This is exactly the model newspapers and magazines use. TV and radio also use it when they aren't rebroadcasting national broadcast as a local affiliate. These media, no matter how small the companies involved, seem to have a way to communicate with advertisers. This is also the way we did web business 20 years ago. One of my jobs as a webmaster back then was to switch banner ads with a directory of images from the graphics guy. Five seconds with a script, complete with image renames. Easily automate-able. Of course vetting the images for security vulnerabilities might take slightly longer these days. Might be easier to process and resave them with imagemagick than run them through various security software (as long as imagemagick doesn't have a known exploit).
Ad networks have lately been the largest vector for remote exploits. Some very ordinary and mainstream websites have been using ad networks that offer up images/flash with embedded exploits. I will block all ad networks due to this. You want to provide ads? Download the ads locally, vet and display them from your own server like we used to do in the good ol' days of the web. Then I can't block them.
Using an ad network as a webmaster is laziness and immoral.
The new default viewing method for the un-logged-in is helping to grow such beliefs. I've noticed that if I'm not logged in, it's impossible to view comments modded down to -1, even if I set the view slide-bar to show that level. For the accountless masses, it's like the comments are removed.
If the grapledites were so smart, they would have chosen a better example. Grapes are meant to be eaten; it's part of the reproductive cycle of the grape vine.
Not the momma!
Exporting duel-use technology (accelerometers useful for missile guidance systems) to enemies of the United States (Iran) is far from a victimless crime.
That's because duel-use technologies are pistols and swords. Sometimes knives and banjos.
Or a cyborg cockroach to go and eradicate the other cockroaches. RAID pesticide company might be interested.
What better way to kill cockroaches than having a terminator cockroach. And if you network then Worldwide, we could finally eradicate every living cockroach everywhere. And some fly, too! I really don't see any downside to it at all.
I admit that abject poverty would be very hard to live with, but I've found a nice balance for now: I earn half of what I could with my skills, but in exchange get crazy amounts of PTO and sick time and interesting work for when I'm not taking time off.
If someone offered you $500k / y 8/5 would you complain if you were required to do 24/7 support?
I would. My time away from work is priceless. If I make hundreds of dollars an hour, but have no time to myself to enjoy it, what's the point? I'd rather make $0 and be a free bum.
And garage, beef, mutton, RSVP, et al are French words (et al is Latin), except when they're so commonly used in English that they become English. Burro is one of those words, although a case can be made for calling it Spanglish, since it's only commonly used in the southwest.
"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and riffle their pockets for new vocabulary." - James Nicoll
In 2020, installing Windows will include having to download 500GB of patches requiring several reboots. Windows 8.1 currently requires downloading tons of patches, and there is still no service pack for Windows 7, the most widely used version of Windows.
"Do more with less, and with fewer coworkers with less experience. You have four weeks of paid vacation, but no backup (fewer coworkers, less experience), so if there's a problem, you need to fix it on vacation, so your vacation needs to be a stay-cation." -New corporate management motto.
On an extremely minor scale, I was at a fast food restaurant the other day, and when I asked for a 30oz cup, the guy at the register rung up the 44oz. So I grabbed a 44oz, and he gave me the stink-eye. I wonder how many people he overcharges every day.
Thankfully there is no "miscellaneous" charge at fast food places, unless you count chicken nuggets.
When you shutdown the system, the computer turns itself off immediately. That happens because systemD performs a hard shutdown of all the applications and services.
Well, I do not want to have data corruption just because the new "standard" according to systemD is send a kill -9 to all the applications.
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The neutrino is the trendy particle, now?
Bah! Wake me when the tetryon is discovered.
Wake me an hour before the chroniton is discovered.
This is exactly the model newspapers and magazines use. TV and radio also use it when they aren't rebroadcasting national broadcast as a local affiliate. These media, no matter how small the companies involved, seem to have a way to communicate with advertisers. This is also the way we did web business 20 years ago. One of my jobs as a webmaster back then was to switch banner ads with a directory of images from the graphics guy. Five seconds with a script, complete with image renames. Easily automate-able. Of course vetting the images for security vulnerabilities might take slightly longer these days. Might be easier to process and resave them with imagemagick than run them through various security software (as long as imagemagick doesn't have a known exploit).
Ad networks have lately been the largest vector for remote exploits. Some very ordinary and mainstream websites have been using ad networks that offer up images/flash with embedded exploits. I will block all ad networks due to this. You want to provide ads? Download the ads locally, vet and display them from your own server like we used to do in the good ol' days of the web. Then I can't block them.
Using an ad network as a webmaster is laziness and immoral.
Would they make Ren Hoeck envious?
Or are they just going to use voice clips of him saying "Excellent..." every now and again and recycle him?
Give the character a stroke and they can cobble clips together with an explanation of why they sound weird.
...and if not, does it make a sound?
Not without Shearer.
The new default viewing method for the un-logged-in is helping to grow such beliefs. I've noticed that if I'm not logged in, it's impossible to view comments modded down to -1, even if I set the view slide-bar to show that level. For the accountless masses, it's like the comments are removed.
If the grapledites were so smart, they would have chosen a better example. Grapes are meant to be eaten; it's part of the reproductive cycle of the grape vine.
Not the momma!
I thought Spark worked from within Hadoop. Is that like using emacs to run vi?
Exporting duel-use technology (accelerometers useful for missile guidance systems) to enemies of the United States (Iran) is far from a victimless crime.
That's because duel-use technologies are pistols and swords. Sometimes knives and banjos.
Or a cyborg cockroach to go and eradicate the other cockroaches. RAID pesticide company might be interested.
What better way to kill cockroaches than having a terminator cockroach. And if you network then Worldwide, we could finally eradicate every living cockroach everywhere. And some fly, too! I really don't see any downside to it at all.
Send it back in time to kill the first cockroach.
I admit that abject poverty would be very hard to live with, but I've found a nice balance for now: I earn half of what I could with my skills, but in exchange get crazy amounts of PTO and sick time and interesting work for when I'm not taking time off.
If someone offered you $500k / y 8/5 would you complain if you were required to do 24/7 support?
I would. My time away from work is priceless. If I make hundreds of dollars an hour, but have no time to myself to enjoy it, what's the point? I'd rather make $0 and be a free bum.
Will this help, or will "acute respiratory syndrome" become the new offensive term?
http://dilbert.com/strip/1998-...
And garage, beef, mutton, RSVP, et al are French words (et al is Latin), except when they're so commonly used in English that they become English. Burro is one of those words, although a case can be made for calling it Spanglish, since it's only commonly used in the southwest.
"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and riffle their pockets for new vocabulary." - James Nicoll
Yes, that's the joke.
The end of the Ebola Outbreak is in the eye of the beholder.
In 2020, installing Windows will include having to download 500GB of patches requiring several reboots. Windows 8.1 currently requires downloading tons of patches, and there is still no service pack for Windows 7, the most widely used version of Windows.
"Do more with less, and with fewer coworkers with less experience. You have four weeks of paid vacation, but no backup (fewer coworkers, less experience), so if there's a problem, you need to fix it on vacation, so your vacation needs to be a stay-cation." -New corporate management motto.
morale = morale - 4
On an extremely minor scale, I was at a fast food restaurant the other day, and when I asked for a 30oz cup, the guy at the register rung up the 44oz. So I grabbed a 44oz, and he gave me the stink-eye. I wonder how many people he overcharges every day.
Thankfully there is no "miscellaneous" charge at fast food places, unless you count chicken nuggets.
When you shutdown the system, the computer turns itself off immediately. That happens because systemD performs a hard shutdown of all the applications and services.
Well, I do not want to have data corruption just because the new "standard" according to systemD is send a kill -9 to all the applications.
Anyone non-anonymous willing to verify this?
Looks like the Apple Watch is burning people, literally
According to the manual, you're supposed to apply thermal grease and a heat pipe to your wrist before wearing the watch.
It's interesting how this habit by Microsoft has become embedded in the IT operations of many companies.
I always thought it was the IT operations of many big companies that precipitated "Patch Tuesday"
The "water" was found to consist of nearly 100% of the fracking material, dihydrogen monoxide.