don't get gortex - it's not breathable. stick with the simpler material that just has the coating. you'll have to stick it in the dryer every once and a while to rejuvinate it - and then after that you'll have to re-apply the coating - but you won't sweat your balls off. one could purchase the a jacket using the new gortext material (don't remember the name but it's the next-gen gortext). it's breathable but quite expensive. also recommended is a jacket with the pit zippers... rain doesn't get up there. pants are important too - regular pants will press up against your legs while riding and the rain drips down from your jacket as well. no good.
also make sure to get a jacket with hood that has the two straps on it - one to keep it taught to the back of your head and the other to keep it cinched around your face. that way when you turn your head you don't look inside of your hood. it's a good way to stay alive.
if you explained your problem in a more detailed manner maybe someone could help you out. otherwise from what you said it all sounds pretty simple - but i'll assume we're having a misunderstanding.
occupy as little space as possible? margin: 0; padding: 0;
Assuming this AC is talking about centering an element, this post is not "interesting".
Yes, you can float: left; or float: right;, but it's not accomplishing just an alignment. It's taking the element out of the normal flow of a document. In order to align to the center set the margin to margin: auto;
Zeldman's "Designing with Web Standards" is a wonderful book on CSS. I've read plenty and his was by far the best.
http://daringfireball.net/2003/09/interview_mich ae l_tsai (partial text below)
Gruber: Where else have you drawn from, tactically?
Tsai: The new math in SpamSieve is due to Gary Robinson. It was refined by Tim Peters, and later by me. John Graham-Cumming wrote an influential document that describes a lot of tricks that spammers use to obscure their messages. The SpamBayes and POPFile projects have generated a lot of ideas about how to tokenize messages, and some of them show up in SpamSieve. Whitelists and blocklists are an old idea, of course, but I don't know of any filters that automatically train them the way SpamSieve does.
Gruber: Part of what makes Bayesian spam filtering so interesting is that the concept is so simple. How would you describe it, for the non-programmer/non-mathematician?
Tsai: It looks at examples of your spam messages and good messages and figures out how often each word occurs in each type of message. When you get a new message, it looks at where the words in that message previously occurred. In other words, does the new message look more like your spam or more like your regular mail?
Gruber: Part of what makes SpamSieve -- or at least version 2.0 -- so effective is that it also looks at where the words occur. E.g., the word "money" in the Subject is counted separately from "money" in the message body. And also that these "words" aren't just words in the English language sense, but rather any of the distinct tokens of an email message.
For example, according to my SpamSieve corpus, the token "U:remove" has occurred 1009 times in spam messages, but not once in a good message. I presume this means "remove" in a URL?
Tsai: Yes. Spam messages tend to include links to CGIs and tracking images, so that's where a lot of the really spammy tokens come from.
Gruber: Given those stats, that's obviously a strong indication that a message containing a URL with the word "remove" is spam. Compare and contrast with the word "remove" in the body of a message (and not in a URL), which has occurred 927 times in my spam, but also 75 times in my good messages. Probable spam, but far from tell-tale.
It's kind of fun to look through the corpus, no?
Tsai: I think so.:-) The corpus window was originally intended to be just for my own use in testing and debugging the program, but it turned out that a lot of users liked it.
Gruber: SpamSieve's whitelist and blocklist work very well. How do you defend against spammers who use forged headers to spoof the From: address such that spam appears to come from someone you know?
Tsai: Well, first of all you can decide whether you want to use the whitelist and blocklist. If you get a lot of forged spams "from" your friends, maybe you don't want to. But otherwise, the whitelist works in an optimistic fashion. It trusts an address on the whitelist until you get a spoofed spam from that address, and then the address is disabled and it falls back on using the Bayesian classifier for messages from that address. I have about 400 addresses on my whitelist right now, and about 25 of them are disabled for that reason; the others are trusted until proven otherwise. So a spammer can fool it at most once per address.
Gruber: Version 2.0 is a significant improvement over SpamSieve 1.x. What kind of accuracy were you getting with SpamSieve 1.3.1, and what are you getting with 2.0?
Tsai: I was getting between 97 and 98% with 1.3.1. That's probably a few percent higher than most users were seeing. With 2.0 I'm getting 99.5% and up. Nearly all the false negatives are virus e-mails with senders that are in my address book. So, because of the way I've set the preferences, those will always get through.
The accuracy matches what I've been hearing from the beta testers, so I think 2.0 will be a big improvement for the general user b
This seems to be one where students should be able to fight and win.
1. Get the students organized (80% of them at least). 2. Make reasonable demands. 3. Don't buy the books at your local rip-off shop. 4. Change the local system. 5. Profit for the students.
Either gain power from money or numbers. You students have the numbers - just not the organization.
Investigation shows that there are several indications that the NASA is tampering with the colors, and changes them from an Earth-like environment into a red inhospitable environment. But it seems that the young scientists at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) are not convenient with this.
timbuk2 got bought out a couple of years ago. you can't get nearly as of a burly bag as you used to be able to. production got shipped overseas as well.
marmot makes a few bags with laptop's and school/work in mind. plus they are extremely functional for the outdoors.
they have a padded compartment with a strap on top to keep the weight flat against your back (as to not pull backwards, which increases the weight you will feel). they have a lifetime warranty and are very tough.
expect to spend $100.
i have a marmot "boulder". it has three compartments, plus plenty of useful sub-compartments. it has a nice hip belt, chest strap, and compression straps. it can hold a 30 pack of need be.
my friend worked installing cell sites. he'd take home the excess cable (the big cable, not cat-5 or anything like that), to his dad. his dad paid his taxes that year with the profits from the copper.
i've also heard you can throw a spool of cat-5 on a nice fire and then collect the copper. i've never tried it as i'm not into burning plastic.
1. MS Windows - covered 2. Mac OS - covered 3. Linux - covered 4. Pocket PC - covered 5. OS/2 - covered 6. Solaris - covered 7. HP-UX - covered 8. SGI IRIX -covered
I think they have their bases covered with just the first 2.
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Well, it appears that we have a controversy. I don't know that we have a controversy in the "newspapers" or on the radio, or on the TV, but we have a controversy on the Internet where we are all free to discuss what is what about anything. You can be a gas station attendant or an Ivy League graduate or something in-between, but if you have something you want to say and the balls to say it and enough brains to find a place to say it you can, at least for now.
Paula Hagen, as someone referred to him the other day, claims in today's Daily News that Mike Lieberthal is happy to be a Phillie. Paula Hagen not only claims that "Lieby" is happy to be a Phillie but Paula puts quotes around Lieby's supposed remarks that make Mike Lieberthal into a liar and back stabber.
Scott Rolen has stood up as a man and challenged this ownership and city in a way that is much stronger than Curt Schilling ever thought to do. Rolen has done so after Lieberthal said publicly in September, 2000 in a Paula Hagen column that the Phillies needed a, well let's look at the quote again in its entirety:
"What we need is a $15 million slugger to put right in the middle of the lineup."
Well, according to Paula Hagen in today's Daily News of January, 17, 2002 Mike Lieberthal has said something diametrically opposite to the above. In fact "Lieby" has fired the first shot at organizing a battery night sendoff for Scott Rolen. Here is what he said according to Paula Hagen:
"It's funny because they tell me about the lineups that the Mets and Braves have," he said. "And I say, 'How about the Phillies' lineup? Jimmy Rollins, Bobby Abreu, Scott Rolen, Pat Burrell?'
Then "Lieby" supposedly follows this up with:
"The only thing I can say is that it would be nice to have a No. 1 starter, somebody like Curt Schilling."
Really? Just back as far as the end of the 2000 season, gee that's not much longer than a year ago, "Lieby" said that Pat Burrell was three years away from being "a stud", but now suddenly that time table has been rushed forward and the guy who put it all on the line in America's toughest city, Scott Rolen, has been hung out to dry by "Lieby".
That's the way it is unless "Lieby" seeks out another "writer" at the Daily News or Inquirer and sets the record straight about what he said.
Either Paula Hagen is lying, or Mike Lieberthal is a piece of shit.
I wonder what could have changed "Lieby's" mind? Did Ed Wade whisper into "Lieby's" ear "Ya know Mike, I don't like to talk about trade discussions, but your name came up this winter and well, there just wasn't a lot of interest in someone that has your injury record. Ya know what I mean? It's a tough market." Long pause.
"Well look, you see what we did for Dougie. We didn't need to do that. You have a lot more potential, you have been around. You can become the "team leader", the "veteran". Larry knows how to spin the clich?s that the Phans will listen to. That could be you. We can coast you into retirement as a lifetime Phillie. All you have to do is cooperate. You help us with our problem, and we help you with yo
Apple has posted helpful developer documentation concerning the changes Microsoft will be making (as required by the Eolas case) to Internet Explorer in early 2004, and how web developers (on any platform) can prepare now in advance:
To prepare yourself for the ensuing insanity, solution includes using external javascript files to write (document.write) the object / embed tags into a document instead of directly writing the tags into your code. This means that each and every piece of embedded content (Flash, QuickTime, Java, whatever) would require a unique external javascript file, or a builder-function you pass attributes to to embed your rich content.
By abstracting the embedding process through JavaScript, rich media content will behave in the same seamless, non-user initiated manner it currently does. But if developers don't abstract the object/embed elements, and a visitor views the page using the upcoming revised build of IE, they will have to click through a series of dialog boxes granting permission for their browser to load the content.
Whichever way, the new workarounds will lead to page bloat, additional server-calls, confusion, and additional monetary expense / time suckage for businesses and web developers everywhere. Yay Eolas.
well, they _might_ go home, if they felt they could. there are a lot pressures on young females in those situations which make it hard for them to leave their jobs. managers are known to be extremely brutal. birth control is handed out on the assembly lines, because if a girl becomes pregnant she loses her job. it's a dehumanizing situation which has led to girls giving birth to children at work so they don't lose their jobs. they're in an extremely vulrenable situation, and this is ruthlessly taken advantage of.
they are making enough money to send some home, and then scrape by in the city. it is by no means a decent and humane situation.
please go ahead and read no logo. i'm sure it's at your library. it's a nice comprehensive look at globalization and who's getting pooped on because of it.
Anyone who supports the over-boiling of rice, in order to make it larger (absorbs more water, becomes the size of a marble) and more filling (which gives you that horrid disease when you intake too much water) which then leads to people starving and eating the bark off of trees, in order to make up for idiotic agro policies deserves to die on their photo-op-fake-ass swim across the yellow river.
For the most part, multinationals working out of Economic Protection Zones (EPZ's) attempt to get the highest rate of young girls from the countryside to work for them. This allows them to::: treat their workers like shit, pay them little, threaten them easily if they try to unionize, etc etc. - all leading to poor working conditions wherein the girls feel threatened and scared, wherein the girls feel they _have_ to keep working and sending piddly change home to mom and pop, all the while suffering so we can get Gap shirts and all sorts of consumerist b.s. for as cheap as possible.
So no, you are not supporting the Chinese. You are bringing them into economic slavery... Chinese gov't loves it.. the jobs bring in technology profit - but for the workers it is not an advancement.
And as if they dude in the battery factory in the U.S. is living the large life. Give me a break. At least he may have a proper working environment where he is safe, he doesn't work his ass of for jackshit, and he may even be able to join one of those union thingies.
Slashdot Mirror
They so would not attach "Linux" to the title. Just like Apple did not attach "Unix" to OS X.
Linux is hard to use and clunky (so the masses think).
Not that you were saying they would...
Another mirror.
don't get gortex - it's not breathable. stick with the simpler material that just has the coating. you'll have to stick it in the dryer every once and a while to rejuvinate it - and then after that you'll have to re-apply the coating - but you won't sweat your balls off. one could purchase the a jacket using the new gortext material (don't remember the name but it's the next-gen gortext). it's breathable but quite expensive. also recommended is a jacket with the pit zippers... rain doesn't get up there. pants are important too - regular pants will press up against your legs while riding and the rain drips down from your jacket as well. no good.
also make sure to get a jacket with hood that has the two straps on it - one to keep it taught to the back of your head and the other to keep it cinched around your face. that way when you turn your head you don't look inside of your hood. it's a good way to stay alive.
fucking seattle...
if you explained your problem in a more detailed manner maybe someone could help you out. otherwise from what you said it all sounds pretty simple - but i'll assume we're having a misunderstanding.
occupy as little space as possible?
margin: 0; padding: 0;
as i said - i'll assume a misunderstanding.
yours truly,
a random foolish slashdotter
Well, you need to read more then. All that you state is quite easy to impliment.
Here:
blue robot
glish
a list apart
box lessons
css panic guide
design rant
Assuming this AC is talking about centering an element, this post is not "interesting".
Yes, you can float: left; or float: right;, but it's not accomplishing just an alignment. It's taking the element out of the normal flow of a document. In order to align to the center set the margin to margin: auto;
Zeldman's "Designing with Web Standards" is a wonderful book on CSS. I've read plenty and his was by far the best.
http://www.zeldman.com/dwws/
http://www.c-command.com/spamsieve/
:-) The corpus window was originally intended to be just for my own use in testing and debugging the program, but it turned out that a lot of users liked it.
http://www.pa ulgraham.com/spam.html
http://daringfireball.net/2003/09/interview_mich ae l_tsai (partial text below)
Gruber: Where else have you drawn from, tactically?
Tsai: The new math in SpamSieve is due to Gary Robinson. It was refined by Tim Peters, and later by me. John Graham-Cumming wrote an influential document that describes a lot of tricks that spammers use to obscure their messages. The SpamBayes and POPFile projects have generated a lot of ideas about how to tokenize messages, and some of them show up in SpamSieve. Whitelists and blocklists are an old idea, of course, but I don't know of any filters that automatically train them the way SpamSieve does.
Gruber: Part of what makes Bayesian spam filtering so interesting is that the concept is so simple. How would you describe it, for the non-programmer/non-mathematician?
Tsai: It looks at examples of your spam messages and good messages and figures out how often each word occurs in each type of message. When you get a new message, it looks at where the words in that message previously occurred. In other words, does the new message look more like your spam or more like your regular mail?
Gruber: Part of what makes SpamSieve -- or at least version 2.0 -- so effective is that it also looks at where the words occur. E.g., the word "money" in the Subject is counted separately from "money" in the message body. And also that these "words" aren't just words in the English language sense, but rather any of the distinct tokens of an email message.
For example, according to my SpamSieve corpus, the token "U:remove" has occurred 1009 times in spam messages, but not once in a good message. I presume this means "remove" in a URL?
Tsai: Yes. Spam messages tend to include links to CGIs and tracking images, so that's where a lot of the really spammy tokens come from.
Gruber: Given those stats, that's obviously a strong indication that a message containing a URL with the word "remove" is spam. Compare and contrast with the word "remove" in the body of a message (and not in a URL), which has occurred 927 times in my spam, but also 75 times in my good messages. Probable spam, but far from tell-tale.
It's kind of fun to look through the corpus, no?
Tsai: I think so.
Gruber: SpamSieve's whitelist and blocklist work very well. How do you defend against spammers who use forged headers to spoof the From: address such that spam appears to come from someone you know?
Tsai: Well, first of all you can decide whether you want to use the whitelist and blocklist. If you get a lot of forged spams "from" your friends, maybe you don't want to. But otherwise, the whitelist works in an optimistic fashion. It trusts an address on the whitelist until you get a spoofed spam from that address, and then the address is disabled and it falls back on using the Bayesian classifier for messages from that address. I have about 400 addresses on my whitelist right now, and about 25 of them are disabled for that reason; the others are trusted until proven otherwise. So a spammer can fool it at most once per address.
Gruber: Version 2.0 is a significant improvement over SpamSieve 1.x. What kind of accuracy were you getting with SpamSieve 1.3.1, and what are you getting with 2.0?
Tsai: I was getting between 97 and 98% with 1.3.1. That's probably a few percent higher than most users were seeing. With 2.0 I'm getting 99.5% and up. Nearly all the false negatives are virus e-mails with senders that are in my address book. So, because of the way I've set the preferences, those will always get through.
The accuracy matches what I've been hearing from the beta testers, so I think 2.0 will be a big improvement for the general user b
This seems to be one where students should be able to fight and win.
1. Get the students organized (80% of them at least).
2. Make reasonable demands.
3. Don't buy the books at your local rip-off shop.
4. Change the local system.
5. Profit for the students.
Either gain power from money or numbers. You students have the numbers - just not the organization.
Evidence that NASA is altering the true color pictures of Mars
Investigation shows that there are several indications that the NASA is tampering with the colors, and changes them from an Earth-like environment into a red inhospitable environment. But it seems that the young scientists at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) are not convenient with this.
San Francisco (or Seattle) to NYC: 2900 miles / 11 hours
eh? i have plenty of friends running red hat on thinkpads.
"Then again the sit around..." ?
"CAN'T NOT..." ?
I suppose this post is funny in more than one way.
timbuk2 got bought out a couple of years ago. you can't get nearly as of a burly bag as you used to be able to. production got shipped overseas as well.
marmot makes a few bags with laptop's and school/work in mind. plus they are extremely functional for the outdoors.
they have a padded compartment with a strap on top to keep the weight flat against your back (as to not pull backwards, which increases the weight you will feel). they have a lifetime warranty and are very tough.
expect to spend $100.
i have a marmot "boulder". it has three compartments, plus plenty of useful sub-compartments. it has a nice hip belt, chest strap, and compression straps. it can hold a 30 pack of need be.
don't use your ipod outside in the winter (if you live in an area that has winter). the battery will go bad much much faster.
i guess this is probably obvious to most of you.
http://das.doit.wisc.edu/neistatsdirtysecret.txt
my friend worked installing cell sites. he'd take home the excess cable (the big cable, not cat-5 or anything like that), to his dad. his dad paid his taxes that year with the profits from the copper.
i've also heard you can throw a spool of cat-5 on a nice fire and then collect the copper. i've never tried it as i'm not into burning plastic.
The platforms:
t er nates/
1. MS Windows - covered
2. Mac OS - covered
3. Linux - covered
4. Pocket PC - covered
5. OS/2 - covered
6. Solaris - covered
7. HP-UX - covered
8. SGI IRIX -covered
I think they have their bases covered with just the first 2.
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Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 20:58:52 -0800
From: The Angry Phan
Subject: Lieberthal Stabs Scottie in Back?
To: cstuart at longyear.acs.nmu.edu
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Well, it appears that we have a controversy. I don't know that we have a
controversy in the "newspapers" or on the radio, or on the TV, but we have a
controversy on the Internet where we are all free to discuss what is what
about anything. You can be a gas station attendant or an Ivy League graduate
or something in-between, but if you have something you want to say and the
balls to say it and enough brains to find a place to say it you can, at least
for now.
Paula Hagen, as someone referred to him the other day, claims in today's
Daily News that Mike Lieberthal is happy to be a Phillie. Paula Hagen not
only claims that "Lieby" is happy to be a Phillie but Paula puts quotes
around Lieby's supposed remarks that make Mike Lieberthal into a liar and
back stabber.
Scott Rolen has stood up as a man and challenged this ownership and city in a
way that is much stronger than Curt Schilling ever thought to do. Rolen has
done so after Lieberthal said publicly in September, 2000 in a Paula Hagen
column that the Phillies needed a, well let's look at the quote again in its
entirety:
"What we need is a $15 million slugger to put right in the middle of the
lineup."
Well, according to Paula Hagen in today's Daily News of January, 17, 2002
Mike Lieberthal has said something diametrically opposite to the above. In
fact "Lieby" has fired the first shot at organizing a battery night sendoff
for Scott Rolen. Here is what he said according to Paula Hagen:
"It's funny because they tell me about the lineups that the Mets and Braves
have," he said. "And I say, 'How about the Phillies' lineup? Jimmy Rollins,
Bobby Abreu, Scott Rolen, Pat Burrell?'
Then "Lieby" supposedly follows this up with:
"The only thing I can say is that it would be nice to have a No. 1 starter,
somebody like Curt Schilling."
Really? Just back as far as the end of the 2000 season, gee that's not much
longer than a year ago, "Lieby" said that Pat Burrell was three years away
from being "a stud", but now suddenly that time table has been rushed forward
and the guy who put it all on the line in America's toughest city, Scott
Rolen, has been hung out to dry by "Lieby".
That's the way it is unless "Lieby" seeks out another "writer" at the Daily
News or Inquirer and sets the record straight about what he said.
Either Paula Hagen is lying, or Mike Lieberthal is a piece of shit.
I wonder what could have changed "Lieby's" mind? Did Ed Wade whisper into
"Lieby's" ear "Ya know Mike, I don't like to talk about trade discussions,
but your name came up this winter and well, there just wasn't a lot of
interest in someone that has your injury record. Ya know what I mean? It's a
tough market." Long pause.
"Well look, you see what we did for Dougie. We didn't need to do that. You
have a lot more potential, you have been around. You can become the "team
leader", the "veteran". Larry knows how to spin the clich?s that the Phans
will listen to. That could be you. We can coast you into retirement as a
lifetime Phillie. All you have to do is cooperate. You help us with our
problem, and we help you with yo
What follows is from What do I know
-----------
Get Ready for IE Changes
Apple has posted helpful developer documentation concerning the changes Microsoft will be making (as required by the Eolas case) to Internet Explorer in early 2004, and how web developers (on any platform) can prepare now in advance:
To prepare yourself for the ensuing insanity, solution includes using external javascript files to write (document.write) the object / embed tags into a document instead of directly writing the tags into your code. This means that each and every piece of embedded content (Flash, QuickTime, Java, whatever) would require a unique external javascript file, or a builder-function you pass attributes to to embed your rich content.
By abstracting the embedding process through JavaScript, rich media content will behave in the same seamless, non-user initiated manner it currently does. But if developers don't abstract the object/embed elements, and a visitor views the page using the upcoming revised build of IE, they will have to click through a series of dialog boxes granting permission for their browser to load the content.
Whichever way, the new workarounds will lead to page bloat, additional server-calls, confusion, and additional monetary expense / time suckage for businesses and web developers everywhere. Yay Eolas.
see subject -
well, they _might_ go home, if they felt they could. there are a lot pressures on young females in those situations which make it hard for them to leave their jobs. managers are known to be extremely brutal. birth control is handed out on the assembly lines, because if a girl becomes pregnant she loses her job. it's a dehumanizing situation which has led to girls giving birth to children at work so they don't lose their jobs. they're in an extremely vulrenable situation, and this is ruthlessly taken advantage of.
they are making enough money to send some home, and then scrape by in the city. it is by no means a decent and humane situation.
please go ahead and read no logo. i'm sure it's at your library. it's a nice comprehensive look at globalization and who's getting pooped on because of it.
This is true. Fuck Mao
Read Mao's War Against Nature by Judith Shapiro.
Anyone who supports the over-boiling of rice, in order to make it larger (absorbs more water, becomes the size of a marble) and more filling (which gives you that horrid disease when you intake too much water) which then leads to people starving and eating the bark off of trees, in order to make up for idiotic agro policies deserves to die on their photo-op-fake-ass swim across the yellow river.
You don't support American Multinationals working out of foreign countries because it's colonialism, economic albeit - but the same difference.
Go read No Logo by Naomi Klein.
For the most part, multinationals working out of Economic Protection Zones (EPZ's) attempt to get the highest rate of young girls from the countryside to work for them. This allows them to::: treat their workers like shit, pay them little, threaten them easily if they try to unionize, etc etc. - all leading to poor working conditions wherein the girls feel threatened and scared, wherein the girls feel they _have_ to keep working and sending piddly change home to mom and pop, all the while suffering so we can get Gap shirts and all sorts of consumerist b.s. for as cheap as possible.
So no, you are not supporting the Chinese. You are bringing them into economic slavery... Chinese gov't loves it.. the jobs bring in technology profit - but for the workers it is not an advancement.
Go read Small is Beautiful by E.F. Shumacher to see how I think one should work to bring the Third World to a good standard of living.
And as if they dude in the battery factory in the U.S. is living the large life. Give me a break. At least he may have a proper working environment where he is safe, he doesn't work his ass of for jackshit, and he may even be able to join one of those union thingies.
Too bad sweatshops are on Big Al's T.V.
hoo waa.. .. ..
how about mozilla web mail... i think there would be plenty of people out there who would want a dirtyoldchump@mozilla.org address...
then we could add mozilla sigs to the already prevelant yahoo and ms hotmail sigs...