I live in Queensland, Australia. Not totally OT, but this is one of the main states in australia, but doesn't go to daylight savings with other states that are normally on the same time zone.
The end result is that we have the sun rising at 4-30am, going down at 5-30pm, and the locals (I'm a recent addition there) see it as perfectly reasonable. Personally, time with a little sunshine in the evening is more useful than getting up at an unholy hour of the morning to "enjoy" the sunshine, as much as it is possible to so early in the day.
I'm not clear on your objection here; with Daylight Saving Time, you'd have sunlight from 5:30am to 6:30pm -- an additional evening hour.
I'm currently in Boston, and I wish we'd go to DST year round (i.e., shift to being on Atlantic Time instead of Eastern Time). As it is, we have sunset at 4pm in the winter, and that pretty much sucks.
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Apple should be pushing the minimal spec upwards, not stripping everything off so that it can get it's headlines saying *Mac's are now affordable*
Why? To make the world a better place? To make you happy? Their current strategy *does* get them those headlines -- and apparently the correlating sales. Sure, it'd be, I dunno, nice if they had more real-world bottom-line prices, but I don't see any practical reason that they *should*.
You shouldn't use VOIP for 911 calls. It's not designed for that. Use VoIP for cheap, not for critical. Don't use the wrong sollution and then blame the technology.
That's nice and all, but meanwhile people/companies are pushing ditching traditional phone service for this. And for that, they absolutely deserve that blame.
Wouldn't it be more appropriate and less alarmist to say that Firefox 1.1 will instead be called Firefox 1.5?
If the headline had said that, the slashdot editors probably wouldn't have even looked at it in the submission queue. The more alarmist entry grabs attention better, so has a greater chance of getting published. Basically, nothing to see here, move along.
You work at a University. Not a corporation. Things are very very much different even though you don't know that yet. Some day you'll leave, and then you'll realize how bad it really sucked there.
Yeah, man, 35-hour standard work weeks with flexible hours, seventeen paid holidays plus four weeks of vacation a year, classes for free, and great retirement benefits, plus an environment where experimentation and individual initiative are encouraged. Working for a university sucks!
Oh, and my own office instead of a cube -- oh, life is hard.
Nah, I'm mad I didn't invest in eBay -- now *that* was an IPO no-brainer. But anyway, yeah, you've got the point exactly of the hook these people are trying to sell: "You missed it last time, but get on board with us now and we'll take you for a ride!"
It seems like they are a true, domestic manufacturer. They are very well known (not necessarily to everyone, but to a lot of people) for their custom image clothing. They say that they can get it to your house in 3-4 days. If they can do this, it sounds like it is not coming on the slow boat from some Chinese sweatshop (Nike, hint hint), but rather good ol' Made in the USA.
I doubt it. They're probably *printed on* in the US, but the blank t-shirts come from whereever. Their "Premium" shirts are Hanes (which is Sara Lee, one of the worst multinationals for fair trade and labor practices -- way worse than Nike. Ask Google.) They don't mention a brand for their "Basic" shirts, probably so they can change it up with whatever is cheapest at the time.
I get this kind of thing in my inbox every day -- excited superlatives pumping up some penny stock or other, in the hopes that the gullible masses will get excited and throw away some of their money. This is the *exact* same thing, except the people behind it are bigger fish and so know how to write a press release that ZDNet will pick up and republish as news -- and then they hit the jackpot when sites like Slashdot republish it as legitimate. Yippie.
Well, it isn't exactly cheap, but it is actually really nice. My keyboard at work had one too many coffees spilled on it, so I asked for Das Keyboard for the replacement. I was anticipating a little adjustment period, but there really wasn't any. It takes zero extra effort to type -- my fingers apparently know where all the keys are -- and the weighting and feel of the keys is excellent. The only problem I have is when I'm working on something else and want to reach over to hit a control key combination or something -- then I have to think.
(PS: you can get it directly from its own web site: http://www.daskeyboard.com/ for four cents cheaper than Thinkgeek, and with free shipping to North America.)
This article was entered as part of an article-writing contest with real life rewards such as a video card or DVD writers. This article is just written by some guy trying to win a contest, not by anyone influential.
So? How's that different than if he were paid to write content for a magazine?
[...] Although the committee recommended confirmation, floor consideration sparked the first filibuster in Senate history on a Supreme Court nomination.
On October 1, 1968, the Senate failed to invoke cloture. Johnson then withdrew the nomination [...]
And then, it was the Republicans blocking the nomination. As Sen. Howard H. Baker Jr. (R-Tenn.) said at the time, "On any issue the majority at any given moment is not always right." And it's still true today.
You can argue what "Advice and Consent" of the senate means, but it sure as hell doesn't mean that the senate picks the Justices. Historically it has meant an up-or-down vote once the Justice gets to the floor of the Senate.
And clearly, you mean "historically" literally, as in only before 1806. Sort of like, "historically,
There's a good reason for rules which allow minority parties to have a decent say in vital decisions like this one -- no matter *who* the party in charge is.
But do they represent more than 50% of the states? Just like in the presidential electorate, the population is not the predominant thing. That means that dense states can't oppress sparse states, because of course the United States is not the United People.
A strange anachronism -- the same weirdness that brings us the electoral college. While I'm very aware of the crucial need to protect minority voices from a simple tyranny-of-51%, is there *really* any reason to do this state-line-based gerrymandering in this post-Civil-War day and age?
(Leaving aside that this is how the country was set up and that it'd be practically impossible to change because changing the constitution uses the same mechanism.)
This isn't a rhetorical question -- I'm genuinely curious....
Hello, this is the Internet calling, this is not a fad. The future is waiting for you to realize that it's here.
Hmm. World population, about 6,532 million. Broadband users, 164 million. That's 2.5%... I forget, is that an A- or a B+?
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There's no need for a formal "promotion" step. Commands could propogate the same was as del.icio.us bookmarks. Popular ones can collect in the "popular" namespace. If you know someone who creates good commands, you can list or subcribe to what's available in their namespace. If you really like somethiing, you can copy to your own which would bump up its popularity rating.
I'm not sure the same things all apply here. What if the Solaris killall was suddenly more popular than the Linux (psmisc) command with the same name ? The Linux version kills all processes matching the given name -- the Solaris version kills all processes flat out. Ooops.
(Obviously, this isn't actual Unix commands, but the same concept applies -- it's nice for a command to do the same thing from day to day!)
Because with a command line you can execute commands that the designer didn't think of creating a command for?
Basically, *yes*, because since the commands which do exist were designed to work together in synergistic ways to create new ones. This turns out to be very hard to do with a GUI, although it has been a holy grail of sorts -- remember DDE, and OLE and OpenDoc? What we've ended up with is some heavyweight component architecture systems, but not very much in the way of tools that *work* the way the Unix command line environment does.
You can create inadequate command line tools just like inadequate GUI tools. The interface used doesn't dictate the coverage.
Well, *maybe* the problem is just that no one has made very good GUI tools yet. But, based on the evidence, I see, it's just plain intrinsically harder.
"Learn to do things without pretty GUIs. That's the best way to learn."
Why?
I can't wait for your reply...
Because a GUI only allows you to do tasks which the GUI designer thought to create a button for. The *nix command-line interface, with its "everything is a file" plus "tools do one small thing and do it well" design priciples, provides a rich environment where you can do almost anything you can imagine -- including shooting yourself in both feet. But *that's* very educational, and since it's only a metaphor, not really so bad.
I mean the thing where now I can't use my CD burner. I don't care about whether ide-scsi apparently sucks, I'm just a poor user trying to actually burn CDs. I used to be able to in linux, every other OS I've tried on this system can, but now I can't. (Well, I can, but it requires either messing around to use cdrdao or rebooting to an older kernel, neither of which is very friendly.)
Oh, hey, you're apparently serious and not just trolling, despite the funny comment about Hurd and the weird Linux leadership math....
Have you tried a *newer* kernel? 2.6.8 was a pain, but past then it's been fine for me.
Depending on your views, they may be meticulous or overbearing or merely concerned about licenses, but I don't think Debian is particularly bookish or academic about them.
Is this a non sequitur or do you just not know what "pedantic" means, having apparently only looked it up in a (poor) thesaurus? I'm just wondering.
You mean the thing where someone could send a software command that would totally wipe out some hardware? Man, sure sucks that that got fixed.
Linux was always a kludge to get things running for a bit until hurd came out.
I think you've confused "always" and "never". May want to check a dictionary.
Linus being dictatorial really doesn't help, because the rare times when he's boneheaded are far more harmful than the many times he's being sensible are helpful.
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I live in Queensland, Australia. Not totally OT, but this is one of the main states in australia, but doesn't go to daylight savings with other states that are normally on the same time zone.
The end result is that we have the sun rising at 4-30am, going down at 5-30pm, and the locals (I'm a recent addition there) see it as perfectly reasonable. Personally, time with a little sunshine in the evening is more useful than getting up at an unholy hour of the morning to "enjoy" the sunshine, as much as it is possible to so early in the day.
I'm not clear on your objection here; with Daylight Saving Time, you'd have sunlight from 5:30am to 6:30pm -- an additional evening hour.
I'm currently in Boston, and I wish we'd go to DST year round (i.e., shift to being on Atlantic Time instead of Eastern Time). As it is, we have sunset at 4pm in the winter, and that pretty much sucks.
Apple should be pushing the minimal spec upwards, not stripping everything off so that it can get it's headlines saying *Mac's are now affordable*
Why? To make the world a better place? To make you happy? Their current strategy *does* get them those headlines -- and apparently the correlating sales. Sure, it'd be, I dunno, nice if they had more real-world bottom-line prices, but I don't see any practical reason that they *should*.
You shouldn't use VOIP for 911 calls. It's not designed for that. Use VoIP for cheap, not for critical. Don't use the wrong sollution and then blame the technology.
That's nice and all, but meanwhile people/companies are pushing ditching traditional phone service for this. And for that, they absolutely deserve that blame.
you don't need itunes, you just need a web browser with quicktime installed (or a plugin that can play .mov files)
Or wget and mplayer.
Wouldn't it be more appropriate and less alarmist to say that Firefox 1.1 will instead be called Firefox 1.5?
If the headline had said that, the slashdot editors probably wouldn't have even looked at it in the submission queue. The more alarmist entry grabs attention better, so has a greater chance of getting published. Basically, nothing to see here, move along.
You work at a University. Not a corporation. Things are very very much different even though you don't know that yet. Some day you'll leave, and then you'll realize how bad it really sucked there.
Yeah, man, 35-hour standard work weeks with flexible hours, seventeen paid holidays plus four weeks of vacation a year, classes for free, and great retirement benefits, plus an environment where experimentation and individual initiative are encouraged. Working for a university sucks!
Oh, and my own office instead of a cube -- oh, life is hard.
Still mad that you didn't invest in Google, huh?
Nah, I'm mad I didn't invest in eBay -- now *that* was an IPO no-brainer. But anyway, yeah, you've got the point exactly of the hook these people are trying to sell: "You missed it last time, but get on board with us now and we'll take you for a ride!"
It seems like they are a true, domestic manufacturer. They are very well known (not necessarily to everyone, but to a lot of people) for their custom image clothing. They say that they can get it to your house in 3-4 days. If they can do this, it sounds like it is not coming on the slow boat from some Chinese sweatshop (Nike, hint hint), but rather good ol' Made in the USA.
I doubt it. They're probably *printed on* in the US, but the blank t-shirts come from whereever. Their "Premium" shirts are Hanes (which is Sara Lee, one of the worst multinationals for fair trade and labor practices -- way worse than Nike. Ask Google.) They don't mention a brand for their "Basic" shirts, probably so they can change it up with whatever is cheapest at the time.
I get this kind of thing in my inbox every day -- excited superlatives pumping up some penny stock or other, in the hopes that the gullible masses will get excited and throw away some of their money. This is the *exact* same thing, except the people behind it are bigger fish and so know how to write a press release that ZDNet will pick up and republish as news -- and then they hit the jackpot when sites like Slashdot republish it as legitimate. Yippie.
For the cheapskates there's always Das Keyboard!!
Well, it isn't exactly cheap, but it is actually really nice. My keyboard at work had one too many coffees spilled on it, so I asked for Das Keyboard for the replacement. I was anticipating a little adjustment period, but there really wasn't any. It takes zero extra effort to type -- my fingers apparently know where all the keys are -- and the weighting and feel of the keys is excellent. The only problem I have is when I'm working on something else and want to reach over to hit a control key combination or something -- then I have to think.
(PS: you can get it directly from its own web site: http://www.daskeyboard.com/ for four cents cheaper than Thinkgeek, and with free shipping to North America.)
This article was entered as part of an article-writing contest with real life rewards such as a video card or DVD writers. This article is just written by some guy trying to win a contest, not by anyone influential.
:)
So? How's that different than if he were paid to write content for a magazine?
What he says is true, but obvious.
And, y'know, same question.
um, actually, that doesn't seem to be "historically" true:
And then, it was the Republicans blocking the nomination. As Sen. Howard H. Baker Jr. (R-Tenn.) said at the time, "On any issue the majority at any given moment is not always right." And it's still true today.
You can argue what "Advice and Consent" of the senate means, but it sure as hell doesn't mean that the senate picks the Justices. Historically it has meant an up-or-down vote once the Justice gets to the floor of the Senate.
And clearly, you mean "historically" literally, as in only before 1806. Sort of like, "historically,
There's a good reason for rules which allow minority parties to have a decent say in vital decisions like this one -- no matter *who* the party in charge is.
But do they represent more than 50% of the states? Just like in the presidential electorate, the population is not the predominant thing. That means that dense states can't oppress sparse states, because of course the United States is not the United People.
A strange anachronism -- the same weirdness that brings us the electoral college. While I'm very aware of the crucial need to protect minority voices from a simple tyranny-of-51%, is there *really* any reason to do this state-line-based gerrymandering in this post-Civil-War day and age?
(Leaving aside that this is how the country was set up and that it'd be practically impossible to change because changing the constitution uses the same mechanism.)
This isn't a rhetorical question -- I'm genuinely curious....
Hello, this is the Internet calling, this is not a fad. The future is waiting for you to realize that it's here.
Hmm. World population, about 6,532 million. Broadband users, 164 million. That's 2.5%... I forget, is that an A- or a B+?
There's no need for a formal "promotion" step. Commands could propogate the same was as del.icio.us bookmarks. Popular ones can collect in the "popular" namespace. If you know someone who creates good commands, you can list or subcribe to what's available in their namespace. If you really like somethiing, you can copy to your own which would bump up its popularity rating.
I'm not sure the same things all apply here. What if the Solaris killall was suddenly more popular than the Linux (psmisc) command with the same name ? The Linux version kills all processes matching the given name -- the Solaris version kills all processes flat out. Ooops.
(Obviously, this isn't actual Unix commands, but the same concept applies -- it's nice for a command to do the same thing from day to day!)
Because with a command line you can execute commands that the designer didn't think of creating a command for?
Basically, *yes*, because since the commands which do exist were designed to work together in synergistic ways to create new ones. This turns out to be very hard to do with a GUI, although it has been a holy grail of sorts -- remember DDE, and OLE and OpenDoc? What we've ended up with is some heavyweight component architecture systems, but not very much in the way of tools that *work* the way the Unix command line environment does.
You can create inadequate command line tools just like inadequate GUI tools. The interface used doesn't dictate the coverage.
Well, *maybe* the problem is just that no one has made very good GUI tools yet. But, based on the evidence, I see, it's just plain intrinsically harder.
Which is interesting, given that the SuSE FAQ says otherwise:
Which makes more sense to me given my (limited) knowledge of how to pronounce German words....
I can't wait for your reply...
Because a GUI only allows you to do tasks which the GUI designer thought to create a button for. The *nix command-line interface, with its "everything is a file" plus "tools do one small thing and do it well" design priciples, provides a rich environment where you can do almost anything you can imagine -- including shooting yourself in both feet. But *that's* very educational, and since it's only a metaphor, not really so bad.
And that's before you find out that the print is less durable.
Or more durable, if you're using Epson ink....
That sucks, but from what I've seen, looks like that particular drive is just bad.... I'm not sure that's Linus's fault....
Or maybe I can switch to a better alternative, and tell others to, and Linus will notice and do things better?
But yeah, fork looks like a good option. I'll see about it.
Or you could just put the finishing touches on Hurd and use that.
I mean the thing where now I can't use my CD burner. I don't care about whether ide-scsi apparently sucks, I'm just a poor user trying to actually burn CDs. I used to be able to in linux, every other OS I've tried on this system can, but now I can't. (Well, I can, but it requires either messing around to use cdrdao or rebooting to an older kernel, neither of which is very friendly.)
Oh, hey, you're apparently serious and not just trolling, despite the funny comment about Hurd and the weird Linux leadership math....
Have you tried a *newer* kernel? 2.6.8 was a pain, but past then it's been fine for me.
Depending on your views, they may be meticulous or overbearing or merely concerned about licenses, but I don't think Debian is particularly bookish or academic about them.
Is this a non sequitur or do you just not know what "pedantic" means, having apparently only looked it up in a (poor) thesaurus? I'm just wondering.
With the CD writing thing.
You mean the thing where someone could send a software command that would totally wipe out some hardware? Man, sure sucks that that got fixed.
Linux was always a kludge to get things running for a bit until hurd came out.
I think you've confused "always" and "never". May want to check a dictionary.
Linus being dictatorial really doesn't help, because the rare times when he's boneheaded are far more harmful than the many times he's being sensible are helpful.
That's some weird math you've got there.