I'm downtown well away from the "big box" stores that draw the crowds to the edge of the city. The only "competition" I expect at the restaurants is from anyone who's working downtown. (It's not Thanksgiving here in Canada -- we had ours a while back. It was verra nize.)
It's not on "special", but with all the yahoos at the stores, I should get *great* service at my local restaurants, whichever one I choose to go to lunch at.
Prostitution is legal in Canada; pandering and solicitation are not. So you'll find ads for escort services in the local papers of every city in the country, but the police still bust the street walkers and "massage" parlours.
Making prostitution legal has not really reduced the abuse of prostitutes working the streets. But realistically, most of the street workers are skanky drug addicts who can't get work through an escort agency, because even such bottom-feeding businesses have got some standards.
As long as there are people who are desperate for drugs, there will be streetwalkers, regardless of the law. They may not be enslaved by a pimp, but they're enslaved by a dealer and their own "need".
Still, I've more respect for an addicted street walker than I do for some punk kid who breaks into houses or mugs people to get money for a "hit".
Oracle "Unbreakable" Linux, on the other hand, was broken by one of their updates within 3 months of me installing it. Fedora wouldn't run what I needed. Ubuntu messed me up with a system update, so I'm back on Debian myself.
I'd rather run slightly older stable software than the latest bleeding edge and losing my system.
There are fewer women in programming for one reason and one reason only: families.
Both in the US and Canada, I worked with a lot of bright young women over the years. And the vast majority of them quit their jobs shortly after getting married with the intent of raising a family. By the time they were ready to return to work, their tech skills were stale, so they took jobs as headhunters and HR interviewers because they had *technical skills* needed to fulfill those roles, even if they weren't current enough for *coding*.
Most of them also ended up making a hell of a lot more money that way than they would have if they stuck with programming.
The current incarnation of the Yahoo WebMail service is the worst webmail interface I've ever used. I don't blame the employees for avoiding it like the plague -- and I've had my Yahoo account for around a decade. This latest version is a serious step backwards. The icons make no sense, there are "hidden" popup activation areas all over the place, and it's uglier than sin.
I don't know what their "usability" department has been doing, but it sure as hell isn't researching what people might actually want in a webmail interface.
I have two states of privacy:
1. Never leaves a machine that is never used to browse the internet, and
2. Public
I simply assume that any "privacy controls" on websites are useless and treat them as public postings, disabling most of the security along the way. Just like good ole' slashdot posts.
Always proving our theories wrong and making mankind look dumb.
Heaven forbid our scientific community should just admit 90% of what they "know" is nothing more than a reasonable guess based on virtually no evidence on the cosmological scale.
I almost wish the Google contribution were 0% so they'd stop adding god damned useless "features" to what should be elegant and simple: A browser and an email package.
I don't want built-in PDF readers and video codecs and all that other crap their shovelling into it lately. If I want that functionality I'll install it. Don't shove it down my throat!
No surprise there. Samsung apparently wins the cases overseas, Apple wins them in the US. The whole system is rigged, flawed, and useless. Down with software and "design" patents!
"Runs on the Linux distro of our choice" is not the same as "Supports Linux." Most databases with the exception of DB/2 LUW do not run under Debian or Ubuntu, even if you use "alien" to install them. Maybe if you surf the net and futz with them for a few days you could get them to run, but that's not "supporting" the distro. It most certainly is not an acceptable situation for running that DB in anything even vaguely resembling a production environment.
As per usual, IBM has shown that you can build a platform-agnostic tool. As far as I'm concerned, the other DB vendors are just lazy-assed fucktards trying the leech off the "runs on Linux" mantra that you just spewed. If it requires a particular distro, say so -- you can't claim it "runs on Linux" unless it runs on all the major distros, not just the one you have a contract to support.
Whatever you like to plug into a USB port. But unlike PCs, console games don't give you the option of using anything but the default controllers. Given the "huge cost" of adding standard USB ports to what is little more than a specialized PC, there is no excuse for that.
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I'm downtown well away from the "big box" stores that draw the crowds to the edge of the city. The only "competition" I expect at the restaurants is from anyone who's working downtown. (It's not Thanksgiving here in Canada -- we had ours a while back. It was verra nize.)
Ooo. I "fucked" up by running the update tools.
Yep.
My bad, Mr. Fucktard.
It's not on "special", but with all the yahoos at the stores, I should get *great* service at my local restaurants, whichever one I choose to go to lunch at.
Just wondering if it's the same company. Their memory sticks work fine, but that's a minimally profitable market with a glut of providers nowadays.
Nonsense.
The problem was simple and obvious. It was called "Windows", but when Joe Schmoe tried to install a windows application on it, it wouldn't run.
The "geek" market isn't even a statistical blip on the radar of market share nowadays.
Care to explain how to do that when the machine has been so screwed up it won't boot to the new kernel or the old one any more?
RedHat based distros have fucked me over and over and over. Your "argument" is bullshit. They're not "better" by any stretch of the imagination.
Different country, different laws.
Prostitution is legal in Canada; pandering and solicitation are not. So you'll find ads for escort services in the local papers of every city in the country, but the police still bust the street walkers and "massage" parlours.
Making prostitution legal has not really reduced the abuse of prostitutes working the streets. But realistically, most of the street workers are skanky drug addicts who can't get work through an escort agency, because even such bottom-feeding businesses have got some standards.
As long as there are people who are desperate for drugs, there will be streetwalkers, regardless of the law. They may not be enslaved by a pimp, but they're enslaved by a dealer and their own "need".
Still, I've more respect for an addicted street walker than I do for some punk kid who breaks into houses or mugs people to get money for a "hit".
Oracle "Unbreakable" Linux, on the other hand, was broken by one of their updates within 3 months of me installing it. Fedora wouldn't run what I needed. Ubuntu messed me up with a system update, so I'm back on Debian myself.
I'd rather run slightly older stable software than the latest bleeding edge and losing my system.
Scientists must have *more sex* if they are to reproduce... :P
There are fewer women in programming for one reason and one reason only: families.
Both in the US and Canada, I worked with a lot of bright young women over the years. And the vast majority of them quit their jobs shortly after getting married with the intent of raising a family. By the time they were ready to return to work, their tech skills were stale, so they took jobs as headhunters and HR interviewers because they had *technical skills* needed to fulfill those roles, even if they weren't current enough for *coding*.
Most of them also ended up making a hell of a lot more money that way than they would have if they stuck with programming.
All the H1B programmers that had been hired to work on Y2K returned to Europe, bringing with them the North American diet.
The current incarnation of the Yahoo WebMail service is the worst webmail interface I've ever used. I don't blame the employees for avoiding it like the plague -- and I've had my Yahoo account for around a decade. This latest version is a serious step backwards. The icons make no sense, there are "hidden" popup activation areas all over the place, and it's uglier than sin.
I don't know what their "usability" department has been doing, but it sure as hell isn't researching what people might actually want in a webmail interface.
When everyone is required to rely on a public defender, then we'll have something approaching "equality before the law."
This "equality before the law" you speak of is why the rich and famous get sent to rehab while the poor get sent to prisons, right?
I have two states of privacy:
1. Never leaves a machine that is never used to browse the internet, and
2. Public
I simply assume that any "privacy controls" on websites are useless and treat them as public postings, disabling most of the security along the way. Just like good ole' slashdot posts.
No one ever needs more than 640KB. :P
Minimally Mapped Obvious RPG
Always proving our theories wrong and making mankind look dumb.
Heaven forbid our scientific community should just admit 90% of what they "know" is nothing more than a reasonable guess based on virtually no evidence on the cosmological scale.
I don't use Chrome, so I don't care what they do.
I don't use IE, so I don't care what they do.
I do, however, use Firefox. So I care about what they do.
Here's a shock for you: Those of us who use Linux don't run Adobe PDF readers. :P
I almost wish the Google contribution were 0% so they'd stop adding god damned useless "features" to what should be elegant and simple: A browser and an email package.
I don't want built-in PDF readers and video codecs and all that other crap their shovelling into it lately. If I want that functionality I'll install it. Don't shove it down my throat!
On the bus, you can get up and take another seat away from the asshole with the phone.
No surprise there. Samsung apparently wins the cases overseas, Apple wins them in the US. The whole system is rigged, flawed, and useless. Down with software and "design" patents!
If you're not allowing for rounding errors, your result is invalid in the first place.
If you don't want rounding errors, use a packaged based on variable precision mathematics, like a BCD package.
"Runs on the Linux distro of our choice" is not the same as "Supports Linux." Most databases with the exception of DB/2 LUW do not run under Debian or Ubuntu, even if you use "alien" to install them. Maybe if you surf the net and futz with them for a few days you could get them to run, but that's not "supporting" the distro. It most certainly is not an acceptable situation for running that DB in anything even vaguely resembling a production environment.
As per usual, IBM has shown that you can build a platform-agnostic tool. As far as I'm concerned, the other DB vendors are just lazy-assed fucktards trying the leech off the "runs on Linux" mantra that you just spewed. If it requires a particular distro, say so -- you can't claim it "runs on Linux" unless it runs on all the major distros, not just the one you have a contract to support.
Whatever you like to plug into a USB port. But unlike PCs, console games don't give you the option of using anything but the default controllers. Given the "huge cost" of adding standard USB ports to what is little more than a specialized PC, there is no excuse for that.