I agree. I have actually decided that when we go off DST this year I am not. I'll just end up at work an hour earlier and leave an hour earlier. I certainly will not miss losing an hour of sleep in March. So what if I don't get an extra hour in November. It's just not worth it. I'd rather come in to work when it is pitch black and leave with even 15 minutes of daylight then to come in when it's dark and leave when it's dark.
Speaking of which, why do people suffer the switch to DST to occur during their sleep. Next time the switch to DST occurs, I encourage everyone to make the switch on Friday at 4:00pm.
I hear you on that one. I have a similar fate. I bought a 99 Toyota Corolla back in the day and now the new ones have more space, are more comfy, and get better gas mileage. I complained to Toyota about it and what did they do? Nothing. I tell you, these companies never help out at all. More recently I bought a new processor and lo and behold a few months later AMD came out with a new one for the same price. Man, I was pissed.
I have no idea what the status of that bug is in 7.04, but it seems to me that saying a new version has a long way to go because an old version sucked is just a little bit silly.
If you read, you don't get so lost. First Google did nothing in this case. Well, except for return results on the searches she made a long time ago. The evidence was all found on her computer. The detectives never went to Google. They just looked on her computer and found what she had searched for by looking at her computer, not at Google's logs.
While there are still ways some idiot could get himself into the cockpit, the best way to keep anyone out is to have a separate entrance from the outside. Then have solid wall between the cabin and the cockpit.
I think the real issue people need to be looking at is not whether something is compatible, but why it isn't. Here's an idea, never tie your data to an application where it's at all possible. And if it is tied, but doesn't have to be, then change it right away. Also, if you're writing web apps, write according to standards, and if the browsers don't handle it, tell the browser makers to work on it. MS can get away with doing what they do because people will bow to them. If web developers stopped making hacks for IE and made it clear to their users on their web pages that the website doesn't work on IE because MS doesn't know what they're doing, then have a link to download a browser that works then MS would change their browser fast. But no, developers just bow down and take it, making their life ever harder. This isn't just aimed at MS, it's also for Mozilla and Opera and whoever else makes browsers.
People are locked into MS because they were stupid and shortsighted. Application Developers who write their software for an operating system can learn a lesson too. The data your app uses should be independent of the OS. That way if people want your software on Linux or Mac or *BSD or Solaris or Minix or whatever else they want, they can pay you to do that. Then people can have a choice for what they want to have as their OS. In fact, then the OS itself becomes what the OS should have always been, simply a layer between apps and the hardware and some other basic APIs.
The GP isn't trying to say that 20% of bloggers are living off of their blogs. The GP is saying that 20% of a blogger's intention is to inform the public, with the remaining 80% of their reason for blogging being to make money. If 80% of the reason for your actions was to make money, you wouldn't want to be anonymous. Which was the GP's point.
After that the sun turns red giant and the earth is engulfed below the sun's surface.
Not true. The earth's orbit will be engulfed, but as the Sun changes, it's gravitational pull will weaken and the Earth will drift away a bit from it's orbit.
Granted, I still wouldn't want to live on the Earth in those conditions, but the Earth itself will survive the Sun's life cycle.
there isn't a corresponding LAW forbidding the sale of "M" video games or "R" rated movie tickets - enforcement is entirely voluntary.
Uhm, there isn't a corresponding law forbidding anyone from seeing R-rated movies. Enforcement there is totally voluntary, which is probably partly why you haven't seen a theater enforce it.
Ding. You figured it out. If a kid wants Manhunt 2 and the Gamestop employee won't sell it to them and they still want it then they have to go get someone else to buy it for them. That someone else might be an older brother or a friend or maybe even a parent. If it's the latter then Gamestop has helped the parent know what their kids are buying. If it's not, then Gamestop has absolved itself of any wrong doing and the parents can't sue neither Gamestop or the company that made it. The person who gave the kid the bad video game is not involved in the industry.
This isn't, and never has been, about keeping kids from playing certain games. It's about passing the blame. If Gamestop succeeds with this, then parents can only blame themselves for buying it, or they can blame their older children for buying it, or they can blame their kids' friends, or whatever, but they can't blame the games industry. I see nothing but good coming of this and hope them all the best. This new rule is the smartest thing Gamestop could have done. I applaud them.
So what you're really lamenting is that some of your friends don't put forth effort into what you consider more worthy causes. I can guarantee that if you see a problem in the world, someone, somewhere is putting a lot of effort in righting that wrong. If everyone (and I mean that literally) is ignoring a "real world" problem then it isn't a problem by definition. Some guy found what he considered a problem and put effort into correcting it. Just because it wasn't the most important problem by most people's definitions (even probably by him) doesn't mean he wasted his time. I highly doubt he could do much about the "most important problems." So he chose one that he was passionate about and focused his efforts. I wish more people would at least be passionate about something. Most times I honestly don't care what about, just that they feel passionately about something. I applaud the guy. He felt an urge to make a correction, to make others more honest, and he went out and did so. Hurrah, my good friend, hurrah.
You're about the 4th person to reply to the GP and correct him about how long submarines stay down. The problem though is that while the GP was wrong about the time, he was still correct in that submarines aren't away from civilization for 30 months like a trip to Mars would be. Even at the longest time suggested so far, submarines are only down for six months. That's a fifth of what a trip to Mars would be. It's hardly a comparison.
Having been on a flight just over the weekend that had some wicked turbulence all I can say was it was awesome. My wife didn't like it a whole lot, but I thought it was better than Six Flags. I swear there were times the whole plane must have just dropped 20 feet or so. It was so exciting I almost got back in line after we arrived.
I'm sure this fits into some science fiction plot somewhere. And the truth as it is said is often stranger than fiction.
Yes it is. Would you believe that the reason for all the security holes is for Microsoft. They're the ones who create the holes so that later they can take crontrol of the bot nets and send out spam. On occasion they find a guy who's trying to go it alone and starts intruding on their turf. They send the police at that guy to take everyone's attention at what their other hand is doing. They're pretty sinister in that regard.
Holy crap, I could almost believe that. Anybody have any extra tin foil they can spare?
It's just a souped up Gamecube with a different controller whereas the PS3 and XBox 360 are truly revolutionary advances in gaming technology.
Please tell me you were looking for a +1 Funny Mod here.
I'll grant that the PS3 has the new Cell processor, but other than that both the PS3 and the Xbox360 are just a souped up PS2 and Xbox respectively. Nintendo just decided not to soup up their console as much as their competitors and decided instead to spend their time and money on a new control scheme.
Perhaps you know more than me, but please do tell what the PS3 and Xbox 360 are capable of gameplay wise that the Wii is not. Perhaps extra enemies, perhaps slightly more sophisticated AI. But being able to push a few more polygons and higher res textures and lauding that as "truly revolutionary advances in gaming technology" is simply ridiculous.
I think I have to turn in my geek card. When he first said it I thought he was talking about mynocks from Empire Strikes Back. Shame on me for forgetting the name. I had to look it up.
Who said they're getting smaller? Microsoft screwed the pooch with only a four year release for the Xbox, but the Playstation 2 was around for 6 years, 5 years longer than the Playstation 1. The Gamecube was around for 5 years which was the same as the N64, which was the same as the SNES. The NES had a long life span if you consider it to be the same as the Famicom in Japan, but they had no competition in its day, and that was over 15 years ago.
(4 + 6 + 5) / 3 = 5 years. The generations aren't getting smaller, MS just makes us think that because of how short the Xbox was around for.
That's amazing really. I agree with your sentiment, but it's amazing how you went from using the release of a console from one manufacturer to the release of a console from a different manufacturer then compared that timeframe to the release times of consoles from the same manufacturer.
Dreamcast doesn't count here because they will never have a next generation console. Playstation 1 came out in September of 95 (in America) and the Playstation 2 came out in October of 2000 (also in America). That's only 5 years. The Playstation 3 came out in November 2006 so that's 6 years. So yeah, judging by Sony's consoles, the generations are getting longer.
But Microsoft shows another story. The Xbox was released in November of 2001 while the Xbox360 was released Novemer 2005 so there's only 4 years there.
The NES came out in October of 85 (in America), the SNES in August of 91, nearly 6 years later. The N64 was released in September 96, 5 years after the SNES. The Gamecube was released 5 years later in November of 2001, and the Wii was released 5 years after that in November of 2006.
Looks to me that of the major players right now 5 years seems to be a fairly average number with Microsoft barely reaching 4 years and both Nintendo and Sony having a 6 year period in there somewhere.
I see that you matched my pedanticism of the word fact and raised me by the pedanticism of the use of the terms evolution and theory of evolution. I was using the two interchangably simply because evolution has been observed and for anyone to refute that is just silly. So I assumed that the grandparent to my first post was referring to the *theory* of evolution and not evolution itself, thus I used the two terms interchangably. If anyone wants a disclaimer in a science book that says evolution is just a theory then they might as well put a disclaimer in all geography books saying "Some people only theorize that the earth is not flat despite many observances of said phenomenon to the contrary."
That being said, I am still opposed to even a disclaimer about the *theory* of evolution, but certainly opposed to a disclaimer for evolution. I would be disappointed in the former, but give up hope on the latter. At that point I would start sending my kids to Strong Bad's School of Technology. They'd probably get more out of it then a science class that puts disclaimers on observations.
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I agree. I have actually decided that when we go off DST this year I am not. I'll just end up at work an hour earlier and leave an hour earlier. I certainly will not miss losing an hour of sleep in March. So what if I don't get an extra hour in November. It's just not worth it. I'd rather come in to work when it is pitch black and leave with even 15 minutes of daylight then to come in when it's dark and leave when it's dark.
Speaking of which, why do people suffer the switch to DST to occur during their sleep. Next time the switch to DST occurs, I encourage everyone to make the switch on Friday at 4:00pm.
I'd rather have the Honda.
I hear you on that one. I have a similar fate. I bought a 99 Toyota Corolla back in the day and now the new ones have more space, are more comfy, and get better gas mileage. I complained to Toyota about it and what did they do? Nothing. I tell you, these companies never help out at all. More recently I bought a new processor and lo and behold a few months later AMD came out with a new one for the same price. Man, I was pissed.
I have no idea what the status of that bug is in 7.04, but it seems to me that saying a new version has a long way to go because an old version sucked is just a little bit silly.
Ding! Ding! We have a winner!
If you read, you don't get so lost. First Google did nothing in this case. Well, except for return results on the searches she made a long time ago. The evidence was all found on her computer. The detectives never went to Google. They just looked on her computer and found what she had searched for by looking at her computer, not at Google's logs.
Literacy...It's not just for breakfast anymore.
Well said. Kudos to you good sir.
While there are still ways some idiot could get himself into the cockpit, the best way to keep anyone out is to have a separate entrance from the outside. Then have solid wall between the cabin and the cockpit.
I know how you feel. I've been waiting for ages to take my turntable on the road with me.
I think the real issue people need to be looking at is not whether something is compatible, but why it isn't. Here's an idea, never tie your data to an application where it's at all possible. And if it is tied, but doesn't have to be, then change it right away. Also, if you're writing web apps, write according to standards, and if the browsers don't handle it, tell the browser makers to work on it. MS can get away with doing what they do because people will bow to them. If web developers stopped making hacks for IE and made it clear to their users on their web pages that the website doesn't work on IE because MS doesn't know what they're doing, then have a link to download a browser that works then MS would change their browser fast. But no, developers just bow down and take it, making their life ever harder. This isn't just aimed at MS, it's also for Mozilla and Opera and whoever else makes browsers.
People are locked into MS because they were stupid and shortsighted. Application Developers who write their software for an operating system can learn a lesson too. The data your app uses should be independent of the OS. That way if people want your software on Linux or Mac or *BSD or Solaris or Minix or whatever else they want, they can pay you to do that. Then people can have a choice for what they want to have as their OS. In fact, then the OS itself becomes what the OS should have always been, simply a layer between apps and the hardware and some other basic APIs.
The GP isn't trying to say that 20% of bloggers are living off of their blogs. The GP is saying that 20% of a blogger's intention is to inform the public, with the remaining 80% of their reason for blogging being to make money. If 80% of the reason for your actions was to make money, you wouldn't want to be anonymous. Which was the GP's point.
After that the sun turns red giant and the earth is engulfed below the sun's surface.
Not true. The earth's orbit will be engulfed, but as the Sun changes, it's gravitational pull will weaken and the Earth will drift away a bit from it's orbit.
Granted, I still wouldn't want to live on the Earth in those conditions, but the Earth itself will survive the Sun's life cycle.
If we could manage a separation of State and Ignorance, that would be great...
Wait, I thought they were the same thing.
there isn't a corresponding LAW forbidding the sale of "M" video games or "R" rated movie tickets - enforcement is entirely voluntary.
Uhm, there isn't a corresponding law forbidding anyone from seeing R-rated movies. Enforcement there is totally voluntary, which is probably partly why you haven't seen a theater enforce it.
Ding. You figured it out. If a kid wants Manhunt 2 and the Gamestop employee won't sell it to them and they still want it then they have to go get someone else to buy it for them. That someone else might be an older brother or a friend or maybe even a parent. If it's the latter then Gamestop has helped the parent know what their kids are buying. If it's not, then Gamestop has absolved itself of any wrong doing and the parents can't sue neither Gamestop or the company that made it. The person who gave the kid the bad video game is not involved in the industry.
This isn't, and never has been, about keeping kids from playing certain games. It's about passing the blame. If Gamestop succeeds with this, then parents can only blame themselves for buying it, or they can blame their older children for buying it, or they can blame their kids' friends, or whatever, but they can't blame the games industry. I see nothing but good coming of this and hope them all the best. This new rule is the smartest thing Gamestop could have done. I applaud them.
So what you're really lamenting is that some of your friends don't put forth effort into what you consider more worthy causes. I can guarantee that if you see a problem in the world, someone, somewhere is putting a lot of effort in righting that wrong. If everyone (and I mean that literally) is ignoring a "real world" problem then it isn't a problem by definition. Some guy found what he considered a problem and put effort into correcting it. Just because it wasn't the most important problem by most people's definitions (even probably by him) doesn't mean he wasted his time. I highly doubt he could do much about the "most important problems." So he chose one that he was passionate about and focused his efforts. I wish more people would at least be passionate about something. Most times I honestly don't care what about, just that they feel passionately about something. I applaud the guy. He felt an urge to make a correction, to make others more honest, and he went out and did so. Hurrah, my good friend, hurrah.
You're about the 4th person to reply to the GP and correct him about how long submarines stay down. The problem though is that while the GP was wrong about the time, he was still correct in that submarines aren't away from civilization for 30 months like a trip to Mars would be. Even at the longest time suggested so far, submarines are only down for six months. That's a fifth of what a trip to Mars would be. It's hardly a comparison.
Having been on a flight just over the weekend that had some wicked turbulence all I can say was it was awesome. My wife didn't like it a whole lot, but I thought it was better than Six Flags. I swear there were times the whole plane must have just dropped 20 feet or so. It was so exciting I almost got back in line after we arrived.
I'm sure this fits into some science fiction plot somewhere. And the truth as it is said is often stranger than fiction.
Yes it is. Would you believe that the reason for all the security holes is for Microsoft. They're the ones who create the holes so that later they can take crontrol of the bot nets and send out spam. On occasion they find a guy who's trying to go it alone and starts intruding on their turf. They send the police at that guy to take everyone's attention at what their other hand is doing. They're pretty sinister in that regard.
Holy crap, I could almost believe that. Anybody have any extra tin foil they can spare?
It's just a souped up Gamecube with a different controller whereas the PS3 and XBox 360 are truly revolutionary advances in gaming technology.
Please tell me you were looking for a +1 Funny Mod here.
I'll grant that the PS3 has the new Cell processor, but other than that both the PS3 and the Xbox360 are just a souped up PS2 and Xbox respectively. Nintendo just decided not to soup up their console as much as their competitors and decided instead to spend their time and money on a new control scheme.
Perhaps you know more than me, but please do tell what the PS3 and Xbox 360 are capable of gameplay wise that the Wii is not. Perhaps extra enemies, perhaps slightly more sophisticated AI. But being able to push a few more polygons and higher res textures and lauding that as "truly revolutionary advances in gaming technology" is simply ridiculous.
D'oh! I meant to say that the Playstation 1 had been around for 5 years.
I think I have to turn in my geek card. When he first said it I thought he was talking about mynocks from Empire Strikes Back. Shame on me for forgetting the name. I had to look it up.
/hangs head in shame
Especially as the generations get smaller
Who said they're getting smaller? Microsoft screwed the pooch with only a four year release for the Xbox, but the Playstation 2 was around for 6 years, 5 years longer than the Playstation 1. The Gamecube was around for 5 years which was the same as the N64, which was the same as the SNES. The NES had a long life span if you consider it to be the same as the Famicom in Japan, but they had no competition in its day, and that was over 15 years ago.
(4 + 6 + 5) / 3 = 5 years. The generations aren't getting smaller, MS just makes us think that because of how short the Xbox was around for.
That's amazing really. I agree with your sentiment, but it's amazing how you went from using the release of a console from one manufacturer to the release of a console from a different manufacturer then compared that timeframe to the release times of consoles from the same manufacturer.
Dreamcast doesn't count here because they will never have a next generation console. Playstation 1 came out in September of 95 (in America) and the Playstation 2 came out in October of 2000 (also in America). That's only 5 years. The Playstation 3 came out in November 2006 so that's 6 years. So yeah, judging by Sony's consoles, the generations are getting longer.
But Microsoft shows another story. The Xbox was released in November of 2001 while the Xbox360 was released Novemer 2005 so there's only 4 years there.
The NES came out in October of 85 (in America), the SNES in August of 91, nearly 6 years later. The N64 was released in September 96, 5 years after the SNES. The Gamecube was released 5 years later in November of 2001, and the Wii was released 5 years after that in November of 2006.
Looks to me that of the major players right now 5 years seems to be a fairly average number with Microsoft barely reaching 4 years and both Nintendo and Sony having a 6 year period in there somewhere.
I see that you matched my pedanticism of the word fact and raised me by the pedanticism of the use of the terms evolution and theory of evolution. I was using the two interchangably simply because evolution has been observed and for anyone to refute that is just silly. So I assumed that the grandparent to my first post was referring to the *theory* of evolution and not evolution itself, thus I used the two terms interchangably. If anyone wants a disclaimer in a science book that says evolution is just a theory then they might as well put a disclaimer in all geography books saying "Some people only theorize that the earth is not flat despite many observances of said phenomenon to the contrary."
That being said, I am still opposed to even a disclaimer about the *theory* of evolution, but certainly opposed to a disclaimer for evolution. I would be disappointed in the former, but give up hope on the latter. At that point I would start sending my kids to Strong Bad's School of Technology. They'd probably get more out of it then a science class that puts disclaimers on observations.