> tell the car not to exceed 100kph or whatever, and a simple rev-limiter/electronic throttle would maintain the speed.
That's a great idea. So when an 18 wheeler flips over in front of me and I have to get the hell out of the way, some lawyers electronic proxy will not let my car move faster than a set speed?
Human judgement should ALWAYS take priority over inflexible rules.
You can expect lots of sissy comments from posters afraid to improve themselves by learning something new. Ignore them.
Roll up your sleeves, don some rubber gloves, and start by straightening out that mess.
If you've ever made a really clean rackmount you know what to do. Make all the wires go in straight lines with nice ties keeping them together.
Now, I'm sure you've seen a movie where the protagonist has to defuse a bomb by cutting the correct colored wire, often in conditions that impair his color perception. This is very similar. You should use the same basic strategy, which is hover the wire cutters over each wire and drip sweat into that bubbling, crackling maze of death. Try not to flinch when each drop of sweat causes an electrical arc to sparc towards your face. At the last second when you think the entire box is about the explode (determined by sound) quickly cut the wire that seemed LEAST LIKELY. Note it is very important that you do NOT cut the wire that you were hovering over for a long time because it seemed right. That is the wrong wire and cutting it will kill you. Cut the one next to it.
Next add 'High Voltage Electrical work' to your resume and ask for a raise!
Are you going to compare him to a Nazi next? That's inevitably where stupid arguments always end up.
> forcing them to buy profiles Forcing them? That's a stretch. Nobody can FORCE you to buy things for a computer game.
> nothing noble in making a profit on something that you did not create You mean like a doctor, lawyer, police, retailer, actor, fireman, accountant, teacher, clerk, salesman, etc, etc? Not everybody creates something.
> in a emergency situation would try to profit by inflating the prices on goods hard working people need to survive. Oh man! That's your best one yet. How is selling a pretend item for a computer game in any way similar to profiteering food, shelter, or clothing? Turn off the computer and go outside for a while.
> the 'official' penetration of Linux into the desktop market is something around 1%. > he may have stumbled on several times that percentage of desktop Linux installations.
If this is true it would be really great for us at Slashdot because then we could brag about a higher Linux desktop market share to our girlfriends...
No wait, that can't be right...
Well anyway, he said "Penetration". That's gotta be good, right?
Dude, the other day I was like back-channeling in this new-age general education requirement class when HOLY SHIT Shirley MacLaine starting typing through my fingers. I was back-channeling channeling. It was like, woah.
Everyone is talking about how back-channel discussions will allow students to discuss the lecture in real-time, refining their questions and improving their understanding....
Come on!
Has it been THAT long since you've been in school?!
Here's a typical back-channel discussion:
"Heh heh the professor said BUTT" "No, he said BUT, moron" "Check out the rack on the girl in the third row on the right" "Sweeeeeet" "Yo, that guy with the stupid hair fell asleep. HAHAHA look he's drooling on his desk!" "HAHAH! Thats awesome! Hey is anybody on this channel near that guy? Throw something at him" "Yeah I'm behind him. Watch this."... "HAHAHA" "Hee Hee Hee Hee" "Score!" "Yeah! ROTFL!!!"
I am not a lame poster...
I am really not a lame poster...
I am certainly not a lame poster...
I am most definitely not a lame poster...
I am in no way a lame poster...
I am not even related to a lame poster...
> one IP to each person... what will the other 2 billion do?
Ummm, continue to eat grubs and dig holes to pee in like they do now?
"Mmsah, hand me that stick to crush these termites into an edible paste." "Here Pabi we have no more sticks, but this scrap of bone will do." "Hey Mmsah, I hear they don't have enough IP addresses for us." "Mmmm that really sucks. Now I'll have to use NAT."
Since many of us work for T. John Dick I would disagree.
Start your own website, "Slasherdot: Strictly News for Nerds. Stuff that matters to one particular Anonymous Coward."
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> speed to completion [...] Perl not Java
Does everyone agree with me on that? I was sort of hoping someone who loves Java might try to argue/explain to me why this isn't true (in their opinion). I'd like to find out if I am missing something about Java. I mean why is the whole industry so nuts about it?
> Ah yes, the political equivalent of a ten year old bursting into tears. If all else fails, play the "but won't somebody think of the children" card.
At least he didn't compare anyone to Hitler.
> And should this same principle apply to anybody providing any form of anonymity to others ?
You mean like anyone who accepts cash?
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> If my boss comes to me with a business problem and it can be solved in a day with Java, as opposed to a couple of days in Perl, VB or whatever
If you can solve any problem in a day with Java that would take a couple of days in Perl or VB I want to know what parallel dimension you are living in.
Perhaps you could argue that Java could solve a two year problem that would take three years in Perl or VB. But one day problems are pretty much ALWAYS faster in Perl or VB. Of course, generalizations are always wrong.
I have found Java to be incredibly time consuming to write compared to Perl. Yeah the Java may be 'better architected' or 'more maintainable', but if speed to completion is my priority it's going to be Perl not Java.
Nice site::: Error in mySQL:: mySQL error: Duplicate entry '1058295774' for key 1 In the file:/home/listbid/public_html/stats/counter.php Line number: 278 Error number: 1062
What BS. The blacklists don't work that fast. And even if they did the spam-blasters could work in 5 minute intervals. Send for 5 minutes, resend the batch. Next batch.
I really like the idea, and I think it will work wonders (if you are willing to accept your nearly-instant email now having approx. 1 hour delay).
However, here is how the spammers will adapt: MailBlast 2.0 will send each mail TWICE. The first time to get the triplet on the greylist, the second time to actually send it. Or a little more sophisticated, it will run in one-hour blocks, and at the end of the hour, re-run the previous hours emails. No queue or other real-SMTP server functionality necessary.
A study commissioned by the fox, today issued a strong warning against putting a lock on the henhouse. "Locks are dangerous things. They can pinch your fingers. They cause changes in behavior that are undesirable."
> There is the potential (and its likely) that the GM version is more hardy than the natural version
Are you saying that five-assed monkeys may have some advantages over natural one-assed monkeys in the wild? Even that is is *likely*? I don't think a feature that makes a pet more appealing for purchase in a pet store is *likely* to give it a survivor advantage in the wild. Fish with neon banners scrolling across their sides will be easy prey for predators and will use up metabolic resources making glow-in-the-dark juice instead of oh... glucose or hormones or something...
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Throw out the others, everyone must use GNOME now.
Throw out the others, everyone must use KDE now.
> tell the car not to exceed 100kph or whatever, and a simple rev-limiter/electronic throttle would maintain the speed.
That's a great idea. So when an 18 wheeler flips over in front of me and I have to get the hell out of the way, some lawyers electronic proxy will not let my car move faster than a set speed?
Human judgement should ALWAYS take priority over inflexible rules.
> The team I was on once took in $1.3 over a 2 week team play
A dollar thirty?
It's a good thing you don't work for NASA. You'd be crashing probes left and right.
You can expect lots of sissy comments from posters afraid to improve themselves by learning something new. Ignore them.
Roll up your sleeves, don some rubber gloves, and start by straightening out that mess.
If you've ever made a really clean rackmount you know what to do. Make all the wires go in straight lines with nice ties keeping them together.
Now, I'm sure you've seen a movie where the protagonist has to defuse a bomb by cutting the correct colored wire, often in conditions that impair his color perception. This is very similar. You should use the same basic strategy, which is hover the wire cutters over each wire and drip sweat into that bubbling, crackling maze of death. Try not to flinch when each drop of sweat causes an electrical arc to sparc towards your face. At the last second when you think the entire box is about the explode (determined by sound) quickly cut the wire that seemed LEAST LIKELY. Note it is very important that you do NOT cut the wire that you were hovering over for a long time because it seemed right. That is the wrong wire and cutting it will kill you. Cut the one next to it.
Next add 'High Voltage Electrical work' to your resume and ask for a raise!
Are you going to compare him to a Nazi next? That's inevitably where stupid arguments always end up.
> forcing them to buy profiles
Forcing them? That's a stretch. Nobody can FORCE you to buy things for a computer game.
> nothing noble in making a profit on something that you did not create
You mean like a doctor, lawyer, police, retailer, actor, fireman, accountant, teacher, clerk, salesman, etc, etc? Not everybody creates something.
> in a emergency situation would try to profit by inflating the prices on goods hard working people need to survive.
Oh man! That's your best one yet. How is selling a pretend item for a computer game in any way similar to profiteering food, shelter, or clothing?
Turn off the computer and go outside for a while.
> the 'official' penetration of Linux into the desktop market is something around 1%.
> he may have stumbled on several times that percentage of desktop Linux installations.
If this is true it would be really great for us at Slashdot because then we could brag about a higher Linux desktop market share to our girlfriends...
No wait, that can't be right...
Well anyway, he said "Penetration". That's gotta be good, right?
Dude, the other day I was like back-channeling in this new-age general education requirement class when HOLY SHIT Shirley MacLaine starting typing through my fingers. I was back-channeling channeling. It was like, woah.
Everyone is talking about how back-channel discussions will allow students to discuss the lecture in real-time, refining their questions and improving their understanding....
...
Come on!
Has it been THAT long since you've been in school?!
Here's a typical back-channel discussion:
"Heh heh the professor said BUTT"
"No, he said BUT, moron"
"Check out the rack on the girl in the third row on the right"
"Sweeeeeet"
"Yo, that guy with the stupid hair fell asleep. HAHAHA look he's drooling on his desk!"
"HAHAH! Thats awesome! Hey is anybody on this channel near that guy? Throw something at him"
"Yeah I'm behind him. Watch this."
"HAHAHA"
"Hee Hee Hee Hee"
"Score!"
"Yeah! ROTFL!!!"
Ha-Ha!
I am not a lame poster...
I am really not a lame poster...
I am certainly not a lame poster...
I am most definitely not a lame poster...
I am in no way a lame poster...
I am not even related to a lame poster...
My answer depends on if you are a man or a woman.
> one IP to each person ... what will the other 2 billion do?
Ummm, continue to eat grubs and dig holes to pee in like they do now?
"Mmsah, hand me that stick to crush these termites into an edible paste."
"Here Pabi we have no more sticks, but this scrap of bone will do."
"Hey Mmsah, I hear they don't have enough IP addresses for us."
"Mmmm that really sucks. Now I'll have to use NAT."
Damn... at least I know I'm not the only one.
My wife said I could get a girlfriend as long as I take out the garbage on my way out.
> "we're going to need something like 100 IP addresses for each human being."
We already have 65534 IP address for each human being. They are 192.168.0.0 to 192.168.255.255.
Use NAT. Problem solved.
Enjoy the IPs. You can thank me later.
Since many of us work for T. John Dick I would disagree.
Start your own website, "Slasherdot: Strictly News for Nerds. Stuff that matters to one particular Anonymous Coward."
> speed to completion [...] Perl not Java
Does everyone agree with me on that?
I was sort of hoping someone who loves Java might try to argue/explain to me why this isn't true (in their opinion).
I'd like to find out if I am missing something about Java. I mean why is the whole industry so nuts about it?
> Ah yes, the political equivalent of a ten year old bursting into tears. If all else fails, play the "but won't somebody think of the children" card.
At least he didn't compare anyone to Hitler.
> And should this same principle apply to anybody providing any form of anonymity to others ?
You mean like anyone who accepts cash?
> If my boss comes to me with a business problem and it can be solved in a day with Java, as opposed to a couple of days in Perl, VB or whatever
If you can solve any problem in a day with Java that would take a couple of days in Perl or VB I want to know what parallel dimension you are living in.
Perhaps you could argue that Java could solve a two year problem that would take three years in Perl or VB. But one day problems are pretty much ALWAYS faster in Perl or VB. Of course, generalizations are always wrong.
I have found Java to be incredibly time consuming to write compared to Perl. Yeah the Java may be 'better architected' or 'more maintainable', but if speed to completion is my priority it's going to be Perl not Java.
>I run the site listbid.com
:: Error in mySQL :: /home/listbid/public_html/stats/counter.php
Nice site:
mySQL error: Duplicate entry '1058295774' for key 1
In the file:
Line number: 278
Error number: 1062
Did you ever think maybe the machines are LYING to the humans about why they keep people alive and run the Matrix?
What BS. The blacklists don't work that fast.
And even if they did the spam-blasters could work in 5 minute intervals. Send for 5 minutes, resend the batch. Next batch.
HAHAHAHAHA! Oh my GOD! I am laughing so hard it hurts!
Way to sneak a spoiler in!!!!
You ruined it for me, you evil bastard!
But it was worth it for the laugh.
Oh... if I only had MOD points for this one.
Please mod this up and up and up.
Of course, doing that would ruin Harry Potter for more people...
I really like the idea, and I think it will work wonders (if you are willing to accept your nearly-instant email now having approx. 1 hour delay).
However, here is how the spammers will adapt:
MailBlast 2.0 will send each mail TWICE. The first time to get the triplet on the greylist, the second time to actually send it. Or a little more sophisticated, it will run in one-hour blocks, and at the end of the hour, re-run the previous hours emails. No queue or other real-SMTP server functionality necessary.
A study commissioned by the fox, today issued a strong warning against putting a lock on the henhouse. "Locks are dangerous things. They can pinch your fingers. They cause changes in behavior that are undesirable."
> There is the potential (and its likely) that the GM version is more hardy than the natural version
Are you saying that five-assed monkeys may have some advantages over natural one-assed monkeys in the wild? Even that is is *likely*?
I don't think a feature that makes a pet more appealing for purchase in a pet store is *likely* to give it a survivor advantage in the wild.
Fish with neon banners scrolling across their sides will be easy prey for predators and will use up metabolic resources making glow-in-the-dark juice instead of oh... glucose or hormones or something...