I have a PT Cruiser, and it's been a reliable ride. It's 6 years old, and I haven't had a bit of trouble yet... plus the PT Cruiser (at least back in 2004) was a Consumer Reports "Best Buy" and by far the highest rated Chrysler vehicle. It has great SUV-like seating with a good view of the road and very small blind spot, the back seats have tons of rooms for friends or kids, and the Turbo edition (which I have) is peppy enough to even be somewhat fun to drive.
In short, I don't think there's anything institutionally wrong with PT Cruisers. He just happened to get a lemon-- that happens from time to time with all auto makers.
The moon (and a lot of the space program) was sold as a way to put nukes somewhere where the enemy couldn't sabotage them. The first country to be able to launch nukes from the moon would win the Cold War-- but it turned out a lot harder than we first imagined, so they pretended to do a bunch of science instead. News flash: the moon has rocks and dust!!
Hey, be fair. There's something to be said for goofy hobby projects-- like the people who spend thousands of dollars building pumpkin launchers, for example. If that's the spirit in which this all is intended, then hell-- why not? "Building a rocket" just becomes an event to hang around with goofy people and drink beer.
That said, the poster of this story seems to serious for that, and their website is completely busted.
With any luck, they won't get close enough to a working rocket to actually kill anybody, though-- I think that's about the best you can hope for. Then it would turn tragic. (Right now it's just hilarious. To me, at least.)
Cars were first made using private loans, not government loans.
I get your example, but it doesn't apply in this case frankly. We all get that the trickle down effect exists, but that doesn't explain why the *government* is involved in this... that part you haven't addressed.
A better example might be passenger jets, which were developed (basically) with Department of Defense money.
I think he's playing a Civilization mod that has war trolls and magic? At least, everything other than the trolls and sorcerer's guild is in Civilization 4 already.
I've also ordered a 130-in-one electronics kit for my daughter because I remember how much fun I had with mine. Alas, Radio Shack no longer sells them...
Indeed, I could holler over my cubicle wall, "Remember Code Red?" or "Just like Nimda" and four people will join in a collective groan of agreement.
Yeah, remember when we were hit by these viruses using flaws that had been patched months before because our IT department is full of incompetent morons? Remember how a simple firewall would have completely neutralized the threat to our SQL servers?
Seriously, that says nothing about Microsoft. It does say something about your IT department.
Windows 3.1 was released in, what, 1993? 17 years ago. So the majority of slashdot posters are less than 17 years of age, by your reasoning. I find that unlikely as the median age in the US is 36.7 years of age. That is where most slashdot posters are located...
Yes. Obviously I was posting a well-researched and indisputable fact and not at all engaging in hyperbole.
By the way, you might (correctly) initially read that last sentence as sarcasm... but considering your ignorance of literary devices, I doubt it.
Since System 7 didn't have a TCP/IP stack, you picked something of a bad example.:) MacTCP wasn't standard equipment until much later, either 7.5 or 7.6.
I think you have rose-colored glasses on, frankly. Every OS sucked back then, to pretty much the same degree.
Ok so we gave the IT people at these companies, what, 5 solid years of goodwill? (A little less, I guess... IE7 came out in October of 2006.)
At what point does the goodwill run out and we all collectively say, "hey, get your fucking act together al-fucking-ready!!" I know personally, I've been saying that at least the last year.
If you work at one of these companies "stuck" on IE6: Get your fucking act together al-fucking-ready!" You've slacked enough, get to work.
The only reason it's a step in the right direction is because every other browser has dragged Microsoft kicking and screaming into the present. They certainly wouldn't have done it on their own...
Why would Microsoft bother to allocate resources to a web browser with no effective competition? It's almost as if-- by Mozilla getting their fucking act together led to IE having competition which led to new versions of IE! Amazement!!
It's almost as if you're beginning to recognize the actual implications of a company being a "monopoly." Now imagine what the world would be like if Netscape hadn't dropped the ball in the first place, back in the IE 5.5 era. Your brain will explode, but imagine it anyway.
If you want good software from Microsoft, compete with them.
Half the people on this site probably weren't even alive when Windows 3.1 came out... could you guys give the pointless Microsoft bashing a rest? Just once, ever?
Could we maybe just get over it instead of posting another "LOLZ Microsoft BOB is bad guyz!!"
For a somewhat relevant example, look into why Cessna stopped producing general aviation aircraft. (Hint: getting sued after crashes of poorly-maintained, 50-year-old planes was a factor.)
I've invented an extension to DNS that automatically prevents accidental access to any web page that includes the term "game changing." I think it deserves a couple mil at least.
all afghani girls who for years could not go to school (did we give asylum to all that requested?)
Did any Afghani girls come to the US and claim Asylum? I don't know of any cases.
all the africans who cannot go to school because of social problems (did we give asylum to all that requested?)
Did any of these Africans you mention come to the US and claim Asylum? I don't know of any cases.
Clearly shows how racist and politically biased the courts are: a group of (likely) right wing white people always get precedence over some poor 3rd world, brown-skinned, poor fellow...
You have an interesting definition of the word "clearly." You haven't provided a single example supporting your case at all, in fact-- pretty much the opposite of "clear."
It's a lot more likely that Racism is your pet issue and you're really, really stretching to make this a Racism issue and not a Freedom of Speech issue.
Even more style guidelines frown upon mixing tabs & spaces than just tabs alone.
Well, yah, I understand that.
But in this case, you're not "mixing" them by any normal definition of the term-- you're using tabs to set the correct tab-level, then using spaces to pad to where you want the cursor. It's not like you hit Tab-Space-Space-Tab-Tab... that would be crazy and obviously wrong. (Plus, with how tabs work, it wouldn't work right anyway.)
Then again, why do you need to line up the text in the first place? Why not just put the open comment on a different line, which is what I often do. Or simply let the second line be two spaces further in than the first, that's not going to crack open the sky and bring disaster to us all.
It all depends on how you do it. I usually do it like this:
Yeah, well the point is that all of those things can be done perfectly well using only tabs, making the argument completely invalid.
The "picture of the code" includes everything with the textual layout of the code, everything visual. Tabs, being non-printable characters, can be rendered in different ways from the author's intention, creating the potential for loss in transferable meaning. Tabs have semantics of "increase the indent level", while spaces are non-semantic pixels that the author is, in a sense, "painting code". How well the author "paints" adds or reduces value.
That reply is still far too vague. I honestly still have no clue what you're talking about from a practical perspective... please give me an example of what can be lost. A practical example, something I can really bite into.
Here in the US, public school salaries can't pay for a Unix admin capable of setting up an entire school system in 2 months. I can't speak for New Zealand... but here schools have enough trouble finding competent Windows admins, considering their budget.
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I have a PT Cruiser, and it's been a reliable ride. It's 6 years old, and I haven't had a bit of trouble yet... plus the PT Cruiser (at least back in 2004) was a Consumer Reports "Best Buy" and by far the highest rated Chrysler vehicle. It has great SUV-like seating with a good view of the road and very small blind spot, the back seats have tons of rooms for friends or kids, and the Turbo edition (which I have) is peppy enough to even be somewhat fun to drive.
In short, I don't think there's anything institutionally wrong with PT Cruisers. He just happened to get a lemon-- that happens from time to time with all auto makers.
Thank God I only buy Chryslers!! :)
The moon (and a lot of the space program) was sold as a way to put nukes somewhere where the enemy couldn't sabotage them. The first country to be able to launch nukes from the moon would win the Cold War-- but it turned out a lot harder than we first imagined, so they pretended to do a bunch of science instead. News flash: the moon has rocks and dust!!
I think the theory is to create spectacular-looking images to attract investors. Either that, or they're only faking a moon landing...
Hey, be fair. There's something to be said for goofy hobby projects-- like the people who spend thousands of dollars building pumpkin launchers, for example. If that's the spirit in which this all is intended, then hell-- why not? "Building a rocket" just becomes an event to hang around with goofy people and drink beer.
That said, the poster of this story seems to serious for that, and their website is completely busted.
Hey! Hope springs eternal!!
With any luck, they won't get close enough to a working rocket to actually kill anybody, though-- I think that's about the best you can hope for. Then it would turn tragic. (Right now it's just hilarious. To me, at least.)
If a solution doesn't take into account human psychology, it's a failed solution.
Cars were first made using private loans, not government loans.
I get your example, but it doesn't apply in this case frankly. We all get that the trickle down effect exists, but that doesn't explain why the *government* is involved in this... that part you haven't addressed.
A better example might be passenger jets, which were developed (basically) with Department of Defense money.
I think he's playing a Civilization mod that has war trolls and magic? At least, everything other than the trolls and sorcerer's guild is in Civilization 4 already.
I've also ordered a 130-in-one electronics kit for my daughter because I remember how much fun I had with mine. Alas, Radio Shack no longer sells them...
Yes they do: http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3814337
You're so busy being nostalgic that you forgot to actually fact-check your post.
Indeed, I could holler over my cubicle wall, "Remember Code Red?" or "Just like Nimda" and four people will join in a collective groan of agreement.
Yeah, remember when we were hit by these viruses using flaws that had been patched months before because our IT department is full of incompetent morons? Remember how a simple firewall would have completely neutralized the threat to our SQL servers?
Seriously, that says nothing about Microsoft. It does say something about your IT department.
Windows 3.1 was released in, what, 1993? 17 years ago. So the majority of slashdot posters are less than 17 years of age, by your reasoning. I find that unlikely as the median age in the US is 36.7 years of age. That is where most slashdot posters are located...
Yes. Obviously I was posting a well-researched and indisputable fact and not at all engaging in hyperbole.
By the way, you might (correctly) initially read that last sentence as sarcasm... but considering your ignorance of literary devices, I doubt it.
Since System 7 didn't have a TCP/IP stack, you picked something of a bad example. :) MacTCP wasn't standard equipment until much later, either 7.5 or 7.6.
I think you have rose-colored glasses on, frankly. Every OS sucked back then, to pretty much the same degree.
Ok so we gave the IT people at these companies, what, 5 solid years of goodwill? (A little less, I guess... IE7 came out in October of 2006.)
At what point does the goodwill run out and we all collectively say, "hey, get your fucking act together al-fucking-ready!!" I know personally, I've been saying that at least the last year.
If you work at one of these companies "stuck" on IE6: Get your fucking act together al-fucking-ready!" You've slacked enough, get to work.
The only reason it's a step in the right direction is because every other browser has dragged Microsoft kicking and screaming into the present. They certainly wouldn't have done it on their own...
Why would Microsoft bother to allocate resources to a web browser with no effective competition? It's almost as if-- by Mozilla getting their fucking act together led to IE having competition which led to new versions of IE! Amazement!!
It's almost as if you're beginning to recognize the actual implications of a company being a "monopoly." Now imagine what the world would be like if Netscape hadn't dropped the ball in the first place, back in the IE 5.5 era. Your brain will explode, but imagine it anyway.
If you want good software from Microsoft, compete with them.
Half the people on this site probably weren't even alive when Windows 3.1 came out... could you guys give the pointless Microsoft bashing a rest? Just once, ever?
Could we maybe just get over it instead of posting another "LOLZ Microsoft BOB is bad guyz!!"
This shit pisses me off.
For a somewhat relevant example, look into why Cessna stopped producing general aviation aircraft. (Hint: getting sued after crashes of poorly-maintained, 50-year-old planes was a factor.)
I've invented an extension to DNS that automatically prevents accidental access to any web page that includes the term "game changing." I think it deserves a couple mil at least.
all afghani girls who for years could not go to school (did we give asylum to all that requested?)
Did any Afghani girls come to the US and claim Asylum? I don't know of any cases.
all the africans who cannot go to school because of social problems (did we give asylum to all that requested?)
Did any of these Africans you mention come to the US and claim Asylum? I don't know of any cases.
Clearly shows how racist and politically biased the courts are: a group of (likely) right wing white people always get precedence over some poor 3rd world, brown-skinned, poor fellow...
You have an interesting definition of the word "clearly." You haven't provided a single example supporting your case at all, in fact-- pretty much the opposite of "clear."
It's a lot more likely that Racism is your pet issue and you're really, really stretching to make this a Racism issue and not a Freedom of Speech issue.
Wasn't that the plot of that "Red Planet" movie? Or close to it... I think there was something about exploding bugs too.
To find out how many water parks they have. (I hear in the future that Earth will have the most water parks of any civilization we communicate with!)
That plan works perfectly because it's obviously completely impossible to have two different OSes in a single house.
Even more style guidelines frown upon mixing tabs & spaces than just tabs alone.
Well, yah, I understand that.
But in this case, you're not "mixing" them by any normal definition of the term-- you're using tabs to set the correct tab-level, then using spaces to pad to where you want the cursor. It's not like you hit Tab-Space-Space-Tab-Tab... that would be crazy and obviously wrong. (Plus, with how tabs work, it wouldn't work right anyway.)
Then again, why do you need to line up the text in the first place? Why not just put the open comment on a different line, which is what I often do. Or simply let the second line be two spaces further in than the first, that's not going to crack open the sky and bring disaster to us all.
It all depends on how you do it. I usually do it like this:
Yeah, well the point is that all of those things can be done perfectly well using only tabs, making the argument completely invalid.
The "picture of the code" includes everything with the textual layout of the code, everything visual. Tabs, being non-printable characters, can be rendered in different ways from the author's intention, creating the potential for loss in transferable meaning. Tabs have semantics of "increase the indent level", while spaces are non-semantic pixels that the author is, in a sense, "painting code". How well the author "paints" adds or reduces value.
That reply is still far too vague. I honestly still have no clue what you're talking about from a practical perspective... please give me an example of what can be lost. A practical example, something I can really bite into.
Here in the US, public school salaries can't pay for a Unix admin capable of setting up an entire school system in 2 months. I can't speak for New Zealand... but here schools have enough trouble finding competent Windows admins, considering their budget.