Hope you brought enough for the class. 270+ million is a lot of mouths to feed, and what with oil on the wane it's gonna be tougher to keep tilling. Hope you know how to yolk an ox.
I think you lack perspective on how much leverage countries like China and Japan have over your fiat currency. Even a mere STOPPAGE of China's uptake of government-issued debt instruments could push the US economy, already fragile, into a tailspin.
I wash my hands of you, troll. I've taken the time to read your posts, and your biases are dayglo.
You can believe me, or not, that companies are making a great deal of money using technology built around NFS. They still earn regardless of your assertion that it Just Shouldn't Happen(tm)... and as amusing as it is to hear you rattle on about what is and what should never be, I'd rather get on with producing the next insanely great thing.
You didn't relate your blanket statement about NFS to the article. You made a unilateral statement saying, and I quote, "NFS in a production environment is a big no-no". Trying to justify that inane claptrap by appealing to the article now is disingenuous. You made a poor statement and now are trying to backpeddle to cover up your mistake. It won't work on me, or anyone else that uses NFS daily to make money and get serious work done.
If you don't want to be shot down, lose some of the evangelical zeal you have. Absolute statements will only make you look absolutely foolish.
Additionally, it would appear that even MS (your poison of choice, is it not?) cannot provide the needed functionality without additional work. Perhaps if you'd read the article, you'd have seen the following:
Help from Microsoft in other areas may have influenced the decision. The company plans to work with Scottish police to develop an electronic document management system to help it comply with requests made under the 2002 Freedom of Information Act, and a document sharing system for police staff, Microsoft said.
You have only to check his comment history to see that this guy's an MS shill. The concept that NFS is useful and is in use by many, many corporate environments and is actively and successfully implemented must result in too much cognitive dissonance.
That, however, suits me fine. So long as people like him dismiss viable technologies and insist on trying to force organizations into the latest technology du jour, it'll give the people my company contracts to a competitive edge.:D
Try again at what? My customers are happy and making money, using systems that are hardened against failure using technology that has a pedigree which likely stretches back more years than you've been alive.
NFS is a tool like any other. Don't be so quick to dismiss it simply because you haven't mastered its usage and learned where it's appropriate for it to fit, or allowed yourself to be blinded to its purpose because of some other shiny trinket that you've vested emotional capital on. (2c)
I refuse to answer that question on the basis that it may make it look like getting run over is somehow my fault.:D
Honestly, people don't register bikes as vehicles. I've had many near-injuries (near-death?) events in pretty much any scenario you care to imagine. I'd swear sometimes it was deliberate, but I'm sure that's just healthy paranoia.
I used to do bike courier in Victoria, BC, shuttling plane tickets around for people (you'd be amazed at how much 'government business' got conducted in warm, sunny locations by the late-80s VanderZalm Social Credit government)
I've lost track at how many times I ended up doing a face-skate across the hood of some car because they didn't bother to shoulder check when doing a right turn.:(
That's strange, at least 3 of the companies who subcontract our services use NFS in a production environment. One of them has been using it for the last 8 years or so. At no time has NFS been a 'no-no', nor has problems with NFS yielded any serious setbacks.
Thinking of something else? Or perhaps just talking out your ass?
... if when bin Laden dies / is captured / finally disappears, he'll be replaced officially by Emmanuel Goldstein.
--- EMERGENCY DISPATCH TO ALL CITIZENS WHO FREELY LOVE DEMOCRACY AND FREEDOM: THE MINISTRY OF FEAR ADVISES YOU TO INCREASE YOUR GENERAL FEAR LEVEL TO 'ABJECT TERROR' BUT AT THIS TIME GIBBERING IS NOT ADVISED. REPEAT, GIBBERING IS *NOT* ADVISED. THAT IS ALL. ---
Yeesh. Maybe they should have thought about the fallout BEFORE they trained and armed this guy. Makes you wonder whether those dudes they trained to slaughter nuns in Nicaragua are getting ready to march north.
Yeah. That was back in the day too, when people were all like "ohhhh, you can't trust anyone you haven't met in person, she's probably some axe weilding mass-murderer luring you in so she can kill you unawares!"
She's had 10 years to find the axe, hasn't been able to scope it out yet. I did, admittedly, hide it very well though.;)
I used to hang out in this IRC channel. There was some girl I was trying to get with was and she was interested in it, so I will honestly say I was just in there to kill some time and see if I could get some play. THAT one turned out to be a spoiled little bratchild that needed to be kicked to the curb, but it just so happened my future wife was in the same channel. This was about the same time that netscape first came on the scene... gopher was still the search tool of choice, and Twinsock over windows 3.1 was the standard way of getting online for most peeps. She was plagued by a bad connection and surly tech support from her university, so I would help her out with problems.
We became friends. Nothing more though, as she lived in Nova Scotia and I was in Vancouver... and that's the way it stayed for a couple years. We talked regularly in between her studying for her masters in English.
Now, a small cadre of us became regulars in this channel, but 95% of us were from the west coast. My future wife was about the only one who was out east... so she got on a plane and came out to Vancouver (ostensibly to check out schools to finish her post-graduate studies, but mostly just to come party with some online friends). I had the use of a car and was relatively near by the airport, so I was tasked with a collection of 'virtual hugs' I was supposed to give her from a bunch of the other channel denizens when I met her. I had a list written down with "hugs from: xxxxx yyyyyy zzzzzz"... and by the time we got through that list of hugs, we both knew that something more was going to happen, and pretty quick.;)
So, she just came out west and sorta... stayed. We've lived happily ever after, our 10th 'anniversary' is this labour day (although we only got married 2 years ago). A few years back I moved with her and the kids back out to Nova Scotia, as all her family is out here.
The Kurds were no more Saddam's people than the jews were Hitler's people. Please don't be a party to spreading blatant dis-information... we have enough people doing it professionally, we don't need random people helping it along.
The reason dead tree still sells is that there is a great deal of convenience to having all the pertinent answers in one spot. Additionally, with Stevens work, the answers are not only pertinent but with analysis that is deep and insightful, with copious examples that are invariably correct, and usually represent the best way (or ways, with analysis as to which form is superior based on what it is you're trying to accomplish) to do the task.
Dry, unadorned documentation about APIs give no suggestions as to best implementation, or often where to look or what to try when things go wrong. Sure, you can look at other coders' code (if you can find something akin to what you're trying to accomplish), but it's obviously a sub-optimal solution.
Online knowledge is great, don't get me wrong... but when you have the masters of the art willing to author a condense tome filled to the brim with best practices accumulated over a lifetime of projects, it's worth shelling out some clams to have that handy. APUE, UNP (1+2) and TCPIP Illustrated (1,2,3) have saved my sanity on many an occasion, and I suspect they'll do so again.
A case could be made that by including a company on an RBL that hasn't sent spam, a form of libel has been committed. Spammers have a notoriously bad name, and the association could have real, negative effects on a businesses operation.
It is, admittedly, a bit of a stretch... but let MAPS try banning the net block of a litigation firm and see how quick they back the fuck up upon receipt of a nastygram.;)
Slashdot Mirror
Hope you brought enough for the class. 270+ million is a lot of mouths to feed, and what with oil on the wane it's gonna be tougher to keep tilling. Hope you know how to yolk an ox.
I think you lack perspective on how much leverage countries like China and Japan have over your fiat currency. Even a mere STOPPAGE of China's uptake of government-issued debt instruments could push the US economy, already fragile, into a tailspin.
Maybe he's been watching Rome on HBO. :D
Not gonna happen.
w s/1126539690860_121948890
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNe
The christofundies can play hide-and-go-f***-themselves too. No special treatment.
You really need to keep up with the times, troll.
Look at my last cheque... still has the old tag on, never even cashed it. Don't touch it!
... We'll I wasn't going to touch it, I was just pointing at it.
*
Well... don't point! It can't be spent.
* Don't point, okay. Can I look at it?
No. no. That's it, you've seen enough of that one!
I wash my hands of you, troll. I've taken the time to read your posts, and your biases are dayglo.
You can believe me, or not, that companies are making a great deal of money using technology built around NFS. They still earn regardless of your assertion that it Just Shouldn't Happen(tm)... and as amusing as it is to hear you rattle on about what is and what should never be, I'd rather get on with producing the next insanely great thing.
*PLONK*
If you don't want to be shot down, lose some of the evangelical zeal you have. Absolute statements will only make you look absolutely foolish.
Additionally, it would appear that even MS (your poison of choice, is it not?) cannot provide the needed functionality without additional work. Perhaps if you'd read the article, you'd have seen the following:
You have only to check his comment history to see that this guy's an MS shill. The concept that NFS is useful and is in use by many, many corporate environments and is actively and successfully implemented must result in too much cognitive dissonance.
:D
That, however, suits me fine. So long as people like him dismiss viable technologies and insist on trying to force organizations into the latest technology du jour, it'll give the people my company contracts to a competitive edge.
Try again at what? My customers are happy and making money, using systems that are hardened against failure using technology that has a pedigree which likely stretches back more years than you've been alive.
NFS is a tool like any other. Don't be so quick to dismiss it simply because you haven't mastered its usage and learned where it's appropriate for it to fit, or allowed yourself to be blinded to its purpose because of some other shiny trinket that you've vested emotional capital on. (2c)
I refuse to answer that question on the basis that it may make it look like getting run over is somehow my fault. :D
Honestly, people don't register bikes as vehicles. I've had many near-injuries (near-death?) events in pretty much any scenario you care to imagine. I'd swear sometimes it was deliberate, but I'm sure that's just healthy paranoia.
Well gee, what happens if a hard drive goes down? Or a router?
Smart people make redundant paths for everything important. NFS is no different. It's not rocket science.
I used to do bike courier in Victoria, BC, shuttling plane tickets around for people (you'd be amazed at how much 'government business' got conducted in warm, sunny locations by the late-80s VanderZalm Social Credit government)
:(
I've lost track at how many times I ended up doing a face-skate across the hood of some car because they didn't bother to shoulder check when doing a right turn.
That's strange, at least 3 of the companies who subcontract our services use NFS in a production environment. One of them has been using it for the last 8 years or so. At no time has NFS been a 'no-no', nor has problems with NFS yielded any serious setbacks.
Thinking of something else? Or perhaps just talking out your ass?
... if when bin Laden dies / is captured / finally disappears, he'll be replaced officially by Emmanuel Goldstein.
--- EMERGENCY DISPATCH TO ALL CITIZENS WHO FREELY LOVE DEMOCRACY AND FREEDOM: THE MINISTRY OF FEAR ADVISES YOU TO INCREASE YOUR GENERAL FEAR LEVEL TO 'ABJECT TERROR' BUT AT THIS TIME GIBBERING IS NOT ADVISED. REPEAT, GIBBERING IS *NOT* ADVISED. THAT IS ALL. ---
Yeesh. Maybe they should have thought about the fallout BEFORE they trained and armed this guy. Makes you wonder whether those dudes they trained to slaughter nuns in Nicaragua are getting ready to march north.
That special tool, known only in the most arcane of circles as a "hole punch" ;)
Actually, now that you mention it, our friends Erick and Winona (both channel regulars) ended up tying the knot too.
Wonder whatever happened to them. Last I heard they were in Chicago, living the life.
Yeah. That was back in the day too, when people were all like "ohhhh, you can't trust anyone you haven't met in person, she's probably some axe weilding mass-murderer luring you in so she can kill you unawares!"
;)
She's had 10 years to find the axe, hasn't been able to scope it out yet. I did, admittedly, hide it very well though.
Heh, okay, okay...
... and by the time we got through that list of hugs, we both knew that something more was going to happen, and pretty quick. ;)
;)
I used to hang out in this IRC channel. There was some girl I was trying to get with was and she was interested in it, so I will honestly say I was just in there to kill some time and see if I could get some play. THAT one turned out to be a spoiled little bratchild that needed to be kicked to the curb, but it just so happened my future wife was in the same channel. This was about the same time that netscape first came on the scene... gopher was still the search tool of choice, and Twinsock over windows 3.1 was the standard way of getting online for most peeps. She was plagued by a bad connection and surly tech support from her university, so I would help her out with problems.
We became friends. Nothing more though, as she lived in Nova Scotia and I was in Vancouver... and that's the way it stayed for a couple years. We talked regularly in between her studying for her masters in English.
Now, a small cadre of us became regulars in this channel, but 95% of us were from the west coast. My future wife was about the only one who was out east... so she got on a plane and came out to Vancouver (ostensibly to check out schools to finish her post-graduate studies, but mostly just to come party with some online friends). I had the use of a car and was relatively near by the airport, so I was tasked with a collection of 'virtual hugs' I was supposed to give her from a bunch of the other channel denizens when I met her. I had a list written down with "hugs from: xxxxx yyyyyy zzzzzz"
So, she just came out west and sorta... stayed. We've lived happily ever after, our 10th 'anniversary' is this labour day (although we only got married 2 years ago). A few years back I moved with her and the kids back out to Nova Scotia, as all her family is out here.
The End. Romantic in a highly geeky way, huh?
I'm torn between spending hours on IRC where I met my wife, or playing Zork on a TRS-80 Model I.
The Kurds were no more Saddam's people than the jews were Hitler's people. Please don't be a party to spreading blatant dis-information... we have enough people doing it professionally, we don't need random people helping it along.
The reason dead tree still sells is that there is a great deal of convenience to having all the pertinent answers in one spot. Additionally, with Stevens work, the answers are not only pertinent but with analysis that is deep and insightful, with copious examples that are invariably correct, and usually represent the best way (or ways, with analysis as to which form is superior based on what it is you're trying to accomplish) to do the task.
Dry, unadorned documentation about APIs give no suggestions as to best implementation, or often where to look or what to try when things go wrong. Sure, you can look at other coders' code (if you can find something akin to what you're trying to accomplish), but it's obviously a sub-optimal solution.
Online knowledge is great, don't get me wrong... but when you have the masters of the art willing to author a condense tome filled to the brim with best practices accumulated over a lifetime of projects, it's worth shelling out some clams to have that handy. APUE, UNP (1+2) and TCPIP Illustrated (1,2,3) have saved my sanity on many an occasion, and I suspect they'll do so again.
I dunno... I really liked FFVII. Much midnight oil was burnt playing that game on my trusty PSX.
A case could be made that by including a company on an RBL that hasn't sent spam, a form of libel has been committed. Spammers have a notoriously bad name, and the association could have real, negative effects on a businesses operation.
;)
It is, admittedly, a bit of a stretch... but let MAPS try banning the net block of a litigation firm and see how quick they back the fuck up upon receipt of a nastygram.
A Modest Proposal
;)
1. Buy a camera
2. Find some pretty girls
3. ??? (well, not REALLY, but I have to leave some mystery!)
4. PROFIT!
You'd be amazed at how many people have the big money and fabulous prizes as a result.
I always get a chuckle out of SlashID dick swinging contests. :D
Actually, if you tried swimming in an unheated pool at -20, you might be caught dead there.
</p>