The french equivalent to spam is "polluriel", a contraction of "pollution électronique", electronic pollution. (Like "courriel" is a contraction of "courrier électronique", perfectly legitimate neologism, IMO.) Actually, this makes way more sense than "spam".
If coders and software engineers didn't have to join the Microsoft Steep-Price Club to get anything done, that would free up some cash. If companies didn't have to spend as much on Microsoft contracts and paying people to make sense out of Microsoft "Support", they'd be more profitable. If coding the Microsoft Approved Way wasn't so much like beating ones head against a spiked wall, we'd all have more and better software.
I hope this doesn't come off like some kneejerk/. anti-MS rant, because I really do see so much waste, and I really do think that Microsoft is responsible for enough damned lossage to have effected the economy. I really do.
When germans get down to engineering: a linux set-top of which you can really pop the hood and do whatever you like. They only omitted the DVD drive, I hope to see it coming.
You mean german engineering like the Audi automobiles where you can't change the spark plugs, you can't check the fluids, and if you run down the battery, it MUST go in to the shop? Where the whole engine is sealed so the stupid american knucklehead owner can't break anything?
Plus when you build a bridge, you over design by a factor of 5. This lets bridges not fall down when the strength of a few rivets are a SD on the weak side, or somehow the entire bridge gets filled with overloaded semis in bumper to bumper traffic, both ways.
I was just reading an old article about how the millenium foot bridge in London was found to be "wobbly", and they had to engineer a very expensive retro-fit to make it safe.
Go to http://kernalnewbies.org
Go to the FAQ, or look further down on the left for specific FAQ questions
specifically: How do I compile a kernal?
If that don't do it, note the link at the bottom of the box, the "more indepth tutorial".
I spotted that about an hour ago, and now I'm an expert on finding it.:-)
I hope so. As someone else replied, this is just one example of thousands that anyone who wants to can come up with on a few minutes notice. It would only take a little cash and a few people to carry out an attack like this.
This is one of thousands of half-baked ideas, most of which can be discarded with a little bit of thought.
There are supposed to hundreds or thousands of members of Al Qaeda. They are supposed to be filled with religous ferver and all-consuming hatred. Where are the hundreds and thousands of attacks world-wide? There have been relatively few, and many have been thwarted.
Yes, we need to more congnizant of our vulnerabilities, but let's not over do it. Not every movement in our peripheral vision is a pack of rabid wolves.
If a terrorist wanted to really upset things now, they'd next show that Anytown, USA was also vulnerable. Three days, three teams each with a van, 500 childrens lunchboxes with a timebomb inside the thermos and a road trip past small town schools in east, west and central USA should do it.
This would be an order of magnitude or so larger than the kid from Wisconsin(?) who left pipe-bombs in mailboxes across the western states, (in a big smiley-face pattern on a U.S. map). The plan seems flawed somehow, but I'm not an expert. I think that the teams would be highly exposed by visiting 500 sites. After one or two explosions the authorities might be on to them in almost no time. It also might be more likely to just piss us off instead of terrorize us.
In my day we had a PDP/8-L with 8K of 12-bit memory. Little tiny donuts. And 3 teletypes. Programmed in Focal, by golly. For big projects we'd dial into the big mainframe at IIT. In IITRAN, no less!
On one form we ask volunteers for Emergency Medical information and Allergies. I had to explicitly instruct people to stop submitting hayfever or dairy products we only want to know what to tell the Paramedic if you are unconcious.
Most people aren't MDs. You can't complain that people who have no medical training shouldn't pretend that they know what they're talking about, and complain that they should know what you are talking about.
Ok, I realize you didn't say that exactly, but (fnord newsflash fnord) non-medics DON'T know much about medicine.
Most blood-banks ask if you have allergies to any medications.
I thought he was ranting about how kids these days can't drive a stick. Wussy Hummers gotta have auto cause only a rocket scientist can shift gears manually. (/Arnold)
Yes, I know they specified auto because they want it to work reliably no matter who, and no matter what.
Most of our (US) Big Honkin' Computers (BHCs) are being used for nuclear weapon simulation.
The Japanese BHCs are used to simulate Typhoons and Tidal Waves. More joules involved than our puny nukes, wouldn't you say?
A coincidence? You be the judge.
OK, this is supposed to be humorous. I hope.
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I wonder if it's reasonable to think of ADHD as a boolean thing, or more of a spectrum. If there's not a clear bioneurological reason to think the former (i.e. a "magic gene" that's either there or not) then I vote for the latter, and think that it (along with Autism) might be "shadow syndromes" with a lot of people; still there, but a baby version of the "hard core" cases, and often treatable without meds, maybe even self-treatable as an act of concentration and will.
Yes, there were articles in the last few years in Wired and Time. Time suggested that there are a spectrum of nerd related disorders or something like that. There was also speculation that they get concentrated in tech-heavy areas where both parents are geeks.
OK, so is going postal the exception or the rule? I'm inclined to think that incomplete diagnosis and bad diagnosis is more common. I have ADD. I tried several medications. When they didn't work they were discontinued. Many people don't respond. More do. I have never had any problems with morality, thank you very much. Have you considered attacking the optometrist industry on the same points. I know many people who have stopped wearing glasses and simple tried harder to focus and it worked. Could be that people who wear glasses are weak willed and morally deficient. Maybe they could all just buckle down and try harder, then that big problem would be solved once and for all. Look through history at violent incidents and mass killings. I'll bet lots of them wore glasses!
Another reasonable book is "You mean I'm not Lazy, Crazy, or Stupid?". I don't remember the names of the 2 authors.
[Looking up from my monitor and left to the bookshelf. heheh]
That would be "You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid Or Crazy?!" by Kate Kelly and Peggy Ramundo. [Scribner]
I found it hard to concentrate on that book. (Riiiight.)
I like the two Hallowell and Ratey books better.
Normally when you write a Q you start at the bottom of the circle and draw it clockwise, stopping again at the bottom. Then you draw the tail.
Two of the main rules of cursive are: make a continuous line and be artsy.
So, what you do is start your circle about halfway up the left side. Start with a little curly-loop just like you do on all capital letters. And make sure you don't pick up your pen when you finish the circle and draw the tail.
See, now it looks like a 2.
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Did anyone else read that as bandwidth crapping ? Anyone? Beuller? Ok, it's late.
So it gets tricky when you try and point out that Canadians/Canadiens might be Americans
(Ok, so I better get home before I throw up, then. Bye.)
Polluriel, polluriel, polluriel, polluriel, ...
Polluriel, polluriel, polluriel, polluriel,
Lovely polluriel, wonderful polluriel,
Shut up! SHUT UP!
(Bloody Vikings!)
No, it doesn't quite have the same ring, does it?
I hope this doesn't come off like some kneejerk /. anti-MS rant, because I really do see so much waste, and I really do think that Microsoft is responsible for enough damned lossage to have effected the economy. I really do.
You mean german engineering like the Audi automobiles where you can't change the spark plugs, you can't check the fluids, and if you run down the battery, it MUST go in to the shop? Where the whole engine is sealed so the stupid american knucklehead owner can't break anything?
I was just reading an old article about how the millenium foot bridge in London was found to be "wobbly", and they had to engineer a very expensive retro-fit to make it safe.
Go to the FAQ, or look further down on the left for specific FAQ questions
specifically: How do I compile a kernal?
If that don't do it, note the link at the bottom of the box, the "more indepth tutorial".
I spotted that about an hour ago, and now I'm an expert on finding it. :-)
He left in a Huff.
My Grandfather had a 1934 Huff. Classic.
He came back in a Trice.
The Trice, of course, had three wheels.
He did it in a Jiffy.
The first ones were built in the late '50s.
No, I've never "done it" in a Jiffy.
Sorry I couldn't be of any real help.
OK, it's the kid who collects rocket launchers, and is putting a diesel-tractor engine in his 80' robot, that you really have to watch out for.
They missed a pocket in Batavia Illinois.
When you refer to a "Texan" accent (there are many) do you mean like GWB or Dr. Phil, or something else?
I hope so. As someone else replied, this is just one example of thousands that anyone who wants to can come up with on a few minutes notice. It would only take a little cash and a few people to carry out an attack like this.
This is one of thousands of half-baked ideas, most of which can be discarded with a little bit of thought.
There are supposed to hundreds or thousands of members of Al Qaeda. They are supposed to be filled with religous ferver and all-consuming hatred. Where are the hundreds and thousands of attacks world-wide? There have been relatively few, and many have been thwarted.
Yes, we need to more congnizant of our vulnerabilities, but let's not over do it. Not every movement in our peripheral vision is a pack of rabid wolves.
This would be an order of magnitude or so larger than the kid from Wisconsin(?) who left pipe-bombs in mailboxes across the western states, (in a big smiley-face pattern on a U.S. map). The plan seems flawed somehow, but I'm not an expert. I think that the teams would be highly exposed by visiting 500 sites. After one or two explosions the authorities might be on to them in almost no time. It also might be more likely to just piss us off instead of terrorize us.
Hoo ere-a yuoo tudey?
Bork! Bork! Bork!
Cartoon from the '60s. After school. WGN (Chicago). I think it was the same people who did Clutch Cargo (with Spinner and Paddlefoot).
Auuuugghh! Wasted brain cells.
Many HR people today are drones, and most are spectacularly non-technical.
Their standard response is likely to be: [blank stare][awkward pause]OK, so, that would be a "No".
Most people aren't MDs. You can't complain that people who have no medical training shouldn't pretend that they know what they're talking about, and complain that they should know what you are talking about.
Ok, I realize you didn't say that exactly, but (fnord newsflash fnord) non-medics DON'T know much about medicine.
Most blood-banks ask if you have allergies to any medications.
Yes, I know they specified auto because they want it to work reliably no matter who, and no matter what.
Most of our (US) Big Honkin' Computers (BHCs) are being used for nuclear weapon simulation.
The Japanese BHCs are used to simulate Typhoons and Tidal Waves. More joules involved than our puny nukes, wouldn't you say?
A coincidence? You be the judge.
OK, this is supposed to be humorous. I hope.
Yes, there were articles in the last few years in Wired and Time. Time suggested that there are a spectrum of nerd related disorders or something like that. There was also speculation that they get concentrated in tech-heavy areas where both parents are geeks.
OK, so is going postal the exception or the rule? I'm inclined to think that incomplete diagnosis and bad diagnosis is more common. I have ADD. I tried several medications. When they didn't work they were discontinued. Many people don't respond. More do. I have never had any problems with morality, thank you very much. Have you considered attacking the optometrist industry on the same points. I know many people who have stopped wearing glasses and simple tried harder to focus and it worked. Could be that people who wear glasses are weak willed and morally deficient. Maybe they could all just buckle down and try harder, then that big problem would be solved once and for all. Look through history at violent incidents and mass killings. I'll bet lots of them wore glasses!
Another reasonable book is "You mean I'm not Lazy, Crazy, or Stupid?". I don't remember the names of the 2 authors.
[Looking up from my monitor and left to the bookshelf. heheh]
That would be "You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid Or Crazy?!" by Kate Kelly and Peggy Ramundo. [Scribner]
I found it hard to concentrate on that book. (Riiiight.)
I like the two Hallowell and Ratey books better.
Normally when you write a Q you start at the bottom of the circle and draw it clockwise, stopping again at the bottom. Then you draw the tail.
Two of the main rules of cursive are: make a continuous line and be artsy.
So, what you do is start your circle about halfway up the left side. Start with a little curly-loop just like you do on all capital letters. And make sure you don't pick up your pen when you finish the circle and draw the tail.
See, now it looks like a 2.
I took the time to go looking for it.
Thank you for posting it.