OK, I give up. I can't take the disconnect anymore. I am officially calling it quits on the religious denomination of my upbringing. Help me get started on picking a new denomination: what's theologically similar to Southern Baptist but doesn't insist on provably incorrect biology?
No, atheism isn't an option. I still believe in God and Jesus, but I believe that they're getting pretty pissed at people insisting that the sky is hot pink because they're misinterpreting an allegorical passage as factual.
How about it, Slashdot? Which church welcomes scientists?
According to the Electoral College page on Wikipedia there have only been four times out of fifty five that the candidate with the most popular votes lost the election.
So, about 7 percent of the time.
So it's not really a rampant problem but maybe there are still a few adjustments to be made.
In other words, you feel that it should keep being tweaked until the electoral vote is identical to the popular vote. Since that goes diametrically against the whole point, it'll never happen.
...making the minimal set of keystrokes is <alt>-<space> fi <tab> & <enter> <control>-d and involves spawning a new zsh process with the startup overhead that entails. It also makes me have to manually close the terminal window afterward (possibly much later if Firefox opens before I manage to hit ^D to exit the shell, which also means that Firefox swallows the ^D and prompts me for the folder I'd like to put my newly-requested bookmark in).
It's really one of those things you have to experience before you can understand it. Try the popular launcher on your OS of choice for a few days. If you don't like it, no harm done. If you do like it, hey! New shininess.
I maintain a strict policy of which sites I use each browser for, where I take cookies from, and I browse sketchy shit only inside vmware and restore from a clean image frequently. But I'm still vulnerable to all sorts of attacks
I understand that meth addiction is difficult to kick, but I urge you to please consider it for your health, both physical, and - particularly - mental. With time the paranoia will subside and you will be able to return to rational, productive behavior. Remember, we're here for you.
Seriously... how long do you expect them to the language?
I can still compile C that was written in the '70s. No one but Windows developers would consider a nine year support span (released in '99, extended support ends two months from now) to be anything less than suicidal. Honestly, I've been around servers with uptimes longer than VB6's entire life cycle.
I've used the YYYYMMDD format (e.g. 20080115, YYMMDDHHMMSS of course is also an option). The simple regex to construct it and read it is barely more code than translating in and out of Unix timestamps
Even if they do agree to send video to your analog monitor, do you have the equipment to capture that?
I don't. The commercial operations who sell copies of ripped movies most certainly will. All it takes is one person sharing that copy with the rest of the Internet and we're right back to square one: freely available unprotected content.
Especially when the drive is rather full to start with, since wear leveling doesn't tend to move stored data to empty slots.
Asking for about the 10th time: does anyone know where that bad block map is stored? If "in another flash block", then isn't there a real (and relatively low) limit on how often you can remap blocks?
Reiser rules. Should Reiser the programmer be found guilty, Reiser the FS will still rule.
Undoubtedly! But how long will it continue to rule, assuming the likely case that it would not be further maintained? I'm unaware of any people or groups are still doing major development on reiserfs.
Requiring explicit unmount commands for removable drives is a design decision that should have died when we moved away from non-journaled filesystems.
"We"? The FreedBSD folk (and others) have adopted ordered metadata updates as a higher-throughput alternative. FreeBSD 7 does include the "gjournal" plugin for GEOM (meaning that you can put the journal on anything that GEOM supports, including weird constructs like an encrypted RAID of network devices). In practice, though, everyone seems to use "softupdates".
That's why I suggest -- and not as a joke -- selling FOSS in boxed packages in retail stores.
"OpenOffice is the free version of StarOffice. They give you the free one to use and hope that one day you'll want to buy the commercial version (which is still cheaper than Microsoft Office)."
That was my rant response to "I shouldn't have to pay for Public Education because I don't have kids":P
Actually, I have four kids, with the first two old enough to be in school. We live in a community with excellent schools (free public Montessori? Yeah!) so this wouldn't really affect me. I just hate the idea that kids are stuck in crappy schools by a fluke of geography. Remember, vouchers also open the public system. Don't like the drug-packed dropout factory your kid's supposed to be in? Use your voucher to get them in a better public school down the road. I couldn't care less those awful places close up due to lack of students because everyone has transferred out.
You're more than free to move to a nation that doesn't tax you for Education... but good luck finding it. The people have spoken... numerous times... we want a strong public education system and we are willing to pay for it...
What on earth are you going on about? If my taxes are $X whether your kid goes to school A or school B, I want him to go to the better one. Either way it's publicly funded. The only difference is who own the building. Why do you seem incapable of understanding that no one is trying to get away from universal free public education? That's your own straw man, not anything that anyone here has actually suggested.
Don't forget, private schools (by and large), unlike public schools, have no licensing or education training requirement for teachers.
Yep. Everyone but the NEA has come to realize that you can be an excellent teacher without having a degree in teaching. I wish public schools would catch onto that fact.
If you want to send your kids to private school, that's your right. That doesn't mean that you get to take funds away from public schools.
I'm sorry, but that's just stupid. What's magic about public schools that makes them automatically worthy of support, no matter how awful they might be? If a community has to educate 10,000 kids, and a school voucher says they will pay say $5,000 per kid, then it's going to cost $50,000,000 no matter what buildings the kids go to. I just don't get why people are perfectly happy blowing that money on crappy schools when they could spend the same amount on good ones. Note that there are many, many wonderful public schools. Those would be barely affected by vouchers. Only the lousy dropout mills are likely to be seriously harmed, and I see that as a good thing.
People would never put up with this forced allocation in other parts of their lives, but throw "think of the schools!" into the mix and everyone loses their mind.
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OK, I give up. I can't take the disconnect anymore. I am officially calling it quits on the religious denomination of my upbringing. Help me get started on picking a new denomination: what's theologically similar to Southern Baptist but doesn't insist on provably incorrect biology?
No, atheism isn't an option. I still believe in God and Jesus, but I believe that they're getting pretty pissed at people insisting that the sky is hot pink because they're misinterpreting an allegorical passage as factual.
How about it, Slashdot? Which church welcomes scientists?
So, about 7 percent of the time.
So it's not really a rampant problem but maybe there are still a few adjustments to be made.In other words, you feel that it should keep being tweaked until the electoral vote is identical to the popular vote. Since that goes diametrically against the whole point, it'll never happen.
Actually, there's already an available UI patch for GIMP.
...making the minimal set of keystrokes is <alt>-<space> fi <tab> & <enter> <control>-d and involves spawning a new zsh process with the startup overhead that entails. It also makes me have to manually close the terminal window afterward (possibly much later if Firefox opens before I manage to hit ^D to exit the shell, which also means that Firefox swallows the ^D and prompts me for the folder I'd like to put my newly-requested bookmark in).
No, I have to say that's not any easier.
It's really one of those things you have to experience before you can understand it. Try the popular launcher on your OS of choice for a few days. If you don't like it, no harm done. If you do like it, hey! New shininess.
That should've been <alt>-<space> fi <enter>.
None of them involve opening a terminal, for starters. On Linux, - fi gets me Firefox. Could I really do that more easily in a shell?
I understand that meth addiction is difficult to kick, but I urge you to please consider it for your health, both physical, and - particularly - mental. With time the paranoia will subside and you will be able to return to rational, productive behavior. Remember, we're here for you.
I can still compile C that was written in the '70s. No one but Windows developers would consider a nine year support span (released in '99, extended support ends two months from now) to be anything less than suicidal. Honestly, I've been around servers with uptimes longer than VB6's entire life cycle.
You use Perl, don't you.
I don't. The commercial operations who sell copies of ripped movies most certainly will. All it takes is one person sharing that copy with the rest of the Internet and we're right back to square one: freely available unprotected content.
The new ThinkGeek ad under your diatribe is for "MORE FLEXIBLE SCREWING". Now that is targetted marketing.
Says the guy who misspelled "steak".
Asking for about the 10th time: does anyone know where that bad block map is stored? If "in another flash block", then isn't there a real (and relatively low) limit on how often you can remap blocks?
Not possible.
Undoubtedly! But how long will it continue to rule, assuming the likely case that it would not be further maintained? I'm unaware of any people or groups are still doing major development on reiserfs.
"We"? The FreedBSD folk (and others) have adopted ordered metadata updates as a higher-throughput alternative. FreeBSD 7 does include the "gjournal" plugin for GEOM (meaning that you can put the journal on anything that GEOM supports, including weird constructs like an encrypted RAID of network devices). In practice, though, everyone seems to use "softupdates".
"It's hawt."
Correction: because she lives in Canada, she wasn't the one that directly paid the bill that day. It wasn't free.
"IBM wants to give you all this stuff so that one day when you're a big company you might want to buy some of their custom software."
People who can't understand the "volunteer" angle can usually identify with the "profit" model.
"OpenOffice is the free version of StarOffice. They give you the free one to use and hope that one day you'll want to buy the commercial version (which is still cheaper than Microsoft Office)."
Actually, I have four kids, with the first two old enough to be in school. We live in a community with excellent schools (free public Montessori? Yeah!) so this wouldn't really affect me. I just hate the idea that kids are stuck in crappy schools by a fluke of geography. Remember, vouchers also open the public system. Don't like the drug-packed dropout factory your kid's supposed to be in? Use your voucher to get them in a better public school down the road. I couldn't care less those awful places close up due to lack of students because everyone has transferred out.
What on earth are you going on about? If my taxes are $X whether your kid goes to school A or school B, I want him to go to the better one. Either way it's publicly funded. The only difference is who own the building. Why do you seem incapable of understanding that no one is trying to get away from universal free public education? That's your own straw man, not anything that anyone here has actually suggested.
Yep. Everyone but the NEA has come to realize that you can be an excellent teacher without having a degree in teaching. I wish public schools would catch onto that fact.
I'm sorry, but that's just stupid. What's magic about public schools that makes them automatically worthy of support, no matter how awful they might be? If a community has to educate 10,000 kids, and a school voucher says they will pay say $5,000 per kid, then it's going to cost $50,000,000 no matter what buildings the kids go to. I just don't get why people are perfectly happy blowing that money on crappy schools when they could spend the same amount on good ones. Note that there are many, many wonderful public schools. Those would be barely affected by vouchers. Only the lousy dropout mills are likely to be seriously harmed, and I see that as a good thing.
People would never put up with this forced allocation in other parts of their lives, but throw "think of the schools!" into the mix and everyone loses their mind.