Hmm ok, been a while since I lived in Seattle. I like Vancouver compared to San Francisco, which I think most would agree is a 'world-class' city. But then again I haven't LIVED in Vancouver and we all know visiting someplace and living there are two different things.
>>As an advocate of sidewalks, coffee shops you can't drive through
I love it!! LOL when will they realize that sitting and talking to friends over a coffee whilst breathing in exhaust fumes just doesn't cut it? Did this last weekend with the nice weather and remembered why I like Europe for outdoor cafes--no strip mall parking lots.
Still the Castro Street area in Mtn View is nice (I'll be moving within walking distance soon since the rest of you have all boogied out of town and left tasty empty apts), as is U Ave in PA.
I dunno, I think Vancouver BC beats Seattle any day of the week and Toronto is a pretty fun city.
But maybe you don't include Seattle in the list of 'world-class cities' in which case, I'll shut up and go back to my code.
PLus there is that Banff film dealie and you have hotties like Nelly Furtado and Pamela Anderson from there, so it can't be all bad (oh yeah and lest I forget... HOCKEY!)
bloated? I have everything I need on a 300 mb install of Debian on my ancient P75 laptop. It only has 840 mb of hard drive space and 16 mb of RAM but it cooks along pretty well for doing basic computing--writing programs while watching the olympics on a big screen TV, for example.
And the hardware cost me next to nothing. I guess if you did a full install of any of the distros it might be 6 gbs, but who needs all that software?
>>if you can lay tile or pound a nail you can make over 50.00 US an hour (under the table --no tax).
Really? Any ideas where to start looking?
Here in San Mateo there are plenty of migrant workers that line the streets in the morning. Its hard to believe they would hire a US citizen demanding that kind of pay (esp under the table) when they can use an illegal for much less, plus have the spector of calling the INS if they give you a hard time.
I remember writing scripts for SAS, the stat package. To get your data read in you wrote "cards;". I always thought it was a bit of a bizarre statement till the professor explained it--they used the punch cards to store data on the original version and cards let the program know the data was ready to be read.
Considering the size of some of my datasets I'd hate to have to do the punching. I thought data entry was bad...
This has been my complaint with the narrow-thinking SETI crowd for a long time. Just because we need water here on this planet for life (or think it is necessary), does not ipso facto require water to be necessary on other planets for life.
Even the concept that the only other possibility is silicon-based life forms seems quite limiting.
You might try poking around the OS for a little while before you create samba shares. Linux is different for you, so it will seem difficult. Just about anything completely new is difficult.
I still have trouble with some things (configuring new hardware for example), but usually find the answers in a HOW-TO or on a web site.
You might also get a "Learning Linux" type book to give you information about basic features. Once done getting your feet wet, a great book is "Running Linux". Also the "Linux In a Nutshell" has lots of the commands for the shell explained.
Poke around on the Red Hat site. I found lots of useful information there. Don't try to run too fast with this new OS. Pretty soon you will be working in windows and think "Dammit I wish I could just write a BASH script to automate this..."
Hang in there. Every Linux guru had to start somewhere.
Who says the information went across the Atlantic? You are thinking like a modern person, not putting yourself in the time period.
Think Bering Straits. Asia. News traveling to Egypt via the Silk Road (or some antecedent). People have been kicking here in the Americas for at least 14,000 years. And if the thing is that old, it would be the earliest major city in the Americas. News would travel pretty damn quick and would be impressive.
Remember we are talking about a time period when there NO cities in this part of the world, or concept of such a large urban area.
Being a former archaeologist, I can tell you that this 6,000 year date is bogus. They used a ROV and took NOTHING back to the surface. What would they carbon date?
This discovery was mentioned on Art Bell's show about 6 months ago. The researchers sound like quacks and are basing most of their dating assumptions on, well, nothing really.
If they found some intact beams they could use dendrochronology (ie tree ring dating) which is much more precise than carbon dating (+- in 10 year increments depending on whether it is a cutting date or a 'vv' date). That tells you when the beam was cut, which of course brings all sorts of questions about longevity of the structures. In the southwest, where I used to work, there are beams in Taos Pueblo that date back to the 1300s. They are still using them today.
Dating is a very difficult part of archaeology. Everything is based on associations that you must assume hold. They do not always end up being true.
Anyone else have alarm bells go off whenever you hear the word "savvy"?
I read letters to the editor that say "I'm tech/investment/kitchen-savvy, but I can't use a cd-rom/distinguish between mutual funds/grill chicken". *shiver*
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Hmm ok, been a while since I lived in Seattle. I like Vancouver compared to San Francisco, which I think most would agree is a 'world-class' city. But then again I haven't LIVED in Vancouver and we all know visiting someplace and living there are two different things.
>>As an advocate of sidewalks, coffee shops you can't drive through
I love it!! LOL when will they realize that sitting and talking to friends over a coffee whilst breathing in exhaust fumes just doesn't cut it? Did this last weekend with the nice weather and remembered why I like Europe for outdoor cafes--no strip mall parking lots.
Still the Castro Street area in Mtn View is nice (I'll be moving within walking distance soon since the rest of you have all boogied out of town and left tasty empty apts), as is U Ave in PA.
>>lack of world class cities and attractions
... HOCKEY!)
I dunno, I think Vancouver BC beats Seattle any day of the week and Toronto is a pretty fun city.
But maybe you don't include Seattle in the list of 'world-class cities' in which case, I'll shut up and go back to my code.
PLus there is that Banff film dealie and you have hotties like Nelly Furtado and Pamela Anderson from there, so it can't be all bad (oh yeah and lest I forget
No they are just shy job prospects. You have to talk to them for a little while before they come out from their coding cave.
But you still have little chance of getting to home plate with them.
YOU must obey your M$aster.
You forgot the Antiquities Act of 1906 too ;-)
bloated? I have everything I need on a 300 mb install of Debian on my ancient P75 laptop. It only has 840 mb of hard drive space and 16 mb of RAM but it cooks along pretty well for doing basic computing--writing programs while watching the olympics on a big screen TV, for example.
And the hardware cost me next to nothing. I guess if you did a full install of any of the distros it might be 6 gbs, but who needs all that software?
>>if you can lay tile or pound a nail you can make over 50.00 US an hour (under the table --no tax).
Really? Any ideas where to start looking?
Here in San Mateo there are plenty of migrant workers that line the streets in the morning. Its hard to believe they would hire a US citizen demanding that kind of pay (esp under the table) when they can use an illegal for much less, plus have the spector of calling the INS if they give you a hard time.
Hmmm, I have been doing that for the last 3 years. Strangely enough for a financial institution.
I wonder if that was my company's ad.
I remember writing scripts for SAS, the stat package. To get your data read in you wrote "cards;". I always thought it was a bit of a bizarre statement till the professor explained it--they used the punch cards to store data on the original version and cards let the program know the data was ready to be read.
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Considering the size of some of my datasets I'd hate to have to do the punching. I thought data entry was bad
Let me guess ... you are a Perl fanatic.
Yeah doesn't like an opinion to me either. Sounds like criminal activity, which appears to be dealt with properly.
Dunno how this gets put on slashdot as "news for nerds, stuff that MATTERS".
The GPL has not been tested in a court of law. I am sure Sony knows this. RMS and GNU are (honestly) insignificant next to the power of the Sony.
>>Wasn't Emacs originally written by James Gosling (of Java Fame)?
No, by James W Cooper (of VB fame).
>>the fact that he hasn't read any of my books may help explain the extensive gaps in his understanding of the Federal income tax
Maybe your books bored the shit out of him.
We are on slashdot ... shouldn't that be grammer (snicker) and "Closer Then We think" (snicker)?
You mean a Tom Clancy novel doesn't make your list?
Right on!
This has been my complaint with the narrow-thinking SETI crowd for a long time. Just because we need water here on this planet for life (or think it is necessary), does not ipso facto require water to be necessary on other planets for life.
Even the concept that the only other possibility is silicon-based life forms seems quite limiting.
>>They changed the name to "Cocoa" (it sounded more friendly?) right before they killed the project.
;-)
Does this signal the end of OSX?
What happens when your intern scratches your delicate DVD?
>>eg, a client side Java programmer probably doesn't need javax.*
??? Only if the programmer wants to use AWT exclusively. Otherwise it is javax.swing.* and javax.swing.events.*
You might try poking around the OS for a little while before you create samba shares. Linux is different for you, so it will seem difficult. Just about anything completely new is difficult.
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I still have trouble with some things (configuring new hardware for example), but usually find the answers in a HOW-TO or on a web site.
You might also get a "Learning Linux" type book to give you information about basic features. Once done getting your feet wet, a great book is "Running Linux". Also the "Linux In a Nutshell" has lots of the commands for the shell explained.
Poke around on the Red Hat site. I found lots of useful information there. Don't try to run too fast with this new OS. Pretty soon you will be working in windows and think "Dammit I wish I could just write a BASH script to automate this
Hang in there. Every Linux guru had to start somewhere.
Who says the information went across the Atlantic? You are thinking like a modern person, not putting yourself in the time period.
Think Bering Straits. Asia. News traveling to Egypt via the Silk Road (or some antecedent). People have been kicking here in the Americas for at least 14,000 years. And if the thing is that old, it would be the earliest major city in the Americas. News would travel pretty damn quick and would be impressive.
Remember we are talking about a time period when there NO cities in this part of the world, or concept of such a large urban area.
Being a former archaeologist, I can tell you that this 6,000 year date is bogus. They used a ROV and took NOTHING back to the surface. What would they carbon date?
This discovery was mentioned on Art Bell's show about 6 months ago. The researchers sound like quacks and are basing most of their dating assumptions on, well, nothing really.
If they found some intact beams they could use dendrochronology (ie tree ring dating) which is much more precise than carbon dating (+- in 10 year increments depending on whether it is a cutting date or a 'vv' date). That tells you when the beam was cut, which of course brings all sorts of questions about longevity of the structures. In the southwest, where I used to work, there are beams in Taos Pueblo that date back to the 1300s. They are still using them today.
Dating is a very difficult part of archaeology. Everything is based on associations that you must assume hold. They do not always end up being true.
I would wait and see on this one.
Anyone else have alarm bells go off whenever you hear the word "savvy"?
I read letters to the editor that say "I'm tech/investment/kitchen-savvy, but I can't use a cd-rom/distinguish between mutual funds/grill chicken". *shiver*