elbelcho

Perfect.

Anytime I was really stuck, I would ask dad to ask the 'computer guy' how to get past a certain point and I seem to remember he would kindly provide hints, but not outright solutions.

It's probably been 35 years since, but I even remember with some detail a dream I had related to that game. It really had a big impact on me.

https://youtu.be/62tIvfP9A2w

Yes, but something tells me Google doesn't give a damn.

I'm not sure who is more trustworthy, but it generally seems like most people think $12B is too high and Cybart (the correction tweet guy) is closer to the actual sales figure

FTA: "Tesla reports quarterly sales and does not break them out by country or region. Eventually, we get registration data from Europe, China (educated estimates at least), and Canada and can then make a more solid estimate of US sales for the quarter, as well as monthly sales estimates. However, it’s a bit early for all of that since we don’t have September numbers from most countries yet. Even our data-loving friend and contributor Jose Pontes of EV Volumes didn’t want to venture out too far on a limb and provide an early estimate that he might have to walk back. That said, looking at previous months’ data, September figures from the Netherlands and Norway, and deeper historical data, I feel comfortable estimating Model 3 sales between 40,000 and 50,000 in the US in the third quarter. For this report, I’ve settled on 43,000."

It turns out the only album that I purchased on CD that was eligible was an album I bought as a gag gift for a friend.

Here I was expecting some awesome free* MP3's but instead I got Barry Manilow.

What appears to be their full featured future product looks EXTREMELY interesting. It appears that coverhound will almost work like an automated insurance agent, for example, give them your info once, and they'll check rates for you on a regular and recurring basis. THAT product seems extremely valuable to me and would be doing the world a great favor.

However, the emergency I'm referencing is not a general "my finances are a disaster" emergency. I'm talking about an emergency that has an impact far beyond your immediate financial situation.

I'm talking about "I cannot afford food" or "I cannot afford transportation to a job interview" type of emergency. That's a real emergency, in my opinion.

Saving money for an emergency should be a priority over paying off a credit card debt. In an emergency, you cannot count on the credit card bank keeping your account open. You cannot count on them maintaining your current credit line. ALL banks are "evil" in the sense that they operate with their best interests at heart, and no matter how horrible of a position it may put you in, the CC bank has no obligation to maintain your current credit line.

Having a $2000 emergency fund, even if it's in a shoe box under the bed, is more important and more VALUABLE than $2000 worth of open credit on a credit card. The $2000 under the mattress is almost entirely under your control. The $2000 in open credit is almost entirely OUT of your control.

If you're in a real emergency, what would your rather rely on?

I suppose that if your system is vulnerable to a "URL exploit" that's not _technically_ a hack in the strictest sense of the word, but the barn door was still wide open for the possibility of their system being hacked, so I don't see how there is any meaningful difference.

There are no real "cross-browser pains" when developing ASP.NET. I think you'd really have to go out of your way today to develop something that "works better" in IE than other browsers.

MS contributes to and supports Jquery and includes it by default in new projects.

Silverlight isn't really being pushed at all except on WP7. It was more of a flash competitor anyway and never was meant to compete with HTML5.

There are quite a number of FOSS tools for .NET development, and incredible amount of 3rd party support that's not FOSS.

Granted, most of their stuff isn't being released as OSS. I believe some of their newer tech is releasing source through codeplex.

Overall, most of the complaints I've seen in this thread about Microsoft are better directed at the Microsoft of the 90's and early 2000's than the Microsoft of today.

http://5mins.wordpress.com/2011/04/29/data-structure-visuali...

It appears that they are the exact same visualizations of the same structures and concepts

But when Google has your actual cash as in the case of Google checkout, and you can't even get a decent reply from them? That really shakes my faith in them as a company.