What if you had a beowulf clusters or stacks of machines running folding or other, arguably, more useful applications. High energy usage or a sudden spike in power consumption shouldn't be probable cause in and of itself.
The lesson from this is that, if you want to have a grow room, you should put it in an office building containing a large server farm. Make sure it's hidden directly off the farm in its own enclosed area surrounded by a circle of "storage/equipment closets" so that the extra space won't be noticed by the cops. Take the product out in trash bags post harvest and use the HVAC system to control humidity for the best hidden grow-op ever!
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[Delay of Lady Gaga downloading leading to sabotage of an online rating system] is quite frankly terrifying to me.
Dude, if bad ratings having nothing to do with you on an online site terrify you, you need psychological help. Either that or you need serious help with vocabulary (because you don't understand the meaning of the word "terrify") or your overuse of hyperbole.
Uh, this kind of debugging has been in use since the late 1980's. The only things that have changed are the vendors who build the emulators and the size of the hardware that can be emulated. Why is this amazing?
You know, you could have made that an actual link. It's also getting rather dated by now. And also, by now, if someone here doesn't know about it they must be brain dead. So I don't know which is worse - that you posted a non-link link, that you posted a really old and crufty non-link link, or that you posted a really obvious old and crufty non-link link. Well, in any case, stop it...
I'm shocked that we haven't launched prosecutions of most of the Bush Administration...
So am I, but then we'd have to prosecute most of the Obama administration, which has continued the same policies. And I say that with shame as a lifelong Democrat.
[A] developer arrived at work to realize his second monitor had been taken (given to the accounting dept., to add insult to injury).
So which is it? Is your company so disorganized that it couldn't order a monitor in time for your new accountant or so broke that it couldn't afford another? Either way, if I were a developer there, I'd start looking elsewhere.
Items 2-5 help and I think that most folks here would agree with them. Item 1 simply moves bribery to the cadre of staffers who now start profiting from telling their "ever-newbie" bosses "what they need to do/who they need to see". In addition, it tends to make politicians think "I'll be done with my limited term before anyone catches on to my bribery and, by then, no one will care about what I did in that elected position, as I've moved on to the next."
If we compare our government today, to what it was in 1900, it's clear that we've gone downhill.
You're right, if you look at the decade between 1900 and 1910. However, before that you had the Whiskey Ring and Tammany Hall, after that, you had the Newport Sex Scandal and Teapot Dome. The US government has never been completely free of corruption and harking back to some mythical "Golden Age" does no one any good. The only reason why things look worse now is that the dollar amounts have increased - but that's inflation for you...
Could you imagine Lady Gaga being responsible for your bank account? Or how about her as your pilot on your next trip?
I'd rather have her than Lindsey Lohan.
Oddly enough, I have a fair amount of respect for LG. You may hate her music (I don't find it all that interesting), but at least she writes and plays her own stuff. She sings pretty well. And you don't get to where she is performance-wise without a great deal of internal discipline. So, even though your point is taken - I'd rather have a qualified investment advisor who I trusted manage my money and a licensed pilot to fly my plane - I think you picked the wrong example. And, do I care if the pilot dyes his hair green, has piercings or has a tattoo? No.
... of succeeding as a QA functionary (With bonus metrics for more quality!):
1. Come up with a metric which can be tenuously tied to quality. Ten bonus points for metric being ill-defined. 2. Make developers (and your QA team) jump through hoops to measure the metric and make it go up/down (as appropriate). One bonus point for each percent in increased time used to calculate/track the metric. 3. Point to increase/decrease (as appropriate) in metric to show your "effectiveness". Five bonus points for the delta being statistically insignificant. 3.5 (optional) If metric does not change, speak out forcefully about how developers are "resistant to change" or "don't care about quality". Twenty-five bonus points for each employee sacked during this time. 4. Never measure customer satisfaction. Minus 200 bonus points for doing this.
Repeat as needed and celebrate your success in improving quality!
"Look at how much I'm improving things"(LAHMIIT) metrics are the bane of my existence.
You shouldn't have to look very far to find a lawyer who's willing to take on the case without charging you directly, considering some of the precedent that's been set recently...
Which precedent would this be? In reality, the history of this kind of litigation has always been very mixed, often depending heavily on the jurisdiction and judge. I think you substantially overestimate the chances of J. Random Someone finding a lawyer wanting to defend on a contingency basis, depending on the off chance that you, who almost certainly were downloading that awful movie (I saw it in the theater. so I know) could be found innocent on some technicality. Especially since he'd only get his fee paid for with no risk bonus.
That being said, I actually look through most of the catalogs I get (if nothing else, you get the "Why would anyone ever buy this thing" moments which are good for entertainment value). Catalogs take up most of the physical bulk of the mail and I don't begrudge those. Most bulk-mailed envelopes go into the shredder unopened, so they don't bother me a lot. As you get older, the sorting of the mail becomes a peaceful point in one's day - sort of a meditative moment... Do I want to read this or shred it? Very Zen.
I can only effectively use RPN calculators - it is how I think.
So, when you write a program, do you use forth, or do you recompile the expressions into a parenthesized tree form in your head before you type them in?
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What if you had a beowulf clusters or stacks of machines running folding or other, arguably, more useful applications. High energy usage or a sudden spike in power consumption shouldn't be probable cause in and of itself.
The lesson from this is that, if you want to have a grow room, you should put it in an office building containing a large server farm. Make sure it's hidden directly off the farm in its own enclosed area surrounded by a circle of "storage/equipment closets" so that the extra space won't be noticed by the cops. Take the product out in trash bags post harvest and use the HVAC system to control humidity for the best hidden grow-op ever!
[Delay of Lady Gaga downloading leading to sabotage of an online rating system] is quite frankly terrifying to me.
Dude, if bad ratings having nothing to do with you on an online site terrify you, you need psychological help. Either that or you need serious help with vocabulary (because you don't understand the meaning of the word "terrify") or your overuse of hyperbole.
Both adequately address the actual end user requirements. Both accomodate the use case.
Except the one about potentially getting laid.
Uh, this kind of debugging has been in use since the late 1980's. The only things that have changed are the vendors who build the emulators and the size of the hardware that can be emulated. Why is this amazing?
Steve, is that you?
No. He never would have misused "to" in the article title.
... as most of them are made when I'm drunk...
You know, you could have made that an actual link. It's also getting rather dated by now. And also, by now, if someone here doesn't know about it they must be brain dead. So I don't know which is worse - that you posted a non-link link, that you posted a really old and crufty non-link link, or that you posted a really obvious old and crufty non-link link. Well, in any case, stop it...
I'm shocked that we haven't launched prosecutions of most of the Bush Administration...
So am I, but then we'd have to prosecute most of the Obama administration, which has continued the same policies. And I say that with shame as a lifelong Democrat.
Barack Obama - best Republican president so far.
[A] developer arrived at work to realize his second monitor had been taken (given to the accounting dept., to add insult to injury).
So which is it? Is your company so disorganized that it couldn't order a monitor in time for your new accountant or so broke that it couldn't afford another? Either way, if I were a developer there, I'd start looking elsewhere.
This research stinks!
Items 2-5 help and I think that most folks here would agree with them. Item 1 simply moves bribery to the cadre of staffers who now start profiting from telling their "ever-newbie" bosses "what they need to do/who they need to see". In addition, it tends to make politicians think "I'll be done with my limited term before anyone catches on to my bribery and, by then, no one will care about what I did in that elected position, as I've moved on to the next."
Google should put the money into backing pro-freedom candidates. Though given Google's political leanings, that's not going to happen.
Yeah... that must be it. Google must hate our freedoms. God knows it's got nothing about around 95% "pro-freedom" candidates being far-right loonies.
I still seem to be able to go to google.ca to find the online pharmacies. The first shows up at about number four or five on the results list.
More like woodwinds, if they want to do a reasonable job. Sure as heck wouldn't work for keyboard instruments.
If we compare our government today, to what it was in 1900, it's clear that we've gone downhill.
You're right, if you look at the decade between 1900 and 1910. However, before that you had the Whiskey Ring and Tammany Hall, after that, you had the Newport Sex Scandal and Teapot Dome. The US government has never been completely free of corruption and harking back to some mythical "Golden Age" does no one any good. The only reason why things look worse now is that the dollar amounts have increased - but that's inflation for you...
Could you imagine Lady Gaga being responsible for your bank account? Or how about her as your pilot on your next trip?
I'd rather have her than Lindsey Lohan.
Oddly enough, I have a fair amount of respect for LG. You may hate her music (I don't find it all that interesting), but at least she writes and plays her own stuff. She sings pretty well. And you don't get to where she is performance-wise without a great deal of internal discipline. So, even though your point is taken - I'd rather have a qualified investment advisor who I trusted manage my money and a licensed pilot to fly my plane - I think you picked the wrong example. And, do I care if the pilot dyes his hair green, has piercings or has a tattoo? No.
... of succeeding as a QA functionary (With bonus metrics for more quality!):
1. Come up with a metric which can be tenuously tied to quality. Ten bonus points for metric being ill-defined.
2. Make developers (and your QA team) jump through hoops to measure the metric and make it go up/down (as appropriate). One bonus point for each percent in increased time used to calculate/track the metric.
3. Point to increase/decrease (as appropriate) in metric to show your "effectiveness". Five bonus points for the delta being statistically insignificant.
3.5 (optional) If metric does not change, speak out forcefully about how developers are "resistant to change" or "don't care about quality". Twenty-five bonus points for each employee sacked during this time.
4. Never measure customer satisfaction. Minus 200 bonus points for doing this.
Repeat as needed and celebrate your success in improving quality!
"Look at how much I'm improving things"(LAHMIIT) metrics are the bane of my existence.
How many porn movies per second is this?
I spent a year there, and didn't think the culture was any different from any other US state...
Then you weren't paying attention. I spent ten months there... it was the longest ten years of my life! Ba dum shhhh!
You shouldn't have to look very far to find a lawyer who's willing to take on the case without charging you directly, considering some of the precedent that's been set recently...
Which precedent would this be? In reality, the history of this kind of litigation has always been very mixed, often depending heavily on the jurisdiction and judge. I think you substantially overestimate the chances of J. Random Someone finding a lawyer wanting to defend on a contingency basis, depending on the off chance that you, who almost certainly were downloading that awful movie (I saw it in the theater. so I know) could be found innocent on some technicality. Especially since he'd only get his fee paid for with no risk bonus.
Is there a list of should and should not dos when it comes to Windows automation?
Yes.
1. Do not do Windows automation.
That is all...
t would probably need a special holding case otherwise your backpack would catch on fire while carrying it.
No, just fold it in half so that the cold sides were facing out.
I have one. It's called a recycle bin.
That being said, I actually look through most of the catalogs I get (if nothing else, you get the "Why would anyone ever buy this thing" moments which are good for entertainment value). Catalogs take up most of the physical bulk of the mail and I don't begrudge those. Most bulk-mailed envelopes go into the shredder unopened, so they don't bother me a lot. As you get older, the sorting of the mail becomes a peaceful point in one's day - sort of a meditative moment... Do I want to read this or shred it? Very Zen.
I can only effectively use RPN calculators - it is how I think.
So, when you write a program, do you use forth, or do you recompile the expressions into a parenthesized tree form in your head before you type them in?
... give me some of that money so I can do things like go to the doctor.
Why do you hate America?