Name that tune! Er, I mean, show me that crontab entry that will run *once* *ever*. And *not* once a year (i.e. I don't mean @annually and I don't mean @yearly).
To the best of knowledge (and after re-reading the cron man page), I don't think it's possible, but I'm interested in finding out if I'm wrong.
It's more stable now, but people are consistently laid-off.
This is the problem. You have to lump the bad news and spread out the good. Employees are willing to understand layoffs. People are surprisingly understanding of how a buisness needs to adapt, and how that adapation can, unfortunetly, lead to layoffs. As long as you take care of those being laid off (e.g., solid serverence pay, extension of health benifits, assistance finding a new job, etc.), both those let go and those staying behind will show suprising resiliance.
However, if your consistently laying off people, that means upper management does not have a clue of what is going on, and will undercut any confidence in the company. People need to be able to focus on their day to day responsiblities and get their job done; not worry if they're going to have a job in 48 hours.
All the other suggestions, flex-time, etc. are great, but you have to fix the fundamental problem before you can get to those. If you have a bad transmission, you don't try to fix it by getting a pair of fuzzy dice.
I looked around the Parallax web site, but wasn't sure which Basic Stamp item/set to get. For one who could handle to programming, but doesn't know much about the EE side, what would you recommend?
Maybe, maybe not. During the transition to Win32 people have finally given on hand coded assembler for business apps. In this decade people seem to be willing to use more high level API calls and even Java...
That also probaby stems from the fact that compilers got much better at generating optimized assembly code. These days the average programmer problably isn't going to be able the beat the compiler, so why take make the implementation much more difficult?
The problem with the English language is that it's too ambiguous. While that makes for wonderful poetry, literature, and stories, it makes for horrible programming syntax or anything relating strictly to logic. Think of why mathematicians had to create the word "iff."
It can also make things *harder*. The grammar and syntax of English is very fast and loose, but well known to it's speakers. Most likely the English-based programming language won't be able to mimic every little natural-language nuance, leaving the developer the headache of remember what rules are followed in which and when. When one says "or" in common, everyday conversation, it generally means an exclusive "or." When I say "or" in just about programming language, it means an inclusive "or." In an English language development language do you worry about conjugating verbs? What about tenses? Etc. You get the drift.
Using English keywords is great & helps simplify the problem, but as someone way smarter than me said "Things should be made as simple as possible -- but no simpler."
Ah, so were these "clowns" the same ones you didn't want in Bosina to prevent further slaughter? Are these the same "clowns" that is sending billions of dollars in food to the staving people in North Korea? Are these the "clowns" that went to try to break the grip of Somalian warlods in Mogadishu so that the innocent starving people could finally get some of the UN food shipments? Or where the "clowns" the soliders, the amercian soliders, who were slaughtered in trying to do that? Who are the "clowns"? The only willing to lay down their lives for others -- for others lives? their freedom?
As a fellow resident of this planet, I do want to make it a better place. I want genocidal madman stopped. Men who would blindly gas an entire region simply to stifle resistance to their dictatorship. I want the little girls of Iraq to have the same opportunity to learn, to live, and have a chance at happy -- the same chance you take for granted.
If being a "clown" means caring about the world, and not just my personal comfort, then count me as one as well.
This is one of the odder stories I've seen on Slashdot:
1) Nobody actually submitted the story 2) Nobody is actually seriously taking the position that the military shouldn't be able to use Open Source software. The wording of the story lead me to think that's what the interview would lead, but even he doesn't take that position.
While I have nothing against Bubble Booble, CLEARLY the best game for Nintendo was Ninja Gaiden! Contra with it's up-up-down-down-left-right-left-right-B-A-B-A-sele ct-start was a close second. And it would be hard to discount the classic Zelda.
-Bill
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Why are you calling jwz idiot? His article was entitled "usablity on linux", which was entirely appropiate. Michael is the fucking moron who posted the story with the dumb-ass title.
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Agreed. Makes you wonder if the review was posted simply because timothy wanted a chance to use 'Schadenfreude' again.;-)
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The best so far:
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www.cpan.org
Actually made me laugh out loud when I saw it.
-Bill
Name that tune! Er, I mean, show me that crontab entry that will run *once* *ever*. And *not* once a year (i.e. I don't mean @annually and I don't mean @yearly).
To the best of knowledge (and after re-reading the cron man page), I don't think it's possible, but I'm interested in finding out if I'm wrong.
-Bill
I was reading this and reading this and trying to find the joke. Especially since I would BEAT YOU WITH A STICK if you did that and were on my team.
But then I read:and realized I was overreacting! Now I get it! The joke wasn't you did it, the joke was the post! The key was right there!
It's a one-time job! You don't use cron(8) for one-time jobs! You use at(1)!
LMAO! Nobody would be that stupid!
Good one. You almost got me.
-Bill
It's more stable now, but people are consistently laid-off.
This is the problem. You have to lump the bad news and spread out the good. Employees are willing to understand layoffs. People are surprisingly understanding of how a buisness needs to adapt, and how that adapation can, unfortunetly, lead to layoffs. As long as you take care of those being laid off (e.g., solid serverence pay, extension of health benifits, assistance finding a new job, etc.), both those let go and those staying behind will show suprising resiliance.
However, if your consistently laying off people, that means upper management does not have a clue of what is going on, and will undercut any confidence in the company. People need to be able to focus on their day to day responsiblities and get their job done; not worry if they're going to have a job in 48 hours.
All the other suggestions, flex-time, etc. are great, but you have to fix the fundamental problem before you can get to those. If you have a bad transmission, you don't try to fix it by getting a pair of fuzzy dice.
-Bill
Your rational is completely off base.
So we shouldn't have helped with World War II since it was not on our soil?
Would shouldn't have stopped the genocide in Bosnia because it was not on our soil?
-Bill
I looked around the Parallax web site, but wasn't sure which Basic Stamp item/set to get. For one who could handle to programming, but doesn't know much about the EE side, what would you recommend?
-Bill
Dude, did you really expect timothy to read the release notes, let alone understand them?
You have a lower user id than, you should have caught on by now!
-Bill
(Seriously though, thanks for pointing that out.)
Where do companies get off thinking that they can be judge, jury, and executioner ?
By you agreeing to the terms of service. If you don't like the terms of service, express you dislike to MLB or simply don't use their service.
-Bill
Maybe, maybe not. During the transition to Win32 people have finally given on hand coded assembler for business apps. In this decade people seem to be willing to use more high level API calls and even Java...
That also probaby stems from the fact that compilers got much better at generating optimized assembly code. These days the average programmer problably isn't going to be able the beat the compiler, so why take make the implementation much more difficult?
-Bill
You're saying that one has to clarify between "if" and "if and only if" has nothing to do with the English language? That's at the heart of it.
-Bill
The problem with the English language is that it's too ambiguous. While that makes for wonderful poetry, literature, and stories, it makes for horrible programming syntax or anything relating strictly to logic. Think of why mathematicians had to create the word "iff."
It can also make things *harder*. The grammar and syntax of English is very fast and loose, but well known to it's speakers. Most likely the English-based programming language won't be able to mimic every little natural-language nuance, leaving the developer the headache of remember what rules are followed in which and when. When one says "or" in common, everyday conversation, it generally means an exclusive "or." When I say "or" in just about programming language, it means an inclusive "or." In an English language development language do you worry about conjugating verbs? What about tenses? Etc. You get the drift.
Using English keywords is great & helps simplify the problem, but as someone way smarter than me said "Things should be made as simple as possible -- but no simpler."
-Bill
The American Indians where on the moon too!?!?
-Bill
Why do you say that?
-Bill
Do you really believe that?
-Bill
Ah, so were these "clowns" the same ones you didn't want in Bosina to prevent further slaughter? Are these the same "clowns" that is sending billions of dollars in food to the staving people in North Korea? Are these the "clowns" that went to try to break the grip of Somalian warlods in Mogadishu so that the innocent starving people could finally get some of the UN food shipments? Or where the "clowns" the soliders, the amercian soliders, who were slaughtered in trying to do that? Who are the "clowns"? The only willing to lay down their lives for others -- for others lives? their freedom?
As a fellow resident of this planet, I do want to make it a better place. I want genocidal madman stopped. Men who would blindly gas an entire region simply to stifle resistance to their dictatorship. I want the little girls of Iraq to have the same opportunity to learn, to live, and have a chance at happy -- the same chance you take for granted.
If being a "clown" means caring about the world, and not just my personal comfort, then count me as one as well.
-Bill
This is one of the odder stories I've seen on Slashdot:
1) Nobody actually submitted the story
2) Nobody is actually seriously taking the position that the military shouldn't be able to use Open Source software. The wording of the story lead me to think that's what the interview would lead, but even he doesn't take that position.
What gives?
-Bill
Since you saw it in a movie, it must be fact?
I hope you don't watch professional wrestling.
-Bill
Shhhh... it's best not to alert the editors that it's 2003 and not 1995. They'll be pissed about VA's stock price.
-Bill
While I have nothing against Bubble Booble, CLEARLY the best game for Nintendo was Ninja Gaiden! Contra with it's up-up-down-down-left-right-left-right-B-A-B-A-sele ct-start was a close second. And it would be hard to discount the classic Zelda.
-Bill
Don't they have MUDDs already?
-Bill
Now that's what I'm talking about!
I'm buying you a pizza.
Why are you calling jwz idiot? His article was entitled "usablity on linux", which was entirely appropiate. Michael is the fucking moron who posted the story with the dumb-ass title.
-Bill
Agreed. Makes you wonder if the review was posted simply because timothy wanted a chance to use 'Schadenfreude' again. ;-)
-Bill
Same here. I can confirm I've gotten every email I've received.
-Bill
FreeBSD - The king of server OS's, and by the look of things a great Desktop system.
Except for threads?
And if your response is LinuxThreads, if that's what I wanted, why wouldn't I just use Linux?
-Bill