Some people *cough*me, have wives that attempted to do a good thing and buy the DVD when it first came out because they did not realize there was an extended edition.
"I think LoTR is a very well-loved book among the regulars on Slashdot because they all admire Peter Jackson's audacity and vision..."
um...what about the books themselves? I think LoTR is well loved all around (not just/.ers) because the books are awesome. Pete Jackson has nothing to do with it. He altered the format, but the main attraction is the story (and everything that goes with them), and no the visual effects.
and WHERE oh WHERE does the government get _its_ funds? This reminds me of a local commercial where a state rep was trying to get some funding for a new pork barrel, and he said "Don't worry, half the project will be funded from the US Government so it's not coming out of your pockets." Ummm....right, because the government holds bake sales every weekend?
"...a way for them to avoid the effort of making a patch"
However, they already have a patch for 2K and XP. There is such a thing as a bad architecture - which is why they re-wrote the RPC stuff in 2K. I'm all for MS bashing but this bandwagon is losing a wheel:-)
Very high. Users with the least amount of knowledge usually can do the most damage. Developers and regular usuers use the system with preconceived notions of what should and should not be done. Newbies almost always do something which causes the application(s) to crash.
In Software Engineering the phrase is something like, 'the least trained tester is the best tester'.
I tend to operate in the same mode you do. However, it did cause problems once.
I had (note the tense) a friend in construction. He helped me tremendously on some projects on my house. To repay him, I built a network in his home/office to connect a few PCs, printer, blah, blah, blah. In the process of setting everything up Win98 on his wife/secretary's computer choked on the new driver and required installation. Since the company records and software were on that machine (backed up, but still a pain to reinstall), he was furious. Understandably so, he was trying to run a business. Downtime is lost money.
No explaining could convince him it wasn't my fault. I was offended because he wouldn't listen to my professional opinion (which was Win98 is f-ing crap).
Business theory contradicts your attitude. Bad experiences are conveyed 50% more than good experiences. Also, depending on the industry, of course, repeat business usually accounts for a large portion of profits. Therefore, companies exist because they please customers.
Example, Midas Muffler ripped me off hard core 14 years ago. I have never been back, and I tell everyone I know not to go there as well.
' But in many Linux distributions, can't you just double-click an RPM or dpkg file, press 'OK' and off it goes?'
Not always. I think this is the point of the parent. Typically, when installing a decent size package (let's say upgrading to the new KDE) it's one missing dependency after another. This becomes very frustrating. Having an install program that recogzided dependencies and downloaded for you would be great. Didn't BSD have something like this?
$47K? That can't be right. I attended a back woods high school in Maine and our best teacher (voted by the students) made ~$20K. Granted, that was a few years ago. When I finished my undergrad I stopped in to talk to him, and he was considering moving to another state for a better salary.
Keep in mind, that's a sample size of 1 - but it was a far cry from $47.
I'm only responded because I lost karma on this exchange...
I agree these guys are whores. I agree they should be reprimanded. My ONLY comment was to the parent poster who said "they sold out cheap". My point is that when you are f-ing poor, you'll sell out for a tuna-freakin-fish sandwich.
I, too, got a shitty job. That *may* not have been on option for these students in the current job market.
Moderators: read the context before modding flamebiat. arg
" It sure doesn't take much to compromise a person's self-respect or integrity.... They sold out cheap."
Let me guess, you were the arsehole who had the porche parked in the school lot. Did you see the old beat up Ford Escort with a different color fender, no muffler, and a broken windshield? The guy that owned the Escort (and I know him well) would have sold his self-respect for a tuna-freakin-fish sandwich. That guy had LESS than $20/mo for food, toiletries, and beer. You wouldn't survive a week in that guys shoes. $20/mo means another case of mac-n-cheese.
I have been to many NASCAR races (both up North and down South) and I have never seen anyone waving a Confederate flag. I *think* I may have seen a sticker of a Confederate flag on a window in TN at a NASCAR event.
NASCAR fans are NOT all southern rednecks. It is a mainstream sport with fans of all races, sexes, and monetary backgrounds.
"What NASCAR should do is make the actual engine displacement for the superspeedways smaller. Make 'em run a 3 litre V6."
I disagree. I think that would bring the cost up, because everyone would now need two engine programs. This is exactly why NASCAR doesn't allow qualifying enigines. Want to slow the cars down on the high banks w/o a plate - take off the rear spoiler. It then turns the race into raw handling.
>NASCAR is for rednecks and geeks who want to be rednecks.
I know I shouldn't, but I'll feed the troll.
Ever been to a NASCAR race? There are a lot more than just rednecks. Businessmen pay a ton of $ for box seats, and there are a lot of 'average Joes' in the stands.
Know what you are talking about before you speak. Bigot.
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> once you are in "line" you need to stick your head out once a while otherwise your engines overheat.
Sort of. It depends on how much tape the car has on the grill. If the car has too much tape (therefore more front downforce) then he'll need clean air. Less tape (less front downforce) and overheating in the draft is not usually a problem.
You and the parent poster obviously know nothing about NASCAR.
NASCAR tracks vary in size (.5 mile to 2.5 mile), shape (oval, road courses, D), surfaces ( different asphalt compounds) and degree of banking (36 at Daytona, approx 0 at Martinsville).
Watching the engineering changes for each track is quite cool.
> If you're working on a kernel you shouldn't need much documentation
Yes and no. Documentation should not state what you are doing, but why. Sometimes it is hard to figure out why something was done even if you understand the 'concept'. The devil is in the details.
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Excersize your choppers!
"Hey chopper, how 'bout running a few laps with us?"
"Nah, I'm just gonna chew on this celery stick"
Excersize your choppers with some good hard food!
"most" of their products?
Everyone everywhere. IBM client list is a who's who of fortune 1000 companies and govenments.
"Think about their business and then respond"
You have no clue wtf you are talking about. I am quite familiar with their business, thank you.
"I mean ISPs are being sued, Verizon has plenty of money, Where the hell is IBM? They have money."
What does IBM having money have to do with any of this? They sold their ISP to AT&T a long time ago.
Some people *cough*me, have wives that attempted to do a good thing and buy the DVD when it first came out because they did not realize there was an extended edition.
Therefore, some people *cough*me have both.
In other news, FoTR standard edition for sale!
"I think LoTR is a very well-loved book among the regulars on Slashdot because they all admire Peter Jackson's audacity and vision ..."
/.ers) because the books are awesome. Pete Jackson has nothing to do with it. He altered the format, but the main attraction is the story (and everything that goes with them), and no the visual effects.
um...what about the books themselves? I think LoTR is well loved all around (not just
and WHERE oh WHERE does the government get _its_ funds? This reminds me of a local commercial where a state rep was trying to get some funding for a new pork barrel, and he said "Don't worry, half the project will be funded from the US Government so it's not coming out of your pockets." Ummm....right, because the government holds bake sales every weekend?
"...a way for them to avoid the effort of making a patch"
:-)
However, they already have a patch for 2K and XP. There is such a thing as a bad architecture - which is why they re-wrote the RPC stuff in 2K. I'm all for MS bashing but this bandwagon is losing a wheel
Some friends were over just last weekend and we ended up talking about Who made Who. NONE had heard of Maximum Overdrive.
:-)
I tried to have my wife watch it a while ago, but she said it was "too scary". She said the clown face freaked her out.
The Clown face was the Best Part(tm)! Well, that and the lawn mower.
So, I agree, this movie, though AWESOME, is under-appreciated.
"In all seriousness, what are the odds of that"
Very high. Users with the least amount of knowledge usually can do the most damage. Developers and regular usuers use the system with preconceived notions of what should and should not be done. Newbies almost always do something which causes the application(s) to crash.
In Software Engineering the phrase is something like, 'the least trained tester is the best tester'.
How many upskirt pictures will be displayed on this thing before the owner turns it off?
I tend to operate in the same mode you do. However, it did cause problems once.
I had (note the tense) a friend in construction. He helped me tremendously on some projects on my house. To repay him, I built a network in his home/office to connect a few PCs, printer, blah, blah, blah. In the process of setting everything up Win98 on his wife/secretary's computer choked on the new driver and required installation. Since the company records and software were on that machine (backed up, but still a pain to reinstall), he was furious. Understandably so, he was trying to run a business. Downtime is lost money.
No explaining could convince him it wasn't my fault. I was offended because he wouldn't listen to my professional opinion (which was Win98 is f-ing crap).
Business theory contradicts your attitude. Bad experiences are conveyed 50% more than good experiences. Also, depending on the industry, of course, repeat business usually accounts for a large portion of profits. Therefore, companies exist because they please customers.
Example, Midas Muffler ripped me off hard core 14 years ago. I have never been back, and I tell everyone I know not to go there as well.
' But in many Linux distributions, can't you just double-click an RPM or dpkg file, press 'OK' and off it goes?'
Not always. I think this is the point of the parent. Typically, when installing a decent size package (let's say upgrading to the new KDE) it's one missing dependency after another. This becomes very frustrating. Having an install program that recogzided dependencies and downloaded for you would be great. Didn't BSD have something like this?
Incorrect.
Services acccount for 40% of IBM's revenue. The other 60% comes from hardware, financing, and 'other'.
$47K? That can't be right. I attended a back woods high school in Maine and our best teacher (voted by the students) made ~$20K. Granted, that was a few years ago. When I finished my undergrad I stopped in to talk to him, and he was considering moving to another state for a better salary.
Keep in mind, that's a sample size of 1 - but it was a far cry from $47.
I'm only responded because I lost karma on this exchange...
I agree these guys are whores. I agree they should be reprimanded. My ONLY comment was to the parent poster who said "they sold out cheap". My point is that when you are f-ing poor, you'll sell out for a tuna-freakin-fish sandwich.
I, too, got a shitty job. That *may* not have been on option for these students in the current job market.
Moderators: read the context before modding flamebiat. arg
" It sure doesn't take much to compromise a person's self-respect or integrity. ... They sold out cheap."
Let me guess, you were the arsehole who had the porche parked in the school lot. Did you see the old beat up Ford Escort with a different color fender, no muffler, and a broken windshield? The guy that owned the Escort (and I know him well) would have sold his self-respect for a tuna-freakin-fish sandwich. That guy had LESS than $20/mo for food, toiletries, and beer. You wouldn't survive a week in that guys shoes. $20/mo means another case of mac-n-cheese.
"flag on a window in TN at a NASCAR event."
to clarify, the sticker was on a car in the parking lot - not on the race car.
"sea of Confederate flags"
I have been to many NASCAR races (both up North and down South) and I have never seen anyone waving a Confederate flag. I *think* I may have seen a sticker of a Confederate flag on a window in TN at a NASCAR event.
NASCAR fans are NOT all southern rednecks. It is a mainstream sport with fans of all races, sexes, and monetary backgrounds.
"What NASCAR should do is make the actual engine displacement for the superspeedways smaller. Make 'em run a 3 litre V6."
I disagree. I think that would bring the cost up, because everyone would now need two engine programs. This is exactly why NASCAR doesn't allow qualifying enigines. Want to slow the cars down on the high banks w/o a plate - take off the rear spoiler. It then turns the race into raw handling.
>NASCAR is for rednecks and geeks who want to be rednecks.
I know I shouldn't, but I'll feed the troll.
Ever been to a NASCAR race? There are a lot more than just rednecks. Businessmen pay a ton of $ for box seats, and there are a lot of 'average Joes' in the stands.
Know what you are talking about before you speak. Bigot.
> once you are in "line" you need to stick your head out once a while otherwise your engines overheat.
Sort of. It depends on how much tape the car has on the grill. If the car has too much tape (therefore more front downforce) then he'll need clean air. Less tape (less front downforce) and overheating in the draft is not usually a problem.
You and the parent poster obviously know nothing about NASCAR.
NASCAR tracks vary in size (.5 mile to 2.5 mile), shape (oval, road courses, D), surfaces ( different asphalt compounds) and degree of banking (36 at Daytona, approx 0 at Martinsville).
Watching the engineering changes for each track is quite cool.
How'd you know????
> If you're working on a kernel you shouldn't need much documentation
Yes and no. Documentation should not state what you are doing, but why. Sometimes it is hard to figure out why something was done even if you understand the 'concept'. The devil is in the details.