Intern and Mr. Turd McShitforbrains conversation (cont.)
Mr. T McS: "Oh Shit! They've caught on at/. Change the image to someone else!"
Intern: "How about a middle aged women?"
Mr. T McS: "Great! You've got a knack for political correctness as well! You're off the litigations squad, and onto PR!"
HAHA! Yes! I understand your pain.
Listen to this stupid design flaw of the Ericsson T60i Hey Sony-Ericsson, listen up!
I engage the key lock (which takes 3 key presses)
Time passes
The phone rings, I miss it.
I get a voicemail message.
The phone tell me I got a voicemail message, and asks me if I want to dail voicemail
The 'yes' 'no' keys become active!
The phone dials voicemail, I of course do not interupt the greeting and enter a pin, so a message is recorded.
repeat.
I get home and have to listen to 7 voicemail messages of the sounds of my pocket.
awesome!
p.s. with the cingular voicemail system, you can hit the '7' key multiple times to interupt the message and delete. I think about 3 times is enough to interupt.
Scripts are good for fixing quick problems. They are also good for developing a suite of often used commands. the problem is when they get into the hands of those that could not write them from scratch.
I have seen too many scripts adapted from an origional that are of such bad quality, I would dearly love to rewrite them all. Bad the person who wrote them is an entrenched senior guy who is revered by upper management.
The fact that they see him as a demi-god and he is a scripter means that scripts are OK, but it also means that his scripts are OK.
This guy breaks every rule in the book. Magic numbers, hard coded machine names, everything.
I am writing this after spending 3 hours supporting real-time gas pipeline operatirs because his shit failed. Again.
But then if you loaded adobe, it doesn't look in the last place that corel was.
I'd love for applications to be grouped by function (an app can exist in more than 1 group) and for groups to be assigned directories to present first in the FSW.
The real time kernel runs, and then runs the normal linux kernel under it.
To get access to the real time bits, you write kernel modules.
To communicate with your real time module, you use real time pipes (FIFOs)
I used this in my final year University Project, and it worked pretty well. We were doing AD/DA and fuzzy logic processing. All the fuzzy stuff was done in user land and the real time module did the AD/DA stuff as well as some other basic functions. (Like setting the output to all 0 if the input stream from the fuzzy logic failed)
Pretty neat stuff. Pity it seems that the above link wants money.
These are great: a bit of respect for the local way
just a bit of respect. dont want to overdo it. refrain from regularly proclaiming... US is the greatest country
you can do it occasionally though. tends to help ameliorate that problem
true. repeatedly telling people that their country sucks tends to make people a little tichty.
Well,
I'm 6' and 173lbs, and i find the meal sizes in america (esp. Tulsa Oak.) to be way too big.
Of course, there is also the fact that if you order a "entre" sized anything, the yanks think that means "main meal".
I only made that mistake once, when I order "entre sized nachos". There was enough there to feed Africa for a couple days, I reckon.
its rich, but not accurate. All You Can Eat supermarkets (just like ISPs) are designed around an estimate of how much you could eat.
Unfortunaetly, this also equates to how much you are allowed to eat.
People like you who seem to think that its your right to have close to free bandwidth should ask the local ISP what his upstream bandwidth bill was last month.
BBC World channel has a show called "click on-line" and they did a story about computers in China, and in particular what the government is doing to increase what civil business citizens can do on-line (touted as the way to reduce city traffic.)
The interesting thing about this article was that at the time, people were angry that the gov. was going to limit the amount of time kids could use the cyber-cafes. The kids were up in arms, (and I'm sure, reported it to/.) but the parents were happy.
Why?
When asked what this new limit would be, it would 4 hours on weekdays and 15 hours on a weekend day.
Ok, we are talking about 12-19 year olds who are failing school becuase of the cyber-cafes. I for one think this is enough time. Dont forget, they still have access to computers and school and probably more then the average USA school student. The have some unreal stats about the % of people with access to computers, and not just the box, but the big fat internet cable to go with it.
To echo another poster, I think there is alot of bad press going about China.
shouldn't this then lower the price of a CD since it is not the same quality as before?
If I knew that the CD I was buying was the not the best quality it should be (ie. contained deliberate errors) then I would be thinking something fraud or deception.
Slashdot Mirror
/me types www.thefray.com into konq...
;)
An error occured while loading http://www.thefray.com:
Unknown host www.thefray.com
Wow - that *is* fast and clean
Intern and Mr. Turd McShitforbrains conversation (cont.)
Mr. T McS: "Oh Shit! They've caught on at
Intern: "How about a middle aged women?"
Mr. T McS: "Great! You've got a knack for political correctness as well! You're off the litigations squad, and onto PR!"
Listen to this stupid design flaw of the Ericsson T60i Hey Sony-Ericsson, listen up!
p.s. with the cingular voicemail system, you can hit the '7' key multiple times to interupt the message and delete. I think about 3 times is enough to interupt.
I dont think so. Ever stood near one of these things?
This is what saved me.
ELD i think they're called. Earth leakage detector.
Messing around inside a power supply while it was on, wondering why the fan wouldn't spin.
:)
When i came to, I was on the floor and the lights were out.
I'd almost killed myself, and this was in australia where we have a full 240V (not wimpy 110)
The power supply still worked, but I wouldn't touch it again
Scripts are good for fixing quick problems. They are also good for developing a suite of often used commands. the problem is when they get into the hands of those that could not write them from scratch.
I have seen too many scripts adapted from an origional that are of such bad quality, I would dearly love to rewrite them all. Bad the person who wrote them is an entrenched senior guy who is revered by upper management.
The fact that they see him as a demi-god and he is a scripter means that scripts are OK, but it also means that his scripts are OK.
This guy breaks every rule in the book. Magic numbers, hard coded machine names, everything.
I am writing this after spending 3 hours supporting real-time gas pipeline operatirs because his shit failed. Again.
Scripts in the hands of non-morons are OK.
Difference Engine.
I haven't finished it yet, but it is a cool mix of new and old technology. Steam computers and that kind of stuff.
Darwin working archeology digs and finding dinosaurs.
Shaping up to be a great book.
But then if you loaded adobe, it doesn't look in the last place that corel was.
I'd love for applications to be grouped by function (an app can exist in more than 1 group) and for groups to be assigned directories to present first in the FSW.
Real time Linux does exactly this.
The real time kernel runs, and then runs the normal linux kernel under it.
To get access to the real time bits, you write kernel modules.
To communicate with your real time module, you use real time pipes (FIFOs)
I used this in my final year University Project, and it worked pretty well. We were doing AD/DA and fuzzy logic processing. All the fuzzy stuff was done in user land and the real time module did the AD/DA stuff as well as some other basic functions. (Like setting the output to all 0 if the input stream from the fuzzy logic failed)
Pretty neat stuff. Pity it seems that the above link wants money.
These are great: ... US is the greatest country
a bit of respect for the local way
just a bit of respect. dont want to overdo it.
refrain from regularly proclaiming
you can do it occasionally though.
tends to help ameliorate that problem true. repeatedly telling people that their country sucks tends to make people a little tichty.
Heh
:)
Doesn't work anymore. People are figuring out that americans are sewing canadian flags to their packs.
And they're still as loud and beligerent as before
And before you flame me, I have great american friends who happily acknowledge that they are loud and beligerent
Cheers to that, brother. I can't remember shit. I write everything into the palm and the palm desktop app is the first thing I start.
GM is building some.
what are they making up for? :)
This is getting off topic, but could be fun information in a bar at some point
They want to see if the rumours about the most terrible deer are true.
:)
They are
Well,
I'm 6' and 173lbs, and i find the meal sizes in america (esp. Tulsa Oak.) to be way too big.
Of course, there is also the fact that if you order a "entre" sized anything, the yanks think that means "main meal".
I only made that mistake once, when I order "entre sized nachos". There was enough there to feed Africa for a couple days, I reckon.
You mean it doesn't actually check anything, it just makes you think it has?
Microsoft ws right all along!!
Linux isn't actually going to take over the market, because they're all long haired hackers who obviously just rig everything.
Cripes, now they rigging IPOs! What's next?!
its rich, but not accurate. All You Can Eat supermarkets (just like ISPs) are designed around an estimate of how much you could eat.
Unfortunaetly, this also equates to how much you are allowed to eat.
People like you who seem to think that its your right to have close to free bandwidth should ask the local ISP what his upstream bandwidth bill was last month.
Linux just gets a new FS here, a little cleaning up in the code there
Those little bits and pieces add up to a better OS. Thats getting faster
> I thought Linux's birthday was actually September 17th
.... oh ... wait....
Yeah, but this makes it easier for Slashdot to run the story
this is all fine and dandy, but what about closed source, stripped 3rd party libraries?
i'm using closed source libraries in a multi-million line project, and I think they have a memory leak.
I cant wrap around malloc in there code, 'cos I dont have it. I call functions like FMLAdd() and it all happens magically.
BBC World channel has a show called "click on-line" and they did a story about computers in China, and in particular what the government is doing to increase what civil business citizens can do on-line (touted as the way to reduce city traffic.)
/.) but the parents were happy.
The interesting thing about this article was that at the time, people were angry that the gov. was going to limit the amount of time kids could use the cyber-cafes. The kids were up in arms, (and I'm sure, reported it to
Why?
When asked what this new limit would be, it would 4 hours on weekdays and 15 hours on a weekend day.
Ok, we are talking about 12-19 year olds who are failing school becuase of the cyber-cafes. I for one think this is enough time. Dont forget, they still have access to computers and school and probably more then the average USA school student. The have some unreal stats about the % of people with access to computers, and not just the box, but the big fat internet cable to go with it.
To echo another poster, I think there is alot of bad press going about China.
Just my 14 Bolivars worth
shouldn't this then lower the price of a CD since it is not the same quality as before?
If I knew that the CD I was buying was the not the best quality it should be (ie. contained deliberate errors) then I would be thinking something fraud or deception.
"This is not what I thought I was buying."