Like when my wife insists that we had an entire conversation about taking out the trash while I was playing a video game. You did, you know: like all other conversations with her, it consisted of her talking and you tacitly agreeing.:-)
Oh, really? And you know what a "bomb timing device looks like?" Methinks not. Get a few clues, eh? Resistors and switches, oddly enough, are part of rather a lot of electrical gadgets, like, say, cell phones and radios and computers. You're about as close to reality as the Boston cops who thought a Lite-Brite display was a bomb timer, because, well, all the bombs on TV have giant LED countdown timers.
The correct question is: do you want a document editor or a page layout tool? WYSIWYG is strictly for the latter. If you want to write a document, worrying about layout and format is absolutely not what you should be doing. Finish writing, and then hand it off to a formatting/layout tool.
Today I learned that old people and poor people don't use snail mail. Thanks for the lesson.
Reading fail. The (obvious) point the OP was making is that the vast majority of snailmail is catalogs and other junk mail, all of which is carried at a far cheaper per-item rate than first-class letters. Hence your "old..and poor people" are subsidizing the corporations.
No, really: who says flying has to be cheap? If ticket costs skyrocket, what might happen? Here's a couple possibilities. 1) Business use of video conferencing goes up. 2) People learn to take vacations nearer to home. 3) Buses and trains handle all the short-haul traffic (as it is right now, it's faster to go Boston-NY by Acela than by air when you factor in travel to/from airports and pre-board time). 4) More sunny days due to reduced quantity of contrails.
Ok, that last one is a stretch. But I see no reason to exempt airline corporations from the rules of Economics 101.
People don't like Arnold Schoenberg's "music" because it's just utter dogshit.
You could, and "people" do, replace "Arnold Schoenberg" with nearly any composer, music genre, performing soloist or group. You need to understand the difference between your personal taste and that of others. De gustibus non disputandam. What is not up for debate is whether Schoenberg was a brilliant and groundbreaking composer. As were, say, Stravinsky, Richard Strauss, Wagner, Tschaikowsky, Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn, *Bach,.. . And, for that matter, T. Monk, M. Jagger, E. Hagen, and J. Cash, to pick a few names out of a hat.
So Amazon's got a special hiring push on just for veterans? Sounds like Affirmative Action! (horrors). Can't wait to see some non-vet sue for reverse discrimination on this one!
Raising taxes means everyone pays for more gas, also those only using public transportation.
How do you figure? Even our politicians could figure out (if not being bribed by ExxonMobileTexacoEnron) how to levy one tax on commercial sale of gas and another on government-controlled public transit system's purchase of same.
We will continue to stay laser focused on product innovation
Actually, because laser beams have a gaussian intensity cross-section, they are a pain in the ass to focus. He'd get a much tighter focus spot with plain old regular light (or even better, UV, since the diffraction spot scales with wavelength).
I still remember buying a Marantz stereo amp back in 1973 (you know, before the dawn of time), and being thrilled to find that they packed a complete schematic with the unit. That's right: every resistor, cap, trimpot, and so on called right out in a drawing. While I don't necessarily expect board schematics, or even detailed interior wiring diagrams, to accompany a computer, I do think the amount of technical info made publically available could be a lot greater than it is today.
From both personal experience and the number of review page threads, I can tell you Toshiba is by far the worst when it comes to honoring warranty and repair claims. They are incredibly awful. Meanwhile, so what. Let's all go Streisand on their manuals.
Your response is both incorrect and naive beyond belief. I suggest you start out by reading any of the dozens of psych studies which have shown that any attempt to teach a fool that his beliefs are wrong, or founded upon errors, will completely fail. Next, look up the difference between "judge" and "respect." And finally, understanding why someone rides w/o a helmet does not in any way mean they are "100% justified in their belief." Unless, of course, you insist on that hopelessly foolish premise that a person can take something on faith alone and that will justify an action. People who operate on faith have no assumptions (in the scientifically useful meaning of the word), so there is no logic and no way to point out flaws.
Here's a flaw in your logic: I can fully fathom the causes of these morons actions. I even understand why they come to their conclusions (even though the answer is usually 'because someone told me...").
I know of many sub-50-yr-olds who hate driving and would welcome the chance to buy a self-driving car. Aside from the absolute fact that these cars will be statistically far safer than most or all human-driven cars (there have been a dozen flamefests on that topic in previous/. threads), being able to read the paper, text your BFF, or just plain nap on the way to work sounds great to me.
Where are all the aliens? They're just like us - stuck in their gravity wells trying to find economic ways to travel vast distances quickly, as well as trying to replicate their planet's environment on a spaceship. We already know that life needs volatile chemicals to exist - otherwise space would be teeming with life.
Well, there's an awful lot of XeeLees out there, but they prefer living near galactic cores.
My 'creds' : coding since 1968, not as a career or software jock, but for fun and to support my research/analysis as student and engineer (in that order:-) ). While you don't have to be a total c++/java/perl expert to do engineering, you sure as heck have to be able to move on from slide rules and TI-88's to actual programming if you want to be a productive engineer. I'm 57 and continue to enjoy writing stuff in R (as well as explaining to people why LabView is a recipe for disaster if you try to apply it to large projects). Then again, I like abstract algebra and topology, so I suppose I'm an outlier (yeah, I do stats too).
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Like when my wife insists that we had an entire conversation about taking out the trash while I was playing a video game. :-)
You did, you know: like all other conversations with her, it consisted of her talking and you tacitly agreeing.
Oh, really? And you know what a "bomb timing device looks like?" Methinks not.
Get a few clues, eh? Resistors and switches, oddly enough, are part of rather a lot of electrical gadgets, like, say, cell phones and radios and computers. You're about as close to reality as the Boston cops who thought a Lite-Brite display was a bomb timer, because, well, all the bombs on TV have giant LED countdown timers.
The correct question is: do you want a document editor or a page layout tool? WYSIWYG is strictly for the latter. If you want to write a document, worrying about layout and format is absolutely not what you should be doing. Finish writing, and then hand it off to a formatting/layout tool.
Today I learned that old people and poor people don't use snail mail. Thanks for the lesson.
Reading fail. The (obvious) point the OP was making is that the vast majority of snailmail is catalogs and other junk mail, all of which is carried at a far cheaper per-item rate than first-class letters. Hence your "old ..and poor people" are subsidizing the corporations.
No, really: who says flying has to be cheap? If ticket costs skyrocket, what might happen? Here's a couple possibilities. /from airports and pre-board time).
1) Business use of video conferencing goes up.
2) People learn to take vacations nearer to home.
3) Buses and trains handle all the short-haul traffic (as it is right now, it's faster to go Boston-NY by Acela than by air when you factor in travel to
4) More sunny days due to reduced quantity of contrails.
Ok, that last one is a stretch. But I see no reason to exempt airline corporations from the rules of Economics 101.
People don't like Arnold Schoenberg's "music" because it's just utter dogshit.
You could, and "people" do, replace "Arnold Schoenberg" with nearly any composer, music genre, performing soloist or group. You need to understand the difference between your personal taste and that of others. De gustibus non disputandam.
What is not up for debate is whether Schoenberg was a brilliant and groundbreaking composer. As were, say, Stravinsky, Richard Strauss, Wagner, Tschaikowsky, Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn, *Bach,.. . And, for that matter, T. Monk, M. Jagger, E. Hagen, and J. Cash, to pick a few names out of a hat.
The real story behind the movie is even more interesting. Escalante did a ton of work to change the curriculum at all grade levels, for one thing. Check out one account : http://reason.com/archives/2002/07/01/stand-and-deliver-revisited
omg etc. etc. - little did I suspect that invalid html tags would be removed from the Subject line.
Anyway, just to be explicit: parent post (mine) is 100% sarcasm, plus whatever legally amount of toxic chemicals leached from the container.
So Amazon's got a special hiring push on just for veterans? Sounds like Affirmative Action! (horrors). Can't wait to see some non-vet sue for reverse discrimination on this one!
Raising taxes means everyone pays for more gas, also those only using public transportation.
How do you figure? Even our politicians could figure out (if not being bribed by ExxonMobileTexacoEnron) how to levy one tax on commercial sale of gas and another on government-controlled public transit system's purchase of same.
We will continue to stay laser focused on product innovation
Actually, because laser beams have a gaussian intensity cross-section, they are a pain in the ass to focus. He'd get a much tighter focus spot with plain old regular light (or even better, UV, since the diffraction spot scales with wavelength).
So there.
It's all fun and games until you start trying to harvest Cthulhu. Then what?
I still remember buying a Marantz stereo amp back in 1973 (you know, before the dawn of time), and being thrilled to find that they packed a complete schematic with the unit. That's right: every resistor, cap, trimpot, and so on called right out in a drawing.
While I don't necessarily expect board schematics, or even detailed interior wiring diagrams, to accompany a computer, I do think the amount of technical info made publically available could be a lot greater than it is today.
From both personal experience and the number of review page threads, I can tell you Toshiba is by far the worst when it comes to honoring warranty and repair claims. They are incredibly awful.
Meanwhile, so what. Let's all go Streisand on their manuals.
Just goes to show there are outliers in every group. You'll be a lot happier on Yahoo Comments than here.
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Your response is both incorrect and naive beyond belief. I suggest you start out by reading any of the dozens of psych studies which have shown that any attempt to teach a fool that his beliefs are wrong, or founded upon errors, will completely fail. Next, look up the difference between "judge" and "respect." And finally, understanding why someone rides w/o a helmet does not in any way mean they are "100% justified in their belief." Unless, of course, you insist on that hopelessly foolish premise that a person can take something on faith alone and that will justify an action. People who operate on faith have no assumptions (in the scientifically useful meaning of the word), so there is no logic and no way to point out flaws.
Here's a flaw in your logic: I can fully fathom the causes of these morons actions. I even understand why they come to their conclusions (even though the answer is usually 'because someone told me...").
I was thinking more like spray paint, glues, industrial solvents, and heavy metals.
You just HAD to include loud rock&roll bands there, eh?
Would you care to elaborate? We should all respect Scientology or the Flat Earth Society?
Subject line says it all. This guy is going to leave one day and the poor schlub who comes in next is going to need serious PTSD therapy.
Absolute zero is cooler than outer space.
It's colder, too. {rim shot}
or more likely: "Since you can prove you voted ${candidate}, I'll give you ${thing}"
Shouldn't that be "...I'll give you ${$$}" :-)
I know of many sub-50-yr-olds who hate driving and would welcome the chance to buy a self-driving car. Aside from the absolute fact that these cars will be statistically far safer than most or all human-driven cars (there have been a dozen flamefests on that topic in previous /. threads), being able to read the paper, text your BFF, or just plain nap on the way to work sounds great to me.
Where are all the aliens? They're just like us - stuck in their gravity wells trying to find economic ways to travel vast distances quickly, as well as trying to replicate their planet's environment on a spaceship. We already know that life needs volatile chemicals to exist - otherwise space would be teeming with life.
Well, there's an awful lot of XeeLees out there, but they prefer living near galactic cores.
My 'creds' : coding since 1968, not as a career or software jock, but for fun and to support my research/analysis as student and engineer (in that order :-) ).
While you don't have to be a total c++/java/perl expert to do engineering, you sure as heck have to be able to move on from slide rules and TI-88's to actual programming if you want to be a productive engineer.
I'm 57 and continue to enjoy writing stuff in R (as well as explaining to people why LabView is a recipe for disaster if you try to apply it to large projects). Then again, I like abstract algebra and topology, so I suppose I'm an outlier (yeah, I do stats too).
Pix or it didn't happen.