I like YYMMDD.hhmm.ss (2 digit year, Month, Day, 24 Hour, Minute, Second, all with leading zeroes), it's what I always set my clocks to when I can. To me, it makes sense to descend from year to second...
-When it's a file it stays numeralphabetical (I totally just made that up).
-The average lifespan of a human being is still well within 100 years, I know it's the thinking the caused Y2K, but I won't need the use of 4 digit years in my lifetime.
-Separating by a period is clearer than a colon.
-It's easier to 'guess' when looking right at it than YY/MM/DD MM/DD/YY or whatever.
-Numbers alone sit better in logfiles than something like Tuesday 31 March 2009, especially when using monotype fonts.
Of course programmers should speak English. I'm not saying only English speakers can be good programmers, but let's be honest -- English is the most common spoken language on the planet...
That is by prevalence of geography, of course. Per capita Mandarin obliterates English.
I hate to agree but it is true. For this wonderful freely available in your own native language happy-land to work out like Ubuntu is working on, there absolutely must be consistent communication between developers. Polylingualism is spectacular, great for translations, especially when commenting code (no harm in commenting code in more than one language as long as the characters don't break the compiler).
It really is terribly obvious, and it's a little chauvinist but English has the benefit of being everywhere already.
That's exactly why it's time for an uprising! Go, people of the United Kingdom! Go PWN your leadership and rebel against them trying to quash you first amendment rights to... oh, right. Your right to free speech... oh... uhhh...
Morality and obscenity are both heavily based on cultural norms, they are definitely related but I could certainly agree that in many cases they're exclusive to each other.
Part of the point of boiling them alive is to kill them, alternatively we could try to bash them apart first to kill them and then cook what's left after that.
Getting through that tough shell is difficult enough with cooking them to break down the bonds holding the chitin together. A well placed drill or nail may effectively destroy the brain, but how can you test if they're really dead?
There's only really two practical options; Either prepare the crabs for eating as we've cleverly done for centuries or just not eat them and spare them the boiling water. Of course, if you want to test for better ways to kill them using a scientific method, be my guest.
My gang is. We call ourselves the Double Winzer Knot Crew, we've even got tax exempt status though we are a for-profit. Fortunately, the IRS doesn't hear much about our income coming from the 'individuals' we provide the service of getting rid of 'trouble' for.
I got a Wind a month ago and the first thing I did, and I seriously mean first thing, was install Ubuntu (8.04) on it as a second boot. Last week I clobbered the restore partition and Windows entirely and now it's all Ubuntu.
I got the version without bluetooth. Last week I managed to take the adapter I got for it, http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833242001 and put it inside where the stock adapter would go. There was even a harness for it taped inside of the unit, so I just cut down the wires I needed and soldered it to the male end of a USB connector. I even put a piece of foil and tape over the adapter to keep noise from interfering too much with it.
I love the simple hacks they did with Netbook Remix, it makes things feel so much simpler, and when I get the touchscreen mod that'll go good with it.
I know, not much on topic, I'm just excited about my laptop.
Personally I'd use the revenue to fund traffic safety courses and make everybody who violates the traffic law sit in them. I think the prospect of spending eight hours of your time being lectured would be a bigger deterrent than a sub $100 fine.
Then how the Hell would you justify all the red light cameras if people stop making you money from them?
It's not Ad Hominem to note that Al Gore doesn't walk his talk. While he prophesies doom, he flys on private G5s, drives in a herd of Suburbans, and his house consumes more electricity in a month than most do in a year. Same with Hansen, who jets around the planet screaming "we all gonna die!".
"Carbon limits for thee, but not for me" isn't inspiring.
I agree perfectly, but it's not the reply itself I gave the link for, it's what the reply was replying to.
That's why Al Gore is warning us so urgently.
Offering nothing but a rebuke to Gore's character in response to this is Ad Hominem, in context.
If an application decides to check the name of the file system and if the name is "ext4" it erases everything in your home directory, should that be considered a file system bug too?
One more abhorrent device created by Microsoft. Or at least made popular by them. I don't know where it started.
Uh, Duh. Hell, obviously.
I think they're a great idea really, I never believed in spellcheck because I've always had faith in my own spelling. However, my unwillingness to check for mistyping even though I know I have terrible accuracy is pure arrogance.
I get that wrong all the time even though I'm fully aware that the possessive of "it" is "its". It's not that I'm bad at English, I just don't give a fuck about that particular apostrophe.
In fact, if it wasn't for the squiggly red lines I wouldn't care to correct my mistyping. I just can't stand those awful squiggles, it's like they're Satan rising up from ashes to haunt me with the terror of a thousand mad-libs...
You have an excellent point. I can't come up with any numbers at this moment, but I really wish I could. I'm not going to attempt to base my argument on statistics alone, but I do have a point in mind.
Basically, what I see is Microsoft decelerating (but not falling backwards), and F/OSS accelerating. The rate of adoption of 'new products' on Microsoft's end doesn't appear to be increasing significantly, I would even dare to say that the install base has reached critical mass; Microsoft can't possibly, can't even hope to become more popular.
Microsoft has become ubiquitous. Microsoft is known the world over. Microsoft is so insanely present, many people don't even know what Windows is, they think those squares that house their applications is just "part of the computer", if you'll forgive my anecdotes. It's a position that's debatable if any corporation deserves to be in, beyond even calling a refrigerator a "Fridge" because of Frigidaire, Windows doesn't even have a name anymore to many due to it's prevalence.
At this point, Microsoft will have to make something, anything that is Holy Fuck Amazing. Windows is already stable enough to trust to every day computing, would making it more stable be any more impressive than Wine running Windows software or CUPS working with any printer?
I hate Microsoft but I'll have to admit, Vista looks damned pretty and feels kinda nice to use when you get used to it, but what next? How much can Microsoft wow an audience that won't even try OS X or GNU/Linux exactly because they want the "same old thing"?
Windows is generally easy to use, easy enough to learn, and there's enough people around to help you solve any problem, but what else can Microsoft possibly do to make it any easier without interfering with the old ways? How many times can they force people to adopt again?
It's necessary for Microsoft to not innovate too quickly, to make too many changes no matter how useful they'll be. For every drastic change Microsoft attempts to make, they'll be making the stride that much in step with the competition.
That's why they can't reinvent a more beautiful and efficient wheel; you might as well switch to OS X or GNU/Linux if you want to have to learn new things.
The only argument left is ethics. People will eventually realize that Free Software is good for Humanity and the responsible choice for governments and institutions. It'll just be easier to realize it when there's finally a decent clone of Office and Photoshop.
Slashdot Mirror
That is totally more fun to say.
I like YYMMDD.hhmm.ss (2 digit year, Month, Day, 24 Hour, Minute, Second, all with leading zeroes), it's what I always set my clocks to when I can. To me, it makes sense to descend from year to second...
-When it's a file it stays numeralphabetical (I totally just made that up).
-The average lifespan of a human being is still well within 100 years, I know it's the thinking the caused Y2K, but I won't need the use of 4 digit years in my lifetime.
-Separating by a period is clearer than a colon.
-It's easier to 'guess' when looking right at it than YY/MM/DD MM/DD/YY or whatever.
-Numbers alone sit better in logfiles than something like Tuesday 31 March 2009, especially when using monotype fonts.
Of course programmers should speak English. I'm not saying only English speakers can be good programmers, but let's be honest -- English is the most common spoken language on the planet...
That is by prevalence of geography, of course. Per capita Mandarin obliterates English.
I hate to agree but it is true. For this wonderful freely available in your own native language happy-land to work out like Ubuntu is working on, there absolutely must be consistent communication between developers. Polylingualism is spectacular, great for translations, especially when commenting code (no harm in commenting code in more than one language as long as the characters don't break the compiler).
It really is terribly obvious, and it's a little chauvinist but English has the benefit of being everywhere already.
That's exactly why it's time for an uprising! Go, people of the United Kingdom! Go PWN your leadership and rebel against them trying to quash you first amendment rights to... oh, right. Your right to free speech... oh... uhhh...
Morality and obscenity are both heavily based on cultural norms, they are definitely related but I could certainly agree that in many cases they're exclusive to each other.
Part of the point of boiling them alive is to kill them, alternatively we could try to bash them apart first to kill them and then cook what's left after that.
Getting through that tough shell is difficult enough with cooking them to break down the bonds holding the chitin together. A well placed drill or nail may effectively destroy the brain, but how can you test if they're really dead?
There's only really two practical options; Either prepare the crabs for eating as we've cleverly done for centuries or just not eat them and spare them the boiling water. Of course, if you want to test for better ways to kill them using a scientific method, be my guest.
My gang is. We call ourselves the Double Winzer Knot Crew, we've even got tax exempt status though we are a for-profit. Fortunately, the IRS doesn't hear much about our income coming from the 'individuals' we provide the service of getting rid of 'trouble' for.
I got a Wind a month ago and the first thing I did, and I seriously mean first thing, was install Ubuntu (8.04) on it as a second boot. Last week I clobbered the restore partition and Windows entirely and now it's all Ubuntu.
I got the version without bluetooth. Last week I managed to take the adapter I got for it, http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833242001 and put it inside where the stock adapter would go. There was even a harness for it taped inside of the unit, so I just cut down the wires I needed and soldered it to the male end of a USB connector. I even put a piece of foil and tape over the adapter to keep noise from interfering too much with it.
I love the simple hacks they did with Netbook Remix, it makes things feel so much simpler, and when I get the touchscreen mod that'll go good with it.
I know, not much on topic, I'm just excited about my laptop.
I'm doing my part!
Because the EULA says so.
*dodges rotten tomatoes*
Personally I'd use the revenue to fund traffic safety courses and make everybody who violates the traffic law sit in them. I think the prospect of spending eight hours of your time being lectured would be a bigger deterrent than a sub $100 fine.
Then how the Hell would you justify all the red light cameras if people stop making you money from them?
It's not Ad Hominem to note that Al Gore doesn't walk his talk. While he prophesies doom, he flys on private G5s, drives in a herd of Suburbans, and his house consumes more electricity in a month than most do in a year. Same with Hansen, who jets around the planet screaming "we all gonna die!".
"Carbon limits for thee, but not for me" isn't inspiring.
I agree perfectly, but it's not the reply itself I gave the link for, it's what the reply was replying to.
That's why Al Gore is warning us so urgently.
Offering nothing but a rebuke to Gore's character in response to this is Ad Hominem, in context.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_Hominem
But most computers already are pre-installed with a Faraday cage, at least the ones with compliant power supplies and a conductive case.
Anyhow, it's just not physically possible to overwrite an EEPROM or any semconductor storage medium with a blast of induction.
No one's going to learn how to really work around using multiple cores until they're really out there in the wild where developers can work with them.
It really is the next logical step, and no one ought to be bitching no one knows how to dig holes when we just found out how to make shovels.
That's the problem with everyone being named "Anonymous". ... Oh wait, wrong site...
I like one of the comments on the article, something about over 99% of all scientists in human history are still alive today. Makes sense to me.
Who's to say the black hole hasn't already been created?
Only in metric, in good old American it'll be weightless like it oughtta be.
Go ahead, Gordon. Insert the specimen.
If an application decides to check the name of the file system and if the name is "ext4" it erases everything in your home directory, should that be considered a file system bug too?
No, I'd call that malice.
One more abhorrent device created by Microsoft. Or at least made popular by them. I don't know where it started.
Uh, Duh. Hell, obviously.
I think they're a great idea really, I never believed in spellcheck because I've always had faith in my own spelling. However, my unwillingness to check for mistyping even though I know I have terrible accuracy is pure arrogance.
They're trying to eat you! Run away, poor geek!
I get that wrong all the time even though I'm fully aware that the possessive of "it" is "its". It's not that I'm bad at English, I just don't give a fuck about that particular apostrophe.
In fact, if it wasn't for the squiggly red lines I wouldn't care to correct my mistyping. I just can't stand those awful squiggles, it's like they're Satan rising up from ashes to haunt me with the terror of a thousand mad-libs...
You have an excellent point. I can't come up with any numbers at this moment, but I really wish I could. I'm not going to attempt to base my argument on statistics alone, but I do have a point in mind.
Basically, what I see is Microsoft decelerating (but not falling backwards), and F/OSS accelerating. The rate of adoption of 'new products' on Microsoft's end doesn't appear to be increasing significantly, I would even dare to say that the install base has reached critical mass; Microsoft can't possibly, can't even hope to become more popular.
Microsoft has become ubiquitous. Microsoft is known the world over. Microsoft is so insanely present, many people don't even know what Windows is, they think those squares that house their applications is just "part of the computer", if you'll forgive my anecdotes. It's a position that's debatable if any corporation deserves to be in, beyond even calling a refrigerator a "Fridge" because of Frigidaire, Windows doesn't even have a name anymore to many due to it's prevalence.
At this point, Microsoft will have to make something, anything that is Holy Fuck Amazing. Windows is already stable enough to trust to every day computing, would making it more stable be any more impressive than Wine running Windows software or CUPS working with any printer?
I hate Microsoft but I'll have to admit, Vista looks damned pretty and feels kinda nice to use when you get used to it, but what next? How much can Microsoft wow an audience that won't even try OS X or GNU/Linux exactly because they want the "same old thing"?
Windows is generally easy to use, easy enough to learn, and there's enough people around to help you solve any problem, but what else can Microsoft possibly do to make it any easier without interfering with the old ways? How many times can they force people to adopt again?
It's necessary for Microsoft to not innovate too quickly, to make too many changes no matter how useful they'll be. For every drastic change Microsoft attempts to make, they'll be making the stride that much in step with the competition.
That's why they can't reinvent a more beautiful and efficient wheel; you might as well switch to OS X or GNU/Linux if you want to have to learn new things.
The only argument left is ethics. People will eventually realize that Free Software is good for Humanity and the responsible choice for governments and institutions. It'll just be easier to realize it when there's finally a decent clone of Office and Photoshop.