used it for a while, mostly for the weather and and to keep an eye on my network activity. Huge waste of space and now that I'm in Linux there are much better options.
For the most part, you get blocks that staticly show one unimportant thing, or tickers. Tickers aren't convenient. You have to wait to see what you are interested in, or actively watch it. If you're going to actively watch it, you might as well visit whatever site the RSS feed is coming from.
"Yeah, yeah, we hear this argument every time. But did you know most drug companies spend more on ADVERTISING then on actual research and development of new drugs?"
That's great. Did you now they also tell you all of the side effects of drugs in commercials? The stuff your god damn DOCTOR should be telling you. Did you know both facts (assuming they are true) are irrelevent in this conversation? (I won't bother asking for a source)
Think for a minute. Why would a company advertise? It's because they have determined the money the invest in advertising will make their product more profitable. More profitable means they can (CAN, I'm not claiming they do) sell it to more people for less.
It's business. If something isn't profitable, you don't market it. If people are paying $0 for drugs that you have to sell for $44 to recoup your investments, you're never going to develop it and $0 drug man isn't going to copy it. And I don't know how much money you make, but I bet you'd like to make more. You're just like those sleazy drug companies.
I can't quote any real numbers, and I won't claim name-brand drugs cost too much, but I'm certain that if no drugs sold for more than bargain basement prices, they would stop being developed. It costs virtually nothing to produce most drugs, and that's what you pay in Mexico where patents aren't honored. But the R&D costs for new drugs is enormous. A new drug has to be incredibly successfull to be profitable for the company that created it. Rip off their formula and produce it for dirt cheap and you can sell more and not need to worry recouping any costs. There have been drugs created that can cure awful, obscure diseases that have never seen the market because they wouldn't be profitable for this reason.
Like I said, I don't know what the profit margins are or how little they could sell their drugs for and still turn a profit. But someone has to feed the monster.
The DOD replaced reasonable passwords with Common Access Cards. The difference? Instead of having to find out someone's 8+ character alphanumeric password that changes every month, you need to have physical access to their card and need to know their 6 digit number that never changes. Meanwhile, everyone is forgetting their card in the reader when they go to lunch, so they can't get back on base -- but feel free to use it yourself in the meantime.
Are you serious? Do you think it would be dumb to compare a Dell laptop to an IBM because IBM uses Hitachi drives and a 32x CDROM instead of Seagate and 36x?
Since you can't figure it out, let me explain what aspects are similar. He was stealing next to nothing lots of times. Like the guy in Superman.
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Next thing you know, they'll be outlawing alcohol and chopping your hand off if you badmouth Allah. Think the British parliament would respond if I told them this law is unconstitutional? I suppose Gordon Brown wants to one-up Tony Blair by, rather than just playing George Bush's puppet, actually doing things Bush wishes he could do but can't.
I can't imagine what logical reason there is for removing views, unless queries are removed too. Then I'd see where he's really going with this.
And removing stored procedures seems to be more accomidating to the way developers actually write rather than the way they should. Just think how great it will be when all of the processing on every web page is done by php rather than in the database!
I think you took that a bit more seriously than I meant. No need to question my relationship with my wife. But "call me" isn't interesting, no matter who says it. If I see my wife called I call back without a voicemail. If she said anything worth saying in the voicemail, she'll say it again.
I don't think the OpenAjax Alliance's poll reaches quite what would constitute the "web browser users" community. I'm also trying to figure out what the "particularly Internet Explorer" comment meant. Not that I read the article..
Incorrect method 1:
"Hi! This is *name*. Call me."
Unless you are the girlfriend/boyfriend. Then it is allowable.
I'm trying to think of something clever to say but I've got nothing, so I'll just say it. What the hell is wrong with you? When I see a voicemail from my wife I almost immediately push 7 to delete it. "The girlfriend" doesn't have anything to say, so it's never allowable. The fact that they leave a voicemail at all is the root of the problem.
There are a number of people that replied with jokes, but also quite a few who clearly straight up thought... Ugh. How embarassing.
You must be referring to the 5 guys that spotted the dupe before you.
No, it's not like that at all. It's like saying "Ice melts and gets stuff wet." Ice didn't do anything, water did. But now you know not to leave ice cubes sitting on your xbox. If you are downloading music, you need to look out for what appear to be mp3s.
I had to reread because after a once through it seemed there was no risk to me, as I don't download wma/asf. Then I realized it said the extension remains the same. Which makes sense -- I know Windows Media Player will open any supported media type by reading the headers, and double clicking on a file with a media extension will open WMP. So there's your problem -- WMP, not Windows.
Then I also remembered that I'm not using Windows anymore, so I'm safe after all.
I'd guess there may be SOME off chance that these guys will have a geiger counter.
Sure, but isn't that how performance is improved? Through removing bottlenecks one at a time?
Thank god the editorial comment called for a thesaurus, lest everyone pointlessly and annoyingly nitpicking about a term that perfectly communicates what the author intended should be marked off topic.
What a bunch of nerds!!!
I'd like to know how long they were trying to determine the differences without considering wood density. Other than the shape and size, what other differences could there be?
Con'tulations, on not texting and on inventing your own contraction. I wish 6 billion people worldwide could say the same thing. What a horrible technology.
But you have to admit, it's incredibly relevent to the rest of the story. (I'm rolling my eyes.)
I am when I'm a rich white man.
"I'm afraid too many users (and stores) over here are too lazy to try something new. It makes sense that supermarkets (the ad was from one) might try to sell XP rather than linux, so they can sell some other software that's needed."
It's not called lazy, it's called unproductive. When I sit down on my computer at work, they pay me to produce. When I sit down on my computer at home, I want to do something specific (my days of sitting at the computer for the sake of it are long past), not fight with an OS that isn't familiar to me. And that's exactly what I've been doing for the last couple weeks since I installed Ubuntu. I've spent hours trying to do extremely simple things. It's a learning curve, and for all of the trouble Windows has given me, for at least the forseeable future it's a whole lot more useful to me.
There are a whole bunch of things that make you think they'd be useful. "Oh man, that would be so cool if only I [insert something you don't do, and realize that even then it probably wouldn't be very useful]." I used it for a while, mostly for the weather and and to keep an eye on my network activity. Huge waste of space and now that I'm in Linux there are much better options.
For the most part, you get blocks that staticly show one unimportant thing, or tickers. Tickers aren't convenient. You have to wait to see what you are interested in, or actively watch it. If you're going to actively watch it, you might as well visit whatever site the RSS feed is coming from.
How can it be bad if it has Q in the name? The only way I would want it more is if it was named "QoreX" or "XCore".
I hate it when people do things like that.
"Yeah, yeah, we hear this argument every time. But did you know most drug companies spend more on ADVERTISING then on actual research and development of new drugs?"
That's great. Did you now they also tell you all of the side effects of drugs in commercials? The stuff your god damn DOCTOR should be telling you. Did you know both facts (assuming they are true) are irrelevent in this conversation? (I won't bother asking for a source)
Think for a minute. Why would a company advertise? It's because they have determined the money the invest in advertising will make their product more profitable. More profitable means they can (CAN, I'm not claiming they do) sell it to more people for less.
It's business. If something isn't profitable, you don't market it. If people are paying $0 for drugs that you have to sell for $44 to recoup your investments, you're never going to develop it and $0 drug man isn't going to copy it. And I don't know how much money you make, but I bet you'd like to make more. You're just like those sleazy drug companies.
I can't quote any real numbers, and I won't claim name-brand drugs cost too much, but I'm certain that if no drugs sold for more than bargain basement prices, they would stop being developed. It costs virtually nothing to produce most drugs, and that's what you pay in Mexico where patents aren't honored. But the R&D costs for new drugs is enormous. A new drug has to be incredibly successfull to be profitable for the company that created it. Rip off their formula and produce it for dirt cheap and you can sell more and not need to worry recouping any costs. There have been drugs created that can cure awful, obscure diseases that have never seen the market because they wouldn't be profitable for this reason.
Like I said, I don't know what the profit margins are or how little they could sell their drugs for and still turn a profit. But someone has to feed the monster.
"(compared to strain your neck trying to watch Sex and the City on your phone...)."
Yeah, I hate it when that happens. Not that those are the two things I hate most in the world or anything.
The DOD replaced reasonable passwords with Common Access Cards. The difference? Instead of having to find out someone's 8+ character alphanumeric password that changes every month, you need to have physical access to their card and need to know their 6 digit number that never changes. Meanwhile, everyone is forgetting their card in the reader when they go to lunch, so they can't get back on base -- but feel free to use it yourself in the meantime.
Are you serious? Do you think it would be dumb to compare a Dell laptop to an IBM because IBM uses Hitachi drives and a 32x CDROM instead of Seagate and 36x?
Since you can't figure it out, let me explain what aspects are similar. He was stealing next to nothing lots of times. Like the guy in Superman.