The thing I *really* don't like Joel's system is his policy of not showing the policies. There is an incredibly obvious and rather fatal flaw that is inherent in this.
Say some jerk comes to the message board and starts doing mean things like trolling. So you punish him or her appropriately. However, then one of your established users begins to start trolling, so you go lightly on him or her, because he or she is respected and had a bad day. Well, that's not good. Inconsistency in punishments is something that drives people away. In the business world if you treate one person differently than another, you have lawsuits on your hands!
So who is to know what is allowed and what isn't when the rules don't exist? I think that this is the actual reason for Joel not wanting to post rules. This way he can punish whomever he wants and selectively decide to enforce the rules.
This coupled with his policy of deleting "off-topic" and other things that he "doesn't like" leads to a really bad "community" with something akin to secret police patrolling the message board, silently taking out those who don't conform and whatnot. How bad.
For those of us who picked up an actual print copy of the NY Times, we saw an article on the top fold of the front page about how Canada is turning away "refugees" seeking "political asylum" left and right.
This sounds faked, especially because the Focus Magazine homepage is littered with Microsoft paraphenelia and is tied in with MSN. You people need to stop taking everything against Microsoft and running with it! Sometimes it is just a hoax!
I work for a CD Duplication company that pushes CD-Rs a lot for short run CDs for small bands because they're so much cheaper than pressing a CD out of a glass master, especially if you're doing fewer than 1,000 CDs. Of course, it's all totally legal because these small bands write and produce the music and want to sell copies to their friends. It's all cool. If the RIAA and others looked around a little, perhaps they would see this kind of legitimate usage and realize that we don't need 50% taxes on CD-Rs and that CD-Rs actually help get music out there.
I have to ask why there is a camera inside the chapel. Is this supposed to curb alter boy molestations by catching them on tape? Or is this some new way for the church to make money by selling the security tapes of your wedding to you and your family?
When using a laptop, especially when running on batteries, no energy is unwanted. If these scientists could design a system where they took the "unwanted" heat energy and somehow transfered it back into the battery, then it wouldn't be unwanted, no? Of course, there would be some lose, but it's still better than getting nothing but a burned lap from the heat generated by your laptop.
Doesn't this suck for all those people that bought the yearly license plan just to find out that it's not going to get them as much as they had hoped! Perhaps a new version of Office, maybe.NET server, but no new desktop, and Office and.NET server haven't been promised any time soon.
Nah, we were always like this: French & Indian War (7 Years War), expansion into west and eradication of natives, Spanish American War, and there are a probably a few others I just can't recall.
If you ask most any librarian, he or she will tell you that they do NOT give out information regarding borrowing histories without a warrant from an official and will not give out to anyone else for ANY reason. Most libraries in colleges and universities purge all those records as soon as possible if they know what is good for them. Public libraries aren't so good at that, but still don't like keeping that information longer than they have to.
My mother has been a librarin for over thirty years at various places of business, including private corporations, public libraries and at colleges and universities and from listening to her, I believe it is the general sentiment of the ALA to protect their reader's privacy. If you all take a moment to recall, it was the librarians who fought the most against COPPA because of they inherent censorship created by the requirements.
What does happen, however, is libraries will outsource their searching services because they don't have enough money or manpower to handle the computer equipment themselves. When that happens, the business they outsource to may not have the same ideas in their head concerning privacy and censorship and will start storing this. Unless libraries get more funding, it's likely that outsourcing will continue and records will be saved.
Having a molten core would NOT lend support to the theory that the moon splintered off of the Earth. In fact, the non-existence of a molten-core would better lend support to that theory than a molten core. This is simply because if the moon splintered off of the earth, it is going to be one giant rock. How does one get a molten core from just a rock? Does anyone else see what I'm saying?
No home page article for the 5.4 in New York a few weeks ago? An earthquake in California is an everyday occurence, but in New York! Now *that's* news!
Wouldn't it make sense to buy one of those bell systems for far less? One that configures itself? Maybe a Linux box connecting to the time tracking system would make sense if you changed schedules a lot, but having a computer do this kind of work seems like overkill.
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The thing I *really* don't like Joel's system is his policy of not showing the policies. There is an incredibly obvious and rather fatal flaw that is inherent in this.
Say some jerk comes to the message board and starts doing mean things like trolling. So you punish him or her appropriately. However, then one of your established users begins to start trolling, so you go lightly on him or her, because he or she is respected and had a bad day. Well, that's not good. Inconsistency in punishments is something that drives people away. In the business world if you treate one person differently than another, you have lawsuits on your hands!
So who is to know what is allowed and what isn't when the rules don't exist? I think that this is the actual reason for Joel not wanting to post rules. This way he can punish whomever he wants and selectively decide to enforce the rules.
This coupled with his policy of deleting "off-topic" and other things that he "doesn't like" leads to a really bad "community" with something akin to secret police patrolling the message board, silently taking out those who don't conform and whatnot. How bad.
For those of us who picked up an actual print copy of the NY Times, we saw an article on the top fold of the front page about how Canada is turning away "refugees" seeking "political asylum" left and right.
This sounds faked, especially because the Focus Magazine homepage is littered with Microsoft paraphenelia and is tied in with MSN. You people need to stop taking everything against Microsoft and running with it! Sometimes it is just a hoax!
I work for a CD Duplication company that pushes CD-Rs a lot for short run CDs for small bands because they're so much cheaper than pressing a CD out of a glass master, especially if you're doing fewer than 1,000 CDs. Of course, it's all totally legal because these small bands write and produce the music and want to sell copies to their friends. It's all cool. If the RIAA and others looked around a little, perhaps they would see this kind of legitimate usage and realize that we don't need 50% taxes on CD-Rs and that CD-Rs actually help get music out there.
And just two articles down on the homepage, in the Developers section, there is an article about the dangers of using CGI. How ... ironic?
Linksys has a signal booster. It looks expensive and I've never used it, but it claims to be great.
I have to ask why there is a camera inside the chapel. Is this supposed to curb alter boy molestations by catching them on tape? Or is this some new way for the church to make money by selling the security tapes of your wedding to you and your family?
I'm sorry, I just don't see how skipping a commercial with a PVR is any different than muting the TV and grabbing a soda from the other room.
When using a laptop, especially when running on batteries, no energy is unwanted. If these scientists could design a system where they took the "unwanted" heat energy and somehow transfered it back into the battery, then it wouldn't be unwanted, no? Of course, there would be some lose, but it's still better than getting nothing but a burned lap from the heat generated by your laptop.
Doesn't this suck for all those people that bought the yearly license plan just to find out that it's not going to get them as much as they had hoped! Perhaps a new version of Office, maybe .NET server, but no new desktop, and Office and .NET server haven't been promised any time soon.
Nah, we were always like this: French & Indian War (7 Years War), expansion into west and eradication of natives, Spanish American War, and there are a probably a few others I just can't recall.
Gravity is not a "speed" but an acceleration. The difference being m/s versus m/s/s as this article and most other people have failed to realize.
I think Virginia Tech has a remote campus in Switzerland. I don't know if it's open to Swiss students or just to students going abroad.
If you ask most any librarian, he or she will tell you that they do NOT give out information regarding borrowing histories without a warrant from an official and will not give out to anyone else for ANY reason. Most libraries in colleges and universities purge all those records as soon as possible if they know what is good for them. Public libraries aren't so good at that, but still don't like keeping that information longer than they have to.
My mother has been a librarin for over thirty years at various places of business, including private corporations, public libraries and at colleges and universities and from listening to her, I believe it is the general sentiment of the ALA to protect their reader's privacy. If you all take a moment to recall, it was the librarians who fought the most against COPPA because of they inherent censorship created by the requirements.
What does happen, however, is libraries will outsource their searching services because they don't have enough money or manpower to handle the computer equipment themselves. When that happens, the business they outsource to may not have the same ideas in their head concerning privacy and censorship and will start storing this. Unless libraries get more funding, it's likely that outsourcing will continue and records will be saved.
I believe the correct word is not "cruft" but "entropy" as in "entropy increases" when referring to how a computer goes to hell.
This excellent text editor is about to release a new version. Araneae
Watch it turn out to be Microsoft so they can try to bust you for copyright infringement or something.
All the places you listed should have outlets to plug in: trains, client sites, living room. What's the need for a long battery life.
Slashdot uses MySQL. I point you to their FAQ: What kind of hardware does Slashdot run on?
Excuse me for erroneously stating that it was 902 to 928MHz. So I made a mistake, shoot me.
A really neat SSH client is available here. I love it.
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http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/put
Having a molten core would NOT lend support to the theory that the moon splintered off of the Earth. In fact, the non-existence of a molten-core would better lend support to that theory than a molten core. This is simply because if the moon splintered off of the earth, it is going to be one giant rock. How does one get a molten core from just a rock? Does anyone else see what I'm saying?
No home page article for the 5.4 in New York a few weeks ago? An earthquake in California is an everyday occurence, but in New York! Now *that's* news!
Wouldn't it make sense to buy one of those bell systems for far less? One that configures itself? Maybe a Linux box connecting to the time tracking system would make sense if you changed schedules a lot, but having a computer do this kind of work seems like overkill.
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