I just want a president who'll maintain the status quo... wouldn't that be a great campaign line? "Vote for Gore, He's Gonna Maintain the Status Quo." (Or... "Vote for Bush... if you were running for President, he'd vote for you.")
Don't know if you want a guy in the White House who may have a painful, life-threatening ailment. Of course I think a potted fern would make a better prez than either Gore or Bush....
but near as I can figure the protestors just want to protest for the sake of protesting
Protesting is fun, in a way, I guess. You can tell yourself you're making a difference, think that you might be in danger (although you're pretty safe), get riled up with a bunch of other bored folks... hell, when they had those protests in Seattle, a number of the protesters were college kids who joined in when the protestin' got good...
What does this illustrate? It illustrates that reporters are not the hard-boiled "get down to the truth" types that they would like themselves portrayed as. Rather, they are like bored teenagers, who'd rather go watch a riot or talk about parties than watch some boring press conference about something so dry as health care, or the genuine concerns of people protesting at the conventions
Reporters are like drug dealers... they give their junkies what they want. It's our society that clamors for these "news bits..." If people really wanted to hear Gore's views on this or that, they'd cover that. Many people assume the media gives us what they want to give us; I argue that the media gives us exactly what we want.
Jerry Springer is still in business because people watch his show... The news stays on the air because people tune in to see what interests them... rubber bullets and tear gas.
Right now is the time to start avocating linux... I got just about 20-50 people using linux in my area, and no telling how many on irc. How many have you converted to linux?
Moe: All right, you heard the man. One grenade each. Barney: Moe, I think he meant through nonviolent, grassroots political action... Moe: Aw geez.... really, ya think so? All right, give 'em back. Come on, everybody give 'em back. Hey, hey, who pulled the pin on this one?
Ah, but the view is so nice from up here. I wasn't knocking the one who submitted the link... I was knocking/. for posting it. I understand it's Sunday, a slow news day and all, but come on...
As far as wasting badnwith telling people how to e-mail me...
That's my sig and it's geared toward all those people who have email addresses like: bob@NOSPAM.mit.edu accompanied by a sig saying, "Remove the NOSPAM to email me." Well duh.
One paragraph on a Web page on a Windows Magazine site... no information on exact sales, future plans in the Linux gaming area... ugh... this isn't news.
Yahoo is based in the US, pays US taxes, operates according to US laws. Why should France have any say in suing Yahoo over activities that are legal in the country Yahoo is established? France should go after its own citizens for buying/browsing this stuff, if they are going to go after anyone. This would be like an American going to Amsterdam and buying illicit drugs and the US suing the drug dealer in Amsterdam! No, if you are going to fuss about it, go after the American who broke the law, not the drug dealer in Amsterdam who was following his country's laws.
If this holds up what's to stop small countries from using something like this as a monetary advantage? A small country quietly makes a law that it know a rich, American Internet company violates (say distributing pornographic pictures). They let the violation occur for a while, make a little fuss, but the Internet company doesn't do anything... then BAM, sue the company for millions.
This whole case shows two things:
The French don't think their people are mature/intelligent/wise enough to handle multiple viewpoints or have freedom to express extreme ideas.
The whole world is stuck in this, "Blame someone else" syndrome. Spill hot coffee on your lap? Sue McDonalds! Your citizens are buying Nazi items? Sue Yahoo!
Sigh... I usually don't bother responding to ACs... but... do you even know what social contract is? You live by it, I live by it, we all live by it... read http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/s/so c-cont.htm to learn more about what, exactly, a social contract is...
As with most things Microsoft, they are striving for easy development... performance is a secondary goal.
Concerning the ASP+ stuff, though, there are a ton of things built in to increase performance. For example, current ASP pages are scripted... they are interpretted, an execution path stored in memory... when the cache maxes out, the plan for the least used script is dumped and if that page is visited again, it needs to be re-interpretted. ASP+, however, creates a "compiled" version and caches it to disk. (The compiled version is the bytecode in the.NET CLR.) For a good article on ASP+ be sure to check out this piece I wrote:
ASP+: An Introduction and My Views on the Matter http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/ webtech/071500-1.shtml
Do you ever actually think about what you spew out of your mouth?
Yes, and I don't have to resort to insults to get my point across. Do you think that those who believe in legislation limiting gun sales, gun production, etc. are all idiots who talk before they think?
Did you ever carry a concealed weapon when you lived in the state that allowed such actions?
Skinner: "We need a name that's witty at first, but that seems less funny each time you hear it. Apu: "How about "The Be Shaprs?" Skinner: "Perfect." Homer: "The Be Sharps."
I still find it hard to sympathize for the teller of this story. One who sets out to get arrested should not be so surprised when he does... And people blame police for inefficiency... hell, they arrested him hours before he was planning on it... And yes, the guy should shut up and return to his microwave dinners, his nightly sitcoms, and his domestic beer. Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? is about to come on...
We all give up certain rights to protect others, yourself included. If you don't like it, too bad. The majority agrees that certain rights are worth giving up to protect other rights... Sorry, but that's the way it is, and while you may not like it, if you want to live in this society you have no other choice.
And what would you be saying here if the police did not arrest someone in that situation and that person was carrying grenades and killed a lot of people. Chances are you'd be blaming the police, singing an entirely different tune. The police really are in a Catch 22 in situations like these. It's easy for you to sit back and blame them either way. I think the police officer acted in the correct way and handled the situation well. Hell, the guy wanted to get arrested and he did, so he should shut up, return to work, and continue to persist on quietly.
We all give up certain rights as a whole to protect others. For example, people in sane states are not allowed to carry concealed weapons, a violation against their second amendment rights, perhaps, but a law that society agress to inforce so that it is safer over-all.
If I see a guy walking down the street wearing army gear, I would hope a police officer would inquire what equipment he or she was carrying. Furthermore, if I heard a police officer ask someone wearing army clothing, "Whatcha got on under that army vest," and the person responded with cursing, I would hope the police officer would detain that person and ensure that they weren't a danger to those around them.
In fact there is a registry setting you can do t enable auto-complete in the CLI like with BASH, tcsh, and other popular UNIX shells. Futhermore there is another registry setting that will allow a window to take focus with just the mouse over it...
But don't you see that by stop using whatever medium, you will get your point across? If Coke changes its formula and no one buys it, they will go out of business. If people keep buying coke and bitching, Coke stays in business. If you got a problem with sites that are for IE only, simply don't go to the sites... if enough people stop going, the site will dwindle into obscurity.
Finally, concerning Taco's views... if I was truly pissed at him for mixing editorial with news content on his site, I would have emailed him personally and said, "Hey, Rob, I don't like how you mixed editorial and news on the GWB blurb." Taco then has three possible responses: he can say, "Fuck off," in which case I stop using/., or he could say, "Good point, I'll stop doing this;" or he could say, "Good point, but it's my site," in which case I could either stop using/. or simply not bother reading articles that have Taco's views, or set my preferences to not show stories posted by Taco. What I would not do is post whining message after whining message like a little crying baby.
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I just want a president who'll maintain the status quo... wouldn't that be a great campaign line? "Vote for Gore, He's Gonna Maintain the Status Quo." (Or... "Vote for Bush... if you were running for President, he'd vote for you.")
Did you hear he had skin cancer? http://news.excite.com/news /r/000816/18/politics-mccain
Don't know if you want a guy in the White House who may have a painful, life-threatening ailment. Of course I think a potted fern would make a better prez than either Gore or Bush....
Protesting is fun, in a way, I guess. You can tell yourself you're making a difference, think that you might be in danger (although you're pretty safe), get riled up with a bunch of other bored folks... hell, when they had those protests in Seattle, a number of the protesters were college kids who joined in when the protestin' got good...
Reporters are like drug dealers... they give their junkies what they want. It's our society that clamors for these "news bits..." If people really wanted to hear Gore's views on this or that, they'd cover that. Many people assume the media gives us what they want to give us; I argue that the media gives us exactly what we want.
Jerry Springer is still in business because people watch his show... The news stays on the air because people tune in to see what interests them... rubber bullets and tear gas.
Moe: All right, you heard the man. One grenade each.
Barney: Moe, I think he meant through nonviolent, grassroots political action...
Moe: Aw geez.... really, ya think so? All right, give 'em back. Come on, everybody give 'em back. Hey, hey, who pulled the pin on this one?
I agree with you, this is a hoax. I won't believe it until I can read a PR blurb on MS's site (or hear about it on DrudgeReport.com)
Agreed... any post with Barbie in it was a great one...
Thinking hurts, let's go shopping!
Ah, but the view is so nice from up here. I wasn't knocking the one who submitted the link... I was knocking /. for posting it. I understand it's Sunday, a slow news day and all, but come on...
As far as wasting badnwith telling people how to e-mail me...
That's my sig and it's geared toward all those people who have email addresses like: bob@NOSPAM.mit.edu accompanied by a sig saying, "Remove the NOSPAM to email me." Well duh.
One paragraph on a Web page on a Windows Magazine site... no information on exact sales, future plans in the Linux gaming area... ugh... this isn't news.
Yahoo is based in the US, pays US taxes, operates according to US laws. Why should France have any say in suing Yahoo over activities that are legal in the country Yahoo is established? France should go after its own citizens for buying/browsing this stuff, if they are going to go after anyone. This would be like an American going to Amsterdam and buying illicit drugs and the US suing the drug dealer in Amsterdam! No, if you are going to fuss about it, go after the American who broke the law, not the drug dealer in Amsterdam who was following his country's laws.
If this holds up what's to stop small countries from using something like this as a monetary advantage? A small country quietly makes a law that it know a rich, American Internet company violates (say distributing pornographic pictures). They let the violation occur for a while, make a little fuss, but the Internet company doesn't do anything... then BAM, sue the company for millions.
This whole case shows two things:
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Sigh... I usually don't bother responding to ACs... but... do you even know what social contract is? You live by it, I live by it, we all live by it... read http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/s/so c-cont.htm to learn more about what, exactly, a social contract is...
Concerning the ASP+ stuff, though, there are a ton of things built in to increase performance. For example, current ASP pages are scripted... they are interpretted, an execution path stored in memory... when the cache maxes out, the plan for the least used script is dumped and if that page is visited again, it needs to be re-interpretted. ASP+, however, creates a "compiled" version and caches it to disk. (The compiled version is the bytecode in the .NET CLR.) For a good article on ASP+ be sure to check out this piece I wrote:
ASP+: An Introduction and My Views on the Matter
http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/ webtech/071500-1.shtml
Happy Programming!
Yes, and I don't have to resort to insults to get my point across. Do you think that those who believe in legislation limiting gun sales, gun production, etc. are all idiots who talk before they think?
Did you ever carry a concealed weapon when you lived in the state that allowed such actions?
It's no surprise that it sounds like Delphi! It was, after all, architected by the same guy who architected Delphi...
Go off and download the .NET SDK @ http://msdn.microsoft.com/net/...
Skinner: "We need a name that's witty at first, but that seems less funny each time you hear it.
Apu: "How about "The Be Shaprs?"
Skinner: "Perfect."
Homer: "The Be Sharps."
Hmmm... if the thief left you his email address before he stole your computer you'd be all right.
I still find it hard to sympathize for the teller of this story. One who sets out to get arrested should not be so surprised when he does... And people blame police for inefficiency... hell, they arrested him hours before he was planning on it... And yes, the guy should shut up and return to his microwave dinners, his nightly sitcoms, and his domestic beer. Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? is about to come on...
We all give up certain rights to protect others, yourself included. If you don't like it, too bad. The majority agrees that certain rights are worth giving up to protect other rights... Sorry, but that's the way it is, and while you may not like it, if you want to live in this society you have no other choice.
And what would you be saying here if the police did not arrest someone in that situation and that person was carrying grenades and killed a lot of people. Chances are you'd be blaming the police, singing an entirely different tune. The police really are in a Catch 22 in situations like these. It's easy for you to sit back and blame them either way. I think the police officer acted in the correct way and handled the situation well. Hell, the guy wanted to get arrested and he did, so he should shut up, return to work, and continue to persist on quietly.
If I see a guy walking down the street wearing army gear, I would hope a police officer would inquire what equipment he or she was carrying. Furthermore, if I heard a police officer ask someone wearing army clothing, "Whatcha got on under that army vest," and the person responded with cursing, I would hope the police officer would detain that person and ensure that they weren't a danger to those around them.
I agree wholeheartedly with you... if you go looking for trouble, don't be surprised when you find it.
In fact there is a registry setting you can do t enable auto-complete in the CLI like with BASH, tcsh, and other popular UNIX shells. Futhermore there is another registry setting that will allow a window to take focus with just the mouse over it...
Could you show me how to do this? What do I need to type in the IE Address bar to get DOS commands to execute?
Finally, concerning Taco's views... if I was truly pissed at him for mixing editorial with news content on his site, I would have emailed him personally and said, "Hey, Rob, I don't like how you mixed editorial and news on the GWB blurb." Taco then has three possible responses: he can say, "Fuck off," in which case I stop using /., or he could say, "Good point, I'll stop doing this;" or he could say, "Good point, but it's my site," in which case I could either stop using /. or simply not bother reading articles that have Taco's views, or set my preferences to not show stories posted by Taco. What I would not do is post whining message after whining message like a little crying baby.