Once my wife had a job doing late-night waitressing on the other side of the city. It's a large European city and
perfectly safe at night, so no problem getting back by public transport. The public transport authority has an
online routing system which is usually pretty good. However, my wife's finishing time was in the hour or so
the network was transitioning from the day-time to the night network, and it came up with all kinds of
crazy routes which anyone who knew the system would never even think of to try, typically involving three or four
changes and a visit out to the 'burbs.
I put my thinking cap on and told the system to find a route via the one I'd intuitively take - changing trains at
a particular station, and - hey presto - this time it came up with a sane routing option involving exactly one change.
This is why I keep telling people to take anything a computer tells them with a pinch of salt.
Codswallop. Everybody knows the universe is powered by good old steam. I'd post a link to the official
research site on the prestigious geocities.com server, but space aliens running on diesel stole my bookmarks.
They don't adjust the axles, they swap the entire bogies out. It's a technique they developed during the 60s or 70s to improve rail logistics throughout the COMECON zone.
(It wouldn't have been enough for a sudden massive movement of troops and materiel westwards out of the Soviet Union though. For that reason the USSR stationed large numbers of standard-gauge steam locomotives on its western borders which could be put into use at short notice. I've seen photos; I believe a lot of them were captured from Germany during WWII).
Is it really that bad? Haven't been back to the place for ages (apart from a few brief stopovers), but the word coming out from various quarters is that things getting pretty dismal.
Recently I received CONTENT REMOVED from the --- regarding one of my CONTENT REMOVED.
It was delivered personally by two CONTENT REMOVED in a black CONTENT REMOVED and they
CONTENT REMOVED terrorist CONTENT REMOVED you're not for us CONTENT REMOVED us.
Under the terms of the CONTENT REMOVED Act it appears I cannot CONTENT REMOVED or CONTENT REMOVED
or even badgers. They said they had installed special CONTENT REMOVED on my CONTENT REMOVED connection and would
be watching out for transgressions - even something as innocuous as calling G.W. CONTENT REMOVED failure
or librarians CONTENT REMOVEDCONTENT REMOVED Harry Potter in Syria. Since contacting my la +++NO CARRIER+++
Get the guys (and gals?) with the high multimedia delivery needs in on it from the start - they'll
give you more bangs for the buck for both conception and practical trialling of the new system.
Representative Joni Marie Gutierrez, Landscape Architect
I see a possible vested interest here. Pluto = planet = greater chance of manned mission = greater chance of human colonisation = opportunities galore for landscape architects. (I hear Pluto is in a very secluded location, but could benefit from some remodelling, and possibly an ornamental pond or two).
you are hereby charged under the Prevention of Terrorism Act for conspiring to commit an act of terrorism.
However we at the Anti-Terrorist Department (Motto: "remember, if they're not for you they're against you") had a good laugh at your suggestion of using a train as the delivery method, as it would probably end up derailed on a set of poorly-maintained points in the wrong kind of snow, hence foiling your devious plan. So we'll be letting you off with a warning this time, son.
(Tip from Constable Noggins: "next time think about barrels", he says).
Don't just sit there feeling smug! Every now and again, when you have a free moment, delete
your mbox file, or the directory where the mail client of your preference stores its data.
That'll go a long way towards helping Windows users to stop seeing us as arrogant and aloof and
let them know we share their pain.
(And if you're really feeling altruistic, knock up a shell script which turns your machine into a spam-spewing
zombie).
I ask because MySQL is notorious for silently accepting data that shouldn't otherwise "fit" into a column. In the case of an SSN being inserted into a date field, it would probably just set the date to "0000-00-00" without the slightest complaint.
(Similar scenario here in Germany, where politicos are enaging in some kind of phantasy that they
will be able to search PCs online via some kind of trojan).
Clicking through the politics wikimag I was surprised
to see (announced as breaking news, no less) the story Anna Nicole Smith 1967-2007 DEAD. And that's politics?
(Now if someone edited the story to make it that GWB had authorised the raising of ANS from the
dead, that would be politics).
I ask becaue it currently says "Purdue Makes Trash To Electicity Generator".
Surely science can put cures for global warming, cancer etc. on the back-burner and
put its efforts towards solving this pernicious problem?
...it won't be tall thin men in long leather coats and wide-brimmed floppy hats.
Seriously the politicos were, and still are, advocating what is being called a
"federal trojan", i.e. secret, police-controlled spyware. Just how they plan to
create such a mythical multi-platform wunder-creature is a mystery to everyone here,
or they are assuming all criminals and other potential searchees are using
easily-targetted Windows versions attached directly to the net and store all their
data in easily-searched formats and locations.
Ah, that must be Vladimir I. Lenin and his troupe of musical capitalist running dogs?
Seriously, I'm from an English speaking country but have lived in Germany for yonks, and you quickly learn
what you can get away with in terms of frivolous reference to Mr. H and his All-Singing, All-Dancing Nazi Party.
Mind you, things are lightening up a little, the first Hitler comedy was recently released in cinemas.
See this Yahoobomb, which faithfully links
to the world's number one mostest
miserable failure
of all time.
Microsoft's search offering
(a Billbomb?) only comes up with Jimmy Carter and Michael Moore, at places two and seven respectively,
with the rest of the
results being links to stories about the Googlebomb as it pertains to that
miserable failure.
... I was in the local electronics store the other day and was mildly surprised to see they were
still selling 3.5 inch USB external floppies. Someone, somewhere, must be using them.
(Mind you I still have my 5.25 in disk in my frankenstein PC, mainly because I've nowhere else to
put it. The disks I have from the start of the 90s are still readable though).
Why not reassign the.um TLD to the umming and aahing community? There are many ditherers and the
like out there who'd love to have domains like "im-not-sure.um", "let-me-see-a-minute.um",
"tum-te-tum-te-t.um" etc.
...then they could say they were sending him on a business trip and file it under expenses.
("Reason for trip: To boldly go where no DBA has gone before, to seek out new tablespaces and discover new, alien forms of indices").
(Disclaimer: I'm not an accountant or a tax geek so I don't know whether that would really work out).
... is here; they seem to be concerned about a "search engine optimization world championship".
Personally I think we can all do our bit and stop linking to Wikipedia so much, because Google is
starting to give the impression that Wikipedia is the fount of all knowledge - to the detriment
of pages which contain better information but which don't happen to have WP's massive net
presence.
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Once my wife had a job doing late-night waitressing on the other side of the city. It's a large European city and perfectly safe at night, so no problem getting back by public transport. The public transport authority has an online routing system which is usually pretty good. However, my wife's finishing time was in the hour or so the network was transitioning from the day-time to the night network, and it came up with all kinds of crazy routes which anyone who knew the system would never even think of to try, typically involving three or four changes and a visit out to the 'burbs.
I put my thinking cap on and told the system to find a route via the one I'd intuitively take - changing trains at a particular station, and - hey presto - this time it came up with a sane routing option involving exactly one change.
This is why I keep telling people to take anything a computer tells them with a pinch of salt.
This is why I love PostgreSQL:
Codswallop. Everybody knows the universe is powered by good old steam. I'd post a link to the official research site on the prestigious geocities.com server, but space aliens running on diesel stole my bookmarks.
They don't adjust the axles, they swap the entire bogies out. It's a technique they developed during the 60s or 70s to improve rail logistics throughout the COMECON zone. (It wouldn't have been enough for a sudden massive movement of troops and materiel westwards out of the Soviet Union though. For that reason the USSR stationed large numbers of standard-gauge steam locomotives on its western borders which could be put into use at short notice. I've seen photos; I believe a lot of them were captured from Germany during WWII).
Is it really that bad? Haven't been back to the place for ages (apart from a few brief stopovers), but the word coming out from various quarters is that things getting pretty dismal.
Recently I received CONTENT REMOVED from the --- regarding one of my CONTENT REMOVED. It was delivered personally by two CONTENT REMOVED in a black CONTENT REMOVED and they CONTENT REMOVED terrorist CONTENT REMOVED you're not for us CONTENT REMOVED us.
Under the terms of the CONTENT REMOVED Act it appears I cannot CONTENT REMOVED or CONTENT REMOVED or even badgers. They said they had installed special CONTENT REMOVED on my CONTENT REMOVED connection and would be watching out for transgressions - even something as innocuous as calling G.W. CONTENT REMOVED failure or librarians CONTENT REMOVED CONTENT REMOVED Harry Potter in Syria. Since contacting my la +++NO CARRIER+++
No doubt it was Microsoft who sponsored this particular piece of research.
Get the guys (and gals?) with the high multimedia delivery needs in on it from the start - they'll give you more bangs for the buck for both conception and practical trialling of the new system.
Representative Joni Marie Gutierrez, Landscape Architect
I see a possible vested interest here. Pluto = planet = greater chance of manned mission = greater chance of human colonisation = opportunities galore for landscape architects. (I hear Pluto is in a very secluded location, but could benefit from some remodelling, and possibly an ornamental pond or two).
Citizen-Subject Ruvim889102
you are hereby charged under the Prevention of Terrorism Act for conspiring to commit an act of terrorism.
However we at the Anti-Terrorist Department (Motto: "remember, if they're not for you they're against you") had a good laugh at your suggestion of using a train as the delivery method, as it would probably end up derailed on a set of poorly-maintained points in the wrong kind of snow, hence foiling your devious plan. So we'll be letting you off with a warning this time, son.
(Tip from Constable Noggins: "next time think about barrels", he says).
Don't just sit there feeling smug! Every now and again, when you have a free moment, delete your mbox file, or the directory where the mail client of your preference stores its data. That'll go a long way towards helping Windows users to stop seeing us as arrogant and aloof and let them know we share their pain.
(And if you're really feeling altruistic, knock up a shell script which turns your machine into a spam-spewing zombie).
I ask because MySQL is notorious for silently accepting data that shouldn't otherwise "fit" into a column. In the case of an SSN being inserted into a date field, it would probably just set the date to "0000-00-00" without the slightest complaint.
Or was the guy's trojan multi-OS capable?
(Similar scenario here in Germany, where politicos are enaging in some kind of phantasy that they will be able to search PCs online via some kind of trojan).
Clicking through the politics wikimag I was surprised to see (announced as breaking news, no less) the story Anna Nicole Smith 1967-2007 DEAD. And that's politics?
(Now if someone edited the story to make it that GWB had authorised the raising of ANS from the dead, that would be politics).
Yes, and I was going to write a post about it with a gratuitous reference to the possible usage of Open (Cold) Sores Software, but you beat me to it.
I ask becaue it currently says "Purdue Makes Trash To Electicity Generator". Surely science can put cures for global warming, cancer etc. on the back-burner and put its efforts towards solving this pernicious problem?
Seriously the politicos were, and still are, advocating what is being called a "federal trojan", i.e. secret, police-controlled spyware. Just how they plan to create such a mythical multi-platform wunder-creature is a mystery to everyone here, or they are assuming all criminals and other potential searchees are using easily-targetted Windows versions attached directly to the net and store all their data in easily-searched formats and locations.
Ah, that must be Vladimir I. Lenin and his troupe of musical capitalist running dogs?
Seriously, I'm from an English speaking country but have lived in Germany for yonks, and you quickly learn what you can get away with in terms of frivolous reference to Mr. H and his All-Singing, All-Dancing Nazi Party. Mind you, things are lightening up a little, the first Hitler comedy was recently released in cinemas.
You're confusing your memes. The wooden table running gag is from the Daily WTF. Or is your real name Paula? ;-)
See this Yahoobomb, which faithfully links to the world's number one mostest miserable failure of all time.
Microsoft's search offering (a Billbomb?) only comes up with Jimmy Carter and Michael Moore, at places two and seven respectively, with the rest of the results being links to stories about the Googlebomb as it pertains to that miserable failure .
(Mind you I still have my 5.25 in disk in my frankenstein PC, mainly because I've nowhere else to put it. The disks I have from the start of the 90s are still readable though).
Why not reassign the .um TLD to the umming and aahing community? There are many ditherers and the
like out there who'd love to have domains like "im-not-sure.um", "let-me-see-a-minute.um",
"tum-te-tum-te-t.um" etc.
(Disclaimer: I'm not an accountant or a tax geek so I don't know whether that would really work out).
The real reason is that Windows Vista does not yet offer in-built protection against attacks by giant North Korean rabbits.
... is here; they seem to be concerned about a "search engine optimization world championship".
Personally I think we can all do our bit and stop linking to Wikipedia so much, because Google is starting to give the impression that Wikipedia is the fount of all knowledge - to the detriment of pages which contain better information but which don't happen to have WP's massive net presence.