I think jarjar would be Judas, I can't see Jarjar starting a "new" religion. But he did cause the first movie to be fairly crucified by a lot of the Star wars lovers, so yeah, I stick with Judas (and not the Book of Judas sort of Judas either;-) )
Erm, make that, the first time it happens when you're 12 it's funny. The 30th time that day it's less so.
But perhaps I just lack the april 1st gene. Maybe there's some sort of therapy I can undertake to avoid being a curmudgeon once a year...
Seriously, it makes most of my favourite (living in the UK now) site bloody useless with all the "gags". It's funny when you're 12 (well, the first time anyways), less so now.
Hmmmm, your response is to show two acuras that are SUVs? Be a bit more fair to the bloke. Perhaps you meant to link the TL and RL? Both of which get ok MPG, but get considerably (10% or more) less fuel economy then the most popular car, third most popular vehicle, in the US (the toyota camry)?
Or maybe you could make fun of the price difference between "an acura" and something that's actually affordable to most of the people in the US, and how much that extra money (not to mention the extra money from cost of ownership) would help the rest of the world if it were donated to various research funds...
I won't debate you as I can't win on mpg. However on safty... that depends on whose safty you're talking about. Minivans (and most SUVs) are pretty darn safe to the occupents of the vehicle as long as they are driven properly. But I suspect you mean the safty of the people the large vehicle creams. Which serves as a nice physics lecture. So, what's your solution?
Outlaw suvs? Tax the hell out of gas? Whine?
America faces a bit of a chicken and egg situation. Unless there is an outside influence (higher gas prices either due to higher expenses for the oil cart... erm, companies or more taxes) people will not buy smaller cars if there are a (perceived, or real) large number of SUVs on the street, and as that mentality hasn't changed for the past, what, 14 years there is an accumulating effect on the number of SUVs, so more people think they need SUVs in order to see the road in front of them, protect their loved ones, whatever. It's bloody annoying to those of us who like small cars. But unless we get a govt that has a clue, nothing will be done until the problem is too big to turn back. My money's on nothing happening for awhile (unless the price of crude oil rises) as sitting on our hands is kinda how we seem to do things that matter to the rest of the world these days.
Sorry for being so blunt, but so *&*&ing what? The (US) courts have decided that by agreeing to be an employee at a company, you are acknowledging that the company might read your work email (and some cases, have even supported that company reading ANY email accounts you access from work.) Why should it be any different for the people at the corner office? If you don't trust your IT department, then you shouldn't hire them. You're giving them complete control over your computer systems after all...
*sigh*
Seriously, unless your IT staff is severely underworked, they have better things to do then read your mail. However you should know that there are a few people that run greps for interesting words, such as boobs. Usually this is an inverse relationship with how often said person gets laid. Perhaps it is in your best interest to not describe your sexual encounters via email, or at the very least, buy your IT admin(s) a hummer every so often to keep those naughty thoughts out of his head. Ok, perhaps seriously was the wrong word to start this paragraph with...
(Note I'm refering to male admins, female tech geeks generally speaking are a different breed and tend to get laid a bit more often steming from their rareity. If you are a female tech geek and do not feel you're getting your fair share, please speak up and 100s of/.ers will attempt to woo you, I'd advise setting up some sort of nimble fingers challenge for the would-be suitors.)
From the comments I've seen so far, people are either not reading the flipping SUMMARY of the article, or else are off their meds. Blockbuster has an online rental presence, they offer a few less movies then netflix (but then again they offer some movies that netflix doesn't so it's a bit of a wash.) but in my experience, after being a netflix subscriber on and off for the last 4 years. I've now completely switched to blockbuster. The shipping times (for my area) are at least as fast as netflix, however blockbuster registers the movie as received, and sends out the next movie in roughly half the time as netflix. That coupled with the 1 "free" instore coupon each week (for those popular movies that are released on tuesday and go to "short wait" imediately there after) and I am now only a blockbuster subscriber. The fact that netflix is suing blockbuster didn't hurt matters. Personally I think netflix has as much of a claim against blockbuster as say McDonalds has against Burger King.
Either way, it's nice to be able to rent online, and I hope with more competition us consumers will see better service and lower prices.
Odd, disabled every extension, blank space vanished, re-enabled all of the 1.5 compatible extensions, blank space was still gone. Your mileage may vary.
Personally I think the fact that linux admins took 68% longer is a good thing, perhaps because they tend to take some time for planning. Windows admins don't have to plan nearly as much (any these days...), they install their bread box product, and wait to be told what vulnerabilities it has. A (ok, GOOD) linux admin knows what liabilities there are and strives to secure the system before integration.
Windows adminning is easy, any monkey can do it (as long as they can click a mouse). Running a secure and stable windows server is far from easy. Linux is somewhere in the middle, and that's just fine.
'My experience is that if something has to be done, just do it - don't ask! They will thank you later,' he said."
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Or later they'll fire your ass for thinking outside the box / not getting approval. It's really a question of if you want to cover your ass, or if you're sick of working your ass off. Yes, it all comes down to your ass, so you get to decide how you want it treated;-)
Oddly enough I didn't try that, just did and it looks like they've changed the way you sign up. You must give a valid CC # (test #'s work, but they bitch about an invalid security code.)
I did, their response to the bug report was:
Thank you for contacting the iTunes Music Store.
The iTunes Music Store team answers non-technical questions about billing, customer accounts, downloading music, and iTunes Music Store content.
Many questions about your iTunes software can be answered by choosing iTunes and Music Store Help from the Help menu.
For online information, visit iTunes Support at http://www.apple.com/support/itunes>.
To access the discussion boards for iTunes and other Apple services, please visit http://discussions.info.apple.com/>.
For support for your iPod, please visit:
http://www.apple.com/support/ipod/>
If you require assistance beyond the complimentary support available online, please call AppleCare technical support at 800-APL-CARE (800-275-2273). Help is available seven days a week from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. central time. There may be a fee associated with the call.
Sincerely,
iTunes Music Store Support
Can't see what the fuss is with itunes... you have to pay to get tech support (oh, sorry, you *might* be charged a fee to call their support line) on a windows xp machine running itunes (thanks for bundling it with quicktime, nice to always have a choice), using firefox as a default broswer, if you're unwilling to give apple your credit card # to create an account they're nice enough to offer paypal. However it doesn't work (at least under the config mentioned above) it'll link you to your paypal account (it opens firefox), where you agree to let apple deduct whatever they feel like from your paypal (and thusly BANK) account. You sign away all pre-warning, and you agree if they do something naughty to try to make things right via the paypal dispute crap.
So, sure, I figure I'll only download the one album, then delete the agreement. So I click ok, I hereby sign my soul away. Success! I now have an agreement with apple. But wait, back in the Itunes window I still can't click continue to finish creating my account. Hmmmmm, I must not have done something right, so I then click on authorize paypal account. Again it opens a firefox window, and I again sell my soul. However, the itunes window doesn't change, and my requested ID doesn't work. Hmmmm... I next receive two letters from paypal saying I created a Billing Agreement (which for the record allows apple to deduct up to $5,000 a month from my account!!!)
So, I then navigate through paypal's setup to cancel the billing agreements. of course the instructions paypal gives are incorrect, so I have to wander through myself.
End result, apple didn't make any money, I didn't get my album, and I'm now boycotting Itunes.
Lovely service all in all. After all, it did save me money, and isn't that really what it's all about?
If you have a machine (say on a machine running linux kernel 2.4.20-30.9smp) with a built in gig port (say with eth0 identified as eth0: Tigon3 [partno(BCM95704A6) rev 2003 PHY(5704)] (PCI:66MHz:64-bit) 10/100/1000BaseT) connected to a decent gigabit switch, and another machine (same card, same os)with a gigabit card, those two machines will achieve 940Mbps talking to each other (results via iperf, 0.0-10.0 sec 1.09 GBytes 940 Mbits/sec).
However, if you plug a windows box (2000 or xp, didn't have a 2003 handy) with either an add on card, OR built in gig (2000 vs xp) you get a rather less impressive figure of 550-630. Coincidentally, you'll get the same basic number if you run two instances of iperf on the same computer... This tells me the bottleneck isn't the PCI bus, it's the OS. If you can prove me wrong please do so...
color me surprised. There's a reason there's been no "evidence" that medical marijuana works. (never mind that angel reich has an inoperable brain tumor, and was confined to a wheel chair, UNTIL using medical marijuana...) Shrugs, people do what they're told to do. Unfortunately this includes some scientists, mostly scientists on the govt's payroll.
I do question the wisdom of releasing this information at a time when the powers that be are looking for reasons to cut funding for science.
(/rant mode off)
A) you're totally my hero, in portland and making $
B) any chance you'll use that 300k a month to drop the price of these independent albums to sub $10 each?;)
there's a fair number of people who deal with the xbox only because of a handy little program called XBMC, now *THAT* I'm passionate about (as are a couple of others;-) ). Games like Halo 2? 'Eh, I'm getting to old to fight the kids, and getting used as target practice gets old. But offer me a $200 box that will play any media format across my network and you've got $200.;-)
Yes, there is a "jail" gene, it's XXY (or was it XYX?) either way, researchers have found a (rather) high correlation between XXY and violent/sociopathic criminals... feel free to read up on the subject if you so choose.
However, I think the point someone was trying to make is that a larger % of the jail population is black, then the national average. Which, while true at one point, might not still hold today.
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I think jarjar would be Judas, I can't see Jarjar starting a "new" religion. But he did cause the first movie to be fairly crucified by a lot of the Star wars lovers, so yeah, I stick with Judas (and not the Book of Judas sort of Judas either ;-) )
Erm, make that, the first time it happens when you're 12 it's funny. The 30th time that day it's less so. But perhaps I just lack the april 1st gene. Maybe there's some sort of therapy I can undertake to avoid being a curmudgeon once a year...
Seriously, it makes most of my favourite (living in the UK now) site bloody useless with all the "gags". It's funny when you're 12 (well, the first time anyways), less so now.
Hmmmm, your response is to show two acuras that are SUVs? Be a bit more fair to the bloke. Perhaps you meant to link the TL and RL? Both of which get ok MPG, but get considerably (10% or more) less fuel economy then the most popular car, third most popular vehicle, in the US (the toyota camry)?
Or maybe you could make fun of the price difference between "an acura" and something that's actually affordable to most of the people in the US, and how much that extra money (not to mention the extra money from cost of ownership) would help the rest of the world if it were donated to various research funds...
I won't debate you as I can't win on mpg. However on safty... that depends on whose safty you're talking about. Minivans (and most SUVs) are pretty darn safe to the occupents of the vehicle as long as they are driven properly. But I suspect you mean the safty of the people the large vehicle creams. Which serves as a nice physics lecture. So, what's your solution?
Outlaw suvs? Tax the hell out of gas? Whine?
America faces a bit of a chicken and egg situation. Unless there is an outside influence (higher gas prices either due to higher expenses for the oil cart... erm, companies or more taxes) people will not buy smaller cars if there are a (perceived, or real) large number of SUVs on the street, and as that mentality hasn't changed for the past, what, 14 years there is an accumulating effect on the number of SUVs, so more people think they need SUVs in order to see the road in front of them, protect their loved ones, whatever. It's bloody annoying to those of us who like small cars. But unless we get a govt that has a clue, nothing will be done until the problem is too big to turn back. My money's on nothing happening for awhile (unless the price of crude oil rises) as sitting on our hands is kinda how we seem to do things that matter to the rest of the world these days.
- Must sleep.
Sorry for being so blunt, but so *&*&ing what? The (US) courts have decided that by agreeing to be an employee at a company, you are acknowledging that the company might read your work email (and some cases, have even supported that company reading ANY email accounts you access from work.) Why should it be any different for the people at the corner office? If you don't trust your IT department, then you shouldn't hire them. You're giving them complete control over your computer systems after all...
/.ers will attempt to woo you, I'd advise setting up some sort of nimble fingers challenge for the would-be suitors.)
*sigh*
Seriously, unless your IT staff is severely underworked, they have better things to do then read your mail. However you should know that there are a few people that run greps for interesting words, such as boobs. Usually this is an inverse relationship with how often said person gets laid. Perhaps it is in your best interest to not describe your sexual encounters via email, or at the very least, buy your IT admin(s) a hummer every so often to keep those naughty thoughts out of his head. Ok, perhaps seriously was the wrong word to start this paragraph with...
(Note I'm refering to male admins, female tech geeks generally speaking are a different breed and tend to get laid a bit more often steming from their rareity. If you are a female tech geek and do not feel you're getting your fair share, please speak up and 100s of
Two words: Jerry Garcia. Admitedly he's dead, but he was most definately a fat coke user.
There is this lovely feature called a power button. There's also this really handy feature on most tvs since the mid-late 90s called multiple inputs.
From the comments I've seen so far, people are either not reading the flipping SUMMARY of the article, or else are off their meds. Blockbuster has an online rental presence, they offer a few less movies then netflix (but then again they offer some movies that netflix doesn't so it's a bit of a wash.) but in my experience, after being a netflix subscriber on and off for the last 4 years. I've now completely switched to blockbuster. The shipping times (for my area) are at least as fast as netflix, however blockbuster registers the movie as received, and sends out the next movie in roughly half the time as netflix. That coupled with the 1 "free" instore coupon each week (for those popular movies that are released on tuesday and go to "short wait" imediately there after) and I am now only a blockbuster subscriber. The fact that netflix is suing blockbuster didn't hurt matters. Personally I think netflix has as much of a claim against blockbuster as say McDonalds has against Burger King.
Either way, it's nice to be able to rent online, and I hope with more competition us consumers will see better service and lower prices.
Cheers
The good news is that our missle defense system works flawlessly ;-)
No space for you!
Odd, disabled every extension, blank space vanished, re-enabled all of the 1.5 compatible extensions, blank space was still gone. Your mileage may vary.
Ok, anyone have any idea what is up with the ~1 inch blank space under the status bar of firefox 1.5? Talk about a waste of screen real estate....
Personally I think the fact that linux admins took 68% longer is a good thing, perhaps because they tend to take some time for planning. Windows admins don't have to plan nearly as much (any these days...), they install their bread box product, and wait to be told what vulnerabilities it has. A (ok, GOOD) linux admin knows what liabilities there are and strives to secure the system before integration.
Windows adminning is easy, any monkey can do it (as long as they can click a mouse). Running a secure and stable windows server is far from easy. Linux is somewhere in the middle, and that's just fine.
'My experience is that if something has to be done, just do it - don't ask! They will thank you later,' he said." ------ Or later they'll fire your ass for thinking outside the box / not getting approval. It's really a question of if you want to cover your ass, or if you're sick of working your ass off. Yes, it all comes down to your ass, so you get to decide how you want it treated ;-)
Oddly enough I didn't try that, just did and it looks like they've changed the way you sign up. You must give a valid CC # (test #'s work, but they bitch about an invalid security code.)
I did, their response to the bug report was: Thank you for contacting the iTunes Music Store. The iTunes Music Store team answers non-technical questions about billing, customer accounts, downloading music, and iTunes Music Store content. Many questions about your iTunes software can be answered by choosing iTunes and Music Store Help from the Help menu. For online information, visit iTunes Support at http://www.apple.com/support/itunes>. To access the discussion boards for iTunes and other Apple services, please visit http://discussions.info.apple.com/>. For support for your iPod, please visit: http://www.apple.com/support/ipod/> If you require assistance beyond the complimentary support available online, please call AppleCare technical support at 800-APL-CARE (800-275-2273). Help is available seven days a week from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. central time. There may be a fee associated with the call. Sincerely, iTunes Music Store Support
Can't see what the fuss is with itunes... you have to pay to get tech support (oh, sorry, you *might* be charged a fee to call their support line) on a windows xp machine running itunes (thanks for bundling it with quicktime, nice to always have a choice), using firefox as a default broswer, if you're unwilling to give apple your credit card # to create an account they're nice enough to offer paypal. However it doesn't work (at least under the config mentioned above) it'll link you to your paypal account (it opens firefox), where you agree to let apple deduct whatever they feel like from your paypal (and thusly BANK) account. You sign away all pre-warning, and you agree if they do something naughty to try to make things right via the paypal dispute crap.
So, sure, I figure I'll only download the one album, then delete the agreement. So I click ok, I hereby sign my soul away. Success! I now have an agreement with apple. But wait, back in the Itunes window I still can't click continue to finish creating my account. Hmmmmm, I must not have done something right, so I then click on authorize paypal account. Again it opens a firefox window, and I again sell my soul. However, the itunes window doesn't change, and my requested ID doesn't work. Hmmmm... I next receive two letters from paypal saying I created a Billing Agreement (which for the record allows apple to deduct up to $5,000 a month from my account!!!)
So, I then navigate through paypal's setup to cancel the billing agreements. of course the instructions paypal gives are incorrect, so I have to wander through myself.
End result, apple didn't make any money, I didn't get my album, and I'm now boycotting Itunes.
Lovely service all in all. After all, it did save me money, and isn't that really what it's all about?
If you have a machine (say on a machine running linux kernel 2.4.20-30.9smp) with a built in gig port (say with eth0 identified as eth0: Tigon3 [partno(BCM95704A6) rev 2003 PHY(5704)] (PCI:66MHz:64-bit) 10/100/1000BaseT) connected to a decent gigabit switch, and another machine (same card, same os)with a gigabit card, those two machines will achieve 940Mbps talking to each other (results via iperf, 0.0-10.0 sec 1.09 GBytes 940 Mbits/sec).
However, if you plug a windows box (2000 or xp, didn't have a 2003 handy) with either an add on card, OR built in gig (2000 vs xp) you get a rather less impressive figure of 550-630. Coincidentally, you'll get the same basic number if you run two instances of iperf on the same computer... This tells me the bottleneck isn't the PCI bus, it's the OS. If you can prove me wrong please do so...
color me surprised. There's a reason there's been no "evidence" that medical marijuana works. (never mind that angel reich has an inoperable brain tumor, and was confined to a wheel chair, UNTIL using medical marijuana...) Shrugs, people do what they're told to do. Unfortunately this includes some scientists, mostly scientists on the govt's payroll.
I do question the wisdom of releasing this information at a time when the powers that be are looking for reasons to cut funding for science. (/rant mode off)
A) you're totally my hero, in portland and making $ ;)
B) any chance you'll use that 300k a month to drop the price of these independent albums to sub $10 each?
Economies of scale. I bet if you'd offer to buy 500k $400 video cards from one company they'd give them to you for $150-200...
;-)
Of course the fact that most (all?) consoles are sold at a *loss* (even at the start) doesn't factor into your equation either
Um, no...
;-) ). Games like Halo 2? 'Eh, I'm getting to old to fight the kids, and getting used as target practice gets old. But offer me a $200 box that will play any media format across my network and you've got $200. ;-)
there's a fair number of people who deal with the xbox only because of a handy little program called XBMC, now *THAT* I'm passionate about (as are a couple of others
Yes, there is a "jail" gene, it's XXY (or was it XYX?) either way, researchers have found a (rather) high correlation between XXY and violent/sociopathic criminals... feel free to read up on the subject if you so choose.
However, I think the point someone was trying to make is that a larger % of the jail population is black, then the national average. Which, while true at one point, might not still hold today.
To answer your question: They feel no more clever then the people that comment about how unclever they are...
Sure, it's pointless, but it gives great experience for the real (read: business) world, using open (for the most part) software.
the submitters and mods of slashdot really need to get laid, and understand that 1 time is funny, 2 might be amusing but 1e+10 is just painful.