I had a cop search my car once -- I was in the wrong place at the wrong time (but minding my own business). I had nothing to hide so of course I said yes to the search.
He finished the search after about 15 minutes, leaving the interior upside down, shoe prints all over the seats. At the time, I was going to the gym daily, and had taken off my mp3 player only an hour earlier and placed in my console to charge. I get back into the car, drive back home, go for my mp3 player and lo -- the cop absolutely swiped it. I didn't leave my sight but for the 15 minutes he was in my car. My word against his.
My mistake, I should have bought an Apple product, that way it would have gotten national attention. Instead I get to go around mistrusting anyone in blue, knowing they're only looking out for themselves and will use every opportunity to cheat, steal, and abuse their authority.
Seriously, I can't say anything else but "what are they thinking?!?" This is obviously nothing more than a blind money grab and I can't see it possibly working out for them. Or lasting very long. In the meantime, I'd recommend not buying any computers at Best Buy--I think they'll wire a car battery to your nuts with alligator clamps until you sign up for this.
Would you like an extended warranty with that car battery / alligator clamp combo pack?
I feel much the same way. I had over 400 CDs stolen from me. I did not go to tower records and drop another $7k to replace them -- I downloaded them. And yes, I had car insurance, they paid for the window, but not the stolen CDs. Some of the arguments stating 'if you had insurance' are entirely naive to how the system generally works.
Agreed. Just look in the ID3 comments for something like:
----==== RIPPED BY MASTERBATER ====-----
(Unless, of course, you are the 'Masterbater' in question)
I'd say your experience with insurance providers is pretty limited. I'm probably your same age, and also your same health level. I have TMJ/TMD, which causes pain in my jaw. Something I was born with, but only became problematic in my 20s.
I cannot get insurance anywhere. I get turned down whenever I apply. They know its a $25k surgery, so its a flat out, no. As soon as you make a claim, you'll get dropped or your premiums will skyrocket. At $150/mo, you'd have to be paying into your plan for 14 years to become profitable to them if you had the same condition as I do. If you are not 100% profitable, you will not get insurance. Period.
FBI... ok, so you're an anarchist
WoW... ok, so you're anti-capitalist
Magnets.com... uhh, so you don't like your shitty kid's art messing up your fridge...?
I agree with your comments wholly. Microsoft is positioning themselves to compliment silverlight/wpf, with html5/javascript. In this fashion, you can go from web app to desktop app, just like you can go from silverlight to wpf. So many web developers are absolutely lost when faced with an event driven application, that it doesn't translate well -- this is their answer. They're trying to open up more native desktop applications, for windows, by letting web apps run standalone.
In this way, any web developer who doesn't have the event driven experience, and whose brains turn to mush as soon as they have to touch the server (and God, the market if flooded with these useful idiots), allows them to write desktop apps just as mindless.
Before someone comes in putting down all the IDE's and tools for web designing and suggests Notepad, let me just say this - no, notepad is not replacement for a good, solid IDE.
but I guarantee you that as soon as you start working on anything non-trivial (like the 100,000+ static documents I currently administer), a real text editor and the basic set of *nix utilities will leave any IDE looking weak and impoverished.
What a huge waste of time for a developer to be maintaining 100,000+ static documents, by him(her)self. You can be fast, but sounds like your job is ripe to be replaced by a part time DBA and a bunch of underpaid content editors.
It [Watson] will also make humans more dumb and less thoughtful over time
I would argue the quite the opposite. Statistical probability is what Watson does, and knowing comparatively, the likelihood of having one illness over another is a very valuable learning tool; its not at all limited to a diagnostic tool. Using a system like that would be akin to knowing how to Google well. I know for certain that I've been able to educate myself, faster, by having access to relevant search results. Having a resource like Watson and looking at his suggestions, objectively, would unilaterally produce more proficient doctors.
IE7. If you can't do it with IE7, our clients don't want it.:(
Consider yourself lucky, I'm still stuck with supporting IE6. PNG overlays, forgettaboutit.
You are missing out on a tremendous amount more then overlays. How about stable multiple class usage; first-child, +, >, ~, attr selectors;:hover/:active improvements; min/max-heigth/width support; overflow: visible actually works; position: fixed -- erm, is fixed. Thats just the CSS list. (But thank goodness for jquery, otherwise I would have to memorize a much longer list of newly supported features.)
The headline should read "BitCoin mining almost as cool as growing weed!", but the BitCoin monarchs had to put a spin on it somehow to make it sounds remotely believable.
My experience is that Apple computers are usually priced quite competitively at the date of their release but their refresh cycles tend to be very long and there generally are no discounts until an improved revision is released
That's exactly what they want you to think. In reality, they are overpriced through the duration of their cycle, you simply get the best value when its first release (co-incidentally, this is the time when Apple needs the most sales of said product).
I'd probably side with the doctors on this one. I've broken my collar bone several times, the the first time is nothing like the third. Each time, bone is weaker, and structurally, its fubar. Each additional break causes more and more structural and nerve problems (i get the occasional pain *PANG* from bending in the wrong direction).
The simpler explanation as told from my last dental visits:
I was seeing your average mid-life dentist, you know the kind, the one that generally has his assistant do everything except the 'heavy lifting'. He found two cavities, and while prepping me for the drill, aimed himself at the wrong tooth, not once but twice. After his second miserable failure in a matter of seconds I told him to stop what he was doing, as I was about to leave to get another opinion.
A week passes, and I finally get an appointment with another doctor, and guess what... No cavities!
No, there are more sick patients now, because the economy sucks and it pisses off your doctor something fierce that he had to delay his 2nd Ferrari purchase. Plain and simple. My original dentist knew I had good coverage, and this 15 minutes of drilling someones face meant adding to his bottom line. Do no harm my ass.
I've got a dirty little secret.
I don't like facebook *gasp*.
But alas, I don't have a national platform to voice my opinions on how much I despise the service.
A smart CS graduate could work on better privacy systems, or on better surveillance systems.
It's not all one way.
Both problems are equally interesting and equally challenging. It's a black hat/white hat kind of thing.
But what if a bunch of code was outsourced, divided up into separate modules, then compiled by a couple black hat hackers from the back of a dump truck, with the sole intent of performing a 'fire-sale' on the US nation? The coders that wrote the modules aren't black or white hat, they're simply the best programmers, but have no clue what the program would be used for.
Then hollywood could make a movie out of it, hire the 'I'm a Mac' guy to play the incredibly naive, but genius level coder -- this is to give the movie some credibility. Add some buzzwords into the script -- voila. instant $400M at the box office.
Honestly, how in the world did you get modded up? Malware coming from the app store is about as common as it coming from best buy. It doesn't happen (but boy, when it does, it makes BIG news -- I'm thinking of flash drives and photo kiosks).
Modern malware comes from application exploits, not the application itself.
Actually, I like this concept of names associated to places.
That way Fox News can report in a couple weeks how your 'George from New York', just ripped out the eyes of Osama from Sheepfuckerville.
Nice point, but I'd contend that the language gap covers this illogical surname.
Personally, I find it more annoying when a brit calls a router a 'rooter.' But that's me.
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I had a cop search my car once -- I was in the wrong place at the wrong time (but minding my own business). I had nothing to hide so of course I said yes to the search.
He finished the search after about 15 minutes, leaving the interior upside down, shoe prints all over the seats. At the time, I was going to the gym daily, and had taken off my mp3 player only an hour earlier and placed in my console to charge. I get back into the car, drive back home, go for my mp3 player and lo -- the cop absolutely swiped it. I didn't leave my sight but for the 15 minutes he was in my car. My word against his.
My mistake, I should have bought an Apple product, that way it would have gotten national attention. Instead I get to go around mistrusting anyone in blue, knowing they're only looking out for themselves and will use every opportunity to cheat, steal, and abuse their authority.
Seriously, I can't say anything else but "what are they thinking?!?" This is obviously nothing more than a blind money grab and I can't see it possibly working out for them. Or lasting very long. In the meantime, I'd recommend not buying any computers at Best Buy--I think they'll wire a car battery to your nuts with alligator clamps until you sign up for this.
Would you like an extended warranty with that car battery / alligator clamp combo pack?
I feel much the same way. I had over 400 CDs stolen from me. I did not go to tower records and drop another $7k to replace them -- I downloaded them. And yes, I had car insurance, they paid for the window, but not the stolen CDs. Some of the arguments stating 'if you had insurance' are entirely naive to how the system generally works.
Agreed. Just look in the ID3 comments for something like:
----==== RIPPED BY MASTERBATER ====-----
(Unless, of course, you are the 'Masterbater' in question)
I'd say your experience with insurance providers is pretty limited. I'm probably your same age, and also your same health level. I have TMJ/TMD, which causes pain in my jaw. Something I was born with, but only became problematic in my 20s.
I cannot get insurance anywhere. I get turned down whenever I apply. They know its a $25k surgery, so its a flat out, no. As soon as you make a claim, you'll get dropped or your premiums will skyrocket. At $150/mo, you'd have to be paying into your plan for 14 years to become profitable to them if you had the same condition as I do. If you are not 100% profitable, you will not get insurance. Period.
FBI... ok, so you're an anarchist
WoW... ok, so you're anti-capitalist
Magnets.com... uhh, so you don't like your shitty kid's art messing up your fridge...?
I agree with your comments wholly. Microsoft is positioning themselves to compliment silverlight/wpf, with html5/javascript. In this fashion, you can go from web app to desktop app, just like you can go from silverlight to wpf. So many web developers are absolutely lost when faced with an event driven application, that it doesn't translate well -- this is their answer. They're trying to open up more native desktop applications, for windows, by letting web apps run standalone.
In this way, any web developer who doesn't have the event driven experience, and whose brains turn to mush as soon as they have to touch the server (and God, the market if flooded with these useful idiots), allows them to write desktop apps just as mindless.
HTML5 excels at the GUI.
HTML5 excels at the GUI in a browser. FTFY. There are many other GUI API's that are far superior.
Before someone comes in putting down all the IDE's and tools for web designing and suggests Notepad, let me just say this - no, notepad is not replacement for a good, solid IDE.
but I guarantee you that as soon as you start working on anything non-trivial (like the 100,000+ static documents I currently administer), a real text editor and the basic set of *nix utilities will leave any IDE looking weak and impoverished.
What a huge waste of time for a developer to be maintaining 100,000+ static documents, by him(her)self. You can be fast, but sounds like your job is ripe to be replaced by a part time DBA and a bunch of underpaid content editors.
Well, he [Watson] did always want to be a proctologist when he grew up.
Wouldn't he also need olfactory processing too?
It [Watson] will also make humans more dumb and less thoughtful over time
I would argue the quite the opposite. Statistical probability is what Watson does, and knowing comparatively, the likelihood of having one illness over another is a very valuable learning tool; its not at all limited to a diagnostic tool. Using a system like that would be akin to knowing how to Google well. I know for certain that I've been able to educate myself, faster, by having access to relevant search results. Having a resource like Watson and looking at his suggestions, objectively, would unilaterally produce more proficient doctors.
IE7. If you can't do it with IE7, our clients don't want it. :(
Consider yourself lucky, I'm still stuck with supporting IE6. PNG overlays, forgettaboutit.
You are missing out on a tremendous amount more then overlays. How about stable multiple class usage; first-child, +, >, ~, attr selectors; :hover/:active improvements; min/max-heigth/width support; overflow: visible actually works; position: fixed -- erm, is fixed. Thats just the CSS list.
(But thank goodness for jquery, otherwise I would have to memorize a much longer list of newly supported features.)
The headline should read "BitCoin mining almost as cool as growing weed!", but the BitCoin monarchs had to put a spin on it somehow to make it sounds remotely believable.
My experience is that Apple computers are usually priced quite competitively at the date of their release but their refresh cycles tend to be very long and there generally are no discounts until an improved revision is released
That's exactly what they want you to think. In reality, they are overpriced through the duration of their cycle, you simply get the best value when its first release (co-incidentally, this is the time when Apple needs the most sales of said product).
I'd probably side with the doctors on this one. I've broken my collar bone several times, the the first time is nothing like the third. Each time, bone is weaker, and structurally, its fubar. Each additional break causes more and more structural and nerve problems (i get the occasional pain *PANG* from bending in the wrong direction).
The simpler explanation as told from my last dental visits:
I was seeing your average mid-life dentist, you know the kind, the one that generally has his assistant do everything except the 'heavy lifting'. He found two cavities, and while prepping me for the drill, aimed himself at the wrong tooth, not once but twice. After his second miserable failure in a matter of seconds I told him to stop what he was doing, as I was about to leave to get another opinion.
A week passes, and I finally get an appointment with another doctor, and guess what... No cavities!
No, there are more sick patients now, because the economy sucks and it pisses off your doctor something fierce that he had to delay his 2nd Ferrari purchase. Plain and simple. My original dentist knew I had good coverage, and this 15 minutes of drilling someones face meant adding to his bottom line. Do no harm my ass.
Everyone has a right to speak, even idiots..
You must be new here. The tag line should be amended to "News for nerds. Bashing of idiots."
I've got a dirty little secret.
I don't like facebook *gasp*.
But alas, I don't have a national platform to voice my opinions on how much I despise the service.
A smart CS graduate could work on better privacy systems, or on better surveillance systems. It's not all one way. Both problems are equally interesting and equally challenging. It's a black hat/white hat kind of thing.
But what if a bunch of code was outsourced, divided up into separate modules, then compiled by a couple black hat hackers from the back of a dump truck, with the sole intent of performing a 'fire-sale' on the US nation? The coders that wrote the modules aren't black or white hat, they're simply the best programmers, but have no clue what the program would be used for.
Then hollywood could make a movie out of it, hire the 'I'm a Mac' guy to play the incredibly naive, but genius level coder -- this is to give the movie some credibility. Add some buzzwords into the script -- voila. instant $400M at the box office.
Honestly, how in the world did you get modded up? Malware coming from the app store is about as common as it coming from best buy. It doesn't happen (but boy, when it does, it makes BIG news -- I'm thinking of flash drives and photo kiosks).
Modern malware comes from application exploits, not the application itself.
In other words. Microsoft implement security. Apple implements security by obscurity (due to market share).
I'd pick the security model any day.
Actually, I like this concept of names associated to places.
That way Fox News can report in a couple weeks how your 'George from New York', just ripped out the eyes of Osama from Sheepfuckerville.
Nice point, but I'd contend that the language gap covers this illogical surname.
Personally, I find it more annoying when a brit calls a router a 'rooter.' But that's me.
Parent = Fucking moron. .NET is not. You've confused the two.
C# is a ISO standard.
Get you facts straight, or better yet, STFU.
I'll just wait for the movie to come out.