@da Doctah said:
@morbiuswilters said:The full quote is "Saying that Java is nice because it works on all OS's is like saying that anal sex is nice because it works on all genders"For varying values of "works".
And for varying values of "genders"
@da Doctah said:
@morbiuswilters said:The full quote is "Saying that Java is nice because it works on all OS's is like saying that anal sex is nice because it works on all genders"For varying values of "works".
And for varying values of "genders"
@drurowin said:
Good Friday, Better Saturday, Easter Sunday, Post-Easter Monday, and Easter Hangover Tuesday,
Flip it around as "15 inches of snow and I couldn't get my car out of the garage because dumbass me took off the snow tires last week Thursday, we work 4x 10 hours shifts monday through thursday Friday so that's off anyway, The weekend, The monday I get off after easter Monday"
I'm not complaining, even though my lord and savior is Jesus Christ..
@morbiuswilters said:
And if you're under the age of 190, Ellen Degeneres have never been anything more than a tedious, unfunny, attention-starved jackass.
FTFY
@morbiuswilters said:
I first saw South Park in middle school. I was not in love with it, and it took years before I appreciated it.
One of the few things I can gloat on: I saw south park as a Jesus vs. Santa video (that took us more than an hour to download) while starting the computer club at college in... 96? Something near there.
@dkf said:
HTTP, which turns out to be faster and not a firewall-hating disaster?
Speaking of which, while from the user end of things maybe that's not true, form teh network or security adminstrator, all this shit flwoing over HTTP is a PITA. Not that I'm saying that's wrong or bad, but it's annoying to some.
OMG, how'd you make your new avatar, I love it! Though, obviusly, I'd be agreeing with Blakey more than not...
@morbiuswilters said:
Man, that is depressing. We're nearly to the point where we'll have kids driving cars who have always lived in a world where The Simpsons was on TV, but never in a world where it was good.
Holy
Fucking
Shit.
Morbs, you have opened my eyes. From now on, we must build in an anti-logans-run thingy into everyone's palm!
@Snooder said:
Templates help your documents look good with only minimal effort.I am not sure if I've ever used a template like that. I usually open Word to a new blank document, start typing and clicking things like "Header 1" or whatnot to "format" them. I usually leave whatever default template in place until I'm well along, and then if I realize it's gross I'll click through templates until I find something vaguely reasonable, then mouseover the 24 almost identical low contrast color schemes (whatever happened to contrast, anyway?) until I get one of those that looks OK.
@HardwareGeek said:
I am sure I am not the only one whose productivity droppedAfter 5 years or more of the Ribbon, it's still slowing me down. I'm back to nearly normal speed for all the options I use a lot, but way slower for the less used ones. The problem is that my possibly defective brain can't keep straight why buttons aren't where they were - Where's BOLD? It was right here, but now it's "Columns"... what?
(Example only - I use Ctrl-B for bold, duh).
@blakeyrat said:
like a big DDOS are practically impossible to defend against by anybody.No fake, just yesterday the helldesk was behind and we were asked to take a look at tickets and see if we could close a few out. There was a ticket "please have the network engineers confirm our firewall will protect us from a DoS or DDoS attack."
@blakeyrat said:
WHAT IS THE POINT OF A USERNAME IF YOU DON'T USE THE SAME NAME ON EVERY SITE!!!!!Huh? It's only ever accidental (though often convenient) that I ever use the same username from one place to the next. Personally, I rather like obfuscation. It won't stop google from knowing who I am where, but it may cause others some minor hassle tracking down my alter-egos.
@Ben L. said:
Knock-off version of bstorer is right!
Y'know, I noticed that same thing when I realized I hadn't been in the forums for several years and came back. I prefer to think of bstorer as an improved me.
@morbiuswilters said:
which encapsulates a philosophy of fetishistic rule-following combined with a relentless assault on any sign of human frailty or empathy.Yeah, doesn't look like much can go wrong with that!
@morbiuswilters said:
given the term "Nazi" a bad name what with the war and all
Yeah. And that neat symbol they use - totally ruined now. Can't even shave your head and goose-step around any more without someone making comments...
@morbiuswilters said:
First, it's "W3C Kool-Aide". "W3C Kool-aid"
I thought W3C Kool-aid was that concert they put on when Kool and the Gang was under scrutiny for trafficking in illicit roller skate parts and needed to pay some large lawyer bills?
@DaveK said:
No, it isn't. It's CBC mode.
Oh, good then. Last night as I was lying awake wondering just how much snow we were going to end up with, I realized that it shouldn't be an issue in this case. Glad you experts confirmed it.
What a perversion! That's so perverted that more information should be given. Is this server accessible on the interwebs? How much space does it have? How fast of a connection? ....
@morbiuswilters said:
So you'd be taking the output, xoring it with the next part of the password and then feeding that back in as a new key. That makes me really nervous.
This just has the same feel as reusing a one time pad, doesn't it? Maybe it isn't - I'm certainly not Bruce Schneier - but it still feels icky.
@morbiuswilters said:
@bstorer said:So they cut the hole in the building and noticed the ground was a couple feet above them. At this point, they apparently shrugged, shoved the ATM into place, and called it a day? And then whoever hired the contractors paid them for a job well done? Oh, yeah, that sounds totally adequate to me...European work ethic: coming soon to an America near you!
Unions.
@BigRiver said:
I love this thread. Please keep it going. At the beginning of 2010 many enterprise is adding NoSQL to their databases to keep up with the huge amount of data and its unstructured format using Hadoop Hbase, Cassandra, MongoDB etc... Can we compare those with InterSystems Cache ? BigRiver
This new learning amazes me, Sir Bedevere. Explain again how sheep's bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes.
@El_Heffe said:
A new website offers women the chance to raise money for implants by agreeing to paid-for "chats" and webcam sessions with male users.
I'm not sure I understand the feelings of inadequacy. Obviously feelings are what they are whether right or wrong, but seriously, if small cup sized women were so poorly off, why would "chats" and webcam sessions work to raise money?
BTW, I prefer the before.
@mikeTheLiar said:
@morbiuswilters said:@Nagesh said:Every software will have bed reviews, so does that make all software bad?"The latest version of Ubuntu provided a lumpy, uncomfortable surface. I hardly slept a wink. 1 out of 40 winks."
Wasn't very soft then, was it?
But does it clean well and is it septic safe?
@morbiuswilters said:
@bridget99 said:So you better not touch my Social Security (which has grown into quite a pile of imaginary money) because I earned it and I'll need it.Ha ha, fuck you.
@bridget99 said:
It's probably immaterial, though, since President Obama and his cohorts at the Federal Reserve have made some very good monetary decisions over the last few years, and if we can just avoid undoing them, I think everything will turn out OK for me.Yes, making the dollar worthless is a good way to pretend to honor obligations while not actually honoring them.
This.
I'm also early 40's, not a baby fucking boomer, not those young twats that won't get off my lawn and can't often think their way out of a wet paper bag because they get distracted by, well, everything, and... shit, senility strikes again. Can't remember what the fuck I was going to say.
Oh, yeah, the cars of the 80's sucked. The Carter era ripped out their engines and replaced 'em with squirrels that just crapped all over your driveway. Well, they kind of had to - Carter was the first one I remembered that tried the "making the dollar worthless" gambit. And, though there were good things to say about some of the cars from the 60's and 70's, they really did pretty much suck though at least had some style and at least pretended to do something interesting.
Especially if by "interesting" you mean "rattled a lot and got wrapped around telephone poles far too often because of their totally crappy handling."
@asdf323 said:
Is there anything like that?
Since I noticed IBM as a common theme above - though it's old and dated now, this site was always amusing.
http://hallofshame.gp.co.at/index.php?file=shame.htm&mode=original
IIRC, IBM (and Lotus Notes apps) had quite a few entries in various places.
@blakeyrat said:
Thief also had a bunch of last-minute rewrites that turned the story into idiocy
Not to mention they completely broke the interface making it compatible with consoles. I wonder if they're going to shit out the new Thief ASAP or if they'll take a bit more time with it?
@notromda said:
If you want to talk elegance, I much prefer the ruby way of doing this which makes your elegance look clunky:
def getFoo @foo ||= Foo.new end
Well, at least it isn't Python.
@Jaime said:
foreach uses the enumerator on the class it's enumerating. I've yet to run across an enumerator that's non-deterministic.
Aha! Thanks for giving me a new goal in my next coding assignment...
@Scarlet Manuka said:
I don't really get the browser wars, though. In my experience, which I freely admit is far from universal, pretty much any browser is fine for normal use. Note that my definition of normal use doesn't include having more than say 10 or so tabs open, because I've never seen anyone actually do that; I've only heard people on the internet say they do. Most of the people I see using a browser have at most three or four tabs open. I'm sure if you regularly have 40 tabs open your needs and experience will be different, so go with whatever works for you.
The voice of sense.
Are you sure you are in the right forums?
@blakeyrat said:
BTW, the User Interface Hall of Shame has FOUR examples of applications that inappropriately try to mimic physical controls:
Even more importantly, they're still doing it. Cisco's softphone is a perfect example. I'm OK with doing some mimicry, but the softphone's volume button *exactly* mimics the volume control on the physical phone, requiring separate clicks on the "-" side to reduce the volume or separate clicks on the "+" side to increase. They could have put in a slider, at least, even if they wanted to make their own control that still LOOKED like the volume control on the physical phone. You can't click and hold to drop the volume several notches, nope, it's just "press" it once for one notch, just like the real phone.
Which on the face of it would ALSO stupid - why would you waste that much time building a button that looks one way but can operate in a more intuitive way - until you realize they already spent an inordinate amount of effort to build a completely custom button that already does that, only completely unintuitively.
P.S. Love that site - I wish it would get some new content...
@blakeyrat said:
Doing thinking like, "how much change do I give back" is exactly the reason we built things like computers in the first place. It's stupid to go to a kid whose spent his entire life working and playing with a machine that can seamlessly, instantly, and perfectly do X, and tell them they have to learn how to do X without the machine.
Agreed in the broad sense, but garbage in gets you garbage out. Being able to do these calculations in your head reasonably well (even just a reasonable quick estimate) can be immensely helpful when someone types the wrong number into the computer.
@BC_Programmer said:
@fterfi secure said:
It seems very odd to me that so few programs make use of that spaceBecause there is no good way to use that space. If you ask me the way chrome does it (putting tabs in the title) is batshit insane. Feels to me that somebody at google thought "hey you know what would be fun? ignoring the System Window decorator, and making our own shitty version!"
The Ribbon is different. it was solving a problem that existed- Office 2003's commandbars and menus were, without a doubt, a screen-real estate hog.
What? My 24 pixel high Office 2003 menus were a hog whereas my 7 million pixel high dumby-bar is not?
In this case, I fullheartedly agree with Blakeyrat. Funny part is that they only rewrote a wrapper around the existing Windows Event Viewer. Same thing only 5 extra mouse clicks to get to it.
@too_many_usernames said:
"Overthinking things" is one of the skills I have highighted in my company's skills matrix. (Yes, we really have one of those. It's frightening.)So I take it you don't approve of skills matrices? In our ~20 person group at our ~40 person company, there has been a drive to create a "Responsibility Matrix" and a "Skills Matrix." The responsibilty matrix has been the bane of my existence, but I always thought the skills matrix may have been useful if we would ever get one set up. I don't think it would take the form of an actual matrix because it would be long in the "skills" axis and quite sparse for the most part, but having a list of what the heck everyone else knows would be useful from time to time.
So, is it your opinion that it is A Bad Thing generally, or has it just come to signify too much bureaucracy?
@Sutherlands said:
@RTapeLoadingError said:...affect performance to such a degree as to invalidat, or at least skew, performance testing?It certainly could. The "best" way to do it would be to keep track of the values as you go, and then dump them all at once. If you were making a call to the database every time, the performance would be so horrid as to probably slow your processes to a crawl.
Ah, but if you are a little bit lucky it'll will only change the magnitude of the numbers, not their relationship. Well, it probably well change that too, but you can hope it changes it by little enough that you can still pinpoint bottlenecks or slow areas of code. Sometimes things pop right out at you in these cases.
If you aren't a little bit lucky, you'll be chasing ghosts in the machine and optimizing things that are wonderfully tight. But, hey, it won't be any worse than not fixing it at all!
@El_Heffe said:
In many cases there are no non-shitty products and your only choice is trying to figure out which one might be the least shitty.
QFT
@blakeyrat said:
I've seen like 3 posters on this thread make those points. And it pisses me off, because those idiots are the reason we have shit products in the first place!!! Demand better, people, Christ! There's no excuse for the shoddy and poorly-designed convertible laptop I bought, none. Saying "it's aimed at consumers" does not justify the shittiness.
Thank you! You have given me a new set of missions in life: to only buy products from companies that make no compromises ever on any product they have ever put up for sale, to buy software that has never had a bug and to only read books with no typos.
Well, that probably won't work. How about I fully check my purchases before making them and skip products and product lines that are rather obviously substandard? I will use less buggy software, when given a chance, though sometimes I have little choice in it. And just learn to live with the fact that nearly every book I have ever read has at least one typo in it.
Seriously, though, I agree with you. All the way up to the point where you bought that less-than-perfect tablet. I was with you until then...
@blakeyrat said:
God forbid I bought a consumer-grade laptop
God, though, I completely agree with the eye-searing blue fucking LEDs. Dim red, orange and green were nearly too much but did end up often being tolerable. That blue crap, though...
The usual way those in the know handle the bloatware problem is of course abusing MSDN or your local MS enterprise agreement. Or just pirating. The geeky way is to remaster your DVD and rip out the slipstreamed crap.
@blakeyrat said:
rant on manufacturer x's crap- and bloat-ware, fucked up hardware and that god-awful eyesore of using blue LEDs anywhere
So this leads me to believe that you... what, buy consumer grade laptops (upon which you very possibly could heap this derision upon, but I am not particularly familiar with those) and use them in your business? Caveat emptor, I guess.
On another note, I like my touchpad quite a bit but it has the most bizarre autocorrection of anything I have experienced. Specifically, it continues to try to autocorrect the word "crapware" as "Delaware." Funny as shit.
Sweet Jesus! Leading a horse to water and then making him drink just got a whole lot easier!
Even without doing anything tricky: set up the import once. After that, you can right click on any portion of the data in themselves and select refresh, repick the file name and it is refreshed. Make always leave your original data and do you manipulation to adjacent cells that way you don't keep overwriting your stuff.
Little would make me happier than if, in 3 years or so when my we replace my current 2004 Accord, I could buy pretty much that exact same car only newer (except for that one, we usually buy cars 3 to 5 years old). Especially if they used the intervening time to make it even more reliable. While I like a certain look of car, I am more interested in one that is reliable, drives well, is inexpensive to repair when something does go wrong with it and doesn't feel like it was either designed by or put together by retarded monkeys. Well, sure, it shouldn't look like ass, either, but that is rather subjective where most of the rest is less so.
I thought Honda had a really nice thing going with the past couple of years, and I like the newest ones much less. But, probably ok, we'll buy a 2011 or so in 2 or 3 years...
@bridget99 said:
I have 100 slaves!!!
90, but I really think the number's largely made up. I did the family of 4, but I couldn't make the house big enough. Doesn't matter - We have too many socks, apparently. Socks and cars. At least the cars I can believe, but socks? Come on..
@mott555 said:
Double.MaxValue: 1.7976931348623157E+308
The value I received from the web service: 1.79769313486232E+308.
I'm sure it's just a rounding issue from converting it to a string for display.
Dear friend,
I know that this mail will be a big surprise to you, please consider it and accept it with deep sense of humility. I have a business which will be beneficial to both of us. the amount of money involved is [$ 1.79769313486232E+308] which i want to transfer out of the country to your bank account, all to my financial benefit and yours too. and also to take my wife abroad for treatment of liver damage. I want to transfer this money out of the country but such fund cannot be transferred to any except to your esteemed business, the only such business I could find that could handle such a large transaction, being as it may slightly larger than the Double's usual MaxValue of 1.7976931348623157E+308.
@Lorne Kates said:
How do you say "Pedantic Dickweed" in Latin?
Putidis penis viriditas?
Just a guess from a year of latin more than a decade ago and some quick googling and translator work...
@El_Heffe said:
@mahlerrd said:
the largest and most popular repository of advanced pedantic dickweedery
Fixed that for myself...
@blakeyrat said:
And once more I am amazed by the variety and inventiveness of pedantic dickweedery.
Advanced pedantic dickweedery, as we've just concluded in a different thread.
@mahlerrd said:
@Cian said:
winter as November, December and JanuaryThat's the months we have snow on the ground. Well, if you add February, March and April to it too. Easter usually is below freezing with snow still on the ground. Egg hunts are interesting.
I think that's about the extent of the lakes being frozen, too - end of November until March or April. February is not really a month where it's starting to turn yet here, though it's the month you start noticing the days are indeed getting longer again and that is the harbinger of good things to come. Usually by February the -40 F temps are gone for the year. (Actually, I don't think February even brings -30F temps... usually doesn't get too much below, oh, -10 or so.)
Sorry, I was wrong. Last February had 4 days with lows below -10. Heck, -7 on the 27th of February. Take a look
@Cian said:
winter as November, December and January
That's the months we have snow on the ground. Well, if you add February, March and April to it too. Easter usually is below freezing with snow still on the ground. Egg hunts are interesting.
I think that's about the extent of the lakes being frozen, too - end of November until March or April. February is not really a month where it's starting to turn yet here, though it's the month you start noticing the days are indeed getting longer again and that is the harbinger of good things to come. Usually by February the -40 F temps are gone for the year. (Actually, I don't think February even brings -30F temps... usually doesn't get too much below, oh, -10 or so.)
@da Doctah said:
three consecutive days with a dewpoint above 55 degrees Fahrenheit
Ouch. Entirely too hot. Moved from southern Ohio to very northern Wisconsin at least partially to get out of even that little bit of muggy heat.