I guess what isn't clear in the post is what kind of application might she want to code? That's a potential major influence as to what language. That said, I think Rexx is an excellent, easy to learn and use, yet powerful language that a beginner might try to see if they have an interest in coding. It's available on a plethora of platforms and is quite portable.
Counting cards is not illegal, but (at least in the U.S.) the casinos address it in a few ways depending on location. I'm only familiar with Nevada and Atlantic City:
* Nevada laws are quite favorable to the casinos (go figure) and treat the casinos as private clubs that are allowed to ban the play of anyone for any reason (or no reason at all, so long as it isn't racial/religious/etc.). They can inform suspected counters that they are just banned from BJ but can play other games or tell them they are banned from the property. With the latter ban should somebody then enter the property they are trespassing and then subject to arrest.
* In Atlantic City it's a little different. It has been held - by court ruling - that state regulation of gaming, including blackjack, is complete and therefore casinos can't ban counters. They have gotten concessions, though, that allow them to "fight back" by doing such things as early/frequent shuffles which destroy any counting advantage.
And to those that say the only way to leave a casino with money in your pocket is to stop at the ATM on the way out - bull!
But when the aliens land there, how will Homeland Security be able to verify the required government issued ID?
Probably not a real issue; once aliens sample what passes for food in an Earth airport, err, I mean SPACEport the word will travel quickly and they will all stop coming.
Situation: Mainframe is down, hard, and the HMC (OS/2 based management console) is not working correctly. It accepts the commands to re-IPL the mainframe but then just spits back a msg that IPL failed, can't communicate to the mainframe.
Okies, time for a Sev 1 call to IBM Tech support (this is for a Fortune 100 Financial Svcs Firm).
Me: I wish to open a Sev 1 issue for Customer # xxxxxx.
IBM: What is the serial #?
Me: The serial # is yyyyyy (at which point they know everything about us)
IBM: What is your location?
Me: Chicago
IBM: Could you spell that please?
Me: You want me to spell Chicago?
IBM: Yes, could you please spell Chicago?
Our mainframe was down for 8 hours that day. It was eventually fixed by one of our own sysprogs dialing in from his Las Vegas hotel room, remote controlling his own desktop to spit out a diskette (!!) and me running across the street to an alternate HMC console so he could then remote control that and input the diskette and use it to reset the mainframe.
This formed the basis of an interesting conversation with our IBM account team as our hardware maintenance contract was up for review.
Sad, too; in days gone by I used IBM's support center as a measuring stick for other support services.
"You can't really publish anything truely anonymously. You never really could anyway."
Cool. Maybe you can help me track down whoever keeps spraying graffiti on my neighbor's garage. Maybe there's an IP address embedded in the paint if I use the right decoder ring? I always figured unless (s)he was caught in the act we were kind of SOL but now I have hope!
From the Groklaw review: "I'll tell you more soon, and I hope you will help us beat off the dark side's UNIX nonsense once and for all by contributing your knowledge and skills to that project, so we can prove where all the code came from and who owned it, making future "studies" like this one impossible."
If it's all the same, I'm with them in spirit but am going to take a pass on the call to beat off the dark side.:)
"Luke, I am your . . . ohhhhh, that's it, that's it, a little faster, ohhhhhhh . . .."
You know it was all good right up until the point you said you were at the LIBRARY! Some people might have actually believed you were for real if you hadn't made that mistake.:)
Golf and Prius are now considered mid-size cars? When did this happen? If a golf is mid-size does that make a Passat a luxury yacht? Egads, my Volvo XC Wagon must be an aircraft carrier . . . and if the state finds out I'll just bet those bastiges raise my annual plate fees!
Yes, but the people tend to be alive after these accidents. Anyone can yank a corpse out of a mangled Honda. Believe me, anyone!
Weellllll . . . kind of depends on the size of the corpse, doesn't it?
Be sure to destroy your money, credit cards, ID and everything else that can be used t otrack you. Get off the internet and pull your phone out of the wall. Then burn off your fingerprints and run naked through the streets screaming about how the technology is out to get you.
Tried that but the neighbors called the police. I think there must have been some damned RFID chip I couldn't find that they used to track me; that or the police cameras on the corner, I'm not sure.
The universal IT answer of "It depends" applies here as well. Yes, having Mr. Bloaty App glob onto scads of memory that are then not referenced for long periods of time can have a negative impact on other apps if the system becomes memory constrained. And, Yes, if the memory manager swaps a bunch of unreferenced memory out to disk and Mr. User has to wait a long time for Mr. Bloaty App to become responsive because it was his memory that got swapped out, that's a problem, too. The ideal is to be able to address this (haha, bad pun) at the application level and not simply at a global level. This has been the standard on the mainframe (MVS, OS/390, z/OS) operating systems for a long time, where there is a very sophisticated virtual memory manager. If there are, say, a 100 apps and 2 of them are very sensitive to response time, most of them aren't, and 10 are just dead dogs you couldn't care less about how nice is it to be able to actually tell the system that? The 2 "loved ones" then receive preferential storage treatment at the expense of the other, "less loved ones" and the dead dogs are always first on the pecking order of who to steal storage from. The memory manager then is acting to maintain the responsiveness of the applications (the reasons we run OS's in the first place) to meet the needs and expectations of the user(s) (the reasons we run the Apps). Without that ability, arguing over "more swappy" vs. "less swappy" when it's only applied at a global, default, level is not especially productive except within the context of attempting to establish, perhaps, where the best general-use default happy setting is - for the general-use default system we all use (is that you? I know it's not me).
That is like saying "because Ferrari isn't prepared to build economy cars, they suffer". You seem to be missing the point: Sun's real market is not the commodity-server area where Windows is popular. Sun shines* in the area of 8+ CPU machines that actually have to a) bear a heavy load and b) stay up while doing so.
You are correct - that is their market. They are losing it because they can't do "b) stay up while doing so." Their RAS has become unacceptable to many shops. What you see is a combination of deploying on cheaper (Linux/Win) or more reliable (AIX, etc) or both (keep Solaris but buying Fujitsu hardware). It's a shame but really they brought it on themselves - the amount of times my shop has had big Sun servers taken offline for extended periods of time while component after component was replaced in an aimless search (at Sun's direction) for the faulty part is appalling.
Sun really needs to decide what type of company they are going to be. If they focus on software they have a chance; if they insist on being a hardware company I don't feel their chances are good.
The Track Illuminator Laser (TILL) illuminates the body of a missile to determine where to point the high-energy laser. Then, the Beacon Illuminator Laser (BILL) is used to determine atmospheric distortion in order to correct the shape of the high-energy laser to shoot down the missile.
Tarantino's reach knows no bounds!
Well at least the FBI is trying to find something that perhaps they can do well. Our administration has declared "war" on a number of fronts (Drugs, Terror) with rather miserable results.
If the FBI now morphs into the foot-soldiers for Jack Valenti's War on Copyright Violators(tm) perhaps they have a chance at actually accomplishing something (I mean, other than having sharpshooters pick off unarmed women). Though I would think it would only be fair to ask the RIAA to directly fund them and relieve us of the tax burden of paying for this "service".
Usual disclaimer - I in no way support copyright infringement. I'm just disturbed to see such an indordinate amount of resources being devoted to something like this when there are serious issues with real threats to human safety that aren't being addressed.
Quote: "I don't think that Linux should be used for killing and I don't really trust the Pentagon to abide by the GPL."
Riiiiighht. Everybody knows only Windows should be used for killing (but only after securing the appropriate licensing from Redmond, of course). Anyone found killed by an unlicensed copy of Windows shall be brought back to life, however Microsoft shall not be held responsible for any subsequent brain-eating activity that may occur.
What a tool. I can't believe a schmuck like this actually rated a story.
You do know that you can *order* the car built with or without the options you want, rather than buy what the dealer has on the lot, right? That's how most folks that want base models end up doing it, since (as you found out) dealers rarely stock such models. In fairness to the dealers (a phrase you will almost NEVER hear me say with any frequency) it's not really a sound policy for them to stock such models as they don't sell much.
Well that really blows. I'd say use that as an example next time you respond to one of those youngsters that insist OHV motors are low-tech and that OHC's rule . . . except I'm certain he wouldn't understand you.
The only money that FoMoCo would receive from that Ford dealer's service dept revenue would be the money spent on FoMoCo parts. Ford isn't getting anything out of the labor dollars or any other non-FoMoCo parts sold. Remember, dealers are independent businesses from the manufacturers.
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I guess what isn't clear in the post is what kind of application might she want to code? That's a potential major influence as to what language. That said, I think Rexx is an excellent, easy to learn and use, yet powerful language that a beginner might try to see if they have an interest in coding. It's available on a plethora of platforms and is quite portable.
Counting cards is not illegal, but (at least in the U.S.) the casinos address it in a few ways depending on location. I'm only familiar with Nevada and Atlantic City: * Nevada laws are quite favorable to the casinos (go figure) and treat the casinos as private clubs that are allowed to ban the play of anyone for any reason (or no reason at all, so long as it isn't racial/religious/etc.). They can inform suspected counters that they are just banned from BJ but can play other games or tell them they are banned from the property. With the latter ban should somebody then enter the property they are trespassing and then subject to arrest. * In Atlantic City it's a little different. It has been held - by court ruling - that state regulation of gaming, including blackjack, is complete and therefore casinos can't ban counters. They have gotten concessions, though, that allow them to "fight back" by doing such things as early/frequent shuffles which destroy any counting advantage. And to those that say the only way to leave a casino with money in your pocket is to stop at the ATM on the way out - bull!
But when the aliens land there, how will Homeland Security be able to verify the required government issued ID?
Probably not a real issue; once aliens sample what passes for food in an Earth airport, err, I mean SPACEport the word will travel quickly and they will all stop coming.
Situation: Mainframe is down, hard, and the HMC (OS/2 based management console) is not working correctly. It accepts the commands to re-IPL the mainframe but then just spits back a msg that IPL failed, can't communicate to the mainframe. Okies, time for a Sev 1 call to IBM Tech support (this is for a Fortune 100 Financial Svcs Firm). Me: I wish to open a Sev 1 issue for Customer # xxxxxx. IBM: What is the serial #? Me: The serial # is yyyyyy (at which point they know everything about us) IBM: What is your location? Me: Chicago IBM: Could you spell that please? Me: You want me to spell Chicago? IBM: Yes, could you please spell Chicago? Our mainframe was down for 8 hours that day. It was eventually fixed by one of our own sysprogs dialing in from his Las Vegas hotel room, remote controlling his own desktop to spit out a diskette (!!) and me running across the street to an alternate HMC console so he could then remote control that and input the diskette and use it to reset the mainframe. This formed the basis of an interesting conversation with our IBM account team as our hardware maintenance contract was up for review. Sad, too; in days gone by I used IBM's support center as a measuring stick for other support services.
"You can't really publish anything truely anonymously. You never really could anyway."
Cool. Maybe you can help me track down whoever keeps spraying graffiti on my neighbor's garage. Maybe there's an IP address embedded in the paint if I use the right decoder ring? I always figured unless (s)he was caught in the act we were kind of SOL but now I have hope!
From the Groklaw review: "I'll tell you more soon, and I hope you will help us beat off the dark side's UNIX nonsense once and for all by contributing your knowledge and skills to that project, so we can prove where all the code came from and who owned it, making future "studies" like this one impossible."
:)
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If it's all the same, I'm with them in spirit but am going to take a pass on the call to beat off the dark side.
"Luke, I am your . . . ohhhhh, that's it, that's it, a little faster, ohhhhhhh . . .
I have - not far from your home they make some real good beer in Scotland and Ireland. Pity the English never figured it out.
You know it was all good right up until the point you said you were at the LIBRARY! Some people might have actually believed you were for real if you hadn't made that mistake. :)
and then the Cubs win the world series. Boom, no more universe.
That's a terrible generalization, especially in this day and age. Just because someone is a Pole does not mean that they are unprofessional.
Hey, it could have been much worse. Just be thankful it isn't Oprah-sized.
Golf and Prius are now considered mid-size cars? When did this happen? If a golf is mid-size does that make a Passat a luxury yacht? Egads, my Volvo XC Wagon must be an aircraft carrier . . . and if the state finds out I'll just bet those bastiges raise my annual plate fees!
Yes, but the people tend to be alive after these accidents. Anyone can yank a corpse out of a mangled Honda. Believe me, anyone! Weellllll . . . kind of depends on the size of the corpse, doesn't it?
Be sure to destroy your money, credit cards, ID and everything else that can be used t otrack you. Get off the internet and pull your phone out of the wall. Then burn off your fingerprints and run naked through the streets screaming about how the technology is out to get you. Tried that but the neighbors called the police. I think there must have been some damned RFID chip I couldn't find that they used to track me; that or the police cameras on the corner, I'm not sure.
The universal IT answer of "It depends" applies here as well. Yes, having Mr. Bloaty App glob onto scads of memory that are then not referenced for long periods of time can have a negative impact on other apps if the system becomes memory constrained. And, Yes, if the memory manager swaps a bunch of unreferenced memory out to disk and Mr. User has to wait a long time for Mr. Bloaty App to become responsive because it was his memory that got swapped out, that's a problem, too. The ideal is to be able to address this (haha, bad pun) at the application level and not simply at a global level. This has been the standard on the mainframe (MVS, OS/390, z/OS) operating systems for a long time, where there is a very sophisticated virtual memory manager. If there are, say, a 100 apps and 2 of them are very sensitive to response time, most of them aren't, and 10 are just dead dogs you couldn't care less about how nice is it to be able to actually tell the system that? The 2 "loved ones" then receive preferential storage treatment at the expense of the other, "less loved ones" and the dead dogs are always first on the pecking order of who to steal storage from. The memory manager then is acting to maintain the responsiveness of the applications (the reasons we run OS's in the first place) to meet the needs and expectations of the user(s) (the reasons we run the Apps). Without that ability, arguing over "more swappy" vs. "less swappy" when it's only applied at a global, default, level is not especially productive except within the context of attempting to establish, perhaps, where the best general-use default happy setting is - for the general-use default system we all use (is that you? I know it's not me).
That is like saying "because Ferrari isn't prepared to build economy cars, they suffer". You seem to be missing the point: Sun's real market is not the commodity-server area where Windows is popular. Sun shines* in the area of 8+ CPU machines that actually have to a) bear a heavy load and b) stay up while doing so. You are correct - that is their market. They are losing it because they can't do "b) stay up while doing so." Their RAS has become unacceptable to many shops. What you see is a combination of deploying on cheaper (Linux/Win) or more reliable (AIX, etc) or both (keep Solaris but buying Fujitsu hardware). It's a shame but really they brought it on themselves - the amount of times my shop has had big Sun servers taken offline for extended periods of time while component after component was replaced in an aimless search (at Sun's direction) for the faulty part is appalling. Sun really needs to decide what type of company they are going to be. If they focus on software they have a chance; if they insist on being a hardware company I don't feel their chances are good.
The Track Illuminator Laser (TILL) illuminates the body of a missile to determine where to point the high-energy laser. Then, the Beacon Illuminator Laser (BILL) is used to determine atmospheric distortion in order to correct the shape of the high-energy laser to shoot down the missile. Tarantino's reach knows no bounds!
Well at least the FBI is trying to find something that perhaps they can do well. Our administration has declared "war" on a number of fronts (Drugs, Terror) with rather miserable results. If the FBI now morphs into the foot-soldiers for Jack Valenti's War on Copyright Violators(tm) perhaps they have a chance at actually accomplishing something (I mean, other than having sharpshooters pick off unarmed women). Though I would think it would only be fair to ask the RIAA to directly fund them and relieve us of the tax burden of paying for this "service". Usual disclaimer - I in no way support copyright infringement. I'm just disturbed to see such an indordinate amount of resources being devoted to something like this when there are serious issues with real threats to human safety that aren't being addressed.
Quote: "I don't think that Linux should be used for killing and I don't really trust the Pentagon to abide by the GPL." Riiiiighht. Everybody knows only Windows should be used for killing (but only after securing the appropriate licensing from Redmond, of course). Anyone found killed by an unlicensed copy of Windows shall be brought back to life, however Microsoft shall not be held responsible for any subsequent brain-eating activity that may occur. What a tool. I can't believe a schmuck like this actually rated a story.
Of course if it's like many things on the internet, the original poster is really a man pretending to be a woman.
Better programmers? Perhaps - but, at least in your case, lousy spellers.
No need to be redundant.
You do know that you can *order* the car built with or without the options you want, rather than buy what the dealer has on the lot, right? That's how most folks that want base models end up doing it, since (as you found out) dealers rarely stock such models. In fairness to the dealers (a phrase you will almost NEVER hear me say with any frequency) it's not really a sound policy for them to stock such models as they don't sell much.
Well that really blows. I'd say use that as an example next time you respond to one of those youngsters that insist OHV motors are low-tech and that OHC's rule . . . except I'm certain he wouldn't understand you.
The only money that FoMoCo would receive from that Ford dealer's service dept revenue would be the money spent on FoMoCo parts. Ford isn't getting anything out of the labor dollars or any other non-FoMoCo parts sold. Remember, dealers are independent businesses from the manufacturers.