I visited the UK recently and if we could have a system like you guys do in the states, I'd use trains a lot more than I do (which is currently NEVER). I found it convenient and pleasant. Likewise the buses (I was visiting Oxford at the time) are much cleaner, more convenient, and logically arranged than what we have here.
Sadly, as others have observed, such a system would take at least a generation to be built up here in the states, and the population centres are far more spread out than in the UK.
If the property owner doesn't like the protests, he can try to boot his tenant and the protesters out.
No, it the property owner doesn't like the protests, he can boot the protesters out. Why would he want to boot a paying tenant? The tenant isn't trespassing. The protesters are.
And then the FCC will retaliate for culpable malfeasance.
Taking your ball and going home doesn't work when you're using public airwaves, and there are people around with the persistence and the means to file proper complaints.
Then they shouldn't market the data plan as "unlimited". It's simply false advertising.
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Screw that. A 20 mile bike trip to work is already going to burn to many minutes of my time. When I still worked at an office, I was one of the FEW in the area that had the option to shower, but it didn't have the privacy that I would insist on. No I don't go to gyms, and no I don't dig getting naked with dudes. It's not even close to a scenario that I would accept if I was still commuting. Hell a 20 mile commute in my CAR was longer than I wanted to deal with. I figure a bike is going to wind up being at LEAST 4 times longer, and completely uncomfortable and MUCH more dangerous.
If I lived in Europe, sure. Here in the states, no. Fuck that. I have things to do with my free time. I don't need to fill the entire time up commuting. I sure as fuck don't get PAID for commuting.
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"Raise them on bikes and they'll become aware themselves."
No they won't.
I didn't have a car until age 25, had to bike or rely on rides to get where I was going. I lived in an area with NO public transportation, not even the unreliable crap where I currently live.
Riding a bike sucked. It meant I didn't get to date for the most part. It meant I was sweaty and nasty when I got where I was going. It pretty much ruined my early 20's. Yea I was in pretty good shape, but unless I wanted to date trailer trash I was out of luck.
I learned from that to NEVER ride a bike again now that I have a car. The weather here sucks. It's either to hot by far to commute (or go out and not wind up disgustingly sweaty) or there's thunderstorms. NOt going to ride through THOSE again ever.
Now I work from home. I don't have to worry about commuting (unless I want to work from somewhere else) but I will never again ride a bicycle other than for exercise. It's not safe to do it here, and it's not comfortable. And yea, comfortable is important to me.
So no, raising your kids on bikes will not train them to ride bikes if it's not an area where that's really a reasonable tactic.
Side note, I was recently in England, and if we had buses and trains where I live in the states like what I saw there, I wouldn't own a car.
Most markets in the states, you do not have a choice. You have ONE cable operator, and usually ONE DSL operator, and that's it. If they both have horrible policies, you're screwed.
You could always MOVE of course.
So no, "get a proper ISP" isn't an option for everyone.
Fortunately I've got one of the "good" cable providers. Of course I don't do large digital downloads or participate in frequent peer-to-peer, so it probably wouldn't matter much to me anyhow.
Hence the Jack Handyism "when I die I want to go peacefully in my sleep, like my grandfather; not screaming and wetting myself like the passengers in his car."
Pretty bad form to promise drivers and not come up with them. I wonder though, if their products are any good at all? Last S3 stuff (Virge, I think) that I saw was easily crushed by Nvidia and ATI.
Even if someone is "close" to an area in the US that actually has a functional/usable public transport system, if they're currently in suburbia, they're not going to be able to make a move with out a MASSIVE economic loss, due to the current market.
I'm sure as fuck not doing it. of course I telecommute, so it's not really an issue for me. When I leave the house it's generally to get groceries or the like and I don't want to make a fucking day trip out of it. I want to get my stuff and get on with my day, so I take my private car.
It doesn't matter if it's a planning issue, or if there are better models. In the current state of things nothing is going to change in any US region for a long long time.
The supreme court of Florida has already told him to shut the fuck up. I hope they hold him in contempt and throw him in jail. for a long time. With general population nasty people who will make his life hell.
Interestingly enough, when I got my new Passport Card, it came with a little Faraday Cage sleeve (metalized mylar) with the instruction to put the card there when not in use. I don't remember getting anything like that when I got my (RFID carrying) Passport a while back, so maybe there's some realization of the problem on the issuing end...
The stations around here have all been covering the changeover as news stories for months now, including explaining what to do to be able to keep watching. I assume it's the same elsewhere.
Overlay banners are annoying. Especially if they would run 24x7
Well, having used Evolution's exchange plugin, I'm hoping that the project being discussed isn't slow as you describe, and doesn't leak resources like a sieve and crash frequently like Evolution.
As far as I can tell Evo development is so close to dead as to be unable to be distinguished from it.
I'm happily working in a company that is not married to exchange at the moment, but what is described in this article is something that could have made my previous job a lot more pleasant.
Evolution sucks so bad that my solution in that job was to run windows and office under VMWare and use THAT for my email. running VMware and a whole other OS virtualized under a Linux host was faster and leaked less resources than Evolution.
For what it's worth, JWT has all but run Symantec into the ground at this point. He's destroyed morale among most development teams by demanding across the board layoffs regardless of relative performance.
Finally the board got a clue and he's being forced to retire in April. Not nearly soon enough. Glad I don't work for that asshole anymore.
He's a great public speaker, but he's a self-serving snake. Lay off 5%, and cash in the stock options a couple weeks later.
Well he's also guilty of laying off employees to prop up the pathetic SYMC stock price and then cashing in his stock options for $600,000 a transaction (twice this year).
JWT is a scumbag. I've lost a lot of faith in Obama.
Fortunately I left that shithole of a company on my own and went to a far better gig.
Congratulations. You gave them grounds to not employ you based on the fact that you falsified information on a resume.
I don't disagree with your primary point entirely, but for goodness sake if you think that the result is sufficient evidence to prove discrimination, by all means file a lawsuit.
Oh bullshit. Sitting and suffering with a non-functional nv driver doesn't enhance freedom, and using software that I've paid for to use my hardware to it's greatest extend isn't detrimimental.
No I'm not qualified to "contribute code" to enhance it. No I'm not going to take the time to learn. I have a paying job writing software that has nothing at all to do with video hardware or low level machine programming. I contribute to open source where I can make an actual, useful contribution. Video is not that place. No amount of schooling at my age is going to make me a match for teams of dedicated electrical engineers and mathematicians and other experts that develop the proprietary Nvidia stuff, as well as the stuff that Nvidia licenses that they are not legally permitted to open source.
I'm not going to martyr myself and put on a hair-shirt and suffer just to prove a non-existent point.
ATI screwed me over on hardware support, so they will never get my business. Intel's hardware is mediocre at best and worthless for gaming.
The alternative is that I just fucking run windows to play games. I'm not going to stop gaming or restrict myself to Tux Flier just to feel smug.
Using the Nvidia driver gets people running Linux that would not otherwise. It lets people like me eliminate windows entirely where they otherwise would not. The contribution that they can make to open source and Linux isn't limited to the video hardware they pick. To assert otherwise is shortsighted at best and willfully ignorant beyond that. Don't drive users away by insisting that they have to use limited functionality drivers and just "contribute or suffer"
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Mine came with the Faraday cage sheathe and instructions. I've a feeling it's a "I don't have to read that piece of paper" thing.
And your adherence to religion excludes you from the concept of "intelligence".
I visited the UK recently and if we could have a system like you guys do in the states, I'd use trains a lot more than I do (which is currently NEVER). I found it convenient and pleasant. Likewise the buses (I was visiting Oxford at the time) are much cleaner, more convenient, and logically arranged than what we have here.
Sadly, as others have observed, such a system would take at least a generation to be built up here in the states, and the population centres are far more spread out than in the UK.
No, it the property owner doesn't like the protests, he can boot the protesters out. Why would he want to boot a paying tenant? The tenant isn't trespassing. The protesters are.
Agreed. if it doesn't render in Firefox, there's no reason to bother. The author is obviously an idiot.
And then the FCC will retaliate for culpable malfeasance.
Taking your ball and going home doesn't work when you're using public airwaves, and there are people around with the persistence and the means to file proper complaints.
Then they shouldn't market the data plan as "unlimited". It's simply false advertising.
Screw that. A 20 mile bike trip to work is already going to burn to many minutes of my time. When I still worked at an office, I was one of the FEW in the area that had the option to shower, but it didn't have the privacy that I would insist on. No I don't go to gyms, and no I don't dig getting naked with dudes. It's not even close to a scenario that I would accept if I was still commuting. Hell a 20 mile commute in my CAR was longer than I wanted to deal with. I figure a bike is going to wind up being at LEAST 4 times longer, and completely uncomfortable and MUCH more dangerous.
If I lived in Europe, sure. Here in the states, no. Fuck that. I have things to do with my free time. I don't need to fill the entire time up commuting. I sure as fuck don't get PAID for commuting.
"Raise them on bikes and they'll become aware themselves."
No they won't.
I didn't have a car until age 25, had to bike or rely on rides to get where I was going. I lived in an area with NO public transportation, not even the unreliable crap where I currently live.
Riding a bike sucked. It meant I didn't get to date for the most part. It meant I was sweaty and nasty when I got where I was going. It pretty much ruined my early 20's. Yea I was in pretty good shape, but unless I wanted to date trailer trash I was out of luck.
I learned from that to NEVER ride a bike again now that I have a car. The weather here sucks. It's either to hot by far to commute (or go out and not wind up disgustingly sweaty) or there's thunderstorms. NOt going to ride through THOSE again ever.
Now I work from home. I don't have to worry about commuting (unless I want to work from somewhere else) but I will never again ride a bicycle other than for exercise. It's not safe to do it here, and it's not comfortable. And yea, comfortable is important to me.
So no, raising your kids on bikes will not train them to ride bikes if it's not an area where that's really a reasonable tactic.
Side note, I was recently in England, and if we had buses and trains where I live in the states like what I saw there, I wouldn't own a car.
Most markets in the states, you do not have a choice. You have ONE cable operator, and usually ONE DSL operator, and that's it. If they both have horrible policies, you're screwed.
You could always MOVE of course.
So no, "get a proper ISP" isn't an option for everyone.
Fortunately I've got one of the "good" cable providers. Of course I don't do large digital downloads or participate in frequent peer-to-peer, so it probably wouldn't matter much to me anyhow.
Hence the Jack Handyism "when I die I want to go peacefully in my sleep, like my grandfather; not screaming and wetting myself like the passengers in his car."
This is news to me...
Pretty bad form to promise drivers and not come up with them. I wonder though, if their products are any good at all? Last S3 stuff (Virge, I think) that I saw was easily crushed by Nvidia and ATI.
Even if someone is "close" to an area in the US that actually has a functional/usable public transport system, if they're currently in suburbia, they're not going to be able to make a move with out a MASSIVE economic loss, due to the current market.
I'm sure as fuck not doing it. of course I telecommute, so it's not really an issue for me. When I leave the house it's generally to get groceries or the like and I don't want to make a fucking day trip out of it. I want to get my stuff and get on with my day, so I take my private car.
It doesn't matter if it's a planning issue, or if there are better models. In the current state of things nothing is going to change in any US region for a long long time.
You're confusing a President with a Prime Minister.
The Executive, Legislature, and Court are supposed to balance each other.
The Legislature in no way has complete primacy in the US form of representative democracy.
The supreme court of Florida has already told him to shut the fuck up. I hope they hold him in contempt and throw him in jail. for a long time. With general population nasty people who will make his life hell.
I did something similar with test machines at my old job, but I used the Romaji-ized Japanese versions of the name,
Gojira ... etc
Mekkagojira
Mossura
Batura
Ghidorrah
Interestingly enough, when I got my new Passport Card, it came with a little Faraday Cage sleeve (metalized mylar) with the instruction to put the card there when not in use. I don't remember getting anything like that when I got my (RFID carrying) Passport a while back, so maybe there's some realization of the problem on the issuing end...
The stations around here have all been covering the changeover as news stories for months now, including explaining what to do to be able to keep watching. I assume it's the same elsewhere.
Overlay banners are annoying. Especially if they would run 24x7
Well, having used Evolution's exchange plugin, I'm hoping that the project being discussed isn't slow as you describe, and doesn't leak resources like a sieve and crash frequently like Evolution.
As far as I can tell Evo development is so close to dead as to be unable to be distinguished from it.
I'm happily working in a company that is not married to exchange at the moment, but what is described in this article is something that could have made my previous job a lot more pleasant.
Evolution sucks so bad that my solution in that job was to run windows and office under VMWare and use THAT for my email. running VMware and a whole other OS virtualized under a Linux host was faster and leaked less resources than Evolution.
For what it's worth, JWT has all but run Symantec into the ground at this point. He's destroyed morale among most development teams by demanding across the board layoffs regardless of relative performance.
Finally the board got a clue and he's being forced to retire in April. Not nearly soon enough. Glad I don't work for that asshole anymore.
He's a great public speaker, but he's a self-serving snake. Lay off 5%, and cash in the stock options a couple weeks later.
Well he's also guilty of laying off employees to prop up the pathetic SYMC stock price and then cashing in his stock options for $600,000 a transaction (twice this year).
JWT is a scumbag. I've lost a lot of faith in Obama.
Fortunately I left that shithole of a company on my own and went to a far better gig.
Exactly.
So what?
The teacher should be arrested for property theft.
Congratulations. You gave them grounds to not employ you based on the fact that you falsified information on a resume.
I don't disagree with your primary point entirely, but for goodness sake if you think that the result is sufficient evidence to prove discrimination, by all means file a lawsuit.
Telling Slashdot isn't going to help.
Oh bullshit. Sitting and suffering with a non-functional nv driver doesn't enhance freedom, and using software that I've paid for to use my hardware to it's greatest extend isn't detrimimental.
No I'm not qualified to "contribute code" to enhance it. No I'm not going to take the time to learn. I have a paying job writing software that has nothing at all to do with video hardware or low level machine programming. I contribute to open source where I can make an actual, useful contribution. Video is not that place. No amount of schooling at my age is going to make me a match for teams of dedicated electrical engineers and mathematicians and other experts that develop the proprietary Nvidia stuff, as well as the stuff that Nvidia licenses that they are not legally permitted to open source.
I'm not going to martyr myself and put on a hair-shirt and suffer just to prove a non-existent point.
ATI screwed me over on hardware support, so they will never get my business. Intel's hardware is mediocre at best and worthless for gaming.
The alternative is that I just fucking run windows to play games. I'm not going to stop gaming or restrict myself to Tux Flier just to feel smug.
Using the Nvidia driver gets people running Linux that would not otherwise. It lets people like me eliminate windows entirely where they otherwise would not. The contribution that they can make to open source and Linux isn't limited to the video hardware they pick. To assert otherwise is shortsighted at best and willfully ignorant beyond that. Don't drive users away by insisting that they have to use limited functionality drivers and just "contribute or suffer"
Well there's still Blood Bath and Beyond.