Q: Why isn't the horse moving or whinnying or anything?
A: BECAUSE IT'S DEAD.
Does yellowTab really think anyone wants to pay some tens of dollars U.S. for an O/S that has far less application support than damn near everything else?
Or that they'd want it for free for use as anything other than a toy, like AtheOS?
Hmm. Maybe we could use it to power an Internet applia-- oh, wait, Be already went there. Buying into BeOS is like learning Latin: it's cool and all, but unless there is some killer app (which is doubtful), it's just cool, pretty perhaps, but not the optimal choice.
"Undetected" or "hitherto unseen", I'll agree with. I do not get your reasoning for "extra" implying "laws of nature", nor do I see how science is a "cult."
Shouldn't be too hard for them to get dual-channel DDR SDRAM working... after all, RAMBUS already runs dual-channel, and P4s ran on that well before they ran on SDRAM.
Makes sense. Liberals love to paint conservatives as 55-year-old WASPs who heil Hitler in the dark and mutter under their breath when black people move into the neigborhood.
Conservatives love to paint liberals as whiny hippy tree-hugging Greenpeace sycophant pot-heads who endorse discrimination against the majority population and actually believe that endless welfare is a good idea.
They love to jab each other with hot pokers as early and often as possible.
BTW, when are Rosie O'Donnell and all those other cheezoid fuckwit mendicants going to move out like they promised when GWB won the election?
The thing is that spammers are usually SELLING something. That means that they have to leave a method of contact. Law enforcement can follow these leads, and then hopefully beat the bastards about the face and neck.
It's true about international spammers, though. Not sure what we can do about them.
In fact, Orange County is not a suburb of anything, it's a whole county. It sits on the hinterlands of Southern California between Los Angeles and San Diego, and features a north/south mountain range (the San Joaquins? I forget right now) and some really nice coastline.
Anaheim, home to the first Disneyland, is in Orange County.
The population consists mainly of middle-class Caucasians. There are more Republicans than Democrats and the school system is reputed to be better than in LA, no doubt due to the richer populace and accompanying higher property taxes. (You did know that's where Californian public schools get most of their funding, right?)
This is one of the reasons why I rail against my company hiring consultants. If our experiences are a good metric, then I'd have to assume that most consultants are mega-'tards.
Whenever we have hired consultants, they have given us products that range from mediocre to absolute crap. They have also been generally disinterested in providing after-hours support, even though they are paid for it. (Why should they be troubled at 3AM to fix something they wrote that's costing $5,000 for every minute it's broken? They're consultants. The company can do well or fail; it's no skin off their backs.)
Then, when they're long-gone, in-house types like me get a hold of their source code, SQL schema, etc. The source code is invariably coded in a style reminiscent of GW-BASIC (which, for those of you who don't know, is one of those crusty old BASIC interpreters from the mid-to-late '80s that make you use line numbers and have GOSUBs instead of functions): ultra-rigid structure, little to zero code re-use within the application, sloppy functions (if there even ARE functions), spaghetti-like style, etc. I recently looked at some utter crap left behind by a consultant. When I asked about it, I was told that someone had gone through a business requirements document with the consultant PARAGRAPH BY PARAGRAPH and just sort of threw together a hodgepodge of crap to handle it, rather than sitting down and actually thinking about how it should be programmed.
Oh yeah. The entire source listing was written with caps lock on, as was the SQL schema. BHRLHBLHRLHBLHGLHLGHRLHB!@@#@#$
So when I hear that consultants and other jerkoffs are allergic to text editors, it does not surprise me. OUGH NO!!! I HAVE TO COMPILE THE KERNEL OR APACHE!!! I'LL NEED YOU TO SIGN OFF ON THIS $5,000.00 CLASS IN HAWAII PLEASE!!!
Folks, if a total greenhorn (like I was a few years ago) can read a couple documents, figure out where httpd.conf lives, and tweak it (which any MORON could do, as heavily commented as it is), there is NO excuse for a so-called professional to shy away from it.
I will never - NEVER - be able to fully respect any system administrator, developer, or other technical-type IT worker who is not at least semi-proficient in some variety of UNIX (and by that I mean BSD as well as the SysV-based stuff like Linux and Solaris). It demonstrates lack of initiative and gullibility to Microsoft marketdroid drivel. In fact, if Microsoft didn't have world-class marketdroids, I probably wouldn't even be writing this paragraph. If you want to become an MCSE, more power to you, but UNIX aversion in someone who's supposed to be an IT professional strikes me the same way as a timid driver doing 15MPH up the onramp to the freeway.
I have a Sony VAIO FX all-in-one series. Nice big screen, not too heavy (even with an extra battery to augment the weak one they give you stock), 2 USB, and of course 1 FireWire port (which they call i.Link). This laptop was designed with the digital video enthusiast in mind - the first thing you see when you slide open the accessory box is a flier for Sony Digital-8 cameras.
That FireWire port is good for more than just DV, of course.
I can tell you that Buzz runs as well on XP as it does on 2000. You need relatively new gear DLLs, though, just like with 2000.
What's up your ass, jizzmop? All the guy wants is a small portable computer!
"Real" studio equipment? Hasn't picked up a Damn music hardware catalog in about five years?
Why has he got to pick up a music hardware catalogue at all? What if he just wants a Windows box to run Buzz, or Reason, or FruityLoops, or something like that?
Instead of cutting off your arms to spite this fellow who's never done anything wrong to you, why don't you cut off your nose to spite your face instead?
Wow. That Time Cube guy sure is on about something, isn't he? Something about how we are all evil and dummies and undeserving, peppered with just loads and loads of endless diatribe about this micro-cult indoctrination about how everything is cubic, etc.
Folks, this is what happens when you think about ONE FUCKING THING for TOO DAMN LONG. Time Cube is as good a discouragement for dwelling on things as any. Hopefully one day its creator will step out of the sci-fi alternate reality he's created in his head long enough to realize that the external universe is best enjoyed without distraction.
Trouble with BSD is that it doesn't have a sysv init. Rather than/etc/rc[0-6].d/[S|K][0-99]blahblah, it all lives in one file.
Which I detest with a fury and is one reason why I never have xBSD installed for more than 2 months at a time, but hey, that's just my opinion.:P
So that, plus the bits that specify exactly how Linux binaries work (which might not mesh with how BSD or Solaris or anything else would work), makes it difficult. Solaris could use the init piece, though, since it's sysv-compliant.
But what would you call it? Unix[like] Standard Base? I think someone else already has that acronym.:)
The real pincher is not the man/machine synergy, but the fact that law enforcement officials are just as susceptible to corrpution and other mental malfunctions as anyone else - and thus, they cannot really be trusted more than anyone else with what power they are given.
It's true for anyone in a position of power, really - there are tales of people committing "inconvenient" relatives and other acquaintances to Bedlam and other psychiatric hospitals of the '40s and '50s so that they'd be lobotomized. If you had a friend in a high place, or were willing to part with enough cash, it could be done.
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The trouble is that a person going in for a test might be nervous enough to trigger a "lying" response. Kinda like how sometimes you get w00d (or hard nipples, if you are female) when you're nervous, you know?:) The response has nothing to do with the reality of the situation. It's just triggered by stress.
People can be trained to fool these things either way. The detritus in one person's cerebellum isn't the same as the detritus in someone else's, so it isn't ever going to be 100% accurate.
You're damn right we can, and that's why we all keep coming back. Why get locked into one single window manager when most (if not all) of our apps will run across all 20, allowing us to pick the best one?
Also, HURD is not Linux any more than FreeBSD is Linux. The binutils are the same, but the kernels are different. =P
The reason it persists is that misery loves company and people like to flaunt status symbols (like degrees) and feel an internal sense of humiliation when someone without that status symbol trumps them. My director is like 28 or something, and other directors have said really crass things to him, like, "Aren't you a little young to be a director?" It is pure jealousy. They had to sweat their nuts off doing shit jobs at Hewlett Packard, IBM, and other tech giants for eighteen years before anyone would do them the favor of not stealing their work and shitting on them for the trouble. They wear this petty abuse on their sleeves like badges of honor, and it infuriates them that someone younger than them gets just as far up as they do without having to go through the old blue chip reamed-and-steamed routine.
Age is similarly a badge of courage, and it is interesting to see pathetic fat oafs in their forties dumping on their younger colleagues. You see, they do this because their age is the only thing they have more of than the younger guys. They had (and forgot!) all their great ideas ten and twenty years ago, and now they crank out nothing but flat mediocre crap, and no one will fire them because it's hard for older people to get work.
It all boils down to the following mentality: "I got F'd in the A and had to suck off just row upon row of horrible nodule-laden dongs to get where I am today, and anyone who didn't go through that same misery doesn't deserve satellite TVs, midlife-crisis cars (ahem... Porsche Boxters), or pool tables."
The origin of that is probably that when these fat slobs were ten, they got in an argument with someone who was seven and the seven-year-old's argument was vindicated by an adult. They transfer this loss to the workplace and are forever fighting to win the argument that cannot ever be won. The snake eats its tail forever.
How about them Mets?
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Q: Why isn't the horse moving or whinnying or anything?
A: BECAUSE IT'S DEAD.
Does yellowTab really think anyone wants to pay some tens of dollars U.S. for an O/S that has far less application support than damn near everything else?
Or that they'd want it for free for use as anything other than a toy, like AtheOS?
Hmm. Maybe we could use it to power an Internet applia-- oh, wait, Be already went there. Buying into BeOS is like learning Latin: it's cool and all, but unless there is some killer app (which is doubtful), it's just cool, pretty perhaps, but not the optimal choice.
"Undetected" or "hitherto unseen", I'll agree with. I do not get your reasoning for "extra" implying "laws of nature", nor do I see how science is a "cult."
Shouldn't be too hard for them to get dual-channel DDR SDRAM working... after all, RAMBUS already runs dual-channel, and P4s ran on that well before they ran on SDRAM.
Makes sense. Liberals love to paint conservatives as 55-year-old WASPs who heil Hitler in the dark and mutter under their breath when black people move into the neigborhood.
Conservatives love to paint liberals as whiny hippy tree-hugging Greenpeace sycophant pot-heads who endorse discrimination against the majority population and actually believe that endless welfare is a good idea.
They love to jab each other with hot pokers as early and often as possible.
BTW, when are Rosie O'Donnell and all those other cheezoid fuckwit mendicants going to move out like they promised when GWB won the election?
Ah, you know you love it!
The thing is that spammers are usually SELLING something. That means that they have to leave a method of contact. Law enforcement can follow these leads, and then hopefully beat the bastards about the face and neck.
It's true about international spammers, though. Not sure what we can do about them.
In fact, Orange County is not a suburb of anything, it's a whole county. It sits on the hinterlands of Southern California between Los Angeles and San Diego, and features a north/south mountain range (the San Joaquins? I forget right now) and some really nice coastline.
Anaheim, home to the first Disneyland, is in Orange County.
The population consists mainly of middle-class Caucasians. There are more Republicans than Democrats and the school system is reputed to be better than in LA, no doubt due to the richer populace and accompanying higher property taxes. (You did know that's where Californian public schools get most of their funding, right?)
This is one of the reasons why I rail against my company hiring consultants. If our experiences are a good metric, then I'd have to assume that most consultants are mega-'tards.
.00 CLASS IN HAWAII PLEASE!!!
Whenever we have hired consultants, they have given us products that range from mediocre to absolute crap. They have also been generally disinterested in providing after-hours support, even though they are paid for it. (Why should they be troubled at 3AM to fix something they wrote that's costing $5,000 for every minute it's broken? They're consultants. The company can do well or fail; it's no skin off their backs.)
Then, when they're long-gone, in-house types like me get a hold of their source code, SQL schema, etc. The source code is invariably coded in a style reminiscent of GW-BASIC (which, for those of you who don't know, is one of those crusty old BASIC interpreters from the mid-to-late '80s that make you use line numbers and have GOSUBs instead of functions): ultra-rigid structure, little to zero code re-use within the application, sloppy functions (if there even ARE functions), spaghetti-like style, etc. I recently looked at some utter crap left behind by a consultant. When I asked about it, I was told that someone had gone through a business requirements document with the consultant PARAGRAPH BY PARAGRAPH and just sort of threw together a hodgepodge of crap to handle it, rather than sitting down and actually thinking about how it should be programmed.
Oh yeah. The entire source listing was written with caps lock on, as was the SQL schema. BHRLHBLHRLHBLHGLHLGHRLHB!@@#@#$
So when I hear that consultants and other jerkoffs are allergic to text editors, it does not surprise me. OUGH NO!!! I HAVE TO COMPILE THE KERNEL OR APACHE!!! I'LL NEED YOU TO SIGN OFF ON THIS $5,000
Folks, if a total greenhorn (like I was a few years ago) can read a couple documents, figure out where httpd.conf lives, and tweak it (which any MORON could do, as heavily commented as it is), there is NO excuse for a so-called professional to shy away from it.
I will never - NEVER - be able to fully respect any system administrator, developer, or other technical-type IT worker who is not at least semi-proficient in some variety of UNIX (and by that I mean BSD as well as the SysV-based stuff like Linux and Solaris). It demonstrates lack of initiative and gullibility to Microsoft marketdroid drivel. In fact, if Microsoft didn't have world-class marketdroids, I probably wouldn't even be writing this paragraph. If you want to become an MCSE, more power to you, but UNIX aversion in someone who's supposed to be an IT professional strikes me the same way as a timid driver doing 15MPH up the onramp to the freeway.
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Postgres is dog-slow. I know this from running experiments. It is two to four times slower than MySQL. Go troll somewhere else.
I have a Sony VAIO FX all-in-one series. Nice big screen, not too heavy (even with an extra battery to augment the weak one they give you stock), 2 USB, and of course 1 FireWire port (which they call i.Link). This laptop was designed with the digital video enthusiast in mind - the first thing you see when you slide open the accessory box is a flier for Sony Digital-8 cameras.
That FireWire port is good for more than just DV, of course.
I can tell you that Buzz runs as well on XP as it does on 2000. You need relatively new gear DLLs, though, just like with 2000.
What's up your ass, jizzmop? All the guy wants is a small portable computer!
"Real" studio equipment? Hasn't picked up a Damn music hardware catalog in about five years?
Why has he got to pick up a music hardware catalogue at all? What if he just wants a Windows box to run Buzz, or Reason, or FruityLoops, or something like that?
Instead of cutting off your arms to spite this fellow who's never done anything wrong to you, why don't you cut off your nose to spite your face instead?
More importantly, will the Feminazis bomb all the access points and replace the MAN with a WOMYN?
Folks, this is what happens when you think about ONE FUCKING THING for TOO DAMN LONG. Time Cube is as good a discouragement for dwelling on things as any. Hopefully one day its creator will step out of the sci-fi alternate reality he's created in his head long enough to realize that the external universe is best enjoyed without distraction.
Trouble with BSD is that it doesn't have a sysv init. Rather than /etc/rc[0-6].d/[S|K][0-99]blahblah, it all lives in one file.
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Which I detest with a fury and is one reason why I never have xBSD installed for more than 2 months at a time, but hey, that's just my opinion.
So that, plus the bits that specify exactly how Linux binaries work (which might not mesh with how BSD or Solaris or anything else would work), makes it difficult. Solaris could use the init piece, though, since it's sysv-compliant.
But what would you call it? Unix[like] Standard Base? I think someone else already has that acronym.
The real pincher is not the man/machine synergy, but the fact that law enforcement officials are just as susceptible to corrpution and other mental malfunctions as anyone else - and thus, they cannot really be trusted more than anyone else with what power they are given.
It's true for anyone in a position of power, really - there are tales of people committing "inconvenient" relatives and other acquaintances to Bedlam and other psychiatric hospitals of the '40s and '50s so that they'd be lobotomized. If you had a friend in a high place, or were willing to part with enough cash, it could be done.
The trouble is that a person going in for a test might be nervous enough to trigger a "lying" response. Kinda like how sometimes you get w00d (or hard nipples, if you are female) when you're nervous, you know? :) The response has nothing to do with the reality of the situation. It's just triggered by stress.
People can be trained to fool these things either way. The detritus in one person's cerebellum isn't the same as the detritus in someone else's, so it isn't ever going to be 100% accurate.
You're damn right we can, and that's why we all keep coming back. Why get locked into one single window manager when most (if not all) of our apps will run across all 20, allowing us to pick the best one?
Also, HURD is not Linux any more than FreeBSD is Linux. The binutils are the same, but the kernels are different. =P
The reason it persists is that misery loves company and people like to flaunt status symbols (like degrees) and feel an internal sense of humiliation when someone without that status symbol trumps them. My director is like 28 or something, and other directors have said really crass things to him, like, "Aren't you a little young to be a director?" It is pure jealousy. They had to sweat their nuts off doing shit jobs at Hewlett Packard, IBM, and other tech giants for eighteen years before anyone would do them the favor of not stealing their work and shitting on them for the trouble. They wear this petty abuse on their sleeves like badges of honor, and it infuriates them that someone younger than them gets just as far up as they do without having to go through the old blue chip reamed-and-steamed routine. Age is similarly a badge of courage, and it is interesting to see pathetic fat oafs in their forties dumping on their younger colleagues. You see, they do this because their age is the only thing they have more of than the younger guys. They had (and forgot!) all their great ideas ten and twenty years ago, and now they crank out nothing but flat mediocre crap, and no one will fire them because it's hard for older people to get work. It all boils down to the following mentality: "I got F'd in the A and had to suck off just row upon row of horrible nodule-laden dongs to get where I am today, and anyone who didn't go through that same misery doesn't deserve satellite TVs, midlife-crisis cars (ahem... Porsche Boxters), or pool tables." The origin of that is probably that when these fat slobs were ten, they got in an argument with someone who was seven and the seven-year-old's argument was vindicated by an adult. They transfer this loss to the workplace and are forever fighting to win the argument that cannot ever be won. The snake eats its tail forever. How about them Mets?