Rubbish, 'normal' men are intimidated by women too, the prettier the worse it is. Unless you're one of those loudmouth tossers (ie. salesmen) that only think of themselves all the time - but they're not what I'd consider normal.
To quote the (rather good) Arctic Monkeys:
"My heartbeat's at its peak, when you're coming up to speak And oh I'm so tense, never tenser Could all go a bit Frank Spencer And I'm talking gibberish Tip of the tongue but I can't deliver it... "
(when referring to a attractive lady down the nightclub)
"And now that you're more than a part in the play It's slightly easier to think what to say You had us all standing on our heads Doing our best tricks, yeah "
So, just chat about work (easy!) or TV, or whatever at the coffee machine and things'll work out alright.
It won't be a killer app when you fire up the browser one day to read that your preferred silly-name company has gone out of business, sold to a commercial competitor, or worse... been hacked and all your documents are now freely available to be read be anyone (you may not care that your letter to mum is leaked, but a lot of companies that used this tool for all their sales documents will be pi**ed).
This means that there is definitely marketspace for desktop, offline-based office apps, and the web tools are a niche for people who cannot or do not want to pay for Word, or do not use those apps enough to justify buying them. Everyone else will just want to sync their Word documents with the online 'sharing space' and very occasionally edit them. You'd be better off with a copy of Openoffice and run Owl on your webserver.
Don't whinge to slashdot about it, phone the labs, phoen the school principal, get a few school trips round there organised. I doubt they'll see much (I understand they don't have any flashing lights and spinning tape drives anymore, which is when computers looked like they were big, powerful and doing important stuff) but I'm sure there'll be scientists more than happy to show them something impressive and talk about what they're up to.
I seem to have touched a nerve with some people, and yet I was just trying to be funny:)
(serious point though: with the modern CPUs that have frequency throttling power management, running 'spare cycle' apps do waste power whereas once they wouldn't make much difference)
Forget pictures of the kids, its *those* pictures of the wife I'd not want Google to be looking at, not without paying the $9.99 a month like everyone else:)
What they also need to do is ban those people who list items for $1 with $30 postage 'shipped from HK'. I wouldn't mind so much, but for some categories - like USB pendrives - you can't see any normal listed items anymore. Apparently ebay already disapproves of this practice, but obviously doesn't do anything about it.
That's not stress. That's called work. Stress is when you have no control over what you're doing, when things change around you for no reason that you have no say over, where your decision is undermined by others who should be supporting you. The issues to your health you described are simply overwork taking its toll, and fixed by taking a break.
The people feeling stress on your projects are the plebs at the bottom, pulled this way and that by their own (probably incompetent project managers). I would hope that you're style of fixing the crap projects are to bring everyone together so they feel part of something that works, that they have input in a constructive way, that they're not treated like they don't count. Then, they'd feel their time spent at the job was worthwhile, they wouldn't be spending more time defensively on politics, they'd be happy doing their jobs.
Considering that they do have the explosives knowledge necessary, and that you don't need that much post-op care for someone who's about to kill himself (as long as he can walk without dripping, it'll be enough), and that the shoe bomber had enough explosive in his heel (IIRC) to make the security people poo themselves, I think much more explosives could easily fit into a body cavity.:) "Hassan, in readiness for your glorious mission against the infidel, here are all the pies we could buy without arousing suspicion."
Ah no - you missed the point, I'm not suggesting we try to think up any new type of weapon that may or may not be used, instead we must shift the focus to something more general.
Someone made an analogy with spam filters - this is ideal, because we do not want to catch yesterday's viagra spams, we want to catch tomorrow's "Cialis" and "V-i-a-g-r-a" spams too. We want a method where we are looking at what makes something spam, instead of just checking that its not something we saw before.
So, we need some sort of "heuristic" on what kind of person will carry a weapon of any sort into the aircraft, regardless of the type it is, or on how a weapon is brought into the airplane (simple example - no personal baggage for short-haul flights). Nobody said such a thing would be easy, but the current system is doomed to eventual failure.
The planes that were crashed into the WTC where hijacked with carpet cutters
Yes, heaven knows what would have happened if they'd smuggled the soft cushions aboard.:-)
ok, serious point: every time a terrorist plot is foiled with a particular type of weapon, that is blocked so no-one can do it again. Yet they always think up new ways... perhaps we should be looking at ways to detect new weapons and stop the shoe-checking, the milk-checking, etc etc, which only serves to inconvenience the 99.99999% of people who are legitimate travellers. Its like we're trying to stop the symptoms but ignoring the cause (and I don't mean the palestinian problem, I mean we're looking at it very reactively). One day a terrorist is going to smuggle explosives in, not in his shoe, but up his ass. What kind of security measures will we see in airports then?
You don't know much about women do you. They have a whole heap of stuff in those handbags, tissues, wipey things, lipstick, hairbrush, powder puffy things. They are the real reason, god forbid is a woman cannot go to the bathroom and not spend 20 minutes touching up her eyeliner afterwards.
I believe most public restrooms have tampax vending machines alongside the condoms anyway.
I suppose its a matter of importance, while the authorities have a greater level of involvement in your day to day life, the worst they will do it listen to you say naughty things to your girlfriend. On the other hand, while terrorists generally have no involvement in your daily life, if (or when) they do you'll be blown into little pieces.
Cue dodgy analogy: its like making backups - I do it every day and thing 'why bother, my HDD never failed', but the one day my PC suffers catastrophic hardware failure, I'll be glad of them:-)
I wouldn't agree that Linux is insanely robust - today I'm upgrading my kernel becuase of security flaws in the one I'm currently running. Again. Then, almost every time I type "yum upgrade" I get updated packages with security fixes in them. So linux is insanely secure? no way, just stop with the bigoted posts ok.
Back to the article comment - they said MS was doing th emost to improve security. Well, fair enough - they have made great inroads on fixing loads of stuff, it is not a big priority at MS, so yes, I think I can safely say that "MS is doing more to improve security than any other company out there", simply becuase they're improving their product the most (you could say Linux doesn't need to be improved very much)
If this is the most authoritative source Microsoft can assemble to substantiate their claims Open Source is complex
No, this and this are the sites that say that. The OSS community doesn't need MS to point out flaws, when we can do it ourselves. The correct attitude to all this, of course, is to acknowledge valid points and fix them (because if you don't, well, that way lies Marketing)
And you probably only *think* you learned it yourself, and that the rest is insignificant and useless. Sure.
If you have an issue about filtering, just wait until you do have kids and you think about home-teaching them. When they spend all day surfing myspace, slashdot and porn sites the filter software will slam down big time on them, and you'll be standing over them making sure they're using the computer to learn stuff that you consider to be useful. No doubt they'll be posting to slashdot that when they have kids, they'll damn well be sent to a proper school!
Yes, but you're assuming that port 8888 is open for outgoing traffic. Any server admin capable of blocking some websites has also ticked the checkbox that says 'block all non-internet traffic' on their firewall admin gui.
yyyy-mm-dd-hh-mm-ss is even better for sorting by date/time values. I understood the military use this format, but I have no references for that (so look it up on Wikipedia:) )
Yeah, the Welsh, Irish and Scots might have something to say about that (they won't but bear with me). We obviously need it labelled as English English.
The company interim report says they had 198,000 broadband subscribers so that's only 3.5 Mb of mail each. Looking at my email inbox, I'd say the average email size is 20k so that'd be 179 emails per person. But then, my mails tend to be text, if you took emails like my sister's recent one to me that included 2 pictures of her cat - that's 300k each, and that'd be only 10 mails each. Reduce that by 48% to account for the spams, and you're still looking at between 5 and 90 emails - so average about 50 emails.
So, it still looks like they lost a bit more than just 1 day's email, perhaps they only backup email every week, or rely on a fancy enterprise storage system so they considered they didn't need backups?
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these parents have no idea what "critical professional skills" are...
:-)
The parents work in Marketing?
Rubbish, 'normal' men are intimidated by women too, the prettier the worse it is. Unless you're one of those loudmouth tossers (ie. salesmen) that only think of themselves all the time - but they're not what I'd consider normal.
To quote the (rather good) Arctic Monkeys:
"My heartbeat's at its peak, when you're coming up to speak
And oh I'm so tense, never tenser
Could all go a bit Frank Spencer
And I'm talking gibberish
Tip of the tongue but I can't deliver it... "
(when referring to a attractive lady down the nightclub)
"And now that you're more than a part in the play
It's slightly easier to think what to say
You had us all standing on our heads
Doing our best tricks, yeah "
So, just chat about work (easy!) or TV, or whatever at the coffee machine and things'll work out alright.
oh come on now, even pigs and cows need a little bit of foreplay.
ahem. I'll get my coat...
when she played Gwar's "Fucking an Animal" on her playlist that I knew we would get along.
:-)
so that's when you decided to hit on her
It won't be a killer app when you fire up the browser one day to read that your preferred silly-name company has gone out of business, sold to a commercial competitor, or worse... been hacked and all your documents are now freely available to be read be anyone (you may not care that your letter to mum is leaked, but a lot of companies that used this tool for all their sales documents will be pi**ed).
This means that there is definitely marketspace for desktop, offline-based office apps, and the web tools are a niche for people who cannot or do not want to pay for Word, or do not use those apps enough to justify buying them. Everyone else will just want to sync their Word documents with the online 'sharing space' and very occasionally edit them. You'd be better off with a copy of Openoffice and run Owl on your webserver.
Don't whinge to slashdot about it, phone the labs, phoen the school principal, get a few school trips round there organised. I doubt they'll see much (I understand they don't have any flashing lights and spinning tape drives anymore, which is when computers looked like they were big, powerful and doing important stuff) but I'm sure there'll be scientists more than happy to show them something impressive and talk about what they're up to.
I seem to have touched a nerve with some people, and yet I was just trying to be funny :)
(serious point though: with the modern CPUs that have frequency throttling power management, running 'spare cycle' apps do waste power whereas once they wouldn't make much difference)
Forget pictures of the kids, its *those* pictures of the wife I'd not want Google to be looking at, not without paying the $9.99 a month like everyone else :)
What they also need to do is ban those people who list items for $1 with $30 postage 'shipped from HK'. I wouldn't mind so much, but for some categories - like USB pendrives - you can't see any normal listed items anymore. Apparently ebay already disapproves of this practice, but obviously doesn't do anything about it.
I was going to write a comment about why you're on a narrow-focussed path of self-destruction, but I think I'll just hit you with a stick instead. :-)
That's not stress. That's called work. Stress is when you have no control over what you're doing, when things change around you for no reason that you have no say over, where your decision is undermined by others who should be supporting you. The issues to your health you described are simply overwork taking its toll, and fixed by taking a break.
The people feeling stress on your projects are the plebs at the bottom, pulled this way and that by their own (probably incompetent project managers). I would hope that you're style of fixing the crap projects are to bring everyone together so they feel part of something that works, that they have input in a constructive way, that they're not treated like they don't count. Then, they'd feel their time spent at the job was worthwhile, they wouldn't be spending more time defensively on politics, they'd be happy doing their jobs.
What was the name of that school the Georgians held hostage and the Russians stormed?
Best to let them have whatever they want, and *then* kill them when they think they've won.
Considering that they do have the explosives knowledge necessary, and that you don't need that much post-op care for someone who's about to kill himself (as long as he can walk without dripping, it'll be enough), and that the shoe bomber had enough explosive in his heel (IIRC) to make the security people poo themselves, I think much more explosives could easily fit into a body cavity. :) "Hassan, in readiness for your glorious mission against the infidel, here are all the pies we could buy without arousing suspicion."
Ah no - you missed the point, I'm not suggesting we try to think up any new type of weapon that may or may not be used, instead we must shift the focus to something more general.
Someone made an analogy with spam filters - this is ideal, because we do not want to catch yesterday's viagra spams, we want to catch tomorrow's "Cialis" and "V-i-a-g-r-a" spams too. We want a method where we are looking at what makes something spam, instead of just checking that its not something we saw before.
So, we need some sort of "heuristic" on what kind of person will carry a weapon of any sort into the aircraft, regardless of the type it is, or on how a weapon is brought into the airplane (simple example - no personal baggage for short-haul flights). Nobody said such a thing would be easy, but the current system is doomed to eventual failure.
The planes that were crashed into the WTC where hijacked with carpet cutters
:-)
Yes, heaven knows what would have happened if they'd smuggled the soft cushions aboard.
ok, serious point: every time a terrorist plot is foiled with a particular type of weapon, that is blocked so no-one can do it again. Yet they always think up new ways... perhaps we should be looking at ways to detect new weapons and stop the shoe-checking, the milk-checking, etc etc, which only serves to inconvenience the 99.99999% of people who are legitimate travellers. Its like we're trying to stop the symptoms but ignoring the cause (and I don't mean the palestinian problem, I mean we're looking at it very reactively). One day a terrorist is going to smuggle explosives in, not in his shoe, but up his ass. What kind of security measures will we see in airports then?
You don't know much about women do you. They have a whole heap of stuff in those handbags, tissues, wipey things, lipstick, hairbrush, powder puffy things. They are the real reason, god forbid is a woman cannot go to the bathroom and not spend 20 minutes touching up her eyeliner afterwards.
I believe most public restrooms have tampax vending machines alongside the condoms anyway.
I suppose its a matter of importance, while the authorities have a greater level of involvement in your day to day life, the worst they will do it listen to you say naughty things to your girlfriend. On the other hand, while terrorists generally have no involvement in your daily life, if (or when) they do you'll be blown into little pieces.
:-)
Cue dodgy analogy: its like making backups - I do it every day and thing 'why bother, my HDD never failed', but the one day my PC suffers catastrophic hardware failure, I'll be glad of them
I say purple. When she gets older, she'll realise there's absolutely nothing wrong with looking like Motoko.
I wouldn't agree that Linux is insanely robust - today I'm upgrading my kernel becuase of security flaws in the one I'm currently running. Again. Then, almost every time I type "yum upgrade" I get updated packages with security fixes in them. So linux is insanely secure? no way, just stop with the bigoted posts ok.
Back to the article comment - they said MS was doing th emost to improve security. Well, fair enough - they have made great inroads on fixing loads of stuff, it is not a big priority at MS, so yes, I think I can safely say that "MS is doing more to improve security than any other company out there", simply becuase they're improving their product the most (you could say Linux doesn't need to be improved very much)
If this is the most authoritative source Microsoft can assemble to substantiate their claims Open Source is complex
No, this and this are the sites that say that. The OSS community doesn't need MS to point out flaws, when we can do it ourselves. The correct attitude to all this, of course, is to acknowledge valid points and fix them (because if you don't, well, that way lies Marketing)
And you probably only *think* you learned it yourself, and that the rest is insignificant and useless. Sure.
If you have an issue about filtering, just wait until you do have kids and you think about home-teaching them. When they spend all day surfing myspace, slashdot and porn sites the filter software will slam down big time on them, and you'll be standing over them making sure they're using the computer to learn stuff that you consider to be useful. No doubt they'll be posting to slashdot that when they have kids, they'll damn well be sent to a proper school!
Yes, but you're assuming that port 8888 is open for outgoing traffic. Any server admin capable of blocking some websites has also ticked the checkbox that says 'block all non-internet traffic' on their firewall admin gui.
yyyy-mm-dd-hh-mm-ss is even better for sorting by date/time values. I understood the military use this format, but I have no references for that (so look it up on Wikipedia :) )
and specifically labels it UK or British English.
Yeah, the Welsh, Irish and Scots might have something to say about that (they won't but bear with me). We obviously need it labelled as English English.
The company interim report says they had 198,000 broadband subscribers so that's only 3.5 Mb of mail each. Looking at my email inbox, I'd say the average email size is 20k so that'd be 179 emails per person. But then, my mails tend to be text, if you took emails like my sister's recent one to me that included 2 pictures of her cat - that's 300k each, and that'd be only 10 mails each. Reduce that by 48% to account for the spams, and you're still looking at between 5 and 90 emails - so average about 50 emails.
So, it still looks like they lost a bit more than just 1 day's email, perhaps they only backup email every week, or rely on a fancy enterprise storage system so they considered they didn't need backups?