even if you vote for the other guy, he might be just as bad about answering communications as the current one is
Might. You already know for sure that the current one is bad, so vote for someone else. If politicians know that they'll be reelected even if they behave poorly, then why would they do that difficult thing and change? Misbehaviour needs punished, followed by an explanation of what the reason for the misbehaviour is.
Soemone's been mentioning the "slashdot politics" club at yahoo groups. You might check that out. I personally haven't become associated with it yet, but maybe I will, before using the internet for political reasons becomes a terrorist activity.
That's sort of how the franklin thing works. You get the initial well-rouded stuff at your community college where it's cheap and easy (mmm, cheap and easy...), then when you go to a real college you get real courses that are relevent. Eh, it works for me (esp the internet-delivered thing that lets me keep a full-time job).
mp3s will still have hisses and skips that can be dangerous to powerful, quality audio setups
Have you ever actually heard an mp3? Mp3 compression decreases the available frequencies in a sound file, causing an audible reduction in sound quality through decreased *range*, making the recordings sound somewhat flat. Pops are caused by crap ripping software/cd-rom/cd's introducing noises into the original source, not by the encoder. I'm not sure what would cause an mp3 to hiss, aside from poorly-isolated playback equipment (again, not the fault of mp3).
My citizen eco-drive watch has never and will never need a battery. It's solar-charged with a battery backup, charged off of artificial and natural light, and has a battery that can sustain the watch for several months without any light before needing rechanrged by some light exposure. No *that's* the technology that needs adapted to this linux watch. It takes me more than 6 hours to lose track of time so badly that I need to check my watch...:)
The watch was a little pricy, but mine looks subtle while still being pretty nice. All brushed titanium construction, water resistent far deeper than I'll ever dive (considering that I don't dive), and that whole "never needs a battery" thing...
I'd provide a link to citizen's web page, BTW, but it sucks *so* bad that I refuse to do so. It's straight flash, and for some reason wouldn't even take me to the english page. The watch still kicks ass, thoug.
http://alliance.franklin.edu/ and your local community college. Get an accredited BS in CS online (take tests proctored at your local school) and maybe an AAS from your local community college. I actually went to a "real" university for a few years, then got a job and am a couple of classes away from completing the degree. 'Course, most of the desire to get the degree comes from wanting to get a new job someday...
Anyway, Franklin's distance courses are pretty good, and their CS degree is actually CS - not some crappy "cs for managers" curriculum with one programming language and a bunch of business garbage. You get real compiler design, OS design, hardware function, and math classes at Franklin (as well as the requisite well-rounded crap, but not at the expense of CS courses). It was the best online CS program that I could find a couple of years ago when I was looking around.
Hey, I was just thinking yesterday that there really oughtta be something like ?= - though I was working with php at the time (which is slowly getting replaced with eperl).
He could just make himself *look* like tatanium by using some paint from the eastwood company (they make all kinds of cool car restoration stuff). http://www.eastwoodcompany.com/cgi-bin/sgin0101.ex e. I think that gold-cadmium plating would be cooler on the ol' taco, but hey, who am I to stifle dreams of titanium?
So, like he said, unless you're willing to screw away hours of your time just to find out that your listening room is not "bose compliant", don't get Bose speakers. Bose stuff can sound good, but the hassle isn't worth it for the majority of the sounds coming out of most anyone's computer.:)
Do try not to be condescending when it's unwarranted
While my post was a response to yours, Mr. Badger, the comment regarding "reading the documentation" was directed at the person who posted a question which was answered in the documentation.
Anyway, my apologies for coming across as condescending. 'Twas not my intent...
The price is precisely what I was complaining about. Features, support, price, coverage - pick one, maybe 2. I've shopped around some, but not for a short while. I guess it's time to see if things have changed yet. Someday...
Funny, I'm currently employed (sys admin, web backend programming) now, but previous school tried to require me to take a course on "job search strategies". My last job? Lead linux admin for that college. So, I've gotten 2 jobs while attending that school, yet they maintain that I still need to be trained in job searchng. Eh, they also require that I take a course in "Network administration" that's taught in a lab that I maintained for a year and a half.
Almost all of higher education exists to show you how to think and solve problems. Given the ineptitude of several instructors, you're also presented with the oppertunity to work for people as clueless about your field as your future managers are likely to be.;) You rarely are presented with problems - and even more rarely, solutions - that you'll encounter in practice. Just learn how to solve problems and try to remember some basic skills, let experience get you the rest.
Meccano is similar. My erector sets were plain metal colored (may have been galvanized, but I seem to recall a little rusting, so who knows). I also remember thikning that they should have spent some time grinding down the edges of the girders so that they wouldn't be so darned sharp. As it was, it was easy to cut yourself on the stamped-out girders. One more reason I liked construx and Lincoln Logs (aka, the toy most easily converted to a lever/fulcrum laungher-of-everything-small) - they couldn't cut me unless something very wrong was being done.:)
Finally, maybe I'll be able to get one cell phone and one plan that will let me travel more than 1/2 hour in any direction without incurring roaming charges. I'm sick of always living on the edge of a "home area" because the next county over is some other cell company's territory. Sprint PCS already just about does it for me, but their customer support is crap. If they could get better coverage, I'd ignore the customer support problems.:)
Or, don't worry about it, because LaBrea doesn't actually request the IP from the DHCP server, so the IPs aren't listed in the dhcp.leases file as taken, so the DHCP server will still give them out. LaBrea tries very hard to recover nicely when a machine whose IP it's using comes up, so you shouldn't need to list the DHCP range at all unless it actually causes problems on your network. Do read the *whole* doc page before implementing the program, it's pretty informative.:)
You forgot the most important one: faster downloads & faster rendering. Good, hand-written HTML usually has fewer pieces of extraneous code in place and has better optimized tags. That's less data for the viewer to download and less extra stuff for the browser to render. It may be minor, but it's real, and there are many cases where people still use, *gasp*, modems.
Besides, if you can't write good clean HTML, then you're not a real web developer - you're a "web publisher".
Construx, indeed, rocked. My parents too have a big heap of them in a box in their attic. However:
I remember one that actually had screws and metal bars that you could bolt together in all different shapes and sizes, and motors too, but I can't remember the name of it.
"Erector"? I can't believe that you'd forget the name of the construction-type toy that made me giggle most...:) I hated that thing, because it took forever to thread all the nutsonot the screws. If they'd used some kind of expanding fastener (like hollow-wall anchors, perhaps) so I dind'thave to thread and unthread stuff or hold a screwdriver/wrench/2+ parts with only 2 hands, I'd have liked them almost as much as construx. As it was, though, construx rocked.
I'll tell you what, I went to the gas station across the street from my house and filled up both of my cars this morning. If they don't go up, well, that's fine too - they were both getting low anyway.:)
Or, use PVC Pipe. Go with something like 1.25" for a balance between strength and space lost to structural elements, and maybe use 3/4 for the "hutch" sections (1/2" would work for fairly short spans/light load areas). Get some veneered plywood (or some MDF and veneer/roller of your own) and make shelvins/sides for the thing. You could build one heck of a kick-ass desk that's precisely what you want/need for not too much money if you went with cheap shelving materials (PVC is pretty cheap to begin with). Remember, you *can* paint the pipe to make it look more impressive.
Check out http://www.thepvcstore.com for some furniture plans that might get you started if you don't already know what to do...
These people are simply not prepared to lead a meaningful life, and use their computer as a way to escape social situations that they never learned to properly cope with.
If they have an escape, then whose place is it to say that the aren't "properly" coping with the situations? They're coping in a manner that they find acceptable, therefore, their method should be acceptable to everyone else. Only the person living a life should be allowed to determine if their method of living is acceptable (unless it infringes upon someone else's method of living). I believe that's the whole "pursuit of happiness" thing that some Americans wrote about a long time ago, as well as several other cultures...
Yeah, so? Isnt' the speed thatthe CPU runs at what's relevent? If some crazy cpu merchant sells me a 1GHz chip as a 1.2GHz chip and it runs stable at that speed, who cares if it's not "really" a 1.2GHz chip. Sure looks that way to me. If the system's not stable, then underclocking is one of my debugging steps before returning the chip. If it runs underclocked, then I take the chip back and bitch about it until I get a new one. Lather, rinse, repeat with a quality vendor, and quit worrying about what AMD/Intel sells their chips as. The different clock speed chips are the same damned thing anyway, but the faster ones have a more expensive guarantee.
Though, I suppose you've got a point if it's really important for someone to know what AMD rated the chip at. I suppose that'd be useful in some environment, maybe, though I can't think of one off the top of my head...:)
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even if you vote for the other guy, he might be just as bad about answering communications as the current one is
Might. You already know for sure that the current one is bad, so vote for someone else. If politicians know that they'll be reelected even if they behave poorly, then why would they do that difficult thing and change? Misbehaviour needs punished, followed by an explanation of what the reason for the misbehaviour is.
Soemone's been mentioning the "slashdot politics" club at yahoo groups. You might check that out. I personally haven't become associated with it yet, but maybe I will, before using the internet for political reasons becomes a terrorist activity.
That's sort of how the franklin thing works. You get the initial well-rouded stuff at your community college where it's cheap and easy (mmm, cheap and easy...), then when you go to a real college you get real courses that are relevent. Eh, it works for me (esp the internet-delivered thing that lets me keep a full-time job).
mp3s will still have hisses and skips that can be dangerous to powerful, quality audio setups
Have you ever actually heard an mp3? Mp3 compression decreases the available frequencies in a sound file, causing an audible reduction in sound quality through decreased *range*, making the recordings sound somewhat flat. Pops are caused by crap ripping software/cd-rom/cd's introducing noises into the original source, not by the encoder. I'm not sure what would cause an mp3 to hiss, aside from poorly-isolated playback equipment (again, not the fault of mp3).
That said, this thing is somewhat overpriced.
My citizen eco-drive watch has never and will never need a battery. It's solar-charged with a battery backup, charged off of artificial and natural light, and has a battery that can sustain the watch for several months without any light before needing rechanrged by some light exposure. No *that's* the technology that needs adapted to this linux watch. It takes me more than 6 hours to lose track of time so badly that I need to check my watch... :)
The watch was a little pricy, but mine looks subtle while still being pretty nice. All brushed titanium construction, water resistent far deeper than I'll ever dive (considering that I don't dive), and that whole "never needs a battery" thing...
I'd provide a link to citizen's web page, BTW, but it sucks *so* bad that I refuse to do so. It's straight flash, and for some reason wouldn't even take me to the english page. The watch still kicks ass, thoug.
http://alliance.franklin.edu/ and your local community college. Get an accredited BS in CS online (take tests proctored at your local school) and maybe an AAS from your local community college. I actually went to a "real" university for a few years, then got a job and am a couple of classes away from completing the degree. 'Course, most of the desire to get the degree comes from wanting to get a new job someday...
Anyway, Franklin's distance courses are pretty good, and their CS degree is actually CS - not some crappy "cs for managers" curriculum with one programming language and a bunch of business garbage. You get real compiler design, OS design, hardware function, and math classes at Franklin (as well as the requisite well-rounded crap, but not at the expense of CS courses). It was the best online CS program that I could find a couple of years ago when I was looking around.
Hey, I was just thinking yesterday that there really oughtta be something like ?= - though I was working with php at the time (which is slowly getting replaced with eperl).
He could just make himself *look* like tatanium by using some paint from the eastwood company (they make all kinds of cool car restoration stuff). http://www.eastwoodcompany.com/cgi-bin/sgin0101.ex e. I think that gold-cadmium plating would be cooler on the ol' taco, but hey, who am I to stifle dreams of titanium?
So, like he said, unless you're willing to screw away hours of your time just to find out that your listening room is not "bose compliant", don't get Bose speakers. Bose stuff can sound good, but the hassle isn't worth it for the majority of the sounds coming out of most anyone's computer. :)
Do try not to be condescending when it's unwarranted
While my post was a response to yours, Mr. Badger, the comment regarding "reading the documentation" was directed at the person who posted a question which was answered in the documentation.
Anyway, my apologies for coming across as condescending. 'Twas not my intent...
The price is precisely what I was complaining about. Features, support, price, coverage - pick one, maybe 2. I've shopped around some, but not for a short while. I guess it's time to see if things have changed yet. Someday...
Funny, I'm currently employed (sys admin, web backend programming) now, but previous school tried to require me to take a course on "job search strategies". My last job? Lead linux admin for that college. So, I've gotten 2 jobs while attending that school, yet they maintain that I still need to be trained in job searchng. Eh, they also require that I take a course in "Network administration" that's taught in a lab that I maintained for a year and a half.
Almost all of higher education exists to show you how to think and solve problems. Given the ineptitude of several instructors, you're also presented with the oppertunity to work for people as clueless about your field as your future managers are likely to be. ;) You rarely are presented with problems - and even more rarely, solutions - that you'll encounter in practice. Just learn how to solve problems and try to remember some basic skills, let experience get you the rest.
"You expect us to swallow this tripe?"
Meccano is similar. My erector sets were plain metal colored (may have been galvanized, but I seem to recall a little rusting, so who knows). I also remember thikning that they should have spent some time grinding down the edges of the girders so that they wouldn't be so darned sharp. As it was, it was easy to cut yourself on the stamped-out girders. One more reason I liked construx and Lincoln Logs (aka, the toy most easily converted to a lever/fulcrum laungher-of-everything-small) - they couldn't cut me unless something very wrong was being done. :)
Finally, maybe I'll be able to get one cell phone and one plan that will let me travel more than 1/2 hour in any direction without incurring roaming charges. I'm sick of always living on the edge of a "home area" because the next county over is some other cell company's territory. Sprint PCS already just about does it for me, but their customer support is crap. If they could get better coverage, I'd ignore the customer support problems. :)
Or, don't worry about it, because LaBrea doesn't actually request the IP from the DHCP server, so the IPs aren't listed in the dhcp.leases file as taken, so the DHCP server will still give them out. LaBrea tries very hard to recover nicely when a machine whose IP it's using comes up, so you shouldn't need to list the DHCP range at all unless it actually causes problems on your network. Do read the *whole* doc page before implementing the program, it's pretty informative. :)
You forgot the most important one: faster downloads & faster rendering. Good, hand-written HTML usually has fewer pieces of extraneous code in place and has better optimized tags. That's less data for the viewer to download and less extra stuff for the browser to render. It may be minor, but it's real, and there are many cases where people still use, *gasp*, modems.
Besides, if you can't write good clean HTML, then you're not a real web developer - you're a "web publisher".
Construx, indeed, rocked. My parents too have a big heap of them in a box in their attic. However:
I remember one that actually had screws and metal bars that you could bolt together in all different shapes and sizes, and motors too, but I can't remember the name of it.
"Erector"? I can't believe that you'd forget the name of the construction-type toy that made me giggle most... :) I hated that thing, because it took forever to thread all the nutsonot the screws. If they'd used some kind of expanding fastener (like hollow-wall anchors, perhaps) so I dind'thave to thread and unthread stuff or hold a screwdriver/wrench/2+ parts with only 2 hands, I'd have liked them almost as much as construx. As it was, though, construx rocked.
Thank you, Ryan.
I'll tell you what, I went to the gas station across the street from my house and filled up both of my cars this morning. If they don't go up, well, that's fine too - they were both getting low anyway. :)
9th month. Today's date is 911. It's listed in several of the "how to be a crazy freaking terrorist" manuals out there, I guess.
Or, use PVC Pipe. Go with something like 1.25" for a balance between strength and space lost to structural elements, and maybe use 3/4 for the "hutch" sections (1/2" would work for fairly short spans /light load areas). Get some veneered plywood (or some MDF and veneer/roller of your own) and make shelvins/sides for the thing. You could build one heck of a kick-ass desk that's precisely what you want/need for not too much money if you went with cheap shelving materials (PVC is pretty cheap to begin with). Remember, you *can* paint the pipe to make it look more impressive.
Check out http://www.thepvcstore.com for some furniture plans that might get you started if you don't already know what to do...
Also, submit some pictures when it's done. :)
These people are simply not prepared to lead a meaningful life, and use their computer as a way to escape social situations that they never learned to properly cope with.
If they have an escape, then whose place is it to say that the aren't "properly" coping with the situations? They're coping in a manner that they find acceptable, therefore, their method should be acceptable to everyone else. Only the person living a life should be allowed to determine if their method of living is acceptable (unless it infringes upon someone else's method of living). I believe that's the whole "pursuit of happiness" thing that some Americans wrote about a long time ago, as well as several other cultures...
Eh, trolling is a fun way to live too, I guess. :)
Yeah, so? Isnt' the speed thatthe CPU runs at what's relevent? If some crazy cpu merchant sells me a 1GHz chip as a 1.2GHz chip and it runs stable at that speed, who cares if it's not "really" a 1.2GHz chip. Sure looks that way to me. If the system's not stable, then underclocking is one of my debugging steps before returning the chip. If it runs underclocked, then I take the chip back and bitch about it until I get a new one. Lather, rinse, repeat with a quality vendor, and quit worrying about what AMD/Intel sells their chips as. The different clock speed chips are the same damned thing anyway, but the faster ones have a more expensive guarantee.
:)
Though, I suppose you've got a point if it's really important for someone to know what AMD rated the chip at. I suppose that'd be useful in some environment, maybe, though I can't think of one off the top of my head...
www:~ > cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep MHz
cpu MHz : 1009.003
Gee, whatever will I do? :)