That can be done optically, and would make amputated-member difficult. Especially if the car called in a medical emergency when it detected a dead finger.
"Intensive purposes" are porposes that require a great deal of focus (like midget arm-wrestling). What you meant was "for all intents and purposes" and in fact it was originally "to all intents and purposes".
...to build a proprietary algorithm deep into the process and patent everything so later you can sue the ass off anyone who tries to build a clone or run compatible email clients on a hobbyist operating system.
Once bitten, twice shy. By my calculations, the computing public should be about sixteen billion times shy of technology pioneered by Microsoft.
An American (this joke fails in Autralia, Britain and Japan unless the yuppie is also left-handed) YUP, driving home drunk, loses control and swipes a power pole, tearing his left arm off, then rolls the car and gets thrown clear (no seatbelt: top marks for brains, that man).
Tumbling to his feet, he amazes a passerby by flinching back and screaming "My BMW! My BMW!" The passerby coughs to draw attention to himself, and then asks, with a concerned expression: "You do realise that you arm's been torn off, don't you?"
The yuppie's eyes go wide, he screams "Yeeargh! My Rolex! My Rolex!" and turns to start casting about on the ground...
If I had a concern, it would be that IBM sees and understands the control issues behind MS-Windows. This understanding would terrify any competitor with a brain (and since Microsoft must grow or die, sooner or later you will be a competitor to them) and lead to a desire to skew results away from them.
This is somewhat countered by the observation that, unlike any of Microsoft's alleged benchmarks, anybody who can afford to buy or rent a pSeries can both replicate and publish the results of those benchmarks. They can also read the benchmark code to see exactly what it does, and even tweak it and test the tweaks if they suspect subtle optimisation.
I don't think Windows is more difficult to keep stable and useful than Linux, but perhaps I've just been lucky.
You have. (-:
I have a broad collection of Windows-adminning friends; two of them in particular stand out: they both use HCL equipment, they both stay up to date with updates, one has never had a blue-screen in the office he maintains (maybe 15 desktops, one big Windows server and two [hawk, spit] SCO OpenServer boxes); the other, in a similar office (but one Solaris instead of two OpenServer) schedules his Windows boxes to reboot every night because if he doesn't, several of them blue-screen on him once or twice a week. Somehow, I can't blame the difference on the Sun box...
I have only ever seen my production Linux boxes crash for two reasons: dodgy hardware (typically failing CPU fans, failing hard drives or invading dust but sometimes marginal RAM or motherboard) or dodgy NVidia drivers.
they only noticed its importance when someone unplugs an old useless cable
A local (Perth, WestOz) company decided to go 100% The Microsoft Way when the time came for an office upgrade. On Friday afternoon, the crew of geniuses arrived to rip out their miscellaneous servers an replace them with shiny new (and -ing expensive) Microsoft-running boxen. On Monday morning, the staff arrived to work, and all of their application and file servers worked flawlessly - but no internet.
During the Sunday afternoon cleanup, Geniuses Inc had collected all of the old hardware, and had they donated it to Computer Angels? No, they'd flung the whole lot into a rubbish skip ("dumpster" in Yankee-land) which had then been carted off at silly o'clock on Monday morning to a waste transfer station, duly separated into recyclable-or-not and the recyclable-ish computers had already been crushed by SimsMetal and carted off by the time Geniuses Inc got around to figuring out what had happened.
One of the pieces of scrap had operated without intervention as their DSL internet gateway, firewall, name server, intranet and email server for four years. Being Debian Linux, it had given itself security updates, too.
They had to scan accounting records to even find out who their ISP was (DNS records had of course all well expired after three days and ringing up a known email recipient to ask what the headers said was evidently beyond them), because my friend who had set it up couldn't recall that far back when an ex-employee remembered who he was and Geniuses Inc rang him up. He told me later that his ribs had hurt for several days after he finished laughing. The company had rudely dropped his services after an argument with their then-resident paper tiger about security, and the last-straw trigger for the upgrade was their inability to permanently expunge a particular virus from their LAN.
Poetic? The justice was damn near epic! (-: They were subsequently taken out by Slammer, too:-)
They use the same supplier of the month policies that any mom and pop outfit might use to keep costs down.
Too true. I've seen the exact same model of Dell laptop with three different video chipsets (NVidia, SiS and one other I can't remember) and two different network chipsets and no external indication that any of them were different to any of the others.
Tell that to Mohandas Gandhi, Abraham Lincoln, Nikola Tesla, Adolf Hitler, or any one of thousands of other individuals whose lives have impacted millions of other lives. Time to find a new tagline.
You want an example? Try the HoveRoc, which later became Nulka (p6). For a measly couple of million dollars, Australia produced the first few working units. America then spent tens (70?) of millions of dollars just developing a tethered rocket that hovered, and later they "co-operated" (read: bought/bribed their way into the technology) with Australian development.
The USA has a long history of turning down technology Not Invented Here (the Brit's Hawker Harrier "jump jet" being a classic; America changed its collective mind after an admiral found himself suddenly facing a rack-full of missiles at a range of about fifty feet during a joint exercise) - but once you melt down American hubris, the actual engineering is usually excellent (another classic example being American-built Spitfires, which you could park over a mirror without fear after a mission, whereas the Brit-built Spitfires often coated their windscreens with leaked oil, forcing the airmen to slide back the lid in order to see for landing). And as I mentioned above, there is an awful lot more of it; the American Navy is fond of looking for rowlocks on Royal Australian Navy vessels. Yawl probably have more tonnage in most State navies than Australia has overall.
Having hammered that point, yes, I agree that the problem is stomach. Israeli aircraft are never hijacked, because the hijackers know that they're dead within seconds of making themselves known. Israel has - or more particularly Israelis have - zero tolerance for hijacking, so it doesn't happen. America prevaricates, so their 'planes get hijacked. Israel has lots of things wrong with it, but lack of will is not one of them.
If you want that in a messageBox, you need to ramp it up to 153 bytes and add about one more meg of runtime. If you want it in 3D, add another 60kB of runtime, deeming OpenGL included.
VB has the edit/compile/debug cycle all in one interface.
You forgot to mention that alongside the debugger, it has quite a bit of bugger factor built in. For example, only the very latest rendition of it can be construed to be OO. So that makes it an edit/bugger/compile/debug cycle.
The language is not the IDE. Tried KDevelop, GLADE, IDLE, Boa Constructor or any of the other FOSS IDEs recently?
...to make P-as-in-Pascal code run like lightning? And it ain't happened yet. It's struggling to run, like, today.
The Professor Jeff S Rohl not mentioned in most of the Pascal articles (possibly because he's more famous for Modula2 etc) lives about 20km south of here.
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Signed, Oscar.
...and anyway, it would be more fun to return the traffic to the originating machine.
You forgot Albion.
That can be done optically, and would make amputated-member difficult. Especially if the car called in a medical emergency when it detected a dead finger.
WayBack appears to be down, else I'd find a mirror of them at their original location for you. Some of the parody sites around are quite good.
...that Segfault's number is 547. That speaks of a man with a lot of time on his hands... (-:
+10 Damn Straight
That and take your licence away forever on your second DUI offense.
"Intensive purposes" are porposes that require a great deal of focus (like midget arm-wrestling). What you meant was "for all intents and purposes" and in fact it was originally "to all intents and purposes".
Once bitten, twice shy. By my calculations, the computing public should be about sixteen billion times shy of technology pioneered by Microsoft.
An American (this joke fails in Autralia, Britain and Japan unless the yuppie is also left-handed) YUP, driving home drunk, loses control and swipes a power pole, tearing his left arm off, then rolls the car and gets thrown clear (no seatbelt: top marks for brains, that man).
Tumbling to his feet, he amazes a passerby by flinching back and screaming "My BMW! My BMW!" The passerby coughs to draw attention to himself, and then asks, with a concerned expression: "You do realise that you arm's been torn off, don't you?"
The yuppie's eyes go wide, he screams "Yeeargh! My Rolex! My Rolex!" and turns to start casting about on the ground...
This is somewhat countered by the observation that, unlike any of Microsoft's alleged benchmarks, anybody who can afford to buy or rent a pSeries can both replicate and publish the results of those benchmarks. They can also read the benchmark code to see exactly what it does, and even tweak it and test the tweaks if they suspect subtle optimisation.
You have. (-:
I have a broad collection of Windows-adminning friends; two of them in particular stand out: they both use HCL equipment, they both stay up to date with updates, one has never had a blue-screen in the office he maintains (maybe 15 desktops, one big Windows server and two [hawk, spit] SCO OpenServer boxes); the other, in a similar office (but one Solaris instead of two OpenServer) schedules his Windows boxes to reboot every night because if he doesn't, several of them blue-screen on him once or twice a week. Somehow, I can't blame the difference on the Sun box...
I have only ever seen my production Linux boxes crash for two reasons: dodgy hardware (typically failing CPU fans, failing hard drives or invading dust but sometimes marginal RAM or motherboard) or dodgy NVidia drivers.
A local (Perth, WestOz) company decided to go 100% The Microsoft Way when the time came for an office upgrade. On Friday afternoon, the crew of geniuses arrived to rip out their miscellaneous servers an replace them with shiny new (and -ing expensive) Microsoft-running boxen. On Monday morning, the staff arrived to work, and all of their application and file servers worked flawlessly - but no internet.
During the Sunday afternoon cleanup, Geniuses Inc had collected all of the old hardware, and had they donated it to Computer Angels? No, they'd flung the whole lot into a rubbish skip ("dumpster" in Yankee-land) which had then been carted off at silly o'clock on Monday morning to a waste transfer station, duly separated into recyclable-or-not and the recyclable-ish computers had already been crushed by SimsMetal and carted off by the time Geniuses Inc got around to figuring out what had happened.
One of the pieces of scrap had operated without intervention as their DSL internet gateway, firewall, name server, intranet and email server for four years. Being Debian Linux, it had given itself security updates, too.
They had to scan accounting records to even find out who their ISP was (DNS records had of course all well expired after three days and ringing up a known email recipient to ask what the headers said was evidently beyond them), because my friend who had set it up couldn't recall that far back when an ex-employee remembered who he was and Geniuses Inc rang him up. He told me later that his ribs had hurt for several days after he finished laughing. The company had rudely dropped his services after an argument with their then-resident paper tiger about security, and the last-straw trigger for the upgrade was their inability to permanently expunge a particular virus from their LAN.
Poetic? The justice was damn near epic! (-: They were subsequently taken out by Slammer, too :-)
Too true. I've seen the exact same model of Dell laptop with three different video chipsets (NVidia, SiS and one other I can't remember) and two different network chipsets and no external indication that any of them were different to any of the others.
Tell that to Mohandas Gandhi, Abraham Lincoln, Nikola Tesla, Adolf Hitler, or any one of thousands of other individuals whose lives have impacted millions of other lives. Time to find a new tagline.
Sadly, they are not aimed at equal opportunity but at equal outcome. Here be madness.
You want an example? Try the HoveRoc, which later became Nulka (p6). For a measly couple of million dollars, Australia produced the first few working units. America then spent tens (70?) of millions of dollars just developing a tethered rocket that hovered, and later they "co-operated" (read: bought/bribed their way into the technology) with Australian development.
The USA has a long history of turning down technology Not Invented Here (the Brit's Hawker Harrier "jump jet" being a classic; America changed its collective mind after an admiral found himself suddenly facing a rack-full of missiles at a range of about fifty feet during a joint exercise) - but once you melt down American hubris, the actual engineering is usually excellent (another classic example being American-built Spitfires, which you could park over a mirror without fear after a mission, whereas the Brit-built Spitfires often coated their windscreens with leaked oil, forcing the airmen to slide back the lid in order to see for landing). And as I mentioned above, there is an awful lot more of it; the American Navy is fond of looking for rowlocks on Royal Australian Navy vessels. Yawl probably have more tonnage in most State navies than Australia has overall.
Having hammered that point, yes, I agree that the problem is stomach. Israeli aircraft are never hijacked, because the hijackers know that they're dead within seconds of making themselves known. Israel has - or more particularly Israelis have - zero tolerance for hijacking, so it doesn't happen. America prevaricates, so their 'planes get hijacked. Israel has lots of things wrong with it, but lack of will is not one of them.
a lot != allot != alot ("alot" is not a word). Get it? Got it? Oh, never mind.
Sorry if you feel ranted at, you were the straw the broke the camel's back. One language abuser too many.
One has to wonder why Lindsey struts her stuff so agressively if it's illegal to take her up on her implied offer.
The disk structure was very Forth. Can you imagine having to K)runch one of today's 300GB monsters every night?
Self-executing version bloats this to 37 bytes:
If you want that in a messageBox, you need to ramp it up to 153 bytes and add about one more meg of runtime. If you want it in 3D, add another 60kB of runtime, deeming OpenGL included.
So did I win this dick-shrinkage competition? (-:
You forgot to mention that alongside the debugger, it has quite a bit of bugger factor built in. For example, only the very latest rendition of it can be construed to be OO. So that makes it an edit/bugger/compile/debug cycle.
The language is not the IDE. Tried KDevelop, GLADE, IDLE, Boa Constructor or any of the other FOSS IDEs recently?
Or, for that matter, Blender? (-:
IRL: exit stage left, screaming. (-:
The Professor Jeff S Rohl not mentioned in most of the Pascal articles (possibly because he's more famous for Modula2 etc) lives about 20km south of here.
"Ah, well, since the knife is in anyway, I may as well twist it"? (-: