Cars would be a particularly bad example since people -commonly- avoid buying the first model year to give the manufacturers time to "work the bugs out."
When the Durango was built based on the Dakota, one of the selling points was that it was 95% based on a 10 year old design so most of the bugs were worked out.
Result? 1) Electric windows burned out fast on the passenger side. 2) At least one recall because of something that could result in a wheel falling off. 3) In my case at least, A/C failure after only 4 years.
There are many other examples (The AMC Pacer comes to mind).
I won't say where- or what the end conditions are on each end- because this bridge needs to work in about 2 million different places.
Now- as to what will cross the bridge. I won't tell you that either. It might be a car- it might be a convoy of tanks.
Now... as to the basic laws of the universe (the operating system). I can't tell you much about them either. For example, gravity may change at any time to be higher or lower. The tensile strength of various materials may change unpredicatably with various patches to reality.
Your work force will be available to work 2 to 16 hour days and may or may not comprehend instructions written in english.
The bridge needs to be built from scratch from materials using new refining methods so you cannot use any reference materials to analyze how strong it has been historically.
Finally, this bridge must be made of at least 9 million different pieces (opcodes). The subunits will be assembled by a robot of some kind (Compiler) so you will not know the details of how the units work- only how they are supposed to work as units.
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I'm sorry but you really do not understand what you are talking about.
No he is talking about how you would wait for your song to come on and then lunge across the room to start recording it. I got my copy of "hold your head up" this way- it sounded great on cassette off the radio and I never bought a copy on vinyl in the store as a result.
As far as driving-- he's mixing metaphors between what he used to do and what he would need to do now while driving.
He needn't worry- in most cases there is a 10-15 second buffer for these recordings so you have more time to react.
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Riaa is insane and doomed in so many ways from pissing off their customers to a coming tsunami of non-RIAA artists all over the world. There is more good music than you could spend your entire life listening too already and more is made every day. A lot of it is cheap or free.
But there was a time when HBO showed movies. Several "movie" channels actually showed movies 24 hours a day with only previews for movies between them. Then HBO started showing a lot of crap like Rome and this new channel came along called... "The MOVIE Channel (TMC)" and they showed movies- just movies. One month they showed almost 500 unique movies (including the old Boston Blackies!). I know it's hard to believe these days but it's true!
And... GET THIS... MTV only showed music videos 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Get out of town!
My only issue with this is that under Vista, we are likely to see very strong DRM. Certainly with encrypted closed channels from hardware to the playback devices.
Windows is moving away from me and towards RIAA/MPAA and to an environment where I would have to pay every time I watch something (even if I recorded it from TV) and where I have to buy all my content again with each new media format or each time my media wears out.
So time invested in a linux solution now- prevents me from being a prisoner in 2-3 years.
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I would hold a headline or article to different standards than I hold a casual poster to.
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I think "to say" is okay grammar in this context. Message boards are similar to talking as much as they are to typing. In any case, it would probably be "to write" instead of "to type" tho I lack the grammatical sophistication to tell you why.
Since you asked... You typed: If you understand what the originally writer Which would be If you understand what the original writer (no ly)
You probably don't need "have". Succeeded is past tense anyway.
then they have succeeded. (then they succeeded).
Could probably argue that you would "develop better writing habits" instead of just "better habits" (what kind of habits?).
Oh... and 2 spaces after periods (... funny). Feel free...)
It is a lot easier to read text with 2 spaces. Using one space makes the writing run together. It all seems like the same sentence. The extra space makes the text easier to read. So I always use two spaces except in this paragraph.
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The most annoying problems out there for me right now are... LOOSE used instead of LOSE. (I win! You loose!) ROUGE used instead of ROGUE. (He was quite a rouge, stealing!) TO instead of TOO. (It was to much. He went to far.) Not using paragraphs (I usually just skip these rather than try to parse out what they are saying).
--- I agree with your basic point that grammar comments are usually unproductive and even unreasonable. I wouldn't have commented on your post but for that what you asked (hehehe).
Exactly... UN Resolution 4221, Should Australia not cease their invasion of New Zealand, their access to the internet and world wide web will be cut off.
If anything - it makes it more likely to happen - just not to China, France, U.S., Great Britain, or Russia.
A lot of it was moved around by military troops. As it started there were a lot of people with low resistanced packed tightly together. Finally, we now understand that part of the reason people died was that their immune systems over-reacted and killed them-- old people survived at a higher rate than young people with vigorous immune systems- we could probably suppress that these days. --- It was bad stuff tho, you could basically liquify as your cells unzipped and dumped antibodies. Entire towns were wiped out. Wild animals were a big problem. --- Cities that survived did so by shutting out any visitors (food/etc was delivered to a spot outside of town/your building- no human contact). --- Today- we'd probably have a fierce die off. The dying wouldn't get us as badly as the shutting down of commerce- we depend heavily for things to be brought to us.
He makes a few valid points but mostly he sounds a lot like that whiner last week who went on about how unreasonable college is and how unfair it was to wonderful him.
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Cubicles are a fact of life.
Deadlines are a fact of life.
I'll give him a few points on management but -until- you get street cred by delivering solutions that work a few times, your opinion is not going to have a lot of weight. Past there it is a reality of the field, that managers make the decision and vendors take them to lunch.
I also agree that given the loyalty companies show us, that working regular overtime is foolish. If you are always working overtime/in an emergency- management is understaffing. They won't know they are understaffing unless failure to deliver actually occurs.
And I agree with him that loyalty will never be repaid. You may be laid off at any time, including right after delivering a major project that is going to save the company a lot of money.
I could blame him and say he needed to LISTEN to his professors and choose his first job more carefully, but in today's environment, any job is good and the classic catch-22 in IT is you have to have experience to get a job.
So siding with china against taiwan or tibet or with russia against chechnia or ukraine or with any other large group of people against a smaller group of people is no longer evil?
This started a few james bond films back with a fight scene which was so quickly edited to make it exciting that we couldn't tell
a) who was fighting b) who was winning c) whether it was an arm or a leg sailing by to inflict the blow.
It's gotten worse since. Combined with EXTREMELY LOUD VOLUME (Had to wear earplugs AND noise dampening headset and it was -still loud- and the manager didnt' see any reason to turn the volume down), and commercials (only TWO before Serenity-now that is some kind of new record- last film I saw had 17 commercials) I just don't have much interest in seeing movies any more.
Saw this in Serenity in the theatre. Thought it was a good solid film- but it had less "intensity" than expected. Was disappointed with Reavers being explained - sometimes better to just leave things a mystery. OTH, reavers made more sense as an SF villian than a fantasy villian after the explaination. Not sure the evil bad guy would have changed his belief based on only one mere planet full of people being sacrificed if it meant "peace" would result for the rest of mankind.
Oh I agree. Just pointing out the obvious flaw in the "Give peace a chance" strategy in the face of so much horrific evidence to the contrary.
Based on evidence of the various studies (fake guards & prisoners, fake electrical punishment), I don't think we have culled out squat from the gene pool yet. I believe that we developed societal memes that war is bad instead. I think counter-memes developed to take advantage of those who followed a belief that war is bad and now we have to get more sophisticated.
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Cars would be a particularly bad example since people -commonly- avoid buying the first model year to give the manufacturers time to "work the bugs out."
When the Durango was built based on the Dakota, one of the selling points was that it was 95% based on a 10 year old design so most of the bugs were worked out.
Result?
1) Electric windows burned out fast on the passenger side.
2) At least one recall because of something that could result in a wheel falling off.
3) In my case at least, A/C failure after only 4 years.
There are many other examples (The AMC Pacer comes to mind).
Four times???
Once the project gets sufficiently large and complex, it takes more time than one person has in their entire life. And it still won't be perfect.
You are a civil engineer.
I want you to build a bridge.
I won't say where- or what the end conditions are on each end- because this bridge needs to work in about 2 million different places.
Now- as to what will cross the bridge. I won't tell you that either. It might be a car- it might be a convoy of tanks.
Now... as to the basic laws of the universe (the operating system). I can't tell you much about them either. For example, gravity may change at any time to be higher or lower. The tensile strength of various materials may change unpredicatably with various patches to reality.
Your work force will be available to work 2 to 16 hour days and may or may not comprehend instructions written in english.
The bridge needs to be built from scratch from materials using new refining methods so you cannot use any reference materials to analyze how strong it has been historically.
Finally, this bridge must be made of at least 9 million different pieces (opcodes). The subunits will be assembled by a robot of some kind (Compiler) so you will not know the details of how the units work- only how they are supposed to work as units.
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I'm sorry but you really do not understand what you are talking about.
where madanna is... RIAA should get an extra cut?
And I saved a lot of money on my car insurance!
Why should a billion people pay a buck a piece in licensing fees on players and 5 cents per disk when they don't have to?
This can save China a ton of money and avoid transferring that money to competitors.
Western nations have abused copyright and patent laws to the point that if you can avoid them- you probably should.
Clever parallel there.
What is the difference between government suppressed speech and business supressed speech enforced by laws purchased from the government?
I second the "lyrics" comment.
I like many songs for their lyrics and storyline (which I why I do not like songs that are 99% chorus).
The service does not select lyrically similar songs which are different musically. It's a pure melody match.
No he is talking about how you would wait for your song to come on and then lunge across the room to start recording it. I got my copy of "hold your head up" this way- it sounded great on cassette off the radio and I never bought a copy on vinyl in the store as a result.
As far as driving-- he's mixing metaphors between what he used to do and what he would need to do now while driving.
He needn't worry- in most cases there is a 10-15 second buffer for these recordings so you have more time to react.
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Riaa is insane and doomed in so many ways from pissing off their customers to a coming tsunami of non-RIAA artists all over the world. There is more good music than you could spend your entire life listening too already and more is made every day. A lot of it is cheap or free.
But there was a time when HBO showed movies. Several "movie" channels actually showed movies 24 hours a day with only previews for movies between them. Then HBO started showing a lot of crap like Rome and this new channel came along called... "The MOVIE Channel (TMC)" and they showed movies- just movies. One month they showed almost 500 unique movies (including the old Boston Blackies!). I know it's hard to believe these days but it's true!
... GET THIS... MTV only showed music videos 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Get out of town!
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It's based on Azure (which means blue).
A word I learned from Empire of the Petal Throne and its Omnipotent Azure Legion. Guess what color they wore!?!
I say that we vote PI is 3.0 anyway.
Oh wait, we already did that in America at least once.
My only issue with this is that under Vista, we are likely to see very strong DRM. Certainly with encrypted closed channels from hardware to the playback devices.
Windows is moving away from me and towards RIAA/MPAA and to an environment where I would have to pay every time I watch something (even if I recorded it from TV) and where I have to buy all my content again with each new media format or each time my media wears out.
So time invested in a linux solution now- prevents me from being a prisoner in 2-3 years.
I would hold a headline or article to different standards than I hold a casual poster to.
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I think "to say" is okay grammar in this context. Message boards are similar to talking as much as they are to typing. In any case, it would probably be "to write" instead of "to type" tho I lack the grammatical sophistication to tell you why.
Since you asked...
You typed:
If you understand what the originally writer
Which would be
If you understand what the original writer (no ly)
You probably don't need "have". Succeeded is past tense anyway.
then they have succeeded. (then they succeeded).
Could probably argue that you would "develop better writing habits" instead of just "better habits" (what kind of habits?).
Oh... and 2 spaces after periods (... funny). Feel free...)
It is a lot easier to read text with 2 spaces. Using one space makes the writing run together. It all seems like the same sentence. The extra space makes the text easier to read. So I always use two spaces except in this paragraph.
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The most annoying problems out there for me right now are...
LOOSE used instead of LOSE. (I win! You loose!)
ROUGE used instead of ROGUE. (He was quite a rouge, stealing!)
TO instead of TOO. (It was to much. He went to far.)
Not using paragraphs (I usually just skip these rather than try to parse out what they are saying).
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I agree with your basic point that grammar comments are usually unproductive and even unreasonable. I wouldn't have commented on your post but for that what you asked (hehehe).
Exactly... UN Resolution 4221, Should Australia not cease their invasion of New Zealand, their access to the internet and world wide web will be cut off.
If anything - it makes it more likely to happen - just not to China, France, U.S., Great Britain, or Russia.
A lot of it was moved around by military troops.
As it started there were a lot of people with low resistanced packed tightly together.
Finally, we now understand that part of the reason people died was that their immune systems over-reacted and killed them-- old people survived at a higher rate than young people with vigorous immune systems- we could probably suppress that these days.
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It was bad stuff tho, you could basically liquify as your cells unzipped and dumped antibodies. Entire towns were wiped out. Wild animals were a big problem.
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Cities that survived did so by shutting out any visitors (food/etc was delivered to a spot outside of town/your building- no human contact).
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Today- we'd probably have a fierce die off. The dying wouldn't get us as badly as the shutting down of commerce- we depend heavily for things to be brought to us.
He makes a few valid points but mostly he sounds a lot like that whiner last week who went on about how unreasonable college is and how unfair it was to wonderful him.
---
Cubicles are a fact of life.
Deadlines are a fact of life.
I'll give him a few points on management but -until- you get street cred by delivering solutions that work a few times, your opinion is not going to have a lot of weight. Past there it is a reality of the field, that managers make the decision and vendors take them to lunch.
I also agree that given the loyalty companies show us, that working regular overtime is foolish. If you are always working overtime/in an emergency- management is understaffing. They won't know they are understaffing unless failure to deliver actually occurs.
And I agree with him that loyalty will never be repaid. You may be laid off at any time, including right after delivering a major project that is going to save the company a lot of money.
I could blame him and say he needed to LISTEN to his professors and choose his first job more carefully, but in today's environment, any job is good and the classic catch-22 in IT is you have to have experience to get a job.
So siding with china against taiwan or tibet or with russia against chechnia or ukraine or with any other large group of people against a smaller group of people is no longer evil?
You hit the nail on the head.
This started a few james bond films back with a fight scene which was so quickly edited to make it exciting that we couldn't tell
a) who was fighting
b) who was winning
c) whether it was an arm or a leg sailing by to inflict the blow.
It's gotten worse since. Combined with EXTREMELY LOUD VOLUME (Had to wear earplugs AND noise dampening headset and it was -still loud- and the manager didnt' see any reason to turn the volume down), and commercials (only TWO before Serenity-now that is some kind of new record- last film I saw had 17 commercials) I just don't have much interest in seeing movies any more.
Saw this in Serenity in the theatre. Thought it was a good solid film- but it had less "intensity" than expected. Was disappointed with Reavers being explained - sometimes better to just leave things a mystery. OTH, reavers made more sense as an SF villian than a fantasy villian after the explaination. Not sure the evil bad guy would have changed his belief based on only one mere planet full of people being sacrificed if it meant "peace" would result for the rest of mankind.
I heard on the radio today that milk will be back in paper for a while this fall because there is not enough oil for plastic bottles.
That was my thought as well.
So bring on the new "make one copy with no limits" technology.
It will probably turn out this can be overcome with a piece of tape or a spot of ink etc.
You beat me to it, brother.
This just shows once again that ANY corporation is a sociopath.
It's all about the money- never give your loyalty to a corporation- they have no conscience- they have no guilt.
It also takes showing the episodes in the correct order. Grrr!
Imagine if they showed Desperate Housewives or Lost in the order they showed Firefly.
Some of the unhappiest people I know are followers of christianity and islam. I'm don't know about other religions.
I think some people are happier after becoming religious while it brings a lifetime of misery to others.
Oh I agree. Just pointing out the obvious flaw in the "Give peace a chance" strategy in the face of so much horrific evidence to the contrary.
Based on evidence of the various studies (fake guards & prisoners, fake electrical punishment), I don't think we have culled out squat from the gene pool yet. I believe that we developed societal memes that war is bad instead. I think counter-memes developed to take advantage of those who followed a belief that war is bad and now we have to get more sophisticated.