Just one more reason to disable it - that and the flashing color front page (when moving the mouse over the random pixel graphic thing (wasted page, hello??))
Maple works well on Linux, and is (for certain things) much better than Mathematica... it all depends on what you use it for. Maple is much better than it was in 95/96... ugh.
"Well, NTFS is cut up in 4k chunks, so it really doesn't matter. You'll never notice those extra few bytes on larger files..."
I had a report that was ~30-40k in.rtf, and came in at ~1MB in Office 97... haven't installed Word2k... I saw it on a machine and nearly cried out loud "Oh my...! What *have* they done!!!"
Ok, I've seen 'CHA' mentioned a couple of times here... google isn't helpful (Carribean Hotel Assoc and Certified Horsemanship Assoc don't seem relevant). Of what do you speak?
[troll] The 'average Slashdotter' used to have at least a 10/11th grade education, where they tell you in chemistry about endo/exothermic reactions. In fact, it's something many of us learned in middle school...
Not to specifically rag on this AC, but there has been a definite decline in the average slashdotter's knowledge. Good thing we have a lot of others to help everyone out (look, the system works!!!).
Group learning via/. - as cheap as ARS Digita, with 0xFF times the crap, and none of the entrance requirements. Whoo-hoo.
Yeah, it should also be noted that the operators at Chernobyl were running the reactor at over 110% of spec 'to see what would happen'... they held it there too long, and the safetys couldn't bring it back. Normally, plants don't run near peak capacity, and are much less dangerous... human error strikes again (both on the design, and operation...) Definitely a lesson learned. A costly one, though...
There's also the usual arguments about the other types of enviornmental pollution caused by hydro power - areas flooded by dams, causing habitat shifts and the like. Just thought I'd point it out, since everybody is ripping on everything else, too 8^)
I'm currently running 1.1.2 on my RS/6k (AIX 4.3) - took a little effort, but was amazingly easier to get working than KDE 1.1.1 or GNOME (though blackbox and iceWM worked almost straight out).
I'll probably wait until 2.0(.x) is out, but has anyone even given any of these pre-2.0 sources a shot? I'd be interested.
Yup... there's +2 noise, but most moderators are more than willing to take the +2s down rather quickly... even if they aren't noise. [insert standard argument about how it should be 'Use +1 Bonus' instead of 'No Score +1 Bonus']
All you need is to be above 25 karma, and it used to be (a long time ago) that M2 alone could get you close to 30 points... never heard of the >40 posts thing before...
As for who gets moderator status, I only get it when I don't post for about four days in a row... but hey, I'll live. 5 points are so few...
[posting with the bonus enabled to see if I can burn some karma]
People work far too hard at being offended. It's a generic term. We had a seminar where such phrases as 'the common man' were to be avoided, as to maintain non-sexist language... And to think, english is one of the only languages that doesn't have almost every noun specifically masculine or feminine... and in all the other languages, the plurals of mixed groups are always male (yes, yes, due to their male-dominated society, of course - whatever).
If you don't wake up every day trying to be offended by other people, you'll be a lot happier. Trust me.
If you have a comment limit set (i.e. browse all at/above Score:1)... At the bottom off each story, you'll see:
128 of 256 comments -- there's a ~50% S/N
some of the science articles rank pretty well. I've seen: 146 comments -- close to 100% Signal
Assume everything at 0 and below is noise, and, while some of what is at 1 is noise, too, it's not a bad estimator - some of those posts at 0 aren't noise, but they don't always get modded up...
but it's completely unreadable without any whitespace... [/flame]
You do make some good points, but hey, as person "J", I tend to get very annoyed if my workstation slows down, much less crashes twice in a day. Nothing is more frustrating than tool-related lack of productivity (whether you are trying to be productive doing your real job, or something else).
The cost of the solution isn't the issue, and I'm not saying linux is the end-all of OS's (I use Linux and NT at home, and my NT box has only one blue screen in the last 15 months). Frustration is an issue, and some of are far less patient than others. Even if I 'get my job done and get what I want' at the end of the day, I will always note that I *could* have done a lot more if I didn't have to reboot my workstation / server / foobox a couple of times today. I'd be happy to get away from it, but not happy with the results.
A difference in personal standards. I actually expect something of myself, unlike many people in the corporate world, who seem to expect a lot from others and little from themselves.
I know Quantum makes some of these, supposedly up to 4/8 GB now... I've only seen the ~1GB model. Basically a hard drive case with lots of DRAM and a SCSI interface. A little costly, but the performance is great (it can max out just about any bus you put it on). One of those on a U2/3W chain can do a lot of good for your system. Neat toys.
>Antiques Road Show meets God Hehe - that was funny.
My fav are the people who hope that the man made of craft sticks by their Aunt Tille during the depression when they didn't even have toilet paper or shoes and they had to sweep out the newspaper that they were using as a house with nothing but these craftsticks and then she glued them together and now they couldn't sweep but it's old and I bet it's worth a lot since it's a real old thing, right? and then the guy says, well, it's mostly senimental value...
The actual article (in the Hololulu paper) didn't have much info, and neither does this post [-2; waste of bandwith]
>effect is also a transitive verb >check the dictionary, it seems to say your troll is misguided and archaic.
nope, actually - 'effected' has a totally different meaning, even as a verb.
He effected the change, but the change affected her.
He caused the change, the change did not cause her, and was not caused by her, it just happened to alter circumstances that she cared about.
Not the same at all.
Affect as a noun (emphasis on the other syllable) relates more to mood. 'She has a flattened affect due to her use of meth years earlier' is one of the more popular uses. Killing off of dopamine receptors, that sort of thing.
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The NY St. Thruway has exits 21, 21B and 21A (in that order... in NJ, there's lots of "Exit 15 (was exit 4b)" kind of signs... pretty funny.
"Where do I turn off?"
"The exit formerly known as 9"
You could still use BogoMIPS, everybody's favorite!
Just one more reason to disable it - that and the flashing color front page (when moving the mouse over the random pixel graphic thing (wasted page, hello??))
>puny black type /. - not good for full paragraph reading...
more like miniscule... A couple of sizes smaller than the "Reply to This" links on
Maple works well on Linux, and is (for certain things) much better than Mathematica... it all depends on what you use it for. Maple is much better than it was in 95/96... ugh.
A personal choice issue, for the most part.
Star Office works well, too. KOffice looks pretty sweet...
"Well, NTFS is cut up in 4k chunks, so it really doesn't matter. You'll never notice those extra few bytes on larger files..."
.rtf, and came in at ~1MB in Office 97... haven't installed Word2k... I saw it on a machine and nearly cried out loud "Oh my...! What *have* they done!!!"
I had a report that was ~30-40k in
Scary...
I've had the same thing happen to one of my posts... but I've had it happen before the server change, too...
Ok, I've seen 'CHA' mentioned a couple of times here... google isn't helpful (Carribean Hotel Assoc and Certified Horsemanship Assoc don't seem relevant). Of what do you speak?
I'm amazed that got through the new lameness filter (the caps, not the content)...
[troll]
/. - as cheap as ARS Digita, with 0xFF times the crap, and none of the entrance requirements. Whoo-hoo.
/.
The 'average Slashdotter' used to have at least a 10/11th grade education, where they tell you in chemistry about endo/exothermic reactions. In fact, it's something many of us learned in middle school...
Not to specifically rag on this AC, but there has been a definite decline in the average slashdotter's knowledge. Good thing we have a lot of others to help everyone out (look, the system works!!!).
Group learning via
Of course, you don't get a cert from
>Therefore, YOU are radioactive.
but... but.... I lived in NJ for 20 years, I can't... oh, nevermind...
Time to sell my 21" CRT and get one of those multiple-18" flat-panels... (just another excuse for new toys)
Yeah, it should also be noted that the operators at Chernobyl were running the reactor at over 110% of spec 'to see what would happen'... they held it there too long, and the safetys couldn't bring it back. Normally, plants don't run near peak capacity, and are much less dangerous... human error strikes again (both on the design, and operation...) Definitely a lesson learned. A costly one, though...
There's also the usual arguments about the other types of enviornmental pollution caused by hydro power - areas flooded by dams, causing habitat shifts and the like. Just thought I'd point it out, since everybody is ripping on everything else, too 8^)
>Kibo, perhaps?
Damn... Kibo...
Some of the extra +'s on my geek code... I wonder if those ever expire...
I'm currently running 1.1.2 on my RS/6k (AIX 4.3) - took a little effort, but was amazingly easier to get working than KDE 1.1.1 or GNOME (though blackbox and iceWM worked almost straight out).
I'll probably wait until 2.0(.x) is out, but has anyone even given any of these pre-2.0 sources a shot? I'd be interested.
Yup... there's +2 noise, but most moderators are more than willing to take the +2s down rather quickly... even if they aren't noise. [insert standard argument about how it should be 'Use +1 Bonus' instead of 'No Score +1 Bonus']
All you need is to be above 25 karma, and it used to be (a long time ago) that M2 alone could get you close to 30 points... never heard of the >40 posts thing before...
As for who gets moderator status, I only get it when I don't post for about four days in a row... but hey, I'll live. 5 points are so few...
[posting with the bonus enabled to see if I can burn some karma]
People work far too hard at being offended. It's a generic term. We had a seminar where such phrases as 'the common man' were to be avoided, as to maintain non-sexist language... And to think, english is one of the only languages that doesn't have almost every noun specifically masculine or feminine... and in all the other languages, the plurals of mixed groups are always male (yes, yes, due to their male-dominated society, of course - whatever).
If you don't wake up every day trying to be offended by other people, you'll be a lot happier. Trust me.
If you have a comment limit set (i.e. browse all at/above Score:1)...
At the bottom off each story, you'll see:
128 of 256 comments -- there's a ~50% S/N
some of the science articles rank pretty well. I've seen:
146 comments -- close to 100% Signal
Assume everything at 0 and below is noise, and, while some of what is at 1 is noise, too, it's not a bad estimator - some of those posts at 0 aren't noise, but they don't always get modded up...
Works pretty well...
but it's completely unreadable without any whitespace...
[/flame]
You do make some good points, but hey, as person "J", I tend to get very annoyed if my workstation slows down, much less crashes twice in a day. Nothing is more frustrating than tool-related lack of productivity (whether you are trying to be productive doing your real job, or something else).
The cost of the solution isn't the issue, and I'm not saying linux is the end-all of OS's (I use Linux and NT at home, and my NT box has only one blue screen in the last 15 months). Frustration is an issue, and some of are far less patient than others. Even if I 'get my job done and get what I want' at the end of the day, I will always note that I *could* have done a lot more if I didn't have to reboot my workstation / server / foobox a couple of times today. I'd be happy to get away from it, but not happy with the results.
A difference in personal standards. I actually expect something of myself, unlike many people in the corporate world, who seem to expect a lot from others and little from themselves.
I know Quantum makes some of these, supposedly up to 4/8 GB now... I've only seen the ~1GB model. Basically a hard drive case with lots of DRAM and a SCSI interface. A little costly, but the performance is great (it can max out just about any bus you put it on). One of those on a U2/3W chain can do a lot of good for your system. Neat toys.
>Antiques Road Show meets God
Hehe - that was funny.
My fav are the people who hope that the man made of craft sticks by their Aunt Tille during the depression when they didn't even have toilet paper or shoes and they had to sweep out the newspaper that they were using as a house with nothing but these craftsticks and then she glued them together and now they couldn't sweep but it's old and I bet it's worth a lot since it's a real old thing, right? and then the guy says, well, it's mostly senimental value...
The actual article (in the Hololulu paper) didn't have much info, and neither does this post [-2; waste of bandwith]
>effect is also a transitive verb
>check the dictionary, it seems to say your troll is misguided and archaic.
nope, actually - 'effected' has a totally different meaning, even as a verb.
He effected the change, but the change affected her.
He caused the change, the change did not cause her, and was not caused by her, it just happened to alter circumstances that she cared about.
Not the same at all.
Affect as a noun (emphasis on the other syllable) relates more to mood. 'She has a flattened affect due to her use of meth years earlier' is one of the more popular uses. Killing off of dopamine receptors, that sort of thing.
Again - Not the same at all.
s/negligable/negligible/
[/beating head]