Moe: [slowly] It's not so bad, Homer. They...go in through your
nose and...they let you keep the piece of brain they cut out.
Look!
[holds up a jar with a piece of brain in it]
Ooh! Hello! Hello there! Who's that big man there? Who's
that? Bart+Lisa: [droning] Join us, father.
Marge: [droning] It's bliiiissss...
Homer: Nooo!
Actually, I have practically all IM chats I've had logged for the last 10 years, and I can pretty easily search through them. So, if you must, blame the brain-dead default clients for the major IM networks -- but the alternate clients (Miranda, Trillian, Gaim, Kopete) have served me just as well as any email client.
Full disclosure: I am a Gentoo user for the last 4 years, having fled RedHat at home, and more recently Fedora Core 3 at work.
Compiling from source has very little to do with why I use Gentoo. The only real impact on me from source compilation is the ability to specify USE flags, and thus configure which parts of a package are included. Binary packaging systems like RPM or apt simply can't handle that degree of control.
No, for me, it's much more the dependency handling that keeps me in the Gentoo world. Portage makes it far easier to install packages and their dependencies than RPMs. I played with yum when using Fedora, but never got it working quite right (maybe that's my fault).
Most people in the western world aren't used to it, but this is pure capitalism even at the micro level. It shouldn't surprise anyone that the market price for any commodity is self-normalizing -- which is to say, the price you pay is the price the market will bear. We're already used to this when buying from private individuals, such as buying/renting a home, second-hand cars, or garage sales. It's only when dealing with a retail establishment that we expect all items to have a clearly labeled definative price tag.
Besides Ticketmaster, Broadway shows have also instituted "premium" ticket pricing (up to $400+ a ticket!). If someone's willing to pay that price, more power to them. If the new economy of ticket pricing puts the tickets out of range for most patrons, that's fine by me. The market will provide more local, "lower-scale" entertainment -- more regional theater, more minor league ballclubs, more local bands and performers -- all within reach of the average audience.
For entertainment (at the very least), a free market can correct itself in very short order.
Yes, it's clear that denying God's role in creating the Universe and designing man has led to the Jewish people's longevity. Oh, wait, what's that you say -- the Jews believe in Creationism (albeit not necessarily in the literal form presented in Genesis)?
And that's in the US, where Orthodox Jewish concerns don't really get taken into consideration.
Here in Israel, the compromise deal reached (finally!) this year on DST was to start on the Friday on or preceding April 1, which nearly always precedes the Seder. Bear in mind that well over 70% of Israeli Jews, regardless of affiliation, have a Seder of some sort. At least the other side of the compromise was reasonable -- we go back to Standard Time on the Saturday night following Rosh HaShana, thereby making Yom Kippur *seem* to end earlier.
Of course, it's all psychological in the first place...
Re:One of pillars of success: manual
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I really don't think there was ever a time that it was hard to find a good Perl manual -- the perl manpages and perldocs were always exhaustive and always began with a sample code section. perldoc also had the ability to search perlfaq by keyword.
Now, if you want to talk about languages that are seriously lacking in manual comprehension, how about Java?
What are you smoking? TV has always, and probably always will, favor the Blue states. The recent episode with Dan Rather is just a single instance of this pervasive tilt. News, sitcoms (Friends, Seinfeld, Will & Grace), dramas (West Wing) are extremely urban-centric and left-leaning.
Where do you come up with this massive Republican propoganda machine (unless you've been watching exclusively Fox News)?
Every single one of the films you've mentioned (with the possible exception of Legally Blonde 2, which I haven't seen yet) was an absolute stinker -- box office failure and critically lambasted.
I once lived on Avenue S in Brooklyn. The vast majority of fancy printed invitations (for weddings, bar mitzvahs, etc.) mailed to our house were returned to sender -- "No Such Address". It seems that the "cursively" printed S appears much more like a P than an S.
It's a good thing that our house number didn't exist on Avenue P, or the people that lived there would've gotten to go to all of those special events!
At one company that I worked, the sys admins were thinking of instituting a naming convention for workstations in the tech group. As a joke, I suggested that:
Linux boxes be named after species of penguins
Solaris boxes named after celestial bodies
Macs named after varieties of apples
and, of course, Windows boxes would have to be named after famous crashes (pamam103, twa800, titanic, hindenberg, etc.)
The sad part is that people took me seriously. One guy even claimed Magellanic for his Linux box.
- Richie
Re:Paper money/Digital cash rocks [Re:the coin rou
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Men have no practical way to carry change...
Absolutely wrong. I use a film case for all of my change, and have no problem carrying it around and paying with exact change once I've accumulated enough. I was even tempted to devise a spring-loaded case so that the jingle of the coins would be muffled, but I never got around to it.
Minor nit -- the 10 shekel piece is actually worth closer to $2.30 (and falling).
When I first moved to Israel, I tried to buy a Snapple with a 50 NIS bill ($11.60 at the time). The shopkeeper refused to accept the 50 and forced me to go change it elsewhere. I was floored by the attitude that the 50 was a "big bill" (probably because of the number "50"), even though I highly doubt any merchant in NY would have given me a hard time for paying with a $10 bill.
I can think of one notable exception -- when a Pixar film begins with the beautifully rendered version of the Disney lead-in, followed by the Pixar lamp, I can already feel the excitement in anticipation of another amazing movie (since they haven't produced any bombs yet).
I used to work in the AP's web team, which is responsible for The Wire, which is the source of the posted link. You cannot link directly to a story on the site unless the referrer is one of the known "subscribers" -- that is, a newspaper or other media outlet that is an AP member and actually pays for the service, including a co-branded header (such as CTCentral.com). The "black and blue" screen that/.ers are seeing is the front door for everyone else. That is the expected behavior -- the site is not being/.ed.
The AP is stuck between a rock and a hard place in the Internet era. As a content provider, they would like to be able to sell stories, photos and packages to any potential client, including Yahoo, AOL, etc. On the other hand, as a non-profit cooperative, the AP can be controlled by a block of smaller local newspapers, who need to maintain their readership. This is the fine line that the AP has been walking on for the last few years -- it's anybody's guess as to what their ultimate business strategy will be.
In any event, thanks to those that posted the Yahoo story link. I still find it hard to believe that/. has such poor editorial review for the simplest things! (although I guess I shouldn't be)
- Richie
Re:I know one part of VA Linux that is immune...
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Isn't that what happened to Netscape, once the browser became irrelevant and the entire business model revolved around the (dubiously popular) portal?
Slashdot Mirror
Betelgeuse: Mostly harmless.
Moe: [slowly] It's not so bad, Homer. They...go in through your
nose and...they let you keep the piece of brain they cut out.
Look!
[holds up a jar with a piece of brain in it]
Ooh! Hello! Hello there! Who's that big man there? Who's
that?
Bart+Lisa: [droning] Join us, father.
Marge: [droning] It's bliiiissss...
Homer: Nooo!
- "Treehouse of Horror V"
Re: keeping IM for future reference
Actually, I have practically all IM chats I've had logged for the last 10 years, and I can pretty easily search through them. So, if you must, blame the brain-dead default clients for the major IM networks -- but the alternate clients (Miranda, Trillian, Gaim, Kopete) have served me just as well as any email client.
Full disclosure: I am a Gentoo user for the last 4 years, having fled
RedHat at home, and more recently Fedora Core 3 at work.
Compiling from source has very little to do with why I use Gentoo.
The only real impact on me from source compilation is the ability to
specify USE flags, and thus configure which parts of a package are
included. Binary packaging systems like RPM or apt simply can't handle
that degree of control.
No, for me, it's much more the dependency handling that keeps me in
the Gentoo world. Portage makes it far easier to install packages and
their dependencies than RPMs. I played with yum when using Fedora, but
never got it working quite right (maybe that's my fault).
Besides Ticketmaster, Broadway shows have also instituted "premium" ticket pricing (up to $400+ a ticket!). If someone's willing to pay that price, more power to them. If the new economy of ticket pricing puts the tickets out of range for most patrons, that's fine by me. The market will provide more local, "lower-scale" entertainment -- more regional theater, more minor league ballclubs, more local bands and performers -- all within reach of the average audience.
For entertainment (at the very least), a free market can correct itself in very short order.
- Richie
Yes, I get your HIMYM reference -- does anybody else here?
Yes, it's clear that denying God's role in creating the Universe and designing man has led to the Jewish people's longevity. Oh, wait, what's that you say -- the Jews believe in Creationism (albeit not necessarily in the literal form presented in Genesis)?
Move along, nothing to see here.
All they needed to do was start with a fresh installation of Win2k and stay online for a couple of days....
Oh, you wanted it simulated?
Does running under VMware count?
Witch functionality they're missing?
Well, a grammar checker might help....
And that's in the US, where Orthodox Jewish concerns don't really get taken into consideration.
Here in Israel, the compromise deal reached (finally!) this year on DST was to start on the Friday on or preceding April 1, which nearly always precedes the Seder. Bear in mind that well over 70% of Israeli Jews, regardless of affiliation, have a Seder of some sort. At least the other side of the compromise was reasonable -- we go back to Standard Time on the Saturday night following Rosh HaShana, thereby making Yom Kippur *seem* to end earlier.
Of course, it's all psychological in the first place...
Vienna waits for you...
I really don't think there was ever a time that it was hard to find a good Perl manual -- the perl manpages and perldocs were always exhaustive and always began with a sample code section. perldoc also had the ability to search perlfaq by keyword.
Now, if you want to talk about languages that are seriously lacking in manual comprehension, how about Java?
Right! That would add 1 more point to the word score! (I don't know how you would do the hyphen, though -- maybe a blank tile....)
HULK SMASH HIT!
What are you smoking? TV has always, and probably always will, favor the Blue states. The recent episode with Dan Rather is just a single instance of this pervasive tilt. News, sitcoms (Friends, Seinfeld, Will & Grace), dramas (West Wing) are extremely urban-centric and left-leaning.
Where do you come up with this massive Republican propoganda machine (unless you've been watching exclusively Fox News)?
Actually, I prefer to drive wrecklessly, but I try to avoid reckless behavior (or spelling, for that matter).
- Richie
You're kidding, right?
Every single one of the films you've mentioned (with the possible exception of Legally Blonde 2, which I haven't seen yet) was an absolute stinker -- box office failure and critically lambasted.
- Richie
It's a good thing that our house number didn't exist on Avenue P, or the people that lived there would've gotten to go to all of those special events!
- Richie
- Linux boxes be named after species of penguins
- Solaris boxes named after celestial bodies
- Macs named after varieties of apples
- and, of course, Windows boxes would have to be named after famous crashes (pamam103, twa800, titanic, hindenberg, etc.)
The sad part is that people took me seriously. One guy even claimed Magellanic for his Linux box.- Richie
Absolutely wrong. I use a film case for all of my change, and have no problem carrying it around and paying with exact change once I've accumulated enough. I was even tempted to devise a spring-loaded case so that the jingle of the coins would be muffled, but I never got around to it.
- Richie
When I first moved to Israel, I tried to buy a Snapple with a 50 NIS bill ($11.60 at the time). The shopkeeper refused to accept the 50 and forced me to go change it elsewhere. I was floored by the attitude that the 50 was a "big bill" (probably because of the number "50"), even though I highly doubt any merchant in NY would have given me a hard time for paying with a $10 bill.
- Richie
- Richie
The AP is stuck between a rock and a hard place in the Internet era. As a content provider, they would like to be able to sell stories, photos and packages to any potential client, including Yahoo, AOL, etc. On the other hand, as a non-profit cooperative, the AP can be controlled by a block of smaller local newspapers, who need to maintain their readership. This is the fine line that the AP has been walking on for the last few years -- it's anybody's guess as to what their ultimate business strategy will be.
In any event, thanks to those that posted the Yahoo story link. I still find it hard to believe that /. has such poor editorial review for the simplest things! (although I guess I shouldn't be)
- Richie
- Richie