I don't know about the UK, but in the US movie ushers are teen-age kids. They're far more enamoured with getting steet-cred for getting a clean copy of a popular film then they would be with making their boss look good by catching pirates.
I was once a teenager working in a movie theatre, and we dealt with so many annoying people that we got a certain perverse joy out of ANYTHING that would give us an excuse to throw somebody out. Catching somebody with a camera was pretty rare when I was an usher, but it happened a couple times in the two summers I worked there. And we didn't need any night vision googles. The various lights on the camera were a dead giveaway.
You could try and wiggle out of this problem by defining the infinite percentage to be the limit of the normal percentage until N when N goes to infinity. This would work for some sets, like the even numbers and would even give you a seemingly reasonable answer - 50%. But then consider this question - what percentage of all natural numbers are powers of 2 by this definition? I'll leave that as an exercise to the reader:-)
That would be 0% It's a pretty trivial infinite series problem.
So why are guerilla tactics used by an opposing force often decried as unfair or underhanded? The side at a disadvantage uses any and all means at their disposal to help make the fight more "fair". This fellow seems to back that up, unless having a lopsided fight is only sporting when it's his team doing the slaughtering.
If you've got some athletic competition, then by all means be sporting and let the rules even things out. When you have combat, then every army in the world will only consider a lopsided fight sporting when they're doing the slaughtering.
I attribute this not to anything the Americans have done, but mostly to the British attempted colonization of just about any flat dry land area over the previous two or three centuries.
Actually, even if it is something the Americans have done (does it count as talking about myself in the 3rd person if I say 'the Americans'?), then it's still due to British attempted colonization.
'Cellblog' or 'Phoneblog' is much more obvious though.
I read this and split the words as Mob and logger (just like the tagline) and started wondering why (and how) people were tracking mobs with their computers.
Where you take a mommy plant and a daddy plant and then make lots of baby plants. The you take the brother plant and the sister plant and create strange uncle Jethro who no-one in the family talks about much but HELL can he survive in hot weather.
Uncle Jethro is currently serving 25 life sentences for a string of murders in Arkansas.
The real problem here is that they named him Jethro. That's just asking him to become a criminal.
Quite a few of the people on C and C++ standards commitees are employees of or heads of compiler vendors. These are the people who have the most at stake in a language definition -- the people who actually need to make it work.
Not sure about that. When I'm in the office, I'm always irritated by people who use the speakerphone instead of just picking it up and talking to whoever it is. (Actually, if they're nearby, I'll stand up and start talking to the person on the other end of the speakerphone until my coworkers get annoyed enough to pick it up). But this might be a separate failing with the speakerphone itself rather than being irritated by hearing both sides of a conversation.
I once told a friend that my dream car would have special glass on the dashboard so that only the driver could see everything (mostly the speedometer) clearly.
I had an interview with a company that supplies Wal-Mart with baked goods, and the interviewer mentioned that they were going to have to get ready for RFID because of them. He said "When a gorilla like Wal-Mart says jump, you jump."
I wrote a simple utility once that would print out a full year's business calendar.
Someone else used this to calculate week starting dates going back 7 weeks. He basically took the current week number, and subtracted 1, 2, etc up to 7. It worked just fine for a few months, and then the new year rolled in. Suddenly his program was trying to use my utility to get week number -1, -2, -3, and so on, and then failing because it couldn't.
Since his logic had been put into place in several different places, it was decided that the simplest solution was to just enable my utility to calculate the few weeks at the end of the previous year rather than hunt down and fix every place he'd used his bad logic.
When I made the change, I put a comment in the header that read:/* added negative week numbers because (name here) is a f***ing moron. */
The phrasing in the actual code is not censored.
Sure it's unprofessional, but I was ticked off at the time and it slipped past my better judgement.
That does not prevent problems from being possible in a Linux monoculture, or a BSD monoculture. It just suggests that the underlying structure is more secure, and less likely to be a significant source of security problems for e-mail and web browser clients running on top of them.
Part of the problem with an MS monoculture isn't just a lot of people using Windows, it's a lot of people using Windows + Outlook + IE.
If we take a hypothetical situation where the three in combination are individually more secure than some other OS/Browser/Mail Client combo, it is still more profitable for a virus writer to find one flaw in the dominant software then to find a much more exploitable flaw in some other less prevalent software.
Some of it gets lost on we Americans (at least, on me), and some things broaden your horizons a bit - there is no Ford Prefect in the US, but the joke is still gotten with a little digging.
Other parts are funny regardless of cultural background: (Quoting from memory, sorry if I get any wrong)
"The Vogon ships hung in the air in exactly the same way as bricks don't."
"Fly is the art, or rather the knack, of throwing yourself at the ground and missing."
And of course the cow at the Milliway's.
It's one of my favorite series. I tried to get my wife to read the whole thing. She enjoyed the first book but couldn't get past that.
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I don't know about the UK, but in the US movie ushers are teen-age kids. They're far more enamoured with getting steet-cred for getting a clean copy of a popular film then they would be with making their boss look good by catching pirates.
I was once a teenager working in a movie theatre, and we dealt with so many annoying people that we got a certain perverse joy out of ANYTHING that would give us an excuse to throw somebody out. Catching somebody with a camera was pretty rare when I was an usher, but it happened a couple times in the two summers I worked there. And we didn't need any night vision googles. The various lights on the camera were a dead giveaway.
You could try and wiggle out of this problem by defining the infinite percentage to be the limit of the normal percentage until N when N goes to infinity. This would work for some sets, like the even numbers and would even give you a seemingly reasonable answer - 50%. But then consider this question - what percentage of all natural numbers are powers of 2 by this definition? I'll leave that as an exercise to the reader :-)
That would be 0% It's a pretty trivial infinite series problem.
...and then they get blacklisted. Problem solved.
So why are guerilla tactics used by an opposing force often decried as unfair or underhanded? The side at a disadvantage uses any and all means at their disposal to help make the fight more "fair". This fellow seems to back that up, unless having a lopsided fight is only sporting when it's his team doing the slaughtering.
If you've got some athletic competition, then by all means be sporting and let the rules even things out. When you have combat, then every army in the world will only consider a lopsided fight sporting when they're doing the slaughtering.
I think you forgot:
"All of your routers are belong to us"
and
"In Soviet Russia, traffic routes you"
You nailed the rest of the cliches I can think of though.
Depends on the context.
fo shizzle my nizzle
I attribute this not to anything the Americans have done, but mostly to the British attempted colonization of just about any flat dry land area over the previous two or three centuries.
Actually, even if it is something the Americans have done (does it count as talking about myself in the 3rd person if I say 'the Americans'?), then it's still due to British attempted colonization.
'Cellblog' or 'Phoneblog' is much more obvious though.
I read this and split the words as Mob and logger (just like the tagline) and started wondering why (and how) people were tracking mobs with their computers.
Except they're saying they'd do the same amount of checking they do now, just that it would take 5 years due to backlog.
Where you take a mommy plant and a daddy plant and then make lots of baby plants. The you take the brother plant and the sister plant and create strange uncle Jethro who no-one in the family talks about much but HELL can he survive in hot weather.
Uncle Jethro is currently serving 25 life sentences for a string of murders in Arkansas.
The real problem here is that they named him Jethro. That's just asking him to become a criminal.
Quite a few of the people on C and C++ standards commitees are employees of or heads of compiler vendors. These are the people who have the most at stake in a language definition -- the people who actually need to make it work.
Not sure about that. When I'm in the office, I'm always irritated by people who use the speakerphone instead of just picking it up and talking to whoever it is. (Actually, if they're nearby, I'll stand up and start talking to the person on the other end of the speakerphone until my coworkers get annoyed enough to pick it up). But this might be a separate failing with the speakerphone itself rather than being irritated by hearing both sides of a conversation.
Yes, I'm being a spelling nazi, but come on, it's the headline!
I once told a friend that my dream car would have special glass on the dashboard so that only the driver could see everything (mostly the speedometer) clearly.
Yes. He is that Godwin.
Heh. I had the impression the tags were going into the packaging. The topic was only glossed over briefly.
I had an interview with a company that supplies Wal-Mart with baked goods, and the interviewer mentioned that they were going to have to get ready for RFID because of them. He said "When a gorilla like Wal-Mart says jump, you jump."
My wife got me Dark Chocolate Hershey's Kisses. That's kinda normal. Then we stopped by to visit my Grandmother. She got me a tape measure.
I wrote a simple utility once that would print out a full year's business calendar.
/* added negative week numbers because (name here) is a f***ing moron. */
Someone else used this to calculate week starting dates going back 7 weeks. He basically took the current week number, and subtracted 1, 2, etc up to 7. It worked just fine for a few months, and then the new year rolled in. Suddenly his program was trying to use my utility to get week number -1, -2, -3, and so on, and then failing because it couldn't.
Since his logic had been put into place in several different places, it was decided that the simplest solution was to just enable my utility to calculate the few weeks at the end of the previous year rather than hunt down and fix every place he'd used his bad logic.
When I made the change, I put a comment in the header that read:
The phrasing in the actual code is not censored.
Sure it's unprofessional, but I was ticked off at the time and it slipped past my better judgement.
Crap, never mind, I can't line up names and roles.
Martin Freeman is a black American? imdb says he was born in the UK. and I'll bet he's a whitey. or were you thinking of Morgan Freeman?
As long as people value entertainment more than they do education, public safety, or public health, entertainment will be where the money goes.
If I go and see a movie every week, bring my wife, and buy popcorn, I'll spend maybe $25 / week * 52 weeks = $1300. That would be a HEAVY movie-goer.
A pre-school we're looking at for my daughter, 3 days a week, 1PM - 4PM, costs about $3800.
One entertainer can reach millions of people at once.
One teacher can reach maybe 200 kids during a day.
It's not that we spend more on entertainment. It's that the money gets concentrated to relatively few people.
That does not prevent problems from being possible in a Linux monoculture, or a BSD monoculture. It just suggests that the underlying structure is more secure, and less likely to be a significant source of security problems for e-mail and web browser clients running on top of them.
Part of the problem with an MS monoculture isn't just a lot of people using Windows, it's a lot of people using Windows + Outlook + IE. If we take a hypothetical situation where the three in combination are individually more secure than some other OS/Browser/Mail Client combo, it is still more profitable for a virus writer to find one flaw in the dominant software then to find a much more exploitable flaw in some other less prevalent software.
Unless the application was done with pictures only.
Some of it gets lost on we Americans (at least, on me), and some things broaden your horizons a bit - there is no Ford Prefect in the US, but the joke is still gotten with a little digging.
Other parts are funny regardless of cultural background:
(Quoting from memory, sorry if I get any wrong)
"The Vogon ships hung in the air in exactly the same way as bricks don't."
"Fly is the art, or rather the knack, of throwing yourself at the ground and missing."
And of course the cow at the Milliway's.
It's one of my favorite series. I tried to get my wife to read the whole thing. She enjoyed the first book but couldn't get past that.