I wonder if the timing of this 'walkout' has anything to do with the Sun / JBoss compliance spat? They have been having an ongoing battle (not in court as yet) about whether JBoss can use the J2EE brand without being certified as compliant by Sun.
Maybe the Core Developer folks are hoping to steal some business from their old employers using an easily certified fork. Perhaps they even hope to get some mileage from CIOs worried by the SCO thing.
I'm using Technics 1200 decks and Denon 2000F CD players -- DJ/radio stuff. Decent sound quality and very good reliability, and nothing skips on either of them under any circumstances (although clicks and scratches are audiable).
When I play records and CDs on other people's gear, I find the CDs skip way more. Perhaps this is because CD players are more complex than turntables, or perhaps it's because most peoples turntables are from a time before 'planned obselesence'.
Though I prefer turntables, the Denon CD players did save my ass on one occasion when someone spilt a beer into the pitch control of one of my 1200s...
I clicked through your signature link to the 'Losing Nemo' website, and there's something in there that I think I should comment on.
While I'm with you on the 'Disney-are-bad-for-stifling-the-public-domain' front, I don't think you're going to win many supporters with the anti-gay angle:
Disney has openly promoted the gay lifestyle, which contradicts the traditional concept of a Christian nuclear family.
It all sounds a bit hysterical and trollish, and doesn't really add to your argument.
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I've found that when I have the same recording on both vinyl and CD, there's no hard and fast rule as to which will sound better. I think it probably depends on the mastering, actually.
I prefer vinyl as a format because (on good quality decks) you get more physical control over playback. Also, vinyl and turntables seem to last longer than CDs and CD players. Vinyl gets cueburn and occasionally scratches, but CDs are more inclined to skip crazily, and the scratches that CDs get usually ruin the whole disc.
Unless, of course, the aforesaid activist would like to volunteer for stage 1 drug testing... no? Didn't think so.
A bit of a straw man argument against human trials. Plenty of sick people volunteer to test potential cures.
At any rate, animal testing is far from perfect. Animal testing didn't reveal any negative side effects in the case of thalidomide, so the real testing happened on the human consumer. The kicker was that the pharmaceutical company was able to avoid paying damages, on the grounds that their product had been animal tested.
Regardless of what you think of the morality of animal testing, animals are not biochemically identical to humans (which is why you can't feed a dog chocolate but you can feed a goat arsenic). Animal testing of itself is no substitute for a human clinical trial.
Coming from Perl land, I've found O'Reilly's Learning Java really helpful with, uh, learning Java. It's all content and complements the Javadoc pages nicely.
Looks like Michael Swanwick got a lot of nominations this year. I hope he picks up a Hugo or two, he's a great underrated writer.
Check out Stations of the Tide if you haven't read any of his stuff yet. Great book, very much in the vein of The Void Captian's Tale by Norman Spinrad.
Perhaps the firewire is being dropped to encourage people to connect PS2s using the ports on the online kit (sold separately), or to encourage developers to implement link games using the same method (thus pushing kit sales). Or they just want developers to focus on online games rather than link games.
Of course, losing the firewire port may be necessary to cover the hardware costs of building in IR.
Filtering companies claim "Advanced Artificial Intelligence" and "Intelligent Algorithms" and we can't tell that they aren't just using a handcompiled blacklist updated regularly. And these are the companies that the politicians want EVERY LIBRARY and EVERY SCHOOL SYSTEM to use for filtering.
I wonder whether these companies donate money or give cushy consultancy jobs to the politicians in question. It could be argued that most of NASAs hardware troubles are due to corruption influencing the tender process, so the same could easily apply to filtering software.
Of course, the politicians in question may simply be religious nuts.
Yup, this thing is evil, invasive of privacy, and likely to fuel the megalomania of the particular flavour of parent that lives vicariously through their children.
On the other hand, if my school had used this system I would've developed a work ethic ten years earlier and wouldn't still be trying to finish that elusive Bachelor's degree.
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I wonder if the timing of this 'walkout' has anything to do with the Sun / JBoss compliance spat? They have been having an ongoing battle (not in court as yet) about whether JBoss can use the J2EE brand without being certified as compliant by Sun.
Maybe the Core Developer folks are hoping to steal some business from their old employers using an easily certified fork. Perhaps they even hope to get some mileage from CIOs worried by the SCO thing.
We're all someone's daughter, we're all someone's son; How long must we look at each other down the barrel of a gun?
Ah, Farnsey. He just gets better with age.
Hmmm, interesting.
I'm using Technics 1200 decks and Denon 2000F CD players -- DJ/radio stuff. Decent sound quality and very good reliability, and nothing skips on either of them under any circumstances (although clicks and scratches are audiable).
When I play records and CDs on other people's gear, I find the CDs skip way more. Perhaps this is because CD players are more complex than turntables, or perhaps it's because most peoples turntables are from a time before 'planned obselesence'.
Though I prefer turntables, the Denon CD players did save my ass on one occasion when someone spilt a beer into the pitch control of one of my 1200s...
Nope, looking good. Keep sticking it to the mouse and the frozen head with my blessing : )
I clicked through your signature link to the 'Losing Nemo' website, and there's something in there that I think I should comment on.
While I'm with you on the 'Disney-are-bad-for-stifling-the-public-domain' front, I don't think you're going to win many supporters with the anti-gay angle:
Disney has openly promoted the gay lifestyle, which contradicts the traditional concept of a Christian nuclear family.
It all sounds a bit hysterical and trollish, and doesn't really add to your argument.
Check this out:
SCO's CEO says buyout could end Linux fight
I've found that when I have the same recording on both vinyl and CD, there's no hard and fast rule as to which will sound better. I think it probably depends on the mastering, actually.
I prefer vinyl as a format because (on good quality decks) you get more physical control over playback. Also, vinyl and turntables seem to last longer than CDs and CD players. Vinyl gets cueburn and occasionally scratches, but CDs are more inclined to skip crazily, and the scratches that CDs get usually ruin the whole disc.
I can't stop humming that theme whenever I win some small victory, e.g. opening a particularly stubborn bottle of German beer.
Circuitous goatse link in the above post....
Indeed.
Check out my review and some other guy's great walkthrough.$ ping hostname
sh: ping: not found
The one that makes me tear my hair out:
ut-uac1$ man perl
No manual entry for perl.
I know it's a troll but...
Unless, of course, the aforesaid activist would like to volunteer for stage 1 drug testing... no? Didn't think so.
A bit of a straw man argument against human trials. Plenty of sick people volunteer to test potential cures.
At any rate, animal testing is far from perfect. Animal testing didn't reveal any negative side effects in the case of thalidomide, so the real testing happened on the human consumer. The kicker was that the pharmaceutical company was able to avoid paying damages, on the grounds that their product had been animal tested.
Regardless of what you think of the morality of animal testing, animals are not biochemically identical to humans (which is why you can't feed a dog chocolate but you can feed a goat arsenic). Animal testing of itself is no substitute for a human clinical trial.
(As a bizarre aside to all this, the fda has approved thalidomide as a tretment for leprosy.)
Look at the SuSE end user! He loves the GPL!
Coming from Perl land, I've found O'Reilly's Learning Java really helpful with, uh, learning Java. It's all content and complements the Javadoc pages nicely.
In this situation look to Colonel Klink for guidance.
"Hooooo-gan! Gif me back my monocle!"
Yeah. Like that.
Check out this comment for some good Gupta troll links. Or simply look at the many Troll ratings on his comments.
Sounds like a feature to me, in the same vein as the pop-up killer. Web pages are for putting content online, not taking control of the browser.
I do sympathise, though, as a PHB I used to have tried to make me do the same thing : )
If I had mod points you would be swimming in them right now.
Looks like Michael Swanwick got a lot of nominations this year. I hope he picks up a Hugo or two, he's a great underrated writer.
Check out Stations of the Tide if you haven't read any of his stuff yet. Great book, very much in the vein of The Void Captian's Tale by Norman Spinrad.
I have one in my living room and it's far from quiet. Great machine, but noisy as hell. I hear the GC is quiet tho'.
Perhaps the firewire is being dropped to encourage people to connect PS2s using the ports on the online kit (sold separately), or to encourage developers to implement link games using the same method (thus pushing kit sales). Or they just want developers to focus on online games rather than link games.
Of course, losing the firewire port may be necessary to cover the hardware costs of building in IR.
Seems reasonable. I'm a bit bewildered as to why the US apologised for firing on the hotel if they didn't do it, though.
What do you think about the attacks on Al-Jazeera?
There's a great first hand account of the life of an embedded journalist in the SMH.
And there's an interesting blurb here about the US killing non-embedded journalists.
Filtering companies claim "Advanced Artificial Intelligence" and "Intelligent Algorithms" and we can't tell that they aren't just using a handcompiled blacklist updated regularly. And these are the companies that the politicians want EVERY LIBRARY and EVERY SCHOOL SYSTEM to use for filtering.
I wonder whether these companies donate money or give cushy consultancy jobs to the politicians in question. It could be argued that most of NASAs hardware troubles are due to corruption influencing the tender process, so the same could easily apply to filtering software.
Of course, the politicians in question may simply be religious nuts.
Yup, this thing is evil, invasive of privacy, and likely to fuel the megalomania of the particular flavour of parent that lives vicariously through their children.
On the other hand, if my school had used this system I would've developed a work ethic ten years earlier and wouldn't still be trying to finish that elusive Bachelor's degree.