Gotta recommend against the lava lamp. First of all, every freshman thinks that those lamps are the queen's shit, when in fact they are pretty poor at anything other than being a beer-warming hazard. Second, everyone else will have them, what's the point?
Here are my recommendations of non-essential items:
1) 10g Fish tank. Use 4 milk crates to prop it up and cover the crates with some sort of cheap flea-market tapestry. Black light works especially well for effect. Note: don't keep a lot of fish, you don't want to clean the damn thing all the time.
2) Small table. Excellent for putting your beer on.
3) Couch (love seat). Buy at local flea market. Split the cost with your roommate and carry it back together (or rent a truck), it's a good bonding experience especially considering that you'll probably end up hating each other by the end of the year.
4) Mini fridge. Keeps beer cold, good place to put reading lamp.
5) Reading lamp. You didn't think you'd get out of college without reading did you? Playboy is okay, but Hustler and Club are real monkey spanking material.
Those are only a few things that I'd recommend for the freshman-to-be.
Also, when meeting other freshmen, especially girls, remember that they are as frightened and disoriented as you. They are looking for someone to hold onto to guide them through their delicate college years. Introduce yourself and get in their pants before the upperclassmen get to them (you have about 2 weeks at the most, 4 days max for really cute girls).
I think he means that he paid good money for a cable modem but now won't be able to use it carte blanche anymore. He's upset that the Long Distance Company (AT&T) is taking his money.
Now I'll have to pay for the privilage [sic] of not depending on AT&T for a modem?
Are you just bitter that you shelled out cash for a worthless piece of crap? You won't be able to use it anywhere once all cable modem companies standardize on this pricing scheme.
While they've really hit it big as of late, Outkast has always been attractive to me as an interesting, progressive rap group.
A couple weeks ago I also picked up an album by Blackalicious. Never heard of them before, but if you like A Tribe Called Quest or Guru, they really take that style to a new level. The reviews on Amazon claim that this isn't their best work, but if it is representative then I'm eager to pick up their earlier albums.
You are all sick and disgusting pedophiliac lowlifes. How can you even think of those two sweet girls as anything other than the darlings of Full House?
I hope that your comment was intended to be moderated as "funny".
Not at all. While the 'saps' comment was a deferent stab at humor, the rest of the post is intended as insightful, if not informative and interesting commentary.
The fact of the matter is that mail delivery is not a guaranteed product in any way. That engineers attempt to make it so with regards to email is laughable.
The overhead involved in keeping mail on servers, even temporarily, is so great that an entire industry has popped up to solve the problem. Here in this discussion we are trying to nail down a plausible way to serve mail without loss. I'm here to tell you that with the onslaught of spam and large file attachments mail-storing servers will become a thing of the past, a relic of a time long forgotten and happily buried.
We have the means of transmitting files, documents, and text without the need for any email server. It is called Instant Messaging. The only drawback is that IM hasn't really been focused on group-based message sending. Once such a system is in place, email will become a thing of the past.
In fact, it is debatable whether email is necessary at all except in the case of multiple recipients. Normal chatter: IM. Collaborative discussion: Virtual meeting software. Files: IM. There simply isn't any space that email picks up any slack.
If the original question poser wants to know how to reduce email storage overhead, why not go whole hog and simply delete any email that can't be delivered right away.
1. Macromedia has a reputation to uphold, which can be ruined by a malicious programmer using the SDK to create trojan horses.
2. Debugging your product is a natural phase of development. Maybe not in the OSS world, but certainly in business.
In short, this is nothing special. If you find a bug in their code, you get to report it, and if you have a seriously screwed up swf writer, they will bring it to your attention.
Automatically deliver mail to recipients who can then save the mail on their own machines. It's like distributed processing except it's distributed storage.
If someone isn't logged on to receive their mail (like those saps who turn their machines off every night), then forward the mail to/dev/null
It's not 2,000 people at every airport. There are quite a few airports to spread the load about. Of course, LA, Chicago, and New York would probably get the bulk of these passengers, but still, that's spread over the number of checkpoint stations inside the airport.
So it's not one guy checking 2,000 every day. It's 2,000 guys checking one guy every day.
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Gotta recommend against the lava lamp. First of all, every freshman thinks that those lamps are the queen's shit, when in fact they are pretty poor at anything other than being a beer-warming hazard. Second, everyone else will have them, what's the point?
Here are my recommendations of non-essential items:
1) 10g Fish tank. Use 4 milk crates to prop it up and cover the crates with some sort of cheap flea-market tapestry. Black light works especially well for effect. Note: don't keep a lot of fish, you don't want to clean the damn thing all the time.
2) Small table. Excellent for putting your beer on.
3) Couch (love seat). Buy at local flea market. Split the cost with your roommate and carry it back together (or rent a truck), it's a good bonding experience especially considering that you'll probably end up hating each other by the end of the year.
4) Mini fridge. Keeps beer cold, good place to put reading lamp.
5) Reading lamp. You didn't think you'd get out of college without reading did you? Playboy is okay, but Hustler and Club are real monkey spanking material.
Those are only a few things that I'd recommend for the freshman-to-be.
Also, when meeting other freshmen, especially girls, remember that they are as frightened and disoriented as you. They are looking for someone to hold onto to guide them through their delicate college years. Introduce yourself and get in their pants before the upperclassmen get to them (you have about 2 weeks at the most, 4 days max for really cute girls).
Temptation doesn't corrupt. It reveals.
That was seriously the last thing I needed to see today. It's all downhill from there, I think.
What could top that?
I'd say it's more like crapping on a BMW. This is Apple we're talking about here, not Windows XP.
Imagine a million particles of dust flying a million miles an hour hitting an object day in and day out.
Tors have become polished stone for less than that.
You're a member of p5p, aren't you?
I think he means that he paid good money for a cable modem but now won't be able to use it carte blanche anymore. He's upset that the Long Distance Company (AT&T) is taking his money.
Now I'll have to pay for the privilage [sic] of not depending on AT&T for a modem?
Are you just bitter that you shelled out cash for a worthless piece of crap? You won't be able to use it anywhere once all cable modem companies standardize on this pricing scheme.
Your entire perspective is so heavily screwed, it's difficult to begin criticizing it.
It boils down to one simple thing. Linux does not need to prove jack shit to anyone.
Linux succeeds when people like it and use it. It does not fail when people decide not to use it.
While they've really hit it big as of late, Outkast has always been attractive to me as an interesting, progressive rap group.
A couple weeks ago I also picked up an album by Blackalicious. Never heard of them before, but if you like A Tribe Called Quest or Guru, they really take that style to a new level. The reviews on Amazon claim that this isn't their best work, but if it is representative then I'm eager to pick up their earlier albums.
Son, I'm posting at 2.
Are you sure you're not equating Microsoft loss to Linux win?
Can't Linux win sans hurting Microsoft?
If you play the binary image of Linux over a radio, do you have to provide source?
You are all sick and disgusting pedophiliac lowlifes. How can you even think of those two sweet girls as anything other than the darlings of Full House?
Shame on all of you!
I hope that your comment was intended to be moderated as "funny".
Not at all. While the 'saps' comment was a deferent stab at humor, the rest of the post is intended as insightful, if not informative and interesting commentary.
The fact of the matter is that mail delivery is not a guaranteed product in any way. That engineers attempt to make it so with regards to email is laughable.
The overhead involved in keeping mail on servers, even temporarily, is so great that an entire industry has popped up to solve the problem. Here in this discussion we are trying to nail down a plausible way to serve mail without loss. I'm here to tell you that with the onslaught of spam and large file attachments mail-storing servers will become a thing of the past, a relic of a time long forgotten and happily buried.
We have the means of transmitting files, documents, and text without the need for any email server. It is called Instant Messaging. The only drawback is that IM hasn't really been focused on group-based message sending. Once such a system is in place, email will become a thing of the past.
In fact, it is debatable whether email is necessary at all except in the case of multiple recipients. Normal chatter: IM. Collaborative discussion: Virtual meeting software. Files: IM. There simply isn't any space that email picks up any slack.
If the original question poser wants to know how to reduce email storage overhead, why not go whole hog and simply delete any email that can't be delivered right away.
Heh heh heh.
The one that is supported by the most web developers. In other words, IE.
But that was a simple question.
Standards! We need to stick to Standards!
But we offer so much more functionality that the Standard doesn't provide for or does but only with serious work.
Functionality must come second to Standards!
1. Macromedia has a reputation to uphold, which can be ruined by a malicious programmer using the SDK to create trojan horses.
2. Debugging your product is a natural phase of development. Maybe not in the OSS world, but certainly in business.
In short, this is nothing special. If you find a bug in their code, you get to report it, and if you have a seriously screwed up swf writer, they will bring it to your attention.
They didn't say you'd be sued.
No. This is Unix we're talking about, not Windows. Unix doesn't have any problems.
Automatically deliver mail to recipients who can then save the mail on their own machines. It's like distributed processing except it's distributed storage.
/dev/null
If someone isn't logged on to receive their mail (like those saps who turn their machines off every night), then forward the mail to
The DVD thing on laptops was devised for bored businessmen on long flights and stuck in hotels.
Flash of brilliance: pliable plastic covers for laptop keyboards.
It's not 2,000 people at every airport. There are quite a few airports to spread the load about. Of course, LA, Chicago, and New York would probably get the bulk of these passengers, but still, that's spread over the number of checkpoint stations inside the airport.
So it's not one guy checking 2,000 every day. It's 2,000 guys checking one guy every day.
It's the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, if you're on the East Coast.
The stylus can be considered a personal digital assistant, though. I wouldn't advise against sticking such an object into one's ass, in any case.