I'm an American who worked in the Netherlands for 6 months in 1995. I saw that exact TV program. Couldn't understand the language, but it was apparent what was going on.
The people who got it wrong were pointing at the area of Lithuania and Estonia. They were looking for the place on the coastline that turned sharply North, and ended up substantially too far to the East. They knew what shape their country was and looked for that.
I was astonished at how popular Jerry Springer is in the Netherlands, so I think it's very convenient and expedient to blame this geographical mess on him.
Very interesting that you would criticise Dijkstra for being ignorant of other nationalities, but are clearly ignorant of his.
Criticism is the Dutch national sport. If you ask just about any Dutchman what he thinks of the French, or the Americans, or the Germans, or (...) they will tell you. But the criticism goes for themselves as well. I've observed on many occasions Dutch people being harshly critical of Dutch people.
I didn't see anything in there that was particularly ignorant of the French, except for that one sentence about lip-smacking. I thought that sentence was clearly a joke, but he obviously forgot to put a smiley in. Perhaps smilies are considered harmful? And I saw nothing ignorant of Americans, or even critical of Americans. He was writing specifically of SOME Americans, the ones at the conference.
I don't consider myself an engineer. The sign on my cube says that I'm a software engineer, but that makes me cringe.
I'm just a computer programmer, which is more like a carpenter than anything. I build things that other people want, just because I know how to do it. I didn't need any special education or certification to do my job, just experience with the tools of my trade. I'm just like a guy with a hammer.
There's a rule to follow: "Thou shalt lust after no other laptop than an IBM Thinkpad."
I've owned three of them, and all have been really great computers. I've owned other laptops, and they failed to measure up to the standard set by the Thinkpad.
My current machine is an A21m with 800mhz Pentium III, running Linux. All the hardware on the machine works with Linux. I have use it every day for work for the past 2.5 years, and it's just plain reliable. It's worth the money I paid for it, and I've noticed that the prices have dropped a lot. You can get a Thinkpad for much much less than what I paid for mine.
You should make sure that your bounce messages go to the right place. I've received countless messages informing me that my attachment was stripped because it contains the Sobig virus. The second thing you should do is to make sure that the full headers of the message get inserted into your bounce.
The funny thing is that I run only Linux on my domain, and I never e-mailed those people anything. It's very unlikely that Sobig can run on Linux. And I can't do anything about it because I don't have any headers to track down the source of the mails. Nobody's answered my requests for them either.
Did you remember to stop and pick up your complimentary shotgun and gun rack at the welcome building just after you crossed the Texas border? Seriously, I like living here. If you're moving here, hope you do too.
You're right. I think I want to learn this Flash. Can you point me in the direction of some open source tools I can run on my Linux box so I can learn it? Thanks.
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I'm an American who worked in the Netherlands for 6 months in 1995. I saw that exact TV program. Couldn't understand the language, but it was apparent what was going on.
The people who got it wrong were pointing at the area of Lithuania and Estonia. They were looking for the place on the coastline that turned sharply North, and ended up substantially too far to the East. They knew what shape their country was and looked for that.
I was astonished at how popular Jerry Springer is in the Netherlands, so I think it's very convenient and expedient to blame this geographical mess on him.
Whoa! Good rant, but it's misdirected. I'm not an assembly programmer, or an embedded programmer. C++ is my thing. Always initialize too.
Very interesting that you would criticise Dijkstra for being ignorant of other nationalities, but are clearly ignorant of his.
Criticism is the Dutch national sport. If you ask just about any Dutchman what he thinks of the French, or the Americans, or the Germans, or (...) they will tell you. But the criticism goes for themselves as well. I've observed on many occasions Dutch people being harshly critical of Dutch people.
I didn't see anything in there that was particularly ignorant of the French, except for that one sentence about lip-smacking. I thought that sentence was clearly a joke, but he obviously forgot to put a smiley in. Perhaps smilies are considered harmful? And I saw nothing ignorant of Americans, or even critical of Americans. He was writing specifically of SOME Americans, the ones at the conference.
I don't consider myself an engineer. The sign on my cube says that I'm a software engineer, but that makes me cringe.
I'm just a computer programmer, which is more like a carpenter than anything. I build things that other people want, just because I know how to do it. I didn't need any special education or certification to do my job, just experience with the tools of my trade. I'm just like a guy with a hammer.
There's a rule to follow: "Thou shalt lust after no other laptop than an IBM Thinkpad."
I've owned three of them, and all have been really great computers. I've owned other laptops, and they failed to measure up to the standard set by the Thinkpad.
My current machine is an A21m with 800mhz Pentium III, running Linux. All the hardware on the machine works with Linux. I have use it every day for work for the past 2.5 years, and it's just plain reliable. It's worth the money I paid for it, and I've noticed that the prices have dropped a lot. You can get a Thinkpad for much much less than what I paid for mine.
My next laptop will be an IBM Thinkpad.
I've seen a dead armadillo, but I've never seen a dead armadillo cooked in rocket fuel. That would be new.
Actually, Canadian packets have the eh? bit set.
Invented on fark.com. They are trying to get the word into common usage, and I think they succeeded. I even heard it on TV.
You should make sure that your bounce messages go to the right place. I've received countless messages informing me that my attachment was stripped because it contains the Sobig virus. The second thing you should do is to make sure that the full headers of the message get inserted into your bounce.
The funny thing is that I run only Linux on my domain, and I never e-mailed those people anything. It's very unlikely that Sobig can run on Linux. And I can't do anything about it because I don't have any headers to track down the source of the mails. Nobody's answered my requests for them either.
Cockpit = where the pilots are. I wouldn't fly on a plane that might gas the pilots.
Making coffee 50 degrees hotter than it had to be is what was stupid. The old lady deserved every penny that she won.
Well, I for one WELCOME our new computer overlords.
Thanks everyone for the links to open source flash stuff.
P.S. Flash is still a scourge, but I will acknowlege that it has a place for online animations.
You are so funny!
Did you remember to stop and pick up your complimentary shotgun and gun rack at the welcome building just after you crossed the Texas border? Seriously, I like living here. If you're moving here, hope you do too.
You're right. I think I want to learn this Flash. Can you point me in the direction of some open source tools I can run on my Linux box so I can learn it? Thanks.
Hahaha, you're really funny.
Flash is a scourge, and so is Shockwave.
The best innovation of the past 5 years was the suppression of pop-ups. Everything else is just tuning.
And that's the complete story as I see it.
Without even thinking about it, or doing any math, I can tell you that the factorization of the number 37 (a prime) is 1 and 37.
All I need to know to factor a prime number is the definition of a prime.
And octane doesn't have to be octane when it comes to fuel. It's an octane rating.
I hope that doesn't say "first post" or something. Translation?
I don't mark things, I don't put my names on programs, and I don't leave files around on servers so others can see who done what.
I do computer work because it's fun and it pleases me. I don't care what others think of it.
Thanks, didn't know that before.
I guess that comment was overkill. Sorry.
If that day comes, I know how to get rich:
1) Make a pocket.
2) Put sticky tape on the back of it.
3) Profit!!!
Half the utility of clothing is pockets.