Last time, I mentioned that eventually everything is top priority. A similar topic is what I'm calling priority inflation, which takes more than one form. Today's priority inflation is the introduction of new "top priority" items. (Chris Becker has some thoughts on this topic as well.) "XYZ is very important to our project. Please make it you...
Actually, this is pretty cool. A phone that sets your head on fire. Most people charge extra for that. These lithium-ion polymer batteries can overheat due to an internal short circuit in the batteries, which can pose a fire hazard. The battery has only been used in the GN9120 wireless headset. Go ahead, make up your own joke.
I always crack a smile whenever I hear or read someone say that "XYZ is our top priority." The person may believe it at the moment they say it, but just wait a little while, and soon there will be a new top priority. If you call the person out on their shifting priorities, they usually come up with some hand-waving explanation that the two "top" ...
Commenter Grow Up (if you're so grown up yourself, why not use your real name?) took issue with the second-hand advice I gave when the discussion of protecting sensitive data. In that discussion, I gave second-hand advice on how one could protect information, and one reader apparently thought I was trying to malign said second-hand advice or was h...
"Molded results vary depending on child's age and level of skill."
Commenter kokorozashi wonders why you should bother with when you have already. If you want to pump messages and wait for a kernel object, then you can change all calls to , , and to replacement functions that use . Isn't that enough? Why waste an entire thread just to wait for that object? If you're so clever that you can modify every call t...
It's not infrequent that I see somebody ask a question that can be answered in only one way. But if that's not the answer, then nobody will respond. Is there a module that does XYZ? This question can be answered in only one way: "Yes, here it is." If nobody has written such a module, nobody is going to reply saying, "No, nobody has written the...
My friend the seventh grade teacher gave an assignment wherein students were to produce a map of the state of Washington with various required elements, among them, a selection of major cities in the state. Some students failed to understand that the purpose of a map is to represent where the cities are and not to dictate to the cities where they s...
I mentioned in passing that the maximum delay you can specify in boot.ini is about 11 million seconds. I'm disappointed but sadly not surprised that everybody focused on that number and completely missed the point of the article. First of all, the value of 11 million was not a conscious limitation. It's just an artifact of other limitations. The...
I mentioned Terry Zink's Anti-spam blog ("Protecting your mail from the scum of the internet") during one of my quarterly "borg-edition" linkfests. The article about how much money a spammer actually makes was quite interesting. One thing that caught my eye was the insanely low sales rate that was needed in order to make the enterprise lucrative....
