Coors is actually Canadian. But yeah, the idea that American beers suck is just bad PR. The largest American brewery is Sam Adams. The swill people associate with what the majority of Americans drink are not really American beers.
I took it when I replied. And so what if it was 50 pictures of Pamela Anderson? It appears that is a non-fringe use case for which Firefox hogs up a lot of memory instead of just caching it to my HDD.
Not sure what statistical model they used, but there are plenty that allow for small sample sizes when certain conditions are met.
Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student's_t-test
I find patents like these hardly on par with something like the combustion engine or other real inventions. What we have here is just user interface stuff. It is no different to when MS received a patent for double clicking.
I am open to being corrected on this though. What is it about this patent that truly was innovative?
Also, I think there is a fine line between an innovative invention and one that takes existing technology and "combines" it. Remember, a lot of patents were granted because something that existed had "with a computer" added and recently adding "with a mobile device" or "on the internet" to the patent application instantly became a patent. These kinds of things are iterative which, if I am not mistaken, should fail to meet the criteria for a patent.
Why is it that everyone talks about this subsidizing? When I bought my Nexus One, AT&T didn't offer me a break because I paid full price on my phone. There is no discount at all, there is no subsidizing in this equation. The only down side to buying a phone with contract is the contract life itself.
I guess this goes to show you that you can't make everyone happy all the time. Frank Miller doesn't necessarily convert everything he touches to gold, but he is personally responsible for reviving batman into the character he is today. At least give him some credit.
He addresses his potato comment in a different thread. I would link to that answer but slashdot is not letting me right click and copy the link.
As for the hamburger, If I am not mistaken, what was originally coined hamburg steak was a form of steak tartare and it wasn't until German immigrants in America actually made their own version of this patty and put it between two slabs of bread that we got the hamburger we know and love today. Feel free to correct me on this, but it is what I had read and known for a while.
At the same time, why don't you share some of your knowledge by correcting the wrongs that someone may have unknowingly spread? We are all here learning from each other and our experiences. Or is it just easier to dismiss it based on a small cross section of a very large whole?
Not sure if this is ignorance or an obvious troll. If it is the former, please check out the following comment who has answered this misguided opinion of American Food. http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=232001&cid=18857113
If it is the the latter, then I fell for it.
Agree. And let me add this bit. Test them yourself! We had a run of really bad programmers until I wrote a test that shouldn't take more than an hour if you actually know what you applied for. Once implemented, I started seeing degree after degree and certification after certification stumble through the test. Some took 6 hours (seriously, after 2 hours, you should have left and saved everyone their time). It got so bad I started doubting my test and was in the process of making an easier version until a couple people actually completed it. We hired those who finished the test correctly and they have essentially ended our dry spell of under qualified candidates.
Portfolios, and resumes can be inflated and lied on. And background checks help some, but there was one employee who gave us his friends from their old company who would lie for them. Testing them yourself is the best way to filter the unqualified.
I can't say much about other high ABV beers, but Dogfish head's 120 minute IPA (about 18%) is not drank like your typical beer. You drink it at slightly colder than room temperature over a period of an hour. It is a beer you sip, and it will mess you up if you are unaware of its kick.
Re:a bunch of questions
on
C# In-Depth
·
· Score: 1
Language structure implying the syntax. I am well aware that they both are the same underneath (with a few small annoying exceptions). I was merely implying that the syntax sucks. It is the most unfriendly syntax I have come across.
Re:a bunch of questions
on
C# In-Depth
·
· Score: 2, Insightful
What impact did Java have on computing sciences? Well take that list and multiply it by several generations ahead of Java and that is what you have. And it isn't so much C# as it is the.NET framework which has done this. C# is just syntax that allows you to use the framework. C# just happens to have a very close syntax structure to the C-family of languages.
If you are a glutton for punishment go to VB.NET and code in that horrendous language structure, but still be able to do all the things you could in C#.
When I got hit with the temp-ban, I called them up and told them the same thing, that I have kept my usage in line with the past 5 years. They said that since I was with Adelphia, they had different acceptable usage policies then Comcast (who purchased Adelphia). I knew that I did not download 200GB a month, and hearing people come out and compare their measurements with Comcast reaffirms my position on this matter.
Unfortunately, I have no choice. Dial-up is not a choice for me. If it were, I wouldn't even be in this problem. DSL is not available in my house, and satellite sucks all kinds of fail while being 1/10th as fast as DSL/Cable. And to top it off, they sent me a letter the other day saying they were raising my rates by 20 dollars (unless I get their TV package, which will make it 5 dollars cheaper then what I am paying now. Doesn't make sense).
I probably should have been clearer, b/c the rape goes deeper. I don't have their TV service. Only their Internet service. It is their internet service they are raising 20 dollars a month. Its more like a punishment for not subscribing to the TV services (They told me I can get a 15 dollar discount to my internet if I subscribe to TV too).
I don't watch any TV. Last time I watched television with any sort of regularity was when Babylon5 was being aired on TnT.
I wish Comcast would learn from them. I got a letter from them saying they were raising my rates. By 20 bucks! I sure wish I had an alternative, cause I have no choice but to bend over and take it.
There were no levels in UO. Lesser players could advance quickly by staying around towns, and venturing out with their friends.
That is not what I hear from veteran players. They pretty much told me it was about who had the most "friends" You would get killed and come back with your posse to kill them. Then they come back with a larger army of friends. And so on and so forth. Doesn't seem fun to me to have a response that lasts 2-3 hours that diverged you from whatever you were doing when you got killed.
Some players seem to like the aspect of killing other players (and much more if they can take their stuff). But from experience, games that allow this always devolve to a mass griefing mess. Always. I fail to see how UO was an exception.
You could own a house, put vendors there to sell stuff, you had trade skills that were fully independent of fighting, you had an economy of "rare" artifacts with no use at all people just wanted them to have them, you could kill other players and take their gear.
Owning a house thing seems like fun, except that it would be limited to actual realestate. Newer players would not enjoy this wonderful feature. Seperate trade skills, Ultima Online was first, but there are many MMOs that have this. And if you want an item of no use just cause you wanted it, that is called loot-whoring. Killing players and taking there gear is bad. Nothing stops higher level players from griefing lower level players. WoW wouldn't be as big as it is now if their new players were constantly harassed.
It also made guilds have value, as you needed protection and could benefit from a guildmate making your armor while you made him potions.
I have seen this in many MMOs.
UO might be better for you, the hardcore gamer. But WoW is easier on those without much time. It has 9 million people b/c many of the drawbacks of PvP were taken out. I personally don't like WoW though. Tried, it... I hate quest grinding. And I am not fond of a game that breaks old content every 3 months.
So who do you think is the last check/balance when a Bill that is unconstitutional gets signed into law?
I dont think he gave himself that power. In the end, the judges are supposed to interpret law. And since the Constitution is the supreme law of the land, that is what gives them the power to declare a law unconstitutional.
That is great that regular booksmarks work for you. However, many people feel differently about it and is why they are reinventing the way we think about bookmarks. The feature will either sink or swim, but I welcome the attempt at change. Currently I am using google bookmarks, but that is not as fluid as I would like it to be.
Their pay is based on performance for the year. So you would have to actually work the full year. When GP mentioned $2 billion he was talking about the managers who handle the biggest hedge funds in the world.
As for the taxes thing, Congress is looking into that right now. Don't think that position will be a tax haven for long.
You are right, it isn't a spectator sport, its an interactive game where people mess around and have fun with eachother without requiring any level of musical inclination. Its kind of the same reason why so many find the wii controller fun too.
I keep hearing this from Lincoln bashers yet they never cite a source. Seriously, enough with the talking points and show where/when he said he was not interested in freeing the slaves. Freeing them most certainly was not a military move since he did not have any jurisdiction at the time in the south. It was more a show of power and control. That he was indeed the President of the U.S. and that the southern states had no right to secede. You think the Emancipation Proclamation actually carried any weight prior to April 1865 in the South?
Lincoln did anything in his power (and many things not in his power) to maintain the Union intact. Much of what he did is looked down upon, just like the Japanese concentration camps during WW2.
Why is it that when Nintendo goes after the 85 year old demographic they are seen as geniuses but when MS says something that is similar (and more plausible considering how widespread music and phones are compared to games) they are chastised?
What Ballmer says has much more truth then most of you would care to admit. What makes more business sense, the tons of Dells/HPs/Alienwares/Whiteboxes of the world running a Microsoft product, or the substantially less number of Macs out in the public running MacOSX? If Mac meets their target for the year, they will have 1% marketshare in the wireless phones market, compared to what already looks like a 70% marketshare of all the MS Pocket PC Phones and MS Smart Phones out there. All this looks like the a repeat of what has already happend with the personal computer market: Apple will make a ton of money, and MS will make 100 times that much.
Slashdot Mirror
Coors is actually Canadian. But yeah, the idea that American beers suck is just bad PR. The largest American brewery is Sam Adams. The swill people associate with what the majority of Americans drink are not really American beers.
I took it when I replied. And so what if it was 50 pictures of Pamela Anderson? It appears that is a non-fringe use case for which Firefox hogs up a lot of memory instead of just caching it to my HDD.
FUD You say? Fx Memory Footprint
Not sure what statistical model they used, but there are plenty that allow for small sample sizes when certain conditions are met. Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student's_t-test
I find patents like these hardly on par with something like the combustion engine or other real inventions. What we have here is just user interface stuff. It is no different to when MS received a patent for double clicking. I am open to being corrected on this though. What is it about this patent that truly was innovative? Also, I think there is a fine line between an innovative invention and one that takes existing technology and "combines" it. Remember, a lot of patents were granted because something that existed had "with a computer" added and recently adding "with a mobile device" or "on the internet" to the patent application instantly became a patent. These kinds of things are iterative which, if I am not mistaken, should fail to meet the criteria for a patent.
Why is it that everyone talks about this subsidizing? When I bought my Nexus One, AT&T didn't offer me a break because I paid full price on my phone. There is no discount at all, there is no subsidizing in this equation. The only down side to buying a phone with contract is the contract life itself.
I guess this goes to show you that you can't make everyone happy all the time. Frank Miller doesn't necessarily convert everything he touches to gold, but he is personally responsible for reviving batman into the character he is today. At least give him some credit.
He addresses his potato comment in a different thread. I would link to that answer but slashdot is not letting me right click and copy the link. As for the hamburger, If I am not mistaken, what was originally coined hamburg steak was a form of steak tartare and it wasn't until German immigrants in America actually made their own version of this patty and put it between two slabs of bread that we got the hamburger we know and love today. Feel free to correct me on this, but it is what I had read and known for a while. At the same time, why don't you share some of your knowledge by correcting the wrongs that someone may have unknowingly spread? We are all here learning from each other and our experiences. Or is it just easier to dismiss it based on a small cross section of a very large whole?
Not sure if this is ignorance or an obvious troll. If it is the former, please check out the following comment who has answered this misguided opinion of American Food. http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=232001&cid=18857113 If it is the the latter, then I fell for it.
Agree. And let me add this bit. Test them yourself! We had a run of really bad programmers until I wrote a test that shouldn't take more than an hour if you actually know what you applied for. Once implemented, I started seeing degree after degree and certification after certification stumble through the test. Some took 6 hours (seriously, after 2 hours, you should have left and saved everyone their time). It got so bad I started doubting my test and was in the process of making an easier version until a couple people actually completed it. We hired those who finished the test correctly and they have essentially ended our dry spell of under qualified candidates. Portfolios, and resumes can be inflated and lied on. And background checks help some, but there was one employee who gave us his friends from their old company who would lie for them. Testing them yourself is the best way to filter the unqualified.
I can't say much about other high ABV beers, but Dogfish head's 120 minute IPA (about 18%) is not drank like your typical beer. You drink it at slightly colder than room temperature over a period of an hour. It is a beer you sip, and it will mess you up if you are unaware of its kick.
Language structure implying the syntax. I am well aware that they both are the same underneath (with a few small annoying exceptions). I was merely implying that the syntax sucks. It is the most unfriendly syntax I have come across.
What impact did Java have on computing sciences? Well take that list and multiply it by several generations ahead of Java and that is what you have. And it isn't so much C# as it is the .NET framework which has done this. C# is just syntax that allows you to use the framework. C# just happens to have a very close syntax structure to the C-family of languages.
If you are a glutton for punishment go to VB.NET and code in that horrendous language structure, but still be able to do all the things you could in C#.
What you call obnoxious I call truly epic. O well, different strokes.
When I got hit with the temp-ban, I called them up and told them the same thing, that I have kept my usage in line with the past 5 years. They said that since I was with Adelphia, they had different acceptable usage policies then Comcast (who purchased Adelphia). I knew that I did not download 200GB a month, and hearing people come out and compare their measurements with Comcast reaffirms my position on this matter.
Unfortunately, I have no choice. Dial-up is not a choice for me. If it were, I wouldn't even be in this problem. DSL is not available in my house, and satellite sucks all kinds of fail while being 1/10th as fast as DSL/Cable. And to top it off, they sent me a letter the other day saying they were raising my rates by 20 dollars (unless I get their TV package, which will make it 5 dollars cheaper then what I am paying now. Doesn't make sense).
I probably should have been clearer, b/c the rape goes deeper. I don't have their TV service. Only their Internet service. It is their internet service they are raising 20 dollars a month. Its more like a punishment for not subscribing to the TV services (They told me I can get a 15 dollar discount to my internet if I subscribe to TV too). I don't watch any TV. Last time I watched television with any sort of regularity was when Babylon5 was being aired on TnT.
I wish Comcast would learn from them. I got a letter from them saying they were raising my rates. By 20 bucks! I sure wish I had an alternative, cause I have no choice but to bend over and take it.
Owning a house thing seems like fun, except that it would be limited to actual realestate. Newer players would not enjoy this wonderful feature. Seperate trade skills, Ultima Online was first, but there are many MMOs that have this. And if you want an item of no use just cause you wanted it, that is called loot-whoring. Killing players and taking there gear is bad. Nothing stops higher level players from griefing lower level players. WoW wouldn't be as big as it is now if their new players were constantly harassed.
I have seen this in many MMOs.
UO might be better for you, the hardcore gamer. But WoW is easier on those without much time. It has 9 million people b/c many of the drawbacks of PvP were taken out. I personally don't like WoW though. Tried, it... I hate quest grinding. And I am not fond of a game that breaks old content every 3 months.
So who do you think is the last check/balance when a Bill that is unconstitutional gets signed into law?
I dont think he gave himself that power. In the end, the judges are supposed to interpret law. And since the Constitution is the supreme law of the land, that is what gives them the power to declare a law unconstitutional.
That is great that regular booksmarks work for you. However, many people feel differently about it and is why they are reinventing the way we think about bookmarks. The feature will either sink or swim, but I welcome the attempt at change. Currently I am using google bookmarks, but that is not as fluid as I would like it to be.
Their pay is based on performance for the year. So you would have to actually work the full year. When GP mentioned $2 billion he was talking about the managers who handle the biggest hedge funds in the world. As for the taxes thing, Congress is looking into that right now. Don't think that position will be a tax haven for long.
You are right, it isn't a spectator sport, its an interactive game where people mess around and have fun with eachother without requiring any level of musical inclination. Its kind of the same reason why so many find the wii controller fun too.
I keep hearing this from Lincoln bashers yet they never cite a source. Seriously, enough with the talking points and show where/when he said he was not interested in freeing the slaves. Freeing them most certainly was not a military move since he did not have any jurisdiction at the time in the south. It was more a show of power and control. That he was indeed the President of the U.S. and that the southern states had no right to secede. You think the Emancipation Proclamation actually carried any weight prior to April 1865 in the South?
Lincoln did anything in his power (and many things not in his power) to maintain the Union intact. Much of what he did is looked down upon, just like the Japanese concentration camps during WW2.
Why is it that when Nintendo goes after the 85 year old demographic they are seen as geniuses but when MS says something that is similar (and more plausible considering how widespread music and phones are compared to games) they are chastised?
What Ballmer says has much more truth then most of you would care to admit. What makes more business sense, the tons of Dells/HPs/Alienwares/Whiteboxes of the world running a Microsoft product, or the substantially less number of Macs out in the public running MacOSX? If Mac meets their target for the year, they will have 1% marketshare in the wireless phones market, compared to what already looks like a 70% marketshare of all the MS Pocket PC Phones and MS Smart Phones out there. All this looks like the a repeat of what has already happend with the personal computer market: Apple will make a ton of money, and MS will make 100 times that much.