That sword cuts both ways - if a site uses ads any more obtrusive than a google ad, I block it
I have an urge to give a snotty "you block a whole site because of their ads? Isn't that excessive"?
But that is kind of the point - I am sure that you can justify using the site without the ads. Justification is the parlor game of most internet power users. I just don't see it that way. If I walk into a bar with a two drink minimum, even if it is not enforced, the right thing to do is order two drinks. I'll sit at a diner for hours with a cup of coffee, but I won't do it during a mealtime rush. These are things that aren't illegal, but are merely rude; you are taking advantage of the proprietor.
How is blocking the ads but using the site not an immoral act? Not a terrible one like cheating on your wife, but mild one like skipping on the two drink minimum or leaving a lousy tip?
I tip well, I follow the rules, both official and unspoken of an establishment that I enjoy, and I leave the ads on if I read the site. The glee of saving a few bucks by not leaving a tip is tempered by recognizing that there's a waitress who you just screwed. Is it because you can't see the work that the author put into the site? Is it moral because you don't see the website employees you've (mildly) screwed over?
Am I the only person left who thinks it is unethical to use a person's site and block their ads? I find it deeply troubling that there are many people who work for or would like to work for internet companies that turn around and bite the prevailing revenue source for those same companies.
You can argue all you want, it is a matter of personal belief. I consider it to be something that should not be made illegal, but also something that is terribly impolite to do and does have a negative effect upon something that you like enough to patronize.
It's kind of like when the cool coffee house with all the great local bands closes down because nobody bought any coffee. Everybody bitches how much it sucks, but never connects that they were taking up a chair for four hours without buying a drink.
If you like the site, how about some respect for the people who work on it? Common decency appears to be growing much less common.
Was it the chip or the system? The Apple ][ was heavily modified (not difficult; they were a handful of chips).
I have a feeling it will stand as the fastest overclock by ratio (or similar early system overclocks), simply because the newer systems are closer to their theoretical limit no matter how cold they get. Although a separate bus speed versus CPU speed makes it easier to speed up a working system.
I remember reading (in Byte?) about the most extreme overclocking I have ever seen or heard of. Somebody overclocked a custom built Apple ][ to either 40 or 50 Mhz. Remember that the 6502 processor was originally running at a rate of only 1 Mhz. It was around the same time as Cheetah systems was putting out the supercooled and overclocked 486s, so around 1990ish.
Considering Compaq does support iPaqs with Linux (send a borked install to their Research Lab, and it comes back with Linux), I'd say that it's at least semi-official that Linux runs on iPaqs even if it's not a shipping option. Compaq even hosts handhelds.org and has paid engineers to work on the distros for the iPaq.
Iffy, sure, but not unreasonable to include iPaqs under both categories as a 'Windows' and 'Linux' device.
Anybody familiar with this and KDevelop (or other open source and (lower case) free software)? Anybody care to state the differences or benefits to using this?
I do like the idea of Window compatibility, but right now we have a "every developer uses their own tools" policy, and I use Linux.
Amusingly, the text editor for KDE 2 (which eventually became Kate) was originally named Kant, after the philosopher. It was changed when several English speakers pointed out the objectionable pronunciation. Bunch o' kants, they were.
i'll buy the DVD. if only because it has jewel staite in it.
My SO is a blond research chemist, very science and very girly. She absolutely loves the character of Kaylee. So many engineers/scientists are portrayed as stiff unemotional robots or starlets with full makeup working on equipment. Kaylee is a pretty girl who is feminine and is good with equipment. That's a really rare character. I liked that she wore clothes that make sense if you were an engineer and wore no makeup (except the one time she got the dress and went to the formal ball). Sarah wears a t-shirt and jeans under her lab coat, comes home with the scent of buffer in her hair and can take a shower, slip into a dress and head out for the evening.
Kaylee is a very well balanced character, and I have a sneaking suspicion that there are loads of women in science and engineering that dug the character.
I'm impressed - I wouldn't think that the $150 would even start to cover the filming of the remaining episodes written for the first season.
Tell you what - just let me know who the Big Bad at the end of the season is (I'm guessing Niska, as the other plots are too big for one season, and Saffron seems like a running character), and I'll mail you $5. But you have to show proof.
The DVDs are frustrating; if you're familiar with how Joss builds, you can see the threads starting to appear that would come together for the series. But an Emmy, Hugo and VES later, and the show is cancelled. Morons.
My eBay account was suspended when an ex went on a bidding spree for a bunch of items because she knew I wasn't getting the email that notifications were being sent to. By the time I found out and read all the emails, eBay had blackballed my account and given me strict "you can never set up an eBay account ever again, and we will track you".
Never did use eBay all that much, but it's still a pain in the ass, and I'm vaguely worried that I'm blackballed from PayPal as well. Haven't checked, but...
I wasn't sure, as when I moved here I had to get both a license and registration.
Technically you don't need insurance; you just have to show financial capability. There are a handful of ways around it, and if you have decent savings you can toss into a long term bond (which is a good idea anyway), you can save quite a bit of money on insurance by... well, not paying any.
:) Perhaps I should have mentioned: The three places where I've lived for significant amounts of time (i.e., more than six months) were North Carolina, South Florida and Northern California.
So - I am well aware of the Wal*Mart shopping breakdown in all three states. You can drive miles in Florida and California and see nothing but spanish signs and people who speak nothing but spanish. And that's in clean, nice neighborhoods (usually poor, but poor doesn't mean lousy). You can't do that (yet) in North Carolina. At least not in eastern NC (Durham/Rocky Mount/Wilmington) or the areas around them that I've driven though. And I really like small town restaurants, so I've done many a random wanderquest from tacos in Turlock to BBQ in Belle Glade.
It's not so much the population, but rather the established population (versus migrant seasonal population) that's different. In ten years, it may well be a different story.
Here in North Carolina you have to have proof of auto insurance in order to get a driver license.
You are right that the majority of states do not have this requirement.
I belive that it is a racket that the insurace companies have in order to force you to insure a shared family car two (or three or four) times over.
I lived in Florida for many years and now live in California, which has the same law. (I think - if not, you have to show insurance for the tag of your car).
North Carolina doesn't have the majority of people on the road uninsured, I would imagine. Nor are there large numbers of resident (versus migrant) illegal aliens. It's not so much a scam as a desperate attempt to control a bad situation.
I get quite a bit of (physical) junk mail and convention tickets (professional, not scifi) sent to me under the name Jabber Wokky all the time. Of course, I've subscribed to a couple magazines under that name, but the junk mail started before then.
As for the article, I was told early on and raised by my parents that my legal name always had to be the same. If I used my middle initial, I had to use it everywhere. I chose to use my middle initial and save my middle name for verification purposes. I fought my bank (Bank of America) for a long time because my ATM and VISA card had my full middle name.
It goes Warp 10 which apparently causes 2 of the characters to "evolve" into gecko-like creatures. another completely ridiculous plot that took place around the time of the episode where they found Amelia Earhart
Yeah, but they saved a lot of money on car insurance. That came in handy when they found the Chevy... floating in... space.
While I've used nagios, I've been seeing quite a few good things about ksysguard. I was unaware of how powerful it was until I read that linked article.
Children die learning to be adults. There is a certain argument that if they are not allowed to die, then they can never really grow up.
Getting around authority is an important skill. Even more important is to know when it is appropriate to get around authority, when it is moral, harmless and helpful versus when it is immoral, harmful and/or of malice.
Growing up, I tangled a handful of times with police or security. I got locked in a park with my girlfriend, I got questioned a couple times on a beach at night... the typical teenage stuff. I learned to be polite when necessary and how to deal with such situations in the future... especially important a few years later when, as an adult, I arrived at a friend's call to assist her pull her sister away from a incident of domestic violence. I arrived a few minutes before the police, calmed her down and, most importantly, got my friend to shut the hell up when she started in on a rant at the police.
I can deal with violence and peace. I know how to navigate the world. I know how because my parents raised me by their side when I was young and trusted me when I was older. They let me screw up, both aware that it could have devestating consequences and aware that it was necessary for me to develop into a full adult.
This is not about technology; it is not about privacy. It is about what we are teaching our children.
There's good evidence out there to back up the nastiness
From what I've seen, there's bad evidence. That is, there seems to be some health problems associated with recent battles involving depleted uranium, but training, storage and mock battles using the same types of weapons do not cause the same effects.
I am in no way saying that using them is safe or should not be investigated, but saying that the issue is clear cut isn't quite right either. That's why there's so much "proof" heaped up on both sides of the situation.
The problem is, by the time you figure out that something isn't a good idea (like watching mushroom clouds), you often have a pile of bodies (or in this case, people who will die earlier than they normally would have). The same goes for DDT and eggshells, Kudzu and riverbanks and a long litany of things that were done for good cause but had unacceptable results.
But for every situation like DDT, there are thousands of antibiotics saving people's lives. For every Kudzu, we have domesticated farm animals and raise high yield soy, wheat, rice and corn. For every atomic blast that poisoned my parent's generation, we have unlocked more of the universe in colliders, provided electricity through reactors, and blasted out the cancer from a kid sitting in a hospital.
Unless you change your hardware (or are already running a dual/more processor/processes system of some sort), you aren't. Not with software at any rate.
Considering I dislike Starbucks coffee intensely (I vastly prefer Dunkin Donuts, alas unavailable on the west coast), and I have nocturnal habits, I feel more of a kinship with Project Dennys.
Same here. Around 4726 kilometers. But New York is less than 48 hours worth of travel from just about anyplace on Earth with an internet connection you could have posted from. It's pretty durn close to just about everyplace else, backwoods towns in countries without a decent infrastructure are a couple weeks away from New York (with the last many thousands of miles being the fastest part of the trip).
Just like many of the mega-cities, it is well worth a trip. Lovely colour.
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Perfect example, by the way, since there *is* advertising on the walls in some restaurants.
For that matter, do you object to neon beer signs and kick the plug out of the wall?
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I have an urge to give a snotty "you block a whole site because of their ads? Isn't that excessive"?
But that is kind of the point - I am sure that you can justify using the site without the ads. Justification is the parlor game of most internet power users. I just don't see it that way. If I walk into a bar with a two drink minimum, even if it is not enforced, the right thing to do is order two drinks. I'll sit at a diner for hours with a cup of coffee, but I won't do it during a mealtime rush. These are things that aren't illegal, but are merely rude; you are taking advantage of the proprietor.
How is blocking the ads but using the site not an immoral act? Not a terrible one like cheating on your wife, but mild one like skipping on the two drink minimum or leaving a lousy tip?
I tip well, I follow the rules, both official and unspoken of an establishment that I enjoy, and I leave the ads on if I read the site. The glee of saving a few bucks by not leaving a tip is tempered by recognizing that there's a waitress who you just screwed. Is it because you can't see the work that the author put into the site? Is it moral because you don't see the website employees you've (mildly) screwed over?
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You can argue all you want, it is a matter of personal belief. I consider it to be something that should not be made illegal, but also something that is terribly impolite to do and does have a negative effect upon something that you like enough to patronize.
It's kind of like when the cool coffee house with all the great local bands closes down because nobody bought any coffee. Everybody bitches how much it sucks, but never connects that they were taking up a chair for four hours without buying a drink.
If you like the site, how about some respect for the people who work on it? Common decency appears to be growing much less common.
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I have a feeling it will stand as the fastest overclock by ratio (or similar early system overclocks), simply because the newer systems are closer to their theoretical limit no matter how cold they get. Although a separate bus speed versus CPU speed makes it easier to speed up a working system.
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I still have yet to see anything hit that ratio.
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Iffy, sure, but not unreasonable to include iPaqs under both categories as a 'Windows' and 'Linux' device.
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I do like the idea of Window compatibility, but right now we have a "every developer uses their own tools" policy, and I use Linux.
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My SO is a blond research chemist, very science and very girly. She absolutely loves the character of Kaylee. So many engineers/scientists are portrayed as stiff unemotional robots or starlets with full makeup working on equipment. Kaylee is a pretty girl who is feminine and is good with equipment. That's a really rare character. I liked that she wore clothes that make sense if you were an engineer and wore no makeup (except the one time she got the dress and went to the formal ball). Sarah wears a t-shirt and jeans under her lab coat, comes home with the scent of buffer in her hair and can take a shower, slip into a dress and head out for the evening.
Kaylee is a very well balanced character, and I have a sneaking suspicion that there are loads of women in science and engineering that dug the character.
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If you have to ask that question, you've clearly never seen the man's hair. Like a yellow tribble by Dali.
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I'm impressed - I wouldn't think that the $150 would even start to cover the filming of the remaining episodes written for the first season.
Tell you what - just let me know who the Big Bad at the end of the season is (I'm guessing Niska, as the other plots are too big for one season, and Saffron seems like a running character), and I'll mail you $5. But you have to show proof.
The DVDs are frustrating; if you're familiar with how Joss builds, you can see the threads starting to appear that would come together for the series. But an Emmy, Hugo and VES later, and the show is cancelled. Morons.
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Never did use eBay all that much, but it's still a pain in the ass, and I'm vaguely worried that I'm blackballed from PayPal as well. Haven't checked, but...
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Technically you don't need insurance; you just have to show financial capability. There are a handful of ways around it, and if you have decent savings you can toss into a long term bond (which is a good idea anyway), you can save quite a bit of money on insurance by... well, not paying any.
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So - I am well aware of the Wal*Mart shopping breakdown in all three states. You can drive miles in Florida and California and see nothing but spanish signs and people who speak nothing but spanish. And that's in clean, nice neighborhoods (usually poor, but poor doesn't mean lousy). You can't do that (yet) in North Carolina. At least not in eastern NC (Durham/Rocky Mount/Wilmington) or the areas around them that I've driven though. And I really like small town restaurants, so I've done many a random wanderquest from tacos in Turlock to BBQ in Belle Glade.
It's not so much the population, but rather the established population (versus migrant seasonal population) that's different. In ten years, it may well be a different story.
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I lived in Florida for many years and now live in California, which has the same law. (I think - if not, you have to show insurance for the tag of your car).
North Carolina doesn't have the majority of people on the road uninsured, I would imagine. Nor are there large numbers of resident (versus migrant) illegal aliens. It's not so much a scam as a desperate attempt to control a bad situation.
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As for the article, I was told early on and raised by my parents that my legal name always had to be the same. If I used my middle initial, I had to use it everywhere. I chose to use my middle initial and save my middle name for verification purposes. I fought my bank (Bank of America) for a long time because my ATM and VISA card had my full middle name.
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See www.slashdot.jp and so on.
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Yeah, but they saved a lot of money on car insurance. That came in handy when they found the Chevy... floating in... space.
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Getting around authority is an important skill. Even more important is to know when it is appropriate to get around authority, when it is moral, harmless and helpful versus when it is immoral, harmful and/or of malice.
Growing up, I tangled a handful of times with police or security. I got locked in a park with my girlfriend, I got questioned a couple times on a beach at night... the typical teenage stuff. I learned to be polite when necessary and how to deal with such situations in the future... especially important a few years later when, as an adult, I arrived at a friend's call to assist her pull her sister away from a incident of domestic violence. I arrived a few minutes before the police, calmed her down and, most importantly, got my friend to shut the hell up when she started in on a rant at the police.
I can deal with violence and peace. I know how to navigate the world. I know how because my parents raised me by their side when I was young and trusted me when I was older. They let me screw up, both aware that it could have devestating consequences and aware that it was necessary for me to develop into a full adult.
This is not about technology; it is not about privacy. It is about what we are teaching our children.
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From what I've seen, there's bad evidence. That is, there seems to be some health problems associated with recent battles involving depleted uranium, but training, storage and mock battles using the same types of weapons do not cause the same effects.
I am in no way saying that using them is safe or should not be investigated, but saying that the issue is clear cut isn't quite right either. That's why there's so much "proof" heaped up on both sides of the situation.
The problem is, by the time you figure out that something isn't a good idea (like watching mushroom clouds), you often have a pile of bodies (or in this case, people who will die earlier than they normally would have). The same goes for DDT and eggshells, Kudzu and riverbanks and a long litany of things that were done for good cause but had unacceptable results.
But for every situation like DDT, there are thousands of antibiotics saving people's lives. For every Kudzu, we have domesticated farm animals and raise high yield soy, wheat, rice and corn. For every atomic blast that poisoned my parent's generation, we have unlocked more of the universe in colliders, provided electricity through reactors, and blasted out the cancer from a kid sitting in a hospital.
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Just like many of the mega-cities, it is well worth a trip. Lovely colour.
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