With the Windows 8 UI... because I'm still running 7. Fercryin' out loud, I just went to 7 from XP in June. They're smoking crack if they think I'm shelling out money to upgrade anytime soon.
Are we not nerds here? It is not the slightest bit difficult to run one's own caching DNS server. I use Cox HSI and haven't seen any examples of this, myself. Does some of it require a DNS hack to work?
I like this idea (especially as a regular pedestrian/mass transit rider!), but it becomes more difficult to identify those people...and a few of them do that not by choice but because their license was taken from them due to driving stupidity. A chunk of the fund to maintain bike paths and subsidize mass transit, maybe? Definitely a good point... I will put more thought into it.
I have an idea for making traffic safety laws about traffic safety and not revenue generation:
Pass a law that says all proceeds from moving violation citations go into a statewide fund. Then every 12 months, the funds are distributed evenly to every licensed driver in the state who has a 36 month clean driving record. Good drivers get rewarded by bad drivers, who pay into the fund with their tickets, and municipalities can't turn traffic laws into a cash cow with bullshit like speed traps, red-light cameras with short yellow lights, and other shenanigans.
It's much better now, but for a while I had a heck of a time with Google Maps crashing where Bing Maps worked great. This was in Google Chrome... on Linux. I use both now, and the Google Maps app on my Android phone is getting laggy and crashy enough that I put Bing on it as backup. Still like the Google Maps interface better on Android though.
Actually, I'd take shoveling out a barn at 500/hr. It would get me exercise and a chance to be alone with my thoughts, which would let me do fun things like programming with python for things I want to program, instead of what someone else wants programmed.
I still have my BASIC and assembler programming books for my TRS-80 Coco. For that matter, I still have a TRS-80 CoCo somewhere. I should dig it out and see if it still works. You never forget your first.:-)
Maybe it's subtle sarcasm regarding learning threaded programming? People can't identify the right thread in a conversation, but should be expected to write threaded code?:-)
Health care costs are going up much faster than inflation.
I think a lot of that is because it is almost impossible to be an informed consumer of health care goods and services in the US, unless you have no health care plan at all, and then unless you are quite wealthy the bulk of your knowledge is "you can't afford it." My doctor orders tests for something. Do those tests cost $100, $1000, or $10,000? I went to a pain clinic two years ago and had those electro-tests for nerve damage: over $2,000 was the contract price with my health care plan. I only had to pay $30, but I wouldn't have seen this number at all if it weren't for a mistake with my co-pay where someone dropped a zero on my copay and charged my card $3.00 instead of $30 and I wound up getting a statement from them. Diagnosis? Mild carpal tunnel, sort it out with PT. Would it have been cheaper for my plan to have me try PT for my wrist first, or did we need the diagnosis? I don't know which is the most sensible decision; I didn't go to med school. My doctor did, but does he make more money this way? He's got medical school, an office, and malpractice insurance to pay for. I can't blame him (much) if he orders some high margin test to partly CYA and partly to get some cash flow.
Just because you're not punching kids out THIS VERY MINUTE doesn't mean your cost/benefit to the gene pool drops to near zero. Humans in modern societies take 2 decades or more to become self-sustaining, to say nothing of the aid (financial, emotional, or educational) provided by grandparents and then the very act of going to work in the morning, living somewhere and paying property taxes for schools (ideally) educating kids still adds benefit, regardless of whether you have kids of your own or not. And funny thing: People have their own metrics of cost/benefit in any case and in my experience it's not often it's the gene pool at large they're considering when they evaluate that metric.
But you are right: you cannot be prepared for everything. That's in part why we have insurance: We turn an unpredictable but potentially unbearable cost into a predictable but certain affordable cost, turning over that risk management to people who (we hope!) are better at it than we are. Presumably this is why my flood insurance was a lot more expensive and covered less when I lived in what was basically a swamp 10 miles from the hurricane prone coast than the house I have now in high ground in the desert.:-)
A Kalahari bushman would probably get himself killed trying to live my life for a week, and I probably wouldn't last 3 days in the Kalahari left to my own devices. What is really intelligent in one ecosystem is really stupid in another. To look at the DNA and say "this person must be smarter than the other" is complete bullshit.
Agreed. The game companies want to sell games, not use the latest and greatest version of DirectX. When the vast majority of your potential customers are on DX9 and DX10, you *might* add some DX11 or DX11.1 eye candy, but no way are you going to make it so your game doesn't work on 9 or 10.
I finally went from XP to 7 just this summer. They're crazy if they think I'm getting 8 anytime soon. And if some uber cool game comes out that's DX11.1 only it's not like I'm ever in a hurry to pay full price for a game so I can beta test it anyway.
Your good genes will do you no good the first time an uninsured drunk pulls out in front of you and you get hurt. It happened to us in 2005 and my wife was seriously hurt enough to get airlifted. That was $11,000 before she even got to the emergency room. We were lucky and had health insurance, so we didn't pay a penny of that. Uninsured motorist insurance did exactly NOTHING for us, so don't go thinking that will save you. Maybe your uninsured mototrist insurance WILL cover it... what if that drunk hits you walking down the street?
I also know someone who thought as you do. She got to file bankruptcy 2 years ago because she wound up having medical bills from a random illness that pretty much wiped her out financially.
I figure you know your business better than I do, but man, I would highly advise you to NOT spin that wheel. I know the shit's expensive, but it's way more expensive to need it and not have it.
Which is even more thoughtless, because the so-called dark side of the moon gets just as much sun as the side we see. When the moon is new, the side away from us is getting the sun.
I finally upgraded my gaming system this year from a system I built in 2006. Even the old system could play most of today's games acceptably well if the settings aren't set very high (a notable exception was Fallout: New Vegas for some strange reason... took forever to load). The old system was fairly buff but by no means cutting edge for 2006. The same is true for my new system except for it's 2012, and I expect to get 5-6 years out of it, too. My total cost was about 550, and that included a decent 22" monitor. I reused my case and PS. Everything else was new (Mobo, CPU, memory, GPU, HD, optical drive). For sure, the new system plays those same games much better now; my FO:NV load times went from 5 minutes to about 10-15 seconds. I think some people think you have keep upgrading every one to two years to play PC games. Certainly if you want to see them with every bit of eye-candy turned on full blast that's likely true, but to actually just play the games? It's really not necessary.
I had a friend who claimed to be a vegetarian, and that pepperoni becomes a vegetable when applied to pizza. I'm not sure on the science behind that, but I figure he was the vegetarian.
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With the Windows 8 UI... because I'm still running 7. Fercryin' out loud, I just went to 7 from XP in June. They're smoking crack if they think I'm shelling out money to upgrade anytime soon.
Are we not nerds here? It is not the slightest bit difficult to run one's own caching DNS server. I use Cox HSI and haven't seen any examples of this, myself. Does some of it require a DNS hack to work?
I like this idea (especially as a regular pedestrian/mass transit rider!), but it becomes more difficult to identify those people...and a few of them do that not by choice but because their license was taken from them due to driving stupidity. A chunk of the fund to maintain bike paths and subsidize mass transit, maybe? Definitely a good point... I will put more thought into it.
I have an idea for making traffic safety laws about traffic safety and not revenue generation:
Pass a law that says all proceeds from moving violation citations go into a statewide fund. Then every 12 months, the funds are distributed evenly to every licensed driver in the state who has a 36 month clean driving record. Good drivers get rewarded by bad drivers, who pay into the fund with their tickets, and municipalities can't turn traffic laws into a cash cow with bullshit like speed traps, red-light cameras with short yellow lights, and other shenanigans.
It's much better now, but for a while I had a heck of a time with Google Maps crashing where Bing Maps worked great. This was in Google Chrome... on Linux. I use both now, and the Google Maps app on my Android phone is getting laggy and crashy enough that I put Bing on it as backup. Still like the Google Maps interface better on Android though.
Actually, I'd take shoveling out a barn at 500/hr. It would get me exercise and a chance to be alone with my thoughts, which would let me do fun things like programming with python for things I want to program, instead of what someone else wants programmed.
Yes, it's called "economics".
I still have my BASIC and assembler programming books for my TRS-80 Coco. For that matter, I still have a TRS-80 CoCo somewhere. I should dig it out and see if it still works. You never forget your first. :-)
I blame my physics background. You run a mile on a track, coming back to where you started and no work was done.
I use the loyalty cards and Arthur Dent does a lot of shopping with them.
I think there were +3 Trolls in that book, until the sun came up, then it was -3 Trolls.
Maybe it's subtle sarcasm regarding learning threaded programming? People can't identify the right thread in a conversation, but should be expected to write threaded code? :-)
No. Kubrick put up Jupiter. Paul Verhoeven put Mars up.
HTH. HAND.
We're grownups here and understand that this place can run blue at times. You don't have to censor yourself.
I think a lot of that is because it is almost impossible to be an informed consumer of health care goods and services in the US, unless you have no health care plan at all, and then unless you are quite wealthy the bulk of your knowledge is "you can't afford it." My doctor orders tests for something. Do those tests cost $100, $1000, or $10,000? I went to a pain clinic two years ago and had those electro-tests for nerve damage: over $2,000 was the contract price with my health care plan. I only had to pay $30, but I wouldn't have seen this number at all if it weren't for a mistake with my co-pay where someone dropped a zero on my copay and charged my card $3.00 instead of $30 and I wound up getting a statement from them. Diagnosis? Mild carpal tunnel, sort it out with PT. Would it have been cheaper for my plan to have me try PT for my wrist first, or did we need the diagnosis? I don't know which is the most sensible decision; I didn't go to med school. My doctor did, but does he make more money this way? He's got medical school, an office, and malpractice insurance to pay for. I can't blame him (much) if he orders some high margin test to partly CYA and partly to get some cash flow.
Just because you're not punching kids out THIS VERY MINUTE doesn't mean your cost/benefit to the gene pool drops to near zero. Humans in modern societies take 2 decades or more to become self-sustaining, to say nothing of the aid (financial, emotional, or educational) provided by grandparents and then the very act of going to work in the morning, living somewhere and paying property taxes for schools (ideally) educating kids still adds benefit, regardless of whether you have kids of your own or not. And funny thing: People have their own metrics of cost/benefit in any case and in my experience it's not often it's the gene pool at large they're considering when they evaluate that metric.
But you are right: you cannot be prepared for everything. That's in part why we have insurance: We turn an unpredictable but potentially unbearable cost into a predictable but certain affordable cost, turning over that risk management to people who (we hope!) are better at it than we are. Presumably this is why my flood insurance was a lot more expensive and covered less when I lived in what was basically a swamp 10 miles from the hurricane prone coast than the house I have now in high ground in the desert. :-)
A Kalahari bushman would probably get himself killed trying to live my life for a week, and I probably wouldn't last 3 days in the Kalahari left to my own devices. What is really intelligent in one ecosystem is really stupid in another. To look at the DNA and say "this person must be smarter than the other" is complete bullshit.
Agreed. The game companies want to sell games, not use the latest and greatest version of DirectX. When the vast majority of your potential customers are on DX9 and DX10, you *might* add some DX11 or DX11.1 eye candy, but no way are you going to make it so your game doesn't work on 9 or 10.
I finally went from XP to 7 just this summer. They're crazy if they think I'm getting 8 anytime soon. And if some uber cool game comes out that's DX11.1 only it's not like I'm ever in a hurry to pay full price for a game so I can beta test it anyway.
Um, how old are you exactly? ;-)
Your good genes will do you no good the first time an uninsured drunk pulls out in front of you and you get hurt. It happened to us in 2005 and my wife was seriously hurt enough to get airlifted. That was $11,000 before she even got to the emergency room. We were lucky and had health insurance, so we didn't pay a penny of that. Uninsured motorist insurance did exactly NOTHING for us, so don't go thinking that will save you. Maybe your uninsured mototrist insurance WILL cover it... what if that drunk hits you walking down the street?
I also know someone who thought as you do. She got to file bankruptcy 2 years ago because she wound up having medical bills from a random illness that pretty much wiped her out financially.
I figure you know your business better than I do, but man, I would highly advise you to NOT spin that wheel. I know the shit's expensive, but it's way more expensive to need it and not have it.
Which is even more thoughtless, because the so-called dark side of the moon gets just as much sun as the side we see. When the moon is new, the side away from us is getting the sun.
I finally upgraded my gaming system this year from a system I built in 2006. Even the old system could play most of today's games acceptably well if the settings aren't set very high (a notable exception was Fallout: New Vegas for some strange reason... took forever to load). The old system was fairly buff but by no means cutting edge for 2006. The same is true for my new system except for it's 2012, and I expect to get 5-6 years out of it, too. My total cost was about 550, and that included a decent 22" monitor. I reused my case and PS. Everything else was new (Mobo, CPU, memory, GPU, HD, optical drive). For sure, the new system plays those same games much better now; my FO:NV load times went from 5 minutes to about 10-15 seconds. I think some people think you have keep upgrading every one to two years to play PC games. Certainly if you want to see them with every bit of eye-candy turned on full blast that's likely true, but to actually just play the games? It's really not necessary.
I had a friend who claimed to be a vegetarian, and that pepperoni becomes a vegetable when applied to pizza. I'm not sure on the science behind that, but I figure he was the vegetarian.
I never really thought of vim's learning curve to be steep. A long curve, to be sure, but never steep.