The last few months I have been doing some research into the trolling phenomenon on slashdot.org.
More moderator points are being used to mod posts down than up
That's what happens when you troll a lot. I've made well over a hundred posts in the last year, and only a couple were modded down, while the majority of them were modded up, with dozens reaching +5. My experience - which does not include trolling - is that moderators overwhelmingly tend to mod posts upwards.
...in every screenshot I could find the Cinnamon fork used a variant of the MintMenu. No offense to those who like it, it simply doesn't trip my trigger and I prefer the Gnome 2 menu bar.
Cinnamon is not configurable to use the Gnome menu? Ugh. I also find MintMenu to be quite irritating, and greatly prefer the Gnome 2 menu bar (or xfce menu). I've tried a few versions of Linux Mint in VMs, and each time that MintMenu turns me off it, and I keep using Ubuntu 10.04, and its Xubuntu variant.
Why not, if it's just a desktop with a net connection? Do you have so little confidence in their abilities? My wife and kids seem to have no problem with Linux; we have Ubuntu 10.04 on two desktops and Xubuntu 10.04 on a laptop (it had Lubuntu 10.04 until recently). One of the kids is a pre-teen and does not have/need sudo permissions, but does her web browsing and some simple OpenOffice stuff as well as playing games (sometimes with friends). The others seem to use Linux in more sophisticated ways without issues, including installing the odd package and running updates as well as the more usual email, browsing, photo album maintenance, and various document-related tasks. BTW, none of our machines is dual boot; they're all linux-only.
I could understand your reluctance, if we were talking about a home network with servers as well as workstations. At home, I'm the one who looks after our two servers (also Linux, but not *buntu) and their configuration, automated backup, etc. But server administration is a different kettle of fish, whatever OS they have.
I agree. The TV should remain a dumb device, much like the computer monitor.
Exactly. It's a display device, a pure output-only peripheral. We use none of the smarts in our semi-smart TV, and just switch it between its inputs (digibox [soon to be discarded], PS3, media server, ancient laptop [with dance-pads]). Getting a non-smart TV was apparently impossible - they all are trying to embed useless functions which I don't want, and which probably add something to the cost of the device. the thing has a mediocre web access capability, a mediocre media playing capability, and probably a few other mediocre features.
The digibox is getting discarded (for a few euros reduction in our monthly billing) because I discovered that in a three month period including Christmas, nobody had watched any TV programs. Not one. The kids played many games using the PS3 and watched a load of stuff from the media server, and we all used the dance-pads a fair amount. The extra TV subscription looks like money down the drain.
Recall the old adage that Canada should be the best place in the world, with French culture, British politics, and American industry. Instead, they somehow ended up with French politics, British industry, and American culture. This cooperation between banks will doubtless combine their weaknesses while discarding their strengths in a similar way.
As part of owning a patent you must hold up the legal end of if someone steals your patents you must legal go after them for restitution
Your facts are as wrong as your grammar.
He has a patent on both.
In that case, he could have a lot of legal work ahead of him, what with all the infringing pathetically ungrammatical and grossly unfactual comments posted on slashdot.
And also 20 guys who don't have the education or experience but they're good liars and know how to work the system, so one of those 20 will almost certainly be hired.
No matter how good those liars are, they have little or no chance... against the nepotist applicant.
Barring considerations like wind, I can reliably start it down to around 10F and be at operational temperature in a couple minutes, even without the block heater in use.
Um, +10F is not particularly cold; it's only about -12C. We rarely reach -40C (-40F) here, but every winter we get several weeks below -20C (-6F), with occasional spells below -30C (-22F). Having said that, I always use the block heater when it's expected to be below -10C, and my car is newer than yours.
Our eldest is going to one of the NASA Space camps later this year. It's costing us a bit in airfares and suchlike, but she expects it will be worth it.
And I'm getting 53-56 MPG at the injector and 50-52 MPG at the pump (lower due to evaporation) on mostly highway commutes.
The calculation done by the car's computer is stupid. The "averaging" which is done by the car in computing its average MPG figure is a time average of the instantaneous MPG value. It should, of course be a weighted average using the rate of fuel usage as weighting factor to give a proper MPG average over a certain number of gallons (your pump figure).
Which if you think about it is pretty pathetic. Diesel cars have been able to get that for years. There are definitely places like Minnesota where diesel is a lot less realistic, but hybrids aren't going to make much sense there either as batteries don't like the cold any more than diesel does.
Agreed, mid-40s in miles per US gallon is pathetic indeed. I drive a diesel Mercedes C stationwagon (similar in size to the Prius V), and average at least 55mpg (US gallons) in our usual mix of driving, which encompasses comparable distances of highway, rural dirt road, suburban, and urban driving. In summer it usually gets better than 60mpg, mostly because the road conditions are less likely to be nasty. The car is almost 9 years old, and has about 320000km on the clock.
Incidentally, I live in central Finland, which has winters not dissimilar to those of Minnesota (been there, in summer and winter and in the transitions between them). Relatively modern diesel cars are quite OK in such climates; the filling stations change the diesel mix for winter to account for the cold.
A button like that on Linux probably wouldn't be that big of a deal as it could just work on all the partitions except for/home.
You mean to say that everything in/var is meaningless in a typical Linux install? Mysql, svn, apache, etc. All to the trash can. Yeah!
While I am all in favor of the separation of concerns and while I also agree that Linux is better than Windows in that regard, it is nowhere as clear cut as you'd like it to be.
As someone who retired a Synology DS-101 running Apache (among other things) about 4 years ago and replaced it with a Synology DS-207 also running Apache, I'm not quite sure what you're getting at here. Apart from copying the files for the web server and the home directories, it required only a few minutes of configuration to set up the DS-207. Actually, most of that minor setup effort involved defining users for the file server, NFS exports for other PCs to mount, and backup schedules and suchlike non-web-specific functions.
We recently migrated the file server functions to a DS-211 while leaving the web server on the DS-207. That was also a doddle in terms of configuration, requiring only that the users and NFS exports be defined, and the backup schedule be established for the DS211. An overnight cp -Ruv of the home directories and public/shared directories then finished the job. It's hard to see how it could be easier, except by getting someone else to do it (but you'd still have to say what you wanted to be done).
you can ad comments on the firehose too.. if converted to a story- would the comment time match?...
AFAIK, comments added while a story is in the Firehose do NOT get transferred. At least, I posted a couple of comments to firehose stories some months ago, and they stayed in the firehose when the story was subsequently published.
I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes
Alas, the techniques used by the Laughing Man in GITS are further away than facial recognition and CCTV, and even in that universe they were only practical for extreme hackers.
remember atleast 80% of the left-wing is still religious
I guess you're referring to the US (where theists form a considerable majority), rather than to Sweden or Europe. For Sweden, about one quarter of the population are theists, another quarter are atheists, and half are deists. In the EU-25, about half of the population are theists, one fifth are atheists, and the rest are deists.
"Fun fact: In Finland, the only person you should confess a murder to is a priest. Even the court can't force a priest to break the secrecy."
Better fact: The best kept secret is the one that no one else knows about.
So then you kill the priest immediately after confession. Which gives you another murder to confess, presumably to another priest. The Catholics have over 400000 of them, so you won't run out for some time.
Hmmm, must have been a predictive warning message, then. Since computers are never wrong, I'd better bring over some petrol and matches. Where exactly is this printer?
and I've yet to find an app on the Android market that doesn't work without issue on my Transformer.
I don't think this fragment means what you think it means.
Of course your rant about Cocoa Touch and XCode documentation demonstrates that literacy is not high on your list of TODOs.
Perhaps reading comprehension should be added to your TODO list, since you appear to have difficulty with multiple negatives (and clearly have a lower literacy than GP). The sentence fragment you quoted means that every app GP has found so far on the Android market worked without issues on his Transformer. Your disparagement of his statement suggests you misinterpreted it, and badly.
1. My router notifies DynDNS.org of my current IP as soon as it changes (while running) or is assigned (from router boot).
2. My IP has changed via DHCP precisely once in the last 5 years, when my ISP transferred me to a different service level (it did not change when the ISP was bought out 3 years ago)
Now, if anyone was accessing my site by raw IP address they would have had a hiccup a few months ago. But for anyone accessing it by DNS name, it was a doddle.
Second, there is no mention of the previous record so we have nothing to compare this "record" to.
I guess you did not notice the post made about 20 minutes ahead of yours by gedankenhoren, which compared record high temperatures at two nearby Antarctic stations with their previous record highs:
-- Preliminary assessment of the record high at Nico AWS was -8.2C or 17.2F on 25 December 2011. This breaks the previous known record of -13.9C or 7F recorded on 4 January 2010.
-- Preliminary assessment of the record high at Henry AWS was -8.9C or 16F on 25 December 2011. This break the previous known record of -14.5C or 5.9F on 5 January 2010.
So at these stations (both close to the South Pole), the new record was more than 5.5C above the previous record.
I wonder if the newly won land on Antartica can even offset the flooded land along the coats of the earth, if the ice on Antarctica is completely molten.
Doubtful. Here's a map of Antarctica with the ice removed, with the added assumption that sea level is unchanged by the removal of said ice sheets. Lakes are shown for interior areas below sea level (arguably lakes might not occupy all regions below sea-level, but might also occupy some areas which would be above sea-level).
Of course melting the Antarctic ice would add about 61m to global sea level (net, allowing for floating ice, etc.), or 68m if Greenland's ice sheets also melt. These estimates would be modified slightly depending on assumed temperature change above freezing, oceanic mixing, and oceanic salinity change.
one that we could take as easily as paying $4 for a latte
Sorry, I don't pay that kind of money for a mediocre milky coffee. I've had many varieties of Starbucks fluids (on the company nickel) and while it's less bad than McDonalds, it's nowhere close to the European standards I'm accustomed to.
As to "apps", well, value is in the eye of the consumer. And value to the customer is the primary determinant of a sustainable price (along with the competitive element). Most apps are middling in quality, mediocrity multiplied by millions. The few which are polished are usually free, because they give access to a service paid for elsewhere, such as The Economist online.
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The last few months I have been doing some research into the trolling phenomenon on slashdot.org.
More moderator points are being used to mod posts down than up
That's what happens when you troll a lot. I've made well over a hundred posts in the last year, and only a couple were modded down, while the majority of them were modded up, with dozens reaching +5. My experience - which does not include trolling - is that moderators overwhelmingly tend to mod posts upwards.
Cinnamon is not configurable to use the Gnome menu? Ugh. I also find MintMenu to be quite irritating, and greatly prefer the Gnome 2 menu bar (or xfce menu). I've tried a few versions of Linux Mint in VMs, and each time that MintMenu turns me off it, and I keep using Ubuntu 10.04, and its Xubuntu variant.
was not entirely dismissing the idea or thats' what I felt.
Santorum was just mouthing his usual santorum.
I wouldn't inflict a Linux desktop on my family.
Why not, if it's just a desktop with a net connection? Do you have so little confidence in their abilities? My wife and kids seem to have no problem with Linux; we have Ubuntu 10.04 on two desktops and Xubuntu 10.04 on a laptop (it had Lubuntu 10.04 until recently). One of the kids is a pre-teen and does not have/need sudo permissions, but does her web browsing and some simple OpenOffice stuff as well as playing games (sometimes with friends). The others seem to use Linux in more sophisticated ways without issues, including installing the odd package and running updates as well as the more usual email, browsing, photo album maintenance, and various document-related tasks. BTW, none of our machines is dual boot; they're all linux-only.
I could understand your reluctance, if we were talking about a home network with servers as well as workstations. At home, I'm the one who looks after our two servers (also Linux, but not *buntu) and their configuration, automated backup, etc. But server administration is a different kettle of fish, whatever OS they have.
I agree. The TV should remain a dumb device, much like the computer monitor.
Exactly. It's a display device, a pure output-only peripheral. We use none of the smarts in our semi-smart TV, and just switch it between its inputs (digibox [soon to be discarded], PS3, media server, ancient laptop [with dance-pads]). Getting a non-smart TV was apparently impossible - they all are trying to embed useless functions which I don't want, and which probably add something to the cost of the device. the thing has a mediocre web access capability, a mediocre media playing capability, and probably a few other mediocre features.
The digibox is getting discarded (for a few euros reduction in our monthly billing) because I discovered that in a three month period including Christmas, nobody had watched any TV programs. Not one. The kids played many games using the PS3 and watched a load of stuff from the media server, and we all used the dance-pads a fair amount. The extra TV subscription looks like money down the drain.
It all comes down to how it works.
It all comes down to how it dysfunctions.
Recall the old adage that Canada should be the best place in the world, with French culture, British politics, and American industry. Instead, they somehow ended up with French politics, British industry, and American culture. This cooperation between banks will doubtless combine their weaknesses while discarding their strengths in a similar way.
As part of owning a patent you must hold up the legal end of if someone steals your patents you must legal go after them for restitution
Your facts are as wrong as your grammar.
He has a patent on both.
In that case, he could have a lot of legal work ahead of him, what with all the infringing pathetically ungrammatical and grossly unfactual comments posted on slashdot.
And also 20 guys who don't have the education or experience but they're good liars and know how to work the system, so one of those 20 will almost certainly be hired.
No matter how good those liars are, they have little or no chance... against the nepotist applicant.
Barring considerations like wind, I can reliably start it down to around 10F and be at operational temperature in a couple minutes, even without the block heater in use.
Um, +10F is not particularly cold; it's only about -12C. We rarely reach -40C (-40F) here, but every winter we get several weeks below -20C (-6F), with occasional spells below -30C (-22F). Having said that, I always use the block heater when it's expected to be below -10C, and my car is newer than yours.
Our eldest is going to one of the NASA Space camps later this year. It's costing us a bit in airfares and suchlike, but she expects it will be worth it.
And I'm getting 53-56 MPG at the injector and 50-52 MPG at the pump (lower due to evaporation) on mostly highway commutes.
The calculation done by the car's computer is stupid. The "averaging" which is done by the car in computing its average MPG figure is a time average of the instantaneous MPG value. It should, of course be a weighted average using the rate of fuel usage as weighting factor to give a proper MPG average over a certain number of gallons (your pump figure).
Which if you think about it is pretty pathetic. Diesel cars have been able to get that for years. There are definitely places like Minnesota where diesel is a lot less realistic, but hybrids aren't going to make much sense there either as batteries don't like the cold any more than diesel does.
Agreed, mid-40s in miles per US gallon is pathetic indeed. I drive a diesel Mercedes C stationwagon (similar in size to the Prius V), and average at least 55mpg (US gallons) in our usual mix of driving, which encompasses comparable distances of highway, rural dirt road, suburban, and urban driving. In summer it usually gets better than 60mpg, mostly because the road conditions are less likely to be nasty. The car is almost 9 years old, and has about 320000km on the clock.
Incidentally, I live in central Finland, which has winters not dissimilar to those of Minnesota (been there, in summer and winter and in the transitions between them). Relatively modern diesel cars are quite OK in such climates; the filling stations change the diesel mix for winter to account for the cold.
A button like that on Linux probably wouldn't be that big of a deal as it could just work on all the partitions except for /home.
You mean to say that everything in /var is meaningless in a typical Linux install? Mysql, svn, apache, etc. All to the trash can. Yeah!
While I am all in favor of the separation of concerns and while I also agree that Linux is better than Windows in that regard, it is nowhere as clear cut as you'd like it to be.
As someone who retired a Synology DS-101 running Apache (among other things) about 4 years ago and replaced it with a Synology DS-207 also running Apache, I'm not quite sure what you're getting at here. Apart from copying the files for the web server and the home directories, it required only a few minutes of configuration to set up the DS-207. Actually, most of that minor setup effort involved defining users for the file server, NFS exports for other PCs to mount, and backup schedules and suchlike non-web-specific functions.
We recently migrated the file server functions to a DS-211 while leaving the web server on the DS-207. That was also a doddle in terms of configuration, requiring only that the users and NFS exports be defined, and the backup schedule be established for the DS211. An overnight cp -Ruv of the home directories and public/shared directories then finished the job. It's hard to see how it could be easier, except by getting someone else to do it (but you'd still have to say what you wanted to be done).
you can ad comments on the firehose too.. if converted to a story- would the comment time match?...
AFAIK, comments added while a story is in the Firehose do NOT get transferred. At least, I posted a couple of comments to firehose stories some months ago, and they stayed in the firehose when the story was subsequently published.
Are you thinking what I'm thinking?
I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes
Alas, the techniques used by the Laughing Man in GITS are further away than facial recognition and CCTV, and even in that universe they were only practical for extreme hackers.
remember atleast 80% of the left-wing is still religious
I guess you're referring to the US (where theists form a considerable majority), rather than to Sweden or Europe. For Sweden, about one quarter of the population are theists, another quarter are atheists, and half are deists. In the EU-25, about half of the population are theists, one fifth are atheists, and the rest are deists.
"Fun fact: In Finland, the only person you should confess a murder to is a priest. Even the court can't force a priest to break the secrecy."
Better fact: The best kept secret is the one that no one else knows about.
So then you kill the priest immediately after confession. Which gives you another murder to confess, presumably to another priest. The Catholics have over 400000 of them, so you won't run out for some time.
it was indeed not on fire
Hmmm, must have been a predictive warning message, then. Since computers are never wrong, I'd better bring over some petrol and matches. Where exactly is this printer?
and I've yet to find an app on the Android market that doesn't work without issue on my Transformer.
I don't think this fragment means what you think it means.
Of course your rant about Cocoa Touch and XCode documentation demonstrates that literacy is not high on your list of TODOs.
Perhaps reading comprehension should be added to your TODO list, since you appear to have difficulty with multiple negatives (and clearly have a lower literacy than GP). The sentence fragment you quoted means that every app GP has found so far on the Android market worked without issues on his Transformer. Your disparagement of his statement suggests you misinterpreted it, and badly.
1. My router notifies DynDNS.org of my current IP as soon as it changes (while running) or is assigned (from router boot).
2. My IP has changed via DHCP precisely once in the last 5 years, when my ISP transferred me to a different service level (it did not change when the ISP was bought out 3 years ago)
Now, if anyone was accessing my site by raw IP address they would have had a hiccup a few months ago. But for anyone accessing it by DNS name, it was a doddle.
They can't possibly remove a profile picture showing such a knowledge of culture and degree of sophistication as the digitus impudicus.
Second, there is no mention of the previous record so we have nothing to compare this "record" to.
I guess you did not notice the post made about 20 minutes ahead of yours by gedankenhoren, which compared record high temperatures at two nearby Antarctic stations with their previous record highs:
-- Preliminary assessment of the record high at Nico AWS was -8.2C or 17.2F on 25 December 2011. This breaks the previous known record of -13.9C or 7F recorded on 4 January 2010.
-- Preliminary assessment of the record high at Henry AWS was -8.9C or 16F on 25 December 2011. This break the previous known record of -14.5C or 5.9F on 5 January 2010.
So at these stations (both close to the South Pole), the new record was more than 5.5C above the previous record.
I wonder if the newly won land on Antartica can even offset the flooded land along the coats of the earth, if the ice on Antarctica is completely molten.
Doubtful. Here's a map of Antarctica with the ice removed, with the added assumption that sea level is unchanged by the removal of said ice sheets. Lakes are shown for interior areas below sea level (arguably lakes might not occupy all regions below sea-level, but might also occupy some areas which would be above sea-level).
Of course melting the Antarctic ice would add about 61m to global sea level (net, allowing for floating ice, etc.), or 68m if Greenland's ice sheets also melt. These estimates would be modified slightly depending on assumed temperature change above freezing, oceanic mixing, and oceanic salinity change.
Others fantasize about about Tom Cruise spiriting them away in a DC-9.
Sounds like a nightmare to me: the DC-9 was never among my favorite airplanes, and the newest of them is almost 30 years old. From Wikipedia:
The final DC-9 was delivered in October 1982.
As for Tom Cruise... I'd fly in a DC-3 to avoid the dork.
From TFS:
one that we could take as easily as paying $4 for a latte
Sorry, I don't pay that kind of money for a mediocre milky coffee. I've had many varieties of Starbucks fluids (on the company nickel) and while it's less bad than McDonalds, it's nowhere close to the European standards I'm accustomed to.
As to "apps", well, value is in the eye of the consumer. And value to the customer is the primary determinant of a sustainable price (along with the competitive element). Most apps are middling in quality, mediocrity multiplied by millions. The few which are polished are usually free, because they give access to a service paid for elsewhere, such as The Economist online.