Oh, I dunno. What would the lolcats be without Impact? 1/3 less funny, I think.
It is too bad that we can't have nice things on the Web, but we could have if the foundries had cut licensing requirements to the bone on the appropriate fonts.
The thumb-trackballs really did a number on my thumb. I had a Logitech of some kind and I had to toss it. It took a week or two to get my thumb to stop twitching.
The Kensington Turbo Mouse trackballs have treated me right for a long time.
So basically what he's doing is selectivly removing consitutional rights by executive order because the present circumstances, in his opinion alone, demand it.
The AUMF more or less granted him such license. Complaining to Congress is close to worthless--they abdicated their responsibility WRT war-making powers back in 2003.
For fans of the "monster of the week", there's Supernatural to suit their fancy.
Me, I liked the first season of Supernatural. I've seen the occasional episode of season 2, but I'm waiting for the series discs to show up from Netflix. It's a lot like X-Files but less pretentious. (Some would say less-brainy.)
PHP has an easy learning curve. You can go from nothing but HTML with a simple dynamic counter, to an entire DB-backed dynamic site. The documentation for PHP is excellent. And if you're competent in any other language you can add PHP to your repertoire easily. This makes for a compelling arrangement for a large, multi-person project. Everybody from experts to duffers can contribute.
More or less true, but still not good. Putting database work in your code is common, but it is bad. It's worse when you have to make changes. Bugs, security problems, inefficiencies--these result from poor planning at the application level.
It's hard to plan for a proper DB. It's really hard when you're working fast and alone. But long term you'll be thankful for it.
MySQL is a result of the way current software development is taught and done. Unless Jo the Average Developer starts understanding how to use SQL in his application (and he does not) and unless SQL data representation grows up to modern non-fortran-like OO semantics MySQL will proliferate. And if you think that MySQL is bad think twice. There are the object persistence frameworks and in-memory crap that follow in its wake.
It's not really the SQL that's so hard. You can get some pretty baroque looking queries if you try, but most JOINs and suchlike are easy to wrap your head around. It's the data modeling where people so often fall down, treating a DB as a spendier spreadsheet. Certainly doable, and perhaps even the correct thing to do, but when you start seeing "parameter1, parameter2, parameter3" as columns, you probably need to revisit your notes on normalization.
In summary people don't like Macbooks' integrated graphics because reviews of that particular hardware indicate it performs poorly.
Well, again, I watched this guy play WoW at perfectly respectable framerates. It wasn't annoying at all. So, I dunno--seems to me it can work in a gaming environment just fine, it just depends on the game. Since I don't play games at all, except the occasional NWN on my desktop, the GMA 950 is swell.
I was asking the OP what his requirements were. The 12" Powerbook only has a GeForce Go 5200, which isn't staggering either.
What's wrong with the integrated graphics of the Macbooks? I know a guy who plays WoW on his Core2 Macbook, and he gets better framerates than his (admittedly aging) PC desktop.
If you need the accelerated graphics for Aperture or something, I can see it. But I've been hammering on a 1st edition Macbook more or less since they launched, and I've been quite happy with it. I never spent a lot of time with a 12" Powerbook, but from my limited experience it is comparable WRT size and weight, except the widescreen is much appreciated. (Shoving the dock over to the right-hand side of a widescreen monitor and preventing the auto-hide makes it a lot more useful as a productivity tool.) The keyboard is a bit more comfortable, IMO, though the action isn't nearly as nice.
It's not like you can't fake any currently used ID system. The national ID would simply force all ID fraud to use falsified national IDs instead of falsifying the easiest document that works
You miss the point. The "currently used ID system", i.e. SSN, was also imposed by the government.
I'd assume that would reduce the number of security holes and you could focus on making the national ID harder to fake without having to worry about some crappy card compromising the system.
"What could possibly go wrong?" is the mantra of big government.
Here's what's always annoyed me about astronomers/cosmologists/telescope jockeys of all stripes. They love to talk about how what they do is science, and to the extent that they apply the scientific method to their work, they are right. But simply because they are applying the scientific method does not make what they produce a fact. After crunching some numbers, the space geeks come back to us and let us know that the Universe is 4 billion years old, not 5 billion years old like we thought.
What? Only an idiot would say that. But "according to current theories, if all our observations are correct, and not accounting for things that we don't know and/or don't understand, we put a date of 4 billion years on the age of the Universe" doesn't really sync with how NOVA likes the TV show to flow. And of course coming out with a hard "fact" like that will totally piss off Vladimir Boroshitz who really ticked you off at the last astronomy convention when he hoarked the last Zima from the cash bar.
It has always seemed to me that the further out into space you go, the more positive the starfags get. The composition and likelihood of a galaxy 200 million light-years away to contain life? "Pretty good!" Closer to home, they're all "we don't know this, we don't know that", because that means research money to send Lego to Europa to dig for microbes.
It's not really the bandwidth, it's the latency. T-Mobile's EDGE runs about 700-1000ms ping times for me. Sometimes better, sometimes worse. I generally get 60-80kbps, which isn't horrific. Hell, I've even watched YouTube videos on the EDGE network. Not something I'd do a lot, but it is doable.
If they could get the latency down, EDGE would be a lot less annoying.
So what alternative do you propose to identify legitimate citizens from illegal aliens?
There is no way to do this that will not become a burden on the legitimate citizens. No way. Period. Even if you restrict an ID card to illegals (however you manage to perform the miracle of convincing illegal aliens to acquire one), eventually it will simply become easier to force the law-abiding carry an ID card rather than the illegals. And a national ID card is simply another avenue for identity theft.
Once we move to Linux, I don't think we'll go back to FreeBSD
FWIW, I am a former FBSD fan who's transitioned to CentOS quite happily. There's nothing quite like the ports tree, but yum ain't horrific, and I like the "enterprise" aspect of it. I haven't used the 64bit versions, but all in all, CentOS has been excellent.
Oh, sure, blame the victim. If you marry a girl who's used to being beaten by her father, is it NOT your fault if you beat her, too?
What? I suspect you make a lot of bad analogies when you argue.
Illegals who don't want to work for crappy employers can go elsewhere. They aren't "slaves", and using that kind of language shows how weak your argument is. You might notice I made no judgement on whether it's "wrong" or "right". I leave that kind of judgmental nonsense to busybodies like you. I said they aren't treated like normal above-board employees because they're coming here to work illegally. You might as well complain that the Mafia doesn't contribute to their employees' 401k. The employer offers a crap job at crap wages--the illegals take that crap job. That's a lot of things, but it's not the "fault" of the employer. I supposed he could offer big bucks and perks, and that'll be swell until he can't sell his produce or whatever.
Fine! Go make a census to all the illegal immigrants near the US border, and ask them whether they're scared of Immigration or not.
Huh. Why don't you do it instead. I've been quite assured by my government that there's nothing we can do about the 12-20 million illegals in this country, scary "la migra" or no. If "la migra" was so scary you'd think they'd be capable of doing something other than letting dead terrorists get their visa renewed.
You accusing me of living in a bubble really made me laugh. Thanks for that.
You'd have a compelling point, except by and large what we're talking about are not immigrants, but illegals. Immigrants who go through the normal process are great; illegals made citizens are not. Confusing the two as you did demonstrates quite well the hopelessness of the debate. One side wants to discuss illegal aliens, and the other side wants to talk about racism and xenophobia.
They treat them like migrant workers who only care about getting paid for doing menial labor, and are willing to do it for peanuts. If Mexico is so screwed up that there's millions of Mexicans who are willing to do shit jobs for nickels I fail to see how it's the employer's fault for not treating them like regular employees.
The "threatened" with "la migra" sounds like bullshit to me. It's a commonly known fact that our immigration service is a giant joke. At worst the worker will get bussed back across the border, where he's free to trot back at his convenience to go pick cabbages or whatever. You do know we have two border patrol agents in jail right now for shooting an illegal Mexican drug mule in the ass? Yeah, I don't think the migrant workers are shaking in their "los Levis" over "la migra".
Actually, 90% of Bostonians are Americans, not Irish. They didn't just step off the boat, they were born there. Granted, born of parents of Irish descent, maybe, but that does not make them immigrants. It makes them Americans.
Saying "we are a nation of immigrants" is a rhetorical dodge. We are a nation of largely native-born Americans. Second generation Americans are not immigrants.
More important is the attitude which immigrants display. Are you coming here to be Americans? Or are you coming here to take advantage of the American way of life? Then great--welcome. If you're coming here merely to lay claim to American benefits, but still want to be considered a different nationality--and most importantly, if you teach your children the same thing--then you're not welcome. No nation is obligated to accommodate a persistent disaffected sub-class of citizens.
Like you said, silly. It's a terrible word. Who would want to call themselves a "blogger"? Yet thousands do, and think themselves quite important to boot.
I only run it as an experiment and to provide email support to the web apps. It even runs surprisingly well and has been a great way for me to teach myself basic mail server administration.
For learning purposes you do not need external port 25. Basic server administration is easy; it's when you get thousands of emails an hour that separates the button-clickers from the men. You won't get than on your cable modem mail server, at least not without the ISP having something to say about it.
Which is why I suggested that users should be able to opt in to having their port 25 open.
There is no compelling reason to do so, even on a request basis. Especially for amateur mail administrators--I don't trust you to secure your mail server.
That however blocks legitimate users such as myself who run their own mail servers.
Look, no offense, but the desire for 47 nerds to run a mail server on an old Dell at the end of a cable modem connection is not a compelling reason to allow bot nets to thrive. If you want to run a mail server, GoDaddy offers 'em for $5/month. Or get a business connection, like you did.
(Why would anybody want to run a mail server? It's nothing but a hassle, especially if you want to run one well.)
I'm just not getting it. Is this person sending a link to the feed once to direct people to it, or is he sending out a link to the feed every time something gets updated?
It sends out the RSS feed via email once a day to a mailing list. The program keeps tabs on what's new on the feed so it only sends out the updates.
That's a nice thing to say, but email is what people want. I can throw a rock and hit 20 people who regularly use email with confidence. I could probably drop a daisy-cutter bomb and not hit anybody who even knows what RSS is. Hell, I've even got a dingus that will send out an RSS feed over email. Electronic mail is still the killer app of the Internet. It has so many benefits people spend gobs of money and time trying to keep it working.
The spam problem is a virus problem. Spam sent within the US comes from zombied machines. That's a problem the ISPs can fix by blocking outbound port 25 traffic except to the ISPs mail relay. Too much mail from one machine means it gets blocked. Spam from outside of the US is almost certainly from China and Korea. There's not much legitimate traffic going from China or Korea to the US, so mail blocks on Chinese/Korean IPs, whitelisting known legitimate IPs, solves 90% of that problem.
The thing about spam is you don't have to completely eliminate it. You just have to make it less effective. It already has a low response rate. If you cut the delivery rate even by 75% you're making it even less fruitful. Eventually the purpose of spam will simply be to try to entice people to bogus Web sites in order to procure more zombied machines so the spammers can stay afloat. That's a recipe for eventual death.
If they didn't know that being naked was evil, how could they have known that disobeying god was?
Where's the paradox? Obedience doesn't require a knowledge of evil. You tell your child not to touch the hot pan--they don't have to know that it will hurt when they get burned, they just have to obey.
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Oh, I dunno. What would the lolcats be without Impact? 1/3 less funny, I think.
It is too bad that we can't have nice things on the Web, but we could have if the foundries had cut licensing requirements to the bone on the appropriate fonts.
The text is unreadable. No contrast.
The thumb-trackballs really did a number on my thumb. I had a Logitech of some kind and I had to toss it. It took a week or two to get my thumb to stop twitching.
The Kensington Turbo Mouse trackballs have treated me right for a long time.
So basically what he's doing is selectivly removing consitutional rights by executive order because the present circumstances, in his opinion alone, demand it.
The AUMF more or less granted him such license. Complaining to Congress is close to worthless--they abdicated their responsibility WRT war-making powers back in 2003.
For fans of the "monster of the week", there's Supernatural to suit their fancy.
Me, I liked the first season of Supernatural. I've seen the occasional episode of season 2, but I'm waiting for the series discs to show up from Netflix. It's a lot like X-Files but less pretentious. (Some would say less-brainy.)
PHP has an easy learning curve. You can go from nothing but HTML with a simple dynamic counter, to an entire DB-backed dynamic site. The documentation for PHP is excellent. And if you're competent in any other language you can add PHP to your repertoire easily. This makes for a compelling arrangement for a large, multi-person project. Everybody from experts to duffers can contribute.
More or less true, but still not good. Putting database work in your code is common, but it is bad. It's worse when you have to make changes. Bugs, security problems, inefficiencies--these result from poor planning at the application level.
It's hard to plan for a proper DB. It's really hard when you're working fast and alone. But long term you'll be thankful for it.
MySQL is a result of the way current software development is taught and done. Unless Jo the Average Developer starts understanding how to use SQL in his application (and he does not) and unless SQL data representation grows up to modern non-fortran-like OO semantics MySQL will proliferate. And if you think that MySQL is bad think twice. There are the object persistence frameworks and in-memory crap that follow in its wake.
It's not really the SQL that's so hard. You can get some pretty baroque looking queries if you try, but most JOINs and suchlike are easy to wrap your head around. It's the data modeling where people so often fall down, treating a DB as a spendier spreadsheet. Certainly doable, and perhaps even the correct thing to do, but when you start seeing "parameter1, parameter2, parameter3" as columns, you probably need to revisit your notes on normalization.
In summary people don't like Macbooks' integrated graphics because reviews of that particular hardware indicate it performs poorly.
Well, again, I watched this guy play WoW at perfectly respectable framerates. It wasn't annoying at all. So, I dunno--seems to me it can work in a gaming environment just fine, it just depends on the game. Since I don't play games at all, except the occasional NWN on my desktop, the GMA 950 is swell.
I was asking the OP what his requirements were. The 12" Powerbook only has a GeForce Go 5200, which isn't staggering either.
What's wrong with the integrated graphics of the Macbooks? I know a guy who plays WoW on his Core2 Macbook, and he gets better framerates than his (admittedly aging) PC desktop.
If you need the accelerated graphics for Aperture or something, I can see it. But I've been hammering on a 1st edition Macbook more or less since they launched, and I've been quite happy with it. I never spent a lot of time with a 12" Powerbook, but from my limited experience it is comparable WRT size and weight, except the widescreen is much appreciated. (Shoving the dock over to the right-hand side of a widescreen monitor and preventing the auto-hide makes it a lot more useful as a productivity tool.) The keyboard is a bit more comfortable, IMO, though the action isn't nearly as nice.
It's not like you can't fake any currently used ID system. The national ID would simply force all ID fraud to use falsified national IDs instead of falsifying the easiest document that works
You miss the point. The "currently used ID system", i.e. SSN, was also imposed by the government.
I'd assume that would reduce the number of security holes and you could focus on making the national ID harder to fake without having to worry about some crappy card compromising the system.
"What could possibly go wrong?" is the mantra of big government.
Christ way to kill a joke.
Do you interrupt chicken-crossing-the-road jokes to talk about poultry science too?
Here's what's always annoyed me about astronomers/cosmologists/telescope jockeys of all stripes. They love to talk about how what they do is science, and to the extent that they apply the scientific method to their work, they are right. But simply because they are applying the scientific method does not make what they produce a fact. After crunching some numbers, the space geeks come back to us and let us know that the Universe is 4 billion years old, not 5 billion years old like we thought.
What? Only an idiot would say that. But "according to current theories, if all our observations are correct, and not accounting for things that we don't know and/or don't understand, we put a date of 4 billion years on the age of the Universe" doesn't really sync with how NOVA likes the TV show to flow. And of course coming out with a hard "fact" like that will totally piss off Vladimir Boroshitz who really ticked you off at the last astronomy convention when he hoarked the last Zima from the cash bar.
It has always seemed to me that the further out into space you go, the more positive the starfags get. The composition and likelihood of a galaxy 200 million light-years away to contain life? "Pretty good!" Closer to home, they're all "we don't know this, we don't know that", because that means research money to send Lego to Europa to dig for microbes.
It's not really the bandwidth, it's the latency. T-Mobile's EDGE runs about 700-1000ms ping times for me. Sometimes better, sometimes worse. I generally get 60-80kbps, which isn't horrific. Hell, I've even watched YouTube videos on the EDGE network. Not something I'd do a lot, but it is doable.
If they could get the latency down, EDGE would be a lot less annoying.
There is no way to do this that will not become a burden on the legitimate citizens. No way. Period. Even if you restrict an ID card to illegals (however you manage to perform the miracle of convincing illegal aliens to acquire one), eventually it will simply become easier to force the law-abiding carry an ID card rather than the illegals. And a national ID card is simply another avenue for identity theft.
FWIW, I am a former FBSD fan who's transitioned to CentOS quite happily. There's nothing quite like the ports tree, but yum ain't horrific, and I like the "enterprise" aspect of it. I haven't used the 64bit versions, but all in all, CentOS has been excellent.
Oh, sure, blame the victim. If you marry a girl who's used to being beaten by her father, is it NOT your fault if you beat her, too?
What? I suspect you make a lot of bad analogies when you argue.
Illegals who don't want to work for crappy employers can go elsewhere. They aren't "slaves", and using that kind of language shows how weak your argument is. You might notice I made no judgement on whether it's "wrong" or "right". I leave that kind of judgmental nonsense to busybodies like you. I said they aren't treated like normal above-board employees because they're coming here to work illegally. You might as well complain that the Mafia doesn't contribute to their employees' 401k. The employer offers a crap job at crap wages--the illegals take that crap job. That's a lot of things, but it's not the "fault" of the employer. I supposed he could offer big bucks and perks, and that'll be swell until he can't sell his produce or whatever.
Fine! Go make a census to all the illegal immigrants near the US border, and ask them whether they're scared of Immigration or not.
Huh. Why don't you do it instead. I've been quite assured by my government that there's nothing we can do about the 12-20 million illegals in this country, scary "la migra" or no. If "la migra" was so scary you'd think they'd be capable of doing something other than letting dead terrorists get their visa renewed.
You accusing me of living in a bubble really made me laugh. Thanks for that.
You'd have a compelling point, except by and large what we're talking about are not immigrants, but illegals. Immigrants who go through the normal process are great; illegals made citizens are not. Confusing the two as you did demonstrates quite well the hopelessness of the debate. One side wants to discuss illegal aliens, and the other side wants to talk about racism and xenophobia.
"Take a breather" indeed.
Slaves? Sounds expensive.
They treat them like migrant workers who only care about getting paid for doing menial labor, and are willing to do it for peanuts. If Mexico is so screwed up that there's millions of Mexicans who are willing to do shit jobs for nickels I fail to see how it's the employer's fault for not treating them like regular employees.
The "threatened" with "la migra" sounds like bullshit to me. It's a commonly known fact that our immigration service is a giant joke. At worst the worker will get bussed back across the border, where he's free to trot back at his convenience to go pick cabbages or whatever. You do know we have two border patrol agents in jail right now for shooting an illegal Mexican drug mule in the ass? Yeah, I don't think the migrant workers are shaking in their "los Levis" over "la migra".
Actually, 90% of Bostonians are Americans, not Irish. They didn't just step off the boat, they were born there. Granted, born of parents of Irish descent, maybe, but that does not make them immigrants. It makes them Americans.
Saying "we are a nation of immigrants" is a rhetorical dodge. We are a nation of largely native-born Americans. Second generation Americans are not immigrants.
More important is the attitude which immigrants display. Are you coming here to be Americans? Or are you coming here to take advantage of the American way of life? Then great--welcome. If you're coming here merely to lay claim to American benefits, but still want to be considered a different nationality--and most importantly, if you teach your children the same thing--then you're not welcome. No nation is obligated to accommodate a persistent disaffected sub-class of citizens.
Web log::Weblog::"We blog"
Like you said, silly. It's a terrible word. Who would want to call themselves a "blogger"? Yet thousands do, and think themselves quite important to boot.
I only run it as an experiment and to provide email support to the web apps. It even runs surprisingly well and has been a great way for me to teach myself basic mail server administration.
For learning purposes you do not need external port 25. Basic server administration is easy; it's when you get thousands of emails an hour that separates the button-clickers from the men. You won't get than on your cable modem mail server, at least not without the ISP having something to say about it.
Which is why I suggested that users should be able to opt in to having their port 25 open.
There is no compelling reason to do so, even on a request basis. Especially for amateur mail administrators--I don't trust you to secure your mail server.
That however blocks legitimate users such as myself who run their own mail servers.
Look, no offense, but the desire for 47 nerds to run a mail server on an old Dell at the end of a cable modem connection is not a compelling reason to allow bot nets to thrive. If you want to run a mail server, GoDaddy offers 'em for $5/month. Or get a business connection, like you did.
(Why would anybody want to run a mail server? It's nothing but a hassle, especially if you want to run one well.)
I'm just not getting it. Is this person sending a link to the feed once to direct people to it, or is he sending out a link to the feed every time something gets updated?
It sends out the RSS feed via email once a day to a mailing list. The program keeps tabs on what's new on the feed so it only sends out the updates.
That's a nice thing to say, but email is what people want. I can throw a rock and hit 20 people who regularly use email with confidence. I could probably drop a daisy-cutter bomb and not hit anybody who even knows what RSS is. Hell, I've even got a dingus that will send out an RSS feed over email. Electronic mail is still the killer app of the Internet. It has so many benefits people spend gobs of money and time trying to keep it working.
The spam problem is a virus problem. Spam sent within the US comes from zombied machines. That's a problem the ISPs can fix by blocking outbound port 25 traffic except to the ISPs mail relay. Too much mail from one machine means it gets blocked. Spam from outside of the US is almost certainly from China and Korea. There's not much legitimate traffic going from China or Korea to the US, so mail blocks on Chinese/Korean IPs, whitelisting known legitimate IPs, solves 90% of that problem.
The thing about spam is you don't have to completely eliminate it. You just have to make it less effective. It already has a low response rate. If you cut the delivery rate even by 75% you're making it even less fruitful. Eventually the purpose of spam will simply be to try to entice people to bogus Web sites in order to procure more zombied machines so the spammers can stay afloat. That's a recipe for eventual death.
If they didn't know that being naked was evil, how could they have known that disobeying god was?
Where's the paradox? Obedience doesn't require a knowledge of evil. You tell your child not to touch the hot pan--they don't have to know that it will hurt when they get burned, they just have to obey.