Totally opposite my experience in car dealerships.
One day when I was 18, I went with a friend of mine to some random car dealership where we lived. We were first year university students living in residence on our parent's money, we were flat broke and wearing rags. We found the most expensive car (a $90,000 corvette), and asked the sales guy if we could sit in it. He was more than happy to oblige, so we got in and it was a very nice car.
No test drive of course (we didn't even ask), and we left without buying anything. But the salesman was very friendly and accomodating the whole time. Bored I guess;)
Clearly humans from the future evolve to transcend the keyboards, allowing them to type very quickly. No matter that he's never done it before; the act of typing is burned into his genetics.
It does seem weird to continue to use an editor that causes you so much pain that you need to modify a keyboard to use it.
It seems weird to me that he bothered modifying his keyboard at all... my solution for emacs was to swap right alt and right control keys. that way I had alt to the left of the spacebar and control to the right, both easily accessible by my thumbs. It saved me a lot of pain with all the Ctrl+Alt shortcuts...
Sneaky, sure, but they're technically not lying. If something is the only one of it's kind, then it technically is also the best of it's kind (and the worst, too, but they wouldn't advertise that)...
No, no, no, you're interpreting it all wrong. That sentence is really two different senteces that have been compounded together. It can be broken down into this:
1. Firefox has never been more popular [than] Microsoft in the browser market.
2. Firefox is poised to beat Microsoft in the browser market.
I totally agree. I still remember in highschool wearing a tshirt and shorts in one of my classrooms, complaining of the heat, while a couple girls in the exact same room were wearing 3 layers of clothing and complaining about the cold... in the same room.
Don't worry, this will only be a problem in Hollywood where everybody is beautiful. In the rest of the world (where us ugly people live), the airport security staff will be screaming to turn this thing off. Problem solved.
One problem I see with this is somebody who buys something 5 minutes before the code changes -- he doesn't get 1 hour of access, he gets 5 minutes.
I like other people's idea of just not having power outlets more, but assuming you wanted to continue with the one-hour-access-with-purchase idea, what you'd want to do is hook the wifi system into the cash register in such a way that each transaction generates a valid, unique code that would give you access to the system, and it'd print that code onto each receipt. Then when you buy a coffee, you look at your receipt, plug it into your laptop, and that gives you wifi. An hour after generation, the code expires.
Up to 15% more? Where? Must be somewhere in Canada,...
Yup. GST is 7% across the country, and then some provinces tack on a PST on top of that. According to that link, PST (in the provinces that even have it) varies from 7% to 10%, making sales tax in those provinces 14% to 17% in total.
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Jim is your uncle, girls have cooties, and friends... don't have to worry about them, they aren't interested in you anyway.
Problem solved!
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I'm not quite sure where we'll go from there.
It's obvious -- from molecular we'll go to atomic, and then subatomic. Imagine using a single proton as a transistor! HHAAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAH!!!!
How many TV shows were produced 95 years ago?
You might be surprised!
(although, back then television was called "books")
It's already as easy as Blender.
What we're waiting for now is for mortals to be able to do it.
Totally opposite my experience in car dealerships.
;)
One day when I was 18, I went with a friend of mine to some random car dealership where we lived. We were first year university students living in residence on our parent's money, we were flat broke and wearing rags. We found the most expensive car (a $90,000 corvette), and asked the sales guy if we could sit in it. He was more than happy to oblige, so we got in and it was a very nice car.
No test drive of course (we didn't even ask), and we left without buying anything. But the salesman was very friendly and accomodating the whole time. Bored I guess
Funny, I was just thinking it reminded me of megapixel comparisons in digital cameras.
CLOD... the word is clod, you insensitive clod!
In Soviet Russia, clods desensitize you!
What's not to like? :-)
Paying $16/mo for something that I currently pay $20 for and then recharge over and over and over for years.
Clearly humans from the future evolve to transcend the keyboards, allowing them to type very quickly. No matter that he's never done it before; the act of typing is burned into his genetics.
It's easy, ask any nebula.
you're planet
Are you accusing me of something?
It does seem weird to continue to use an editor that causes you so much pain that you need to modify a keyboard to use it.
It seems weird to me that he bothered modifying his keyboard at all... my solution for emacs was to swap right alt and right control keys. that way I had alt to the left of the spacebar and control to the right, both easily accessible by my thumbs. It saved me a lot of pain with all the Ctrl+Alt shortcuts...
Sneaky, sure, but they're technically not lying. If something is the only one of it's kind, then it technically is also the best of it's kind (and the worst, too, but they wouldn't advertise that)...
Sure. It's the same rationale for abolishing capital gains tax. The money has already been taxed.
Can you spot the double taxation?
No, no, no, you're interpreting it all wrong. That sentence is really two different senteces that have been compounded together. It can be broken down into this:
1. Firefox has never been more popular [than] Microsoft in the browser market.
2. Firefox is poised to beat Microsoft in the browser market.
Only in the marketing sector.
The USA is more then just New York City, and Washington DC.
You're right! There's also Los Angeles, and... uh... one of those other cities.
I totally agree. I still remember in highschool wearing a tshirt and shorts in one of my classrooms, complaining of the heat, while a couple girls in the exact same room were wearing 3 layers of clothing and complaining about the cold... in the same room.
Don't worry, this will only be a problem in Hollywood where everybody is beautiful. In the rest of the world (where us ugly people live), the airport security staff will be screaming to turn this thing off. Problem solved.
Easy, we'll create a second group of vigilante's to keep the first group in line...
One problem I see with this is somebody who buys something 5 minutes before the code changes -- he doesn't get 1 hour of access, he gets 5 minutes.
I like other people's idea of just not having power outlets more, but assuming you wanted to continue with the one-hour-access-with-purchase idea, what you'd want to do is hook the wifi system into the cash register in such a way that each transaction generates a valid, unique code that would give you access to the system, and it'd print that code onto each receipt. Then when you buy a coffee, you look at your receipt, plug it into your laptop, and that gives you wifi. An hour after generation, the code expires.
As long as it's not the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation, everything will be just fine...
I live in the middle of a desert, you insensitive clod!
Up to 15% more? Where? Must be somewhere in Canada, ...
Yup. GST is 7% across the country, and then some provinces tack on a PST on top of that. According to that link, PST (in the provinces that even have it) varies from 7% to 10%, making sales tax in those provinces 14% to 17% in total.