While I won't disagree with the "your wife is a moron" part, you're still wrong.
"Mac Mail automatically chooses the right account based on current mailbox selection or previous interaction with the recipients."
That is true unless Mac Mail tries to send the email from that account multiple times without success. If you're still watching the screen, you will see it up a window to ask if you want to retry with the same account or try sending from a different account, but if you're AFK, if the lid is closed, or something along those lines, it can switch accounts and send the email from the wrong account without asking. As I mentioned in my previous post, this has also happened to co-workers. We're all software developers, and two of them work exclusively on Macs. You can try to claim that we're all morons, but you'd still be wrong.
In this case, I suspect it's not the judge who screwed up. It's the IT staff that couldn't keep his office mail server up (and the same IT staff that didn't warn him not to use Mac Mail for work emails).
As I mentioned in a separate post from my cell (which wasn't logged in), this is an almost hidden feature in Mac mail.
If you try to send an email from one email account (e.g. your "I'm a judge" account), and Mac mail fails to send it through that mail server a certain number of times, it can automatically decide to "help" and send that email through one of your other accounts (e.g. your "I'm also a dad" account or your "I also use iCloud" account). My wife just became a lawyer, and this happened to her a few times. She freaked because she can be dis-barred for that, and when she figured out what was causing it, she had to stop using Mac mail for professional/work emails.
The only real surprise is that the Mac mail app hasn't been outright banned by all companies everywhere. I know software developers who work on Macs have mentioned having the same problem when I asked about it (which makes it a lot less likely to be user error), and they couldn't find any way to disable this "feature". For the most part, they're stuck with using Outlook for business and Mac mail for personal.
Direct observation/measurement isn't the only method to estimate global temperatures over long periods of time. This chart isn't scientific, and the vast majority of the line is dashed to show the temperature is estimated (not observed directly), but a picture is worth 1000 words:
You could argue that direct observation is the only way to be certain, but that's like arguing that there's no way to be certain that trees existed before mankind showed up to observe and document them. You could take it one step farther and argue that even after humans developed written language, they were probably lying (en masse), in much the same way you believe that 98% of the scientists studying climate are lying. Any fossils found were faked or planted there by God to test the faithless (because he's definitely that petty/vindictive).
As others have said, they didn't reduce the dimension to cheat the customer. You can still buy rough/raw lumber at specific dimensions, and they're labelled in terms of quarters of an inch. So 4/4 is very close to 1", 5/4 is very close to 1.25", and 8/4 is very close to 2". Specialty wood shops that sell hard-woods generally sell lumber this way. I purchased some 4/4 and 8/4 mahogany to make a piece of furniture a while back.
Yeah, you're right. Just double-checked, and it looks like most the US beers are in the 4.0-4.2 range unless they're labelled ice, ale, etc. Can't remember where I got the 2.5 number. Probably something my wife said that stuck years ago when she was complaining about me buying a 5% beer. I don't pay attention to the % unless buying something I know is stronger, like ice-brewed.
That might bump me up from 3-7 to 5-10. My wife would feel (more) vindicated.;-)
It's all relative. My wife keeps trying to convince me I'm an alcoholic, and I only drink 1-3 16oz US beers (2.5%) each week. I never drink more than 1 on the same day, never on consecutive days, never more than 3 in a week, and when I pick up one of the 5% beers, I actually get a buzz so that's considered a "binge" for me.
To my wife, 3-7 units per week = alcoholic.
To my Irish-descended Navy family, 3-7 units per week = teetotaler.
"The U.S. Government Agency determined that six individuals printed this reporting. WINNER was one of these six individuals. A further audit of the six individuals' desk computers revealed that WINNER had e-mail contact with the News Outlet. The audit did not reveal that any of the other individuals had e-mail contact with the News Outlet."
Also, don't use your work computer or email account to send/receive emails to the organization you're leaking classified documents to.
This guy gets points for honesty, boldness, and openly admitting that he's in the top 1% of the world's amoral socio/psychopathic douche-bags. It's nowhere near enough to make up for what happened, but most people in his situation would lie through their teeth to try to paint a better picture for themselves and their company.
"There is no reason that the supply needs to be short. If rich old people are willing to pay for young blood, then some of that money can go to the donors. The market can solve this."
That's brilliant! The market will drive the price of blood up higher for everyone, and a lot more poor people will die because they can no longer afford a blood transfusion when they really need it. In addition to helping the wealthy, it will help eliminate poverty and help alleviate over-population in one fell swoop! It's a win-win-win!
No, that would definitely be fraud. If it were safe to do what you suggest, then every seller's agent listing a house would log into Zestimates and tweak the house in their favor to get a bigger commission. They don't do this (at least not blatantly/obviously) because they would get sued for fraud so fast their heads would spin.
Zillow may not be there to help you, but lawyers are definitely out there to help themselves if there's even a minute chance they can get a judge to consider the merits of a law suit, and I'm pretty sure a slick lawyer could get a judge to agree to let him try this one. At that point, even if you win the law suit, the best you can hope for is that both sides lose (time, legal fees, etc.)
IMO it would be better to see if you can tweak the numbers so that Zestimate returns a $0 estimate (or as close as you can get it). Or you could shoot for 100x the actual property value. It just needs to be so far out of the "ball park" that no one could possibly take it seriously. If even half the people selling property take the time to do that, Zestimate users will get annoyed and stop using it completely. Problem solved, and without even a small chance of being sued for trying to earn more by purposely tricking potential buyers with false information.
While I agree this one definitely looks like a useless toy, it looks like it should fly the same over land or water. If I was that pilot, I wouldn't want to try that over land, though. It doesn't look like a very stable design when it comes to balance. Of all the "flying car" footage I've seen, I like this one the best so far:
That's a valid point, but in that specific case the real problem is that they didn't hire a "real software developer" to replace me. Perhaps there are too many fakers out there posing as software developers, or perhaps there are too many managers who need to hire an in-law or a friend of a friend as a favor, or perhaps the company has a poor work environment for developers that causes the good ones to leave, or...
I could go on, but I'm sure you already knew all that before I started. There are plenty of reasons why Scott Adams hasn't run out of material yet.;-) However, software projects aren't always that bad. When I inherited the project I'm currently in charge of (in addition to the other project we have here that they have me assist with), I figured it out just fine. If I ever leave, it all comes down to whether the person they hire is a real software developer or someone who knows enough to fake it.
No, we can explain our software projects to other developers just fine. It's usually not worth the time/aggravation it takes to try to explain it to anyone else.
While this may look like it was meant as a joke, it's really not.;-)
"It is not obstructed by the increasingly thicker pillars of the inside of a car"
You said it. Those thicker pillars to hide extra airbags have increased my blind spots so much that the airbags have become a self-fulfilling prophecy. I need all those extra airbags so much more now that I have all those extra airbags.
I'm sure you've already seen the "it's 15-30 times, not 15-30 percent" replies. There's also the "performance per watt of the TPU was 25 to 80 times better". Can you imagine how much money this can save Google in electricity costs? It's 1-2 orders of magnitude better (10-100 times), with the possibility that they will continue to find dramatic improvements.
If we equate your assessment with a "bunt", what Google really did is knocked the ball out of the park.
"For instance, people who fill out online job applications using browsers that did not come with the computer (such as Microsoft’s Internet Explorer on a Windows PC) but had to be deliberately installed (like Firefox or Google’s Chrome) perform better and change jobs less often."
That's actually really funny. It makes you wonder what the big data correlations would show for people submitting online applications from iPhone/iPad browsers. On Windows it seems pretty stupid if you don't install a different browser, but on iPhone/iPad it seems pretty stupid if you do. Then again, depending on what angle you're looking at it from, it could be seen as pretty stupid to be using either Microsoft or Apple products (and Android is both better and worse).
I suspect most of those already gave up on Windows completely in favor of smart-phones, tablets, or if they really want to be able to type on an actual keyboard, Chromebooks. I suspect most of this 27% are employees whose IT staff won't let them use anything but IE.
Slashdot Mirror
While I won't disagree with the "your wife is a moron" part, you're still wrong.
"Mac Mail automatically chooses the right account based on current mailbox selection or previous interaction with the recipients."
That is true unless Mac Mail tries to send the email from that account multiple times without success. If you're still watching the screen, you will see it up a window to ask if you want to retry with the same account or try sending from a different account, but if you're AFK, if the lid is closed, or something along those lines, it can switch accounts and send the email from the wrong account without asking. As I mentioned in my previous post, this has also happened to co-workers. We're all software developers, and two of them work exclusively on Macs. You can try to claim that we're all morons, but you'd still be wrong.
In this case, I suspect it's not the judge who screwed up. It's the IT staff that couldn't keep his office mail server up (and the same IT staff that didn't warn him not to use Mac Mail for work emails).
As I mentioned in a separate post from my cell (which wasn't logged in), this is an almost hidden feature in Mac mail.
If you try to send an email from one email account (e.g. your "I'm a judge" account), and Mac mail fails to send it through that mail server a certain number of times, it can automatically decide to "help" and send that email through one of your other accounts (e.g. your "I'm also a dad" account or your "I also use iCloud" account). My wife just became a lawyer, and this happened to her a few times. She freaked because she can be dis-barred for that, and when she figured out what was causing it, she had to stop using Mac mail for professional/work emails.
The only real surprise is that the Mac mail app hasn't been outright banned by all companies everywhere. I know software developers who work on Macs have mentioned having the same problem when I asked about it (which makes it a lot less likely to be user error), and they couldn't find any way to disable this "feature". For the most part, they're stuck with using Outlook for business and Mac mail for personal.
Sounds like the Robotech thinking caps. Now all we need are big jets that transform into battloids.
OTOH, I'm pretty sure being in an MRI scanner for long periods would have some impact on a person's health.
Translation...
Public/external statement:
"Tesla will get the system installed and working 100 days from contract signature or it is free."
Private/internal statement:
"Tesla will get the system installed and working 100 days from contract signature or you're all fired."
This could redefine the term "power nap".
Direct observation/measurement isn't the only method to estimate global temperatures over long periods of time. This chart isn't scientific, and the vast majority of the line is dashed to show the temperature is estimated (not observed directly), but a picture is worth 1000 words:
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wi...
(On the plus side, we seem to be preventing the next ice age from coming along.)
You could argue that direct observation is the only way to be certain, but that's like arguing that there's no way to be certain that trees existed before mankind showed up to observe and document them. You could take it one step farther and argue that even after humans developed written language, they were probably lying (en masse), in much the same way you believe that 98% of the scientists studying climate are lying. Any fossils found were faked or planted there by God to test the faithless (because he's definitely that petty/vindictive).
Anyone over there watch the IT crowd?
Moss: "What kind of operating system does it use?"
Bomb squad: "Vista!"
Moss: "We're going to die!"
As others have said, they didn't reduce the dimension to cheat the customer. You can still buy rough/raw lumber at specific dimensions, and they're labelled in terms of quarters of an inch. So 4/4 is very close to 1", 5/4 is very close to 1.25", and 8/4 is very close to 2". Specialty wood shops that sell hard-woods generally sell lumber this way. I purchased some 4/4 and 8/4 mahogany to make a piece of furniture a while back.
Yeah, you're right. Just double-checked, and it looks like most the US beers are in the 4.0-4.2 range unless they're labelled ice, ale, etc. Can't remember where I got the 2.5 number. Probably something my wife said that stuck years ago when she was complaining about me buying a 5% beer. I don't pay attention to the % unless buying something I know is stronger, like ice-brewed.
That might bump me up from 3-7 to 5-10. My wife would feel (more) vindicated. ;-)
It's all relative. My wife keeps trying to convince me I'm an alcoholic, and I only drink 1-3 16oz US beers (2.5%) each week. I never drink more than 1 on the same day, never on consecutive days, never more than 3 in a week, and when I pick up one of the 5% beers, I actually get a buzz so that's considered a "binge" for me.
To my wife, 3-7 units per week = alcoholic.
To my Irish-descended Navy family, 3-7 units per week = teetotaler.
"The U.S. Government Agency determined that six individuals printed this reporting. WINNER was one of these six individuals. A further audit of the six individuals' desk computers revealed that WINNER had e-mail contact with the News Outlet. The audit did not reveal that any of the other individuals had e-mail contact with the News Outlet."
Also, don't use your work computer or email account to send/receive emails to the organization you're leaking classified documents to.
This guy gets points for honesty, boldness, and openly admitting that he's in the top 1% of the world's amoral socio/psychopathic douche-bags. It's nowhere near enough to make up for what happened, but most people in his situation would lie through their teeth to try to paint a better picture for themselves and their company.
"There is no reason that the supply needs to be short. If rich old people are willing to pay for young blood, then some of that money can go to the donors. The market can solve this."
That's brilliant! The market will drive the price of blood up higher for everyone, and a lot more poor people will die because they can no longer afford a blood transfusion when they really need it. In addition to helping the wealthy, it will help eliminate poverty and help alleviate over-population in one fell swoop! It's a win-win-win!
No, that would definitely be fraud. If it were safe to do what you suggest, then every seller's agent listing a house would log into Zestimates and tweak the house in their favor to get a bigger commission. They don't do this (at least not blatantly/obviously) because they would get sued for fraud so fast their heads would spin.
Zillow may not be there to help you, but lawyers are definitely out there to help themselves if there's even a minute chance they can get a judge to consider the merits of a law suit, and I'm pretty sure a slick lawyer could get a judge to agree to let him try this one. At that point, even if you win the law suit, the best you can hope for is that both sides lose (time, legal fees, etc.)
IMO it would be better to see if you can tweak the numbers so that Zestimate returns a $0 estimate (or as close as you can get it). Or you could shoot for 100x the actual property value. It just needs to be so far out of the "ball park" that no one could possibly take it seriously. If even half the people selling property take the time to do that, Zestimate users will get annoyed and stop using it completely. Problem solved, and without even a small chance of being sued for trying to earn more by purposely tricking potential buyers with false information.
While I agree this one definitely looks like a useless toy, it looks like it should fly the same over land or water. If I was that pilot, I wouldn't want to try that over land, though. It doesn't look like a very stable design when it comes to balance. Of all the "flying car" footage I've seen, I like this one the best so far:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/tec...
The only video I'd really like to see of this "Kitty Hawk" is one that shows how the boaters react when it flies directly over them.
Damn, that was an awesome comeback. Too bad I can't mod it up. I'm sure someone will, though.
Cool... cause it's not hot... Yes, I know. I can't resist, no matter how terrible the joke.
That's a valid point, but in that specific case the real problem is that they didn't hire a "real software developer" to replace me. Perhaps there are too many fakers out there posing as software developers, or perhaps there are too many managers who need to hire an in-law or a friend of a friend as a favor, or perhaps the company has a poor work environment for developers that causes the good ones to leave, or...
I could go on, but I'm sure you already knew all that before I started. There are plenty of reasons why Scott Adams hasn't run out of material yet. ;-) However, software projects aren't always that bad. When I inherited the project I'm currently in charge of (in addition to the other project we have here that they have me assist with), I figured it out just fine. If I ever leave, it all comes down to whether the person they hire is a real software developer or someone who knows enough to fake it.
No, we can explain our software projects to other developers just fine. It's usually not worth the time/aggravation it takes to try to explain it to anyone else.
While this may look like it was meant as a joke, it's really not. ;-)
"It is not obstructed by the increasingly thicker pillars of the inside of a car"
You said it. Those thicker pillars to hide extra airbags have increased my blind spots so much that the airbags have become a self-fulfilling prophecy. I need all those extra airbags so much more now that I have all those extra airbags.
I'm sure you've already seen the "it's 15-30 times, not 15-30 percent" replies. There's also the "performance per watt of the TPU was 25 to 80 times better". Can you imagine how much money this can save Google in electricity costs? It's 1-2 orders of magnitude better (10-100 times), with the possibility that they will continue to find dramatic improvements.
If we equate your assessment with a "bunt", what Google really did is knocked the ball out of the park.
Easy. When the PSU dies, they want you to buy a new XBox, not a new PSU.
We don't call it terra-forming anymore... We call it potato-forming.
"For instance, people who fill out online job applications using browsers that did not come with the computer (such as Microsoft’s Internet Explorer on a Windows PC) but had to be deliberately installed (like Firefox or Google’s Chrome) perform better and change jobs less often."
That's actually really funny. It makes you wonder what the big data correlations would show for people submitting online applications from iPhone/iPad browsers. On Windows it seems pretty stupid if you don't install a different browser, but on iPhone/iPad it seems pretty stupid if you do. Then again, depending on what angle you're looking at it from, it could be seen as pretty stupid to be using either Microsoft or Apple products (and Android is both better and worse).
I suspect most of those already gave up on Windows completely in favor of smart-phones, tablets, or if they really want to be able to type on an actual keyboard, Chromebooks. I suspect most of this 27% are employees whose IT staff won't let them use anything but IE.