Praline: Hello, I wish to register a complaint . . . Hello? Miss?
Shopkeeper: What do you mean, miss?
Praline: Oh, I'm sorry, I have a cold. I wish to make a complaint.
Shopkeeper: Sorry, we're closing for lunch.
Praline: Never mind that my lad, I wish to complain about this parrot what I purchased not half an hour ago from this very boutique.
Shopkeeper: Oh yes, the Norwegian Blue. What's wrong with it?
Praline: I'll tell you what's wrong with it. It's dead, that's what's wrong with it.
Shopkeeper: No, no it's resting, look!
Praline: Look my lad, I know a dead parrot when I see one and I'm looking at one right now.
Shopkeeper: No, no sir, it's not dead. It's resting.
Praline: Resting?
Shopkeeper: Yeah, remarkable bird the Norwegian Blue, beautiful plumage, innit?
Praline: The plumage don't enter into it -- it's stone dead.
Actually the y2k thing was made up by consulting companies to reap a big windfall. Most of the Y2K projects were completely useless and/or unnecessary. Customer fear drives profits. Voter fear drives votes.
Have you ever tried to resolve something with someone who thought he understood English but didn't? The problem is the quality isn't there, but the bottom line is. Many firms are losing customers due to poor service from outsourcing companies. The people in charge only see the short term gains in payroll reduction. They won't get hit until the customers start buying other people's products down the line. That's one reason Dell cancelled it's outsourcing.
This also opens up a new market for someone to write software to block these ads, depending on how they are delivered. Kind of like disabling Gator and still using the software it's connected to.
You are so correct. The importance of this is that aluminum oxide glasses are much stronger and harder than silicon oxide glasses. So being able to manufacture them commercially would have lots of implications such as scratch free lenses for eye glasses and optical equipment like telescopes. Remember all glasses are liquids with a very high viscosity and flow with time. Aluminum oxide glass is more stable than most other glasses in that respect as well.
The "coolest" and "latest" languages are usually immature and the translations to machine language (compilers/interpreters) are usually very buggy. I am glad to see people championing the bleeding edge, because Java was once on it. However, did people use it much before "Java 2"? Java does not solve all the problems found in previous languages such as C, but it does provide an improvement in safety and fewer bugs that are hard to trace. In other words, things like memory leaks still occur, but they are fewer and easier to diagnose.
Java has made network and web programming much easier than any of the preceding languages. When any of the newer kewl languages become more mature then we may see a new trend.
I remember when it was real cool to program in assembler.
Well the Borg weren't olympic athletes either even if you count the special olympics. But geeks loved them just fine. Now the monsters in Alien series....
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Praline: Hello, I wish to register a complaint . . . Hello? Miss? Shopkeeper: What do you mean, miss? Praline: Oh, I'm sorry, I have a cold. I wish to make a complaint. Shopkeeper: Sorry, we're closing for lunch. Praline: Never mind that my lad, I wish to complain about this parrot what I purchased not half an hour ago from this very boutique. Shopkeeper: Oh yes, the Norwegian Blue. What's wrong with it? Praline: I'll tell you what's wrong with it. It's dead, that's what's wrong with it. Shopkeeper: No, no it's resting, look! Praline: Look my lad, I know a dead parrot when I see one and I'm looking at one right now. Shopkeeper: No, no sir, it's not dead. It's resting. Praline: Resting? Shopkeeper: Yeah, remarkable bird the Norwegian Blue, beautiful plumage, innit? Praline: The plumage don't enter into it -- it's stone dead.
I thought it was that simple.........
Actually the y2k thing was made up by consulting companies to reap a big windfall. Most of the Y2K projects were completely useless and/or unnecessary. Customer fear drives profits. Voter fear drives votes.
We need some way to get our money back.
Have you ever tried to resolve something with someone who thought he understood English but didn't? The problem is the quality isn't there, but the bottom line is. Many firms are losing customers due to poor service from outsourcing companies. The people in charge only see the short term gains in payroll reduction. They won't get hit until the customers start buying other people's products down the line. That's one reason Dell cancelled it's outsourcing.
I'd rather use Gmail.
Whoever modded this as troll is a moron
Python might be the most useful language since scheme.
Sounds like flamebait to me.
XP Service Pack 2
The death of the typewriter?
I chose my school because George W. Bush went there.
to upgrade all of my software, drivers, computer etc. so it works with longhorn. Should only cost about $2000.
Maybe they'll get it so hot they'll wrap every chip in a magnetic bubble to contain the plasma field.
Except in my case I'm gonna have the eyes of my Tiki God light up. Then I will start on self correcting code.
Maybe it's really a modded Xbox and they decided to play Halo instead.
The 200gb is about $220 rock solid, fast and very portable
This also opens up a new market for someone to write software to block these ads, depending on how they are delivered. Kind of like disabling Gator and still using the software it's connected to.
Information--Your on the record link in the signature doesn't work
They haven't tried Naqueda yet. More alien technology!
You are so correct. The importance of this is that aluminum oxide glasses are much stronger and harder than silicon oxide glasses. So being able to manufacture them commercially would have lots of implications such as scratch free lenses for eye glasses and optical equipment like telescopes. Remember all glasses are liquids with a very high viscosity and flow with time. Aluminum oxide glass is more stable than most other glasses in that respect as well.
It followed the adventures of Paris and Nicole as they romped through the new republic.
The "coolest" and "latest" languages are usually immature and the translations to machine language (compilers/interpreters) are usually very buggy. I am glad to see people championing the bleeding edge, because Java was once on it. However, did people use it much before "Java 2"? Java does not solve all the problems found in previous languages such as C, but it does provide an improvement in safety and fewer bugs that are hard to trace. In other words, things like memory leaks still occur, but they are fewer and easier to diagnose. Java has made network and web programming much easier than any of the preceding languages. When any of the newer kewl languages become more mature then we may see a new trend. I remember when it was real cool to program in assembler.
Well the Borg weren't olympic athletes either even if you count the special olympics. But geeks loved them just fine. Now the monsters in Alien series....
Microsoft would never use that term, since they would never reference another trademark. That's why they call java "c#".