A lecturer was showing us some details of a connector strip when he got his gold wedding ring across the battery and earth. It was VAPOURISED off his finger!
I will never forget the smell!
I love the smell of gold vapor in the morning. It smells like... world domination.
- Sauron
When the feds weren't "encouraging" them to lend to "minimally qualified" homebuyers, they were less likely to. As usual, "deregulation" was a farce that just meant the government shifted their influence somewhere else.
AFAICT the SQL "standards" are simply the superset of everything Oracle and DB2 happened to be doing the year the standard was finalized. I tend to use them as examples of how not do make standards.
Hmm, I could have sworn T left sometime a year or two ago. Wishful thinking I suppose. I don't ordinarily pay attention to the editor's name on a story, at least unless there's something glaringly wrong with it.
The fact that anyone thinks some sort of "internal market" can improve a fundamentally broken idea like the NHS just proves what a disaster the British education system has become.
If you don't like the rules in the country you try to do business in, then don't do business there, and don't whine when their courts fine you for breaking them. There are definitely times I wish Microsoft would just shrug. Of course, that would require that Gates (or Ballmer or whoever) have some actual moral integrity....
I'm trying to think of a gorgeous game that sucked... memory is failing me right now, but there have been many. Actually, at the risk of getting flamed to death, I'd say Oblivion was one such stinker (for me). The graphics were pretty nice for its time, but I found the actual gameplay sluggish and clumsy. The sandbox concept worked well, but I spent most of my time walking around those stupid hell dimensions looking for stuff to kill, and then dicking around towns waiting for some NPC to come out of hiding at a specific time of day. Much like GTA, I quickly got bored of the storyline and started playing randomly, killing innocents and all the guards I could handle. I stopped playing it after maybe two weeks... epic fail. How about the Myst games? I love the scenery, and the effects once I actually get something working, but I find the concept to be a complete failure, as I can't even find the puzzles most of the time, let along solve them.
I'm sure that Thunderbird wouldn't be that stupid. I dunno, Netscape Communicator's (4.something) mail client did. I dropped a typical piece of JavaScript obnoxiousness in a message to a mailing list once back in college--something that opened an alert dialog on a tight loop so pressing "OK" would just open another one. (Annoyed the local BOFH to no end, but that's what he deserved for not using Berkeley mail....)
I wrote my master's thesis on SCADA (power system control) network security, and while I'm not surprised TVA is insecure, I never got the impression anyone else was any better.
I really don't get this attitude--why is a universe that works counter to our intuitions more beautiful than one that is easy to understand? It's like the quotes from early QM people saying that the fact that the theory made no sense was what proved it was true--WTF, over?
Isn't there anyone who realizes that the problem is in the monopoly rights the government continually grants the big corporations? If they were exposed to actual free market conditions, none of them would be able to sustain their business models for a minute.
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A lecturer was showing us some details of a connector strip when he got his gold wedding ring across the battery and earth. It was VAPOURISED off his finger!
I will never forget the smell!
I love the smell of gold vapor in the morning. It smells like ... world domination.
- Sauron
It's BoomTime, Bureaucracy 33, 3174 on my desk calendar. fnord
When the feds weren't "encouraging" them to lend to "minimally qualified" homebuyers, they were less likely to. As usual, "deregulation" was a farce that just meant the government shifted their influence somewhere else.
We're talking about ASCII APL, right? That's for lamers, real programmers use K.
{{y@&x'y}[{&/x-l*_x%l:2_!x}]3_!x}50
3 5 7 11 13 17 19 23 29 31 37 41 43 47
that's primes < 50 (fairly naively, i'll admit)
AFAICT the SQL "standards" are simply the superset of everything Oracle and DB2 happened to be doing the year the standard was finalized. I tend to use them as examples of how not do make standards.
Hmm, I could have sworn T left sometime a year or two ago. Wishful thinking I suppose. I don't ordinarily pay attention to the editor's name on a story, at least unless there's something glaringly wrong with it.
Its because Perl has developed piecemeal over the last ten or so years in an environment where there was no design authority.
There, fixed that for you.
Ah, kdawson. Just when you though getting rid of Timothy would improve things around here....
Isn't the appropriate response to this name "ORLY"?
The market's doing better at space travel than the governments are right now, and they've been looking at the problem for a whole lot shorter time.
The fact that anyone thinks some sort of "internal market" can improve a fundamentally broken idea like the NHS just proves what a disaster the British education system has become.
Congratulations, you're part of the problem.
In America, we have a Man in the Moon. In Japan, they have a rabbit. This is the first I've ever heard about a duck.
Huh. The most straightforward answer, and the one that seemed least likely to me....
Coincidentally, http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Overdue-Retirement.aspx.
Will someone please explain WTF "2.5" means in the summary?
I wrote my master's thesis on SCADA (power system control) network security, and while I'm not surprised TVA is insecure, I never got the impression anyone else was any better.
Not actually true, signal propagation from your retina to your visual cortex is not instantaneous.
I really don't get this attitude--why is a universe that works counter to our intuitions more beautiful than one that is easy to understand? It's like the quotes from early QM people saying that the fact that the theory made no sense was what proved it was true--WTF, over?
Isn't there anyone who realizes that the problem is in the monopoly rights the government continually grants the big corporations? If they were exposed to actual free market conditions, none of them would be able to sustain their business models for a minute.
Remember, Freenet's really not that different from Bittorrent. How useful is Bittorrent when there's two peers serving some years-old file?
Wise men have commented that difference between a bug and a vulnerability lies only in the skill of the exploiter.