I live in London, and here there are a couple of free newspapers that are handed out by people outside stations, or left stacked in stands in the stations, etc.
Sometimes I pick one up, sometimes I don't. This week I mostly have, and have found that of the major news stories, most of them I've already read online. That's not to say that the experience was a waste of time, as there is stuff in there that's interesting enough to read that I'd not encountered, but the big stuff I'd read the previous day.
That said I've never bought a newspaper regularly.
it's incredibly difficult for others to understand exactly what it is and dismiss it as the flavour of the month thing to have
You have people on sites like this one self-diagnosing and using it to excuse their lack of tact, empathy, or desire to act like a bit of a prick to blame for that.
I don't doubt that it's real and that sufferers actually suffer with it. However I also don't doubt that there's a degree of over-diagnosis, misdiagnosis and (erroneous) self-diagnosis that serves to cheapen the plight of those people who actually do have it in the eyes of those who don't. And really, when there are people falsely using it as an excuse for their actions, who can blame them?
Same goes for depression; I know a couple of truly depressive people, and it's a million miles away from the ones who wake up, feel a bit down, can't be bothered to go to work and call it depression.
If people didn't believe in God, there would anarchy, because really there's no fundamental reason to act civilized.
Rubbish. I, like most of my friends, do not believe in God. We still manage to act civilised as it's the right thing to do - I don't want people being shitty towards me, so I'm not shitty towards them. I don't need a mythical uber-fairy to force me to be nice to people on threat of eternal damnation.
Actually, you can start treating them as POWs right now, you just don't want to. After all, those pesky rights get in the way of getting what you want.
Apple is also most definitely not a "very small company".
I gave Ubuntu a try and after 6 months willingly chose to buy Windows XP.
FWIW I used a couple of different flavours of Linux as my desktop OS for a couple of years at work, before finally switching to XP. I made an informed decision too, and have recently upgraded my home PC to Windows 7.
It annoys me when some people here assume that everyone using Windows is doing so only because they know no better; for some of us, it really is the right tool for the job.
I remember in a lecture (I think on the biophysics of nerve cells and networks, but it was a long time ago) a lecturer once telling us a story about a presentation he saw on the simulating the effects of radiation on the human body (or somesuch). Apparently accurately doing this is (or was at the time) very complicated, due in part to the body's non-trivial shape, so he was interested to see how they had tackled this.
The presenter made his opening remarks, then said "Now first, assume that the person in question is spherical..."
Something tells me they'd run out of patience with buying a new domain, setting up the DNS for it, and pushing the change out to their customers long before I would run out of patience with editing my hosts file.
Alternatively - same situation, someone gets killed accidentally, now the robber(s) have gone from looking at a long stretch in jail if caught to the death penalty.
The sensible thing for them to do in that situation (from their point of view) is to kill all the other witnesses. No witnesses means less chance of getting caught, and it's not like there's a sentence even worse than death that'll kick in for multiple homicides.
There are projects that I've worked on that I cannot talk about in anything but the most general terms (or risk breaching the Official Secrets Act, which could land me in jail). Yes, it does make interviews awkward, or even writing my mini-CV for my employer's consulting team to use on bids (in a "meet the team" sort of way), but it's the way it has to be.
Now I know I'm being picky, but I can't help it, as so is my compiler and I'm used to talking to it. That said, I can't help but notice that the wikipedia article you link to is about "shellcode", while the title and summary here refer to "shell code".
I think the GP is entirely reasonable, as my first thought was also that this was about making bourne/bash/etc shell code look like English text.
At Greenwich (gren-idge) you can see the observatory at 0 degrees longitude.
Not to mention being able to stand with one foot in the West and one in the East.
Also while we're on the subject of pronunciations, Leicester is pronounced "Less-ter" - useful if you're trying to find your way to Leicester Square (in the West End, where a lot of the theatres are) for instance.
Microsoft is going to kill Google the way they killed Netscape.
Netscape killed themselves; Netscape Communicator 4 was so much better than IE 4 it wasn't funny. IE 5 was so much better than NC 4 it likewise wasn't funny.
So what did Netscape do? They threw away their code and started again from scratch. By the time they had something usable to show for it, IE had buried them - and rightfully so. NC 4 was a buggy piece of crap which choked on pages, crashing regularly - hell, it even had to reload the page *from the server* when you resized the window!
Don't get me wrong, I used it all the way up to about M13 or M14 of Mozilla and have never used IE as my primary browser (and likely never will), but MS bundling IE with Windows was only part of the reason for Netscape's demise. Mostly, they shot themselves in the head.
And they're stupid; if you're going to lie like that, you need to get organised about it - 5 people all saying that he's still there makes him look guilty as hell.
Society seems to pressure people into hiding these types of problems, or at least people with these types of problems tend to keep them to themselves.
There's only so many times you can hear things like "You've just got to snap out of it" or "Your life really isn't that bad, pull yourself together" before you simply give up trying to explain things to people and keep yourself to yourself.
Note that I'm speaking from second-hand experience; a close personal friend has some serious long-term mental health problems, including depression.
I know that the plural of anecdote isn't data, but I own two cats and my PC (full tower case on the floor under my desk, in an area that doesn't get vacuumed anywhere near as often as it should) doesn't get much hair in it at all. Of course on the flip side, my cats are short-haired (though leave hair on my duvet like no-one's business) and don't tend to go under the desk - if they did that they wouldn't get in my way...
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I live in London, and here there are a couple of free newspapers that are handed out by people outside stations, or left stacked in stands in the stations, etc.
Sometimes I pick one up, sometimes I don't. This week I mostly have, and have found that of the major news stories, most of them I've already read online. That's not to say that the experience was a waste of time, as there is stuff in there that's interesting enough to read that I'd not encountered, but the big stuff I'd read the previous day.
That said I've never bought a newspaper regularly.
Oh that's ok then - as long as everyone else is doing it too it must be all right for us to!
Sorry, that excuse doesn't work in the playground, it sure as shit shouldn't work now.
it's incredibly difficult for others to understand exactly what it is and dismiss it as the flavour of the month thing to have
You have people on sites like this one self-diagnosing and using it to excuse their lack of tact, empathy, or desire to act like a bit of a prick to blame for that.
I don't doubt that it's real and that sufferers actually suffer with it. However I also don't doubt that there's a degree of over-diagnosis, misdiagnosis and (erroneous) self-diagnosis that serves to cheapen the plight of those people who actually do have it in the eyes of those who don't. And really, when there are people falsely using it as an excuse for their actions, who can blame them?
Same goes for depression; I know a couple of truly depressive people, and it's a million miles away from the ones who wake up, feel a bit down, can't be bothered to go to work and call it depression.
Never a-fucking-gain would I want to live with someone with the aspergers affectation.
Was that a typo, a mistake, or on purpose?
Affectation means it's put on - not real.
You used to work in a lab, so you ought to be familiar with how research works, and how often it produces actual products.
Forget the practicalities of people doing this in their homes; in principle, I think it's pretty damn cool.
If people didn't believe in God, there would anarchy, because really there's no fundamental reason to act civilized.
Rubbish. I, like most of my friends, do not believe in God. We still manage to act civilised as it's the right thing to do - I don't want people being shitty towards me, so I'm not shitty towards them. I don't need a mythical uber-fairy to force me to be nice to people on threat of eternal damnation.
Mandriva = KDE4
Really? All of them? Mandrake became Mandriva a good couple of years ago now, I doubt that it immediately shipped with KDE 4...
Windows displays the version on the welcome screen, since at least XP.
..then we can start treating them as POWs.
Actually, you can start treating them as POWs right now, you just don't want to. After all, those pesky rights get in the way of getting what you want.
i'll grant that metric is better than imperial, but i think this is one thing where we have the better idea.
Using a comma or a period for the decimal separator is not a metric vs imperial issue, neither system mandates the character used for that.
Apple is also most definitely not a "very small company".
I gave Ubuntu a try and after 6 months willingly chose to buy Windows XP.
FWIW I used a couple of different flavours of Linux as my desktop OS for a couple of years at work, before finally switching to XP. I made an informed decision too, and have recently upgraded my home PC to Windows 7.
It annoys me when some people here assume that everyone using Windows is doing so only because they know no better; for some of us, it really is the right tool for the job.
I remember in a lecture (I think on the biophysics of nerve cells and networks, but it was a long time ago) a lecturer once telling us a story about a presentation he saw on the simulating the effects of radiation on the human body (or somesuch). Apparently accurately doing this is (or was at the time) very complicated, due in part to the body's non-trivial shape, so he was interested to see how they had tackled this.
The presenter made his opening remarks, then said "Now first, assume that the person in question is spherical..."
Something tells me they'd run out of patience with buying a new domain, setting up the DNS for it, and pushing the change out to their customers long before I would run out of patience with editing my hosts file.
Alternatively - same situation, someone gets killed accidentally, now the robber(s) have gone from looking at a long stretch in jail if caught to the death penalty.
The sensible thing for them to do in that situation (from their point of view) is to kill all the other witnesses. No witnesses means less chance of getting caught, and it's not like there's a sentence even worse than death that'll kick in for multiple homicides.
There are projects that I've worked on that I cannot talk about in anything but the most general terms (or risk breaching the Official Secrets Act, which could land me in jail). Yes, it does make interviews awkward, or even writing my mini-CV for my employer's consulting team to use on bids (in a "meet the team" sort of way), but it's the way it has to be.
Now I know I'm being picky, but I can't help it, as so is my compiler and I'm used to talking to it. That said, I can't help but notice that the wikipedia article you link to is about "shellcode", while the title and summary here refer to "shell code".
I think the GP is entirely reasonable, as my first thought was also that this was about making bourne/bash/etc shell code look like English text.
1. Their food sucks. Really. Go to the typical foreign food restaurants. or MacDonalds.
You're advising a MacDonald's yet claiming that *our* food sucks?
4. They say 'bloody' like Americans say 'f|_|ck'. Especially 'bloody heavens!'. A belligerant God, they have.
No, we say fuck like you say fuck. We also say bloody, though I've never heard of "bloody heavens" - perhaps you were thinking of "bloody hell"?
5. Never walk with a sandwich in a paperbag in the tubes.
Actually, you touch on an important point - drinking alcohol, or carrying an open container of alcohol, on public transport, is illegal in London.
Also remember that here a fag is a cigarette, so don't get all offended if someone asks you if you have any fags.
At Greenwich (gren-idge) you can see the observatory at 0 degrees longitude.
Not to mention being able to stand with one foot in the West and one in the East.
Also while we're on the subject of pronunciations, Leicester is pronounced "Less-ter" - useful if you're trying to find your way to Leicester Square (in the West End, where a lot of the theatres are) for instance.
Yeah, but we all know how to use google, right?
(Besides, some of us did real science degrees)
Microsoft is going to kill Google the way they killed Netscape.
Netscape killed themselves; Netscape Communicator 4 was so much better than IE 4 it wasn't funny. IE 5 was so much better than NC 4 it likewise wasn't funny.
So what did Netscape do? They threw away their code and started again from scratch. By the time they had something usable to show for it, IE had buried them - and rightfully so. NC 4 was a buggy piece of crap which choked on pages, crashing regularly - hell, it even had to reload the page *from the server* when you resized the window!
Don't get me wrong, I used it all the way up to about M13 or M14 of Mozilla and have never used IE as my primary browser (and likely never will), but MS bundling IE with Windows was only part of the reason for Netscape's demise. Mostly, they shot themselves in the head.
And they're stupid; if you're going to lie like that, you need to get organised about it - 5 people all saying that he's still there makes him look guilty as hell.
Society seems to pressure people into hiding these types of problems, or at least people with these types of problems tend to keep them to themselves.
There's only so many times you can hear things like "You've just got to snap out of it" or "Your life really isn't that bad, pull yourself together" before you simply give up trying to explain things to people and keep yourself to yourself.
Note that I'm speaking from second-hand experience; a close personal friend has some serious long-term mental health problems, including depression.
Read the FAQ - the editors intentionally do not do any fact checking whatsoever on submitted stories.
My Standard Definition TeleVision contains all that stuff? No wonder it's so much bigger than those new High Definition TeleVisions!
I know that the plural of anecdote isn't data, but I own two cats and my PC (full tower case on the floor under my desk, in an area that doesn't get vacuumed anywhere near as often as it should) doesn't get much hair in it at all. Of course on the flip side, my cats are short-haired (though leave hair on my duvet like no-one's business) and don't tend to go under the desk - if they did that they wouldn't get in my way...