And in DIR terminology (DIR= Doing it right = a very strict diving system), "noobs" are refered to as strokes.
I'm pretty sure that DIR and GUE analists would refer to much of slashdot the same way - I have zero use for those arrogant assholes.
Although some of the philosophy, rational, and developed techniques and equipment placement and choices are quite good, the prevailing attitude of the DIR diver at goes with it puts people off to the point that they are irrelevant and ignored. I do subscribe to the idea that there are people with cave cards that have no business with them (just like US drivers licenses), I just think that some of those with that "i'm better than everyone else, and you're a stroke" attitude should be barred too. The focus should be on saving lives, not on pissing off people in the same hole you're in.
yes, yes, you can still get your inter-webs.
on a more serious note: SP2 can still be exploited? after 6 whole years in the wild? Who would have ever thought that could have happened?
Palm Pre exists on ATT and Verizon...are you suggesting Palm can do this but not Apple?
Not "can't", "won't."
And Palm did so very well with the Pre, don't you think? I wonder if it's because Apple is making better marketing choices than Palm did.
Which effectively means, don't post anything on the Internet. You never know when something that seems innocent might some day be something you would have preferred to keep private.
I don't think you're strapping THAT to your back, unless you're the Stay-Puft marshmallow man, in which case we have to classify you as a fire hazard, but the nuclear accelerator is fine....
I've read many comments about "bad customer service" but I'm not sure that they are accurate:
Those customers who are savvy enough to make an informed choice are not going to be affected by this policy and will interact with knowledgeable frendly CSR's or weak stupid CSR's and this policy would have no bearing on customer service, since they will pay attention, know their options, and ask for the services and options.
Those that don't will encounter the same good or bad CSR's and forge ahead in blissful ignorance. Either way, a management directive to not offer some services and only implement if the customer asks seems to me to be one of those things that many corporations do all the time - it doesn't matter if they offer CSR's a bonus for upsales, train them to offer premium services first, or issue a written mandate to respond to services that cut income only on request.
In any case, I don't think we're talking about customer service. Verizon could respond quickly, have low wait times, and have high solution rates, yielding high levels of customer satisfaction (not saying they DO, just that they could) and this policy still be in place. This strikes me more of those "one more things" that people tack on when they are already aggravated, ratyher than "one of those things" that actually aggravates them.
Last I checked, every child in the United States is entitled to a free education up to the 12th grade. If one has to pay even $0.01 a month to get an education, then the education is not free.
ROFLMAO
every CHILD might be entitled to a free education, but every Property owner has to pay for it - There Aint No Such Thing As A Free Lunch - so if it would mak you happier, then they could tack it onto your property taxes, and solve the problem....
PARTS of MS Office is in OS X. Outlook is not. PowerPoint is not. The statistical [and other] add-ins for Excel are not (nor any of the other extremely useful VBA stuff).
My copy of MS Office came with Powerpoint, a mac email client with exchange connectivity, and excel add ons, but you are right that Visual Basic is not supported.
Isn't this the same argument Mac and Linux people made to the pro Windows contingent 5 years ago? What was the argument then? Oh, yes, I remember - technical support costs are less when we only have to support one platform....
Not surprisingly most of us will agree that the all-one-platform is a bad idea, particularly when the school system is forcing the student into a 900.00 purchase. But, there really isn't a good solution I've heard yet to cover the problem of when the student needs a laptop and the system doesn't have the funds to put one in the students hands. And I don't think it matters what platform it is, we 'd be having the same discussion if the platform was Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD, or colormeelmo.
Suppose I were the parent of an underprivileged child. Suppose I live paycheck-to-paycheck, and don't have room in my budget for this. What the hell is the school going to do when I refuse to adhere to this absurdity? Fail my child? This wreaks of something illegal.
RFTA: if you choose not to or are unable to participate, your child will be able to use a loaner during school, but not take the loaner home.
Others have expressed the detail, so I won't be redundant, but the J58 is on the extreme end of Jet technology even today, and that was the point of my analogy.
Those airliner engines you mention produce more thrust and are more economical to operate and to maintain, by a very healthy margin. However, they are only good up to about 500 kts or so, as opposed to the 2000+ kts the J58 is capable of. Nor will they function at all about 60000 feet, whereas the j58 will at full or nearly full thrust. So, in comparison, modern airline engines of which you speak are not in the same class of tech, nor would you expect them to be, since their purposes are far different.
On a side note; it's note related to the tech of the engines themselves, of course, but those airline engines also will never push as pretty an airframe through the air, wich disqualifies them on the asthetic front too.... {smile}
I'm not trying to downplay the engineering involved with testing jet engines, but really, using the J58 as an example of a jet engine is like using an atom bomb as an example of an explosion.
Their failure is that the safeguards they had in place weren't sufficient to stop the problem from happening in the first place
That appears to be a bit of disingenuous spin. You might be right, the safeguards that were SUPPOSED to be in place might have been insufficient, but we'll never know, since even the safeguards that were supposed to be in place were not, and they knew that and continued anyway.
only in that it made a real mess of the harbour - what we should have don is wrapped the tea in some red wool teabags before we dropped it in to steep.
(1) It instantly blisters skin on contact (3) Not only is it good for eating...
I'm having a hard time reconciling the first clause of fact #3 with fact #1.
That's because "Fact" 1 isn't. I've been handling all sorts of hot peppers for many years, and the particularly hot ones are very capable of producing a burning sensation on the skin just like in your mouth. And Rubbing your eyes inadvertently will ruin your evening, there is no doubt. But blistering? I sup[pose it could happen if you had an allergic reaction, but that's not even remotely going to be a common thing.
It's been my experience that dealers and vendors are really in to hyping the dangers of the sauces that are typically named "Loco", Death" and "Devil" based scary named variations.. And well they should, it's really good for business, and selling product is what they do.
I love the fucking hypocrisy around sex in USA. Sure, violence and killing people is all okay, but when it's about natural human function like sex it's all bad and must be hidden.
Your comparison seems to imply that you don't believe that violence is a natural human function. I submit that it is.
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And in DIR terminology (DIR= Doing it right = a very strict diving system), "noobs" are refered to as strokes.
I'm pretty sure that DIR and GUE analists would refer to much of slashdot the same way - I have zero use for those arrogant assholes. Although some of the philosophy, rational, and developed techniques and equipment placement and choices are quite good, the prevailing attitude of the DIR diver at goes with it puts people off to the point that they are irrelevant and ignored. I do subscribe to the idea that there are people with cave cards that have no business with them (just like US drivers licenses), I just think that some of those with that "i'm better than everyone else, and you're a stroke" attitude should be barred too. The focus should be on saving lives, not on pissing off people in the same hole you're in.
Is it 3G and does it have the wifis?
yes, yes, you can still get your inter-webs. on a more serious note: SP2 can still be exploited? after 6 whole years in the wild? Who would have ever thought that could have happened?
If we did that, the roads would never get built. That just how America works!
Didn't you mean that's how America "Doesn't" work?
well, then they'd have to cut off an !odd appendage
Palm Pre exists on ATT and Verizon...are you suggesting Palm can do this but not Apple?
Not "can't", "won't."
And Palm did so very well with the Pre, don't you think? I wonder if it's because Apple is making better marketing choices than Palm did.
Which effectively means, don't post anything on the Internet. You never know when something that seems innocent might some day be something you would have preferred to keep private.
That, There, is the definition of Irony!
I don't think you're strapping THAT to your back, unless you're the Stay-Puft marshmallow man, in which case we have to classify you as a fire hazard, but the nuclear accelerator is fine....
I've read many comments about "bad customer service" but I'm not sure that they are accurate: Those customers who are savvy enough to make an informed choice are not going to be affected by this policy and will interact with knowledgeable frendly CSR's or weak stupid CSR's and this policy would have no bearing on customer service, since they will pay attention, know their options, and ask for the services and options. Those that don't will encounter the same good or bad CSR's and forge ahead in blissful ignorance. Either way, a management directive to not offer some services and only implement if the customer asks seems to me to be one of those things that many corporations do all the time - it doesn't matter if they offer CSR's a bonus for upsales, train them to offer premium services first, or issue a written mandate to respond to services that cut income only on request. In any case, I don't think we're talking about customer service. Verizon could respond quickly, have low wait times, and have high solution rates, yielding high levels of customer satisfaction (not saying they DO, just that they could) and this policy still be in place. This strikes me more of those "one more things" that people tack on when they are already aggravated, ratyher than "one of those things" that actually aggravates them.
Last I checked, every child in the United States is entitled to a free education up to the 12th grade. If one has to pay even $0.01 a month to get an education, then the education is not free.
ROFLMAO every CHILD might be entitled to a free education, but every Property owner has to pay for it - There Aint No Such Thing As A Free Lunch - so if it would mak you happier, then they could tack it onto your property taxes, and solve the problem....
PARTS of MS Office is in OS X. Outlook is not. PowerPoint is not. The statistical [and other] add-ins for Excel are not (nor any of the other extremely useful VBA stuff).
My copy of MS Office came with Powerpoint, a mac email client with exchange connectivity, and excel add ons, but you are right that Visual Basic is not supported.
Isn't this the same argument Mac and Linux people made to the pro Windows contingent 5 years ago? What was the argument then? Oh, yes, I remember - technical support costs are less when we only have to support one platform.... Not surprisingly most of us will agree that the all-one-platform is a bad idea, particularly when the school system is forcing the student into a 900.00 purchase. But, there really isn't a good solution I've heard yet to cover the problem of when the student needs a laptop and the system doesn't have the funds to put one in the students hands. And I don't think it matters what platform it is, we 'd be having the same discussion if the platform was Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD, or colormeelmo.
Suppose I were the parent of an underprivileged child. Suppose I live paycheck-to-paycheck, and don't have room in my budget for this. What the hell is the school going to do when I refuse to adhere to this absurdity? Fail my child? This wreaks of something illegal.
RFTA: if you choose not to or are unable to participate, your child will be able to use a loaner during school, but not take the loaner home.
IOW, you have no idea what netbook means.
Sure, it's that thing that doesn't do things as well as the apple thing does.... I saw that in a commercial last night.
Pretty, though!
Others have expressed the detail, so I won't be redundant, but the J58 is on the extreme end of Jet technology even today, and that was the point of my analogy. Those airliner engines you mention produce more thrust and are more economical to operate and to maintain, by a very healthy margin. However, they are only good up to about 500 kts or so, as opposed to the 2000+ kts the J58 is capable of. Nor will they function at all about 60000 feet, whereas the j58 will at full or nearly full thrust. So, in comparison, modern airline engines of which you speak are not in the same class of tech, nor would you expect them to be, since their purposes are far different. On a side note; it's note related to the tech of the engines themselves, of course, but those airline engines also will never push as pretty an airframe through the air, wich disqualifies them on the asthetic front too.... {smile}
I'm not trying to downplay the engineering involved with testing jet engines, but really, using the J58 as an example of a jet engine is like using an atom bomb as an example of an explosion.
So, are you suggesting we shove Paul Riser into the well head first?
Their failure is that the safeguards they had in place weren't sufficient to stop the problem from happening in the first place
That appears to be a bit of disingenuous spin. You might be right, the safeguards that were SUPPOSED to be in place might have been insufficient, but we'll never know, since even the safeguards that were supposed to be in place were not, and they knew that and continued anyway.
congratulations, that's officially the worst idea i've ever heard.
You don't get out much, I'm guessing, if that's the worse you've ever heard.
smile - thanks for that - I haven't played with Eliza in ages.
only in that it made a real mess of the harbour - what we should have don is wrapped the tea in some red wool teabags before we dropped it in to steep.
(1) It instantly blisters skin on contact
(3) Not only is it good for eating...
I'm having a hard time reconciling the first clause of fact #3 with fact #1.
That's because "Fact" 1 isn't.
I've been handling all sorts of hot peppers for many years, and the particularly hot ones are very capable of producing a burning sensation on the skin just like in your mouth. And Rubbing your eyes inadvertently will ruin your evening, there is no doubt. But blistering? I sup[pose it could happen if you had an allergic reaction, but that's not even remotely going to be a common thing.
It's been my experience that dealers and vendors are really in to hyping the dangers of the sauces that are typically named "Loco", Death" and "Devil" based scary named variations.. And well they should, it's really good for business, and selling product is what they do.
I love the fucking hypocrisy around sex in USA. Sure, violence and killing people is all okay, but when it's about natural human function like sex it's all bad and must be hidden.
Your comparison seems to imply that you don't believe that violence is a natural human function. I submit that it is.
Warning - a lot of things look like they follow a power law.
Exactly. And in case it doesn't fit into a power law, you can probably make it fit into a Gaussian distribution.
at which point it all becomes a blur
What the hell is a Bogon?
Is it resistant to Vogon poetry?