SS8 says their software is used by "some of the largest service providers in the world," so it may have been more surreptitiously pushed in phases by your own provider already.
"Please somebody help me, help me... help me somebody, please help me....Somebody's looking at me, somebody's watching me, help me... help me." -- Astronaut Mike Ferris, The Twilight Zone "Where Is Everybody?"
"A man was confined alone in a box for something in the neighborhood of four hundred and eighty-four hours. That's roughly equivalent to a trip to the moon, several orbits and return." -- Air Force General, The Twilight Zone "Where Is Everybody?"
no one at the time was having epoch rollover parties.
Well, it is implied at least one person was celebrating it: Mary.
Whether it was intended to commemorate birth or conception was not made clear when the calendar was established centuries after the fact, but most calculations compared to historical references have that it is wrong anyway, from either 6 years too early or 4 years too late.
The only reason there wasn't a year "0 A.D." is because the people who created the calendars back then weren't as smart as you are and didn't fully understand the concept of zero-offsets
Actually, retroactively re-dating the dates before AD 1 wasn't considered until the Anglo-Saxon historian the Venerable Bede, who was familiar with the work of Dionysius, used Anno Domini dating in his Ecclesiastical History of the English People, finished in 731. In this same history he also used another Latin term, "ante vero incarnationis dominicae tempus" ("the time before the Lord's true incarnation"), equivalent to the English "before Christ", to identify years before the first year of this era, thus establishing the standard of not using a year zero (i.e. ordinal, not cardinal numbers), even though his work did show that he did grasp the concept of zero.
Nor was it ever AD 1 in any sense other than retroactively. Wednesday, the 28th of August, Diocletian 247 was immediately followed by Thursday, the 1st of January, AD 532. (The Diocletian calendar started with August 29.)
Retroactively, 1 AD, the 1st of January was a Saturday, so the last day of BCE was a Friday. TGIF! (cal 1 1)
Determining what calendaring systems were observed contemporaneously with our CE 1/1/1 and the corresponding dates thereto is left as an exercise for archæochronologists.
stenography != steganography. The former is what the court reporter uses to record the proceedings when you get prosecuted for using the latter for illegal purposes.
BTW, in their attempt to properly index the whole Internet, is Google going to have legal trouble when these start showing up in Google Image Searches for "torrent"?
Snarky isn't a word (yet), it's just something made up by Americans. It's not in any print dictionaries. And generally the definition is not well understood, even dict.org doesn't have it. And askoxford and wikitionary have brief and unclear definitions. Also special punctuation for "added clarity", seems like an excuse for people who can't write with clarity. Use your words!
Marshal Biggs: This is hinky, this guy's a college graduate, he went to medical school, he's not gonna come through all the security, go to the county lockup, to find someone his own people say does not exist. Hinky. Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard: Well, what does that mean Biggs, "hinky"? Marshal Biggs: I don't know. Strange. Marshal Henry: Weird. Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard: Well, why don't you say strange or weird? I mean, "hinky", that has no meaning. Marshal Biggs: Well, we say "hinky". Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard: I don't want you guys using words around me that have no meaning. I'm taking the stairs and walking. Marshal Biggs: [sotto voice] How about "bullshit"? How about "bullshit", Sam?
Your point? There isn't anything wrong with COBOL for these kind of transactions.
Sure, so long as you never need to make any changes to the code. The surviving COBOL coders have gone back into comfortable retirement with the money they made fixing Y2K. So they've moved from old iron to a modern operating system; they could still reap even more benefits by recoding for modern languages and coding practices.
But then, this is the US Postal Service. COBOL's probably fast enough for the task.
I'm sure I could get a dramatic speed improvement running Apple II 6502 code on an emulator on a Mac Pro simply because the emulator can run faster than the original hardware.
A temporary fix that sets the 'kill bits' of the ActiveX control is available, but experts believe it's likely most users won't take advantage of the protection.
Well, Computer World (and CWmike in particular), perhaps more users would take advantage of the protection if you would provide them a link telling them how when you first mention it rather than wait until the end of the article where they may not associate it as being the aforementioned solution.
I've been on the net too long. I saw "wardrobing" and parsed it as "war-drobing" and wondered how the war- prefix (a la "wardialing", ref. the sequential dialing program from WarGames) could possibly applied to data storage robots.
So it really isn't "a $99 iPhone". It is a $99 iPhone, a $79 battery, and a $99 contract, which is actually $277. Just under $300 just to try and see if the movers are actually going on the route they have planned. Brilliant. You deserve to be an iPhone owner.
A $99 iPhone which can be returned in 30 days for a refund, a $79 batter, and a $99 MobileMe contract which could have been a free 60-day trial. So, in all, $79 if he opted for the returns (assuming there's no free returns on used rechargeable batteries).
Now throw in a large capacity (say 1500VA) UPS, silence its alarm, and plug the phone's charger into it with the batteries and it would last a lot longer inside a mover's box (and the weight wouldn't be noticed).
This story reminds me of my warsmailing challenge, a kind of a wardriving-by-US-mail-proxy. Though I considered package shipping companies as well, I hadn't thought of moving vans.
Can you get netstumbler or similar software onto an iPhone to search for and log open wireless access points with GPS coordinates? It wouldn't have to store the data on the iPhone; it could transmit it to another server instead over 3G or even the open access ports it finds (doubles as proof of accessibility).
My phone doesn't have a camera. It doesn't have internet. It doesn't have ringtones. It doesn't have GPS. It doesn't run programs.
My phone makes phone calls, and I love it to death.
Skroeder: Maybe it's pissed off. Newton Crosby: It's a machine, Schroeder; it doesn't get pissed off. It doesn't get happy, it doesn't get sad, it doesn't laugh at your jokes. Newton Crosby, Ben Jabituya: It just runs programs!
Needs only a one-time configuration for maximum reported capacity (e.g. 16 TB), then it's a JBOD that configures itself. Hot-swap the smallest drive as bigger drives become available. I got mine used from someone who works at Pixar. There's a $50 rebate on the new 4-bay models w/FW800.
Both subjects had their hands immersed in cold water.
Why is this still the basis for pain threshold tests? I did this in high school. If you keep your hand in the water long enough, you become accustomed to the cold and can keep it in indefinitely.
And then maybe even two. 16:9 or 16:10, two in portrait side-by-side still get you more height per width than a single 4:3 (5:4 or 9:8 if you don't count the bezels). But the footprint limit the submitter has may preclude it considering the same DPI limitations. Though VESA arms can help.
Yeah, the 2048x1536 is a dying resolution. What was the highest resolution you could get through a VGA connection now is becoming unobtainable. 21" CRTs for it are only available refurbished (and are deep) and LCDs are priced for those in the medical profession who can afford the exorbitant markup (I'm talking prices of $400 vs. $8000). And that 4:3 displays are becoming rarer in general.
The highest resolution you can get these days at reasonable prices is a 23" 2048x1152 LCD (Dell, Acer, Samsung), with a better value per pixel than Dual-link DVI displays, and in excess of 1080p HD.
If men could reproduce on their own, do you think women would just vanish?
No, but if it were the other way around, men would vanish (no Y chromosomes). (Mary had mosaicism from absorbing her fraternal twin in the womb allowing for progenation of a male offspring.)
"Progenation. Reproduction by a single organism. It means one parent is biological mother and father. You take a sample of diploid cells, split them into haploids then recombine them in a different arrangement and grow."
Nah, just drive down any major highway with a lot of long-haul trucking. You can be sure that before you run out, you'll find another 2-Liter bottle of the stuff by the side of the road.
Slashdot Mirror
SS8 says their software is used by "some of the largest service providers in the world," so it may have been more surreptitiously pushed in phases by your own provider already.
Bum, bum, buuuuummmm.
"Please somebody help me, help me... help me somebody, please help me....Somebody's looking at me, somebody's watching me, help me... help me."
-- Astronaut Mike Ferris, The Twilight Zone "Where Is Everybody?"
"A man was confined alone in a box for something in the neighborhood of four hundred and eighty-four hours. That's roughly equivalent to a trip to the moon, several orbits and return."
-- Air Force General, The Twilight Zone "Where Is Everybody?"
no one at the time was having epoch rollover parties.
Well, it is implied at least one person was celebrating it: Mary.
Whether it was intended to commemorate birth or conception was not made clear when the calendar was established centuries after the fact, but most calculations compared to historical references have that it is wrong anyway, from either 6 years too early or 4 years too late.
The only reason there wasn't a year "0 A.D." is because the people who created the calendars back then weren't as smart as you are and didn't fully understand the concept of zero-offsets
Actually, retroactively re-dating the dates before AD 1 wasn't considered until the Anglo-Saxon historian the Venerable Bede, who was familiar with the work of Dionysius, used Anno Domini dating in his Ecclesiastical History of the English People, finished in 731. In this same history he also used another Latin term, "ante vero incarnationis dominicae tempus" ("the time before the Lord's true incarnation"), equivalent to the English "before Christ", to identify years before the first year of this era, thus establishing the standard of not using a year zero (i.e. ordinal, not cardinal numbers), even though his work did show that he did grasp the concept of zero.
mmm, the date on the calendar never was 1 BC. :)
Nor was it ever AD 1 in any sense other than retroactively. Wednesday, the 28th of August, Diocletian 247 was immediately followed by Thursday, the 1st of January, AD 532. (The Diocletian calendar started with August 29.)
Retroactively, 1 AD, the 1st of January was a Saturday, so the last day of BCE was a Friday. TGIF! (cal 1 1)
Determining what calendaring systems were observed contemporaneously with our CE 1/1/1 and the corresponding dates thereto is left as an exercise for archæochronologists.
stenography != steganography. The former is what the court reporter uses to record the proceedings when you get prosecuted for using the latter for illegal purposes.
BTW, in their attempt to properly index the whole Internet, is Google going to have legal trouble when these start showing up in Google Image Searches for "torrent"?
Ballot, Soap, Jury, Ammo; they should be used in that order.
And since according to this they're already denying the use of the jury box, well, you have three guesses what's next.
Snarky isn't a word (yet), it's just something made up by Americans. It's not in any print dictionaries. And generally the definition is not well understood, even dict.org doesn't have it. And askoxford and wikitionary have brief and unclear definitions. Also special punctuation for "added clarity", seems like an excuse for people who can't write with clarity. Use your words!
Marshal Biggs: This is hinky, this guy's a college graduate, he went to medical school, he's not gonna come through all the security, go to the county lockup, to find someone his own people say does not exist. Hinky.
Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard: Well, what does that mean Biggs, "hinky"?
Marshal Biggs: I don't know. Strange.
Marshal Henry: Weird.
Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard: Well, why don't you say strange or weird? I mean, "hinky", that has no meaning.
Marshal Biggs: Well, we say "hinky".
Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard: I don't want you guys using words around me that have no meaning. I'm taking the stairs and walking.
Marshal Biggs: [sotto voice] How about "bullshit"? How about "bullshit", Sam?
Your point?
There isn't anything wrong with COBOL for these kind of transactions.
Sure, so long as you never need to make any changes to the code. The surviving COBOL coders have gone back into comfortable retirement with the money they made fixing Y2K. So they've moved from old iron to a modern operating system; they could still reap even more benefits by recoding for modern languages and coding practices.
But then, this is the US Postal Service. COBOL's probably fast enough for the task.
Except it's GNU/Linux running COBOL code.
I'm sure I could get a dramatic speed improvement running Apple II 6502 code on an emulator on a Mac Pro simply because the emulator can run faster than the original hardware.
A temporary fix that sets the 'kill bits' of the ActiveX control is available, but experts believe it's likely most users won't take advantage of the protection.
Well, Computer World (and CWmike in particular), perhaps more users would take advantage of the protection if you would provide them a link telling them how when you first mention it rather than wait until the end of the article where they may not associate it as being the aforementioned solution.
Firefox users can't be too complacent; Secunia is warning of a 0-day in version 3.5.
Well, I guess I'm safe. At my workplace, my Redhat 9 installation is incapable of running any version newer than Firefox 2.0.0.20.
I've been on the net too long. I saw "wardrobing" and parsed it as "war-drobing" and wondered how the war- prefix (a la "wardialing", ref. the sequential dialing program from WarGames) could possibly applied to data storage robots.
So it really isn't "a $99 iPhone". It is a $99 iPhone, a $79 battery, and a $99 contract, which is actually $277. Just under $300 just to try and see if the movers are actually going on the route they have planned. Brilliant. You deserve to be an iPhone owner.
A $99 iPhone which can be returned in 30 days for a refund, a $79 batter, and a $99 MobileMe contract which could have been a free 60-day trial. So, in all, $79 if he opted for the returns (assuming there's no free returns on used rechargeable batteries).
Now throw in a large capacity (say 1500VA) UPS, silence its alarm, and plug the phone's charger into it with the batteries and it would last a lot longer inside a mover's box (and the weight wouldn't be noticed).
This story reminds me of my warsmailing challenge, a kind of a wardriving-by-US-mail-proxy. Though I considered package shipping companies as well, I hadn't thought of moving vans.
Can you get netstumbler or similar software onto an iPhone to search for and log open wireless access points with GPS coordinates? It wouldn't have to store the data on the iPhone; it could transmit it to another server instead over 3G or even the open access ports it finds (doubles as proof of accessibility).
My phone doesn't have a camera. It doesn't have internet. It doesn't have ringtones. It doesn't have GPS. It doesn't run programs.
My phone makes phone calls, and I love it to death.
Skroeder: Maybe it's pissed off.
Newton Crosby: It's a machine, Schroeder; it doesn't get pissed off. It doesn't get happy, it doesn't get sad, it doesn't laugh at your jokes.
Newton Crosby, Ben Jabituya: It just runs programs!
Drobo.
Needs only a one-time configuration for maximum reported capacity (e.g. 16 TB), then it's a JBOD that configures itself. Hot-swap the smallest drive as bigger drives become available. I got mine used from someone who works at Pixar. There's a $50 rebate on the new 4-bay models w/FW800.
Yes, we know that you can buy more storage then you could possibly need.
Reasonable Limits Aren't.
Both subjects had their hands immersed in cold water.
Why is this still the basis for pain threshold tests? I did this in high school. If you keep your hand in the water long enough, you become accustomed to the cold and can keep it in indefinitely.
And then maybe even two. 16:9 or 16:10, two in portrait side-by-side still get you more height per width than a single 4:3 (5:4 or 9:8 if you don't count the bezels). But the footprint limit the submitter has may preclude it considering the same DPI limitations. Though VESA arms can help.
Yeah, the 2048x1536 is a dying resolution. What was the highest resolution you could get through a VGA connection now is becoming unobtainable. 21" CRTs for it are only available refurbished (and are deep) and LCDs are priced for those in the medical profession who can afford the exorbitant markup (I'm talking prices of $400 vs. $8000). And that 4:3 displays are becoming rarer in general.
The highest resolution you can get these days at reasonable prices is a 23" 2048x1152 LCD (Dell, Acer, Samsung), with a better value per pixel than Dual-link DVI displays, and in excess of 1080p HD.
If men could reproduce on their own, do you think women would just vanish?
No, but if it were the other way around, men would vanish (no Y chromosomes). (Mary had mosaicism from absorbing her fraternal twin in the womb allowing for progenation of a male offspring.)
"Progenation. Reproduction by a single organism. It means one parent is biological mother and father. You take a sample of diploid cells, split them into haploids then recombine them in a different arrangement and grow."
My wife and I really wish the human reproductive cycle involved external incubation. I'd create a device to post to twitter whenever the baby kicks.
You could call them Baby Growbags!
And you almost generated humor there. If you had a lab maybe you could have actually been funny.
And maybe some blackjack and hookers.
Nah, just drive down any major highway with a lot of long-haul trucking. You can be sure that before you run out, you'll find another 2-Liter bottle of the stuff by the side of the road.
Let's not forget the mistakes that were made there.
Did you not mean There?