MS has fooled me too many times. For me that's a lot of money to invest in something they could just drop and walk away from at a whim. I think I'll pass.
Yes, If my kid is riding his bike and gets run over by one of these things, I won't care in the least that 2 other kids lives were saved, or even 100. I'll be getting the pitchforks and torches.
Yes, there's a danger of that. I got one of those once, a $100 gift card for getting a project done on time. I spent more than that on child care on those late nights I worked. It really only just made me mad.
Years ago when when I saw the first article on this I showed it to my wife who's a Med Tech in a hospital lab. She was immediately very skeptical. She said you can't do some of those tests they were claiming with a finger stick. Apparently it's not the volume of blood that's the problem it's the location you get it from. So, no, I guess they didn't.
I drive a car from the 60's. Will continue to do so for the rest of my life. No one got rid of horse drawn carriages, they are a common site in many areas of the country, as are 16 foot wide farm implements traveling at very slow speeds. The biggest annoyance by far though is on Saturday when groups of 50 or more bicyclist come out from the city and clog up the roads. I'm ok with a few, but, how do you pass 50 or 100 of them in a solid group? Bicycle technology was surpassed 100 years ago, yet there they are.
You are assuming all restaurants have the same cost. An independent restaurant that preps fresh food is going to have a much higher labor cost than a franchise restaurant that brings in everything on the freezer truck.
Same here, I was 10, my brother 8. He heard about it at work, and drove us the 40 miles to the nearest theater. And we were so conservative we didn't have a television. We did have to listen to him complain about Hollywood taking a perfectly good movie and adding 1 bad word for no apparent reason. Of course now we know they did that on purpose to make sure they didn't get a G rating.
I work on a similar project. I doubt he's talking about shuffling icons around. Our product was designed when 640x480 monitors were common so most older forms are smaller than that. At some point they they decided our customers probably had 800x600 monitors so half the forms are that size. They aren't resizable either. So a user with a modern monitor has a screen with a form that takes up about a quarter of their desktop. It's OK on most screens but the screens with grids that require a lot of scrolling are infuriating.
The main screen is tabbed. It has 3 rows of tabs across the top of the page. Some of these pages have a row of tabs down the side.
Different menu options appear and disappear with no clue as to why.
We have listboxes that are 1 inch tall that contain hundreds of rows. We have drop down lists that have over a thousand items. We have a grid that now has 20,000 rows and takes 10 minutes to load the form. They are virtually unusable.
Some of the text boxes don't allow control-c for copy, some don't have copy in the context menu, so there is not 1 way to do copy paste. Some text boxes start typing at the far left automatically. Some start typing where you placed the cursor.
We can't really change anything existing because we would need a change order. Can't really do anything about new stuff because we have a "standards and consistencies" document.
My grandmother spent a significant amount of time hunting every day while grandfather was working in the fields. If she didn't shoot a squirrel or rabbit there would likely be no meat on the table. Without a refrigerator she had to kill something every day.
Yeah, I would say the opposite. My experience is they are more likely to get promoted out of their developer job. Someone who knows the application and doesn't mind talking to the customers and can communicate well is fairly rare. Most of the guys on the teams I've been on have no interest in talking to the customers. Most of the guys that don't mind, probably shouldn't.
Atari did that with the video game Tempest. Then someone forgot and made a change that caused the test to fail and legitimate customers got the "random" memory corruption. Then someone figured out you could use the corruption to get free games, so it was a happy ending after all.
Yeah, a few years ago when I was young and didn't have insurance there was a cash doctor in town. Her office didn't take insurance at all, you paid in cash. And her cash price was the same as I would later pay for a copay when I did get insurance. That does make me think most of the cost of a doctors visit is overhead for insurance record keeping and wonder if there is any benefit to it.
It's probably been 6 years now. Time warner was doing their mystro cable box upgrade. Constant hangs and glitches. One of the straws that finally got me was they had a porn channel next to one of the channels I regularly watch so the descriptions comes up every time I look at the guide. There was no way to just have a favorites list either. It occurred to me that my kids would be reading very soon and I would have to answer a lot questions before I wanted to if that continued. It turned out basic was only $2 more than just internet so I have basic now but the box is gone and we mostly watch netflix or hulu.
If I read the wiki correctly. The company went bankrupt, new owners took over and sued Marvel for a piece of the pie. Kind of like a lottery ticket: not much chance of winning, but the payoff is huge. They lost. Second group did the same thing, The third group which apparently is some kind of hedge fund did the same thing. This is their appeal. So not really related to Stan Lee or anyone originally at Stan Lee Media.
I don't find the fact only 2 nurses got sick comforting. I'm no mathematician but if everyone who catches it spreads it to 2 people I predict we are in for a rough time.
My 95 Buick station wagon has variable assist power steering, so yeah, I don't see what the excitement is about. It works by using a steering box that varies the ration as you turn and a sensor on the steering column and a variable output pump.
Slashdot Mirror
Around here .410 and 20 gauge are not considered lethal weapons. It's what you would give your kid to play with out in the woods.
MS has fooled me too many times. For me that's a lot of money to invest in something they could just drop and walk away from at a whim. I think I'll pass.
$70 a month to use my credit card does seem a little high.
It looks that way from here also.
Yes, If my kid is riding his bike and gets run over by one of these things, I won't care in the least that 2 other kids lives were saved, or even 100. I'll be getting the pitchforks and torches.
Yes, there's a danger of that. I got one of those once, a $100 gift card for getting a project done on time. I spent more than that on child care on those late nights I worked. It really only just made me mad.
Years ago when when I saw the first article on this I showed it to my wife who's a Med Tech in a hospital lab. She was immediately very skeptical. She said you can't do some of those tests they were claiming with a finger stick. Apparently it's not the volume of blood that's the problem it's the location you get it from. So, no, I guess they didn't.
I drive a car from the 60's. Will continue to do so for the rest of my life. No one got rid of horse drawn carriages, they are a common site in many areas of the country, as are 16 foot wide farm implements traveling at very slow speeds. The biggest annoyance by far though is on Saturday when groups of 50 or more bicyclist come out from the city and clog up the roads. I'm ok with a few, but, how do you pass 50 or 100 of them in a solid group? Bicycle technology was surpassed 100 years ago, yet there they are.
I have fond memories of my 78 dodge challenger, and 82 plymouth sapporo.
You are assuming all restaurants have the same cost. An independent restaurant that preps fresh food is going to have a much higher labor cost than a franchise restaurant that brings in everything on the freezer truck.
Same here, I was 10, my brother 8. He heard about it at work, and drove us the 40 miles to the nearest theater. And we were so conservative we didn't have a television. We did have to listen to him complain about Hollywood taking a perfectly good movie and adding 1 bad word for no apparent reason. Of course now we know they did that on purpose to make sure they didn't get a G rating.
I work on a similar project. I doubt he's talking about shuffling icons around. Our product was designed when 640x480 monitors were common so most older forms are smaller than that. At some point they they decided our customers probably had 800x600 monitors so half the forms are that size. They aren't resizable either. So a user with a modern monitor has a screen with a form that takes up about a quarter of their desktop. It's OK on most screens but the screens with grids that require a lot of scrolling are infuriating.
The main screen is tabbed. It has 3 rows of tabs across the top of the page. Some of these pages have a row of tabs down the side.
Different menu options appear and disappear with no clue as to why.
We have listboxes that are 1 inch tall that contain hundreds of rows. We have drop down lists that have over a thousand items. We have a grid that now has 20,000 rows and takes 10 minutes to load the form. They are virtually unusable.
Some of the text boxes don't allow control-c for copy, some don't have copy in the context menu, so there is not 1 way to do copy paste. Some text boxes start typing at the far left automatically. Some start typing where you placed the cursor.
We can't really change anything existing because we would need a change order. Can't really do anything about new stuff because we have a "standards and consistencies" document.
I could be wrong but I think this was already decided the other way when an anti-abortion site posted names of abortion doctors.
My grandmother spent a significant amount of time hunting every day while grandfather was working in the fields. If she didn't shoot a squirrel or rabbit there would likely be no meat on the table. Without a refrigerator she had to kill something every day.
Yeah, I would say the opposite. My experience is they are more likely to get promoted out of their developer job. Someone who knows the application and doesn't mind talking to the customers and can communicate well is fairly rare. Most of the guys on the teams I've been on have no interest in talking to the customers. Most of the guys that don't mind, probably shouldn't.
Of course the fact they probably walked 10 to 20 miles a day might be related also.
Atari did that with the video game Tempest. Then someone forgot and made a change that caused the test to fail and legitimate customers got the "random" memory corruption. Then someone figured out you could use the corruption to get free games, so it was a happy ending after all.
They will not lose any money. There is no tourism to KS. If it wasn't in between CO and the eastern US it wouldn't have any visitors at all.
If the goal is to arrest people that might be unreasonable.
If the goal is to reduce the number of illegal border crossings, this is not a valid metric to look at.
Yeah, a few years ago when I was young and didn't have insurance there was a cash doctor in town. Her office didn't take insurance at all, you paid in cash. And her cash price was the same as I would later pay for a copay when I did get insurance. That does make me think most of the cost of a doctors visit is overhead for insurance record keeping and wonder if there is any benefit to it.
It's probably been 6 years now. Time warner was doing their mystro cable box upgrade. Constant hangs and glitches. One of the straws that finally got me was they had a porn channel next to one of the channels I regularly watch so the descriptions comes up every time I look at the guide. There was no way to just have a favorites list either. It occurred to me that my kids would be reading very soon and I would have to answer a lot questions before I wanted to if that continued. It turned out basic was only $2 more than just internet so I have basic now but the box is gone and we mostly watch netflix or hulu.
If I read the wiki correctly. The company went bankrupt, new owners took over and sued Marvel for a piece of the pie. Kind of like a lottery ticket: not much chance of winning, but the payoff is huge. They lost. Second group did the same thing, The third group which apparently is some kind of hedge fund did the same thing. This is their appeal. So not really related to Stan Lee or anyone originally at Stan Lee Media.
I don't find the fact only 2 nurses got sick comforting. I'm no mathematician but if everyone who catches it spreads it to 2 people I predict we are in for a rough time.
Now the whole car will be covered.
Incidentally, Richard Petty had a vinyl top in '68 and NASCAR outlawed it after everyone else complained of the extra advantage.
My 95 Buick station wagon has variable assist power steering, so yeah, I don't see what the excitement is about. It works by using a steering box that varies the ration as you turn and a sensor on the steering column and a variable output pump.