Uhm, the car park at North Greenwich tube station is £4 for 24 hours. It's just off two of the busiest main roads into London (the A12 and the A2) and only 10 minute tube ride to the West End. Five minutes to the business district.
I park there a lot. It's usually packed full and you have to wait 20 minutes to get a space though. Then you have to pay £5 for a travelcard.. so driving into London is a lot cheaper if you actually have a space there.
I, for one, am grateful that the Mozilla project has remained somewhat separate from AOL. Sure, it's got some high profile Netscape people working on it, but in a traditional business sense it's not connected to AOL at all.
AOL are up to numerous shenanigans right now. They're banning legitimate e-mail from TONS of servers. Their support for side projects is waning. Subscribers are leaving. It's a mass exodus, and all because they won't get with the times.
I have clients who haven't been getting enquiries from their Web site, simply because a whole batch of Web host IPs got banned from sending mail to AOL.
I used to be semi-pro AOL. I knew most Internet geeks didn't like their service, but I recommended them to newbies, since they do have a good 'get running quickly' service that's easy to understand. No more. My clients complain they receive TONS of spam now, despite AOL's OTT screening and banning.
AOL is getting everything it deserves. Let's hope this sealed off network dies a death. Even Bill Gates had the insight to ditch his plans to have MSN as a sealed off network. It's time for AOL to do the same.
Now that episode really sucked. Not only did it represent absolutely nothing of The Simpsons, and not only were the characters totally different to their normal selves, but the whole concept blew, it was totally unfunny, and a waste of 30 minutes. That's the moment The Simpsons jumped the shark for me, I'm afraid.
South Park has done a good job of picking up the slack though, even though it's fallen on its ass in recent times.
Your post could have almost been one of mine, if I hadn't become a Buddhist a few years ago. We're not talking hand clapping lotus-sitting Buddhism here, but just the ideology, philosophy and outlook (theoretically Buddhism is a philosophy and not a religion). It hasn't fixed everything, but it's made me see things in a more pleasant light than ever before.
That said, I'm still a bit of a procrastinator, and my ascetic ways mean I'm a bit short of things to do other than my normal work. I'd like to travel, but I can't seem to think of anywhere I'd really want to go (or, rather, could afford).
Still, life must go on, and we'll get somewhere eventually. Look on the bright side.. most of the unfortunate people in the gutter aren't there because they tried hard and made good decisions.
Seek happiness, not pleasure, in every way, and things will improve.
Right on. I have my compulsory budget down to less than $450 per month including rent now. Admittedly, I have no outdoor recreation, and haven't had a vacation for five years, but I'm not in the gutter either:-P
Have girlfriends but do not get married before your life has gelled.
For most people this is good advice, as shown by the amount of young marriages that fail.
But.. isn't it a bit pointless having girlfriends when you know you don't want to marry/settle down with any of them? At that point it just becomes 'all about the sex' which is pretty lame.
I left a programming job where I made ~$16,740 USD for a sales job where I make ~$5,952 USD a year gross.
It's interesting to hear of someone who left tech to move into sales out of choice.
I'm considering making a similar move myself. I seem to be a lot better at selling than implementing these days, and I enjoy getting the sales a lot more too.
Could you elaborate on your story a bit? I'd be really interested to hear how it worked out for you.
Your comment was funny in itself, but it's the 'Hey lover' that really killed me. Not the sort of thing you expect to read here on Slashdot. I'm going to have to make that a new meme, and you Sir, have become my new found personal hero.
Furthemore, an erroneous lookup results in getting a VeriSign IP, not an error message
Remember that if you use IE, you automatically get thrown to a Microsoft Web site if you go to a non-existant domain.
Although, bizarrely, I've been getting 500 Server Errors on every incorrect/non-existant domain I've been going to in the last few days. Could this be connected to the main story?
It's not about the fucking shuttle, dude. It's about the 7 people on board.
Calm down. It's called the freedom of speech. People can say insensitive things and they're allowed to do so, it's the great thing about the US.
And, please, what makes this any more sad than 7 people dying on the streets tonight? What makes this any more important than the prospect of hundreds of thousands of people dying in a forthcoming war?
This is a sad event, and will rock the nation, but still.. it's 7 people. If Bush has his way, thousands more will be dead soon, and I bet you won't be crying into your hankies then.
And because I believe in these rights to free speech, I'm not hiding behind the Anonymous Coward either.
I'm a European and French work laws suck ass
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I'm a European and I'm ready to tar you as a softy socialist already.
The American system is far superior to the European system. In Europe, the workers have an unjust amount of power over employers. That's not freedom.
Take France. As you probably know, it's almost impossible to fire someone! If someone can't control their own company, then you're heading into dangerous territory. What encouragement is that for someone to hire someone else?
With France giving parents of three-child families exemption from income tax and helping pay their rent, you are heading for skid row and a MASSIVE tax hike. With French income taxes already the highest in Europe, you really are going to be up shit's creek with a turd for a paddle soon.
I love France, and I'd like to go live there, but with your neo-socialist work policies, I'd have to skip it till I'm rich. The French attitude appears to be 'leech the money makers dry and then give all the money back to lazy assholes who can't keep their pants up'.
With mandatory 35-hour weeks, and unemployment at ridiculously high levels, France is really headed for an economic dead alley.
I'd rather be in a society where I'm based on my effort and work ethic, than one like France's which simply hands over power to the ignorant and lazy.
However, I'd imagine a socialist European can't really get a grasp on basic economic theory, so perhaps it's time to stop.
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You really have to wonder what's going on when you correction gets modded up higher than your actual point;-)
Learning the etymology of a word helps a lot
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I'm a bit of a wordsmith, and find that while learning words on a day by day basis is a good idea, it's actually using them that helps me retain them.
But more importantly, you can learn MANY more than 365 words a year if you look up the 'etymology' of the words you learn (the history and background of how they came into being).
Why? Well, take the word 'malapropism' that was highlighted in this review. It's find learning what it means, but if you rattle along to its dictionary.com entry you find out it comes from the word 'malaprop'. Digging further, you can learn what this really means.
Any French student knows that mal means 'bad' or wrong.
Now, à propos means 'to the subject/purpose'. But what does it also sound like? It's sounds like malappropriate doesn't it?
Now it's a lot easier to remember.
bad + appropriate + for subject = malapropism
a word that's inappropriate for the topic = malapropism.
Now next time you hit words like malice and malfunction you won't have to wonder whether mal meant good or bad.. because you looked up the etymology!
So, look up the history of words you learn, because you could easily end up being able to guess many hundreds of OTHER words simply by knowing the roots.
Biology and technology meet again. To prevent pinworms..
1) Wash your hands after you wipe! 2) Don't share TP. 3) Don't bite your nails or suck your thumbs. 4) Vacuum your floors to wipe out stray eggs.
And in the world of your computer?
1) Don't run contaminated files. 2) Don't share logins or run as Administrator. 3) Don't run attachments in your mail if you don't know what they are. 4) Use a virus scanner.
You can learn so much from real life. You wouldn't lick your ass if you had worms would you? So why would you run an attachment in an unknown e-mail!?
Whoever makes 802.11b repeaters will have their stock shooting up in the next few days then. With their excessive steelwork and armory, a warship is an extremely BAD place to run on 802.11b as the signals will bounce around everywhere (being at the high frequency they are).
I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords! And I'd like to remind them, that as a trusted celebrity, I can be useful in rounding up slaves to toil in their underground sugar mines.
It is there to reimburse the content providers for legal copying. For instance, I can go down to the library, borrow their entire music AND movie collection, go home and copy it.
Really? I can't see that existing for much longer with the EU laws harmonising and all that.
You can't legally do what you've just said in the US or the UK.
Did you know that in many countries taxes are levied on CD writers and CDR discs because of piracy?
But, put that aside, one can argue this Piracy Tax with logic.
If the RIAA wants to impose a levy on ISPs because of possible file sharing, then shouldn't software companies be allowed to impose a similar levy? And if the RIAA can impose it, what about indie labels? Their music gets stolen too. What about artists who put their graphics online? What about font designers whose fonts get ripped off on alt.binaries.fonts? Surely they should all get a cut?
Logic shows this whole idea is stupid. But will logic be enough to stop the courts? I doubt it. Aristotle said 'The law is reason from my passion'. Not in 2002 it ain't.
Can you name any sizable truly democratic countries at all then? I can't think of any. Pure democracy is too hard to do in a country with more than a few thousand people. That's why the Republican system (or the Parliamentary system) exists.
In the future, when all programming languages will become operating systems, there'll be a lot of competition. Choose the operating system that works the best for you:
C OS - Every single task you want to achieve has to be split into fifty bite size actions.
COBOL OS - The literati's dream OS! No longer must you click and drag, but instead type bizarrely syntaxed English to do your work! PROGRAM OPEN CALCULATOR AS NEW PROGRAM
Perl OS - An open source OS worked on by a bunch of extremely crazy (but clever) bearded anoraks. You can do EVERYTHING in one click or one line of code. Oh, face it, it's just the future of Linux.
PHP OS - This OS was originally the shell for Perl OS, but some wimps who couldn't work out the Perl way of doing things decided to turn it into their own 'paint by numbers' OS. Unfortunately you can only access the Internet with PHP OS, no off-line facilities are available.
C++ OS - A simple upgrade to C OS. Still just as complicated, but the ++ makes it cooler to use and adds a host of useless features that are non standard across all implementations. Besides, C OS is for old fogeys.
Python OS - Supposedly this exists, but since no-one cares, we won't go into it.
Ruby OS - EVERYTHING is an object. Want to open your calculator app? calculator.open; please. Need to enter some numbers? calculator.buttons[8].press; It's long, tedious, but at least it makes logical sense.
BASIC OS - Joe six pack's answer to operating systems. This is Microsoft XP in the future. Anything can be done with point and click, but it's slow, crashes a lot, and is totally lame. Oh, I'm already talking about XP here aren't I?
In the real world, a company (like a store) charges its customers sales tax, which it pays to the state automatically. Then they also pay taxes on the income.
That was not really my point. My point was a bit more basic.
If a consumer has already had a good chunk of their income taken as tax, why should they have another chunk of it taken whenever they buy something?
I say that the Internet sales tax system is ideal and fair, and that it's regular sales taxes that are the rogue element here. Your income was ALREADY taxed, why tax it again?
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Uhm, the car park at North Greenwich tube station is £4 for 24 hours. It's just off two of the busiest main roads into London (the A12 and the A2) and only 10 minute tube ride to the West End. Five minutes to the business district.
I park there a lot. It's usually packed full and you have to wait 20 minutes to get a space though. Then you have to pay £5 for a travelcard.. so driving into London is a lot cheaper if you actually have a space there.
I, for one, am grateful that the Mozilla project has remained somewhat separate from AOL. Sure, it's got some high profile Netscape people working on it, but in a traditional business sense it's not connected to AOL at all.
AOL are up to numerous shenanigans right now. They're banning legitimate e-mail from TONS of servers. Their support for side projects is waning. Subscribers are leaving. It's a mass exodus, and all because they won't get with the times.
I have clients who haven't been getting enquiries from their Web site, simply because a whole batch of Web host IPs got banned from sending mail to AOL.
I used to be semi-pro AOL. I knew most Internet geeks didn't like their service, but I recommended them to newbies, since they do have a good 'get running quickly' service that's easy to understand. No more. My clients complain they receive TONS of spam now, despite AOL's OTT screening and banning.
AOL is getting everything it deserves. Let's hope this sealed off network dies a death. Even Bill Gates had the insight to ditch his plans to have MSN as a sealed off network. It's time for AOL to do the same.
Mozilla will live on regardless.
Now that episode really sucked. Not only did it represent absolutely nothing of The Simpsons, and not only were the characters totally different to their normal selves, but the whole concept blew, it was totally unfunny, and a waste of 30 minutes. That's the moment The Simpsons jumped the shark for me, I'm afraid.
South Park has done a good job of picking up the slack though, even though it's fallen on its ass in recent times.
Your post could have almost been one of mine, if I hadn't become a Buddhist a few years ago. We're not talking hand clapping lotus-sitting Buddhism here, but just the ideology, philosophy and outlook (theoretically Buddhism is a philosophy and not a religion). It hasn't fixed everything, but it's made me see things in a more pleasant light than ever before.
That said, I'm still a bit of a procrastinator, and my ascetic ways mean I'm a bit short of things to do other than my normal work.
I'd like to travel, but I can't seem to think of anywhere I'd really want to go (or, rather, could afford).
Still, life must go on, and we'll get somewhere eventually. Look on the bright side.. most of the unfortunate people in the gutter aren't there because they tried hard and made good decisions.
Seek happiness, not pleasure, in every way, and things will improve.
Right on. I have my compulsory budget down to less than $450 per month including rent now. Admittedly, I have no outdoor recreation, and haven't had a vacation for five years, but I'm not in the gutter either :-P
Have girlfriends but do not get married before your life has gelled.
For most people this is good advice, as shown by the amount of young marriages that fail.
But.. isn't it a bit pointless having girlfriends when you know you don't want to marry/settle down with any of them? At that point it just becomes 'all about the sex' which is pretty lame.
I left a programming job where I made ~$16,740 USD for a sales job where I make ~$5,952 USD a year gross.
It's interesting to hear of someone who left tech to move into sales out of choice.
I'm considering making a similar move myself. I seem to be a lot better at selling than implementing these days, and I enjoy getting the sales a lot more too.
Could you elaborate on your story a bit? I'd be really interested to hear how it worked out for you.
Your comment was funny in itself, but it's the 'Hey lover' that really killed me. Not the sort of thing you expect to read here on Slashdot. I'm going to have to make that a new meme, and you Sir, have become my new found personal hero.
Before anyone complains about this:
Furthemore, an erroneous lookup results in getting a VeriSign IP, not an error message
Remember that if you use IE, you automatically get thrown to a Microsoft Web site if you go to a non-existant domain.
Although, bizarrely, I've been getting 500 Server Errors on every incorrect/non-existant domain I've been going to in the last few days. Could this be connected to the main story?
It's not about the fucking shuttle, dude. It's about the 7 people on board.
Calm down. It's called the freedom of speech. People can say insensitive things and they're allowed to do so, it's the great thing about the US.
And, please, what makes this any more sad than 7 people dying on the streets tonight? What makes this any more important than the prospect of hundreds of thousands of people dying in a forthcoming war?
This is a sad event, and will rock the nation, but still.. it's 7 people. If Bush has his way, thousands more will be dead soon, and I bet you won't be crying into your hankies then.
And because I believe in these rights to free speech, I'm not hiding behind the Anonymous Coward either.
I'm a European and I'm ready to tar you as a softy socialist already.
The American system is far superior to the European system. In Europe, the workers have an unjust amount of power over employers. That's not freedom.
Take France. As you probably know, it's almost impossible to fire someone! If someone can't control their own company, then you're heading into dangerous territory. What encouragement is that for someone to hire someone else?
With France giving parents of three-child families exemption from income tax and helping pay their rent, you are heading for skid row and a MASSIVE tax hike. With French income taxes already the highest in Europe, you really are going to be up shit's creek with a turd for a paddle soon.
I love France, and I'd like to go live there, but with your neo-socialist work policies, I'd have to skip it till I'm rich. The French attitude appears to be 'leech the money makers dry and then give all the money back to lazy assholes who can't keep their pants up'.
With mandatory 35-hour weeks, and unemployment at ridiculously high levels, France is really headed for an economic dead alley.
I'd rather be in a society where I'm based on my effort and work ethic, than one like France's which simply hands over power to the ignorant and lazy.
However, I'd imagine a socialist European can't really get a grasp on basic economic theory, so perhaps it's time to stop.
You really have to wonder what's going on when you correction gets modded up higher than your actual point ;-)
I'm a bit of a wordsmith, and find that while learning words on a day by day basis is a good idea, it's actually using them that helps me retain them.
But more importantly, you can learn MANY more than 365 words a year if you look up the 'etymology' of the words you learn (the history and background of how they came into being).
Why? Well, take the word 'malapropism' that was highlighted in this review. It's find learning what it means, but if you rattle along to its dictionary.com entry you find out it comes from the word 'malaprop'. Digging further, you can learn what this really means.
Any French student knows that mal means 'bad' or wrong.
Now, à propos means 'to the subject/purpose'. But what does it also sound like? It's sounds like malappropriate doesn't it?
Now it's a lot easier to remember.
bad + appropriate + for subject = malapropism
a word that's inappropriate for the topic = malapropism.
Now next time you hit words like malice and malfunction you won't have to wonder whether mal meant good or bad.. because you looked up the etymology!
So, look up the history of words you learn, because you could easily end up being able to guess many hundreds of OTHER words simply by knowing the roots.
Biology and technology meet again. To prevent pinworms..
1) Wash your hands after you wipe!
2) Don't share TP.
3) Don't bite your nails or suck your thumbs.
4) Vacuum your floors to wipe out stray eggs.
And in the world of your computer?
1) Don't run contaminated files.
2) Don't share logins or run as Administrator.
3) Don't run attachments in your mail if you don't know what they are.
4) Use a virus scanner.
You can learn so much from real life. You wouldn't lick your ass if you had worms would you? So why would you run an attachment in an unknown e-mail!?
Thrombosis is bad, but if you get into a cycle of chronic constipation, you will feel like [a] shit.
:-)
Inactivity causes major constipation. So get out of that chair and stay regular -and- keep the blood clots at bay.
Whoever makes 802.11b repeaters will have their stock shooting up in the next few days then. With their excessive steelwork and armory, a warship is an extremely BAD place to run on 802.11b as the signals will bounce around everywhere (being at the high frequency they are).
Funnily enough, a lot of people predicted the coming of 'war boating' just three months ago here on Slashdot.
Here's a picture of CowboyNeal and here's a picture of Harry Knowles (AICN).
They're bloody identical twins!
I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords! And I'd like to remind them, that as a trusted celebrity, I can be useful in rounding up slaves to toil in their underground sugar mines.
Crop circles love US long time!
It is there to reimburse the content providers for legal copying. For instance, I can go down to the library, borrow their entire music AND movie collection, go home and copy it.
Really? I can't see that existing for much longer with the EU laws harmonising and all that.
You can't legally do what you've just said in the US or the UK.
Did you know that in many countries taxes are levied on CD writers and CDR discs because of piracy?
But, put that aside, one can argue this Piracy Tax with logic.
If the RIAA wants to impose a levy on ISPs because of possible file sharing, then shouldn't software companies be allowed to impose a similar levy? And if the RIAA can impose it, what about indie labels? Their music gets stolen too. What about artists who put their graphics online? What about font designers whose fonts get ripped off on alt.binaries.fonts? Surely they should all get a cut?
Logic shows this whole idea is stupid. But will logic be enough to stop the courts? I doubt it. Aristotle said 'The law is reason from my passion'. Not in 2002 it ain't.
Can you name any sizable truly democratic countries at all then? I can't think of any. Pure democracy is too hard to do in a country with more than a few thousand people. That's why the Republican system (or the Parliamentary system) exists.
C OS - Every single task you want to achieve has to be split into fifty bite size actions.
COBOL OS - The literati's dream OS! No longer must you click and drag, but instead type bizarrely syntaxed English to do your work! PROGRAM OPEN CALCULATOR AS NEW PROGRAM
Perl OS - An open source OS worked on by a bunch of extremely crazy (but clever) bearded anoraks. You can do EVERYTHING in one click or one line of code. Oh, face it, it's just the future of Linux.
PHP OS - This OS was originally the shell for Perl OS, but some wimps who couldn't work out the Perl way of doing things decided to turn it into their own 'paint by numbers' OS. Unfortunately you can only access the Internet with PHP OS, no off-line facilities are available.
C++ OS - A simple upgrade to C OS. Still just as complicated, but the ++ makes it cooler to use and adds a host of useless features that are non standard across all implementations. Besides, C OS is for old fogeys.
Python OS - Supposedly this exists, but since no-one cares, we won't go into it.
Ruby OS - EVERYTHING is an object. Want to open your calculator app? calculator.open; please. Need to enter some numbers? calculator.buttons[8].press; It's long, tedious, but at least it makes logical sense.
BASIC OS - Joe six pack's answer to operating systems. This is Microsoft XP in the future. Anything can be done with point and click, but it's slow, crashes a lot, and is totally lame. Oh, I'm already talking about XP here aren't I?
A lot of people have been worrying about the recent 'dumbification' of stories on Slashdot like exercise bike games, non-existant decisions and what lawyers can learn from manga! But Harkids and Michael rush to save the day with this gruesomely geeky stuff:
it includes juicy details of AMD's microprocessor manufacturing process
Yes! YES! JUICY DETAILS OF PROCESSOR MANUFACTURE! YES!!
Slashdot is SAVED!!
In the real world, a company (like a store) charges its customers sales tax, which it pays to the state automatically. Then they also pay taxes on the income.
That was not really my point. My point was a bit more basic.
If a consumer has already had a good chunk of their income taken as tax, why should they have another chunk of it taken whenever they buy something?
I say that the Internet sales tax system is ideal and fair, and that it's regular sales taxes that are the rogue element here. Your income was ALREADY taxed, why tax it again?