* With the developments in cosmetic/vanity genetic engineering over the last 10 years, all males are now born with 9" penises and spammers have turned to advertising reduction pills and creams.
In other news, CompTIA have released a working draft for their new Q+ exam - it's suitable for any engineer with 6 months' hands-on experience of Quantum Mechanics and GR. The pass mark is 80% and all 20 questions on the exam must be answered simultaneously.
Mind you, the English language can be a bit weird a t times - after all, if 'deploy' is to 'put out', then surely 'ploy' is to 'bring in' - likewise with 'destroy' (take apart) and 'stroy' (out together?) - so...
"The old spacesuit was ployed some time ago on the station, but is now surplus to requirements and so will be deployed in space where it will eventually be destroyed reentering the Earth's atmosphere. This is no major loss as the suit was originally stroyed as a spare."
Have to agree - I use Outlook (Office XP) and it syncs perfectly and transparently with my PDA and also my Windows-based SmartPhone - both via USB cables - and I use either the phone or PDA to 'carry' my appointments with me and also to sync them with my laptop and home PC - this all happens automatically whenever I plug one of the devices in for a charge (via a USB cable).
In house we use eGroupWare's calendar for company and personal events - it does the job well, but the complaint is always that "it's not as good as Outlook". Open source is really crying out for an 'Outlook killer' - or at least some decent Outlook interfacing that doesn't take a million tweaks to get it 'almost working'.
Does a complete installation have any form of UPS for the board and management software? At least with regular whiteboards or chalk boards you could carry on working if the power failed or there was a glitch/spike.
...Muglia continued; "one piece of good news is that to prove to the consumer/home market that Longhorn is also perfectly suitable for the domestic environment, every copy of Longhorn will come bundled with a copy of the exciting new game 'Duke Nukem Forever'"
Methinks he might be on the NSA/FBI payroll within the month - mind you of course he will 'go' to 'prison', it's just that he'll be snuck out the back almost immediately and only return when someone he knows wants to visit.
What jurisdiction does a plane flying over, say, international waters actually fall under - for example, is the inside of a US-registered plane considered to be US territory or do a generic set of International rules apply?
I just wondered as this might raise some interesting legal issues with regards to data protection etc. ie: emailing a customer database back to the office, downloading porn, sharing files or DMCA-infringing stuff etc.!!?? Mind you, hosting your DVD ripping apps at an altitude of 30,000ft over the Atlantic by constantly flying from NY to London and back is not going to come cheap!!
Actually people yell into cellphones because they think they have to in order for the person at the other end of the call to hear them on their miracle of miniaturised technology when, in reality, their extra-loud voice is attenuated back to a reasonable level by their phone anyway.
It really beats me why people on trains etc. can't grasp the three basic rules of mobile/cell phone etiquette ie:
1) Put your phone's incoming 'ring' on single beep or, better still, vibrate mode.
2) Disable keyboard beeps and tones.
3) The microphones in modern cell phones are very sensitive - speak at a volume level that will not annoy those around you.
You should have been in our place - we were struggling to get parallel processing running on 286 processors (hmm, yes..) and we were very much an 'Intel Shop' (many of us wondered who from Intel was 'sleeping with the MD'!). At one very key developers meeting involving Senior Management, one brave engineer was heard to remark "Everything we're trying to do could be achieved almost instantly if we went to Motorola Processors" - you could have heard a pin drop. Management totally blanked the comment and on we went stabbing away at the design until we had a 4-CPU card working - just in time for the 386 launch...and off we went back to square one...
Having finished wire wrapping a prototype panel for a flight simulator during my apprenticeship - after 2 weeks of mind-numbing, tedious work - I called over Ray (my supervisor) to give it a visual inspection before it went to unit test...
"Looks good", he said, "Er, you do know they come in pairs, don't you?"
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Hey - he's a pro: there's regression testing, beta testers, usability study etc. etc.
* With the developments in cosmetic/vanity genetic engineering over the last 10 years, all males are now born with 9" penises and spammers have turned to advertising reduction pills and creams.
In other news, CompTIA have released a working draft for their new Q+ exam - it's suitable for any engineer with 6 months' hands-on experience of Quantum Mechanics and GR. The pass mark is 80% and all 20 questions on the exam must be answered simultaneously.
But was either the patient or doctor pretty and NAKED when they fled the room, or must I just use my imagination as always?
/time for MY meds - now where's that darn robot?
Sorry but Fark did that one about 3 days ago!
I vote for Internet Explorizer - or IE for short.
Pretty soon they won't check their email at all and the organisation grinds to a halt!
LOL!
Mind you, the English language can be a bit weird a t times - after all, if 'deploy' is to 'put out', then surely 'ploy' is to 'bring in' - likewise with 'destroy' (take apart) and 'stroy' (out together?) - so...
"The old spacesuit was ployed some time ago on the station, but is now surplus to requirements and so will be deployed in space where it will eventually be destroyed reentering the Earth's atmosphere. This is no major loss as the suit was originally stroyed as a spare."
In space, one doesn't 'chuck' - one 'deploys' ie:
Space: "Then we will deploy the space suit..."
Earth: "Vern chucked his fast food container out the window of his car"
Other permutations do not work ie:
Officer: "What do you think you are doing?"
Vern: "Hey officer, just deploying my garbage..."
Have to agree - I use Outlook (Office XP) and it syncs perfectly and transparently with my PDA and also my Windows-based SmartPhone - both via USB cables - and I use either the phone or PDA to 'carry' my appointments with me and also to sync them with my laptop and home PC - this all happens automatically whenever I plug one of the devices in for a charge (via a USB cable).
In house we use eGroupWare's calendar for company and personal events - it does the job well, but the complaint is always that "it's not as good as Outlook". Open source is really crying out for an 'Outlook killer' - or at least some decent Outlook interfacing that doesn't take a million tweaks to get it 'almost working'.
Does a complete installation have any form of UPS for the board and management software? At least with regular whiteboards or chalk boards you could carry on working if the power failed or there was a glitch/spike.
RTFA - did you make it right to the bottom...?
...Muglia continued; "one piece of good news is that to prove to the consumer/home market that Longhorn is also perfectly suitable for the domestic environment, every copy of Longhorn will come bundled with a copy of the exciting new game 'Duke Nukem Forever'"
Mozilla process:
1) JFDI
2) er..that's it
SCO + M$ + RIAA + MPAA with Roland Piquepaille as CEO.
Now go bitch about that organisation!
I didn't RTFA (that really didn't need saying, did it) - was it kinda like...
1) Patent CTRL-C, CTRL-V
2) Profit
Methinks he might be on the NSA/FBI payroll within the month - mind you of course he will 'go' to 'prison', it's just that he'll be snuck out the back almost immediately and only return when someone he knows wants to visit.
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Just be glad he didn't say "re-architized".
Would someone chuck them a CD with a copy of eGroupWare on it please..
That changes everything - it'll stop illegal downloading at a stroke!
Just a thought:
What jurisdiction does a plane flying over, say, international waters actually fall under - for example, is the inside of a US-registered plane considered to be US territory or do a generic set of International rules apply?
I just wondered as this might raise some interesting legal issues with regards to data protection etc. ie: emailing a customer database back to the office, downloading porn, sharing files or DMCA-infringing stuff etc.!!?? Mind you, hosting your DVD ripping apps at an altitude of 30,000ft over the Atlantic by constantly flying from NY to London and back is not going to come cheap!!
Yeah and my PDA with WIFI doesn't have an Rj45.
You need THESE!!
Actually people yell into cellphones because they think they have to in order for the person at the other end of the call to hear them on their miracle of miniaturised technology when, in reality, their extra-loud voice is attenuated back to a reasonable level by their phone anyway.
It really beats me why people on trains etc. can't grasp the three basic rules of mobile/cell phone etiquette ie:
1) Put your phone's incoming 'ring' on single beep or, better still, vibrate mode.
2) Disable keyboard beeps and tones.
3) The microphones in modern cell phones are very sensitive - speak at a volume level that will not annoy those around you.
You should have been in our place - we were struggling to get parallel processing running on 286 processors (hmm, yes..) and we were very much an 'Intel Shop' (many of us wondered who from Intel was 'sleeping with the MD'!). At one very key developers meeting involving Senior Management, one brave engineer was heard to remark "Everything we're trying to do could be achieved almost instantly if we went to Motorola Processors" - you could have heard a pin drop. Management totally blanked the comment and on we went stabbing away at the design until we had a 4-CPU card working - just in time for the 386 launch...and off we went back to square one...
Having finished wire wrapping a prototype panel for a flight simulator during my apprenticeship - after 2 weeks of mind-numbing, tedious work - I called over Ray (my supervisor) to give it a visual inspection before it went to unit test...
"Looks good", he said, "Er, you do know they come in pairs, don't you?"
AAARRRGGHHH!!!