How can you base your opinion of modern automobiles on Ford products? They are all crap compared to Japanese cars, or even Chevys. The Windstar was especially horrible!
I'll never forget the endless problems my family had with our '87 Sable, and how every time we took it to the local Ford dealer to get it fixed, it would come back with something else broken on it. Or how it left us stranded on the side of the road, where thankfully our next-door neighbors just happened to drive by at that very moment.
Contrast that to our eight Hondas over the years and it's like night and day. I will never spend any of my money on a Ford product, and I don't honestly understand why anyone else would choose to do so either, after having the chance to try something better (like a Honda, or even a Toyota).
Don't judge all modern cars by the absolute worst example. (What other car company's products can burn your house down while parked and turned off in your garage? That's right, Ford, with another flawed design. That's what Ford should stand for: Flawed Or Ridiculous Design.)
Ford has improved slightly over the years, but their designs are still years behind GOOD cars that were on sale 15 years ago! Why would anyone buy one?!
The American Red Cross CPR training says to continue giving CPR until help arrives or until you get tired. Yes, that's right, until you get tired. So unless California is way off base here, I don't see how your #1 could be correct.
Hm. And what OS do you run? On what CPU, with what chipset, on what motherboard? And what car do you drive to work? And what kind of power source does it have? Geez, what do you turn to open your door when you leave your house?
You know what, you're right: let's just not let anyone make anything that is similar to anything that anyone else ever made. All you have to do is build the first time machine and then send us back to the stone age, where we'll stay until the end of time.
Ooh, ooh! I use Kopete, and Debian. Please, submit your patch to Debian (or I will be glad to do it for you)! Debian often includes patches that upstream has yet to apply. And if Debian patches it, it will make it into Ubuntu as well (assuming they also include KDE 3.5.x in Kubuntu 8.10; it could also end up in their backports).
According to the Smith System, in a normal car, you should allow 5 seconds between your vehicle and the one ahead of you. Best-case reaction time is 3 seconds, and that's assuming you're not distracted, and that you immediately recognize the situation and the need to brake. If you're driving a larger, heavier vehicle, you need to allow even more time.
You should not go by distance, because distance is difficult to judge, and gets harder to judge as your speed increases. You should choose an object ahead of you, and count the time that passes between the vehicle in front of you passing it and your vehicle passing it. This method always works, regardless of your speed; you don't even have to look at your speedometer.
So...this bug (which I encountered but since I'm on a 400 MHz laptop with 128MB of RAM, found it not worth investigating) was caused by...downloading a file? Downloading a file? What is Firefox doing with this file that could possibly cause it to go bonkers like that?
A huge benefit of rdiff-backup is that after the first backup, it only stores changes to files. Someone once gave the example of backing up a 2 GB Entourage mail store with Time Machine. Each time that the mail store changed, Time Machine would have to add 2 more GB of data to the backup disk. rdiff-backup would only backup the changed data in the mail store, saving huge amounts of disk space. It would take a very long time for the diffs to add up to the size of the mail store itself (unless you got a WHOLE lot of large messages real quick), and would likely take much less time to run the backups too.
For the MLB franchise the name of which I can't remember, the game was numbered according to the year the Series took place in, which means that MLB '07 would represent the '07 season.
Each MLB season takes place within a single calendar year, including the playoffs and World Series. (Ah, how I long for the days that baseball really was America's pasttime.)
The fact that you don't believe in God and have no "religious morals" is pretty obvious.
But I'm not sure exactly what you mean by that, since without religion, where would morals come from, and what would their purpose be? Seems to me that, according to your viewpoint, they wouldn't have any purpose at all, because you are all for glorifying yourself at others' expense. Where do you draw the line as to what's going too far when you're causing others harm or taking advantage of them, if you don't have morals? Is shooting someone and driving off with their car ok? After all, they were going to die anyway, so you just milked their vulnerability to the fullest extent. What happens when the next guy does the same thing to you?
You don't have to be religious to see that Social Darwinism is a poor way for society and culture to operate. If everyone only looked out for their own interests, we'd still be in the stone age, and life would be miserable. Your happiness would be defined by how much you exploited the rest of the world that day, and how much the world exploited you. You couldn't trust anyone, and no one could trust you, because everyone would be out to take advantage of everyone else.
Has no one ever done anything nice for you out of the goodness of their heart in your entire life? I pity you for whatever has happened to you to cause you to become so cynical and selfish. I will pray for you, that your heart may be broken down and your eyes may be opened. If you would like to study the truth, I would be glad to help you.
What are you, a Ferengi? You certainly don't sound like a human being (excluding the really evil ones throughout history). Your attitude is just plain evil, straight from the Devil himself. Going along with your hypothetical situation, when you finally die, all of your accumulated profit will be for nought, and you will have the same status as the poor people who couldn't afford your exorbitant prices for treatment: dead as a doornail, owning nothing, awaiting judgment for what you did here on Earth.
Really man, I hope you were just playing a hypothetical game here. If you are really like this in real life...I shudder. (Though you should look into playing some Ferengi characters in the next iteration of Star Trek; you'd be a natural.)
Like cut yourself on a knife, hit another car, dropped a glas.. Maybe not, but most people have, and accidents with guns are pretty bad.
Just ask Dick What's your point? That we should stop using knives, cars, and glasses?
You are spreading Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt, yet you clearly don't even know what you're talking about. Guns can be handled and used safely, just like knives, cars, and glasses. You should go to a competitive shooting event and watch how it's done. Even young children shoot and compete safely because they are taught how to do so, just like they're taught how to use knives, how to drive, and to be careful when carrying a glass.
Your gun is more likely to kill someone you know than a criminal breaking into your house. My gun isn't going to kill anyone unless I make it do so. It's not alive, and it doesn't have a mind of its own. The same goes for a knife, a baseball bat, and a ballpoint pen, not to mention a motor vehicle.
Please stop the FUD about guns. They're just tools. Sure, they are designed to injure or kill, but almost anything besides a feather can be used to kill someone. Fear the (mentally unstable or morally corrupt) user, not the weapon.
Was it Issac Asimov who said, "I don't fear computers; I fear the lack of them"? Perhaps we should say the same thing, but about guns:
"I don't fear guns; I fear the lack of them."
A quick study of world history should confirm that. But, of course, the UK didn't have to fight for its rights...yet.
For instance, SPF lets you say "all mail from example.com comes from IP address 1.2.3.4", but if fred@example.com sends mail to yourdad@yourdomain.com, and you forward it to yourdad@hotmail.com, hotmail is going to receive mail claiming to be from fred@example.com with your IP address on it, and reject it as a forgery. Actually, from my understanding, the correct term for what you describe is "redirect," not "forward." "Forward" means to create a new message that has the contents of the original message, setting the "From" field to the address of the person forwarding the message. What you are describing is "redirecting," which means to send an exact copy of the original message, with the "From" field unchanged--set to the address of the sender of the original message--but with a new "To" or "Bcc" field. In this case, you'd have to look at the headers to know that the message didn't actually come from the person in the "From" field, but that it was redirected (but if the original sender and the redirecter used the same mail servers, it might not be possible to determine that...perhaps the Message-ID would be changed in the redirect, but now I've reached the limit of my knowledge).
If you set SA up right, it will only run OCR on the attachment if the message isn't already detected as spam. A lot of image spam is still detectable without OCR. For those that aren't, running gocr doesn't actually take that long at all. With enough volume, I'm sure it could become a problem, but if you use OCR as a supplement to SA's rules and Bayes filters, it can make a big difference in accuracy without making a big difference in performance.
It's interesting: all these comments and only one has made reference to the fact that checking so many sites all the time must take a lot of time. Wow. I really appreciate LWN; it takes just about every Linux news source there is and puts it in one nice weekly edition. Yeah, I still end up checking feeds during the week that LWN will cover anyway...but it's nice in principle.:)
BTW, what about RSS? Sounds like a lot of people here aren't even using it. I just use Akregator, or Google Reader if I'm not at home. Loading up a bunch of tabs from a bookmark folder is so 2005.:)
Every year? Good grief. I haven't replaced my PC since 2001. I've upgraded the hard disk a few times, mostly due to failure, and upgraded the video card when the fan quit, but I still have the same 1.47GHz Athlon XP, same mobo, etc. I switched to Debian in 2005. It's not as fast as I'd like, but it's good enough for anything but the newest games. I can't imagine gettinga new one every year.
You mean you never glance down at the clock or the radio, or even your fuel gauge or speedometer? Most of us don't have a HUD.
It's really not so much about taking your eyes off the road as it is about taking your attention away from driving. I can feel around for the window defroster button for a few seconds while not looking away from the road, but my mind is giving a lot of attention to remembering where the button is and what it feels like. Or I can glance down for half a second, push the button, and then focus completely on driving again. IMHO the latter is usually a safer option.
And eating with one hand while driving with the other isn't necessarily unsafe. On roads with little traffic you can do it in a perfectly safe way, especially in daylight.
As with many things, it tends to boil down to using good judgment.
Ok...but...did he just leave the tip in the palm forever? Why would anyone want a fingertip sticking out of their palm? This still doesn't make sense to me.
Uh, can you explain exactly what you mean? Did he sew the severed tip onto the palm, or did he sew the end of the existing finger onto the palm? Did the severed tip turn into a new finger growing out of his palm, or did a new tip magically appear on the end of the severed finger...inside the palm...? Or were you joking? 'Cause none of that makes any sense to me.
There are both good and bad people in all walks of life, even those that, by their very nature, should be made up of good ones. It's a shame that you can only see bad ones, even if that is your primary personal experience.
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Your sig now seems incredibly ironic.
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How can you base your opinion of modern automobiles on Ford products? They are all crap compared to Japanese cars, or even Chevys. The Windstar was especially horrible!
I'll never forget the endless problems my family had with our '87 Sable, and how every time we took it to the local Ford dealer to get it fixed, it would come back with something else broken on it. Or how it left us stranded on the side of the road, where thankfully our next-door neighbors just happened to drive by at that very moment.
Contrast that to our eight Hondas over the years and it's like night and day. I will never spend any of my money on a Ford product, and I don't honestly understand why anyone else would choose to do so either, after having the chance to try something better (like a Honda, or even a Toyota).
Don't judge all modern cars by the absolute worst example. (What other car company's products can burn your house down while parked and turned off in your garage? That's right, Ford, with another flawed design. That's what Ford should stand for: Flawed Or Ridiculous Design.)
Ford has improved slightly over the years, but their designs are still years behind GOOD cars that were on sale 15 years ago! Why would anyone buy one?!
The American Red Cross CPR training says to continue giving CPR until help arrives or until you get tired. Yes, that's right, until you get tired. So unless California is way off base here, I don't see how your #1 could be correct.
The truly tech-savvy will open up an SSH tunnel to their server and run everything through that.
Hm. And what OS do you run? On what CPU, with what chipset, on what motherboard? And what car do you drive to work? And what kind of power source does it have? Geez, what do you turn to open your door when you leave your house?
You know what, you're right: let's just not let anyone make anything that is similar to anything that anyone else ever made. All you have to do is build the first time machine and then send us back to the stone age, where we'll stay until the end of time.
Ooh, ooh! I use Kopete, and Debian. Please, submit your patch to Debian (or I will be glad to do it for you)! Debian often includes patches that upstream has yet to apply. And if Debian patches it, it will make it into Ubuntu as well (assuming they also include KDE 3.5.x in Kubuntu 8.10; it could also end up in their backports).
According to the Smith System, in a normal car, you should allow 5 seconds between your vehicle and the one ahead of you. Best-case reaction time is 3 seconds, and that's assuming you're not distracted, and that you immediately recognize the situation and the need to brake. If you're driving a larger, heavier vehicle, you need to allow even more time.
You should not go by distance, because distance is difficult to judge, and gets harder to judge as your speed increases. You should choose an object ahead of you, and count the time that passes between the vehicle in front of you passing it and your vehicle passing it. This method always works, regardless of your speed; you don't even have to look at your speedometer.
So...this bug (which I encountered but since I'm on a 400 MHz laptop with 128MB of RAM, found it not worth investigating) was caused by...downloading a file? Downloading a file? What is Firefox doing with this file that could possibly cause it to go bonkers like that?
A huge benefit of rdiff-backup is that after the first backup, it only stores changes to files. Someone once gave the example of backing up a 2 GB Entourage mail store with Time Machine. Each time that the mail store changed, Time Machine would have to add 2 more GB of data to the backup disk. rdiff-backup would only backup the changed data in the mail store, saving huge amounts of disk space. It would take a very long time for the diffs to add up to the size of the mail store itself (unless you got a WHOLE lot of large messages real quick), and would likely take much less time to run the backups too.
I have a daily cron job that downloads my bookmarks from del.icio.us. It's a one-line curl command.
For the MLB franchise the name of which I can't remember, the game was numbered according to the year the Series took place in, which means that MLB '07 would represent the '07 season.
Each MLB season takes place within a single calendar year, including the playoffs and World Series. (Ah, how I long for the days that baseball really was America's pasttime.)
The fact that you don't believe in God and have no "religious morals" is pretty obvious.
But I'm not sure exactly what you mean by that, since without religion, where would morals come from, and what would their purpose be? Seems to me that, according to your viewpoint, they wouldn't have any purpose at all, because you are all for glorifying yourself at others' expense. Where do you draw the line as to what's going too far when you're causing others harm or taking advantage of them, if you don't have morals? Is shooting someone and driving off with their car ok? After all, they were going to die anyway, so you just milked their vulnerability to the fullest extent. What happens when the next guy does the same thing to you?
You don't have to be religious to see that Social Darwinism is a poor way for society and culture to operate. If everyone only looked out for their own interests, we'd still be in the stone age, and life would be miserable. Your happiness would be defined by how much you exploited the rest of the world that day, and how much the world exploited you. You couldn't trust anyone, and no one could trust you, because everyone would be out to take advantage of everyone else.
Has no one ever done anything nice for you out of the goodness of their heart in your entire life? I pity you for whatever has happened to you to cause you to become so cynical and selfish. I will pray for you, that your heart may be broken down and your eyes may be opened. If you would like to study the truth, I would be glad to help you.
What are you, a Ferengi? You certainly don't sound like a human being (excluding the really evil ones throughout history). Your attitude is just plain evil, straight from the Devil himself. Going along with your hypothetical situation, when you finally die, all of your accumulated profit will be for nought, and you will have the same status as the poor people who couldn't afford your exorbitant prices for treatment: dead as a doornail, owning nothing, awaiting judgment for what you did here on Earth.
Really man, I hope you were just playing a hypothetical game here. If you are really like this in real life...I shudder. (Though you should look into playing some Ferengi characters in the next iteration of Star Trek; you'd be a natural.)
KWord keeps improving, and its column support is easy to use. Its page layout dialogs are far simpler than Word or OOWriter.
Like cut yourself on a knife, hit another car, dropped a glas..
Maybe not, but most people have, and accidents with guns are pretty bad.
Just ask Dick What's your point? That we should stop using knives, cars, and glasses?
You are spreading Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt, yet you clearly don't even know what you're talking about. Guns can be handled and used safely, just like knives, cars, and glasses. You should go to a competitive shooting event and watch how it's done. Even young children shoot and compete safely because they are taught how to do so, just like they're taught how to use knives, how to drive, and to be careful when carrying a glass.
Please stop the FUD about guns. They're just tools. Sure, they are designed to injure or kill, but almost anything besides a feather can be used to kill someone. Fear the (mentally unstable or morally corrupt) user, not the weapon.
Was it Issac Asimov who said, "I don't fear computers; I fear the lack of them"? Perhaps we should say the same thing, but about guns:
"I don't fear guns; I fear the lack of them."
A quick study of world history should confirm that. But, of course, the UK didn't have to fight for its rights...yet.
If you set SA up right, it will only run OCR on the attachment if the message isn't already detected as spam. A lot of image spam is still detectable without OCR. For those that aren't, running gocr doesn't actually take that long at all. With enough volume, I'm sure it could become a problem, but if you use OCR as a supplement to SA's rules and Bayes filters, it can make a big difference in accuracy without making a big difference in performance.
It's interesting: all these comments and only one has made reference to the fact that checking so many sites all the time must take a lot of time. Wow. I really appreciate LWN; it takes just about every Linux news source there is and puts it in one nice weekly edition. Yeah, I still end up checking feeds during the week that LWN will cover anyway...but it's nice in principle. :)
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BTW, what about RSS? Sounds like a lot of people here aren't even using it. I just use Akregator, or Google Reader if I'm not at home. Loading up a bunch of tabs from a bookmark folder is so 2005.
Every year? Good grief. I haven't replaced my PC since 2001. I've upgraded the hard disk a few times, mostly due to failure, and upgraded the video card when the fan quit, but I still have the same 1.47GHz Athlon XP, same mobo, etc. I switched to Debian in 2005. It's not as fast as I'd like, but it's good enough for anything but the newest games. I can't imagine gettinga new one every year.
You mean you never glance down at the clock or the radio, or even your fuel gauge or speedometer? Most of us don't have a HUD.
It's really not so much about taking your eyes off the road as it is about taking your attention away from driving. I can feel around for the window defroster button for a few seconds while not looking away from the road, but my mind is giving a lot of attention to remembering where the button is and what it feels like. Or I can glance down for half a second, push the button, and then focus completely on driving again. IMHO the latter is usually a safer option.
And eating with one hand while driving with the other isn't necessarily unsafe. On roads with little traffic you can do it in a perfectly safe way, especially in daylight.
As with many things, it tends to boil down to using good judgment.
Lots of system processes run as different users...on Debian, anyway.
Ok...but...did he just leave the tip in the palm forever? Why would anyone want a fingertip sticking out of their palm? This still doesn't make sense to me.
Uh, can you explain exactly what you mean? Did he sew the severed tip onto the palm, or did he sew the end of the existing finger onto the palm? Did the severed tip turn into a new finger growing out of his palm, or did a new tip magically appear on the end of the severed finger...inside the palm...? Or were you joking? 'Cause none of that makes any sense to me.
There are both good and bad people in all walks of life, even those that, by their very nature, should be made up of good ones. It's a shame that you can only see bad ones, even if that is your primary personal experience.