Except for the system requirement of having a touch screen... if you try using Win 8 without a touch screen for long enough you'll smash the screen anyway.
I've had my Windows 8 desktop machine for almost a year now. I tried the touchscreen a few times early on, but I haven't touched it in seven or eight months. There's no need.
In fact, unlike my other touch devices, with hardware and software from other manufacturers, whatever font or display choices Microsoft and Dell made, smudges make it really hard to read the text underneath.
Sure there is... It's that my boss gives me money every couple of weeks to do my programming work in it, because his customers use it, and most of his customers' customers use it.
My older daughter wants to be a princess when she grows up
Well good luck changing that... I only know one princess and she's a mean, nasty horrible woman.
Actually, she's not a princess anymore, not after India's Independence did away with royalty. She was born a princess of some royal house in Rajasthan just before that. Now she's horribly bitter that she isn't "someone" anymore...
I don't know much about San Fransisco, but I do know the weather in Seattle, while uncomfortably dry is less so than most other cities... If I had to pick between them, I'd probably go for whichever gets more annual rainfall.
Plus you ensure nobody can use the launch computers for anything else, even if it is reportedly the most boring job in the world being on watch down in the missile silo.
They can't play a nice game of chess on them? Only global thermo nuclear war?
I cook from scratch most of my meals, and in doing that, I dine much healthier and cheaper than if I were buying junk food and dining out at the usual middle of the road chain type restaurants
As a younger man, I used to cook for myself all the time. I was never very good at it, but I could come up with simple, satisfying meals for myself (I've never mastered getting two dishes to get ready at the same time). That was in Oregon, with an electric range...
But then I moved to India for ten years and had my first experience cooking on gas. Continuing now in New York City it's much the same. With gas I haven't figured out how to cook food. Everything is either undercooked or burnt, and only rare flukes turn out right. After several attempts at baking cheesecakes, which I had mastered long ago in an electric oven, and completely failed in gas, I sort of gave up. It was frustrating to fail, and I was spending a lot of money on expensive ingredients for food that was inedible...
Fortunately Manhattan has lots of restaurants that aren't junk or middle-of-the-road chains... Lots of really good stuff, fresh ingredients and all that... And a variety of prices, so it's possible to eat well for fairly cheap. And in many cases, ordering a full meal is cheaper than buying a similar quantity of the ingredients at the grocery store (Manhattan is seriously expensive...)
Until recently, me and my wife... Or order in, there's hundreds of restaurants that'll deliver to our address in under an hour...
But she just started learning to cook last month (she grew up in an Indian household with servants and never had to cook before, but now decided it was time). I think our food bills have gone up as we've switched from ordering most meals to home cooked. We order dry and packaged stuff from Amazon to save some money and get it delivered right to our door, but fresh things cost a fortune in our neighborhood...
The problem is, there's no reasonably-priced housing anywhere near that location (or anywhere in Manhattan for that matter), so people have to take long commutes from other places like New Jersey or Connecticut to get to these jobs.
There's perfectly reasonably priced housing in Manhattan... I got a great deal on a fabulous 350 square foot, 3rd floor walk-up in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood for the great, low price of only $2,200 a month! The apartment across the hall from is vacant. It's about the same size, but no closet in the bedroom and only half the kitchen cabinet space for much less, at $1,995 a month...
Of course, I ride the train for 1-1.5 hours a day because I work in Crown Heights, Brooklyn... Go figure...
I live in a somewhat urban area (Midtown Manhattan) and as for restaurant food, there are more and cheaper options than farther out. Sure, there are expensive ones, but in the heart of the city I can easily get much cheaper restaurant food than in suburbs. There's a plethora of $1 a slice pizza joints (most suck, better to spend double that and go for $2 a slice places) or tasty, plentiful street food where a huge meal costs all of $6.
Groceries to make your own food cost a ton more, though...
Any one know the overlap in numbers of FB and WhatsApp users? My guess it's nearly 100%, I don't know for sure.
The vast majority of WhatsApp users I know (granted, it's a small enough sample to count on one hand) don't have Facebook accounts. Of course, the total number of people "purchased" increases because I don't use WhatsApp, but I'm in all of their phones' address books, so I'm as good as being in WhatsApp...
It must've missed New York City. I live in Manhattan and commuted to Brooklyn, but I didn't see anything I'd call a "massive storm". Just a light touch of snow...
Still, I wish we'd get this snow on the weekends instead of the work days, I'd really like the opportunity to go out and enjoy it.
When writing code, your audience is not the compiler.
If you're primary audience is not the compiler why are you writing code at all? If the compiler isn't your primary audience, just tell another person what you want done...
So this story means new people are hearing about Starbucks for the first time?
Not necessarily for the first time. I wasn't thinking at all about coffee, but now there's an article about a big coffee vendor, so it comes to mind. Maybe I'll stop in on my way home, since I walk past several... (but who am I kidding, they're always crowded and I've never ordered coffee on my own before, so I'm not sure I know how to do that without making a fool of myself...)
In the US, that's the law regarding H1-B workers as well, but it's not enforced.
No kidding... As an American, when I worked for a U.S. company a decade ago, the Indians brought over on H1-B visas were paid quite a bit more than I was for doing the same job.
On the flip side, though, I guess I had better job security (being competent and underpaid...)
Not far from my apartment there's a huge post office in which "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds." is actually carved in stone.
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Except for the system requirement of having a touch screen... if you try using Win 8 without a touch screen for long enough you'll smash the screen anyway.
I've had my Windows 8 desktop machine for almost a year now. I tried the touchscreen a few times early on, but I haven't touched it in seven or eight months. There's no need.
In fact, unlike my other touch devices, with hardware and software from other manufacturers, whatever font or display choices Microsoft and Dell made, smudges make it really hard to read the text underneath.
So... Hands off! No touching my screen!
There is no redeeming this pile of shit
Sure there is... It's that my boss gives me money every couple of weeks to do my programming work in it, because his customers use it, and most of his customers' customers use it.
My older daughter wants to be a princess when she grows up
Well good luck changing that... I only know one princess and she's a mean, nasty horrible woman.
Actually, she's not a princess anymore, not after India's Independence did away with royalty. She was born a princess of some royal house in Rajasthan just before that. Now she's horribly bitter that she isn't "someone" anymore...
should I aim for Seattle or San Fransisco?
I don't know much about San Fransisco, but I do know the weather in Seattle, while uncomfortably dry is less so than most other cities... If I had to pick between them, I'd probably go for whichever gets more annual rainfall.
Plus you ensure nobody can use the launch computers for anything else, even if it is reportedly the most boring job in the world being on watch down in the missile silo.
They can't play a nice game of chess on them? Only global thermo nuclear war?
But who monitors the monitors?
The Hawtch Hawtch Who Monitor?
I plan to get my children learning the 'advanced' topics as soon as possible. How about you?
I hate children, you insensitive clod!
I cook from scratch most of my meals, and in doing that, I dine much healthier and cheaper than if I were buying junk food and dining out at the usual middle of the road chain type restaurants
As a younger man, I used to cook for myself all the time. I was never very good at it, but I could come up with simple, satisfying meals for myself (I've never mastered getting two dishes to get ready at the same time). That was in Oregon, with an electric range...
But then I moved to India for ten years and had my first experience cooking on gas. Continuing now in New York City it's much the same. With gas I haven't figured out how to cook food. Everything is either undercooked or burnt, and only rare flukes turn out right. After several attempts at baking cheesecakes, which I had mastered long ago in an electric oven, and completely failed in gas, I sort of gave up. It was frustrating to fail, and I was spending a lot of money on expensive ingredients for food that was inedible...
Fortunately Manhattan has lots of restaurants that aren't junk or middle-of-the-road chains... Lots of really good stuff, fresh ingredients and all that... And a variety of prices, so it's possible to eat well for fairly cheap. And in many cases, ordering a full meal is cheaper than buying a similar quantity of the ingredients at the grocery store (Manhattan is seriously expensive...)
Yeah, but who actually eats out all that much?
Until recently, me and my wife... Or order in, there's hundreds of restaurants that'll deliver to our address in under an hour...
But she just started learning to cook last month (she grew up in an Indian household with servants and never had to cook before, but now decided it was time). I think our food bills have gone up as we've switched from ordering most meals to home cooked. We order dry and packaged stuff from Amazon to save some money and get it delivered right to our door, but fresh things cost a fortune in our neighborhood...
They censored a game because of content? Ug, "think of the children."
The children now deprived...
The problem is, there's no reasonably-priced housing anywhere near that location (or anywhere in Manhattan for that matter), so people have to take long commutes from other places like New Jersey or Connecticut to get to these jobs.
There's perfectly reasonably priced housing in Manhattan... I got a great deal on a fabulous 350 square foot, 3rd floor walk-up in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood for the great, low price of only $2,200 a month! The apartment across the hall from is vacant. It's about the same size, but no closet in the bedroom and only half the kitchen cabinet space for much less, at $1,995 a month...
Of course, I ride the train for 1-1.5 hours a day because I work in Crown Heights, Brooklyn... Go figure...
away from urban area ... cheaper food
I live in a somewhat urban area (Midtown Manhattan) and as for restaurant food, there are more and cheaper options than farther out. Sure, there are expensive ones, but in the heart of the city I can easily get much cheaper restaurant food than in suburbs. There's a plethora of $1 a slice pizza joints (most suck, better to spend double that and go for $2 a slice places) or tasty, plentiful street food where a huge meal costs all of $6.
Groceries to make your own food cost a ton more, though...
Any one know the overlap in numbers of FB and WhatsApp users? My guess it's nearly 100%, I don't know for sure.
The vast majority of WhatsApp users I know (granted, it's a small enough sample to count on one hand) don't have Facebook accounts. Of course, the total number of people "purchased" increases because I don't use WhatsApp, but I'm in all of their phones' address books, so I'm as good as being in WhatsApp...
There are a LOT of free texting programs, and it takes about a weekend to write another one
But this one comes with several hundred million users plus all their phones' address books...
It must've missed New York City. I live in Manhattan and commuted to Brooklyn, but I didn't see anything I'd call a "massive storm". Just a light touch of snow...
Still, I wish we'd get this snow on the weekends instead of the work days, I'd really like the opportunity to go out and enjoy it.
I would think that Celine Dion or Justin Bieber would be much more effective at breaking the will of even the most stanchly determined Jihadists.
Ug, those are pretty bad. Skinny Puppy is great stuff, I don't see how it could be used for torture. It couldn't be that effective...
When writing code, your audience is not the compiler.
If you're primary audience is not the compiler why are you writing code at all? If the compiler isn't your primary audience, just tell another person what you want done...
So this story means new people are hearing about Starbucks for the first time?
Not necessarily for the first time. I wasn't thinking at all about coffee, but now there's an article about a big coffee vendor, so it comes to mind. Maybe I'll stop in on my way home, since I walk past several... (but who am I kidding, they're always crowded and I've never ordered coffee on my own before, so I'm not sure I know how to do that without making a fool of myself...)
The shooter will spend the rest of his life in jail
Where on movie night it'll be unlikely any other inmates will have cell phones they can use to text and disturb him.
In the US, that's the law regarding H1-B workers as well, but it's not enforced.
No kidding... As an American, when I worked for a U.S. company a decade ago, the Indians brought over on H1-B visas were paid quite a bit more than I was for doing the same job.
On the flip side, though, I guess I had better job security (being competent and underpaid...)
As an American who worked in the Indian office of a Finnish company, the same applies, we were way cheaper than our Finnish counterparts...
All I can say is : Cool!
Damn! That's just cold, man...
Give the U.S.P.S. a break if there's a snowstorm
Not far from my apartment there's a huge post office in which "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds." is actually carved in stone.
Carved in stone seems to suggest a commitment.
How 'bout C89 support?
For that matter, how about C64 support? And small enough to fit on floppy disks...
I'm thinking of buying an ultra-high def TV so I can hook up my old Atari 2600. Hopefully it'll look sharp.