Let me answer your question with a question of my own, and perhaps with a little thought you can see the light. I videotape my kids, then edit the footage and send tapes to grandparents, etc. How, in your no-DVD world, do you propose I do that?
Yes, I know top posting is a sin and I've searched and read numerous sites where the reasons it's a sin is dicussed. Yet I remain a top poster because it makes more sense. If you're following a thread it is easier to keep up with all the responses on the top. If you're looking at a message standing alone then sure, posting to the bottom would be the way to go, but who reads like that?
Interestingly enough, looking at my posts from 1993 (via Google) I was a bottom poster back in the day. Don't know when I switched...
I'm so glad the "do you pronounce GIF as giff or jiff" debate will soon be replaced by the "do you pronounce PNG as ping or p-n-g" debate. On another topic, I always enjoy the "how do you pronounce Linux, Lie-nux because Linus is not pronounced Linnus or as Linnux" argument, though that has mostly gone away now.
How eating in restaurants is different from eating at home:
Restaurants:
Charge you for your food, drink, and to have someone carry it out to you.
No shoes, no shirt, no service.
Restrict how many helpings you have.
Food handled out of your sight by persons of unknown background.
Limit the number of people eating off one plate.
Tell you where to sit.
Only allow certain items to be consumed.
Do not allow patrons to bring in food from outside the restaurant.
Have bathrooms used by multiple people simultaneously
Home:
While food is prepaid it is overall less expensive.
No shoes, no problem.
No shirt, no problem (women only - that's my house rule)
Eat as much as you want.
Come, watch the cook...you're among friends here!
Go ahead, share a plate! Eat off the table or floor even!
Sit, stand, who cares? Eat in front of the TV if you want.
Eat whatever is in the house.
Bring your own food? Sure!
Multiple single seat bathrooms ensure privacy
So there you have it folks...clearly eating at home is superior to eating out. Therefore I propose that the new online spelling of restaurant be "re$taurant" to highlight the restrictive nature of re$taurant$.
Those releases the submitter cited are for the parents. Just because something is about kids doesn't mean it's for kids. I'm quite sure the target audience for the diaper ads in Parents magazine doesn't include my infant son.
But surely the submitter will go to heaven, for not only has he submitted a story about the abuses perpetuated on the common man by a large entity (Microsoft, Amazon, US government), he added his own attack to the submission. Well done, faithful servant. Perhaps you can also dig up some incriminating press releases at Microsoft. Better yet, attack the evil entities where it hurts...the wallet! Did you know that OSDN is "the No. 1 network for delivering visitors who have shopped for or purchased software online in the past 6 months"? Go get 'em tiger! Take down OSDN and then post your deeds here...errr...well...I'm sure we'll hear about them.
Interesting. When I click on the link in my queue to go to the title's page the "rent" button reads, "unavailable". Oh well, I guess I'll have to go elsewhere for my softcore porn:)
Netflix has to have some scheme to assign priority (assuming his analysis is correct). Is this unfair? I don't hear anyone complaining about promotions where the first x months of a service are free or discounted. How is preferential queuing any different?
Anyway, based on my own experience with Netflix I don't see such a pattern. We go through a couple of DVDs a week and currently have 88 movies in queue (both old and new movies). The only waits I have are:
- Space 1999: Vol 1 (short)
- Run Silent, Run Deep (short)
- From Dusk Til Dawn (long)
- The Story of O (very long...heh)
- Metropolis (short)
Profit indicates success of the marketing plan, not the software development effort. It doesn't matter if you're coding for love or for money, there are some things that apply to both. Take a look at process and product. How is the process? Are there goals and are they being met? How is testing coverage and how often is testing being done? Is the code maintainable? Take a look at the end product. Does it do what it's supposed to without too many bugs? Are issues being addressed in a timely manner? Most importantly, how well does it fit the need for which it was designed?
I knew you'd hate me for my comment. That's how Anna ended up with my sweatshirt...she hates that you're so predictable and temperamental...goes with being insecure I suppose. You're too high-maintenance.
Meanwhile, Charlie, who's got a little tiny company called Global Technologies Ltd, is productizing the IP under the code name DASCOA, short for Discovery and Connectivity Oriented Architecture, which is basically what it does using XML.
So, the IP does architecture? And that's not a "code name", it's an acronym.
The US Office of Patents and Trademarks pored over his application simply forever, comparing it to other like-minded patents.
Patents have minds? Perhaps she means applications submitted by like-minded applicants. One last then I'm done. Can you say "run on sentence"? I knew you could.
It's all about the automated discovery and connection of Web services though the word "Web" was never used in the filing since the Web didn't exist back then outside of research circles but 518 describes how to connect to a service using TCP/IP so it doesn't matter, it anticipates Web services.
Doesn't this rag have editors? I wrote a product review for Java Developer's Journal, also put out by Sys-Con Media, and the editor there came back with changes, then they shipped me a pdf proof to review. Apparently LB&T isn't so rigorous.
Self recharging? Better than that! If you factor in the vibrations of the women themselves you could theoretically power a small city.
Don't know why parent was modded as troll, though. Offtopic maybe, but really not trolling. Chicks dig vibrators...ever see that Sex in the City episode about the rabbit vibrator one of the women gets addicted to? Funnily enough, drugstore.com sells it. I like the admonition, "Do not use on unexplained calf pain". Yeah, I don't think that's where it's going to be used...
Please kill me now. It was bad enough when people started to use "google" as a verb. Today, though, I saw the word "blogspace". I cannot imagine living in a world where this term is used regularly, nor do I want to know what words will come next.
I prefer grid.org to grub.org. There the cycles are going to cancer or smallpox research. Currently over 2 million machines are participating.
Altruism has its place, but since I'm more likely to die of cancer than of not having the complete www indexed I think I'll be selfish and work towards a cure for something that may affect me.
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Let me answer your question with a question of my own, and perhaps with a little thought you can see the light. I videotape my kids, then edit the footage and send tapes to grandparents, etc. How, in your no-DVD world, do you propose I do that?
Wow, the subject says it all. The submitter gets off on barcodes a little too much I think...
No it wouldn't.
Yes, I know top posting is a sin and I've searched and read numerous sites where the reasons it's a sin is dicussed. Yet I remain a top poster because it makes more sense. If you're following a thread it is easier to keep up with all the responses on the top. If you're looking at a message standing alone then sure, posting to the bottom would be the way to go, but who reads like that?
Interestingly enough, looking at my posts from 1993 (via Google) I was a bottom poster back in the day. Don't know when I switched...
I'm so glad the "do you pronounce GIF as giff or jiff" debate will soon be replaced by the "do you pronounce PNG as ping or p-n-g" debate. On another topic, I always enjoy the "how do you pronounce Linux, Lie-nux because Linus is not pronounced Linnus or as Linnux" argument, though that has mostly gone away now.
Just be sure to keep that Windows install CD around for when they want you to remove Redhat...
Dude, you have a wife now. Can't you think of something better to do with your time?
Apparently the restaurant industry has a lot of mod points today :)
What the hell, I've got karma to burn. Flame on!
Restaurants:
Charge you for your food, drink, and to have someone carry it out to you.
No shoes, no shirt, no service.
Restrict how many helpings you have.
Food handled out of your sight by persons of unknown background.
Limit the number of people eating off one plate.
Tell you where to sit.
Only allow certain items to be consumed.
Do not allow patrons to bring in food from outside the restaurant.
Have bathrooms used by multiple people simultaneously
Home:
While food is prepaid it is overall less expensive.
No shoes, no problem.
No shirt, no problem (women only - that's my house rule)
Eat as much as you want.
Come, watch the cook...you're among friends here!
Go ahead, share a plate! Eat off the table or floor even!
Sit, stand, who cares? Eat in front of the TV if you want.
Eat whatever is in the house.
Bring your own food? Sure!
Multiple single seat bathrooms ensure privacy
So there you have it folks...clearly eating at home is superior to eating out. Therefore I propose that the new online spelling of restaurant be "re$taurant" to highlight the restrictive nature of re$taurant$.
Those releases the submitter cited are for the parents. Just because something is about kids doesn't mean it's for kids. I'm quite sure the target audience for the diaper ads in Parents magazine doesn't include my infant son.
But surely the submitter will go to heaven, for not only has he submitted a story about the abuses perpetuated on the common man by a large entity (Microsoft, Amazon, US government), he added his own attack to the submission. Well done, faithful servant. Perhaps you can also dig up some incriminating press releases at Microsoft. Better yet, attack the evil entities where it hurts...the wallet! Did you know that OSDN is "the No. 1 network for delivering visitors who have shopped for or purchased software online in the past 6 months"? Go get 'em tiger! Take down OSDN and then post your deeds here...errr...well...I'm sure we'll hear about them.
Power to the people!
Interesting. When I click on the link in my queue to go to the title's page the "rent" button reads, "unavailable". Oh well, I guess I'll have to go elsewhere for my softcore porn :)
Nah...it was probably your Linux t-shirt...
Netflix has to have some scheme to assign priority (assuming his analysis is correct). Is this unfair? I don't hear anyone complaining about promotions where the first x months of a service are free or discounted. How is preferential queuing any different?
Anyway, based on my own experience with Netflix I don't see such a pattern. We go through a couple of DVDs a week and currently have 88 movies in queue (both old and new movies). The only waits I have are:
- Space 1999: Vol 1 (short)
- Run Silent, Run Deep (short)
- From Dusk Til Dawn (long)
- The Story of O (very long...heh)
- Metropolis (short)
Thanks for sharing your travel plans. Now I can get back to sleep.
Thank you for that post...I needed a good laugh. For that effort I proclaim you the winner of today's funniest post award. Your check is in the mail.
Profit indicates success of the marketing plan, not the software development effort. It doesn't matter if you're coding for love or for money, there are some things that apply to both. Take a look at process and product. How is the process? Are there goals and are they being met? How is testing coverage and how often is testing being done? Is the code maintainable? Take a look at the end product. Does it do what it's supposed to without too many bugs? Are issues being addressed in a timely manner? Most importantly, how well does it fit the need for which it was designed?
I knew you'd hate me for my comment. That's how Anna ended up with my sweatshirt...she hates that you're so predictable and temperamental...goes with being insecure I suppose. You're too high-maintenance.
Don't see any anti-american sentiment. Perhaps you should re-read it. Now go back to your spanish homework.
By the way, could you tell Anna to return my sweatshirt? It's one of my favorites and I want it back. She'll know which one.
Hell, I've been coding for years and you couldn't teach me perl in 3 month :)
For those that want to see the car, the auction is here.
Now that's a car...damn. I wouldn't worry about the #10 cylinder...it still has 11 others.
It sounds like something lifted off USENET.
Meanwhile, Charlie, who's got a little tiny company called Global Technologies Ltd, is productizing the IP under the code name DASCOA, short for Discovery and Connectivity Oriented Architecture, which is basically what it does using XML.
So, the IP does architecture? And that's not a "code name", it's an acronym.
The US Office of Patents and Trademarks pored over his application simply forever, comparing it to other like-minded patents.
Patents have minds? Perhaps she means applications submitted by like-minded applicants. One last then I'm done. Can you say "run on sentence"? I knew you could.
It's all about the automated discovery and connection of Web services though the word "Web" was never used in the filing since the Web didn't exist back then outside of research circles but 518 describes how to connect to a service using TCP/IP so it doesn't matter, it anticipates Web services.
Doesn't this rag have editors? I wrote a product review for Java Developer's Journal, also put out by Sys-Con Media, and the editor there came back with changes, then they shipped me a pdf proof to review. Apparently LB&T isn't so rigorous.
That's what I suspected. Interesting. Different strokes for different folks, or something like that.
Self recharging? Better than that! If you factor in the vibrations of the women themselves you could theoretically power a small city.
Don't know why parent was modded as troll, though. Offtopic maybe, but really not trolling. Chicks dig vibrators...ever see that Sex in the City episode about the rabbit vibrator one of the women gets addicted to? Funnily enough, drugstore.com sells it. I like the admonition, "Do not use on unexplained calf pain". Yeah, I don't think that's where it's going to be used...
Please kill me now. It was bad enough when people started to use "google" as a verb. Today, though, I saw the word "blogspace". I cannot imagine living in a world where this term is used regularly, nor do I want to know what words will come next.
Thank you for your time.
I prefer grid.org to grub.org. There the cycles are going to cancer or smallpox research. Currently over 2 million machines are participating.
Altruism has its place, but since I'm more likely to die of cancer than of not having the complete www indexed I think I'll be selfish and work towards a cure for something that may affect me.