"I am happy to see some thought go in to "routine" matters like this"
I am too, another routine issue that Lenovo wins on is where the powercord plugs into their laptops. It still plugs into the back of the laptop. That alone is reason to buy one. It seems most of the laptop manufacturers have moved to having the plug on the left or right side which results in extra stress being put on the plug when it is actually used on your lap. Give it about a year of nonstop use on the lap and that plug goes bad. I for one will never buy a laptop with a plug on the left or right side again. Like you said, "routine matters".
I have no experience with MQseries; but it appears to me that every issue you listed had to do with unflexible installation and difficult administration.
But the person you replied to said, "WMQ is very reliable"
and
"beteween them on a daily basis without error."
and asked, "Please backup your statement with a list of 'Showstopping' bugs in WMQ."
None of the issues you listed really addressed those comments.
Besides, if he was a racist why would Ron Paul have suggested a black man as a possible running mate in this interview? The racist remarks expose is simply a smear tactic.
If you really want to know his thoughts on racism, read them in his column.
Excerpt:
"Racism is simply an ugly form of collectivism, the mindset that views humans strictly as members of groups rather than individuals. Racists believe that all individuals who share superficial physical characteristics are alike: as collectivists, racists think only in terms of groups. By encouraging Americans to adopt a group mentality, the advocates of so-called "diversity" actually perpetuate racism. Their obsession with racial group identity is inherently racist.
The true antidote to racism is liberty. Liberty means having a limited, constitutional government devoted to the protection of individual rights rather than group claims. Liberty means free-market capitalism, which rewards individual achievement and competence, not skin color, gender, or ethnicity.
"
"Well, really it just means that he's the only one who's willing to take the gamble that stating the truth won't get him eliminated from the list of candidates."
He is not just saying the truth because he is running for President; he has always told the truth and he has my vote in the Primary and then the General Election.
I've been programming since '95. I have used professionally: perl, javascript, java, c++, php, python, vbscript, VB4/5/6, etc.... And C# is handsdown the current winner. The fact that this has a better chance to go multi-platform; because of this decision is a good thing in my book. Hell, I was just looking at the Mono project last week, seeing If I could help out at all.
Ron Paul is just the man this guy is looking for. But don't be a defeatist; yes his chances of getting the nomination are minimal, but his support is growing. I for one am telling everyone I know about him. They all say, "why haven't heard of him before"; to which I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
From http://www.ronpaul2008.com/html/AboutRon_fx.html "Brief Overview of Congressman Paul's Record He has never voted to raise taxes. He has never voted for an unbalanced budget. He has never voted for a federal restriction on gun ownership. He has never voted to raise congressional pay. He has never taken a government-paid junket. He has never voted to increase the power of the executive branch.
He voted against the Patriot Act. He voted against regulating the Internet. He voted against the Iraq war. "
Search for him on youtube. Some of his lectures to his fellow congressmen on the house floor are outstanding!
It's almost as if you intentionally misunderstood the parent to get you language-choice statement posted. Are you saying that in Perl you never type "boiler" plate code? Isn't defining a new function or variable almost identical? ie: boilerplate?
My understanding of the parent was that for most code, it doesn't really take much thought to type out the definitions or syntax. That becomes "automatic". Whereas the actual logic and design concepts take the majority of time.
Perl 4 was the first language I ever learned. I haven't used it in a few years; but the parent's point is true IMNSHO perl or c or whatever.
" it's almost always obvious, such as when a student suddenly starts spelling words correctly they have never spelled right all semester, or using coherent sentence structures, etc,"
If students are turning in papers at the University level with incorrectly spelled words and incoherent sentence structures, then they don't belong there. You're whole post was so sad; it was almost insulting.:(
"Perhaps this is why juries are the way they are. The "smart" people shirked their duty to serve, and thus could not affect the outcome of the trial. And Slashdot readers being as smart as they are, now complain about said outcome. "
Everytime I have been called to jury duty, I have answered their questions honestly and been promptly dismissed. Not all "smart" people shirk their duty. Often the prosecutor and/or defense attorney doesn't want them in the jury pool.
Agreed, I have been VERY satisfied with my vonage. I've had it for 2.5 years. I moved out of the US to a small caribbean island last year. I brought my Vonage modem with me when I moved. It works perfect from here. I have two vonage lines running over my business cable line. I kept the same numbers I had when I lived in the US. So my US family members and in-laws and Customers can make a local call and get me 3000 miles away. Vonage == money well spent.
The relevant part:
"In a separate agreement, the radio companies have agreed to set aside 8,400 half-hour segments of free airtime over the next three years for local and independent artists. The segments would have to air between 6 a.m. and midnight."
"Like most of the un-funny posts to this article already"
--I really wish it was possibly to filter out the posts modded "Funny". It would reduce the noise on/. so much that it might even be worth reading again. Everybody wants to crack one liners. It's all complete drivel. I guess when people have nothing intelligent to say, they rely on trying to be funny.
"The problem stems from the Killer Bees infiltrating a colony of another type of bee and wiping out the colony. Since the killer bees do exhibit the same food gathering and other critical behaviors to pollination, the lost colonys have a bigger impact. I can see the fungus, virus, pesticide and other aspects causing problems in climates farther north but I would not doubt that Killer Bees could be a large contributing factor to this problem."
--I doubt it, if it was case of Killer Bees wiping out a colony, I would think that there would be evidence. ie: thousands of dead bees around the hive. From what I have read (this article and another few a couple weeks ago) the bees are just "disappearing", no sign of what happened. Here is a link somebody else posted on another blog: National Geographic: Bees Battle Hornets from Hell
"Additionally, and confusingly, only the first player is allowed to move the camera. This makes it exceedingly hard to tell what's going on, and has a lot of potential for abuse."
This is not correct. You can select which player can control the camera, as well as have the camera control switch back and forth between players at different intervals. In addition, I would be very impressed if somebody was able to sit down, having never played Elebits previously and "It's quite possible to play through the entire game in one five hour session. ". At first I thought the game was kinda lame, then I started to play it and it grew on me to become one of my favorites.
I'm a 30yr old, haven't bought a console since the original playstation and only got the WII because my wife wanted it. I must say I am VERY impressed. Nintendo hit a homerun when developing this little box. The reasons of why it is such a great console have been expounded upon by plenty of other people; so I don't need to do so here.
The best part about AJAX and the hype is that MS "invented" it or at least was the first to have support for it way back in 1999; but it wasn't until 5 years later that somebody came up with a fancy name for it and google started using it that the real hype began.
Uhm, I use Vstudio with SourceGear's Vault program on a daily basis with absolutely no problems and it is definitely a real source control program. I'd have to agree about the designer part of vstudio, but I don't mind since I've never used a WYSIWG html editor.
I do, I have cable and dsl and use a nice inexpensive router dual-wan router from http://www.hotbrick.com/ . I've got in-house load balancing, failover etc. I can't afford to be without the internet, it costs me money.
Probably because a lot of us ran the *BSDs way back when. I remember installing FreeBSD over ftp on a 14.4 modem back in '95.
This thread is seriously making me reminisce when/. had more quality posts and you were more likely to run into actually informative/insightful posts than everybody trying to make a one line joke. (mod Funny)
But I guess it can't be too bad, since I'm still here.
Not so fast? If you had taken the time to RTFA and not posted so fast perhaps you would have come across this quote:
"It is hoped documentation associated with Mr Clifton's reel will help direct researchers to the warehouse or museum where the missing tapes are stored - if they still exist."
Its not just ISPs, dual-wan routers are getting cheaper and some of us have our own load-balancing routers at our home/office. IP restrictions are more annoying than anything else. The amount of security gained pales in comparison to the annoyances.
"The biggest advantage for SQL Server is that they ship Enterprise Manager in the box. It makes help and maintaining a db (to a point) fairly painless, and helps to flatten the learning curve"
Couldn't agree more. Any non-moron programmer or IT person can do even "complex" tasks with almost no learning curve thanks to enterprise manager. It is the one thing that that makes sql server better than another of it's competitors. They got enterprise manager "right" from the start and is probably a BIG reason for its quick acceptance into the market.
I also happen to enjoy programming in transact sql, so to each his own.
Slashdot Mirror
"What else are the media and Wikipedia valiantly suppressing right now for the "greater good"?.."
"There is no such thing as an independent press in America, if we except that of little country towns."-- John Swinton (New York Times Editor)
What are they suppressing every single day, indeed.
"I am happy to see some thought go in to "routine" matters like this"
I am too, another routine issue that Lenovo wins on is where the powercord plugs into their laptops. It still plugs into the back of the laptop. That alone is reason to buy one. It seems most of the laptop manufacturers have moved to having the plug on the left or right side which results in extra stress being put on the plug when it is actually used on your lap. Give it about a year of nonstop use on the lap and that plug goes bad. I for one will never buy a laptop with a plug on the left or right side again. Like you said, "routine matters".
I have no experience with MQseries; but it appears to me that every issue you listed had to do with unflexible installation and difficult administration.
But the person you replied to said, "WMQ is very reliable" and
"beteween them on a daily basis without error."
and asked, "Please backup your statement with a list of 'Showstopping' bugs in WMQ."
None of the issues you listed really addressed those comments.
The racist comments have been debunked. Most were written by a staffer that was later fired; other quotes were taken out of context. You can get more info here: http://www.freemarketnews.com/WorldNews.asp?nid=41 822
Besides, if he was a racist why would Ron Paul have suggested a black man as a possible running mate in this interview? The racist remarks expose is simply a smear tactic.
If you really want to know his thoughts on racism, read them in his column.
Excerpt: "Racism is simply an ugly form of collectivism, the mindset that views humans strictly as members of groups rather than individuals. Racists believe that all individuals who share superficial physical characteristics are alike: as collectivists, racists think only in terms of groups. By encouraging Americans to adopt a group mentality, the advocates of so-called "diversity" actually perpetuate racism. Their obsession with racial group identity is inherently racist.
The true antidote to racism is liberty. Liberty means having a limited, constitutional government devoted to the protection of individual rights rather than group claims. Liberty means free-market capitalism, which rewards individual achievement and competence, not skin color, gender, or ethnicity. "
"Well, really it just means that he's the only one who's willing to take the gamble that stating the truth won't get him eliminated from the list of candidates."
Ron Paul has made it a habit of telling the truth for years now.
Just read some of his weekly columns: http://www.house.gov/paul/legis_tst.htm
Or his calling out the Federal Reserve
OR his EPIC: "Neo-Conned!"
He is not just saying the truth because he is running for President; he has always told the truth and he has my vote in the Primary and then the General Election.
I've been programming since '95. I have used professionally: perl, javascript, java, c++, php, python, vbscript, VB4/5/6, etc.... And C# is handsdown the current winner. The fact that this has a better chance to go multi-platform; because of this decision is a good thing in my book. Hell, I was just looking at the Mono project last week, seeing If I could help out at all.
Ron Paul is just the man this guy is looking for. But don't be a defeatist; yes his chances of getting the nomination are minimal, but his support is growing. I for one am telling everyone I know about him. They all say, "why haven't heard of him before"; to which I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
From http://www.ronpaul2008.com/html/AboutRon_fx.html
"Brief Overview of Congressman Paul's Record
He has never voted to raise taxes.
He has never voted for an unbalanced budget.
He has never voted for a federal restriction on gun ownership.
He has never voted to raise congressional pay.
He has never taken a government-paid junket.
He has never voted to increase the power of the executive branch.
He voted against the Patriot Act.
He voted against regulating the Internet.
He voted against the Iraq war.
"
Search for him on youtube. Some of his lectures to his fellow congressmen on the house floor are outstanding!
It's almost as if you intentionally misunderstood the parent to get you language-choice statement posted.
Are you saying that in Perl you never type "boiler" plate code? Isn't defining a new function or variable almost identical? ie: boilerplate?
My understanding of the parent was that for most code, it doesn't really take much thought to type out the definitions or syntax. That becomes "automatic". Whereas the actual logic and design concepts take the majority of time.
Perl 4 was the first language I ever learned. I haven't used it in a few years; but the parent's point is true IMNSHO perl or c or whatever.
" it's almost always obvious, such as when a student suddenly starts spelling words correctly they have never spelled right all semester, or using coherent sentence structures, etc,"
:(
If students are turning in papers at the University level with incorrectly spelled words and incoherent sentence structures, then they don't belong there. You're whole post was so sad; it was almost insulting.
"Perhaps this is why juries are the way they are. The "smart" people shirked their duty to serve, and thus could not affect the outcome of the trial. And Slashdot readers being as smart as they are, now complain about said outcome. "
Everytime I have been called to jury duty, I have answered their questions honestly and been promptly dismissed. Not all "smart" people shirk their duty. Often the prosecutor and/or defense attorney doesn't want them in the jury pool.
That's freaking brilliant, obvious and easy to pull off! Now I am wondering how often that IS happening.
Agreed, I have been VERY satisfied with my vonage. I've had it for 2.5 years. I moved out of the US to a small caribbean island last year. I brought my Vonage modem with me when I moved. It works perfect from here. I have two vonage lines running over my business cable line. I kept the same numbers I had when I lived in the US. So my US family members and in-laws and Customers can make a local call and get me 3000 miles away. Vonage == money well spent.
The LA Times had some more details in their article yesterday:6 ,1,2865175.story
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-ex-payola5mar0
The relevant part:
"In a separate agreement, the radio companies have agreed to set aside 8,400 half-hour segments of free airtime over the next three years for local and independent artists. The segments would have to air between 6 a.m. and midnight."
I wonder how long that's been there. Cheers!
"Like most of the un-funny posts to this article already" /. so much that it might even be worth reading again. Everybody wants to crack one liners. It's all complete drivel. I guess when people have nothing intelligent to say, they rely on trying to be funny.
--I really wish it was possibly to filter out the posts modded "Funny". It would reduce the noise on
"The problem stems from the Killer Bees infiltrating a colony of another type of bee and wiping out the colony. Since the killer bees do exhibit the same food gathering and other critical behaviors to pollination, the lost colonys have a bigger impact. I can see the fungus, virus, pesticide and other aspects causing problems in climates farther north but I would not doubt that Killer Bees could be a large contributing factor to this problem."
--I doubt it, if it was case of Killer Bees wiping out a colony, I would think that there would be evidence. ie: thousands of dead bees around the hive. From what I have read (this article and another few a couple weeks ago) the bees are just "disappearing", no sign of what happened. Here is a link somebody else posted on another blog: National Geographic: Bees Battle Hornets from Hell
"Additionally, and confusingly, only the first player is allowed to move the camera. This makes it exceedingly hard to tell what's going on, and has a lot of potential for abuse."
This is not correct. You can select which player can control the camera, as well as have the camera control switch back and forth between players at different intervals. In addition, I would be very impressed if somebody was able to sit down, having never played Elebits previously and "It's quite possible to play through the entire game in one five hour session. ". At first I thought the game was kinda lame, then I started to play it and it grew on me to become one of my favorites.
I'm a 30yr old, haven't bought a console since the original playstation and only got the WII because my wife wanted it. I must say I am VERY impressed. Nintendo hit a homerun when developing this little box. The reasons of why it is such a great console have been expounded upon by plenty of other people; so I don't need to do so here.
The best part about AJAX and the hype is that MS "invented" it or at least was the first to have support for it way back in 1999; but it wasn't until 5 years later that somebody came up with a fancy name for it and google started using it that the real hype began.
Uhm, I use Vstudio with SourceGear's Vault program on a daily basis with absolutely no problems and it is definitely a real source control program. I'd have to agree about the designer part of vstudio, but I don't mind since I've never used a WYSIWG html editor.
I do, I have cable and dsl and use a nice inexpensive router dual-wan router from http://www.hotbrick.com/ . I've got in-house load balancing, failover etc. I can't afford to be without the internet, it costs me money.
"BTW, I too was a modem user, did you ever hang on rusty n eddies?"
Can't say that I did. And excellent point about the spam on usenet/maillists.
Probably because a lot of us ran the *BSDs way back when.
/. had more quality posts and you were more likely to run into actually informative/insightful posts than everybody trying to make a one line joke. (mod Funny)
I remember installing FreeBSD over ftp on a 14.4 modem back in '95.
This thread is seriously making me reminisce when
But I guess it can't be too bad, since I'm still here.
This isn't flamebait. This is funnier than 95% of the lame stuff modded funny.
Not so fast? If you had taken the time to RTFA and not posted so fast perhaps you would have come across this quote:
"It is hoped documentation associated with Mr Clifton's reel will help direct researchers to the warehouse or museum where the missing tapes are stored - if they still exist."
Its not just ISPs, dual-wan routers are getting cheaper and some of us have our own load-balancing routers at our home/office. IP restrictions are more annoying than anything else. The amount of security gained pales in comparison to the annoyances.
"The biggest advantage for SQL Server is that they ship Enterprise Manager in the box.
It makes help and maintaining a db (to a point) fairly painless, and helps to flatten the learning curve"
Couldn't agree more. Any non-moron programmer or IT person can do even "complex" tasks with almost no learning curve thanks to enterprise manager. It is the one thing that that makes sql server better than another of it's competitors. They got enterprise manager "right" from the start and is probably a BIG reason for its quick acceptance into the market.
I also happen to enjoy programming in transact sql, so to each his own.