Fifty guys with scythes? How big was your lawn, and why haven't you gotten an automated robot mower to replace that guy with a mower and string trimmer?;)
The "January 2011 announcement to change their policy and continue to track customers" doesn't seem to predate the government investment, though. You know, just in case your tin foil hat fell off.;)
This is the main reason I like Telenav / Sprint Navigation on my cell phone. The maps are periodically updated, and I don't have to get a windows computer, a cable that didn't come with the unit, and a yearly upgrade that costs 3/4 of the price of just buying a new unit to begin with. A Garmin recalculates a little faster, but my phone's not brand new and I don't make that many wrong turns anyway.:)
60K miles is low.:) Last time I bought a cop car, I got one with 154K miles - and the lowest at the auction was like 85K miles. But cop cars are awesome because of the scheduled maintenance; there's no way I'd get any other fleet car.
How does "counting your pills" fit into that list? I've long wondered why there are pharmacy techs at all. Robots can fill my cup of soda up at the McDonald's drive-through and mostly pack my order from Amazon.com, but somehow the electronic prescriptions can't be more accurately dispensed by robots? Sure, I'd prefer to have a pharmacist double-checking what was dispensed and letting me know if there are known drug interactions, but there's no reason to pay a person to count the pills out. And yes, I know that the computer already identifies potential drug interactions if you get everything at one place, but there's some interpretation to be done - "this isn't real likely, and this one's really just a problem for the elderly". Also, "which of these prescriptions doesn't have the red dye which will make me break out in a full-body rash?" But I'd love for the robot to just count out the pills and hand them to the pharmacist for inspection instead of being told that I have to come back in an hour so they can put a sticker on the box that the drug comes in.
Side note on why I'd like the extra double-check. A pharmacist caught an order-of-magnitude error on my wife's prescription for some vicodin which would've put her to sleep permanently had she taken it. A machine probably won't be double-checking someone's mass before dispensing. I guess it could, but people get worried about disclosing their weight. The pharmacist can easily see that she only weighs a little over 100 lbs, as opposed to someone who, I guess, would have to weigh closer to 1000 lbs.:)
You were only posting as a joke on on a forum. I work with people who would put this into production complete with the syntax errors, and eventually "fix" it by just sticking a "2>/dev/null" on the end./shakes head
I plugged my DSL cable into my laptop's modem, and when I dialed up to Earthlink I only got 48.2Kbps. So my laptop can't even use my whole 7Mbps DSL connection, and therefore no one needs that crap.
Single equals is the comparison operator if it's inside [[ ]] or following the test command (or within single []). It only works for assignment if there aren't spaces around it.:)
Wanna know what I think would actually happen? No? Ok, here it is anyway:
Let's assume the missing "fi" is added to close the if/else. The single parens after the if will execute a subshell. Then, in that subshell, $modPointsUp will be expanded, the first word in that expansion will be treated as a command, and any subsequent words will be arguments to that command. The = and "+1" will also be passed as arguments to the command. More than likely, the "command" will be not found, which will return false and generate an error message on STDERR. The exit code of the subshell will then be false, causing the if to select the else block. Because the code inside the else is wrapped in curly braces, variable assignment will be limited to the scope defined by the braces. So, when the echo lines run, the variable will not be set (different scope), and it'll output "Do I like this game?."
Then the exit(0) will cause a failure 'cause of the parens, and the script will exit false.
I'm pretty sure that, within the coding game, running this code would invert gravity and cause everything to look like a Dali painting.:)
When you suggest scrolling, always specify *vertical*. 'Cause you just know there's some asshole calling himself a "web developer" who's just itching to find a way to make articles scroll entirely horizontally because it's new and/or edgy.:)
Oh good gosh. I post before finishing the sentence, forget to log in, and fail to add some <a> tags around the link. Well, let's make up for that here.:)
You're right, it was originally the Anglo-Persian Oil Company
"[T]he British Petroleum brand was originally created by a German firm as a way of marketing its products in Britain. During the war, the British government seized the company’s assets, and the Public Trustee sold them to Anglo-Persian in 1917."
-- http://www.bp.com/sectiongenericarticle.do?categoryId=9014441&contentId=7027521
Foolish news outlets, mislabling Anglo-Persian Oil as the obviously German "British Petroleum"
Err, booting it in a different machine. Though I suppose one can imagine a criminal saying "Aww man, it's turned off. Well, off to find an easier target!".:)
If your laptop is valuable enough that someone would go through the effort of chilling the RAM and booting the machine, you should probably not be laying your laptop out on the table at Starbucks. In fact, if your laptop is that valuable, you've done something incredibly stupid in your systems design.
Encrypt the data (either individual files, your homedir, or the whole drive), and don't use a really stupid password. If that's not good enough for your data, then your data belongs on a system which is not portable and which has actual physical security applied.
No, I meant initrds which already have all of the modules included so your kernel's not too large for the bootloader to handle.:) But then, I don't know if that's a real problem any more, since I've not built a fully monolithic kernel in probably over a decade.
Funny, I prefer my router which runs udev because it's nice to be able to force the order of NICs based on MAC instead of relying upon the order in which they're detected. It's made my iptables scripts a lot simpler.
It's only a pain when you forget it's doing that and spend hours trying to figure out WTF is going on. Not that this has ever happened...;)
I just pulled the hard drive out of a computer with a Pentium II, carried it to a different computer with all different hardware (including a P3 processor), and turned it on. Everything works exactly as before. Hooray for the adequate level of abstraction a properly configured udev provides!
Who cares who thought of it "first"? The phrase "System Settings" is not a name, it's a description of the tool. If they both manage system settings, and they're foolishly named based on what they do instead of what they are (like the current trend of calling Firefox / Koqueror / whatever "web browser" or just "web" in the menu), then obviously there will inevitably be conflicts.
Go back to coming up with unique names within a theme (ie, "Konfigure"), and this goes away.
The comma is necessary either way, as "mods" is the subject of the imperative sentence. The subject is almost always separated by a comma unless it's an implied "you". In determining which is correct, I'd be inclined to move it to the front of the sentence and try again:
Mods, fuck yourself. Mods, fuck yourselves.
IMHO, "yourselves" sounds more natural, and is therefore appropriate. Any other justification (such as "The Latin rule says some crap about Lain which is irrelevant because we don't speak Latin") is not as valid as "it sounds acceptable and clearly communicates the intention for each mod to fuck himself".;) If I were writing this in a formal paper (presuming that I write formal papers all the time, and that I regularly suggest fucking oneself in those papers), I'd probably avoid the issue and change it to something more like "Mods, each you you can go fuck yourself".
We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming.
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Fifty guys with scythes? How big was your lawn, and why haven't you gotten an automated robot mower to replace that guy with a mower and string trimmer? ;)
The "January 2011 announcement to change their policy and continue to track customers" doesn't seem to predate the government investment, though. You know, just in case your tin foil hat fell off. ;)
This is the main reason I like Telenav / Sprint Navigation on my cell phone. The maps are periodically updated, and I don't have to get a windows computer, a cable that didn't come with the unit, and a yearly upgrade that costs 3/4 of the price of just buying a new unit to begin with. A Garmin recalculates a little faster, but my phone's not brand new and I don't make that many wrong turns anyway. :)
60K miles is low. :) Last time I bought a cop car, I got one with 154K miles - and the lowest at the auction was like 85K miles. But cop cars are awesome because of the scheduled maintenance; there's no way I'd get any other fleet car.
How does "counting your pills" fit into that list? I've long wondered why there are pharmacy techs at all. Robots can fill my cup of soda up at the McDonald's drive-through and mostly pack my order from Amazon.com, but somehow the electronic prescriptions can't be more accurately dispensed by robots? Sure, I'd prefer to have a pharmacist double-checking what was dispensed and letting me know if there are known drug interactions, but there's no reason to pay a person to count the pills out. And yes, I know that the computer already identifies potential drug interactions if you get everything at one place, but there's some interpretation to be done - "this isn't real likely, and this one's really just a problem for the elderly". Also, "which of these prescriptions doesn't have the red dye which will make me break out in a full-body rash?" But I'd love for the robot to just count out the pills and hand them to the pharmacist for inspection instead of being told that I have to come back in an hour so they can put a sticker on the box that the drug comes in.
Side note on why I'd like the extra double-check. A pharmacist caught an order-of-magnitude error on my wife's prescription for some vicodin which would've put her to sleep permanently had she taken it. A machine probably won't be double-checking someone's mass before dispensing. I guess it could, but people get worried about disclosing their weight. The pharmacist can easily see that she only weighs a little over 100 lbs, as opposed to someone who, I guess, would have to weigh closer to 1000 lbs. :)
Virtual Basic is so new that you've never even heard of it.
So, everything someone thinks of while high on pot is now eligible for patenting? This crap doesn't make any sense to me, but I'm not currently high.
You were only posting as a joke on on a forum. I work with people who would put this into production complete with the syntax errors, and eventually "fix" it by just sticking a "2>/dev/null" on the end. /shakes head
I plugged my DSL cable into my laptop's modem, and when I dialed up to Earthlink I only got 48.2Kbps. So my laptop can't even use my whole 7Mbps DSL connection, and therefore no one needs that crap.
Single equals is the comparison operator if it's inside [[ ]] or following the test command (or within single []). It only works for assignment if there aren't spaces around it. :)
Wanna know what I think would actually happen? No? Ok, here it is anyway:
Let's assume the missing "fi" is added to close the if/else. The single parens after the if will execute a subshell. Then, in that subshell, $modPointsUp will be expanded, the first word in that expansion will be treated as a command, and any subsequent words will be arguments to that command. The = and "+1" will also be passed as arguments to the command. More than likely, the "command" will be not found, which will return false and generate an error message on STDERR. The exit code of the subshell will then be false, causing the if to select the else block. Because the code inside the else is wrapped in curly braces, variable assignment will be limited to the scope defined by the braces. So, when the echo lines run, the variable will not be set (different scope), and it'll output "Do I like this game? ."
Then the exit(0) will cause a failure 'cause of the parens, and the script will exit false.
I'm pretty sure that, within the coding game, running this code would invert gravity and cause everything to look like a Dali painting. :)
Dat dere's why I's always usin' informal grammatical structures. Ain't no matter who's around, neither. Peeps be trippin, but I don't pay dem no mind.
When you suggest scrolling, always specify *vertical*. 'Cause you just know there's some asshole calling himself a "web developer" who's just itching to find a way to make articles scroll entirely horizontally because it's new and/or edgy. :)
Oh good gosh. I post before finishing the sentence, forget to log in, and fail to add some <a> tags around the link. Well, let's make up for that here. :)
You're right, it was originally the Anglo-Persian Oil Company
"[T]he British Petroleum brand was originally created by a German firm as a way of marketing its products in Britain. During the war, the British government seized the company’s assets, and the Public Trustee sold them to Anglo-Persian in 1917."
-- http://www.bp.com/sectiongenericarticle.do?categoryId=9014441&contentId=7027521
Foolish news outlets, mislabling Anglo-Persian Oil as the obviously German "British Petroleum"
Err, booting it in a different machine. Though I suppose one can imagine a criminal saying "Aww man, it's turned off. Well, off to find an easier target!". :)
If your laptop is valuable enough that someone would go through the effort of chilling the RAM and booting the machine, you should probably not be laying your laptop out on the table at Starbucks. In fact, if your laptop is that valuable, you've done something incredibly stupid in your systems design.
Encrypt the data (either individual files, your homedir, or the whole drive), and don't use a really stupid password. If that's not good enough for your data, then your data belongs on a system which is not portable and which has actual physical security applied.
Right though you may be, it kinda is his personal playtoy. Hence the name. :)
No, I meant initrds which already have all of the modules included so your kernel's not too large for the bootloader to handle. :) But then, I don't know if that's a real problem any more, since I've not built a fully monolithic kernel in probably over a decade.
Funny, I prefer my router which runs udev because it's nice to be able to force the order of NICs based on MAC instead of relying upon the order in which they're detected. It's made my iptables scripts a lot simpler.
It's only a pain when you forget it's doing that and spend hours trying to figure out WTF is going on. Not that this has ever happened... ;)
You should start using UUIDs or disk labels in fstab, and should consider building modular kernels. Maybe check in to a SAN architecture as well. :)
I just pulled the hard drive out of a computer with a Pentium II, carried it to a different computer with all different hardware (including a P3 processor), and turned it on. Everything works exactly as before. Hooray for the adequate level of abstraction a properly configured udev provides!
Who cares who thought of it "first"? The phrase "System Settings" is not a name, it's a description of the tool. If they both manage system settings, and they're foolishly named based on what they do instead of what they are (like the current trend of calling Firefox / Koqueror / whatever "web browser" or just "web" in the menu), then obviously there will inevitably be conflicts.
Go back to coming up with unique names within a theme (ie, "Konfigure"), and this goes away.
The real problem is themselves, for not providing a menu system that allows for any other environment to be simultaneously installed.
Jobs and women - you can get pretty much your pick of either as long as you're confident that you can get pretty much your pick of either.
The comma is necessary either way, as "mods" is the subject of the imperative sentence. The subject is almost always separated by a comma unless it's an implied "you". In determining which is correct, I'd be inclined to move it to the front of the sentence and try again:
Mods, fuck yourself.
Mods, fuck yourselves.
IMHO, "yourselves" sounds more natural, and is therefore appropriate. Any other justification (such as "The Latin rule says some crap about Lain which is irrelevant because we don't speak Latin") is not as valid as "it sounds acceptable and clearly communicates the intention for each mod to fuck himself". ;) If I were writing this in a formal paper (presuming that I write formal papers all the time, and that I regularly suggest fucking oneself in those papers), I'd probably avoid the issue and change it to something more like "Mods, each you you can go fuck yourself".
We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming.