New developers interested in the project will best learn the project by fixing bugs and reading the source code.
Oh my God, this sounds exactly like my last job. 10,000 lines of Tcl, with not a shred of documentation in sight. Running a financial system that processed millions of dollars a day. And I know to this day, my old boss is still trying to figure out why she keeps losing employees left and right, and why it takes so long for new people to come up to speed.
In this case of Columbia, what if they had known the shuttle wasn't landable, and decided to dock with th e ISS and take the escape vehicle down instead? Granted it would leave the ISS without an escape vehicle, but it beats what actually happened, eh? If the whole columbia crew couldn't fit into the escape craft, they wait in the shuttle (should be enough food/air/water for awhile) until they can be rescued. Better yet, plan for this kind of thing in the future, and have a second escape vehicle on the ISS. In fact, that would probably be the best use for the ISS, is it actually useful for anything else? I am not trolling here, seriously what has the ISS accomplished that couldn't be done a whole lot cheaper some other way?
Now THAT would be a useful genetic enhancement, so I quit tripping on my cat in the dark as they hide on the top step of the stairs. And whatever happened to the glowing christmas trees we were promised last year???
Actually, I think one of the reasons my blood pressure was so high back in college was because I had to wait ten minutes while the two page message of the day scrolled by each time I logged in with my 300bps modem. Boy was I excited when I learned which dotfile to create to not see the motd file!
Well duh, that is one way our body makes vitamin D, if I remember correctly. It is the amount of exposure that matters. Speaking of sun exposure, my favorite university memory of walking across the medical school campus was the cluster of smokers puffing away and sunbathers roasting right next to the Cancer Research and Treatment Center sign. One of these days I have got to take a picture of that.
No. 1 software firm says operating system, not due until 2005, now selling in Malaysia for $1.58.
Hey, now there is a price I might pay for Longhorn. Actually the reason M$ picked that name is to deter software pirates here in the U.S. If you steal Longhorn(s) in Texas that is still a hanging offence.
Clue has to be the best game, since it teaches you the best household objects you can use to kill people, as well as helping young children to realize that you should never ask the police for help when solving a murder.
Thus spake the article: Port80 Software, a San Diego-based company that develops software to enhance the security, performance and user experience of Microsoft's Internet Information Services Web server, said it had conducted a survey of Fortune1000 companies recently and found that Microsoft IIS had ongoing dominance in the enterprise with a 53.8 percent market share. ...snip snip... "What do Netcraft's findings prove about Web server market share? It all depends on how you choose to define 'market share'," Lima said. "Netcraft attempts to review every detectable site on the Internet to generate their web server statistics, and this gives their survey a natural bias in favour of web servers that host relatively low-traffic or even parked domains. ...snip snip..
Considering that port80 has a serious bias towards IIS, any conclusions they draw should be taken with a mountain-sized grain of salt. I guess it boils down to what you think "mark share" is: what is everyone running, or what servers are the fortune 1000 companies running? The answer seems pretty obvious to me.
Personally I can't wait to see funky chinese character domain names in my web logs (mostly from infected windows machines trying to attack my apache server).
Luckily we have so many unemployed computer geeks here in the U.S. we should see lots of replies. Oh did I mention that things are really awful here job-wise?
I always wondered if there was some way to turn my old laptops into a display for headless boxes (i.e. servers) somehow via the serial port (basically the laptop would be a monitor/keyboard in one unit that I could drag around to the various servers). However you would probably need some kind of specialized doohicky that you could plug into the serial port on your laptop and then into the keyboard/mouse/vga on the server which would most likely cost a bundle.
Of course, this is assuming you can easily detect that a person is a cyborg, unless everyone who plays is willing to have their head x-rayed beforehand:-)
I was just wondering, how will the chess world handle cyborgs? Will people who have electronic "enhancements" be considered to be cheating? Heck, will they even have time to play chess, or will they be too busy taking over the world? What does everyone else think?
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Unlike klingon, there are actually people (not many, but they exist) who speak Esperanto as their native (read first) language. God help us if there are any native speakers of Klingon. I keep hoping the UN will adopt Esperanto as their official language, thus allowing official documents to be translated into Esperanto and making the whole transfer from one language to another so much easier (each country would need a few Esperanto translators, as opposed to one for every freaking language under the sun).
gotta love how they study something by smashing it into peices. I always pictured using the same technique to study how a radio works by shooting bullets into it, and then observing the peices as they fly out of the radio:-)
Actually I think they are going to combine the two words: thus we get SPAMD:-) Seriously though, this is great news for AMD, and as long as AMD stays afloat it will help keep cpu prices down.
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Oh my God, this sounds exactly like my last job. 10,000 lines of Tcl, with not a shred of documentation in sight. Running a financial system that processed millions of dollars a day. And I know to this day, my old boss is still trying to figure out why she keeps losing employees left and right, and why it takes so long for new people to come up to speed.
In this case of Columbia, what if they had known the shuttle wasn't landable, and decided to dock with th e ISS and take the escape vehicle down instead? Granted it would leave the ISS without an escape vehicle, but it beats what actually happened, eh? If the whole columbia crew couldn't fit into the escape craft, they wait in the shuttle (should be enough food/air/water for awhile) until they can be rescued. Better yet, plan for this kind of thing in the future, and have a second escape vehicle on the ISS. In fact, that would probably be the best use for the ISS, is it actually useful for anything else? I am not trolling here, seriously what has the ISS accomplished that couldn't be done a whole lot cheaper some other way?
Please let it be Jar Jar, and as revenge for inflicting him on us in the first movie, let it be by explosive decompression.
Now THAT would be a useful genetic enhancement, so I quit tripping on my cat in the dark as they hide on the top step of the stairs. And whatever happened to the glowing christmas trees we were promised last year???
I can hear the screams now, as I walk around with my own goatse.cx avatar on my player for all to see.
Actually, voting machines are already like slot machines, except no matter what comes up you always lose.
At least it would, if Seagate/Maxtor/WD/Samsung could get their way.
Actually, I think one of the reasons my blood pressure was so high back in college was because I had to wait ten minutes while the two page message of the day scrolled by each time I logged in with my 300bps modem. Boy was I excited when I learned which dotfile to create to not see the motd file!
Well duh, that is one way our body makes vitamin D, if I remember correctly. It is the amount of exposure that matters. Speaking of sun exposure, my favorite university memory of walking across the medical school campus was the cluster of smokers puffing away and sunbathers roasting right next to the Cancer Research and Treatment Center sign. One of these days I have got to take a picture of that.
Hey, now there is a price I might pay for Longhorn. Actually the reason M$ picked that name is to deter software pirates here in the U.S. If you steal Longhorn(s) in Texas that is still a hanging offence.
Clue has to be the best game, since it teaches you the best household objects you can use to kill people, as well as helping young children to realize that you should never ask the police for help when solving a murder.
Thus spake the article:
...snip snip...
...snip snip..
Port80 Software, a San Diego-based company that develops software to enhance the security, performance and user experience of Microsoft's Internet Information Services Web server, said it had conducted a survey of Fortune1000 companies recently and found that Microsoft IIS had ongoing dominance in the enterprise with a 53.8 percent market share.
"What do Netcraft's findings prove about Web server market share? It all depends on how you choose to define 'market share'," Lima said. "Netcraft attempts to review every detectable site on the Internet to generate their web server statistics, and this gives their survey a natural bias in favour of web servers that host relatively low-traffic or even parked domains.
Considering that port80 has a serious bias towards IIS, any conclusions they draw should be taken with a mountain-sized grain of salt. I guess it boils down to what you think "mark share" is: what is everyone running, or what servers are the fortune 1000 companies running? The answer seems pretty obvious to me.
After google, they are planning on suing the vatican, I mean why mess with these little penny ante companies when you can sue your way into heaven?
Personally I can't wait to see funky chinese character domain names in my web logs (mostly from infected windows machines trying to attack my apache server).
Luckily we have so many unemployed computer geeks here in the U.S. we should see lots of replies. Oh did I mention that things are really awful here job-wise?
I always wondered if there was some way to turn my old laptops into a display for headless boxes (i.e. servers) somehow via the serial port (basically the laptop would be a monitor/keyboard in one unit that I could drag around to the various servers). However you would probably need some kind of specialized doohicky that you could plug into the serial port on your laptop and then into the keyboard/mouse/vga on the server which would most likely cost a bundle.
Wow, interesting comments indeed. Did you think these up, or is there some spiffy sci-fi that I am missing that brought these points up already?
Of course, this is assuming you can easily detect that a person is a cyborg, unless everyone who plays is willing to have their head x-rayed beforehand :-)
I was just wondering, how will the chess world handle cyborgs? Will people who have electronic "enhancements" be considered to be cheating? Heck, will they even have time to play chess, or will they be too busy taking over the world? What does everyone else think?
Unlike klingon, there are actually people (not many, but they exist) who speak Esperanto as their native (read first) language. God help us if there are any native speakers of Klingon. I keep hoping the UN will adopt Esperanto as their official language, thus allowing official documents to be translated into Esperanto and making the whole transfer from one language to another so much easier (each country would need a few Esperanto translators, as opposed to one for every freaking language under the sun).
Why not esperanto instead? Certainly more intuitive than whistling!
The "sensor units" are actually a wireless camera, useful when the unit will be flight tested in the women's shower at the local gym.
gotta love how they study something by smashing it into peices. I always pictured using the same technique to study how a radio works by shooting bullets into it, and then observing the peices as they fly out of the radio :-)
Actually I think they are going to combine the two words: thus we get SPAMD :-) Seriously though, this is great news for AMD, and as long as AMD stays afloat it will help keep cpu prices down.
Well, I figure thats the cost of a paperback I would rather have then, um... nothing.