Exactly. It's just the attitude that irritated me. When will people realize that when you point a finger at a person, calling them such things as "asshole" and "numbnuts", you still have 4 pointing right back at yourself?
You're an asshole and besides that you're wrong. The left lane is not the "fast" lane. It is the passing lane. You know all those "KEEP RIGHT EXCEPT TO PASS" signs you see all over? What do you think they mean, numbnuts?
Oh grow up. Not everybody has "KEEP RIGHT EXCEPT TO PASS" signs posted all over. In Minnesota, we have "SLOW TRAFFIC KEEP RIGHT" signs.
I've looked over the traffic laws on several occassions to try and verify that passing on the right is illegal, but in NY it simply isn't unless by doing so you're creating an unsafe condition. The same is true in Minnesota.
Crazy.... I have lived in Minnesota my whole life, and we don't pass on the shoulder here. My grandpa has told me about some trips to down to some of the southern states (I think Texas, in this case), where he said it appears to be fairly common practice, since it happened to him a few times on his vacation, and he wasn't expecting it. Any further insights into this, anyone?
Either way, I think the video is a clear indicator of the problems associated with right-side passing, so I disagree with your analysis that it isn't unsafe. Cars are often on the shoulder of the roads, especially in more urban areas, and if you allow passing on the shoulder, some serious problems would arise in a very short period of time. Don't underestimate road rage, or the risks a person is willing to take just to get somewhere a little bit quicker.
If you take anything that Google's done (Search, Maps, News, Email, IM), they've taken what others have done it and tried perfecting it. A much better idea than finding new niche markets.
Where *do* you happen to be from? If you say England, I'm going to dedicate the rest of my life to inventing a product that will reach through your computer monitor and slap you in the face.
web authors might once again create offensive 'please upgrade to Internet Explorer' web pages
I don't think you're going to see this again. We can't deny, of course, that it was once this way, but the internet is quickly moving away from the "wild cowboy" days and growing up. There is a much bigger focus in general for properly formed and designed web pages (at least, when you consider what the internet once was).
I'm not saying that you won't see a loss of functionality by not using a specific browser, but I think that seeing those kinds of extremes will be a pretty rare sight from this point on. Because really, there's a large emerging mobile market that needs to be served, too, so I think the trend of more 'professionally' designed sites will continue. There's always exceptions, but the above used to be extremely common. I don't see that happening anymore. Even if other browsers are less common, developer demand for adherence to web standards is going stronger all the time.
He looked at me like I was some kind of crook and actually said: "here in Canada we obey international copyright law"
Besides the fact that this guy clearly doesn't know what he hell he's doing (DVD recorders don't limit via region - at least, not the ones I've looked at), had this buttmunch said that to me, he would have been either jobless or leveled out in about 2 minutes flat, depending on his position.
There's no reason why you should have taken that kind of abuse. It's not necessary, and unless you did something about it and happened not to mention it, you did a disservice to a lot of other people by not taking care of this assclown on the spot.
I don't know what the best solution to program organisation is, and I'm sure that neither MacOSX nor Windows have got it right so far.
This is a topic that I'd really like to explore more, for both Windows AND OSX. While I don't use OSX on a regular basis, I was under the impression that apps for OSX were, for the most part, self contained, and to uninstall an app, all you had to do was trash its folder. Now I'm hearing that there are actually problems with this?
Can somebody elaborate? Is there an honest solution to these problems?
Here's a thought: All apps, including libraries, should be installed to a standard location, in their own folder so that they are self contained. For libraries, sym links (directories or files) would then be placed in a standard location that points to the actually installation folder. Then, somehow, the system would detect if an app was "uninstalled", and subsequently remove the sym links from the standard library folder as well.
Hey, I couldn't figure out a way to private message you, but for your sig... how about "Content Restriction and Access Prevention"? For me, anyway, it seems to work a little better.
I know somebody will probably reply with some "supply & demand" rebuttal, but either way...
One of my old co-workers wrote a book on C# when it was becoming popular. One of the things that he stressed is that there is no money in writing books - you do it essentially for the love, and if you make a couple extra dollars, that's a bonus. Presumably tech books don't really sell that awful many copies, but it still costs a substantial amount to print off all those pages. I think the price of the books is a reflection of the relatively niche market that these books are looking to serve a need for, especially considering that most geeks can and likely do get a substantial portion of their information from the internet (the variety of info never hurt anybody, either - we've all seen the books that serve up less-than-ideal principles).
Of course, if you're talking about books you get for college classes, that's a whole different matter. In that case, they rape you just because they can.
Anyway, that's my $0.02. They need to make *some* money on the book, but they don't really sell enough copies to be able to get the substantial discounts that you'd like to see.
hEhE, whoever thought the famous Regina Lynn would post on Slashdot. Taking care of the sexually repressed everywhere, I see! In fact, you probably will fit in even better over here than over at Wired with news like that.;)
As I understand things, many Software Assurance Plans, which were essentially forced on customers with the claim that Longhorn would be available, expire as of 12/31/06.
I wonder if there may be issues with claims salesmen made and this date slippage.
My guess is that is exactly why Microsoft is releasing Vista to certain parties still this year. The delay is only for end consumers of Vista, to which Microsoft has no contractual upgrade requirements.
While what you say has a point to an extent, the basis for it relies on the telco's doing nothing to offset the cost, and also fails to realize that I am *already* subsidizing those lines that they're putting down with my taxes, and by the government-sponsored monopolies that are being awarded to those guys, essentially giving them free reign to rip me off.
Quite honestly, I don't see why I should have to pay $60 a month for a cell phone bill, and be charged for network access on top of it. The direction that this stuff is taking is headed straight for the raping that is cell phone companies today.
If they want to offset these costs, charge more for the pipe or offer less bandwidth for the same price, but I'll be damned if I'll bend over and take it up the butt to artificial restrictions being put in place to prevent me from having access to what I already paid for to begin with (and bandwidth that is not guaranteed anyway).
It's not like we have a lot of options here people!
I've got about 49 other examples that I could show you proving that you're not alone.
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Resident Evil 4 was a third person action/horror adventure game
I wonder if RE4 could accurately be described as second-person, since the camera is fixed and all, unlike what you would normally expect a third-person to be.
Google's safe-browsing extension that was landed on the trunk has 2 modes. The standard mode, downloads a blacklist of sites and the sites are looked up locally. The enhanced mode, sends every URL to Google. Mozilla has not committed to either of these modes.
This is one reason that I believe that software like this is just feel-good marketing software in the first place. The thing is, I can't trust a company to respect my privacy when they are sending every single URI to a server for "checking". The gold mine that is cannot be overlooked, and it would take a hell of a lot of convincing to make me believe that this data won't be used for those kinds of marketing purposes. This, of course, also reveals other privacy concerns.
It sickens me that Microsoft has chosen the most painfully obvious privacy-invasive route to implement this kind of software.
As much as I disagree with Amazon's patent policy, I disagree with your assessment of their customer service, and I venture to guess something else "happened" in regards to the scenario that you're talking about regarding your brother.
The one time that I had problems with Amazon is that the shipper was reporting my order as being delivered (in this case, it was a book), but I never had not received the product. After getting no help from DHL or the post office, I contacted Amazon. I received an email reply within an hour from a CSR, saying that they would ship the book again. I received it a couple days later, and was charged nothing more.
To be sure, I sent an extra email to Amazon expressing my gratitude for their great customer service. You don't see that very often these days.
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Exactly. It's just the attitude that irritated me. When will people realize that when you point a finger at a person, calling them such things as "asshole" and "numbnuts", you still have 4 pointing right back at yourself?
Oh grow up. Not everybody has "KEEP RIGHT EXCEPT TO PASS" signs posted all over. In Minnesota, we have "SLOW TRAFFIC KEEP RIGHT" signs.
Get over yourself. Asshole.
Crazy.... I have lived in Minnesota my whole life, and we don't pass on the shoulder here. My grandpa has told me about some trips to down to some of the southern states (I think Texas, in this case), where he said it appears to be fairly common practice, since it happened to him a few times on his vacation, and he wasn't expecting it. Any further insights into this, anyone?
Either way, I think the video is a clear indicator of the problems associated with right-side passing, so I disagree with your analysis that it isn't unsafe. Cars are often on the shoulder of the roads, especially in more urban areas, and if you allow passing on the shoulder, some serious problems would arise in a very short period of time. Don't underestimate road rage, or the risks a person is willing to take just to get somewhere a little bit quicker.
Sounds like another company I have heard of.
Thank goodness I'm not in the US..
Where *do* you happen to be from? If you say England, I'm going to dedicate the rest of my life to inventing a product that will reach through your computer monitor and slap you in the face.
I don't think you're going to see this again. We can't deny, of course, that it was once this way, but the internet is quickly moving away from the "wild cowboy" days and growing up. There is a much bigger focus in general for properly formed and designed web pages (at least, when you consider what the internet once was).
I'm not saying that you won't see a loss of functionality by not using a specific browser, but I think that seeing those kinds of extremes will be a pretty rare sight from this point on. Because really, there's a large emerging mobile market that needs to be served, too, so I think the trend of more 'professionally' designed sites will continue. There's always exceptions, but the above used to be extremely common. I don't see that happening anymore. Even if other browsers are less common, developer demand for adherence to web standards is going stronger all the time.
He looked at me like I was some kind of crook and actually said: "here in Canada we obey international copyright law"
Besides the fact that this guy clearly doesn't know what he hell he's doing (DVD recorders don't limit via region - at least, not the ones I've looked at), had this buttmunch said that to me, he would have been either jobless or leveled out in about 2 minutes flat, depending on his position.
There's no reason why you should have taken that kind of abuse. It's not necessary, and unless you did something about it and happened not to mention it, you did a disservice to a lot of other people by not taking care of this assclown on the spot.
I don't know what the best solution to program organisation is, and I'm sure that neither MacOSX nor Windows have got it right so far.
This is a topic that I'd really like to explore more, for both Windows AND OSX. While I don't use OSX on a regular basis, I was under the impression that apps for OSX were, for the most part, self contained, and to uninstall an app, all you had to do was trash its folder. Now I'm hearing that there are actually problems with this?
Can somebody elaborate? Is there an honest solution to these problems?
Here's a thought:
All apps, including libraries, should be installed to a standard location, in their own folder so that they are self contained. For libraries, sym links (directories or files) would then be placed in a standard location that points to the actually installation folder. Then, somehow, the system would detect if an app was "uninstalled", and subsequently remove the sym links from the standard library folder as well.
Anybody want to break that down any further?
Hey, I couldn't figure out a way to private message you, but for your sig... how about "Content Restriction and Access Prevention"? For me, anyway, it seems to work a little better.
I know somebody will probably reply with some "supply & demand" rebuttal, but either way...
One of my old co-workers wrote a book on C# when it was becoming popular. One of the things that he stressed is that there is no money in writing books - you do it essentially for the love, and if you make a couple extra dollars, that's a bonus. Presumably tech books don't really sell that awful many copies, but it still costs a substantial amount to print off all those pages. I think the price of the books is a reflection of the relatively niche market that these books are looking to serve a need for, especially considering that most geeks can and likely do get a substantial portion of their information from the internet (the variety of info never hurt anybody, either - we've all seen the books that serve up less-than-ideal principles).
Of course, if you're talking about books you get for college classes, that's a whole different matter. In that case, they rape you just because they can.
Anyway, that's my $0.02. They need to make *some* money on the book, but they don't really sell enough copies to be able to get the substantial discounts that you'd like to see.
hEhE, whoever thought the famous Regina Lynn would post on Slashdot. Taking care of the sexually repressed everywhere, I see! In fact, you probably will fit in even better over here than over at Wired with news like that. ;)
As I understand things, many Software Assurance Plans, which were essentially forced on customers with the claim that Longhorn would be available, expire as of 12/31/06.
I wonder if there may be issues with claims salesmen made and this date slippage.
My guess is that is exactly why Microsoft is releasing Vista to certain parties still this year. The delay is only for end consumers of Vista, to which Microsoft has no contractual upgrade requirements.
The outage, Sun reports, began at around 04:43PM, on Wednesday March 22, as every geek in the world seemingly had nothing else to do at the time.
(Yes, I went there. And yes, that was just unacceptable. I know. hEhE)
While what you say has a point to an extent, the basis for it relies on the telco's doing nothing to offset the cost, and also fails to realize that I am *already* subsidizing those lines that they're putting down with my taxes, and by the government-sponsored monopolies that are being awarded to those guys, essentially giving them free reign to rip me off.
Quite honestly, I don't see why I should have to pay $60 a month for a cell phone bill, and be charged for network access on top of it. The direction that this stuff is taking is headed straight for the raping that is cell phone companies today.
If they want to offset these costs, charge more for the pipe or offer less bandwidth for the same price, but I'll be damned if I'll bend over and take it up the butt to artificial restrictions being put in place to prevent me from having access to what I already paid for to begin with (and bandwidth that is not guaranteed anyway).
Showing violence on TV breeds fear and paranoia
Are you sure? Are you sure it doesn't simply desensitize people?
It's not like we have a lot of options here people!
I've got about 49 other examples that I could show you proving that you're not alone.
Resident Evil 4 was a third person action/horror adventure game
I wonder if RE4 could accurately be described as second-person, since the camera is fixed and all, unlike what you would normally expect a third-person to be.
But those names.... OMG what nerd came up with those?
Yeah, I agree. "bi"? Maybe the guy was confused.
It would have been so much easier just to change the "a" to an "i" - petibyte instead of petabyte.
Google's safe-browsing extension that was landed on the trunk has 2 modes. The standard mode, downloads a blacklist of sites and the sites are looked up locally. The enhanced mode, sends every URL to Google. Mozilla has not committed to either of these modes.
This is one reason that I believe that software like this is just feel-good marketing software in the first place. The thing is, I can't trust a company to respect my privacy when they are sending every single URI to a server for "checking". The gold mine that is cannot be overlooked, and it would take a hell of a lot of convincing to make me believe that this data won't be used for those kinds of marketing purposes. This, of course, also reveals other privacy concerns.
It sickens me that Microsoft has chosen the most painfully obvious privacy-invasive route to implement this kind of software.
As much as I disagree with Amazon's patent policy, I disagree with your assessment of their customer service, and I venture to guess something else "happened" in regards to the scenario that you're talking about regarding your brother.
The one time that I had problems with Amazon is that the shipper was reporting my order as being delivered (in this case, it was a book), but I never had not received the product. After getting no help from DHL or the post office, I contacted Amazon. I received an email reply within an hour from a CSR, saying that they would ship the book again. I received it a couple days later, and was charged nothing more.
To be sure, I sent an extra email to Amazon expressing my gratitude for their great customer service. You don't see that very often these days.
BRILLIANT!
Damn, that's some deep seeded tension, right theaugh. Somebody might just want to keep an eye on him. Yeah... that would be great.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=178241&cid=147 80115
So much for that attempt. *sigh*
Considering "Family Guy" is my favorite show of all time, there's probably a bit of Stewie in a whole load of what I say.
Anyway, I'd love to stay and chat, but you're a total bitch.
Ok, so this can be the designated thread for you to file all your BRILLIANT jokes under.
Yes, yes... I know - I made a pun! I'm just too much for myself sometimes. *insert seal yelps here*.