Personally I like the SL-9000 I bought a few years back. When I bought it, it cost me an appreciable fraction of $100 (maybe even $120, but it looks like you can get them around $80 now. It has both pre-programmed codes (for common devices) and all the buttons are fully programmable. It's everything I wanted for a universal remote, and no expensive, wasted on me huge LCD screens...
Hundreds ran for cover as Miss Minnie Marplethorpe, 78, went streaking (very slowly with her walker) down mainstreet in Lincoln Nebraska this morning. When asked why she did it, she said "well, it's legal now, ain't it?"
Seems to me the hard part of skeeball would be the ramp. Yah, the electronics are simple, but what do you build the ramp out of, what kind of shape characteristics to give it for optimum skeeball-ness, etc.?
Seems to me pretty clear: the sick animals are going to be more easily caught by the wolves long before they're at the falling down, massive amounts of whatever it is causing the disease in their body stage. Which should reduce the risk to the wolves, eh?
As for not figuring out how it's transmitted, that's kinda worrisome, don't you think? This disease is hitting herds of animals and even after a few years of observation we can't tell how it's transmitted?
I hear pots calling kettles black all over this damn thread. Come ON. If you think that environmentalists are not 1) dogmatic 2) protecting their asses (not much money to be made for them if their "expertise" is shown to be a sham is there?) 3) blowing easily as much smoke as the other side, you have NOT been paying attention.
To be fair, I tend to side with those who think we should be reducing emissions.
But to claim that Global Warming is irrefutable and that Humans are obviously The Cause smacks an awful lot of the Church knowing that the Earth was the Center of the Universe a few centuries ago. All you have to do is watch them get so all-fired defensive about a single book to realize how threatening they find it. If it were truly so worthless, they would leave in the same state of being ignored as _Chariots of the Gods_.
I enjoyed Monstrous Regiment quite a bit. I think Pratchett is starting to get less manic and silly as he slows down with age, and whether you like that or not is really going to be a matter of taste. I thought Night Watch was better than a few of his more recent outings (wasn't really hep on Hogfather, and Carpe Jugulum and The Fifth Elephant left me a little flat), as well as really liking The Truth. I think the stories where he mostly is covering new characters give him some more room to stretch, whereas a lot of the old characters are so thoroughly developed it's harder to use them to say something new. Which doesn't mean he can't and doesn't succeed at that, but just that unused characters can seem more fresh.
See, a well thought out criticism is GOOD for all of us, and I appreciate it. Personally, I like JDS better than stock SuSE because I don't have to hunt and peck (in most cases anyway) to figure out where they've put a given function in the overbloated menu structure. JDS isn't perfect, but it's a first release; I fully expect that the next release will be much better. I realize that's pretty weak as a response, but since I'm not in JDS engineering, I can't say I know the nitty-gritty details to reply with (and I'd probably be in legal trouble if I tried anyway).
But the real point is, what you wrote isn't a troll, it's a reasoned criticism. My complaints are about the people who think any mention of JDS is reason to trot out the whole "Sun is dead. Sun is no better than Microsoft. Sun is taking advantage of the Linux community." canards. Criticism like yours is, as I said, good for us, and hopefully someone who can fix those things will see what you said (and I'll do my part to see that they do).
(not that I expected anything but troll mods, but just to let you in on the joke: I work for Sun. I think all the BS about how Sun is dead is tired, done, stupid, pointless. Funny how none of the morons posting things that boil down to the same comments on threads about JDS never or rarely seem to get modded as trolls...)
I did buy the product a couple years ago. At that time, it made my win98 system unstable. To be fair, my machine is kinda strange, been too long since I reinstalled it I guess, other things that work fine for other people make it unstable too. I have not actually used the latest version recently.
Generally I'd agree with you, and I have great appreciation for our system and how it (at least attempts to) protect individuals from unfair prosecutions/persecutions. On the other hand, the end result of your particular interpretation of that "all behaviors OK, except those specifically blacklisted" does leave open all sorts of doors for things like the Enron debacle. Were I a rightward conservative, I might point to other famously "wrong" behavior as well. If I were feeling particularly subversive, I might point out that there is very little different from that statement and "an it do no harm, do what thou wilt":-).
Of course, you can't be proven guilty if you refuse to acknowledge the court for such a trial is legitimate:-). Don't let this sound like a stance one way or the other on the particular issue in question....
'cos you know, I'm going to go cross reference all the words in my presentation to make sure that I know the etymology of every one. Maybe if I was an english major I'd inherently know which ones were Anglo-Saxon, but right this moment the only one I can think of is not contextually appropriate unless you've made me angry, which you haven't.
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Personally I like the SL-9000 I bought a few years back. When I bought it, it cost me an appreciable fraction of $100 (maybe even $120, but it looks like you can get them around $80 now. It has both pre-programmed codes (for common devices) and all the buttons are fully programmable. It's everything I wanted for a universal remote, and no expensive, wasted on me huge LCD screens...
Hundreds ran for cover as Miss Minnie Marplethorpe, 78, went streaking (very slowly with her walker) down mainstreet in Lincoln Nebraska this morning. When asked why she did it, she said "well, it's legal now, ain't it?"
Apparently it was the owner of one of the bars she was in.
Seems to me the hard part of skeeball would be the ramp. Yah, the electronics are simple, but what do you build the ramp out of, what kind of shape characteristics to give it for optimum skeeball-ness, etc.?
There are a lot of us out here....
That should be obvious. C# is a Microsoft product. You ain't gonna see Sun adopting it.
I'm sorry GPS, but I can't do that.br.
As for not figuring out how it's transmitted, that's kinda worrisome, don't you think? This disease is hitting herds of animals and even after a few years of observation we can't tell how it's transmitted?
To be fair, I tend to side with those who think we should be reducing emissions.
But to claim that Global Warming is irrefutable and that Humans are obviously The Cause smacks an awful lot of the Church knowing that the Earth was the Center of the Universe a few centuries ago. All you have to do is watch them get so all-fired defensive about a single book to realize how threatening they find it. If it were truly so worthless, they would leave in the same state of being ignored as _Chariots of the Gods_.
which is why you don't give Johnny the password, and you pick a damn good one.
I enjoyed Monstrous Regiment quite a bit. I think Pratchett is starting to get less manic and silly as he slows down with age, and whether you like that or not is really going to be a matter of taste. I thought Night Watch was better than a few of his more recent outings (wasn't really hep on Hogfather, and Carpe Jugulum and The Fifth Elephant left me a little flat), as well as really liking The Truth. I think the stories where he mostly is covering new characters give him some more room to stretch, whereas a lot of the old characters are so thoroughly developed it's harder to use them to say something new. Which doesn't mean he can't and doesn't succeed at that, but just that unused characters can seem more fresh.
Bastard.
I can't say I like it any better though. It may not be similar, but it's easily as confusing.
You haven't met some of the project leaders in OSS projects, have you?
But the real point is, what you wrote isn't a troll, it's a reasoned criticism. My complaints are about the people who think any mention of JDS is reason to trot out the whole "Sun is dead. Sun is no better than Microsoft. Sun is taking advantage of the Linux community." canards. Criticism like yours is, as I said, good for us, and hopefully someone who can fix those things will see what you said (and I'll do my part to see that they do).
(not that I expected anything but troll mods, but just to let you in on the joke: I work for Sun. I think all the BS about how Sun is dead is tired, done, stupid, pointless. Funny how none of the morons posting things that boil down to the same comments on threads about JDS never or rarely seem to get modded as trolls...)
Oh wait, Sun is Goood this time. Sorry, wrong knee jerk.
I did buy the product a couple years ago. At that time, it made my win98 system unstable. To be fair, my machine is kinda strange, been too long since I reinstalled it I guess, other things that work fine for other people make it unstable too. I have not actually used the latest version recently.
At least one already has. For Windoze anyway....
And less than an hour apart even!
in a clamshell? Cerf doesn't look any nicer to carry around than the tangerine.
I was actually going to make that point, those definitely look like tangerines or something related, not oranges.
Generally I'd agree with you, and I have great appreciation for our system and how it (at least attempts to) protect individuals from unfair prosecutions/persecutions. On the other hand, the end result of your particular interpretation of that "all behaviors OK, except those specifically blacklisted" does leave open all sorts of doors for things like the Enron debacle. Were I a rightward conservative, I might point to other famously "wrong" behavior as well. If I were feeling particularly subversive, I might point out that there is very little different from that statement and "an it do no harm, do what thou wilt" :-).
Of course, you can't be proven guilty if you refuse to acknowledge the court for such a trial is legitimate :-). Don't let this sound like a stance one way or the other on the particular issue in question....
'cos you know, I'm going to go cross reference all the words in my presentation to make sure that I know the etymology of every one. Maybe if I was an english major I'd inherently know which ones were Anglo-Saxon, but right this moment the only one I can think of is not contextually appropriate unless you've made me angry, which you haven't.