A fool and his ... wait.. shit. I guess a fool and his smart wallet are soon pa ... wait ... this is pointless.

You're familiar with the 22RE?

You're aware that those motors would run for 200,000 miles driven by an irresponsible teenager that never changed the oil, right?

That certainly aren't the most power motors ever made, but they are remarkably reliable. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to see components replaced with plastic and still perform to spec. Sure, not for another 200,000 miles, but certainly longer than 10 milliseconds.

You can go talk to them and ask them yourself. Meeting

Also, Lake Tulloch / New Melones ...

Also 30 percent price raises in the Bay Area.

If you think people aren't actively working on the problem, you need to look around more. That information took me 5 minutes to find.

The suburbs around Denver have a lot of the same names of streets that exist in the city core road grid.

North/South streets will usually be ordered alphabetically and with a theme. Plant names, city names, historical names, etc. This is great, it makes a lot of sense because you know if you are on Ivy then you know the next block over is Holly.

Now, in the suburbs, they decided to do away with a grid road system and instead went with semi-random twists and curves and such. The grid is gone, but the names of the streets remain the same. On top of this, you have several streets with the same name, differing only on the suffix as you mentioned. Ivy Street, Ivy Lane, Ivy Road, Ivy Avenue, Ivy Court, etc. So while the guys in the city decided that putting Ivy next to Holly next to Jasmine etc. the folks that laid out the streets in the suburbs also thought that was a great idea, so good that they made everything intersect with everything unpredictably.

Fuck you Aurora.

Any album. They are all good.

What is "learning"? Is that running through some prewritten bits to get some calendar application working ... you know, as an abstract concept you then "know". Go through that in two days and then go back to your day job doing whatever it is.

Then fast forward six months. "Oh yeah, I wanna do some more of that coding I learned! I got this sweet idea for an application!"

"... wait, shit ... what was the syntax for that again?"

"... I know the class I need is here somewhere ... "

etc. etc.

You certainly did a great job of "learning" that language in two days, right?

My point is that it is not possible to "learn a programming language" in two (or a few) days. If you use a few programming languages in your day to day job, then yes, you can explore another language and get the general idea in a day or two. But then you go right back to not using it.

You can't learn a programming language unless you use it.

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Java!

We've known for awhile. Slashdot Beta seems to have been rolled out and it's clear where the destruction has taken place.

40 second page loads /.? Really?

What does the "new generation" do when entering a host name for some random API request?

Should we just search for the hostname and hope it's the right one?

Unfortunately, regulating greed doesn't work. You have to fix the problem. You have to have a society of people that aren't greedy. Good luck with that!

"We're greedy! Let us run the show! We know what's best!"

"No, you are providing a valuable service and doing a shitty job of it. We're here to make you do a better job."

"Oh, ok! That's fine, we want to do a better job. Just know that it will make our service more expensive."

"We will be back later with more regulations ... "

Well, it's technical based on what the medium is.

Running the last mile, you're going to need to ask some people for permission to plug your things into their things. For some mediums, there might be a bunch of people you need to ask permission of. For other mediums, there might be fewer (or possibly zero) other people you need to ask permission of.

As long as someone else is allowed to permit or deny anyone who wants to plug their things into something, there *may* be a monopoly. Is it technically possible that a monopolistic organization can act upon the utmost ideal of "good-faith"? Of course. Likely? It's tough to prove otherwise.

I think there *are* some solutions out there that involve running the last mile without having to ask all sorts of people of they'll let you use their plugs. I agree with you. I just don't see it on the horizon.

Keeping an eye on the pubs, eh Evgeniy?

They're Russians. They have cameras on everything.

Also, you have to consider that a large chunk of those minutes on Pandora are used for advertising. I saw something somewhere that said it is supposed to be like 5 minutes per hour, but in fact it is a bit more than that. I gave up on Pandora because of this. Listen to one song, hear an ad. Listen to another song, hear an ad.

Grooveshark is going to eat your cake.