I can drink that over a day, in a number of double shot shorts. But these elephantine beverages strike me as barbaric stupidity. Shit, the last half will be cold.
I see all sorts of potential problems here. But here are two.
1. We don't know what else fat cells do in your body. They may have other roles than fat storage.
2. The health risk associated with obesity is not necessarily causative, just correlated. It has a lot to do with being sedentary. A fat person who takes these pills and becomes thin probably doesn't alter their health status much unless they take the opportunity to be less sedentary as well.
I bet the potential for abuse for cosmetic purposes, a la anabolic steroids, will be huge.
Apart from the fact that why yes, I can afford my own email hosting, I also live in a jurisdiction where privacy of my information is a right enshrined in legislation, and where the spooks need a warrant from a superior court judge for a wiretap. It is the fact that Google is a US-based company that makes the difference.
... their desire not to be evil notwithstanding, there is no way in hell that I'm leaving my email on a remote box in US jurisdiction, where it can be snooped, indexed, crunched and otherwise interfered with. Does the US have *any* privacy legislation for consumers? No, I thought not. Does the US pass on commercial information gained through espionage to US companies? Yes it does.
Google search = providing me with other people's stuff. Google mail = potentially providing other people with my stuff.
Depending on what you feel management may tolerate, some options are:
- VMWare. - A "server" that just happens to be your regular working environment. Use the magic of X. - Alternatively, use rdesktop and Windows Terminal Server. - A "development network" - OpenOffice + Outlook Web Access
It would help to understand what the drivers are here for the new owners - that's what will help you build a case for preserving elements of your old environment, if that's what you want to do.
Otherwise, I would recommend cygwin+mozilla+win32perl/python. Gets you 9/10 of the way there.
This is amusing, but it could be more accurate, and better for the complete novice it's apparently aimed at.
Eg: "a variable is like a nickname". Meh. A variable is a box. The name of the variable is the label on the box. The value of the variable is the contents of the box.
Or again: the author says words starting with a colon are "lightweight strings". And then fails to say what a string is, or how much it weighs. I bet your average punter believes a string is a length of twisted fibre.
Having said that, if the author could keep on track with the intended audience, I would try this out on my daughter (aged 8).
The first link (13.4km in length at a nominal bandwidth of 11Mbps) has been operational since December 2001. Since this time we have installed a further 8 links ranging from 2.5km to 17km in length.
That's only true of products/services where customers are willing to pay a large enough premium to mitigate the risk of criminal penalty for the supplier. Eg, alcohol, drugs, prostitution have a market who will pay a lot - enough that the supplier feels it's worth the risk.
Once the cost/risk of criminal penalty accrues to spam suppliers, will there be many customers who will pay the consequent much higher rates for spam? I doubt it. Spam has been highly profitable up until now because the costs to those who provide it are very low. That won't be true any more.
Just in case this isn't a deliberate troll to provoke database weenies:
If you don't have referential integrity enforced via foreign keys, how do you know your "accessor logic" is correct? Or more importantly, how do you know when it's wrong? Trust me, if you do not enforce referential integrity you can have subtle problems that do not manifest until after you have corrupted your data, long before you're at the "just doesn't work" stage. (Eg, child records with no parents). It is far, far more sensible to leave this to the DBMS to manage and optimise the rare cases where this might cause performance problems. I'm sure you're a god who gets this right in every single case without the DBMS' help, but we mortals are better off leaving it to Oracle (or Postgres, or whatever.)
And yeah, if you don't know what nulls are for, don't use them./sarcasm.
The GPL is designed to ensure that there is free software. That is all.
Any quality benefits are purely coincidental. (The Open Source crowd disagree, but that's a different kettle of fish, and a whole other bunch of licenses).
There was an article about an email marketing conference (the legit kind) on Wired news a little while ago - maybe last month? It said that response rates for discretionary spend products were highest on a Thursday. I imagine that if so, spammers know this too, and are sending out on a Wednesday to be in your mailbox Thursday AM.
This is an absolutely important usability aspect that I often see ignored. Systems ought to have an "expert" mode that you can grow into, and recognise that advanced users have different needs.
Nautilus used to try to do this, as did gdm's configurator, although I don't think either's "advanced" mode was very well thought through.
I agree: simplicity should be about concealing complexity from people who don't care about it, not removing complexity altogether.
In corporates, yer pointy-haired types love the groupware side of it - the management of meetings, appointments, contacts, etc. And of course as a client, it comes for free with the rest of Office.
There are much better pure email clients out there, but honestly, I don't think many people would prefer Notes or Groupwise for calendaring/scheduling.
Also, some corporates at least are perfectly capable of locking down Outlook in a standardised desktop build. It's your home user with broadband who's the real danger to us all.
I was on the help desk of a university. A staff member sent an email to his lover (ie, not his wife). Through a typo, it went to a third person's mailbox. He rang and asked if I could delete the message.
I did. Rationale: the 3rd party hadn't read it, and the putative adulterer's affairs weren't my business. One of my colleagues was adamant that sysadmins should NEVER delete mail from a user mailbox, that it violated that user's privacy, and that the mail after all was correctly addressed.
First you say "It has nothing whatsoever to do with Gnutella, however. It's a separate protocol that is bootstrapping off of the Gnutella name."
Then you say "[Mike's Gnutella2 improvements] are innovations developed on Gnutella itself. These aren't simply close copies -- the protocols he cites are, in fact, Gnutella protocols"
Every article has both an author email and a letter to the editor link at the end. They usually also have links to the Tabletalk forums. I just checked, unlike N8F8.
Night soil raw is not the same as composted soil. Composting done right reaches a high enough temperature to kill pathogens. The Chinese don't compost, but Jenkins (the man in the linked article) specifies high-temperature composting.
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Holy shit, that's over half a litre!
I can drink that over a day, in a number of double shot shorts. But these elephantine beverages strike me as barbaric stupidity. Shit, the last half will be cold.
I suppose these eejits put milk in, too.
I see all sorts of potential problems here. But here are two.
1. We don't know what else fat cells do in your body. They may have other roles than fat storage.
2. The health risk associated with obesity is not necessarily causative, just correlated. It has a lot to do with being sedentary. A fat person who takes these pills and becomes thin probably doesn't alter their health status much unless they take the opportunity to be less sedentary as well.
I bet the potential for abuse for cosmetic purposes, a la anabolic steroids, will be huge.
How exactly am I going to encrypt mail sent to me?
Apart from the fact that why yes, I can afford my own email hosting, I also live in a jurisdiction where privacy of my information is a right enshrined in legislation, and where the spooks need a warrant from a superior court judge for a wiretap. It is the fact that Google is a US-based company that makes the difference.
I also don't store my mail archives at my ISP.
Google search = providing me with other people's stuff. Google mail = potentially providing other people with my stuff.
Depending on what you feel management may tolerate, some options are:
- VMWare.
- A "server" that just happens to be your regular working environment. Use the magic of X.
- Alternatively, use rdesktop and Windows Terminal Server.
- A "development network"
- OpenOffice + Outlook Web Access
It would help to understand what the drivers are here for the new owners - that's what will help you build a case for preserving elements of your old environment, if that's what you want to do.
Otherwise, I would recommend cygwin+mozilla+win32perl/python. Gets you 9/10 of the way there.
You sir, suck.
Yes, you're very clever; no, you're not helpful.
You and this reply should both be modded down.
This is amusing, but it could be more accurate, and better for the complete novice it's apparently aimed at.
Eg: "a variable is like a nickname". Meh. A variable is a box. The name of the variable is the label on the box. The value of the variable is the contents of the box.
Or again: the author says words starting with a colon are "lightweight strings". And then fails to say what a string is, or how much it weighs. I bet your average punter believes a string is a length of twisted fibre.
Having said that, if the author could keep on track with the intended audience, I would try this out on my daughter (aged 8).
The first link (13.4km in length at a nominal bandwidth of 11Mbps) has been operational since December 2001. Since this time we have installed a further 8 links ranging from 2.5km to 17km in length.
That's only true of products/services where customers are willing to pay a large enough premium to mitigate the risk of criminal penalty for the supplier. Eg, alcohol, drugs, prostitution have a market who will pay a lot - enough that the supplier feels it's worth the risk.
Once the cost/risk of criminal penalty accrues to spam suppliers, will there be many customers who will pay the consequent much higher rates for spam? I doubt it. Spam has been highly profitable up until now because the costs to those who provide it are very low. That won't be true any more.
Just in case this isn't a deliberate troll to provoke database weenies:
/sarcasm.
If you don't have referential integrity enforced via foreign keys, how do you know your "accessor logic" is correct? Or more importantly, how do you know when it's wrong? Trust me, if you do not enforce referential integrity you can have subtle problems that do not manifest until after you have corrupted your data, long before you're at the "just doesn't work" stage. (Eg, child records with no parents). It is far, far more sensible to leave this to the DBMS to manage and optimise the rare cases where this might cause performance problems. I'm sure you're a god who gets this right in every single case without the DBMS' help, but we mortals are better off leaving it to Oracle (or Postgres, or whatever.)
And yeah, if you don't know what nulls are for, don't use them.
Christ on a stick. That's a brilliant parody. It can't be for real.
Aren't you Americans supposed to be litigious? SUE! And don't forget to name Extegrity as co-defendants.
Spot the difference.
Koha is a successful open source library catalogue system. Are libraries a vertical market?
No.
The GPL is designed to ensure that there is free software. That is all.
Any quality benefits are purely coincidental. (The Open Source crowd disagree, but that's a different kettle of fish, and a whole other bunch of licenses).
If you ever read any Michael Moorcock, it's even funnier ("Una Persson" is a contributor to the Straight Dope).
There was an article about an email marketing conference (the legit kind) on Wired news a little while ago - maybe last month? It said that response rates for discretionary spend products were highest on a Thursday. I imagine that if so, spammers know this too, and are sending out on a Wednesday to be in your mailbox Thursday AM.
That is complete and utter bollocks.
See article here (includes references to studies).
A moment's thought about your own bowel habits would confirm this.
This is an absolutely important usability aspect that I often see ignored. Systems ought to have an "expert" mode that you can grow into, and recognise that advanced users have different needs.
Nautilus used to try to do this, as did gdm's configurator, although I don't think either's "advanced" mode was very well thought through.
I agree: simplicity should be about concealing complexity from people who don't care about it, not removing complexity altogether.
In corporates, yer pointy-haired types love the groupware side of it - the management of meetings, appointments, contacts, etc. And of course as a client, it comes for free with the rest of Office.
There are much better pure email clients out there, but honestly, I don't think many people would prefer Notes or Groupwise for calendaring/scheduling.
Also, some corporates at least are perfectly capable of locking down Outlook in a standardised desktop build. It's your home user with broadband who's the real danger to us all.
I was on the help desk of a university. A staff member sent an email to his lover (ie, not his wife). Through a typo, it went to a third person's mailbox. He rang and asked if I could delete the message.
I did. Rationale: the 3rd party hadn't read it, and the putative adulterer's affairs weren't my business. One of my colleagues was adamant that sysadmins should NEVER delete mail from a user mailbox, that it violated that user's privacy, and that the mail after all was correctly addressed.
Ah, the difference between Simon and Simone...
Um.
First you say "It has nothing whatsoever to do with Gnutella, however. It's a separate protocol that is bootstrapping off of the Gnutella name."
Then you say "[Mike's Gnutella2 improvements] are innovations developed on Gnutella itself. These aren't simply close copies -- the protocols he cites are, in fact, Gnutella protocols"
These statements appear to be contradictory.
Yes, I got the classical allusion at the beginning.
Will you marry me?
Every article has both an author email and a letter to the editor link at the end. They usually also have links to the Tabletalk forums. I just checked, unlike N8F8.
Night soil raw is not the same as composted soil. Composting done right reaches a high enough temperature to kill pathogens. The Chinese don't compost, but Jenkins (the man in the linked article) specifies high-temperature composting.