you can find them near the dock. you know, there is probably a truck load there right now. being auctioned. right next a batch of water buffelos fresh from texas. no, no, i meant the buffelos are from texas. the indians are from, well, india -- where else? as for the prices, you can haggle a bit. see what the going rate is. some of the more well fed ones might cost you a pretty penny but the majority of them should be quite affordable. but if you buy 2, you might be able to get yourself a nice discount.
i'm not indian but am frequently mistaken for one. that's a whole another thing that really really pisses me off (nothing quite like stereotyping is there?) but what's starting to piss me off even more are people that are complaining how all the jobs are being outsourced. well, welcome to free-market economy/world. which, by the way, were brought about by the leaders you elected and pretty much forced upon the third world countries (there are countless 'diplomatic' tactics to do just that and if you don't know about it you should try crawling out from under that rock).
you do the job cheaper, i'm sure you'll get your job back. and by the way, if you don't think it's fair that your jobs are vaporizing in front of you, talk to the managers of businesses of 'third world countries' who got taken over by american corps and the management positions were then 'outsourced' back to america while retaining the cheap 'labor' jobs in the 'third world country'.
'suit' jobs are flying back to the US in record numbers and blue (and now white) collors are flying over there in exchange. who's getting the shorter end of the shaft?
a trick i learned that works all the time for a portable dark room..
if you have a big jacket (think either thick or layered so light won't go thru) and with elastic type sleeves.. lay it flat on the floor, unzip, place the contents on the inside of the jacket. zip it up, tuck the neck so light won't go thru the neck. make sure the waist is tucked too. then from the outside, put your hand into the sleeve and reach inside. at this point your hands should be in the jacket-arms in reverse.. presto, you're working blind (as far as what you're working on) in a darkroom (your stuff is in the dark isn't it?)..
sure GUIs are very efficient at times. just like pictures are efficient for cartoons.
what you have just pointed out are the only areas of computing that are better served by GUIs. i'm talking CAD, photo manip., CGI (even that is debatable since scripts actually do the bulk of the work) etc. because they deal with pictures.
don't get me wrong GUIs do have a place. just like pictures do. but if pictures were really worth a thousend words (enough to replace them altogether) why do we still carry around books with thousend words in 'em? perhaps accounting books could be user friendly by having just a smiley face to denote a profit and a frown for a loss instead of all those numbers and all that math. the book doesn't really have a preference either.
you see, quantifying something using words is a lot more easier than with pictures. even tho 'pictures are worth a thousend words'. perhaps that's why you've stopped reading books with large pictures on them since the 2nd grade.
pretty much for the same reason you'd want to do PC type stuff (read documents, spreadsheets) on a PDA that is the size of a wallnut with a screen the size of a postcard.
first, i'd have to play with mac in non-critical settings to be familiar with the platform to form my own opinion and figure out the gotchas. now that's going to cost me around $1500. lotta money for playing around. (vs. $300-$400 for a system that'll run windows or linux etc.)
second, once i did bring up using macs instead of wintel for regular users. my boss scoffed at the idea. lesson here is: it's not up to me.
the reason i was successful with linux is i got the 'throwaway machines' after the office went thru a hardware upgrade. i then proceeded to wipe those machines clean, installed linux and has since been running file servers, print servers etc. so eventually i was able to convince buying hardware specifically for running linux. can't do that with a mac (start out with throw-away machines, that is) i even got a mosix cluster of older computers that they were ready to toss out.
so maybe there's more to the CLI than just pure nerd testosterone. evolutionary adoption? vs. the disruptive adoption that a mac would require.
doesn't p3p already cover this? you have to state that you are using cookies and for what purpose in a binary form so the browser can varify what you are stating. then the browser only allows the website to do what you stated. the browser then can display what was stated and what the browser is currently allowing the website to do based upon the binary statement. a human-readable statement is also provided (you could have the browser generate this based upon the binary statement that the browser went by) at a url so the user can click on 'privacy report' and get to the web page. providing the option to leave is so silly... the user, having read the statement and disagreeing can simply point to where ever else they want to go and just leave! i don't get that the website needs to provide an option to 'leave' a website. i didn't know i was trapped by every wesite that i visited...
just because you can concoct and pass a law doesn't mean you should. silly if you ask me.
amen. i thought i was a little off my rockers not buying CDs and had gone a little too far in idealisms. i haven't bought a single one in the last 4 years! and no i don't 'swap files' either. i'm just passively boycotting RIAA.
good to know i'm not alone.
we need a slashdot poll on this matter:
CDs bought in the last 2 years:
0, no file swapping 1-10, no file swapping 10-100+, no file swapping file swapping with no buyings file swapping with 1-10 CDs bought file swapping with 10-100+ CDs bought
I don't see RMS steppng forward with an open checkbook.
i don't know the exact dates but it's been close to about 15-20 years-ish of the FSF. RMS has definetely devoted *a lot* of time into it. a programmer of his calibre, let's say he's worth about $100,000 a year. that comes out to about $1,500,000. and you *still* want him to open a checkbook? when was the last time you opened a checkbook for $50 for a piece of software? that's what i thought.
although i don't agree with the man on a lot of things, asking him to open his checkbook for software sounds foolish. he has devoted his life for the purpose.
and maybe you're paid by MS to tell the../../poster that *s/he* is paid by MS to sound like a conspiracy nut so that we do ignore that possibility..
but then maybe *i* am paid by MS to say that you were paid by MS to say the../../poster was paid by MS... arrrrgh.. i will be needing my head back now.
My wallet also reads "all rights reserved" -- RIAA/MPAA *You* deal with it.
I haven't bought a single CD in the last 3 years. and no i haven't 'pirated' a single song either. i make my own. especially since i have that extra time from not having to make *MY* ends meet in order to buy that radiohead CD.
in that iLoo (or whatever the hell that portapottie with connection to the net was called). cruise the net, look at pr0n and then fold it up and wipe your ass.
well, ya. considering the times.. it's not the terrorist factor anymore. it's the "i'm gonna be fired.. and replaced.. if i don't show up at work" fear factor.
I have always thought that trying to build a computer to act like a human was a waste of what makes a computer a computer. what i'm trying to say is that computers are good at doing mind-numbing calculations over and over and over. if a computer were to successfully pass a turing test, a computer would have to start feeling bored and start making mistakes on calculations. eg. if i were conducting a turing test, (as i understand it of course) i could distinguish between a human and a computer by simply asking for the square root of 12345645^3 or some such. now if the computer were built to pass the turing test from this regard, it would mean that the computer was dumbed down to fail at what it does successfully and what makes it a 'computer'. humans are good at imagenation (i didn't say humans were good at spelling.) but suck at pretty much everything else. so years of research have been poured into dumbing down the computer so that it fails to do what it's supposed to do!
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you can find them near the dock. you know, there is probably a truck load there right now. being auctioned. right next a batch of water buffelos fresh from texas. no, no, i meant the buffelos are from texas. the indians are from, well, india -- where else? as for the prices, you can haggle a bit. see what the going rate is. some of the more well fed ones might cost you a pretty penny but the majority of them should be quite affordable. but if you buy 2, you might be able to get yourself a nice discount.
i'm not indian but am frequently mistaken for one. that's a whole another thing that really really pisses me off (nothing quite like stereotyping is there?) but what's starting to piss me off even more are people that are complaining how all the jobs are being outsourced. well, welcome to free-market economy/world. which, by the way, were brought about by the leaders you elected and pretty much forced upon the third world countries (there are countless 'diplomatic' tactics to do just that and if you don't know about it you should try crawling out from under that rock).
you do the job cheaper, i'm sure you'll get your job back. and by the way, if you don't think it's fair that your jobs are vaporizing in front of you, talk to the managers of businesses of 'third world countries' who got taken over by american corps and the management positions were then 'outsourced' back to america while retaining the cheap 'labor' jobs in the 'third world country'.
'suit' jobs are flying back to the US in record numbers and blue (and now white) collors are flying over there in exchange. who's getting the shorter end of the shaft?
now quit yer bitchin'.
a trick i learned that works all the time for a portable dark room..
if you have a big jacket (think either thick or layered so light won't go thru) and with elastic type sleeves.. lay it flat on the floor, unzip, place the contents on the inside of the jacket. zip it up, tuck the neck so light won't go thru the neck. make sure the waist is tucked too. then from the outside, put your hand into the sleeve and reach inside. at this point your hands should be in the jacket-arms in reverse.. presto, you're working blind (as far as what you're working on) in a darkroom (your stuff is in the dark isn't it?)..
i've done many film rescues this way...
sure GUIs are very efficient at times. just like pictures are efficient for cartoons.
what you have just pointed out are the only areas of computing that are better served by GUIs. i'm talking CAD, photo manip., CGI (even that is debatable since scripts actually do the bulk of the work) etc. because they deal with pictures.
don't get me wrong GUIs do have a place. just like pictures do. but if pictures were really worth a thousend words (enough to replace them altogether) why do we still carry around books with thousend words in 'em? perhaps accounting books could be user friendly by having just a smiley face to denote a profit and a frown for a loss instead of all those numbers and all that math. the book doesn't really have a preference either.
you see, quantifying something using words is a lot more easier than with pictures. even tho 'pictures are worth a thousend words'. perhaps that's why you've stopped reading books with large pictures on them since the 2nd grade.
pretty much for the same reason you'd want to do PC type stuff (read documents, spreadsheets) on a PDA that is the size of a wallnut with a screen the size of a postcard.
I don't think you want to 'bite on this' as you so eloquently put it.
SCOmbags.
first, i'd have to play with mac in non-critical settings to be familiar with the platform to form my own opinion and figure out the gotchas. now that's going to cost me around $1500. lotta money for playing around. (vs. $300-$400 for a system that'll run windows or linux etc.)
second, once i did bring up using macs instead of wintel for regular users. my boss scoffed at the idea. lesson here is: it's not up to me.
the reason i was successful with linux is i got the 'throwaway machines' after the office went thru a hardware upgrade. i then proceeded to wipe those machines clean, installed linux and has since been running file servers, print servers etc. so eventually i was able to convince buying hardware specifically for running linux. can't do that with a mac (start out with throw-away machines, that is) i even got a mosix cluster of older computers that they were ready to toss out.
so maybe there's more to the CLI than just pure nerd testosterone. evolutionary adoption? vs. the disruptive adoption that a mac would require.
by your logic, wheels were never invented simply because there weren't any patents to be claimed.
doesn't p3p already cover this? you have to state that you are using cookies and for what purpose in a binary form so the browser can varify what you are stating. then the browser only allows the website to do what you stated. the browser then can display what was stated and what the browser is currently allowing the website to do based upon the binary statement. a human-readable statement is also provided (you could have the browser generate this based upon the binary statement that the browser went by) at a url so the user can click on 'privacy report' and get to the web page. providing the option to leave is so silly... the user, having read the statement and disagreeing can simply point to where ever else they want to go and just leave! i don't get that the website needs to provide an option to 'leave' a website. i didn't know i was trapped by every wesite that i visited...
just because you can concoct and pass a law doesn't mean you should. silly if you ask me.
now they've turned the password scheme into swiss cheese.
amen. i thought i was a little off my rockers not buying CDs and had gone a little too far in idealisms. i haven't bought a single one in the last 4 years! and no i don't 'swap files' either. i'm just passively boycotting RIAA.
good to know i'm not alone.
we need a slashdot poll on this matter:
CDs bought in the last 2 years:
0, no file swapping
1-10, no file swapping
10-100+, no file swapping
file swapping with no buyings
file swapping with 1-10 CDs bought
file swapping with 10-100+ CDs bought
I don't see RMS steppng forward with an open checkbook.
i don't know the exact dates but it's been close to about 15-20 years-ish of the FSF. RMS has definetely devoted *a lot* of time into it. a programmer of his calibre, let's say he's worth about $100,000 a year. that comes out to about $1,500,000. and you *still* want him to open a checkbook? when was the last time you opened a checkbook for $50 for a piece of software? that's what i thought.
although i don't agree with the man on a lot of things, asking him to open his checkbook for software sounds foolish. he has devoted his life for the purpose.
would his ex wife be call ex-Lax?
but then maybe *i* am paid by MS to say that you were paid by MS to say the ../../poster was paid by MS... arrrrgh.. i will be needing my head back now.
My wallet also reads "all rights reserved" -- RIAA/MPAA *You* deal with it.
I haven't bought a single CD in the last 3 years. and no i haven't 'pirated' a single song either. i make my own. especially since i have that extra time from not having to make *MY* ends meet in order to buy that radiohead CD.
.. the title already belongs to Ballmer for his 'Developer Dance' act.
Well, i'm actually glad that MS was and is. Otherwise i might not have been as passionate about what i do -- work in and on GNU/Linux.
...all that remains is:
int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
return -1;
}
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/2826587.stm
that's Dr. Steven Tylor.mp3 filling up my hard drive.
in that iLoo (or whatever the hell that portapottie with connection to the net was called). cruise the net, look at pr0n and then fold it up and wipe your ass.
.. the MSN craps on you while you're surfing the net. oh wait.. that's not a soviet russia joke at all.
...and paul wolfowitz is preparing another list; this time of Open OSs
well, ya. considering the times.. it's not the terrorist factor anymore. it's the "i'm gonna be fired.. and replaced.. if i don't show up at work" fear factor.
I have always thought that trying to build a computer to act like a human was a waste of what makes a computer a computer. what i'm trying to say is that computers are good at doing mind-numbing calculations over and over and over. if a computer were to successfully pass a turing test, a computer would have to start feeling bored and start making mistakes on calculations. eg. if i were conducting a turing test, (as i understand it of course) i could distinguish between a human and a computer by simply asking for the square root of 12345645^3 or some such. now if the computer were built to pass the turing test from this regard, it would mean that the computer was dumbed down to fail at what it does successfully and what makes it a 'computer'. humans are good at imagenation (i didn't say humans were good at spelling.) but suck at pretty much everything else. so years of research have been poured into dumbing down the computer so that it fails to do what it's supposed to do!