You know, I see people bitch about using virii instead of viruses as the plural form of virus every time this sort of story comes out. That said, I do believe this is the first time I've seen virii used as the singular form of virus.
If you're an idiot, yeah. Slashcode inserts a space into long strings - this helps prevent page-widening posts. Notice the space in the URL? That needs to be removed in order for the link address to be properly resolved. True, the asshat who posted it could have taken an extra few seconds and made a clickable link, but the fault is not really his and it isn't really Microsoft's. It is the result of abusive (Klerck, I'm looking at you) or ignorant users. If people would refrain from posting long unbroken strings this particular mess could be avoided. Such is life. Have a Coke and a smile.
How was that offtopic? Fucking mods are moronic pussies, no? Now, this is offtopic, sort of, so I guess it'll be modded Flamebait.
(No, I'm not the AC who posted the parent)
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I mean, they put out good stuff, but they are clearly outmached in the 64-bit arena. Maybe the reason they took so long to move beyond 32-bits had less to do with preserving compatibility than it did with an inability to design a new chip.
I've reloaded all the service packs, patches, etc, and it's still telling me there's more - every day or so I get another "your system is about to be anally raped if you get online without this patch, now go get online and download the patch" message. Maybe that month (or longer) of bugfixing is doing some good.
...and we all know that any database can be fed through a graphing program and output to a webpage. Fuck webcams, I want streaming blood sugar monitors.
There are significant between loose and lose I know, I should just let it go, but I'm curious: What is so difficult about spelling "lose" properly? The correct spelling even saves you one keystroke per occurrence.
How many times are we made complacent by media exposure and official fearmongering? Just because it's tiresome to hear about this doesn't mean that some weak spot won't be found and exploited. Whip us into a frenzy!
Like The Matrix? No. Should I? A sorry mishmash of dystopian human-slavery science fiction, incredibly shallow cyberpunk (telephones as portals?) and Buddhist "the mind is the weapon" pap mixed with shiny leather and softcore multiculturalism (hmm...the black guys are the only ones who are natural in a modern noble savage kinda theme) combined to make no sense while doing an excellent A-TEAM ripoff with thousands of rounds sparking past our heros.
*Shudder* I remember being a young tapeape with some (DOS 6.0, Windows 3.11 and Windows95 at home) computing experience. An eject job hung and I was told to call the computer operator with the silo number and ask him to do his magic. I made the call and got an earful of "you trashed my job" that made little or no sense to me. At some point or another I made the uninformed suggestion that he simply reboot his computer to repair the hung job. I'm surprised I haven't lost all hearing in the ear that was pressed to the phone. It isn't just the names that are different - it's the whole damn way of seeing the world that's different.
Walk into the basement of the IMC at the EDS Plano campus. There's a hell of a lot of AS/400s chugging away. I don't doubt that a lot of folks decided that old systems were on the way out, but real DP shops don't toss a solid performer on a whim.
Yeah. Guess what? As much as I enjoy Unixy environments (this is posted from a FreeBSD machine), most people aren't in need of a multiuser environment. Most people have one box per concurrent user. People aren't hitting servers from terminals. They're using full-fledged computers, machines capable of doing the one-three tasks that the average user runs at any given time. Most devices are not networked (excluding potential net access, but that's not the same - net acces is email and web browsing, not remote X sessions). One computer, one user, one session. That isn't to say that multitasking isn't useful - it is. It just isn't required by most people. Mom doesn't need a machine with a root and a user - she needs her box to be simple. Not everyone is willing to be a sysadmin.
Terry McLarney once mused that the best way to unsettle a suspect would be to post in all three interrogation rooms a written list of those behavior patterns that indicate deception:
Uncooperative. Too cooperative. Talks too much. Talks too little. Gets his story perfectly straight. Fucks his story up. Blinks too much, avoids eye contact. Doesn't blink. Stares.
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Howdy neighbor. I'm fresh out of smug. Would you have any extra I could borrow?
this virii
You know, I see people bitch about using virii instead of viruses as the plural form of virus every time this sort of story comes out.
That said, I do believe this is the first time I've seen virii used as the singular form of virus.
I clicked on that about twenty times but nothing happened.
If you're an idiot, yeah.
Slashcode inserts a space into long strings - this helps prevent page-widening posts. Notice the space in the URL? That needs to be removed in order for the link address to be properly resolved. True, the asshat who posted it could have taken an extra few seconds and made a clickable link, but the fault is not really his and it isn't really Microsoft's. It is the result of abusive (Klerck, I'm looking at you) or ignorant users. If people would refrain from posting long unbroken strings this particular mess could be avoided.
Such is life.
Have a Coke and a smile.
Really? I want my Suse iso. What's the URL?
I still love her defense:
How was that offtopic? Fucking mods are moronic pussies, no?
Now, this is offtopic, sort of, so I guess it'll be modded Flamebait.
(No, I'm not the AC who posted the parent)
I mean, they put out good stuff, but they are clearly outmached in the 64-bit arena. Maybe the reason they took so long to move beyond 32-bits had less to do with preserving compatibility than it did with an inability to design a new chip.
Ha ha!
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Should've run a patent search, no?
Well, maybe not. Theft of trade secrets suggest that this isn't a patent issue.
Fuck it.
Learn to spell or learn to use spellcheck or you will continue to come across as a fucking idiot.
I've reloaded all the service packs, patches, etc, and it's still telling me there's more - every day or so I get another "your system is about to be anally raped if you get online without this patch, now go get online and download the patch" message.
Maybe that month (or longer) of bugfixing is doing some good.
Get fucking real.
Bless you, AC. I love reading at -1. I like the idea of deciding for myself what is interesting and what is not.
Sounds like you're asking him to vote *your* conscience.
...and we all know that any database can be fed through a graphing program and output to a webpage. Fuck webcams, I want streaming blood sugar monitors.
What did they loose? A broadside?
There are significant between loose and lose
I know, I should just let it go, but I'm curious: What is so difficult about spelling "lose" properly?
The correct spelling even saves you one keystroke per occurrence.
Ah, well, back to work.
How many times are we made complacent by media exposure and official fearmongering? Just because it's tiresome to hear about this doesn't mean that some weak spot won't be found and exploited. Whip us into a frenzy!
Like The Matrix?
No. Should I? A sorry mishmash of dystopian human-slavery science fiction, incredibly shallow cyberpunk (telephones as portals?) and Buddhist "the mind is the weapon" pap mixed with shiny leather and softcore multiculturalism (hmm...the black guys are the only ones who are natural in a modern noble savage kinda theme) combined to make no sense while doing an excellent A-TEAM ripoff with thousands of rounds sparking past our heros.
Like anime?
No.
*Shudder*
I remember being a young tapeape with some (DOS 6.0, Windows 3.11 and Windows95 at home) computing experience. An eject job hung and I was told to call the computer operator with the silo number and ask him to do his magic. I made the call and got an earful of "you trashed my job" that made little or no sense to me. At some point or another I made the uninformed suggestion that he simply reboot his computer to repair the hung job. I'm surprised I haven't lost all hearing in the ear that was pressed to the phone.
It isn't just the names that are different - it's the whole damn way of seeing the world that's different.
Walk into the basement of the IMC at the EDS Plano campus. There's a hell of a lot of AS/400s chugging away. I don't doubt that a lot of folks decided that old systems were on the way out, but real DP shops don't toss a solid performer on a whim.
Corrected, maybe, but you still spelled lose as loose
Yeah. Guess what? As much as I enjoy Unixy environments (this is posted from a FreeBSD machine), most people aren't in need of a multiuser environment. Most people have one box per concurrent user.
People aren't hitting servers from terminals. They're using full-fledged computers, machines capable of doing the one-three tasks that the average user runs at any given time. Most devices are not networked (excluding potential net access, but that's not the same - net acces is email and web browsing, not remote X sessions).
One computer, one user, one session.
That isn't to say that multitasking isn't useful - it is. It just isn't required by most people. Mom doesn't need a machine with a root and a user - she needs her box to be simple. Not everyone is willing to be a sysadmin.
Good thinking, but there's a snag.
All Starbucks locations are owned by the corporation.
They do not franchise.
Of course, that may not be the case in the '30s, which is when you are scheduled to lose your mind.
I don't know if you are aware of this, but the zero gravity pen story is a common urban legend, debunked at snopes.com