Pierre replies, "Shit we forgot about the Belgian border."
Not exactly.
France didn't want the Maginot line facing Belgium originally. Apparently the French thought that it would send a clear message to Belgium that France would turn their backs on them in the case of war.
Then Belgium declared neutrality and the French hurriedly started extending the Maginot line. Of course it was too little, too late.
Even then: that wasn't the main problem. Protecting the border between France and Belgium were tens of thousands of top-notch troops. The main problem was that the Germans came through the Ardenne: a mountainous forest that the French assumed was inpenetrable. Due to this, they stationed the least-skilled/ old troops there. Even then they would have fared a lot better if they had heeded the calls from the troops in the Ardenne that "The Germans are coming THIS WAY!!!"
Someone said that the French had just as many tanks as the Germans. Don't know about that but what I do know is that French tanks were plagued with problems - often breaking down. Also, A LOT of horses and other WWI tactics were used by the French, dragging things like olde-style cannons into battle.
If you want the detailed, honest and horrific truth, I recommend watching "The World At War". It really is a top-class documentary that will change the way you think about war forever.
He accepted stock, believing it to be worth more than it ended up being. A lot of people lost money in the merger. It wasn't anything personally directed to him.
Agreed.
During the tech boom, like thousands of others I was offered a decent salary and large number of stock options to leave my current job and move into a new company.
I accepted the offer. In the end, after stock splits, acquisitions/mergers, delays, blahblah the stock options weren't worth much. I was a bit surprised but then again I was naive. I'd do the same again: taking a certain degree of risks tends to increase opportunity from my experience. It wasn't a Bad Thing at all either: I gained so much from that job, including a great deal of respect from work colleagues, management and other people in IT.
Getting paid in options is a gamble and I doubt this guy has any more of a legal leg to stand on than anyone else. Some dude told him "I'm gonna make you rich". Heh, same here. Bad luck. That's life.
"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny...'" (Isaac Asimov)
Dude, why *would* I want to debug the systems' calls.
Perhaps for the times you follow the API docs to the letter and your app is *still* crashing unexpectedly.
Just knowing where the bug seems to be ("Hey, this code in blahlib.c looks a little suspect, maybe it's not my app that's the problem after all") is a real boon. It's more than that: it's The Way It Should Be.
In my first job we ALL used XTerminals: customer service, tech support, engineering, accounts... all on XTerms. Some were on 10b2, some 10bT. The XServers were mostly on FreeBSD.
We ran fvwm, Netscape 4.x, some of us used exmh while others used Netscape Mail.
Most of the girls is customer service had hardly touched a computer before or if they had it was Windows 3.11/95.
There were no obvious support issues. There was very little training and tech support required.
Remember people aren't going to have to add/remove hardware or reconfigure their systems: the systems ought to be standardised and set up by a professional.
Also, i've never seen IE automatically install ANYTHING, when it's fully patched, without the user pressing "yes," and there's PLENTY of sites out there putting ad-ware XPI's out that prompt you every time you go to the site.
Let me guess that you've never installed Spybot: Search and Destroy.
Do it now. It's free (as in beer) software. I bet you'll have an alarming amount of spyware on your machine that you're not aware of.
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Heh. I've heard a similar one:
Must Call Someone Experienced.
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Good! That means the eventual demise of CSS and we can go back to good ol' reliable HTML.
Oh man you're going straight to hell for that one.
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I've heard that a certain free web-based email service superimposes the email body text over ads now.
It's really annoying apparently. >8)
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I don't think people will give a fuck what's right in theory when their machine is exploited over this.
Sorry, I love Moz but they just failed it.
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"Network security hacks" - sounds like some setups I know of.
Heh, sounds like some techs I know.
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Each time you reboot for a kernel upgrade, academics have proven Linux wrong.
OK so explain Windows NT.
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Hey dude,
If you want an idea of what's new, Google for "hl2 shakeycam video". Watch it and wait until the end.
It's painfully bad quality but interesting nonetheless.
Hey, everyone realises that hl2 uses the Havok Engine for it's physics right?
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Off the top of my head:
- Guantanamo Bay
- Humiliation, torture and murder of Iraqis
- Invading a country on a "hunch"
- Patriot Act
- War on Terrorism
What more do you want?
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Pierre replies, "Shit we forgot about the Belgian border."
Not exactly.
France didn't want the Maginot line facing Belgium originally. Apparently the French thought that it would send a clear message to Belgium that France would turn their backs on them in the case of war.
Then Belgium declared neutrality and the French hurriedly started extending the Maginot line. Of course it was too little, too late.
Even then: that wasn't the main problem. Protecting the border between France and Belgium were tens of thousands of top-notch troops. The main problem was that the Germans came through the Ardenne: a mountainous forest that the French assumed was inpenetrable. Due to this, they stationed the least-skilled/ old troops there. Even then they would have fared a lot better if they had heeded the calls from the troops in the Ardenne that "The Germans are coming THIS WAY!!!"
Someone said that the French had just as many tanks as the Germans. Don't know about that but what I do know is that French tanks were plagued with problems - often breaking down. Also, A LOT of horses and other WWI tactics were used by the French, dragging things like olde-style cannons into battle.
If you want the detailed, honest and horrific truth, I recommend watching "The World At War". It really is a top-class documentary that will change the way you think about war forever.
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If you're rather saying you'd rather do GUI-only, I'd say that that is possible in several distributions.
I doubt it.
If a company wants to spearhead Linux on the Desktop my recommendation is to ban the developers from using the CLI for one day.
It will take about 1 minute before they feel the pain. Two minutes and they'll be begging for the CLI.
For most Linux/Unix tasks, there is no gui equivalent.
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Someone should really convert that post into a batch script.
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I won first go... I couldn't believe it. Didn't War Games teach us ANYTHING?
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You're failing to see the potential in making a joke about Darl McBride being rammed from behind repeatedly, with a huge metal object.
Heh, Linux Inside(tm)
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He accepted stock, believing it to be worth more than it ended up being. A lot of people lost money in the merger. It wasn't anything personally directed to him.
Agreed.
During the tech boom, like thousands of others I was offered a decent salary and large number of stock options to leave my current job and move into a new company.
I accepted the offer. In the end, after stock splits, acquisitions/mergers, delays, blahblah the stock options weren't worth much. I was a bit surprised but then again I was naive. I'd do the same again: taking a certain degree of risks tends to increase opportunity from my experience. It wasn't a Bad Thing at all either: I gained so much from that job, including a great deal of respect from work colleagues, management and other people in IT.
Getting paid in options is a gamble and I doubt this guy has any more of a legal leg to stand on than anyone else. Some dude told him "I'm gonna make you rich". Heh, same here. Bad luck. That's life.
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A perfectly cromulent retort.
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Ya just haven't lived till you've entered modelines by hand, I tell ya. ...on a no-name/rebadged fixed-frequency monitor.
Sometimes you needed to open the monitor to find out who *really* built it.
And we didn't even have Google back then. We were searching for model numbers in AltaVista.
The Horror! The Horror!
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Oh man,
Here's a penny kid, go buy yourself a real modem =)
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Besides, you put just 50 men and women in low g, several are going to at least be curious about sex.
'ken oath. Could get *damn* messy though. Can you say "Wet patch at low g"?
Wicked.
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Otherwise someone might sample their stuff. =)
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Okay, I'm completely boggled now . . . what exactly are they're trying to accomplish?
A foot in the door, buddy.
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Dude, why *would* I want to debug the systems' calls.
Perhaps for the times you follow the API docs to the letter and your app is *still* crashing unexpectedly.
Just knowing where the bug seems to be ("Hey, this code in blahlib.c looks a little suspect, maybe it's not my app that's the problem after all") is a real boon. It's more than that: it's The Way It Should Be.
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In my first job we ALL used XTerminals: customer service, tech support, engineering, accounts... all on XTerms. Some were on 10b2, some 10bT. The XServers were mostly on FreeBSD.
We ran fvwm, Netscape 4.x, some of us used exmh while others used Netscape Mail.
Most of the girls is customer service had hardly touched a computer before or if they had it was Windows 3.11/95.
There were no obvious support issues. There was very little training and tech support required.
Remember people aren't going to have to add/remove hardware or reconfigure their systems: the systems ought to be standardised and set up by a professional.
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Also, i've never seen IE automatically install ANYTHING, when it's fully patched, without the user pressing "yes," and there's PLENTY of sites out there putting ad-ware XPI's out that prompt you every time you go to the site.
Let me guess that you've never installed Spybot: Search and Destroy.
Do it now. It's free (as in beer) software. I bet you'll have an alarming amount of spyware on your machine that you're not aware of.
Virus scanners usually won't pick these up.
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IE does not support standards at all. Sorry. Not even it's own.
This is unfortunately spot-on. Even different point releases of IE render differently. It's a joke.
It's as if they break it on purpose. The IE dev team are *crap* programmers, simple as that.
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