I disagree. I, too, have a hierarchial file system (like almost everyone) but when I name a file, I use an overly descriptive filename consisting of the normal 'name' i would give the file, followed by underscores and keywords. For example: documentname.xml would be documentname_cb_submissions_slashdot_example_file_ system_comment_disagree_web.xml
It takes me a few extra thoughts when I name a file, but the net result is that I can do a simple "locate" and "grep" combination to dial directly into the file that I'm looking for. I have Gigabytes of actual data files that I've created (from code, to spreadsheets, to schematics, etc.) and I rarely have any problems finding files.
It just takes a tiny bit of discipline on the front-end to save you boatloads of time in the long run.
I think it's highly insensitive to pander to the few female gamers and ignore the masses of males that play most games.
Have we gone completely Politically-Correct Banana's here? If I were a "she" gamer, I would take offense to all these 'sensitive' game reviews/etc. that act like female gamers are the norm.
Let's get fscking real people. We aren't idiots, and women can see through the pandering you dolts make when you try to make statements to the effect that "She" is the stereotypical gamer.
Now, would you prefer to wait for the risk of dying of something was large before doing something about it?
Actually, yes. Assuming your definition of "doing something about it" is removing our basic liberties.
Even if 1 aircraft fell from the sky every month, that would still be less than.0001 percent of the population that _could_ be killed in 'terrorist attacks'.
The reality is that more kids are killed in swimming pools every year than people killed in terrorist attacks. Does that mean we should outlaw swimming pools? Of course not. There's no outrage about that, and the public has accepted it as an acceptable risk.
Now, that said, should we do nothing about terrorism? Absolutely not. We should be vigilant and on our guard, but not to the extreme that removes the basic civil liberties that our forefathers created this country upon.
This is the outrage/hazard formula. I forget whom developed it, but it basically states that if people become more outraged about something (than the hazard the thing presents) they will be willing to give up basic civil liberties.
Basically, if you fire enough people up about some 'thing', they will take action even if the the 'thing' doesn't pose a direct risk/hazard to them directly.
Kind of like the war in Iraq: scare enough people and they will do _anything_ to prevent it. In the USA for example, a country of 500 million people, the odds of being killed by a terrorist attack is infantesimal. Yet here we are, giving up our basic civil liberties in droves.
If you don't think our [US] society as become over-paranoid, try boarding a mass-transit vehicle while wearing a ski mask. You'll be stopped/searched/seized faster than you can say, "Land of the free".
They'll say they have 'probable cause'; you'll say 'it was cold out' or possibly 'I didn't want security cameras recording my every move'.
After reading this, I realized that I didn't finish converting all of my users over to FF. I spent some time today making sure that the non-exec's can't use IE on their workstations. I'm sure I'll have one or two sales guys that can't access their favorite poker sites tomorrow, but it won't take much to convince them that "the internet is up" and that "that site is down because it doesn't work on anyone else's computer either".
If they complain, I'll casually mention the Cyberguard logs and how I need to go review them for non-work-related activity.
I really hope one of those companies tells the Fed to take a hike. If they try to prosecute, they can take it all the way to the Supreme Court and hopefully get some justice there.
The USPTO.GOV site/interface has got to be the worst thing ever made. The Quicktime doesn't render properly, and it's horribly broken from UI perspective.
They love throwing crap in there as a value add to buying their books. One time, I got a PDA similar to what you're asking about COMPLETELY FREE (with my paid subscription).
You could get paid millions to be the best player! Much like meat sports, the competition is fierce, and only a few are the best of the best (and make the big bucks). You could even have stadiums filled with hundreds of thousands of viewers watching from their TV's (or virtually attending the stadium online).
This could turn out to be the business model that can finally allow all the gamers out there to tell their parents that, "See, something good DID come from me just playing in your basement!"
On their site they have a legal disclaimer that says: this site is not an officially supported site. it is an incubation experiment and doesn't represent any particular strategy or policy
Followed closely by a "Copyright Microsoft Corporation" tag.
So does anyone know which statement would take precedence here? They are forfeiting their legal affiliation before they claim copyright on it; so what happens here? [IANAL, BMWI (but my wife-ish-person is)].
We're running Linux on ours. I'm not being elitist here, I'm just wondering what OS'es are afflicted by this.
I assume it's not a flaw in Bluetooth, because it would be much more pervasive. AFAIK, BMW's flakey iDrive system runs Windows - and I'm not saying it's flakey because it runs Windows. I'm saying it's flakey because of telematics industry reports about it. Any correlation is probably/likely just a coincidence.
Aside from all the great things I know/have learned about python, it still seems to be the only language that _always_ suffers from some kind of runtime problem when I try to use it.
Every time I've tried to run a python script, it's bailed on me for one reason or another, and with a cryptic failure code. Which really sucks, because everyone that uses it seems to love it and I'd love to have an introduction to it that worked.
Of course, I thought the same things about Perl too, so hopefully this brings Python some user-freudlichness.
"It looks like the site you are trying to browse is a phishing site. IE7 Has protected you by blocking access. Click here to be redirected to similar recommended sites courtesy of MSN Search."
I disagree. I think IE is such a bloated pig mess of spaghetti code, that it took them YEARS to sort it all out. The last version of IE came out four years ago.
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I disagree. I, too, have a hierarchial file system (like almost everyone) but when I name a file, I use an overly descriptive filename consisting of the normal 'name' i would give the file, followed by underscores and keywords. For example:_ system_comment_disagree_web.xml
documentname.xml would be documentname_cb_submissions_slashdot_example_file
It takes me a few extra thoughts when I name a file, but the net result is that I can do a simple "locate" and "grep" combination to dial directly into the file that I'm looking for. I have Gigabytes of actual data files that I've created (from code, to spreadsheets, to schematics, etc.) and I rarely have any problems finding files.
It just takes a tiny bit of discipline on the front-end to save you boatloads of time in the long run.
I think it's highly insensitive to pander to the few female gamers and ignore the masses of males that play most games.
Have we gone completely Politically-Correct Banana's here? If I were a "she" gamer, I would take offense to all these 'sensitive' game reviews/etc. that act like female gamers are the norm.
Let's get fscking real people. We aren't idiots, and women can see through the pandering you dolts make when you try to make statements to the effect that "She" is the stereotypical gamer.
Let's just hope they don't call the new joint company "AdMedia".
Or "MacrodobeMedia".
or... nevermind.
Seriously.
An IPO doesn't mean we're heading into another bubble. It's an IPO for christ-sakes. They happen all the time, even with Tech companies.
Yeah, I just figured that out the hard way. I think google pulled my account, because I'm getting a 405 not allowed error when I try to connect.
I just created my account. I'm cbergeron.
Feel free to add me so we can try this puppy out...!
Now, would you prefer to wait for the risk of dying of something was large before doing something about it?
.0001 percent of the population that _could_ be killed in 'terrorist attacks'.
Actually, yes. Assuming your definition of "doing something about it" is removing our basic liberties.
Even if 1 aircraft fell from the sky every month, that would still be less than
The reality is that more kids are killed in swimming pools every year than people killed in terrorist attacks. Does that mean we should outlaw swimming pools? Of course not. There's no outrage about that, and the public has accepted it as an acceptable risk.
Now, that said, should we do nothing about terrorism? Absolutely not. We should be vigilant and on our guard, but not to the extreme that removes the basic civil liberties that our forefathers created this country upon.
This is the outrage/hazard formula. I forget whom developed it, but it basically states that if people become more outraged about something (than the hazard the thing presents) they will be willing to give up basic civil liberties.
Basically, if you fire enough people up about some 'thing', they will take action even if the the 'thing' doesn't pose a direct risk/hazard to them directly.
Kind of like the war in Iraq: scare enough people and they will do _anything_ to prevent it. In the USA for example, a country of 500 million people, the odds of being killed by a terrorist attack is infantesimal. Yet here we are, giving up our basic civil liberties in droves.
If you don't think our [US] society as become over-paranoid, try boarding a mass-transit vehicle while wearing a ski mask. You'll be stopped/searched/seized faster than you can say, "Land of the free".
They'll say they have 'probable cause'; you'll say 'it was cold out' or possibly 'I didn't want security cameras recording my every move'.
Welcome back to 1984!
So your parents bought you a hyper-expensive tablet pc, so you could "write" your school notes on it?
Brilliant.
There have actually been several great inventions since Unix - one of them is called Paper. Sometimes, it's just the "Best tool for the Job"tm
I'm just messing with ya...
I assume this is the reason the response rate on this is so low. It's an intriguing question, though.
After reading this, I realized that I didn't finish converting all of my users over to FF. I spent some time today making sure that the non-exec's can't use IE on their workstations. I'm sure I'll have one or two sales guys that can't access their favorite poker sites tomorrow, but it won't take much to convince them that "the internet is up" and that "that site is down because it doesn't work on anyone else's computer either".
If they complain, I'll casually mention the Cyberguard logs and how I need to go review them for non-work-related activity.
Because if you're in Texas or Washington, you can bet that MSFT products will dominate the decision makers.
I really hope one of those companies tells the Fed to take a hike. If they try to prosecute, they can take it all the way to the Supreme Court and hopefully get some justice there.
The USPTO.GOV site/interface has got to be the worst thing ever made. The Quicktime doesn't render properly, and it's horribly broken from UI perspective.
Ugh.
They love throwing crap in there as a value add to buying their books. One time, I got a PDA similar to what you're asking about COMPLETELY FREE (with my paid subscription).
You could get paid millions to be the best player! Much like meat sports, the competition is fierce, and only a few are the best of the best (and make the big bucks). You could even have stadiums filled with hundreds of thousands of viewers watching from their TV's (or virtually attending the stadium online).
This could turn out to be the business model that can finally allow all the gamers out there to tell their parents that, "See, something good DID come from me just playing in your basement!"
Check out rentacoder.com.
Specify your criteria, escrow some money, and wait for the bids to roll in.
On their site they have a legal disclaimer that says: this site is not an officially supported site. it is an incubation experiment and doesn't represent any particular strategy or policy
Followed closely by a "Copyright Microsoft Corporation" tag.
So does anyone know which statement would take precedence here? They are forfeiting their legal affiliation before they claim copyright on it; so what happens here? [IANAL, BMWI (but my wife-ish-person is)].
We're running Linux on ours. I'm not being elitist here, I'm just wondering what OS'es are afflicted by this.
I assume it's not a flaw in Bluetooth, because it would be much more pervasive. AFAIK, BMW's flakey iDrive system runs Windows - and I'm not saying it's flakey because it runs Windows. I'm saying it's flakey because of telematics industry reports about it. Any correlation is probably/likely just a coincidence.
Have you not heard about the Real-Estate Bubble?
It's very similar to the Tech Bubble of the late 90's, but likely to burst much sooner.
It's just plain cheesylicious.
Aside from all the great things I know/have learned about python, it still seems to be the only language that _always_ suffers from some kind of runtime problem when I try to use it.
Every time I've tried to run a python script, it's bailed on me for one reason or another, and with a cryptic failure code. Which really sucks, because everyone that uses it seems to love it and I'd love to have an introduction to it that worked.
Of course, I thought the same things about Perl too, so hopefully this brings Python some user-freudlichness.
Sorry. You'll get a dialog box that reads:
"It looks like the site you are trying to browse is a phishing site. IE7 Has protected you by blocking access. Click here to be redirected to similar recommended sites courtesy of MSN Search."
I disagree. I think IE is such a bloated pig mess of spaghetti code, that it took them YEARS to sort it all out. The last version of IE came out four years ago.
Unfortunately, fork() is not currently implemented...
That's probably a good thing. Because then you prevent users from having to "call emergency_room();"