"The global body didn't let us do what we wanted so we're just going to fucking go our own way anyway."
Looks like they learned from the WMD/Iraq War debacle...
Oh, I REALLY don't miss the 80s mouse, especially those god-awful rubber track-balls that you had to remove every once in a while. It was regularly necessary to pick and scratch the layer of stubborn detritus off the shitty little roller bars inside. The fucking ball would always fall and roll into the darkness somewhere under the desk too. All at a time when 'ergonomics' meant shaping mice like Russian sedan cars of the same period.
The point I was trying to make is that sometimes a specialist device is really ergonomic and good at the job, even if other devices can technically achieve the same end.
"When I started my career back in the early 1990s, every floor had a 'urinal' in the bathroom. The urinal was how your co-workers, customers, friends and family emptied their bladders during the business day. It had a few features that everyone used — upright pissing position, automatic flush, quick drainage, three-way pissing (if you didn't mind standing close together). This was before personal chamber pots or shitting at work was allowed, so the urinal was basically the one and only means of bladder relief in the office. Flash forward 20 years. Today I have a chamber pot, directors en-suite, several scented flavors of toilet stalls, the squat toilet for foreign visitors and several flavors of collaboration urinals including along against-the-wall ones, center circle ones. My wife and daughter pee on the chamber pot. My co-workers who are too lazy or passive aggressive to put the toilet seat down in the stalls. My brother in Iraq uses the squat toilet. I use the directors toilet with built-in bidet and heated seat. The old along-the-wall urinal sits there gathering dust. I use it for conference calls-of-nature a few times each month. I'm sure that there are sales people out there who would rather give up a body part than their trusty office urinal, but do any of the rest of us need them? Around here, the younger engineers frequently unplug them and stick them in a cabinet to free up desk space, it makes a real fucking mess of the floor. Are the days of the office urinal (and the office urinal plumbing) at an end?"
Linux already far and away the dominant server OS in big enterprise, except for things like exchange and maybe sharepoint. My company is one of the top US companies with more than 80,000 employees worldwide and we're even starting to see some uptake of Linux desktops replacing windows for certain kinds of developer. For the record, I vastly prefer windows 7 to any linux desktop I've ever used and I hate MacOSX, but all things considered, I would never let windows anywhere near any of my servers. PuTTY is my view to the world...
because of people racing to try to get through the light so that they wouldn't get ticketed, failing to do so, and thus being at an unsafe speed at the time of collision.
How is this insightful and why the fuck are they trying to get through the light? That's retarded and so are you for justifying accidents this way. In the UK people who speed up to get through on yellow lights are called 'amber gamblers'. As a safety measure however, the lights on the tangential flow don't actually go green for a few seconds after the lights go red precisely to prevent these asshats killing someone. You take the risk, you get your ticket and it's right that we ticket them while providing safety to other road users.
It sounds like these new US stop-light safety features are in their infancy but showing some promising signs of improvement. It may need driver education and tweaking in some locations. Things like yellow light times appropriate to traffic speed, sufficient distance from the light to the junction to prevent rear-end accidents pushing cars into the intersection, or to slow down after overshooting a red light. Putting your foot down into cross traffic is only an option for people who probably are too inattentive or irresponsible to be on the road anyway. In addition, rear-ending a car because you're tail-gating and not paying attention to the lights is clearly the rear drivers fault.
Red light cameras do not merely encourage positive behavior. They equally encourage both positive behavior and far more reckless behavior, and on average, make things worse according to nearly every metric.
That's like saying laser pens encourage dazzling 747 pilots. You don't HAVE to be a total asshole on the road. There will always be dangerous drivers trying to persist in their bad habits regardless. Then additionally there are the vocal reckless pricks such as yourself trying to convince everyone and anyone that it's justifiable. We should be doing everything we can to make it as unappealing as possible for this behavior to continue. Please hand in your license on the way out...
I was being flippant, but yes, that's what I'm saying. They're building products where the 'special feature' such as it's retina display, 4G LTE chip, A6 processor and so on are manufactured and of designed by NOT Apple. Other companies come up with new tech and Apple figure out how to get someone else to manufacture them into a complete product for them. They're not the Willy Wonka geniuses you think they are.
I don't understand why he had to appease the extreme right anyway. They sure as fuck weren't going to vote for Obama, irrespective of anything Romney said or did.
There's something very Orwellian about all of this. If content providers had their way, there would be a laser pointer on top of the Kinect with which to blind any people in the room who aren't supposed to be watching.
1984 was about big brother government but when corporations effectively write the laws of government anyway, perhaps we don't need to make a distinction. The only difference it seems is that corporations have absolutely no pretense about looking after the people.
I work at a major bank and we've lost a data center in New York Plaza. It's flooded and has no power. However, we have backup systems and everything is running out of alternate sites. This is the kind of situation disaster recovery is actually implemented for.
I think everything that was bad about Microsoft's market defensiveness which made it 'the brand of squares' was also what pushed people to Apple. Now that Apple is the same if not worse, I would expect to see the trendy crowd leaving in their droves if they had somewhere to go.
Apple as a corporate brand looks like a cynical, egotistical, dominance protecting bullshit artist. I know, I know, it's all about the shareholders but it seems really at odds with their hipster marketing.
Within the next few years, there's space for a new 'fashion electronics' brand to replace Apple. I don't think that's going to be Nokia, Microsoft, RIM or Samsung but who knows.
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"The global body didn't let us do what we wanted so we're just going to fucking go our own way anyway."
Looks like they learned from the WMD/Iraq War debacle...
Oh, I REALLY don't miss the 80s mouse, especially those god-awful rubber track-balls that you had to remove every once in a while. It was regularly necessary to pick and scratch the layer of stubborn detritus off the shitty little roller bars inside. The fucking ball would always fall and roll into the darkness somewhere under the desk too. All at a time when 'ergonomics' meant shaping mice like Russian sedan cars of the same period.
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No thanks, I'll keep my optical mouse.
Or worse, in prison he could be getting rooted right now!
The point I was trying to make is that sometimes a specialist device is really ergonomic and good at the job, even if other devices can technically achieve the same end.
"When I started my career back in the early 1990s, every floor had a 'urinal' in the bathroom. The urinal was how your co-workers, customers, friends and family emptied their bladders during the business day. It had a few features that everyone used — upright pissing position, automatic flush, quick drainage, three-way pissing (if you didn't mind standing close together). This was before personal chamber pots or shitting at work was allowed, so the urinal was basically the one and only means of bladder relief in the office. Flash forward 20 years. Today I have a chamber pot, directors en-suite, several scented flavors of toilet stalls, the squat toilet for foreign visitors and several flavors of collaboration urinals including along against-the-wall ones, center circle ones. My wife and daughter pee on the chamber pot. My co-workers who are too lazy or passive aggressive to put the toilet seat down in the stalls. My brother in Iraq uses the squat toilet. I use the directors toilet with built-in bidet and heated seat. The old along-the-wall urinal sits there gathering dust. I use it for conference calls-of-nature a few times each month. I'm sure that there are sales people out there who would rather give up a body part than their trusty office urinal, but do any of the rest of us need them? Around here, the younger engineers frequently unplug them and stick them in a cabinet to free up desk space, it makes a real fucking mess of the floor. Are the days of the office urinal (and the office urinal plumbing) at an end?"
I think it's more important to take down the sites that link to brain damage that are profiting off people's hard work. It's stealing!!!
"Who needs a real doctor when you got my machines and their scary needles?"
Linux already far and away the dominant server OS in big enterprise, except for things like exchange and maybe sharepoint. My company is one of the top US companies with more than 80,000 employees worldwide and we're even starting to see some uptake of Linux desktops replacing windows for certain kinds of developer. For the record, I vastly prefer windows 7 to any linux desktop I've ever used and I hate MacOSX, but all things considered, I would never let windows anywhere near any of my servers. PuTTY is my view to the world...
10,000 miles on Google Maps, just 2 or three on Apple Maps...
How is this insightful and why the fuck are they trying to get through the light? That's retarded and so are you for justifying accidents this way. In the UK people who speed up to get through on yellow lights are called 'amber gamblers'. As a safety measure however, the lights on the tangential flow don't actually go green for a few seconds after the lights go red precisely to prevent these asshats killing someone. You take the risk, you get your ticket and it's right that we ticket them while providing safety to other road users.
It sounds like these new US stop-light safety features are in their infancy but showing some promising signs of improvement. It may need driver education and tweaking in some locations. Things like yellow light times appropriate to traffic speed, sufficient distance from the light to the junction to prevent rear-end accidents pushing cars into the intersection, or to slow down after overshooting a red light. Putting your foot down into cross traffic is only an option for people who probably are too inattentive or irresponsible to be on the road anyway. In addition, rear-ending a car because you're tail-gating and not paying attention to the lights is clearly the rear drivers fault.
That's like saying laser pens encourage dazzling 747 pilots. You don't HAVE to be a total asshole on the road. There will always be dangerous drivers trying to persist in their bad habits regardless. Then additionally there are the vocal reckless pricks such as yourself trying to convince everyone and anyone that it's justifiable. We should be doing everything we can to make it as unappealing as possible for this behavior to continue. Please hand in your license on the way out...
OK fine, lets just allow people to drive under the influence of whatever they like and as much as they like. Problem solved?
I think also in Basketball, any basket scored by a white kid should be worth 4 points and if an asian kid scores, it should be worth 6.
I was being flippant, but yes, that's what I'm saying. They're building products where the 'special feature' such as it's retina display, 4G LTE chip, A6 processor and so on are manufactured and of designed by NOT Apple. Other companies come up with new tech and Apple figure out how to get someone else to manufacture them into a complete product for them. They're not the Willy Wonka geniuses you think they are.
Apple don't build much themselves. They're mostly a Samsung/Foxconn re-branding outfit.
I wonder if the price hike equates to about a billion dollars...
Cheer up, we've still got Iran. :)
I don't understand why he had to appease the extreme right anyway. They sure as fuck weren't going to vote for Obama, irrespective of anything Romney said or did.
Having actually played both, I can assure you that there's a huge difference in the learning curve and complexity of Elite compared with that of X3.
THAT'S NOT FUCKING TRUE!!!
There's something very Orwellian about all of this. If content providers had their way, there would be a laser pointer on top of the Kinect with which to blind any people in the room who aren't supposed to be watching.
1984 was about big brother government but when corporations effectively write the laws of government anyway, perhaps we don't need to make a distinction. The only difference it seems is that corporations have absolutely no pretense about looking after the people.
I work at a major bank and we've lost a data center in New York Plaza. It's flooded and has no power. However, we have backup systems and everything is running out of alternate sites. This is the kind of situation disaster recovery is actually implemented for.
Oh no. Uwe Boll, Star Wars, Pixar Tech.... Lego Star Wars: The Movie
I think everything that was bad about Microsoft's market defensiveness which made it 'the brand of squares' was also what pushed people to Apple. Now that Apple is the same if not worse, I would expect to see the trendy crowd leaving in their droves if they had somewhere to go.
Apple as a corporate brand looks like a cynical, egotistical, dominance protecting bullshit artist. I know, I know, it's all about the shareholders but it seems really at odds with their hipster marketing.
Within the next few years, there's space for a new 'fashion electronics' brand to replace Apple. I don't think that's going to be Nokia, Microsoft, RIM or Samsung but who knows.
So that noise that Gollum makes was actually just an Adderall stuck in his throat? I get why he was so persistant and focused about that ring now.
Anonymous is the biggest Internet Bully of them all. I think it's great that he gets to feel what that kind of attention feel like.