There actually was such a vehicle developed by the military in the 50s, designed to haul troops around Alaska. Each vehicle had huge tires, and the whole thing would just crawl around on the snow.
And is everyone here is just assuming that information is authentic? That could just be some poor random schmuck whose name got used by someone else (identity theft happens), so let's not start any DDOS or Phone tree attacks on the guy. Or for the more dense:
Ditto. I've blocked friends-of-friends who have gotten my address somehow-they go right into the spam folder. Usually, being polite helps-I kindly tell people that I've probably seen everything they think is "funny", that I probably saw it for the first time in 1994 when they didn't even know the Internet existed, and that I didn't mind them sending me stuff as long as it was truly original, new, or funny. And I still get the odd funny e-mail I haven't seen, but most of my friends just learned to leave me alone.
One interesting way to get the goat of someone who's sending obnoxious e-mails is to calmly send them an e-mail containing their IP address, their e-mail client, the list of servers their e-mail passed through, and their operating system type. For some reason, that usually scares them away;)
I believe the non-acronym term would be "free bandwidth and nethwork configuration test." How many badly-configured Apache setups have been discovered in the wake of a good slashdotting?
Well, from what I see Microsoft has abandoned some of its posturing where Passport is concerned. There just isn't enough widespread acceptance to make it stick, like there has been for PayPal. I'm not saying that won't change, but for the moment at least Passport is simply a vehicle to let people log into Hotmail.
Alright, I was being too obtuse. The quotation marks were supposed to do it, but they didn't:(
The point is that he was doing his job. The irony is that he did a good job, but even if he had done a bad job he would have gotten fired. And I think I need to re-take English lessons, I've had a bad time trying to get my point across in todays posts;)
Actually, OO.o has the lightbulb, which I find just as annoying as Clippy (why does the lightbulb show up every single time I save a file?). And I disabled it too:)
And I think you need to lighten up-I was making a rimshot, I didn't say Office was bad because early versions of Clippy were annoying. I have a legal copy of Office XP installed, and while I use OO.o for text documents and as an office suite for my Linux box, I use Office for spreadsheets and databases because I like it better.
I think the point of this article is not:
a) to provide geeks with another idol to fawn over
b) to provide geeks with another anti-christ to hate
I think the point is that this guy did what his employers paid him for, did a good job, raked in money for his employers, and then...
got fired?
Yeah, I don't like region encoding or CSS all that much (especially region encoding, which just makes it harder to appreciate hard-to-find titles like foreign films), but chances are these were requirements this guy was given, and he implemented them because that was what his employer wanted. And that doesn't make him a tool, it makes him "employed".
Are you *really* sure? Because not every program thinks like a human. Chances are the filter doesn't take origin into account, and that the problems occur because features like that haven't been coded into GMail (which is still beta, so it isn't complete and it's a little early to start questioning the performance of its spam filter).
But to actually attempt seriousness, there is the annoying Office Assistant in the "Search for files" dialog (you know, the puppy). The first things I did after installing XP were to activate the firewall, and de-activate that puppy...
Actually, I'd bet that stores with this policy are partnered with a bank, which has an account for each customer, making it easier to keep track of things.
If it's redeemed at a store, all you need to find state of residence is a flash of that person's drivers licence. The gift certificates I'm thinking of were usable online only, so the mailing address was assumed to be in your state of residence.
A friend of mine has gotten around the taxes his state puts on certain internet sales by sending his purchases to a relative in Arizona, which he visits every few weeks or so anyway. Sort of an interesting way to beat that system...
Well, some of the gift certificates I've recieved have said "This card expires on xx/xx/xx unless the recipient is in (X state) in which case there is no expiratiuon date".
As for gift cards, I know some of the ones I've gotten have an "expiration date" where, after a certain time period, the card begins to depreciate in value. Always thought that one was wierd.
Believe it or not, I've seen people do precisely that all the time. People have to really hunt to find launch sites around here (San Diego), and it's gotten worse since the fires (which is completely understandable). So every once in a while, you see somebody shoot a rocket up and then leave. They don't even collect the things
What I've always done is launch my rockets out in the desert (BLM property, which is state-owned and open to everyone for anything). I have a handy dry-lake launch site where there isn't anything flammable, or any people either for that matter.
I know that we had a bit of a snafu in the local computer science departments, since around 1997-1998 there was a sudden demand for COBOL programmers, but COBOL had been dropped from local curricula years ago;)
My dad works at a nuclear power plant, where prior to Y2K a lot of semi-critical work was still being performed by IBM PC (Intel 8086) machines. The things never did die, but some of them had to be replaced and new software had to be written, and quite a few programmers made it across the new year with crossed fingers and bated breath (my dad was at the power plant with all of the other nervous wrecks; very few people got to celebrate that new year)
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There actually was such a vehicle developed by the military in the 50s, designed to haul troops around Alaska. Each vehicle had huge tires, and the whole thing would just crawl around on the snow.
Actually, my first thoughts were about a particular search engine...
Someone tell the guys at Google it isn't funny anymore!
Ditto. I've blocked friends-of-friends who have gotten my address somehow-they go right into the spam folder. Usually, being polite helps-I kindly tell people that I've probably seen everything they think is "funny", that I probably saw it for the first time in 1994 when they didn't even know the Internet existed, and that I didn't mind them sending me stuff as long as it was truly original, new, or funny. And I still get the odd funny e-mail I haven't seen, but most of my friends just learned to leave me alone.
One interesting way to get the goat of someone who's sending obnoxious e-mails is to calmly send them an e-mail containing their IP address, their e-mail client, the list of servers their e-mail passed through, and their operating system type. For some reason, that usually scares them away;)
I believe the non-acronym term would be "free bandwidth and nethwork configuration test." How many badly-configured Apache setups have been discovered in the wake of a good slashdotting?
Well, from what I see Microsoft has abandoned some of its posturing where Passport is concerned. There just isn't enough widespread acceptance to make it stick, like there has been for PayPal. I'm not saying that won't change, but for the moment at least Passport is simply a vehicle to let people log into Hotmail.
Actually, the lyrics for the Cardigans song go:
Erase and rewind
'Cause I've been changing my mind
Erase and rewind
'Cause I've been changing my mind
I've changed my mind
Although the context is still completely appropriate.
Alright, I was being too obtuse. The quotation marks were supposed to do it, but they didn't :(
;)
The point is that he was doing his job. The irony is that he did a good job, but even if he had done a bad job he would have gotten fired. And I think I need to re-take English lessons, I've had a bad time trying to get my point across in todays posts
(pauses to put on asbestos underwear)
Actually, OO.o has the lightbulb, which I find just as annoying as Clippy (why does the lightbulb show up every single time I save a file?). And I disabled it too:)
And I think you need to lighten up-I was making a rimshot, I didn't say Office was bad because early versions of Clippy were annoying. I have a legal copy of Office XP installed, and while I use OO.o for text documents and as an office suite for my Linux box, I use Office for spreadsheets and databases because I like it better.
I think the point of this article is not:
a) to provide geeks with another idol to fawn over
b) to provide geeks with another anti-christ to hate
I think the point is that this guy did what his employers paid him for, did a good job, raked in money for his employers, and then... got fired?
Yeah, I don't like region encoding or CSS all that much (especially region encoding, which just makes it harder to appreciate hard-to-find titles like foreign films), but chances are these were requirements this guy was given, and he implemented them because that was what his employer wanted. And that doesn't make him a tool, it makes him "employed".
Are you *really* sure? Because not every program thinks like a human. Chances are the filter doesn't take origin into account, and that the problems occur because features like that haven't been coded into GMail (which is still beta, so it isn't complete and it's a little early to start questioning the performance of its spam filter).
Questions are, will this kluge work once GMail goes beyond beta, or will the underlying problem (i.e. too many false negatives) be fixed?
Well, I was trying to be flippant;)
But to actually attempt seriousness, there is the annoying Office Assistant in the "Search for files" dialog (you know, the puppy). The first things I did after installing XP were to activate the firewall, and de-activate that puppy...
provided Clippy is left out ;)
Actually, I'd bet that stores with this policy are partnered with a bank, which has an account for each customer, making it easier to keep track of things.
If it's redeemed at a store, all you need to find state of residence is a flash of that person's drivers licence. The gift certificates I'm thinking of were usable online only, so the mailing address was assumed to be in your state of residence.
A friend of mine has gotten around the taxes his state puts on certain internet sales by sending his purchases to a relative in Arizona, which he visits every few weeks or so anyway. Sort of an interesting way to beat that system...
Well, some of the gift certificates I've recieved have said "This card expires on xx/xx/xx unless the recipient is in (X state) in which case there is no expiratiuon date".
As for gift cards, I know some of the ones I've gotten have an "expiration date" where, after a certain time period, the card begins to depreciate in value. Always thought that one was wierd.
And you don't get that 32 MB flash drive, either.
Someone seems to be confusing the Beastie Boys with the Backstreet Boys...
Believe it or not, I've seen people do precisely that all the time. People have to really hunt to find launch sites around here (San Diego), and it's gotten worse since the fires (which is completely understandable). So every once in a while, you see somebody shoot a rocket up and then leave. They don't even collect the things
What I've always done is launch my rockets out in the desert (BLM property, which is state-owned and open to everyone for anything). I have a handy dry-lake launch site where there isn't anything flammable, or any people either for that matter.
I know that we had a bit of a snafu in the local computer science departments, since around 1997-1998 there was a sudden demand for COBOL programmers, but COBOL had been dropped from local curricula years ago;)
My dad works at a nuclear power plant, where prior to Y2K a lot of semi-critical work was still being performed by IBM PC (Intel 8086) machines. The things never did die, but some of them had to be replaced and new software had to be written, and quite a few programmers made it across the new year with crossed fingers and bated breath (my dad was at the power plant with all of the other nervous wrecks; very few people got to celebrate that new year)
I, for one, would like to see my home remain intact!