If you do ever visit Edinburgh I'd recommend refraining from calling it Edinborough because that does tend to irritate the locals. I don't know the international phonetic alphabet, and I don't think slashdot could handle the symbols anyway, but we say it something like ed-in-burr-uh. And sometimes as ehm-bra which is supposed to a mocking impersonation of how a weegie (citizen of Glasgow) would say it.
But I do remember "Economics degree. Please take one." written above the toilet paper dispenser in one toilet.
The only bit of specific engineering mockery I recall (it was a long time ago) is it being said that the Yellow Pages entry for boring said "See civil engineers".
Interesting. Now I believe lawyers are also effectively registered in one state. So has a lawyer ever been fined for referring to themselves as a lawyer in a state other than that in which they are registered?
Just wondering if this has only been applied to engineers or has it also been applied to other professions.
the 5.6 weeks of paid vacation per year that is the mandatory minimum in the UK
It's 28 working days. 5.6 weeks makes it sound much, much grander that it feels (and seems to assume that holiday time will always be bookended by weekends). Do you even live here? It also includes the 8 bank holidays which everybody (well, almost everybody) gets off, so you really only have 20 days to spend as you like; subject to managerial approval of course.
Yeah, you'd think that by now slashdot editors would have learned not to use that particular word outside of its literal meaning in a headline. The correct definition is always pointed out early in the comments.
Because "internet connected". Somehow people with money to invest are bedazzled by those words. Eventually they'll learn that it isn't always a good thing.
In the meantime I haven't heard of internet connected irons (as in the ones that heat up and smooth clothes) yet. Feel free to run with that idea because I can't be arsed.
There is, but spare yourself, don't look it up or watch an episode. I have seen one and regret it. I thought it was a rerun when I saw it in the TV guide and started watching. I wish it had been a rerun.
as if you could join copper pipes, rocks and whatnot together and magically transform it into a computer?
I'm now speculating how an episode of MacGyver set in a prison would have worked out. And the original MacGyver, not the new one who looks like he'd last nanoseconds in prison.
Well, actually, despite featuring the highly technologically advanced Commonwealth from other books, Peter F. Hamilton's "Night Without Stars" is mostly set in a 1950's equivalent totalitarian regime. I'm enjoying it.
I'm sure those gaining as the inequality grows already think the world is better. And there are enough other people who are not gaining and never will gain but believe with an almost religious fervor that they are just one break from their hard work and inherent talent enabling them to leap the gap and they dream of that moment when they will be able to turn round and say "Fuck you, I'm alright now" to those left behind. And that's what will make the world a better place for them and they're happy with a world in which they think that will happen, because obviously it definitely will for them. Eventually. Don't expect any change until enough of them realize it's a false hope.
Well, when it comes to music copyright, the "owner" of songs has been known to be changed for money. So if the state says the laws are copyrighted does that mean that the copyright can be purchased?
So, would buying them and then charging the sate for every use of them be a way to profit?
It wasn't even his real name, BBC report says he "was entered onto the birth registry in the Dartford district of Kent as Adrian Russell Elms". He wasn't even arabic.
Didn't they already get told they weren't allowed to gather let alone publish this sort of data?
Someone is getting sacked. I'm assuming there is going to be some kind of equivalent of the gulag soon for the people who persist in producing unapproved data.
The article says it doesn't actually rely on sound, so you could do it voicelessly. Although the various speech articulators in your mouth can operate differently if you do something voicelessly so it's probably not something you could switch between when using it privately.
a robot unexpectedly activated, taking her by surprise
because I can't find the bit about her relaying that information to co-workers because they "eventually noticed that something seemed amiss found Holbrook dead". So how did she say that the robot unexpectedly activated and took her by surprise? It may well be a valid assumption but without any witnesses it cannot be stated with certainty.
This isn't facebook, where you can edit your post to make repliers look stupid
Well yes, but when it's done in Facebook the post gets an "Edited" label. So if you come across a disjointed sequence of posts and spy an "Edited" flag among them, then it doesn't take much intelligence to infer that one comment originally said something different... oh, wait. Yeah, I see the problem now.
the first thing I have do do is figure out which Apache they are talking about
Reminds me of IBM Tivoli which has a host of unrelated things under one umbrella
Other: "You do Tivoli, right?"
Me: "Tivoli Monitoring, to be precise. Well, only ITM6 really, which is just rebadged Candle after they bought Candle out. I don't know much about previous versions."
Other: "Whatever. There's this backup issue..."
Me. "I think you'll find that's Tivoli Storage Manager. A completely unrelated product that I've never worked with."
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If you do ever visit Edinburgh I'd recommend refraining from calling it Edinborough because that does tend to irritate the locals. I don't know the international phonetic alphabet, and I don't think slashdot could handle the symbols anyway, but we say it something like ed-in-burr-uh. And sometimes as ehm-bra which is supposed to a mocking impersonation of how a weegie (citizen of Glasgow) would say it.
Never saw that one during my engineering degree.
But I do remember "Economics degree. Please take one." written above the toilet paper dispenser in one toilet.
The only bit of specific engineering mockery I recall (it was a long time ago) is it being said that the Yellow Pages entry for boring said "See civil engineers".
Interesting. Now I believe lawyers are also effectively registered in one state. So has a lawyer ever been fined for referring to themselves as a lawyer in a state other than that in which they are registered?
Just wondering if this has only been applied to engineers or has it also been applied to other professions.
the 5.6 weeks of paid vacation per year that is the mandatory minimum in the UK
It's 28 working days. 5.6 weeks makes it sound much, much grander that it feels (and seems to assume that holiday time will always be bookended by weekends). Do you even live here? It also includes the 8 bank holidays which everybody (well, almost everybody) gets off, so you really only have 20 days to spend as you like; subject to managerial approval of course.
No problem here... maybe a CIA operative is messing with you.
An old low-tech solution works best in some situations.
Just don't tell that to anyone who works in government or military procurement.
How did the human race survive with just mirrors before this technology was developed?
Just fine, if you're actually looking for an answer.
Yeah, you'd think that by now slashdot editors would have learned not to use that particular word outside of its literal meaning in a headline. The correct definition is always pointed out early in the comments.
For all you know, GP AC works at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.
Because "internet connected". Somehow people with money to invest are bedazzled by those words. Eventually they'll learn that it isn't always a good thing.
In the meantime I haven't heard of internet connected irons (as in the ones that heat up and smooth clothes) yet. Feel free to run with that idea because I can't be arsed.
There is, but spare yourself, don't look it up or watch an episode. I have seen one and regret it. I thought it was a rerun when I saw it in the TV guide and started watching. I wish it had been a rerun.
as if you could join copper pipes, rocks and whatnot together and magically transform it into a computer?
I'm now speculating how an episode of MacGyver set in a prison would have worked out. And the original MacGyver, not the new one who looks like he'd last nanoseconds in prison.
You're forgetting the eating of flesh and sewing skins into clothing. That's when the order in which they are done becomes important.
Well, actually, despite featuring the highly technologically advanced Commonwealth from other books, Peter F. Hamilton's "Night Without Stars" is mostly set in a 1950's equivalent totalitarian regime. I'm enjoying it.
Yeah, story should have been "GM create 30,000 node target for botnet managers".
It was probably pwned within hours of the press release.
I'm sure those gaining as the inequality grows already think the world is better. And there are enough other people who are not gaining and never will gain but believe with an almost religious fervor that they are just one break from their hard work and inherent talent enabling them to leap the gap and they dream of that moment when they will be able to turn round and say "Fuck you, I'm alright now" to those left behind. And that's what will make the world a better place for them and they're happy with a world in which they think that will happen, because obviously it definitely will for them. Eventually. Don't expect any change until enough of them realize it's a false hope.
Well, when it comes to music copyright, the "owner" of songs has been known to be changed for money. So if the state says the laws are copyrighted does that mean that the copyright can be purchased?
So, would buying them and then charging the sate for every use of them be a way to profit?
I would hope that it already is.
It wasn't even his real name, BBC report says he "was entered onto the birth registry in the Dartford district of Kent as Adrian Russell Elms". He wasn't even arabic.
According to NASA
Didn't they already get told they weren't allowed to gather let alone publish this sort of data?
Someone is getting sacked. I'm assuming there is going to be some kind of equivalent of the gulag soon for the people who persist in producing unapproved data.
It is the thin end of the wedge. Other departments are following suit.
The article says it doesn't actually rely on sound, so you could do it voicelessly. Although the various speech articulators in your mouth can operate differently if you do something voicelessly so it's probably not something you could switch between when using it privately.
I did read it and this bit puzzles me
a robot unexpectedly activated, taking her by surprise
because I can't find the bit about her relaying that information to co-workers because they "eventually noticed that something seemed amiss found Holbrook dead". So how did she say that the robot unexpectedly activated and took her by surprise? It may well be a valid assumption but without any witnesses it cannot be stated with certainty.
This isn't facebook, where you can edit your post to make repliers look stupid
Well yes, but when it's done in Facebook the post gets an "Edited" label. So if you come across a disjointed sequence of posts and spy an "Edited" flag among them, then it doesn't take much intelligence to infer that one comment originally said something different... oh, wait. Yeah, I see the problem now.
the first thing I have do do is figure out which Apache they are talking about
Reminds me of IBM Tivoli which has a host of unrelated things under one umbrella
Other: "You do Tivoli, right?"
Me: "Tivoli Monitoring, to be precise. Well, only ITM6 really, which is just rebadged Candle after they bought Candle out. I don't know much about previous versions."
Other: "Whatever. There's this backup issue..."
Me. "I think you'll find that's Tivoli Storage Manager. A completely unrelated product that I've never worked with."