All fun and games until the guy in front decides to fully recline and you no longer have space to open your laptop. Aside from the usual 'hackathon' merits and drawbacks (personally, I'm not a fan of working flat out over my weekends); why on earth would you want to do this on a plane, in a noisy, cramped environment where you get to breathe in the same recycled air for 9 hours of pure mystery... I mean "fun".
I suggest you fly in an appropriate class. On BA WTP removes that problem, obviously CW and F dont get it either.
> We have the power, it's just that when half of Americans vote for people promising to bring the government to the knees, you don't wind up with the best or the brightest being elected.
Or half the people hopelessly defending a corrupted system of horizontal of checks and balances government has the capabilities to heal themselves. The only solution to that is the vertical check: nullifying government when necessary.
When you have 95% of the country always voting for their team, based on the assertion that the other team is wrong, nothing changes.
And, as pointed out in the Firehose: if you crashed an OS (be it Windows or OSX or Linux or BSD or anything) by moving some files around, then either (i) they were not unimportant files and you must have been running with privilege escalated, or (ii) you have some kind of hardware problem, which could be intermittent.
I've had my ubuntu 10.04 laptop lock up in the past -- the window manager stops responding to commands. Ctrl-Alt-F1, login, kill (usually the errant program -- often firefox or eclipse, but sometimes the whole manager), and switch back and it works.
It seems that sometimes everything can lose focus, and the keyboard becomes unresponsive. I've noticed it happen when I've done a drag and drop of a file into a java program (not moving it), but sometimes it just happens anyway.
Firefox often locks up with dns + proxy problems, a known issue they still haven't fixed.
No! They should pack their shit and leave us alone. Same goes to every politician out there. And the "special interest groups", corporate managers and CEOs and all the other greedy, power-hungry scum. We have the Internet, we can manage ourselves now, as long as the assholes in suits stay out of it.
and wake-up about just how much President Obama's $800+Billion stimulus cost those same households. Add-in the auto bailout and the insane Bush bank bailout (whose costs are blamed on Bush and counted in the last Bush deficit, but whose benefits are claimed by Obama)
There's a major problem in America. Everything is either left or right, with us or against us.
I'm not making any judgement calls, I'm pointing out basic math. Unfortunatly the majority of the country lacks basic arithmetic skills ad just accepts what they're told.
Think for yourself occasionally before spouting talking points that collapse when someone in the 4th grade looks at the claim and realises its internally inconsistent.
their reporting on their associate's child tragically killed in Gaza and accused the Israelis when in fact it was a Hamas rocket that killed her
Umm, citation needed on that. And it would hardly be surprising for a journalist to assume that explosives that strike in Gaza are much more likely to be Israeli than Hamas - Hamas firing rockets at Gaza makes about as much sense as the IDF firing explosives at Tel Aviv. I'm not suggesting Hamas are innocent here, just that they aren't that stupid.
There was a un report claiming it was probably a gaza launched missile that landed short.
However the u.n. did not visit the house where it landed. The terrorist groups in gaza tend to apologise when that kind of thing happens, they didn't. The IDF claimed they were attacking in that general area at the time, and that no missiles were being launched at that time.
The damage to the house was a lot worse than damage shown on the few gazan missiles that landed in Israel too.
BBC used to be impartial. Comparing BBC to news on the Internet it is clear the BBC now has a political Left bias that is anti-Israel (if it is anti-Israeli they always go with it, they don't fact check: eg. their reporting on their associate's child tragically killed in Gaza and accused the Israelis when in fact it was a Hamas rocket that killed her - proper journalists don't make up stuff to match their narrative like the BBC do).
The bbc barely mentioned it. The Washington post, and several British papers, had it as front page news.
BTW, The IDF also claimed they were bombing that area at the time, and that no rockets were being fired at the time.
That story actually showed how non-biased the bbc is.
For instance the 2009 Iraq war spending ($95.5B) was about $1.13 per tax paying household. On the other hand, the 2010 $521 billion cost of Medicare was funded by grabbing $6167.43 on average from each tax paying household.
Score -1 Major math fail.
95 billion is about 1/6th of 520 billion. Therefore Iraq costs 1/6th the Medicare budget based on your figures.
Your figures say that there are about 90 billion households in the u.s. based on your iraq figures of 95 billion / $1.1
I guess you have deliberately confused millions with billions to try to make a political point. Your figures should probably say iraq cost $1100 per household in one year.
Never paid it. Each month a direct debit pays it off. I just get referee. And, free insurance, and free cash back. The retailer pays for this, but they don't give me a discount if I pay by debit card, so why should I?
Most recently, the BBC banned all mention of the hunger strike initiated to bring the depraved and sickening actions of the Israeli government to the attention of the world's public.
I'm morally opposed to unjust war. One of the issues of just war is porportionality, which is mentioned in the slashdot article as "so long as that force is proportional".
We're talking about using kenetic weapons against hackers in cyberspace. Tell me, how much mass is in a bit?
I can do more damage on my laptop sitting in my pajamas before my first cup of Earl Grey than you can do in a year in the field.
I look at the pirate sites to see what's popular on TV. That's a truer reflection of what the general public wants to watch, because the seed and leech count isn't some complex proprietary formula. While fakes do pop up, with companies trying to poison the peer population to discourage downloading, the protocol is self-correcting and it is really just further evidence of its popularity. It represents an intentional and willful effort to watch these shows, not just a casual interest because it feels less lonely than leaving the TV on to blare commercials while you do something else. If you want to know which shows are popular, not just locally, but internationally then torrent sites are really the best measure of a show's actual popularity. And it's not limited to TV either; A movie's true popularity is also reflected in the download count, moreso than an imdb rating.
You can't trust for-profit organizations to give fair an unbiased numbers -- for enough money, they're only too happy to rig the system. There's companies whose sole reason for existance is to push books onto the New York Times' best seller lists. Because sales data and other information is all kept hidden behind a wall of corporate proprietary data, it's possible to rig the system.
The pirates... you can't rig the system. Either it's popular, or it isn't. No games, no bullshit.
You're making the assumption that torrents are downloaded by a representative sample of the global audience. It's not, it's skewed towards "geeks"
However neilson doesn't care about how many people watch a given tv show, they care about how many watch the adverts.
Like it or not, American idol and the like attract a large number of viewers. These people watch it live as braindead tv, and therefore watch adverts.
People time shifting, which I'd guess is how most people watch quality tv, will skip the adverts. People downloading never even see the adverts.
This is a problem for networks that rely on advertising
I have a T410S. The spare battery (in place of the CD drive) often falls out, the tiny rivets holding the screen together has failed on both sides -- I've put screws in the lid to fix it. It still has a trackpoint, matt screen, and half decent keyboard though
That said, It's survived the last few years, the two original batteries are still giving me a couple of hours, despite being charged and discharged probably 1500 times, physically (despite the modifications to the screen, which must have been opened over 10,000 times), it's racked up enough miles being flung into overhead lockers in my rucksack (may times while still powered, chunterring away compiling something) on it's travels to get to the moon
Doesn't feel as solid as my 380ED was 15 years ago, but that didn't get half as much punishment.
My 15" macbook (about 18 months old) sits next to it in the rucksack and isn't doing too bad (despite having a coin stuck in the sd slot), but I don't use it half as much as the thinkpad (running ubuntu 10.04)
It's probably nearing time for a new thinkpad, so on my list is * decent screen * matt screen * trackpoint * keyboard light * built in 3g card * extra battery slot * Large SSD (significantly more than my 128GB one) * 8GB or more of memory
I'm not convinced by the look of the new keyboards, however there's not exactly a great deal of choice in decent laptops.
There will never be a shortage. Islamic law allows men to seek out girls as young as 9 for marriage - following the example of Mohammed himself. So it's not like there will ever be a shortage of women - and also, not all women of age would get sold into the harems of rich sheikhs. The ones that don't, and also the divorced ones would always be available to the poor Muslims. And heavens forbid, if there are non-Muslim women in the neighborhood, don't be surprised if they disappear, as they regularly do in Pakistan, even when they are underaged: there have been hundreds of instances of Christian or Hindu girls being kidnapped and 'married' to Muslim kidnappers, and that has also caused a quiet exodus of a good portion of the remaining Hindus to India.
In a typical normal country of 10 million there are about 5 million women and 5 million men.
If you change this to exclude women under 9 and men under 25, you get about 4 million women and 3 million men.
This means 1.3 wives per man. In a middle-age country, where the men are dying by their millions in war, the numbers come out to be about 4 million women and 1 million men, 4 wives per man.
Islam's view that men should take wives made sense in the dark ages when women couldn't look after themselves, and men were usually dead.
Most Islamic countries are stuck in those dark ages.
Well, I was amazed how fast his article in Wikipedia got updated. It didn't take more than a minute. Also, many big news websites in my country are down. That never happened before, as far as I know.
What are you, a teenager?
Slashdot was pretty much the only news site accessible on Sep 11th 2001.
Slashdot Mirror
Been there, done that. September 11th caused more damage to the u.s than anyone could have hoped for/feared.
Sorry you live in such a sucky country. I suggest moving out of your corrupt hellhole (Russia?) to somewhere humane.
All fun and games until the guy in front decides to fully recline and you no longer have space to open your laptop. Aside from the usual 'hackathon' merits and drawbacks (personally, I'm not a fan of working flat out over my weekends); why on earth would you want to do this on a plane, in a noisy, cramped environment where you get to breathe in the same recycled air for 9 hours of pure mystery... I mean "fun".
I suggest you fly in an appropriate class. On BA WTP removes that problem, obviously CW and F dont get it either.
> We have the power, it's just that when half of Americans vote for people promising to bring the government to the knees, you don't wind up with the best or the brightest being elected.
Or half the people hopelessly defending a corrupted system of horizontal of checks and balances government has the capabilities to heal themselves. The only solution to that is the vertical check: nullifying government when necessary.
When you have 95% of the country always voting for their team, based on the assertion that the other team is wrong, nothing changes.
And, as pointed out in the Firehose: if you crashed an OS (be it Windows or OSX or Linux or BSD or anything) by moving some files around, then either (i) they were not unimportant files and you must have been running with privilege escalated, or (ii) you have some kind of hardware problem, which could be intermittent.
I've had my ubuntu 10.04 laptop lock up in the past -- the window manager stops responding to commands. Ctrl-Alt-F1, login, kill (usually the errant program -- often firefox or eclipse, but sometimes the whole manager), and switch back and it works.
It seems that sometimes everything can lose focus, and the keyboard becomes unresponsive. I've noticed it happen when I've done a drag and drop of a file into a java program (not moving it), but sometimes it just happens anyway.
Firefox often locks up with dns + proxy problems, a known issue they still haven't fixed.
No! They should pack their shit and leave us alone. Same goes to every politician out there. And the "special interest groups", corporate managers and CEOs and all the other greedy, power-hungry scum. We have the Internet, we can manage ourselves now, as long as the assholes in suits stay out of it.
-1 deluded
and wake-up about just how much President Obama's $800+Billion stimulus cost those same households. Add-in the auto bailout and the insane Bush bank bailout (whose costs are blamed on Bush and counted in the last Bush deficit, but whose benefits are claimed by Obama)
There's a major problem in America. Everything is either left or right, with us or against us.
I'm not making any judgement calls, I'm pointing out basic math. Unfortunatly the majority of the country lacks basic arithmetic skills ad just accepts what they're told.
Think for yourself occasionally before spouting talking points that collapse when someone in the 4th grade looks at the claim and realises its internally inconsistent.
their reporting on their associate's child tragically killed in Gaza and accused the Israelis when in fact it was a Hamas rocket that killed her
Umm, citation needed on that. And it would hardly be surprising for a journalist to assume that explosives that strike in Gaza are much more likely to be Israeli than Hamas - Hamas firing rockets at Gaza makes about as much sense as the IDF firing explosives at Tel Aviv. I'm not suggesting Hamas are innocent here, just that they aren't that stupid.
There was a un report claiming it was probably a gaza launched missile that landed short.
However the u.n. did not visit the house where it landed. The terrorist groups in gaza tend to apologise when that kind of thing happens, they didn't. The IDF claimed they were attacking in that general area at the time, and that no missiles were being launched at that time.
The damage to the house was a lot worse than damage shown on the few gazan missiles that landed in Israel too.
BBC used to be impartial. Comparing BBC to news on the Internet it is clear the BBC now has a political Left bias that is anti-Israel (if it is anti-Israeli they always go with it, they don't fact check: eg. their reporting on their associate's child tragically killed in Gaza and accused the Israelis when in fact it was a Hamas rocket that killed her - proper journalists don't make up stuff to match their narrative like the BBC do).
The bbc barely mentioned it. The Washington post, and several British papers, had it as front page news.
BTW, The IDF also claimed they were bombing that area at the time, and that no rockets were being fired at the time.
That story actually showed how non-biased the bbc is.
For instance the 2009 Iraq war spending ($95.5B) was about $1.13 per tax paying household. On the other hand, the 2010 $521 billion cost of Medicare was funded by grabbing $6167.43 on average from each tax paying household.
Score -1 Major math fail.
95 billion is about 1/6th of 520 billion. Therefore Iraq costs 1/6th the Medicare budget based on your figures.
Your figures say that there are about 90 billion households in the u.s. based on your iraq figures of 95 billion / $1.1
I guess you have deliberately confused millions with billions to try to make a political point. Your figures should probably say iraq cost $1100 per household in one year.
Interest?
Never paid it. Each month a direct debit pays it off. I just get referee. And, free insurance, and free cash back. The retailer pays for this, but they don't give me a discount if I pay by debit card, so why should I?
Most recently, the BBC banned all mention of the hunger strike initiated to bring the depraved and sickening actions of the Israeli government to the attention of the world's public.
March:
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21768293
Some prisoners have also been on hunger strike in protest at their treatment.
Feb:
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21615320
Two Palestinians held in Israeli jail end hunger strike
Feb
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21564604
Palestinian prisoners stage fast over inmate death
or Gitmo. That place is still open, right?
No, first thing Obama did in 2009 was shut it down.
I'm morally opposed to unjust war. One of the issues of just war is porportionality, which is mentioned in the slashdot article as "so long as that force is proportional".
We're talking about using kenetic weapons against hackers in cyberspace. Tell me, how much mass is in a bit?
I can do more damage on my laptop sitting in my pajamas before my first cup of Earl Grey than you can do in a year in the field.
I look at the pirate sites to see what's popular on TV. That's a truer reflection of what the general public wants to watch, because the seed and leech count isn't some complex proprietary formula. While fakes do pop up, with companies trying to poison the peer population to discourage downloading, the protocol is self-correcting and it is really just further evidence of its popularity. It represents an intentional and willful effort to watch these shows, not just a casual interest because it feels less lonely than leaving the TV on to blare commercials while you do something else. If you want to know which shows are popular, not just locally, but internationally then torrent sites are really the best measure of a show's actual popularity. And it's not limited to TV either; A movie's true popularity is also reflected in the download count, moreso than an imdb rating.
You can't trust for-profit organizations to give fair an unbiased numbers -- for enough money, they're only too happy to rig the system. There's companies whose sole reason for existance is to push books onto the New York Times' best seller lists. Because sales data and other information is all kept hidden behind a wall of corporate proprietary data, it's possible to rig the system.
The pirates... you can't rig the system. Either it's popular, or it isn't. No games, no bullshit.
You're making the assumption that torrents are downloaded by a representative sample of the global audience. It's not, it's skewed towards "geeks"
However neilson doesn't care about how many people watch a given tv show, they care about how many watch the adverts.
Like it or not, American idol and the like attract a large number of viewers. These people watch it live as braindead tv, and therefore watch adverts.
People time shifting, which I'd guess is how most people watch quality tv, will skip the adverts. People downloading never even see the adverts.
This is a problem for networks that rely on advertising
It also has to do with each shot taking place from a stand still, very different to many other sports.
It's not just golf - watch what happens in tennis when someone calls out during a serve.
Golf, Tennis, Snooker are the ones that come to mind as requiring silence.
I'm not watching TV since 2005. Such a waste of time.
Unlike slashdot
I have a T410S. The spare battery (in place of the CD drive) often falls out, the tiny rivets holding the screen together has failed on both sides -- I've put screws in the lid to fix it. It still has a trackpoint, matt screen, and half decent keyboard though
That said, It's survived the last few years, the two original batteries are still giving me a couple of hours, despite being charged and discharged probably 1500 times, physically (despite the modifications to the screen, which must have been opened over 10,000 times), it's racked up enough miles being flung into overhead lockers in my rucksack (may times while still powered, chunterring away compiling something) on it's travels to get to the moon
Doesn't feel as solid as my 380ED was 15 years ago, but that didn't get half as much punishment.
My 15" macbook (about 18 months old) sits next to it in the rucksack and isn't doing too bad (despite having a coin stuck in the sd slot), but I don't use it half as much as the thinkpad (running ubuntu 10.04)
It's probably nearing time for a new thinkpad, so on my list is
* decent screen
* matt screen
* trackpoint
* keyboard light
* built in 3g card
* extra battery slot
* Large SSD (significantly more than my 128GB one)
* 8GB or more of memory
I'm not convinced by the look of the new keyboards, however there's not exactly a great deal of choice in decent laptops.
Who the hell works more than 30 hours per week anyway?
Depends. Does "work time" include "slashdot time"?
Nice copy and paste, but no mention of wars here.
Shocked to see that luxembourg has so many ex pats though.
When Muslims rape kids, it's usually girls. When Catholics rape kids, it tends to be boys.
Can I download their output on my Commodore 64?
They switch to young boys usually.
Wrong religion, that's the Catholics.
There will never be a shortage. Islamic law allows men to seek out girls as young as 9 for marriage - following the example of Mohammed himself. So it's not like there will ever be a shortage of women - and also, not all women of age would get sold into the harems of rich sheikhs. The ones that don't, and also the divorced ones would always be available to the poor Muslims. And heavens forbid, if there are non-Muslim women in the neighborhood, don't be surprised if they disappear, as they regularly do in Pakistan, even when they are underaged: there have been hundreds of instances of Christian or Hindu girls being kidnapped and 'married' to Muslim kidnappers, and that has also caused a quiet exodus of a good portion of the remaining Hindus to India.
In a typical normal country of 10 million there are about 5 million women and 5 million men.
If you change this to exclude women under 9 and men under 25, you get about 4 million women and 3 million men.
This means 1.3 wives per man. In a middle-age country, where the men are dying by their millions in war, the numbers come out to be about 4 million women and 1 million men, 4 wives per man.
Islam's view that men should take wives made sense in the dark ages when women couldn't look after themselves, and men were usually dead.
Most Islamic countries are stuck in those dark ages.
Well, I was amazed how fast his article in Wikipedia got updated. It didn't take more than a minute. Also, many big news websites in my country are down. That never happened before, as far as I know.
What are you, a teenager?
Slashdot was pretty much the only news site accessible on Sep 11th 2001.
So it's like a plasma screen tv?
Not any decent quality plasma made in the last 5 years or so.
They still make plasmas?