>> My jewish friends do this, they write it like this so that when the document is tossed in the trash, it's not act against god.
It seems to me this is a pretty harmless way to show respect to their chosen deity. I don't think the other posters needed to mock it. If he wants to spell God "G-d" that's fine.
I'll respect his devotion even if I don't share it. People do a *lot* of hideous things to each other for their faith and this isn't one of them. It's not like he's out blowing crap up or anything.
>> The BBC don't have adverts on their site - so every page viewed costs them
That's their own fault. How can you possibly have a web page with 700,000 monthly users and not be able to pay for it? I'm not saying spam the hell out of your users with ads, but geez. Try to sell them a coffee mug or t-shirt about the programs they have already shown interest in.
Give any webmaster 700,000 monthly visits targeted to a particular niche and they'll be able to make money on it, or at least not go broke.
No two ways about it, BBC is throwing something valuable away.
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Parent is modded troll, should be "informative". Wish I had points today.
>> No, not really. But the public will think they are doing something and go back to watching Survivor or whatever until their next wave of "government must do X about Y" feelings comes over them.
You got it. Passing legislation beats actually having to pay attention to what your kids are doing. (pretend for a moment the legislation will actually work...)
Why not just hang a four *large* drives in a workstation with MB that does RAID 1+0? Yeah, it'll cost more than 249, but it won't involve a 50 lbs box of drives..
>> I am (as an employer looking to hire) less interested in certs than I am in quantifiable skills
You, Sir are in the minority.
Most large companies have HR staff that think Excel is a programming language and that MCSE means something. (I work with many MCSEs - you need to force an admission out of the competent ones, but the useless ones all put it in their.sig file - but I digress.) Most businesses large enough to pay well for a skilled professional also have hiring processes that hinder selection of real talent.
If I sound bitter, I am. Not cuz I'm looking for work, but because I have to work with the results of a broken hiring process...
>> What it WILL do is keep spammers from imitating existing domains in their "from" headers.
If it works, that's plenty. If you've ever had one of your domains placed in the "FROM" field of a spam campaign, you'll know what I mean.
It's not going to work %100 though - TFA (microsoft's site) indicates the recipient would do the DNS lookup for the SPF record before accepting the SPAM, so I'm guessing anyone who's mail client doesn't support this will get the spam even if I add SPF to my DNS entries...
>> I like indians just fine, as long as I dont have to try to decipher thier horribly butchered english
That's a pretty broad statement.
I've dealt with North Americans that I would define as barely literate.
I've also managed a couple small projects that were outsourced to India. The level of professionalism and talent was on par with North American contractors and for the most part everyone was a pleasure to deal with. The level of English language was quite good. The biggest negative in the whole process was the difference in time zones.
The Indians are all right. They just want to earn a living the same as you.
>> I've always wondered why Microsoft doesn't open source their no longer supported software.
Multiple reasons:
code reuse If they opened the source to previous operating systems and unsupported software, it would expose code used in current products. You don't think they write each iteration from scratch do you?
forced upgrade cycle If the source for NT 4.0 had been opened why in hell would I have ever upgraded to XP pro? I'd just patch it for Direct X and USB support and that's all she wrote. opening source would get us all off the forced upgrade cycle and that won't happen.
ideological I don't think the corporate mindset really embraces the cooperative concept of OSS (see the previous "Commie" comments attributed to WM. Gates in this topic)
>> Personally, I won't purchase anything from Metallica ever since the whole napster event
That's two of us. I wonder how many more sales these guys lost?
FWIW I don't download. I buy. I'm sitting beside a shelf filled with bought and paid-for music, but I don't buy any more Metallica. The whining over Napster made me lose all respect for them.
>> He said the data was in a file being stored for "research purposes"
So aggregate data for 40 million accounts is being used for research. I can buy that, but why in the hell did the personal data attached to the transactions need to be stored? This sounds like crap to me.
>> This kind of conspiracy theory seems very common;
Hey, I just thought of a good one; what if the NSA had compromised SETI at home or folding at home? Imagine the geeks of the world functioning as a secret government supercomputer, blissfully ignorant of it the whole time.
no, I don't believe it, but if the NSA were gaming everyone I'd laugh....
What I know about Australia I learned from TV - mostly shows that feature guys terrorizing your local fauna - what's with that? and why does Steve-the-alligator-guy yell all the time? Why doesn't some one give Rob Bredl a pair of boots ffs? Anyway, it looks to be a truly beautiful country that I'd love to visit sometime, but it would definitely be during your "winter". How in hell can you call it winter when it's 20 + celsius, I'll never know.
>> Exactly, I think the financial folks talk about trading off initial costs for long term running costs.
I haven't RTFA, can't even load TFA, but the dude's web space is on one seriously hurting U of Wat server, so I assume he's in a dorm, with utilities included. Probably could give a f*ck about the actual cost, just the personal one. - Can't blame him much considering what it costs to go to university.
I work in the private sector for a company the that "fosters diversity" and "empowers" employees. Here you can look however you like and no one in management will ever say a word about it, but radical hair or body mods will most definitely stop your career dead.
Most of the IT staff here express their individuality by wearing the same lame-ass goatee, (edgy, but not threatening, lol)
Oh, and it goes without saying, you need to look corporate as hell during the hiring and probationary process...
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>> My jewish friends do this, they write it like this so that when the document is tossed in the trash, it's not act against god.
It seems to me this is a pretty harmless way to show respect to their chosen deity. I don't think the other posters needed to mock it. If he wants to spell God "G-d" that's fine.
I'll respect his devotion even if I don't share it. People do a *lot* of hideous things to each other for their faith and this isn't one of them. It's not like he's out blowing crap up or anything.
>> The BBC don't have adverts on their site - so every page viewed costs them
That's their own fault. How can you possibly have a web page with 700,000 monthly users and not be able to pay for it? I'm not saying spam the hell out of your users with ads, but geez. Try to sell them a coffee mug or t-shirt about the programs they have already shown interest in.
Give any webmaster 700,000 monthly visits targeted to a particular niche and they'll be able to make money on it, or at least not go broke.
No two ways about it, BBC is throwing something valuable away.
Exactly how I set up windows machines. I don't trust enough to connect to anything until It's got service packs, anti-virus and a software firewall.
You're right.
I was %100 wrong.
Apologies to O.P.
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Parent is modded troll, should be "informative". Wish I had points today.
>> I just don't buy that HALF of the households in Canada have active high speed internet connectivity.
I think most urban households have DSL lite available at about 5 bucks more than "good" dial-up
5 Million doesn't seem high to me. With few exceptions, everyone I know has highspeed.
>> No, not really. But the public will think they are doing something and go back to watching Survivor or whatever until their next wave of "government must do X about Y" feelings comes over them.
You got it. Passing legislation beats actually having to pay attention to what your kids are doing. (pretend for a moment the legislation will actually work...)
>> Taiwan is NOT a part of People's Republic of China
Wait ten years.
>> Then if your mobo dies you don't have to find one with the same raid chipset, worry about proprietary drivers etc
umm, if you're smart enough to set up raid, you will do backups won't you?
>> manly RAID 5?
Yeah, really I'd prefer raid 5 too, but TFA was about a "poor mans" raid array.
More or less on-topic: take a look at this guy's really pointless raid 5 setup. Very cool.
That seems like a lot of screwing around.
Why not just hang a four *large* drives in a workstation with MB that does RAID 1+0? Yeah, it'll cost more than 249, but it won't involve a 50 lbs box of drives..
>> I am (as an employer looking to hire) less interested in certs than I am in quantifiable skills
.sig file - but I digress.) Most businesses large enough to pay well for a skilled professional also have hiring processes that hinder selection of real talent.
You, Sir are in the minority.
Most large companies have HR staff that think Excel is a programming language and that MCSE means something. (I work with many MCSEs - you need to force an admission out of the competent ones, but the useless ones all put it in their
If I sound bitter, I am. Not cuz I'm looking for work, but because I have to work with the results of a broken hiring process...
>> What it WILL do is keep spammers from imitating existing domains in their "from" headers.
If it works, that's plenty. If you've ever had one of your domains placed in the "FROM" field of a spam campaign, you'll know what I mean.
It's not going to work %100 though - TFA (microsoft's site) indicates the recipient would do the DNS lookup for the SPF record before accepting the SPAM, so I'm guessing anyone who's mail client doesn't support this will get the spam even if I add SPF to my DNS entries...
>> time=14412874.3 ms
So it'll be just like Battlenet?
>> I like indians just fine, as long as I dont have to try to decipher thier horribly butchered english
That's a pretty broad statement.
I've dealt with North Americans that I would define as barely literate.
I've also managed a couple small projects that were outsourced to India. The level of professionalism and talent was on par with North American contractors and for the most part everyone was a pleasure to deal with. The level of English language was quite good. The biggest negative in the whole process was the difference in time zones.
The Indians are all right. They just want to earn a living the same as you.
Multiple reasons:
code reuse If they opened the source to previous operating systems and unsupported software, it would expose code used in current products. You don't think they write each iteration from scratch do you?
forced upgrade cycle If the source for NT 4.0 had been opened why in hell would I have ever upgraded to XP pro? I'd just patch it for Direct X and USB support and that's all she wrote. opening source would get us all off the forced upgrade cycle and that won't happen.
ideological I don't think the corporate mindset really embraces the cooperative concept of OSS (see the previous "Commie" comments attributed to WM. Gates in this topic)
>> Personally, I won't purchase anything from Metallica ever since the whole napster event
That's two of us. I wonder how many more sales these guys lost?
FWIW I don't download. I buy. I'm sitting beside a shelf filled with bought and paid-for music, but I don't buy any more Metallica. The whining over Napster made me lose all respect for them.
>> He said the data was in a file being stored for "research purposes"
So aggregate data for 40 million accounts is being used for research. I can buy that, but why in the hell did the personal data attached to the transactions need to be stored? This sounds like crap to me.
I hope they go bankrupt from this.
>> This kind of conspiracy theory seems very common;
Hey, I just thought of a good one; what if the NSA had compromised SETI at home or folding at home? Imagine the geeks of the world functioning as a secret government supercomputer, blissfully ignorant of it the whole time.
no, I don't believe it, but if the NSA were gaming everyone I'd laugh....
What I know about Australia I learned from TV - mostly shows that feature guys terrorizing your local fauna - what's with that? and why does Steve-the-alligator-guy yell all the time? Why doesn't some one give Rob Bredl a pair of boots ffs? Anyway, it looks to be a truly beautiful country that I'd love to visit sometime, but it would definitely be during your "winter". How in hell can you call it winter when it's 20 + celsius, I'll never know.
>> I live in Queesland Australia
Is that near Queensland?
>> You guys are whimps.
XOXOXO from Canada. Come visit sometime
>> 40C is borderline worthy of comment
40C is worthy of heatstroke here...
>> 92 fahrenheit here on the weekend.
weekend? Ontario's been a rotten b*stard for the last week - 30 Celsius + humidity every day.
I'm sitting between two fans, beer in hand, AC cranked. My effing hydro bill is going to make me cry...
>> Exactly, I think the financial folks talk about trading off initial costs for long term running costs.
I haven't RTFA, can't even load TFA, but the dude's web space is on one seriously hurting U of Wat server, so I assume he's in a dorm, with utilities included. Probably could give a f*ck about the actual cost, just the personal one. - Can't blame him much considering what it costs to go to university.
>> I hope his server isn't in his room
It's actually a University of Waterloo server. I'm sure the sysadmin is gonna love this sudden DDOS.
Ah, diversity.
I work in the private sector for a company the that "fosters diversity" and "empowers" employees. Here you can look however you like and no one in management will ever say a word about it, but radical hair or body mods will most definitely stop your career dead.
Most of the IT staff here express their individuality by wearing the same lame-ass goatee, (edgy, but not threatening, lol)
Oh, and it goes without saying, you need to look corporate as hell during the hiring and probationary process...