Another quick comment on Argument 3:
In my 5th grade classroom, I use Macs, Windows (XP, 7, 8), and Linux (all Ubuntu, with different window managers). The kids learn remarkably quickly how to flit from OS to OS, what they can and can't do in each of them, and so on. It has been fun.
If you start a Stupid Crap website, I'll visit it. Every time a friend or acquaintance asks me what they think about the phone they're thinking of buying, I'll direct them there. Every time someone comes to me and says, "Look at my sweet new Statosphere 3!" I'll say, "I don't know, man. I was looking at StupidPhoneBugCrap.com and how do you like your calendar?" and then I will encourage them to take the phone back. That's the free market at work. Now if I can beat you to the punch and create such a website, I'll make the money and you won't. Thanks for the idea, dummy!
Just seeing the contortions you guys go through to make backticks and tildes work makes me wonder how many months you wasted figuring that bit out. You could have been doing something useful/valuable instead.
I wasted 0.000004 months figuring that out.
You'd have saved that time by learning better scripting skills. Backticks have been deprecated for a long time (ambiguous nesting - use $(blah) instead), and I don't know where you'd NEED to use a tilde (bare "cd" takes you $HOME).
I also wish you people would learn to use blockquote.
Does it really only take 0.000004 months to learn better scripting skills? I guess it might, for all I know. I haven't written a line of code in many, many moons.
And notice how I learned how to use blockquote! Another 0.000004 months put to good use!
I wasted 0.000004 months figuring that out. I was about to waste 0.000009 more months figuring out what I could have done with 10 seconds that could have been so much more useful, but I'm burning daylight.
Is it important that this wasn't a "leak"? This dingdong who leaves his phone out was not risking anything to get the information out there. He was a dumdum who left his phone at a bar after getting too loaded and showing it off to some honeys. Why is it so important to protect his identity?
But they do seem to be protecting the identity of the true leaker, the guy who found the phone, realized what he had, and gave it to the news outlet that would be best suited for publishing.
Can someone please tell me what things like that damn suitability matrix have to do with suitability to work? Such as sexual orientation, traffic tickets, bad checks, eviction, incest, and bestiality have to do with ability to Science?
Just in case someone missed calmofthestorm's sarcasm, the suitability matrix he refers to (and the whole idea of background checks) has nothing to do with Science, and everything to do with trustworthiness.
It's interesting that the Luftwaffe was largely incapable of good reconnaissance at this time, so the bulk of the benefit came from radio traffic and double agents.
Dan Quayle, Ted Kennedy, and Bill Clinton were in a Spelling Bee. Surprisingly, Quayle won! The word was 'harass.' Quayle was the only one who knew it was 1 word.
1. This is ambiguous. Is 'overused' intended as a past participle (You've overused the commas.) or as an adjective (You have commas and they're overused.)? Plus there's the feminine possessive at the end. No doubt that error was merely a typo: an imperfection due to your haste to point out imperfections.
2. You may want to look into the usage of double quotes vs. single quotes when quoting text or singling out key terms.
3. Also note that this is somewhat subjective and dependent on where you live in the English-speaking world.
If that's the case, then it seems that one company would find these good managers that supposedly are willing to work for 5x the wages of the janitor, and use the savings to become more profitable.
The bigger the gap between the rich and poor, the more the poor suffer.
It sounds as though you're defining the suffering of the poor in relative terms. It seems to me that the standard of living has increased for pretty much everyone who lives in the United Kingdom (to continue your example).
Dude, what planet am I living on that I NEVER HEARD ABOUT VIRTUALBOX UNTIL NOW!!!???
Thanks!
As for the Parallels crashing, I've not had that problem. Is it because I never come close to overtaxing it?
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This is the correct answer. I decided I had to have a widescreen laptop when I started working on multiple tasks at the same time.
Hilarious that this statement is made after a story regarding marriage.
According to the LA Times, you are incorrect about money raised for/against. http://www.latimes.com/local/l...
Another quick comment on Argument 3: In my 5th grade classroom, I use Macs, Windows (XP, 7, 8), and Linux (all Ubuntu, with different window managers). The kids learn remarkably quickly how to flit from OS to OS, what they can and can't do in each of them, and so on. It has been fun.
Dihipster, you mean.
If you start a Stupid Crap website, I'll visit it. Every time a friend or acquaintance asks me what they think about the phone they're thinking of buying, I'll direct them there. Every time someone comes to me and says, "Look at my sweet new Statosphere 3!" I'll say, "I don't know, man. I was looking at StupidPhoneBugCrap.com and how do you like your calendar?" and then I will encourage them to take the phone back. That's the free market at work. Now if I can beat you to the punch and create such a website, I'll make the money and you won't. Thanks for the idea, dummy!
I thought the story was going to be about slashdot comments.
Littoral. Awesome.
I would LOVE it if every single story about every penny spent by the US Gov't started out with that phrase: "Despite massive budget deficits,..."
You'd have saved that time by learning better scripting skills. Backticks have been deprecated for a long time (ambiguous nesting - use $(blah) instead), and I don't know where you'd NEED to use a tilde (bare "cd" takes you $HOME).
I also wish you people would learn to use blockquote.
Does it really only take 0.000004 months to learn better scripting skills? I guess it might, for all I know. I haven't written a line of code in many, many moons. And notice how I learned how to use blockquote! Another 0.000004 months put to good use!
I wasted 0.000004 months figuring that out. I was about to waste 0.000009 more months figuring out what I could have done with 10 seconds that could have been so much more useful, but I'm burning daylight.
Kudos to Amazon for trying to save their customers' money. And isn't this the states' fault anyway? They wrote the crappy tax code, didn't they?
What's that flash at about 6:32 or 6:33? Subliminal messages!
Try Dell (where I got mine) or Amazon. It'll likely be cheaper anyway. Or eBay.
Is it important that this wasn't a "leak"? This dingdong who leaves his phone out was not risking anything to get the information out there. He was a dumdum who left his phone at a bar after getting too loaded and showing it off to some honeys. Why is it so important to protect his identity? But they do seem to be protecting the identity of the true leaker, the guy who found the phone, realized what he had, and gave it to the news outlet that would be best suited for publishing.
That's high latency.
Just in case someone missed calmofthestorm's sarcasm, the suitability matrix he refers to (and the whole idea of background checks) has nothing to do with Science, and everything to do with trustworthiness.
Crap. Here's the link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Fortitude
It's interesting that the Luftwaffe was largely incapable of good reconnaissance at this time, so the bulk of the benefit came from radio traffic and double agents.
Dan Quayle, Ted Kennedy, and Bill Clinton were in a Spelling Bee. Surprisingly, Quayle won! The word was 'harass.' Quayle was the only one who knew it was 1 word.
1. This is ambiguous. Is 'overused' intended as a past participle (You've overused the commas.) or as an adjective (You have commas and they're overused.)? Plus there's the feminine possessive at the end. No doubt that error was merely a typo: an imperfection due to your haste to point out imperfections.
2. You may want to look into the usage of double quotes vs. single quotes when quoting text or singling out key terms.
3. Also note that this is somewhat subjective and dependent on where you live in the English-speaking world.
Did you all read that review of The Ugly American in the /. summary?
If that's the case, then it seems that one company would find these good managers that supposedly are willing to work for 5x the wages of the janitor, and use the savings to become more profitable.
It sounds as though you're defining the suffering of the poor in relative terms. It seems to me that the standard of living has increased for pretty much everyone who lives in the United Kingdom (to continue your example).
Dude, what planet am I living on that I NEVER HEARD ABOUT VIRTUALBOX UNTIL NOW!!!??? Thanks! As for the Parallels crashing, I've not had that problem. Is it because I never come close to overtaxing it?