You ever babelfish Japanese to English? I've yet to find it capable of producing anything close to comprehensible language that way. Too much is idiom. Although the results can be hilarious...
Bah, no doubt! I can't tell you how many times I've had to babelfish a Mandrake support document (usually on beta release stuff) because my French is terrible.
I was one of those Americans (From the US even, as a Mexican, Canadian, Brazillian, etc, would point out - they're Americans, too) who read the article, and you know what? I'm in complete agreement with the moves toward Linux and further am in the process of standardizing the servers I manage at work - on SuSE of all things. I'm not doing this out of some rebellious anti-allegiance or anything else so immature - I'm doing this because of all the distros I've tried, which is pretty much all of them, I like SuSE best and can teach others to use it when I leave. I mean, RedHat's allright, and I'm glad to hear that they are making money - they are a Linux company after all, but I go with what works best for the needs of the organization I work for.
In other words, it's the rational choice and, despite your apparent flame, there are millions upon millions of people in the US who are capable of making rational decisions independent of any jingoism being preached upon them by the media, etc. I'm more than happy to say "Fuck Microsoft" no matter what country it has its headquarters in - I live about six hours drive from Redmond, in fact. So when you flame an entire country claiming that we are all a bunch of jingoistic uber-patriotic idiots, you become what you accuse us of. Shame on you!
Yeah, Exchange is $271, I'm too lazy at the moment to look up SQL, but it's insanely cheap as well - insane only compared to the monopoly-inflated retail prices. Honestly, $271 seems resonable to me for a full-featured mail and calendar package... any apparent bargain in that price is offset by the horribly high TCO, higher hardware requirements, and intangible "hassle factor" that goes with any windows app that you intend to make front-facing.
You've conveniently glossed over the fact that IE for the Mac is a) No longer supported, and b) An ugly, slow, and feature-devoid rectangle, resuling in c) Most OS X users to delete it entirely out of disgust.
Seriously, Safari is a nice, clean, fast browser, imho, and certainly renders most websites as well as or better than Idiot Exploiter, excepting only those sites which were deliberately written with broken code.
Unless you want to look at a disgusting picture of a girl in a bathtub eating her feces. No, I'm not kidding, that's one of his links, and it's quite possibly groser than goatse.cx.
Hundred bucks here, hundred bucks there... random hardware driver causing incompatibility with rest of cluster over here, shit, should'a gone single-source with a warranty, huh?
No, I believe the translation is "If you're so stupid as to run a souped-up Chevy when you could be getting twice the MPG for the same performance with a stock Toyota which will also last twice as long as your Chevy which will be on cinderblocks while the Toyota is still happily hauling kids/groceries with no letup or maintainence, then have a lot of fun wasting time and money souping up your next Chevy while the rest of us get on with business and earn circles around you."
This just keeps getting better, doesn't it? I have an old dual-P II Xeon 400 box that's louder than hell (60mm fans x 4 plus some regular case fans, and of course the power supply, all of which comes together in the most hideous triple-tritone), and throws off enough heat to allow me to keep the furnace off in the winter (no, I'm not kidding).
Nice example of the ad hominem argument. Nevermind the fact that the point he was making was correct. Go stick your head in a pig, or back in a pig, as the case may be.
Yeah, sure, just make sure you have cg_drawfps=0 or else the insanely large number that results will block part of your view, resulting in your early and frequent demise.
Oh, the irony - here I am, using Safari on OS X, trying to view the slideshow of this incredible array of Apple computers, and I get an error saying I'm using the wrong browser. Some marketroid needs to get a good LARTing imo.
ICANN is responsible for, among other things, ensuring that it's registrars perform their duties properly. If an issue such as this one crops up, and the/. community (trolls and non-trolls alike) decide to make their complaints known using the established protocol that ICANN itself has provided for such matters, so be it. Yes, this will generate an enormous volume of sometimes absurd attempts at flaming, and yes, someone at ICANN has probably filtered all that traffic - although I suspect not to a circular file as you seem to suggest, but to a count-aggregation file to provide a record of public comment.
Face it - sometimes, being responsible for a little thing like the internet can be a bitch. Most of us do have to deal with inane crap as a part of our daily grind, although I admit that getting 20,000 emails suggesting I view a goatsex link in a single day would probably be unusual for me at least. But at least ICANN has said outright that they aren't going to read all of them:) But that's their job, and the closetfull of people who work for ICANN get paid to do it, knowing fulll well that things like this will happen. Big deal. Such is life, such is work. Or do you have a job where your responsibility is guaranteed to be 100% hassle-free? If so, I applaud and doubt you.
First of all, the kind of cells that they are looking for are most likely those sloughed off the lower GI tract, as the hydrochloric acid in the stomach will pretty much completely do a number on the DNA of any ingested animal. Knowing that, they only have to look for a particular type of cell in the poo with a microscope to start building a sample. Poor Mr. Chimpanzee, Ingested, if he exists, won't produce such pristine cells anymore - these are higher primates, after all, and as such are going to prefer to chew their food rather than swallow it whole.
As to the blood sample, perhaps you forgot to read the article which pointed out a) The not insignificant hazards in doing so both due to the animal's large size and apparent agressiveness, and also due to the fact that people in the Congo have recently been slaughtering one another with pretty much anything at hand - it's a difficult place to do research at the moment, and b) They are in fact in the process of habituating the apes so that such collections can become possible.
As far as sedating one, think about the challenge - these appear to be social, agressive, and very large animals. Doubtless they would take a very dim view on anyone shooting one of their relatives and then going after that relative with a sharp object, and considering the fact that they are fscking HUGE, they certainly have the means to do something about it if they have to. Best to make friends =]
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You ever babelfish Japanese to English? I've yet to find it capable of producing anything close to comprehensible language that way. Too much is idiom. Although the results can be hilarious...
Yarr! I've still got a tray full of tiny screws from putting a new hard drive in my iBook. Now this! No!
{Wanders off muttering, "I will NOT take apart my powerbook... I will NOT take apart my powerbook... I will NOT take apart my powerbook..."
Bah, no doubt! I can't tell you how many times I've had to babelfish a Mandrake support document (usually on beta release stuff) because my French is terrible.
Oh, bullshit.
I was one of those Americans (From the US even, as a Mexican, Canadian, Brazillian, etc, would point out - they're Americans, too) who read the article, and you know what? I'm in complete agreement with the moves toward Linux and further am in the process of standardizing the servers I manage at work - on SuSE of all things. I'm not doing this out of some rebellious anti-allegiance or anything else so immature - I'm doing this because of all the distros I've tried, which is pretty much all of them, I like SuSE best and can teach others to use it when I leave. I mean, RedHat's allright, and I'm glad to hear that they are making money - they are a Linux company after all, but I go with what works best for the needs of the organization I work for.
In other words, it's the rational choice and, despite your apparent flame, there are millions upon millions of people in the US who are capable of making rational decisions independent of any jingoism being preached upon them by the media, etc. I'm more than happy to say "Fuck Microsoft" no matter what country it has its headquarters in - I live about six hours drive from Redmond, in fact. So when you flame an entire country claiming that we are all a bunch of jingoistic uber-patriotic idiots, you become what you accuse us of. Shame on you!
Yeah, Exchange is $271, I'm too lazy at the moment to look up SQL, but it's insanely cheap as well - insane only compared to the monopoly-inflated retail prices. Honestly, $271 seems resonable to me for a full-featured mail and calendar package... any apparent bargain in that price is offset by the horribly high TCO, higher hardware requirements, and intangible "hassle factor" that goes with any windows app that you intend to make front-facing.
You've conveniently glossed over the fact that IE for the Mac is
a) No longer supported, and
b) An ugly, slow, and feature-devoid rectangle, resuling in
c) Most OS X users to delete it entirely out of disgust.
Seriously, Safari is a nice, clean, fast browser, imho, and certainly renders most websites as well as or better than Idiot Exploiter, excepting only those sites which were deliberately written with broken code.
So true, so true. Where I work, it's possible to buy M$ Office for $41.40 a seat. Now tell me they aren't overcharging everyone else.
Which reminds me - I'd promised myself to lose two stone this year, and I've only made it halfway =[
Unless you want to look at a disgusting picture of a girl in a bathtub eating her feces. No, I'm not kidding, that's one of his links, and it's quite possibly groser than goatse.cx.
In a single word: altivec
Google it if you don't already know what that means.
Hundred bucks here, hundred bucks there... random hardware driver causing incompatibility with rest of cluster over here, shit, should'a gone single-source with a warranty, huh?
No, I believe the translation is "If you're so stupid as to run a souped-up Chevy when you could be getting twice the MPG for the same performance with a stock Toyota which will also last twice as long as your Chevy which will be on cinderblocks while the Toyota is still happily hauling kids/groceries with no letup or maintainence, then have a lot of fun wasting time and money souping up your next Chevy while the rest of us get on with business and earn circles around you."
This just keeps getting better, doesn't it? I have an old dual-P II Xeon 400 box that's louder than hell (60mm fans x 4 plus some regular case fans, and of course the power supply, all of which comes together in the most hideous triple-tritone), and throws off enough heat to allow me to keep the furnace off in the winter (no, I'm not kidding).
What did I name it? Balrog, naturally...
Ah, so now we know who's using Idiot Exploiter to surf the net. I can't read the slideshow about all the fancy macs using my Safari browser =[
Well, kick down then! Surely you know how to set up a mirror =]
Nice example of the ad hominem argument. Nevermind the fact that the point he was making was correct. Go stick your head in a pig, or back in a pig, as the case may be.
Yeah, sure, just make sure you have cg_drawfps=0 or else the insanely large number that results will block part of your view, resulting in your early and frequent demise.
Oh, the irony - here I am, using Safari on OS X, trying to view the slideshow of this incredible array of Apple computers, and I get an error saying I'm using the wrong browser. Some marketroid needs to get a good LARTing imo.
Heh, the spambots are going to have a field day with your post. Good man.
Sorry, but bullshit.
/. community (trolls and non-trolls alike) decide to make their complaints known using the established protocol that ICANN itself has provided for such matters, so be it. Yes, this will generate an enormous volume of sometimes absurd attempts at flaming, and yes, someone at ICANN has probably filtered all that traffic - although I suspect not to a circular file as you seem to suggest, but to a count-aggregation file to provide a record of public comment.
:) But that's their job, and the closetfull of people who work for ICANN get paid to do it, knowing fulll well that things like this will happen. Big deal. Such is life, such is work. Or do you have a job where your responsibility is guaranteed to be 100% hassle-free? If so, I applaud and doubt you.
ICANN is responsible for, among other things, ensuring that it's registrars perform their duties properly. If an issue such as this one crops up, and the
Face it - sometimes, being responsible for a little thing like the internet can be a bitch. Most of us do have to deal with inane crap as a part of our daily grind, although I admit that getting 20,000 emails suggesting I view a goatsex link in a single day would probably be unusual for me at least. But at least ICANN has said outright that they aren't going to read all of them
Ya, don't miss, ok?
erm. I'll bite.
First of all, the kind of cells that they are looking for are most likely those sloughed off the lower GI tract, as the hydrochloric acid in the stomach will pretty much completely do a number on the DNA of any ingested animal. Knowing that, they only have to look for a particular type of cell in the poo with a microscope to start building a sample. Poor Mr. Chimpanzee, Ingested, if he exists, won't produce such pristine cells anymore - these are higher primates, after all, and as such are going to prefer to chew their food rather than swallow it whole.
As to the blood sample, perhaps you forgot to read the article which pointed out
a) The not insignificant hazards in doing so both due to the animal's large size and apparent agressiveness, and also due to the fact that people in the Congo have recently been slaughtering one another with pretty much anything at hand - it's a difficult place to do research at the moment, and
b) They are in fact in the process of habituating the apes so that such collections can become possible.
As far as sedating one, think about the challenge - these appear to be social, agressive, and very large animals. Doubtless they would take a very dim view on anyone shooting one of their relatives and then going after that relative with a sharp object, and considering the fact that they are fscking HUGE, they certainly have the means to do something about it if they have to. Best to make friends =]