If the number one problem with the Internet is spam, then the number two problem is all the idiots who buy products from spammers and keep them in business.
Spam will never stop. Just like junk snail-mail will never stop. The tiny percentage of below-freezing IQ's out there who fall for unsolicited "offers" are ruining it for everyone else.
Re: english, either it really matters or doesn't really matter, ("really" being a synonym for "actually", unless I read the parent post wrong)
And as far as not trusting random strangers, I think it's incredibly naive to believe other human beings won't take advantage or try to profit from misplaced trust if they can. Distrust by default is a resaonable approach to safely dealing with "fellow" humans. Locking your front door at night is not anti-social.
I'd be willing to bet CASH that more than 50% of Amazon's "user reviews" are either:
1. Hype from the publisher's marketing department or professional reviewers with a stake in the product
2. Astroturfing sponsored by the publisher or author.
3. So-called "bulk reviews" which are basically madlib-like cut-and-paste jobs with the product and company's name inserted throughout a standard "praise review" document
The last one is Amazon reviewers' insideous form of karma-whoring! It's like finding a well-thought-out, reasonable and informative post on slashdot, only to find that it's a cut-and-paste of 200 identical other posts sent to different articles (We've seen them here).
BEWARE AMAZON SO-CALLED USER REVIEWS. MOST ARE ALMOST CERTAINLY BOGUS!
I can skip from and Aqua skin to a BeOS skin in a few seconds.
Now that's what I call a practical selling point. Time to call up my manager and show him this post. He'll want to switch everyone over company-wide after reading this one!
On second thought, maybe I'll just stick with tried-and-true fvwm...
Again, we're not talking about ME. We're talking about a 10yo, or 12yo who we know lack a great deal of common sense, esp when it concerns safety. Much of this common sense comes with age and experience and they have not had the time to gain that experience yet.
No, I have a feeling we ARE talking about you.
Child-tracking technology exists to satisfy parents and give them piece of mind. It job is to satisfy a parent's need to feel secure and risk-free in an insecure and risky world. Surveilance in no way prevents attacks or abductions. Its only purpose is to make parents feel better.
I'm not saying the technology is bad or useless--the technology may indeed play a small role in saving a life. But let's at least be truthful about whose unrealistic expectations about the world it is REALLY meant to satisfy!
A fork would be *bad*
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A forked tree would basically kill X as a _standard_ platform. If I write an X app, do I write it for XFree86 or XFree-KiethP? If I'm putting a distribution together, do I package XFree86 or XFree-KiethP? I'm ATI and I want to contribute to driver development. Do I support XFree96 or XFree-KiethP. I'm trying to port an app written for XFree-KiethP to Solaris. What now??
X has survived for this long because it is a _standard_ platform. You can write an X application anywhere and reasonably expect it to display on any X server. If this changes, say goodby to X as a standard.
Are we trying to be "sensitive" about it? The fucking shuttle burned up on re-entry, killing all on board and showering east Texas with debris. It's not that difficult to say.
This is the same kind of wishy-washy wording we all got after the World Trade Center went down. "after The Recent Incident" or "because of Recent Events". Have we become so PC and sensitive that we can't even MENTION details that clarify "The Event" we are actually talking about??
I've been using a MINGW32-based linux->win32 cross-development environment for years. The same concepts apply as for cross-compiling to different hardware architectures. This is definitely not new software. With properly written makefiles, you can build to target both Linux and Win32 platforms from the same source tree and build environment. Of course you must test on both platforms, but having a setup like this definitely makes it easier to build large projects for both Windows and Linux.
I gotta say though... we are ALWAYS hurting for good console specific coders. They are almost always in demand.
Here's some advice: They are out there. They just dont have the "MUST HAVE 2-5 YEARS EXPERIENCE PROGRAMMING THE PS2 AND MUST HAVE SHIPPED 2 GAMES!!!" requirement you probably are demanding. Instead they are extremely bright embedded developers looking to get away from their boring jobs. They have no experience with specific game platforms so game companies filter them out. And yes, I'm bitter;-)
The credit card numbers weren't STOLEN. They were COPIED. Information wants to be free! Oh wait, this argument only applies to music, movies and software...
May 4, 1970: US National Guard troops open-fire on unarmed college students, killing four. Not a natural disaster or engineering malfunction. This was mass-murder.
Is it me, or is this story's headline totally incoherant? I re-read it twice and still only have a vague clue of what the links are going to be about. He couldn't even take some time to proofread or even close his parenthesis.
"The NYTimes ran this story in today's paper about how to turn the PC into a bread cooking device (a la Toaster)... It's got pretty thorough coverage of PC-based hardware with the conclusion "the Toaster outshines the PC-based systems by being easier to use and by offering more built-in intelligence." Conspicuously absent are El Gato's Ez-Toast for the mac and SnapStream's Personal Toasting Station... Anyways, the real question is whether PC Toasters will *ever* get there. No one does it quite right yet..."
Maybe we should focus less on "can it be done?" and more on "does anyone care?"
I'm all ears, theolein, and this better be good. You're going to tell us now why mass murder is justified, right?
No one is going to try to JUSTIFY it. It was a terrible act done by mean people--OKAY?? But if you think it has nothing to do with USA foreign policy, you have your head in the sand.
But nothing, absolutely nothing, can possibly justify what this country had to take on September 11th, and certainly nothing as puny as cola and software.
Again, no one is trying to justify anything. But I notice you don't seem to be concerned with WHY the USA is hated enough that someone would fly planes into its buildings.
People don't just wake up one day and say "You know, I want to hate a country... Hmm... Who should I hate? Howabout the USA!" They live everyday with US police (troops) marching around THEIR communities "keeping the peace". They live every day with US corporations building McDonalds restaurants and Pepsi machines right next to THEIR mosques. They see their culture and lifestyle being made more and more irrelevant every day next to US culture and lifestyles, and some of them just snap. It doesn't justify mass-murder, but it's important for the USA to see what it is doing to breed this contempt.
Hey, we're all free to donate or not donate to the ACLU. Personally, I find NAMBLA and its members pretty sick and twisted, but I support their right to think twisted thoughts and say twisted things.
So what you're saying is that if any one from a nasty country with sub-standard living conditions can make it to the USA that they should be allowed to stay? Wow that is bright! We have to protect the USA.
What are we protecting the USA from? From foreigners? That seems like a pretty racist view. There are some people (foreign and US-citizen) who are enemies of the USA, but certainly not everyone. I don't know you but I suspect the USA didn't feel the need to protect itself from your ancestors, regardless of how they were admitted into the country.
I support anyone's ability to come here without "paperwork". There is plenty of room in the USA for anyone who wants to enjoy the freedoms we have here.
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You know the saying: "No highs, no lows, it must be Bose"
If the number one problem with the Internet is spam, then the number two problem is all the idiots who buy products from spammers and keep them in business.
Spam will never stop. Just like junk snail-mail will never stop. The tiny percentage of below-freezing IQ's out there who fall for unsolicited "offers" are ruining it for everyone else.
Re: english, either it really matters or doesn't really matter, ("really" being a synonym for "actually", unless I read the parent post wrong)
And as far as not trusting random strangers, I think it's incredibly naive to believe other human beings won't take advantage or try to profit from misplaced trust if they can. Distrust by default is a resaonable approach to safely dealing with "fellow" humans. Locking your front door at night is not anti-social.
If your passwords truly "Don't Really Matter", then please post them all here along with their matching user IDs.
Keeping a password secret means you are CAREFUL not ANTI-SOCIAL. Let's get things into perspective please.
Insightful? Please.
I'd be willing to bet CASH that more than 50% of Amazon's "user reviews" are either:
1. Hype from the publisher's marketing department or professional reviewers with a stake in the product
2. Astroturfing sponsored by the publisher or author.
3. So-called "bulk reviews" which are basically madlib-like cut-and-paste jobs with the product and company's name inserted throughout a standard "praise review" document
The last one is Amazon reviewers' insideous form of karma-whoring! It's like finding a well-thought-out, reasonable and informative post on slashdot, only to find that it's a cut-and-paste of 200 identical other posts sent to different articles (We've seen them here).
BEWARE AMAZON SO-CALLED USER REVIEWS. MOST ARE ALMOST CERTAINLY BOGUS!
I can skip from and Aqua skin to a BeOS skin in a few seconds.
Now that's what I call a practical selling point. Time to call up my manager and show him this post. He'll want to switch everyone over company-wide after reading this one!
On second thought, maybe I'll just stick with tried-and-true fvwm...
Again, we're not talking about ME. We're talking about a 10yo, or 12yo who we know lack a great deal of common sense, esp when it concerns safety. Much of this common sense comes with age and experience and they have not had the time to gain that experience yet.
No, I have a feeling we ARE talking about you.
Child-tracking technology exists to satisfy parents and give them piece of mind. It job is to satisfy a parent's need to feel secure and risk-free in an insecure and risky world. Surveilance in no way prevents attacks or abductions. Its only purpose is to make parents feel better.
I'm not saying the technology is bad or useless--the technology may indeed play a small role in saving a life. But let's at least be truthful about whose unrealistic expectations about the world it is REALLY meant to satisfy!
A forked tree would basically kill X as a _standard_ platform. If I write an X app, do I write it for XFree86 or XFree-KiethP? If I'm putting a distribution together, do I package XFree86 or XFree-KiethP? I'm ATI and I want to contribute to driver development. Do I support XFree96 or XFree-KiethP. I'm trying to port an app written for XFree-KiethP to Solaris. What now??
X has survived for this long because it is a _standard_ platform. You can write an X application anywhere and reasonably expect it to display on any X server. If this changes, say goodby to X as a standard.
Could someone tell me what exactly does "Wi-Fi" stand for?
Sorry, but It's been done before.
WTF?? It's time for a rant.
Are we trying to be "sensitive" about it? The fucking shuttle burned up on re-entry, killing all on board and showering east Texas with debris. It's not that difficult to say.
This is the same kind of wishy-washy wording we all got after the World Trade Center went down. "after The Recent Incident" or "because of Recent Events". Have we become so PC and sensitive that we can't even MENTION details that clarify "The Event" we are actually talking about??
Moderate as appropriate.
I've been using a MINGW32-based linux->win32 cross-development environment for years. The same concepts apply as for cross-compiling to different hardware architectures. This is definitely not new software. With properly written makefiles, you can build to target both Linux and Win32 platforms from the same source tree and build environment. Of course you must test on both platforms, but having a setup like this definitely makes it easier to build large projects for both Windows and Linux.
I gotta say though... we are ALWAYS hurting for good console specific coders. They are almost always in demand.
;-)
Here's some advice: They are out there. They just dont have the "MUST HAVE 2-5 YEARS EXPERIENCE PROGRAMMING THE PS2 AND MUST HAVE SHIPPED 2 GAMES!!!" requirement you probably are demanding. Instead they are extremely bright embedded developers looking to get away from their boring jobs. They have no experience with specific game platforms so game companies filter them out. And yes, I'm bitter
An old one but still relevant:
http://www.theonion.com/onion3308/realtimetv.ht
So basically what you're saying is, you use the "idiot box"?
The credit card numbers weren't STOLEN. They were COPIED. Information wants to be free! Oh wait, this argument only applies to music, movies and software...
May 4, 1970: US National Guard troops open-fire on unarmed college students, killing four. Not a natural disaster or engineering malfunction. This was mass-murder.
Time to burn some karma...
Is it me, or is this story's headline totally incoherant? I re-read it twice and still only have a vague clue of what the links are going to be about. He couldn't even take some time to proofread or even close his parenthesis.
"The NYTimes ran this story in today's paper about how to turn the PC into a bread cooking device (a la Toaster)... It's got pretty thorough coverage of PC-based hardware with the conclusion "the Toaster outshines the PC-based systems by being easier to use and by offering more built-in intelligence." Conspicuously absent are El Gato's Ez-Toast for the mac and SnapStream's Personal Toasting Station... Anyways, the real question is whether PC Toasters will *ever* get there. No one does it quite right yet..."
Maybe we should focus less on "can it be done?" and more on "does anyone care?"
What is this "C/C++" language? I've heard of C, and I've heard of C++, but not C/C++.
I'm all ears, theolein, and this better be good. You're going to tell us now why mass murder is justified, right?
No one is going to try to JUSTIFY it. It was a terrible act done by mean people--OKAY?? But if you think it has nothing to do with USA foreign policy, you have your head in the sand.
But nothing, absolutely nothing, can possibly justify what this country had to take on September 11th, and certainly nothing as puny as cola and software.
Again, no one is trying to justify anything. But I notice you don't seem to be concerned with WHY the USA is hated enough that someone would fly planes into its buildings.
People don't just wake up one day and say "You know, I want to hate a country... Hmm... Who should I hate? Howabout the USA!" They live everyday with US police (troops) marching around THEIR communities "keeping the peace". They live every day with US corporations building McDonalds restaurants and Pepsi machines right next to THEIR mosques. They see their culture and lifestyle being made more and more irrelevant every day next to US culture and lifestyles, and some of them just snap. It doesn't justify mass-murder, but it's important for the USA to see what it is doing to breed this contempt.
LOL You really don't get it!
ROTFLMAO! YHBT. HAND.
Hey, we're all free to donate or not donate to the ACLU. Personally, I find NAMBLA and its members pretty sick and twisted, but I support their right to think twisted thoughts and say twisted things.
So what you're saying is that if any one from a nasty country with sub-standard living conditions can make it to the USA that they should be allowed to stay? Wow that is bright! We have to protect the USA.
What are we protecting the USA from? From foreigners? That seems like a pretty racist view. There are some people (foreign and US-citizen) who are enemies of the USA, but certainly not everyone. I don't know you but I suspect the USA didn't feel the need to protect itself from your ancestors, regardless of how they were admitted into the country.
I support anyone's ability to come here without "paperwork". There is plenty of room in the USA for anyone who wants to enjoy the freedoms we have here.