I'm not a hardcore environmentalist, but isn't that a little irresponsible? Not only that, it's a stupid idea with limited appeal. (Cool! I can get a dvd for 4.99 that I can only watch once? Sign me up!).
Blah.
I can't wait to see these schmucks fold, and hopefully after losing significant amounts of personal investments.
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Yeah, wordnet is pretty damn cool, and it's a neat idea but...
Last I heard, using nlp techniques on a general purpose search engine doesn't yield better searches than string matching. So by using wordnet you would throw in a lot more overhead for minimal to non-existent gains.
It would probably be pretty annoying to have google ask you things like that too...especially for a more complex search.
1. Teach yourself ANSI Common LISP in 24 hours.
2. The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Linux Kernel Internals.
3. Assembly language for Dummies
4. Giving yourself a Enterprise Java Enema.
I certainly bought my share of loki ports and it sucks they had to fold, but is this really necessary? It seems like a complete waste of time, not to mention being pretty fucking boring and pathetic. What's next, we lower our penguin flags to half mast and have a moment of silence?
It seems like if you stick the average soccer mom behind the wheel of a jeep grand cherokee, give her some eye makeup, a cell phone, and a few boxes of mcnuggets she would destroy the competition.
Amidst the rubble of the broken dot com bubble one company is still thriving. Verisign announced to the public today that it just purchased a tv for the 4th floor break room at their world headquarters.
"It's really nice," says network engineer, Daniel Jackson. Several other employees who were present absently nodded in agreement. Amanda Hall, a programmer, enthusiastically chimed in, "Yeah it's pretty ok I guess, huh?" She then left the otherwise empty room, pausing only to punch her timesheet.
"We believe it will boost employee morale and productivity," said Bill Grumbacher from the Verisign human resources department. "Next month we're going to be distributing pencils that say 'I heart Verisign' to the employees who have been with us for over two years. Actually, it won't say 'heart' in letters, but it'll have a little heart icon thingie instead."
"How do I make that concept accessible and interesting to 40,000 citizens?"
It's so easy! Dress up in a fuzzy penguin suit and hand out debian cds to everyone you see. Most of them won't know what to do with the cds, but you'll save a few souls I'm sure. For the rest of them... well, hey, you're wearing a cute, fuzzy, penguin suit. And that's something everyone will find both interesting and accessible. I mean, how many politicians walk around in penguin suits? None. You'd be the talk of the town. Hell, the nation. Maybe even the world.
I've got a nagging pain in my wrists due to repetetive motions and it may even be Carpal Tunnel. Even if it was considered a disability, I hardly think that I could receive any compensation other than the monthly ammount I pay for premium binary newsgroup access.
Gotta go. There's a massive flood on alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.bluebird.reposts.
Yes, and there's a toshiba pc card drive (MK5002MPL) that's 5gb! Check it out here. I'm using it on an ipaq with linux, and it works very nicely. Much better than the IBM microdrive, not only for storage space but it hasn't caused me any troubles like the IBM.
Let me preface this by saying I don't really have much of a problem with keyboard sniffing in and of itself. It has it's uses can be an enlightening experience. What worries me is what is to come a year or so down the road. It won't stop with keyboard sniffing. No.
So, I put my foot down when it comes to mouse sniffing. Cute as they may be, the little buggers carry any number of diseases, both airborne and from the parasites they host.
What do most people use their machines for in the office?
Well it depends on if you use *nix in your office bub. Most of the unix crowd DON'T use Word, Excel, etc. daily, and don't need it. Seems the people who always whine about linux lacking a good office suite are the wannabes who use linux to be trendy. You know, the same ones who are always bitching about how haaaaaaaaaaard it is to use, and that it'll never be maaaaiiiinnnstream.
Also, what's wrong with star office or wordperfect?
They eat seven or eight times a day, like to take naps, have never been far from home and have eyes that grow wide at the sounds of the night. They are like children grown up or grown old, and when they rise to an occasion, it takes true heroism, for they are timid by nature and would rather avoid a fight.
Good god! I never thought of it before, but you have just described the vast majority of the IT department where I work. No wonder geeks love Tolkien so much.
Sigh. My point is that an awful lot of companies, and even more individuals think that tech support will solve all their problems for them. That, my friend, is clueless. This attitude is based solely on accountability. Many people who are In IT For The Money (MCSEs, management, etc.) can't take responsibility if things don't work. What do they do? They use tech support as a scapegoat. And the companies that provide said support typically have very little capability to do so. It's there for the illusion of reliability. Ask some people who have dealt with microsoft support how many times the solution is "reboot, if that doesn't work do a reinstall". These clueless companies can't rely on usenet or irc because the management won't accept "sorry, things aren't working and I did what some anonymous dude on IRC said to do" as much as they will accept "sorry, things aren't working and I did what Jack Schmeckler, senior Microsoft Tech Support Weenie, said." In both cases you're just as fucked because things aren't working. Yet somehow, if you pay for support and don't get a solution it's ok...even though often you get far superior support from the geeks on irc and usenet. That is my point.
And FYI I couldn't care less about linux becoming mainstream. Yeah you heard me. Fuck mainstream linux, it blows. I've been a user since the days when all you had were a boot and a root floppy, and everything else was do it yerself. I like it like that. When you have mainstream you cater to the intelligence of the average person. That leads to things like microsoft's glorious products. And all this "it's the desktop os of choice...for the masses!" bullshit has been creeping into linux distros too. Have you seen the stuff they have on new "mainstream" linux distros? Yeah they work out of the box with a cutesy x installers and all this other cruft, but god damn if it isn't more trouble in the long run than burning a minimal copy of debian and building the software you need, as you need it.
Any of my linux bretheren want to start a linux tech support company? We'll charge clueless companies lots of money, hire some phone weenies to be "tech support" frontmen who pass trouble tickets to us. The phone guys will be paid $7.50/hr. while we, the technicians, are "working on the problem until it's solved." Minimum turnaround time should be 8 hours, no matter how trivial the problem. We will charge $500/hr per tech working on the problem and will automatically assign a minimum of two techs to a problem. 75% of the profits will be distributed evenly among us all, 25% will go to advertising, grunt workers, equipment, etc. The hours will be flexible, and you can do it from home. We (the techs) will collaborate via irc, a private nntp server, and, of course, email. Management scum, MCSEs and other pointy haired fodder need not apply.
Service Packs are the small, 6-8oz cups with the foil tops. They usually contain yogurt or pudding.
Rollup Patches are dried fruit puree attached to thin plastic wrap. You tear the fruit substance off the plastic before eating.
Hot Fixes are the things you remove from the plastic bag and put in the microwave. They usually consist of some sort of bread substance with a meaty and/or cheesy filling.
Yeah, I will agree. And I've noticed that often, right next to Turing, physically, is a machine named Hoare. I always found that a little funny. Almost as if the guys who set them up were trying to say "Turing was a manwhore!".
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I'll stick to the eat once popcorn, thanks. But if you want, I'll package and ship up some recycled popcorn for you.
;-)
For a small fee, of course.
I'm not a hardcore environmentalist, but isn't that a little irresponsible? Not only that, it's a stupid idea with limited appeal. (Cool! I can get a dvd for 4.99 that I can only watch once? Sign me up!).
Blah.
I can't wait to see these schmucks fold, and hopefully after losing significant amounts of personal investments.
Greetings,
We don't hate you. We are here to help you. Please accept this wheat and soy milk. Also, if you are with the taliban, click here to find instructions on how to surrender.
Thank you.
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Yeah, wordnet is pretty damn cool, and it's a neat idea but...
Last I heard, using nlp techniques on a general purpose search engine doesn't yield better searches than string matching. So by using wordnet you would throw in a lot more overhead for minimal to non-existent gains.
It would probably be pretty annoying to have google ask you things like that too...especially for a more complex search.
I can just imagine what a doubly linked list would look like. I'm afraid. Very, very afraid.
1. Teach yourself ANSI Common LISP in 24 hours.
2. The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Linux Kernel Internals.
3. Assembly language for Dummies
4. Giving yourself a Enterprise Java Enema.
I certainly bought my share of loki ports and it sucks they had to fold, but is this really necessary? It seems like a complete waste of time, not to mention being pretty fucking boring and pathetic. What's next, we lower our penguin flags to half mast and have a moment of silence?
It seems like if you stick the average soccer mom behind the wheel of a jeep grand cherokee, give her some eye makeup, a cell phone, and a few boxes of mcnuggets she would destroy the competition.
# hdparm -d1 /dev/null
If we don't have them here, we won't have them anywhere.
But that's just preaching to the choir. Right?
Amidst the rubble of the broken dot com bubble one company is still thriving. Verisign announced to the public today that it just purchased a tv for the 4th floor break room at their world headquarters.
"It's really nice," says network engineer, Daniel Jackson. Several other employees who were present absently nodded in agreement. Amanda Hall, a programmer, enthusiastically chimed in, "Yeah it's pretty ok I guess, huh?" She then left the otherwise empty room, pausing only to punch her timesheet.
"We believe it will boost employee morale and productivity," said Bill Grumbacher from the Verisign human resources department. "Next month we're going to be distributing pencils that say 'I heart Verisign' to the employees who have been with us for over two years. Actually, it won't say 'heart' in letters, but it'll have a little heart icon thingie instead."
"How do I make that concept accessible and interesting to 40,000 citizens?"
It's so easy! Dress up in a fuzzy penguin suit and hand out debian cds to everyone you see. Most of them won't know what to do with the cds, but you'll save a few souls I'm sure. For the rest of them... well, hey, you're wearing a cute, fuzzy, penguin suit. And that's something everyone will find both interesting and accessible. I mean, how many politicians walk around in penguin suits? None. You'd be the talk of the town. Hell, the nation. Maybe even the world.
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I've got a nagging pain in my wrists due to repetetive motions and it may even be Carpal Tunnel. Even if it was considered a disability, I hardly think that I could receive any compensation other than the monthly ammount I pay for premium binary newsgroup access.
Gotta go. There's a massive flood on alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.bluebird.reposts.
Ow. Ow. Ouch.
Yes, and there's a toshiba pc card drive (MK5002MPL) that's 5gb! Check it out here. I'm using it on an ipaq with linux, and it works very nicely. Much better than the IBM microdrive, not only for storage space but it hasn't caused me any troubles like the IBM.
Let me preface this by saying I don't really have much of a problem with keyboard sniffing in and of itself. It has it's uses can be an enlightening experience. What worries me is what is to come a year or so down the road. It won't stop with keyboard sniffing. No.
So, I put my foot down when it comes to mouse sniffing. Cute as they may be, the little buggers carry any number of diseases, both airborne and from the parasites they host.
Thank you.
The deal is that you view too much porn, both printed and online. Best XXX. Feh!
What do most people use their machines for in the office?
Well it depends on if you use *nix in your office bub. Most of the unix crowd DON'T use Word, Excel, etc. daily, and don't need it. Seems the people who always whine about linux lacking a good office suite are the wannabes who use linux to be trendy. You know, the same ones who are always bitching about how haaaaaaaaaaard it is to use, and that it'll never be maaaaiiiinnnstream.
Also, what's wrong with star office or wordperfect?
They eat seven or eight times a day, like to take naps, have never been far from home and have eyes that grow wide at the sounds of the night. They are like children grown up or grown old, and when they rise to an occasion, it takes true heroism, for they are timid by nature and would rather avoid a fight.
Good god! I never thought of it before, but you have just described the vast majority of the IT department where I work. No wonder geeks love Tolkien so much.
Sigh. My point is that an awful lot of companies, and even more individuals think that tech support will solve all their problems for them. That, my friend, is clueless. This attitude is based solely on accountability. Many people who are In IT For The Money (MCSEs, management, etc.) can't take responsibility if things don't work. What do they do? They use tech support as a scapegoat. And the companies that provide said support typically have very little capability to do so. It's there for the illusion of reliability. Ask some people who have dealt with microsoft support how many times the solution is "reboot, if that doesn't work do a reinstall". These clueless companies can't rely on usenet or irc because the management won't accept "sorry, things aren't working and I did what some anonymous dude on IRC said to do" as much as they will accept "sorry, things aren't working and I did what Jack Schmeckler, senior Microsoft Tech Support Weenie, said." In both cases you're just as fucked because things aren't working. Yet somehow, if you pay for support and don't get a solution it's ok...even though often you get far superior support from the geeks on irc and usenet. That is my point.
And FYI I couldn't care less about linux becoming mainstream. Yeah you heard me. Fuck mainstream linux, it blows. I've been a user since the days when all you had were a boot and a root floppy, and everything else was do it yerself. I like it like that. When you have mainstream you cater to the intelligence of the average person. That leads to things like microsoft's glorious products. And all this "it's the desktop os of choice...for the masses!" bullshit has been creeping into linux distros too. Have you seen the stuff they have on new "mainstream" linux distros? Yeah they work out of the box with a cutesy x installers and all this other cruft, but god damn if it isn't more trouble in the long run than burning a minimal copy of debian and building the software you need, as you need it.
Any of my linux bretheren want to start a linux tech support company? We'll charge clueless companies lots of money, hire some phone weenies to be "tech support" frontmen who pass trouble tickets to us. The phone guys will be paid $7.50/hr. while we, the technicians, are "working on the problem until it's solved." Minimum turnaround time should be 8 hours, no matter how trivial the problem. We will charge $500/hr per tech working on the problem and will automatically assign a minimum of two techs to a problem. 75% of the profits will be distributed evenly among us all, 25% will go to advertising, grunt workers, equipment, etc. The hours will be flexible, and you can do it from home. We (the techs) will collaborate via irc, a private nntp server, and, of course, email. Management scum, MCSEs and other pointy haired fodder need not apply.
No, those aren't Hot Fixes, they're Enterprise Java Beans.
Ok it's easy:
Service Packs are the small, 6-8oz cups with the foil tops. They usually contain yogurt or pudding.
Rollup Patches are dried fruit puree attached to thin plastic wrap. You tear the fruit substance off the plastic before eating.
Hot Fixes are the things you remove from the plastic bag and put in the microwave. They usually consist of some sort of bread substance with a meaty and/or cheesy filling.
Hope that clears things up.
Becauthe the Japanethe verthion wath written in Lithp.
Yeah, I will agree. And I've noticed that often, right next to Turing, physically, is a machine named Hoare. I always found that a little funny. Almost as if the guys who set them up were trying to say "Turing was a manwhore!".
Then again, maybe it's just me.