Keep in mind that we, the people who see the evil trickery, are a flash in the pan of all the people Microsoft would like to spook people from Linux with fud. Several years ago Microsoft tried to use Linux's existance in their legal battles to say Hey, it's not peaches and cream for us with these commy hippie coders spreading free software, so please, DOJ, cut us some slack. Violins.
But at the time they weren't too worried about the long term growing threat, they were worried about the pending case. Now the big picture nightmare is being realized on all fronts and they need to go down in flames shooting off ridiculous attacks/defenses that they paid for because the net result will probably be in the black, at least beyond the slashdotters, of keeping more people from moving to linux than they drive toward linux because those people found out that MS paid for the study and yada yada. Count on that MS reads the likes of Slashdot and give them a little benefit of the doubt -- not with their ethics, but with their business sense. In this case I think the ensuing flood of "when will they learn" posts will be overstated. I should note however that MSFT has had a pretty disappointing performance and that the public is catching onto the hole they're in, and not every investor is going to stay on the ship just because Microsoft is selling video games.
But then I think, I am a Debian addict and I am defending MS's business decisions, and then I think I've been up all night perfecting my porn site and I'm beginning to hallucinate. I don't know where I'm going with this... Back to the porn!
Maybe, but considering that Linux and friends have been accelerating in marketshare growth and visibility, the compatibility issues will become a greater priority for the OEMs and it will be the companies' employees who will take care of what would otherwise have been the dirty hippies' project. Just another instance of supply catching up with demand.
I disagree. The reality of our system is such that parties cave in to settlement offers not based on true innocence or guilt but on cost-benefit analyses of pursuing the case in court and possibly winning (but at a high price), or losing at an even higher price, versus cutting losses and settling out of court. Settlements are not effective precedent setters as future battles may involve parties with different political liability and cash flow.
Man you young whippersnappers come up with witty lines like that like two seconds after the 20 second filter thingy stops. Anyway I'm just gonna ride your early post to get some traffic to my elite badass no login high res artsy pr0n site that can be found in my sig.
You know what else is fuel efficient (and cheap and very convenient and fun)? Go-peds, those engine-powered scooters. I had one and it got upwards of 100 miles per gallon, and it could do 33mph which is nothing to sneeze at. If the efficiency of these fuel-cell bikes grabs your attention, go grab yourself a go-ped or a minibike on eBay for less than $200. Get one before your state bans them.
It makes sense that there's a big market for ring tones because it is so annoying to hear someone's phone go off in a restaurant, auditorium, train, date, well anywhere. To not be that guy, many put their phones on vibrate. The thing is, these phones vibrate so vigorously that the sound of the vibration, even muted from being snugged up against someone's ass, is quite audible from a distance and not much less annoying than Fur Elise. It is an interruption of basically equal annoyance when someone starts vibrating in the middle of a lecture; and it is my theory that it is not necessarily the sound that pisses people off so much, but it is that the person neglected to turn their phone off before the class and the disrespect of their not having done that. I can handle these ringtones of recordings of regular bell ringing phones. Simple and subtle. But if I'm going to hear some pop song, it'd better be really funny for it to outweigh the annoyance.
My point is, in addition to the advent of new ringtone technology, cell phone manufacturers should conduct research and development to allow people to set the intensity of their phone's vibration to a point that the phone's vibrating is as quiet as possible while shaking hard enough for the person to feel it. This cannot be the same setting for all people due to bodyfat variations, so it has to be adjustable. C'mon, science!
Thanks. Actually, I was doing a little reverse psychology to get a helpful and not flagrantly trollish post in there that would ignite a relatively long thread yet get stapled with a -1 moderation.
I had to google cache the thing and I eventually got it. Basically, when you load up a page, it checks in with alexa.com and collects any thumbnails the site may have of either the specific page you want to go to or at least the front index of the domain. I think it does this with links as soon as the page is loaded, but it might only do one at a time on the mouseover. To tweak its settings, like the thumbnail server and the thumbnail size, you go to Tools > Extensions > [select it and hit options].
While I'm in A HREF mode, bookmark this. It brings you to google's image server (great for porn). Remember to go to advanced settings to turn off the safesearch filter and when searching for chicks click Large on the image size option first, if you're in a high-res mode that is.
My favorite thing about stories like this is that creates fertile ground on which to find links for warez to enhance whatever the given program of discussion is. That is the purpose of this thread. Its secondary purpose is to give me some karma, as I am in a whorish mood.
Allow me to kick it off. The following are links for Firefox browsers only as they will install themselves automagically upon click. You've been warned. A couple of these, I forgot which, install links are for the MS Windows platforms since most of you suckers use Windows even though this site is about Linux leetness.
Autocopy
saves you from having to hit ctrl+c to copy highlighted text, sort of like most remote terminal programs and irc clients
DictionarySearch will allow you get dictionary.com definitions in a new background tab by highlighting a word, right clicking it, and in the menu you can hit Dictionary Search for "triskaidekaphobia" Adblock should be self-explanatory. This one will identify the current US Homeland Security terrorism threat level with a small colored box in the status bar (fun for showing off to get IE users to make the switch) Stock ticker. When putting in your symbols, here are a few symbols for some indices: ^NDX (nasdaq), ^DJI (dow jones industrial average), ^GSPC for the S&P 500 LinkPreview will pop up thumbnail preview images [most of the time] when you mouseover a link. Frickin awesome. Requires restart.
Time to stop and hit submit before this article gets too many posts so that I may maximize karma intake:). Please reply with links to your own favorite plugins/extensions.
No need to drop cheddar on AV warez, just do apt-get update followed by apt-get upgrade and you're all set. Doing this once a year should ensure absolute security.
... Unless of course you're not using the most elite Linux distro, Debian, in which case you'd be fucked across the board. Can I get an amen?
As technology improves, along will consumers' ability to "block" ads, whether on the computer or on television with a tivo-like hack. This is an example of the marketing industry returning fire by making forms of advertisements as appealing as possible to consumers (in this case, by letting them opt-in to receive ads of relevance).
Take the Superbowl, to use television as an example. People tune in to that event even if they're not football fans just to see the ads. Millions were spent on those thirty second spots, and in a situation like that, millions more get spent on ad agencies to come up with entertaining ads.
As more people learn how to "block" ads on different mediums one way or another, the greater the demand will become to write and produce advertisements entertaining enough that people will want to see them in addition to companies creating several different ads at a time so viewers do not get hit with so much repitition. This Firefox plugin illustrates my points by allowing proud consumers to be informed about what they could spend their money on by filtering out ads that will most likely be of no interest to that Firefox user. This way, if Firefox somehow figures out that you already have a big penis by analyzing your slashdot posts, then you won't be seeing that type of spam. Instead you'll be advised of products that your computer deems worthy for that purpose by judging its relevance to your MO (deduced by Firefox from your web behavior).
If ads could be both very entertaining and minimally invasive, in addition to pushing products/services you'd most likely want to buy in a spontaneous situation, why wouldn't you install this? Not all of us are broke, and most of us want more stuff.
God damn I hate this moderation system. Because of douche bags like the one who modded you off topic for a very witty joke that actually was tied into the story, not only do I browse at -1, I have my user settings convert any flamebait or offtopic modded posts to +5 because more often than not that is their actual worth.
Sorry to get tangential, but your insightful comment brings up the issue of many men's preference (or at least my own) that their females remain idle during intercourse. I'm talking intercourse now, obviously not oral/handjobs, which is a whole different story.
For whatever reason, when I'm knocking boots, particularly from behind (either doggy or flat), girls tend to grind back toward me. I guess the idea is to get deeper or make the sex symbolically a more cooperative joint effort, but they end up throwing off my rhythm and make it harder for me to maintain a sense of full control [dominance?] of the activity. After I ask them to cool it on the movement, within minutes they're doing it again.
I think where I was going with this was that your model, though facetious, bares some truth. My instincts (or psychoanalytical issues) are such that I want my woman to relax and enjoy the railing, which to me seems like a good deal since it requires no effort from them -- unless it's missionary in which case they need to keep their legs suspended in air for extended periods of time). As the effort needed is minimal for my needs, perhaps with the right combination of benzodiazepines, dissociative anesthetics and opiates (and acetaminophen for their "headaches"), if they are not in the mood, prior to coitus women could put themselves in a state where they could get what they want (sleep, that with enough chemical juice the drugs could keep them under whilst they receive their banging), and I obviously could proceed get what I want.
Parenthetically, am I the only one here that with or without a woman resorts to using an orgasm as a substitute to sleeping pills?
It's beta 4 of Sarge but I think it lets you throw on Woody as well. Netinstalls are good obviously because it's a small DL, you end up DLing only what you need, and what you do download is fresh regardless of when you burnt the CD.
Also, I'm batting a thousand with this installer as far as getting X video working without a hitch... I can't say that for the sound server, but as they say, if you're interested in sound, you shouldn't be running Debian.:)
Google's got a golden brand. It's making its way as a verb into our dictionaries. People won't forget that it was the first engine not to be stuffed with clutter. People appreciate that their ads have been relatively tolerable and pretty well targeted, and I believe they will continue to associate these things with the Google brand despite what MS does so long as it's [barely] legal in regards to IP and antitrust territory.
Also, Linux *caugh Debian* is gaining enough marketshare that it is a very real threat on Microsoft's radar. As that continues to ascend, there will be a lot of people w/o MS search integrations. Moreover, IE has begun to go south in marketshare. People are realizing that there are some badass alternatives to IE and even without being marketed to use them by any form other than word of mouth. People may extend this logic to software beyond the web market, and who knows, maybe one day people will be comfortable with the.swx format.
So who said this fifty fifty thing about a major operation being done under the Bush administration? A senior Clinton advisor? Hey, any chance we're approaching an election in which the two candidates are neck and neck? Also, what's one of the most vulnerable "hot button" issues to the Bush administration? Oh, the environment?
I'm not defending Bush. All I am saying is, Reader Beware. You see a Slashdot blurb or a headline somewhere saying "Nuclear this and that! We'll probably cause a meltdown, 50/50! We're lighting our own WMDs!" What many of us may not realize is essential to consider is who came up with these numbers, upon what data is this guy basing his numbers which magically add up to an even 50 50? What political agenda might that guy have, considering that he was Clinton's go-to guy on the environment? Oh, he now is a top guy of some official-sounding "Institute for Policy Studies" in Washington DC? Did he get there because he's a green genius or maybe some strings were pulled for him by people who want some favors returned? Any word from him of the risks of not doing this clean-up?
You get the idea. Yeah, most of us saw Fahrenheit and know Bush is an evil liar; but please people, keep your Bullshit Detector on stand-by when getting politicked by either parties.
So we've got a growing demand for chronic (half-hourly) high bursts of RSS pings among Slashdot and other dynamic sites. Since Slashdot would prefer to pay only for the resources to handle their typical flow of traffic without these extreme clumps of bursts, why not outsource this and use one of those Akamai-like unlimited bandwidth setups to act as a proxy RSS server, for us and all the other RSS-using sites?
Since it is periodic "burst" bandwidth (as opposed to regular visitor traffic), they might be able to provide a better deal than what Slashdot has to pay their provider for the extra bandwidth accomodation. And with all these RSS sites, there's enough of a market for an Akamai-like service to code some kind of RSS proxy server and to offer this package.
Or better yet, force everyone to upgrade to an RSS client that randomizes within 15 minutes the times it checks in.
Company's brand way too strong
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I'm interning for a labor union, part of the AFL-CIO. The other day we had a consultant sent in from the head office of the local chapter to our "satelite office" who basically went around showing off his laptop, enticing them to buy it. "Because all the SEIU offices are buying from Dell," he said, "we have a great wholesale deal and I can get you this baby for only two grand. Watch me double click this and look how fast that pops up! Top of the line!"
I asked for him to list the specs: 1.8GHz, 14", 512MB, "Dell's guaranteed customer support," etc. I fired up pricewatch, told it to list 1.8GHz laptops with Windows installed (argh), and I'm looking at the same machine for $550. The ram was only 128, but pricewatch is listing 512 laptop chips starting at $50.
So I interject that even without some "wholesale deal" I could save them $1400 per laptop, but the consultant douche jumps in saying "Well you could save a few bucks buying from some no-name chopshop or you could get the peace-of-mind that buying from a trustworthy company that Dell offers."
My point is that a brand shouldn't be this powerful. Yeah maybe they'll send you a new machine if you step on it or whatever but you could work out similar deals with the little guys. But god damn, we're just going to drop hundreds of members' total dues for the year without shopping around??
Detecting a wall of office politics, as a lowly intern I backed off to choose my battles more carefully. After all, as far as the guys in my office were concerned, the two grand a unit wasn't coming out of some Christmas bonus fund or anything else that could affect them. My question is, in the interests of keeping our markets more effecient and increasing the flow of stuff being spread to consumers, shouldn't the government subsidize heavy promotion of pricewatch.com?
In the world of millions of websurfers examined over five years, any deceleration (or in this case a loss) of marketshare of even 1% is indeed huge. As much as I love this word Wooptyshit, this is impressive. But does this consider Firefox as Mozilla? Because I would be using Mozilla if I weren't using Mozilla Firefox. If this survey is considering Firefox as separate, then Firefox is Nader'ing Mozilla!
To wrap up, 1% is big, and that enough people have seen this major shift into the red of marketshare gain for Microsoft will spook it into dropping even more, and that will be compounded by the original reasons this dropped in the first place (my guess being the extreme amount of recent IE fuckups, the DoJ, CERT, and even Microsoft themselves saying maybe IE isn't the best choice). I'd say we've got the start of a trend, and as they say on Wall Street, the trend is your friend.
What Turbolinux needs to do for its next release is lay off a bit on the turbo factor and work on implementing into its browser a very simple Slashdot submissions grammar checker for people who just can't seem to handle the whole its/it's thing. Maybe in future versions they could add a checker for correct your/you're and there/their usage, but that might slow down the turboness...
For Christ sake, can't you editors change a stupid error like this in a submission? Put a disclaimer in the submission page if you have to, "We may modify your post to tidy up any utter stupidity that you all usually display."
It's not supposed to make you more productive. The meaning of life, for some of us at least, is not to become more and more productive until we die. There is something about mankind, something inside of us, that wants to be entertained and amused, and this includes being in an asthetically pleasing environment (like a well decorated home, or in this case, a futuristic desktop that no one else on their block has).
He also mispelled further. Farther refers to actual distance (I ran farther), further refers to a more metaphysical sense of distance (The poster needs to be educated further).
Slashdot Mirror
But at the time they weren't too worried about the long term growing threat, they were worried about the pending case. Now the big picture nightmare is being realized on all fronts and they need to go down in flames shooting off ridiculous attacks/defenses that they paid for because the net result will probably be in the black, at least beyond the slashdotters, of keeping more people from moving to linux than they drive toward linux because those people found out that MS paid for the study and yada yada. Count on that MS reads the likes of Slashdot and give them a little benefit of the doubt -- not with their ethics, but with their business sense. In this case I think the ensuing flood of "when will they learn" posts will be overstated. I should note however that MSFT has had a pretty disappointing performance and that the public is catching onto the hole they're in, and not every investor is going to stay on the ship just because Microsoft is selling video games.
But then I think, I am a Debian addict and I am defending MS's business decisions, and then I think I've been up all night perfecting my porn site and I'm beginning to hallucinate. I don't know where I'm going with this... Back to the porn!
Maybe, but considering that Linux and friends have been accelerating in marketshare growth and visibility, the compatibility issues will become a greater priority for the OEMs and it will be the companies' employees who will take care of what would otherwise have been the dirty hippies' project. Just another instance of supply catching up with demand.
I disagree. The reality of our system is such that parties cave in to settlement offers not based on true innocence or guilt but on cost-benefit analyses of pursuing the case in court and possibly winning (but at a high price), or losing at an even higher price, versus cutting losses and settling out of court. Settlements are not effective precedent setters as future battles may involve parties with different political liability and cash flow.
Man you young whippersnappers come up with witty lines like that like two seconds after the 20 second filter thingy stops. Anyway I'm just gonna ride your early post to get some traffic to my elite badass no login high res artsy pr0n site that can be found in my sig.
You know what else is fuel efficient (and cheap and very convenient and fun)? Go-peds, those engine-powered scooters. I had one and it got upwards of 100 miles per gallon, and it could do 33mph which is nothing to sneeze at. If the efficiency of these fuel-cell bikes grabs your attention, go grab yourself a go-ped or a minibike on eBay for less than $200. Get one before your state bans them.
My point is, in addition to the advent of new ringtone technology, cell phone manufacturers should conduct research and development to allow people to set the intensity of their phone's vibration to a point that the phone's vibrating is as quiet as possible while shaking hard enough for the person to feel it. This cannot be the same setting for all people due to bodyfat variations, so it has to be adjustable. C'mon, science!
You know, for the irony.
While I'm in A HREF mode, bookmark this. It brings you to google's image server (great for porn). Remember to go to advanced settings to turn off the safesearch filter and when searching for chicks click Large on the image size option first, if you're in a high-res mode that is.
Allow me to kick it off. The following are links for Firefox browsers only as they will install themselves automagically upon click. You've been warned. A couple of these, I forgot which, install links are for the MS Windows platforms since most of you suckers use Windows even though this site is about Linux leetness.
Autocopy saves you from having to hit ctrl+c to copy highlighted text, sort of like most remote terminal programs and irc clients
DictionarySearch will allow you get dictionary.com definitions in a new background tab by highlighting a word, right clicking it, and in the menu you can hit Dictionary Search for "triskaidekaphobia"
Adblock
should be self-explanatory.
This one will identify the current US Homeland Security terrorism threat level with a small colored box in the status bar (fun for showing off to get IE users to make the switch)
Stock ticker. When putting in your symbols, here are a few symbols for some indices: ^NDX (nasdaq), ^DJI (dow jones industrial average), ^GSPC for the S&P 500
LinkPreview will pop up thumbnail preview images [most of the time] when you mouseover a link. Frickin awesome. Requires restart.
Time to stop and hit submit before this article gets too many posts so that I may maximize karma intake :). Please reply with links to your own favorite plugins/extensions.
Yours, Douglas Simmons
Take the Superbowl, to use television as an example. People tune in to that event even if they're not football fans just to see the ads. Millions were spent on those thirty second spots, and in a situation like that, millions more get spent on ad agencies to come up with entertaining ads.
As more people learn how to "block" ads on different mediums one way or another, the greater the demand will become to write and produce advertisements entertaining enough that people will want to see them in addition to companies creating several different ads at a time so viewers do not get hit with so much repitition. This Firefox plugin illustrates my points by allowing proud consumers to be informed about what they could spend their money on by filtering out ads that will most likely be of no interest to that Firefox user. This way, if Firefox somehow figures out that you already have a big penis by analyzing your slashdot posts, then you won't be seeing that type of spam. Instead you'll be advised of products that your computer deems worthy for that purpose by judging its relevance to your MO (deduced by Firefox from your web behavior).
If ads could be both very entertaining and minimally invasive, in addition to pushing products/services you'd most likely want to buy in a spontaneous situation, why wouldn't you install this? Not all of us are broke, and most of us want more stuff.
God damn I hate this moderation system. Because of douche bags like the one who modded you off topic for a very witty joke that actually was tied into the story, not only do I browse at -1, I have my user settings convert any flamebait or offtopic modded posts to +5 because more often than not that is their actual worth.
For whatever reason, when I'm knocking boots, particularly from behind (either doggy or flat), girls tend to grind back toward me. I guess the idea is to get deeper or make the sex symbolically a more cooperative joint effort, but they end up throwing off my rhythm and make it harder for me to maintain a sense of full control [dominance?] of the activity. After I ask them to cool it on the movement, within minutes they're doing it again.
I think where I was going with this was that your model, though facetious, bares some truth. My instincts (or psychoanalytical issues) are such that I want my woman to relax and enjoy the railing, which to me seems like a good deal since it requires no effort from them -- unless it's missionary in which case they need to keep their legs suspended in air for extended periods of time). As the effort needed is minimal for my needs, perhaps with the right combination of benzodiazepines, dissociative anesthetics and opiates (and acetaminophen for their "headaches"), if they are not in the mood, prior to coitus women could put themselves in a state where they could get what they want (sleep, that with enough chemical juice the drugs could keep them under whilst they receive their banging), and I obviously could proceed get what I want.
Parenthetically, am I the only one here that with or without a woman resorts to using an orgasm as a substitute to sleeping pills?
It's beta 4 of Sarge but I think it lets you throw on Woody as well. Netinstalls are good obviously because it's a small DL, you end up DLing only what you need, and what you do download is fresh regardless of when you burnt the CD.
Also, I'm batting a thousand with this installer as far as getting X video working without a hitch... I can't say that for the sound server, but as they say, if you're interested in sound, you shouldn't be running Debian. :)
Also, Linux *caugh Debian* is gaining enough marketshare that it is a very real threat on Microsoft's radar. As that continues to ascend, there will be a lot of people w/o MS search integrations. Moreover, IE has begun to go south in marketshare. People are realizing that there are some badass alternatives to IE and even without being marketed to use them by any form other than word of mouth. People may extend this logic to software beyond the web market, and who knows, maybe one day people will be comfortable with the .swx format.
I'm not defending Bush. All I am saying is, Reader Beware. You see a Slashdot blurb or a headline somewhere saying "Nuclear this and that! We'll probably cause a meltdown, 50/50! We're lighting our own WMDs!" What many of us may not realize is essential to consider is who came up with these numbers, upon what data is this guy basing his numbers which magically add up to an even 50 50? What political agenda might that guy have, considering that he was Clinton's go-to guy on the environment? Oh, he now is a top guy of some official-sounding "Institute for Policy Studies" in Washington DC? Did he get there because he's a green genius or maybe some strings were pulled for him by people who want some favors returned? Any word from him of the risks of not doing this clean-up?
You get the idea. Yeah, most of us saw Fahrenheit and know Bush is an evil liar; but please people, keep your Bullshit Detector on stand-by when getting politicked by either parties.
Since it is periodic "burst" bandwidth (as opposed to regular visitor traffic), they might be able to provide a better deal than what Slashdot has to pay their provider for the extra bandwidth accomodation. And with all these RSS sites, there's enough of a market for an Akamai-like service to code some kind of RSS proxy server and to offer this package.
Or better yet, force everyone to upgrade to an RSS client that randomizes within 15 minutes the times it checks in.
I asked for him to list the specs: 1.8GHz, 14", 512MB, "Dell's guaranteed customer support," etc. I fired up pricewatch, told it to list 1.8GHz laptops with Windows installed (argh), and I'm looking at the same machine for $550. The ram was only 128, but pricewatch is listing 512 laptop chips starting at $50.
So I interject that even without some "wholesale deal" I could save them $1400 per laptop, but the consultant douche jumps in saying "Well you could save a few bucks buying from some no-name chopshop or you could get the peace-of-mind that buying from a trustworthy company that Dell offers."
My point is that a brand shouldn't be this powerful. Yeah maybe they'll send you a new machine if you step on it or whatever but you could work out similar deals with the little guys. But god damn, we're just going to drop hundreds of members' total dues for the year without shopping around??
Detecting a wall of office politics, as a lowly intern I backed off to choose my battles more carefully. After all, as far as the guys in my office were concerned, the two grand a unit wasn't coming out of some Christmas bonus fund or anything else that could affect them. My question is, in the interests of keeping our markets more effecient and increasing the flow of stuff being spread to consumers, shouldn't the government subsidize heavy promotion of pricewatch.com?
To wrap up, 1% is big, and that enough people have seen this major shift into the red of marketshare gain for Microsoft will spook it into dropping even more, and that will be compounded by the original reasons this dropped in the first place (my guess being the extreme amount of recent IE fuckups, the DoJ, CERT, and even Microsoft themselves saying maybe IE isn't the best choice). I'd say we've got the start of a trend, and as they say on Wall Street, the trend is your friend.
What Turbolinux needs to do for its next release is lay off a bit on the turbo factor and work on implementing into its browser a very simple Slashdot submissions grammar checker for people who just can't seem to handle the whole its/it's thing. Maybe in future versions they could add a checker for correct your/you're and there/their usage, but that might slow down the turboness...
For Christ sake, can't you editors change a stupid error like this in a submission? Put a disclaimer in the submission page if you have to, "We may modify your post to tidy up any utter stupidity that you all usually display."
It's not supposed to make you more productive. The meaning of life, for some of us at least, is not to become more and more productive until we die. There is something about mankind, something inside of us, that wants to be entertained and amused, and this includes being in an asthetically pleasing environment (like a well decorated home, or in this case, a futuristic desktop that no one else on their block has).
On the subject of the language, I misspelled misspell. Two S's in there.
You, sir, have made me laugh. I hope I'm not the only one that got that. High five.
He also mispelled further. Farther refers to actual distance (I ran farther), further refers to a more metaphysical sense of distance (The poster needs to be educated further).
me too!