Nowadays, you can't watch a game of football without being presented a short commercial for some alcoholic beverage (even though advertising is forbidden at that time).
No advertising during football? Dear God, that's heaven!
Yeah, that didn't work for the Catholic church, either.
Doesn't matter how much sense the argument makes, people are reflexive when it comes to judgment and whatever their first opinion is, that's what they hold until death... some longer.
The Voyagers made it out there within thirty years. Perhaps you mean waiting several centuries for the planets to line up again or something, because the actual travel is demonstrably possible in a standard lifetime.
Life support, however, is a whole other bag of freeze-dried worms.
Excerpted from "Precambrian Park": "We extracted bacteria from under Antartica! With this special machine here we can start to clone then and see what life was like before multicellular organisms! Now, we've got this special island..."
That puts the 300 meg one at ~12 years old, and the 1.6 gig one at ~9 years old. Both drives are never turned off.
High chance, then, that when you finally do turn it off, they won't come back up. I get a lot of clients that say their ancient servers worked great for a decade and then after a power outage *boom* nothing. Make a backup while it's still running.. onto current media.;)
I need to be going around 90 mph to get around them before the next corner to avoid oncoming traffic. If I am passing 2 or 3 cars in the same passing zone, I usually do so at about 120 mph.
Not to nitpick, but communism does not feel that everyone in other nations deserves a job.:)
Moral capitalism (a new concept, I know) would argue that point. Anything to back it up? We've helped India tremendously so far. If others outsource to America, well, good for us all.
Having had this responsibility before, let me tell ya, it's easy.
Make a document with headings about each part of the company you know about (Departments, Management, Placing 1-900 Calls Unnoticed, etc.) and then, very simply, just talk about it. Such as:
Departments Accounting tends to only make itself known when you need something critical and then they cry wolf. When this happens contact their manager, Foo B. Baz, and let him know what's happening. He'll kick someone's ass and get the PO through. Sales lies. Repeatedly. If one of them calls you with the customer already on the line (and they will) and says something to the order of "we do X, right? Of course we do!" talk over him and explain why he's an idiot. With the customer there. It will be the last time that particular person calls you like that. Sales management will harass you, but just refer him to your manager and move on.
And so on, and so forth. Just a simple heading/topic document. Print it up and leave it in a drawer somewhere the next sucker will see it.
Good for you! You've got yourself a wonderful job as my replacement. As a congratulations gift I would like to leave you with the knowledge I've gleaned from my time here.
Imagine the best possible place you could work. Imagine people working together, sharing information in a timely manner, and open to constructive criticism. People working together to not only make a profit, but make a humane profit. People who care about the customer, each other, and the world in general. People who feel that the workload should be spread over all nations so that everyone can have a job, an income, and a healthy life.
Now imagine the reverse. Welcome to the team, sucka'!
Why would I not say that just by reading a man's opinion? You do realize that's what the "article" is, right? His opinion. His whole point is because the APE modules cause the crashes that the idea of APE is a good one. It works like OS 9 extensions at a fundamental level, only for programs. It's begging for a crash. Indeed, it does. Often.
I support Macs for a living. APE is banned. Every single time we have chronic problems on a Mac, we trace it back to someone using Shapeshifter or some other hack. Does it mean APE is buggy? No, it means it's a bad idea. Unsane, if you will.
I did read the article, actually. A bit before it hit Slashdot, as a matter of fact. His analogy is rather incorrect on that mark. QuickTime does not insert code into every program that runs, regardless of what it does. A buggy codec can't take down every program, even if it does not use QuickTime. APE modules can because they are blindly inserted into any program you don't explicity exclude.
So while the module types listed are indeed external pieces of code that can cause a crash, they don't run in every program you run. Things like Shapeshifter or Ice Coffee do (screw camel-caps).
Didn't read the article? I read the article. I disagree with it. It's called 'thought' and you should try it sometime.
The argument he makes is that since it can't take down the whole system when a mod is badly coded that the architecture is sane. It is not. That it can cause the takedown of anything other than itself is cause for alarm.
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Nowadays, you can't watch a game of football without being presented a short commercial for some alcoholic beverage (even though advertising is forbidden at that time).
No advertising during football? Dear God, that's heaven!
Oh, wait, you mean soccer. Never mind...
[ GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAALLLL!!! ]
Yeah, that didn't work for the Catholic church, either.
... some longer.
Doesn't matter how much sense the argument makes, people are reflexive when it comes to judgment and whatever their first opinion is, that's what they hold until death
When the whole country has fewer people than one US state, that becomes possible.
Here, not so much.
Sounds like a cheaper alternative would be a transvestite brigade. Drop in a few hundred of 'em and they'd just take over.
What the hell does that wired link have to do with anything? ... a laser that fucked up someone's eye
Yes. Though the analogy fails because it was not a medical laser, his (weak) point was that lasers can blind you.
Al together now: DUH.
Think of the kittens!
Even if, we still have Stargate Atlantis and Fark, so we'll live.
Now, take my Fark and we'll have words.
who cares about all those .Com[mercial] groups anyway
... what, again?
Umm, it was google dot
Uh huh, yeah. Get your head out of your GeekPort and come back to the real world.
The Voyagers made it out there within thirty years. Perhaps you mean waiting several centuries for the planets to line up again or something, because the actual travel is demonstrably possible in a standard lifetime.
Life support, however, is a whole other bag of freeze-dried worms.
<=== It went thata way! ===>
Please don't give Michael Crichton any ideas ...
..."
Excerpted from "Precambrian Park":
"We extracted bacteria from under Antartica ! With this special machine here we can start to clone then and see what life was like before multicellular organisms! Now, we've got this special island
That puts the 300 meg one at ~12 years old, and the 1.6 gig one at ~9 years old. Both drives are never turned off.
.. onto current media. ;)
High chance, then, that when you finally do turn it off, they won't come back up. I get a lot of clients that say their ancient servers worked great for a decade and then after a power outage *boom* nothing. Make a backup while it's still running
I need to be going around 90 mph to get around them before the next corner to avoid oncoming traffic. If I am passing 2 or 3 cars in the same passing zone, I usually do so at about 120 mph.
Then:
Humans sure have a strange way of dying.
Oh! The irony!
Not to nitpick, but communism does not feel that everyone in other nations deserves a job. :)
Moral capitalism (a new concept, I know) would argue that point. Anything to back it up? We've helped India tremendously so far. If others outsource to America, well, good for us all.
Having had this responsibility before, let me tell ya, it's easy.
Make a document with headings about each part of the company you know about (Departments, Management, Placing 1-900 Calls Unnoticed, etc.) and then, very simply, just talk about it. Such as:
Departments
Accounting tends to only make itself known when you need something critical and then they cry wolf. When this happens contact their manager, Foo B. Baz, and let him know what's happening. He'll kick someone's ass and get the PO through.
Sales lies. Repeatedly. If one of them calls you with the customer already on the line (and they will) and says something to the order of "we do X, right? Of course we do!" talk over him and explain why he's an idiot. With the customer there. It will be the last time that particular person calls you like that. Sales management will harass you, but just refer him to your manager and move on.
And so on, and so forth. Just a simple heading/topic document. Print it up and leave it in a drawer somewhere the next sucker will see it.
Good for you! You've got yourself a wonderful job as my replacement. As a congratulations gift I would like to leave you with the knowledge I've gleaned from my time here.
Imagine the best possible place you could work. Imagine people working together, sharing information in a timely manner, and open to constructive criticism. People working together to not only make a profit, but make a humane profit. People who care about the customer, each other, and the world in general. People who feel that the workload should be spread over all nations so that everyone can have a job, an income, and a healthy life.
Now imagine the reverse. Welcome to the team, sucka'!
Why should the poor guy waste money in order to install WinXP?
See, I thought he already wasted money obtaining XP.
Why would I not say that just by reading a man's opinion? You do realize that's what the "article" is, right? His opinion. His whole point is because the APE modules cause the crashes that the idea of APE is a good one. It works like OS 9 extensions at a fundamental level, only for programs. It's begging for a crash. Indeed, it does. Often.
I support Macs for a living. APE is banned. Every single time we have chronic problems on a Mac, we trace it back to someone using Shapeshifter or some other hack. Does it mean APE is buggy? No, it means it's a bad idea. Unsane, if you will.
I said modify programs ON THE FLY . Flash is a plugin, not a piece of code that modifies how every program runs.
I did read the article, actually. A bit before it hit Slashdot, as a matter of fact. His analogy is rather incorrect on that mark. QuickTime does not insert code into every program that runs, regardless of what it does. A buggy codec can't take down every program, even if it does not use QuickTime. APE modules can because they are blindly inserted into any program you don't explicity exclude.
So while the module types listed are indeed external pieces of code that can cause a crash, they don't run in every program you run. Things like Shapeshifter or Ice Coffee do (screw camel-caps).
Didn't read the article? I read the article. I disagree with it. It's called 'thought' and you should try it sometime.
The argument he makes is that since it can't take down the whole system when a mod is badly coded that the architecture is sane. It is not. That it can cause the takedown of anything other than itself is cause for alarm.
Don't be an idiot. I do not run programs that modify other programs on the fly, which is what this does.
Because one buggy APE module will possibly kill all programs (one at a time) rather than the whole.
I mean, really, anything that makes the computer, at any level, unstable is not worth using.
Refutes? Oh, you mean because now it takes down applications and not the system.
Oh. Better.
No.
All APE does is recreate the problematic Extensions architecture of Mac OS 9 with Mac OS X. You know, that architecture we wanted to get away from....
It inserts code into every running program. Blindly. This is somehow defendable on any level?