One of the most humourous (actually more like infuriating) dumbass bureaucracies I've had to come across was my university placements office. They would send us e-mails whenever they'd come across jobs that they think matched our requirements, and tell us we had to physically come in to collect a wadge of printed information on the job... that 99% of the time they'd gotten from a webpage.
Still, I'm pretty loath to recommend a diet of, for example, nothing but bacon. I'm still pretty sure that eating bacon for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, 7 days a week, will most likely shorten your life.
What about chocolate doughnuts? Please, please say chocolate doughnuts are OK as a staple.
Today a vast majority of communication is done remotely either over a phone or in some form of text on the internets which, in my opinion, is causing people to completely loose the ability to see the obvious.
Yep, their ability to see the obvious has certainly been freed from its former shackles.
It is intuitively obvious to even the most casual observer that Global Warming caused Hitler, because of endangered species smoking and eating factory farmed trans-fats while driving SUVs on long suburban commutes.
There was an author who gave away his book "in the spirit" of community. Well his latest book is not completely available anymore in free format. Why? Easy because people were not buying his book and his sales were hurting. And this is the irony. Somebody tries to do a good thing, and what happens? He gets kicked in the teeth.
I'm sorry, but: bullshit. You can't call people doing exactly what you have invited them to do, "kicking you in the teeth".
Actually, your ISP one of the few parties that have the power to decrypt your encrypted traffic using a MITM attack. Granted, they'd have to rewrite your and the other side's packets, but they could do it.
What I've always wanted is for Photoshop to use several windows for editing! One for tools, another for layers, another for the image, etc. The way Photoshop is, I can't use my window manager to manage the different components of the interface, and that bugs me. I'm unaware of any graphics editing software that does this.
When was the last time the BBC had to justify a stupud decision? This lack of accountability is what you get from a company guaranteed money from anyone who watches a TV.
Well even if we accept that CentOS does hurt RedHat, what can RedHat actually do about it? The GPL stops them from squashing the product (which is exactly the point of the GPL). The GPL provides CentOS with a cast-iron defence from RedHat's legal team.
Well quite. What is this trollish nonsense about Redhat 'tolerating' CentOS? CentOS is benefitting from the GPL just as *Redhat* benefitted from it by getting a free GPL kernel and 10001 free GPL userspace tools. Redhat have no right to stop people using their GPL source, and anyone who says so is pretty much a dumbass.
Woah, yeah. I can see why a $39 disconnection fee would make you change your allegiances from a competitive company to a bunch of dinosaurs that continue eternally to fuck up your country's telephony market for everyone but themselves.
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During the most democratic time, the economy was wobbly and many of the poor, old, and sick got hit pretty hard.
Whereas in Putin's Russia, none of these people get hit. At least, none of it makes the TV.
WTF? So, if a civil servant kills someone, they can't be prosecuted?
Today on the radio, I heard one's mother's maiden name being described as 'highly sensitive information'. I laughed.
You're telling me.
One of the most humourous (actually more like infuriating) dumbass bureaucracies I've had to come across was my university placements office. They would send us e-mails whenever they'd come across jobs that they think matched our requirements, and tell us we had to physically come in to collect a wadge of printed information on the job... that 99% of the time they'd gotten from a webpage.
Welcome in UK! ;)
Je ne parle pas Anglais. S'il vous plait, dis-la en trente ou plus langues.
11 Downing Street, London?
Still, I'm pretty loath to recommend a diet of, for example, nothing but bacon. I'm still pretty sure that eating bacon for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, 7 days a week, will most likely shorten your life.
What about chocolate doughnuts? Please, please say chocolate doughnuts are OK as a staple.
Cut out that Wonder white (bleached) bread, doughnuts with powdered white (heavily refined) sugar
Awwwww! But that powdered sugar is the NICEST there is, so delicious. Curse my feeble body and its obsession with putting on weight.
Today a vast majority of communication is done remotely either over a phone or in some form of text on the internets which, in my opinion, is causing people to completely loose the ability to see the obvious.
Yep, their ability to see the obvious has certainly been freed from its former shackles.
It is intuitively obvious to even the most casual observer that Global Warming caused Hitler, because of endangered species smoking and eating factory farmed trans-fats while driving SUVs on long suburban commutes.
... so a continuance was granted. I'm on tentahooks. What happened at the next court hearing?!?!
The only one missing is "Warning: Don't use a ladder if you are an irresponsible ass."
The lawyers wouldn't allow it.
There was an author who gave away his book "in the spirit" of community. Well his latest book is not completely available anymore in free format. Why? Easy because people were not buying his book and his sales were hurting. And this is the irony. Somebody tries to do a good thing, and what happens? He gets kicked in the teeth.
I'm sorry, but: bullshit. You can't call people doing exactly what you have invited them to do, "kicking you in the teeth".
Actually, your ISP one of the few parties that have the power to decrypt your encrypted traffic using a MITM attack. Granted, they'd have to rewrite your and the other side's packets, but they could do it.
What I've always wanted is for Photoshop to use several windows for editing! One for tools, another for layers, another for the image, etc. The way Photoshop is, I can't use my window manager to manage the different components of the interface, and that bugs me. I'm unaware of any graphics editing software that does this.
When was the last time the BBC had to justify a stupud decision? This lack of accountability is what you get from a company guaranteed money from anyone who watches a TV.
Well even if we accept that CentOS does hurt RedHat, what can RedHat actually do about it? The GPL stops them from squashing the product (which is exactly the point of the GPL). The GPL provides CentOS with a cast-iron defence from RedHat's legal team.
Well quite. What is this trollish nonsense about Redhat 'tolerating' CentOS? CentOS is benefitting from the GPL just as *Redhat* benefitted from it by getting a free GPL kernel and 10001 free GPL userspace tools. Redhat have no right to stop people using their GPL source, and anyone who says so is pretty much a dumbass.
Not only that, I heard that Alienware PC's [alienware.com] are in fact, not made by aliens at all.
:-)
You've obviously never heard of immigration.
1. Company releases cool technology.
2. Sony releases more restrictive, more expensive version of technology.
3. Short battle, Sony loses.
4. Repeat.
It's not a prefix, it's a suffix. £1000 involves a prefix, 1000MB involves a suffix.
or we can foolishly standardize on the base-10 definition and have RAM chips described as 1.074 GB
No, we can 'foolishly' standardize on the base-10 definition and have RAM chips described as 1GiB.
Base 10 (LAWSUIT TARGETS):
Don't forget to mention that all these measurements are being prefixed in MB, etc. rather than MiB, so the base 10ers are technically correct.
Actually, it was $10000000, representing a signed integer.
Of course, OSes could just report both figures... ie. Drive C has 200GB (185GiB)
Woah, yeah. I can see why a $39 disconnection fee would make you change your allegiances from a competitive company to a bunch of dinosaurs that continue eternally to fuck up your country's telephony market for everyone but themselves.