What? I just installed Debian unstable on a 64MB flash card. Any distribution can pull that stunt, the only matter is what packages to install.
I actually find Slackware's packages to be a bit coarse. In the past you couldn't install emacs without a lot of associated crap, or you installed tetex in one huge chunk.
I remember in 1995 one of my friends thought he was hot shit with his 1GB SCSI hard disk, so he went with the "Everything" option in the Slackware installer. After nearly an hour of installing the T package series he finally ran out of disk space.
create table foo (bar int default nextval('my_sequence'))
That's hard? Give me a break. MySQL is so internally inconsistent that auto_increment is practically the only atom in the entire data definition syntax that uses the underscore! How about this bit of MySQL genius:
create table foo (bar int default 42 auto_increment primary key)
Which is the default: 42, or max(foo) + 1? The statement is internally inconsistent but MySQL allows it anyway. Nevermind the stupidity of requiring a unique index on the auto_increment column.
PostgreSQL has a number of operational problems -- vacuum, toast table indexes, and so forth -- but the SQL syntax is not one of those.
Why can't you have a stone floor? Stone is abundant: the whole planet is made of it. Cover it with tatami mats. Tatami is made from renewable reeds, and it regulates indoor humidity and temperature.
Hardwood finished and carpet are both the result of complicated chemical processes. I wouldn't recommend them for the interior of a "natural" home.
Great! Now I can get a second-rate, first generation 10KRPM hard drive with bad server performance and almost no capacity, from a company that disavowed the high end years ago by bailing on the SCSI market, all for the same price as established SCSI drives of the same size or established ATA drives four times the size.
Right, I forgot the other conditions: someone will also have to make a gprs phone that doesn't suck, and then some phone company will have to make a voice and data plan that doesn't suck.
Until it all comes together, I'm watching from a distance.
I agree that the Berry is damn useful, but if you have a phone with gprs data service and bluetooth, your bluetooth handheld can route through that. Someday someone will make a palm os 5 color handheld with bluetooth, sdio, infrared, and headphones, and i will buy it.
Wouldn't you consider -ffast-math to be a questionable shortcut? They should rename it -fviolate-ieee.
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Scapegoated, you mean.
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Are you fucking kidding? It was the Thiokole engineers who first broached the subject of the brittle O-ring, a full day BEFORE the challenger exploded. When the thing blew up, everybody immediately knew it was the O-ring. The investigation was a political circus with absolutely no point whatsoever.
But these things are all obnoxious PC-isms. Why should you need a setup disk for your hard drive? Just attach it. Why shouldn't you be able to boot a USB storage device? The firmware should be able to boot any attached storage device, or from the network.
At university, I only came near VMS under threat of force, because I have an invariant habit of typing 'ls' in any new login, screen, or xterm I see. This is fine in Unix, but in VMS it invokes Kafka's own editor, which has no known method of termination, not even convoluted emacs or vi compatability.
I thought Prey was extremely bad. The plot is hurried along in the style of a film. In fact the whole book is a film proposal, not a work of literature. A lot of the scenes from the book make no sense until you imagine the flow of action in a movie, and even then it is just a bad movie in your mind's eye.
The narrative in Prey is boring and childish. Crichton shows no more command of English expression than your average freshman composition class. Events in the book which deserve some fear and some dread are treated without any emotion at all. Doesn't a descent into the subterranean world of a pulsing, mechanical evil demand some exposition? Crichton doesn't think so, and dismisses this climactic scene in at most twenty large-type, double-spaced pages.
There is so much good literature in the world that I regret having spent even the few hours I did reading Prey. Certainly don't buy it, and if you got it as a gift, try selling it to you local used shop and picking up something worthwhile.
California is a net exporter of federal taxes, so you had better find some other state to blame for your tax burden. Suggesting that California federal representatives are in favor of sending troops anywhere is absurd, check your newspapers. Finally, it is quite comical to claim that your state should be in control of where its troops are deployed, as the only entity empowered to raise armies in the United States of America is the federal government.
Well I understand that most people never get more than 100 miles from their birthplace, and that many of the aforementioned birthplaces cannot be considered cosmopolitan by even generous estimates, and in fact most of them are downright shitholes, so I am willing to describe the situation for you. 3% of the population of San Francisco commutes to work on bicycle, and many more commute by foot, so the total size of the bicycle and pedestrian interest group is way over 5%. But, that isn't really relevant, because the ban was passed by the Board of Supervisors, a representative governmental body elected to their seats by the citizens of their districts, akin to the U.S. House of Representatives, but smaller.
The bill was passed by a vote of 8 in favor and 2 against, so we can perhaps derive that 80% of the city was in favor of the ban.
It is really simple: the Segway is not useful unless it moves significantly faster than the operator can walk. If it move significantly faster than the a person walking, it should not be mixed with pedestrian traffic on the sidewalk. Furthermore, if the Segway is reclassified as a pedestrian, it cannot be operated in the road or bicycle paths. Therefore, the Segway should not be reclassified as a pedestrian.
Well, I'll explain it for you and all the other lazy ignorant types who lurk around here. The California law defines pedestrian, and it includes any wheelchair when the operator, "by reason of physical disability, is otherwise unable to move
about as a pedestrian." The amenedment for Segway was just a giveaway, redefining anyone on a Segway as a pedestrian, which is absurd.
Hey asshole, here's a tidbit for you: we here in San Francisco don't give a flying handshake if lackwits from Ames, Iowa think Segways are safe. Respect the Federal system, and butt the fuck out.
This measure wasn't something the big, bad government imposed upon us. Local pedestrian and bicycle organizations got together to make sure that the state's insipid redefinition of "pedestrian" to include people on Segways wouldn't fly in this city.
I see a few notes here about how this is great for PocketPC and really bad for Palm. Well here's a tidbit for you: Palm OS rocks, and PocketPC sucks. I went shopping for a replacement PDA yesterday and I found that the PalmOS 5 machines from Palm and Sony were outstanding.
I also looked at PocketPC devices from HP, Toshiba, and T-Mobile. CompUSA had several models. Every single PocketPC had crashed with a message "device.exe [presumably part of the core] has executed an illegal instruction" blah blah blah. The power of Windows in your pocket!
DV is already compressed. Each frame is compressed individually for a constant data rate of 25 megabits per seconds.
Some video editing programs (like Final Cut) allow you to edit the video while it is still on the DV tape, then render it to a Quicktime movie directly. You do not need an intermediate copy on the hard disk.
The domain name is not a trademark registry. You have no moral claim to the domain name. Your only hope is throwing $1000 at ICANN, who will happily rule in your favor.
To use your own example, CNN doesn't scale at all. Whenever a major news even happens, CNN goes offline, along with MSNBC, et. al. CNN actually has a "breaking news" mode that eliminates all the database-driven crap from their front page. Yahoo scales well because they make extensive use of pre-generated files. Imagine that! For example, the charts on finance.yahoo.com are generated periodically, not custom generated on every request.
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What? I just installed Debian unstable on a 64MB flash card. Any distribution can pull that stunt, the only matter is what packages to install. I actually find Slackware's packages to be a bit coarse. In the past you couldn't install emacs without a lot of associated crap, or you installed tetex in one huge chunk. I remember in 1995 one of my friends thought he was hot shit with his 1GB SCSI hard disk, so he went with the "Everything" option in the Slackware installer. After nearly an hour of installing the T package series he finally ran out of disk space.
That's hard? Give me a break. MySQL is so internally inconsistent that auto_increment is practically the only atom in the entire data definition syntax that uses the underscore! How about this bit of MySQL genius:
Which is the default: 42, or max(foo) + 1? The statement is internally inconsistent but MySQL allows it anyway. Nevermind the stupidity of requiring a unique index on the auto_increment column.
PostgreSQL has a number of operational problems -- vacuum, toast table indexes, and so forth -- but the SQL syntax is not one of those.
Why can't you have a stone floor? Stone is abundant: the whole planet is made of it. Cover it with tatami mats. Tatami is made from renewable reeds, and it regulates indoor humidity and temperature.
Hardwood finished and carpet are both the result of complicated chemical processes. I wouldn't recommend them for the interior of a "natural" home.
Great! Now I can get a second-rate, first generation 10KRPM hard drive with bad server performance and almost no capacity, from a company that disavowed the high end years ago by bailing on the SCSI market, all for the same price as established SCSI drives of the same size or established ATA drives four times the size.
Hrmm.
Sounds like a problem with shitty software. But it doesn't change that fact that a point is 1/72 inches.
16pt is the same size on any screen.
"Some kind of database benchmark." Thanks for that insightful analysis of the 4-way, and pimping your own site on Slashdot. Tasteless!
Right, I forgot the other conditions: someone will also have to make a gprs phone that doesn't suck, and then some phone company will have to make a voice and data plan that doesn't suck. Until it all comes together, I'm watching from a distance.
I agree that the Berry is damn useful, but if you have a phone with gprs data service and bluetooth, your bluetooth handheld can route through that. Someday someone will make a palm os 5 color handheld with bluetooth, sdio, infrared, and headphones, and i will buy it.
Wouldn't you consider -ffast-math to be a questionable shortcut? They should rename it -fviolate-ieee.
Scapegoated, you mean.
Are you fucking kidding? It was the Thiokole engineers who first broached the subject of the brittle O-ring, a full day BEFORE the challenger exploded. When the thing blew up, everybody immediately knew it was the O-ring. The investigation was a political circus with absolutely no point whatsoever.
But these things are all obnoxious PC-isms. Why should you need a setup disk for your hard drive? Just attach it. Why shouldn't you be able to boot a USB storage device? The firmware should be able to boot any attached storage device, or from the network.
The backlight is on.
At university, I only came near VMS under threat of force, because I have an invariant habit of typing 'ls' in any new login, screen, or xterm I see. This is fine in Unix, but in VMS it invokes Kafka's own editor, which has no known method of termination, not even convoluted emacs or vi compatability.
The narrative in Prey is boring and childish. Crichton shows no more command of English expression than your average freshman composition class. Events in the book which deserve some fear and some dread are treated without any emotion at all. Doesn't a descent into the subterranean world of a pulsing, mechanical evil demand some exposition? Crichton doesn't think so, and dismisses this climactic scene in at most twenty large-type, double-spaced pages.
There is so much good literature in the world that I regret having spent even the few hours I did reading Prey. Certainly don't buy it, and if you got it as a gift, try selling it to you local used shop and picking up something worthwhile.
California is a net exporter of federal taxes, so you had better find some other state to blame for your tax burden. Suggesting that California federal representatives are in favor of sending troops anywhere is absurd, check your newspapers. Finally, it is quite comical to claim that your state should be in control of where its troops are deployed, as the only entity empowered to raise armies in the United States of America is the federal government.
Well I understand that most people never get more than 100 miles from their birthplace, and that many of the aforementioned birthplaces cannot be considered cosmopolitan by even generous estimates, and in fact most of them are downright shitholes, so I am willing to describe the situation for you. 3% of the population of San Francisco commutes to work on bicycle, and many more commute by foot, so the total size of the bicycle and pedestrian interest group is way over 5%. But, that isn't really relevant, because the ban was passed by the Board of Supervisors, a representative governmental body elected to their seats by the citizens of their districts, akin to the U.S. House of Representatives, but smaller.
The bill was passed by a vote of 8 in favor and 2 against, so we can perhaps derive that 80% of the city was in favor of the ban.
It is really simple: the Segway is not useful unless it moves significantly faster than the operator can walk. If it move significantly faster than the a person walking, it should not be mixed with pedestrian traffic on the sidewalk. Furthermore, if the Segway is reclassified as a pedestrian, it cannot be operated in the road or bicycle paths. Therefore, the Segway should not be reclassified as a pedestrian.
Well, I'll explain it for you and all the other lazy ignorant types who lurk around here. The California law defines pedestrian, and it includes any wheelchair when the operator, "by reason of physical disability, is otherwise unable to move about as a pedestrian." The amenedment for Segway was just a giveaway, redefining anyone on a Segway as a pedestrian, which is absurd.
Hey asshole, here's a tidbit for you: we here in San Francisco don't give a flying handshake if lackwits from Ames, Iowa think Segways are safe. Respect the Federal system, and butt the fuck out.
This measure wasn't something the big, bad government imposed upon us. Local pedestrian and bicycle organizations got together to make sure that the state's insipid redefinition of "pedestrian" to include people on Segways wouldn't fly in this city.
I see a few notes here about how this is great for PocketPC and really bad for Palm. Well here's a tidbit for you: Palm OS rocks, and PocketPC sucks. I went shopping for a replacement PDA yesterday and I found that the PalmOS 5 machines from Palm and Sony were outstanding. I also looked at PocketPC devices from HP, Toshiba, and T-Mobile. CompUSA had several models. Every single PocketPC had crashed with a message "device.exe [presumably part of the core] has executed an illegal instruction" blah blah blah. The power of Windows in your pocket!
DV is already compressed. Each frame is compressed individually for a constant data rate of 25 megabits per seconds.
Some video editing programs (like Final Cut) allow you to edit the video while it is still on the DV tape, then render it to a Quicktime movie directly. You do not need an intermediate copy on the hard disk.
The domain name is not a trademark registry. You have no moral claim to the domain name. Your only hope is throwing $1000 at ICANN, who will happily rule in your favor.
Thanks for sharing your expert knowledge of httpd.cond.dist.