Marge: Your doll is trying to kill my husband! [pause] Yes, I'll hold.
Marge lets the Krusty Co. repairman into the kitchen, to see Homer on the floor, the doll yanking at his tongue. Picking up the doll, the repairman identifies the problem.
Repairman: [pointing to a Good/Evil switch on the back of the doll] Yup, here's your problem. Someone set this thing to ``Evil''.
Cell phones are more expensive now than in the 80s? WTF? Cell phones cost a fortune back then, both in hardware and airtime. That's why cloning was so popular...there's hardly any need for it these days, even if digital systems hadn't made cloning infeasible.
Cognitive dissonance is a psychological phenomenon which refers to the discomfort felt at a discrepancy between what you already know or believe, and new information or interpretation. It therefore occurs when there is a need to accommodate new ideas, and it may be necessary for it to develop so that we become "open" to them.
So, you're saying that you need to get it into your head that Vancouver is actually an alien city?
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
-- Inigo Montoya, "The Princess Bride"
May be that the concept of Karma DOESN'T FREAKING EXIST?
If you actually believe in it, Karma only affects your NEXT LIFE, not this one. You can do whatever you want in this life, and not a single bad thing will happen to you. Also, there's no such thing as "good" Karma, if you accumulate Karma it's always bad.
Also, the entire idea of Karma was to keep a bunch of rich assholes in their positions and to oppress the rest of society.
Please, please, please for the love of God learn something next time? Also, don't make unfunny jokes.
Or, as a last resort, run the Goatse Rescue Floppy. As the website states:
"Goatse Rescue Floppy is an useful tool to keep in your pocket at all times. You'll be able to show the infamous jpg on basically any IBM-PC compatible computer with a floppy drive (or, in extreme cases you can use the CD-ROM drive)."
Ooo, this hurts. I've used this service for years to read news. Used to be, your ISP would provide a news server the same way that it provides a mail server, web server, etc. Then binaries groups became highly popular, and the cost of a news server skyrocketed. This was seen as an outsourcable expense.
Well, what's next? You used to be able to take for granted there were public news servers out there. This service was the best one, and only offered text groups, which was all I wanted anyway. Now...I don't know. There's just no beating reading real submariners discuss the USS San Francisco (hit an underwater mountain at full speed recently) on sci.military.naval.
The old style of perpetual beta was lazy, perfectionistic, or excessively cautious programmers simply going on and on towards v1.0 and never reaching it. Not enough work was done - typical of the lazy programmer. It's never "good enough" to call v1.0, typical of the perfectionist view, despite the fact that the program has been out in general use for years.
Now, we have the new perpetual beta. Any company can, with a wave of the magic wand, make itself blameless when its software doesn't work. "But it's in beta!" they gleefully shout when you tell them about something that doesn't work correctly. "Refer it to our testing team, who will ignore your report."
Krusty the Clown: Why don't we start with a joke?
What's the difference between Pakistan and a pancake?
I don't know any pancakes that were nuked by India!
Get a grip on yourself, man. The Emperor has no clothes!
You got ripped off by a scam-artist who chuckles every day on his way to the bank. And like the ideal victim, you actually believe you got the better half of the transaction.
Solaris is generally accepted to be a server platform. Every shop I knew that used Solaris/x86 never used them for desktops.
This is how it's worked for a long time, and it's worked well. Repeat to yourself: Solaris is not Linux, it has different goals, and people who build Solaris systems do not deal haphazardly with hardware.
Get a real job, kid, and realize how dumb you sound.
You're not most end users. Solaris is a serious system, for real work. It's not for tinkerers like linux is. If you want a Solaris/x86 box, you spec out the server before you ever get a copy of the operating system media. That way, you never have a moment of trouble, and you have a happy system. This is the way that real sysadmins do their work.
As opposed to the typical linux way of downloading a new OS on a whim and tossing it onto the nearest availible system, no matter what the hardware. And then whining about "it doesn't work" in mailing lists, bulletin boards, and newsgroups. A typical conclusion after the linux user goes through this experience is "Solaris sucks".
And if you really, seriously want to do it, for the love of God check the hardware compatibility list and save the rest of us a million questions about why Solaris won't work on your PC. Simple - if the hardware's not on the list, Solaris won't work with it! Really! Sun's not lying in their document.
No, but you can buy a lawyer. Which, from your standpoint, is pretty much the same thing as bribery...let me pay a bunch of money and make this problem go away. If your case in China was too high-profile for the cops to ignore, I'm sure the purchase of the lawyer with the best guanxi would help you to at least escape the country.
Strange...I'm browsing slashdot right now on a direct connection, without any proxy.
If I were you, I wouldn't particularly trust anything that comes out of Harvard University without verifiying it first. Truth is not their first objective.
I know that sounds "insightful" from where you are, but I live in China, and nobody gets "dragged off in the dead of night". It's just like everywhere else. If you get into legal trouble, you just bribe your way out of it. If you go to China intending on overthrowing the government, you can expect to end up in their version of Leavenworth, just like any foreigner who goes to another country to make trouble.
"What methods and technologies are you aware of or use to circumvent the Great Firewall of China?"
A simple unencrypted squid proxy. I live in China, and some sites are blocked (BBC News, Miami Herald, etc). I set up a proxy on a linux box in the USA, and I use it whenever I encounter a blocked site (hit F12-x in Opera to toggle).
It's also useful when there's simply a bad connection or slow speed. Often, I can't get a good connection to some site or other, and it's not blocked, I know it's up, but the crappy infrastructure here drops my packets. So, even if there were no Great Firewall, I'd still have my proxy handy. The Great Firewall isn't too concerned with English language websites. As far as I know, only Chinese and English language sites are blocked...any other nationalities get off scot-free.
And don't worry about getting clubbed in the head by the cops, or anything stupid like that. China is just like everywhere else...you mess with the bull, you get the horns. Hell, we smoke joints openly on the street. Nobody knows what it smells like. We went out on a lake, and the boatman asked, "why are you 6 people sharing one cigarette...you don't have enough money to afford cigarettes for everyone?"
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HINT: When the article provides absolutely NO background information, it can safely be said that everyone but you knows what we're talking about.
Marge lets the Krusty Co. repairman into the kitchen, to see Homer on the floor, the doll yanking at his tongue. Picking up the doll, the repairman identifies the problem.
Repairman: [pointing to a Good/Evil switch on the back of the doll]
Yup, here's your problem. Someone set this thing to ``Evil''.
Cell phones are more expensive now than in the 80s? WTF? Cell phones cost a fortune back then, both in hardware and airtime. That's why cloning was so popular...there's hardly any need for it these days, even if digital systems hadn't made cloning infeasible.
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." -- Inigo Montoya, "The Princess Bride"
So, you're saying that you need to get it into your head that Vancouver is actually an alien city?
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." -- Inigo Montoya, "The Princess Bride"
This one only takes dollars.
No. Karma is a Buddhist concept. Just becuase you made up your own definition doesn't make it so. Please become educated.
If you actually believe in it, Karma only affects your NEXT LIFE, not this one. You can do whatever you want in this life, and not a single bad thing will happen to you. Also, there's no such thing as "good" Karma, if you accumulate Karma it's always bad.
Also, the entire idea of Karma was to keep a bunch of rich assholes in their positions and to oppress the rest of society.
Please, please, please for the love of God learn something next time? Also, don't make unfunny jokes.
Well, what's next? You used to be able to take for granted there were public news servers out there. This service was the best one, and only offered text groups, which was all I wanted anyway. Now...I don't know. There's just no beating reading real submariners discuss the USS San Francisco (hit an underwater mountain at full speed recently) on sci.military.naval.
Now, we have the new perpetual beta. Any company can, with a wave of the magic wand, make itself blameless when its software doesn't work. "But it's in beta!" they gleefully shout when you tell them about something that doesn't work correctly. "Refer it to our testing team, who will ignore your report."
I see that we are undereducated on the issue of European bureaucracy.
What's the difference between Pakistan and a pancake?
I don't know any pancakes that were nuked by India!
(silence)
Krusty: What, too soon?
You got ripped off by a scam-artist who chuckles every day on his way to the bank. And like the ideal victim, you actually believe you got the better half of the transaction.
How did they "effectively" use x86 PCs by building them without first consulting the HCL?
This is how it's worked for a long time, and it's worked well. Repeat to yourself: Solaris is not Linux, it has different goals, and people who build Solaris systems do not deal haphazardly with hardware.
Get a real job, kid, and realize how dumb you sound.
As opposed to the typical linux way of downloading a new OS on a whim and tossing it onto the nearest availible system, no matter what the hardware. And then whining about "it doesn't work" in mailing lists, bulletin boards, and newsgroups. A typical conclusion after the linux user goes through this experience is "Solaris sucks".
And if you really, seriously want to do it, for the love of God check the hardware compatibility list and save the rest of us a million questions about why Solaris won't work on your PC. Simple - if the hardware's not on the list, Solaris won't work with it! Really! Sun's not lying in their document.
Slashdot has sunk to a new low. And I really mean that...though the effect of saying that around here seems slight as people overuse the phrase.
Bzzt, wrong. Google search next time, you won't look so dumb in public.
No, but you can buy a lawyer. Which, from your standpoint, is pretty much the same thing as bribery...let me pay a bunch of money and make this problem go away. If your case in China was too high-profile for the cops to ignore, I'm sure the purchase of the lawyer with the best guanxi would help you to at least escape the country.
I know their slogan is "veritas", I was making a comparison similar to irony. Jeez...slashdot.
If I were you, I wouldn't particularly trust anything that comes out of Harvard University without verifiying it first. Truth is not their first objective.
I know that sounds "insightful" from where you are, but I live in China, and nobody gets "dragged off in the dead of night". It's just like everywhere else. If you get into legal trouble, you just bribe your way out of it. If you go to China intending on overthrowing the government, you can expect to end up in their version of Leavenworth, just like any foreigner who goes to another country to make trouble.
A simple unencrypted squid proxy. I live in China, and some sites are blocked (BBC News, Miami Herald, etc). I set up a proxy on a linux box in the USA, and I use it whenever I encounter a blocked site (hit F12-x in Opera to toggle).
It's also useful when there's simply a bad connection or slow speed. Often, I can't get a good connection to some site or other, and it's not blocked, I know it's up, but the crappy infrastructure here drops my packets. So, even if there were no Great Firewall, I'd still have my proxy handy. The Great Firewall isn't too concerned with English language websites. As far as I know, only Chinese and English language sites are blocked...any other nationalities get off scot-free.
And don't worry about getting clubbed in the head by the cops, or anything stupid like that. China is just like everywhere else...you mess with the bull, you get the horns. Hell, we smoke joints openly on the street. Nobody knows what it smells like. We went out on a lake, and the boatman asked, "why are you 6 people sharing one cigarette...you don't have enough money to afford cigarettes for everyone?"