We've conditioned ourselves to stop doing almost everything in order to answer a phonecall. Even if we have no idea who's calling, we are prepared to interrupt most activities and (unforgivably) most people
Story to illustrate the point: I go to my local camera store during off-peak hours in order to purchase a big lens. 3 salesmen, each with a customer. I think: "ok, this isn't gonna take long". Phone rings. 1st salesman answers, interrupting his customer for 10 minutes. 2nd phone rings, 2nd salesman does the same. Repeat with 3rd one. And a couple more times after the first calls.
Eventually one of them finishes with his customer, after half an hour. I step forward and open my mouth when the telephone rings... I say very loudly: "either you speak with a paying customer or with a non-paying one, your call". The guy answered the call. I left and ordered my lens on the 'net.
It also reminds me of the story of a guy standing in a long line where the attendant kept answering the phone. Eventually he found out the phone number, called, and asked to be taken care off while waving. Big cheer from the crowd. After that the attendant left the phone off the hook.
So that's the 2nd most ancient method to produce alcohol in the world... The first one being: take some juice, let it ferment, drink (applies to wine, beer, honey-wine, etc). The next step is to take that fermented juice on a cold winter night, let some of it freeze (the water part), throw the ice away and repeat until the alcohol concentration is high enough for your taste. Word of warning: it usually produces a bad taste as a lot of stuff (aldehydes, amides, etc) that are better off either evaporated or left at the bottom of the tank will stay in the brew.
Shame what they've created here is nothing remotely that interesting or creative.
I recently brought back to life a 10 year old laptop. It works good, but I could think of 2 ways to extend it simply: with an SSD in the CD slot (without CD player which is hardly useful anymore), and with an SSD in the mini-USB slot. I could not find any SSD in those formats. Do they exist ?
Makes me feel left behind as I still think 2-blade razors suck as the hair piles up between the blades making it harder to shave properly within a few seconds. That doesn't happen if you shave daily, but I never could get into the rhythm of daily shaving. And you can't even find single-blade safety razors anymore...
I predict that in the near future all 3G subscriptions will be data only, paying by Gb. Voice will be data like any other. As soon as one provider starts pricing like this, all the others will be forced to follow suite.
"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell."
This high freq trading is complete bullshit as any engineer who's worked in digital signal processing can immediately see. They need to implement a low pass filter on trades, with a time value of about 24 hours so that nobody can profit from 'going faster'.
Another major problem is insider trading which is, I've convinced, the basic system used by all the Wall Street crooks.
There also needs an official estimation of the 'fakiness' of the wealth you are buying. If you have cash, that's 0. If you own shares in a company, that's 1; if you hold options on those shares, that's 2; if you hold future derivative options etc, etc... The whole system is made so opaque that only those crooks can profit.
Whilst you can flash alternate ROMs (waves to XDA-Developers.com) to devices
Where do those ROMs come from ? I have a Hero with generic Android on it and still waiting for HTC to release a new version. Are those HTC 'alpha' versions or just Joe Blow playing with a compiler ?
Yes, but where do you find it ? I have a HTC Hero with the generic 1.0.0.A6288 software version (is that the same as Android version ?); but on HTC website all the upgrades are either for the Orange or the Sprint losers.
...but when are they gonna fine the various cell phone carriers who are so obviously price fixing that it's laughable. 30c SMS in most of Europe _unless_ you pay an extra 15E a month, etc... They are all the same crooks with an already paid infrastructure of antenna most always financed directly by the states.
I'll continue.
My wife has some kind of glandular cancer that's been going on for the last year or so. Recently during a hospital stay she got hold of her whole file and in it was the sentence: "she asks lots of questions". Well, fuck them and the camels they rode onto. If doctors can't answer question for the human beings they are working on, they should change line of work. For something with so many hormonal retro-actions, and since nobody seems to have developed simulation software, I don't see how they can know shit, period. My guess is as good as yours.
only with some obscure tiling window managers such as Awesome and Xmonad or some scripting uber-hacks can you have two applications side-by-side without resizing them manually every time
I tried 'awesome' after some screenshots I saw. There are two problems with 'awesome':
the name. Try looking for any information on google for 'awesome'... Good luck. In most cases you'll end up on soft porn pages. And searching for 'awesome window manager' takes you to fights between Gnome and KDE.
the documentation. Of which there is none whatsoever. How do you close an app ? I couldn't even figure that one out, except a kill from the command line. The mailing list is full of answers like "You don't need a menu to control your windows, just change your keybings". Errr... thanks.
So my jobs requires encrypted drives, and in addition I use Linux. What should I tell them when they want to search my drive ? "I'm sorry, but I'm not allowed to let you snoop in that, please see my boss."...? Way to end in the slammer either way.
The Romans and Greeks knew full well that dirty water spreads disease. That is why they went to such extraordinary lengths to gather water high in the mountains and pipe it through the cities. Their civil engineers did not need microscopes to figure that out.
And right now there are still countries where people take water in the spring that comes to their house and clean their ass and throw their garbage in the the same spring, for the next house 20m below to enjoy. This kind of logic baffles the mind.
I often wonder where we would be if the greco-romans had the idea to use steam power... (Heron knew steam could be used on a small scale, but never thought 'bigger'). Their society was happy to rely on slaves I guess...
I mean, this is complete bullshit. Analogy, in ye olden days with mechanical typewriters, if you used brand X, that had some patents on it, you could be an amateur or commercial author according to some writing guide "license to type", but if you used brands Y or Z, that had some other patents, with another variant on the "license to type", you had to pay a fee to the typewriter manufacturers cartel with the Y or Z patents if you wanted to sell your work? Or your publisher had to pay or..what??? Boooolll sheeet.
For once I completely agree with the analogy. Things like that should not only be thrown out of court, but the lawyers who helped draft the 'licence' should be fined _personally_. I mean, when a company gets fined, all it does is raise the price of their products to make up for it, so the consumers end up paying for it. The _people_ in the companies who come up with bullshit like that need to be fined and banned from working in that company again. Companies don't feel pain, people do.
A couple years ago (ok, around 2000) I was in the subway next to a student who was obviously cramming in for some exam on internet protocols. He was at the page about gopher, trying to memorize its use. I told him "why do they still teach long dead protocols ?" and he looked at me like I was from Mars. Must have never used the 'net or something.
I recently gave a technical presentation for a raise. I listened to the others through the doors and they had full powerpoint bullshit marvels with completely irrelevant drivel. I loath ppt, so I had one PNG image, with 20 words and 30 arrows between then which I commented at length (it described the process of creating an embedded system OS). I'm the only one who didn't get the raise. Next year you bet there'll be Xmas trees with falling snow, animated arrows with sound effect of squirrels running over them and the whole 9 yard.
All the stats have biases. At home my PC is Ubuntu only. At work my main PC is Windows but all my other systems (control command, testing, development, acquisition, etc) are Fedora, but those aren't used to surf the web, so they are not counted on your web stats, and I have a truckload of them.
Is there a list somewhere of languages that can compile themselves ? I'm actually surprised that the perl interpreter is not in perl, with all this talk about its grammatical power...
Reviews by somebody who failed the same class four times are probably suspect
In English class I had to study Richard III 3 years in a row, with different teachers. Due to class mixings I was the only one in the school this happened to. Needless to say, I've hated Shakespeare ever since.
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We've conditioned ourselves to stop doing almost everything in order to answer a phonecall. Even if we have no idea who's calling, we are prepared to interrupt most activities and (unforgivably) most people
Story to illustrate the point: I go to my local camera store during off-peak hours in order to purchase a big lens. 3 salesmen, each with a customer. I think: "ok, this isn't gonna take long". Phone rings. 1st salesman answers, interrupting his customer for 10 minutes. 2nd phone rings, 2nd salesman does the same. Repeat with 3rd one. And a couple more times after the first calls.
Eventually one of them finishes with his customer, after half an hour. I step forward and open my mouth when the telephone rings... I say very loudly: "either you speak with a paying customer or with a non-paying one, your call". The guy answered the call. I left and ordered my lens on the 'net.
It also reminds me of the story of a guy standing in a long line where the attendant kept answering the phone. Eventually he found out the phone number, called, and asked to be taken care off while waving. Big cheer from the crowd. After that the attendant left the phone off the hook.
So that's the 2nd most ancient method to produce alcohol in the world... The first one being: take some juice, let it ferment, drink (applies to wine, beer, honey-wine, etc). The next step is to take that fermented juice on a cold winter night, let some of it freeze (the water part), throw the ice away and repeat until the alcohol concentration is high enough for your taste. Word of warning: it usually produces a bad taste as a lot of stuff (aldehydes, amides, etc) that are better off either evaporated or left at the bottom of the tank will stay in the brew.
Shame what they've created here is nothing remotely that interesting or creative.
I recently brought back to life a 10 year old laptop. It works good, but I could think of 2 ways to extend it simply: with an SSD in the CD slot (without CD player which is hardly useful anymore), and with an SSD in the mini-USB slot. I could not find any SSD in those formats. Do they exist ?
p.s. I saw a six-blade razor in Asia last year.
Makes me feel left behind as I still think 2-blade razors suck as the hair piles up between the blades making it harder to shave properly within a few seconds. That doesn't happen if you shave daily, but I never could get into the rhythm of daily shaving. And you can't even find single-blade safety razors anymore...
I predict that in the near future all 3G subscriptions will be data only, paying by Gb. Voice will be data like any other. As soon as one provider starts pricing like this, all the others will be forced to follow suite.
This high freq trading is complete bullshit as any engineer who's worked in digital signal processing can immediately see. They need to implement a low pass filter on trades, with a time value of about 24 hours so that nobody can profit from 'going faster'.
Another major problem is insider trading which is, I've convinced, the basic system used by all the Wall Street crooks.
There also needs an official estimation of the 'fakiness' of the wealth you are buying. If you have cash, that's 0. If you own shares in a company, that's 1; if you hold options on those shares, that's 2; if you hold future derivative options etc, etc... The whole system is made so opaque that only those crooks can profit.
Mine isn't branded. Just wondering if the only option is those half-baked ROMs. How reliable are they ? Sounds like a recipe for ownage.
Whilst you can flash alternate ROMs (waves to XDA-Developers.com) to devices
Where do those ROMs come from ? I have a Hero with generic Android on it and still waiting for HTC to release a new version. Are those HTC 'alpha' versions or just Joe Blow playing with a compiler ?
You can, if you install a generic Android.
Yes, but where do you find it ? I have a HTC Hero with the generic 1.0.0.A6288 software version (is that the same as Android version ?); but on HTC website all the upgrades are either for the Orange or the Sprint losers.
...but when are they gonna fine the various cell phone carriers who are so obviously price fixing that it's laughable. 30c SMS in most of Europe _unless_ you pay an extra 15E a month, etc... They are all the same crooks with an already paid infrastructure of antenna most always financed directly by the states.
I'll continue. My wife has some kind of glandular cancer that's been going on for the last year or so. Recently during a hospital stay she got hold of her whole file and in it was the sentence: "she asks lots of questions". Well, fuck them and the camels they rode onto. If doctors can't answer question for the human beings they are working on, they should change line of work. For something with so many hormonal retro-actions, and since nobody seems to have developed simulation software, I don't see how they can know shit, period. My guess is as good as yours.
That's the windows key, right ? OK, I'll give it another shot.
only with some obscure tiling window managers such as Awesome and Xmonad or some scripting uber-hacks can you have two applications side-by-side without resizing them manually every time
I tried 'awesome' after some screenshots I saw. There are two problems with 'awesome':
"And what do you do at work, sir?"... "I'm a... cough... software engineer" would probably kind of defeat the purpose.
So my jobs requires encrypted drives, and in addition I use Linux. What should I tell them when they want to search my drive ? "I'm sorry, but I'm not allowed to let you snoop in that, please see my boss."...? Way to end in the slammer either way.
There's a quote that says that no civilization / society is more than 3 meals away from revolution / anarchy...
The Romans and Greeks knew full well that dirty water spreads disease. That is why they went to such extraordinary lengths to gather water high in the mountains and pipe it through the cities. Their civil engineers did not need microscopes to figure that out.
And right now there are still countries where people take water in the spring that comes to their house and clean their ass and throw their garbage in the the same spring, for the next house 20m below to enjoy. This kind of logic baffles the mind.
I often wonder where we would be if the greco-romans had the idea to use steam power... (Heron knew steam could be used on a small scale, but never thought 'bigger'). Their society was happy to rely on slaves I guess...
I mean, this is complete bullshit. Analogy, in ye olden days with mechanical typewriters, if you used brand X, that had some patents on it, you could be an amateur or commercial author according to some writing guide "license to type", but if you used brands Y or Z, that had some other patents, with another variant on the "license to type", you had to pay a fee to the typewriter manufacturers cartel with the Y or Z patents if you wanted to sell your work? Or your publisher had to pay or..what??? Boooolll sheeet.
For once I completely agree with the analogy. Things like that should not only be thrown out of court, but the lawyers who helped draft the 'licence' should be fined _personally_. I mean, when a company gets fined, all it does is raise the price of their products to make up for it, so the consumers end up paying for it. The _people_ in the companies who come up with bullshit like that need to be fined and banned from working in that company again. Companies don't feel pain, people do.
A couple years ago (ok, around 2000) I was in the subway next to a student who was obviously cramming in for some exam on internet protocols. He was at the page about gopher, trying to memorize its use. I told him "why do they still teach long dead protocols ?" and he looked at me like I was from Mars. Must have never used the 'net or something.
I recently gave a technical presentation for a raise. I listened to the others through the doors and they had full powerpoint bullshit marvels with completely irrelevant drivel. I loath ppt, so I had one PNG image, with 20 words and 30 arrows between then which I commented at length (it described the process of creating an embedded system OS). I'm the only one who didn't get the raise. Next year you bet there'll be Xmas trees with falling snow, animated arrows with sound effect of squirrels running over them and the whole 9 yard.
"It's" is contraction of "it is". Its wrong to use it's in any other way.
It's been a long time since I last heard something as wrong as that...
All the stats have biases. At home my PC is Ubuntu only. At work my main PC is Windows but all my other systems (control command, testing, development, acquisition, etc) are Fedora, but those aren't used to surf the web, so they are not counted on your web stats, and I have a truckload of them.
Is there a list somewhere of languages that can compile themselves ? I'm actually surprised that the perl interpreter is not in perl, with all this talk about its grammatical power...
Case in point, my research lab had to change part of its name "... nuclear ..." to "... subatomic ..." because we weren't getting anymore budget.
Reviews by somebody who failed the same class four times are probably suspect
In English class I had to study Richard III 3 years in a row, with different teachers. Due to class mixings I was the only one in the school this happened to. Needless to say, I've hated Shakespeare ever since.