No Facebook, no Twitter, no Gmail, no LinkedIn. I refuse to let my personal information, social connections, and browsing habits be used as fodder for profit. I'm an old school NNTP nerd who still believes that spam means repetition, autoplay video is a crime against humanity, and anonymity is a fundamental right.
My lawn? Have a field day. It's vast and vigorous. I might even come out and play hackey sack with you... Just don't ask me for ID.
That was the first thought that popped into my mind: Great, now the girl you send a dick pic to can not look at it from any angle.
Waiting for news on how MS will monetize Minecrack.
My 12 yo son is a Minecraft addict. On weeknights and weekends he pouts if he can't play. He's even got me into playing weekends on private servers and paying for his Realms account. Waiting on news on how they're turning the game into profitable accumulated player data.
I just know they'll turn my minecraft model of the Geisel Library into profit, somehow.
Still trying to figure out how to make it dance.
It will have to involve Redstone, I'm sure...
One or two mistakes are to be expected among tens of thousands of people - hundreds of thousands counting subcontractors - working in unrelated projects. That's not a burn.
But everything MS embraces they turn to shit by emphasizing market share and profit over function and security. Those strategies were adopted at the highest levels of management, which Myhrvold was a member of. Therefore, it's not ad hominem, either.
The only MS product I can think of that I have respect for is Excel, and still they ruined the UI.
I worked in a company that was run by PhDs. They pretty much evenly fell into two camps: 1) people who were willing to teach you as much as you wanted to know about their area of expertise, and stuck to that area; and 2) people who thought that because they were experts in one field meant that they were experts about everything, and would be dicks about it.
The second group generally rose in the ranks to upper management.
You don't have to be a Billionaire to be a dick. But I'm sure it helps.
I have no idea who Maria Schneider is
Maybe you should look her up on YouTube and find out.
MRA teardrops taste so sweet in the morning
LOL. After seeing that list, I came in just to sample them.
While you most likely do not need such a large microSD card in your life
In fact, yes, one would be rather convenient. But then I have no life.
(I have filled four 1TB hard drives with downloaded 720 and 1080p porn, and am starting on a 2TB. It would be nice to bring as much of that with me as possible when traveling.)
He's selling himself as a populist to win primary elections. But Donald Trump is about nothing but what Donald Trump wants: money, fame, and ego strokes.
The only reason the Democratic Party appears to have "slid to the far left" is because of the extreme rightward shift of the Overton Window since the Reagan era.
I'll take this Hall of Fame seriously when they induct Nethack.
I mean, really, if *any* game deserves to be in a hall of fame, it's the longest-lived and longest continually maintained game of 'em all... not to mention one of the most complex and hardcore.
I'm a smoker, but I only smoke outdoors, even at home, and wash my hands and face afterwards because I can't stand that "ashtray" smell.
But the flavors of vape my coworkers use don't smell offensive at all. At worst it smells faintly of burnt sugar.
Vox has a better rundown of the FDA's announced regulations.
The good news is that it's not armageddon for vapers and sellers:
the FDA is allowing companies to continue to sell their products for up to two years while they submit their applications to the agency — and for another year during the approval process.
When I smoke, I still smoke cigs. But I have lots of friends who vape. Personally, I find the propylene glycol vapor more irritating than tobacco smoke.
For those unfamiliar with California fruit vendors, allow me to describe them.
Imagine a NYC street hot dog cart, except it's an insulated ice chest instead of a steamer. On top is a plexiglass box with more ice and various peeled fruit on display. Atop this is usually an umbrella for shade.
You don't buy bulk fruit to take home. You have one choice: the number of servings you want. The vendor cuts up a variety of fruit into bite sized chunks (usually pineapple, coconut, mango, papaya, etc.) gives it a squirt of lime juice and optionally a dash of cayenne. It's served in a plastic bag and eaten with a disposable fork. It usually costs four or five dollars a serving. It's one of my wife's favorite treats.
Here in LA County, they're not regulated by the police but by the Department of Health - the same folks who inspect restaurants. (The police will politely ignore you if you call them to complain about a fruit vendor. And the Sheriff will rudely ignore you.) And AFAIK they're technically forbidden. Just like the bacon-wrapped hot dog vendors, the only time you see them is after 5pm on Fridays and on weekends when the Health Department inspectors are off duty.
It's a traditionally Hispanic practice, but you can find them in most parts of town. They generally set up on the verge between the sidewalk and the curb, in well-trafficked areas, usually in mixed-use or commercial zoned areas. I've never seen one on a purely residential street.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. -- Albert Einstein
