It works provided you don't try and insert it on an angle and connect two pins that shouldn't be connected together. Probably more a problem with PCI though.
Also remember with PCI that there is often some current present if the power is connected to the computer, even if it's off, for things like Wake On Lan.
And for a bit of nostalgia, some small 8 bit ISA cards came without backplates, things like internal scsi controllers. They could easily be inserted backwards with disasterous results.
It has been proposed that the sum of the intelligence of mankind is a constant. Lets just hope this isn't true, 'cos the population is increasing rapidly.
My name is James. For a few years when I was about 12 (i'm 28 now i think) it seemed like every new person I met would assume I would want to be called Jamie, or Jim. This was despite me introducing myself as James, and often even after I corrected them. Then it mostly didn't happen again after after that.
depends how big. ctrl-alt-del might be a two person job.
"Sorry to wake you Joe, but the server needs a reboot and I need to to come into the office and stand on the delete key while I press the other two." ... "No, Fred can't do it, he's not heavy enough"
Is that funny as in "ha ha" or funny as in "holy shit we're all going to die"???
btw, the seasons are due to the tilt of the earth affecting how much sun each hemisphere gets during different parts of the year, not due to which way's north. That being said, the southern hemisphere will be having a white winter if the poles flip (according to the compass), so maybe you were making a joke and i'm just a bit slow today:)
Well at least the chicks would know you had the erectile dysfunction problem solved.
On another note, cruel and unusual punishments could be taken to a new level. A drink driver could be forced to wear a t-shirt that cycles a slideshow of the faces of the people they'd killed.
Good for you. Even if I had your abilities (I don't - as much as I try not to be, I'm careless and have poor attention to detail), I would still like such a feature for the following reasons:
. I'd like to be able to teach my kids to use such a device (at an appropriate age) knowing that they could be reasonably safe during the learning curve. . I'd like to know that if I was having a really bad day and did something really stupid that i'd walk away with all my extremeties still attached. . I'm nowhere near the age that heart attacks etc are common (with 25 years experience in power tools you could well be - but I'm just guessing), but if something like that happened i'd like to not have to worry about passing out and falling on a rotating power tool (Alright that's a bit of a stretch:)
Anyone can make a mistake, no matter how 'brainy' they are. The brain is just an organ of the body and can let you down no matter how highly trained you think it is.
> If x = 0.9999... then 10x = 9.9999... so 10x - x = 9.9999... - 0.9999... equals 9x = 9 so x = 1. Therefore 0.999~ = 1
Do you have any explanation of that apparant paradox? I've often wondered why if 1/9 = 0.111~ then 9/9 should be 0.999~ but x/x = 1 by definition so 9/9 = 1, once again 'proving' that 0.999~ = 1. It's something to do with expressing a recurring sequence of decimals but i'd love to see an explanation.
howabout because suddenly your 'secondary' storage becomes fast enough to periodically save your running state to. Every few seconds should be enough. Maybe write transaction logs inbetween.
A crash? system reboots and picks up at the last stable point. Finding that stable point could be a bit tricky though... maybe some memory was incorrectly overwritten 5 minutes ago and is only just now causing a crash.
But if a crash causes a system reboot which takes only the blink of an eye and picks up almost exactly where it left off, with almost no inconvenience to the user, is this going to be more or less incentive for programmers to fix bugs?
Software could be promoted not on the lack of bugs, but on the speed of recovery when a crash does occur.
The author of the original quote didn't necessarily mean it in a good way?
CLID should mean they don't even need to leave a number... maybe 'Press 1 to have someone call you back on the number you are calling from, Press 2 to have someone call you back on another number, Press 3 to send someone around to tie you to a bed and tickle your privates with a feather'.
If you do have to put people on hold, one thing i'd really like to see on is some indication of call progression, eg 'You are currently position 7 in our queue. Given our current call rate your call will be answered in 10 minutes'. That way I can make a decision on if I want to hang around or maybe call back later. Market research must indicate that this doesn't encourage people to stay on hold though as I have never encountered it.
To actually go on topic, if you have to put customers on hold, give them something useful to listen to, something to make their time on hold not a complete waste of time. Some ideas I can think of are: . Word definitions. Improve the vocabulary of your customers. . Fun Facts. . Movie reviews. . Book reviews. . TV guide (only useful if most callers are local)
Finally, depending on your phone system, it would be cool if customers could 'change the channel', or at least turn off the on hold noise if they do as I do and call such numbers on a speaker phone while I'm doing other things. In that case I would prefer silence.
I use debian sarge on which the 2.4 kernel has the 2.6 IPSEC implementation backported. So xS/Wan is just the key manager. It is easier to use and more flexible than all the others I have tried.
Even if we do have the technology, human beings aren't sane enough to be stuck in 'confined space' like a starship for a few weeks, let alone a few generations.
1. Beware? IQ is a measure of intelligence (or more properly, a measure of your ability to do well in IQ tests). It is not a measure of the danger of a person. 2. You should probably have said "Beware, this guy has 'An IQ Over 160' written on his website". Publishing something on the internet does not make it fact. 3. Yes I have had a bad day and am taking it out on somebody else.:p
And herein lies the problem. Quality doesn't sell. It frustrates me that users expect to be able to buy a bunch of super cheap components at a swap meet that have never been tested with each other and expect to get a stable system.
They don't understand that buying a prebuilt name brand system where all the components have been tested together is worth the extra money. And the fact that a company is willing to put their name on it also says something to me too.
That being said, when a linux pc crashes you'll see a look of astonishment on the users face, but when a windows system crashes it's a look of resigned acceptance:)
yeah. the more i thought about this, the more i realised that while it would be easily exploitable by a spammer, it would require an order of magnitude or two more effort than existing methods which (looking at my spam folder) are working just fine.
Patents are necessary for technology to advance in the private sector. So many people fail to get this. It's how patents are applied that is the problem.
If All Computers spent time and money developing an idea and then Intel just ripped it off, then they deserve to be paid. If, on the other hand, they just had a good idea which would be obvious to anyone who was aware of the problem, and are trying to capitalise on it then they deserve to be severely beaten about the head with web newspaper.
If your investment in time and money is just going to be ripped off by someone else then nobody will do it. It has to be protected somehow and patents are the best method they have come up with.
I have eyelashes long enough that they rub on most sunglasses I wear. They also blur my peripheral vision unless I open my eyes up really wide. How long do they have to be to interfere with such a system?
I've never been game to trim them though:)
My daughters have inherited the long eyelashes though and they suit them much better.
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control-D will log me out of all the unix shells I use. In which unix shell will control-D not do that - or is it a configuration issue?
PS but there's no such thing as a gay heterosexual!
It works provided you don't try and insert it on an angle and connect two pins that shouldn't be connected together. Probably more a problem with PCI though.
Also remember with PCI that there is often some current present if the power is connected to the computer, even if it's off, for things like Wake On Lan.
And for a bit of nostalgia, some small 8 bit ISA cards came without backplates, things like internal scsi controllers. They could easily be inserted backwards with disasterous results.
It has been proposed that the sum of the intelligence of mankind is a constant. Lets just hope this isn't true, 'cos the population is increasing rapidly.
I know how you feel. My wife got pretty mad when she found me reading slashdot too.
My name is James. For a few years when I was about 12 (i'm 28 now i think) it seemed like every new person I met would assume I would want to be called Jamie, or Jim. This was despite me introducing myself as James, and often even after I corrected them. Then it mostly didn't happen again after after that.
depends how big. ctrl-alt-del might be a two person job.
...
"Sorry to wake you Joe, but the server needs a reboot and I need to to come into the office and stand on the delete key while I press the other two."
"No, Fred can't do it, he's not heavy enough"
some other things would happen in about a fortnight too.
Is that funny as in "ha ha" or funny as in "holy shit we're all going to die"???
:)
btw, the seasons are due to the tilt of the earth affecting how much sun each hemisphere gets during different parts of the year, not due to which way's north. That being said, the southern hemisphere will be having a white winter if the poles flip (according to the compass), so maybe you were making a joke and i'm just a bit slow today
Do you have a source on that? (book, url, whatever).
Well at least the chicks would know you had the erectile dysfunction problem solved.
On another note, cruel and unusual punishments could be taken to a new level. A drink driver could be forced to wear a t-shirt that cycles a slideshow of the faces of the people they'd killed.
Good for you. Even if I had your abilities (I don't - as much as I try not to be, I'm careless and have poor attention to detail), I would still like such a feature for the following reasons:
:)
. I'd like to be able to teach my kids to use such a device (at an appropriate age) knowing that they could be reasonably safe during the learning curve.
. I'd like to know that if I was having a really bad day and did something really stupid that i'd walk away with all my extremeties still attached.
. I'm nowhere near the age that heart attacks etc are common (with 25 years experience in power tools you could well be - but I'm just guessing), but if something like that happened i'd like to not have to worry about passing out and falling on a rotating power tool (Alright that's a bit of a stretch
Anyone can make a mistake, no matter how 'brainy' they are. The brain is just an organ of the body and can let you down no matter how highly trained you think it is.
> If x = 0.9999... then 10x = 9.9999... so 10x - x = 9.9999... - 0.9999... equals 9x = 9 so x = 1. Therefore 0.999~ = 1
Do you have any explanation of that apparant paradox? I've often wondered why if 1/9 = 0.111~ then 9/9 should be 0.999~ but x/x = 1 by definition so 9/9 = 1, once again 'proving' that 0.999~ = 1. It's something to do with expressing a recurring sequence of decimals but i'd love to see an explanation.
saying 'please stop' is getting a bit tiresome. Please stop.
howabout because suddenly your 'secondary' storage becomes fast enough to periodically save your running state to. Every few seconds should be enough. Maybe write transaction logs inbetween.
A crash? system reboots and picks up at the last stable point. Finding that stable point could be a bit tricky though... maybe some memory was incorrectly overwritten 5 minutes ago and is only just now causing a crash.
But if a crash causes a system reboot which takes only the blink of an eye and picks up almost exactly where it left off, with almost no inconvenience to the user, is this going to be more or less incentive for programmers to fix bugs?
Software could be promoted not on the lack of bugs, but on the speed of recovery when a crash does occur.
The author of the original quote didn't necessarily mean it in a good way?
CLID should mean they don't even need to leave a number... maybe 'Press 1 to have someone call you back on the number you are calling from, Press 2 to have someone call you back on another number, Press 3 to send someone around to tie you to a bed and tickle your privates with a feather'.
If you do have to put people on hold, one thing i'd really like to see on is some indication of call progression, eg 'You are currently position 7 in our queue. Given our current call rate your call will be answered in 10 minutes'. That way I can make a decision on if I want to hang around or maybe call back later. Market research must indicate that this doesn't encourage people to stay on hold though as I have never encountered it.
To actually go on topic, if you have to put customers on hold, give them something useful to listen to, something to make their time on hold not a complete waste of time. Some ideas I can think of are:
. Word definitions. Improve the vocabulary of your customers.
. Fun Facts.
. Movie reviews.
. Book reviews.
. TV guide (only useful if most callers are local)
Finally, depending on your phone system, it would be cool if customers could 'change the channel', or at least turn off the on hold noise if they do as I do and call such numbers on a speaker phone while I'm doing other things. In that case I would prefer silence.
You'll get my inches, miles, and gallons when you pry them from my cold dead hands!
Your proposal is... acceptable
I use debian sarge on which the 2.4 kernel has the 2.6 IPSEC implementation backported. So xS/Wan is just the key manager. It is easier to use and more flexible than all the others I have tried.
Even if we do have the technology, human beings aren't sane enough to be stuck in 'confined space' like a starship for a few weeks, let alone a few generations.
I've seen the movies. I know what to expect.
1. Beware? IQ is a measure of intelligence (or more properly, a measure of your ability to do well in IQ tests). It is not a measure of the danger of a person. :p
2. You should probably have said "Beware, this guy has 'An IQ Over 160' written on his website". Publishing something on the internet does not make it fact.
3. Yes I have had a bad day and am taking it out on somebody else.
And herein lies the problem. Quality doesn't sell. It frustrates me that users expect to be able to buy a bunch of super cheap components at a swap meet that have never been tested with each other and expect to get a stable system.
:)
They don't understand that buying a prebuilt name brand system where all the components have been tested together is worth the extra money. And the fact that a company is willing to put their name on it also says something to me too.
That being said, when a linux pc crashes you'll see a look of astonishment on the users face, but when a windows system crashes it's a look of resigned acceptance
yeah. the more i thought about this, the more i realised that while it would be easily exploitable by a spammer, it would require an order of magnitude or two more effort than existing methods which (looking at my spam folder) are working just fine.
spammers are going to love this!!!
Patents are necessary for technology to advance in the private sector. So many people fail to get this. It's how patents are applied that is the problem.
If All Computers spent time and money developing an idea and then Intel just ripped it off, then they deserve to be paid. If, on the other hand, they just had a good idea which would be obvious to anyone who was aware of the problem, and are trying to capitalise on it then they deserve to be severely beaten about the head with web newspaper.
If your investment in time and money is just going to be ripped off by someone else then nobody will do it. It has to be protected somehow and patents are the best method they have come up with.
I'm sure I speak for everyone here when I say we are deeply deeply sorry to have offended you with our narrow minded views.
I have eyelashes long enough that they rub on most sunglasses I wear. They also blur my peripheral vision unless I open my eyes up really wide. How long do they have to be to interfere with such a system?
:)
I've never been game to trim them though
My daughters have inherited the long eyelashes though and they suit them much better.