this kind of idiocy pisses me off. I have always had weird browsers on cellphones and other devices... I would rather see a partially broken page than a stuffed shirt jackass page telling me to install a browser that CANNOT be installed on my device or work laptop.
so the specs are like this: it must be like a computer, but not as functional, and roughly as expensive as say a Netbook. It just seems like newspapers are dying of natural selection.
actually rhyming is pretty easy, once yuo have the candidates for correct answer, soundex is common and actually very good. My application for address parsing and matching contains some logic for mispellings and rhyming and "sounds like" because people tend to jot down what they hear, I was shocked that it took like 30 minutes to add this functionality using Soundex from Apache Commons Codec...
The Zerg sub-plot in Starcraft was a blatant rip-off of Starship troopers the book. Starship troopers the movie was a blatant rip-off of Starcraft. Like playing a sci-fi writer's game of Telephone, a lot was lost in the movie.
The whole time I was reading the forever war I was hoping the Taurans were Time dilated humans (or vice versa), who were fighting out of confusion. The only part of the book I hated was "Oh it's a clone thing you wouldn't understand."
The story was ABOUT Marygay and Mandella's romance. The ONLY part of pre-war society that survived the war was their love. Wow, I think he did read a different story.
I do nerd stuff for a giant bank, when we retire servers or desktops, the hard disks are removed, the rest is sent to a recycler, the HDs themselves are disassembled in-house and destroyed by a third party company on-sight, with video monitoring. Each platter is verified destroyed by hand. It's actually pretty cool to watch.
And single-occupancy restrooms are not hard to find
This arguement is one of the most inconsiderate and assinine ones I consistantly hear... Ok lets make a rule that you, presumably a healthy adult, may only eat while holding a tray of food on a toilet seat in public restrooms.
Ok now lets pretend that you are NOT a healthy adult, but a small child with a delicate immune system, and you lack the mental capacity to deal with waiting for your food, or transitions to cold, loud, scary places.
Now lets pretend that you are a reasonable adult human, a mammel. Lets also pretend you know what the hell the word "Mammel" means. Lets also pretend that you were mature enough to look the other way if you are so self rightious that you cannot morally stand for a baby to eat his lunch in public.
I am not a christianazi like the typical moral elite of the U.S. but I like to point out that jebus would have not survived infancy were it not for the all powerful boobies.
hah the irony of your fake mocking at my fake mocking is that I frequently bitch about streaming video:P
Streaming video is still broken! I have to "steal" movies off of bittorrent even with my 5mbps connection because Amazon onebox sucks, netflix streaming sucks. I don't give a whole hell of a damn about quality. I prefer non-HD content because I feel like the message of the movie(the plot not the special effects) is more important than the visual experience, and currently the variety of non-HD content is significantly greater than that of HD. I must admit though that I am guilty of downloading Sarah Connercles in HD format because their website is so broken that it cannot stream to my ubuntu machine (or linux is so broken that adobe refuses to keep Flash up to date or whatever). At any rate, We have all this wonderful streaming content bla bla bla, I still download files in full and then play them because streaming is still 98% unusable in my experience:P how is that for a self fulfiling rant prophecy?
So lets see the advancements are:
Finally implementing a 37 year old technology
A website for buying programs - Apple App store
Actually using flash memory, a fairly old technology
a bathing suit
Actually using a 1978 technology - GPS
A slightly better consumer digital video camera
The third major revision of an old technology - USB 3.0
Microchips that are small
A cellphone operating system
and, presenting, the ONLY actual innovation of 2008
Flexible displays that barely work!
so glad I live in the age of technological miracles
who knows if this particular one (first google result) is reliable, but it is consistant with my offer(which I had to turn down) and what I have read elsewhere, developers at 82k in the bay area, is something only google can get away with and still get good talent. Even tanking financial companies and banks pay 110k+ for someone that would come close to google's standards.
considering google pays 30k-50k less(not including bonuses) than the industry standard in the area for software engineers, the bonus was just a convenient way for them to underpay if an issue arose.
Apple products are jewelry, we often get confused because most of us are in it for the gadget, and since these are technically gadgets as well as jewelry... There are (a minority) of people who are technophiles and would be annoyed by nuanced technical and social issues as it relates to ITMS or locking of iPhones
Apple does not really sell to those people, even though they are buying. Just like most people don't care about the chemical properties of a diamond when they are shopping for an engagement ring, the average i buyer is thinking of things on a completely different level from a/.-er
What colors do they come in, how much thinner are they than last year's model, how conspicuous are the white earbuds, how shiny is it, how "modern" is it - these all rank significantly higher with the target demographic, the purchasers of i
Slashdot Mirror
this kind of idiocy pisses me off. I have always had weird browsers on cellphones and other devices... I would rather see a partially broken page than a stuffed shirt jackass page telling me to install a browser that CANNOT be installed on my device or work laptop.
Most of us do not get to pick our customers, and cannot afford to give the middle finger to a very large potential customer base.
2 magazines at the airport gift shop could easily cost you $12.95, nobody bats an eye at that...
seriously, no WoW raid, no TF2 performance stats?
so the specs are like this: it must be like a computer, but not as functional, and roughly as expensive as say a Netbook. It just seems like newspapers are dying of natural selection.
actually rhyming is pretty easy, once yuo have the candidates for correct answer, soundex is common and actually very good. My application for address parsing and matching contains some logic for mispellings and rhyming and "sounds like" because people tend to jot down what they hear, I was shocked that it took like 30 minutes to add this functionality using Soundex from Apache Commons Codec...
hell, you can SQL query with Soundex nowadays.
wait, you browse the internet outside of emacs?
nice, I should stop buying gold games and discount DVDs.
The Zerg sub-plot in Starcraft was a blatant rip-off of Starship troopers the book. Starship troopers the movie was a blatant rip-off of Starcraft. Like playing a sci-fi writer's game of Telephone, a lot was lost in the movie.
Unless the "Old Queer" is the only man on the ship, and the rest are Lezing out hot women... you need more imagination man.
The whole time I was reading the forever war I was hoping the Taurans were Time dilated humans (or vice versa), who were fighting out of confusion. The only part of the book I hated was "Oh it's a clone thing you wouldn't understand."
The story was ABOUT Marygay and Mandella's romance. The ONLY part of pre-war society that survived the war was their love. Wow, I think he did read a different story.
I do nerd stuff for a giant bank, when we retire servers or desktops, the hard disks are removed, the rest is sent to a recycler, the HDs themselves are disassembled in-house and destroyed by a third party company on-sight, with video monitoring. Each platter is verified destroyed by hand. It's actually pretty cool to watch.
it would be much more concise if you just said "Mac hardware costs more and does less"
internet rule number 5: when you have no valid argument, attack spelling and grammar.
big difference between feeding a child, and exposing your genitals. Breasts are not genitals by the way.
you eat with a blanket over your head? no?? but you expect an infant to? you have obviously never met an infant.
This arguement is one of the most inconsiderate and assinine ones I consistantly hear... Ok lets make a rule that you, presumably a healthy adult, may only eat while holding a tray of food on a toilet seat in public restrooms.
Ok now lets pretend that you are NOT a healthy adult, but a small child with a delicate immune system, and you lack the mental capacity to deal with waiting for your food, or transitions to cold, loud, scary places.
Now lets pretend that you are a reasonable adult human, a mammel. Lets also pretend you know what the hell the word "Mammel" means. Lets also pretend that you were mature enough to look the other way if you are so self rightious that you cannot morally stand for a baby to eat his lunch in public.
I am not a christianazi like the typical moral elite of the U.S. but I like to point out that jebus would have not survived infancy were it not for the all powerful boobies.
hah the irony of your fake mocking at my fake mocking is that I frequently bitch about streaming video :P
:P how is that for a self fulfiling rant prophecy?
Streaming video is still broken! I have to "steal" movies off of bittorrent even with my 5mbps connection because Amazon onebox sucks, netflix streaming sucks. I don't give a whole hell of a damn about quality. I prefer non-HD content because I feel like the message of the movie(the plot not the special effects) is more important than the visual experience, and currently the variety of non-HD content is significantly greater than that of HD. I must admit though that I am guilty of downloading Sarah Connercles in HD format because their website is so broken that it cannot stream to my ubuntu machine (or linux is so broken that adobe refuses to keep Flash up to date or whatever). At any rate, We have all this wonderful streaming content bla bla bla, I still download files in full and then play them because streaming is still 98% unusable in my experience
So lets see the advancements are:
Finally implementing a 37 year old technology
A website for buying programs - Apple App store
Actually using flash memory, a fairly old technology
a bathing suit
Actually using a 1978 technology - GPS
A slightly better consumer digital video camera
The third major revision of an old technology - USB 3.0
Microchips that are small
A cellphone operating system
and, presenting, the ONLY actual innovation of 2008
Flexible displays that barely work!
so glad I live in the age of technological miracles
who knows if this particular one (first google result) is reliable, but it is consistant with my offer(which I had to turn down) and what I have read elsewhere, developers at 82k in the bay area, is something only google can get away with and still get good talent. Even tanking financial companies and banks pay 110k+ for someone that would come close to google's standards.
considering google pays 30k-50k less(not including bonuses) than the industry standard in the area for software engineers, the bonus was just a convenient way for them to underpay if an issue arose.
Apple products are jewelry, we often get confused because most of us are in it for the gadget, and since these are technically gadgets as well as jewelry... There are (a minority) of people who are technophiles and would be annoyed by nuanced technical and social issues as it relates to ITMS or locking of iPhones
/.-er
Apple does not really sell to those people, even though they are buying. Just like most people don't care about the chemical properties of a diamond when they are shopping for an engagement ring, the average i buyer is thinking of things on a completely different level from a
What colors do they come in, how much thinner are they than last year's model, how conspicuous are the white earbuds, how shiny is it, how "modern" is it - these all rank significantly higher with the target demographic, the purchasers of i
If you had a holodeck it would not need to be portable because you would never need to leave...
A laptop dedicated to an weird MMO is not geeky?
I didn't say it was the most taxing thing I do on computers, just on that particular laptop...