It's not that we're all dumb, it's just that we can't keep the most ignorant amongst us off of the television and public message boards.
Very good comment - me likey very much!
Although I don't think you can really complain... afterall, your consistution does begin with the words "It's not that we're all dumb, it's just that we can't keep the most ignorant amongst us off of the television and public message boards."
That's like saying all numbers in file names should be zero-padded to eight digits, because otherwise foo2 and foo10 aren't sorted correctly... no, the solution is to use more intelligent sorting, not to prevent logical naming.
I _think_ (as in I might be wrong!) that AmigaDOS could do this.
More specifically, I think you're refering to "American people". No where else in the world (to my knowledge) uses for format "mmm dd, yyyy". I know thats the way Americans read dates, but you don't have to write them exactly as you read them! The same way you don't read "11" as "one-one" or "onety-one"!!
I predict the "Decamillenium bug"! Think of all those boxes that are still running 8000 years from now switching from 9999-12-31 to 10000-01-01, there goes the lexically sorted database.
You could be on to something there... patent the words "Decamillenium compliant" and I predict you'll be fabulously rich by your 8000th birthday!
Agree with this myself. I use yyyy-mm-dd for internal use (they sort better) and dd-mmm-yyyy for public use.
Quick quesiton though - why do Americans find it _so_ difficult to understand something different? I mean, a date such as 2004-03-07 may be unusual, but I would've thought after a second anyone would figure it out... no?
Re the "PAL" chip... I think the poster meant Amiga's that output a PAL TV signal. US Amiga's would output NTSC and *might* run at a slightly different clock-speed!
As for requiring a lot of processing power, unless you can make short-cuts, e.g. VMWare "emulates" a PC without too much of a performance hit because it can run most of the code natively, but in a sand-box. So XBox2 emulation on IA-32 or IA-64 based processors probably ain't going to happen soon. XBox2 emulation on a Mac is more of a possibility I guess?
I think part of the problem with emulating hardware this specialised chips is also that its hard to reverse engineer this. The information is unlikely to be freely available, so for an individual to write an emulator you're talking about a lot of work.
N one ever mentions "Super-deflex". It was on the ZX Spectrum, and if I recall correctly it was all written in Basic. And, during the loading it said "Anyone copying this game would be hung, drawn and quartered". I was aged 10 or something. And I was using a copy! (I must've been scared Mr. Minter would suddenly appear weilding an axe, or else this message wouldn't be etched on my brain!).
I can still remember the music too.... da-da-daa, da-daa-da, du-da-daa, (up octave), da-da-daa, da-daa-da du-da-daa, (down octave), etc etc.
Honestly it was great! But *why* does no one ever mention this game? Was it so easy to copy it only ever sold one copy or something?
Well first up, I really don't know who was to "blame" -- I only know what I've read, and really it depends on who's writting! Mozilla used a name that the Firebird-SQL people were already using so they complained... it looks like they handled that badly, but the way the story gets re-told is that they orchastrated an email DoS attack, which I don't personally believe was the intent. Just some Firebird-SQL supportors took things the wrong way and wound up the Mozilla people.
Anyway, regardless, the issue has been resolved. The Mozilla folks now have a new name and a cool new logo to boot! The only thing that remains is people trolling when ever Firebird-SQL is mentioned.
Whether you believe Mozilla was right or wrong, you have to agree that at least Mozilla acted professionally.
I don't think anyone disputes this. It was all an unfortunate situation. But its all sorted now!!
Well maybe they don't like *your* attitude! You, sitting there, picking the fluff out of your fat ass and making condescending statements like the above!!;)
These are commited people, spending their own time on a quality database that is available to everyone. You don't have to use it, but don't bleat about just 'cos somehow they've upset you because of a product naming arguement that in all likelyhood you are probably not a party to anyway!
I mean, regardless of if you think Firebird-SQL, Mozilla or both were in the wrong over the naming debacle, it is now resolved, and the vast majority here are fortunate to have the opportunity to use *BOTH* for free without having to do a thing.
So climb down off the moral high-ground, and say something constructive or nothing at all!
..BUT, what about Zaphods 2nd head?! The sad thing is, I'm *sure* that was on Tomorrows World at the time because of the fantastic technical achivement (they thought) it was! Can anyone else remember this, or did I just dream it?
Not that I have anything against Hollywood per se, but they just don't seem to get British culture...
Know what you mean, but Mike Meyers** got it right particularly with the third Austin Powers film... that was absolutley tops IMHO. (**accepting that he did live in the UK at one point)
I think the problem with Hollywood is its cynysism (which, I've just discovered, I can't spell!). It dumbs things down to appeal to the largest audience, it doesn't take any risks.
Hopefully it will be good, but capturing that certain something without the presence of Douglas Adams is going to be a tough call -- lets hope they don't cock it up!:)
Okay, accepting that everyone has a right to try to make a living, but the thing that irritates me most about spam is that I'll get the same email 6 times in one day to the same address!
So unlike snail-mail based junk mail where the costs ensure the sender will only bother to "spam" me once a month, email spammers abuse the system.
If they'd just behave a little more sensably then I'd have more simpathy/empathy.
The other thing that annoys me is the content of some of the emails. It really isn't right sending out explicit email when you don't know anything about who's receiving the email.... seriously, some of the spammers should be hung, drawn and quarters for the sh*t they send out.
Getting back to the "volume" problem, this will eventually force the spammers out of business, as it will continue to increase and force changes to the email system. It would therefore make sense for spammers to draw up some kind of unofficial code of conduct, e.g. clean their email lists of dupes and "webmaster" and "abuse" addresses, etc, and only send any given "advert" to a single address once every... month preferably, but if they restricted themselves to once a week it would still be a vast improvement.
I can't see that this would be at all difficult for a spammer and I can't see that it would make any difference to the volume of business generated... I mean, there ain't no way I'm going to order viagra 6 times a day anyway!!
..[ahem].., from the F/A 18 Hornet owners manual...
Page 1 Introduction
Congratulations on buying the F/A 18 Hornet, the fastest blah blah...
Sorry, wrong bit... hang on... this is it:
Page 4 Caring for your F/A 18 Hornet
Try to keep your F/A Hornet clean to ensure it gives long and useful service.
NOTE: The F/A 18 Hornet is not a toy and should not be used to "buzz", "strafe" or otherwise annihilate neighbouring people/companies/countries/dictatorships
So I think you should take note sonny! Read what it says in the manual!!
Yeah, I find when you're buying ex. military fighter jets, try to buy one with only a single previous owner who was preferably a little old lady... 'cos they don't really thrash them. Typically, they just take them out once a week to do the shopping and such... so they're definately the best ones to buy!
Oh yeah, sure, while they're still battling for market share everythings sooo good, and sooo free... but if they ever capture the entire market share you watch the price of bibles soar! ;-P
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It's not that we're all dumb, it's just that we can't keep the most ignorant amongst us off of the television and public message boards.
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Very good comment - me likey very much!
Although I don't think you can really complain... afterall, your consistution does begin with the words "It's not that we're all dumb, it's just that we can't keep the most ignorant amongst us off of the television and public message boards."
That's like saying all numbers in file names should be zero-padded to eight digits, because otherwise foo2 and foo10 aren't sorted correctly... no, the solution is to use more intelligent sorting, not to prevent logical naming.
I _think_ (as in I might be wrong!) that AmigaDOS could do this.
More specifically, I think you're refering to "American people". No where else in the world (to my knowledge) uses for format "mmm dd, yyyy". I know thats the way Americans read dates, but you don't have to write them exactly as you read them! The same way you don't read "11" as "one-one" or "onety-one"!!
I predict the "Decamillenium bug"! Think of all those boxes that are still running 8000 years from now switching from 9999-12-31 to 10000-01-01, there goes the lexically sorted database.
You could be on to something there... patent the words "Decamillenium compliant" and I predict you'll be fabulously rich by your 8000th birthday!
Agree with this myself. I use yyyy-mm-dd for internal use (they sort better) and dd-mmm-yyyy for public use.
Quick quesiton though - why do Americans find it _so_ difficult to understand something different? I mean, a date such as 2004-03-07 may be unusual, but I would've thought after a second anyone would figure it out... no?
I've played paint-ball on the old Greenham common airbase (UK).
Erm... thats it. It was fun though!
I can understand the business logic. But didn't they realise when they become SCO's poster-kid they may attract critisism?
I want to know what they paid. I want them to state, we did this because we negotiated SCO down to X dollars or even X cents per licence!
Re the "PAL" chip... I think the poster meant Amiga's that output a PAL TV signal. US Amiga's would output NTSC and *might* run at a slightly different clock-speed!
As for requiring a lot of processing power, unless you can make short-cuts, e.g. VMWare "emulates" a PC without too much of a performance hit because it can run most of the code natively, but in a sand-box. So XBox2 emulation on IA-32 or IA-64 based processors probably ain't going to happen soon. XBox2 emulation on a Mac is more of a possibility I guess?
I think part of the problem with emulating hardware this specialised chips is also that its hard to reverse engineer this. The information is unlikely to be freely available, so for an individual to write an emulator you're talking about a lot of work.
Do the rovers have hard disks? I've not heard any mention of disks during any tech. reports... only volatile and flash memory.
LOL - top post!
;)
Of course.... now the nightmares will start again! Sigh, here comes another 20 years of therapy!
N one ever mentions "Super-deflex". It was on the ZX Spectrum, and if I recall correctly it was all written in Basic. And, during the loading it said "Anyone copying this game would be hung, drawn and quartered". I was aged 10 or something. And I was using a copy! (I must've been scared Mr. Minter would suddenly appear weilding an axe, or else this message wouldn't be etched on my brain!).
I can still remember the music too.... da-da-daa, da-daa-da, du-da-daa, (up octave), da-da-daa, da-daa-da du-da-daa, (down octave), etc etc.
Honestly it was great! But *why* does no one ever mention this game? Was it so easy to copy it only ever sold one copy or something?
Well first up, I really don't know who was to "blame" -- I only know what I've read, and really it depends on who's writting! Mozilla used a name that the Firebird-SQL people were already using so they complained... it looks like they handled that badly, but the way the story gets re-told is that they orchastrated an email DoS attack, which I don't personally believe was the intent. Just some Firebird-SQL supportors took things the wrong way and wound up the Mozilla people.
Anyway, regardless, the issue has been resolved. The Mozilla folks now have a new name and a cool new logo to boot! The only thing that remains is people trolling when ever Firebird-SQL is mentioned.
Whether you believe Mozilla was right or wrong, you have to agree that at least Mozilla acted professionally.
I don't think anyone disputes this. It was all an unfortunate situation. But its all sorted now!!
Nope, that'd be FuxPage! Well it does doesn't it?! :D
Well maybe they don't like *your* attitude! You, sitting there, picking the fluff out of your fat ass and making condescending statements like the above!! ;)
These are commited people, spending their own time on a quality database that is available to everyone. You don't have to use it, but don't bleat about just 'cos somehow they've upset you because of a product naming arguement that in all likelyhood you are probably not a party to anyway!
I mean, regardless of if you think Firebird-SQL, Mozilla or both were in the wrong over the naming debacle, it is now resolved, and the vast majority here are fortunate to have the opportunity to use *BOTH* for free without having to do a thing.
So climb down off the moral high-ground, and say something constructive or nothing at all!
You're getting mixed up with that Borland Interfox thing arn't you?!
Not disagreeing at all, but could you expand on what was bad about Interbase vs. Postgre?
Totally agree re the guide graphic!
..BUT, what about Zaphods 2nd head?! The sad thing is, I'm *sure* that was on Tomorrows World at the time because of the fantastic technical achivement (they thought) it was! Can anyone else remember this, or did I just dream it?
Not that I have anything against Hollywood per se, but they just don't seem to get British culture...
:)
Know what you mean, but Mike Meyers** got it right particularly with the third Austin Powers film... that was absolutley tops IMHO. (**accepting that he did live in the UK at one point)
I think the problem with Hollywood is its cynysism (which, I've just discovered, I can't spell!). It dumbs things down to appeal to the largest audience, it doesn't take any risks.
Hopefully it will be good, but capturing that certain something without the presence of Douglas Adams is going to be a tough call -- lets hope they don't cock it up!
Okay, accepting that everyone has a right to try to make a living, but the thing that irritates me most about spam is that I'll get the same email 6 times in one day to the same address!
So unlike snail-mail based junk mail where the costs ensure the sender will only bother to "spam" me once a month, email spammers abuse the system.
If they'd just behave a little more sensably then I'd have more simpathy/empathy.
The other thing that annoys me is the content of some of the emails. It really isn't right sending out explicit email when you don't know anything about who's receiving the email.... seriously, some of the spammers should be hung, drawn and quarters for the sh*t they send out.
Getting back to the "volume" problem, this will eventually force the spammers out of business, as it will continue to increase and force changes to the email system. It would therefore make sense for spammers to draw up some kind of unofficial code of conduct, e.g. clean their email lists of dupes and "webmaster" and "abuse" addresses, etc, and only send any given "advert" to a single address once every... month preferably, but if they restricted themselves to once a week it would still be a vast improvement.
I can't see that this would be at all difficult for a spammer and I can't see that it would make any difference to the volume of business generated... I mean, there ain't no way I'm going to order viagra 6 times a day anyway!!
..[ahem].., from the F/A 18 Hornet owners manual...
Page 1
Introduction
Congratulations on buying the F/A 18 Hornet, the fastest blah blah...
Sorry, wrong bit... hang on... this is it:
Page 4
Caring for your F/A 18 Hornet
Try to keep your F/A Hornet clean to ensure it gives long and useful service.
NOTE: The F/A 18 Hornet is not a toy and should not be used to "buzz", "strafe" or otherwise annihilate neighbouring people/companies/countries/dictatorships
So I think you should take note sonny! Read what it says in the manual!!
Yeah, I find when you're buying ex. military fighter jets, try to buy one with only a single previous owner who was preferably a little old lady... 'cos they don't really thrash them. Typically, they just take them out once a week to do the shopping and such... so they're definately the best ones to buy!
The phone lines in many parts of town here are only good for 26.4K.
You need more than an Office upgrade; you need a whole town upgrade!
Oh yeah, sure, while they're still battling for market share everythings sooo good, and sooo free... but if they ever capture the entire market share you watch the price of bibles soar!
;-P
By the time Mono is anywhere near 90 percent of the current functionality of .NET, Microsoft will have released Whidbey, Yukon and probably Longhorn.
.Net port by the end of next week!
Yeah, but now they've got the source code, they'll be able to knock out a
OMG!
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Don't use *real* names here!!
OMG!