They either get the joke, or they don't. Explaining it to those who don't is pointless and usually means you wind up trailing off into silence as they look confused at you.
The most merciful thing in the internet, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We surf in a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of lol cats, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The networks, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated bytes will open up such terrifying vistas of content, and of the frightful capsuns therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly lulz into the peace and safety of a new gym pass.
Statements like this "90% of their sales staff (in enterprise) would rather sell a product and never have to maintain contact with that customer until they need to buy something more again" make me think of XKCD.
I will agree on your assessment of the probability of them having an IT person. This seems like a problem any user who didn't RTFM and didn't have IT experience would make on any OS. Had these guys ran Linux, I think their actions, the outcome and apparent denial would have been the same.
Note, the last Apple I had the pleasure to use is a IIe and I'm not feeling the urge to rush out and get one.
The temptation for "But Macs can't fail!" bashing was strong, but I resisted. It did lead me to a question though. That is: Had they been mislead by the Mac culture? Could there been something in Apples ads or documentation that would lead them to this mistake?
Defining Backup and Restore Policies
All storage systems will fail eventually. Either through equipment wear and tear,
accident, or disaster, your data and configuration settings are vulnerable to loss. You
should have a plan in place to prevent or minimize your data loss.
"The primary benefit of ABS on such surfaces is to increase the ability of the driver to maintain control of the car rather than go into a skid."
So, yes, breaking distance is increased on the surfaces you mentioned but vehicle control is improved in all the cases you mention.
But, as someone pointed out previously, I doubt there's a Volvo Engineer on the Break Systems team reading Slashdot now and bonking himself on the head with the palm of his hand thinking "Damn! Gravel roads! I forgot about gravel roads!"
Na, IIRC it's because of old restrictions of max-line length and wanting
the text in a paragraph to flow and fill the full width of a body. So
multiple white-space characters ( tab, carriage return, line feed, space,
etc. ) are treated as a single space.
<p>Na, IIRC it's because of old restrictions of max-line length and wanting
the text in a paragraph to flow and fill the full width of a body. So
multiple white-space characters ( tab, carriage return, line feed, space,
etc. ) are treated as a single space.</p>
I was driving towards paying for a MMO to grind and work to get paid in RL and my post get sideswiped by FedEx on the internet...
Sounds like a commuting accident.
Money is already on the table though and the motivators you refer to are eroding already. It's everywhere you can buy game currency or pay someone to level a character for you. It's just not Sony's table and, since it's happening anyway, they want it.
The value of a game is something the individual assigns themselves. If they feel that an optional feature of the game cheapens the experience, then they are free not to use it ( and perhaps be smug about ). For me, I may envy them but that does not mean they are in the wrong. Since this is a money based argument, I'll use another money based alteration of a online game as an example. Multi-boxing. Do I wish I could do that? Yes. Do I think it makes their experience a hell of a lot easier? Yes. Does it cheapen my sense of accomplishment? No.
This comes alongside news today that upcoming MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic will not be subscription-based, but entirely based on micro-transactions instead.
This on the other hand, does not seem to make it optional and I may just have to give it a pass after I look into it more.
From: Dave Thomas's book The Pragmatic Programmer.
Don't Repeat Yourself (or DRY) says that every piece of system knowledge should have one authoritative, unambiguous representation. Every piece of knowledge in the development of something should have a single representation. A system's knowledge is far broader than just its code. It refers to database schemas, test plans, the build system, even documentation.
Given all this knowledge, why should you find one way to represent each feature? The obvious answer is, if you have more than one way to express the same thing, at some point the two or three different representations will most likely fall out of step with each other. Even if they don't, you're guaranteeing yourself the headache of maintaining them in parallel whenever a change occurs. And change will occur. DRY is important if you want flexible and maintainable software.
1. The principal responsibility for investigation of suspected
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At their discretion, they may delegate it to System Managers and/or Facility
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1.1 The investigation of alleged or suspected non-compliance
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1.2 System Sponsors may suspend service to Users without
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such purpose.
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Wrong. Spam is Unsolicited & Bulk. The content of the message does not matter. Even if there is only the headers and no body. Unsolicited is the tricky part. A company sending out a mass email about a product recall to every customer's email address in their database is not spam.
Regardless, she was informed on how to use the University's network. She refused. If it was a company's network, she should be fired.
Slashdot Mirror
Okay, name 'em. Make a recommendation. I'm curious because you may just name something I'd be interested in looking into.
Did anybody notice the emphasis on "this"? On yet another version of a biological system that is suppose to be irreducibly complex?
Collected Stories - H. P. Lovecraft - Project Gutenberg of Australia
I see what you did there.
There, now it's been done.
Guess what: everyone but you thinks your idea is stupid. Really. No one wants to steal it from you.
O
This. This is my idea.
... or Wing Commander - Privateer
Point well taken. I'd +1 'ya if I could.
They either get the joke, or they don't. Explaining it to those who don't is pointless and usually means you wind up trailing off into silence as they look confused at you.
http://xkcd.com/285/
The most merciful thing in the internet, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We surf in a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of lol cats, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The networks, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated bytes will open up such terrifying vistas of content, and of the frightful capsuns therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly lulz into the peace and safety of a new gym pass.
Statements like this "90% of their sales staff (in enterprise) would rather sell a product and never have to maintain contact with that customer until they need to buy something more again" make me think of XKCD.
I just Googled "Setting up X server" clicked on the first link ( http://xray0.princeton.edu/~phil/Facility/osx-mskcc.html ) who blatantly say they took most of it from this site ( http://sage.ucsc.edu/xtal/ ) and there, first item in the third column, Backing up and Cloning Disks.
I will agree on your assessment of the probability of them having an IT person. This seems like a problem any user who didn't RTFM and didn't have IT experience would make on any OS. Had these guys ran Linux, I think their actions, the outcome and apparent denial would have been the same.
Note, the last Apple I had the pleasure to use is a IIe and I'm not feeling the urge to rush out and get one.
The temptation for "But Macs can't fail!" bashing was strong, but I resisted. It did lead me to a question though. That is: Had they been mislead by the Mac culture? Could there been something in Apples ads or documentation that would lead them to this mistake?
The answer? No. At least not from Apple.
From page 32 of TFM: http://images.apple.com/server/macosx/docs/Server_Administration_v10.5_2nd_Ed.pdf
Defining Backup and Restore Policies
All storage systems will fail eventually. Either through equipment wear and tear, accident, or disaster, your data and configuration settings are vulnerable to loss. You should have a plan in place to prevent or minimize your data loss.
Sure! That's what the gravel road at HÃllered is for. and... and... technically they do have crash testing... and... Okay, I give up. Is my face red?
Yet, if you read further...
"The primary benefit of ABS on such surfaces is to increase the ability of the driver to maintain control of the car rather than go into a skid."
So, yes, breaking distance is increased on the surfaces you mentioned but vehicle control is improved in all the cases you mention.
But, as someone pointed out previously, I doubt there's a Volvo Engineer on the Break Systems team reading Slashdot now and bonking himself on the head with the palm of his hand thinking "Damn! Gravel roads! I forgot about gravel roads!"
Sounds like we have an IE 6 programmer posting on /.
Na, IIRC it's because of old restrictions of max-line length and wanting the text in a paragraph to flow and fill the full width of a body. So multiple white-space characters ( tab, carriage return, line feed, space, etc. ) are treated as a single space.
<p>Na, IIRC it's because of old restrictions of max-line length and wanting
the text in a paragraph to flow and fill the full width of a body. So
multiple white-space characters ( tab, carriage return, line feed, space,
etc. ) are treated as a single space.</p>
Try it this way
"bdf!@#$%^&*" is fairly secure.
"bdf" isn't if you silently remove any character that isn't a-z, 1-9 to "correct" the password. (i.e. "pink ponies " to "pink ponies")
"What are you here for?"
"Eating babies. And you?"
"Whistling a song in public."
"Friking depraved garbage! I hope you rot in hell."
Go sit on the Group W bench.
I was driving towards paying for a MMO to grind and work to get paid in RL and my post get sideswiped by FedEx on the internet... Sounds like a commuting accident.
The difference is, in MMO you pay money to grind and work, in RL you get paid for grind and work.
What about the gold farmers? Where do they fall in this?
Money is already on the table though and the motivators you refer to are eroding already. It's everywhere you can buy game currency or pay someone to level a character for you. It's just not Sony's table and, since it's happening anyway, they want it.
The value of a game is something the individual assigns themselves. If they feel that an optional feature of the game cheapens the experience, then they are free not to use it ( and perhaps be smug about ). For me, I may envy them but that does not mean they are in the wrong. Since this is a money based argument, I'll use another money based alteration of a online game as an example. Multi-boxing. Do I wish I could do that? Yes. Do I think it makes their experience a hell of a lot easier? Yes. Does it cheapen my sense of accomplishment? No.
This comes alongside news today that upcoming MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic will not be subscription-based, but entirely based on micro-transactions instead.
This on the other hand, does not seem to make it optional and I may just have to give it a pass after I look into it more.
From: Dave Thomas's book The Pragmatic Programmer.
Don't Repeat Yourself (or DRY) says that every piece of system knowledge should have one authoritative, unambiguous representation. Every piece of knowledge in the development of something should have a single representation. A system's knowledge is far broader than just its code. It refers to database schemas, test plans, the build system, even documentation.
Given all this knowledge, why should you find one way to represent each feature? The obvious answer is, if you have more than one way to express the same thing, at some point the two or three different representations will most likely fall out of step with each other. Even if they don't, you're guaranteeing yourself the headache of maintaining them in parallel whenever a change occurs. And change will occur. DRY is important if you want flexible and maintainable software.
Guidelines Regarding Bulk E-mailing by Internal Users on MSUnet
Computer System and Network Abuse at Michigan State University
The policy in itself utterly fails as it most improperly fails to ascribe particular levels of punishments for the degree of infringement.
Really?
From: Michigan State University Acceptable Use of Computing Systems, Software, and the University Digital Network
V. Enforcement and Adjudication
1. The principal responsibility for investigation of suspected non-compliance with the provisions of this ruling rests with System Sponsors. At their discretion, they may delegate it to System Managers and/or Facility Staff.
2. Subject to the non-discrimination provisions herein, faculty members acting as System Sponsors for computing systems or local networks established with their own research grant funds may change, suspend, or revoke User privileges in the best interests of the research being conducted.
3. When an instance of non-compliance is suspected or discovered in a computing system or network established by a department, college or other administrative unit, a unit administrator (typically the System Sponsor) shall proceed in accord with Section 5.6.3 of Academic Freedom for Students at Michigan State University.
Approved:
Network Communications Committee of C.C.S.A.C. (May 29, 1992) C.C.S.A.C. (June 8, 19Spam is:
Unsolicited, Bulk, Commercial
Wrong. Spam is Unsolicited & Bulk. The content of the message does not matter. Even if there is only the headers and no body. Unsolicited is the tricky part. A company sending out a mass email about a product recall to every customer's email address in their database is not spam.
Regardless, she was informed on how to use the University's network. She refused. If it was a company's network, she should be fired.