Re: Hey, idiots ...
It was 1946 ... long past its sell-by date. Some folks are long retired & can talk.
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I dated a pair of identical twins for a period of time that lasted 4 years or so[0] ... They had matching birthmarks on their right thighs. They also had a couple of moles (in various places) that were matching. Most people couldn't tell them apart.
I could tell them apart across a football field, and once in a crowded airport. They were completely different people, despite looking like ... well ... identical twins.
We're all human, and we're all unique. Vive la différence!
[0] Hush, children, one at a time.
If you're actively using the data, go with HDDs, but it's tape all the way for archival stuff. In roughly 40 years of computing, I have never lost anything I had stored on mag tape. I can not say that about any other form of data storage.
My 17 year old Memorex Telex 5600 ATL[1] is still chugging along quite nicely. And I can still get both parts & tape for the old gal. I doubt you'll be able to say the same for the Sony you are drooling over in the year 2030 ... and I'll also bet my system will still be fully functional, if leaking oil & a trifle bruised & battered around the edges at the ripe old age of 34 ;-)
[1] I got her at scrap prices after upgrading a data center with a larger unit.
Eat it immediately, or it'll rot. No shelf-life. At all. And hard to ship, to boot.
Bring me something that works like plantains, and maybe we'll talk.
But I doubt it. Computing & storage is easier to roll out internally ... at least if you actually hire folks who understand how computers & storage really work, that is ...
Really, honestly, and no bullshit?
What applications do you feel are "must haves" (and are they, really? Or are they "wants" or "preferences"? And are their alternatives? Only you can answer those questions.).
Next, what OSs do they run on? Followed by: what hardware does the OS run on? Once you figure that out, the answer(s) should be simple.
The only other question is "are you interested in learning about the underpinnings of the OS, or do you just want to use it?" ...
I know of several folks who have "unauthorized" firearms in Yorkshire ... Nearly all hand-me-downs from Dad/Grandad. Given that I'm a Californian and hardly know even a small percentage of Yorkshiremen, there is quite probably a sizable population of un-announced gun owners in Yorkshire.
And get this ... The only crime they are committing is not telling Plod they have Grandpa's Beretta!
Creating a new class of non-violent criminal doesn't get rid of violent crime. All it does is tie up the police chasing ghosts, and sells more tabloids ... Oh. Wait.
One thing you are forgetting ... "BBC America" is a commercial funded thingie. And I suspect it's watched by a couple of orders of magnitude more drooling idiots than the BBC is in the UK.
I tried to watch "The Apprentice" a couple times. It falls far outside the BBC's charter. But at least it's bringing money into blighty from us daft Yanks, right?
All cooking is molecular. The current fads are just that ... fads. And fucking useless in the real world. Some of us are actually feeding people, not attempting to gloss over less than perfect cooking skills with "gee-wiz, look what I just done did do" pseudo-science experiments that are just barely edible.
How the hell can you hate Pizza? All it is is a hot, open-faced sandwich. Dough base[0], zillions of sauce options, including "none at all", zillions of toppings of choice, including "none at all", any and all cheeses (or none!), any & all herbs & spices (again, or none at all!) ...
Bung it onto a hot stone (500F in a home oven, my outdoor grill can get up to 700F, my outdoor 1875 stone bread oven gets to about 950F) until done. Serve with cold fizzy beverage of choice.
Or better, leftover cold pizza out of the fridge for breakfast with a cup of scalding black coffee ...
[0] Thick, thin, whatever ... I prefer a crust that's a cross between ciabatta and focaccia, tossed to about a quarter of an inch in thickness over most of the pie. I make it as plain old bread about three times per month.
Martin, when people speak the words "I don't know, show me" in my hearing, said words have a positive affect on them. I teach them when I can, and if I can't, I find someone who can. Re-read mine in that context.
Was mine improper written/typoed English? Perhaps. Improper use of the language? Not so much. English is wonderfully flexible that way.
I'll purchase the next round if we can agree to disagree :-)
There might be a few small lobes sticking out the edges, though ... Most show symptoms of Asperger's ... I hire them wherever possible in technical roles. Good folks to have around, on-time, trustworthy, and only jump into a project if they actually know what they are doing. With a little cajoling, they can usually be persuaded to admit that "I don't know, can you show me?" (or words to that affect) ... It's a trust thing in people like this, at least in my perspective and experience :-)
... if I were a Cop[1] and came across something like this ... and there were no innocent bystanders to behold the details ... I'd salute & ride on ;-)
Sex is a GOOD thing, as long as it doesn't frighten the children, dawgs, horses & ignorant.
Now, in a heavily populated area ... perhaps not so much. This doesn't look populated.
To the idiots griping about the looks of the enamored pair (I haven't, and will not, visit the link), humans come in all kinds of shapes & sizes. Love is blind. And trust me, you'll never boink Paris ... Although why anyone would want to is beyond me (bag of hammers, anyone?).
[1] I'm not. I breed & train Cop dawgs & horses, though ... and I'm pretty certain that most of the handlers I pass my critters on to would agree with me.
And she has a voice, why? Especially when she didn't actually say anything about technology? I mean, seriously, my buzzword-bingo card is glowing ...
The mind absolutely boggles at how much we've lost in the last thirty years ... When the bubble bursts, it's going to be pretty bad. Brace yourselves ... Or, better, train yourself to be able to help pick up the pieces.
"Just because your religion preaches "there is no god" doesn't stop it being a religion."
It's not a religion. It's pragmatism.
Don't TELL me that gawd/ess(s) exist ... Fucking SHOW me that they exist. If you can.
Until then, kindly keep your mumbo-jumbo out of my bandwith. Ta.
"The only time I stop respecting people and their beliefs, religious or otherwise, is when they refuse to discuss things on the possibility that they might be ill-informed and therefor potentially wrong."
Indeed. Did you comprehend what you wrote before hitting submit?
Buddhism, Taoism & Shinto are philosophical ways of life, not organized religions (at least when done right).
Bahai is similar to Islam or Mormonism ... it exists only to make the leaders money, and give them power. Somewhat similar to the Catholics and the rest of the Christian sects.
I don't say "all religions are dangerous crazy nutters". Rather, I prefer "organized religion is the root of all evil".
When I was at DEC, one of the guys taught the disk drives on a PDP-10 to play music on the SA-10 attached IBM Winchester. Then he learned to make the washing machine sized disk drive "walk" across the floor ... I had to fire him when he did it in front of Ken Olsen, who was visiting our lab. Was very hard on the hardware ...
"And yet, the sentiment Jake expresses is basically the same thing as the people saying that computing requires "male brain" just with gender roles flipped."
No. It's not. Boys play games, girls get work done.
Spend a couple dozen years watching the workforce, and you'll grok where I'm coming from.
"Using a work computer and company time to openly mention that you and your company actively practice sex discrimination because you really and truly are sexist is what is creepy."
Actually, I'm a self employed conslutant. I hire & fire for Fortune 250s.
They pay me $BIGBUCKS because I know how to fit the right human into the given slot ... and I have a reputation for only having to make that human move once.
I'm not sexist. I'm pragmatic.
My Father's early 1950s Model 500 Western Electric rotary dial telephone is at my elbow, and still works just fine (yes, my local telco still supports pulse dialing :-).
Before you knee-jerk a "luddite"[1] comment, where will all the money you have spent on telephones be in 60+ years? Down the toilet, that's where. Think about it.
[1] I do cop to being a neo-luddite, however ... I use tools because they work, not because they are flashy or because the marketers or because my peers insist I should ;-)