You're a moron. About the 2nd week of boot camp, I was taught that "A bitching sailor is a happy sailor". We didn't have any women around - zero. We didn't even have female nurses - the corpsmen were all male. Bitching is a non-gender activity which we all engage in.
Some might see it that way. Others, like AC, take advantage of the system by posting as AC when he doesn't feel like conforming. Others, like myself, post their thoughts with no regard to karma. Then, there are the karma whores who have studied what is rewarded on slashdot, and only post comments that are likely to be modded up.
Sexism can be, and often is, an ugly thing. But, women are guilty of sexism as much as, and sometimes more than, men are.
It's been a recognized fact since I was a child that males are risk takers, and women are not. The exceptions merely prove the rule. Take a look at the prison population, then come back and tell me that I'm wrong. Risk takers, all.
Men are willing to be called names, to be looked down on for nonconformity, to suffer ridicule, sometimes even to be beat up or shot at, so that they can do what they want to do. Women are unwilling to put up with these things.
For the most part, I can do little more than laugh at the women crying "SEXIST PIG!" But, as I said already, sexism can get ugly. Sometimes the guys do need to be slapped down. There have been comments and jokes made that were entirely out of line, and some of the guys responsible need to be skewered. Just take the worst 5% of what the women are bitching about, dump on the perpetrators, and everything will be just about where it belongs.
That done, I'll just go back to the ages old game of mocking women for being women, and countering their attempts to do the same to me. Men and women are different for a reason, and at least 95% of the world's population likes it that way. The few feminazi bitches fall into that other 5%, and they get far to much publicity.
If you believe the advertisements, yeah, I guess so. I can't see it happening. Dial up with web accelerator is actually faster than DSL? Nope. No way. Ain't happening. Let's not forget that a lot of web content simply doesn't compress well. Streaming video? Streaming music? Downloading software, which for the most part is already a compressed executable?
I'll have to see this in action before I believe it.
"Challenge - Connect to this ISP (with webaccelerator) on a Linux machine."
You do realize that the webaccelerator is nothing more than a compression thing? The ISP compresses the web page you have requested, then serves it to you, thereby increasing the apparent speed of service. You can accomplish the about the same increase in speed by using Adblock Plus, Flashblock, and NoScript. Instead of compressing all the trash on a web page, you just don't load it at all. Many websites serve up 3 times as much advertisement as they serve content. Almost ALL websites serve as much garbage as they serve content. Don't download the garbage!! You're guaranteed a 50% increase in apparent speed!
Uhhhhmmmm. Ya know, most of the mothers I know are technically incompetent. But, to be fair, most of the rednecks those mothers date or are married to are also technically incompetent. So, what's your point?
I simply have to point out that very little of the world's population makes anywhere NEAR "$80-120 an hour". Living in SW Arkansas, I don't think that I could find anyone making 120, but I might find a few making nearly 80. The highest paid individual in my extended family makes a little less than 30, and most make 12 or less. In fact, more than 1/2 make well under $10/hour.
Pricing schemes look a whole lot different to a man who can purchase a game for one hour's wages, as opposed to a man who has to spend a day's wages for the same game. Especially considering that people who make $10/hr have little if any savings or investments.
Don't forget online games. I've had many many hours of fun with Runescape, cybernations, and astroempires. All work fine on Debian and Ubuntu.
Don't forget Wine, either. Many games designed for Windows run great with Wine. If you are able and willing to pay a few bucks, Cedega has what amounts to a customized Wine, along with support for getting many of the most popular games running correctly.
I don't care a whole lot about Karma - but before some hardcore Linux guru flames me, I'll point out that Wine makes almost any game a Linux game. Nethead didn't necessarily exclude ports, emulators, or anything of the sort when he asked about "Linux games".;^)
Slow news day, of course. It's SUNDAY. Ask timothy - it was a toss up between the Ted Zuby story, and the one I submitted. "My 85 year old mother in law figures out Gmail: The wife finally convinced her that it wasn't just another pr0n movie from France."
I, for one, don't think that rockets are very good. I've been waiting for someone to build a nuclear powered engine, but the bright boys haven't come through yet. Once we have a safe engine, we need to know what to use for reaction mass - do we boil rocks? Iron and other metals could get terribly expensive, real fast.
Oh yeah - I'm waiting for the TV series: NOOKS IN SPACE!
"Cell technology changes 5x faster than the tower upgrades can be performed."
That doesn't explain why there are vast swathes of the United States with no signal at all. Nor does it explain why the critical last mile only works close to the cities. I call bullshit. And, if you're going to ass-troturf, you're supposed to disclose who is paying you to do so, dude.
There may be limits. It's possible that in some built up inner city areas, the limits are being pushed. But, as a nation, we are NOWHERE NEAR the limit. Rural America isn't even covered. Many small towns aren't covered. Even some medium sized towns lack coverage. To use her cellphone, my wife has to stand out in the yard, because there is a water tower between the house, and the single cell tower that reaches our property. Just north of me, there is a dead spot that NO ONE covers.
I am sympathetic to city user's complaints - but far to few people realize how many Americans have no coverage, or how many more Americans have shoddy, marginal coverage.
Build more towers. Increase capacity. Uncle Sam has doled out a lot of money over the last couple decades to build infrastructure. Build it. Cut dividend payouts a little bit, and build the infrastructure up. Maybe cut executive and management pay a little bit. DUHH. And, while you're at it, maybe you can get that "last mile" built so that all Americans can get online. Tiered pricing isn't the solution. Demand is going to increase every year from now on. Get used to the idea that you need to keep adding to and improving the infrastructure. You can't take a snapshot at some arbitrary point, and say "We need this much more infrastructure, then we'll be on easy street." Invest your earnings back into the system, where it belongs - in the business.
As has been pointed out numerous times, protocols already exist. FTP, anyone? No rendering engine, no browser necessary. Put the ballot into the installation routine, then FTP whichever client the user chooses. I was expecting the EU to hold out for something similar to that - I never expected them to allow IE to be the client used to choose and download the browser of choice.
But, this is still better than MS just installing the browser of THEIR choice, and never telling the customer that HE might have a choice.
Clean, simple, free - I found it years ago, and the wife learned to use it in just a couple days. And, she's no computer whiz. It runs beautifully on WinXP, and my search for Win7 on the forum suggests that it runs just fine on Win7.
I searched this out specifically because OE was being targeted by worms, and it was installed on all of my machines until I decided to move to Google mail.
They are seeing financial hard times (who isn't?) so a little donation would be even more appreciated than ever, but it is still free as I write this.
LMAO - I judge them all. That is my right as a voter, and as a thinking man. And, again, I don't like either party. I want some alternative choices, not the same old Dumb and Dumber. Voting for the friendlier of the two village idiots as mayor ensures that the village will never have a balanced budget, the police and fire departments will never work right, the town hall will fall down for lack of maintenance - I could go on. Look at Houston, for an example. Sanctuary City - a haven for illegal immigrants. After years of that nonsense, White wonders why crime is so high in his city. DUHHH. Think outside the party lines. There isn't room inside those lines for much thinking.
Hitler thought his actions were in his and Germany's best interests.
Bush thought his actions were in his and America's best interests.
The post I responded too said that doing so is neutral at worst. I merely pointed out just how ridiculous that claim was. Ridiculous is ridiculous. Our nation claims to safeguard the world's liberty and freedom, we claim to represent the oppressed - but then we unabashedly act in our own selfish interests with little regard for world opinion. Ridiculous, or not?
Could be, you got the wrong impression. I bash the idiot democrats as much as I bash the neocons. I happen to look like a white man, although my grandparents were discriminated against by the white people. Because I look white, I don't get jobs reserved for "minorities" either. Join the crowd. (Grandpa couldn't legally own land in his home county, because he wasn't "white" - yeah, the laws have changed since then, but I remember.)
Carter? CARTER?!?! Give us a freaking break. The inept bungler who accomplished almost nothing. The bright boy who thought he could pull together a multi-service task force on a whim, so they could rescue hostages, only to have them getting killed in the desert. Carter should have stayed with nuclear propulsion, and left leadership to men who lead. FFS, I'm not aware of one single command decision that he made while in the Navy. Carter was a functionary and mechanic with scrambled eggs. There's nothing wrong with that, in and of itself, of course. It was only when he began to think that he was something more that he screwed up. Lapdog to Admiral Zumwalt is not a qualification for president.
Of course the message was clear. The veracity of the message is open to challenge, but the message was clear. That is one good thing about Democrats. They speak clearly, unlike the talking chimp that vacated the White House in January. You can't expect a man who can't walk and chew gum at the same time (much less ride a bicycle) to convey a coherent message.
This is funnier than hell. A "working man" buying into the republican - especially the neoconservative republican - ideology is just as funny as a mixed breed mostly Native American man joining the KKK or the Aryan nation. (Yes, I've seen such foolishness). The conservative party caters to BIG FUCKING BUSINESS. They could care less about the working stiff who earns less than $75,000/year. Maybe you haven't noticed just how many "working men" are out of a job right now? The "official" unemployment rate in America is closing in on 10%. Shadowstats puts that at 21%. I could easily make an argument that the real, unadulterated unemployment rate has reached 30%. It's great to be a politician, so that you can decide which people you're going to count, so that your statistics are palatable to the general public. (For general public, read mindless idiots.)
If you have more than 5 million in the bank, and your income is over 1/4 million, yes, I can see why you would prefer the republicans. But, don't tell me that you're a "working man". That bird don't fly. Graduating from an Ivy League college, just to join the Good Old Boy's club doesn't qualify you as a "working man". Never has, never will.
That might be the most insightful post yet. We ALL do stupid shit - no matter HOW SMART we are. A freaking genius rocket scientist might be to spastic to drive safely. That's cool, as long as the genius realizes that he's a spaz, and can't drive. If he doesn't figure it out - well, there's a fine line between genius and idiocy. The idiot will kill himself, or someone else.
Everyone on slashdot who has NEVER done anything stupid, not once in their lives, should sign in below. Ever searched for you glasses, just to find them on your face? Searched for your car keys, just to find them in your pocket, or in the ignition? BRAIN FART!! We're all prone to have them, some more often than others.
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You're a moron. About the 2nd week of boot camp, I was taught that "A bitching sailor is a happy sailor". We didn't have any women around - zero. We didn't even have female nurses - the corpsmen were all male. Bitching is a non-gender activity which we all engage in.
Some might see it that way. Others, like AC, take advantage of the system by posting as AC when he doesn't feel like conforming. Others, like myself, post their thoughts with no regard to karma. Then, there are the karma whores who have studied what is rewarded on slashdot, and only post comments that are likely to be modded up.
Parent can't be modded highly enough.
Sexism can be, and often is, an ugly thing. But, women are guilty of sexism as much as, and sometimes more than, men are.
It's been a recognized fact since I was a child that males are risk takers, and women are not. The exceptions merely prove the rule. Take a look at the prison population, then come back and tell me that I'm wrong. Risk takers, all.
Men are willing to be called names, to be looked down on for nonconformity, to suffer ridicule, sometimes even to be beat up or shot at, so that they can do what they want to do. Women are unwilling to put up with these things.
For the most part, I can do little more than laugh at the women crying "SEXIST PIG!" But, as I said already, sexism can get ugly. Sometimes the guys do need to be slapped down. There have been comments and jokes made that were entirely out of line, and some of the guys responsible need to be skewered. Just take the worst 5% of what the women are bitching about, dump on the perpetrators, and everything will be just about where it belongs.
That done, I'll just go back to the ages old game of mocking women for being women, and countering their attempts to do the same to me. Men and women are different for a reason, and at least 95% of the world's population likes it that way. The few feminazi bitches fall into that other 5%, and they get far to much publicity.
"Web Accelerator gives 1000% increase."
If you believe the advertisements, yeah, I guess so. I can't see it happening. Dial up with web accelerator is actually faster than DSL? Nope. No way. Ain't happening. Let's not forget that a lot of web content simply doesn't compress well. Streaming video? Streaming music? Downloading software, which for the most part is already a compressed executable?
I'll have to see this in action before I believe it.
"Challenge - Connect to this ISP (with webaccelerator) on a Linux machine."
You do realize that the webaccelerator is nothing more than a compression thing? The ISP compresses the web page you have requested, then serves it to you, thereby increasing the apparent speed of service. You can accomplish the about the same increase in speed by using Adblock Plus, Flashblock, and NoScript. Instead of compressing all the trash on a web page, you just don't load it at all. Many websites serve up 3 times as much advertisement as they serve content. Almost ALL websites serve as much garbage as they serve content. Don't download the garbage!! You're guaranteed a 50% increase in apparent speed!
Uhhhhmmmm. Ya know, most of the mothers I know are technically incompetent. But, to be fair, most of the rednecks those mothers date or are married to are also technically incompetent. So, what's your point?
I simply have to point out that very little of the world's population makes anywhere NEAR "$80-120 an hour". Living in SW Arkansas, I don't think that I could find anyone making 120, but I might find a few making nearly 80. The highest paid individual in my extended family makes a little less than 30, and most make 12 or less. In fact, more than 1/2 make well under $10/hour.
Pricing schemes look a whole lot different to a man who can purchase a game for one hour's wages, as opposed to a man who has to spend a day's wages for the same game. Especially considering that people who make $10/hr have little if any savings or investments.
Just something to think about.
Don't forget online games. I've had many many hours of fun with Runescape, cybernations, and astroempires. All work fine on Debian and Ubuntu.
Don't forget Wine, either. Many games designed for Windows run great with Wine. If you are able and willing to pay a few bucks, Cedega has what amounts to a customized Wine, along with support for getting many of the most popular games running correctly.
I'm not a gamer either, but over the years, I have collected a few games, and the kids have more that we enjoy puttering around with. Wine enables golden oldies like F-19 Stealth Fighter to run beautifully on Linux. http://free-game-downloads.mosw.com/abandonware/pc/simulations/games_f_h/f_19_stealth_fighter_a_k_a_project_stealth_fighter_.html
And, finally, keeping Wine in mind, - google for abandonware sites. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abandonware#External_links
I don't care a whole lot about Karma - but before some hardcore Linux guru flames me, I'll point out that Wine makes almost any game a Linux game. Nethead didn't necessarily exclude ports, emulators, or anything of the sort when he asked about "Linux games". ;^)
Slow news day, of course. It's SUNDAY. Ask timothy - it was a toss up between the Ted Zuby story, and the one I submitted. "My 85 year old mother in law figures out Gmail: The wife finally convinced her that it wasn't just another pr0n movie from France."
I, for one, don't think that rockets are very good. I've been waiting for someone to build a nuclear powered engine, but the bright boys haven't come through yet. Once we have a safe engine, we need to know what to use for reaction mass - do we boil rocks? Iron and other metals could get terribly expensive, real fast.
Oh yeah - I'm waiting for the TV series: NOOKS IN SPACE!
"Cell technology changes 5x faster than the tower upgrades can be performed."
That doesn't explain why there are vast swathes of the United States with no signal at all. Nor does it explain why the critical last mile only works close to the cities. I call bullshit. And, if you're going to ass-troturf, you're supposed to disclose who is paying you to do so, dude.
Please do! We love the cloud, and you will too. You will also love our tiered pricing schedules - we think they are genius.
Yours truly,
AT&T
"they can probably increase costs, and not improve their network at all. Don't like the package - go elsewhere"
Not an "ethical" solution, when taxpayers have footed part of the bill.
There may be limits. It's possible that in some built up inner city areas, the limits are being pushed. But, as a nation, we are NOWHERE NEAR the limit. Rural America isn't even covered. Many small towns aren't covered. Even some medium sized towns lack coverage. To use her cellphone, my wife has to stand out in the yard, because there is a water tower between the house, and the single cell tower that reaches our property. Just north of me, there is a dead spot that NO ONE covers.
I am sympathetic to city user's complaints - but far to few people realize how many Americans have no coverage, or how many more Americans have shoddy, marginal coverage.
Build more towers. Increase capacity. Uncle Sam has doled out a lot of money over the last couple decades to build infrastructure. Build it. Cut dividend payouts a little bit, and build the infrastructure up. Maybe cut executive and management pay a little bit. DUHH. And, while you're at it, maybe you can get that "last mile" built so that all Americans can get online. Tiered pricing isn't the solution. Demand is going to increase every year from now on. Get used to the idea that you need to keep adding to and improving the infrastructure. You can't take a snapshot at some arbitrary point, and say "We need this much more infrastructure, then we'll be on easy street." Invest your earnings back into the system, where it belongs - in the business.
"They could had made another protocol"
As has been pointed out numerous times, protocols already exist. FTP, anyone? No rendering engine, no browser necessary. Put the ballot into the installation routine, then FTP whichever client the user chooses. I was expecting the EU to hold out for something similar to that - I never expected them to allow IE to be the client used to choose and download the browser of choice.
But, this is still better than MS just installing the browser of THEIR choice, and never telling the customer that HE might have a choice.
http://www.pmail.com/index2.htm
Clean, simple, free - I found it years ago, and the wife learned to use it in just a couple days. And, she's no computer whiz. It runs beautifully on WinXP, and my search for Win7 on the forum suggests that it runs just fine on Win7.
I searched this out specifically because OE was being targeted by worms, and it was installed on all of my machines until I decided to move to Google mail.
They are seeing financial hard times (who isn't?) so a little donation would be even more appreciated than ever, but it is still free as I write this.
LMAO - I judge them all. That is my right as a voter, and as a thinking man. And, again, I don't like either party. I want some alternative choices, not the same old Dumb and Dumber. Voting for the friendlier of the two village idiots as mayor ensures that the village will never have a balanced budget, the police and fire departments will never work right, the town hall will fall down for lack of maintenance - I could go on. Look at Houston, for an example. Sanctuary City - a haven for illegal immigrants. After years of that nonsense, White wonders why crime is so high in his city. DUHHH. Think outside the party lines. There isn't room inside those lines for much thinking.
Hitler thought his actions were in his and Germany's best interests.
Bush thought his actions were in his and America's best interests.
The post I responded too said that doing so is neutral at worst. I merely pointed out just how ridiculous that claim was. Ridiculous is ridiculous. Our nation claims to safeguard the world's liberty and freedom, we claim to represent the oppressed - but then we unabashedly act in our own selfish interests with little regard for world opinion. Ridiculous, or not?
Could be, you got the wrong impression. I bash the idiot democrats as much as I bash the neocons. I happen to look like a white man, although my grandparents were discriminated against by the white people. Because I look white, I don't get jobs reserved for "minorities" either. Join the crowd. (Grandpa couldn't legally own land in his home county, because he wasn't "white" - yeah, the laws have changed since then, but I remember.)
Carter? CARTER?!?! Give us a freaking break. The inept bungler who accomplished almost nothing. The bright boy who thought he could pull together a multi-service task force on a whim, so they could rescue hostages, only to have them getting killed in the desert. Carter should have stayed with nuclear propulsion, and left leadership to men who lead. FFS, I'm not aware of one single command decision that he made while in the Navy. Carter was a functionary and mechanic with scrambled eggs. There's nothing wrong with that, in and of itself, of course. It was only when he began to think that he was something more that he screwed up. Lapdog to Admiral Zumwalt is not a qualification for president.
"In any case, why is "the US President acted only in the interests of the US" a bad thing? At worst, it's a neutral thing."
I guess Adolph Hitler's actions were neutral then.
Of course the message was clear. The veracity of the message is open to challenge, but the message was clear. That is one good thing about Democrats. They speak clearly, unlike the talking chimp that vacated the White House in January. You can't expect a man who can't walk and chew gum at the same time (much less ride a bicycle) to convey a coherent message.
This is funnier than hell. A "working man" buying into the republican - especially the neoconservative republican - ideology is just as funny as a mixed breed mostly Native American man joining the KKK or the Aryan nation. (Yes, I've seen such foolishness). The conservative party caters to BIG FUCKING BUSINESS. They could care less about the working stiff who earns less than $75,000/year. Maybe you haven't noticed just how many "working men" are out of a job right now? The "official" unemployment rate in America is closing in on 10%. Shadowstats puts that at 21%. I could easily make an argument that the real, unadulterated unemployment rate has reached 30%. It's great to be a politician, so that you can decide which people you're going to count, so that your statistics are palatable to the general public. (For general public, read mindless idiots.)
If you have more than 5 million in the bank, and your income is over 1/4 million, yes, I can see why you would prefer the republicans. But, don't tell me that you're a "working man". That bird don't fly. Graduating from an Ivy League college, just to join the Good Old Boy's club doesn't qualify you as a "working man". Never has, never will.
That might be the most insightful post yet. We ALL do stupid shit - no matter HOW SMART we are. A freaking genius rocket scientist might be to spastic to drive safely. That's cool, as long as the genius realizes that he's a spaz, and can't drive. If he doesn't figure it out - well, there's a fine line between genius and idiocy. The idiot will kill himself, or someone else.
Everyone on slashdot who has NEVER done anything stupid, not once in their lives, should sign in below. Ever searched for you glasses, just to find them on your face? Searched for your car keys, just to find them in your pocket, or in the ignition? BRAIN FART!! We're all prone to have them, some more often than others.