1. Sex stops It was the Pill that did that with my wife. Now she's taken herself off it, I'm the one who has trouble keeping up.:-}
2. She get's[sic] fat (probably you too) So what? Fat fun...:-}
3. All your money starts disappearing for no apparent reason. "Your" money? In my experience, couples who refuse to share finances tend to be running towards trouble. In any case, there's an easy way around that. Just be a spendthrift, and don't discourage her from doing likewise. After all, shrouds don't have pockets.
4. You will be surrounded by strange and insufferable relatives from some place you have never heard of. Easy. Just move to some place they have never heard of.
5. You will get to drive the old car. Well, then get a really old car that's fun to drive.
6. Gaming did you say? That won't last long. Well, you should get out more anyway. And there are always more good books to read than you have time for...
7. She will start asking you if she looks fat Just say "Yes dear".
8. She won't cook That's something you set yourself up for. If you spontaneously take on the cooking roughly 50% of the time without being prodded, or voluntarily share the cooking, it should "Just Work(TM)".
9. You will have to leave the house when her literary friends come over... You could always learn to read.:-)
10. LAN parties? No Fucking Way in her house! You've never seen my wife and her friends with their laptops at breakfast-time gas-bagging on Facebook...:-}
The "market share" of Linux is hard to define, in any case. Sure, sales of RedHat or other commercial distros can be counted, or you could make a case (maybe) for using the LinuxCounter stats, but the simple fact is that there are many who simply download a distro and distribute it ad lib, which is sort of the whole point of free software. We will never really know how many users are running Linux.
...and was told they were taken directly from the original mainframe/UNIX environment.
Unix came later. WordPerfect was originally written for Data General minicomputers, which at the time (~1980) ran AOS/VS, which is not even remotely like Unix.
I guess it all depends on how bad your problem is. I have a combination of a mild astigmatism and presbyopia. But although I am well over 40, my eyesight is still sufficiently OK to satisfy the requirements of the Australian driver's licencing authorities. I personally consider that an indictment on their standards, and always wear optical correction when driving.
But I digress; a sensible approach (unless your situation is unbearable) is simply to get really cool glasses and just let them be a statement of some kind.
I use the same (Pear's) soap that I use for shaving and washing my hands and other aspects of my integument.
Careful rinsing and drying with a soft tissue (NOT loo paper - I've made that mistake before) is perfectly sufficient to finish off. This treatment is way superior to all those quack nostrums the opticians sell.
I've never really made a serious attempt to get the hang of LaTex, though I recognise that this might be the best way to do serious typesetting, but OpenOffice is now pretty good for most general purposes, even scientific writing (at least for my area, biotech). I have a pirated version of MSWord on my MacBook which is mostly unused since I actually prefer OpenOffice. And most of my preferred journals readily accept OpenOffice formats now, so there is no longer the "closed-shop" MS-Word-only thing there used to be.
Incidentally, I might add that both MS Word and OpenOffice Writer are still poor shadows of what WordPerfect used to be in terms of its power, even for serious publishing. My first introduction to this was on Data General "mainframe" machines, but it lost nothing in the port to DOS. I know there have been releases subsequent to version 5.1, but they really just don't cut it.
I don't know why it being a Iphone app is that big of news.
It's not, but it is symptomatic of the kind of sick mentality that Apple is taking few pains to discourage. Barely a day goes by when we don't see some inane and degrading application cropping up on Apple's download list, and I, for one, don't care to support it.
The system is also broken in that there is absolutely no place in it for rehabilitation. The effort to show voters that the administration is "doing something" about such offenders represents the wooliest of short-term thinking.
There is no place in the system for acceptance that once the offender has taken his punishment, he should be able to start again. I'm not a fan of creeps, but the idea that they should be stalked unto the grave after they have served their punishment is nothing short of sick. It amounts to a suggestion that anyone caught up in the system should be summarily condemned to death, but without having the guts to carry out the decree - while the miscreant has to wear his death warrant around his neck for the rest of his life.
...and the carrier doesn't have a facility in place for limiting the number of text messages sent to a particiular device in a given time frame?
There is a confusion of functions here. The purpose of a carrier is to carry messages, not to refuse them. Much better for the carrier to do its job and let the client decide whether or not it wants to accept the message.
Tell that to the fanbois who keeps on repeating "but it just works".
TFA goes on to mention that the same vulnerability is present in the Windows Mobile OS.
But this would indeed be another nail in the coffin lid if I entertained the slightest hankering for an iPhone. I can understand why some people might like them, but for my typical usage they would be more useful for wedging a door.
I say "hypothetical" because we don't know EMI's real #s,
We do, however, have a pretty good idea of the general standard of their products. It would be trite to say "...and nothing of value was lost", but it would also be largely true.
...and are quite "interesting" thanks to the errors.
Spam can be fun. I've started a party game where the contestants pick out lines or phrases from a bucketful of printed and cut-out spam text to construct poetry of any kind. The winner is simply the one whose opus is voted the coolest, funniest or most creative.
but what legal consequences are there for lying in this kind of situation?
None whatsoever. Maybe (perhaps) a slap on the wrist for misleading advertising.
I suspect Apple has simply adopted a leaf from Microsoft's book: When under threat, try to destabilise the competition with hysterical FUD. It seems to work on some people.
The fact that they feel the need to do this rather than (a) coming up with a tenable business model and (b) fixing the inadequacies in their product speaks volumes about the current direction of the company.
Some of Apple's products are quite good - I use an iPod, and I'm typing this on a now-ageing MacBook while my Linux-based desktop machine sits alone in a chilly room at the other end of the house - but I believe Apple has lost the plot with the iPhone. They have made no attempt to fix basic functionality issues such as short battery life and poor reception quality when making calls, and the device's single-tasking approach to applications reminds me too much of the limitations of DOS, when the available technology should easily permit them to ofer something much more sophisticated. I suspect that once some of the novelty has worn off, people might begin to evaluate their mobile devices a bit more objectively.
and since they are unlikely to be in the pub (because they are too young)
Slight error in reasoning: there are always ways and means. When I was a 15yo, the only reason for me not always being in a pub was becase I had no money, not because I was too young. But at least I never had to worry about phone credit, because there were no cellphones then...:-?
But did you notice the last line in TFA? I found it a bit chilling: "Give it to China. Let them support the damn thing."
Now I could be coming across as overly paranoid here, but the Chinese Government has its own agenda (a fact that is typically overlooked by the West as it scrambles slavishly for every trade dollar it can scavenge) and the record amply shows that does not necessarily include the welfare of anyone else. They certainly don't feel the need to recognise anyone else's laws, as we can see from the current fiasco over the detention of an Australian company executive when they didn't get the iron ore deal they wanted.
Handing them something like the ISS seems incredbly stupid to me.
In any case, this is beside the point. Programming is more a craft than a science, and doing it well requires craftsmanship. This is a quality that is built up as a result of frequent (and long) practice, and ultimately it doesn't really seem to matter that much what language you use. Sooner or later you will more or less settle on a main language, but attempting to predict what languages you will end up using at the end of a degree course might be like trying to predict next year's weather.
Your degree is supposed to be giving you an EDUCATION. If all it does is train you to be a monkey with only one skill, then it is doing you a disservice, no matter how immediately you are able to join the workforce afterwards.
So while learning one language (especially C or C#) thoroughly is a great idea, a well-rounded background is a good way to prepare you for the future. If your interviewer is so inflexible as to not recognise the value of that, you probably don't want that job anyway.
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I'll also take this apart:
:-}
:-}
:-)
:-}
1. Sex stops
It was the Pill that did that with my wife. Now she's taken herself off it, I'm the one who has trouble keeping up.
2. She get's[sic] fat (probably you too)
So what? Fat fun...
3. All your money starts disappearing for no apparent reason.
"Your" money? In my experience, couples who refuse to share finances tend to be running towards trouble. In any case, there's an easy way around that. Just be a spendthrift, and don't discourage her from doing likewise. After all, shrouds don't have pockets.
4. You will be surrounded by strange and insufferable relatives from some place you have never heard of.
Easy. Just move to some place they have never heard of.
5. You will get to drive the old car.
Well, then get a really old car that's fun to drive.
6. Gaming did you say? That won't last long.
Well, you should get out more anyway. And there are always more good books to read than you have time for...
7. She will start asking you if she looks fat
Just say "Yes dear".
8. She won't cook
That's something you set yourself up for. If you spontaneously take on the cooking roughly 50% of the time without being prodded, or voluntarily share the cooking, it should "Just Work(TM)".
9. You will have to leave the house when her literary friends come over...
You could always learn to read.
10. LAN parties? No Fucking Way in her house!
You've never seen my wife and her friends with their laptops at breakfast-time gas-bagging on Facebook...
It's so ancient, even itself can't recall its origins ;)
Maybe, but what does that make me, I wonder? I worked with AOS/VS for several years, and I even remember liking it... 8-|
And if hitslink uses the commonly-spoofed useragent string to establish the browser's platform, that makes their statistics even less credible.
The "market share" of Linux is hard to define, in any case. Sure, sales of RedHat or other commercial distros can be counted, or you could make a case (maybe) for using the LinuxCounter stats, but the simple fact is that there are many who simply download a distro and distribute it ad lib, which is sort of the whole point of free software. We will never really know how many users are running Linux.
...and was told they were taken directly from the original mainframe/UNIX environment.
Unix came later. WordPerfect was originally written for Data General minicomputers, which at the time (~1980) ran AOS/VS, which is not even remotely like Unix.
I guess it all depends on how bad your problem is. I have a combination of a mild astigmatism and presbyopia. But although I am well over 40, my eyesight is still sufficiently OK to satisfy the requirements of the Australian driver's licencing authorities. I personally consider that an indictment on their standards, and always wear optical correction when driving.
But I digress; a sensible approach (unless your situation is unbearable) is simply to get really cool glasses and just let them be a statement of some kind.
I use the same (Pear's) soap that I use for shaving and washing my hands and other aspects of my integument.
Careful rinsing and drying with a soft tissue (NOT loo paper - I've made that mistake before) is perfectly sufficient to finish off. This treatment is way superior to all those quack nostrums the opticians sell.
I've never really made a serious attempt to get the hang of LaTex, though I recognise that this might be the best way to do serious typesetting, but OpenOffice is now pretty good for most general purposes, even scientific writing (at least for my area, biotech). I have a pirated version of MSWord on my MacBook which is mostly unused since I actually prefer OpenOffice. And most of my preferred journals readily accept OpenOffice formats now, so there is no longer the "closed-shop" MS-Word-only thing there used to be.
Incidentally, I might add that both MS Word and OpenOffice Writer are still poor shadows of what WordPerfect used to be in terms of its power, even for serious publishing. My first introduction to this was on Data General "mainframe" machines, but it lost nothing in the port to DOS. I know there have been releases subsequent to version 5.1, but they really just don't cut it.
What moron modded you Funny instead of +1: Informative?
End of discussion.
You don't want to join a discussion on membrane flappage and its effect on the aqueous continuum? Well, I guess that's up to you...
;-D
I don't know why it being a Iphone app is that big of news.
It's not, but it is symptomatic of the kind of sick mentality that Apple is taking few pains to discourage. Barely a day goes by when we don't see some inane and degrading application cropping up on Apple's download list, and I, for one, don't care to support it.
The system is also broken in that there is absolutely no place in it for rehabilitation. The effort to show voters that the administration is "doing something" about such offenders represents the wooliest of short-term thinking.
There is no place in the system for acceptance that once the offender has taken his punishment, he should be able to start again. I'm not a fan of creeps, but the idea that they should be stalked unto the grave after they have served their punishment is nothing short of sick. It amounts to a suggestion that anyone caught up in the system should be summarily condemned to death, but without having the guts to carry out the decree - while the miscreant has to wear his death warrant around his neck for the rest of his life.
...and the carrier doesn't have a facility in place for limiting the number of text messages sent to a particiular device in a given time frame?
There is a confusion of functions here. The purpose of a carrier is to carry messages, not to refuse them. Much better for the carrier to do its job and let the client decide whether or not it wants to accept the message.
Tell that to the fanbois who keeps on repeating "but it just works".
TFA goes on to mention that the same vulnerability is present in the Windows Mobile OS.
But this would indeed be another nail in the coffin lid if I entertained the slightest hankering for an iPhone. I can understand why some people might like them, but for my typical usage they would be more useful for wedging a door.
I say "hypothetical" because we don't know EMI's real #s,
We do, however, have a pretty good idea of the general standard of their products. It would be trite to say "...and nothing of value was lost", but it would also be largely true.
...and are quite "interesting" thanks to the errors.
Spam can be fun. I've started a party game where the contestants pick out lines or phrases from a bucketful of printed and cut-out spam text to construct poetry of any kind. The winner is simply the one whose opus is voted the coolest, funniest or most creative.
but what legal consequences are there for lying in this kind of situation?
None whatsoever. Maybe (perhaps) a slap on the wrist for misleading advertising.
I suspect Apple has simply adopted a leaf from Microsoft's book: When under threat, try to destabilise the competition with hysterical FUD. It seems to work on some people.
The fact that they feel the need to do this rather than (a) coming up with a tenable business model and (b) fixing the inadequacies in their product speaks volumes about the current direction of the company.
Some of Apple's products are quite good - I use an iPod, and I'm typing this on a now-ageing MacBook while my Linux-based desktop machine sits alone in a chilly room at the other end of the house - but I believe Apple has lost the plot with the iPhone. They have made no attempt to fix basic functionality issues such as short battery life and poor reception quality when making calls, and the device's single-tasking approach to applications reminds me too much of the limitations of DOS, when the available technology should easily permit them to ofer something much more sophisticated. I suspect that once some of the novelty has worn off, people might begin to evaluate their mobile devices a bit more objectively.
I too am skeptical, but for a different reason, best summed up by a delightful rhyme I saw on a birthday card recently:
See the mothers in the park,
They're rather ugly chiefly.
Someone must have loved them once,
But in the dark, and briefly.
Yeah, but you know you're really cool when you have no idea how long it takes to boot your machine. After all, you only do it once. ;-)
and there are other reasons for people to not notice.
Yup. And natural selection is right at the top of the list.
and since they are unlikely to be in the pub (because they are too young)
:-?
Slight error in reasoning: there are always ways and means. When I was a 15yo, the only reason for me not always being in a pub was becase I had no money, not because I was too young. But at least I never had to worry about phone credit, because there were no cellphones then...
I doubt if the public will get a say in it.
But did you notice the last line in TFA? I found it a bit chilling: "Give it to China. Let them support the damn thing."
Now I could be coming across as overly paranoid here, but the Chinese Government has its own agenda (a fact that is typically overlooked by the West as it scrambles slavishly for every trade dollar it can scavenge) and the record amply shows that does not necessarily include the welfare of anyone else. They certainly don't feel the need to recognise anyone else's laws, as we can see from the current fiasco over the detention of an Australian company executive when they didn't get the iron ore deal they wanted.
Handing them something like the ISS seems incredbly stupid to me.
My password is prominently tacked up on my cubical wall.
A cubical wall? Nice. I hope it has a doorway in it...
In any case, this is beside the point. Programming is more a craft than a science, and doing it well requires craftsmanship. This is a quality that is built up as a result of frequent (and long) practice, and ultimately it doesn't really seem to matter that much what language you use. Sooner or later you will more or less settle on a main language, but attempting to predict what languages you will end up using at the end of a degree course might be like trying to predict next year's weather.
Your degree is supposed to be giving you an EDUCATION. If all it does is train you to be a monkey with only one skill, then it is doing you a disservice, no matter how immediately you are able to join the workforce afterwards.
So while learning one language (especially C or C#) thoroughly is a great idea, a well-rounded background is a good way to prepare you for the future. If your interviewer is so inflexible as to not recognise the value of that, you probably don't want that job anyway.
how the address bar works in Settings/Privacy (or whatever it is called in the english version).
So tell me, what are the English words for "settings" or "privacy"?