I take it you've never had to deal with Oracle much? If you thought the Geek Squad guys were drooling, arrogant assholes you've never dealt with Oracle support. Had trouble uninstalling a piece of their client software once and they told me, "Open a command prompt. OK, now type Format C:/u/q. What do you mean you're not going to do that? If you won't use a clean installation of Windows then don't bother calling back."
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"Think about how stupid the average person is. Now, realise that half of them are dumber than that." - George Carlin
I'm a college professor, and I constantly tell students that grades don't matter... it's the knowledge that matters. E.g. learning things that make you wiser shouldn't depend on whether those things are on the exam....and most students still care more about getting grades than actual knowledge.
I have to question your approach in creating the exam if students with the knowledge are unable to get good grades at it.
If students who got the actual knowledge cannot get good grades, the problem is YOU.
How about turning this around, and have your college constantly tell you "Salary doesn't matter, it's doing great research and great teaching that matters!", and then give you great research facility and students, but only give you minimum wage while awarding great bonuses to management. How many professors would care more about getting better pay than actual knowledge?
What? Who said the students with knowledge don't get good grades?
GP is talking about students who don't have full knowledge but still get good grades, because all they care about is targeting the exam.
Then they forget about it, and leave with the piece of paper but no actual learning.
(I'm extrapolating here, anonymous prof, based on my own experience; I don't mean to put words in your mouth.)
Funny how in Canada cigarettes are no longer displayed on store shelves and there has been an anti smoking campain and fewer people are smoking now.
And I feel very unsafe working with stupid stoners that toked up at lunch and are now opperating heavy equiptment and dangererous tools and potentially endangering my life.
How is that any different to working with stupid alcoholics who downed a few pints at lunch and are now operating heavy equipment?
Oh wait, people who do that at work get fired. Why does your company accept illegal drug use, when they surely would not accept the legal equivalent?
> Entirely possible. That's what happened with the reintroduction of beer and wine after prohibition.
> Whisky use fell not increased. That's why I favor regulation to try and make scenarios like that play
> out.
Yet, we have seen, over and over, that prohibition causes this concentration of the drug availability into the highest potency/highest profit, and we have seen that, when people are left to their own free choices, they regularly make better choices.
Through all this, you still want to solve it with regulation? Regulation is not only not the answer its unjustified meddling in peoples personal lives and rights over their own body and mind. It is a basic denial of the freedom to pursue happiness.
I think we should ban any attempt of the government to regulate personal choices. Full ban on prohibition....and commencement of truth and reconciliation commissions to deal with the damage prohibition has done to society.
I believe GP is talking about the kind of regulation that currently applies to foods, as in companies get in trouble if they sell food that poisons you.
Not the kind of "regulation" that currently prevents certain drugs being produced or sold at all.
Quality control, not prohibition.
That their "athiest branding" sometimes gums some automated processing step and hence kicks the package out to a manual sort could also explain it. If their athiest packaging tape sometimes covers part of the address label or something.
It sounds like the unmarked packages still had the same amount of tape in the same places, but plain tape instead of branded tape. That would counter these two possible sources of error.
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Excuse me, but a similarly equiped Windows PC would cost $600. Of course, that would be a Linux PC after the 10 minutes it takes me to install Ubuntu from the USB stick.
And think of all the wonderful games you'll be able to play, like TuxRacer!
Yeah Blood took what was good about DN3D and multiplied it times ten. For a long time that was my favorite FPS, probably until Half-Life came out and I got my first Voodoo 3DFX graphics card.
My sentiments exactly; Blood was my favourite until Half-Life.
I used to love the voxel sprites in the Build engine. Ken Silverman was my hero.
I study Japanese so I'll run through a few vocabulary cards (using Mnemosyne, but Anki is reportedly good too) whenever I need a quick mental break. Works nicely as a way to shift focus, even for a minute or less.
Seconded.
I am also learning Japanese, and I take short breaks to do some kana flashcards when I'm getting too caught up in work. I use Kanatest on Linux, and Obenkyo on Android.
That's all very true in the world of single tasking. Remember the days of DOS? When a file transfer said it would take 10 minutes, it took 10 minutes, dammit!
But once you enter the world of multitasking, your program has no idea what slice of the CPU pie it's going to get in the future. And surprise, in every modern OS, those file transfer time estimates tend to be significantly off.
... even when there is no other activity on the computer / network in question.
Sooo... why, again?
It is not about the windows, but rather, person's optic nerve and field of view - it basically gave extreme tunnel vision, except real. You could only see very little, all else was a blind spot.
Well yes, but you could only (fail to) see that blind spot through the windows. It did not stop you from seeing the walls.
For the most part, it's rare for a Windows program to actually take the whole system down unless there is actually an issue with the computer at the hardware level (bad ram, etc). Closest thing I've seen to a serious crash was a program crashing the video card drivers, but Vista and higher automatically restarts the graphics drivers when this happens without the need for rebooting.
For the most part, it's worth reading posts that you reply to; nobody said anything about bringing the whole system down.
BTW, that handy feature where the video card drivers restart after they crash? The drivers do that, not Windows Vista and higher. It worked on XP too.
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I take it you've never had to deal with Oracle much? If you thought the Geek Squad guys were drooling, arrogant assholes you've never dealt with Oracle support. Had trouble uninstalling a piece of their client software once and they told me, "Open a command prompt. OK, now type Format C: /u/q. What do you mean you're not going to do that? If you won't use a clean installation of Windows then don't bother calling back."
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"Think about how stupid the average person is. Now, realise that half of them are dumber than that." - George Carlin
Your sig flowed on nicely from this post.
Well if he's nice enough to let backpackers on his property without shooting them on site, ...
Well, it's not necessarily him being nice; he could hardly shoot them on site if he didn't let them come on site in the first place, could he?
they have no problme in programming
Nope. No problme at all, I'm sure they'll see their typo.
You do realise that GP was specifically pointing out that they personally do have this problem... right?
even faster: just download it directly to the usb stick
The point is that you are out of the house. The USB stick is your phone, and you take it with you.
I'm a college professor, and I constantly tell students that grades don't matter... it's the knowledge that matters. E.g. learning things that make you wiser shouldn't depend on whether those things are on the exam. ...and most students still care more about getting grades than actual knowledge.
I have to question your approach in creating the exam if students with the knowledge are unable to get good grades at it.
If students who got the actual knowledge cannot get good grades, the problem is YOU.
How about turning this around, and have your college constantly tell you "Salary doesn't matter, it's doing great research and great teaching that matters!", and then give you great research facility and students, but only give you minimum wage while awarding great bonuses to management. How many professors would care more about getting better pay than actual knowledge?
What? Who said the students with knowledge don't get good grades?
GP is talking about students who don't have full knowledge but still get good grades, because all they care about is targeting the exam.
Then they forget about it, and leave with the piece of paper but no actual learning.
(I'm extrapolating here, anonymous prof, based on my own experience; I don't mean to put words in your mouth.)
And if the goal is just to steal space from Google, there are better ways to do it.
Indeed! Ways such as Google Drive: 5GB.
Or GMail: already over 10GB and counting.
And that's just per account.
You forgot copied Monopoly money - emphasis on the 'copied', I'm not giving them my real Monopoly money.
Don't hand them evidence of copyright violation!
Where's Onslaught?
It's in Norweight.
Newsflash: knives can kill, a broken bottle can kill, a brick to the head can kill, and if the muggers feel like having fun, even bare hands can kill.
Of course they can. But they are less likely to do so as often.
How is lappy stolen?
What do you lappy stolen?
Funny how in Canada cigarettes are no longer displayed on store shelves and there has been an anti smoking campain and fewer people are smoking now.
And I feel very unsafe working with stupid stoners that toked up at lunch and are now opperating heavy equiptment and dangererous tools and potentially endangering my life.
How is that any different to working with stupid alcoholics who downed a few pints at lunch and are now operating heavy equipment?
Oh wait, people who do that at work get fired. Why does your company accept illegal drug use, when they surely would not accept the legal equivalent?
> Entirely possible. That's what happened with the reintroduction of beer and wine after prohibition. > Whisky use fell not increased. That's why I favor regulation to try and make scenarios like that play > out.
Yet, we have seen, over and over, that prohibition causes this concentration of the drug availability into the highest potency/highest profit, and we have seen that, when people are left to their own free choices, they regularly make better choices.
Through all this, you still want to solve it with regulation? Regulation is not only not the answer its unjustified meddling in peoples personal lives and rights over their own body and mind. It is a basic denial of the freedom to pursue happiness.
I think we should ban any attempt of the government to regulate personal choices. Full ban on prohibition....and commencement of truth and reconciliation commissions to deal with the damage prohibition has done to society.
I believe GP is talking about the kind of regulation that currently applies to foods, as in companies get in trouble if they sell food that poisons you.
Not the kind of "regulation" that currently prevents certain drugs being produced or sold at all.
Quality control, not prohibition.
What, you think Tony Abbott has learned how to bang together two fingers and a keyboard?
In the beginning, there was nothing. Then it exploded.
In an autoclave.
That their "athiest branding" sometimes gums some automated processing step and hence kicks the package out to a manual sort could also explain it. If their athiest packaging tape sometimes covers part of the address label or something.
It sounds like the unmarked packages still had the same amount of tape in the same places, but plain tape instead of branded tape. That would counter these two possible sources of error.
Excuse me, but a similarly equiped Windows PC would cost $600. Of course, that would be a Linux PC after the 10 minutes it takes me to install Ubuntu from the USB stick.
And think of all the wonderful games you'll be able to play, like TuxRacer!
I don't think you can get TuxRacer from Steam...
Yeah Blood took what was good about DN3D and multiplied it times ten. For a long time that was my favorite FPS, probably until Half-Life came out and I got my first Voodoo 3DFX graphics card.
My sentiments exactly; Blood was my favourite until Half-Life.
I used to love the voxel sprites in the Build engine. Ken Silverman was my hero.
I study Japanese so I'll run through a few vocabulary cards (using Mnemosyne, but Anki is reportedly good too) whenever I need a quick mental break. Works nicely as a way to shift focus, even for a minute or less.
Seconded.
I am also learning Japanese, and I take short breaks to do some kana flashcards when I'm getting too caught up in work. I use Kanatest on Linux, and Obenkyo on Android.
That's all very true in the world of single tasking. Remember the days of DOS? When a file transfer said it would take 10 minutes, it took 10 minutes, dammit!
But once you enter the world of multitasking, your program has no idea what slice of the CPU pie it's going to get in the future. And surprise, in every modern OS, those file transfer time estimates tend to be significantly off.
... even when there is no other activity on the computer / network in question.
Sooo... why, again?
line 2: -ge: command not found
with $uid set to 1000001:
line 2: 1000001: command not found
The condition is always false and the user never goes the /dev/null
I guess you need to use brackets, in bash at least...
You're right, but bash doesn't even enter the picture: /usr/bin/[
$ ls -l `which [`
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 35264 Nov 20 06:25
The program is called [ and it complains if its last argument is not a ], so you need the square brackets no matter which shell you use.
which I shall now start searching for.
Currently returns 1 hit - the parent comment. Let's keep it up!
Spock finds your suggestion that scissors are too predictable, but that he and the lizard are not, highly illogical.
Besides, I thought that everybody wanted a Rock to wind a multi-threaded string around.
Hah! Finally, a non-obvious joke in response to this article! Thank you, Sir or Madam!
*Goes back to winding string around rock*
It is not about the windows, but rather, person's optic nerve and field of view - it basically gave extreme tunnel vision, except real. You could only see very little, all else was a blind spot.
Well yes, but you could only (fail to) see that blind spot through the windows. It did not stop you from seeing the walls.
For the most part, it's rare for a Windows program to actually take the whole system down unless there is actually an issue with the computer at the hardware level (bad ram, etc). Closest thing I've seen to a serious crash was a program crashing the video card drivers, but Vista and higher automatically restarts the graphics drivers when this happens without the need for rebooting.
For the most part, it's worth reading posts that you reply to; nobody said anything about bringing the whole system down.
BTW, that handy feature where the video card drivers restart after they crash? The drivers do that, not Windows Vista and higher. It worked on XP too.
I don't think I've ever heard of someone enjoying beating themselves with a 12oz can of Pepsi before...
Drinking the damn things is masochistic enough for me.