Re:Why does everyone always gotta knock sendmail??
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Spare me the inept semantic back-pedaling. It's perfectly clear what you meant, and now you're trying to wiggle out of it because someone made fun of you over it.
You seem a little defensive.
Pot.
Kettle.
Black.
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Re:Why does everyone always gotta knock sendmail??
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You gave a "hear hear" to an emphatically superlative sales pitch for it, and the obvious implication of pointing out that everyone flatters it with imitation is that it's superior. So... yeah, that's pretty much what you said.
Re:Why does everyone always gotta knock sendmail??
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There's sendmail and then there's everything else that compares itself to sendmail.
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Kinda like Windows, eh?
MTAs compare themselves to SendMail because it's the nearly-ubiquitous default. The reason it has that position is a complex combination of availability, features, inertia, etc... not simply because it's "the best". Sendmail is a good tool; I've used it in the past and I may use it again somewhere someday. But it's not the best tool for every situation, which is why I currently use Postfix for my main mail system.
I'd be worried if you did. There is none. The stock market is an irrational system, loaded with confidence schemes, accounting tricks, high-stakes gambling, and "wealth" created from and vanishing into thin air. Despite which it is treated as the cornerstone and bellweather of our economic system, and presented by pundits as the ideal way to "invest" our resources for the future.
Speaking as someone who's been through the protracted loss of a partner, I can vouch for the necessity of taking time away from them. The normalcy of going to do your job or the triviality of Slashdotting is a good way to recharge your emotional batteries, so that the time spent together remains worthwhile. I'm not going to armchair-quarterback the specific incident he mentioned, but in general, maintaining a life beyond just caring for your loved one is not only appropriate, it's essential.
I've been to several weddings like that. But I believe the correct term for that is "gay". At the last one I went to, there wasn't a geek in sight (myself excluded).
It's impossible to answer this without taking into account what part of the country (and which country) you're in, what kind of metro area the company is in, what industry you're going to be working for (aerospace, education, health care, textiles, etc.) My salaries have been so far below the low end of what national surveys report, that I used to laugh/cry whenever I looked at one. I actually made more per hour delivering newspapers (an easy route in my neighborhood) than I did in my day job as a network administrator. But that's because I've been working in academia and non-profits in inexpensive parts of the Midwest. Your mileage will vary.
Only a third? Gosh, I wish I had that little spam...
Same here. At least now I know that I'm doing some good in this world, because if I'm getting 99% spam, that means I'm siphoning it off from a bunch of other people who are subsequently getting a lot less.
Apparently, they should be switching to car repair...
Or (for those with actual people skills) switch to nursing. There are huge shortages of nurses already, and the demand's gonna go nowhere but up, as our baby-boomed parents and grandparents get older and less healthy. Of course you'll never get rich as a nurse, because the money will never be there for that, but you're not likely to get laid off due to overseas outsourcing.
So instead of saying "60 percent of modem users are happy", you could just as easily say "modem market shrinking by 20 percent per year".
Not really. A friend of mine works for a dial-up (plus resold broadband) ISP, and their business seems stable. For one thing, there are new dial-up users being added to the market every day; not all of those new computer sales are replacements, and not all replaced computers are retired. Plus there is a core of dial-up users who will "never" go away (i.e. until there's something similarly affordable, ubiquitous, and portable available).
Passports are stamped to identify ports of entry/departure in your int'l travels, and I don't think my local traffic cop - or especially my bartender - has any right to that information.
I'm a graduate student. As such, I see a lot of code both from students and from professors.
So in other words, pretty much everyone younger than you and older than you is either too inexperienced or set in their old ways. You're right at that "sweet spot" where you've got it all down but are still firing on all thrusters. The thing is: I thought that about myself when I was 14, when I was 22, when I was 30, and probably will when I'm 48, when I'm 59, and when I'm 67. It's quite possible that I was/will be wrong at all of these points.
There's a way of doing your taxes that lies squarely between A) use a commercial package, B) do it all by hand and check your math, and C) the never-gonna-happen Free Software solution. For the last several years, I've been using homegrown spreadsheets to do all the arithmetic, then transferring the numbers to the paper forms.
The basic logic of the 1040, schedule SE, etc. changes very little from year to year; usually all I have to do is plug in different values for standard deductions and exemptions (I have a data-entry cell for each of these) to make them current. So every year I merely type in my W-2 data and a few other bits that apply to my situation (e.g. college tuition credit), copy and paste the year-end revenue/expense totals from my moonlight consulting, hand-scribble the resulting numbers (including autocalc'ed subtotals) into the various spots where they belong (using scanned copies of last year's forms as a reference to find spots I need), then find my final tax in the big table in the instruction booklet. The same set of entries also feeds into the sections for my state and local forms. I spend nearly as long scanning the completed forms when I'm done as I do filling them out. If I had a really complicated tax situation it might be worthwhile to hire an accountant or use a commercial app rather than trying to model it all myself, but I have models of the forms I need, so this works fine for me.
Sounds to me like someone at Wired is heavily into ye olde art rock, and expects people to listen to albums that are really just collections of pop songs as if they were Dark Side of the Moon.
Lots of news, current events, sports, and informational programs will be lost due to this turnoff. Do these organizers realize that? Yes, you can read newspapers to get by,
if I just Tivo everything this week and watch it all next week?
At the risk of being serious... why not? Part of the point is to spend a week doing things other than watching TV, as a learning experience. Coming back the next week and watching twice as much to make up for it might undo some of the good that accomplishes, but you'd still have that week's experience to draw upon.
We have sporadic wireless coverage on our main campus (a cluster of buildings downtown). It exists mostly for the sake of a few specific applications and any access beyond that falls into the "nuisance" category. I can't say I blame my superiors for not doing more with wireless; we have enough problems securing our network from the ill effects of viruses and trojans on wired, college-owned systems, and dealing with personal wireless systems would be a nightmare.
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You seem a little defensive.
Pot.
Kettle.
Black.
:p
You gave a "hear hear" to an emphatically superlative sales pitch for it, and the obvious implication of pointing out that everyone flatters it with imitation is that it's superior. So... yeah, that's pretty much what you said.
Kinda like Windows, eh?
MTAs compare themselves to SendMail because it's the nearly-ubiquitous default. The reason it has that position is a complex combination of availability, features, inertia, etc... not simply because it's "the best". Sendmail is a good tool; I've used it in the past and I may use it again somewhere someday. But it's not the best tool for every situation, which is why I currently use Postfix for my main mail system.
I'd be worried if you did. There is none. The stock market is an irrational system, loaded with confidence schemes, accounting tricks, high-stakes gambling, and "wealth" created from and vanishing into thin air. Despite which it is treated as the cornerstone and bellweather of our economic system, and presented by pundits as the ideal way to "invest" our resources for the future.
Well, good to see this won't affect me.
Don't mod this funny; I'm not kidding... not even close.
And someone could then make a dismissive remark questioning the testicular status of someone posting such comments as an Anonymous Coward.
Speaking as someone who's been through the protracted loss of a partner, I can vouch for the necessity of taking time away from them. The normalcy of going to do your job or the triviality of Slashdotting is a good way to recharge your emotional batteries, so that the time spent together remains worthwhile. I'm not going to armchair-quarterback the specific incident he mentioned, but in general, maintaining a life beyond just caring for your loved one is not only appropriate, it's essential.
I've been to several weddings like that. But I believe the correct term for that is "gay". At the last one I went to, there wasn't a geek in sight (myself excluded).
And if he ever wants a divorce...
And so could Jehovah.
That's the whole point.
Movable Type can be installed to use the Berkeley DB for an easy no-database-admin option. (MySQL is recommended.)
It's impossible to answer this without taking into account what part of the country (and which country) you're in, what kind of metro area the company is in, what industry you're going to be working for (aerospace, education, health care, textiles, etc.) My salaries have been so far below the low end of what national surveys report, that I used to laugh/cry whenever I looked at one. I actually made more per hour delivering newspapers (an easy route in my neighborhood) than I did in my day job as a network administrator. But that's because I've been working in academia and non-profits in inexpensive parts of the Midwest. Your mileage will vary.
Same here. At least now I know that I'm doing some good in this world, because if I'm getting 99% spam, that means I'm siphoning it off from a bunch of other people who are subsequently getting a lot less.
Or (for those with actual people skills) switch to nursing. There are huge shortages of nurses already, and the demand's gonna go nowhere but up, as our baby-boomed parents and grandparents get older and less healthy. Of course you'll never get rich as a nurse, because the money will never be there for that, but you're not likely to get laid off due to overseas outsourcing.
Not really. A friend of mine works for a dial-up (plus resold broadband) ISP, and their business seems stable. For one thing, there are new dial-up users being added to the market every day; not all of those new computer sales are replacements, and not all replaced computers are retired. Plus there is a core of dial-up users who will "never" go away (i.e. until there's something similarly affordable, ubiquitous, and portable available).
...we'll be mining inner-city and third-world children for lead and mercury.
So in other words, pretty much everyone younger than you and older than you is either too inexperienced or set in their old ways. You're right at that "sweet spot" where you've got it all down but are still firing on all thrusters. The thing is: I thought that about myself when I was 14, when I was 22, when I was 30, and probably will when I'm 48, when I'm 59, and when I'm 67. It's quite possible that I was/will be wrong at all of these points.
The basic logic of the 1040, schedule SE, etc. changes very little from year to year; usually all I have to do is plug in different values for standard deductions and exemptions (I have a data-entry cell for each of these) to make them current. So every year I merely type in my W-2 data and a few other bits that apply to my situation (e.g. college tuition credit), copy and paste the year-end revenue/expense totals from my moonlight consulting, hand-scribble the resulting numbers (including autocalc'ed subtotals) into the various spots where they belong (using scanned copies of last year's forms as a reference to find spots I need), then find my final tax in the big table in the instruction booklet. The same set of entries also feeds into the sections for my state and local forms. I spend nearly as long scanning the completed forms when I'm done as I do filling them out. If I had a really complicated tax situation it might be worthwhile to hire an accountant or use a commercial app rather than trying to model it all myself, but I have models of the forms I need, so this works fine for me.
Sounds to me like someone at Wired is heavily into ye olde art rock, and expects people to listen to albums that are really just collections of pop songs as if they were Dark Side of the Moon.
Someone please mod this funny.
At the risk of being serious... why not? Part of the point is to spend a week doing things other than watching TV, as a learning experience. Coming back the next week and watching twice as much to make up for it might undo some of the good that accomplishes, but you'd still have that week's experience to draw upon.
This is just a hunch, but I bet "Picard topology" is named after Emile, not Jean Luc.
We have sporadic wireless coverage on our main campus (a cluster of buildings downtown). It exists mostly for the sake of a few specific applications and any access beyond that falls into the "nuisance" category. I can't say I blame my superiors for not doing more with wireless; we have enough problems securing our network from the ill effects of viruses and trojans on wired, college-owned systems, and dealing with personal wireless systems would be a nightmare.
I'm sure that's exactly what [insert predatory corporation or cartel here] is counting on.