Today, more and more websites are designed in a such a way that disabling Javascript breaks them completely -- you literally get nothing but a blank page.
IMHO these websites are examples of bad design . Good design should fall back to plain html/css with ideally, minimum loss of functionality
IMHO these websites are examples of bad design . Good design should fall back to a fixed width of 120 characters and height of 80 characters of plain text with ideally, minimum loss of functionality
Morons spout off stupid garbage like this because they were told once 20 years ago that these types of statements are absolutes, and then forget that time keeps moving forward and so do people's expectations.
Dynamic interactions with scripting languages are here right now and in use almost everywhere except old angelfire/geocities sites with the nice space backgrounds. You might find some hipster trying to make a point by making their site completely in html/css, but that is just a pathetic attempt at holding back innovation and progress.
Ok, they suffer the consequences of their actions. Those consequences result in them having major operations that could have been prevented. End of story right? Nope, they just racked up a bill that you're helping to pay off through insurance.. and to what tune? To the tune of the next 10 years of their regular check-ups and maintenance in 1 go.
So which do you want? Higher premiums or regular maintenance?
Ounce of prevention, pound of cure. It's not just a saying. You're going to be paying for my pound of cure baby... rock on! Best part is, I got my beer too.
If you have to save to go to the doctor, people won't go to the doctor for routine care. When people don't go to the doctor for routine care, they have to solve the problems after they've become problems. Ounce of prevention, pound of cure?
A real-life example... even pre-ACA.
A co-worker hates going to doctors, so it wasn't about cost, it was just about fear of doctors. They recently had to go to the dentist for a root canal and a crown. They complained about jaw pain, thinking it was lockjaw, or whatever else the webs would say could possibly cause that discomfort. So here they are, in major pain, with a major operation, with a major bill at the end all because... they didn't want to go to the goddamn doctor for routine checkups in which they could have just paid 20 bucks for a dental cleaning once in a while and maybe another 20 bucks for a filling.
The major operations are what causes the costs to grow exponentially.
I'd rather them only pay a co-pay for regular checkups, so they'd actually go instead of having to save for it. C'mon, 120 bucks for a dental visit when you don't feel anything wrong with yourself or 120 dollars of beer. That's an obvious decision... I'd go home with the beer, I floss and brush my teeth everyday, I got no problems.... except the last time I went in I had a cavity, but that's just an exception right? right? right?/sarcasm
The reasoning for not using a dvd or blue ray writer is pretty flimsy. They might be more expensive per TB than a hard disk, but they'll last 6 times longer. The majority of the data sounds like it might not even change. Movies, songs... it's all static data. Get a good incremental backup solution in place and it won't be hard to make sure everything is backed up. As the the whole probably never need argument... well, your friend just needed it.
No matter what, you will need a backup. At some point in time you will not be able to buy replacement raid array cards that will work with the volumes you've created. Hardware will be obsoleted, and you'll have to replace it all... that means your backups will need replaced too. If you want it to last 50 years, then that's what it takes!
Give the passengers $20 bucks, or something if they surrender their equipment voluntarily.
Other than that, I think if you're traveling on public roads/property, your limo service shouldn't be able to restrict usage. In fact, I'd be surprised if you're allowed to restrict usage to begin with as I'm sure some law already exists for this!
When access to resources is a difficult or lengthy process, and deadlines for products using those resources don't take that into consideration, then it is easier to hand over your credentials.
If the processes for gaining access were streamlines and efficient, then this wouldn't occur. Since it probably is not streamlines and efficient, this is what you get.
PDF's already embed images, text, layout, colors... you name it. I don't think that's a reason to publish a pdf over expressing that content in html. Violation of convention or purpose or standards... any of those are good arguments, just not throwing in a reason of X already supports this, so use X.
It was just a play on the Sim City fiasco with their online only mode debate. It was sarcasm as you noted in that WoW is an MMORPG in which it's required to be online, as that's what the O is for. It actually had nothing to do with me disliking or liking DRM, only that we're making demands for changes to their ecosystem and we might as well get all crazy on them.
SpaceX used NASA's documentation. They wouldn't have existed if not for NASA, it would not have been profitable to attempt to generate that knowledge. Ditto for Virgin Galactic.
No wealthy businessperson will drop their entire net worth on something that they can't see the rewards from within their lifetime.
I'm not going to waste my time debunking everything you can dream up, but I'm more than confident that none of what you can imagine would have been possible without the government expending its power to lay the infrastructure necessary to operate any of these companies. Or the knowledge acquired from government sponsored research.
Even when you think, man, I got you on THIS! Turn around and look how it's funded. Chances are, it was kickstarted by a government grant.
Except that the minimum rates are the prices they wanted from you anyways. It's like Verizon's unlimited legacy plan vs their 2gb data plan. Metered pricing is good for you right? Well their 2gb data plan cost as much as their unlimited plan (that you can't get anymore).
If they took their previous rates and actually prorated based on usage, then your Grandpa figure could get by on a $1.50 plan instead of $15 one. But the isp can't get by when 50% of everyone pays less than their minimum they need to stay afloat. Nah, you're still making the low volume users subsidize the high volume ones, and then you're gouging the high volume users to the point where they either find a new isp or quit their streaming.
So the poor saps back in the verizon example are paying the $20 for 2gb when quite a few of them use less than 100mb a month and should be paying... $1.
I'm even worse... I'm down at the less than 10mb a month user... Give me my damn 10 cent bill for crying out loud. I'm on wifi all the time. 99.9999% of my usage is being paid for through other providers, but I still have to pay the verizon tax to have a smart phone that uses 10mb of their bandwidth.
That's kind of the point. They'll be making a reality tv show to make some people some big bucks down here on Earth. Then launch the corpses into space.
I wonder if life insurance policies can be terminated for getting selected to be on that show:)
The place I work has lots of documents generated about decisions made, why those decisions were made, etc... They are really helpful documents that save a bunch of time... if only people would read them 6 months later when they should.
Nah, people seem to ask for documentation third. Google first, co-workers second. Only until they run into a co-worker that says RTFM do they get to the third option of reading it:)
Your arguing for the opposite. Making it easier to get loans help divert that money towards schools. The original argument was about making it harder to get loans to take money away from schools. That won't get you re-elected.
As for the forgiveness of debt. People's beef is with banks, not the government. It's also pretty hard to even blame the bank when it's so much easier to blame yourself. You'd have to be pretty dense to think, man, I shouldn't have to pay this money back that I borrowed. It's the governments fault I can't get a job. Never mind that I barely passed, haven't looked for alternatives, and also ignored the advise of my advisers that I should pick a different career path as I'm not doing well.
Nah, debt forgiveness is something I'm not in favor of except in cases of death. I worked my ass off to cover the cost of selling my home at half it's value during the housing crash when others were short-selling (to relatives or acquaintances no less). I signed the paperwork for the loan. I agreed to pay it back. End of story.
The only thing I could see as an acceptable middle-ground is staying the loan until someone can get on their feet. Once they do, they should have to pay it back.
I shouldn't have to pay higher interest rates because people are taking advantage of the system (and me in the process).
Yeah, making it harder for students to get loans is really going to work in their favor:) Based on the population attending college, and the population who has attended in the United States, you're looking at something like 20% of the U.S. could be impacted by those types of actions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher_education_in_the_United_States
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Today, more and more websites are designed in a such a way that disabling Javascript breaks them completely -- you literally get nothing but a blank page.
IMHO these websites are examples of bad design . Good design should fall back to plain html/css with ideally, minimum loss of functionality
IMHO these websites are examples of bad design . Good design should fall back to a fixed width of 120 characters and height of 80 characters of plain text with ideally, minimum loss of functionality
Morons spout off stupid garbage like this because they were told once 20 years ago that these types of statements are absolutes, and then forget that time keeps moving forward and so do people's expectations.
Dynamic interactions with scripting languages are here right now and in use almost everywhere except old angelfire/geocities sites with the nice space backgrounds. You might find some hipster trying to make a point by making their site completely in html/css, but that is just a pathetic attempt at holding back innovation and progress.
Ok, they suffer the consequences of their actions.
Those consequences result in them having major operations that could have been prevented.
End of story right? Nope, they just racked up a bill that you're helping to pay off through insurance.. and to what tune? To the tune of the next 10 years of their regular check-ups and maintenance in 1 go.
So which do you want? Higher premiums or regular maintenance?
Ounce of prevention, pound of cure. It's not just a saying. You're going to be paying for my pound of cure baby... rock on! Best part is, I got my beer too.
If you have to save to go to the doctor, people won't go to the doctor for routine care.
When people don't go to the doctor for routine care, they have to solve the problems after they've become problems.
Ounce of prevention, pound of cure?
A real-life example... even pre-ACA.
A co-worker hates going to doctors, so it wasn't about cost, it was just about fear of doctors.
They recently had to go to the dentist for a root canal and a crown. They complained about jaw pain, thinking it was lockjaw, or whatever else the webs would say could possibly cause that discomfort. So here they are, in major pain, with a major operation, with a major bill at the end all because... they didn't want to go to the goddamn doctor for routine checkups in which they could have just paid 20 bucks for a dental cleaning once in a while and maybe another 20 bucks for a filling.
The major operations are what causes the costs to grow exponentially.
I'd rather them only pay a co-pay for regular checkups, so they'd actually go instead of having to save for it. C'mon, 120 bucks for a dental visit when you don't feel anything wrong with yourself or 120 dollars of beer. That's an obvious decision... I'd go home with the beer, I floss and brush my teeth everyday, I got no problems.... except the last time I went in I had a cavity, but that's just an exception right? right? right? /sarcasm
The reasoning for not using a dvd or blue ray writer is pretty flimsy. They might be more expensive per TB than a hard disk, but they'll last 6 times longer. The majority of the data sounds like it might not even change. Movies, songs... it's all static data. Get a good incremental backup solution in place and it won't be hard to make sure everything is backed up.
As the the whole probably never need argument... well, your friend just needed it.
No matter what, you will need a backup. At some point in time you will not be able to buy replacement raid array cards that will work with the volumes you've created. Hardware will be obsoleted, and you'll have to replace it all... that means your backups will need replaced too. If you want it to last 50 years, then that's what it takes!
Such research.
Much grants.
So controversy.
Plz no frost pist.
Vry concern.
Many cars come with onstar capabilities. which means they have a phone in them.
Give the passengers $20 bucks, or something if they surrender their equipment voluntarily.
Other than that, I think if you're traveling on public roads/property, your limo service shouldn't be able to restrict usage. In fact, I'd be surprised if you're allowed to restrict usage to begin with as I'm sure some law already exists for this!
When access to resources is a difficult or lengthy process, and deadlines for products using those resources don't take that into consideration, then it is easier to hand over your credentials.
If the processes for gaining access were streamlines and efficient, then this wouldn't occur. Since it probably is not streamlines and efficient, this is what you get.
PDF's already embed images, text, layout, colors... you name it.
I don't think that's a reason to publish a pdf over expressing that content in html. Violation of convention or purpose or standards... any of those are good arguments, just not throwing in a reason of X already supports this, so use X.
It was just a play on the Sim City fiasco with their online only mode debate. It was sarcasm as you noted in that WoW is an MMORPG in which it's required to be online, as that's what the O is for. It actually had nothing to do with me disliking or liking DRM, only that we're making demands for changes to their ecosystem and we might as well get all crazy on them.
*Whooooooosh*
I hate the always online mode of WoW. I want an offline version!
SpaceX, Virgin Galactic
UPS, Fedex
Private schools
*cough* Yeah, I can see your point.
SpaceX used NASA's documentation. They wouldn't have existed if not for NASA, it would not have been profitable to attempt to generate that knowledge. Ditto for Virgin Galactic.
No wealthy businessperson will drop their entire net worth on something that they can't see the rewards from within their lifetime.
I'm not going to waste my time debunking everything you can dream up, but I'm more than confident that none of what you can imagine would have been possible without the government expending its power to lay the infrastructure necessary to operate any of these companies. Or the knowledge acquired from government sponsored research.
Even when you think, man, I got you on THIS! Turn around and look how it's funded. Chances are, it was kickstarted by a government grant.
Micro soft
International Business Systems
Apple
My Clean PC
those are all common words too
And it has figured out that all objects have been constructed from an all knowing being. Divine intervention if you will.
http://aims.byu.edu/mission_statement
Except that the minimum rates are the prices they wanted from you anyways. It's like Verizon's unlimited legacy plan vs their 2gb data plan. Metered pricing is good for you right? Well their 2gb data plan cost as much as their unlimited plan (that you can't get anymore).
If they took their previous rates and actually prorated based on usage, then your Grandpa figure could get by on a $1.50 plan instead of $15 one. But the isp can't get by when 50% of everyone pays less than their minimum they need to stay afloat. Nah, you're still making the low volume users subsidize the high volume ones, and then you're gouging the high volume users to the point where they either find a new isp or quit their streaming.
So the poor saps back in the verizon example are paying the $20 for 2gb when quite a few of them use less than 100mb a month and should be paying... $1.
I'm even worse... I'm down at the less than 10mb a month user... Give me my damn 10 cent bill for crying out loud. I'm on wifi all the time. 99.9999% of my usage is being paid for through other providers, but I still have to pay the verizon tax to have a smart phone that uses 10mb of their bandwidth.
Exactly! *nods head*
you're being trolled.
ok, add 2 months.. it's still 2 years apart regardless.
buuuut....
http://www.universetoday.com/14824/distance-from-earth-to-mars/
May. 22, 2016 – 75.3 million km (46.8 million miles)
Jul. 27. 2018 – 57.6 million km (35.8 million miles)
Oct. 13, 2020 – 62.1 million km (38.6 million miles)
Looks like every 2 years is about the closest points anyways.
2 years is based on how many episodes of their reality tv show should play before they select a set of new "winners"
That's kind of the point. They'll be making a reality tv show to make some people some big bucks down here on Earth. Then launch the corpses into space.
I wonder if life insurance policies can be terminated for getting selected to be on that show :)
The place I work has lots of documents generated about decisions made, why those decisions were made, etc...
They are really helpful documents that save a bunch of time... if only people would read them 6 months later when they should.
Nah, people seem to ask for documentation third. Google first, co-workers second. Only until they run into a co-worker that says RTFM do they get to the third option of reading it :)
Your arguing for the opposite. Making it easier to get loans help divert that money towards schools.
The original argument was about making it harder to get loans to take money away from schools. That won't get you re-elected.
As for the forgiveness of debt. People's beef is with banks, not the government. It's also pretty hard to even blame the bank when it's so much easier to blame yourself. You'd have to be pretty dense to think, man, I shouldn't have to pay this money back that I borrowed. It's the governments fault I can't get a job. Never mind that I barely passed, haven't looked for alternatives, and also ignored the advise of my advisers that I should pick a different career path as I'm not doing well.
Nah, debt forgiveness is something I'm not in favor of except in cases of death. I worked my ass off to cover the cost of selling my home at half it's value during the housing crash when others were short-selling (to relatives or acquaintances no less). I signed the paperwork for the loan. I agreed to pay it back. End of story.
The only thing I could see as an acceptable middle-ground is staying the loan until someone can get on their feet. Once they do, they should have to pay it back.
I shouldn't have to pay higher interest rates because people are taking advantage of the system (and me in the process).
Yeah, making it harder for students to get loans is really going to work in their favor :)
Based on the population attending college, and the population who has attended in the United States, you're looking at something like 20% of the U.S. could be impacted by those types of actions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher_education_in_the_United_States
Good luck getting re-elected.