I agree completely that it's relatively safe (or at least, enough fun that I don't care how safe it is), but those shingles aren't meant to be walked on. A new roof is pretty damn expensive, let alone if you don't notice the damage right away and water gets inside (and causes other destruction) before you have the roof replaced.
What if they did the opposite of what everyone thinks they'll do if a sizeable object is going to hit Earth? What if they detonate a nuke and reroute the asteroid to hit Mars? I think they wouldn't do it because the newspapers would say,"The government is aiming asteroids at planets, are they going to use them as weapons in the future?" Even if we *could* pull that off, why *would* we? Just move the thing out of the way. If there's a tree branch blocking my driving lane, I move it into the ditch (not into oncoming traffic).
It's just that, well, we have a fairly large population of over-religious farmers who tend to vote for all the wrong people. That's funny, every demographic I've ever seen says that between 1 and 2 percent of the US population either lives on a farm or considers farming their occupation. One to two percent of the population has very little sway over the outcome of our national elections.
You go ahead and keep telling yourself that "it's some farmer in the midwest" screwing it all up, though; especially the next time you drive through Florida.
Right now on the US National political scene, it would seem that the default "heir" to the Bush/Cheney ideology of fear is Rudolph Giuliani. What city was he mayor of, again? Are there a lot of farmers living in Manhattan?
Oh wait, I must have been confused; it's Illinois where a lot of farmers live, and their state has given us Senator Obama in the Presidential contender line-up.
Please, if you're going to generalize about the American population, try to generalize in a way that makes sense. Here you're telling our foreign friend "hey look, we Americans are cooler than we might appear", yet then you generalize about "farmers". Nice.
The cure is moving many of McKesson's medical software applications to Linux Monday, applications choke Tuesday, Wednesday, RAID set's broke Thursday, let out the magic smoke but on Friday, I patch bugs
Monday, my xorg conf is toast Tuesday, Wednesday, CPU roasts Thursday, it won't even POST but on Friday, I patch bugs
and we knew who we weeeeere then, trolls were trolls, and girls were men, you know we could use a man like CleverNickName again Everyone would moderate, then take a break to masturbate Gee, our old Slashcode ran great THOSE...WERE...THE...DAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYSSS
Good rememberin' there buddy, I'd forgotten about the 1337 case mods the designers felt the need to give to everyone at some point, there.
Now that you mention it, the blue & white G3 might have been the first time I remember having to pry open the purty drive hider in order to get at the actual drive. Of course, then the Wintel boxes followed suit (I'm lookin' at YOU, Compaq)....
From TFS:
After nearly one and a half years of harassment from a relentless attorney, it seems that quietly a blogger in South Carolina has won a monumental ruling in favor of bloggers Directed at the story's submitter, "fixyourthinking": Hey buddy, I'm really glad you (rightfully) won your court case and all against those jerks, but why post it to Slashdot with a sentence like that? The use of the word "seems" implies to me that you're trying to pretend you're not Phillip Smith.
Aren't you, in fact, the defendant in this case? Submitting stuff and pretending you're not the owner of the blog you're linking to, and implying you're not the fellow referenced in the case, is just a little lame IMHO.
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As for upgrades - my philosophy is to treat the upgrade process with the same respect as typing "sudo rm -rf/" Well thanks for nothing man, I typed that and I don't think it upgraded anything. Dang, it did free up a lot of diskspace though! Let's see it looks like my free space is at uh wait noooooooooooooooooooooooooo
I, too, started reading slashdot whilst doing phone tech support, the summer before and Christmas break of my Freshman year at College. Same here; in 1997 I had taken a University tech support job (because I figured I.T. would *eventually* pay better than pizza delivery) after I dropped out of school in '96, and sat at my desk reading Slashdot during the slow times.
It took me a long time to create an account here, though; in '94 or '95 I had created an account at vip.hotwired.com and it really didn't *give* me anything; eventually, that subdomain just pointed to www.hotwired.com (and eventually www.wired.com).
"Burned" by that experience, I didn't see why creating a Slashdot account would be a useful thing. I could read stories and post without an account. Eventually, I think I created an account because I wanted to save my preference to browse at -1, or something like that. I don't really remember.
From the US? Most of you can't even find Canada on a map... just ask Miss Carolina. Please, please tell me you didn't just reference a non-existent American state whilst making a crack about how bad Americans are at geography.
"Carolina" isn't an American state any more than "Columbia" is a Canadian province.
Load up MS-DOS and get them to telnet on port 80 and browse like that. =) But if you do that, make sure to tell them "In MY day, we didn't have fancy graphical web browsers and operating systems with a damn GUI. We spent hours downloading ASCII pr0n, and we LIKED IT!"
Yes, 'cause it's not their knowledge to begin with. Why would someone else NEED to know that I'm downloading Ubuntu?
I'm not saying I don't masturbate. I am saying that it's none of anyone else's business if/when I do. Hey buddy, I love Ubuntu as much as the next guy (maybe more) but seriously you probably shouldn't tell people that you masturbate to it downloading.
There used to be this funny audio clip circulating around of a 911 call (or a comedian pretending to make one, I can't remember which) where a guy hits a deer with his car. He puts the deer into his car (he's gonna use the meat) but it soon wakes up and kicks the shit out of him. He calls 911 from a pay-phone to request a "bambalance" (the rest of the call is equally eloquent).
That is, I *hope* the guy is alluding to the old clip, and not seriously trying to spell "ambulance". It's possible, though, that in regards to your post above "2" answers "a"....
I'm gonna try it out, as a matter of fact. See, I'm in the USA and there's this BP (British Petroleum) filling station down the street.... =P
Incidentally, I'd like to respond to what the GP said about the RIAA having "no (legitimate) influence outside of the US": Yeah, "legitimate" is the operative word there. They don't have "legitimate" influence inside the US either, but they still have influence.
Of course obnoxious Americans are more obvious than the less obnoxious Americans; obnoxious people always stick out like a sore thumb- that's part of why they're obnoxious and is true the world over.
To (jokingly) paraphrase what a Mexican friend of mine is fond of saying (of Mexicans in the USA): You're not meeting normal Americans; you're meeting the Americans who we found so obnoxious, we made them leave!:P
Hey thanks buddy, I had not heard of Songbird and it looks pretty neat. I'd be pleased to have a player that would have a similar interface no matter which OS I'm using.
Sorry, I can't tell you any good Linux-compatibility info for their systems, the only laptops I've bought from them I've used already-owned Windows licenses for and the desktops I've run Linux on (that came from there) were so old that it really isn't worth talking about now.
As for my experiences there, I've found that I have lots of configuration options (which I like) including a number of motherboard choices for the desktops.
The best story is the first machine I've ever bought there: I ordered it with a Geforce4 Ti 7200 vid card. They called me a couple of days later, and said "so sorry, we're out of the 7200. In order to meet the ship date, we'll send you the 7800 at the same price if you don't mind". The 7800 was what I had wanted, but I didn't have the extra $100 (or whatever it was) for it. I was pleased.
Another time, my boss bought a machine there and a a couple of weeks later the hard drive tanked. They overnighted him a new one, without making me jump through a bunch of tech support hoops (they took my word for it) and without waiting to get the old one. Again, I was pleased.
Yet another time, a buddy ordered a bunch of machines for his office from them. One was DOA, it wouldn't post (my buddy is not an IT professional, and he had no idea how to troubleshoot it). Instead of getting him to try a bunch of stuff, they just sent him a new machine and instructed him to put the dead one into the box and return it at their cost.
I wouldn't say the line "originates" in Calvin and Hobbes; Mad Magazine (Dave Berg, specifically) used this line back in the seventies. No, I have no cites.
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Pressing? Sure. However, no amount of grandstanding is going to "fix" it. Why aren't the republicans letting the "market" take care of it?
There is no magic potion to make energy costs go down, and there's certainly nothing Congress can do about it. This incident is a show, nothing more.
I agree completely that it's relatively safe (or at least, enough fun that I don't care how safe it is), but those shingles aren't meant to be walked on. A new roof is pretty damn expensive, let alone if you don't notice the damage right away and water gets inside (and causes other destruction) before you have the roof replaced.
You go ahead and keep telling yourself that "it's some farmer in the midwest" screwing it all up, though; especially the next time you drive through Florida.
Right now on the US National political scene, it would seem that the default "heir" to the Bush/Cheney ideology of fear is Rudolph Giuliani. What city was he mayor of, again? Are there a lot of farmers living in Manhattan?
Oh wait, I must have been confused; it's Illinois where a lot of farmers live, and their state has given us Senator Obama in the Presidential contender line-up.
Please, if you're going to generalize about the American population, try to generalize in a way that makes sense. Here you're telling our foreign friend "hey look, we Americans are cooler than we might appear", yet then you generalize about "farmers". Nice.
Tuesday, Wednesday, RAID set's broke
Thursday, let out the magic smoke
but on Friday, I patch bugs
Monday, my xorg conf is toast
Tuesday, Wednesday, CPU roasts
Thursday, it won't even POST
but on Friday, I patch bugs
and we knew who we weeeeere then,
trolls were trolls, and girls were men,
you know we could use a man like CleverNickName again
Everyone would moderate,
then take a break to masturbate
Gee, our old Slashcode ran great
THOSE...WERE...THE...DAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYSSS
Good rememberin' there buddy, I'd forgotten about the 1337 case mods the designers felt the need to give to everyone at some point, there.
Now that you mention it, the blue & white G3 might have been the first time I remember having to pry open the purty drive hider in order to get at the actual drive. Of course, then the Wintel boxes followed suit (I'm lookin' at YOU, Compaq)....
1) Power off the computer
2) perform paper-clip origami
3) stick it in the hole to pop the CD tray open
Back in the day when I was doing desktop support, I just kept a bent paper clip in my toolbox.
Thanks for the enlightenment there man, I did not know that.
Hey buddy, I'm really glad you (rightfully) won your court case and all against those jerks, but why post it to Slashdot with a sentence like that? The use of the word "seems" implies to me that you're trying to pretend you're not Phillip Smith.
Aren't you, in fact, the defendant in this case? Submitting stuff and pretending you're not the owner of the blog you're linking to, and implying you're not the fellow referenced in the case, is just a little lame IMHO.
It took me a long time to create an account here, though; in '94 or '95 I had created an account at vip.hotwired.com and it really didn't *give* me anything; eventually, that subdomain just pointed to www.hotwired.com (and eventually www.wired.com).
"Burned" by that experience, I didn't see why creating a Slashdot account would be a useful thing. I could read stories and post without an account. Eventually, I think I created an account because I wanted to save my preference to browse at -1, or something like that. I don't really remember.
"Carolina" isn't an American state any more than "Columbia" is a Canadian province.
(I keeed, I keeed)
I'm not saying I don't masturbate. I am saying that it's none of anyone else's business if/when I do. Hey buddy, I love Ubuntu as much as the next guy (maybe more) but seriously you probably shouldn't tell people that you masturbate to it downloading.
There used to be this funny audio clip circulating around of a 911 call (or a comedian pretending to make one, I can't remember which) where a guy hits a deer with his car. He puts the deer into his car (he's gonna use the meat) but it soon wakes up and kicks the shit out of him. He calls 911 from a pay-phone to request a "bambalance" (the rest of the call is equally eloquent).
That is, I *hope* the guy is alluding to the old clip, and not seriously trying to spell "ambulance". It's possible, though, that in regards to your post above "2" answers "a"....
Heck no, I like his logic!
I'm gonna try it out, as a matter of fact. See, I'm in the USA and there's this BP (British Petroleum) filling station down the street.... =P
Incidentally, I'd like to respond to what the GP said about the RIAA having "no (legitimate) influence outside of the US":
Yeah, "legitimate" is the operative word there. They don't have "legitimate" influence inside the US either, but they still have influence.
You must be new here. :)
Of course obnoxious Americans are more obvious than the less obnoxious Americans; obnoxious people always stick out like a sore thumb- that's part of why they're obnoxious and is true the world over.
:P
To (jokingly) paraphrase what a Mexican friend of mine is fond of saying (of Mexicans in the USA):
You're not meeting normal Americans; you're meeting the Americans who we found so obnoxious, we made them leave!
Hey thanks buddy, I had not heard of Songbird and it looks pretty neat. I'd be pleased to have a player that would have a similar interface no matter which OS I'm using.
Sorry, I can't tell you any good Linux-compatibility info for their systems, the only laptops I've bought from them I've used already-owned Windows licenses for and the desktops I've run Linux on (that came from there) were so old that it really isn't worth talking about now.
As for my experiences there, I've found that I have lots of configuration options (which I like) including a number of motherboard choices for the desktops.
The best story is the first machine I've ever bought there: I ordered it with a Geforce4 Ti 7200 vid card. They called me a couple of days later, and said "so sorry, we're out of the 7200. In order to meet the ship date, we'll send you the 7800 at the same price if you don't mind". The 7800 was what I had wanted, but I didn't have the extra $100 (or whatever it was) for it. I was pleased.
Another time, my boss bought a machine there and a a couple of weeks later the hard drive tanked. They overnighted him a new one, without making me jump through a bunch of tech support hoops (they took my word for it) and without waiting to get the old one. Again, I was pleased.
Yet another time, a buddy ordered a bunch of machines for his office from them. One was DOA, it wouldn't post (my buddy is not an IT professional, and he had no idea how to troubleshoot it). Instead of getting him to try a bunch of stuff, they just sent him a new machine and instructed him to put the dead one into the box and return it at their cost.
CyberPower PC is a company I've had several good experiences with. They don't sell Linux on their laptops, but you can get them with no OS:
http://www.cyberpowerpc.com/
I wouldn't say the line "originates" in Calvin and Hobbes; Mad Magazine (Dave Berg, specifically) used this line back in the seventies. No, I have no cites.
Your assumption is correct, buddy. Here in the states, calling to a cell phone doesn't cost the caller any more than calling a land line.