I doubt that that will happen. Anything made by a human has a flaw.
Yeah, but it's one of those infinite-number-of-monkeys-for-an-infinite-amount-of-time things. Enough programmers writing enough code for enough time will, more or less by accident, write a perfect piece of code.
I always feel like they're not really thinking through all the possible ramifications. Bubbles in the Sea? It might be worth thinking about what that would do to ocean life.
My smart-ass first post not withstanding (I just couldn't resist the Don Ho joke), I agree with you completely. Bubbles might help alleviate climate change but they're likely to cause all kinds of havoc with the phytoplankton that are the base of the oceanic food chain.
So Microsoft is now using Apple as a proxy in a patent war with Linux.
What I can't figure out is why this was listed as an Apple story at all since Apple is only tangentially related. Better that it had been labeled "Microsoft" since even "Linux" would have been a stretch.
Namely the "secrets" of the Masonic Lodge. Which turned out to be nothing more than a harmless, rather silly, initiation ritual and not secret at all. In fact, the Masons cooperated fully with the filming of the show.
Newegg is doing their share by rush shipping replacements. This whole affair isn't their fault and they got on top of the situation quickly enough, what more do you expect?
In a word: bullshit. Regardless of whether or not it was their fault, there's no sense of entitlement at all in expecting NewEgg to make good on replacing the product and compensating the people who received the bogus chips for lost time and inconvenience--they warranted a product to be something which it was not. That makes them responsible to their own customers.
I've never purchased anything from NewEgg but their handling of this affair makes me think well of them. Companies are nothing more than large groups of people working together; people sometimes make mistakes, therefore so will companies. The question is this: will the company own up to their mistakes and make things right? NewEgg has done that.
Just FYI, Mono Lake lies in an area that's still quite volcanically active, with many hot springs and fumaroles including a couple that can be seen right from U.S. Route 395, the main highway that runs through the region. In fact, the Long Valley area you mentioned is the caldera of a potential super volcano.
The whole area is also very beautiful in an almost other-worldly way. It looks sort of like one of the better Star Trek (TOS) sets.
Maybe Linux, but not Mac. Mac has it's own malware, while small it's still there and growing as Mac is growing. Mac even has it's own botnet
Hardly a problem and hardly growing. The item you refer to was a trojan that you had to install yourself by downloading pirated copy of iWorks 09 from a torrent and entering your admin password. It had nothing to do with a botnet and, although it could have been potentially troublesome, it never actually did anything. In fact, unless the user was running as Admin, the program would just exit because it needed sudo privileges to do it's job. Besides, even if you did get infected, it was easy to remove and as far as I know, it's completely disappeared in the year since that article was published. I tried a Google search and the latest mention of it I could find was April 2009.
Compare that to a Windows machine connected to the Internet without some sort of protection--it can become infected without the user doing anything at all.
What does this mean for you Picnikers? Nothing is changing right away...
Which, of course, translates to "You'll continue to have a job at least until all the financial details of the sale are arranged. After that, who knows?" I'm speaking from experience here. I've had my employer "acquired" a couple of times and always ended up unemployed afterwards.
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I doubt that that will happen. Anything made by a human has a flaw.
Yeah, but it's one of those infinite-number-of-monkeys-for-an-infinite-amount-of-time things. Enough programmers writing enough code for enough time will, more or less by accident, write a perfect piece of code.
I far prefer Brother Iz to Don Ho.
Iz's cover of "Over the Rainbow" is da kine, for sure.
I always feel like they're not really thinking through all the possible ramifications. Bubbles in the Sea? It might be worth thinking about what that would do to ocean life.
My smart-ass first post not withstanding (I just couldn't resist the Don Ho joke), I agree with you completely. Bubbles might help alleviate climate change but they're likely to cause all kinds of havoc with the phytoplankton that are the base of the oceanic food chain.
Has he cleared that with Don Ho?
I don't get exploited, nimrod
I don't think Nimrod means what you think it means.
The safest bridge is one that prevents people from getting on it.
But woe to those who go under it.
I must have lost a few days somewhere along the line...
Silverlight which is also supported by Microsoft on Apple's Mac OS X
And which caused my browser to crash regularly whenever it was invoked. YMMV but for me, it was almost as bad as Adobe's Mac implementation of Flash.
I am Spartacus.
No, I am Spartacus!
Duh. Big woosh. My bad.
That couldn't have been Balmer--he doesn't have enough hair to brush.
So Microsoft is now using Apple as a proxy in a patent war with Linux.
What I can't figure out is why this was listed as an Apple story at all since Apple is only tangentially related. Better that it had been labeled "Microsoft" since even "Linux" would have been a stretch.
Namely the "secrets" of the Masonic Lodge. Which turned out to be nothing more than a harmless, rather silly, initiation ritual and not secret at all. In fact, the Masons cooperated fully with the filming of the show.
Who cares if it multitasks? The whole argument is just something cooked up by the anti-Apple crowd as ammunition to use against the iPhone.
I learned to program on an Atari 800 using BASIC. Now I can't code my way out of a paper bag.
Welcome to the entitlement mindset.
Newegg is doing their share by rush shipping replacements. This whole affair isn't their fault and they got on top of the situation quickly enough, what more do you expect?
In a word: bullshit. Regardless of whether or not it was their fault, there's no sense of entitlement at all in expecting NewEgg to make good on replacing the product and compensating the people who received the bogus chips for lost time and inconvenience--they warranted a product to be something which it was not. That makes them responsible to their own customers.
I've never purchased anything from NewEgg but their handling of this affair makes me think well of them. Companies are nothing more than large groups of people working together; people sometimes make mistakes, therefore so will companies. The question is this: will the company own up to their mistakes and make things right? NewEgg has done that.
Just FYI, Mono Lake lies in an area that's still quite volcanically active, with many hot springs and fumaroles including a couple that can be seen right from U.S. Route 395, the main highway that runs through the region. In fact, the Long Valley area you mentioned is the caldera of a potential super volcano.
The whole area is also very beautiful in an almost other-worldly way. It looks sort of like one of the better Star Trek (TOS) sets.
At one point, the summary says "Orange County Officials." At another point, it says "city officials." So, which is it--county or city?
Yeah, I know, I could just RTFA but the summary is still sloppy.
Maybe Linux, but not Mac. Mac has it's own malware, while small it's still there and growing as Mac is growing. Mac even has it's own botnet
Hardly a problem and hardly growing. The item you refer to was a trojan that you had to install yourself by downloading pirated copy of iWorks 09 from a torrent and entering your admin password. It had nothing to do with a botnet and, although it could have been potentially troublesome, it never actually did anything. In fact, unless the user was running as Admin, the program would just exit because it needed sudo privileges to do it's job. Besides, even if you did get infected, it was easy to remove and as far as I know, it's completely disappeared in the year since that article was published. I tried a Google search and the latest mention of it I could find was April 2009.
Compare that to a Windows machine connected to the Internet without some sort of protection--it can become infected without the user doing anything at all.
Missed it by 1.26 microseconds. Damn.
Nice. I hope all the Picnikers do as well.
Grew up in San Mateo, BTW. On the wrong side of 101, though.
Dude, the statement talks about how it will affect the users.
Some of them will surely become unemployed, but that is unrelated to this deal.
I interpreted it as meaning employees, but you may very well be right.
What does this mean for you Picnikers? Nothing is changing right away...
Which, of course, translates to "You'll continue to have a job at least until all the financial details of the sale are arranged. After that, who knows?" I'm speaking from experience here. I've had my employer "acquired" a couple of times and always ended up unemployed afterwards.
Maybe one day their students will be allowed to grow beards and have private sex lives.
Not to mention a cup of coffee.
...Satan is readying a room for these guys.