Times change. The Bard used to be Shakespeare for his humor and insightful lines about human nature - now Adams is the Bard for the same reason.
"The Bard" in that context is short for "The Bard of Avon" so no, it can't really be applied to someone else. I did a quick check just in case there was some social movement of which I was unaware and can find no reference to Douglas Adams as "The Bard" outside this thread.
Whereas said web crap that has to support IE6, also has to work with IE7, and IE8, and IE9, and Firefox, and Chrome, and Safari. And it has to "look good" in the recent browsers without looking like crap in IE6.
A lot of the web crap that needs to work on IE6 doesn't need to work on anything else, it's antique ActiveX that doesn't and never will work on something other than IE6.
It crops up several times in his work but I suspect you're thinking of The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
“Under what circumstance is it moral for a group to do that which is not moral for a member of that group to do alone?”
“That’s a trick question.”
“It is the key question, a radical question that strikes at the root of the whole dilemma of government. Anyone who answers honestly and abides by all consequences knows where he stands–and what he will die for
“A rational anarchist believes that concepts such as ‘state’ and ‘society’ and ‘government’ have no existence save as physically exemplified in the acts of self-responsible individuals. He believes that it is impossible to shift blame, share blame, distribute blameas blame, guilt, responsibility are matters taking place inside humans beings singly and nowhere else. But, being rational, he knows that not all individuals hold his evaluations, so he tries to live perfectly in an imperfect worldaware that his efforts will be less than perfect yet undismayed by self-knowledge of self-failure.”
I thought the idea was to give Mittens the reigns, let the corporations have 100% control of our country (vs the current insulting 98%), and hope for some trickle down?
Am I the only one who thought I was on the Eve Online forums for a minute there?
Not sure if you're trolling or indeed buy that "piracy=theft" argument. Let me explain it to you again: for theft to happen, the original owner would need to be deprived of the object stolen.
Wrong. Period.
For theft to have happened, the owner would have to be deprived of the value of the object stolen.
You are wrong I'm afraid, the definition of theft refers only to depriving someone of their property not any value that property might have. If I plant Leylandii in my garden I might deprive you of thousands of pounds of value from your house in lost value because of my hedge but I am not guilty of theft.
This is the definition of theft in the UK, the US definition I believe is pretty much identical..
A person is guilty of theft if he dishonestly appropriates property belonging to another with the intention of permanently depriving the other of it
On a CLI you are actually issuing instructions (hence the words Commands in CLI) to the OS commanding it to do something. In a Google search box you are typing terms or key phrases to be used as parameters of a search.
site:en.wikipedia.org churchill -insurance ~sand gives Churchill's "We shall fight them on the beaches" speech as the fourth result, without the "~sand" it's on page five, the article doesn't even contain the word sand but the ~ tells Google to look a synonyms and I guess beach is in there for sand. It also ignores anything related to insurance as there's a major insurance company in the UK called Churchill.
The Google search interface is a command line interface, it's an interface into which you type command lines. Most of them are pretty simple, but the option for complex search commands is there should you need it.
Being a CLI is not restricted to OS shells, or are you claiming that using nslookup in interactive mode is also not a CLI?
Still? You guys want to have a word with your banks about that, we got rid of that particular unnecessary delay four years ago and transfers are now more or less instant in the UK.
Mono, that's a blast from the past! About 1993 for me in fact, one of the few cool things accessible with VMS PAD. Wonder if my old account is still on there...
The "IT Security Team" is often just a group of auditors whom look at high-level stuff.
If they need a new system maintained, IT will know about it.
This AC works in HR IT. HR doesn't do shit without IT advising.
I work for a major financial institution, I don't know about the AC but I can tell you categorically that IT security trumps sysadmin and are most definitely not just a bunch of auditors. We have auditors as well, but IT security also installs and maintains the security infrastructure.
I didn't even know it was legal to get a license in most countries here without learning to drive stick shift?
Certainly in the UK if you learn in an automatic you can get a licence but you will be restricted to driving cars with automatic gearboxes only. In the UK manual gearboxes very definitely dominate the market, looking at the second hand cars listed on AutoTrader there are 267,843 manuals and only 89,965 automatics.
I've said this before on Slashdot but these comments piss me off. The French were instrumental in helping you kick our arses and becoming independent, show them some respect or give them the Statue of Liberty back.
The difference between America and England is, the Americans think 100 years is a long time and the English think 100 miles (160.93 Km) is a long distance.
Not sure who originally said it but it seemed relevent.
This is probably very British of me but my immediate internal response to this was "150 year old castles? Leeds has a shopping centre that's over 100 years old!"
I think he's a denizen of the monastery, generally best not to poke them as they tend to bite (or weep uncontrollably depending on their stage of recovery).
Shouldn't that be 2nd party or are you insuring collateral damage to bystanders? Maybe it's just a UK thing.
You are insuring collateral damage to bystanders however that's by the by, the first and second parties to the insurance are you and your insurer while the third party is the car you ran into.
I've also over the years seen any number of estimates that around 50% of backup tapes aren't usable when they're needed. I've often been suspicious that there may be large error bars around that number, but so far I haven't seen any evidence on the topic.
When I was involved in backups once a month we started logging a job to restore a random folder and its contents for each server with a tape backup, initial success rate was under 50% but identified devices needing attention and media that needed replacing. Four months in we were on 90%+, thus we learned the lesson all backup admins learn eventually: Regular restores are as much a part of your backup routine as the backup job itself.
If I need to pay somebody who isn't on paypal etc., I can go onto my credit union website and have them cut a check and send it to the payee. No charge.
I log into my online banking website and send them the money straight from my bank account to theirs, with the Faster Payments service the UK uses it's more or less instant even between competing banks.
I'm in Canada and self-employed. Most weeks I deposit some cheques into my credit union. Also all the credit unions, at least in BC, have banded together for purposes like sharing ATM machines which means I can deposit cheques in any credit union ATM or withdraw money without fees.
In the UK cheques for non-business use are almost extinct, the cheque guarantee scheme ended earlier this year pretty much killing off any remaining private cheque usage and many places won't even accept business cheques.
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Times change. The Bard used to be Shakespeare for his humor and insightful lines about human nature - now Adams is the Bard for the same reason.
"The Bard" in that context is short for "The Bard of Avon" so no, it can't really be applied to someone else. I did a quick check just in case there was some social movement of which I was unaware and can find no reference to Douglas Adams as "The Bard" outside this thread.
Whereas said web crap that has to support IE6, also has to work with IE7, and IE8, and IE9, and Firefox, and Chrome, and Safari. And it has to "look good" in the recent browsers without looking like crap in IE6.
A lot of the web crap that needs to work on IE6 doesn't need to work on anything else, it's antique ActiveX that doesn't and never will work on something other than IE6.
prescribing something homeopathic (which is basically guaranteed to have no side effects)
Tell that to people who've had their skin turn blue/gray due to homeopathic colloidal silver treatment...
Dumb people playing with dumb stuff often ends badly.
Colloidal silver treatment is not homeopathy, it's not even vaguely like homeopathy. Both are snake oil, but they're very different brands of it.
It crops up several times in his work but I suspect you're thinking of The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
I thought the idea was to give Mittens the reigns, let the corporations have 100% control of our country (vs the current insulting 98%), and hope for some trickle down?
Am I the only one who thought I was on the Eve Online forums for a minute there?
Ein volk, ein Reich, ein Euro.
Not sure if you're trolling or indeed buy that "piracy=theft" argument. Let me explain it to you again: for theft to happen, the original owner would need to be deprived of the object stolen.
Wrong. Period.
For theft to have happened, the owner would have to be deprived of the value of the object stolen.
You are wrong I'm afraid, the definition of theft refers only to depriving someone of their property not any value that property might have. If I plant Leylandii in my garden I might deprive you of thousands of pounds of value from your house in lost value because of my hedge but I am not guilty of theft.
This is the definition of theft in the UK, the US definition I believe is pretty much identical..
A person is guilty of theft if he dishonestly appropriates property belonging to another with the intention of permanently depriving the other of it
You wont have to burn the place down if you dont mess up any mundane details.
Mundane details like the fact that banks have extreme levels of protection regarding things like this?
On a CLI you are actually issuing instructions (hence the words Commands in CLI) to the OS commanding it to do something. In a Google search box you are typing terms or key phrases to be used as parameters of a search.
site:en.wikipedia.org churchill -insurance ~sand gives Churchill's "We shall fight them on the beaches" speech as the fourth result, without the "~sand" it's on page five, the article doesn't even contain the word sand but the ~ tells Google to look a synonyms and I guess beach is in there for sand. It also ignores anything related to insurance as there's a major insurance company in the UK called Churchill.
The Google search interface is a command line interface, it's an interface into which you type command lines. Most of them are pretty simple, but the option for complex search commands is there should you need it.
Being a CLI is not restricted to OS shells, or are you claiming that using nslookup in interactive mode is also not a CLI?
ACH transfer at three-plus
Still? You guys want to have a word with your banks about that, we got rid of that particular unnecessary delay four years ago and transfers are now more or less instant in the UK.
Mono, that's a blast from the past! About 1993 for me in fact, one of the few cool things accessible with VMS PAD. Wonder if my old account is still on there...
Being an American corporation, aren't Oracle legally bound to making as much money as possible?
They're legally bound to run the business in line with the articles of association.
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The it security team trumps the it sysadmin team.
The "IT Security Team" is often just a group of auditors whom look at high-level stuff.
If they need a new system maintained, IT will know about it.
This AC works in HR IT. HR doesn't do shit without IT advising.
I work for a major financial institution, I don't know about the AC but I can tell you categorically that IT security trumps sysadmin and are most definitely not just a bunch of auditors. We have auditors as well, but IT security also installs and maintains the security infrastructure.
They're not Buffs, they're BUFs. BUF is an acronym for Big Ugly Fucker.
They're BUFFs, which is an acronym for Big Ugly Fat Fucker.
I didn't even know it was legal to get a license in most countries here without learning to drive stick shift?
Certainly in the UK if you learn in an automatic you can get a licence but you will be restricted to driving cars with automatic gearboxes only. In the UK manual gearboxes very definitely dominate the market, looking at the second hand cars listed on AutoTrader there are 267,843 manuals and only 89,965 automatics.
The hard fact remains thqt the brakes should be designed to overpower a full-on accelerator.
They are.
supplies?
Would that be fries, cheese and monkeys?
I've said this before on Slashdot but these comments piss me off. The French were instrumental in helping you kick our arses and becoming independent, show them some respect or give them the Statue of Liberty back.
The difference between America and England is, the Americans think 100 years is a long time and the English think 100
miles (160.93 Km) is a long distance.
Not sure who originally said it but it seemed relevent.
Whoever it was I'd say had it spot on.
150 year old castle
This is probably very British of me but my immediate internal response to this was "150 year old castles? Leeds has a shopping centre that's over 100 years old!"
I did quite like your post though :)
What exactly is Orking a Cow?
I think he's a denizen of the monastery, generally best not to poke them as they tend to bite (or weep uncontrollably depending on their stage of recovery).
Shouldn't that be 2nd party or are you insuring collateral damage to bystanders? Maybe it's just a UK thing.
You are insuring collateral damage to bystanders however that's by the by, the first and second parties to the insurance are you and your insurer while the third party is the car you ran into.
I've also over the years seen any number of estimates that around 50% of backup tapes aren't usable when they're needed. I've often been suspicious that there may be large error bars around that number, but so far I haven't seen any evidence on the topic.
When I was involved in backups once a month we started logging a job to restore a random folder and its contents for each server with a tape backup, initial success rate was under 50% but identified devices needing attention and media that needed replacing. Four months in we were on 90%+, thus we learned the lesson all backup admins learn eventually: Regular restores are as much a part of your backup routine as the backup job itself.
If I need to pay somebody who isn't on paypal etc., I can go onto my credit union website and have them cut a check and send it to the payee. No charge.
I log into my online banking website and send them the money straight from my bank account to theirs, with the Faster Payments service the UK uses it's more or less instant even between competing banks.
I'm in Canada and self-employed. Most weeks I deposit some cheques into my credit union.
Also all the credit unions, at least in BC, have banded together for purposes like sharing ATM machines which means I can deposit cheques in any credit union ATM or withdraw money without fees.
In the UK cheques for non-business use are almost extinct, the cheque guarantee scheme ended earlier this year pretty much killing off any remaining private cheque usage and many places won't even accept business cheques.