If the women wanted to make the same money as an engineer, they could tough it out through engineering school.
Well, actually, that's the problem. It is well known that aside from all other determiners, a woman will receive less pay than a man. The reasons are complex and widely studied; theories abound.
Certainly an engineering major will tend to pay for itself more quickly than a child and youth care major. Perhaps the lure of money is not enough to motivate many women to choose that field. Still, I would hope that those I work alongside of, man or woman, choose their career based on their interests, and not on their income.
WHAAaAAAaa? You think MOO3 was a *simplification* of MOO2?
To make a more recent comparision, MOO3 was like EVE Online without a subscription fee. It was a bureaucracy simulator par excellence. I made it through the tutorial realized there was probably a fun game in there after about a six month training course, and went outside* instead.
You probably ought to give UFO: Alien Invasion a try. It's definitely not the same game, but it's created by a group of people clearly in love with the source material.
Actually, it's worse than that. I made the mistake of reading the whole article. Several of the mods are completely unreleased. Several are clearly poor examples of vibrant modding communities. One of them is scarcely more than a *cheat* *mod* for an RTS of little note.
This list is an utter failure and completely fails to represent many of the brilliant and creative mods out there now, let alone recognize the influence of mods on the history of game development.
I have no problem with the author. He has his opinion and is entitled to post it as he pleases, but this is pathetic content to bring to the attention of the entire Slashdotting world.
So your arguments for why Perl is great to use are:
1) I know it. 2) I have it. 3) (irrelevant) 4) YAY CPAN 5) Not a reason to use it?
So, uh, yeah, CPAN is awesome, but "I know it and it's installed." aren't really strong advocacy arguments.
No offense, but this isn't exactly Insightful, particularly given that (aside from good old CPAN) there's really nothing in there that isn't true for Python on almost all systems people will encounter these days.
Actually, it's a licensed fork. Songbird has licensed our technology to Qtrax and we provide support to them. It works well for everyone and we're delighted to see some little birds leave the nest.
Songbird as a platform is making leaps and strides right now. If you're a Mozila-developin' fan of the project, we're in the middle of a Top 40 extensions contest to port cool extensions from Firefox. Come by #songbird on irc.mozilla.org or check us out at http://songbirdnest.com/top40 . Win cool schwag! Meet great people! Hack on something fun!
As a daily-use media player we're still not quite there yet. We are, after all, only at version 0.4. Still, many people are discovering all the cool things that having an extensible framework in your media player enables you to do.
I've worked with Argo data on several occasions and I've developed some Matlab code which makes the whole process quite a bit easier. It handles caching/retrieving/querying data from the official database and also a whole bevy of visualization options. It's scripter-only stuff and hasn't been touched in a year or two but was working very well for my needs recently. Query options include date/map polygon/float number/other metadata, and visualization covers a whole range of oceanographic plots from isosurfaces and sections, to property/property plots, waterfall plots, even some protoypical 3d-surface visualization plots... you name it, I've probably done it twice.
Of course, it's all freely available to anyone who might be interested. I only ask that if you make improvements, you share them back so that they can become part of the main distribution.
The Argo dataset is really, really cool and easy to get into! Too bad the resolution is so low and the salinity sensors tend to get fouled over time.
Not to say that anti-virus / pharmaceutical companies are not ethical. I'll say it for you then.
Pharmaceutical companies are not ethical. They are a special brand of evil investing billions into developing new drugs so that old men can get a woody and testing adult drugs on children to extend their patent terms while drugs that could actually help children go untested due to poor market projections. The real nail in the coffin is that they use their marketing weight to market less effective but still patented versions of drugs once their originals go into the public domain.
Anti-virus companies? Well, I'm not about to throw mud at Peter Norton. He kept the Michelangelo virus off my XT and he did it in a pink shirt. That takes balls.
Well, they can go as far as you want, more or less. Enforceability is another matter. For a particularly interesting license here is GlovePIE, a "programmable input emulator" originally designed for the P5 glove.
Programmable Input Emulator (PIE) Version 0.29 (4 January 2007) Copyright (c) Carl Kenner 2004-2007
Control games and applications any way you want. Send fake keyboard keys, jostick actions, mouse moves, midi input or speech input to any program. Use a VR Glove, Wiimote, a keyboard, joysticks, mice or a microphone to control any program.
This software is copyright (c) Carl Kenner, except for scripts by other authors. By using this software you agree to obey the following license conditions:
* You can't make money using this software as part of a baseball simulation. This is for contractual reasons. But you can make as much money as you like using it for anything else.
* You may not use this software directly or indirectly for any military purpose. This includes, but is not limited to, training, research and development, controlling military hardware, directing military personel, or troop entertainment. You may not use this software anywhere on a military base or vessel. This applies to all versions of PIE.
* You may not export this software to Israel, or use it in Israel (including the occupied territories), until Israel has ended its occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Lebanon, Syria, and anywhere else it may occupy. If you try to run it in Israel it will give you an error.
* Missionaries may not use this software. It may not be used for any missionary purpose. Or any other genocidal purpose.
* You may not use this software to cheat at online or multiplayer games. What constitutes cheating depends on the game and the server. Just using a different input device shouldn't be considered cheating, but complex scripted actions to make things easier may be considered cheating. Don't get GlovePIE banned, or you will hurt everyone who wants to play with a VR glove. But feel free to cheat at single player!
Would it stand up in a court of law? I don't know. It's an interesting message, at any rate. I commend the author for having morals and making a stand. There are far too many baseball simulations in this world, anyway.
Exile has long been the most powerful tool a society can level against its citizens. The community you are a part of defines your experience in an MMO as in reality. Taking that away from a person can be a fate worse than death. In fact, Socrates chose death over exile from his beloved Athens.
World of Warcraft already bans cheaters, you might say. That works, but I think Blizzard can do better.
Instead of banning cheaters, farmers, and botters, offer them all a non-negotiable, free, one-way character transfer to a ghetto server. Think of it as Australia. This way, Blizzard still gets their monthly money, and botters can keep botting all you like, but suddenly their ill-gotten gains are not worth anything on eBay and everybody else there is a botter or shit-disturber.
Let the botters have their fun, I say. There is a certain joy in writing scripts. In my MUDding days, we used to write little scripts for all kinds of things, like navigating common routes or automating potion drinking and the like. Sure, it was frowned upon, but everybody did it anyway. So why not let these people play how they like -- just let them do it with others like them.
Perhaps the best part, from Blizzards point of view, would be that this server would be ideal for monitoring the development of new cheats and hacks. GMs could quietly monitor, log, and prepare responses to new hacks in the "snake-pit" and then trap cheaters on all the other servers.
So I say: let the cheaters play their game, and let the rest of us play ours. We can all be (mostly) happy.
Adding more bandwidth is cheap, probably just as cheap as adding QoS, yet more bandwidth solves all of the problems QoS does, plus it increases the utility of the network for *everyone*, not just those using latency-sensitive applications. Furthermore, it keeps the network neutral to everyone, and doesn't introduce the possibility of QoS discrimination between classes of users. Actually, this is not true. I use QoS so that my upstairs neighbor doesn't use up all my bandwidth downloading the latest episode of Battlestar Galactica ruining my next-door neighbor's Counterstrike ping and making my Skype calls sound like I am at the bottom of a very deep well.
I can guarantee that the cost of my QoS package ($0 + a couple hours labour to find out what QoS is and how to configure it) was far less than more bandwidth (two more internet connections at $35/mo each).
I'm all in favor of legislation prohibiting abuse of backbone's monopolies. This isn't the old days where any old University could stick a new node online and route around the "damage" of a bad backbone. There are massive costs involved and therefore massive incentives to be massive assholes and it takes a massive power (such as government) to keep abuses in check. To route around any "free market" arguments -- yes, a free market can have reach the same effect, but it tends not to until it's far too late for a lot of people.
I just went through a whole bunch of crowns and dental work as the result of a bicycle accident. I'd recommend you avoid getting the tooth "replaced" if possible. The replacement teeth are not as strong as your original teeth and do not last well.
It isn't the saliva on your tooth that is deadening the pain. If you've ever burned the roof of your mouth you already know this. The lack of pain suggests to me that the nerve in that tooth has probably died. This would indicate that you will need a root canal which may sound scary, but really means "nerve removal". If the nerve is dead, there won't be any pain at all. A competant dentist will be able to take a look and advise you on your options. Also, the internet is a very powerful research tool and can help redress the imbalance between patient and doctor in terms of information. I highly recommend the Animated Teeth website. http://www.animated-teeth.com/ It's an ugly site, but it has great descriptions of the various common procedures involved in dentistry and helped me make my decisions.
By the time you are in severe pain, things will probably be much worse. You may have a nasty abcess. I hope you take the time to deal with the problem before it gets worse. It's almost certainly less painful in the long run (my pain was very effectively eliminated by one Ibuprofin every eight hours) and it's almost certainly less expensive (tooth replacements cost even more than crowns).
Hope that helps and good luck, -pvh
PS: Either way, I recommend you bring an MP3 player to your dentist's office. The music they play in those places is pablum and you're likely to have to lie there, as bored as you'll ever be for an hour or two at a time. On the other hand, a lack of distractions can give you lots of time to think about that bit of code you've been stuck on for months.
CAPTCHAs are, in essence, computer-administered Turing Tests. I think it's really neat that we're writing software that runs on computers that blocks out computers.
Ultimately, this is an arms race that pushes towards so-called Strong AI. When OCR distorted text is no longer a good enough filter, and when spambots can recognize hot babes, or play 20 Questions... what will we have left to prove our identity?
Every word was sarcastic! I am a shill! This is a cunning plan by the competition to make it look like there are Bungie shills! There are no women Slashdotters! &c.
No, but really, it's just a damn good game and people don't see past the repetitive single-player level design, merely acceptable graphics, and extreme hype to the excellent game lurking within.
I felt the conversation was biased rather heavily by people who had obviously never played the game very much. Halo 2 simply gets almost everything almost right (at least in multiplayer). Anyway, I don't mean to rant.
Second I would like to know exactly what Halo brought to the gaming market that "redefined first-person combat and multiplayer action..." Other than awesome marketing.
Halo 2 is, quite simply, the best engineered piece of multiplayer FPS that there is. I will explain why with a list and bullets so that there can be no mistakes or ambiguity.
Weapons, weapons, weapons! So well designed -- there isn't a useless gun in the collection, and if you find someone who says there is, they aren't any good. Every weapon has an effective range, and a smart player will use the terrain to their advantage. If you have a Shotgun, don't go into a big open field. Using a Charge Pistol with an SMG is a great way to take down one opponent, but the recharge time will leave you vulnerable for a second (long enough) and dual-wielding will prevent you from throwing grenades -- you'd better hit with that pistol on the first try.
The Shield. I'm not aware of any precursor to it, but it handily eliminates the whole notion of health and rewards players who understand how to take cover. If you're doing worse than the other guy, disengage for a second or two. Next time you pop out, you're back at even strength. A real innovation which makes Halo 2 play like nothing else.
Team Indicators. Players on your team have a floating flag over their head. This is easier to understand than team colors which often change from level to level, and includes some additional information. Their emblem lets you locate a specific player quickly without taking up all the space a text icon would occupy. When a player is firing, their icon is highlighted in yellow. If a player is getting hurt, they appear highlighted in red. A dead player's icon is briefly replaced with an X. Natural Selection does this, but Halo 2 does it better.
Spawning. Players automatically spawn at a spawn point next to a team mate who is not currently in combat. If that's not possible, they spawn away from the action. If everything is in flames, they just spawn. This extremely subtle point ensures that squads can regroup easily after a fire-fight or that you'll have time to find a weapon before your next engagement. Perfect for pacing whether you play with teams or without.
Menus. The menuing system is superb. So often, development teams will put their junior developer in charge of the menus. EA's menus are often so bad they hurt. Not here. It's the little things, the attention to detail is all there. For example, a player can adjust joystick inversion and sensitivity without interrupting other player's gameplay. You can join multiplayer games in progress, and for that matter all the gameplay options can be adjusted without restarting the multiplayer session -- a lifesaver when trying to organize a college LAN. Try that in Star Wars: Battlefront 2 some time. These features don't appear by accident folks, they come out in playtesting and from a team with sharp eyes and lots of experience. Very few people I have ever met have complained about the default controller setup, and despite that there are multiple alternative options provided.
I won't go on in too much detail. The game is remarkably polished. I mean that in a literal sense -- there are very few games in the history of computer software design that can claim to have done so few things wrong. This deserves remark.
Halo 2 has largely realised the old saw "beauty is the absence of ugliness". There is a depth and breadth to multiplayer play which only becomes apparent with patience and experience. Give it a chance some time and try to see through the hype to the brilliant game within. My advice is to figure out where one or two of the "good" weapons spawn and learn how to use those.
It's amazing how far capitalism will go to make lives of normal people miserable.
Capitalism does nothing at all. There is no entity called capitalism lurking in the shadows, forcing telemarketers to call you. Most telemarketers don't like their jobs and don't enjoy calling people who hate to talk to them. Still, it's unskilled work and nobody likes to do it so it's easy to find a job doing it. What else should they be doing?
Debian is definitely pedantic about licenses, but I think that's better than having license issues come back to haunt them in the form of a lawsuit.
Is it?
No... really. Is it actually better?
I mean, shit, has anyone done any kind of risk/cost analysis before jumping to some kind of a conclusion like this? The amount of stupid shit done in the name of overextending good principles throughout history can not be overstated.
It's like working for the Government. It seems there are two camps -- those who do work and those who actively prevent it under any pretense possible.
-pvh
Ironically the safest way to run Debian is to run at the least a hybrid Sarge/Sid system, if not a full-on Sid system. Don't be frightened by the "unstable" tag...Sid is about as unstable as "normal" distros like Fedora and Mandrake. Sid also gets the latest security updates, something that Sarge doesn't get at this point.
Yeah, I tried that a while ago. It was great. Unstable got broken by a major package upgrade and all of a sudden the repository was in an inconsistent state for several months. There were important packages that could not be installed, and when I went around asking for how to fix it I heard the same thing over and over.
Don't use unstable, noob. It's for elite haxors. Go back to stable and the year 1980. We'll call you when the Real Men are done.
The arrogance and cruelty of the people I came in contact with cannot be overstated. This is why I use Ubuntu now. When I have a problem, I go to an Ubuntu support group and I get friendly, timely help on up-to-date packages. Hell, even their unstable repository is at least kept consistent.
So yeah, all thanks to Debian. They are the engine under the hood of Ubuntu. And all thanks to Ubuntu for freeing me from the alternating abuse and neglect of those people. Now I don't have to feel like a loser because I didn't have a Unix mentor growing up.
I sign this with my name, and I stand by it. Burn my karma all you like.
Smart of you not to buy a Shuffle. There are cheaper flash-based MP3 players with all the same features and far fewer of the same drawbacks.
I mean, really, why pay more for less? I don't understand this one. I'm sure you can buy white earbuds somewhere else. I heard the thing even has the same DRM restrictions as the iPod!
How are these selling at all? I mean, really? Could I make a fortune by buying less expensive mp3 players, removing the LCD and slapping them in a featureless white container?
(Please refrain from moderating this up, particularly if you agree with me, as it is a tangental thread.)
You're right. Giant tsunamis across an entire ocean and massive ecological devestation through the entire oceanic biosphere are FAR superior to evacuating a 200km diameter circle (plus fallout space) over the next twenty four years.
I live near the coast, and have seen tsunami simulations for my region.
Definitely better to see it drop on land. Much easier to cope with.
Slashdot Mirror
CSIRO appearing on a resume should result in an automatic blacklisting from employment or consulting (it will with me). This is sociopathic theft.
Steve Jobs? Is that you?
If the women wanted to make the same money as an engineer, they could tough it out through engineering school.
Well, actually, that's the problem. It is well known that aside from all other determiners, a woman will receive less pay than a man. The reasons are complex and widely studied; theories abound.
Certainly an engineering major will tend to pay for itself more quickly than a child and youth care major. Perhaps the lure of money is not enough to motivate many women to choose that field. Still, I would hope that those I work alongside of, man or woman, choose their career based on their interests, and not on their income.
WHAAaAAAaa? You think MOO3 was a *simplification* of MOO2?
To make a more recent comparision, MOO3 was like EVE Online without a subscription fee. It was a bureaucracy simulator par excellence. I made it through the tutorial realized there was probably a fun game in there after about a six month training course, and went outside* instead.
*: I did not actually go outside.
You probably ought to give UFO: Alien Invasion a try. It's definitely not the same game, but it's created by a group of people clearly in love with the source material.
Actually, it's worse than that. I made the mistake of reading the whole article. Several of the mods are completely unreleased. Several are clearly poor examples of vibrant modding communities. One of them is scarcely more than a *cheat* *mod* for an RTS of little note.
This list is an utter failure and completely fails to represent many of the brilliant and creative mods out there now, let alone recognize the influence of mods on the history of game development.
I have no problem with the author. He has his opinion and is entitled to post it as he pleases, but this is pathetic content to bring to the attention of the entire Slashdotting world.
For shame, Soulskill. For shame.
(So much for my excellent karma!)
So your arguments for why Perl is great to use are:
1) I know it.
2) I have it.
3) (irrelevant)
4) YAY CPAN
5) Not a reason to use it?
So, uh, yeah, CPAN is awesome, but "I know it and it's installed." aren't really strong advocacy arguments.
No offense, but this isn't exactly Insightful, particularly given that (aside from good old CPAN) there's really nothing in there that isn't true for Python on almost all systems people will encounter these days.
I drink your milkshake! I drink it up!
Actually, it's a licensed fork. Songbird has licensed our technology to Qtrax and we provide support to them. It works well for everyone and we're delighted to see some little birds leave the nest.
Songbird as a platform is making leaps and strides right now. If you're a Mozila-developin' fan of the project, we're in the middle of a Top 40 extensions contest to port cool extensions from Firefox. Come by #songbird on irc.mozilla.org or check us out at http://songbirdnest.com/top40 . Win cool schwag! Meet great people! Hack on something fun!
As a daily-use media player we're still not quite there yet. We are, after all, only at version 0.4. Still, many people are discovering all the cool things that having an extensible framework in your media player enables you to do.
Squawks,
-pvh
I've worked with Argo data on several occasions and I've developed some Matlab code which makes the whole process quite a bit easier. It handles caching/retrieving/querying data from the official database and also a whole bevy of visualization options. It's scripter-only stuff and hasn't been touched in a year or two but was working very well for my needs recently. Query options include date/map polygon/float number/other metadata, and visualization covers a whole range of oceanographic plots from isosurfaces and sections, to property/property plots, waterfall plots, even some protoypical 3d-surface visualization plots... you name it, I've probably done it twice.
Of course, it's all freely available to anyone who might be interested. I only ask that if you make improvements, you share them back so that they can become part of the main distribution.
The Argo dataset is really, really cool and easy to get into! Too bad the resolution is so low and the salinity sensors tend to get fouled over time.
Pharmaceutical companies are not ethical. They are a special brand of evil investing billions into developing new drugs so that old men can get a woody and testing adult drugs on children to extend their patent terms while drugs that could actually help children go untested due to poor market projections. The real nail in the coffin is that they use their marketing weight to market less effective but still patented versions of drugs once their originals go into the public domain.
Anti-virus companies? Well, I'm not about to throw mud at Peter Norton. He kept the Michelangelo virus off my XT and he did it in a pink shirt. That takes balls.
Would it stand up in a court of law? I don't know. It's an interesting message, at any rate. I commend the author for having morals and making a stand. There are far too many baseball simulations in this world, anyway.
Exile has long been the most powerful tool a society can level against its citizens. The community you are a part of defines your experience in an MMO as in reality. Taking that away from a person can be a fate worse than death. In fact, Socrates chose death over exile from his beloved Athens.
World of Warcraft already bans cheaters, you might say. That works, but I think Blizzard can do better.
Instead of banning cheaters, farmers, and botters, offer them all a non-negotiable, free, one-way character transfer to a ghetto server. Think of it as Australia. This way, Blizzard still gets their monthly money, and botters can keep botting all you like, but suddenly their ill-gotten gains are not worth anything on eBay and everybody else there is a botter or shit-disturber.
Let the botters have their fun, I say. There is a certain joy in writing scripts. In my MUDding days, we used to write little scripts for all kinds of things, like navigating common routes or automating potion drinking and the like. Sure, it was frowned upon, but everybody did it anyway. So why not let these people play how they like -- just let them do it with others like them.
Perhaps the best part, from Blizzards point of view, would be that this server would be ideal for monitoring the development of new cheats and hacks. GMs could quietly monitor, log, and prepare responses to new hacks in the "snake-pit" and then trap cheaters on all the other servers.
So I say: let the cheaters play their game, and let the rest of us play ours. We can all be (mostly) happy.
-pvh
If the headline were "NEW MALARIA DRUGS FOUND WITH AID OF GRID COMPUTING" I would be much more impressed.
It's all well and good to tie a big grid to a problem, but if you don't ask the right questions, you won't get useful answers.
Are there any significant grid computing success stories?
-pvh
I can guarantee that the cost of my QoS package ($0 + a couple hours labour to find out what QoS is and how to configure it) was far less than more bandwidth (two more internet connections at $35/mo each).
I'm all in favor of legislation prohibiting abuse of backbone's monopolies. This isn't the old days where any old University could stick a new node online and route around the "damage" of a bad backbone. There are massive costs involved and therefore massive incentives to be massive assholes and it takes a massive power (such as government) to keep abuses in check. To route around any "free market" arguments -- yes, a free market can have reach the same effect, but it tends not to until it's far too late for a lot of people.
Buddy,
I just went through a whole bunch of crowns and dental work as the result of a bicycle accident. I'd recommend you avoid getting the tooth "replaced" if possible. The replacement teeth are not as strong as your original teeth and do not last well.
It isn't the saliva on your tooth that is deadening the pain. If you've ever burned the roof of your mouth you already know this. The lack of pain suggests to me that the nerve in that tooth has probably died. This would indicate that you will need a root canal which may sound scary, but really means "nerve removal". If the nerve is dead, there won't be any pain at all. A competant dentist will be able to take a look and advise you on your options. Also, the internet is a very powerful research tool and can help redress the imbalance between patient and doctor in terms of information. I highly recommend the Animated Teeth website. http://www.animated-teeth.com/ It's an ugly site, but it has great descriptions of the various common procedures involved in dentistry and helped me make my decisions.
By the time you are in severe pain, things will probably be much worse. You may have a nasty abcess. I hope you take the time to deal with the problem before it gets worse. It's almost certainly less painful in the long run (my pain was very effectively eliminated by one Ibuprofin every eight hours) and it's almost certainly less expensive (tooth replacements cost even more than crowns).
Hope that helps and good luck,
-pvh
PS: Either way, I recommend you bring an MP3 player to your dentist's office. The music they play in those places is pablum and you're likely to have to lie there, as bored as you'll ever be for an hour or two at a time. On the other hand, a lack of distractions can give you lots of time to think about that bit of code you've been stuck on for months.
CAPTCHAs are, in essence, computer-administered Turing Tests. I think it's really neat that we're writing software that runs on computers that blocks out computers.
Ultimately, this is an arms race that pushes towards so-called Strong AI. When OCR distorted text is no longer a good enough filter, and when spambots can recognize hot babes, or play 20 Questions... what will we have left to prove our identity?
But new Russian vodkas continue to proudly display the murderous Red Star, and the above mentioned tools.
Yeah, but they Won The War, and that's the prize -- your Generals don't get tried for War Crimes, and theirs do. Funny how that works...
Every word was sarcastic! I am a shill! This is a cunning plan by the competition to make it look like there are Bungie shills! There are no women Slashdotters! &c.
No, but really, it's just a damn good game and people don't see past the repetitive single-player level design, merely acceptable graphics, and extreme hype to the excellent game lurking within.
I felt the conversation was biased rather heavily by people who had obviously never played the game very much. Halo 2 simply gets almost everything almost right (at least in multiplayer). Anyway, I don't mean to rant.
-p
Halo 2 is, quite simply, the best engineered piece of multiplayer FPS that there is. I will explain why with a list and bullets so that there can be no mistakes or ambiguity.
I won't go on in too much detail. The game is remarkably polished. I mean that in a literal sense -- there are very few games in the history of computer software design that can claim to have done so few things wrong. This deserves remark.
Halo 2 has largely realised the old saw "beauty is the absence of ugliness". There is a depth and breadth to multiplayer play which only becomes apparent with patience and experience. Give it a chance some time and try to see through the hype to the brilliant game within. My advice is to figure out where one or two of the "good" weapons spawn and learn how to use those.
As for the graphics? Well, they get the job done.
It's amazing how far capitalism will go to make lives of normal people miserable.
Capitalism does nothing at all. There is no entity called capitalism lurking in the shadows, forcing telemarketers to call you. Most telemarketers don't like their jobs and don't enjoy calling people who hate to talk to them. Still, it's unskilled work and nobody likes to do it so it's easy to find a job doing it. What else should they be doing?
... using goto statements.
Sounds harmful...
Yeah, I tried that a while ago. It was great. Unstable got broken by a major package upgrade and all of a sudden the repository was in an inconsistent state for several months. There were important packages that could not be installed, and when I went around asking for how to fix it I heard the same thing over and over.
Don't use unstable, noob. It's for elite haxors. Go back to stable and the year 1980. We'll call you when the Real Men are done.
The arrogance and cruelty of the people I came in contact with cannot be overstated. This is why I use Ubuntu now. When I have a problem, I go to an Ubuntu support group and I get friendly, timely help on up-to-date packages. Hell, even their unstable repository is at least kept consistent.
So yeah, all thanks to Debian. They are the engine under the hood of Ubuntu. And all thanks to Ubuntu for freeing me from the alternating abuse and neglect of those people. Now I don't have to feel like a loser because I didn't have a Unix mentor growing up.
I sign this with my name, and I stand by it. Burn my karma all you like.
Peter van Hardenberg
Smart of you not to buy a Shuffle. There are cheaper flash-based MP3 players with all the same features and far fewer of the same drawbacks.
I mean, really, why pay more for less? I don't understand this one. I'm sure you can buy white earbuds somewhere else. I heard the thing even has the same DRM restrictions as the iPod!
How are these selling at all? I mean, really? Could I make a fortune by buying less expensive mp3 players, removing the LCD and slapping them in a featureless white container?
(Please refrain from moderating this up, particularly if you agree with me, as it is a tangental thread.)
You're right. Giant tsunamis across an entire ocean and massive ecological devestation through the entire oceanic biosphere are FAR superior to evacuating a 200km diameter circle (plus fallout space) over the next twenty four years.
I live near the coast, and have seen tsunami simulations for my region.
Definitely better to see it drop on land. Much easier to cope with.
-pvh