For example: one of my classmates was stumped that she couldn't get her Java project to compile. Instead of a.java text file, she had a MSWord document in the solution. When I told her she'd need to convert it to a plain text file, she couldn't figure out the "invalid character at line Y, position X" errors from the MSWord quotes and hyphens left in the text. And she was a CS major on her last term.
To be fair, I saw some of that sort of thing at my traditional, not-for-profit, state-run school.
In my experience, you might go for food/restroom breaks ONCE throughout the 3.5-4 hours you're there. That doesn't seem unreasonable to me. And usually you do it during one of the breaks in the game. Last game I was at that's exactly what happened - at halftime, we went to the restroom and grabbed some food. The rest of the time we were in our seats watching the game.
I think you're underestimating smart phone saturation. My wife and I go to hockey games at Verizon Center in DC, and we both have iPhones (and yes I am aware of the irony of using an AT&T phone in a place named "Verizon Center"). Before this season, the 3G network was basically unusable between the periods, and not very good the rest of the time. This year, the arena installed free Wifi for attendees, and that, while cool, is still pretty limited - we usually can't connect to either network they set up for fans (when we can, it's great, but it fails probably 3/4 of the time). The 3G is now better than it was, but it's still pretty limited; my wife had dropped back to the Edge network when we were there Tuesday. So, I'm curious how well the network at Cowboys Stadium does - Verizon holds 18,000 for hockey games; Cowboys Stadium has 80,000.
I actually was a SATA "early adopter" back in early 2004 when I bought a computer. Had taken a "computer sabbatical" for several years in hawaii and was just purchasing a new one finally. Configured it without a floppy disk, which I was glad to never have to use again. Then a few months later when good ole' Windows XP takes a crap on me, I goto reinstall it, and XP requires a floppy drive to install the drivers for my sata drive... No thumb drive, burnt CD, nothing else, just a fucking floppy which I purposely left off my system build. f micorosft. fml
I had a similar problem recently. First, I'm surprised you haven't gotten flamed yet like I did when I mentioned it. I said that I was having trouble getting it to work, but Linux was working fine on the machine, and I wasn't missing Windows XP - apparently that's worthy of flames about how I was stupid for trying to use an 8 year old OS on a new machine and I'd have as much trouble with Linux, etc.
Anyway, it required slipstreaming XP on to a new DVD then reinstalling using that. It's not so bad as long as you have another machine on which to do it (I had my old laptop that I dug out of the closet for this purpose). You can mess with a bunch of options, but the first time I did it, I got a really wacky system setup without things like sound, so I recommend going with the normal settings. Just put SP3 and your drivers on the disc, and configure everything the old-fashioned way.
Here's what makes me wonder. I've been following this thread on thedailywtf.com about password stupidities, and someone in that list mentioned this very issue on 1/8. Now I see it on reddit and Slashdot...
Unfortunately I use a software package that requires telnet. Their SSH solution is basically unusable, and it's not feasible to switch away from that package. Pretty annoying, actually, because every new server is set up with telnet disabled (naturally), and we have to get it re-enabled, and they always put it on a random port number.
Similarly, non IT story: I bought a special air conditioner/furnace from a company a number of years back. A year or two later it developed a problem - the compressor died. I asked the company I bought it from about the warranty and they insisted I didn't buy it from them. I showed them the receipt, and they said they did a track on the serial number and found it had been sold to some other shop. I didn't know what to tell them - I only ever dealt with one company, because our options were extremely limited for companies in the area that would sell us that type of unit, and I had the canceled check with them in the "Payee" line.
But... why are you standing that close to the tracks in the first place? We KNOW where trains are going to be: in the places with tracks (unlike cars which can drive on some unpaved terrain). Why would you be standing on/walking on the tracks or close enough to the tracks in the first place?
Those are passenger trains. They're relatively light and as you say, you don't really hear them. The GP was talking about freight trains, which is mostly what we have in the US. I camped near a rail line once for a couple days, and the difference between the two was night and day - the freight trains rumbled like nothing else, but the passenger trains felt like it was just an engine rolling past.
Really, to be consistent, it should apply to all cars, not just electrics. Even with the motor running, a coasting car can be hard to hear.
Totally disagree. When I was in grad school, the busses at the school had a diesel engine in the rear, making them pretty much impossible to hear approaching until it would be too late. Why are electric cars different? What makes blind people able to deal with busses like that but not electric cars?
Destroying evidence while being investigated by the FCC/FTC is usually frowned upon.
It wasn't evidence till they admitted having it and everybody started demanding it. The GP was right, they should have destroyed it first, then fessed up that they had un-permitted data (which still has not been proven in a court of law) and that they did the right thing by destroying it.
Except then half of Slashdot would be going off about how Google is evil and their proof would be that Google deleted the data before anyone could look at it.
Not to mention that for all the time he spent subjectively in the computer world, hardly any time passed in the real world. He was never noticed missing.
This was addressed. Time goes more quickly in the computer world.
In the 1970s, American corporations typically thought they needed 500 to 700 square feet per employee to build an effective office, but the LA Times reports that today's average is a little more than 200 square feet per person, and the space allocation could hit a mere 50 square feet by 2015.
Then in 2025, everyone's cubicles will be two square feet! In 2035, it'll be negative 10 square feet! Zager and Evans will have NOTHING on this!
My girlfriend (now wife) managed to snap the USB connector off of her thumb drive...of course, without backups. I was able to solder it back on and it worked. (Before I started, I wasn't sure how hard it would be, but the soldering went pretty well, so I wasn't that surprised when it did work.) I copied the data off of it, burned the data to CD, and promptly threw the USB drive away to prevent any temptation in using it again!
In hindsight, I probably should've at least taken a picture of it.
1 every provider can certify under penalty of law that the ads being served are relevant safe to view and are less than 10% of the page content
How did you decide on 10%? I was just thinking that the Simpsons episodes these days are about 22:30 long. That means about 25% of the 30 minute "content" is ads. I wonder what percentage of a magazine or newspaper are ads... 50%?
I've done it a couple times recently and found it was closer to the half-day mark. Don't forget the time to create the slipstream CD, then to set up the drivers that the slipstreaming ignored for some reason (audio and video, in my case), and then to download basic software and updates (IE8, Firefox, and about 84 security updates, in my case), plus associated reboots.
It always seemed to me like the specialized magazine apps weren't quite the right mechanism for handling repeating content like magazines. Apple and other companies would be smart to come up with something for the book reader app that lets people subscribe to magazines and read them through the app, if they don't have something like that already.
Personally, I haven't tried the magazine apps; the one or two magazines I read that have them would charge me a second time (I already have a paper subscription) to read them electronically, and I don't want to spend the extra money. It's the equivalent of buying a second copy at the newsstand, price-wise. Since I'm already a subscriber, I'd prefer a free or even low-cost electronic option, at least until I give up paper magazines entirely - at that point my current subscription payment would be for the electronic version instead.
I picked yours but most of the responses fall into the "you still need some offsite backup capability" category, which was the point I was trying to make.
If I keep the private key, and my house burns down, aren't I then just as screwed as I would've been if I didn't have offsite backups in the first place? If I have another safe place to keep the key, why not just keep the backups there?
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Looking down at the Orion article, it has almost as many comments than this article. At the moment it's 129 vs. 115.
For example: one of my classmates was stumped that she couldn't get her Java project to compile. Instead of a .java text file, she had a MSWord document in the solution. When I told her she'd need to convert it to a plain text file, she couldn't figure out the "invalid character at line Y, position X" errors from the MSWord quotes and hyphens left in the text. And she was a CS major on her last term.
To be fair, I saw some of that sort of thing at my traditional, not-for-profit, state-run school.
Who can forget this Dilbert?
In my experience, you might go for food/restroom breaks ONCE throughout the 3.5-4 hours you're there. That doesn't seem unreasonable to me. And usually you do it during one of the breaks in the game. Last game I was at that's exactly what happened - at halftime, we went to the restroom and grabbed some food. The rest of the time we were in our seats watching the game.
I think you're underestimating smart phone saturation. My wife and I go to hockey games at Verizon Center in DC, and we both have iPhones (and yes I am aware of the irony of using an AT&T phone in a place named "Verizon Center"). Before this season, the 3G network was basically unusable between the periods, and not very good the rest of the time. This year, the arena installed free Wifi for attendees, and that, while cool, is still pretty limited - we usually can't connect to either network they set up for fans (when we can, it's great, but it fails probably 3/4 of the time). The 3G is now better than it was, but it's still pretty limited; my wife had dropped back to the Edge network when we were there Tuesday. So, I'm curious how well the network at Cowboys Stadium does - Verizon holds 18,000 for hockey games; Cowboys Stadium has 80,000.
I actually was a SATA "early adopter" back in early 2004 when I bought a computer. Had taken a "computer sabbatical" for several years in hawaii and was just purchasing a new one finally. Configured it without a floppy disk, which I was glad to never have to use again. Then a few months later when good ole' Windows XP takes a crap on me, I goto reinstall it, and XP requires a floppy drive to install the drivers for my sata drive... No thumb drive, burnt CD, nothing else, just a fucking floppy which I purposely left off my system build. f micorosft. fml
I had a similar problem recently. First, I'm surprised you haven't gotten flamed yet like I did when I mentioned it. I said that I was having trouble getting it to work, but Linux was working fine on the machine, and I wasn't missing Windows XP - apparently that's worthy of flames about how I was stupid for trying to use an 8 year old OS on a new machine and I'd have as much trouble with Linux, etc.
Anyway, it required slipstreaming XP on to a new DVD then reinstalling using that. It's not so bad as long as you have another machine on which to do it (I had my old laptop that I dug out of the closet for this purpose). You can mess with a bunch of options, but the first time I did it, I got a really wacky system setup without things like sound, so I recommend going with the normal settings. Just put SP3 and your drivers on the disc, and configure everything the old-fashioned way.
Here's what makes me wonder. I've been following this thread on thedailywtf.com about password stupidities, and someone in that list mentioned this very issue on 1/8. Now I see it on reddit and Slashdot...
Unfortunately I use a software package that requires telnet. Their SSH solution is basically unusable, and it's not feasible to switch away from that package. Pretty annoying, actually, because every new server is set up with telnet disabled (naturally), and we have to get it re-enabled, and they always put it on a random port number.
I do it frequently. Some places I deal with (campgrounds, mostly) do not have online ordering or whatever.
Similarly, non IT story: I bought a special air conditioner/furnace from a company a number of years back. A year or two later it developed a problem - the compressor died. I asked the company I bought it from about the warranty and they insisted I didn't buy it from them. I showed them the receipt, and they said they did a track on the serial number and found it had been sold to some other shop. I didn't know what to tell them - I only ever dealt with one company, because our options were extremely limited for companies in the area that would sell us that type of unit, and I had the canceled check with them in the "Payee" line.
Sorry. You seemed to be in support of noisemakers. That's what I was disagreeing with.
But... why are you standing that close to the tracks in the first place? We KNOW where trains are going to be: in the places with tracks (unlike cars which can drive on some unpaved terrain). Why would you be standing on/walking on the tracks or close enough to the tracks in the first place?
Here is Sydney, the trains are quite large, double storey and mainly 8 cars long but even with that they are almost silent as they approach.
Those are passenger trains. They're relatively light and as you say, you don't really hear them. The GP was talking about freight trains, which is mostly what we have in the US. I camped near a rail line once for a couple days, and the difference between the two was night and day - the freight trains rumbled like nothing else, but the passenger trains felt like it was just an engine rolling past.
Really, to be consistent, it should apply to all cars, not just electrics. Even with the motor running, a coasting car can be hard to hear.
Totally disagree. When I was in grad school, the busses at the school had a diesel engine in the rear, making them pretty much impossible to hear approaching until it would be too late. Why are electric cars different? What makes blind people able to deal with busses like that but not electric cars?
Destroying evidence while being investigated by the FCC/FTC is usually frowned upon.
It wasn't evidence till they admitted having it and everybody started demanding it. The GP was right, they should have destroyed it first, then fessed up that they had un-permitted data (which still has not been proven in a court of law) and that they did the right thing by destroying it.
Except then half of Slashdot would be going off about how Google is evil and their proof would be that Google deleted the data before anyone could look at it.
Not to mention that for all the time he spent subjectively in the computer world, hardly any time passed in the real world. He was never noticed missing.
This was addressed. Time goes more quickly in the computer world.
In the 1970s, American corporations typically thought they needed 500 to 700 square feet per employee to build an effective office, but the LA Times reports that today's average is a little more than 200 square feet per person, and the space allocation could hit a mere 50 square feet by 2015.
Then in 2025, everyone's cubicles will be two square feet! In 2035, it'll be negative 10 square feet! Zager and Evans will have NOTHING on this!
Sorry, I'm just enjoying the silly extrapolation.
Missing the point...how did you decide on 10%? Why should the web be lower than every other media form?
My girlfriend (now wife) managed to snap the USB connector off of her thumb drive...of course, without backups. I was able to solder it back on and it worked. (Before I started, I wasn't sure how hard it would be, but the soldering went pretty well, so I wasn't that surprised when it did work.) I copied the data off of it, burned the data to CD, and promptly threw the USB drive away to prevent any temptation in using it again!
In hindsight, I probably should've at least taken a picture of it.
1 every provider can certify under penalty of law that the ads being served are relevant safe to view and are less than 10% of the page content
How did you decide on 10%? I was just thinking that the Simpsons episodes these days are about 22:30 long. That means about 25% of the 30 minute "content" is ads. I wonder what percentage of a magazine or newspaper are ads... 50%?
I've done it a couple times recently and found it was closer to the half-day mark. Don't forget the time to create the slipstream CD, then to set up the drivers that the slipstreaming ignored for some reason (audio and video, in my case), and then to download basic software and updates (IE8, Firefox, and about 84 security updates, in my case), plus associated reboots.
It always seemed to me like the specialized magazine apps weren't quite the right mechanism for handling repeating content like magazines. Apple and other companies would be smart to come up with something for the book reader app that lets people subscribe to magazines and read them through the app, if they don't have something like that already.
Personally, I haven't tried the magazine apps; the one or two magazines I read that have them would charge me a second time (I already have a paper subscription) to read them electronically, and I don't want to spend the extra money. It's the equivalent of buying a second copy at the newsstand, price-wise. Since I'm already a subscriber, I'd prefer a free or even low-cost electronic option, at least until I give up paper magazines entirely - at that point my current subscription payment would be for the electronic version instead.
I picked yours but most of the responses fall into the "you still need some offsite backup capability" category, which was the point I was trying to make.
If I keep the private key, and my house burns down, aren't I then just as screwed as I would've been if I didn't have offsite backups in the first place? If I have another safe place to keep the key, why not just keep the backups there?
We already have our own PT Cruiser. This is the next logical step!