Once we, as humankind, were able to put a few of our fellow man on the moon. On the *fucking* moon! Think about it, they left the ball of dirt we all take for granted, flew off into space, landed on another heavenly body. And returned, safely!
In order to do that you need balls and you have to take risks. Not just the insanely brave astronauts, but also as a people. Just to defy common sense and say: "yes, it might be risky, it might be impossible, but goddamn we're going to put a man on the moon!".
How on gods green earth have we now become a litigious race of pussified wankers that can't take personal responsibility or grasp the concept that hot things maybe hot, and sticking live extention cords in you ass might be a bit of a shocker?
I do love my little boy, really! I just ment that if I realized the impact on my life beforehand I wouldn't have considered having kid(s). Now that I have him there is no problem (well, besides the 'no-you-can't-sleep, not-yours' attitude he seems to have).
As you say, it's fascinating to see the little 'robot' learning. Sometimes more stupid than you think, but often a lot smarter!
To summarize: I love the kid, wouldn't ever think of giving him up. We have a loving, stable family. The kid will be a-ok!
and if you even look at the little guy funny for this being his fault then I'll hunt you down and rip your neck open...
Hey, Mr. Internet Though Guy, why don't you turn it down a little?
My kid is growing up in a stable, loving family and he'll be spoiled rotten if I get the chance. But still, really, kids are not for me. That won't be his problem, though.
I'm a parent of a 1 year old boy. Let me tell you that I'd rather be gaming (or anything, really) than change his diaper or try to keep some food in him while he thinks it's funny to spit it through the whole room. Having a kid changes your life drastically.
If I fully realized the impact of kids on my life, I would never have had him. I'd cut off my dick with rusty scissors first.
If you try this on most laptops, you will quickly see that it won't work very well.
The polarisation filter in a typical wide-screen laptop makes the viewing angle from the sides very good. This is needed so both your eyes see the same hue and luminance. The angle can be quite steep (left-eye to right-side of the display, for instance).
You don't need this as much for up and down, because your eyes see the same no matter what. Yes, your display is slightly brighter on top (or bottom, doesn't matter) but both eyes see the same.
Now, if you rotate your display 90 degrees, your eyes will see different brightness. This makes for some very uncomfortable viewing. You can try it easily.
I don't understand your argument. Are you telling me that you wouldn't go see the movie until you heard that there was a comical dwarf in it?
The way I see it, the trilogy would have been a hit anyway. The hordes of geeks would see it just because, and the general populace would see it as an adventure movie with amazing special effects.
I mean, if people go see the horribly made (on so many levels) Star Wars movies, they sure would go see the LotR trilogy.
Do you remember that the dwarf was modified to bring comic relief to the movies? That alone grinds against a few nerves, don't you think?
What was Jackson thinking there? "Hey, let's make an epic movie, based on an epic novel. And why not change the complete character of one of the key players?"
I do understand that a movie is not a book, really. But this is not only unnecessary but it is annoying.
After Ubuntu 6.06 (LTS) is has really gone downhill. Yes, it looks a lot better now, there is more flashy eye-candy. But reliability has suffered.
Wireless doesn't work for me since 6.10 (but works fine in 6.06), and the latest 7.10 won't install because there is apparently a bug in X.org so GDM doesn't come up in a normal resolution during install.
The quality assurance is crap, both issues could have easily been found (and not to make too fine a point, both issues *have* been found during the beta's, it's just that noone really cares to fix it).
Apparently my metabolism is very efficient. Everytime I cut down on calories, my body compensates. I'm not losing muscle, and not losing fat either.
I really can't eat less, as I get dizzy spells and feel like crap when I do. Only thing is to add extra exercize, but I'm not looking forward to that as I expect my body to get used to that also. And when I ever cut down on exercize, you know what will happen: I'll gain weight like there is no tomorrow.
Next year, we will mainly focus on certain chemicals in my blood, to see if there are specific foods I should avoid. So far, the initial tests show no real promise in that area.
I'm open for suggestions. I'll run 'm by my specialist first, just to make sure it won't interfere with anything.
I am morbidly obese according to BMI, I weigh 299 pounds. I'm a big guy, lots of muscle, but also a lot of fat.
I do four sessions of aerobic exersize a week, one hour each. In between I lift/pull/push a lot of weight around, typically 90 minutes per session.
I eat small portions, my meals are based on instructions of a dietary specialist. No more than 1750 calories a day, and only out of "good" foodstuffs. This gets checked regularly, every three months I spend a week in a clinic where *everything* gets monitored.
I have done this for more than the last two years. In that time, I've not broken my diet or lost a day of exersize, not even once. Really.
I'm still fat, I haven't lost a single pound. In fact, I gained 7 pounds.
I've always thought of it as "IN" (inline, thus switched on) and "OUT" (out of circuit, thus switched off). Not sure why, perhaps I've picked this up when I interned at a hi-power research lab.
The management of those establishments are fully aware that the patrons do not want to be subjected to blabbering idiots on cell phones. They chose to do nothing about it, apart from an announcement at the movies or a sign in a theater.
If you use your phone in such a place in my reach, I will take your phone, period. If you are nice and repent, you will get it back after the performance ends. If you make a scene we will take it outside, and you are permanently out of a phone.
Really. You would be the fifth person that happens to.
Not everyone needs or can't afford the support of Red Hat for themselves. Having a free (as-in-beer, gratis) alternative can be a solution.
The user benefits because it is almost a binary copy of an enterprise class GNU/Linux. And Red Hat benefits because of the increased familiarity in a potential userbase.
I'm a sysadmin and she's a surgeon and we're both on call basically 24/7
No, you choose to be on call. Big difference. You are not that important, really, you're not.
I applaud you for using your phone sensibly. You might be one of the good guys. But still, if I ever find you in the seat next to me (or more generally, within arms reach) in a movie theater and your phone rings you are out of a phone.
I don't buy your argument about the kid that desperately tries to contact you. Let them contact the hospital, there are other qualified people there. You are not the center of the universe. Deal with it.
And sysadmins, doctors and other "on-call" professions have a right to eat, don't they?
Yes, they have a right to eat. But they don't have a mandatory requirement to do it in public. They don't have to annoy the living daylight out of the rest of the population that tries to enjoy a nice meal.
If you're on call or want to babble incessantly on your mobile, eat at home or a fast-food restaurant. If you're in a nice restaurant then turn your mobile off and SHUT-THE-FUCK-UP!
So you are going to copy a game, which you then intend to not play, am I correct?
I think that is irrational behaviour, but that just my opinion, you can just ignore that.
But I can't grasp why you are convinced that customers have been wronged by Valve. I really don't. Valve marketed a certain product with certain features in some locale. The product works exactly as advertised. However, it seems that some middle men, some dealer, misrepresented the product for being something else. Specifically, that the regional version was the non-regional version.
The customers that where misled should take this up with the ones that sold it to them. Not with Valve.
But, sure, it's better to hurt a company that did nothing wrong than to apply rational thought to the matter.
You say that they disabled the product. I say it never was intended to work outside the locale where it was marketed and sold.
As I see it there are two products: a high-value product, for a higher price that works everywhere. And a lower-value product (because is it regional) for a lower price.
Some people bought the lower-value product, thinking they could use it like the higher-valued product. Maybe they where misled by the seller. That is where they should complain, not at Valve.
Valve sold a product that works exactly as advertised by them.
First thing to learn in public speaking is that you adapt to your audience. Same thing for asking questions in a lecture hall: asking Stallman about "open source" just shows that you haven't done your homework and that you have no business hogging the microphone.
You are flying the moral flag over a business decision (sell a lower value item for a lower price in some locale) that Valve made. You make them seem like immoral bastards over this.
Regardless if that's right (it isn't by the way) you spout off your big mouth.
Well fine, if you don't like the company, or the product, just don't buy it.
But nooooo, you are going to copy the game and play it anyway. That makes you a hypocrite. That's morally detestable.
The fact that the unwashed masses are clueless about the terms is not his fault. You can blame the industry spindoctors for that. "Open Source" is not equal to "Free Software", not even close.
For Stallman there is a real need to be precise about the terms, to avoid adding to the confusion.
If you ever have the chance to visit one of his speeches, do yourself a favor and go. Stallman is a really great speaker. Just don't make the mistake of asking why "he decided to do open-source". I garantee he will ride your ass about that one! I doubt the clueless French guy at Fosdem2006 will do that again...;-)
For daily Perl development I use Vim. I tried Eclipse (with appropiate plugin) and that was nice in theory except every so often it decided that it wouldn't open my sources anymore. Re-install Eclipse and it worked again. That got old *very* fast.
Is there another Perl aware development environment? I'd like syntax highlighting, source tree, keyword/function help and, if possible, jumping from function use to function definition (and/or methods).
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Once we, as humankind, were able to put a few of our fellow man on the moon. On the *fucking* moon! Think about it, they left the ball of dirt we all take for granted, flew off into space, landed on another heavenly body. And returned, safely!
In order to do that you need balls and you have to take risks. Not just the insanely brave astronauts, but also as a people. Just to defy common sense and say: "yes, it might be risky, it might be impossible, but goddamn we're going to put a man on the moon!".
How on gods green earth have we now become a litigious race of pussified wankers that can't take personal responsibility or grasp the concept that hot things maybe hot, and sticking live extention cords in you ass might be a bit of a shocker?
Unbe-fucking-lievable!
With PDL you can do heavy math processing really, really fast. And easy!
The site is bi-lingual, just click the "English" button.
I do love my little boy, really! I just ment that if I realized the impact on my life beforehand I wouldn't have considered having kid(s). Now that I have him there is no problem (well, besides the 'no-you-can't-sleep, not-yours' attitude he seems to have).
As you say, it's fascinating to see the little 'robot' learning. Sometimes more stupid than you think, but often a lot smarter!
To summarize: I love the kid, wouldn't ever think of giving him up. We have a loving, stable family. The kid will be a-ok!
Hey, Mr. Internet Though Guy, why don't you turn it down a little?
My kid is growing up in a stable, loving family and he'll be spoiled rotten if I get the chance. But still, really, kids are not for me. That won't be his problem, though.
If I fully realized the impact of kids on my life, I would never have had him. I'd cut off my dick with rusty scissors first.
Not kidding, either.
If you try this on most laptops, you will quickly see that it won't work very well. The polarisation filter in a typical wide-screen laptop makes the viewing angle from the sides very good. This is needed so both your eyes see the same hue and luminance. The angle can be quite steep (left-eye to right-side of the display, for instance). You don't need this as much for up and down, because your eyes see the same no matter what. Yes, your display is slightly brighter on top (or bottom, doesn't matter) but both eyes see the same. Now, if you rotate your display 90 degrees, your eyes will see different brightness. This makes for some very uncomfortable viewing. You can try it easily.
The way I see it, the trilogy would have been a hit anyway. The hordes of geeks would see it just because, and the general populace would see it as an adventure movie with amazing special effects.
I mean, if people go see the horribly made (on so many levels) Star Wars movies, they sure would go see the LotR trilogy.
What was Jackson thinking there? "Hey, let's make an epic movie, based on an epic novel. And why not change the complete character of one of the key players?"
I do understand that a movie is not a book, really. But this is not only unnecessary but it is annoying.
Wireless doesn't work for me since 6.10 (but works fine in 6.06), and the latest 7.10 won't install because there is apparently a bug in X.org so GDM doesn't come up in a normal resolution during install.
The quality assurance is crap, both issues could have easily been found (and not to make too fine a point, both issues *have* been found during the beta's, it's just that noone really cares to fix it).
I really can't eat less, as I get dizzy spells and feel like crap when I do. Only thing is to add extra exercize, but I'm not looking forward to that as I expect my body to get used to that also. And when I ever cut down on exercize, you know what will happen: I'll gain weight like there is no tomorrow.
Next year, we will mainly focus on certain chemicals in my blood, to see if there are specific foods I should avoid. So far, the initial tests show no real promise in that area.
I'm open for suggestions. I'll run 'm by my specialist first, just to make sure it won't interfere with anything.
I do four sessions of aerobic exersize a week, one hour each. In between I lift/pull/push a lot of weight around, typically 90 minutes per session.
I eat small portions, my meals are based on instructions of a dietary specialist. No more than 1750 calories a day, and only out of "good" foodstuffs. This gets checked regularly, every three months I spend a week in a clinic where *everything* gets monitored.
I have done this for more than the last two years. In that time, I've not broken my diet or lost a day of exersize, not even once. Really.
I'm still fat, I haven't lost a single pound. In fact, I gained 7 pounds.
Imagine that.
Or are they afraid a picture would distract the reader from the many shiny ads on the page?
I've always thought of it as "IN" (inline, thus switched on) and "OUT" (out of circuit, thus switched off). Not sure why, perhaps I've picked this up when I interned at a hi-power research lab.
If you use your phone in such a place in my reach, I will take your phone, period. If you are nice and repent, you will get it back after the performance ends. If you make a scene we will take it outside, and you are permanently out of a phone.
Really. You would be the fifth person that happens to.
The user benefits because it is almost a binary copy of an enterprise class GNU/Linux. And Red Hat benefits because of the increased familiarity in a potential userbase.
No, you choose to be on call. Big difference. You are not that important, really, you're not.
I applaud you for using your phone sensibly. You might be one of the good guys. But still, if I ever find you in the seat next to me (or more generally, within arms reach) in a movie theater and your phone rings you are out of a phone.
I don't buy your argument about the kid that desperately tries to contact you. Let them contact the hospital, there are other qualified people there. You are not the center of the universe. Deal with it.
Yes, they have a right to eat. But they don't have a mandatory requirement to do it in public. They don't have to annoy the living daylight out of the rest of the population that tries to enjoy a nice meal.
If you're on call or want to babble incessantly on your mobile, eat at home or a fast-food restaurant. If you're in a nice restaurant then turn your mobile off and SHUT-THE-FUCK-UP!
I think that is irrational behaviour, but that just my opinion, you can just ignore that.
But I can't grasp why you are convinced that customers have been wronged by Valve. I really don't. Valve marketed a certain product with certain features in some locale. The product works exactly as advertised. However, it seems that some middle men, some dealer, misrepresented the product for being something else. Specifically, that the regional version was the non-regional version.
The customers that where misled should take this up with the ones that sold it to them. Not with Valve.
But, sure, it's better to hurt a company that did nothing wrong than to apply rational thought to the matter.
As I see it there are two products: a high-value product, for a higher price that works everywhere. And a lower-value product (because is it regional) for a lower price.
Some people bought the lower-value product, thinking they could use it like the higher-valued product. Maybe they where misled by the seller. That is where they should complain, not at Valve.
Valve sold a product that works exactly as advertised by them.
The French guy got a valuable lesson.
Regardless if that's right (it isn't by the way) you spout off your big mouth.
Well fine, if you don't like the company, or the product, just don't buy it.
But nooooo, you are going to copy the game and play it anyway. That makes you a hypocrite. That's morally detestable.
Thanks!
For Stallman there is a real need to be precise about the terms, to avoid adding to the confusion.
If you ever have the chance to visit one of his speeches, do yourself a favor and go. Stallman is a really great speaker. Just don't make the mistake of asking why "he decided to do open-source". I garantee he will ride your ass about that one! I doubt the clueless French guy at Fosdem2006 will do that again... ;-)
For daily Perl development I use Vim. I tried Eclipse (with appropiate plugin) and that was nice in theory except every so often it decided that it wouldn't open my sources anymore. Re-install Eclipse and it worked again. That got old *very* fast. Is there another Perl aware development environment? I'd like syntax highlighting, source tree, keyword/function help and, if possible, jumping from function use to function definition (and/or methods).