Now, lets make sure that he gets picked up quickly by someone else. If we can start saying without question that leaving Novell in protest of the patent deal will get you a few job offers off the bat will be quite good.
Bzzt, wrong. I don't know how many applications you're loading up, but 32 Gigs is plenty for my entire windows C: drive. I'll keep all my applications and operating system on fast, quiet SSD, and I'll happily store my 400 gigs of music and video on magnetic drives.
I think MMORPGs can be an addiction. I think IRC can be an addiction. I don't think "the internet" can be an addiction.
The internet is only a medium. One can be addicted to certain content it contains, however one cannot be addicted to the medium itself.
I dislike being away from the internet for more than a few days because it feels to me like I have been away from the rest of the world when that happens. When I am away from the internet for a week, its generally because I'm away from -everything- for a week. I love vacations, but you come back from that wondering whether someone has dropped another atomic bomb while you were out, and wondering if society has reverted to cannibalism while you were out.
I was using it before the promotion as well, and have 10 Euros of credit sitting on my account because I thought I had ran out. I didn't realize there even was a promotion until I went to find out why all my calls weren't being charged.
Their rate prior to the promotion was $0.02 a minute. I used it to talk to anyone outside my local cell phone coverage, and continue to do so. I currently spend probably 6-8 hours a week using Skype to talk to my girlfriend, and have saved probably hundreds of dollars on long distance to friends in Japan.
I like the service, enough to have bought a handset. It now acts to me exactly like a normal telephone. I have a portable phone that plugs in via usb, and I can dial normal numbers. Only thing that wouldn't work would be 911 type numbers.
I will pay the $30 a year for a skypeout subscription, it will be cheaper than the prepay at $0.02 cents a minute I was paying previously. The quality varies for me, but I suspect I am using it on an underpowered computer. Quality can go from extremely good to barely usable - but redialing will fix that. The frequency of "bad" is about the same as my cell phone.
I just wish there were more people on it so I could call computer to computer more.
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Well, I'm pissed off by this. We were looking at buying top-end mysql support shortly. Now we cant, because we run a home-brew version of Linux.
We're technically competent people, but we don't know MySQL inside and out. We wanted support so we could go to mysqlab and present them, the MySQL experts, with some of the problems we have and we could work WITH them to fix them. Now, instead of being able to go to the developers, and PAY them for their time, we're stuck on our own trying to figure things out. This is just dumb, they're throwing out a lot of revenue. I know several large companies that do not run Suse or Redhat, but make heavy use of MySQL. They're cutting off the group of large companies that maintain their own linux distributions in house. There are a surprising number of us.
Thank you Microsoft, for improving the error messages you get in Internet Explorer. Now my QA team always gives "Cannot find server or DNS error" as the error message, leaving me with very little to work with.
Bucketing all errors to prompt one page is not improvement - its obfuscation, its stupidity, its annoyance. It makes troubleshooting a problem exponentially harder.
If thats what microsoft thinks is innovation, they should have their product development team strung up by their short and curleys.
I agree that the kid was a dipshit, and quite deserved to be arrested.
However, I do NOT agree that tasering him five times, using it as motivation of all things, is appropriate. A taser should be used as an alternative to a club or a gun. If he was physically resisting, taser him once, get the cuffs on him, and drag his sorry ass out of the building. There is absolutely no excuse to taser someone five times because they refuse to move.
He already had the cuffs on, and was laying on the ground.
Yeah see, on the other hand, you don't loose your house if you happen not to have the insurance for medical care.
Here in Canada, you might have to wait a while. Our system is far from perfect, but I would much rather take it over the American system. After watching an uncle go through a decade of treatment, double lung transplant, and eventually dieing of rejection, I would still much prefer Canada. Any idea how much that might have cost down there? Have any friends with long-term terminal illness?
On that list, there are very few things that are truly innovative. Most are simply a natural progression. Look at every one of those, and think to yourself... I'm designing an online gaming system for a console. What would I do. Nothing on that list is one of those "EUREKA" moments of actual epiphany (except maybe this Gamerscore thing you mentioned, which I know not.)
How long until it becomes stupid for you to physically handle your CDs all the time? How about you get a digital appliance of some kind that gives you your entire cd collection in a nice, small unit, with the ability to search, build playlists, and you don't have to risk actual physical media.
You're the one living out of touch with the average music buyer. Wait 5 years, and your post will look so stupid. Its like saying "casettes are so great, why would I buy CDs".
For me, the right not to reveal sources is not fundamental to the freedom of press. snip
I consider the ability to speak one's opinion, no matter how nasty it is, as a necessary prerequisite for freedom of speech.
Well, I consider it an item of freedom of speech to not say something. Especially if it happens to be who my sources are. I also think that advocating violence against one a group of people for their race, ethnicity, religion, sexual preference, or whatever constitutes a responsibility for those actions. If I teach my child that lesbians are sinners and deserve death, am I not responsible when my child kills one?
You have a very interesting twist on freedom of speech.
You, sir, have been smoking some of Michael Crictons' crack. He makes that exact arguement in his book State of Fear. The book also argues that global warming is a conspiracy perpetrated by the left, universities included.
Now, granted, they are professors working at a university, so of course their views are subject to the same propeganda and censorship that one would expect from universities.
After reading the article, the context isnt quite clear. I dont think the speaker was saying "I cant say I didn't expect Hans to kill his wife." We should probably avoid assuming as much.
Except your method just makes you into a looser and an ass in your childs' eyes.
Dont listen to this guy, your kids will see right through it. He is right in one respect though - teens want their own area in which to interact. You keep following them to all their places, whether online or in real life, and they'll keep looking for new places.
Well, I think its quite possible that the raw uglyness of Myspace pages caught up with people.
I think I've been to myspace maybe half a dozen times in total. I find the layout of most pages visually offensive. Useless sensory overload.
Teens look for a community of their own. They find one, build it, make it good, then the corporations move in to make money off of it. That lasts for a while, then the corporations eventually destroy it. Good example: Rap. I could come up with more.
As an outsider to the USA, it is incredibly relieving that people are starting to talk like this. At this rate, I am rooting for an American Civil War. I know that isnt terribly nice of me, but at least SOME americans arent blind to what is happening in their country.
There are savings in other areas beyond raw hardware - but thats the most easily quantifiable. It costs us probably about one guy full time to maintain, but that work is spread across a team of people.
Keep in mind the tree that we maintain inhouse is substantially smaller than the gentoo portage tree. We have only the applications that we are interested in.
We support it inhouse, and our management approved it because we explained the value of such a system.
Portage allows us full and complete control over our environment, full operating system version control, and an automated package deployment and upgrade system. There are other such benefits...
And where... well, I'd prefer to keep that to myself - but its not exactly a small place. You'd know it by name.
A blade is a server. Instead of having plugs and wires to connect it to everything else, it has one nice big interface. It slides into an enclosure that provides the interface with everything it needs.
The enclosure will do handy things like handle all that power stuff, provide some integrated administration, hardware management and such, provide cooling and airflow.
Possession of violent pornography is not, in itself, a bad thing. It can, however, be a symptom of a serious mental imbalance, as was almost certainly the case with the murderer in the article.
Or it could be a symptom of nothing at all. Maybe I like rollplaying. Maybe my girlfriend likes being tied up. Maybe she likes rough sex. Maybe I share her enjoyment. Maybe we both like watching other people play out those same roles. Gives us ideas.
Who the fuck does the government think they are deciding that its immoral, and where is the line between rough sex and violent sex?
I think this law blows, and if I were part of the country, I'd be investigating it more, and kicking up more noise about it.
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Agreed.
Now, lets make sure that he gets picked up quickly by someone else. If we can start saying without question that leaving Novell in protest of the patent deal will get you a few job offers off the bat will be quite good.
Keep these people employed!
Bzzt, wrong. I don't know how many applications you're loading up, but 32 Gigs is plenty for my entire windows C: drive. I'll keep all my applications and operating system on fast, quiet SSD, and I'll happily store my 400 gigs of music and video on magnetic drives.
I think MMORPGs can be an addiction. I think IRC can be an addiction. I don't think "the internet" can be an addiction.
The internet is only a medium. One can be addicted to certain content it contains, however one cannot be addicted to the medium itself.
I dislike being away from the internet for more than a few days because it feels to me like I have been away from the rest of the world when that happens. When I am away from the internet for a week, its generally because I'm away from -everything- for a week. I love vacations, but you come back from that wondering whether someone has dropped another atomic bomb while you were out, and wondering if society has reverted to cannibalism while you were out.
I was using it before the promotion as well, and have 10 Euros of credit sitting on my account because I thought I had ran out. I didn't realize there even was a promotion until I went to find out why all my calls weren't being charged.
Their rate prior to the promotion was $0.02 a minute. I used it to talk to anyone outside my local cell phone coverage, and continue to do so. I currently spend probably 6-8 hours a week using Skype to talk to my girlfriend, and have saved probably hundreds of dollars on long distance to friends in Japan.
I like the service, enough to have bought a handset. It now acts to me exactly like a normal telephone. I have a portable phone that plugs in via usb, and I can dial normal numbers. Only thing that wouldn't work would be 911 type numbers.
I will pay the $30 a year for a skypeout subscription, it will be cheaper than the prepay at $0.02 cents a minute I was paying previously. The quality varies for me, but I suspect I am using it on an underpowered computer. Quality can go from extremely good to barely usable - but redialing will fix that. The frequency of "bad" is about the same as my cell phone.
I just wish there were more people on it so I could call computer to computer more.
News: Google changes search results for business over blog
Not News: Small business files weightless and doomed lawsuit over Google ranking.
Slashdot: Some blogger receives email from business complaining about Google ranking.
Well, I'm pissed off by this. We were looking at buying top-end mysql support shortly. Now we cant, because we run a home-brew version of Linux.
We're technically competent people, but we don't know MySQL inside and out. We wanted support so we could go to mysqlab and present them, the MySQL experts, with some of the problems we have and we could work WITH them to fix them. Now, instead of being able to go to the developers, and PAY them for their time, we're stuck on our own trying to figure things out. This is just dumb, they're throwing out a lot of revenue. I know several large companies that do not run Suse or Redhat, but make heavy use of MySQL. They're cutting off the group of large companies that maintain their own linux distributions in house. There are a surprising number of us.
Thank you Microsoft, for improving the error messages you get in Internet Explorer. Now my QA team always gives "Cannot find server or DNS error" as the error message, leaving me with very little to work with.
Bucketing all errors to prompt one page is not improvement - its obfuscation, its stupidity, its annoyance. It makes troubleshooting a problem exponentially harder.
If thats what microsoft thinks is innovation, they should have their product development team strung up by their short and curleys.
I agree that the kid was a dipshit, and quite deserved to be arrested.
However, I do NOT agree that tasering him five times, using it as motivation of all things, is appropriate. A taser should be used as an alternative to a club or a gun. If he was physically resisting, taser him once, get the cuffs on him, and drag his sorry ass out of the building. There is absolutely no excuse to taser someone five times because they refuse to move.
He already had the cuffs on, and was laying on the ground.
A taser is not a motivational tool.
Yeah see, on the other hand, you don't loose your house if you happen not to have the insurance for medical care.
Here in Canada, you might have to wait a while. Our system is far from perfect, but I would much rather take it over the American system. After watching an uncle go through a decade of treatment, double lung transplant, and eventually dieing of rejection, I would still much prefer Canada. Any idea how much that might have cost down there? Have any friends with long-term terminal illness?
As I would expect from a seven digit slashdot userid. ;)
Got it fixed, once and only once, and it cost me less than an Xbox live subscription for a year.
On that list, there are very few things that are truly innovative. Most are simply a natural progression. Look at every one of those, and think to yourself... I'm designing an online gaming system for a console. What would I do. Nothing on that list is one of those "EUREKA" moments of actual epiphany (except maybe this Gamerscore thing you mentioned, which I know not.)
Or you are.
How long until it becomes stupid for you to physically handle your CDs all the time? How about you get a digital appliance of some kind that gives you your entire cd collection in a nice, small unit, with the ability to search, build playlists, and you don't have to risk actual physical media.
You're the one living out of touch with the average music buyer. Wait 5 years, and your post will look so stupid. Its like saying "casettes are so great, why would I buy CDs".
For me, the right not to reveal sources is not fundamental to the freedom of press.
snip
I consider the ability to speak one's opinion, no matter how nasty it is, as a necessary prerequisite for freedom of speech.
Well, I consider it an item of freedom of speech to not say something. Especially if it happens to be who my sources are. I also think that advocating violence against one a group of people for their race, ethnicity, religion, sexual preference, or whatever constitutes a responsibility for those actions. If I teach my child that lesbians are sinners and deserve death, am I not responsible when my child kills one?
You have a very interesting twist on freedom of speech.
Well duh, who would want to censor that? I'd take that over depressing worlds-gonna-end crap.
You, sir, have been smoking some of Michael Crictons' crack. He makes that exact arguement in his book State of Fear. The book also argues that global warming is a conspiracy perpetrated by the left, universities included.
I think this may help on the topic:
UC San Diago talk on State of Fear and the media (Also talks about global warming)
Now, granted, they are professors working at a university, so of course their views are subject to the same propeganda and censorship that one would expect from universities.
After reading the article, the context isnt quite clear. I dont think the speaker was saying "I cant say I didn't expect Hans to kill his wife." We should probably avoid assuming as much.
Except your method just makes you into a looser and an ass in your childs' eyes.
Dont listen to this guy, your kids will see right through it. He is right in one respect though - teens want their own area in which to interact. You keep following them to all their places, whether online or in real life, and they'll keep looking for new places.
Well, I think its quite possible that the raw uglyness of Myspace pages caught up with people.
I think I've been to myspace maybe half a dozen times in total. I find the layout of most pages visually offensive. Useless sensory overload.
Teens look for a community of their own. They find one, build it, make it good, then the corporations move in to make money off of it. That lasts for a while, then the corporations eventually destroy it. Good example: Rap. I could come up with more.
As an outsider to the USA, it is incredibly relieving that people are starting to talk like this. At this rate, I am rooting for an American Civil War. I know that isnt terribly nice of me, but at least SOME americans arent blind to what is happening in their country.
There are savings in other areas beyond raw hardware - but thats the most easily quantifiable. It costs us probably about one guy full time to maintain, but that work is spread across a team of people.
Keep in mind the tree that we maintain inhouse is substantially smaller than the gentoo portage tree. We have only the applications that we are interested in.
We support it inhouse, and our management approved it because we explained the value of such a system.
Portage allows us full and complete control over our environment, full operating system version control, and an automated package deployment and upgrade system. There are other such benefits...
And where... well, I'd prefer to keep that to myself - but its not exactly a small place. You'd know it by name.
When was the last time you heard of some big corporation going with gentoo?
My big corporation does - heavily customized version of portage, but gentoo nonetheless.
Why?
Because when you eek 5% more performance out of five million dollars in hardware, you have saved a quarter million dollars.
Again, bad explanation.
A blade is a server. Instead of having plugs and wires to connect it to everything else, it has one nice big interface. It slides into an enclosure that provides the interface with everything it needs.
The enclosure will do handy things like handle all that power stuff, provide some integrated administration, hardware management and such, provide cooling and airflow.
Possession of violent pornography is not, in itself, a bad thing. It can, however, be a symptom of a serious mental imbalance, as was almost certainly the case with the murderer in the article.
Or it could be a symptom of nothing at all. Maybe I like rollplaying. Maybe my girlfriend likes being tied up. Maybe she likes rough sex. Maybe I share her enjoyment. Maybe we both like watching other people play out those same roles. Gives us ideas.
Who the fuck does the government think they are deciding that its immoral, and where is the line between rough sex and violent sex?
I think this law blows, and if I were part of the country, I'd be investigating it more, and kicking up more noise about it.