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A better way to get free food at drive throughs which is pretty much always guaranteed to work is just to go back through after you order something, and say "I didn't get whatever." It can be a pretty big whatever too as they most likely won't remember/won't care. I've never had them say no before. Sometimes I've just pulled up to the window.. looked in the bag, and said "Oh.. there was supposed to be these things too".. and they've given them to me.
Even though we have better-than-32K resolution in the Analog photos in our passports, I bet that at least half The Slashdot readership's back hair is standing on end.
You must've missed the word "minimum" somewhere before the mention of 32k?
I made an operation iraqi freedom mod for quake 3. Jessica Lynch gets stabbed and shot, but then still manages to fight on. Your job is to finish her off!
Yeah, I'm sure people thought the automobile was a worthless idea. I'm sure people thought space travel was a worthless idea. I'm sure people though that a microwave was a worthless idea.
Yeah, you're right. Sifting through junk signals for space life is exactly on the same level of practicality as a machine that can carry you across land at 10 times the speed previously attainable. It's people like you that stifle innovation. Besides, the automobile is a perfect example of my point. If SETI were a private venture, then people like you with faith in things like that would be free to invest their own money in it. Instead of extorting money from the tax paying public. Then, you and your faith could sit on big piles of money someday smoking cigars and wearing monocles when it all just finally "paid off", which of course.. I'm sure it will.
Not sure what the standard FBI procedure is on something like this...
Damn Russians. If they lived in the USA they would be treated with the respect and courtesy a country full of apathetic weekend patriots deserves. None. Our government would do something like play up the effectiveness of the crypto in protecting personal conversations and important business secrets on one hand, while ordering a no-warrant backdoor into the system with the other. Of course these secrets would become public in 20 or so years in the name of "full disclosure" to give everyone a woody about their current administration, and the typical American would fail to see how those lies of the past would have any relevance in his life that present day. Stupid Russians.. I bet they wish they were free (to be played like puppets) like us.
Wall plates, contractors, planning -- feh. Do it the easy way: buy a $2.99 package of ethernet cable wall staples at Home Depot. Grab a hammer, and you can have cables routed all over your house within minutes.
Staples? Then you'd need a staple gun. I'm perfectly happy just having spools of cables running free around the house, behind furniture.. over tables. I think they are happier that way too.
What I am wondering (and I don't own a Tivo, and haven't looked into it much) is why isn't there an open program directory that developers can use to not have to subscribe to Tivos service? Seems easy enough. If you have a satellite receiver.. you're already pulling a directory of that type in some fashion. Haven't people figured out a way to record from your satellite receiver to hard drives?
A perfectly legitimate construction like "not inexpensive" falls under the categories of rhetoric and style. Rhetoric you can look up a dictionary, but I will point out that writing styles regularly take on many forms, from the poetic to the diplomatic and can be classified into any number of subcategories such as the legal and technical, all of which have guidelines or rules. Most often, writing styles are coloured by things such as personal preferences and cultural backgrounds. For example, Americans generally tend to write and speak plainly. By doing so they offer an appearance of honesty and forcefulness, but run the risk of sounding crude or even offensive, whereas the the average Brit is still taught [blah] [blah] [blah]...
Basically it comes down to wether or not you want what you are writing to be understood by the vast majority of the people who are reading it. You can dance around rules, style, and interpretation all day, but if in the end only half of your audience easily understood what you meant to convey, you failed in your job as a writer.
So.. he's wrapped his whole life around this game, someone made fun of him.. and now he's crying and threatening lawsuits? Maybe he should at the very least find a different game to play.. or do something else entirely.
Well if its totally non competitive why don't they charge twice what they do, and make twice as much?
I think what Adobe already charges for Photoshop pretty much proves your point, if I'm understand you correctly. I would like to see statistics on how many people actually pay for Photoshop, versus how many people use Photoshop. Heh.
That would only work if there was a monopoly on image editing applications......
I think Photoshop has something pretty close to that. Not because of unfair market practices though, but only because they make a product that is so superior to anything else, that they have no chance of competing.
No offense, but this would pay for about 10 days of a junior developer's time.
Please, hold me back from coding it!
Are you people for real?
That's why your job, your ego, and your SUV will all be sent off to some programmer in Asia. Give it a couple of years, you'll be back on the line at McDonalds.
$23 dollars per hour is a lot to someone who is currently unemployed, or doesn't have the time to work because they are studying. Given that there are a lot of people who do this kind of thing without any optimism about financial reward, this probably will get quite a good response.
I think most of the people responding with the cost/time concerns aren't any kind of programmers at all. The kind of programmers you need for something like are the kind that would probably be doing it anyway but now at a more hurried and energetic pace.
"I'm not touching that computer with even one finger until you can guarantee I will be making a civilized wage." That's what this hobby has come to.. how pathetic.
For reference: I can write both assembler and viruses (though I don't do the second) so I have a reasonable idea of what I am talking about. I am the only programmer out of 16 in our shop that can even write in assembler.
Hopefully you are the only one out of those 16 to get hit by a truck.
If it's just a matter of, "Oh, I can't play right now..." it's annoying, but not anywhere near the kind of pisser that "I spent 2 hours hanging out with my friends and guildmates, we camped some bandits, found a really nice weapon, then went and raided an enemy camp and burned their inn to the ground and killed their weaponsmith... Then POOF, it all got erased."
It might actually do you some good to get that 2 hours of your life "erased". Just pretend like it never happened. Optionally available with a memory implant of sexual encounters with members of the opposite sex, rolling around naked in piles of money, or even a dream vacation to Mars.:)
$.25/ea x # of users seems like an excellent punishment for the idiot(s) responsible.
How many users were directly harmed by this?
It sounds reasonable to me, but from a monetary standpoint it seems almost pointless to try and recover damages or even claim any serious monetary loss when you pay only a fairly small fee per month anyway. That would my point. But sure, make him dish out $2-3k and give it a rest.
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A better way to get free food at drive throughs which is pretty much always guaranteed to work is just to go back through after you order something, and say "I didn't get whatever." It can be a pretty big whatever too as they most likely won't remember/won't care. I've never had them say no before. Sometimes I've just pulled up to the window.. looked in the bag, and said "Oh.. there was supposed to be these things too".. and they've given them to me.
Even though we have better-than-32K resolution in the
Analog photos in our passports, I bet that at least half
The Slashdot readership's back hair is standing on end.
You must've missed the word "minimum" somewhere before the mention of 32k?
Oh, just like the...
badges we have to wear at work.
Yeah, only endorsed and enforced by governments, some of which were previously guaranteeing "freedom of travel."
It might not make a contender, but maybe some new kind of techno-porn genre?
I made an operation iraqi freedom mod for quake 3. Jessica Lynch gets stabbed and shot, but then still manages to fight on. Your job is to finish her off!
Yeah, I'm sure people thought the automobile was a worthless idea. I'm sure people thought space travel was a worthless idea. I'm sure people though that a microwave was a worthless idea.
Yeah, you're right. Sifting through junk signals for space life is exactly on the same level of practicality as a machine that can carry you across land at 10 times the speed previously attainable. It's people like you that stifle innovation. Besides, the automobile is a perfect example of my point. If SETI were a private venture, then people like you with faith in things like that would be free to invest their own money in it. Instead of extorting money from the tax paying public. Then, you and your faith could sit on big piles of money someday smoking cigars and wearing monocles when it all just finally "paid off", which of course.. I'm sure it will.
Not sure what the standard FBI procedure is on something like this...
Damn Russians. If they lived in the USA they would be treated with the respect and courtesy a country full of apathetic weekend patriots deserves. None. Our government would do something like play up the effectiveness of the crypto in protecting personal conversations and important business secrets on one hand, while ordering a no-warrant backdoor into the system with the other. Of course these secrets would become public in 20 or so years in the name of "full disclosure" to give everyone a woody about their current administration, and the typical American would fail to see how those lies of the past would have any relevance in his life that present day. Stupid Russians.. I bet they wish they were free (to be played like puppets) like us.
I thought this was a pretty worthless idea before I knew it was funded by taxpayer money.
How sad, and what's sadder is that this will be modded as a troll.
Wall plates, contractors, planning -- feh. Do it the easy way: buy a $2.99 package of ethernet cable wall staples at Home Depot. Grab a hammer, and you can have cables routed all over your house within minutes.
Staples? Then you'd need a staple gun. I'm perfectly happy just having spools of cables running free around the house, behind furniture.. over tables. I think they are happier that way too.
Your comments are especially funny considering your signature. I just realized that. :)
Why can't anyone make what consumers want?
What I am wondering (and I don't own a Tivo, and haven't looked into it much) is why isn't there an open program directory that developers can use to not have to subscribe to Tivos service? Seems easy enough. If you have a satellite receiver.. you're already pulling a directory of that type in some fashion. Haven't people figured out a way to record from your satellite receiver to hard drives?
A perfectly legitimate construction like "not inexpensive" falls under the categories of rhetoric and style. Rhetoric you can look up a dictionary, but I will point out that writing styles regularly take on many forms, from the poetic to the diplomatic and can be classified into any number of subcategories such as the legal and technical, all of which have guidelines or rules. Most often, writing styles are coloured by things such as personal preferences and cultural backgrounds. For example, Americans generally tend to write and speak plainly. By doing so they offer an appearance of honesty and forcefulness, but run the risk of sounding crude or even offensive, whereas the the average Brit is still taught [blah] [blah] [blah]...
Basically it comes down to wether or not you want what you are writing to be understood by the vast majority of the people who are reading it. You can dance around rules, style, and interpretation all day, but if in the end only half of your audience easily understood what you meant to convey, you failed in your job as a writer.
not-inexpensive = not-in-unaffordable, and for now not-unimpractical to even consider using just to record TV shows.
Ahh.. the white mans ebonics.
So.. he's wrapped his whole life around this game, someone made fun of him.. and now he's crying and threatening lawsuits? Maybe he should at the very least find a different game to play.. or do something else entirely.
Well if its totally non competitive why don't they charge twice what they do, and make twice as much?
I think what Adobe already charges for Photoshop pretty much proves your point, if I'm understand you correctly. I would like to see statistics on how many people actually pay for Photoshop, versus how many people use Photoshop. Heh.
That would only work if there was a monopoly on image editing applications......
I think Photoshop has something pretty close to that. Not because of unfair market practices though, but only because they make a product that is so superior to anything else, that they have no chance of competing.
You're telling me that Junior Programmers are making $144,000/year? Man where are you working? Got openings?
I think he was telling you that he's an idiot, who was talking out of his ass.
No offense, but this would pay for about 10 days of a junior developer's time.
Please, hold me back from coding it!
Are you people for real?
That's why your job, your ego, and your SUV will all be sent off to some programmer in Asia. Give it a couple of years, you'll be back on the line at McDonalds.
$23 dollars per hour is a lot to someone who is currently unemployed, or doesn't have the time to work because they are studying. Given that there are a lot of people who do this kind of thing without any optimism about financial reward, this probably will get quite a good response.
I think most of the people responding with the cost/time concerns aren't any kind of programmers at all. The kind of programmers you need for something like are the kind that would probably be doing it anyway but now at a more hurried and energetic pace.
"I'm not touching that computer with even one finger until you can guarantee I will be making a civilized wage." That's what this hobby has come to.. how pathetic.
Oh, right, I'm one of about a dozen Americans who actually speaks another language fluently. My bad.
"Toot, toot." Oh what's that? It's your own horn.
Some moderator doesn't know Monty Python. 'Tis a shame!
Maybe some moderators think that unfunny british drag queens aren't exactly top-notch humor. Imagine that.
For reference: I can write both assembler and viruses (though I don't do the second) so I have a reasonable idea of what I am talking about. I am the only programmer out of 16 in our shop that can even write in assembler.
Hopefully you are the only one out of those 16 to get hit by a truck.
*fart*
If it's just a matter of, "Oh, I can't play right now..." it's annoying, but not anywhere near the kind of pisser that "I spent 2 hours hanging out with my friends and guildmates, we camped some bandits, found a really nice weapon, then went and raided an enemy camp and burned their inn to the ground and killed their weaponsmith... Then POOF, it all got erased."
:)
It might actually do you some good to get that 2 hours of your life "erased". Just pretend like it never happened. Optionally available with a memory implant of sexual encounters with members of the opposite sex, rolling around naked in piles of money, or even a dream vacation to Mars.
$.25/ea x # of users seems like an excellent punishment for the idiot(s) responsible.
How many users were directly harmed by this?
It sounds reasonable to me, but from a monetary standpoint it seems almost pointless to try and recover damages or even claim any serious monetary loss when you pay only a fairly small fee per month anyway. That would my point. But sure, make him dish out $2-3k and give it a rest.