Things have gotten pretty shitty in terms of legislation, but I'm still a long way from believing that if asked to, the military would simply comply with an order to assault US civilians.
... and yet, that's pretty much exactly what's going on in Syria today, with Basher el-Asshat's military and police forces pitted against Syrian civilians.
Maybe the real reason for the badges and leaderboards is so inept managers who know more about marketing than programming have some way to evaluate what the programmers are doing.
Somehow I don't think you were really trying to be funny... there's more than a grain of truth to this!
Point (2), on the other hand, is an "in-your-face" sort of behavior that you may or may not like. Users who don't know what they're doing might benefit from having the menu right there in front of them. Personally, however, I just collapse the Ribbon (double-click it) so that it acts like regular pull-down menus (albeit arranged horizontally instead of vertically). If I'm doing stuff that requires a lot of menu interaction (text formatting in Word) I might lock it open (again, double-click it) but in general I don't want it in my way.
If you took nothing else away from my post, hopefully you caught the fact that double-clicking the Ribbon makes it go away.
Thank you! I did not know about this. With this feature and ALT key prompting, Word is much more to my liking now.
Cheers!
What are the laws for sending something high up in the atmosphere and dropping it to the earth at high speed like a poor-man's ballistic missile? Is there a law that keeps people from doing this over an inhabited area? What counts as an "inhabited area"? The last thing I'm thinking of when hiking in an uninhabited wilderness is that someone's iPad might land on my head.
It seems that these amateur baloon experiments are becoming more common (or maybe Youtube just makes them better publicized), but in any case, I'm wondering what the rules are for dropping random things from the sky.
Your survivors will be able to sue for wrongful death (provided they can find out whose random thing from the sky it is).
Well that's very interesting because I HAVE noticed a significant increase in network interference (network dropout and reboot) since Corix installed the Smart Meter on my neighbor's house. (I deferred installation on my own, preferring to take a wait-and-see approach.) My router sits in the middle of my house; the Smart Meter is located on the wall of my neighbor's house nearest my own. There's no question in my mind that this is a real phenomenon.
Where did you get your information about the twice-a-day broadcast frequency from?
Be under no illusions: when times turn bad for your present company, they'll toss you over the side like a used kleenex. Your first priority -- your prime directive -- is to look out for yourself.
It's the job of the company's management to manage risks, and one of the risks they face is losing their main development resources (whether voluntarily or involuntarily -- you could get hit by a bus). They need to manage that risk by ensuring -- in terms of compensation -- that the risk of voluntary departure is minimized. Clearly they have failed to do so adequately. That's their problem. They'll have to deal with the fall-out from their own lack of understanding and foresight.
You, however, have a primary responsibility to yourself and to your family. Loyalty be damned; that's just a mind game. There's business and then there's friendship -- and business trumps friendship every time -- please see first statement above and exit (to break recursion).
I thought your 2004 album turned out quite well, with a couple of really good cuts. I liked "Common People" (with Joe Jackson) well enough to still play it occasionally. Do you have any plans for future musical projects with Joe (one hopes) or any other musician or are you working on anything musical right now?
That's cool! I actually didn't know it did this, and I've used Office 2007 for a few years now. I suspect that's the case for more than a few other users. Thanks!
My next point...how fucking stupid are you? Your UID clearly says you've been here a long time but your post clearly says you're a really dumb fucking idiot to suggest herd-think doesn't exist on slashdot. Your post does not make sense in the least. It is in of itself a complete contradiction.
It was a reasonable request. Provide a link or STFU, you attention-seeking git.
Slashdot is fucking dead - jumped the shark over a year ago.
[...]That's all garden-variety stuff by now, but I did have a more interesting case come up on my website. I had occasion to write about someone who was trying to scam people with an online "contest" that was rigged. Yes, I named names, especially after the guy (who went by more than one name BTW) tried to intimidate me with fake legal threats. Years later, I got email saying that he'd reformed, he was trying to get a job, but potential employers would Google for his name and find my site. Tough luck, I thought, and continued to think as the pleas kept coming every few months for years. What finally got my attention was when he mentioned that he now had a family. This little piece of history, no matter how valid, was now starting to affect *other people* who were completely innocent. [...]
Did you happen to check to confirm his story? Does he really have a family? Once a con artist, after all,... and maybe it was potential marks, not employers, who were finding out his history by Googling him.
From personal experience, when I want to lose some weight I cut down on the amount that I eat (especially the junk food and candy) and I exercise more. The weight disappears. Weird, eh?
Wouldn't this be corrected by randomization? Or is it only overweight people who under-report intake and over-report expenditure?
I suspect there's more than a grain of truth to this. It wouldn't be surprising if obese individuals generally under-report not only to those surveying them but even to themselves in order to assuage personal guilt about overeating and thereby shift the blame for their condition from themselves to some unverified and uncontrollable external factor (genetic predisposition to overweight, etc.). Individuals closer to the ideal (i.e. lighter) weight would have no motive to be dishonest with themselves or anyone else about the amounts they consume or exercise.
Well said! I wish I had mod points to mod you up! As it is, I'll have to content myself with both congratulating you and heartily agreeing with what you've written.
Consider that LaVey's Church of Satan are actually atheists
Deliciously ironic: Anton LaVey died on October 29, 1997, in St. Mary's Medical Center in San Francisco of pulmonary edema.[13] He was taken to St. Mary's, a Catholic hospital, because it was the closest available.
Guy looked like a dick, incidentally. If you're going to lead a cult, try not to look like such a walking cliche.
Tasers are a non-lethal general purpose alternative to going hand to hand with someone or shooting them. The chances of getting hurt, either the officer or the suspect, in a fist fight are much higher than when a taser is used.
I can believe this. Watching people blunder around while driving or walking around a grocery store with a mobile phone affixed to their heads, I've come to the conclusion that mobile phone proximity causes your brain to rot as well.
I wish I had mod points... your post surely deserves promotion. Made me laugh and made me nod in agreement (I live across the water in Nanaimo). Well done!
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The entire dispute was completely irrational!
Things have gotten pretty shitty in terms of legislation, but I'm still a long way from believing that if asked to, the military would simply comply with an order to assault US civilians.
... and yet, that's pretty much exactly what's going on in Syria today, with Basher el-Asshat's military and police forces pitted against Syrian civilians.
Can't happen here? Think again.
Fine, but don't stop with Dodd
It's be quite OK to start with Dodd.
Maybe the real reason for the badges and leaderboards is so inept managers who know more about marketing than programming have some way to evaluate what the programmers are doing.
Somehow I don't think you were really trying to be funny ... there's more than a grain of truth to this!
Point (2), on the other hand, is an "in-your-face" sort of behavior that you may or may not like. Users who don't know what they're doing might benefit from having the menu right there in front of them. Personally, however, I just collapse the Ribbon (double-click it) so that it acts like regular pull-down menus (albeit arranged horizontally instead of vertically). If I'm doing stuff that requires a lot of menu interaction (text formatting in Word) I might lock it open (again, double-click it) but in general I don't want it in my way.
If you took nothing else away from my post, hopefully you caught the fact that double-clicking the Ribbon makes it go away.
Thank you! I did not know about this. With this feature and ALT key prompting, Word is much more to my liking now. Cheers!
What are the laws for sending something high up in the atmosphere and dropping it to the earth at high speed like a poor-man's ballistic missile? Is there a law that keeps people from doing this over an inhabited area? What counts as an "inhabited area"? The last thing I'm thinking of when hiking in an uninhabited wilderness is that someone's iPad might land on my head.
It seems that these amateur baloon experiments are becoming more common (or maybe Youtube just makes them better publicized), but in any case, I'm wondering what the rules are for dropping random things from the sky.
Your survivors will be able to sue for wrongful death (provided they can find out whose random thing from the sky it is).
Conclusions you can draw from this study: people who ride transit and lose their USB memory stick while doing so are
(a) unlikely to encrypt the contents of their memory stick, and
(b) prone to malware infections
I'm not certain that this group is representative of the general population, however.
Well that's very interesting because I HAVE noticed a significant increase in network interference (network dropout and reboot) since Corix installed the Smart Meter on my neighbor's house. (I deferred installation on my own, preferring to take a wait-and-see approach.) My router sits in the middle of my house; the Smart Meter is located on the wall of my neighbor's house nearest my own. There's no question in my mind that this is a real phenomenon. Where did you get your information about the twice-a-day broadcast frequency from?
And I refuse to stop using kewl. It's too kewl not to. Crap I'm old.
Right on, dude!
> Diederik Stapel's latest paper claimed that eating meat made people anto-social and selfish.
And eating shellfish makes you ...
... sociable and eager to meet people. (Obviously.)
Be under no illusions: when times turn bad for your present company, they'll toss you over the side like a used kleenex. Your first priority -- your prime directive -- is to look out for yourself.
It's the job of the company's management to manage risks, and one of the risks they face is losing their main development resources (whether voluntarily or involuntarily -- you could get hit by a bus). They need to manage that risk by ensuring -- in terms of compensation -- that the risk of voluntary departure is minimized. Clearly they have failed to do so adequately. That's their problem. They'll have to deal with the fall-out from their own lack of understanding and foresight.
You, however, have a primary responsibility to yourself and to your family. Loyalty be damned; that's just a mind game. There's business and then there's friendship -- and business trumps friendship every time -- please see first statement above and exit (to break recursion).
I thought your 2004 album turned out quite well, with a couple of really good cuts. I liked "Common People" (with Joe Jackson) well enough to still play it occasionally. Do you have any plans for future musical projects with Joe (one hopes) or any other musician or are you working on anything musical right now?
Has anyone gotten both a scientific (physics or chemistry) Nobel Prize, *and* the Nobel Peace Prize for the same discovery?
No.
That's cool! I actually didn't know it did this, and I've used Office 2007 for a few years now. I suspect that's the case for more than a few other users. Thanks!
Great herd-think.
My next point...how fucking stupid are you? Your UID clearly says you've been here a long time but your post clearly says you're a really dumb fucking idiot to suggest herd-think doesn't exist on slashdot. Your post does not make sense in the least. It is in of itself a complete contradiction.
It was a reasonable request. Provide a link or STFU, you attention-seeking git.
Slashdot is fucking dead - jumped the shark over a year ago.
What, you're still here? Why?
[...]That's all garden-variety stuff by now, but I did have a more interesting case come up on my website. I had occasion to write about someone who was trying to scam people with an online "contest" that was rigged. Yes, I named names, especially after the guy (who went by more than one name BTW) tried to intimidate me with fake legal threats. Years later, I got email saying that he'd reformed, he was trying to get a job, but potential employers would Google for his name and find my site. Tough luck, I thought, and continued to think as the pleas kept coming every few months for years. What finally got my attention was when he mentioned that he now had a family. This little piece of history, no matter how valid, was now starting to affect *other people* who were completely innocent. [...]
Did you happen to check to confirm his story? Does he really have a family? Once a con artist, after all, ... and maybe it was potential marks, not employers, who were finding out his history by Googling him.
Well said!
From personal experience, when I want to lose some weight I cut down on the amount that I eat (especially the junk food and candy) and I exercise more. The weight disappears. Weird, eh?
Wouldn't this be corrected by randomization? Or is it only overweight people who under-report intake and over-report expenditure?
I suspect there's more than a grain of truth to this. It wouldn't be surprising if obese individuals generally under-report not only to those surveying them but even to themselves in order to assuage personal guilt about overeating and thereby shift the blame for their condition from themselves to some unverified and uncontrollable external factor (genetic predisposition to overweight, etc.). Individuals closer to the ideal (i.e. lighter) weight would have no motive to be dishonest with themselves or anyone else about the amounts they consume or exercise.
Well said! I wish I had mod points to mod you up! As it is, I'll have to content myself with both congratulating you and heartily agreeing with what you've written.
R. Stocker, Ph.D., P.Eng.
Brilliant! Even just reading it makes me laugh out loud. Thanks for posting!
(For the literarily-challenged: Romanes eunt domus)
Consider that LaVey's Church of Satan are actually atheists
Deliciously ironic: Anton LaVey died on October 29, 1997, in St. Mary's Medical Center in San Francisco of pulmonary edema.[13] He was taken to St. Mary's, a Catholic hospital, because it was the closest available.
Guy looked like a dick, incidentally. If you're going to lead a cult, try not to look like such a walking cliche.
Tasers are a non-lethal general purpose alternative to going hand to hand with someone or shooting them. The chances of getting hurt, either the officer or the suspect, in a fist fight are much higher than when a taser is used.
Tell that to poor old Robert Dziekanski.
Dr Hone's presence was in part to train the new wave of Chinese scientists. Also, he got lucky.
I didn't see anything in TFA about Dr. Hone's sex life.
I can believe this. Watching people blunder around while driving or walking around a grocery store with a mobile phone affixed to their heads, I've come to the conclusion that mobile phone proximity causes your brain to rot as well.
I wish I had mod points ... your post surely deserves promotion. Made me laugh and made me nod in agreement (I live across the water in Nanaimo). Well done!