It really doesn't sound like you were very good at your job.
It's nothing to get upset about - the average person is relatively bad at fully half the things they try. Put the average person into a specialized job, and there is probably a 95% chance that they will be relatively bad at it.
That said, nobody owes you an imaginary-deity-damned thing in life. You are one of the privileged few (relatively) humans who has ever held a job as good as your former one. Be grateful for that, and try to stop being such a fucking whiner.
You can get a "Firebox" VPN/Firewall/Router pretty cheap on ebay. They are running about $75.00US for the Firebox 1200/2. The "/2" part means it has 2 WAN ports and you can load balance across both, it is setup to be redundant, so if one goes down, it moves all traffic to the other automagically. I use one and it works like a champ.
Really? Because I have a Firebox at work, and as far as I can tell, it can be configured to use two WAN links for either load balancing or redundancy, but not both.
One of our links went down while it was in the load balancing configuration a few months back, which resulted in users seeing every other page load fail.
At a job, you can have a project be cancelled and a year of work is just thrown out, but that can never happen with children, because the work itself is also the meaning, and its effects are immediate as well as long-term.
I would fully recover eventually if my project was killed. The analog is too horrible to fully consider.
What does "supported by Apple" actually mean, though?
Apple doesn't support their software at all in the traditional sense. If something in the OS is broken, they'll barely help you work around it, let alone tell you when or if it might be fixed.
it shouldn't be necessary to recompile a kernel just to use new hardware, ever.
Be careful with that word "ever." Processors are hardware too, and I think one should reasonably expect a recompile when moving from, say, Itanic to Power6 or G4 to x86 or x86 to ARM.
I use sync-back on my windows laptop at work. Copy key files to the NAS, What the fuck is automatic about that?
which is then automatically backed up every night. So for some stuff of mine, there are 3 copies at any one time. But only one if you don't remember to back up in the first place? Nice solution.
Even if you reword it to say, "the average developer..." you still have a fairly meaningless statement. That's like saying "the average basketball player cannot slam-dunk", which is true, but doesn't tell you *anything* about any particular basketball player. After all, the vast majority of basketball players are children and at-or-below average height people playing street ball. Even a reasonably tall person (say, 6'5"), is going to have a hard time dunking a ball without a lot of effort.
"Average" is directly implied. "Professional developer" can be reasonably assumed without making a pedantic ass of yourself.
After all, American's average 1.5 children per couple, or something silly like that, as well, but it's exceeding rare to find a couple that actually has 1.5 children.
Sure, but it gives you a pretty good idea of how many families it takes to produce 1600 children.
And to think, all this time I have just been turning on the AC on May 1st and letting it run until Halloween. No wonder my bills are so high! As a bonus, I may not have to bundle up anymore on those cold spring nights when the outside temp goes down to the 50s and it AC running at full tilt cools the house even more than that!
Seriously though, assuming we are talking about rich world energy consumers here, who doesn't have a freaking thermostat? There a pretty standard and integral feature of every heating and cooling system out there, whether it be a central HVAC system, a space heater, or a window AC unit, they all have thermostats.
2x4 is a unitless board size. It's hardly incorrect labeling, as inches aren't even implied as the unit of measure.
Besides, it's not like a lumber company selling 1.75" x 3.75" 2x4s would be doing their customers any favors - they would just be selling worthless non-standard sized sticks.
There were some stupid crook stories too (hint: if you're stealing a car, with boat attached, remember to hook up the trailer lights)
You call THAT a stupid crook story? Good grief, get a sense of perspective. I can assure that I am not stupid, but nevertheless, if I was stealing a car with boat attached, I wouldn't think to check that the freaking taillights were plugged in.
I suppose the crook would have been stupid in your mind if he hadn't checked the tire pressure or oil level of the vehicle he was stealing either.
Has it occurred to you that some people don't have the time to do a pre-heist 101 point inspection of every vehicle they thieve? Some times you need to take shortcuts in the name of efficiency! Freaking taillights, my ass.
As far as split-screen play goes, if you only wanted to give each player a 120x110 pixel display I'll bet any graphics card on the market could run 4 instances of the game display simultaneously. Even at 1080p you only get 480x270 per player
4 x 4 makes 16 instances of the game. And 4 * (120 x 110) is 480x440, which is not a resolution I have ever encountered.
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You do get that what your parent tries to point out is that the duration of the time intervals in our current time-and-calendar system aren't arbitrary, but derived from natural phenomena, right?
"but if we were to have equal representation, then there'd be about 600 people in the House."
In order to have truly equal representation, the number of congresscritters would have to be the US population divided by the greatest common denominator of the populations of the states - a number which happens to be far greater than the number of people eligible to serve in Congress (and almost certainly equal to the population of the US)
"This won't solve anything, because census data is not very accurate."
The Constitution dictates that the census data be used to apportion congressional seats. The accuracy of the census is on;y tangentially related to the gerrymandering problem, and solving the gerrymandering problem doesn't have to have anything to do with the census.
The more I think about, I guess you were just looking for any opportunity to bitch about the census, because the grandparent certainly wasn't suggesting the census is needed for redistricting - that's just when the redistricting naturally should happen, per the Constitution.
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VirtualBox is not a hypervisor.
It really doesn't sound like you were very good at your job. It's nothing to get upset about - the average person is relatively bad at fully half the things they try. Put the average person into a specialized job, and there is probably a 95% chance that they will be relatively bad at it. That said, nobody owes you an imaginary-deity-damned thing in life. You are one of the privileged few (relatively) humans who has ever held a job as good as your former one. Be grateful for that, and try to stop being such a fucking whiner.
You can get a "Firebox" VPN/Firewall/Router pretty cheap on ebay. They are running about $75.00US for the Firebox 1200/2. The "/2" part means it has 2 WAN ports and you can load balance across both, it is setup to be redundant, so if one goes down, it moves all traffic to the other automagically. I use one and it works like a champ.
Really? Because I have a Firebox at work, and as far as I can tell, it can be configured to use two WAN links for either load balancing or redundancy, but not both.
One of our links went down while it was in the load balancing configuration a few months back, which resulted in users seeing every other page load fail.
I would fully recover eventually if my project was killed. The analog is too horrible to fully consider.
What does "supported by Apple" actually mean, though?
Apple doesn't support their software at all in the traditional sense. If something in the OS is broken, they'll barely help you work around it, let alone tell you when or if it might be fixed.
The Atom's lower costs will show up on Intel's bottom line, not on the price of the processors.
1997 called. It wants its obligations back.
Be careful with that word "ever." Processors are hardware too, and I think one should reasonably expect a recompile when moving from, say, Itanic to Power6 or G4 to x86 or x86 to ARM.
"Average" is directly implied. "Professional developer" can be reasonably assumed without making a pedantic ass of yourself.
After all, American's average 1.5 children per couple, or something silly like that, as well, but it's exceeding rare to find a couple that actually has 1.5 children.Sure, but it gives you a pretty good idea of how many families it takes to produce 1600 children.
And to think, all this time I have just been turning on the AC on May 1st and letting it run until Halloween. No wonder my bills are so high! As a bonus, I may not have to bundle up anymore on those cold spring nights when the outside temp goes down to the 50s and it AC running at full tilt cools the house even more than that!
Seriously though, assuming we are talking about rich world energy consumers here, who doesn't have a freaking thermostat? There a pretty standard and integral feature of every heating and cooling system out there, whether it be a central HVAC system, a space heater, or a window AC unit, they all have thermostats.
2x4 is a unitless board size. It's hardly incorrect labeling, as inches aren't even implied as the unit of measure. Besides, it's not like a lumber company selling 1.75" x 3.75" 2x4s would be doing their customers any favors - they would just be selling worthless non-standard sized sticks.
There were some stupid crook stories too (hint: if you're stealing a car, with boat attached, remember to hook up the trailer lights)
You call THAT a stupid crook story? Good grief, get a sense of perspective. I can assure that I am not stupid, but nevertheless, if I was stealing a car with boat attached, I wouldn't think to check that the freaking taillights were plugged in.
I suppose the crook would have been stupid in your mind if he hadn't checked the tire pressure or oil level of the vehicle he was stealing either.
Has it occurred to you that some people don't have the time to do a pre-heist 101 point inspection of every vehicle they thieve? Some times you need to take shortcuts in the name of efficiency! Freaking taillights, my ass.
Those numbers are decimal*.
Perhaps you meant powers of two?
*if the values represented correspond to the Crayola quantities I am familiar with. The numbers could, of course, be anything octal or higher based.
millimeters
Oh. Well I guess that is interesting then, isn't it?
4 x 4 makes 16 instances of the game. And 4 * (120 x 110) is 480x440, which is not a resolution I have ever encountered.
Yeah, arbitrarily chosen natural phenomena. Thus, arbitrary.
Just because I didn't respond to your stupid ping doesn't mean I'm not using my IP address.
"but if we were to have equal representation, then there'd be about 600 people in the House."
In order to have truly equal representation, the number of congresscritters would have to be the US population divided by the greatest common denominator of the populations of the states - a number which happens to be far greater than the number of people eligible to serve in Congress (and almost certainly equal to the population of the US)
"This won't solve anything, because census data is not very accurate."
The Constitution dictates that the census data be used to apportion congressional seats. The accuracy of the census is on;y tangentially related to the gerrymandering problem, and solving the gerrymandering problem doesn't have to have anything to do with the census.
The more I think about, I guess you were just looking for any opportunity to bitch about the census, because the grandparent certainly wasn't suggesting the census is needed for redistricting - that's just when the redistricting naturally should happen, per the Constitution.
Yeah, as opposed to all those 8mm films we've seen released on HD-DVD/Blu-ray.
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Q: Is "it offends at least one person" a single hope?
A: Yes.
Q: Should "hopes" therefore be "hope"?
A: Yes.
Q: ??
A: Profit!!
Xserves have DB-9 serial ports.
I have nothing to add, but you might want to check your terminology.
MacOS is Unix, Linux is not.