I've allways thought of Maxtor drives as the bottom of the barrel. The kind that you get free when you buy other stuff, or for third world countries for keeping records (they're allways losing them, right?).
I'm sure that Google wouldn't just buy them because they're cheap. Doesn't make sense. They've got to pay somebody to put a new one in (ok, an intern maybe), and buy a replacement, and whatever the downtime costs them. With all that you'd think they'd buy IBMs (not a big fan of WDs).
Anyway, Maxtor should pleased with the free publicity.
It is pretty damn stable, I'll agree. It has it's own set of quirks completely orthogonal to 4.7, but it's solid enough for daily use.
But I don't use it for daily use because it's clunky as hell. It feels horrible and non-responsive to the point of UNusability.
I've tried Galeon and friends too, but the gtkembed widget thing that they use is way, way behind where mozilla is currently. And it has bugs of its own. And it has a certain sluggishness that it seems to get from mozilla too.
Somebody should take the old mozilla classic code and patch it up I think. Take all our collective linux-browser eggs out of that one basket.
Yes! I look back on my days playing Joust, Ms. Pac Man, Donkey Kong (I know I'm dating myself here) and all the others with a sense of time lost. For goodness sakes, I sat there for HOURS playing Bump 'N Jump to get a worlds high score. I could have learned Calculus in the same time.
And btw, this holds for developers of games too. Carmack and friends could put their skills to more positive ends designing medical software, or some other positive work rather than rendering polygons. I wanted to ask Carmack about it during his interview, but I couldn't seem to get the question to NOT sound like flame bait.
Which is because I'm not a very good writer. Which is because I went to a state college. Which is because my grades and extracurriculars were lacking.
Which is because I spent all my damn time wasting hard earned money on video games.
WTF does Microsoft have to insist on throwing every single bell and whistle that the 1%'ers want into the mix.
I think the reason has to do with their use of components and COM. If you read that interview with Miguel (something about "Unix Sucks"), you'll recall that he praised MS for designing components that can be added to an application with little overhead. So adding all the junk to Word is so simple they probably couldn't resist.
What happened to enlightening topics like those surounding supercomputing? Or how
about stimulating conversation in an unexplored application of technology?
Oh pleaze! Just what we need more of, talk of Beowolf clusters and Potato powered .
Assembler, while mneumonically based on English, is simple enough that that shouldn't be a problem.
The menumonics in say, Perl, have never really helped me (e.g. $/ has something to do with poetry I think). But mov ax,3 would be pretty damn hard to remember if MOV meant something other than MOVE. Or how about jumps? JNE, JZ, et all are already pretty difficult to remember even for an English speaker.
Linux included things like the DOS filesystem that the BSD kernel hackers looked on as a wart on their beautiful OS. Linux and BSD had different philosophies at the beginning, where Linux aimed to make a *NIX for the users, and BSD was shooting for the best--from the purists view--kernel. Since then, I think that you could argue that BSD has moved towards the Linux camp, with a little movement by Linux towards the BSDers (like Linux not allowing GGI).
Oral Sex is illegal? This calls for civil disobedance
Funny that you capitalized oral sex. Freudian slip?
Actually, I think what the lawmakers had in mind with this one (thinking in hetersexual terms here) was to make the act more exciting for the women by making it illegal--a little reverse psychology.
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Banning sale of alcohol on Sunday's is common. Maybe a little more uncommon (don't know; I've never checked) is that sale of cars is illegal in my home state of MN--at least by dealerships.
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There is no picture with both a deer and a hippo.
You're right, because a hippo and a deer together is ART.
Is there a compelling reason to run Slackware these days? Since the slackware glibc2.1-based release is supposedly near, they are at least faster than the snail-like pace of Debian, but it's hard to imagine them ever being more up to date than Red Hat.
I'd just like to hear from Slackware users about the install experience, how easy it is to upgrade, that sort of thing.
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The interesting thing I saw about Alai is a character that you simply don't see in fiction anywhere: a fully-functional functional kid who is nonetheless brilliant
There is a good reason why: they are boring. That is why young Annakin was a slave and feared for his Mom. That is why there are umpteen serial killer movies. That is why Ender had Peter.
...I can't help wonder if the story will end up much to similar to the original in tone and viewpoint
Alai was Ender, although a little less gifted. That is how Ender himself describes him. Bean was not a natural leader, while Alai was. Although Ender recognizes Bean's talent and pushes him in the same way Ender himself was pushed, that is where the similarity ends. Trust Card on this one.
But, as the book drags on, all we get is more and more abuse of the main character; this sort of "growth only comes through pain"... does not allow us to search this fascinating world
That is because Card's strength is his characters. He gets in their heads and lets us know what is going on. Of SF authors, I think he is the best at that.
His worlds seem crafted more for their effect on the characters than for their own sake. I don't think you can do both. Not sure why.
but a quick survery of any college dorm will quickly show you that 99% of MP3's are illegit.
No doubt true. But if you have money to spend on CDs then MP3's are too expensive in the time you spend finding them. If an hour of your free time is worth twenty dollars to you, and a CD costs 12 bucks, you've got 36 minutes to find that MP3. Good luck.
None of this bullshit about sampling music out there either. You have a radio, right?
The radio stations in MA must have wonderful variety. I get top 40 rock,country,pop,alternative here, and the stations that do play a real variety will play a song I like every two hours or so. I'm not that patient.
And I do listen to MP3s (I grab whatever sounds interesting that happens to show up on usenet), and then buy CD's as a result, many more than I would otherwise. It's just so, what else can I say?
I agree. And it's part of a bigger problem too. The problem is that Rob wants to give good articles higher scores, but he doesn't trust/.ers to do it right. So he's tweaking, which is the wrong thing to do.
Essentially, what Rob is doing is statistics. He wants a lot of data (moderators), and wants good results. But with statistics you have to use the data you get. The only thing you worry about is errors in collecting data. In this case, thats making sure that people don't moderate on more than one account. But that should be it.
There should be no other rules. Let everyone moderate, and on any forum. Otherwise, Rob is acting as some kind of Russian-like intelligencia, believing he always knows best.
Of course, you don't have to just average the scores. that might not work. Instead you could perhaps use some kind of collaborative data techniques.
Forget sending email to politicians. They just ignore it. They just ran an article in our local paper about just that, and nearly every politician asked said he got a ton of email and was clueless how to deal with it. Better to just call them up. Your local rep will likely answer his own phone and listen to what you have to say.
Even better would be two kill to birds with one stone: offer to set up an old computer with linux and procmail and teach em how to use Mutt with aliases and threading and such. Then they get hooked on Linux too.
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I'm sure that Google wouldn't just buy them because they're cheap. Doesn't make sense. They've got to pay somebody to put a new one in (ok, an intern maybe), and buy a replacement, and whatever the downtime costs them. With all that you'd think they'd buy IBMs (not a big fan of WDs).
Anyway, Maxtor should pleased with the free publicity.
It is pretty damn stable, I'll agree. It has it's own set of quirks completely orthogonal to 4.7, but it's solid enough for daily use.
But I don't use it for daily use because it's clunky as hell. It feels horrible and non-responsive to the point of UNusability.
I've tried Galeon and friends too, but the gtkembed widget thing that they use is way, way behind where mozilla is currently. And it has bugs of its own. And it has a certain sluggishness that it seems to get from mozilla too.
Somebody should take the old mozilla classic code and patch it up I think. Take all our collective linux-browser eggs out of that one basket.
Yes! I look back on my days playing Joust, Ms. Pac Man, Donkey Kong (I know I'm dating myself here) and all the others with a sense of time lost. For goodness sakes, I sat there for HOURS playing Bump 'N Jump to get a worlds high score. I could have learned Calculus in the same time.
And btw, this holds for developers of games too. Carmack and friends could put their skills to more positive ends designing medical software, or some other positive work rather than rendering polygons. I wanted to ask Carmack about it during his interview, but I couldn't seem to get the question to NOT sound like flame bait.
Which is because I'm not a very good writer. Which is because I went to a state college. Which is because my grades and extracurriculars were lacking.
Which is because I spent all my damn time wasting hard earned money on video games.
I think the reason has to do with their use of components and COM. If you read that interview with Miguel (something about "Unix Sucks"), you'll recall that he praised MS for designing components that can be added to an application with little overhead. So adding all the junk to Word is so simple they probably couldn't resist.
Oh pleaze! Just what we need more of, talk of Beowolf clusters and Potato powered .
The menumonics in say, Perl, have never really helped me (e.g. $/ has something to do with poetry I think). But mov ax,3 would be pretty damn hard to remember if MOV meant something other than MOVE. Or how about jumps? JNE, JZ, et all are already pretty difficult to remember even for an English speaker.
Linux included things like the DOS filesystem that the BSD kernel hackers looked on as a wart on their beautiful OS. Linux and BSD had different philosophies at the beginning, where Linux aimed to make a *NIX for the users, and BSD was shooting for the best--from the purists view--kernel. Since then, I think that you could argue that BSD has moved towards the Linux camp, with a little movement by Linux towards the BSDers (like Linux not allowing GGI).
Oral Sex is illegal? This calls for civil disobedance
Funny that you capitalized oral sex. Freudian slip?
Actually, I think what the lawmakers had in mind with this one (thinking in hetersexual terms here) was to make the act more exciting for the women by making it illegal--a little reverse psychology.
Banning sale of alcohol on Sunday's is common. Maybe a little more uncommon (don't know; I've never checked) is that sale of cars is illegal in my home state of MN--at least by dealerships.
There is no picture with both a deer and a hippo.
You're right, because a hippo and a deer together is ART.
Is there a compelling reason to run Slackware these days? Since the slackware glibc2.1-based release is supposedly near, they are at least faster than the snail-like pace of Debian, but it's hard to imagine them ever being more up to date than Red Hat.
I'd just like to hear from Slackware users about the install experience, how easy it is to upgrade, that sort of thing.
There is a good reason why: they are boring. That is why young Annakin was a slave and feared for his Mom. That is why there are umpteen serial killer movies. That is why Ender had Peter.
Alai was Ender, although a little less gifted. That is how Ender himself describes him. Bean was not a natural leader, while Alai was. Although Ender recognizes Bean's talent and pushes him in the same way Ender himself was pushed, that is where the similarity ends. Trust Card on this one.
That is because Card's strength is his characters. He gets in their heads and lets us know what is going on. Of SF authors, I think he is the best at that.
His worlds seem crafted more for their effect on the characters than for their own sake. I don't think you can do both. Not sure why.
but a quick survery of any college dorm will quickly show you that 99% of MP3's are illegit.
No doubt true. But if you have money to spend on CDs then MP3's are too expensive in the time you spend finding them. If an hour of your free time is worth twenty dollars to you, and a CD costs 12 bucks, you've got 36 minutes to find that MP3. Good luck.
None of this bullshit about sampling music out there either. You have a radio, right?
The radio stations in MA must have wonderful variety. I get top 40 rock,country,pop,alternative here, and the stations that do play a real variety will play a song I like every two hours or so. I'm not that patient.
And I do listen to MP3s (I grab whatever sounds interesting that happens to show up on usenet), and then buy CD's as a result, many more than I would otherwise. It's just so, what else can I say?
I agree. And it's part of a bigger problem too. The problem is that Rob wants to give good articles higher scores, but he doesn't trust /.ers to do it right. So he's tweaking, which is the wrong thing to do.
Essentially, what Rob is doing is statistics. He wants a lot of data (moderators), and wants good results. But with statistics you have to use the data you get. The only thing you worry about is errors in collecting data. In this case, thats making sure that people don't moderate on more than one account. But that should be it.
There should be no other rules. Let everyone moderate, and on any forum. Otherwise, Rob is acting as some kind of Russian-like intelligencia, believing he always knows best.
Of course, you don't have to just average the scores. that might not work. Instead you could perhaps use some kind of collaborative data techniques.
because I just downloaded and compiled 2.2.4 a few minutes ago.
While I'm at it, my apologies to the Spartans for betting on them.
Forget sending email to politicians. They just ignore it. They just ran an article in our local paper about just that, and nearly every politician asked said he got a ton of email and was clueless how to deal with it. Better to just call them up. Your local rep will likely answer his own phone and listen to what you have to say.
Even better would be two kill to birds with one stone: offer to set up an old computer with linux and procmail and teach em how to use Mutt with aliases and threading and such. Then they get hooked on Linux too.