That's 14 text messages for every waking hour of the month. One every four minutes. Wow. Given how long it takes to actually compose a message, I have to wonder how on earth she managed that. Also, I bet she now has no friends. How would *you* like to receive pointless messages every few minutes?
There must be something wrong with this guy's Treo. I recommend he take it back to the shop and get it replaced.
I've got one in front of me right now. No lights. If I turn it on (it's fallen asleep because I've not used it for a few minutes), then gosh, the screen and keyboard light up. I find this very handy as it means I can read an ebook on it in bed, and set my alarm.
... is to, in about five years, sell my flat in London, buy a house for half the price Oop North with no mortgage, and go back to working on the buses. Unfortunately, this was also my plan five years ago.
The authorities got this right. He's obviously a danger both to himself (he might hit his thumb with the hammer) and others (OMGTEHVIDOEGAME), and should be shipped off the Gitmo for torture and a fair trial.
Actually he *has* done something to a spammer. If I were to get 100 auto-replies when I send someone a message, those would be Unsolicted Bulk Email - that is, spam. The guy with his funky auto-responder *is a spammer*.
There are no sites that force the user to use IE. It's not like a web site can hold a gun to your mother's head and demand you stop using filthy terrrrrst free software like Firefox. All there are are web site owners who are either ignorant or stupid enough to deliberately make their site browser-specific, and other people ignorant, stupid, or malicious enough to choose IE and hence provide "validation" for the web site owners' choices.
There are few cars on the market today, at least in the UK, which do less than 20mpg. I drive a large, heavy pickup with a big engine. I drive fast. I get over 30mpg normally (averaged over the last 10,000 miles). And that's without even trying to drive economically. Over 50mpg is not unusual in common cars.
Windows Vista Setup does something smart: It creates a folder called Windows.old in your root directory that contains your old Documents and Settings, Program Files and Windows folders.
Wow. That's amazing. OS X sure could learn a few things from Vista.
What smart trick will the clever Vista people think of next? Remembering to go to the bathroom to take a piss? Breathing?
That may or may not be the point of a degree. However, as an employer, I find that CS degrees prove only that the applicant managed to complete the course. The number of utterly useless CS graduates who, as someone else pointed out, sometimes hardly even know how to use a mouse (or a text editor, or...), makes that fairly obvious.
Yes, you can say "they must have been bad courses" or "those are ICT courses". You might even be correct. But I can't tell what the bad courses are, and it says Computer Science on the bit of paper.
Of course, if Auntie *doesn't* find evidence of a cover-up and says so, then all the right-wing crazies will just rant that it's part of the cover-up. So really, what's the point?
Being a classical musician doesn't mean anything. I'm a classical musician, as well as being an ex-sound recordist, and I can assure you that I compress all my music using lossy algorithms. I need to do that so that I can conveniently play music back on my iPod.
Yes, I know there are other players available, and I know that the iPod supports lossless AIFF and with third-party hacks it can even be made to support stuff like FLAC, but that's a pain in the arse, which is the whole point. Firmware hacks and other players are inconvenient, and MP3 files are conveniently small so I can carry my entire library on the device. I normally compress music to 160kbps, as that's a good trade-off between quality and size. I certainly can't tell the difference between that and uncompressed music when I'm using earphones on the bus.
If I ever want them in a lossless format, I can easily re-rip the files from the original CDs.
Surely the problem is that he didn't run his site properly (ie, random strangers could update it) and that when they had done that he had no easy way of finding damage they might have done throughout the site. He moans about having to check 5000 pages by hand, but I sure as hell wouldn't have to manually check the 7000-odd files that make up my site.
Yeah, but when a car maker accidentally kills people, they get punished for it. When a judge and jury accidentally kills someone they don't.
I'd be all in favour of the death penalty if - and only if - when someone is later found to have been not guilty, the judge, jury and all the prosecuting lawyers responsible for his death are themselves killed.
Sooner or later, people are going to start missing really important messages
If it was important, you wouldn't have used a method of transmission which provides no guarantees about timeliness or even whether the message would be transmitted. You would have couriered a letter to me, or phoned me. Funnily enough, that's exactly what my *ISP* does when they have something important to say. They don't trust "Oi, you forgot to pay your bill last month" to email.
The Daily Mail is well known for spouting utter rubbish. While there may be a tiny core of truth hidden somewhere in the story, I'll bet you a gallon of beer that they've put their own sensationalist spin on it to such an extent as to make the story a fantasy.
For those unfamiliar with the British press, this story was printed in the Daily Hate Mail, a vile right-wing rag known to, errm, stretch the truth considerably.
And if you've already given them your rate card, then your problem is that it doesn't have enough zeroes on it. Fixing that unfortunate printing error is easy.
Having a minimum call-out fee and insisting on payment in advance for the first N hours of work does wonders too.
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That's 14 text messages for every waking hour of the month. One every four minutes. Wow. Given how long it takes to actually compose a message, I have to wonder how on earth she managed that. Also, I bet she now has no friends. How would *you* like to receive pointless messages every few minutes?
I've got one in front of me right now. No lights. If I turn it on (it's fallen asleep because I've not used it for a few minutes), then gosh, the screen and keyboard light up. I find this very handy as it means I can read an ebook on it in bed, and set my alarm.
... is to, in about five years, sell my flat in London, buy a house for half the price Oop North with no mortgage, and go back to working on the buses. Unfortunately, this was also my plan five years ago.
The authorities got this right. He's obviously a danger both to himself (he might hit his thumb with the hammer) and others (OMGTEHVIDOEGAME), and should be shipped off the Gitmo for torture and a fair trial.
Whose definition is that?
But sure - he's a script kiddie as well as a spammer. I'll give you that.
Actually he *has* done something to a spammer. If I were to get 100 auto-replies when I send someone a message, those would be Unsolicted Bulk Email - that is, spam. The guy with his funky auto-responder *is a spammer*.
There are no sites that force the user to use IE. It's not like a web site can hold a gun to your mother's head and demand you stop using filthy terrrrrst free software like Firefox. All there are are web site owners who are either ignorant or stupid enough to deliberately make their site browser-specific, and other people ignorant, stupid, or malicious enough to choose IE and hence provide "validation" for the web site owners' choices.
OK, so my pickup does 24mpUSg, and common cars only do 40mpUSg. An average of 20mpUSg is still pathetic.
Metropolii (and virii and so on) is a useful word for annoying pedants with.
There are few cars on the market today, at least in the UK, which do less than 20mpg. I drive a large, heavy pickup with a big engine. I drive fast. I get over 30mpg normally (averaged over the last 10,000 miles). And that's without even trying to drive economically. Over 50mpg is not unusual in common cars.
Wow. That's amazing. OS X sure could learn a few things from Vista.
What smart trick will the clever Vista people think of next? Remembering to go to the bathroom to take a piss? Breathing?
That may or may not be the point of a degree. However, as an employer, I find that CS degrees prove only that the applicant managed to complete the course. The number of utterly useless CS graduates who, as someone else pointed out, sometimes hardly even know how to use a mouse (or a text editor, or ...), makes that fairly obvious.
Yes, you can say "they must have been bad courses" or "those are ICT courses". You might even be correct. But I can't tell what the bad courses are, and it says Computer Science on the bit of paper.
Perhaps fixing those two problems that are endemic to "Computer Science" courses would go part of the way to fixing the problem.
Don't be silly, spam stopped thanks to the efforts of those wonderful people at Microsoft. You don't honestly think *government* can do anything do you? No, it's all down to the free market!
What comments at the end of my README? You object to the installation instructions?
Of course, if Auntie *doesn't* find evidence of a cover-up and says so, then all the right-wing crazies will just rant that it's part of the cover-up. So really, what's the point?
Yes, I know there are other players available, and I know that the iPod supports lossless AIFF and with third-party hacks it can even be made to support stuff like FLAC, but that's a pain in the arse, which is the whole point. Firmware hacks and other players are inconvenient, and MP3 files are conveniently small so I can carry my entire library on the device. I normally compress music to 160kbps, as that's a good trade-off between quality and size. I certainly can't tell the difference between that and uncompressed music when I'm using earphones on the bus.
If I ever want them in a lossless format, I can easily re-rip the files from the original CDs.
Surely the problem is that he didn't run his site properly (ie, random strangers could update it) and that when they had done that he had no easy way of finding damage they might have done throughout the site. He moans about having to check 5000 pages by hand, but I sure as hell wouldn't have to manually check the 7000-odd files that make up my site.
I'd be all in favour of the death penalty if - and only if - when someone is later found to have been not guilty, the judge, jury and all the prosecuting lawyers responsible for his death are themselves killed.
If it was important, you wouldn't have used a method of transmission which provides no guarantees about timeliness or even whether the message would be transmitted. You would have couriered a letter to me, or phoned me. Funnily enough, that's exactly what my *ISP* does when they have something important to say. They don't trust "Oi, you forgot to pay your bill last month" to email.
The Daily Mail is well known for spouting utter rubbish. While there may be a tiny core of truth hidden somewhere in the story, I'll bet you a gallon of beer that they've put their own sensationalist spin on it to such an extent as to make the story a fantasy.
I can never remember whether it's the parent or the child that gets returned 0.
So let me get this straight. There's a competition which is a derivative of a copy of a shit TV show. Thinking different was never so easy.
For those unfamiliar with the British press, this story was printed in the Daily Hate Mail, a vile right-wing rag known to, errm, stretch the truth considerably.
Having a minimum call-out fee and insisting on payment in advance for the first N hours of work does wonders too.