...not to mess with nature after the incident with putting laser beams on sharks' heads and the accident involving the mutated, thirty foot tall crustaceans.
Oh well...I for one welcome our new microbial overlords.
...just doing a search on Google for linux bootcd gives you several locations for the "bootcd" package, which, conveniently enough, makes a bootable image of your installation.
Sorry, but this kind of argument doesn't hold water. The same thing could theoretically happen through intervention--what if it turns out our "solutions" slow us down or prevent us from discovering the true cause, and a sufficient solution. "What if" scenarios are just that: guesstimates.
I've deleted/var/lib by accident. Only, the kicker was that the nightly backup cron job was running, and had the rotated backups mounted under/var/lib/backup. All I can remember is coming to a stark realization that I had just done something wrong, and hearing a loud noise as I banged my head against the keyboard.
Confounded HTML...it's been around for decades and I *still* can't use it correctly.
I can see the conversation now...
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ISS May Have A Leak
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· Score: 3, Funny
Mission Control first noticed the drop in pressure Jan. 1 and said the data showed a daily decline of about 2 millimeters of mercury.
Mission Control: "Well guys, we have some good news and some bad news. The good news is, you're having to deal with two fewer millimeters of mercury per day."
Astronauts: "That's good. Mercury's bad...right?"
Mission Control: "Did we say mercury? We meant mercury as in 'air pressure'. G'nite!"
If you have console access to the machines (or can at least make a script), CVS could be a viable solution. Just maintain a central CVS server and have the websites do CVS commits when timestamps on files change. On the other hand, this might not really work if you have dynamic content.
Capitalism and Free Software are at complete odds with one another.
Hardly.
Capitalism does not mandate that money must be exchanged for goods. It only ensures that there's a free market so that people are best able to trade things they don't need for things they do. Many developers don't develop free software due to a sense of charity; they feel that they gain far more in assistance and in solving the problem they were attemping to by releasing the source than the money they would get by keeping it closed. In other words, many of these developers are exchanging the opportunity for (likely) meager cash benefits for the numerous development benefits the open source method brings.
Others do it for philosophical reasons. And some do do it for charity. But either way, they're all trading one thing they don't value for something they do--and that's what matters.
I suspect the reason so many good monitors end up at the curbside is the move to flat screens.
In my opinion, it's something much simpler than that. Most people don't realize that monitors are mix-and-match, and can be reused with multiple computers. When Joe Sixpack buys a computer, he doesn't realize that the monitor, the processor, the PCI cards, etc., are all just standardized parts; as far as he's concerned, he bought a brick with nice graphics.
This is partly the industry's fault, too. Most manufacturers won't ship computers without a monitor, keyboard, mouse, and all the fixings. It doesn't matter that you have perfectly workable parts already--that cuts into their profit margins. And since people don't know any better and aren't educated on the matter, they don't realize that monitors without their matching computer are quite valuable and reuseable, as far as computer parts go.
Can't the NYT put aside this crap just once?
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The Year In Ideas
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· Score: 0, Flamebait
Liberals have long complained that the right overwhelms them with personal attacks and vicious allegations, while the left tries, naively, to make a more noble and substantive case...The various expressions of liberal fury are a direct imitation of what the right has been doing for more than a decade.
Could they for Christ's sake refrain from injecting liberal politics into every article they write? As if Liberals haven't overwhelmed the right with personal attacks and vicious allegations ever. That's right, according to the article, they just started doing it while the right has been doing it for who knows how long.
All those hours of pulling the virtual trigger, might have afforded him that moment in his head to decide that the staff member wasn't exactly "the enemy," and come to a rational conclusion.
You could have a point. For all we know, the guy with the gun realized the staff member wasn't wearing camos and mask, didn't have an AWP, and wasn't guarding a room full of scientist hostages.
Actually, according to your reasoning, the reaction this person would have had would be to challenge the staff member to a Counter-Strike duel.
Your logic is extremely faulty. You assert that training in sports causes your actions in that sport to become reflex, and training in a musical instrument causes you to become better, but then that training to have a twitch-reflex in moving a mouse at a target trains you to pull a gun on a human being. Irregardless of the validity of the conclusion you've reached, this is a complete nonsequitur.
While I agree with the sentiment stated, the moderation system isn't supposed to reward good posters and punish bad ones. It's supposed to allow those browsing through Slashdot to see unique, well thought out comments, without a lot of the trolls. The moderation system wasn't supposed to benefit the posters, but the readers.
If moderators fail to mark comments that duplicate the sentiments of other comments, then others have to endure reading through multiple comments that have roughly the same content. It doesn't matter to the reader that they were all posted within a few seconds of each other (so noone copied another's sentiment, and came up with the idea independently). The reader cares that he's having to read through twenty comments that all say the same exact thing.
Cache it. If Microsoft takes you to court for abusing the license, tell them and prove to them that you followed the link, and that there were no applicable license restrictions. You followed their directions to the word (pun intended).
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That's why he's so tough. I hate it when programs cheat like that =(
I know I'm probably being redundant, but the pural of "anecdote" is not "data".
...not to mess with nature after the incident with putting laser beams on sharks' heads and the accident involving the mutated, thirty foot tall crustaceans.
Oh well...I for one welcome our new microbial overlords.
Please tell me you're joking. http://www.rhyolite.com/anti-spam/you-might-be.htm l
They're using Lego Mindstorms. Duh!
Having a pre-written rendering engine wasn't an advantage enjoyed by Mozilla.
*ahem* Netscape ring any bells?
...just doing a search on Google for linux bootcd gives you several locations for the "bootcd" package, which, conveniently enough, makes a bootable image of your installation.
But what if we find out after it is too late?
Sorry, but this kind of argument doesn't hold water. The same thing could theoretically happen through intervention--what if it turns out our "solutions" slow us down or prevent us from discovering the true cause, and a sufficient solution. "What if" scenarios are just that: guesstimates.
I've deleted /var/lib by accident. Only, the kicker was that the nightly backup cron job was running, and had the rotated backups mounted under /var/lib/backup. All I can remember is coming to a stark realization that I had just done something wrong, and hearing a loud noise as I banged my head against the keyboard.
Confounded HTML...it's been around for decades and I *still* can't use it correctly.
Mission Control first noticed the drop in pressure Jan. 1 and said the data showed a daily decline of about 2 millimeters of mercury.
Mission Control: "Well guys, we have some good news and some bad news. The good news is, you're having to deal with two fewer millimeters of mercury per day."
Astronauts: "That's good. Mercury's bad...right?" Mission Control: "Did we say mercury? We meant mercury as in 'air pressure'. G'nite!"
Someone answered your question in the very next story.
If you have console access to the machines (or can at least make a script), CVS could be a viable solution. Just maintain a central CVS server and have the websites do CVS commits when timestamps on files change. On the other hand, this might not really work if you have dynamic content.
Capitalism and Free Software are at complete odds with one another.
Hardly.
Capitalism does not mandate that money must be exchanged for goods. It only ensures that there's a free market so that people are best able to trade things they don't need for things they do. Many developers don't develop free software due to a sense of charity; they feel that they gain far more in assistance and in solving the problem they were attemping to by releasing the source than the money they would get by keeping it closed. In other words, many of these developers are exchanging the opportunity for (likely) meager cash benefits for the numerous development benefits the open source method brings.
Others do it for philosophical reasons. And some do do it for charity. But either way, they're all trading one thing they don't value for something they do--and that's what matters.
I suspect the reason so many good monitors end up at the curbside is the move to flat screens.
In my opinion, it's something much simpler than that. Most people don't realize that monitors are mix-and-match, and can be reused with multiple computers. When Joe Sixpack buys a computer, he doesn't realize that the monitor, the processor, the PCI cards, etc., are all just standardized parts; as far as he's concerned, he bought a brick with nice graphics.
This is partly the industry's fault, too. Most manufacturers won't ship computers without a monitor, keyboard, mouse, and all the fixings. It doesn't matter that you have perfectly workable parts already--that cuts into their profit margins. And since people don't know any better and aren't educated on the matter, they don't realize that monitors without their matching computer are quite valuable and reuseable, as far as computer parts go.
It's "Universal Modeling Language".
Liberals have long complained that the right overwhelms them with personal attacks and vicious allegations, while the left tries, naively, to make a more noble and substantive case...The various expressions of liberal fury are a direct imitation of what the right has been doing for more than a decade.
Could they for Christ's sake refrain from injecting liberal politics into every article they write? As if Liberals haven't overwhelmed the right with personal attacks and vicious allegations ever. That's right, according to the article, they just started doing it while the right has been doing it for who knows how long.
Actually, SMTP does use the TCP SYN/ACK, being, well, a TCP-based protocol.
All those hours of pulling the virtual trigger, might have afforded him that moment in his head to decide that the staff member wasn't exactly "the enemy," and come to a rational conclusion.
You could have a point. For all we know, the guy with the gun realized the staff member wasn't wearing camos and mask, didn't have an AWP, and wasn't guarding a room full of scientist hostages.
Actually, according to your reasoning, the reaction this person would have had would be to challenge the staff member to a Counter-Strike duel.
Your logic is extremely faulty. You assert that training in sports causes your actions in that sport to become reflex, and training in a musical instrument causes you to become better, but then that training to have a twitch-reflex in moving a mouse at a target trains you to pull a gun on a human being. Irregardless of the validity of the conclusion you've reached, this is a complete nonsequitur.
While I agree with the sentiment stated, the moderation system isn't supposed to reward good posters and punish bad ones. It's supposed to allow those browsing through Slashdot to see unique, well thought out comments, without a lot of the trolls. The moderation system wasn't supposed to benefit the posters, but the readers.
If moderators fail to mark comments that duplicate the sentiments of other comments, then others have to endure reading through multiple comments that have roughly the same content. It doesn't matter to the reader that they were all posted within a few seconds of each other (so noone copied another's sentiment, and came up with the idea independently). The reader cares that he's having to read through twenty comments that all say the same exact thing.
It's just karma. Lighten up a bit.
Sorry, mate; you're doomed =(
I thought we'd done away with the stockade punishment.
The further we head into the future, the more we do the same things we did in the past.
That's the most insightful thing I've seen on Slashdot in a long time.
Cache it. If Microsoft takes you to court for abusing the license, tell them and prove to them that you followed the link, and that there were no applicable license restrictions. You followed their directions to the word (pun intended).