The obvious use case would be texting while carrying your coffee to your desk/car/table.
Yes, it guarantees that, when you bump into someone because you're not looking where you're going, you also get to share the gift of scalding coffee with them.
Fuck you. You haven't even demonstrated that future generations will be in the slightest, inconvenienced by AGW, much less that there would be those famines and such. And yes, there really is a limit to how responsible we can possibly be for other generations of grown ups.
You sound like a seedy lawyer.
"First, I would like to state that my client was nowhere near the scene of the crime, and could not possibly have killed the Mr X, and that therefore these charges should be thrown out of court. But, even if he was there, I further submit that he only accidentally shot Mr X. And, further, Mr X should have taken more care not to stand in the direct line of fire of my client's machine gun."
The point about pensions, is that there is a vast industry filled with highly paid actuaries who work out all that stuff. People don't just suddenly start living 20 years longer than they were expecting. In the long term, stockmarkets don't devalue by 25%.
All companies (and governments) have to do to ensure that pension obligations are met, is not to promise ridiculous returns and not to fritter away money in the good times, since there will always be bad times.
No, the union should have seen to it that their pensions were protected. I mean, if they won't do something that basic, what's the point of having a union? Why was the retirement plan in the hands of management ever? The delivery services union has a cross-company pension so that a driver who moves from FedEx to UPS to DHL has retirement savings regardless.
The union should also have taken over the ownership and management of the company too then. Any "management" decision affects the workers more than anyone, so the union should be in control.
Nice to hear some revolutionary socialist sense being talked on slashdot for once.
I think the GP meant to say "in California, before Reagan was the US President". Having California and Reagan next to each other made you think that he meant "in California, before Reagan was California's governor."
You know you've got a killer app when a demo causes members of your target market to realize how much your software is going to change their lives, and they burst into tears.
Sometimes you burst into tears when management tells you they want you to adopt Lotus Notes, or Novel Netware. That doesn't make either of those a Killer app...
I know this is slashdot, and we're big on our pseudo-autistic blindness to human emotion, but even you must have heard of the difference between tears of joy and tears of despair?
The great thing about Visicalc was that it's target audience (as you say, initially accountants) knew all about cost/benefit analysis. There was little or no sentimentality about introducing a tool that could so clearly make your productivity rocket.
You only need to have been forced to add up, manually, thirty sheets of 16 column analysis paper with running totals, or tried to do a moderately complex cashflow forecast in order to fully appreciate the joy of a spreadhseet.
Isn't that term considered racist, though? Is there a P.C. replacement?
I have a feeling that I missed the joke, but there's nothing racist about the word "blacklisting" or "blacklisted."
It is possible to argue that any phrase which uses "black" in a negative way is potentially unhelpful in reinforcing stereotypes in such words as "blacklisted", or "blackballed" or the concept of "black hat" and "white hat" cowboys or hackers.
In much the same way calling someone "a sinister ginger cunt" may be perceived as offensive on several levels.
If the polls indicate that your candidate is winning you might just stay home and not trouble yourself to vote.
No, people either vote or they don't. You might try to rationalise your apathy and laziness, but when it comes down to it you're just apathetic and lazy. if you can't be arsed to vote.
No, they're not. I've said it before here on Slashdot, but many UK councils have turned them off as a cost-cutting measure in the current climate of pseudo-austerity (i.e. austerity for the poor and not the rich).
Speed cameras are there to catch people speeding. Since the locations of fixed speed cameras are (a) obvious if you pay attention and (b) publicly available on the web/through satnav devices you have to be very unlucky or stupid to get caught by one. Hand-held mobile devices are a different matter in terms of avoidance, but again they're there to catch people speeding as a road safety measure, nothing else.
Personally, I think that if there is a speed camera which forces people to slow down to 30 in a 30 limit, it is hard to complain, unless you want to make the argument that you shouldn't have speed limits at all. I know this would be what libertarians would say: that you should be able to drive as fast as you like, and if you cause death by your speeding, the victim's family can sue you for causing death by dangerous driving, even though it's not illegal to drive fast. Or something.
Many of the main roads had one or more speed camera covering all lanes of traffic every mile for tens of miles. I had no intention of doing any wrong, but all the
'invasion of privacy' bells were going off in my head.
I think paranoid twits like you need to decide whether speed cameras are evil because they catch people who break the law by speeding on public highways, or whether they're evil because they COULD be used to catch people who break the law by doing something else illegal on public highways.
You don't have privacy when you're driving on a public road.
Yes, they were not exterminated but it was a racist action, and in that way, the two are comparable.
The US in the 1940s was profoundly racist in many ways, the only difference here is that it is Asian people being treated badly rather than brown skinned people.
The idea that all this racism was invented by "the government" against the wishes of the majority of people is implausible.
If the battery definitely and reliably lasted all day, you're right that it wouldn't be a huge issue for most people.
The problem is that if you start using it heavily you may not get to bedtime without it running out. And once you have to start limiting how long you use your phone for, it becomes a bit pointless having all the clever features if you need to stop using them on the chance that you might actually need to make or receive a phone call.
Cargo pants are just convenient clothing, just like jeans. There is nothing inappropriate about them. Thankfully, jeans at least are acceptable almost everywhere by now - no thanks to dumb fucks like you who're stuck in Victorian times - and we'll get there on other good stuff eventually.
Jeans are most certainly not acceptable business wear in the UK at least, unless you work in Shoreditch as a web designer or something. If you turned up to a business meeting in jeans and a t-shirt here, you would be laughed at.
Seriously, some folks are so gadget happy with their oohh-aaahh features on their phones that they forget why they bought it.
I think you're confused about why they bought it. We call them "smartphones" but their primary purpose these days is browsing the web, not making phone calls.
Personally, I find browsing the web much easier on a computer with a screen bigger than 5 inches.
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I can only think of maybe 1 Hip Hop/Rap song that I actually enjoyed, maybe 2, so its definitely not my thing at all :P
That's still 2 more than disco.
The obvious use case would be texting while carrying your coffee to your desk/car/table.
Yes, it guarantees that, when you bump into someone because you're not looking where you're going, you also get to share the gift of scalding coffee with them.
Fuck you. You haven't even demonstrated that future generations will be in the slightest, inconvenienced by AGW, much less that there would be those famines and such. And yes, there really is a limit to how responsible we can possibly be for other generations of grown ups.
You sound like a seedy lawyer.
"First, I would like to state that my client was nowhere near the scene of the crime, and could not possibly have killed the Mr X, and that therefore these charges should be thrown out of court. But, even if he was there, I further submit that he only accidentally shot Mr X. And, further, Mr X should have taken more care not to stand in the direct line of fire of my client's machine gun."
everyone played oregon trail as a kid.
Only in the US.
All companies (and governments) have to do to ensure that pension obligations are met, is not to promise ridiculous returns and not to fritter away money in the good times, since there will always be bad times.
It's not rocket science.
No, the union should have seen to it that their pensions were protected. I mean, if they won't do something that basic, what's the point of having a union? Why was the retirement plan in the hands of management ever? The delivery services union has a cross-company pension so that a driver who moves from FedEx to UPS to DHL has retirement savings regardless.
The union should also have taken over the ownership and management of the company too then. Any "management" decision affects the workers more than anyone, so the union should be in control.
Nice to hear some revolutionary socialist sense being talked on slashdot for once.
I think the GP meant to say "in California, before Reagan was the US President". Having California and Reagan next to each other made you think that he meant "in California, before Reagan was California's governor."
You know you've got a killer app when a demo causes members of your target market to realize how much your software is going to change their lives, and they burst into tears.
Sometimes you burst into tears when management tells you they want you to adopt Lotus Notes, or Novel Netware. That doesn't make either of those a Killer app...
I know this is slashdot, and we're big on our pseudo-autistic blindness to human emotion, but even you must have heard of the difference between tears of joy and tears of despair?
You only need to have been forced to add up, manually, thirty sheets of 16 column analysis paper with running totals, or tried to do a moderately complex cashflow forecast in order to fully appreciate the joy of a spreadhseet.
Isn't that term considered racist, though? Is there a P.C. replacement?
I have a feeling that I missed the joke, but there's nothing racist about the word "blacklisting" or "blacklisted."
It is possible to argue that any phrase which uses "black" in a negative way is potentially unhelpful in reinforcing stereotypes in such words as "blacklisted", or "blackballed" or the concept of "black hat" and "white hat" cowboys or hackers.
In much the same way calling someone "a sinister ginger cunt" may be perceived as offensive on several levels.
I guess the real question is, could he become king of England?
As there is no such title, no he couldn't.
The current Queens' title is Queen of Great Britain. And Wales is part of Great Britain (like Scotland).
Dumbledore's dead. Damn you, I was just getting ready to start reading book three.
*FALSE SPOILER ALERT*
Just wait til you get the last book and it turns out the whole series has been a dream in the head of a gay Asperger's kid in Ohio.
Yeah, but the Eurovision is for people with talent.
You have clearly never watched the Eurovision.
If the polls indicate that your candidate is winning you might just stay home and not trouble yourself to vote.
No, people either vote or they don't. You might try to rationalise your apathy and laziness, but when it comes down to it you're just apathetic and lazy. if you can't be arsed to vote.
if you have never even heard of Kanye West then you're not paying any attention to music whatsoever.
Or, perhaps, he is only paying attention to good music. Life's too short to follow every faddy, financially successful attention whore.
Having a Top 100 Australian songs of the year is a bit like having a Top 100 Taliban Feminists Of The Year.
Speed camera's are just there to collect money.
No, they're not. I've said it before here on Slashdot, but many UK councils have turned them off as a cost-cutting measure in the current climate of pseudo-austerity (i.e. austerity for the poor and not the rich).
Speed cameras are there to catch people speeding. Since the locations of fixed speed cameras are (a) obvious if you pay attention and (b) publicly available on the web/through satnav devices you have to be very unlucky or stupid to get caught by one. Hand-held mobile devices are a different matter in terms of avoidance, but again they're there to catch people speeding as a road safety measure, nothing else.
Personally, I think that if there is a speed camera which forces people to slow down to 30 in a 30 limit, it is hard to complain, unless you want to make the argument that you shouldn't have speed limits at all. I know this would be what libertarians would say: that you should be able to drive as fast as you like, and if you cause death by your speeding, the victim's family can sue you for causing death by dangerous driving, even though it's not illegal to drive fast. Or something.
Many of the main roads had one or more speed camera covering all lanes of traffic every mile for tens of miles. I had no intention of doing any wrong, but all the 'invasion of privacy' bells were going off in my head.
I think paranoid twits like you need to decide whether speed cameras are evil because they catch people who break the law by speeding on public highways, or whether they're evil because they COULD be used to catch people who break the law by doing something else illegal on public highways.
You don't have privacy when you're driving on a public road.
Knowing the reputation of various UK administrations, it will be put to use to spy on people and fine them for small misdemeanors.
Let me guess, you're American, and have been told by Fox News that Britain is evil because you can't buy machine guns to shoot black people with here?
Nazi germany, Japanese internment, the government keeping secrets from us and Anonymous threatening with chaos.
All of it leads to unnecessary suffering. Sure, one is a lot worse than the other, but I don't want any of it.
It's still a false equivalency.
"Nazi Germany and I've chipped a tooth. All of it unnecessary suffering."
Yes, they were not exterminated but it was a racist action, and in that way, the two are comparable.
The US in the 1940s was profoundly racist in many ways, the only difference here is that it is Asian people being treated badly rather than brown skinned people.
The idea that all this racism was invented by "the government" against the wishes of the majority of people is implausible.
If the battery definitely and reliably lasted all day, you're right that it wouldn't be a huge issue for most people. The problem is that if you start using it heavily you may not get to bedtime without it running out. And once you have to start limiting how long you use your phone for, it becomes a bit pointless having all the clever features if you need to stop using them on the chance that you might actually need to make or receive a phone call.
Cargo pants are just convenient clothing, just like jeans. There is nothing inappropriate about them. Thankfully, jeans at least are acceptable almost everywhere by now - no thanks to dumb fucks like you who're stuck in Victorian times - and we'll get there on other good stuff eventually.
Jeans are most certainly not acceptable business wear in the UK at least, unless you work in Shoreditch as a web designer or something. If you turned up to a business meeting in jeans and a t-shirt here, you would be laughed at.
Not everywhere is California.
Seriously, some folks are so gadget happy with their oohh-aaahh features on their phones that they forget why they bought it.
I think you're confused about why they bought it. We call them "smartphones" but their primary purpose these days is browsing the web, not making phone calls.
Personally, I find browsing the web much easier on a computer with a screen bigger than 5 inches.
If you spend most of your time browsing the web and watching cat videos
What do you mean "if"?