Well excuse me for not being Stephen fucking Hawking. Can you explain to me, using as little jargon as possible, why L4 and L5 are stable. Seems to me if a body in L4 was knocked out of place it would fall toward the Earth.
And how far exactly are these places away from the Earth/Sun. Sorry about the spelling but I'm a bit drunk tonight, 2 bottles of wine and 16 cans do that to me, I'm not exactly Peter Griffin.
You miserable cynical fucker. So what if it's not the hardest thing in the world. I bet whoever made this put a lot of time and effort into it, and wanted to provide people with some entertainment, and all you can do is bash it.
I know if I managed to send data on a serial port to operate a train set via the Internet, I'd be proud of it, and I'd want to let people play with it. What the hell does anyone gain from your whining? At least he did something, all you produce is fucking moaning.
It's a bit crooked and doesn't go on very easily, and I'm in the computer all the time because so much shit goes wrong.
Either fans breaking, modems needing replacing, or when I need to DVD drive and have to plug it in (I can't have it in all the time because it makes the hard disks crash).
That's not always enough. I have no overlocking, just a simple old Athlon 2000, yet the whole computer is boiling. One of the fans has given up. The side of the case isn't on, the processor is roasting (50C), the hard disks are roasting and constantly give errors (the second oen with open bsd just doesn't work), it's not cool at all. Some new technology is needed clearly.
I've had too much to drink today. I think I'll stick to wine tomorrow rather than beer.
You're assuming it only takes 45 minutes. In which case, the job is probably unnecessary. Which it was, which is why she was fired. He was write in having the attitude he had. You don't pay people to play solitaire. If she's there to do the accounting, she should be doing the accounting, not playing games. If she's done the accounting, she should ask for some more work, not sit there playing games.
Well, I've no reason to bullshit anyone on here, not like I know anyone here, this site is meaningless. No point being pretentious and pretending to be someone with anything resembling success. Why bother impressing a bunch of geeks?
I'm not exactly famed for my work-ethic, so here are a few of my favourite ways to waste time at work:
1. Sleeping. Pretty obvious. Just go to the canteen, or some obscure place, and have a good kip. Works best when the machines are down on a night shift when no-one gives a shit. Make sure it's somewhere really obscure so you can't be accidently found. This only works if your job isn't one which is important.
2. Sweeping. Just get a brush, and pretend to be sweeping up. You can stand about with it, and it looks like you're working. Occasionally, say every 5 minutes, sweep some stuff up. That's all you have to do, and you have an alibi when some supervisor asks what you're doing.
3. Working. Work incredibly slowly, so by the time you're done, it's time to go home. It doesn't matter if you haven't really done anything, all that matters is that no-one can say you were skiving.
4. Get an easy job. Some jobs involve just standing there. Say when you're on a machine, you just stand there until something goes wrong (which is rare). Or security, or something equally non-eventful.
5. Time eating. Just think of some tasks, and then do them incredibly slowly. For example, think of something you need to do which is at the other end of the site. You can spend a few minutes 'preparing' to go, then you can slowly walk over, do what you have to do, then prepare to go back, then slowly walk back. If you're caught, you've got an alibi, you're in the middle of something. Also, you can go to the toilet, change your equipment, move some pallets around, do some paperwork, anything that doesn't really need doing, but eats up time.
6. Go to the bog. Take a book, paper, whatever, sit on the john for a good half hour. No-one's going to disturb you.
7. If you work in a place as filthy and run-down as I do, there's always something to clean up. So there's always an excuse to hang about sweeping up stuff, cleaning surfaces, hoovering up dust, anything really. You don't even have to be making any progress, as long as it looks like you're busy.
Obesity is not caused by lack of exercise, it's caused by a poorly balanced diet.
It's both. These days, instead of walking a mile to school, kids are driven a mile by their fat parents in their SUVs. Of course walking is out of the question, as the government and the media have convinced everyone that there's a paedophile hidden behind every blade of grass.
Schools should serve proper food. There's no place for chips and burgers and turkey twizzlers in a school canteen. Feed them proper food, fresh, locally-produced vegetables and meats, properly cooked (i.e. not boiled to oblivion, and no bland supermarket crap. I know that being brought up on tasteless badly-cooked food by my parents put me of vegetables, and I'm only just recovering. The cunts.). Teach the cooks to cook, don't just give them frozen food to defrost and cook. The kids probably only get crap at home as well, this is the only chance to give them a proper meal. If they don't like it they can go hungry.
An hour minimum of obligatory exercise a day. No sitting about during breaks, get them playing football or something. No 'notes from mum' saying they can't do PE because they've forgotten their kit, if they haven't brought their kit send them out in their underpants. If they don't like it, tough shit.
Kids are assholes because our society is not for them. From day one we're trained to be producers and consumers, not real live living beings. That's why we need more art and literature: so kids will have the cultural heritage that has evolved for them and will stop turning into such freaks.
You're talking utter bollocks. Kids don't go round swearing at teachers and beating people up and getting pregant at 12 because of their opinions abuot capitalist society. They do it because they've been brought up with no discipline and no respect, a result of the culture of not disciplining children and not bringing them up properly. Nowadays it's acceptable to be a single mother, to get have a family by the age of 16 and just live on benefits.
No wonder we have a country full of thugs and criminals still in school, their parents sitting on the dole, leaving them to roam the streets, mugging pensioners, drinking and vandalising. The solution to this is not 'art and literature'. No, the solution is the cane. And to cancel benefits and free council houses to sluts who gets themselves knocked up at 15 so they don't have to get a job.
In that case, how come when the compiler is tricked into thinking it's running an Intel processor when really it's AMD, the performance increases?
This is obviously nothing to do with the advantages of the processor. The only possible answer is that Intel is deliberately generating poor code for AMD's processors, in order to hamper their competitor. This is inexecusable.
Because it's illegal where he is being charged. Like the way Australian paedo-tourists can be charged when they get back to Australia from Thailand where they did business with child prostitutes, even if it were legal in Thailand.
If Saddam Hussein went on holiday to America, would the Americans leave him alone because what he did was legal under his own law?
Well, if the inventory control system notices some books missing, just put it down to shoplifting. There's nothing else you can do. It's not like every book has a sensor in it.
The whole point of this security crap is just publicity. Harry Potter is a franchise which survives purely on hype and marketing, so they need shit like this.
If companies want to do business in China they have to play by the Chinese government's rules.
If they don't censor, their only other option is to not do business there. Please explain how Google or Microsoft pulling out of China would reduce censorship? It wouldn't, in fact it would make things even worse, so what the hell do you want them to do?
I mean, come on, you people criticising these companies, give me a single thing they could do which would lead to more free speech for Chinese citizens.
The problem is, when you put a nice interface on your computer, eventually you get used to it and it stops being nice. You could use a horrible interface for 6 months, or a great one for 6 months, and in the end you'd be equally happy using either because it's what you're used to. All the pretty interface would be doing is chewing up resources and slowing you down. The only way to keep your computer looking nice (to you) is to keep upgrading the eye candy every few days or so, either with new themes or new special effects.
If you're running a server then you don't need a graphical interface at all. So just turn it off, and save the memory for more useful things, like actually getting shit done. Why install more RAM just for a chunk of it to be used for shit you don't need? It's like a tax, on hardware. Even X windows on the supposedly efficient Linux gobbles up resources just to perform the simplest tasks.
If you can't get by without a graphical interface, then you're the sort of person who we don't want running servers. The last thing we need is the Internet clogged up with unpatched, badly maintained sites run by people who don't know what they're doing.
Why do you have to move it to see under it, why not an option to temporarily make it disappear. You don't even need transparency for that, and it doesn't mean having to shuffle your windows about.
In fact, you can achieve the same thing just with rollups or minimising/restoring windows, and you've been able to do that for decades. This seems like a technology looking for a purpose. Unless the purpose is to sell more hardware just to accomplish the same tasks.
I think it's more to do with the beaurocracy. The more money you have, the more risks you can take. A small company which takes a risk and loses ends up bankrupt, whereas a multi-million pound loss for Microsoft is like a fly on the windscreen.
Microsoft have all sorts of products, lost of legacy crap hanging around, endless layers of complexity built on even more layers of complexity, I don't think anyone really fully knows how Windows works.
Then there's the employees. Thousands of them. Most of them of above average intelligence, they're educated and rich. Imagine the egos. Imagine the politics. It's a wonder anything gets done at all. There doesn't appear to be very strong or competent management. What the hell does Gates do these days? Ballmer is out of his depth and doesn't know what he's doing.
I think the point is, on the Mac the interface is relatively clean and consistent. You can't make a good interface just by throwing technology at it. Microsoft are probably thinking "I know, let's put in transparency and all that crap, and it'll be a good interface." Sorry Bill, but you can't do it that way, no more than you can make a nice painting by throwing expensive paints on a piece of paper. You have to actually think about what you're doing.
It's not really jargon though. Computer jargon actually means something. When a computer programmers talks about 'smashing the stack', it actually refers to something happening. When an admin talks about 'patching the server', it's actually referring to something real.
When a manager talks about synergy and leveraging and proactively actualising a unique global seven-habits-conforming paradigmic infrastructure solution, he's not actually saying anything, he's just trying to look clever and important without actually saying anything concrete so he can't be held accountable to anything.
Yeah, notice how when someone says that open-source puts programmers out of jobs, the open-source fanboys argue that there is still to be money made in support and similar services. Now when a company actually DOES this, the same open-souce fanboys are criticising them.
If I were into open source, I'd be glad that people were showing that there is a viable business model in open source software, rather than getting bitchy because they have a strong manager who speaks his mind.
I remember spending about £6 on them (my record purchase at the time). Most of them were repeats. And then they all got robbed after I left them in my coat pocket in the cloakroom (I was very naive at the time).
What a great business model though: £1 for six cardboard circles, a plastic circle and a piece of cardboard. And because they're random you end up getting ones you've already got, so you have to buy much more than you need.
There were cheap knock-offs but they just weren't the same. And then there were those things that came in crisp packages which were plastic things with slits in so you could build things out of them...
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Well excuse me for not being Stephen fucking Hawking. Can you explain to me, using as little jargon as possible, why L4 and L5 are stable. Seems to me if a body in L4 was knocked out of place it would fall toward the Earth.
And how far exactly are these places away from the Earth/Sun. Sorry about the spelling but I'm a bit drunk tonight, 2 bottles of wine and 16 cans do that to me, I'm not exactly Peter Griffin.
You miserable cynical fucker. So what if it's not the hardest thing in the world. I bet whoever made this put a lot of time and effort into it, and wanted to provide people with some entertainment, and all you can do is bash it.
I know if I managed to send data on a serial port to operate a train set via the Internet, I'd be proud of it, and I'd want to let people play with it. What the hell does anyone gain from your whining? At least he did something, all you produce is fucking moaning.
It's a bit crooked and doesn't go on very easily, and I'm in the computer all the time because so much shit goes wrong.
Either fans breaking, modems needing replacing, or when I need to DVD drive and have to plug it in (I can't have it in all the time because it makes the hard disks crash).
That's not always enough. I have no overlocking, just a simple old Athlon 2000, yet the whole computer is boiling. One of the fans has given up. The side of the case isn't on, the processor is roasting (50C), the hard disks are roasting and constantly give errors (the second oen with open bsd just doesn't work), it's not cool at all. Some new technology is needed clearly.
I've had too much to drink today. I think I'll stick to wine tomorrow rather than beer.
Lagrange points are a waste of time. They're unstable, meaning the smallet bit of motion sends them crashing to the nearest mass.
If you want a space colony just stick it in orbit.
You're assuming it only takes 45 minutes. In which case, the job is probably unnecessary. Which it was, which is why she was fired. He was write in having the attitude he had. You don't pay people to play solitaire. If she's there to do the accounting, she should be doing the accounting, not playing games. If she's done the accounting, she should ask for some more work, not sit there playing games.
Missing option:
I don't work with a computer, you insensitive clod!
This poll is fat-bastard-computer-programmer-centric.
Well, I've no reason to bullshit anyone on here, not like I know anyone here, this site is meaningless. No point being pretentious and pretending to be someone with anything resembling success. Why bother impressing a bunch of geeks?
I'm not exactly famed for my work-ethic, so here are a few of my favourite ways to waste time at work:
1. Sleeping. Pretty obvious. Just go to the canteen, or some obscure place, and have a good kip. Works best when the machines are down on a night shift when no-one gives a shit. Make sure it's somewhere really obscure so you can't be accidently found. This only works if your job isn't one which is important.
2. Sweeping. Just get a brush, and pretend to be sweeping up. You can stand about with it, and it looks like you're working. Occasionally, say every 5 minutes, sweep some stuff up. That's all you have to do, and you have an alibi when some supervisor asks what you're doing.
3. Working. Work incredibly slowly, so by the time you're done, it's time to go home. It doesn't matter if you haven't really done anything, all that matters is that no-one can say you were skiving.
4. Get an easy job. Some jobs involve just standing there. Say when you're on a machine, you just stand there until something goes wrong (which is rare). Or security, or something equally non-eventful.
5. Time eating. Just think of some tasks, and then do them incredibly slowly. For example, think of something you need to do which is at the other end of the site. You can spend a few minutes 'preparing' to go, then you can slowly walk over, do what you have to do, then prepare to go back, then slowly walk back. If you're caught, you've got an alibi, you're in the middle of something. Also, you can go to the toilet, change your equipment, move some pallets around, do some paperwork, anything that doesn't really need doing, but eats up time.
6. Go to the bog. Take a book, paper, whatever, sit on the john for a good half hour. No-one's going to disturb you.
7. If you work in a place as filthy and run-down as I do, there's always something to clean up. So there's always an excuse to hang about sweeping up stuff, cleaning surfaces, hoovering up dust, anything really. You don't even have to be making any progress, as long as it looks like you're busy.
Obesity is not caused by lack of exercise, it's caused by a poorly balanced diet.
It's both. These days, instead of walking a mile to school, kids are driven a mile by their fat parents in their SUVs. Of course walking is out of the question, as the government and the media have convinced everyone that there's a paedophile hidden behind every blade of grass.
Schools should serve proper food. There's no place for chips and burgers and turkey twizzlers in a school canteen. Feed them proper food, fresh, locally-produced vegetables and meats, properly cooked (i.e. not boiled to oblivion, and no bland supermarket crap. I know that being brought up on tasteless badly-cooked food by my parents put me of vegetables, and I'm only just recovering. The cunts.). Teach the cooks to cook, don't just give them frozen food to defrost and cook. The kids probably only get crap at home as well, this is the only chance to give them a proper meal. If they don't like it they can go hungry.
An hour minimum of obligatory exercise a day. No sitting about during breaks, get them playing football or something. No 'notes from mum' saying they can't do PE because they've forgotten their kit, if they haven't brought their kit send them out in their underpants. If they don't like it, tough shit.
Kids are assholes because our society is not for them. From day one we're trained to be producers and consumers, not real live living beings. That's why we need more art and literature: so kids will have the cultural heritage that has evolved for them and will stop turning into such freaks.
You're talking utter bollocks. Kids don't go round swearing at teachers and beating people up and getting pregant at 12 because of their opinions abuot capitalist society. They do it because they've been brought up with no discipline and no respect, a result of the culture of not disciplining children and not bringing them up properly. Nowadays it's acceptable to be a single mother, to get have a family by the age of 16 and just live on benefits.
No wonder we have a country full of thugs and criminals still in school, their parents sitting on the dole, leaving them to roam the streets, mugging pensioners, drinking and vandalising. The solution to this is not 'art and literature'. No, the solution is the cane. And to cancel benefits and free council houses to sluts who gets themselves knocked up at 15 so they don't have to get a job.
In that case, how come when the compiler is tricked into thinking it's running an Intel processor when really it's AMD, the performance increases?
This is obviously nothing to do with the advantages of the processor. The only possible answer is that Intel is deliberately generating poor code for AMD's processors, in order to hamper their competitor. This is inexecusable.
Because it's illegal where he is being charged. Like the way Australian paedo-tourists can be charged when they get back to Australia from Thailand where they did business with child prostitutes, even if it were legal in Thailand.
If Saddam Hussein went on holiday to America, would the Americans leave him alone because what he did was legal under his own law?
Of course not, if something is wrong, it's wrong.
Well, if the inventory control system notices some books missing, just put it down to shoplifting. There's nothing else you can do. It's not like every book has a sensor in it.
The whole point of this security crap is just publicity. Harry Potter is a franchise which survives purely on hype and marketing, so they need shit like this.
If companies want to do business in China they have to play by the Chinese government's rules.
If they don't censor, their only other option is to not do business there. Please explain how Google or Microsoft pulling out of China would reduce censorship? It wouldn't, in fact it would make things even worse, so what the hell do you want them to do?
I mean, come on, you people criticising these companies, give me a single thing they could do which would lead to more free speech for Chinese citizens.
Service contract...and what happens in the meantime whilst it's being 'serviced'? Do the kids go without lessons for a few weeks or something?
Not really, no.
The problem is, when you put a nice interface on your computer, eventually you get used to it and it stops being nice. You could use a horrible interface for 6 months, or a great one for 6 months, and in the end you'd be equally happy using either because it's what you're used to. All the pretty interface would be doing is chewing up resources and slowing you down. The only way to keep your computer looking nice (to you) is to keep upgrading the eye candy every few days or so, either with new themes or new special effects.
If you're running a server then you don't need a graphical interface at all. So just turn it off, and save the memory for more useful things, like actually getting shit done. Why install more RAM just for a chunk of it to be used for shit you don't need? It's like a tax, on hardware. Even X windows on the supposedly efficient Linux gobbles up resources just to perform the simplest tasks.
If you can't get by without a graphical interface, then you're the sort of person who we don't want running servers. The last thing we need is the Internet clogged up with unpatched, badly maintained sites run by people who don't know what they're doing.
Why do you have to move it to see under it, why not an option to temporarily make it disappear. You don't even need transparency for that, and it doesn't mean having to shuffle your windows about.
In fact, you can achieve the same thing just with rollups or minimising/restoring windows, and you've been able to do that for decades. This seems like a technology looking for a purpose. Unless the purpose is to sell more hardware just to accomplish the same tasks.
I think it's more to do with the beaurocracy. The more money you have, the more risks you can take. A small company which takes a risk and loses ends up bankrupt, whereas a multi-million pound loss for Microsoft is like a fly on the windscreen.
Microsoft have all sorts of products, lost of legacy crap hanging around, endless layers of complexity built on even more layers of complexity, I don't think anyone really fully knows how Windows works.
Then there's the employees. Thousands of them. Most of them of above average intelligence, they're educated and rich. Imagine the egos. Imagine the politics. It's a wonder anything gets done at all. There doesn't appear to be very strong or competent management. What the hell does Gates do these days? Ballmer is out of his depth and doesn't know what he's doing.
I think the point is, on the Mac the interface is relatively clean and consistent. You can't make a good interface just by throwing technology at it. Microsoft are probably thinking "I know, let's put in transparency and all that crap, and it'll be a good interface." Sorry Bill, but you can't do it that way, no more than you can make a nice painting by throwing expensive paints on a piece of paper. You have to actually think about what you're doing.
It's not really jargon though. Computer jargon actually means something. When a computer programmers talks about 'smashing the stack', it actually refers to something happening. When an admin talks about 'patching the server', it's actually referring to something real.
When a manager talks about synergy and leveraging and proactively actualising a unique global seven-habits-conforming paradigmic infrastructure solution, he's not actually saying anything, he's just trying to look clever and important without actually saying anything concrete so he can't be held accountable to anything.
He's already reached stage 5, looks like there's something in that cliché after all.
Yeah, notice how when someone says that open-source puts programmers out of jobs, the open-source fanboys argue that there is still to be money made in support and similar services. Now when a company actually DOES this, the same open-souce fanboys are criticising them.
If I were into open source, I'd be glad that people were showing that there is a viable business model in open source software, rather than getting bitchy because they have a strong manager who speaks his mind.
I remember spending about £6 on them (my record purchase at the time). Most of them were repeats. And then they all got robbed after I left them in my coat pocket in the cloakroom (I was very naive at the time).
What a great business model though: £1 for six cardboard circles, a plastic circle and a piece of cardboard. And because they're random you end up getting ones you've already got, so you have to buy much more than you need.
There were cheap knock-offs but they just weren't the same. And then there were those things that came in crisp packages which were plastic things with slits in so you could build things out of them...