You missed it. It already happened 500 years ago but the activation caused some strange time dilation effects meaning that we're all stuck in 2008, and whenever you hear about someone planning a party, you've already missed it.
I was wondering if you think 'water vapour' is the same as 'water droplets being suspended in air', but they are subtly different things. Perhaps you don't mean that at all though. I don't know what's going on in your crazy little elitist world.
The 'mineral rights' for the landfills will be worth a staggering amount a hundred years from now, when the technology to mine out and recover all the material 'stored' there has been developed.
When? If.
It depends on a few things, like whether we go through a crazy war (or global warming destroys half the plante;) ) and lose all of our current technological abilities, whether it will ever be economically viable to go sifting through shit for tiny little pieces of metal or certain chemicals rather than just doing normal mining, or mining from other planets and asteroids, etc.. it's not just like it's all nice neatly arranged plastic sitting there ready to be reused.
numerous detection and attribution studies have unambiguously and robustly identified the cause of warming to be human emissions of CO2.
As the other guy says, "citation(s) need". I'm not disagreeing that we should try to reduce our waste and pollution as much as possible, but it's pretty dumb to say that we are the whole cause, considering there is warming occurring on some of the other planets too, and our own planet has gone through several periods of non human induced climate change.
Perhaps we are accelerating the process, but there has been no unambiguous and robustly concluded study, or it would be referred to every single time a topic like this came up. I have been pretty annoyed at how the US govt seems to just dismiss the whole global warming thing and continue to do what it likes, but places like China are doing much more damage to the environment anyway.. and good luck trying to get them to clean up their act anytime soon.
Yeah, those crazy whales and dolphins, what will they be doing next?
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I think the ability to launch from an icon to a chromeless web-app could prove quite useful - can imagine small businesses using something like that for web-based to-do lists, project apps, etc.
I've been writing a few smallish in-house apps and I didn't even think of using Chrome for them. Would be interesting to try it with one of my previous menu systems that I dropped for being too-slow - though if I wrote my own system from scratch it would probably be much faster than the copy and paste job that I did.
At least with Chrome I know that it's designed with stuff like javascript and dynamic pages in mind. I still have bad memories from learning HTML a few years ago, when you couldn't do anything cool without then having to then basically do it over again to make sure it worked in both IE and Netscape. IE and Mozilla both probably have good DOM support these days, but I haven't really been interested enough to play about with them. My web-apps currently only really use javascript for mouse-overs and showing/hiding css/div sections (even that was awkward to do reliably a few years ago).
I used to think of web designers as 2nd rate coders compared to proper developers, but browsers these days are actually a pretty awesome way to make cross-platform apps, even without using plugins like Java or Flash. That's why I started looking at web-apps again recently for a few things like equipment, personnel tracking, timesheets, etc - it will make it that much easier for the company to decide to move away from Windows if MS keep trying to force Vista-quality software on everyone:)
It did fix the problem, but also generated massive amounts of traffic and made systems unstable.
That's pretty much what all the spam and viruseseseses are doing already though. I'd be happy for a few days of slow 'net access every 6 months if it meant everyone was all patched up after that week. Would make it much more difficult for the spammers to get anything done, and most of them would hopefully give up anyway.
Reactive solutions are still not as good as actively educating computer users though. Before people are allowed to use guns and cars they generally have to get a license - well, computers can be just as damaging to people as a physical accident, if they end up being used as part of a scheme to steal someone's identity. We need more training on basics like phishing, not running random code that someone sends you, etc. Basically just making people less gullible.
Yep, and I'm not exactly ashamed of it, it's pretty natural. Most people get like that after doing support for any length of time, I'd wager. If people treat you like shit, then it's hardly going to make you more eager to go see them and help them, is it? If I'm not doing anything else I'd go help them, but if I am doing something else then I'm a lot more likely to finish it first before going and helping out, rather than just dropping everything and going to see them (which is a right PITA when you're coding as you lose track of what you were doing).
I don't think there is any justification for pure helpdesk workers not to be helpful (unless the client is being abusive), but as for the guy who was called out to check the line, it really sounds like it was not his job to fix her PC. After 20 calls to the helpdesk you'd expect that they'd already tested the line and gone through diagnostic steps with her on her computer and came up with the result that it was her setup that was at fault, and it was beyond the scope of their job to diagnose her machine - which is sometimes hard enough to do even when you have the machine in front of you, let alone over the phone. You can't expect an ISP to fix customers' PC issues for free when some people probably charge well over $60 an hour to do that kind of thing.
If you read the article, they had tested the line plenty of times without sending anyone out - it seems they just sent someone out to shut her up (she claims it was because she pretended to be a businessman that they actually sent someone out, perhaps that's true, perhaps not).
Sounds very much like she's just the type of customer who "thinks she knows everything" and didn't bother listening to any advice they gave her. I don't know what their policy would be, but as you say you'd expect an ISP to go through a cheat-script with you at least.
I don't consider viruses disabling certain types of network access a SF scenario - one of our MDs has a machine that was pwned and repaired several times a few years ago - it's still running, but just barely. Parts of explorer just have very broken behaviour. He's too paranoid to let me just copy all the data from the machine and scrap it so he still keeps it around to get old files off of occasionally. Some people are just strange, but if they are the ones paying you then what can you do..
Yes, some companies no doubt have lazy or clueless helpdesk staff, but sometimes it is the customer at fault. There are many, many things that could go wrong to stop someone being able to browse the net, and it should not be the ISPs responsibility to fix the computer. Some ISPs will try to be as helpful as possible, but in the end they have no responsibility for actually making sure your computer is working, just that your line is fine.
It isn't his job to fix her computer if the line is working. There's a lot of chance he wasn't a "geek" either, just sounds like a sparky to me. She sounds like a total ass anyway - even though I am a geek, I'm a lot less likely to help someone with their problem unless they keep a rein on their attitude. When it's for work then I'll get round to it, but if it's something that's not a part of my job then I'm very unlikely to do anything. If she had a virus which had disabled all her net access and required a reinstall of Windows to get the components back in working order, do you think a guy trained and paid to check phone lines should have done that for her?
Yeah, his post was good up until the last sentence. Bringing the republican/democrat crap into it does nothing but rile people up. I'd probably better stop commenting on people whining about political alignment or I'll become to bigotry what twitter is to MS.
Jeebus. Never hit 'Submit' until you know you have a handle on the situation! If you don't read all the necessary information properly and then mouth off at someone for being an asshat, you'll actually end up making yourself look silly. I almost did it earlier:)
I could make a program that will spawn 300 pointless threads if you want. Doesn't make it impressive at all.
Parallel code that works faster is superior to a single thread solution sure, but unless your threads really are usefully independent then you will just make the whole thing less efficient due to the extra overhead. What possible need is there for 171 threads in a web browser unless it has like 50 tabs open?
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I considered it an elitist to make claims that other people don't know what they're talking about while not at the same time explaining your position.
I considered vapour to be a gaseous form, and drops of water suspended in air are not the same as a gas.
Happily it seems that my memory and knowledge of high school physics has served me well. See http://www.weatherquestions.com/What_is_water_vapor.htm
Sweet! Looks like we won't all die virgins after all!
Heretofor it shall be known as the Super Smash Bros particle.
You missed it. It already happened 500 years ago but the activation caused some strange time dilation effects meaning that we're all stuck in 2008, and whenever you hear about someone planning a party, you've already missed it.
Did you notice that Higgs boson that whooshed over your head right now?
The 'Orchestron'?
I was wondering if you think 'water vapour' is the same as 'water droplets being suspended in air', but they are subtly different things. Perhaps you don't mean that at all though. I don't know what's going on in your crazy little elitist world.
The 'mineral rights' for the landfills will be worth a staggering amount a hundred years from now, when the technology to mine out and recover all the material 'stored' there has been developed.
When? If.
It depends on a few things, like whether we go through a crazy war (or global warming destroys half the plante ;) ) and lose all of our current technological abilities, whether it will ever be economically viable to go sifting through shit for tiny little pieces of metal or certain chemicals rather than just doing normal mining, or mining from other planets and asteroids, etc.. it's not just like it's all nice neatly arranged plastic sitting there ready to be reused.
If he didn't mention a term, he technically couldn't have got it wrong!
What do you say the correct term is? Isn't 'cloud' fairly well accepted even among meteorologists? :p
numerous detection and attribution studies have unambiguously and robustly identified the cause of warming to be human emissions of CO2.
As the other guy says, "citation(s) need". I'm not disagreeing that we should try to reduce our waste and pollution as much as possible, but it's pretty dumb to say that we are the whole cause, considering there is warming occurring on some of the other planets too, and our own planet has gone through several periods of non human induced climate change.
Perhaps we are accelerating the process, but there has been no unambiguous and robustly concluded study, or it would be referred to every single time a topic like this came up. I have been pretty annoyed at how the US govt seems to just dismiss the whole global warming thing and continue to do what it likes, but places like China are doing much more damage to the environment anyway.. and good luck trying to get them to clean up their act anytime soon.
Yeah, those crazy whales and dolphins, what will they be doing next?
I think the ability to launch from an icon to a chromeless web-app could prove quite useful - can imagine small businesses using something like that for web-based to-do lists, project apps, etc.
I've been writing a few smallish in-house apps and I didn't even think of using Chrome for them. Would be interesting to try it with one of my previous menu systems that I dropped for being too-slow - though if I wrote my own system from scratch it would probably be much faster than the copy and paste job that I did.
At least with Chrome I know that it's designed with stuff like javascript and dynamic pages in mind. I still have bad memories from learning HTML a few years ago, when you couldn't do anything cool without then having to then basically do it over again to make sure it worked in both IE and Netscape. IE and Mozilla both probably have good DOM support these days, but I haven't really been interested enough to play about with them. My web-apps currently only really use javascript for mouse-overs and showing/hiding css/div sections (even that was awkward to do reliably a few years ago).
I used to think of web designers as 2nd rate coders compared to proper developers, but browsers these days are actually a pretty awesome way to make cross-platform apps, even without using plugins like Java or Flash. That's why I started looking at web-apps again recently for a few things like equipment, personnel tracking, timesheets, etc - it will make it that much easier for the company to decide to move away from Windows if MS keep trying to force Vista-quality software on everyone :)
Colonel? You'd better take a look at this radar..
What is it, son?
I dunno, sir.. but it looks like a giant-
Dick!
Yeah?
Take a look out to starboard.
Oh my god, it looks like a huuuuge-
Pecker! Wait, that's not a woodpecker, it looks like someone's-
PRIVATES! We have reports of an unidentified flying object! It has a long, smooooth shaft! Complete with-
Two balls!
What is that? It looks just like an enormous-
Wang! Pay attention.
I was distracted, by that enormous, flying-
Willy!
Yeah?
What's that?
Well, it looks like a giant-
Johnston!
Yessir!
Get on the phone to British intelligence and notify them about this!
It did fix the problem, but also generated massive amounts of traffic and made systems unstable.
That's pretty much what all the spam and viruseseseses are doing already though. I'd be happy for a few days of slow 'net access every 6 months if it meant everyone was all patched up after that week. Would make it much more difficult for the spammers to get anything done, and most of them would hopefully give up anyway.
Reactive solutions are still not as good as actively educating computer users though. Before people are allowed to use guns and cars they generally have to get a license - well, computers can be just as damaging to people as a physical accident, if they end up being used as part of a scheme to steal someone's identity. We need more training on basics like phishing, not running random code that someone sends you, etc. Basically just making people less gullible.
Yep, and I'm not exactly ashamed of it, it's pretty natural. Most people get like that after doing support for any length of time, I'd wager. If people treat you like shit, then it's hardly going to make you more eager to go see them and help them, is it? If I'm not doing anything else I'd go help them, but if I am doing something else then I'm a lot more likely to finish it first before going and helping out, rather than just dropping everything and going to see them (which is a right PITA when you're coding as you lose track of what you were doing).
I don't think there is any justification for pure helpdesk workers not to be helpful (unless the client is being abusive), but as for the guy who was called out to check the line, it really sounds like it was not his job to fix her PC. After 20 calls to the helpdesk you'd expect that they'd already tested the line and gone through diagnostic steps with her on her computer and came up with the result that it was her setup that was at fault, and it was beyond the scope of their job to diagnose her machine - which is sometimes hard enough to do even when you have the machine in front of you, let alone over the phone. You can't expect an ISP to fix customers' PC issues for free when some people probably charge well over $60 an hour to do that kind of thing.
If you read the article, they had tested the line plenty of times without sending anyone out - it seems they just sent someone out to shut her up (she claims it was because she pretended to be a businessman that they actually sent someone out, perhaps that's true, perhaps not).
Sounds very much like she's just the type of customer who "thinks she knows everything" and didn't bother listening to any advice they gave her. I don't know what their policy would be, but as you say you'd expect an ISP to go through a cheat-script with you at least.
I don't consider viruses disabling certain types of network access a SF scenario - one of our MDs has a machine that was pwned and repaired several times a few years ago - it's still running, but just barely. Parts of explorer just have very broken behaviour. He's too paranoid to let me just copy all the data from the machine and scrap it so he still keeps it around to get old files off of occasionally. Some people are just strange, but if they are the ones paying you then what can you do..
Yes, some companies no doubt have lazy or clueless helpdesk staff, but sometimes it is the customer at fault. There are many, many things that could go wrong to stop someone being able to browse the net, and it should not be the ISPs responsibility to fix the computer. Some ISPs will try to be as helpful as possible, but in the end they have no responsibility for actually making sure your computer is working, just that your line is fine.
It isn't his job to fix her computer if the line is working. There's a lot of chance he wasn't a "geek" either, just sounds like a sparky to me. She sounds like a total ass anyway - even though I am a geek, I'm a lot less likely to help someone with their problem unless they keep a rein on their attitude. When it's for work then I'll get round to it, but if it's something that's not a part of my job then I'm very unlikely to do anything. If she had a virus which had disabled all her net access and required a reinstall of Windows to get the components back in working order, do you think a guy trained and paid to check phone lines should have done that for her?
what if there were spikes in the tyres?
ICANN should really sue ICAAN for having a similar domain name
What happens if you legally change your name to something like Burger King? Hehe.
Yeah, his post was good up until the last sentence. Bringing the republican/democrat crap into it does nothing but rile people up. I'd probably better stop commenting on people whining about political alignment or I'll become to bigotry what twitter is to MS.
It's a good thing he didn't start an argument with the guys who make Uzis. Though getting shot might be a better way to go than being run over.
Jeebus. Never hit 'Submit' until you know you have a handle on the situation! If you don't read all the necessary information properly and then mouth off at someone for being an asshat, you'll actually end up making yourself look silly. I almost did it earlier :)
I could make a program that will spawn 300 pointless threads if you want. Doesn't make it impressive at all.
Parallel code that works faster is superior to a single thread solution sure, but unless your threads really are usefully independent then you will just make the whole thing less efficient due to the extra overhead. What possible need is there for 171 threads in a web browser unless it has like 50 tabs open?
Who wouldn't?!