Exactly. Since the Editors won't do it, submitters should. After all, this is supposed to be a grass-roots project. Editors don't submit stories. They infrequently comment on non-slashdot stories. The submitters should make the change.
Oh, how nice it would be to get an advance warning every time we're about to appear on Slashdot;-)
Since the mirror/bit-torrant system is user-managed, why shouldn't the warning system also be user-managed? If you post a story on slashdot, e-mail the webmasters of sites with large files so they can set up coping mechanisms.
Both my wife and I had the surgery. I had -4.5 correction in both eyes before the surgery (near sighted, I can never remember the sign, but I think it is minus) and my wife had -9.75 and -10.25. We went to the same surgeon, well regarded and with (at the time) thousands and thousands of procedures under his belt.
I had a great experience. When I'm tired, I have some blurriness that I didn't have before, but for the most part it went well for me.
My wife did not have a good experience. She ended up with too much scarring (I guess) so that at low light, when the pupils are most open, she has starring and streaming, meaning that any light will cover the rest of her vision.
She cannot drive at night, enjoy dark movies, play billiards in a dark pool hall or see the stars.
Those of you saying "coke bottle glasses" - then I'd advise against the procedure. The correction necessary for strong prescriptions lead to bad side effects because of the size of the area that needs to be treated.
Some other suggestions: 1) pour on the lubricating drops during that first month -- i don't think you can do too much. 1b) if your eyes itch, put in some drops! 2) do NOT touch your eyes while you are healing 3) do NOT do it during allergy/hay feaver season 4) do NOT squint hard to relieve the itching
We think that she might have had a better experience with the new lasers that are more precise in applying the correction. The new techniques analyze the surface of the eye during the procedure to better guage where the treatment should be applied. The older method (4 years ago) used a map that the doctor programmed into the machine without feedback during the procedure.
ps - A better explanation of my wife's results. I think (IANAO) that the lasers leave angles on the surface of the eye (not the cornea, which was moved out of the way for the surgery). These angles occur on the boundry between the LASIKed area and the untreated area. When the pupils open wide, these area allow light to be refracted to multiple locations on the retina, which then covers the area of the retina that should be picking up other images.
Agreed. If I am a black hat (I'm not) and I find a bug in a piece of software that allows my to root thousands of computers on the Internet, I'm not at all motivated by values less than 6 figures.
Virus writers create virii for no compensation at all. I'm not surprised that black hats are motivated by something other than trivial compensation.
1) cheap Why? More expensive models generate revenue and more profits.
2) colors I think this is being done. See other posts
3) standardized accessories Why? More products sold for new units generate more revenue and more profits.
4) extendable Why? New features require you to upgrade your entire system and generates more sales and more profits. from another post 5) durability Why? Devices that wear out generate more sales, revenue and profits. Besides, new features require phone upgrades anyway, they don't need to last forever.
6) work everywhere Why? Vendor X thinks their protocol is better than vendor Y and all vendors benefit from protocol differences through additional sales, just because location A is supported by vendor X, vendor Y still makes a sale for that same location.
In short, the vendors, who make these decisions do not benefit from any of these options suggested (except maybe number 2) because they reduce revenue and profits.
Remember that Linus "retires" from a version of the kernel when he thinks it is stable enough for a maintainer to supervise. Once he is freed from maintaining the current "release" version of the kernel, he starts working on the next development version.
He'll pass version 2.6 to someone and then start work on 2.7, just as he passed 2.4 to Marcelo Tosatti and then began working on 2.5.
I used to be a die-hard Debian proponent, but lately, several packages have failed to install and operate properly. E-mails to the maintainers have gone unreplied and in the end, I had to go to the source to make problems go away.
Right now, I feel that debian package maintenance is lacking because
1) maintainers are overwhelmed with the complications of actually running an install and uninstall (example, try to uninstall exim or ppp... not all the files, especially those in cron directories are deleted)
2) documentation lags (changes in man pages do not get updated with debian specific distribution issues)
3) updated features are extremely delayed (yeah, yeah, use testing if stable isn't up-to-date enough, but in a production environment, that isn't an option because you'll lose the stability you need for everything when you're trying to use the latest feature on one specific package. If I want up-to-date sendmail, it doesn't mean I want to sacrifice the stability of glibc).
4) troubleshooting difficulties. When I have a problem, I can't always determine... is it the package maintainer, the software, the configuration or the user. Also, I find that discussion of package related issues lacking. If I'm stuck, I need someone who understands both the application and the package, not just the application and not just the package.
I think this misses the point. I can alter images (and audio files) BEFORE they get into the chain of evidence custody. That is the risk of digital evidence.
Sell Schmell. Exposure is what bands need. Not an occassional sell. There will be other sites that promote new artists and offer cheap downloads of unsigned artists.
Imagine being at a restaurant and hearing something worth purchasing, and not some hash of a great song. Personally, I'd be thrilled to hear that my music is getting public performance playtime. My only wish is for periodic announcements of the artist and title.
No, just because you pay doesn't mean that you've taken ownership. Most registrars now have a cooling down/grace period where the domain is off-line, but still waiting for the user to reclaim their domain. All they do is pay on the owner's behalf. The registrar doesn't care who's money pays for the renewal.
Behaviorially, certainly. Many anti-virus programs, which act like anti-bodies to delete and prevent viruses from spreading, will stop virus-like behavior (like installing software).
I'm afraid I disagree. While illegal immigrants may avoid drawing on estabilished social programs, many social programs are designed solely for the benefit of illegal immigrants. There are many programs that are designed to provide health, legal and social care. Additionally, illegal immigrants create special problems for law enforcement that require additional resources. Finally, since illegal immigrants have few established rights, they often are locked into situations which are breeding grounds for crime, poverty and abuse.
All of these issues reduce resources from the rest of the population.
The problem with epinions is that the user base is not the same as Slashdot. As a result, the reviews there are less likely to reflect the concerns I would share with other Slashdot geeks.
Also, few of those reviews reflect the give and take of a comparison - claim/ counter claim - that is so abundant on slashdot.
Children of drug-addicted parents are often under nourished, under educated and abused.
Drugs affect your ability to make reasoned choices. Dependancy is not good and any child of a drug-dependant would tell you (if they could). It makes for a crazy perspective and the result is that healthy behaviors are rejected because they are not familiar.
Babies born from crack-addicted mothers can be crack-addicted at birth and have a higher rate of birth defects due to the impact of the drug use and blood flow.
We've been doing this (backup to disk) over a remote link to our off-site data center for over a year. In NYC, with high bandwidth solutions available cheaply, we use rsync and a vpn to transfer our data from our HQ to our off-site data facility across the state line.
The disadvantage is that snapshots don't handle "hey, I need a restore from last month" easily, so we back up to tape (albeit less frequently) for those situations.
It has reduced our backup tape requirements significantly, and recovery from disaster or file loss is much quicker. It is inexpensive and reliable (I once spent 4 weeks reassembling files from a crashed hard drive when the backup tapes (all 20 of them) had become unreadable).
Slashdot Mirror
Exactly. Since the Editors won't do it, submitters should. After all, this is supposed to be a grass-roots project. Editors don't submit stories. They infrequently comment on non-slashdot stories. The submitters should make the change.
Oh, how nice it would be to get an advance warning every time we're about to appear on Slashdot ;-)
Since the mirror/bit-torrant system is user-managed, why shouldn't the warning system also be user-managed? If you post a story on slashdot, e-mail the webmasters of sites with large files so they can set up coping mechanisms.
Both my wife and I had the surgery. I had -4.5 correction in both eyes before the surgery (near sighted, I can never remember the sign, but I think it is minus) and my wife had -9.75 and -10.25. We went to the same surgeon, well regarded and with (at the time) thousands and thousands of procedures under his belt.
I had a great experience. When I'm tired, I have some blurriness that I didn't have before, but for the most part it went well for me.
My wife did not have a good experience. She ended up with too much scarring (I guess) so that at low light, when the pupils are most open, she has starring and streaming, meaning that any light will cover the rest of her vision.
She cannot drive at night, enjoy dark movies, play billiards in a dark pool hall or see the stars.
Those of you saying "coke bottle glasses" - then I'd advise against the procedure. The correction necessary for strong prescriptions lead to bad side effects because of the size of the area that needs to be treated.
Some other suggestions:
1) pour on the lubricating drops during that first month -- i don't think you can do too much.
1b) if your eyes itch, put in some drops!
2) do NOT touch your eyes while you are healing
3) do NOT do it during allergy/hay feaver season
4) do NOT squint hard to relieve the itching
We think that she might have had a better experience with the new lasers that are more precise in applying the correction. The new techniques analyze the surface of the eye during the procedure to better guage where the treatment should be applied. The older method (4 years ago) used a map that the doctor programmed into the machine without feedback during the procedure.
ps - A better explanation of my wife's results. I think (IANAO) that the lasers leave angles on the surface of the eye (not the cornea, which was moved out of the way for the surgery). These angles occur on the boundry between the LASIKed area and the untreated area. When the pupils open wide, these area allow light to be refracted to multiple locations on the retina, which then covers the area of the retina that should be picking up other images.
Agreed. If I am a black hat (I'm not) and I find a bug in a piece of software that allows my to root thousands of computers on the Internet, I'm not at all motivated by values less than 6 figures.
Virus writers create virii for no compensation at all. I'm not surprised that black hats are motivated by something other than trivial compensation.
1) cheap
Why? More expensive models generate revenue and more profits.
2) colors
I think this is being done. See other posts
3) standardized accessories
Why? More products sold for new units generate more revenue and more profits.
4) extendable
Why? New features require you to upgrade your entire system and generates more sales and more profits.
from another post
5) durability
Why? Devices that wear out generate more sales, revenue and profits. Besides, new features require phone upgrades anyway, they don't need to last forever.
6) work everywhere
Why? Vendor X thinks their protocol is better than vendor Y and all vendors benefit from protocol differences through additional sales, just because location A is supported by vendor X, vendor Y still makes a sale for that same location.
In short, the vendors, who make these decisions do not benefit from any of these options suggested (except maybe number 2) because they reduce revenue and profits.
Remember that Linus "retires" from a version of the kernel when he thinks it is stable enough for a maintainer to supervise. Once he is freed from maintaining the current "release" version of the kernel, he starts working on the next development version.
He'll pass version 2.6 to someone and then start work on 2.7, just as he passed 2.4 to Marcelo Tosatti and then began working on 2.5.
For both Opera and Wired ... bad examples of CSS. I'm completely underwhelmed with the layout and design of both sites.
Reminds me of Cisco's new version numbering scheme announced earlier this month.
I used to be a die-hard Debian proponent, but lately, several packages have failed to install and operate properly. E-mails to the maintainers have gone unreplied and in the end, I had to go to the source to make problems go away.
... not all the files, especially those in cron directories are deleted)
... is it the package maintainer, the software, the configuration or the user. Also, I find that discussion of package related issues lacking. If I'm stuck, I need someone who understands both the application and the package, not just the application and not just the package.
Right now, I feel that debian package maintenance is lacking because
1) maintainers are overwhelmed with the complications of actually running an install and uninstall (example, try to uninstall exim or ppp
2) documentation lags (changes in man pages do not get updated with debian specific distribution issues)
3) updated features are extremely delayed (yeah, yeah, use testing if stable isn't up-to-date enough, but in a production environment, that isn't an option because you'll lose the stability you need for everything when you're trying to use the latest feature on one specific package. If I want up-to-date sendmail, it doesn't mean I want to sacrifice the stability of glibc).
4) troubleshooting difficulties. When I have a problem, I can't always determine
I think this misses the point. I can alter images (and audio files) BEFORE they get into the chain of evidence custody. That is the risk of digital evidence.
20 below zero (F - that is) spreading cow manure using a cab-less tractor(John Deere 2630) with a 10-20 mph tail wind.
or b) send $350 from your online bank account to ASCAP.
Um, last time I looked, Happy Birthday was BMI.
Sell Schmell. Exposure is what bands need. Not an occassional sell. There will be other sites that promote new artists and offer cheap downloads of unsigned artists.
Imagine being at a restaurant and hearing something worth purchasing, and not some hash of a great song. Personally, I'd be thrilled to hear that my music is getting public performance playtime. My only wish is for periodic announcements of the artist and title.
David Schaeffer is still CEO of Cogent Communications. Broadband for the corporate client.
Next year, the simulation will use battle chess, a la' Star Wars!
No, just because you pay doesn't mean that you've taken ownership. Most registrars now have a cooling down/grace period where the domain is off-line, but still waiting for the user to reclaim their domain. All they do is pay on the owner's behalf. The registrar doesn't care who's money pays for the renewal.
Behaviorially, certainly. Many anti-virus programs, which act like anti-bodies to delete and prevent viruses from spreading, will stop virus-like behavior (like installing software).
Here's a url to the lynx2 product.
http://www.stgd.ch/Lynx/lynx2.htm
I'm afraid I disagree. While illegal immigrants may avoid drawing on estabilished social programs, many social programs are designed solely for the benefit of illegal immigrants. There are many programs that are designed to provide health, legal and social care. Additionally, illegal immigrants create special problems for law enforcement that require additional resources. Finally, since illegal immigrants have few established rights, they often are locked into situations which are breeding grounds for crime, poverty and abuse.
All of these issues reduce resources from the rest of the population.
What about the
Archos
product?
The problem with epinions is that the user base is not the same as Slashdot. As a result, the reviews there are less likely to reflect the concerns I would share with other Slashdot geeks.
Also, few of those reviews reflect the give and take of a comparison - claim/ counter claim - that is so abundant on slashdot.
The house on a Rock is interesting.
As is the annual experimental aircraft airshow in Oshkosh. (This is the site for 2003, but maybe you'll make the 2004 show).
Good camping in Wisconsin, especially in the northern areas near the Wolf River.
Drug dealing is harmful to families.
Children of drug-addicted parents are often under nourished, under educated and abused.
Drugs affect your ability to make reasoned choices. Dependancy is not good and any child of a drug-dependant would tell you (if they could). It makes for a crazy perspective and the result is that healthy behaviors are rejected because they are not familiar.
Babies born from crack-addicted mothers can be crack-addicted at birth and have a higher rate of birth defects due to the impact of the drug use and blood flow.
We've been doing this (backup to disk) over a remote link to our off-site data center for over a year. In NYC, with high bandwidth solutions available cheaply, we use rsync and a vpn to transfer our data from our HQ to our off-site data facility across the state line.
The disadvantage is that snapshots don't handle "hey, I need a restore from last month" easily, so we back up to tape (albeit less frequently) for those situations.
It has reduced our backup tape requirements significantly, and recovery from disaster or file loss is much quicker. It is inexpensive and reliable (I once spent 4 weeks reassembling files from a crashed hard drive when the backup tapes (all 20 of them) had become unreadable).