My father was unbelievably sadistic with rodents (in fact, all animals).
For raccoons causing damage outside, he would mix ground beef with ground glass and leave a pile where the nuisance was happening. The next day he'd get me to follow the blood trail to the corpse and bury it. I did. One time the raccoon's babies dug it up, looking for their mommy. I'm still scarred from that.
So then I get my father a "Have-a-Hart" cage when we had squirrels in the attic. He could then live trap them. Which he did, then informed me the cage was the perfect size for drowning them in the utility sink and chucking them in the garbage.
This is the same guy who would get unwanted kittens from local farms and use them for musky bait.
This is software that, although MARKETED, SOLD and primarily USED as an email client, actually DEFENDS its deservedly crappy reputation by saying "it's so much MORE than an email client!".
To be MORE THAN AN EMAIL client, you have to actually *BE* AN EMAIL CLIENT IN THE FIRST PLACE.
I hereby nominate Lotus Notes as the most Annoying Software OF ALL TIME.
>>When incandescent light bulbs are banned, the black market will flourish
>I dont think that would happen... if stores are forced to sell only non-incandescent bulbs, that's what the majority of people will buy, if for no other reason than out of convenience.
>How much effort are you willing to put into finding black market light bulbs?
Alot, if you use dimmers (which I do). The US has a booming grey/black market trade in full-flush toilets (as opposed to the "flush four times" low-flow variety). You can't buy the old style (i.e. effective) toilet in the US for new construction, so people will literally smuggle toilets from Canada. If people will do that for their crapper, they will do it for lighting.
I would also get incandescents for many uses until flourescents don't make my eyes hurt and also make my skin look like I'm under an autopsy light.
Unless I'm literally transparent, this also applies to the strange (won't argue with that) bacteria infesting my intestine. I did RTFA, but mostly because I found the./ headline confusing.
Rumormongering is right. I can't think of a single SlashDot article with a question mark at the end of the title that was actually worth reading in the end. I still get suckered in...
I finally unsubscribed. I wasn't really addicted though... the problem with me (two young kids and house we're trying to slowly renovate) is that I really enjoyed the game but found I wasn't able to spend enough time to truly enjoy it (i.e. I'd like to play 5 to 10 hrs a week, but could only get 20 min snippets on alternate nights, which wasn't enough and it was getting frustrating). The nights I tried to cram a couple of hours in after everything was done meant I was a zombie the next day.
I may sign back on after the summer (an eon in MMORPG terms, I know) as things settle.
Agreeing with an earlier poster: if I found this in my teens my life would be even more fouled up than it is now...
I wonder sometimes what my life would have been like had I gotten into CS and gone into the IT workforce by '97-'98 instead of picking it up as hobby later and entering the IT workforce right before the bust.
You'd be even more bitter. Be thankful you have the excuse of having picked a stable career. Me, I alternate between: "why didn't I sell those options when I could?" and "why didn't I pick chemistry so I wouldn't get laid off twice in one year"?
Interesting list, but it's apples and oranges. Your list talks about some ways women, as a group, tend to fare better than men in society.
This list *could* be due as much to chauvinism and archaic gender roles than to anything inherently physiological. e.g. women are less likely to be killed in war because they're less likely to be front-line combat soldiers due to societal intertia regarding the role of women, not because they happen to have a vagina.
In a world where my x-rays are being scanned and sent to be reviewed by cheaper doctors in Asia, and I get results in hours not days, how can game coders compete???
Ha ha. Funny cuz it's basically true, however I'm a Product Manager (seriously, a PM that reads/.) and in our defence we are trying to compete in a vaporware market where the "100%" date is a myth and even the 90% date is always too far out for the customer and the market. So, you soft-shoe, juggle non-essential features as the development effort continues, leverage betas and release candidates, etc.
Not all companies are Blizzard or Microsoft and can just say "ready when it's ready" and people will wait (depending on the slice of the software market you inhabit). Shareholders, analysts, customers and competition don't sit still for it in most cases. The vaporware/due-date game is part of how companies compete... it's a damned-if-you-do/damned-if-you-don't situation.
Not that I like it. I have my/. handle for a reason.
Reality from my experience: forget it. A radio baby monitor is enough, in fact after a while we stopped using even that because our own ears sufficed just as well.
Agreed, but I'd like to add two points:
On the monitoring front, you might want to consider a monitor that also checks for movement (see http://www.sidsandkids.org/safesleep/faq.htm#monit or). That way (if you're neurotic like we are) you won't find yourself waking up in the middle of the night to check if the baby is still breathing. It's more about peace-of-mind than anything else, I'm unconvinced it would actually help with SIDS.
And yes, a baby monitor is enough, but since this is Slashdot I applaud the project. Heck, I'm trying to build a PVR using MythTV on an old box using Gentoo. A TIVO-ish box, or the cable-company proprietary PVR that I can rent that handles digital cable, is a much better choice if it's about practicality. I'm a nerd, though, so practicality isn't everything. (That said, nerd projects are currently not a big part of my life now that I have kids.)
What it wouldn't exmplain though, is why did several of the herbivore evolve defenses. Why did the triceratops, for example, need those horns and a massive bone shield, if not for defense? Why did other species grow basically armour plates? What was the evolutionary advantage of that, in the absence of predators?
Like mountain goats, they have these features (at least partially) for battling within their own species for mates and resources. Why do we develop nuclear weapons and mace when we don't have any natural predators left?
But for the record the first commercial X11 release was in 1986...
The original was named X386 (yes, after an intel 386). Also I should say XFree86 was named "Free" not because it was , but because it rhymed with three.
Like saying 386 wif a souf London accent (fwee-eighty-six).
For the record, I also have a healthy NetFlix subscription, I rock climb, geocache, play tennis and softball, play card games, board games, video games, and do some side programming projects. There's no reason TV can't live alongside all those other activities.
I've been using Powerbar from http://www.plemsoft.com for well over a year now and loving it. Highly customizable, great virtual desktop support, and buckets 'o' features. Stable on 95/98/NT, too.
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My father was unbelievably sadistic with rodents (in fact, all animals).
For raccoons causing damage outside, he would mix ground beef with ground glass and leave a pile where the nuisance was happening. The next day he'd get me to follow the blood trail to the corpse and bury it. I did. One time the raccoon's babies dug it up, looking for their mommy. I'm still scarred from that.
So then I get my father a "Have-a-Hart" cage when we had squirrels in the attic. He could then live trap them. Which he did, then informed me the cage was the perfect size for drowning them in the utility sink and chucking them in the garbage.
This is the same guy who would get unwanted kittens from local farms and use them for musky bait.
And people wonder why I'm bitter.
credit to someone funnier than me, can't think of who
This is software that, although MARKETED, SOLD and primarily USED as an email client, actually DEFENDS its deservedly crappy reputation by saying "it's so much MORE than an email client!".
To be MORE THAN AN EMAIL client, you have to actually *BE* AN EMAIL CLIENT IN THE FIRST PLACE.
I hereby nominate Lotus Notes as the most Annoying Software OF ALL TIME.
>>When incandescent light bulbs are banned, the black market will flourish
>I dont think that would happen... if stores are forced to sell only non-incandescent bulbs, that's what the majority of people will buy, if for no other reason than out of convenience.
>How much effort are you willing to put into finding black market light bulbs?
Alot, if you use dimmers (which I do). The US has a booming grey/black market trade in full-flush toilets (as opposed to the "flush four times" low-flow variety). You can't buy the old style (i.e. effective) toilet in the US for new construction, so people will literally smuggle toilets from Canada. If people will do that for their crapper, they will do it for lighting.
I would also get incandescents for many uses until flourescents don't make my eyes hurt and also make my skin look like I'm under an autopsy light.
To join the roster of:
"The check is in the mail."
"I love you, too."
"640K oughta be enough for anybody."
"It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months."
Unless I'm literally transparent, this also applies to the strange (won't argue with that) bacteria infesting my intestine. I did RTFA, but mostly because I found the ./ headline confusing.
Rumormongering is right. I can't think of a single SlashDot article with a question mark at the end of the title that was actually worth reading in the end. I still get suckered in...
I finally unsubscribed. I wasn't really addicted though ... the problem with me (two young kids and house we're trying to slowly renovate) is that I really enjoyed the game but found I wasn't able to spend enough time to truly enjoy it (i.e. I'd like to play 5 to 10 hrs a week, but could only get 20 min snippets on alternate nights, which wasn't enough and it was getting frustrating). The nights I tried to cram a couple of hours in after everything was done meant I was a zombie the next day.
I may sign back on after the summer (an eon in MMORPG terms, I know) as things settle.
Agreeing with an earlier poster: if I found this in my teens my life would be even more fouled up than it is now...
You'd be even more bitter. Be thankful you have the excuse of having picked a stable career. Me, I alternate between: "why didn't I sell those options when I could?" and "why didn't I pick chemistry so I wouldn't get laid off twice in one year"?
Interesting list, but it's apples and oranges. Your list talks about some ways women, as a group, tend to fare better than men in society.
This list *could* be due as much to chauvinism and archaic gender roles than to anything inherently physiological. e.g. women are less likely to be killed in war because they're less likely to be front-line combat soldiers due to societal intertia regarding the role of women, not because they happen to have a vagina.
No, didn't RTFA, but I did read "Camp Concentration" which really makes one think about the eventual consequences of such endevours.
"Can anyone tell me where Uzbekistan is?"
http://www.outsourceoutrage.com/
In a world where my x-rays are being scanned and sent to be reviewed by cheaper doctors in Asia, and I get results in hours not days, how can game coders compete???
Ha ha. Funny cuz it's basically true, however I'm a Product Manager (seriously, a PM that reads /.) and in our defence we are trying to compete in a vaporware market where the "100%" date is a myth and even the 90% date is always too far out for the customer and the market. So, you soft-shoe, juggle non-essential features as the development effort continues, leverage betas and release candidates, etc.
/. handle for a reason.
Not all companies are Blizzard or Microsoft and can just say "ready when it's ready" and people will wait (depending on the slice of the software market you inhabit). Shareholders, analysts, customers and competition don't sit still for it in most cases. The vaporware/due-date game is part of how companies compete... it's a damned-if-you-do/damned-if-you-don't situation.
Not that I like it. I have my
Agreed, but I'd like to add two points:
That way (if you're neurotic like we are) you won't find yourself waking up in the middle of the night to check if the baby is still breathing. It's more about peace-of-mind than anything else, I'm unconvinced it would actually help with SIDS.
Col. Torvalds let the source away.
We've been going in and out of drives
but we guarantee to raise uptimes.
Now if only we could get RMS to sing this to the tune of a Hungarian folk song, then we'd have a hit!
[stabs ear drums with knitting needles after hearing him sing "share the software"]
Oh, man, I'm always behind the 8-ball on these things....
What it wouldn't exmplain though, is why did several of the herbivore evolve defenses. Why did the triceratops, for example, need those horns and a massive bone shield, if not for defense? Why did other species grow basically armour plates? What was the evolutionary advantage of that, in the absence of predators?
Like mountain goats, they have these features (at least partially) for battling within their own species for mates and resources. Why do we develop nuclear weapons and mace when we don't have any natural predators left?
just build the machine itself to be relatively indestructable- handling any terrain....
/rimshot
While they're at it, why don't they make it out of the same stuff that they make the plane's black box out of??!
But for the record the first commercial X11 release was in 1986 ...
The original was named X386 (yes, after an intel 386). Also I should say XFree86 was named "Free" not because it was , but because it rhymed with three.
Like saying 386 wif a souf London accent (fwee-eighty-six).
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
For the record, I also have a healthy NetFlix subscription, I rock climb, geocache, play tennis and softball, play card games, board games, video games, and do some side programming projects. There's no reason TV can't live alongside all those other activities.
You're obviously not married.
With MS funding someone else covertly to do the dirty work. See how well that worked for the CIA. Had any good cigars lately?
Not saying MS==CIA. Or that Linux==Castroism/Socialism. No no.
Jumpman! Now there's an addictive C64 game. Are there C64 emus for Linux?
The Scott Adams adventure stuff (speaking of old) would also be fun.
I've been using Powerbar from http://www.plemsoft.com for well over a year now and loving it. Highly customizable, great virtual desktop support, and buckets 'o' features. Stable on 95/98/NT, too.