This reminds me of a quote from Heidegger (he could drink you under the table): "May God, if there is one, save my soul, if I have one." I love that: cover all bases.
You're now a friend for bringing out so much discussion.;-)
No, they didn't. It's very important to remember this: "Live free or Diebold."
Bush did NOT win the popular OR the electoral vote. He was handed them by the people in charge of counting the votes.
And they learned from 2000: this time, it wasn't neck-and-neck, but appeared to have been "a decided victory." (90% to 10% is a decided victory. 51% to 49%? That's well within the margin of error!)
No, that's not quite right. Something about multiplying uncontrollably? But that's the other operator, not the/...
The fortune is surprisingly appropriate (and might be where I got the idea): "Extreme feminine beauty is always disturbing. -- Spock, "The Cloud Minders", stardate 5818.4"
It's a nightmare for the industry, the// sequence is being used to defeat protections [...]
True story: Citrix had a double-secret-probation-type bug, which was that if you logged in with "//" as a password, you'd be logged in to whatever account you typed in the username field!
This was because there was a special "feature" of the password field, which allowed you to type "current/new/new" to change your password during the login process. Stupid sunbaked developers!
As a "neat" side effect, this also set the password for that account to the empty string! (Because, in the above example, both "new" are empty string.)
That was way back in WinView, their OS/2-based product, so don't look to exploit it...
"Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter." - Homer
Seriously, you're absolutely right: ALL INPUT tends to be a distraction from the things that concern us most (food/fight/fuck).
I really like that you grok "being a cell". If I was a cell, I'd want to be a brain cell: their lifespan tends to be very close to the organism's; and they're the only cells in the entire body which are important enough to be surrounded by a bone cage, and protected by a blood-brain barrier.
Sure, the red blood cells make a lot more friends and see a lot more of the "world" that is my body, but they also die much faster as well. (It's similar to my desire to be a developer rather than a soldier: less travel, less sex, but also less legionnaire's disease and less dying.)
There are some things that kill brain cells, though... I just hope "God" doesn't like drinking as much as I do!
Well, not sure about the patience, but the book "Comedy Writing Secrets" is full of neat tips and tricks with writing comedy--which also helps a great deal in conversation.
One of the coolest ones that has helped my humor is: leave the punchline until the last word, or if not possible, the last few words. This makes it funnier, because it sets up the listener to expect to hear something, and they instead hear something else.
Example: "Great minds think a lot." The listener expects that the speaker is beginning to say "you and I are a lot alike"--but instead, it's ambiguous and could be saying "I think a lot" which has nothing to do with the listener.
Highly recommended. And you're right, it's not at all about technology; it's mostly about massaging egos until the fix is implemented.
It's a little frightening. I'm currently reading the novel "Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said" by Philip K. Dick. This is an alternate universe type of story, and in it the "students" are more like terrorists, living "under" the campuses and going out to forage (pillage) in the towns at night.
What is being announced here is almost like the trigger to cause that world to occur. Scary.
I completely agree. I am so disappointed in our leadership, which has allowed this death-happy tyrant to impose his will on all 300 million of us. I mean, isn't that the reason we had three fucking branches of government in the first place, to slow down the tyrants when they inevitably gain power?
And I'm damn glad I turned 35 last year, so they can't draft me. (Or at least, they can't until they raise the "too old" age because they've killed all the younger soldiers.)
There are 14 zeros there. Remove them all and you get 15 x 10^14, or 1.5 x 10^15.
But then I went and calculated your first calculation, and that's where the error was; you added one too many zeros, but then took one away with the exponential. So the rest of the numbers are valid, and it's just a typo, not a math error as I at first thought.
But it's not all the same, though. Once it's "blessed" by Linus, it's released. If he had access to the test machines prior to releasing it, he could release higher-quality code.
And since the entire test run only takes 15 minutes, IBM (and the world) would benefit from allowing him multiple tests per release.
Great idea. You should ask IBM to integrate their test platform into Linus' processes. He might be dubious after BitKeeper (that idiot) about another company helping him, but in this case I think it's a great idea.
There may be (and probably are) other test beds out there, testing releases. It would be better for Linus (and the world) if he could release already-tested code to the world, instead of having the world duplicate all the testing effort, and IBM seems like a perfect solution.
Even giving you the benefit of the doubt and guessing you had Windows 2000 Server, the "next version" was released in 2003. (And if you had just 2000 Professional, then the next version was XP, in 2001.)
500 years from now when forensics researchers are trying to figure out what Microsoft was all about, that's when it'll be "impossible".
Which is just as well, I suppose, that proprietary software not make it into the history books. It'd be a shame if someone's proprietary program required W2K and there was no company left to ask those questions (and then give a key), though...
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Well, I'm glad someone's finally doing it!
</sarcasm>
You're now a friend for bringing out so much discussion. ;-)
Or, in better words from someone's sig: "Okay, fine, you pray for me. I'll think for both of us."
Bush did NOT win the popular OR the electoral vote. He was handed them by the people in charge of counting the votes.
And they learned from 2000: this time, it wasn't neck-and-neck, but appeared to have been "a decided victory." (90% to 10% is a decided victory. 51% to 49%? That's well within the margin of error!)
Sig I've seen here: "May the product of mass and acceleration be with you, Luke!"
No, that's not quite right. Something about multiplying uncontrollably? But that's the other operator, not the /...
The fortune is surprisingly appropriate (and might be where I got the idea): "Extreme feminine beauty is always disturbing. -- Spock, "The Cloud Minders", stardate 5818.4"
This was because there was a special "feature" of the password field, which allowed you to type "current/new/new" to change your password during the login process. Stupid sunbaked developers!
As a "neat" side effect, this also set the password for that account to the empty string! (Because, in the above example, both "new" are empty string.)
That was way back in WinView, their OS/2-based product, so don't look to exploit it...
Seriously, you're absolutely right: ALL INPUT tends to be a distraction from the things that concern us most (food/fight/fuck).
I really like that you grok "being a cell". If I was a cell, I'd want to be a brain cell: their lifespan tends to be very close to the organism's; and they're the only cells in the entire body which are important enough to be surrounded by a bone cage, and protected by a blood-brain barrier.
Sure, the red blood cells make a lot more friends and see a lot more of the "world" that is my body, but they also die much faster as well. (It's similar to my desire to be a developer rather than a soldier: less travel, less sex, but also less legionnaire's disease and less dying.)
There are some things that kill brain cells, though... I just hope "God" doesn't like drinking as much as I do!
They perform some sort of negligible hearing... And are related to butter and corn.
Completely agree.
Except for the fact that: we didn't really vote for him! The previous four, and next four, years can be summed up with four words:
"My cat's breath smells like cat food." - Ralph
I think he means it.
Well, not sure about the patience, but the book "Comedy Writing Secrets" is full of neat tips and tricks with writing comedy--which also helps a great deal in conversation.
One of the coolest ones that has helped my humor is: leave the punchline until the last word, or if not possible, the last few words. This makes it funnier, because it sets up the listener to expect to hear something, and they instead hear something else.
Example: "Great minds think a lot." The listener expects that the speaker is beginning to say "you and I are a lot alike"--but instead, it's ambiguous and could be saying "I think a lot" which has nothing to do with the listener.
Highly recommended. And you're right, it's not at all about technology; it's mostly about massaging egos until the fix is implemented.
Exactly. So, script it.
What is being announced here is almost like the trigger to cause that world to occur. Scary.
And I'm damn glad I turned 35 last year, so they can't draft me. (Or at least, they can't until they raise the "too old" age because they've killed all the younger soldiers.)
"Is he, is he..." - Arthur
Yesterday?
But then I went and calculated your first calculation, and that's where the error was; you added one too many zeros, but then took one away with the exponential. So the rest of the numbers are valid, and it's just a typo, not a math error as I at first thought.
And since the entire test run only takes 15 minutes, IBM (and the world) would benefit from allowing him multiple tests per release.
There may be (and probably are) other test beds out there, testing releases. It would be better for Linus (and the world) if he could release already-tested code to the world, instead of having the world duplicate all the testing effort, and IBM seems like a perfect solution.
My bad, sorry. (I think I got confused because that was an AC, so didn't show up on my view because it hadn't been moderated up yet.)
So their timeline stands.
Which is just as well, I suppose, that proprietary software not make it into the history books. It'd be a shame if someone's proprietary program required W2K and there was no company left to ask those questions (and then give a key), though...