Well then, I guess I'm just not an engineer. Not by your definition, anyway. Never mind that I hold an engineering degree. Nor that I graduated top of the class at a prestigious university. Nor that if you have a PC, firmware that I designed and wrote is probably running on it. No, you've defined what an engineer is. I guess I'll have to accept it.
"5. an outcome of events contrary to what was, or might have been, expected. "
I think this is the definition of irony that people actually use correctly quite often, and applies in this case of a man buying what he thought was a great product, and then driving it off a cliff.
Still sad, however. From the little bit that I read online, he seemed like a nice, charitable individual.
with today's hdd capacities, overwriting a drive 10+ times will take weeks, if not months. Smashing is one answer. Full disk encryption with disposable keys is another.
Register devices? That should put off the average user. Minor conveniences stack up these days.
And devices are becoming disposable (for better or worse). Who the hell expects to have the same mp3 player in two years? 10 years,....
It's like saying that the penalty for shop-lifting is that you have to put the stuff you stold back. I _really_ like this analogy. I just wish you'd have worked a get-away car into it.
The politicians sold you on the "driving is privilege, not a right" bullcrap. They did that to make it easier to take your rights away from you. Given the need to commute to earn a living, and the lack of viable public transit (think SoCal), it's absolutely a right to drive, don't let them tell you otherwise, even if you did sign a contract that says otherwise.
If they are not accessing your site (i.e. using google cache w/ strip), then you can only guess that people were using google cache. You don't have the data. Maybe these days you can get by with that kind of speculative crap, but you may not find what you were looking for even if you do subpoena the entire internet.
It's not as trivial to change external interfaces as you may think. I've worked on hdd firmware, so I can say that the abstractions aren't as clean as you may hope. Performance is everything. Performance over ATA, that is. ATA specifies how to handle internal cache, for example, so you may need to do some ATA-specific tricks further down then you would like. Otherwise your latest drive may not make it onto that new Dell system. Keeping things clean and abstract so that you can just pop on another interface isn't always the highest priority.
if it isn't a joke, it would still suck. Is a blog a commercial endeavor? Then they couldn't use NSFW? That seems restrictive.
BTW, what does NSFW cologne smell like?;)
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Well then, I guess I'm just not an engineer. Not by your definition, anyway. Never mind that I hold an engineering degree. Nor that I graduated top of the class at a prestigious university. Nor that if you have a PC, firmware that I designed and wrote is probably running on it. No, you've defined what an engineer is. I guess I'll have to accept it.
correction on my earlier post, your link was to the definition of apropos. I used the same site to look up irony
"5. an outcome of events contrary to what was, or might have been, expected. "
I think this is the definition of irony that people actually use correctly quite often, and applies in this case of a man buying what he thought was a great product, and then driving it off a cliff.
Still sad, however. From the little bit that I read online, he seemed like a nice, charitable individual.
Thank you for actually having read the opinion.
Seriously. This guy must be new here.
I tried that and it didn't work so I just left the kitten in a snow drift.
with today's hdd capacities, overwriting a drive 10+ times will take weeks, if not months. Smashing is one answer. Full disk encryption with disposable keys is another.
... but I swill won't touch the fucking thing.
I'm actually more likely to touch it when I swill.
Register devices? That should put off the average user. Minor conveniences stack up these days. And devices are becoming disposable (for better or worse). Who the hell expects to have the same mp3 player in two years? 10 years, ....
Somehow when reading your post I accidentally started reading ISO as IOC. Too much /. I guess.
Gawwwd. Just learn to be an embedded programmer and skip all this flavor of the month nonsense.
This is all wrong, and entirely inconceivable. What they need to do is to lower the ocean around the city.
There should be something like Godwin's law against the use of the term "unamerican." I'm not sure I've ever seen it used in a valid argument.
the new stuff later will snap in easier since everything will be well documented by then.
You must be new here. ;)
The politicians sold you on the "driving is privilege, not a right" bullcrap. They did that to make it easier to take your rights away from you. Given the need to commute to earn a living, and the lack of viable public transit (think SoCal), it's absolutely a right to drive, don't let them tell you otherwise, even if you did sign a contract that says otherwise.
If they are not accessing your site (i.e. using google cache w/ strip), then you can only guess that people were using google cache. You don't have the data. Maybe these days you can get by with that kind of speculative crap, but you may not find what you were looking for even if you do subpoena the entire internet.
It is not egalitarian, in that it is a regressive tax. Lower income people have to pay a higher percentage of their wages to use the resource.
Who's Al?
dumb question. secret pr0n when you have to settle for Ms. Less-than-desirable at last call.
It's not as trivial to change external interfaces as you may think. I've worked on hdd firmware, so I can say that the abstractions aren't as clean as you may hope. Performance is everything. Performance over ATA, that is. ATA specifies how to handle internal cache, for example, so you may need to do some ATA-specific tricks further down then you would like. Otherwise your latest drive may not make it onto that new Dell system. Keeping things clean and abstract so that you can just pop on another interface isn't always the highest priority.
Actually, the millions of years between the dinosaurs and now aren't really that much in terms of our entire evolutionary history.
Comcast == evil;
Comparison or assignment?
if it isn't a joke, it would still suck. Is a blog a commercial endeavor? Then they couldn't use NSFW? That seems restrictive. BTW, what does NSFW cologne smell like? ;)
No, but the mess hall food does taste like cardboard....