You can't support legacy software forever. If your customers choose to stay with it past it's notified EOL then they are SOL. Any company using XP that got hit by this can only blame themselves.
I don't think even Ayn Rand would say that. First of all, if XP completely meets your needs, why change to a rather different OS? Second, and more important, If you own Company A and are fully up-to-date,but company B is unprotected, then sooner or later their infections will work their way into your system, or just clog every path/endpoint your system is trying to communicate with.
Austria's leader is a giant douche. He rapes babies. Once I saw him watching hardcore bestiality porn in his car, stealing WiFi from a nearby cafe. I hate him. This is hate speech.
Well, to be fair, it's not "people's" opinion on Net Neutrality, it's John Oliver viewer's opinion on Net Neutrality. Trump supporters are against regulations, even ones that protect them.
How do you figure that? J Oliver has a position, but what he told the audience was to go to http://gofccyourself.com/ and write a comment. Each person is free to leave a pro or con comment.
Hey, smartass, I dunno which IBM tty it was -- I didn't write down the number -- but yeah we totally had punchtape terminals all over the school, tied into the mainframe. So go pound , errr, a keyboard or something.
Ok, Why in the world would a/. editor (oh, well, that's why) consider this postable?
Besides, is the person who asked like 6 yrs old or something? Or just woke up after falling asleep in 1971 next to his IBM TTY connected to a DEC PDP-8L?
Sorry, but my parents do not like or support gay marriage because of their religious beliefs. They are not bigots. They are not homophobic. They have their religious beliefs. They treat lgbt just like every other person. They believe marriage is sacred; a belief informed by religion. They are not bad people for having that belief.
First of all, what they do inside their own home is up to them. However, since they appear not even to comprehend the history of "marriage," I sincerely doubt they are completely tolerant of society's definitions and laws regarding marriage.
Next, if they subuscribe to a homophobic religion, then, yes, they **are** homophobic and they **are** bad people. If they do anything in any part of their life that is based on religious rules rather than on reality, then they are just plain wrong. Let me point out further that I don't give a rat's ass whether their religious leaders will allow a **religious** marriage to gays. Marriage is a legal status (just ask those of us married via legal documents and a J.P.), and neither your parents nor their religion has any right to comment on that.
Your fundamental failure here is that you are claiming that your parents only hold opinions when in fact they are trumpeting their positions as facts.
"Show me a successful sci-fi movie that's not a remake, sequel/prequel or spin-off in the last ten years."
The Martian?
Interstellar?
Arrival?
Martian: Robinson Crusoe.
Interstellar: mashup of The Grapes of Wrath and the Jesus legend.
Arrival: Aside from dozens of SciFi novels about learning to communicate with an enemy (Childhood's End, The Forever War), How about "Columbus discovers America" ?
Yeah - locked-down stuff can be funny. I am allowed to use Chrome, but can't install plugins, so can't install the "be like IE" plugin, so internal web pages like SharePoint don't work. But my favorite is that our systems are locked to not allow executables on USB drives. Ok, whatever, but... Windows installers apparently want to dump the install packages onto the drive with the most free space (dumb idea, really). I've got a IT-approved terabyte USB drive permanently mounted for data storage. You guessed it: usually there's more free space on that than on C: or any internal drive. Every single IT-pushed update or install fails due to their own rules. That saves me a lot of time in destroying their crapola mods to Office, screensavers, etc.
In my experience what makes developers unhappy is having to write documentation, perform testing and fixing bugs.
Well, that attitude makes me sad. I'm never satisfied until I've written a man page or help file detailed enough that a new user can understand how to use the tools without any difficulty. Fixing bugs? There's no such thing as "being a programmer" if you don't fix bugs. You're not a car manufacturer if you don't fix obvious system failures before going into production. No, what makes me sad is asking a colleague for the script he wrote that automates some task, and discovering that there's not a single line of comments in it (well, and that the dingbat hard-coded every object that should have been an input argument).
Why? We already know that back in WW2 neither the Camp Commandant nor his lead Sergeant had the slightest clue that POWs had their bunk beds on slides so they could access their underground radio rooms and secret tunnels. That group of US Army Heroes did an incredible job of spy work and sabotage and never once got caught.
The commission itself voted 16-15 to recommend it not be renewed.
It's not exactly gerrymandering but it's certainly a case of packing the commision with friendly faces. You think it's ok to dismantle the EPA because the current head wants to do so?
It's a poor workman who blames his tools. Your example has nothing to do with AI and everything to do with someone who wrote control software (or maybe just hardware logic gates) without writing out a decision diagram. A system that can't tell the difference between inflow and outflow current and just keeps whacking the voltage is beyond stupid. Even by Texas criteria.
How exactly does overpopulation make climate change a problem that wouldn't exist if not for overpopulation?
On the off-chance you're not trolling, **anthropogenic** climate change exists only because of overpopulation. If the world population were, say, 250 million, we could all heat our houses with soft coal, drive 5 mpg cars, eat Kobe beefsteak every night, and the human-generated component of CO2 (and methane, etc) would be insignificant. Plus we could fly on 747s outfitted with a total of 50 seats, each of which is a la-z-boy recliner with a minifrig.
No, 2 are fewer than 3 .//yes dammit I'm being funny and serious, and yes I'm well aware of the difference between numbers and collective nouns, and the difference between British English and American English when it comes to collective nouns.
When did companies exist to provide jobs for employees?
Roughly speaking, from the time unions started to spring up until Dodge v. Ford .
But otherwise, a solid belief in slavery (including sweatshops and company towns) and/or a choice of short-term greed and riches over long-term economic growth have dominated.
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Follows this line.
Can't see it so easily? That's because I'm using WhiteSpace Font. Heck,if it's good enough for programmers...
Nearly everyone agrees that "Apollo 13" was a major cliff-hanger, even tho' we all knew perfectly well how the story ended.
I've heard about 50-50 from people as to whether spoilering "The Crying Game" mattered.
In my case, I'll watch The Big Sleep and The Magnificent Ambersons plenty of times. FastAndFurious[1:237] not so much.
You can't support legacy software forever. If your customers choose to stay with it past it's notified EOL then they are SOL. Any company using XP that got hit by this can only blame themselves.
I don't think even Ayn Rand would say that. First of all, if XP completely meets your needs, why change to a rather different OS? Second, and more important, If you own Company A and are fully up-to-date,but company B is unprotected, then sooner or later their infections will work their way into your system, or just clog every path/endpoint your system is trying to communicate with.
..as was any lecture you took on the use of commas.
Pretty sure that's a required lecture at Oxford Univ.
Austria's leader is a giant douche. He rapes babies. Once I saw him watching hardcore bestiality porn in his car, stealing WiFi from a nearby cafe. I hate him. This is hate speech.
I am Down with this sort of thing
FTFY.
. Conservatives are tightly clustered around Fox. Liberals are much more omnivorous.
This result is likely due to Fox prioritizing pandering over accuracy because pandering makes money.
And here I thought conservatives chose Fox because Fox stuffs every news/commentary group with women whose previous job was Booth Babe at car shows.
Well, to be fair, it's not "people's" opinion on Net Neutrality, it's John Oliver viewer's opinion on Net Neutrality. Trump supporters are against regulations, even ones that protect them.
How do you figure that? J Oliver has a position, but what he told the audience was to go to http://gofccyourself.com/ and write a comment. Each person is free to leave a pro or con comment.
as is anyone else who confuses moose and lamas...
Yeah, it's one thing to confuse a moose with a llama, but if you can't tell a priest from a beast (sorry, Mr. Nash), you got problems.
Hey, smartass, I dunno which IBM tty it was -- I didn't write down the number -- but yeah we totally had punchtape terminals all over the school, tied into the mainframe. So go pound , errr, a keyboard or something.
Ok, /. editor (oh, well, that's why) consider this postable?
Why in the world would a
Besides, is the person who asked like 6 yrs old or something? Or just woke up after falling asleep in 1971 next to his IBM TTY connected to a DEC PDP-8L?
Sorry, but my parents do not like or support gay marriage because of their religious beliefs. They are not bigots. They are not homophobic. They have their religious beliefs. They treat lgbt just like every other person. They believe marriage is sacred; a belief informed by religion. They are not bad people for having that belief.
First of all, what they do inside their own home is up to them. However, since they appear not even to comprehend the history of "marriage," I sincerely doubt they are completely tolerant of society's definitions and laws regarding marriage.
Next, if they subuscribe to a homophobic religion, then, yes, they **are** homophobic and they **are** bad people. If they do anything in any part of their life that is based on religious rules rather than on reality, then they are just plain wrong. Let me point out further that I don't give a rat's ass whether their religious leaders will allow a **religious** marriage to gays. Marriage is a legal status (just ask those of us married via legal documents and a J.P.), and neither your parents nor their religion has any right to comment on that.
Your fundamental failure here is that you are claiming that your parents only hold opinions when in fact they are trumpeting their positions as facts.
"Show me a successful sci-fi movie that's not a remake, sequel/prequel or spin-off in the last ten years."
The Martian?
Interstellar?
Arrival?
Martian: Robinson Crusoe.
Interstellar: mashup of The Grapes of Wrath and the Jesus legend.
Arrival: Aside from dozens of SciFi novels about learning to communicate with an enemy (Childhood's End, The Forever War), How about "Columbus discovers America" ?
Are you really not aware that Contact is based on the Carl Sagan novel, and has nothing whatsoever to do with Stargate?
Yeah - locked-down stuff can be funny. I am allowed to use Chrome, but can't install plugins, so can't install the "be like IE" plugin, so internal web pages like SharePoint don't work.
But my favorite is that our systems are locked to not allow executables on USB drives. Ok, whatever, but... Windows installers apparently want to dump the install packages onto the drive with the most free space (dumb idea, really). I've got a IT-approved terabyte USB drive permanently mounted for data storage. You guessed it: usually there's more free space on that than on C: or any internal drive. Every single IT-pushed update or install fails due to their own rules. That saves me a lot of time in destroying their crapola mods to Office, screensavers, etc.
In my experience what makes developers unhappy is having to write documentation, perform testing and fixing bugs.
Well, that attitude makes me sad. I'm never satisfied until I've written a man page or help file detailed enough that a new user can understand how to use the tools without any difficulty. Fixing bugs? There's no such thing as "being a programmer" if you don't fix bugs. You're not a car manufacturer if you don't fix obvious system failures before going into production.
No, what makes me sad is asking a colleague for the script he wrote that automates some task, and discovering that there's not a single line of comments in it (well, and that the dingbat hard-coded every object that should have been an input argument).
Spock could have built one with only stone knives and bearskins.
McGyver wouldn't have needed bearskins, which are hard to get in prison.
Chuck Norris would just have ninja-kicked the cell walls until they collapsed into a computer.
Why? We already know that back in WW2 neither the Camp Commandant nor his lead Sergeant had the slightest clue that POWs had their bunk beds on slides so they could access their underground radio rooms and secret tunnels. That group of US Army Heroes did an incredible job of spy work and sabotage and never once got caught.
The commission itself voted 16-15 to recommend it not be renewed.
It's not exactly gerrymandering but it's certainly a case of packing the commision with friendly faces. You think it's ok to dismantle the EPA because the current head wants to do so?
It's a poor workman who blames his tools. Your example has nothing to do with AI and everything to do with someone who wrote control software (or maybe just hardware logic gates) without writing out a decision diagram.
A system that can't tell the difference between inflow and outflow current and just keeps whacking the voltage is beyond stupid.
Even by Texas criteria.
The Age of Wonder
Sapiens
The Long Earth/Long War
Yes, Please
How exactly does overpopulation make climate change a problem that wouldn't exist if not for overpopulation?
On the off-chance you're not trolling, **anthropogenic** climate change exists only because of overpopulation. If the world population were, say, 250 million, we could all heat our houses with soft coal, drive 5 mpg cars, eat Kobe beefsteak every night, and the human-generated component of CO2 (and methane, etc) would be insignificant.
Plus we could fly on 747s outfitted with a total of 50 seats, each of which is a la-z-boy recliner with a minifrig.
2.3 is less than 2.6, but
2 is fewer than 3
No, 2 are fewer than 3 . //yes dammit I'm being funny and serious, and yes I'm well aware of the difference between numbers and collective nouns, and the difference between British English and American English when it comes to collective nouns.
Never seen such a huge group of Whoosh-ies.
INB4:
Black Matter Lives!
When did companies exist to provide jobs for employees?
Roughly speaking, from the time unions started to spring up until Dodge v. Ford .
But otherwise, a solid belief in slavery (including sweatshops and company towns) and/or a choice of short-term greed and riches over long-term economic growth have dominated.