Actually, the link in the sig actually is from 1998, a blast from the past that hasn't been on the internet in ten years. The other is simple html; a single graphic, text, and links. Ever heard of the KISS principle?
I'm fairly certain legalizing things like meth and cocaine wouldn't do much to aid the addicted.
It's better than sending them to prison, AKA Criminal University. If their drugs were cheaper they wouldn't be stealing from me. I never knew a cigarette smoker or alcoholic stealing to support their addictions.
Legalization would end the drug violence, just as Prohibition's end ended the violence of the illegal liquor trade. All the arguments for Prohibition as well as against it still apply in today's prohibitions, and history shouldn't be ignored.
Actually, that's incorrect. Tinkers and smiths became engineers with the advent of the steam engine, which was used for industry and rail transportation. Both tinkers and smiths needed knowledge of metallurgy and physics, and some chemistry (at least for smiths). Tinkers and smiths evolved into engineers, so to speak.
The truck also randomly locks it's own doors for no reason
My 2002 Chrysler does that, but it's by design -- when the car reaches 15 mph, the doors lock. However, unlike yours, I can easily unlock them.
I know for a fact I couldn't leave mine for a month, the blinking LED on the dash to show that the alarm is armed alone would drag it down (never mind the actual alarm circuits).
As a potsmoker, all I have to say to you is FUCK OFF AND DIE HORRIBLY, you god damned troll. I hope YOU find some unshielded cobalt, or better yet, plutonium.
Fucking asshole, die motherfucker. This planet will be better off when you're gone.
I bet you'd learn some interesting things about who does drugs once the casualties start to pile up.
Indeed, there have been cops, judges, and prosecuters in the news in Illinois in the last year who were busted for cocaine. There are the mayor of that Canadian city and the ex-mayor of DC. Look at Rush Limbaugh.
I look at "war on drugs" politicians like I look at right wing politicians who constantly decry homosexuality, how many of them have been kicked out of the closet?
I don't know if the GP is an idiot, a troll, or a government shill. He advocates a painful death for drug users? I smoke pot and advocate HIS death. Alcohol, tobacco, and coffee are all addictive drugs. Marijuana is not.
All of society's problems that are attributed to drugs are really problems that stem from the laws against them.
I agree that tech helps those in power, but it also empowers the week.
I hope English is your second language.
Look at the book/music publishing industry etc
I used to think that until I released Nobots. I'll be lucky to make the investment in a copyright registration, ISBN, and bar code back, let alone earn any money from it.
I'm reading a James Patterson novel and have discovered that marketing always trumps talent and hard work, the guy's really not that good a writer. But all his books are best sellers and every time I see a woman with a book, it's one of his.
I am an American citizen, and have been an American citizen for almost four decades, and I am sad to say that the country which I signed up on, back then, was very different from the country which I am looking at, today.
I am an American citizen, and have been an American citizen for over six decades, and I am happy to say that the country which I signed up on, back then, was very different from the country which I am looking at, today.
Back then we had no EPA so pollution was horrible. We had no OSHA so workplaces were deadly. We were at war when I was born, and were going through McArthyism. We had duck and cover excersizes for nuclear war in grade school. We had horrible racism, terrible sexism, and homosexuals were as outlawed here as they are in Russia. We had the draft, but only for men. In fact, a lot of things were only for men.
America only started going downhill with the 21st century and Bush and 9-11, when the sociopaths took over the corporations, which took over the government. THAT'S why we have all the illegal spying on the American citizens by none other than the American government.
As to big brother, one's big brother is seldom someone who narcs on you to your parents, he's the one who beats up bullies for you. Too bad it's the bullies in the corner offices who have the big brother.
Why is Ferrari selling its cars for so much more than Ford? For most uses it's not significantly better
No, but it is significantly more expensive to manufacture. You can't say the same about XP and W8, the development costs are the same for those. The Ferrarri is faster, accelerates faster, brakes better, and handles batter than the Ford. You can't say that about XP and W8, W8 is your Ford with the driver's window made of cardboard, the brake and throttle pedals reversed, and the rear view mirror removed. W8 is inferior to XP from a user's point of view. W7 was a step up from XP, W8 is three steps back.
I was going to buy a new notebook, but they all come with W8 and Chrome. Come on, guys, give me W7 or kubuntu! Or at least let me install kubuntu without voiding the warrantee.
Uh, guys, the GP AC was making fun of the semiliterate summary: a car's computer system that could cause it to suddenly accelerate, turn or kill the breaks
What is it with you guys and homophones? If you write code like you write English, no wonder software is so buggy.
That said, though, don't blame the slashdot editor or submitter -- it was cut and pasted from the fucking article. Remind me that "the security ledger," being run by aliterates who obviously never finished high school, is NOT a good source of information about anything more important than lolcats. That kind of mistake is forgivable in a slashdot comment or summary, but it is certainly unforgivable by a so-called "professional" writer. I would expect a professional to at least have a BA in English, and what kind of institution will give an English degree to someone who doesn't know the difference between brake and break?
What, are they outsourcing writing, editing, and proofreading now? Or are those professions now obsolete, since nobody reads any more?
Kind of embarrassing for Slashdot to post this now, considering the truck has already been found. Apparently the container was opened, but it appears (at least most of) the Cobalt-60 is still intact.
That's your fault, dude. It's been in the firehose since Wednesday, why haven't you voted for or against it? FWIW I voted it up very early yesterday morning, where have you been?
Considering the infrastructure and expense required to ship something like this (special shielded containers, etc), why don't they include a tracking device?
It had GPS, but the unit was shut off according to the TV news.
Wireless mice that take disposable batteries just plain suck... IMHO.
That hasn't been my experience. My mouse takes AA rechargeables, but I've had disposable, non-rechargeables in it and they worked as well as a wired mouse. Disposables lasted almost a month in it.
For the absolute best coverage, Logitech has some models that come with an extra battery pack that you can pop out of the mouse and into a receptacle on the dock so you don't ever "run out" if you forget to charge the mouse.
Mine's a Logitech, and the infrared reciever is also a charger -- you just pit the mouse in it and the batteries (two AAs) charge. It comes in handy because most of my TV remotes use the same size battery, so I keep rechargeables in them and simply swap with the mouse batteries when the remotes stop working.
It wasn't the fact that it was wireless, it was that Microsoft can't code for shit (yeah, I'll be modded down, so what?). I've had a Logitech infrared keyboard-mouse combination for over ten years. It's always been as responsive as wired counterparts I've had.
I would guess that the hardware you had was fine (since MS doesn't own factories and has to farm it all out) but the drivers and other software for it were shit, like everything else they write.
I have a Logitech mouse/keyboard combo I bought in 2001. The mouse still works well, but I had some non-rechargeable batteries in the keyboard leak, so sometimes I have to scrape the battery terminals to get it to work.
But the mouse plugged right along, still going strong after more than a decade.
As to MS mice, sorry, no matter how good folks say they are I've been using Microsoft software products for almost 30 years and they've always been abysmal. Why should I expect their hardware to be any better?
I published the first draft at slashdot as I wrote it. Hadron Destroyers was published on slashdot on Dec 2, 2009. And as I don't have a huge marketing budget it will take some time for people to discover it, if they ever do. Click my home page link to read the finished version.
And four from seven is three. I released the book November this year, Dec 2 is four years.
You seem to think that amateurs are all talentless. Many of the guys playing in the pubs have been playing and singing since they were children, and taking lessons, and many majored (or at least minored) in music in college. I have some friends who are very talented, talented enough for the RIAA to want them to sign contracts. They laughed in the labels' faces. They're not making product, they're making art.
Art and commerce are usually at odds. Van Gogh sold only one painting in his life, to his brother, for a pittance, to pay a debt. Meanwhile, none of the paintings in the galleries then are in the museums today.
Look at the old Ska band Reel Big Fish. Their first several CDs kicked ass. They were signed by Britney Spears' label, and my daughter bought that CD. It really sucked donkey balls.
Look at Stephen King's remarks about James Patterson. "He's a terrible writer, but very successful." I've been reading Patterson's When the Wind Blows and... well, not terrible, not even too bad, but he's no Stephen King. The book I'm reading he keeps changing perspectives from first person to third person, which was bad enough when describing things the 1st person character didn't experience, but later in the book uses the third person when the 1st person narrator, who isn't narrating, is there. That was a big WTF? But almost every time I see a women with a book, it's one of his pulp fiction murder mysteries (which is why I'm reading it, I wanted to find the secret of his success. Too bad the secret is murder mysteries, I hate them usually).
Remember Milli Vanilli? Caught lip-syncing on stage and it turned out they didn't sing on the album. How about the Talking Heads? Terrible singing, uninspired musicianship, but they were new and different. The music industry isn't after quality, it's after "new and different" because that will garner them what they're in business for -- money.
What you hear in a good pub will very often be far superior to what you hear on the radio. The professionals are in it for the money, the "amateurs" (like the Jungle Dogs, who held masters degrees and taught music at SIU in Carbondale) are in it for the art.
We THOUGHT we were voting for a new FDR in 2008. What we GOT was a new Calvin Coolidge.
A little weak on your history, aren't you? We thought we were getting an FDR but we got... well, not Coolidge, that would be Bush (and if McCain had won, he would have been Hoover). I'd say we wanted FDR and got Jimmy Carter.
I mean, really, do you believe for a second Coolidge would have signed the ACA?
Wow, guys, way to misunderstand. Take the lyrics to the Dead Kennedies' Kill the poor and change the words to "Kill the Jews" and that's more like what we're talking about.
OTOH, I wonder how the Germans authorities would react if you changed the words to "kill the fags"? Would that be illegal, too?
Christ, dude, you're dangerously wrong and I have no idea how you got modded up. There certainly IS a difference -- run high octaine gasoline in a (normal) low compression engine and you'll ruin your exhaust valves, because higher octane burns slower and your valves will get burned. For the same reason, run regular in your high compression engine and unless you detune it, it will ruin the pistons from dieseling ("spark knock").
Use the correct gasoline for your engine, or risk expensive repairs.
You're even more wrong about the price of the extra octane. Lead is dirt cheap (or was before they found out how hazardous it is). If what they're using now was cheaper they'd have used it instead of lead; lead was used because it's cheap.. It costs a lot more to raise octane with the newer chemicals.
Quarter inch headphone jacks I'll agree with, but not the little ones. The plugs are sturdy enough, but I don't know how many headphone jacks I've replaced. If one goes bad in a phone or a tablet or a notebook, bye-bye having headphones for that device. Too damned hard to work on.
Gotta agree about wall warts. God but I hate those things. Wall warts for non-battery devices like printers, scanners, antenna amplifiers and so forth are especially stupid. If there are two devices that do the same thing in the store and one has a wall wart, I'll buy the other one even if it costs more. Wall warts for battery powered devices should be wire warts; put the wart in the wire, not the plug, there just aren't enough sockets to waste them.
Yeah, I've known people to put CDs and floppies in upside down, too. Hell, once at work I had to call the hardware guys because some dumbass (although she held a PhD in statistics) put a floppy in the slot for the backup tape.
Murphey was right. If there's a wrong way to do something, some dumbass will do it that way. A good designer will remember Murphey, the KISS principle, and will minimize PEBCAK as much as possible.
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Thanks, I needed that.
Actually, the link in the sig actually is from 1998, a blast from the past that hasn't been on the internet in ten years. The other is simple html; a single graphic, text, and links. Ever heard of the KISS principle?
BTW, su Englis es no mal por un Hispanico.
I'm fairly certain legalizing things like meth and cocaine wouldn't do much to aid the addicted.
It's better than sending them to prison, AKA Criminal University. If their drugs were cheaper they wouldn't be stealing from me. I never knew a cigarette smoker or alcoholic stealing to support their addictions.
Legalization would end the drug violence, just as Prohibition's end ended the violence of the illegal liquor trade. All the arguments for Prohibition as well as against it still apply in today's prohibitions, and history shouldn't be ignored.
Shouldn't these bought dogs be looking to balance the budget?
The deficit has been falling for years.
Actually, that's incorrect. Tinkers and smiths became engineers with the advent of the steam engine, which was used for industry and rail transportation. Both tinkers and smiths needed knowledge of metallurgy and physics, and some chemistry (at least for smiths). Tinkers and smiths evolved into engineers, so to speak.
The truck also randomly locks it's own doors for no reason
My 2002 Chrysler does that, but it's by design -- when the car reaches 15 mph, the doors lock. However, unlike yours, I can easily unlock them.
I know for a fact I couldn't leave mine for a month, the blinking LED on the dash to show that the alarm is armed alone would drag it down (never mind the actual alarm circuits).
You say that in jest, but according to Good Morning America the majority of them actually were 123456!
As a potsmoker, all I have to say to you is FUCK OFF AND DIE HORRIBLY, you god damned troll. I hope YOU find some unshielded cobalt, or better yet, plutonium.
Fucking asshole, die motherfucker. This planet will be better off when you're gone.
I bet you'd learn some interesting things about who does drugs once the casualties start to pile up.
Indeed, there have been cops, judges, and prosecuters in the news in Illinois in the last year who were busted for cocaine. There are the mayor of that Canadian city and the ex-mayor of DC. Look at Rush Limbaugh.
I look at "war on drugs" politicians like I look at right wing politicians who constantly decry homosexuality, how many of them have been kicked out of the closet?
I don't know if the GP is an idiot, a troll, or a government shill. He advocates a painful death for drug users? I smoke pot and advocate HIS death. Alcohol, tobacco, and coffee are all addictive drugs. Marijuana is not.
All of society's problems that are attributed to drugs are really problems that stem from the laws against them.
I agree that tech helps those in power, but it also empowers the week.
I hope English is your second language.
Look at the book/music publishing industry etc
I used to think that until I released Nobots. I'll be lucky to make the investment in a copyright registration, ISBN, and bar code back, let alone earn any money from it.
I'm reading a James Patterson novel and have discovered that marketing always trumps talent and hard work, the guy's really not that good a writer. But all his books are best sellers and every time I see a woman with a book, it's one of his.
I am an American citizen, and have been an American citizen for almost four decades, and I am sad to say that the country which I signed up on, back then, was very different from the country which I am looking at, today.
I am an American citizen, and have been an American citizen for over six decades, and I am happy to say that the country which I signed up on, back then, was very different from the country which I am looking at, today.
Back then we had no EPA so pollution was horrible. We had no OSHA so workplaces were deadly. We were at war when I was born, and were going through McArthyism. We had duck and cover excersizes for nuclear war in grade school. We had horrible racism, terrible sexism, and homosexuals were as outlawed here as they are in Russia. We had the draft, but only for men. In fact, a lot of things were only for men.
America only started going downhill with the 21st century and Bush and 9-11, when the sociopaths took over the corporations, which took over the government. THAT'S why we have all the illegal spying on the American citizens by none other than the American government.
As to big brother, one's big brother is seldom someone who narcs on you to your parents, he's the one who beats up bullies for you. Too bad it's the bullies in the corner offices who have the big brother.
Why is Ferrari selling its cars for so much more than Ford? For most uses it's not significantly better
No, but it is significantly more expensive to manufacture. You can't say the same about XP and W8, the development costs are the same for those. The Ferrarri is faster, accelerates faster, brakes better, and handles batter than the Ford. You can't say that about XP and W8, W8 is your Ford with the driver's window made of cardboard, the brake and throttle pedals reversed, and the rear view mirror removed. W8 is inferior to XP from a user's point of view. W7 was a step up from XP, W8 is three steps back.
I was going to buy a new notebook, but they all come with W8 and Chrome. Come on, guys, give me W7 or kubuntu! Or at least let me install kubuntu without voiding the warrantee.
Uh, guys, the GP AC was making fun of the semiliterate summary: a car's computer system that could cause it to suddenly accelerate, turn or kill the breaks
What is it with you guys and homophones? If you write code like you write English, no wonder software is so buggy.
That said, though, don't blame the slashdot editor or submitter -- it was cut and pasted from the fucking article. Remind me that "the security ledger," being run by aliterates who obviously never finished high school, is NOT a good source of information about anything more important than lolcats. That kind of mistake is forgivable in a slashdot comment or summary, but it is certainly unforgivable by a so-called "professional" writer. I would expect a professional to at least have a BA in English, and what kind of institution will give an English degree to someone who doesn't know the difference between brake and break?
What, are they outsourcing writing, editing, and proofreading now? Or are those professions now obsolete, since nobody reads any more?
Kind of embarrassing for Slashdot to post this now, considering the truck has already been found. Apparently the container was opened, but it appears (at least most of) the Cobalt-60 is still intact.
That's your fault, dude. It's been in the firehose since Wednesday, why haven't you voted for or against it? FWIW I voted it up very early yesterday morning, where have you been?
Considering the infrastructure and expense required to ship something like this (special shielded containers, etc), why don't they include a tracking device?
It had GPS, but the unit was shut off according to the TV news.
Wireless mice that take disposable batteries just plain suck... IMHO.
That hasn't been my experience. My mouse takes AA rechargeables, but I've had disposable, non-rechargeables in it and they worked as well as a wired mouse. Disposables lasted almost a month in it.
For the absolute best coverage, Logitech has some models that come with an extra battery pack that you can pop out of the mouse and into a receptacle on the dock so you don't ever "run out" if you forget to charge the mouse.
Mine's a Logitech, and the infrared reciever is also a charger -- you just pit the mouse in it and the batteries (two AAs) charge. It comes in handy because most of my TV remotes use the same size battery, so I keep rechargeables in them and simply swap with the mouse batteries when the remotes stop working.
It wasn't the fact that it was wireless, it was that Microsoft can't code for shit (yeah, I'll be modded down, so what?). I've had a Logitech infrared keyboard-mouse combination for over ten years. It's always been as responsive as wired counterparts I've had.
I would guess that the hardware you had was fine (since MS doesn't own factories and has to farm it all out) but the drivers and other software for it were shit, like everything else they write.
I have a Logitech mouse/keyboard combo I bought in 2001. The mouse still works well, but I had some non-rechargeable batteries in the keyboard leak, so sometimes I have to scrape the battery terminals to get it to work.
But the mouse plugged right along, still going strong after more than a decade.
As to MS mice, sorry, no matter how good folks say they are I've been using Microsoft software products for almost 30 years and they've always been abysmal. Why should I expect their hardware to be any better?
We weren't discussing sci-fi when you called it technobabble, we were discussing a study that you called technobabble.
Now go away.
I published the first draft at slashdot as I wrote it. Hadron Destroyers was published on slashdot on Dec 2, 2009. And as I don't have a huge marketing budget it will take some time for people to discover it, if they ever do. Click my home page link to read the finished version.
And four from seven is three. I released the book November this year, Dec 2 is four years.
You seem to think that amateurs are all talentless. Many of the guys playing in the pubs have been playing and singing since they were children, and taking lessons, and many majored (or at least minored) in music in college. I have some friends who are very talented, talented enough for the RIAA to want them to sign contracts. They laughed in the labels' faces. They're not making product, they're making art.
Art and commerce are usually at odds. Van Gogh sold only one painting in his life, to his brother, for a pittance, to pay a debt. Meanwhile, none of the paintings in the galleries then are in the museums today.
Look at the old Ska band Reel Big Fish. Their first several CDs kicked ass. They were signed by Britney Spears' label, and my daughter bought that CD. It really sucked donkey balls.
Look at Stephen King's remarks about James Patterson. "He's a terrible writer, but very successful." I've been reading Patterson's When the Wind Blows and... well, not terrible, not even too bad, but he's no Stephen King. The book I'm reading he keeps changing perspectives from first person to third person, which was bad enough when describing things the 1st person character didn't experience, but later in the book uses the third person when the 1st person narrator, who isn't narrating, is there. That was a big WTF? But almost every time I see a women with a book, it's one of his pulp fiction murder mysteries (which is why I'm reading it, I wanted to find the secret of his success. Too bad the secret is murder mysteries, I hate them usually).
Remember Milli Vanilli? Caught lip-syncing on stage and it turned out they didn't sing on the album. How about the Talking Heads? Terrible singing, uninspired musicianship, but they were new and different. The music industry isn't after quality, it's after "new and different" because that will garner them what they're in business for -- money.
What you hear in a good pub will very often be far superior to what you hear on the radio. The professionals are in it for the money, the "amateurs" (like the Jungle Dogs, who held masters degrees and taught music at SIU in Carbondale) are in it for the art.
We THOUGHT we were voting for a new FDR in 2008. What we GOT was a new Calvin Coolidge.
A little weak on your history, aren't you? We thought we were getting an FDR but we got... well, not Coolidge, that would be Bush (and if McCain had won, he would have been Hoover). I'd say we wanted FDR and got Jimmy Carter.
I mean, really, do you believe for a second Coolidge would have signed the ACA?
Wow, guys, way to misunderstand. Take the lyrics to the Dead Kennedies' Kill the poor and change the words to "Kill the Jews" and that's more like what we're talking about.
OTOH, I wonder how the Germans authorities would react if you changed the words to "kill the fags"? Would that be illegal, too?
Christ, dude, you're dangerously wrong and I have no idea how you got modded up. There certainly IS a difference -- run high octaine gasoline in a (normal) low compression engine and you'll ruin your exhaust valves, because higher octane burns slower and your valves will get burned. For the same reason, run regular in your high compression engine and unless you detune it, it will ruin the pistons from dieseling ("spark knock").
Use the correct gasoline for your engine, or risk expensive repairs.
You're even more wrong about the price of the extra octane. Lead is dirt cheap (or was before they found out how hazardous it is). If what they're using now was cheaper they'd have used it instead of lead; lead was used because it's cheap.. It costs a lot more to raise octane with the newer chemicals.
Quarter inch headphone jacks I'll agree with, but not the little ones. The plugs are sturdy enough, but I don't know how many headphone jacks I've replaced. If one goes bad in a phone or a tablet or a notebook, bye-bye having headphones for that device. Too damned hard to work on.
Gotta agree about wall warts. God but I hate those things. Wall warts for non-battery devices like printers, scanners, antenna amplifiers and so forth are especially stupid. If there are two devices that do the same thing in the store and one has a wall wart, I'll buy the other one even if it costs more. Wall warts for battery powered devices should be wire warts; put the wart in the wire, not the plug, there just aren't enough sockets to waste them.
Yeah, I've known people to put CDs and floppies in upside down, too. Hell, once at work I had to call the hardware guys because some dumbass (although she held a PhD in statistics) put a floppy in the slot for the backup tape.
Murphey was right. If there's a wrong way to do something, some dumbass will do it that way. A good designer will remember Murphey, the KISS principle, and will minimize PEBCAK as much as possible.