Even Hillary Clinton is more geeky than Paris Hilton, just for being married to a guy who used to work with the guy who invented the Internet, and then moved on to make a world-renowned powerpoint presentation about the weather.
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Yes. Where the hell is Anousheh?
Ok, you go to space, you blog about it, the blog gets slashdotted. And you don't even beat Paris Hilton in geekiness? Nothing to see here, move along.
The technical solution already exists today, it already works in both Firefox and IE and some other applications, and it is already used in i.e. the.nu and.se domains. It's up to each TLD to decide what profile of domain names they accept, and no modifications of the DNS protocol is needed.
The ICANN has nothing to do with this. Move along.
I'm a nerd, but not a gamer. I just want a reasonably fast thing to compile my thingies on and maybe play something fun once on a while. I like something with 3D capabilities, but it doesn't have to be the latest ATItrox G4FX80. I buy a computer every five years, then keep it until it becomes unbearably slow due to spec rot, i.e. considering the new advances in using up system resources.
"Upgrade" to me means buying new motherboard, CPU and RAM. I'll get a motherboard with integrated audio and graphics, to not crowd my box with unnecessary cards, to not have to choose. They're also cheaper and smaller integrated. Now, if the GPU were integrated into the CPU this would probably mean less chip area, less power consumption and generally good things, so I guess I'm the target market here.
There's a UCPD? What the hell kind of a place is this?
I've been to two universities, one in Sweden and one in Germany, both about 70% the size of UCLA -- as many pre-graduate students but fewer post-graduate ones. I've never heard anyone even think the thought that a university would have its own police force!
At student parties we have four student guards trained by the police. Some people feel that this seems a bit over the top, but they're good for checking the student IDs of people entering and once in a while carrying away some unruly guy who had a few drinks too much. Deputy officers in the library? Man, that's just straight out of another planet.
Current purchasers at least have the luxury of knowing the absurd rates these trinkets will cost them, but those of us that purchased cards prior to the release of this information were absolutely screwed.
Yes, like any other sucker in this world who bought a pig in a poke.
I don't understand why people need to make things more complicated than they are.
In Sweden, there are no chads or pen marks or anything for the basic vote. You just put the papers of your choice into your voting envelope. For each simultaneous election you have ten or so different piles of pre-printed ballots carrying the names of the different parties available in your region, and a pile of blank ballots.
If you want to also vote for a certain person within the party, you put a cross in the box beside that person's name. And if you want to vote for a non-registered party you pick a blank vote and write whatever you like on it.
What's the customer advantage of the self-checkout if you still need to scan and bag groceries at the checkout? The Swedish systems let you bag and scan as you go through the store, and the checkout is simply: hand in the scanner, pay the groceries and be merry on your way. Regardless if you bought four bags of stuff or just a pack of razorblades it takes 20 seconds. Never need to stand in line. Excellent.
You mean, exactly as in English? How does this make "vrije" not mean "free"? Only on/. would someone automatically assume this has something to do with one particular meaning of the word.
The university policy seems to be not to translate the name, so the newspaper should have followed that, but the translation certainly is correct. Many organisations (including universities) translate their names in an international context and some of the personal homepages on the VU translate the name, so I wouldn't be too hard on the BBC for this slight transgression.
Of course, the only thing sillier than a nit-picker is its jealous cousin, me.
Yes, he probably does. And the rights to those photos belong to the photographer, not the photographee, so you may do what you like with your photo, even restrict the access to it.
He's selling his time, nothing new about that. RMS has never had to live on air and love only, because his time is a valuable asset to sell.
Double click the DeerPark Disk Image to open it in Finder and drag the Deer Park application onto your hard disk. Do not double click the icon in the disk image!
This is a serious bug!
The best thing about bundles and disk images is that I can try the program out without installing anything. Works on all other programs I use. What kind of crippled code runs differently on one filesystem than on another? (Well, at least it doesn't need write permission to its own directories)
If there's a real bottom line here, the one thing I'm clear on is that I haven't found it yet
Indeed. Lots of "I have no idea, but the feeling I get..." and "I don't know Linux, but...".
Can a Sparc multiprocess on one processor? No. Does it therefore "[defeat] the goal of true concurrency between threads"? No, and neither does x86.
And what's this BSD blabbering bit at the end?
the BSD people have had their technical focus fractured by more than a few explosive rebellions
You mean, like the forks? Is 4-5 forks "more than a few"? And have they really been that explosive? How is DragonFlyBSD "technical focus fractured" by the fact that Matt doesn't try to develop for 55 platforms simultaneously while revamping the entire VFS and the threads infrastructure?
you'll find essentially nothing in the [Darwin] kernel that's directly from either BSD 4.3 or SunOS 4
That's because they are old systems, and because Darwin relies on the Mach kernel for basic operations. If the BSD server has borrowed from anything, it's FreeBSD 4/5. But why am I even bothering? You haven't been in the kernel.
but the ancestral relationship is blindingly obvious to anyone who has used both.
The relationship you see is that Darwin userspace is basically FreeBSD 5 userspace. "Blindingly obvious" to anyone who has even briefly glanced at the lists the last year.
When I installed 1.0 "warn when closing multiple tabs" was checked by default (in prefs->advanced->tabbed browsing), which does exactly what you are asking for.
You haven't been doing your homework. From http://www.ubuntulinux.org/ (the front page, this text has been there for several weeks):
UPDATE: The Ubuntu CD Distribution System will NOT close to new orders for Warty CDs as previously announced. Thanks to everyone who emailed to ask us to keep the free CD shipments going for Warty. See the CD FAQ for more info.
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Even Hillary Clinton is more geeky than Paris Hilton, just for being married to a guy who used to work with the guy who invented the Internet, and then moved on to make a world-renowned powerpoint presentation about the weather.
Yes. Where the hell is Anousheh?
Ok, you go to space, you blog about it, the blog gets slashdotted. And you don't even beat Paris Hilton in geekiness? Nothing to see here, move along.
This is nonsense.
.nu and .se domains. It's up to each TLD to decide what profile of domain names they accept, and no modifications of the DNS protocol is needed.
The technical solution already exists today, it already works in both Firefox and IE and some other applications, and it is already used in i.e. the
The ICANN has nothing to do with this. Move along.
I'm a nerd, but not a gamer. I just want a reasonably fast thing to compile my thingies on and maybe play something fun once on a while. I like something with 3D capabilities, but it doesn't have to be the latest ATItrox G4FX80. I buy a computer every five years, then keep it until it becomes unbearably slow due to spec rot, i.e. considering the new advances in using up system resources.
"Upgrade" to me means buying new motherboard, CPU and RAM. I'll get a motherboard with integrated audio and graphics, to not crowd my box with unnecessary cards, to not have to choose. They're also cheaper and smaller integrated. Now, if the GPU were integrated into the CPU this would probably mean less chip area, less power consumption and generally good things, so I guess I'm the target market here.
There's a UCPD? What the hell kind of a place is this?
I've been to two universities, one in Sweden and one in Germany, both about 70% the size of UCLA -- as many pre-graduate students but fewer post-graduate ones. I've never heard anyone even think the thought that a university would have its own police force!
At student parties we have four student guards trained by the police. Some people feel that this seems a bit over the top, but they're good for checking the student IDs of people entering and once in a while carrying away some unruly guy who had a few drinks too much. Deputy officers in the library? Man, that's just straight out of another planet.
No, in that case we wouldn't have "needed" the DMCA.
Red motherboard are soo much cooler than green ones. And yellow ones just look cheap.
Sales figures, pricing, margins.. These things are considered trade secrets in most businesses.
Still east of Washington D.C., though. ;-)
Yes, like any other sucker in this world who bought a pig in a poke.
Don't overinterpret the headline. Debian is, in fact, a OSS Community...
I don't understand why people need to make things more complicated than they are.
In Sweden, there are no chads or pen marks or anything for the basic vote. You just put the papers of your choice into your voting envelope. For each simultaneous election you have ten or so different piles of pre-printed ballots carrying the names of the different parties available in your region, and a pile of blank ballots.
If you want to also vote for a certain person within the party, you put a cross in the box beside that person's name. And if you want to vote for a non-registered party you pick a blank vote and write whatever you like on it.
What's the customer advantage of the self-checkout if you still need to scan and bag groceries at the checkout? The Swedish systems let you bag and scan as you go through the store, and the checkout is simply: hand in the scanner, pay the groceries and be merry on your way. Regardless if you bought four bags of stuff or just a pack of razorblades it takes 20 seconds. Never need to stand in line. Excellent.
You mean, exactly as in English? How does this make "vrije" not mean "free"? Only on /. would someone automatically assume this has something to do with one particular meaning of the word.
The university policy seems to be not to translate the name, so the newspaper should have followed that, but the translation certainly is correct. Many organisations (including universities) translate their names in an international context and some of the personal homepages on the VU translate the name, so I wouldn't be too hard on the BBC for this slight transgression.
Of course, the only thing sillier than a nit-picker is its jealous cousin, me.
Really? In Sweden, that used to be that you would automatically become a member if at least one of your parents were a member.
Oh, and none of that baptism stuff. You would probably do that sooner or later, and the confirmation as well, but not as a mandate or prerequisite.
Actually it's pronounced more like WhoreCon. Thats an å, not an a.
Yes, he probably does. And the rights to those photos belong to the photographer, not the photographee, so you may do what you like with your photo, even restrict the access to it.
He's selling his time, nothing new about that. RMS has never had to live on air and love only, because his time is a valuable asset to sell.
Funny(5)? Where's the joke?
They are.
This is a serious bug!
The best thing about bundles and disk images is that I can try the program out without installing anything. Works on all other programs I use.
What kind of crippled code runs differently on one filesystem than on another? (Well, at least it doesn't need write permission to its own directories)
Quicktime Alternative gives you the codecs without the cruft.
Indeed. Lots of "I have no idea, but the feeling I get..." and "I don't know Linux, but...".
Can a Sparc multiprocess on one processor? No. Does it therefore "[defeat] the goal of true concurrency between threads"? No, and neither does x86.
And what's this BSD blabbering bit at the end?
You mean, like the forks? Is 4-5 forks "more than a few"? And have they really been that explosive? How is DragonFlyBSD "technical focus fractured" by the fact that Matt doesn't try to develop for 55 platforms simultaneously while revamping the entire VFS and the threads infrastructure?
That's because they are old systems, and because Darwin relies on the Mach kernel for basic operations. If the BSD server has borrowed from anything, it's FreeBSD 4/5. But why am I even bothering? You haven't been in the kernel.
The relationship you see is that Darwin userspace is basically FreeBSD 5 userspace. "Blindingly obvious" to anyone who has even briefly glanced at the lists the last year.
Umm, what version are you using?
When I installed 1.0 "warn when closing multiple tabs" was checked by default (in prefs->advanced->tabbed browsing), which does exactly what you are asking for.
Funny?? This is insightful, if anything.
Indeed. Wasn't that the poster's point?