Offtopic, but I'm amazed that it was ever anyone's "favourite airline". KLM and Northwest have codeshare flights from India to Amsterdam/the US, and it's common consensus that KLM is one of the best and NW is one of the worst. Most people I know who need to travel on KLM/NW check carefully first who's operating that flight, and if it's NW, choose some other airline or some other date.
Though to be fair, all US airlines suck compared to their European or Asian counterparts. I've travelled on several.
What? I know the port system uses make, but I thought the packages were binary.
No, the ports tree is source based. To fetch and install a binary package (with dependencies automatically fetched too), simply type "pkg_add -r xmms" but binary packages may not be as up-to-date as ports.
Actually, you can quickly convert pictures to PNG with convert (command-line tool, comes with imagemagick, part of most Linux distros). You can also do resizing and other such trivial transforms that don't need visual feedback. Useful if, eg, you want to quickly generate thumbnails for a large number of images.
To give you an idea of how WRONG was that, David Dawes (one of the founders) stated in the public mailing lists that he thinks X-Window is the past, and that a Windows-like graphics infrastructure (he's now a windows user, btw) is the future.
The French have, of course, used this concept for years as the TGV,
The TGV is not a tilting train. And therefore it requires an exceptionally flat, straight and stable track for high-speed (300 km/h) operation (though it achieves a decent speed even on regular tracks).
Apropos, just last night, my wife and I watched Sex and Lucia . We saw the unrated version, but had it been rated, I'm pretty sure it would have received a "X" rating in the US. I have no idea what rating it had in its country of origin (Spain?)
That was its country of origin, no idea about the rating. In France (where I saw it) it was rated for age 12 and above. I suspect that was because of the violence and psychological stuff, not the nudity. "Eyes wide shut" had no restriction at all. In general, only violent/disturbing films and hard porn seem to get age-ratings in France; normal nudity is fine.
Actually, we rip on the French precisely because we aren't staring the possibility of a nuclear war in the face.
Are you saying that the Pakistanis may nuke India if the press goes all US-French abusive on them? Or, back in the day, the Soviets may have nuked the US because they didn't like the NYT?
The Indian press rips on the Pakistani government a good bit (especially Musharraf), but neither the press nor the people would abuse the ordinary Pakistani people the way you guys abuse the French. A Pakistani schoolchild on an exchange programme would be made very welcome. Pakistani cricket players are very popular in India (Wasim Akram has even informally coached some Indians). So are Pakistani musicians like Junoon. Vice versa, I believe Indian movies and music have a huge following in Pakistan, though their government frowns on it.
So I'm sorry, the attitude Americans have towards the US reflects something very deeply nasty -- about the Americans, not about the French.
Careful, your ignorance is showing. India is hardly the only country that uses sanskrit.
Note the phrase I used: "Indian origin" (and "suggests", I wasn't being categorical). I believe most Sanskrit users are Hindu and of Indian(-subcontinental) origin, in the same sense that white Americans are of European origin. But from what you say, my guess is you're from Indonesia. That's certainly an interesting country and, I admit, harder to categorise (though unquestionably Sanskrit arrived there from India, centuries ago). If I'm totally on the wrong track, I'm interested in hearing details.
If by "using Sanskrit" you mean speaking it in daily life, is that really true? Certainly it's not used daily in India, though everyone knows some common sayings and some basic Sanskrit is still taught in schools etc.
You're almost certainly American. (You could be a particularly obnoxious Brit, I guess.)
Your email address suggests you could have Indian origin. I'm from India, and even during the worst India-Pakistan tension I never saw the sort of crap in the Indian press about Pakistan that I continue to see in the US press (even "liberal" media like the New York Times) on a daily basis. At exactly the time when the US media was reporting on French exchange students being refused accommodation with American families, the Indian media was full of goodwill stories about a Pakistani girl who was undergoing a heart operation in India.
I lost all illusion of the US being a progressive country when I saw that anti-French onslaught. It's not just the Bushies, it's the entire media.
On the contrary, KDE is worse for the business apps. It's all about the license difference b/w GTK+ and QT. Choosing KDE would practically have forced the companies that want to ship closed source software to buy a expen$ive license for Qt (if they want to have the uniform "look", of course).
I'd have said just the opposite actually. Qt is not that expensive, and it makes money for TrollTech. If you want to prove to the business world that there's money to be made writing GPL software, Qt is a great example, so why not thrust it in front of the corporate types? And from all accounts I've seen, it really is the better, more cleanly designed toolkit. Ask the Opera people, who weren't embarrassed to pay for it.
The TGV has the current top record for a conventional train at a speed of 515 kph. However, it operates at a max of 220 kph.
No, it does not. It operates at an avg of 300 kph, and a max of well over (around 340 kph). It does Paris-Marseille, a distance of over 800 km, in 3 hours several times a day, and that's with the slower speeds near the origin and destination cities.
What language should I be picking up if I want to get a Unix sysadmin job where I sit in a back room writing scripts and fucking with archaic computers all the time?
English? I'd have thought there are lots of such Unix-sysadmin jobs in US universities, perhaps not great-paying but enough to get by on (we recently lost ours, who got a better offer elsewhere).
In any case, it seems to me that an interesting solution would be for "wealthy" countries to impose minimum wages on companies that do business in their country but employ people in other countries. E.g., if Nike had to pay its African workers, say, half of the U.S. minimum wage, or else be forbidden from doing any business at all in the States.
Fair enough if you scale the wage by purchasing power. It makes no sense to compare American minimum wage to an Indian salary when you can buy milk for around 30 cents a litre, bread for 30 cents a loaf, rent a decent two-bedroom apartment for $200 a month in Bangalore (the rent is probably far less in Chandigarh). For reference on rents, if you compare Bombay to New York, Bangalore would be Boston or San Francisco, and Chandigarh would be the capital of one of the midwestern farming states.
And to respond to a grandparent, Indian call-centre jobs are not sweatshop jobs. They're extremely well paid by Indian standards, which means they give you a much better standard of living than a call-centre job would in the US.
The Germans use H for B (and B for B-flat), that should help. (Thus Bach managed to encode his name into the last fugue he wrote, and it breaks off unfinished soon after he introduces that motif). Even more possibilities occur when you consider that E-flat is written Es, F-sharp is Fis, etc. Dmitry Shostakovich used DSCH (= D - Eflat - C - B) in many of his works.
The fact that the machine won't let you? It needs to be reset by the polling officer after each vote is registered.
Of course, you could bribe the officer, but technology can only help you so far, unless you're suggesting embedding fingerprint- or iris-recognition software into the machine.
The machines' manufacturers in India claim that the machines are tamper-proof. This is 1980s technology (and the article I link to is from 1999).
I'm not an expert but it seems reasonable. These machines are standalone units, not networked; they have hardcoded (machine-language) software on their chips, with no facility for modifying it or running an external program. To tamper with them you'd have to replace the motherboard with your own, on which you've embedded your own program, and even then it probably won't work since the machine has various safeguards for tampering. And these machines are extremely rugged and sturdy, and easy to use (I've handled them) and inexpensive (around $100 each).
Sometimes antique push-button technology is better than the latest cutting-edge stuff (anyway, who needs touchscreens, what's wrong with buttons?)
Switching OSes out of blind hatred is supposed to be good or l33t somehow?
With windows it's usually not blind hatred, it's hatred from close and intimate knowledge and experience.
I have Win XP on my laptop (couldn't buy without) but never use it. So some minor hardware stuff doesn't quite work right on linux, big deal. All the software works, I can get work done, while windows doesn't even ship with a decent text editor or an ssh client. If I'm forced to install cygwin for the most basic tools, I'd rather have linux.
It is true they are slightly below the national average when it comes to obesity at 18% v. 21% for the nation in 2001
And that's for all boroughs, I suspect if you had figures for Manhattan alone they'd be significantly lower.
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In the UK, nearly two-thirds of men and over half of all women are now overweight
Well, I should have said southern Europe: Spain, Italy, France. The UK isn't known for great food or healthy eating habits:)
It is true that many of these countries are beginning to catch up with the US. Doesn't mean you individually have to do that too. There are lots of fit people in the US -- in fact people in New York are about as thin as people in Europe, perhaps because they walk and use public transport.
Same NYT article, different spin this time. Perhaps it takes slashdotters that long to read the article. Or have the good folks at the SMH read it and interpret it for them.
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Though to be fair, all US airlines suck compared to their European or Asian counterparts. I've travelled on several.
No, the ports tree is source based. To fetch and install a binary package (with dependencies automatically fetched too), simply type "pkg_add -r xmms" but binary packages may not be as up-to-date as ports.
Actually, you can quickly convert pictures to PNG with convert (command-line tool, comes with imagemagick, part of most Linux distros). You can also do resizing and other such trivial transforms that don't need visual feedback. Useful if, eg, you want to quickly generate thumbnails for a large number of images.
I think you're thinking of David Wexelblat.
But not from a republic (like India). You have to owe allegiance to the Queen, like Canadians and Australians.
The TGV is not a tilting train. And therefore it requires an exceptionally flat, straight and stable track for high-speed (300 km/h) operation (though it achieves a decent speed even on regular tracks).
That was its country of origin, no idea about the rating. In France (where I saw it) it was rated for age 12 and above. I suspect that was because of the violence and psychological stuff, not the nudity. "Eyes wide shut" had no restriction at all. In general, only violent/disturbing films and hard porn seem to get age-ratings in France; normal nudity is fine.
Are you saying that the Pakistanis may nuke India if the press goes all US-French abusive on them? Or, back in the day, the Soviets may have nuked the US because they didn't like the NYT?
The Indian press rips on the Pakistani government a good bit (especially Musharraf), but neither the press nor the people would abuse the ordinary Pakistani people the way you guys abuse the French. A Pakistani schoolchild on an exchange programme would be made very welcome. Pakistani cricket players are very popular in India (Wasim Akram has even informally coached some Indians). So are Pakistani musicians like Junoon. Vice versa, I believe Indian movies and music have a huge following in Pakistan, though their government frowns on it.
So I'm sorry, the attitude Americans have towards the US reflects something very deeply nasty -- about the Americans, not about the French.
Note the phrase I used: "Indian origin" (and "suggests", I wasn't being categorical). I believe most Sanskrit users are Hindu and of Indian(-subcontinental) origin, in the same sense that white Americans are of European origin. But from what you say, my guess is you're from Indonesia. That's certainly an interesting country and, I admit, harder to categorise (though unquestionably Sanskrit arrived there from India, centuries ago). If I'm totally on the wrong track, I'm interested in hearing details.
If by "using Sanskrit" you mean speaking it in daily life, is that really true? Certainly it's not used daily in India, though everyone knows some common sayings and some basic Sanskrit is still taught in schools etc.
Your email address suggests you could have Indian origin. I'm from India, and even during the worst India-Pakistan tension I never saw the sort of crap in the Indian press about Pakistan that I continue to see in the US press (even "liberal" media like the New York Times) on a daily basis. At exactly the time when the US media was reporting on French exchange students being refused accommodation with American families, the Indian media was full of goodwill stories about a Pakistani girl who was undergoing a heart operation in India.
I lost all illusion of the US being a progressive country when I saw that anti-French onslaught. It's not just the Bushies, it's the entire media.
I'd have said just the opposite actually. Qt is not that expensive, and it makes money for TrollTech. If you want to prove to the business world that there's money to be made writing GPL software, Qt is a great example, so why not thrust it in front of the corporate types? And from all accounts I've seen, it really is the better, more cleanly designed toolkit. Ask the Opera people, who weren't embarrassed to pay for it.
No, it does not. It operates at an avg of 300 kph, and a max of well over (around 340 kph). It does Paris-Marseille, a distance of over 800 km, in 3 hours several times a day, and that's with the slower speeds near the origin and destination cities.
What, laptops?
Maybe this is the album cover they were thinking of?
English? I'd have thought there are lots of such Unix-sysadmin jobs in US universities, perhaps not great-paying but enough to get by on (we recently lost ours, who got a better offer elsewhere).
Fair enough if you scale the wage by purchasing power. It makes no sense to compare American minimum wage to an Indian salary when you can buy milk for around 30 cents a litre, bread for 30 cents a loaf, rent a decent two-bedroom apartment for $200 a month in Bangalore (the rent is probably far less in Chandigarh). For reference on rents, if you compare Bombay to New York, Bangalore would be Boston or San Francisco, and Chandigarh would be the capital of one of the midwestern farming states.
And to respond to a grandparent, Indian call-centre jobs are not sweatshop jobs. They're extremely well paid by Indian standards, which means they give you a much better standard of living than a call-centre job would in the US.
No. Have you heard Bach's last fugue? Then you wouldn't make that claim. You'll find a score here, look at bar 201, pg 97
It could decide whether Pat Garrett was a hero or a "liar who covered up a murder to save his reputation."
The Germans use H for B (and B for B-flat), that should help. (Thus Bach managed to encode his name into the last fugue he wrote, and it breaks off unfinished soon after he introduces that motif). Even more possibilities occur when you consider that E-flat is written Es, F-sharp is Fis, etc. Dmitry Shostakovich used DSCH (= D - Eflat - C - B) in many of his works.
The fact that the machine won't let you? It needs to be reset by the polling officer after each vote is registered.
Of course, you could bribe the officer, but technology can only help you so far, unless you're suggesting embedding fingerprint- or iris-recognition software into the machine.
I'm not an expert but it seems reasonable. These machines are standalone units, not networked; they have hardcoded (machine-language) software on their chips, with no facility for modifying it or running an external program. To tamper with them you'd have to replace the motherboard with your own, on which you've embedded your own program, and even then it probably won't work since the machine has various safeguards for tampering. And these machines are extremely rugged and sturdy, and easy to use (I've handled them) and inexpensive (around $100 each).
Sometimes antique push-button technology is better than the latest cutting-edge stuff (anyway, who needs touchscreens, what's wrong with buttons?)
With windows it's usually not blind hatred, it's hatred from close and intimate knowledge and experience.
I have Win XP on my laptop (couldn't buy without) but never use it. So some minor hardware stuff doesn't quite work right on linux, big deal. All the software works, I can get work done, while windows doesn't even ship with a decent text editor or an ssh client. If I'm forced to install cygwin for the most basic tools, I'd rather have linux.
And that's for all boroughs, I suspect if you had figures for Manhattan alone they'd be significantly lower.
Well, I should have said southern Europe: Spain, Italy, France. The UK isn't known for great food or healthy eating habits :)
It is true that many of these countries are beginning to catch up with the US. Doesn't mean you individually have to do that too. There are lots of fit people in the US -- in fact people in New York are about as thin as people in Europe, perhaps because they walk and use public transport.
Same NYT article, different spin this time. Perhaps it takes slashdotters that long to read the article. Or have the good folks at the SMH read it and interpret it for them.