She couldn't remember what it said. I told her it said to plug it in or it would turn itself off. Her response: "Oops".
And you decided to spend the rest of your life with this woman, and mingle your genes with hers, and have her raise your children????
My wife is far from a technophile, but she's smart enough to know that pop-up windows transmit important information, and need to be answered correctly. (So, she calls me, and asks what to do.)
Without mutations you are never going to get a completely new gene (H) that is surely a precondition for the eventual formation of a completely new species.
That might not be true.
Birds are genetically very close to dinosaurs. Experiments with chicken embryos have shown that many of the differences are simply that certain genes have just been "turned off" in birds.
You're absolutely right; people act as if it's creationism vs evolution, but it's actually creationism vs the whole of science. If creationism is right we've got geological science wrong...
It would be incredibly helpful to provide a link to some website or book that demonstrates why your assertion (which seems reasonable to me!) is correct.
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I often think the better way to consider a manager is as an assistant to those who do the actual work, taking care of the peripheral details of a project allowing the important people to do the actual work.
Excellent point. My manager is an old COBOL & IMS programmer who can't write a word of SQL.
But... he knows what the difference is between OLTP and a Data Warehouse, knows that IO is slower than core, and is bright enough to have learned from us the difference between sorted and hashed indexes, and when to use them, and what happens when indexes get out of whack.
Thus, even though he can't do what his underlings do, he knows what's reasonable and not, and bravely defends us from User Stupidity and Programmer Incompetence.
Terminal.app would be close for me, but I think the web browser wins overall.
I despise Gmail, and what it's done to formerly-intelligent bottom posters. Outlook for work email, and Tbird for home email. (But since all my email is accessed via IMAP, it doesn't really matter which MUA I use.)
ssh, a lot, because at work I all my computing is on remote hosts.
OOo to read/write documents, because my boss would go apeshit if I tossed confidential documents up onto the internet.
Nethack, Iango & PySol when I want to play games.
And, finally, FF3, which is up pretty much all the time.
Just because you spent your weekend trip to New Orleans puking in a gutter in the French Quarter instead of listening to jazz, I wouldn't assume that means it's "just a ghetto" and no longer the home of jazz.
No, it's a ghetto.
Every year, at the N.O. Jazz and Heritage Festival, hundreds of internationally renowned local acts play some of the most innovative and exciting jazz you'll ever hear.
Ever try exporting messages from Thunderbird to anything else? I'm trying to do it right now, and oh yeah...
Tbird stores email as the text mbox format. Just copy/ftp the file. No problem!
Still, you've got to be a geek to know that. But as a/. reader, you are supposed to be a geek and therefore know how Tbird stores email.
At least in any MS product that I've ever seen, there's ALWAYS an option to export data out as a lowest common denominator
Outlook gives you the "opportunity" to export emails as tab- or comma-delimited files. What app, besides Outlook, knows how to import tab- or comma-delimited email files????
I just imagined a.ppt bullet chart with bullet #4 being "Allow SQL code injections". Then I tried to imagine if anyone 2 levels up would notice it, understand it, or just check off the "review complete" milestone...
They'd probably think it a feature. It would be an interesting experiment...
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She has a masters degree and was working on her PHd at the time. Really dumb,
That type of person drives me insane, since, having such degrees makes them think they are superior to us plebeians.
but good in the sack!
Hope you had condoms!
People who wish to mingle genes and raise children with _female_humans_ generally learn to accept this. Not that I expect all /.ers to understand.
The other choice is to be more selective in who you mate with.
And frankly, while such people can be annoying, I find them infinitely preferable to type that treats people like inanimate objects.
I don't prefer either. And the two personality types are not mutually exclusive.
So that alone should have been a dead giveaway. On Windows, critical errors are always modal.
But how many users know that? 1%? 0.5%?
Computers are not for everybody!
Amen, brother.
She couldn't remember what it said. I told her it said to plug it in or it would turn itself off. Her response: "Oops".
And you decided to spend the rest of your life with this woman, and mingle your genes with hers, and have her raise your children????
My wife is far from a technophile, but she's smart enough to know that pop-up windows transmit important information, and need to be answered correctly. (So, she calls me, and asks what to do.)
Well, Exchange does support IMAP
Exchange is more than a mail server.
uhm, thunderbird ?
or one of the many other mail clients?
Ummm... Tbird doesn't speak Exchange's protocol.
Sounds like dangerous people to me, man.
What ever happened to "the pen is mightier than the sword", and "an idea who's time has come is unstoppable"?
Do Americans not have this same protection?
Yes.
Note, though, that "I agree not to sue you" is sometimes legal in the US, but I'm sure that in this case it would be found illegal.
Without mutations you are never going to get a completely new gene (H) that is surely a precondition for the eventual formation of a completely new species.
That might not be true.
Birds are genetically very close to dinosaurs. Experiments with chicken embryos have shown that many of the differences are simply that certain genes have just been "turned off" in birds.
You're absolutely right; people act as if it's creationism vs evolution, but it's actually creationism vs the whole of science. If creationism is right we've got geological science wrong...
It would be incredibly helpful to provide a link to some website or book that demonstrates why your assertion (which seems reasonable to me!) is correct.
I often think the better way to consider a manager is as an assistant to those who do the actual work, taking care of the peripheral details of a project allowing the important people to do the actual work.
Excellent point. My manager is an old COBOL & IMS programmer who can't write a word of SQL.
But... he knows what the difference is between OLTP and a Data Warehouse, knows that IO is slower than core, and is bright enough to have learned from us the difference between sorted and hashed indexes, and when to use them, and what happens when indexes get out of whack.
Thus, even though he can't do what his underlings do, he knows what's reasonable and not, and bravely defends us from User Stupidity and Programmer Incompetence.
When he retires, I'm going to cry.
What application do you use more than any other?
Terminal.app would be close for me, but I think the web browser wins overall.
I despise Gmail, and what it's done to formerly-intelligent bottom posters. Outlook for work email, and Tbird for home email. (But since all my email is accessed via IMAP, it doesn't really matter which MUA I use.)
ssh, a lot, because at work I all my computing is on remote hosts.
OOo to read/write documents, because my boss would go apeshit if I tossed confidential documents up onto the internet.
Nethack, Iango & PySol when I want to play games.
And, finally, FF3, which is up pretty much all the time.
which is buggy and unreliable in any brower, not just Safari.
I don't know why people still rag on (Linux) Flash. I can't remember the last time it caused FF to hang on my system.
"The Justice department has SECRETLY hired former Walt Disney lawyer Sanford Litvack for a possible antitrust suit against Google"
The original article states that the gov't quietly hired Litvack. The idiot journalist at InfoWorld converted that into "secretly".
Just because you spent your weekend trip to New Orleans puking in a gutter in the French Quarter instead of listening to jazz, I wouldn't assume that means it's "just a ghetto" and no longer the home of jazz.
No, it's a ghetto.
Every year, at the N.O. Jazz and Heritage Festival, hundreds of internationally renowned local acts play some of the most innovative and exciting jazz you'll ever hear.
Hah. The Jazz Fest sold out years ago.
But having worked with her, would you vote for her?
I guess that all depends on what "I'd tap her" means...
but we have several wang computers left
Are they doing anything besides collecting dust?
Give me a fast enough pipe and I'll download on demand, delete and if I want to watch it again a few years later I'll download it again.
Until the site(s) hosting (and that includes BitTorrent seeds) "it" take(s) "it" down.
It's foolish to rely on others when you can easily store "it" yourself.
If they had the time to listen to you while on hold.. why would they put you on hold?
Ummmm.... If a computer can put you on hold, a computer can record all the audio signals it receives from you.
One which categorizes those who dislikes the eating of tasty animals?
That would be a petaphobe.
Ever try exporting messages from Thunderbird to anything else? I'm trying to do it right now, and oh yeah...
Tbird stores email as the text mbox format. Just copy/ftp the file. No problem!
Still, you've got to be a geek to know that. But as a /. reader, you are supposed to be a geek and therefore know how Tbird stores email.
At least in any MS product that I've ever seen, there's ALWAYS an option to export data out as a lowest common denominator
Outlook gives you the "opportunity" to export emails as tab- or comma-delimited files. What app, besides Outlook, knows how to import tab- or comma-delimited email files????
They are giving you 2-3x your subscribed speed for the first 15 seconds of download.
So that's what that means...
I just imagined a .ppt bullet chart with bullet #4 being "Allow SQL code injections". Then I tried to imagine if anyone 2 levels up would notice it, understand it, or just check off the "review complete" milestone...
They'd probably think it a feature. It would be an interesting experiment...