Actually, they can track you to within 50 metres without a GPS. All that's necessary is that you're within range of three mobile phone towers and they triangulate.
So instead you want "and we went in and blew them up, yay for us humans"? I thought this was a much more thoughtful ending. You know what, we're not invincible.
You're right, exercise is better. Have you looked at the majority of software engineers lately?
I *had* a gym pass once... I even paid for it myself. I went three times. I *hated* it. There's a table tennis table in the lunch room and I occasionally play. My main form of exercise is Dance-Dance-Revolution (well, StepMania actually, at home) and carrying a baby around on the days I don't work.
On the other hand, when I step out of the office to get a coffee I always do it with friends, and it's a great way for me to relax. When I don't have a coffee, I burn out by 2pm and go in search of sugar. One espresso a day or lots of calories... I know which is better for my health, thank you!
As for alcohol, I think once or twice a month (or even a week) is reasonable. And I don't binge.
Besides, bad code happens. That's why any company doing such software as you are speaking of has a verification department. My other half used to write code related to emergency services. You don't get much more critical than that... and work occasionally put on wine in the afternoon. So I'd love to see real solid research for "wine == bad code" because I think that's a crack up.
In Australia income tax & sales taxes are levied by the federal gov't. It then distributes to the state based on population (roughly - some stages are physically huge but smaller population-wise and probably get extra taxes per person as a result). That sorts this problem out rather nicely - who cares where you work?
Of course, a country with only six states (plus two territories) doesn't have as many people working interstate either.
This has been posted elsewhere, but to make it clear since you've been modded up - Solaris is the distribution, ala "Debian". SunOS is the core, ala GNU/Linux.
From Sun's Solaris 2 FAQ:
Solaris 2 is an "operating environment" that includes the SunOS 5.x operating system and the OpenWindows 3.x window environment.
Have a law passed that makes it illegal to get corporate "donations" for political parties to campaign. Take it out of the budget instead. Every party gets the same amount of money, possibly with an extra amount of money based on membership so you don't have the "Grasshoppers must die" party getting the same as a party who actually want to do something right. If the corporates can't bribe politicians, they might actually think for a change, who knows?
Incidentally, has anyone realised that such a law would make it illegal to convert your VHS home videos to DVD without putting DRM on them?
At a *Catholic* school?! I'm Catholic, and after church we often serve coffee, and Catholics are notorious for their love of wine. That's the craziest thing I've ever heard.
Oh, come on! Joss Whedon probably has nothing to do with the stupid website. Why deny yourself a good movie just because some twits in web development think that they don't need to support Linux?
Besides, do you *really* think that they're going to notice the difference at the box office? Or if they did, that they'll make the connection? Of course not!
Pouting isn't attractive, it just makes you look like a spoilt child.
The controls on the BSD kernel are a good thing, at least from a server perspective. As an example - CD record on Linux uses SCSI (unless this changes recently). Someone wanted to use an IDE burner. So they hacked up a SCSI-IDE interface and voila, instant CD burning. BSD has IDE burning native. No stupid hacks. No compiling SCSI support into the kernel to support an IDE drive. This is the *right* way to do things. Yes, I turn to Linux for the latest & greatest, but I turn to BSD for reliability.
Unfortunately the vendors have chosen Linux due to its greater adoption. Mind you, I can't think of a single reason WHY Linux is more popular than the BSDs (Free/Open/Net) for servers. For workstations it's obvious - wider hardware support, more funky apps. But for servers? Bah, there's a reason I run FreeBSD at home.
I'm a *nix (FreeBSD & Solaris preferred, but Linux too) admin, but in this circumstance I would have switched to Windows too. TCO is really more important than ephemeral "but you can fix it yourself" claims. Especially since, if you RTFM, they can't - they can't get support unless they are running a certified operating system. So they can't tweak it, they can't just automate their patches - it's an admin's nightmare! Good on him for switching to the OS that works. Sorry, RedHat.
Right tool for the right job. Most of the time I think Unix is the better tool, but sometimes you don't need a swiss army knife. Sometimes you need a hammer. Windows is a very effective hammer;)
I don't know what it's like in the US, but in Australia movies are now cheaper than ever. Getting a VHS under $30 was almost impossible, but people are buying a lot more movies now that DVD is the standard, and many people say "if it's not under $20 I'm not interested" for mainstream media (anime is of course an exception - harder to find). Net result: I haven't paid over $15 for a movie for the last year or two. They all come down within 6 months on sale.
As for HDTV, we've got a mandate that it must be broadcast over here by the main free-to-air channels. Not everything is in HD yet, but damn it's the best way to watch the footy! (I have a friend with a home cinema... now THAT was awesome).
That's disgusting! In high school I would have failed for sure (instead of being in the top 2% as I was) because I HATED homework. When I've got it, I've got it! Stop wasting my time!
I had a tendency to skip classes all over the place. I'm now very grateful for Australia's system. Yes, I had a few subjects where 10% was just for attendance, but the other 90% you actually had to work.
We chose X-Box because it had the best graphics, and many of the games we happened to want were the NON-exclusives... so we chose the console that played them best. If we were choosing on games alone we would have been torn between the GC and the PS2. It was definitely the console stats that put the GC out of the picture, even though we love Nintendo games (especially Zelda:Windwaker and Smash Bros). The HDD in the X-Box was also a deciding factor, I'm sick of paying for memory cards.
It happens that I've modded my X-Box recently, but that was mostly because Microsoft support for a particular problem was more expensive than getting the X-Box modded (which fixed the problem). I now love X-Box Media Center and StepMania, but my husband and I have spent 17 hours in the past week playing Pokemon inside an emulator on the X-Box! We've come to the conclusion that we prefer Nintendo games, especially now that we have a little one in the family, so our next console will be a Nintendo. I'm hoping that this time they'll learn from their mistakes and bring out a real competitor, not the child-targeted system they made last time. I think they forgot that (most) children can't afford a console, it's the teenagers and adults that it has to be marketed to.
Yes, but then a Linux distro comes with the kitchen sink these days. So I don't think it's unreasonable for controls to come with Windows, as long as they can be turned off.
So what's wrong with a download/upload limit? Give me a 5 GB/month data limit on a lightning fast connection over an unlimited 256K connection any day!
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Actually, they can track you to within 50 metres without a GPS. All that's necessary is that you're within range of three mobile phone towers and they triangulate.
So instead you want "and we went in and blew them up, yay for us humans"? I thought this was a much more thoughtful ending. You know what, we're not invincible.
You're right, exercise is better. Have you looked at the majority of software engineers lately?
... I even paid for it myself. I went three times. I *hated* it. There's a table tennis table in the lunch room and I occasionally play. My main form of exercise is Dance-Dance-Revolution (well, StepMania actually, at home) and carrying a baby around on the days I don't work.
... I know which is better for my health, thank you!
... and work occasionally put on wine in the afternoon. So I'd love to see real solid research for "wine == bad code" because I think that's a crack up.
I *had* a gym pass once
On the other hand, when I step out of the office to get a coffee I always do it with friends, and it's a great way for me to relax. When I don't have a coffee, I burn out by 2pm and go in search of sugar. One espresso a day or lots of calories
As for alcohol, I think once or twice a month (or even a week) is reasonable. And I don't binge.
Besides, bad code happens. That's why any company doing such software as you are speaking of has a verification department. My other half used to write code related to emergency services. You don't get much more critical than that
Excess ANYTHING is bad for you - even exercise.
In Australia income tax & sales taxes are levied by the federal gov't. It then distributes to the state based on population (roughly - some stages are physically huge but smaller population-wise and probably get extra taxes per person as a result). That sorts this problem out rather nicely - who cares where you work?
Of course, a country with only six states (plus two territories) doesn't have as many people working interstate either.
This has been posted elsewhere, but to make it clear since you've been modded up - Solaris is the distribution, ala "Debian". SunOS is the core, ala GNU/Linux.
From Sun's Solaris 2 FAQ:
Have a law passed that makes it illegal to get corporate "donations" for political parties to campaign. Take it out of the budget instead. Every party gets the same amount of money, possibly with an extra amount of money based on membership so you don't have the "Grasshoppers must die" party getting the same as a party who actually want to do something right. If the corporates can't bribe politicians, they might actually think for a change, who knows?
Incidentally, has anyone realised that such a law would make it illegal to convert your VHS home videos to DVD without putting DRM on them?
At a *Catholic* school?! I'm Catholic, and after church we often serve coffee, and Catholics are notorious for their love of wine. That's the craziest thing I've ever heard.
;) /Aussie
You Americans are nuts
It's $1.69 in Australia.
Easy - the fact that the first child is a son is irrelevant.
And I have friends going to see it *again*.
It's the same actors as in the series, and in my opinion they captured their characters very well (I haven't actually seen Serenity yet).
Oh, come on! Joss Whedon probably has nothing to do with the stupid website. Why deny yourself a good movie just because some twits in web development think that they don't need to support Linux?
Besides, do you *really* think that they're going to notice the difference at the box office? Or if they did, that they'll make the connection? Of course not!
Pouting isn't attractive, it just makes you look like a spoilt child.
*watches karma sink*
The controls on the BSD kernel are a good thing, at least from a server perspective. As an example - CD record on Linux uses SCSI (unless this changes recently). Someone wanted to use an IDE burner. So they hacked up a SCSI-IDE interface and voila, instant CD burning. BSD has IDE burning native. No stupid hacks. No compiling SCSI support into the kernel to support an IDE drive. This is the *right* way to do things. Yes, I turn to Linux for the latest & greatest, but I turn to BSD for reliability.
Unfortunately the vendors have chosen Linux due to its greater adoption. Mind you, I can't think of a single reason WHY Linux is more popular than the BSDs (Free/Open/Net) for servers. For workstations it's obvious - wider hardware support, more funky apps. But for servers? Bah, there's a reason I run FreeBSD at home.
I'm a *nix (FreeBSD & Solaris preferred, but Linux too) admin, but in this circumstance I would have switched to Windows too. TCO is really more important than ephemeral "but you can fix it yourself" claims. Especially since, if you RTFM, they can't - they can't get support unless they are running a certified operating system. So they can't tweak it, they can't just automate their patches - it's an admin's nightmare! Good on him for switching to the OS that works. Sorry, RedHat.
;)
Right tool for the right job. Most of the time I think Unix is the better tool, but sometimes you don't need a swiss army knife. Sometimes you need a hammer. Windows is a very effective hammer
So maybe Microsoft's not telling? :)
What do you value a human life at? Seriously, when people are lost at sea the cost of a search is about the same as this, but we still do it.
This girl has been given a second chance. That's worth the money IMHO.
I don't know what it's like in the US, but in Australia movies are now cheaper than ever. Getting a VHS under $30 was almost impossible, but people are buying a lot more movies now that DVD is the standard, and many people say "if it's not under $20 I'm not interested" for mainstream media (anime is of course an exception - harder to find). Net result: I haven't paid over $15 for a movie for the last year or two. They all come down within 6 months on sale.
... now THAT was awesome).
As for HDTV, we've got a mandate that it must be broadcast over here by the main free-to-air channels. Not everything is in HD yet, but damn it's the best way to watch the footy! (I have a friend with a home cinema
Noir is also excellent, and I liked Haibane Renmai too, but since the latter is non-violence and non-sex it may not appeal to most anime watchers ;)
That's disgusting! In high school I would have failed for sure (instead of being in the top 2% as I was) because I HATED homework. When I've got it, I've got it! Stop wasting my time!
I had a tendency to skip classes all over the place. I'm now very grateful for Australia's system. Yes, I had a few subjects where 10% was just for attendance, but the other 90% you actually had to work.
IIRC, in Australia at least, if you're actually *fired* the non-compete clause doesn't apply.
We chose X-Box because it had the best graphics, and many of the games we happened to want were the NON-exclusives ... so we chose the console that played them best. If we were choosing on games alone we would have been torn between the GC and the PS2. It was definitely the console stats that put the GC out of the picture, even though we love Nintendo games (especially Zelda:Windwaker and Smash Bros). The HDD in the X-Box was also a deciding factor, I'm sick of paying for memory cards.
It happens that I've modded my X-Box recently, but that was mostly because Microsoft support for a particular problem was more expensive than getting the X-Box modded (which fixed the problem). I now love X-Box Media Center and StepMania, but my husband and I have spent 17 hours in the past week playing Pokemon inside an emulator on the X-Box! We've come to the conclusion that we prefer Nintendo games, especially now that we have a little one in the family, so our next console will be a Nintendo. I'm hoping that this time they'll learn from their mistakes and bring out a real competitor, not the child-targeted system they made last time. I think they forgot that (most) children can't afford a console, it's the teenagers and adults that it has to be marketed to.
Yes, but then a Linux distro comes with the kitchen sink these days. So I don't think it's unreasonable for controls to come with Windows, as long as they can be turned off.
There's an e-Learning system out there called WebCT Vista ... been out for 2 years now. I wonder how that will affect Windows Vista.
So what's wrong with a download/upload limit? Give me a 5 GB /month data limit on a lightning fast connection over an unlimited 256K connection any day!
I'm female, I married my DM. Oh, and we have a baby, so he definitely got laid.