If you weren't a dumbass and drinking and driving in the first place, machines like this wouldn't need to exist anyways.
You misunderstand me. I don't drink and drive as I find it socially irresponsible and morally repugnant. I'm not looking at it from the side of a guilty person trying to get off on a technicality. I am looking at it from an innocent person who doesn't wish to be falsely accused because of possible bugs in algorithms I don't have access to reviewing if they accuse me of drinking when I have not been doing so.
I'm a contractor for a company doing development work and I just took over the job for a guy who went into games. For free. He's working for a game company for 3 months as an intern for just a CHANCE to work for them permanently.
Of course there are, but the algorithm that determines whether I get a criminal record or not should NOT be one of them. It's the equivalent of a cop getting to go into a courtroom and say "Trust us he's guilty, but the method we used to determine that is a trade secret."
At my last development job (building DB applictions for the web and the desktop for individual clients) I was required to stand by my code. I got a bonus for how many I hours I could bill our clients, and any time spent fixing bugs was NON-BILLABLE. Our clients didn't make the bugs, so they don't get charged to fix them. This caused me to be extra careful in my personal debugging and QA testing. Others should do this too.
So the entire point of GNU/Linux is to convert you from Windows to it? Sounds more than a little bit arrogant.
I'm sorry I was under the impression that manufacturers of a product wanted people to use their product. If you feel like Linux is "your thing" and aren't interested in it catching on then fine, but there are many linux users who are waiting for it to gain more overall desktop acceptance, and its attitudes like yours that hinder their quest.
I think that's a big IF. Most cell phone companies charge a decent amount (20-25$) for replacement chargers, when the cost is probably only a few bucks. I doubt they'll give that up willingly.
I'd like to see one with a good ole turbo button though!
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Aside from the reverse handed-ness, it appears to be the same as the waaay kewl Google maps. Hey google guys, how about telling us how this is different?
I think you have just set a precedent for Slashdot. You have not only not clicked the links to read, but you didn't even read the summary info! From the summary: "Now, when you query Google Local (local.google.com), a map pops up, displaying the many businesses and services that match you query"
Wasn't the quality of life in Pre-WWII Nazi Germany relatively high?
Not at all. After WWI ended the germans were forced to sign the Treaty of Versailles that severely crippled them economically. It was mainly through the level of dissatisfaction people had with their quality of life (which was caused by the Treaty), that Hitler was able to gain power.
I think you're confusing probaility with randomness. Cards are dealt in poker at random, but it is still possible (though improbable) to get a straight 5 hands in a row.
I think the main difference is that a hurricane is a bit more predictable than a blizzard. Granted, I've lived in Florida all my life (and have yet to see any snow in person), but my understandings of blizzards is you don't get a week of advanced warning to prepare for them like you do with a hurricane. This combined with the fact that you may have 2 or 3 going at one time means we need something more specific than "a buttload of rain is coming this way."
I think one thing that holds Mozilla/Firefox back from wider adoption is the fact that many people are lazy enough to make a site only work in IE
In some cases it isn't a decision of laziness, but of business. My former employer (a web devlopment firm) determined the webshare that non IE browsers got for one of our clients. It was only 5%. They then determined how much business that client did per year and figured out how many extra hours (and thus extra cost to the client) it would cost to make the features we were developing acceptable by alternative browsers (FF/Netscape/Mozilla/Opera/etc). The cost outweighed the extra profit, so we developed IE centric solutions.
Keep in mind I say this as someone who uses Firefox almost exclusively.
Well, so you're saying you prefer Windows over Linux because of vendor support.
Incorrect. My vendor for my card makes a native linux driver. Granted it may have been easier to install as a.deb or.rpm package, but having to do a "make all", "make install" is not uncommon for linux. This is what took me 2-3 days to get working, not some ndiswrapper or some other hack. Something that should have just worked, period.
I will say in Debian's defense though that apt-get (and by extension Kynaptic) is one of the most useful things I have ever seen and I hope someone does something similar for Windows one day.
I thought we wanted our Windows-using friends to dump Internet Explorer, as a first step in the process of dumping Windows.
Well, at least I do.
While I wouldn't say that you are in the minority on Slashdot, there are still a good amount who would disagree. I myself actually *gasp* like Windows. Is it flawed? Sure, but for me it beats the alternative. Let us take for example my 802.11b wireless USB adapter. Had it running in windows in 5 minutes with no reboots and all I had to do was stick a CD in the drive and click a few times on the mouse. Contrast this with Linux. I recently installed Debian Sarge to see how Linux was coming along and to make sure some of my code was cross-platform as planned. It took me 3 days of work (granted I only had the patience for 2-3 hours a day) trying to get my wireless USB working. Finally after reading about 10 forums and editing a makefile I get it working. Am I interested in dumping Windows for that? Nope.
One of the things about Maxthon is that you can simple higlight any text on the page and do a small "drag and drop" to part of the page and it'll open up a new tab with the google search results for the text you highlighted and dragged.
You can do the same thing with less effort in Firefox without a plugin.
1) Highlight the text.
2) Right click.
3) Click "Search web for "
4) PROFIT!!!
Reminds me of the episode of Conan where Triumph goes to the Star Wars premiere.
"That's a pretty good Vader impression, but you need to make your voice sound tired. Imagine you've just run 10 feet."
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If you weren't a dumbass and drinking and driving in the first place, machines like this wouldn't need to exist anyways.
You misunderstand me. I don't drink and drive as I find it socially irresponsible and morally repugnant. I'm not looking at it from the side of a guilty person trying to get off on a technicality. I am looking at it from an innocent person who doesn't wish to be falsely accused because of possible bugs in algorithms I don't have access to reviewing if they accuse me of drinking when I have not been doing so.
I'm a contractor for a company doing development work and I just took over the job for a guy who went into games. For free. He's working for a game company for 3 months as an intern for just a CHANCE to work for them permanently.
Aren't there Trade Secrets?
Of course there are, but the algorithm that determines whether I get a criminal record or not should NOT be one of them. It's the equivalent of a cop getting to go into a courtroom and say "Trust us he's guilty, but the method we used to determine that is a trade secret."
I want Crystal Pepsi back!
At my last development job (building DB applictions for the web and the desktop for individual clients) I was required to stand by my code. I got a bonus for how many I hours I could bill our clients, and any time spent fixing bugs was NON-BILLABLE. Our clients didn't make the bugs, so they don't get charged to fix them. This caused me to be extra careful in my personal debugging and QA testing. Others should do this too.
So the entire point of GNU/Linux is to convert you from Windows to it? Sounds more than a little bit arrogant.
I'm sorry I was under the impression that manufacturers of a product wanted people to use their product. If you feel like Linux is "your thing" and aren't interested in it catching on then fine, but there are many linux users who are waiting for it to gain more overall desktop acceptance, and its attitudes like yours that hinder their quest.
No, but once (if) it gets built into phones
I think that's a big IF. Most cell phone companies charge a decent amount (20-25$) for replacement chargers, when the cost is probably only a few bucks. I doubt they'll give that up willingly.
More like something along these lines.
...the BIOS screen you think you see isn't the bare hardware's BIOS screen. It's the virtual machine's.
Well in that case you could just pack your own computer along with your tin foil hat.
I'd like to see one with a good ole turbo button though!
Aside from the reverse handed-ness, it appears to be the same as the waaay kewl Google maps. Hey google guys, how about telling us how this is different?
I think you have just set a precedent for Slashdot. You have not only not clicked the links to read, but you didn't even read the summary info! From the summary: "Now, when you query Google Local (local.google.com), a map pops up, displaying the many businesses and services that match you query"
Did you ever see "conspiracy theory"?
Yeah I downloaded the soundtrack after I got done shoplifting the DVD. And I didn't report it on my taxes either...
Another vital point to add to that is BMP is lossless.
Wasn't the quality of life in Pre-WWII Nazi Germany relatively high?
Not at all. After WWI ended the germans were forced to sign the Treaty of Versailles that severely crippled them economically. It was mainly through the level of dissatisfaction people had with their quality of life (which was caused by the Treaty), that Hitler was able to gain power.
That's not very random.
I think you're confusing probaility with randomness. Cards are dealt in poker at random, but it is still possible (though improbable) to get a straight 5 hands in a row.
You can't sure the individual officers, but you can sue the police department.
I think the main difference is that a hurricane is a bit more predictable than a blizzard. Granted, I've lived in Florida all my life (and have yet to see any snow in person), but my understandings of blizzards is you don't get a week of advanced warning to prepare for them like you do with a hurricane. This combined with the fact that you may have 2 or 3 going at one time means we need something more specific than "a buttload of rain is coming this way."
No, they just assumed they wouldn't need more than 21 names
Darn lazy Y2Hurricane programmers!
Politicians that tell the truth?
Then why would they go into politics in the first place?
I think one thing that holds Mozilla/Firefox back from wider adoption is the fact that many people are lazy enough to make a site only work in IE
In some cases it isn't a decision of laziness, but of business. My former employer (a web devlopment firm) determined the webshare that non IE browsers got for one of our clients. It was only 5%. They then determined how much business that client did per year and figured out how many extra hours (and thus extra cost to the client) it would cost to make the features we were developing acceptable by alternative browsers (FF/Netscape/Mozilla/Opera/etc). The cost outweighed the extra profit, so we developed IE centric solutions.
Keep in mind I say this as someone who uses Firefox almost exclusively.
Be gentile
I'm Jewish you insensitive clod!
Well, so you're saying you prefer Windows over Linux because of vendor support.
.deb or .rpm package, but having to do a "make all", "make install" is not uncommon for linux. This is what took me 2-3 days to get working, not some ndiswrapper or some other hack. Something that should have just worked, period.
Incorrect. My vendor for my card makes a native linux driver. Granted it may have been easier to install as a
I will say in Debian's defense though that apt-get (and by extension Kynaptic) is one of the most useful things I have ever seen and I hope someone does something similar for Windows one day.
I thought we wanted our Windows-using friends to dump Internet Explorer, as a first step in the process of dumping Windows.
Well, at least I do.
While I wouldn't say that you are in the minority on Slashdot, there are still a good amount who would disagree. I myself actually *gasp* like Windows. Is it flawed? Sure, but for me it beats the alternative. Let us take for example my 802.11b wireless USB adapter. Had it running in windows in 5 minutes with no reboots and all I had to do was stick a CD in the drive and click a few times on the mouse. Contrast this with Linux. I recently installed Debian Sarge to see how Linux was coming along and to make sure some of my code was cross-platform as planned. It took me 3 days of work (granted I only had the patience for 2-3 hours a day) trying to get my wireless USB working. Finally after reading about 10 forums and editing a makefile I get it working. Am I interested in dumping Windows for that? Nope.
One of the things about Maxthon is that you can simple higlight any text on the page and do a small "drag and drop" to part of the page and it'll open up a new tab with the google search results for the text you highlighted and dragged.
You can do the same thing with less effort in Firefox without a plugin.
1) Highlight the text.
2) Right click.
3) Click "Search web for "
4) PROFIT!!!
Reminds me of the episode of Conan where Triumph goes to the Star Wars premiere. "That's a pretty good Vader impression, but you need to make your voice sound tired. Imagine you've just run 10 feet."