In my mind, Blinkenlights is a *tad* less important than our getting betrayed by our elected officials.
For SHAME!! This is AMURICA!! Don't you realize that flashy blinky things are of far more importance than our own government? I mean, really, pointing out government hippocracies and caring about what happens? You must be some kind of commie TERRORIST!!! Go back to Canada, Ivan.
Now if you'll excuse me, FOX News is on and I wouldn't want to miss any Fair and Balanced (tm) News (tm)
You only need to worry about airborne asbestos. I don't know how many schools that are still around that have asbestos celing tiles in their science labs. You remeber the lab celings, right? Those crazy looking hard tiles with all the holes you used to count during class? Yep. Asbestos.
BTW, I think they averaged about 80 some holes per tile. (yes, i was that kid who actually had a reasonable guess as to the number of holes in the celing)
yes, but the secretary's workstation has an almost zero ROI. getting a new pc to let the secretary surf the interweb and play solitaire is usually not top priority for managers. having servers that stay up all the time usually is. esp. if your servers ARE the business.
like we have a product that customers run on our servers via a citrix client. If those servers go down, that's money down the drain. But if they stay up, that's money in the bank. Which is why getting a PHB to sign for a new server is much easier than getting them to sign for a new development machine for me.
even if MS's linux myths page was correct about linux having a greater TCO, business types don't care that much about the initial cost. That's why RH can get away with charging 10K for a multiprocessor licence. Businesses will buy it if it will earn them money in the long run. Of course it really helps if there is a low TCO because that will make your ROI go up.
the linux myths page focuses solely on TCO. Someone should set up a high profile windows myths page that focuses on ROI. It'd be funny if it were full of FUD about windows, but better if it were actually truthfull. Get the PHB's out there to tell the IT guy, "i want one of those lunix boxes on my computers"
i wish my student email account was spam-free. I used to receive very little spam, until the university GAVE away it's email lists. Not sold. Gave. Apparently they were tired of credit card companies asking if so-and-so was a student, and having to say yes or no. (A lot of student groups do fundraising by getting people to fill out credit card apps) So they just gave out the email list and said "if they aren't on here, they aren't a student" These lists were then sold to lord knows how many spammers. Now, my account is full of spam.:(
What really burns me is that the university didn't make any money in the deal because they gave away the lists. Not a cent. Not like it would have been better if they did, but at least it wouldn't seem so futile.
because PHP tends mixes content / presentation and control. and that mix does not scale well. and is a real pain fixing.
If you have good design, you keep your presentation and control separate. The problem is that most people find it easier to just write the same 6 or 7 lines over again rather than create a function that will only get called 2 or 3 times. I know I've been guilty of that more than once. But if it takes you 10 min to just write it out 3 times or 5 min to write it once, 5 min to think about the design of the function, and 5 min to make sure that it works every time you call it; you haven't really saved any time, and your productivity has gone down.
Of course, those numbers assume that you are a crappy typist, horrible at remembering specific syntax, and know how to use copy/paste, or basically... me.
Re:Ignorance is beaming
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Whether or not you Realized it, that was a Haiku you just wrote.
Now, what about laptops? Most people who don't want to purchase windows for their desktop machines can just build their own on the cheap. However if you want a laptop, that is not the case. If Dell were to offer FreeDOS or something as an option for laptops, then this would be Big News(tm)
Some small American newspapers frequently fabricate offbeat news to trick people into noticing them, with the aim of making money,' the paper said. 'This is what the Onion does.
The Lima News or The Daily Standard ???
(anyone from that area of Ohio will know what i'm talking about)
Uh, how the heck would you set up your layout without tables? For instance, how would you generate a page that looks like Slashdot without using nested tables?
Uh, it's called CSS. You'd be amazed at the stuff you can do with DIV tags and a decently advanced stylesheet. check out this for an example. Use mozilla or netscape 6 to view it, because IE doesn't fully support CSS1 (even though MS says it does)
Because I PAY FOR IT I want to know what I purchased for my government. A proprietary system built only for them is not what I want. It may be more secure by being obscure, but how am I assured of that security? I'm not. By using an open system (or at least a commercial product), I know what I purchased, how much i paid for it, what kind of security features it has, and if it is an open system, where bugs in the system may exist.
Basically, with commercial software or open software, I know what they are doing and getting themselves into(to an extent), but with a specialized "govt. use only" system, I don't. Not knowing what my government is doing(again, to a certain extent) frightens me.
Their webpage looks like a 5min hack job in Front Page. Veiwing the source showed no front page code, however. But, the posting of the SSL site here, the similarity of the two sites, and veiwing the source on the SSL site shows Front Page code, confirms my suspicions.
They invented the internet, but need Front Page to write the code for them. Does this mean that they will also sue MSFT? Front Page includes templates (pre-written code) that let you use forms and graphical stuff to set up a website that sells things.
Of course if they DO sue MSFT and win, how will they update their website?
Slow news day. Rumors (not news) about James Doohan, and now this. Anyway, have you seen some of the other "articles" on that site? "How to clean your mouse"...
News to me. Everytime I've gone to Wal-Mart, the products produced by them bear a large sticker or label that says "Made in the USA" In fact, they've advertised that as a reason to shop there for quite some time.
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In my mind, Blinkenlights is a *tad* less important than our getting betrayed by our elected officials.
For SHAME!! This is AMURICA!! Don't you realize that flashy blinky things are of far more importance than our own government? I mean, really, pointing out government hippocracies and caring about what happens? You must be some kind of commie TERRORIST!!! Go back to Canada, Ivan.
Now if you'll excuse me, FOX News is on and I wouldn't want to miss any Fair and Balanced (tm) News (tm)
*Turns on Das Blinkentelevision*
*Drool*
...and the beer sucks too!
You only need to worry about airborne asbestos. I don't know how many schools that are still around that have asbestos celing tiles in their science labs. You remeber the lab celings, right? Those crazy looking hard tiles with all the holes you used to count during class? Yep. Asbestos.
BTW, I think they averaged about 80 some holes per tile. (yes, i was that kid who actually had a reasonable guess as to the number of holes in the celing)
jeeze... who's the spoil-sport with all the mod points and no sense of humor??
yes, but the secretary's workstation has an almost zero ROI. getting a new pc to let the secretary surf the interweb and play solitaire is usually not top priority for managers. having servers that stay up all the time usually is. esp. if your servers ARE the business.
like we have a product that customers run on our servers via a citrix client. If those servers go down, that's money down the drain. But if they stay up, that's money in the bank. Which is why getting a PHB to sign for a new server is much easier than getting them to sign for a new development machine for me.
ROI is everything.
don't you realize?! BSD is DYING!!!! it has been for 10 years and will only continue to die over the next 10 or 20.
people want long-term solutions here, and how can an operating system that will surely die within the next 30 years be long term?
Answer: it can't, my friend. it just can't
even if MS's linux myths page was correct about linux having a greater TCO, business types don't care that much about the initial cost. That's why RH can get away with charging 10K for a multiprocessor licence. Businesses will buy it if it will earn them money in the long run. Of course it really helps if there is a low TCO because that will make your ROI go up.
the linux myths page focuses solely on TCO. Someone should set up a high profile windows myths page that focuses on ROI. It'd be funny if it were full of FUD about windows, but better if it were actually truthfull. Get the PHB's out there to tell the IT guy, "i want one of those lunix boxes on my computers"
Oh... I saw it because I was logged in and my prefs say to show me everything. Now I feel like a tard. :(
~lart me
Steve Jobs got out of the left side of bed this morning.
How does a small safari update get posted on the main slashdot page instead of just to apple.slashdot.org ?
Slow news day?
cat /dev/urandom > /var/www/Britney_Spears_-_Greatest_Hits_Track01.mp 3
of course, that might actually be the same command they use to create their "music"
All I found were real audio files.
i wish my student email account was spam-free. I used to receive very little spam, until the university GAVE away it's email lists. Not sold. Gave. Apparently they were tired of credit card companies asking if so-and-so was a student, and having to say yes or no. (A lot of student groups do fundraising by getting people to fill out credit card apps) So they just gave out the email list and said "if they aren't on here, they aren't a student" These lists were then sold to lord knows how many spammers. Now, my account is full of spam. :(
What really burns me is that the university didn't make any money in the deal because they gave away the lists. Not a cent. Not like it would have been better if they did, but at least it wouldn't seem so futile.
lp0 on fire!!!
(sorry, couldn't help myself...)
looks sooo cool! I think I know what I'll be buying if these end up being real
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because PHP tends mixes content / presentation and control. and that mix does not scale well. and is a real pain fixing.
If you have good design, you keep your presentation and control separate. The problem is that most people find it easier to just write the same 6 or 7 lines over again rather than create a function that will only get called 2 or 3 times. I know I've been guilty of that more than once. But if it takes you 10 min to just write it out 3 times or 5 min to write it once, 5 min to think about the design of the function, and 5 min to make sure that it works every time you call it; you haven't really saved any time, and your productivity has gone down.
Of course, those numbers assume that you are a crappy typist, horrible at remembering specific syntax, and know how to use copy/paste, or basically... me.
Whether or not you
Realized it, that was a
Haiku you just wrote.
Now, what about laptops? Most people who don't want to purchase windows for their desktop machines can just build their own on the cheap. However if you want a laptop, that is not the case. If Dell were to offer FreeDOS or something as an option for laptops, then this would be Big News(tm)
Check out my double nested for loop ollie nose-grind, dude!!
Some small American newspapers frequently fabricate offbeat news to trick people into noticing them, with the aim of making money,' the paper said. 'This is what the Onion does. The Lima News or The Daily Standard ??? (anyone from that area of Ohio will know what i'm talking about)
Because I PAY FOR IT I want to know what I purchased for my government. A proprietary system built only for them is not what I want. It may be more secure by being obscure, but how am I assured of that security? I'm not. By using an open system (or at least a commercial product), I know what I purchased, how much i paid for it, what kind of security features it has, and if it is an open system, where bugs in the system may exist.
Basically, with commercial software or open software, I know what they are doing and getting themselves into(to an extent), but with a specialized "govt. use only" system, I don't. Not knowing what my government is doing(again, to a certain extent) frightens me.
or it'll explode.
(It makes a nice video though...)
Their webpage looks like a 5min hack job in Front Page. Veiwing the source showed no front page code, however. But, the posting of the SSL site here, the similarity of the two sites, and veiwing the source on the SSL site shows Front Page code, confirms my suspicions.
They invented the internet, but need Front Page to write the code for them. Does this mean that they will also sue MSFT? Front Page includes templates (pre-written code) that let you use forms and graphical stuff to set up a website that sells things.
Of course if they DO sue MSFT and win, how will they update their website?
Slow news day. Rumors (not news) about James Doohan, and now this. ...
Anyway, have you seen some of the other "articles" on that site? "How to clean your mouse"
Give me a break.
News to me. Everytime I've gone to Wal-Mart, the products produced by them bear a large sticker or label that says "Made in the USA" In fact, they've advertised that as a reason to shop there for quite some time.