This week I had to do a Win 98 install to test some software. My install came with IE4 and I had some fun trying various sites to see what would and wouldn't work. It was interesting to see how well (and not well) sites degraded to an utter crap view.
I'm currently learning Italian. When a word doesn't come from a Latin base, linking it to its English analogue is tricky so it's simpler to make up some association than it is to remember the word. The Italian for "where" is "dove" (which is pronounced a little like "duvet"). Where's the dove? Under the duvet. I can't forget it or get it confused with when, why, how or who. When an Italian wants me to say "Where", I link dove, duvet and the image/sound of my girlfriend saying that word on the phone one day. (Still doesn't mean I can pronounce it properly, though!)
I'm not going to claim having learnt well any language well other than my native tongue, but isn't learning mnemonics for a foreign language actually putting a level of indirection (and hence a roadblock) between you and potential fluency. In your native language you don't use a mnemonic for "where", you grok it. And as a child you didn't use mnemonics to learn such words either. So how do you let go of such a crutch and slip into fluency?
To add to my previous comment. The general consensus of disaster recovery best practice is that you do not test a backup strategy, you test a restore strategy. Rebooting a server is testing a system restore process.
Rebooting is bad. It booted the first time, Why would it not boot the second?
If you don't have proper controls than you should not have anyone touching the box.
Even with controls you are assuming that anybody who touched the box between boots has performed their work flawlessly and/or the actions that they performed will do as expected. Yes you can replicate an environment and practice changing things and rebooting, but unless you have 100% replicated things then all you are testing is your assumption that the replication was complete. So it still comes down to an assumption that can only be tested by a physical reboot.
"he doesn't want to you read about what he might have done back in 1990"
I googled this... it was a sex change operation. He used to be a man.
No No No.. you aren't doing this right. You can't come out and make a statement of absolute fact that can be checked. You need to allude to it and let your audience ASSUME that it was a fact. This is simple Beckism 101. What you should have said is:
I googled Beck looking to see if he had a sex change. Did he lose his balls in the past? I don't know. But you have to admit he acts pretty strange all the time, and I haven't seen him deny not losing his balls. But don't believe anything I say.. you have to make up your own mind over this.
And while you are pondering that let me tell you about [Fear mongering sponsor de jour] whose products I have been buying for years. If you don't have this [end of the world survival product] then you don't [love your family]...
But his character is fabulously successful. So maybe he's got some things figured out.
He has figured out a wonderful way to make money through pandering to a massive audience.
I also say that the character he plays is a douche, but not knowing the guy personally I can't say if he is actually a douche. But if he is really not a douche in real life then he knows it is all an act - which given the stuff he says (and yes I have listened to him) it seems like a douche thing to be doing anyway.
I now attend a 4 square church that has similar teachings to pentecostal but does not hold to these rules.
Last week I was talking to a customer and he explained how he, his wife, his brother-in-law and his wife, had left their southern baptist church because his brother-in-law's wife had the temerity to suggest that she could teach Sunday school - due to having assisted the male teacher, who had since left. It was "suggested" by the church that the brother-in-law should "control his woman"
This has to be one of the dumbest posts on/. since I started reading it (and that was a loooong time ago)
I'd almost like to say "Are you new around here". Unfortunately the quality of this site has been dropping and I have no iea how low it will go in the end. I know I am starting to look to other aggregators for more timely and relevant news.
So the kiddies are doing this all voluntarily and they're free to stop whenever they want. Isn't that a workable definition of anarchy?
I think the GPs point was that while the foot soldiers are free to come and go as they please, that the actual direction of the group is being controlled by a shadowy cabal of leaders with an agenda. So that these leaders are using the gullibility of the foot soldiers (ie belief that they are part of some altruistic group that is ridding the planet of evil) to achieve their desires. And I don't think that this falls under the auspices of anarchy.
Autorun as a concept just sucks.
Copying whatever Windows does, warts and all, into Linux, just sucks.
When is this insanity going to end?
I insert a DVD into my player - and it just plays.
I put film into my (now older camera) and it it loaded it up for me ready to use when I shut the back
I'm sure there are a zillion other examples of systems that just start doing things in readiness of what the would like. So why do you think the average consumer is *not* going to expect things happen automatically?
This is so funny. In the first paragraph of the post you initially responded to I compared American football to other sports in general. Now you castigate me for my generalised comparisons.
Excuse me why I step out of the way of you whaaaambulance.
You commented on soccer, I responded to your comment about soccer. If you meant one of the other forms of football, your comment should have reflected that.
Well given hat your concept of substitutions in soccer seems naive at best - there are 3 per max total compared to entire offensive and defensive lineups in American football - it seems your education is lacking, so I suggested that you review how other codes are played.
You're talking about a game that is played under every imaginable type of weather condition (football games are generally only canceled or delayed when the weather poses a danger to the fans rather than the players) where for every play, the player (at the higher levels) may have 2-8 different options they have to perform depending on what the opposing player does, they have 1 to 3 seconds to decide which option they perform, they have to deal with the elements (sun in their eyes, rain/snow/ice making the field or ball slippery, traction on the turf, etc), one mistake can result in points for the other team or (tragically) severe injury to themselves or another player. American football certainly isn't a game you can play on cruise control.
I'd suggest that you need to study up on how other other forms of football are played, how their players are conditioned and under what conditions games are played - and I don't mean just soccer. Also consider Rugby (multiple forms), Australian rules and Gaelic football for example. Then get back to me.
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That there's a duplicate Earth on the exact opposite side of the Sun!
First rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two at twice the price?
All ready been proven (by movies at least) Doppelgänger
If you don't buy a new car every three years, how on earth are you supposed to show your neighbor how much bigger your penis is than his?
Orgies .. they're called orgies. That's how!
I read TFA, I watched TFV, and I still can't connect the summary to anything of substance.
This week I had to do a Win 98 install to test some software. My install came with IE4 and I had some fun trying various sites to see what would and wouldn't work. It was interesting to see how well (and not well) sites degraded to an utter crap view.
I'm currently learning Italian. When a word doesn't come from a Latin base, linking it to its English analogue is tricky so it's simpler to make up some association than it is to remember the word. The Italian for "where" is "dove" (which is pronounced a little like "duvet"). Where's the dove? Under the duvet. I can't forget it or get it confused with when, why, how or who. When an Italian wants me to say "Where", I link dove, duvet and the image/sound of my girlfriend saying that word on the phone one day. (Still doesn't mean I can pronounce it properly, though!)
I'm not going to claim having learnt well any language well other than my native tongue, but isn't learning mnemonics for a foreign language actually putting a level of indirection (and hence a roadblock) between you and potential fluency. In your native language you don't use a mnemonic for "where", you grok it. And as a child you didn't use mnemonics to learn such words either. So how do you let go of such a crutch and slip into fluency?
4. Wait until the marks have forgotten what you sold them
5. Sell it to them again
6. More profit!
(wishing that /. would allow edits)
To add to my previous comment. The general consensus of disaster recovery best practice is that you do not test a backup strategy, you test a restore strategy. Rebooting a server is testing a system restore process.
Disagree.
Rebooting is bad. It booted the first time, Why would it not boot the second?
If you don't have proper controls than you should not have anyone touching the box.
Even with controls you are assuming that anybody who touched the box between boots has performed their work flawlessly and/or the actions that they performed will do as expected. Yes you can replicate an environment and practice changing things and rebooting, but unless you have 100% replicated things then all you are testing is your assumption that the replication was complete. So it still comes down to an assumption that can only be tested by a physical reboot.
It would have been great without the giant blue glowing penis though.
Why? Curious to know what your objection to it was.
Anyone who hires them after this incident is an idiot who likes bright lights and noise.
In an article that a some on above posted a link to, there was a reference that HBGary was for sale. Who would buy them after this?
I wonder how this relates to George Soros...
How about Soros is part of a secret cabal that funds the government's black projects (of which Google is just one of)????
"he doesn't want to you read about what he might have done back in 1990"
I googled this... it was a sex change operation. He used to be a man.
No No No .. you aren't doing this right. You can't come out and make a statement of absolute fact that can be checked. You need to allude to it and let your audience ASSUME that it was a fact. This is simple Beckism 101. What you should have said is:
I googled Beck looking to see if he had a sex change. Did he lose his balls in the past? I don't know. But you have to admit he acts pretty strange all the time, and I haven't seen him deny not losing his balls. But don't believe anything I say .. you have to make up your own mind over this.
And while you are pondering that let me tell you about [Fear mongering sponsor de jour] whose products I have been buying for years. If you don't have this [end of the world survival product] then you don't [love your family] ...
In other words, Glenn Beck is a professional troll?
And so good at it that his target audience doesn't realize it.
But his character is fabulously successful. So maybe he's got some things figured out.
He has figured out a wonderful way to make money through pandering to a massive audience.
I also say that the character he plays is a douche, but not knowing the guy personally I can't say if he is actually a douche. But if he is really not a douche in real life then he knows it is all an act - which given the stuff he says (and yes I have listened to him) it seems like a douche thing to be doing anyway.
I now attend a 4 square church that has similar teachings to pentecostal but does not hold to these rules.
Last week I was talking to a customer and he explained how he, his wife, his brother-in-law and his wife, had left their southern baptist church because his brother-in-law's wife had the temerity to suggest that she could teach Sunday school - due to having assisted the male teacher, who had since left. It was "suggested" by the church that the brother-in-law should "control his woman"
I guess.
Here's your burkha.
Do you feel the same the way about every Christian denomination that imposes a dress code and other restrictions on their congregation???
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So, no, not very new.
Whoosh
This has to be one of the dumbest posts on /. since I started reading it (and that was a loooong time ago)
I'd almost like to say "Are you new around here". Unfortunately the quality of this site has been dropping and I have no iea how low it will go in the end. I know I am starting to look to other aggregators for more timely and relevant news.
So the kiddies are doing this all voluntarily and they're free to stop whenever they want. Isn't that a workable definition of anarchy?
I think the GPs point was that while the foot soldiers are free to come and go as they please, that the actual direction of the group is being controlled by a shadowy cabal of leaders with an agenda. So that these leaders are using the gullibility of the foot soldiers (ie belief that they are part of some altruistic group that is ridding the planet of evil) to achieve their desires. And I don't think that this falls under the auspices of anarchy.
The San Bruno explosion and reports of Stuxnet affecting operations in Iran occurred around the same time.
And the same time Mubarak resigned, I drove past Washington DC with no traffic delays.
That's 13 tonnes of material
Autorun as a concept just sucks. Copying whatever Windows does, warts and all, into Linux, just sucks. When is this insanity going to end?
I insert a DVD into my player - and it just plays.
I put film into my (now older camera) and it it loaded it up for me ready to use when I shut the back
I'm sure there are a zillion other examples of systems that just start doing things in readiness of what the would like. So why do you think the average consumer is *not* going to expect things happen automatically?
This is so funny. In the first paragraph of the post you initially responded to I compared American football to other sports in general. Now you castigate me for my generalised comparisons.
Excuse me why I step out of the way of you whaaaambulance.
You commented on soccer, I responded to your comment about soccer. If you meant one of the other forms of football, your comment should have reflected that.
Well given hat your concept of substitutions in soccer seems naive at best - there are 3 per max total compared to entire offensive and defensive lineups in American football - it seems your education is lacking, so I suggested that you review how other codes are played.
You're talking about a game that is played under every imaginable type of weather condition (football games are generally only canceled or delayed when the weather poses a danger to the fans rather than the players) where for every play, the player (at the higher levels) may have 2-8 different options they have to perform depending on what the opposing player does, they have 1 to 3 seconds to decide which option they perform, they have to deal with the elements (sun in their eyes, rain/snow/ice making the field or ball slippery, traction on the turf, etc), one mistake can result in points for the other team or (tragically) severe injury to themselves or another player. American football certainly isn't a game you can play on cruise control.
I'd suggest that you need to study up on how other other forms of football are played, how their players are conditioned and under what conditions games are played - and I don't mean just soccer. Also consider Rugby (multiple forms), Australian rules and Gaelic football for example. Then get back to me.