The onus is on whoever is making the claims. If a Christian is yelling "God exists, you miserable heathen", you have the right to say "Prove it". If you are yelling "No he doesn't, you miserable zealot", I have a similar right. I'll admit that both of us would have a long wait for such proof.
I agree with the previous poster. I'd rather use a RL friend as my "safety". He wouldn't need the details on just what I'm doing with the woman (or perhaps just what she's doing with me), just that I'm meeting this woman at that address and if I don't contact him at such a time, I'm in trouble. Computers aren't reliable enough for that.
Actually, I don't see much difference between radical atheists and radical Christians.
Christian: "If you don't believe in God, you're going to Hell" Atheist: "If you do believe in God, you're doomed to ignorance"
They both preach to anyone who will listen, and a great many who won't. They both have total faith in their position and will never change their minds.
I agree! For most of us, Global Warming sounds like a good thing, at least this time of year. Less snow/ice? Great! Warmer days! Lower heating costs! Fewer polar bears and penguins? Meh, who cares!
OTOH, NOBODY wants multi-colored air in their lungs! The crappy air quality bugs me more than any scare stories about global warming.
Yeah, but if "Mah movie don' work.", I'm going to demand a refund. If 1,001 rednecks go into WorstBuy saying "Mah movie don' work.", they will be very PO'd about having to return all that money, and just might quit carrying the offensive DVDs.
And everywhere else in fact. There is, however, no law confirming the right to use deadly force to prevent trespass
If some goon breaks down my door when I'm home, that goes beyond "trespass" and becomes a self-defence issue. Granted, most burglars avoid such confrontations, but there are still plenty of home invasions when the victim is home.
Even a DC-sniper style attack on people on the street in multiple locations could be bad. The actual body count would be very low, but the fear would be very high.
I think one of the biggest problems in our industry is accountability. The engineer would never put the unsafe option on the table, because the engineer knows he'll loose his license and go to prison if the bridge collapses. With software, on the other hand, we just expect our customers to deal with the fact that it fails, and we behave accordingly - and unprofessionally.
It's not just that we put "unsafe" software out there. It's that our bosses expect us to put unsafe software out there. I try to test everything, but when the requirements are changing long after we SHOULD be in beta, and the boss wants it out by such-and-such a date, something has to give, and often that something is proper testing.
Agreed! I live 15 miles from work, so I could just make it there and back. Unless I had to make an additional trip on my way home from work. And I live 25 miles from my GF, so even just going there and back would be impossible without a charge. Not to mention going on vacation.
Oh yes! I got stuck with such an abomination! Someone referred to it as spagetti code, and I replied "No, your program is spagetti. This one is spagetti with *expletive deleted* meatballs!!".
I remember RPG. I had thought the rest of the world might have forgotten it.
We're trying to forget it! I learned it at school because there was one large company that used it, but luckily I got hired at a COBOL place and never had see RPG again!
Bingo! I've DONE more than my fair share of chasing obscure problems in COBOL programs that were almost as old as I, and many of those problems could easily have been done in other languages, and often even worse! If someone can write unreadable programs in a language that was designed to BE readable, what would they do in C or Perl? Yikes!!
Edge case? Where I work, all the documents are stored on a network drive. The odds are very high that whatever I delete will be on the network, not on the local drive.
Bingo! There's nothing wrong with building technology, but 90% of users aren't interested. Someone said something about the difference and tradeoffs between sleep and hibernate. Pick one as the default. It will be an adaquate choice for everyone, and those who want the other, and know how to do it can do so.
Some do. If the files are not unrealistically small,these saves always interfere with the task you are trying to accomplish
Not as badly as power outages, network glitches, or the 3 year-old kid tripping over the power cord! If you're working on anything of importance, you have 3 choices. Use a program with autosave, manually save (and interupt your flow), or get hosed when something happens to that cure for cancer you just discovered.
IIRC, NT-Alpha had an x86 emulator. However, running software under emulation negated the speed advantage of the Alpha, which remained more expensive than an x86.
I'd say the main factor is that nearly all the software was x86. NT could run on other hardware, but it was still running x86 software. And if you were running x86 software anyway, you might as well run it on an x86, especially since they were much cheaper than the non-x86 boxen.
Celebs certainly have the right to have an opinion. The problem is that they think their opinion matters more than Joe Sixpack's, even though they are just as stupid (though much better looking). Worse, Joe seems to think the celebs are smarter than he, even though they're not.
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I can think of 2 scenarios for a power outage.
1. The DMS is controlled from my local PC, and it doesn't go off if I die during the outage.
2. The DMS is at a remote location, and I can't cancel it because my power is out.
The onus is on whoever is making the claims. If a Christian is yelling "God exists, you miserable heathen", you have the right to say "Prove it". If you are yelling "No he doesn't, you miserable zealot", I have a similar right. I'll admit that both of us would have a long wait for such proof.
Actually, I'd rather do "vi will" and make a few changes to the beneficary.
Really? What proof do you have that God doesn't exist?
Yikes! Personally, I'd recommend waiting until you know the other person well enough not to need a backup before getting into that!
I agree with the previous poster. I'd rather use a RL friend as my "safety". He wouldn't need the details on just what I'm doing with the woman (or perhaps just what she's doing with me), just that I'm meeting this woman at that address and if I don't contact him at such a time, I'm in trouble. Computers aren't reliable enough for that.
Actually, I don't see much difference between radical atheists and radical Christians.
Christian: "If you don't believe in God, you're going to Hell"
Atheist: "If you do believe in God, you're doomed to ignorance"
They both preach to anyone who will listen, and a great many who won't. They both have total faith in their position and will never change their minds.
I agree! For most of us, Global Warming sounds like a good thing, at least this time of year. Less snow/ice? Great! Warmer days! Lower heating costs! Fewer polar bears and penguins? Meh, who cares!
OTOH, NOBODY wants multi-colored air in their lungs! The crappy air quality bugs me more than any scare stories about global warming.
Yeah, but if "Mah movie don' work.", I'm going to demand a refund. If 1,001 rednecks go into WorstBuy saying "Mah movie don' work.", they will be very PO'd about having to return all that money, and just might quit carrying the offensive DVDs.
If some goon breaks down my door when I'm home, that goes beyond "trespass" and becomes a self-defence issue. Granted, most burglars avoid such confrontations, but there are still plenty of home invasions when the victim is home.
Even a DC-sniper style attack on people on the street in multiple locations could be bad. The actual body count would be very low, but the fear would be very high.
It's not just that we put "unsafe" software out there. It's that our bosses expect us to put unsafe software out there. I try to test everything, but when the requirements are changing long after we SHOULD be in beta, and the boss wants it out by such-and-such a date, something has to give, and often that something is proper testing.
Of course. And I do that at UMB Bank.
Agreed! I live 15 miles from work, so I could just make it there and back. Unless I had to make an additional trip on my way home from work. And I live 25 miles from my GF, so even just going there and back would be impossible without a charge. Not to mention going on vacation.
Oh yes! I got stuck with such an abomination! Someone referred to it as spagetti code, and I replied "No, your program is spagetti. This one is spagetti with *expletive deleted* meatballs!!".
We're trying to forget it! I learned it at school because there was one large company that used it, but luckily I got hired at a COBOL place and never had see RPG again!
Bingo! I've DONE more than my fair share of chasing obscure problems in COBOL programs that were almost as old as I, and many of those problems could easily have been done in other languages, and often even worse! If someone can write unreadable programs in a language that was designed to BE readable, what would they do in C or Perl? Yikes!!
Edge case? Where I work, all the documents are stored on a network drive. The odds are very high that whatever I delete will be on the network, not on the local drive.
Bingo! There's nothing wrong with building technology, but 90% of users aren't interested. Someone said something about the difference and tradeoffs between sleep and hibernate. Pick one as the default. It will be an adaquate choice for everyone, and those who want the other, and know how to do it can do so.
Not as badly as power outages, network glitches, or the 3 year-old kid tripping over the power cord! If you're working on anything of importance, you have 3 choices. Use a program with autosave, manually save (and interupt your flow), or get hosed when something happens to that cure for cancer you just discovered.
I'm fairly sure that some versions of VB allowed the "$", if only for backward compatibilty with older BASICs.
IIRC, NT-Alpha had an x86 emulator. However, running software under emulation negated the speed advantage of the Alpha, which remained more expensive than an x86.
I'd say the main factor is that nearly all the software was x86. NT could run on other hardware, but it was still running x86 software. And if you were running x86 software anyway, you might as well run it on an x86, especially since they were much cheaper than the non-x86 boxen.
Celebs certainly have the right to have an opinion. The problem is that they think their opinion matters more than Joe Sixpack's, even though they are just as stupid (though much better looking). Worse, Joe seems to think the celebs are smarter than he, even though they're not.
The scary thing is, if I had mod points, I would have modded that as "Insightful" instead of "Funny".