I, uh, don't think humanity is going to suffer any dramatic population collapse anytime soon. Last I checked the numbers are still going up, and we're in for a mess of problems if we *don't* manage to push down the rate of increase in many parts of the world. Interestingly enough, it goes down by itself as people have better educations, better resources, better choices available.
And if people decide they want do more with their lives than they can if they're completely occupied with child rearing for a few decades... well, isn't that a good sign?
Figments of their imagination (and others imagination), obviously. Personally, I pray to John, Tim, Alan, Steve and Susan.. "Please get the fuck out of my head" Tim Allen? Hoo, boy. Yeah, get *him* the fuck out of your head as soon as possible.
True, but if you don't like references, you might ask yourself why you're in this business.
I mean, sure, pointer arithmetic can be complex and convoluted, but, conceptually, if you find if HARD, you may not have made the right career choices.
Same thing with other techniques that get lumped in the "hard" category like recursion, closures, etc. There are different kinds of "hard". I don't remember finding pointers hard as in "I can't understand how these work"... I found them hard as in, "this is annoying, and why am I spending so much time triple-checking that I haven't fouled up memory management and pointer manipulation instead focusing on the *actual* problem I'm trying to solve?".
Recursion is a different kind of thing; it can make it much *simpler* to solve some problems, which saves me time and effort at the cost of a little practice to wrap my head around it at first. Same thing with closures, which I've been using a lot of lately in JavaScript.
Alas (for a mostly-Java developer), Java screws up recursion that goes too deep (stack overflow, huh?), and closures haven't even made it in yet. They're working on both of those issues, though.... At least the memory management & pointer approach works well.
So, where should I send the checks? Ah, good! I knew you were a bright fella, and we gotta stick together.
You can transfer the "quiet funds" directly to my Chase checking account, #84927736, routing #394723. My passport number is 23874393, SS# is 027-34-2849, and you can fax me at 792-204-8372.
Not sure if you need all that info, but that's what they wanted for a recent international business deal I made.
Do me a favor and keep this whole business under your hat.
If I said you were a space alien who ate people, no one would believe it and it would not be considered libel. In this particular case, it's not libel because it's factually true. I was there; that martian bastard ate my neighbor.
Of course, I also have some photos of you molesting little boys (Dubya had them in his car), so I wouldn't stir up trouble if I were you.
Maybe they figure that now they've cut their teeth on a big player (and they came out on top, eventually) they can tackle the big guys. I won't be fun, though... Scientology doesn't play by the same rules as normal corporations with rational customers. They fight as dirty as possible; tactics that would easily sink a normal business if they got out are business as usual, and they don't pretend otherwise to their members; they just made it part of their belief system that it's morally okay to use any means necessary to stop their detractors.
This is probably the best time to do it, though, while WikiLeaks still has quite a lot of active attention because of the Julius Baer legal business.
I just hope they didn't waste some of that capital calling for the eNom boycott. Not exactly the same level of "evil"....
But I guess we'll see, either way. Stay tuned -- same bat-time, same bat-channel!
I think they assume you will upgrade your package instead of just buying a second one... that's the problem. I suspect the solution would be that you'd need to transfer the foo.com registration over to your hosting package... though of course, that might run into similar problems.
You could always transfer it elsewhere then bring it back. But yeah, PITA.
Their DNS handling in the control panel is pretty poor. You can usually do what you need, but they don't make it easy.
I even managed to configure hosting a subdomain with them when the main domain registration, nameservers, main domain hosting & email hosting are all elsewhere... but it was tricky, and I was fairly sure it was impossible until I got it to work.
I can also mention that most of my domains are currently hosted with GoDaddy -- who I'm not particularly fond of, but... Damn it. I meant *registered* with GoDaddy. Not hosted. Here I am clicking through the recommendations for replacements, thinking "but... these all seem like primarily hosts, not registrars..". Duh. Of course, lots of hosts do both.
NearlyFreeSpeech does registrations at $8/year, but only offers domain registration for "members" -- meaning if you host with them, I assume? DynDns is expensive -- minimum 15/year (and they list prices for 2 & 5 years, but there's no discount -- huh?)
Any registrar suggestions?
1&1 has cheap domain registrations, but I have a slew of non-earning and experimental project domains hosted with them, and I am NOT keen on letting my host be my registrar.
WRT hosting, anyway, here's what I've found: * DreamHost is excellent for features -- you can do almost anything -- but while their email system seems to be pretty robust, uptime overall is horrible. Do not use them for anything important... I still have an account with them for playing with, but I moved even my little sites off them to 1&1 after just too much downtime. * 1&1 has excellent bandwidth and (for me) reliability has been very good. I host my small shared-hosting-is-okay sites with them. They're not newbie-friendly at all -- the control panel is slow and poorly designed (there are entire fields of buttons designed to sell me new services that I simply never hit), and tech support is more or less useless... that's what you're sacrificing to get the low cost. Works for me, though. * I have my more important project on a VPS with RimuHosting. I've been about 80% pleased -- support is good and very knowledgeable, technical issues are very rare, pricing is fair... but I sometimes get the sense my server is overloaded, because the bandwidth doesn't seem great. I'm still digging around for ways to monitor that properly.
I'm certainly no expert on international IP law, which was why I made no comment about the legality either way.
I just think it's friggin' lame to not even bother to update the game logic enough so that the game is coherent.
They say the goal is blue sky. When I saw the snowing clouds, I wasted a lot of time trying to shoot them -- naturally assuming they were the next step in the game (maybe they require 2 or 3 hits to zap them?).
But no, they were just snowing because... it's a snow day.
just in the hope of getting to that few inches of celebrity/supermodel paradise? ...when she comes in with some funny warts, or for a Pap smear? Mmm, ain't nothing sexier than cervical scrapings.
The ladies all believe there's nothing sexier either, so when you happen to run into that supermodel somewhere away from the rubber gloves and stirrups, like at a bar, you just *know* she's going to be thinking sexy thoughts the moment she sees you.
It's not all that complicated. The horror stories you see here and there are the exception, not the rule.
I don't have any domains registered with eNom, so I'm not sure of the specific procedures for them, but the gist of it is: * Sign in to your current registrar * Make sure your email address with them is valid (there will be confirmation steps using it!) * Unlock your domains (many registrars have "locking" features to prevent others from stealing your domains, plus to make it a little trickier for you to leave * You might as well disable automatic renewals as well (if they have them), just in case * Go to your new registrar and click through to "transfer" your domain, and pay for it. Normally they'll honor your existing expiration date (even if it's a couple of years away) and add your new years to the end of that. * Make sure you set up the domain at the new registrar with the correct nameservers for your host, and you won't have any downtime because of the switch. * The next steps will often take a few days -- new registrar will submit request to old registrar, who will email you for confirmation (and you'll have to click through to provide that)... possibly multiple confirmations... and then the domain will be transferred, and you're done.
Anyone want to provide details for eNom, or add anything I forgot?
I can also mention that most of my domains are currently hosted with GoDaddy -- who I'm not particularly fond of, but they're cheap and haven't screwed me over personally. Suggestions for alternatives are welcome... it's something I haven't researched in a while.
(err.. and before someone arrests me for that comment, I wasn't being LITERAL) Don't worry -- you were merely asking "why stop" at blowing up the FCC -- you certainly weren't advocating any violence (or indeed, even implying that you personally would act to bring about any such violence).
I, too, would not advocate violence against the executive branch of our government, however much they theoretically may deserve to be throttled in their sleep, and however enjoyable that imaginary act could be.
No, we must follow the laws, which exist for very good reason, as any feasible assassination plot will undoubtedly be announced in clear terms beforehand by the assassin.
Unlike this roundabout verbiage, for instance, which merely discusses the subject with some relish, much as I am doing.
Have you? Its actually a complete rewrite with a few copied images and sounds (which are not even used). I'm starting to think they just tweaked the source code to make it look different, specifically to dodge legal trouble.
I mean, think about it -- in the Chinese game, your goal is to make the clouds *go away* so you have blue sky. So, obviously, you hit them with ice cubes. And they go away?
NO, they start snowing on you.
The fact that they didn't even change that detail from the original game -- and it would have been a fairly trivial change! -- looks pretty bad to me.
Realize that the Peter Principle applies to everyone. Especially the incompetents at all levels in government - even POTUS hisself. This is not a normal example of the Peter Principle. Bush would have already been promoted to his level of incompetence if they'd hired him as assistant to the secretary of the White House caterer. He'd already been "promoted" beyond his level of competence when he was governor of Texas.
Err... maybe I should have put a;) at the end of my comment? I figured the Saturday Night Live reference might work as a tip-off that it was a humorous comment.
Either way, I wasn't assuming you were an ass before, but I'm kinda getting that sense now.
[...] or you might discover they withheld information about some of their internal policies, or that the receptionist is overly sensitive to anything remotely "off-color" [...] Hmm. I imagine that therein lies a story AND even not having heard it yet, I'm not sure I will be 100% convinced that the company and receptionist were in the wrong.
Relevant SNL deep thought: "When you go for a job interview, I think a good thing to ask is if they ever press charges."
It's worth noting, though, that Linus didn't chose to name the kernel after himself. He wanted to call it Freax, but his friend who ran the FTP server named the directory holding the files 'Linux', a name that proved to be understandably more popular. Absolutely, and Freax was a terrible, terrible name. To extend my point a bit, coming up with a name for something like a file system or operating system is not an easy task for anyone, let along the typical geek. Doing something like putting your own name into in some way (or the name of your company/university if it's not a solo project) is the default fallback when your "creative" names are all too ridiculous (like "Gimp" or the various other acronyms gone horribly wrong... even "Unix" is pretty poor... Maybe "Eunuchs" should have been the name for the Micro-Soft OS...).
Reiser could be crazy -- but the name of his filesystem isn't the first thing I'd choose to illustrate that, given the difficulty of naming.
Other examples:
FCKEditor (by Frederico Caldeira Knabben)
BIND is Berkeley Internet Name Domain
Perl was ALMOST named Gloria, after Larry Wall's wife
I'm always leery of using media reporting to follow any court case, though perhaps Wired will do better than the average general-consumption newspaper.
Did you notice this from the (Washington Post) article?
His signal adult achievement was ReiserFS, a file system he named for himself, unusual in the programming world. The system organizes data on Linux, the "open source" operating system. Ah, unusual in the programming world (this guy's a freakish egomaniac!) -- and in the next sentence they mention Linux, which as we all know was created by Bob Torvalds.
Nah, he was just saying it'd be "easier".
True, but if you imagine this thing with a pivot in the middle, I think it'd be much easier to "flip" the 50 pound weight to the top than it would be to just lift 50 pounds straight up. Basically, it'd be acting as a lever which would make it easier to move that weight.
Sure, less force over more distance, the Energy is the same though Are you saying that's not important?
I'm guessing when you have a flat tire, you don't bother with a jack, right? Because it'd be the same amount of energy to just lift the car with one hand, and slip a block under it to hold it up while you change the tire. Faster, too!
And hey, why bother with that tire iron when taking off the lug nuts? Levers, blah blah blah, it's the same amount of energy.
So with there being no mention of the Eudora code base that Qualcomm gave to the Mozilla folks, does this mean there are no plans for those features in Thunderbird? Does Eudora only have implications for the Penelope project? The last I heard, there was no plan to reuse any of the Eudora code -- they're basically just adding requested Eudora features into a version of TB with a tweaked GUI (keymappings, icons, etc. from Eudora).
While I have my little soap-box, how come Thunderbird doesn't start off with a Junk email folder so that I can mark something as Junk and have it go to that folder? Apparently, there are people out there who don't get Junk email! It's been a *very* long time since I've had a fresh install of TB, but I believe it will create the Junk folder for you if it doesn't exist already.
The default doesn't move your email anywhere, just because it's generally a bad idea to go moving messages around on new users. It's easy to set up, though: open Options, Privacy section, Junk tab, and set your default settings there... that'll use those for all new accounts. For accounts you've already set up, open Account Settings, and pick Junk Settings for that account to configure whatever you want.
BTW, my personal (very effective) setup is basically copied from here - the page is about a specific spam-reporting plugin, but the tips are useful to any Thunderbird user.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't plants inhale oxygen and exhale CO2 at night? I'm pretty sure their 'carbon footprint' isn't as small as the sandalistas would have you believe. "Sandalistas", huh? Nice.
Mature forests (where the mass of wood stays about constant) are about neutral -- the CO2 absorbed and fixed during photosythesis is about equal to the CO2 released from rotting branches, nighttime consumption, etc.. That forest, however, is a huge, stable carbon sink, since it absorbed a lot of CO2 while growing initially.
To expand: if you take a mature forest, it's "carbon footprint" day to day is neutral, but if you clear it, that carbon footprint is huge (and if you grow a new forest, the carbon footprint is a huge negative).
That's the carbon side. From the oxygen-cycle side, plants "exhale" about 10x the oxygen during the day that they absorb during the night.
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I, uh, don't think humanity is going to suffer any dramatic population collapse anytime soon. Last I checked the numbers are still going up, and we're in for a mess of problems if we *don't* manage to push down the rate of increase in many parts of the world. Interestingly enough, it goes down by itself as people have better educations, better resources, better choices available.
And if people decide they want do more with their lives than they can if they're completely occupied with child rearing for a few decades... well, isn't that a good sign?
Perl? Not a chance... they're way too 133t for that. Slashdot has gotta be RoR, all the way.
Right? Or wait... are they not gen Y'ers?
I mean, sure, pointer arithmetic can be complex and convoluted, but, conceptually, if you find if HARD, you may not have made the right career choices.
Same thing with other techniques that get lumped in the "hard" category like recursion, closures, etc. There are different kinds of "hard".
I don't remember finding pointers hard as in "I can't understand how these work"... I found them hard as in, "this is annoying, and why am I spending so much time triple-checking that I haven't fouled up memory management and pointer manipulation instead focusing on the *actual* problem I'm trying to solve?".
Recursion is a different kind of thing; it can make it much *simpler* to solve some problems, which saves me time and effort at the cost of a little practice to wrap my head around it at first. Same thing with closures, which I've been using a lot of lately in JavaScript.
Alas (for a mostly-Java developer), Java screws up recursion that goes too deep (stack overflow, huh?), and closures haven't even made it in yet. They're working on both of those issues, though.... At least the memory management & pointer approach works well.
You can transfer the "quiet funds" directly to my Chase checking account, #84927736, routing #394723.
My passport number is 23874393, SS# is 027-34-2849, and you can fax me at 792-204-8372.
Not sure if you need all that info, but that's what they wanted for a recent international business deal I made.
Do me a favor and keep this whole business under your hat.
Doctors for instance have them. Think next time will you?
I guess that's *sort of* like a license to kill. Not quite as sexy, though.And probably those secret agents have really high UIDs, so it's already stupid-sounding to even mention the number.
I was there; that martian bastard ate my neighbor.
Of course, I also have some photos of you molesting little boys (Dubya had them in his car), so I wouldn't stir up trouble if I were you.
Maybe they figure that now they've cut their teeth on a big player (and they came out on top, eventually) they can tackle the big guys. I won't be fun, though... Scientology doesn't play by the same rules as normal corporations with rational customers. They fight as dirty as possible; tactics that would easily sink a normal business if they got out are business as usual, and they don't pretend otherwise to their members; they just made it part of their belief system that it's morally okay to use any means necessary to stop their detractors.
This is probably the best time to do it, though, while WikiLeaks still has quite a lot of active attention because of the Julius Baer legal business.
I just hope they didn't waste some of that capital calling for the eNom boycott. Not exactly the same level of "evil"....
But I guess we'll see, either way. Stay tuned -- same bat-time, same bat-channel!
I think they assume you will upgrade your package instead of just buying a second one... that's the problem.
I suspect the solution would be that you'd need to transfer the foo.com registration over to your hosting package... though of course, that might run into similar problems.
You could always transfer it elsewhere then bring it back. But yeah, PITA.
Their DNS handling in the control panel is pretty poor. You can usually do what you need, but they don't make it easy.
I even managed to configure hosting a subdomain with them when the main domain registration, nameservers, main domain hosting & email hosting are all elsewhere... but it was tricky, and I was fairly sure it was impossible until I got it to work.
Here I am clicking through the recommendations for replacements, thinking "but... these all seem like primarily hosts, not registrars..". Duh. Of course, lots of hosts do both.
NearlyFreeSpeech does registrations at $8/year, but only offers domain registration for "members" -- meaning if you host with them, I assume?
DynDns is expensive -- minimum 15/year (and they list prices for 2 & 5 years, but there's no discount -- huh?)
Any registrar suggestions?
1&1 has cheap domain registrations, but I have a slew of non-earning and experimental project domains hosted with them, and I am NOT keen on letting my host be my registrar.
WRT hosting, anyway, here's what I've found:
* DreamHost is excellent for features -- you can do almost anything -- but while their email system seems to be pretty robust, uptime overall is horrible. Do not use them for anything important... I still have an account with them for playing with, but I moved even my little sites off them to 1&1 after just too much downtime.
* 1&1 has excellent bandwidth and (for me) reliability has been very good. I host my small shared-hosting-is-okay sites with them. They're not newbie-friendly at all -- the control panel is slow and poorly designed (there are entire fields of buttons designed to sell me new services that I simply never hit), and tech support is more or less useless... that's what you're sacrificing to get the low cost. Works for me, though.
* I have my more important project on a VPS with RimuHosting. I've been about 80% pleased -- support is good and very knowledgeable, technical issues are very rare, pricing is fair... but I sometimes get the sense my server is overloaded, because the bandwidth doesn't seem great. I'm still digging around for ways to monitor that properly.
I'm certainly no expert on international IP law, which was why I made no comment about the legality either way.
I just think it's friggin' lame to not even bother to update the game logic enough so that the game is coherent.
They say the goal is blue sky. When I saw the snowing clouds, I wasted a lot of time trying to shoot them -- naturally assuming they were the next step in the game (maybe they require 2 or 3 hits to zap them?).
But no, they were just snowing because... it's a snow day.
The ladies all believe there's nothing sexier either, so when you happen to run into that supermodel somewhere away from the rubber gloves and stirrups, like at a bar, you just *know* she's going to be thinking sexy thoughts the moment she sees you.
Heh.
It's not all that complicated. The horror stories you see here and there are the exception, not the rule.
I don't have any domains registered with eNom, so I'm not sure of the specific procedures for them, but the gist of it is:
* Sign in to your current registrar
* Make sure your email address with them is valid (there will be confirmation steps using it!)
* Unlock your domains (many registrars have "locking" features to prevent others from stealing your domains, plus to make it a little trickier for you to leave
* You might as well disable automatic renewals as well (if they have them), just in case
* Go to your new registrar and click through to "transfer" your domain, and pay for it. Normally they'll honor your existing expiration date (even if it's a couple of years away) and add your new years to the end of that.
* Make sure you set up the domain at the new registrar with the correct nameservers for your host, and you won't have any downtime because of the switch.
* The next steps will often take a few days -- new registrar will submit request to old registrar, who will email you for confirmation (and you'll have to click through to provide that)... possibly multiple confirmations... and then the domain will be transferred, and you're done.
Anyone want to provide details for eNom, or add anything I forgot?
I can also mention that most of my domains are currently hosted with GoDaddy -- who I'm not particularly fond of, but they're cheap and haven't screwed me over personally. Suggestions for alternatives are welcome... it's something I haven't researched in a while.
I, too, would not advocate violence against the executive branch of our government, however much they theoretically may deserve to be throttled in their sleep, and however enjoyable that imaginary act could be.
No, we must follow the laws, which exist for very good reason, as any feasible assassination plot will undoubtedly be announced in clear terms beforehand by the assassin.
Unlike this roundabout verbiage, for instance, which merely discusses the subject with some relish, much as I am doing.
I mean, think about it -- in the Chinese game, your goal is to make the clouds *go away* so you have blue sky.
So, obviously, you hit them with ice cubes. And they go away?
NO, they start snowing on you.
The fact that they didn't even change that detail from the original game -- and it would have been a fairly trivial change! -- looks pretty bad to me.
Err... maybe I should have put a ;) at the end of my comment?
I figured the Saturday Night Live reference might work as a tip-off that it was a humorous comment.
Either way, I wasn't assuming you were an ass before, but I'm kinda getting that sense now.
Relevant SNL deep thought: "When you go for a job interview, I think a good thing to ask is if they ever press charges."
Reiser could be crazy -- but the name of his filesystem isn't the first thing I'd choose to illustrate that, given the difficulty of naming.
Other examples:
FCKEditor (by Frederico Caldeira Knabben)
BIND is Berkeley Internet Name Domain
Perl was ALMOST named Gloria, after Larry Wall's wife
Others?
Did you notice this from the (Washington Post) article? His signal adult achievement was ReiserFS, a file system he named for himself, unusual in the programming world. The system organizes data on Linux, the "open source" operating system. Ah, unusual in the programming world (this guy's a freakish egomaniac!) -- and in the next sentence they mention Linux, which as we all know was created by Bob Torvalds.
I'm guessing when you have a flat tire, you don't bother with a jack, right? Because it'd be the same amount of energy to just lift the car with one hand, and slip a block under it to hold it up while you change the tire. Faster, too!
And hey, why bother with that tire iron when taking off the lug nuts? Levers, blah blah blah, it's the same amount of energy.
The default doesn't move your email anywhere, just because it's generally a bad idea to go moving messages around on new users. It's easy to set up, though: open Options, Privacy section, Junk tab, and set your default settings there... that'll use those for all new accounts. For accounts you've already set up, open Account Settings, and pick Junk Settings for that account to configure whatever you want.
BTW, my personal (very effective) setup is basically copied from here - the page is about a specific spam-reporting plugin, but the tips are useful to any Thunderbird user.
Mature forests (where the mass of wood stays about constant) are about neutral -- the CO2 absorbed and fixed during photosythesis is about equal to the CO2 released from rotting branches, nighttime consumption, etc.. That forest, however, is a huge, stable carbon sink, since it absorbed a lot of CO2 while growing initially.
To expand: if you take a mature forest, it's "carbon footprint" day to day is neutral, but if you clear it, that carbon footprint is huge (and if you grow a new forest, the carbon footprint is a huge negative).
That's the carbon side. From the oxygen-cycle side, plants "exhale" about 10x the oxygen during the day that they absorb during the night.