Posts by LaeMi Qian 320 publicly visible posts • joined 2 Jul 2007
...write once disks last far longer than RW.
Also it depends on how often the disk is accessed - your burned music CD that goes through the car CD-player every morning will be lucky to last 2 years out, but the same disk stored properly and only accessed a few times to retrieve lost data could well last decades.
I am a bit particular about what I block. I respect that sites have to pay the bills, but resent having to foot a bill myself in return (I am on a fixed per-month download limit).
As mentioned above, Google-like text banners and small static images don't bother me at all and I explicitly allow them on any site I visit regularly (such as elReg). But anything that moves or is huge or is slow will generally get on my black list quite quickly. And I have never found a site anywhere that I couldn't live without if they want to get stupid on me.
I work at a quite large Australian organisation in the IT dept. and my senior manager went to some big-wig state-wide managers' meeting to discuss things like Vista. I don't think MS was involved in the meeting.
What she bought back was the feeling that Vista is excellent if you are running Office 2007 and other software written with Vista in mind (and actually following MS's formal APIs). Anything that doesn't fit this category (and there is a hell of a lot of poorly written code out there, even from major vendors) will quickly drop you into hell.
but maybe not THAT pole... at least not as described: telescopic poles tend to have one or more skin snagging joints along their length. Owwww! I can hear the embarrassing 911/000 calls now!
(I know this from using adjustable temporary building supports which I certainly did not dance on, but managed to slice my hand badly on once!)
I prefer hand marking-up HTML in a text editor anyway - bold italic and occasionally bullet lists is all I ever use anyway :-D. Now I have finished all the job application cruft I will be uninstalling all my office apps. I hate working to paper, and HTML is better for working to screen. Never had a portability issue!
That's easy! Just have a fresh fingerprint issued to the rightful owner.
All it requires is the removal of the ends of all the fingers and a few months of bio-assisted regeneration (don't take too much of the fingers though, last I heard more than the tips were beyond current science to regrow).
*The thumb because there wasn't an icon with the middle fingerprint raised.
If "It simply mirrors real life" then I hope any plastic surgery carries an appropriately weighted risk of coming out worse than you went in, not to mention the risk of random account deletion proportionate to death-on-theatre-table risks. And the surgery should degrade to the point where it needs to be repeated at appropriate intervals, the intervals shortening each time virtual surgery on the same body-location occurs. And realisticly random bulgarian airbag failure (I guess we can assume saline filler these days rather than carcinogens). As SMH cartoonist Kaz Cooks said in her book "Reel Gorgeous": "Why would we experiment on animals when we have women?"
Hmmm, the latent educational software developer in me can see potential for this idea being subverted into something actually useful.
I have a big map of the world on my PC. Everytime a country does something that REALLY offends my sense of humanity, I open it in GIMP and edit my map, mostly by colouring offensive regions in with ocean, though I have been known to move/add borders, or rename countries to more descriptive and appropriate (generally NSFW) titles. If I am feeling merciful, I will just turn the capital cities into a new bay and give the rest of the country a chance to start over. My world is now 3/4 ocean instead of the 2/3 it was this time last year when I started. I won't specify locations of new seas as it is intended as a purely personal thing, but Antarctica is the only continent to escape an edit so far.
I find it very stress relieving.
"Er, this doesn't look like a rejection to us. Yes, it's less than forthcoming. But that's Apple for you."
No, it seems pretty clear to me that it says "You didn't get in to the first round of placements, we have you on file and will get back to you in subsequent rounds."
Them iPhone devs seem a might bit touchy and self-centered if the reaction reported was typical. I get job applications rejected harder than that several times a week. (A dream-job is now in final approval stages, so I am very happy this week as I prepare to cancel a few other applications that made round-2 once the contract is confirmed). :-D
And if I have to face a PHB for a job interview I cam say "According to Wikipedia, Twitter is..." (I need not finish the sentence as I have by then either won or lost the IT interview decisively, depending on whether the interviewer has an IQ above or below 103).
Seems to be some sort of web site you can send/receive group SMS messages from. Nice idea I guess for those who use SMS, but I think I will stick to IM since I am generally more accessible on that than on my Mobe^H^H^H^H MoPho anyway.
And I am usually more verbose that 140 chars.
And I have an opposable thumb (it opposes excessive work).
Like the hardware superstore that was built in my mum's town. It created 180 new jobs, by putting out of business 3 smaller hardware stores resulting in 240 people being retrenched. Then, with the competition gone, they jacked the prices through the roof and there is nowhere within 150km where you can get a piece of wood that wasn't loaded onto the boat only half-cured and is hence warped like a pop-art sculpture by the time it is on the shelves.
Same with the big cloth store in same town that put all the local fabric shops out of business then trippled its prices overnight (really, it was overnight of the final competing store closing its doors). Then a few months later the ceiling of the store fell in in heavy rain and everyone has to travel 1 hour up the coast to get fabric for the next 6 months. And the idiots amongst the locals that went all starry-eyed over the 'big city' convenience they were getting can't understand what has happened or why the local economy is so bad lately.
I do wonder where all this money that these big stores supposedly bring to places that didn't have them before is supposed to magically spawn from, so I can go camp there ;-D
though to be fair on guys, there were some rather obscenely-shaped bollards out the front of my high school that tended to be rather polished on the top from all the simulated sex they got with some of the less savory female students (they were a tad too large for actual real use... then again, some of those girls were reputed to be rather... ahem... capable)
No icon because it is far too obvious!
"Like meatloaf through a straw... these are the days of our lives"
Having read the article makes me feel all dirty as I haven't felt since I stopped reading my mum's New Idea or Woman's Weekly magazines many decades ago (the latter is actually published monthly for over a decade now here in Aust. but I guess calling it 'Woman's Monthly' was out... then again, considering the severe cramps I get in my frontal lobes from reading the cover at the supermarket checkout.........)
Even my mum gave up reading them long ago.
Please don't do this again. Even the opportunity to to mock-a-pedia is not worth enduring knowledge of these people's tiny tiny lives!
and a dunny man to visit each week. I always used a bucket in the bathroom as I was (age 6) terrified of spiders! My siblings and I used to mangel the traditional children's song "Have you seen the Muffin Man" to "Have you seen the Dunny Man" in all sorts of amusing (to a 6-year-old) ways.
And a bit of random Australiana to finish with:
http://www.gonewalkabout.com/got/got_spider.htm
The Register 
Biting the hand that feeds IT
Copyright. All rights reserved © 1998–2024
