Comment Klemperer... (Score 1) 308
Lingua Tertii Imperii
Lingua Tertii Imperii
#fornerds
You have to payyyyyyy.
Over priced tablet has same performance as shitty laptop.
It's pretty robust code.
No code is perfect; but this one has run for at least 1000 years.
Literally, there are large, rich Benedictine institutions that have been in continuous operation for almost a dozen centuries. Empires have come and gone and come again in the same timespan.
Interestingly my current masters degree (http://www.mediacultures.net/mah/application/center-at-gottweig/) course is delivered in a monastery.
Also, 'mission statements' - I don't think that word means what you think it means. They are not supposed to be something wafty. Mission statements and the like, like all higher-order rules, are to provide direction and resolution when the lower order rules fail. Ofc many organisations and their management have no fscking clue.
Anyway the point is that rules work best when there is some flex, but this requires the participation of non-assholes.
I second this. I am completing my masters in Art History this year, on the back of 25 years in IT. It has been a phenomenally broadening experience.
If you are already a mature expert in *anything*, then an interdisciplinary study is a significant multiplier to your ability to think abstractly and architecturally.
I already have such a secured device, appropriately configured, with that added bonus that I can use it when my laptop's battery is empty, or the laptop is smashed up, or confiscated or in my checked baggage, or in front of me on the desk.
If you don't give me enough data, I make my own shit up. Passive aggressive maths!
Stanislav Petrov.
...is now limited to bonzais and flower pots only.
The problem isn't just this one instance, but all the following ones which promise to be brighter and up for longer in the future. "Our giant-ass disco ball will be 10 times brighter than the last dudes pathetic pinball, it'll be so bright you won't be able to sleep!"
Taking a note from the history of skyscraper heights, this could go on for a long time...
There is a well established standard around the word 'reasonable' in common law:
Old man yells at cloud
With your bare hands?!?
