don't misunderstand me, I understand the need to earn money on content, but when I try to watch a sequence on some American news site I have to sit through 30 secs of adds for some product not available to me from a company I have never heard of. The only result is I often close the page and move to next link on fark. Now google might be better at serving a commercial that is relevant, but I doubt it.
This is not as far fetched as one might think - if you have ever played a game like counter strike and observed the players on a public server, you can see the follow a very predictive pattern.
I have noticed he isn't the only one doing it and it really pisses me off when you read some blog and want the original article, only links is to other blogs and you just keep going in circles never actually being able to see what the original source was.
I stopped playing eve because of freelancer, I thought the action was much more fun in freelancer than eve (also CCP decided to nerf my guns during maintenance while I was in a 0 system, cost me a ship and a shit load of grinding).
Very true. For a long time we only had one monopolistic company in charge of copper wire here in Denmark, anyone doing anything with internet had to go through them, so prices remained high - but lately small startups have challenged that monopoly either by doing wireless connections in the city or rolling out fiber, now we have a true competing market and connection speed has been increasing fast.
Note: I am a white male and was decently dressed but had an evil german accent. It would be interesting to hear reports from people with a middle eastern complexion.
is very very slow when you do it on a normal installation, the reason is MySQL comes with a "be nice to people who don't know what they are doing" setup. Go into the my.cnf and find the buffer settings, crank them up and restart the server. It can really do a lot (especially if you are running InnoDB which you of course are since MyISAM isn't a proper database).
Also as a student you are broke most of the time, so paying lawyer fee or paying a small fine is just about the same, you end up broke anyways, might as well throw the dices and have some fun.
"The patrician had put in the one man, one vote system - he was the man, he had the vote" (or something like that, from Terry Pratchett). That system actually works:D
Pretty smart idea, I know some types of light can make me feel sick - I once walked into a store and the light there made me feel really weird, legs went wobly and I felt sick until I got out of the store.
To be honest I don't think the linux crowd wants you. I bet you decided to do the advanced option and choose partitions yourself.
Ubuntus installer is by far the easiest to use in my opinion, and I know its shared by many people out there - if you got an empty drive or partition for it to set itself up on it does everything you want while you get your coffee.
Same here in Denmark. The problem in the states is first of all that the news agencies has the attention span of a confused kitten (and same goes for a lot of the American people (no offense)), so they need the result fast so they can get back to fighting terrorism and screwing up the environment. The other part of the problem is that unlike us they tend to vote for a lot of stuff at the same time, so the ballots gets confusing and apparently they seem to think that using electronic voting machines help there (correct solution is to do what we do and hold an election every other year alternating between the state stuff and the local stuff).
My own experience with casinos here in Denmark are that first of all they are below street level, this means you have to walk up a flight of stairs, this is supposedly to keep you playing (people are lazy?). Also, when you play the dealer is always placed on a chair sitting higher than the players - this is as far as I know supposed to make the dealer seem superioer to the player and thus making it harder to stand up and go. (and they got the lighting and no clocks also)
Some years back one of my friends and I went to the casino when they had "free" night (first sunday every other month they didn't charge entrance fee). They sat op introduction tables where newcomers could learn how to play the card games and roulette. The reason why we allways came these nights was that the slot machines seemed to be paying out good. We usually just entered with about $10 and headed for the slots, cant remember ever going home from one of those nights with less than $100. Granted this is based on my own perception on how the plays went, but there did seem to be a higher than 100% payout on slots.
I think half the planes passengers would be trampled to death in the mayhem it is when you got 500 persons on a 747 trying to put on a parachute. On top of that, just about none of them knows how to steer a parachute, so quite a few more will probably die landing their parachute.
The mplayer codecs are reversed engineered, so the only claim that can be laid on them is patents - but that only works in the USA at the moment, so the rest of the world just shrugs.
Uhm, when you guys talk about computer consultants do you mean what the guy gets paid or what the company charges? Back when I was a slave coder I made around $50, but the company charged around $200 per hour of work I did.
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don't misunderstand me, I understand the need to earn money on content, but when I try to watch a sequence on some American news site I have to sit through 30 secs of adds for some product not available to me from a company I have never heard of. The only result is I often close the page and move to next link on fark. Now google might be better at serving a commercial that is relevant, but I doubt it.
Gonna kill my trafic to youtube.
This is not as far fetched as one might think - if you have ever played a game like counter strike and observed the players on a public server, you can see the follow a very predictive pattern.
I have noticed he isn't the only one doing it and it really pisses me off when you read some blog and want the original article, only links is to other blogs and you just keep going in circles never actually being able to see what the original source was.
I stopped playing eve because of freelancer, I thought the action was much more fun in freelancer than eve (also CCP decided to nerf my guns during maintenance while I was in a 0 system, cost me a ship and a shit load of grinding).
Very true. For a long time we only had one monopolistic company in charge of copper wire here in Denmark, anyone doing anything with internet had to go through them, so prices remained high - but lately small startups have challenged that monopoly either by doing wireless connections in the city or rolling out fiber, now we have a true competing market and connection speed has been increasing fast.
Don't think they get to surf slashdot from gitmo.
Too advanced - Freedom numbers sounds better.
Even better, SCO (or whats left of it) gives it another go at suing, since they have no money the other side has to pay :-)
Also beards can scratch, I tried letting mine grow this summer and it drove me nuts.
is very very slow when you do it on a normal installation, the reason is MySQL comes with a "be nice to people who don't know what they are doing" setup. Go into the my.cnf and find the buffer settings, crank them up and restart the server. It can really do a lot (especially if you are running InnoDB which you of course are since MyISAM isn't a proper database).
Also as a student you are broke most of the time, so paying lawyer fee or paying a small fine is just about the same, you end up broke anyways, might as well throw the dices and have some fun.
"The patrician had put in the one man, one vote system - he was the man, he had the vote" (or something like that, from Terry Pratchett). That system actually works :D
Well kinda :-)
Pretty smart idea, I know some types of light can make me feel sick - I once walked into a store and the light there made me feel really weird, legs went wobly and I felt sick until I got out of the store.
To be honest I don't think the linux crowd wants you. I bet you decided to do the advanced option and choose partitions yourself.
Ubuntus installer is by far the easiest to use in my opinion, and I know its shared by many people out there - if you got an empty drive or partition for it to set itself up on it does everything you want while you get your coffee.
Very insightful. I know of bands that did what you did, but made it to earn a living of the music and went full time there.
If you are good enough you will get recognized.
P.s being musician full time doesn't seem all that fun to me, they do crappy hours and usually clock in more hours than I would in a normal job.
Because thats how it generally is, yes some of us waited a year or two before we started posting, but generally the GP is right.
I don't understand why you guys seem to think its obvious that the iPhone lacks such a fundamental thing as replaceable batteries.
ALL phones I have owned have had replaceable batteries, why on earth should I expect anything less from this wonder of a phone?
Ahh because the iPod I never owned can't have its batteries replaced? Yeah I can see how those two things relate... idiots.
Same here in Denmark. The problem in the states is first of all that the news agencies has the attention span of a confused kitten (and same goes for a lot of the American people (no offense)), so they need the result fast so they can get back to fighting terrorism and screwing up the environment. The other part of the problem is that unlike us they tend to vote for a lot of stuff at the same time, so the ballots gets confusing and apparently they seem to think that using electronic voting machines help there (correct solution is to do what we do and hold an election every other year alternating between the state stuff and the local stuff).
My own experience with casinos here in Denmark are that first of all they are below street level, this means you have to walk up a flight of stairs, this is supposedly to keep you playing (people are lazy?). Also, when you play the dealer is always placed on a chair sitting higher than the players - this is as far as I know supposed to make the dealer seem superioer to the player and thus making it harder to stand up and go. (and they got the lighting and no clocks also)
Some years back one of my friends and I went to the casino when they had "free" night (first sunday every other month they didn't charge entrance fee). They sat op introduction tables where newcomers could learn how to play the card games and roulette. The reason why we allways came these nights was that the slot machines seemed to be paying out good. We usually just entered with about $10 and headed for the slots, cant remember ever going home from one of those nights with less than $100.
Granted this is based on my own perception on how the plays went, but there did seem to be a higher than 100% payout on slots.
I think half the planes passengers would be trampled to death in the mayhem it is when you got 500 persons on a 747 trying to put on a parachute. On top of that, just about none of them knows how to steer a parachute, so quite a few more will probably die landing their parachute.
The mplayer codecs are reversed engineered, so the only claim that can be laid on them is patents - but that only works in the USA at the moment, so the rest of the world just shrugs.
int getRandomNumber() //Rolled a dice, guarenteed to be random /Think xkcd made this one
{
return 4;
}
Actually no, looking at the parent it isn't exactly clear what that means (and I'm not native English speaker)
Uhm, when you guys talk about computer consultants do you mean what the guy gets paid or what the company charges? Back when I was a slave coder I made around $50, but the company charged around $200 per hour of work I did.