For my $20,000, I got exclusive control to design the pool just the way I like it. If I can find other people who want to share the burden of designing the pool, that's fine, but that means that they also get input on how the pool should look.
If other people come along after the design work is done, they can accept the result as is for free, or pay a little more to revisit the plans and customize it for themself. The harm to the original designer? None at all. My pool is just the way I like it.
Slashdot.org has four syllables, only three of which are really significant. 64.28.67.150 has 12 syllables, of which it may be argued only nine are significant. I'll take four over 12 any day.
In addition, names are much easier to remember than apparently-random strings of numbers. My work and home IP addresses both start with the same first octet, and a few more of the digits are similar enough (though transposed) to cause confusion on about a weekly basis. The names, however, have never caused me problems.
You can get 100% of your work done at using assembly language. You should read and write from the hard drive at the bit level - no need for disk drivers or filesystems. You talk about speed, my assembler code rips up those raw disk partitions quicker than anything.
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Get real. Abstraction is life. You use abstraction every day, you have simply picked an arbitrary level of abstraction and called it "right". Most people seem to prefer a few more levels of abstraction, and that doesn't make them stupid. Maybe it just makes them efficient.
I don't feel like wasting a lot of time getting Linux tuned the way I need it to be. I've got stuff to do. I only get 168 hours per week, but I can always make more money.
This article is foolishness at best. The previous administration's repeated attempts to squash freedoms are seen as "pandering, and they probable should have known better" but are excused because they knew the courts would laugh at them. News flash: The same courts are in place now!
Plenty of geeks think MS should be punished, maybe even broken up. Plenty of geeks think that there is altogether too much pr0n on the net. Plenty of geeks have political that aren't knee-jerk liberal, but you would never know it from reading "official"/. posts.
There are a bunch of things I'm unhappy about, that doesn't mean I would do anything about them if I suddenly became President. The presidency of the US is first and foremost a "bully pulpit" and I would expect someone who believes as Bush believe (and as lots of other people believe) to talk loudly and often about the things he doesn't like, including the bad stuff on the net. But it's just talk. Does that mean he'll act to stomp on civil liberties?
Ridiculous. He'd have a way to go to match the previous administration, and so far he hasn't done anything.
Here in America, we're used to gasbags on both (or all five) sides of any given issue telling the rest of us that the choice is obvious because of 'X' and that we're obviously stupid if we can't see it. Quite frankly, I've got my own idea of what is important about this election and how well foreign leaders admire the personality (or lack of personality) of our next President is way down on my list.
The issues we deal with aren't the same as the ones most European countries deal with. One hot issue here is immigration, legal (e.g. H1B) and illegal. Not too many other countries have that issue to deal with, and the continued "problem" serves to reinforce our self-centered (but accurate?) image that America stands alone in the world as a country that thinks (or doesn't think) for itself first and often only.
I've made my decision based on things like abortion, gun control, military use, the "war on drugs", and national sovereignty. I don't really care how well Tony Blair gets along with our next President, or whether Denmark's parliament "approves" of his economic policies.
As it happens, I live in Texas, where Bush will obviously take the prize. (For all that you seem to think he's an idiot, Texans overwhelmingly re-elected him as governor) So I'm going to take my opportunity (since a vote for either Gore or Bush is "wasted") to vote for the candidate my conscience dictates.
And although I like his foreign policy views, it wouldn't really matter much to me if he never even left the United States for a visit.
Don't like it? Well, I won't tell you how to vote, and you can join the hundreds of other egotistical gasbags who all seem to think that their way is the only way to view any issue.
Goal: To change the (broken) system. Method: To cleverly disguise myself as an apathetic idiot who doesn't care enough to vote. Result: Nothing. Not even a blip on the evening news. Not even a post on a conspiracy-oriented website. The status quo continues.
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Goal: To change the (broken) system. Method: To organize others to vote for George Washington (or Abraham Lincoln or Thomas Jefferson, whomever) Result: What percentage of votes would have to be for dead former-presidents before we made the evening news? Perhaps that might even wake up a few people who truly are apathetic idiots.
A true anarchist does not abstain, he votes to screw the system!
Gee, I'm gonna have to go with the apathetic idiot disguise...
Actually, The Iron Giant was a mix of 2D and 3D animation as well - while the giant was done in 3D on a computer, everything else, from characters to the backgrounds, was done by hand, mostly in 2D.
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For my $20,000, I got exclusive control to design the pool just the way I like it. If I can find other people who want to share the burden of designing the pool, that's fine, but that means that they also get input on how the pool should look.
If other people come along after the design work is done, they can accept the result as is for free, or pay a little more to revisit the plans and customize it for themself. The harm to the original designer? None at all. My pool is just the way I like it.
Mike Myers and Eddie Murphy, you mean...
Slashdot.org has four syllables, only three of which are really significant. 64.28.67.150 has 12 syllables, of which it may be argued only nine are significant. I'll take four over 12 any day.
In addition, names are much easier to remember than apparently-random strings of numbers. My work and home IP addresses both start with the same first octet, and a few more of the digits are similar enough (though transposed) to cause confusion on about a weekly basis. The names, however, have never caused me problems.
No, no, NO!
You can get 100% of your work done at using assembly language. You should read and write from the hard drive at the bit level - no need for disk drivers or filesystems. You talk about speed, my assembler code rips up those raw disk partitions quicker than anything.
</ridiculous>
Get real. Abstraction is life. You use abstraction every day, you have simply picked an arbitrary level of abstraction and called it "right". Most people seem to prefer a few more levels of abstraction, and that doesn't make them stupid. Maybe it just makes them efficient.
I don't feel like wasting a lot of time getting Linux tuned the way I need it to be. I've got stuff to do. I only get 168 hours per week, but I can always make more money.
Plenty of geeks think MS should be punished, maybe even broken up. Plenty of geeks think that there is altogether too much pr0n on the net. Plenty of geeks have political that aren't knee-jerk liberal, but you would never know it from reading "official" /. posts.
There are a bunch of things I'm unhappy about, that doesn't mean I would do anything about them if I suddenly became President. The presidency of the US is first and foremost a "bully pulpit" and I would expect someone who believes as Bush believe (and as lots of other people believe) to talk loudly and often about the things he doesn't like, including the bad stuff on the net. But it's just talk. Does that mean he'll act to stomp on civil liberties?
Ridiculous. He'd have a way to go to match the previous administration, and so far he hasn't done anything.
Here in America, we're used to gasbags on both (or all five) sides of any given issue telling the rest of us that the choice is obvious because of 'X' and that we're obviously stupid if we can't see it. Quite frankly, I've got my own idea of what is important about this election and how well foreign leaders admire the personality (or lack of personality) of our next President is way down on my list.
The issues we deal with aren't the same as the ones most European countries deal with. One hot issue here is immigration, legal (e.g. H1B) and illegal. Not too many other countries have that issue to deal with, and the continued "problem" serves to reinforce our self-centered (but accurate?) image that America stands alone in the world as a country that thinks (or doesn't think) for itself first and often only.
I've made my decision based on things like abortion, gun control, military use, the "war on drugs", and national sovereignty. I don't really care how well Tony Blair gets along with our next President, or whether Denmark's parliament "approves" of his economic policies.
As it happens, I live in Texas, where Bush will obviously take the prize. (For all that you seem to think he's an idiot, Texans overwhelmingly re-elected him as governor) So I'm going to take my opportunity (since a vote for either Gore or Bush is "wasted") to vote for the candidate my conscience dictates.
And although I like his foreign policy views, it wouldn't really matter much to me if he never even left the United States for a visit.
Don't like it? Well, I won't tell you how to vote, and you can join the hundreds of other egotistical gasbags who all seem to think that their way is the only way to view any issue.
Method: To cleverly disguise myself as an apathetic idiot who doesn't care enough to vote.
Result: Nothing. Not even a blip on the evening news. Not even a post on a conspiracy-oriented website. The status quo continues.
Goal: To change the (broken) system.
Method: To organize others to vote for George Washington (or Abraham Lincoln or Thomas Jefferson, whomever)
Result: What percentage of votes would have to be for dead former-presidents before we made the evening news? Perhaps that might even wake up a few people who truly are apathetic idiots.
A true anarchist does not abstain, he votes to screw the system!
Gee, I'm gonna have to go with the apathetic idiot disguise...
Actually, The Iron Giant was a mix of 2D and 3D animation as well - while the giant was done in 3D on a computer, everything else, from characters to the backgrounds, was done by hand, mostly in 2D.