Subversion is a CVS replacement that tries to fix some of the weirdness that is CVS. I've been using it for about a year, and have found it to be very nice -- not much new to learn, and acts in a much more sane manner than CVS. It's still alpha for now (and using it ATM requires that you update fairly regularly), but it seems to be rapidly approaching the beta milestone.
Why can't we all just use GMT and be happy for it?
Because it would be a bit strange when 12 Noon occurs during the middle of the night? (Well, except for those Canadians, I guess they're used to it.)
I am glad to live in a place where we don't bother with daylight savings. Sure, we're out of step with the rest of the country -- but we don't care much about them anyway.
"Clicking on a link" in the spam is just as good as replying to it.
It may be "just as good," but it sure as hell isn't the same thing, and claiming that "a third of people responded to a spam" is deliberate misrepresentation of the facts.
this report says that 33% of users have "clicked on a link" in order to find out more, sometime in their lives, and 7% of users have ordered something from a spam message at some point. (At least I interpreted the blurb to mean that some spam had a 7% return rate -- that's not the case.) I don't think that these numbers are really all that surprising. For a beginning internet user, spam may seem like no more than commercials on TV. It shouldn't be surprising that occasionally people get interested.
Much more interesting would be a survey of the last time they responded or bought something from spam, versus how long they have been using e-mail. You could draw more conclusions from that.
If I can get it for $60, you know the book store is getting it for like $40 max, yet they are still selling it for $120.
Even better, when the semester's over, they will take that $120 book off the student's hands for pennies on the dollar, and then sell it to somebody else for $110. The college bookstore racket is absolutely obscene.
I never sell back my books to the bookstore; I can't stand the thought of them making that much profit for taking my book and reshelving it for a day or two. I often wonder why we don't have a formalized "book exchange" service going on; I would be more than happy to take the small fraction of the purchase price of the book, if I knew that the next person would be charged a reasonable amount for the book.
Perhaps this will help you get started. (Of course, the term "Windows User Group" isn't as commonly used as its Linux counterpart, but most "computer groups" fall into the category of Windows users' groups anyway.)
Are you trying to say that there is not a portion of the population who rabidly supports Windows? 'Cause if so, you're wrong. Just because Linux zealots outnumber Windows zealots on Slashdot doesn't mean that the Windows zealots are fewer in numbers.
The majority of Windows users may be nontechnical, but there are plenty who do care about their OS. No way is Linux more "popular," except maybe among a specifically selected crowd.
Subject Line Troll should take lessons from Michael. "Adobe makes products harder to Use, More Expensive," and "RIAA Threatens More Music-Lovers." I'm surprised that he missed "Doubleplusgood Europeans Still Fighting Evil Corporate Software Patents." Once again, editors, if you have something to say, do it in the comments section so that it can stand on its merits rather than using your high-and-mighty status to push flamebait on everyone.
By calling loading up Kazaa and bitching on Slashdot about paying a few bucks for entertainment "civil disobedience," you insult the people who have truly sacrificed their time, their money, their livlihoods, and in some cases, their lives, while engaged in true civil disobedience against unjust laws.
That's not a half bad idea. Although I wouldn't bother with the power button (the 4-second delay is generally enough), I currently have my reset button disconnected because I kept on hitting it. If I did the same thing, then I could have a quick reset again.
Yes. I own both the DVD and a fansub copy of Laputa. I noticed no substantial differences in meaning between the two translations. (I slightly preferred the Disney subtitles, but as I don't know Japanese I can't say which one is more literally accurate.) It looks like some people are complaining about the timing, but I didn't have any trouble watching it. More to the point, a poorly timed set of subtitles beats out a poorly translated one any day.
Just once I'd love for them to do a good sub-titling job, and release it in the states, and have it be wildly successful to show that people really do enjoy the subs.
You mean... like they did with "Princess Mononoke," "Spirited Away," "Laputa," and "Kiki's Delivery Service?" If you're going to knock the quality of subtitled releases, the Studio Ghibli releases in the US are the wrong place to start complaining.
And in any case, the dubs of those movies have generally been of very high quality as well, for those who like to be able to have the chance to pay extra attention to the animation. I see no reason to doubt that the dubs of Nausicaa and Porco Rosso will be fantastic as well. (Well, almost -- I admit that the dubbing work on "Castle in the Sky" was below the standards of the others.)
Bittorrent, as it is, is poorly suited for serving large numbers of relatively small files, to a population in which only a small percentage of users will want any one file. This solution probably won't cut it.
However, the underlying protocol would work for this just fine. (In fact, you could probably just get away with changing the client; servers could probably be the same, though I don't know all that much about the internals.) I'd say that a customized Bittorrent client would probably be fairly effective.
I do wonder exactly how much use this would be. After all, the main reason why P2P is used is to distribute the bandwidth needed. At a typical university, most of that bandwidth is going to be the university's anyway. It seems that this is more a job for multiple servers than P2P technology; of course, that wouldn't involve any buzzwords.
I was 100% against MS's evil empire and Bill's attempts to takeover the world.
I think this says something about the nature of Linux users' hatred of Windows. Most of the fanboys seem to think that dislike of windows for technical reasons is evidence that MS is evil, and that the fact that Windows is ahead in the "desktop war" means that Windows is terrible. No wonder so many people don't take you guys seriously, if you don't understand that those connections aren't logical.
If you want to believe that Linux is technically better than Windows, fine. I happen to agree on that point. If you think that Microsoft is the evil empire, that's OK; you can form your own opinions. If you can't seperate the two ideas in your mind, then there's a problem, and you probably ought to reexamine your conclusions (or at least your mode of evangelism.)
maybe most users keep all potentially important files under strict version control with md5 sums, but some of us still use timestamps and file size as a first line of defense.
This is just the last access time. I can't think of a single time that I've found knowing the last time a file has been accessed to be useful.
There have been more altercations between drunken clubbers since the city extended drinking hours to 4 a.m. and the department has spent nearly $120,000 for extra police officers to work the late-night patrol since the hours were extended July 4, Constable Sarah Bloor said.
In other words, people out drinking late tend to cause more problems. (Not terribly surprising; at 4am people are more tired and more drunk than at 2am.)
(That quote also explains why it's not a "right" to be able to keep serving alchohol all night long. If other people have to foot the bill, they get some say in the matter.)
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What is a subversion repository?
Subversion is a CVS replacement that tries to fix some of the weirdness that is CVS. I've been using it for about a year, and have found it to be very nice -- not much new to learn, and acts in a much more sane manner than CVS. It's still alpha for now (and using it ATM requires that you update fairly regularly), but it seems to be rapidly approaching the beta milestone.
Maybe it's $750, but it ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping. That more than makes up for it, right?
Why can't we all just use GMT and be happy for it?
Because it would be a bit strange when 12 Noon occurs during the middle of the night? (Well, except for those Canadians, I guess they're used to it.)
I am glad to live in a place where we don't bother with daylight savings. Sure, we're out of step with the rest of the country -- but we don't care much about them anyway.
"Clicking on a link" in the spam is just as good as replying to it.
It may be "just as good," but it sure as hell isn't the same thing, and claiming that "a third of people responded to a spam" is deliberate misrepresentation of the facts.
Indeed, can you back up any of the figures...
He got a +1. Isn't that enough proof for anyone?
this report says that 33% of users have "clicked on a link" in order to find out more, sometime in their lives, and 7% of users have ordered something from a spam message at some point. (At least I interpreted the blurb to mean that some spam had a 7% return rate -- that's not the case.) I don't think that these numbers are really all that surprising. For a beginning internet user, spam may seem like no more than commercials on TV. It shouldn't be surprising that occasionally people get interested.
Much more interesting would be a survey of the last time they responded or bought something from spam, versus how long they have been using e-mail. You could draw more conclusions from that.
If I can get it for $60, you know the book store is getting it for like $40 max, yet they are still selling it for $120.
Even better, when the semester's over, they will take that $120 book off the student's hands for pennies on the dollar, and then sell it to somebody else for $110. The college bookstore racket is absolutely obscene.
I never sell back my books to the bookstore; I can't stand the thought of them making that much profit for taking my book and reshelving it for a day or two. I often wonder why we don't have a formalized "book exchange" service going on; I would be more than happy to take the small fraction of the purchase price of the book, if I knew that the next person would be charged a reasonable amount for the book.
Nethack, actually. Let that kobold corpse rot on the floor for a hundred turns, and when you come back to eat it you may get violently ill ...
Maybe you're too young to remember, but we've had really dumb mods forever. (Tho we used to call them editors.) There's nothing new to see here.
Perhaps this will help you get started. (Of course, the term "Windows User Group" isn't as commonly used as its Linux counterpart, but most "computer groups" fall into the category of Windows users' groups anyway.)
Are you trying to say that there is not a portion of the population who rabidly supports Windows? 'Cause if so, you're wrong. Just because Linux zealots outnumber Windows zealots on Slashdot doesn't mean that the Windows zealots are fewer in numbers.
The majority of Windows users may be nontechnical, but there are plenty who do care about their OS. No way is Linux more "popular," except maybe among a specifically selected crowd.
Subject Line Troll should take lessons from Michael. "Adobe makes products harder to Use, More Expensive," and "RIAA Threatens More Music-Lovers." I'm surprised that he missed "Doubleplusgood Europeans Still Fighting Evil Corporate Software Patents." Once again, editors, if you have something to say, do it in the comments section so that it can stand on its merits rather than using your high-and-mighty status to push flamebait on everyone.
By calling loading up Kazaa and bitching on Slashdot about paying a few bucks for entertainment "civil disobedience," you insult the people who have truly sacrificed their time, their money, their livlihoods, and in some cases, their lives, while engaged in true civil disobedience against unjust laws.
Well, maybe that's because you called her a 'he' one too many times?
They missed Nethack, too.
That's not a half bad idea. Although I wouldn't bother with the power button (the 4-second delay is generally enough), I currently have my reset button disconnected because I kept on hitting it. If I did the same thing, then I could have a quick reset again.
Yes. I own both the DVD and a fansub copy of Laputa. I noticed no substantial differences in meaning between the two translations. (I slightly preferred the Disney subtitles, but as I don't know Japanese I can't say which one is more literally accurate.) It looks like some people are complaining about the timing, but I didn't have any trouble watching it. More to the point, a poorly timed set of subtitles beats out a poorly translated one any day.
Just once I'd love for them to do a good sub-titling job, and release it in the states, and have it be wildly successful to show that people really do enjoy the subs.
... like they did with "Princess Mononoke," "Spirited Away," "Laputa," and "Kiki's Delivery Service?" If you're going to knock the quality of subtitled releases, the Studio Ghibli releases in the US are the wrong place to start complaining.
You mean
And in any case, the dubs of those movies have generally been of very high quality as well, for those who like to be able to have the chance to pay extra attention to the animation. I see no reason to doubt that the dubs of Nausicaa and Porco Rosso will be fantastic as well. (Well, almost -- I admit that the dubbing work on "Castle in the Sky" was below the standards of the others.)
Well, if the RIAA is repeating what Edison did, eventually we'll start putting criminals to death by playing some recent CDs at them until they die.
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Yeah, but in that case, how many CPU cycles do you waste on posting to slashdot?
Sorry; there are no other blogs that will hire somebody that inept.
Bittorrent, as it is, is poorly suited for serving large numbers of relatively small files, to a population in which only a small percentage of users will want any one file. This solution probably won't cut it.
However, the underlying protocol would work for this just fine. (In fact, you could probably just get away with changing the client; servers could probably be the same, though I don't know all that much about the internals.) I'd say that a customized Bittorrent client would probably be fairly effective.
I do wonder exactly how much use this would be. After all, the main reason why P2P is used is to distribute the bandwidth needed. At a typical university, most of that bandwidth is going to be the university's anyway. It seems that this is more a job for multiple servers than P2P technology; of course, that wouldn't involve any buzzwords.
I was 100% against MS's evil empire and Bill's attempts to takeover the world.
I think this says something about the nature of Linux users' hatred of Windows. Most of the fanboys seem to think that dislike of windows for technical reasons is evidence that MS is evil, and that the fact that Windows is ahead in the "desktop war" means that Windows is terrible. No wonder so many people don't take you guys seriously, if you don't understand that those connections aren't logical.
If you want to believe that Linux is technically better than Windows, fine. I happen to agree on that point. If you think that Microsoft is the evil empire, that's OK; you can form your own opinions. If you can't seperate the two ideas in your mind, then there's a problem, and you probably ought to reexamine your conclusions (or at least your mode of evangelism.)
maybe most users keep all potentially important files under strict version control with md5 sums, but some of us still use timestamps and file size as a first line of defense.
This is just the last access time. I can't think of a single time that I've found knowing the last time a file has been accessed to be useful.
In other words, people out drinking late tend to cause more problems. (Not terribly surprising; at 4am people are more tired and more drunk than at 2am.)
(That quote also explains why it's not a "right" to be able to keep serving alchohol all night long. If other people have to foot the bill, they get some say in the matter.)