Let's see... the average song is 3 minutes, one penny per 3 minutes, let's unrealistically assume I work 8 hours a day. That's $1.60 per day to have this playing all day. That's about $400 per working year.
I think I could buy a lot of music on iTunes for $400 and listen to it for more than a year.
Well, I hate to shoot myself down, but I found pretty conclusive evidence that "in the sticks" is the correct phrase and "in the Styx" is the abberation.
... I have never heard of the phrase ending in 'Styx' instead of 'sticks' and nobody I know has either.
[Google says:] "I live out in the Styx": 4 pages. "I live out in the Sticks": 924 pages Do you have any references?...
I've known the phrase as "in the Styx" for as long as I can remember. It refers to the river Styx at the edge of the world before entering Hades (ie: as far away as you can get). The first time I read "in the sticks" I cringed, and I see it more and more often now. Being right is not a popularity contest, however, languages change over time and 924 to 4 might mean "in the sticks" has BECOME the right way to say it... Here is the only online reference I could dig up on short notice.
When I used to play Risk years ago, the same scenario would play out again and again. Once someone became the undisputed power ruling over the map, all of the little players would gang up and work together to decimate the big power. They would do this even at the cost of killing themselves.
Now, I'm not saying the Microsoft isn't evil. It is. It's abusive paranoid way of doing business is... not nice to say the least.
But I just think it's interesting to watch all the other players like IBM and Sun doing anything they can to bring down the 'big guy' at any cost. Even if it means spending their resources developing things and giving them away at no profit to themselves.
I think Cringley said it best recently that the only way to beat Microsoft is to NOT focus your efforts and plans as "against Microsoft" in a reactionary way, but to instead focus on "being great" as if Microsoft didn't exist, as Google seems to be doing.
If your measure is number of lines of code per day, then perhaps not. If your measure is new algorithms and technologies that no-one has ever thought of before then I'd say the advanced degrees are a little more pertinent.
> 7:00 - Sushi bar patrons are staring at our party of like 15 people > 8:00 - Sushi bar patrons are staring at 10-12 people drinking sake bombs > 9:00 - Sushi bar patrons are wondering what the hell "naive set theory" is and why the hell all my drunken buddies are talking about it
10:00 am next morning - Hung-over mathematician realizes that Sushi bar patrons not only didn't wonder about mathematical conversations, but didn't notice that mathematicians were in the bar at all.
The original development of XML came from the desire to separate HTML content and formatting into two distinct parts. Soon you will use XHTML and CSS to have machine parsable, web-spiderable content and any formatting you like.
The same goal of separating content and formatting applies to programs. Use XML internally. Your choice of editor can use braces, brackets, tab-indenting, BEGIN/END, or whatever you like best to format the code.
The internal XML format will be easily manipulated by the program itself.
And yes, all this has been possible with LISP for a very long time, before many of you were born. But hey, if the buzzword of the day let's us push this powerfull overdue idea into the mainstream, I'm all for it.
Don't mod this down as off-topic until someone answers please...
Why is is that this article, and other articles often by Cliff, doesn't show up on the slashdot front page? I don't have any setting to ignore Cliff or anything.
I'm really interested in this particular article, as I am in the market for a networked DVD player. I am eagerly awaiting the Linksys, which was suppose to be available months ago, so I can compare it to the Gateway and KISS models.
You spent all day working on their computer. And in return they let you spend two more days digging rocks in a mine. Similar to what they let prison chain gangs do.
But see, that's the second, often overlooked, 'point' of the story. History was changed by a minor alteration, and nobody back in the 'future' knew anything was different. Perhaps these safaris are ALWAYS messing up the timeline and nobody realizes it!
> Remind yourself and your family that life is a tiny drop in the vast ocean of space and time. Our lives, our petty problems, our worries are mere fleeting glimpses in the infinity of the universe. Helps me put things in perspective when I'm depressed/sad/dejected. Maybe it'll help you too.
Damn... now I'm really depressed.
If you consider that a pic-me-up, I'd hate to see what you consider depressing.
> I have no idea what a colo server is (when are slashdot members going to learn to start defining off-beat terms and abreviations when they first use them?)
A colo server is a server that is co-located on an ISP's premises. In other words, a server using rented bandwidth and physical space.
All "off-beat" terms defined: colo= abbr. for co-located server= computer used to offer services is= existential verb ISP=Internet Service Provider premises=a physical location other=alternate words= a group of letters conveying a single meaning rented=a service or good paid for in periodic installments, not owned by the renter bandwidth=a measured amount of data traffic physical=in the real world, as opposed to virtual space=a certain quantity of physical location
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> physicits have said that it would take a quantum computer on the scall of a contemporary computer to achieve feats such as teleportation
Yeah, and all physicits know that if only we had enough computing power, magic would become true.
Let's see... the average song is 3 minutes, one penny per 3 minutes, let's unrealistically assume I work 8 hours a day. That's $1.60 per day to have this playing all day. That's about $400 per working year.
I think I could buy a lot of music on iTunes for $400 and listen to it for more than a year.
> McDonald's burgers. Not meaty enough for carnivores. Not meatless enough for vegetarians. Why do people eat them? Oh yeah, fast and cheap.
Fast, Cheap, Non-toxic.
Pick any Two.
Comprehensive list of anti-FOSS interests:
1. Microsoft
Well, I hate to shoot myself down, but I found pretty conclusive evidence that "in the sticks" is the correct phrase and "in the Styx" is the abberation.
You may begin making fun of me now.
I've known the phrase as "in the Styx" for as long as I can remember. It refers to the river Styx at the edge of the world before entering Hades (ie: as far away as you can get). The first time I read "in the sticks" I cringed, and I see it more and more often now. Being right is not a popularity contest, however, languages change over time and 924 to 4 might mean "in the sticks" has BECOME the right way to say it...
Here is the only online reference I could dig up on short notice.
> I live out in the sticks
I'm sorry to hear you live in a tree.
For myself, I live out in the Styx, the middle of nowhere.
Ironically in the default French, the page is labelled "Les Photos". Not that there's anything wrong with that. Just saying is all...
When I used to play Risk years ago, the same scenario would play out again and again. Once someone became the undisputed power ruling over the map, all of the little players would gang up and work together to decimate the big power. They would do this even at the cost of killing themselves.
Now, I'm not saying the Microsoft isn't evil. It is. It's abusive paranoid way of doing business is... not nice to say the least.
But I just think it's interesting to watch all the other players like IBM and Sun doing anything they can to bring down the 'big guy' at any cost. Even if it means spending their resources developing things and giving them away at no profit to themselves.
I think Cringley said it best recently that the only way to beat Microsoft is to NOT focus your efforts and plans as "against Microsoft" in a reactionary way, but to instead focus on "being great" as if Microsoft didn't exist, as Google seems to be doing.
> advanced degress != coding ability/work output
If your measure is number of lines of code per day, then perhaps not.
If your measure is new algorithms and technologies that no-one has ever thought of before then I'd say the advanced degrees are a little more pertinent.
>Of course this is only the research of one company over a one week period.
And using only one hand, no less.
> Why run on a threadmill or pedal on a stationary bicycle, when you can run or bike outside?
So I can watch Buffy, Babylon5, and X-Files reruns on my Tivo while I am exercising.
I think you find them in Thailand. Why don't you go down to the nearest police station and ask them to help arrange the trip?
> look for people who have all four original grandparents still living
You'd either end up with very long-lived people, or people who start pumping out babies when they are 13.
> ... [all kinds of anal-fisting-gaping-hole-miscellaneous-bodily-flui d-drinking deleted] ...
I think this is a description of a painting by Hieronymus Bosch...
> 7:00 - Sushi bar patrons are staring at our party of like 15 people
> 8:00 - Sushi bar patrons are staring at 10-12 people drinking sake bombs
> 9:00 - Sushi bar patrons are wondering what the hell "naive set theory" is and why the hell all my drunken buddies are talking about it
10:00 am next morning - Hung-over mathematician realizes that Sushi bar patrons not only didn't wonder about mathematical conversations, but didn't notice that mathematicians were in the bar at all.
> 2. Given: A certain positive percentage of primes differ by two.
Not necessarily true. It's equally possible that a certain finite number of primes differ by two, not an infinite percentage of primes.
Give me my cookie now.
Agreed.
The original development of XML came from the desire to separate HTML content and formatting into two distinct parts. Soon you will use XHTML and CSS to have machine parsable, web-spiderable content and any formatting you like.
The same goal of separating content and formatting applies to programs. Use XML internally. Your choice of editor can use braces, brackets, tab-indenting, BEGIN/END, or whatever you like best to format the code.
The internal XML format will be easily manipulated by the program itself.
And yes, all this has been possible with LISP for a very long time, before many of you were born. But hey, if the buzzword of the day let's us push this powerfull overdue idea into the mainstream, I'm all for it.
Don't mod this down as off-topic until someone answers please...
Why is is that this article, and other articles often by Cliff, doesn't show up on the slashdot front page?
I don't have any setting to ignore Cliff or anything.
I'm really interested in this particular article, as I am in the market for a networked DVD player. I am eagerly awaiting the Linksys, which was suppose to be available months ago, so I can compare it to the Gateway and KISS models.
So let me see if I got this straight...
You spent all day working on their computer.
And in return they let you spend two more days digging rocks in a mine. Similar to what they let prison chain gangs do.
Nice barter.
But see, that's the second, often overlooked, 'point' of the story. History was changed by a minor alteration, and nobody back in the 'future' knew anything was different. Perhaps these safaris are ALWAYS messing up the timeline and nobody realizes it!
I think you gluttons for punishment need, no DESERVE, to see 'Waiting For Godot'.
> Remind yourself and your family that life is a tiny drop in the vast ocean of space and time. Our lives, our petty problems, our worries are mere fleeting glimpses in the infinity of the universe.
Helps me put things in perspective when I'm depressed/sad/dejected. Maybe it'll help you too.
Damn... now I'm really depressed.
If you consider that a pic-me-up, I'd hate to see what you consider depressing.
> be more energy conscious and don't waste it, use *exactly* what you need
Hold on a sec, all these servers are putting out a lot of heat I have to turn up the AC in here. Ok, better, now what were you saying?
> I have no idea what a colo server is (when are slashdot members going to learn to start defining off-beat terms and abreviations when they first use them?)
A colo server is a server that is co-located on an ISP's premises. In other words, a server using rented bandwidth and physical space.
All "off-beat" terms defined:
colo= abbr. for co-located
server= computer used to offer services
is= existential verb
ISP=Internet Service Provider
premises=a physical location
other=alternate
words= a group of letters conveying a single meaning
rented=a service or good paid for in periodic installments, not owned by the renter
bandwidth=a measured amount of data traffic
physical=in the real world, as opposed to virtual
space=a certain quantity of physical location