... I just type s and arrow down and slashdot would be the first link since its my most visited site with S in the beginning. If I wanted to go to sinfest I'd go si and arrow down - this behavior has to change with FF3, now the browser will popup the most visited site with S in it - and that isn't necessarily slashdot. I don't think it quite works like that, I thought it "learnt" from your choice (takes a while) now when I press S slashdot comes up, if I want splatterladder I use arrow-down - that's the same behaviour as you had before, perhaps a different number of arrow-downs? It seems that it tries to guess what I'm going to choose (based on most used, bookmarks, freshness?) and makes it come up first.
I'll admit I didn't like it to start with either, but I've gotten used to it now.
Perhaps it's not as clever as I think, but it seems pretty efficient. The no-need-to-type-the-domain feature is hot for me too as my memory is very poor.
(remember you don't want body checks for concealed weapons) Remember that opinion I pretended was yours earlier? Don't forget that you still believe it. Perhaps I read too much between the lines, you prefer pat downs, fine, my bad. In which case perhaps you could just choose the pat down instead of the scanner?
Re the door: what about when the pilot has a heart attack (seems to be the most common problem), you just leave him to die... that's going to be pretty distracting for the co-pilot, no?
So if I prefer [my local] society as a whole to have a greater control over corporate activities - such as mass transit - then I'm a "slave to the man".
Ha ha.
What does having a marshal and locked cockpit achieve - one definitely dead guy for every hijacking attempt* and (at least) one dead stewardess to convince the pilot to open the cockpit door.
I'm not particular scared incidentally of hijacking. We don't allow the proliferation of small arms over here (UK) so drive by shootings are far less likely here. Getting hit by a car is a problem - that's why I choose to be a "slave to the man" and use pedestrian crossings or (shock!) look both ways before crossing. I know taking precautions against death marks me as a complete sheep but, you know, I quite like being alive. I'm sure you 'stick it to the man' by crossing busy roads at there most dangerous points without looking...
--- * if he's armed, well either he'll be shot before he has chance to reach his weapon (remember you don't want body checks for concealed weapons) or he'll be beaten to death or shot with his own sidearm.
It's no more a violation of privacy than having your bags xrayed.
Or are you scared that someone will find out you've got knees in your trousers, or other human body parts. The scans produced aren't exactly colour photographs.
Look on the bright side if an image of you from the scanner becomes public you'll be able to sue for a few hundred thousand dollars.
As for knowing why they should - you may have heard of this thing called hijacking, it's popular with the dissident crowd. Illegal narcotics? Ringing any bells with you?
I'm sure everything would be much safer under the scheme of bury-your-head-in-your-arse and don't check anyones person or baggage as they go on board instead just assume that the countless terroist groups worldwide prefer to attack powerlines.
Sheesh, nobody cares if you have a small penis, OK.
I would vote for you as president. Them disruptive kids need some good discipline. Woohoo, now I only need to convince another couple hundred million to vote for me and I might clinch it...!
I find it interesting that your complaint is that the teacher couldn't keep control of the class and not that he couldn't teach them Math (sic) at the appropriate level.
A maths teacher shouldn't be there to teach your child self-discipline. They are there to provide education, yes, but there is a responsibility for the student and their parents as well as the teacher. You cannot teach someone who doesn't want to learn (without resorting to corporal/fiduciary incentives at least).
When I'm president of the world we'll bring back the cane for the most disruptive children (to be administered by an official of a high-school court, not the teacher). However you'll be able to leave school early (about 12 years), provided you have basic maths and English language ability, and enter a vocational college.
One of the guests shouted out: "I can't eat that!".
"Why?" enquired a troubled hostess.
"This fish is still frozen in the middle."
That was a true tale. The meal was free to "the guest" but he rightly pointed out that it wasn't fit to eat. If I give you something and it's sucky I'd rather you told me.
Summary: You should complain no matter what price you pay, or if something is free-gratis. That means that your benefactor can make a correction if there is some error. Of course that might just say FY, but that's their prerogative.
I didn't say PageRank was perfect, just about as good as it gets. Then why don't google _just_ use PR to provide list rankings rather than applying adaptations over the top?
I think a moderation system that's less digital would be better.
It's not science [...] or at least not the important part. You're not a theoretical physicist then? Most of the recent big names in physics I can think of were theoreticians (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theoretical_Physics#Prominent_theoretical_physicists gives one list).
I find your assertion to be like saying the important part of a building is the manufacture of the materials. Sure you can't make a building without making the materials but the architecture and engineering is quite important, no?
Basically the theoretical framework and the experiment design are equally important elements, the actual experiment is the hook on which you attempt to hang it - the hook can hold or fail.
The purpose of the War on Drugs is to support the price of illegal drugs. Rehab center workers are part of the "war on drugs". Perhaps a little more moderation.
As for "working.. in Iraq", I was referring to domestic policy, which appeared to be your domain of discussion. If Iraqi people start pushing wraps on the street corner then yes line 'em up and shoot 'em would eliminate the problem of people selling drugs on the street corner.
It's a cost benefit analysis a couple of thousand GBP is worth a few nights in jail, it's not worth the risk of summary execution.
... making it free would make libertarians and wannabe economists cry out: "Socialism ! Bad ! Why should my tax money support anything, you communist swine ? Free market ! Free market ! Free market !" I'd re-employ those conductors as they act to oil the social aspects of travel on mass-transit (turning out trouble makers/the antisocial). Then charge around cost-price. Don't make it free - people equate free with worthless.
If you're worried about capitalist zealots then have a public referendum - would you like (a) the above system, (b) to pay more from the public purse and then charge more at point of implementation as well. You could also ask if the general principle should be applied or if further referenda are required (noting that the cost of the referenda will be included in the "at cost" charge made for the service).
I'll guess at the outcome. Put the cost of the referendum back into the ticket charge.
One of the questions he asked, after that point, was who I worked for. When I told him, he said (snappily) that, for that reason alone, I should understand why he'd told me to turn everything off. Er, isn't the answer rather plain... so you can hear him and he can hear you? You know, the police stop you, you turn the radio off so you can listen to what they have to say and respond. It's some weird anachronism called courtesy.
There could be more, perhaps border guards are mic-ed to relay problems without raising alarm (in those crossing the border) and your radio equipment messes with his comms? Only you would know that as you have such an in depth knowledge of security services. This seems most likely given his comment that you "should understand".
So all those reformed addicts and families of those that died through their drug lifestyles, those that work in rehab centers and to campaign against the proliferation of drugs in our communities. Those people are doing it to keep the price high?
I'll grant you there may be some elements of the higher echelons that are purely evil and wish to profit from the destruction of peoples lives that hard drugs leads to, but such pure capitalist are a small element I warrant.
If all drug dealers, runners, growers were shot on site... that too would end the "war".
10 cents is not a bad price. Actually it's a terrible price. You're making an infringing copy of copyrighted music, why pay? It doesn't make it less illegal if you pay a little for it.
doesn't misspell 'al-Qaeda'. You realise that is not an English language word but a transliteration (or possibly transcription). As it's not in international phonetics there's no one right answer.
Different Arabic users will have different pronunciations anyhow and different English users will attach different sounds to the letters.
Incidentally the bastion of balanced research (wikipedia) gives both alternatives.
How does an author who writes 8 hours a day make a living if he gives his stuff away? Writing magazine articles is different to writing software. RedHat, Apache et al. make their money from support contracts (AFAI can tell) whilst Mozilla makes a heap from ad revenues from Google. Some make money from associated hardware sales. Further models have been explained here already (http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=564293&cid=23546957).
Magazines, as opposed to article writers, can even give away content (possibly the content they paid your brother for) as it's a hook to snare subscribers / buyers.
Article writers, bloggers even, can make money by writing propaganda or promoting particular businesses but things are getting a bit thin at this end of things and will depend on the subject matter to a huge degree.
Free fiction is unlikely to lead to co-sales unless it's so good people want to buy the rest-of-the / the-second book. Free reference material can have discrete ads and lead to sales.
I agree if you present "mere" information and then ask people to pay (if they want) then they won't. They'll still want more from you too. That's capitalism - find the lowest price that doesn't kill your workforce then pay slightly less.
My point was why would you bust your balls to make life easy for the company that's just decided you're not worth having on the payroll?
Professionalism, sure. But I think my loyalty would run out when they decided I was worthless to them.
If all those project documentation tasks haven't been done, then that's no longer your concern... barring a legal blip (aka "notice") you're out of there.
Interruption of power (if there are no generators) or network connectivity is likely to be more successful.:P But all actual "datacenters" will have redundant power and network connections.
So, you'll need an accomplice to make the best of it.
But as for "were Slashdot readers currently unaware of the concept of Open Source". I think it bears repeating that to be a good community member you should give back what you can.
Some think open source just means no money to pay.
Slashdot Mirror
Can a secretary show you naked women?
Can a tree show you wood?
... I just type s and arrow down and slashdot would be the first link since its my most visited site with S in the beginning. If I wanted to go to sinfest I'd go si and arrow down - this behavior has to change with FF3, now the browser will popup the most visited site with S in it - and that isn't necessarily slashdot. I don't think it quite works like that, I thought it "learnt" from your choice (takes a while) now when I press S slashdot comes up, if I want splatterladder I use arrow-down - that's the same behaviour as you had before, perhaps a different number of arrow-downs? It seems that it tries to guess what I'm going to choose (based on most used, bookmarks, freshness?) and makes it come up first.I'll admit I didn't like it to start with either, but I've gotten used to it now.
Perhaps it's not as clever as I think, but it seems pretty efficient. The no-need-to-type-the-domain feature is hot for me too as my memory is very poor.
FWIW.
Re the door: what about when the pilot has a heart attack (seems to be the most common problem), you just leave him to die
So if I prefer [my local] society as a whole to have a greater control over corporate activities - such as mass transit - then I'm a "slave to the man".
...
Ha ha.
What does having a marshal and locked cockpit achieve - one definitely dead guy for every hijacking attempt* and (at least) one dead stewardess to convince the pilot to open the cockpit door.
I'm not particular scared incidentally of hijacking. We don't allow the proliferation of small arms over here (UK) so drive by shootings are far less likely here. Getting hit by a car is a problem - that's why I choose to be a "slave to the man" and use pedestrian crossings or (shock!) look both ways before crossing. I know taking precautions against death marks me as a complete sheep but, you know, I quite like being alive. I'm sure you 'stick it to the man' by crossing busy roads at there most dangerous points without looking
---
* if he's armed, well either he'll be shot before he has chance to reach his weapon (remember you don't want body checks for concealed weapons) or he'll be beaten to death or shot with his own sidearm.
It's no more a violation of privacy than having your bags xrayed.
Or are you scared that someone will find out you've got knees in your trousers, or other human body parts. The scans produced aren't exactly colour photographs.
Look on the bright side if an image of you from the scanner becomes public you'll be able to sue for a few hundred thousand dollars.
As for knowing why they should - you may have heard of this thing called hijacking, it's popular with the dissident crowd. Illegal narcotics? Ringing any bells with you?
I'm sure everything would be much safer under the scheme of bury-your-head-in-your-arse and don't check anyones person or baggage as they go on board instead just assume that the countless terroist groups worldwide prefer to attack powerlines.
Sheesh, nobody cares if you have a small penis, OK.
I find it interesting that your complaint is that the teacher couldn't keep control of the class and not that he couldn't teach them Math (sic) at the appropriate level.
A maths teacher shouldn't be there to teach your child self-discipline. They are there to provide education, yes, but there is a responsibility for the student and their parents as well as the teacher. You cannot teach someone who doesn't want to learn (without resorting to corporal/fiduciary incentives at least).
When I'm president of the world we'll bring back the cane for the most disruptive children (to be administered by an official of a high-school court, not the teacher). However you'll be able to leave school early (about 12 years), provided you have basic maths and English language ability, and enter a vocational college.
The food came to the table.
One of the guests shouted out: "I can't eat that!".
"Why?" enquired a troubled hostess.
"This fish is still frozen in the middle."
That was a true tale. The meal was free to "the guest" but he rightly pointed out that it wasn't fit to eat. If I give you something and it's sucky I'd rather you told me.
Summary: You should complain no matter what price you pay, or if something is free-gratis. That means that your benefactor can make a correction if there is some error. Of course that might just say FY, but that's their prerogative.
I think a moderation system that's less digital would be better.
I find your assertion to be like saying the important part of a building is the manufacture of the materials. Sure you can't make a building without making the materials but the architecture and engineering is quite important, no?
Basically the theoretical framework and the experiment design are equally important elements, the actual experiment is the hook on which you attempt to hang it - the hook can hold or fail.
---
What we need here is a car analogy
As for "working
It's a cost benefit analysis a couple of thousand GBP is worth a few nights in jail, it's not worth the risk of summary execution.
... making it free would make libertarians and wannabe economists cry out: "Socialism ! Bad ! Why should my tax money support anything, you communist swine ? Free market ! Free market ! Free market !" I'd re-employ those conductors as they act to oil the social aspects of travel on mass-transit (turning out trouble makers/the antisocial). Then charge around cost-price. Don't make it free - people equate free with worthless.If you're worried about capitalist zealots then have a public referendum - would you like (a) the above system, (b) to pay more from the public purse and then charge more at point of implementation as well. You could also ask if the general principle should be applied or if further referenda are required (noting that the cost of the referenda will be included in the "at cost" charge made for the service).
I'll guess at the outcome. Put the cost of the referendum back into the ticket charge.
Call me a communist
I think you mean
We can finally have a cluster of Beowulf's!
I thought you could only have those in Soviet Russia, just goes to showThere could be more, perhaps border guards are mic-ed to relay problems without raising alarm (in those crossing the border) and your radio equipment messes with his comms? Only you would know that as you have such an in depth knowledge of security services. This seems most likely given his comment that you "should understand".
So all those reformed addicts and families of those that died through their drug lifestyles, those that work in rehab centers and to campaign against the proliferation of drugs in our communities. Those people are doing it to keep the price high?
... that too would end the "war".
I'll grant you there may be some elements of the higher echelons that are purely evil and wish to profit from the destruction of peoples lives that hard drugs leads to, but such pure capitalist are a small element I warrant.
If all drug dealers, runners, growers were shot on site
Pardon my ignorance.
Different Arabic users will have different pronunciations anyhow and different English users will attach different sounds to the letters.
Incidentally the bastion of balanced research (wikipedia) gives both alternatives.
Magazines, as opposed to article writers, can even give away content (possibly the content they paid your brother for) as it's a hook to snare subscribers / buyers.
Article writers, bloggers even, can make money by writing propaganda or promoting particular businesses but things are getting a bit thin at this end of things and will depend on the subject matter to a huge degree.
Free fiction is unlikely to lead to co-sales unless it's so good people want to buy the rest-of-the / the-second book. Free reference material can have discrete ads and lead to sales.
I agree if you present "mere" information and then ask people to pay (if they want) then they won't. They'll still want more from you too. That's capitalism - find the lowest price that doesn't kill your workforce then pay slightly less.
[quote]heir Tuits haven't had their turn on the lathe yet[/quote]
Now that's what I like about slashdot, obscure references to quirky sayings that 99% of the world never heard in the first place.
In Soviet Russia tuits get round to you!
Sorry I was being too vague and ascerbic.
... barring a legal blip (aka "notice") you're out of there.
My point was why would you bust your balls to make life easy for the company that's just decided you're not worth having on the payroll?
Professionalism, sure. But I think my loyalty would run out when they decided I was worthless to them.
If all those project documentation tasks haven't been done, then that's no longer your concern
So, you'll need an accomplice to make the best of it.
Oops.
But as for "were Slashdot readers currently unaware of the concept of Open Source". I think it bears repeating that to be a good community member you should give back what you can.
Some think open source just means no money to pay.
For real??
Oh, you mean and translated in to BorkBork?
this may come as a suprise ... but sometimes other people besides the questioner read the answers.
Shocking I know.
And he _did_ say "donate" and not "donate money".