ATTENTION SHOPPERS!
by Anonymous Coward

ATTENTION SHOPPERS: PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE NECROTIC DOG PENIS. I REPEAT, PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE NECROTIC DOG PENIS CURRENTLY LOOMING OUTSIDE LOT 4. CONTINUE SHOPPING BUT PLEASE ENSURE YOU LEAVE VIA AN ALTERNATIVE EXIT AS WE ARE NO LONGER ABLE TO GUARANTEE YOUR SAFETY IN LOT 4, DUE TO THE NECROTIC DOG PENIS. FOR YOUR INFORMATION, LOTS 1, 2, 3, 5 AND 6 ARE CURRENTLY FREE OF BAYING NECROTIC DOG PENIS. PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE NECROTIC DOG PENIS. THANK YOU.

Re:Agreed
by hackstraw (262471)
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Windows is a gaming environment and for legacy software, I would not recommend it for anything else.

&Re:thinking about something new? think again
by 19thNervousBreakdown (768619)

Try Ruby, code up a project in it after you actually understand the language, and you'll see the draw. For instance, just an hour ago I was writing a quick script to recurse through directories and apply ReplayGain. I had a loop like this:

[snip snip snip]

Plus, given how easy it is to add inline C, which can easily interact in both directions, make calls, construct objects, etc... well, when I discovered that it was like I was banging a smoking hot woman, who to be fair is a little slow, and I found the keys to a Porche at the bottom of her vagina.

The most beautiful code I've ever seen...
by element-o.p. (939033)

...looked like this:

not exp log srand xor s qq qx xor
s x x length uc ord and print chr
ord for qw q join use sub tied qx
xor eval xor print qq q q xor int
eval lc q m cos and print chr ord
for qw y abs ne open tied hex exp
ref y m xor scalar srand print qq
q q xor int eval lc qq y sqrt cos
and print chr ord for qw x printf
each return local x y or print qq
s s and eval q s undef or oct xor
time xor ref print chr int ord lc
foreach qw y hex alarm chdir kill
exec return y s gt sin sort split

Simply elegant! My younger brother sent it to me; not sure where he got it. It's Perl, by the way.

Re:Hehe
by ady1 (873490)

All the effected cursors are in sandtank with sand all over them. So year, they are isolated.

Re:Hehe
by krakelohm (830589)

What?

Re:Morons
by Anonymous Coward

Had a similar situation with a major commercial bank a few years ago when I electronically transfered euros. This was payed with U.S. dollars. This was when a dollar was worth more than a euro.

When I received my statement, I was charged more dollars than euros. And so started hours of phone calls working my way up the bank's food chain.

I said $1 = 1.16 (euros - as Slashdot doesn't accept the euro symbol), so we therefore we can set up a proportion, cross multiple and solve for x. That was way too confusing, but thought almost everyone at least knew this by the 7th grade. A sample matrix got people confused.

When I spoke to the vice-president for international currency transaction, she was also confused and like many said their computer didn't make mistakes. I of course said it was not the computer, but the operator.

I said, remember when you took elementry algebra, you hated it, but your instructor said one day you would need to know it? She laughed and said she remembered. I said, now is that day. No longer laughing, she said they must do math differently in Europe. I was transfered to one of the banks currency traders.

The currency trader nearly laughed his head off. He corrected the transaction and noted this is why he makes the big dollars.

Ah, the dumbing of America. It's truly sad.

So an upgrade of PHP from 5.0 from 5.2 should be smooth and simple, right? Well, it might be, if you happen to know you need to switch to a different mysql driver. I browse the PHP change log between minor version updates. I just didn't happen to notice the most important morsel of information. Instead of using the "mysql" driver everyone who queries MySQL now has to switch to "mysqli". I wouldn't care if this was changed behind the scenes. But all database function names have to be switched. It's an easy search and replace, plus with our software package wrapping the database calls it was one line of code to change. But it's the principle of the thing. There was no need from the perspective of PHP users. The developers of PHP just don't seem to care when they make their users jump through hoops for nothing.

Thank you for everyone's patience while logins were unintentionally suspended.

A big thanks to phil for spending hours tracking down the issue with his own site, Bubblehouse.org, and sharing this info with me.

It's the all encompassing .com that's the problem
by Colin Smith (2679)

Hence stuff like .bank, .retail, .energy, .telecom etc etc.

ooh, the wayback machine is fabulous, here's a rant I wrote years ago about ICANN and the flatness of the current DNS system.

ICANN fuck up the worlds DNS

Well, Ok, but if you're going to call yourself ICANN then what do you expect?
Here's my DNS heirarchy diatribe.

The DNS is not being used appropriately.

It's a heirarchical system that has been abused by the registrars to the point where it's effectively a flat naming system; *.com.