They've been talking about it for so long, but haven't released a preview, beta, or the full product to market, so that's a sure sign it's vaporware.
I do have full faith that it will be released. Two weeks after Duke Nukem Forever, and simultaniously with the first 100% bug free stable version of Windows.
I can't figure out how to write my own version of Photoshop either, but I can get my hands on it to see that it does exist.
Following is a sampling of my mail filter results.
We haven't noticed any decrease in mail, other than normal fluctuation. Possibly your ISP has done something to slow your spam rate. They may be intercepting and filtering port 25 traffic, or even just monitoring that traffic and dropping the spam traffic at the edge router(s). It's even possible that there's something wrong with your mail server, and it's just not delivering everything for some reason.
Date Mail Spam Aug 14 2008 55179 52529 (95%) Aug 13 2008 53440 51097 (95%) Aug 12 2008 55059 52028 (94%) Aug 11 2008 50009 47292 (94%) Aug 10 2008 35192 33796 (96%)
I saw this story from my phone, and the first thing I thought was "They got bit by the VMWare bug".
For some reason, that seems like a company who's done a lot, but also uses lots of whiz-bang technology, just because it's fully buzzword compliant.
I got the same email at 4:18am on Thursday. When I got home, there were two NetFlix DVD's sitting in my mailbox. At least I have something to watch while they get it back together.:) Since I'm a normal working human, they won't be watched until the weekend anyways.
I thought one of the previous stories said it would do that.
What I was curious about is, how? A distinguishable photograph could be associated. But, even with one of the examples in the display, the Statue of Liberty, if this is automated, how would it be able to distinguish the real statue of liberty with say a souvenier sitting on my coffee table? Basing it on size and distinguishing shapes, it would match either one. Basing it on those, and the background objects is impossible. It already has to take into account that there are changes in the foreground (people, extra objects like light poles that are not present in very similar views). Background objects like clouds come and go, and leave entirely different images.
For not quite as distinguishable objects, it would be a lot harder. Say you used the Statue of Liberty as your starting point. If you were to travel into Manhattan, there are many very similar shapes for buildings and storefronts. Sure, unique buildings would be obvious, but for every obvious building, there are dozens of almost identical buildings.
Even then, you would have to know the city. Similar architecture can show up in a variety of cities, and be close enough to match. Cameras may record timestamps embedded in the original image (assuming unedited photos are added to the system), but there is nothing useful like geographic coordinates included.
All the photos were shot from the same perspective. It was as if they were shot by one or more photographers of about the same height. There should have been a more significant change to the view from say a 4' tall child to a 6'8" tall man. I don't claim to be a "great" photographer, but I'm pretty good. One of the essentials between being someone who can take snapshots, and someone who can take photographs, is making the composition of your photograph to illustrate the view. That frequently involves changing height and view. Maybe you want to lay on the ground for one, and climb on a ladder for another.
I took some photographs at the World Trade Center on 9/9/2001. Those photographs aren't just of the skyline, although I did take some snapshots at the time. Some are composed lookup up towards the top of the buildings from the ground, and down while leaning on the glass of an observation deck window. Photography isn't documenting a first person view. It's beautifying and romanticist a view, without necessarily changing anything about what's in the composition of the photograph.
There are other features that I don't see how they're getting, such as the zones where photos were shot from. That takes an awful lot of extrapolation. What's the difference between a photographer 10 feet away, and a photographer 200 feet away with a good zoom lens? Almost nothing, except maybe a little focal distortion at the edge of the photo. That varies with the quality of the camera and lens anyways.
I did a little project once years ago. I was sitting in the hills just under the Hollywood sign. We were sitting on top of a hill, so I had a good panorama view. I tried to keep the horizon centered, and I shot frames the whole way around. When I stitched them together in Gimp, I noticed that each frame had variations in it's color. It wasn't because of AWB, it was because the camera (good for the time) had some weird variance, so there was a difference in color from the left to the right side. So, two shots from the same camera at the same settings were significantly different.
I would be willing to suggest that the demo shown isn't a demonstration of a functional piece of software. It is a good example of what can be generated with a computer. I could do the same thing in Gimp or Photoshop. If my job let me play like this for a few weeks, I could have made a better example of vaporware.
Because you've seen wormholes and aliens visiting earth on Stargate, you believe anyone to leak any intelligence on said items are just crackpots who have watched too much television.
So, what you would want to do is make up a persona. Name, DOB, address, phone number, job, etc, etc. All of the facts need to appear legitimate at surface review. Pick something that isn't obviously wrong. Like, don't say you're the lead researcher at an outpost in the Antarctic. If you, say were to be in the New York metro area, and your addresses is a drop box in Manhattan, that's more reasonable. 18.8 million people live in the NYC metro area. Be careful though, use a metro area that you're familiar with. If you claim to live in New York, but you've never even visited there, it's going to be obvious if someone asks any questions.
That's who JWSmythe is, and it's spelled out almost as such on my site. JWSmythe is my online persona, who I use for everyone online. If you search around for Mr. Smythe, you'll find lots of information (and lots of disinformation). Identity thieves have a goldmine of information on Mr. Smythe, but it's all false, therefore worthless. If you search my real name, you'll find lots of information also, but they're all for other people. I'm very pleased with that. Even if you use a background search service, you may find bits and pieces of me, but it will be mixed in with so many other people who aren't me (but have the same name), it's worthless info.
It's just different procedures.:) Automobiles are well documented, so the procedures can be easily followed. Computers aren't as well documented, since every piece comes from a different source, with varying levels of documentation.
Any decent size shop will have the large repair manuals, and the parts&labor manual. They can tell you, based on a repair, how long it will take, and how much it will cost. Most shops bill based on this also. If the book says 4 hours, it's a 4 hour job, and you will pay 4 hours. If the mechanic is real good, he may bang it out in 2 hours. If he hasn't done it before, or encounters problems, it may take 5 hours.
I wish PC's were so easy. Like, when I diagnose a virus problem, it may take 5 minutes, or 3 hours, depending on the severity of the problem.
I've never had to remove the engine to change an oil filter.:) Changing the filter in my wife's Honda CR-V is a trick though, where I basically balance with one hand on the ground, and one hand half way up the back of the engine, and can barely get it removed.
There are always oddball vehicles, but they don't last long. I worked on an older computer recently that required removing the power supply and half the cables, just to reach the memory. Some of the older Compaq machines (like, way back) were just as obnoxious.
There are various things for various reasons though. In my car (4th Gen F-body), to change the cam shaft, you'd unbolt the front crossmember, and then raise the car to access the engine. That's because they pushed the motor back partly under the windshield and cowl to make for more equal weight distribution (50/50), and the nose is more integrated, so it can't be as easily removed. How often do you change the cam? Usually never. How often do you change the memory or CPU? Usually once, if ever.
Cars, like computers, require a certain level of knowledge, and the required tools.
PC's have come to the point where they don't even require tools. I always bring my phillips screwdriver with me to fix a computer, and have realized that I rarely use it any more. The tools required are more likely anti-virus and anti-spyware cleanups, followed in popularity by hard drive replacements (and data recovery tools), and CPU fan cleaning.
For a car, there are more tools required, but the parts on different cars do the same thing. They may not be interchangable, but they look similar, and act identically.
Despite the "complexity" of the computer system, that's usually the rarer of parts to fail. If you can just follow a simple flow chart, you can repair a car. Does it start? No. Does it get air? Fuel? Spark? No. Repair the source for this component.
People have mystified the working of an automobile so much that it seems like black magic, but as we work on computers, others see our work as black magic too. Oh my gosh, you type on the keyboard, and stuff happens? Wow. It's not that dissimilar to turning a wrench and making a car work again. You just have to understand the underlying technology, and the rest falls into place.
hehe. I mentioned it to a coworker during a smoke break, and he was laughing about AT strings too..
ATM1L3&W
ATDP5551212
I was on a pulse-dial only line for most of my BBS years. It wasn't until the late 80's or early 90's when they upgraded the local telco stuff to support (oh my gosh) that new fangled touch tone dialing.
I never played much with the S11 register, it was usually fine by default, and if I turned it down too far, the telco would never recognize my dialing. I would usually dial too fast by hand too, which was annoying.
I think it's mostly confusion due to others not understanding the game. It's complicated enough where an outsider watching can't possibly play without being taught how, and a fair bit harder than monopoly.
I stopped playing because I discovered girls, and spend more time with them, and then work, and then a wife, and kids, and work, and a divorce, and a new wife, and more kids, and more work. Oh it's an endless cycle that keeps me away from doing much of anything that takes more than a half hour.:)
You can't advertise a DIY Dialysis machine with no diagrams.
Hell, I thought I'd get instructions on building a kick-ass hangover machine. Drink all I want one night, clean my blood the next morning, and all would be good.
If 40 years ago, the term asewvoi were coined to be associated with "an annoying person who argues for the sake of argument", there is no purpose in arguing it now. You could try to break it down phoenically, or even linguistically, to it's historic components (and fail miserably), or just accept that I called you an asewvoi.
If you really want to think about it so absolutely, why do any of these words have any meaning at all? It's because at some point in time, we as a species decided to associate particular sounds to meanings, and particular shapes of writing to those sounds.
Your electronic scribbles are absolutely meaningless to us, as they are a fanciful creation of your species with no relationship to any communications used by any other species anywhere.
Your second comment is appropriate. I could care less. It doesn't mean that I do care more. If you were to assign a scoring system of 1 to 10 to my level of care, where 1 is absolute lack of care, and 10 is absolute care, the Olympics may rate a 3, at which point there is room in the scale to raise or lower my level of care. I could care less, but it wouldn't even matter, because it's lower than a neutral level of care (5), and has no direct impact on myself.
If there were to be a direct impact upon myself by the event, then that level of care would be more significant. Take the scenario "There's a truck coming down the road". If I were not in the road, I could care less, at a care level of 3, and it wouldn't matter. If I were standing in the road in front of the truck, at a care level of 3, and I did care less, that would definitely be a sign of deep depression, which would be resolved rather quickly, assuming the truck does it's job appropriately and runs me over.:)
It becomes a moot point, as the phrase "I could care less" entered colloquial English approximately 40 years, and it is already commonly understood to mean the same, either in the positive or negative syntax. It is found in print as far back as 1966. I'm only 35 years old, and I started speaking at 1 year old, so both versions of the phrase were already in common usage for 8 years.
And mom doesn't have a basement. And she lives in a retirement community, which would be less than ideal for a 30-something guy to be living in. My wife and daughter may be upset if I wasn't home too.:)
I'd lay odds on the idea that he put it "away" in the wrong place, forgot he put it there, and when he was trying to find it where he expected in the "normal" place, it wasn't there, so it was obviously stolen.
I've seen a lot of stuff show up like that. It's an emergency, a conspiracy, an evil deed. "Oh ya, I did put it there" comes later.
No company that I've ever worked for that keeps salaries "secret" are being honest. There are tremendous variances in pay rates, which are based on arbitrary things, not on the position, ability, performance, or workload of the individual.
If you can have a 5 year employee making $35k/yr, and a starting employee making $75k/yr, and another making over $100k/yr, all doing the same job, with the same workload, then there's something seriously wrong with the pay scheme. If you believe a position is worth $75k/yr, then that's what the base salary is for the position, and there should be adjustments for time with the company (10%/yr), performance bonuses, incentives, etc.
I could rant for days, but I agree, the "dipshit" manager "accidentally" let a company secret out, which needed to be told.
A lot of people don't know that. It's been helpful to know though. I've retrieved (or told someone to retrieve) things in "locked" rooms that weren't suppose to be locked.
Except for once... The CEO had this thing for keeping the tape backups in his safe, in his locked office. He was out of town, the door was locked, and we needed one of the tapes. With the COO's permission, one guy climbed over and opened the door from the inside for us. The safe was a lot easier, he left the door open.
Then again, I've been having more fun learning how to pick locks. It's a lot more impressive to sit at the door handle for 30 seconds, and pop the door open, without having to get dirty or climb on anything.:)
I've been a die hard Slack fan for years now. Like, I first got my hands on it with the first edition of "Linux Unleashed" in 1995-ish, probably with Slackware 2.x.:)
I don't have a benchmarked number available right now, but I can tell you what I've observed in previous tests.
On the same hardware (same physical machine, different os install), a 64bit Linux OS of the same distribution will run faster than it's 32bit counterpart, regardless of the 2GB factor.
I bought my first 64 bit machine when the prices came down low enough to afford one, and at the time I was making good money.:) I installed the 32bit Slackware and then several others because Slamd64 hadn't come out yet. If I recall correctly, I ended up running Gentoo for a little while on there. Since Slamd64 came out, I use Slackware on the 32bit machines, and Slamd64 on the 64bit machines exclusively.
After a while, we had a big power hungry project. I was pushing for a good 64 bit system. I had to do a long proof of why to the powers that be, both bosses and developers of why we wanted to use a 64 bit OS for a new project. It took quite a while to prove it, but every way we looked at it, except for price, the performance was there.
What we ended up with were a pair of quad Opteron 848's with 16Gb RAM (I believe). This was just after the 848's came out, and we had a hard time even getting our hands on them, and paid the premium for buying the latest and greatest thing out there.
Then came the interesting part. I assembled the machines, burnt them in at the office, and delivered them to the colo. The developers then got their hands on them. They had been beating up on their 32 bit machines for a few months, and were looking forward to the performance, but were worried that such a new product was the wrong thing to do. The developers were using MySQL for the database, and had the hand holding support contract. Anything you need, any time, someone will be in and helping.
The developers were flipping out because no matter what they did, they could only induce 2% CPU load on one processor, and no extra load on the other 3. Something was obviously wrong. I insisted there was nothing wrong with the OS. Maybe it was a database problem, or maybe they just weren't creating enough load.
It got escalated through the MySQL support structure, to one of their guys logging into the machine to have a look. His response was "That's the fastest machine I've ever been on. It's only using 2% of 1 CPU because that's all it needs. The database is still idle. I threw a huge load test at it to make it work any harder, and never maxed it out."
He then proceeded to ask me for permission to play some more. He wanted to build cross compilers. When he was done he told me "That should have taken a week. I started it last night, and it was done by morning." I presume he was building quite a few.:)
I'm not going to try to say that the 64 bit machine is the holy grail or anything, but when you have the option, take it. At very least, if you don't like the 64bit OS, you can always go to the 32bit. All it will cost you is long enough to do the install, unless of course you dual boot.:)
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They've been talking about it for so long, but haven't released a preview, beta, or the full product to market, so that's a sure sign it's vaporware.
I do have full faith that it will be released. Two weeks after Duke Nukem Forever, and simultaniously with the first 100% bug free stable version of Windows.
I can't figure out how to write my own version of Photoshop either, but I can get my hands on it to see that it does exist.
Following is a sampling of my mail filter results.
We haven't noticed any decrease in mail, other than normal fluctuation. Possibly your ISP has done something to slow your spam rate. They may be intercepting and filtering port 25 traffic, or even just monitoring that traffic and dropping the spam traffic at the edge router(s). It's even possible that there's something wrong with your mail server, and it's just not delivering everything for some reason.
Date Mail Spam
Aug 14 2008 55179 52529 (95%)
Aug 13 2008 53440 51097 (95%)
Aug 12 2008 55059 52028 (94%)
Aug 11 2008 50009 47292 (94%)
Aug 10 2008 35192 33796 (96%)
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I saw this story from my phone, and the first thing I thought was "They got bit by the VMWare bug".
For some reason, that seems like a company who's done a lot, but also uses lots of whiz-bang technology, just because it's fully buzzword compliant.
I got the same email at 4:18am on Thursday. When I got home, there were two NetFlix DVD's sitting in my mailbox. At least I have something to watch while they get it back together. :) Since I'm a normal working human, they won't be watched until the weekend anyways.
I thought one of the previous stories said it would do that.
What I was curious about is, how? A distinguishable photograph could be associated. But, even with one of the examples in the display, the Statue of Liberty, if this is automated, how would it be able to distinguish the real statue of liberty with say a souvenier sitting on my coffee table? Basing it on size and distinguishing shapes, it would match either one. Basing it on those, and the background objects is impossible. It already has to take into account that there are changes in the foreground (people, extra objects like light poles that are not present in very similar views). Background objects like clouds come and go, and leave entirely different images.
For not quite as distinguishable objects, it would be a lot harder. Say you used the Statue of Liberty as your starting point. If you were to travel into Manhattan, there are many very similar shapes for buildings and storefronts. Sure, unique buildings would be obvious, but for every obvious building, there are dozens of almost identical buildings.
Even then, you would have to know the city. Similar architecture can show up in a variety of cities, and be close enough to match. Cameras may record timestamps embedded in the original image (assuming unedited photos are added to the system), but there is nothing useful like geographic coordinates included.
All the photos were shot from the same perspective. It was as if they were shot by one or more photographers of about the same height. There should have been a more significant change to the view from say a 4' tall child to a 6'8" tall man. I don't claim to be a "great" photographer, but I'm pretty good. One of the essentials between being someone who can take snapshots, and someone who can take photographs, is making the composition of your photograph to illustrate the view. That frequently involves changing height and view. Maybe you want to lay on the ground for one, and climb on a ladder for another.
I took some photographs at the World Trade Center on 9/9/2001. Those photographs aren't just of the skyline, although I did take some snapshots at the time. Some are composed lookup up towards the top of the buildings from the ground, and down while leaning on the glass of an observation deck window. Photography isn't documenting a first person view. It's beautifying and romanticist a view, without necessarily changing anything about what's in the composition of the photograph.
There are other features that I don't see how they're getting, such as the zones where photos were shot from. That takes an awful lot of extrapolation. What's the difference between a photographer 10 feet away, and a photographer 200 feet away with a good zoom lens? Almost nothing, except maybe a little focal distortion at the edge of the photo. That varies with the quality of the camera and lens anyways.
I did a little project once years ago. I was sitting in the hills just under the Hollywood sign. We were sitting on top of a hill, so I had a good panorama view. I tried to keep the horizon centered, and I shot frames the whole way around. When I stitched them together in Gimp, I noticed that each frame had variations in it's color. It wasn't because of AWB, it was because the camera (good for the time) had some weird variance, so there was a difference in color from the left to the right side. So, two shots from the same camera at the same settings were significantly different.
I would be willing to suggest that the demo shown isn't a demonstration of a functional piece of software. It is a good example of what can be generated with a computer. I could do the same thing in Gimp or Photoshop. If my job let me play like this for a few weeks, I could have made a better example of vaporware.
The disinformation strategy has worked!
Because you've seen wormholes and aliens visiting earth on Stargate, you believe anyone to leak any intelligence on said items are just crackpots who have watched too much television.
Very good, you get a cookie. :)
"John Smith" became "Jon Smith" became "Jon Smythe" became "Jon W. Smythe" became "JW Smythe" shortened to "JWSmythe"
So, what you would want to do is make up a persona. Name, DOB, address, phone number, job, etc, etc. All of the facts need to appear legitimate at surface review. Pick something that isn't obviously wrong. Like, don't say you're the lead researcher at an outpost in the Antarctic. If you, say were to be in the New York metro area, and your addresses is a drop box in Manhattan, that's more reasonable. 18.8 million people live in the NYC metro area. Be careful though, use a metro area that you're familiar with. If you claim to live in New York, but you've never even visited there, it's going to be obvious if someone asks any questions.
That's who JWSmythe is, and it's spelled out almost as such on my site. JWSmythe is my online persona, who I use for everyone online. If you search around for Mr. Smythe, you'll find lots of information (and lots of disinformation). Identity thieves have a goldmine of information on Mr. Smythe, but it's all false, therefore worthless. If you search my real name, you'll find lots of information also, but they're all for other people. I'm very pleased with that. Even if you use a background search service, you may find bits and pieces of me, but it will be mixed in with so many other people who aren't me (but have the same name), it's worthless info.
It's just different procedures. :) Automobiles are well documented, so the procedures can be easily followed. Computers aren't as well documented, since every piece comes from a different source, with varying levels of documentation.
Any decent size shop will have the large repair manuals, and the parts&labor manual. They can tell you, based on a repair, how long it will take, and how much it will cost. Most shops bill based on this also. If the book says 4 hours, it's a 4 hour job, and you will pay 4 hours. If the mechanic is real good, he may bang it out in 2 hours. If he hasn't done it before, or encounters problems, it may take 5 hours.
I wish PC's were so easy. Like, when I diagnose a virus problem, it may take 5 minutes, or 3 hours, depending on the severity of the problem.
I've never had to remove the engine to change an oil filter. :) Changing the filter in my wife's Honda CR-V is a trick though, where I basically balance with one hand on the ground, and one hand half way up the back of the engine, and can barely get it removed.
There are always oddball vehicles, but they don't last long. I worked on an older computer recently that required removing the power supply and half the cables, just to reach the memory. Some of the older Compaq machines (like, way back) were just as obnoxious.
There are various things for various reasons though. In my car (4th Gen F-body), to change the cam shaft, you'd unbolt the front crossmember, and then raise the car to access the engine. That's because they pushed the motor back partly under the windshield and cowl to make for more equal weight distribution (50/50), and the nose is more integrated, so it can't be as easily removed. How often do you change the cam? Usually never. How often do you change the memory or CPU? Usually once, if ever.
Cars, like computers, require a certain level of knowledge, and the required tools.
PC's have come to the point where they don't even require tools. I always bring my phillips screwdriver with me to fix a computer, and have realized that I rarely use it any more. The tools required are more likely anti-virus and anti-spyware cleanups, followed in popularity by hard drive replacements (and data recovery tools), and CPU fan cleaning.
For a car, there are more tools required, but the parts on different cars do the same thing. They may not be interchangable, but they look similar, and act identically.
Despite the "complexity" of the computer system, that's usually the rarer of parts to fail. If you can just follow a simple flow chart, you can repair a car. Does it start? No. Does it get air? Fuel? Spark? No. Repair the source for this component.
People have mystified the working of an automobile so much that it seems like black magic, but as we work on computers, others see our work as black magic too. Oh my gosh, you type on the keyboard, and stuff happens? Wow. It's not that dissimilar to turning a wrench and making a car work again. You just have to understand the underlying technology, and the rest falls into place.
hehe. I mentioned it to a coworker during a smoke break, and he was laughing about AT strings too..
ATM1L3&W
ATDP5551212
I was on a pulse-dial only line for most of my BBS years. It wasn't until the late 80's or early 90's when they upgraded the local telco stuff to support (oh my gosh) that new fangled touch tone dialing.
I never played much with the S11 register, it was usually fine by default, and if I turned it down too far, the telco would never recognize my dialing. I would usually dial too fast by hand too, which was annoying.
I think it's mostly confusion due to others not understanding the game. It's complicated enough where an outsider watching can't possibly play without being taught how, and a fair bit harder than monopoly.
I stopped playing because I discovered girls, and spend more time with them, and then work, and then a wife, and kids, and work, and a divorce, and a new wife, and more kids, and more work. Oh it's an endless cycle that keeps me away from doing much of anything that takes more than a half hour. :)
Where's the diagrams?
You can't advertise a DIY Dialysis machine with no diagrams.
Hell, I thought I'd get instructions on building a kick-ass hangover machine. Drink all I want one night, clean my blood the next morning, and all would be good.
I hate false advertising.
I'm on the East coast of the US. It's workin' hours. :) They only get upset if it's from 6pm to 7am that I'm on the computer. :)
If 40 years ago, the term asewvoi were coined to be associated with "an annoying person who argues for the sake of argument", there is no purpose in arguing it now. You could try to break it down phoenically, or even linguistically, to it's historic components (and fail miserably), or just accept that I called you an asewvoi.
If you really want to think about it so absolutely, why do any of these words have any meaning at all? It's because at some point in time, we as a species decided to associate particular sounds to meanings, and particular shapes of writing to those sounds.
Your electronic scribbles are absolutely meaningless to us, as they are a fanciful creation of your species with no relationship to any communications used by any other species anywhere.
Your second comment is appropriate. I could care less. It doesn't mean that I do care more. If you were to assign a scoring system of 1 to 10 to my level of care, where 1 is absolute lack of care, and 10 is absolute care, the Olympics may rate a 3, at which point there is room in the scale to raise or lower my level of care. I could care less, but it wouldn't even matter, because it's lower than a neutral level of care (5), and has no direct impact on myself.
If there were to be a direct impact upon myself by the event, then that level of care would be more significant. Take the scenario "There's a truck coming down the road". If I were not in the road, I could care less, at a care level of 3, and it wouldn't matter. If I were standing in the road in front of the truck, at a care level of 3, and I did care less, that would definitely be a sign of deep depression, which would be resolved rather quickly, assuming the truck does it's job appropriately and runs me over. :)
It becomes a moot point, as the phrase "I could care less" entered colloquial English approximately 40 years, and it is already commonly understood to mean the same, either in the positive or negative syntax. It is found in print as far back as 1966. I'm only 35 years old, and I started speaking at 1 year old, so both versions of the phrase were already in common usage for 8 years.
http://incompetech.com/gallimaufry/care_less.html
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/couldcare.html
http://dictionary.reference.com/help/faq/language/g09.html
http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-ico1.htm
Well, nope. :)
20 years ago was 1988, and I was 15 years old.
And mom doesn't have a basement. And she lives in a retirement community, which would be less than ideal for a 30-something guy to be living in. My wife and daughter may be upset if I wasn't home too. :)
I just wait for someone to tell me there are hot chicks in skin tight clothes doing something. Otherwise, I could care less.
I'd lay odds on the idea that he put it "away" in the wrong place, forgot he put it there, and when he was trying to find it where he expected in the "normal" place, it wasn't there, so it was obviously stolen.
I've seen a lot of stuff show up like that. It's an emergency, a conspiracy, an evil deed. "Oh ya, I did put it there" comes later.
I'm glad someone said it.
No company that I've ever worked for that keeps salaries "secret" are being honest. There are tremendous variances in pay rates, which are based on arbitrary things, not on the position, ability, performance, or workload of the individual.
If you can have a 5 year employee making $35k/yr, and a starting employee making $75k/yr, and another making over $100k/yr, all doing the same job, with the same workload, then there's something seriously wrong with the pay scheme. If you believe a position is worth $75k/yr, then that's what the base salary is for the position, and there should be adjustments for time with the company (10%/yr), performance bonuses, incentives, etc.
I could rant for days, but I agree, the "dipshit" manager "accidentally" let a company secret out, which needed to be told.
A lot of people don't know that. It's been helpful to know though. I've retrieved (or told someone to retrieve) things in "locked" rooms that weren't suppose to be locked.
Except for once... The CEO had this thing for keeping the tape backups in his safe, in his locked office. He was out of town, the door was locked, and we needed one of the tapes. With the COO's permission, one guy climbed over and opened the door from the inside for us. The safe was a lot easier, he left the door open.
Then again, I've been having more fun learning how to pick locks. It's a lot more impressive to sit at the door handle for 30 seconds, and pop the door open, without having to get dirty or climb on anything. :)
Only if you roll less than a 20 on 2d10.
God, I can't believe I remember crap like that from 20 years ago. :)
s/liberal/politician/
If it was written in assembly it would have posted before the story. :)
I've been a die hard Slack fan for years now. Like, I first got my hands on it with the first edition of "Linux Unleashed" in 1995-ish, probably with Slackware 2.x. :)
I don't have a benchmarked number available right now, but I can tell you what I've observed in previous tests.
On the same hardware (same physical machine, different os install), a 64bit Linux OS of the same distribution will run faster than it's 32bit counterpart, regardless of the 2GB factor.
I bought my first 64 bit machine when the prices came down low enough to afford one, and at the time I was making good money. :) I installed the 32bit Slackware and then several others because Slamd64 hadn't come out yet. If I recall correctly, I ended up running Gentoo for a little while on there. Since Slamd64 came out, I use Slackware on the 32bit machines, and Slamd64 on the 64bit machines exclusively.
After a while, we had a big power hungry project. I was pushing for a good 64 bit system. I had to do a long proof of why to the powers that be, both bosses and developers of why we wanted to use a 64 bit OS for a new project. It took quite a while to prove it, but every way we looked at it, except for price, the performance was there.
What we ended up with were a pair of quad Opteron 848's with 16Gb RAM (I believe). This was just after the 848's came out, and we had a hard time even getting our hands on them, and paid the premium for buying the latest and greatest thing out there.
Then came the interesting part. I assembled the machines, burnt them in at the office, and delivered them to the colo. The developers then got their hands on them. They had been beating up on their 32 bit machines for a few months, and were looking forward to the performance, but were worried that such a new product was the wrong thing to do. The developers were using MySQL for the database, and had the hand holding support contract. Anything you need, any time, someone will be in and helping.
The developers were flipping out because no matter what they did, they could only induce 2% CPU load on one processor, and no extra load on the other 3. Something was obviously wrong. I insisted there was nothing wrong with the OS. Maybe it was a database problem, or maybe they just weren't creating enough load.
It got escalated through the MySQL support structure, to one of their guys logging into the machine to have a look. His response was "That's the fastest machine I've ever been on. It's only using 2% of 1 CPU because that's all it needs. The database is still idle. I threw a huge load test at it to make it work any harder, and never maxed it out."
He then proceeded to ask me for permission to play some more. He wanted to build cross compilers. When he was done he told me "That should have taken a week. I started it last night, and it was done by morning." I presume he was building quite a few. :)
I'm not going to try to say that the 64 bit machine is the holy grail or anything, but when you have the option, take it. At very least, if you don't like the 64bit OS, you can always go to the 32bit. All it will cost you is long enough to do the install, unless of course you dual boot. :)