If you only knew what they did when you weren't around...
Realism is an important trait in a parent, and it seems like it is something you lack. Rather than talk about how great your kids are, you should think about how you'll react when they disappoint you. That is what differentiates a good parent from a bad one.
Because when someone is sitting next to you and sees the traffic up ahead start to get dangerous, he/she will probably shut up and let you concentrate. Dude on the other end of the cellphone, however, will keep yacking on and expecting answers. "Bob? Did you hear me Bob? Damn-it, I want an answer!"...
Sounds like voting to me. Vote for the person you think is the ideal candidate and that's enough, delusional. Organizing other people to vote or do something else to make a change -- that's worthwhile.
Maybe it's because I follow F1, but does the top speed on the lap really say much about the course? I mean, shouldn't there be "driver challenge"? You can make a given course faster and faster, just by increasing the banking. Big deal. Is it more interesting to watch, or does it make for a better race for the drivers?
Yeah, only the Linux one is only one of many ongoing wars MS is fighting. There are also the patent fights, the antitrust fights, the virus fights, and others I'm sure.
Besides, it's not like the legal battles are having much of an effect on the actual Linux kernel development process, are they?
You did read the Memory Hole page right? Like the part where they also mentioned that that article has disappeared from the Table of Contents for that issue? If it were just an article getting old and being erased, that's one thing, but if the ToC is edited to make it seem as though the article never existed, that's another. I don't know if it's politics or what, but it does seem damn suspicious.
Well if you actually read my comment, you'd see that I talked about unions. See, unions are these things which mess with the whole supply and demand thing. They artificially reduce the supply to a level at which they can demand a ridiculous salary.
C'mon! CamelCase names in Java follow a some simple rules, there's even a documented way of how you're supposed to do it. As for CELLPADDING, since that's how it's named in HTML, it wouldn't surprise me to see it done identically in another place. Better go sue Netscape too.
To see if the code is actually similar you'd have to look at algorithms and innovations. Looking at interfaces and their names isn't going to tell you anything at all.
Don't these idiots know anything about where the salaries come from?
Wedding photographers make big bucks because people want to make sure they don't get awful, amateur pictures. Everything associated with a wedding is expensive because (at least in theory) it's a one-time event that means a lot to a lot of people, so they don't want to risk being disappointed. Being a wedding photographer requires not only photography skills, but also the ability to deal with angry people (if your pictures don't turn out) and stressed out people (even if they do), as well as taking the same picture over and over again. Because of that, there are few people who want the job and can do it, so the pay is high. Duh!
Luxury home real estate agents act snobbish towards people who visit luxury open houses because *that's their job*. They want to drive up the price of the home, and make it seem exclusive, and part of that is making sure that if you're allowed to look at a luxury home, you feel privileged! Sure, they make high commissions, but dealing with the type of people who could buy or sell a home like that takes more skills than just the ability to pass a real-estate test.
Motivational speakers make money because people want to hear what they want to say. Pro athletes make money because people want to watch them play, or buy things they endorse, etc. Often the incremental cost for each of these things isn't huge. Say on average everybody who watched Micheal Jordan play baskeball over his career bought three pairs of "Air Jordan" sneakers and 100 happy meals. That's relatively cheap for them, but since he gets a cut of millions of people doing that, he gets money. Now sure, you can argue with whether people should be buying things an athlete endorses, but that's their value system. Sure, a pair of "Air Jordan" shoes is expensive, but it's a status symbol, and maybe it helps in their social circle. Paying a thousand dollars to listen to a former president speak is similar. I'm sure nobody thinks they're honestly learning amazing new things they could never learn otherwise, however they get to rub elbows with other people. It's networking, it's status, so hwo do you put a price on it?
Most of the other jobs are either about unions and the undue power they have, or about jobs that take a lot of time and effort to get. (Orthodontist takes years of schooling, mutual fund manager takes years of getting certified as a financial analyst, etc). As for the unions, I think it's accepted that they're pretty corrupt and wield undue power, but eventually that power will fail. As for the jobs that take years to get, most people aren't willing or able to spend almost 10 years after high school to get a very boring, but very high paying job. Those that do can command high salaries.
It's all about supply and demand. I hope this was meant as a fluff piece, because if this is the kind of serious market analysis these people do, I'm not impressed.
What you said "pour encourage[r] les autres" translates as "to encourage others". I think you mean you want to discourage other people from doing the same thing, right?
Argh!!! Get out of my head!!! How'd you do that? How'd you guess my uber-secure password! Well since you somehow got the password, I might as well give you the full passphrase: "Human resources Said 2 specify What might Not work / O Lovely grits get Dem with Miss natalie". Now GET OUT OF MY HEAD you mind-reading bastard!
All you anti-TV people are all the same. You all love to go on about how great the world is without TV. Wow, yay, that's great. I'm happy for you, but the smug self-congratulation is wearing thin. Now, wouldja shut up and go do all those things you talk about doing now that you don't have TV, and leave the rest of us alone?
You know the one. It says that "We don't nee IPV6 because we have NAT". It's the same kind of thinking that says that The Internet == The Web. Just because NAT solves a certain subclass of problems that are more naturally solved by extra addresses, doesn't mean that there is no need for IPV6 because there's NAT.
NAT works great for things like the web, which are initiated behind the NAT machine, and don't make any connections back through the NAT machine. But The Web != The Internet. Even FTP has problems with NAT, but at least those problems are well understood by now. When the original connection is made from the outside world, trying to contact something behind the NAT box, that's when problems start.
Some people see this difficulty in reaching the machines behind the NAT box as security. It isn't. If you have no other forms of security, it helps a little bit, but it's more like a side effect. Saying that this is security is like saying that a rusty lock is more secure than a new one because it is harder to get the key into it. A stopped analog clock isn't right twice a day, it just appears to be right twice a day, but that doesn't mean it is ever working.
If a NAT machine were replaced with a simple firewall machine with a closed-down firewall, you'd have the exact same kind of security. No packets get routed to the machines on the other side of the firewall unless the rules permit it. The only difference is that it avoids a lot of hacks. Rather than having to do "ssh -p 10322 mynatbox.mydomain.com" and having to remember that 10322 corresponds to your mail server, you can simply say "ssh mailserver.mydomain.com"
Doing away with NAT also makes true peer-to-peer networking possible. Currently it doesn't work, you need some kind of a server because you can't initiate connections from the outside world to the NATted boxes. P2P doesn't just mean swapping songs, but also networked gaming.
This is all just about routable addresses so far, but IPV6 is so much more than that. There are features of IPV6 like security that IPV4 simply doesn't offer.
So remember kids, The Web != The Internet, and NAT != IPV6, nor can NAT do everything you can do with routable addresses.
Gee, sex advice on slashdot. Isn't this like a guy who was blind from birth trying to describe a rainbow to another blind guy?
I'm sure there are many slashdot readers who have sex. There are many others who don't. But I doubt that the ones who are can help the ones who aren't. Getting laid isn't like writing a "hello world" program, it's more like riding a bike no-handed.
Writing a program is pretty deterministic. You figure out the rules of the programming language, and then implement it. Someone else who has written a program in that language can help you do the same. Getting laid by someone you find attractive is very different.
Granted, there are "tricks" you can use, from simple confidence-boosters, to sleazy things with questionable ethical implications. The problem is that no two people are the same. This means that a good-looking person giving an ugly person advice isn't likely to be too useful. At the same time, someone who will screw anything that moves giving advice to someone who has very high standards is just as likely to be useless advice.
Even if you look at the advice people are giving, it is completely contradictory. Some say "pursue a girl, make sure she knows you care", others say "let her come to you, let her think you're not interested". Some say "treat a girl like gold", other say "treat her like dirt". Some say "don't look for it, it will find you when you least expect it", others say "if you don't pursue it, you'll never get it, the secret is to be rejected all the time".
Bah! Can't we just agree that while people on Slashdot are interesetd in sex, they make even worse sex-advice-columnists than they do lawyers?
Honeybaked ham? Well you've just annoyed the observant jews, muslims and vegetarians in the group. Then there are people who simply don't like ham, are on a diet, have food allergies, etc.
Overall, giving food isn't a great idea. But, I do agree that it's not all about money. Time off or something similar is often better than money, provided they're not counting on the money.
Even better, check out the built-in completion system in
zsh. When I got my iBook I really didn't like the default tcsh shell, then I saw I could also use zsh. From that point I was hooked. It does everything BASH does, but much, much better, IMHO. Now every system I use has a ZSH on it.
The Simpsons has been making fun of the Fox network
since the beginning. But making fun of Fox news? C'mon, isn't that a little too easy? That's like making fun of a 'mentally differently-abled' kid. It's not like anybody with half a brain wouldn't notice the right-wing bias and the overall awful quality of "reporting".
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You'd be the President, and you'd vigorously resist your attempt to put a pacemaker in your body.
If you only knew what they did when you weren't around...
Realism is an important trait in a parent, and it seems like it is something you lack. Rather than talk about how great your kids are, you should think about how you'll react when they disappoint you. That is what differentiates a good parent from a bad one.
Because when someone is sitting next to you and sees the traffic up ahead start to get dangerous, he/she will probably shut up and let you concentrate. Dude on the other end of the cellphone, however, will keep yacking on and expecting answers. "Bob? Did you hear me Bob? Damn-it, I want an answer!"...
Sounds like voting to me. Vote for the person you think is the ideal candidate and that's enough, delusional. Organizing other people to vote or do something else to make a change -- that's worthwhile.
Maybe it's because I follow F1, but does the top speed on the lap really say much about the course? I mean, shouldn't there be "driver challenge"? You can make a given course faster and faster, just by increasing the banking. Big deal. Is it more interesting to watch, or does it make for a better race for the drivers?
Your $10 could get you something other than the final software. It could get you:
Basically, you could pay a bit of money to have some control over the development process.
Yeah, only the Linux one is only one of many ongoing wars MS is fighting. There are also the patent fights, the antitrust fights, the virus fights, and others I'm sure.
Besides, it's not like the legal battles are having much of an effect on the actual Linux kernel development process, are they?
You did read the Memory Hole page right? Like the part where they also mentioned that that article has disappeared from the Table of Contents for that issue? If it were just an article getting old and being erased, that's one thing, but if the ToC is edited to make it seem as though the article never existed, that's another. I don't know if it's politics or what, but it does seem damn suspicious.
Well if you actually read my comment, you'd see that I talked about unions. See, unions are these things which mess with the whole supply and demand thing. They artificially reduce the supply to a level at which they can demand a ridiculous salary.
C'mon! CamelCase names in Java follow a some simple rules, there's even a documented way of how you're supposed to do it. As for CELLPADDING, since that's how it's named in HTML, it wouldn't surprise me to see it done identically in another place. Better go sue Netscape too.
To see if the code is actually similar you'd have to look at algorithms and innovations. Looking at interfaces and their names isn't going to tell you anything at all.
Don't these idiots know anything about where the salaries come from?
Wedding photographers make big bucks because people want to make sure they don't get awful, amateur pictures. Everything associated with a wedding is expensive because (at least in theory) it's a one-time event that means a lot to a lot of people, so they don't want to risk being disappointed. Being a wedding photographer requires not only photography skills, but also the ability to deal with angry people (if your pictures don't turn out) and stressed out people (even if they do), as well as taking the same picture over and over again. Because of that, there are few people who want the job and can do it, so the pay is high. Duh!
Luxury home real estate agents act snobbish towards people who visit luxury open houses because *that's their job*. They want to drive up the price of the home, and make it seem exclusive, and part of that is making sure that if you're allowed to look at a luxury home, you feel privileged! Sure, they make high commissions, but dealing with the type of people who could buy or sell a home like that takes more skills than just the ability to pass a real-estate test.
Motivational speakers make money because people want to hear what they want to say. Pro athletes make money because people want to watch them play, or buy things they endorse, etc. Often the incremental cost for each of these things isn't huge. Say on average everybody who watched Micheal Jordan play baskeball over his career bought three pairs of "Air Jordan" sneakers and 100 happy meals. That's relatively cheap for them, but since he gets a cut of millions of people doing that, he gets money. Now sure, you can argue with whether people should be buying things an athlete endorses, but that's their value system. Sure, a pair of "Air Jordan" shoes is expensive, but it's a status symbol, and maybe it helps in their social circle. Paying a thousand dollars to listen to a former president speak is similar. I'm sure nobody thinks they're honestly learning amazing new things they could never learn otherwise, however they get to rub elbows with other people. It's networking, it's status, so hwo do you put a price on it?
Most of the other jobs are either about unions and the undue power they have, or about jobs that take a lot of time and effort to get. (Orthodontist takes years of schooling, mutual fund manager takes years of getting certified as a financial analyst, etc). As for the unions, I think it's accepted that they're pretty corrupt and wield undue power, but eventually that power will fail. As for the jobs that take years to get, most people aren't willing or able to spend almost 10 years after high school to get a very boring, but very high paying job. Those that do can command high salaries.
It's all about supply and demand. I hope this was meant as a fluff piece, because if this is the kind of serious market analysis these people do, I'm not impressed.
Damn it, if that scenario happens I sure as hell hope that the head nerd gets nailed, and not just monkeyboy.
What you said "pour encourage[r] les autres" translates as "to encourage others". I think you mean you want to discourage other people from doing the same thing, right?
Argh!!! Get out of my head!!! How'd you do that? How'd you guess my uber-secure password! Well since you somehow got the password, I might as well give you the full passphrase: "Human resources Said 2 specify What might Not work / O Lovely grits get Dem with Miss natalie". Now GET OUT OF MY HEAD you mind-reading bastard!
Maybe our kids can play together, have you met my daughter 0xCAFEBABE and my son 0xBEEFD00D?
All you anti-TV people are all the same. You all love to go on about how great the world is without TV. Wow, yay, that's great. I'm happy for you, but the smug self-congratulation is wearing thin. Now, wouldja shut up and go do all those things you talk about doing now that you don't have TV, and leave the rest of us alone?
You know the one. It says that "We don't nee IPV6 because we have NAT". It's the same kind of thinking that says that The Internet == The Web. Just because NAT solves a certain subclass of problems that are more naturally solved by extra addresses, doesn't mean that there is no need for IPV6 because there's NAT.
NAT works great for things like the web, which are initiated behind the NAT machine, and don't make any connections back through the NAT machine. But The Web != The Internet. Even FTP has problems with NAT, but at least those problems are well understood by now. When the original connection is made from the outside world, trying to contact something behind the NAT box, that's when problems start.
Some people see this difficulty in reaching the machines behind the NAT box as security. It isn't. If you have no other forms of security, it helps a little bit, but it's more like a side effect. Saying that this is security is like saying that a rusty lock is more secure than a new one because it is harder to get the key into it. A stopped analog clock isn't right twice a day, it just appears to be right twice a day, but that doesn't mean it is ever working.
If a NAT machine were replaced with a simple firewall machine with a closed-down firewall, you'd have the exact same kind of security. No packets get routed to the machines on the other side of the firewall unless the rules permit it. The only difference is that it avoids a lot of hacks. Rather than having to do "ssh -p 10322 mynatbox.mydomain.com" and having to remember that 10322 corresponds to your mail server, you can simply say "ssh mailserver.mydomain.com"
Doing away with NAT also makes true peer-to-peer networking possible. Currently it doesn't work, you need some kind of a server because you can't initiate connections from the outside world to the NATted boxes. P2P doesn't just mean swapping songs, but also networked gaming.
This is all just about routable addresses so far, but IPV6 is so much more than that. There are features of IPV6 like security that IPV4 simply doesn't offer.
So remember kids, The Web != The Internet, and NAT != IPV6, nor can NAT do everything you can do with routable addresses.
No, of course not. A big company like Universal Studios would never touch the pet project of a minor director like Stephen Spielberg.
In what way is Schindler's List an indie movie?
Hint: collateral damage. Kill the spammer vs. kill a bunch of soldiers in order to get rid of the dictator.
Gee, sex advice on slashdot. Isn't this like a guy who was blind from birth trying to describe a rainbow to another blind guy?
I'm sure there are many slashdot readers who have sex. There are many others who don't. But I doubt that the ones who are can help the ones who aren't. Getting laid isn't like writing a "hello world" program, it's more like riding a bike no-handed.
Writing a program is pretty deterministic. You figure out the rules of the programming language, and then implement it. Someone else who has written a program in that language can help you do the same. Getting laid by someone you find attractive is very different.
Granted, there are "tricks" you can use, from simple confidence-boosters, to sleazy things with questionable ethical implications. The problem is that no two people are the same. This means that a good-looking person giving an ugly person advice isn't likely to be too useful. At the same time, someone who will screw anything that moves giving advice to someone who has very high standards is just as likely to be useless advice.
Even if you look at the advice people are giving, it is completely contradictory. Some say "pursue a girl, make sure she knows you care", others say "let her come to you, let her think you're not interested". Some say "treat a girl like gold", other say "treat her like dirt". Some say "don't look for it, it will find you when you least expect it", others say "if you don't pursue it, you'll never get it, the secret is to be rejected all the time".
Bah! Can't we just agree that while people on Slashdot are interesetd in sex, they make even worse sex-advice-columnists than they do lawyers?
Honeybaked ham? Well you've just annoyed the observant jews, muslims and vegetarians in the group. Then there are people who simply don't like ham, are on a diet, have food allergies, etc.
Overall, giving food isn't a great idea. But, I do agree that it's not all about money. Time off or something similar is often better than money, provided they're not counting on the money.
Even better, check out the built-in completion system in zsh. When I got my iBook I really didn't like the default tcsh shell, then I saw I could also use zsh. From that point I was hooked. It does everything BASH does, but much, much better, IMHO. Now every system I use has a ZSH on it.
The Simpsons has been making fun of the Fox network since the beginning. But making fun of Fox news? C'mon, isn't that a little too easy? That's like making fun of a 'mentally differently-abled' kid. It's not like anybody with half a brain wouldn't notice the right-wing bias and the overall awful quality of "reporting".
Really? Wow, you'd think they'd at least be able to spell "asleep", wouldn't you? That is dumb.
Sure, but your mom can do a backside 540 shove-it and hack DOD servers. ;)