All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
But anyone who watches Doctor Who knows that the Royal Family are WEREWOLVES!
My wife had a question after we watched that Dr Who ep: How are today's royal family affected by Queen Victoria's being bitten or scratched by a werewolf in 1879? She was sixty years old. Her last child, Princess Beatrice, was born in 1857, and her husband, Prince Albert, died in 1861. All of her children, then, were already born by the time she was infected with the were virus and so could not have inherited it. Therefore, the only way the royals of today could be werewolves is if Victoria deliberately infected her children. Of course it's not clear whether the were virus is inheritable in the first place, so it may be quite reasonable to assume that the royals keep each other infected so as to pass the virus down the generations.
Probably my least-favorite Python episode (evar). It goes from slightly interesting and mildly funny premise to boring, boring, isn't this over yet, boring, blah blah blah.
It is like I was just staring down Jenna Jamisons tits, as they delightfully flop back and forth, when, just at the moment of climax, the camera focus shifts to sweaty balls slapping her ass hole.
Vivid (heh) imagery, but I don't think JJ does anal. Or does she?
If you know that "begs the question" doesn't mean "raises the question", then why didn't you just say "raises the question"? Wouldn't that have been a lot simpler then posting a footnote?
Because I actually used "begs the question" in its proper meaning, i.e. a circular argument. The post I responded to asked whether Linksys wireless routers would work inside a metal box; this begs the question (assumes without evidence) that the Linksys wireless router works at all. [/offtopic]
Saying that, my new company recently decided that I must take lunch at 12pm rather than 1pm and that was enough for me to accept interviews at other companies.
Quite the primadonna, isn't we?!
I don't think so. One of the benefits of working in the tech industry, in general, is the ability to choose your own work schedule. Within reason, anyway. I tend to start my lunch hour between noon and two, depending on my workload and how I'm feeling that day. When a company starts mandating things that don't need mandating, it's time to look elsewhere.
I wonder what would happen if you just started refusing every piece of junk mail that came.
I tried that a few years ago. The mail carrier left a cute note saying "bulk mail can't refused". Now it just goes from the mailbox to the paper recycling bin located conveniently underneath.
They weren't all registering with a birthday of March 28, 1983, were they?
The vBulletin board I help administer has been under attack by spammers, mostly from.ru hosts, and every single registrant put down March 28, 1983 as his birthday. (We require birthday for plausible deniability of COPPA.) I've nailed most of them before they could actually activate their registrations, but once in a while one has slipped through.
"The streets were thronged to an unusual extent, and every point where news was obtainable was besieged. Contrary to general expectation there were no bulletins displayed at the telegraph offices, and the disappointed crowds which had gathered at those points soon dispersed."
If that isn't the perfect Victorian-era description of the Slashdot effect, I don't know what is.
I do not oppose RFID chips if they are used correctly.
I agree, but from the retailer's point of view. I work part time at a chain bookstore, and it's quite maddening when the (completely obsolete, by the way) inventory system reports n copies of a certain title but it's nowhere to be found. If each book was RFID-tagged when it was received into the system, we could use our portable inventory terminals to easily find any book in stock at any time. It would make inventory a hell of a lot easier, too. We already deactivate the EAS tags at the register, so deactivating the RFID tags would be just as easy.
Unfortunately it will never, for values of "never" up to about ten years, happen. This company is still running their POS on, believe it or not, Windows 95.
I never bother to even stop to let the security people look at my receipt. Instead, I just walk past at a normal pace. If I'm lucky, they ask to see my receipt as I breeze by.
I love that. It's the one highlight of an otherwise generally miserable shopping experience at Fry's.
"May I see your receipt?" usually in some indeterminate but mostly unintelligible accent. "No." as I walk past.
I still check in on those boxes. One has 994 days of uptime, and the other has, as of last week, 1190 days.
I know you said you worked, past tense, for the company that owns those servers. But you must realize that however spiffy those uptime stats may be, they also mean that critical updates and service packs have not been installed. Most of the security-related patches require a reboot, and 2003 Service Pack 1 certainly does.
When I've been in this situation, everyone got invited to a meeting. But there were two meetings. People invited to one got to stay, people invited to the other got laid off. There were, of course, managers at each door to ensure that everyone was in the right meeting. It was actually a decent way to handle a bad situation.
I was in the "laid off" room. Traffic to the two rooms was being directed by the office manager, a sweet old girl who shouldn't have been put in that position. Those of us in the "you're fucked" room got the idea pretty quickly when the senior asshole from Atlanta we called "the hatchet" rolled in with a big smile on his ugly mug.
When the meeting ended I walked out, didn't bother with the chatty groups in the way, trashed my cube (with the excuse of recovering my personal property and also covering up that I was downloading all code I'd worked on), loaded the car and left. At least I got to meet my wife for lunch.
Given that this was over two years ago now and I'm still bitter about it, I guess it affected me more than I'd think.
Customer X has problems with a new bug. Please fix.
- Take a minute to investigate, likely redirect to the person responsible for the component with the bug.
I added a bug, please check bugtracker
- Ignore as bugtracker will send me mail automatically when it is assigned to me.
FEAUTURE REQUEST! I'd like gizmo special ultra -requires massive redesign- by tomorrow. I saw it somewhere and want it too -Boss
- "Interesting, I'll look into it." -- then ignore.
Meeting at xx/xx/xx about new planned software. Prepare visualizations and analys.
- Ignore. Plan to work from home that day. "Oh, it wasn't on my calendar."
Manual needed for program in alpha fase. Can you write it? I don't have time for it, too busy on support.
- Forward to technical writer.
We wont buy and implement the Novell meta-database. You were on the meeting with Novell, can you make something with the same functionality? Make an analys asap, so we can discuss it.
- Wait 24 hours, then reply suggesting that re-implementing an existing solution is not the best use of your time.
I'm still waiting for the update. Customer is growing impatient, CANT YOU JUST QUICKLY UPDATE THE INSTALLER?
- Wait 24 hours, then reply explaining that the update is already in progress and will be delivered with the next code drop.
Can you put down a description of the issues we adressed in last meeting? So we can approve the core idea's before you start coding.
- Ignore. The sender obviously already has what they're asking for.
BUG FOUND!! (bug proves to be user configuration-error, described in manual)
- Ignore.
I know product X-version 4 seems to be near completion. But I we might migrate to Linux. I know at first we wanted to use ASP.NET v2.0 (did you use that?) But would it be much work to translate it into PHP? We could cut license-costs that way. These things shouldn't be too hard to translate.
- Enthusiastic reply, then ignore all subsequent mail on this topic.
What's the status on program xzy? The deadline is closing.
- Re-send last week's status report.
In the meeting we discussed the use case where a new database could solve the problem. Can you design the database, so we can decide to go with it or to drop it? You can skip the specific columns to save time, just make sure you have all the 100 tables we brainstormed about and keep flexibility so we can expand if needed. Can this be done by next week? It would be clearer if you'd explain each table again as a reference.
"The real issue is, if we don't do it, someone else will," says GE's ecomagination vice president, Lorraine Bolsinger, of Wal-Mart's effort to push CFLs. "It's old thinking to imagine that you can hold on to a business model and outsmart the consumer. You can't."
GE understands that it's smarter to make money selling what people want to buy than trying to force people to buy what they don't want. Now if someone could tell the RIAA/MPAA and other Luddite organizations...
I hope blackice remains as a pc firewall, I think it is one of the best
BlackICE has sucked since ISS closed the California (Mountain View) office and laid off the entire Desktop team. Before that, sure, it was the best desktop firewall available. Of course it was made completely irrelevant by XP SP2's built-in and auto-activated firewall.
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Romanes Eunt Domus!
Currently: "The Microsoft Security Response Center works every day to help protect customers from vulnerabilities in software."
Should be: "The Microsoft Security Response Center works every day to help protect customers from vulnerabilities in our software.
Like the Star Trek Odd-Even rule, then?
Probably my least-favorite Python episode (evar). It goes from slightly interesting and mildly funny premise to boring, boring, isn't this over yet, boring, blah blah blah.
Because I actually used "begs the question" in its proper meaning, i.e. a circular argument. The post I responded to asked whether Linksys wireless routers would work inside a metal box; this begs the question (assumes without evidence) that the Linksys wireless router works at all.
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I don't think so. One of the benefits of working in the tech industry, in general, is the ability to choose your own work schedule. Within reason, anyway. I tend to start my lunch hour between noon and two, depending on my workload and how I'm feeling that day. When a company starts mandating things that don't need mandating, it's time to look elsewhere.
They weren't all registering with a birthday of March 28, 1983, were they?
.ru hosts, and every single registrant put down March 28, 1983 as his birthday. (We require birthday for plausible deniability of COPPA.) I've nailed most of them before they could actually activate their registrations, but once in a while one has slipped through.
The vBulletin board I help administer has been under attack by spammers, mostly from
Unfortunately it will never, for values of "never" up to about ten years, happen. This company is still running their POS on, believe it or not, Windows 95.
"May I see your receipt?" usually in some indeterminate but mostly unintelligible accent.
"No." as I walk past.
Click - drag - press Enter. The highlighted text is copied to the clipboard. Right-click anywhere in the cmd window to paste.
I give up. What do those mean?
Click and drag sides or corner just like any other window.
for %a in (*.wav.mp3) do for %b in (%~na) do ren %a %~nb.mp3
I'm not sure what this does, but cmd.exe does have pipe and find (like grep) and can run more than one command per line with the & operator.
When the meeting ended I walked out, didn't bother with the chatty groups in the way, trashed my cube (with the excuse of recovering my personal property and also covering up that I was downloading all code I'd worked on), loaded the car and left. At least I got to meet my wife for lunch.
Given that this was over two years ago now and I'm still bitter about it, I guess it affected me more than I'd think.
- Take a minute to investigate, likely redirect to the person responsible for the component with the bug.
- Ignore as bugtracker will send me mail automatically when it is assigned to me.
- "Interesting, I'll look into it." -- then ignore.
- Ignore. Plan to work from home that day. "Oh, it wasn't on my calendar."
- Forward to technical writer.
- Wait 24 hours, then reply suggesting that re-implementing an existing solution is not the best use of your time.
- Wait 24 hours, then reply explaining that the update is already in progress and will be delivered with the next code drop.
- Ignore. The sender obviously already has what they're asking for.
- Ignore.
- Enthusiastic reply, then ignore all subsequent mail on this topic.
- Re-send last week's status report.
- I'm stumped, how best to get out of this one?
GE understands that it's smarter to make money selling what people want to buy than trying to force people to buy what they don't want. Now if someone could tell the RIAA/MPAA and other Luddite organizations...