Re: Where were you 20 years ago?
Newly minted with a BSc, planning our slightly late upgrades from 6.4 to 6.5.
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The rest of the rhyme is particularly applicable, as a sort of mythological bait-and-switch.
Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky, [Books! get yer luvverly books!]
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone, [We do CDs and stuff now]
Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die, [You want handbags? Socks? Johnnies? Bikes?]
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne [I've got mine]
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie. [speaking of lie...]
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all [the mall, haha] and in the darkness bind them [mushrooms...]
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie. [I heard you the first time]
"I think they will want to redesign Santa Claus next..."
You mean he shouldn't be that one-eyed God riding an eight legged horse getting all up in your dreams?
Or did you mean one of the later iterations of Lord Winter?
"Trying to make them "politically correct" it's obviously a task doomed to fail."
Since political correctness just means respectful behavior, what are you saying? Oh, you're saying:
"Trying to make them "respectful" it's obviously a task doomed to fail."
Can we not do this, please? Making something respectful really isn't hard.
I like the concept of doing down the pub... At least my time there will be more productive than this sorry lot we were asked to look at today.
But here's the thing: The Matrix was one of the first pieces of popular culture that portrayed modern hacking with any remote semblance of accuracy. (Sure, sure, wardialling, and all that, but that was just phreaking.) It was still pretty poor but at least it wasn't a completely made-up interface. More recent examples have either been factual (Zero Day) therefore dull as beans, or trying too hard to make the act of hacking itself almost a character in itself (some BBC thing I can't remember the name of after reading about it just a few moments ago); therefore ... oh dear - also dull as beans.
So quite honestly, I don't mind if they continue using those green phosphor backwards kanji waterfalls. At least it's from an exciting movie that references something that references something something something.
But give me a break on the hoodies. I hate wearing hoodies.
Nah, the "my other computer" one is making a clever point, but it's still that kid off War Games. Can we not do the War Games / "script kiddie" reference?
The last one I have to guess was added for shaming purposes only. Disembodied feet and (what is that supposed to be? a what? okay, so disembodied black people's feet and ...) landmines! It took a genius, I guess.
There's also the fact that many of the the game dev founders, like Houser himself, started out in the bedroom dev days where they worked every waking hour with their face glued to a 14" TV, (stock still so they didn't get RAM-pack wobble).
What they don't see is that for most of their team these days, it's a job, not a lifestyle, but their only friends are also in the same lifestyle, so they don't see a problem with it. "If you don't want to live the lifestyle", they think, "you picked the wrong career".
Junior doctors work shorter hours, get paid more, and they're saving lives...
*ETA - sorry, Houser wasn't a game dev until 1999. A mere spratling.
And to the point of the chap who started this thread with "my excuse", the difference is that a qualified GP will interpret the results differently from a casual googler. It's really not an excuse, it's an explanation. I'm not going to stop it because it works well.
* I peanut butter it for management with "consulting Stack Exchange", because that's where most of the useful results come from.
Thing is, they don't use English measures en angleterre, they use Imperial. Americans use English units. This is why Americans have pint sized gallons, although interestingly a floz is near enough that baking recipes don't care. Both use the French billion - although they were exported at different points in history so they're off by a millionth of a milliard.
"no discernible reason"
Hey now, be fair, they're shipping them with buttonpads that work, now!
The last Mac laptop with a decent keyboard said "PowerBook" on the front. And you could replace it far easier those days - no need to undo 74 microscopic screws and unhook 9 fragile ribbon cables with four different connector types back then.
<quote>Writing non-buggy software is really hard. But this is stuff that can kill or seriously injure people ... </quote>
Quite. A couple of years back, World + Dog was debating the Trolley Problem. Now it seems they were way ahead of themselves. The more basic function of "driving without hitting other things" has to be overcome before we can even get to the old Trolley Problem.
I tend to think, since the story is being covered from the aggrieved party's perspective, there's another angle to this. Google doesn't want to tell them how to do their job, because they should know better.
"There is no practical way to build a blocking extension in the activeTab model; the burden on users to grant consent for each and every site they visit would be far too great, and all but the most privacy-conscious users would uninstall the extensions."
I was finding that half the sites I was visiting were broken by PrivacyBadger, and yes I reported a good few. Also, being financial institution sites, none of them carried external ads. So actually, I would far rather have the extension request consent on each site.
Meanwhile, due to the high number of breakages in the existing model, this privacy-conscious user has uninstalled the extension.
> and the fact that .amazon domain names may exist on
> the internet and be used to sell products has no actual
> impact on the Amazon or the people that live in the
> Amazonas region
This is especially true since you can't find any hardwood furniture on Amazon.dot.com, period.com, full-stop.com.
You're asking for OS and firmware updates for 3 years *from launch*. I bought my Moto-X about 4 1/2 years ago and it hasn't been getting updates for about 3 years. Probably more. I'm ready to replace it in the next year or so, probably 2.
I shouldn't have to put up with an insecure device for most of the time I own it.
Totally with you on the big battery thing. I mean, they gave this pos a curved back so it can't lie flat. I have to hold it. Just make it rectangular! Fill the gaps with cells!
I've never had a need for the low resolution front-facing camera either. It's totally pointless. Nobody uses cyberpunk video phones anyway.
What on earth is this nincompoop on about?
"There is no e-sound. It has to be invented. The sound transports the emotions of a vehicle."
The emotions (e-motions?) of an electric vehicle are the hum and whine of the electric motor as you're launched forward at a frightening rate. I used to hear it on my RC-10 and imagine myself driving, and I've heard it on a Tezzler and imagined myself being driven.
Have these twits never heard a tram? or a train? or a Tezzler?
They culled all the training data from dating sites, i.e. each photograph was selected by the subject.
They culled all the testing data from publicity photographs, i.e. each photograph was selected by the subject.
So, this is as worthless as any other self-reporting study.
Another day, another car analogy! How is a road like the internet, or a store like an information service? Information isn't bogroll. (Okay, maybe it is...)
Maybe use more relevant analogies, and the confusion will evaporate.
The US telephone network (the internet) is not "Hello, Grandma, how are your piles?!" (information service), or the US library network (the internet) is not William Gibson (information service).
Queue
It's "cue". A queue is a line of people. A cue is a prompt. When you queue things up in a process, you only cue up the one thing at the front of the queue.
But you have "independent thought" so you probably don't call it "English". Carry on.
I work with people like you, and from bitter experience, I hate you.
Yes. (From bitter experience) I'm completely the opposite to our commending friend. I'd go so far as to say that documentation, communication, is vastly more important than the config change itself. If you can't reverse it or replicate it, it's a guess, it's a hack, it's broken and there's the door.
A problem with automation scripts written by sysadmins is that they generally do not have a development background...
A problem with automation scripts written by developers is that they generally do not have a sysadmin background.
It's true both ways around, which is why the top role was originally called Unix Programmer. It's rare for a company to knowingly employ such a deity these days. They'll make do with mere Systems Administrators who know a bit of scripting; or even System Operators who sometimes know how to change a config without manpages.
"it's very difficult to write technical documentation that essentially boils down to a sequence of steps in a manner that does not sound robotic"
You're using a GUI. Get used to robotic-sounding instructions. If you don't like them, explain to the manufacturer that you prefer proper grown-up scripts because you don't like your instructions to sound robotic.