Your sig should instead link to the journal entry itself rather than your whole journal. It's been a while since you posted that one, so at first glance your link appears not to make sense.
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Please, people, make links to your pages:
It's tailored for gentoo, but most stuff applies to most distributions I guess. Not that I'm using them.;)
So forget about what the programmers want. Pay attention to what the users want. Coders don't have any idea what the avearge users want
To an exent, it's true. I've seen too many in-house applications die a slow, lingering, painful death because the programmers didn't involve the users in the design cycle. They incorrectly assumed they knew what the user's needs were, and went off to build an app that didn't meet the actual needs.
How many times have people cried uot for a decent GUI to bebuilt into the kernel? Thousands! And that's because it's a good idea. But programmers are stupid and think that people want the network transparency which makes X slow.
Built into the kernel? You've got to be kidding me. Not only is that a bad idea, but I seriously doubt that end users really know what they're asking for. Most people don't even know what the kernel is, let alone have the knowledge to know what should go into it.
As for the network transparency - um... most users I've worked with over the last decade or so absolutely love the network transparency of X, and wouldn't live without it. In fact, people ask for the same thing with Windows and Mac OS environments. As for it being slow, you really need to do more research. As another AC pointed out, slowdowns in X are not generally due to network transparency.
There's a lot of information available at the page linked to by the/. post. It's dense, though. Readers might find this page a little easier to digest.
I felt kind of bad for causing that to happen. It was a good number.
I was calling the operator on the phone, and it was like beep beep beep beep beep. And then, like, my number was gone. And I like... hnnng? They devoured my number. It was a really good number. And then we had to get a number in a different prefix and it wasn't as good. It's kind of a..... bummer.
I got my wife's engagement ring made in a store in Walnut Creek (a fairly large town in the East SF Bay Area). I wish I could remember the name. I think it was something like Goldsmith of Walnut Creek. Anyway, I do believe they were on Main Street, on the East side of the street. Doing a quick search on superpages for that gives me this address/phone: 1362 North Main St. 925-937-5430.
They took the diamonds that I gave them. I picked out a setting and a sapphire, and they made the ring exactly as I wanted, with my diamonds set next to the new sapphire. This was something like 8 years ago, so I can't say how they would be today.
I did run a dictionary search a few months ago and posted my result: "dermatoglyphics". I wasn't sure if you were the same guy I responded to last time (and didn't feel like hunting that post down), so I just rewrote my bit of python.
You may find this amusing: I had to keep finding larger and larger dictionaries until I found another word that fit your criteria. The dictionary that did it had 213,557 words in it (much more than the standard Linux install), and "uncopyrightable" wasn't one of those words!:-)
I'd love to run against an even larger dictionary, but I don't feel like spending the time hunting one down...
Probably not. Considering that Dr. Harold Cummins invented the word in 1926, he (or his estate) would be the only one could could even stake a claim to the word.
The wavelength is listed as 10.6 micrometers, outside the visible spectrum. It's in the infrared range, just before the start of microwaves. I don't see the dispersion listed, but it claims little dispersion over 1500 meters, just under 1 mile.
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One of the best parodies I've read. You even got the meter right!
Ah...trolls under the bridge.
Check out DMX. A bit off-topic, but cool nonetheless.
What if the company was losing money
;-)
I'm sorry - that's 2 slashdot demerits for not using the slashdot spelling "loosing". Go to the back of the line.
Tiny nit:
Your sig should instead link to the journal entry itself rather than your whole journal. It's been a while since you posted that one, so at first glance your link appears not to make sense.
I guess he hit a nerve...
Good job. You had just enough elements of sense in there to make it "bite-worthy".
I think you bit on a troll. :-)
Yeah, you're probably right...
anyone who still runs sendmail is an idiot (I mean with it's track record, why? It's the *nix equivalent of IIS)
Out of curiosity, what do you use as a sendmail replacement?
How many times have people cried uot for a decent GUI to bebuilt into the kernel? Thousands! And that's because it's a good idea. But programmers are stupid and think that people want the network transparency which makes X slow.
Built into the kernel? You've got to be kidding me. Not only is that a bad idea, but I seriously doubt that end users really know what they're asking for. Most people don't even know what the kernel is, let alone have the knowledge to know what should go into it.
As for the network transparency - um... most users I've worked with over the last decade or so absolutely love the network transparency of X, and wouldn't live without it. In fact, people ask for the same thing with Windows and Mac OS environments. As for it being slow, you really need to do more research. As another AC pointed out, slowdowns in X are not generally due to network transparency.
Or even "Daylight Saving Time" (no 's').
You're "saving daylight".
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There's a lot of information available at the page linked to by the /. post. It's dense, though. Readers might find this page a little easier to digest.
I felt kind of bad for causing that to happen. It was a good number.
I was calling the operator on the phone, and it was like beep beep beep beep beep. And then, like, my number was gone. And I like... hnnng? They devoured my number. It was a really good number. And then we had to get a number in a different prefix and it wasn't as good. It's kind of a..... bummer.
1-987-LN-FEISS
Does anybody else in here feel the way I do?
Peter Frampton does.
I got my wife's engagement ring made in a store in Walnut Creek (a fairly large town in the East SF Bay Area). I wish I could remember the name. I think it was something like Goldsmith of Walnut Creek. Anyway, I do believe they were on Main Street, on the East side of the street. Doing a quick search on superpages for that gives me this address/phone: 1362 North Main St. 925-937-5430.
:-)
They took the diamonds that I gave them. I picked out a setting and a sapphire, and they made the ring exactly as I wanted, with my diamonds set next to the new sapphire. This was something like 8 years ago, so I can't say how they would be today.
Good luck!
BTW, my wife loved (and still loves) the ring.
Timothy didn't write that text, Toasty16 did.
Ah, Mohammad Saeed al-Sahhaf! We were wondering where you had got to...
Imagine a beowulf cluster of....
...oh, forget it.
Probably me.
:-)
I did run a dictionary search a few months ago and posted my result: "dermatoglyphics". I wasn't sure if you were the same guy I responded to last time (and didn't feel like hunting that post down), so I just rewrote my bit of python.
You may find this amusing: I had to keep finding larger and larger dictionaries until I found another word that fit your criteria. The dictionary that did it had 213,557 words in it (much more than the standard Linux install), and "uncopyrightable" wasn't one of those words!
I'd love to run against an even larger dictionary, but I don't feel like spending the time hunting one down...
$10,000
I give in, better now ?
:-)
Yep, all better!
(I couldn't let a challenge like that stand...
Probably not. Considering that Dr. Harold Cummins invented the word in 1926, he (or his estate) would be the only one could could even stake a claim to the word.
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
Incorrect. The word "dermatoglyphics" is also 15 letters long and never repeats a letter.
Now if we could only get it to eradicate redundant comments...
The wavelength is listed as 10.6 micrometers, outside the visible spectrum. It's in the infrared range, just before the start of microwaves. I don't see the dispersion listed, but it claims little dispersion over 1500 meters, just under 1 mile.