Heh, according the the people I know that work there, they actually are working this week to bring it up. Or, I should say, bring "something" up. No product names mentioned, but it is "sorry folks, my schedule is going to be insane the next month or two" season over there.
Latitude: 43.86
Longitude: -79.37
Everyone was on their cell, and I heard complaints of no 3G service.
I was on the 3rd floor and everyone immediately stood up (i.e. noticeable), but it wasn't strong enough to shake objects on my desk. People on the 1st floor didn't notice anything.
no one will miss AOL when it fades off into the fires of hell.
FTFY.
Mod AC up, it's exactly what the OP wants.
For me, Slashdot is still the top link in the Awesome bar, but it is being seriously challenged by:
http://arstechnica.com/ and http://anandtech.com/
Even better, if your application is written within the limitations of CMD batch files, it'll be trivial for any admin who cares and has a copy of notepad to pick it apart, if needed.
I've spent years of my working life writing and maintaining batch files, from synchronizing multi-threaded jobs to the polymorphic (you realize cmd.exe stores the next command as a byte offset into whatever is on disk when it goes to read at that offset?). It's true cmd.exe is ubiquitous and easy to modify at first, but "within the limitations of CMD" will come back to bite you.
Version one:
if "%var%" == "false" goto endif_var
echo Something
call:something :endif_var
Version two ("hey, cmd has multi-line if statements!"):
if "%var%" == "false" (
echo Something
call:something
)
Version three ("this looks simple to understand, let me modify it"):
if "%var%" == "false" (
echo Something
rem something else because something is borked
call:somethingelse
)
Wham! Innocent admin can't figure out what the heck happened to the batch file, it doesn't work any more.
One day he may realize that his statement was turned into:
if "%var%" == "false" ( echo Something & rem something else because something is borked & do somethingelse )
The innocent comment killed everything after it.
CMD sucks
You said it.
-Malloc
get a manpurse.
Which, being interpreted, means:
Whenever faced with a problem, some people say `Lets use a manpurse.'
Now, they have two problems.”
The main reason for needing flashblock in FF is that the flash plugin tends to lock up the whole browser
That's a good reason, but for me the *main* reason is flash advertisements are so annoying. They often make "punch the monkey" look tame.
That, and IMO anything that pushes web designers to stop treating flash as a web standard is a good thing.
He has his knickers in a twist over an obvious joke intended to lighten-up the mood of the original article
Absolutely. Just like how you should laugh at the when the guy robbing you at knife-point says "do what I say, get the point".
Seriously, Monty was replying to an absolute hatchet job on something he'd put major work into. We should find it funny?
P.S. his quoting style was easy to read, yet you use it as an excuse for your bad formatting?
+1
When I first got a digital camera I was all "woo hoo, take pictures of everything", but over the years I found just like you observe: I'd be spending all my time thinking about a great shot, and not actually enjoying the experience.
These days I rarely bring a camera with me but I can still reminisce because: Other people take the pictures for me!
In the age of digital I can simply see the pics of everyone else still stuck in the "let me get a picture of that" mode.
Not crashes, "just" 4-engine failures. All the cases I read about said once altitude was lowered the engines eventually started up again.
Having all your engines fail isn't minor, but it isn't on the same scale as an actual crash.
Never ask two questions in a business letter. The reply will discuss the one you are least interested, and say nothing about the other.
