Meanwhile, we're listening (DNSSEC) to the people who made and support broken (affected) nameservers, instead of to the people who made compatible, but unaffected and unbroken nameservers
A VERY well known accounting package displays a short lived message box each year if you happen to start it up at the time (accurate to the minute) of my birth.
The function that displays it is so god-damned complicated, nobody dares touch it (I didn't write it). It was written by a guy who never learned about functional programming, you know, the original single function application. When I last looked at it (back in about 2003) it was about 17,000 lines long, with case statements nested about 6 or 8 deep, fall-throughs, and gotos, and about 3 comments. I found only one single bug in that function (which happened to be on my birthday), so the guy who wrote it new was very good indeed.
Ask your accounting department, they might know my name.
What's next, I say you're dumb, and I get sued ? After that, I say I don't like you, and get sued. Finally, I decline to make a positive comment and I get sued. Sorry, this is just idiotic.
Time for all you damn wimps to crawl back to mommy, and don't come out again until you can face the real world.
Yep, it's not Candy Land, it's reality, and sometimes it hurts.
I'm supposed to have a 8MB connection. I've checked the distance to my DSLAM, and I'm well within the distance that 8M should be possible.
I've got a good modem/router - Alcatel Speedtouch - which lets me run diagnostics on the line. The diagnostics report that my signal to noise ratio is just within the limits to establish an aDSL session (from memory it's 9dB), and certainly nowhere close to being able to run at max speed (which would need a S/N of something like 50+dB).
I've contacted BT about the poor state of my line, and they basically ignore me. Actually, it's worse than that, they lied to me claiming that they have tried to contact me by phone, but I provided only my cell phone number and my e-mail, and there is no record of any missed calls from BT, just an e-mail claiming they tried to call. (not to mention that I always have it switched on and within easy ear-shot during working hours).
Except your mind isn't implemented by algorithms, rather your mind concocts (and sometimes implements)algorithms. It may be completely random activity which self-constructs through feedback. Read your Hofstadter, please.
Actually, I'm quite familiar with many details of our historic, systemic racial discrimination.
I'm also quite aware that discrimination, be it racial, sexual, or otherwise, is a (unpleasant) fact of life.
I agree with the premise that some form of reparation for my government's/society's past transgressions is justified.
I agree with federal legislation to ensure that all people are treated equally.
I very much disagree that that the predominantly black underclass is somehow entitled to even more hand-outs, preferential treatment, or other entitlements simply because they are black.
Any black person under the age of , say 40, has no significant claim to reparation of any form, with the possible exception of those unfortunate enough to have been born and raised in backwards-ass states like Alabama, or Mississippi - especially Mississippi (which has an entrenched cultural bias to black victimization/entitlement mentality). The younger they are, the weaker their claim is, until the age of about 20, at which point, I say there is no reparation due at all (again with the caveat of the aforementioned states)
Obama has proven that, and he's 47(?)
The figures speak for themselves, compare federal entitlement per capita spending, by race, over the past 40 years , and see who makes the most of what they're given.
I am just slightly younger than Obama, and I have lived in many very depressed areas of the country, from the poorer areas around Chicago, to the frightening areas in Manhattan, to the gangster areas around L.A. The theme is the same. Nihilism amongst the young is endemic in these areas, not through lack of government handouts, but in fact , I think, the opposite. These are groups of people who are constantly told they're being treated wrong - when they no longer are - and that they should magically be made successful, and prosperous, without any effort on their part.
That's what I've seen with my own adult eyes in the last 25 years.
Seriously, though; it'll be interesting to see if this will mark an end to the victim/entitlement mentality amoung blacks, and other persistantly underperforming segments of society.
Between virtual bootable pluggable devices and virtual machines which can reside inside encrypted files, this tool is rendered useless before it's even released.
If you're stupid enough to try to use them in anger I feel pity for your customers.
Believe me, I have tried to use them all. OK, so perhaps WPF is almost usable, but WWF is atrocious, and should never have been released. Get anything more complicated than a simple three activity workflow and all of a sudden the designer slows to a crawl. And I have a top spec machine. Dual core 3Ghz with fast SATAII disks and 4G RAM. The designer runs like a pig. When it does decide to display my statemachine workflows I can crash it by selecting *any* activity and double-clicking it. Absolute garbage.
They are not asking for the chips to be made to produce more heat, they're demanding that Intel guarantee that the chips will still perform, even if operated at a higher than specified max operating environment temperature.
You would be forgiven for thinking it makes more sense to for Google to insist that the chips produce less heat, rather than that they will still operate in extreme temperatures, since the majority of the cooling cost come from dissipating the chip heat from the enclosed space. But hey, it's Google, they do things a bit different.
Tech Support > Right, what version of Windows are you using.
Client > Windows
Tech Support > Yes Sir, but what version?
Client > Windows!
Tech Support > Yes Sir, I realize that, but what version? Is it Windows 98 or Windows XP? Vista?
Client > WINDOWS!!!!
Tech Support > Let me call my supervisor.
Yeah, like replacing an engine with another one is an eco-friendly act of incredible proportions. Face it, so much energy (and therefore pollution) went into the production of the first motor, she'd have to run her eco-friendly motor for about 10 years to claw it all back. Her actions are little more than a publicity stunt - one which obviously had the desired effect on you.
Great - Not only has she needlessly contributed to pollution by replacing a perfectly good engine with another one, it'll take her about 1.5 Million miles to recoup that investmnet in petrol savings. Alison, you are ONE DUMB BITCH
Excuse my ignorance, but what's the point of putting swap into RAM. That seems completely self contradictory. The whole point of swap is to make up for the fact you don't actually have enough RAM.
Does it really surprise you that suspend doesn't work. Where do you think suspend intends to store the current state of volatile memory ? It can't store it onto your file system (other than SWAP) for quite obvious reasons - unless it had its own partition it could use. (which is kind of wastefull when swap is supposed to be there)
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As if Oil for Food, Commission on Human Rights and United Nations Office for Project Services weren't already proof enough that any money given to the U.N. is money wasted !
Meanwhile, we're listening (DNSSEC) to the people who made and support broken (affected) nameservers, instead of to the people who made compatible, but unaffected and unbroken nameservers
I thought that was SOP.
A VERY well known accounting package displays a short lived message box each year if you happen to start it up at the time (accurate to the minute) of my birth.
The function that displays it is so god-damned complicated, nobody dares touch it (I didn't write it). It was written by a guy who never learned about functional programming, you know, the original single function application. When I last looked at it (back in about 2003) it was about 17,000 lines long, with case statements nested about 6 or 8 deep, fall-throughs, and gotos, and about 3 comments. I found only one single bug in that function (which happened to be on my birthday), so the guy who wrote it new was very good indeed.
Ask your accounting department, they might know my name.
I am so dumbfounded at this that words escape me.
What's next, I say you're dumb, and I get sued ?
After that, I say I don't like you, and get sued.
Finally, I decline to make a positive comment and I get sued.
Sorry, this is just idiotic.
Time for all you damn wimps to crawl back to mommy, and don't come out again until you can face the real world.
Yep, it's not Candy Land, it's reality, and sometimes it hurts.
I'm supposed to have a 8MB connection. I've checked the distance to my DSLAM, and I'm well within the distance that 8M should be possible.
I've got a good modem/router - Alcatel Speedtouch - which lets me run diagnostics on the line. The diagnostics report that my signal to noise ratio is just within the limits to establish an aDSL session (from memory it's 9dB), and certainly nowhere close to being able to run at max speed (which would need a S/N of something like 50+dB).
I've contacted BT about the poor state of my line, and they basically ignore me. Actually, it's worse than that, they lied to me claiming that they have tried to contact me by phone, but I provided only my cell phone number and my e-mail, and there is no record of any missed calls from BT, just an e-mail claiming they tried to call. (not to mention that I always have it switched on and within easy ear-shot during working hours).
I guess they just suck !
I get paid from the moment I walk into the office, until the moment I walk out.
If my employer doesn't like that, he can sack me.
My life is too short to take any shit from a bean counter.
Chairman Roy Bostock - '... take it to the next level...'
Sounds like something one of the panel might say on "The X-Factor".
I want a Chairman of a Billion dollar corporation to say something a bit more concise, and profound.
Turn it up to 11, man !
Damn, I was going to comment on that phrase too, but your snipe beats the hell out of what I was going to say.
I do a LOT of work on refuse disposal options, principally for the UK food industry A back of the metaphorical fag packet calculation
Here, I'll translate for you.
I do a LOT of work on refuse disposal options, principally for the UK food industry
I work in a kitchen
A back of the metaphorical fag packet calculation
I think a lot during my smoke breaks
completely ignoring ClamAV - which I use - haven't had a single virus in years
Now, if I could just understand this gibberish about manifests.
Except your mind isn't implemented by algorithms, rather your mind concocts (and sometimes implements)algorithms. It may be completely random activity which self-constructs through feedback. Read your Hofstadter, please.
Actually, I'm quite familiar with many details of our historic, systemic racial discrimination.
I'm also quite aware that discrimination, be it racial, sexual, or otherwise, is a (unpleasant) fact of life.
I agree with the premise that some form of reparation for my government's/society's past transgressions is justified.
I agree with federal legislation to ensure that all people are treated equally.
I very much disagree that that the predominantly black underclass is somehow entitled to even more hand-outs, preferential treatment, or other entitlements simply because they are black.
Any black person under the age of , say 40, has no significant claim to reparation of any form, with the possible exception of those unfortunate enough to have been born and raised in backwards-ass states like Alabama, or Mississippi - especially Mississippi (which has an entrenched cultural bias to black victimization/entitlement mentality). The younger they are, the weaker their claim is, until the age of about 20, at which point, I say there is no reparation due at all (again with the caveat of the aforementioned states)
Obama has proven that, and he's 47(?)
The figures speak for themselves, compare federal entitlement per capita spending, by race, over the past 40 years , and see who makes the most of what they're given.
I am just slightly younger than Obama, and I have lived in many very depressed areas of the country, from the poorer areas around Chicago, to the frightening areas in Manhattan, to the gangster areas around L.A. The theme is the same. Nihilism amongst the young is endemic in these areas, not through lack of government handouts, but in fact , I think, the opposite. These are groups of people who are constantly told they're being treated wrong - when they no longer are - and that they should magically be made successful, and prosperous, without any effort on their part.
That's what I've seen with my own adult eyes in the last 25 years.
As a minority from America ...
So, you're White Anglo-Saxon Protestant ?
Seriously, though; it'll be interesting to see if this will mark an end to the victim/entitlement mentality amoung blacks, and other persistantly underperforming segments of society.
My guess, no chance.
s/^Between virtual/^Between/
exactly !
Between virtual bootable pluggable devices and virtual machines which can reside inside encrypted files, this tool is rendered useless before it's even released.
Nothing to see here, move along....
WPF, WCF, and WWF are mostly shit anyway.
If you're stupid enough to try to use them in anger I feel pity for your customers.
Believe me, I have tried to use them all. OK, so perhaps WPF is almost usable, but WWF is atrocious, and should never have been released. Get anything more complicated than a simple three activity workflow and all of a sudden the designer slows to a crawl. And I have a top spec machine. Dual core 3Ghz with fast SATAII disks and 4G RAM. The designer runs like a pig. When it does decide to display my statemachine workflows I can crash it by selecting *any* activity and double-clicking it. Absolute garbage.
They are not asking for the chips to be made to produce more heat, they're demanding that Intel guarantee that the chips will still perform, even if operated at a higher than specified max operating environment temperature.
You would be forgiven for thinking it makes more sense to for Google to insist that the chips produce less heat, rather than that they will still operate in extreme temperatures, since the majority of the cooling cost come from dissipating the chip heat from the enclosed space. But hey, it's Google, they do things a bit different.
Or in a more readable form
Tech Support > Right, what version of Windows are you using.
Client > Windows
Tech Support > Yes Sir, but what version?
Client > Windows!
Tech Support > Yes Sir, I realize that, but what version? Is it Windows 98 or Windows XP? Vista?
Client > WINDOWS!!!!
Tech Support > Let me call my supervisor.
Well, that'll teach you for playing with an inferior distro. ;~)
Bad hair day ?
Yeah, like replacing an engine with another one is an eco-friendly act of incredible proportions.
Face it, so much energy (and therefore pollution) went into the production of the first motor, she'd have to run her eco-friendly motor for about 10 years to claw it all back.
Her actions are little more than a publicity stunt - one which obviously had the desired effect on you.
Great - Not only has she needlessly contributed to pollution by replacing a perfectly good engine with another one, it'll take her about 1.5 Million miles to recoup that investmnet in petrol savings.
Alison, you are ONE DUMB BITCH
Ah, humour. I recall that concept now.
Excuse my ignorance, but what's the point of putting swap into RAM. That seems completely self contradictory. The whole point of swap is to make up for the fact you don't actually have enough RAM.
Does it really surprise you that suspend doesn't work. Where do you think suspend intends to store the current state of volatile memory ? It can't store it onto your file system (other than SWAP) for quite obvious reasons - unless it had its own partition it could use. (which is kind of wastefull when swap is supposed to be there)