Yep, my 12 year old keeps complaining about how his classmates all have cellphones. I've had one for a couple of years, and rarely use it. Half the time it's from the grocery store to verify a type of item needed or whether we need something I've thought of. What the heck do you all have to say to each other?
One wonders how much of this could be countered or worked with by actually designing the robots to have "pride" in their work. So if a mine-detecting robot detects a mine and gets a leg blown off, it actually indicates pride, say via a voice track that says "Yeah! Got one!" When switched on, it could indicate a desire to get clearing mines ("Better me than you, sir! I promise it doesn't hurt!") You could have its fellow robots "talk" to it at other times, congratulating it on a job well done, or when a robot has been demolished, to say that it's gone to Silicon Heaven. On the other hand, this might be counterproductive, making its controllers treat it even more like it's alive.
A clue for you: both men and women enjoy sex. Any statement about "men using women" without the converse is thus absurd, 19th century thinking. "Suppresses a woman's sexuality"? What is this nonsense?
And quite frankly, sex without the possibility of children is boring.
Then you're doing it wrong. And my wife has been on (and very occasionally off) the pill for the past 21 years, and has not had any significant weight gain. Vasectomies also have little or no health impact save the initial discomfort.
"Database model" is perhaps the wrong phrase; "conceptual model" might be better. But yes, I meant changes that would help one person work in one way, but be counterproductive and confusing for others. We've made changes that have delighted some users and angered others. You can't please all the people all the time...
I hope that your fellow developers, marketers and yourself are paying for all of the expenses of the product. If you consider your own ideas to always trump your customers', don't be surprised when someone else steals the business.
It's not ideas that make the program better for us (it's a program for use by professionals in non-programming fields), it's ideas we've developed from years of customer feedback and analysis, some of which they may not even realize are possible or practical.
It's not that we don't get user feedback, we do. But blaming users for not giving enough of it? We'd be overwhelmed if they tried to give much more.
Weird. I had my house broken into abbout a dozen years ago. Among other things, they stole a portable CD player, but actually removed the CD from it and left it where the player had been. I guess they didn't like Bruce Hornsby...
I work on a program with somewhere between 100,000-400,000 users. That's a relatively small market compared to OSes. Even with relatively few users, there's far too many voices for suggestions to listen to. Users ask how to submit wishes, but it's really not worth it for us to make it easy. There's already far too many wishes just from our beta testers, not to mention that many requests are either contradictory, would break the database model we've developed, or are in fact already in the program and they just haven't realized it. And that's not counting the fact that my fellow developers, marketers, and I have our own "brilliant" ideas on how to best improve the program.
So I can't see blaming the users; I couldn't listen to all of them even if they were trying to tell us about their problems.
Given the weather around here, even if I want to listen to a particular CD, I'd rather make a burned copy of it so the original doesn't melt, get scratched, stepped on, or whatever. So whether the original was purchased via iTunes or on CD doesn't really matter, especially for in-car use.
That said, I do buy (used) CDs. I rip them and store them, though, so I have backups should something happen to the electronic copies.
Sounds pretty expensive. Presumably the CEO was a smoker?
I don't hate the smoker, just the smoking. I take it nicotine gum just doesn't always do the trick, because that would be a heck of a lot less invasive/expensive/messy.
I'm old enough to have worked with smokers who could smoke in their offices. My girlfriend at the time could tell the days I'd gone into the smokers' offices, even for a brief visit, and would demand that I shower before I'd get any action.
Sorry, but having a smoking section in a building is like having a peeing section in a pool.
I've never seen Frosted Mini Spooners. I've tried other, store-brand alternatives to Frosted Mini-Wheats, but usually they're substantially more dense. Kellogg's has gotten the crunchiness just right with FMW.
Don't forget about the option with more flexibility: hardwood or laminate and rugs. There's only so much cleaning you can do with wall-to-wall carpet. That's more of an issue, though, if you get pets or have allergies.
No, it was not. The original mention of the Bible was to point out that it had passages of violence against women, which is the sort of thing this Canadian MP wants to ban. It's not an issue of the work putting said violence in a positive or negative light, just the question of where it is there, which it clearly is, along with murder, genocide, incest, rape, attempted homosexual rape, and the like.
While the biggest mass murders in this country have been committed with airplanes, fertilizer, and gasoline, for the most part a gun is far more effective as a tool for multiple murders than other weaponry. After all, the pro-gun folk here are complaining about VT's gun ban. I haven't heard anyone complain that VT banned throwing stars, blunt instruments, blowguns, throwing knives, etc., or anyone claim they could have stopped this madman if they'd only had their bolas.
That's right! Most people don't know that the Constitution only applies to the 18th century and its technology.
Way to miss my point.
For Madison and co., guns were useful for hunting and fending off hostile governments. So of course they wanted individuals to have access to guns, so the ridiculous, convoluted rationalizations that anti-gun people have come up with to claim the Second refers to the National Guard and similar nonsense just don't make sense. We can discuss whether the Second Amendment should be repealed or not, but I was just saying that its meaning is crystal clear.
It's strange that a lot of people here have arguments like "well if people had guns then they'd be killing each other every day" but nobody can actually cite cases where this has happened.
Huh? Pretty much every time a husband shoots a wife or vice-versa would fall into this category. A few are murders for hire, and others are cold, calculating bastards, but pretty much any gun murder described as a "crime of passion" wouldn't have happened if the murderer hadn't had ready, legal access to a gun.
It's not that "most" people are like this, but enough are that it's likely more die due to widespread availability of guns than are protected by it.
Note that I agree with the NRA's interpretation of the 2nd Amendment. (After all, Madison and co. were dealing with single-shot muzzle loaders at the time, which wouldn't have allowed for this sort of horror.)
Mr Slashdoteer thinks twice about buying another disc, as does Joe Sixpack.
Absolutely. I've been good about not making illegal copies, I haven't subscribed to Netflix and done the copy-and-return bit, I haven't copied DVDs I've rented or borrowed from the library, etc. I have occasionally made copies of discs I legally own either because the disc is flaky or I needed an MPEG for in-car watching on a notebook PC.
But each time these bozos come up with an ever-more-stupid scheme like this, I question why I bother. If they don't respect me...
Are there any PC setups that pass digital audio via HDMI? While I hate HDCP, the single cable of HDMI appeals. I run a mini-DVi->DVI->HDMI converter from my iMac to my 42" LCD, but of course there's no audio there. Conceivably you could have a DVI+USB -> Magic box -> HDMI setup that combined digital audio with your video card's video signal, but I've never seen such a beast.
The flaw in your argument, though, is that plants don't have conversion efficiency as their overriding goal. As long as it's good enough to keep the species propagating, the plants won't develop greater efficiency. A human-built equivalent, however, would be targeting higher output, and thus might get more out of the process.
Moreover, a plant-derived solar cell might be cheaper and easier to produce, essentially growing itself rather than requiring high-grade silicon, etc.
I got one of these 500 GB hard drives (Cavalry is the brand, I think) and plugged it into my iMac. Now if I try to put my iMac to sleep, it will wake shortly thereafter with a warning about improperly disconnecting a hard drive and how I could lose data. Even unmounting the external drive before putting it to sleep doesn't help, it still gives that error. I've looked around a bit with no luck on figuring out how to stop it doing this. Any suggestions?
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Yep, my 12 year old keeps complaining about how his classmates all have cellphones. I've had one for a couple of years, and rarely use it. Half the time it's from the grocery store to verify a type of item needed or whether we need something I've thought of. What the heck do you all have to say to each other?
One wonders how much of this could be countered or worked with by actually designing the robots to have "pride" in their work. So if a mine-detecting robot detects a mine and gets a leg blown off, it actually indicates pride, say via a voice track that says "Yeah! Got one!" When switched on, it could indicate a desire to get clearing mines ("Better me than you, sir! I promise it doesn't hurt!") You could have its fellow robots "talk" to it at other times, congratulating it on a job well done, or when a robot has been demolished, to say that it's gone to Silicon Heaven. On the other hand, this might be counterproductive, making its controllers treat it even more like it's alive.
Mind-boggling.
A clue for you: both men and women enjoy sex. Any statement about "men using women" without the converse is thus absurd, 19th century thinking. "Suppresses a woman's sexuality"? What is this nonsense?
And quite frankly, sex without the possibility of children is boring.
Then you're doing it wrong. And my wife has been on (and very occasionally off) the pill for the past 21 years, and has not had any significant weight gain. Vasectomies also have little or no health impact save the initial discomfort.
You mean your robotic mine-detecting pal who's fun to be with?
You'll be first against the wall when the revolution comes.
"Database model" is perhaps the wrong phrase; "conceptual model" might be better. But yes, I meant changes that would help one person work in one way, but be counterproductive and confusing for others. We've made changes that have delighted some users and angered others. You can't please all the people all the time...
I hope that your fellow developers, marketers and yourself are paying for all of the expenses of the product. If you consider your own ideas to always trump your customers', don't be surprised when someone else steals the business.
It's not ideas that make the program better for us (it's a program for use by professionals in non-programming fields), it's ideas we've developed from years of customer feedback and analysis, some of which they may not even realize are possible or practical.
It's not that we don't get user feedback, we do. But blaming users for not giving enough of it? We'd be overwhelmed if they tried to give much more.
Weird. I had my house broken into abbout a dozen years ago. Among other things, they stole a portable CD player, but actually removed the CD from it and left it where the player had been. I guess they didn't like Bruce Hornsby...
I work on a program with somewhere between 100,000-400,000 users. That's a relatively small market compared to OSes. Even with relatively few users, there's far too many voices for suggestions to listen to. Users ask how to submit wishes, but it's really not worth it for us to make it easy. There's already far too many wishes just from our beta testers, not to mention that many requests are either contradictory, would break the database model we've developed, or are in fact already in the program and they just haven't realized it. And that's not counting the fact that my fellow developers, marketers, and I have our own "brilliant" ideas on how to best improve the program.
So I can't see blaming the users; I couldn't listen to all of them even if they were trying to tell us about their problems.
Does no one listen to CDs in their car anymore?
Given the weather around here, even if I want to listen to a particular CD, I'd rather make a burned copy of it so the original doesn't melt, get scratched, stepped on, or whatever. So whether the original was purchased via iTunes or on CD doesn't really matter, especially for in-car use.
That said, I do buy (used) CDs. I rip them and store them, though, so I have backups should something happen to the electronic copies.
Sounds pretty expensive. Presumably the CEO was a smoker?
I don't hate the smoker, just the smoking. I take it nicotine gum just doesn't always do the trick, because that would be a heck of a lot less invasive/expensive/messy.
f you had just let them smoke in their offices
I'm old enough to have worked with smokers who could smoke in their offices. My girlfriend at the time could tell the days I'd gone into the smokers' offices, even for a brief visit, and would demand that I shower before I'd get any action.
Sorry, but having a smoking section in a building is like having a peeing section in a pool.
If we do live longer to say 150 and you retire at say 70 would you really want to spend 80 years doing nothing..
I have a government job. I already do that.
I keed, I keed!
[fully expecting a 3 digit UID to show me up...]
3 digit user IDs? I don't believe they exist.
I've never seen Frosted Mini Spooners. I've tried other, store-brand alternatives to Frosted Mini-Wheats, but usually they're substantially more dense. Kellogg's has gotten the crunchiness just right with FMW.
I wonder how much a solar panel setup would cost that would power a PS3. You would want to bypass the DC->AC->DC conversion, of course.
Don't forget about the option with more flexibility: hardwood or laminate and rugs. There's only so much cleaning you can do with wall-to-wall carpet. That's more of an issue, though, if you get pets or have allergies.
No, it was not. The original mention of the Bible was to point out that it had passages of violence against women, which is the sort of thing this Canadian MP wants to ban. It's not an issue of the work putting said violence in a positive or negative light, just the question of where it is there, which it clearly is, along with murder, genocide, incest, rape, attempted homosexual rape, and the like.
Well, we certainly know this "living creature" has at least one asshole...
...or access to a weapon of any kind.
While the biggest mass murders in this country have been committed with airplanes, fertilizer, and gasoline, for the most part a gun is far more effective as a tool for multiple murders than other weaponry. After all, the pro-gun folk here are complaining about VT's gun ban. I haven't heard anyone complain that VT banned throwing stars, blunt instruments, blowguns, throwing knives, etc., or anyone claim they could have stopped this madman if they'd only had their bolas.
That's right! Most people don't know that the Constitution only applies to the 18th century and its technology.
Way to miss my point.
For Madison and co., guns were useful for hunting and fending off hostile governments. So of course they wanted individuals to have access to guns, so the ridiculous, convoluted rationalizations that anti-gun people have come up with to claim the Second refers to the National Guard and similar nonsense just don't make sense. We can discuss whether the Second Amendment should be repealed or not, but I was just saying that its meaning is crystal clear.
It's strange that a lot of people here have arguments like "well if people had guns then they'd be killing each other every day" but nobody can actually cite cases where this has happened.
Huh? Pretty much every time a husband shoots a wife or vice-versa would fall into this category. A few are murders for hire, and others are cold, calculating bastards, but pretty much any gun murder described as a "crime of passion" wouldn't have happened if the murderer hadn't had ready, legal access to a gun.
It's not that "most" people are like this, but enough are that it's likely more die due to widespread availability of guns than are protected by it.
Note that I agree with the NRA's interpretation of the 2nd Amendment. (After all, Madison and co. were dealing with single-shot muzzle loaders at the time, which wouldn't have allowed for this sort of horror.)
Mr Slashdoteer thinks twice about buying another disc, as does Joe Sixpack.
Absolutely. I've been good about not making illegal copies, I haven't subscribed to Netflix and done the copy-and-return bit, I haven't copied DVDs I've rented or borrowed from the library, etc. I have occasionally made copies of discs I legally own either because the disc is flaky or I needed an MPEG for in-car watching on a notebook PC.
But each time these bozos come up with an ever-more-stupid scheme like this, I question why I bother. If they don't respect me...
Fair enough. It'll be interesting to see if they hit a dead end or a wondrous new discovery.
Are there any PC setups that pass digital audio via HDMI? While I hate HDCP, the single cable of HDMI appeals. I run a mini-DVi->DVI->HDMI converter from my iMac to my 42" LCD, but of course there's no audio there. Conceivably you could have a DVI+USB -> Magic box -> HDMI setup that combined digital audio with your video card's video signal, but I've never seen such a beast.
The flaw in your argument, though, is that plants don't have conversion efficiency as their overriding goal. As long as it's good enough to keep the species propagating, the plants won't develop greater efficiency. A human-built equivalent, however, would be targeting higher output, and thus might get more out of the process.
Moreover, a plant-derived solar cell might be cheaper and easier to produce, essentially growing itself rather than requiring high-grade silicon, etc.
Read it again. He's proposing you run the light (thus no rear-ending and no neck brace) and then contest the ticket.
I got one of these 500 GB hard drives (Cavalry is the brand, I think) and plugged it into my iMac. Now if I try to put my iMac to sleep, it will wake shortly thereafter with a warning about improperly disconnecting a hard drive and how I could lose data. Even unmounting the external drive before putting it to sleep doesn't help, it still gives that error. I've looked around a bit with no luck on figuring out how to stop it doing this. Any suggestions?