You say "eliminating the US Department of Education" like it is a bad thing!
I'm all for it.
I'm for pulling out of the United Nations.
I'm for getting rid of Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare.
Floridation of water? Debatable. But, a local gov't issue.
Alcohol? Local issue.
Global warming? It IS still being debated. And then, not proven that it is man-made warming.
Drilling for oil? Please, lets! I am for keeping dollars in the USA, instead of being sent overseas.
Really, the States Rights vs. Federal Rights is the pivotal issue.
In the words of Thomas Jefferson, whom helped found the USA.
""Most codes extend their definitions of treason to acts not really against one's country. They do not distinguish between acts against the government, and acts against the oppressions of the government. The latter are virtues, yet have furnished more victims to the executioner than the former, because real treasons are rare; oppressions frequent. The unsuccessful strugglers against tyranny have been the chief martyrs of treason laws in all countries." --Thomas Jefferson: Report on Spanish Convention, 1792. "
http://etext.virginia.edu/jefferson/quotations/jeff0300.htm [virginia.edu]
Pulling out of the UN? how much Glen Beck have you been watching?
Now the UN might survive without the US, but I have my doubts. The UN manages to prevent all sorts of minor issues from turning into real conflicts. The UN steps in (though not often enough) to stop genocide bosnia, sierra leone, east timor . The WHO (branch of the UN) ended smallpox.... so yea that needs to stop.
Global Warming -- the science is there, it's real, and a good chunk is man-made. Even if it werent anthropocentric we still need to deal with it, throwing up our hands and saying not our problem seems like the right choice?. Global warming isnt a real debate among climate scientists, it's like saying evolution is still debated by biologists... total bs
I tried Linux LVM snapshots, but most of the servers I manage run regular partitions with ext3 file systems, so LVM snapshots will not work.
Last time I checked they worked fine. I think you mean something else by "snapshots".
suso-- reread it with the assumption he isnt an idiot, you're making an implicit assumption about how he has his servers partitioned.
ok for most of what needs to be done Rsnapshot is awesome.
Rsnapshot uses rsync and some creative hardlinking to make a pretty nice snapshot. I find that it is awesome, until you need to transfer the archives to a new machine. It is packaged, so it installs nicely.
If you have live databases you have to get trickier,, one simple way is breaking a raid 1 mirror, and running rsnapshot on the old drive.
just kidding.. the rebuild would jack your system up. And that assumes that you have the machines in raid.
For live data that needs atomic control rsnapshot is really the wrong tool.
This is kinda a myth.. There is plenty of oil. However it becomes more expensive to retrieve than the energy it can produce. Now many people see that as oil that were not going to exploit, as it isn't a net energy gain anymore.
When it comes to that point, were still going to find and use oil anyway. It means that we are going to need to use other primary sources of power, but too much infrastructure will still be oil based, so we wont stop just because it's an energy sink. We will just use nuclear power to drill and pump oil to a fleet of a few billion cars as the third world becomes affluent. This isn't a gloat, as the ramifications sadden me, but it is the scenario that keeps playing out in my head. If we cant get moving on a more reasonable source of power, we will have more cars than ever on the roads in 100 years, burning petrol. Gas will be expensive, but how would you live if gas were $11/Gallon or 2.5/liter ? In a city, sure- more time taking the bus. What about living in rural Montana? You're just going to take the cost of living.
By no means am I saying that we have infinite oil, but I am saying that were going to pump/mine another 10-100x of what we have already extracted; barring cataclysm of course.
Tell that to the green party voters from Florida y2k.
The winner takes all system has some real flaws. Heck the best thing most parties could do to win an election is to prop up a hardliner from the other side with adequate cash to run a campaign.
Bush could have had a victory outright by surreptitiously funding Nader.
This isnt too bad until you cross the two, then my brain gets all wonky. when left controls left, and right controls right I'm kinda capable not good.. but cross them and they start moving all spastic,, sure it's all in my head.
I totally commend the putting yourself through college thing. Now under the assumption that you went to a public university, you would have received a big chunk of change from the government, sure it never touched your pocket, but it is a big ole chunk of cash. Sure you might have decided to go to a private college, but that seems like a rough chunk of change to be doing factory labor for.
The flip side is that we aren't taking advantage of the situation. Which is the real shame of the situation. Of course having a well educated populace allows for a flexible economy, when the jobs go intellectual we can go there.
sure.. lets say that you need to find and replace some text
you can go
esc:%s/old/new/g
of course you can do that in OO without stretching the neurons.
but let's say you need to be trickier and only remove it from the end of line
esc:%s/old\n/new/
sure you can figure that out too..
ok how about find numbers at the end of the line and you want them on a new line as well
esc%s:/([0-9]*)\n/$1\nEndLineNumber was: $1\n/
ok now that is getting a bit odd in OO.
now Vi can go quite a bit further before you throw up your hands and run to perl.
when I want to delete something of known length I can type in 12x to remove 12 characters.
And really my favorite piece is the syntax highlighting file. I make mistakes plenty of them.. when I'm bleary working on something put off far too long. I have a highlighting file that notifies me that I typed:
retrun result;
or
if (x=7) {do something silly;}
vector (vector (int)) myIntMatrix;// [parens standing in for angle braces] )) and ) ) are deeply different here.
Sure someone drives into a jogger at 60mph, but then a few people turn their heads at the gruesome sight.. they just cant look away.. Then the concerned people realize whats going to happen and cant look away.. before long you have smoking piles of cars in a mountain of carnage.
Southpark insults everyone. Comparatively they treated Islam with kids gloves. The big point being made was that Islam is immune to criticism. This is a big deal, people have died from depicting Muhammad. While I agree that there was provocation, it is not enough to warrant that kind of reaction. O totally concur that intimidation is a really bad thing.
On to the last part... whats up with your last sentence?... after the whole chat about "members of a pluralistic society....."?
Ok, now I'm not horribly eager to shell out a months pay for a monitor.
And overall I want more screen estate, before dealing with crazy high definition.
Though I'd prefer to have a monitor that can display a game in high-def without anti-aliasing the living sin out of it.
I don't like the way it looks. I want to see the shrunk smbc-comics icons at a scale where the text is legible... I dont want to be able to see the pixels in the letter f, and no I don't want to anti-alias it.
We've moved the responsibility of making text look right from the monitor back to the GPU or CPU depending. It's a cludge fix, and the right way to make this happen is in monitor land. Antialaising is taking up all of the memory of a 4x or 16x megapixel monitor, without providing a great looking picture, not shabby, but it has issues. Really AA leaves blurry letters. it's better than chunky letter, but high definition is the way to go..
The other spot, is that High definition monitors lead to high definition TV's that can be used as monitors. And a monster workspace can be pretty awesome to deal with. So when I can buy a 40" monitor with 200 dpi resolution for a months pay I will.. Till then I'll just keep spending ~$200 at a time for ~20% upgrades.
Before the civil war, the United States (was/were?) a plural. So "The United States are committed to civil rights." would be a proper sentence.
From a Computer Science linguistics nerd point of view-- that was/were boundary gets kinda awesome as far as the semantic implications are concerned. Yea.. I left my own main point pretty quick.. because it led to a way more cool one IMHO.
so in perl something like--
perl -e 'if (shift(@argv) eq reverse){print "palindrome\n";}else {print "nope\n";}' level
or something way off base of this?
As much as I get that math is rough, and that most folks arent ready for it. We need to teach it, and we need to teach it right. This means teaching math rather than pure arithmetic.. If your an adult and don't know the difference all I have to say is--"There there, of course they're the same, (condescending head pat) it'll be alright".
Ok, some kids get math with a little bit of coaxing, and we need these kids to know math. And we need them to know it better than the current crop of students that are stuck learning at the speed of kids who dont get arithmetic.
Now how this can happen is kind of a mystery to me, but math capable kids cant just slip through the cracks.. it has already jacked up things in the US enough.
Coding this stuff by hand is a hassle. It's not horrible, but it isnt anywhere near the ease of coding non-threaded message-less communications. Now quite a bit can be done by adjusting a library call to make use of multiple CPU's.. Calling a sort function on a large list should auto parallelize with no intervention by the programmer.
The programs need to have a supervisor that gets and transmits a heartbeat of the status of a program. Where the supervisor is virtually crash-proof.. And has the ability to properly release resources should the system enter a suspected deadlock (no this isnt remotely easy to do right, but easy to code a simple version that works well enough)..
Coding Efficiently isnt really going to happen, there will just be efficient-enough. But using all the hardware so that software can be snappy is going to help, and functions that let a person do big things without having the ability to butcher the small things.
That's the fatal flaw in most review sites.. they dont compare against what a consumer already has... which is the comparison that people are looking for. Yes, I want to know how it compares to it's peers so I dont buy junk, But If I have a Nvidia 7300 or an ATI 550 I want to see where the jump is. if my ati 1900x compares to a 9800gt enough to spend the $100 on it.
ok, sure, Im going to buy the low high end anyway.. and while my q9450 is gettin a bit long in the tooth I want to see if the i5 or i7 is worth the upgrade for my needs.
Man, keep the apartment.. just think, you can place a bowl of popcorn kernels on your kitchen table, and try to catch them as they pop.. sure invite friends over, have some drinks. invite that cute girl with braces over so you can eavesdrop on peoples conversations. Get a pair of rabbit ears and let the microwaves power a jacobs ladder. Get some blinds, so you can turn off peoples cell phones in the whole area, then open them so you can really keep them cranky.
Create a parabolic dish, so that you can nail some poor schmuck in jersey with roaming charges. (so poor that his cell phone charges for roaming)..
I saw that and was totally going to call BS, as upgrading from a standard configuration was abusive to the bank account. Seems that they have changed it where upgrades are a reasonable proposition, though they have reduced the number of intermediate upgrades, so no 1.5tb drive option on the 27" imac..
I really like some aspects of the MACs and really dislike other parts, Ive seen too many iMac's die to consider them superior quality. And the power plug for the laptop is kinda fragile for my liking.Though with a mac a linux box and a windows box all in arms reach for 3 years, I did find myself working more at the mac. I managed to get all three to lock up on a regular basis.
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This is my gripe, get your own, and git off my lawn.
There are a bunch of good games out there-- that are filled with DRM.. and I wont touch it. And I kinda wish people had the collective backbone not to buy "hostageware" , even if you can get some awesome convenience factor as a bonus prize.. (steam installs are a tempting draw)
But I don't want to be treated like a thief.. And I avoid giving money to anyone that treats me as such. If the gas station says prepay only I'll fill up elsewhere -- even when I'm swiping a card to pay for gas.
yea, a bitsurfer might work.. but at $100 each, it's only worth it if you have a long run of existing cable that you cant pull rj45 through.
I might consider connecting a wireless N card to a coax cable to another box with wireless n. The signal would be cleaner and stronger than air attenuation. But you've got to get some kinky adapters.
Really, just go wireless till you can pull some serious cat 5e or cat 6 m use the coax as a wire-pull. and pull a couple cables per jack so you dont need to re-pull. Want to firewall off the internet for your kids, or have a second connection so your games aren't being mangled by torrents. The extra line comes in handy.
hey, is it the airlines fault you're a freak?, or the poor person who has to deal with some guy with huge legs sitting across from them. And your too cheap to pony up cash for two seats, as a grand is such a small sum of cash for most people. I'm kidding of course. Airlines have the stats for passengers, they can make pretty reasonable methods for preventing problems, having a few seats that are for people of size, height. Prevent specific booking of the seats, and let the airline attendants arrange larger passengers into these spots. And there will always be someone on a flight who doesn't comfortably fit in the seats. The non-specific booking allows the emptied seats to be reclaimed. This doesn't need to be that big of an issue, three more inches here and there may cost a seat, but makes a whole slew of people happier. And it makes the plane safer, as strategically placing the larger people reduces their impact on exit procedure. Now of course there is a limit, but airlines need to take better care of 6'5 customers, and really people of girth are part of reality, shunning them is pretty damn demeaning.
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Pulling out of the UN? how much Glen Beck have you been watching?
Now the UN might survive without the US, but I have my doubts. The UN manages to prevent all sorts of minor issues from turning into real conflicts. The UN steps in (though not often enough) to stop genocide bosnia, sierra leone, east timor . The WHO (branch of the UN) ended smallpox.... so yea that needs to stop.
Global Warming -- the science is there, it's real, and a good chunk is man-made. Even if it werent anthropocentric we still need to deal with it, throwing up our hands and saying not our problem seems like the right choice?. Global warming isnt a real debate among climate scientists, it's like saying evolution is still debated by biologists... total bs
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suso-- reread it with the assumption he isnt an idiot, you're making an implicit assumption about how he has his servers partitioned.
ok for most of what needs to be done Rsnapshot is awesome.
Rsnapshot uses rsync and some creative hardlinking to make a pretty nice snapshot. I find that it is awesome, until you need to transfer the archives to a new machine. It is packaged, so it installs nicely. If you have live databases you have to get trickier,, one simple way is breaking a raid 1 mirror, and running rsnapshot on the old drive.
just kidding.. the rebuild would jack your system up. And that assumes that you have the machines in raid. For live data that needs atomic control rsnapshot is really the wrong tool.
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When it comes to that point, were still going to find and use oil anyway. It means that we are going to need to use other primary sources of power, but too much infrastructure will still be oil based, so we wont stop just because it's an energy sink. We will just use nuclear power to drill and pump oil to a fleet of a few billion cars as the third world becomes affluent. This isn't a gloat, as the ramifications sadden me, but it is the scenario that keeps playing out in my head. If we cant get moving on a more reasonable source of power, we will have more cars than ever on the roads in 100 years, burning petrol. Gas will be expensive, but how would you live if gas were $11/Gallon or 2.5/liter ? In a city, sure- more time taking the bus. What about living in rural Montana? You're just going to take the cost of living.
By no means am I saying that we have infinite oil, but I am saying that were going to pump/mine another 10-100x of what we have already extracted; barring cataclysm of course.
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Either way you take this seems a bit insulting to EA coders. Though it fully explains the quality of their product.
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Tell that to the green party voters from Florida y2k.
The winner takes all system has some real flaws. Heck the best thing most parties could do to win an election is to prop up a hardliner from the other side with adequate cash to run a campaign.
Bush could have had a victory outright by surreptitiously funding Nader.
I run it six times to be really secure. Computers are getting faster you know.
because I know you dont really want to do another TPS report
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbI-fDzUJXI
This isnt too bad until you cross the two, then my brain gets all wonky. when left controls left, and right controls right I'm kinda capable not good.. but cross them and they start moving all spastic,, sure it's all in my head.
I totally commend the putting yourself through college thing. Now under the assumption that you went to a public university, you would have received a big chunk of change from the government, sure it never touched your pocket, but it is a big ole chunk of cash. Sure you might have decided to go to a private college, but that seems like a rough chunk of change to be doing factory labor for.
The flip side is that we aren't taking advantage of the situation. Which is the real shame of the situation. Of course having a well educated populace allows for a flexible economy, when the jobs go intellectual we can go there.
you can go
esc:%s/old/new/g
of course you can do that in OO without stretching the neurons.
but let's say you need to be trickier and only remove it from the end of line
esc:%s/old\n/new/
sure you can figure that out too..
ok how about find numbers at the end of the line and you want them on a new line as well
esc%s:/([0-9]*)\n/$1\nEndLineNumber was: $1\n/
ok now that is getting a bit odd in OO. now Vi can go quite a bit further before you throw up your hands and run to perl.
when I want to delete something of known length I can type in 12x to remove 12 characters.
And really my favorite piece is the syntax highlighting file. I make mistakes plenty of them.. when I'm bleary working on something put off far too long. I have a highlighting file that notifies me that I typed:
retrun result;
or
if (x=7) {do something silly;}
vector (vector (int)) myIntMatrix;
just my .02
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Sure someone drives into a jogger at 60mph, but then a few people turn their heads at the gruesome sight.. they just cant look away.. Then the concerned people realize whats going to happen and cant look away.. before long you have smoking piles of cars in a mountain of carnage.
Southpark insults everyone. Comparatively they treated Islam with kids gloves. The big point being made was that Islam is immune to criticism. This is a big deal, people have died from depicting Muhammad. While I agree that there was provocation, it is not enough to warrant that kind of reaction.
O totally concur that intimidation is a really bad thing.
On to the last part... whats up with your last sentence?... after the whole chat about "members of a pluralistic society....."?
And overall I want more screen estate, before dealing with crazy high definition.
Though I'd prefer to have a monitor that can display a game in high-def without anti-aliasing the living sin out of it.
I don't like the way it looks. I want to see the shrunk smbc-comics icons at a scale where the text is legible... I dont want to be able to see the pixels in the letter f, and no I don't want to anti-alias it.
We've moved the responsibility of making text look right from the monitor back to the GPU or CPU depending. It's a cludge fix, and the right way to make this happen is in monitor land. Antialaising is taking up all of the memory of a 4x or 16x megapixel monitor, without providing a great looking picture, not shabby, but it has issues. Really AA leaves blurry letters. it's better than chunky letter, but high definition is the way to go..
The other spot, is that High definition monitors lead to high definition TV's that can be used as monitors. And a monster workspace can be pretty awesome to deal with. So when I can buy a 40" monitor with 200 dpi resolution for a months pay I will.. Till then I'll just keep spending ~$200 at a time for ~20% upgrades.
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From a Computer Science linguistics nerd point of view-- that was/were boundary gets kinda awesome as far as the semantic implications are concerned. Yea.. I left my own main point pretty quick.. because it led to a way more cool one IMHO.
so in perl something like--
perl -e 'if (shift(@argv) eq reverse){print "palindrome\n";}else {print "nope\n";}' level or something way off base of this?
Ok, some kids get math with a little bit of coaxing, and we need these kids to know math. And we need them to know it better than the current crop of students that are stuck learning at the speed of kids who dont get arithmetic.
Now how this can happen is kind of a mystery to me, but math capable kids cant just slip through the cracks.. it has already jacked up things in the US enough.
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He solved the Poincare conjecture, go ask Andrew Wiles if he is forgotten for some work he managed a over a decade ago.
Coding this stuff by hand is a hassle. It's not horrible, but it isnt anywhere near the ease of coding non-threaded message-less communications. Now quite a bit can be done by adjusting a library call to make use of multiple CPU's.. Calling a sort function on a large list should auto parallelize with no intervention by the programmer.
The programs need to have a supervisor that gets and transmits a heartbeat of the status of a program. Where the supervisor is virtually crash-proof.. And has the ability to properly release resources should the system enter a suspected deadlock (no this isnt remotely easy to do right, but easy to code a simple version that works well enough)..
Coding Efficiently isnt really going to happen, there will just be efficient-enough. But using all the hardware so that software can be snappy is going to help, and functions that let a person do big things without having the ability to butcher the small things.
ok, sure, Im going to buy the low high end anyway.. and while my q9450 is gettin a bit long in the tooth I want to see if the i5 or i7 is worth the upgrade for my needs.
Storm
Create a parabolic dish, so that you can nail some poor schmuck in jersey with roaming charges. (so poor that his cell phone charges for roaming)..
enjoy
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I saw that and was totally going to call BS, as upgrading from a standard configuration was abusive to the bank account. Seems that they have changed it where upgrades are a reasonable proposition, though they have reduced the number of intermediate upgrades, so no 1.5tb drive option on the 27" imac..
I really like some aspects of the MACs and really dislike other parts, Ive seen too many iMac's die to consider them superior quality. And the power plug for the laptop is kinda fragile for my liking.Though with a mac a linux box and a windows box all in arms reach for 3 years, I did find myself working more at the mac. I managed to get all three to lock up on a regular basis.
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There are a bunch of good games out there-- that are filled with DRM.. and I wont touch it. And I kinda wish people had the collective backbone not to buy "hostageware" , even if you can get some awesome convenience factor as a bonus prize.. (steam installs are a tempting draw)
But I don't want to be treated like a thief.. And I avoid giving money to anyone that treats me as such. If the gas station says prepay only I'll fill up elsewhere -- even when I'm swiping a card to pay for gas.
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I might consider connecting a wireless N card to a coax cable to another box with wireless n. The signal would be cleaner and stronger than air attenuation. But you've got to get some kinky adapters.
Really, just go wireless till you can pull some serious cat 5e or cat 6 m use the coax as a wire-pull. and pull a couple cables per jack so you dont need to re-pull. Want to firewall off the internet for your kids, or have a second connection so your games aren't being mangled by torrents. The extra line comes in handy.
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I'm kidding of course. Airlines have the stats for passengers, they can make pretty reasonable methods for preventing problems, having a few seats that are for people of size, height. Prevent specific booking of the seats, and let the airline attendants arrange larger passengers into these spots. And there will always be someone on a flight who doesn't comfortably fit in the seats. The non-specific booking allows the emptied seats to be reclaimed. This doesn't need to be that big of an issue, three more inches here and there may cost a seat, but makes a whole slew of people happier. And it makes the plane safer, as strategically placing the larger people reduces their impact on exit procedure. Now of course there is a limit, but airlines need to take better care of 6'5 customers, and really people of girth are part of reality, shunning them is pretty damn demeaning.
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Nope, put it on a mast have it only fire up ;)
And bring bait.. as that makes it more awesomer