I think he said the opposite of what he thought he said. I think what he thought he said was "Neither Google nor Facebook have any phone support whatsoever".
You're a kid, kid. You're my kids' age, and I was five years older than you when I had kids. I'm twice as old as you; compared to you I've lived two whole lifetimes so far. Having served 4 years in the USAF before school I was just getting my Bachelor's at your age.
My daughter's your age, and in college.
You're just getting started.
I do understand your thinking, however -- I was your age once. When I got out of the service, having gone to Thailand, I thought I'd lived more than most 70 year olds.
So do paper checks (cheques for you Brits), envelopes, postage stamps, and physical addresses. Back when I had web sites, I paid my Canadian registrar and web host that way. And there's electronic banking as well.
This is just an inconvenience, not a catastrophe. That said, it's one more thing our corporo-governmental overlords have done lately to piss everyone off.
Why not? Despite the patent system's brokeness, you don't think short copyrights and cheap patents, neither of which we now have, would incite people to create?
Well, artificial knees are surely better than a wheelchair or even a cane. If you needed the implants they certainly would be a godsend, even if you had to have them replaced in twenty years.
Search for "stratodoober" in Google and Bing. Google returns four results, Bing returns five pages of results. The first four are the same as Google's, none of the rest have the word in them at all. The fifth result is an ad for Dick's Sporting Goods, most of the rest are also ads and none have anything at all to do with the search term.
Then I guess my cousin is dead. She had a heart infection, they removed it and she lived for months without a heart, a machine pumping her blood until she got a transplant. She's back to work researching and teaching. So my cousin is a zombie with a PhD?
Your definition of death is out of date. Today a person is declared dead when their brains show no activity.
Why do artificial knee implants fail so often, then? Why are there no pro sports players with artificial knees? When your knees go, your running days are over; I know people who have them and none would agree with your assessment.
No, absolutely false. Most deaths by disease are heart disease and cancer. 7th leading cause of geezer death. Most people are lucky to get old enough to get Alzheimer's, which seldom strikes before the late 70s.
I just used HTML and javascript, she probably used SAS. Back then I was mostly programming in dBase (FoxPro and Clipper) on the PC and Nomad on the mainframe.
Back in the early eighties I wrote games for the TS-1000 using Z-80 assembly, hand assembled because there was no assembler.
No. This is completely unacceptable. FireFox is my browser of choice, and I don't block JS, but there's no reason whatever I should have to go to a third party if I decide to.
What's next, I'll have to DL the HTML and strip the JS out of the source and run it locally?
Unless Mozilla changes these terrible plans, I'll have to use a different browser. There's no reason whatever to remove this feature.
My answer isn't no, it's HELL NO and fuck you, Mozilla. If you want me to continue using your products you'll grow a brain and think of your users, not your Google sugardaddy.
Indeed, and not just non-programmers. That's another beauty of open source; rather than having to write a custom module from scratch, find something that's almost and modify it to your needs.
Ten years ago or so when I was still programming, my boss' boss gave my boss a programming assignment. After working on it for almost a year without any success (wrong choice of language, I guess, she was more mainframe-oriented) she dumped it in my lap two days before the deadline. I hacked something together in time using mostly borrowed javascript.
I handed it to her boss, "Excellent!" he said. I humbly admitted that most of was stolen code I'd repurposed and hacked together. He grinned and pointed to a poster on his wall. "Plagiarism is when you steal a person's work. Research is when you steal a lot of people's work."
All Charlie wanted was a solution. I wound up with a promotion and a big raise.
No. WA is always Washington state, DC is the District of Columbia; Washington, DC is not in any state. WA is a postal code, like IL is Illinois and FL is Florida.
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I think he said the opposite of what he thought he said. I think what he thought he said was "Neither Google nor Facebook have any phone support whatsoever".
He may not be a native speaker.
You're a kid, kid. You're my kids' age, and I was five years older than you when I had kids. I'm twice as old as you; compared to you I've lived two whole lifetimes so far. Having served 4 years in the USAF before school I was just getting my Bachelor's at your age.
My daughter's your age, and in college.
You're just getting started.
I do understand your thinking, however -- I was your age once. When I got out of the service, having gone to Thailand, I thought I'd lived more than most 70 year olds.
I was wrong. So are you.
Bitcoin, the first world digital currency exists.
So do paper checks (cheques for you Brits), envelopes, postage stamps, and physical addresses. Back when I had web sites, I paid my Canadian registrar and web host that way. And there's electronic banking as well.
This is just an inconvenience, not a catastrophe. That said, it's one more thing our corporo-governmental overlords have done lately to piss everyone off.
Having both Visa & Mastercard not accept either the wikileaks donations or VPN payments at the same time seams suspicious.
Yep, it seems they sewed the suspicions together tightly.
Yes. We can't have a single discussion without someone mentioning the NSA.
And you find that surprising, considering the recent revelations?
LOL! Hope you get 4 more "underrated" mods, you'll have the coveted "+5 flamebait"
You dare impugn Isaac Asimov? CRUCIFY HIM!!
Why not? Despite the patent system's brokeness, you don't think short copyrights and cheap patents, neither of which we now have, would incite people to create?
I wonder if Isaac Asimov is turning in his grave? Boston University is where he taught and did cancer research in the 1950s.
Well, artificial knees are surely better than a wheelchair or even a cane. If you needed the implants they certainly would be a godsend, even if you had to have them replaced in twenty years.
2002 was the year of Linux on the desktop at my house. Windows lacks too many features and is way too user-hostile.
Search for "stratodoober" in Google and Bing. Google returns four results, Bing returns five pages of results. The first four are the same as Google's, none of the rest have the word in them at all. The fifth result is an ad for Dick's Sporting Goods, most of the rest are also ads and none have anything at all to do with the search term.
Bing: Because It's Not Good.
Then I guess my cousin is dead. She had a heart infection, they removed it and she lived for months without a heart, a machine pumping her blood until she got a transplant. She's back to work researching and teaching. So my cousin is a zombie with a PhD?
Your definition of death is out of date. Today a person is declared dead when their brains show no activity.
I suspect it does; the nervous system isn't just your brain. I doubt that a body transplant would affect thought or emotion much, though.
You haven't read HHGTG? That was a direct quote from the book.
Why do artificial knee implants fail so often, then? Why are there no pro sports players with artificial knees? When your knees go, your running days are over; I know people who have them and none would agree with your assessment.
Show me a man made pump that can repair itself, or can be repaired without its stopping.
No, absolutely false. Most deaths by disease are heart disease and cancer. 7th leading cause of geezer death. Most people are lucky to get old enough to get Alzheimer's, which seldom strikes before the late 70s.
Is Microsoft trying deliberately to lose its customers?
Or taxing income. However, he does have a good point. Similarities != exactly alike.
I just used HTML and javascript, she probably used SAS. Back then I was mostly programming in dBase (FoxPro and Clipper) on the PC and Nomad on the mainframe.
Back in the early eighties I wrote games for the TS-1000 using Z-80 assembly, hand assembled because there was no assembler.
They're talking about removing that functionality.
No. This is completely unacceptable. FireFox is my browser of choice, and I don't block JS, but there's no reason whatever I should have to go to a third party if I decide to.
What's next, I'll have to DL the HTML and strip the JS out of the source and run it locally?
Unless Mozilla changes these terrible plans, I'll have to use a different browser. There's no reason whatever to remove this feature.
My answer isn't no, it's HELL NO and fuck you, Mozilla. If you want me to continue using your products you'll grow a brain and think of your users, not your Google sugardaddy.
Indeed, and not just non-programmers. That's another beauty of open source; rather than having to write a custom module from scratch, find something that's almost and modify it to your needs.
Ten years ago or so when I was still programming, my boss' boss gave my boss a programming assignment. After working on it for almost a year without any success (wrong choice of language, I guess, she was more mainframe-oriented) she dumped it in my lap two days before the deadline. I hacked something together in time using mostly borrowed javascript.
I handed it to her boss, "Excellent!" he said. I humbly admitted that most of was stolen code I'd repurposed and hacked together. He grinned and pointed to a poster on his wall. "Plagiarism is when you steal a person's work. Research is when you steal a lot of people's work."
All Charlie wanted was a solution. I wound up with a promotion and a big raise.
No. WA is always Washington state, DC is the District of Columbia; Washington, DC is not in any state. WA is a postal code, like IL is Illinois and FL is Florida.