Excellent description of the Debian project, but United Statesians will mistakenly think "minority" means unwhite people rather than an N-party system, where N>2.
That's funny, because I'm born and raised in the US and I didn't think that. I'm glad you were there to explain it to all of my friends, though, so I didn't have to.
and they've all been stable as rocks.. we're talking polished marble here.
Perhaps you mean "stable as stone".
I'll admit that "stable as a rock" is the more common phrase, but then you follow it up with marble, which is not normally described as a rock. Maybe you could have said polished lava rock or something.
Well, I think I've been $rtbl banned from moderating or something, seeing that I've never been given mod points since that big/. controversy about editors having unlimited mod points that they use to -1 entire threads they want to suppress...
I get moderation rights pretty infrequently too, nowadays. I wasn't aware of a point wherein it might have changed, though. You're full of information.:)
You also have many good points about the relevance of both my hypothetical and tekno(whatever)'s post. I think we're just going to have to disagree about that, though. I still believe that making a comment about a solution that obviates the whole problem cannot be labelled "offtopic". It might be "redundant"... maybe. But who's to say that it's not valuable information? You're assuming that a casual browser of the conversations knows that this problem is limited to ADSL, and that the comments made by tekno(whatever) are so irrelevant as to be noise.
Thanks for the tip on finding the moderation history. As you've probably already guessed, he was at -1 when I responded.
Well, maybe he got it "right" in a trivial sense... but not in any useful sense.
In my lonely and foundationally incorrect universe he was modded down twice for presentation. As you've pointed out he wasn't modded at all at the moment I responded. Luckily for me I was then snapped back into the real world.
Paraphrase of teknopurge's reply: "HAHAHAA!!1 The probelm isnt TCP dumbass! teh probem is that U SUXX0RZ cuz u have ADSL!! I M so l33t and have SDSL. Rawk!"
I find this humorous. I would have modified it as +1 funny and +1 informative. *shrug*
I found the same information that the original poster wanted by googling and contacting my ISP when I had the same question (SDSL _can_ solve this problem). I think that if someone has gone through the same effort at some time in their life, which it appears teknopurge did, that they should be able to vent every once in a while.
How would you have modded me if I would have wrote:
I just ate a pile of plastic letters and I'm going to shit out the solution to your problem:
ERGGGHHHH!!!
*squeeze* S...
*squeeze* D...
HNNNNHH!!!!
*squeeze* S...
*squeeze* L
AAAHHHH!!!
I feel better now and so will you.
Informative (considering it solves the problem) AND inflammatory (ala teknopurge). Does it deserve -2?... probably not.
Heat is usually directly absorbed by batter. This, in turn, cooks it. There is a new book out by Alton Brown, reviewed on Slashdot today, that discusses just this sort of thing at length.
Perhaps you should check it out. I haven't read it myself, but I'm pretty sure that after a while you will come to the obvious conclusion that excess heat cannot, in any way, be used to extend the life of batter. (exotic Goldbergian contraptions which use steam to run a refrigerator excluded, of course)
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Well hey, if you want to be a pedent about it!
It's "pedant".
Ba-dum PSSH!
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Unless you're doing a thesis on how people develop their opinions on cultural biases you're not going to need to do much more investigation into people's travels than you already have with the Pakistani story.
Here's a good maxim: People's opinions of other people will more often be reinforced by travels rather than otherwise.
This is because it is natural to look for the things that you think you already know. Japanese hate foreigners. French are snotty. Mexicans are lazy and like to drink beer. Americans are loud, fat fucks. Canadians say "eh" a lot. These are all character traits that you can find quite easily by going to these countries and looking for them. Even if you are not actively looking for them, the first time you experience it in this country you will say, "Ah HAH! They were right!" You have to have repeated exposure to an absence of a character trait to have it deemphasized.
It's much more rare for someone to go to another country, and within a month or so, have opinions completely (and unexpectedly) reversed. Even if they were, you can bet that half the time in those cases they were with a travel group or some sort of organization that took pains to debunk any sort of cultural preconceptions.
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You're just shifting the problem to another domain. If these guys [kernel hackers] weren't solving the problems in kernel space then they would be solving the problems in user space. They would be a more disparate set of teams [filesystems/devs/...].
I like how you got -1 for explaining the problem correctly. If you were to ask my DSL provider, as I have, about this issue, they would respond the same way, except with a little more tact.
I guess you need that (tact) to be modded fairly around here.
8 million people living in one city get to set the rules when compared to 11 million living outside of it... hence, upstate being anything north of New York.
It makes some sense.
I live in California and used to squabble with people who live in the Bay Area calling themselves from Northern California. San Francisco is geographically smack in Central California, but, since it's north of Los Angeles it's generally referred to as Northern California.
Because people are usually nice and want to help out. If they've already been through problems with one system and found that apt-get helps out in a lot of situations they want to let you know.
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Dude, you're so subtle I think I missed the joke.
Is the funny part the '%^)' or the 'bi metalic configuration'?
Excellent description of the Debian project, but United Statesians will mistakenly think "minority" means unwhite people rather than an N-party system, where N>2.
That's funny, because I'm born and raised in the US and I didn't think that. I'm glad you were there to explain it to all of my friends, though, so I didn't have to.
Don't be so categorical, dickhead.
Haha, you posted a response to a signature!
You're offtopic.
neener neener
The average /. reader is an idiot. Half of /. readers are below average. Are you scared yet?
/. readers are all below average then you would expect a high percentage of idiots.
/. reader is an idiot. Half again are below the /. average. Are you scared yet?
No.
If
How about:
The average
??
What happened to subject line troll?
and they've all been stable as rocks.. we're talking polished marble here.
Perhaps you mean "stable as stone".
I'll admit that "stable as a rock" is the more common phrase, but then you follow it up with marble, which is not normally described as a rock. Maybe you could have said polished lava rock or something.
You suck. heheh
I count 4 figures.
1: 7
2: 1
3: 0
4: 1
??
U R Dum!
You DO Have to! I installed Deb1An on my 'put4r and I HAD to read taht stuff!!
Is this a kind of joke?
No. These are old, well-tested packages. This is a stable release.
Well, I think I've been $rtbl banned from moderating or something, seeing that I've never been given mod points since that big /. controversy about editors having unlimited mod points that they use to -1 entire threads they want to suppress...
:)
... maybe. But who's to say that it's not valuable information? You're assuming that a casual browser of the conversations knows that this problem is limited to ADSL, and that the comments made by tekno(whatever) are so irrelevant as to be noise.
I get moderation rights pretty infrequently too, nowadays. I wasn't aware of a point wherein it might have changed, though. You're full of information.
You also have many good points about the relevance of both my hypothetical and tekno(whatever)'s post. I think we're just going to have to disagree about that, though. I still believe that making a comment about a solution that obviates the whole problem cannot be labelled "offtopic". It might be "redundant"
I dunno.
Thanks for the tip on finding the moderation history. As you've probably already guessed, he was at -1 when I responded.
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... probably not.
Well, maybe he got it "right" in a trivial sense... but not in any useful sense.
In my lonely and foundationally incorrect universe he was modded down twice for presentation. As you've pointed out he wasn't modded at all at the moment I responded. Luckily for me I was then snapped back into the real world.
Paraphrase of teknopurge's reply: "HAHAHAA!!1 The probelm isnt TCP dumbass! teh probem is that U SUXX0RZ cuz u have ADSL!! I M so l33t and have SDSL. Rawk!"
I find this humorous. I would have modified it as +1 funny and +1 informative. *shrug*
I found the same information that the original poster wanted by googling and contacting my ISP when I had the same question (SDSL _can_ solve this problem). I think that if someone has gone through the same effort at some time in their life, which it appears teknopurge did, that they should be able to vent every once in a while.
How would you have modded me if I would have wrote:
I just ate a pile of plastic letters and I'm going to shit out the solution to your problem:
ERGGGHHHH!!!
*squeeze* S
*squeeze* D
HNNNNHH!!!!
*squeeze* S
*squeeze* L
AAAHHHH!!!
I feel better now and so will you.
Informative (considering it solves the problem) AND inflammatory (ala teknopurge). Does it deserve -2?
Heat is usually directly absorbed by batter. This, in turn, cooks it. There is a new book out by Alton Brown, reviewed on Slashdot today, that discusses just this sort of thing at length.
Perhaps you should check it out. I haven't read it myself, but I'm pretty sure that after a while you will come to the obvious conclusion that excess heat cannot, in any way, be used to extend the life of batter. (exotic Goldbergian contraptions which use steam to run a refrigerator excluded, of course)
HTH, HAND.
Yeah, GOOD ONE!!
But ... but ... killing little girls is bad!!
WTF do you expect?
No sane person runs webservers on a vic20.
Well hey, if you want to be a pedent about it!
It's "pedant".
Ba-dum PSSH!
Unless you're doing a thesis on how people develop their opinions on cultural biases you're not going to need to do much more investigation into people's travels than you already have with the Pakistani story.
Here's a good maxim: People's opinions of other people will more often be reinforced by travels rather than otherwise.
This is because it is natural to look for the things that you think you already know. Japanese hate foreigners. French are snotty. Mexicans are lazy and like to drink beer. Americans are loud, fat fucks. Canadians say "eh" a lot. These are all character traits that you can find quite easily by going to these countries and looking for them. Even if you are not actively looking for them, the first time you experience it in this country you will say, "Ah HAH! They were right!" You have to have repeated exposure to an absence of a character trait to have it deemphasized.
It's much more rare for someone to go to another country, and within a month or so, have opinions completely (and unexpectedly) reversed. Even if they were, you can bet that half the time in those cases they were with a travel group or some sort of organization that took pains to debunk any sort of cultural preconceptions.
You're just shifting the problem to another domain. If these guys [kernel hackers] weren't solving the problems in kernel space then they would be solving the problems in user space. They would be a more disparate set of teams [filesystems/devs/...].
Big deal.
Why knock 'em? They're getting stuff done.
Heheh ... you're offtopic!
That's what you get for commenting on the parent post.
I've never figured out how to check the moderation stats except in "Parent".
I apologize for blaming a moderator for marking him down when it didn't happen.
I still think he got the explanation right. ADSL is probably the issue.
I like how you got -1 for explaining the problem correctly. If you were to ask my DSL provider, as I have, about this issue, they would respond the same way, except with a little more tact.
I guess you need that (tact) to be modded fairly around here.
8 million people living in one city get to set the rules when compared to 11 million living outside of it ... hence, upstate being anything north of New York.
It makes some sense.
I live in California and used to squabble with people who live in the Bay Area calling themselves from Northern California. San Francisco is geographically smack in Central California, but, since it's north of Los Angeles it's generally referred to as Northern California.
Whatever.
You don't need to burn a 30 meg CD, you can install Debian with two floppies and a net connection.
... I always wondered why Debian couldn't do the same years ago.
Thankfully, they've finally gotten around to that.
I remember installing Redhat 5.1 using one floppy (or two, I can't remember)
Because people are usually nice and want to help out. If they've already been through problems with one system and found that apt-get helps out in a lot of situations they want to let you know.
I heard IMAX film was expensive and a ridiculously small target market. *shrug*