I know someone who has this alcohol intolerance. She still drinks, in spite of the rotten feeling afterwords.
In some cases, alcoholism is about social and psychological dependence. Not the buzz from the chemistry. If people drink because they need it to fit in to a crowd, getting sick won't stop that.
I can't fathom such irrational behavior. I also have very little tolerance for alcohol. After a few 2-3 day hangovers in my late teens, I figured out that by sticking to a one-drink-per-day rule, I can completely avoid the misery. 2 drinks = headache, and 3+ drinks = headache + nausea. Yes, I must constantly brush off the ignorant fools who try to push me into having "just one more", and firmly put my foot down when a group at a bar expects me to help subsidize them when they order multiple pitchers of beer while I have just one glass. But the only thing worse than waking up sick in the morning, is knowing that it was totally preventable, and that I just wasted a day of my life for no good reason.
I think Sony made the right decision there. If Microsoft approached me about "co-operating" I wouldn't touch them with a 10 foot pole. Look how well it worked out for IBM (with MS-DOS and OS/2) or Sun (with Java).
I once pulled my credit reports and found dumb mistakes on one, so I submitted corrections to the agency. Their response: "We have reviewed our information and determined it to be accurate." So the morons think they know more about me than I know about myself.
I'm totally confused every time this comes up... do browsers have Javascript (more accurately ECMA Script) or Java itself? I understand it is the former; whiereas Java is a plugin that needs to be explicitly installed. And I also believe Javascript has almost nothing to do with Java.
Is Java on browsers so widespread?
I haven't need Java since my last job where I routinely needed to use the web interface of F5 proxies, in which the latest major revision went to an all-Java interface.
For heavens sake - the point of these featurephone browsers (Opera Mini has been doing this since dawn of time) is that they use proxy to reduce data transferred and/or reformat the sites to better use lower resolution. Instead of a lot screenshots to prove that he is a very l33t h4x0r he could have just opened the friendly page showing how the browser works.
The only thing that rises eyebrows a little is that they indeed MITM https traffic by re-encrypting the traffic and using their own certificate (which is installed as trusted on the phone) on phoneproxy communication. But this is how SSL is supposed to work - if you want to be sure about both sides you will also need client-side certificates.
Wrong!!! This is a MITM attack. SSL is *not* supposed to be hacked between client and server. There is supposed to be an encrypted, unbroken path between the two, else there is *no* security.
THis isn't the 1950's where the entire entertainment system, TV, HiFi and Phonograph are all integrated into the same box. Some one make a freekin TV monitor without all the tuners and computers in it! I know you can get monitors but could someone make one that cost less than a TV with all that crap in it. Then make the gadgets to attach to the "Monitor". Maybe we could even have 2K and 4K monitors at 50" for less thank $5K?
Westinghouse used to make exactly that: an LCD monitor-only with lots of video inputs. It came in 37" (LVM-37W3), and 42" (LVM42W2) versions. I bought the 37".
I started using windowing systems at DEC using DECwindows. my first wm was twm after trying and hating the motif wm. this was in the late 80's iirc. after leaving DEC, moved over to sun systems and grabbed twm and pretty much stayed there for 15 years or so. lately, I 'upgraded' to fvwm1.4 as my window mgr.
Agreed! Fvwm was the last wm to actually introduce a useful new feature. I've always tried to use whatever wm was the default on the system, and every one has been nothing but a waste of my time adapting to a new system that provides nothing useful over the previous system. And don't even get me started on the re-inventions of the xterm that don't even have the features of the basic xterm.
... when I took the state PE license engineering fundamentals test. It was 8 hours, open book, bring your own calculator. This was back when calculators had battery sucking LED displays and you'd be lucky to get 8 hours out of them. So when they opened the doors to the test room, it was a mad scramble to grab a seat near a plug.
I cheated. I brought a slide rule.
Yes, I remember that PE exam all too well; The batteries in my calculator died just before lunch, so I had to spend my lunch break hiking halfway across campus to the bookstore for more batteries, and missed lunch.:-(
When a stoplight turns green, every car could start moving simultaneously, getting more people through the light. I bet a huge reduction in rush hour traffic would be a selling point for a lot of people (and regulators).
There already exists something that moves more much traffic, and is a lot safer, than the traffic light.
After reading/watching these, I found myself wondering why I spent all those years accomplishing nothing in IT, when I could have been robbing banks from the inside with no worries about being prosecuted.
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I know someone who has this alcohol intolerance. She still drinks, in spite of the rotten feeling afterwords.
In some cases, alcoholism is about social and psychological dependence. Not the buzz from the chemistry. If people drink because they need it to fit in to a crowd, getting sick won't stop that.
I can't fathom such irrational behavior. I also have very little tolerance for alcohol. After a few 2-3 day hangovers in my late teens, I figured out that by sticking to a one-drink-per-day rule, I can completely avoid the misery. 2 drinks = headache, and 3+ drinks = headache + nausea. Yes, I must constantly brush off the ignorant fools who try to push me into having "just one more", and firmly put my foot down when a group at a bar expects me to help subsidize them when they order multiple pitchers of beer while I have just one glass. But the only thing worse than waking up sick in the morning, is knowing that it was totally preventable, and that I just wasted a day of my life for no good reason.
Why was anyone suspecting their mice of using drugs in the first place?
It's because of that mouse that admitted it all in an interview with Oprah.
Why would anyone drink Mt.Dew without caffeine? That is like decaf coffee or alcohol free beer or tits on a boar hog.
"Why would anyone drink alcohol-free beer? Is it for people who don't like getting drunk, but still enjoy urinating?" -- Jay Leno
Can someone explain why it's reasonable to have patents and copyrights continue to exist after the original author is dead?
I really never understood that.
Hey! zombies deserve the right to be rewarded for their innovations!
I think Sony made the right decision there. If Microsoft approached me about "co-operating" I wouldn't touch them with a 10 foot pole. Look how well it worked out for IBM (with MS-DOS and OS/2) or Sun (with Java).
Add Robert Metcalfe and 3Com. Here is a video clip from the documentary "Nerds 2.0.1" where he is talking about how M$ f***ed them over: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaCFHuVZAU0&t=4m
Yes what a wonderful use for the limited amount of Helium on this planet. Let's put it in baloons to protect ourselves from imaginary threats.
It is not to protect *us*; It is to protect politicians.
I once pulled my credit reports and found dumb mistakes on one, so I submitted corrections to the agency.
Their response: "We have reviewed our information and determined it to be accurate."
So the morons think they know more about me than I know about myself.
... was the first monkey's stunt double.
I'm totally confused every time this comes up... do browsers have Javascript (more accurately ECMA Script) or Java itself? I understand it is the former; whiereas Java is a plugin that needs to be explicitly installed. And I also believe Javascript has almost nothing to do with Java.
Is Java on browsers so widespread?
I haven't need Java since my last job where I routinely needed to use the web interface of F5 proxies, in which the latest major revision went to an all-Java interface.
For heavens sake - the point of these featurephone browsers (Opera Mini has been doing this since dawn of time) is that they use proxy to reduce data transferred and/or reformat the sites to better use lower resolution. Instead of a lot screenshots to prove that he is a very l33t h4x0r he could have just opened the friendly page showing how the browser works.
The only thing that rises eyebrows a little is that they indeed MITM https traffic by re-encrypting the traffic and using their own certificate (which is installed as trusted on the phone) on phoneproxy communication. But this is how SSL is supposed to work - if you want to be sure about both sides you will also need client-side certificates.
Wrong!!! This is a MITM attack. SSL is *not* supposed to be hacked between client and server. There is supposed to be an encrypted, unbroken path between the two, else there is *no* security.
It's 2013, and someone is discovering Javascript?
Just wait until tomorrow when they discover Livescript.
http://www.dailytech.com/American+Airlines+Wins+FAA+Approval+to+Use+iPad+in+Cockpit+During+All+Phases+of+Flight/article27646.htm
THis isn't the 1950's where the entire entertainment system, TV, HiFi and Phonograph are all integrated into the same box. Some one make a freekin TV monitor without all the tuners and computers in it! I know you can get monitors but could someone make one that cost less than a TV with all that crap in it. Then make the gadgets to attach to the "Monitor". Maybe we could even have 2K and 4K monitors at 50" for less thank $5K?
Westinghouse used to make exactly that: an LCD monitor-only with lots of video inputs.
It came in 37" (LVM-37W3), and 42" (LVM42W2) versions. I bought the 37".
I think banning humans would go a long way to solving the world's problems.
Skynet? Is that you?
...I'd say it was designed and built in Granby, Colorado.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sab2Ltm1WcM
I started using windowing systems at DEC using DECwindows. my first wm was twm after trying and hating the motif wm. this was in the late 80's iirc. after leaving DEC, moved over to sun systems and grabbed twm and pretty much stayed there for 15 years or so. lately, I 'upgraded' to fvwm1.4 as my window mgr.
Agreed! Fvwm was the last wm to actually introduce a useful new feature. I've always tried to use whatever wm was the default on the system, and every one has been nothing but a waste of my time adapting to a new system that provides nothing useful over the previous system. And don't even get me started on the re-inventions of the xterm that don't even have the features of the basic xterm.
I cheated. I brought a slide rule.
Yes, I remember that PE exam all too well; The batteries in my calculator died just before lunch, so I had to spend my lunch break hiking halfway across campus to the bookstore for more batteries, and missed lunch. :-(
They should countersue for the time they lost watching the movie.
Can I join that class-action suit even though I rented it from NetFlix? :-(
This should help you: http://www.google.com/tisp/
"U.S. components; Russian components; ALL MADE IN TAIWAN!"
When a stoplight turns green, every car could start moving simultaneously, getting more people through the light. I bet a huge reduction in rush hour traffic would be a selling point for a lot of people (and regulators).
There already exists something that moves more much traffic, and is a lot safer, than the traffic light.
It is called the "roundabout".
Whoever rated this "insightful" either did not RTFA, or has a hell of a sense of humor.
1. RollingStone: "Why Isn't Wall Street in Jail?": http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/why-isnt-wall-street-in-jail-20110216
2. "Inside Job"(2010): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1645089/
After reading/watching these, I found myself wondering why I spent all those years accomplishing nothing in IT, when I could have been robbing banks from the inside with no worries about being prosecuted.