>and how much student loan debt?
Uh, none -- thanks for asking. Hard work and high marks pay off on both sides of the two cultures.
>Furthermore, your sentence cries out for a semicolon after the word "splice" followed by a comma after the word "and." This >is because you have two independant clauses joined by an independant marker.
Sorry, friend. The coordinating conjunction does the heavy lifting for me. Your infelicitous edit would work much better if the word "and" were omitted. Technically I didn't need the comma in the first place but I used it to simulate the rhythms of colloquial speech.
What I find odd is no one abused me for owning two ipods.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't ALL Apple products built under contract by factories in Asia?
What could they possibly gain by turning their manufacturing over to Dell?
This is not a slam at Apple. I own macs and ipods and I think they design great products. I just don't think there's an "Apple" factory out there churning out the gizmos. Why would they turn to Dell -- a company with a horrible, horrible track record for quality and reliability -- to make their products, when their current business arrangements seem to be working just fine?
$10B in the bank, no debt, 12 profitable quarters in a row, growing marketshare...this needs fixing how, exactly?
The Gartner guys must have mixed vodka with their Red Bull again.
Funded by the government. That means controlled by them for all practical purposes
You, sir, have your tin-foil hat wound WAY too tight.
All scientists are controlled by the evil gub'mint, yessirree. If that's the case, can you explain why a vehemently PRO-business, ANTI-environment gub'mint would tether together a bunch of highly-respected experts, bought and paid for every one, your tingling tin-foil tells you, and have them trot out a report that says "holy fuck, anthropogenic CO2 is a really big problem"?
Instead of peering at the messenger's paystub could you take a moment to read the message before shooting said messenger? Or is your cynical posture just an excuse so you don't have to THINK about stuff?
Your own example from "a few years back" indicates there's a predictable gap between reported thefts and actual thefts. But that gap will always exist -- is there any reason to imagine it's getting worse? If laptops are becoming more numerous overall then a higher number of thefts is to be expected.
There are more murders in my home town than there were 20 years ago. Does that reflect a higher level of violence or the fact that the population has tripled?
Alarmist article != real problem (or even news).
> No big deal, I do unsolvable homework problems all the time.
No, you _don't_ do unsolvable homework problems all the time.
It's an important distinction.
I did the obvious, and checked the source of the gmail.com page, looking for odd bits. Try it yourself, and see if there's anything about the source page that looks...suspicious.
(I won't say what, because I strongly suspect the google-eyed bastards are using/. to beta-test the joke. People keep finding flaws and then the flaws "disappear". Hmmm. Check it out.)
I don't know if the pointless article's point was that video games will die entirely, just that the industry is heading for trouble.
Last I checked, there was no multi-billion dollar "chess industry".
Plus, unlike video games, chess doesn't rely on novelty. What, besides novelty, prompts someone with a working copy of Madden NFL 2003 to pay $30 for Madden NFL 2004? Is the experience really $30 worth of better?
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>and how much student loan debt? Uh, none -- thanks for asking. Hard work and high marks pay off on both sides of the two cultures. >Furthermore, your sentence cries out for a semicolon after the word "splice" followed by a comma after the word "and." This >is because you have two independant clauses joined by an independant marker. Sorry, friend. The coordinating conjunction does the heavy lifting for me. Your infelicitous edit would work much better if the word "and" were omitted. Technically I didn't need the comma in the first place but I used it to simulate the rhythms of colloquial speech. What I find odd is no one abused me for owning two ipods.
>You can pay it back, don't worry, you're not getting an english degree, are you?
I have *three* English degrees, you insensitive clod.
(Oh, and two ipods. Also your last sentence contains a comma splice, and "English" should be capitalized. So there.)
Where's my +1 Snark moderator point when I need it? I salute you, sir.
They design them.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't ALL Apple products built under contract by factories in Asia?
What could they possibly gain by turning their manufacturing over to Dell?
This is not a slam at Apple. I own macs and ipods and I think they design great products. I just don't think there's an "Apple" factory out there churning out the gizmos. Why would they turn to Dell -- a company with a horrible, horrible track record for quality and reliability -- to make their products, when their current business arrangements seem to be working just fine?
$10B in the bank, no debt, 12 profitable quarters in a row, growing marketshare...this needs fixing how, exactly?
The Gartner guys must have mixed vodka with their Red Bull again.
You, sir, have your tin-foil hat wound WAY too tight.
All scientists are controlled by the evil gub'mint, yessirree. If that's the case, can you explain why a vehemently PRO-business, ANTI-environment gub'mint would tether together a bunch of highly-respected experts, bought and paid for every one, your tingling tin-foil tells you, and have them trot out a report that says "holy fuck, anthropogenic CO2 is a really big problem"?
Instead of peering at the messenger's paystub could you take a moment to read the message before shooting said messenger? Or is your cynical posture just an excuse so you don't have to THINK about stuff?
We need a term for people who bring these buzzword lawsuits to court. How about "buzzword-complainant"?
Your own example from "a few years back" indicates there's a predictable gap between reported thefts and actual thefts. But that gap will always exist -- is there any reason to imagine it's getting worse? If laptops are becoming more numerous overall then a higher number of thefts is to be expected. There are more murders in my home town than there were 20 years ago. Does that reflect a higher level of violence or the fact that the population has tripled? Alarmist article != real problem (or even news).
> No big deal, I do unsolvable homework problems all the time. No, you _don't_ do unsolvable homework problems all the time. It's an important distinction.
THANK YOU gentlemen. It wasn't quite Lincoln-Douglas, but by the standards of /. you kept the gloves on admirably.
Enjoy the music.
I did the obvious, and checked the source of the gmail.com page, looking for odd bits. Try it yourself, and see if there's anything about the source page that looks...suspicious. (I won't say what, because I strongly suspect the google-eyed bastards are using /. to beta-test the joke. People keep finding flaws and then the flaws "disappear". Hmmm. Check it out.)
I don't know if the pointless article's point was that video games will die entirely, just that the industry is heading for trouble. Last I checked, there was no multi-billion dollar "chess industry". Plus, unlike video games, chess doesn't rely on novelty. What, besides novelty, prompts someone with a working copy of Madden NFL 2003 to pay $30 for Madden NFL 2004? Is the experience really $30 worth of better?