Comment Shocked (Score 4, Insightful) 179
You mean the money they just created out of thin air isn't really real?
Stop the presses.
You mean the money they just created out of thin air isn't really real?
Stop the presses.
Analog computing is more of a '60s thing...
I think you mean it's more of a 16th century thing.
memcomputer
That sounds like something out of Fallout New Vegas. Like Mr House would have a "memcomputer" keeping his accounts.
The nerds at UCSD are gonna have to work on the name to sound a little less 1950s. Or maybe that's what they're going for?
I don't know who, but I do know when. IE 8 introduced...
Oh great. IE8. That's some special lineage on which to base the identity of their new browser.
They wanted a name starting with "E", to keep a stylized blue "e" as an icon. Given that Windows 10 windows are essentially frameless, the browser viewing area is edge-to-edge, hence "Edge".
Then I think "Microsoft E" would have been a better name, invoking the drug that you'd have to be high on to want to use that browser.
So fuck him, and fuck his browser. And fuck his company.
Oh, I'm with you. I learned long ago with Microsoft that you use what parts work, jettison the rest. It's actually taught me a good lesson about technology: Never fall in love with a company. Also, when it comes to technology, "ABS": Always Be Suspicious.
Who comes up with these idiotic names? Why not "Microsoft Nail" or "Microsoft Lance" or "Microsoft Thing That Penetrates"?
"Microsoft Edge" is a very '90s name to my ears, but maybe it's just the fact that I've been sitting on the porch drinking, eating barbecue and watching fireworks for the past several hours. But Microsoft was never really good at names, although I did once have a three-legged dog named "Clippy" (that's actually true).
How do you mean no extensions ?
He didn't say "no extensions". He said,
adblocker extensions, password managers, extensions that prevent video from autoplaying and etc. will not be available
I can imagine Microsoft not allowing certain extensions if they will affect their "strategic partners".
Plus, the seizure lawsuit didn't really hurt the popularity (or profitability) of Pokemon. I wonder if the lawsuit didn't in fact make the game more popular among a certain sector of gamers.
I bet I'm not the only one who thinks, upon seeing the seizure warning at the beginning of video games, "Oh, this gonna be good".
It is to SF what The Lord of the Rings is to fantasy
That says it all, right there.
and one of the greatest pieces of world creation ever written.
No matter what you think of the book, I hope you don't believe that every movie version has to stick slavishly to "canon".
I doubt it would have been as good as you think. HE wanted to change some major plot devices like the role of *Melange*.
It didn't have to be as good as I think. It only had to be a singular vision from a cinematic shaman. With all the sequels and "re-boots", it's not like any one film has to be THE film. Just look at the Lynch version. Even with all the holes and miscues, bad decisions and questionable choices, it's still a terrific experience. Better in many ways than the book.
I trust genius. Herbert wrote a good, workmanlike book, but Jodorowsky, like Lynch, is a visionary.
I can't think of Frank Herbert's Dune without sadness over the fact that Alejandro Jodorowsky didn't get to finish his movie version.
infowars.com
Where the real 'Murikans hang out on the 4th of July.
Because we know Alex Jones would never, ever say anything that's not the God's truth.
Something similar. Took almost an entire ISP down. Had a few servers with about 200 domains running bsd located at thier "data center " which was more like a couple shelve and a long bench. Anyways, they where supposed to be running a script to verify two servers were mirroring the other two. I got lazy and stopped checking the logs for it and eventually they stopped running the backups or the script to verify it. One day a drive failed and about 50 domains were off line. I couldn't remote into any server and started getting a run around from their techs so i loaded up all the backup servers i had and a file share with copies of everthing and drove the 200 miles to the isp.
Turns out one of their techs tried to fix the problem by pulling a good drive from one of the other boxes but wasn't the one mirroring the bad drive. This then caused issues in the raid for the good box which he tried to rebuild by pulling the a drive from the mirroring box and ended up breaking all the configs. The worse part is that he thought he had the right tools to fix everything at home and instead of going to get them, he loaded my servers up and took them home.
So i show up, realize i have to start from scratch, set up a couple makeshift boxes that likely wouldn't survive a month, then i connected an old NetWare server. I enabled SMB on the two new servers and started transferring files from the NetWare server. Next thing i know, someone came in and started rebooting all the routers. I looked and jokingly said a reboot is not a fix.
Well, this went on for about two hours with about half a dozen people working on it, making phone calls and claiming they were under some DOS attack. My file transfer was finished, i disconnected the NetWare server, and it all magically stopped. I had misconfigured the SMB and created a packet storm that their routers and modems gladly repeated and multiplied to the point it almost melted their network.
My real servers finally showed back up so i loaded them up, built new ones and had a t3 ran to a commercial building near the house that became their new home. There was a lot of finger pointing and talk about compensation but it got dropped when i reminded them that the only reason i had access of that kind was because they failed to fulfill a contract obligations and then screwed the pooch trying to recover.
I tell them to turn to the study of mathematics, for it is only there that they might escape the lusts of the flesh. -- Thomas Mann, "The Magic Mountain"
