how many iphones can you pack in your ass at once without leakage?
I don't think the wombat features highly in the/. demographic:
As you splash along the track
Eyes alert and ears pinned back
You might have seen those queer square turds
And thought, if not expressed in words
The stress of such a defecation
Baffles ones' imagination
But it's not done to entertain us -
The Wombat has an oblong anus.
So if your slumber is disturbed
By cries and screams, don't be perturbed.
Eyes closed, teeth clenched and racked with pain
A Wombat's gone and crapped again!!
India Business Machines is among the worst information technology outsourcing and consulting services in the world.
You're talking about a completely different company. "IBM" in this context refers to "Itty Bitty Machines". Or the opposite, as in "an elephant is a mouse with an IBM operating system". Take your pick...
The illusion that "it's all so easy" has really gotten buried too deep in someone's head somewhere.
Sure, but payrolls are easy. They were easy when I was doing it for local and national governments in Europe 30 years ago, and I don't see that they could possibly have got much harder since then, even if staff do get demoted/promoted five times a day.
From what I've read, the Microsoft offering is only alpha quality, so people might indeed find it worthwhile to try the free apk. In any case, it looks like the LibreOffice version is moving along, so you won't have to wait long.
Personally, I don't care, yet. When I eventually get a tablet, this will probably become important, but I am not going to torture myself by typing documents on my android phone. That's what my laptop and desktop machines are for.
...I like Android but not the Google pack on it (it tries to grab my data too often for Google and in the process grabs it for the NSA)
Fair enough. In which case, you can broaden your choice a bit by picking any device you like the look of and flashing it with CyanogenMod.
Or alternatively, you could root any other phone and replace/modify the hosts file to exclude all Google servers, just like you can on any other Linux box.
But personally, I'm not going to lose any sleep over Google's relationship with the NSA (ignoring for the moment the fact that I don't live in the US). Sure, the NSA's spying is obnoxious and unacceptable for heaps of reasons, but there's nothing you can do about it. The NSA doesn't *need* Google to track you. It has access to your pipes. You could (I suppose) run your own VPN and rent a terminating server in some country that doesn't take part in the intelligence network (if you can find and trust one) if you're that paranoid, but even that isn't bombproof.
I think the best way to neutralise the NSA would be for *everybody* to drop keywords into *every single* email, SMS, forum post, and crapflood their system:
Jihad, kill infidel, bomb Satan America, martyr for holy Islam, 72 virgins...
You get the picture. Now excuse me, I seem to have a couple of guys in suits banging on the do
This is largely how he got into power in the first place, thanks to Lord Carrington and Maggie Thatcher.
Of his principal opponents, Joshua Nkomo was the foremost, though he might not have been much better an option (except that he had the grace to die sooner). Bishop Muzorewa never really gained the traction he needed, because he didn't use artillery.
... they could get the impression that Office 365 is a poor hack and opt for something else.
Indeed. Such as LibreOffice, which is (I read) in active development, and available in pre-alpha form for Android already.
There will no doubt be a chorus in favour of so-called "cloud"-based office applications, but I don't see any likelihood of localhost programs dying out soon. There are still many (myself included) who don't trust other people's servers, or who (also including myself) who can't count on a permanent connection to the internet.
A few of us remember when IBM ruled the roost for computing mainframes, before the mini computer took sway.
And an even smaller number of us made quite a lot of money at the time by building a skills-base on "mainframes that weren't IBM". In my case those were CDC, Sperry, Burroughs and Honeywell. Later, as the market moved towards minis, my platforms shifted a bit to include DEC, Data General and Prime. It was fun while it lasted. I was probably a bit behind the curve in getting involved with the IBM PC (as it was), since it took me a while to shake the impression that they were just toys.
Microsoft has had some 30 years to address that impression, and on the whole has pretty much failed.
Yeah: which will take about 5 (OK, maybe 10) minutes while they decide it's not worth pressing charges. Then he'll be on a plane to Cuba, where he'll spend the rest of his life behind bars.
No he hasn't. Which is how he is able to run for Senate in the forthcoming federal election in Australia. Not that there's any chance of him getting in. Even if he does manage somehow to squeak through the poll, there's the small matter of being sworn-in, and he has to turn up here to do that.
Likewise. If it looks like it might be worth my time to get to the content of a site, I might make two, maybe even three attempts. More than that, and I'll abandon the site and add it to my hosts file never to be visited again.
An authentication tool that is easier for computers to solve than for humans isn't of much use. Especially when the user is being made to feel like he is being punished for visiting the webpage.
Well, he probably sees the opportunities, but also realize he is not the best person to take advantage of them...
I don't think so. Murdoch might be an asswipe (except with the reservation that such an item is actually useful), but from his point of view, the NBN is a threat to his Poxtel network. There's no way he can abandon that, so he'll just swing his wrecking ball wherever it'll work. But let's face it, he's 80-something years old, and he has been solidly on the most extreme right-wing side of the fence for decades, so really there's nothing new to see here.
He has unlimited access to advertising space, which will probably work in his favour with the so-called "swinging" voters - i.e. those who are so brain-dead, they should be disqualified from voting at all.
the digital generation seems to consider almost any charges as harsh, and any punishment but the lightest slap on the wrist as unconscionable...
I'm not so sure that a potential 132-year sentence counts as a slap on the wrist. The US administration has adopted an ugly tendency to deal with any person who exposes their unsavoury dealings by nailing his hide to a fence.
I know a lot of Ubuntu Fanboi's [sic] are foaming at the mouth at the prospect of getting their darling O/S on a phone.
As far as i'm concerned, the boot is on the other foot. I can definitely live without Ubuntu, but the hardware they show in TFA is (IMO) very cool indeed, and I would happily have such a device. Now if only it could run Slackware...:-P
Agreed, there is a certain amount of totalitarianism raging about the use of corporate networks, but nevertheless, there is a case to be made that if there's something you don't want your boss to know (regardless of whether or not you're doing anything wrong), then you don't use his network to talk about it.
In these times, where trust between employer and employee is largely a one-way-street, it's a simple matter of common-sense and self-preservation. Sure, a monthly data traffic allowance on your phone bill has a monetary cost, but for peace of mind, it makes sense to use that rather than put your life in your boss's hands.
It always seemed to me that the approach adopted by most of the characters of On The Beach would be appropriate. In my case, I would like to wash down my suicide pill with Lagavulin...
Reagan was seriously fucking scary. That sound-check was not an isolated incident, and since the President, gaga as he was even then, quite literally had direct access to "the button" (I have no idea whether this has changed - I hope so), there was a very real prospect of a nuclear holocaust. I won't call it a war, because nobody would have been left to fight it.
It was very strange going back to university in 2001, as an oldie among all those kids who never knew the shadow of the Cold War. It was like it all had never happened, and I was just delusional.
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In any case, what exactly is a twinkie? And are they designed for oral ingestion or for insertion via another orifice?
how many iphones can you pack in your ass at once without leakage?
I don't think the wombat features highly in the /. demographic:
As you splash along the track
Eyes alert and ears pinned back
You might have seen those queer square turds
And thought, if not expressed in words
The stress of such a defecation
Baffles ones' imagination
But it's not done to entertain us -
The Wombat has an oblong anus.
So if your slumber is disturbed
By cries and screams, don't be perturbed.
Eyes closed, teeth clenched and racked with pain
A Wombat's gone and crapped again!!
HTH
1984 happened. Literally.
Indeed it did. Not long after 1983, if I remember correctly.
India Business Machines is among the worst information technology outsourcing and consulting services in the world.
You're talking about a completely different company. "IBM" in this context refers to "Itty Bitty Machines". Or the opposite, as in "an elephant is a mouse with an IBM operating system". Take your pick...
The illusion that "it's all so easy" has really gotten buried too deep in someone's head somewhere.
Sure, but payrolls are easy. They were easy when I was doing it for local and national governments in Europe 30 years ago, and I don't see that they could possibly have got much harder since then, even if staff do get demoted/promoted five times a day.
From what I've read, the Microsoft offering is only alpha quality, so people might indeed find it worthwhile to try the free apk. In any case, it looks like the LibreOffice version is moving along, so you won't have to wait long.
Personally, I don't care, yet. When I eventually get a tablet, this will probably become important, but I am not going to torture myself by typing documents on my android phone. That's what my laptop and desktop machines are for.
Ever tried to get in your girlfriends pants through the pockets?
You're supposed to RTFM.
$ man woman
No manual entry for woman
...I like Android but not the Google pack on it (it tries to grab my data too often for Google and in the process grabs it for the NSA)
Fair enough. In which case, you can broaden your choice a bit by picking any device you like the look of and flashing it with CyanogenMod.
Or alternatively, you could root any other phone and replace/modify the hosts file to exclude all Google servers, just like you can on any other Linux box.
But personally, I'm not going to lose any sleep over Google's relationship with the NSA (ignoring for the moment the fact that I don't live in the US). Sure, the NSA's spying is obnoxious and unacceptable for heaps of reasons, but there's nothing you can do about it. The NSA doesn't *need* Google to track you. It has access to your pipes. You could (I suppose) run your own VPN and rent a terminating server in some country that doesn't take part in the intelligence network (if you can find and trust one) if you're that paranoid, but even that isn't bombproof.
I think the best way to neutralise the NSA would be for *everybody* to drop keywords into *every single* email, SMS, forum post, and crapflood their system:
Jihad, kill infidel, bomb Satan America, martyr for holy Islam, 72 virgins...
You get the picture. Now excuse me, I seem to have a couple of guys in suits banging on the do
NO CARRIER
Mandela is a coward, and Mugabe is the greatest African who ever lived. Bob says so himself [codewit.com].
Far out. I wonder if he was drunk. I don't think it's possible to come up with a more inflammatory speech than that.
This is largely how he got into power in the first place, thanks to Lord Carrington and Maggie Thatcher.
Of his principal opponents, Joshua Nkomo was the foremost, though he might not have been much better an option (except that he had the grace to die sooner). Bishop Muzorewa never really gained the traction he needed, because he didn't use artillery.
... they could get the impression that Office 365 is a poor hack and opt for something else.
Indeed. Such as LibreOffice, which is (I read) in active development, and available in pre-alpha form for Android already.
There will no doubt be a chorus in favour of so-called "cloud"-based office applications, but I don't see any likelihood of localhost programs dying out soon. There are still many (myself included) who don't trust other people's servers, or who (also including myself) who can't count on a permanent connection to the internet.
A few of us remember when IBM ruled the roost for computing mainframes, before the mini computer took sway.
And an even smaller number of us made quite a lot of money at the time by building a skills-base on "mainframes that weren't IBM". In my case those were CDC, Sperry, Burroughs and Honeywell. Later, as the market moved towards minis, my platforms shifted a bit to include DEC, Data General and Prime. It was fun while it lasted. I was probably a bit behind the curve in getting involved with the IBM PC (as it was), since it took me a while to shake the impression that they were just toys.
Microsoft has had some 30 years to address that impression, and on the whole has pretty much failed.
Yeah: which will take about 5 (OK, maybe 10) minutes while they decide it's not worth pressing charges. Then he'll be on a plane to Cuba, where he'll spend the rest of his life behind bars.
PS - I know he has lost his Oz citizenship
No he hasn't. Which is how he is able to run for Senate in the forthcoming federal election in Australia. Not that there's any chance of him getting in. Even if he does manage somehow to squeak through the poll, there's the small matter of being sworn-in, and he has to turn up here to do that.
Likewise. If it looks like it might be worth my time to get to the content of a site, I might make two, maybe even three attempts. More than that, and I'll abandon the site and add it to my hosts file never to be visited again.
An authentication tool that is easier for computers to solve than for humans isn't of much use. Especially when the user is being made to feel like he is being punished for visiting the webpage.
Honestly they bing this kind of thing on themselves.
Ah, a Microsoft toilet. That explains it.
Well, from what I just read, it shows the press council got three complaints in 2011, about three articles during June and July.
OK, well here's some much more recent and relevant food for thought:
Murdoch sends trusted general 'Col Pot' to bring down Rudd over NBN
Is that specific enough for you?
This would be the reason there are no public libraries anymore.
Actually, in Australia, the public library systems are often quite good. (For now, at least.)
Well, he probably sees the opportunities, but also realize he is not the best person to take advantage of them...
I don't think so. Murdoch might be an asswipe (except with the reservation that such an item is actually useful), but from his point of view, the NBN is a threat to his Poxtel network. There's no way he can abandon that, so he'll just swing his wrecking ball wherever it'll work. But let's face it, he's 80-something years old, and he has been solidly on the most extreme right-wing side of the fence for decades, so really there's nothing new to see here.
He has unlimited access to advertising space, which will probably work in his favour with the so-called "swinging" voters - i.e. those who are so brain-dead, they should be disqualified from voting at all.
the digital generation seems to consider almost any charges as harsh, and any punishment but the lightest slap on the wrist as unconscionable...
I'm not so sure that a potential 132-year sentence counts as a slap on the wrist. The US administration has adopted an ugly tendency to deal with any person who exposes their unsavoury dealings by nailing his hide to a fence.
I know a lot of Ubuntu Fanboi's [sic] are foaming at the mouth at the prospect of getting their darling O/S on a phone.
As far as i'm concerned, the boot is on the other foot. I can definitely live without Ubuntu, but the hardware they show in TFA is (IMO) very cool indeed, and I would happily have such a device. Now if only it could run Slackware... :-P
Agreed, there is a certain amount of totalitarianism raging about the use of corporate networks, but nevertheless, there is a case to be made that if there's something you don't want your boss to know (regardless of whether or not you're doing anything wrong), then you don't use his network to talk about it.
In these times, where trust between employer and employee is largely a one-way-street, it's a simple matter of common-sense and self-preservation. Sure, a monthly data traffic allowance on your phone bill has a monetary cost, but for peace of mind, it makes sense to use that rather than put your life in your boss's hands.
It always seemed to me that the approach adopted by most of the characters of On The Beach would be appropriate. In my case, I would like to wash down my suicide pill with Lagavulin...
Reagan was seriously fucking scary. That sound-check was not an isolated incident, and since the President, gaga as he was even then, quite literally had direct access to "the button" (I have no idea whether this has changed - I hope so), there was a very real prospect of a nuclear holocaust. I won't call it a war, because nobody would have been left to fight it.
It was very strange going back to university in 2001, as an oldie among all those kids who never knew the shadow of the Cold War. It was like it all had never happened, and I was just delusional.
I think it's more that while her "subjects" would be praying, she'd be hot-tailing it into a nuclear bunker
Hmmm. I don't believe HRH has a hot tail, but each to his own, I suppose...