I bought this book when it was in e-form
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God's Debris
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And loved it. There's something in every chapter to make you think, and the source of the title, "God's Debris", left me stunned. I highly recommend this book if you're looking for a complete "mind-job", and it contains a lot of new ways of looking at just about every aspect of life - from religious to physical to social.
My band (part-time, but could become full-time if any of us cared about it) makes 5 times as much off of shows as we do off of recordings. And shows are in more demand if people can get your music for free.
As long as we're on the subject of wishlists...
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Slash 2.2.0 Released
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An anonymous post by a logged-in user should be treated exactly the same as a regular post. It should include any +1 bonuses and affect karma. If only unregistered ACs were rated at 0, I'd have less qualms about missing something browsing at +1.
If something is illegal for you, it should also be illegal for your congressman, and if your congressman has a special legal priviledge, then you should have it as well.
For instance. We should not be allowed to abuse our law-making powers to create laws beneficial to ourselves (oh wait, we have no lawmaking powers). But then, according to you, we should.
Yes, the standard response is "that's what we elected him for". But my *point* is that a congressman has priveledges we don't, even if they were given to him by us.
Microsoft was given a monopoly by the people, but it shouldn't be allowed to abuse that power. It's a power that no other OS company has, and so while the same laws should apply to them, other companies aren't in a position where it *would* apply.
On James :
The fur animation had my eyes wide open. There was really nothing else you could point at and say "that looks absolutely real", but if you put that type of fur in a non-animated movie, I can't say that I would notice.
Yes, not his *real* name, but I forget it right now. I've been enjoying his Wheel of Time series more than LotR, and - like most fantasy - the appeal is timeless.
When you're trying to maintain a couple of nines of uptime, I imagine that it would cost a bit. You'd have to make sure that the admins knew the system inside out. It's not like when Amazon first started, and they were able to make a few mistakes learning the system. Nowadays, being such a big name, they want admins who won't let anything go wrong on their end - ever. It would probably require more than a MCSE certificate:-)
Linux works as a 486 in someone's closet or a cluster of database servers. There's a huge difference in the administration and usage of each of these. Probably more so than in many cases than a server vs. desktop comparasin. A large advantage of Linux is the modularity, so that it can be any computing system you want. That makes it ideal for any environment. Developers should continue to "itch the scratch" on any itches they have, be it networking, GUI, or gaming. The "right fight" is just trying to create the best desktop in the world using the only form of communism that's ever worked.
They don't have feelings for it. Don't forget that. It is about the money.
I use it for the stability and the money. I don't use Linux because I "have feelings for it". I use it because it's a better operating system. That's the whole point, right? If Windows was a better server that cost less, was easier to use, and more reliable, I'd choose Windows. Any success Linux enjoys is due to it's superiority, not zealotry.
Out of curiosity, can anyone find any independent anti-linux testimonials? Linux horror-stories? I'm just curious if this is standard/. bias (don't deny it, it exists) or a provable phenomenon that I could present to my boss.
No one's ever "seen" an electron either, but that doesn't mean we can't figure out how they work, approximately how many there are in a given area, and their predicted behaviour. If Weezer had released 500 trillion albums, and a pattern was found, then you'd be able to predict, with fair reliability, the songs in albums 500trillion + 1, 2, and 3.
Anyway, I'm assuming that the way they figure out how much dark matter there is is by calculating how much gravity is associated with it.
What if something goes wrong during the initial procedure, or a "bad batch" of capsules makes it to a patient? How do you get them out again? They feed off the host's nutrients, but there's no way to kill them off if they start acting up (producing too much insulin, maybe even getting cancer?) Just a thought.
And airlines/boats *are* regulated. They have to run safely. Safe-running software is part of that. Regulate things that use software, alright - regulate the stability requirements *of* that software, great! Just don't try to expand it beyond applications that *should* be regulated.
Okay, I've never been a big fan, but I'm starting to be convinced that exceptions are the way to go at times. I'm just wondering for programs where speed is important - are exception calls and checks much more expensive than manual error-checking?
Eh? Why were all the most successful Empires centrally controlled? Was the Roman Empire decentralised? Sure, they had some degree of devolution, but Rome was still the boss.
The Roman Empire fell *because* of centralization. Everything was going to hell on its borders, but no one noticed, because the Emporer kept Rome itself filled with all the resources they needed. Why isn't the British Empire still with us? Sure, Britain *technically* controls a lot of territories (Canada only got its "independence" a few decades ago), but their real control is very little. Why? Because decentralizing government and allowing Canada, Australia, etc to have a prime minister was the better choice.
Anyway, I could go on, but the whole post is so riddled with troll-lets, it's not worth it. I've got to admit I'm impressed with your user# though - happy karma-burning!
I switched from Hotmail as soon as they made their "improvements" a few months ago, and was impressed with Yahoo (well, probably because I was used to the pure suckiness of hotmail, but anyway...) They allow pop3 access, so you don't even have to go in through the web, if you don't want to, and have 6M of space, compared to hotmail's 2. As I said, I may have been overly impressed with Yahoo because of how crappy hotmail had become, but I've found it to be a great free mail service.
That works great for feature films - or in this case, yahoo, ebay, amazon, etc. But what about the thousands of unrated movies out there? Or home videos taken in your back yard? It's so easy to have a homepage, but I'm procrastinatory (word?) enough that I almost didn't go through the 5 minutes of hassle to include mine in search engines. The home-grown pages that make the web so interesting (and contain most of the useful information) will never bother to rate themselves unless a significant portion of the population is using the software.
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And loved it. There's something in every chapter to make you think, and the source of the title, "God's Debris", left me stunned. I highly recommend this book if you're looking for a complete "mind-job", and it contains a lot of new ways of looking at just about every aspect of life - from religious to physical to social.
READ IT.
That is all.
IANTOP (the original poster), but :
My band (part-time, but could become full-time if any of us cared about it) makes 5 times as much off of shows as we do off of recordings. And shows are in more demand if people can get your music for free.
An anonymous post by a logged-in user should be treated exactly the same as a regular post. It should include any +1 bonuses and affect karma. If only unregistered ACs were rated at 0, I'd have less qualms about missing something browsing at +1.
If something is illegal for you, it should also be illegal for your congressman, and if your congressman has a special legal priviledge, then you should have it as well.
For instance. We should not be allowed to abuse our law-making powers to create laws beneficial to ourselves (oh wait, we have no lawmaking powers). But then, according to you, we should.
Yes, the standard response is "that's what we elected him for". But my *point* is that a congressman has priveledges we don't, even if they were given to him by us.
Microsoft was given a monopoly by the people, but it shouldn't be allowed to abuse that power. It's a power that no other OS company has, and so while the same laws should apply to them, other companies aren't in a position where it *would* apply.
On James :
The fur animation had my eyes wide open. There was really nothing else you could point at and say "that looks absolutely real", but if you put that type of fur in a non-animated movie, I can't say that I would notice.
Yes, not his *real* name, but I forget it right now. I've been enjoying his Wheel of Time series more than LotR, and - like most fantasy - the appeal is timeless.
That is all.
When you're trying to maintain a couple of nines of uptime, I imagine that it would cost a bit. You'd have to make sure that the admins knew the system inside out. It's not like when Amazon first started, and they were able to make a few mistakes learning the system. Nowadays, being such a big name, they want admins who won't let anything go wrong on their end - ever. It would probably require more than a MCSE certificate :-)
Linux works as a 486 in someone's closet or a cluster of database servers. There's a huge difference in the administration and usage of each of these. Probably more so than in many cases than a server vs. desktop comparasin. A large advantage of Linux is the modularity, so that it can be any computing system you want. That makes it ideal for any environment. Developers should continue to "itch the scratch" on any itches they have, be it networking, GUI, or gaming. The "right fight" is just trying to create the best desktop in the world using the only form of communism that's ever worked.
"It looks like you're staving off hordes of barbarians..."
They don't have feelings for it. Don't forget that. It is about the money.
I use it for the stability and the money. I don't use Linux because I "have feelings for it". I use it because it's a better operating system. That's the whole point, right? If Windows was a better server that cost less, was easier to use, and more reliable, I'd choose Windows. Any success Linux enjoys is due to it's superiority, not zealotry.
Out of curiosity, can anyone find any independent anti-linux testimonials? Linux horror-stories? I'm just curious if this is standard /. bias (don't deny it, it exists) or a provable phenomenon that I could present to my boss.
No one's ever "seen" an electron either, but that doesn't mean we can't figure out how they work, approximately how many there are in a given area, and their predicted behaviour. If Weezer had released 500 trillion albums, and a pattern was found, then you'd be able to predict, with fair reliability, the songs in albums 500trillion + 1, 2, and 3.
Anyway, I'm assuming that the way they figure out how much dark matter there is is by calculating how much gravity is associated with it.
2 4 8 16 32 64 128 256 512 1024 2048 4096...
10 seconds
3 9 27 81...ummmm...crap
10 seconds
This'll make all my computer-numbering knowledge obsolete
What if something goes wrong during the initial procedure, or a "bad batch" of capsules makes it to a patient? How do you get them out again? They feed off the host's nutrients, but there's no way to kill them off if they start acting up (producing too much insulin, maybe even getting cancer?) Just a thought.
The article didn't mention how much of the skeleton they had, or whether it would be on display somewhere. I'd love to see this thing.
Yeah - sickening that they never said anything about it. Not as if there was a feature article on it or anything.
And airlines/boats *are* regulated. They have to run safely. Safe-running software is part of that. Regulate things that use software, alright - regulate the stability requirements *of* that software, great! Just don't try to expand it beyond applications that *should* be regulated.
Okay, I've never been a big fan, but I'm starting to be convinced that exceptions are the way to go at times. I'm just wondering for programs where speed is important - are exception calls and checks much more expensive than manual error-checking?
int allocate_3(void){
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How often do you do this though, without a bunch of pointers being for the same use? Arrays to the rescue, in that case.
I don't know how you did it, but my sincere congratulations :
The fact is, most open-source software sucks donkey balls.
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*sigh* Why am I responding, ah well.
Eh? Why were all the most successful Empires centrally controlled? Was the Roman Empire decentralised? Sure, they had some degree of devolution, but Rome was still the boss.
The Roman Empire fell *because* of centralization. Everything was going to hell on its borders, but no one noticed, because the Emporer kept Rome itself filled with all the resources they needed. Why isn't the British Empire still with us? Sure, Britain *technically* controls a lot of territories (Canada only got its "independence" a few decades ago), but their real control is very little. Why? Because decentralizing government and allowing Canada, Australia, etc to have a prime minister was the better choice.
Anyway, I could go on, but the whole post is so riddled with troll-lets, it's not worth it. I've got to admit I'm impressed with your user# though - happy karma-burning!
Why no Yahoo?
I switched from Hotmail as soon as they made their "improvements" a few months ago, and was impressed with Yahoo (well, probably because I was used to the pure suckiness of hotmail, but anyway...) They allow pop3 access, so you don't even have to go in through the web, if you don't want to, and have 6M of space, compared to hotmail's 2. As I said, I may have been overly impressed with Yahoo because of how crappy hotmail had become, but I've found it to be a great free mail service.
By the way, this post if very sarcastic and it makes damn little sense.
/. free of grammatical errors for ~5 years.
Keeping
That works great for feature films - or in this case, yahoo, ebay, amazon, etc. But what about the thousands of unrated movies out there? Or home videos taken in your back yard? It's so easy to have a homepage, but I'm procrastinatory (word?) enough that I almost didn't go through the 5 minutes of hassle to include mine in search engines. The home-grown pages that make the web so interesting (and contain most of the useful information) will never bother to rate themselves unless a significant portion of the population is using the software.