It is known that the effect (or side effect anyway), of most drugs it to chemically alter the brain, and cause different interconnections between the synapses, or possibly too many connections, or connections that only work in the presence of certain stimuli etc...
Hey, guess what, that applies to every damn thing we do !!!
Anyone who is involved in ANY mental related activity, be it reading, studying, learning a new game, is forcing some changes on his/her brain structure.
So, why do you say that someone who plays WoW for 12 hours, and derives immense pleasure from it, ISN'T havving their brain chemically altered so that synapses respond to the pleasurable stimuli of "being online".
It's exactly the same effect, just a different cause.
The problem is that sensationalist media (and indeed these leech clinics), would like you to believe that EVERYONE is addicted (because that's where their money comes from).
How in God's name is the UK Government supposed to keep a record of everything you do online, if you are using these unholy fast speed internet connections ?
Well why didn't HP just make that a marketing campaign ?
"HP, actually DOES work with all the Aero bells and whistles !!".
A simple features comparison chart, HP vs Intel (basically Vista Ultimate vs Vista Basic) feature set would have done it.
Who the hell buys a computer on the basis of a sticker ?
Even my wife who is tech-illiterate, wants to know the comparitive features of a cell-phone or gadget she buys, not just whether it has a sticker or not.
I think HP missed a golden opportunity to trounce the inferior competition with a kick-ass advertising campaign, and instead prefer to gripe about it in the courts.
Yes, but in the real world, you don't want your significant other/spouse/concubine/granny (DELETE INAPPROPRIATE), making demands on your time at all hours to do a 5 minute (or possibly longer) "sysadmin" job, just so she can install and play some daft Flash game.
They just want it to work how they expect it to.
Technology is supposed to set us free, not bind us in slavery.
"A non-OpenSource operating system of any origin or maker is prone to being end-of-life'd"
So when I want hardware RAID, I'll have to upgrade my Redhat, as the kernal I have only supports software RAID ?
When I download AN::Other module from CPAN, I'm told I need perl 5.8 (or worse 5.10), because my 5.0 is "not supported" ?
When something I tarballed up years ago suddenly won't untar because TAR has changed it's file format ?
Everything is prone to being end-of-lifed, not just closed source... it's the nature of innovation that you cannot support legacy hardware / software forever (unless of course you are M/S, and look at the shit they get for it).
And you would be the same one who complains about windows being so bloated because they still insist on legacy code for their products build 20 years ago.
64 bit drivers kludging 32 bit drivers which patch 16 bit drivers designed for an 8 bit processor with a 4 bit bus... and the punchline "2 bit operating system"... was never truer.
If you want solid stable O/S, stick with Windows XP... it's served me well for years... if you want all the latest shiny addons and widgets, upgrade like the rest of the sheep. I can't see the sense in saying in one breath "Vista Sucks Donkey Balls", and then in the next breath complaining because those same "Donkey Balls" aren't available as an addon for XP ?
In the digital age, stealing a car should be a misdemeanor, given that the principles of the rule of law instruct that the ease of the offense, its commonality, the view that the general public has of it and the mindset that people have when they do it all have to be taken into account.
It's easy to steal a car. It's very common that cars get stolen. The general public have the view that it's okay to steal a car (provided it's not THEIR car). The mindset of people who steal cars is that they like to steal cars.
What kind a warped social view do you have that just because something is considered "socially acceptable", it suddenly ceases to be subject to the rule of law ?
Hopelessly off topic, but I forgot what the original thread was about, and can't be bothered to look...
Aragorn : Gentlemen, we do not stop till nightfall. Pippin : What about McBreakfast? Aragorn : You've already had it. Pippin : We've had one, yes. What about second McBreakfast? Merry : I don't think he knows about second McBreakfast, Pip. Pippin : What about McElevenses? McLuncheon? Afternoon McTea? McDinner? McSupper? He knows about them, doesn't he? Merry : I wouldn't count on it.
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Sam : McLambas bread. Oh and look! MORE McLambas Bread!
Sorry about the "dick", it was unjustified with hindsight...
But even so, "silly hobbit notion which are only 'essential' because other silly hobbit notions make them so" ?
WTF, why should I wish to spend an hour in a tacky plastic mausoleum looking at effigys of hambunglers and a seriously suspicous clown, being jossled by 100 other hobbits and their screaming hobbit children.
The "bring your own cup idea" might be fine in a world where everyone drives their own mobile home, but I can imagine it a serious annoyance for the rest of us... fancy a burger, oops, damnit forget to bring my mug from home, no juice for me:-(
And where would it stop ? I don't want my dashboard cluttered up with mugs, plates, forks, spoons, knives etc just because I fancy a quick snack... that would make it a "washboard" possibly ?
Convenience Food is meant to be just that... convenience.
I meant the facial aspects, the curly hair, eyes etc... a hell of a lot closer representation than the guy playing Al, who in the books is bearded, black haired, squat powerhouse of Italian ancestry (I'd always invisaged a kind of Captain Nemo type of look to him)... and the shallow scripting didn't hold a candle to the level of suspense derived from reading the novel, even if they did manage quite successfully to cram most of the major plot into an hour and a half... of course, I'm biased towards the printed word, as I have every one of Cusslers masterpieces in my bookcase.
Compare this to the epic "Raise the Titanic", which I thought was a much better adaptation, even with "Alfie" in the lead role.
Sahara, movie of the book by Clive Cussler, with a completely miscast Steve Zahn playing Al Giordino. Matthew McConaughey wasn't bad as Dirk Pitt though.
Yes, we should stick to the old tried and true "overload the server and piss off the user" method of the 1990's.
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February 29th is not a valid date because 2000 is not a leap year.
BY WHICH TIME, *IF* THE USER IS STILL HERE, YOU HAVE THOROUGHLY PISSED HIM OFF, AND MADE NO LESS THAN 6 SUBMISSIONS TO THE SERVER FOR SOME CRAPPY VALIDATION THAT COULD HAVE ALL BEEN TRAPPED ON THE CLIENT SIDE.
If that's the web you want, then it's your choice I suppose.
I have found also a steady decline in newsgroups over the years, to the point where they are unusable because of narrow minded jerks with an axe to grind, or an agenda to push.
Try finding any technical info on say the Internet Explorer "Operation Terminated" bug, and the responses are filled with assholes saying "Use Firefox". Whether that is good advice or not is not the issue, but it's downright annoying when all these "wanna-be-experts" pollute supposed technical forums with bullshit just to satisfy their egos / post counts / reputations, even though they have nothing constructive to add to the discussion.
To be honest, I lean towards the established forums now, such as http://perlmonks.org/ for Perl related stuff etc... it's the only way you'll get anything remotely pertinent, and not "politically" tainted.
It never makes sense to power down a server that supplies web pages, if you are in e-commerce.
The moment your potential customer sees a 404 page, you've lost him.
Indeed we design all our pages to be displayed in less than 7 seconds, as our research showed anyone typically waiting longer than that for say "search results" would be likely to go elsewhere rather than waiting.
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I've been married 12 years, and I STILL don't understand 100% girlspeak.
It is known that the effect (or side effect anyway), of most drugs it to chemically alter the brain, and cause different interconnections between the synapses, or possibly too many connections, or connections that only work in the presence of certain stimuli etc ...
Hey, guess what, that applies to every damn thing we do !!!
Anyone who is involved in ANY mental related activity, be it reading, studying, learning a new game, is forcing some changes on his/her brain structure.
So, why do you say that someone who plays WoW for 12 hours, and derives immense pleasure from it, ISN'T havving their brain chemically altered so that synapses respond to the pleasurable stimuli of "being online".
It's exactly the same effect, just a different cause.
The problem is that sensationalist media (and indeed these leech clinics), would like you to believe that EVERYONE is addicted (because that's where their money comes from).
How in God's name is the UK Government supposed to keep a record of everything you do online, if you are using these unholy fast speed internet connections ?
So it's Microsoft's fault that Firefox is a bloated memory hog ?
Well why didn't HP just make that a marketing campaign ?
"HP, actually DOES work with all the Aero bells and whistles !!".
A simple features comparison chart, HP vs Intel (basically Vista Ultimate vs Vista Basic) feature set would have done it.
Who the hell buys a computer on the basis of a sticker ?
Even my wife who is tech-illiterate, wants to know the comparitive features of a cell-phone or gadget she buys, not just whether it has a sticker or not.
I think HP missed a golden opportunity to trounce the inferior competition with a kick-ass advertising campaign, and instead prefer to gripe about it in the courts.
Yes, but in the real world, you don't want your significant other/spouse/concubine/granny (DELETE INAPPROPRIATE), making demands on your time at all hours to do a 5 minute (or possibly longer) "sysadmin" job, just so she can install and play some daft Flash game.
They just want it to work how they expect it to.
Technology is supposed to set us free, not bind us in slavery.
Fool me once shame on you
Fool me twice shame on me
Only the folks in Palo Alto will fall for number seven.
There, fixed that for you.
"A non-OpenSource operating system of any origin or maker is prone to being end-of-life'd"
So when I want hardware RAID, I'll have to upgrade my Redhat, as the kernal I have only supports software RAID ?
When I download AN::Other module from CPAN, I'm told I need perl 5.8 (or worse 5.10), because my 5.0 is "not supported" ?
When something I tarballed up years ago suddenly won't untar because TAR has changed it's file format ?
Everything is prone to being end-of-lifed, not just closed source ... it's the nature of innovation that you cannot support legacy hardware / software forever (unless of course you are M/S, and look at the shit they get for it).
And you would be the same one who complains about windows being so bloated because they still insist on legacy code for their products build 20 years ago.
64 bit drivers kludging 32 bit drivers which patch 16 bit drivers designed for an 8 bit processor with a 4 bit bus ... and the punchline "2 bit operating system" ... was never truer.
If you want solid stable O/S, stick with Windows XP ... it's served me well for years ... if you want all the latest shiny addons and widgets, upgrade like the rest of the sheep. I can't see the sense in saying in one breath "Vista Sucks Donkey Balls", and then in the next breath complaining because those same "Donkey Balls" aren't available as an addon for XP ?
Queue car analogy in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ... action !!!
In the digital age, stealing a car should be a misdemeanor, given that the principles of the rule of law instruct that the ease of the offense, its commonality, the view that the general public has of it and the mindset that people have when they do it all have to be taken into account.
It's easy to steal a car.
It's very common that cars get stolen.
The general public have the view that it's okay to steal a car (provided it's not THEIR car).
The mindset of people who steal cars is that they like to steal cars.
What kind a warped social view do you have that just because something is considered "socially acceptable", it suddenly ceases to be subject to the rule of law ?
Hopelessly off topic, but I forgot what the original thread was about, and can't be bothered to look ...
Aragorn : Gentlemen, we do not stop till nightfall.
Pippin : What about McBreakfast?
Aragorn : You've already had it.
Pippin : We've had one, yes. What about second McBreakfast?
Merry : I don't think he knows about second McBreakfast, Pip.
Pippin : What about McElevenses? McLuncheon? Afternoon McTea? McDinner? McSupper? He knows about them, doesn't he?
Merry : I wouldn't count on it.
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Sam : McLambas bread. Oh and look! MORE McLambas Bread!
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And my all time personal favourite ...
Gollum : What's McTaters Precious ? What's McTaters Eh ? ...
Sam : McPotatos
Welcome to my new Empire
Stand witness Timelord, stand witness humans.
Your strategies have failed, your weapons are useless, and oh ... the end of the universe has come.
Now, detonate the reality bomb !!!
Sorry about the "dick", it was unjustified with hindsight ...
But even so, "silly hobbit notion which are only 'essential' because other silly hobbit notions make them so" ?
WTF, why should I wish to spend an hour in a tacky plastic mausoleum looking at effigys of hambunglers and a seriously suspicous clown, being jossled by 100 other hobbits and their screaming hobbit children.
The "bring your own cup idea" might be fine in a world where everyone drives their own mobile home, but I can imagine it a serious annoyance for the rest of us ... fancy a burger, oops, damnit forget to bring my mug from home, no juice for me :-(
And where would it stop ? I don't want my dashboard cluttered up with mugs, plates, forks, spoons, knives etc just because I fancy a quick snack ... that would make it a "washboard" possibly ?
Convenience Food is meant to be just that ... convenience.
I meant the facial aspects, the curly hair, eyes etc ... a hell of a lot closer representation than the guy playing Al, who in the books is bearded, black haired, squat powerhouse of Italian ancestry (I'd always invisaged a kind of Captain Nemo type of look to him) ... and the shallow scripting didn't hold a candle to the level of suspense derived from reading the novel, even if they did manage quite successfully to cram most of the major plot into an hour and a half ... of course, I'm biased towards the printed word, as I have every one of Cusslers masterpieces in my bookcase.
Compare this to the epic "Raise the Titanic", which I thought was a much better adaptation, even with "Alfie" in the lead role.
Sahara, movie of the book by Clive Cussler, with a completely miscast Steve Zahn playing Al Giordino. Matthew McConaughey wasn't bad as Dirk Pitt though.
Yes, next time you are at the drive-thru, don't ask for a cup, just let them pour your Coca Cola into your cupped hands, you dick.
Yes, we should stick to the old tried and true "overload the server and piss off the user" method of the 1990's.
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February 29th is not a valid date because 2000 is not a leap year.
BY WHICH TIME, *IF* THE USER IS STILL HERE, YOU HAVE THOROUGHLY PISSED HIM OFF, AND MADE NO LESS THAN 6 SUBMISSIONS TO THE SERVER FOR SOME CRAPPY VALIDATION THAT COULD HAVE ALL BEEN TRAPPED ON THE CLIENT SIDE.
If that's the web you want, then it's your choice I suppose.
If he made a parody of the thing, he'd be safe ?
1. s/Harry Potter/Hairy Putter/g
2. ???
3. Profit !
I have found also a steady decline in newsgroups over the years, to the point where they are unusable because of narrow minded jerks with an axe to grind, or an agenda to push.
Try finding any technical info on say the Internet Explorer "Operation Terminated" bug, and the responses are filled with assholes saying "Use Firefox". Whether that is good advice or not is not the issue, but it's downright annoying when all these "wanna-be-experts" pollute supposed technical forums with bullshit just to satisfy their egos / post counts / reputations, even though they have nothing constructive to add to the discussion.
To be honest, I lean towards the established forums now, such as http://perlmonks.org/ for Perl related stuff etc ... it's the only way you'll get anything remotely pertinent, and not "politically" tainted.
My God man, haven't you ever heard of data redundancy ? Backup copies are always safer if they are stored in deiverse locations.
300 GB ?
So your friend's wedding lasted for what ? 127 hours ?
(I assumed MP4 encoding, meaning about 2.35GB / hour).
Just because you have the RIGHT to do something, doesn't mean you have to avail of that right at every damn opportunity.
Anyone finding these naming conventions a little strained now ?
What's next ?
Suicidal Salamander
Manic-depressive Mole
Tourette Tortoise
Hypertensive Hippo
It never makes sense to power down a server that supplies web pages, if you are in e-commerce.
The moment your potential customer sees a 404 page, you've lost him.
Indeed we design all our pages to be displayed in less than 7 seconds, as our research showed anyone typically waiting longer than that for say "search results" would be likely to go elsewhere rather than waiting.
NASA design Apollo space project on the back of OSS paper napkins using OSS pencils.
Hooray, isn't OSS just the pants !
This is not news, this is an OSS wankfest.