The Star Trek fans did exactly the same at the end of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, and that is one of the worst movies of the franchise.
Au contraire. Star Trek: The Motion Picture is actually the best movie in the franchise, with Wrath of Khan coming in a close second. And I'm not kidding. I would have loved to have seen a new series that followed the TMP mold (which was apparently in the works before they decided to make a feature film).
Yeah, but with this thing, after you collide at 35mph the car will right itself automatically using gyroscopes. Just hang onto the controls and start screaming for help!
You say "DB2 seems to be inexorably tied to legacy systems" and then you go on to talk about your experience with DB2 on iSeries? Should I be shocked? Tell me, why should a version of DB2 that runs on AS/400s not be "tied" to legacy systems?
FYI, DB2 on iSeries is not the same product as the DB2 that runs on x86 servers. At all. DB2 on IBM mainframes is also a completely different codebase than DB2 on x86. DB2 is just a brand name for IBM's database products. DB2 is not "on the way out" and IBM does not need any new "platform" for their AS/400 customers to migrate to.
Also, existing DB2 customers will not be "cannibalized" if IBM owns MySQL. That's a laughable idea. What was preventing them from going to MySQL before? What, they don't care about the DB2 technology but they'll only switch databases if they can keep the IBM brand?
My question is, does IBM want Solaris, the hardware business, Java, or do they just want to get rid of a competitor?
Sun, the competitor, was doing a great job of getting rid of itself. My guess is that buying Sun is kind of a drag for IBM, but they'd rather do that than let Oracle or someone else buy it. Oracle in control of both BEA and Java itself? Oracle in control of MySQL? Shudder.
But most french could not care less. I never used couriel or whatever it is called, and everybody I know use email as word.
According to my French teachers in college, this has gone back and forth for years. For example, when Sony introduced the portable stereo in France, it was known by the brand name Walkman. Later, as "walkman" became a genericized word in English (whether Sony liked it or not), a movement in France began to create a unique generic for Francophone people -- thus, "baladeur." But more recently this practice has been downplayed -- particularly by young people, whether it's to seem more hip and in-sync with the U.S. or for some other reason is not clear -- and many Francophones now just say "walkman" again.
A while back I wrote a GreaseMonkey script to switch the User page back to the old behavior. With this script installed, when you click on your username you go immediately to the comments list, like how it used to work. Try it out and send me feedback if it works/doesn't work for you.
BTW, IMHO this whole effort to "modernize Slashdot" has been a total disaster. I have all the new Indexes turned off, but the UI is still much worse than it was before they started playing around with it. The old layout plus the Slashdotter plug-in did everything much faster and more smoothly than the new code has ever done. Please, PLEASE Taco et al... just give it up!!
But then you're already paying that much for your textbooks, soooo...
I mean, sure, I get it, students don't have a lot of money. But I assume you've figured out some way to pay for your education or you wouldn't even be there...
And then came the Grammar Nazis. But for them, we would be able to carry on conversations without pointless interruptions.
Speaking as one who spent about five years as a professional editor, it is perfectly fine to start sentences with conjunctions. Like anything, it shouldn't be overused. But I will take a sentence that begins with "but" over one that inserts "however" as a clause any day. "However" reads weak. Similarly, if you can start a sentence with "and" where the only alternative would be to use a longer word or phrase, go with "and." People use it that way all the time in normal speech, and written text that sounds like natural speech is almost always preferable to a string of long words that were chosen out of a desire to sound "proper."
And by the way, starting sentences with conjunctions is not even a new practice. "But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?" It's just difficult to teach young writers to do it properly, which is why most high-school English teachers stick to the (false) rule. Your writing will be better if you don't do it at all than if you do it badly.
In a black car, you have to roll the windows down further to keep it cool.
Ridiculous. You can't roll the windows down any farther than all the way, and that's generally how far you need to roll them down in order to rest your elbow on the doorframe and tap your hand on the roof of the car in time with AC/DC, no matter what color the car is painted.
I'll second that. I haven't had to hire anyone in a while, but I once applied for a job at a national laboratory and was asked to come in for an interview. The thing was, this organization was trying something new (for them) and had advertised the job on Craigslist. That's where I heard about it. But after posting the ad, they told me, within 24 hours they had well over 100 applications. I was one of three candidates they actually interviewed, and I didn't get the job. But the important point is, of those 100 applications, three were interviewed, probably a dozen or so others were considered and passed over, but according to the people who interviewed me, the majority of the applications went straight into the trash (i.e. "were kept on file"). The applications were so grossly inappropriate for the job offered that it seemed as if they hadn't even read the ad. There wasn't even a suggestion that they had skills that matched the tasks required. Maybe they came from clueless recruiters -- who knew? But the overall experience was so daunting for the hiring manager that he figured he'd probably never advertise a job that way again.
So next time you're looking for a job and feeling discouraged, remember that: Sometimes it has nothing to do with your age, nothing to do with your experience (or lack thereof)... sometimes it's simply that the signal-to-noise ratio at the HR office is so low that your application may have been drowned out by the static.
There are a lot of places in the Bay Area where a drive into San Francisco would be around 45 miles. That's less than an hour of freeway driving. The trick here is that most people also want to drive home again. What's the use of driving a car into the city if the only place you can drive it is to a shop where they can plug it in and recharge it while you're at your appointment? (And then you have to take the bus from the recharge hookup to wherever you were going?)
It sounds like parent is being snarky but he's not. The U.S. has no public transit. There are probably less than a half-dozen major urban markets where you can survive without a car. Everywhere else it's pretty much a daily necessity. And I speak as one who doesn't own a car -- I am a bigtime anomaly and my choice not to drive does force me to make sacrifices.
No, Red Hat can't take Oracle's patches, most of them, because they are completely useless to Red Hat. The patches are specifically to support Oracle, and do not generalize.
Wait. So no Red Hat customers use Oracle? No Red Hat customers could benefit from Oracle's patches? Then it sounds like all of Oracle's efforts are a complete waste of time -- and still, Red Hat loses nothing.
That excerpt makes it sound more like Hagelstein has an interesting background in pumping government dollars into far-fetched technologies that never bear fruit.
While many prefer his Fantastic Four or the later Fourth World stuff for DC, I think Jack Kirby's early work on the Marvel monster books ranks among his most enjoyable. "Gobby, the Living Document" is a personal favorite -- although "Memo from Vornu" and "I Conference Called Zimvaxx" are also fine examples.
Believe it or not, I bought my current PC at Circuit City. I know, I know. But at the time, Circuit City had the same model HP Pavilion for as little or less than anyone online, with the additional advantage that I could jump on the bus and go buy one today, rather than having to wait around for UPS to deliver it. A week later, Amazon.com dropped the price by $50, so I went back to Circuit City and said, "Hey! I you guys ripped me off!" The nice kid at the cash register promptly credited $50 to my card. Total time without a working computer: 18 hours. Total money lost due to not shopping online: $0.
Needless to say, I guess people complained, because the signs were gone after a while...
Actually, I think it's more likely that the [RI|MP]AA paid to advertise at Best Buy, the same way that technology companies can buy end-of-aisle display placement. When the money ran out, the ads came down.
On a related note, I had a tequila expert/snob tell me to never ever ever use good tequila in a margarita. A waste of money.
Well that's true of any heavily mixed drink.There's no reason to use Grey Goose for some fruity, sugared-up "appletini" -- and in fact, there's no reason to drink Grey Goose at all, when there's much better stuff on both the higher and lower ends. Ever see a bunch of 21-year-olds order "top shelf" Long Island Iced Teas? It's all for flash and show.
As for scalpers, the simple fact is that prices are too low. If you have people willing to pay often ten times the face value of a ticket, why in the name of god are you selling them so cheaply?
Why should art only be available to the rich? For one thing, tickets are a finite resource, but the presence of the scalpers distorts the supply side of the supply-and-demand equation. If scalpers buy up tickets by the hundreds, customers have no choice but to buy the tickets at the price the scalpers set, rather than the prices determined by the artist and the venue. Some people can afford those inflated prices, others can't. Why should scalpers -- parasites -- be allowed to come between an artist and his or her audience, or a legitimate business and its customers?
SSDs allow us to stop thinking about attached "storage" devices, and instead think of them as their originally-intended purpose - Slow memory.
And what, pray tell, is the use for slow memory in today's world? Back when "storage" (emphasis yours) was invented, RAM was very expensive. That's not true today, so what's the point of finding expensive ways to replace RAM with something slower?
"Show me one single person who is me who does something differently than how I do it. HA!! You CAN'T, CAN YOU??"
For your information, I don't care two cents for "giant sized and multi-screen desktops." Seriously, what's the point? I have one keyboard, one set of hands, and one set of eyes. I don't want a screen that's littered with little windows that I'm not using. I want to have the work in front of me that I'm doing right now -- and for that, I run almost all of my applications maximized. Do I want to run more than one app at once? Fine; Alt-Tab. And I'm being perfectly honest when I say the fact that it's not easy to operate this way using Mac OS X is a big turn-off for me.
Furthermore, I am one of those idiots who turns of UAC, and not because I'm a kiddie. I turn it off because in the course of my day I tend to play around with a lot of software and seeing those warning messages is more annoying than not. What's more, I'm not the kind of newbie who's likely to download a lot of toolbars or fake anti-virus software, so it's never been a problem for me. And I've been using Vista constantly since practically the day it shipped.
But hey -- point me the right direction and I'll be glad to get off your yellow, dried-up lawn.
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The Star Trek fans did exactly the same at the end of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, and that is one of the worst movies of the franchise.
Au contraire. Star Trek: The Motion Picture is actually the best movie in the franchise, with Wrath of Khan coming in a close second. And I'm not kidding. I would have loved to have seen a new series that followed the TMP mold (which was apparently in the works before they decided to make a feature film).
Yeah, but with this thing, after you collide at 35mph the car will right itself automatically using gyroscopes. Just hang onto the controls and start screaming for help!
the people who actually care about the Halo universe
I will never understand this kind of thing.
You say "DB2 seems to be inexorably tied to legacy systems" and then you go on to talk about your experience with DB2 on iSeries? Should I be shocked? Tell me, why should a version of DB2 that runs on AS/400s not be "tied" to legacy systems?
FYI, DB2 on iSeries is not the same product as the DB2 that runs on x86 servers. At all. DB2 on IBM mainframes is also a completely different codebase than DB2 on x86. DB2 is just a brand name for IBM's database products. DB2 is not "on the way out" and IBM does not need any new "platform" for their AS/400 customers to migrate to.
Also, existing DB2 customers will not be "cannibalized" if IBM owns MySQL. That's a laughable idea. What was preventing them from going to MySQL before? What, they don't care about the DB2 technology but they'll only switch databases if they can keep the IBM brand?
My question is, does IBM want Solaris, the hardware business, Java, or do they just want to get rid of a competitor?
Sun, the competitor, was doing a great job of getting rid of itself. My guess is that buying Sun is kind of a drag for IBM, but they'd rather do that than let Oracle or someone else buy it. Oracle in control of both BEA and Java itself? Oracle in control of MySQL? Shudder.
But most french could not care less. I never used couriel or whatever it is called, and everybody I know use email as word.
According to my French teachers in college, this has gone back and forth for years. For example, when Sony introduced the portable stereo in France, it was known by the brand name Walkman. Later, as "walkman" became a genericized word in English (whether Sony liked it or not), a movement in France began to create a unique generic for Francophone people -- thus, "baladeur." But more recently this practice has been downplayed -- particularly by young people, whether it's to seem more hip and in-sync with the U.S. or for some other reason is not clear -- and many Francophones now just say "walkman" again.
Mom?
We'll need to have the forensics guys analyze the contents of the wolves' stomachs to be sure. But don't worry, kid -- the car's still in great shape.
A while back I wrote a GreaseMonkey script to switch the User page back to the old behavior. With this script installed, when you click on your username you go immediately to the comments list, like how it used to work. Try it out and send me feedback if it works/doesn't work for you.
BTW, IMHO this whole effort to "modernize Slashdot" has been a total disaster. I have all the new Indexes turned off, but the UI is still much worse than it was before they started playing around with it. The old layout plus the Slashdotter plug-in did everything much faster and more smoothly than the new code has ever done. Please, PLEASE Taco et al ... just give it up!!
But then you're already paying that much for your textbooks, soooo...
I mean, sure, I get it, students don't have a lot of money. But I assume you've figured out some way to pay for your education or you wouldn't even be there...
The idea here is that it would be something that you'd only do occasionally -- maybe even just to go shopping -- rather than every day.
If this practice were instituted in the U.S., American school kids would be able to get more out of NPR's Talk of the Nation Science Friday.
And then came the Grammar Nazis. But for them, we would be able to carry on conversations without pointless interruptions.
Speaking as one who spent about five years as a professional editor, it is perfectly fine to start sentences with conjunctions. Like anything, it shouldn't be overused. But I will take a sentence that begins with "but" over one that inserts "however" as a clause any day. "However" reads weak. Similarly, if you can start a sentence with "and" where the only alternative would be to use a longer word or phrase, go with "and." People use it that way all the time in normal speech, and written text that sounds like natural speech is almost always preferable to a string of long words that were chosen out of a desire to sound "proper."
And by the way, starting sentences with conjunctions is not even a new practice. "But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?" It's just difficult to teach young writers to do it properly, which is why most high-school English teachers stick to the (false) rule. Your writing will be better if you don't do it at all than if you do it badly.
In a black car, you have to roll the windows down further to keep it cool.
Ridiculous. You can't roll the windows down any farther than all the way, and that's generally how far you need to roll them down in order to rest your elbow on the doorframe and tap your hand on the roof of the car in time with AC/DC, no matter what color the car is painted.
I'll second that. I haven't had to hire anyone in a while, but I once applied for a job at a national laboratory and was asked to come in for an interview. The thing was, this organization was trying something new (for them) and had advertised the job on Craigslist. That's where I heard about it. But after posting the ad, they told me, within 24 hours they had well over 100 applications. I was one of three candidates they actually interviewed, and I didn't get the job. But the important point is, of those 100 applications, three were interviewed, probably a dozen or so others were considered and passed over, but according to the people who interviewed me, the majority of the applications went straight into the trash (i.e. "were kept on file"). The applications were so grossly inappropriate for the job offered that it seemed as if they hadn't even read the ad. There wasn't even a suggestion that they had skills that matched the tasks required. Maybe they came from clueless recruiters -- who knew? But the overall experience was so daunting for the hiring manager that he figured he'd probably never advertise a job that way again.
So next time you're looking for a job and feeling discouraged, remember that: Sometimes it has nothing to do with your age, nothing to do with your experience (or lack thereof) ... sometimes it's simply that the signal-to-noise ratio at the HR office is so low that your application may have been drowned out by the static.
There are a lot of places in the Bay Area where a drive into San Francisco would be around 45 miles. That's less than an hour of freeway driving. The trick here is that most people also want to drive home again. What's the use of driving a car into the city if the only place you can drive it is to a shop where they can plug it in and recharge it while you're at your appointment? (And then you have to take the bus from the recharge hookup to wherever you were going?)
It sounds like parent is being snarky but he's not. The U.S. has no public transit. There are probably less than a half-dozen major urban markets where you can survive without a car. Everywhere else it's pretty much a daily necessity. And I speak as one who doesn't own a car -- I am a bigtime anomaly and my choice not to drive does force me to make sacrifices.
No, Red Hat can't take Oracle's patches, most of them, because they are completely useless to Red Hat. The patches are specifically to support Oracle, and do not generalize.
Wait. So no Red Hat customers use Oracle? No Red Hat customers could benefit from Oracle's patches? Then it sounds like all of Oracle's efforts are a complete waste of time -- and still, Red Hat loses nothing.
That excerpt makes it sound more like Hagelstein has an interesting background in pumping government dollars into far-fetched technologies that never bear fruit.
While many prefer his Fantastic Four or the later Fourth World stuff for DC, I think Jack Kirby's early work on the Marvel monster books ranks among his most enjoyable. "Gobby, the Living Document" is a personal favorite -- although "Memo from Vornu" and "I Conference Called Zimvaxx" are also fine examples.
Believe it or not, I bought my current PC at Circuit City. I know, I know. But at the time, Circuit City had the same model HP Pavilion for as little or less than anyone online, with the additional advantage that I could jump on the bus and go buy one today, rather than having to wait around for UPS to deliver it. A week later, Amazon.com dropped the price by $50, so I went back to Circuit City and said, "Hey! I you guys ripped me off!" The nice kid at the cash register promptly credited $50 to my card. Total time without a working computer: 18 hours. Total money lost due to not shopping online: $0.
Am I sorry they're out of business?
I dunno. Not really.
Needless to say, I guess people complained, because the signs were gone after a while...
Actually, I think it's more likely that the [RI|MP]AA paid to advertise at Best Buy, the same way that technology companies can buy end-of-aisle display placement. When the money ran out, the ads came down.
On a related note, I had a tequila expert/snob tell me to never ever ever use good tequila in a margarita. A waste of money.
Well that's true of any heavily mixed drink.There's no reason to use Grey Goose for some fruity, sugared-up "appletini" -- and in fact, there's no reason to drink Grey Goose at all, when there's much better stuff on both the higher and lower ends. Ever see a bunch of 21-year-olds order "top shelf" Long Island Iced Teas? It's all for flash and show.
As for scalpers, the simple fact is that prices are too low. If you have people willing to pay often ten times the face value of a ticket, why in the name of god are you selling them so cheaply?
Why should art only be available to the rich? For one thing, tickets are a finite resource, but the presence of the scalpers distorts the supply side of the supply-and-demand equation. If scalpers buy up tickets by the hundreds, customers have no choice but to buy the tickets at the price the scalpers set, rather than the prices determined by the artist and the venue. Some people can afford those inflated prices, others can't. Why should scalpers -- parasites -- be allowed to come between an artist and his or her audience, or a legitimate business and its customers?
SSDs allow us to stop thinking about attached "storage" devices, and instead think of them as their originally-intended purpose - Slow memory.
And what, pray tell, is the use for slow memory in today's world? Back when "storage" (emphasis yours) was invented, RAM was very expensive. That's not true today, so what's the point of finding expensive ways to replace RAM with something slower?
"Show me one single person who is me who does something differently than how I do it. HA!! You CAN'T, CAN YOU??"
For your information, I don't care two cents for "giant sized and multi-screen desktops." Seriously, what's the point? I have one keyboard, one set of hands, and one set of eyes. I don't want a screen that's littered with little windows that I'm not using. I want to have the work in front of me that I'm doing right now -- and for that, I run almost all of my applications maximized. Do I want to run more than one app at once? Fine; Alt-Tab. And I'm being perfectly honest when I say the fact that it's not easy to operate this way using Mac OS X is a big turn-off for me.
Furthermore, I am one of those idiots who turns of UAC, and not because I'm a kiddie. I turn it off because in the course of my day I tend to play around with a lot of software and seeing those warning messages is more annoying than not. What's more, I'm not the kind of newbie who's likely to download a lot of toolbars or fake anti-virus software, so it's never been a problem for me. And I've been using Vista constantly since practically the day it shipped.
But hey -- point me the right direction and I'll be glad to get off your yellow, dried-up lawn.