Not at all. Without those bazillions, all those physics geeks would have been stuck living in the basement and leeching off their parents during their post-docs. I'd say that buying boxters for nerds is anything but useless. (Vrrooom, vrroom!)
Voting is not a right. It is a priviledge granted by the state. It is a priviledge denied to people like Rosa Parks, a convicted felon, and my daughter, who is a minor, and Arnold Schwarzenegger (until recently) who is an alien (robot from the future).
Far more people are participating in civil disobedience to combat the corporate rape of the public domain than ever participated in civil disobedience against Jim Crow. The fact is, your viewpoint is a marginalized fringe viewpoint, and the consensus view of society is that the true criminals are the ones who act under color of law to deprive us of our God-given freedoms.
Usually, the nanny comes to your home, rather than the other way around. Thus the poor person is employed, the child is supervised, and the parent is productive in their employment.
For educated workers, lack of adequate childcare is a demonstration of greed and folly.
No, the alternative would be to charge everyone the *average* rate. I.e., an equal rate. I would be interested to hear how insurance companies can escape from liability under civil rights legislation for their gender discrimination.
You deport Muslim converts to Christianity to certain death in Iran, and pregant Chinese women to certain forced abortion in China, and hold children in prisons in the desert separated from their families for years at a time. You're the descendents of a bunch of criminal transportees, and you really should be first against the wall when the eugenics campaign begins, because you're behaving like one would expect the descendents of murderous criminals to behave. Oh, and thank you for helping to kill a million innocent Iraqis too.
Several historical exploits have involved sending packets which were not handled by any user-space process, but rather directly by the kernel. Netfilter can be used to drop those packets rather than processing them. Far less kernel code runs in a manner dependent upon the structure and content of the packet if it is immediately recognized as a DROP or REJECT case. This means there is less opportunity to exploit kernel defects.
Given that PHP has a niche, that means there are entire civilizations built upon PHP. The reasons are political and economic, not technical. Those reasons are very important. Much more important than technical ones, in most cases.
The niche for PHP is people who have no time to learn Perl in order to write web pages. PHP was designed to require as little mental effort and capability as possible. If that's what you're optimizing for, it's a good choice, regardless of whether the task is administrative or application-oriented. If, on the otherhand, you have actual knowledge of a programming language, or are willing to learn one, then the PHP option loses all of its appeal. The problem is that once you write something in PHP because it's a quickie, suddenly you've got an installed legacy base of PHP code, and before you know it, you're a "PHP shop", and then you're truly scrod (a breed of Atlantic whitefish, I think).
I get a lot of gloating pleasure from your behavioural confirmation of my belief that most of the pompous pretenders posting on slashdot are so socially inept that they can't catch a glimmer of the notion of starting a respectful thread of discussion by posting an interesting question about which many competent individuals in the audience might be interested to provide useful, illuminating, and perhaps even original, comments.
All of the guarantees of human rights in U.S. law have, without exception, been rendered moot by the practice of the U.S. federal government. When the president assumed the power to strip people of their citizenship, kill them, even export them to foreign countries and torture them, often to death, did anyone "rise up"? And you think people are going to "rise up" because they want to run Linux?
The cost of bandwidth might be what the prior commentator was referring to. Hence I suggested a low-hosting cost vehicle for delivering video. I don't see any reason why it matters whether it is live or canned, from the perspective of the downloader.
And flying 50 million people to SFO is not expensive? Oh, that's right, Apple wouldn't be paying for it. Let me rephrase: And failing to engage your 50 million interested consumers isn't expensive? Did Apple ever hear of SwarmStream, or BitTorrent?
I graduated summa cum laude "with high distinction", and didn't break a sweat. I dropped out of grad school for money, mostly because I like sex and children so much that I picked up a shotgun bride, and got a high $ offer for a sexy, stimulating job. I majored in philosophy, physiology, mathematics, physics, and finally computer science, but I read as much literature and history and psychology and biochemistry on the side.
This is all to say that I got the GPA, I got the liberal arts. I am not squeezing sour grapes when I say that as regards the task of software engineering none of that means squat, for me personally. It's all talent, experience, and motivation.
Now the broader interfaces, interpersonal relationships, capacity to perform multidisciplinary analysis, etc., these all benefit from a broader educational background, but not the hard-core engineering -- and there's a cost-benefit issue that goes along with those years of "self-discovery", and learning about society, mankind, cosmology, epistemology, history. In short, a lot of buck, very little bang, considered as fuel for the engineering enterprise.
Now what it does do for you is get your foot in the door when the hiring decision-maker is too lazy or incompetent to estimate your vector from interviews and references. Credentials are shit, but they are often useful shit.
Zombies in the process table are processes which have exited, but their parent hasn't yet reaped their status information. They are weeeny little stubs. You might want to change your sig;)
That's exactly what you'll get with a wifi treo, albiet the software is yet to be written. Don't fret -- it will be. When the GSM Treo comes out, you can get unlimited GPRS from T-Mobile, and use your voip without wifi, on the road where there are no hotspots, all with no per-minute fees. While your laptop is browsing via bluetooth, even.
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Not at all. Without those bazillions, all those physics geeks would have been stuck living in the basement and leeching off their parents during their post-docs. I'd say that buying boxters for nerds is anything but useless. (Vrrooom, vrroom!)
Voting is not a right. It is a priviledge granted by the state. It is a priviledge denied to people like Rosa Parks, a convicted felon, and my daughter, who is a minor, and Arnold Schwarzenegger (until recently) who is an alien (robot from the future).
Sharing your property is a right.
Far more people are participating in civil disobedience to combat the corporate rape of the public domain than ever participated in civil disobedience against Jim Crow. The fact is, your viewpoint is a marginalized fringe viewpoint, and the consensus view of society is that the true criminals are the ones who act under color of law to deprive us of our God-given freedoms.
linux is faster and easier to install than os x, using a knoppix cd.
then factor in apt-get.
Usually, the nanny comes to your home, rather than the other way around. Thus the poor person is employed, the child is supervised, and the parent is productive in their employment.
For educated workers, lack of adequate childcare is a demonstration of greed and folly.
No, the alternative would be to charge everyone the *average* rate. I.e., an equal rate. I would be interested to hear how insurance companies can escape from liability under civil rights legislation for their gender discrimination.
You deport Muslim converts to Christianity to certain death in Iran, and pregant Chinese women to certain forced abortion in China, and hold children in prisons in the desert separated from their families for years at a time. You're the descendents of a bunch of criminal transportees, and you really should be first against the wall when the eugenics campaign begins, because you're behaving like one would expect the descendents of murderous criminals to behave. Oh, and thank you for helping to kill a million innocent Iraqis too.
Several historical exploits have involved sending packets which were not handled by any user-space process, but rather directly by the kernel. Netfilter can be used to drop those packets rather than processing them. Far less kernel code runs in a manner dependent upon the structure and content of the packet if it is immediately recognized as a DROP or REJECT case. This means there is less opportunity to exploit kernel defects.
The QT-Win32 project has ported the GPL QT to Windows.
When I'm forced to use XP for testing clients,
I disable the theme engine entirely, so it doesn't
suck so much memory and slow things down.
Once you've turned off all the useless crap, XP
runs nicely in 80MB of RAM.
Don't even talk to Australians, let alone do business with them, until they stop shipping people off to be murdered.
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Given that PHP has a niche, that means there are entire civilizations built upon PHP. The reasons are political and economic, not technical. Those reasons are very important. Much more important than technical ones, in most cases.
The niche for PHP is people who have no time to learn Perl in order to write web pages. PHP was designed to require as little mental effort and capability as possible. If that's what you're optimizing for, it's a good choice, regardless of whether the task is administrative or application-oriented. If, on the otherhand, you have actual knowledge of a programming language, or are willing to learn one, then the PHP option loses all of its appeal. The problem is that once you write something in PHP because it's a quickie, suddenly you've got an installed legacy base of PHP code, and before you know it, you're a "PHP shop", and then you're truly scrod (a breed of Atlantic whitefish, I think).
I get a lot of gloating pleasure from your behavioural
confirmation of my belief that most of the pompous pretenders
posting on slashdot are so socially inept that they can't
catch a glimmer of the notion of starting a respectful
thread of discussion by posting an interesting question
about which many competent individuals in the audience
might be interested to provide useful, illuminating,
and perhaps even original, comments.
Rose up against this? You're joking, right?
All of the guarantees of human rights in U.S. law
have, without exception, been rendered moot by the
practice of the U.S. federal government. When
the president assumed the power to strip people of
their citizenship, kill them, even export them to
foreign countries and torture them, often to death,
did anyone "rise up"? And you think people are
going to "rise up" because they want to run Linux?
The cost of bandwidth might be what the prior commentator was referring to. Hence I suggested a low-hosting cost vehicle for delivering video.
I don't see any reason why it matters whether it is live or canned, from the perspective of the downloader.
And flying 50 million people to SFO is not expensive? Oh, that's right, Apple wouldn't be paying for it. Let me rephrase: And failing to engage your 50 million interested consumers isn't expensive? Did Apple ever hear of SwarmStream, or BitTorrent?
"...no choice but to [go] to San Francisco..."
Thank you, but I would prefer a Turkish prison.
I graduated summa cum laude "with high distinction", and didn't break a sweat. I dropped out of grad school for money, mostly because I like sex and children so much that I picked up a shotgun bride, and got a high $ offer for a sexy, stimulating job.
I majored in philosophy, physiology, mathematics, physics, and finally computer science, but I read as much literature and history and psychology and biochemistry on the side.
This is all to say that I got the GPA, I got the liberal arts. I am not squeezing sour grapes when I say that as regards the task of software engineering none of that means squat, for me personally. It's all talent, experience, and motivation.
Now the broader interfaces, interpersonal relationships, capacity to perform multidisciplinary analysis, etc., these all benefit from a broader educational background, but not the hard-core engineering -- and there's a cost-benefit issue that goes along with those years of "self-discovery", and learning about society, mankind, cosmology, epistemology, history. In short, a lot of buck, very little bang, considered as fuel for the engineering enterprise.
Now what it does do for you is get your foot in the door when the hiring decision-maker is too lazy or incompetent to estimate your vector from interviews and references. Credentials are shit, but they are often useful shit.
Zombies in the process table are processes which have exited, but their parent hasn't yet reaped their status information. They are weeeny little ;)
stubs. You might want to change your sig
Ah, but with PPC you can run Skype. There is no ARM Skype for Linux. Now with wifi or GPRS connectivity on a treo, Skype would really rock.
That's exactly what you'll get with a wifi treo,
albiet the software is yet to be written. Don't
fret -- it will be. When the GSM Treo comes out,
you can get unlimited GPRS from T-Mobile, and use
your voip without wifi, on the road where there
are no hotspots, all with no per-minute fees. While your laptop is browsing via bluetooth, even.
but what about Loom?
You want hardware in your VPN? Get an SSL accelerator card.
You want your VPN to run on a spindle-free low-failure appliance? Run OpenVPN on a Linksys WRT54G ($57.00, inclusive of shipping in the U.S.)
No, I'm saying the comets refer to Israel as "the Zionist entity". That's grounds for life imprisonment without trial in Guantanamo -- or a few nukes.