Huge geekiness hole in the interview: what did you major in in philosophy?
As a fellow Australian, who is both a fastmail.fm user AND a philosophy post-grad, I just _have_ to know (for certain non-urgent, sticky-beak values of "have to").
This happened to me too at San Francisco airport. Don't tell me SF airport is "a fairly small airport". Whose fault is it that the airport is not set up for transit passengers? Not mine. I simply wanted to get from the UK back to Australia - I would have been perfectly happy to fly via Canada or Mexico - you know, sane countries.
And it has been so wonderful in Sydney since then. Our transport system is overloaded. Our hospitals underfunded. Our schools in need of repair and maintenance. Our state government practically bankrupt.
Perhaps all that money that went into making the wonderful Olympics came at the cost of investing in everything else that was needed over the last 10 years?
But wake me up when Dell starts shipping an ARM-only netbook (for roughly a sixth of the price), and then we will be talking for real !
Yes, that would be truly interesting. And their friends at Microsoft would be so interested that I suspect Dell won't do it very soon.
Still, I want to know: do these "instant-on" Linux installations count as desktop/laptop units shipping with Linux? Or maybe 0.5 units of Windows and 0.5 units of Linux? They should not simply be counted as Windows shipments only - that is lying with stats.
And on the same note, those White Star Line executives were mad to call the Titanic unsinkable. It just encouraged every iceberg out there to try and sink it.
There are at least two functions of sleep that I know of: one is cleaning up misshapen proteins that accumulate during the day (and may be what causes tiredness). The other is transcription of short-term memory into long-term memory.
Sleep also serves an important economic function. Just ask the proprietor of any business in the bedding industry, the hotel industry, the sleeping car manufacturing industry.... Where would our GDP be without sleep creating demands for all those goods?
Now I wait and see if anyone tries to take me seriously. It always happens when you make a deliberately stupid comment.
By running IE you are exposing yourself not only to Possible IE exploits, but also to possible Windows exploits.
It would be much safer to run Firefox or Chrome... inside Linux or MacOSX, not Windows.
By using Windows at all, the user shows that security is not their highest priority. So why does Microsoft argue security here? Because they don't want to lose users to Google.
The real security problem here is: Microsoft feels insecure when users turn to Google. Microsoft advising users against the security dangers of competitors' platforms is just too funny.
This definitely has programming implications for me. If you ever have had to design web pages for a superior with color blindness, and they insist on choosing or refusing the colors you want to use, you know the programming problems that color blindness can cause.
"This page looks best after gene therapy" - hmm, I like it.
(A) Australia (and its island state Tasmania) lie on the other side of the largest body of water on the planet - the Pacific Ocean. Bottlenecks occur, but Americans notice it less than Australians do, because Australians visit US websites (cough cough Google) far more often than Americans visit Australian websites.
(B) Tasmania lies across another body of water from the Australian mainland - Bass Strait (Bass rhymes with ass). Although narrow, the Bass Strait is a bottleneck for communications between Tasmania and the mainland.
Conclusion: this webpage has to pass through two bottlenecks to get to Americans. Conversely, for Tasmanians trying to access American websites (like Google for instance) the web sucks.
So before you complain about this page loading slowly, think of those poor devils in Tasmania.
Yeah. And what about all the side-effects of taking placebos, huh? And what about placebo dependency, huh? Soon we will have an illegal trade in placebos and they will have to be banned, except on prescription. It is the birth of a billion dollar black market.
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Huge geekiness hole in the interview: what did you major in in philosophy?
As a fellow Australian, who is both a fastmail.fm user AND a philosophy post-grad, I just _have_ to know (for certain non-urgent, sticky-beak values of "have to").
This happened to me too at San Francisco airport. Don't tell me SF airport is "a fairly small airport". Whose fault is it that the airport is not set up for transit passengers? Not mine. I simply wanted to get from the UK back to Australia - I would have been perfectly happy to fly via Canada or Mexico - you know, sane countries.
And it has been so wonderful in Sydney since then. Our transport system is overloaded. Our hospitals underfunded. Our schools in need of repair and maintenance. Our state government practically bankrupt.
Perhaps all that money that went into making the wonderful Olympics came at the cost of investing in everything else that was needed over the last 10 years?
The legislature's real problem:
When the only tool you possess is the power to legislate, every problem looks like the need for more laws.
Corollary:
Legislation is the legislature's substitute for action.
Brazil doesn't fingerprint visitors (well, they were fingerprinting Americans for a while as revenge)...
It's only revenge if you use indelible ink.
I first saw the word Twilight in the title and was instantly appalled about a Twilight story on /. thankfully initial impressions were wrong.
You're moving into a land of both werewolves and vampires, of proms and screaming teenagers. You've just crossed over into... the Twilight Zone.
Na na na na, na na na na ....
But wake me up when Dell starts shipping an ARM-only netbook (for roughly a sixth of the price), and then we will be talking for real !
Yes, that would be truly interesting. And their friends at Microsoft would be so interested that I suspect Dell won't do it very soon.
Still, I want to know: do these "instant-on" Linux installations count as desktop/laptop units shipping with Linux? Or maybe 0.5 units of Windows and 0.5 units of Linux? They should not simply be counted as Windows shipments only - that is lying with stats.
So it's like the difference between being hit by a car going 1mph and one going 100,000,000,000,000,000mph? Am I doing these car analogy things right?
But the cars are very tiny.
I just spoke to a friend in Australia.. its been pwned already...
Australia's been pwned already!?!
Well, yeah, any Aboriginal person can tell you that.
And on the same note, those White Star Line executives were mad to call the Titanic unsinkable. It just encouraged every iceberg out there to try and sink it.
What email do you use that would disobey a judge's order?
A foreign one.
Why is the bank sending sensitive customer information to an email account?
e-mail is an insecure protocol and they shouldn't be sending such data over SMTP even if the recipient address were correct.
Apparently email is faster than sending it by postcard.
"We Screwed Up Windows Mobile"
s/Mobile// .
There you go.
I was going to suggest shortening it to "We Screwed Up"
But then I realised that it made more sense if I shortened it a bit more: "We Screwed U"
There are at least two functions of sleep that I know of: one is cleaning up misshapen proteins that accumulate during the day (and may be what causes tiredness). The other is transcription of short-term memory into long-term memory.
Sleep also serves an important economic function. Just ask the proprietor of any business in the bedding industry, the hotel industry, the sleeping car manufacturing industry .... Where would our GDP be without sleep creating demands for all those goods?
Now I wait and see if anyone tries to take me seriously. It always happens when you make a deliberately stupid comment.
By running IE you are exposing yourself not only to Possible IE exploits, but also to possible Windows exploits.
It would be much safer to run Firefox or Chrome ... inside Linux or MacOSX, not Windows.
By using Windows at all, the user shows that security is not their highest priority. So why does Microsoft argue security here? Because they don't want to lose users to Google.
The real security problem here is: Microsoft feels insecure when users turn to Google. Microsoft advising users against the security dangers of competitors' platforms is just too funny.
What can a developer do about users that won't even TRY?!
Shoot them?
960GB of RAM should be enough for anybody!
Given those results, I say we give the human trials a green light!
We already did. Can't you see it?
This definitely has programming implications for me. If you ever have had to design web pages for a superior with color blindness, and they insist on choosing or refusing the colors you want to use, you know the programming problems that color blindness can cause.
"This page looks best after gene therapy" - hmm, I like it.
"but no WiFi support means I can't connect to the Internet"
Err, have you never heard of an ethernet cable?
It's so much harder to plug an ethernet cable into your neighbour's router without them noticing.
Not if you garotte them with the ethernet cable first.
"which seems to load slowly in the US"
(A) Australia (and its island state Tasmania) lie on the other side of the largest body of water on the planet - the Pacific Ocean. Bottlenecks occur, but Americans notice it less than Australians do, because Australians visit US websites (cough cough Google) far more often than Americans visit Australian websites.
(B) Tasmania lies across another body of water from the Australian mainland - Bass Strait (Bass rhymes with ass). Although narrow, the Bass Strait is a bottleneck for communications between Tasmania and the mainland.
Conclusion: this webpage has to pass through two bottlenecks to get to Americans. Conversely, for Tasmanians trying to access American websites (like Google for instance) the web sucks.
So before you complain about this page loading slowly, think of those poor devils in Tasmania.
Yeah. And what about all the side-effects of taking placebos, huh? And what about placebo dependency, huh? Soon we will have an illegal trade in placebos and they will have to be banned, except on prescription. It is the birth of a billion dollar black market.
Statistics are like bikinis.
What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is critical.
I've never been criticised by anything that was concealed by a bikini.
That should read "Anyone IN any uniform..."
Wear a football top and a skirt.
Get your fancy dress party guests to walk by the signs.
Will it recognise the gender of naked people?
Dress as an alien (outer space alien, not a mere foreigner).
Suggest that a band of midgets and dwarfs stand in front of the sign.
Dress up in a kilt.
Gay pride parade.
Anyone and any uniform - especially monks and nuns (what do you sell someone who has taken a vow of poverty?)