As someone who grew up ESL, the "rules" of English are mind boggling. in your first statement there, you are trying to state the ambiguity of the statement due to the euphemism intended. You however failed to appeal to anyone who does not relate the colloquialism of "jack-off = manual stimulation of the genitalia". I hate to break it to you: but you just secluded the MAJORITY of the world.
Grammar is useful in correcting common misunderstandings in written word, however it fails at communicating ideas that fall outside the "norm".
Did you know that the word "grammar" is derived from the Greek term for "art of letters"? modern grammar, a bastardization of the churches crusade to "correct the word of man, to better serve god above" is intended to prevent the spread of knowledge. It wasn't until many great writers of the past who violated and for all intents and purposes rewrote the modern grammatical rules that English began to develop as a language for invention.
It's surprising far how far we've come: almost full circle. Somehow we manage not to see that people have been policing themselves into not advancing forward, but instead contributing to the ever growing population of "grammar Nazi's".
Am I the only person in the world that has no problem with this?
personally, the idea of getting into a flying metal bullet and being propelled through the air at hundreds of kilometers per hour with a hundred+ other people that COULD have an implement to kill anybody on board or prevent the aircraft from being able to land without anybody even bothering to check if the passengers have said implements on them: just sounds like a bad idea.
If you have issues with what your junk looks like, I feel terribly sorry for you. give your parents a smack sometime (unless they are no longer around.. then maybe just give yourself a smack so as not to be an asshat!) and ask them why they decided to raise you to be afraid of who and what you are.
we're all human. If somebody criticizes your bits, grow a pair and get the fuck over it.
Calc really is no replacement for Excel for serious usage
people still use excel for anything more then quick spreadsheets?
seriously: if the thing requires more than one macro or a formula with more than one function in it: it will take 45 min to draft in MySQL/PHP and host on a virtual serer. (seriously, beginning to end, clone of the LAMP server to sending it to the user to try.) toss an hour or so to get a simple "web tools" (one time only) login/logging/permissions and deploy the "spreadsheet" app to the user.
why would you ever willingly limit data in a relationship to a flat xls? (unless it's simple enough that OOo can handle it wonderfully!:P)
Whoh... just a random flag went up there in my mind, but why would you EVER need an employee to know anything about the file system of their local machine?
distributed files in a small office is just SCREAMING of a bad idea. that sounds an awful lot like files that won't ever get backed up, and laptops with unencrypted data to go missing.
there's nothing stopping you from providing the same functionality, or even BETTER functionality and getting Google's "customers" to come use your site for search.
Like any site on the internet: you have to either be paying the people that you depend on, or dealing with them changing. that's kind of a fact of life.
there is no "locked door" version of this. that doesn't apply as:
1) the door isint there in the first place, you are allowing people to come to your site freely, if anything it would be allowing people onto your walkway so they could come ring your doorbell, but can freely look around your yard as they approach.
2) even if the person were to stand in your front yard and videotape an earthworm coming out of the ground: you can only ask him to leave. they committed NO crime.
it boggles my mind that people expect a search engine to read their thoughs. do you know how many people likely use google to search for "mkiss" vs the number that misspell "miss"? I'm guessing that's a hell of a slanted ratio.
what if I just wanted to read some reviews? Or check out the cast list? What makes google's own web pages automatically more relevant than any other web pages?
1) maybe try the "reviews" keyword at the end.
2) give "cast" a go at the end of that one.
your ambiguous statement confused the computer. it's recommending what everybody else is clicking on when also searching for such ambiguity.
seriously: your statement is like asking "when I say red, why would someone respond 'lights' and not with [insert whatever random thing you thought and never communicated here]"
Uhh, no. not at all. it:
1) depends on where you live: In Cambodia, the first result is in fact the "Ministry of Economy and Finance of Cambodia", followed by EINNews.com's cambodia finances page. (JUST did a wget of the google result with q=Finance&)
2) only reflects that most people using GOOGLE, trust that GOOGLE FINANCE is a tool worth using. I guarantee that if they black-listed themselves for a month, they would likely loose 2-5% of the traffic tops. Working in the IT/IS industry, I know for a fact that there are three major banks in my country that use Google finance daily, and link to it from their own sites.
views, though wonderful and tracked: are not sold, infact they provide them for free*. only clicks cost you anything. like the last poster mentioned, the worse the results, the less likely you are to click on the ads, thus the business model is to provide the best searches, to find the add you were looking to click on.
if you get a bad search on google, the ads (if even present) will reflect people's desire to market towards the terrible keywords you used. if you do a search for better keywords, and see an ad along the lines of what you wanted: you're significantly more likely to click on it, as it both reflects the existing page contents, and your intended result.
*=as long as you are willing to be paying if people DO click on your ad.
are you're saying it's alright for a car dealer to tell you that he's offering you "unbiased advice on your new car purchase" because you have a reason to doubt him, but that's it's blasphemy that google offers the exact same thing?
because god forbid you get high traffic without google. *rolls eyes*
Seriously: you completely omitted the "if I make awesome website A, and advertise it on google."
you're claiming that your website is awesome: but people are not going TO your site, people are going to your site because it was linked somewhere else. how is that unfair? you're using their name to get free advertising for your domain name essentially, and you wonder why somebody would take your "trade secret" and use it themselves?
sorry: I don't see how a site that's "the most popular" of anything can't get direct traffic.
Google seems to get a hell of a lot of direct traffic.:P
BTW, calling it a "scrambler" is just wrong. It's "willful and deliberate interference with a licensed radio transmission from a primary user of the spectrum involved." That's like a $10,000 dollar a day fine.
Sure, but "software disabler" just sounds stupid.:P
unless you happen to tell the ECU not to do it. most BCM/ECU's though they require a "safe code" back from "secure" devices, are required to accept a set of codes to work around the unit failure.
ever tried building a car and adhering to global design standards? try getting software approved that will start a car at -40. good luck getting it to work: let alone securely.
that has nothing to do with anything but the requirements to get a drivers license. there's nothing stopping a 40 year old man without a drivers license from doing exactly the same thing: and neither should there be.
nobody want's to live in a world where nothing works unless you do it "the way it was intended".
yeah, because driving in a vehicle with hundreds of thousands of dollars in equipment surrounding you and being measured while you drive isn't distracting in the least. *eyeroll*
personally, I've been driving with a cell phone for years. personally it's never been an issue: because I'm constantly aware of my surroundings. To me, my life > anything somebody on the phone may want. if ever my ability to drive were compromised due to the device: I would have thrown it on the floor consuming minutes and battery life without a moments hesitation.
studies show that some people are at increased risk of being distracted while driving with a Mobile Device present. The many should not be punished for the flaws of some.
funny that outside of Europe and the USA, represents almost 25% of the earth (or 74% of the usable land mass) and represents 5/6'ths of the population.
also interesting that there is GSM coverage on almost 60% of the available landmass on earth, meaning that a minimum of 58% of the coverage is outside of the two areas.
Maybe I'm just crazy (never tried to deny the fact) but having provisioned and deployed cellular networks the world over, and knowing that the majority of customers realized no benefit to many of the software "packages" the GSM alliance promotes for their BTS's, I'm a little skeptical anytime somebody says they can "increase density in software".
randomly: your signature represents global options strikingly well.:P
How many molex connectors are in the average machine?
there are 32 dimm slots on a modern 4 socket server board. memory comes up to 16GB/dimm densities, and few companies (well, few of the ones I sell to globally) have any need to max the boards. 8 slots gives you 128GB of RAM, leaving 24 slots available.
at 400GB usable densities per slot with this product, the machine can then host 9.6TB of SSD storage BEFORE connecting to a drive array. being that most cases will only allow 8XSSD's to be mounted, that allows for 8X64GB + 24X400GB = 12.1TB in a 1U box. at that same density, you could cram almost 40TB OF FLASH into the same size as a desktop computer mounted horizontally. (not really, but it gives you the idea.:P)
the densest thing that I can think of for SSD's, would be a Super Micro SC-417. that's 72x64GB (the largest enterprise SSD's I've ever trusted are the 64GB intel x25-E) yielding a whopping 4.6TB in 4U.
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Grammar is only useful in context.
As someone who grew up ESL, the "rules" of English are mind boggling. in your first statement there, you are trying to state the ambiguity of the statement due to the euphemism intended. You however failed to appeal to anyone who does not relate the colloquialism of "jack-off = manual stimulation of the genitalia". I hate to break it to you: but you just secluded the MAJORITY of the world.
Grammar is useful in correcting common misunderstandings in written word, however it fails at communicating ideas that fall outside the "norm".
Did you know that the word "grammar" is derived from the Greek term for "art of letters"? modern grammar, a bastardization of the churches crusade to "correct the word of man, to better serve god above" is intended to prevent the spread of knowledge. It wasn't until many great writers of the past who violated and for all intents and purposes rewrote the modern grammatical rules that English began to develop as a language for invention.
It's surprising far how far we've come: almost full circle. Somehow we manage not to see that people have been policing themselves into not advancing forward, but instead contributing to the ever growing population of "grammar Nazi's".
I would rate you up to +10 if I could.
I'd also like to add Sonicwall products to that list. They are the single biggest POS devices I've had the joy of ripping out over the years.
Am I the only person in the world that has no problem with this?
personally, the idea of getting into a flying metal bullet and being propelled through the air at hundreds of kilometers per hour with a hundred+ other people that COULD have an implement to kill anybody on board or prevent the aircraft from being able to land without anybody even bothering to check if the passengers have said implements on them: just sounds like a bad idea.
If you have issues with what your junk looks like, I feel terribly sorry for you. give your parents a smack sometime (unless they are no longer around.. then maybe just give yourself a smack so as not to be an asshat!) and ask them why they decided to raise you to be afraid of who and what you are.
we're all human. If somebody criticizes your bits, grow a pair and get the fuck over it.
Why not just deploy a pair of nodes in a Xen cluster?
:P
the best of both worlds there.
Calc really is no replacement for Excel for serious usage
people still use excel for anything more then quick spreadsheets?
:P)
seriously: if the thing requires more than one macro or a formula with more than one function in it: it will take 45 min to draft in MySQL/PHP and host on a virtual serer. (seriously, beginning to end, clone of the LAMP server to sending it to the user to try.) toss an hour or so to get a simple "web tools" (one time only) login/logging/permissions and deploy the "spreadsheet" app to the user. why would you ever willingly limit data in a relationship to a flat xls? (unless it's simple enough that OOo can handle it wonderfully!
Whoh... just a random flag went up there in my mind, but why would you EVER need an employee to know anything about the file system of their local machine?
distributed files in a small office is just SCREAMING of a bad idea. that sounds an awful lot like files that won't ever get backed up, and laptops with unencrypted data to go missing.
Yeah, because they have brand recognition.
there's nothing stopping you from providing the same functionality, or even BETTER functionality and getting Google's "customers" to come use your site for search.
Like any site on the internet: you have to either be paying the people that you depend on, or dealing with them changing. that's kind of a fact of life.
there is no "locked door" version of this. that doesn't apply as:
1) the door isint there in the first place, you are allowing people to come to your site freely, if anything it would be allowing people onto your walkway so they could come ring your doorbell, but can freely look around your yard as they approach. 2) even if the person were to stand in your front yard and videotape an earthworm coming out of the ground: you can only ask him to leave. they committed NO crime.
it boggles my mind that people expect a search engine to read their thoughs. do you know how many people likely use google to search for "mkiss" vs the number that misspell "miss"? I'm guessing that's a hell of a slanted ratio.
what if I just wanted to read some reviews? Or check out the cast list? What makes google's own web pages automatically more relevant than any other web pages?
1) maybe try the "reviews" keyword at the end. 2) give "cast" a go at the end of that one.
your ambiguous statement confused the computer. it's recommending what everybody else is clicking on when also searching for such ambiguity.
seriously: your statement is like asking "when I say red, why would someone respond 'lights' and not with [insert whatever random thing you thought and never communicated here]"
personally, I'd ASSUME that the google finance page for the GOOG stock would be LIVE for gains, and a few minutes delayed for losses.
but maybe that's just me. O.o
that's what you get for posting something that's been mentioned about 20 times in the comments already. :P
Uhh, no. not at all. it:
1) depends on where you live: In Cambodia, the first result is in fact the "Ministry of Economy and Finance of Cambodia", followed by EINNews.com's cambodia finances page. (JUST did a wget of the google result with q=Finance&)
2) only reflects that most people using GOOGLE, trust that GOOGLE FINANCE is a tool worth using. I guarantee that if they black-listed themselves for a month, they would likely loose 2-5% of the traffic tops. Working in the IT/IS industry, I know for a fact that there are three major banks in my country that use Google finance daily, and link to it from their own sites.
Google sells ad views.
No, strangely they don't: they sell ad clicks.
views, though wonderful and tracked: are not sold, infact they provide them for free*. only clicks cost you anything. like the last poster mentioned, the worse the results, the less likely you are to click on the ads, thus the business model is to provide the best searches, to find the add you were looking to click on.
if you get a bad search on google, the ads (if even present) will reflect people's desire to market towards the terrible keywords you used. if you do a search for better keywords, and see an ad along the lines of what you wanted: you're significantly more likely to click on it, as it both reflects the existing page contents, and your intended result.
*=as long as you are willing to be paying if people DO click on your ad.
are you're saying it's alright for a car dealer to tell you that he's offering you "unbiased advice on your new car purchase" because you have a reason to doubt him, but that's it's blasphemy that google offers the exact same thing?
because god forbid you get high traffic without google. *rolls eyes*
:P
Seriously: you completely omitted the "if I make awesome website A, and advertise it on google."
you're claiming that your website is awesome: but people are not going TO your site, people are going to your site because it was linked somewhere else. how is that unfair? you're using their name to get free advertising for your domain name essentially, and you wonder why somebody would take your "trade secret" and use it themselves?
sorry: I don't see how a site that's "the most popular" of anything can't get direct traffic.
Google seems to get a hell of a lot of direct traffic.
BTW, calling it a "scrambler" is just wrong. It's "willful and deliberate interference with a licensed radio transmission from a primary user of the spectrum involved." That's like a $10,000 dollar a day fine.
Sure, but "software disabler" just sounds stupid. :P
that's easy to answer: it costs money.
you going to take that out of your salary? or....
unless you happen to tell the ECU not to do it. most BCM/ECU's though they require a "safe code" back from "secure" devices, are required to accept a set of codes to work around the unit failure.
ever tried building a car and adhering to global design standards? try getting software approved that will start a car at -40. good luck getting it to work: let alone securely.
that has nothing to do with anything but the requirements to get a drivers license. there's nothing stopping a 40 year old man without a drivers license from doing exactly the same thing: and neither should there be.
nobody want's to live in a world where nothing works unless you do it "the way it was intended".
yeah, because driving in a vehicle with hundreds of thousands of dollars in equipment surrounding you and being measured while you drive isn't distracting in the least. *eyeroll*
personally, I've been driving with a cell phone for years. personally it's never been an issue: because I'm constantly aware of my surroundings. To me, my life > anything somebody on the phone may want. if ever my ability to drive were compromised due to the device: I would have thrown it on the floor consuming minutes and battery life without a moments hesitation.
studies show that some people are at increased risk of being distracted while driving with a Mobile Device present. The many should not be punished for the flaws of some.
Thanks! it's great to know that my understanding of the GSM protocol isin't too far off. :D
:P)
It's a good thing to.. otherwise there are a few customers that would have been calling me wanting their money back by now..
(Though I guess if I broke it enough they COULDN'T call to complain, eh?
funny that outside of Europe and the USA, represents almost 25% of the earth (or 74% of the usable land mass) and represents 5/6'ths of the population.
:P
also interesting that there is GSM coverage on almost 60% of the available landmass on earth, meaning that a minimum of 58% of the coverage is outside of the two areas.
Maybe I'm just crazy (never tried to deny the fact) but having provisioned and deployed cellular networks the world over, and knowing that the majority of customers realized no benefit to many of the software "packages" the GSM alliance promotes for their BTS's,
I'm a little skeptical anytime somebody says they can "increase density in software".
randomly: your signature represents global options strikingly well.
omfg. Lego storage drives would be awesome.
who want's to get on that? I'm sure we could find somebody to sell them to.
How many molex connectors are in the average machine?
:P)
there are 32 dimm slots on a modern 4 socket server board. memory comes up to 16GB/dimm densities, and few companies (well, few of the ones I sell to globally) have any need to max the boards. 8 slots gives you 128GB of RAM, leaving 24 slots available.
at 400GB usable densities per slot with this product, the machine can then host 9.6TB of SSD storage BEFORE connecting to a drive array. being that most cases will only allow 8XSSD's to be mounted, that allows for 8X64GB + 24X400GB = 12.1TB in a 1U box. at that same density, you could cram almost 40TB OF FLASH into the same size as a desktop computer mounted horizontally. (not really, but it gives you the idea.
the densest thing that I can think of for SSD's, would be a Super Micro SC-417. that's 72x64GB (the largest enterprise SSD's I've ever trusted are the 64GB intel x25-E) yielding a whopping 4.6TB in 4U.
personally: I see that as pretty awesome.