"AFAIK, they found arsenic on the body of the mummy of the Similaun, because it was used in the process to build copper tools. he had a small copper hatchet."
Or you might accept that spelling as a regionalism; whether the poster was from a region where that is the casual pronunciation during some of his formative years, used it for some effect, or really is that fucken stupid is your call, of course, because not everyone here is as fucken smart as you are.
Well, I tell ya, if I had large cashes of data I'd cache some out and retire to a more congenial place to live, for one thing. Maybe even by the parts for a new computer.
I might well have been naive, but I was shocked to find out, maybe somewhen in the Seventies, that "gay" referred to homosexuality. Ere then I'd thought it was among synonyms for "happy". Keeping up with shifts in language is not always trivial.
I haven't heard 'the 2000s much, mostly 'the oughts'. The convention of 'the 1800s' and 'the 1900s' meaning their respective centuries I've never seen anyone be confused over before now.
It's been my observation that people who tend to read widely and much also tend to have less confusion about a number of conversational conventions because they have a wider exposure to usage that helps them derive meaning from context.
That said, I suppose there may well be regional and age-cohort differences* in expression. FWIW, I've always taken "next Tuesday" to mean whichever Tuesday comes along next. If it's the Tuesday that's after the up-coming Tuesday then it's "the Tuesday after next" or either "A week from Tuesday" or also "A week Tuesday" after the British usage.
*I'm 66, have lived in six states, east, west and central, and overseas as a child, so YMMV. I still read a fair bit.
Not only that, but from the start, police of any stripe tend to take whatever they can grab. Too many prosecutors and judges cover for them. This case might exemplify an egregious event, but it's not unusual. Of course, I've also seen cases where LEO ignores easy evidence they don't want to deal with or have to explain, especially if it might interfere with an easy conviction. Promotion and election to office is via good numbers, not good enforcement or good practice at law.
But there's one very real problem with this. Most computer users are simply that - end users of a device which they use for work and recreation that was sold as an appliance when the 'pc' got beyond the hobbyist phase. Expecting these people to know and do what a small group of sophisticated cognescenti do is ridiculous, and I think you can recognize that.
Thus the flood of infected machines, bots, and vendors of free and paid anti- this and that and the high fees charged to 'fix' things. (Not that all the fix fees are unfair; I've spent enough time in several computer shops fixing users woes to know that.)
The responsibility to present to the un-sophisticated end user a working and safe-to-use device is the sole province of the seller. (If the device is sold as an appliance then it must function with the simplicity and safety of an appliance.)
A _simple_ small set of warnings, safe practices, what have you, is OK after that. "Use a grounded plug." "Finish saving a document before turning the machine off." are fair. "Don't use this browser." or "Turn off javascript." are not.
I'm sorry to hear of your experience, and dismayed by the situation you describe. Yet, I use Crossover to run Steam, to run Civ V and Silent Hunter IV. I had Civ running fine under Wine, then screwed something up and at the time was never able to get it running correctly again (haven't given it a go recently), which is what led me to CodeWeavers. It's difficult for me to come up with the money for it but since, if I understand correctly, improvements in Crossover go directly into Wine, I figure it's worth it.
If I understand correctly from the website, forums, and discussions elsewhere, Oolite is open-ended itself, rather than just the gameplay being open-ended as in Elite and many of its versions, sequels, and spin-offs. So it's more of a process and a project as it is a finished product.
From what I saw, the few times I've visited, the community is small, thriving, and goes through spurts of development and testing, with slack periods in between. In its own way both the game and its development is about as magical as the Elite I played on my Atari ST back when.
Had no idea there was a geologists' definition for this. Thanks! But I think your reply ought more correctly be to femtobyte. I take note that my seat of the pants experiential take wasn't so far off, and I stand by my stating that "small boulder" is not a metaphor but rather a simple description.
No, I saw it. Thanks. The impossible situation was what I meant.
"Ok, sir, now would you want your number listed or unlisted?" "I don't care." "But, sir, you have to choose." "No, no I don't. I choose not to choose." "But, sir...." "Tell you what, you decide. I'll accept whatever you choose. But since it's your choice, then you pay for it." "[pulling hair in between muttered imprecations and threats]"
That's what I saw as the absurdity that AC pointed out. It's simply an outgrowth of the way companies find ways to charge something for everything. Days past, to be listed and published was the default, and free. One paid extra to be unlisted.
Nice. A thing, tho - I was thinking particularly of the USB or wireless fobs, dongles, whatever you wish to call them, that are used, whether they carry authenicators or generate a one-time code that you enter. It's one more damn thing to have around or carry.
If there is not a robust, fail-safe mechanism whereby one can still access an account w/o that device, you're screwed.
I agree, Google seems to have put things together pretty well, both for increasing security of access and at least one way to still access one's account and proceed from there.
For a minor example, I just changed authentication phones last night and it went fairly well. Ditto for buying a book on Play with Wallet. One quibble I have is their use of terms is sometimes different from what I'm used to, and some of their messages as one proceeds I found to be less than clear. (Being an idiot, one thing I did back when doing dev or beta stuff was to always seek idiot-proof methods. I figured that if I couldn't break something through stupidity, error, or forgetfulness, then it was ready for market, but still running it past a half dozen smart people, and a handful of 'off the street' volunteers also, when possible.)
Yah, that's similar to "Your call is important to us."
Oh, yeah? If my call is so important then answer the phone.
Funny how we roll over for the simplest lies: "The check is in the mail." "I'll pull out in time, honest I will!" "Your data is secure with us." "All your data is backed up daily." "We employ industry-standard security practices." "We keep no personally-identifiable records." yadda, yadda
More like "even if it's shitty design, as long as it works, ship it". Management types typically don't think or care much about security even now. If they do get around to security they haven't the knowledge or thinking tools to consider and evaluate stuff - they rely on IT-management types who are often in the same boat but with a tech flavor. Real security would require hiring and listening to people who know this shit and can design and code appropriately. This doesn't happen much, it seems.
For recourse, bloodhawk, above, seems to have a useful approach.
Thank you. Just to be clear, also, I meant it to add to, not to detract from, what you were saying.
It's a tough thing, a difficult place to be, when fresh out of school or training, especially if in an area which is in demand; one is confident yet nervous, even a bit scared. You're excited and maybe a bit burnt out, hitting the interviews, all that. Making plans, daydreams, seduced by a lifetime of the weirdness of television where the 'good' people live in luxury as their due, being simply human to want those good things, honest enough to want a mate, a fellow traveller on life's journey, hundreds of often competing criteria of what makes that good companion, a good job, ditto place to live, car to drive, the whole shebang. It all makes it so very hard to try to keep in mind what really pleases and rewards the inner self, that place where you really live.
Finding a bit or two of useful advice, and being able to pay attention early enough.... yeah.
Funny, I first saw it as "honni suit, qui mal y pense," but looking it up, find it's "honi soit." Guess that 8th grade French book had a few mistakes in it, back in '60. But then I don't know French, just a few bits here and there that kinda stuck. Bonne chance, and all.
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"AFAIK, they found arsenic on the body of the mummy of the Similaun, because it was used in the process to build copper tools. he had a small copper hatchet."
Or somebody was after the insurance money.
Or you might accept that spelling as a regionalism; whether the poster was from a region where that is the casual pronunciation during some of his formative years, used it for some effect, or really is that fucken stupid is your call, of course, because not everyone here is as fucken smart as you are.
Well, I tell ya, if I had large cashes of data I'd cache some out and retire to a more congenial place to live, for one thing. Maybe even by the parts for a new computer.
I might well have been naive, but I was shocked to find out, maybe somewhen in the Seventies, that "gay" referred to homosexuality. Ere then I'd thought it was among synonyms for "happy". Keeping up with shifts in language is not always trivial.
Ooops. Tuesdays belong to AC, below.
I haven't heard 'the 2000s much, mostly 'the oughts'. The convention of 'the 1800s' and 'the 1900s' meaning their respective centuries I've never seen anyone be confused over before now.
It's been my observation that people who tend to read widely and much also tend to have less confusion about a number of conversational conventions because they have a wider exposure to usage that helps them derive meaning from context.
That said, I suppose there may well be regional and age-cohort differences* in expression. FWIW, I've always taken "next Tuesday" to mean whichever Tuesday comes along next. If it's the Tuesday that's after the up-coming Tuesday then it's "the Tuesday after next" or either "A week from Tuesday" or also "A week Tuesday" after the British usage.
*I'm 66, have lived in six states, east, west and central, and overseas as a child, so YMMV. I still read a fair bit.
Not only that, but from the start, police of any stripe tend to take whatever they can grab. Too many prosecutors and judges cover for them. This case might exemplify an egregious event, but it's not unusual. Of course, I've also seen cases where LEO ignores easy evidence they don't want to deal with or have to explain, especially if it might interfere with an easy conviction. Promotion and election to office is via good numbers, not good enforcement or good practice at law.
Precisely.
But there's one very real problem with this. Most computer users are simply that - end users of a device which they use for work and recreation that was sold as an appliance when the 'pc' got beyond the hobbyist phase. Expecting these people to know and do what a small group of sophisticated cognescenti do is ridiculous, and I think you can recognize that.
Thus the flood of infected machines, bots, and vendors of free and paid anti- this and that and the high fees charged to 'fix' things. (Not that all the fix fees are unfair; I've spent enough time in several computer shops fixing users woes to know that.)
The responsibility to present to the un-sophisticated end user a working and safe-to-use device is the sole province of the seller. (If the device is sold as an appliance then it must function with the simplicity and safety of an appliance.)
A _simple_ small set of warnings, safe practices, what have you, is OK after that. "Use a grounded plug." "Finish saving a document before turning the machine off." are fair. "Don't use this browser." or "Turn off javascript." are not.
Wow. Informative as all get out. Thanks.
This. It's a bit extreme but it does happen. Seen it locally viz. stoplights and flood control remediation.
Mod this up; it's a decent analysis.
I'm sorry to hear of your experience, and dismayed by the situation you describe. Yet, I use Crossover to run Steam, to run Civ V and Silent Hunter IV. I had Civ running fine under Wine, then screwed something up and at the time was never able to get it running correctly again (haven't given it a go recently), which is what led me to CodeWeavers. It's difficult for me to come up with the money for it but since, if I understand correctly, improvements in Crossover go directly into Wine, I figure it's worth it.
If I understand correctly from the website, forums, and discussions elsewhere, Oolite is open-ended itself, rather than just the gameplay being open-ended as in Elite and many of its versions, sequels, and spin-offs. So it's more of a process and a project as it is a finished product.
From what I saw, the few times I've visited, the community is small, thriving, and goes through spurts of development and testing, with slack periods in between. In its own way both the game and its development is about as magical as the Elite I played on my Atari ST back when.
Here, here. Right on.
"Is your name Winston Rothschild?"
Not hardly. Nice find, tho. Nice sig, too.
Had no idea there was a geologists' definition for this. Thanks! But I think your reply ought more correctly be to femtobyte. I take note that my seat of the pants experiential take wasn't so far off, and I stand by my stating that "small boulder" is not a metaphor but rather a simple description.
No, I saw it. Thanks. The impossible situation was what I meant.
"Ok, sir, now would you want your number listed or unlisted?"
"I don't care."
"But, sir, you have to choose."
"No, no I don't. I choose not to choose."
"But, sir...."
"Tell you what, you decide. I'll accept whatever you choose. But since it's your choice, then you pay for it."
"[pulling hair in between muttered imprecations and threats]"
That's what I saw as the absurdity that AC pointed out. It's simply an outgrowth of the way companies find ways to charge something for everything. Days past, to be listed and published was the default, and free. One paid extra to be unlisted.
Nice. A thing, tho - I was thinking particularly of the USB or wireless fobs, dongles, whatever you wish to call them, that are used, whether they carry authenicators or generate a one-time code that you enter. It's one more damn thing to have around or carry.
If there is not a robust, fail-safe mechanism whereby one can still access an account w/o that device, you're screwed.
I agree, Google seems to have put things together pretty well, both for increasing security of access and at least one way to still access one's account and proceed from there.
For a minor example, I just changed authentication phones last night and it went fairly well. Ditto for buying a book on Play with Wallet. One quibble I have is their use of terms is sometimes different from what I'm used to, and some of their messages as one proceeds I found to be less than clear. (Being an idiot, one thing I did back when doing dev or beta stuff was to always seek idiot-proof methods. I figured that if I couldn't break something through stupidity, error, or forgetfulness, then it was ready for market, but still running it past a half dozen smart people, and a handful of 'off the street' volunteers also, when possible.)
Yah, that's similar to "Your call is important to us."
Oh, yeah? If my call is so important then answer the phone.
Funny how we roll over for the simplest lies:
"The check is in the mail."
"I'll pull out in time, honest I will!"
"Your data is secure with us."
"All your data is backed up daily."
"We employ industry-standard security practices."
"We keep no personally-identifiable records."
yadda, yadda
More like "even if it's shitty design, as long as it works, ship it". Management types typically don't think or care much about security even now. If they do get around to security they haven't the knowledge or thinking tools to consider and evaluate stuff - they rely on IT-management types who are often in the same boat but with a tech flavor. Real security would require hiring and listening to people who know this shit and can design and code appropriately. This doesn't happen much, it seems.
For recourse, bloodhawk, above, seems to have a useful approach.
The key thing to me was her original (so far as I know), interesting design and build of the electrode. Nifty stuff.
"oopsidentally" - what a fine, wonderful, sensical word!
I'll return two for the gift: u-trou, and flutterby (perhaps the best descriptive noun I've met)
I wouldn't mind having my old desk telephone. Tedious when in a hurry; perforce gives time to think before speaking.
That's funny to the point of being absurd. One has to wonder what would happen if no fee were paid.
Thank you. Just to be clear, also, I meant it to add to, not to detract from, what you were saying.
It's a tough thing, a difficult place to be, when fresh out of school or training, especially if in an area which is in demand; one is confident yet nervous, even a bit scared. You're excited and maybe a bit burnt out, hitting the interviews, all that. Making plans, daydreams, seduced by a lifetime of the weirdness of television where the 'good' people live in luxury as their due, being simply human to want those good things, honest enough to want a mate, a fellow traveller on life's journey, hundreds of often competing criteria of what makes that good companion, a good job, ditto place to live, car to drive, the whole shebang. It all makes it so very hard to try to keep in mind what really pleases and rewards the inner self, that place where you really live.
Finding a bit or two of useful advice, and being able to pay attention early enough.... yeah.
Funny, I first saw it as "honni suit, qui mal y pense," but looking it up, find it's "honi soit." Guess that 8th grade French book had a few mistakes in it, back in '60. But then I don't know French, just a few bits here and there that kinda stuck. Bonne chance, and all.