Some people call me a freak, but I've got a packet of those wet towels in my man-bag or laptop bag. If I'm on the road and I've had a meetup, I can just wipe my hands before eating a sandwich or what have you.
The actual point is to avoid XML for anything on the device. It is not that you can build libxml or axl or whatever on an ARM processor.
Avoiding XML for anything sounds a bit dogmatic. Often, XML comes in a very simple form, without all the bells and whistles that XML supports (namespaces, DTDs, schema's or support for doing transformations). In such cases there is no need to use a library that supports all that jazz. I've seen a codebase for an iPhone project, which runs on a 400 MHz processor, and it used TinyXML for all XML processing.
As an addendum: wash your hands after using other peoples keyboards. I keep mine clean with a bunch of those keyboard wipes but the keyboards of my colleagues look like a petri-dish for easily-bored microbes.
Insurance costs are always looked on as low giving the short term cost but never the accumulated costs.
While totally agreeing with you, I'd like to add that you can buy insurances with a one-time fee. For example, there is a company that insures iPhones, with a one-time fee of $96 for an 8GB iPhone.
Also many people forget that coal and oil ARE solar power - it's the sunlight that fell on our planet ~300 million years ago, and now exists in condensed form.
While interesting, this is completely and utterly unrelated to the discussion. Why is this relevant?
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I know I am not alone in deploring the puerile comments and immature attitudes of male programmers.
In every computing workplace where I have worked, men have behaved like sex-crazed animals and women have *never* felt comfortable working topless.
I'm male and I have the same issues. I best code pantless, but the team of female kernel hackers down the hall will harass me to no end when all I want is to fetch a cup of coffee and finish this damn script.
Hi Boss -- I'm the guy that switched our email service to Google. See, it only costs us $50/year/user and this has been the first outage in over year...
Well, actually they had an outage in Feb of this year. And in May. But they are awesome generally, I think their uptime over the past couple years has been beyond 99.99% or something crazy good. -Taylor
Could you two just, like, wrap it up and continue in the office?
He used the Hunter S. Thompson method, large caliber to the head approach. In case anyone is considering it, firearms are *not* 100% guaranteed. High probability, yes. Guaranteed, no.
The Internet facilitates easy plagiarism. I assume papers for sale on the 'net generally have good grammar. Is it possible an increase in Internet plagiarism caused the increase in literary quality?
The Internet facilitates easy plagiarism. I assume papers for sale on the 'net generally have good grammar. Is it possible an increase in Internet plagiarism caused the increase in literary quality?
ionice is a great feature, however I've never understood why you need to be root to "be ionice to other users". With nice, you can always do 'nice -n 19 mycommand' to indicate that your command needs but the lowest of priorities. With ionice, you cannot do that as a user.
Amazon deletes legitimate unfavorable reviews. Why would you think they would care about the honesty of reviews? All they care about is sales. Fake positives are probably just fine with them.
I've had this happen with my reviews on a European book site called bol.com. Since then I write reviews according to the sandwich technique:
Start with something positive
Do mention the negative
End with something positive
Of course, for some products, I really have to search for something positive, but it's the only way to get your review to appear.
Man, the NewPR is great, iddn't it? It isn't utter crap like those other PR sites.
Yes, NewPR is pretty good. These guys just swooped down and grabbed the market right there with a real good business plan and left the others in the dust. They (NewPR) plan to make an end to astroturfing and they're doing really well currently. The other day, just some guy I met at a industry event claimed NewPR had helped them meet their PR targets on time, and within budget.
And all without astroturfing. NewPR. Remember that name.
There's a simple do-it-yourself solution for almost any modern phone that uses WiFi when available. Most slashdotters here probably can set up a POP or IMAP server so what you can do, is configure the phone to retrieve the mail from a dummy account on the POP3/IMAP server and at least you'll have an IP address when the thief walks into WiFi range.
Of course, having an IP address is hardly any use. However, most of the solutions offered by companies are hardly any use so you might as well save money and do it yourself.
But, for maximum speed and efficiency, I would back up your user data and apps, and do a clean install. Snow Leopard is very lean and mean, and I noticed considerably more Snappiness on machines where I clean-installed and manually migrated my data.
I find this very strange. I thought the whole point of buying an Apple was to reduce the time spent on mucking about with the PC?
So you're saying that I should spend a day working, then waste a whole evening doing a reinstall and reconfiguration of my Apple, plus another hour or two next morning copying my data, installing Photoshop, XCode, a decent browser, office suite et cetera?
It's like Windows all over again.
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The success of this hack is predicated on the notion that they are watching with baited anticipation, ready to spring into action the exact moment you sign into your online bank. The chance of this actually occurring is highly remote, to say the least.
(Emphasis mine).
Well, if a background process would be waiting with baited anticipation, and would create a valid login and then sit back, the hacker would have 20 minutes (or whatever the server-side determined session timeout) to get to his terminal and use the open, authenticated session.
Where I think this totally fails, is that my bank uses two-factor authentication for logging in as well as for doing an actual transfer. This is where the hack fails for such systems: it depends on letting the user create a session but the user itself will need to validate the transfers.
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Some people call me a freak, but I've got a packet of those wet towels in my man-bag or laptop bag. If I'm on the road and I've had a meetup, I can just wipe my hands before eating a sandwich or what have you.
Oh and I'm worth $31 online if anyone wants to buy me ;o)
You'd better be a damned good looking female, I never paid more than $30 and she had to be pretty hot for that kind of money ;)
Well looking at the smiley, she has a hole instead of a nose. I cannot decide for you whether that's worth more than $30.
I stand corrected!
Also, your suberb nesting of braces, quotes and square brackets makes me quite horny.
"its", not "it's"
It's [it's "its", it's not "it's"], it's not ["its", not "it's"].
You work in marketing, don't you?
No, I don't think so, because then he'd talk about the fact that the Zii can be fitted nasally.
pretty much all of its peers have had for years to the Nano (aside from the video camera, which seems interestingly pointless)
Why? I think it's a cool feature if it's a good video camera.
The actual point is to avoid XML for anything on the device. It is not that you can build libxml or axl or whatever on an ARM processor.
Avoiding XML for anything sounds a bit dogmatic. Often, XML comes in a very simple form, without all the bells and whistles that XML supports (namespaces, DTDs, schema's or support for doing transformations). In such cases there is no need to use a library that supports all that jazz. I've seen a codebase for an iPhone project, which runs on a 400 MHz processor, and it used TinyXML for all XML processing.
As an addendum: wash your hands after using other peoples keyboards. I keep mine clean with a bunch of those keyboard wipes but the keyboards of my colleagues look like a petri-dish for easily-bored microbes.
do a million other things that she'll have to bite her lip on and just deal with.
Um -- no. I think she'll just not worry and drink and dance and screw, and daddy will have to bite his lip :D
Low cost?
Low cost per month but how many months?
Insurance costs are always looked on as low giving the short term cost but never the accumulated costs.
While totally agreeing with you, I'd like to add that you can buy insurances with a one-time fee. For example, there is a company that insures iPhones, with a one-time fee of $96 for an 8GB iPhone.
Also many people forget that coal and oil ARE solar power - it's the sunlight that fell on our planet ~300 million years ago, and now exists in condensed form.
While interesting, this is completely and utterly unrelated to the discussion. Why is this relevant?
I know I am not alone in deploring the puerile comments and immature attitudes of male programmers.
In every computing workplace where I have worked, men have behaved like sex-crazed animals and women have *never* felt comfortable working topless.
I'm male and I have the same issues. I best code pantless, but the team of female kernel hackers down the hall will harass me to no end when all I want is to fetch a cup of coffee and finish this damn script.
Hi Boss -- I'm the guy that switched our email service to Google. See, it only costs us $50/year/user and this has been the first outage in over year...
Well, actually they had an outage in Feb of this year. And in May. But they are awesome generally, I think their uptime over the past couple years has been beyond 99.99% or something crazy good.
-Taylor
Could you two just, like, wrap it up and continue in the office?
He used the Hunter S. Thompson method, large caliber to the head approach. In case anyone is considering it, firearms are *not* 100% guaranteed. High probability, yes. Guaranteed, no.
As with all things, practice makes perfect.
anything else you need to tell us?
Yes.
Do not taunt happy iPod
The Internet facilitates easy plagiarism. I assume papers for sale on the 'net generally have good grammar. Is it possible an increase in Internet plagiarism caused the increase in literary quality?
The Internet facilitates easy plagiarism. I assume papers for sale on the 'net generally have good grammar. Is it possible an increase in Internet plagiarism caused the increase in literary quality?
ionice is a great feature, however I've never understood why you need to be root to "be ionice to other users". With nice, you can always do 'nice -n 19 mycommand' to indicate that your command needs but the lowest of priorities. With ionice, you cannot do that as a user.
Amazon deletes legitimate unfavorable reviews. Why would you think they would care about the honesty of reviews? All they care about is sales. Fake positives are probably just fine with them.
I've had this happen with my reviews on a European book site called bol.com. Since then I write reviews according to the sandwich technique:
Of course, for some products, I really have to search for something positive, but it's the only way to get your review to appear.
Should I cancel my Zubaz pants as well?
Yes. In fact, you should cancel all your pants.
There is a movement in the PR Industry to end astroturfing.
Man, the NewPR is great, iddn't it? It isn't utter crap like those other PR sites.
Yes, NewPR is pretty good. These guys just swooped down and grabbed the market right there with a real good business plan and left the others in the dust. They (NewPR) plan to make an end to astroturfing and they're doing really well currently. The other day, just some guy I met at a industry event claimed NewPR had helped them meet their PR targets on time, and within budget.
And all without astroturfing. NewPR. Remember that name.
There's a simple do-it-yourself solution for almost any modern phone that uses WiFi when available. Most slashdotters here probably can set up a POP or IMAP server so what you can do, is configure the phone to retrieve the mail from a dummy account on the POP3/IMAP server and at least you'll have an IP address when the thief walks into WiFi range.
Of course, having an IP address is hardly any use. However, most of the solutions offered by companies are hardly any use so you might as well save money and do it yourself.
The fundamental aspect of the Wikipedia concept was the fact that there wasn't a bureaucratic layer between your information and the world.
Grow a pair, Mr Wales.
Well he's going to need more than an extra pair of eyes to look at all the flags now!
But, for maximum speed and efficiency, I would back up your user data and apps, and do a clean install. Snow Leopard is very lean and mean, and I noticed considerably more Snappiness on machines where I clean-installed and manually migrated my data.
I find this very strange. I thought the whole point of buying an Apple was to reduce the time spent on mucking about with the PC?
So you're saying that I should spend a day working, then waste a whole evening doing a reinstall and reconfiguration of my Apple, plus another hour or two next morning copying my data, installing Photoshop, XCode, a decent browser, office suite et cetera?
It's like Windows all over again.
The success of this hack is predicated on the notion that they are watching with baited anticipation, ready to spring into action the exact moment you sign into your online bank. The chance of this actually occurring is highly remote, to say the least.
(Emphasis mine).
Well, if a background process would be waiting with baited anticipation, and would create a valid login and then sit back, the hacker would have 20 minutes (or whatever the server-side determined session timeout) to get to his terminal and use the open, authenticated session.
Where I think this totally fails, is that my bank uses two-factor authentication for logging in as well as for doing an actual transfer. This is where the hack fails for such systems: it depends on letting the user create a session but the user itself will need to validate the transfers.
Harry Potter and the Windows 2008 Administrator?
Considering the number of magical incantations you need to manage Windows, maybe not such a bad idea ...
If that was possible, I'd come into the server room and cast Avada Kedavra on the whole bunch of rack-mounted fuckers.