or else they'll hate doing the actual work... typing. If their fingers aren't fluent, they'll spend all their time trying to save keystrokes, by cut/paste, or just not doing some things. Let them wrestle with it for just enough time to start to get frustrated, then switch to typing training, with a good tutor program, and time trials. The people whose fingers to go the home row and eyes to the screen are always far superior to and enjoy their work far more than the ones whose index fingers poise above the keyboard under their eyes.
That is exactly why I bothered to post. I think banal idiots try to amplify the importance of a milestone, and a PB IS something of a psychological milestone, by calling it a barrier. There WAS a barrier, of sorts, at 2G or 4G depending on addressing scheme, but that was easily put away with other addressing schemes, and with 64-bit architecture, it's not even relevant any more.
Hey, I just passed the 384-character barrier! Whoah!, breezing right on past! This is amazing!
That is - the provision of meat (what do you think the first hookers were paid in?), our company has ~220k employees, of which roughly 8000 are administrative - sales, marketing, managers, HR, executives, etc., and down in that "etc." you'll find roughly 50 people developing, maintaining, and administering custom software, a massive SAP deployment, PeopleSoft, 300-ish windows servers, 100-ish unix servers, 4 AS400 LPARs, and a worldwide network infrastructure.
And yes, I AM a couple years behind on AIX patches... only one year on the 30 HP-UX we deployed last year. Thank goodness we outsource our 3 internet-facing systems.
From their welcome page: "We welcome both skeptics and believers, so please join us.".
It's just a granfalloon, and they explicitly say so with that statement. I think there may be a scientific pursuit going on there - but in the study of human thought and interaction. They're examining coping mechanisms - the ways people twist their minds around to make the world fit what they believe.
Besides, haven't we all have to do an assignment in chemistry class where we explained an experimental result purely in terms of phlogiston theory? I'm tempted to go join them for a while, just for the fun of it.
Well... Thank you.
In 1998 I was tasked with finding a way to use an EXT-210 library. For 99.999% of us: That's an 8MM DAT library with 10 slots and two libraries. At the time, in light of the newly-announced unimaginagibly-massive 36GB drives, it still made a lot of sense... hell, if you could get one to work with VXA320 drives, it still would. The only software I could find that could control one was this strange thing some wierdo's had come up with, called "ADSM".
Since I was (for the only time in my life) an actual IBM-ER, I was allowed to order the product. IBM can't charge internally for softwre, but they CAN charge for shipping. A month later, I received a shrink-wrapped pallet that required that the pallet be removed from the pallet mule and scooted through the door, to get to me.
On the pallet were 24 boxes.
One box contained a CD-ROM, with the software.
Each of the other boxes contained packing peanuts,with a single sheet of paper in each.... licenses, keys, warranteees, and other queerbate paperwork.
Even so, the 1/4ox payload that they had to ship free was worth every penny wasted in shipping the paperwork. Today, I'd do it again if I had to pay for it myself.
Or rather, take everything.
Every flu/cold/bug gets everybody. The only way you can miss a particular bug is to wait until it is extinct. You read that right. These viruses undergo continuous intensive drifts and shifts of their genome. The longer a person goes between flu infections, the worse they are (averaged over time). When a wholly new flu comes along, it kills a lot of people, because they don't have any immunity even close to it... Nothing to even hold the flu off a bit while their immune system picks up the new antigens, much less the set of ready generic defenses that let us experience most of these infections as a bad day. The only time it makes sense to act like one of those sissies(feel free to substitute the term "faggot") trying to avoid flu and cold infections is when you have contact with someone with a less-capable immune system... a child at the beginning of life, a transplant patient trying for a little more life, an AIDS sufferer trying to hold on the the last few weeks of life, or while a healthy adult is otherwise temporarily weakened... or when one is willing to accept a nasty upcoming infection to perform at optimal levels in the short term.
For those in the main stream of life, taking each cold or flu as it comes is the better course.
Don't let your newborn daughter use your laptop.
As well, keep off your 93 year-old grandmother, and your gay brother.
Your daughter will be ready to kick the virus' ass in a few more months, and maybe you can buy the other two a few more weeks.
Now, to see this post instantly deleted.
At least this propulsion system has been flying since at least 2005 (I don't remember the season). It sort of sounds like a piston engine, but leaves a contrail of "puffs" and appears to be very fast.
I heard what I thought was a strange-sounding small plane. Found the contrail, and the head growing far ahead of where the sound was coming from, and I couldn't see the contrail source. Maybe 20 seconds from hearing the sound from the north to seeing the head of the contrail disappear to the south. It was flying down the Front Range of the Rockies. I was just north of Gunbarrel, Colorado.
I googled around and found conspiracy nut sites talking about "Aurora", which fit my observations well. Since then, I've just been waiting for it to finally be revealed. I guess the research has gone on far enough to start production.
They are going at this the wrong way
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When I read that after several days they'd finally finished shaking a sample down into the oven, I though "well, I guess they're not looking for light organics suspended in water". I'd think they'd grab a chunk and get it in the oven quickly to detect all the organic chemicals, including the water-soluble light ones.
At this point I'm just curious if posting the fact that the article is closed to those who don't pay for a subscription to nature will get this posting deleted like the ones I did as a separate thread.
I don't mean moderated down, I mean not there when reading at -1.
incidentally: I found my way to the allegedly "free" registration. After permitting them to run their needless scripts in my browser and filling in endless details constrained to non-factual answers by their dropdowns, it finally demands your customer number, and if you don't have one, you have to subscribe.
I'm truly amazed that I'm the first to complain about this. Am I the only person on/. who doesn't subscribe?
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Look, they've already got these fools fervently pretending that gold-plated connectors and "oxygen-free" cables make a difference. Audiophiletards are just looking for something to spend money on, something they can say they've got that somebody else doesn't.
I know people who believe wearing a copper bracelet can mitigate arthritis, or a magnet on their fuel line will give them better mileage. Why not take advantage of their lack of intelligence and tell the fools that there can be a special quality to the ones and zeros... their ones can be just a little more "on", and their zeros just a little more "off" for that extra "punch".
I'm just glad to see I'm not the only person who refuses to respect their delusions.
So, I fired up IE and tried to look at the demo. Of course, first it demands that I install the latest version of silverlight. After the installation, I can't see the demo because I'm above the desired version.
installed version 2.0.30523
requested version 2.0.30226
The fact is that everyone experiences it and the more nonplussed by it you are, the more women will find you attractive.
Yeah, women love a guy who's "at a loss as to what to say, think, or do".... at least the same ones who like guys who use words without knowing what they mean.
No, but now that you mention it, I wouldn't mind jumping onto my wife and riding her off into the sunset (It's currently 0630 here... that'd be a good day).
Seriously - there's no "good party" math-based theme. As soon as people start to really sink into thought, the party grinds to a halt. A small part of the crowd with some interesting insights can lead discussions, give presentations, etc. for some small good effect, but that's not likely to make a good general party theme - more for small pockets of one guy impressing others.
I picture a physics-themed party, with everybody in go-carts on ice, throttles stuck wide open, no brakes, all trying to get to the bar in the middle.
it is not. The only entitity I know to know about his response is me, and I think I'm just making it up because I'm bored and lonely being the only thing in existence.
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cut, uniqe(sic), tail, tr, head, tail
Ok, somebody's got to acknowledge your joke... "cut, uniq, tail, tr, head, tail" "You said tail twice" "I like tail".
Lame, some poor bastard might actually do that. They'd have to add sudo of course but still
Actually, if it were "some poor bastard", he wouldn't need to add sudo, because he'd already be doing everything as root.
D'OH! wide editing window and narrow screen... s/to go/go to/
or else they'll hate doing the actual work... typing. If their fingers aren't fluent, they'll spend all their time trying to save keystrokes, by cut/paste, or just not doing some things. Let them wrestle with it for just enough time to start to get frustrated, then switch to typing training, with a good tutor program, and time trials. The people whose fingers to go the home row and eyes to the screen are always far superior to and enjoy their work far more than the ones whose index fingers poise above the keyboard under their eyes.
Thank you, Ms. Castellucio, wherever you are.
That is exactly why I bothered to post. I think banal idiots try to amplify the importance of a milestone, and a PB IS something of a psychological milestone, by calling it a barrier. There WAS a barrier, of sorts, at 2G or 4G depending on addressing scheme, but that was easily put away with other addressing schemes, and with 64-bit architecture, it's not even relevant any more.
Hey, I just passed the 384-character barrier! Whoah!, breezing right on past! This is amazing!
That is - the provision of meat (what do you think the first hookers were paid in?), our company has ~220k employees, of which roughly 8000 are administrative - sales, marketing, managers, HR, executives, etc., and down in that "etc." you'll find roughly 50 people developing, maintaining, and administering custom software, a massive SAP deployment, PeopleSoft, 300-ish windows servers, 100-ish unix servers, 4 AS400 LPARs, and a worldwide network infrastructure.
And yes, I AM a couple years behind on AIX patches... only one year on the 30 HP-UX we deployed last year. Thank goodness we outsource our 3 internet-facing systems.
From their welcome page: "We welcome both skeptics and believers, so please join us.".
It's just a granfalloon, and they explicitly say so with that statement. I think there may be a scientific pursuit going on there - but in the study of human thought and interaction. They're examining coping mechanisms - the ways people twist their minds around to make the world fit what they believe.
Besides, haven't we all have to do an assignment in chemistry class where we explained an experimental result purely in terms of phlogiston theory? I'm tempted to go join them for a while, just for the fun of it.
Well... Thank you. In 1998 I was tasked with finding a way to use an EXT-210 library. For 99.999% of us: That's an 8MM DAT library with 10 slots and two libraries. At the time, in light of the newly-announced unimaginagibly-massive 36GB drives, it still made a lot of sense... hell, if you could get one to work with VXA320 drives, it still would. The only software I could find that could control one was this strange thing some wierdo's had come up with, called "ADSM". Since I was (for the only time in my life) an actual IBM-ER, I was allowed to order the product. IBM can't charge internally for softwre, but they CAN charge for shipping. A month later, I received a shrink-wrapped pallet that required that the pallet be removed from the pallet mule and scooted through the door, to get to me. On the pallet were 24 boxes. One box contained a CD-ROM, with the software. Each of the other boxes contained packing peanuts,with a single sheet of paper in each.... licenses, keys, warranteees, and other queerbate paperwork. Even so, the 1/4ox payload that they had to ship free was worth every penny wasted in shipping the paperwork. Today, I'd do it again if I had to pay for it myself.
Yes, it will. And let me, for the first time in my life, say "Duh!".
Tell Lazarus Long... his mom is HOT!
Or rather, take everything. Every flu/cold/bug gets everybody. The only way you can miss a particular bug is to wait until it is extinct. You read that right. These viruses undergo continuous intensive drifts and shifts of their genome. The longer a person goes between flu infections, the worse they are (averaged over time).
When a wholly new flu comes along, it kills a lot of people, because they don't have any immunity even close to it... Nothing to even hold the flu off a bit while their immune system picks up the new antigens, much less the set of ready generic defenses that let us experience most of these infections as a bad day.
The only time it makes sense to act like one of those sissies(feel free to substitute the term "faggot") trying to avoid flu and cold infections is when you have contact with someone with a less-capable immune system... a child at the beginning of life, a transplant patient trying for a little more life, an AIDS sufferer trying to hold on the the last few weeks of life, or while a healthy adult is otherwise temporarily weakened... or when one is willing to accept a nasty upcoming infection to perform at optimal levels in the short term.
For those in the main stream of life, taking each cold or flu as it comes is the better course.
Don't let your newborn daughter use your laptop.
As well, keep off your 93 year-old grandmother, and your gay brother.
Your daughter will be ready to kick the virus' ass in a few more months, and maybe you can buy the other two a few more weeks. Now, to see this post instantly deleted.
At least this propulsion system has been flying since at least 2005 (I don't remember the season). It sort of sounds like a piston engine, but leaves a contrail of "puffs" and appears to be very fast.
I heard what I thought was a strange-sounding small plane. Found the contrail, and the head growing far ahead of where the sound was coming from, and I couldn't see the contrail source. Maybe 20 seconds from hearing the sound from the north to seeing the head of the contrail disappear to the south. It was flying down the Front Range of the Rockies. I was just north of Gunbarrel, Colorado.
I googled around and found conspiracy nut sites talking about "Aurora", which fit my observations well. Since then, I've just been waiting for it to finally be revealed. I guess the research has gone on far enough to start production.
When I read that after several days they'd finally finished shaking a sample down into the oven, I though "well, I guess they're not looking for light organics suspended in water". I'd think they'd grab a chunk and get it in the oven quickly to detect all the organic chemicals, including the water-soluble light ones.
One last time to test whether all posts pointing out the requirement for paid subscription to read the article are deleted.
At this point I'm just curious if posting the fact that the article is closed to those who don't pay for a subscription to nature will get this posting deleted like the ones I did as a separate thread.
I don't mean moderated down, I mean not there when reading at -1.
incidentally: I found my way to the allegedly "free" registration. After permitting them to run their needless scripts in my browser and filling in endless details constrained to non-factual answers by their dropdowns, it finally demands your customer number, and if you don't have one, you have to subscribe. I'm truly amazed that I'm the first to complain about this. Am I the only person on /. who doesn't subscribe?
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whatever.
Look, they've already got these fools fervently pretending that gold-plated connectors and "oxygen-free" cables make a difference. Audiophiletards are just looking for something to spend money on, something they can say they've got that somebody else doesn't.
I know people who believe wearing a copper bracelet can mitigate arthritis, or a magnet on their fuel line will give them better mileage. Why not take advantage of their lack of intelligence and tell the fools that there can be a special quality to the ones and zeros... their ones can be just a little more "on", and their zeros just a little more "off" for that extra "punch".
I'm just glad to see I'm not the only person who refuses to respect their delusions.
So, I fired up IE and tried to look at the demo. Of course, first it demands that I install the latest version of silverlight. After the installation, I can't see the demo because I'm above the desired version.
installed version 2.0.30523
requested version 2.0.30226
What a P.O.S.!
What branch of the church of the FSM? Not Greeley reformed, I hope. I work diagonal across the cube wall from one of those infidels.
The fact is that everyone experiences it and the more nonplussed by it you are, the more women will find you attractive.
Yeah, women love a guy who's "at a loss as to what to say, think, or do".... at least the same ones who like guys who use words without knowing what they mean.
No, but now that you mention it, I wouldn't mind jumping onto my wife and riding her off into the sunset (It's currently 0630 here... that'd be a good day).
Seriously - there's no "good party" math-based theme. As soon as people start to really sink into thought, the party grinds to a halt. A small part of the crowd with some interesting insights can lead discussions, give presentations, etc. for some small good effect, but that's not likely to make a good general party theme - more for small pockets of one guy impressing others.
I picture a physics-themed party, with everybody in go-carts on ice, throttles stuck wide open, no brakes, all trying to get to the bar in the middle.
out in the open in a bright office, 30 inches from the screen, it works great.
yep. at 12x24 font. shrink to watch for patterns or fit more columns, wierd color combinations just to annoy people.
it is not. The only entitity I know to know about his response is me, and I think I'm just making it up because I'm bored and lonely being the only thing in existence.