Oh, yeah, I buy that. But until recently I was unaware of any of the "distributions" of Drupal -- I had tried bare Drupal and decided I didn't have time to mess with it. So as far as I'm concerned, *Drupal* is not data ready. OpenPublic, or Trekk, or whatever, based on Drupal, probably *is*, but it's not quite the same thing.
I may give one of the distributions a try here pretty soon.
I'm more than aware of both the history of the Holocaust and that of "Holocaust deniers." I would agree that Holocaust deniers fall into a special category, but I see no evidence that the term "denier" was dragged along with it.
You use the phrase "Holocaust denier" and that means something to me. You say "denier" on its own and it doesn't evoke the same thing. Sorry.
You were the first to Godwin this discussion, by dragging things into it that weren't there before.
...but in this case knowledgeable people are divided.
Well, knowledgeable people are divided on every topic. The question is divided how? If it's 50-50 or even 60-40, I can see some ambiguity. If it's 95-5 or thereabouts (which actually seems to be the case) then it's much less so.
And maybe it's just me, but my mind doesn't go to "holocaust denier" when the term "denier" comes up. I've been hearing the term with regard to global warming for some time, and your post is the first time I've ever seen anybody try to draw that connection, and it certainly wouldn't have occured to *me*.
And if he were skeptical, that wouldn't be a problem. But he seems to have made up his mind--not from looking at the scientific evidence, but based on economic interests. Mitigation would cost his owners money, so it can't be true. That's not skepticism.
And even on my phone which is *not* in that range, no mobile site I've ever seen works well. There is always too much loss of funtionality. I'm willing to scroll around on the desktop site, even if I'm doing so through a tiny porthole. If you're going to force your mobile site on me, then I'll just leave. Give me a way to turn the damned thing off.
To be fair, Slashdot hasn't forced it on us yet. When I go to http://slashdot.org/ on my phone, I get the real site, not the mobile one. Lets hope it stays that way.
My leatherbound books are actually grouped by size -- my bookshelves are not infinitely capacious, and the shelves themselves are spaced variably in order to fit everything on there. That group of books is variable enough in size (some very tall, some very short) that it makes sense to group similar sizes together.
The bookshop can't delete books from my ebook reader either. Or know what's on it. They might know what I bought (from them) but that's as far as it goes.
I generally am reading about three books at a time, but it's location based. I have dead tree at home, dead tree in the car (for when I'm going into a place I intend to sit and read, like a coffee house) and a e-reader in a pocket for the quick opportunity. Sometimes the e-reader takes precedence over the others, depends on the specifics of what books are involved.
I seldom shift the e-reader from one book to another until I'm finished with the one I have cued up.
I have have many shelves of cheap paperbacks. I have a slightly smaller number of shelves of regular hardbacks. I have several shelves of leatherbound books. I have about 500 books on my Pocketbook 360.
They all work fine. The e-reader is mainly when I travel, but it's usually with me when I'm out and about and have a few minutes to read. I like the e-reader, but I like physical books too. And I can lend a physical book. Easily.
Wish I had mod points. Large numbers of books, or songs *can* be nice, but only if they're realistically large. Thousands of songs, maybe even tens of thousands of songs. But not hundreds of thousands. Hundreds of books, sure, a thousand or two maybe. But not tens of thousands.
I think having books (and music, and movies, etc.) has value for the items themselves, not as something to brag about.
If you're starting a lending library, that might be different.
Why do people seem to assume that "Droid" and "Android" are synonymous? "Droid" is exclusively a Verizon brand, and yes, that involves licensing to Lucas, soon to be Disney.
But "Android" has nothing to do with Lucas, and Android phones on other networks are not "Droids." It may be that Google requires licensing for the Android name, I'm not sure, but Lucas certainly doesn't.
Yeah, I know, you didn't say that all Androids are Droids, you just triggered a pet peeve of mine.:)
Some people don't use WPA2 because they choose not to use WPA2, *not* because they can't figure it out.
I configure routers with WPA2 if they are being used in a business context. At home I have always left it open, although I have with some routers set up a "nocat" portal so any guests have to click through and leave a log entry.
In addition, Crashplan lets you back up to local drives and other Crashplan users. I have my home backups going to my office PC, and to a friend in Florida (I'm in California) as well as to Crashplan's servers. She backs up to me and to Crashplan.
The initial backups took months, but the incrementals are fairly quick and easy.
My thinking is much like yours -- I'm considering a solar system in combination with a plug-in hybrid, but I don't spend nearly 10G a year for gas. My daily weekday driving is on the order of 15-20 miles, most weekends maybe 30-40. I maybe spend $1500-2000 on non-trip gas. On a normal basis a plug-in hybrid would seldom hit the ICE.
I sometimes head out of town where I'll go a thousand or more miles at a time. A solar system *or* the plug-in wouldn't help me much for that, so I can't factor that into the financial calculation.
But if you're driving enough miles that you spend almost $200 a week on gas, is a plug-in hybrid going to have the range to cover your commute? If it does, is a $10k solar system going to produce enough power? I realize solar prices are down, but I was thinking I'd need to spend more for a solar system than that, and my needs are obviously a lot less than yours.
Yes. The original author. Michael "Monty" Widenius. He named his first database after his oldest daughter My, the new one after the second daughter Maria.
Unless you keep your old contract and buy your new phone outright.
And then you have to keep in mind that they will give you unlimited data, but will throttle everything over some threshhold so it really isn't that unlimited after all.
It'd be the same, unless you count the fact that typing "urandom" instead of "zero" would take you longer by the amount of time it takes you to type the three extra characters.
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Oh, yeah, I buy that. But until recently I was unaware of any of the "distributions" of Drupal -- I had tried bare Drupal and decided I didn't have time to mess with it. So as far as I'm concerned, *Drupal* is not data ready. OpenPublic, or Trekk, or whatever, based on Drupal, probably *is*, but it's not quite the same thing.
I may give one of the distributions a try here pretty soon.
Drupal's not really "ready to receive data." It's "ready to design a site." *Then* you can give it data.
It's like buying a Long-EZ and telling someone it's ready to fly away. But there's some building to do first.
Has XFS gotten over it's corruption problems when shut down dirty?
Back when I used it, I was always very careful to have *good* UPS support.
Exactly right. I started posting on Slashdot before I was born.
I'm more than aware of both the history of the Holocaust and that of "Holocaust deniers." I would agree that Holocaust deniers fall into a special category, but I see no evidence that the term "denier" was dragged along with it.
You use the phrase "Holocaust denier" and that means something to me. You say "denier" on its own and it doesn't evoke the same thing. Sorry.
You were the first to Godwin this discussion, by dragging things into it that weren't there before.
...but in this case knowledgeable people are divided.
Well, knowledgeable people are divided on every topic. The question is divided how? If it's 50-50 or even 60-40, I can see some ambiguity. If it's 95-5 or thereabouts (which actually seems to be the case) then it's much less so.
And maybe it's just me, but my mind doesn't go to "holocaust denier" when the term "denier" comes up. I've been hearing the term with regard to global warming for some time, and your post is the first time I've ever seen anybody try to draw that connection, and it certainly wouldn't have occured to *me*.
No science is ever "provable." Or can be.
And if he were skeptical, that wouldn't be a problem. But he seems to have made up his mind--not from looking at the scientific evidence, but based on economic interests. Mitigation would cost his owners money, so it can't be true. That's not skepticism.
How about "to fail gracefully."
Yes, yes, yes.
And even on my phone which is *not* in that range, no mobile site I've ever seen works well. There is always too much loss of funtionality. I'm willing to scroll around on the desktop site, even if I'm doing so through a tiny porthole. If you're going to force your mobile site on me, then I'll just leave. Give me a way to turn the damned thing off.
To be fair, Slashdot hasn't forced it on us yet. When I go to http://slashdot.org/ on my phone, I get the real site, not the mobile one. Lets hope it stays that way.
As long as there *are* support forums.
I recall a package that was open source, but the documentation was not. If you wanted the manual, you had to pay for it.
That didn't strike me as in the spirit of Open Source.
If you do have support forums where users can help users, then I think there would be less backlash against fee-based support.
My leatherbound books are actually grouped by size -- my bookshelves are not infinitely capacious, and the shelves themselves are spaced variably in order to fit everything on there. That group of books is variable enough in size (some very tall, some very short) that it makes sense to group similar sizes together.
The bookshop can't delete books from my ebook reader either. Or know what's on it. They might know what I bought (from them) but that's as far as it goes.
I generally am reading about three books at a time, but it's location based. I have dead tree at home, dead tree in the car (for when I'm going into a place I intend to sit and read, like a coffee house) and a e-reader in a pocket for the quick opportunity. Sometimes the e-reader takes precedence over the others, depends on the specifics of what books are involved.
I seldom shift the e-reader from one book to another until I'm finished with the one I have cued up.
I buy books to read too.
I have have many shelves of cheap paperbacks. I have a slightly smaller number of shelves of regular hardbacks. I have several shelves of leatherbound books. I have about 500 books on my Pocketbook 360.
They all work fine. The e-reader is mainly when I travel, but it's usually with me when I'm out and about and have a few minutes to read. I like the e-reader, but I like physical books too. And I can lend a physical book. Easily.
Wish I had mod points. Large numbers of books, or songs *can* be nice, but only if they're realistically large. Thousands of songs, maybe even tens of thousands of songs. But not hundreds of thousands. Hundreds of books, sure, a thousand or two maybe. But not tens of thousands.
I think having books (and music, and movies, etc.) has value for the items themselves, not as something to brag about.
If you're starting a lending library, that might be different.
Why do people seem to assume that "Droid" and "Android" are synonymous? "Droid" is exclusively a Verizon brand, and yes, that involves licensing to Lucas, soon to be Disney.
But "Android" has nothing to do with Lucas, and Android phones on other networks are not "Droids." It may be that Google requires licensing for the Android name, I'm not sure, but Lucas certainly doesn't.
Yeah, I know, you didn't say that all Androids are Droids, you just triggered a pet peeve of mine. :)
Some people don't use WPA2 because they choose not to use WPA2, *not* because they can't figure it out.
I configure routers with WPA2 if they are being used in a business context. At home I have always left it open, although I have with some routers set up a "nocat" portal so any guests have to click through and leave a log entry.
A buddy of mine (a Brit) recently confessed to me in embarassment, that in fact, the most popular beer in Britain is now Budweiser.
Take that for what it's worth -- I don't know if it's true.
In addition, Crashplan lets you back up to local drives and other Crashplan users. I have my home backups going to my office PC, and to a friend in Florida (I'm in California) as well as to Crashplan's servers. She backs up to me and to Crashplan.
The initial backups took months, but the incrementals are fairly quick and easy.
Whoa! Ten grand in a year?
My thinking is much like yours -- I'm considering a solar system in combination with a plug-in hybrid, but I don't spend nearly 10G a year for gas. My daily weekday driving is on the order of 15-20 miles, most weekends maybe 30-40. I maybe spend $1500-2000 on non-trip gas. On a normal basis a plug-in hybrid would seldom hit the ICE.
I sometimes head out of town where I'll go a thousand or more miles at a time. A solar system *or* the plug-in wouldn't help me much for that, so I can't factor that into the financial calculation.
But if you're driving enough miles that you spend almost $200 a week on gas, is a plug-in hybrid going to have the range to cover your commute? If it does, is a $10k solar system going to produce enough power? I realize solar prices are down, but I was thinking I'd need to spend more for a solar system than that, and my needs are obviously a lot less than yours.
Now *this* deserves mod points.
> Has no one forked MySql yet?
Yes. The original author. Michael "Monty" Widenius. He named his first database after his oldest daughter My, the new one after the second daughter Maria.
http://mariadb.org/
Unless you keep your old contract and buy your new phone outright.
And then you have to keep in mind that they will give you unlimited data, but will throttle everything over some threshhold so it really isn't that unlimited after all.
You used to be correct.
The 17 year from issue date is a rule that vanished some time back.
It'd be the same, unless you count the fact that typing "urandom" instead of "zero" would take you longer by the amount of time it takes you to type the three extra characters.