For the first 100 miles, the gauge shows four bars. for the next 20 miles it shows three bars and for the next 10 one bar. When it gets to no bars and the idiot light starts flashing, I know I've only got a few miles left.
It's ridiculously non-linear and a common complaint on the bike forum I frequent.
Girls just as good as boys at today's easier math?
Frankly, I've never bought that old CW about girls being worse at math than boys... especially since I met and married my math-major wife in college, who has always been much better at math than I am. It may be true that boys are more _interested_ in math than girls, and thus pursue it and are successful at it more often, but that's a completely different thing from saying that girls are somehow innately "worse" at math.
Apple's attempts at locking buyers into their product are a factor in their success.
I disagree with this... I think that Apple's intent is to control their stuff to get that "seamless, just works" experience for users. The fact that this creates "lock in" is secondary.
One reason I believe this to be true is that iTunes, for instance, doesn't really lock you in--you can work around Apple's DRM and burn and rip Apple-formatted songs to MP3 (or OGG, or whatever) and you can use the USB harddrive feature on an iPod to use the iPod without iTunes.
So it's more of a "soft lock" that makes the whole experience better for Joe sixpack (while inconveniencing power users) rather than some intentional scheme for lock-in.
Actually, they're using the earth as a heat sink, too. This explains global warming, the bee problem, and the ozone. Of course, their MegaMaid is invisible.
That reminds me of the Dilbert where he's at home in the early hours of the morning and he calls his boss (to make it look like he's working) and says something like "It's 3 am and I'm here in my underwear thinking of you" then he says "Crap" and pushes a button and says "Crap" again. Dogbert asks "Did you just send a dirty voicemail to your boss?" and Dilbert says "No, I think I pressed the group code":-)
But don't you see this (coding for IE) as a separate issue (from Flash/Silverlight/PDF)?
I'm totally ticked off whenever I try to open a site that has IE-bug hacks that won't display in FF, or on my iPhone, or Mac. I generally try not to re-visit those sites... but it stinks because there's information out there that would be useful to me that I can't access because it's tied up in some odd display scheme that renders images over the text. (Yes, for really interesting things I could look at the page source, but manually ignoring HTML tags is a crappy way to parse information)
This is because I expect a "normal" page to render in a browser-agnostic way. (OK, "expect" is too strong, because I've been around a while now. But that's the way it SHOULD be). For a basic HTML page, no matter how it's built on the back end, I expect to get something viewable.
I see the Flash/Silverlight/PDF issue as separate, because it's usually (over)used for stupid stuff like an on-line "catalog" where you can actually "flip" the pages (horrors! an IRL metaphor gone badly wrong on the Web) or to do games or something else that is (to me) trivial. I mean, I'm not expecting to be informed by pages that have a 30-second Flash intro...
But that's just me, and I do see how the two issues are related to the problem of "proprietary" stuff on the Web.
Try riding a motorcycle. This video (http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=2831730 ) is funny and sad at the same time.:-)
Unfortunately, I have had 0% success with getting DVDs from the library. The failures fall into one of two classes:
1. All the available movies suck. Everything watchable has been borrowed and all that's left are the Ishtar DVDs patrons donated after watching them once
2. The DVD is damaged. Generally people aren't very careful with Library materials and I have yet to rent a DVD (my two-year-old daughter is much less discriminating about what she watches) that plays all the way through. Usually they're scratched so badly that there's a point on the DVD where it hangs the player.
The library isn't a good solution if you actuallly want to WATCH worthwhile videos
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Wait--you think there are "editors" working on this site? You must be new here.
I'm pretty sure the "editors" if there every were any, have been replaced by a random story-approval/rejection script.
is Windows?
I think you missed step 4. Profit!
I get around 135 miles to a tank...
For the first 100 miles, the gauge shows four bars. for the next 20 miles it shows three bars and for the next 10 one bar. When it gets to no bars and the idiot light starts flashing, I know I've only got a few miles left.
It's ridiculously non-linear and a common complaint on the bike forum I frequent.
raspberry! Lone Starr.
You say "Yes!"
See a movie and get laser eye surgery for one low price!
You can get free access by looking at the cached version using google.
Leave it to Microsoft to create pixel-level DRM.
"Error 234312: Pixel color of pixel 673423 is a registered trademark of Microsoft. Terminating display of all pixels."
Girls just as good as boys at today's easier math?
Frankly, I've never bought that old CW about girls being worse at math than boys... especially since I met and married my math-major wife in college, who has always been much better at math than I am. It may be true that boys are more _interested_ in math than girls, and thus pursue it and are successful at it more often, but that's a completely different thing from saying that girls are somehow innately "worse" at math.
I disagree with this... I think that Apple's intent is to control their stuff to get that "seamless, just works" experience for users. The fact that this creates "lock in" is secondary.
One reason I believe this to be true is that iTunes, for instance, doesn't really lock you in--you can work around Apple's DRM and burn and rip Apple-formatted songs to MP3 (or OGG, or whatever) and you can use the USB harddrive feature on an iPod to use the iPod without iTunes.
So it's more of a "soft lock" that makes the whole experience better for Joe sixpack (while inconveniencing power users) rather than some intentional scheme for lock-in.
Just my $0.02, of course.
Actually, they're using the earth as a heat sink, too. This explains global warming, the bee problem, and the ozone. Of course, their MegaMaid is invisible.
That reminds me of the Dilbert where he's at home in the early hours of the morning and he calls his boss (to make it look like he's working) and says something like "It's 3 am and I'm here in my underwear thinking of you" then he says "Crap" and pushes a button and says "Crap" again. Dogbert asks "Did you just send a dirty voicemail to your boss?" and Dilbert says "No, I think I pressed the group code" :-)
But don't you see this (coding for IE) as a separate issue (from Flash/Silverlight/PDF)?
I'm totally ticked off whenever I try to open a site that has IE-bug hacks that won't display in FF, or on my iPhone, or Mac. I generally try not to re-visit those sites... but it stinks because there's information out there that would be useful to me that I can't access because it's tied up in some odd display scheme that renders images over the text. (Yes, for really interesting things I could look at the page source, but manually ignoring HTML tags is a crappy way to parse information)
This is because I expect a "normal" page to render in a browser-agnostic way. (OK, "expect" is too strong, because I've been around a while now. But that's the way it SHOULD be). For a basic HTML page, no matter how it's built on the back end, I expect to get something viewable.
I see the Flash/Silverlight/PDF issue as separate, because it's usually (over)used for stupid stuff like an on-line "catalog" where you can actually "flip" the pages (horrors! an IRL metaphor gone badly wrong on the Web) or to do games or something else that is (to me) trivial. I mean, I'm not expecting to be informed by pages that have a 30-second Flash intro...
But that's just me, and I do see how the two issues are related to the problem of "proprietary" stuff on the Web.
Your social skills are clearly proof that the diagnosis was accurate.
Just sayin'
20 Brazilians is not as bad as six Spaniards, a Frenchman, and two guys from Nigeria.
it's the only way to be sure
You're obviously NOT new here :-)
You and your VW...
Try riding a motorcycle. This video (http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=2831730 :-)
) is funny and sad at the same time.
You're wanted aboard Spaceball One immediately! And I'll have someone change the IP address of your luggage :-)
Unfortunately, I have had 0% success with getting DVDs from the library. The failures fall into one of two classes:
1. All the available movies suck. Everything watchable has been borrowed and all that's left are the Ishtar DVDs patrons donated after watching them once
2. The DVD is damaged. Generally people aren't very careful with Library materials and I have yet to rent a DVD (my two-year-old daughter is much less discriminating about what she watches) that plays all the way through. Usually they're scratched so badly that there's a point on the DVD where it hangs the player.
The library isn't a good solution if you actuallly want to WATCH worthwhile videos
I think you missed the last half, which says that a SINGLE 280 is comparable to and in some cases beat TWO 9800s
I wish I had mod points...
:-)
I haven't laughed 'til I cried in quite a while.
Thanks
I wonder if readers will believe you have a wife
:-)
Honestly, dudes, IRL I have a wife and kids! I'm just hanging out in my parent's garage while they're out of town.
and I don't think we're taking things too literally.