Because I've got this tablet and NetFlix I've caught up on the cultural context of Weeds and Breaking Bad, which frankly was leading to some awkward conversations among my peers who expect me to know absolutely everything they care about.
You know, you ARE allowed to tell people you don't care about things. That's what I do when coworkers ask me if I "caught the game," whatever the hell that means. I don't ask them how many home runs the Steelers scored on the Knicks, and they don't ask me about how I rolled two consecutive natural 20s and took out a red dragon wyrm with a Stunning Fist on the first move on Saturday night.
I love Breaking Bad, and don't give a rat's ass about Weeds, so I watch Breaking Bad and join in those conversations, and when people talk about Weeds, I go get a soda. Just because they are your peers doesn't mean you have to share everything with them.
Unfortunately there are still powerful people that support this kind of secretive nonsense blocking any chance for a full audit of the Fed and transparency.
And because Ron Paul doesn't manage to keep his ego in check long enough to get people behind him on that. I love him, but he needs to get some "Keep your trap shut" lessons from Joe Paterno.
Oh, I agree that incompatibilities are bad. But it's silly that we paid FMC most likely millions of dollars to build a new system for us that runs on a 10-year-old instead of 13-year-old OS. I wouldn't complain if we'd stayed on 98 (hell, I have a kinematic viscosity bath that is controlled through DOS prompts on a Win95, completely yellowed Compaq), I understand not wanting to break something that's working, but if you're going to break something that's working (and believe me, they did) because the system has to be upgraded "for security reasons," why not go with an OS that's going to be supported with security updates for a reasonable amount of time? My understanding is that this was a completely custom job anyway, since the controller hardware is 30-some years old and built by a now-defunct manufacturer, so why not do it right? Of course, this is a company that gives us safety meetings every day on things like Christmas light safety and making sure the turkey reaches an internal temperature of 160 degrees when we have contractors dying from not using lockout/tagout procedures in heptane tanks and getting crushed at our shipping docks, so I guess our priorities might be a bit misplaced.
GC-MS is actually a good example to use here, too. A lot of other lab hardware, you can just leave off the network, so it's not necessarily an IT issue. But mass specs, x-ray defractometers, and some other equipment all need 'net to compare your samples to NIST databases, etc., and they lose 95% of their function if they aren't granted that access.
I have a Nikon S3000, and for a point and shoot, I absolutely adore it. Many cameras are moving towards touchscreens, which drive meup the goddamn wall, but the S3000 still has decent hardware while giving me buttons that click. And for a cheap camera, itisprettydamnversatile.
Nah, I think they'd melt away. Their power comes from enforcers, their enforcers come from cash, and their cash comes from drugs. Take away the illegal income from drugs, and in six months they'll at best have a quarter of the power they did, assuming they manage to transition to some other source of income at all. Not dissimilar to what happened to the mafia after the end of Prohibition in America.
Don't forget the 12,700 credit card numbers stored in cleartext. But that's no biggie, because only a thousand of them were still active Sony customers.
I am a big fan of Ron Paul, but hell, I predicted the housing crash in 2001, when I was barely out of high school and didn't even know what a libertarian was. It was obvious to anyone who saw how common those HomeVestors "We Buy Ugly Houses" signs were, and noticed they kept increasing in number instead of disappearing. He doesn't get any credit for that.
You keep jumping back to literature. There are several types of English degrees. When you study technical writing, you must take a few literature courses, but most courses cover technical writing and technical editing. English majors learn how to make web pages, write content for the web, etc. In fact, I'd say that as far as learning HTML and CSS, my English course was much thorough and difficult that the computer science course which also covered PHP.
So what you're saying is. . . the technical aspects of your English minor were the parts that were most intense and built upon one another?:-p
Now that the FF memory hole is fixed, I've been wondering what drives the Chrome memory usage up. How much of that is due to running each tab as a separate process?
I can't remember what the precise problem was, but I remember hearing six or twelve months ago that DownloadHelper was really bad about memory leaks or startup times or crashes or something, because I was convinced to uninstall it. Greasemonkey could be an issue too, depending on what you have it running.
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Because I've got this tablet and NetFlix I've caught up on the cultural context of Weeds and Breaking Bad, which frankly was leading to some awkward conversations among my peers who expect me to know absolutely everything they care about.
You know, you ARE allowed to tell people you don't care about things. That's what I do when coworkers ask me if I "caught the game," whatever the hell that means. I don't ask them how many home runs the Steelers scored on the Knicks, and they don't ask me about how I rolled two consecutive natural 20s and took out a red dragon wyrm with a Stunning Fist on the first move on Saturday night.
I love Breaking Bad, and don't give a rat's ass about Weeds, so I watch Breaking Bad and join in those conversations, and when people talk about Weeds, I go get a soda. Just because they are your peers doesn't mean you have to share everything with them.
Unfortunately there are still powerful people that support this kind of secretive nonsense blocking any chance for a full audit of the Fed and transparency.
And because Ron Paul doesn't manage to keep his ego in check long enough to get people behind him on that. I love him, but he needs to get some "Keep your trap shut" lessons from Joe Paterno.
Well, maybe that's not the best example.
That would definitely be option A. And at least the stolen data will be used to donate to charity instead of buying electronics to sell in Russia and China.
Go to the local library, load up 4chan, and let the /b/tards know about the vulnerability. Anonymous will do it for you, and your hands are clean.
You leave the GoR out of this! He's not one of ours!
And in the winter, we carve open the gorillas to use as shelter to stay warm! And you thought they smelled bad on the outside!
I'm also curious to know how long the building would have to last to recover the energy involved in excavating that hole compared to building upwards.
Oh, I agree that incompatibilities are bad. But it's silly that we paid FMC most likely millions of dollars to build a new system for us that runs on a 10-year-old instead of 13-year-old OS. I wouldn't complain if we'd stayed on 98 (hell, I have a kinematic viscosity bath that is controlled through DOS prompts on a Win95, completely yellowed Compaq), I understand not wanting to break something that's working, but if you're going to break something that's working (and believe me, they did) because the system has to be upgraded "for security reasons," why not go with an OS that's going to be supported with security updates for a reasonable amount of time? My understanding is that this was a completely custom job anyway, since the controller hardware is 30-some years old and built by a now-defunct manufacturer, so why not do it right? Of course, this is a company that gives us safety meetings every day on things like Christmas light safety and making sure the turkey reaches an internal temperature of 160 degrees when we have contractors dying from not using lockout/tagout procedures in heptane tanks and getting crushed at our shipping docks, so I guess our priorities might be a bit misplaced.
GC-MS is actually a good example to use here, too. A lot of other lab hardware, you can just leave off the network, so it's not necessarily an IT issue. But mass specs, x-ray defractometers, and some other equipment all need 'net to compare your samples to NIST databases, etc., and they lose 95% of their function if they aren't granted that access.
Our job is not to fix it when it breaks. It is to help you break it in a predictable and expected pattern - from a PM and HR point of view.
So whose job is it to help us when we break it in an unpredictable or unexpected pattern?
Funny story - the company I work for, a major chemical manufacturer, just upgraded our blending system last month. . . from 98 to XP. *headdesk*
I have a Nikon S3000, and for a point and shoot, I absolutely adore it. Many cameras are moving towards touchscreens, which drive meup the goddamn wall, but the S3000 still has decent hardware while giving me buttons that click. And for a cheap camera, it is pretty damn versatile.
Not all bets are off - a camo suit in need of a dry cleaner is a very safe bet at that point.
You're on Facebook? Turn in your geekcard now.
How else are we supposed to meet girls? We can't talk to them IN PERSON!
Your nose can tell you if the battery is damaged, too - it smells the smoke! :p
Maybe this complete ignorance of the concept of synonyms is why you guys think that Democrats and Republicans are somehow different.
They are different. Democrats worship Europeans, and Republicans think they're idiots.
Supposedly, yes. It captures and plays 1080p video.
I'm not excited about that one. Lousy Smarch weather.
Nah, I think they'd melt away. Their power comes from enforcers, their enforcers come from cash, and their cash comes from drugs. Take away the illegal income from drugs, and in six months they'll at best have a quarter of the power they did, assuming they manage to transition to some other source of income at all. Not dissimilar to what happened to the mafia after the end of Prohibition in America.
Don't forget the 12,700 credit card numbers stored in cleartext. But that's no biggie, because only a thousand of them were still active Sony customers.
. . .so you can't trust any juice anymore...
Isn't that what Hitler said?
I am a big fan of Ron Paul, but hell, I predicted the housing crash in 2001, when I was barely out of high school and didn't even know what a libertarian was. It was obvious to anyone who saw how common those HomeVestors "We Buy Ugly Houses" signs were, and noticed they kept increasing in number instead of disappearing. He doesn't get any credit for that.
You keep jumping back to literature. There are several types of English degrees. When you study technical writing, you must take a few literature courses, but most courses cover technical writing and technical editing. English majors learn how to make web pages, write content for the web, etc. In fact, I'd say that as far as learning HTML and CSS, my English course was much thorough and difficult that the computer science course which also covered PHP.
So what you're saying is. . . the technical aspects of your English minor were the parts that were most intense and built upon one another? :-p
Now that the FF memory hole is fixed, I've been wondering what drives the Chrome memory usage up. How much of that is due to running each tab as a separate process?
I can't remember what the precise problem was, but I remember hearing six or twelve months ago that DownloadHelper was really bad about memory leaks or startup times or crashes or something, because I was convinced to uninstall it. Greasemonkey could be an issue too, depending on what you have it running.