"It's inherently unstable, unlike a bicycle there is no gyroscopic force to aid the rider in maintaining balance."
Gyroscopic forces have approximately fuck all to do with the bicycle/rider system remaining upright. A bicycle is, essentially, constantly falling over. Minor corrections to the bike's track by the rider serve to keep the whole thing balanced. See rec.bicycles.tech
for more info...
" They are being far better than SCO, because they are making a choice based on the facts, not on a bunch of made-up nonsense in order to justify a wacky lawsuit."
Facts? Facts like: "I've got to pay the mortgage", "I've got to feed the kids". Come on, show the courage of your convictions: Jack your job in tomorrow, after all, unless you're working for the Disabled Black Lesbian's coding cooperative, I bet dollars to donuts that your company/employer has screwed someone, sometime, somewhere. Unless, of course, you're lurking in mom's basement and talking out of your ass...
"I think it is entirely reasonable to make one's judgment as an employee part of the screen for a new job. I would look seriously askance at someone so mercenary as to stay in a morally bankrupt organization, like a Monsanto or a Nike or an SCO or such. It's not as if they were conscripted. And there are thousands of job candidates out there who have more of the courage of their convictions - I'd certainly prefer to hire them.
I hope to God you are talking out of your ass and are not in a hiring and firing position. There are thousands of job candidates out there who whould use their Grandmothers' careworn old face as a stepping stone up to any (relevant) job whatsoever! It's a shit old world out there for IT folk, and it doesn't look like it's improving.
"Should the suits fail at 35,000 feet (10,668 metres) Andy and Colin would lose consciousness. At 80,000 feet (24,384 metres) the pilots would die within a matter of seconds, as the low pressure would make their blood boil almost immediately."
All this gory talk makes good copy, but it ain't necessarily so: You would lose fluids as vapour from your airways, but this would be gradual. Images of blood boiling in your tortured veins is simply alarmist. Your blood pressure is high enough, and your veinous system is elastic and resilient enough to prevent bulk boiling occurring. More details are here , and essentially all over the web. The seminal publication is "Bioastronautics Data Book, Second edition, NASA SP-3006", which I can't find online, unfortunately. Them Rocket Scientists sure know lotsa stuff!
Here's how to pull an arbitrary constant out of your ass, without getting pulled up in that pesky code review. Your colleagues will think they should know the significance of your constant, and will keep their mouths shut...
2^n
(2^n)-1
Anything in hex, eg. 0xf67d34ee, but if you're going to pull this stunt, make sure you #define DEBUG_MEM_VAL 0xdeadbeef as well, so they think you know what you're doing.
Never, never, never use a round decimal value.
T&K.
"For instance, a pair of Eimac 4CW1400KG/X-2242 are rated at 4,600KW, continuous..."
And before anybody goes off thinking you're talking about a souped-up version of the kind of tube you'd see in Grandpa's radiogram, the suckers you're talking about weigh in at 153 lb (69.5 kg) each!
I'm assuming these guys didn't have dongles for their illicit AutoCad installs, so to compound their naughtiness they must have been installing warez on the company system.
Forget it! My buddy texted me from the preview a couple of days ago. Word is, this film is the worst thing ever: Wooden, stilted and with an incomprehensible storyline. Save your money!
"Second, if card counting was outlawed, then it would basically be no different than the laws against insider trading on the stock market. Those laws say, "If you have certain priviledged information, you may not use that information in a way that gives you an unfair advantage over other investors." It isn't outlawing a thought process, it is outlawing the use of that knowledge for gain over other people who don't have the knowledge"
No no no. Utterly wrong.
The information - the cards that have been played - is there for all to see. It's a level playing field. If some people do not know how to interpret that information, then that's their problem due to their lack of preparation.
A better (stock market) analogy would pose an ordinary blackjack player as a naive and impulsive investor. The card counter would be the kind of investor who does their research and bothers to read the company's filings before purchasing stock. An inside trader would be a casino employee who, say, knew that the shuffling machine was temperamental, and tended to leave large runs of cards undisturbed towards the back of the shoe.
And "we all know" that if he gets fired, he'll be marched straight from being told, empty his desk under supervision, and be escorted off the premises.
Any company that lets him near a pc, networked or not, after he's been told that he's going to pursue opportunities elsewhere is being run by dolts.
We're against torture here, aren't we? Best to hand your dissidents over to countries where "rigorous" interrogation techniques are acceptable, and keep your hands clean. Kinda.
Slashdot Mirror
Couldn't have put it better myself, but what the fuck does all that mean?
Well with Google + an acronym dictionary, here goes:
MTTR = Mean Time To Recovery.
ATM = Asynchronous Transfer Mode.
CBR = Can Be reached.
SLA = Service Level Agreement.
I'm interested to find out my score, but obviously an 733t h4xx0r like me has to stay one jump ahead of the feds. Hmmm, let me see...
Okay, if all are correct, Letterman will make a Clinton joke, if not, he will announce that he's wearing women's underwear under his suit.
T&K.
Try saturating your 512k 24*7*52, and see how long it lasts.
You rent a T1, you got 1.5MBPS up and down until the cows come home or you get bored. And cows aren't noted conversationalists, mark you.
T&K.
Shhhhhh!
Are you completely dumb?!
Rules 1 & 2! You don't talk about you-know-what!
T&K.
"It's inherently unstable, unlike a bicycle there is no gyroscopic force to aid the rider in maintaining balance."
Gyroscopic forces have approximately fuck all to do with the bicycle/rider system remaining upright. A bicycle is, essentially, constantly falling over. Minor corrections to the bike's track by the rider serve to keep the whole thing balanced. See rec.bicycles.tech for more info...
T&K.
Rickman has played the camp baddie for so long he'd be a shoe-in for The Master.
T&K.
[FX: drum roll, nervous coughing as the MC rips the envelope]
Mr Paul Edgecombe, Mr John coffey, M. Edouard Delacroix and Mr Jingles!
T&K.
You could remember all the Dewey categories?
Are you an excellent driver? if so, you and me should hit Vegas and play some blackjack.
T&K.
How thick the plexiglass was
The overpressure rating of the plexiglass
What kind of gun (sorry, weapon) McMurray was carrying, his preferred load, and it's effects on the human body at a range of 10 yards.
...Are you ill?
T&K.
" Does anyone have any bandwith available that could make an automated mirror for Slashdot stories?"
Of course they do, but that kind o' burst bandwidth costs $$$.
Who's paying?
Robust, distributed & effectively load-balaced hosting
T&K
If you let each finger count as $1 billion, rather than $1, there's no need to take your shoes and socks off.
(Or the shoes and socks of India and China's population, as well).
T&K.
" They are being far better than SCO, because they are making a choice based on the facts, not on a bunch of made-up nonsense in order to justify a wacky lawsuit."
Facts? Facts like: "I've got to pay the mortgage", "I've got to feed the kids". Come on, show the courage of your convictions: Jack your job in tomorrow, after all, unless you're working for the Disabled Black Lesbian's coding cooperative, I bet dollars to donuts that your company/employer has screwed someone, sometime, somewhere. Unless, of course, you're lurking in mom's basement and talking out of your ass...
"I think it is entirely reasonable to make one's judgment as an employee part of the screen for a new job. I would look seriously askance at someone so mercenary as to stay in a morally bankrupt organization, like a Monsanto or a Nike or an SCO or such. It's not as if they were conscripted. And there are thousands of job candidates out there who have more of the courage of their convictions - I'd certainly prefer to hire them.
I hope to God you are talking out of your ass and are not in a hiring and firing position. There are thousands of job candidates out there who whould use their Grandmothers' careworn old face as a stepping stone up to any (relevant) job whatsoever! It's a shit old world out there for IT folk, and it doesn't look like it's improving.
T&K.
"Should the suits fail at 35,000 feet (10,668 metres) Andy and Colin would lose consciousness. At 80,000 feet (24,384 metres) the pilots would die within a matter of seconds, as the low pressure would make their blood boil almost immediately."
All this gory talk makes good copy, but it ain't necessarily so: You would lose fluids as vapour from your airways, but this would be gradual. Images of blood boiling in your tortured veins is simply alarmist. Your blood pressure is high enough, and your veinous system is elastic and resilient enough to prevent bulk boiling occurring. More details are here , and essentially all over the web. The seminal publication is "Bioastronautics Data Book, Second edition, NASA SP-3006", which I can't find online, unfortunately. Them Rocket Scientists sure know lotsa stuff!
T&K.
...SATAN!
I dare you to call him an idiot!
T&K.
2^n
(2^n)-1
Anything in hex, eg. 0xf67d34ee, but if you're going to pull this stunt, make sure you #define DEBUG_MEM_VAL 0xdeadbeef as well, so they think you know what you're doing.
Never, never, never use a round decimal value. T&K.
"For instance, a pair of Eimac 4CW1400KG/X-2242 are rated at 4,600KW, continuous..."
And before anybody goes off thinking you're talking about a souped-up version of the kind of tube you'd see in Grandpa's radiogram, the suckers you're talking about weigh in at 153 lb (69.5 kg) each!
T&K.
I'm assuming these guys didn't have dongles for their illicit AutoCad installs, so to compound their naughtiness they must have been installing warez on the company system.
T&K.
"And it would have worked too if it hand't been for you meddlin' kids!"
[unmasks the villan with a flourish]
It's Old man Smith, the Hollywood marketing executive!
T&K.
" Word of Mouth Ruled Illegal - Film at 11"
Forget it! My buddy texted me from the preview a couple of days ago. Word is, this film is the worst thing ever: Wooden, stilted and with an incomprehensible storyline. Save your money!
T&K
"Second, if card counting was outlawed, then it would basically be no different than the laws against insider trading on the stock market. Those laws say, "If you have certain priviledged information, you may not use that information in a way that gives you an unfair advantage over other investors." It isn't outlawing a thought process, it is outlawing the use of that knowledge for gain over other people who don't have the knowledge"
No no no. Utterly wrong.
The information - the cards that have been played - is there for all to see. It's a level playing field. If some people do not know how to interpret that information, then that's their problem due to their lack of preparation.
A better (stock market) analogy would pose an ordinary blackjack player as a naive and impulsive investor. The card counter would be the kind of investor who does their research and bothers to read the company's filings before purchasing stock. An inside trader would be a casino employee who, say, knew that the shuffling machine was temperamental, and tended to leave large runs of cards undisturbed towards the back of the shoe.
T&K.
1) Who's to say SCO didn't steal the code, hmm?
2) But they distributed it under the GPL!!!
3) It's a pump 'n' dump, pure and simple.
4) Bill's mighty hand is behind all this...
5) Darl is an ass!
6) etc, etc, etc...
How the fuck did the parent get modded insightful, fer chrissakes?
T&K.
You were drunk when you wrote this, right?
Either that or you are Hunter S. Thompson
T&K.
Isn't this the same guy who sold monorails to Ogdenville, North Haverbrook, and Brockway?
T&K.
Isn't this the same guy who sold monorails to Ogdenville, North Haverbrook, and Brockway?
T&K.
And "we all know" that if he gets fired, he'll be marched straight from being told, empty his desk under supervision, and be escorted off the premises.
Any company that lets him near a pc, networked or not, after he's been told that he's going to pursue opportunities elsewhere is being run by dolts.
T&K.
We're against torture here, aren't we? Best to hand your dissidents over to countries where "rigorous" interrogation techniques are acceptable, and keep your hands clean. Kinda.
T&K.