Ok, im not from the US, and i havent watched too much American TV lately, so my (really naive i guess) question is this: What's the deal with all these "In soviet russia" jokes? where did they all come from? is this a secret plot to bring it back? ridicule it? Sounds like a South Park type of joke to me, but i would really like to know.
Do a ghost of your hard drive before the installer arrives, let him do whatever he wants with your computer, and when he is gone just reinstall the ghost image.
Why dont they take Britney, Lance Bass and the rest of N'Sync put them aboard the Soyuz and rig it for a fatal accident. 1000000 geeks would be really thankful for that.
I lost 55 lbs this year thanks to a good diet and lots of sacrifice, and what i learnt from it is that what you need to control the most when dieting is the quality of the food you eat, then the quantity. Most people that are fat are like that because of compulsive eating, snacking between food and such. How does one keep snacking, eating a lot and still manage to loose weight? healthy food. Lots of vegetables prepared in a lot of different ways, little meat and a lot of excersice. When i felt like snacking on something i could do that without any remorse, but the snacks i ate were always yogurt or fruits.
Most of the diets i tried before consisted in reduced portions of everything plus trying to keep the food healthy. Well, for a midnight snacker like me that didnt work, i would eventually drop out of it and gain what little weight i lost.
Guilt and food always came hand-in-hand to me, and i think it's that way for most people, and a good diet needs to take that into account, because otherwise it will be an impossible diet for almost everyone.
What am i getting at? people who want to loose weight need 2 things: a ton of determination and proffessional advice. A diet should be prescribed by a professional who knows what its best for you (hint: when it comes to diets, you dont know), and then stick to that. There is no secret, no magic formula, just determination.
Enough ranting, enjoy your yogurt:-D
Re:With apologies to Jello Biafra...
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The problem is that i read a spanish transalation, so i couldnt remember the english title correctly.
(i live in argentina, so most of the books i get are in spanish)
Sorry.
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We would need something equivalent to soma to accomplish that... happines dispensed in a pill by the goverment...
(soma is a "happines pill" in the Aldoux Huxley book "A happy world")
I know im talking out of my ass here, but why dont you get two separate broadband services? at 50-60$ each, it wont be to hard to pay and its very hard to have both broadband adapters down.
Supposedly Cable goes through a completely different circuit than ADSL, so you have a lot more connection stability.
1- Put a camera that focuses on the table and tune it so it just distinguishes circles, not colors. 2- If you put all the balls in a standard formation in which all the balls are ALWAYS in the same place (for example, number 1 with stripes is always on the tip of the triangle facing the player), so after a shot has been made it shouldnt be too hard for a computer to track all the circles movements so it knows which circle is which ball.
My guess for calculating the circles movement is to calculate each circle's center for each frame, and if your're using a fast enough camera you should be to calculate the balls movement...
Disclaimer: I'm not a good pool player neither have i any experience with image recognition systems.
2 months ago i started to do some serious workout, and because im on a break from school my stress level was really low, i could sleep less than 8 hours everyday although i could sleep the entire day if wanted to, and i never felt sleepy during the day (hey, i could sleep 5 hours, do 5 hours of work out and go out that same night without feeling sleepy or drowsy).
Now that im studying for a big exam i decided that till i give it i will not go to the gym (the test is thursday and i have only missed one week of workout so far, not a big deal). What did i found after stopping working out for a week?
Im gaining weight although im eating basically the same food (the diet is low carbohydrates and with excersice it worked like a charm)
I need more sleep, i feel drowsy whenever i dont sleep more than 8 hours and im constantly taking cat naps
My headache and backpain that were gone when i was excercising are back again, with a vengeance.
So what is my point here? the point is that people that have healthy lifestyles tend to need less sleep and to live longer. People that dont have so healthy lifestyles (or have illness that prevents them from having a good health) tend to need more sleep and tend to live shorter lifes.
So in my (totally uneducated) experience, sleep is a symtpom of how good your health is.
Well, thats trolling. I dont live in the US, i live in Argentina and things are tight here, really tight. I have a broadband connection here, and to share it with the rest of the computers in my house i had to build a router. I couldnt pay a dime for a new computer (sorry, even 300$ is a lot of money here). Linux was a lifesaver, i ended up reviving an old 486 w/16mb ram and it works like a charm. I got an old 540mb HD now and im trying to use openBSD for the router (i was using LRP, the thing doesnt even need an HD).
What im trying to say here is that old hardware should be supported because not all of us have the economic means to buy 300$ in hardware every two years (hell, 300 bucks is like twice the minimum pay here), and linux (and other opensource projects). Even if it is on a different branch of a distro, it should be supported, it helps a lot of ppl (im lucky, dont even get me started on some really poor country and their availability of new shiny hardware).
I think your post is too US-centric, OSS is a worldwide effort and it should strive to provide a way for the not-so-lucky of us to still be able to use old (and CHEAP) hardware to our advantage. Loosing that because a part of the OSS users can afford big shiny bad ass hardware would be just plain wrong
I live in argentina, broadband access here is expensive as hell (100 bucks per months for a 512kbits downstream/128kbits upstream cablemodem), but they have setup a nice QOS system on their routers so their unofficial policy is "Do whatever u want, just dont get us in trouble!".
The only bug i have with their service is that they dont provide a stable ip, but damn, the ip rotates like every month or so, and it never interrupts my connection to do so.
Ok, what im getting at is that what i am receiving (and paying) is for access, they shouldnt care about what i do with the access they provide, as long as i don't get them in any kind of trouble, which i think it can only be of legal nature, because, as i said before, i can only go so much faster with the cablemodem before the QOS kicks in.
What i dont get is why the hell do they want us to pay extra if we have 10 machines using the same bandwith with the same ip? im not costing them extra, im just using what they provide in a more efficient manner. I dont ask them for troubleshooting when the router goes berzerk and everybody start loosing their connection.
My point is (finally) that they are just trying to make an extra buck, they probably need it, but they should try to find another way to make it, because cracking down on NAT users is just plain wrong.
And if they dont have QOS installed on their equipment, well, that should be their problem, not the problem of the consumers
PS: My cablemodem company is Fibertel if anyone cares to take a look at it.
This is seriously old news, i saw that at the NY MoMA last february, the editor who posted this should be maimed (cutting off his hands sounds about right) and then be made to suffer a horrible death.
Delay from news to slashdot=1 year??? come on.
Re:software is incredibly complex...
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Well, in my experience beauty of code and how efficient that code is do not go hand in hand. The most efficient pieces of code i wrote were butt ugly and needed heavy explanations to my coworkers, but they got the job done in few lines and they took up little resources to do it.
So what we want is no beautifull code, but really efficient one, and coding beautifully often goes against it.
On the other hand, beautifull code is easier to maintain and to share, but its always best to have good code, not code that looks good.
Let's say that the people that are using napster start mispelling or something like that (encrypting i mean) to loophole the filename ban. How would a user searching a song by Eminem find that song if that song didnt have the correct filename?.
If im searching for Stan by Eminem, i wouldnt type:ARTIST:Eimenem and SONG: Tans because nobody would mistype that song in that exact same way.
Maybe encrypting (i hope it's spelled like that)the file names will work, but im not too sure... encrypting it under what key?
So i think the napster ban will work. So bad, we will need to build better P2P.
Even if your coworkers are your friends, they should understand that it's your choice to leave or not. You are an Employee. That means that if the company sinks or swim it will not your affect your paycheck (ok, if the company swim you might get a bigger paycheck or if it sinks u will get fired or something like that). The point is, if your company relies so much on you and the company doesnt have a future, neither do you. You should leave and take as much friends and coworkers as you can.
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Ok, im not from the US, and i havent watched too much American TV lately, so my (really naive i guess) question is this:
What's the deal with all these "In soviet russia" jokes? where did they all come from? is this a secret plot to bring it back? ridicule it?
Sounds like a South Park type of joke to me, but i would really like to know.
Thanks!
...is gonna be soooo over 1000 comments in a couple of hours...
slashdot.jp loads up waaaaay faster than slashdot.org. Coincidence? Conspiracy?
...When instead of reading Wind powered walking machines you read Wind powered washing machines.
Damn, i need to cut back on that black cofee.
Do a ghost of your hard drive before the installer arrives, let him do whatever he wants with your computer, and when he is gone just reinstall the ghost image.
Try windows.
Why dont they take Britney, Lance Bass and the rest of N'Sync put them aboard the Soyuz and rig it for a fatal accident. 1000000 geeks would be really thankful for that.
;-)
Feeling cynical today
I lost 55 lbs this year thanks to a good diet and lots of sacrifice, and what i learnt from it is that what you need to control the most when dieting is the quality of the food you eat, then the quantity. Most people that are fat are like that because of compulsive eating, snacking between food and such. How does one keep snacking, eating a lot and still manage to loose weight? healthy food. Lots of vegetables prepared in a lot of different ways, little meat and a lot of excersice. When i felt like snacking on something i could do that without any remorse, but the snacks i ate were always yogurt or fruits.
:-D
Most of the diets i tried before consisted in reduced portions of everything plus trying to keep the food healthy. Well, for a midnight snacker like me that didnt work, i would eventually drop out of it and gain what little weight i lost.
Guilt and food always came hand-in-hand to me, and i think it's that way for most people, and a good diet needs to take that into account, because otherwise it will be an impossible diet for almost everyone.
What am i getting at? people who want to loose weight need 2 things: a ton of determination and proffessional advice. A diet should be prescribed by a professional who knows what its best for you (hint: when it comes to diets, you dont know), and then stick to that. There is no secret, no magic formula, just determination.
Enough ranting, enjoy your yogurt
The problem is that i read a spanish transalation, so i couldnt remember the english title correctly.
(i live in argentina, so most of the books i get are in spanish)
Sorry.
We would need something equivalent to soma to accomplish that... happines dispensed in a pill by the goverment...
(soma is a "happines pill" in the Aldoux Huxley book "A happy world")
Well, parrot (the VM on which Perl 6 will run) has a JIT, that means that all your scripts can be JITed for a significant speed gain.
Check it
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The sky is blue, the water is wet and women lie.
Spam, porn and pipebombs recipes are what pays for the internet!!!
What's the difference between a normal jet engine and a scramjet?
another PHP vs Perl flamewar?
I know im talking out of my ass here, but why dont you get two separate broadband services? at 50-60$ each, it wont be to hard to pay and its very hard to have both broadband adapters down.
Supposedly Cable goes through a completely different circuit than ADSL, so you have a lot more connection stability.
Just my 0.02 pesos
Me fail english? That's Unpossible!
Im just ranting here, but here is what i think:
1- Put a camera that focuses on the table and tune it so it just distinguishes circles, not colors.
2- If you put all the balls in a standard formation in which all the balls are ALWAYS in the same place (for example, number 1 with stripes is always on the tip of the triangle facing the player), so after a shot has been made it shouldnt be too hard for a computer to track all the circles movements so it knows which circle is which ball.
My guess for calculating the circles movement is to calculate each circle's center for each frame, and if your're using a fast enough camera you should be to calculate the balls movement...
Disclaimer: I'm not a good pool player neither have i any experience with image recognition systems.
Me not know english? that's unpossible
Now that im studying for a big exam i decided that till i give it i will not go to the gym (the test is thursday and i have only missed one week of workout so far, not a big deal). What did i found after stopping working out for a week?
- Im gaining weight although im eating basically the same food (the diet is low carbohydrates and with excersice it worked like a charm)
- I need more sleep, i feel drowsy whenever i dont sleep more than 8 hours and im constantly taking cat naps
- My headache and backpain that were gone when i was excercising are back again, with a vengeance.
So what is my point here? the point is that people that have healthy lifestyles tend to need less sleep and to live longer. People that dont have so healthy lifestyles (or have illness that prevents them from having a good health) tend to need more sleep and tend to live shorter lifes.So in my (totally uneducated) experience, sleep is a symtpom of how good your health is.
Me not know english? that's unpossible!
Well, thats trolling. I dont live in the US, i live in Argentina and things are tight here, really tight. I have a broadband connection here, and to share it with the rest of the computers in my house i had to build a router. I couldnt pay a dime for a new computer (sorry, even 300$ is a lot of money here). Linux was a lifesaver, i ended up reviving an old 486 w/16mb ram and it works like a charm. I got an old 540mb HD now and im trying to use openBSD for the router (i was using LRP, the thing doesnt even need an HD).
What im trying to say here is that old hardware should be supported because not all of us have the economic means to buy 300$ in hardware every two years (hell, 300 bucks is like twice the minimum pay here), and linux (and other opensource projects). Even if it is on a different branch of a distro, it should be supported, it helps a lot of ppl (im lucky, dont even get me started on some really poor country and their availability of new shiny hardware).
I think your post is too US-centric, OSS is a worldwide effort and it should strive to provide a way for the not-so-lucky of us to still be able to use old (and CHEAP) hardware to our advantage. Loosing that because a part of the OSS users can afford big shiny bad ass hardware would be just plain wrong
Me not know english? that's unpossible!!
I live in argentina, broadband access here is expensive as hell (100 bucks per months for a 512kbits downstream/128kbits upstream cablemodem), but they have setup a nice QOS system on their routers so their unofficial policy is "Do whatever u want, just dont get us in trouble!".
The only bug i have with their service is that they dont provide a stable ip, but damn, the ip rotates like every month or so, and it never interrupts my connection to do so.
Ok, what im getting at is that what i am receiving (and paying) is for access, they shouldnt care about what i do with the access they provide, as long as i don't get them in any kind of trouble, which i think it can only be of legal nature, because, as i said before, i can only go so much faster with the cablemodem before the QOS kicks in.
What i dont get is why the hell do they want us to pay extra if we have 10 machines using the same bandwith with the same ip? im not costing them extra, im just using what they provide in a more efficient manner. I dont ask them for troubleshooting when the router goes berzerk and everybody start loosing their connection.
My point is (finally) that they are just trying to make an extra buck, they probably need it, but they should try to find another way to make it, because cracking down on NAT users is just plain wrong.
And if they dont have QOS installed on their equipment, well, that should be their problem, not the problem of the consumers
PS: My cablemodem company is Fibertel if anyone cares to take a look at it.
Me not know english? That unpossible!!
This is seriously old news, i saw that at the NY MoMA last february, the editor who posted this should be maimed (cutting off his hands sounds about right) and then be made to suffer a horrible death.
Delay from news to slashdot=1 year??? come on.
Well, in my experience beauty of code and how efficient that code is do not go hand in hand. The most efficient pieces of code i wrote were butt ugly and needed heavy explanations to my coworkers, but they got the job done in few lines and they took up little resources to do it.
So what we want is no beautifull code, but really efficient one, and coding beautifully often goes against it.
On the other hand, beautifull code is easier to maintain and to share, but its always best to have good code, not code that looks good.
Let's say that the people that are using napster start mispelling or something like that (encrypting i mean) to loophole the filename ban. How would a user searching a song by Eminem find that song if that song didnt have the correct filename?. :ARTIST :Eimenem and SONG: Tans because nobody would mistype that song in that exact same way.
If im searching for Stan by Eminem, i wouldnt type
Maybe encrypting (i hope it's spelled like that)the file names will work, but im not too sure... encrypting it under what key?
So i think the napster ban will work. So bad, we will need to build better P2P.
Even if your coworkers are your friends, they should understand that it's your choice to leave or not. You are an Employee. That means that if the company sinks or swim it will not your affect your paycheck (ok, if the company swim you might get a bigger paycheck or if it sinks u will get fired or something like that). The point is, if your company relies so much on you and the company doesnt have a future, neither do you. You should leave and take as much friends and coworkers as you can.