It could break a program if a moron has programmed their application to check for internet connectivity by looking for a 200 OK response from example.com.
There are plenty of idiots who do stuff like this, whether it's using a "reserved for future use" byte in a file header for their own personal program or some unspecified quirk in an API that later gets changed/fixed.
It really wouldn't surprise me if a few programs broke, because there are just too many idiots for someone not to have done something stupid.
http://hanzismatter.blogspot.com/ A blog that collects and translates (if possible) the tattoos of mostly Chinese/Japanese/Gibberish characters on people who aren't sure what they really mean.
Some of them aren't that bad, but others make you want to cringe.
They still should have fixed it with the first communication. Each and every person that failed to check this should be fired. There are plenty of smarter people that want jobs. There's no reason Microsoft should be hiring dumb people.
If you fire people who make mistakes you'll have a company without any employees. I think the staff were probably just following procedure because they probably don't have the authority to deviate. Microsoft saying they've updated their training is them re-formulating their procedures.
And, for that sort of position, hiring people who care is probably better than hiring people who are smart.
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No one has died in F1 since Senna. I think their rules changes have probably helped.
Try wearing a suit some time when you don't have to. Just try it. Not a crappy fitting suit that looks like it's 20 years old, but one that fits well, and looks good. Just try it. My experience doing that suggests that you will get more respect, be taken more seriously, and your professional life will be a lot easier.
Indeed! When I wanted to start living somewhere nice (not student accommodation) I went to look at a house to rent. I was dressed in baggy trousers and a Korn t-shirt I could tell before I'd even got out of my car, as soon as the landlord had seen us he'd decided that he wasn't going to rent to us. Ever since then I wear a suit to important things, even stuff like buying a new bed or TV. Having salesmen falling over themselves trying to help, offering things like food and drinks (including alcohol) even if I say I'm just browsing is much better, and much more fun, than having the security guard follow you around the shop.
I have a big goatee beard and face piercings, when I'm dressed in a suit people know I want to be taken seriously, so they treat me the way I'm dressed.
Everyone knows that different people are different. Wearing a suit says so much about your attitude. Taking the effort to look good and look smart tends to command a certain level of respect (in the correct situations).
It is very reasonable that many Somali's don't consider the pirates as criminals. In the same way many western people don't see their armies in the middle east as murdering criminals. It's a matter of perspective.
And (I may be going out on a limb here) I don't think Valdrax is Somali. So I don't think he'll be investing any time soon.
You can get water from a stream, collect if from your roof, or buy it in little plastic bottles. You can heat your home by burning wood. You don't need piped water or electricity any more or less than you need the Internet. They are all luxuries. However, piped water and electricity have become so ubiquitous, and so important for normal everyday tasks that they aren't really considered luxuries, they are considered basic necessities. Some people consider the Internet in the same light. That is the view the gp was basing his argument on.
You haven't refuted it. All you've done is to essentially state, "I consider water and electricity to be necessities, but not the Internet." Which is fine, you are entitled to your opinion, but you haven't really shown why water and electricity piped from a central utility are necessities, and you certainly haven't shown that the Internet isn't, so all you have done is presented your own opinion unsupported by any facts.
Piped water is not considered a luxury in Britain, you cannot have your water supply cut-off even if you just plain refuse to pay your water bill. Gas, electricity and telecommunications can all be cut-off because they are not necessary.
Just think, if you were living in Britain, your wife would only have to pay about £5 per drug. And if she lived in Scotland or Wales, wouldn't have to pay anything.
My wife has a couple of illnesses that are controlled with medicine, and we get all the drugs she needs free. Even considering she was made redundant recently, because we know that even if I get made redundant too, we won't have to worry about her health.
A lot of people moan about the NHS here in Britain, but I think it's great, mostly because I'd be worried of what happened to you happening to me.
There are 4.5million tracks on Spotify. That is over 25 years of never hearing the same track twice. (At 3mins a track listening 24hrs a day). It would cost you about £3000 to listen to Spotify for 25 years. If you were to buy each of those tracks say at 1p each that is £45,000. Obviously this is an extreme but it works on the small scale too.
If you want to listen to an hour a night for a month without hearing the same track, that is £10 on Spotify. If we assume about £2.50 for a 1 hour album, we need 30 albums, that is £75.
Yes, if you only like a select few artists, or like listening to the same stuff over and over, paying for Spotify probably isn't for you. I know most people aren't going to be the extreme of my examples, but paying for Spotify is not as crazy as you think if you want access to a massive music library.
And you don't even need to pay for Spotify, the adverts are not that intrusive, or long.
Both these skills were completely obsolete before we even left school. Similarly with touch typing. Voice recognition and speech to text is now at a level where it's extremely unlikely that keyboards will be more than a vague memory for mainstream users by the time people now in school are thirty.
There are, and I imagine there will be, many applications where voice recognition/speech to text is intrusive, cumbersome, or just impractical. (Programming for example)
I think something that reads thoughts/brainwaves would be more practical, because it will just "type" what you want on screen, no confusion over words like "Close Application" when you want it to close the application not type it, or vice versa. But this technology is still very far off. Keyboards work very well. I imagine they'll be around as long as we have the type of computers that they are plugged into.
Maybe we should stop teaching our kids anything, because it'll all be obsolete in the future anyway.
You don't need to teach people how to type. You need to teach them what to type... They'll figure out how to do it themselves and if touch-typing is so important, they'll pursue that independantly.
You could use that argument for speaking, writing or reading too. But I think most people are better off when their parents and teachers help them with these skills.
This isn't a hard and fast rule. Just a general guideline.
For a man dating a woman:
If she starts complaining about work/school/friends/family. She is not looking for a solution, but empathy. Don't try and fix the problems, just understand how they make her feel.
For a woman dating a man:
If a man starts complaining about work/school/friends/family then don't try and empathise, he's looking for solutions to problems.
I'm sure they don't tell you the sex sucked right after you're done... just as you probably don't tell them it's the arse that makes them look fat not the jeans.
While I agree there can be a time and a place for the honesty. Nothing has improved my sex life with my wife more than being honest when it's boring, bad, or good. It's how you learn what the other person likes. If you're not honest when it's crap, you keep getting the same crap sex over and over. (At least until you get no sex)
Personally, I think that small lies are what slowly tear a relationship apart. They're all the small things that you quietly resent about your partner, and it's there, under the surface, just waiting for a release. So when the bad things happen, all the small lies come to the surface too. Then it's not just one bad argument, it's all the problems that you've been keeping secret all coming out at the same time.
On the other hand, it's not very likely that Mason intended for anyone to take him seriously, so a judge might not really consider his statement a unilateral contract. Without knowing more about Texas contract law, I'd wager that the judge will toss the case, save Mason a million clams and give Kolodziej a lesson in real world contracts.
I doubt Kolodziej will get anything, it was clearly hyperbole. But Mason has still shot himself in the foot, loosing this defence argument, because even if the prosecution don't use Kolodziej's tape, I think they could send one of their lackeys to do exactly the same thing.
Did you ever stop and think, maybe it's not because you're an American, maybe people just don't like you?
And as for the English-French hate. If you're not English or French, I don't think you'll ever understand or appreciate what happens between us. It has been ingrained into us form hundreds of years of fighting. It's different to racism (I can't explain how to an outsider) It's more like a love-hate thing, if you took the French away, you would also take away part of what makes people English. There is so much love, we had to build a tunnel to each other, because that small stretch of water was keeping us too far apart.;)
I've noticed this recently too. I used to be able to watch BBC programs using the High Quality setting without problem, but like you say, sometimes at peak times I can wait 30mins for a 5min you-tube video to load, or a BBC iPlayer program is constantly buffering. And I pay for an "Unlimited" package.
If I had a viable alternative to BT in my area I would switch already, but I'm in one of the many areas that BT still haven't done LLU on my local exchange so the only real competitors are companies I hate more than BT.
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With this kind of thinking no one would do anything. And even if it has been tried before, that doesn't mean that we can't try again.
It could break a program if a moron has programmed their application to check for internet connectivity by looking for a 200 OK response from example.com.
There are plenty of idiots who do stuff like this, whether it's using a "reserved for future use" byte in a file header for their own personal program or some unspecified quirk in an API that later gets changed/fixed.
It really wouldn't surprise me if a few programs broke, because there are just too many idiots for someone not to have done something stupid.
And the child that broke the shopkeeper's window pane is keeping the glazier in business.
Just because a day can be the "world's most boring", doesn't mean that the day itself is boring. It's just more boring than all the others.
Yes, some folks won't be rocket scientists(I assume that's what you meant)
No, I'm pretty sure he meant Rocket Surgeon
http://hanzismatter.blogspot.com/
A blog that collects and translates (if possible) the tattoos of mostly Chinese/Japanese/Gibberish characters on people who aren't sure what they really mean.
Some of them aren't that bad, but others make you want to cringe.
Whoa, what an awful dream. Hexadecimal digits everywhere. And I thought I saw a 'g'.
They still should have fixed it with the first communication. Each and every person that failed to check this should be fired. There are plenty of smarter people that want jobs. There's no reason Microsoft should be hiring dumb people.
If you fire people who make mistakes you'll have a company without any employees. I think the staff were probably just following procedure because they probably don't have the authority to deviate. Microsoft saying they've updated their training is them re-formulating their procedures.
And, for that sort of position, hiring people who care is probably better than hiring people who are smart.
No one has died in F1 since Senna. I think their rules changes have probably helped.
That would be the standard order of operations. The exponent first, Multiplication and division second (performed left to right).
Indeed, who would have thought that your informative comment would lead to such a strange (on X0563511's part) exchange?
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Try wearing a suit some time when you don't have to. Just try it. Not a crappy fitting suit that looks like it's 20 years old, but one that fits well, and looks good. Just try it. My experience doing that suggests that you will get more respect, be taken more seriously, and your professional life will be a lot easier.
Indeed! When I wanted to start living somewhere nice (not student accommodation) I went to look at a house to rent. I was dressed in baggy trousers and a Korn t-shirt I could tell before I'd even got out of my car, as soon as the landlord had seen us he'd decided that he wasn't going to rent to us. Ever since then I wear a suit to important things, even stuff like buying a new bed or TV. Having salesmen falling over themselves trying to help, offering things like food and drinks (including alcohol) even if I say I'm just browsing is much better, and much more fun, than having the security guard follow you around the shop.
I have a big goatee beard and face piercings, when I'm dressed in a suit people know I want to be taken seriously, so they treat me the way I'm dressed.
Everyone knows that different people are different. Wearing a suit says so much about your attitude. Taking the effort to look good and look smart tends to command a certain level of respect (in the correct situations).
The world isn't so black and white.
It is very reasonable that many Somali's don't consider the pirates as criminals. In the same way many western people don't see their armies in the middle east as murdering criminals. It's a matter of perspective.
And (I may be going out on a limb here) I don't think Valdrax is Somali. So I don't think he'll be investing any time soon.
You can get water from a stream, collect if from your roof, or buy it in little plastic bottles. You can heat your home by burning wood. You don't need piped water or electricity any more or less than you need the Internet. They are all luxuries. However, piped water and electricity have become so ubiquitous, and so important for normal everyday tasks that they aren't really considered luxuries, they are considered basic necessities. Some people consider the Internet in the same light. That is the view the gp was basing his argument on.
You haven't refuted it. All you've done is to essentially state, "I consider water and electricity to be necessities, but not the Internet." Which is fine, you are entitled to your opinion, but you haven't really shown why water and electricity piped from a central utility are necessities, and you certainly haven't shown that the Internet isn't, so all you have done is presented your own opinion unsupported by any facts.
Piped water is not considered a luxury in Britain, you cannot have your water supply cut-off even if you just plain refuse to pay your water bill. Gas, electricity and telecommunications can all be cut-off because they are not necessary.
Just think, if you were living in Britain, your wife would only have to pay about £5 per drug. And if she lived in Scotland or Wales, wouldn't have to pay anything.
My wife has a couple of illnesses that are controlled with medicine, and we get all the drugs she needs free. Even considering she was made redundant recently, because we know that even if I get made redundant too, we won't have to worry about her health.
A lot of people moan about the NHS here in Britain, but I think it's great, mostly because I'd be worried of what happened to you happening to me.
Maybe if you look at it a different way.
There are 4.5million tracks on Spotify. That is over 25 years of never hearing the same track twice. (At 3mins a track listening 24hrs a day). It would cost you about £3000 to listen to Spotify for 25 years. If you were to buy each of those tracks say at 1p each that is £45,000. Obviously this is an extreme but it works on the small scale too.
If you want to listen to an hour a night for a month without hearing the same track, that is £10 on Spotify. If we assume about £2.50 for a 1 hour album, we need 30 albums, that is £75.
Yes, if you only like a select few artists, or like listening to the same stuff over and over, paying for Spotify probably isn't for you. I know most people aren't going to be the extreme of my examples, but paying for Spotify is not as crazy as you think if you want access to a massive music library.
And you don't even need to pay for Spotify, the adverts are not that intrusive, or long.
Both these skills were completely obsolete before we even left school. Similarly with touch typing. Voice recognition and speech to text is now at a level where it's extremely unlikely that keyboards will be more than a vague memory for mainstream users by the time people now in school are thirty.
There are, and I imagine there will be, many applications where voice recognition/speech to text is intrusive, cumbersome, or just impractical. (Programming for example)
I think something that reads thoughts/brainwaves would be more practical, because it will just "type" what you want on screen, no confusion over words like "Close Application" when you want it to close the application not type it, or vice versa. But this technology is still very far off. Keyboards work very well. I imagine they'll be around as long as we have the type of computers that they are plugged into.
Maybe we should stop teaching our kids anything, because it'll all be obsolete in the future anyway.
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You don't need to teach people how to type. You need to teach them what to type... They'll figure out how to do it themselves and if touch-typing is so important, they'll pursue that independantly.
You could use that argument for speaking, writing or reading too. But I think most people are better off when their parents and teachers help them with these skills.
This isn't a hard and fast rule. Just a general guideline.
For a man dating a woman:
If she starts complaining about work/school/friends/family. She is not looking for a solution, but empathy. Don't try and fix the problems, just understand how they make her feel.
For a woman dating a man:
If a man starts complaining about work/school/friends/family then don't try and empathise, he's looking for solutions to problems.
I'm sure they don't tell you the sex sucked right after you're done ... just as you probably don't tell them it's the arse that makes them look fat not the jeans.
While I agree there can be a time and a place for the honesty. Nothing has improved my sex life with my wife more than being honest when it's boring, bad, or good. It's how you learn what the other person likes. If you're not honest when it's crap, you keep getting the same crap sex over and over. (At least until you get no sex)
Personally, I think that small lies are what slowly tear a relationship apart. They're all the small things that you quietly resent about your partner, and it's there, under the surface, just waiting for a release. So when the bad things happen, all the small lies come to the surface too. Then it's not just one bad argument, it's all the problems that you've been keeping secret all coming out at the same time.
From the article:
On the other hand, it's not very likely that Mason intended for anyone to take him seriously, so a judge might not really consider his statement a unilateral contract. Without knowing more about Texas contract law, I'd wager that the judge will toss the case, save Mason a million clams and give Kolodziej a lesson in real world contracts.
I doubt Kolodziej will get anything, it was clearly hyperbole. But Mason has still shot himself in the foot, loosing this defence argument, because even if the prosecution don't use Kolodziej's tape, I think they could send one of their lackeys to do exactly the same thing.
Graphics ARE gameplay. These are not my words but those of one of the writers at Rock Paper Shotgun.
It's something I've always thought myself.
Talking about gameplay and graphics as separate things is like talking about gameplay without talking about the goals or rules of a game.
Did you ever stop and think, maybe it's not because you're an American, maybe people just don't like you?
And as for the English-French hate. If you're not English or French, I don't think you'll ever understand or appreciate what happens between us. It has been ingrained into us form hundreds of years of fighting. It's different to racism (I can't explain how to an outsider) It's more like a love-hate thing, if you took the French away, you would also take away part of what makes people English. There is so much love, we had to build a tunnel to each other, because that small stretch of water was keeping us too far apart. ;)
I've noticed this recently too. I used to be able to watch BBC programs using the High Quality setting without problem, but like you say, sometimes at peak times I can wait 30mins for a 5min you-tube video to load, or a BBC iPlayer program is constantly buffering. And I pay for an "Unlimited" package.
If I had a viable alternative to BT in my area I would switch already, but I'm in one of the many areas that BT still haven't done LLU on my local exchange so the only real competitors are companies I hate more than BT.