Q. What's the difference between a banjo player and a frog?
A. The frog might get a gig one day.
A musician goes to the police station and, clearly distressed, says "Officer, I left a banjo on the back seat of my car and the window was open." The officer says "Do you want to report a theft?". Musician says "No, you don't understand - Now I have two banjos!"
The big difference with your sysadmin argument is that you are paid for the specific responsibility of running the backups on other people's data whereas, as a user of a public email service, I do not have that responsibility. The fact that this particular Yahoo user is the Governor of Alaska should make no bloody difference whatsoever - it's not a state-provided service. This sets a precedence of requiring that an ordinary citizen be required to keep all email to a private account (yes, she is an ordinary citizen as well as a public office holder).
Now, surely Governor Palin has at least one state-provided email account, probably several. Her employer, The Government of the State of Alaska absolutely can and should mandate that all email messages sent to those accounts are kept. That however, is a matter of maintaining audit trails and backups, and as such is a sysadmin's job.
Not at all. Now is absolutely the time to look for a new trading/analysis environment and to develop your skills. You don't want waste valuable concentration and mental effort researching and learning new tools when the market's running, do you?
You're right. There are some real bargains out there at the moment. And they will probably be bigger bargains next week, next month and maybe even next year.
That remonds me of something that happened when I used to work for a well-known IT service provider which, at the time, had a large contract with a major American automobile manufacturer. From our offshore support in Thailand, we got this gem:
Please do the needful. The customer is on fire.
It took quite some time to work out what it meant. Apparently, "on fire" was the literal translation of a Thai expression for "very angry".
First of all, if most people didn't get it, the joke failed.
Next, edible computers? Yes, it is ridiculous! Apple won that battle years ago. When most people hear "Apple Computer", they don't think think of the fruit, they think of the computer.
And finally, if Microsoft do want to have a dig at the literal meaning of the name, they might do well to realise that their own name equates to "tiny and flaccid". People in glass houses, you know...
There may not be any sugar in diet coke, but it's still kinda messy. Still, mix it with the sugar in a Mentos, and you can bet it's gonna get real sticky. Also, the corrosive nature of coke originates not in the sugar, but in the Phosphoric acid (H3PO4) it contains.
(To be fair, that MSDS is for an 85% solution - about 1500 times stronger than coke)
Don't be too sure about that. Even if the thermometer on the wall only reads 30C, you can be damn sure that there are much, much warmer areas inside rack cabinets and the like.
Yes, there may be more detail available in French, but the summary mentions a press release in English. A group of Quebecois put out a press release in English! Do ya think there's something wrong with this picture? I'm suspicious let me tell ya!
Regardless of how he handles the photos, he should include a cassette labeled "An message from us in 2008 to you in 2033" with a recording of "Hello m'baby" on it - I'm sure in 25 years, there'll be someone around who'll get the joke.
Use CICS... and then imagine how many records of batch input that wondrous mainframe could have processed between pressing ENTER on the query screen and seeing the result screen. Remember the status line of your 3270 terminal? The string "Xsystem" was actually burned into the phosphor of some terminals I worked with. Admittedly the network was usually the primary bottleneck in Net/Master, CICS, TSO and other interactive apps, but the following statement stands.
Verily, doth S/360 and its increasingly bastardized offspring shine at batch processing over interactivity.
Yes, I've heard of that happening in theatre companies with groups of women merely sharing a dressing room for months on end. I'd not known it even had a name
Now, imagine multiple wives all with PMT at the same time. Even if they're not nagging the husband, and only on each other's case, that sounds like a monthly slice of hell.
Incidentally, as an atheist, I would recommend the book "A Very Short Introduction to Atheism" for those who are atheist, think they might be or, god forbid, might actually want to understand their neighbour.
(emphasis mine)
Now, it seems to me that, intentional irony or not, someone who claims to be an atheist and uses the term "god forbid" loses some credibility. Those two words actually diluted your previous, quite insightful argument.
In Congressional terms initiative means starting the process and has nothing to do with creation.
That's an interesting point, but do you know what was his audience at the time he made the now infamous comment? (That's not a loaded question, I really don't know.) If his audience was a bunch of politically savvy Congressional types, then his use of the jargon was appropriate and they should have known what he meant. However, if he was making a campaign speech, his comment was directed at a rather less politically sophisticated audience (the entire nation) and he absolutely should have known better than to use jargon with ambiguous meaning.
Quite aside from that, do you honestly believe that that one statement was the reason Gore lost the election?
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This is perfekt opportunity for "In Sowjet Russia..." joke!
Q. What's the range of a banjo?
A. About 15 yards with a good arm.
Q. What's the difference between a banjo player and a frog?
A. The frog might get a gig one day.
A musician goes to the police station and, clearly distressed, says "Officer, I left a banjo on the back seat of my car and the window was open." The officer says "Do you want to report a theft?". Musician says "No, you don't understand - Now I have two banjos!"
s/banjo/bagpipe/
Taking a slightly different tack, how about "Pickin' your brain"?
The big difference with your sysadmin argument is that you are paid for the specific responsibility of running the backups on other people's data whereas, as a user of a public email service, I do not have that responsibility. The fact that this particular Yahoo user is the Governor of Alaska should make no bloody difference whatsoever - it's not a state-provided service. This sets a precedence of requiring that an ordinary citizen be required to keep all email to a private account (yes, she is an ordinary citizen as well as a public office holder).
Now, surely Governor Palin has at least one state-provided email account, probably several. Her employer, The Government of the State of Alaska absolutely can and should mandate that all email messages sent to those accounts are kept. That however, is a matter of maintaining audit trails and backups, and as such is a sysadmin's job.
Are you kids on my lawn again?
With that comment, you have just caused someone to create Furry + Rosie O'Donnell pr0n - In Space!
Please stop imagining ways for Rule 34 to fail - you only bring reality to nightmares.
http://www.instructables.com/id/Giant-Match/
BLAME IT ON THE BOSENOVA
Blame it on the Bosenova,
That blew up so well.
Blame it in the Bosenova,
That we're in hell.
Super-cooled He and big magnets
Turned attractive forces
Right around.
Blame it on the Bosenova,
That CERN went boom!
Blame it on the Bosenova,
That blew up so well.
Blame it in the Bosenova,
That we're in hell.
How we ended up as just a pile of ash,
When the Large Hadron Collider
Made a flash.
Blame it on the Bosenova
Pheno-omenon.
(to the tune of... well, that should be obvious!)
Gah, yer all doin' it wrong.
"Judging by the smell, I'd say the ring around Uranus...
Who's doin' it wrong?
Not at all. Now is absolutely the time to look for a new trading/analysis environment and to develop your skills. You don't want waste valuable concentration and mental effort researching and learning new tools when the market's running, do you?
You're right. There are some real bargains out there at the moment. And they will probably be bigger bargains next week, next month and maybe even next year.
That remonds me of something that happened when I used to work for a well-known IT service provider which, at the time, had a large contract with a major American automobile manufacturer. From our offshore support in Thailand, we got this gem:
Please do the needful. The customer is on fire.
It took quite some time to work out what it meant. Apparently, "on fire" was the literal translation of a Thai expression for "very angry".
First of all, if most people didn't get it, the joke failed.
Next, edible computers? Yes, it is ridiculous! Apple won that battle years ago. When most people hear "Apple Computer", they don't think think of the fruit, they think of the computer.
And finally, if Microsoft do want to have a dig at the literal meaning of the name, they might do well to realise that their own name equates to "tiny and flaccid". People in glass houses, you know...
There may not be any sugar in diet coke, but it's still kinda messy. Still, mix it with the sugar in a Mentos, and you can bet it's gonna get real sticky. Also, the corrosive nature of coke originates not in the sugar, but in the Phosphoric acid (H3PO4) it contains.
(To be fair, that MSDS is for an 85% solution - about 1500 times stronger than coke)
G-Force-One does not simulate a lack of gravity. It creates a SENSORY ILLUSION of weightlessness.
[Subsequent explanation of how G-Force-One does not create a lack of gravity, but does indeed simulate a lack of gravity deleted.]
Don't be too sure about that. Even if the thermometer on the wall only reads 30C, you can be damn sure that there are much, much warmer areas inside rack cabinets and the like.
Really? You can't see it?
It goes like this: "we're good, not psychic"
therefore: good = not psychic
therefore: psychic = not good
therefore: psychic = teh EVIL! Witch! Burn her! BURRRRRN THEM ALL!!!!!11eleventy-one!!
I'm surprised that these psychics haven't got together and cursed /. with a plague of trolls...
Oh, never mind!
Plus d'info en francais et sur le site de l'association FACIL, pour l'appropriation collective de l'informatique libre.
Yes, there may be more detail available in French, but the summary mentions a press release in English. A group of Quebecois put out a press release in English! Do ya think there's something wrong with this picture? I'm suspicious let me tell ya!
Regardless of how he handles the photos, he should include a cassette labeled "An message from us in 2008 to you in 2033" with a recording of "Hello m'baby" on it - I'm sure in 25 years, there'll be someone around who'll get the joke.
Use CICS... and then imagine how many records of batch input that wondrous mainframe could have processed between pressing ENTER on the query screen and seeing the result screen. Remember the status line of your 3270 terminal? The string "Xsystem" was actually burned into the phosphor of some terminals I worked with. Admittedly the network was usually the primary bottleneck in Net/Master, CICS, TSO and other interactive apps, but the following statement stands.
Verily, doth S/360 and its increasingly bastardized offspring shine at batch processing over interactivity.
Yes, I've heard of that happening in theatre companies with groups of women merely sharing a dressing room for months on end. I'd not known it even had a name
Now, imagine multiple wives all with PMT at the same time. Even if they're not nagging the husband, and only on each other's case, that sounds like a monthly slice of hell.
BS. I used the term "voila" the other night when I served dinner. Doesn't make me a Frenchman.
Touché, mon ami! You had not, by any chance, been discussing a belief that the French do not exist, had you?
(emphasis mine)
Now, it seems to me that, intentional irony or not, someone who claims to be an atheist and uses the term "god forbid" loses some credibility. Those two words actually diluted your previous, quite insightful argument.
The researchers specifically said that they were expecting properties that were not usual.
That's an interesting point, but do you know what was his audience at the time he made the now infamous comment? (That's not a loaded question, I really don't know.) If his audience was a bunch of politically savvy Congressional types, then his use of the jargon was appropriate and they should have known what he meant. However, if he was making a campaign speech, his comment was directed at a rather less politically sophisticated audience (the entire nation) and he absolutely should have known better than to use jargon with ambiguous meaning.
Quite aside from that, do you honestly believe that that one statement was the reason Gore lost the election?