This is is really big. This is like reading the first articles about gas engines, or steam power.
With luck they'll keep this quiet until it's really working, and not pull another cold fusion. The masses don't want to hear about something coming down the road. They want to hear about one going up down the road.
I've largely stopped using Yahoo because those flash ads smacked down my copy of Mozilla. Consistantly. Whenever I say the yimg.ads.yahoo.com in the status bar, a core dump was never far behind.
I think the last release of Mozilla largely fixed the problem, but I'm just SO in the habit of avoiding those sites I haven't gone back.
That said, I still use news.yahoo.com as my main newsfeed. Though at the rate the keep slapping on new news sources the Signal-to-Noise ratio is approaching zero. They all have the same 8 paragraphs of information repackaged.
Of course, you have to find somewhere Kid friendly... maybe the local Chucky-Cheese or a City park? Hmmm... cook-out, beer, portable expresso machine... WIFI oooh need WIFI...
IKEA has a pretty nice recycled (before you re-use it) holder. It mounts to the wall, and when you unload a grocery bag, you just stuff it in the rack until you need it.
I'll still toss the bag into a diaper pail. We don't have an outside trash can in our Apartment (but the new house will.)
I'm a parent to be, and I was all set to retrofit some thinkpads into "Blinkinlights" style toys. Actually I was planning on writing some educational software to introduce shapes and colors, and speak when the kid types a word. (My sister's as pre-schoolers loved that.)
Your post reminded me that, while computers are fun, kids really need to learn the basics of physics and human interaction, FIRST.
I'll wait a few years, and I think I have the laptops act as an encylopedia instead. I went through the whole damn set while learning to read, hopping from reference to reference.
I have a little one one the way in October. The 3 day workweek would be ideal for both of us. I'm a network admin, the work will wait. She's a computer tutor. The trick will be setting enough time aside to see each other I imagine.
I dig the XMMS idea. Our PC is our "Entertainment Center." When we move we are going to get an AV projector instead of a big-screen TV. The new place is an old-school trinity style row house, 12' wide. Who need's acid when you have a wall filled with fractals pulsing to the music?
My wife is pregnant now (Oct 25th is the due date), and I've been going through a lot of changes myself.
The big one was realizing that live is all about choosing what is important to you. In my mind putting a career into suspended animation to raise a child is no sacrifice at all. As if taking time out to run to the bathroom is a sacrifice.
My other realization is how quickly life can change for the better when you grab the reigns and control the team yourself. You aren't a passive participant in all this. You have arrived there after a series of deliberate decisions. The question is only how seriously did you take those decisions.
Having a kid is not a matter of bumbling around and hoping everything works out for the better. You and your SO really need to sit down, figure out how you are going to work this child into your life, and work from there.
What worked for me and my wife:
We are moving from a swanky one-bedroom in center city to a row home. The mortgage on a 80k house is $200 cheaper than our present rent.
We are sticking with our car. It's small, but it will be paid for in August.
We both agree that we are going to only have 1
My toy budget is now the baby's toy budget
If my wife lands a job after the baby is born, I'm going to stay home with the kid.
These are all grown up decisions, that have to work for you and your spouse. There is no right answer, remember that. And remember that a lot of well meaning people are ready to share their ideas with you at a moment's notice. That said, the decisions are yours alone to make.
I don't know about that. Philly has a habit of letting anyone with a pulse trench under the streets. About every 6 months somebody is jackhammering the street next to my apartment to lay new fiber.
(Do I get any of the bandwidth... nooooo...)
I should also not that in my parent's place out in the burbs Comcast ran fiber through overhead poles, next to phone lines. Data from above...
So that I can stop having to defend my use of it every time we get a new executive.
It would be OK if other folks played in their sandbox and didn't try to steal our lunch money. But frankly, OS is like religion. You can be all sorts of quiet and welcoming, but the radicals are going to scoop up all of the easy converts.
I don't recommend we make dominance our primary goal. But is should be near the top of our priority list. Followed almost immediately by stopping all the damn infighting. Duplication of effort spread across mulitple projects is actually a developmental advantage. We just need to work out a way to cross-pollinate between projects, rather than engage in dick-size wars about whose solution is better.
I applaud the KDE and Gnome folks. There is no shame in borrowing ideas from the other project. Indeed they even finding ways of interoperating with the other project. And one of them really doesn't have to win. (Though it would be nice if they can both get down to one bloat library.)
The one steady complaint I hear is "doesn't do a perfect job of opening Microsoft Office formats".
People, Office doesn't even do a good job of reading office documents. Have you ever tried to open and Office 95 document in 97? Or watched your formatting in a 97 document completely shit itself in 2000? Try sending a 2000 excel sheet to a 97 user. And don't get me started on PowerPoint... oh... pain...
Oh yeah. Any what architecture are you using right now to access this "software."
I'm talking about the website and database that is running slashdot.
I do believe in some circles that would be called a "thin-client" environment. You have a general-purpose interpreter that talks dumbly and statelessly to a master server.
Indeed, the only reason M$ got into the browser business was to prevent Netscape from becoming an alternative platform for windows products. The courts back me up on this.
Just because the prophet gets the details wrong, doesn't invalidate the vision.
As noted: the word refers to a Roman practice of punishing units who deserted their positions or otherwise failed in their mission through cowardace or neglect.
They would draw straws. The folks with the short straw were beaten to death... by the 9 that did not.
Oh no, decimate has a very specific meaning. It is a vengeful distruction from within. To misuse a word is to water down our language.
They actually did design them to take an impact from an aircraft.
Every Skyscraper has since the end of WWII, when a B-29 smacked into the Empire State Building.
What no one could anticipate was someone DELIBERATELY flying a LARGE aircraft fully loaded with fuel at high speed halfway down the tower. The engineering analysis done for the Trade Center was speced out as a 707 (the largest plane at the time), lost in the fog trying to find the airport. That assumption had it flying in at low speed, tanks empty.
Under those parameters, the plane actually bounced off the building. The real forces the trade center had to stand up against was wind.
It just so happens that diminutive is treated as a neutral (Das.) Die and Der are more or less arbitrary and random. A man's tie is Die Kravata, for instance.
It is hilarious to see folks make up rules about other languages, without stepping foot in the country to learn the traditions. The Germans are every bit as bad. Who here has heard of a Managress? (The supposed female form of a Manager.) This was in an English textbook over there, along with a short story about some blind folks passing Susan B. Anthony Dollars to each other.
For those of you in another country, Susan B. Anthony's are the same size as our Quarter Dollar coins. The blind hate them because there is no good way for them to gauge the difference easily. Add that to the fact that no one really used them very often.
Okay, well I used them. I rather liked them, but we all know how popular my opinions are around here.
A show of hands: how many of these "German Scholars" have spoken german on a regular basis?
(My hand up, looking around.)
I was an exchange student. I spent a year there, and spoke nothing BUT german. I am not making this up, several folks took pains to explain this to me.
You guys are probably the ones I would run into on the train, sounding like Golmer Pyle, using the plural "You" for everthing instead of "Sie" or "Du". (Hint, unless you are talking to a child, an animal, or someone you fuck on a regular basis use SIE.)
Oh not, german conjugation tables... leave me... ich bin... du bist... ehr/sie ist... ihr siet... wir sind... (Head spinning around, projectile vomiting covering the room...)
My wife is a computer tutor, specializing in Seniors. Usually the first thing she'll do in install Mozilla.
Between blocking popups, and making the web not look like any other window, it seems to be a lot easier for older folks to use. Most of her clients are loaded and call her after being completely stumped by XP, so performance is rarely an issue.
I run a network of 300 workstations and 10 Linux servers. IIS is a dirty word, and no installations are allowed to exist. Indeed, it has NEVER been installed or activated.
I spent most of last week cleaning Nimda A and E off the network after my dipshit users double clicked on an attachment that spread through the network like a disease, over the file sharing system.
Oh no. It's not spread through email. It's spread through stupidity. (And network shares.)
(On a side note, I do clean attachments out of email. These numbnuts were using an outside email provider.)
Slashdot Mirror
This is is really big. This is like reading the first articles about gas engines, or steam power.
With luck they'll keep this quiet until it's really working, and not pull another cold fusion. The masses don't want to hear about something coming down the road. They want to hear about one going up down the road.
Yeah yeah... That does actually work. But it's the principle man...
I think the last release of Mozilla largely fixed the problem, but I'm just SO in the habit of avoiding those sites I haven't gone back.
That said, I still use news.yahoo.com as my main newsfeed. Though at the rate the keep slapping on new news sources the Signal-to-Noise ratio is approaching zero. They all have the same 8 paragraphs of information repackaged.
A Columbia News Blaster...
Of course, you have to find somewhere Kid friendly... maybe the local Chucky-Cheese or a City park? Hmmm... cook-out, beer, portable expresso machine... WIFI oooh need WIFI...
IKEA has a pretty nice recycled (before you re-use it) holder. It mounts to the wall, and when you unload a grocery bag, you just stuff it in the rack until you need it.
I'll still toss the bag into a diaper pail. We don't have an outside trash can in our Apartment (but the new house will.)
But I'm a boxer man, and we concieved after a month of trying.
Of course, being Irish might have a little to do with that too...
I'm a parent to be, and I was all set to retrofit some thinkpads into "Blinkinlights" style toys. Actually I was planning on writing some educational software to introduce shapes and colors, and speak when the kid types a word. (My sister's as pre-schoolers loved that.)
Your post reminded me that, while computers are fun, kids really need to learn the basics of physics and human interaction, FIRST.
I'll wait a few years, and I think I have the laptops act as an encylopedia instead. I went through the whole damn set while learning to read, hopping from reference to reference.
I have a little one one the way in October. The 3 day workweek would be ideal for both of us. I'm a network admin, the work will wait. She's a computer tutor. The trick will be setting enough time aside to see each other I imagine.
I dig the XMMS idea. Our PC is our "Entertainment Center." When we move we are going to get an AV projector instead of a big-screen TV. The new place is an old-school trinity style row house, 12' wide. Who need's acid when you have a wall filled with fractals pulsing to the music?
The big one was realizing that live is all about choosing what is important to you. In my mind putting a career into suspended animation to raise a child is no sacrifice at all. As if taking time out to run to the bathroom is a sacrifice.
My other realization is how quickly life can change for the better when you grab the reigns and control the team yourself. You aren't a passive participant in all this. You have arrived there after a series of deliberate decisions. The question is only how seriously did you take those decisions.
Having a kid is not a matter of bumbling around and hoping everything works out for the better. You and your SO really need to sit down, figure out how you are going to work this child into your life, and work from there.
What worked for me and my wife:
- We are moving from a swanky one-bedroom in center city to a row home. The mortgage on a 80k house is $200 cheaper than our present rent.
- We are sticking with our car. It's small, but it will be paid for in August.
- We both agree that we are going to only have 1
- My toy budget is now the baby's toy budget
- If my wife lands a job after the baby is born, I'm going to stay home with the kid.
These are all grown up decisions, that have to work for you and your spouse. There is no right answer, remember that. And remember that a lot of well meaning people are ready to share their ideas with you at a moment's notice. That said, the decisions are yours alone to make.RIAA: We have found MP3's on your network that are copies of Bjoirn
Student 1:But it's a cat in heat meowing
Student 2:You are all hopeless.
(Do I get any of the bandwidth... nooooo...)
I should also not that in my parent's place out in the burbs Comcast ran fiber through overhead poles, next to phone lines. Data from above...
It would be OK if other folks played in their sandbox and didn't try to steal our lunch money. But frankly, OS is like religion. You can be all sorts of quiet and welcoming, but the radicals are going to scoop up all of the easy converts.
I don't recommend we make dominance our primary goal. But is should be near the top of our priority list. Followed almost immediately by stopping all the damn infighting. Duplication of effort spread across mulitple projects is actually a developmental advantage. We just need to work out a way to cross-pollinate between projects, rather than engage in dick-size wars about whose solution is better.
I applaud the KDE and Gnome folks. There is no shame in borrowing ideas from the other project. Indeed they even finding ways of interoperating with the other project. And one of them really doesn't have to win. (Though it would be nice if they can both get down to one bloat library.)
And who can forget the ever-changing interface.
My wife is a computer tutor. Windows-XP is paying for a lot of upgrades to our existance, let me tell ya.
People, Office doesn't even do a good job of reading office documents. Have you ever tried to open and Office 95 document in 97? Or watched your formatting in a 97 document completely shit itself in 2000? Try sending a 2000 excel sheet to a 97 user. And don't get me started on PowerPoint... oh ... pain ...
I'm talking about the website and database that is running slashdot.
I do believe in some circles that would be called a "thin-client" environment. You have a general-purpose interpreter that talks dumbly and statelessly to a master server.
Indeed, the only reason M$ got into the browser business was to prevent Netscape from becoming an alternative platform for windows products. The courts back me up on this.
Just because the prophet gets the details wrong, doesn't invalidate the vision.
Frankly, the workstation are getting dumber and dumber on my network because:
- The servers are doing more of the batch processing
- Folks are realising users are not to be trusted on their workstations
- The hard drive is generally the only part of a workstation that is still regularly fails within its 3 year replacement cycle.
Think about it, how many programs do you access through a web page?They would draw straws. The folks with the short straw were beaten to death... by the 9 that did not.
Oh no, decimate has a very specific meaning. It is a vengeful distruction from within. To misuse a word is to water down our language.
That said, it is damn amazing how well those building held up.
Every Skyscraper has since the end of WWII, when a B-29 smacked into the Empire State Building.
What no one could anticipate was someone DELIBERATELY flying a LARGE aircraft fully loaded with fuel at high speed halfway down the tower. The engineering analysis done for the Trade Center was speced out as a 707 (the largest plane at the time), lost in the fog trying to find the airport. That assumption had it flying in at low speed, tanks empty.
Under those parameters, the plane actually bounced off the building. The real forces the trade center had to stand up against was wind.
chen is not neuter its Diminutive.
It just so happens that diminutive is treated as a neutral (Das.) Die and Der are more or less arbitrary and random. A man's tie is Die Kravata, for instance.
It is hilarious to see folks make up rules about other languages, without stepping foot in the country to learn the traditions. The Germans are every bit as bad. Who here has heard of a Managress? (The supposed female form of a Manager.) This was in an English textbook over there, along with a short story about some blind folks passing Susan B. Anthony Dollars to each other.
For those of you in another country, Susan B. Anthony's are the same size as our Quarter Dollar coins. The blind hate them because there is no good way for them to gauge the difference easily. Add that to the fact that no one really used them very often.
Okay, well I used them. I rather liked them, but we all know how popular my opinions are around here.
(My hand up, looking around.)
I was an exchange student. I spent a year there, and spoke nothing BUT german. I am not making this up, several folks took pains to explain this to me.
You guys are probably the ones I would run into on the train, sounding like Golmer Pyle, using the plural "You" for everthing instead of "Sie" or "Du". (Hint, unless you are talking to a child, an animal, or someone you fuck on a regular basis use SIE.)
Oh not, german conjugation tables... leave me... ich bin... du bist ... ehr/sie ist ... ihr siet ... wir sind ... (Head spinning around, projectile vomiting covering the room...)
It was used in the gulf war because we didn't have anything else to field.
Note about the only thing they have successfully intercepted so far is a British fighter jet.
Hence Das Boot (small boat), or Das Mädchin (little girl).
Though odds are it was carelessness.
Between blocking popups, and making the web not look like any other window, it seems to be a lot easier for older folks to use. Most of her clients are loaded and call her after being completely stumped by XP, so performance is rarely an issue.
I run a network of 300 workstations and 10 Linux servers. IIS is a dirty word, and no installations are allowed to exist. Indeed, it has NEVER been installed or activated.
I spent most of last week cleaning Nimda A and E off the network after my dipshit users double clicked on an attachment that spread through the network like a disease, over the file sharing system.
Oh no. It's not spread through email. It's spread through stupidity. (And network shares.)
(On a side note, I do clean attachments out of email. These numbnuts were using an outside email provider.)