I think your link misses an import detail -- you have to live SOMEWHERE.
My mortgage is about the same as rent would be on a similar (modest) home, and the property taxes are only $150 a month. I'm not sure saving the $150 a month makes it worth giving somebody else the rent money -- after all, I get to keep most of it even if it's not earning interest.
And if I "rent" my home from the bank for another 25 years or so, I get to keep it. I figure that's a fair trade for springing for the upkeep.
Now, if you're talking about a $500,000 McMansion not being a good investment -- well, duh.
Those are pants whose pockets are made for carrying cargo.
I have a pair. I can put a Blackberry Playbook or a Samsung Galaxy 7" tablet in one hip pocket, and one of those stupid little Apple keyboards in the other.
If I was still doing the remote admin/on-call gig, I would totally buy more cargo pants.
Actually, it's much simpler than that -- educated people can afford to heat their homes. Babies are just a natural side effect of trying to keep warm at night.
My X2100s have been running continuously since 2008, so I haven't even/tried/ to upgrade them.
Never saw a need to upgrade the X2100 M2s I have.
Besides the BMC software, are there any firmware upgrades that are necessary?
(Note - BMC software upgrade is not necessary, but it is nice)
Of course, I don't have a support contract either. I couldn't hang up the phone fast enough when I was quoted over $25,000 to bring an Ultra 5 "back into compliance" so that I could get a firmware upgrade I *did* need. I threw it out instead.
I worry less about x86 hardware in this regard. It's not like the PC industry is particularly good about this crap in the first place...
...but I use Sun Microsystems hardware for this task.
The X2100, X4100 series servers more than meet my needs, and are available on the used market for a song these days.
The lights-out management works great, the rackmount kits and cable management arms are first-class, the hardware is well-made, and they look cool. Heck, they're even certified to run RHEL 5 or so.
Best of all - buying used Sun gear and putting Linux on it pisses off Larry Ellison. What more could you ask for?
It goes back to the Apple ][, actually. Don't you remember the lawsuits over the Laser machines, etc?
That said, some of spend significant hunks of our time creating, managing, and troubleshooting "open" systems. Sometimes it's nice to let somebody else manage all that crap. I consider that part of the premium part of an i-product, and a big reason why it gets a premium price.
We have at least 10 different tablet types at work. Guess which two get used every day? Hint 1 - they are both closed, Hint 2 - we only care about the web browsers.
> I have multiple lights in my house that bleed through electricity if I > am using fluorescent lights. You turn them off.. and the light either > flickers or you can see a dim glow.
There is no way your bulbs are using power once the power has been cut at the wall switch.
You are probably seeing the powdery stuff on the inside of the glass still fluorescing because it takes a bit of time for it to return to an unexcited state.
This is true -- and I still have some hybrid seeds in my collection -- but the point remains that organic vegetable gardening can be space efficient if you are willing to sacrifice labour.
Other than the above-mentioned hybrid seeds (I am working on getting everything to the point where I have sustainable seed) -- I consider myself to be a totally organic guy. I use no fertilizers other than composted plant matter, horse poop, and hardwood ash. I am considering adding human urine this year. I use crop rotation + legumes (beans) for nitrogen fixation. I get rid of slugs with beer traps.
I double-dig my beds as in french intensive and I plant to densities suggested by the square foot people. Sometimes less dense. I use a cold frame in cold weather, which keeps my lettuce and spinach alive until winter, and I am already growing radish and lettuce in zone 5b. I figure I will have radishes in another 2 or 3 weeks and edible spinach and lettuce in a month or so.
Actually, it's not that simple. You can get BETTER yield per area of land (at least for vegetables) using organic methods, but it is much more labour intensive.
I supplied almost all of my family's vegetable requirements for 7 months last year on 64 square feet of land, practicing a sort of blend between French Intensive and Square Foot gardening.
This year I am using what I learned last year to increase yields even further, and will be using 96 square feet. I hope to be able to get through an entire year this time.
No kidding. I had to get them to change my user name because the new software couldn't deal with a slash in the login process. What a pain in the ass. Now my nick looks stupid.
There are two ways to write Firefox extensions: JetPack, and the old way.
JetPack gives you compatibility like Chrome, and capabilities a lot like Chrome's extension API.
The old way has extension developers linking directly to deep C++ library interfaces. It's fast, and you can do anything. ANYTHING.
The problem with allowing ANYTHING is that to maintain perfect compatibility, you can't change ANYTHING.
See the problem now?
If I was running Firefox, I'd just deprecate old-style plug ins and say, "Okay, you whiny bitches, all your plug-ins will stay working just as they are now forever. See what you made me do?"
But Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. The crazy Mozilla guys don't want to turn off extensions.
So instead they say, "Hey! You host your extension on AMO, we'll keep an eye on it for you, automatically bump your compat number, let you know ahead of time if there's going to be a problem, and at least make some effort not to break you."
Of course, not everybody wants Mozilla's help this way, it's better to self-host and complain.
Also, TFA doesn't have anything to do with extensions, but rather some web-facing library that does user-agent version checking instead of capability sniffing. I thought that went out with Y2K.
Aside from add-ons which have deep C++ API entanglement, what is breaking your colleagues every six weeks?
If it wasn't for the dialog telling me that my browser updated, I doubt I would ever notice. I don't even know if I'm on 10 or 11 right now (I never restart until I have to, e.g. by a power failure).
I recently got back into web programming after a 10-year near-hiatus.
If you can drop support for IE8 and below, you can avoid 98% of the nastiness we all hate.
And I'm not a jQuery user either. I just write shit that works and abstract the odd browser-specific detail away (like the name of window.requestAnimationFrame).
I think Chrome is on version 17 right now. There are features in Chrome 19 I need (WebRTC). I pray every morning for a new Chrome version.:)
Thank God there are only 30-40 people using this site right now, teaching people how download a Chrome Beta sucks. But, hey, we're in Beta too so WTH.:)
Interestingly, Chrome 17 supports old-school web-sockets but Chrome 19 has them disabled. So they are not completely transparent.
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Are most iOS applications written in a Java-like language?
JIT compilers are necessary for today's workloads. These pretty much require that you are allowed to execute code you just wrote to your data segment.
What do you block when the updates are served by a major CDN?
I think your link misses an import detail -- you have to live SOMEWHERE.
My mortgage is about the same as rent would be on a similar (modest) home, and the property taxes are only $150 a month. I'm not sure saving the $150 a month makes it worth giving somebody else the rent money -- after all, I get to keep most of it even if it's not earning interest.
And if I "rent" my home from the bank for another 25 years or so, I get to keep it. I figure that's a fair trade for springing for the upkeep.
Now, if you're talking about a $500,000 McMansion not being a good investment -- well, duh.
He said cargo pants.
Those are pants whose pockets are made for carrying cargo.
I have a pair. I can put a Blackberry Playbook or a Samsung Galaxy 7" tablet in one hip pocket, and one of those stupid little Apple keyboards in the other.
If I was still doing the remote admin/on-call gig, I would totally buy more cargo pants.
Actually, it's much simpler than that -- educated people can afford to heat their homes. Babies are just a natural side effect of trying to keep warm at night.
Clearly, it's one over plus plus.
My X2100s have been running continuously since 2008, so I haven't even /tried/ to upgrade them.
Never saw a need to upgrade the X2100 M2s I have.
Besides the BMC software, are there any firmware upgrades that are necessary?
(Note - BMC software upgrade is not necessary, but it is nice)
Of course, I don't have a support contract either. I couldn't hang up the phone fast enough when I was quoted over $25,000 to bring an Ultra 5 "back into compliance" so that I could get a firmware upgrade I *did* need. I threw it out instead.
I worry less about x86 hardware in this regard. It's not like the PC industry is particularly good about this crap in the first place...
Not sparc, for Linux I use AMD Opteron Suns. These are very high-quality rackmount PCs.
And I put CentOS on 'em.
That oughta get Larry steaming.
...but I use Sun Microsystems hardware for this task.
The X2100, X4100 series servers more than meet my needs, and are available on the used market for a song these days.
The lights-out management works great, the rackmount kits and cable management arms are first-class, the hardware is well-made, and they look cool. Heck, they're even certified to run RHEL 5 or so.
Best of all - buying used Sun gear and putting Linux on it pisses off Larry Ellison. What more could you ask for?
Wow, it's almost like the dude got 419d!
Please don't accuse Sun Microsystems of lacking innovation capability.
They may not have had very good business sense, but they sure built some cool stuff.
Actually, launching Windows sounds like a great plan.
We could launch it right at the Sun! Er, I mean Oracle!
It goes back to the Apple ][, actually. Don't you remember the lawsuits over the Laser machines, etc?
That said, some of spend significant hunks of our time creating, managing, and troubleshooting "open" systems. Sometimes it's nice to let somebody else manage all that crap. I consider that part of the premium part of an i-product, and a big reason why it gets a premium price.
We have at least 10 different tablet types at work. Guess which two get used every day? Hint 1 - they are both closed, Hint 2 - we only care about the web browsers.
> I have multiple lights in my house that bleed through electricity if I
> am using fluorescent lights. You turn them off.. and the light either
> flickers or you can see a dim glow.
There is no way your bulbs are using power once the power has been cut at the wall switch.
You are probably seeing the powdery stuff on the inside of the glass still fluorescing because it takes a bit of time for it to return to an unexcited state.
This is true -- and I still have some hybrid seeds in my collection -- but the point remains that organic vegetable gardening can be space efficient if you are willing to sacrifice labour.
Other than the above-mentioned hybrid seeds (I am working on getting everything to the point where I have sustainable seed) -- I consider myself to be a totally organic guy. I use no fertilizers other than composted plant matter, horse poop, and hardwood ash. I am considering adding human urine this year. I use crop rotation + legumes (beans) for nitrogen fixation. I get rid of slugs with beer traps.
I double-dig my beds as in french intensive and I plant to densities suggested by the square foot people. Sometimes less dense. I use a cold frame in cold weather, which keeps my lettuce and spinach alive until winter, and I am already growing radish and lettuce in zone 5b. I figure I will have radishes in another 2 or 3 weeks and edible spinach and lettuce in a month or so.
Actually, it's not that simple. You can get BETTER yield per area of land (at least for vegetables) using organic methods, but it is much more labour intensive.
I supplied almost all of my family's vegetable requirements for 7 months last year on 64 square feet of land, practicing a sort of blend between French Intensive and Square Foot gardening.
This year I am using what I learned last year to increase yields even further, and will be using 96 square feet. I hope to be able to get through an entire year this time.
No kidding. I had to get them to change my user name because the new software couldn't deal with a slash in the login process. What a pain in the ass. Now my nick looks stupid.
I'll tell you what the problem is.
There are two ways to write Firefox extensions: JetPack, and the old way.
JetPack gives you compatibility like Chrome, and capabilities a lot like Chrome's extension API.
The old way has extension developers linking directly to deep C++ library interfaces. It's fast, and you can do anything. ANYTHING.
The problem with allowing ANYTHING is that to maintain perfect compatibility, you can't change ANYTHING.
See the problem now?
If I was running Firefox, I'd just deprecate old-style plug ins and say, "Okay, you whiny bitches, all your plug-ins will stay working just as they are now forever. See what you made me do?"
But Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. The crazy Mozilla guys don't want to turn off extensions.
So instead they say, "Hey! You host your extension on AMO, we'll keep an eye on it for you, automatically bump your compat number, let you know ahead of time if there's going to be a problem, and at least make some effort not to break you."
Of course, not everybody wants Mozilla's help this way, it's better to self-host and complain.
Also, TFA doesn't have anything to do with extensions, but rather some web-facing library that does user-agent version checking instead of capability sniffing. I thought that went out with Y2K.
Aside from add-ons which have deep C++ API entanglement, what is breaking your colleagues every six weeks?
If it wasn't for the dialog telling me that my browser updated, I doubt I would ever notice. I don't even know if I'm on 10 or 11 right now (I never restart until I have to, e.g. by a power failure).
I recently got back into web programming after a 10-year near-hiatus.
If you can drop support for IE8 and below, you can avoid 98% of the nastiness we all hate.
And I'm not a jQuery user either. I just write shit that works and abstract the odd browser-specific detail away (like the name of window.requestAnimationFrame).
I think Chrome is on version 17 right now. There are features in Chrome 19 I need (WebRTC). I pray every morning for a new Chrome version. :)
Thank God there are only 30-40 people using this site right now, teaching people how download a Chrome Beta sucks. But, hey, we're in Beta too so WTH. :)
Interestingly, Chrome 17 supports old-school web-sockets but Chrome 19 has them disabled. So they are not completely transparent.
Yes.... The AOSP code is simply fableous!
Actually, it lets you pirated apps, instead of paying for them. Lots of consumers see that as a feature.
You forgot "wants to run for office"