Lifting the hood of your car is about that. A bicycle is more than that. Most people have no problem lifting a bicycle up, and most people don't complain too much about lifting the hood when going to change the oil.
Perhaps the "most" that they refer to is the increasing number of geriatric cases in the world. They aren't really dying off like they used to.
The big problem that I have is decreased flexibility. When I was going at the weights hard-core, my boss would make fun of me for walking down the hall like a zombie. I'd rather be limber and slender with muscles, than heavily muscle-bound.
I hate CLECS like MCI and whatever. What gov't did was essentially steal capital from the network owners, by forcing them to sell network time to third party companies at super cheap prices. The hardware belongs to the Bells, they were the ones that invested the time, effort, and money into building the network.
If MCI decided to make a gigantic capital investment, and create their own network, then I'd be all for their existance as a provider. At least then, they'd have justified their existance.
I've found that Christianity has very little to do with income. It also has little to do with how vocal people are. But, by my own witness, the biggest bitchers about money are the liberals. Even when they allow Ted Kennedy to draw a pension (when he retires) that is larger than nearly all ex-military members' pensions, and they are the ones that make sure that his fat chubby ass is safe from some terrorist giving him dynamite and saying that it's a sausage.
Conservatives aren't much better, but at least they don't bitch about money. They don't quite know how to leave people alone, socially speaking. Liberals... well, they're supposed to be the ones that are "open" to ideas, but they are by far the biggest censors I've ever seen. Ever argue with a liberal? Have you ever argued with a liberal that listens? They have this unusual talent for completely ignoring what they don't want to hear. And, they'll take your money for it too.
When you work outside, you are exercising while working... so you manage to stave off a bunch of sedentary diseases like obesity and heart disease. Face it. Sitting at a desk means that you're not burning calories, and it may also mean that you make more... therefore being able to afford bigger lunches.
Sitting at a desk means that you have to somewhat structure your diet, and make way to a gym some time, just to stay in shape. That is extra work.
It is misleading to refer to the box as a "Linux" box. Was it really the kernel that was at fault for the machine being cracked, or was it a bug in one of the daemons that the machine was running? There are differences between a Linux box that runs BIND and another that runs EZ-DNS (or whatever).
How about this: Instead of labelling the Akamai boxes that have problems as "Linux" boxes, label them as "BIND" boxes, or whatever DNS server it is that it runs. Perhaps there's a FreeBSD machine in there that is having similar problems.
It is allowable, though, to refer to a Windows box as just that. MS ships an all-in-one product, and seldomly do admins use Windows to run BIND, Apache or other OSS servers.
All of this hand-ringing in an effort to paint "Linux" as bad, or as "just as bad" is dopey. One might as well point a finger at the administrator of the machine that was hacked, the services that were running on it, etc. Most Windows problems are caused by the same thing too. It is wiser to point at the admin (and the services one chooses to run) than to point at the OS, or the kernel.
It's far cheaper to ensure a shared core has all the functionality needed, with the ability to turn off bits and pieces you don't want or need.... Who cares that it's fully pre-emptive or a fine-grained network stack, provided it does the job?
Even better: A kernel that has everything, including the option have a fully pre-emptive kernel, a priority based or round robin scheduler, real time, etc. Then you can decide what the lower level is going to be, fitting it to whatever you need it to do.
Better than that, that kernel, even though it has many different varieties, still provides a standard and easy to use API.
All that, and it should be open too. Whoah. It's one kernel by name, but many by behavior.
It remains funny, because it's true. This article is evidence of how sucky IE is.
Users shouldn't have to do extra configuration in order to be protected. Mozilla/Firefox offers protection upon installation. The average user has problems with the Tools->Internet Options dialog anyways.
Support isn't one of the things that really pushes this decision. It's pushed by their entire philosophy of standardization. In the military, everything has a standard, from the uniform cuts to the style of your hair. That's how it is, and how it's almost always been with large militaries.
Making the bucky balls into memory is fairly simple. All they need to do is string a few of them on a tube, line the tubes up in a nano-frame, and use nano-fingers to move them back and forth. Witness, the first IP on the nano-abacus.
Reading your journal, I suspect that you really care too much about your karma. Just post what you think is pertinent, or if you're in the mood, do some flamebait / troll posts. Have fun with the place.
When you start to worry about your karma, you fall squarely into the "Karma Whore" category, just because you care. If you have something intelligent to say on a topic, say it. You'll get moderated accordingly, and people who aren't logged in will see it. If you want to exercise your freedom to speak, or want to get on someone's nerves, then do so. You'll be moderated accordingly, and the person to whom you replied will see what you wanted to say, and we won't necessarily have to. Don't try to be intelligent sounding without knowing much about a topic, because then you start sounding like Ken Brown.
Karma is not worth giving up your individuality for the appeasement of the/. horde.
They didn't want it used by Bryant's people. Giving that information to Bryant's people hurts AT&T more than it benefits them.
AT&T probably keeps the messages around in the case that they have to cover their own asses. Who knows what could endanger them, perhaps the RIAA sues them for people texting copyrighted lyrics around or something.
If so, then I'd be more inclined to move onto some property that I didn't own, and "buy" it by killing everyone that came upon it. I mean, are they going to throw me in virtual jail or something? Would I have to pay a $$ fine to get out?
If there is no pk'ing, I still don't see why you can't just stand there and pretend it's yours. People would have to figure out how to move you... which might not be possible.
Virtual property is lame. You'd have to be a real dope to pay real money for it. Of course, I'd have a ton of fun making life difficult for the dopes that "own" the bits that are streaming into my computer.
You have the option of installing Gentoo directly from binary tarballs too, no building necessary. The only thing that Gentoo doesn't have, IMO, is that lickable GUI installer. KEmerge sorta fills that role, but it's kinda crappy (I still get to watch gcc messages fly on the screen.).
What I think makes Gentoo great is the ease and simplicity with which the configuration files are handled.
The original drivers for linksys 802.11g cards were very sucky. The software that they provided as the default would only work if WEP was turned off, and if you tried to turn it on... the passphrase/key generator would crash when you tried to enter the phrase.
I think it was after the third driver update that they actually fixed that problem. Linksys is not perfect.
You've stepped outside of the bounds of the issue by introducing another program. The original point was that Emacs had more features, the reply was that Emacs was lacking a rather useful feature.
Saying that you can use something else that has that feature is bogus, then. You might as well say "Then use Emacs to code, and VS.NET to design a GUI." Personally, I've used Emacs. I like it a lot more than I like VI. I don't like writing code in emacs... the visual tools that exist in VS.NET, Eclipse, C#/Delphi/C++ Builder, KDevelop, etc. are very useful. I like to see a graphical tree of all of my classes and functions, that I can click on to get to that point in code. I like being able to write stored queries on the database server from the same environment as the one that I'm coding the front-end in. I like being able to see the entire database from the application. I like seeing all of the servers on my network, and all of the web services that they provide...
It comes down to using the best tool for the job, as well as the philosophy you have. Emacs doesn't cut it at the moment, as far as the work that I do. I don't mind having a huge monolithic application either.
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Lifting the hood of your car is about that. A bicycle is more than that. Most people have no problem lifting a bicycle up, and most people don't complain too much about lifting the hood when going to change the oil.
Perhaps the "most" that they refer to is the increasing number of geriatric cases in the world. They aren't really dying off like they used to.
Same here.
The big problem that I have is decreased flexibility. When I was going at the weights hard-core, my boss would make fun of me for walking down the hall like a zombie. I'd rather be limber and slender with muscles, than heavily muscle-bound.
I hate CLECS like MCI and whatever. What gov't did was essentially steal capital from the network owners, by forcing them to sell network time to third party companies at super cheap prices. The hardware belongs to the Bells, they were the ones that invested the time, effort, and money into building the network.
If MCI decided to make a gigantic capital investment, and create their own network, then I'd be all for their existance as a provider. At least then, they'd have justified their existance.
Sometimes the minority is much more vocal than the majority *cough* christian fundamentalists *cough*. It is human nature to complain.
Christian Fundamentalists are about the most quiet, reserved, introspective people the world has ever known.
It's always good to get a nice, impartial opinion.
No shit.
Being a (Score +5, Libertarian)...
I've found that Christianity has very little to do with income. It also has little to do with how vocal people are. But, by my own witness, the biggest bitchers about money are the liberals. Even when they allow Ted Kennedy to draw a pension (when he retires) that is larger than nearly all ex-military members' pensions, and they are the ones that make sure that his fat chubby ass is safe from some terrorist giving him dynamite and saying that it's a sausage.
Conservatives aren't much better, but at least they don't bitch about money. They don't quite know how to leave people alone, socially speaking. Liberals... well, they're supposed to be the ones that are "open" to ideas, but they are by far the biggest censors I've ever seen. Ever argue with a liberal? Have you ever argued with a liberal that listens? They have this unusual talent for completely ignoring what they don't want to hear. And, they'll take your money for it too.
(Score -15, Flamebait) (But it was worth it.)
When you work outside, you are exercising while working... so you manage to stave off a bunch of sedentary diseases like obesity and heart disease. Face it. Sitting at a desk means that you're not burning calories, and it may also mean that you make more... therefore being able to afford bigger lunches.
Sitting at a desk means that you have to somewhat structure your diet, and make way to a gym some time, just to stay in shape. That is extra work.
His usage of orbit is ambiguous anyway. You could feasibly "jump" into orbit around the sun.
It is misleading to refer to the box as a "Linux" box. Was it really the kernel that was at fault for the machine being cracked, or was it a bug in one of the daemons that the machine was running? There are differences between a Linux box that runs BIND and another that runs EZ-DNS (or whatever).
How about this: Instead of labelling the Akamai boxes that have problems as "Linux" boxes, label them as "BIND" boxes, or whatever DNS server it is that it runs. Perhaps there's a FreeBSD machine in there that is having similar problems.
It is allowable, though, to refer to a Windows box as just that. MS ships an all-in-one product, and seldomly do admins use Windows to run BIND, Apache or other OSS servers.
All of this hand-ringing in an effort to paint "Linux" as bad, or as "just as bad" is dopey. One might as well point a finger at the administrator of the machine that was hacked, the services that were running on it, etc. Most Windows problems are caused by the same thing too. It is wiser to point at the admin (and the services one chooses to run) than to point at the OS, or the kernel.
Hmm. Trolled, hook and sinker.
Yes. All high-paying tech jobs have gone over seas, and the unemployed American has to go work in a factory.
Well, not quite... but my father was an engineer until two years ago. Now he's an overnight security guard. The difference in pay? 60K+.
You might as well mod your dishwasher with a plexiglass window in front, and neon lights that catch the water sprays while it's running.
I'll give that a try, thank you.
It's far cheaper to ensure a shared core has all the functionality needed, with the ability to turn off bits and pieces you don't want or need....
Who cares that it's fully pre-emptive or a fine-grained network stack, provided it does the job?
Even better: A kernel that has everything, including the option have a fully pre-emptive kernel, a priority based or round robin scheduler, real time, etc. Then you can decide what the lower level is going to be, fitting it to whatever you need it to do.
Better than that, that kernel, even though it has many different varieties, still provides a standard and easy to use API.
All that, and it should be open too. Whoah. It's one kernel by name, but many by behavior.
Not required by law, doof. It is a law.
Microsoft's law: There will be an Internet Explorer security hole every day.
It remains funny, because it's true. This article is evidence of how sucky IE is.
Users shouldn't have to do extra configuration in order to be protected. Mozilla/Firefox offers protection upon installation. The average user has problems with the Tools->Internet Options dialog anyways.
Support isn't one of the things that really pushes this decision. It's pushed by their entire philosophy of standardization. In the military, everything has a standard, from the uniform cuts to the style of your hair. That's how it is, and how it's almost always been with large militaries.
There's maybe nothing worse than a bad pun except explaining a bad pun.
Depends on your pramaters.
There is at least one thing that is worse: the one who wrote the pun is the one who has to explain the pun.
Making the bucky balls into memory is fairly simple. All they need to do is string a few of them on a tube, line the tubes up in a nano-frame, and use nano-fingers to move them back and forth. Witness, the first IP on the nano-abacus.
Reading your journal, I suspect that you really care too much about your karma. Just post what you think is pertinent, or if you're in the mood, do some flamebait / troll posts. Have fun with the place.
When you start to worry about your karma, you fall squarely into the "Karma Whore" category, just because you care. If you have something intelligent to say on a topic, say it. You'll get moderated accordingly, and people who aren't logged in will see it. If you want to exercise your freedom to speak, or want to get on someone's nerves, then do so. You'll be moderated accordingly, and the person to whom you replied will see what you wanted to say, and we won't necessarily have to. Don't try to be intelligent sounding without knowing much about a topic, because then you start sounding like Ken Brown.
Karma is not worth giving up your individuality for the appeasement of the /. horde.
Ahh.. The screw that keeps on screwing.
They didn't want it used by Bryant's people. Giving that information to Bryant's people hurts AT&T more than it benefits them.
AT&T probably keeps the messages around in the case that they have to cover their own asses. Who knows what could endanger them, perhaps the RIAA sues them for people texting copyrighted lyrics around or something.
Is it legal to pk in this game?
If so, then I'd be more inclined to move onto some property that I didn't own, and "buy" it by killing everyone that came upon it. I mean, are they going to throw me in virtual jail or something? Would I have to pay a $$ fine to get out?
If there is no pk'ing, I still don't see why you can't just stand there and pretend it's yours. People would have to figure out how to move you... which might not be possible.
Virtual property is lame. You'd have to be a real dope to pay real money for it. Of course, I'd have a ton of fun making life difficult for the dopes that "own" the bits that are streaming into my computer.
Punchcards? You clod, I use an abaccus!
You have the option of installing Gentoo directly from binary tarballs too, no building necessary. The only thing that Gentoo doesn't have, IMO, is that lickable GUI installer. KEmerge sorta fills that role, but it's kinda crappy (I still get to watch gcc messages fly on the screen.).
What I think makes Gentoo great is the ease and simplicity with which the configuration files are handled.
The original drivers for linksys 802.11g cards were very sucky. The software that they provided as the default would only work if WEP was turned off, and if you tried to turn it on... the passphrase/key generator would crash when you tried to enter the phrase.
I think it was after the third driver update that they actually fixed that problem. Linksys is not perfect.
You've stepped outside of the bounds of the issue by introducing another program. The original point was that Emacs had more features, the reply was that Emacs was lacking a rather useful feature.
Saying that you can use something else that has that feature is bogus, then. You might as well say "Then use Emacs to code, and VS.NET to design a GUI." Personally, I've used Emacs. I like it a lot more than I like VI. I don't like writing code in emacs... the visual tools that exist in VS.NET, Eclipse, C#/Delphi/C++ Builder, KDevelop, etc. are very useful. I like to see a graphical tree of all of my classes and functions, that I can click on to get to that point in code. I like being able to write stored queries on the database server from the same environment as the one that I'm coding the front-end in. I like being able to see the entire database from the application. I like seeing all of the servers on my network, and all of the web services that they provide...
It comes down to using the best tool for the job, as well as the philosophy you have. Emacs doesn't cut it at the moment, as far as the work that I do. I don't mind having a huge monolithic application either.