It looks like the cached copy on Google will be the copy submitted in court. I just bought a new ATI card, one of the reasons was because they claimed to support this feature.
An employer who is not willing to take my word for, for example, that it took 20 minutes longer from the airport back to work today than it does on the average is an employer I have no wish to work for. End of discussion.
QFT.
When an employer begins to distrust their employees to such a degree they feel the need track them surrepticisouly it's an indicator of much deeper problems within their culture.
2) Anti-Virus - AVG is the only virus protection I've used that doesn't bog down the computer. And it's cheaper than Symantec too. I think the only reason it doesn't get rated higher by magazines is they like suites that throw in the kitchen sink. I like small utilities that work well.
I agree with your selections (they're the same ones I run) with the exception of AVG. I switched to AntiVir 2 months ago after testing it & reading reviews. Like AVG, it's also free...but lighter on resources, faster, and it detected 9 Java trojans that AVG missed (that last one is what got me to switch).
down here SBC does allow non-PPPoE isps (mine in particular..i've got 6 static ips in my own little subnet) but like you, for a substantial price premium. My internet bill is close to $85 USD but I have several options to allow for my servers (www, vpn, ftp, & teamspeak), more upload bandwidth, etc...
I wish my gov't would do the correct thing & encourage competition. It's interesting to see many of the similarities & differences on this issue just across the border... T.O. is an awesome place, great drum'n'bass scene.
those both sound like fads, although i'm guessing you looked into other things too if you've switched. good job on the excercising! walking to school has helped me a lot (not weight loss, just feeling better. i'm at a pretty good weight level).
in general i try to eat healthy food and avoid eating too much. it has worked so far, i'm thinking the prevention vs. cure thing will help me out.
Hey, thanks! In a sense, they are fads. However, I discovered they're not new fads, which is what intrigued me. A friend I met through the gym gave me a copy of a book called "Protien Power" from around 1984 (could be off a few years) that hails the potential weight loss with cutting carbs. I switched to South Beach simply because it offered a more complete solution instead of carbs = bad. I'm steady at around 65g of carbs using Atkins methodlogy. I can eat more carbs but only if they're 'good' carbs. I'm a big meat person (big eater too) so this works well for me.
I'm glad to hear you're walking to school. I started on my whole thing when my car got stolen & I had to walk to work (2 miles each way).
Ever consider the weight loss is because of the running and the time you spend in the gym?
I have. I realize it's not an either/or propisition, but before I began my exercise regime I was on Atkins for almost 6-8 weeks. During this time I dropped close to 20 lbs.
Are you trying to tell us that there are no choices of ISP in the areas where these big telcos exist? I don't use any of the big ISPs here. I use small one that lets me do what I want. They have a 100GB bandwidth quota, but seeing as I use less than 10GB (sometimes 5GB) per month, I don't see it as a limitation.
In your case, it sounds as if you have quite a few choices. I live in Houston & also go with a smaller, local ISP (oplink.net for anyone in houston...they rock!). they sent out an email after a recent decision that SBC didn't have to share their lines that they would still continue as they were big enough, but many smaller ISPs were instantly wiped out. Even in a city as large as Houston, ISP choices are still spotty at best. In my old apt. complex, I lived just too far for DSL & the cable company was some crappy no-name. DSL finally became available, but SBC provided plenty of hurdles for any competing ISP.
So in short -- yes, where the big telcos exist, there is often no competition. If you're lucky, it's DSL vs. Cable, but sometimes it's just one or the other.
Atkins has SEVERE carb restrictions. So even a little is a lot. The Aktins diet actually quickly starts to resemble a conventional calorie restriction diet because of this. Avoiding carbs is not as easy as it sounds.
I agree. Carbs are in damn near everything. I started Atkins 2 years ago & I've lost 80 pounds. I also run 5 days a week & go to the gym every other day. It sucked when I started, it sucked 6 months later, and it sucks now . If I didn't look better & feel better than when I started, I'd go back to my couch potato ways.
I decided to switch over to South Beach about a year ago as it was a little more friendly regarding a "complete" menu. The massive amounts of protien consumed is what allows one to feel "full". This is the only thing that allowed me to "stick to it".
If this is a communal meeting ground, why is it owned by OSDN (a for profit corporation last I checked) showing ads and completely opaque to most of its readers (who get quite frustrated when the admin's answers don't add up or when they're not present at all)?
Face it, Taco: This is a FOR PROFIT site. Once you've transformed something into a business you can't take it back or plead that it's "communal" in some way. Is it too much to expect that you make no more than one typo a week-one more than BBC News seems to make?
You bring up a good point & I hope it gets addressed directly. Once slashdot became property of OSDN, it could no longer be held to the same standards. When slashdot started taking subscriptions, anything less than professional became inexcusable. I don't think the most readers are looking for perfection, but even compared to other sites that started out as blog type pages, slashdot has been slipping.
You want a philosophical underpinning? the purpose is not to overthrow Goliath. we dont care about the economics; we just want to be able to hack great stuff.
Sir, with all due rspect, the real problem is the editors and their rates of rejection. I've submitted a number of articles only to have them turned down without explanation. Why should I bother to waste my time further? If there was some feedback as to why you've rejected it, perhaps the submissions could improve.
Having a submission rejected is the norm, always has been. I've seen this complaint as long as I've been lurking here (97 or 98). The only time I don't remember seeing this was when reading the story & comments filled *1* page.
Furthermore, why not let the readers, or a select group, decide which submissions could be accepted. Why does it have to be a small, elite and privileged group? It seems tyrannical and not in keeping with the open nature of this community or its medium.
I agree with you that/. is much much more open (sometimes to a fault) than most other sites. Given it's open nature & the massive scale of slashdot, I believe if they were to implement your idea/. would lose something special.
I remember back when I first joined, this was the spot to find linux news/apps (freshmeat & slashdot went together like peanut butter & jelly). About the 200k bot^H^H^H user mark, they tried giving larger group of people the ability to moderate. Some of these people severly abused their privledge (A LOT) while others couldn't quite master the balance needed to keep the discussion going. In short, it was a disater.
In short, I feel you've done a poor job in fostering interesting submissions and the entire community is suffering from the need of few to promote their own status.
In addition to your suggestion above, what else do think could make/. better? I agree with a lot of what you've said...I just feel that we can be more helpful by offering solutions in addition to pointing out what's wrong.
I'm not sure/. can ever be what it was, but I agree with you that it would be nice to see some of the fat trimmed off & re-focus. I too feel that sometimes the chaos around here gets to be a bit more than I care to deal with. I've come to enjoy most of the quirks that make slashdot great...like making comments un-editable once you've submitted them. I remember when it was impossible (or so the story was told) for a comment to be deleted by anyone for any reason. You said it, you can't take it back. For a short time, I remember that it was a great way to make sure information became free.
I liked it better when (a dozen or so gurus originally) hundreds of geeks wanting to help ppl with whatever linux problem they had(no matter how dumb). Now it feels like anyone with linux problems is required to run the "RTFM!!! crucible" before anyone will even bother to see if it really is a problem.
This mouse was clearly not designed to be used equally with both hands... if you're left handed, it's going to be a bitch to use. (Correction, if you use your mouse with your left hand, it's going to be a bitch to use.)
As a fellow leftie...let me just say I'm glad they decided not to compromise. Every mouse that tries to keep things left/right neutral only end up being awkward because they've had to sacrafice comfort & feel to make it "switchable".
Any task repeated often enough comes to feel like that's the "correct" hand.
when you're sure you might die - very confusing wording. I am sure I might die any time. In fact I am sure I WILL die. It still doesn't mean that money means nothing to me.
Let me be clear it up then. If you knew you were going to die in 2 weeks time, how important would money be to you?
Drug companies ought to be concerned about more than the bottom line when it comes to pandemics. The last one to break out in 1918 had 200,000 people in the US died in one MONTH. I promise you they'd learn what survival of the fittest really meant. Money means nothing when you're sure you might die.
The Indian project is about putting traditional (called "alternative" in the west) medicine online, not putting Western medicine knowledge online. That's been done for awhile now. These are traditional Indian medicines and knowledge passed down through oral & folk tradition. The primary reason behind this is US & EU companies gaining patents for things which prior art exists but is not easily findable or searchable in the West.
What do you think of something like this monitor filter? Maybe make it required for students who wish to use their laptops. Seems like most of the time, the laptop users would prefer this anyway; I know on the few occasions I've had a laptop in a lecture setting (conferences, not schools, but basically the same thing) the laptop wasn't distracting, but the ability of other people to read my screen made me uncomfortable, even though I was doing innocuous things.
Nice find! I was skeptical about this since the image from the linked page looks simulated. Then I found this link with actual pictures. At $35 a piece, I may go pick one up myself.
I also read a similar article. What I don't understand is how a large cruise ship with a maximum speed of 35 knots can outrun a speedboat. Typically speedboats have a top speed of 40-50 knots.
I'd be glad to take responsibilty for any code I write just as soon as they're willling to pay my new, updated fees. If it's really *that* important shouldn't the client be equally if not more concerned with cost as getting it done right?
Relax...Take the tinfoil hat off. Everything will be okay.
The part that always concerned me about the do-not-call exemption was the allowance of getting calls from a business that you had a pre-existing relationship with.
I don't see that's it's that big an issue in practice or hypothetically. Nor do most other people.
What constitutes a pre-exiting relationship? I get calls from a local suto dealerchip's service center "reminding" me to get my car serviced.
What's wrong with that? You chose to give them your real phone number. Hopefully they've done a great job in the past & you'd like to keep doing business with them.
What if they get bought by a corporation that owns credit card companies? Does this mean the credit card company would be able to solicit me?
If you're that concerned, please see the below linked federal case where the telemarketers get smacked down pretty hard.
I disagree with you. I believe that a better approach would be to embrace this study, learn & implement fixes from the mistakes found. The hubris that the Firefox team & supporters have displayed makes it very much a relevant comparison. If I'm told it's more secure, I expect it to be more secure. Adding stipulations and suddenly (re)qualifying positions makes it appear that Firefox can only stand up to IE when the scores are handicapped. I believe Firefox is a better browser than IE and better than the excuses I see too many making for it.
The best thing we can do, if we want people who know good English, is to teach them a foriegn language early in life. Start teaching French or German in the 7th or 8th grade. By knowing a second language, one can learn about their own. No native speaker thinks about word placements in English because they say "what sounds right". But when the study of French or German starts, and words are not in the order we would expect, it causes reflection on our own language.
I agree, everyone should know more than just one language. However, starting at the 7th or 8th grade is too late. The part of the brain that allows us to easily decipher & pick up a language shuts down right before most kids are getting into Pre-K & K.
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While the rate of reviews is dissapointing, nothing I've found beats the quality of Ace's Hardware.
Tom's is crap, and has been for about six years now, and is steadily getting worse. Anand was better, but is slipping. Techreport is okay, as is Ars Technica. Avoid Tom's. Practically everyone there is incompetent.
Just wanted to throw in a "me too!" to your comment. Tom's used to have semi useful info a long time ago & ever since Anand had the redesign of the site it's gone to shit. I also like HardOCP simply b/c Kyle & the rest of his crew don't simply report the hype, they investigate it and tell you what the new whizbang 993742 FXT Ultra actually does in real-world terms.
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It looks like the cached copy on Google will be the copy submitted in court. I just bought a new ATI card, one of the reasons was because they claimed to support this feature.
An employer who is not willing to take my word for, for example, that it took 20 minutes longer from the airport back to work today than it does on the average is an employer I have no wish to work for. End of discussion.
QFT.
When an employer begins to distrust their employees to such a degree they feel the need track them surrepticisouly it's an indicator of much deeper problems within their culture.
2) Anti-Virus - AVG is the only virus protection I've used that doesn't bog down the computer. And it's cheaper than Symantec too. I think the only reason it doesn't get rated higher by magazines is they like suites that throw in the kitchen sink. I like small utilities that work well.
I agree with your selections (they're the same ones I run) with the exception of AVG. I switched to AntiVir 2 months ago after testing it & reading reviews. Like AVG, it's also free...but lighter on resources, faster, and it detected 9 Java trojans that AVG missed (that last one is what got me to switch).
down here SBC does allow non-PPPoE isps (mine in particular..i've got 6 static ips in my own little subnet) but like you, for a substantial price premium. My internet bill is close to $85 USD but I have several options to allow for my servers (www, vpn, ftp, & teamspeak), more upload bandwidth, etc...
I wish my gov't would do the correct thing & encourage competition. It's interesting to see many of the similarities & differences on this issue just across the border... T.O. is an awesome place, great drum'n'bass scene.
Cheers!
those both sound like fads, although i'm guessing you looked into other things too if you've switched. good job on the excercising! walking to school has helped me a lot (not weight loss, just feeling better. i'm at a pretty good weight level).
in general i try to eat healthy food and avoid eating too much. it has worked so far, i'm thinking the prevention vs. cure thing will help me out.
Hey, thanks! In a sense, they are fads. However, I discovered they're not new fads, which is what intrigued me. A friend I met through the gym gave me a copy of a book called "Protien Power" from around 1984 (could be off a few years) that hails the potential weight loss with cutting carbs. I switched to South Beach simply because it offered a more complete solution instead of carbs = bad. I'm steady at around 65g of carbs using Atkins methodlogy. I can eat more carbs but only if they're 'good' carbs. I'm a big meat person (big eater too) so this works well for me.
I'm glad to hear you're walking to school. I started on my whole thing when my car got stolen & I had to walk to work (2 miles each way).
Keep up the hard work!!
Ever consider the weight loss is because of the running and the time you spend in the gym?
I have. I realize it's not an either/or propisition, but before I began my exercise regime I was on Atkins for almost 6-8 weeks. During this time I dropped close to 20 lbs.
Are you trying to tell us that there are no choices of ISP in the areas where these big telcos exist? I don't use any of the big ISPs here. I use small one that lets me do what I want. They have a 100GB bandwidth quota, but seeing as I use less than 10GB (sometimes 5GB) per month, I don't see it as a limitation.
In your case, it sounds as if you have quite a few choices. I live in Houston & also go with a smaller, local ISP (oplink.net for anyone in houston...they rock!). they sent out an email after a recent decision that SBC didn't have to share their lines that they would still continue as they were big enough, but many smaller ISPs were instantly wiped out. Even in a city as large as Houston, ISP choices are still spotty at best. In my old apt. complex, I lived just too far for DSL & the cable company was some crappy no-name. DSL finally became available, but SBC provided plenty of hurdles for any competing ISP.
So in short -- yes, where the big telcos exist, there is often no competition. If you're lucky, it's DSL vs. Cable, but sometimes it's just one or the other.
Atkins has SEVERE carb restrictions. So even a little is a lot. The Aktins diet actually quickly starts to resemble a conventional calorie restriction diet because of this. Avoiding carbs is not as easy as it sounds.
I agree. Carbs are in damn near everything. I started Atkins 2 years ago & I've lost 80 pounds. I also run 5 days a week & go to the gym every other day. It sucked when I started, it sucked 6 months later, and it sucks now . If I didn't look better & feel better than when I started, I'd go back to my couch potato ways.
I decided to switch over to South Beach about a year ago as it was a little more friendly regarding a "complete" menu. The massive amounts of protien consumed is what allows one to feel "full". This is the only thing that allowed me to "stick to it".
If this is a communal meeting ground, why is it owned by OSDN (a for profit corporation last I checked) showing ads and completely opaque to most of its readers (who get quite frustrated when the admin's answers don't add up or when they're not present at all)?
Face it, Taco: This is a FOR PROFIT site. Once you've transformed something into a business you can't take it back or plead that it's "communal" in some way. Is it too much to expect that you make no more than one typo a week-one more than BBC News seems to make?
You bring up a good point & I hope it gets addressed directly. Once slashdot became property of OSDN, it could no longer be held to the same standards. When slashdot started taking subscriptions, anything less than professional became inexcusable. I don't think the most readers are looking for perfection, but even compared to other sites that started out as blog type pages, slashdot has been slipping.
You want a philosophical underpinning? the purpose is not to overthrow Goliath. we dont care about the economics; we just want to be able to hack great stuff.
QFT.
Myren, I now have a new sig. thank you!
Having a submission rejected is the norm, always has been. I've seen this complaint as long as I've been lurking here (97 or 98). The only time I don't remember seeing this was when reading the story & comments filled *1* page.
Furthermore, why not let the readers, or a select group, decide which submissions could be accepted. Why does it have to be a small, elite and privileged group? It seems tyrannical and not in keeping with the open nature of this community or its medium.
I agree with you that
I remember back when I first joined, this was the spot to find linux news/apps (freshmeat & slashdot went together like peanut butter & jelly). About the 200k bot^H^H^H user mark, they tried giving larger group of people the ability to moderate. Some of these people severly abused their privledge (A LOT) while others couldn't quite master the balance needed to keep the discussion going. In short, it was a disater.
In short, I feel you've done a poor job in fostering interesting submissions and the
entire community is suffering from the need of few to promote their own status.
In addition to your suggestion above, what else do think could make
I'm not sure
I liked it better when (a dozen or so gurus originally) hundreds of geeks wanting to help ppl with whatever linux problem they had(no matter how dumb). Now it feels like anyone with linux problems is required to run the "RTFM!!! crucible" before anyone will even bother to see if it really is a problem.
This mouse was clearly not designed to be used equally with both hands... if you're left handed, it's going to be a bitch to use. (Correction, if you use your mouse with your left hand, it's going to be a bitch to use.)
As a fellow leftie...let me just say I'm glad they decided not to compromise. Every mouse that tries to keep things left/right neutral only end up being awkward because they've had to sacrafice comfort & feel to make it "switchable".
Any task repeated often enough comes to feel like that's the "correct" hand.
when you're sure you might die - very confusing wording. I am sure I might die any time. In fact I am sure I WILL die. It still doesn't mean that money means nothing to me.
Let me be clear it up then. If you knew you were going to die in 2 weeks time, how important would money be to you?
Drug companies ought to be concerned about more than the bottom line when it comes to pandemics. The last one to break out in 1918 had 200,000 people in the US died in one MONTH. I promise you they'd learn what survival of the fittest really meant. Money means nothing when you're sure you might die.
The Indian project is about putting traditional (called "alternative" in the west) medicine online, not putting Western medicine knowledge online. That's been done for awhile now. These are traditional Indian medicines and knowledge passed down through oral & folk tradition. The primary reason behind this is US & EU companies gaining patents for things which prior art exists but is not easily findable or searchable in the West.
What do you think of something like this monitor filter? Maybe make it required for students who wish to use their laptops. Seems like most of the time, the laptop users would prefer this anyway; I know on the few occasions I've had a laptop in a lecture setting (conferences, not schools, but basically the same thing) the laptop wasn't distracting, but the ability of other people to read my screen made me uncomfortable, even though I was doing innocuous things.
Nice find! I was skeptical about this since the image from the linked page looks simulated. Then I found this link with actual pictures. At $35 a piece, I may go pick one up myself.
I also read a similar article. What I don't understand is how a large cruise ship with a maximum speed of 35 knots can outrun a speedboat. Typically speedboats have a top speed of 40-50 knots.
I'd be glad to take responsibilty for any code I write just as soon as they're willling to pay my new, updated fees. If it's really *that* important shouldn't the client be equally if not more concerned with cost as getting it done right?
Relax...Take the tinfoil hat off. Everything will be okay.
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The part that always concerned me about the do-not-call exemption was the allowance of getting calls from a business that you had a pre-existing relationship with.
I don't see that's it's that big an issue in practice or hypothetically. Nor do most other people.
What constitutes a pre-exiting relationship? I get calls from a local suto dealerchip's service center "reminding" me to get my car serviced.
What's wrong with that? You chose to give them your real phone number. Hopefully they've done a great job in the past & you'd like to keep doing business with them.
What if they get bought by a corporation that owns credit card companies? Does this mean the credit card company would be able to solicit me?
If you're that concerned, please see the below linked federal case where the telemarketers get smacked down pretty hard.
http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/ftc/mmsvftc021
Is the closed source code of Windows preventing us from actively defending our systems?
/. turned into that "Cofee Talk" skit from SNL?
No.
Best. Answer. Ever.
Ever get the feeling
I disagree with you. I believe that a better approach would be to embrace this study, learn & implement fixes from the mistakes found. The hubris that the Firefox team & supporters have displayed makes it very much a relevant comparison. If I'm told it's more secure, I expect it to be more secure. Adding stipulations and suddenly (re)qualifying positions makes it appear that Firefox can only stand up to IE when the scores are handicapped. I believe Firefox is a better browser than IE and better than the excuses I see too many making for it.
You've never used Enlightenment have you? If you had, you'd know it really is alpha software. :D
Besides, EnlightenmentXP or Enlightenment Panther both sound silly.
The best thing we can do, if we want people who know good English, is to teach them a foriegn language early in life. Start teaching French or German in the 7th or 8th grade. By knowing a second language, one can learn about their own. No native speaker thinks about word placements in English because they say "what sounds right". But when the study of French or German starts, and words are not in the order we would expect, it causes reflection on our own language.
I agree, everyone should know more than just one language. However, starting at the 7th or 8th grade is too late. The part of the brain that allows us to easily decipher & pick up a language shuts down right before most kids are getting into Pre-K & K.
While the rate of reviews is dissapointing, nothing I've found beats the quality of Ace's Hardware.
Tom's is crap, and has been for about six years now, and is steadily getting worse. Anand was better, but is slipping. Techreport is okay, as is Ars Technica. Avoid Tom's. Practically everyone there is incompetent.
Just wanted to throw in a "me too!" to your comment. Tom's used to have semi useful info a long time ago & ever since Anand had the redesign of the site it's gone to shit. I also like HardOCP simply b/c Kyle & the rest of his crew don't simply report the hype, they investigate it and tell you what the new whizbang 993742 FXT Ultra actually does in real-world terms.
DVORAK has both a left handed & right handed layout. I still won't use it though.