Humanity has sunk to a new low of wasteful activity.
That should be reserved for making ethanol from corn. A tax subsidy encourages the production of more corn ethanol, despite the fact that corn isn't a surplus crop. (South Americans make ethanol from surplus sugar canes.) Farmers like ethanol because it raises the price on corn, but rising corn prices also filter through the rest of the food chain from livestock feed to processed foods. Groceries are more expensive to benefit a few farmers and ethanol producers. This is one of the reasons why Senator Ted Cruz is against the tax subsidies.
First of all, what is it with this generations demand that they get everything for free?
Most venues that allow you to create a software product often provides FREE listings. Then again, those are mostly open source projects.
If $99 per annum is a significant hurdle, to you, then your app idea is so trivial no one wants it.
If I create an awesome app to give away for FREE and I can't afford to pay the annual fee to maintain the listing, the app must OBVIOUSLY be trivial. That's the same shrink wrap argument that Microsoft made against Linux back in the day.
And I'm glad for every person who thinks it's too high to jump.
It's not high enough to prevent the bloatware of freeium apps that have flooded the app store. Apple should be charging $1,000 per year to keep out those TRIVIAL freeium apps. Especially the ones that corrupt your app data if you haven't paid a dime after a specified period of time.
That was just one of many stories I got to hear about how the unions cause troubles for their employers, increasing costs and inhibiting advancement.
My father and I were in construction. We down to the union hall to resolve a problem that my father had. The secretary told us that the union rep was out for the rest of the day. My father asked her which bar he could find the union rep in. She blurted out a name before realizing she shouldn't have told us. Long story short, we found the union rep and my father got his problem resolved.
America was built on 400 years of slavery. If you understand the history of slavery, you can understand why a black man in the White House is driving parts of the country crazy.
If you were submitting games to Nintendo with in game prompts that reference the PS2 control scheme, you deserved to get kicked back.
That's the fastest way to get a kick back from Nintendo. If the game came across as "this would play better on a PS2," it got kicked back. As a lead tester, I warned the developers about this but they never listen.
When I worked at Accolade/Infogrames/Atari (same company, different owners, multiple personality disorder) in the early 2000's, the developers always got in trouble when they ported the code base from the Sony PlayStation 2 to the Nintendo GameCube without adapting the look-and-feel of the game. Nintendo kicked back the game for being a PS2 port, which they hated with a passion. It got so bad that Nintendo threaten to reject every submission out of hand. The developers fell in line — and Nintendo soon became irrelevant.
I remember reading the documentation for the original Xbox when I worked at Accolade/Infogrames/Atari (same company, different owners, multiple personality disorder). I always got a kick out of the A: and B: floppy drives being listed as legacy devices. Microsoft had more or less denied that the Xbox was a PC pretending to be a console.
I've heard people say that he shouldn't be eligible to be President if he was born on foreign soil and his parents didn't treat him as a US citizen.
Citation please.
The fact that he was on a university scholarship available only to non-US citizens might be evidence of this.
Citation please.
Why does anyone have to be pro-Muslim or pro-Christian or pro-Atheist?
Pro-Muslim means anti-Christian and anti-American.
I'm not even sure what anti-colonial means.
Anti-colonial refers to the African people overthrowing their British, French and German colonial governments after World War II. It also means anti-white. Hence, not only is Obama was born a Muslim in Kenya, he also anti-white.
Not even Microsoft would deploy something as stupid as this.
You never tried Windows 1.0 or 2.0? I heard those version suck donkey balls. Most people point to Windows 3.11 as being the first usable version of Windows.
And what kind of idiot believes that thinking this (or any other) president is a dumbass or motherfucker or whatever makes somebody a racist?
It's one thing to say that Obama is a dumb ass because he's a Democrat. It's another thing to say that Obama is a dumb ass because he was a born in Kenya, pro-Muslim, anti-colonial and anti-American socialist.
Consider yourself lucky; they haven't painted the walls of my office since I got here 8 years ago.
My current job is government IT on a large campus. I can't turn around a corner without running into a "paint drying" sign. Painters are always busy around here.
I'd estimate that about 65%+ of the really expensive machines had some type of malware that the doctors actively ignored because they were under strict orders not to update machines or it would 'invalidate the warranty from the manufacturer.'
These medical devices are on a separate network VLAN, has no direct access to the Internet, and have a dedicated IT support team? If not, your hospital is doing it wrong.
Did I call you an asshole? No, I did not. Did I call myself an asshole? Yes, I did. There's a difference. The former is being polite, the latter is a realistic assessment about myself.
Also, Eli the Computer Guy makes a great argument that IT professionals should be assholes anyway.;)
Do you intend to shove it down everyone's throat until they accept your truth?
I'm not shoving a historical fact down your throat. My father visited Auschwitz concentration camp when the Army stationed him in West Germany in the early 1950's. It was a nasty place even with all the bodies removed.
So let them have their belief, how does it harm you?
People denied holocaust are the same people who spray paint swastikas on synagogues, inspire other people to hate minorities and vote for Trump.
You would use the sacrifice of the dead to harm the living.......strange philosophy.
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Humanity has sunk to a new low of wasteful activity.
That should be reserved for making ethanol from corn. A tax subsidy encourages the production of more corn ethanol, despite the fact that corn isn't a surplus crop. (South Americans make ethanol from surplus sugar canes.) Farmers like ethanol because it raises the price on corn, but rising corn prices also filter through the rest of the food chain from livestock feed to processed foods. Groceries are more expensive to benefit a few farmers and ethanol producers. This is one of the reasons why Senator Ted Cruz is against the tax subsidies.
First of all, what is it with this generations demand that they get everything for free?
Most venues that allow you to create a software product often provides FREE listings. Then again, those are mostly open source projects.
If $99 per annum is a significant hurdle, to you, then your app idea is so trivial no one wants it.
If I create an awesome app to give away for FREE and I can't afford to pay the annual fee to maintain the listing, the app must OBVIOUSLY be trivial. That's the same shrink wrap argument that Microsoft made against Linux back in the day.
And I'm glad for every person who thinks it's too high to jump.
It's not high enough to prevent the bloatware of freeium apps that have flooded the app store. Apple should be charging $1,000 per year to keep out those TRIVIAL freeium apps. Especially the ones that corrupt your app data if you haven't paid a dime after a specified period of time.
your post was being modded down when I commented. it was modded up, then down to 2, stopped tracking it after that.
You like to dog pile on down modded comments? Whatever floats your boat.
somehow it got back up to 5.
Happens all the time. ;)
[...] something is seriously wrong if paying a kid to deliver pizzas $7 more an hour is the one thing that's going to tank your business.
The "kids" who deliver my pizzas are senior citizens. I always tip 20% because I know they need the money more than I do.
That was just one of many stories I got to hear about how the unions cause troubles for their employers, increasing costs and inhibiting advancement.
My father and I were in construction. We down to the union hall to resolve a problem that my father had. The secretary told us that the union rep was out for the rest of the day. My father asked her which bar he could find the union rep in. She blurted out a name before realizing she shouldn't have told us. Long story short, we found the union rep and my father got his problem resolved.
As for the rest of your answers... you've lost me
America was built on 400 years of slavery. If you understand the history of slavery, you can understand why a black man in the White House is driving parts of the country crazy.
The first wave of people to immigrate are the people seeking education.
The Puritans came to America not to escape from religious persecution in Europe but to learn how to grow corn from the Native Americans?
If you were submitting games to Nintendo with in game prompts that reference the PS2 control scheme, you deserved to get kicked back.
That's the fastest way to get a kick back from Nintendo. If the game came across as "this would play better on a PS2," it got kicked back. As a lead tester, I warned the developers about this but they never listen.
When I worked at Accolade/Infogrames/Atari (same company, different owners, multiple personality disorder) in the early 2000's, the developers always got in trouble when they ported the code base from the Sony PlayStation 2 to the Nintendo GameCube without adapting the look-and-feel of the game. Nintendo kicked back the game for being a PS2 port, which they hated with a passion. It got so bad that Nintendo threaten to reject every submission out of hand. The developers fell in line — and Nintendo soon became irrelevant.
many != the same
A multi-platform game is the same game on consoles and the PC with minor tweaks.
And your laptop does not play the same games as consoles.
Many of the multi-platform games begin on the Sony PS4 before porting the codebase to other consoles and the PC.
I remember reading the documentation for the original Xbox when I worked at Accolade/Infogrames/Atari (same company, different owners, multiple personality disorder). I always got a kick out of the A: and B: floppy drives being listed as legacy devices. Microsoft had more or less denied that the Xbox was a PC pretending to be a console.
An Internet connected toilet is a ticking time bomb?
Only at Taco Bell during the lunch hour rush.
Who says that?
Republicans.
I've heard people say that he shouldn't be eligible to be President if he was born on foreign soil and his parents didn't treat him as a US citizen.
Citation please.
The fact that he was on a university scholarship available only to non-US citizens might be evidence of this.
Citation please.
Why does anyone have to be pro-Muslim or pro-Christian or pro-Atheist?
Pro-Muslim means anti-Christian and anti-American.
I'm not even sure what anti-colonial means.
Anti-colonial refers to the African people overthrowing their British, French and German colonial governments after World War II. It also means anti-white. Hence, not only is Obama was born a Muslim in Kenya, he also anti-white.
That's "slide rule". What are you, under fifty or something?
I'm 46. Slide rules were before my time. I did use a flow chart template for my college programming class in the early 1990's. ;)
Did I call myself an asshole? Yes, I did.
Funny how I get no follow up response to this particular point.
Not even Microsoft would deploy something as stupid as this.
You never tried Windows 1.0 or 2.0? I heard those version suck donkey balls. Most people point to Windows 3.11 as being the first usable version of Windows.
And what kind of idiot believes that thinking this (or any other) president is a dumbass or motherfucker or whatever makes somebody a racist?
It's one thing to say that Obama is a dumb ass because he's a Democrat. It's another thing to say that Obama is a dumb ass because he was a born in Kenya, pro-Muslim, anti-colonial and anti-American socialist.
Consider yourself lucky; they haven't painted the walls of my office since I got here 8 years ago.
My current job is government IT on a large campus. I can't turn around a corner without running into a "paint drying" sign. Painters are always busy around here.
I'd estimate that about 65%+ of the really expensive machines had some type of malware that the doctors actively ignored because they were under strict orders not to update machines or it would 'invalidate the warranty from the manufacturer.'
These medical devices are on a separate network VLAN, has no direct access to the Internet, and have a dedicated IT support team? If not, your hospital is doing it wrong.
Just what we needed... another IT training app.
you are misinformed twit.
Re-read my comment. Look in the mirror and find the twit.
Practice what you preach.
Did I call you an asshole? No, I did not. Did I call myself an asshole? Yes, I did. There's a difference. The former is being polite, the latter is a realistic assessment about myself.
Also, Eli the Computer Guy makes a great argument that IT professionals should be assholes anyway. ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_YaNGzplbE
Do you intend to shove it down everyone's throat until they accept your truth?
I'm not shoving a historical fact down your throat. My father visited Auschwitz concentration camp when the Army stationed him in West Germany in the early 1950's. It was a nasty place even with all the bodies removed.
So let them have their belief, how does it harm you?
People denied holocaust are the same people who spray paint swastikas on synagogues, inspire other people to hate minorities and vote for Trump.
You would use the sacrifice of the dead to harm the living.......strange philosophy.
Your philosophy, not mine.
They are disingenuous, inarticulate, inconsistent and childish.
I'm also an asshole. Don't forget that one. :P