Posts by Marvin the Martian 1513 publicly visible posts • joined 2 Mar 2007
The review of "app of the week" is not about first-in-class, but about being the best.
And given how much time you spend navigating around on it (and how much extra time/frustration when it goes wrong), any price between zero and five quid should be seen as equal, so not an argument for better/worse.
I'm quite sure you've seen the videos of the (was he Polish?) guy in an American airport being tasered to death, even though he was contained in a room, obviously distressed and not a danger to others.
He'd just flown intercontinentally so chance of being high about zero; no alcohol was mentioned either.
It's like the Rodney King beating: it's all rumours and lies and impossible to happen in a well-run police department, until it's on video then it's an isolated case and no further steps necessary.
It's not that far from the ICT skills demanded of all newly qualified teachers...
http://www.tda.gov.uk/trainee-teacher/qts-skills-tests/ict/practice-materials.aspx
(ICT is one of three tests, others are maths -- in the sense of reading histograms and calculating averages -- and language):
Post-watershed, the Daily Fail's pictures are fine, so no reason to complain.
Your own fault if you read it before that watershed. It's the big society, you have to take care of yourself (otherwise the Fail would complain of the "nanny state").
/beer because it's a watershed invention.
Nice argumentation but sadly reality doesn't agree with you. Compare the repair & return rates and you see Apple is clearly in the premier league. Costwise, too; they're more expensive than Asus but on the same level for the same spec with other premium brands. You get what you pay for.
Your video memory argument is clearly made-up, if we can agree to use TheRegister's reviews and 3DMark scores etc as a baseline.
Hm... maybe you've got a different reality.
/written on a 2003 12" G4 1.33ghz; haven't given Apple a penny since then except for an OS upgrade.
There's often enough a pointless and repetitive story, of human endeavour pointed the wrong way. Which deserves a swamp castle.
Obligatory quote:
<<When I first came here, this was all swamp. Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built in all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, lad, the strongest castle in all of England. >>
And I second earlier call for a dustbin, as "good riddance" is an often-relevant emotion.
There's demands for love+hate Fry, love+hate Assange, love+hate zuckerberg, love+hate Facebook --- it will never end. There's already a love (heart), so just a generic hate will do and remove this clutter.
Actually, remove the gates/jobs icons; it's a false dichotomy anyway with an Ellison and a Ballmer to object to etc etc.
Online banking is indeed a fad, surprised anybody would want to use it. I Also find using that plastic cash a needless encumberment, too! And don't get me started on this paper-and-metal-coins malarkey, either.
For me it's pig iron ingots all the way, and animal hides for the change.
One of the claimed standards is that "un-facebook-like activities must be removed". So, given that there's twee religious pages, anything professing atheism or humanism must be deleted; and vice versa. Two birds with one stone!
As the vast majority is inane twitter-like babbling, anything that makes sense should be removed.
All the freed up space can be devoted to farmville.
SABAM is one of the most hated and inefficient institutes*, even by Belgian standards. So that gives a bit of a nudge in the reasonable direction.
*They're supposed to collect royalties for all kinds of content producers, but cost slightly more to collect them than the total collected. So it's double pay: every pound collected is then matched by a pound from the state/taxpayer, to correct for the pound they spend. And if you're a bunch of 17yolds organising a party in a scouts local, you'll have to pay them or fear a midnight visit from them.
The one reason is ABP, and Noscript. Hm. So, the two reasons are ABP and Noscript, and the wide user base across Linux/Mac/Windoze. Yes: the three reasons are APB, Noscript, wide user base, and an almost fanatical devotion to the brand. OK, among the chief reasons are: ...
Because 10 suicides per 1,000,000 over a few years sounds like a lot.
It isn't if you consider that the average is 140 per 1,000,000 per year [via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China ]. (Though these off course are mainly by unemployed people, so higher than expected for the factory workers.)
If a bus gets through these tight bends, then so does this bus.
I think anytime there's suggestion of dragging Groningen into civilisation, there's another waste-money-quick scheme. It's a small city surrounded by nothing, miles and miles of empty nonproductive nothing: only those stuck there remain, what's the point of improving transport links.
The only way I can see giving up booze is some major health scare.
Say cancer or heart trouble plus a severe talking to by a medical specialist: the "stopping booze" category will be heavier on this type of grave dodgers than the other, so I'd expect cancer rates to be higher in this group.
It's like all those Nobel prize winning scientists: they're d*cking around a decade, suddenly do something brilliant, d*ck around another decade or two to no effect, get prize, and do nothing useful again.
It's clear life is a lottery, and past results have no bearing on future rewards.
When I passed my driving theory without faults, I knew my life had suddenly peaked and the long way down started; I'd hoped I'd have a more impressive laurel to rest on than that but so be it...
I understand sites need to make money, so I don't have a problem with adverts. I've never felt compelled to push one, though, so the profiling hasn't worked yet.
But moving adverts drive me absolutely crazy. So first just blocked all GIF images, but the last few years it's not possible anymore; so it's ABP + NoScript for me, reluctantly --- that's what marketers might get to understand. Not yet, it's still a low hanging fruit phase of profiling.
What does it even mean to be loyal to a supermarket?
I regularly go to four locations of three chains, two of which do loyalty thingies. Am I loyal to two, to three, or disloyal to all? I get a different balance of products at each, so they're like three different tools in my toolbox.
Then get a friggin' iMac and be done. Keep the wireless keyboard on your lap from the sofa, not the entire computer with peripherals dangling off.
Or are you going the radical way of not using a screen, using it as a write-only device? I guess if you know the system well enough...
After the Felidae --- there's still a lot to go, but I doubt "flat-headed cat", "domestic cat" and "chinese mountain cat" will be used --- you go up the evolutionary tree to go to the Feliformae... Hyena's, Mongooses, and the like.
You see they've already been mixing the Pantheridae and Felinae freely, there's ocelots, margays, caracals, servals and clouded leopards etc still to go. Feliformae gives us binturongs, liksangs, civets, genets, ... . From there it's a small mental (but larger evolutionary) jump to the Mustelids --- the weasel family which I think is appropriate: small expensive sneaky critters that punch above their weight.
This article attributes all to incompetence; I'm doubtful. As news is the hack's bread-and-butter, saying "nothing to see, move along" is not a good attitude if you want to keep working. I suspect most journalists know how to read the press releases they're reediting, and how they're intended to read them; they just don't let they're not being misled.
Like the "climategate" journalist: his entire career has to be built on the supposition that an informal reference to a "trick" (i.e., "method" --- it was referring to a published technique) uncovers a big conspiracy. In interviews that hack shows he doesn't know anything on the topic, and just needs there to be an issue or he's back to his unemployed blogging self.
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