I have multiple google accounts, one for personal, one for business, one for activism.
Even just pertaining to Gmail, it's useful, because let's face it, the Gmail filter/label system is useful, but it's no procmail.
This would be great, especially since I've just out of habit tended to use one account more than the others, so most of my contacts have that listed as my google talk address, plus that's the account Google Voice is tied to, so when I log out to check my Gmail or Docs in another account, I'm logged out of Voice, Docs, Talk, etc....
So, yeah, multiple log-ins would be SWEET!
It's slightly less nefarious, and way more amusing, to use a stray fire hydrant to reserve your favorite on-street parking space.
It works, too. A few years back, I worked in this little "cybercafé" (remember those?). One night my boss and his friends came in with a mixed case of microbrews and started telling me about their evening, including the part where they found a detached fire hydrant and decided to load it in the back of my boss's truck. I begged him to bring it around to the shop so I could put it out front to, er, 'discourage' people from taking 'my' spot. Convinced by the impeccable logic that I was late every day not due to hangovers but rather because I had to park too far away, he pulled his truck up so I could get the hydrant. The weight was the only downside. Those things are solid brass and weigh well over 100 pounds (I think the opportunity to watch his scrawny, chain-smoking employee huff and puff trying to drag the hydrant around was what realy clinched it). But, I digress. I put the hydrant out every night after closing, and moved it in in the morning, and always had my parking space waiting for me.
Except for one Saturday morning, when I pulled up to find that someone had parked in my space despite the fact that the fire hydrant was sitting right there! So I drove around and finally found a space two blocks away, and opened the shop fifteen minutes late. A while later, my boss woke up (he lived above the shop) and came downstairs, and noticed that someone else's car was out front. He went outside to get a closer look at something, and came back laughing.
A meter maid had ticketed the car for parking next to a fire hydrant. We moved the hydrant before the car's owner returned, just to make matters more confusing. I didn't feel bad, because it turned out to be some yuppie with a ponytail. the look on the guy's face as he read the ticket, looked around, and read the ticket again was priceless.
We stopped using the hydrant after that, for fear of prosecution for causing improper parking citations or something. But the hydrant made a sweet doorstop.
I guess you've never heard of the dotcom boom. I know of plenty of engineers who worked 80 hour weeks for nearly no money with the promise of making massive amounts of money with the IPO.
Yeah, those poor bastards who put their heart and soul into 80 hours a week of audio mastering waiting for Capitol Records to go public...
Recording engineers, not 'software engineers,' you insensitive clod! Unless I missed the step in CD production that involves cubicle farms of overworked young Java programmers?
>> But Google can shop around for its bandwidth, finding a good deal (thanks to competition) - They're *not* paying their fair share...
> Yes they are, it's called a "fair market price" and it's a part of this thing we call the "free market." Google is entitled to do this, it's their >right, not an abuse.
If only that bandwidth trading scheme had panned out, we wouldn't have any of these problems today... oh, Enron, we hardly knew ye...
"America" is a shortened or common term for 'The United States of America,' a country located in North America.
Sure it is, from the perspective of a resident of the United States of America. My Canadian friends, however, lament such shorthand, because although they are 'Americans,' they would be horrified for such US-centric shorthand to confuse the issue of their nationality, especially when travelling to Europe. My Quebecois friends insist on the term États-Unisiens. (United-Statesians)
I'd think that computer people could understand the difference. The 'South' in 'South America' is part of the string, it's not a prepended descriptive modifier.
Despite being counted among both of the aforementioned groups (residents of the Untied States of America and 'computer people'), this part of the argument strikes me as the most absurd. Why would you invoke the constructs of a set of abstract artificial languages to (erroneously) explicate the workings of natural languages?
Despite the status of "South America" as a proper noun, and as such a 'bracketed' piece of syntax, one would do well to remember in natural language context precedes the identity of discrete sentence fragments; etymology is never put out of play. Context, in this case, can easily be established by glancing at a map. Through careful study and observation, one will soon discover that 'south' is damn well a modifier, placing one bit ot the larger set 'america' in geographic relation to the other bit, in this case, specifying it as being 'south' of the 'north' bit.
Not a modifier, my ass. Natural languages are vastly and inordinately complex, to the degree that they make C++ look like COBOL. But this one is a bit of a no-brainer. Then again, maybe there's a reason nobody expects engineers to be poet laureates.
I'd be more concerned about everyone on the train listening in on my porn... ah, sweet, sweet, video iPod. Sweet, sweet, porn.
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If they had just built bluetooth into the damn iPod, this wouldn't be an issue. One headset, two devices, one device, eight, who cares... switch back and forth, transfer files without a bunch of cables... oh, wait, that would be too easy.
Seriously. The RIAA ruins everything. Not that I don't love my sexy Moto RAZR, and my iPod, but the RAZR has bluetooth and it's SMALLER than the iPod. if both had bluetooth... life would be simpler. But, no, life can't be nice and easy. Fucking RIAA. Okay, this wasn't intended as a rant, but I seriously want to lynch those bastards... or at least force them to listen to the bilious phlegm that they pass off as music.
Well, what do you expect... Russell Davies is the creator of the original (British) Queer As Folk. Which, granted, is some excellent teevee, but not exactly the same as Doctor Who during Tom Baker's tenure as the Doctor, especoally during the Key to Time cycle (and the prior season) when Douglas Adams was script supervisor.
I'm more disappointed that they're keeping Christopher Eccleston around. I thought he was quite annoying on his debut episode on Fox years ago.
Thank FSM the ID proponents haven't taken up Feyerabend. Imagine if they started making compelling, rational arguments rejecting the actual power of scientific method within the 'scentific community,' and went from there to incommensurability as a basis for not comparing ID and evolution, up to the counter-induction principle as a basis for inclusion... The sad part is, as interesting as Feyerabend is, his actual position would have been for the inclusion of ID if it's what people wanted...
I hate that interesting and thoughtful critiques from science studies/ philosophy of science might eventually work for these christian fundie fascist wingnuts.
Before flaming back, NB the above description is a simplification (and, often conflation) of Feyerabend's work, such as I conjecture ID'ers might turn to. His actual work is quite interesting and far more nuanced.
Early hebrew religions are properly speaking henotheistic, elevating one god above others but acknowledging the co-presence of multiple deities. Henotheistic tendencies, although suppressed by the Torah, persist into early Christianity, especially in the case of the Gnostics.
I'm not certain "the original Hebrew" per se is the best choice of words in this case, however... to which original Hebrew are you referring? The canonical Genesis story of thePentateuch, or perhaps the "original Aramaic" of the Genesis Apocryphon or the Book of Enoch that were both discovered in the caves at Qumran?
Don't assume that what passes for the "Bible" is any more improtant or any less myth than the rest of ancient Semitic cosmology. It's all very interesting... and equally valid as a basis of religious belief, I suppose, if you're into that sort of thing.
Yeah the Neuros is really cool... especially if you're running windows, according to their website. When they have linux support, I'll buy one. But my sense of irony isn't fine-tuned enough to run an inferior, proprietary OS just to upload music to my open-source MP3 Player.
I use plenty of hardware with third-party, hacked drivers and such, but if I'm shelling out US$300 or US$400 for an MP3 player, it would be nice to have support for at least some decent OS.
Girl: "Hey, that's a cool MP3 player!"
Luser: "It's not JUST an MP3 player! It runs Linux with a 2.4 kernel, and I even have a copy of GCC installed so that I can compile stuff on it!"
Girl: "Uhh, okay... *goes off to flirt with some other dude with an iPod*"
If you're relying on your MP3 player to pick up women, you have bigger problems.
That's not why it's cool, anyway. It's cool because it's one more step to Total World Domination Soon.
That said, if a girl was swooning over my gadgets running Linux, I'd fall in love on the spot;)
Absinthe? No, no, no. Real absinthe has wormwood in it and is therefore outlawed in most countries.
Anise seed is in real absinthe and in Pernod which gives it its (IMO nasty) licorice flavor. You wouldn't substitute anise for wormwood; wormwood is horribly bitter, whereas anise is horribly licorice-y. Also, BTW, the once ubiquitous ban on absinthe production has been lifted in most European countries. In addition, due to the way in which thujone (the psychoactive present in wormwood) is regulated by the FDA not as a drug but as a food additive, you can legally import absinthe (but not sell it) in the U.S., from places like this.
Oh, right, you were using the kernel-tree deb... I always use the latest kernel.org source and make-kpkg.
I'm glad we cleared this up, though. I'd hate for those millions of people who spent xmas eve installing Debian based on your previous post to get stuck and not be able to check email bright and early on xmas morning!
For those who don't know, this is how is goes on Debian;
apt-get install kernel-tree-2.whatever
cd/usr/src/kernel-source-2.whatever
make config/xconfig/whatever
dpkg -i kernel-image-2.whatever
You forgot to 'make-kpkg buildpackage' before you went and installed that non-existent package with dpkg... I'm assuming you're going for a monolithic kernel here and thus dispensed with the pesky module compilation.
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Who has multiple google accounts, and for what?
I have multiple google accounts, one for personal, one for business, one for activism. Even just pertaining to Gmail, it's useful, because let's face it, the Gmail filter/label system is useful, but it's no procmail. This would be great, especially since I've just out of habit tended to use one account more than the others, so most of my contacts have that listed as my google talk address, plus that's the account Google Voice is tied to, so when I log out to check my Gmail or Docs in another account, I'm logged out of Voice, Docs, Talk, etc.... So, yeah, multiple log-ins would be SWEET!
It's slightly less nefarious, and way more amusing, to use a stray fire hydrant to reserve your favorite on-street parking space.
It works, too. A few years back, I worked in this little "cybercafé" (remember those?). One night my boss and his friends came in with a mixed case of microbrews and started telling me about their evening, including the part where they found a detached fire hydrant and decided to load it in the back of my boss's truck. I begged him to bring it around to the shop so I could put it out front to, er, 'discourage' people from taking 'my' spot. Convinced by the impeccable logic that I was late every day not due to hangovers but rather because I had to park too far away, he pulled his truck up so I could get the hydrant. The weight was the only downside. Those things are solid brass and weigh well over 100 pounds (I think the opportunity to watch his scrawny, chain-smoking employee huff and puff trying to drag the hydrant around was what realy clinched it). But, I digress. I put the hydrant out every night after closing, and moved it in in the morning, and always had my parking space waiting for me.
Except for one Saturday morning, when I pulled up to find that someone had parked in my space despite the fact that the fire hydrant was sitting right there! So I drove around and finally found a space two blocks away, and opened the shop fifteen minutes late. A while later, my boss woke up (he lived above the shop) and came downstairs, and noticed that someone else's car was out front. He went outside to get a closer look at something, and came back laughing.
A meter maid had ticketed the car for parking next to a fire hydrant. We moved the hydrant before the car's owner returned, just to make matters more confusing. I didn't feel bad, because it turned out to be some yuppie with a ponytail. the look on the guy's face as he read the ticket, looked around, and read the ticket again was priceless.
We stopped using the hydrant after that, for fear of prosecution for causing improper parking citations or something. But the hydrant made a sweet doorstop.
Jesus. Does this mean we need to come up with some sort of corollary to GPL copylefting by using trademark law to un-trademark trademarks?
And what do we call that? GiftMark?
Copylefted, giftmarked... what's the opposite of patent? Suede?
God, jokes about leather... that's a low, even for slashdot.
Pfft. What can't you add to "Iceweasel?!"
This being a corollary to:
"What do ice weasels do?"
"What don't they do!?!?"
Yeah, those poor bastards who put their heart and soul into 80 hours a week of audio mastering waiting for Capitol Records to go public...
Recording engineers, not 'software engineers,' you insensitive clod! Unless I missed the step in CD production that involves cubicle farms of overworked young Java programmers?
Then again, I'm generally not evil, and I don't have an astronomical multibillion dollar market capitalization, so go figure.
> Yes they are, it's called a "fair market price" and it's a part of this thing we call the "free market." Google is entitled to do this, it's their
>right, not an abuse.
If only that bandwidth trading scheme had panned out, we wouldn't have any of these problems today... oh, Enron, we hardly knew ye...
In Soviet Russia, cell phone finds you.
Oh, wait...
Sure it is, from the perspective of a resident of the United States of America. My Canadian friends, however, lament such shorthand, because although they are 'Americans,' they would be horrified for such US-centric shorthand to confuse the issue of their nationality, especially when travelling to Europe. My Quebecois friends insist on the term États-Unisiens. (United-Statesians)
I'd think that computer people could understand the difference. The 'South' in 'South America' is part of the string, it's not a prepended descriptive modifier.
Despite being counted among both of the aforementioned groups (residents of the Untied States of America and 'computer people'), this part of the argument strikes me as the most absurd. Why would you invoke the constructs of a set of abstract artificial languages to (erroneously) explicate the workings of natural languages?
Despite the status of "South America" as a proper noun, and as such a 'bracketed' piece of syntax, one would do well to remember in natural language context precedes the identity of discrete sentence fragments; etymology is never put out of play. Context, in this case, can easily be established by glancing at a map. Through careful study and observation, one will soon discover that 'south' is damn well a modifier, placing one bit ot the larger set 'america' in geographic relation to the other bit, in this case, specifying it as being 'south' of the 'north' bit.
Not a modifier, my ass. Natural languages are vastly and inordinately complex, to the degree that they make C++ look like COBOL. But this one is a bit of a no-brainer. Then again, maybe there's a reason nobody expects engineers to be poet laureates.
I'd be more concerned about everyone on the train listening in on my porn... ah, sweet, sweet, video iPod. Sweet, sweet, porn.
If they had just built bluetooth into the damn iPod, this wouldn't be an issue. One headset, two devices, one device, eight, who cares... switch back and forth, transfer files without a bunch of cables... oh, wait, that would be too easy. Seriously. The RIAA ruins everything. Not that I don't love my sexy Moto RAZR, and my iPod, but the RAZR has bluetooth and it's SMALLER than the iPod. if both had bluetooth... life would be simpler. But, no, life can't be nice and easy. Fucking RIAA. Okay, this wasn't intended as a rant, but I seriously want to lynch those bastards... or at least force them to listen to the bilious phlegm that they pass off as music.
Well, what do you expect... Russell Davies is the creator of the original (British) Queer As Folk. Which, granted, is some excellent teevee, but not exactly the same as Doctor Who during Tom Baker's tenure as the Doctor, especoally during the Key to Time cycle (and the prior season) when Douglas Adams was script supervisor. I'm more disappointed that they're keeping Christopher Eccleston around. I thought he was quite annoying on his debut episode on Fox years ago.
I hate that interesting and thoughtful critiques from science studies/ philosophy of science might eventually work for these christian fundie fascist wingnuts.
Before flaming back, NB the above description is a simplification (and, often conflation) of Feyerabend's work, such as I conjecture ID'ers might turn to. His actual work is quite interesting and far more nuanced.
Clearly, when scientists measure Carbon-14, He is there, altering the data with His Noodly Appendage.
I'm not certain "the original Hebrew" per se is the best choice of words in this case, however... to which original Hebrew are you referring? The canonical Genesis story of thePentateuch, or perhaps the "original Aramaic" of the Genesis Apocryphon or the Book of Enoch that were both discovered in the caves at Qumran?
Don't assume that what passes for the "Bible" is any more improtant or any less myth than the rest of ancient Semitic cosmology. It's all very interesting... and equally valid as a basis of religious belief, I suppose, if you're into that sort of thing.
So clearly the amoebae had to be touched by His Noodly Appendage. That's what you're saying, right?
I use plenty of hardware with third-party, hacked drivers and such, but if I'm shelling out US$300 or US$400 for an MP3 player, it would be nice to have support for at least some decent OS.
Luser: "It's not JUST an MP3 player! It runs Linux with a 2.4 kernel, and I even have a copy of GCC installed so that I can compile stuff on it!"
Girl: "Uhh, okay
If you're relying on your MP3 player to pick up women, you have bigger problems.
That's not why it's cool, anyway. It's cool because it's one more step to Total World Domination Soon.
That said, if a girl was swooning over my gadgets running Linux, I'd fall in love on the spot ;)
Grab a clean razor and dig the RFID tag out of your forearm.
Solar radiation wants to be free.
Anise seed is in real absinthe and in Pernod which gives it its (IMO nasty) licorice flavor. You wouldn't substitute anise for wormwood; wormwood is horribly bitter, whereas anise is horribly licorice-y. Also, BTW, the once ubiquitous ban on absinthe production has been lifted in most European countries. In addition, due to the way in which thujone (the psychoactive present in wormwood) is regulated by the FDA not as a drug but as a food additive, you can legally import absinthe (but not sell it) in the U.S., from places like this.
I'm glad we cleared this up, though. I'd hate for those millions of people who spent xmas eve installing Debian based on your previous post to get stuck and not be able to check email bright and early on xmas morning!
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Anise? No, no, no. Aquavit is caraway-flavoured. Did your grandpa slip you absinthe, perchance?
You forgot to 'make-kpkg buildpackage' before you went and installed that non-existent package with dpkg... I'm assuming you're going for a monolithic kernel here and thus dispensed with the pesky module compilation.