OK, I had 2 score:5 questions, but, about 3 days after the interview
article was posted (it was off the "older stuff" block), both mine get
modded down once (overrated, of course), so now my questions don't get
answered?
It shouldn't have mattered if you were down modded
3 days later, since they were going to choose the
questions 24 hours after positing according to the
article.
Of course its annoying to have your questions left out, but there are
almost always more than 10 comments rated 5 for
interviews, so Roblimo has to exercise some
judgement. There's more than 40 comments scored 5 in this
interview.
For example, why in the world do people pay three times as much for brand-name sodas over store brands with essentially the same formulation?
I don't pay that much. Coke is on sale for $3
a case this week. Store brands aren't much less than
that. The key to buying pop, is to always buy it on sale. If Coke or Pepsi
cost 3 times as much as generic pop where you shop, then you need
to find a better store to shop at.
Re:Of Course The Microwave Beam...
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Lunar Power
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· Score: 2
No, but NIMBY is why we don't build nuclear power plants in the U.S. anymore though.
Its a damn shame too. Instead we get all of these
smoke belching coal plants and natural gas plants
that jack up the price of natural gas for heating.
There actually is a standard in the DVD spec for panning and scanning a "wide" image based on the DVD player's setting (16:9 vs 4:3 letterbox vs 4:3 p&s). If it's ever used, it's used in menus that can be displayed wide. Unfortunately it's too flaky to work with the movies themselves.
I've got at least one movie that has wide and regular screen formats on one single-sided DVD: A Bug's Life. I'm not sure what method they use to do it, but the quality is excellent. It might be easier to do with animation for all I know.
Don't you people realize that at least 3 different companies already HAVE your info, and are selling it?
1. Car Dealer
Nope, I didn't buy my car from a dealer. Even if I buy my next car from a dealer, I won't take out a loan for it. Loans are bested avoided for relatively short-term purchases like cars. Houses are a different story of course.
2. Insurance Company
3. Bank
Financial institutions can't sell your information in the US if you told them not to. So tell them not too already.
BTW, I agree that its not that big a deal if the DMV sells the info, as long as there's an opt-out available.
Heh, turns out its a profile problem. I generated a new profile and it worked fine in the latest nightlies. It wasn't the type of problem that I'd expect to be tied to profiles, but it was about time I updated my profile.
Honestly, if you're not gung-ho about bug-fixing and bug-reporting, you probably shouldn't be using the Mozilla nightlies. That's the audience the nightlies are aimed for. There's no problem with the image/icon in Mozilla 0.9.8, but if it's not showing up in the nightlies, then that's a bug there. Whenever you suspect a bug, compare the results to a stable release like 0.9.8. If it looks like a nightlies bug, then report it.
Well, first off the Paypal icon doesn't show up for me with milestone 0.9.8 either. Are you using a Windows or Mac build?
Secondly, I am gung-ho on bug fixing. I've confirmed and duped out dozens of bugs (and I even contributed one very minor patch), but this kind of bug is not my cup of tea. At first glance, it looked more like an evangelism bug than a real mozilla bug, but I didn't have the time to look more into it on Friday. If its an evangelism class bug, I thought it made more sense to point it out to the/. crew right away so that they could fix it, since/. probably has one of the biggest mozilla using population of any non-mozilla specific site.
Anyway, if this still doesn't work in a couple of days, I'll dig through bugzilla and see if I find anything.
Speaking of Paypal, your Paypal link doesn't show up in the latest nighlies of Mozilla. No graphic is shown and there's no link where the graphic should be. I have no clue if its your bug or a Mozilla bug. It works fine in Netscape 4.7x.
Well, rewarding published stories with pages would just lead to more whining from people who didn't get there {earlier|more correct|grammatically proper} version of the story published version of a story. It doesn't seem like its worth the trouble. Karma is plenty of an award for submitting stories.
Rewarding people with high karma with lower rates would be insane. I can't imagine how bad the karma whoring wouls get. There are enough trolls palying the oscillating karma game already, let's not give them another reason to play.
To fix this, play with the preferences under Edit|Preferences|Navigator|Tabbed Browsing. In particular, I think that you want to have the "Load links in the background" and "Open tabs instead of windows for Middle-click or control-click of links in a Web page" preferences checked, though personally I have all of the preferences on that page checked.
I agree. Austin is a dumbass, but so is this FBI agent McLaughlin. There is nothing illegal about calling for people to violently overthrow the Constitution. That's obviously protected speech. Now actually doing something violent (or cracking and defacing web sites) is obviously illegal, but that's a far cry from writing about it..
A cluster of old Macs would be good for use as a toy or a demonstration, but wouldn't be worth the effort of building it to do work. A cluster of 1000 Centris Mac's would probably be slower than one new G4 (besides which can they even run a new enough version of MacOS). And similarly a cluster of 100 PowerPCs would probably be slower as well. The power requirements alone make Cluster old machines a losing proposition - the same as with a Cluster of 486s.
I agree that the/. search engine is pretty weak, so I just use google.
Here's a search for you by google. It looks like it might miss some posts, but I can't really tell for sure without knowing how many posts you have per average story you post in.
Hell, ABC doesn't even have sporting events that I'm aware of and I still couldn't/can't rely on Politically Incorrect being in the time it's slotted for.
ABC has Monday Night Football, which is notorious for going long.
Re:Cutting off you nose to spite your face
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The LDP and Debian
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· Score: 4, Insightful
LDP documentation is not the majority of Debian documentation. The majority of Debian documentation
is from individual third party software packages (XFree, perl, etc.). Another large source of documentation is debian specific documentation - the installation manual, the policy manual, etc. While, it would be annoying to lose big chunks of the LDP to non-free, its not really that big of deal, especially since its all available online.
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What did you do, whack some dude with your Bible?
Of course its annoying to have your questions left out, but there are almost always more than 10 comments rated 5 for interviews, so Roblimo has to exercise some judgement. There's more than 40 comments scored 5 in this interview.
Its a damn shame too. Instead we get all of these smoke belching coal plants and natural gas plants that jack up the price of natural gas for heating.
BTW, I agree that its not that big a deal if the DMV sells the info, as long as there's an opt-out available.
Heh, turns out its a profile problem. I generated a new profile and it worked fine in the latest nightlies. It wasn't the type of problem that I'd expect to be tied to profiles, but it was about time I updated my profile.
Speaking of Paypal, your Paypal link doesn't show up in the latest nighlies of Mozilla. No graphic is shown and there's no link where the graphic should be. I have no clue if its your bug or a Mozilla bug. It works fine in Netscape 4.7x.
Well, rewarding published stories with pages would just lead to more whining from people who didn't get there {earlier|more correct|grammatically proper} version of the story published version of a story. It doesn't seem like its worth the trouble. Karma is plenty of an award for submitting stories.
Rewarding people with high karma with lower rates would be insane. I can't imagine how bad the karma whoring wouls get. There are enough trolls palying the oscillating karma game already, let's not give them another reason to play.
For those wanting more info on this grudge, see this thread.
I'm not Bush stole the election, but fair and square is not a phrase that should be anywhere near that election.
Wow, I never would have guessed. So Hemos, do you have a vision of where I'll be in a year? I really would love to know.
To fix this, play with the preferences under Edit|Preferences|Navigator|Tabbed Browsing. In particular, I think that you want to have the "Load links in the background" and "Open tabs instead of windows for Middle-click or control-click of links in a Web page" preferences checked, though personally I have all of the preferences on that page checked.
I agree. Austin is a dumbass, but so is this FBI agent McLaughlin. There is nothing illegal about calling for people to violently overthrow the Constitution. That's obviously protected speech. Now actually doing something violent (or cracking and defacing web sites) is obviously illegal, but that's a far cry from writing about it..
A cluster of old Macs would be good for use as a toy or a demonstration, but wouldn't be worth the effort of building it to do work. A cluster of 1000 Centris Mac's would probably be slower than one new G4 (besides which can they even run a new enough version of MacOS). And similarly a cluster of 100 PowerPCs would probably be slower as well. The power requirements alone make Cluster old machines a losing proposition - the same as with a Cluster of 486s.
Timothy didn't spell your name wrong or pick a bad title - Johannes did. HTH. HAND.
Or simply http://olympics.com/.
I agree that the /. search engine is pretty weak, so I just use google.
Here's a search for you by google. It looks like it might miss some posts, but I can't really tell for sure without knowing how many posts you have per average story you post in.
LDP documentation is not the majority of Debian documentation. The majority of Debian documentation is from individual third party software packages (XFree, perl, etc.). Another large source of documentation is debian specific documentation - the installation manual, the policy manual, etc. While, it would be annoying to lose big chunks of the LDP to non-free, its not really that big of deal, especially since its all available online.