RE: #1, remember Sql server is a favorite of small business, and they are less likely to have an uber sysadmin. I know you don't have to be uber but when you're talking about mcse's... let's just say until there's a "Microsoft Firewall 3.0" this will keep happening.
The reason labor is being outsourced overseas is to get around american labor law, pay less, provide no benefits, no paid sick/vacation time, etc. It's the same as outsourcing to consultants in the US, but with the added bonus of it being much less expensive (at least in theory). Why would anyone want to move overseas to consult for peanuts or worse, get a job in what amounts to a sweatshop?
Payola has boomed via "independent promoters" in recent years, and in turn the quality of music on the radio has gone down. Specifically, the relative quality to the people listening, since they no longer have any say at all in what gets played. There used to be a kind of representative government in the person of the DJ. Not just talking about requests, either. Was a time a DJ could play what he wanted, then it was "play what you want but during these hours play this list", now it's just "play this list but not necessarily in this order." As a result I haven't listened to radio in like 5 years.
More ranting: MTV no longer shows videos or even shows about videos anymore it seems, so my main source of new music is MP3s. And now they want to take that away!
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This is obviously a clever, drawn-out way to post a real bug. The whole part about the RIAA is just to get you to read their bug post at the bottom. This is probably just an attempt to inject some amusement into bugtraq. It seems rather obvious to me.
Not sure about the internet boom, but I would go as far as to say that AOL hampered the dot-com boom with their junky internal browser and for a while there the inability to use another one. And if my mom's PC is any indicator, you still can't even use another ISP while AOL is installed.
Yeah it's some kind of bug. I noticed it first when I started developing a site using popups. It didn't seem to matter how many came at once, just how many had occurred in total. A CPU spike on iexplore.exe would always happen when a popup link was clicked after a certain amount had occurred, so I'm guessing there's some bug in their javascript implementation whereby it loops badly. Definitely annoying.
What about the fact that almost all job listings these days will mention more than one of these skills? There are significantly less jobs than what this chart shows because of that fact, not counting the "spam" jobs. It seems that more often than not any Java post also mentions C or C# these days...
How about this. 3/4 is.75 as a decimal. AKA 75/100. Ignoring the original ratio (1/9) in favor of repeating decimals, a decimal of this fashion can be described by a ratio defined by a limit of this function:
f(x,n) = n(10^0+10^1+10^2+...10^(x-1))/(10^x)
where x is the # of decimal places and n is the repeater..1 = 1/10,.11=11/100,.111=111/1000, etc. Do the limit as x goes to infinity of f(x,n) and you get an infinity divided by infinity situation, which is undefined. Hence, trying to do math on one of these repeating decimal representations is meaningless. They do not define a number.
On the other hand, some evidence to support the claim that I hadn't seen was this progression:
which would tend to support the original argument that 1=9/9=.999..., although only on an intuitive level.
Anyway, if you assume.999... = 1 using the proofs given thus far, there must also be a decimal ending with infinite 9's for every number N in existence that is also a valid representation of N, because you can use the same math to show it. But that number also has a doppelganger (which would have an infinite #of 9's tacked onto the first infinite # of 9's), and so on, until every number then has infinite representations of itself. Seems pretty crappy but I guess that's the price of infinity.
This reminds me of the omega point, where parallel lines meet. Everything is possible in the infinity zone...
What i'm saying is that.1111... can only be accurately operated on as the ratio 1/9. Otherwise you must end your decimal string somewhere. When you say.1111... you are in fact referring to 1/9, are you not?
If you can do it your way, you need to show that 9*.1111... =.9999... without using the ratio. It should take you an infinite amount of time to do.
you cannot do math on a "...", you must use the limit or you are approximating. it's like doing a calc on infinity, it's not doable. like if you were diving infinity by infinity, there is no result possible. similarly, doing a calc using the repeating decimal won't yield a result because there is no end to the string of numbers to deal with. you can't say there's the same infinite amount of digits afer the decimal in.3333... and.9999..., because infinity is not a fixed amount. you must use limits or fractions in these situations.
Perform the operations on limits and it will be true, otherwise your math is bad at the second step, because.3333... does not equal 1/3. At some point (depending on your required level of accuracy) it is a close enough approximation, but the two are not equal mathematically.
I believe the way it works is the popup is spawned, then if your mouse crosses the popup window at all the original page is changed. The code for the mouseover would thus be in the popup itself, using a function to alter the parent window's href. Hence, nothing would happen if no popup occurred.
One of my friends bought an Aiwa system in the early 90s that was the best shelf system I ever heard. It probably cost around $200. I was impressed enough to recommend the brand to others and buy one myself later on. Of course, the sound quality has nothing to do with the manufacturing quality, i.e., one of my friends had that problem with the cd player that is the cause of the lawsuit. I guess I would still recommend them based on the one I bought in 1998.
Ahh and then you also will have to disable scripting because they always check to see if you have flash then give you the installer window. I ran into this when I discovered I could reliably crash my pc by going to yahoo news in IE until I disabled flash (by uninstalling it). I had to disable scripting for yahoo's domain so I could avoid getting the installer popups on every damn page. But in doing that I couldn't access any javascript, including popups which are used in many links in their news section. I think I eventually upgraded IE when the new version came out and then flash as well. That may have fixed it, but I don't care because I now use Phoenix happily.
1. BIOS tweaking is nothing to fear. In some cases the default settings are quite incorrect. If you know what you are doing, tweak away. If not, don't.
BIOS updates, however, should be undertaken with caution, as there is a risk (an unfortunately timed power failure, for one) and they do spell out exactly what they updated so you can see if you even need it.
2. Some of us overclock because our MB won't accept any newer processors and replacing the MB, reinstalling the OS, troubleshooting various quirks for weeks on end (a thousand curses on you, VIA), doing all the things that Mac users laugh about - it's just not worth it. Yet.
it's the bone that shapes your face for the most part. That's why they can make those clay facial recreations when they find an unidentified skeleton. And that's also why Face/Off was so ridiculous...
The word means what a majority of people understand it to mean, not just what the dictionary says. Eventually the dictionary will be grudgingly updated to accomodate the open standard that is the English language. Sucks to be a purist, I know.
On a side note, I predict that the stunning (incorrect) overuse of apostrophes in pluralizations (as in "apostrophe's in pluralization's") will one day be deemed grammatically correct as a direct result of being seen so many times on the internet.
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RE: #1, remember Sql server is a favorite of small business, and they are less likely to have an uber sysadmin. I know you don't have to be uber but when you're talking about mcse's... let's just say until there's a "Microsoft Firewall 3.0" this will keep happening.
I assume you are joking.
The reason labor is being outsourced overseas is to get around american labor law, pay less, provide no benefits, no paid sick/vacation time, etc. It's the same as outsourcing to consultants in the US, but with the added bonus of it being much less expensive (at least in theory). Why would anyone want to move overseas to consult for peanuts or worse, get a job in what amounts to a sweatshop?
...to keep the 14-year-olds off counter-strike servers. At least, I'm guessing they're 14....
Payola has boomed via "independent promoters" in recent years, and in turn the quality of music on the radio has gone down. Specifically, the relative quality to the people listening, since they no longer have any say at all in what gets played. There used to be a kind of representative government in the person of the DJ. Not just talking about requests, either. Was a time a DJ could play what he wanted, then it was "play what you want but during these hours play this list", now it's just "play this list but not necessarily in this order." As a result I haven't listened to radio in like 5 years.
More ranting: MTV no longer shows videos or even shows about videos anymore it seems, so my main source of new music is MP3s. And now they want to take that away!
This is obviously a clever, drawn-out way to post a real bug. The whole part about the RIAA is just to get you to read their bug post at the bottom. This is probably just an attempt to inject some amusement into bugtraq. It seems rather obvious to me.
Assume the user is a madman bent on destroying you and everything you care about... and his only tool is access to ports 80 & 443 of your website.
Not sure about the internet boom, but I would go as far as to say that AOL hampered the dot-com boom with their junky internal browser and for a while there the inability to use another one. And if my mom's PC is any indicator, you still can't even use another ISP while AOL is installed.
Don't forget the large percentage of mega-hot chicks I was drooling over last month as I drove my sorry ass past the campus...
Yeah it's some kind of bug. I noticed it first when I started developing a site using popups. It didn't seem to matter how many came at once, just how many had occurred in total. A CPU spike on iexplore.exe would always happen when a popup link was clicked after a certain amount had occurred, so I'm guessing there's some bug in their javascript implementation whereby it loops badly. Definitely annoying.
What about the fact that almost all job listings these days will mention more than one of these skills? There are significantly less jobs than what this chart shows because of that fact, not counting the "spam" jobs. It seems that more often than not any Java post also mentions C or C# these days...
How about this. 3/4 is .75 as a decimal. AKA 75/100. Ignoring the original ratio (1/9) in favor of repeating decimals, a decimal of this fashion can be described by a ratio defined by a limit of this function:
.1 = 1/10, .11=11/100, .111=111/1000, etc. Do the limit as x goes to infinity of f(x,n) and you get an infinity divided by infinity situation, which is undefined. Hence, trying to do math on one of these repeating decimal representations is meaningless. They do not define a number.
. ..8 8...
.999... = 1 using the proofs given thus far, there must also be a decimal ending with infinite 9's for every number N in existence that is also a valid representation of N, because you can use the same math to show it. But that number also has a doppelganger (which would have an infinite #of 9's tacked onto the first infinite # of 9's), and so on, until every number then has infinite representations of itself. Seems pretty crappy but I guess that's the price of infinity.
f(x,n) = n(10^0+10^1+10^2+...10^(x-1))/(10^x)
where x is the # of decimal places and n is the repeater.
On the other hand, some evidence to support the claim that I hadn't seen was this progression:
1/9=.111...
2/9=.222...
3/9=.333...
4/9=.444
5/9=.555...
6/9=.666...
7/9=.777...
8/9=.8
which would tend to support the original argument that 1=9/9=.999..., although only on an intuitive level.
Anyway, if you assume
This reminds me of the omega point, where parallel lines meet. Everything is possible in the infinity zone...
What i'm saying is that .1111... can only be accurately operated on as the ratio 1/9. Otherwise you must end your decimal string somewhere. When you say .1111... you are in fact referring to 1/9, are you not?
.9999... without using the ratio. It should take you an infinite amount of time to do.
If you can do it your way, you need to show that 9*.1111... =
you cannot do math on a "...", you must use the limit or you are approximating. it's like doing a calc on infinity, it's not doable. like if you were diving infinity by infinity, there is no result possible. similarly, doing a calc using the repeating decimal won't yield a result because there is no end to the string of numbers to deal with. you can't say there's the same infinite amount of digits afer the decimal in .3333... and .9999..., because infinity is not a fixed amount. you must use limits or fractions in these situations.
Perform the operations on limits and it will be true, otherwise your math is bad at the second step, because .3333... does not equal 1/3. At some point (depending on your required level of accuracy) it is a close enough approximation, but the two are not equal mathematically.
you can't do add/subtract operations on a repeating decimal like that, otherwise you get the (wrong) answer that you did.
I believe the way it works is the popup is spawned, then if your mouse crosses the popup window at all the original page is changed. The code for the mouseover would thus be in the popup itself, using a function to alter the parent window's href. Hence, nothing would happen if no popup occurred.
The first guy was right. Since the windows don't pop up in the first place, the mouseover events within those nonexistent windows can not occur.
One of my friends bought an Aiwa system in the early 90s that was the best shelf system I ever heard. It probably cost around $200. I was impressed enough to recommend the brand to others and buy one myself later on. Of course, the sound quality has nothing to do with the manufacturing quality, i.e., one of my friends had that problem with the cd player that is the cause of the lawsuit. I guess I would still recommend them based on the one I bought in 1998.
Ahh and then you also will have to disable scripting because they always check to see if you have flash then give you the installer window. I ran into this when I discovered I could reliably crash my pc by going to yahoo news in IE until I disabled flash (by uninstalling it). I had to disable scripting for yahoo's domain so I could avoid getting the installer popups on every damn page. But in doing that I couldn't access any javascript, including popups which are used in many links in their news section. I think I eventually upgraded IE when the new version came out and then flash as well. That may have fixed it, but I don't care because I now use Phoenix happily.
You forgot "by way of Variety".
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1. BIOS tweaking is nothing to fear. In some cases the default settings are quite incorrect. If you know what you are doing, tweak away. If not, don't.
BIOS updates, however, should be undertaken with caution, as there is a risk (an unfortunately timed power failure, for one) and they do spell out exactly what they updated so you can see if you even need it.
2. Some of us overclock because our MB won't accept any newer processors and replacing the MB, reinstalling the OS, troubleshooting various quirks for weeks on end (a thousand curses on you, VIA), doing all the things that Mac users laugh about - it's just not worth it. Yet.
it's the bone that shapes your face for the most part. That's why they can make those clay facial recreations when they find an unidentified skeleton. And that's also why Face/Off was so ridiculous...
The word means what a majority of people understand it to mean, not just what the dictionary says. Eventually the dictionary will be grudgingly updated to accomodate the open standard that is the English language. Sucks to be a purist, I know.
On a side note, I predict that the stunning (incorrect) overuse of apostrophes in pluralizations (as in "apostrophe's in pluralization's") will one day be deemed grammatically correct as a direct result of being seen so many times on the internet.