If your audience has to struggle to figure out what your slang means, you're not communicating effectively.
Shakespear did just that, on purpose. He was lambasted for it then, and gets props for it today. I laugh, thinking of all the literary snobs of the future discussions Tu-Pac's life work.
Careful... with profiles, everytime you start FireFox, it will make you pick a profile. If that's a problem, make sure "Don't ask at startup" is checked.
That'll avoid the problem of the wife asking what the "Pr0n Pr0file" is for.
LED doesn't help. It's still a fixed resolution display. Displaying 480 lines of resolution still won't look right when the display has 1080 lines.
Technically, CRTs are fixed resolution too. But the phosphers are dense enough that it can display arbirtrary lower resolutions without looking like a bad downsample.
More often than not, very large tube sets are "good enough" for most people that have them.
It's not so much that it's "good enough"; the CRT was better. When I purchased my CRT, it was cheaper than a 720p LCD (much less 1080p). Given the variety of resolutions that I use (Analog Over The Air, S-Video, 480p, 720p), the CRT produces a better picture at all resolutions than the 1080p LCD did. I spend most of my time watching digital cable, and the high res crisp display makes all the digital cable artifacts look even worse. All in all, I'm happy with my CRT. I have to hope that I'll have some way to make sub-standard input signals look good on the LCD when I eventually have to buy one.
Lest you think I'm a ludditte, I ditched my vinyl in favor of digital audio years ago.
I tend to look at a craving as bad. It usually means that my diet is out of balance, and my body is screaming at me to get it back in balance. I eat what "sounds good" today. Basically, it's the same thing as a craving, but much lower on the intensity scale. I can ignore it for days or weeks. But the longer I ignore it, the more intense it gets. Eventually it becomes a craving, and I cave. Vegetables that I don't like tend to fall into this category. I don't like spinach, but every once in a while, I get a moderately intense craving for a spinach salad.
I find that I usually don't eat a balanced diet every day. If I step back and examine the week, it averages out to a balanced diet.
20 years ago butter was bad and margarine was good. Latest findings are exactly the other way around.
Now that I'm eating a balanced diet, I trust my body to tell me what it needs. Feel like a Steak? Ok, have a steak. Feel like eating just vegies today? Fine. Margarine was never something I wanted, but butter is tasty.
I've figured out how I need to eat. You work it out with your body.
make time for each other... we schedule time to spend with one another, as terrible as it sounds that we have to schedule it, it really is necessary...
For me, having children helped us do this. Now I have to reserve a babysitter a week in advance, instead of being able to do it anytime. Because it's scheduled, and the babysitter shows up, there's no "I'm nearly done with this code... can we do it tomorrow?"
After getting my head ripped off for mentioning that I liked operator overloading the other day...
I applaud operator overloading, when the symbol has been defined elsewhere to mean the same thing. I really like Fortress for it's unicode support when providing operators to overload. Finally, set operators using set notiation.
I applaud anybody that beats the shit out of newb programmers that overload every single object method because they can.
I'm of the opinion that you need one off-ramp for every 3-4 lanes of traffic.
A 6 lane highway should have 2 off-ramps, one on the left and one on the right.
A 9 to 12 lane highway would have 3 off-ramps, one on the left, one on the right, and one in the middle.
I also think there needs to be some kind of diminishing return, so that it doesn't make sense for an upper level thief to grief the lower level shopkeepers.
This is the internet. There will always be some high level douchebags that get a great deal of amusement from messing with noobs.
If Oracle stops supporting ZFS, I'd pay for the Veritas Storage Foundation. The VxVM (Veritas Volume Manager) is quite a bit more mature than LVM2, and VxFS is just amazingy fast. It has many advanced features (ie, extra cost), like multi-master cluster mountable FS and Oracle features. Even today, it has a lot of features that ZFS doesn't have. I expect ZFS to catch up, assuming Oracle doesn't screw it up.
Admittably, I have not compared VxFS to ext4. I have compared it to ext3, and there's no way I'll run ext3 on a volume larger than 100G again. fscks are painful
...Unless you are pointing a fan at your light bulbs...
Why, yes I am. Nearly all of my incandesenct bulbs are hanging underneath a ceiling fan. The ceiling fans are in places that I want a dimmer (bedroom, TV room).
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If your audience has to struggle to figure out what your slang means, you're not communicating effectively.
Shakespear did just that, on purpose. He was lambasted for it then, and gets props for it today. I laugh, thinking of all the literary snobs of the future discussions Tu-Pac's life work.
hahahahaha: "poked in the eye with a ';-)'". Good one.
Wait, I'm confused. There wasn't a single flame in your post. I thought I was reading slashdot?
Careful... with profiles, everytime you start FireFox, it will make you pick a profile. If that's a problem, make sure "Don't ask at startup" is checked.
That'll avoid the problem of the wife asking what the "Pr0n Pr0file" is for.
Duh, do it before you have kids. I missed the boat.
LED doesn't help. It's still a fixed resolution display. Displaying 480 lines of resolution still won't look right when the display has 1080 lines.
Technically, CRTs are fixed resolution too. But the phosphers are dense enough that it can display arbirtrary lower resolutions without looking like a bad downsample.
More often than not, very large tube sets are "good enough" for most people that have them.
It's not so much that it's "good enough"; the CRT was better. When I purchased my CRT, it was cheaper than a 720p LCD (much less 1080p). Given the variety of resolutions that I use (Analog Over The Air, S-Video, 480p, 720p), the CRT produces a better picture at all resolutions than the 1080p LCD did. I spend most of my time watching digital cable, and the high res crisp display makes all the digital cable artifacts look even worse. All in all, I'm happy with my CRT. I have to hope that I'll have some way to make sub-standard input signals look good on the LCD when I eventually have to buy one.
Lest you think I'm a ludditte, I ditched my vinyl in favor of digital audio years ago.
Just to be pedantic... :-)
I tend to look at a craving as bad. It usually means that my diet is out of balance, and my body is screaming at me to get it back in balance. I eat what "sounds good" today. Basically, it's the same thing as a craving, but much lower on the intensity scale. I can ignore it for days or weeks. But the longer I ignore it, the more intense it gets. Eventually it becomes a craving, and I cave. Vegetables that I don't like tend to fall into this category. I don't like spinach, but every once in a while, I get a moderately intense craving for a spinach salad.
I find that I usually don't eat a balanced diet every day. If I step back and examine the week, it averages out to a balanced diet.
20 years ago butter was bad and margarine was good. Latest findings are exactly the other way around.
Now that I'm eating a balanced diet, I trust my body to tell me what it needs. Feel like a Steak? Ok, have a steak. Feel like eating just vegies today? Fine. Margarine was never something I wanted, but butter is tasty.
I've figured out how I need to eat. You work it out with your body.
make time for each other... we schedule time to spend with one another, as terrible as it sounds that we have to schedule it, it really is necessary ...
For me, having children helped us do this. Now I have to reserve a babysitter a week in advance, instead of being able to do it anytime. Because it's scheduled, and the babysitter shows up, there's no "I'm nearly done with this code... can we do it tomorrow?"
We didn't know to look for Vitamins and Minerals in our food for a long time. Now we do. New vitamins are still being discovered.
Quit yer whining. It was funny.
After getting my head ripped off for mentioning that I liked operator overloading the other day...
I applaud operator overloading, when the symbol has been defined elsewhere to mean the same thing. I really like Fortress for it's unicode support when providing operators to overload. Finally, set operators using set notiation.
I applaud anybody that beats the shit out of newb programmers that overload every single object method because they can.
I'm of the opinion that you need one off-ramp for every 3-4 lanes of traffic. A 6 lane highway should have 2 off-ramps, one on the left and one on the right. A 9 to 12 lane highway would have 3 off-ramps, one on the left, one on the right, and one in the middle.
I think drivers don't understand that groups of cars exhibit wave-like behaviors
Wait, so now a car is both a wave and a particle?
It takes more power to spin those extra bytes. Duh.
The mice already did that.
IF ICOULD USE A SMALLCAPS FONT WITHOUT ALL THE TAGS, IWOULD.
Buggy Whip manufacturing is probably on the increase, along with all that horse breeding. Horse Carriages do need a buggy whip.
I also think there needs to be some kind of diminishing return, so that it doesn't make sense for an upper level thief to grief the lower level shopkeepers.
This is the internet. There will always be some high level douchebags that get a great deal of amusement from messing with noobs.
If Oracle stops supporting ZFS, I'd pay for the Veritas Storage Foundation. The VxVM (Veritas Volume Manager) is quite a bit more mature than LVM2, and VxFS is just amazingy fast. It has many advanced features (ie, extra cost), like multi-master cluster mountable FS and Oracle features. Even today, it has a lot of features that ZFS doesn't have. I expect ZFS to catch up, assuming Oracle doesn't screw it up.
Admittably, I have not compared VxFS to ext4. I have compared it to ext3, and there's no way I'll run ext3 on a volume larger than 100G again. fscks are painful
It doesn't have ringtones...
My phone makes phone calls, and I love it to death.
You should really upgrade to a newer model. They can receive calls now, too!
That's a feature? The first thing I do to get into the coding Zone is turn off the ringer on my phone.
...Unless you are pointing a fan at your light bulbs...
Why, yes I am. Nearly all of my incandesenct bulbs are hanging underneath a ceiling fan. The ceiling fans are in places that I want a dimmer (bedroom, TV room).
Of course, until he or someone actually builds a working model, it's just a neat idea. Certainly not the 2nd coming of Da Vinci or Einstein.
I think that does make him the 2nd coming of Da Vinci or Einstein. He's not allowed to build stuff.
Hey, I got that Slashdot Fortune too!