"History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it."
-- Winston Churchill
Currently, we have:
"To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States."
-- George W. Bush, speaking at Yale University's 300th commencement ceremony
Sorry, I don't know of any quotes that reveal much character from a US president in the last 40 years.
Here are some others though from before then:
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."
-- Theodore Roosevelt
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
--Abraham Lincoln
Check out this progression:
"Government is not reason. Government is not eloquence. It is force. And, like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."
-- George Washington
to:
"The Founding Fathers knew a government can't control the economy without controlling people. And they knew when a government sets out to do that, it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose. So we have come to a time for choosing."
I also have come to realize that if there is one bad thing in C++ than it is this preprocessing which it inherited from C. Especially in a large project the trouble of including the right files and linking against the matching libraries becomes a pain in the ass.
Even though headers and libraries are the most common problem I come across from day to day, it wasn't until now that I thought about it as an implementation problem.
I'm not sure about the preprocessing bit. ifdefs and includes to get prototypes and other global/module specific variables are very handy. Its just a little silly that there is not a common preprocess and link flag that you can tell your compiler to find includes and libraries. How about gcc -F/usr/local/strange_module-2.3.7 and that would pass -I/usr/local/strange_module-2.3.7/include to the preprocessor and -L/usr/local/strange_module-2.3.7/lib to the linker.
How tough would that be? You can always explicitly add linker or preprocessor flags if you need to, but I would find this method superior to the current one by far. One of the biggest issues with preprocessing and linking is the order of the search path. Having it as one flag to pass to both of preprocessor and linker would simplify things.
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I love the ID stories, those are where I can tell rational people from kooks by my "Fans/Foes" changes that day.
Lets see how well I fare.
ID is done for now until it gets renamed and reincarnated:)
My position to the ID people has been "What would even the undeniable proof of ID give you?" And even in my best devil's advocate (heh!) mind cannot come up with an answer. Evolution gives us genetics, selective breeding, hybridization, and things that we benefit from on a daily basis. Even if we didn't fall from the trees and become Homo Erectus or Homo Sapians (sp??) the theory of evolution does give us some basis in our daily lives.
I would say that ID is done, and for good reason, or at least some reason.
I hear you. I try. But for reasons beyond my control, things do bother me. These things are real, something might bother me at one point in time, then it goes away. But something else bothers me. So, I'm never free or at least it seems.
I don't like the sheep thing. Yeah, they get free haircuts to benefit the owners, and then they are turned into mutton when they no longer are of any use for haircuts.
My parents are completely average Americans. They do not rock the boat in any way shape or form. They are good and scared from the stuff they see on the "news", and they even pound their chest that they "know what is right" from what the government tells them is right and wrong.
Keep in mind that this is the same government that said it was OK to treat citizens of the country like minorities and women as second class or the same as an illegal alien or outsider. Keep in mind that women were allowed to vote in 1920. My great grandmother was alive then. Black people were only given lip service "rights" in 1964, only a few years before I was born. These are the same people that deceive the people on a daily basis via the media, spy on their citizens illegally, "liberate" countries for their economic personal gain, and so on.
For the record, before we "saved" and "liberated" Iraq from their horrible dictator, and "freed" them of their "suffering" by killing approximately 25,000 to 30,000 of their citizens. Well, to put it simply, Iraq's death rate has did not exceed their birth rate this year. The last time that happened was over 100 years ago. Granted they don't have gas (WTF?!?!), electricity, water from this time and the last time we bombed them, etc. Why would the want this shit instead of being free?
Granted, I don't care about Iraqi people. Why should I? I don't know any, they live on the other side of the world. They are a 3rd world country about the size and population of New York state with 1/2 of the population being under 20 years old.
I would be happy to ignore these people, and for our government to spend its time and resources to do things like provide quality affordable health care for its citizens. To use the military to protect our borders from attack. To increase, not decrease our personal liberties that are supposed to be fundamental to our country.
I'm back to my original thesis -- Lets just party for New Years and have a good time.
Items 1-3 are typically not owned by your local paper, but purchased through syndication deals
Keep going. 4 is most likely syndicated except for high school sports. 5 is bought from the movie people, I doubt a reporter goes and writes down the movies and dates and types them up for the paper. 6 I guess would include "news" which is bought from Reuters or Associated Press. The other local news is then squished between the other stuff.
Newspapers are backwards, they should get paid to distribute this information, not pay for it.
AP and Reuters are disinformation, not news. I got into a discussion with my local newspaper about one of their feeds that was trying to say that the war in Iraq was because of the 9/11/01 terrorist attacks, and they initially agreed with me, and then they said that the phrasing, while deceptive, was not untrue, or something like that.
Honestly, I don't know why local newspapers have websites. They suck at it and it only decreases their print circulation. I'm not sure who convinced them that was a good idea, but I'm sure they are crying all the way to the bank.
Slashdot is basically an online newspaper. They get news from other places, and throw it up on the web. Hmm, what is different? Oh, we have comments by people. That is why people come here, its not the slashdotted links that few read, we are slashdot, we are the news and information. Slashdot is an avenue or hang out for us geeks to talk about stuff. Online newspapers are mostly poorly formatted websites that display horrible ads. There is simply little to nothing that people want to get from an online newspaper. Oh, but they can get us more involved. Make us register and give away personal information so they can sell more ads or other stuff to us. Thanks, but no thanks. I register here on slashdot because it gives me something. I get feedback to my discussions, its not just graffiti on the wall.
Also, local newspapers are not really local newspapers anymore. They are part of conglomerates. There are 4 of them in the US now. I don't know what conglomerating (that is actually a word?!?) gives you, but it surely does not give me better or even newsworthy news.
Who else besides me is just going to party hard on New Years and not let this stuff bother us for a night?
This whole thing cracks me up that it is under "science".
The study looks pretty weak, if not borderline unethical.
Beer pint glasses and pilsner glasses are graduated from top to bottom. I would bet that the last 2 ounces are finished more quickly than the first 2. Big deal. At least I know that is what I do. I chug the last bit, and ask for another. With that one, I sip on it for a while.
Also, small glasses typically have more potent stuff in them. Shot glasses are small, tapered glasses as well, but nobody sips those. They go in seconds. I would imagine the average would be 1 with a standard deviation of 100ms. New study!
Wine glasses are smaller than beer glasses. Rocks glasses are bigger than wine glasses but smaller than most beer glasses.
Also, keep in mind that alcohol _must_ be drunk out of glass. Screw cans unless you like a soar lip and the vibrant taste of aluminum in your mouth. Plastic is better for fresh drinks, only cheap liquor comes in plastic bottles.
Be careful driving. Either don't drink, or don't drink too much. Its not worth it.
I love those 32oz mugs at Mexican restaurants. I know of no other place in the US that regularly serves those.
As we speak, I am looking for my copy of Daemon Tools on my computer, but I can't find it because it's named in the start menu by the software's manufacturer, not the name of the program.
Sure windows might have this problem, but its a little different to have a file downloaded and double clicked or "Opened" and have it work or be inlined with a working plugin.
Granted, I'm not sure what Gnome or KDE or whatever does with these things nowadays, but I've never heard about things "just working" (TM) under Linux.
Granted, some OS X apps do install a minority of apps under/Applications in folders, some by company name (Digidesign is the only I have ever seen like that), but they either work with the work with the associated file, some install a Dock icon as well (Digidesign ProTools did that). If there is a human being that can defend the layout of the "Start" menu under windows for the past 10 years as anything indicative of a convenient, intuitive, or well designed means of displaying programs, settings, logging out, restarting the system, shutting down the system, some popular things of mine named "My this" and "My that", Help and Support, Search, Run..., Printers and Faxes, and a handful of preloaded Microsoft applications, complete with the name of the current user in case you forgot. Or its inability to make a shortcut or an easy to find and use icon to launch somewhere either inside or outside of the "Start" menu. I believe that some versions of windows would aid in the before mentioned problems by hiding and rearranging the items for you. Defend that insanity with a comment below or moderate me into oblivion with Troll or Flamebait please.
Success stories with helping people with using their computers comes from a friend or relative coming over and putting shortcuts on their desktop, often renaming them to things like "Internet" for Firefox, or showing them what to use and how to use it.
I would rank order these things as 1) OS X 2) Windows 3) Gnome/KDE I'm not sure what the difference is 4) CDE. None of them are perfect, but I would start at number 4 and work to number 1 depending on how much I disliked the person:)
As far as looking for an application, click the common icon for finding things, the magnifying glass, on the right side of the always visible task bar in OS X Tiger, and type "Dae" and odds are "Daemon Tools" would appear. You might have to type "Daem" or another character or two, but it only takes typing a few characters. Its not that tough. Microsoft decided to do away with a similar feature with their next "upgrade". Keep in mind that the search for "Daemon Tools" would be grouped in "Applications" regardless of where the Application was installed. It will also show you other documents and emails that have the term Daemon Tools in it that are logically grouped in case you were looking for that instead of the application itself.
Computers are complex, and they do a number of things. Many of the 3rd party applications have either good or bad names, but they are usually installed by the user, and they have probably installed it for a reason, and they may remember what they installed and why, but that falls apart many times too. Sometimes I cannot find my car keys because I'm scatterbrained.
Would you be entirely comfortable with your speech over the phone if you knew someone was always listening?
Unfortunately, people become immune to these things fairly quickly.
I worked at a convenience store when I was in college, and one guy I worked with stole stuff. We had a number of CC TVs that recorded everything 24 hours a day. Everybody knew they were there, the cameras were fixed not pan an zoom ones, and in the end, the guy stole stuff, it was on tape, and he was fired. I became comfortable with the cameras and didn't think about them. Granted I didn't do anything as egregious as theft, but I did things in spontaneous silliness and possibly inappropriate social things that I would not have done if someone was standing there vs the cameras being there.
Its kind like wearing a hat. After a while you forget its there, and you have to put your hand on your head to double check sometimes.
Tivo was the monopoly of the DVR market because there really wasn't anything else.
In 2005 almost 2006, what is Microsoft a monopoly of again?
Excellent operating systems and software is a dime a dozen now. Microsoft may have a monopoly on preinstalled systems and people think that is "just what comes with the computer". MSDOS came with IBM PCs when there were only IBM PCs, we have a choice today, its just not common knowledge yet. MSDOS was an inhouse written system (not in Bill Gates' house), that controlled the keyboard, sectioned off the hard disk, and displayed text on the screen. Later, they added memory access beyond 640k (1991), the MOVE.EXE command (I shit you not, that was in 1993), and disk cacheing (1993 as well). Wow.
Compare that to other systems that were available at the time, and I ask "They were a monopoly of what?" Compare that to the other systems available today, and I ask "They are a monopoly of what?"
They've taken an industry standard form factor motherboard, and put it in an industry standard form factor rackmount case... and that's worthy of a patent?
A system and method for automatically creating a racked computer that is useable to access the functionality of an industry standard computer system coupled to a rack. The method may operate to connect to the rack system and obtain information specifying functionality of the rack system. The information obtained may be analyzed programmatically, and new information may be programmatically created based on the analysis, wherein the programmatically created information is useable for accessing the functionality of the rack system. For example, where the functionality of a computer comprises a programmatically callable function, the information created may include information specifying the function name, names of input and output parameters, data types of the parameters, etc. The programmatically created information may be stored in a repository for use in accessing the functionality of the racked computer system from the industry standard computer. For example, the information may be retrieved from the computer and used to programmatically construct appropriate data structures and/or execute appropriate code for interfacing with the racked system to access the desired functionality.
90% of everything is done in 10% of the time alloted. Why not just go ahead and accept it?
Because I've never heard it, nor do I believe it is true.
I firmly believe in the 90/10, 80/20, 99/1, 99.9/0.1 rules, but those are about quantities, not about time.
Meetings last as long as they are alloted for. Statistical anomalies are sometimes longer, even more rarely shorter. Almost every time deadline is met within +- 5% of the time of reinforcement, usually skewed slightly on the longer timeframe, rarely before. If deadlines are arbitrary and bullshit, things take longer.
Now 90% of the work is done by 10% of the people, I'll believe and accept that.
The inverse is true. The advertisers/marketers don't care about you they care about your kind. If they were that interested in you, they would just target you and steal from you, they want X number of people similar to you. There are things like "target demographics", "males between 25 and 35", "housewives" or "stay at home moms" if they have kids, etc.
Certain products, goods, or services may appeal to statistical outliers, but any marketer or advertiser never appeals to them, they appeal to the middle 2 standard deviations. Niche products even do this thing. About 1 in 5 women are into anal sex, butt 4 out of 5 are not into it and would not be into seeing advertisements for a better anal lube on TV even though it might even change their opinion of that kind of sex. Herpes medication is accepted though, because everybody knows somebody that has it.
I'm not paranoid about privacy in marketing. Nothing I buy that is legal to buy is that interesting. The good stuff is not advertised, nor needs to be. I've heard that Nukes go for something like $10 mil. Buying those might be of interest to some people, but being that the US government is too stupid to figure out which 3rd world country's government owns them or not, I can buy them in relative comfort.
I did read "what you wish you had known", it was good as well.
Dude, if you are too lazy or procrastinate too much to sell your cards, then what do you want? I'll buy them if you have in excess of 1,000 for the price of the sum of the top 5 or 10 depending if you have good ones there.
Its been 10 years since I've played, but from what I remember there were "premium" cards (Black Lotus was the top), and "damn good" cards, and most were just cards (there may be a "good" card level too, don't remember). In a week, I would imagine that you could sort them out in those three or four piles with very little effort while you watch TV or whatever you do to relax that does not take much attention. The regular cards are only worth a few cents a piece, so sell them as at a bulk whatever price. Sell the highest ones first, and go down, or take the time to inventory the higher ones, and go down or whatever.
Nobody, unless they know you, will buy a bunch of cards without knowing what they are unless they are sold at the lowest common denominator price, and you will most likely get ripped off unless you just need beer money or something. Nobody is going to sort through the cards for you like a change machine either.
Is disappointing to see how many people that have the perception that 'you get money when you file for taxes' for the regular wage slaves.
The more accurate perception is that:
You cannot manage your money well, the government has a plan that always works in their favor. See, they will take about 30% of your pay for "free" every month without you having to think about it. If fact, they will take a little extra, just to make sure you pay "enough" by the end of the year. They will hold it for free for you until the end of the year. The will then continue holding it until you ask for it back, for free!
Unfortunately, I have had the government blindly take my money every time I get paid since I was 15 years old, that I was conditioned not to think much about it until recently. People often say that their housing is the most expensive thing they pay for, then their car. The are wrong and off by one. Taxes are #1, house typically #2, car typically #3. Aside from gas and regular maintenance, I spend more on food and beverages (mostly alcoholic, and taxed out the wazoo) than I spend on car payments. I currently pay $20 a month interest on my car, and it will be paid off in a while. I've never paid more than $2,500 for a car before, but I wanted a better one so I splurged with a $7k car after the police took my last one. Oh, well.
I'm curious. How do you estimate your taxes, and what do you do with your money until they ask for it? I'm not that experienced with financial stuff because I'm apathetic towards it, but I'm very interested in putting more $$$ in my pocket and not the government's. By my rough estimates, I would only make about $200 to $300 at a 3% interest (I'm basing this on a 30% tax of about $50k income) if I didn't do any withholdings. I don't make much money, but to me I would actually prefer to have the government manage my debt to them and get a little extra back in one chunk at the end of the year for the extra couple of bucks. So I guess I'm in the "I cannot manage my money well department", but if there was more incentive for me to do so, I could be more interested in spending more time with this. But right now, I only deduct student loan interest and mortgage interest because I don't know if any extra investment in effort and time would be more profitable than getting a side job which I'm not interested in doing either.
I am grateful that I don't have to pay taxes on medications, but I'm ungrateful that I have to spend extra tax over top of the "regular" tax to eat. But I can shit for free.
Can anyone reccomend the best place to sell off Magic cards?
Local game shop. I know someone years ago that sold all of his cards for about his initial investment or possibly profit and made his DeBeers donation to convince his future wife he was serious about the situation. He also kept a deck to do some casual playing, but had wifey things to do so could not play as much. Do people still play Magic?
Why nerds are unpopular is excellent. I've never read what you'll wish you had known, I never knew about it:)
I've become more of a procrastinator over the years. For one, I see less of things being important, because they never are. Health issues are something I'm pretty aggressive about, but I put off stuff all the time. I didn't buy a computer beyond a P1 until recently because they were not good enough. I regret my haste, because then Apple came out with the 4 core PowerMac which should be more adequate than the cheaper iMac G5 that I opted for.
Also, if I put stuff off (since nothing is that important in the first place) I've found that many problems fix themselves or just go away, or something more "important" comes up.
Another thing to take into account is basic psychology. No organism really does anything before the time of reinforcement. People don't go to the bus stop much before the bus arrives. Most people don't do all of their Christmas shopping much before Chistmas. Most people don't file their taxes before April 15th. There are other variables though. I file my taxes right after Jan 1st when I get all of my documents together. I can always use the money, and I'd rather have the cash than the government keep it interest free until April. If I wasn't getting anything back, I'd wait until April 15th like most people.
Mid 19th. Yeah, he's been kinda white and bearded, but the fat red guy that is the common perception of what the guy looks like is a Coca-Cola.
The snopes article has a picture of the guy holding a Coke, and that is the same guy that hangs out at the malls this time of year. You've seen him, I think I hear him right now!
This time it really is different, and there is nothing to stop the US economy from heading off a hyperinflationary debt cliff after the over-indebted housing market falters and that's why the silver and gold market have been going up so high over the last 5 years.
Sshhh. Things like that are better unsaid.
Why the hell do you think we invaded Iraq? It may have been because of the September 2000 decision of Sudam Hussain to switch from the US dollar to the Euro for oil trade. Venezuela was threatening to do the same. Our economy is very dependant on having bunches of bills spread all around the world. If there are fewer floating around, then the economy becomes much more volatile. Its kinda like the volatility of a small salt water aquarium. Its hard to keep a small one stable, that is why they are commonly around 150 gallons or so. Oceans are much more stable:)
England does not use the Euro, France does. Remember "Freedom Fries"?
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you could have taken the track from a friend's copy of the album
That is what he did, but in 'net speak he got it from "a friend of a friend" to remove himself once more from the actual "friend".
Works wonders.
"History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it."
-- Winston Churchill
Currently, we have:
"To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States."
-- George W. Bush, speaking at Yale University's 300th commencement ceremony
Sorry, I don't know of any quotes that reveal much character from a US president in the last 40 years.
Here are some others though from before then:
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."
-- Theodore Roosevelt
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
--Abraham Lincoln
Check out this progression:
"Government is not reason. Government is not eloquence. It is force. And, like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."
-- George Washington
to:
"The Founding Fathers knew a government can't control the economy without controlling people. And they knew when a government sets out to do that, it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose. So we have come to a time for choosing."
-- Ronald Reagan, October 27, 1964
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If the authors would have been the same and the second one didn't have an extra '"' at the end of it, it would have been the perfect dupe.
I also have come to realize that if there is one bad thing in C++ than it is this preprocessing which it inherited from C. Especially in a large project the trouble of including the right files and linking against the matching libraries becomes a pain in the ass.
/usr/local/strange_module-2.3.7 and that would pass -I /usr/local/strange_module-2.3.7/include to the preprocessor and -L /usr/local/strange_module-2.3.7/lib to the linker.
Even though headers and libraries are the most common problem I come across from day to day, it wasn't until now that I thought about it as an implementation problem.
I'm not sure about the preprocessing bit. ifdefs and includes to get prototypes and other global/module specific variables are very handy. Its just a little silly that there is not a common preprocess and link flag that you can tell your compiler to find includes and libraries. How about gcc -F
How tough would that be? You can always explicitly add linker or preprocessor flags if you need to, but I would find this method superior to the current one by far. One of the biggest issues with preprocessing and linking is the order of the search path. Having it as one flag to pass to both of preprocessor and linker would simplify things.
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I love the ID stories, those are where I can tell rational people from kooks by my "Fans/Foes" changes that day.
:)
Lets see how well I fare.
ID is done for now until it gets renamed and reincarnated
My position to the ID people has been "What would even the undeniable proof of ID give you?" And even in my best devil's advocate (heh!) mind cannot come up with an answer. Evolution gives us genetics, selective breeding, hybridization, and things that we benefit from on a daily basis. Even if we didn't fall from the trees and become Homo Erectus or Homo Sapians (sp??) the theory of evolution does give us some basis in our daily lives.
I would say that ID is done, and for good reason, or at least some reason.
Thank the FSM!
Here's a tip: Don't let it bother you ever
I hear you. I try. But for reasons beyond my control, things do bother me. These things are real, something might bother me at one point in time, then it goes away. But something else bothers me. So, I'm never free or at least it seems.
I don't like the sheep thing. Yeah, they get free haircuts to benefit the owners, and then they are turned into mutton when they no longer are of any use for haircuts.
My parents are completely average Americans. They do not rock the boat in any way shape or form. They are good and scared from the stuff they see on the "news", and they even pound their chest that they "know what is right" from what the government tells them is right and wrong.
Keep in mind that this is the same government that said it was OK to treat citizens of the country like minorities and women as second class or the same as an illegal alien or outsider. Keep in mind that women were allowed to vote in 1920. My great grandmother was alive then. Black people were only given lip service "rights" in 1964, only a few years before I was born. These are the same people that deceive the people on a daily basis via the media, spy on their citizens illegally, "liberate" countries for their economic personal gain, and so on.
For the record, before we "saved" and "liberated" Iraq from their horrible dictator, and "freed" them of their "suffering" by killing approximately 25,000 to 30,000 of their citizens. Well, to put it simply, Iraq's death rate has did not exceed their birth rate this year. The last time that happened was over 100 years ago. Granted they don't have gas (WTF?!?!), electricity, water from this time and the last time we bombed them, etc. Why would the want this shit instead of being free?
Granted, I don't care about Iraqi people. Why should I? I don't know any, they live on the other side of the world. They are a 3rd world country about the size and population of New York state with 1/2 of the population being under 20 years old.
I would be happy to ignore these people, and for our government to spend its time and resources to do things like provide quality affordable health care for its citizens. To use the military to protect our borders from attack. To increase, not decrease our personal liberties that are supposed to be fundamental to our country.
I'm back to my original thesis -- Lets just party for New Years and have a good time.
Happy New Year people!
1. Comics
2. Crossword puzzles & brain teasers
3. Horoscopes
4. Sports stats
5. Movie listings
6. Everything else
Items 1-3 are typically not owned by your local paper, but purchased through syndication deals
Keep going. 4 is most likely syndicated except for high school sports. 5 is bought from the movie people, I doubt a reporter goes and writes down the movies and dates and types them up for the paper. 6 I guess would include "news" which is bought from Reuters or Associated Press. The other local news is then squished between the other stuff.
Newspapers are backwards, they should get paid to distribute this information, not pay for it.
AP and Reuters are disinformation, not news. I got into a discussion with my local newspaper about one of their feeds that was trying to say that the war in Iraq was because of the 9/11/01 terrorist attacks, and they initially agreed with me, and then they said that the phrasing, while deceptive, was not untrue, or something like that.
Honestly, I don't know why local newspapers have websites. They suck at it and it only decreases their print circulation. I'm not sure who convinced them that was a good idea, but I'm sure they are crying all the way to the bank.
Slashdot is basically an online newspaper. They get news from other places, and throw it up on the web. Hmm, what is different? Oh, we have comments by people. That is why people come here, its not the slashdotted links that few read, we are slashdot, we are the news and information. Slashdot is an avenue or hang out for us geeks to talk about stuff. Online newspapers are mostly poorly formatted websites that display horrible ads. There is simply little to nothing that people want to get from an online newspaper. Oh, but they can get us more involved. Make us register and give away personal information so they can sell more ads or other stuff to us. Thanks, but no thanks. I register here on slashdot because it gives me something. I get feedback to my discussions, its not just graffiti on the wall.
Also, local newspapers are not really local newspapers anymore. They are part of conglomerates. There are 4 of them in the US now. I don't know what conglomerating (that is actually a word?!?) gives you, but it surely does not give me better or even newsworthy news.
Who else besides me is just going to party hard on New Years and not let this stuff bother us for a night?
This whole thing cracks me up that it is under "science".
The study looks pretty weak, if not borderline unethical.
Beer pint glasses and pilsner glasses are graduated from top to bottom. I would bet that the last 2 ounces are finished more quickly than the first 2. Big deal. At least I know that is what I do. I chug the last bit, and ask for another. With that one, I sip on it for a while.
Also, small glasses typically have more potent stuff in them. Shot glasses are small, tapered glasses as well, but nobody sips those. They go in seconds. I would imagine the average would be 1 with a standard deviation of 100ms. New study!
Wine glasses are smaller than beer glasses. Rocks glasses are bigger than wine glasses but smaller than most beer glasses.
Also, keep in mind that alcohol _must_ be drunk out of glass. Screw cans unless you like a soar lip and the vibrant taste of aluminum in your mouth. Plastic is better for fresh drinks, only cheap liquor comes in plastic bottles.
Be careful driving. Either don't drink, or don't drink too much. Its not worth it.
I love those 32oz mugs at Mexican restaurants. I know of no other place in the US that regularly serves those.
As we speak, I am looking for my copy of Daemon Tools on my computer, but I can't find it because it's named in the start menu by the software's manufacturer, not the name of the program.
/Applications in folders, some by company name (Digidesign is the only I have ever seen like that), but they either work with the work with the associated file, some install a Dock icon as well (Digidesign ProTools did that). If there is a human being that can defend the layout of the "Start" menu under windows for the past 10 years as anything indicative of a convenient, intuitive, or well designed means of displaying programs, settings, logging out, restarting the system, shutting down the system, some popular things of mine named "My this" and "My that", Help and Support, Search, Run..., Printers and Faxes, and a handful of preloaded Microsoft applications, complete with the name of the current user in case you forgot. Or its inability to make a shortcut or an easy to find and use icon to launch somewhere either inside or outside of the "Start" menu. I believe that some versions of windows would aid in the before mentioned problems by hiding and rearranging the items for you. Defend that insanity with a comment below or moderate me into oblivion with Troll or Flamebait please.
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Sure windows might have this problem, but its a little different to have a file downloaded and double clicked or "Opened" and have it work or be inlined with a working plugin.
Granted, I'm not sure what Gnome or KDE or whatever does with these things nowadays, but I've never heard about things "just working" (TM) under Linux.
Granted, some OS X apps do install a minority of apps under
Success stories with helping people with using their computers comes from a friend or relative coming over and putting shortcuts on their desktop, often renaming them to things like "Internet" for Firefox, or showing them what to use and how to use it.
I would rank order these things as 1) OS X 2) Windows 3) Gnome/KDE I'm not sure what the difference is 4) CDE. None of them are perfect, but I would start at number 4 and work to number 1 depending on how much I disliked the person
As far as looking for an application, click the common icon for finding things, the magnifying glass, on the right side of the always visible task bar in OS X Tiger, and type "Dae" and odds are "Daemon Tools" would appear. You might have to type "Daem" or another character or two, but it only takes typing a few characters. Its not that tough. Microsoft decided to do away with a similar feature with their next "upgrade". Keep in mind that the search for "Daemon Tools" would be grouped in "Applications" regardless of where the Application was installed. It will also show you other documents and emails that have the term Daemon Tools in it that are logically grouped in case you were looking for that instead of the application itself.
Computers are complex, and they do a number of things. Many of the 3rd party applications have either good or bad names, but they are usually installed by the user, and they have probably installed it for a reason, and they may remember what they installed and why, but that falls apart many times too. Sometimes I cannot find my car keys because I'm scatterbrained.
Would you be entirely comfortable with your speech over the phone if you knew someone was always listening?
Unfortunately, people become immune to these things fairly quickly.
I worked at a convenience store when I was in college, and one guy I worked with stole stuff. We had a number of CC TVs that recorded everything 24 hours a day. Everybody knew they were there, the cameras were fixed not pan an zoom ones, and in the end, the guy stole stuff, it was on tape, and he was fired. I became comfortable with the cameras and didn't think about them. Granted I didn't do anything as egregious as theft, but I did things in spontaneous silliness and possibly inappropriate social things that I would not have done if someone was standing there vs the cameras being there.
Its kind like wearing a hat. After a while you forget its there, and you have to put your hand on your head to double check sometimes.
MS Starts FUD campaign about how open source is less secure, doesn't produce bug fixes fast, and doesn't add new features!
Wrong! Anyone may correct the statement via the template below:
_______________ is less secure, doesn't produce bug fixes fast, and doesn't add new features!
Tivo was the monopoly of the DVR market because there really wasn't anything else.
In 2005 almost 2006, what is Microsoft a monopoly of again?
Excellent operating systems and software is a dime a dozen now. Microsoft may have a monopoly on preinstalled systems and people think that is "just what comes with the computer". MSDOS came with IBM PCs when there were only IBM PCs, we have a choice today, its just not common knowledge yet. MSDOS was an inhouse written system (not in Bill Gates' house), that controlled the keyboard, sectioned off the hard disk, and displayed text on the screen. Later, they added memory access beyond 640k (1991), the MOVE.EXE command (I shit you not, that was in 1993), and disk cacheing (1993 as well). Wow.
Compare that to other systems that were available at the time, and I ask "They were a monopoly of what?" Compare that to the other systems available today, and I ask "They are a monopoly of what?"
In Soviet Russia, the ecording Industry Association of America owns you!
They've taken an industry standard form factor motherboard, and put it in an industry standard form factor rackmount case... and that's worthy of a patent?
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A system and method for automatically creating a racked computer that is useable to access the functionality of an industry standard computer system coupled to a rack. The method may operate to connect to the rack system and obtain information specifying functionality of the rack system. The information obtained may be analyzed programmatically, and new information may be programmatically created based on the analysis, wherein the programmatically created information is useable for accessing the functionality of the rack system. For example, where the functionality of a computer comprises a programmatically callable function, the information created may include information specifying the function name, names of input and output parameters, data types of the parameters, etc. The programmatically created information may be stored in a repository for use in accessing the functionality of the racked computer system from the industry standard computer. For example, the information may be retrieved from the computer and used to programmatically construct appropriate data structures and/or execute appropriate code for interfacing with the racked system to access the desired functionality.
Shamelessly satired from US Patent 6,978,457 http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=P
The sight might be too slow to even take a single viewing, let alone a good slashdotting.
Now 90% of the work is done by 10% of the people, I'll believe and accept that.
That was reversed.
10% of the people make 90% of the people do the work.
Sorry, its late.
90% of everything is done in 10% of the time alloted. Why not just go ahead and accept it?
Because I've never heard it, nor do I believe it is true.
I firmly believe in the 90/10, 80/20, 99/1, 99.9/0.1 rules, but those are about quantities, not about time.
Meetings last as long as they are alloted for. Statistical anomalies are sometimes longer, even more rarely shorter. Almost every time deadline is met within +- 5% of the time of reinforcement, usually skewed slightly on the longer timeframe, rarely before. If deadlines are arbitrary and bullshit, things take longer.
Now 90% of the work is done by 10% of the people, I'll believe and accept that.
The inverse is true. The advertisers/marketers don't care about you they care about your kind. If they were that interested in you, they would just target you and steal from you, they want X number of people similar to you. There are things like "target demographics", "males between 25 and 35", "housewives" or "stay at home moms" if they have kids, etc.
Certain products, goods, or services may appeal to statistical outliers, but any marketer or advertiser never appeals to them, they appeal to the middle 2 standard deviations. Niche products even do this thing. About 1 in 5 women are into anal sex, butt 4 out of 5 are not into it and would not be into seeing advertisements for a better anal lube on TV even though it might even change their opinion of that kind of sex. Herpes medication is accepted though, because everybody knows somebody that has it.
I'm not paranoid about privacy in marketing. Nothing I buy that is legal to buy is that interesting. The good stuff is not advertised, nor needs to be. I've heard that Nukes go for something like $10 mil. Buying those might be of interest to some people, but being that the US government is too stupid to figure out which 3rd world country's government owns them or not, I can buy them in relative comfort.
I did read "what you wish you had known", it was good as well.
Dude, if you are too lazy or procrastinate too much to sell your cards, then what do you want? I'll buy them if you have in excess of 1,000 for the price of the sum of the top 5 or 10 depending if you have good ones there.
Its been 10 years since I've played, but from what I remember there were "premium" cards (Black Lotus was the top), and "damn good" cards, and most were just cards (there may be a "good" card level too, don't remember). In a week, I would imagine that you could sort them out in those three or four piles with very little effort while you watch TV or whatever you do to relax that does not take much attention. The regular cards are only worth a few cents a piece, so sell them as at a bulk whatever price. Sell the highest ones first, and go down, or take the time to inventory the higher ones, and go down or whatever.
Nobody, unless they know you, will buy a bunch of cards without knowing what they are unless they are sold at the lowest common denominator price, and you will most likely get ripped off unless you just need beer money or something. Nobody is going to sort through the cards for you like a change machine either.
Is disappointing to see how many people that have the perception that 'you get money when you file for taxes' for the regular wage slaves.
The more accurate perception is that:
You cannot manage your money well, the government has a plan that always works in their favor. See, they will take about 30% of your pay for "free" every month without you having to think about it. If fact, they will take a little extra, just to make sure you pay "enough" by the end of the year. They will hold it for free for you until the end of the year. The will then continue holding it until you ask for it back, for free!
Unfortunately, I have had the government blindly take my money every time I get paid since I was 15 years old, that I was conditioned not to think much about it until recently. People often say that their housing is the most expensive thing they pay for, then their car. The are wrong and off by one. Taxes are #1, house typically #2, car typically #3. Aside from gas and regular maintenance, I spend more on food and beverages (mostly alcoholic, and taxed out the wazoo) than I spend on car payments. I currently pay $20 a month interest on my car, and it will be paid off in a while. I've never paid more than $2,500 for a car before, but I wanted a better one so I splurged with a $7k car after the police took my last one. Oh, well.
I'm curious. How do you estimate your taxes, and what do you do with your money until they ask for it? I'm not that experienced with financial stuff because I'm apathetic towards it, but I'm very interested in putting more $$$ in my pocket and not the government's. By my rough estimates, I would only make about $200 to $300 at a 3% interest (I'm basing this on a 30% tax of about $50k income) if I didn't do any withholdings. I don't make much money, but to me I would actually prefer to have the government manage my debt to them and get a little extra back in one chunk at the end of the year for the extra couple of bucks. So I guess I'm in the "I cannot manage my money well department", but if there was more incentive for me to do so, I could be more interested in spending more time with this. But right now, I only deduct student loan interest and mortgage interest because I don't know if any extra investment in effort and time would be more profitable than getting a side job which I'm not interested in doing either.
I am grateful that I don't have to pay taxes on medications, but I'm ungrateful that I have to spend extra tax over top of the "regular" tax to eat. But I can shit for free.
Can anyone reccomend the best place to sell off Magic cards?
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Local game shop. I know someone years ago that sold all of his cards for about his initial investment or possibly profit and made his DeBeers donation to convince his future wife he was serious about the situation. He also kept a deck to do some casual playing, but had wifey things to do so could not play as much. Do people still play Magic?
Why nerds are unpopular is excellent. I've never read what you'll wish you had known, I never knew about it
Yeah, but it still feels good.
I've become more of a procrastinator over the years. For one, I see less of things being important, because they never are. Health issues are something I'm pretty aggressive about, but I put off stuff all the time. I didn't buy a computer beyond a P1 until recently because they were not good enough. I regret my haste, because then Apple came out with the 4 core PowerMac which should be more adequate than the cheaper iMac G5 that I opted for.
Also, if I put stuff off (since nothing is that important in the first place) I've found that many problems fix themselves or just go away, or something more "important" comes up.
Another thing to take into account is basic psychology. No organism really does anything before the time of reinforcement. People don't go to the bus stop much before the bus arrives. Most people don't do all of their Christmas shopping much before Chistmas. Most people don't file their taxes before April 15th. There are other variables though. I file my taxes right after Jan 1st when I get all of my documents together. I can always use the money, and I'd rather have the cash than the government keep it interest free until April. If I wasn't getting anything back, I'd wait until April 15th like most people.
So everybody, go ahead and fuck yourself. Its OK.
A wise man once said:
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
Mid 19th. Yeah, he's been kinda white and bearded, but the fat red guy that is the common perception of what the guy looks like is a Coca-Cola.
The snopes article has a picture of the guy holding a Coke, and that is the same guy that hangs out at the malls this time of year. You've seen him, I think I hear him right now!
This time it really is different, and there is nothing to stop the US economy from heading off a hyperinflationary debt cliff after the over-indebted housing market falters and that's why the silver and gold market have been going up so high over the last 5 years.
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Sshhh. Things like that are better unsaid.
Why the hell do you think we invaded Iraq? It may have been because of the September 2000 decision of Sudam Hussain to switch from the US dollar to the Euro for oil trade. Venezuela was threatening to do the same. Our economy is very dependant on having bunches of bills spread all around the world. If there are fewer floating around, then the economy becomes much more volatile. Its kinda like the volatility of a small salt water aquarium. Its hard to keep a small one stable, that is why they are commonly around 150 gallons or so. Oceans are much more stable
England does not use the Euro, France does. Remember "Freedom Fries"?