That could be for shoplifting reasons. Best Buy is notoriously paranoid. They give employees loss prevention bonuses, and if when you close there is a ripped open DVD case... Hoowie hope you get out before the yelling starts.
I used to work at Best Buy. On one hand I feel for the state. Best Buy's practices are sometimes a bit draconian. Especially with regards to service plans and rebates. This would cause major trouble for us as employees when Jimbo would come in looking for his $200 computer only to find that in actuallity he would have to spend $800 that day and would need to fill out thre different rebate forms. It would usually be at this point where a manager would start urging us to "sell dem service plans"
By the same token some customers were dumb as bricks and I would be surpriesed if they could get the return address correct, let alone a rebate or understanding a service plan.
We did try to sell returned merchindise as new. We never lied, but hell if we would voulenteer that information. I still feel kinda guilty about it.
Even with something like NWN, I don't think you achieve the same kind of "fun & laughs" the parent post was talking about. Playing DnD with close friends is so much more personal than using a computer. With a computer there's no pencil, no paper, no dice, but instead a screen that blinks at you. No matter how powerful a computer gets there is still something much more touching about dealing with real people in real life.
I'm not sure why, but rolling d20s is one of the most enjoyable experiences ever.
The past few years I've been lucky enough to have a strong group of DnD'ers to play with. We've been getting several games in a week. I think it's because it has a strong human element, as well as a structured rule system along with lots of possibility for strategy.
Wizards of the Coast has done a great job with the franchise since they bought it from TSR. Both from a marketing stand point and a rules standpoint (NWP's?! THAC0's!? WTF:-]).
If you've never played you should really give it a shot. I assure you that you will have some fun:D
I don't understand why we are jumping through hoops to have auto refresing JavaScript-full convoluted html webmail that interacts with some little utility in your tray. I mean, I understand the convenience of webmail, but I think that installing this is whre I would draw the line between simple & easy and flakey & klunky.
Isn't 100% easier and more smooth to interact with POP3 and your favorite email software? Maybe it's just me. I've been using a hosting service for my website and email and I guess having that much control over the set up and delivery methods has made me skeptical of free webmail in general.
This seems reasonable enough to me. I am of the opinion that we don't need laws to ban kids from obtaining violent video games, but rather put the responsibility on the children's parents. However, even the most caring parents can be damn near clueless when it comes to games.
Putting big visible warning labels on packaging won't make won't reduce my enjoyment of that game. They'll give clueless parents a chance to raise their kids the way they want, and let those who think their kids are ready allow their children to play them.
Apple has done nothing to stop you from playing songs from other sources. I have tons of MP3's on my iPod that didn't come from Apple.
If all I could play on my iPod with FairPlay DRM'ed tunes, then I would be upset. However as it stands I'm free to not use iTMS as much or as little as I please and still have a wonderful iPod experience.
Remember Real can make their own music store anytime they want w/o violating an Apple held copyright, and by the same token it isn't Apple's responsibility to make sure they succeed.
It's one thing to complain about companies who lock out competition and make their own products worthless. I would say Apple is not one of them.
I'm planning on doing a clean install of Panther today, if I have some free time I'll test it out and get back the results.
I predict that I will get bored of wating well before anything remotely interesting happens. Mac OS X comes with a software firewall already on with nearly every port blocked to begin with. In addition to the lack of prolific Mac related viruses I think I'll leave it up for maybe 2 hours or so, see how it did, and then report.
Hmm looking back at my post I realize that I didn't really state a position on the issue. I'm with you though. Things like IO::Handle couldn't have been mad without some of the techniques I mentioned above.
If you don't understand the code, perhaps it's you.
I am suspect of a manifesto about slacking written by someone in a country where it is against the law to work more than a certain number of hours a day.
Now I am not criticizing that kind of life style, just questioning the applicability of that kind of a document in the US. People are pretty much expected to work overtime and weekends these days.
One of the issues I think is that if you incorperate a certain level of sophistication into your code then people who can not program to that level think it is much too complex.
Take perl for example (mostly cuase you said ick;-]). Perl is highly idomatic with "More Than One Right Way" to do things. Simple perl code is simple and easy to understand; however, the uninitiated will find it next to impossible to understand how the "magic" of some perl modules works. Modules that use things like glob refs, tied data structures, export, and eval to achieve great new additions to the language in ways that seem impossible.
To developers who are used to such things the code would look like an elegant, compact solution. To somone who doesn't it would (quite seriously) look like trash.
That's not exactly true. In Mac OS X terms when one refers to hte Kernel one refers to the Mach Microkernel as well a the BSD, I/O Kit, File system, and Networking Components.
The actualy kernel is the Mach microkernel , but it is surrounded by all kinds of crazy crap
I really don't hate PHP, it's just that I find that the language itself conflicts with the way I want to program. I find Perl to be more luid in that respect.
Also as far as my own site I did use PHP to make it, and, in fact, it is hosted by phpwebhosting.com. Though the latter is more because they are an excellent host than anything else (seriously, they are sweet). My next revision is going to in perl. Growing a site in PHP is too difficult.
I have two other web related projects (the kind that pay money);-) One is in PHP and the other in Perl. THe PHP has grown so emmanse that we are having difficulty moving forward and are seriousl considering a rewrite, while the Perl project has been humming along nicely since its inception.
Like I said before though, you can't knock PHP: it is what it is and it's good at what it's good at. It's just not the language for me anymore.
Yeah I do, and I will admit that I was looking to start a holy war (I'm stuck at work and bored to hell;-) ).
To be perfectly honest though I have grown sour towards PHP. If find I put more effort into wrestling to get my logic seperate from my content, and mustering data into objects than I do writing good code.
Perl is my language of choice because of this; though I am not simply writing off PHP.I favored it for a while, but now I am weary of it.
I think that to do this you have to use some smoke and mirrors to convnince iTunes to burn onto it. I haven't done too much research on that, but it's totally not a 1-2-3 solution.
There was a time where I wanted everyone to understand computers and how they could use them to make their lives better. I wanted people to understand what technology can do for them; the vast possibilities of it.
Every time I read something like this letter I die a little more when I realize how far from any hope of having a clue the vast majority of people are. The fact that all of AG's had a meeting and what they came up with was that uninformed piece is very, very sad. It shows a blatant lack of care about the real issues at hand.
I'm a Mac user, perhaps even a ac zealot, but I'll admit that there are security issues with OS X. First of all no matter what OS you run someone can make a Trojan horse. It's quite easy to write a program that just zaps all your files or something. If you can convince someone to run your code, no matter how many warnings the OS throws up, then you've pretty much got them by the balls so to speak.
In addition there was on quite scary vulnerability with macs. As you may know when you double click an Icon OS X helpfully tries to figure out how to "do what you mean." It is possible to hide executable code in the data tags on a mp3 that OS X will (helpfully?) run when it is double clicked. If you play it through iTunes it will seem like a regular mp3, but opening it could run malicious code
I am still of the opinion that windows is swiss cheese when it comes to wholes, but no operating system is immune to duplicity
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Somebody worked in TV's eh? For me it was ink instead of monster cable, but just about everything else was the same.
Managers expected me to attach 5(!!!!) extra ink cartridges to every printer sale. That's plain Bul lshit!
That could be for shoplifting reasons. Best Buy is notoriously paranoid. They give employees loss prevention bonuses, and if when you close there is a ripped open DVD case... Hoowie hope you get out before the yelling starts.
I used to work at Best Buy. On one hand I feel for the state. Best Buy's practices are sometimes a bit draconian. Especially with regards to service plans and rebates. This would cause major trouble for us as employees when Jimbo would come in looking for his $200 computer only to find that in actuallity he would have to spend $800 that day and would need to fill out thre different rebate forms. It would usually be at this point where a manager would start urging us to "sell dem service plans"
By the same token some customers were dumb as bricks and I would be surpriesed if they could get the return address correct, let alone a rebate or understanding a service plan.
We did try to sell returned merchindise as new. We never lied, but hell if we would voulenteer that information. I still feel kinda guilty about it.
Most relevent is that they can't count higher than 2 usually
You're using a large size d20. Standard size d20s average 10.5, while bantem weight d20's average either 9.5 or 9 depending on humidity.
Most people don't know this but dice are rated like resistors: diffenet color/speckle combinations depending on the die's average bias.
Sure they're using it as a marketing tool, but I still get misty eyed over the whole thing.
Even with something like NWN, I don't think you achieve the same kind of "fun & laughs" the parent post was talking about. Playing DnD with close friends is so much more personal than using a computer. With a computer there's no pencil, no paper, no dice, but instead a screen that blinks at you. No matter how powerful a computer gets there is still something much more touching about dealing with real people in real life.
... and I spend a LOT of time on the computer...
I'm not sure why, but rolling d20s is one of the most enjoyable experiences ever.
The past few years I've been lucky enough to have a strong group of DnD'ers to play with. We've been getting several games in a week. I think it's because it has a strong human element, as well as a structured rule system along with lots of possibility for strategy.
Wizards of the Coast has done a great job with the franchise since they bought it from TSR. Both from a marketing stand point and a rules standpoint (NWP's?! THAC0's!? WTF :-]).
If you've never played you should really give it a shot. I assure you that you will have some fun :D
I don't understand why we are jumping through hoops to have auto refresing JavaScript-full convoluted html webmail that interacts with some little utility in your tray. I mean, I understand the convenience of webmail, but I think that installing this is whre I would draw the line between simple & easy and flakey & klunky.
Isn't 100% easier and more smooth to interact with POP3 and your favorite email software? Maybe it's just me. I've been using a hosting service for my website and email and I guess having that much control over the set up and delivery methods has made me skeptical of free webmail in general.
This seems reasonable enough to me. I am of the opinion that we don't need laws to ban kids from obtaining violent video games, but rather put the responsibility on the children's parents. However, even the most caring parents can be damn near clueless when it comes to games.
Putting big visible warning labels on packaging won't make won't reduce my enjoyment of that game. They'll give clueless parents a chance to raise their kids the way they want, and let those who think their kids are ready allow their children to play them.
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Apple has done nothing to stop you from playing songs from other sources. I have tons of MP3's on my iPod that didn't come from Apple.
If all I could play on my iPod with FairPlay DRM'ed tunes, then I would be upset. However as it stands I'm free to not use iTMS as much or as little as I please and still have a wonderful iPod experience.
Remember Real can make their own music store anytime they want w/o violating an Apple held copyright, and by the same token it isn't Apple's responsibility to make sure they succeed.
It's one thing to complain about companies who lock out competition and make their own products worthless. I would say Apple is not one of them.
I'm planning on doing a clean install of Panther today, if I have some free time I'll test it out and get back the results.
I predict that I will get bored of wating well before anything remotely interesting happens. Mac OS X comes with a software firewall already on with nearly every port blocked to begin with. In addition to the lack of prolific Mac related viruses I think I'll leave it up for maybe 2 hours or so, see how it did, and then report.
Hmm looking back at my post I realize that I didn't really state a position on the issue. I'm with you though. Things like IO::Handle couldn't have been mad without some of the techniques I mentioned above.
If you don't understand the code, perhaps it's you.
I am suspect of a manifesto about slacking written by someone in a country where it is against the law to work more than a certain number of hours a day.
Now I am not criticizing that kind of life style, just questioning the applicability of that kind of a document in the US. People are pretty much expected to work overtime and weekends these days.
One of the issues I think is that if you incorperate a certain level of sophistication into your code then people who can not program to that level think it is much too complex.
Take perl for example (mostly cuase you said ick ;-]). Perl is highly idomatic with "More Than One Right Way" to do things. Simple perl code is simple and easy to understand; however, the uninitiated will find it next to impossible to understand how the "magic" of some perl modules works. Modules that use things like glob refs, tied data structures, export, and eval to achieve great new additions to the language in ways that seem impossible.
To developers who are used to such things the code would look like an elegant, compact solution. To somone who doesn't it would (quite seriously) look like trash.
That's not exactly true. In Mac OS X terms when one refers to hte Kernel one refers to the Mach Microkernel as well a the BSD, I/O Kit, File system, and Networking Components.
The actualy kernel is the Mach microkernel , but it is surrounded by all kinds of crazy crap
I really don't hate PHP, it's just that I find that the language itself conflicts with the way I want to program. I find Perl to be more luid in that respect.
Also as far as my own site I did use PHP to make it, and, in fact, it is hosted by phpwebhosting.com. Though the latter is more because they are an excellent host than anything else (seriously, they are sweet). My next revision is going to in perl. Growing a site in PHP is too difficult.
I have two other web related projects (the kind that pay money) ;-) One is in PHP and the other in Perl. THe PHP has grown so emmanse that we are having difficulty moving forward and are seriousl considering a rewrite, while the Perl project has been humming along nicely since its inception.
Like I said before though, you can't knock PHP: it is what it is and it's good at what it's good at. It's just not the language for me anymore.
Yeah I do, and I will admit that I was looking to start a holy war (I'm stuck at work and bored to hell ;-) ).
To be perfectly honest though I have grown sour towards PHP. If find I put more effort into wrestling to get my logic seperate from my content, and mustering data into objects than I do writing good code.
Perl is my language of choice because of this; though I am not simply writing off PHP.I favored it for a while, but now I am weary of it.
What's the official word on Goodwin's Law in regards to a /. post?
just an analogy, sorry to get your hopes up ;-)
I think that to do this you have to use some smoke and mirrors to convnince iTunes to burn onto it. I haven't done too much research on that, but it's totally not a 1-2-3 solution.
There was a time where I wanted everyone to understand computers and how they could use them to make their lives better. I wanted people to understand what technology can do for them; the vast possibilities of it.
Every time I read something like this letter I die a little more when I realize how far from any hope of having a clue the vast majority of people are. The fact that all of AG's had a meeting and what they came up with was that uninformed piece is very, very sad. It shows a blatant lack of care about the real issues at hand.
I'm a Mac user, perhaps even a ac zealot, but I'll admit that there are security issues with OS X. First of all no matter what OS you run someone can make a Trojan horse. It's quite easy to write a program that just zaps all your files or something. If you can convince someone to run your code, no matter how many warnings the OS throws up, then you've pretty much got them by the balls so to speak.
In addition there was on quite scary vulnerability with macs. As you may know when you double click an Icon OS X helpfully tries to figure out how to "do what you mean." It is possible to hide executable code in the data tags on a mp3 that OS X will (helpfully?) run when it is double clicked. If you play it through iTunes it will seem like a regular mp3, but opening it could run malicious code
I am still of the opinion that windows is swiss cheese when it comes to wholes, but no operating system is immune to duplicity