>What really bothers me though is the removal of old
>SMB support (I don't know if it was Mavericks or ML)
That happened because Samba went to gpl3--and Apple holds patents.
Apple would have to fork Samba to keep gpl2.
(yes, I know that the High Church of EMACS insists that there is no risk, but that's for another thread).
hawk
Saddam thought he had a nuclear weapons program, and paid to support it. The scientists were mostly just bilking him (thus the stuff in the garden, and the refrigerator, and . . . ).
Also, we had a source in his inner circle relaying everything on this. The reason we thought he had a nuclear program is that we knew what he knew, and he thought he had one . . .
I'm waiting for the new slogan of "'Bush Lied People Died' People Lied, People Died"
hawk
If we made every "terrible company" stop doing business . . .
*shudder*
hawk
Apparently, the oxy-stuff gets female mice interested in lego!
hawk
Take a look at a Black and Tan.
Which is on the top: the Irish or the British.
hawk
perhaps the rest of the Common Market would have gone back to the old Roman measure?
A pound (livre/whatever) of silver being divided into 20 units, each of which was divided into 12 pennies was hardly a British development.
hawk
>We have a certain failed Mars probe to prove the case.
You mean the one that slammed into the ground because some idiot used metric units instead of real ones and miscalculated the thrust?
hawk
Nah, it's just inflation.
Kind of like how a buck used to get you a great burger, but now only the dregs of the menu.
Two enormous rocky-ice things in orbit around one another used to be enough to get you a planet, but no longer . . .
hawk, pretty sure that it's not about a disney trademark . . .
The ballast in a CFL can't handle the dimmer.
Its not that you replace the dimmer,but that you need to use "cold cathode" florescent bulbs with them--andin the smaller sizes (candelabra mount), you can't get these (or LED) that are very strong.
My house has been almost completely devoid of incandescent for about ten years--more initially for heat (broken AC in the Vegas desert!) than power.
The only place they're left are in the refrigerator (don't want mercury there if it breaks . .
hawk
And even you are understating the matter.
I once represented the general manager of the biggest one of those in town on another matter.
Breakeven is on sale: the down payment is set to what they paid at auction. They sell, collect a few payments, repo, sell again . . .
Their idea of a good car is one they get to sell 3 or 4 times.
hawk, esq.
>Relatively few people pick up a masters on their way to a doctorate.
Highly dependent upon field. In mine (economics), the masters is a sidestep. In others, its the norm.
And at some schools, there is a payment to the school for each master's awarded, so they're handed out along the way . . /
hawk
read the archives of alt.folklore.computers for great examples of some of these.
Swapping registers (in a two register + ALU architecture ) used to be a common one; you'll find an answer that was a step faster than the "correct" answer by using XOR in there.
My favorite, though, was handing the candidate a piece of convoluted code and asking what it did.
"Hopefully, it got the author fired."
hawk
As a first year college student hired after high school in a startup, I had a real eye opener when the person they brought in after me--with a MS in CS--couldn't, well, do much (they'd called me back after I left).
I finally had to take a stack of cards to manually demonstrate a bubble sort. No, I'm not defending or advocating bubble sorts. With an MS, he just plain didn't understand the concept.
His output roughly quadrupled once I was around (he wasn't around much longer).
And I've seen it in other areas. I have a Ph.D. in Economics and and statistics as well as a law degree, and I've met people in both who can function their way through the classes and dissertation, but just plain can't do anything useful in the fields.
hawk, j.d., ph.d., esq.
I always ask something completely and utterly off the wall or irrelevant when interviewing someone, just to see how he reacts to the unexpected. I'm not concerned with the answer; I just want to see how the person reacts to the unexpected.
I also instruct, "call before sending resume" in the ad, just to screen for ability to follow basic instructions (at least 75% fail at this rate).
hawk
Your argument is identical to that about poor young crack dealers, or mafia soldiers, or . . .
Make sure your code does nothing gracefully.
