The bumpers were never supposed to protect you in a big crash, only from the little knocks and scrapes you get when when parking. Maybe not even that, I'm sure a lot of them were just there to add some extra chrome to the car.
All you have to do is detect how many lolcat/txting words are in their essay and mark accordingly. Anybody who can put two sentences together without using any is "advanced".
I bet Joel doesn't drive to work in a duct-taped go-cart.... and I bet he wouldn't drive over bridges or work in a building which wasn't designed by a proper, qualified engineers/architects.
Out in the real world his "duct tape" programmer would be called a "cowboy builder".
As for his ranting on C++: He's demonstrated his C++ ignorance enough times for C++ programmers to just ignore his opinion - he still thinks it's just C with added bloat. I agree that multithreading is harder than it looks but templates and multiple inheritance...? Puh-lease.
The final nail in the coffin of the rant is in the last line where he says it's ok to avoid unit testing but that xoring two pointers together is somehow cool. If you weren't ignoring him before you should be by now.
Summing up: Joel has jumped the shark, every article just confirms it more
SD cards are so small that have to be one of the easiest items to hide in the known universe. There's a brazillion places you could tape one to a car or hide it about your person. Dogs can't sniff them out so unless they're going to start strip-searching *everybody* and dismantling every car then they're not going to find them.
Ocean-going ships are technically better for travel between continents (much more efficient, can carry lots of luggage, etc) but there's a reason they're not popular - time.
They only work with special SONY-only proprietary connectors and mp3 players. I'm sure this will trigger a sea change of people dumping their iPods and iPhones and switching to SONY.
I wonder if Nissan has thought this conning plan all the way through....?
It's a bit like making a device to attach smells to email: I'm sure the designers would be thinking of people sending rose-scented love letters on Valentine's day and wonderful new recipes with apple and cinnamon... but out in the real world people would mostly use it to send their first fart of the morning with the 'contrast' setting cranked up to 11.
What's the "reasonable expected lifetime" of a product if a heavy handed moron sits and pounds on it for 16 hours a day with his cheeto-dust covered fingers?
Everything wears out - shoes, clothes, cars.... and consoles.
Similarly these rings of death... is it really supposed to last for years if you give the power connector a hard pull three or four times a day or pile so much junk on top of it that it overheats?
Surely the HDD manufacturers can add extra error-correction data to the hard disks.With 2Tb to play with I wouldn't mind losing 5% (or even 10%) to error-correction.
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It wasn't rust, see: http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/18/more-details-about-1959-bel-air-crash-test/
PS: Jeeps flip over at the slightest provocation ... and flip-overs are among the most likely-to-be-fatal type of accident.
Is *anybody* here under the illusion that watching Top Gear will help them choose their next car? Sheesh.
The bumpers were never supposed to protect you in a big crash, only from the little knocks and scrapes you get when when parking. Maybe not even that, I'm sure a lot of them were just there to add some extra chrome to the car.
Good idea, but hopefully they wouldn't have Internet access in a formal exam.
All you have to do is detect how many lolcat/txting words are in their essay and mark accordingly. Anybody who can put two sentences together without using any is "advanced".
I bet Joel doesn't drive to work in a duct-taped go-cart .... and I bet he wouldn't drive over bridges or work in a building which wasn't designed by a proper, qualified engineers/architects.
Out in the real world his "duct tape" programmer would be called a "cowboy builder".
As for his ranting on C++: He's demonstrated his C++ ignorance enough times for C++ programmers to just ignore his opinion - he still thinks it's just C with added bloat. I agree that multithreading is harder than it looks but templates and multiple inheritance...? Puh-lease.
The final nail in the coffin of the rant is in the last line where he says it's ok to avoid unit testing but that xoring two pointers together is somehow cool. If you weren't ignoring him before you should be by now.
Summing up: Joel has jumped the shark, every article just confirms it more
The old one was crap but the new one is perfect - just like every other Microsoft launch *ever*.
Just place the cakes on the conveyor belt sir, we're going to scan them.
Good luck convincing them it's just an extra big chocolate chip.
SD cards are so small that have to be one of the easiest items to hide in the known universe. There's a brazillion places you could tape one to a car or hide it about your person. Dogs can't sniff them out so unless they're going to start strip-searching *everybody* and dismantling every car then they're not going to find them.
It's just more pointless stupidity from the DHS.
Don't even get me started on micro-SSD or FTP.
I'm not sure the little gyroscopes in that thing will be able to cope with the sort of lard-ass who'd want to buy one.
Ocean-going ships are technically better for travel between continents (much more efficient, can carry lots of luggage, etc) but there's a reason they're not popular - time.
As long as it runs vi, lynx and the GIMP, I'm buying one.
Or is it Emacs? I can never remember...
It might if they don't use power the whole time. Oh, wait...
They only work with special SONY-only proprietary connectors and mp3 players. I'm sure this will trigger a sea change of people dumping their iPods and iPhones and switching to SONY.
Or maybe not.
Haggis is damn tasty, absolutely nothing bad about it. Less icky than a pork pie.
Black pudding ... more of an "acquired taste".
I wonder if Nissan has thought this conning plan all the way through....?
It's a bit like making a device to attach smells to email: I'm sure the designers would be thinking of people sending rose-scented love letters on Valentine's day and wonderful new recipes with apple and cinnamon ... but out in the real world people would mostly use it to send their first fart of the morning with the 'contrast' setting cranked up to 11.
Just make massive subwoofers and reggaeton mandatory, problem solved.
I want mine to make the sound of a Bell HU-1 ...with optional Wagner overlay.
Ummm, that's the soundtrack to Bladerunner.
What's the "reasonable expected lifetime" of a product if a heavy handed moron sits and pounds on it for 16 hours a day with his cheeto-dust covered fingers?
Everything wears out - shoes, clothes, cars .... and consoles.
Similarly these rings of death ... is it really supposed to last for years if you give the power connector a hard pull three or four times a day or pile so much junk on top of it that it overheats?
There's this thing called a "man in the middle attack" - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-in-the-middle_attack
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Or some way to break the encryption, eg. they've got the boss of Verisign in their back pocket.
So put two of them in "RAID1" ... it's not as if it will break the bank these days.
Surely the HDD manufacturers can add extra error-correction data to the hard disks.With 2Tb to play with I wouldn't mind losing 5% (or even 10%) to error-correction.