From a new hire package: Retirement Options Please select the end of the statement you feel most closely matches your lifestyle and personal preferences: When I retire I would like:
to be braised in a white wine reduction.
to be wrapped in banana leaves and buried in a hole full of hot rocks.
Yeah, Android is not a brand and it's not locked down to a brand.
Android just wants to be free.
Oh, and to do everyone's mothers.
So Android just wants to be free and do everyone's mother.
Oh, and dominate the world.
But that's absolutely it. The freedom, the thing with the mothers, and world domination.
If we can work up a deal with Nvidia there should be 3-D images of it all available on your phone soon.**
**Image quality will be excellent. Quality of mothers may vary. We assume no responsibility for emotional scaring.
I know most of you guys hate cookies in general, but they are vital for websites to know how people are accessing the sites so they can work out how to improve the experience for the user.
You can improve my experience by giving me whatever it is I want at this moment, doing it instantly, and doing it at no cost to me! Hey! Where you going? I'm not done improving my experience yet!
In related news, Scientists on the same ship studying shark communication have made a major breakthrough when they repeatedly translated a consistently repeated series of noises from the tagged sharks to mean: "Grab your pointy sticks and climb on down here into the water with us you air breathing little assholes!"
Sure, you say that now. When they can shoot back it will be "No Sir Mr. Computer Sir, I was no where near the UPS when that event happened, you got to believe me, it was someone who resembles me pixel for pixel, OH PLEASE DON"T AIM AT MY GROIN AGAIN!"
I gotta wonder about the line:
'Anyone running IE [Internet Explorer] is at risk here, even though the flaw is not in the browser, but in the Win32k kernel mode driver.' Why aren't users of other browsers on the older Win platforms vulnerable? Is there some other risk or problem that is being ignored or even concealed?
Man, I can't believe I got that out without laughing...
Maybe the answer is robots.txt; but that is not what you tell a billionaire if he asks you.
Right, you should be able to milk at least half a million out of them before you "invent" the solution. I'm thinking some software that will place a file that can magically restrict the activity of google's evil robots.
Right, so they inherited it, Sam earned it. They are the beginnings of "new" old money. They might understand the effort and sacrifice that went into building the empire (because they saw it as they grew up), but THEY did not do the work. That's what sets them apart from the other five of the top ten... the five who actually earned the money with their effort and intellect... regardless of what we think about what they did to get it (Hey Microsoft!), no one handed it to them.
I would have to agree that most millionaires make the money on their own. That being said, a look at the top ten in America shows that half of those people inherited their fortunes (the Waltons).
Gates, William H III
Buffett, Warren Edward
Allen, Paul Gardner
Walton, Helen R
Walton, S Robson
Walton, John T
Walton, Jim C
Walton, Alice L
Ellison, Lawrence Joseph
Ballmer, Steven Anthony
This again comes from the fact that both Windows and Mac OS X releases are properly tested and maintained and tend to be in more professional quality.
But why don't the Linux distros go to same lenghts? It shouldn't be impossible, unless of course, commercial projects are maintained more professionally.
Yes, that plunking down hundreds of dollars for an OS does tend to create some expectations. But it's also true that any Windows user that has been around the block more than once knows better than to upgrade (you could stop the sentence there...) without having a disk image of the old system ready to slap back on the drive. Everyday users are not early adopters and wouldn't know a disk image from an image of Mary in french toast, so they don't count. Likewise if you jump on the latest release of anything that is not running on a controlled (i.e. locked down) hardware platform (hmmm, who does that, anyway? Oh, Hey Mac!) then you can expect to hit some turbulence every now and again.
The early adopters take it in the teeth on many things and they take it in the wallet on most things.
I could go on, but the real point is that when you hang out at the bleeding edge, the blood has to come from somewhere... Right?
The problem is dumping that much power into a battery quickly. I remember reading about buses that captured braking energy by compressing nitrogen gas and then using it immediately to help get rolling again. More recently I read about the same idea with hydraulics instead of gas (pneumatic). This works well for things like buses because they stop so often, but it may also be more efficient for family vehicles in urban driving as well.
Sure. First AOL stops sending me free CD's, now I can't order them from Canonical! My CD burner has been flawless for years... What the hell am I supposed to use for coasters?
Tons of perfectly edible fish are wasted and killed. Many of the discarded fishes are sold on the market for decent prices, they just happen to be landed by the "wrong boat".
Well, nothing edible tossed into the ocean in or near fishing areas is "wasted"... SOMETHING is going to eat that little "fillet o fish from heaven". You think all those birds are circling the boat because they admire the decor? Or, if the birds don't get it, that the food cast aside will just sink to the bottom and rot? If the fishing industry was not forced to toss aside this stuff, the "bycatch" would become much greater, due to profitable accidents. Also, things like shrimp would be "accidentally" taken out of season, when prices should be higher for them.
The way it is now the bycatch is wasted labor for the crew and owner, and that's the incentive that keeps it as low as possible. I do think that fishing areas with unacceptably high bycatch ratios should be off limits... and that shrimp caught in nets have an inexcusably inefficient yield to bycatch ratio in light of the fact that you can raise the damn things in ponds.
We should ask, why do we have 1080i and 720p? Because viewing tests showed that at three picture heights, these resolutions pretty much maxed out the human visual resolution. There was not much to be gained from increased resolution.
Now if you view closer than three picture heights, higher resolution becomes important...
Man, for a second there I thought building my "porn wall" was a bad investment... thanks for clearing that up!
So, I should be 30' away from my 10' tall display? That seems like a waste of floorspace.
You guys are running around producing Immortal caterpillars and noone let me know? Bastards!
I can't wait for the final showdown where they fight with tiny little katanas and broadswords. It's going to be really tough on the little guys because it's hard to tell if you just cut off your opponent's head or only gave him a free Brazilian Butt Lift... There can be only one.
When I read the headline "Data Entry Errors Resulted In Improper Sentences" the first thing that sprang to mind was to append "and sometimes piss poor paragraphs as well."
What I find interesting about TFA is the section on parole boards correcting the mistakes if the error shortened a sentence "So parole boards proved very effective in reversing errors that would have led to shortened prison time; much less so for undeserved extra time." So, if your sentence was too long they really did nothing above and beyond what they did for most all sentences, but if it was too short they caught it and corrected it to some degree.
Now I have to wonder if there are a bunch of lawyers getting revved up to sue on behalf of the people that had to stay in jail longer than the recommended amount of time. I'm pretty sure you can't sue a judge, but the fact that the parole board had corrective power and did not use it properly would seem to be something that would draw the sharks...
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Please select the end of the statement you feel most closely matches your lifestyle and personal preferences:
When I retire I would like:
Yeah, Android is not a brand and it's not locked down to a brand.
Android just wants to be free.
Oh, and to do everyone's mothers.
So Android just wants to be free and do everyone's mother.
Oh, and dominate the world.
But that's absolutely it. The freedom, the thing with the mothers, and world domination.
If we can work up a deal with Nvidia there should be 3-D images of it all available on your phone soon.**
**Image quality will be excellent. Quality of mothers may vary. We assume no responsibility for emotional scaring.
I know most of you guys hate cookies in general, but they are vital for websites to know how people are accessing the sites so they can work out how to improve the experience for the user.
You can improve my experience by giving me whatever it is I want at this moment, doing it instantly, and doing it at no cost to me!
Hey! Where you going?
I'm not done improving my experience yet!
...Or call the BSA. Of course if you're going to do that, better not to identify yourself by bringing your concern to management first.
It would seem that ship has already sailed in this case. Maybe they can cash in on reward money!
https://reporting.bsa.org/usa/rewardsconditions.aspx
I hope so. I want to see them upgrade their own firmware over a wireless connection...
Oh, who wants Microwave Pizza?
NOOOooooooo..... CARRIER
If I could hack her heart, she'd really love me...
Or Else!
This really puts a whole new twist on the phrase "kill switch"... I would have to learn to speak new phrases like "Yes, I AM just going to sit here."
How did their marketing department miss this?
"DiamonDisc archive solutions... it's the pits!"
Sometimes this stuff just writes itself... where do I send my resume?
at our current high tech stuff, there can't be that many reason to worry about 1,000 year retention.
Personally I'll be hoping we make it past next Tuesday..
In related news, Scientists on the same ship studying shark communication have made a major breakthrough when they repeatedly translated a consistently repeated series of noises from the tagged sharks to mean:
"Grab your pointy sticks and climb on down here into the water with us you air breathing little assholes!"
I wish people would check their facts. He MADE a light bulb out of 200 peanuts... and once it had been on for a few minutes it smelled delicious!
Sure, you say that now.
When they can shoot back it will be "No Sir Mr. Computer Sir, I was no where near the UPS when that event happened, you got to believe me, it was someone who resembles me pixel for pixel, OH PLEASE DON"T AIM AT MY GROIN AGAIN!"
Gomez
I gotta wonder about the line:
'Anyone running IE [Internet Explorer] is at risk here, even though the flaw is not in the browser, but in the Win32k kernel mode driver.'
Why aren't users of other browsers on the older Win platforms vulnerable? Is there some other risk or problem that is being ignored or even concealed?
Man, I can't believe I got that out without laughing...
Sure, but the output is on a 5x24 pixel array of red LEDs spaced about a half inch apart...
Maybe the answer is robots.txt; but that is not what you tell a billionaire if he asks you.
Right, you should be able to milk at least half a million out of them before you "invent" the solution. I'm thinking some software that will place a file that can magically restrict the activity of google's evil robots.
Right, so they inherited it, Sam earned it. They are the beginnings of "new" old money. They might understand the effort and sacrifice that went into building the empire (because they saw it as they grew up), but THEY did not do the work. That's what sets them apart from the other five of the top ten... the five who actually earned the money with their effort and intellect... regardless of what we think about what they did to get it (Hey Microsoft!), no one handed it to them.
I would have to agree that most millionaires make the money on their own. That being said, a look at the top ten in America shows that half of those people inherited their fortunes (the Waltons).
Gates, William H III
Buffett, Warren Edward
Allen, Paul Gardner
Walton, Helen R
Walton, S Robson
Walton, John T
Walton, Jim C
Walton, Alice L
Ellison, Lawrence Joseph
Ballmer, Steven Anthony
Detailed Forbes List
It is also interesting to note that the top two (Gates and Buffett) are pretty much double anyone even close to them.
This again comes from the fact that both Windows and Mac OS X releases are properly tested and maintained and tend to be in more professional quality.
But why don't the Linux distros go to same lenghts? It shouldn't be impossible, unless of course, commercial projects are maintained more professionally.
Yes, that plunking down hundreds of dollars for an OS does tend to create some expectations. But it's also true that any Windows user that has been around the block more than once knows better than to upgrade (you could stop the sentence there...) without having a disk image of the old system ready to slap back on the drive. Everyday users are not early adopters and wouldn't know a disk image from an image of Mary in french toast, so they don't count. Likewise if you jump on the latest release of anything that is not running on a controlled (i.e. locked down) hardware platform (hmmm, who does that, anyway? Oh, Hey Mac!) then you can expect to hit some turbulence every now and again.
The early adopters take it in the teeth on many things and they take it in the wallet on most things.
I could go on, but the real point is that when you hang out at the bleeding edge, the blood has to come from somewhere... Right?
The problem is dumping that much power into a battery quickly. I remember reading about buses that captured braking energy by compressing nitrogen gas and then using it immediately to help get rolling again. More recently I read about the same idea with hydraulics instead of gas (pneumatic). This works well for things like buses because they stop so often, but it may also be more efficient for family vehicles in urban driving as well.
...nanoscale crystal that traps both light and sound...
It's only a matter of time before some idiot unleashes... nano disco...(sob)
Sure. First AOL stops sending me free CD's, now I can't order them from Canonical! My CD burner has been flawless for years... What the hell am I supposed to use for coasters?
Tons of perfectly edible fish are wasted and killed. Many of the discarded fishes are sold on the market for decent prices, they just happen to be landed by the "wrong boat".
Well, nothing edible tossed into the ocean in or near fishing areas is "wasted"... SOMETHING is going to eat that little "fillet o fish from heaven". You think all those birds are circling the boat because they admire the decor? Or, if the birds don't get it, that the food cast aside will just sink to the bottom and rot? If the fishing industry was not forced to toss aside this stuff, the "bycatch" would become much greater, due to profitable accidents. Also, things like shrimp would be "accidentally" taken out of season, when prices should be higher for them.
The way it is now the bycatch is wasted labor for the crew and owner, and that's the incentive that keeps it as low as possible. I do think that fishing areas with unacceptably high bycatch ratios should be off limits... and that shrimp caught in nets have an inexcusably inefficient yield to bycatch ratio in light of the fact that you can raise the damn things in ponds.
720p ought to be enough for just about anybody.
We should ask, why do we have 1080i and 720p? Because viewing tests showed that at three picture heights, these resolutions pretty much maxed out the human visual resolution. There was not much to be gained from increased resolution.
Now if you view closer than three picture heights, higher resolution becomes important...
Man, for a second there I thought building my "porn wall" was a bad investment... thanks for clearing that up!
So, I should be 30' away from my 10' tall display? That seems like a waste of floorspace.
You guys are running around producing Immortal caterpillars and noone let me know? Bastards!
I can't wait for the final showdown where they fight with tiny little katanas and broadswords. It's going to be really tough on the little guys because it's hard to tell if you just cut off your opponent's head or only gave him a free Brazilian Butt Lift... There can be only one.
When I read the headline "Data Entry Errors Resulted In Improper Sentences" the first thing that sprang to mind was to append "and sometimes piss poor paragraphs as well."
What I find interesting about TFA is the section on parole boards correcting the mistakes if the error shortened a sentence "So parole boards proved very effective in reversing errors that would have led to shortened prison time; much less so for undeserved extra time." So, if your sentence was too long they really did nothing above and beyond what they did for most all sentences, but if it was too short they caught it and corrected it to some degree.
Now I have to wonder if there are a bunch of lawyers getting revved up to sue on behalf of the people that had to stay in jail longer than the recommended amount of time. I'm pretty sure you can't sue a judge, but the fact that the parole board had corrective power and did not use it properly would seem to be something that would draw the sharks...