Lots of things are just improvements on other things.
But by making this a device, it actually seems to be a degradation. Now
we have to carry another device around? What's wrong with making
this a mobile app? It would literally do the exact same thing.
I've always wondered the same thing, so I googled "Can you stand on Jupiter?"
Condensed version: at the core is a (??) solid rock and some other stuff, and gasses are so dense and hot, they act more like a liquid.
Furthermore, it meets the requirements of a planet;
1. It orbits the Sun
2. It has sufficient mass to assume hydrostatic equilibrium (a nearly round shape)
3. It has "cleared the neighborhood" around its orbit
(credit: http://www.city-data.com/forum...)
Nobody loves ads, but they keep content free. If you want to pay for Netflix, Hulu+, HBO Go, Showtime whatever, Slashdot Premium, Facebook PRO, LinkedIn LOL j/k, nobody wants that, or whatever else, then fine. But if you're not paying for it, you're being a bad internet citizen by blocking ads. Block Flash, sure. But the rest? Just let it do its thing and remember that it's keeping your beloved content alive and free.
As a caveat, I do long for the days when a website (let's go with CNN here) doesn't need 150 MB to load fucking home page content. Everything is so bloated. I'm fine with ads, but can we work on tuning some of these pages? I don't even want to visit some sites because of the toll they take on my system resources. And to your point, I'm sure half of that is ads.
When I managed a ColdFusion environment years back, I got a request to write a custom tag to interface with IBM's IMS. I had no idea what it even was, but I obtained some sample Java code and basically wrapped it in the Custom Tag framework and it's worked like a charm ever since. I'm not sure if this counts as "old" since it is still maintained by IBM, but the system itself was born in 1966.
Beautiful.
I too was deployed to Iraq. Some Major got bit by the Good Idea Fairy and wrote an Access Database to store all of our flight data. It took him half the deployment to write that. Meanwhile, we were storing all the data in Excel. Once it was ready, he wanted us to import the data to his Access DB. And of course, it wouldn't just import because the table structures were too different. So we were to import all 15k records by hand.
As you know, military PCs are all locked down, but AutoHotKey has a scripting language and does not require admin privileges to run, so I spent a week writing a script that alt-tabbed between the Excel sheet and the Access DB and copied and pasted each cell into each form field until the damn thing was imported. Not a hardware hack, per se, but definitely a hack. Got an ARCOM out of that for saving everyone a shitload of time and their sanity.
I'm just waiting for them to shut down Google Voice and leave me to deal with the cleanup. Just after I move my code off of Google Code. For fuck's sake...
It seems like everyone is focusing on the obvious implementation of students, but with further research, couldn't this possibly be expanded to real life professions?
Say, airline pilots, or surgeons. "I'm about to amputate the left leg..." *WOOP WOOP WOOP* WRONG LEG, DINGUS.
I was in a similar situation. You'll never get out of helping out the new guy as long as you're under the same company, but you can make your life easier by throwing everything on an internal wiki. When you get asked a question, it's a lot easier and less annoying to send a link to a wiki article than to have to re-explain it from scratch.
I'm also finding, the longer you're out of the job, the easier you forget things. Document!
This is not at all uncommon for MySpace. I agree with some of the previous comments; One of the most visited websites in the world should know something about redundancy, no? Well, they should also be able to make 'updates' without taking services offline, which they seem to do every other day. MySpace isn't exactly known for its speed either. It is running ASP code on IIS servers. That probably has a more than a little to do with it. One thing is for sure: Tom is NOT my friend.
Elitism? That's what the bloody projects are written in. They probably told you that C++ is supposed to be one better than C, right? Why don't you give C a try and get back to us.
Destroyed in a fire? That's a little misleading. It was purposely put in a fire because someone thought it was ugly. It wasn't as if the museum was on fire. Someone walking by tried to save it but only got a few parts out.
You can find this in the awesome book "A Short History of Nearly Everything."
"I'm glad this country finally took a stance against an oppressor instead of waiting for millions more to be gassed or burnt alive like when the US and others waited for a long time before taking Hitler out...at least we saved some lives by going in early."
Hmmm. I seem to recall the US
supporting Iraq through the gassing of the Kurds. Maybe you would have been more glad if we had gone against them at that point in time. Hear that? It was the sound of your argument deflating.
And for people who like GOOD music and would rather not support Wal-Mart, you can find most of the good stuff on http://downloadpunk.com/ . They'll even donate a portion of your payment to a charity of your choice.
When will people learn the difference between information such as source code, Karl Rove memos, and planetary discoverins is not the same thing as someone's medical records, or a college student's grade report. Information needs to be free. Personal data should remain private. It's not that hard, people.
Yeah, unfortunately, you're right. I think blogging is an awesome tool in the hands of the public. But the fact is, the ratio of people who read blogs to those who just watch the news is low. I wouldn't know about half of the blogs out there if they weren't reported on the news, and that includes the Dan Rather conspiracy. We've got a ways to go.
A better question, what do people even run on a Windows server?
Is this really a troll or is it just ignorance? The answer is "Plenty of stuff." Unfortunately.
I work for a small cooperative and we run a piece of software called AgWorks. It is windows based and done all by Remote Desktop. I personally hate the idea. We have 29 remote locations that use it. During harvest, shit can really bog down. I don't know who thought it was a good idea, but it stands.
Our other system, which is more accounting based, works off of a QNX server. There are far fewer problems with it... In fact, I can't think of a single one in the past year.
But like it or not, people use Windows servers. And then people like us get blamed when they fuck up. And we're stuck fixing the mess we tried to prevent. Go figure.
...or, shooting can be fun AND violent! Kidding! I'm about as far left on the spectrum as possible and I agree. A gun is a tool. Same as a knife, a sword, an axe, a crossbow, TNT, etc. Though guns do go into a slightly different category because it makes it easer to kill without feeling like you actually killed, it's still left to the responsibility of the owner.
I wish people would place more emphasis on responsibility instead of trying to ban things (and this extends far beyond guns).
I make my family run Firefox because I get tired of cleaning up spyware. As for the rest of the world, I say let them burn. Fuck them. To all those who like to point out the good things about Microsoft products, fine. Keep running Windows/IE,
assholes. See if I give a shit. I'm sitting fat and happy on Debian with no worries. You're the ones debating about which spyware remover to use. You're the ones warning each other left and right about viruses. I can happily filter all that out, because it doesn't effect me a bit. I can focus on more interesting things than wondering if it's safe to click on a link or not.
Now, I realize this isn't true for everyone, and it's not true for me when I'm working in our Windows-based office. But when I'm sitting at home, I get a good chuckle out of the demise of Windows/IE users. Mod me insensitive. I just don't care.
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Lots of things are just improvements on other things.
But by making this a device, it actually seems to be a degradation. Now we have to carry another device around? What's wrong with making this a mobile app? It would literally do the exact same thing.
I've always wondered the same thing, so I googled "Can you stand on Jupiter?" Condensed version: at the core is a (??) solid rock and some other stuff, and gasses are so dense and hot, they act more like a liquid. Furthermore, it meets the requirements of a planet; 1. It orbits the Sun 2. It has sufficient mass to assume hydrostatic equilibrium (a nearly round shape) 3. It has "cleared the neighborhood" around its orbit (credit: http://www.city-data.com/forum...)
Can't wait to hear what ESR has to say about this. Oh yeah, probably something terrible!
Nobody loves ads, but they keep content free. If you want to pay for Netflix, Hulu+, HBO Go, Showtime whatever, Slashdot Premium, Facebook PRO, LinkedIn LOL j/k, nobody wants that, or whatever else, then fine. But if you're not paying for it, you're being a bad internet citizen by blocking ads. Block Flash, sure. But the rest? Just let it do its thing and remember that it's keeping your beloved content alive and free. As a caveat, I do long for the days when a website (let's go with CNN here) doesn't need 150 MB to load fucking home page content. Everything is so bloated. I'm fine with ads, but can we work on tuning some of these pages? I don't even want to visit some sites because of the toll they take on my system resources. And to your point, I'm sure half of that is ads.
When I managed a ColdFusion environment years back, I got a request to write a custom tag to interface with IBM's IMS. I had no idea what it even was, but I obtained some sample Java code and basically wrapped it in the Custom Tag framework and it's worked like a charm ever since. I'm not sure if this counts as "old" since it is still maintained by IBM, but the system itself was born in 1966.
Beautiful. I too was deployed to Iraq. Some Major got bit by the Good Idea Fairy and wrote an Access Database to store all of our flight data. It took him half the deployment to write that. Meanwhile, we were storing all the data in Excel. Once it was ready, he wanted us to import the data to his Access DB. And of course, it wouldn't just import because the table structures were too different. So we were to import all 15k records by hand. As you know, military PCs are all locked down, but AutoHotKey has a scripting language and does not require admin privileges to run, so I spent a week writing a script that alt-tabbed between the Excel sheet and the Access DB and copied and pasted each cell into each form field until the damn thing was imported. Not a hardware hack, per se, but definitely a hack. Got an ARCOM out of that for saving everyone a shitload of time and their sanity.
I'm just waiting for them to shut down Google Voice and leave me to deal with the cleanup. Just after I move my code off of Google Code. For fuck's sake...
All these Cox injections are wearing me out. I have a headache and I'm really just not in the mood.
There are third party options: http://www.liquipel.com/
It seems like everyone is focusing on the obvious implementation of students, but with further research, couldn't this possibly be expanded to real life professions? Say, airline pilots, or surgeons. "I'm about to amputate the left leg..." *WOOP WOOP WOOP* WRONG LEG, DINGUS.
I was in a similar situation. You'll never get out of helping out the new guy as long as you're under the same company, but you can make your life easier by throwing everything on an internal wiki. When you get asked a question, it's a lot easier and less annoying to send a link to a wiki article than to have to re-explain it from scratch.
I'm also finding, the longer you're out of the job, the easier you forget things. Document!
CUMBERSOME KEYBOARD?! This thing is more ergonomic and comfortable than my desktop keyboard. Sent from my Logitech Revue Google TV.
This is not at all uncommon for MySpace. I agree with some of the
previous comments; One of the most visited websites in the world should
know something about redundancy, no? Well, they should also be able to
make 'updates' without taking services offline, which they seem to do
every other day. MySpace isn't exactly known for its speed either. It is
running ASP code on IIS servers. That probably has a more than a little
to do with it. One thing is for sure: Tom is NOT my friend.
Elitism? That's what the bloody projects are written in. They probably told you that C++ is supposed to be one better than C, right? Why don't you give C a try and get back to us.
Destroyed in a fire? That's a little misleading. It was purposely put in a fire because someone thought it was ugly. It wasn't as if the museum was on fire. Someone walking by tried to save it but only got a few parts out.
You can find this in the awesome book "A Short History of Nearly Everything."
"I'm glad this country finally took a stance against an oppressor instead of waiting for millions more to be gassed or burnt alive like when the US and others waited for a long time before taking Hitler out...at least we saved some lives by going in early."
Hmmm. I seem to recall the US supporting Iraq through the gassing of the Kurds. Maybe you would have been more glad if we had gone against them at that point in time. Hear that? It was the sound of your argument deflating.
Me 1. You 0.
... /sbin/modprobe -s -k block-major-8, errno = 2
Loading kernel/fs/MissileDefense/MissileDefense.o
kmod: failed to exec
MissileDefense: Cannot open root device "mda3" or 08:03
Please append a correct "MissileDefense=" boot option
Kernel panic: MissileDefense: UNable to mount MissileDefense fs on 08:03
And for people who like GOOD music and would rather not support Wal-Mart, you can find most of the good stuff on http://downloadpunk.com/ . They'll even donate a portion of your payment to a charity of your choice.
I'm just glad good ol' Jack Mehoffer, Matt Sturbator, and Bob Ondaschaft are going to be immortalized.
When will people learn the difference between information such as source code, Karl Rove memos, and planetary discoverins is not the same thing as someone's medical records, or a college student's grade report. Information needs to be free. Personal data should remain private. It's not that hard, people.
Yeah, unfortunately, you're right. I think blogging is an awesome tool in the hands of the public. But the fact is, the ratio of people who read blogs to those who just watch the news is low. I wouldn't know about half of the blogs out there if they weren't reported on the news, and that includes the Dan Rather conspiracy. We've got a ways to go.
A better question, what do people even run on a Windows server?
Is this really a troll or is it just ignorance? The answer is "Plenty of stuff." Unfortunately.
I work for a small cooperative and we run a piece of software called AgWorks. It is windows based and done all by Remote Desktop. I personally hate the idea. We have 29 remote locations that use it. During harvest, shit can really bog down. I don't know who thought it was a good idea, but it stands.
Our other system, which is more accounting based, works off of a QNX server. There are far fewer problems with it... In fact, I can't think of a single one in the past year.
But like it or not, people use Windows servers. And then people like us get blamed when they fuck up. And we're stuck fixing the mess we tried to prevent. Go figure.
I used to coat my keys in black nail polish to keep anyone who used my computer confused. Just another step in the security chain.
Shooting can be FUN. Not violent.
...or, shooting can be fun AND violent! Kidding! I'm about as far left on the spectrum as possible and I agree. A gun is a tool. Same as a knife, a sword, an axe, a crossbow, TNT, etc. Though guns do go into a slightly different category because it makes it easer to kill without feeling like you actually killed, it's still left to the responsibility of the owner.
I wish people would place more emphasis on responsibility instead of trying to ban things (and this extends far beyond guns).
I make my family run Firefox because I get tired of cleaning up spyware. As for the rest of the world, I say let them burn. Fuck them. To all those who like to point out the good things about Microsoft products, fine. Keep running Windows/IE, assholes. See if I give a shit. I'm sitting fat and happy on Debian with no worries. You're the ones debating about which spyware remover to use. You're the ones warning each other left and right about viruses. I can happily filter all that out, because it doesn't effect me a bit. I can focus on more interesting things than wondering if it's safe to click on a link or not.
Now, I realize this isn't true for everyone, and it's not true for me when I'm working in our Windows-based office. But when I'm sitting at home, I get a good chuckle out of the demise of Windows/IE users. Mod me insensitive. I just don't care.