When the new towers are erected, will you update the cityscape?
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I'm afraid that it was Chile's own middle class and a very radical right wing that drove the military coup that wiped out Allende. Certainly there was American support for the coup including weapons training, but it was at the Chileans' hands that Allende was killed, not America's.
At the time America was in the midst of the Cold War and was actively supporting any regime that would renounce Communism. The policy was certainly wrong-headed in retrospect, but the cancerous growth of communism from Russian to China to SE Asia to America's shores was enough to put the US government on edge. Battling communism at its tendrils rather than at its heart was the easiest way of fighting it without waking the Russian giant.
At this time, Russia too was supporting communist growth across the globe, funding and arming communist guerillas and armies.
But isn't the point of having subscriptions to avoid advertisements?
That said, I've certainly worked on products that needed at least 3 hours to build an entire tree. These builds were done regularly around 3 in the morning so that the daily drop was available to QA first thing in the morning. It wasn't really necessary to farm out the compilation across machines because it wasn't a big deal to maximize speed.
As for developers' machines, it wasn't like every change was accompanied by a full build. You recompile the files that changed and link the object files together. Any smart build system should be able to handle this type of logic. Such a local build would take about 2 or 3 minutes (if that. This time could be made even shorter by using dlls instead of a single binary). I guess this Trolltech system could reduce this wait even further, but I'm not sure I see the point.
When else are you going to refill your coffee?
Matt Drudge and online journalism
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Freedom of the press is one of the most cherished freedoms we hold in this country (the US). It, hopefully, is the 4th branch of government that keeps all other branches in check through close scrutiny.
Lately, however, such scrutiny has become non-existent. Whether this is a result of the 9/11 attack and its subsequent Arab bashing or because powerful entities with ties to liberal political movements (Ted Turner) have bought out all the major news outlets is up in the air. If anything, it's probably a combination of both factors. These days we see nothing but carefully crafted 'news' and air-brushed reporters and anchors on the tube. The real news gets lost somewhere on the cutting room floor.
So where can we get our news now without the Big Brother Filter working overtime? The main source is the Web. Sites like the Drudge Report, NewsMax, and IndyMedia (not to mention our own new-anarchist Slashdot:-) are set up to print news as it comes with only the lightest of editing.
So what comes out of this new media? Frankly, crap for the most part. However, hidden deep in the headlines are jewels of information and true news. Unfortunately these gems are surrounded by conspiracy theories and crackpot reporting that it is difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff. That's the problem with the new media.
The benefit of the new media (or blogs as the article incorrectly calls it) is that discussion of the topics at hand can begin almost immediately. Slashdot.org is a great example because after each story the readers can chime in with their own comments and insights or provocations. In short, it is news by consensus. Not too shabby.
Dee Dee Ramone, a founding member of the pioneer punk band the Ramones, was found dead of a possible drug overdose in his Hollywood home, the coroner's office said Thursday. He was 49.
Ramone, whose real name was Douglas Glenn Colvin, was found dead on the couch by his wife when she returned home at 8:25 p.m. Wednesday, said Craig Harvey, operations chief for the coroner's office. Paramedics were called and he was declared dead at 8:40 p.m.
"The investigator noted drug paraphernalia, including a single syringe on the kitchen counter, and we are handing it as a possible accidental overdose," Harvey said. An autopsy was planned later Thursday.
Even if you didn't know of Mr. Ramone, it can't be denied the impact his music had on a whole generation of music fans.
It's amazing how static those pictures look. We take one today, we take one next year, they look identical. But if you consider that the objects that are photographed are actually moving at enormous speeds and violent eruptions are likely taking place on each little dot that we see, the awesomeness of the Universe is truly revealed.
What's truly amazing to me is that those of us who live now are able to see these structures of beauty in such vivid detail. A thousand years ago people looked at the stars and saw only points of light and deduce them to be stars or planets. How lucky we are to live in such times!
These are not the environmentalist ideas we're looking for.
And no mention was made at all about how comfortable those eco-chairs were. How long could you use it before the upholstery wore out?
Greens need a better argument than this review intimates. How much regulation is necessary? What is the maximum negative economic impact allowable before environmental regulations must be curbed. Name industries where ecological improvements resulted in better revenues, or other tangible benefits.
Well, for those of us who actually like the way Perl 5 does its thing, we can always stick to our old gnat covered camel carcass.
On a completely different note, people have often commented that I look identical to Simon Cozens. I dunno, though. They're basing it off of his picture on the Wrox book.
Slashdot Mirror
Oh god. Shoot me now.
Rate of change of x...
x = r^3 / 3
Of course.
If someone can tell me the rate of change of pi^3 / 3, we'll all have a good laugh.
I knew I wasn't imagining that!
:-( Of course I was pretty young.
That episode creeped me out and turned me off to the Bloodhound Gang...
Mmmm... Bop...
I think I saw something like that years ago on an episode of The Bloodhound Gang.
When the new towers are erected, will you update the cityscape?
I'm afraid that it was Chile's own middle class and a very radical right wing that drove the military coup that wiped out Allende. Certainly there was American support for the coup including weapons training, but it was at the Chileans' hands that Allende was killed, not America's.
At the time America was in the midst of the Cold War and was actively supporting any regime that would renounce Communism. The policy was certainly wrong-headed in retrospect, but the cancerous growth of communism from Russian to China to SE Asia to America's shores was enough to put the US government on edge. Battling communism at its tendrils rather than at its heart was the easiest way of fighting it without waking the Russian giant.
At this time, Russia too was supporting communist growth across the globe, funding and arming communist guerillas and armies.
Thar's oll in them thar hills!
But isn't the point of having subscriptions to avoid advertisements?
That said, I've certainly worked on products that needed at least 3 hours to build an entire tree. These builds were done regularly around 3 in the morning so that the daily drop was available to QA first thing in the morning. It wasn't really necessary to farm out the compilation across machines because it wasn't a big deal to maximize speed.
As for developers' machines, it wasn't like every change was accompanied by a full build. You recompile the files that changed and link the object files together. Any smart build system should be able to handle this type of logic. Such a local build would take about 2 or 3 minutes (if that. This time could be made even shorter by using dlls instead of a single binary). I guess this Trolltech system could reduce this wait even further, but I'm not sure I see the point.
When else are you going to refill your coffee?
Freedom of the press is one of the most cherished freedoms we hold in this country (the US). It, hopefully, is the 4th branch of government that keeps all other branches in check through close scrutiny.
:-) are set up to print news as it comes with only the lightest of editing.
Lately, however, such scrutiny has become non-existent. Whether this is a result of the 9/11 attack and its subsequent Arab bashing or because powerful entities with ties to liberal political movements (Ted Turner) have bought out all the major news outlets is up in the air. If anything, it's probably a combination of both factors. These days we see nothing but carefully crafted 'news' and air-brushed reporters and anchors on the tube. The real news gets lost somewhere on the cutting room floor.
So where can we get our news now without the Big Brother Filter working overtime? The main source is the Web. Sites like the Drudge Report, NewsMax, and IndyMedia (not to mention our own new-anarchist Slashdot
So what comes out of this new media? Frankly, crap for the most part. However, hidden deep in the headlines are jewels of information and true news. Unfortunately these gems are surrounded by conspiracy theories and crackpot reporting that it is difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff. That's the problem with the new media.
The benefit of the new media (or blogs as the article incorrectly calls it) is that discussion of the topics at hand can begin almost immediately. Slashdot.org is a great example because after each story the readers can chime in with their own comments and insights or provocations. In short, it is news by consensus. Not too shabby.
With a tongue like that, Jar Jar can only be a male or a lesbian.
Since Binks was wearing pants, I'm going to assume he was a male. Let's play the game!
Dee Dee Ramone, a founding member of the pioneer punk band the Ramones, was found dead of a possible drug overdose in his Hollywood home, the coroner's office said Thursday. He was 49.
Ramone, whose real name was Douglas Glenn Colvin, was found dead on the couch by his wife when she returned home at 8:25 p.m. Wednesday, said Craig Harvey, operations chief for the coroner's office. Paramedics were called and he was declared dead at 8:40 p.m.
"The investigator noted drug paraphernalia, including a single syringe on the kitchen counter, and we are handing it as a possible accidental overdose," Harvey said. An autopsy was planned later Thursday.
Even if you didn't know of Mr. Ramone, it can't be denied the impact his music had on a whole generation of music fans.
Frat parties and ocean cruises.
Lots of green chicks there.
I think that's where I saw it too. It's dated June 2.
/. becoming slower?
I didn't think it's possible, but is
What was that monstrosity? Pascal???
The luck refers to our own personal luck of being born in the last century.
Love the experiment, BTW.
Hack value?
You don't want to shell out for a professionally-installed HVAC?
Why?
If I ever meet you in person
I WILL KICK YOUR FUCKING ASS!!!!!
Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted!
Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
It's amazing how static those pictures look. We take one today, we take one next year, they look identical. But if you consider that the objects that are photographed are actually moving at enormous speeds and violent eruptions are likely taking place on each little dot that we see, the awesomeness of the Universe is truly revealed.
What's truly amazing to me is that those of us who live now are able to see these structures of beauty in such vivid detail. A thousand years ago people looked at the stars and saw only points of light and deduce them to be stars or planets. How lucky we are to live in such times!
This already exists. It's called OpenBSD.
How about "Usable Linux" or "GrammaCanUsix"?
These are not the environmentalist ideas we're looking for.
And no mention was made at all about how comfortable those eco-chairs were. How long could you use it before the upholstery wore out?
Greens need a better argument than this review intimates. How much regulation is necessary? What is the maximum negative economic impact allowable before environmental regulations must be curbed. Name industries where ecological improvements resulted in better revenues, or other tangible benefits.
Couldn't they just sneak in through the air ducts and use the standard industry password "PASSWORD"?
Well, for those of us who actually like the way Perl 5 does its thing, we can always stick to our old gnat covered camel carcass.
On a completely different note, people have often commented that I look identical to Simon Cozens. I dunno, though. They're basing it off of his picture on the Wrox book.
Did Cowboy Neil die and take all the passwords with him?
Ottar Grepstad
Heh. The director's got two Unix utilities in his name and he *still* can't hack the system.
I'm sure there's a joke in there somewhere.