Q. Your the captain of a ship commanding 100 sailors. Your carrying valuable cargo you need to sell for the owner of the ship. It appears there is a hole in your ship and water is coming in fast. What's do you do?
A. Find out what's wrong and fix it B. Tell the sailors to start bailing water and sing something happy while they do it C. Start looking around for at the other ships pilot since this once hasn't got long D. Move the Cargo to your personal dingy and set sail E. Tell everyone "This is not happening, everything is normal, the ship cannot be sinking, we take precautions, you know" and remain calm. (Erik the Viking) F. Start throwing sailors into the sea until to lighten the load?
Star Command has taken all the old CD's leaving us with this Aluminum technology. All so they can make wings for their Space Ranger suits of that terillium-carbonic alloy.
Then you'll have to do Windows Update at least weekly. Longhorn is expected to move anti-virus, media player, internet explorer and who knows what else to the operating system. That's a lot of application space stuff in there.
Then add DirectX, XBOX style DRM plus checksums stuff, dotnet run times, and maybe even some MSDE type database to keep track of everything. INI files will probably all be replaced by XML.
Don't forget the "checkpoint backups" of all those files from the last time it worked.
MS Office 2006 will no doubt dump a ton of files in the Windows directory as well. Almost every program I install from Microsoft increases the size of the Windows installation.
Microsoft insisting every program they make must integrate with the core OS is bullshit.
A method and system are provided for extending the functionality of application buttons on a limited resource computing device. Alternative application functions are launched based on the length of time an application button is pressed. A default function for an application is launched if the button is pressed for a short, i.e., normal, period of time. An alternative function of the application is launched if the button is pressed for a long, (e.g., at least one second), period of time. Still another function can be launched if the application button is pressed multiple times within a short period of time, e.g., double click.
What about the whole apple macintosh computer system? A computer with one mouse button. There were so many things that were done by holding the mouse down instead of clicking. And double clicking? That's older then Windows.
I wonder how many of the junk patents that have been approved lately were done by the same people. It would be nice to have a better feedback system for Patent Examiners then expensive lawsuits.
I remember a project where hardware engineers setup a cpu to modify itself until it learned to do a task by itself. It got to the point where the hardware was doing the right thing, but not because the hardware was reconfigured properly, but because the software was using minute naunances in the electricity flowing through to get the job done. Even the hardware designers had no idea how it could possible be working
Then they let it take control of planes and stuff and eventually it woke up and tried to take over the world and kill everyone and even figured out time travel. It even made several clones of the Governor of California. People saw this as a bad thing, but in the end it was also able to create hyperflexible super hot women. People eventually destroyed it in their ignorance, but that was wrong. They were destroying a tool because of how it was improperly used in the past - instead of mass producing indestructable female love bots.
That was a confusing post. Here are the acronyms in the order they were presented. Now if someone would just say what they mean in this context. I found several possibilities for some of them.
You fool. How do you think the terrorists get into the country? With airlines turning over all their customer data to the FBI the only anonymous way in is by sea. Obviously this was a raid to access the pirates customer database that must have been secretly hidden in a public school in Arizona. Damn sneaky if you ask me.
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Managerial Aptitude Test
Q. Your the captain of a ship commanding 100 sailors. Your carrying valuable cargo you need to sell for the owner of the ship. It appears there is a hole in your ship and water is coming in fast. What's do you do?
A. Find out what's wrong and fix it
B. Tell the sailors to start bailing water and sing something happy while they do it
C. Start looking around for at the other ships pilot since this once hasn't got long
D. Move the Cargo to your personal dingy and set sail
E. Tell everyone "This is not happening, everything is normal, the ship cannot be sinking, we take precautions, you know" and remain calm. (Erik the Viking)
F. Start throwing sailors into the sea until to lighten the load?
Interesting. How much time do you spend on /. while "at work" each day? :o)
Star Command has taken all the old CD's leaving us with this Aluminum technology. All so they can make wings for their Space Ranger suits of that terillium-carbonic alloy.
http://slashdot.org/articles/03/08/24/1253248.shtm l?tid=126&tid=137&tid=198
h tm l?tid=137&tid=198
http://slashdot.org/articles/04/04/22/1658251.s
It's good to know these things eventually filter down to CNN.
All future patches will be extremely virulent, autonomous self-installing patches. All future worms will have to be encrypted and signed by Microsoft.
Remember to check the box - "Always trust content from Microsoft!"
This will help. Just enter your location and type library. It should take much less then 5 minutes to find the number.
http://local.google.com/lochp
Don't install MoIP without a firewall. The latest Windows Worm took my whole computer. Only the wire is left.
Finally a use for Internet2.
Oh Come on, at least I didnt say "Imagine a beowolf cluster of these"
Perhaps you mean out loud? And don't think of Blue Elephants either.. crap.
That's the size of the install.
Then you'll have to do Windows Update at least weekly. Longhorn is expected to move anti-virus, media player, internet explorer and who knows what else to the operating system. That's a lot of application space stuff in there.
Then add DirectX, XBOX style DRM plus checksums stuff, dotnet run times, and maybe even some MSDE type database to keep track of everything. INI files will probably all be replaced by XML.
Don't forget the "checkpoint backups" of all those files from the last time it worked.
MS Office 2006 will no doubt dump a ton of files in the Windows directory as well. Almost every program I install from Microsoft increases the size of the Windows installation.
Microsoft insisting every program they make must integrate with the core OS is bullshit.
My HP Pavilion computer shipped with Python built in. It was in a hidden directory, but it's in the path.
Jeb is the Younger one.
Mine is almost 80 years old and it does that and it's pressure sensitive too. Still it could use a tune up.
What about the whole apple macintosh computer system? A computer with one mouse button. There were so many things that were done by holding the mouse down instead of clicking. And double clicking? That's older then Windows.
I wonder how many of the junk patents that have been approved lately were done by the same people. It would be nice to have a better feedback system for Patent Examiners then expensive lawsuits.
Mod this one -1 obvious.
People come in for the internet, but stay for the books. ;)
Once they get used to coming in, they can borrow movies, books, software, even artwork at some libraries.
http://sourceforge.net/people/
Check it out, find a project. Show your skills, make a name for yourself.
I remember a project where hardware engineers setup a cpu to modify itself until it learned to do a task by itself. It got to the point where the hardware was doing the right thing, but not because the hardware was reconfigured properly, but because the software was using minute naunances in the electricity flowing through to get the job done. Even the hardware designers had no idea how it could possible be working
Then they let it take control of planes and stuff and eventually it woke up and tried to take over the world and kill everyone and even figured out time travel. It even made several clones of the Governor of California. People saw this as a bad thing, but in the end it was also able to create hyperflexible super hot women. People eventually destroyed it in their ignorance, but that was wrong. They were destroying a tool because of how it was improperly used in the past - instead of mass producing indestructable female love bots.
I would love to hear one of those 30 second commercials with kids asking questions...
Why do the artists only so get 10 or 12% percent of the money made on works they create?
Why don't artists just distribute the music themselves online?
Why don't radio stations play more variety so more artists can be heard?
How can a song be stolen when you've still got your copy?
Why haven't prices gone done now that CD's cost so little to create?
Personally I just use P2P for my off site backups. CD's scratch too easy.
DIE
They revamped the whole protocol but Ratios weren't mentioned even once. Are they sure this is for IRC?
That was a confusing post. Here are the acronyms in the order they were presented. Now if someone would just say what they mean in this context. I found several possibilities for some of them.
;)
RBOC: Regional Bell Operating Company
ILEC: Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers
FCC: Federal Communications Commission
UNEP: United Nations Environment Programme??
DSL: Digital Subscriber Line
PSC: ??
VoIP: Voice of IP - Internet Phone calls
VON: Voice Over Net coallition
PSD: ??
POV: Point of View
Hopefully someone can tell me if I've got those terms right and what the missing ones stand for. If not I guess I'm SOL.
Pass, Too Easy.
This article mentioned This Press Release which said that the E-Reader would be available in April. The press release has pictures of the device.
but my squirrel rocket belt still holds the real record. The trick is finding a good squirrel. Most can't steer for shit.
You fool. How do you think the terrorists get into the country? With airlines turning over all their customer data to the FBI the only anonymous way in is by sea. Obviously this was a raid to access the pirates customer database that must have been secretly hidden in a public school in Arizona. Damn sneaky if you ask me.
Damn. So much for the "In Soviet Russia..." jokes.