They should allow the losers to write "Jedi" and then proceed to ship everyone on the list into the outback. They can enjoy calling it Tattooine while the buzzards circle overhead. Feel free to take anyone who writes that Klingon is their first language too.
We went to a gaming centre and paid $12 per person per hour. We play pool as a group paying just $7 an hour for the table. Needless to say, we only went to the gaming centre once, and it closed down within months.
A release is not official until the announcement has gone out on the mailing list and it is visible on http://www.freebsd.org/releases/index.html. Some bozos don't seem to understand that (and Slashdot never seems to learn how to verify these stories). Looks like this one went off without incident for once.
I started going to the gym where I work a couple of months ago. After a few weeks (the initial "I think I'm going to die!" period) I signed up with an outside gym to take advantage of the more suitable hours. I'm now going 5 days a week and have lost 20 pounds. It's the best I've felt in years.
My routine: 40-60 mins cardio every visit (elliptical trainer or bike), abs every visit (stomach crunches and lower back), alternate arms/shoulders/chest or legs between visits.
START EASY!! A major factor in people not continuing to exercise is that they start too hard and find it too tough. I had to take time to work my way up to a full hour on the elliptical trainer - at first I could only do 15 minutes. After your first couple of outings try 15 minutes to start, then do your weight stuff, then come back for another 15 later. You want your heart rate to be up and to be sweating, but complete overheating and exhaustion are counterproductive.
For home exercise, motivation is the worst. If you want inexpensive equipment, EXERCISE BALL! It is fantastic for MANY different exercises (most directly useful for abs and back which is of critical importance for us stationary geeks). The advantage of the ball over traditional machines is that you have to BALANCE yourself, which brings entire muscle groups into play as opposed to targeting only specific muscles.
You should really think of a gym as opposed to home exercise. There is a wider range of services, as well as professional help through personal trainers. I'd recommend paying for a trainer for your first few outings so they can lay a foundation workout routine for you.
We had 2 courses at school, the first being abstract machines, languages, and computations (regular expressions, grammars, automata, turing machines). The second was application of the first - programming languages and their processors.
See "Introduction to Languages and the Theory of Computation" by Martin.
Gil Amelio's book on 500 days at Apple Glue by Irvine Welsh High-rise & Concrete Island by Ballard and one more spin on one of my favorite books of all time: The Bear Comes Home by Rafi Zabor
I think there's a big difference between surfing for 15 minutes after my wife goes to bed and ignoring her to run cable all over the place while she's awake.
What do you need all that crap for at home? I don't even check my email on the weekends
Are you interested in interfacing with strangers online or are you interested in spending time with your real-life girlfriend? Geeks don't get laid a lot - maybe you should invest in real life for a while.
Nobody's making a dime in home broadband subscriptions. Your provider has been selling it to you at a loss because of their own competitive pricing.
Originally cable internet was pricey. They were losing money, but waiting for subscribers to reach critical mass to make a profit. It didn't happen. All the geeks in town were already online and nobody else knew what the hell the internet was. Solution - lower prices to attract subscribers. They had a monopoly with cable anyways, so what the hell. Then DSL came along. Suddenly there were many players involved, spreading the subscriber pool thin and pricing even thinner.
Why do you think a measly T1 will cost you $1000 a month when cable internet is comparable in speed? Cause THAT'S paying for the equipment you're using and THAT'S paying for service guarantees.
In this downtime, these companies need every cent they can get, so they are raising their prices a bit. Also, smaller fish are going under and their subscribers are consolidating to the bigger players. These bigger players are losing cash as well, but suddenly need more equipment to handle the growing subscriber base.
I'm a career slob - I've tried all sorts of basic organization, but I just can't make it stick. My Palm is gathering dust, my dayplanners lie empty. This has also led me to develop pretty good memory - things are in piles all around me, but I know what's in each one. I've got over 500 CDs and when they were in piles on the floor I could still locate anything in a few seconds.
I've since gotten a beautiful shelf that is 5 feet high and 3 feet wide that holds almost 700 CDs. I've alphabetized, but that is crumbling slightly now that I notice a pile of 20-30 on the floor next to my stereo.
As for playing, I've got a 5 disc changer and that does me fine. I've thought about getting a large carosel, but for some reason it doesn't feel necessary. I like picking through my shelf wondering what I want to play - in a carousel I think a lot of albums would go forgotten.
If anyone out there has REALLY large collections, you might be interested in these cabinets - a little industrial-looking for your home, but functional.
my $0.02 (Canadian)
Homicide anyone?
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Speaking of intelligent police shows...
It is truly shameful that the brilliant and inspired Homicide: Life on the Street never got the acclaim it deserved while it was around. Even more tragic is how memories of the show are fading. If it isn't in syndication where you are, REQUEST IT!
"The bad news is that the movie is so hypocritical, heavy-handed and gummed up with silly, sentimental and cliche-stuffed sub-plots that it undermines its own good intentions."
You're talking about ports, while the author was talking about the core OS. AFAIK there is some GNU in the core OS, but most GNU code running in FreeBSD is installed from ports.
My $0.02 (Canadian)
Steve
Why is this even reviewed?
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We're all supposedly intelligent people here. It is OBVIOUS from the ads that the film is sheer crap (and in fact the studio should be held accountable for the 30 seconds of my life lost to that ad). Why is Katz reviewing such SHEER AND UTTER CRAP? I guess he thinks he looks intelligent by methodically picking apart a bad film. Instead of pointing out the painfully obvious in the hopes of looking insightful, try coming up with some REAL insight on a REAL film.
I saw the Orange County review and wondered why it was posted - this one is a step further in solidifying my theory.
The original QNX OS was released as QNX2 in the early 1980s. I don't know the story on QNX 1 - perhaps it was the specialized product that inspired them to attempt a general purpose realtime OS. In the late 1980s/early 1990s it was rewritten as QNX4 to implement many new ideas (and improve on old ideas). This was labelled QNX4. QNX4 gave the world a better, more UNIX-like development platform and more UNIX-like behaviour via POSIX. Not long after QNX4 came Neutrino. This was to be a specialized kernel for deeply embedded applications while QNX4 was to be more general-purpose realtime. The entire QNX4 application base has now evolved to run on Neutrino, so now this is all packaged together like QNX4 was and is called QNX6 or RealTime Platform.
I guess MS isn't interested in me getting into their wonderful new technology since they have made it so that their.NET FAQ makes Solaris Netscape crash:)
Oh well - it won't be too difficult to live without it...:)
Do you pay for any services? Yeah it sucks that they want to pump ads into your face, but that is their only source of revenue. You'd have a right to complain if you were paying for their service.
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They should allow the losers to write "Jedi" and then proceed to ship everyone on the list into the outback. They can enjoy calling it Tattooine while the buzzards circle overhead. Feel free to take anyone who writes that Klingon is their first language too.
We went to a gaming centre and paid $12 per person per hour. We play pool as a group paying just $7 an hour for the table. Needless to say, we only went to the gaming centre once, and it closed down within months.
Yes, officially
A release is not official until the announcement has gone out on the mailing list and it is visible on http://www.freebsd.org/releases/index.html. Some bozos don't seem to understand that (and Slashdot never seems to learn how to verify these stories). Looks like this one went off without incident for once.
I started going to the gym where I work a couple of months ago. After a few weeks (the initial "I think I'm going to die!" period) I signed up with an outside gym to take advantage of the more suitable hours. I'm now going 5 days a week and have lost 20 pounds. It's the best I've felt in years.
My routine: 40-60 mins cardio every visit (elliptical trainer or bike), abs every visit (stomach crunches and lower back), alternate arms/shoulders/chest or legs between visits.
START EASY!! A major factor in people not continuing to exercise is that they start too hard and find it too tough. I had to take time to work my way up to a full hour on the elliptical trainer - at first I could only do 15 minutes. After your first couple of outings try 15 minutes to start, then do your weight stuff, then come back for another 15 later. You want your heart rate to be up and to be sweating, but complete overheating and exhaustion are counterproductive.
For home exercise, motivation is the worst. If you want inexpensive equipment, EXERCISE BALL! It is fantastic for MANY different exercises (most directly useful for abs and back which is of critical importance for us stationary geeks). The advantage of the ball over traditional machines is that you have to BALANCE yourself, which brings entire muscle groups into play as opposed to targeting only specific muscles.
You should really think of a gym as opposed to home exercise. There is a wider range of services, as well as professional help through personal trainers. I'd recommend paying for a trainer for your first few outings so they can lay a foundation workout routine for you.
Good luck
Should be spelled bl0g to identify the speaker as a dork
Get a new job, dude
We had 2 courses at school, the first being abstract machines, languages, and computations (regular expressions, grammars, automata, turing machines). The second was application of the first - programming languages and their processors.
See "Introduction to Languages and the Theory of Computation" by Martin.
Gil Amelio's book on 500 days at Apple
Glue by Irvine Welsh
High-rise & Concrete Island by Ballard
and one more spin on one of my favorite books of all time: The Bear Comes Home by Rafi Zabor
I think there's a big difference between surfing for 15 minutes after my wife goes to bed and ignoring her to run cable all over the place while she's awake.
What do you need all that crap for at home? I don't even check my email on the weekends
Are you interested in interfacing with strangers online or are you interested in spending time with your real-life girlfriend? Geeks don't get laid a lot - maybe you should invest in real life for a while.
Nobody's making a dime in home broadband subscriptions. Your provider has been selling it to you at a loss because of their own competitive pricing.
Originally cable internet was pricey. They were losing money, but waiting for subscribers to reach critical mass to make a profit. It didn't happen. All the geeks in town were already online and nobody else knew what the hell the internet was. Solution - lower prices to attract subscribers. They had a monopoly with cable anyways, so what the hell. Then DSL came along. Suddenly there were many players involved, spreading the subscriber pool thin and pricing even thinner.
Why do you think a measly T1 will cost you $1000 a month when cable internet is comparable in speed? Cause THAT'S paying for the equipment you're using and THAT'S paying for service guarantees.
In this downtime, these companies need every cent they can get, so they are raising their prices a bit. Also, smaller fish are going under and their subscribers are consolidating to the bigger players. These bigger players are losing cash as well, but suddenly need more equipment to handle the growing subscriber base.
:wq
"grab the source and compile" is exactly what the BSD ports system does
This makes the dubious threat of powerlines in residential neighbourhoods pretty insignificant I guess
I'm a career slob - I've tried all sorts of basic organization, but I just can't make it stick. My Palm is gathering dust, my dayplanners lie empty. This has also led me to develop pretty good memory - things are in piles all around me, but I know what's in each one. I've got over 500 CDs and when they were in piles on the floor I could still locate anything in a few seconds.
I've since gotten a beautiful shelf that is 5 feet high and 3 feet wide that holds almost 700 CDs. I've alphabetized, but that is crumbling slightly now that I notice a pile of 20-30 on the floor next to my stereo.
As for playing, I've got a 5 disc changer and that does me fine. I've thought about getting a large carosel, but for some reason it doesn't feel necessary. I like picking through my shelf wondering what I want to play - in a carousel I think a lot of albums would go forgotten.
If anyone out there has REALLY large collections, you might be interested in these cabinets - a little industrial-looking for your home, but functional.
my $0.02 (Canadian)
Speaking of intelligent police shows...
It is truly shameful that the brilliant and inspired Homicide: Life on the Street never got the acclaim it deserved while it was around. Even more tragic is how memories of the show are fading. If it isn't in syndication where you are, REQUEST IT!
"The bad news is that the movie is so hypocritical, heavy-handed and gummed up with silly, sentimental and cliche-stuffed sub-plots that it undermines its own good intentions."
Wasn't that obvious from the TV commercial??
You're talking about ports, while the author was talking about the core OS. AFAIK there is some GNU in the core OS, but most GNU code running in FreeBSD is installed from ports.
My $0.02 (Canadian)
Steve
We're all supposedly intelligent people here. It is OBVIOUS from the ads that the film is sheer crap (and in fact the studio should be held accountable for the 30 seconds of my life lost to that ad). Why is Katz reviewing such SHEER AND UTTER CRAP? I guess he thinks he looks intelligent by methodically picking apart a bad film. Instead of pointing out the painfully obvious in the hopes of looking insightful, try coming up with some REAL insight on a REAL film.
I saw the Orange County review and wondered why it was posted - this one is a step further in solidifying my theory.
My $0.02 (Canadian)
Steve
QNX3 was simply QNX2 + protected mode
The original QNX OS was released as QNX2 in the early 1980s. I don't know the story on QNX 1 - perhaps it was the specialized product that inspired them to attempt a general purpose realtime OS. In the late 1980s/early 1990s it was rewritten as QNX4 to implement many new ideas (and improve on old ideas). This was labelled QNX4. QNX4 gave the world a better, more UNIX-like development platform and more UNIX-like behaviour via POSIX. Not long after QNX4 came Neutrino. This was to be a specialized kernel for deeply embedded applications while QNX4 was to be more general-purpose realtime. The entire QNX4 application base has now evolved to run on Neutrino, so now this is all packaged together like QNX4 was and is called QNX6 or RealTime Platform.
Steve
1 - self hosted development: it is generally intended to be the embedded developer's desktop system, not a general purpose desktop system
2 - GUIs are frequently used in embedded/realtime systems. Factory control systems, health monitoring & analysis, PDAs.
My $0.02 (Canadian)
I guess MS isn't interested in me getting into their wonderful new technology since they have made it so that their .NET FAQ makes Solaris Netscape crash :)
Oh well - it won't be too difficult to live without it... :)
Do you pay for any services? Yeah it sucks that they want to pump ads into your face, but that is their only source of revenue. You'd have a right to complain if you were paying for their service.
my $0.02 (Canadian)
corrosivand the 'media cost' is $75 USD!!!!!! Free as a bird...
QNX distributes very nicely - they have a wonderful node-independent IPC model.