Comment Re: ask vs. tell (Score 1) 522
Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony
Side by side on my piano keyboard, oh Lord, why don't we?
Comment Not 2.6 million Vermonters... (Score 1) 109
There’s 2.6 million *photos*, not Vermonters. They must be keeping the photos from previous drivers licenses, too. That’s about 4 photos per Vermonter.
Comment I wonder what they will wear inside the moon base (Score 2) 113
Purple wigs and silver miniskirts? Will they have coffee ready for when Cmdr. Straker visits? We can only hope.
Space Station Spacewalkers Stymied By Stubborn Bolt 290
Hugh Pickens writes "Reuters reports that astronauts at the International Space Station ran into problems after removing the station's 100-kg power-switching unit, one of four used in a system that distributes electrical power generated by the station's solar array wings, and were stymied after repeated attempts to attach the new device failed when a bolt jammed, preventing astronauts from hooking it up into the station's power grid. Japanese Astronaut Akihiko Hoshide got the bolt to turn nine times but engineers need 15 turns to secure the power-switching unit. 'We're kind of at a loss of what else we can try,' said astronaut Jack Fischer at NASA's Mission Control Center in Houston after more than an hour of trouble-shooting. 'If you guys have any thoughts or ideas or brilliant schemes on what we can do, let us know.' Hoshide suggested using a tool that provides more force on bolts, but NASA engineers are reluctant to try anything that could make the situation worse and as the spacewalk slipped past seven hours, flight controllers told the astronauts to tether the unit in place, clean up their tools and head back into the station's airlock. NASA officials says the failure to secure the new unit won't disrupt station operations but it will force engineers to carefully distribute electrical power from three operating units to various station systems and says another attempt to install the power distributor could come as early as next week if engineers can figure out what to do with the stubborn bolt. 'We're going to figure it out another day,' says Fischer."
Comment Maybe CS isn't for you (Score 1) 1086
I believe that every program that crashes was made by someone who said "I want to stop learning." If you can't handle logical classes like math, Computer Science may not be the correct path for you. So, consider switching to some other field. Perhaps 3D modeling, if you still want to work on games. The world has enough shitty programmers.
Comment Re:linux is fail (Score 1) 196
I think you're confusing AIX with S/390. AIX is IBM's Unix system, not mainframe. It handles interactive workloads just fine. Hell, S/390 does, too. Your batch processing concepts are a few decades out of date. Just sayin'.
Comment Fitting fortune (Score 2) 164
I saw this next to the story:
It is important to note that probably no large operating system using current
design technology can withstand a determined and well-coordinated attack,
and that most such documented penetrations have been remarkably easy.
-- B. Hebbard, "A Penetration Analysis of the Michigan Terminal System",
Operating Systems Review, Vol. 14, No. 1, June 1980, pp. 7-20
Comment wrong solution (Score 1) 711
So why are RAM sizes still based on powers of 2? Why are disk sectors still a power of 2? Drive manufacturers are hypocrites. Thanks Apple, now files will be "different" sizes depending on what OS someone is using. This doesn't make anything easier, it makes it harder! Now people will have to figure out why the 1GB of pictures their friend sent won't fit in the 1GB of free space they had on their memory card. Mega, Giga, etc, when used with Bytes (not bits per second, which is a rate measurement), are 1024-based. Why is that so hard for people to understand? I just explained it in one sentence! mebi/gibi/etc - these prefixes are retarded. 1000-base units should be called metric MB, metric GB, etc. I mean, we already have ton and metric ton, so why not? "Oh, noes, they've subverted the SI Rules!" - shut up, pansy. I'm the go-to guy for computer issues in my family, and no one has EVER asked me about this. If your parents can figure out facebook, they can certainly figure this out, if they even care. So, Apple, fix this, someone slap the drive manufacturers, and then we can all move on to something that actually matters.
non-xkcd comic of what Apple just did: http://www.mnftiu.cc/2002/11/26/filing-004/
Comment SlimServer (Score 4, Informative) 64
SlimServer works for me. http://slimdevices.com/su_downloads.html
Submission + - Microsoft Wanted To Drop Mac Office To Hurt Apple
Overly Critical Guy writes: More documents in the Iowa antitrust case have come out. This time, it's revealed that Microsoft considers Mac users its "guinea pigs" for new Office features, and they once considered dropping Mac Office entirely, "as doing so will do a great deal of harm to Apple immediately." This case has become a treasure trove of internal memos describing Microsoft's internal business practices of the last ten years.
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