Given the number of high profile taxi passenger murders we've had in England recently, a panic button in the back might make drivers think twice about trying it.
Too right. Every British version of an American comedy, and every American version of a British comedy (with the exception of "the office", where I actually prefered the american one (and I'm a brit)) has been fucking terrible.
We had a pilot for a British version of "Married with children". Married with children was always about the hype. Having the audience going mental about the slightest thing was somehow part of the atmosphere that made it so entertaining. The British pilot was dull, family-orientated, and absolutely nothing like the original, which was entirely based on American humour. It simply didn't work in British mode.
Apparently there's an American version of "Top Gear" now. What's the point? Ok, Jeremy Clarkson comes out with the occasional anti-American (and anti-german, and anti-french, and anti-human-race) comment, and he hates American cars, but that show is watched by 200 million people for a reason - it's damn entertaining. Apparently, the US doesn't even get the British version! That show is hilarious!
Well, in the US, you get about 60% of the good stuff - the other 40% is a bit too eclectic. But yes, we do have some crap comedy. "My Family" is a typical example - it's a bit like Friends in that it's written by a machine, ie. a HUGE team of script writers with a deadline. It's mildly amusing, suitable for all the family, but nothing genius. The best stuff is the independent stuff like Alan Partridge and Mitchell and Webb.
You also have to understand how the BBC works - the best comedy in Britain is actually on radio 4. The BBC can't afford to blow budget on a crap comedy, so they always test it out on the radio first. Mitchell and Webb started there, Dead Ringers, Mary Whitehouse Experience, Little Britain, Whose line is it anyway? (which spawned an american version), the list is endless. Sometimes it doesn't translate to the screen so well.
There's a bloody excellent radio 4 show called "Old Harry's Game" written by Andy Hamilton, about a neurotic Satan trying to run an overcrowded hell. It's in its 9th series now, and it won't ever be translated to tv. The special effects would cost a fortune.
And then of course, there's "I'm sorry I haven't a clue" which ran for 30 years before Humphrey Littleton died (I had tickets for the show he was supposed to be at before he died:( ). That's the funniest thing on tv and radio put together.
But bluntly, the BBC has to fill the airwaves 24/7 with some sort of entertainment according to a charter made in conjunction with an independent watchdog sponsored (but not interfered with, in spite of what cynics say) by the government. They HAVE to produce a certain percentage of comedy, and if the talent isn't there, then you get shit comedy. On radio 4, the charter is a bit more open-ended, and they get away with more and take more risks with new talent. Some of that finds its way onto the TV.
The thing about science, is it can and will only deal with observable evidence. Science does not concern itself with anything which is not falsifiable. As science expands, the list of that which is not falsifiable increases, but there some things for which science simply has no domain.
For example, the big one: God. No evidence, the scientists say. Can't write a theory to either prove or disprove God either, although one can only hope for an unexpected event in the future which swings it either way by meeting certain criteria, but defining criteria that disproves God is next to impossible. Any "clear evidence" for a lack of god could be met with "God put the evidence there".
When scientists are asked their question that it is not their job to answer, they can only go up one further level, which is philosophy. And this is my point. The "intelligent design" argument is not a scientific one, as it hypothesises the unfalsifiable as the cause of the observable. "Intelligent design" is a PHILOSOPHICAL argument, and has a rightful place for discussion in philosophy, alongside questions such as whether that which we know is the only thing that is knowable, and whether we all see the colour "blue" in the same way. If the ID lobby want their hypothesis taught in school, fine, teach it in philosophy where it belongs, and keep it out of science class.
Not very well if they're using windows SERVER.. the difference between a linux desktop kernel and a linux server kernel is the compile flags. An interactive desktop has a whole different set of priorities than a server which is more interested in FIFO and serving the masses in a fair manner, rather than pandering to the attention of the person holding the mouse. Pre-emptive multitasking, scheduler prioritisation, realtime interrupts, not trying to act as an email server while you're firing 50mm rounds of flak at an invading force of jet fighters.. The same goes for windows.
On a general basis, the only people who are ever extradited from Russia are hot blondes who like to use their physical appearance to get the fuck out of Russia and get a passport in a civilised country.
Viruses? Hardly any.
Rampant piracy? Of open source? haha. Of movies? Block bit torrent
People opening up ports on their desktops to the world? Get a firewall.
People h@x0ring root? Tripwire+logging.
Dissemination of company secrets? Was always a threat. Force everyone through a proxy.
It's hardly surprising really. Oklahoma is one of those states that the USA is embarassed about. As a British man, it's a bit like talking about Hull. We try not to mention the place to tourists, in case they find us out and it makes it back into a travel guide.
Good try, but your error didn't provide enough configuration data.
I got this:-)
Server Error in '/SKILLS' Application. Runtime Error Description: An application error occurred on the server. The current custom error settings for this application prevent the details of the application error from being viewed remotely (for security reasons). It could, however, be viewed by browsers running on the local server machine.
Details: To enable the details of this specific error message to be viewable on remote machines, please create a tag within a "web.config" configuration file located in the root directory of the current web application. This tag should then have its "mode" attribute set to "Off".
Notes: The current error page you are seeing can be replaced by a custom error page by modifying the "defaultRedirect" attribute of the application's configuration tag to point to a custom error page URL.
You make an interesting point, but customisation would be easier through a plugin architecture than an overlay architecture.
I once drunkenly came up with the "ultimate" ticketing/helpdesk/change management/blog/journal/incident management type thing which had the basic class of a ticket, and attributes. Each attribute is a class, and displaying a ticket would in turn draw every class.
So instead of writing overlays, you write attribute classes, which get included in polymorphic tickets as they are created and adapted to whatever function they end up in.
eg. 3am. Database breaks. File incident report. Many people add "comment" attributes the following morning. After much discussion, a resolution involves marking the ticket as an "ongoing problem". So the "problem" class gets added. Now the ticket has various boxes on it, and classes need prioritising. comments go to the bottom. Eventually someone comes up with a plan. This requires a "recommended action" attribute to be added. The action gets signed off. Now it becomes a change request. Change request attributes get added. Now it needs scheduling. Start date and end date, and dependencies get added, and a person is assigned to the different work bits. Eventually you can draw a waterfall chart of who needs to do what to permanently resolve the database issue which went off at 3am 2 weeks ago.
Of course, I'm not covering all cases - people may wish to add more attribute classes, but as long as they are dynamically loaded as extras, rather than being overlays of existing code, it should all fit together quite nicely.
I mean, honestly, my general daily haunts are slashdot, the register, BBC news, and failblog, and occasionally b3ta.
If I want to learn about linux, then I go to slashdot. That said, if I'm a total linux kernel developer geek, then perhaps I do need to see a daily news update on what patches got accepted and rejected, but somehow, I expect the whole site to be dedicated to boring shit like "linux gets used in some school somewhere", or "some country installs linux box somewhere in the basement of some government office".
I hope it didn't cost too much, because they're not going to get many visitors..
If there is one piece of software I never want to use again, it's RT. It's all fine until you start modifying triggers and templates. First there's the evil, kludgey combination of bad perl and bad Mason which you have to write overlays to, then once you've done this, you can't upgrade! If you upgrade, all of your overlays break. So you end up stuck with an out of date version with patch on top of patch. Interface is a little ugly too.
Not quite.. the game suddenly became popular because everything else costs 50 quid. If everything was half price, I would buy the game I was most interested in without having my choice swayed by the cheaper price.
So a lot of scripts tend to make the same mistake. They set up the environment on the first line, then use that throughout the script. Another script using the same stuff will have to do the same thing.
So you put this at the top of your script:
FOO="path/to/some/stuff"
And in lots of other scripts. WRONG!
Create "/opt/yourcompany/etc/env.d/foo" and put it in there.
Create "/opt/yourcompany/etc/profile" which executes env.d/*
Put "source/opt/yourcompany/etc/profile" at the top of all your scripts.
2% might not be much, but the rise (and fall) of linux (like all things in statistics) will be a bell curve. 2% is the bit where the graph starts to look pointy.
That said, first microsoft have to do something about the fact that half of their customer base can't tell the difference between windows 7 and kubuntu..
What kind of a man has to make fun of someone else's belief system? Seriously?
Somebody man enough to stand up to facism^H^H^H^H^H^Hreligion? You cannot trump your way out of a debate on a ridiculous belief system just because it might offend you or your imaginary friend with a beard who lives on a cloud. It's the imaginary guy with the beard who lives on a cloud which is a) a fucking stupid belief, and b) the problem.
At least someone's realised this. Call my a cynical English bastard, from a country where politicians are as boring as the discussions about farming quotas that they engage themselves in, but, hype and Beyonce Knowles aside, I'm starting to wonder.
I've read "The Audacity of Hope", and it's a great book written by a nice and very intelligent bloke. Also inexperienced. Does he imagine that ANY of that shit will get past the senate? Do his voters?
At least with Hilary, who had a shorter agenda, she had a lot more experience with them and knew a lot about persuading the oldtime bastards that they might one day have to change the odd thing if they want to get any kind of improvement.
But Obama? He's too well meaning! I'm WELL MEANING! You might as well have ME as president, so I can go in front of the senate and say "this is wrong". Obama is too nice! He's not enough of a cunt to stand in front of some old bastards and explain in terms that mercenary bastards understand that something needs to change.
oh well. I'll wait and see. In the mean time, we have Gordon Brown, and we didn't even elect this idiot. Better than Blair the fundie though.
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Given the number of high profile taxi passenger murders we've had in England recently, a panic button in the back might make drivers think twice about trying it.
Too right. Every British version of an American comedy, and every American version of a British comedy (with the exception of "the office", where I actually prefered the american one (and I'm a brit)) has been fucking terrible.
We had a pilot for a British version of "Married with children". Married with children was always about the hype. Having the audience going mental about the slightest thing was somehow part of the atmosphere that made it so entertaining. The British pilot was dull, family-orientated, and absolutely nothing like the original, which was entirely based on American humour. It simply didn't work in British mode.
Apparently there's an American version of "Top Gear" now. What's the point? Ok, Jeremy Clarkson comes out with the occasional anti-American (and anti-german, and anti-french, and anti-human-race) comment, and he hates American cars, but that show is watched by 200 million people for a reason - it's damn entertaining. Apparently, the US doesn't even get the British version! That show is hilarious!
Well, in the US, you get about 60% of the good stuff - the other 40% is a bit too eclectic. But yes, we do have some crap comedy. "My Family" is a typical example - it's a bit like Friends in that it's written by a machine, ie. a HUGE team of script writers with a deadline. It's mildly amusing, suitable for all the family, but nothing genius. The best stuff is the independent stuff like Alan Partridge and Mitchell and Webb.
You also have to understand how the BBC works - the best comedy in Britain is actually on radio 4. The BBC can't afford to blow budget on a crap comedy, so they always test it out on the radio first. Mitchell and Webb started there, Dead Ringers, Mary Whitehouse Experience, Little Britain, Whose line is it anyway? (which spawned an american version), the list is endless. Sometimes it doesn't translate to the screen so well.
There's a bloody excellent radio 4 show called "Old Harry's Game" written by Andy Hamilton, about a neurotic Satan trying to run an overcrowded hell. It's in its 9th series now, and it won't ever be translated to tv. The special effects would cost a fortune.
And then of course, there's "I'm sorry I haven't a clue" which ran for 30 years before Humphrey Littleton died (I had tickets for the show he was supposed to be at before he died :( ). That's the funniest thing on tv and radio put together.
But bluntly, the BBC has to fill the airwaves 24/7 with some sort of entertainment according to a charter made in conjunction with an independent watchdog sponsored (but not interfered with, in spite of what cynics say) by the government. They HAVE to produce a certain percentage of comedy, and if the talent isn't there, then you get shit comedy. On radio 4, the charter is a bit more open-ended, and they get away with more and take more risks with new talent. Some of that finds its way onto the TV.
I just checked it out. It's possibly the most disappointing porn site i've ever seen. It doesn't have any porn on it, for a start.
Well, it's obvious really..
"hey, your laptop is really small"
"yeah, I'm trying to make up for my enormous cock"
The thing about science, is it can and will only deal with observable evidence. Science does not concern itself with anything which is not falsifiable. As science expands, the list of that which is not falsifiable increases, but there some things for which science simply has no domain.
For example, the big one: God. No evidence, the scientists say. Can't write a theory to either prove or disprove God either, although one can only hope for an unexpected event in the future which swings it either way by meeting certain criteria, but defining criteria that disproves God is next to impossible. Any "clear evidence" for a lack of god could be met with "God put the evidence there".
When scientists are asked their question that it is not their job to answer, they can only go up one further level, which is philosophy. And this is my point. The "intelligent design" argument is not a scientific one, as it hypothesises the unfalsifiable as the cause of the observable. "Intelligent design" is a PHILOSOPHICAL argument, and has a rightful place for discussion in philosophy, alongside questions such as whether that which we know is the only thing that is knowable, and whether we all see the colour "blue" in the same way. If the ID lobby want their hypothesis taught in school, fine, teach it in philosophy where it belongs, and keep it out of science class.
Not very well if they're using windows SERVER.. the difference between a linux desktop kernel and a linux server kernel is the compile flags. An interactive desktop has a whole different set of priorities than a server which is more interested in FIFO and serving the masses in a fair manner, rather than pandering to the attention of the person holding the mouse. Pre-emptive multitasking, scheduler prioritisation, realtime interrupts, not trying to act as an email server while you're firing 50mm rounds of flak at an invading force of jet fighters.. The same goes for windows.
On a general basis, the only people who are ever extradited from Russia are hot blondes who like to use their physical appearance to get the fuck out of Russia and get a passport in a civilised country.
Lets examine the threats here:
Viruses? Hardly any.
Rampant piracy? Of open source? haha. Of movies? Block bit torrent
People opening up ports on their desktops to the world? Get a firewall.
People h@x0ring root? Tripwire+logging.
Dissemination of company secrets? Was always a threat. Force everyone through a proxy.
Anything else?
It's hardly surprising really. Oklahoma is one of those states that the USA is embarassed about. As a British man, it's a bit like talking about Hull. We try not to mention the place to tourists, in case they find us out and it makes it back into a travel guide.
today I discovered that even when pasting "plain text" in slashdot, HTML tags get stripped :(
What I meant to say was (brackets stripped)
Web.Config Configuration File
configuration
system.web
customErrors mode="Off"
system.web
configuration
Web.Config Configuration File
configuration
system.web
customErrors mode="RemoteOnly" defaultRedirect="mycustompage.htm"
system.web
configuration
Good try, but your error didn't provide enough configuration data.
I got this :-)
Server Error in '/SKILLS' Application.
Runtime Error
Description: An application error occurred on the server. The current custom error settings for this application prevent the details of the application error from being viewed remotely (for security reasons). It could, however, be viewed by browsers running on the local server machine.
Details: To enable the details of this specific error message to be viewable on remote machines, please create a tag within a "web.config" configuration file located in the root directory of the current web application. This tag should then have its "mode" attribute set to "Off".
Notes: The current error page you are seeing can be replaced by a custom error page by modifying the "defaultRedirect" attribute of the application's configuration tag to point to a custom error page URL.
You make an interesting point, but customisation would be easier through a plugin architecture than an overlay architecture.
I once drunkenly came up with the "ultimate" ticketing/helpdesk/change management/blog/journal/incident management type thing which had the basic class of a ticket, and attributes. Each attribute is a class, and displaying a ticket would in turn draw every class.
So instead of writing overlays, you write attribute classes, which get included in polymorphic tickets as they are created and adapted to whatever function they end up in.
eg. 3am. Database breaks. File incident report. Many people add "comment" attributes the following morning. After much discussion, a resolution involves marking the ticket as an "ongoing problem". So the "problem" class gets added. Now the ticket has various boxes on it, and classes need prioritising. comments go to the bottom. Eventually someone comes up with a plan. This requires a "recommended action" attribute to be added. The action gets signed off. Now it becomes a change request. Change request attributes get added. Now it needs scheduling. Start date and end date, and dependencies get added, and a person is assigned to the different work bits. Eventually you can draw a waterfall chart of who needs to do what to permanently resolve the database issue which went off at 3am 2 weeks ago.
Of course, I'm not covering all cases - people may wish to add more attribute classes, but as long as they are dynamically loaded as extras, rather than being overlays of existing code, it should all fit together quite nicely.
I mean, honestly, my general daily haunts are slashdot, the register, BBC news, and failblog, and occasionally b3ta.
If I want to learn about linux, then I go to slashdot. That said, if I'm a total linux kernel developer geek, then perhaps I do need to see a daily news update on what patches got accepted and rejected, but somehow, I expect the whole site to be dedicated to boring shit like "linux gets used in some school somewhere", or "some country installs linux box somewhere in the basement of some government office".
I hope it didn't cost too much, because they're not going to get many visitors..
If there is one piece of software I never want to use again, it's RT. It's all fine until you start modifying triggers and templates. First there's the evil, kludgey combination of bad perl and bad Mason which you have to write overlays to, then once you've done this, you can't upgrade! If you upgrade, all of your overlays break. So you end up stuck with an out of date version with patch on top of patch. Interface is a little ugly too.
jesus. no wonder she never married..
Not quite.. the game suddenly became popular because everything else costs 50 quid. If everything was half price, I would buy the game I was most interested in without having my choice swayed by the cheaper price.
Microsoft already provide this, with their "shared source" license. Have a read of it.
I'm using 4.2 here, you insensitive clod!
Ok, so somebody needs to invent a luminous ass.
So a lot of scripts tend to make the same mistake. They set up the environment on the first line, then use that throughout the script. Another script using the same stuff will have to do the same thing.
So you put this at the top of your script:
FOO="path/to/some/stuff"
And in lots of other scripts. WRONG!
Create "/opt/yourcompany/etc/env.d/foo" and put it in there.
Create "/opt/yourcompany/etc/profile" which executes env.d/*
Put "source /opt/yourcompany/etc/profile" at the top of all your scripts.
Wow.. now your scripts are relocatable!
HTH HAND burp.
2% might not be much, but the rise (and fall) of linux (like all things in statistics) will be a bell curve. 2% is the bit where the graph starts to look pointy.
That said, first microsoft have to do something about the fact that half of their customer base can't tell the difference between windows 7 and kubuntu..
http://www.zdnet.com.au/insight/software/soa/Is-it-Windows-7-or-KDE-4-/0,139023769,339294810,00.htm
Somebody man enough to stand up to facism^H^H^H^H^H^Hreligion? You cannot trump your way out of a debate on a ridiculous belief system just because it might offend you or your imaginary friend with a beard who lives on a cloud. It's the imaginary guy with the beard who lives on a cloud which is a) a fucking stupid belief, and b) the problem.
At least someone's realised this. Call my a cynical English bastard, from a country where politicians are as boring as the discussions about farming quotas that they engage themselves in, but, hype and Beyonce Knowles aside, I'm starting to wonder.
I've read "The Audacity of Hope", and it's a great book written by a nice and very intelligent bloke. Also inexperienced. Does he imagine that ANY of that shit will get past the senate? Do his voters?
At least with Hilary, who had a shorter agenda, she had a lot more experience with them and knew a lot about persuading the oldtime bastards that they might one day have to change the odd thing if they want to get any kind of improvement.
But Obama? He's too well meaning! I'm WELL MEANING! You might as well have ME as president, so I can go in front of the senate and say "this is wrong". Obama is too nice! He's not enough of a cunt to stand in front of some old bastards and explain in terms that mercenary bastards understand that something needs to change.
oh well. I'll wait and see. In the mean time, we have Gordon Brown, and we didn't even elect this idiot. Better than Blair the fundie though.
As such a strong believer in Christ, Sarah Palin must've been gutted when she lost an election to him.