Well -- I have to say... I just downloaded Mozilla M17 and I was very impressed. It is fast, seems fairly stable, renders things right... but one thing I did notice is that when I went to/. to post my reaction and tried to type my username into the "username" slashbox, the whole left side of the screen started scrunching itself until it was very small! Did anyone else see this? I thought it was pretty funny, myself. =) I'd report it as a bug, but with hundreds of other/. readers probably noticing the same thing, I'm not sure if it would be worth my time.
So, about this pedal -- does anyone know if there is an equivalent of carpel tunnel syndrome for the ankles? It may be helping carpel tunnel syndrome, but my ankles are going to be damned sore after a hard day coding, I think!
Ah well. All in the name of load balancing, I suppose.
This reminds me of a couple years back when I used to work for a local ISP as a tech. One of my duties was answering calls from customers having trouble with their connection. You'd be suprised how many people scream "MY INTERNET IS NOT WORKING!" which begs the question -- is it really YOUR internet? Not exactly... I wanted to bitch so many customers out for that; I got pretty tired of hearing it. =)
So really, I don't think that this "my this, my that" thing has much to do with "tech culture" in general. I would not have considered those people on the phone part of the "tech culture" by any means. They just wanted to get on the internet and try to search for the latest gardening tips. I think it's something else in (American?) society that is causing this syndrome...
No, I would rather have 90%+ of people get the best health care in the world, than 100% get poor, crappy health care while waiting six months for a non-life-threatening surgery.
If so many people already get "the best health care in the world", would giving the rest of them really degrade the health care system that much? Especially if it's such a trivial number! You make it seem like the people who are not getting health care are such a trivial percentage that they don't even matter. Why does the health care system all of a sudden become poor and crappy just because everyone has it? If it would indeed do that, then that would indicate to me that there are serious problems beyond the scope of this discussion.
Through no fault of her own??? Unless she has been totally disabled and unable to work, she could have bought health insurance. You know, there is no law against buying your own insurance, and it's not that expensive.
She can't afford it. It's very hard to make enough money to live on minimum wage. (She works as an administrative assistant for a very small company; I'm trying to help her get a higher paying job, but she has social anxiety disorder and it's very hard for her to pass interviews. Get her medicine for it, you say? Nearly impossible; she doesn't have health insurance. Nice catch-22.) Rent, food, gas, and car insurance are ridiculously priced enough as it is. Health insurance becomes a luxury.
You may not realize it, but it's ridiculously hard to make a living here in the U.S. without a very high paying job. You continually feel the class gap pushing you down to the ground, and trying to make you stay there. It's quite frustrating.
Very dramatic, but wrong. They get treated -- by law. Hospitals cannot turn away people needing medical care.
Yes, well, I suppose it depends on your definition of "needing". It's up to the hospital to determine that. On one occasion, they almost didn't treat her (my gf) for a very serious medical condition that could have killed her very quickly. I'd rather not get into the details, but when something like this happens, it can really change your opinion on just how wonderful the healh care system here is.
So you would rather see people die and suffer than make health care available to everyone? Very compassionate.
This issue hits me on a personal note. My girlfriend, through no fault of her own, does not have health insurance. It costs mega-bucks whenever she needs to see a doctor. I pay for it, of course -- I love her. But it makes me really sad that there are people who can't get health care at all -- and they might not have the benefit of someone who will pay for it for them. And guess what happens when they come to the hospital, pleading for a doctor, begging for their lives? That's right -- they turn them away, because they don't have the cash.
So, I went to pay for it. I downloaded the PDF and glanced at it (I'm at work) and I decided I was in support of what King is doing. So I clicked on the link to pay. And that's when I decided... oh. Never mind. I didn't want to input my credit card to be stored into Amazon's systems, no matter hwo secure they claim to be.
It's a shame, really. I wonder how many other people don't pay because they are as paranoid as I am?
I firmly believe that if they were truly unsafe, the big companies would not have released cell phones to the market.
Well, this kind of thinking worries me. Why?
There are plenty of products out on the open market that are unsafe. You see, companies work to create the highest profits. If a company can save a few dollars, or even a few cents, per product, that translates to millions of dollars if they sell enough product. And if they determine that by excluding x safety feature from y product saves them a amount of money, if a amount of money is more than it takes to deal with b amount of isolated lawsuits, guess what -- the safety feature will be left out. It's happened time and time again.
"a cyberbody is a cloud's drifting shadow overing many tiles simultaneously" "computers will be as anonymous as molecules of air" "The cyberbody arrives and settles in like a bluebird perching on a branch."
.. and many more...
33. A file should be allowed to have no name, one name or many names. Many files should be allowed to share one name. A file should be allowed to be in no directory, one directory, or many directories. Many files should be allowed to share one directory. Of these eight possibilities, only three are legal and the other five are banned -- for no good reason.
Oh, and that's just plain wrong. Hasn't this guy heard of "ln"? They're "banned" in some (not mentioning any names) operating systems... and some of which have good reasons to be "banned".
I hear you on housing prices. As Joe Blow on the street, I can tell you that rent is extremely high, and I feel like I am being exploited every day. Having just moved away from home, I am really feeling the effects of the class gap, which is odd -- because I make significantly more than minimum wage, and I only have to pay 1/2 the rent! I don't know what the economic reason for all of this is, but it's not fun, and it's times like these that I think communism would be a Good Thing. =)
What I'm wondering is -- isn't Diablo II not supposed to be out yet? Why does taco get to play it? Just because he's CmdrTaco? =) Anyone know where to grab a copy, or do I have to know someone on the inside?
A quote from the article: Goodhew added that C# allows "developers (to) access any hardware and software." C# provides "complete access to (the) underlying platform."
Great... I get to open up all my devices to the web... how secure is that? How am I supposed to know if I should grant or deny when a box pops up that says:
This web application has requested access to your hardware. Would you like to grant it? (y/n)
I mean, I could "just say no" -- but then I might miss out on a jolly tune! WTF?
I can smell the viruses brewing from here.
Another quote from the article: It provides operating system independence (which Java provides), but it also provides language independence, which Java can't provide.
"Language Independence"? That statement is a bit vague -- so I am not sure what this guy is trying to say, but if he is talking about i18n, he is just wrong! Not only does Java have i18n support, but it would also be trivial to implement in any language that didn't. What the heck does this guy mean?
If you really want to get technical, you could argue that it's capitalism that actually sparks the greed in the first place -- so now we've gone full circle, and it's capitalism's fault again.
I'm not very good at explaining the whole deal, but there is a good (huge) FAQ at:
What happens in the case where you haven't listened to the music in two years, and your typing skills have dramatically improved or changed?
I can see how something like the authentication system you are talking about might work, but that is something that is used on an ongoing basis. If I change the way I type I can't access my music any more?
Besides, what if I decide to switch to the DVORAK layout?
Sounds great! I hope the same thing happens to the Quake engine that has been happening to the Doom engine lately.
Anyone know if that annoying bug in GLQuake has been fixed, where whenever something happens to your status bar, the numbers quickly flip back and forth between the old value and the new value? Is it just me? That bug pretty much stopped me from playing GLQuake any more. Anyone else know what I'm talking about?
*chuckle*... ha ha... Well, to that I would argue, using the same reasoning, (assuming you accept that humans are made out of essentially the same stuff that animals are) that if God didn't want us to eat humans, he shouldn't have made us out of meat. I think I will go roast my neighbor over a nice bonfire.
Well, I think you're on the right track. But there is one problem with that: hard drives crash!
I don't think something like what you are describing ("hard drives on a centralized server") would be viable until hard drives get rid of their last moving parts... I mean, sure, you have your various RAID solutions, etc, but you still have to pay to keep replacing the drives, and that gets pricey, especially for hobbyists who can't afford a data center to store their music and movies.
The good thing about these digial tapes is that besides being cheap, (well, cheaper than, say, writable DVDs or a RAID array) you don't see the same degredation you do with conventional analog recordings. That said, I do think the technology has some good uses and shouldn't be disregarded as backward and ancient, as VHS probably should be. =)
Regarding DVD; personally, I like the format, I just wish it was free of the bureaucracy and greed that makes it a problem for some... but hey, that's probably more of a societal issue, anyway, and that is a whole different thread...
Forgive me for asking this question, as I have been up all night working on a term paper, but...
What the hell does this have to do with meat?
Maybe I'm just tired and confused, and I can't figure it out. I just can't see the connection between this story and butchered animals. Systematically butchered and processed animals, for that matter. If somebody could please help me out here, it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
Interesting side effects?
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We've all heard about how solar flares can potentially kill electrical systems and such down here on earth, disrupt communications, even make our electricity go out... I just thought I'd report some funky occurances tonight..
my cell phone locked up on me.. three times
my atomic alarm clock can't get a signal; It's currently madly flashing at me in dispair.
Anyone else notice any odd occurances with your electronic gadgets?
Re:Sacramento, CA -- nothing =/
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D'oh.
Well, I just drove a few miles and got on top of a hill so i could see a broader portion of the northern sky.. still nothing =(. Bummer. Thanks for the infos though.
Sacramento, CA -- nothing =/
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I am just north of Sacramento, California (don't know the latitude) and I saw absolutely nothing. I was looking at and around polaris.
Well, I guess I can't say I saw nothing... did see a "shooting star"... and the sky looked like it was kinda flickering.. but I am not sure if that was the arora, or an LSD flashback. =)
Something smells fishy with this story; no pun intended. I wonder how extensive the landfill search was, and how long ago the tanks were "discarded"? Maybe it's possible that a sanation worker or boeing insider decided to appropriate these tanks! =) Of course, I haven't a clue what they would be any good for... hmm... what would one do with such a tank... put it in the living room? Y2K bunker maybe? I wonder how big the tanks are?
If I remember correctly from my class on the Environment and the Human Impact, we are adding 1 billion more people to the planet roughly every 12 years at the current rate.
That means by 2035, if growth continues at its current rate, there will be about 8.92 billion people on Earth.
Interesting ideas you might get on pot/LSD/whatever, but the coding process is very rational and process-oriented, which I can't see anyone doing well under anything but stimulants. Ah crap. I accidently posted that without my reply. Anyway, I was just going to make the comment that you are right about that; I did some LSD awhile ago and I couldn't remember how to FTP, let alone code anything. It was bizairre. Moral of the story: stick to caffeine for the coding part of the whole deal. =)
Interesting ideas you might get on pot/LSD/whatever, but the coding process is very rational and process-oriented, which I can't see anyone doing well under anything but stimulants.
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Well -- I have to say... I just downloaded Mozilla M17 and I was very impressed. It is fast, seems fairly stable, renders things right... but one thing I did notice is that when I went to /. to post my reaction and tried to type my username into the "username" slashbox, the whole left side of the screen started scrunching itself until it was very small! Did anyone else see this? I thought it was pretty funny, myself. =) I'd report it as a bug, but with hundreds of other /. readers probably noticing the same thing, I'm not sure if it would be worth my time.
Ah well. All in the name of load balancing, I suppose.
So really, I don't think that this "my this, my that" thing has much to do with "tech culture" in general. I would not have considered those people on the phone part of the "tech culture" by any means. They just wanted to get on the internet and try to search for the latest gardening tips. I think it's something else in (American?) society that is causing this syndrome...
No, I would rather have 90%+ of people get the best health care in the world, than 100% get poor, crappy health care while waiting six months for a non-life-threatening surgery.
If so many people already get "the best health care in the world", would giving the rest of them really degrade the health care system that much? Especially if it's such a trivial number! You make it seem like the people who are not getting health care are such a trivial percentage that they don't even matter. Why does the health care system all of a sudden become poor and crappy just because everyone has it? If it would indeed do that, then that would indicate to me that there are serious problems beyond the scope of this discussion.
Through no fault of her own??? Unless she has been totally disabled and unable to work, she could have bought health insurance. You know, there is no law against buying your own insurance, and it's not that expensive.
She can't afford it. It's very hard to make enough money to live on minimum wage. (She works as an administrative assistant for a very small company; I'm trying to help her get a higher paying job, but she has social anxiety disorder and it's very hard for her to pass interviews. Get her medicine for it, you say? Nearly impossible; she doesn't have health insurance. Nice catch-22.) Rent, food, gas, and car insurance are ridiculously priced enough as it is. Health insurance becomes a luxury.
You may not realize it, but it's ridiculously hard to make a living here in the U.S. without a very high paying job. You continually feel the class gap pushing you down to the ground, and trying to make you stay there. It's quite frustrating.
Very dramatic, but wrong. They get treated -- by law. Hospitals cannot turn away people needing medical care.
Yes, well, I suppose it depends on your definition of "needing". It's up to the hospital to determine that. On one occasion, they almost didn't treat her (my gf) for a very serious medical condition that could have killed her very quickly. I'd rather not get into the details, but when something like this happens, it can really change your opinion on just how wonderful the healh care system here is.
So you would rather see people die and suffer than make health care available to everyone? Very compassionate.
This issue hits me on a personal note. My girlfriend, through no fault of her own, does not have health insurance. It costs mega-bucks whenever she needs to see a doctor. I pay for it, of course -- I love her. But it makes me really sad that there are people who can't get health care at all -- and they might not have the benefit of someone who will pay for it for them. And guess what happens when they come to the hospital, pleading for a doctor, begging for their lives? That's right -- they turn them away, because they don't have the cash.
It's sickening.
So, I went to pay for it. I downloaded the PDF and glanced at it (I'm at work) and I decided I was in support of what King is doing. So I clicked on the link to pay. And that's when I decided
It's a shame, really. I wonder how many other people don't pay because they are as paranoid as I am?
Well, this kind of thinking worries me. Why?
There are plenty of products out on the open market that are unsafe. You see, companies work to create the highest profits. If a company can save a few dollars, or even a few cents, per product, that translates to millions of dollars if they sell enough product. And if they determine that by excluding x safety feature from y product saves them a amount of money, if a amount of money is more than it takes to deal with b amount of isolated lawsuits, guess what -- the safety feature will be left out. It's happened time and time again.
Doesn't that just give you the warm fuzzies?
"a cyberbody is a cloud's drifting shadow overing many tiles simultaneously"
"computers will be as anonymous as molecules of air"
"The cyberbody arrives and settles in like a bluebird perching on a branch."
.. and many more...
33. A file should be allowed to have no name, one name or many names. Many files should be allowed to share one name. A file should be allowed to be in no directory, one directory, or many directories. Many files should be allowed to share one directory. Of these eight possibilities, only three are legal and the other five are banned -- for no good reason.
Oh, and that's just plain wrong. Hasn't this guy heard of "ln"? They're "banned" in some (not mentioning any names) operating systems... and some of which have good reasons to be "banned".
I hear you on housing prices. As Joe Blow on the street, I can tell you that rent is extremely high, and I feel like I am being exploited every day. Having just moved away from home, I am really feeling the effects of the class gap, which is odd -- because I make significantly more than minimum wage, and I only have to pay 1/2 the rent! I don't know what the economic reason for all of this is, but it's not fun, and it's times like these that I think communism would be a Good Thing. =)
What I'm wondering is -- isn't Diablo II not supposed to be out yet? Why does taco get to play it? Just because he's CmdrTaco? =) Anyone know where to grab a copy, or do I have to know someone on the inside?
A quote from the article:
Goodhew added that C# allows "developers (to) access any hardware and software." C# provides "complete access to (the) underlying platform."
Great... I get to open up all my devices to the web... how secure is that? How am I supposed to know if I should grant or deny when a box pops up that says:
This web application has requested access to your hardware. Would you like to grant it? (y/n)
I mean, I could "just say no" -- but then I might miss out on a jolly tune! WTF?
I can smell the viruses brewing from here.
Another quote from the article:
It provides operating system independence (which Java provides), but it also provides language independence, which Java can't provide.
"Language Independence"? That statement is a bit vague -- so I am not sure what this guy is trying to say, but if he is talking about i18n, he is just wrong! Not only does Java have i18n support, but it would also be trivial to implement in any language that didn't. What the heck does this guy mean?
If you really want to get technical, you could argue that it's capitalism that actually sparks the greed in the first place -- so now we've gone full circle, and it's capitalism's fault again.
I'm not very good at explaining the whole deal, but there is a good (huge) FAQ at:
http://www.anarchism.ca/faq
Okay.
What happens in the case where you haven't listened to the music in two years, and your typing skills have dramatically improved or changed?
I can see how something like the authentication system you are talking about might work, but that is something that is used on an ongoing basis. If I change the way I type I can't access my music any more?
Besides, what if I decide to switch to the DVORAK layout?
"As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one." [ http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/leg ends/godwin/ ]
Ah, crap! I think we are going to have to adapt this to slashdot, before it's too late!
Sounds great! I hope the same thing happens to the Quake engine that has been happening to the Doom engine lately.
Anyone know if that annoying bug in GLQuake has been fixed, where whenever something happens to your status bar, the numbers quickly flip back and forth between the old value and the new value? Is it just me? That bug pretty much stopped me from playing GLQuake any more. Anyone else know what I'm talking about?
*chuckle* ... ha ha ... Well, to that I would argue, using the same reasoning, (assuming you accept that humans are made out of essentially the same stuff that animals are) that if God didn't want us to eat humans, he shouldn't have made us out of meat. I think I will go roast my neighbor over a nice bonfire.
Well, I think you're on the right track. But there is one problem with that: hard drives crash!
I don't think something like what you are describing ("hard drives on a centralized server") would be viable until hard drives get rid of their last moving parts... I mean, sure, you have your various RAID solutions, etc, but you still have to pay to keep replacing the drives, and that gets pricey, especially for hobbyists who can't afford a data center to store their music and movies.
The good thing about these digial tapes is that besides being cheap, (well, cheaper than, say, writable DVDs or a RAID array) you don't see the same degredation you do with conventional analog recordings. That said, I do think the technology has some good uses and shouldn't be disregarded as backward and ancient, as VHS probably should be. =)
Regarding DVD; personally, I like the format, I just wish it was free of the bureaucracy and greed that makes it a problem for some... but hey, that's probably more of a societal issue, anyway, and that is a whole different thread...
Forgive me for asking this question, as I have been up all night working on a term paper, but ...
What the hell does this have to do with meat?
Maybe I'm just tired and confused, and I can't figure it out. I just can't see the connection between this story and butchered animals. Systematically butchered and processed animals, for that matter. If somebody could please help me out here, it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
Anyone else notice any odd occurances with your electronic gadgets?
Well, I just drove a few miles and got on top of a hill so i could see a broader portion of the northern sky.. still nothing =(. Bummer. Thanks for the infos though.
Well, I guess I can't say I saw nothing ... did see a "shooting star" ... and the sky looked like it was kinda flickering.. but I am not sure if that was the arora, or an LSD flashback. =)
Something smells fishy with this story; no pun intended.
I wonder how extensive the landfill search was, and how long ago the tanks were "discarded"?
Maybe it's possible that a sanation worker or boeing insider decided to appropriate these tanks! =)
Of course, I haven't a clue what they would be any good for... hmm... what would one do with such a tank... put it in the living room? Y2K bunker maybe? I wonder how big the tanks are?
If I remember correctly from my class on the Environment and the Human Impact, we are adding 1 billion more people to the planet roughly every 12 years at the current rate.
That means by 2035, if growth continues at its current rate, there will be about 8.92 billion people on Earth.
Wow. All I can say is "good luck" to humanity.
Interesting ideas you might get on pot/LSD/whatever, but the coding process is very rational and process-oriented, which I can't see anyone doing well under anything but stimulants.
Ah crap. I accidently posted that without my reply.
Anyway, I was just going to make the comment that you are right about that; I did some LSD awhile ago and I couldn't remember how to FTP, let alone code anything. It was bizairre.
Moral of the story: stick to caffeine for the coding part of the whole deal. =)
Interesting ideas you might get on pot/LSD/whatever, but the coding process is very rational and process-oriented, which I can't see anyone doing well under anything but stimulants.