If the website designer has to pay for bits each time you view their website without viewing their banner ads, are you engaged in theft?
No more theft than it would be if you were viewing web content with a browser that couldn't physically render the content. What if everyone used Lynx, for example?
Point taken; you may be right in that it was a significant fraction of 'full speed' but not 100% of it.
I didn't measure it, so I'll amend my assertion to "I didn't have any noticeable difficulty reading the jubmled snetcenes." (I also see that if I changed that last word to "snetcesne" it would've been more difficult to parse the fact that it was a plural word.)
No, you could read it at approximately one tenth of the speed you'd normally read a line.
Bullshit. I read it at full speed and marveled at being able to do so. Whether it was tweaked over the various UL iterations to allow me to do so is another story entirely.
Emphatic agreement on Ultra-Edit. I bet you can trim it from 10MB too - the executable is only 4M.
I regularly commune with the Big Iron all the time; it's the only editor I know that can FTP Open from an MVS host. I use this option at least once a day.
It also makes the EBCDIC-ASCII conversion a little saner than you get when you just FTP from an MVS host in ASCII format. If you bring the file over in binary and do a local conversion (which you can also do with Ultra-Edit) you don't have as many issues with spurious line breaks, etc.
I don't think there's any other field where people have such disproportionately inflated assessments of themselves and so much misplaced contempt for others.
I moderate a 3300-person mailing list with its share of spam. (It's on Yahoo Groups, for reasons too convoluted to list, but what the hey, it's working there so why break it?)
To manage it, all new posters are set to 'moderated' status. I or another moderator review their first post. If it's on topic for the group, we set them to unmoderated status and approve it. If it's spam, we nuke it (and them.)
I've only ever had two people go 'sour' and start spamming after posting an on-topic post, and I can't tell if their email's been compromised or they simply decided to post off-topic. Rules are that they get one warning and then they go back on moderation. That's never happened.
You might search for my sig in/. and see that this argument comes up every freaking time I bother to make a comment. At this point it's a source of amusement to see if someone bites. (Hint: You're wrong, but if you want to think you're right, go right ahead.)
Comments, clarity, constants. If you're not doing this in your daily coding exertions, you deserve to have to maintain your own stuff 10 years from now.
I have. It ain't fun. Not that I'm bragging on myself, but I've now had people from the support group stop me in the hall and compliment me on the quality of the code I've written and deployed.
The FCC, in their infinite wisdom, (cough), decided to disallow it from being activated on the networks because it didn't have something - what was it - GPS, E911? Something.
Anyway, in order to get a Razr for my wife on my family plan, I had to do the "new every two" dance. And stupidly forgot to move my StarTac to another line on my family plan BEFORE I activated the Razr. So because it "fell off" the plan, it now is a moderately useless paperweight.
I still bemoan not having my StarTac. Best damn phone I ever owned.
As soon as you start measuring ticket resolution time, you won't believe how fast your call center people will find creative ways to close tickets without actually resolving problems. They'll close a ticket when it gets bumped from functionary to functionary, for example.
"See, we close tickets 50% faster than before!" But the work gets done at the same pace.
When Lenny finds a locked door or something with a padlock on it, he'll ask the owner once, nicely, to effect an entry. And if they want to be a prick and not cooperate, out comes the bolt cutters or the ram.
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If the website designer has to pay for bits each time you view their website without viewing their banner ads, are you engaged in theft?
No more theft than it would be if you were viewing web content with a browser that couldn't physically render the content. What if everyone used Lynx, for example?
Point taken; you may be right in that it was a significant fraction of 'full speed' but not 100% of it.
I didn't measure it, so I'll amend my assertion to "I didn't have any noticeable difficulty reading the jubmled snetcenes." (I also see that if I changed that last word to "snetcesne" it would've been more difficult to parse the fact that it was a plural word.)
I was thinking the same thing. Could this be the next Chinese Sumac?
No, you could read it at approximately one tenth of the speed you'd normally read a line.
Bullshit. I read it at full speed and marveled at being able to do so. Whether it was tweaked over the various UL iterations to allow me to do so is another story entirely.
since english is not my primary language
Heh. I don't think that even most people whose primary language is English could understand that. Especially since most legalese is Latin.
I believe this is several nails, however.
Emphatic agreement on Ultra-Edit. I bet you can trim it from 10MB too - the executable is only 4M.
I regularly commune with the Big Iron all the time; it's the only editor I know that can FTP Open from an MVS host. I use this option at least once a day.
It also makes the EBCDIC-ASCII conversion a little saner than you get when you just FTP from an MVS host in ASCII format. If you bring the file over in binary and do a local conversion (which you can also do with Ultra-Edit) you don't have as many issues with spurious line breaks, etc.
And I could think of worse people to be laid by than Sean Young.
with a book by Gertrude Friedberg called "The Revolving Boy."
Friedberg imagined what life would be like for someone who had an affinity towards this One True Direction.
Good read.
I don't think there's any other field where people have such disproportionately inflated assessments of themselves and so much misplaced contempt for others.
Are you in this field by any chance?
With a 4 digit Slashdot UID? What do YOU think?
At the risk of your setting the hook, "LOX" is rocket-speak for liquid oxygen (the oxidizer side of rocket fuel that uses LH2 as the fuel.)
I like the Expert Mouse - plus it looks really cool when you take out the original ball and put in an eight-ball. :)
Cue the old saw about the best way to cook a frog.
I moderate a 3300-person mailing list with its share of spam. (It's on Yahoo Groups, for reasons too convoluted to list, but what the hey, it's working there so why break it?)
To manage it, all new posters are set to 'moderated' status. I or another moderator review their first post. If it's on topic for the group, we set them to unmoderated status and approve it. If it's spam, we nuke it (and them.)
I've only ever had two people go 'sour' and start spamming after posting an on-topic post, and I can't tell if their email's been compromised or they simply decided to post off-topic. Rules are that they get one warning and then they go back on moderation. That's never happened.
The difference between a mainframe and a commodity PC?
A commodity PC can, and often is, used to IPL a mainframe, but never the other way 'round.
Never trust a computer you can lift. I ride the Big Iron...
I can't believe the eds rejected my submission and took this one.
Yes, it's off topic. I don't care, this was so freakin' lame.
Support people actually talk to the developers?
Yep. A very high intensity focused deployment, mind you, but within a Fortune 50 company. So it does happen.
LOL
/. and see that this argument comes up every freaking time I bother to make a comment. At this point it's a source of amusement to see if someone bites. (Hint: You're wrong, but if you want to think you're right, go right ahead.)
You might search for my sig in
Comments, clarity, constants. If you're not doing this in your daily coding exertions, you deserve to have to maintain your own stuff 10 years from now.
I have. It ain't fun. Not that I'm bragging on myself, but I've now had people from the support group stop me in the hall and compliment me on the quality of the code I've written and deployed.
i-only-want-som ething-that-can-call-and-receive-calls
I had one - a StarTac.
The FCC, in their infinite wisdom, (cough), decided to disallow it from being activated on the networks because it didn't have something - what was it - GPS, E911? Something.
Anyway, in order to get a Razr for my wife on my family plan, I had to do the "new every two" dance. And stupidly forgot to move my StarTac to another line on my family plan BEFORE I activated the Razr. So because it "fell off" the plan, it now is a moderately useless paperweight.
I still bemoan not having my StarTac. Best damn phone I ever owned.
A school is a log with a teacher at one end, and a student at the other. (I first heard it in a Heinlein story, but I'm sure it predates RAH.)
All the rest of this stuff is fluff.
As soon as you start measuring ticket resolution time, you won't believe how fast your call center people will find creative ways to close tickets without actually resolving problems. They'll close a ticket when it gets bumped from functionary to functionary, for example.
"See, we close tickets 50% faster than before!" But the work gets done at the same pace.
Don't do it.
He has a lot in common with Young Frankenstein's monster.
But does he have an enormous schwanstucker?
Not that I care personally, mind you.
But the poster said he specifically had a salary that wasn't one hundredth of $40MM.
:)
So there.
At the risk of getting ensnared on your hook, you could've read the article and discovered that for yourself.
When Lenny finds a locked door or something with a padlock on it, he'll ask the owner once, nicely, to effect an entry. And if they want to be a prick and not cooperate, out comes the bolt cutters or the ram.