As a non-American, I have no idea what "drop a dime" means, but I presume it has something to do with bending over in the presence of men with higher testosterone? If not, then it was a rather unfortunate metaphor in context.
I was curious about your post because I had not heard of Zerotech. Googling "AMD Zerotech" gave me very few results outside of some sort of drone, a malware site, and a similar post from you on Soylent News. Can you provide a link to describe what you're talking about?
Cortana can easily be disabled, just set your language to English (Australia) and it will tell you it is not available in your language/region. Simple!
I guess you always remember your first truly immersive 3D game. For me it was Mercenary on the C-64. Smooth wireframe 3D world with steal-able vehicles and entire cities to explore and a helpful AI (Benson), all fitting in less than 64KB of RAM with no multi-load. Anyone else get hooked on this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercenary_(computer_game)
Hell yes I've responded to spam. Or clicked links in emails. Or chatted to spambots. Surely any curious IT professional wants to know more about how spammers work or how far AI has come in making a profit for some lowlife. Sometimes it's just out of sheer boredom that I investigate or respond.
Here' a typical recent conversation on Skype:
Lena: Hullo!!
Lena: pretty girl looking for new friends
Me: u look like a spambot to me
Lena: Nice to meet you! How can I see Your photos and data? My photos placed at the www:***crappylinkdeleted***
Me: well that was both boring & predictable. Goodbye!
Lena: oh.... sorry... my mom comming soon... see you later!
Me: spambots don't have moms, liar!
Actually 42 is the "magic" number used to identify the file as a TIFF, not a version number at all. In fact the creators of the TIFF specification specifically avoided using version numbers, as versioning tends to complicate the implementation of a baseline TIFF reader.
I'd never heard of the genius-level IQ "Bill Langan", and google reveals very little. Is it possible the reviewer meant he bouncer-philosopher "Christopher Langan"? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Langan
The opening page presents you with the most confusing array of messages of various sorts about how Howie is now clipping his toe nails, and Jenny is feeling shitty after a big night out. Who the f... cares. Then there's the stupid surveys and quizzes your "friends" take then spam you to take as well.
Dude, I think the problem isn't so much with Facebook, but more with your friends...
Actually Postscript (starting with level 2, and further improved with level 3) also supports compression. You can internally compress using CCITT (fax), JPEG, Deflate and probably others I have forgotten. Any L3 compliant Postscript device can handle it too.
I know this because I added image compression support to a Postscript driver a few years ago (at a time where there were precious few reference materials on the web - ugh).
Similarly bad thing happened to me once. I had forgotten I had used my USB stick to move some 'tasteful' pics of my girlfriend at the beach. They were buried way down in a nested folder so I wouldn't accidentally mix up my work files with my personal stuff.
Anyway, I went to do an install of some software at a client's site from the USB stick. Suddenly some brainless Adobe photo product pops up and starts scanning all the files on the stick displaying previews of all the JPEGs in full size bikini-clad glory. I hit the close button as fast as I could but the damned thing kept popping back up.
Lesson learnt - *never* mix a work thumb-drive with a personal one. Yeesh.
My SO entered bogus info when she signed up for a Yahoo email account many years ago. She never deleted anything from it and had literally thousands of messages in it, some unread, some with financial info, and some with enormous sentimental value (such as email and voicemail from her late brother).
All well and good until the website timed-out when she went to change the password. Suddenly neither the new password nor the old one would work. The only way Yahoo would let her back into her account was if she could answer some of the info she filled in with junk many moons before. She still has no recourse to get back in six months later.
It's all well and good to be paranoid and enter bogus info when you sign up for a free website, but you might want to consider that if you don't store a record of it, you might get locked out of your own account forever.
Slightly OT, but can anyone explain how to pronounce the guy's name? I tried to visit the eponymous museum in Copenhagen earlier last year, but none of the locals had any idea where/what it was, presumably on account of me butchering the Danish pronunciation. And yes I saw the wiki and no, I can't figure out the IPA pronunciation guide. English phonetics anyone?
My late 2006 model Acer Aspire laptop came with FAT32 preinstalled, and rather than screw around reformatting as NTFS and reinstalling all the drivers, I stuck it out with FAT32. In this brief time my experience has been:
PROS
Better support by repartitioning software (NTFS can be stubborn at shrinking)
CONS
Can't run MSN Sharing Folders
Can't install PostgreSQL
BSOD = Lost data
The thing that bugged me the most about the C64 keyboard was that there were only two keys for Up/Down and Left/Right cursor navigation, which were reversed by holding the key. This didn't take long to get used to, but if you held down three keys at once (e.g. SHIFT, LEFT, UP) during fast navigation, it would erroneously print a '@' or some other random character.
I think it was a hardware limitation (from memory) rather than an actual software bug. Anyone remember the exact details?
Actually my thought process went like this when I read the headline:
1) Oh look, a clever new word to describe typos caused by pre-emptive text (T9) ambiguity
2) Hmmm, there is no genuine word "typso", maybe it was proof of "Merphy's Law"
3) It's in there twice, it must be deliberate
4) Wait, it was submitted by Taco!
As a former H1B worker (well, E3 actually but same kinda thing) I disagree that auctioning off H1Bs is a solution in the broader interest of the IT economy, as it will seriously impact on smaller players. What you will see is all of the H1Bs going to the big companies and the smaller ones squeezed out of the bidding war. I was hired and sent to the US to work for a small startup company (I was also a minority shareholder) because I had specialist skills (high end CAD systems programming) that was simply all but impossible to find in the US market.
Since small businesses make up the bulk of employment in *all* industries, you really don't want to introduce anything in the market that further disadvantages the small companies in competing with the big ones.
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As a non-American, I have no idea what "drop a dime" means, but I presume it has something to do with bending over in the presence of men with higher testosterone? If not, then it was a rather unfortunate metaphor in context.
Reading the word "coax" above and hearing it in your head as "co-ax".
No, what he said about Warren Buffet was wrong. At least according to Warren Buffet: http://www.businessinsider.com...
I was curious about your post because I had not heard of Zerotech. Googling "AMD Zerotech" gave me very few results outside of some sort of drone, a malware site, and a similar post from you on Soylent News. Can you provide a link to describe what you're talking about?
So why does this still happen to me on Windows 10 (64-bit Professional) with a Microsoft mouse?
Cortana can easily be disabled, just set your language to English (Australia) and it will tell you it is not available in your language/region. Simple!
The Emir of Kuwait was rather peeved that the US made him free his slaves after handing him his country back.
Interesting, do you have a source for this? I couldn't find anything from a traditional news source.
Great, I'll rush to do it. All I need to do is login to the PSN to change my password and then... oh wait.
I guess you always remember your first truly immersive 3D game. For me it was Mercenary on the C-64. Smooth wireframe 3D world with steal-able vehicles and entire cities to explore and a helpful AI (Benson), all fitting in less than 64KB of RAM with no multi-load. Anyone else get hooked on this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercenary_(computer_game)
Hell yes I've responded to spam. Or clicked links in emails. Or chatted to spambots. Surely any curious IT professional wants to know more about how spammers work or how far AI has come in making a profit for some lowlife. Sometimes it's just out of sheer boredom that I investigate or respond.
Here' a typical recent conversation on Skype:
Lena: Hullo!!
Lena: pretty girl looking for new friends
Me: u look like a spambot to me
Lena: Nice to meet you! How can I see Your photos and data? My photos placed at the www:***crappylinkdeleted***
Me: well that was both boring & predictable. Goodbye!
Lena: oh.... sorry... my mom comming soon... see you later!
Me: spambots don't have moms, liar!
So yeah, 12% does seem low to me too.
Actually 42 is the "magic" number used to identify the file as a TIFF, not a version number at all. In fact the creators of the TIFF specification specifically avoided using version numbers, as versioning tends to complicate the implementation of a baseline TIFF reader.
I'd never heard of the genius-level IQ "Bill Langan", and google reveals very little. Is it possible the reviewer meant he bouncer-philosopher "Christopher Langan"? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Langan
Dude, I think the problem isn't so much with Facebook, but more with your friends...
Actually Postscript (starting with level 2, and further improved with level 3) also supports compression. You can internally compress using CCITT (fax), JPEG, Deflate and probably others I have forgotten. Any L3 compliant Postscript device can handle it too.
I know this because I added image compression support to a Postscript driver a few years ago (at a time where there were precious few reference materials on the web - ugh).
Similarly bad thing happened to me once. I had forgotten I had used my USB stick to move some 'tasteful' pics of my girlfriend at the beach. They were buried way down in a nested folder so I wouldn't accidentally mix up my work files with my personal stuff.
Anyway, I went to do an install of some software at a client's site from the USB stick. Suddenly some brainless Adobe photo product pops up and starts scanning all the files on the stick displaying previews of all the JPEGs in full size bikini-clad glory. I hit the close button as fast as I could but the damned thing kept popping back up.
Lesson learnt - *never* mix a work thumb-drive with a personal one. Yeesh.
My SO entered bogus info when she signed up for a Yahoo email account many years ago. She never deleted anything from it and had literally thousands of messages in it, some unread, some with financial info, and some with enormous sentimental value (such as email and voicemail from her late brother).
All well and good until the website timed-out when she went to change the password. Suddenly neither the new password nor the old one would work. The only way Yahoo would let her back into her account was if she could answer some of the info she filled in with junk many moons before. She still has no recourse to get back in six months later.
It's all well and good to be paranoid and enter bogus info when you sign up for a free website, but you might want to consider that if you don't store a record of it, you might get locked out of your own account forever.
Slightly OT, but can anyone explain how to pronounce the guy's name? I tried to visit the eponymous museum in Copenhagen earlier last year, but none of the locals had any idea where/what it was, presumably on account of me butchering the Danish pronunciation. And yes I saw the wiki and no, I can't figure out the IPA pronunciation guide. English phonetics anyone?
My late 2006 model Acer Aspire laptop came with FAT32 preinstalled, and rather than screw around reformatting as NTFS and reinstalling all the drivers, I stuck it out with FAT32. In this brief time my experience has been:
PROS
Better support by repartitioning software (NTFS can be stubborn at shrinking)
CONS
Can't run MSN Sharing Folders
Can't install PostgreSQL
BSOD = Lost data
The thing that bugged me the most about the C64 keyboard was that there were only two keys for Up/Down and Left/Right cursor navigation, which were reversed by holding the key. This didn't take long to get used to, but if you held down three keys at once (e.g. SHIFT, LEFT, UP) during fast navigation, it would erroneously print a '@' or some other random character. I think it was a hardware limitation (from memory) rather than an actual software bug. Anyone remember the exact details?
Actually my thought process went like this when I read the headline:
1) Oh look, a clever new word to describe typos caused by pre-emptive text (T9) ambiguity
2) Hmmm, there is no genuine word "typso", maybe it was proof of "Merphy's Law"
3) It's in there twice, it must be deliberate
4) Wait, it was submitted by Taco!
As a former H1B worker (well, E3 actually but same kinda thing) I disagree that auctioning off H1Bs is a solution in the broader interest of the IT economy, as it will seriously impact on smaller players. What you will see is all of the H1Bs going to the big companies and the smaller ones squeezed out of the bidding war. I was hired and sent to the US to work for a small startup company (I was also a minority shareholder) because I had specialist skills (high end CAD systems programming) that was simply all but impossible to find in the US market. Since small businesses make up the bulk of employment in *all* industries, you really don't want to introduce anything in the market that further disadvantages the small companies in competing with the big ones.