Just let them know that everybody knows SUVs drivers dirty secret, their penis size is inversely proportional to the size of their car. Oh, and let me know next time a cyclist intentionally hits and kills an SUV driver on the road, I would LOVE to hear about it.
No, what his boss meant was that after the company gives said boss a huge bonus for "cost savings"(read working his people into the ground while essentially adding no value of his own), there is no budget left. If the OP threatens to leave then all of a sudden from somewhere(read boss's undeserved bonus) money will materialize.
Work, like much of life, is really a game of chicken. Thats why always advisable to have a large amount of savings, and if possible, a spouse with a good job. That way, when the boss dumps work on you without giving you a pay raise you can balk at his (almost certainly idle) threat to fire you.
No, if they cared about other people they would NOT be driving these huge vehicles that obstruct others view of the road and are PROVEN to be much more dangerous in accidents than normal sized cars. SUVs send a huge statement, "I don't give a flying fuck about your safety, I only care about me"(despite the fact that SUVs are pretty dangerous for their occupants as well).
So in other words you are proposing an efficient public transport system.
I know that some Americans cannot grasp this(which is why I got the hell out of the country as soon as I could), but public transportation is NOT EVIL! It allows you to do something more enjoyable during your commute(read books, listen to music, play games, answer email etc.) without endangering other people all the while conserving fuel. Where is the problem with that? Instead Americans tend to view people who use public transportation(as well as bicycle commuters) as being "defective". Look at the dude who INTENTIONALLY rammed his SUV(what a surprise, an asshole in an SUV, perish the thought!) into the cyclists in San Fransisco. You don't hear about that shit in other, more civilized, countries. But in the US it's considered "cool" to harass people viewed as "defective"(see above).
But then again, this is a country where more than 1 person voted for George W. Bush, so I guess I should expect as much.
Essentially all a hacker would have to do to really abuse this system is plant a couple of fake stories on yahoo finance while shorting(or going long I guess) the stock the fake story is about. I doubt that yahoo finance(or any finance web site for that matter) is so secure that they could fend off a horde of attackers motivated by a payday thats potentially in the millions.
Are we sure this guy doesn't have an army of forced perspective dinosaur puppets and his disposal? Sounds like he stole the eye from that big chin dude in Future War.
Well if they are dead and are still receiving a printed telephone book that they will eventually come to miss, you might want to get a second opinion on that "dead" diagnosis, or else stock up on garlic(if you can find a provider, they aren't in the phone book anymore!)
The real problem really isn't the data limits per se, but what happens when you go over them. It's really easy to accidentally go over your limit(for instance if you think you are on wifi but are actually on 3g), and when you do you have to pay out the ass. It would be nice if regulators forced providers to offer an option to block internet access until next billing cycle if you go over instead of only finding out after the fact that you now owe hundreds of dollars because you accidentally misconfigured your device.
Sigh, you just proved yourself incorrect, amazing. Read the first part again. He is comparing what you can get for various price levels, and concludes that for prices above $500 there is no point in gettting a slate device because general purpose machines(as indicated by the comment that you so helpfully provided) will outperform the slate for about every purpose imagineable. To which you made an angry reply acccusing him of saying something that he didn't say. Nowhere in the post does he say general purpose laptops over $500 are worthless, in fact he makes the exact OPPOSITE argument by pointing out that he wouldn't want a big device that doesn't run a general purpose os. His words, not mine. Laptops do in fact run general purpose oses, this was the ops point.
I don't know why you are so combatitive, you are really just making a fool out of yourself.
Apparently to you reading the post before replying is pointless, the device that would be over $500 isn't a laptop but the Kno. The op made no value judgement on laptops over $500, just saying that slate devices over that price don't really have a market segment.
Nope, but nothing innovative has come out of China since the communists took over. I don't even have problems with pretty much any other nation on earth. It's just China that steals technology en masse then calls it their own. It's China that is trying to take over the world. It's China that is destroying the world economy.
Thats why I boycott Chinese goods. I don't boycott any other nations stuff, and actually I am better for it. Chinese goods are insanely shoddy. I tend to get much better quality when I buy Thai clothes for instance, and for the tiny bit more it costs me when I purchase it it winds up costing much less in replacement costs in the end.
I paid a bit more for glasses that were made in Japan, and despite years of abuse and neglect the things still work perfectly, I probably would have gone through about 4 $80 Chinese made glasses for the 1 $120 Japanese one. China makes garbage and I would be willing to bet that their "entry" here is a forgery as well.
Seriously, China is able to see a lot of the advancements made in the US through its army of grad students(the Chinese government essentially helps them cheat on all the tests they need to do well on in order to study in the US, they consider it to be in their national interests). Meanwhile China won't let a foreigner anywhere near their technology. Is it any surprise then that they are getting close to the top?
The IT staff is already there and at least for me personally, after some late night debugging with a pretty poor diet I have produced some... Um.... "energy rich by-products"
Actually(at least for cross-Atlantic trips) US Airways is actually pretty nice because they have totally modernized their fleet. When I first started travelling to Europe in 2005 they had a fleet that consisted almost entirely of aging 747s, now they have almost totally upgraded to brand spanking new A330s, the last one I flew in even had USB power in coach, something that I haven't seen on any other airline.
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Just let them know that everybody knows SUVs drivers dirty secret, their penis size is inversely proportional to the size of their car. Oh, and let me know next time a cyclist intentionally hits and kills an SUV driver on the road, I would LOVE to hear about it.
proof that suv drivers are asshats.
No, what his boss meant was that after the company gives said boss a huge bonus for "cost savings"(read working his people into the ground while essentially adding no value of his own), there is no budget left. If the OP threatens to leave then all of a sudden from somewhere(read boss's undeserved bonus) money will materialize.
Work, like much of life, is really a game of chicken. Thats why always advisable to have a large amount of savings, and if possible, a spouse with a good job. That way, when the boss dumps work on you without giving you a pay raise you can balk at his (almost certainly idle) threat to fire you.
No, if they cared about other people they would NOT be driving these huge vehicles that obstruct others view of the road and are PROVEN to be much more dangerous in accidents than normal sized cars. SUVs send a huge statement, "I don't give a flying fuck about your safety, I only care about me"(despite the fact that SUVs are pretty dangerous for their occupants as well).
So in other words you are proposing an efficient public transport system.
I know that some Americans cannot grasp this(which is why I got the hell out of the country as soon as I could), but public transportation is NOT EVIL! It allows you to do something more enjoyable during your commute(read books, listen to music, play games, answer email etc.) without endangering other people all the while conserving fuel. Where is the problem with that? Instead Americans tend to view people who use public transportation(as well as bicycle commuters) as being "defective". Look at the dude who INTENTIONALLY rammed his SUV(what a surprise, an asshole in an SUV, perish the thought!) into the cyclists in San Fransisco. You don't hear about that shit in other, more civilized, countries. But in the US it's considered "cool" to harass people viewed as "defective"(see above).
But then again, this is a country where more than 1 person voted for George W. Bush, so I guess I should expect as much.
Essentially all a hacker would have to do to really abuse this system is plant a couple of fake stories on yahoo finance while shorting(or going long I guess) the stock the fake story is about. I doubt that yahoo finance(or any finance web site for that matter) is so secure that they could fend off a horde of attackers motivated by a payday thats potentially in the millions.
Are we sure this guy doesn't have an army of forced perspective dinosaur puppets and his disposal? Sounds like he stole the eye from that big chin dude in Future War.
Bonus points for getting the reference.
It's not a real nerd war until someone gets hit in the head with a plastic light saber!
Well if they are dead and are still receiving a printed telephone book that they will eventually come to miss, you might want to get a second opinion on that "dead" diagnosis, or else stock up on garlic(if you can find a provider, they aren't in the phone book anymore!)
The real problem really isn't the data limits per se, but what happens when you go over them. It's really easy to accidentally go over your limit(for instance if you think you are on wifi but are actually on 3g), and when you do you have to pay out the ass. It would be nice if regulators forced providers to offer an option to block internet access until next billing cycle if you go over instead of only finding out after the fact that you now owe hundreds of dollars because you accidentally misconfigured your device.
maybe Sealab really blew up for good this time.
And I'm making an ass out of myself by not closing my tags properly.
Sigh, you just proved yourself incorrect, amazing. Read the first part again. He is comparing what you can get for various price levels, and concludes that for prices above $500 there is no point in gettting a slate device because general purpose machines(as indicated by the comment that you so helpfully provided) will outperform the slate for about every purpose imagineable. To which you made an angry reply acccusing him of saying something that he didn't say. Nowhere in the post does he say general purpose laptops over $500 are worthless, in fact he makes the exact OPPOSITE argument by pointing out that he wouldn't want a big device that doesn't run a general purpose os. His words, not mine. Laptops do in fact run general purpose oses, this was the ops point.
I don't know why you are so combatitive, you are really just making a fool out of yourself.
Apparently to you reading the post before replying is pointless, the device that would be over $500 isn't a laptop but the Kno. The op made no value judgement on laptops over $500, just saying that slate devices over that price don't really have a market segment.
Wait....C++....standards?
DOES NOT COMPUTE
*Head explodes
But then they would be too wrapped up in figuring out how to tweet a waggle dance.
Nope, but nothing innovative has come out of China since the communists took over. I don't even have problems with pretty much any other nation on earth. It's just China that steals technology en masse then calls it their own. It's China that is trying to take over the world. It's China that is destroying the world economy.
Thats why I boycott Chinese goods. I don't boycott any other nations stuff, and actually I am better for it. Chinese goods are insanely shoddy. I tend to get much better quality when I buy Thai clothes for instance, and for the tiny bit more it costs me when I purchase it it winds up costing much less in replacement costs in the end.
I paid a bit more for glasses that were made in Japan, and despite years of abuse and neglect the things still work perfectly, I probably would have gone through about 4 $80 Chinese made glasses for the 1 $120 Japanese one. China makes garbage and I would be willing to bet that their "entry" here is a forgery as well.
Seriously, China is able to see a lot of the advancements made in the US through its army of grad students(the Chinese government essentially helps them cheat on all the tests they need to do well on in order to study in the US, they consider it to be in their national interests). Meanwhile China won't let a foreigner anywhere near their technology. Is it any surprise then that they are getting close to the top?
s/we come to it/after I get my bonus and then bail out for a better paying job/
The IT staff is already there and at least for me personally, after some late night debugging with a pretty poor diet I have produced some ... Um.... "energy rich by-products"
Well Micron made even more since they benefited but didn't have to pay the fine. Kind of an interesting cross of chicken and prisoners dilemma.
Actually(at least for cross-Atlantic trips) US Airways is actually pretty nice because they have totally modernized their fleet. When I first started travelling to Europe in 2005 they had a fleet that consisted almost entirely of aging 747s, now they have almost totally upgraded to brand spanking new A330s, the last one I flew in even had USB power in coach, something that I haven't seen on any other airline.
Including that one?
That wasn't in a Seinfeld episode as far as I can recall, maybe you should read the subject before posting....
Maybe the dentist ran a swinger dental office like Tim Watley.