There's this cool new feature on computers now where you can save a file under a different name
Or you can be really cutting edge, and put your httpd.conf into a CVS repository. In the long run, that's a lot easier than keeping a bunch of renamed files. Besides, you should be keeping your HTML and PHP in there anyway, so why not add httpd.conf?
* Winners compare their achievments to their goals, losers compare theirs to that of others. * ARMONK, NY - Aug. 8,
So if you set unambitious goals and meet them, you're a winner. If you are the best ___________ shop on the planet and fail to meet really ambitious goals, then you're a loser. This sounds like especially unenlightened management-speak.
By this metric, GW Bush is a winner and may be our best President ever. He has accomplished a great many of his goals. And those historians who compare him to the other Presidents and say that he may be our worst President ever...losers. Sorry, no sale.
What's the difference from divers who forget to check how much O2 they have before they dive?
Divers can usually do a "free-ascent" if they run out of air (not O2, if they are breathing O2 below 33 feet, they have bigger problems than running out: Oxygen Toxicity). Unless you need to stop and decompress, or unless you are inside a cave or a wreck, getting to the surface isn't that hard. Even if you ought to decompress, you can get to the surface to survive, and then enjoy the bends and treatment in a hyperbaric chamber. Warning: IANADI
And if Louisiana can't afford to design, develop, launch, and maintain their own weather satellites, then they don't deserve any warning that a hurricane is coming.
Never mind that. I'm moving out soon. I just hope my sweet new invention isn't outlawed. A self-loading and self-ejecting VCR that prints mailing labels then calls a courier to get all new episodes to me anywhere in the world.
You know what they say about your Mom's basement: You can't take it with you.
I always found it rather amusing the way people in the US bitched about "high" fuel prices.
To see whether the bitching is justified, you should look at the structure of our economies. We are used to cheap fuel and expensive healthcare (like $500/month/person for good health insurance), you are used to the opposite. If we could have free healthcare, $5 gas wouldn't be a problem. Realistically, $5/gallon gas probably won't be a hardship for/.'ers, who are somewhat educated (hey, I said 'somewhat') and probably making a decent wage.
Unforunately, our poor are getting shafted by low wages (that don't increase to keep up with inflation), regressive taxes (not so much income tax as payroll taxes, sales tax), high debt at predatory interest rates, expensive childcare, etc. Some people in the US will be severely hurt by $5 gas.
There's probably no public transportation to get them to their jobs. They can't improve their gas mileage by getting a tune-up (for which I just paid $572). They can't buy a more efficient car ($$$). They can't move closer to their work (to move into an apartment in the US usually costs 3 months rent (first, last, and security deposit)). They can't bike 20 miles to work in 110-degree heat, or they will be sent home for being unpresentable. They are stuck.
See, this is the problem with offshoring. It's not the quality of the foreign coders, it's the lack of a shared cultural context in which to collaborate. For instance, no American software company would put "Cluj" in its name.
You put yourself through the pain of dealing with an innumerate cashier just to punish the store? Actually, there is a discount for using the self-scan. The store adds their profit margin to the top of their total costs to determine their prices. If people steal shopping carts, the store doesn't just say, "Oh well, no profit this year." If people use the self-checkout lanes, thus reducing the payroll for the store, then the store will likely lower their prices (or more likely, the store will be able to cancel or postpone the next round of price-hikes).
All of the Home Depots that I've seen in Florida have a separate "Contractor Check-Out". If you are buying 50 pieces of lumber, they probably won't ask to see your 1099 to make sure that you are a contractor. Look into it.
did they even talk to any potential end users of this device?
Yeah, they tried asking a user who had never seen a computer before to type up a set of requirements, and make some simple OS choices. Those ingrates were totally unhelpful.
They get you to pay $2 for a song you don't want and their the ones that need to be hit with a clue stick?
It's like that gubmint scam where they let you vote, but you have to pay for the gas to get to the polls. I showed those bozos who's boss by staying home on election day. Since I live in a swing state, maybe it would have been worth 30-cents to vote against Bush.
{Note: this was a joke. I voted against him in 2000 and 2004.}
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the pres hits the "Draft" button
If the US activates a draft, don't expect colorblindness to get you 4F status.
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Of course, he is unable to differentiate between Communist freedom fighters and eco-terrorists.
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Food is dangerous enough.
This adds whole new meaning to: Terror Alert Level ORANGE
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You want a machine in your body? What if its hackable?
Cool! Do you have the SDK? Do I need to install a mod-chip? Does it run Linux? Insulin-resistance is futile!
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for those who don't know, most colour blind people are exempt from serving in the military
It would have been nice to know which country you are talking about. The USA seems to be the 'default' country on/. (because of # of US participants), but your comment doesn't make sense for the US; we have an all-volunteer military, so everyone is 'exempt' from serving in the military.
Colorblind people are allowed to serve in the US military. My brother-in-law joined the Marines, hoping for a useful skill such as electrician. They tested him and found out that he was red-green colorblind. The electrician MOS is closed to him, as are: pilot, explosive ordinance disposal ("cut the red wire"), and a few others. He went into Intel.
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And why is it right? It may be obvious to you, but please spell it out to me. It's like saying that "homosexualtiy is obviously not right" - it means nothing except "I don't like it, and I feel self-righteous about that".
It's in Leviticus: "A restriction enzyme that touches a plant chromosome shall not touch an animal chromosome, lest there be an abomination." You can't argue with a commandment like that. Why do you hate G-d?
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Or you can be really cutting edge, and put your httpd.conf into a CVS repository. In the long run, that's a lot easier than keeping a bunch of renamed files. Besides, you should be keeping your HTML and PHP in there anyway, so why not add httpd.conf?
So if you set unambitious goals and meet them, you're a winner. If you are the best ___________ shop on the planet and fail to meet really ambitious goals, then you're a loser. This sounds like especially unenlightened management-speak.
By this metric, GW Bush is a winner and may be our best President ever. He has accomplished a great many of his goals. And those historians who compare him to the other Presidents and say that he may be our worst President ever...losers. Sorry, no sale.
Divers can usually do a "free-ascent" if they run out of air (not O2, if they are breathing O2 below 33 feet, they have bigger problems than running out: Oxygen Toxicity). Unless you need to stop and decompress, or unless you are inside a cave or a wreck, getting to the surface isn't that hard. Even if you ought to decompress, you can get to the surface to survive, and then enjoy the bends and treatment in a hyperbaric chamber. Warning: IANADI
Thermite-tipped bullets. Somehow I doubt that vaporized liquid armor will be able to stop much of anything.
And if Louisiana can't afford to design, develop, launch, and maintain their own weather satellites, then they don't deserve any warning that a hurricane is coming.
Put politicians into war (right there on the battlefield). That will make for a lot fewer wars.
You know what they say about your Mom's basement: You can't take it with you.
... I will send you $100M USD, to buy laptops for Nigerian children, if you kindly send me $5,000 USD to assist with transaction fees.
To see whether the bitching is justified, you should look at the structure of our economies. We are used to cheap fuel and expensive healthcare (like $500/month/person for good health insurance), you are used to the opposite. If we could have free healthcare, $5 gas wouldn't be a problem. Realistically, $5/gallon gas probably won't be a hardship for /.'ers, who are somewhat educated (hey, I said 'somewhat') and probably making a decent wage.
Unforunately, our poor are getting shafted by low wages (that don't increase to keep up with inflation), regressive taxes (not so much income tax as payroll taxes, sales tax), high debt at predatory interest rates, expensive childcare, etc. Some people in the US will be severely hurt by $5 gas.
There's probably no public transportation to get them to their jobs. They can't improve their gas mileage by getting a tune-up (for which I just paid $572). They can't buy a more efficient car ($$$). They can't move closer to their work (to move into an apartment in the US usually costs 3 months rent (first, last, and security deposit)). They can't bike 20 miles to work in 110-degree heat, or they will be sent home for being unpresentable. They are stuck.
See, this is the problem with offshoring. It's not the quality of the foreign coders, it's the lack of a shared cultural context in which to collaborate. For instance, no American software company would put "Cluj" in its name.
Fortunately, /. has non-validating moderators.
In our shop, it's Java that accelerates software development, and I don't mean the programming language.
You're lucky that the machine wasn't capable of dispensing $2, or you would have had a $1.50 service charge, and $2 in your hand.
You put yourself through the pain of dealing with an innumerate cashier just to punish the store? Actually, there is a discount for using the self-scan. The store adds their profit margin to the top of their total costs to determine their prices. If people steal shopping carts, the store doesn't just say, "Oh well, no profit this year." If people use the self-checkout lanes, thus reducing the payroll for the store, then the store will likely lower their prices (or more likely, the store will be able to cancel or postpone the next round of price-hikes).
All of the Home Depots that I've seen in Florida have a separate "Contractor Check-Out". If you are buying 50 pieces of lumber, they probably won't ask to see your 1099 to make sure that you are a contractor. Look into it.
* Surprising to anyone who doesn't know how much stress you choose to walk around with.
Yeah, they tried asking a user who had never seen a computer before to type up a set of requirements, and make some simple OS choices. Those ingrates were totally unhelpful.
It's like that gubmint scam where they let you vote, but you have to pay for the gas to get to the polls. I showed those bozos who's boss by staying home on election day. Since I live in a swing state, maybe it would have been worth 30-cents to vote against Bush.
{Note: this was a joke. I voted against him in 2000 and 2004.}
If the US activates a draft, don't expect colorblindness to get you 4F status.
Of course, he is unable to differentiate between Communist freedom fighters and eco-terrorists.
This adds whole new meaning to: Terror Alert Level ORANGE
Cool! Do you have the SDK? Do I need to install a mod-chip? Does it run Linux? Insulin-resistance is futile!
It would have been nice to know which country you are talking about. The USA seems to be the 'default' country on /. (because of # of US participants), but your comment doesn't make sense for the US; we have an all-volunteer military, so everyone is 'exempt' from serving in the military.
Colorblind people are allowed to serve in the US military. My brother-in-law joined the Marines, hoping for a useful skill such as electrician. They tested him and found out that he was red-green colorblind. The electrician MOS is closed to him, as are: pilot, explosive ordinance disposal ("cut the red wire"), and a few others. He went into Intel.
It's in Leviticus: "A restriction enzyme that touches a plant chromosome shall not touch an animal chromosome, lest there be an abomination." You can't argue with a commandment like that. Why do you hate G-d?
That's not funny. I suffer from diabetic-phototropism, you insensitive clod!