Bicycling magazine did this article on riding to work. After reading the article, I was able to adjust my habits to accomidate biking to work in the morning.
I'm still working on pushing towards showers at work, but baby wipes seem to work just fine.
Right now the FSR is the front runner. I've been reading the reviews and the only two bad points include the price and the weight. The weight kind of concerns me. Hopefully, Specialized can work on that and make the '04 model lighter.
I also share the cycling passion. I just bought my first road bike and this winter I'll be building a nice new XC race bike. I've narrowed it down to four frames:
ride my MTB (my latest addiction, and non-geeky one -- wow!;).
You would like to think that mountain biking would be a non-geeky hobby. I started riding the mountain bike, which then turned into mountain and road. Now, I build my own rides and find myself following component specs like I follow computer specs. You just can't get away from the geekness.
That is true...all this talk of PowerMacs has my mind in the professional arena. The eMac and iBook just go to show that Apple is trying to lower costs to grab a larger share of the market. The majority of users use price as the single, most important factor in their purchasing decisions.
Macophiles have always been willing to pay a premium for the "newest" thing from the Big A.
But the Macophiles only compose 4% of the total market for PCs. If Apple wants to start commanding a bigger piece of the pie, they need to start lowering the cost of the machines. I don't think we'll ever see a sub $1000 machine, but we will start getting more bang for the buck.
That is the single reason I prefer a flip phone to all of the others. For some reason, they key locks never work. One time I placed a 5 minute call to myself and the cingular voice mail system made me listen to the entire message before I could delete it.
I found that the cover on the Treo 90 is nice, but I still hit the application buttons while I'm moving around work. You would think that Handspring and Palm would have heard the complaints. Why is it so hard to build in a cover?
An example is the two-level thread scheduling model, where thread scheduling happens both at user level and in the kernel. Although this approach had some theoretical advantages in terms of thread creation and context switch time, it turned out to be enormously complicated, particularly when dealing with traditional Unix process semantics like signals.
I'm glad to see that someone also thinks this was a bitch to work with.
You make some very good points, but I don't know what can be done to stop the/. effect. Should/. cache a copy of the pages and use that instead of linking right to the content? Or should the articles appear in a time release fashion (which causes other questions about the comment system)?
It's a tad hard to determine if there is a mirror problem or someone not reading the discussion when a new top level comment is made. A reply to the original thread stating it's not working and asking for another mirror is fine.
I'm just trying to save someone from -1 Redundant.
This is getting beyond a joke, slashdot needs to do something about the effect they have on these small sites, it's not going to get better by ignoring it CmdrTaco...
He did do something....subscribe so you can see the story before it goes live for the rest of the crowd. I don't agree with paying, but don't bitch about the/. effect on smaller sites.
I still look at groups.google.com (mainly because I can't get access to an NNTP server at work). I still find answers on newsgroups that I really can't find anywhere else. (Try using a MS JDBC client....good luck finding anything on MSDN.)
What other industry, besides perhaps tobacco, could get away with something as audacious as that?
Not to mention the frequent crashing, loss of data, forced upgrade cycles, etc.
Last, the staggeringly amazing thing is, people seem fine with that. Cripes!
Exactly. No one wants a single thing to go wrong with their car or telephone, but the software we use is acceptable. It's funny/scary to see how many people actually accept and think it's fine to reboot their PC every hour.
I don't think it's as simple as the amount of money on development costs. Microsoft is going through the transformation from a programming shop (with loose standards and shoot from the hip developers) to a true software engineering shop (many standards, well thought out ideas and calculated coding). It's a tough transformation, but the code will be better in the end.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm getting a G5 for my home, but that's because I do heavy video editing and effects, which should benefit a LOT from the faster system.
I'd be more excited about the increased memory capacity. Last time I did any clip manipulation on my Powerbook, the swap time was my real killer.
So, my tinfoil hat will now have a unique code as well. What's a paranoid /. geek to do?
working 10 hours a day leaves 14 hours for exercise/sleep/TV/pizza gathering.
/. at home. It's not all that difficult.
Subtract 8 hours for sleep and 30 minutes for working out and you still have 5.5 hours to read
There is nothing like the sight of a few 20 year olds in spandex to make a man hold in his beer belly.
Amen!
Bicycling magazine did this article on riding to work. After reading the article, I was able to adjust my habits to accomidate biking to work in the morning.
I'm still working on pushing towards showers at work, but baby wipes seem to work just fine.
The Christina Aguilera (sp?) promo was a smart move in collaboration with Motorola
.Net.
Ugh! I feel so dirty as a Java developer. Time to switch to
Right now the FSR is the front runner. I've been reading the reviews and the only two bad points include the price and the weight. The weight kind of concerns me. Hopefully, Specialized can work on that and make the '04 model lighter.
Now to decide....
(broke my leg not too long ago)
Hope your feeling better. How did you do that?
ride my MTB (my latest addiction, and non-geeky one -- wow! ;).
You would like to think that mountain biking would be a non-geeky hobby. I started riding the mountain bike, which then turned into mountain and road. Now, I build my own rides and find myself following component specs like I follow computer specs. You just can't get away from the geekness.
Biking along Lake Michigan is a blast!
Which edge of the big puddle? Mountain or road? I'm big into both types of biking on the west side.
That is true...all this talk of PowerMacs has my mind in the professional arena. The eMac and iBook just go to show that Apple is trying to lower costs to grab a larger share of the market. The majority of users use price as the single, most important factor in their purchasing decisions.
Macophiles have always been willing to pay a premium for the "newest" thing from the Big A.
But the Macophiles only compose 4% of the total market for PCs. If Apple wants to start commanding a bigger piece of the pie, they need to start lowering the cost of the machines. I don't think we'll ever see a sub $1000 machine, but we will start getting more bang for the buck.
That is the single reason I prefer a flip phone to all of the others. For some reason, they key locks never work. One time I placed a 5 minute call to myself and the cingular voice mail system made me listen to the entire message before I could delete it.
I found that the cover on the Treo 90 is nice, but I still hit the application buttons while I'm moving around work. You would think that Handspring and Palm would have heard the complaints. Why is it so hard to build in a cover?
To obtain a a wand, mash the keypad with your hand now.
An example is the two-level thread scheduling model, where thread scheduling happens both at user level and in the kernel. Although this approach had some theoretical advantages in terms of thread creation and context switch time, it turned out to be enormously complicated, particularly when dealing with traditional Unix process semantics like signals.
I'm glad to see that someone also thinks this was a bitch to work with.
You make some very good points, but I don't know what can be done to stop the /. effect. Should /. cache a copy of the pages and use that instead of linking right to the content? Or should the articles appear in a time release fashion (which causes other questions about the comment system)?
It's a tad hard to determine if there is a mirror problem or someone not reading the discussion when a new top level comment is made. A reply to the original thread stating it's not working and asking for another mirror is fine.
I'm just trying to save someone from -1 Redundant.
This is getting beyond a joke, slashdot needs to do something about the effect they have on these small sites, it's not going to get better by ignoring it CmdrTaco...
/. effect on smaller sites.
He did do something....subscribe so you can see the story before it goes live for the rest of the crowd. I don't agree with paying, but don't bitch about the
Try reading the comment threads. Someone posted it far before your post.
Writing portable code isn't something that comes as second nature to most Windows coders...
Is it really second nature to any coder?
Oh, and they sell more Unix Workstations than Sun does.
Only if they license the rights to the Unix name. Until then, they just have a next generation operating system based on BSD.
I still look at groups.google.com (mainly because I can't get access to an NNTP server at work). I still find answers on newsgroups that I really can't find anywhere else. (Try using a MS JDBC client....good luck finding anything on MSDN.)
What other industry, besides perhaps tobacco, could get away with something as audacious as that?
Not to mention the frequent crashing, loss of data, forced upgrade cycles, etc.
Last, the staggeringly amazing thing is, people seem fine with that. Cripes!
Exactly. No one wants a single thing to go wrong with their car or telephone, but the software we use is acceptable. It's funny/scary to see how many people actually accept and think it's fine to reboot their PC every hour.
I don't think it's as simple as the amount of money on development costs. Microsoft is going through the transformation from a programming shop (with loose standards and shoot from the hip developers) to a true software engineering shop (many standards, well thought out ideas and calculated coding). It's a tough transformation, but the code will be better in the end.
The concept pre-dates open source development. They did have peer reviews in the days of the mainframe.