Comment Sim City (Score 1) 433
Our existence is just some entity's game of Sim City.
*plastic dots aside lanes or road shoulder which are often reflective, which result in a BUDDUMP-BUDDUMP-BUDDUMP when your wheel goes over them. Common in places where regular road plowing doesn't take place.
We always called them drunk bumps.
Of course you know hipster-hating is the latest trend...be careful about following the latest trend...it might turn you into a hipster.
I've been hating hipsters since before it was hip to hate them. I'm the hippest hipster hater there is.
I think I have to go hate myself now....
Yahoo! has been rolling out change after ill thought out change in page layout, UI, and functionality. They're trying to be 'hip' and 'modern' and failing miserably
Just like google has been doing with gmail's so sleek it sucks UI.
Office 2010 - not a whole lot different from 2007, but a lot more popular now that people are familiar with the Ribbon
I'm sorry, but no. Just because people are complaining vocally anymore about something originally done five years ago and another screw-up that took place three years ago doesn't mean things are ok now. I got use to the ribbon, but I still hate it and it is still way less productive than the file menu.
Where are mod points when I want them? People lost the choice as it was use 2003 software or use the ribbon. Businesses eventually migrate as support and features in 2003 got dropped.
Productivity wise, 2003 file menus >>>>>> ribbon.
I saw the same thing in Magic: The Gathering. Someone would pay hundreds of dollars for a rare first-print power card, and would rationalize it as an investment. Ha! Then -- to the surprise of only a few morons -- WotC reprinted most of these cards and made the originals next to worthless.
Wizards of the Coast has a long standing list of reserved cards which will not be reprinted. http://www.wizards.com/magic/tcg/article.aspx?x=magic/products/reprintpolicy. While the company and certain pockets of players have sometimes hated this list, Wizards has honored it. Many cards on that list have actually gone up significantly in value the last few years.
Nope. Because colleges/universities are more interested in making money than educating.
Please mod the 2nd post up. I have a junior and a freshman in the state universities. It's sickening how money grubbing the universities have become.
So yeah, the higher education system is nothing more than a money machine these days.
Eventually they should have it so you only need to goto classrooms for your hands on stuff and physical sciences. And all books should be fully downloadable.
I'd love to know whether there's something about the tech industry that makes it susceptible to this level of mismanagement, as so many tech companies seem to have been badly mismanaged over the years.
A lot of the people who rise up and take over get their positions due to their political positioning in the company and not due to their real business decision making ability. I've seen too many bad or even clueless managers/vices get to positions of power that way.
What is Bitcoin? For somebody whos never heard of it before, how do you describe it?
Mike Koss: Bitcoin is a digital currency. The really interesting thing about it is that it's totally decentralized. No government agency, no bank stands behind it. It was a geek by the name of Satoshi Nakamoto who started it in January 2009. He just invented a protocol and said, if you want to join me in this activity, we will all share in this new world of creating our own currency.
So how does it work, exactly? Can you give us a Bitcoin 101 on the mechanics? How do you get a Bitcoin, how is it created, and what's the economy like?
Peter Vessenes: Fundamentally, how you get a Bitcoin would be just like how you buy anything else. You could buy one online because they're digital. You can come by Startpad. Mike will sell you one, or I will sell you one. Or ten or whatever you want. The way most people are obtaining their Bitcoins is just through some economic transfer.
http://www.geekwire.com/2011/rewind-risks-aside-seattle-startup-vets-see-potential-in-bitcoin
An authority is a person who can tell you more about something than you really care to know.
