Customers with a ShopRite loyalty card will be able to log into a Web site at home and type in their grocery lists; when they get to the store and swipe their card on the MediaCart console, the list will appear.
..will appear on the screen for all to see, yay! I can't wait until people take peeks at my grocery list on my hi-tech shopping cart.
-Strawberries.. Check
-Whipped cream.. Check
-Cucumbers.. Check
-Whiskey.. Check
-Vaseline.. Check
-Bullwhip.. Check
-Laxative suppositories.. Check
-Making people who read my grocery list look embarrassed.. Check
This is true because everyone knows the Web isn't part of the Internet.
Duh, saying this is like saying "everyone knows KFC restaurants are part of the North American continent". Apples and oranges, the Internet is a network, the Web is a service.
Therefore, and to further my bad analogy, if KFC changed its effigy from Colonel Sanders to General Custer, it would change the face of KFC restaurants, but it would be idiotic to say that it changes the face of America just because there are KFC restaurants in America.
So basically all the comments I've seen either complain about the obvious pro-space bias of the persons interviewed, and a few other comments seem to imply that we'll somehow save the world by leaving it for outer space, which misses the point.
I didn't read TFA, but I know the main reason why such things as the space program are needed is that the money invested in it has great repercussions on the economy in the following decades, just think about all the mainstream products/services that are the fruits of such program's research.
That's it, I saved you 10 minutes of your life by dumbing down an article I didn't read into a mere sentence.
In a off hand observation xkcd has single handedly changed a small section of the internet.
Oh my God, they changed the face of the Internet! (actually they mean the Web, not the Internet as a whole, sigh). Here, let me change a (smaller) "section of the Internet":
Died in a trolling accident.
Right now, doesn't return any result. And now? OMG I did it! I has teh pawar ovar tah Intarwebs!
Europe's like what...the size of Texas? [...] Your comment displays your ignorance of America (much like most American's ignorance of Europe is so frequently pointed out.) The country is freaking HUGE.
Yes, that's right, we ignore a lot about America, mostly the fact that it's huge, that and the fact that you guys are "number 1". You should repeat it more often, we're still not hearing it. Oh and I'm pretty sure Europe is only a third the size of Texas;-).
You can take a SIM card from any carrier and put it in any phone.
Provided that your phone is un-simlocked, yes. Besides when you say "GSM alone" does it exclude GRPS and UMTS? Cause we have that too. Not sure if we have EDGE tho.
I'm aware that I'm gonna get modded off-topic, but could we for once just because I'm asking avoid making any "But [...] the Earth [...] only 6,000 years old/ago!" jokes please?
Why would big name corporations even want our point-and-click photographs? [...] "Authenticity is the new consumer sensibility"
How ironic! While us mere mortals have been struggling for a while in order to emulate professionalism into our amateur work to make it look better, professionals strive to emulate our amateurism to make their work look more "real". Now maybe they'll start teaching photographers and such how to make things look "genuine" (i.e. amateurish) in school. The first lesson's punchline would probably be "Stop trying to control every aspect of your work, that's unamateurish".
I'm fairly confident SATA is easier on the CPU than USB. Besides as I heard (in some previous comment), USB isn't too good at high speed continuous transfers, more at bursting.
Nooo it's not how long they are but what they do. Besides if female connectors like long male connectors bigger that's because they themselves are *too* deep. A short male connector fits a "shallow" female connector as nicely as a long male connector fits a deep female connector.
So girls, quit complaining and laughing and get it worked out! Oh wait, oops..
I seem to remember assembly programmers saying the same things about high-level languages...
Sure, we might go "wtf do you need exception handlers for? Just write bug-free code!" or even "operator overloading is for pansies", but there's no way you can turn it into making us sound like sissies.
True, but you make it sound like a constant effort of humility in which you always must catch yourself into staying humble and learning. The way I live it sounds better, I first have an idea, then I look at what it takes to implement this idea, then I read/ask about the things that I don't know about yet in order to make it happen, then whenever I need I read/ask/experiment more.
That's the way a programmer can start any project he can think of (within the limits of what's humanely possible in terms of workload/"learnload") without knowing a damn thing about what the project involves (that's how I started the linked in my signature, without knowing the first thing about signal processing and with barely more of a prior achievement than a hello world in C).
And I'm not humble tho, I'm quite an arrogant cock actually. Just don't look at this whole thing as being humble and admitting that you don't know anything, you know what you know, and you know what you want and you know how to learn what it takes to do what you want, therefore sky is the limit.
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I, for one, welcome our new mutant Canadian mice overlords.
Isn't it a dupe of this 16-month old article?
I know this would probably lead to civil war, but I think its going to happen anyway
Oh, *phew*! I thought this was already happening! What a relief!
Two chicks at the same time, man.
Nah, two chicks at the same time is old news.. Three is the new two, man.
Customers with a ShopRite loyalty card will be able to log into a Web site at home and type in their grocery lists; when they get to the store and swipe their card on the MediaCart console, the list will appear.
..will appear on the screen for all to see, yay! I can't wait until people take peeks at my grocery list on my hi-tech shopping cart.
-Strawberries.. Check
-Whipped cream.. Check
-Cucumbers.. Check
-Whiskey.. Check
-Vaseline.. Check
-Bullwhip.. Check
-Laxative suppositories.. Check
-Making people who read my grocery list look embarrassed.. Check
This is true because everyone knows the Web isn't part of the Internet.
Duh, saying this is like saying "everyone knows KFC restaurants are part of the North American continent". Apples and oranges, the Internet is a network, the Web is a service.
Therefore, and to further my bad analogy, if KFC changed its effigy from Colonel Sanders to General Custer, it would change the face of KFC restaurants, but it would be idiotic to say that it changes the face of America just because there are KFC restaurants in America.
So basically all the comments I've seen either complain about the obvious pro-space bias of the persons interviewed, and a few other comments seem to imply that we'll somehow save the world by leaving it for outer space, which misses the point.
I didn't read TFA, but I know the main reason why such things as the space program are needed is that the money invested in it has great repercussions on the economy in the following decades, just think about all the mainstream products/services that are the fruits of such program's research.
That's it, I saved you 10 minutes of your life by dumbing down an article I didn't read into a mere sentence.
If being a blogger makes you a journalist, does giving away pills make you a pharmacist?
- A concerned Slashdotter^H^H^H^H industry pundit
In a off hand observation xkcd has single handedly changed a small section of the internet.
Oh my God, they changed the face of the Internet! (actually they mean the Web, not the Internet as a whole, sigh). Here, let me change a (smaller) "section of the Internet" :
Died in a trolling accident.
Right now, doesn't return any result. And now? OMG I did it! I has teh pawar ovar tah Intarwebs!
FTFA : This 4.8-ounce sliver of glass and aluminum is an explosive device that has forever changed the mobile-phone business
What an appropriate metaphor to refer to the success of a product that is powered by a lithium-ion battery.
Europe's like what...the size of Texas? [...] Your comment displays your ignorance of America (much like most American's ignorance of Europe is so frequently pointed out.) The country is freaking HUGE.
Yes, that's right, we ignore a lot about America, mostly the fact that it's huge, that and the fact that you guys are "number 1". You should repeat it more often, we're still not hearing it. Oh and I'm pretty sure Europe is only a third the size of Texas ;-).
You can take a SIM card from any carrier and put it in any phone.
Provided that your phone is un-simlocked, yes. Besides when you say "GSM alone" does it exclude GRPS and UMTS? Cause we have that too. Not sure if we have EDGE tho.
Great, thanks! Cause every time someone jokes about creationism, God goes back to the Jurassic and kills a dinosaur!
I'm aware that I'm gonna get modded off-topic, but could we for once just because I'm asking avoid making any "But [...] the Earth [...] only 6,000 years old/ago!" jokes please?
Why would big name corporations even want our point-and-click photographs? [...] "Authenticity is the new consumer sensibility"
How ironic! While us mere mortals have been struggling for a while in order to emulate professionalism into our amateur work to make it look better, professionals strive to emulate our amateurism to make their work look more "real". Now maybe they'll start teaching photographers and such how to make things look "genuine" (i.e. amateurish) in school. The first lesson's punchline would probably be "Stop trying to control every aspect of your work, that's unamateurish".
if female connectors like long male connectors bigger
Err crap, I'm afraid I meant better. Quite a slip of the tongue indeed.. :-S
I'm fairly confident SATA is easier on the CPU than USB. Besides as I heard (in some previous comment), USB isn't too good at high speed continuous transfers, more at bursting.
longer male connectors are better.
Nooo it's not how long they are but what they do. Besides if female connectors like long male connectors bigger that's because they themselves are *too* deep. A short male connector fits a "shallow" female connector as nicely as a long male connector fits a deep female connector.
So girls, quit complaining and laughing and get it worked out! Oh wait, oops..
or was that a poor attempt at a +funny?
I don't know about it, but your comment was surely a good attempt at +flamebait ;)
I seem to remember assembly programmers saying the same things about high-level languages...
Sure, we might go "wtf do you need exception handlers for? Just write bug-free code!" or even "operator overloading is for pansies", but there's no way you can turn it into making us sound like sissies.
True, but you make it sound like a constant effort of humility in which you always must catch yourself into staying humble and learning. The way I live it sounds better, I first have an idea, then I look at what it takes to implement this idea, then I read/ask about the things that I don't know about yet in order to make it happen, then whenever I need I read/ask/experiment more.
That's the way a programmer can start any project he can think of (within the limits of what's humanely possible in terms of workload/"learnload") without knowing a damn thing about what the project involves (that's how I started the linked in my signature, without knowing the first thing about signal processing and with barely more of a prior achievement than a hello world in C).
And I'm not humble tho, I'm quite an arrogant cock actually. Just don't look at this whole thing as being humble and admitting that you don't know anything, you know what you know, and you know what you want and you know how to learn what it takes to do what you want, therefore sky is the limit.
So the answer to "when does a fetus become a person?" is: "When the mother says it does."
Even if she says it's after the 40th trimester?
Why yes, but, the real question is... will it blend?
2007 just called, they want their viral marketing Internet meme back.
What could we do with an extra $350 million?
We could finance about 7 hours of the war in Iraq?
Why a cellphone? so that everyone can see who's calling me?
Wait, you mean, you mainly use your cellphone to give/receive phone calls? lol! 1998 just called, they want you back.