Well, I managed to click the example, even though it was posted well before I made this reply;-)
I see two links at the top of my Firefox browser display of search results, in a shaded area marked 'Sponsored Links' (on the far right-hand side of the shaded area). The right hand colums are also marked 'Sponsored Links'.
I am fairly sure these are "AD's".
Is it possible you overlooked the sneakily-placed label?
Ah yes! Of course you did - you have yet to click on the example...
This has been around for a while, but may be worth repeating?
Dear Mr. Architect:
Please design and build me a house. I am not quite sure of what I need, so you should use your discretion.
My house should have between two and forty-five bedrooms. Just make sure the plans are such that the bedrooms can be easily added or deleted. When you bring the blueprints to me, I will make the final decision of what I want. Also, bring me the cost breakdowns for each configuration so that I can arbitrarily pick one at a later time.
Keep in mind that the house I ultimately choose must cost less than the oneI am currently living in. Make sure, however, that you correct all the deficiencies that exist in my current house (the floor of my kitchen vibrates when I walk across it, and the walls don't have nearly enough insulation in them).
As you design, also keep in mind that I want to keep yearly maintenance costs as low as possible. This should mean the incorporation of extra-cost features like aluminum, vinyl, or composite siding. (If you choose not to specify aluminum, be prepared to explain your decision in detail.)
Please take care that modern design practices and the latest materials are used in construction of the house, as I want it to be a showplace for the most up-to-date ideas and methods. Be alerted, however, that kitchen should be designed to accommodate (among other things) my 1952 Gibson refrigerator.
To assure that you are building the correct house for our entire family, you will need to contact each of my children, and also our in-laws. My mother-in-law will have very strong feelings about how the house should be designed, since she visits us at least once a year. Make sure that you weigh all of thses options carefully and come to the right decision. I, however, retain the right to overrule any decisions that you make.
Please don't bother me with small details right now. Your job is to develop the overall plans for the house and get the big picture. At this time, for example, it is not appropriate to be chosing the color of the carpeting. However, keep in mind that my wife likes blue.
Also, do not worry at this time about acquiring the resources to build the house itself. Your first priority is to develop detailed plans and specifications. Once I approve these plans, however, I would expect the house to be under roof within 48 hours.
While you are designing this house specifically for me, keep in mind that sooner or later I will have to sell it to someone else. It therefore should have appeal to a wide variety of potential buyers. Please make sure before you finalize the plans that there is a consensus of the potential homebuyers in my area that they like the features this house has.
I advise you to run up and look at the house my neighbor build last year, as we like it a great deal. It has many things that we feel we also need in our new home, particularily the 75-foot swimming pool. With careful engineering, I believe that you can design this into our new house without impacting the construction cost.
Please prepare a complete set of blueprints. It is not necessary at this time to do the real design, since they will be used only for construction bids. Be advised, however, that you will be held accountable for any increase of construction costs as a result of later design changes.
You must be thrilled to be working on as an interesting project as this! To be able to use the latest techniques and materials and to be given such freedom in your designs is something that can't happen very often. Contact me as soon as possible with your ideas and completed plans.
PS: My wife has just told me that she disagrees with many of the instructions I've given you in this letter. As architect, it is your responsibility to resolve these differences. I have tried in the past and have been unable to accomplish this. If you can't handle this responsibility, I will have to find another architect.
PPS: Perhaps what I need is not a house at all, but a travel trailer. Please advise me as soon a possible if this is the case.
"No Program Should EVER have to interfere with memory management"
I can't say that I agree with the implied "don't worry about memory access strategies": there are many opportunities for application programmers to thrash a system's memory needlessly by flushing the various caches due to poor program design.
TFA points out that this has been out there for over a year, not just "a few days".
Just because the symptoms are barely noticeable does not make it acceptable.
Just because it comes from a CD does not make it acceptable, either.
If the "(cluelss) user" inserts the CD again, the AV software should do what it should have done the first time - issue a large warning and block the activity. If this had happened a year ago, there wouldn't be several hundred thousand machines with it installed today.
It appears that they have 'borrowed' the Google main page, and several of the main link pages, and posted it as their own website. Not eveything works - 'News' and 'Froogle', for instance, are broken links to the fuddruckers website.
I wonder if they asked Google's permission to host a hacked-up copy of parts of their website.
Try setting the max. upload speed to 75-80% of your connection's ability, and reduce the target ping to 20-80 ms (works for me, allowing browsing activities, etc to continue at the same time).
The later version allows control over download speed, too, but I have yet to try this version...
HP Officejet D135 Reference Manual. Page 58. http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/bpu06030 .pdf
"...print a self-test report. This report provides useful information about both your ink cartridges and your printheads, including status information, installation and expiration dates, and ink levels. It is useful to know the ink cartridge expiration dates, so you can purchase replacements before that date."
RTFL: Look at the *second* link returned by that search at Google. litigousbastards.com has a campaign to post links to SCO using that phrase. The phrase is in the referring links, not the target site.
So, in the ideal world, when all these internet connected machines are running something other than Windows, will we have automatic installation of critical patches?
How does this fight spam - you weren't going to read or react to it, anyway, were you? So, how does the spammer feel any impact from you not reading it through this great invention? I don't see that it impacts their bottom line at all, sorry.
As long as anyone reads or reacts to the spam, the spammer will continue... it doesn't matter to their bottom line what method the vast majority use to ignore it.
Where's the numbers to back up the assertion that 1 billion birds are slaughtered every day. 200 slaughters per skyscraper = 5 million skyscrapers.
That's a lot of slaughtering by a lot of skyscrapers....
I have birds hitting my windows (reflective tint film makes them mirror finish, I guess), but I have yet to see one slaughtered in the process.
Four well-dressed men sitting together at a vacation resort. "Farewell to Thee" being played in the background on Hawaiian guitar. Michael: Ahh.. Very passable, this, very passable.
Graham: Nothing like a good glass of Chateau de Chassilier wine, ay Gessiah?
Terry: You're right there Obediah.
Eric: Who'd a thought thirty years ago we'd all be sittin' here drinking Chateau de Chassilier wine?
Michael: Aye. In them days, we'd a' been glad to have the price of a cup o' tea.
Graham: A cup ' COLD tea.
Eric: Without milk or sugar.
Terry: OR tea!
Michael: In a filthy, cracked cup.
Eric: We never used to have a cup. We used to have to drink out of a rolled up newspaper.
Graham: The best WE could manage was to suck on a piece of damp cloth.
Terry: But you know, we were happy in those days, though we were poor.
Michael: Aye. BECAUSE we were poor. My old Dad used to say to me, "Money doesn't buy you happiness."
Eric: 'E was right. I was happier then and I had NOTHIN'. We used to live in this tiiiny old house, with greaaaaat big holes in the roof.
Graham: House? You were lucky to have a HOUSE! We used to live in one room, all hundred and twenty-six of us, no furniture. Half the floor was missing; we were all huddled together in one corner for fear of FALLING!
Terry: You were lucky to have a ROOM! *We* used to have to live in a corridor!
Michael: Ohhhh we used to DREAM of livin' in a corridor! Woulda' been a palace to us. We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish tip. We got woken up every morning by having a load of rotting fish dumped all over us! House!? Hmph.
Eric: Well when I say "house" it was only a hole in the ground covered by a piece of tarpolin, but it was a house to US
. Graham: We were evicted from *our* hole in the ground; we had to go and live in a lake!
Terry: You were lucky to have a LAKE! There were a hundred and sixty of us living in a small shoebox in the middle of the road.
Michael: Cardboard box?
Terry: Aye.
Michael: You were lucky. We lived for three months in a brown paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six o'clock in the morning, clean the bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down mill for fourteen hours a day week in-week out. When we got home, out Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt!
Graham: Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at three o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of hot gravel, go to work at the mill every day for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would beat us around the head and neck with a broken bottle, if we were LUCKY!
Terry: Well we had it tough. We used to have to get up out of the shoebox at twelve o'clock at night, and LICK the road clean with our tongues. We had half a handful of freezing cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at the mill for fourpence every six years, and when we got home, our Dad would slice us in two with a bread knife.
Eric: Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, (pause for laughter), eat a lump of cold poison, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad would kill us, and dance about on our graves singing "Hallelujah."
Michael: But you try and tell the young people today that... and they won't believe ya'.
Slashdot Mirror
Well, I managed to click the example, even though it was posted well before I made this reply ;-)
I see two links at the top of my Firefox browser display of search results, in a shaded area marked 'Sponsored Links' (on the far right-hand side of the shaded area). The right hand colums are also marked 'Sponsored Links'.
I am fairly sure these are "AD's".
Is it possible you overlooked the sneakily-placed label?
Ah yes! Of course you did - you have yet to click on the example...
(end slimy_sarcasm)
This has been around for a while, but may be worth repeating?
Dear Mr. Architect:
Please design and build me a house. I am not quite sure of what I need, so you should use your discretion.
My house should have between two and forty-five bedrooms. Just make sure the plans are such that the bedrooms can be easily added or deleted. When you bring the blueprints to me, I will make the final decision of what I want. Also, bring me the cost breakdowns for each configuration so that I can arbitrarily pick one at a later time.
Keep in mind that the house I ultimately choose must cost less than the oneI am currently living in. Make sure, however, that you correct all the deficiencies that exist in my current house (the floor of my kitchen vibrates when I walk across it, and the walls don't have nearly enough insulation in them).
As you design, also keep in mind that I want to keep yearly maintenance costs as low as possible. This should mean the incorporation of extra-cost features like aluminum, vinyl, or composite siding. (If you choose not to specify aluminum, be prepared to explain your decision in detail.)
Please take care that modern design practices and the latest materials are used in construction of the house, as I want it to be a showplace for the most up-to-date ideas and methods. Be alerted, however, that kitchen should be designed to accommodate (among other things) my 1952 Gibson refrigerator.
To assure that you are building the correct house for our entire family, you will need to contact each of my children, and also our in-laws. My mother-in-law will have very strong feelings about how the house should be designed, since she visits us at least once a year. Make sure that you weigh all of thses options carefully and come to the right decision. I, however, retain the right to overrule any decisions that you make.
Please don't bother me with small details right now. Your job is to develop the overall plans for the house and get the big picture. At this time, for example, it is not appropriate to be chosing the color of the carpeting. However, keep in mind that my wife likes blue.
Also, do not worry at this time about acquiring the resources to build the house itself. Your first priority is to develop detailed plans and specifications. Once I approve these plans, however, I would expect the house to be under roof within 48 hours.
While you are designing this house specifically for me, keep in mind that sooner or later I will have to sell it to someone else. It therefore should have appeal to a wide variety of potential buyers. Please make sure before you finalize the plans that there is a consensus of the potential homebuyers in my area that they like the features this house has.
I advise you to run up and look at the house my neighbor build last year, as we like it a great deal. It has many things that we feel we also need in our new home, particularily the 75-foot swimming pool. With careful engineering, I believe that you can design this into our new house without impacting the construction cost.
Please prepare a complete set of blueprints. It is not necessary at this time to do the real design, since they will be used only for construction bids. Be advised, however, that you will be held accountable for any increase of construction costs as a result of later design changes.
You must be thrilled to be working on as an interesting project as this! To be able to use the latest techniques and materials and to be given such freedom in your designs is something that can't happen very often. Contact me as soon as possible with your ideas and completed plans.
PS: My wife has just told me that she disagrees with many of the instructions I've given you in this letter. As architect, it is your responsibility to resolve these differences. I have tried in the past and have been unable to accomplish this. If you can't handle this responsibility, I will have to find another architect.
PPS: Perhaps what I need is not a house at all, but a travel trailer. Please advise me as soon a possible if this is the case.
The prisoner is just like /. :-
We want information...
You won't get it!
"No Program Should EVER have to interfere with memory management"
I can't say that I agree with the implied "don't worry about memory access strategies": there are many opportunities for application programmers to thrash a system's memory needlessly by flushing the various caches due to poor program design.
TFA points out that this has been out there for over a year, not just "a few days".
Just because the symptoms are barely noticeable does not make it acceptable.
Just because it comes from a CD does not make it acceptable, either.
If the "(cluelss) user" inserts the CD again, the AV software should do what it should have done the first time - issue a large warning and block the activity. If this had happened a year ago, there wouldn't be several hundred thousand machines with it installed today.
"you got to run the spellchecker yoursellf"
Er, I can't get no grammar/spellchecker satisfaction.
Yep, Effective Oracle by Design by Kyte as mentioned earlier - check out his website as mentioned earlier: asktom.com
Does it make a Vas Deferens?
It appears that they have 'borrowed' the Google main page, and several of the main link pages, and posted it as their own website. Not eveything works - 'News' and 'Froogle', for instance, are broken links to the fuddruckers website.
I wonder if they asked Google's permission to host a hacked-up copy of parts of their website.
Try setting the max. upload speed to 75-80% of your connection's ability, and reduce the target ping to 20-80 ms (works for me, allowing browsing activities, etc to continue at the same time).
The later version allows control over download speed, too, but I have yet to try this version...
Hope it helps.
Agreed.
Can we have a show of hands to see who else agrees?
No, wait...
Sure. I'll pick up the tab.
Rules?
Will all the anarchist mathematicians gather in the larger half of the hall, please?
HP Officejet D135 Reference Manual.0 .pdf
Page 58.
http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/bpu0603
"...print a self-test report. This
report provides useful information about both your ink cartridges and your
printheads, including status information, installation and expiration dates,
and ink levels. It is useful to know the ink cartridge expiration dates, so you
can purchase replacements before that date."
My HP cartridges have chips that stop the cartridge being used after a certain number of days, so even if you refill them, they useless.
Thanks, HP!
RTFL: Look at the *second* link returned by that search at Google. litigousbastards.com has a campaign to post links to SCO using that phrase. The phrase is in the referring links, not the target site.
The campaign appears to be working!
Which operating systems have this feature?
How does this fight spam - you weren't going to read or react to it, anyway, were you? So, how does the spammer feel any impact from you not reading it through this great invention? I don't see that it impacts their bottom line at all, sorry.
As long as anyone reads or reacts to the spam, the spammer will continue... it doesn't matter to their bottom line what method the vast majority use to ignore it.
Where's the numbers to back up the assertion that 1 billion birds are slaughtered every day. 200 slaughters per skyscraper = 5 million skyscrapers. That's a lot of slaughtering by a lot of skyscrapers....
I have birds hitting my windows (reflective tint film makes them mirror finish, I guess), but I have yet to see one slaughtered in the process.
So, where's the science?
Sounds like more of the same
I have two accounts on Hotmail that usually get 30-50 spam messages a day.
Now, 3 messages in each, total, for the last two days.
Did MS finally start filtering this stuff out?
What about a VGA extension lead? Only attach to it when you need to, and the rest of the time let it dangle - but you already thought of that, right?
I've never meta-critic I didn't hate...
Er, maybe you are overlooking the fact that the number one link (hockey team) does not contain "design" or "web" (as a separate word) at all.
So, why is it number one?
Four well-dressed men sitting together at a vacation resort. "Farewell to Thee" being played in the background on Hawaiian guitar.
Michael: Ahh.. Very passable, this, very passable.
Graham: Nothing like a good glass of Chateau de Chassilier wine, ay Gessiah?
Terry: You're right there Obediah.
Eric: Who'd a thought thirty years ago we'd all be sittin' here drinking Chateau de Chassilier wine?
Michael: Aye. In them days, we'd a' been glad to have the price of a cup o' tea.
Graham: A cup ' COLD tea.
Eric: Without milk or sugar.
Terry: OR tea!
Michael: In a filthy, cracked cup.
Eric: We never used to have a cup. We used to have to drink out of a rolled up newspaper.
Graham: The best WE could manage was to suck on a piece of damp cloth.
Terry: But you know, we were happy in those days, though we were poor.
Michael: Aye. BECAUSE we were poor. My old Dad used to say to me, "Money doesn't buy you happiness."
Eric: 'E was right. I was happier then and I had NOTHIN'. We used to live in this tiiiny old house, with greaaaaat big holes in the roof.
Graham: House? You were lucky to have a HOUSE! We used to live in one room, all hundred and twenty-six of us, no furniture. Half the floor was missing; we were all huddled together in one corner for fear of FALLING!
Terry: You were lucky to have a ROOM! *We* used to have to live in a corridor!
Michael: Ohhhh we used to DREAM of livin' in a corridor! Woulda' been a palace to us. We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish tip. We got woken up every morning by having a load of rotting fish dumped all over us! House!? Hmph.
Eric: Well when I say "house" it was only a hole in the ground covered by a piece of tarpolin, but it was a house to US
. Graham: We were evicted from *our* hole in the ground; we had to go and live in a lake!
Terry: You were lucky to have a LAKE! There were a hundred and sixty of us living in a small shoebox in the middle of the road.
Michael: Cardboard box?
Terry: Aye.
Michael: You were lucky. We lived for three months in a brown paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six o'clock in the morning, clean the bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down mill for fourteen hours a day week in-week out. When we got home, out Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt!
Graham: Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at three o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of hot gravel, go to work at the mill every day for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would beat us around the head and neck with a broken bottle, if we were LUCKY!
Terry: Well we had it tough. We used to have to get up out of the shoebox at twelve o'clock at night, and LICK the road clean with our tongues. We had half a handful of freezing cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at the mill for fourpence every six years, and when we got home, our Dad would slice us in two with a bread knife.
Eric: Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, (pause for laughter), eat a lump of cold poison, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad would kill us, and dance about on our graves singing "Hallelujah."
Michael: But you try and tell the young people today that... and they won't believe ya'.
ALL: Nope, nope.
How many Linux patches are Fully Regression Tested?
Are any? By who?