There's no shortage of gross, inexcusable fuckups by Bush. Whatever the govt's eventual position, this doesn't even register.
But sure, go ahead and paint all critics as desperate nitpickers. Good luck with that. It's almost as good as the much cherished "straw man" technique.
A lot of talk has been going around about the effect of off-shore programming and us highly overpaid Western programmers. Conventional wisdom dictates that someone in Eastern Europe or India can write great code for a fraction of the price that someone like, say, me, can. We're talking $8-15/hour here, which is what someone working at Starbucks can expect to make (with benefits). Because I had a small project, I figured, what the hell, let's see what this is all about.
ie, Brian's experience with "offshoring" via RentACoder for a piece of the ActiveX work this slashdot article refers to. The security rant is old news.
Last I heard, the XML file format is NOT the default format used by Word. So this doesn't really help anyone leaning towards an alternative to Word - 99% of the documents you receive are still going to be the binary format.
I like your post and would tend to agree on all points. It's just a shame MS couldn't go that extra mile and make the XML format the default.
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If you can convince the nice man in the tech store to let you boot the CD, you could run a set of linux gaming tests on each of the PCs you're considering for purchase.
Damned if I can find any comparisons of mobile 3d performance in linux so this is pretty much my only option.
Pity they couldn't load it up with the Quake 3 and UT200x demos which would be more useful.
I'm sure you know it's source based by the dozens of +5 Funny's..
What's good? The package system is transparent and extremely hackable. If you don't touch it, it works just like apt or yum. But if you want to make a change, its extremely easy to pop the ebuild in vim and change it, or fork your own version. Also very easy to produce a "package" for any specific version you like, often as simple as renaming a file.
What's bad? Initial installation takes a while (I can get a useable box in ~ 3 hours. Gnome & co take the longest). Not recommended for slow computers (anything made in the last four years ought to be fine) due to frequent code compilation. Portage moves very very fast. Lots of new versions released every week.
I run it everywhere, including this here Toshiba Tecra S-1 notebook.
The first (and only) extension I install in Thunderbird is purge.xpi that puts an expunge button in the toolbar. Hiding the imap functionality with "autoexpunge" is frickin annoying. Now if only it had a hotkey.
To the guy who was looking for the option: Tools -> Account Settings -> Server Settings -> "When I delete a message"
"In vote-pairing, swing-state progressives whose first instinct might have been to vote for Nader, Cobb or Badnarik are paired with Democrats (and others whose first choice for President is Kerry) in 'safe' states where either Bush or Kerry has a decisive lead. Paired voters can communicate with each other and decide to vote strategically: swing-state participants for Kerry and safe-state participants for Nader, Cobb or Badnarik. As a result, the paired voters' support for progressive third parties is recorded in the popular vote and their preference for Kerry over Bush finds voice in the Electoral College."
.. What are your positions on instant-runoff voting and proportional representation? Do you currently, and would you in the future, support any reforms to encourage a greater diversity in our political system?
Nader: Major electoral reforms are needed to ensure that every vote counts, all voters are represented through electoral reforms like instant run-off voting, abolition of the electoral college, none-of-the-above options, and proportional representation, non-major party candidates have a chance to run for office and participate in debates, and that elections are publicly financed.
I'd prefer to spend the extra $20 or so and get the better chip.
The "better chip" adds extra heat/noise that some people can do without, especially if other components are doing the heavy lifting. My Sempron 3100 / 6800 GT Shuttle box runs Doom 3 at 70+ FPS 1024xHigh with 4x AA.
The real power of snmp is what you can achieve through scripting it - queries and updates etc.
That becomes nigh-on impossible with this WS-Management craziness.
You can call a method on a webservice with one line of perl. Nuff said.
If there were ONE standard, we'd have 100% compatibility across devices for that standard. Instead we have SEVEN standards each of which has 90-100% compatibility. So everyone loses.
"Greenpeace et al will still behave like this is the beast of apocalypse."
The bile spewed by supposedly intelligent people when it comes to atomic energy is simply staggering. Greenies don't object to nuclear power on principle - the problem is safe transport and storage of fuel and waste. Take away that problem (as future fusion reactors could do, correct?) and I'm all for it.
Am I missing something here? Tried to use postgres as the backing store for a java message queue. This involves very rapid INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE operations. Found that it starts out at 100+ transactions per second but drops to less than 20 per second after just one minute. Have to VACUUM continuously just to keep the average up. This is not a solution. How about a table option to eliminate redundant tuples in realtime instead of when VACUUM is run? As it stands, pgsql is not suitable for persistance in message queues.
PS: the PITR stuff in 8.0 is looking really good. Will have to work up some backup/restore shell scripts and give the beta a good workout.
Get a decent controller card, and the firmware will actually optimise the head movements to increase read performance. Think about it - if you've got the same data on two drives, why not have each drive read only half the file and thereby return the whole file in half the time?
Perhaps those that purchase the game will invest the time to get the most out of the it, whereas the thousands of warez kiddies will leech it before its in stores, give it a quick spin and get their ratings in. First day reviews really aren't worth much IMHO.
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And you thought the DVD+/-R debacle was silly..
http://www.usbgeek.com/prod_detail.php?prod_id=020 6
There's no shortage of gross, inexcusable fuckups by Bush. Whatever the govt's eventual position, this doesn't even register.
But sure, go ahead and paint all critics as desperate nitpickers. Good luck with that. It's almost as good as the much cherished "straw man" technique.
VC was the best =)
ie, Brian's experience with "offshoring" via RentACoder for a piece of the ActiveX work this slashdot article refers to. The security rant is old news.
One, Two and Three. Could probably squeeze in the UT2004 demo as well or even the Doom 3 demo. Show em something they may actually recognise.
Last I heard, the XML file format is NOT the default format used by Word. So this doesn't really help anyone leaning towards an alternative to Word - 99% of the documents you receive are still going to be the binary format.
I like your post and would tend to agree on all points. It's just a shame MS couldn't go that extra mile and make the XML format the default.
google "antediluvian"?
If you can convince the nice man in the tech store to let you boot the CD, you could run a set of linux gaming tests on each of the PCs you're considering for purchase.
Damned if I can find any comparisons of mobile 3d performance in linux so this is pretty much my only option.
Pity they couldn't load it up with the Quake 3 and UT200x demos which would be more useful.
I assume the complainers are using it?
51894b boingboing.rss.xml
17842b boingboing.rss.xml.gz
It's running on reputation alone now.
Not sure when Conde Naste took over. Was it around 2000/2001? I think they switched editor. That's when I cancelled my sub.
It became politicised, military, airhead blather. Maybe it was just reflecting American media at the time (Bush, 9/11).
"tech mag turned fashion rag" as another slashdotter once put it.
I'm sure you know it's source based by the dozens of +5 Funny's..
What's good? The package system is transparent and extremely hackable. If you don't touch it, it works just like apt or yum. But if you want to make a change, its extremely easy to pop the ebuild in vim and change it, or fork your own version. Also very easy to produce a "package" for any specific version you like, often as simple as renaming a file.
What's bad? Initial installation takes a while (I can get a useable box in ~ 3 hours. Gnome & co take the longest). Not recommended for slow computers (anything made in the last four years ought to be fine) due to frequent code compilation. Portage moves very very fast. Lots of new versions released every week.
I run it everywhere, including this here Toshiba Tecra S-1 notebook.
.. if they do something about it.
The first (and only) extension I install in Thunderbird is purge.xpi that puts an expunge button in the toolbar. Hiding the imap functionality with "autoexpunge" is frickin annoying. Now if only it had a hotkey.
To the guy who was looking for the option:
Tools -> Account Settings -> Server Settings -> "When I delete a message"
http://www.votepair.org/
The "better chip" adds extra heat/noise that some people can do without, especially if other components are doing the heavy lifting. My Sempron 3100 / 6800 GT Shuttle box runs Doom 3 at 70+ FPS 1024xHigh with 4x AA.
Amen!
You can call a method on a webservice with one line of perl. Nuff said.
If there were ONE standard, we'd have 100% compatibility across devices for that standard. Instead we have SEVEN standards each of which has 90-100% compatibility. So everyone loses.
"Greenpeace et al will still behave like this is the beast of apocalypse."
The bile spewed by supposedly intelligent people when it comes to atomic energy is simply staggering. Greenies don't object to nuclear power on principle - the problem is safe transport and storage of fuel and waste. Take away that problem (as future fusion reactors could do, correct?) and I'm all for it.
Enjoy your karma, whore.
Am I missing something here? Tried to use postgres as the backing store for a java message queue. This involves very rapid INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE operations. Found that it starts out at 100+ transactions per second but drops to less than 20 per second after just one minute. Have to VACUUM continuously just to keep the average up. This is not a solution. How about a table option to eliminate redundant tuples in realtime instead of when VACUUM is run? As it stands, pgsql is not suitable for persistance in message queues.
PS: the PITR stuff in 8.0 is looking really good. Will have to work up some backup/restore shell scripts and give the beta a good workout.
Get a decent controller card, and the firmware will actually optimise the head movements to increase read performance. Think about it - if you've got the same data on two drives, why not have each drive read only half the file and thereby return the whole file in half the time?
Perhaps those that purchase the game will invest the time to get the most out of the it, whereas the thousands of warez kiddies will leech it before its in stores, give it a quick spin and get their ratings in. First day reviews really aren't worth much IMHO.
Is that a rhetorical question?
:-)
My Ultra 5 is propping up my television