EEG is too coarse-grained to let you "read minds." Besides, it's easier to tell what a dog is thinking just by observing them. They want you to give them something, the will look at it then at you, then back at it. They also can train you to take them for a walk, using negative reinforcement via the "oops - too late, I told you I needed to go for a walk" stratagem. And that they want your food by drooling on it so you don't want it any more anyway. And that they don't want you to leave by shedding on your clothes so you have to stay longer to get the fur off.
And if you don't know what they're thinking when they're humping your leg, well... maybe you need an EEG or a CT scan.
I didn't worry about grades by grade 10. I already had early acceptance to uni based on my crazy SAT scores - and that was with spending much of my time daydreaming and reading stuff I liked, and as little as possible on homework - unless the teacher p*ssed me off. Like the one in grade 9 who asked everyone what grade they thought they deserved. I took my "lucky nickel" - not really lucky, but it had a rabbit on the obverse, which was neat, said "Heads, an A, tails an F", and it came out heads. She was not amused, so in retaliation, when she asked for a 3 page book report on Lord of the Flies, I gave her close to 40 pages of single-space analysis. Hey, I deserved an A, even if I would have been happy with anything over an F because I really didn't care.
Better to just pretend you're gay and you want to have phone sex with him. And remember, the longer you keep him on the phone, the less time he has to talk to the next person. Keep his numbers down, he's fired.
You just talked to the local distributor, who was someone with a van who dumped the papers off in bundles on the different routes. No talking to parents, but the newspaper companies also actively solicited teenagers - nobody even thought of asking for permission back then.
I remember when we had the 1970 FLQ October crisis, with the military deployed on the streets. Didn't stop me from going to the library at night in the dark. Why would I ask to go to the library when I was 14? It was only 3/4 of an hour's walk away.
Interesting factoid - I wasn't even considering delivering newspapers until the kid who eventually killed his father offered to sell me his route. Strange how these things just tend to spiral out of control in my life... who could have predicted that 2 years later he'd be forcing me to kill his father?
Actually, I am, and I remember when they brought in the GST on commercial rents, the politicians exempted their riding offices. Then again, most politicians are fools. Before they voted in free trade, I went to Ottawa to point out how much we were giving up... couldn't find a single politician who had read it. "Oh, how can it be bad, it has the word 'free' in it?" I sh*t you not.
Power cuts by drunks running into utility poles? Or idiots shooting out power transformers and insulators? And backhoe operators who don't call first to check for buried utilities?
You won't have to worry about that soon. India is a shithole with enough people without even an outdoor toilet that they could stand in line from here to the moon, and there is no way to get from that to everyone having indoor plumbing, because there are just not enough consumers (individual and business) outside the country to fully address the problem. So the "solution" will be war with Pakistan, probably with nukes at some point. Most countries with cultures that keep much of the population in permanent poverty end up doing so.
Even the general population treats much of the country as one large shit hole - the majority go out early in the morning to look for a place where they won't be seen and take a dump.
And if you could block calls that originate from outside your country or from specific countries, rather than allow call number spoofing? Or block all spoofed numbers? The telcos can do it - after all, they know where the calls originate from - that's how they do cross-carrier-network billing.
Problem is, many of these calls are from outside the country. The phone companies could avoid allowing call spoofing across geographical boundaries, but there's too much money in it.
Me, I'd settle for a button that I can press that sends 1.2 "jiggawatts" of power through them, give them a permanent Professor Emmett Brown hairdo.
And that's why if you do end up on the receiving end of one of these calls, you talk to them as long as you can. If everyone did this, their business model would die because each sucker they reel in would cost too much in human time.
You're mistaking the cpu with individual cores in that cpu. Nice try, though. Your cpu executes the HCF instruction, it's taking all the cores with it.
Of course you still can. Just download it directly from the FreeBSD site. The point I was making is that the lawsuit delayed general adoption of FreeBSD just enough to allow linux to get some traction.
"The law is clear about robocalls," says one FTC executive. "If a telemarketer doesn't have consumers' written permission, it's illegal to make these calls."
I'll believe you when you cut out the exemptions for politicians, banks, carriers, and charities. It's right there in your list of exemptions.
Or they can join Mini Microsoft (remember him) - whose last post was about Microsoft laying off 18,000 exactly 2-1/2 years ago this week. The guy with all the interesting dirt on the internal politics governing Microsoft's decisions looks to have been given a red shirt - or more likely moved on.
If it hadn't been for the BSD lawsuits, we'd all be running variants of FreeBSD and Linux would have remained a toy. And all the effort into improving linux would have gone into FreeBSD, an OS with a truly free license, unlike the GPL.
I've routinely pulled the power cord out of a local server just to demonstrate to a coworker that it's more robust than Windows. I had to because they refused to turn the power off. They were too afraid. Properly set up, you will NOT get an unbootable machine. And it only takes seconds to check and restore a journaling file system and be up and running again.
Those who claim Windows is better really need to, as you say, stop with the meth.
Exactly, we should only use flat files for configuration, and the/etc directory is not a single point of failure because reasons, and the file system is not a single point of failure because reasons.
And the cpu is not a single point of failure because reasons...
You can always boot linux or bsd off another media and fix the problem - usually quite quickly, with nothing more than vim. Or in the case where the complete file system, or even the hard drive itself, are toast, just reinstall. Or even just use the computer for the next year or two without a hard drive - KNOPPIX is great for not needing a hard drive. A reinstall of windows is a real PITA in comparison.
Windows is a single point of failure. Product activation failed because you changed some hardware that died? Sux 2 B U. Can't activate the OS because it's no longer supported? Either find a crack or again, Sux 2 B U. Doesn't matter that you have a fully paid up license, and that in the case of XP, Microsoft promised to release the activation keys once they stopped supporting it. They lied.
What is true is that Chrome HAS made a huge dent in the school market (particularly the university market - I was surprised about that). Uni students who run Windows are mostly doing it from home, for things like games.
In a thirty years, there will probably be Windows installs of companies that were never able to move off and are paying hundreds of thousands of dollars per month to keep some critical application running in exactly the same way it ran in 2025
Most of those companies will have died long before then.
Nah - every time they boot employees the stock goes up - it's been that way in corporate America for a couple of decades now. Maybe they should bring back Balmer so they can fire him again and send it TO TEH MOONZ!"
After all, employees are now seen as a cost center, not an asset. "You will continue to be beaten until morale improves" was supposed to be satire.
Companies can move out of silly valley. If your most important resource is qualified people, and the qualified people don't want to go where you are with your overpriced housing and pretentious lifestyle, maybe you'll have to open a branch office where the qualified people are.
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Only every minute? Depending on what side you're on, you're either hopelessly optimistic or extremely pessimistic.
Where's the ball? Where's THE BALL?! BALL!
At THE VETS. At THE VETS. Sorry, you only had 2 to begin with.
And if you don't know what they're thinking when they're humping your leg, well ... maybe you need an EEG or a CT scan.
I didn't worry about grades by grade 10. I already had early acceptance to uni based on my crazy SAT scores - and that was with spending much of my time daydreaming and reading stuff I liked, and as little as possible on homework - unless the teacher p*ssed me off. Like the one in grade 9 who asked everyone what grade they thought they deserved. I took my "lucky nickel" - not really lucky, but it had a rabbit on the obverse, which was neat, said "Heads, an A, tails an F", and it came out heads. She was not amused, so in retaliation, when she asked for a 3 page book report on Lord of the Flies, I gave her close to 40 pages of single-space analysis. Hey, I deserved an A, even if I would have been happy with anything over an F because I really didn't care.
Better to just pretend you're gay and you want to have phone sex with him. And remember, the longer you keep him on the phone, the less time he has to talk to the next person. Keep his numbers down, he's fired.
You just talked to the local distributor, who was someone with a van who dumped the papers off in bundles on the different routes. No talking to parents, but the newspaper companies also actively solicited teenagers - nobody even thought of asking for permission back then.
I remember when we had the 1970 FLQ October crisis, with the military deployed on the streets. Didn't stop me from going to the library at night in the dark. Why would I ask to go to the library when I was 14? It was only 3/4 of an hour's walk away.
Interesting factoid - I wasn't even considering delivering newspapers until the kid who eventually killed his father offered to sell me his route. Strange how these things just tend to spiral out of control in my life ... who could have predicted that 2 years later he'd be forcing me to kill his father?
At least you're not in Canada
Actually, I am, and I remember when they brought in the GST on commercial rents, the politicians exempted their riding offices. Then again, most politicians are fools. Before they voted in free trade, I went to Ottawa to point out how much we were giving up ... couldn't find a single politician who had read it. "Oh, how can it be bad, it has the word 'free' in it?" I sh*t you not.
Power cuts by drunks running into utility poles? Or idiots shooting out power transformers and insulators? And backhoe operators who don't call first to check for buried utilities?
You won't have to worry about that soon. India is a shithole with enough people without even an outdoor toilet that they could stand in line from here to the moon, and there is no way to get from that to everyone having indoor plumbing, because there are just not enough consumers (individual and business) outside the country to fully address the problem. So the "solution" will be war with Pakistan, probably with nukes at some point. Most countries with cultures that keep much of the population in permanent poverty end up doing so.
Even the general population treats much of the country as one large shit hole - the majority go out early in the morning to look for a place where they won't be seen and take a dump.
And if you could block calls that originate from outside your country or from specific countries, rather than allow call number spoofing? Or block all spoofed numbers? The telcos can do it - after all, they know where the calls originate from - that's how they do cross-carrier-network billing.
Me, I'd settle for a button that I can press that sends 1.2 "jiggawatts" of power through them, give them a permanent Professor Emmett Brown hairdo.
And that's why if you do end up on the receiving end of one of these calls, you talk to them as long as you can. If everyone did this, their business model would die because each sucker they reel in would cost too much in human time.
You're mistaking the cpu with individual cores in that cpu. Nice try, though. Your cpu executes the HCF instruction, it's taking all the cores with it.
How is spamming me with 5+ calls a day supposed to make me want to vote for you?
Here's how:
The local democrats went to a fancy restaurant, ordered like there was no tomorrow, gave a lavish tip, and said "Vote democrat."
The local republicans went to the same restaurant, ordered like there was no tomorrow, gave no tip, and said "Vote democrat."
You wouldn't be referring to Leonart Poettering and the whole "we need a new init system that we can force on everyone" care of RedHat, would you?
After all, what better way to get more customers for support than to create a new standard and force it on everyone ...
Of course you still can. Just download it directly from the FreeBSD site. The point I was making is that the lawsuit delayed general adoption of FreeBSD just enough to allow linux to get some traction.
"The law is clear about robocalls," says one FTC executive. "If a telemarketer doesn't have consumers' written permission, it's illegal to make these calls."
I'll believe you when you cut out the exemptions for politicians, banks, carriers, and charities. It's right there in your list of exemptions.
Or they can join Mini Microsoft (remember him) - whose last post was about Microsoft laying off 18,000 exactly 2-1/2 years ago this week. The guy with all the interesting dirt on the internal politics governing Microsoft's decisions looks to have been given a red shirt - or more likely moved on.
If it hadn't been for the BSD lawsuits, we'd all be running variants of FreeBSD and Linux would have remained a toy. And all the effort into improving linux would have gone into FreeBSD, an OS with a truly free license, unlike the GPL.
I've routinely pulled the power cord out of a local server just to demonstrate to a coworker that it's more robust than Windows. I had to because they refused to turn the power off. They were too afraid. Properly set up, you will NOT get an unbootable machine. And it only takes seconds to check and restore a journaling file system and be up and running again.
Those who claim Windows is better really need to, as you say, stop with the meth.
Exactly, we should only use flat files for configuration, and the /etc directory is not a single point of failure because reasons, and the file system is not a single point of failure because reasons.
And the cpu is not a single point of failure because reasons ...
You can always boot linux or bsd off another media and fix the problem - usually quite quickly, with nothing more than vim. Or in the case where the complete file system, or even the hard drive itself, are toast, just reinstall. Or even just use the computer for the next year or two without a hard drive - KNOPPIX is great for not needing a hard drive. A reinstall of windows is a real PITA in comparison.
Windows is a single point of failure. Product activation failed because you changed some hardware that died? Sux 2 B U. Can't activate the OS because it's no longer supported? Either find a crack or again, Sux 2 B U. Doesn't matter that you have a fully paid up license, and that in the case of XP, Microsoft promised to release the activation keys once they stopped supporting it. They lied.
What is true is that Chrome HAS made a huge dent in the school market (particularly the university market - I was surprised about that). Uni students who run Windows are mostly doing it from home, for things like games.
In a thirty years, there will probably be Windows installs of companies that were never able to move off and are paying hundreds of thousands of dollars per month to keep some critical application running in exactly the same way it ran in 2025
Most of those companies will have died long before then.
Nah - every time they boot employees the stock goes up - it's been that way in corporate America for a couple of decades now. Maybe they should bring back Balmer so they can fire him again and send it TO TEH MOONZ!"
After all, employees are now seen as a cost center, not an asset. "You will continue to be beaten until morale improves" was supposed to be satire.
Companies can move out of silly valley. If your most important resource is qualified people, and the qualified people don't want to go where you are with your overpriced housing and pretentious lifestyle, maybe you'll have to open a branch office where the qualified people are.