Not to mention that the problems they ask are much prefabricated problems - if you know their solution, you're in. It's like "have you been to this contest before? Yes, watch out for the subway one. It's a recursive tree"
Boy, sounds like somebody's bitter. Did those mean nerds make fun of you for not being in their club?
Are you serious? What a ridiculous title. Is Steve Jobs becoming a crazed Willy Wonka, inviting people to his magical company in Cupertino where they are tested to see who can be the next CEO of Apple?
Actually, that'd probably be better than getting another Scully...
Ringworld is a great story with a lot of great ideas, but I was very disappointed to find out that the writing is so terrible. How did it become such a classic?
Yes in only three years. Er, I tell a lie, four; be fair, five. I've been lemur spotting for just the seven years. Before that of course I was a Yeti spotter.
It pisses me off when I hear fancy web effects being passed off as AJAX. It is true that AJAX methods enable more interaction and responsiveness for the user, but they have nothing to do with drag and drop, drop down menus and other javascript and DOM functionality. If you must have a buzzword to apply to these things, use Web 2.0 (which is annoying for different reasons) and leave AJAX alone.
The time consuming part of a credit card
transaction is where the cashier checks your signature against the one
on the back of the card.
I honestly can't remember the last time a cashier checked the signature on the back of my credit card, which is another issue entirely. My card wasn't even signed for about a year, and I only had one person ask me for further identification. That's very disturbing to me.
To satisfy the curiosity of the millions of PC owners who might like to try OS X, Apple should sell an unsupported version of OS X for $19.95.
There are several problems with this.
Apple doesn't want a user's first experience with OS X to be full of frustration, incompatibility, and clunky graphics. They want a curious PC user's first experience to be like an Apple store - slick, white, and accessible
What happens when an OEM, in order to save money, ships the stripped down OS X with their boxes? Customers will experience problems and call Apple, only to be told that their OS is unsupported. Apple's great consumer relations score will go down the tubes.
Even stuck with a dumbed-down version of OS X, it would be hard for a user to part with $130 just to get a smoother ride.
Basically it's software that allows you to pick several songs as positive seeds, and at least one as a negative seed, and based on your choices it will generate a playlist from your music library.
MusicMatch has been doing this forever with their customizable radio stations. That is guaranteed to be prior art.
It's a classic story. The crusader is attacked by evil copyright bad-guys. He refuses to submit and puts his website back online. In a cruel twist, his site is ultimately annihilated by those who support him.
Just because Intelligent Design is not just unproven, it is inherently unprovable does not mean that it should be barred from the classroom. There are a great many topics that the human race has been debating for thousands of years that we will continue to be debating thousands of years from now. Those kind of philosophical/unprovable ideas make for terrific discussion.
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Not to mention that the problems they ask are much prefabricated problems - if you know their solution, you're in. It's like "have you been to this contest before? Yes, watch out for the subway one. It's a recursive tree"
Boy, sounds like somebody's bitter. Did those mean nerds make fun of you for not being in their club?
"Apple Announces Wonderful Toys"
Are you serious? What a ridiculous title. Is Steve Jobs becoming a crazed Willy Wonka, inviting people to his magical company in Cupertino where they are tested to see who can be the next CEO of Apple?
Actually, that'd probably be better than getting another Scully...
You _don't_ need to emphasis _like_ this _on_ slashdot. We have html!
...it doesn't really fit. It should be "percolated".
Ringworld is a great story with a lot of great ideas, but I was very disappointed to find out that the writing is so terrible. How did it become such a classic?
So, in, er, three years you've spotted no lemurs?
Yes in only three years. Er, I tell a lie, four; be fair, five. I've been lemur spotting for just the seven years. Before that of course I was a Yeti spotter.
It pisses me off when I hear fancy web effects being passed off as AJAX. It is true that AJAX methods enable more interaction and responsiveness for the user, but they have nothing to do with drag and drop, drop down menus and other javascript and DOM functionality. If you must have a buzzword to apply to these things, use Web 2.0 (which is annoying for different reasons) and leave AJAX alone.
It's legit. The url is strange for amazon, and the whois looks dodgy, but this is from Amazon's website.
Mechanical Turk info
I honestly can't remember the last time a cashier checked the signature on the back of my credit card, which is another issue entirely. My card wasn't even signed for about a year, and I only had one person ask me for further identification. That's very disturbing to me.
Wait, half of the sentences like this one are lies.
Whatever. McDonald's has been doing that for years.
But what does it mean??
There are several problems with this.
MusicMatch has been doing this forever with their customizable radio stations. That is guaranteed to be prior art.
It's a classic story. The crusader is attacked by evil copyright bad-guys. He refuses to submit and puts his website back online. In a cruel twist, his site is ultimately annihilated by those who support him.
Yeah, that's rough. He was 28 years past the last checkpoint.
Just because Intelligent Design is not just unproven, it is inherently unprovable does not mean that it should be barred from the classroom. There are a great many topics that the human race has been debating for thousands of years that we will continue to be debating thousands of years from now. Those kind of philosophical/unprovable ideas make for terrific discussion.
On family trips my dad's joke was to point out any nice looking scenery and say "what a nice vista."
Oh, he was a funny one.