You probably haven't been here recently, either (Thank Deity...).
I live in a part of the South where a high proportion of the population is actually 'people from up North', and I can tell you that racial prejudice is not a latitude-defined problem. In fact, of the people I've known in the 40 years I have lived in the small-town South, it is frequently those whose families have been here far longer than most, like since Kings Grant times, who are the quickest to get pissed off at others indiscriminate use of racial slurs. IME, prejudice and bigotry are, sadly, something that you'll find everywhere about equally, regardless of location in relationship to the equator, or the color of the skin of the bigot, or even things like level of education and/or intelligence. No one area - or people - has a corner on that market.
So stuff your overused and under-accurate generalities where the sun don't shine. Right up there next to your head.
You boned that one, pal. Any decent brother would have known what to do...
You should have found a similar perspective eagle picture online, 'enhanced' it with GIMP/PS to make it as close as possible to what she shot, and send it back at a minimum 1024 res and high color, thereby perpetuating the myth that you are indeed a Computer God.
Kids these days, can't see opportunity even when it's smacking 'em in the face...
Very similar here - ~$65/mo after some discounts (wrangled from customer service at contract re-sign) nets me unlimited data and voice. Unlimited SMS for another $5/mo if wanted. Tethering to an older Blackberry works fine if I am not in an area where I can scarf up some wifi - and these days that only happens when I am out in the woods or on the water somewhere. T-mobile customer service has always been quick and responsive.
The phone and plan are cheap enough that even on a minimalist budget, I can have an 11.6" netbook as a secondary device instead of a tiny-screen phone - and for _much less_ money in the longer term.
Terms of the 'bounty' payout state that they will not pay until *after* they have seen the real thing (if, yawn, it exists...) after release by Apple, in order to be sure that what the claimant shows is indeed a real Apple tablet.
Me, I have no idea why a short-term preview of some computer hardware could be worth so much money. Seems ridiculous, and overly fanboi-ish/hyped...
Thanks for the trip down Memory Lane, to back in the days when I used RPM-distro's, and wondered at the smugness of those DEB users with their cryptic 'apt' commands and, what seemed most baffling, no Dependency Hell issues...
Then one day (OK, one 2-or-3-days, and a lot of floppies, and command line hoodoo, and researching BBS forums to get everything working...) I tried it myself, and, well, they were right - once you go DEB, you never go back.;)
Even now, 10+ years later, I still shy away from using RPM-based distro's.:D
Nice, really nice, mods. An anonymous post containing no information that can be confirmed, and with only the barest description of some opinion with no factual reference, modded "Informative", "Interesting", and "Insightful"...
For what reason could this post ever be considered any of the above, I wonder?
Mod UP. Great common sense, common courtesy advice. Advice that will go a LONG way towards keeping you out of trouble with "Big Brother".
And for those here who are so quick to protest (from behind the warmth and security of their keyboards) that: "We should fight such evil!" - Think about it, kid - it's hard to fight The Man, when he has you locked in a little cell. Best to do what is needed to stay outside, where you can apply your efforts to something other than mental masturbation and protest screes that will only be heard/read by a very, very few...
Pardon, but being "*rarely* killed" is still being 'killed' nonetheless.
As a rule, I think it is not smart to fuck with armed people who work in jobs where they are much more likely to be killed (however 'rarely') than those of us in 'normal' jobs. I know that I personally would hate to be killed, and so can understand that it is probably a bit more stressful than what I am used to, working with/in the knowledge of that being killed on the job is a distinctly more likely possibility than in most other jobs.
Do I like subjugating myself to the control of a police of whatever sort? No, I don't. I hate it. But I can do it, when it means I can otherwise get along with my life in order to try and effect the change necessary to not have to deal with that sort of thing down the road. Whether that means working towards changing the system, or just getting the fuck away from/out of it.
Don't fuck with cops when things get stressful. It ain't smart. Wait 'til later, out of the stressful and high-strung situation, and you can be much more effective at whatever your intended purpose is.
The sci-fi authors audience on this story is not going to be appreciatively larger than had he done the things needed to _stay out of jail_ for two years, and spent that time as a free man writing and exposing the incident from the standpoint of someone who isn't in jail. Not to mention that the two years would be, for him, much more enjoyable.
Ask Mandela if he was able to do more from inside his jail cell, than from without.
If you and Shakrai both think 'One party rule sucks', then neither of you should have voted for Obama, given that a Democratic House and Senate were a virtual certainty. Unless you voted Republican for the House/Congress? (Doubtful, based on what I'm reading...)
'One party rule sucks' because "That government is best which governs least." (Thomas Payne) . Never vote a straight Party ticket, especially not if that party will Rule Them All - because if you can keep them busy fighting each other up there in DC, they'll fuck our lives up less...
And if using the one at your house, would you put the thermometer in the middle of the driveway, or right where the heat pump blasts out the exchange air? Wouldn't make sense to do that, would it?
Nonetheless, that is exactly the kind of environment where a lot of the Surface Stations are located. Makes me question the data...
I've submitted the 'Climategate' story twice (1, 2, and it gets pushed down in the firehose. Why? It has "hackers", tech, science, controversy... All the ingredients of a good topic. So - why vote it *down*?
It's evident there is a 'leftwards' lean in a large part (if not the majority) of the subscribers of this site. So what does the unwillingness to discuss this story indicate - Denial? Suppression? A real 'inconvenient truth'? I don't know. Seems to me that it is a great Slashdot story, but here as elsewhere, certain partisans are doing what they can to make science more and more just an arm of politics and their particular belief system. That sickens me.
I think objectivity should be THE concern when it comes to an issue which is potentially as important as this one, where the stakes are so high. Not so, apparently, among a majority of other Slashdotters.:/
My thoughts exactly, and the reason for my original "offtopic" post, above.
It amazes me that this group of people here at slashdot - who I have always considered by and large to be intelligent - have such blinders on, such a lemming-like herd mentality about this administration and its leader.
Never mind that cliff ahead up there, folks, *He* knows what's going on because He is SO much better from the Him before, and, from His helicopter, He must see something that will save us from the fall ahead, which we don't...
Thanks for the intelligent thought and clear words, 5KVGhost. At least *some* people get it.
...and these are the same people / same administration / same federal gov't that we are about to give control over our health care issues and how they (we) are treated.
"On January 9, 2001, iTunes 1.0 was released. Macintosh users immediately began poking through iTunes's resource fork, where they discovered numerous strings and other resources that indicated iTunes was a re-engineered SoundJam MP."
'Less than' what...? Vista??? GMAFB. Modern Linux distros @ default installation settings run just fine in 1/4 of the hardware a similar MS setup requires.
More like "Year of the Linux Desktop Being Used to Reach the Cloud"? Which, I guess, will be good for the 'general' Linux desktop end user anyway. Fallout from this might prove beneficial in things like wider vendor support, more recognition, maybe some driver work in areas where attention is needed (cough Intel GMA500.../cough).
That's interesting, and I'll be reading more on it. It doesn't look like it would work in my environment, though. Most of my business involving this sort of scenario deals with a broad range of consumer-level systems running XP, by and large. Using slip-streamed install media, my actual time 'at the keyboard' for reinstall, optimization, and cloning is generally under 2 hours, though it takes a little more than that total for the process to be done. Still, I wonder: How much time does it take you to create and then apply an image using that technique? Reading this WAIK page - there's no support for XP SP3? That seems odd. Has the page just not been updated, or is that for real?
Slashdot Mirror
You probably haven't been here recently, either (Thank Deity...).
I live in a part of the South where a high proportion of the population is actually 'people from up North', and I can tell you that racial prejudice is not a latitude-defined problem. In fact, of the people I've known in the 40 years I have lived in the small-town South, it is frequently those whose families have been here far longer than most, like since Kings Grant times, who are the quickest to get pissed off at others indiscriminate use of racial slurs. IME, prejudice and bigotry are, sadly, something that you'll find everywhere about equally, regardless of location in relationship to the equator, or the color of the skin of the bigot, or even things like level of education and/or intelligence. No one area - or people - has a corner on that market.
So stuff your overused and under-accurate generalities where the sun don't shine. Right up there next to your head.
You boned that one, pal. Any decent brother would have known what to do...
;)
You should have found a similar perspective eagle picture online, 'enhanced' it with GIMP/PS to make it as close as possible to what she shot, and send it back at a minimum 1024 res and high color, thereby perpetuating the myth that you are indeed a Computer God.
Kids these days, can't see opportunity even when it's smacking 'em in the face...
Seems to me that he makes some pretty valid points.
But then, I'm not on the MS 'turfing payroll, I'm just an independent IT person who likes to use whatever solution works best for a given situation...
Allegory much, anyone? (Guess not...)
Yeahs, screw teh Googleses corps, they are buttseks puppy ranchers...
Umbrella Corp, FTW !!1!!111!
Very similar here - ~$65/mo after some discounts (wrangled from customer service at contract re-sign) nets me unlimited data and voice. Unlimited SMS for another $5/mo if wanted. Tethering to an older Blackberry works fine if I am not in an area where I can scarf up some wifi - and these days that only happens when I am out in the woods or on the water somewhere. T-mobile customer service has always been quick and responsive.
The phone and plan are cheap enough that even on a minimalist budget, I can have an 11.6" netbook as a secondary device instead of a tiny-screen phone - and for _much less_ money in the longer term.
Me, I have no idea why a short-term preview of some computer hardware could be worth so much money. Seems ridiculous, and overly fanboi-ish/hyped...
DEB just works, unlike that RPM crap! :)
Thanks for the trip down Memory Lane, to back in the days when I used RPM-distro's, and wondered at the smugness of those DEB users with their cryptic 'apt' commands and, what seemed most baffling, no Dependency Hell issues...
Then one day (OK, one 2-or-3-days, and a lot of floppies, and command line hoodoo, and researching BBS forums to get everything working...) I tried it myself, and, well, they were right - once you go DEB, you never go back. ;)
Even now, 10+ years later, I still shy away from using RPM-based distro's. :D
"Troll"?
Heh.
Nice, really nice, mods. An anonymous post containing no information that can be confirmed, and with only the barest description of some opinion with no factual reference, modded "Informative", "Interesting", and "Insightful"...
For what reason could this post ever be considered any of the above, I wonder?
Mod UP. Great common sense, common courtesy advice. Advice that will go a LONG way towards keeping you out of trouble with "Big Brother".
And for those here who are so quick to protest (from behind the warmth and security of their keyboards) that: "We should fight such evil!" - Think about it, kid - it's hard to fight The Man, when he has you locked in a little cell. Best to do what is needed to stay outside, where you can apply your efforts to something other than mental masturbation and protest screes that will only be heard/read by a very, very few...
Pardon, but being "*rarely* killed" is still being 'killed' nonetheless.
As a rule, I think it is not smart to fuck with armed people who work in jobs where they are much more likely to be killed (however 'rarely') than those of us in 'normal' jobs. I know that I personally would hate to be killed, and so can understand that it is probably a bit more stressful than what I am used to, working with/in the knowledge of that being killed on the job is a distinctly more likely possibility than in most other jobs.
Do I like subjugating myself to the control of a police of whatever sort? No, I don't. I hate it. But I can do it, when it means I can otherwise get along with my life in order to try and effect the change necessary to not have to deal with that sort of thing down the road. Whether that means working towards changing the system, or just getting the fuck away from/out of it.
Don't fuck with cops when things get stressful. It ain't smart. Wait 'til later, out of the stressful and high-strung situation, and you can be much more effective at whatever your intended purpose is.
The sci-fi authors audience on this story is not going to be appreciatively larger than had he done the things needed to _stay out of jail_ for two years, and spent that time as a free man writing and exposing the incident from the standpoint of someone who isn't in jail. Not to mention that the two years would be, for him, much more enjoyable.
Ask Mandela if he was able to do more from inside his jail cell, than from without.
How to make your very own Holy Hand Grenade
Useful to know, when needing to repel the occasional turtle-loving zombie.
If you and Shakrai both think 'One party rule sucks', then neither of you should have voted for Obama, given that a Democratic House and Senate were a virtual certainty. Unless you voted Republican for the House/Congress? (Doubtful, based on what I'm reading...)
'One party rule sucks' because "That government is best which governs least." (Thomas Payne) . Never vote a straight Party ticket, especially not if that party will Rule Them All - because if you can keep them busy fighting each other up there in DC, they'll fuck our lives up less...
Sad, that.
Missed it then, obviously, but am glad to see that it did make the front page.
Thanks for pointing that out.
And if using the one at your house, would you put the thermometer in the middle of the driveway, or right where the heat pump blasts out the exchange air? Wouldn't make sense to do that, would it?
Nonetheless, that is exactly the kind of environment where a lot of the Surface Stations are located. Makes me question the data...
Karma be damned...
:/
I've submitted the 'Climategate' story twice (1, 2, and it gets pushed down in the firehose. Why? It has "hackers", tech, science, controversy... All the ingredients of a good topic. So - why vote it *down*?
It's evident there is a 'leftwards' lean in a large part (if not the majority) of the subscribers of this site. So what does the unwillingness to discuss this story indicate - Denial? Suppression? A real 'inconvenient truth'? I don't know. Seems to me that it is a great Slashdot story, but here as elsewhere, certain partisans are doing what they can to make science more and more just an arm of politics and their particular belief system. That sickens me.
I think objectivity should be THE concern when it comes to an issue which is potentially as important as this one, where the stakes are so high. Not so, apparently, among a majority of other Slashdotters.
My thoughts exactly, and the reason for my original "offtopic" post, above.
It amazes me that this group of people here at slashdot - who I have always considered by and large to be intelligent - have such blinders on, such a lemming-like herd mentality about this administration and its leader.
Never mind that cliff ahead up there, folks, *He* knows what's going on because He is SO much better from the Him before, and, from His helicopter, He must see something that will save us from the fall ahead, which we don't...
Thanks for the intelligent thought and clear words, 5KVGhost. At least *some* people get it.
...and these are the same people / same administration / same federal gov't that we are about to give control over our health care issues and how they (we) are treated.
Does not compute.
"On January 9, 2001, iTunes 1.0 was released. Macintosh users immediately began poking through iTunes's resource fork, where they discovered numerous strings and other resources that indicated iTunes was a re-engineered SoundJam MP."
Seems like you're both right, to a degree.
Check the score - he started at a -1...
... Windows 7 requires less from your hardware...
'Less than' what...? Vista??? GMAFB. Modern Linux distros @ default installation settings run just fine in 1/4 of the hardware a similar MS setup requires.
Back to Redmond, shill...
But... if you decided to put Linux on your Microstop CloudPC, will you then have to send a hardware rebate to MS?
;)
More like "Year of the Linux Desktop Being Used to Reach the Cloud"? Which, I guess, will be good for the 'general' Linux desktop end user anyway. Fallout from this might prove beneficial in things like wider vendor support, more recognition, maybe some driver work in areas where attention is needed (cough Intel GMA500... /cough).
That's interesting, and I'll be reading more on it. It doesn't look like it would work in my environment, though. Most of my business involving this sort of scenario deals with a broad range of consumer-level systems running XP, by and large. Using slip-streamed install media, my actual time 'at the keyboard' for reinstall, optimization, and cloning is generally under 2 hours, though it takes a little more than that total for the process to be done. Still, I wonder: How much time does it take you to create and then apply an image using that technique? Reading this WAIK page - there's no support for XP SP3? That seems odd. Has the page just not been updated, or is that for real?