This has been happening for years. I found a while ago that a lot of coach and train ticket places in the UK will hike the price up by 25-50% if you check out a specific time/date and then fail to book but come back later from the same IP. If you search for the same ticket from a remote server (or your cellphone) it'll give you the original lower price.
So it basically boosts the price knowing you've problem come back in desperation. Shameful and bad. I know other places give different prices based on browser too, especially flights and other items like that.
I don't know why we're so concerned about cross-contamination. The only potential downside to it that I can see is if it obscures evidence that life existed on other planets.
I just find it hard to care about balls of rock and their 'pristine environment'.
They should just make a CAPTCHA that requires strong AI to crack; we could make a great leap ahead in AI by letting the spammers solve all the problems for us!
I got a mini-mac just to play with, a new gadget, figured if I didn't like it then it was only the minimal specced model.
Within two days I removed my PC completely, and gave it away to someone. I was using XP, because I'm too lazy and I don't really have the time to mess with things. I used to use Linux exclusively, but (personal opinion) the font handling was so bad I gave in.
It's funny, this mini-mac is drastically underpowered and when I do things like unzip stuff I notice it, but for general use I guess I just don't care. I use a webbrowser (Safari), itunes, adium (MSN), mail, terminal (ssh), and none of those need much power.
Well, this was long and pointless, but this thing is just so elegant that I couldn't stop myself gushing like a fanboy.
I think however, when a corporation is concerned morality is expressed differently. What a single person may be unwilling to do on moral grounds is considered differently when done on behalf of a company. Justifications start being used like "Well, it's not personal, just business."
In addition, you have the fact that as part of a corporation, you are more or less anonymous when creating policy, unless you are at the very top of the chain, so like trolls on the internet, you have less restraint in your ethics.
So, no, they don't live apart from moral dimensions, but they sure lend themselves to a different accounting system.
I've recently started a new job, at a managed services company. I've started my own wiki, initially MoinMoin but now MediaWiki, and it's the most useful thing I've ever had for work.
I've put into it everything I've discovered in the two months I've been there, and so has a coworker. Previously there was a lot of formal documentation, but it's hard to leverage in a rush.
The wiki gets right to the heart of what we have to do on a daily basis, and is updated almost constantly to reflect a deeper understanding of the system and when things change, whereas formal documentation seems to be missed and skipped over.
I run NeverWinter Nights with XP, and it crashes on average about every four hours. This is due to the sound driver somehow causing problems (SoundBlaster Live).
Yes, the machine has the latest drivers for all the hardware. Yes, the OS is patched fully as well. NeverWinter night has big problems!
[Hint to those in the same situation, make sure to disable all advanced sound features, and if you have an SB card, knock the hardware acceleration down a notch -- this pretty much eliminated the crahes for me.)
Also, I have a level 20 monk. Damn NeverWinter Nights is addictive!:)
Do you run Redhat? I know there were some problems reported with random crashing on older versions of Redhat.
I've been personally using Mozilla for a number of weeks as my main browser, under Debian (woody) and I rarely have crashes. Javascript can still sometimes bring it down, but for day to day browsing it has already replaced Netscape 4.x
The only thing I need Netscape 4.x for is sites that require logging in (like the NOC site at work), and Mozilla doesn't handle those.
Anyway, the results you had surprise me - I've been getting more and more pleased with Mozilla. I haven't touched the snapshot, because I use the nightly builds, but font support seems to have greatly improved three days ago in the nightly builds, and it's getting much faster.
Maybe M14 is on a different cvs branch to the nightly builds. The only (and irritating) problem I have at the moment is when trying to change fonts in preferences, I can't scroll down at all. Maybe it's my gtk theme, ThinIce.
Personally, I think Roblimo is one of slashdot's assets. It's plain he *does* have computing experience, hes an interesting writer and I find his articles to be some of the most enjoyable here on slashdot. Maybe I'm not a "real geek", but I want him to stay.
The last bit of your post rang a chord with me. I get too many idiots unable to understand the fact that it's possible to have a friendship with a female, that is completely non-sexual. They sit there, and look at you with confused eyes as if to say, "How can that be?".
It's simple, CmdrTaco is actually #e's bitch, and he posts whatever we tell him to do. We are in fact the shadowy team behind slashdot, and Taco is just our puppet.
Muhahahah. No, seriously, Taco was a regular member of #e before he got too busy with slashdot, so I guess it's an old time thing.
Oh, I don't know. I personally know of a big bank, which has a *huge* internal network, which was hit this week by Melissa. The network is powerful enough to fully reload the OS of every single machine nightly, to insure they have a single OS standard throughout. No, I can't provide the name of the bank because they too want to keep it private. Yes, the network has been completely smashed by this, because the first 50 entrys on the global address book happen to be their biggest mailing lists, which has caused a tiny little bit of trouble for them.:)
E doesn't really *have* a look. It's customisable to the point where you can completely change the look of it. Compare absolute e to the standard theme for an example of what I mean.
What I'd love to see is a trained graphical designer spending a few days making a *really* nice theme for Enlightenment.
I'm not knocking the work others have done, some of the themes are fantastic, and most are made by friends of mine, I'm just curious to know what an artist could do.
Interestingly enough, the guy who designed the amiga UI for QNX mentioned that he'd have to try running E, since someone ported his work to it.
I wonder what it'll take to bribe him into doing some work on a theme.:)
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I am so jealous of you, you can't even begin to imagine it. Hey, think you'll have any PFY positions going? I'll be good, I promise not to bother you with questions, I'll make nice coffee and if all else fails you can use me to beat people with when they ask stupid questions.
Come on, you know you want to.:)
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Back off nerd boy, I want a job at Redhat (UK) as well, we'll have to have a good old fashioned fight over it. *grin*
No seriously, I wonder if I could get a job as a help techie for Redhat UK, that would be neat.
Bit of a shame I use Debian really, I'd have to learn more about rpm.
I'm not trying to cause offense here, but have you stopped to remember that old people are *meant* to die. It's how life works. You get born, you breed, then you die.
Keeping old people in a world of pain for what amounts of purely selfish reasons is wrong.
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This has been happening for years. I found a while ago that a lot of coach and train ticket places in the UK will hike the price up by 25-50% if you check out a specific time/date and then fail to book but come back later from the same IP. If you search for the same ticket from a remote server (or your cellphone) it'll give you the original lower price.
So it basically boosts the price knowing you've problem come back in desperation. Shameful and bad. I know other places give different prices based on browser too, especially flights and other items like that.
All I know is when this arrives in the mail, I'm going to have to come up with a better excuse than "Oh that? I accidentally ordered it" :(
I don't know why we're so concerned about cross-contamination. The only potential downside to it that I can see is if it obscures evidence that life existed on other planets.
I just find it hard to care about balls of rock and their 'pristine environment'.
They should just make a CAPTCHA that requires strong AI to crack; we could make a great leap ahead in AI by letting the spammers solve all the problems for us!
In my day we tied an onion to our belts..
I'm one of those switchers.
I got a mini-mac just to play with, a new gadget, figured if I didn't like it then it was only the minimal specced model.
Within two days I removed my PC completely, and gave it away to someone. I was using XP, because I'm too lazy and I don't really have the time to mess with things. I used to use Linux exclusively, but (personal opinion) the font handling was so bad I gave in.
It's funny, this mini-mac is drastically underpowered and when I do things like unzip stuff I notice it, but for general use I guess I just don't care. I use a webbrowser (Safari), itunes, adium (MSN),
mail, terminal (ssh), and none of those need much power.
Well, this was long and pointless, but this thing is just so elegant that I couldn't stop myself gushing like a fanboy.
I think however, when a corporation is concerned morality is expressed differently. What a single person may be unwilling to do on moral grounds is considered differently when done on behalf of a company. Justifications start being used like "Well, it's not personal, just business."
In addition, you have the fact that as part of a corporation, you are more or less anonymous when creating policy, unless you are at the very top of the chain, so like trolls on the internet, you have less restraint in your ethics.
So, no, they don't live apart from moral dimensions, but they sure lend themselves to a different accounting system.
I've recently started a new job, at a managed services company. I've started my own wiki, initially MoinMoin but now MediaWiki, and it's the most useful thing I've ever had for work.
I've put into it everything I've discovered in the two months I've been there, and so has a coworker. Previously there was a lot of formal documentation, but it's hard to leverage in a rush.
The wiki gets right to the heart of what we have to do on a daily basis, and is updated almost constantly to reflect a deeper understanding of the system and when things change, whereas formal documentation seems to be missed and skipped over.
Thank god for Wikis.
Finally, a use for my account! I hope to make millions from this, and retire immediately.
I run NeverWinter Nights with XP, and it crashes on average about every four hours. This is due to the sound driver somehow causing problems (SoundBlaster Live).
:)
Yes, the machine has the latest drivers for all the hardware. Yes, the OS is patched fully as well. NeverWinter night has big problems!
[Hint to those in the same situation, make sure to disable all advanced sound features, and if you have an SB card, knock the hardware acceleration down a notch -- this pretty much eliminated the crahes for me.)
Also, I have a level 20 monk. Damn NeverWinter Nights is addictive!
It depends. African or European?
[Ow, don't hurt me!]
Iolo is the bard. Dupre was a paladin.
Do you run Redhat? I know there were some problems reported with random crashing on older versions of Redhat.
I've been personally using Mozilla for a number of weeks as my main browser, under Debian (woody) and I rarely have crashes. Javascript can still sometimes bring it down, but for day to day browsing it has already replaced Netscape 4.x
The only thing I need Netscape 4.x for is sites that require logging in (like the NOC site at work), and Mozilla doesn't handle those.
Anyway, the results you had surprise me - I've been getting more and more pleased with Mozilla. I haven't touched the snapshot, because I use the nightly builds, but font support seems to have greatly improved three days ago in the nightly builds, and it's getting much faster.
Maybe M14 is on a different cvs branch to the nightly builds. The only (and irritating) problem I have at the moment is when trying to change fonts in preferences, I can't scroll down at all. Maybe it's my gtk theme, ThinIce.
Personally, I think Roblimo is one of slashdot's assets. It's plain he *does* have computing experience, hes an interesting writer and I find his articles to be some of the most enjoyable here on slashdot. Maybe I'm not a "real geek", but I want him to stay.
Of course, this all depends where you originate from. Australia recently deemed the word fuck to be inoffensive. YMMV, obviously.
The last bit of your post rang a chord with me. I get too many idiots unable to understand the fact that it's possible to have a friendship with a female, that is completely non-sexual. They sit there, and look at you with confused eyes as if to say, "How can that be?".
Isn't it sad that the world has come to this.
It's simple, CmdrTaco is actually #e's bitch, and he posts whatever we tell him to do. We are in fact the shadowy team behind slashdot, and Taco is just our puppet.
Muhahahah. No, seriously, Taco was a regular member of #e before he got too busy with slashdot, so I guess it's an old time thing.
Oh, I don't know. I personally know of a big bank, which has a *huge* internal network, which was hit this week by Melissa. The network is powerful enough to fully reload the OS of every single machine nightly, to insure they have a single OS standard throughout. No, I can't provide the name of the bank because they too want to keep it private. Yes, the network has been completely smashed by this, because the first 50 entrys on the global address book happen to be their biggest mailing lists, which has caused a tiny little bit of trouble for them. :)
This sucks, I'm competely unable to find a Apple IIe/+/c/whatever emulator that actually works on my little Debian potato machine.
:)
There's one included in the distribution, but it
dies due to a svgalib problem. I was after an X program if possible.
All I want to do is play Lemonade Stand and loderunner, surely there's some hope for me, rather than dosemu?!?
E doesn't really *have* a look. It's customisable to the point where you can completely change the look of it. Compare absolute e to the standard
:)
theme for an example of what I mean.
What I'd love to see is a trained graphical designer spending a few days making a *really* nice theme for Enlightenment.
I'm not knocking the work others have done, some of the themes are fantastic, and most are made by friends of mine, I'm just curious to know what an artist could do.
Interestingly enough, the guy who designed the amiga UI for QNX mentioned that he'd have to try running E, since someone ported his work to it.
I wonder what it'll take to bribe him into doing some work on a theme.
I am so jealous of you, you can't even begin to imagine it. Hey, think you'll have any PFY positions going? I'll be good, I promise not to bother you with questions, I'll make nice coffee and if all else fails you can use me to beat people with when they ask stupid questions.
:)
Come on, you know you want to.
Back off nerd boy, I want a job at Redhat (UK) as
well, we'll have to have a good old fashioned fight over it. *grin*
No seriously, I wonder if I could get a job as a
help techie for Redhat UK, that would be neat.
Bit of a shame I use Debian really, I'd have to learn more about rpm.
Don't be stupid. He was discussing the situation from a clinical point of view. People *are* animals and it doesn't matter how much you dislike that.
He's also right in what he said as well. Deal with it.
Maybe it's just me, but I fail to see why I should go into the "REAL WORLD" and dedicate my life to helping people poorer than me.
Maybe I'm just an evil satanist, but I really don't give a damn about the people who are suffering.
Oh well, I guess I'm just selfish. At least I don't demand everyone else is selfish with me.
I'm not trying to cause offense here, but have you stopped to remember that old people are *meant* to die. It's how life works. You get born, you breed, then you die.
Keeping old people in a world of pain for what amounts of purely selfish reasons is wrong.