Wow, hadn't checked the Onion in a long time...
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... I think for me I stopped reading when I started bumping into their 'premium only' search results. For years they were part of my 'conversation', where I'd send links to classic articles as a joke (or, as the world began to actually mirror the Onion, a rebuttal). Once I couldn't fwd links from their past anymore, once they weren't part of the joke, I guess I didn't find them as useful.
Could be a function of the older stuff being better than the newer stuff, but since I haven't been reading that frequently in the past two or so years, I couldn't rightly judge.
Then raise your wage offer and offer full relocation.. Besides, offsetting Texas' low low taxes and 'liberal' gun policy is some of the assiest weather in the whole USA. Face it, geeks are sweaty, and DFW is a pretty sweaty place last time I looked...
[rant] I get fairly sick and tired when I hear whining about jobs that "Americans just don't want". That's false: they're jobs that "Americans just don't want, at the wage we want to pay".
If you offered to pay someone $100k/yr plus benefits to scrub out septic tanks, I'm sure you'd have plenty of US citizens applying.
Not that there's anything wrong with offering whatever wage you're willing to pay: that's capitalism. Just don't go whining and lying to the congress and the media about the greedy character of Americans that don't want to sweep floors for minimum wage. [/rant]
The ipodslave KIOslave for KDE is pretty nifty, though it should (or perhaps Konqueror should) let you choose to use the file's id3 tag to generate the icon text as an option when you view an ipod:/ URL. ipodslave integration into amarok could be better: ideally you would use amarok as a hook right into the ipod's playlists and such.
Also, if you're gonna use an iPod with Linux, go with udev. Additionally, format the pod for fat32, it's a bit more convenient, though you could still use hfsplus in modern 2.6 kernels.
One problem with this requirement is that it steers *everyone* into higher education. Some people, shocking as it may be, don't belong there. People are forgetting that humans have a range of abilities. Some are higher-functioning than others!
The language you use implies a value judgment which could be considered arrogant.
Plumbers, Carpenters, Auto mechanics, etc. don't get 'college' edumacations, but the technical craftsmanship and 'intelligence' required in those fields would put most liberal arts degree wanks to shame.
German education has a craft track that offers similar recognition to 'meisters' of non-intellectual advanced education. America should adopt a similar model, preferably non-vendor-specific (the whole certification thing is a symptom of this).
... As long as they can stand up to some vandalism..
Also, running Newton-style HWR and "doodle-correction" (turn fuzzy squares and circles into real ones) could be really nice, especially if you, say, write a URL in a box in a corner and the page pops up..
Getting pleasure out of other people 'not getting it' is one, a most perverse, thing, but ad hominem is a brutality that is not tolerated in civilised parts of the world.
Slapping in the face, now _that_'s about as ad hominem as you can get, genius.
And whining is not tolerated in America.
We scared the whiners and wimps (aka crown loyalists) right up past the 49th parallel. I love Canadians, and I even love the French, but I love them as they are. And they are wimps and whiners. And the English are starting to get whiney, which is actually quite disappointing, but inevitable as the NHS and social services crumble under the weight of collapsing demographic trends.
Surely a test is supposed to test if the students understood something. The best way of doing this is to give marks for showing the working to the problem as well as (or instead of) for getting the right answer.
Hard to do in multiple choice tests (I mean, the _point_ of MC testing is to have a discrete, easy and objective method of grading), though I suppose in theory you could have students submit their scratchpads to make sure there's evidence to investigate suspicious results...
Multiple choice tests are there so grading becomes easy enough for an 8-year-old to do. That's the age I was when I was grading my dad's 10th grade social studies exams.
.. Especially the ones without large LCD graphing displays. My trusty beast could handle at least first year chem and physics formulae.. And you didn't have the TAs refusing or confiscating them like they might some of the more advanced (and waay more expensive) HPs.. And no RPN;)
Plus, you could get them at Service Merchandise (and possibly Consumers Distributing), which were the only places my folks bought consumer electronics back in the day...
(and for all you hatas out there, Casio _did_ have a more powerful programmable, but IIRC it was also way more expensive at the time..)
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... I think for me I stopped reading when I started bumping into their 'premium only' search results. For years they were part of my 'conversation', where I'd send links to classic articles as a joke (or, as the world began to actually mirror the Onion, a rebuttal). Once I couldn't fwd links from their past anymore, once they weren't part of the joke, I guess I didn't find them as useful.
Could be a function of the older stuff being better than the newer stuff, but since I haven't been reading that frequently in the past two or so years, I couldn't rightly judge.
.. And charge access when his head a-splodes!
Hmm, between this, Gomery, and six month queues for heart surgery...
Still, the BC bud _is_ pretty kind...
Given the sandy beaches and amount of sun, you'd probably be better off worrying about melanomas.
Can I bring my trusty [Hillborne Axe of Agility] to fend off all those orcs?
Then raise your wage offer and offer full relocation.. Besides, offsetting Texas' low low taxes and 'liberal' gun policy is some of the assiest weather in the whole USA. Face it, geeks are sweaty, and DFW is a pretty sweaty place last time I looked...
[rant]
I get fairly sick and tired when I hear whining about jobs that "Americans just don't want". That's false: they're jobs that "Americans just don't want, at the wage we want to pay".
If you offered to pay someone $100k/yr plus benefits to scrub out septic tanks, I'm sure you'd have plenty of US citizens applying.
Not that there's anything wrong with offering whatever wage you're willing to pay: that's capitalism. Just don't go whining and lying to the congress and the media about the greedy character of Americans that don't want to sweep floors for minimum wage.
[/rant]
"The president has been kidnapped by ninjas. Are you a bad enough dude to rescue the president?"
Well, are you?
The ipodslave KIOslave for KDE is pretty nifty, though it should (or perhaps Konqueror should) let you choose to use the file's id3 tag to generate the icon text as an option when you view an ipod:/ URL. ipodslave integration into amarok could be better: ideally you would use amarok as a hook right into the ipod's playlists and such.
Also, if you're gonna use an iPod with Linux, go with udev. Additionally, format the pod for fat32, it's a bit more convenient, though you could still use hfsplus in modern 2.6 kernels.
... there's always the PlusDeck..
:p
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/drives/6908/
(hey, it was the first relevant google hit)
Not sure if there's a linux driver tho
The most important part of OS X already runs on x86, right? Cf. Darwin.
Actually, for most users, Darwin is probably the _least_ important part of OS X.
IOW, more users would run Linux with Quartz and Aqua than Darwin in X11.
One problem with this requirement is that it steers *everyone* into higher education. Some people, shocking as it may be, don't belong there. People are forgetting that humans have a range of abilities. Some are higher-functioning than others!
The language you use implies a value judgment which could be considered arrogant.
Plumbers, Carpenters, Auto mechanics, etc. don't get 'college' edumacations, but the technical craftsmanship and 'intelligence' required in those fields would put most liberal arts degree wanks to shame.
German education has a craft track that offers similar recognition to 'meisters' of non-intellectual advanced education. America should adopt a similar model, preferably non-vendor-specific (the whole certification thing is a symptom of this).
... if it were released opensource, the ironing would be delicious...
The guy's a total hack. /only saw RSS link
Google JWZ's commentary on this, I think it's for the most part spot on.
/. did it for me! Neat!)
What, you didn't think _I_ would bother finding that link again? I'm a lazy sysadmin!
Ohh, all right..
http://www.jwz.org/doc/groupware.html
(But I'm not going to a hrefitize it for you, just copy and paste... Ooh,
... As long as they can stand up to some vandalism..
Also, running Newton-style HWR and "doodle-correction" (turn fuzzy squares and circles into real ones) could be really nice, especially if you, say, write a URL in a box in a corner and the page pops up..
Getting pleasure out of other people 'not getting it' is one, a most perverse, thing, but ad hominem is a brutality that is not tolerated in civilised parts of the world.
Slapping in the face, now _that_'s about as ad hominem as you can get, genius.
And whining is not tolerated in America.
We scared the whiners and wimps (aka crown loyalists) right up past the 49th parallel. I love Canadians, and I even love the French, but I love them as they are. And they are wimps and whiners. And the English are starting to get whiney, which is actually quite disappointing, but inevitable as the NHS and social services crumble under the weight of collapsing demographic trends.
And don't get me started on the dhimmis in Spain.
Methinks the ideal combo for powering a railgun or laser would be a diesel/omnifuel-electric hybrid.
Or, how about some nucular Bolos? W00TT!
Surely a test is supposed to test if the students understood something. The best way of doing this is to give marks for showing the working to the problem as well as (or instead of) for getting the right answer.
Hard to do in multiple choice tests (I mean, the _point_ of MC testing is to have a discrete, easy and objective method of grading), though I suppose in theory you could have students submit their scratchpads to make sure there's evidence to investigate suspicious results...
Multiple choice tests are there so grading becomes easy enough for an 8-year-old to do. That's the age I was when I was grading my dad's 10th grade social studies exams.
.. Especially the ones without large LCD graphing displays. My trusty beast could handle at least first year chem and physics formulae.. And you didn't have the TAs refusing or confiscating them like they might some of the more advanced (and waay more expensive) HPs.. And no RPN ;)
Plus, you could get them at Service Merchandise (and possibly Consumers Distributing), which were the only places my folks bought consumer electronics back in the day...
(and for all you hatas out there, Casio _did_ have a more powerful programmable, but IIRC it was also way more expensive at the time..)
Seriously, you can get a lot of coding done with that middle mouse button...
I really wanted to slap you in the face because of that, but I don't have anything funny to say now.
Surprise, surprise.
Here's a quarter, kid, go put down that manifesto and buy yourself a sense of humor.
The alternative would be much more frequent CBG expression in the general population, would would be unpleasant for everybody.
But wouldn't that imply, however, that the CBG is gettin any?
Clearly not a problem to fret about.
(Sadly.)
They also use MQ Series, at least for some messaging. I had to configure an iBGP link to SIAC to support MQ, for some process..
However, it's been over 6 months since I've had to deal with that shit thank Eris, so my memory on details is wonderfully blank.
No doubt, it involved some thought, rather than spamflooding... And yeah, I had a laugh.
Shouldn't you be off destroying the filibuster?
So not only has Apple dumped IBM, they also appear to be planning to dump gcc.
Highly doubtful.
Just because IBM has xlC compilers available for OS X, Apple doesn't use gcc?
Still, wouldn't be a huge surprise if Apple starts using the intel compilers for the OS and their own apps.
I'm interested if intel will support translating Altivec into SSE3 code, where applicable. Also, obviously, 64-bit.
Presumably though, Apple will build their x86 boxes with OpenFirmware, or whatever stuff Intel's doing with next-gen BIOS...