Just goes to show, no matter how big you make your counter, no matter how completely out of spec it would have to be for that counter to roll over, somebody will, eventually, manage to roll it over.
One could spread the page file around multiple physical volumes in Win2K. Not sure offhand about NT4 or earlier, but honestly, I'd be surprised if it wasn't also an option.
That's kind of my point. As was pointed out in the original/. discussion, the data wasn't 'lost' per se; it was pointed out even then that lots of it could likely be recovered, though it would be very inconvenient and possibly not worth the effort.
Well, to be fair, whoever said 'All data is lost' to the press should have been dragged out back and shot. They should have said 'We're looking in to how long it will take to restore data, and to see if there will be any problems' and left it at that for a few days.
Oh snap, you can't multithread on a single-core processor! Quick, somebody tell Microsoft, Linux, UNIX, and all those other OSes with multiprocessing that they've been doing something impossible for the last forty years!
A common bullying tactic (not limited to the sex divide) is to mock the everliving shit out of your target, then, when they become upset, claim that they're 'taking it wrong,' are 'too sensitive,' or 'can't take a joke.'
So, when somebody says something, in this context, sexist and demeaning, and a member of the target sex rebuts or takes offense, they're written off as being, well, 'too sensitive' or 'unable to take a joke.' As if laughing while saying something hurtful makes it OK.
Remember, sticks and stone may break your bones, but words will scar you for life.
Does 'unfriending' somebody send them a notification in some way? If so, then she wouldn't be able to unfriend them without violating the NCO order....
Nah. If the article had been 'Catastropic SAN failure destroys online backups, but Microsoft/Danger say the whole thing will be restored from offline backups within two days, and only data less than X hours old, and therefore not part of the backup is lost' then/. would be SCREAMING about 'Microsoft keeps your data! Why, I erased some stuff, but it would STILL BE ON THAT BACKUP TAPE! WHAT IS MICRO$OFT PLANNING ON DOING WITH ALL THAT DATA?!?@?@?! SUE THEM FOR BREACH OF PRIVACY!!!11!!!ELEVENTYONE!!111!!
You just remember that next time you come asking for clean water to drink, my friend.
Heard this one from a buddy of mine who lived in Minnesota for a few years: "How do you find a Canadian in a room full of Americans? A: Start stepping on toes. Whoever says 'sorry' is the Canadian." It's funny because it's true.
Actually, your reference to Ethernet is pretty enlightning.
Back when each client was connected to One Big Hub, speeds sucked. To improve the speed of Ethernet, the easiest and backwards-compatibleist thing to do was to invent a switch; each client gets it's very own hub.
Seeding the area with picocells does much the same thing.
The next time you choose to think less of Canadians, or cast aspersions upon them, remember this:
Several hundred years ago, Vikings came to Canada, and spent a winter here. After that winter, they said 'fuck this, it's way too cold and difficult to live here' and left.
Yes, Canadians live in a land too harsh for Vikings. Don't fuck with us, eh?
I think people get things backwards. Enemies which resemble Nazis, in games, don't necessarily resemble Nazis because the game is trying to make a point. Sometimes, just sometimes, it's because 'Nazi' is a really really convenient shorthand for all sorts of concepts and ideas which most Westerners implicitly get.
Much like a 'wise old man' isn't in a game to cast aspersions on the young, but because 'wise old man' is a useful trope, an idiom, an archetype. Making your ficticious villians look vaguely like Nazis fills in all sorts of blanks automatically.
(Imagine this in a Jesse Jackson style oration).
Of COURSE that's racist! Look at the B. B notes can be flat. Then can be lower. They can be less But they can never be more! As soon as a B tries to be more, it stops being a B! No, my friends, at that point it becomes a C! A shining, pure C note. The most common scale is centered around the C! All other scales are defined by where they are in relation to C! Even a one HUNDRED dollar bill is called a C-Note! And can a C be flat? No, my friends, a C can only go UP! A C can never fall to the level of a B, but can certainly become a C#.
Why would you not simply, and as a matter of straight ethics, always post a 'this product was sent to me as a sample by the company' or 'a retail version of the product was provided by the company' or 'This product was purchased at retail by me?' or whatever?
I was shocked the other day when I noticed that running my 3gs with 'everything' on and TomTom, the car charger was keeping the battery at 58%. Not 'charging' it.
What I'd love is a simple app (in the app store, dammit) which lets you define profiles. When I'm driving, I don't need wi-fi on, I probably don't need 3G on. When I'm at the office, I don't need location services on, I don't need 3G on, but I do need wi-fi on. And so on.
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Great, what's your capacity? I need 1,000,000 units of Batman: Arkham Asylum. Three separate discs, six separate covers. They need to be shipped to various points from Texas to Alaska, and various points in Canada. Here are the gold masters, I expect every to be ready to sell in stores within 10 days. Can do?
Actually, it just occured to me that various stores get customized covers and inserts. So factor that in.
Oh,and in five days, you'll be getting an even bigger order for the next big game.
What's that? My entire shipment is delayed because your offset printer broke down? Well shit. If only we'd been smart enough to farm each item out, individually, to several manufacturers.
I find it interesting that you mention 'free shipping within 50 miles' and then use that to imply that there'd be no extra shipping costs, for example.
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You honestly think it takes $1.50 to ship the various parts from the various manufacturers (sorry, one factory doesn't produce DVD, manual, box, and so on) to a central facility, where they're assembled into units, then to ship to regional warehouses, then to individual vendors?
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Sure, some of this might be encumbered by licensing requirements. Just like Linux is encumbered by it's own (non-Free, btw) licensing requirements.
Just goes to show, no matter how big you make your counter, no matter how completely out of spec it would have to be for that counter to roll over, somebody will, eventually, manage to roll it over.
http://www.microsoft.com/protocols/protocol-documentation/interoperability-principles-protocol-documentation/exchange-server-protocols-documentation/ Google too hard for you?
One could spread the page file around multiple physical volumes in Win2K. Not sure offhand about NT4 or earlier, but honestly, I'd be surprised if it wasn't also an option.
I wonder how much of this is the Loudness War and GIGO.
That's kind of my point. As was pointed out in the original /. discussion, the data wasn't 'lost' per se; it was pointed out even then that lots of it could likely be recovered, though it would be very inconvenient and possibly not worth the effort.
Well, to be fair, whoever said 'All data is lost' to the press should have been dragged out back and shot. They should have said 'We're looking in to how long it will take to restore data, and to see if there will be any problems' and left it at that for a few days.
Oh snap, you can't multithread on a single-core processor! Quick, somebody tell Microsoft, Linux, UNIX, and all those other OSes with multiprocessing that they've been doing something impossible for the last forty years!
One would assume that the science of ECM didn't freeze in the 20th century.
A common bullying tactic (not limited to the sex divide) is to mock the everliving shit out of your target, then, when they become upset, claim that they're 'taking it wrong,' are 'too sensitive,' or 'can't take a joke.'
So, when somebody says something, in this context, sexist and demeaning, and a member of the target sex rebuts or takes offense, they're written off as being, well, 'too sensitive' or 'unable to take a joke.' As if laughing while saying something hurtful makes it OK.
Remember, sticks and stone may break your bones, but words will scar you for life.
Does 'unfriending' somebody send them a notification in some way? If so, then she wouldn't be able to unfriend them without violating the NCO order....
Nah. If the article had been 'Catastropic SAN failure destroys online backups, but Microsoft/Danger say the whole thing will be restored from offline backups within two days, and only data less than X hours old, and therefore not part of the backup is lost' then /. would be SCREAMING about 'Microsoft keeps your data! Why, I erased some stuff, but it would STILL BE ON THAT BACKUP TAPE! WHAT IS MICRO$OFT PLANNING ON DOING WITH ALL THAT DATA?!?@?@?! SUE THEM FOR BREACH OF PRIVACY!!!11!!!ELEVENTYONE!!111!!
You just remember that next time you come asking for clean water to drink, my friend.
Heard this one from a buddy of mine who lived in Minnesota for a few years: "How do you find a Canadian in a room full of Americans? A: Start stepping on toes. Whoever says 'sorry' is the Canadian." It's funny because it's true.
Actually, your reference to Ethernet is pretty enlightning.
Back when each client was connected to One Big Hub, speeds sucked. To improve the speed of Ethernet, the easiest and backwards-compatibleist thing to do was to invent a switch; each client gets it's very own hub.
Seeding the area with picocells does much the same thing.
The next time you choose to think less of Canadians, or cast aspersions upon them, remember this:
Several hundred years ago, Vikings came to Canada, and spent a winter here. After that winter, they said 'fuck this, it's way too cold and difficult to live here' and left.
Yes, Canadians live in a land too harsh for Vikings. Don't fuck with us, eh?
The Japanese version of the Nintendo Entertainment System, AKA the Famicom, had a dial-up modem. The Sega Genesis had a cable modem cartridge.
I think people get things backwards. Enemies which resemble Nazis, in games, don't necessarily resemble Nazis because the game is trying to make a point. Sometimes, just sometimes, it's because 'Nazi' is a really really convenient shorthand for all sorts of concepts and ideas which most Westerners implicitly get.
Much like a 'wise old man' isn't in a game to cast aspersions on the young, but because 'wise old man' is a useful trope, an idiom, an archetype. Making your ficticious villians look vaguely like Nazis fills in all sorts of blanks automatically.
(Imagine this in a Jesse Jackson style oration). Of COURSE that's racist! Look at the B. B notes can be flat. Then can be lower. They can be less But they can never be more! As soon as a B tries to be more, it stops being a B! No, my friends, at that point it becomes a C! A shining, pure C note. The most common scale is centered around the C! All other scales are defined by where they are in relation to C! Even a one HUNDRED dollar bill is called a C-Note! And can a C be flat? No, my friends, a C can only go UP! A C can never fall to the level of a B, but can certainly become a C#.
Actually, the iPhone has a multi-function button which, depending on the context, will:
Why would you not simply, and as a matter of straight ethics, always post a 'this product was sent to me as a sample by the company' or 'a retail version of the product was provided by the company' or 'This product was purchased at retail by me?' or whatever?
It's pretty common practice
I was shocked the other day when I noticed that running my 3gs with 'everything' on and TomTom, the car charger was keeping the battery at 58%. Not 'charging' it.
What I'd love is a simple app (in the app store, dammit) which lets you define profiles. When I'm driving, I don't need wi-fi on, I probably don't need 3G on. When I'm at the office, I don't need location services on, I don't need 3G on, but I do need wi-fi on. And so on.
Great, what's your capacity? I need 1,000,000 units of Batman: Arkham Asylum. Three separate discs, six separate covers. They need to be shipped to various points from Texas to Alaska, and various points in Canada. Here are the gold masters, I expect every to be ready to sell in stores within 10 days. Can do?
Actually, it just occured to me that various stores get customized covers and inserts. So factor that in.
Oh,and in five days, you'll be getting an even bigger order for the next big game.
What's that? My entire shipment is delayed because your offset printer broke down? Well shit. If only we'd been smart enough to farm each item out, individually, to several manufacturers.
I find it interesting that you mention 'free shipping within 50 miles' and then use that to imply that there'd be no extra shipping costs, for example.
49.95 in 1990 dollars is $72.95 in 2009 dollars.
You honestly think it takes $1.50 to ship the various parts from the various manufacturers (sorry, one factory doesn't produce DVD, manual, box, and so on) to a central facility, where they're assembled into units, then to ship to regional warehouses, then to individual vendors?
Come on.
There's an awfully big difference between 'imitating' and 'following established UI guidelines and conventions.'