They don't seem to be afraid of large projects. I hope they build the first fusion reactor. That would really teach the rest of the world not to underfund that kind of thing and just dick around for 40+ years.
A slow driver is a bored and inattentive driver. If you take away from the driver even the task of monitoring his speed, drivers are just going to get even more bored and inattentive.
People in general seem to be motivated. They're sufficiently obsessed with driving a car that gets 31 mpg instead of 29, or weatherizing their homes to cut a few pennies off their electric bill. The real problem is that people don't understand how irrelevant all of that is. We can only fix the problem if we drastically change our transportation and energy infrastructure. It's a lack of intelligence rather than a lack of motivation.
they keep saying their own names, or referring to themselves in the third person, like Jimmy from Seinfeld. Awesome.
Or maybe this is a bullshit story. Awesome.
Random checks generally work as a deterrent. Like randomly checking athletes for steroids. The risk of getting caught will deter them from juicing. But a suicidal terrorist isn't going to care much about getting caught. Sure, if you check 10% of the passengers that will stop nearly 10% of terrorist weapon smuggling, but I don't think anyone will find that an impressive accomplishment. You could check say, 30% or 50%, but then the process will be so time-consuming, you might as well just check everyone.
Why do it at work? Get yourself an excercise bike with pulse. $150. A lousy 20 minutes with your pulse at 150-160 will get you an awesome cardio workout. If that's too hard, start with 10 minutes and work up gradually.
I'm not sure, but it may be that debt collection laws apply in this case; meaning you can't inform any third party about the debt, among a whole bunch of other regulations.
You should start a personal programming project, or try some freelance jobs on vworker.com. Vworker jobs suck and pay incredibly poorly, but it's a great way to get started again, particularly since nobody will have a clue how old you are.
Get all those stupid computers off people's desks! Things were much better when you had to go to a programmer in order to get software to do anything!
And (not incidentally) it would eliiminate all the productivity that's lost to Slashdot!
Your sarcasm is unwarranted. This is a nice story for us programmers because it's just the kind of anecdote that makes businesses seriously consider hiring more professional programmers. Nobody is suggesting you need custom software for everything.
Just wait until it has some moronic marketing-expert-driven UI overhaul every few months like your typical corporate site. Then nobody will know how to edit it.
You've clearly struck on the real reason for this, which is that people just like candy. I think for a better user experience they should just get a piece of candy every time they type a command. Then we can keep the command line, plus, hey, candy.
Lots of apps don't work too good when you scale up the font size. Text overflows various graphical borders, windows, the edges of the screen, so you're forced to use a font which is too tiny to read at ultra-high resolutions.
Safe cracking skills are FAR more rare than computer cracking skills. There's a reason for that. The whole point of a computer is to make data EASY to manipulate. That's the exact opposite of what voting should be. Voting should be done with media that is a pain in the ass to manipulate. If that also makes it a pain in the ass to count the votes, then so be it. A computer is simply the wrong tool for the job when it comes to voting.
Because anybody can be a memeber. It's sort of like saying the human race is the most powerful race. Pretty much trite and meaningless when you think about it.
WE all know that viewing and downloading a file is really the same thing. If you're worried about accidentally downloading kiddie porn, there's something in criminal law called "intention" that protects you from being wrongfully convicted. It's the same reason why you can't "accidentally murder" someone. Although in that case, you may be found intentionally and therefore criminally negligent or reckless.
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They don't seem to be afraid of large projects. I hope they build the first fusion reactor. That would really teach the rest of the world not to underfund that kind of thing and just dick around for 40+ years.
A slow driver is a bored and inattentive driver. If you take away from the driver even the task of monitoring his speed, drivers are just going to get even more bored and inattentive.
People in general seem to be motivated. They're sufficiently obsessed with driving a car that gets 31 mpg instead of 29, or weatherizing their homes to cut a few pennies off their electric bill. The real problem is that people don't understand how irrelevant all of that is. We can only fix the problem if we drastically change our transportation and energy infrastructure. It's a lack of intelligence rather than a lack of motivation.
Stop being a grovelling little pansy. Show your boss that treating his employees like shit has consequences.
they keep saying their own names, or referring to themselves in the third person, like Jimmy from Seinfeld. Awesome. Or maybe this is a bullshit story. Awesome.
Random checks generally work as a deterrent. Like randomly checking athletes for steroids. The risk of getting caught will deter them from juicing. But a suicidal terrorist isn't going to care much about getting caught. Sure, if you check 10% of the passengers that will stop nearly 10% of terrorist weapon smuggling, but I don't think anyone will find that an impressive accomplishment. You could check say, 30% or 50%, but then the process will be so time-consuming, you might as well just check everyone.
...coming from an actor.
Do they include noticing that the same topics come up over and over again on Slashdot?
Why do it at work? Get yourself an excercise bike with pulse. $150. A lousy 20 minutes with your pulse at 150-160 will get you an awesome cardio workout. If that's too hard, start with 10 minutes and work up gradually.
You never hear "lets get rid of doctors. With so much information at their fingertips nowadays, people can just diagnose themselves!"
I'm not sure, but it may be that debt collection laws apply in this case; meaning you can't inform any third party about the debt, among a whole bunch of other regulations.
I wonder if Yahoo or Bing made some exclusivity deal with the studios.
You should start a personal programming project, or try some freelance jobs on vworker.com. Vworker jobs suck and pay incredibly poorly, but it's a great way to get started again, particularly since nobody will have a clue how old you are.
Seems to me that freedom of speech is pretty useless if you can't use it to express your beliefs, or denounce someone else's beliefs.
Get all those stupid computers off people's desks! Things were much better when you had to go to a programmer in order to get software to do anything!
And (not incidentally) it would eliiminate all the productivity that's lost to Slashdot!
Your sarcasm is unwarranted. This is a nice story for us programmers because it's just the kind of anecdote that makes businesses seriously consider hiring more professional programmers. Nobody is suggesting you need custom software for everything.
Just wait until it has some moronic marketing-expert-driven UI overhaul every few months like your typical corporate site. Then nobody will know how to edit it.
The greatest weight loss plan the world has ever known.
You've clearly struck on the real reason for this, which is that people just like candy. I think for a better user experience they should just get a piece of candy every time they type a command. Then we can keep the command line, plus, hey, candy.
How the hell would you enforce a "cyber-arms" ban? It would be easier to ban actual arms. Like a worldwide gun ban.
Lots of apps don't work too good when you scale up the font size. Text overflows various graphical borders, windows, the edges of the screen, so you're forced to use a font which is too tiny to read at ultra-high resolutions.
Safe cracking skills are FAR more rare than computer cracking skills. There's a reason for that. The whole point of a computer is to make data EASY to manipulate. That's the exact opposite of what voting should be. Voting should be done with media that is a pain in the ass to manipulate. If that also makes it a pain in the ass to count the votes, then so be it. A computer is simply the wrong tool for the job when it comes to voting.
Because anybody can be a memeber. It's sort of like saying the human race is the most powerful race. Pretty much trite and meaningless when you think about it.
WE all know that viewing and downloading a file is really the same thing. If you're worried about accidentally downloading kiddie porn, there's something in criminal law called "intention" that protects you from being wrongfully convicted. It's the same reason why you can't "accidentally murder" someone. Although in that case, you may be found intentionally and therefore criminally negligent or reckless.
For scrap metal. That's why its so cheap.
Perfectly fine with me if the media wants to make us software engineers more scarce.