"It's like they have no understanding of why history matters"
So, why does it matter? I haven't really used my history education at all. Music teachers claim that nothing is more important than music, art teachers claim nothing is more important than art, etc. I find them all equally useless.
The monkey jumps because it believes it has a chance at surviving, instead of just sitting there and getting eaten by the lion. When people jump out of burning buildings, they're not committing suicide (though they may or may not die) they're trying to escape from certain death.
I tried Campus Food before. Never got my pizza. When I called La Val's, they gave some weak excuse that their fax machine was backed up. I think I will stick to phone.
Many satellites are completely stationary relative to a point on earth. GPS and communication satellites have to be. So, a satellite would be no worse than a dish.
I tried greylisting, but I was not very impressed. I am a shareware programmer, so I rely on receiving email from many unique people, using a wide variety of ISPs. I found that greylisting would often hold legitimate emails for many hours, sometimes days, depending on how the customer's ISP was set up. I even got complaints that I was slow providing support when several customers had their emails thrown in the queue so I couldn't reply to their emails as fast as I usually do. That is unacceptable to me. I suppose greylisting is good if you just use email with a select group of people, but if you rely on emailing people you have never encountered before every day, I warn you about enabling grey listing.
They say that they are doing this to help teach students, but all of their projects require many years of experience! How is an inexperienced college programmer meant to implement a bluetooth driver in Ubunto Linux, for example.
"50 000 000 is a pretty big number, so everything pans out eventually."
Actually, in a "pretty big number" the discrepency should be even greater unless you're assuming that people mass deploy firefox at the exact same rate that people download new builds of firefox from the website.
I often find myself trying to search for things that require special characters in its name, but Google simply drops them from the search. Are there any search engines that would know the difference between "(define (set!..." and "define set"?
In fact, as I try to post this, the Lameness filter is complaining: "Please use fewer 'junk' characters." Why are these characters so frowned upon? Programmers deal with them all the time. Now I'm just writing text to bypass the lameness filter. I guess I need another sentence. And maybe one more.
First of all, most ISPs require you to authetenticate in some way. Either they require a login/password or more often, they wait until you check your POP3 email and give you a 30 minute window to send email without authentication.
Secondly, ISPs often have a limit to how fast you can send mail or how many per day you can send.
I don't really see this as a problem.
Led Zeppelin = Nerd-friendly fare?
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"Other nerd-friendly fare on the list include... Led Zeppelin"
Uh, since when is classic rock grouped with Advanced Dungeons & Dragons?
In the upcoming election, I will be old enough to vote, but I will not. My reasoning is not because of apathy or because I am trying to make some sort of political statement. Instead, my reason is very pragmatic: my vote does not matter. My vote will not change the outcome of the election. Not even by a little bit.
It is almost certain that the election will not be decided by one vote. In some states, the election may be remarkably close. Maybe it will even be in the vicinity of several hundred people. However, unless the difference comes down to exactly one vote, my vote will not change anything. An election has no gray area. Since the election will not be affected by my one vote, I will not bother casting it.
Many people give me a hard time about my decision, giving me all sorts of rhetoric about how my ancestors died to give me the opportunity to vote, I have no right no complain if I don't vote, etc. They say it is my duty to vote and that if everyone thought like me, no one would vote. However, the fact remains that my vote has virtually no chance of changing anything. The reason I will not vote is for practical reasons rather than ideological. If no one voted, then my vote would start to have some meaning and I would of course use it.
"However, for you and I of the dwindling reading population, it is a neat thing."
It's actually "for you and me." Normally, I wouldn't care, but if you're criticizing the US for being dumb and claiming to be well read yourself, you might as well use correct grammar.
Spam may be 50% of email usage, but how much of the net's traffic is email? Keep in mind that a spam message is around a few kilobytes. Even if you get 500 spams per day, that is a stunning figure of about one meg of traffic.
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"It's like they have no understanding of why history matters"
So, why does it matter? I haven't really used my history education at all. Music teachers claim that nothing is more important than music, art teachers claim nothing is more important than art, etc. I find them all equally useless.
"Similarly, many Slashdot readers are brilliant people"
You must be new here.
The monkey jumps because it believes it has a chance at surviving, instead of just sitting there and getting eaten by the lion. When people jump out of burning buildings, they're not committing suicide (though they may or may not die) they're trying to escape from certain death.
I tried Campus Food before. Never got my pizza. When I called La Val's, they gave some weak excuse that their fax machine was backed up. I think I will stick to phone.
Many satellites are completely stationary relative to a point on earth. GPS and communication satellites have to be. So, a satellite would be no worse than a dish.
I tried greylisting, but I was not very impressed. I am a shareware programmer, so I rely on receiving email from many unique people, using a wide variety of ISPs. I found that greylisting would often hold legitimate emails for many hours, sometimes days, depending on how the customer's ISP was set up. I even got complaints that I was slow providing support when several customers had their emails thrown in the queue so I couldn't reply to their emails as fast as I usually do. That is unacceptable to me. I suppose greylisting is good if you just use email with a select group of people, but if you rely on emailing people you have never encountered before every day, I warn you about enabling grey listing.
Just out of curiousity, how do you know your state ranking? Where can I find mine?
They say that they are doing this to help teach students, but all of their projects require many years of experience! How is an inexperienced college programmer meant to implement a bluetooth driver in Ubunto Linux, for example.
"50 000 000 is a pretty big number, so everything pans out eventually."
Actually, in a "pretty big number" the discrepency should be even greater unless you're assuming that people mass deploy firefox at the exact same rate that people download new builds of firefox from the website.
I often find myself trying to search for things that require special characters in its name, but Google simply drops them from the search. Are there any search engines that would know the difference between "(define (set!..." and "define set"?
In fact, as I try to post this, the Lameness filter is complaining: "Please use fewer 'junk' characters." Why are these characters so frowned upon? Programmers deal with them all the time. Now I'm just writing text to bypass the lameness filter. I guess I need another sentence. And maybe one more.
Maybe doing school work?
First of all, most ISPs require you to authetenticate in some way. Either they require a login/password or more often, they wait until you check your POP3 email and give you a 30 minute window to send email without authentication.
Secondly, ISPs often have a limit to how fast you can send mail or how many per day you can send.
I don't really see this as a problem.
"Other nerd-friendly fare on the list include ... Led Zeppelin"
Uh, since when is classic rock grouped with Advanced Dungeons & Dragons?
In the upcoming election, I will be old enough to vote, but I will not. My reasoning is not because of apathy or because I am trying to make some sort of political statement. Instead, my reason is very pragmatic: my vote does not matter. My vote will not change the outcome of the election. Not even by a little bit.
It is almost certain that the election will not be decided by one vote. In some states, the election may be remarkably close. Maybe it will even be in the vicinity of several hundred people. However, unless the difference comes down to exactly one vote, my vote will not change anything. An election has no gray area. Since the election will not be affected by my one vote, I will not bother casting it.
Many people give me a hard time about my decision, giving me all sorts of rhetoric about how my ancestors died to give me the opportunity to vote, I have no right no complain if I don't vote, etc. They say it is my duty to vote and that if everyone thought like me, no one would vote. However, the fact remains that my vote has virtually no chance of changing anything. The reason I will not vote is for practical reasons rather than ideological. If no one voted, then my vote would start to have some meaning and I would of course use it.
Lost without Google? You do realize that there are a bunch of other search engines out there. Google may be the best, but the others aren't worthless.
I thought A Night At The Roxbury kicked ass.
You really think that the entire world has the same kind of educational opportunities as the US?
I simply have my real email (blahblah@mydomain.com) forward everything to my gmail account.
That way I still have a professional looking address with POP/IMAP access but at the same time I can use Google's webmail interface.
"However, for you and I of the dwindling reading population, it is a neat thing."
It's actually "for you and me." Normally, I wouldn't care, but if you're criticizing the US for being dumb and claiming to be well read yourself, you might as well use correct grammar.
I wonder who didn't get an invitation...
Ebay supports dutch auctions and has a "buy it now" feature.
4chan.org is the same thing... but in english
Spam may be 50% of email usage, but how much of the net's traffic is email? Keep in mind that a spam message is around a few kilobytes. Even if you get 500 spams per day, that is a stunning figure of about one meg of traffic.
"How long before we read the first story of some, um, inappropriate footage captured with one of these?"
More importantly, how long until the torrent is posted?
Ah, that explains why my web browser launches missiles from time to time.