@Ram I said, if the actual function that is occuring was identified, more asumptions could be made about the method that would be used, or even where a person might have placed that in there.
@Hennes need de-skilled programmers :-) I was thinking (oh no) about that this week . back when all programs were high end programming . . . etc. There was only the need for some great programming (way less programs). Now they need 350,000 programs any way you can jam them out ther door.
Before anyone is soo deeply skilled , they are put to work, pumping out stuff that makes money.
IF suddenly this world decided they needed a complete space armada. and to travel regularly to other planets, that would mean i get a job as a rocket scientist :-) Duhoy , we gonna have funz now.
God, all this "SE vs. @ChatBotJohnCavil" issue is deeply ridiculous!
That's the kind of reasoning that leads to those labels "you have to open this package before eating these peanuts" or "please don't use this microwave to dry your cat".
(Not that the issue here is a legal one, but the weird reasoning behind it is similar)
@JourneymanGeek Idiomatic expression maybe? Here "microwaves" and "microwave ovens" are the same thing. Just as "Xerox" is not a company, but a term for "photocopier".
The US has it too: the 3 states of matter in English are "solid", "liquid" and "gasoline".
I would not mind microwaving some dogs. Especially one which likes to bark for hours at an end on most days. If its owners sit next to it in the microwave oven then I am even happier.
@ThatHelpVampireGuy Sililariries: In movies TVs exploded when hit by gunfire. Cars explode at random when they hit a curb or fall down in a ravine. Both are plasma powered.
I reinstalled windows xp sp3
In device manager I have two yellow marks:
- PCI Simple Communication Controller
- SM Bus Controller
CPU-Z says my MB is ECS 945GCT-M2 chipset i945G.
I visited so many sites to find the drivers - no success.
Any help, pls.
i tank (the 800), one efficient low trust engine (which can ont lift the tank when it is over ¾ full), two solid boosters, one top with solar, bat, guidance, parachute
Boost for 12 or 29 seconds to 7km and very high speed (too fast for earodymoics)
Dump boosters. Acend speed slowly drops from 400 to 100m/sec, then pick up again
There is a controversy about a certain chat bot in some chat rooms. The one major disagreement is about the bot greeting new users in chat. Some users argue that this is helpful to explain the chat room rules to new users and make sure they actually notice them, while others argue that bots shoul...
but AFAIK the SE team hasn't withdrawn their 'no auto-greet, period' decision
I'm also rather amused by this comment:
This might be true for a room as big as the main room for SU, but it works pretty well and does a lot of service in smaller rooms like the one the bot originated in — Jan Dvorak16 hours ago
Considering the room in question has many times the activity of this room...
and they should have a cop sitting there pulling over and writing tickets for people who get in the left lane when they see a sign that says "LEFT LANE CLOSED AHEAD" (which is apparently driverese for "speed down the left lane as fast as possible to get around all the people who are doing the right thing")
@Bob unless one or both drivers lose control of their vehicle, at least one of the two drivers had made some error in order to cause the accident... and to be honest, I don't believe that cars randomly accelerating or deciding to make a sharp turn into a vehicle in a neighboring lane is a very common thing
yeah, but there's an accident on this road about 4 out of 5 days of the week... I think it's poor road design (the shape, size, number of lanes of the road, and the fact that lanes constantly come and go) but not poor maintenance
seriously though, if you merge into a lane and you didn't see the vehicle there and you cause an accident, that's your fault -- at least in the US, the driver is absolutely responsible for being able to see other vehicles around them and not hit them
he ends up having his insurance pay for the damage to the other guy's car, but he never has to answer for the thousands of gallons of fuel and wasted productivity that he caused for all the people who get stuck in traffic
a bumpy road isn't going to cause an accident, either, and there are no problems with the paint on the road very clearly delineating the lanes, and the main highways and interstates get repaved every year or two
@allquixotic I've been on a few roads with barely-visible (badly faded) lines. And I'm still a new driver (so "a few" is actually a farily significant proportion).
@Bob that's one thing that I only ever see in parking lots (faded lines); roads around here don't seem to have that problem... I don't know if there's a law about it, but there might be, maybe some law requiring them to re-paint the lines every so often
they certainly don't have any qualms about not repaving local roads for an extremely long time (if ever), but the repainting is common and roads are often closed for repainting
they'll repaint lines on state roads 10 or so times before repaving them, because it's a lot cheaper to put down new lines than to chew up the old layer of asphalt and lay down a new one
thankfully, state highways also get pretty good pothole repair
I was on a federal interstate where the accident was though, that road is in fine condition except for one overpass that has tons of potholes that have been poorly repaired so it's bumpy (and the accident was miles away from that)
as one of our US Senators put it, (approx quote), "we can either give them the funding to repair our critical state infrastructure, or we can spend even more to clean up the debris and pay damages to the families who lose their loved ones when these bridges and overpasses inevitably fail"
so now they got the funding and every half-mile is a lane closure and cranes and dump trucks and dust and portable generators and noise
Maryland has a ridiculous number of small bodies of water (small streams and lakes and rivers and so on) that require bridges, and then our roads have so many of those clover leaf designs that interchange between two intersecting highways, so we have lots of overpasses and bridges
@JourneymanGeek the accepted and most upvoted answer by Shog9 on the MSO post basically says that bots and users have the same rules, and if X behavior of a bot is "annoying" (it's not clarified to whom, or how many people need to be annoyed, etc) then it is unacceptable and has to be removed
I assume the prevailing sentiment will be "if SE employees say it's annoying, then it's annoying, irrespective of what the community might say"
that kind of rule is open to a ridiculous amount of abuse; someone could (rightly) bring up a post on MSO complaining about an SE employee being "annoying" even if they just say something like "ha ha that's funny" and go on a long tirade about why that's annoying, and of course SE will ignore it, and they'll look like the bad guy for being bias, even if the OP didn't really have a case to begin with
it could go on and on and on... when you make a guideline or a rule that says "you can't be X" and the "X" is so completely open to interpretation that pretty much everyone will have a different view of whether a given behavior is X, and then you say "our opinion is the only one that matters", you're essentially just collapsing the rules to "we exclusively determine what is acceptable behavior, and you're just going to have to accept that"
that's a far cry from the community-governed premise of the site
IDGAF about the auto greeting, to be perfectly honest
I give a fuck about the way SE is treating its community compared to its founding principles
and that's what will continue to piss me off long after the dust has settled, and that's what is much more likely to drive me away from this community permanently at some point
maybe people from other countries don't get as hot under the collar about sticking to principles or freedom of expression or that sort of thing, which is why I seem to have been chastised for my outrage at this decision by several people from, say, India, where conformity is highly valued (I'm claiming this from several years' experience working with people from there, that's the only reason I pointed it out)
but we USAians were raised to be outraged at behavior like this by organizations with power or authority, especially when they go against their founding principles -- which is why so many of us are angry at our government now
I have to say though that while one SE dev acted in a very cavalier fashion, extrapolating from that to infinity seems a bit extreme. Lets see how it goes first.
the JS Room People are writing a Node/HTML5 chatroom client/server architecture to replace their room, but it's still in the very early planning stages
if they end up going open beta with it, I'll definitely try and bring some of us over and make a "RA2" over there
@terdon well, a different SE employee reacted much more pragmatically and community-friendly, which gave me hope, but I think the guy who ultimately made the decision is a higher up
@terdon That "one SE dev" was not exactly acting alone. As far as we know, this has the approval of the SE team as a whole, and they're doing nothing to dissuade that notion.
@allquixotic as far as I know, there has been no decision. At least none has been posted on the relevant meta posts. The guy who complained was just a dev.
@Bob not only that, but the other community managers seem completely unwilling to even touch the topic of the way that the other guy handled the situation
@terdon yes, but an employee of Stack Exchange, regardless of their position, irrevocably overrides any diamond mods or even an infinite number of community voices protesting against their decision -- it doesn't matter whether they're a dev, or the guy who mops their floor
@Bob I've seen no evidence of that. There was one dev and then one community manager who was more reasonable. Apart from that, only Shog commented and he was also quite reasonable.
I reinstalled windows xp sp3
In device manager I have two yellow marks:
- PCI Simple Communication Controller
- SM Bus Controller
CPU-Z says my MB is ECS 945GCT-M2 chipset i945G.
I visited so many sites to find the drivers - no success.
Any help, pls.
