The large amounts of pre-Christmas spam are something of a tradition, but here too the outbreak was smaller than most of the large outbreaks this year.
What about the Christmas outbreak last year? Was it different?
I get the feeling the author is just spinning the numbers. Who knows, there could be no decline at all unless seasonal trends are fully accounted for.
I love Haskell -- maybe the most elegant language I've seen and my favorite underdog. But you've just pointed out the problem. All of the big efforts in the Haskell community are oriented around developer tools!
Compilers, source control, tools for other languages, build systems... and of course fancy libraries using advanced GHC extensions that are barely more understood than theory... all wonderfully powerful in case somebody... somewhere... wants to use them.
(A crappy 3D shooter that doesn't hold a candle to dozens of mainstream games each year doesn't count, I'm afraid.)
I don't speak Hebrew, but it's safe to assume that "mm" is actually a geminate -- an extended version of the "m" sound. Such differences are distinctive in many languages, just not in English.
I don't think it is "prejudiced" to do this -- unless you consider statistical inference prejudiced.
Well, that is assuming you have some statistics to back your claims. As much as I agree with the stereotypes you listed (there's always at least some truth behind stereotypes), I'd be very interested to see some numbers, too.
FYI, CVS is pretty much the only revision control system that can't efficiently handle binary files. Subversion, for example, will use binary diff automatically (even on ASCII files), so changes to Word documents or other binary files will always be stored efficiently.
I just like the fact that the standard model is showing it's flaws, trying to write theory to fit your experiments is never as good as trying to understand the underlying causes and drawing conclusions from the emergent properties of the basic model.
Well, the one thing about access logs is they gzip quite nicely. If your site is big enough to have 800 megs of logs a day, shouldn't you be able to afford a nice place to put them?
Um, OpenOffice still requires X11 to run on OS-X, and they've said they won't be supporting Aqua natively for the forseeable future. There's absolutely no way Apple would expect your 80 year old grandma to run X11 (besides, it looks like ass, is slow as a dog, and isn't even able to integrate with native cut-and-paste).
Wouldn't intermissions mean more people going out to buy stuff at the concession stands? Seems logical to me, though some movie-industry bigwig has probably already done the math.
If that paycheck is big bucks, I would recommend you do walk away and never come back.
If he withholds your paycheck, he's in deep shit. In Washington state, and I imagine other places, having your paycheck withheld automatically entitles you to double the amount, plus punitive damages.
He simply has no right to threaten such an act. If I were you, I'd say, "I dare you...". In any case, investigate your rights in this matter. You might be in a position to burn some more bridges yet come out with a lot of dough in your pockets.
Haven't they? Premier DVDs are on sale now for $9.95, whereas just a year or two ago nothing was available for less than $20-25. IMO, publishers have realized that crappy Hollywood blockbusters that lots of people want to buy but nobody wants to pay for are prime targets for piracy. God knows I wouldn't pay $20 for a copy of Hellboy that I'd watch exactly once, but I'd more than likely download one. But I might pay $9.95 for one, especially if that's less than I would have paid in a theater the first time around.
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This article is rediculous:
What about the Christmas outbreak last year? Was it different?
I get the feeling the author is just spinning the numbers. Who knows, there could be no decline at all unless seasonal trends are fully accounted for.
I love Haskell -- maybe the most elegant language I've seen and my favorite underdog. But you've just pointed out the problem. All of the big efforts in the Haskell community are oriented around developer tools!
Compilers, source control, tools for other languages, build systems... and of course fancy libraries using advanced GHC extensions that are barely more understood than theory... all wonderfully powerful in case somebody... somewhere... wants to use them.
(A crappy 3D shooter that doesn't hold a candle to dozens of mainstream games each year doesn't count, I'm afraid.)
I don't speak Hebrew, but it's safe to assume that "mm" is actually a geminate -- an extended version of the "m" sound. Such differences are distinctive in many languages, just not in English.
Captain Janeway is playing the world's smallest violin just for you.
Oh look at that, it's disappeared. I'm an idiot. Thanks Slashdot!
You can always use Unicode --83 -- but that probably will show up as a question mark on half of your computers anyway.
If only someone could convince the religious fundamentalists who run most of the world of this, um, fact...
I don't think it is "prejudiced" to do this -- unless you consider statistical inference prejudiced.
Well, that is assuming you have some statistics to back your claims. As much as I agree with the stereotypes you listed (there's always at least some truth behind stereotypes), I'd be very interested to see some numbers, too.
Or "try/finally" in C# or Java.
And now the link is busted. Great job editors!
Not just the first time, but every time.
FYI, CVS is pretty much the only revision control system that can't efficiently handle binary files. Subversion, for example, will use binary diff automatically (even on ASCII files), so changes to Word documents or other binary files will always be stored efficiently.
I just like the fact that the standard model is showing it's flaws, trying to write theory to fit your experiments is never as good as trying to understand the underlying causes and drawing conclusions from the emergent properties of the basic model.
You mean like they do in Chemistry?
Well, the one thing about access logs is they gzip quite nicely. If your site is big enough to have 800 megs of logs a day, shouldn't you be able to afford a nice place to put them?
Well, the GP raises an interesting question. Is there (or should there be) an implementation of mod_gzip which caches the compressed copies?
On that note, using a standard web cache like Squid which supports compression in front of your webserver could solve the same problem.
Um, OpenOffice still requires X11 to run on OS-X, and they've said they won't be supporting Aqua natively for the forseeable future. There's absolutely no way Apple would expect your 80 year old grandma to run X11 (besides, it looks like ass, is slow as a dog, and isn't even able to integrate with native cut-and-paste).
Thanks, makes perfect sense now, in a sick sort of way.
Siphon... yeah, if you live below the bottom of the ocean...
It may look so 90s, but Reply-To only doesn't work in mailers from the 80s!
(Feel free to correct me by naming one in which it doesn't work.)
Wouldn't intermissions mean more people going out to buy stuff at the concession stands? Seems logical to me, though some movie-industry bigwig has probably already done the math.
If that paycheck is big bucks, I would recommend you do walk away and never come back.
If he withholds your paycheck, he's in deep shit. In Washington state, and I imagine other places, having your paycheck withheld automatically entitles you to double the amount, plus punitive damages.
He simply has no right to threaten such an act. If I were you, I'd say, "I dare you...". In any case, investigate your rights in this matter. You might be in a position to burn some more bridges yet come out with a lot of dough in your pockets.
(IANAL.)
There is a relevant cliché here:
Does it record Ogg?
Not Safe For Work.
If by "more accurate detail" you read exaggerated artificial relief done with Photoshop, then by all means, check out the photo.
Haven't they? Premier DVDs are on sale now for $9.95, whereas just a year or two ago nothing was available for less than $20-25. IMO, publishers have realized that crappy Hollywood blockbusters that lots of people want to buy but nobody wants to pay for are prime targets for piracy. God knows I wouldn't pay $20 for a copy of Hellboy that I'd watch exactly once, but I'd more than likely download one. But I might pay $9.95 for one, especially if that's less than I would have paid in a theater the first time around.