Why do you have to pump the water all the way to the surface? Why can't you just use a small pump to take the water off the top, and let the rest of the ocean push the water up the pipe?
In that case, maybe they also know how to read the logs and compare total traffic and average-bytes-transferred-per-page-view to figures from 12 months ago. If they saved that info, of course.
You forgot to mention that South Australia has one of the highest numbers in the world of serial killers per capita. I never really understood why that was so until I read your post.
I'd bet like most skinny runts, you bust her chops over the additional pounds.
You would lose that bet. I have never hassled her about her weight. Whenever she tried a new diet or other method to lose weight, I was always positive and encouraging. When she gave up I never got on her case about it.
And, if nature has its way, she will put that weight back on in a few years with some to spare
She has completely changed her food choices and lifestyle, and is enjoying her new-found energy too much to go back to her previous lifestyle. It's possible I guess, but I think it unlikely.
I saw a show not long ago about a guy who was extremely overweight, and of course he blamed his weight on genetics. He was finally starting to do something about it (due to being told "do something or you will die").
They showed him doing some exercise, then pausing to ask his wife to bring him a cherry soda. I thought "perhaps WATER would be a better choice there". Later he was shown eating a bucket of KFC. Hey buddy, try eating some VEGETABLES once in a while. The whole time, he was complaining that his weight was a "genetic problem".
Perhaps he did have a genetic pre-disposition to put on weight, but he definitely could have made some better choices in his diet. I'm pretty sure he didn't because he would have to take responsibility for his own weight, in which case he might be seen as a 'failure' for being overweight. It's far easier to blame someone else (your parents) than take responsibility for yourself.
My own experience: I have never had any issues with my own weight (actually, I have trouble putting on weight). My wife, however, was VERY overweight, and made all the usual excuses for it. About 18 months ago she decided she was going to take responsibility for her own weight. She now eats a far healthier diet, gets lots more exercise, and has so far lost nearly 50 kilograms (and still going).
Maybe you can blame everything on genetics. Doesn't mean you can't do anything about it.
Its not going to cost him $65K to keep his current software. The posting says that his company already has Office 97/200/2002.
Correct, but his goal is to get everyone running the same version of office thoughout the company - which means upgrading everybody to 2K3. This is where the $65K comes in.
Are the mods huffing kittens or something? Parent is not a troll. Overly pessimistic, yes. Troll? No.
When there's a -1: Pessimistic option, then he should be modded down. In the meantime, reread the moderator rules.
Why a -1? Being overly pessimistic is just a point of view like any other. He makes a good point and backs it up with reasonable arguments. I've often modded up comments I disagreed with purely because they made me stop and re-evaluate my own thoughts. Sometimes my position softened and sometimes was pushed further in the other direction, but that is what discussion is about.
We already have a perfect mod for this sort of thing, it's called +1 Interesting.
I'm not really sure - you have a PDA that can do phone calls, but many phones now have lots of PDA-type functions and speak bluetooth and some know wifi. Hmmmm - which do you prefer? The phone is smaller, so I'll say... the phone?
I would be willing to bet that if a woman were to come up with an IQ test that women would do better at it than men.
Absolutely. They would all be questions like:
- What colour shoes go with this handbag? - If I spend $2000 on clothes - that I wouldn't have bought anyway - just because they were on sale, how much did I save? - Does my butt look fat in this?
I always get those wrong. Especially the last one.
PS: To any girls reading this - joking!!! joking!!
In summary, therefore, I'm *not* against the novice (we were all novices once) but most of them remain novices because they don't believe it's their problem or a just too damn lazy to go learn something new.
Fair enough. You are right about people who don't care or are too lazy. But don't forget about the other types - those who "don't know what they don't know". They don't realise that there is a gap in their knowledge and that they would benefit from a little bit of research or training. Many users know enough to send and read their email, and they think that is enough.
Then again, even if they did realiase their knowledge gap they may not care...
You have oversimplified the spam problem and ignored parts of it.
I know what sort of precautions need to be taken to protect an email address. I receive 200 spam mails a day to addresses that I have NEVER given out (and in one case - originally didn't even know I had) because they were picked up by shotgun attacks. It's trivial for me to delete all emails sent to that address - but that is NOT THE POINT.
The crux of the matter is not that Joe Public users are using your 'geeky internet', it's because a minority of low-lifes are abusing the low cost and anonymity of the internet for their own gain - going to great lengths to avoid spam filters to get messages to people who don't want them.
Using your car analogy - I've had plenty of driving lessons, I'm a competent driver and can customise my own car - and spammers are spray-painting graffiti all over my car. Even when I'm not actually driving it. And if it's locked in the garage, they spray across the garage doors too. And Joe Public isn't driving at high speed without a driving lesson - he might be just practising up and down his own driveway but he's still being rammed by a dickhead in a ute with a bull-bar.
BTW, you obviously never intend to learn any new skills for the rest of your life, or you wouldn't be so disparaging of novices in the internet arena.
Unless of course Microsoft will dominate the market with help from the whole Trusted Computing Hardware Vendor Lock-in Tool and people's "it works well enough" and "I don't give a shit" attitude...
Microsoft can't possibly be counting on this, it would never work.
I always wondered about that. To get a litre of gasoline, you need to find some oil, dig it up, and refine it - all very expensive processes. To get a litre of milk, you need to squeeze a cows teats for a few minutes. And yet it's cheaper to buy a litre of petrol than a litre of milk.
..and try to remember what I was thinking when I wrote the code
People sometimes forget that you are not only documenting WHAT the code is doing, but WHY you are doing it that way. You can usually figure out the what from the code itself, but trying to figure out the why can be next to impossible.
I wrote some code years ago to calculate (Australian) Capital Gains Tax liabilities. I knew it would be a hassle to update the code when the tax laws were inevitably reviewed and updated, so I went out of my way to put notes about EVERYTHING into the source code. Where I would normally have put in a short quip, I put in a longer descriptive comment.
Five years later when changes had to go in, it took me an hour or two to get back up to speed with how the program worked, but without that extra documentation it would have taken far longer and I would more likely have broken it when trying to patch it.
Or maybe grow bacteria in a petri dish, and leave instructions for when it evolves limbs to push the button to start the signalling device. Sure, it might take more than 1000 years, but it's much less hassle for x_man to set it up.
I'm so glad that the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is looking out for me.
You are right, Alan Fells pissed off lots of businesses by doing his job properly. Taking any other course is just making a farce of the whole commision - the government might as well shut it down and spend the money elsewhere.
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Why do you have to pump the water all the way to the surface? Why can't you just use a small pump to take the water off the top, and let the rest of the ocean push the water up the pipe?
The word 'provably' is not one I see often, so at first I thought you had mis-spelled 'probably'.
No matter. They both work.
In that case, maybe they also know how to read the logs and compare total traffic and average-bytes-transferred-per-page-view to figures from 12 months ago. If they saved that info, of course.
You forgot to mention that South Australia has one of the highest numbers in the world of serial killers per capita. I never really understood why that was so until I read your post.
And when you are hungry, what do you eat?
Fries, cookies, and cheetos?
Carrots, apples, and fresh bread?
It's not just about how much you eat, it's also about making healthy choices. Do you think genetics is involved in that decision as well?
I'd bet like most skinny runts, you bust her chops over the additional pounds.
You would lose that bet. I have never hassled her about her weight. Whenever she tried a new diet or other method to lose weight, I was always positive and encouraging. When she gave up I never got on her case about it.
And, if nature has its way, she will put that weight back on in a few years with some to spare
She has completely changed her food choices and lifestyle, and is enjoying her new-found energy too much to go back to her previous lifestyle. It's possible I guess, but I think it unlikely.
I saw a show not long ago about a guy who was extremely overweight, and of course he blamed his weight on genetics. He was finally starting to do something about it (due to being told "do something or you will die").
They showed him doing some exercise, then pausing to ask his wife to bring him a cherry soda. I thought "perhaps WATER would be a better choice there". Later he was shown eating a bucket of KFC. Hey buddy, try eating some VEGETABLES once in a while. The whole time, he was complaining that his weight was a "genetic problem".
Perhaps he did have a genetic pre-disposition to put on weight, but he definitely could have made some better choices in his diet. I'm pretty sure he didn't because he would have to take responsibility for his own weight, in which case he might be seen as a 'failure' for being overweight. It's far easier to blame someone else (your parents) than take responsibility for yourself.
My own experience: I have never had any issues with my own weight (actually, I have trouble putting on weight). My wife, however, was VERY overweight, and made all the usual excuses for it. About 18 months ago she decided she was going to take responsibility for her own weight. She now eats a far healthier diet, gets lots more exercise, and has so far lost nearly 50 kilograms (and still going).
Maybe you can blame everything on genetics. Doesn't mean you can't do anything about it.
So are the Christians who revere their ancestors being Hanist-Christian syncretists, or are they merely being culturally-Chinese Christians?
I've heard this story - it was told to me by Hanist-Christian Answer-man.
Its not going to cost him $65K to keep his current software. The posting says that his company already has Office 97/200/2002.
Correct, but his goal is to get everyone running the same version of office thoughout the company - which means upgrading everybody to 2K3. This is where the $65K comes in.
Are the mods huffing kittens or something? Parent is not a troll. Overly pessimistic, yes. Troll? No.
When there's a -1: Pessimistic option, then he should be modded down. In the meantime, reread the moderator rules.
Why a -1? Being overly pessimistic is just a point of view like any other. He makes a good point and backs it up with reasonable arguments. I've often modded up comments I disagreed with purely because they made me stop and re-evaluate my own thoughts. Sometimes my position softened and sometimes was pushed further in the other direction, but that is what discussion is about.
We already have a perfect mod for this sort of thing, it's called +1 Interesting.
the gateway to a consluting career
This is one of the most insightful typos I've seen on slashdot.
Which do you think I rather carry?
... the phone?
I'm not really sure - you have a PDA that can do phone calls, but many phones now have lots of PDA-type functions and speak bluetooth and some know wifi. Hmmmm - which do you prefer? The phone is smaller, so I'll say
I would be willing to bet that if a woman were to come up with an IQ test that women would do better at it than men.
Absolutely. They would all be questions like:
- What colour shoes go with this handbag?
- If I spend $2000 on clothes - that I wouldn't have bought anyway - just because they were on sale, how much did I save?
- Does my butt look fat in this?
I always get those wrong. Especially the last one.
PS: To any girls reading this - joking!!! joking!!
In summary, therefore, I'm *not* against the novice (we were all novices once) but most of them remain novices because they don't believe it's their problem or a just too damn lazy to go learn something new.
Fair enough. You are right about people who don't care or are too lazy. But don't forget about the other types - those who "don't know what they don't know". They don't realise that there is a gap in their knowledge and that they would benefit from a little bit of research or training. Many users know enough to send and read their email, and they think that is enough.
Then again, even if they did realiase their knowledge gap they may not care...
You have oversimplified the spam problem and ignored parts of it.
I know what sort of precautions need to be taken to protect an email address. I receive 200 spam mails a day to addresses that I have NEVER given out (and in one case - originally didn't even know I had) because they were picked up by shotgun attacks. It's trivial for me to delete all emails sent to that address - but that is NOT THE POINT.
The crux of the matter is not that Joe Public users are using your 'geeky internet', it's because a minority of low-lifes are abusing the low cost and anonymity of the internet for their own gain - going to great lengths to avoid spam filters to get messages to people who don't want them.
Using your car analogy - I've had plenty of driving lessons, I'm a competent driver and can customise my own car - and spammers are spray-painting graffiti all over my car. Even when I'm not actually driving it. And if it's locked in the garage, they spray across the garage doors too. And Joe Public isn't driving at high speed without a driving lesson - he might be just practising up and down his own driveway but he's still being rammed by a dickhead in a ute with a bull-bar.
BTW, you obviously never intend to learn any new skills for the rest of your life, or you wouldn't be so disparaging of novices in the internet arena.
I think the original joke was referring to Windows 95, which is a 32bit OS.
... etc.
Windows (95) is a 32-bit extension to a 16-bit graphical shell (Win 3.1/3.11) for an 8-bit OS (DOS)
No. Do, or do not. There is no try.
To the optimist, the glass is half full
To the pessimist, the glass is half empty
To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be
(or, To the engineer, the glass is at 50% capacity)
Unless of course Microsoft will dominate the market with help from the whole Trusted Computing Hardware Vendor Lock-in Tool and people's "it works well enough" and "I don't give a shit" attitude...
Microsoft can't possibly be counting on this, it would never work.
I always wondered about that. To get a litre of gasoline, you need to find some oil, dig it up, and refine it - all very expensive processes. To get a litre of milk, you need to squeeze a cows teats for a few minutes. And yet it's cheaper to buy a litre of petrol than a litre of milk.
I think there's something in that for all of us.
and after the spanking...?
..and try to remember what I was thinking when I wrote the code
People sometimes forget that you are not only documenting WHAT the code is doing, but WHY you are doing it that way. You can usually figure out the what from the code itself, but trying to figure out the why can be next to impossible.
I wrote some code years ago to calculate (Australian) Capital Gains Tax liabilities. I knew it would be a hassle to update the code when the tax laws were inevitably reviewed and updated, so I went out of my way to put notes about EVERYTHING into the source code. Where I would normally have put in a short quip, I put in a longer descriptive comment.
Five years later when changes had to go in, it took me an hour or two to get back up to speed with how the program worked, but without that extra documentation it would have taken far longer and I would more likely have broken it when trying to patch it.
Or maybe grow bacteria in a petri dish, and leave instructions for when it evolves limbs to push the button to start the signalling device. Sure, it might take more than 1000 years, but it's much less hassle for x_man to set it up.
I'm so glad that the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is looking out for me.
You are right, Alan Fells pissed off lots of businesses by doing his job properly. Taking any other course is just making a farce of the whole commision - the government might as well shut it down and spend the money elsewhere.
Unfortunately, the exchanges will just divert the extra costs of 2.5 cents to their costumers.
Well, you can't blame them - costumes can be really expensive. Especially the frilly period costumes and all the sci-fi stuff.
(Score -1: Cheap hit at simple tyop)