Light turns green, you are turning left. You pull into the intersection and wait for the oncoming cars who are going straight. Light turns yellow, but rather than hitting the breaks the oncoming idiots are accelerating to make the light. Light turns red, you are still in the intersection. It's happened to everyone, I'm sure including you, many times. Would justice have been served if you got a ticket, several hundred $ fine, and 3 years of jacked insurance rates for every time that has happened? Or you could have gone to court to put your word up against a photograph of your car sitting in an intersection (nevermind that the camera nor the court have any idea who was actually driving).
Also, there have been many cases of yellow lights being shortened to increase violations and fines (revenue) at red light cameras. So no, you don't always have plenty of warning.
accidental deaths of children due to handguns in the US: ~500 per year
accidental deaths of children choking on balloons: ~1000 per year
accidental deaths of children by magnetic desk toys: 0
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I assume he meant he intended to mod the ggparent up, but hit troll instead. There is no confirmation, the mod is applied immediately. If this is a setting somewhere, I don't remember ever seeing or setting it.
There doesn't seem to be any compelling security reason to exclude certain characters from eligibility for use in a password.
I can't see any compelling reason to have any restrictions at all, other than to store people's passwords in plain text or some decryptable format.
From the hosts perspective, there should be no difference between an 8 character alpha-numeric password, a tab-delimmitted list of non-printable characters, and the entire japanese translation of War and Peace. They all hash to the same length.
The lack of Visual Studios on Linux isn't something that is wrong with Linux so much as it is something that is wrong with Visual Studios. But I think it is definitely a valid point that the lack of some specific software is a deal breaker for many people.
For me, Adobe Creative Suite is the main thing stopping me from making the switch to Linux permanently, and I imagine I'm not alone. Sorry, GIMP is just not a replacement for Photoshop/Fireworks/Illustrator/Acrobat/Flash and the other dozen programs of varying usefulness.
The chance that Microsoft would ever consider porting Visual Studios is probably zero, and even then I imagine it's probably just not possible. I'm not holding my breath for Adobe either, but I have a small amount of hope that someday they may see the light.
It's like that douchebag that owns Papa Johns Pizza trying to tell me that my pizza will cost a whole extra dollar to pay for health care for his employees
Of course, the O-Bots are gonna crank both AC and me down into -5 land, as that's how they roll...
Hey dingbat, the only mention of politics in this entire thread comes from you and the AC above you, of course you should be modded down. This is as offtopic as it gets.
What are you even arguing about? He posted that Valve devs prefer open source drivers, and linked a quote that seems to indicate that that is indeed the case, even if you "have a hard time believing it".
Someone should patent something ridiculous like "A method for indicating support of a proposal by using an input device to record a 'yea' or 'nay' vote." and then file suit against individual members of congress (in Tyler, TX of course). Maybe that would get their attention.
receiving "rich text" emails is most painful. Because "rich" means lots of colours, images, cruft, and poor content.
Instead of selecting different fonts people should try to write several complete sentences in their communication.
If for some reason suddenly all email tools would lack support for "rich text", nobody would miss it after a few days.
Just because some people send emails in 72pt rainbow colored Comic Sans doesn't mean it is useless. Take it up with the abusers, or just enable the "read all messages in plain text" option that every email client has. Or you could hit "reply all" and in 72pt rainbow colored Comic Sans type "IN THE FUTURE, IF YOU'RE GOING TO FORWARD ME THIS BULLSHIT, AT LEAST RUN IT THROUGH SNOPES SO YOU DON'T LOOK LIKE AN IMBECILE." (I have done this before, one day after one too many forwarded "YOUR NOT GUNNA BELEVE THIS!" emails my tolerance threshold was reached and I lost my cool just long enough to type that message and hit send before the pang of regret hit my stomach. To my mother. At her work address. Along with 2 dozen of her colleagues. Now I just delete them.)
I find the text formatting mighty convenient when responding to a message point by point to differentiate the original text from my response, which is fairly often since I get a lot of emails of the type "what is the status of these tasks..." and "what would it take to implement the following features...". Also, inline images are nice, particularly since Thunderbird's attachment handling is abysmal. "Save all attachments" should really be labeled "Save each of these 20 attachments individually, one at a time". Where's the button for "Just show me the fucking images"?
There is eventually a point where it's good enough and adding anything to it would detract.
They don't need to add new fluff to improve it, there is plenty there already that desperately needs to be improved. Just a couple of examples that immediately come to mind:
- Message tags have potential to be extremely useful, in their current implementation they don't do much other than color code your message. The dialog for managing the tags themselves was an afterthought, there is no way to re-order without directly editing the config, no way to assign hotkeys, no way to customize font styles other than choosing from a tiny fixed color palette.
- Rich text (html) editing is painful. You are always one keystroke away from changing your entire paragraph to the style of an adjacent paragraph. You can't define custom formats, or even edit the default formats. Even the "use last-picked color" convenience option in the color picker requires the same number of clicks as picking a new color.
- Editing the message source directly is another poorly designed dialog, it shouldn't be a dialog at all.
- The address book and contact management is another embarrassing afterthought, one area where you'd expect an email client to excel.
- Getting a consistent folder view is tedious, the "apply columns to..." tool doesn't work well and ignores saved searches altogether.
- Bugs in the account configuration have persisted for years.
- Some things open in tabs, others open in a new window.
I guess now that they've officially given up, I can start looking for alternatives instead of thinking they will ever fix these things.
And exactly what does Chrome have to do with replacing iGoogle?
"With modern apps that run on platforms like Chrome and Android, the need for something like iGoogle has eroded over time" src
They don't clarify what "modern apps" we are supposed to switch to other than pointing at the Chrome store, or even what exactly a "modern app" is. Some would say a "modern app" could mean something like GMail or iGoogle... oh I guess that's not it.
I guess it was only a matter of time until this ongoing slaughter of google products got to one I cared about, fuck em.
i'm really scared that google will kill it too i sometime
They are doing a pretty good job of training millions of people not to get too attached to anything they make, because it will likely disappear someday with no justification (along with your data).
A quick google shows fast food starting pay is right around $8/hour, retail at $9/hour, so I'm having trouble generating any outrage over Apple paying $12/hour.
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Have you even seen A SINGLE ONE video showing a person throwing itself in front of a passing car in any of the million of russian dashcam videos?
Just a single one? Here's about 2 dozen.
Where is this scathing rant? All I can find is a extremely polite, well written airing of grievance and resignation.
Light turns green, you are turning left. You pull into the intersection and wait for the oncoming cars who are going straight. Light turns yellow, but rather than hitting the breaks the oncoming idiots are accelerating to make the light. Light turns red, you are still in the intersection. It's happened to everyone, I'm sure including you, many times. Would justice have been served if you got a ticket, several hundred $ fine, and 3 years of jacked insurance rates for every time that has happened? Or you could have gone to court to put your word up against a photograph of your car sitting in an intersection (nevermind that the camera nor the court have any idea who was actually driving).
Also, there have been many cases of yellow lights being shortened to increase violations and fines (revenue) at red light cameras. So no, you don't always have plenty of warning.
You must have skipped over #1 and #2.
accidental deaths of children due to handguns in the US: ~500 per year
accidental deaths of children choking on balloons: ~1000 per year
accidental deaths of children by magnetic desk toys: 0
Greatest Country on Earth!
Microsoft could incur approximately $70,000 in power costs to avoid the $210,000 penalty, resulting in real savings of $140,000.
"Flamebait headline" is also correct.
which proves they have been storing it without hashing all along.
Or they are truncating it before hashing, which is s still a WTF.
I assume he meant he intended to mod the ggparent up, but hit troll instead. There is no confirmation, the mod is applied immediately. If this is a setting somewhere, I don't remember ever seeing or setting it.
There doesn't seem to be any compelling security reason to exclude certain characters from eligibility for use in a password.
I can't see any compelling reason to have any restrictions at all, other than to store people's passwords in plain text or some decryptable format.
From the hosts perspective, there should be no difference between an 8 character alpha-numeric password, a tab-delimmitted list of non-printable characters, and the entire japanese translation of War and Peace. They all hash to the same length.
The lack of Visual Studios on Linux isn't something that is wrong with Linux so much as it is something that is wrong with Visual Studios. But I think it is definitely a valid point that the lack of some specific software is a deal breaker for many people.
For me, Adobe Creative Suite is the main thing stopping me from making the switch to Linux permanently, and I imagine I'm not alone. Sorry, GIMP is just not a replacement for Photoshop/Fireworks/Illustrator/Acrobat/Flash and the other dozen programs of varying usefulness.
The chance that Microsoft would ever consider porting Visual Studios is probably zero, and even then I imagine it's probably just not possible. I'm not holding my breath for Adobe either, but I have a small amount of hope that someday they may see the light.
It's like that douchebag that owns Papa Johns Pizza trying to tell me that my pizza will cost a whole extra dollar to pay for health care for his employees
Actually it is 14 cents.
It looks like in another flight they reached about 2.5 meters (8 feet) so they're close.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmea3odVgDE#
Here's the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0qfgBeb35Y&feature=player_embedded
They never got above maybe 18 inches off the ground, the Sikorsky Prize requires reaching a height of 3 meters.
Michele Bachmann, is that you?
Of course, the O-Bots are gonna crank both AC and me down into -5 land, as that's how they roll...
Hey dingbat, the only mention of politics in this entire thread comes from you and the AC above you, of course you should be modded down. This is as offtopic as it gets.
I can also see the store ending up littered with hundreds of cloned and rebranded GPL apps.
What are you even arguing about? He posted that Valve devs prefer open source drivers, and linked a quote that seems to indicate that that is indeed the case, even if you "have a hard time believing it".
Someone should patent something ridiculous like "A method for indicating support of a proposal by using an input device to record a 'yea' or 'nay' vote." and then file suit against individual members of congress (in Tyler, TX of course). Maybe that would get their attention.
receiving "rich text" emails is most painful. Because "rich" means lots of colours, images, cruft, and poor content. Instead of selecting different fonts people should try to write several complete sentences in their communication.
If for some reason suddenly all email tools would lack support for "rich text", nobody would miss it after a few days.
Just because some people send emails in 72pt rainbow colored Comic Sans doesn't mean it is useless. Take it up with the abusers, or just enable the "read all messages in plain text" option that every email client has. Or you could hit "reply all" and in 72pt rainbow colored Comic Sans type "IN THE FUTURE, IF YOU'RE GOING TO FORWARD ME THIS BULLSHIT, AT LEAST RUN IT THROUGH SNOPES SO YOU DON'T LOOK LIKE AN IMBECILE."
(I have done this before, one day after one too many forwarded "YOUR NOT GUNNA BELEVE THIS!" emails my tolerance threshold was reached and I lost my cool just long enough to type that message and hit send before the pang of regret hit my stomach. To my mother. At her work address. Along with 2 dozen of her colleagues. Now I just delete them.)
I find the text formatting mighty convenient when responding to a message point by point to differentiate the original text from my response, which is fairly often since I get a lot of emails of the type "what is the status of these tasks..." and "what would it take to implement the following features...". Also, inline images are nice, particularly since Thunderbird's attachment handling is abysmal. "Save all attachments" should really be labeled "Save each of these 20 attachments individually, one at a time". Where's the button for "Just show me the fucking images"?
In the compose window select "insert->HTML". (ctrl-a first if you want to edit)
There is eventually a point where it's good enough and adding anything to it would detract.
They don't need to add new fluff to improve it, there is plenty there already that desperately needs to be improved. Just a couple of examples that immediately come to mind:
- Message tags have potential to be extremely useful, in their current implementation they don't do much other than color code your message. The dialog for managing the tags themselves was an afterthought, there is no way to re-order without directly editing the config, no way to assign hotkeys, no way to customize font styles other than choosing from a tiny fixed color palette.
- Rich text (html) editing is painful. You are always one keystroke away from changing your entire paragraph to the style of an adjacent paragraph. You can't define custom formats, or even edit the default formats. Even the "use last-picked color" convenience option in the color picker requires the same number of clicks as picking a new color.
- Editing the message source directly is another poorly designed dialog, it shouldn't be a dialog at all.
- The address book and contact management is another embarrassing afterthought, one area where you'd expect an email client to excel.
- Getting a consistent folder view is tedious, the "apply columns to..." tool doesn't work well and ignores saved searches altogether.
- Bugs in the account configuration have persisted for years.
- Some things open in tabs, others open in a new window.
I guess now that they've officially given up, I can start looking for alternatives instead of thinking they will ever fix these things.
And exactly what does Chrome have to do with replacing iGoogle?
"With modern apps that run on platforms like Chrome and Android, the need for something like iGoogle has eroded over time" src
They don't clarify what "modern apps" we are supposed to switch to other than pointing at the Chrome store, or even what exactly a "modern app" is. Some would say a "modern app" could mean something like GMail or iGoogle... oh I guess that's not it. I guess it was only a matter of time until this ongoing slaughter of google products got to one I cared about, fuck em.
i'm really scared that google will kill it too i sometime
They are doing a pretty good job of training millions of people not to get too attached to anything they make, because it will likely disappear someday with no justification (along with your data).
I didn't earn a living wage working at Burger King in 1994 either. So what has changed exactly?
A quick google shows fast food starting pay is right around $8/hour, retail at $9/hour, so I'm having trouble generating any outrage over Apple paying $12/hour.