I am finding it starting to appear a bit after a story emerges from the firehose. My best guess means that the "signed" tag means that the staff reviewed (and possibly corrected) it.
Look, things like an Access database can appear to work, even under testing conditions. However, when a single database starts getting hit by 100x what you could ever test, it falls apart. This is an amateurs mistake, yet it is the same handful of guys that have been there for 30 years. They aren't bright. They have no real technical ability. Their tools are actually proof of that. They use whatever they can to complete the job with the least effort and the least knowledge. That is why I have worked a couple of contracts with them... they get something that is even the slightest bit of work/research/learning/effort on their part, and they start looking for people to write those bits for them. They take it all back home and tie it together with dental floss.
As someone who has had a couple of contracts working with Diebold, it wasn't only Windows, but Windows, VB6, and an Access database. I wish I were joking.
I started thinking about this a lot since the announcement of LSB (Linux Standard Base) 4.*. The idea that a distro could have core components in common to target sounds great. But tackle it from a different angle. Lets say I am using distro Y to develop an application targeted to work on LSB. The problem is now, I have to be VERY CONSCIOUS of what libs/bins I am using, and how. Just because it runs on distro Y that is LSB compliant doesn't mean that it will work on any LSB distro. Now everything I touch, and how I touch it, needs to be looked up, analyzed, and tested on however many LSB compliant distros, JUST TO MAKE SURE that I haven't tried to use something that isn't actually part of LSB.
The only way I can see something like LSB working is to have a distro that is ONLY LSB... as in, nothing else. But seriously... does the spec even encompass a whole working OS?
Seriously. WTF is "aggravated identity theft"? The only logical thing I can come up with is that he held someone up with a gun or something to steal their credentials. But then wouldn't this in fact BE "aggravated assault" + "identity theft"? My comprehension that they actually made one law by merging two other already illegal things just doesn't sit well.
Sure, things that actually use the database for production shouldn't be trying to do dirty things with it, but developers, whether dedicated "DBA's", or the poor shop with only one tech guy of any kind, need to be able to "play" with the database to be able to tweak it and... well... do anything of meaning other than retrieve data. Sometimes this can be dangerous, but this is why they are testing on a development server... right?
Yeah. Must not be a very smart learning machine... I've flagged everything in my yahoo inbox as spam for years, that had anything that wasn't an english lower-ascii charactor, and I'll be damned, that is what 99% of my spam still is.
Just like your social security number was never meant to be used outside of the social security system. Let's be honest here. A lot of us write software, and not just exclusive to that group, we have all experienced this phenomenon:
Just about every project grows well beyond it's initial purpose.
You must live a pretty sad life then, sancho. Have you never gone to a club? A concert? A protest rally? A ball game of any kind? These things materialize when anxiousness rises and people feel angry and overwhelmed. These situations are not rare. However, if you live in a cave, you are never going to be at a place where these kinds of situations occur.
Just because they don't find you doesn't mean they are any less real.
Have you ever seen a buddhist monk whistle? Does this lack of evidence means it doesn't happen often? No. It just means YOU don't have the information yourself to make such a claim. It does NOT mean *I* do not.
After all, I don't take a picture of everything I've witnessed. That doesn't make it any less true.
I've been thinking about the whole "remapping" of memories thing a bit lately. I think what it comes down to is the old Xerox effect. A bit after the initial incident, you don't actually conjure up the original memory, but rather, you start remembering remembering the incident.
For instance, let's say you were walking along with a girl and a bird pooped on her head. A week later, you meet this girls mother, in which you tell her the story about the bird pooping on her daughters head. Then, a month later, you run into her mother again at the grocery store. You have a five second flash of remembering the poop incident, but this time, you are recalling the recall of it when you explained the situation for the mother. You now have a copy of a copy of that memory. As this happens over and over, details get lost... you fill in the insignificant gaps with something seemingly harmless. Over time, the details change because of the gross sum of filling in the gaps.
Actually, it's more like, if you are watching a cop beat the snot out of someone, excessively, for little to no reason, what do you think they will do when they see you filming them doing it? Most people are not willing to find out.
While I'll agree, it is very dangerous to concede to the "It can be used for bad things... who cares about the legitimate uses". Imagine other things taken on if this becomes ok... alcohol, guns, gambling, motorcycles, bleach, linux, dogs, sharp pencils, etc. You may think some of that is a bit off the wall, but once you let the bad guys into the building, good luck telling them what rooms they can go into.
Not that I back Hasbro, but purchasing the alleged "illegal copy" of their game would have sent the message "Copy our game and do a better job than us, and we will pay you for it rather than prosecuting you"
While those are both a couple of my favorite games, the word puzzles really put me off to playing them anymore. Not only do they lose any value once you've memorized them, originally figuring them out merely took a small app (wrote mine in QBasic) to search a dictionary for words that contained the letters you were staring at. It didn't take much effort.
However, the first chess puzzle in 11th hour was absolutely great. I remember drawing out the board and moving pennies around trying to figure out the solution... and then the click, when I finally realized that it is more or less a path with a fork in the road. Genius.
I was not self-admitted, else I could have signed an AMA (Against Medical Advice) waiver and gotten out. I had been working 16+ hour days at work for a month and I was cracking hard. I was actually doing a paid research study for people with psychosis, and I was doing a test in an MRI machine. The spiders started coming out of every crack and I couldn't move, obviously. I couldn't help but panic and I trashed and screamed, everything I could do to get out of there away from the spiders/ They had me admitted because I was "a probable danger to myself and others".
I also have to add this little bit, because it is hard for people to comprehend situations like this if they never have experienced it... When you have a psychotic episode, you can not tell it isn't real. You can even try and reason with yourself that "This can't possibly be happening", but ultimately, every other part of your brain is telling you it is.
It isn't just prison, but institutionalization in general.
Once upon a time, I was put into a "mental health facility" (loony bin) after a drawn out period where I started seeing spiders coming at me in all directions (an extreme phobia of mine). Today, we have found out that this condition only emerges when I don't sleep at least 6 hours a night, and stress contriubutes largely to my ability to sleep. Well, about a day into this place, I was literally going nuts. They had TVs, but you weren't allowed to watch them... ever. The only game they had was a deck of cards... with 35 cards. They took away your shoes and most common clothing, where most of us had to wear a hospital gown... the place was at a constant 60 degrees F. There was one hallway... 84 steps from end to end. The only thing to do there was drink coffee and smoke. I never did either before I went there, but when the coffee cart came out, you grabbed one. There was nothing else to do. When smoke break came along, you smoked one. There was nothing else to do.
I started coming up with games to play with myself around the place to try and keep what sanity I had left. I got locked into solitary for playing "Die Hard" and being too "loud and obnoxious, which stirs up the other patients" I was told. The first visitation from my wife I was allowed to have, I had her get a lawyer and get me the hell out of there.
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I am finding it starting to appear a bit after a story emerges from the firehose. My best guess means that the "signed" tag means that the staff reviewed (and possibly corrected) it.
Look, things like an Access database can appear to work, even under testing conditions. However, when a single database starts getting hit by 100x what you could ever test, it falls apart. This is an amateurs mistake, yet it is the same handful of guys that have been there for 30 years. They aren't bright. They have no real technical ability. Their tools are actually proof of that. They use whatever they can to complete the job with the least effort and the least knowledge. That is why I have worked a couple of contracts with them... they get something that is even the slightest bit of work/research/learning/effort on their part, and they start looking for people to write those bits for them. They take it all back home and tie it together with dental floss.
As someone who has had a couple of contracts working with Diebold, it wasn't only Windows, but Windows, VB6, and an Access database. I wish I were joking.
I started thinking about this a lot since the announcement of LSB (Linux Standard Base) 4.*. The idea that a distro could have core components in common to target sounds great. But tackle it from a different angle. Lets say I am using distro Y to develop an application targeted to work on LSB. The problem is now, I have to be VERY CONSCIOUS of what libs/bins I am using, and how. Just because it runs on distro Y that is LSB compliant doesn't mean that it will work on any LSB distro. Now everything I touch, and how I touch it, needs to be looked up, analyzed, and tested on however many LSB compliant distros, JUST TO MAKE SURE that I haven't tried to use something that isn't actually part of LSB.
The only way I can see something like LSB working is to have a distro that is ONLY LSB... as in, nothing else. But seriously... does the spec even encompass a whole working OS?
Its the god damn internet.
"It's"
Seriously. WTF is "aggravated identity theft"? The only logical thing I can come up with is that he held someone up with a gun or something to steal their credentials. But then wouldn't this in fact BE "aggravated assault" + "identity theft"? My comprehension that they actually made one law by merging two other already illegal things just doesn't sit well.
To play devil's advocate, why should those of us with good health have to pay extra for your problems?
Because on a long enough timeline, the chance that you won't get sick approaches 0.
Keep your friends close, but keep your enemies closer.
Sure, things that actually use the database for production shouldn't be trying to do dirty things with it, but developers, whether dedicated "DBA's", or the poor shop with only one tech guy of any kind, need to be able to "play" with the database to be able to tweak it and ... well... do anything of meaning other than retrieve data. Sometimes this can be dangerous, but this is why they are testing on a development server... right?
Yeah. Must not be a very smart learning machine... I've flagged everything in my yahoo inbox as spam for years, that had anything that wasn't an english lower-ascii charactor, and I'll be damned, that is what 99% of my spam still is.
Video killed the Radio star.
Just like your social security number was never meant to be used outside of the social security system. Let's be honest here. A lot of us write software, and not just exclusive to that group, we have all experienced this phenomenon:
Just about every project grows well beyond it's initial purpose.
just because you're paranoid, don't mean their not after you -- Kirt Cobain
The reasons of this behavior of FutureMark product are not yet known
Easy. Intel paid them to make it that way.
You must live a pretty sad life then, sancho. Have you never gone to a club? A concert? A protest rally? A ball game of any kind? These things materialize when anxiousness rises and people feel angry and overwhelmed. These situations are not rare. However, if you live in a cave, you are never going to be at a place where these kinds of situations occur.
Just because they don't find you doesn't mean they are any less real.
Have you ever seen a buddhist monk whistle? Does this lack of evidence means it doesn't happen often? No. It just means YOU don't have the information yourself to make such a claim. It does NOT mean *I* do not.
After all, I don't take a picture of everything I've witnessed. That doesn't make it any less true.
I've been thinking about the whole "remapping" of memories thing a bit lately. I think what it comes down to is the old Xerox effect. A bit after the initial incident, you don't actually conjure up the original memory, but rather, you start remembering remembering the incident.
For instance, let's say you were walking along with a girl and a bird pooped on her head. A week later, you meet this girls mother, in which you tell her the story about the bird pooping on her daughters head. Then, a month later, you run into her mother again at the grocery store. You have a five second flash of remembering the poop incident, but this time, you are recalling the recall of it when you explained the situation for the mother. You now have a copy of a copy of that memory. As this happens over and over, details get lost... you fill in the insignificant gaps with something seemingly harmless. Over time, the details change because of the gross sum of filling in the gaps.
Actually, it's more like, if you are watching a cop beat the snot out of someone, excessively, for little to no reason, what do you think they will do when they see you filming them doing it? Most people are not willing to find out.
While I'll agree, it is very dangerous to concede to the "It can be used for bad things... who cares about the legitimate uses". Imagine other things taken on if this becomes ok... alcohol, guns, gambling, motorcycles, bleach, linux, dogs, sharp pencils, etc. You may think some of that is a bit off the wall, but once you let the bad guys into the building, good luck telling them what rooms they can go into.
Not that I back Hasbro, but purchasing the alleged "illegal copy" of their game would have sent the message "Copy our game and do a better job than us, and we will pay you for it rather than prosecuting you"
Hate to break this to you man, but Trilobyte went out of business in 1998.
I was supposed to interview for an internship before they closed down. Sad indeed.
Yeah. Well have a whole new generation of people who cower in horror whenever they hear "Monkey Wrench"
While those are both a couple of my favorite games, the word puzzles really put me off to playing them anymore. Not only do they lose any value once you've memorized them, originally figuring them out merely took a small app (wrote mine in QBasic) to search a dictionary for words that contained the letters you were staring at. It didn't take much effort.
However, the first chess puzzle in 11th hour was absolutely great. I remember drawing out the board and moving pennies around trying to figure out the solution... and then the click, when I finally realized that it is more or less a path with a fork in the road. Genius.
I was not self-admitted, else I could have signed an AMA (Against Medical Advice) waiver and gotten out. I had been working 16+ hour days at work for a month and I was cracking hard. I was actually doing a paid research study for people with psychosis, and I was doing a test in an MRI machine. The spiders started coming out of every crack and I couldn't move, obviously. I couldn't help but panic and I trashed and screamed, everything I could do to get out of there away from the spiders/ They had me admitted because I was "a probable danger to myself and others".
I also have to add this little bit, because it is hard for people to comprehend situations like this if they never have experienced it... When you have a psychotic episode, you can not tell it isn't real. You can even try and reason with yourself that "This can't possibly be happening", but ultimately, every other part of your brain is telling you it is.
It isn't just prison, but institutionalization in general.
Once upon a time, I was put into a "mental health facility" (loony bin) after a drawn out period where I started seeing spiders coming at me in all directions (an extreme phobia of mine). Today, we have found out that this condition only emerges when I don't sleep at least 6 hours a night, and stress contriubutes largely to my ability to sleep. Well, about a day into this place, I was literally going nuts. They had TVs, but you weren't allowed to watch them... ever. The only game they had was a deck of cards... with 35 cards. They took away your shoes and most common clothing, where most of us had to wear a hospital gown... the place was at a constant 60 degrees F. There was one hallway... 84 steps from end to end. The only thing to do there was drink coffee and smoke. I never did either before I went there, but when the coffee cart came out, you grabbed one. There was nothing else to do. When smoke break came along, you smoked one. There was nothing else to do.
I started coming up with games to play with myself around the place to try and keep what sanity I had left. I got locked into solitary for playing "Die Hard" and being too "loud and obnoxious, which stirs up the other patients" I was told. The first visitation from my wife I was allowed to have, I had her get a lawyer and get me the hell out of there.