The Midi-Chlorians welcome their Tic-Tac-Toe playing overlords...
Next, they'll probably want a WOW account.
Not buyin' it...
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Oracle Linux?
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If Oracle can deliver a stripped down, optimized version of Linux or, specifically, Red Hat, then they can simply deliver the instructions to configure a stock system. Then any SA can configure, document and maintain the system (and/or similar system), rather than a special "Oracle Linux SA".
Perhaps the power company could just send 4% fewer electrons. Problem solved.
Seriously, here's a question. I noticed that my APC UPS has SmartTrim enabled and the line voltage is high. Now it hasn't always been this way and seems to happen every fall around here. My question is, if I'm paying for kilo-watt hours and watts are volts * amps, am I paying more when the voltage is higher? If so, is the power co. ripping me off?
The achievement comes five years after the scandal-plagued retraction of an earlier claim, which was based on fabricated data, that three atoms of element 118 had been produced at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California.
So I guess this announcement has an element of truth about it...
"The phenomenon hasn't happened in 476 years, said Heinrich Hemme, a physicist at Germany's University of Aachen who crunched the numbers to find that the double-whammy last occurred Jan. 13, 1520."
Ummm... Unless I'm missing something, the guy missed Friday, January 13, 2006. The numbers 01/13/2006 also add up to 13.
Guerrilla Marketing? Forget that! Let's start with "regular" marketing. Anyone else find that Intel Core 2 Duo TV commercial with the dancing posers annoying and pretentious? Just watching it makes me want to buy something else. Sigh, perhaps it's just me.
"Barista? I'll have 2 non-fat, half-caf low-foam, cinnamon-apple Core double-shot Duo lattes please. And a muffin."
Sysadmin and Teacher together forever...
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IT and Divorce?
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I'm a Sysadmin/Programmer and she was an English teacher. We were together for 20 years (married for 16 years and 3 weeks) until she died in January 2006. Our careers are/were important, but never as important as the other or our relationship.
There was 19 years difference in our ages (I'm younger), and we were always at different places in our careers; we met in 1985 when I was 22 and still in college. Making a deliberate choice to always put the relationship first and deciding then and there to stick by that choice, made things a lot clearer down the road.
As for work, we always supported each other and I helped her with school work as much as I could -- creating forms, flyers, databases... I understood when she had to sometimes grade papers all weekend and she understood when I got paged at 10pm and had to work all night.
You can always find another job, but the love of your life comes around only once. Though we didn't have children, I would include them in this sentiment if we had.
Unless there's something wrong with or abusive about one or both, I believe that people stay together because they want to. People come up with various excuses like "we drifted apart", "I wanted something different", etc... but I believe it comes back to not wanting and/or caring enough to work things out and stay together.
"I will be graduating next April, and I have been fortunate enough to receive job offers from both Microsoft and Google.... I'm having real difficulty deciding which offer to accept.
Simple. Decide how much your soul is worth and if you can abide by Microsoft's new SRM (Soul Rights Management) as specified in their EULA (Eternal Underworld Lividity Agreement).
From TFA: "I don't feel like I can express my opinions," Bock says.
From TFP: In a chilling slap at free speech,...
Regardless of and without knowing this woman's "opinions", Free Speech doesn't include slander. If the plaintiff feels she was wronged or maligned, she has every right to pursue remedy.
Like it or not, the fact that the defendant was unable (or unwilling) to offer a defense is, well her problem (and speaks more to our legal system than her case) -- she could have kept her mouth shut or made her claims in a less defamatory fashion.
Propriety software traditionally undergoes a formalized, designed testing process. It's not perfect, but it's an ordered approach to boundary testing, design level implementation of quality, and more.... Commercial software has a strong QA engineering component.
I think the other replies to your post were pretty spot-on, so I'll just summarize them here:
Man that was funny! I laughed and laughed...and so did the Software and QA Engineers at work.
Dolphins have to be conscious to breath. This means that they cannot go into a full deep sleep, because then they would suffocate. Dolphins have "solved" that by letting one half of their brain sleep at a time. This has been determined by doing EEG studies on dolphins. Dolphins sleep about 8 hours day in this fashion.
MSNBC reports that to help make up for sleep lost during marathon night flights, migratory birds take hundreds of powernaps during the day, each lasting only a few seconds, a new study suggests.
I know how these birds feel, though my seconds-long powernaps usually occur while reading/. even though - zzz...
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Next, they'll probably want a WOW account.
If Oracle can deliver a stripped down, optimized version of Linux or, specifically, Red Hat, then they can simply deliver the instructions to configure a stock system. Then any SA can configure, document and maintain the system (and/or similar system), rather than a special "Oracle Linux SA".
Oh ya! Every time an overlord wants to do something there'll be this popup requesting their admin credentials.
Seriously, here's a question. I noticed that my APC UPS has SmartTrim enabled and the line voltage is high. Now it hasn't always been this way and seems to happen every fall around here. My question is, if I'm paying for kilo-watt hours and watts are volts * amps, am I paying more when the voltage is higher? If so, is the power co. ripping me off?
Umm... Don't you read? The phrase "real string theory theorist" is an oxymoron :-)
Is String Theory Really a Scientific Theory?
So I guess this announcement has an element of truth about it...
[OK, shoot me now.]
Ummm... Unless I'm missing something, the guy missed Friday, January 13, 2006. The numbers 01/13/2006 also add up to 13.
There'll be something good to watch.
"Barista? I'll have 2 non-fat, half-caf low-foam, cinnamon-apple Core double-shot Duo lattes please. And a muffin."
There was 19 years difference in our ages (I'm younger), and we were always at different places in our careers; we met in 1985 when I was 22 and still in college. Making a deliberate choice to always put the relationship first and deciding then and there to stick by that choice, made things a lot clearer down the road.
As for work, we always supported each other and I helped her with school work as much as I could -- creating forms, flyers, databases... I understood when she had to sometimes grade papers all weekend and she understood when I got paged at 10pm and had to work all night.
You can always find another job, but the love of your life comes around only once. Though we didn't have children, I would include them in this sentiment if we had.
Unless there's something wrong with or abusive about one or both, I believe that people stay together because they want to. People come up with various excuses like "we drifted apart", "I wanted something different", etc... but I believe it comes back to not wanting and/or caring enough to work things out and stay together.
Remember Sue...
Simple. Decide how much your soul is worth and if you can abide by Microsoft's new SRM (Soul Rights Management) as specified in their EULA (Eternal Underworld Lividity Agreement).
will it fit in my ear and does it come with chips?
From TFP: In a chilling slap at free speech,
Regardless of and without knowing this woman's "opinions", Free Speech doesn't include slander. If the plaintiff feels she was wronged or maligned, she has every right to pursue remedy.
Like it or not, the fact that the defendant was unable (or unwilling) to offer a defense is, well her problem (and speaks more to our legal system than her case) -- she could have kept her mouth shut or made her claims in a less defamatory fashion.
I believe what Balmer meant was "Corporate Developers", or "Developers with $$$"... People w/o money need not apply.
Error: Insufficient computing power.
Serious question. Any speculation as to what would happen should two black holes get caught in each other's event horizons?
[apologies to NetHack Wizards]
I think the other replies to your post were pretty spot-on, so I'll just summarize them here:
Man that was funny! I laughed and laughed...and so did the Software and QA Engineers at work.
I wasn't aware that Turkish sheep had seen the South Park Cow Days episode. Good for them!
Well I guess that makes it OK. If everyone jumped off a cliff, would you?
- Um, he's in his 50s, he's married, and his wife was there when he was reciting it.
- So, you're saying that he probably does have a girlfriend?
Or a MySpace account...- How do dolphins sleep?
- Dolphins have to be conscious to breath. This means that they cannot go into a full deep sleep, because then they would suffocate. Dolphins have "solved" that by letting one half of their brain sleep at a time. This has been determined by doing EEG studies on dolphins. Dolphins sleep about 8 hours day in this fashion.
Damn. I wish I could do that.I know how these birds feel, though my seconds-long powernaps usually occur while reading /. even though - zzz ...
I believe the correct spelling is "herd".