Well, your bug is my feature. I'm glad that they don't keep that whole stuff page in memory. Some pages including styles can get up to half a megabyte. I could call you an idiot as well.
I'd be more productive without the demon-ridden telephone, as it would be harder for people to interrupt me.
For a few days, write down who's calling you. Is it coworkers/managers/etc? Then tell your manager about it. If it's clients? Well, then that can hardly count as being interrupted.
What is this straw man argument? He's not saying that people should account for everything, just to try to be on time. This is slashdot, it's better to not use logical fallacies;-)
Use of cute, short variable names like $a and $b (*really* bad ideas since they are reserved in the language).
Hi Chris, can you explain this to me? I'm a Perl coder myself, but I use $i/$j for iteration and $x/$y for graph points all the time. I don't see how these are reserved in Perl?
OK, but then they would assume they'd get away with anything. Also, your premise that management 'just passes on the cost' is true, but there are other factors involved. This costs money and while not significantly, cuts into the company fund set aside for these matters. If this happens too much, that fund will be higher than that of MS its competitors, which will be noted by analysts. I think it's still worth it.
I'm just saying it's bloody 8 times as expensive. And I wondered what aspect of that Apple laptop is eight times better than the admittedly cheap-ass Dell. That aspect will differ between persons, but it's difficult for me to see what he's doing on that laptop that makes a difference.
2800 for an Apple laptop? A plain Dell Vostro laptop costs 329 euros, also exluding VAT. Now that means you can buy eight (count 'em) Dells for your Apple laptop. But what makes this (admitted) beauty so special for you?
Look, nothing has been proven about this and I will keep on fighting all allegations aiming to paint me black!!
*pauses*
Oh, right, you were just giving an example.
*sulks off*
Lots of answers say that it's the amount of data that's taking so much time. I think it's half of the truth. The other half is the fact that data is often collected from multiple sources (say, multiple satellites) and when analyzed together, some things become clear. I know for a fact that SCIAMACHY has only half of its infrared sensor working, however it's still useful combined with other sources. Yes, I do work in the space research industry.
I totally agree with you. Except here is a guy who _likes_ having lots of different stuff on his plate. He might be bored if he doesn't get a todo list that contains more than enough items.
I've had to explain why it isn't to so many clients I finally just wrote a white paper on the subject so when it comes up again I can just print it out and hand it to them
Be careful not to become a naysayer. Just say: "Indeed, a good software developer can create a translation utility in oh, only a week or two".
What you call bullshit probably has caught on as a solution by other more intelligent people. The fact that a solution to a feeling of insecurity is sold, doesn't make them evil in my book.
(...) But, yet again we have demonstrated that it's very difficult to effectively transmit sarcasm over the internet. -- Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
WTF man!! You mistreat animals and DARE to put it in your signature?!! You are SO lame!!!?!
It's totally possible. One of those FON WiFi routers (google it) will publish two SSIDs. Each has different settings. They sell them at cost and they're meant to have the public SSID be shared with other FON users, but they also have a feature where you can generate passwords for friends/family.
Eh? YOUR GROUP make the rules. If your group decides that you use the four books and a module, and nothing more, well -- that's exactly what you're using.
Oh I see, you're the only one in your group that wants it that way. And now you're asking WotC to go back to the olden days.
Funny, your subconscious reveals what's really happening here. Negroponte is actually a 12th level necromancer with very high Charisma (16). Through a convoluted scheme of distributing laptops to poor children, he's raising his undead army.
There's probably a Perl script out there which will "rotate" the Windows Workgroup name (or whatever it's called) in order to confer more information to your sysadmins. It could be like:
There are differences between old school consolidation and vitualization. With the last, you remove shared components (which you imply are added). The OS environment also stays simpler and thus easier.
Furthermore you say that SLAs will be tied together. You mean by the hardware? Because I think only a small percentage of logged tickets deal with hardware.
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Save Slashdot's frontpage in Mozilla as 'complete webpage'. Remove all images. What's left is source. It's slightly more than 500 KB.
Well, your bug is my feature. I'm glad that they don't keep that whole stuff page in memory. Some pages including styles can get up to half a megabyte. I could call you an idiot as well.
What is this straw man argument? He's not saying that people should account for everything, just to try to be on time. This is slashdot, it's better to not use logical fallacies ;-)
OK, but then they would assume they'd get away with anything. Also, your premise that management 'just passes on the cost' is true, but there are other factors involved. This costs money and while not significantly, cuts into the company fund set aside for these matters. If this happens too much, that fund will be higher than that of MS its competitors, which will be noted by analysts. I think it's still worth it.
I'm just saying it's bloody 8 times as expensive. And I wondered what aspect of that Apple laptop is eight times better than the admittedly cheap-ass Dell. That aspect will differ between persons, but it's difficult for me to see what he's doing on that laptop that makes a difference.
2800 for an Apple laptop? A plain Dell Vostro laptop costs 329 euros, also exluding VAT. Now that means you can buy eight (count 'em) Dells for your Apple laptop. But what makes this (admitted) beauty so special for you?
When it's important information (such as the usage of medicines), people know that they aren't informed so they find someone who is (the GP).
You're modded funny, but when a new Dell Vostro costs $299 and the machine is more than 2 years old, then it might be worth it.
*pauses*
Oh, right, you were just giving an example.
*sulks off*
Lots of answers say that it's the amount of data that's taking so much time. I think it's half of the truth. The other half is the fact that data is often collected from multiple sources (say, multiple satellites) and when analyzed together, some things become clear. I know for a fact that SCIAMACHY has only half of its infrared sensor working, however it's still useful combined with other sources. Yes, I do work in the space research industry.
I totally agree with you. Except here is a guy who _likes_ having lots of different stuff on his plate. He might be bored if he doesn't get a todo list that contains more than enough items.
What you call bullshit probably has caught on as a solution by other more intelligent people. The fact that a solution to a feeling of insecurity is sold, doesn't make them evil in my book.
It's totally possible. One of those FON WiFi routers (google it) will publish two SSIDs. Each has different settings. They sell them at cost and they're meant to have the public SSID be shared with other FON users, but they also have a feature where you can generate passwords for friends/family.
Eh? YOUR GROUP make the rules. If your group decides that you use the four books and a module, and nothing more, well -- that's exactly what you're using.
Oh I see, you're the only one in your group that wants it that way. And now you're asking WotC to go back to the olden days.
There are differences between old school consolidation and vitualization. With the last, you remove shared components (which you imply are added). The OS environment also stays simpler and thus easier.
Furthermore you say that SLAs will be tied together. You mean by the hardware? Because I think only a small percentage of logged tickets deal with hardware.
Oh wait -- testing the UI. On users. I see.