Is there ever going to be a time when the pols realize that throwing massive tax breaks at corporations is a bad idea for the state/city/country they're supposed to be representing?
And BTW everyone in MA and NY knows about Schilling, the bloody sock, the piano in the lake, and a record-setting choke which led to the end of an 86-year curse.
All brontosauruses are thin at one end, much much thicker in the middle and then thin again at the far end. Hey! I'm an apatosaurus, you insensitive clod!
Just for the record: I've seen plenty of apps (especiallly from those morons in the "computer-based training" business) where the little buttons that are empty circles until you click them to select turn out to be exclusive for one page, and then nonexclusive on the next. "Exclusive" is a true radio button, in that only one can be selected-- clicking one turns the last selection "off" -- and nonexclusive means you can do the infamous "A only -- B only -- A and C -- A and B " answer selection. So basically, as a couple posters pointed out, failure to standardize the meaning and function of an icon is the problem, not the icon itself.
[snip]Now television...that's the biggest intellect-killer out there. At least there's interaction when browsing or surfing the internet (for example, posting on/.), albeit minimal.[snip]
I call my girlfriend modal since, when she calls or comes by, I have to stop everything else I'm doing until she's finished with me. In that case, shouldn't you call her "horny" ?
I'm not that old, but I would hazard a guess that the aircraft industry in the 50's was as hot or better than IT is today.
It's not fair in a relative sense, and we can safely argue amongst our peers the value of our work, but the upper middle class complaining about padded shackles is a lot like the CEO of BP wanting his life back. OK, then, try another analogy. Look at the lifetime contract rules in place in MLB until Curt Flood finally got them nullified. Look at the difference in player salaries before and after. Whether or not they deserve the money isn't the point here: it's who gets to keep the money (hint: owners) generated by the franchise.
And in the other direction as well -- The Sirens of Titan. There are lots of stories with direct brain-stimulation hooks (so to speak). All the same, I'll let Caol Ila brighten my days:-)
the man with a pistol on his hip is not the one you need to worry about....spoken by a man with a pistol on his hip....These aren't the people with pistols on their hips you are looking for. They can go about their business.
Not that I support the Navy (?? what? why Navy?) doing this stuff, or paying so much, but there is possible precedent. It's been pretty clear for a long time that anything you throw out in the trash is no longer your possession. So, before you toss that old game console, take a hammer to the memory bits.
I work at one of those places and I'm one of those IT control freaks. There's a good reason for it - we don't have the time or the people to troubleshoot five different browsers. Just because a user prefers Chrome over IE doesn't mean they know how to use it. Even the simple stuff, like displaying a PDF in a browser.
Lesson Number One for you IT people: Don't confuse "support" with "allow." Granted 95% of your users are too damn stupid to learn how to open two tabs, let alone use ctrl-C ctrl-V, so tell them if they choose to use FF or Chrome it's their own funeral. For those of us who DO know how to use software, leave our choices the fuck alone.
Feathers exist for the purpose of flying. (snip) If evolution is real, then feathers evolved for flying.
Ostrich, emu, penguin... Penguins most certainly do fly. They just do it underwater. That said, don't confuse present-day usage with the twisted paths evolution has followed to get here.
Why are all you turkeys arguing about an English translation? It's not the same (literally or idiomatically as the original Greek/whatever language it was first written in. If you can't read the original, it's probably a sign from God that you're not worthy of enlightenment anyway.
Says Mr. 6534/. account. Bad news for you: This is social media, too. And in case you didn't look, there's the option to put all sorts of crud in your profile, plus non-blocked people can scan every comment you ever posted.
So if you want my password, get a warrant. And if you can't get a warrant because you're not law enforcement, who the hell are you to be asking in the first place? In a rational country that might work. Sadly, that's exactly the argument against drug screening of all job applicants, and so far it has stopped exactly zero employers from requiring drug screening.
I was just telling my kids about where saying "ditto" came from the other day. We settled on "a sort of copy machine" Oh, if only there were some sort of website with historical information...
Not that I needed to go to wikipedia to be able to inform you that the typographic "ditto mark" precedes the ditto(TM) machine by a zillion years or so.
I wanted a distinctive, non-banal, and non-repetitive ringtone, so I installed the complete modem dial-up sequence, from pulse tones to final handshake. It's long enough that I never hear it repeat before answering.
And for some reason my wife thinks I'm a nerd (but she knew that when she married a grad physics student).
You can't compare the world today with any time in history. Humans never had the capability to destroy the whole world. Well, considering that up until a couple hundred years ago, hardly anyone ever travelled or moved more than a couple miles from the town in which he was born, the subjective meaning of "destroy the whole world" becomes "destroy everyone in my town." As our worldview grew, so did our weapons.
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Is there ever going to be a time when the pols realize that throwing massive tax breaks at corporations is a bad idea for the state/city/country they're supposed to be representing?
And BTW everyone in MA and NY knows about Schilling, the bloody sock, the piano in the lake, and a record-setting choke which led to the end of an 86-year curse.
All brontosauruses are thin at one end, much much thicker in the middle and then thin again at the far end.
Hey! I'm an apatosaurus, you insensitive clod!
We'll destroy the PHAs with our Super Energy Ray.
And that's the true origin of the PHASER !
Just for the record: I've seen plenty of apps (especiallly from those morons in the "computer-based training" business) where the little buttons that are empty circles until you click them to select turn out to be exclusive for one page, and then nonexclusive on the next. "Exclusive" is a true radio button, in that only one can be selected-- clicking one turns the last selection "off" -- and nonexclusive means you can do the infamous "A only -- B only -- A and C -- A and B " answer selection. So basically, as a couple posters pointed out, failure to standardize the meaning and function of an icon is the problem, not the icon itself.
[snip]Now television...that's the biggest intellect-killer out there. At least there's interaction when browsing or surfing the internet (for example, posting on /.), albeit minimal.[snip]
tl;dr :-)
In this seafloor habitat dwelling we obey the laws of thermal dynamics!
As opposed to the laws of *athermal* dynamics?
Note to the woosh-impaired: "thermodynamics"
I call my girlfriend modal since, when she calls or comes by, I have to stop everything else I'm doing until she's finished with me.
In that case, shouldn't you call her "horny" ?
I see ~300 comments and nobody has gone the route of "first she eats my meat, then we reproduce" ? What happened to all the /. pervs today anyway?
I'm not that old, but I would hazard a guess that the aircraft industry in the 50's was as hot or better than IT is today.
It's not fair in a relative sense, and we can safely argue amongst our peers the value of our work, but the upper middle class complaining about padded shackles is a lot like the CEO of BP wanting his life back.
OK, then, try another analogy. Look at the lifetime contract rules in place in MLB until Curt Flood finally got them nullified. Look at the difference in player salaries before and after. Whether or not they deserve the money isn't the point here: it's who gets to keep the money (hint: owners) generated by the franchise.
My thoughts exactly. I remember the Digi-Comp as my first foray into machine-language programming :-)
And in the other direction as well -- The Sirens of Titan. :-)
There are lots of stories with direct brain-stimulation hooks (so to speak). All the same, I'll let Caol Ila brighten my days
goggles?
...they do nothing....
the man with a pistol on his hip is not the one you need to worry about. ...spoken by a man with a pistol on his hip. ...These aren't the people with pistols on their hips you are looking for. They can go about their business.
This is about as interesting as posting every document related to every person who emigrated from w00tdorf, Germany to yayoubetcha, Minnesota in 1890.
Not that I support the Navy (?? what? why Navy?) doing this stuff, or paying so much, but there is possible precedent. It's been pretty clear for a long time that anything you throw out in the trash is no longer your possession. So, before you toss that old game console, take a hammer to the memory bits.
I work at one of those places and I'm one of those IT control freaks. There's a good reason for it - we don't have the time or the people to troubleshoot five different browsers. Just because a user prefers Chrome over IE doesn't mean they know how to use it. Even the simple stuff, like displaying a PDF in a browser.
Lesson Number One for you IT people: Don't confuse
"support" with "allow." Granted 95% of your users are too damn stupid to learn how to open two tabs, let alone use ctrl-C ctrl-V, so tell them if they choose to use FF or Chrome it's their own funeral. For those of us who DO know how to use software, leave our choices the fuck alone.
Feathers exist for the purpose of flying. (snip) If evolution is real, then feathers evolved for flying.
Ostrich, emu, penguin...
Penguins most certainly do fly. They just do it underwater. That said, don't confuse present-day usage with the twisted paths evolution has followed to get here.
Why are all you turkeys arguing about an English translation? It's not the same (literally or idiomatically as the original Greek/whatever language it was first written in.
If you can't read the original, it's probably a sign from God that you're not worthy of enlightenment anyway.
I believe the correct title should be "Self-titled HDTV expert Alfred gives poor advice."
Says Mr. 6534 /. account. Bad news for you: This is social media, too.
And in case you didn't look, there's the option to put all sorts of crud in your profile, plus non-blocked people can scan every comment you ever posted.
So if you want my password, get a warrant. And if you can't get a warrant because you're not law enforcement, who the hell are you to be asking in the first place?
In a rational country that might work. Sadly, that's exactly the argument against drug screening of all job applicants, and so far it has stopped exactly zero employers from requiring drug screening.
Excuse me, I meant cla$$ic
Didn't you mean clbuttic?
I was just telling my kids about where saying "ditto" came from the other day. We settled on "a sort of copy machine"
Oh, if only there were some sort of website with historical information...
Not that I needed to go to wikipedia to be able to inform you that the typographic "ditto mark" precedes the ditto(TM) machine by a zillion years or so.
I wanted a distinctive, non-banal, and non-repetitive ringtone, so I installed the complete modem dial-up sequence, from pulse tones to final handshake. It's long enough that I never hear it repeat before answering.
And for some reason my wife thinks I'm a nerd (but she knew that when she married a grad physics student).
You can't compare the world today with any time in history. Humans never had the capability to destroy the whole world.
Well, considering that up until a couple hundred years ago, hardly anyone ever travelled or moved more than a couple miles from the town in which he was born, the subjective meaning of "destroy the whole world" becomes "destroy everyone in my town." As our worldview grew, so did our weapons.