I'm a cyclist too, and I've never heard of anywhere that bikes aren't allowed on public roads. Just a link to your state or city's statute banning it would be very interesting.
I always tell people that the winters here in the B-lo aren't nearly as bad as perceived -- the problem is that we get one nasty, king-hell snowstorm every five years or so, and that's the _only_ time you see Buffalo on the news since we stopped losing Super Bowls.
Hence, the common misperception.
This is actually a pretty awesome city to live in -- nice and cheap, great food, outdoor festivals every weekend of the summer. I just went on a 20 mile bike ride yesterday, most of it along the riverfront, and it was spectacular.
Buffalo -- Not Just For Angry Polish Steelworkers Any More!
Why do people assume that parks have some naturally elevating and edifying effect on the populace?
Urban planners come up with these ridiculous tower project designs straight out of "City of Tomorrow", to maximize green space. And in a bad neighborhood, the first thing you're told is to stay out of the park after dark. Bizarre.
Really? You couldn't read the next line in my post? The one where I say that Apple sucks? You sat there, in the basement, veins straining in your forehead, lips moving dumbly, willing your way to the end of that first sentence and just ran out of steam?
...and this means that we can expect Vic20_love to come along any moment now and complain that his OS X 10.1 machine from 19-dickity-6 doesn't have a patch out yet, so Apple sucks.
Not that Apple doesn't suck, but you don't really need to troll for reasons.
My wife is a stay-at-home mom with an MBA. You'd be amazed how many people say completely inappropriate things like "Are you really happy doing that?" There's a bunch who think her troglodyte husband -- me -- forces her to stay home, crushing her career aspirations and so forth.
Clearly, there must be something afoot. She can't simply want to raise our son as her full time job.
A similar accounting can be had for video production. So, if Linux is going to make any inroads into this small but important market, professional developers are going to have to be persuaded to develop for Linux.
Amen. I do everything at home on Linux, but my wife and I just bought a Mac Mini as an iMovie appliance. The media stuff just can't be beat on that platform.
(Yeah, Kino is nice for editing something down to thirty seconds to put on Youtube. But even putting together a decent home movie with it, let alone burning it out to DVD with menus and such, is painful.)
I want my trip to the doctor to be like a trip to the DMV.
I hear this a lot, but I have to tell you, my last few trips to the DMV have been a hell of a lot more pleasant, quick, and efficient than my last few trips to the hospital.
Same here -- I'm running Myth on Ubuntu, and the only issue I have is that once in a while mplayer (for MythVideo) won't give back the audio device properly to Mythfrontend. I don't know where the issue is, and I don't understand this new pulseaudio bullshit, so I just restart the frontend once a month or so when it happens.
The backend, though, I don't think has ever crashed on me. OP must have some hardware weirdness going on.
I'm using XP now, and, honestly, its not that bad. The only thing I really miss is iMovie.
I just bought one of the refreshed Minis, solely for use as an iMovie/iDVD appliance. I do all of my real work on a Debian box, but for handling media, Apple blows everyone else away.
One place that you might want to consider looking is academia -- in my experience, colleges and universities tend to be more relaxed about your official background and certifications and more concerned with whether or not you can do the job. Plus, most schools will allow you to take classes for free, which would help you get some "official" education on your resume.
Even smaller schools generally have a dedicated coding team working in the IT department. Send some resumes to the "Director of Information Technology" at nearby schools and see what hits.
Last time I checked, OpenSUSE left a lot of stuff broken. We're a Novell shop at work, so I installed SLED and OpenSUSE on a couple of test machines to play with. Icky.
Or maybe you are an immigrant who thinks your parent's old country is somehow better, even though they chose to get out for some odd reason from that veritable paradise:p
In grade school, it's always the kids whose families came to the US ten generations back who cling to their old country identity. "My family is French!" "My family is Irish!" Me, I grew up listening to stories about what shitholes my grandparents came from, so I was always more than happy to just be American.
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Oh, Papa U-bend, you are so learned.
Cite it, then.
I'm a cyclist too, and I've never heard of anywhere that bikes aren't allowed on public roads. Just a link to your state or city's statute banning it would be very interesting.
--saint
Hear hear.
I always tell people that the winters here in the B-lo aren't nearly as bad as perceived -- the problem is that we get one nasty, king-hell snowstorm every five years or so, and that's the _only_ time you see Buffalo on the news since we stopped losing Super Bowls.
Hence, the common misperception.
This is actually a pretty awesome city to live in -- nice and cheap, great food, outdoor festivals every weekend of the summer. I just went on a 20 mile bike ride yesterday, most of it along the riverfront, and it was spectacular.
Buffalo -- Not Just For Angry Polish Steelworkers Any More!
Why do people assume that parks have some naturally elevating and edifying effect on the populace?
Urban planners come up with these ridiculous tower project designs straight out of "City of Tomorrow", to maximize green space. And in a bad neighborhood, the first thing you're told is to stay out of the park after dark. Bizarre.
--saint
I wonder how Walt would feel if he knew that 90% of Americans couldn't afford to enter his theme parks.
He'd probably feel that it was due to the manipulation of the world economy by the global Zionist conspiracy.
Oh, Walt, you wacky anti-semite, you.
Really? You couldn't read the next line in my post? The one where I say that Apple sucks? You sat there, in the basement, veins straining in your forehead, lips moving dumbly, willing your way to the end of that first sentence and just ran out of steam?
Well, good work on writing a reply, anyway.
--saint
...and this means that we can expect Vic20_love to come along any moment now and complain that his OS X 10.1 machine from 19-dickity-6 doesn't have a patch out yet, so Apple sucks.
Not that Apple doesn't suck, but you don't really need to troll for reasons.
(Bye, karma, nice knowing you...)
--saint
If you were actually in Buffalo, as I am, you would know that Canada is really our neighbor to the west.
Just install Debian PPC and quit whining, Trolly McTroll. It'll run the newest Firefox, and faster than OS X, to boot.
--saint
You actually got stopped by the Sheriff of Nottingham? That's awesome.
My wife is a stay-at-home mom with an MBA. You'd be amazed how many people say completely inappropriate things like "Are you really happy doing that?" There's a bunch who think her troglodyte husband -- me -- forces her to stay home, crushing her career aspirations and so forth.
Clearly, there must be something afoot. She can't simply want to raise our son as her full time job.
--saint
Those who can't teach teacher, teach gym. Or become guidance counselors.
--saint
In short, keep your obnoxious assumptions to yourself and don't be a dick.
Someone should write a greasemonkey script that adds this line beneath the posting text box on every tech nerd web forum.
--saint
I own a car, but I bike to work. I don't have to pay for parking, and despite having a deskbound job I don't get winded running up stairs any more.
The money saved is just gravy.
--saint
A similar accounting can be had for video production. So, if Linux is going to make any inroads into this small but important market, professional developers are going to have to be persuaded to develop for Linux.
Amen. I do everything at home on Linux, but my wife and I just bought a Mac Mini as an iMovie appliance. The media stuff just can't be beat on that platform.
(Yeah, Kino is nice for editing something down to thirty seconds to put on Youtube. But even putting together a decent home movie with it, let alone burning it out to DVD with menus and such, is painful.)
--saint
I want my trip to the doctor to be like a trip to the DMV.
I hear this a lot, but I have to tell you, my last few trips to the DMV have been a hell of a lot more pleasant, quick, and efficient than my last few trips to the hospital.
--saint
For the last time, that was a work of fiction. FICTION. As in, not real. There ARE no black people in Nebraska.
Hell, I'd be happy if I could just bring my bicycle along. That would be enough for travelling when I reach a destination.
(Or a rental kiosk. But I'm 6'6", with a correspondinly large bicycle. A regular-sized Huffy ain't gonna work for me.)
--saint
Same here -- I'm running Myth on Ubuntu, and the only issue I have is that once in a while mplayer (for MythVideo) won't give back the audio device properly to Mythfrontend. I don't know where the issue is, and I don't understand this new pulseaudio bullshit, so I just restart the frontend once a month or so when it happens.
The backend, though, I don't think has ever crashed on me. OP must have some hardware weirdness going on.
--saint
I'm using XP now, and, honestly, its not that bad. The only thing I really miss is iMovie.
I just bought one of the refreshed Minis, solely for use as an iMovie/iDVD appliance. I do all of my real work on a Debian box, but for handling media, Apple blows everyone else away.
--saint
Ada is pretty cool. A friend of mine describes it as "incredibly bitchy Pascal," which is about right.
There's a decent GNU compiler for it, so playing around with it is free.
--saint
One place that you might want to consider looking is academia -- in my experience, colleges and universities tend to be more relaxed about your official background and certifications and more concerned with whether or not you can do the job. Plus, most schools will allow you to take classes for free, which would help you get some "official" education on your resume.
Even smaller schools generally have a dedicated coding team working in the IT department. Send some resumes to the "Director of Information Technology" at nearby schools and see what hits.
--saint
Last time I checked, OpenSUSE left a lot of stuff broken. We're a Novell shop at work, so I installed SLED and OpenSUSE on a couple of test machines to play with. Icky.
--saint
You can dump it all into Evolution, if you've got a Linux box - that's what I sync my Treo to.
--saint
Or maybe you are an immigrant who thinks your parent's old country is somehow better, even though they chose to get out for some odd reason from that veritable paradise :p
In grade school, it's always the kids whose families came to the US ten generations back who cling to their old country identity. "My family is French!" "My family is Irish!" Me, I grew up listening to stories about what shitholes my grandparents came from, so I was always more than happy to just be American.