Of course, that doesn't explain why he'd use an audio message to get the word out.
He explains in his audio that 'people don't read long essays', implying that they'll listen to some guy rambling on about his life story, insterspaced with coughs and---woe is me!---sniffles. Poor Dave, he obviously doesn't understand people (quick show of hands: which is faster to go through, email or voicemail? I thought so.)
If he had only written down his thoughts, then I would have bothered reading them, instead of cutting off his cute diatribe after a few minutes. I can read much faster than he can say "um,... well,... um... "
Compile and go. Make sure you save/close everything, cause' this bad boy will make your boxxen seize up harder than Shrub's brain when confronted by a reporter's direct question.
void main(int argc, char* argv[]) { for(;;) printf("Windoze is teh sux\t\b\b\b\b\b\b"); }
Otherwise, I'm not worried about them tracking my
moves. Who wants to track me?
This common thought
is what is most dangerous. Right now you aren't concerned that
they can/will track you, because you have done nothing wrong.
What happens when tracking vehicles becomes legal, and tampering
with tracking devices is declared a crime? "So what?" you ask,
"It doesn't apply to me; I'm a good citizen."
A few years
later, the govt requires everyone to carry personal RFIDs when
out in public, 'for your protection.' You think, "that's not
cool, but I haven't done anything wrong." So you let it happen.
You probably believe the the few who bother to protest are in the
tinfoil hat-wearing crowd. "Only people who have something to
hide should be concerned," you assure yourself. Besides, nothing
bad happened when the govt started tracking vehicles.
"Alarmists," you think. So you swallow another one.
Then the
govt decides that every room in every home should have a camera,
'for your protection.' At this, you balk: "that's going way to
far!" you cry.
Too late. You didn't care when they put
protection devices on cars, or on people, but why do you care
now? Surely, you must have something to hide. "Don't
worry," grins the guard, "they'll cure you of those subversive
thoughts at the Ronald W. Reagan Memorial Reeducation
Center.
Moral: Every right you abnegate while gaining
nothing in return is another proverbial nail in your coffin.
Unless there is a demonstrated benefit (Fox "news" saying
there is does not count) for your tact acceptance, your
acquiescence robs us all.
I have here a copy of Embree's "Wide band Velocity Filtering" paper (Geophysics, circa 1963) that is perfectly readable, even through it is dogeared to hell.
Somewhere in this room, there is an 8" disk that is about 15 years younger than Embree but I'd wager there isn't a working drive (let alone a computer) that can read what's on the disk, assuming the contents haven't deteriorated thanks to dust, sunspots, and Whump the Cat's claws.
I recently let my membership lapse in a scientific organization because they went from dead tree journals to on-line access (dead trees can still be had for additional fee) without a cost reduction--for either readers or authors.
My beef is that by going on-line only, their costs were significantly reduced (this was a hefty journal, often with color graphs 'n charts), but the savings were not passed on to the membership. My other issue centered around the fact that, like the infamous MS Assurance Program, once your membership lapsed so went your on-line journal access. At least the dead tree version ensured you had a viable resource until the acid paper disintegrated.
I had to turn off comments on my blog because all I was getting was spam.
The simple solution is to require the poster to read a distored graphic of a random numeric value and enter the value into a field in order to submit his message.
The primary goal of the helpdesk is to get the customer to actually RTFM.
For the "internet" helpdesk, the point is to keep your call times up. When I worked help desk for a (now defunct) company, we were graded on call volume, average call duration, and how well we stuck to the script. Solving the customer's problem was the lowest priority. Our "top" performer would always do the 'try x and then call us back if it doesn't work, okay bye' trick, and it worked.
Back in the good old days of pre-Win 3.1, when people were using DOS + QEMM, the quality of calls on the old Q'Deq helpdesk were much higher. Instead of asking "what's an autoexec.bat?" the average user would be more interested in which interrupts we were tripping (for the record, int 21).
Once the 'puter became a household appliance instead of a hacker's toy, that's when things started to go downhill.
Execute the lazy/ignorant sysadmins and infrastructure guys who fail to keep their servers patched, have their firewalls set to "Allow all" and who leave the default passwords on their systems.
Any resemblence between TDAT and our planet is that the place names is/are similar and they speak roughly the same language. The lack of the same physical laws (i.e., 2nd law of thermo) differentiates their reality from ours.
See also other alternaterealitymovies, where our laws of space and time simply do not apply.
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My father's a VP of Shell; ~.
WHICH Shell company did your pater work for? A VP of SITI, Lubes, or in one of their myriad HR depts doesn't know jack about Oil reserves.
Oh, and when I was at Shell, VP was given out like candy: hit 40 and possess the right box in the org chart and you win the prize, so that doesn't mean much of anything. Have you seen their org chart for IT? There are something like 20 CIOs.
Until people stop browsing with Netscape Navigator 4.07, standards will be impossible to enforce.
Perhaps. At a website I manage, I showed the client how less than 1% of their traffic was from Netscape 4.x. By switching to CSS and dumping tables as a layout mechanism, they could make their site easier to maintain and use less bandthwith to boot; they agreed that was the way to go.
Honda's Civic Hybrid is rated by the EPA to get 47
miles per gallon in the city, and 48 MPG on the highway. After
nearly 1,000 miles of mostly city driving, Blackshaw was getting
31.4 MPG. ~ who claims that after 4,000 miles his car has never
gotten more than 33 MPG on any trip.
I can't
speak for the Honda, as I have the Toyota Prius, but I get
consistently 48-9 city MPG, (the '02 P is rated at 47 city).
If you don't know how to drive a hybrid, then you will get
poor MPG. Period. Here's how to get high MPG in a
hybrid:
Make sure the tires are properly inflated (Toyota
recommends 33-35 psi, but most Prius owners keep it at 40 psi for
better mileage and traction).
When the light turns green,
floor it until you get to your target speed (i.e., the
speed limit).
Turn on cruise control ASAP.
Do not accelerate
when you know you will have to stop.
Avoid tapping on the brake
unnecessarily, anticipate the conditions ahead and lower your
speed appropriately; when you see the light turn red or heavy
traffic ahead, turn off the cruise control and coast. Obviously,
if you have to hit the brake because someone darts in front of
you, that takes precedence over MPG.
Run the AC only when
necessary.
It is absolutely understandable why people try
to drive the way they are taught: smooth acceleration, hit the
brakes often, etc., but that is the antithesis of getting good gas
mileage in a hybrid.
Finally, the main goal of the hybrid is
reduced emissions; increased MPG is a byproduct.
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He explains in his audio that 'people don't read long essays', implying that they'll listen to some guy rambling on about his life story, insterspaced with coughs and---woe is me!---sniffles. Poor Dave, he obviously doesn't understand people (quick show of hands: which is faster to go through, email or voicemail? I thought so.)
If he had only written down his thoughts, then I would have bothered reading them, instead of cutting off his cute diatribe after a few minutes. I can read much faster than he can say "um, ... well, ... um ... "
This story is only a few hours old, even if it has already been extensively reported elsewhere.
A few years later, the govt requires everyone to carry personal RFIDs when out in public, 'for your protection.' You think, "that's not cool, but I haven't done anything wrong." So you let it happen. You probably believe the the few who bother to protest are in the tinfoil hat-wearing crowd. "Only people who have something to hide should be concerned," you assure yourself. Besides, nothing bad happened when the govt started tracking vehicles. "Alarmists," you think. So you swallow another one.
Then the govt decides that every room in every home should have a camera, 'for your protection.' At this, you balk: "that's going way to far!" you cry.
Too late. You didn't care when they put protection devices on cars, or on people, but why do you care now? Surely, you must have something to hide. "Don't worry," grins the guard, "they'll cure you of those subversive thoughts at the Ronald W. Reagan Memorial Reeducation Center.
Moral: Every right you abnegate while gaining nothing in return is another proverbial nail in your coffin. Unless there is a demonstrated benefit (Fox "news" saying there is does not count) for your tact acceptance, your acquiescence robs us all.
Didn't the US help create the UN?
I have here a copy of Embree's "Wide band Velocity Filtering" paper (Geophysics, circa 1963) that is perfectly readable, even through it is dogeared to hell.
Somewhere in this room, there is an 8" disk that is about 15 years younger than Embree but I'd wager there isn't a working drive (let alone a computer) that can read what's on the disk, assuming the contents haven't deteriorated thanks to dust, sunspots, and Whump the Cat's claws.
Submit a bug report. They can't fix it if they don't know about it.
My beef is that by going on-line only, their costs were significantly reduced (this was a hefty journal, often with color graphs 'n charts), but the savings were not passed on to the membership. My other issue centered around the fact that, like the infamous MS Assurance Program, once your membership lapsed so went your on-line journal access. At least the dead tree version ensured you had a viable resource until the acid paper disintegrated.
Then the corporations (who are barely held in check by said govt that you've nuetered) will suddenly adhere to ethical standards, avoid polluting the environment, and cease exploiting workers. Everyone will be free and happy! Weeee!!!
Pass the crak pipe, bub. No sense in you getting all the hallucinations.
Because IP addresses can't be forged. Evar!
You have referrer turned off. ;)
The important things like fixing the preferences, the weird, fatal bugs can wait! We want fun eye candy!!!
No, not when 99.999% of those same people are 12 o'clock flashers.
Once the 'puter became a household appliance instead of a hacker's toy, that's when things started to go downhill.
Execute the lazy/ignorant sysadmins and infrastructure guys who fail to keep their servers patched, have their firewalls set to "Allow all" and who leave the default passwords on their systems.
See also other alternate reality movies, where our laws of space and time simply do not apply.
Oh, and when I was at Shell, VP was given out like candy: hit 40 and possess the right box in the org chart and you win the prize, so that doesn't mean much of anything. Have you seen their org chart for IT? There are something like 20 CIOs.
The nasty decor has been replaced and it is probably illegal to film there now (to prevent "terrorists" from making student films).
I rest my case.
I can't speak for the Honda, as I have the Toyota Prius, but I get consistently 48-9 city MPG, (the '02 P is rated at 47 city).
If you don't know how to drive a hybrid, then you will get poor MPG. Period. Here's how to get high MPG in a hybrid:
It is absolutely understandable why people try to drive the way they are taught: smooth acceleration, hit the brakes often, etc., but that is the antithesis of getting good gas mileage in a hybrid.
Finally, the main goal of the hybrid is reduced emissions; increased MPG is a byproduct.
Um, probably not, because the sig goes below the little "--" line.
You can't win
You can't break even
And you can't get out of the game
---Michael Jackson