But don't you get it: YOU ARE AMEICAN! Damn it. YOU ARE PART OF AMERICA.
If you respect your elders then by definition, America has respect for elders.
I have a Vietnamise friend that suffers the same sense of distance - he merried here, made his home here and had his children here and yet sees himself apart from America. We native born need to do a better job of making people welcomed, and the recent immigrants need to reasise that they are now part of this rather odd expeiment known as America.
I wasen't "bashing" the rest of the world, just a particular narrow-minded individual who happens to think that America = McDonalds * The H-Bomb + Porn. I've learned that the entire world is somewhat simelar in many respects - It's rather useless to catagorise people by race, and even more useless to catagorise people base on the physical locqtion of their domicile.
Trust a typical westerner to confuse respect with worship - especially since the concept of repecting ones elders doesn't exist in the US.
Trust a typical American-basher to confuse the views of an individual with an entire country. Ther're plenty of Americans with all sorts of viwepoints - and, from personal experience, most of them respect their elders.
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When will ISPs decide, or be forced, to stop playing Big Brother and let the users make their own decisions about what to filter?
I specifically choose ISP that follow spam black-out lists. Makes my life a lot easier. It's my choice to choose my ISP.
Kids with their Yahoo! or Hotmail account usually don't care about spam, but I do, because each piece of spam causes me to loose billable time.
In this case "you" is an incorrect spelling of "your". As I highly doubt that the submitter is totally grammatically challenged - thinking that the sentence is correct, it's more logical to assume that he just skipped a key when typing. Just because the spelling mistake happens to produce another correcly spelled english word doesen't make it suddenly acceptable.
As far as simple computer-based spelling checkers that only check word by word, then there is nothing wrong. I hope the spelling checker in your head is better than that.
Personally I don't see what the big deal is if this is combined with some consumer protection:
United airlines has a right to demand that I provide proof of who I am, if it's a condition of them doing business with me. Just like I have the right to demand that United's pilots wear a pigmy white tailed monkey on their heads if it a condition of me flying with them. If either one of us doesen't like the demands that the other is making, then fine. We just won't do business with each other.
Now if United started babbing about my travel details, then I'd be rightfully pissed.
pretty simple to fire it up on the old @home network and suddenly finding myself on a password-less PC. I also ran notepad but wrote, "Put a damn password on your pcAnywhere!"
A frend of mine had @home - I spent a fun-filled evening attaching to pepoples printers and printing out porn, Jack Chick tracks, Gynocology Doctor remonder notices for their 8am discharge examination, and a 'turn you fscking Windows sharing off' how-too's. Annoying and yet, informative.
VNC in an office environemnt is a lot of fun with all the Windows users that never notice the little VNC server icon in the 'systray' - right next to their Gator and Bonzi Buddy icons.
I've got the keystrokes down just right
[Ctrl]+[Esc] -> r -> notepad -> Do you want to live, human? -> [F4]
under a second. Leaves the poor things troubeled. Confused. Hungering for the sweet realse of alcohol or a shotgun.
Or just move the mouse subtely when they go to click on somthing.
Of course, don't forget to tell them that it could be Bill Gates fucking with their computer - he's mad that they diden't forward the Windows 95 Beta email. He really wanted to give them $1000 and he's pissed his knickers.
So for example, you can use your example to justify using windows instead of *nix products. Despite the generally poorer performance, most admins are much more comfortable with it.
Very true - if performane stats becomeing a order of magnitude different, then yes, retraining is probably a good thing.
I presonally moved off of Windows (Something I was VERY familiar with) to FreeBSD (my first UNIX) due to performance issues - Windows just crashed way too many times and diden't apprear to be a state machine (things randomly crapped out or failed.) So the order of magnitude performance difference (Windows: 0 records per second while crashed, FreeBSD: 10,000 records per second) made my retraining make finicial sense.
Yet, they use VNC to more easily administer the server - or something like webmin or linuxconf in HTTP mode. Either way, you're still running a GUI.
Reminds me - I have a FreeBSD box that I'm too stupid/time-burdened to get X running on it's crappy video card. But it serves up a GUI over VNC just fine.
I have another FreeBSD box that doesen't *have* a video card, and, of course, it servers KDE over VNC just fine. When I show it to MCSE types - theh sit there and stare. "b..b..but... I doesen't have a video card! How does it do that?"
To me, the performance of Linux over OS-X is marginal and not really worth considering. The choice really is over what the computer administrator is more comfortable with - hell, put NetBSD if it will make the administrator more productive. The server only costs $3000 bucks so screwing around just to get a 10% improvemnt is not worth it - but if Linux makes the administrator 10% more productive then do it.
Stupid Example:
I haven't benchmarked FreeBSD vs Linux and I really don't care - all my file servers are FreeBSD because I'm expensive and learning Linux is not cost effective (for me). YMMV.
Scientists in Hump Tulips, a small farming community outside of Seattle, have developed a recognition system based on spelling mistakes. CmdrTaco was reported to say "Shit! I can't astrotruf for Microsoft anymore! Where's Slashdot gonna get it's money?"
I'm going to shoot myself in the foot - should I use four small bullets or two larger ones? The larger ones as cheeper per shot, but I've been told, if you're a lousy shot that you need the four small ones to make sure that you at least hit your target?
whatever happened to good old ASCII or ISO text files? nothing says cross-platform than an ISO format
Oh sure, leave out us EBCDIC users, you young whipper-snappers with your fanch-schmancy ISO standards. HA!...I'll just go back to my Forth system and cry.
What's with you people? Didn't you read that this thing runs Windows XP?
Runs Windows XP? More precisly: Limps-along with Windows XP like a mangy three-legged dog that stopes every ten feet to eat it's own poop that dribbels out it's ass.
Anyways.. I found this hidious blue poyester suit at the thrift, and found a.JPG of the BSOD. I color corrected the blue to match the suit and glued it to the back. I wore it last night to two parties, one with normal people and the other with geeks, and at both it was rather popular.
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But don't you get it: YOU ARE AMEICAN! Damn it. YOU ARE PART OF AMERICA.
If you respect your elders then by definition, America has respect for elders.
I have a Vietnamise friend that suffers the same sense of distance - he merried here, made his home here and had his children here and yet sees himself apart from America. We native born need to do a better job of making people welcomed, and the recent immigrants need to reasise that they are now part of this rather odd expeiment known as America.
Welcome.
Ahem...
I wasen't "bashing" the rest of the world, just a particular narrow-minded individual who happens to think that America = McDonalds * The H-Bomb + Porn. I've learned that the entire world is somewhat simelar in many respects - It's rather useless to catagorise people by race, and even more useless to catagorise people base on the physical locqtion of their domicile.
Trust a typical westerner to confuse respect with worship - especially since the concept of repecting ones elders doesn't exist in the US.
Trust a typical American-basher to confuse the views of an individual with an entire country. Ther're plenty of Americans with all sorts of viwepoints - and, from personal experience, most of them respect their elders.
When will ISPs decide, or be forced, to stop playing Big Brother and let the users make their own decisions about what to filter?
I specifically choose ISP that follow spam black-out lists. Makes my life a lot easier. It's my choice to choose my ISP.
Kids with their Yahoo! or Hotmail account usually don't care about spam, but I do, because each piece of spam causes me to loose billable time.
In this case "you" is an incorrect spelling of "your". As I highly doubt that the submitter is totally grammatically challenged - thinking that the sentence is correct, it's more logical to assume that he just skipped a key when typing. Just because the spelling mistake happens to produce another correcly spelled english word doesen't make it suddenly acceptable.
As far as simple computer-based spelling checkers that only check word by word, then there is nothing wrong. I hope the spelling checker in your head is better than that.
(I'm a great fan of open-source. A package that I wrote four years ago, and which shall remain un-named, is probably running on you Linux system)
Hey, you must have been the guy that wrote Mozilla's HTML-form submission spell checker. Thanks! It werks wonderfuly!
Personally I don't see what the big deal is if this is combined with some consumer protection:
United airlines has a right to demand that I provide proof of who I am, if it's a condition of them doing business with me. Just like I have the right to demand that United's pilots wear a pigmy white tailed monkey on their heads if it a condition of me flying with them. If either one of us doesen't like the demands that the other is making, then fine. We just won't do business with each other.
Now if United started babbing about my travel details, then I'd be rightfully pissed.
and have picnics on the moon with Jesus!
And then we can all go play Duke Nukem Forever! Together!
I was wondering how I was going to cluster a group of PostgreSQL servers!
Thanks!
Iridium is cheep now - $1.50 a minuit ~1.60 Euros. The high use plans can get down to $1.00 a min.
It's cheaper for me to use my Iridium phone in Europe to call the US, then it is to use a GSM phone. $1.50 vs $2.75
Hmmm...
My Iridium connects very nicely to my Psion Revo (EPOC/Symbian OS). The Iridium phone looks like a slow AT command-set modem to the Psion.
With the Psion and Iridium - I can shh while anywhere in the world, and the whole pacakge is less than 3.5 pounds.
pretty simple to fire it up on the old @home network and suddenly finding myself on a password-less PC. I also ran notepad but wrote, "Put a damn password on your pcAnywhere!"
A frend of mine had @home - I spent a fun-filled evening attaching to pepoples printers and printing out porn, Jack Chick tracks, Gynocology Doctor remonder notices for their 8am discharge examination, and a 'turn you fscking Windows sharing off' how-too's. Annoying and yet, informative.
VNC in an office environemnt is a lot of fun with all the Windows users that never notice the little VNC server icon in the 'systray' - right next to their Gator and Bonzi Buddy icons.
I've got the keystrokes down just right
[Ctrl]+[Esc] -> r -> notepad -> Do you want to live, human? -> [F4]
under a second. Leaves the poor things troubeled. Confused. Hungering for the sweet realse of alcohol or a shotgun.
Or just move the mouse subtely when they go to click on somthing.
Of course, don't forget to tell them that it could be Bill Gates fucking with their computer - he's mad that they diden't forward the Windows 95 Beta email. He really wanted to give them $1000 and he's pissed his knickers.
I wouldn't be suprised if Windows refused to boot without a video card either.
Which is just FUD. I'll bet $20 that it can.
WindowsXP 'embedded' can boot without a card - but the retail/'server' versions of Windows won't boot without a video card.
99% of all Intell x86 motherboards won't get past POST without a video card so it's rather a moot point.
The only retail/server Windows that *might* boot witout a video card was one of the Windows NT on Alpha that Microsoft dropped suport for.
So for example, you can use your example to justify using windows instead of *nix products. Despite the generally poorer performance, most admins are much more comfortable with it.
Very true - if performane stats becomeing a order of magnitude different, then yes, retraining is probably a good thing.
I presonally moved off of Windows (Something I was VERY familiar with) to FreeBSD (my first UNIX) due to performance issues - Windows just crashed way too many times and diden't apprear to be a state machine (things randomly crapped out or failed.) So the order of magnitude performance difference (Windows: 0 records per second while crashed, FreeBSD: 10,000 records per second) made my retraining make finicial sense.
Yet, they use VNC to more easily administer the server - or something like webmin or linuxconf in HTTP mode. Either way, you're still running a GUI.
Reminds me - I have a FreeBSD box that I'm too stupid/time-burdened to get X running on it's crappy video card. But it serves up a GUI over VNC just fine.
I have another FreeBSD box that doesen't *have* a video card, and, of course, it servers KDE over VNC just fine. When I show it to MCSE types - theh sit there and stare. "b..b..but... I doesen't have a video card! How does it do that?"
Fun to play with their little minds.
To me, the performance of Linux over OS-X is marginal and not really worth considering. The choice really is over what the computer administrator is more comfortable with - hell, put NetBSD if it will make the administrator more productive. The server only costs $3000 bucks so screwing around just to get a 10% improvemnt is not worth it - but if Linux makes the administrator 10% more productive then do it.
Stupid Example:
I haven't benchmarked FreeBSD vs Linux and I really don't care - all my file servers are FreeBSD because I'm expensive and learning Linux is not cost effective (for me). YMMV.
Feelie-Pr0n is right around the corner! yea!
Scientists in Hump Tulips, a small farming community outside of Seattle, have developed a recognition system based on spelling mistakes. CmdrTaco was reported to say "Shit! I can't astrotruf for Microsoft anymore! Where's Slashdot gonna get it's money?"
I'm going to shoot myself in the foot - should I use four small bullets or two larger ones? The larger ones as cheeper per shot, but I've been told, if you're a lousy shot that you need the four small ones to make sure that you at least hit your target?
Any thoughts?
whatever happened to good old ASCII or ISO text files? nothing says cross-platform than an ISO format
...I'll just go back to my Forth system and cry.
Oh sure, leave out us EBCDIC users, you young whipper-snappers with your fanch-schmancy ISO standards. HA!
What's with you people? Didn't you read that this thing runs Windows XP?
Runs Windows XP? More precisly: Limps-along with Windows XP like a mangy three-legged dog that stopes every ten feet to eat it's own poop that dribbels out it's ass.
Until recently [embedded.com], ARM chips designed for handhelds didn't do harware floating point math!
They were smart: they waited untill the Pentium people worked out all the FDIV bugs.
I'm going as a blowfish [....] (yes, I am female)
.JPG of the BSOD. I color corrected the blue to match the suit and glued it to the back. I wore it last night to two parties, one with normal people and the other with geeks, and at both it was rather popular.
Ahem...
Anyways.. I found this hidious blue poyester suit at the thrift, and found a
And very few people in Sweden experience the deep poverty that is all too common in the United States.
Here's interesting food for thought: Swedes who have immigrated to the US also don't experience deep poverty.
It's only a few deadbeats that give America a bad name.