This actually makes sense...here in Michigan, we've had several new area codes introduced to deal with the huge upswell of cell phones in the area. I'm sure a switch to a 10-digit number would cut down on this.
Personally, I don't mind....I use speed-dial for the few numbers I call anyhow.:)
I'm the first to admit that a serious Perl-based enterprise-level app won't be the most lightning-fast thing on the block, but I always back that statement up with it depends on how it's coded. Cheapo clients that wouldn't spring for a ColdFusion server for their sites were in no position to whine about a difference of a few seconds in process time. But I'm getting away from the point...
A programmer who knows what he's doing CAN write a viable app. Java's issues aren't in the code, they're in the VM (AFAIK).
When you're a lowly software engineer working for an web design/consulting/hosting company (like I used to), you don't always get to decide what technology you'll get to use on a site. I was asked to do things with Perl that Perl was neverdesigned to do...and they worked. That's the great thing about Perl, it's flexibility. Dynamic content, web-based e-mail, database searches, even content management systems (all things I've done, just to name a few). Perl's not always the BEST solution, but a good programmer can make it a VIABLE solution.
I have to agree and disagree with you on that point. As far as I can tell digging through the Florida statutes governing elections and election results, all hardcoded deadlines seem to be dependent upon the date of certification of the results (time to contest, etc.). I can't, however, seem to find anything on a deadline for certification of the vote. Seems kind of a fuzzy area...feel free to enlighten me.
I hereby propose a new federal law, effective 2004:
If, at any point, the presidential election is split by a degree less than the standard error, the presidential candidates shall, on the following Saturday, duke it out in a no-holds-barred full-contact deathmatch on national pay-per-view. The winner shall be named by KNOCKOUT or TECHNICAL KNOCKOUT ONLY, no decision possible (too much of a chance of a split decision). 50% of the revenue from this event shall go towards a full-scale revamping of the American voting system (new machines, perhaps voting terminals with SSH keyed to each voters SSN# and voter reg #), whereas the other 50% shall go to the party of the candidate immediately behind the leading two, to be used for that party's next campaign.
I keep trying to convince myself that all GWB supporters don't sound like you...
the Florida Supreme Court did not, actually, act outside of the law. VP Gore exercised his right to contest a vote by lodgning a complaint. The complaint was dealt with in accordance to Florida state law, and a manual recount was the result. The first machinerecount you speak of was also in accordance with Florida law, governing a mandatory recount when the difference in votes is so small.
Check your facts, take some deep breaths, and keep the vitriol for Rush Limbaugh's show.
GameDoc, one of the sources listed in this article, lists a Ms. Pac Man tabletop game at ~ $2,000. Too bad...this would be a cool thing to have in my living room.
AMD's site, as well as Anand has been saying that AMD re-released the new Athlons (1, 1.1, and 1.2 ghz) with the new 266Mhz front side bus. My question is, where are they? I'd like to pick one up, but I have no clue where to get a hold of one...not even Pricewatch has any info.
"Red Hat, SuSE, Corel, Caldera, Slackware, Best, Storm -- you name them, they were there, telling attendees how their version of the open software operating system was better than all the rest"
A big announcement made today was that a number of these companies have joined forces behind KDE desktop software -- to counter another group that favors the Gnome desktop interface.
Just thr 1st few paragraphs of this article makes the Linux world look like it's filled with splintered factions of "Mine is better than yours" geeks and hackers. The KDE League, as far as I understand it, had NOTHING to do with 'countering' the GNOME Foundation...they don't even have similar purposes.
Is this just more MS FUD (it *IS* Microsoft's news network...'where all news is bought and paid for!'), or is this really the public perception of Linux? If so, we need to do some things differently.
I'll stick to Ann Arbor, thanx, where I can smoke in a Burger King in front of a 3rd grade field trip group if so inclined. Oh yeah, and GO BLUE!
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I come from an almost identical situation...I had a Commodore Vic 20 (with a cartridge slot, for f*ck's sake). It was my main impetus to go from:
10 PRINT "I'm bored!;"
20 GOTO 10
to coding my own text-adventures. By the time I traded up to a brand-new, sleek sexy Tandy 1000 (I know!), I had already grown frustrated with the lack of complex data structures in GW-BASIC (I was trying to make a D&D adventure, and couldn't figure out how to keep track of stats for multiple characters during chargen). I was about 9 at the time.
I hope this little tack-on will do for the next generation of k3wl kidz what the Tandys, Commodores, and TRS' did for us.
This doesn't sound like so bad of an idea, actually...personally, my BASIC is FAR too rusty to attempt such a thing.
Actually, didn't all non-Japanese versions of the PS2 have their DVD decoding moved from firmware to hardware 'cuz of that "Oops, we forgot the Macrovision!" debacle?
...is an excellent bank for Net Banking. All they require is that your browser support 128-bit encryption. I haven't had any problems with it, either with Netscape OR Mozilla in Linux. Also, if you don't (or can't) walk into the bank to open an account, they offer full Net Checking, which is a completely net-wise checking (or savings) account. Check it out...
So vote for him for crying out loud! I'm more than tired of people saying, "Wow, Nader would be GREAT in office. He'll never win though, so I'm not going to vote for him."
Personally I'm still waffling on my choice for the next president. But you can be damn sure of two things: 1) that it won't be influenced by "who's the favorite to win", and 2) it won't be Bush.
Maybe I wasn't super clear...the bleeding edge hardware was for my personal machine. My webservers are Duron 700s with 256mb of ram and IDE RAID. Trust me, I know the need for stability in a webserver.
...I'm in the process of building out a machine for myself (and several web servers). I was planning on holding out until DDR SDRAM mobos were out, since they're supposed to be such hot$hit compared to the present SDR SDRAM. Removing the memory latency bottleneck sounded GREAT to me, and I was looking forward to having a sleek, sexy, swift machine.
NOW (maybe I'm stupid), but it seems that, not only are halfway decent (read: fully working/compatible) mobos not going to be available for some time, but in order to fully exploit the new chipset, I need a NEW Thunderbird with a 266mhz FSB? Someone please let me know if I'm being a complete moron, reading the article wrong, whatever, but I'm going to be extremely upset if AMD plans on releasing a new version (faster front-side bus) of a chip I JUST bought in the next couple months.
Sorry if I'm ranting...that's what I get for gut reaction posting, I guess.
Not generally one to respond to flamebait such as this, but being a native Michigander (that's DETROIT, Michigan), I have to say kiss our furry little Wolverine arses.
Oh...and you obviously didn't notice that Malda and Co. started this whole shebang in Holland, Michigan. Jeesh, get a clue.
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This actually makes sense...here in Michigan, we've had several new area codes introduced to deal with the huge upswell of cell phones in the area. I'm sure a switch to a 10-digit number would cut down on this.
:)
Personally, I don't mind....I use speed-dial for the few numbers I call anyhow.
--Just Another Pimp A$$ Perl Hacker
I'm the first to admit that a serious Perl-based enterprise-level app won't be the most lightning-fast thing on the block, but I always back that statement up with it depends on how it's coded. Cheapo clients that wouldn't spring for a ColdFusion server for their sites were in no position to whine about a difference of a few seconds in process time. But I'm getting away from the point...
A programmer who knows what he's doing CAN write a viable app. Java's issues aren't in the code, they're in the VM (AFAIK).
--Just Another Pimp A$$ Perl Hacker
When you're a lowly software engineer working for an web design/consulting/hosting company (like I used to), you don't always get to decide what technology you'll get to use on a site. I was asked to do things with Perl that Perl was neverdesigned to do...and they worked. That's the great thing about Perl, it's flexibility. Dynamic content, web-based e-mail, database searches, even content management systems (all things I've done, just to name a few). Perl's not always the BEST solution, but a good programmer can make it a VIABLE solution.
Sounds exactly like the Microsoft subscription system that we were flaming about a couple weeks ago. Hmmm...
You didn't really just recommend ASP on Slashdot, did you?
--Just another Pimp A$$ Perl Hacker
I have to agree and disagree with you on that point. As far as I can tell digging through the Florida statutes governing elections and election results, all hardcoded deadlines seem to be dependent upon the date of certification of the results (time to contest, etc.). I can't, however, seem to find anything on a deadline for certification of the vote. Seems kind of a fuzzy area...feel free to enlighten me.
--Just Another Pimp A$$ Perl Hacker
I hereby propose a new federal law, effective 2004:
If, at any point, the presidential election is split by a degree less than the standard error, the presidential candidates shall, on the following Saturday, duke it out in a no-holds-barred full-contact deathmatch on national pay-per-view. The winner shall be named by KNOCKOUT or TECHNICAL KNOCKOUT ONLY, no decision possible (too much of a chance of a split decision). 50% of the revenue from this event shall go towards a full-scale revamping of the American voting system (new machines, perhaps voting terminals with SSH keyed to each voters SSN# and voter reg #), whereas the other 50% shall go to the party of the candidate immediately behind the leading two, to be used for that party's next campaign.
So it is written, so shall it be.
I keep trying to convince myself that all GWB supporters don't sound like you...
the Florida Supreme Court did not, actually, act outside of the law. VP Gore exercised his right to contest a vote by lodgning a complaint. The complaint was dealt with in accordance to Florida state law, and a manual recount was the result. The first machinerecount you speak of was also in accordance with Florida law, governing a mandatory recount when the difference in votes is so small.
Check your facts, take some deep breaths, and keep the vitriol for Rush Limbaugh's show.
--Just Another Minority Voter
With a name like 'Palmpalm', let's hope 'what comes of this' isn't a giant lawsuit.
GameDoc, one of the sources listed in this article, lists a Ms. Pac Man tabletop game at ~ $2,000. Too bad...this would be a cool thing to have in my living room.
AMD's site, as well as Anand has been saying that AMD re-released the new Athlons (1, 1.1, and 1.2 ghz) with the new 266Mhz front side bus. My question is, where are they? I'd like to pick one up, but I have no clue where to get a hold of one...not even Pricewatch has any info.
When did ICQ#'s get up to 8 digits? I *am* old.
the Man in Black
ICQ# 4122986
On the Yopy...
On the Ipaq...
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"Red Hat, SuSE, Corel, Caldera, Slackware, Best, Storm -- you name them, they were there, telling attendees how their version of the open software operating system was better than all the rest"
A big announcement made today was that a number of these companies have joined forces behind KDE desktop software -- to counter another group that favors the Gnome desktop interface.
Just thr 1st few paragraphs of this article makes the Linux world look like it's filled with splintered factions of "Mine is better than yours" geeks and hackers. The KDE League, as far as I understand it, had NOTHING to do with 'countering' the GNOME Foundation...they don't even have similar purposes.
Is this just more MS FUD (it *IS* Microsoft's news network...'where all news is bought and paid for!'), or is this really the public perception of Linux? If so, we need to do some things differently.
Wait wait wait wait....no smoking?!?!?!!?!??!
I'll stick to Ann Arbor, thanx, where I can smoke in a Burger King in front of a 3rd grade field trip group if so inclined. Oh yeah, and GO BLUE!
I come from an almost identical situation...I had a Commodore Vic 20 (with a cartridge slot, for f*ck's sake). It was my main impetus to go from:
10 PRINT "I'm bored!;"
20 GOTO 10
to coding my own text-adventures. By the time I traded up to a brand-new, sleek sexy Tandy 1000 (I know!), I had already grown frustrated with the lack of complex data structures in GW-BASIC (I was trying to make a D&D adventure, and couldn't figure out how to keep track of stats for multiple characters during chargen). I was about 9 at the time.
I hope this little tack-on will do for the next generation of k3wl kidz what the Tandys, Commodores, and TRS' did for us.
Geekhood is a burden and a privilige.
I think I might actually still have a copy of QBASIC Eliza lying around somewhere. Wow...you could give her a voice and everything....hmmm.....
This doesn't sound like so bad of an idea, actually...personally, my BASIC is FAR too rusty to attempt such a thing.
Actually, didn't all non-Japanese versions of the PS2 have their DVD decoding moved from firmware to hardware 'cuz of that "Oops, we forgot the Macrovision!" debacle?
Don't forget the 'analysis of this cheater mentality, mostly perpetrated by geeks and outcasts, products of this post-Columbine society'.
Sheesh.
...is an excellent bank for Net Banking. All they require is that your browser support 128-bit encryption. I haven't had any problems with it, either with Netscape OR Mozilla in Linux. Also, if you don't (or can't) walk into the bank to open an account, they offer full Net Checking, which is a completely net-wise checking (or savings) account. Check it out...
So vote for him for crying out loud! I'm more than tired of people saying, "Wow, Nader would be GREAT in office. He'll never win though, so I'm not going to vote for him."
Personally I'm still waffling on my choice for the next president. But you can be damn sure of two things: 1) that it won't be influenced by "who's the favorite to win", and 2) it won't be Bush.
Maybe I wasn't super clear...the bleeding edge hardware was for my personal machine. My webservers are Duron 700s with 256mb of ram and IDE RAID. Trust me, I know the need for stability in a webserver.
...I'm in the process of building out a machine for myself (and several web servers). I was planning on holding out until DDR SDRAM mobos were out, since they're supposed to be such hot$hit compared to the present SDR SDRAM. Removing the memory latency bottleneck sounded GREAT to me, and I was looking forward to having a sleek, sexy, swift machine.
NOW (maybe I'm stupid), but it seems that, not only are halfway decent (read: fully working/compatible) mobos not going to be available for some time, but in order to fully exploit the new chipset, I need a NEW Thunderbird with a 266mhz FSB? Someone please let me know if I'm being a complete moron, reading the article wrong, whatever, but I'm going to be extremely upset if AMD plans on releasing a new version (faster front-side bus) of a chip I JUST bought in the next couple months.
Sorry if I'm ranting...that's what I get for gut reaction posting, I guess.
Hey, come on! You guys can drive a couple hours outside of the Geek Compound to come speak at U-M, cantcha? Huh? HUH?
:)
Not generally one to respond to flamebait such as this, but being a native Michigander (that's DETROIT, Michigan), I have to say kiss our furry little Wolverine arses.
Oh...and you obviously didn't notice that Malda and Co. started this whole shebang in Holland, Michigan. Jeesh, get a clue.