I disagree. I've never taken any CS class. I've been using PHP since version 3. I still find myself hitting php.net to know the syntax of a lot of functions. Generally I have mapped out what should happen and have an idea as to the specifics, but I usually can't recall the syntax of the functions. Most of the places I've worked will have one or two people who know the syntax (yelling across the cubes is almost as fast as bringing up php.net), but the rest have a good grasp of how to solve their problem, but not the exact syntax.
Trees. Lots o trees. My house has 'em. I notice that these newer subdivisions don't. It makes all the difference. You can't see my house on google maps now, but you can see quite a bit of detail on the the houses in the subdivision a block away from me. And google doesn't yet have the high res for either yet.
I so wish I had mod points right now. If there was ever a post that deserved a +5 Inshightfull it's the parent post. The behavior of the government in this has been totally outrageous. If anything the Mayor and his cronies should be facing charges of misuse of resources or something. If this is the kind of leadership America wants and deserves, it's time for me to find another place to live. It's time that the idiots be driven from politics before they completely ruin this nation.
A quick googling implies you should use aluminum or stainless steel to reflect microwaves. It shouldn't be too difficult to get some "body armor" and something to protect your face from this new terror.
He's right! Any legislation will hurt the ability of people to innovate.
What he missed is the biggest reason to oppose net neutrality legislation... any legislation is another step to the government fully regulating and controling the Internet. This is something we must avoid at all costs. So far we've been lucky that the government hasn't come in and totally regulated it. We've got to work to push back what it does control now.
you're correct that the Constitution and Bill of Rights are basically meaningless now. However the trend in the wrong direction started earlier than 1913. It started with the Civil War (or maybe even earlier). Up until that point, all the amendements to the Constitution were to restrict the power of the Federal Government. However after that point, the amendments enlarge the power of the Federal Government or restructure in such ways as to make it easier to pass crap.
The key here is "Paid attempts." Bloggers who don't receive an income in exchange for their work aren't affected.
False!
From TFA:
"The bill would require reporting of 'paid efforts to stimulate
grassroots lobbying,' but defines 'paid' merely as communications to 500 or
more members of the public, with no other qualifiers.[Emphasis added]
The parent is correct that there are some teachers out there who care. However the grandparent is also correct, once the teacher realizes it doesn't matter what they do (excpet for sleeping with the kids), they become useless. This of course is the nature of the beast known as government school.
If the parent poster wants to avoid having the life sucked out of them and becomming one of the teachers that the grandparent describes, I'd suggest they get a job at a private school. That's where real education and caring takes place. Government school is not much more than taxpayer supported daycare (teachers babysit and can't be fired, parents just want the kids off the street while they're at work, students have better things to do like buying crack or getting laid, and administrators can't do anything b/c unions won't let them). Private schools everyone is there to do their job (i.e. teachers teach, parents parent, students learn, administrators administer).
Anyway, the upfront cost is not worth complaining over - with regular use you got your money back within 3-5 months.
Unless the bulbs don't last more than two months. I went with CFL's last year. However they would only last a month or two before I had to replace them. I'm back with my trusty regular 100W bulbs now. Haven't needed to replace a bulb in 8 months now. I'll take not having to get up on a ladder every two months over higer replacements cost and lower running costs any day.
Fedora Linux is actually better than RHEL, because you can patch it easily (RHEL is a pain in the ass to patch), it contains more packages, and its community support (especially academia) is as high as it has ever been.
Sorry but I call BS.
I use Fedora at home and RHEL at work. Fedora continues to be slow and unstable (that's FC5, I haven't upgraded to 6 yet). It's no longer a bad as it was (but it isn't as stable as the old RH9) and I suspect there will be massive improvement in the next version as well. RHEL is quite stable and is IMHO the best you can find. Patching the two seems basically the same although it is a little easier on RHEL. Fedora you type "yum update" while on RHEL you just type "up2date" and that's 3 key strokes less.
OTHO I do agree that having a free version is the best idea RH could have. It is good publicity for RH. They also get to alpha and beta test stuff in Fedora with a large community before including it in the RHEL. I hope it continues to work for them. I really do appreciate all the free work being done on Fedora, which is why I continue to use it. Plus I don't have to learn about.deb files and apt if I were to swtich to another distro.
Except that Red Hat and Suse are not entirely open source.
What happens when MySQL depends on the closed part?
Huh? I didn't know this about RH (don't know anything about Suse). Is this really true? Wouldn't CENTOS have some serious problems in making a RHEL rebuild if there were some close source things in it?
The rules, approved by the Supreme Court in April, require companies and other entities involved in federal litigation to produce "electronically stored information" as part of the discovery process, when evidence is shared by both sides before a trial.
so if you are or might be involved in federal litigation, you better follow the rules.
The two challenges -- the grues and the no-Elbereth -- really make the game not nethack. The first challenge cuts off the mines and any dark room until you find a magic lamp or learn the light spell. These are things that don't usually happen until you've done most of the mines or made it down to the castle. Plus without the mines your character will not gain the 3-6 levels and asorted items it needs to survive the big room and below. Not to mention that it makes trapdoors almost an instadeath if you happen to land in a dark room.
And lets talk about the 2nd challenge which takes away Elbereth. Usually I only need the E-word when I'm a weak char and have a horde of "a"'s or "q"'s heading for me. By the time I'm strong enough to fight the Wizard the E-word might as well be forgotten. The challenge really shows how the game is too hard to start with and how underequipped our heros are when they enter the dungeon. Would you go on such a quest with only your char's starting equipment and knowledge?
Sure you can ignore the challenges, but lets face it no one is going to respect you if you do.
I'm still running RH9 and when I do yum update zoneinfo or yum update timezone none of the repos I'm using has such a package. Where do you get them? What package are they in? What legacy repos are out there that provide them?
The real test is can your (or in this case my) mother use Linux.
1) Install Linux (in this case Fedora). --fails if the OS doesn't come on the box there is no way my mother would install Linux [we get around this step by installing it before she see it] 2) What's this login thing?? -- the one thing she has trouble with is logging in. "Why doesn't it just go like the old one. You've got to make it so it works right. This must be broken if I have to keep typing this username and password stuff." [I've seen other setups where the login is skipped, but I also have to use the computer and I don't want her finding some stuff. The next computer I get, will be for me only and the current one will be setup to do the autologin for her user] 3) Where's Word? Where's Internet Explorer? -- They're called Open Office and Firefox now.
That's the three big things. Really only #1 is a problem that won't be solved until Dell or some other major computer maker starts shipping working computers with Linux on them. Yes I know some places offer Linux installed. However from my personal exprience with Dell and Linux, they sold me a "complete" system with Linux on it and included a monitor that warned "connecting to a computer running the Linux operating system voids the warnity and could reslut in damage to the unit." Really that's not the way to encourage people to use Linux. At least they offered to take it back and send me a Windows box.
Once #1 is solved Linux will be well on its way to ruling the desktop. #2 has a simple enough work around and #3 just requires familarlity. Lack of eyecandy isn't really the problem.
Rest in Peace Oracle.
This is going to be the motivation many businesses need to switch from Oracle to MySQL or Postgres. Oracle is shooting themselves in the foot by doing this. RHEL has so much more to offer than Oracle. We're not going to want to change OS (even flavors) now that we're locked into support contracts with RH. We already use MySQL for a number of smaller non-critical apps. It has a better track record than Oracle and it's "After a week of troubleshooting, you need this obscure patch, which will break the other obscure patch that you needed last month, so we're working on a thrid patch which will be out next month" typical support.
I just don't see how this will benefit Oracle.
Bottom line the guy who said you need to provide an SSN to purchase a gun is full of crap. Unless he proves his other points we should assume he's wrong there too.
Gun shops are REQUIRED BY LAW to take your social security number as part of criminal background checks
False in a lot if not all states. The federal form from the BATFE that you have to fill out to buy from an FFL makes it clear that putting your SSN on it is optional. The form in Virginia also is quite clear that your SSN is optional. I've never given my SSN to buy any of my guns.
Since I know one item in your comment is false, I'm going to have I suspect the rest of your info is just as faulty. Please cite the specific laws which requre the use of SSN in all the instances you mentioned.
In a chilling slap at free speech, the jury decided that not only was this illegal, but that it was worth over $11 million.
The jury decided that this was slander/libel. These are not protected by the first amendnemnt. You can't go around destroying someone's reputation when what you're saying is a lie. The jury must have found that the plaintiff provided the services according to the contract with the defendant. It's not a slap a free speech, unless you think people should be able to make unfounded accusations and damage an innocent person's reputation.
If you bought a "new" drive they should give you a "new" drive to replace the faulty one. You should only get a "refurbished" drive if that's what you bought in the first place. And if you bought a "refurbished" one in the first place, well you deserve the trouble you're having now. There's a reason the "refurbished" ones are usually a lot cheaper than a new drive. You get what you pay for.
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I disagree. I've never taken any CS class. I've been using PHP since version 3. I still find myself hitting php.net to know the syntax of a lot of functions. Generally I have mapped out what should happen and have an idea as to the specifics, but I usually can't recall the syntax of the functions. Most of the places I've worked will have one or two people who know the syntax (yelling across the cubes is almost as fast as bringing up php.net), but the rest have a good grasp of how to solve their problem, but not the exact syntax.
Trees. Lots o trees. My house has 'em. I notice that these newer subdivisions don't. It makes all the difference. You can't see my house on google maps now, but you can see quite a bit of detail on the the houses in the subdivision a block away from me. And google doesn't yet have the high res for either yet.
I so wish I had mod points right now. If there was ever a post that deserved a +5 Inshightfull it's the parent post. The behavior of the government in this has been totally outrageous. If anything the Mayor and his cronies should be facing charges of misuse of resources or something. If this is the kind of leadership America wants and deserves, it's time for me to find another place to live. It's time that the idiots be driven from politics before they completely ruin this nation.
A quick googling implies you should use aluminum or stainless steel to reflect microwaves. It shouldn't be too difficult to get some "body armor" and something to protect your face from this new terror.
He's right! Any legislation will hurt the ability of people to innovate. What he missed is the biggest reason to oppose net neutrality legislation ... any legislation is another step to the government fully regulating and controling the Internet. This is something we must avoid at all costs. So far we've been lucky that the government hasn't come in and totally regulated it. We've got to work to push back what it does control now.
you're correct that the Constitution and Bill of Rights are basically meaningless now. However the trend in the wrong direction started earlier than 1913. It started with the Civil War (or maybe even earlier). Up until that point, all the amendements to the Constitution were to restrict the power of the Federal Government. However after that point, the amendments enlarge the power of the Federal Government or restructure in such ways as to make it easier to pass crap.
From TFA:
In other words we're screwed.The parent is correct that there are some teachers out there who care. However the grandparent is also correct, once the teacher realizes it doesn't matter what they do (excpet for sleeping with the kids), they become useless. This of course is the nature of the beast known as government school.
If the parent poster wants to avoid having the life sucked out of them and becomming one of the teachers that the grandparent describes, I'd suggest they get a job at a private school. That's where real education and caring takes place. Government school is not much more than taxpayer supported daycare (teachers babysit and can't be fired, parents just want the kids off the street while they're at work, students have better things to do like buying crack or getting laid, and administrators can't do anything b/c unions won't let them). Private schools everyone is there to do their job (i.e. teachers teach, parents parent, students learn, administrators administer).
Sorry but I call BS.
I use Fedora at home and RHEL at work. Fedora continues to be slow and unstable (that's FC5, I haven't upgraded to 6 yet). It's no longer a bad as it was (but it isn't as stable as the old RH9) and I suspect there will be massive improvement in the next version as well. RHEL is quite stable and is IMHO the best you can find. Patching the two seems basically the same although it is a little easier on RHEL. Fedora you type "yum update" while on RHEL you just type "up2date" and that's 3 key strokes less.
OTHO I do agree that having a free version is the best idea RH could have. It is good publicity for RH. They also get to alpha and beta test stuff in Fedora with a large community before including it in the RHEL. I hope it continues to work for them. I really do appreciate all the free work being done on Fedora, which is why I continue to use it. Plus I don't have to learn about .deb files and apt if I were to swtich to another distro.
How can the US Mint make something illegal, only Congress has the power to pass laws. Someone please explain.
Like most things, just use perl and a cpan module. Apache2::Geo::IP
Huh? I didn't know this about RH (don't know anything about Suse). Is this really true? Wouldn't CENTOS have some serious problems in making a RHEL rebuild if there were some close source things in it?
Give us some examples please.
What accounts for this "Market Share" place having such different numbers than searchenginewatch?
The actual meaning of nonce: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/nonce
The jargon used in Cryptography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_nonce
The two challenges -- the grues and the no-Elbereth -- really make the game not nethack. The first challenge cuts off the mines and any dark room until you find a magic lamp or learn the light spell. These are things that don't usually happen until you've done most of the mines or made it down to the castle. Plus without the mines your character will not gain the 3-6 levels and asorted items it needs to survive the big room and below. Not to mention that it makes trapdoors almost an instadeath if you happen to land in a dark room.
And lets talk about the 2nd challenge which takes away Elbereth. Usually I only need the E-word when I'm a weak char and have a horde of "a"'s or "q"'s heading for me. By the time I'm strong enough to fight the Wizard the E-word might as well be forgotten. The challenge really shows how the game is too hard to start with and how underequipped our heros are when they enter the dungeon. Would you go on such a quest with only your char's starting equipment and knowledge?
Sure you can ignore the challenges, but lets face it no one is going to respect you if you do.
The only way to win is to not play the game.
I'm still running RH9 and when I do yum update zoneinfo or yum update timezone none of the repos I'm using has such a package. Where do you get them? What package are they in? What legacy repos are out there that provide them?
The real test is can your (or in this case my) mother use Linux.
1) Install Linux (in this case Fedora).
--fails if the OS doesn't come on the box there is no way my mother would install Linux
[we get around this step by installing it before she see it]
2) What's this login thing??
-- the one thing she has trouble with is logging in. "Why doesn't it just go like the old one. You've got to make it so it works right. This must be broken if I have to keep typing this username and password stuff."
[I've seen other setups where the login is skipped, but I also have to use the computer and I don't want her finding some stuff. The next computer I get, will be for me only and the current one will be setup to do the autologin for her user]
3) Where's Word? Where's Internet Explorer?
-- They're called Open Office and Firefox now.
That's the three big things. Really only #1 is a problem that won't be solved until Dell or some other major computer maker starts shipping working computers with Linux on them. Yes I know some places offer Linux installed. However from my personal exprience with Dell and Linux, they sold me a "complete" system with Linux on it and included a monitor that warned "connecting to a computer running the Linux operating system voids the warnity and could reslut in damage to the unit." Really that's not the way to encourage people to use Linux. At least they offered to take it back and send me a Windows box.
Once #1 is solved Linux will be well on its way to ruling the desktop. #2 has a simple enough work around and #3 just requires familarlity. Lack of eyecandy isn't really the problem.
Rest in Peace Oracle. This is going to be the motivation many businesses need to switch from Oracle to MySQL or Postgres. Oracle is shooting themselves in the foot by doing this. RHEL has so much more to offer than Oracle. We're not going to want to change OS (even flavors) now that we're locked into support contracts with RH. We already use MySQL for a number of smaller non-critical apps. It has a better track record than Oracle and it's "After a week of troubleshooting, you need this obscure patch, which will break the other obscure patch that you needed last month, so we're working on a thrid patch which will be out next month" typical support. I just don't see how this will benefit Oracle.
I can confirm that xpdf suffers from the same issue.
Very interesting, I never knew that xpdf respected the security settings.
Just to follow up. This is also the case in Penn. which shows that the SSN can't be required.m ber_Case.htmn .pdf
e tail.html (see item #11)
http://www.patriotnetwork.info/Social_Security_Nu
http://www.vcdl.org/pdf/PA_SummaryJudgmentDecisio
http://www2.vcdl.org/cgi-bin/wspd_cgi.sh/vcdl/vad
Bottom line the guy who said you need to provide an SSN to purchase a gun is full of crap. Unless he proves his other points we should assume he's wrong there too.
False in a lot if not all states. The federal form from the BATFE that you have to fill out to buy from an FFL makes it clear that putting your SSN on it is optional. The form in Virginia also is quite clear that your SSN is optional. I've never given my SSN to buy any of my guns.
Since I know one item in your comment is false, I'm going to have I suspect the rest of your info is just as faulty. Please cite the specific laws which requre the use of SSN in all the instances you mentioned.