The classic example is that on occasion a document written in an alternative WP would not render correctly in the employers copy of Word. It has been a decade since I have needed to send out a resume, but as I understand it, the days of glossy watermarked paper and fancy fonts to stand out are dead. I've seen posts that specifically as for the resume in plain text. At the very least you should be able to send a PDF which you can be completely sure will render correctly.
Are employers that require the resume to be in specifically in MS's.doc format really that common anymore?
Oh, and just to show that I do understand stupidity in business, the client I work for considers it too much of a security violation to let me plug my laptop into their network with a cable, but not to let me dial in with VPN. So, when I am working on site, I have to tether my laptop to my phone to get an external internet connection that then connects back into the network via VPN. Somehow they feel that sending the bits across the public internet is more secure than keeping them on the cable at their site.
Your work blocks streaming radio and facebook, but supplies you with an analog phone line that you can keep tied up 100% of the time with dialing in to streaming radio and facebook? That is just dumb. I'm not saying that YOU are, but whoever makes the decisions on things like phone and internet is phenomenally stupid.
No, it doesn't. All it shows is that some people will claim that anything that doesn't meet their particular version of 'What UNIX should be', it doesn't count. Linux isn't Unix. it is a Unix like system. The same could be said for OSX. The same could also be said for Android.
Correct. An unstable ABI just means that some open source group that isn't the kernel developers just needs to make an abstraction layer between the kernel and the driver. In fact, this was common practice with wifi cards for a very long time. It's open source. If an unstable ABI is a problem. Make, or have someone make for you, a patch that fixes the problem.
No, but I have known many people who would. It is also no more 'geeky' than MS is already perceived, so they don't risk hurting their image. Where as if they had used 'Furries' in their example, MS would have been accuessed of promoting perversion. Irrelvant of the fact that it is standard fair in TV and movies.
Case in point:
Over $900 Million in gross revenue: http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=shrek2.htm
I haven't quite figured out this new facination that people have with 'furries'. I don't mean the comics. I mean the fascination with trying to paint the people who read them as 'perverse'. Anthropomorphizing animals, and making them 'sexy' or putting them is sexual situations is common. It has been mainstream for longer than I have been alive. Only recently has it become a taboo.
Does no one remember Fritz the Cat? How about Bugs Bunny dressing up like a sexy woman so that he can freak out Elmer Fudd by getting him involved with a furry tranny? Thundercats? Heck, look at pretty much any catalog of cartoons with anthropomorphized characters, and you will find 'Furries'. Heck, Shrek 2 had an anthropomorphized cat literally giving miself a BJ in the castle square.
Obviously, there is a huge percentage of our population that is into this, and an even bigger percentage of our population that doesn't think twice about supplying it to their kids. I have discussed the BJ scene in Shrek 2, with many parents to get their opinion on it, and the standard response is that BJ are in kids movies if the characters are anthropomorphized. (aka. Furries) I don't get it, but that is the current standard for parenting.
There is part of the confusion. Many of the women that would avoid you for being a geek are not doing it because they don't understand what you are. They are avoiding you because they DO understand what you are. This doesn't suggest that you change your way of dealing with them though.
Do any of these do easy floor plans? Where you pick from common configurations, and can draw walls where you want them? I know that a full true CAD application has it's uses for many many things. Right now, I am looking for something where I can quickly and easily sketch my house so I can plan out various renovation projects.
Well, they can't please all of the people all of the time. It will never happen. I know that since AMD has started releasing docs, I have seen more posts, and more statements of support for them. Before they started releasing docs, It was starting to look like Intel would be the GPU of choice, since it was 'good enough' for most uses, and had open docs. AMD seems to be turning that around. It takes time, but it seems to be happening.
We should deliver it via the internet because it is more convenient, has the ability to offer a greater range of choices, has the ability to stimulate competition by allowing smaller players to enter the market, and most of all, there is no good reason not to.
We do not have perfectly good broadcast cable and Satellite systems. The current systems are just the best we have been able to get until now.
Your complaint is on par with someone claiming that we didn't need electric lights because we had perfectly good candles for producing light.
Having TV run over the internet is no more turning it into Cablevision than having TVs use electricity turns your power company into Cablevision. Turning the Internet into TV would require the REMOVAL of OTHER services. Adding new uses to the system can not do it.
That is one of the reasons that I don't buy many games anymore. That being said, you also have to understand that when enough people do buy the games anyway, and it becomes an industry standard, it becomes an act of opting out of society.
The theater, skating rink, amusement park or ski resort does not get to break the stuff that you bought at the venue before getting kicked out. If you bought popcorn at the theater, you could take it with you when you left.
No, this is more like you buy a Disney DVD, then go to Disneyland and act like an ass, so Disney kicks you out of the park, and then for added measure, comes to your home and smashes your DVD.
So the title is wrong. It should read. "It is possible to build an airplane that can pick up WiFi signals". This isn't a case of Wifi being able to interfere with "Airplanes" as in the generic term "Airplanes". This is a case of one system that has never been shipped being faulty, and picking up Wifi signals. This is Wifi "being able to interfere with planes" as much as "loud chanting can interfere with planes". No doubt Honeywell could build one of those too. Heck, I'm sure if they put their mind to it, they could build an airplane that would blink the screen when someone ugly got on board.
(I presume that you you meant that you don't think anyone actually believes Chewbacca DOES live on Endor.)
I just went back and watched it again to make sure that I wasn't confused. You should do the same. The point of the Chewbacca defense was to say things that are true, but don't make sense, and then associate the trial with the absurd statement.
The whole point of the Chewbacca Defense was to make fun of Strawman Arguments. The idea of making fun of Strawman Arguments is the kind of thing I would expect from Trey and Matt. The fact that they didn't prove their Strawman breaks the joke. Everything in the joke is to come to the final strawman statement of "If Chewbacca lives on Endor, you must acquit". There is nothing in there that indicates that "Chewbacca lives on Endor" is an intentional error, but the entire structure of the joke indicates that it was an unintentional error.
Yes, "lives" is more specific than "is on". That doesn't change the fact that the crux of the joke is wrong.
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The classic example is that on occasion a document written in an alternative WP would not render correctly in the employers copy of Word. It has been a decade since I have needed to send out a resume, but as I understand it, the days of glossy watermarked paper and fancy fonts to stand out are dead. I've seen posts that specifically as for the resume in plain text. At the very least you should be able to send a PDF which you can be completely sure will render correctly.
.doc format really that common anymore?
Are employers that require the resume to be in specifically in MS's
Oh, and just to show that I do understand stupidity in business, the client I work for considers it too much of a security violation to let me plug my laptop into their network with a cable, but not to let me dial in with VPN. So, when I am working on site, I have to tether my laptop to my phone to get an external internet connection that then connects back into the network via VPN. Somehow they feel that sending the bits across the public internet is more secure than keeping them on the cable at their site.
Your work blocks streaming radio and facebook, but supplies you with an analog phone line that you can keep tied up 100% of the time with dialing in to streaming radio and facebook? That is just dumb. I'm not saying that YOU are, but whoever makes the decisions on things like phone and internet is phenomenally stupid.
No, it doesn't. All it shows is that some people will claim that anything that doesn't meet their particular version of 'What UNIX should be', it doesn't count. Linux isn't Unix. it is a Unix like system. The same could be said for OSX. The same could also be said for Android.
Correct. An unstable ABI just means that some open source group that isn't the kernel developers just needs to make an abstraction layer between the kernel and the driver. In fact, this was common practice with wifi cards for a very long time. It's open source. If an unstable ABI is a problem. Make, or have someone make for you, a patch that fixes the problem.
No, but I have known many people who would. It is also no more 'geeky' than MS is already perceived, so they don't risk hurting their image. Where as if they had used 'Furries' in their example, MS would have been accuessed of promoting perversion. Irrelvant of the fact that it is standard fair in TV and movies. Case in point:
Over $900 Million in gross revenue:
http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=shrek2.htm
for this this 'Furry' sex:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfPYB9HU-ys
I haven't quite figured out this new facination that people have with 'furries'. I don't mean the comics. I mean the fascination with trying to paint the people who read them as 'perverse'. Anthropomorphizing animals, and making them 'sexy' or putting them is sexual situations is common. It has been mainstream for longer than I have been alive. Only recently has it become a taboo.
Does no one remember Fritz the Cat? How about Bugs Bunny dressing up like a sexy woman so that he can freak out Elmer Fudd by getting him involved with a furry tranny? Thundercats? Heck, look at pretty much any catalog of cartoons with anthropomorphized characters, and you will find 'Furries'. Heck, Shrek 2 had an anthropomorphized cat literally giving miself a BJ in the castle square.
Obviously, there is a huge percentage of our population that is into this, and an even bigger percentage of our population that doesn't think twice about supplying it to their kids. I have discussed the BJ scene in Shrek 2, with many parents to get their opinion on it, and the standard response is that BJ are in kids movies if the characters are anthropomorphized. (aka. Furries) I don't get it, but that is the current standard for parenting.
If so, she was a very kind person that used a much better line than "It's not you. It's me."
There is part of the confusion. Many of the women that would avoid you for being a geek are not doing it because they don't understand what you are. They are avoiding you because they DO understand what you are. This doesn't suggest that you change your way of dealing with them though.
So, your going to judge me and not want to be associated with me without even meeting me?
You mean so that you can make a knee jerk reaction to people who make knee jerk reactions?
My Phone, TV, wireless router. Probably a few other things in the house that I'm not aware of....
Do any of these do easy floor plans? Where you pick from common configurations, and can draw walls where you want them? I know that a full true CAD application has it's uses for many many things. Right now, I am looking for something where I can quickly and easily sketch my house so I can plan out various renovation projects.
Well, they can't please all of the people all of the time. It will never happen. I know that since AMD has started releasing docs, I have seen more posts, and more statements of support for them. Before they started releasing docs, It was starting to look like Intel would be the GPU of choice, since it was 'good enough' for most uses, and had open docs. AMD seems to be turning that around. It takes time, but it seems to be happening.
If they are "too big to fail", then they are "too big to exist". Any company that is too big to fail should be split up for redundancy's sake.
We should deliver it via the internet because it is more convenient, has the ability to offer a greater range of choices, has the ability to stimulate competition by allowing smaller players to enter the market, and most of all, there is no good reason not to.
We do not have perfectly good broadcast cable and Satellite systems. The current systems are just the best we have been able to get until now.
Your complaint is on par with someone claiming that we didn't need electric lights because we had perfectly good candles for producing light.
Having TV run over the internet is no more turning it into Cablevision than having TVs use electricity turns your power company into Cablevision. Turning the Internet into TV would require the REMOVAL of OTHER services. Adding new uses to the system can not do it.
That is one of the reasons that I don't buy many games anymore. That being said, you also have to understand that when enough people do buy the games anyway, and it becomes an industry standard, it becomes an act of opting out of society.
The theater, skating rink, amusement park or ski resort does not get to break the stuff that you bought at the venue before getting kicked out. If you bought popcorn at the theater, you could take it with you when you left.
No, this is more like you buy a Disney DVD, then go to Disneyland and act like an ass, so Disney kicks you out of the park, and then for added measure, comes to your home and smashes your DVD.
Fox News for Nerds?
So the title is wrong. It should read. "It is possible to build an airplane that can pick up WiFi signals". This isn't a case of Wifi being able to interfere with "Airplanes" as in the generic term "Airplanes". This is a case of one system that has never been shipped being faulty, and picking up Wifi signals. This is Wifi "being able to interfere with planes" as much as "loud chanting can interfere with planes". No doubt Honeywell could build one of those too. Heck, I'm sure if they put their mind to it, they could build an airplane that would blink the screen when someone ugly got on board.
You obviously don't know what trolling or an idiot are.
You clearly don't know what a strawman argument is.
(I presume that you you meant that you don't think anyone actually believes Chewbacca DOES live on Endor.)
I just went back and watched it again to make sure that I wasn't confused. You should do the same. The point of the Chewbacca defense was to say things that are true, but don't make sense, and then associate the trial with the absurd statement.
The whole point of the Chewbacca Defense was to make fun of Strawman Arguments. The idea of making fun of Strawman Arguments is the kind of thing I would expect from Trey and Matt. The fact that they didn't prove their Strawman breaks the joke. Everything in the joke is to come to the final strawman statement of "If Chewbacca lives on Endor, you must acquit". There is nothing in there that indicates that "Chewbacca lives on Endor" is an intentional error, but the entire structure of the joke indicates that it was an unintentional error.
Yes, "lives" is more specific than "is on". That doesn't change the fact that the crux of the joke is wrong.