So, you're still using an old soundcard, huh? Well, I recently bought an SB Live! and was a little surprised to find that KMix suddenly had, like 83 volume sliders for MIDI 1-23, rear-left-bottom, MIC 7, etc, and another 18 or so for tone, balance, 3d-ness, reverb, and a bunch of other effects.
KMix forgetting my volume settings was incredibly annoying. Whenever I'd log in, sound would come from the subwoofer and right super-tweeter, but the left channel was out altogether. Whenever I brought the left speaker and right midrange online, then I had to figure which of the scrolled-off-the-screen controls was making it sound like I was in a perfectly reflective gymnasium when I was listening to Henry Rollins spoken-word stuff.
You BET I want KMix to remember my settings. It took me about 5 minutes to convince myself that I hadn't blown a sound card each and every time I rebooted ("Ooh, shiny! 2.6.0-pre8 is out now, better upgrade!").
Malpractice insurance costs amount to only 3.2 percent of the average physician's revenues according to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC)
I don't believe that for a second. I can tell you that in a low-litigation-friendly, upper Midwest state with reasonable malpractice caps, a podiatrist (foot specialist, typically a low-risk specialty) can easily pay 7 to 8% of gross practice income in malpractice insurance.
A friend in the same area is an ear, nose, throat surgeon and is currently dropping about 200K per year. He has no history of malpractice - that's the base rate. I don't know how much he makes per year, but although he has a nice home, I can absolutely guarantee that 200K is more than 3.2% of his revenue.
Keep in mind that this is a relatively "safe" part of the country for malpractice claims. I personally write those insurance checks for my wife's practice, and I will not believe that we're paying far more than the national average.
My wife just had an automobile accident. She was driving down a rural highway, and another driver missed his stop sign and pulled out in front of her. Yesterday, we got a nice copy of the police report (which is a public record) courtesy of a traffic injury lawyer in another city, along with an explanation of why you should always consider the court system whenever you've been in an accident and why it's a good idea to use a lawyer from another city (hah!).
It was absolutely disgusting. Noone was seriously hurt and the other driver's insurance company is being decent about providing a rental car and covering repair expenses. What is there to sue for? Nothing! I just hope that if the situation is ever reversed, then the other driver doesn't decide to retire courtesy of our insurance company.
Those "people" are just scum, really. If there ever is another Civil War in my lifetime, I'm goin' huntin'.
If you like POD, then Python's doctest module will blow your mind. Basically, you include example code snippets in your documentation to demonstrate how the code is supposed to work. Then, the doctest module finds all of those snippets, evaluates them, compares them to your example results, and reports on any differences.
So, not only can you easily document your code, but you can trivially insert automated test cases for later verification. Good stuff, that.
PS: I'm at home, sick with a fever, and jacked up on cold medicine. Proofreading is beyond my ability today. Please take any grammar mistakes with a grain of salt.:)
I think the KDE 3.2 version of KMail is exceptionally good, with a couple of not-so-minor issues.
First, you can't sort email from an IMAP mailbox into another folder. Yes, really. POP sorting works well, but if you use IMAP, then you have to manually move your mail or use server-side sorting.
Second, KDE needs a real LDAP backend. Evolution's LDAP client is fine - you can add, edit, and delete entries as your permissions allow. KAddressBook will only let you search for entries. I maintain a small LAN and I would love for all users to be able to sync their Palms with an OpenLDAP addressbook so that we don't have to push changes to each individual user.
If KMail can get these straightened out, I'd almost consider switching from Gnus. Almost.
As a symbolic gesture... [link]AutoZone Reigonal Store Locator[/link]
...and let the poor guys running AutoZone's webserver decipher the symbolism of being sued by SCO and watching their store locator database server catch on fire in the same morning. Very subtle!
Sorry you had it that bad. I grew up in a conservative Christian household and was highly encouraged to choose what I wanted and what I was good at for a career. My parents were excited that I wanted to study science, and supported me every step of the way.
My kids are growing up in a conservative Christian household and I am highly encouraging them to choose what they want and what they're good at for a career. I hope that they want to study science, but will support them every step of the way regardless of their decision.
I know that doesn't help you any, but I thought you should know that Christianity and a love of science are not mutually exclusive. Any belief system (or lack thereof) will have a few bonehead adherents, but that doesn't mean that's the norm, or even particularly common.
translucency, drop-shadows and other visual frills which add NOTHING to productivity?
I've mentioned this before, but we don't know that those "frills" won't add productivity until we try it. I could imagine that a combination of translucency and drop-shadows could make a clear visual indicator of activity in a given application if done right. For example, maybe windows that hadn't been focused recently could lose contrast and start to fade into the background.
That may turn out to be a stupid idea - Lord knows I've had my share - but the point is that noone knows whether that would work or not right now because we don't have the framework to easily experiment.
Thanks for the tips. My current queue has George R.R. Martin's "A Storm Of Swords", Rand's "Atlas Shrugged", Stephenson's "Quicksilver", Doctorow's "Down And Out In The Magic Kingdom", and a re-reading of "Watership Down". It might be a while before I get back to "serious literature".
I just finished Ulysses, so let me ask: are Finnegan's Wake or Portrait Of The Artist more enjoyable to read? A third of the way into the book, I felt like I was doing homework. I even set a nightly reading goal of trying to get through at least 10 pages per sitting (although there were stretches where I could knock out 30 or 40 pages in a day).
I'm a pretty smart guy, and I truly want to take in some literature that doesn't have a picture of a spaceship on the front, but that was excruciating.
I don't know enough about ALSA to know how to configure the software mixer. As in my original post, I just told Debian to load the driver and it just kinda worked afterward. Best of luck, though. If worse comes to worst, I was able to get an SB-Live! for about $30...
Fair enough. My post was equally directed to others who might have the same thoughts as you but who are, erm, a tad less qualified to comment with authority. As I mentioned, I'm sure that all of the people who've contacted me over the years felt that their requests were logical and reasonable, even if they couldn't be more wrong.
Again, I don't doubt your knowledge. I only wanted to remind some that there are sometimes other sides to the story.
But that would mean that "fit" means "least likely to meet with catastrophic circumstances", and fictional writing aside, I've never heard conjecture of a "luck gene".
At any rate, your argument still wouldn't support the idea that I'm rebutting: human evolution has stopped due to antibiotics. If anything at all, then the metric of "fitness" has evolved to assign less weight to strong immune systems. Other attributes should still be subject to selection.
IANAGeneticist, but I completely disagree. Maybe evolution of bacteriocidal white blood cells has been put on pause, but I don't think that antibiotics would have much effect on whether we're getting smarter, stronger, or otherwise improving.
Look at it this way. Would you consider a smart, healthy, fertile child that happens to be susceptible to a certain strain of pneumonia as less fit than a slack-jaw yokel that's one step from monkey that just barely manages to survive that particular infection?
The first three responses mention "Linux is not Windows". Who mentioned Windows first: you or them?
Several responses imply that the developer didn't like your ideas. Where your ideas directly related to the subject at hand? Did they solve a real problem?
Here's a possibility you might not have considered: maybe you are sending stupid bug reports.
You seem sincere, so I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that your requests were polite and understandable. Let me give a few example of messages I've received from users that probably seemed perfectly legitimate to them.
"U": User, "Me": me.
U: "The window gadgets don't look like other applications."
Me: "I used Python + Tkinter for the GUI; that's very possible."
U: "What version of Visual Studio is that?"
Me: "No."
U: "Could you make it mail the results to me?"
Me: "It prints details information to stdout. Pipe that into "mail" if you want to get it in your inbox."
U: "HOW WAS I SUPPOSED TO KNOW THAT? You should put a mail sender in it."
Me: [no answer given]
U: "You should add support for Windows Media Player."
Me: It's a command-line cryptography program. WTF? [no answer given]
U: "What does 'Error: The file you specified doesn't exist.' mean?"
Me: [no answer given]
U: "You should write a manual."
Me: "It's on the same page you download the application from."
U: "I don't like HTML manuals."
Me: [no answer given]
In each of those cases, the user was polite and clear about what they were asking for, but there requests were unrelated to the scope of the project. Maybe yours weren't as relevant as you thought, either?
there's no reason for the gui not to make the correction if it knows it's being dropped in a terminal
In other words, you wish that all combinations of X apps and terminal programs worked like kwin plus konsole? Whenever I drag an icon into a konsole window, I get a context menu to paste, cd, cp, ln, or mv the specified path into my current shell directory.
In fact, the quickest way I know of to copy a single MP3 from home to the office (assuming I'm currently using X) is to:
Open Konqueror and select the bookmark for "sftp://myhomeserver/usr/share/media/music/singles ",
Type "cd/tmp" (or wherever) in my konsole window, and
Drag the desired icon into that same konsole window.
Within a couple of minutes, I have the file in my local/tmp directory. Now that is how GUIs and CLIs are supposed to work together.
This alone is worth the price of admission for me. When I was using ide-scsi, I couldn't make my CD-RW run in DMA mode. Now my burns are significantly faster due to fewer buffer underruns, and I can actually do other stuff while it's working. I can now use my CD-RW the way it was meant to work.
The Japanese don't really have a strong awareness of "December 7th" the way people in the US do - It was December 8th for them, when the attack occurred, after all.
I can understand that, but if I were doing business in Japan, you can darn well bet that I'd pay a local to keep track of exactly this kind of stuff.
Honestly, I would be proud it Al Franken disliked me; that's one of the best validations of a person's ideals that you can get from disposable culture these days. If you could throw in Michael Moore, too, then my day would be complete.
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KMix forgetting my volume settings was incredibly annoying. Whenever I'd log in, sound would come from the subwoofer and right super-tweeter, but the left channel was out altogether. Whenever I brought the left speaker and right midrange online, then I had to figure which of the scrolled-off-the-screen controls was making it sound like I was in a perfectly reflective gymnasium when I was listening to Henry Rollins spoken-word stuff.
You BET I want KMix to remember my settings. It took me about 5 minutes to convince myself that I hadn't blown a sound card each and every time I rebooted ("Ooh, shiny! 2.6.0-pre8 is out now, better upgrade!").
I don't believe that for a second. I can tell you that in a low-litigation-friendly, upper Midwest state with reasonable malpractice caps, a podiatrist (foot specialist, typically a low-risk specialty) can easily pay 7 to 8% of gross practice income in malpractice insurance.
A friend in the same area is an ear, nose, throat surgeon and is currently dropping about 200K per year. He has no history of malpractice - that's the base rate. I don't know how much he makes per year, but although he has a nice home, I can absolutely guarantee that 200K is more than 3.2% of his revenue.
Keep in mind that this is a relatively "safe" part of the country for malpractice claims. I personally write those insurance checks for my wife's practice, and I will not believe that we're paying far more than the national average.
It was absolutely disgusting. Noone was seriously hurt and the other driver's insurance company is being decent about providing a rental car and covering repair expenses. What is there to sue for? Nothing! I just hope that if the situation is ever reversed, then the other driver doesn't decide to retire courtesy of our insurance company.
Those "people" are just scum, really. If there ever is another Civil War in my lifetime, I'm goin' huntin'.
So, not only can you easily document your code, but you can trivially insert automated test cases for later verification. Good stuff, that.
PS: I'm at home, sick with a fever, and jacked up on cold medicine. Proofreading is beyond my ability today. Please take any grammar mistakes with a grain of salt. :)
First, you can't sort email from an IMAP mailbox into another folder. Yes, really. POP sorting works well, but if you use IMAP, then you have to manually move your mail or use server-side sorting.
Second, KDE needs a real LDAP backend. Evolution's LDAP client is fine - you can add, edit, and delete entries as your permissions allow. KAddressBook will only let you search for entries. I maintain a small LAN and I would love for all users to be able to sync their Palms with an OpenLDAP addressbook so that we don't have to push changes to each individual user.
If KMail can get these straightened out, I'd almost consider switching from Gnus. Almost.
...and let the poor guys running AutoZone's webserver decipher the symbolism of being sued by SCO and watching their store locator database server catch on fire in the same morning. Very subtle!
Just a note: that still works if you type " first.
My kids are growing up in a conservative Christian household and I am highly encouraging them to choose what they want and what they're good at for a career. I hope that they want to study science, but will support them every step of the way regardless of their decision.
I know that doesn't help you any, but I thought you should know that Christianity and a love of science are not mutually exclusive. Any belief system (or lack thereof) will have a few bonehead adherents, but that doesn't mean that's the norm, or even particularly common.
Did this happen in the last couple of days? I bought lunch meat at a Wal-Mart deli within the last week.
I've mentioned this before, but we don't know that those "frills" won't add productivity until we try it. I could imagine that a combination of translucency and drop-shadows could make a clear visual indicator of activity in a given application if done right. For example, maybe windows that hadn't been focused recently could lose contrast and start to fade into the background.
That may turn out to be a stupid idea - Lord knows I've had my share - but the point is that noone knows whether that would work or not right now because we don't have the framework to easily experiment.
Thanks for the tips. My current queue has George R.R. Martin's "A Storm Of Swords", Rand's "Atlas Shrugged", Stephenson's "Quicksilver", Doctorow's "Down And Out In The Magic Kingdom", and a re-reading of "Watership Down". It might be a while before I get back to "serious literature".
I just finished Ulysses, so let me ask: are Finnegan's Wake or Portrait Of The Artist more enjoyable to read? A third of the way into the book, I felt like I was doing homework. I even set a nightly reading goal of trying to get through at least 10 pages per sitting (although there were stretches where I could knock out 30 or 40 pages in a day).
I'm a pretty smart guy, and I truly want to take in some literature that doesn't have a picture of a spaceship on the front, but that was excruciating.
<fark>Joyce: your readers want their time back.</fark>
What kind of media are you using?!? I've already lost DVDs that I burned 5 years ago - forget about 60! I gotta get me some of that.
I don't know enough about ALSA to know how to configure the software mixer. As in my original post, I just told Debian to load the driver and it just kinda worked afterward. Best of luck, though. If worse comes to worst, I was able to get an SB-Live! for about $30...
Again, I don't doubt your knowledge. I only wanted to remind some that there are sometimes other sides to the story.
At any rate, your argument still wouldn't support the idea that I'm rebutting: human evolution has stopped due to antibiotics. If anything at all, then the metric of "fitness" has evolved to assign less weight to strong immune systems. Other attributes should still be subject to selection.
Look at it this way. Would you consider a smart, healthy, fertile child that happens to be susceptible to a certain strain of pneumonia as less fit than a slack-jaw yokel that's one step from monkey that just barely manages to survive that particular infection?
Now, Trash Can Man might be a reasonable fit...
Several responses imply that the developer didn't like your ideas. Where your ideas directly related to the subject at hand? Did they solve a real problem?
Here's a possibility you might not have considered: maybe you are sending stupid bug reports.
You seem sincere, so I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that your requests were polite and understandable. Let me give a few example of messages I've received from users that probably seemed perfectly legitimate to them.
"U": User, "Me": me.
Me: "I used Python + Tkinter for the GUI; that's very possible."
U: "What version of Visual Studio is that?"
Me: "No."
Me: "It prints details information to stdout. Pipe that into "mail" if you want to get it in your inbox."
U: "HOW WAS I SUPPOSED TO KNOW THAT? You should put a mail sender in it."
Me: [no answer given]
Me: It's a command-line cryptography program. WTF? [no answer given]
Me: [no answer given]
Me: "It's on the same page you download the application from."
U: "I don't like HTML manuals."
Me: [no answer given]
In each of those cases, the user was polite and clear about what they were asking for, but there requests were unrelated to the scope of the project. Maybe yours weren't as relevant as you thought, either?
In other words, you wish that all combinations of X apps and terminal programs worked like kwin plus konsole? Whenever I drag an icon into a konsole window, I get a context menu to paste, cd, cp, ln, or mv the specified path into my current shell directory.
In fact, the quickest way I know of to copy a single MP3 from home to the office (assuming I'm currently using X) is to:
Within a couple of minutes, I have the file in my local /tmp directory. Now that is how GUIs and CLIs are supposed to work together.
Oh, if you're my boss: just kidding ha! ha!
This alone is worth the price of admission for me. When I was using ide-scsi, I couldn't make my CD-RW run in DMA mode. Now my burns are significantly faster due to fewer buffer underruns, and I can actually do other stuff while it's working. I can now use my CD-RW the way it was meant to work.
Neolibs are so cute when they're wound up. :)
I can understand that, but if I were doing business in Japan, you can darn well bet that I'd pay a local to keep track of exactly this kind of stuff.
Honestly, I would be proud it Al Franken disliked me; that's one of the best validations of a person's ideals that you can get from disposable culture these days. If you could throw in Michael Moore, too, then my day would be complete.