I would -- I would be bored to death if I had nothing to do, and my job is the same as my hobby.
Also please kill all your friends, then yourself.
I deliberately keep my hobby separate from my job. Day job is dull shit in IT. Hobby is photography. The former pays well, latter wouldn't - and doing it for a living would drain all of the joy out of it anyway.
It's much harder to empathise with mental complaints - we can all imagine physical injury and illness, but it's almost impossible with mental illness. We all know what it's like to feel a bit down in the dumps, so we assume that depression is just a form of that.
Even knowing that intellectually I still find myself wanting to tell people to just pull themselves together and get on with it when they're suffering, simply because on an emotional level I don't understand it. So I guess this is sort of an apology on behalf of the makers of glib comments.
Anything would suck less than BMC.
If the answer is "BMC Remedy" the question was "what do I do when I have far too much money and want to piss off my users as much as possible?"
Ah, another user of BMC products perhaps?
Like the monitoring agent that core dumps if a process (as seen by ps) has more than 1023 characters... I mean, OK, an error I could accept, but a core dump? In what is supposedly a mature product?
Or the sort by date on a column that sorts alphabetically. And displays dates in the format "MMM DD YYYY". So in their date sort, April comes first, followed August...
And it's *always* cheaper to in-source (provided you can find the appropriate resources). You can either do it yourself, or you can pay someone their cost, which could be your cost, plus 20% or more overhead and profit. So outsourcing costs you a minimum of 20% more than doing it in house. But all the consultants swear it's better to outsource - to their company. That's like hiring the Fox and Co security company to guard the hen house.
Not always. Take email, look at the costs of using Google mail vs. running a complete, resilient mail system. Control over your data aside, for most small to medium businesses gmail will be a lot cheaper, not to mention more reliable and functional.
Facebook and Google will follow suit because they have significant business interests in Europe. They have to comply with local laws to do business here, it is as simple as that.
I'm not sure, every article I've read seems to refer to websites based here rather than visible from here. I have yet to see anything that implies the law would be applied to sites hosted elsewhere or by companies based outside of the UK.
All this will do is harm European companies at the expense of ones based elsewhere.
I've seen UK based sites start to implement this, but there's no chance that Facebook, Google etc will follow suit - so if the tracking actually does have monetary value, we've just guaranteed that only non-European companies can benefit from it. Woohoo.
That's 11 elapsed hours, not 11 hours to do the work.
They have a backlog. Each one might only take five minutes to process, but they'll get to it, on average, 11 hours after it's reported.
The quick workaround, if you don't mind your browsing going via their proxies, is to use Opera Mini on your phone. Since all traffic goes via Opera's servers, it bypasses the filters.
I started using it when I discovered that a (non adult) site I wanted to visit was blocked on O2. It's competitors weren't, which raises two interesting questions - could they sue for unfair restraint of trade as it gives their competitors an advantage, and could they also sue for defamation as they are effectively being accused of being an adult site?
"'Only the government could have made a 'terrorist' out of Mr. Cromitie, whose buffoonery is positively Shakespearean in its scope,' said Judge Colleen McMahon, sentencing him to 25 years. She branded it a "fantasy terror operation" but called his attempt "beyond despicable" and rejected his claim of entrapment."
So if she thinks it's a fantasy and buffoonery, why give him 25 years for it?
I used Mandrake for a while. Not because it was an easy beginners distro - I'd started out with Slackware, but because it was easier to get stuff done. It was, if I recall, one of the first distros to come bundled with non-free software; drivers for video cards, codecs etc. While it was possible to go to, I don't know, NVidia's site, download the Linux drivers and use them with any distro, Mandrake had them bundled and just worked out of the box. It could also play most of the, erm, interesting video clips I could find...
After I got too lazy to deal with Slackware but not quite lazy enough to crawl back to Windows, it was my distro of choice, probably circa 2000.
I bought a USB drive from PC World last year. Sold as new. Got it home, found that my Windows PC wouldn't recognise the file system - it was formatted, and I could see the hardware, but the drive wasn't showing up. Out of curiosity I hooked it up to a Linux machine and had a nose. Turns out it was HFS formatted. Not only that but it had someone's time machine backup on it.
So not only was the drive - probably illegally - sold as new when it was, in fact, second hand, but PC World hadn't even done a basic format of it.
Needless to say I returned it and gave the manager a bit of a hard time...
She was hearing you say "it doesn't matter that you're not attractive, because visual appearances don't matter to me". In other words, you just called her fat and ugly;-)
BT's latest offering in the UK has this built in. You basically have two separate wi-fi access points built in to the router, one sort-of public, one private.
If you're a BT customer, and opt-in to share your public wi-fi, you get to use anyone else's when you're out and about - the idea being that if they have a sufficient customer base you'll always be in reach of free wi-fi access.
They don't actually make clear in their documentation whether the public access point contributes to your download limit (if you have one), but I'd assume it wouldn't otherwise who in their right mind would sign up?
What was incredible was that some developers worked out how to organise their code so that the loading noise played a tune.
It's too long ago now, but I remember at least a couple of games that played recognisable tunes when loading because the code had been organised in the right order.
I find cards useful for my hobby. I take photos, mostly of models. Sometimes when I'm out I'll be chatting to someone and the subject will come up. If she shows an interest in posing for me, I give her my card - no pressure on her then to reciprocate or hand out her number, so she can go away and think about it. The card has my email address and website details, and is blank on the back; if I choose to, I can scribble my number on there as well. It works for me.
So basically the bottom line for me is I have a good reason to carry cards.
And for probably the majority of applications most of the work is being done outside of the computer on which they're running.
Most of the code I've written recently spends it's time hanging around waiting for responses from the network, calling external web services or interacting with databases. The time spent anywhere I could actually optimise it in a lower level language is such a tiny fraction of the overall runtime it's not even worth considering.
It's like comparing browsers for speed - yes, some are faster than others, but your experience of the internet will usually depend far more on your bandwidth (and that of the site you're connecting to) than which browser you use.
Or for the car analogy fans - buying a faster car won't get you to your destination quicker in the rush hour because the speed of your car is not the limiting factor...
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Same here. When I used Linux regularly I eventually switched to VMWare for running Windows, as Wine didn't really cut it (probably talking about ten years ago, though...).
Eventually I realised that I was spending 90% of my time using either a web browser or a Windows applications (Photoshop and Lightroom) and I might as well run Windows on the bare metal. With tools like Cygwin and LAMP I have most of what I'd miss from Linux, so I guess I've done it the other way round; made Windows more like Linux rather than Linux more like Windows.
OT, but I'm increasing thinking that's the way to live.
I've seen too many relatives deteriorate slowly in care homes to want to live much past my mid 70s. I'm happy to trade the risk of only making mid 60s and missing out on a few good years for the enjoyment of doing all the things that are fun but bad for me *now* - I'd rather that than have those last years sitting in a home in a pool of my own waste.
Surely forgetting your password is perfectly legitimate.
Ask any first line corporate helpdesk staff member what the most common problem is, and I bet it's users forgetting their passwords and locking themselves out. Virtually every website has a link to automate the reset process. People forget their passwords all the time.
OK, I accept it's less likely that you'll forget the password to access your home PC, but I've done that, been there, had to reboot from a recovery disk - if the data was encrypted I'd have lost access to it.
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I would -- I would be bored to death if I had nothing to do, and my job is the same as my hobby.
Also please kill all your friends, then yourself.
I deliberately keep my hobby separate from my job. Day job is dull shit in IT. Hobby is photography. The former pays well, latter wouldn't - and doing it for a living would drain all of the joy out of it anyway.
Hey! Some of us have a foot fetish (you insensitive clod)...
It's much harder to empathise with mental complaints - we can all imagine physical injury and illness, but it's almost impossible with mental illness. We all know what it's like to feel a bit down in the dumps, so we assume that depression is just a form of that.
Even knowing that intellectually I still find myself wanting to tell people to just pull themselves together and get on with it when they're suffering, simply because on an emotional level I don't understand it. So I guess this is sort of an apology on behalf of the makers of glib comments.
Anything would suck less than BMC. If the answer is "BMC Remedy" the question was "what do I do when I have far too much money and want to piss off my users as much as possible?"
Ah, another user of BMC products perhaps? Like the monitoring agent that core dumps if a process (as seen by ps) has more than 1023 characters... I mean, OK, an error I could accept, but a core dump? In what is supposedly a mature product? Or the sort by date on a column that sorts alphabetically. And displays dates in the format "MMM DD YYYY". So in their date sort, April comes first, followed August...
And it's *always* cheaper to in-source (provided you can find the appropriate resources). You can either do it yourself, or you can pay someone their cost, which could be your cost, plus 20% or more overhead and profit. So outsourcing costs you a minimum of 20% more than doing it in house. But all the consultants swear it's better to outsource - to their company. That's like hiring the Fox and Co security company to guard the hen house.
Not always. Take email, look at the costs of using Google mail vs. running a complete, resilient mail system. Control over your data aside, for most small to medium businesses gmail will be a lot cheaper, not to mention more reliable and functional.
Facebook and Google will follow suit because they have significant business interests in Europe. They have to comply with local laws to do business here, it is as simple as that.
I'm not sure, every article I've read seems to refer to websites based here rather than visible from here. I have yet to see anything that implies the law would be applied to sites hosted elsewhere or by companies based outside of the UK.
I've seen UK based sites start to implement this, but there's no chance that Facebook, Google etc will follow suit - so if the tracking actually does have monetary value, we've just guaranteed that only non-European companies can benefit from it. Woohoo.
That's 11 elapsed hours, not 11 hours to do the work. They have a backlog. Each one might only take five minutes to process, but they'll get to it, on average, 11 hours after it's reported.
I started using it when I discovered that a (non adult) site I wanted to visit was blocked on O2. It's competitors weren't, which raises two interesting questions - could they sue for unfair restraint of trade as it gives their competitors an advantage, and could they also sue for defamation as they are effectively being accused of being an adult site?
Now make it that way at borders.
You have to give your Facebook password to buy a book? Wow, things have got bad
Eh?
From the article
"'Only the government could have made a 'terrorist' out of Mr. Cromitie, whose buffoonery is positively Shakespearean in its scope,' said Judge Colleen McMahon, sentencing him to 25 years. She branded it a "fantasy terror operation" but called his attempt "beyond despicable" and rejected his claim of entrapment."
So if she thinks it's a fantasy and buffoonery, why give him 25 years for it?
I used Mandrake for a while. Not because it was an easy beginners distro - I'd started out with Slackware, but because it was easier to get stuff done. It was, if I recall, one of the first distros to come bundled with non-free software; drivers for video cards, codecs etc. While it was possible to go to, I don't know, NVidia's site, download the Linux drivers and use them with any distro, Mandrake had them bundled and just worked out of the box. It could also play most of the, erm, interesting video clips I could find...
After I got too lazy to deal with Slackware but not quite lazy enough to crawl back to Windows, it was my distro of choice, probably circa 2000.
I bought a USB drive from PC World last year. Sold as new. Got it home, found that my Windows PC wouldn't recognise the file system - it was formatted, and I could see the hardware, but the drive wasn't showing up. Out of curiosity I hooked it up to a Linux machine and had a nose. Turns out it was HFS formatted. Not only that but it had someone's time machine backup on it.
So not only was the drive - probably illegally - sold as new when it was, in fact, second hand, but PC World hadn't even done a basic format of it.
Needless to say I returned it and gave the manager a bit of a hard time...
She was hearing you say "it doesn't matter that you're not attractive, because visual appearances don't matter to me". In other words, you just called her fat and ugly ;-)
I'd say there are a few that are getting close: Gimp....
Not close. Not close at all.
Certainly not for pro or semi-pro use.
BT's latest offering in the UK has this built in. You basically have two separate wi-fi access points built in to the router, one sort-of public, one private.
If you're a BT customer, and opt-in to share your public wi-fi, you get to use anyone else's when you're out and about - the idea being that if they have a sufficient customer base you'll always be in reach of free wi-fi access.
They don't actually make clear in their documentation whether the public access point contributes to your download limit (if you have one), but I'd assume it wouldn't otherwise who in their right mind would sign up?
What was incredible was that some developers worked out how to organise their code so that the loading noise played a tune.
It's too long ago now, but I remember at least a couple of games that played recognisable tunes when loading because the code had been organised in the right order.
All? Er, no, I think you'll find we do have gun crime. Not at US levels, sure, but I think it's a stretch to say we have absolute gun control.
I find cards useful for my hobby. I take photos, mostly of models. Sometimes when I'm out I'll be chatting to someone and the subject will come up. If she shows an interest in posing for me, I give her my card - no pressure on her then to reciprocate or hand out her number, so she can go away and think about it. The card has my email address and website details, and is blank on the back; if I choose to, I can scribble my number on there as well. It works for me.
So basically the bottom line for me is I have a good reason to carry cards.
And for probably the majority of applications most of the work is being done outside of the computer on which they're running.
Most of the code I've written recently spends it's time hanging around waiting for responses from the network, calling external web services or interacting with databases. The time spent anywhere I could actually optimise it in a lower level language is such a tiny fraction of the overall runtime it's not even worth considering.
It's like comparing browsers for speed - yes, some are faster than others, but your experience of the internet will usually depend far more on your bandwidth (and that of the site you're connecting to) than which browser you use.
Or for the car analogy fans - buying a faster car won't get you to your destination quicker in the rush hour because the speed of your car is not the limiting factor...
Same here. When I used Linux regularly I eventually switched to VMWare for running Windows, as Wine didn't really cut it (probably talking about ten years ago, though...).
Eventually I realised that I was spending 90% of my time using either a web browser or a Windows applications (Photoshop and Lightroom) and I might as well run Windows on the bare metal. With tools like Cygwin and LAMP I have most of what I'd miss from Linux, so I guess I've done it the other way round; made Windows more like Linux rather than Linux more like Windows.
OT, but I'm increasing thinking that's the way to live.
I've seen too many relatives deteriorate slowly in care homes to want to live much past my mid 70s. I'm happy to trade the risk of only making mid 60s and missing out on a few good years for the enjoyment of doing all the things that are fun but bad for me *now* - I'd rather that than have those last years sitting in a home in a pool of my own waste.
No. For the most part it doesn't.
http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/manuals/eimanual/eim21613.htm
Surely forgetting your password is perfectly legitimate.
Ask any first line corporate helpdesk staff member what the most common problem is, and I bet it's users forgetting their passwords and locking themselves out. Virtually every website has a link to automate the reset process. People forget their passwords all the time.
OK, I accept it's less likely that you'll forget the password to access your home PC, but I've done that, been there, had to reboot from a recovery disk - if the data was encrypted I'd have lost access to it.