Your basic blimp uses as much fuel in a WEEK of operations as a 747 uses taxiing from the gate to the runway. We need to get people out of these wasteful planes and into a more efficient (and comfortable) form of air transport.
You're damn right it struck a nerve for me, because I know his situation intimately. There's no hypocrisy here: I am telling you, from personal experience, that these kinds of answers are more hurtful than helpful.
"Condescending" is assuming that you know more than the original questioner, ignoring his original question, and offering advice he never asked for. I'm not condescending, I'm pissed off at people being so insensitive.
All this "don't forget to live" crap is just people showing off that they're oh-so-much-wiser than the original inquirer. I can't think of anything more infuriating to someone in his situation. If you don't have a suggestion to make ALONG THE LINES OF WHAT HE ASKED FOR, then keep your pop psychology to yourself.
I do: physical objects. Does she have jewelry? She should plan who it's going to go to, especially since your kids are both girls. If there's anything she really cherished, be sure you know what it is now so you can hang on to it.
Why do you think that money buys you exemption from national security compliance? Just curious.
National security is not at stake when I ride an airplane. The last time the continued existence of the United States was threatened by an airplane was when the Soviets had hangars full of bombers with nuclear weapons in them.
Terrorist attacks cannot destroy the Constitution. Only a President and a cowardly populace who will give him anything he wants because they're frightened can do that.
Yes, it's a well-known fact that impoverished terrorists cannot afford business class seats...
Well, there weren't any terrorists in any class of service in 1965. Now *I* didn't do anything to encourage this kind of terrorism, so I have to conclude that somebody else did; and I want that person found and shot.
I started flying in the 1960s, when fares were high and quality was excellent. You want to go cheap, take the Greyhound. In the meantime, I want the service I used to get in those days, which was excellent -- even if it means putting up the fares.
Elitism? No. I just want a better product and I'm prepared to pay for it. This includes not being scanned and groped by strangers, by the way.
Oh, and "business class" isn't it. You still get scanned and groped by strangers.
Did the Sims miss the point entirely? I would think the popularity of a game built on sentient somewhat realistic characters would prove otherwise. All he is, is a 3D chat bot that reacts to you physically instead of what you type. I'd hardly call it a video game, personally.
The characters in The Sims are not remotely realistic, and thank God, because players spend most of their time trying to find interesting new ways to kill them off. Will Wright quite intentionally built torture into the game. (Locking them in a room with no food or water and watching them die is just the beginning.)
I wouldn't say that too loud around the office. If there are a lot of people like you in the business, it may explain a few things about the quality of some of the games.:)
It's full of self-taught, degree-free programmers who learned on the job... just like what this bozo wants. It also kills two out of every three projects that it starts. Job security is terrible. Much of the code is unmaintainable. Software engineering discipline is regarded as a waste of time for bureaucratic wusses.
Teaching people on the job means they make their costly, disastrous mistakes on the job instead of making them in college, where nobody gets hurt.
A 13-year-old girl was stoned to death for reporting that she had been raped. I'm sure the crowd that threw the stones was a fuckin' collective genius.
This so-called problem depends on a counter-intuitive interpretation of the language. Yes, if you're a math nerd you can find an obscure way of interpreting a simple question; BFD.
I'm a demography nerd instead, so the answer, if your second child is under about two years old, is 51%. The ratio of male to female births is about 51-49.
Sorry, insulting me when I'm in the right doesn't help your case. He said, "the majority of criminals." Criminals are people who do or have committed crimes. There's only one interpretation of that: the majority of people who do or have committed crimes use ICQ.
Too many people make gross generalizations in the press already. Either speak precisely or STFU.
That's got to be one of the dumbest things I've ever read on Slashdot... which is saying something.
The vast majority of criminals in the USA are people breaking the speed limit. I doubt that a significant percentage of them use ICQ, and even if they did, they probably wouldn't be talking about the speeding they're doing.
First there was the Who program that let you see who was logged on. Then Les Earnest wrote the Finger program which displayed their.plan file. This enabled them to share personal information like which high school they went to. Then you could send them E-mail or ttymsgs and talk about it. The Name/Finger protocol makes it work over the network. Social networking in a nutshell.
In case you haven't noticed, there's a deficit. You're not paying your share as it is. Sun-proofing the nation's electrical infrastructure will be extra. Or you can just do without.
If the government does nothing to prevent this, it'll get blamed.
If the government takes action to prevent it and fails, it'll get blamed.
If the government takes action to prevent it and is successful, it'll get blamed for overreacting (see what happened to Obama after swine flu didn't kill everybody).
Given that the government gets blamed no matter what, if I were in power I'd just do nothing and save the money. You're on your own, kids.
I know from an insider that the Natal device is accurate to within 4 cm. That's nowhere near fine enough to capture a trigger finger. Maybe you have to make your hand into a gun with your index finger as the barrel and your thumb as the hammer, the way we did when we were kids. Then you wiggle your thumb and say, "Choo!"
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Your basic blimp uses as much fuel in a WEEK of operations as a 747 uses taxiing from the gate to the runway. We need to get people out of these wasteful planes and into a more efficient (and comfortable) form of air transport.
You're damn right it struck a nerve for me, because I know his situation intimately. There's no hypocrisy here: I am telling you, from personal experience, that these kinds of answers are more hurtful than helpful.
"Condescending" is assuming that you know more than the original questioner, ignoring his original question, and offering advice he never asked for. I'm not condescending, I'm pissed off at people being so insensitive.
All this "don't forget to live" crap is just people showing off that they're oh-so-much-wiser than the original inquirer. I can't think of anything more infuriating to someone in his situation. If you don't have a suggestion to make ALONG THE LINES OF WHAT HE ASKED FOR, then keep your pop psychology to yourself.
I do: physical objects. Does she have jewelry? She should plan who it's going to go to, especially since your kids are both girls. If there's anything she really cherished, be sure you know what it is now so you can hang on to it.
It's just a shame that this moron didn't weed himself harmlessly out of the gene pool and save Canada the cost of prosecuting his sorry ass.
But if I'm going BACK in time, I'm taking some aspirin, toothpaste, deodorant, and toilet paper with me. I hope the machine is big enough.
Why do you think that money buys you exemption from national security compliance? Just curious.
National security is not at stake when I ride an airplane. The last time the continued existence of the United States was threatened by an airplane was when the Soviets had hangars full of bombers with nuclear weapons in them.
Terrorist attacks cannot destroy the Constitution. Only a President and a cowardly populace who will give him anything he wants because they're frightened can do that.
Yes, it's a well-known fact that impoverished terrorists cannot afford business class seats...
Well, there weren't any terrorists in any class of service in 1965. Now *I* didn't do anything to encourage this kind of terrorism, so I have to conclude that somebody else did; and I want that person found and shot.
I started flying in the 1960s, when fares were high and quality was excellent. You want to go cheap, take the Greyhound. In the meantime, I want the service I used to get in those days, which was excellent -- even if it means putting up the fares.
Elitism? No. I just want a better product and I'm prepared to pay for it. This includes not being scanned and groped by strangers, by the way.
Oh, and "business class" isn't it. You still get scanned and groped by strangers.
Did the Sims miss the point entirely? I would think the popularity of a game built on sentient somewhat realistic characters would prove otherwise. All he is, is a 3D chat bot that reacts to you physically instead of what you type. I'd hardly call it a video game, personally.
The characters in The Sims are not remotely realistic, and thank God, because players spend most of their time trying to find interesting new ways to kill them off. Will Wright quite intentionally built torture into the game. (Locking them in a room with no food or water and watching them die is just the beginning.)
He's a video game character. I don't want him to be real. Him being real would miss the point entirely.
Is there ANY reason to think this? Any at all? No device besides a desktop PC does what a desktop PC does.
Hell, even vacuum tubes haven't gone away.
A) You can't program a smartphone on a smartphone.
B) The screen is tiny and the speakers suck and they always will no matter what.
No, PC gaming is not "back." It never went away. Facebook games are printing money.
Oh, you mean high-end PC gaming of the kind that requires expensive GPU cards? It didn't go away either. You can't overclock your PS3.
PC games will be around as long as there are PCs.
I wouldn't say that too loud around the office. If there are a lot of people like you in the business, it may explain a few things about the quality of some of the games. :)
It's full of self-taught, degree-free programmers who learned on the job... just like what this bozo wants. It also kills two out of every three projects that it starts. Job security is terrible. Much of the code is unmaintainable. Software engineering discipline is regarded as a waste of time for bureaucratic wusses.
Teaching people on the job means they make their costly, disastrous mistakes on the job instead of making them in college, where nobody gets hurt.
A 13-year-old girl was stoned to death for reporting that she had been raped. I'm sure the crowd that threw the stones was a fuckin' collective genius.
This so-called problem depends on a counter-intuitive interpretation of the language. Yes, if you're a math nerd you can find an obscure way of interpreting a simple question; BFD.
I'm a demography nerd instead, so the answer, if your second child is under about two years old, is 51%. The ratio of male to female births is about 51-49.
Sorry, insulting me when I'm in the right doesn't help your case. He said, "the majority of criminals." Criminals are people who do or have committed crimes. There's only one interpretation of that: the majority of people who do or have committed crimes use ICQ.
Too many people make gross generalizations in the press already. Either speak precisely or STFU.
That's got to be one of the dumbest things I've ever read on Slashdot... which is saying something.
The vast majority of criminals in the USA are people breaking the speed limit. I doubt that a significant percentage of them use ICQ, and even if they did, they probably wouldn't be talking about the speeding they're doing.
When asked why, he said, "because there isn't room for eight."
No, the desktop isn't going away.
First there was the Who program that let you see who was logged on. Then Les Earnest wrote the Finger program which displayed their .plan file. This enabled them to share personal information like which high school they went to. Then you could send them E-mail or ttymsgs and talk about it. The Name/Finger protocol makes it work over the network. Social networking in a nutshell.
Assholes.
In case you haven't noticed, there's a deficit. You're not paying your share as it is. Sun-proofing the nation's electrical infrastructure will be extra. Or you can just do without.
If the government does nothing to prevent this, it'll get blamed.
If the government takes action to prevent it and fails, it'll get blamed.
If the government takes action to prevent it and is successful, it'll get blamed for overreacting (see what happened to Obama after swine flu didn't kill everybody).
Given that the government gets blamed no matter what, if I were in power I'd just do nothing and save the money. You're on your own, kids.
I know from an insider that the Natal device is accurate to within 4 cm. That's nowhere near fine enough to capture a trigger finger. Maybe you have to make your hand into a gun with your index finger as the barrel and your thumb as the hammer, the way we did when we were kids. Then you wiggle your thumb and say, "Choo!"
There are still scorch marks and soot on the exterior. They are left there intentionally as a reminder.