FTA: "The implications for Linux users are rather like the implications for passengers on an ocean liner of a seagull diving into the water nearby. A physicist might be able to measure the perturbation, but the passenger feels nothing."
Recently I ordered a whole media box for a customer worth around $2000 from tigerdirect and I needed it fast fast fast. It came on time, but my heart attack came when I checked my bank. They charged twice, docking my account almost $4000 (they were nice enough not to include shippping in one). After going through many zombies I finally got a rep that could tell me what the hell was going on. Apparently it is a hefty sum and they decided to 'freeze' the sum of my purchase and then proceeded to charge for the same sum + shipping. I had to mess with this for a week before I could pay my damn bills. However this taught me a good lesson that I should have already had in high school. Never underestimate the value of human contact. Yeah we're all nerds and want to stay away from the Worst Buy commission gangs on sugar highs trying to sell you this nice wireless bluetooth toothbrush with mp3 player and a free headset, but when it comes down to it, somebody has to be responsible for whatever happens to your order. Can't blame the server BSODing in the middle of your order and charging you again after coming back online because someone didn't know what a friggin mutex is. But the best way to avoid all this is to forget the online stores and get the critical stuff locally, personally. If anything happens, you got someone to point your finger(choose carefully) at, even if its yourself.
Still waiting for these execs to figure out that this is old news. With solid state memory getting cheaper each year it will take some time before PHBs figure out its advantages over this old technology. I guess people just have gotten used to the skips, scratches, snap, crackle, and pops. Yeah, flash is still expensive compared to cds but hey for bluray HD-DVD and whatever next they come up with to suck that cash out, you will still be paying high prices until mass production kicks in(unless they do the bleed-until-i-profit thing). In a while your cd-dvd-vcd-svcd-xsvcd-hddvd-bluray-abc-def-ghi-zzz player will have more moving parts, more things to break, more scratches, and another old player in the landfill. And they will still be trying to get demos to work...
And when it comes to the human ability to speak in "code" so that one audience hears one thing while another audience hears another, we're fighting millions of years of evolution.
Then I remembered a specific thing I read about 9/11 and I went to dig it up. Here it is:
Then, on Aug. 29, the phone rang in Binalshibh's Hamburg apartment at three in the morning.
It was Atta with an important, but cryptic message: "He said to me, 'One of my friends related a riddle to me and I cannot solve it, and I called you so that you can solve it for me.'" Binalshibh is heard saying.
Atta goes, "Two sticks, a dash and a cake with a stick down."
Binalshibh said, "I said to him, 'Is this the riddle? You wake me from a deep sleep to tell me this riddle? Two sticks and I do not know what?'"
Eventually, Fouda says, Binalshibh realized what Atta meant. So he says to him, "OK. Tell your friend, he has nothing to worry about. It's such a sweet riddle."
Binalshibh explained it: "The two sticks represent the number 11, then the dash, and then the cake from which a stick dangles represents number nine. Thus, the picture becomes complete: the 11th of September."
No "bombs", no "blow-up" no "kill americans." I don't care what superdupercomputer and genius programmers they got going there, but picking something like that from all the other noise in communications is impossible.
How lethal is smoking? Specifically, what percentage of smokers develop cancer? I looked at a study about a month ago and to my suprise the answer is less than 10%. The media would make you think that figure is like 80-90%, at least greater than 50%. (Search for yourself, I had a hell of a time finding it.)
Yes, it's like playing russian roulette, but chances are that you will live 9 out of 10 tries.
IRC is just a medium like any other. There are countless ways for like-minded people to get together on the Internet and one can't say one way is preferrable to another. For example, some chatrooms have links to a website where you can paste your code so you don't spam the chat with your 2037502893 lines of incomprehensibility. There are also many message boards and websites where developers can exchange knowledge. Also lets not forget Linus and newsgroups. IRC is just another way for people to get help, and maybe somewhere along the way somebody else will say "Hey, that's something cool, you need some help with it?" and something new will be born.
Slashdot Mirror
too bad that they will still be 'blogging' your windshields.
first impressions can influence subsequent judgments of website credibility
Badges? We don't need no stinking badges!
FTA: "The implications for Linux users are rather like the implications for passengers on an ocean liner of a seagull diving into the water nearby. A physicist might be able to measure the perturbation, but the passenger feels nothing."
R.I.P.
Recently I ordered a whole media box for a customer worth around $2000 from tigerdirect and I needed it fast fast fast. It came on time, but my heart attack came when I checked my bank. They charged twice, docking my account almost $4000 (they were nice enough not to include shippping in one). After going through many zombies I finally got a rep that could tell me what the hell was going on. Apparently it is a hefty sum and they decided to 'freeze' the sum of my purchase and then proceeded to charge for the same sum + shipping. I had to mess with this for a week before I could pay my damn bills. However this taught me a good lesson that I should have already had in high school. Never underestimate the value of human contact. Yeah we're all nerds and want to stay away from the Worst Buy commission gangs on sugar highs trying to sell you this nice wireless bluetooth toothbrush with mp3 player and a free headset, but when it comes down to it, somebody has to be responsible for whatever happens to your order. Can't blame the server BSODing in the middle of your order and charging you again after coming back online because someone didn't know what a friggin mutex is. But the best way to avoid all this is to forget the online stores and get the critical stuff locally, personally. If anything happens, you got someone to point your finger(choose carefully) at, even if its yourself.
1. Put up the e-Dispute on LAWbay
2. Parties put up a bid
3. Repeat step 2 until one goes broke
4. The one with the biggest sum wins!
5. profit!!!
Still waiting for these execs to figure out that this is old news. With solid state memory getting cheaper each year it will take some time before PHBs figure out its advantages over this old technology. I guess people just have gotten used to the skips, scratches, snap, crackle, and pops. Yeah, flash is still expensive compared to cds but hey for bluray HD-DVD and whatever next they come up with to suck that cash out, you will still be paying high prices until mass production kicks in(unless they do the bleed-until-i-profit thing). In a while your cd-dvd-vcd-svcd-xsvcd-hddvd-bluray-abc-def-ghi-zzz player will have more moving parts, more things to break, more scratches, and another old player in the landfill. And they will still be trying to get demos to work...
With an infinite amount of monkeys typing away at a typewriter for an infinite amount of time you will get...this?
Only thing that would discourage a lawyer would be a "loser dies" system.
Then I remembered a specific thing I read about 9/11 and I went to dig it up. Here it is:
No "bombs", no "blow-up" no "kill americans." I don't care what superdupercomputer and genius programmers they got going there, but picking something like that from all the other noise in communications is impossible.
Goes along with the 50% of all surveys are bogus.
*smack* : )
I have to take a giant coprolite!
I like gold better. If the modern paper civilization collapses I can always discover gold in my backyard. *grabs shovel*
They want to make our workdays longer! Stop them!
damn you and webboggle! damn you all!
...with women, but I've had mixed success(wrong body part got gravitationally attracted to my face).
So you're suggesting...more overhead?
No soup for you!
Just what Lenin was waiting for!
Don't give them ideas...next thing you know they will write SONY across it.
How lethal is smoking? Specifically, what percentage of smokers develop cancer? I looked at a study about a month ago and to my suprise the answer is less than 10%. The media would make you think that figure is like 80-90%, at least greater than 50%. (Search for yourself, I had a hell of a time finding it.)
Yes, it's like playing russian roulette, but chances are that you will live 9 out of 10 tries.
anyone have a preference when it comes to finding help coding online?
I will save you the trouble of going to IRC: RTFM. : )
You just need the right finger extension. I prefer the old Ctrl+Alt+F1+C.
IRC is just a medium like any other. There are countless ways for like-minded people to get together on the Internet and one can't say one way is preferrable to another. For example, some chatrooms have links to a website where you can paste your code so you don't spam the chat with your 2037502893 lines of incomprehensibility. There are also many message boards and websites where developers can exchange knowledge. Also lets not forget Linus and newsgroups. IRC is just another way for people to get help, and maybe somewhere along the way somebody else will say "Hey, that's something cool, you need some help with it?" and something new will be born.