I was responding to the assertion that I was saying that OSS developers are bad credit risks. See the subject. I'm saying that although OSS developers aren't necessarily credit risks, they tend to have bad credit ratings. Also, the original AC who posted the reply to my statement made a comment about "so much for OSS in business." Which also has nothing to do with anything. Shit, sorry for responding to a troll. --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
Well, then there'd be no record of you making payments on interest. (That's what they're interested in. They couldn't care less if you pay in full; it's the ability to pay for interest that builds up your credit rating. I know it's stupid.) Myself, I'm responsible with my money, which is part of my problem - I've never needed a credit card, since I've always had the up-front cash for buying things. The problem is that it could be over $500 (my debit card has a $500 purchase limit) and then I'd have to pay with check, but it'd be over $200 so the store would have to authorize it. So, since I've always been responsible with my money, I've never had to get credit extended, and so now I can't get a good credit rating, even in situations where credit's inappropriate.
Of course, this all boils down to the fact that in the 80s, when credit cards were suddenly fashionable, the various credit agencies extended way too much credit to people who didn't know how to handle it. So the banks all got burned (only after these people with too much credit all went bankrupt, of course), and now they're incredibly paranoid, and any infraction on one's credit history, no matter how minor ("payment was two days late"), is immediately a red flag.
I didn't say that. I said that OSS developers tend to have bad credit ratings. It's for a number of reasons, and it varies by the individual. Some, like myself, are just too algorithmic and cautious to ever get haphazard credit extended, and so have nothing good on their credit history. Other OSS developers have no income, or are too driven by their passions to hold down a steady job. Changing jobs looks bad on one's credit record too. Neither point has anything to do with OSS in business. Perhaps I should have been more clear. --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
I hope that they realize that most opensource developers have... less-than-perfect credit histories.:) For a 12.99% fixed APR, no fees, LinuxFund contributions per purchase, and travel services, I'd be willing to hunt these guys down when I'm at ALS.:)
How many people here have this problem, btw: I've never had a credit card or a loan, so I don't have any good marks on my credit history, but a couple times in the past, bills got sent in late for varying reasons (moving or being on vacation or whatever) and so I have a couple of bad marks, and so no self-respecting credit agency will even consider me unless I'm willing to pay a huge annual fee. My checks are also often rejected as being "bad" or "high risks" because of this. So hopefully the linuxfund credit card is a lot more lenient on credit history.
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I think the main issue regarding Windows is the fact that the hardware is sold separate from the OS but people are required to buy the OS along with the hardware. With Macs, you don't have the luxury of those claims, since a Macintosh computer refers to both the hardware and the OS. Also, you can't buy MacOS standalone (just upgrades), correct? So determining the value of that is difficult at best. I've never seen the MacOS full (OEM) version EULA, but it probably doesn't include a clause for returning the OS to the place of purchase.
Of course, that's somewhat hypocritical, since until recently, Windows PCs were sold as the PC and the OS, but with PCs there's a definite case to be made for the separation of hardware and software (since it was possible to get 'naked' systems in the past); it's never been possible to get a naked Mac, at least not in legitimate, authorized, direct channels.
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Well, you'd get slightly more optimal compression for the runlengths to have a separate tree, and you'd also be able to have runlengths >256. Saves a few bytes.:) And the position of the RLE code will certainly depend on what sort of data it is. For an image with lots of solid colors, it would be nearer the top, but for your average textfile it'd be closer to the bottom.
And yeah, DH has the advantage where the tree starts out with all leaves being at the lowest level (basically being binary code, heh)... I guess a priority heap would be a good implementation to use, yeah... I just figured one would rebuild the tree after each character. It doesn't take *that* long.:) (Of course, for a large file that'd be real painful.) By removing the initial tree, however, you do lose the implicit encryption in the general case, but there's no reason you couldn't have a different starting tree, and then you could also use trees tuned for different applications and get a bit more compression anyway. Even with non-optimized initial trees (i.e. all characters at the bottom), you have about 8.578E506 initial trees to choose from, though admittedly that would start out with just your basic one-to-one replacement thing, and if anyone wanted to crack the code it'd be easy to just assume the trivial, ordered tree, decompress to trivially-compressed plaintext, and then work out the substitutions later. Ohwell. --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
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That's actually a pretty neat idea... you'd probably want a separate Huffman tree for runlengths though, rather than using a fixed-size runlength size. I don't think it'd be really that useful in real-world data, but it wouldn't hurt any on top of normal Huffman (except by having an additional entry in the tree and a second, albeit small, tree). However, I think that other schemes such as dynamic Huffman (where the tree is modified as it goes based on the changing frequencies) would likely work out better on average. Perhaps dynamic runlength Huffman would be good... and of course, it's all lossless, for that extra-specialness.:) --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
There's a difference between free speech and what you describe as free speech. Unsolicited commercial email is not free speech; advertisements are not protected. However, free speech that is (well, is supposed to be) protected but is under threat is more than just pornography. For starters, what about kids who think they might be homosexual or transgendered? Where are they supposed to go if all sexuality information is banned? What would you do if, because of decency laws, you suddenly couldn't download a piece of text just because it has the word 'fuck' in it? You may not think that would affect you, but in that case, you might want to do a grep on the Linux kernel source.
I happen to like MUCKing. While I MUCK I happen to like certain activities as an intellectual challenge that would likely be banned simply because they have sexual content. What is wrong with sexual content? The point of life and the goal as stated in most religions (particularly Christianity) is procreation, but the acts which lead to procreation are taboo. I find this highly hypocritical and disturbing.
My mind, also, would likely be censored. I have thoughts and feelings which many find objectionable but which are part of me. I can't change my very nature just to try to conform to the world, but because of my very nature I am immediately a sinner who can, at best, go to hell by the arbitrary standards setup by many ignorant Christian fundamentalists who are self-contradictory. (Not that all Christian fundamentalists talk out of their asses. I know several who know what they're talking about, and they don't have the same views as me but don't think I'm, by default, unsavable.) I'd also be censored because of my views about these religious groups.
I'm sick of people using porn spam as the example of what "free speech" is trying to protect, because it's not, and never has been. Freedom of speech in the United States of America is specifically to protect people with differing views, lifestyle choices (as long as they don't harm others, of course), and religious beliefs. Information on paganism and homosexuality would certainly be some of the first stuff to be censored after all of the so-called smut were cleared out. Also, my personal religious beliefs (or lack thereof) include that there's nothing wrong with people expressing their sexuality as long as it doesn't interfere with anyone else; getting, creating, and selling pornography is fine by me.
Ultimate Tenchi Muyo is really good about actually using the DVD format properly. It has all 13 episodes of the original series on 2 DVDs, as well as a third disc which is an interactive encyclopedia with information on all the characters, settings, and governments, with lots of video clips and the like as well. However, it's definitely the exception, not the norm... I'm quite annoyed at how, for example, Macross Plus (assuming Viz Video ever sticks to their release dates - after September 28th came and went they quietly pushed it back to October 12th, a practice they've been doing every 2 weeks for many months now) has two 1-hour episodes on each of two DVDs. At least it's not like the VHS version where it's one 1-hour episode on each of 4 $30 tapes. Yuck.
But yeah, all this storage space is more than any industry is willing to put out. I mean, with DVD audio, one could fit all of the Beatles' albums on one or two discs (depending on the bitrate), but nobody would want to sell all their albums in one package for $30, and nobody would want to pay $200 for a single disc.
At least the South Park DVDs have 2 tapes' worth of episodes and cost proportionally the same as the VHS versions. (That is, the VHS versions hold 3 episodes and are $10-12, and the DVD versions hold 6 and are $20-24. How about that.) But Pokemon pisses me off, yeah... one episode on a DVD instead of one episode on a tape, and with likely worse quality (Pokemon isn't exactly the best-quality animation, and they probably encoded it at a hideously low bitrate) they charge quite a bit more since it's all yuppie and on DVD. --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
When I was in elementary school, everyone said that DARE stood for "Drugs Are Really Exciting." That's basically all we were taught, namely what the different drugs did and how they'd make you feel cool. --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
I would like to suggest that the typing software would be one of the bad ideas, actually. I learned to touch-type at age 8 on my C64 (I had typing software) and managed 35WPM on that system (no mean feat, considering how crappy that keyboard is), and I've only touch-typed since, which has led to many wrist problems. I'm 21, have had wrist pain and recurring carpal tunnel problems since I was 19, and think that if it weren't for touch-typing, it wouldn't be nearly so bad. --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
I agree wholeheartedly. Some of the best chefs in the world are men, as are some of the best figure skaters and fashion designers (and no, they're not all gay). Some of the best programmers and IT professionals in the world are women. Then there's plenty of people who don't care for being overtly male or female, or some people whose genders are vasty different from their sex; as far as anyone should be concerned, between their ears they're female instead of male (or vice-versa - it does go both ways, contrary to popular belief). One of the most important game programmers of all times (in terms of sum total of influence, at least), the late Danielle Bunten Barry, was a transsexual; if you don't know who that is, she was credited as Dan Bunten in MULE.
Sex != gender, gender != role in life. Toy ads sicken me; they'll always show bunches of boys playing with cars that you can crash and destroy, then they'll show bunches of girls wearing nail polish and helping Barbie make clothes. Among the kids I grew up with, few of them had any natural inclination for either, andthe only ones who fell into their cliche toy groups were boys. I didn't know a single girl who liked dolls, and most of the girls I knew were heavily into video games. Most of my friends when I was young were girls, too.
*sigh* I guess it's been too long since the last pointless sex/gender argument on Slashdot, no?
Well, '-chan' is a term of endearment, and although it's generally meant femininely, it just means 'little' taken literally. You were called 'Little Kitsune' is all.:) --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
I'd hardly count that as advertising. Those are just additional extras on the listing fees. Though I could see how that would count as something which a third-party search engine would destroy. --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
And yet your original mispost got moderated as 'insightful' whereas your followup was what was 'offtopic.' Huh. --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
I don't blame them though. At the time, they only had one ad visible on the whole site, and it was in a frame separate from the main page. Deep links got around the frame-setting page, and so their ads never showed up. This site design was also real annoying for those of us who don't like frames for a variety of reasons (lynx, or using Netscape on SGI which still doesn't get frame-focus right for the keyboard) and so I greatly appreciate them going to a flat format instead; this also makes it less of an issue. However, what's also an issue is the fact it's an issue - it's a collection of stories, setup like a newspaper. Having a channel interface into their site ruins that. --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
That would be a nice theory were it not for the fact that eBay doesn't sell advertising on their site. They make all their income from a listing fee per auction, calculated based on the starting price. --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
Your fingers should never straighten fully when in the relaxed position. Your hands should form somewhat of a 'cup' when completely relaxed; that is the neutral position.
Fingers hurting all the time is more likely arthritis than CTS. Stop cracking your knuckles.
Sore wrists, however, are most likely carpal tunnel related, though there can be other causes as well. See a doctor, man. --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
Surgery is bad, bad, bad, bad, bad. Avoid it at all costs. It doesn't treat the problem, it only makes the symptoms go away for a while, and then they just come back even worse. The best thing you can do is take a month off from using the computer. Failing that, use it strictly in moderation and either stop touch-typing (hunt-and-peck instead) or get an ultra-ergonomic keyboard such as the Datahand if you can afford it (the Datahand is about $1000, but there's others such as the Kinesis ErgoFlex which aren't as ergonomic but are "only" $250 or so). Also, get some of those wrist-braces to immobilize your wrists while you type, and try a topical anti-inflammatory cream such as Aspercreme. (I've been through CTS a few times, and know how to make it go away for the time being using non-surgical means.)
But avoid surgery at all costs. It doesn't do anything regarding the inflammation of the tendons; it only removes the pressure from the nerve (read: it numbs it), and then you just start typing again and get your tendons even more inflammed but you have even less feeling in your wrists, so when the pain comes back it's even more persistent and thus the vicious cycle continues.
Again, the best thing to do is to take as much time off from the computer as possible. I know that's difficult in this day and age. So just type as slow as you can (I know it's frustrating) in short periods of time. If you get any pain, STOP NOW and take a nice long break. If your employer can't understand this, then it's time to go through the process of getting worker's compensation and/or quitting (I recently did the latter, though a flare-up in my wrists was only the most recent of several reasons I wanted to leave).
But as has been mentioned several times here, there is no quick fix. Don't delude yourself into thinking there might be one.
That said, you might want to ask your doctor about steroid injections. Apparently they do have some success in removing inflammation for a few months at a time. However, it's such a recent treatment that I wouldn't trust it for the long-term (after all, damage will still be done to the tendons when you type, particularly since you won't feel any pain telling you to stop). --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
(disclaimer: IANAC; I am a devout agnostic. also, this references the story posted as a sibling to this post.) Because Christian fundamentalists tend to be stupid, bigoted, and don't know what they're talking about. I know a few fundamentalists who do know what they're talking about, and they're good people, but most of them are just sheeple. They buy more into media portrayals of satanism and think that anything with any sort of potential religious connotations or lack thereof is evil unless it falls flatly within their own sheeple beliefs.
These ignorant yokels, of course, wouldn't understand this, being uninformed, stupid, unthinking sheeple, and any amount of explanation wouldn't help any because they would have immediately labelled the original author as a satanist and therefore anything she says would instantly might as well be direct from Satan himself.
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Though this does smell slightly of being revisionist in nature, I'd just as soon be inclined to trust them. Basically, if they're telling the truth, then it's good that/.ers didn't do the usual bittering of the waters that they normally do, and if they actually were being ignorant about the GPL, this is a very nice apology and it should be taken as such.
My translation of this: "Sorry, we fucked up, either because we/our lawyers weren't paying attention or because we were just being careless with our legalese. Our bad."
I found it interesting to see that they were quick to point out that they've contributed (in the past sense) much code to WINE. Of course, not being on the winedev mailinglist, I wouldn't know whether they've actually contributed major/useful amounts or if they're just trying to keep the dogs docile. Either way, it did come off a bit as "Hey, after we've done so much for you, don't bite our faces off!" but being the generous porcupine that I am, I'll let it slide. Hopefully others will do the same (and we can, of course, ignore the trolls who will use any opportunity to flame the "big evil companies" whenever they can because they feel justified or whatever). --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
Saw this piece of neatness and the first witty thing I could think was "Hey, wow, maybe now I could virtually attend the Assembly demo competition some year.":) --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
Well, Corel Linux does fill a niche; it's a Debian-based user-friendly distro. It's much like what Mandrake is (well, attempts to be IMO) for RedHat, or what Caldera does on its own. It's very disappointing that Corel has apparently ended up burning themselves over this; I much prefer.debs to RPMs (they're MUCH more flexible, and that's not even factoring apt/dselect into the mix), and was truly hoping that we'd get a good.deb-based userfriendly distribution. I truly hope Corel comes to their senses. --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
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I was responding to the assertion that I was saying that OSS developers are bad credit risks. See the subject. I'm saying that although OSS developers aren't necessarily credit risks, they tend to have bad credit ratings. Also, the original AC who posted the reply to my statement made a comment about "so much for OSS in business." Which also has nothing to do with anything. Shit, sorry for responding to a troll.
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Of course, this all boils down to the fact that in the 80s, when credit cards were suddenly fashionable, the various credit agencies extended way too much credit to people who didn't know how to handle it. So the banks all got burned (only after these people with too much credit all went bankrupt, of course), and now they're incredibly paranoid, and any infraction on one's credit history, no matter how minor ("payment was two days late"), is immediately a red flag.
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I didn't say that. I said that OSS developers tend to have bad credit ratings. It's for a number of reasons, and it varies by the individual. Some, like myself, are just too algorithmic and cautious to ever get haphazard credit extended, and so have nothing good on their credit history. Other OSS developers have no income, or are too driven by their passions to hold down a steady job. Changing jobs looks bad on one's credit record too. Neither point has anything to do with OSS in business. Perhaps I should have been more clear.
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How many people here have this problem, btw: I've never had a credit card or a loan, so I don't have any good marks on my credit history, but a couple times in the past, bills got sent in late for varying reasons (moving or being on vacation or whatever) and so I have a couple of bad marks, and so no self-respecting credit agency will even consider me unless I'm willing to pay a huge annual fee. My checks are also often rejected as being "bad" or "high risks" because of this. So hopefully the linuxfund credit card is a lot more lenient on credit history.
Yeahyeah, sorta off-topic, but not really...
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Of course, that's somewhat hypocritical, since until recently, Windows PCs were sold as the PC and the OS, but with PCs there's a definite case to be made for the separation of hardware and software (since it was possible to get 'naked' systems in the past); it's never been possible to get a naked Mac, at least not in legitimate, authorized, direct channels.
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And yeah, DH has the advantage where the tree starts out with all leaves being at the lowest level (basically being binary code, heh)... I guess a priority heap would be a good implementation to use, yeah... I just figured one would rebuild the tree after each character. It doesn't take *that* long. :) (Of course, for a large file that'd be real painful.) By removing the initial tree, however, you do lose the implicit encryption in the general case, but there's no reason you couldn't have a different starting tree, and then you could also use trees tuned for different applications and get a bit more compression anyway. Even with non-optimized initial trees (i.e. all characters at the bottom), you have about 8.578E506 initial trees to choose from, though admittedly that would start out with just your basic one-to-one replacement thing, and if anyone wanted to crack the code it'd be easy to just assume the trivial, ordered tree, decompress to trivially-compressed plaintext, and then work out the substitutions later. Ohwell.
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That's actually a pretty neat idea... you'd probably want a separate Huffman tree for runlengths though, rather than using a fixed-size runlength size. I don't think it'd be really that useful in real-world data, but it wouldn't hurt any on top of normal Huffman (except by having an additional entry in the tree and a second, albeit small, tree). However, I think that other schemes such as dynamic Huffman (where the tree is modified as it goes based on the changing frequencies) would likely work out better on average. Perhaps dynamic runlength Huffman would be good... and of course, it's all lossless, for that extra-specialness. :)
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I happen to like MUCKing. While I MUCK I happen to like certain activities as an intellectual challenge that would likely be banned simply because they have sexual content. What is wrong with sexual content? The point of life and the goal as stated in most religions (particularly Christianity) is procreation, but the acts which lead to procreation are taboo. I find this highly hypocritical and disturbing.
My mind, also, would likely be censored. I have thoughts and feelings which many find objectionable but which are part of me. I can't change my very nature just to try to conform to the world, but because of my very nature I am immediately a sinner who can, at best, go to hell by the arbitrary standards setup by many ignorant Christian fundamentalists who are self-contradictory. (Not that all Christian fundamentalists talk out of their asses. I know several who know what they're talking about, and they don't have the same views as me but don't think I'm, by default, unsavable.) I'd also be censored because of my views about these religious groups.
I'm sick of people using porn spam as the example of what "free speech" is trying to protect, because it's not, and never has been. Freedom of speech in the United States of America is specifically to protect people with differing views, lifestyle choices (as long as they don't harm others, of course), and religious beliefs. Information on paganism and homosexuality would certainly be some of the first stuff to be censored after all of the so-called smut were cleared out. Also, my personal religious beliefs (or lack thereof) include that there's nothing wrong with people expressing their sexuality as long as it doesn't interfere with anyone else; getting, creating, and selling pornography is fine by me.
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But yeah, all this storage space is more than any industry is willing to put out. I mean, with DVD audio, one could fit all of the Beatles' albums on one or two discs (depending on the bitrate), but nobody would want to sell all their albums in one package for $30, and nobody would want to pay $200 for a single disc.
At least the South Park DVDs have 2 tapes' worth of episodes and cost proportionally the same as the VHS versions. (That is, the VHS versions hold 3 episodes and are $10-12, and the DVD versions hold 6 and are $20-24. How about that.) But Pokemon pisses me off, yeah... one episode on a DVD instead of one episode on a tape, and with likely worse quality (Pokemon isn't exactly the best-quality animation, and they probably encoded it at a hideously low bitrate) they charge quite a bit more since it's all yuppie and on DVD.
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When I was in elementary school, everyone said that DARE stood for "Drugs Are Really Exciting." That's basically all we were taught, namely what the different drugs did and how they'd make you feel cool.
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I would like to suggest that the typing software would be one of the bad ideas, actually. I learned to touch-type at age 8 on my C64 (I had typing software) and managed 35WPM on that system (no mean feat, considering how crappy that keyboard is), and I've only touch-typed since, which has led to many wrist problems. I'm 21, have had wrist pain and recurring carpal tunnel problems since I was 19, and think that if it weren't for touch-typing, it wouldn't be nearly so bad.
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Sex != gender, gender != role in life. Toy ads sicken me; they'll always show bunches of boys playing with cars that you can crash and destroy, then they'll show bunches of girls wearing nail polish and helping Barbie make clothes. Among the kids I grew up with, few of them had any natural inclination for either, andthe only ones who fell into their cliche toy groups were boys. I didn't know a single girl who liked dolls, and most of the girls I knew were heavily into video games. Most of my friends when I was young were girls, too.
*sigh* I guess it's been too long since the last pointless sex/gender argument on Slashdot, no?
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And when I was five, I was programming silly little things in BASIC on my C64. Big whoop.
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Well, '-chan' is a term of endearment, and although it's generally meant femininely, it just means 'little' taken literally. You were called 'Little Kitsune' is all. :)
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I'd hardly count that as advertising. Those are just additional extras on the listing fees. Though I could see how that would count as something which a third-party search engine would destroy.
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And yet your original mispost got moderated as 'insightful' whereas your followup was what was 'offtopic.' Huh.
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I don't blame them though. At the time, they only had one ad visible on the whole site, and it was in a frame separate from the main page. Deep links got around the frame-setting page, and so their ads never showed up. This site design was also real annoying for those of us who don't like frames for a variety of reasons (lynx, or using Netscape on SGI which still doesn't get frame-focus right for the keyboard) and so I greatly appreciate them going to a flat format instead; this also makes it less of an issue. However, what's also an issue is the fact it's an issue - it's a collection of stories, setup like a newspaper. Having a channel interface into their site ruins that.
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That would be a nice theory were it not for the fact that eBay doesn't sell advertising on their site. They make all their income from a listing fee per auction, calculated based on the starting price.
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Fingers hurting all the time is more likely arthritis than CTS. Stop cracking your knuckles.
Sore wrists, however, are most likely carpal tunnel related, though there can be other causes as well. See a doctor, man.
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But avoid surgery at all costs. It doesn't do anything regarding the inflammation of the tendons; it only removes the pressure from the nerve (read: it numbs it), and then you just start typing again and get your tendons even more inflammed but you have even less feeling in your wrists, so when the pain comes back it's even more persistent and thus the vicious cycle continues.
Again, the best thing to do is to take as much time off from the computer as possible. I know that's difficult in this day and age. So just type as slow as you can (I know it's frustrating) in short periods of time. If you get any pain, STOP NOW and take a nice long break. If your employer can't understand this, then it's time to go through the process of getting worker's compensation and/or quitting (I recently did the latter, though a flare-up in my wrists was only the most recent of several reasons I wanted to leave).
But as has been mentioned several times here, there is no quick fix. Don't delude yourself into thinking there might be one.
That said, you might want to ask your doctor about steroid injections. Apparently they do have some success in removing inflammation for a few months at a time. However, it's such a recent treatment that I wouldn't trust it for the long-term (after all, damage will still be done to the tendons when you type, particularly since you won't feel any pain telling you to stop).
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These ignorant yokels, of course, wouldn't understand this, being uninformed, stupid, unthinking sheeple, and any amount of explanation wouldn't help any because they would have immediately labelled the original author as a satanist and therefore anything she says would instantly might as well be direct from Satan himself.
I hate sheeple.
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- Then you could be virtually surrounded by virtual Quake lamers
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My translation of this: "Sorry, we fucked up, either because we/our lawyers weren't paying attention or because we were just being careless with our legalese. Our bad."
I found it interesting to see that they were quick to point out that they've contributed (in the past sense) much code to WINE. Of course, not being on the winedev mailinglist, I wouldn't know whether they've actually contributed major/useful amounts or if they're just trying to keep the dogs docile. Either way, it did come off a bit as "Hey, after we've done so much for you, don't bite our faces off!" but being the generous porcupine that I am, I'll let it slide. Hopefully others will do the same (and we can, of course, ignore the trolls who will use any opportunity to flame the "big evil companies" whenever they can because they feel justified or whatever).
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"'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
Saw this piece of neatness and the first witty thing I could think was "Hey, wow, maybe now I could virtually attend the Assembly demo competition some year." :)
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"'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
Well, Corel Linux does fill a niche; it's a Debian-based user-friendly distro. It's much like what Mandrake is (well, attempts to be IMO) for RedHat, or what Caldera does on its own. It's very disappointing that Corel has apparently ended up burning themselves over this; I much prefer .debs to RPMs (they're MUCH more flexible, and that's not even factoring apt/dselect into the mix), and was truly hoping that we'd get a good .deb-based userfriendly distribution. I truly hope Corel comes to their senses.
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"'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.