So... can you use a *phrase* instead of a "word", then? Must be a lot easier to remember, and it can be VERY hard to break. Or use a sentence but only type the first letters of the words, if you're lazy and/or have to retype that pass a zillion times per day.
There are people that choose NOT to use Firefox (you insensitive clod! =])
Apart from that, I've seen the "why doesn't/. coralcache linked sites at post time?" lots of times, for years. Somehow adding a ton of Javascript to/. was more important.
Unless I'm wrong -- and I could be -- compression is usually less effective on small payloads, in some cases even making the payload bigger. POSTs might be big, but GETs usually aren't. Compressing that won't help you a lot.
...but I agree with the authorities that any open society is more vulnerable to attack.
I call bullshit. I'd say the exact opposite: the more open a society is, the less vulnerable it is. If openness is outlawed, only outlaws will have openness, that kind of thinking.
If I look at a map, they look awful neighboury to me. It may be sparsely populated and all, but it still is your neighbour. Google Maps says it's true, and Google Is Always Right. =]
Het enige wat in het algemeen is het Latijnse alfabet, dat de Finnen gebruiken veel beter dan het Engels luidsprekers sinds hun taal is veel makkelijker te spellen
good dutch?
No, horrible Dutch. It reminds me of what some people (especially rappers that rap in Dutch) sometimes do: take an English sentence and just translate the words literally. Funny as hell. =]
"Ik houd van het huis" (assuming the missing k in "ik" is a typo) means "I *love* the house", which is similar, but not the same. If you want to stick with the meaning of the English sentence, you'd end up with something like "Ik vind het huis fijn" ("I find the house nice").
Come to think of it, I don't think Dutch has a verb that literally translates to "like" in that meaning. You can like a person like that ("ik mag haar" - "I like her"), but apart from persons you're out of luck. On the other hand, good luck finding a perfect match for the Dutch word "gezellig" in English.
Apart from that, there's also a ton of differences between Dutch and English grammar as well. The word order is different, there's genders, and so on. I'm assuming GP isn't Dutch. I know I am.
I believe there is more overlap between English and Frysian, which isn't Dutch at all. I'm not entirely sure, though. Dutch just loans a lot of words from different languages, mostly English, French and German.
Is this really true? I grew up in Massachusetts and studied French there. Most people there don't realize that the country on the other side of the border is a French speaking one.
That's pretty pathetic, if you ask me. If you ("you" meaning "the average Joe") don't even know something like that about your *neighbour*, that says a lot about how much that same "you" knows about the world outside the US. I'm sure you're already aware of that, and I'm not hating your for it or something (I can't blame you for the education you got), it's mostly just an observation.
More on-topic (to your question): I can easily hear the difference between UK English and US English, German German and Austrian German, and so on. There's also some clear differences between the English you'd hear from Texas or from a more northern state. I don't know if everyone can hear that, I just know I can, and I know I'm not alone in that.
In fact, if you have ever tried to retrieve an old version of a website, you would've found out that "serving users" is done using a single pentium 1 machine in the basement.
...what they mean with Solaris on Sun being super-stable? You can shake it and it'll still run?
On a more serious note... I heard about the blackbox before; I also recall reading something about other vendors doing a similar thing. I thought the almighty Google used containers in some places as well.
Is there any data about how the competition is handling stuff like this?
Heck, it might even be the start of a my-dick-is-bigger-than-your-dick list similar to the top 500 supercomputers list: which machine(s) can handle the most abuse?
One word: OpenDNS.
Another word: Privoxy.
Really, this is a solved problem. Solving it outside the browser also means it's automagically cross-browser, and doesn't stop functioning when you decide to install that new FF beta, rendering your extensions marked incompatible and disabled.
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They'll also know how to spell "us" correctly. =]
I might, yes, good idea. Setting up the squid wasn't that much work tbh, just sudo port install squid and a little tinkering in the config file
I'll have a look into the DNS stuff. Thanks for pointing that out!
I have this "Disable ads" checkbox near the top of the page because I've been a good /.'er, you insensitive clod!
Besides, ABP is for n00bs. Squid -- with some general blocking rules -- keep ALL my browsers on ALL my machines ad-free.
And if you die, it's borderline impossible to retrieve stuff from your accounts.
So... can you use a *phrase* instead of a "word", then? Must be a lot easier to remember, and it can be VERY hard to break. Or use a sentence but only type the first letters of the words, if you're lazy and/or have to retype that pass a zillion times per day.
There are people that choose NOT to use Firefox (you insensitive clod! =])
Apart from that, I've seen the "why doesn't /. coralcache linked sites at post time?" lots of times, for years. Somehow adding a ton of Javascript to /. was more important.
Oh, and re:your sig... didn't PHP stand for PHP Hypertext P(rep)rocessor or something?
GNU - GNU's Not Linux
Pine - Pine Is not Elm
I'm sure there's more, but these two came to mind.
(My favourite tech acronym is still TWAIN, though.)
That's funny. Let's extract the key points of what you're saying here...
...and then you go on to say that Microsoft is easier? =]
(Not saying "zomg u r teh suxx0r" or anything, don't get me wrong)
... and they invested a lot of resources, both technical and marketing, into making this system run.
I didn't know you could use marketing to make systems run... =]
Unless I'm wrong -- and I could be -- compression is usually less effective on small payloads, in some cases even making the payload bigger. POSTs might be big, but GETs usually aren't. Compressing that won't help you a lot.
Actually, there's another one for those that prefer ports.
You can't power cars with kilowatts.
You can if it's a Tesla or a Volt.
...but I agree with the authorities that any open society is more vulnerable to attack.
I call bullshit. I'd say the exact opposite: the more open a society is, the less vulnerable it is. If openness is outlawed, only outlaws will have openness, that kind of thinking.
If I look at a map, they look awful neighboury to me. It may be sparsely populated and all, but it still is your neighbour. Google Maps says it's true, and Google Is Always Right. =]
[...] but it's very important if you want to know what to poke at 53280.
A value between 0 and 15, of course.
Frisian is not a dialect, it's a completely separate language.
Het enige wat in het algemeen is het Latijnse alfabet, dat de Finnen gebruiken veel beter dan het Engels luidsprekers sinds hun taal is veel makkelijker te spellen
good dutch?
No, horrible Dutch. It reminds me of what some people (especially rappers that rap in Dutch) sometimes do: take an English sentence and just translate the words literally. Funny as hell. =]
"Ik houd van het huis" (assuming the missing k in "ik" is a typo) means "I *love* the house", which is similar, but not the same. If you want to stick with the meaning of the English sentence, you'd end up with something like "Ik vind het huis fijn" ("I find the house nice").
Come to think of it, I don't think Dutch has a verb that literally translates to "like" in that meaning. You can like a person like that ("ik mag haar" - "I like her"), but apart from persons you're out of luck. On the other hand, good luck finding a perfect match for the Dutch word "gezellig" in English.
Apart from that, there's also a ton of differences between Dutch and English grammar as well. The word order is different, there's genders, and so on. I'm assuming GP isn't Dutch. I know I am.
I believe there is more overlap between English and Frysian, which isn't Dutch at all. I'm not entirely sure, though. Dutch just loans a lot of words from different languages, mostly English, French and German.
Is this really true? I grew up in Massachusetts and studied French there. Most people there don't realize that the country on the other side of the border is a French speaking one.
That's pretty pathetic, if you ask me. If you ("you" meaning "the average Joe") don't even know something like that about your *neighbour*, that says a lot about how much that same "you" knows about the world outside the US. I'm sure you're already aware of that, and I'm not hating your for it or something (I can't blame you for the education you got), it's mostly just an observation.
More on-topic (to your question): I can easily hear the difference between UK English and US English, German German and Austrian German, and so on. There's also some clear differences between the English you'd hear from Texas or from a more northern state. I don't know if everyone can hear that, I just know I can, and I know I'm not alone in that.
they're in /dev/null, of course.
In fact, if you have ever tried to retrieve an old version of a website, you would've found out that "serving users" is done using a single pentium 1 machine in the basement.
Or write a song about it...
I kid, I kid.
...what they mean with Solaris on Sun being super-stable? You can shake it and it'll still run? On a more serious note... I heard about the blackbox before; I also recall reading something about other vendors doing a similar thing. I thought the almighty Google used containers in some places as well. Is there any data about how the competition is handling stuff like this? Heck, it might even be the start of a my-dick-is-bigger-than-your-dick list similar to the top 500 supercomputers list: which machine(s) can handle the most abuse?
One word: OpenDNS. Another word: Privoxy. Really, this is a solved problem. Solving it outside the browser also means it's automagically cross-browser, and doesn't stop functioning when you decide to install that new FF beta, rendering your extensions marked incompatible and disabled.