I think that looking at the old mom and pops as bastions of customer service is a rose-colored view of the past. Sure, some of them were great, but in my experience most of them deserved the death they faced. I piss on the ashes of our old mom and pop electronics store. Any time I wanted something they had to order it. Oh and I had to pick it up between 9AM and 5PM Mon - Fri or Sat from 10AM - 4PM because those were their store hours. I couldn't get a refund on anything I wasn't satisfied with. And any time I needed warranty repairs it was a multi-week process even though non-warranty work magically happened within a few hours. I know that's only one cherry-picked example, but whatever service those "local" retailers were providing was something I obviously didn't notice. The only thing I did notice was taking advantage of being the local shop by just barely being good enough to keep you from driving 45 minutes to the city to buy something.
I don't even think it's necessarily "parts of the country." I live in the Dallas/Ft Worth area and there are two Wal-Marts that are a reasonable distance from my house. One is 3 miles away. The other is 7. We go to the one that's 7 miles away. The one 3 miles away is a dirty, nasty dump where there are never many checkout lanes open, there's always someone is line for the pharmacy trying to talk the pharmacist into giving them more pain meds early, and I can't get fucking razor blades off the shelf. I have to get them at the checkout line. The one 7 miles away is a relatively clean place with plenty of checkout lanes open, no dopehead in line at the pharmacy, and razor blades on the shelf next to the fucking razors. It's a place that isn't full of degenerates and doesn't treat me like a criminal for not wanting to grow out a beard. So we go there when Target doesn't have what we want. (Target, for the record, is close to the 3-mile-away Wal-Mart and has none of that Wal-Mart's problems.) Some Wal-Marts are just shitty. Some aren't. Near as I can tell, Wal-Mart just attracts the dregs of your neighborhood. Are your dregs not so bad? Then neither is your Wal-Mart.
Usually not. Insurance only works if most people's premiums are less than the amount insurance companies pay out in claims. I'll gladly throw out using the government to compel people to buy a product they'll likely end up losing money on.
Newsflash! Many people don't base their endorsements on a single issue! News at 11! Despite Romney opposing lunar bases, these folks think the space policy will be better under Romney. I don't know if I agree, but I certainly don't think it's ideologically inconsistent for a group to support a candidate despite disagreeing on one thing.
I agree, but that means that PacMan itself is not NP Hard. The class of games defined in the paper (to which PacMan belongs) is NP-Hard. That's a significantly different claim.
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They didn't actually use Pac-Man in their proof. They modeled up a close approximation which is not Pac-Man at all. For example, FTA:
"We assume full configurability of the amount of ghosts and ghost houses, speeds, and the durations of Chase, Scatter, and Frightened modes (see [1] for definitions)."
That's all well and good but there is no configurability with the level designs, amount of ghosts, or ghost houses.
Moses had nothing to return. He broke his original tablet and had to go get a replacement. Fortunately, the manufacturer was willing to work with Moses despite the fact that it wasn't a manufacturer defect. The tablet had obviously been dropped.
I know it's a whole different ballgame than the tracing algorithms Java and C# use, but way way way back when I was in college we learned that reference counting is a form of garbage collection. Maybe I'm wrong. Personally, I like Objective-C better than C++ (never really warmed to that language) but I do prefer C# to both, especially now that it supports some more functional concepts like lambda expressions.
I'd argue that the Smalltalkish message-passing and shallow inheritance in the API make Objective-C feel more weakly-typed than it's non-templated collection classes, but I completely get what you're saying. As far as iOS garbage collection, Automatic Reference Counting (ARC) was deployed with the iOS 5 SDK (which can compile at least as low as iOS 4.2 with few restrictions) so for any new development, Objective-C very much has garbage collection as an option.
You are entirely correct. States don't have to count any votes in order to choose their electoral slate. If the state wanted to, they could just arbitrarily appoint the electors and ignore the popular vote in that state entirely. The only thing the Supreme Court ruled was that the states must follow the rules they have already put into place.
If my employer requests something legal and ethical, yeah, I'll do it. But employment is a two-way street. If I'm no longer enjoying my job and/or feel it no longer makes me valuable as an employee, I'll find a job elsewhere.
At least your favorite Marvel character isn't Deadpool. If that were a decent Deadpool adaptation, then his Common Sense would've started tingling and he would've gotten the hell out of that shitty excuse for a movie.
It won't hurt Google's fraying partnership with Mozilla. Their "partnership" is Google writes a check and Mozilla cashes it. I'm pretty sure Google can say or do what whatever they want. It's not like Mozilla will stop cashing any checks that Google writes.
When I watched Arrested Development on Netflix, you could still see blue man hand-prints all over everything. Carl Weathers was still trying to make a soup out table scraps. Everyone on the show at some point or another still made a huge mistake. Lucille wasn't making fun of the Japanese investors. She was just out of vodka. The plot and the jokes were all present and accounted for. I thought the quality was very much all there.
So a customer asks to have their service disconnected and AT&T not only does that but also waives the early termination fee? Yeah, what a "shit" move. I hope no other companies out there respond to customer complaints by doing what the customer asks and then some. I'd much rather spend half an hour while they transfer me to someone else to try to talk me out of what I specifically asked for.
I liked Moon so much because it took what is a somewhat overused plot device in science fiction and turned it on its head by making a character study out of it. The meat of the story isn't the discovery of the clones. It's how Rockwell's characters react to that information. CGI or not was irrelevant. I wasn't really paying attention.
It's not quite that simple. If it were then Lily Tomlin wouldn't have won her lawsuit against NBC and the Terry Nation estate wouldn't own rights to the Daleks.
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Fine. Prove there is no "total computable function that decides whether an arbitrary program i halts on arbitrary input x."
Done, jackass.
So they put an OtterBox on the iPhone. Big deal.
I think that looking at the old mom and pops as bastions of customer service is a rose-colored view of the past. Sure, some of them were great, but in my experience most of them deserved the death they faced. I piss on the ashes of our old mom and pop electronics store. Any time I wanted something they had to order it. Oh and I had to pick it up between 9AM and 5PM Mon - Fri or Sat from 10AM - 4PM because those were their store hours. I couldn't get a refund on anything I wasn't satisfied with. And any time I needed warranty repairs it was a multi-week process even though non-warranty work magically happened within a few hours. I know that's only one cherry-picked example, but whatever service those "local" retailers were providing was something I obviously didn't notice. The only thing I did notice was taking advantage of being the local shop by just barely being good enough to keep you from driving 45 minutes to the city to buy something.
I don't even think it's necessarily "parts of the country." I live in the Dallas/Ft Worth area and there are two Wal-Marts that are a reasonable distance from my house. One is 3 miles away. The other is 7. We go to the one that's 7 miles away. The one 3 miles away is a dirty, nasty dump where there are never many checkout lanes open, there's always someone is line for the pharmacy trying to talk the pharmacist into giving them more pain meds early, and I can't get fucking razor blades off the shelf. I have to get them at the checkout line. The one 7 miles away is a relatively clean place with plenty of checkout lanes open, no dopehead in line at the pharmacy, and razor blades on the shelf next to the fucking razors. It's a place that isn't full of degenerates and doesn't treat me like a criminal for not wanting to grow out a beard. So we go there when Target doesn't have what we want. (Target, for the record, is close to the 3-mile-away Wal-Mart and has none of that Wal-Mart's problems.) Some Wal-Marts are just shitty. Some aren't. Near as I can tell, Wal-Mart just attracts the dregs of your neighborhood. Are your dregs not so bad? Then neither is your Wal-Mart.
Usually not. Insurance only works if most people's premiums are less than the amount insurance companies pay out in claims. I'll gladly throw out using the government to compel people to buy a product they'll likely end up losing money on.
Medical insurance is NOT medical care. If you think it is, try going to the pharmacy and picking up your medication without paying the co-pay.
Newsflash! Many people don't base their endorsements on a single issue! News at 11! Despite Romney opposing lunar bases, these folks think the space policy will be better under Romney. I don't know if I agree, but I certainly don't think it's ideologically inconsistent for a group to support a candidate despite disagreeing on one thing.
You misspelled fellatious.
I agree, but that means that PacMan itself is not NP Hard. The class of games defined in the paper (to which PacMan belongs) is NP-Hard. That's a significantly different claim.
They didn't actually use Pac-Man in their proof. They modeled up a close approximation which is not Pac-Man at all. For example, FTA:
"We assume full configurability of the amount of ghosts and ghost houses, speeds, and the durations of Chase, Scatter, and Frightened modes (see [1] for definitions)."
That's all well and good but there is no configurability with the level designs, amount of ghosts, or ghost houses.
Moses had nothing to return. He broke his original tablet and had to go get a replacement. Fortunately, the manufacturer was willing to work with Moses despite the fact that it wasn't a manufacturer defect. The tablet had obviously been dropped.
You can just sell them pinball parts. They won't know the difference.
I know it's a whole different ballgame than the tracing algorithms Java and C# use, but way way way back when I was in college we learned that reference counting is a form of garbage collection. Maybe I'm wrong. Personally, I like Objective-C better than C++ (never really warmed to that language) but I do prefer C# to both, especially now that it supports some more functional concepts like lambda expressions.
I'd argue that the Smalltalkish message-passing and shallow inheritance in the API make Objective-C feel more weakly-typed than it's non-templated collection classes, but I completely get what you're saying. As far as iOS garbage collection, Automatic Reference Counting (ARC) was deployed with the iOS 5 SDK (which can compile at least as low as iOS 4.2 with few restrictions) so for any new development, Objective-C very much has garbage collection as an option.
You are entirely correct. States don't have to count any votes in order to choose their electoral slate. If the state wanted to, they could just arbitrarily appoint the electors and ignore the popular vote in that state entirely. The only thing the Supreme Court ruled was that the states must follow the rules they have already put into place.
Okay you had me goin' there for the first half. The second half kinda threw me.
If my employer requests something legal and ethical, yeah, I'll do it. But employment is a two-way street. If I'm no longer enjoying my job and/or feel it no longer makes me valuable as an employee, I'll find a job elsewhere.
Or we could just use a lunar calendar instead of a solar one and not have to worry about crap like leap years.
At least your favorite Marvel character isn't Deadpool. If that were a decent Deadpool adaptation, then his Common Sense would've started tingling and he would've gotten the hell out of that shitty excuse for a movie.
It won't hurt Google's fraying partnership with Mozilla. Their "partnership" is Google writes a check and Mozilla cashes it. I'm pretty sure Google can say or do what whatever they want. It's not like Mozilla will stop cashing any checks that Google writes.
"Doesn't anyone remember the saying at putting all of your eggs in one basket?"
Yeah, that was Mark Twain: "Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket."
When I watched Arrested Development on Netflix, you could still see blue man hand-prints all over everything. Carl Weathers was still trying to make a soup out table scraps. Everyone on the show at some point or another still made a huge mistake. Lucille wasn't making fun of the Japanese investors. She was just out of vodka. The plot and the jokes were all present and accounted for. I thought the quality was very much all there.
So a customer asks to have their service disconnected and AT&T not only does that but also waives the early termination fee? Yeah, what a "shit" move. I hope no other companies out there respond to customer complaints by doing what the customer asks and then some. I'd much rather spend half an hour while they transfer me to someone else to try to talk me out of what I specifically asked for.
I liked Moon so much because it took what is a somewhat overused plot device in science fiction and turned it on its head by making a character study out of it. The meat of the story isn't the discovery of the clones. It's how Rockwell's characters react to that information. CGI or not was irrelevant. I wasn't really paying attention.
It's not quite that simple. If it were then Lily Tomlin wouldn't have won her lawsuit against NBC and the Terry Nation estate wouldn't own rights to the Daleks.