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I haven't finished X-COM: UFO Defense[^], yet, so it'll be a while before I get to that one.
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Only if it's covered by a one year warranty, and you're told by a "Genius" that means it's only supposed to last one year.
"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity."
- Hanlon's Razor
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Sounds like a standard lifetime warranty to me.
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I wonder if I can get a list of buyers. I have a bridge they might be interested in (I can put an apple logo on it if necessary).
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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This reminds me of the I am rich app sold to stupid people with too much money.
"When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others; same thing when you are stupid."
Ignorant - An individual without knowledge, but is willing to learn.
Stupid - An individual without knowledge and is incapable of learning.
Idiot - An individual without knowledge and allows social media to do the thinking for them.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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Donathan.Hutchings wrote: This reminds me of the I am rich app sold to stupid people with too much money. heh.
I remember wishing I got his hourly rate.
Was it 18 he sold, in one day? For maybe half an hour's work (plus the kerfuffle for getting it on the app store, of course).
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I keep expecting them to post a press release, saying: "Whoops! Sorry! Rounding error!"
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Am I the only one not to see what all the fuss is about?
Nobody is forced to buy any of Apple's products. There are enough alternatives available.
People pay bucket-loads of cash for designer clothing, cars etc, how is this different?
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The Spaceborne Computer will be the last item removed from SpaceX’s Dragon capsule I think I saw this movie. Inspection didn't end well.
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If it doesn't pass the exam, will it be held back a year?
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Bucking a major trend, company speaks out against the age-old practice. You know: like Windows
I say with love...
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And MS can know after the amount of complaints they received; forcing people to make up new insecure passwords, because the one they want is not long enough, doesn't contain numbers, or has been used in the past.
Also, the practice to be as annoying as possible is indeed age-old. As a security practice it was never recommended.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Sh1t!
I've long believed that mandatory password changing is ancient and obsolete.
I must have been wrong.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Sh1t!
That's not the best of passwords!
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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k0RR3C7 H0R23 84773rY S74Pl3
Director of Transmogrification Services
Shinobi of Query Language
Master of Yoda Conditional
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I wonder how many people use that password everywhere?
TTFN - Kent
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The SALT I use to save it is XKCD
Director of Transmogrification Services
Shinobi of Query Language
Master of Yoda Conditional
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I'm reading a book that I've wished someone would write for a long time:
Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe: Steven Strogatz - amazon[^]
It's really well-written. The author makes a tough topic approachable and interesting.
Here are some snippets from the book:
Strogatz said: Without calculus, we wouldn’t have cell phones, computers, or microwave ovens. We wouldn’t have radio. Or television. Or ultrasound for expectant mothers, or GPS for lost travelers. We wouldn’t have split the atom, unraveled the human genome, or put astronauts on the moon. We might not even have the Declaration of Independence. It’s a curiosity of history that the world was changed forever by an arcane branch of mathematics. How could it be that a theory originally about shapes ultimately reshaped civilization? The essence of the answer lies in a quip that the physicist Richard Feynman made to the novelist Herman Wouk when they were discussing the Manhattan Project. Wouk was doing research for a big novel he hoped to write about World War II, and he went to Caltech to interview physicists who had worked on the bomb, one of whom was Feynman. After the interview, as they were parting, Feynman asked Wouk if he knew calculus. No, Wouk admitted, he didn’t. “You had better learn it,” said Feynman. “It’s the language God talks.” For reasons nobody understands, the universe is deeply mathematical.
Strogatz said:
Calculus for Everyone
Feynman’s quip about God’s language raises many profound questions. What is calculus? How did humans figure out that God speaks it (or, if you prefer, that the universe runs on it)? What are differential equations and what have they done for the world, not just in Newton’s time but in our own? Finally, how can any of these stories and ideas be conveyed enjoyably and intelligibly to readers of goodwill like Herman Wouk, a very thoughtful, curious, knowledgeable person with little background in advanced math? In a coda to the story of his encounter with Feynman, Wouk wrote that he didn’t get around to even trying to learn calculus for fourteen years. His big novel ballooned into two big novels—Winds of War and War and Remembrance, each about a thousand pages. Once those were finally done, he tried to teach himself by reading books with titles like Calculus Made Easy—but no luck there. He poked around in a few textbooks, hoping, as he put it, “to come across one that might help a mathematical ignoramus like me, who had spent his college years in the humanities—i.e., literature and philosophy—in an adolescent quest for the meaning of existence, little knowing that calculus, which I had heard of as a difficult bore leading nowhere, was the language God talks.”
Strogatz said: I’ve written Infinite Powers in an attempt to make the greatest ideas and stories of calculus accessible to everyone.
I really like it when you find a book that has an author who has considered the subject from many angles and figured out how to communicate it to anyone.
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Calculus?
Oh yeah. That's that Ancient Greek thing that Newton and Lieb-something claimed to have invented.
And it ain't rocket surgery -- once you "get it", you've got it, and it all seems simple.
It's well worth the time it takes to study it/figure it out.
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Several years ago, I came across this MOOC on Calculus, called Mooculus on YouTube[^]. Interesting way in which the professor teaches this subject.
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Thanks for sharing that. I watched the first part and added it to my Watch Later list.
Looks good.
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Produced in partnership with the makers of Axe body spray "Here we are now, entertain us"
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Yet another reminder of the kind of people who are running ms, these days.
And we wonder why windows and ms office have turned into such piles of cr@p.
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