I think I speak for all US-EU dual citizens when I say that this is awesome. Because now I probably only have to pay to be spied on by *one* of my governments. Hellooooo tax rebate!
Probably it's not a bad sample. I don't trust any web designer that doesn't read A List Apart -- it's pretty much the creme de la web design sources, both in terms of style, technique, and best practices. My old boss used to mandate it.
And yes, I am a shill. But they have taught me many clever things, and turned me into a CSS Nazi to boot. And I filled out the survey way back when it started (feels like awhile).
"Dear B**ch: Don't even dream about it, I found a girl who really knows how to- F***! How the heck do I turn this off! Delete that. Delete that. I think it's picking up a little double delete the killer select all."
Agreed. Nothing makes me crazy like an interface at work with a spelling error in a function name, preventing me from AutoCompleting (the one damn reason I put up with Eclipse). If I go back and fix the error, I end up having to refactor 4000 source files and end up getting phone calls like "Hey, why did you mess with my code?" from people that grasp the concept of "svn log" but not "svn blame"...
I cannot tell you how much I would love a taxi strike. Like some significant portion of NYers, I only take cabs in ridiculous emergencies (and even in those cases, I'll usually call a gypsy instead of a yellow cab). So, for me, this means like 60% of the city's traffic will vanish.
Forget congestion pricing, I'm going to have some peace and quiet immediately as long as nobody caves on this damn strike!
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I can't believe the cost of public transit in London (or anywhere I've been) in the UK, for that matter. New York has a slight edge on this, because all subway rides are $2.00. (That's, uh, f1.00, for British readers.) You can go something like 31 miles for that (or three blocks).
The cheapest fare on the Underground, on the other hand, is what, a week's pay? I recall it being about $6 or $8, but I can't work the TfL website. And the worst was something like $24. You can't even ride regional rail in New York and pay $24 one way. That's enough to get to any suburb (hell, or nearby city).
To be fair, the congestion pricing bill includes $354 million of dollars in transit improvements to make up for the increase in demand (which is generally estimated as an increase of less than 3%). Most of this is going to bus improvements, including Bus Rapid Transit, but also including less pipe-dreamy stuff like a bunch of new lines, and bus lanes over the East River bridges.
Subway congestion isn't as big of a problem as you think; I'm guessing that, like me, you live on one of the handful of truly awful lines (L, 4, 5, 6) -- most lines have plenty of extra capacity and can run more trains if faced with increased demand. And if you are on the L, they're adding more rush hour service. The 4, 5, and 6 are getting the First and Second avenue BRT lanes, which ought to free up a little elbow room too.
The weird magic of congestion charging is that you only have to take a few people off the road to see improvements. We won't be facing every driver in the city suddenly shoving their way onto subway cars.
This happens to me with Sprint too, actually, and I live one mile from Midtown Manhattan. Sometimes I won't get a text for two full days. It's all very Ted Stevens.
Erm, Williamsburg isn't near the Brooklyn Bridge. As I write this, from my apartment about ten blocks from the middle of Williamsburg, in a lovely, safe, neighborhood, I am somewhat confused as to what you're talking about. Plus, I'm sure Chicago's housing projects are just delightful. Where was that Cabrini-Green place again?
The best thing about the Newton was Steve Jobs' press conference claiming that there was a "2.5 trillion dollar market" for it -- as the Mac Bible put it, "$500 for every man, woman, infant, convicted felon, and sheep herder on Earth".
No, it wouldn't. The last time someone sat in my seat on a plane, I didn't call the f'ing Air Marshals -- I noted it politely and they moved without incident. Most flights aren't booked full (and you can see in advance on the Web if they are or not.)
The point is that people on the no-fly list can get onto planes. Whether that's a real threat is the issue -- nobody's going to be able to guess the index numbers in Northwest's database of "real tickets", but they sure can falsify their information.
Wow, um, or people (this is a "such as myself" moment) who liked Windows 98 because it was stable, predictable, and still worked fine? I did a slow transition over to Red Hat and Debian and never looked back, but if I could still feasibly run Windows 98 on all my hardware, I would.
Nobody "needs" Windows 2000/XP... I never felt that they introduced a single feature that 98 was missing. Configuring XP to work the way 98 did takes weeks, too... it's about as long to do so in KDE.
Resolution ain't all it's about with regular cameras. I develop TMax black and white all the time for artistic work at college -- show me how I can wave my hands over a JPG as it's being developed, or use a transparency under a glass pane, or draw directly on the damn negative with a grease pencil -- all things I do all the time. Digital photography's limits are the same as Photoshop's. They're certainly broad (I love Photoshop), but there's a whole range of technique that will not be imitated.
Here at Columbia, they had him booked for a 150-seat venue but moved him to the cinema room, which opens up to about 1,500, and tickets still sold out in an hour. Our whole engineering school isn't even 1,500 kids.
Man attracts a crowd, he's got influence -- the least he can do is yell at a few (thousand) college kids for a few hours. I'm kinda wishing I'd gone.
Skype has been owned by eBay for years. They've just kept it quiet and kept their feedback positive, and now they can drive the bid price way up by cross-bidding. Duh.
"Your view sounds nice, but don't use tyranny to force me to adopt it."
Oh, okay. But don't build any freeways through my nice, pedestrian neighborh -- oh no, you already did!
Let's all take a moment to shed a tear for the American car culture, the freedom to live in ugly-ass subdivisions, and paving the entire universe. They were beautiful concepts.
(And I *like* driving. One of my favorite things to do. But it should be for trips and oddjobs, not commuting and getting basic essentials. Hoorah fuel efficiency but hoorah intelligent city planning.)
So apparently "don't be evil" doesn't explicitly prohibit consorting with evil, inviting evil over for cocktails, having a few drinks with evil and in a moment of passion revealing heretofore unknown details of PageRank... If Google's livelihood is contingent on destroying these people, I hope they put something in the fruit punch...
That doesn't make a lot of sense -- there's certainly no incentive for the US Government, or anybody else, to try and restrict e-mail, and it's nigh-impossible besides, since it's a point-to-point system. What does make sense, and would be pretty easily implemented, would be a system of controlled points that was optional and privately operated -- the ssh of email, so to speak.
If some lucky philanthropist set up the framework for a system of personal & business e-mail that wasn't dependent on its anonymity, the results would be pretty impressive, and it'd be easy enough to ban spam on such a system. There are enough savvy sysadmins out there (hint, hint) that somebody could draft a protocol and start setting up servers.
It could happen. E-mail's a great concept except when there's an asshole in the system; now we've got about two million of 'em.
Google's value seems to be in cutting out the crap in its bandwidth... look at their page loads (2.6k plus 8.4k for the image) versus Yahoo! (30k plus images, plus ads). And the less said about AV or Lycos in that regard, the better. Not to mention that Yahoo has basically just co-opted Google, but with more fat around the edges.
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I think I speak for all US-EU dual citizens when I say that this is awesome. Because now I probably only have to pay to be spied on by *one* of my governments. Hellooooo tax rebate!
Probably it's not a bad sample. I don't trust any web designer that doesn't read A List Apart -- it's pretty much the creme de la web design sources, both in terms of style, technique, and best practices. My old boss used to mandate it.
And yes, I am a shill. But they have taught me many clever things, and turned me into a CSS Nazi to boot. And I filled out the survey way back when it started (feels like awhile).
"Dear B**ch: Don't even dream about it, I found a girl who really knows how to- F***! How the heck do I turn this off! Delete that. Delete that. I think it's picking up a little double delete the killer select all."
Agreed. Nothing makes me crazy like an interface at work with a spelling error in a function name, preventing me from AutoCompleting (the one damn reason I put up with Eclipse). If I go back and fix the error, I end up having to refactor 4000 source files and end up getting phone calls like "Hey, why did you mess with my code?" from people that grasp the concept of "svn log" but not "svn blame"...
I cannot tell you how much I would love a taxi strike. Like some significant portion of NYers, I only take cabs in ridiculous emergencies (and even in those cases, I'll usually call a gypsy instead of a yellow cab). So, for me, this means like 60% of the city's traffic will vanish.
Forget congestion pricing, I'm going to have some peace and quiet immediately as long as nobody caves on this damn strike!
I can't believe the cost of public transit in London (or anywhere I've been) in the UK, for that matter. New York has a slight edge on this, because all subway rides are $2.00. (That's, uh, f1.00, for British readers.) You can go something like 31 miles for that (or three blocks).
The cheapest fare on the Underground, on the other hand, is what, a week's pay? I recall it being about $6 or $8, but I can't work the TfL website. And the worst was something like $24. You can't even ride regional rail in New York and pay $24 one way. That's enough to get to any suburb (hell, or nearby city).
To be fair, the congestion pricing bill includes $354 million of dollars in transit improvements to make up for the increase in demand (which is generally estimated as an increase of less than 3%). Most of this is going to bus improvements, including Bus Rapid Transit, but also including less pipe-dreamy stuff like a bunch of new lines, and bus lanes over the East River bridges. Subway congestion isn't as big of a problem as you think; I'm guessing that, like me, you live on one of the handful of truly awful lines (L, 4, 5, 6) -- most lines have plenty of extra capacity and can run more trains if faced with increased demand. And if you are on the L, they're adding more rush hour service. The 4, 5, and 6 are getting the First and Second avenue BRT lanes, which ought to free up a little elbow room too. The weird magic of congestion charging is that you only have to take a few people off the road to see improvements. We won't be facing every driver in the city suddenly shoving their way onto subway cars.
This happens to me with Sprint too, actually, and I live one mile from Midtown Manhattan. Sometimes I won't get a text for two full days. It's all very Ted Stevens.
Erm, Williamsburg isn't near the Brooklyn Bridge. As I write this, from my apartment about ten blocks from the middle of Williamsburg, in a lovely, safe, neighborhood, I am somewhat confused as to what you're talking about. Plus, I'm sure Chicago's housing projects are just delightful. Where was that Cabrini-Green place again?
I say we nuke the site from orbit.
It's got a whole new meaning now, don't it?
Yeah, but soon it'll be the iPhone shuffle -- just hit a button and it calls one of your friends at random!
The best thing about the Newton was Steve Jobs' press conference claiming that there was a "2.5 trillion dollar market" for it -- as the Mac Bible put it, "$500 for every man, woman, infant, convicted felon, and sheep herder on Earth".
No, it wouldn't. The last time someone sat in my seat on a plane, I didn't call the f'ing Air Marshals -- I noted it politely and they moved without incident. Most flights aren't booked full (and you can see in advance on the Web if they are or not.)
The point is that people on the no-fly list can get onto planes. Whether that's a real threat is the issue -- nobody's going to be able to guess the index numbers in Northwest's database of "real tickets", but they sure can falsify their information.
Wow, um, or people (this is a "such as myself" moment) who liked Windows 98 because it was stable, predictable, and still worked fine? I did a slow transition over to Red Hat and Debian and never looked back, but if I could still feasibly run Windows 98 on all my hardware, I would.
Nobody "needs" Windows 2000/XP... I never felt that they introduced a single feature that 98 was missing. Configuring XP to work the way 98 did takes weeks, too... it's about as long to do so in KDE.
A sermon-writing application? Word doesn't have a Insert->Scripture option?
... pomegranite juice injections in my spine. Why don't they hook me up with a white wine IV and save themselves the trouble?
Resolution ain't all it's about with regular cameras. I develop TMax black and white all the time for artistic work at college -- show me how I can wave my hands over a JPG as it's being developed, or use a transparency under a glass pane, or draw directly on the damn negative with a grease pencil -- all things I do all the time. Digital photography's limits are the same as Photoshop's. They're certainly broad (I love Photoshop), but there's a whole range of technique that will not be imitated.
Of course, it can't track you if your number starts with $sys$...
Of course, quoting that (or any) Wikipedia article is trivial, since you might have just changed it to say that.
Damn you, Wikipedia!
Here at Columbia, they had him booked for a 150-seat venue but moved him to the cinema room, which opens up to about 1,500, and tickets still sold out in an hour. Our whole engineering school isn't even 1,500 kids.
Man attracts a crowd, he's got influence -- the least he can do is yell at a few (thousand) college kids for a few hours. I'm kinda wishing I'd gone.
Skype has been owned by eBay for years. They've just kept it quiet and kept their feedback positive, and now they can drive the bid price way up by cross-bidding. Duh.
"Your view sounds nice, but don't use tyranny to force me to adopt it."
Oh, okay. But don't build any freeways through my nice, pedestrian neighborh -- oh no, you already did!
Let's all take a moment to shed a tear for the American car culture, the freedom to live in ugly-ass subdivisions, and paving the entire universe. They were beautiful concepts.
(And I *like* driving. One of my favorite things to do. But it should be for trips and oddjobs, not commuting and getting basic essentials. Hoorah fuel efficiency but hoorah intelligent city planning.)
So apparently "don't be evil" doesn't explicitly prohibit consorting with evil, inviting evil over for cocktails, having a few drinks with evil and in a moment of passion revealing heretofore unknown details of PageRank... If Google's livelihood is contingent on destroying these people, I hope they put something in the fruit punch...
That doesn't make a lot of sense -- there's certainly no incentive for the US Government, or anybody else, to try and restrict e-mail, and it's nigh-impossible besides, since it's a point-to-point system. What does make sense, and would be pretty easily implemented, would be a system of controlled points that was optional and privately operated -- the ssh of email, so to speak.
If some lucky philanthropist set up the framework for a system of personal & business e-mail that wasn't dependent on its anonymity, the results would be pretty impressive, and it'd be easy enough to ban spam on such a system. There are enough savvy sysadmins out there (hint, hint) that somebody could draft a protocol and start setting up servers.
It could happen. E-mail's a great concept except when there's an asshole in the system; now we've got about two million of 'em.
Google's value seems to be in cutting out the crap in its bandwidth... look at their page loads (2.6k plus 8.4k for the image) versus Yahoo! (30k plus images, plus ads). And the less said about AV or Lycos in that regard, the better. Not to mention that Yahoo has basically just co-opted Google, but with more fat around the edges.