Is the fact that Blockbuster's previous practices of changing late fee's that were outlandish, has pissed a ton of people off. Also, Blockbuster used to not carry a lot of movies because they were too of the wall or "racy" or "sexually" oriented.
Blockbuster pissed me off so bad in the 1990's I haven't rented from them in several years, nor would I even consider renting from them if they charged less than half what Netflix did.
They said "Shit" more than 100 times on Southpark last night. It didn't offend me, but I'm sure that had to offend more people than the GoDaddy.com ad!
This has been around for years on the IBM Mainframe. Its called the syslog.
The Mainframe logs almost everything in MVS. Thats why Mainframes and AS/400's are so much more stable. They log everything and there has been 40 years to analyze it...
If MS would just do decent logging, there would not be a need for a "Black Box"
Over the last couple of years??? Who are you kidding. I've been in IT for 15 years in various roles, and almost all projects are run by inexperienced project managers with little knowledge of computer security or system administration, and of database constraints/design, backup, recovery, good coding standards, performance, etc, etc, blah, blah, blah.
The Internet is airing the age old laundry of IT for the entire world to smell. And boy it stinks...
Good idea... But considering how hard it was for Peter Jackson to get Lord of the Rings made as a trilogy, it will probably never happen. At least not in Hollywood.:)
The Sci-Fi Channel can remake it as a mini-series with a couple well known American actors and a bunch of unknown actors at a studio in Eastern Europe, with funny costumes, but a decent plot.:)
I once kept an Activision Lazerblast game going for a couple of hours. Supposedly, you could "Finish" the game by getting a score of 999,999. I also tryed to complete "Pitfall" on more than one occasion. In each case, it was not my skill in the game that was the limiting factor. It was the fact that my hands got so sweaty I could hardly hold the Atari 2600 joysticks. And my thumbs cramped up from repeatedly pressing the red fire button. Game boys and Blackberries are like Yoga compared to the old 2600 Joystick. Using that thing for 2 hours was a real workout!!!
In another recent annoucement, the Chinese government has decided to ban fun, sex, and eating while watching TV. All of these activities are considered bad for the youth of China...
Seriously, how could the culture that discovered gunpower, steam power, acupuncture, and nearly started the industrial revolution hundreds of years before Europe/America did end up in its current situation?
Of all the Star Trek series, this is the ONLY one I could never even bear a single eposode of. All the other series had their strengths, but Enterprise really sucked. I'm really a die-hard trekkie and a fan of Science Fiction. But this was too much. They basically tried to re-write Star Trek history by "mucking" up the time lines with much better ships, alien races they shouldn'd even met yet, and costumes that couldn't possibly ever co-exist with the TOS timeline. And ever plot, story, and idea has already been done in at least 1 movie and 2 other series. Good Riddance!!!
Hmmm... Must be Planet X. I wonder if Lord British is hanging out there? Then there was Saturn. I think thats where all the Jester's were. Anyone have any Trilithium, a Skull Key and the coordinates for Planet X?:)
I guess the F-117 Raptor was built by a telecom company? And the M-1 tank was built in the Philippines? And Intel didn't design any of its CPU's using American Engineers? Apple designed the Mac's in Thailand?
Maybe most of it isn't "Assembled" here. But there are still a lot of things designed in the US.
A lot of pure research is still done in the US and Europe: http://www-elsa.physik.uni-bonn.de/Informationen/a ccelerator_list.html
'new' instead of 'knew'. Just a minor typo. I've been coding for over 15 years. New is a keyword in a bunch of languages. My Brain is trained to type it. You'd be suprised how many times I type "main" when I meant "many". or "printf" when I meant "print". Besides, if you've seen most of the grammer on Slashdot ( and the grammer used by the 25 crowd these days ), mine is pretty damn good.:)
Its funny how everyone talks of the dot-com crash as if the entire industry was almost wiped-out. It was just a correction, an economic cycle. I mean, I'm showing my age here, but I remember a time when I had to get online with a 300-baud modem, and only about 10 people besides myself had a computer at my entire high-school. And we all new each other. Technology never went away. Its so far ingrained into everyone's life now. The Dotcoms may have gone bust, but I can buy a 50 dollar DVD player now thats better than the 300 dollar one I got in 2000. The internet and telecom is not technology, just a subset of it. I wish people would remember that fact, and not base the entire tech sector on just a few areas.
Why? You can hose up memory just as easy in C++ as in C. Nothing stops you from using malloc() in C++. And nothing prevents you from using pointers instead of references. And nothing prevents you from going past the end of an array. Besides, the bug was from the old beta versions, which makes this posting old news and not even worth being on Slashdot.
In a separate announcement in Hong Kong, where consumers tend to spend more time talking on a mobile phone than in Europe, a German company called G-Hanz introduced a new type of mobile phone which it claimed had no harmful radiation, as a result of shorter bursts of the radio signal.
(Additional reporting by Doug Young in Hong Kong)
Everyone seems to have an agenda in the news these days. Is there no such thing anymore as a news release not trying to sell something or push an agenda?
Somemore artificially enhanced food and beverage to let the human race become even more lazy, and contribute to more chronic disease and health problems. I guess I can have my "instant" self-heating coffee along with my irradiated meat and nutra-sweet flavored candy.
I was only including programming languages from Earth... Besides, I bet the Ferengi have a better programming language than the Klingons. Probably like COBOL...
I haven't received any stock options that ended up being worth a crap since the 1990's. Who cares anymore. Be a contractor and make more money then the employees. Then you can buy your own stock!
Your logic is correct, to a point. One foreign workings immigrate, they typically become much more like the people of US of A you are critical of, and buy large houses, nice cars, etc. Their kids basically turn out American. I've seen it many times in Atlanta. Yes, the US has the sins of excess. But there is also the American dream. Be able to own a big house with aircon, etc, etc.
Besides, I've know a lot of Filipinos and Vietnamese that could drink me under the table, and drink often!! Manila is one of the most traffic-jammed, polluted cities in the world and they still use leaded petrol. And didn't India have a caste system once???
Every culture has its Skeletons in the closet. It just seems like everyone is looking in American closets these days...
10 dollars an hour??? You need to walk or find a new job. I made more than that as a "Tape" operator in a mainframe shop when I was in College in 1991. I have never heard of a programming job paying that low in the US unless its an internship. My first programming job out of college paid me 26K in 1992. And in less than a year, I was bitching about that...
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Is the fact that Blockbuster's previous practices of changing late fee's that were outlandish, has pissed a ton of people off. Also, Blockbuster used to not carry a lot of movies because they were too of the wall or "racy" or "sexually" oriented.
s ucks
Blockbuster pissed me off so bad in the 1990's I haven't rented from them in several years, nor would I even consider renting from them if they charged less than half what Netflix did.
Check out the other people they pissed off:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=blockbuster+
They said "Shit" more than 100 times on Southpark last night. It didn't offend me, but I'm sure that had to offend more people than the GoDaddy.com ad!
Agreed. Its definately more noticable now, because every Tom, Dick, and Harry has a website now.
I run a website, and my ports get scanned from Taiwan on a daily basis. I've got almost everything shut down, so no worries.
This has been around for years on the IBM Mainframe. Its called the syslog.
The Mainframe logs almost everything in MVS. Thats why Mainframes and AS/400's are so much more stable. They log everything and there has been 40 years to analyze it...
If MS would just do decent logging, there would not be a need for a "Black Box"
Over the last couple of years??? Who are you kidding. I've been in IT for 15 years in various roles, and almost all projects are run by inexperienced project managers with little knowledge of computer security or system administration, and of database constraints/design, backup, recovery, good coding standards, performance, etc, etc, blah, blah, blah.
The Internet is airing the age old laundry of IT for the entire world to smell. And boy it stinks...
Good idea... But considering how hard it was for Peter Jackson to get Lord of the Rings made as a trilogy, it will probably never happen. At least not in Hollywood. :)
A mini-series is the best bet.
The Sci-Fi Channel can remake it as a mini-series with a couple well known American actors and a bunch of unknown actors at a studio in Eastern Europe, with funny costumes, but a decent plot. :)
Economies of sharing, as socialism moves forward.
:)
V1.0 - I have axe, you have club, therefore you share everything with me.
V2.0 - I am the government, therefore you share part of everything with me and I decide who to share with.
V3.0 - I have fileserver, you have connection, therefore I share everyone else's stuff with you whether they gave me permission or not.
V4.0 - I have everything you have. You have everything I have. Everyone has shared everything. Life is meaningless.
I once kept an Activision Lazerblast game going for a couple of hours. Supposedly, you could "Finish" the game by getting a score of 999,999. I also tryed to complete "Pitfall" on more than one occasion. In each case, it was not my skill in the game that was the limiting factor. It was the fact that my hands got so sweaty I could hardly hold the Atari 2600 joysticks. And my thumbs cramped up from repeatedly pressing the red fire button. Game boys and Blackberries are like Yoga compared to the old 2600 Joystick. Using that thing for 2 hours was a real workout!!!
In another recent annoucement, the Chinese government has decided to ban fun, sex, and eating while watching TV. All of these activities are considered bad for the youth of China...
Seriously, how could the culture that discovered gunpower, steam power, acupuncture, and nearly started the industrial revolution hundreds of years before Europe/America did end up in its current situation?
Of all the Star Trek series, this is the ONLY one I could never even bear a single eposode of. All the other series had their strengths, but Enterprise really sucked. I'm really a die-hard trekkie and a fan of Science Fiction. But this was too much. They basically tried to re-write Star Trek history by "mucking" up the time lines with much better ships, alien races they shouldn'd even met yet, and costumes that couldn't possibly ever co-exist with the TOS timeline. And ever plot, story, and idea has already been done in at least 1 movie and 2 other series. Good Riddance!!!
That Spyce bier is mighty good. My eyes are already blue. :)
Hmmm... Must be Planet X. I wonder if Lord British is hanging out there? Then there was Saturn. I think thats where all the Jester's were. Anyone have any Trilithium, a Skull Key and the coordinates for Planet X? :)
I guess the F-117 Raptor was built by a telecom company? And the M-1 tank was built in the Philippines? And Intel didn't design any of its CPU's using American Engineers? Apple designed the Mac's in Thailand?
a ccelerator_list.html
Maybe most of it isn't "Assembled" here. But there are still a lot of things designed in the US.
A lot of pure research is still done in the US and Europe: http://www-elsa.physik.uni-bonn.de/Informationen/
'new' instead of 'knew'. Just a minor typo. I've been coding for over 15 years. New is a keyword in a bunch of languages. My Brain is trained to type it. You'd be suprised how many times I type "main" when I meant "many". or "printf" when I meant "print". Besides, if you've seen most of the grammer on Slashdot ( and the grammer used by the 25 crowd these days ), mine is pretty damn good. :)
Its funny how everyone talks of the dot-com crash as if the entire industry was almost wiped-out. It was just a correction, an economic cycle. I mean, I'm showing my age here, but I remember a time when I had to get online with a 300-baud modem, and only about 10 people besides myself had a computer at my entire high-school. And we all new each other. Technology never went away. Its so far ingrained into everyone's life now. The Dotcoms may have gone bust, but I can buy a 50 dollar DVD player now thats better than the 300 dollar one I got in 2000. The internet and telecom is not technology, just a subset of it. I wish people would remember that fact, and not base the entire tech sector on just a few areas.
Why? You can hose up memory just as easy in C++ as in C. Nothing stops you from using malloc() in C++. And nothing prevents you from using pointers instead of references. And nothing prevents you from going past the end of an array. Besides, the bug was from the old beta versions, which makes this posting old news and not even worth being on Slashdot.
In a separate announcement in Hong Kong, where consumers tend to spend more time talking on a mobile phone than in Europe, a German company called G-Hanz introduced a new type of mobile phone which it claimed had no harmful radiation, as a result of shorter bursts of the radio signal.
(Additional reporting by Doug Young in Hong Kong)
Everyone seems to have an agenda in the news these days. Is there no such thing anymore as a news release not trying to sell something or push an agenda?
Somemore artificially enhanced food and beverage to let the human race become even more lazy, and contribute to more chronic disease and health problems. I guess I can have my "instant" self-heating coffee along with my irradiated meat and nutra-sweet flavored candy.
Oh Joy!
Yeah, I knew that. But they always move to exactly 1 planet to maintain the great link. So they are always on 1 planet.
The Founders stay on one planet. Except for the few agents they send out. But they never became extinct. So this theory is false. :)
I was only including programming languages from Earth... Besides, I bet the Ferengi have a better programming language than the Klingons. Probably like COBOL...
I haven't received any stock options that ended up being worth a crap since the 1990's. Who cares anymore. Be a contractor and make more money then the employees. Then you can buy your own stock!
Your logic is correct, to a point. One foreign workings immigrate, they typically become much more like the people of US of A you are critical of, and buy large houses, nice cars, etc. Their kids basically turn out American. I've seen it many times in Atlanta. Yes, the US has the sins of excess. But there is also the American dream. Be able to own a big house with aircon, etc, etc.
Besides, I've know a lot of Filipinos and Vietnamese that could drink me under the table, and drink often!! Manila is one of the most traffic-jammed, polluted cities in the world and they still use leaded petrol. And didn't India have a caste system once???
Every culture has its Skeletons in the closet. It just seems like everyone is looking in American closets these days...
10 dollars an hour??? You need to walk or find a new job. I made more than that as a "Tape" operator in a mainframe shop when I was in College in 1991. I have never heard of a programming job paying that low in the US unless its an internship. My first programming job out of college paid me 26K in 1992. And in less than a year, I was bitching about that...
Stand up for yourself.