Are you going to claim that a mechanic who uses the computer in your car to tell him you have a bad sparkplug is a bad mechanic? Or are you going to be quietly grateful that he was able to fix your problem for $50 in 1/2 an hour instead of the old school "hard core" method of slowly replacing part after part until you figure out which was the broken one, which costs you lots of time and money?
Any mechanic that has to use a computer to figure out which plug is bad is ripping you off. The old-school way is much quicker and easier - with the engine running, pull each spark plug wire, one at a time (they sell a special $10 pliers just for this task). The engine should slow down. If you pull the wire, and the engine doesn't slow down, or doesn't slow down as much, you've found the bad plug. 2 minutes, tops. So add another 5 for changing the plug, and another 3 for cleaning up. 15 minutes tops.
Before that, the 400GB was the biggest for over a year.
You weren't able to walk into a store and buy a 400-gig hard drive off the shelf last year. Heck, most places STILL don't carry them in inventory.
The "price point" - the most bang for the buck, has been dropping like a stone. You can get a 320 gig hd today for the same price you paid for a 160 gig earlier this year. And this will continue. Expect to see terabyte drives becoming commodity items over the next year or so.
Do you really believe they're going to be able to enforce the "no sex" rule? It's been around in one form or another since the shuttle started flying, and it's been violated (including 2 flings between people who were married, just not to each other) more than a couple of times.
Remember, you're never really passing around objects, just as you're never really passing around objects in c or java. Its just a way of thinking that lets you get a different (not necessarily better) handle on a problem.
In this case, the framework that provides the abstraction is horrendously huge, and a resource hog.
Right tool for the right job, and all that. It's not *just* that it comes from Microsoft, though that is also a concern. A big one. Their reputation precedes them.
Are you now as fat as your parents were when you were going up?
Sorry, we're not Americans^WSuperSized. I've been boycotting McDonalds for over a decade. My BMI (body mass index) is normal, as was theirs last time I saw them.
Do you steal or plan to steal from you childrens candy bag?
No - I'm doing the Hallowe'en party thing, like I suggested everyone else try. Besides, my kids are grown up - something you might want to try some time.
I want one of those! I'm not fussy - I'll settle for colour. But 132x80? Nice:-) That's gotta be, what, 1600x1200 if we go by 15 scan lines per character cell. So we're talking 21 - 24" monitor, 10560 character cells, as opposed to 80x25, or 2000 character cells. Lots of room for all sorts of box-drawing and ascii art.
Now if it was in a real text mode instead of "drawing" the characters pixel by pixel, you could get awesome performance from 10-year-old hardware. (Is there a hardware textmode for 132x80)? or 160x100?
Thanks for pointing that out. So remove the "sort" - then the default sort is by filename, which is what a lot of people want. Also, to remove the total count, get rid of the first line. The way to do that is head -11| tail -10. Problem solved, though I have a more complete solution that handles embedded spaces in filenames, etc., posted elsewhere in this thread.
... depends on what part of the world you're in...
Also, when is the last time you SAID "dollars forty-five hundred"? Of course, if you're going around as Yoda on Hallowe'en, "dollars forty-five hundred" might just be the way you'd speak...
This is one of the problems everyone is having a hard time conceptualizing - that you don't overbuy so that you can expand existing systems - oftentimes, it'll be more expensive to buy those 3-year-old now obsolete parts than to buy bigger, better, and faster parts.
What I'd do is, as each new increase of storage is due to come on-line, grab the larger sizes and relegate the older systems to backup and semi-stable storage, or to store the stuff that doesn't need high availability, rather than expanding them. Expanding a system with 4 250gig hard drives 3 years from now is going to be as silly as expanding a system with 2 40-gig hard drives today.
You should have done like the winners did - use google to cheat.
VB means you must have cheated using MSN Search, not Google Search! You might as well have told them you're going dressed up as Steve Balmer for Hallowe'en (don't forget the chair:-)
Oh, come on... you KNOW you want the mini Coffee Crisp bars... and the caffeine in Coffee Crisp can't be good for the little 'uns - so THINK OF THE CHILDREN - SLEAL THEIR HALLOWE'EN STASH!
And those little boxes of Smarties - well, everyone knows the purple ones are like the purple telletubbie. You gotta raise your kids real good and keep such evil things from them. Where is your sense of SELF-SACRIFICE? Eat those smarties!
And the little O'Henry Bars - you kids could have a peanut allergy (well, they didn't yesterday, but all that extra chocolate and sweets MIGHT trigger a reaction). Do you want your kids to have to avoid peanut butter the rest of their lives? Eat thoe little buggers before they can screw up their immune systems.
And the Mars Bars - well, they're just loaded with sugar and caramel and chocolate and sugar. There's nothing in them except pure calories. There's no hope for you - you NEED that 20" laptop to fit your supersized lap - but the KIDS - think of the KIDS. There's still HOPE for them. You're helping them avid a lifetime of ridicule and bad health by eating their Mars Bars.
And the Caramilks - Hallowe'en is on s SCHOOL NIGHT! Do you want your kids staying up all night hyped up on sugar WONDERING HOW THEY GET THE CARAMEL INTO THE CARAMILK? They'll be too tired to do their schoolwork properly, so they'll be held back, drop out, and end up selling their bodies for crack. All because YOU didn't do YOUR DUTY as a PARENT and EAT THAT CARAMILK BAR!
While you're at it confiscate those bags of chips. You don't want them to develop the same craving for useless calories and fat that you have, and think that a bag of chips in one hand and a chocolate bar in the other are a balanced meal. Besides, you need something salty to balance all the sweats you're scarfing down.
Okay, seriously - instead of having the kids going out and getting high on sugar and being sick to their stomaches the next day, why not help them host a Hallowe'en Party? Let them have the fun of doing the whole costume bit, and playing games or watching the Rocky Horror Picture Show (well, maybe you could have the parents over for THAT), and not have to worry about:
razor blades in apples (okay, now it's needles or pins, and, yes, I remember when I was a kid, it happened to one girl in my class)
"candy surprise" - they arrested one guy for handing out popcorn balls laced with his "special sauce" that he had produced from his own balls.
traffic accidents - its getting dark earlier, and there's nothing worse than a trip to the hospital, unless its a trip to the mortuary
cold - its damn cold this time of year in a lot of places
bullying - kids who go out unsupervised are not safe.
they also won't just blow off their schoolwork because they've "got to get out there before all the good stuff is gone".
Really - loosen up, have a party, let the kids of all ages participate, get some of the other parents involved. The parents will be going "Thank god we don't have to drag the kids all over the place". You may even get to meet some of your kids friends, and (gasp) their parents.
They'll combat that by installing multiple head mechanisms (will also reduce warranty claims because then if one head support mechanism no longer works, the other ones will) and/or monolithic heads.
At issue is the firm's work for both Enron and those controversial debt-shielding partnerships, set up and controlled by then-Chief Financial Officer Andrew Fastow. On two occasions -- in August, 1999, and May, 2000 -- the world's biggest accounting firm certified that Enron was getting a fair deal when it exchanged its own stock for options and notes issued by the Fastow-controlled partnerships.
Investigators plan to question the complex valuation calculations that underlie the opinions. Enron ultimately lost hundreds of millions of dollars on the deals. A PwC spokesman says the firm stands by its assessment of the deals' value at the time.
OVERLAP. Perhaps more significantly, Pricewaterhouse was working for one of the Fastow partnerships -- LJM2 Co-Investment -- at the same time it assured Enron that the Houston-based energy company was getting a fair deal in its transactions with LJM2. In effect, PwC was providing tax advice to help LJM2 structure its deal -- the first of the so-called Raptor transactions -- while the accounting firm was also advising Enron on the value of that deal.
Pricewaterhouse acknowledges the overlapping engagements but says its dual role did not violate accounting's ethics standards, which require firms to maintain a degree of objectivity in dealing with clients. The firm says the work was done by two separate teams, which did not share data. PwC's spokesman says LJM2's tax structure wasn't a factor in its opinion on the deal's valuation. And, the spokesman says, each client was informed about the other engagement. That disclosure may mean that the firm's actions were in the clear, says Stephen A. Zeff, professor of accounting at Rice University in Houston.
You probably got the troll mod because you left out the
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Crossover office allows linux to run Windows Apps. In other words, your linux box is now "cross-dressing", giving the appearance (at least to the App) of being a Windows box. As long as it can "pass", everyone's happy. Its only in the unfortunate event that the Windows app looks too closely "beneath the skirts" and tries to use functionality that isn't available that things get ug-ly.
When it's finally able to completely function as a Windows host, we'll then be able to call it Transgender Office instead of Crossdresser Office.
People who micromanage are unsure of their own skills and insecure in their ability to manage people. That's why they micromanage.
Its not a reflection on you - its a reflection on your boss.
He probably never went to a Hallowe'en party because he thinks it will "take away" from his ability to manage people because they "won't respect him", and all that other BS.
What - be told you have a budget of $ZERO.ZEROZERO? Ouch! Let me take a guess - at Hallowe'en, you're going out as "The Masochist."
they said don't spend any money
That's because they are pretty much broke after the "Enron thing" - just look at their name:
PriceWaterhouseCoopersWhatALongFuckingNameTooCheap ToBuyAFuckingHyphen
Netcraft confirms it - PriceWaterhouseCoopers is dying - again!
"PriceWaterhouseCoopers - I fucking buried them" - Steve (The "Chair"man) Balmer
Kid1: Trick or treat? Balmer: I'll fucking trick you, you little monster! I'll bury you! I've done it before and..." Kid2: I TOLD you not to wear a turtleneck! He thinks you're miniSteveJobs.
Its funny how everyone is criticizing this guy, and yet they don't point out the extremeley relevent remark that puts it all in context:
They didn't have an argument because they said don't spend any money
Or are we seeing more disinformaton from Microsofts' Team 99?
When you're stuck between a rock and a hard place, and you HAVE to make decisions, nobody's going to argue with you - they're grateful you're making the choices and not them.
Cut the guy some slack - what he did was okay - its not like he went around trick-or-treating for new hardware and software or anything.
Right and wrong are black and white. Stealing is stealing. It does not matter how it is looked upon by someone else
Yep. Right and wrong ARE black and white. We've seen with New Orleans. If you're black, its "black people stealing, looting and rioting", if you're white, its "brave people helping gather resources to survive".
It all DOES depend on how it is looked upon by someone else - in this case, the reporters.
Same here. Copyright infringement is not "stealing", either, any more than gay marriage "steals" from straight marriages.
Same as the kids going door to door trick-or-treating aren't practicing extortion.
stealing, copyright infringement... it's both illicit:)
And while you may think one is morally less objectionable than the other, you'd be kidding yourself if you were to think it's perfectly a-ok.
So's going up to somebody and threatening to harrass them unless you're paid off - but kids do it every Hallowe'en when they go "trick-or-treat". Local custom and usage play a part, and this is what we're seeing with filesharing.
Seriously, jaywalking is also against the law, but I'm not going to get bent out of shape over it. Owning more than 2 dogs is also against the law in my area, but I've got 3.
It's not all black-and-white. There are such things as shades of grey. And laws change.
It used to be illegal for gays and lesbians to marry - not any more. When it was, were they "stealing" from married people? If so, are they still "stealing" from married people now?
It used to be illegal to consume alcohol. In some places it still is. So which law is right? They can't both be.
It used to be legal to own people. Even the Bible didn't disapprove. So, how many slaves does your average bible-thumping toady own nowadays?
We used to have debtors' jails. Owe someone money - they could have you thrown in prison until someone else came up with the cash. Now the only debts you can go to jail for are fines. So, is it right to jail people for parking tickets and overdue library books?
The law is not always right. That's why it changes with time. Not everything is as it seems, just like not every article is a gem, or every moderation is accurate, or every troll looks like a troll.
Oh cripes. Legal precedent has now been set. Now some politician is going use this to claim that voting for his opponent is "stealing votes" from him, and get a law passed against voting for anyone but incumbents! BushCo for-evah/bleh!
And of course congress will pass it - after all, getting legislation passed that favours the incumbents is like stealing hallowe'en candy from a baby.
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Any mechanic that has to use a computer to figure out which plug is bad is ripping you off. The old-school way is much quicker and easier - with the engine running, pull each spark plug wire, one at a time (they sell a special $10 pliers just for this task). The engine should slow down. If you pull the wire, and the engine doesn't slow down, or doesn't slow down as much, you've found the bad plug. 2 minutes, tops. So add another 5 for changing the plug, and another 3 for cleaning up. 15 minutes tops.
You weren't able to walk into a store and buy a 400-gig hard drive off the shelf last year. Heck, most places STILL don't carry them in inventory.
The "price point" - the most bang for the buck, has been dropping like a stone. You can get a 320 gig hd today for the same price you paid for a 160 gig earlier this year. And this will continue. Expect to see terabyte drives becoming commodity items over the next year or so.
Do you really believe they're going to be able to enforce the "no sex" rule? It's been around in one form or another since the shuttle started flying, and it's been violated (including 2 flings between people who were married, just not to each other) more than a couple of times.
The cheats end up ruining the games. But of course that's the point:
Otherwise, a good game will last months, maybe years, costing them sales. That's why the companies "leak" the cheats.
Ever parse xml? It's a pain in the butt.
Passing around objects is even less efficient.
Remember, you're never really passing around objects, just as you're never really passing around objects in c or java. Its just a way of thinking that lets you get a different (not necessarily better) handle on a problem.
In this case, the framework that provides the abstraction is horrendously huge, and a resource hog.
Right tool for the right job, and all that. It's not *just* that it comes from Microsoft, though that is also a concern. A big one. Their reputation precedes them.
Now if it was in a real text mode instead of "drawing" the characters pixel by pixel, you could get awesome performance from 10-year-old hardware. (Is there a hardware textmode for 132x80)? or 160x100?
Thanks for pointing that out. So remove the "sort" - then the default sort is by filename, which is what a lot of people want. Also, to remove the total count, get rid of the first line. The way to do that is head -11| tail -10. Problem solved, though I have a more complete solution that handles embedded spaces in filenames, etc., posted elsewhere in this thread.
Also, when is the last time you SAID "dollars forty-five hundred"? Of course, if you're going around as Yoda on Hallowe'en, "dollars forty-five hundred" might just be the way you'd speak ...
What I'd do is, as each new increase of storage is due to come on-line, grab the larger sizes and relegate the older systems to backup and semi-stable storage, or to store the stuff that doesn't need high availability, rather than expanding them. Expanding a system with 4 250gig hard drives 3 years from now is going to be as silly as expanding a system with 2 40-gig hard drives today.
You should have done like the winners did - use google to cheat.
VB means you must have cheated using MSN Search, not Google Search! You might as well have told them you're going dressed up as Steve Balmer for Hallowe'en (don't forget the chair :-)
Oh, come on ... you KNOW you want the mini Coffee Crisp bars ... and the caffeine in Coffee Crisp can't be good for the little 'uns - so THINK OF THE CHILDREN - SLEAL THEIR HALLOWE'EN STASH!
And those little boxes of Smarties - well, everyone knows the purple ones are like the purple telletubbie. You gotta raise your kids real good and keep such evil things from them. Where is your sense of SELF-SACRIFICE? Eat those smarties!
And the little O'Henry Bars - you kids could have a peanut allergy (well, they didn't yesterday, but all that extra chocolate and sweets MIGHT trigger a reaction). Do you want your kids to have to avoid peanut butter the rest of their lives? Eat thoe little buggers before they can screw up their immune systems.
And the Mars Bars - well, they're just loaded with sugar and caramel and chocolate and sugar. There's nothing in them except pure calories. There's no hope for you - you NEED that 20" laptop to fit your supersized lap - but the KIDS - think of the KIDS. There's still HOPE for them. You're helping them avid a lifetime of ridicule and bad health by eating their Mars Bars.
And the Caramilks - Hallowe'en is on s SCHOOL NIGHT! Do you want your kids staying up all night hyped up on sugar WONDERING HOW THEY GET THE CARAMEL INTO THE CARAMILK? They'll be too tired to do their schoolwork properly, so they'll be held back, drop out, and end up selling their bodies for crack. All because YOU didn't do YOUR DUTY as a PARENT and EAT THAT CARAMILK BAR!
While you're at it confiscate those bags of chips. You don't want them to develop the same craving for useless calories and fat that you have, and think that a bag of chips in one hand and a chocolate bar in the other are a balanced meal. Besides, you need something salty to balance all the sweats you're scarfing down.
Okay, seriously - instead of having the kids going out and getting high on sugar and being sick to their stomaches the next day, why not help them host a Hallowe'en Party? Let them have the fun of doing the whole costume bit, and playing games or watching the Rocky Horror Picture Show (well, maybe you could have the parents over for THAT), and not have to worry about:
they also won't just blow off their schoolwork because they've "got to get out there before all the good stuff is gone".
Really - loosen up, have a party, let the kids of all ages participate, get some of the other parents involved. The parents will be going "Thank god we don't have to drag the kids all over the place". You may even get to meet some of your kids friends, and (gasp) their parents.
They'll combat that by installing multiple head mechanisms (will also reduce warranty claims because then if one head support mechanism no longer works, the other ones will) and/or monolithic heads.
Hard disk space is doubling every 6 months - wait 5 years and you'll be able to buy a 25TB disk for $125.00.
A single raid50 of them will then give you your petabyte of storage, for around $6,000.
Everyone took a hit after Enron. It's called a "chilling effect".
And THIS sort of behaviour won't fly under Sarbanes-Oxley ...0 2/nf20020215_2956.htm
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/feb20
EVeryone has their ass exposed to some extent.
You probably got the troll mod because you left out the
Its not a reflection on you - its a reflection on your boss.
He probably never went to a Hallowe'en party because he thinks it will "take away" from his ability to manage people because they "won't respect him", and all that other BS.
That's because they are pretty much broke after the "Enron thing" - just look at their name: PriceWaterhouseCoopersWhatALongFuckingNameTooCheap ToBuyAFuckingHyphen
Its funny how everyone is criticizing this guy, and yet they don't point out the extremeley relevent remark that puts it all in context:
Or are we seeing more disinformaton from Microsofts' Team 99?
When you're stuck between a rock and a hard place, and you HAVE to make decisions, nobody's going to argue with you - they're grateful you're making the choices and not them.
Cut the guy some slack - what he did was okay - its not like he went around trick-or-treating for new hardware and software or anything.
Yep. Right and wrong ARE black and white. We've seen with New Orleans. If you're black, its "black people stealing, looting and rioting", if you're white, its "brave people helping gather resources to survive".
It all DOES depend on how it is looked upon by someone else - in this case, the reporters.
Same here. Copyright infringement is not "stealing", either, any more than gay marriage "steals" from straight marriages.
Same as the kids going door to door trick-or-treating aren't practicing extortion.
Okay, just for the sake of argument:
So's going up to somebody and threatening to harrass them unless you're paid off - but kids do it every Hallowe'en when they go "trick-or-treat". Local custom and usage play a part, and this is what we're seeing with filesharing.Seriously, jaywalking is also against the law, but I'm not going to get bent out of shape over it. Owning more than 2 dogs is also against the law in my area, but I've got 3.
It's not all black-and-white. There are such things as shades of grey. And laws change.
It used to be illegal for gays and lesbians to marry - not any more. When it was, were they "stealing" from married people? If so, are they still "stealing" from married people now?
It used to be illegal to consume alcohol. In some places it still is. So which law is right? They can't both be.
It used to be legal to own people. Even the Bible didn't disapprove. So, how many slaves does your average bible-thumping toady own nowadays?
We used to have debtors' jails. Owe someone money - they could have you thrown in prison until someone else came up with the cash. Now the only debts you can go to jail for are fines. So, is it right to jail people for parking tickets and overdue library books?
The law is not always right. That's why it changes with time. Not everything is as it seems, just like not every article is a gem, or every moderation is accurate, or every troll looks like a troll.
Oh cripes. Legal precedent has now been set. Now some politician is going use this to claim that voting for his opponent is "stealing votes" from him, and get a law passed against voting for anyone but incumbents! BushCo for-evah /bleh!
And of course congress will pass it - after all, getting legislation passed that favours the incumbents is like stealing hallowe'en candy from a baby.