Ahaha! That AC pwned you! I for one, am glad someone could point out specific examples. I am deeply unimpressed with Oracle. It follows few, if any, unixy practices, and turns admins into complete idiots while promoting itself as unbreakable.
The only thing that's unbreakable with oracle is the contracts and ndas.
This is what I've been trying to say for a long time, and you did summed it up very succinctly in 1 paragraph. Good work. This is why we'll never see an end to the fixes/patches/bugs, and also why oracle will never attempt a rewrite. Had they been smart, they would have seen this coming 15 years ago.
The first rule of finding yourself in a hole is to stop digging. Oracle never realized they were in a hole.
My apologies, I was ambigous but not on purpose. What I meant was a tax like per kilogram on coal, and perhaps per litre/gallon on fuel, not per lb on a vehicle.
The problem is that it would be tough to tax individual gasoline stations, etc, so we should tax the sources of the amount extracted/refined.
That way, it's taxed per gallon and people would have a financial interest in increasing the efficiency of their vehicle and/or decreasing miles drive.
Who cares where the money goes as long as it's somewhere smart. Eliminating US debt? We all (should) have a significant interest in reducing that. Give some to NREL. Give some to organizations that purchase land and plant trees.
It seems to me that you're overcomplicating things. Once you start introducing brackets and reduced rates for things that meet certain criteria. you introduce opportunities for loopholes, backdoors and malicious acts. Consider the whole SUV thing where 50k hummer owners can get a 38k tax break because the hummer meets some critieria outside of the spirit of the tax law. Also consider big "farm trucks" and other vehicles that get reduced penalties because they'll be used commercially, or on a farm, when in reality the wife drives them to town to play bingo, go grocery shopping and go to the mall.
It's my opinion that you need a tax on each unit. Some percentage or amount of tax per lb of coal, and the like. In this way, it's much harder to cheat the spirit of the tax.
The only entity at fault for edgy not being what you wanted is yourself. For months, ubuntu said edgy would be mostly in the unfamiliar territory, with new init scripts and gui changes and several dozen other things that were new and unproven. There was no question that edgy was going to be quite innovative and very featureful, at the cost of reduced stability, interoperability, upgradeability, etc.
If you wanted stable, you should have stuck with dapper. debian sarge, even eft, will treat you well though.
It's about time people starting defending the crap going around about the "viral gpl". It's not viral. Do you "agree" when you receive HIV? How about SARs? Or H1N1? No?
I can't tell you whether its free certain days or not. The reason I purchased it was simple. During some of the time for which I could be playing games, it wasn't too difficult to rack up $20 here and $30 there, a yearly entertainment cost during those hours could total several hundred or more dollars. The yearly subscription was $50. I didn't necessarily purchase the subscription to save money, but I'm pretty certain I did.
When I play a typical shooter (which have been mostly first-person based, hence FPS) on the console, I get the sense that I've lost a lot of control. For some reason, the third-person controls in Gears... just works.
Just for the record, using COD2 as an example, I use the two analog sticks on my 360. They give me an infinite amount of very fast control (My sensitivity is ultra high) in camera and movement, assuming my thumbs are on their game. The game on the computer uses the mouse for camera (infinite) and 4 buttons for up, down, left and right. So what control do you feel you lose exactly?
Before you get all defensive, I'm not arguing either way. I played Quake3 on a computer for many years and felt very much in control with the mouse & keyboard layout I described above.
Hell yea. I'd love to see this game with COD2 controls! I'd probably enjoy it more. As an aside, COD3 has been sorta a let down, but it's ok. Civil War, which is what activision worked on instead of COD3, is a pretty fun game as well.
My favorite analogy for Sony selling out PS3s in japan follows:
Say you're 8 years old again and you decide you want to make some money. You talk your parents into purchasing you some lemonade mix. You get home from school around 4:00PM and make 16 full ounces of lemonade. You then take your homemade lemonade stand and put it in the driveway. Your mother arrives at 5:15 and purchases an 8 ounce glass for the $0.50 that seems reasonable. Your father then purchases your last remaing 8 ounces for $0.50 at 5:20. Of course, your parents purchase it not only because they like lemonade, but they also have a certain sympathy for your plans.
There ya go folks. Record amount of sales. We even SOLD OUT of all available resources. We couldn't make it fast enough. Wow. I can't believe it.
Truck drivers, at least in the USA, are required to have breaks inbetween long shifts and lack of documentation or misleading documentation can result in severe penalties. Fortunately, this is a good thing. Otherwise, crap like this:
happens and people suffer. I was about 15 seconds behind that accident in May of 2003 and now I always keep a reasonable distance behind trucks because of my timidness.
Of course, some of my timidness also stems from an aquaintance being killed in highschool by a poorly secured freight strap coming undone from a flatbed truck that was heading the opposite direction of the my friend on a 2 lane highway. The strap flew out sideways into the car, at, well, a very high speed. Needless to say, there was little time to react and the funeral was closed casket.
The last thing you want is truck driver not being 100% alert.
discounting things like recessive traits, of course
It seems to me that a species having the ability to produce offspring with recessive traits manifesting is more often beneficial/benign than not. This may be generally accepted amongst evolutionists and even well known in many circles, but it did just occur to me.
It's actually remarkable that such a system exists. Anyone have any info on how such a "meta" trait could evolve?
After thirty something pics, it knew I was 20 something, a guy, a night person and not very religious. All correct. I won't call it the coolest thing I've ever seen, but it did astonish me.
I'm not sure if you're trying to point out how useless webstats can be, but generally speaking most stats software I've worked with count a "visit" as an ip that it hasn't seen for the last 30 (sometimes configurable) minutes. If it sees it more than 30 minutes later, it's a new visit. If it sees an IP hitting the site within a 30 minute window, the hit counter gets bumped but the visit counter doesn't.
Agreed. It also fails to follow linuxy conventions enough to make it annoying to use very often. It's virtually unscriptable without a conf file for each domain and it's extraordinarily tough to "rename" confs (perl/sed FTW!). Finally, if something ever messes up and you miss a few days, you need to run each day sequentially. If you decided to do today's first, then yesterdays, it isn't going to work.
So very unfriendly. So very, very insecure.
I'd love to recommend webalizer, which excels in some of those areas, but generally looks hideous.
Agreed. We've just recently started adopting them as well. So much faster. I love the fact that it no longer takes 3 min to generate an ssh key like it does on a new v240.
Plus, you don't need to worry about the big non-ecc cache thing sun is so famous for. No more spontaneous reboots, yippie!
It'd be really nice to see some more co-op. It's one of the main advantages that consoles have over PCs. Fortunately, GOW has coop and it does it really well. I can have my bro or friend over and we can spend some time fraggin with a good feeling about getting the job done at the end. You can't do this on a PC unless you have two. Of course, a friend can play online with you, but that's not the same.
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Can you explain why disconnected IMAP is better than online IMAP? Also, is there a howto for the "longer story" of how to get outlook to play nicely?
Thanks for the info you've already given though.
hump notation? in perl?
DIE!!!!
Ahaha! That AC pwned you! I for one, am glad someone could point out specific examples. I am deeply unimpressed with Oracle. It follows few, if any, unixy practices, and turns admins into complete idiots while promoting itself as unbreakable.
The only thing that's unbreakable with oracle is the contracts and ndas.
This is what I've been trying to say for a long time, and you did summed it up very succinctly in 1 paragraph. Good work. This is why we'll never see an end to the fixes/patches/bugs, and also why oracle will never attempt a rewrite. Had they been smart, they would have seen this coming 15 years ago.
The first rule of finding yourself in a hole is to stop digging. Oracle never realized they were in a hole.
My apologies, I was ambigous but not on purpose. What I meant was a tax like per kilogram on coal, and perhaps per litre/gallon on fuel, not per lb on a vehicle.
The problem is that it would be tough to tax individual gasoline stations, etc, so we should tax the sources of the amount extracted/refined.
That way, it's taxed per gallon and people would have a financial interest in increasing the efficiency of their vehicle and/or decreasing miles drive.
Who cares where the money goes as long as it's somewhere smart. Eliminating US debt? We all (should) have a significant interest in reducing that. Give some to NREL. Give some to organizations that purchase land and plant trees.
It seems to me that you're overcomplicating things. Once you start introducing brackets and reduced rates for things that meet certain criteria. you introduce opportunities for loopholes, backdoors and malicious acts. Consider the whole SUV thing where 50k hummer owners can get a 38k tax break because the hummer meets some critieria outside of the spirit of the tax law. Also consider big "farm trucks" and other vehicles that get reduced penalties because they'll be used commercially, or on a farm, when in reality the wife drives them to town to play bingo, go grocery shopping and go to the mall.
It's my opinion that you need a tax on each unit. Some percentage or amount of tax per lb of coal, and the like. In this way, it's much harder to cheat the spirit of the tax.
Tax the suppliers of coal, oil and other fossil fuels, and the shit will roll downhill.
The only entity at fault for edgy not being what you wanted is yourself. For months, ubuntu said edgy would be mostly in the unfamiliar territory, with new init scripts and gui changes and several dozen other things that were new and unproven. There was no question that edgy was going to be quite innovative and very featureful, at the cost of reduced stability, interoperability, upgradeability, etc.
If you wanted stable, you should have stuck with dapper. debian sarge, even eft, will treat you well though.
Have you ever considered the advice "Never fight a landwar in asia"?
Please, elaborate on why this is such a bad thing.
It's about time people starting defending the crap going around about the "viral gpl". It's not viral. Do you "agree" when you receive HIV? How about SARs? Or H1N1? No?
Well it's not quite a virus then, is it?
Know of any good linux clients for go with decent AI? I've tried gnugo, but the AI gets somewhat old and predicatible.
I can't tell you whether its free certain days or not. The reason I purchased it was simple. During some of the time for which I could be playing games, it wasn't too difficult to rack up $20 here and $30 there, a yearly entertainment cost during those hours could total several hundred or more dollars. The yearly subscription was $50. I didn't necessarily purchase the subscription to save money, but I'm pretty certain I did.
When I play a typical shooter (which have been mostly first-person based, hence FPS) on the console, I get the sense that I've lost a lot of control. For some reason, the third-person controls in Gears ... just works.
Just for the record, using COD2 as an example, I use the two analog sticks on my 360. They give me an infinite amount of very fast control (My sensitivity is ultra high) in camera and movement, assuming my thumbs are on their game. The game on the computer uses the mouse for camera (infinite) and 4 buttons for up, down, left and right. So what control do you feel you lose exactly?
Before you get all defensive, I'm not arguing either way. I played Quake3 on a computer for many years and felt very much in control with the mouse & keyboard layout I described above.
Hell yea. I'd love to see this game with COD2 controls! I'd probably enjoy it more. As an aside, COD3 has been sorta a let down, but it's ok. Civil War, which is what activision worked on instead of COD3, is a pretty fun game as well.
My favorite analogy for Sony selling out PS3s in japan follows:
Say you're 8 years old again and you decide you want to make some money. You talk your parents into purchasing you some lemonade mix. You get home from school around 4:00PM and make 16 full ounces of lemonade. You then take your homemade lemonade stand and put it in the driveway. Your mother arrives at 5:15 and purchases an 8 ounce glass for the $0.50 that seems reasonable. Your father then purchases your last remaing 8 ounces for $0.50 at 5:20. Of course, your parents purchase it not only because they like lemonade, but they also have a certain sympathy for your plans.
There ya go folks. Record amount of sales. We even SOLD OUT of all available resources. We couldn't make it fast enough. Wow. I can't believe it.
Truck drivers, at least in the USA, are required to have breaks inbetween long shifts and lack of documentation or misleading documentation can result in severe penalties. Fortunately, this is a good thing. Otherwise, crap like this:
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http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/Central/05/24/bridge.c
happens and people suffer. I was about 15 seconds behind that accident in May of 2003 and now I always keep a reasonable distance behind trucks because of my timidness.
Of course, some of my timidness also stems from an aquaintance being killed in highschool by a poorly secured freight strap coming undone from a flatbed truck that was heading the opposite direction of the my friend on a 2 lane highway. The strap flew out sideways into the car, at, well, a very high speed. Needless to say, there was little time to react and the funeral was closed casket.
The last thing you want is truck driver not being 100% alert.
Don't know if it's entirely true, but insightful enough to try, I suppose. Thanks.
The ones that snore, maybe.
discounting things like recessive traits, of course
It seems to me that a species having the ability to produce offspring with recessive traits manifesting is more often beneficial/benign than not. This may be generally accepted amongst evolutionists and even well known in many circles, but it did just occur to me.
It's actually remarkable that such a system exists. Anyone have any info on how such a "meta" trait could evolve?
After thirty something pics, it knew I was 20 something, a guy, a night person and not very religious. All correct. I won't call it the coolest thing I've ever seen, but it did astonish me.
I'm not sure if you're trying to point out how useless webstats can be, but generally speaking most stats software I've worked with count a "visit" as an ip that it hasn't seen for the last 30 (sometimes configurable) minutes. If it sees it more than 30 minutes later, it's a new visit. If it sees an IP hitting the site within a 30 minute window, the hit counter gets bumped but the visit counter doesn't.
Agreed. It also fails to follow linuxy conventions enough to make it annoying to use very often. It's virtually unscriptable without a conf file for each domain and it's extraordinarily tough to "rename" confs (perl/sed FTW!). Finally, if something ever messes up and you miss a few days, you need to run each day sequentially. If you decided to do today's first, then yesterdays, it isn't going to work.
So very unfriendly. So very, very insecure.
I'd love to recommend webalizer, which excels in some of those areas, but generally looks hideous.
Agreed. We've just recently started adopting them as well. So much faster. I love the fact that it no longer takes 3 min to generate an ssh key like it does on a new v240.
Plus, you don't need to worry about the big non-ecc cache thing sun is so famous for. No more spontaneous reboots, yippie!
It'd be really nice to see some more co-op. It's one of the main advantages that consoles have over PCs. Fortunately, GOW has coop and it does it really well. I can have my bro or friend over and we can spend some time fraggin with a good feeling about getting the job done at the end. You can't do this on a PC unless you have two. Of course, a friend can play online with you, but that's not the same.