Ironically, I think the problem is more software related. I don't know what restaurant billing/order software you guys use over there, but I waited tables in New York for 5 years in 3 different restaurants with 3 different software platforms and none of the them facilitated the "split check" process well at all. It almost always involved going through loop holes, calling the manager over, and sometimes even hand calculations to get the software to do it correctly.
That's most likely why the wait staff always give you dirty looks when you ask to split the check.
I live in New York City and I only have two choices for broadband: RCN or Time Warner. Fios hasn't made it to my "area" yet. If the economic capital of the world (negotiable after the last few months) has only two choices, I can only imagine the variety elsewhere in the U.S.
Put all your changes in "int main()", use obscure variable names like xspatyc05 or funct123, always use static buffer sizes for any IO operations and under no circumstances should you add comments, it's a waste of time and no one besides you is ever going to have to understand it anyway.
I propose that the fine State of New York hereby seize all domains registered to the commonwealth of Kentucky in order to prove a point and prevent further embarrassment of our country.
- Index pages filled with lude photoshoped pictures of Kentucky Judges may also be considered.
USB Dongles have been cracked for years. Once you crack the key (a 2 minute process), you can dump the data off it and then emulate the dongle at will. See for yourself
This hasn't stopped my company from using them for licensing... Despite me demonstrating this.
Everyone on this website is now dumber for having read that summary. I award you no points and may God have mercy on your soul.
Seriously...
Re:There is only one true keyboard...
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Model M = The most annoying keyboard ever created. The guy in the cube behind me insists on using one. Aside from punch-card mainframes it is the loudest most obnoxious piece of computer equipment ever created.
There is a reason modern keyboards are quiet and it's not because of cheap manufacturing. It's common courtesy.
The individuals who are going around killing people with hand guns can't get a permit for a gun in the first place. These individuals buy their hand guns on underground black markets; markets that will exist whether hand gun possession is legal or not.
What's the point?
The real intention of the 2nd amendment is to allow citizens to revolt (or at least threaten to). And that is a right that I savor.
Actually, you're wrong. My sister-in-law is a teacher. What the "No child left behind act" has essentially done, is it has placed all the teacher's attention on the mediocre kids. Let me explain...
The act gives funding to the schools that can get the greatest percentage of students to pass a national standardized test. So what do the teachers do to get the most funding? They group the kids into three categories: Those who will definitely pass the test, those who will most likely never pass it, and those students in the middle who, with a little help, will pass the exam
The teachers then focus all their attention on getting those border-line students to pass the exam in order to get the most funding. The smartest and the most challenged students are the ones who get shafted.
This sounds like a great idea until the exoskeleton suit malfunctions (from an outsourced software bug of course) and ends up forcefully hyperflexing ones knees with 90 lbs per square-inch of force.
That's a video I personally don't want to see on youtube.
You're right, NIMDA and Slammer didn't hit Apache or LAMPS. You know why? because they're both server applications not operating systems with kernel exploits.
You're comparing apples to oranges. You might have made good argument if you referenced linux, but you didn't. You also failed to realize that most botnets exploit home computer terminals, not web servers that are generally patched and monitored by knowledgeable administrators.
Now show me an OS that hasn't been exploited at least once?
I like to bash MS as much as the next, but the only reason Windows is the largest botnet host is because it has the largest market share. When you're creating a botnet, you're going for volume. If macs ever get significant market share they'll be targeted as well.
You also have to realize that most of these botnets are probably running on unpatched versions of XP or even earlier versions of windows. You can't blame Microsoft if people don't install security updates. And god knows we don't Microsoft installing them for us.
Of course terrorist recruit engineers. It's not because of their "attention to details, along with their perceived lack of social skills" it's because terrorists are in the business of blowing things up with pinball machine parts.
If you wanted to blow something up, who would you recruit? an English teacher or a physics graduate?
Be careful what you wish for. What about people like me who run remote web servers? What makes you think the ISP's won't charge us an arm and a leg for the extra bandwidth that we use under this new pricing scheme?
A flat rate may be the more economic solution for some of us.
I must point out that SQL isn't a programming language, it's a query language.
But yes, it is useful to know.
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Everyone is always quick to bash RoR but I have honestly never heard a well crafted explanation as to why it's an inferior language / framework. I personally use Java, but that's only because I was raised on it.
the amount of gas people slopped all over themselves, their car or the ground was substantial... and they always wanted a refund!
I'm always amazed that people are incapable of pumping their own gas. I mean, if you live in a state that forbids you to pump your own gas, I might understand. But in New York? There's no excuse. If you are incapable of using a gas pump, I don't think you should be allowed to drive a 2 ton automobile.
And a young person from 65 years ago would have said the same thing.
They would have seen -
- Advance of the assembly line and mass produced cheap automobiles
- An massive highway, rail and phone line system that allows information be spread globally within hours.
- Need I mention the television?
- They said Pearl Harbor changed the world too. And arguably more than 9/11 did for our time. You can't even compare Iraq to World War II.
Just think about it. Everyone thinks that of their own generation. It's all relative.
I can't say it was the "best" system, but I think it deserves serious credit.
No, I'm not talking about SEGA Genesis. This was a little known competitor to the original Nintendo. Not only did it come equipped with a bad-ass gun, it had not one, but two different sized cartridge slots. Why? I have no idea.... but it was awesome.
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Ironically, I think the problem is more software related. I don't know what restaurant billing/order software you guys use over there, but I waited tables in New York for 5 years in 3 different restaurants with 3 different software platforms and none of the them facilitated the "split check" process well at all. It almost always involved going through loop holes, calling the manager over, and sometimes even hand calculations to get the software to do it correctly.
That's most likely why the wait staff always give you dirty looks when you ask to split the check.
Good point.
I live in New York City and I only have two choices for broadband: RCN or Time Warner. Fios hasn't made it to my "area" yet. If the economic capital of the world (negotiable after the last few months) has only two choices, I can only imagine the variety elsewhere in the U.S.
Put all your changes in "int main()", use obscure variable names like xspatyc05 or funct123, always use static buffer sizes for any IO operations and under no circumstances should you add comments, it's a waste of time and no one besides you is ever going to have to understand it anyway.
- I <3 Legacy code
I propose that the fine State of New York hereby seize all domains registered to the commonwealth of Kentucky in order to prove a point and prevent further embarrassment of our country.
- Index pages filled with lude photoshoped pictures of Kentucky Judges may also be considered.
USB Dongles have been cracked for years. Once you crack the key (a 2 minute process), you can dump the data off it and then emulate the dongle at will. See for yourself
This hasn't stopped my company from using them for licensing... Despite me demonstrating this.
Everyone on this website is now dumber for having read that summary. I award you no points and may God have mercy on your soul.
Seriously...
Model M = The most annoying keyboard ever created. The guy in the cube behind me insists on using one. Aside from punch-card mainframes it is the loudest most obnoxious piece of computer equipment ever created.
There is a reason modern keyboards are quiet and it's not because of cheap manufacturing. It's common courtesy.
Seriously, it's not cool in an office setting.
The individuals who are going around killing people with hand guns can't get a permit for a gun in the first place. These individuals buy their hand guns on underground black markets; markets that will exist whether hand gun possession is legal or not.
What's the point?
The real intention of the 2nd amendment is to allow citizens to revolt (or at least threaten to). And that is a right that I savor.
Actually, you're wrong. My sister-in-law is a teacher. What the "No child left behind act" has essentially done, is it has placed all the teacher's attention on the mediocre kids. Let me explain...
The act gives funding to the schools that can get the greatest percentage of students to pass a national standardized test. So what do the teachers do to get the most funding? They group the kids into three categories: Those who will definitely pass the test, those who will most likely never pass it, and those students in the middle who, with a little help, will pass the exam
The teachers then focus all their attention on getting those border-line students to pass the exam in order to get the most funding. The smartest and the most challenged students are the ones who get shafted.
Ask a teacher.
This sounds like a great idea until the exoskeleton suit malfunctions (from an outsourced software bug of course) and ends up forcefully hyperflexing ones knees with 90 lbs per square-inch of force.
That's a video I personally don't want to see on youtube.
You're right, NIMDA and Slammer didn't hit Apache or LAMPS. You know why? because they're both server applications not operating systems with kernel exploits.
You're comparing apples to oranges. You might have made good argument if you referenced linux, but you didn't. You also failed to realize that most botnets exploit home computer terminals, not web servers that are generally patched and monitored by knowledgeable administrators.
Now show me an OS that hasn't been exploited at least once?
I like to bash MS as much as the next, but the only reason Windows is the largest botnet host is because it has the largest market share. When you're creating a botnet, you're going for volume. If macs ever get significant market share they'll be targeted as well.
You also have to realize that most of these botnets are probably running on unpatched versions of XP or even earlier versions of windows. You can't blame Microsoft if people don't install security updates. And god knows we don't Microsoft installing them for us.
Of course terrorist recruit engineers. It's not because of their "attention to details, along with their perceived lack of social skills" it's because terrorists are in the business of blowing things up with pinball machine parts.
If you wanted to blow something up, who would you recruit? an English teacher or a physics graduate?
Be careful what you wish for. What about people like me who run remote web servers? What makes you think the ISP's won't charge us an arm and a leg for the extra bandwidth that we use under this new pricing scheme?
A flat rate may be the more economic solution for some of us.
I think google should to take a closer look at their motto and reevaluate their cooperation with the U.S. government.
"If I must choose between righteousness and peace, I choose righteousness."
#6: It doesn't get you laid.
You're in college to learn. Get over it.
I must point out that SQL isn't a programming language, it's a query language.
But yes, it is useful to know.
Everyone is always quick to bash RoR but I have honestly never heard a well crafted explanation as to why it's an inferior language / framework. I personally use Java, but that's only because I was raised on it.
So I ask: Why the bashing?
Cell phones cause cancer?
Sounds like another one of those liberal lies... Like global warming.
So what if my cell phone melted to my neck goiter while I was using it outdoors in the middle of January? It's totally coincidental.
You can't that much malicious software on one CD anymore...
the amount of gas people slopped all over themselves, their car or the ground was substantial... and they always wanted a refund!
I'm always amazed that people are incapable of pumping their own gas. I mean, if you live in a state that forbids you to pump your own gas, I might understand. But in New York? There's no excuse. If you are incapable of using a gas pump, I don't think you should be allowed to drive a 2 ton automobile.
End of story...
They really went the Microsoft route on this one.
And a young person from 65 years ago would have said the same thing.
They would have seen -
- Advance of the assembly line and mass produced cheap automobiles
- An massive highway, rail and phone line system that allows information be spread globally within hours.
- Need I mention the television?
- They said Pearl Harbor changed the world too. And arguably more than 9/11 did for our time. You can't even compare Iraq to World War II.
Just think about it. Everyone thinks that of their own generation. It's all relative.
LAN will never disappear for one reason... Security.
That's what she said.
I can't say it was the "best" system, but I think it deserves serious credit.
No, I'm not talking about SEGA Genesis. This was a little known competitor to the original Nintendo. Not only did it come equipped with a bad-ass gun, it had not one, but two different sized cartridge slots. Why? I have no idea.... but it was awesome.
Deserved mentioning...