I realize that my own physical alcohol tolerance is quite low, and that one person does not constitute evidence, but that said:
If I consume any normal serving of alcohol, a pint of beer, a glass of wine, a shot of something stronger, I am probably not fit to drive immediately. I must consume food and plan any driving carefully. Can I have a beer at lunch with the guys? Yes, ONE... if it's more than one drink it's going to be a long "lunch".
Everyone is different, however the standard being bandied about is four drinks in an hour, even with food that leaves me incapable of driving safely. I have observed myself and others in these scenarios and as a result I do not believe (and again this is about belief and personal experience) that driving with 0.08 levels is safe, consequently I would be strongly in favor of reducing the legal limits.
For me the calculus is very simple, either restrict consumption to a bare minimum or just don't drive.
(Now this may make me sound boring, but when I don't have to go anywhere, say a nice cottage party where the stagger home is 200 feet, I do drink enough to make the most alcohol resistant at least tipsy... )
The upside of low alcohol tolerance? Drinking all evening is very cheap if you're only downing a drink or two per hour.
Additionally, this is the person in the credits who edited it, also a Canadian, and doesn't work for any space agency. Let's try not to think everything is a conspiracy, please.
The only conspiracy coming from up here (canada) is a push for more maple syrup for breakfast, and bacon in every meal. We're winning on one of those fronts.
Its a market like auction houses or friendship networks: there basically isnt no reason fro a #2 or #3. Bitcoin may not be the winner due to it flaws, mainly speed.
I may be a cynic, but I expect Bitcoin to have spiraled into the sun long before more than 1% gives a flying anything about virtual currency.
My 6 year old loves to doodle with his crayons. Lately, I've been having him draw money. So far, the good ones are really rare. So I figure they are probably worth a substantial amount of money. I'm going to start releasing them as currency soon. I'm also working out a deal with Paypal to accept them.
You're my hero today. Perhaps my growing supply of nieces and nephews can get me in early on this game.
(I wonder if we could get seashells back on the international currency exchanges.)
I see . . . and so I am trapped in some sort of alternate universe and all those websites I have encountered which do not function properly in Firefox, but work just fine in Internet Explorer don't actually exist.
GP's piss-poor arguing skills aside, I haven't seen a not-functional-in-Firefox website in years. What's the most egregious example you can provide?
You won't get an answer, those the vast majority of websites actually work better with Chrome and Firefox then they do with IE. Unless of course they were meant to only work with IE, which means that they were not really meant for public use anyway.
Except for the fact that every day I encounter websites that do not display properly and/or are non-functional in any browser other than Internet Explorer.. Despite the popularity of Firefox and Chrome, we are still very much locked into "Microsoft's vision of the net"
I am a professional software developer for a fortune 500 company, all the the projects I've been on for the past 14 years have been web related in one way or another.
If you were any fuller of shit you would simply explode.
People seem to obsess about fonts to the nth degree. Who really cares? The actual visible differences between fonts today and the bitmapped fonts of the 1984 mac classic are minimal and the amount of code generating todays fonts is way out of proportion with the actual improvements in their look. The law of diminishing returns doesn't even begin to describe it.
So you're suggesting that the technology to render bitmapped fonts on 512×342 monocrhome screen is appropriate for 2560x1440 24 bit color screens? We shouldn't even consider scalable vector fonts.
I'm not a big fan of ad hominem arguements, but you sir are an idiot.
The explanation is that if you can hint at time travel or faster than light travel in an article, it generates interest, and therefore pageviews, and therefore advertising revenue.
Exactly, sufficiently advanced physics is indistinguishable from technical mumbo-jumbo to a layman.
Don't feel too bad, I have a bachelors degree in computer science, I took the first year physics courses for engineers, my father has a Phd in Metallurgy and a Masters in Engineering.
Let's just say I've been steeped in science since I was 10.
From now on in all job interviews I shall state my hobby as "Intergalactic Neutrino Detector" and refuse to work for anyone who doesn't giggle or laugh.
Even if replacing it would lead to a 3 fold increase in employee productivity.
I have seen those kinds of productivity increase numbers thrown around for years, but honestly I have never see a good result. Usually the new system is slower.
I was going to say something similar, you usually end up exchanging the problems and limitations of the old system for a the problems and limitations of the new system which is rarely faster and usually requires even more maintenance. Very rarely does the TCO savings, if any, match the cost of implementing the new system.
That said, sometimes you have to just bite the bullet.
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A single beer could put someone over .02
I realize that my own physical alcohol tolerance is quite low, and that one person does not constitute evidence, but that said:
If I consume any normal serving of alcohol, a pint of beer, a glass of wine, a shot of something stronger, I am probably not fit to drive immediately. I must consume food and plan any driving carefully. Can I have a beer at lunch with the guys? Yes, ONE... if it's more than one drink it's going to be a long "lunch".
Everyone is different, however the standard being bandied about is four drinks in an hour, even with food that leaves me incapable of driving safely. I have observed myself and others in these scenarios and as a result I do not believe (and again this is about belief and personal experience) that driving with 0.08 levels is safe, consequently I would be strongly in favor of reducing the legal limits.
For me the calculus is very simple, either restrict consumption to a bare minimum or just don't drive.
(Now this may make me sound boring, but when I don't have to go anywhere, say a nice cottage party where the stagger home is 200 feet, I do drink enough to make the most alcohol resistant at least tipsy... )
The upside of low alcohol tolerance? Drinking all evening is very cheap if you're only downing a drink or two per hour.
Yeah, because this is the first time any of us have ever heard it mentioned. (Rolls eyes)
Ah well... like dey sey, de nile is not a river in Africa...
speculative
If I wanted something as reliable as Bitcoin I'd do all my investing in Las Vegas.
Or beanie babies? Anyone? Anyone?
I may be overly cynical today, but my guess is that the Bitcoin crowd are so clued out that the tulip reference goes right over their heads.
Additionally, this is the person in the credits who edited it, also a Canadian, and doesn't work for any space agency. Let's try not to think everything is a conspiracy, please.
The only conspiracy coming from up here (canada) is a push for more maple syrup for breakfast, and bacon in every meal. We're winning on one of those fronts.
Let's not forget about operation Poutine.
Its a market like auction houses or friendship networks: there basically isnt no reason fro a #2 or #3. Bitcoin may not be the winner due to it flaws, mainly speed.
I may be a cynic, but I expect Bitcoin to have spiraled into the sun long before more than 1% gives a flying anything about virtual currency.
My 6 year old loves to doodle with his crayons. Lately, I've been having him draw money. So far, the good ones are really rare. So I figure they are probably worth a substantial amount of money. I'm going to start releasing them as currency soon. I'm also working out a deal with Paypal to accept them.
You're my hero today. Perhaps my growing supply of nieces and nephews can get me in early on this game.
(I wonder if we could get seashells back on the international currency exchanges.)
That's why our organization uses a custom server software written in 68K assembly running on MacOS 7.6.1 on a cluster of Quadra 610s.
Well played sir, well played indeed.
This is from the internet, and it's pretty old.
http://www.malevole.com/mv/misc/tribute/
Thank you, that made my day. (And yes, all you cynics, it was a pretty shitty day...)
So frustrated, that I have never bothered to even take the bluetooth keyboard I bought along with my iPad out of the box in the past two years.
I got the bluetooth keyboard from Apple when i got my iPad three years ago, it worked but it just turned out to be impractical.
The Logitech Ultrathin however is a whole different story. Convenient and practical and effective.
I still wouldn't use it to write a novel, but for email it's been fantastic.
UMADBRO?
If I had not just commented elsewhere you would have got +1 insightful for that.
Most corporations don't enjoy having employees from the shallow end of the gene pool speaking in public.
What did they get wrong with the Boston Bombers? I don't follow blogs as a source of news.
Just about everything, they labeled at least one innocent bystander as a terrorist.
If the Redditors actually left their basements it would have been a full on lynch mob.
I see . . . and so I am trapped in some sort of alternate universe and all those websites I have encountered which do not function properly in Firefox, but work just fine in Internet Explorer don't actually exist.
GP's piss-poor arguing skills aside, I haven't seen a not-functional-in-Firefox website in years. What's the most egregious example you can provide?
You won't get an answer, those the vast majority of websites actually work better with Chrome and Firefox then they do with IE. Unless of course they were meant to only work with IE, which means that they were not really meant for public use anyway.
It simply wasn't worth the effort. There's just no point in arguing with someone who's making it all up.
Except for the fact that every day I encounter websites that do not display properly and/or are non-functional in any browser other than Internet Explorer.. Despite the popularity of Firefox and Chrome, we are still very much locked into "Microsoft's vision of the net"
I am a professional software developer for a fortune 500 company, all the the projects I've been on for the past 14 years have been web related in one way or another.
If you were any fuller of shit you would simply explode.
People seem to obsess about fonts to the nth degree. Who really cares? The actual visible differences between fonts today and the bitmapped fonts of the 1984 mac classic are minimal and the amount of code generating todays fonts is way out of proportion with the actual improvements in their look. The law of diminishing returns doesn't even begin to describe it.
So you're suggesting that the technology to render bitmapped fonts on 512×342 monocrhome screen is appropriate for 2560x1440 24 bit color screens? We shouldn't even consider scalable vector fonts.
I'm not a big fan of ad hominem arguements, but you sir are an idiot.
admitted to embedding Bitcoin mining code inside the league's client software
Right there in the summary. It's a trojan.
You failed at internet reading, on the upside you are now qualified to join the 99%.
"Cooler" is always relative here. No one here will ever be as cool as the extras who play nerds in the background on TV shows.
Not true, there's always Wil Wheaton
Slashdot has gotten to the point where it's cooler to have a higher UID???
Unless you are a nerd, and believe me I am, having a Slashdot UID is the antithesis of cool.
On the upside, I do get to to make fun of my brother the reddit addict.
Yes! Then you can look even more nerdy using them.
Said the Slashdot poster with a UID of less than 100,000.
The explanation is that if you can hint at time travel or faster than light travel in an article, it generates interest, and therefore pageviews, and therefore advertising revenue.
Exactly, sufficiently advanced physics is indistinguishable from technical mumbo-jumbo to a layman.
Don't feel too bad, I have a bachelors degree in computer science, I took the first year physics courses for engineers, my father has a Phd in Metallurgy and a Masters in Engineering.
Let's just say I've been steeped in science since I was 10.
And that shit went right the fuck over my head.
From now on in all job interviews I shall state my hobby as "Intergalactic Neutrino Detector" and refuse to work for anyone who doesn't giggle or laugh.
I have seen those kinds of productivity increase numbers thrown around for years, but honestly I have never see a good result. Usually the new system is slower.
I was going to say something similar, you usually end up exchanging the problems and limitations of the old system for a the problems and limitations of the new system which is rarely faster and usually requires even more maintenance. Very rarely does the TCO savings, if any, match the cost of implementing the new system.
That said, sometimes you have to just bite the bullet.