No more energy research, no more parks, no more public education, no more low income housing, no more roads & bridges. What a grand utopia he has planned for us.
The 'liberal fallacy' is defined as "if the government doesn't do it, it doesn't happen."
Actually Gaddafi went for the legion of supermodel body guards, not the little people. Seriously, that kind of Bond Villain. No, seriously.
And it was all about the gold too, so the only part that isn't Ian Flemming is the 9 months of military operations it took to get him, instead of one handsome Brit.
Every time the Microsoft/Apple/Oracle alliance astroturfers here insist that the ICS source won't be released I ask them, "and if it is, how will that change your world view?," or similar, and they never respond.
One of them finally got a submission through to the front page, it seems.
Hey, my parents had one. I remember driving around rural Pennsylvania for an hour on vacation looking for a gas station that sold diesel (don't they have any farms there?)
Second, mine smells like fried chicken ('cause I run biodiesel made from chicken fat), thankyouverymuch!
You're the reason everybody behind you in traffic is now obese! Oh, I see, very clever, make them pull off for a KFC stop, thereby ensuring the supply of fryer oil you need to run your hippymobile.;)
when 2600 was a videogame system and not a magazine dedicated to hacking
Flag down, ignoring a common cause.
It was remarkable that Atari was both a corporation and cool enough to name their flagship product after the Captain Crunch tone. Never happen today, which saddens me (OK, Facebook status updates are limited to 420 characters, but that's comparatively weak sauce).
or perhaps an RSS feed served by their own web server under their control?
Yes, an RSS feed is the right answer. It would probably take 2 years to get set up in a government agency. Twitter feed was available by the secretary making an account.
Cool, thanks. I had a Sony Discman in high school that had a "1-bit DAC" marketing sticker on it. My college 'Physics of Music' prof told me it was PWM, but the article you posted finally clears it up for me. One more off the eternal 'figure this out' list!
And seriously, if tab position is your determination for what browser you use, then you are pretty useless.
For me it is. Chromium won't ever be anything more than a toy for me without Tree Style Tabs. My screen is wider than it is tall and I can understand hierarchy.
I keep using Firefox despite its speed issues so I can navigate tabs effectively.
Because they're really really REALLY fucking stupid. That's why.
This. If RIM had announced today they'd done a Blackberry skin on Android (like Amazon or HTC do) with a Blackberry Marketplace for Android and Blackberry security for Android - other vendors would be really worried. They'd probably have owned corporate and government Android.
Put them in a cage with the people who advocate against TV for kids under 2 because of the marketing effects and watch the idiocy feedback levels reach supercriticality.
Understood. For what it's worth, I made the same arguments to myself and realized I couldn't afford my ideal. I have a non-hotswap case and an MSI motherboard (I've had server-grade mobos fail, and at least it has good capacitors ). Going AMD lets you use ECC RAM without paying for an expensive memory controller (but make sure the BIOS can do it). I have a pair of desktop Hitachi 2TB desktop drives that I use for my VM storage with ZFS and a cheap SSD to help with the seek performance.
Based on my power consumption, I was able to justify buying on credit to replace the gear. The 7th month of electricity savings covered the interest. I'm of course completely ignorant of the credit market conditions in Lithuania.
I'm 10 months in and haven't lost any business or data to the decision, so for me it was the right thing to do.
Definitely true. Is that 3x700 a Pentium-III machine? Those ran so hot!
I recently replaced my old-ish office server with a Phenom x6 and the power and cost ratio is fantastic! I use it to host my VM's that used to run on separate hardware. Cost is presently about $300 for a mobo/cpu/RAM. Dunno how that compares to your electric rates - for me it was a 5-month payback. One of the VM's was formerly a Pentium 4 server (for a PBX) that ran $50/mo in electric costs!
Which existed in the context of the article under discussion. Short version - the ambulance found it necessary to bring two men to the hospital for treatment.
Oh for fuck's sake. I get moderated down for asking a serious question? I really do want to know. What the hell is wrong with you people? I apologize if I stepped on the tail of a Ruby diehard, but the bloom is off the rose and I am curious why.
You may only be extremely, unreasonably excited when speaking about Ruby!
Wasn't Ruby supposed to be modern Perl for the web? Whatever happened to that?
Different community values.
Perl cares greatly about being fast, using few resources, maintaining long-term compatibility. It cares about the sysadmin (CPAN) and sysadmins seem to care about it (perl-Foo-Bar packages for almost all the important stuff). It caused quite a bit of pain about UNICODE and locales in 1997, when ~nobody knew why they were doing that silly stuff. mod_perl has been great for a decade - Passenger was just usable last year and still bothersome and not a real open source project.
I think Ruby might just now be up to a decent speed, perhaps needing to run it under the JVM, and Rails seemingly changes every six weeks. I did some Rails programming 2 years ago, and that code is basically worthless today.
I like Ruby as a language, but I like perl6 too. I like the perl community much better than the Ruby community (for one, they don't leer at me for not wearing thick-rimmed glasses while I don't code in Textmate on my not-a-Macbook-Pro).
That said, I have the Catalyst book and I really don't like that framework either. I did one project with it and I'm happy to have another option to explore. If I were wealthy, I might sit down and invent my perfect web framework, but in real world, I'm grateful others are doing these things for me.
If I ever have to install Android on my TouchPad, perhaps because of a glaring security hole in WebOS that won't get fixed, it will be a very, very sad day.
We all know that day will come - it's just a balancing act of setting up a workflow now on a technology that's (unfortunately) a dead-end and getting to increased productivity today, vs. having to do that all again at an inopportune time.
Or you get lucky, and you can use it until you dispose of it. Maybe the guy you sell it to installs Android. Maybe that's when you decide to sell it. But then again, what do you do at that point?
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No more energy research, no more parks, no more public education, no more low income housing, no more roads & bridges. What a grand utopia he has planned for us.
The 'liberal fallacy' is defined as "if the government doesn't do it, it doesn't happen."
I'll bet you who gets men to Mars first.
Any number of libertarian folks would gladly fondle his balls for free, and probably swallow, too.
Hahaha, and you'd take anal sex from Ted Kennedy's rotting corpse, right?
See, not actually funny or clever.
But did he have a dwarf man-servant?
Duh, somebody had to betray him.
Actually Gaddafi went for the legion of supermodel body guards, not the little people. Seriously, that kind of Bond Villain. No, seriously.
And it was all about the gold too, so the only part that isn't Ian Flemming is the 9 months of military operations it took to get him, instead of one handsome Brit.
News for Nerds != Nerdy News
What's the point in even arguing this? Major world events have been a part of Slashdot since forever. Why bother contesting it?
Is Slashdot pandering for page-views?
You must be new here.
Every time the Microsoft/Apple/Oracle alliance astroturfers here insist that the ICS source won't be released I ask them, "and if it is, how will that change your world view?," or similar, and they never respond.
One of them finally got a submission through to the front page, it seems.
no Diesel Volvos here).
Hey, my parents had one. I remember driving around rural Pennsylvania for an hour on vacation looking for a gas station that sold diesel (don't they have any farms there?)
Second, mine smells like fried chicken ('cause I run biodiesel made from chicken fat), thankyouverymuch!
You're the reason everybody behind you in traffic is now obese! Oh, I see, very clever, make them pull off for a KFC stop, thereby ensuring the supply of fryer oil you need to run your hippymobile. ;)
How about getting rid of TSA, DHS, and cutting the military spending budget by something meaningful
Privatizing the TSA is right there on the front page of the summary.
The airlines won't treat their customers with malice and disrespect. They also won't get a pass on sexual assaults.
So what are we left with if both WD and Seagate are out of the question?
Order some of the Hitachis before they're switched over to the lower quality fabs.
Samsung, I guess. Not as bad, but not great either.
Do you think governments and corporations world-wide will be able to kill the Internet as we know it?
This gets at DNS - TCP/IP was supposedly designed to withstand a nuclear attack. DNS can't even survive a court order.
Do things like P2PDNS and Namecoin have an inevitable future?
when 2600 was a videogame system and not a magazine dedicated to hacking
Flag down, ignoring a common cause.
It was remarkable that Atari was both a corporation and cool enough to name their flagship product after the Captain Crunch tone. Never happen today, which saddens me (OK, Facebook status updates are limited to 420 characters, but that's comparatively weak sauce).
(great comment, by the way).
or perhaps an RSS feed served by their own web server under their control?
Yes, an RSS feed is the right answer. It would probably take 2 years to get set up in a government agency. Twitter feed was available by the secretary making an account.
Hey, if you could bundle this up into an extension, you could sell it to all the whiners on that comment!
Star Wars battle chess, duh.
Make mine real chrome, please.
How exactly does the OS make a difference in the performance of a SATA drive?
In general, good use of NCQ, elevator optimization, block-alignment quirks lists, etc. can have an impact.
In this specific case, I dunno what he's suggesting.
Cool, thanks. I had a Sony Discman in high school that had a "1-bit DAC" marketing sticker on it. My college 'Physics of Music' prof told me it was PWM, but the article you posted finally clears it up for me. One more off the eternal 'figure this out' list!
And seriously, if tab position is your determination for what browser you use, then you are pretty useless.
For me it is. Chromium won't ever be anything more than a toy for me without Tree Style Tabs. My screen is wider than it is tall and I can understand hierarchy.
I keep using Firefox despite its speed issues so I can navigate tabs effectively.
Because they're really really REALLY fucking stupid. That's why.
This. If RIM had announced today they'd done a Blackberry skin on Android (like Amazon or HTC do) with a Blackberry Marketplace for Android and Blackberry security for Android - other vendors would be really worried. They'd probably have owned corporate and government Android.
Instead, the competition went out for drinks.
Put them in a cage with the people who advocate against TV for kids under 2 because of the marketing effects and watch the idiocy feedback levels reach supercriticality.
Understood. For what it's worth, I made the same arguments to myself and realized I couldn't afford my ideal. I have a non-hotswap case and an MSI motherboard (I've had server-grade mobos fail, and at least it has good capacitors ). Going AMD lets you use ECC RAM without paying for an expensive memory controller (but make sure the BIOS can do it). I have a pair of desktop Hitachi 2TB desktop drives that I use for my VM storage with ZFS and a cheap SSD to help with the seek performance.
Based on my power consumption, I was able to justify buying on credit to replace the gear. The 7th month of electricity savings covered the interest. I'm of course completely ignorant of the credit market conditions in Lithuania.
I'm 10 months in and haven't lost any business or data to the decision, so for me it was the right thing to do.
Really? Even though that's THE FUCKING TERM!?!?! /endpsychoticrage
Their activities may have involved cracking, but that's like calling a bank robber a drill operator.
Definitely true. Is that 3x700 a Pentium-III machine? Those ran so hot!
I recently replaced my old-ish office server with a Phenom x6 and the power and cost ratio is fantastic! I use it to host my VM's that used to run on separate hardware. Cost is presently about $300 for a mobo/cpu/RAM. Dunno how that compares to your electric rates - for me it was a 5-month payback. One of the VM's was formerly a Pentium 4 server (for a PBX) that ran $50/mo in electric costs!
I replied to your statement.
Which existed in the context of the article under discussion. Short version - the ambulance found it necessary to bring two men to the hospital for treatment.
Oh for fuck's sake. I get moderated down for asking a serious question? I really do want to know. What the hell is wrong with you people? I apologize if I stepped on the tail of a Ruby diehard, but the bloom is off the rose and I am curious why.
You may only be extremely, unreasonably excited when speaking about Ruby!
Wasn't Ruby supposed to be modern Perl for the web? Whatever happened to that?
Different community values.
Perl cares greatly about being fast, using few resources, maintaining long-term compatibility. It cares about the sysadmin (CPAN) and sysadmins seem to care about it (perl-Foo-Bar packages for almost all the important stuff). It caused quite a bit of pain about UNICODE and locales in 1997, when ~nobody knew why they were doing that silly stuff. mod_perl has been great for a decade - Passenger was just usable last year and still bothersome and not a real open source project.
I think Ruby might just now be up to a decent speed, perhaps needing to run it under the JVM, and Rails seemingly changes every six weeks. I did some Rails programming 2 years ago, and that code is basically worthless today.
I like Ruby as a language, but I like perl6 too. I like the perl community much better than the Ruby community (for one, they don't leer at me for not wearing thick-rimmed glasses while I don't code in Textmate on my not-a-Macbook-Pro).
That said, I have the Catalyst book and I really don't like that framework either. I did one project with it and I'm happy to have another option to explore. If I were wealthy, I might sit down and invent my perfect web framework, but in real world, I'm grateful others are doing these things for me.
If I ever have to install Android on my TouchPad, perhaps because of a glaring security hole in WebOS that won't get fixed, it will be a very, very sad day.
We all know that day will come - it's just a balancing act of setting up a workflow now on a technology that's (unfortunately) a dead-end and getting to increased productivity today, vs. having to do that all again at an inopportune time.
Or you get lucky, and you can use it until you dispose of it. Maybe the guy you sell it to installs Android. Maybe that's when you decide to sell it. But then again, what do you do at that point?
There's no 'right' answer.