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I wonder about the Yahoo Messenger thing, though. And I bet the gadgets are what trigger the dial-up connection immediately when you log in on my uncle's machine.
I just set up a new computer for my uncle, who isn't a power user and sticks with dial-up out at the farm. The new computer was a gift from his siblings, and runs Vista. Vista and dial-up are apparently not compatible. Anything that requires downloading other than through the standard IE http downloader (Live Update, Windows Update, Yahoo! Messenger installer, Live Messenger installer all did this) will fail miserably after downloading many bytes.
Furthermore, once I got everything installed through my own broadband connection after numerous failures of all of the above, Yahoo! Messenger won't stay connected for him (whereas Windows Live Messenger apparently will).
You also apparently can't make a desktop shortcut to a dial-up connection, so his connect/disconnect process is more involved now than it had been with Windows 98. So now I am probably going to end up trying to buy a copy of XP, driving the 3 hours home, and spending my weekend doing what I thought I could effectively do last weekend.
Often, such things come from frustration or from humor starvation. One time, in a programming competition during college, we were required to do our work in Visual Studio. We implemented a sort routine and knew not to call it sort(), so we called it mysort(), which also turned out to be taken by MS. Out of frustration with the clock counting down, I gave it a name that I knew would not have any conflicts: myfuckingsort().
I figured I was in the clear, because the competition administrators and judges had told us that they do not read the code, they just run the program and check for correct output. However, they did quietly talk to us after we received our prize for winning the competition. Apparently, while they don't read the code as part of the competition, they do skim it out of curiosity sometimes.
For the remainder of my C.S. career, I was notorious for having invented the by-then-shortened "fucksort" routine. It still comes up in conversation from time to time.
The whole "we only download it because it's crap" argument doesn't hold water for me. If it's so bad, then why are people downloading it in the first place?
I downloaded Metallica's St. Anger to find out if it was as bad as the reviews I'd heard.
Turns out that it wasn't. It was far, far worse. I was going to ask if you wrote your ISP for a refund of the bandwidth.
Not just that, but the things that are the same are that way because of language and POSIX standardization, and apply in many instances to operating systems that are not Unix-like.
The inroads of the web interface make for an interesting point, but that's not different enough from saying that JC Penney is a telephone for me to accept it as being sufficient. And no, you can't really correct people about anything. As it turns out, that's one kind of generosity that is met with nearly universal ungratefulness. What a load of B.S. I love it when people point out my mistakes - that's how I learn to stop repeating them, and helping me take steps toward perfection is hardly a disservice.:)
To clear up any confusion, I meant that the next thing we'd see would be Slashdotters believing that CPU, hard drive, and tower all mean the same thing and all refer to the computer chassis. But in your response, basically any collection of equal signs with some spaces interspersed among them would have been funny.:)
To be fair, capitalizing Internet is a subject that can be debated reasonably. Wired doesn't have anything to do with it, though, and as others have pointed out the Internet is unique whereas other proper nouns subject to genericide name products that were produced in the millions.
It's a proper noun. Capitalize it. Also, the real point here is that Slashdot submitters and editors are apparently no longer capable of distinguishing the Internet from the World-Wide Web. Next up: CPU == hard drive == tower.
Powers of attorney generally expire at death, as they grant the attorney-in-fact the authority to take actions on the principal's behalf, and the principal essentially, in a legal sense, ceases to exist at his death. After that, the estate is the legal entity in charge.
The right thing to do depends on the jurisdiction, but generally there will be a procedure by which the personal representative (whether the dead guy^W^Wdecedent left a will naming an executor who acts as the personal representative or whether one is appointed in intestacy proceedings) can "collect" the property of the estate for distribution. Some places allow the personal representative to, for instance, present an affidavit to a bank and close out the decedent's bank accounts. This process might be used for e-mail accounts, as well.
Look up the statutes in your local jurisdiction and, if you have any questions, talk to a lawyer. IAPNALIYJ (I am probably not a lawyer in your jurisdiction), so this of course is not legal advice, but just a friendly pointer toward where you want to look.:)
I agree. Once someone in the family is formally appointed as his personal representative (whether because that person is named executor in his will or because that person petitions a court under the appropriate laws of your jurisdiction), get a written agreement with the personal representative as to what you are to do and the means you are to employ in doing it. Present a copy of the appointment and the agreement. Nobody is going to let you in based on the URL of an obituary, but with a photocopied court order you have a much better (albeit not 100%) shot.
You may want to get a lawyer involved to further streamline the process.
I never said anything about giving you your "Miranda rights." In fact, I didn't ever say "Miranda rights" because there is no such thing. There are Miranda warnings, which are the topic of what I was saying. You also evidently failed to read what I wrote about this jurisprudence being Constitutionally and logically wrong.
Then again, this is Slashdot. Why am I expecting anyone to read anything at all? Here's something more along the lines of what the Slashdot attention span has a hope of comprehending: Mahna mahna!
US v. Frazier, an 8th Circuit case, held that this is permissible. I don't think the 8th is alone, but I don't have time to look into it further right now. I do think that this is absolutely the wrong result (essentially, it's a rule that Miranda protects from exercising your rights, rather than from unknowingly waiving them), but constitutionally wrong and jurisprudentially wrong are different issues.
Of course, if the police deliberately delayed giving you your Miranda warnings for the purpose of generating silence from which to infer guilt, that would likely be another matter. This is mostly about when the police don't get around to giving your warnings right away. They can't interrogate you, but they can always remember later that you didn't protest enough to be innocent.
I was very specific regarding the particular instance of your silence that can be used against you. You must have missed that part, contained starting at the second sentence of my comment.
Actually, your silence can be used against you in court. The correct procedure is this:
1. "Am I free to go?" If the answer is yes, then go straight to your lawyer's office. If the answer is no, then continue.
2. "Read my Miranda warnings to me immediately."
3. "I invoke my right to counsel."
Through a sad quirk of the jurisprudence, your silence before you are given your Miranda warnings can be used against you. Silence after you invoke your right to counsel (which is stronger than invoking your right to remain silent) cannot.
My thought is this... do the math-themed invitation card (require that invitees solve some kind of math problem to get the address of the party, for instance; or at least make them crack an affine cipher to read it), do the fractal cookies, and hand out pocket protectors at the door - but other than that, don't focus on math or on nerdiness. Just have a party.
You sound like you don't have much of a sense of humor about it. Maybe a good party game idea for this kid is the "I've never ever" game - it would be fun, get everyone drunk eventually, and explore just how nerdy each attendee is.
You can do both. Throw the party, go to it, and hit on other girls while you're there. Of course, this assumes that you can throw a math nerd party that more than one girl will attend.
We've already crashed one probe into Mars trying to juggle Imperial and metric units. Everyone reading/. knows metric units. Let's go metric-only here. Please.
I'm fairly confident that Slashdot hasn't crashed any probes.
Also, for a really good time, check out the Wikipedia article on the lunar rover, which gives maximum payload weight in both pounds and kilograms. This is the kind of thing I find very humorous.
The other reason is that the language's interpreter or some part of its runtime is written in C. However, that's typically just because the OS is in C, too. The only reason this matters for practical reasons is that you'll at first have an OS written in Intercal with a Python runtime written in C, but eventually you'll get sick of maintaining the C compiler you wrote in Intercal and rewrite the Python runtime, as well as contracting a very bad case of epilepsy.
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I wonder about the Yahoo Messenger thing, though. And I bet the gadgets are what trigger the dial-up connection immediately when you log in on my uncle's machine.
I just set up a new computer for my uncle, who isn't a power user and sticks with dial-up out at the farm. The new computer was a gift from his siblings, and runs Vista. Vista and dial-up are apparently not compatible. Anything that requires downloading other than through the standard IE http downloader (Live Update, Windows Update, Yahoo! Messenger installer, Live Messenger installer all did this) will fail miserably after downloading many bytes.
Furthermore, once I got everything installed through my own broadband connection after numerous failures of all of the above, Yahoo! Messenger won't stay connected for him (whereas Windows Live Messenger apparently will).
You also apparently can't make a desktop shortcut to a dial-up connection, so his connect/disconnect process is more involved now than it had been with Windows 98. So now I am probably going to end up trying to buy a copy of XP, driving the 3 hours home, and spending my weekend doing what I thought I could effectively do last weekend.
Often, such things come from frustration or from humor starvation. One time, in a programming competition during college, we were required to do our work in Visual Studio. We implemented a sort routine and knew not to call it sort(), so we called it mysort(), which also turned out to be taken by MS. Out of frustration with the clock counting down, I gave it a name that I knew would not have any conflicts: myfuckingsort().
I figured I was in the clear, because the competition administrators and judges had told us that they do not read the code, they just run the program and check for correct output. However, they did quietly talk to us after we received our prize for winning the competition. Apparently, while they don't read the code as part of the competition, they do skim it out of curiosity sometimes.
For the remainder of my C.S. career, I was notorious for having invented the by-then-shortened "fucksort" routine. It still comes up in conversation from time to time.
"I'm sorry, your honor. I wasn't clear. I was referring to a 1980 bookstore."
Not just that, but the things that are the same are that way because of language and POSIX standardization, and apply in many instances to operating systems that are not Unix-like.
The inroads of the web interface make for an interesting point, but that's not different enough from saying that JC Penney is a telephone for me to accept it as being sufficient. And no, you can't really correct people about anything. As it turns out, that's one kind of generosity that is met with nearly universal ungratefulness. What a load of B.S. I love it when people point out my mistakes - that's how I learn to stop repeating them, and helping me take steps toward perfection is hardly a disservice. :)
To clear up any confusion, I meant that the next thing we'd see would be Slashdotters believing that CPU, hard drive, and tower all mean the same thing and all refer to the computer chassis. But in your response, basically any collection of equal signs with some spaces interspersed among them would have been funny. :)
To be fair, capitalizing Internet is a subject that can be debated reasonably. Wired doesn't have anything to do with it, though, and as others have pointed out the Internet is unique whereas other proper nouns subject to genericide name products that were produced in the millions.
It's a proper noun. Capitalize it. Also, the real point here is that Slashdot submitters and editors are apparently no longer capable of distinguishing the Internet from the World-Wide Web. Next up: CPU == hard drive == tower.
Powers of attorney generally expire at death, as they grant the attorney-in-fact the authority to take actions on the principal's behalf, and the principal essentially, in a legal sense, ceases to exist at his death. After that, the estate is the legal entity in charge.
:)
The right thing to do depends on the jurisdiction, but generally there will be a procedure by which the personal representative (whether the dead guy^W^Wdecedent left a will naming an executor who acts as the personal representative or whether one is appointed in intestacy proceedings) can "collect" the property of the estate for distribution. Some places allow the personal representative to, for instance, present an affidavit to a bank and close out the decedent's bank accounts. This process might be used for e-mail accounts, as well.
Look up the statutes in your local jurisdiction and, if you have any questions, talk to a lawyer. IAPNALIYJ (I am probably not a lawyer in your jurisdiction), so this of course is not legal advice, but just a friendly pointer toward where you want to look.
I agree. Once someone in the family is formally appointed as his personal representative (whether because that person is named executor in his will or because that person petitions a court under the appropriate laws of your jurisdiction), get a written agreement with the personal representative as to what you are to do and the means you are to employ in doing it. Present a copy of the appointment and the agreement. Nobody is going to let you in based on the URL of an obituary, but with a photocopied court order you have a much better (albeit not 100%) shot.
You may want to get a lawyer involved to further streamline the process.
I never said anything about giving you your "Miranda rights." In fact, I didn't ever say "Miranda rights" because there is no such thing. There are Miranda warnings, which are the topic of what I was saying. You also evidently failed to read what I wrote about this jurisprudence being Constitutionally and logically wrong.
Then again, this is Slashdot. Why am I expecting anyone to read anything at all? Here's something more along the lines of what the Slashdot attention span has a hope of comprehending: Mahna mahna!
8087-64. :P
Unless it's more than one duck.
US v. Frazier, an 8th Circuit case, held that this is permissible. I don't think the 8th is alone, but I don't have time to look into it further right now. I do think that this is absolutely the wrong result (essentially, it's a rule that Miranda protects from exercising your rights, rather than from unknowingly waiving them), but constitutionally wrong and jurisprudentially wrong are different issues.
Of course, if the police deliberately delayed giving you your Miranda warnings for the purpose of generating silence from which to infer guilt, that would likely be another matter. This is mostly about when the police don't get around to giving your warnings right away. They can't interrogate you, but they can always remember later that you didn't protest enough to be innocent.
I was very specific regarding the particular instance of your silence that can be used against you. You must have missed that part, contained starting at the second sentence of my comment.
Actually, your silence can be used against you in court. The correct procedure is this:
1. "Am I free to go?" If the answer is yes, then go straight to your lawyer's office. If the answer is no, then continue.
2. "Read my Miranda warnings to me immediately."
3. "I invoke my right to counsel."
Through a sad quirk of the jurisprudence, your silence before you are given your Miranda warnings can be used against you. Silence after you invoke your right to counsel (which is stronger than invoking your right to remain silent) cannot.
Modestly delicious!
My thought is this ... do the math-themed invitation card (require that invitees solve some kind of math problem to get the address of the party, for instance; or at least make them crack an affine cipher to read it), do the fractal cookies, and hand out pocket protectors at the door - but other than that, don't focus on math or on nerdiness. Just have a party.
You sound like you don't have much of a sense of humor about it. Maybe a good party game idea for this kid is the "I've never ever" game - it would be fun, get everyone drunk eventually, and explore just how nerdy each attendee is.
You can do both. Throw the party, go to it, and hit on other girls while you're there. Of course, this assumes that you can throw a math nerd party that more than one girl will attend.
LASER CATS!
;)
Tiddly Winks
Darts
I'm fairly confident that Slashdot hasn't crashed any probes.
Also, for a really good time, check out the Wikipedia article on the lunar rover, which gives maximum payload weight in both pounds and kilograms. This is the kind of thing I find very humorous.
The other reason is that the language's interpreter or some part of its runtime is written in C. However, that's typically just because the OS is in C, too. The only reason this matters for practical reasons is that you'll at first have an OS written in Intercal with a Python runtime written in C, but eventually you'll get sick of maintaining the C compiler you wrote in Intercal and rewrite the Python runtime, as well as contracting a very bad case of epilepsy.