I shoudl probably ammend/expand my hatred of E2 - I hate *reading the text* on E2. Well-written pages are entertaining, albeit huge consumers of time (kinda like JWZ's website)...:)
The lack of a software solution for a problem does not mean the problem has no solution.
No, the lack of a software solution *does* mean that the problem has no solution in the context to which I replied - namely
Delay posting that article by five minutes - paste the content in a spelling and grammar checking tool, and you can eliminate a good chunk of the mistakes. How hard is that, really?
I you can copy and paste into an educated native speaker, you may wanna issue a press release or something. That's something people would like to use. I mean, that's a seriously useful application.
The "piece of mind" error may be a typo, but usually it's someone who went from speech to text without knowing what they were copying down. That's why I threw in "sawzaw" and "intensive purposes" - which are clearly the result of typing down a word or expression that someone misunderstood verbally. I type the wrong thing more often than I'd like (I'm bad with "teh" and "shoudl"), and can even understand the wrong "your" - but I guarantee that "sawzaw" is a misinformed user mistake, not a simple typo by someone who knows better. And this grammar checker solution should fix the problem, esp. when the brain of an educated native speaker misses it.
The "too many links in an article summary" problem is one that I can agree with - there have been several where the most important link somehow finds its way deep within the submision while other "backstory" links end up first in the story. I don't think I'd have quite as much of a problem with the multi-link thing if the most important / relevant link was the first link, and was somehow emphasized - perhaps with some whitespace after its sentence, etc. It's for that reason that I *hate* sites like "everything2", sites with adwords auto-inserted, etc. The links are formatted differently in most any browser, and therefore cause a mental pause when reading a sentence where there should really be uninterrupted flow. Slashback-type posts nonwithstanding, of course, since there's no "most important" in those meta-stories.
Presumably you have a URL for that good quality spelling *and grammar* checking tool that runs on Linux? Make sure it's one that differentiates between too, to, and two; you're and your; etc. Oh, and it should know that Milwaukee's reciprocating saw is called a Sawzall, not a "sawzaw", as well as knowing that the expression is "peace of mind" not "piece of mind". Oh, "for all intensive purposes" should be replaced with "for all intents and purposes" too - unless the context refers to actual intensive purposes, whatever those are.
Anyway, AFAIK there isn't a good grammar checking tool for Linux - and the one in MS Office VersionOfTheMonth doesn't catch things like the last few gripes I have up there either.
Yeah, it *is* pretty nice. Almost like back when the article submissions were all personalized with comments from poor people who hadn't yet hit it big with OSDN (yeah, I forget what they were called at first - but I did buy a VA Linux systems server). Ahh, the old days...;)
You're wrong, and will remain that way until you provide a couple of actual examples (actually, examples comprising 50% of the links posted, since you did say "half the time"). It is *never* correct to link something like "click here" - unless you're linking to the Click Here(R) Inc. home page. If the article is on CNN about flying monkeys, "flying monkeys" should be linked because that's what the link is about - it's not about CNN.
It's plenty exciting - if you're sitting in the stands with your friends eating hotdogs and drinking beer, and presumably talking about something other than the slow-assed game unfolding on the field. It's kinda like going to an outdoor bar with bad food and a bunch of people. I'm not sure about the sport itself - seems to take a long time and involve some people getting paid rediculous amounts of money.
Write performance: insigificant. He said it was for archival use, so presumably it's a lot of reading and not so much writing. Besides, any reasonable RAID should be faster than a single disk, and with just two or three drives you'll be fast approaching the upper limit of gigabit ethernet (I'm presuming that Taco's house isn't wired with infiniband, though I suppose it might be).
Multi-disk failure: Well, you can still lose your RAID-10 if two disks from the same linear array fail, so you're spending a lot of money and not really gaining a whole lot - the 33.3% figure only applies to a 4-disk RAID-10.
If you've got 4 disks and are concerned about 2 failing, go RAID-6. You get the same capacity as the RAID-10 would get you (capacity * (n-2)), and you also have a 0% chance that 2 failed disks will take the array down. To increase capacity, you just need to add one disk at a time, too (after the initial 3), as opposed to the RAID-10, where you have to add in [at least] pairs.
What makes you think that the economics of anyplace outside of the USA makes any difference?;) And, as long as I'm not being real serious, I'm pretty sure that the cost of running a Windows-based server *has* quadrupled. People still run it.:(
Tough to roll back to a specifiec version? Whatever do you mean? Examine the output from "cvs --help diff" and then tell me that it's hard to see what someone changed between two arbitrary revisions/dates. Sure, it's not trivial, but that shows you *exactly* what changed and when it changed. A comment says "whoops" but doesn't detail why the line above was accidentally deleted and re-added elsewhere...
This, BTW, is why I like svn - every commit is repository-wide, not just per-file.
You need a sound device on the sound-playing device. On the sound-originating device you need no such thing. If the application you play sound with has support for esd (many do), you just need to set the ESPEAKER environment variable to the hostname of the machine running esd (your media machine) and run as usual. If the app doesn't support esound directly, you can launch the app with "esddsp" as a wrapper (as in esddsp soundapp -argument -argument) - it basically intercepts calls to/dev/dsp.
There are other similar solutions. Specifically, the KDE project uses arts, because Gnome uses esd and the KDE people in the grand tradition of gnome/kde interaction had to develop their own slightly different system (yeah, arts can use esound). Arts has network sound support, a wrapper (artsdsp), etc.
Depending on what app you're generating the sound with, you could even redirect the sound to icecast and use the media center to tune to your local "web radio" station.
Personally, I use esd because it comes with most distros, is fairly simple to configure, and isn't a huge hassle to debug (stopped working? the daemon probably exited - just restart it). It works well for consolidating the sound output of all of my headless machines that I occasionally log into over remote connections. Not that sound is really that useful most of the time, but sometimes I need to hear a bell when something's done, etc...
Just record some asshole saying "fuck", "breasts", and "midget". Then play those sound clips randomly with a laugh track (make sure there's at least one black female laughing) in the background, perhaps with "lesbian" interjected periodically. It will be funnier *and* more insightful than Stern, but it's as close as a computer can come. Replace the laugh track with NPR for 5 minutes every half hour.
If people would come buy stuff prices at 400% of the retail price instead of refusing to pay for overpriced crap, then a business owner woudl be a fool to *not* price things at +400%. Why *not* pass the price on to customers who are addicted to making themselves cough and stink and die? Or other, non-smoking customers, I suppose?
Start using "if (0)" as a wrapper around your comments, and use "printf" as your comment character. Your lines of code will quickly catch up to and surpass the inexperienced kid who doesn't comment anything.:)
Burning at a low speed appears to more thoroughly "burn" the data to the disk. That's the only explanation I have for otherwise identical media being somewhat flaky in some drives when burned at >16x while other media burned at 52x works fine in those same "flaky" drives... Anyway, I wonder how the burn speed affects longevity (hoping that wasn't in the article which I don't plan to read).
I had one stay in the queue for close to two days at least once, possibly twice. The ones that I've submitted which were posted (two or three, IIRC) went up within less than one day, but I think the last one was a few years back.:)
Therin lies the key - one should not have a default setting of "behave like an ass" which requires earning the status of getting treated well (it may or may not be possible to earn that status in the limited interactions with a waiter, etc). The default should be "I'm glad to have a job and I'm gonna do it as well as I can, becuase it's no shock that my waitress job requires me to take orders and/or bring food to people", and then if the customer's a jerk they downgrade to "ok, I'll just do the minimum for you". I mean, most of the jerk customers I know would be jerks regardless of whether the server was friendly or crappy to begin with...
And since you can plug them both into identical motherboards with identical memory technologies, this is valid. Wait a minute... Sure, it's a small difference, but a difference all the same.
Anyway, the national average rate for electricity is 8.2 cents per KW/hr. That's 245 days under load. In NY where it's 14.52 cents, that's 145 days. 110 days in 19.23 cent average Hawaii. So that's about 3.5 months to break even in Hawaii running a seti client. And that assumes you're paying the average rate - for something to be average, there generally will be lower and *higher* rates. I'll bet that someone in New York City (or some other "costs a lot but provides so little" city) could break even in 3 months.:)
I'm planning to start referring to every text processing program I write as a robot of some sort. Right now, in fact, I'm instructing my web-surfing robot to post some text to a bulliten board robot.
Do you have a URL for that data? I'm curious how that was generated. Average fuel economy of cars sold v/s average distance driven, or something else? Is that just personal-use vehicles, or does any commercial driving count? I'm not disputing it, as it sounds reasonable, I'm genuinely curious how "they" arrived at that number.:)
My dad doesn't have a Jetta, though he does have a couple of Chevy trucks (farmer, justified truck user) that get down in the 15 MPG range on average. The Dodge trucks that get the terrible mileage were the V10 models, IIRC. Amusingly, they were pretty low on power, too, relative to their huge displacement.
*My* point was that the jet in question may not be typical either - there are lots of airplanes in service, and several run without being fully loaded. I'm really not disagreeing that air travel is more efficient over a given distance. It's probably worth keeping in mind, though, that air travel just replaces ons step of travel in general - and overall is only valuable for long-distance travel. I'd like to be able to fly to work, but 'taint gonna happen (even if I do live and work within a mile or so of two airports). So, I'll still be needing a car.
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I guess that's almost copying and pasting to an educated native speaker... :)
I shoudl probably ammend/expand my hatred of E2 - I hate *reading the text* on E2. Well-written pages are entertaining, albeit huge consumers of time (kinda like JWZ's website)... :)
No, the lack of a software solution *does* mean that the problem has no solution in the context to which I replied - namely
I you can copy and paste into an educated native speaker, you may wanna issue a press release or something. That's something people would like to use. I mean, that's a seriously useful application.
The "piece of mind" error may be a typo, but usually it's someone who went from speech to text without knowing what they were copying down. That's why I threw in "sawzaw" and "intensive purposes" - which are clearly the result of typing down a word or expression that someone misunderstood verbally. I type the wrong thing more often than I'd like (I'm bad with "teh" and "shoudl"), and can even understand the wrong "your" - but I guarantee that "sawzaw" is a misinformed user mistake, not a simple typo by someone who knows better. And this grammar checker solution should fix the problem, esp. when the brain of an educated native speaker misses it.
The "too many links in an article summary" problem is one that I can agree with - there have been several where the most important link somehow finds its way deep within the submision while other "backstory" links end up first in the story. I don't think I'd have quite as much of a problem with the multi-link thing if the most important / relevant link was the first link, and was somehow emphasized - perhaps with some whitespace after its sentence, etc. It's for that reason that I *hate* sites like "everything2", sites with adwords auto-inserted, etc. The links are formatted differently in most any browser, and therefore cause a mental pause when reading a sentence where there should really be uninterrupted flow. Slashback-type posts nonwithstanding, of course, since there's no "most important" in those meta-stories.
Presumably you have a URL for that good quality spelling *and grammar* checking tool that runs on Linux? Make sure it's one that differentiates between too, to, and two; you're and your; etc. Oh, and it should know that Milwaukee's reciprocating saw is called a Sawzall, not a "sawzaw", as well as knowing that the expression is "peace of mind" not "piece of mind". Oh, "for all intensive purposes" should be replaced with "for all intents and purposes" too - unless the context refers to actual intensive purposes, whatever those are.
Anyway, AFAIK there isn't a good grammar checking tool for Linux - and the one in MS Office VersionOfTheMonth doesn't catch things like the last few gripes I have up there either.
Yeah, it *is* pretty nice. Almost like back when the article submissions were all personalized with comments from poor people who hadn't yet hit it big with OSDN (yeah, I forget what they were called at first - but I did buy a VA Linux systems server). Ahh, the old days... ;)
You're wrong, and will remain that way until you provide a couple of actual examples (actually, examples comprising 50% of the links posted, since you did say "half the time"). It is *never* correct to link something like "click here" - unless you're linking to the Click Here(R) Inc. home page. If the article is on CNN about flying monkeys, "flying monkeys" should be linked because that's what the link is about - it's not about CNN.
It's plenty exciting - if you're sitting in the stands with your friends eating hotdogs and drinking beer, and presumably talking about something other than the slow-assed game unfolding on the field. It's kinda like going to an outdoor bar with bad food and a bunch of people. I'm not sure about the sport itself - seems to take a long time and involve some people getting paid rediculous amounts of money.
Write performance: insigificant. He said it was for archival use, so presumably it's a lot of reading and not so much writing. Besides, any reasonable RAID should be faster than a single disk, and with just two or three drives you'll be fast approaching the upper limit of gigabit ethernet (I'm presuming that Taco's house isn't wired with infiniband, though I suppose it might be).
Multi-disk failure: Well, you can still lose your RAID-10 if two disks from the same linear array fail, so you're spending a lot of money and not really gaining a whole lot - the 33.3% figure only applies to a 4-disk RAID-10.
If you've got 4 disks and are concerned about 2 failing, go RAID-6. You get the same capacity as the RAID-10 would get you (capacity * (n-2)), and you also have a 0% chance that 2 failed disks will take the array down. To increase capacity, you just need to add one disk at a time, too (after the initial 3), as opposed to the RAID-10, where you have to add in [at least] pairs.
What makes you think that the economics of anyplace outside of the USA makes any difference? ;) And, as long as I'm not being real serious, I'm pretty sure that the cost of running a Windows-based server *has* quadrupled. People still run it. :(
Tough to roll back to a specifiec version? Whatever do you mean? Examine the output from "cvs --help diff" and then tell me that it's hard to see what someone changed between two arbitrary revisions/dates. Sure, it's not trivial, but that shows you *exactly* what changed and when it changed. A comment says "whoops" but doesn't detail why the line above was accidentally deleted and re-added elsewhere...
This, BTW, is why I like svn - every commit is repository-wide, not just per-file.
You need a sound device on the sound-playing device. On the sound-originating device you need no such thing. If the application you play sound with has support for esd (many do), you just need to set the ESPEAKER environment variable to the hostname of the machine running esd (your media machine) and run as usual. If the app doesn't support esound directly, you can launch the app with "esddsp" as a wrapper (as in esddsp soundapp -argument -argument) - it basically intercepts calls to /dev/dsp.
There are other similar solutions. Specifically, the KDE project uses arts, because Gnome uses esd and the KDE people in the grand tradition of gnome/kde interaction had to develop their own slightly different system (yeah, arts can use esound). Arts has network sound support, a wrapper (artsdsp), etc.
Then there's the network audio system - http://nas.codebrilliance.com/. It works on Windows and Linux.
Depending on what app you're generating the sound with, you could even redirect the sound to icecast and use the media center to tune to your local "web radio" station.
Personally, I use esd because it comes with most distros, is fairly simple to configure, and isn't a huge hassle to debug (stopped working? the daemon probably exited - just restart it). It works well for consolidating the sound output of all of my headless machines that I occasionally log into over remote connections. Not that sound is really that useful most of the time, but sometimes I need to hear a bell when something's done, etc...
Just record some asshole saying "fuck", "breasts", and "midget". Then play those sound clips randomly with a laugh track (make sure there's at least one black female laughing) in the background, perhaps with "lesbian" interjected periodically. It will be funnier *and* more insightful than Stern, but it's as close as a computer can come. Replace the laugh track with NPR for 5 minutes every half hour.
If people would come buy stuff prices at 400% of the retail price instead of refusing to pay for overpriced crap, then a business owner woudl be a fool to *not* price things at +400%. Why *not* pass the price on to customers who are addicted to making themselves cough and stink and die? Or other, non-smoking customers, I suppose?
As well as averse to spell checking? Or perhaps you really are the opposite of tornadoes? :)
Start using "if (0)" as a wrapper around your comments, and use "printf" as your comment character. Your lines of code will quickly catch up to and surpass the inexperienced kid who doesn't comment anything. :)
Burning at a low speed appears to more thoroughly "burn" the data to the disk. That's the only explanation I have for otherwise identical media being somewhat flaky in some drives when burned at >16x while other media burned at 52x works fine in those same "flaky" drives... Anyway, I wonder how the burn speed affects longevity (hoping that wasn't in the article which I don't plan to read).
I have CD-R's that are 10 years old which read just fine
I have audio casettes that I bought at a truck stop around 6 years ago, and some don't play worth a damn.
CD-R isn't forever, but it's better than a magnetic tape.
I had one stay in the queue for close to two days at least once, possibly twice. The ones that I've submitted which were posted (two or three, IIRC) went up within less than one day, but I think the last one was a few years back. :)
Therin lies the key - one should not have a default setting of "behave like an ass" which requires earning the status of getting treated well (it may or may not be possible to earn that status in the limited interactions with a waiter, etc). The default should be "I'm glad to have a job and I'm gonna do it as well as I can, becuase it's no shock that my waitress job requires me to take orders and/or bring food to people", and then if the customer's a jerk they downgrade to "ok, I'll just do the minimum for you". I mean, most of the jerk customers I know would be jerks regardless of whether the server was friendly or crappy to begin with...
I'd just like to say thank you for not being one of those idiots who uses "seemlesly" when they mean "without a seam". Thanks.
And since you can plug them both into identical motherboards with identical memory technologies, this is valid. Wait a minute... Sure, it's a small difference, but a difference all the same.
:)
Anyway, the national average rate for electricity is 8.2 cents per KW/hr. That's 245 days under load. In NY where it's 14.52 cents, that's 145 days. 110 days in 19.23 cent average Hawaii. So that's about 3.5 months to break even in Hawaii running a seti client. And that assumes you're paying the average rate - for something to be average, there generally will be lower and *higher* rates. I'll bet that someone in New York City (or some other "costs a lot but provides so little" city) could break even in 3 months.
I'm planning to start referring to every text processing program I write as a robot of some sort. Right now, in fact, I'm instructing my web-surfing robot to post some text to a bulliten board robot.
Do you have a URL for that data? I'm curious how that was generated. Average fuel economy of cars sold v/s average distance driven, or something else? Is that just personal-use vehicles, or does any commercial driving count? I'm not disputing it, as it sounds reasonable, I'm genuinely curious how "they" arrived at that number. :)
My dad doesn't have a Jetta, though he does have a couple of Chevy trucks (farmer, justified truck user) that get down in the 15 MPG range on average. The Dodge trucks that get the terrible mileage were the V10 models, IIRC. Amusingly, they were pretty low on power, too, relative to their huge displacement.
*My* point was that the jet in question may not be typical either - there are lots of airplanes in service, and several run without being fully loaded. I'm really not disagreeing that air travel is more efficient over a given distance. It's probably worth keeping in mind, though, that air travel just replaces ons step of travel in general - and overall is only valuable for long-distance travel. I'd like to be able to fly to work, but 'taint gonna happen (even if I do live and work within a mile or so of two airports). So, I'll still be needing a car.