I guess that 2 things can be learned from this 1) Da Vinci was a genius ahead of his own time 2) Document your frigging drawings! were not all mind readers ya know!
Yeah well i found out about this long after the fact. Still sucked, he was being an idiot and racing. blew his motor up redlining it, they just did an arse-about job of the repair anyway.
he came out on top though. got a 2nd hand motor from a rear-end crash-test car for $2.5kAU that had only done 300km.:-)
It's just unfortunately the way things go. Logic dictates that it should be the same for a car as for software. But somewhere along the tracks long ago they would have put that clause in, and most likely set a precedent somewhere.
Also there's the fact of multiple bits of software from a multitude of vendors interacting can screw up something royally, even if they apparently should work flawlessly. Sometimes its program logic thats skewed, sometimes library or call incompatability. Hell it could even be library incompatability within different revisions of the same software.
It should work with all the programs working to a reasonable set of rules. But people discover shortcuts and they like these shortcuts in the name of efficiency or laziness. Thusly computers are far more likely to shit themselves.
Then again i have had a workmate who had a warranty repair on a engine failure in his car (second time around in 1000km, still well within the 30,000km warranty) refused under warranty. Simply because the dealer advised him to go out and get a 2nd hand waterpump to make do as getting a genuine part in would mean his car was off the road for a month.
He rocked up after those 1000km's with a very broken car and was told to nick off as they cant touch it. Simply due to the secondhand part in it that could have caused the engine failure. It had nothing to do with their shoddy workmanship and having fergotten to check the bigend bearings as well as the top end.
Cable TV isnt viable for me. too damned expensive to keep ongoing. all it is is another device to nuke my brain. Wheras i figured with adsl i get the cost of my monthly connection from dialup, cost of calls, plus a slight jump up of about $12/mo for a 8x faster link.
Oh yes, and the phone line doesn't get used, that is unless my girlfriend decides to dialin to my desktop pc and use the net there.;-)
Well said. The only CD i have bought in the last year was a Red Hot Chilli Peppers cd for my girlfriend, simply because she liked it so much and was pandering all over it whenever we passed a CD store. Yes i could have downloaded all the songs and burnt it to cd for her, but i figured time & effort wise it was a worthwhile purchase.
I despise the one hit wonder that you have mentioned. Fair enough there's the occasional discovery of a singer or a band who have a whole vestige of *good* songs up their sleeves due to sleepless nights writing writing writing away. But the number of cranked out preformed, pre-fabricated pre-moulded rubberised texturised artists out there of the likes of those on the vomit inducing "god-knows-where idol" (or for those of you in Australia like myself, "pop stars") singers that wouldn't know a guitar fret from a fondeau set.
Oh yeah where was i? oh yes, i hate what the record industry is, it is amazing that they haven't undermined themselves much more thoroughly than they already have.
For example 0-day warez, blah, if i cant find it bootleg, the chances of me sloshing out $399USD for something is so close to fuck all it isn't even worthwhile discussing.
Same goes for music, except for the fact pre-mp3's i used to have a couple hundred tapes sitting next to my tape deck simply so i could tape and then later play some good songs, songs that i had almost zero intention of buying in the first place. If i like an album and i *KNOW* i like 80%+ of the songs on it, or if my parents get wind of i like a certain artist, *that* is when i lash out and buy/get lucky enough to be given a cd.
Thanks for your attention, you've been a lovely audience (end rant)
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We did a similar thing to a bloke in my office a month or so ago. The guy is *ALWAYS* on the phone to the plumber, roof tiler, carpenter, paver layer, etc..
So on a nightshift we put about fifty+ post it notes on his desk with "the $WHOEVER called", "he called again" "Are you EVER gonna call this guy back?".
I came in a bit late to see his reaction, but by all accounts mission successful.:-)
Evidently it doesn't like XP, i get XP bitching about maybe loosing data, and then that's it. no nothing. might have to download it at home. It's just a shame my pc at home is only a 1200.
Sorta scrapin the bottom of the barrell performance wise, (perhaps)
As others have said elsewhere, around 60 Billion in cash = deep pockets to bring out some seriously nitpicking lawyers.
They have the resources to just drawwwwwwwwwwwwww any legal experience out beyond viability for anyone other than a decent sized business (personally that's why i think that class suite from the US states pretty much folded in their favour anyway).
"You want to sue us? fine, stand there while we smack you about the head with a 2x4 a while first please"
"HYPE", they'll try and get the general population of idiots out there to believe that everyone is out to kill you, blow up your house, put plutonium in your childrens breakfast cerial and kick your dog.
For a perfect example check out http://todaytonight.com.au/ it's the biggest bunch of grandma scaring crap out there in Australia. Kinda like the Letterman show crossed with Jerry Springer, only with Kangaroo's!
Learn to get things right, not all software/innovation/ideas come from America[1].
1) Kazaa was made and designed in Australia. the RIAA can't do shit here 2) ARIA (Australian Recording Industry Association) *IS* in Australia and they have their teeth on this bone.
[1] This is just a point, i'm quite aware it could have been a slip of the mind or you just didn't know.:-)
It's either a) stupidity / ignorance b) indifference / ignorance c) people who like new shiny sparkly things and have the attention span of a goldfish d) people who.......
My hosting is on one of the blocklists, SORBL or something, i don't remember, it's 6am on a all-nighter. Anyhoo, it's because a company had their website hosted in the data centre a year or so ago and managed to get the entire C-class blocked.
No quantity of booing and ha'ing could get them off the list. Short of paying money to some charity (cost of $50USD or something), the data centre and my hosting co said "go fuck yourselves if that's the only way out" and it's been that way ever since
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meh, lets just stick with "toyotas are expensive to repair". I had a hard time with mine and so did he.
next time im going a subaru.
"hmmm.. How does one go from development to marketing?"
Generally i would have thought "with a *VERY* blunt axe."
here.
I shoulda previewed my comment damnit!
A Picture of the original plans.
ahere however i have no idea about the plans of the modern one. time will tell if we can get hold of them
well it explains why my karma is suddenly shot to shit anyhow.
No i would have said that it would be the Marketing department.
But what do i know? i work in network management.
I saw this in the news a few hours ago.
;-).
But unfortunately i had to get back to work so didn't get to submit it in..
Then again getting first post and modded +5 funny on something i submitted would be a bit egotistical
It's taken them long enough to figure it out.
I guess that 2 things can be learned from this
1) Da Vinci was a genius ahead of his own time
2) Document your frigging drawings! were not all mind readers ya know!
Yeah well i found out about this long after the fact. Still sucked, he was being an idiot and racing. blew his motor up redlining it, they just did an arse-about job of the repair anyway.
:-)
he came out on top though. got a 2nd hand motor from a rear-end crash-test car for $2.5kAU that had only done 300km.
You mean something like Bonsai Kitten?
It's just unfortunately the way things go. Logic dictates that it should be the same for a car as for software. But somewhere along the tracks long ago they would have put that clause in, and most likely set a precedent somewhere.
Also there's the fact of multiple bits of software from a multitude of vendors interacting can screw up something royally, even if they apparently should work flawlessly. Sometimes its program logic thats skewed, sometimes library or call incompatability. Hell it could even be library incompatability within different revisions of the same software.
It should work with all the programs working to a reasonable set of rules. But people discover shortcuts and they like these shortcuts in the name of efficiency or laziness. Thusly computers are far more likely to shit themselves.
Then again i have had a workmate who had a warranty repair on a engine failure in his car (second time around in 1000km, still well within the 30,000km warranty) refused under warranty. Simply because the dealer advised him to go out and get a 2nd hand waterpump to make do as getting a genuine part in would mean his car was off the road for a month.
He rocked up after those 1000km's with a very broken car and was told to nick off as they cant touch it. Simply due to the secondhand part in it that could have caused the engine failure. It had nothing to do with their shoddy workmanship and having fergotten to check the bigend bearings as well as the top end.
Cable TV isnt viable for me. too damned expensive to keep ongoing. all it is is another device to nuke my brain. Wheras i figured with adsl i get the cost of my monthly connection from dialup, cost of calls, plus a slight jump up of about $12/mo for a 8x faster link.
;-)
Oh yes, and the phone line doesn't get used, that is unless my girlfriend decides to dialin to my desktop pc and use the net there.
Well said. The only CD i have bought in the last year was a Red Hot Chilli Peppers cd for my girlfriend, simply because she liked it so much and was pandering all over it whenever we passed a CD store. Yes i could have downloaded all the songs and burnt it to cd for her, but i figured time & effort wise it was a worthwhile purchase.
I despise the one hit wonder that you have mentioned. Fair enough there's the occasional discovery of a singer or a band who have a whole vestige of *good* songs up their sleeves due to sleepless nights writing writing writing away. But the number of cranked out preformed, pre-fabricated pre-moulded rubberised texturised artists out there of the likes of those on the vomit inducing "god-knows-where idol" (or for those of you in Australia like myself, "pop stars") singers that wouldn't know a guitar fret from a fondeau set.
Oh yeah where was i? oh yes, i hate what the record industry is, it is amazing that they haven't undermined themselves much more thoroughly than they already have.
For example 0-day warez, blah, if i cant find it bootleg, the chances of me sloshing out $399USD for something is so close to fuck all it isn't even worthwhile discussing.
Same goes for music, except for the fact pre-mp3's i used to have a couple hundred tapes sitting next to my tape deck simply so i could tape and then later play some good songs, songs that i had almost zero intention of buying in the first place. If i like an album and i *KNOW* i like 80%+ of the songs on it, or if my parents get wind of i like a certain artist, *that* is when i lash out and buy/get lucky enough to be given a cd.
Thanks for your attention, you've been a lovely audience (end rant)
you fergot to mention the sarcasm.
oh wait, you spilled some over there, no really.
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I just did the math, and over the last 4 weeks 62% of my email was spam & viruses, though viruses only took about 5%.
We did a similar thing to a bloke in my office a month or so ago. The guy is *ALWAYS* on the phone to the plumber, roof tiler, carpenter, paver layer, etc..
:-)
So on a nightshift we put about fifty+ post it notes on his desk with "the $WHOEVER called", "he called again" "Are you EVER gonna call this guy back?".
I came in a bit late to see his reaction, but by all accounts mission successful.
i've noticed that about 50% of the spam i get is for cialis, "the patch that works", online meds, f|acc!d P-e`ni$ enh^ancement.
The other 50% is loosely comprised of Nigerian spam, hosting spam, "janes webcam" and harder core spam.
Viruses come and go fluctuating with lack of security and updates in windows.[1]
[1]I could be more accurate in the statistics, but that would require i be at home and that i drag out my spamfilter.
Evidently it doesn't like XP, i get XP bitching about maybe loosing data, and then that's it. no nothing. might have to download it at home. It's just a shame my pc at home is only a 1200.
Sorta scrapin the bottom of the barrell performance wise, (perhaps)
As others have said elsewhere, around 60 Billion in cash = deep pockets to bring out some seriously nitpicking lawyers.
They have the resources to just drawwwwwwwwwwwwww any legal experience out beyond viability for anyone other than a decent sized business (personally that's why i think that class suite from the US states pretty much folded in their favour anyway).
"You want to sue us? fine, stand there while we smack you about the head with a 2x4 a while first please"
Remember the biggest downfall of the 'media'
"HYPE", they'll try and get the general population of idiots out there to believe that everyone is out to kill you, blow up your house, put plutonium in your childrens breakfast cerial and kick your dog.
For a perfect example check out http://todaytonight.com.au/ it's the biggest bunch of grandma scaring crap out there in Australia. Kinda like the Letterman show crossed with Jerry Springer, only with Kangaroo's!
Learn to get things right, not all software/innovation/ideas come from America[1].
:-)
1) Kazaa was made and designed in Australia. the RIAA can't do shit here
2) ARIA (Australian Recording Industry Association) *IS* in Australia and they have their teeth on this bone.
[1] This is just a point, i'm quite aware it could have been a slip of the mind or you just didn't know.
It's either
a) stupidity / ignorance
b) indifference / ignorance
c) people who like new shiny sparkly things and have the attention span of a goldfish
d) people who.......
brb.
damnit, what's in your sig? my work firewall told me to go and get lost.
My hosting is on one of the blocklists, SORBL or something, i don't remember, it's 6am on a all-nighter. Anyhoo, it's because a company had their website hosted in the data centre a year or so ago and managed to get the entire C-class blocked.
No quantity of booing and ha'ing could get them off the list. Short of paying money to some charity (cost of $50USD or something), the data centre and my hosting co said "go fuck yourselves if that's the only way out" and it's been that way ever since
*shrugs*