Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. People don't eat McDonalds because they are after a "gourmet burger", they eat it because it's convenient. And of the convenient options they find it tastes the best, or it is slightly more convenient than Y brand fast food, or whatever reason they have for eating there.
I don't have a Keurig at home (that I use every day) because I'm after the best tasting coffee possible. I use it because I'm the only one that drinks coffee in my household at 7AM, and brewing a full pot is more wasteful of my time, coffee, water, and energy than using my Keurig. As a bonus, it's convenient as hell and brews an acceptable cup of coffee. (It helps that I'm not a pretentious snob that thinks I'm better than everyone else because I use a french press instead of a Keurig. Or don't eat at McDonalds).
Half the time I use K cups, half the time I use a re-usable pod. If I had the choice of selecting my k cup based on its ability to be easily recycled I would probably buy the recyclable one.
Ok, normally I find these "Luddite" posts dumb at best, flat out idiotic most of the time. But this one actually made me laugh. Well played Sir (or Ma'am).
That is an odd comment. I buy regularly from Amazon, and am I Prime subscriber. If I order something that is eligible from Prime I have it in two days or less, every time.
The conspiracy theorist in me wonders if they are intentionally slowing down shipping in order to drive more people to pay for Prime.
But increasingly email, and even incoming telephone calls, require a level of paranoia, distrust, and misanthropy as to make you crazy by more normal standards
You're not kidding. I consider myself pretty vigilant about e-mail and clicking links. I recently got a nearly perfectly crafted e-mail from "Amazon" about a "recent order", I buy A LOT of shit of Amazon, so I didn't think anything of it. The only reason I didn't get zapped by it is I never click on the tracking/order links from them, I always go to their site manually. Thinking to myself "I don't remember ordering anything in the last couple days" I went to Amazon's site, thinking my username got stolen and someone was buying shit, and couldn't find an order. Going back to my e-mail I see that it was sending me to some random site. Sneaky bastards.
Point being, the Phishers are getting better and better.
The email said it came from the IT department, and that you needed to click on the link to validate your domain credentials...It was pretty obvious to me that it was a phishing attempt, but several users clicked on the link anyway, and keyed in their domain credentials into the web form. Thankfully, it didn't install a cryptovirus, or spread to the network.
Yup, we got the same one. The next day the whole company started getting spam from an internal e-mail address.
What shocks me, more than that someone will click on a random e-mail link without knowing where it goes, is that people actually respond to spam e-mails. (the increase your penis size, low low price Viagra, or hot teens want to screw, type spam) You know people are clicking on them, because people/groups wouldn't be expending so much effort to send spam it it wasn't an effective "advertising" method.
if they released a skin that changed the knife to a dildo, would you buy it? for 5 dollars, 10 dollars? do you know someone who would?
$5, yeah, in a heart beat. $10, probably, but I'd hesitate for a couple seconds. $20, maybe, if I was drunk. $50, not a chance in hell. I won't spend $50 on a game, much less something to make something in that game look different.
But I'm not talking about $5 and $10 skins, I'm talking about spending a grand. And I'm talking about deluding minors into wagering money thinking they have a chance of obtaining something of more value.
I've probably spent a couple hundred on War Thunder for planes and tanks, I don't see this as being really any different.
The big difference here, is I assume that planes and tanks in this game serve a purpose. IE, you can buy and utilize more powerful equipment to gain an advantage over your competitor. The "add ons" aid the progression of the game. And in your example, I can understand spending a couple bucks here and there. In this instance, a $1,000 dollar knife skin adds exactly zero play value.
But, I guess if someone wants to blow a grand on something that I feel is useless, that is their prerogative. It pisses me off because they have brainwashed bunch of teenagers that these things have an actual value to them and are therefore willing to shell out relatively small amounts of money to purchase keys in the hopes that they find an object of more significant value. Maybe that's why I have such a problem with it. It's essentially gambling that prays on minors.
I really wish you were joking, but I know you're not. How does someone say to someone else with a straight face: "I can't go out tonight dude, gotta save money for that bomb-ass Karambit skin."
So, I'm confused. I just popped over to OpSkins, after a quick perusal, it appears that you can buy different weapons of varying conditions for wildly varying prices. Couple questions. Are those prices in real dollars? Do people actually buy shit for that price? (A knife for $1000+) Has the world gone full-on insane? Why?
And on a certification exam, which question would be a better test of a technicians worth?
1) What does an error code 11 mean on the standard HP network driver package?
or 2) What steps would you perform to correct a error code 11 for an HP printer on a Windows 10 machine? (And let them use their computer to research an answer)
If all I'm going to do is be a middle-man between my boss and Google, why is he paying me when he can just ask Siri or Amazon's thing instead?
Very valid point. But in a technical role, if your boss is asking you a question that can be answered quickly by asking Siri than I would argue that YOUR value is knowing what to ask Google and analyzing the results to research a valid solution. The non-IT management in my company would google "Document fails to print" and most likely not get a resolution, whereas a technician would know to google "Windows 10 HP2365 error code 11". I wouldn't expect a technician to memorize what an error code 11 is (unless it's something they see every day) but I would damn well expect them to be able to figure it out and fix it rapidly. (And yes, I pulled that model and error code out of my ass, I have no idea if they even exist)
How about we just rethink the necessity of tests that are just regurgitating information from memory, and replace them with tests that require cognitive thinking or creative reasoning?
Give every kid a laptop with an open internet connection and let them Google during the test to their hearts content. Having to write a sentence or two about the repercussions of Columbus sailing the ocean blue in 1492 is probably a better exercise than just asking what year it happened.
And when was the last time you had to answer a complicated question at work and you weren't allowed to use your technology to figure it out?
When you start getting into more substantial tests later in life you can devolve to proctored testing facilities where they make you dress down to a hospital gown and hand you a pencil.
I advocate voting against the incumbent in almost all cases
I'm confused. Are you advocating voting against the incumbent because they are doing a bad job, or because you don't think they should be able to have multiple terms?
Not everybody needs this, and this is entirely for self-serving outcomes
If not everybody needs {insert subject here} then why did I have to take art classes? And voc-ed classes? And English classes? And math classes? And... classes? I have absolutely zero interest in painting, pottery, creative writing, etc but I enjoy math, science, and auto repair, and had to take ALL of those in order to graduate High School. Do I use all of those every day in my life? Some yes, some no. Am I a more capable individual because I was forced out of my comfort zone (and typical areas of interest) in High School? Absolutely.
This isn't about forcing everyone in high school to become a computer programmer, or computer engineer. But there is no reason not to expose every person in High School to one semester of computer related education beyond learning how to run Microsoft Office.
Why does it have to go to space to provide value? You can't possibly see an alternate use for a vehicle that can travel at 4000km/hr? That's nearly twice the speed of the Concorde. How much do you think high-powered business people would pay to be shot across the Atlantic at that speed? I'm not saying that is the goal Virgin is trying to achieve, but if there isn't someone out there thinking of how to put the technologies being developed to a practical use their ought to be.
I would argue any endeavor that does something that hasn't been done before is worthwhile. If nothing else, we as a race have have a higher understanding of ballistics, aerodynamics, material science, etc as a result of this.
Matters to whom? Apparently it matters enough to them to spend an obscene amount of money on it. If it doesn't matter to you why are you on this site leaving comments about it? There are plenty of SpaceX articles on here if LEO is what "actually matters" in your eyes.
The only thing I ever found it to be useful for is outage tracking. Prior to taking it onto a self-hosted server a time keeping application I wrote was hosted by a hosting company. If there was an access problem I turned to twitter to see if others were complaining about outages. I remember something about some dude destroying something in a substation that took the entire city of Provo Utah offline, that's where my program was hosted. I didn't find the official explanation until the next day, but people on Twitter were bitching about it within an hour.
Fuel pumps and injectors are both driven and timed mechanically
As long as you are using a 1978 VW Rabbit as an example of a "modern fuel injection system." Or maybe a diesel, even though the majority of diesels produced today are all electronically controlled.
Yeah, they will run without the battery. Previous post said "No modern car engine will run without electricity" Without battery != without electricity. A modern car will not run without electricity.
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Scotch is my vice. Doesn't mean I'm going to call a guy out for drinking Jack Daniels.
my refusal to ever consume McDonalds
Is that why your shit doesn't stink?
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. People don't eat McDonalds because they are after a "gourmet burger", they eat it because it's convenient. And of the convenient options they find it tastes the best, or it is slightly more convenient than Y brand fast food, or whatever reason they have for eating there.
I don't have a Keurig at home (that I use every day) because I'm after the best tasting coffee possible. I use it because I'm the only one that drinks coffee in my household at 7AM, and brewing a full pot is more wasteful of my time, coffee, water, and energy than using my Keurig. As a bonus, it's convenient as hell and brews an acceptable cup of coffee. (It helps that I'm not a pretentious snob that thinks I'm better than everyone else because I use a french press instead of a Keurig. Or don't eat at McDonalds).
Half the time I use K cups, half the time I use a re-usable pod. If I had the choice of selecting my k cup based on its ability to be easily recycled I would probably buy the recyclable one.
Ok, normally I find these "Luddite" posts dumb at best, flat out idiotic most of the time. But this one actually made me laugh. Well played Sir (or Ma'am).
The conspiracy theorist in me wonders if they are intentionally slowing down shipping in order to drive more people to pay for Prime.
But increasingly email, and even incoming telephone calls, require a level of paranoia, distrust, and misanthropy as to make you crazy by more normal standards
You're not kidding. I consider myself pretty vigilant about e-mail and clicking links. I recently got a nearly perfectly crafted e-mail from "Amazon" about a "recent order", I buy A LOT of shit of Amazon, so I didn't think anything of it. The only reason I didn't get zapped by it is I never click on the tracking/order links from them, I always go to their site manually. Thinking to myself "I don't remember ordering anything in the last couple days" I went to Amazon's site, thinking my username got stolen and someone was buying shit, and couldn't find an order. Going back to my e-mail I see that it was sending me to some random site. Sneaky bastards.
Point being, the Phishers are getting better and better.
The email said it came from the IT department, and that you needed to click on the link to validate your domain credentials...It was pretty obvious to me that it was a phishing attempt, but several users clicked on the link anyway, and keyed in their domain credentials into the web form. Thankfully, it didn't install a cryptovirus, or spread to the network.
Yup, we got the same one. The next day the whole company started getting spam from an internal e-mail address.
What shocks me, more than that someone will click on a random e-mail link without knowing where it goes, is that people actually respond to spam e-mails. (the increase your penis size, low low price Viagra, or hot teens want to screw, type spam) You know people are clicking on them, because people/groups wouldn't be expending so much effort to send spam it it wasn't an effective "advertising" method.
Come on. Give them a little credit, it was an INI file, not a TXT file. They probably even named it this_isnt_the_network_password.ini
Next we'll have a plane that goes almost as fast as the SR-71
It really breaks the business model when you can only carry one passenger at a time.
if they released a skin that changed the knife to a dildo, would you buy it? for 5 dollars, 10 dollars? do you know someone who would?
$5, yeah, in a heart beat. $10, probably, but I'd hesitate for a couple seconds. $20, maybe, if I was drunk. $50, not a chance in hell. I won't spend $50 on a game, much less something to make something in that game look different.
But I'm not talking about $5 and $10 skins, I'm talking about spending a grand. And I'm talking about deluding minors into wagering money thinking they have a chance of obtaining something of more value.
I've probably spent a couple hundred on War Thunder for planes and tanks, I don't see this as being really any different.
The big difference here, is I assume that planes and tanks in this game serve a purpose. IE, you can buy and utilize more powerful equipment to gain an advantage over your competitor. The "add ons" aid the progression of the game. And in your example, I can understand spending a couple bucks here and there. In this instance, a $1,000 dollar knife skin adds exactly zero play value.
But, I guess if someone wants to blow a grand on something that I feel is useless, that is their prerogative. It pisses me off because they have brainwashed bunch of teenagers that these things have an actual value to them and are therefore willing to shell out relatively small amounts of money to purchase keys in the hopes that they find an object of more significant value. Maybe that's why I have such a problem with it. It's essentially gambling that prays on minors.
I really wish you were joking, but I know you're not. How does someone say to someone else with a straight face: "I can't go out tonight dude, gotta save money for that bomb-ass Karambit skin."
So, I'm confused. I just popped over to OpSkins, after a quick perusal, it appears that you can buy different weapons of varying conditions for wildly varying prices. Couple questions. Are those prices in real dollars? Do people actually buy shit for that price? (A knife for $1000+) Has the world gone full-on insane? Why?
What more could you fucking want?
A nice 15 year old scotch and a hamburger would suffice I think.
And on a certification exam, which question would be a better test of a technicians worth?
1) What does an error code 11 mean on the standard HP network driver package?
or 2) What steps would you perform to correct a error code 11 for an HP printer on a Windows 10 machine? (And let them use their computer to research an answer)
If all I'm going to do is be a middle-man between my boss and Google, why is he paying me when he can just ask Siri or Amazon's thing instead?
Very valid point. But in a technical role, if your boss is asking you a question that can be answered quickly by asking Siri than I would argue that YOUR value is knowing what to ask Google and analyzing the results to research a valid solution. The non-IT management in my company would google "Document fails to print" and most likely not get a resolution, whereas a technician would know to google "Windows 10 HP2365 error code 11". I wouldn't expect a technician to memorize what an error code 11 is (unless it's something they see every day) but I would damn well expect them to be able to figure it out and fix it rapidly. (And yes, I pulled that model and error code out of my ass, I have no idea if they even exist)
How about we just rethink the necessity of tests that are just regurgitating information from memory, and replace them with tests that require cognitive thinking or creative reasoning?
Give every kid a laptop with an open internet connection and let them Google during the test to their hearts content. Having to write a sentence or two about the repercussions of Columbus sailing the ocean blue in 1492 is probably a better exercise than just asking what year it happened.
And when was the last time you had to answer a complicated question at work and you weren't allowed to use your technology to figure it out?
When you start getting into more substantial tests later in life you can devolve to proctored testing facilities where they make you dress down to a hospital gown and hand you a pencil.
I advocate voting against the incumbent in almost all cases
I'm confused. Are you advocating voting against the incumbent because they are doing a bad job, or because you don't think they should be able to have multiple terms?
Not everybody needs this, and this is entirely for self-serving outcomes
If not everybody needs {insert subject here} then why did I have to take art classes? And voc-ed classes? And English classes? And math classes? And ... classes? I have absolutely zero interest in painting, pottery, creative writing, etc but I enjoy math, science, and auto repair, and had to take ALL of those in order to graduate High School. Do I use all of those every day in my life? Some yes, some no. Am I a more capable individual because I was forced out of my comfort zone (and typical areas of interest) in High School? Absolutely.
This isn't about forcing everyone in high school to become a computer programmer, or computer engineer. But there is no reason not to expose every person in High School to one semester of computer related education beyond learning how to run Microsoft Office.
Why does it have to go to space to provide value? You can't possibly see an alternate use for a vehicle that can travel at 4000km/hr? That's nearly twice the speed of the Concorde. How much do you think high-powered business people would pay to be shot across the Atlantic at that speed? I'm not saying that is the goal Virgin is trying to achieve, but if there isn't someone out there thinking of how to put the technologies being developed to a practical use their ought to be.
I would argue any endeavor that does something that hasn't been done before is worthwhile. If nothing else, we as a race have have a higher understanding of ballistics, aerodynamics, material science, etc as a result of this.
And this is what actually matters.
Matters to whom? Apparently it matters enough to them to spend an obscene amount of money on it. If it doesn't matter to you why are you on this site leaving comments about it? There are plenty of SpaceX articles on here if LEO is what "actually matters" in your eyes.
The only thing I ever found it to be useful for is outage tracking. Prior to taking it onto a self-hosted server a time keeping application I wrote was hosted by a hosting company. If there was an access problem I turned to twitter to see if others were complaining about outages. I remember something about some dude destroying something in a substation that took the entire city of Provo Utah offline, that's where my program was hosted. I didn't find the official explanation until the next day, but people on Twitter were bitching about it within an hour.
Maybe the Twitterverse can finally lay rest the argument over Giraffe or Gift pronunciation argument.
Fuel pumps and injectors are both driven and timed mechanically
As long as you are using a 1978 VW Rabbit as an example of a "modern fuel injection system." Or maybe a diesel, even though the majority of diesels produced today are all electronically controlled.
Yeah, they will run without the battery. Previous post said "No modern car engine will run without electricity" Without battery != without electricity. A modern car will not run without electricity.