My dns client (my laptop) can't get an ip for tpb as of 7/9/10 14:55 GMT. Of course, at the moment I'm sitting in a waiting room at Ceders-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles using the campus' free wifi service, they might be blocking it. I'll try a look up later from home.
"...but for insight on programming, it has to come from within yourself."
Uh, this isn't a job for people on a journey of self-discovery, I've found in my 20+ years of programming. For several years as a contractor my #1 task often ended up chasing down problems caused by horrible, horrible database design, and decoding mind-bendingly awful joins to work around the design flaws. And other coding problems that were obviously work of some one who was on some kind of journey of finding "insight from within ones self." There's no substitute for a few solid courses in theory and design.
As long as you have to wear goggles or the picture quality sucks, you bet its under development. Adding stupid camera movements is the least of the manufacturer's problems. 3D still has a long, long way to go.
WAITAMINUTE! You left the US because of the emphasis the culture puts on driving? Wow... I can think of a lot of reasons to leave here, but because you have a thin skin about not being able to drive? Incredible. That's about the stupidest... mumble mumble...
"I'm waiting for the first domestic terrorist attack on a mosque..."
This is supposed to be like some kind of new thing to be worried about? Something that Beck is bringing in fresh and new? Lets not forget that Lee Harvey Oswald was a raving lunatic LEFTIST, and more recently we have the nut job who took down 32 students at Virginia Tech a few years ago, John Malvo & John Allen Muhammad, the beltway sniper duo, McVeigh & Nicols... so all these are to be blamed on Beck too? Its now like you take Beck out and all these problems are solved. So stop talking nonsense.
Beck was a morning radio dj for years, I think his biggest non-political gig was at WPGC in Wash. DC where he was a morning drive "Zoo Keeper". He spun records and yucked it up with callers. Anyone who knows anything about radio knows that djs are mostly f*ed in the head and have lots of problems. Beck is not unique to this, although he does appear to have turned his life around, although I don't get why he turned from Catholicism to Mormonism. That's like going from Communism to Radical Islam. But seriously, lets not take Beck too seriously. He was a loser dj who pulled a Limbaugh and found success in being a political pundit. He's not a big deal. Some think he is, but he's not. Screw him. Better yet, ignore him.
"...but the french government was lobbied by a ton of cosmetic industries..."
Turning a little USA??? Interesting. Perfume, France, HELLO? You apparently seem to be completely unaware that Paris is home to some very old and powerful cosmetics manufacturers for hundreds of years. Some, I'm sure. are older than the US. You cut out animal testing, you cut the throats of a French industry, one of the few France has left. I think if anything the US would be taking their queue from the French. But we won't let facts stop us now, will we?
"Are people really buying laptops that often that this becomes a significant time-suck? "
Got a notebook for Xmas about 4 years ago, and it was a pretty nice one, and a great gift, but then the netbooks came out and being huge fan of small, light, and not needing a built-in cd writer (more small & light), and not having picked out the notebook myself, I decided to get another one, this one I picked myself, and I'm very happy with it. And I take it with me most of the time so I can work wherever. My wife also had this huge, old Dell piece of crap, so she got a netbook, which got sat on, so she got another one, which was stolen when our house got broken into (again, I had mine with me, so it wasn't lost). The insurance money brought her the one she has now. So after 5 or so notebook-style computers, yes; I got pretty tired of the damn stickers. Sometimes people buy a bunch of laptops.
"...That's why I buy Apple, I hate branding so much that I am happy to report it came out of the package without..."
Wow, some one drank an extra helping of Jobs' kool-aid this morning. I don't suppose that huge monochrome apple-shaped bit of branding that you can see on almost every block of San Francisco, Chicago, and New York gave you pause before you started typing that little message in, did it?
I'd rather spend the 20 minutes removing a bunch of crap off a machine that I can really use rather than marvel at how clean my shiny, overpriced, and useless Mac is.
You could always do what a lot of people do; just ignore them. I admit it looks a little amateurish when your rig is covered with those damn stickers, but a lot of people just don't let it bother them and move on. As far as removal goes; anything with acetate will dissolve those adhesives quick. Nail polish remover == acetone. Of course if your a geek guy w/no gf, I guess your sol...
"What sucks about this is this guy has got a point..."
What, that the earth's human population is supposedly unsustainable, or humans are mucking up the planet, that rubbish? Here's the thing, weather or not you subscribe to such views, its definitely NOT up to such wackos to make such decisions. This guy is a perfect illustration of why western civilization doesn't allow theocracies; its a little difficult to swallow what God has to say about things when he's only talking to "His" (supposed) mouthpiece, or a small group, of "holy" men. Or if your perfectly ok with letting some crazy assh*les tell you that God has another plan for you and your children, hey, lets all party like its 1999, because it will be if these assh*les have their way.
What he's saying is regardless of the encrypted status of the carrier/protocol that you are using; encrypt your data on your own; in other words, say you want to send an email or an IM, before sending the message, encrypt it, and make sure your recipient has the same encryption tools.
I've been surprised (pleasantly or not I'll leave as an excersize for the reader) by the number of American female friends & acquaintances who have been quite excited and even proud to announce that they are "gettin' hitched." I say that with some surprised as in my 47+ years of life It seems to me that I've actually noticed the number of American females happy at the prospect of marriage fall off somewhat, un-scientific a survey as my life has been. Never-the-less, I seem to note an elevated sense of happiness and expectation in women, generally, when they are about to be wed, in the last few years./egregious political rant follows: P'raps its Obamanomics.
I'm going to miss the deluxe boxed editions that are over 12 pounds of dead tree plus a little drawer complete with magnifying glass. I'm not kidding, I once saw one a book shop that had a little compartment that held a magnifier.
We're going to make a functioning Hellraiser's Puzzle Box, a TRON light cycle out of real light, and with this box of dehydrated air I'm going to make a bucket of water.
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My dns client (my laptop) can't get an ip for tpb as of 7/9/10 14:55 GMT. Of course, at the moment I'm sitting in a waiting room at Ceders-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles using the campus' free wifi service, they might be blocking it. I'll try a look up later from home.
"...but for insight on programming, it has to come from within yourself."
Uh, this isn't a job for people on a journey of self-discovery, I've found in my 20+ years of programming. For several years as a contractor my #1 task often ended up chasing down problems caused by horrible, horrible database design, and decoding mind-bendingly awful joins to work around the design flaws. And other coding problems that were obviously work of some one who was on some kind of journey of finding "insight from within ones self." There's no substitute for a few solid courses in theory and design.
As long as you have to wear goggles or the picture quality sucks, you bet its under development. Adding stupid camera movements is the least of the manufacturer's problems. 3D still has a long, long way to go.
WAITAMINUTE! You left the US because of the emphasis the culture puts on driving? Wow... I can think of a lot of reasons to leave here, but because you have a thin skin about not being able to drive? Incredible. That's about the stupidest... mumble mumble...
"Don't track me, Bro."
"I'm waiting for the first domestic terrorist attack on a mosque..."
This is supposed to be like some kind of new thing to be worried about? Something that Beck is bringing in fresh and new? Lets not forget that Lee Harvey Oswald was a raving lunatic LEFTIST, and more recently we have the nut job who took down 32 students at Virginia Tech a few years ago, John Malvo & John Allen Muhammad, the beltway sniper duo, McVeigh & Nicols... so all these are to be blamed on Beck too? Its now like you take Beck out and all these problems are solved. So stop talking nonsense.
Beck was a morning radio dj for years, I think his biggest non-political gig was at WPGC in Wash. DC where he was a morning drive "Zoo Keeper". He spun records and yucked it up with callers. Anyone who knows anything about radio knows that djs are mostly f*ed in the head and have lots of problems. Beck is not unique to this, although he does appear to have turned his life around, although I don't get why he turned from Catholicism to Mormonism. That's like going from Communism to Radical Islam. But seriously, lets not take Beck too seriously. He was a loser dj who pulled a Limbaugh and found success in being a political pundit. He's not a big deal. Some think he is, but he's not. Screw him. Better yet, ignore him.
"...but the french government was lobbied by a ton of cosmetic industries..."
Turning a little USA??? Interesting. Perfume, France, HELLO? You apparently seem to be completely unaware that Paris is home to some very old and powerful cosmetics manufacturers for hundreds of years. Some, I'm sure. are older than the US. You cut out animal testing, you cut the throats of a French industry, one of the few France has left. I think if anything the US would be taking their queue from the French. But we won't let facts stop us now, will we?
Don't be too sure. My wife is extremely sensitive to chemicals. Didn't see that comin' did ya?
You left some crucial steps;
1: fix the problems.
2: abandon the plan.
3: arrest the people who embarrassed you, suppress any mention of the incidents.
4: ???
5: PROFIT!
"Are people really buying laptops that often that this becomes a significant time-suck? "
Got a notebook for Xmas about 4 years ago, and it was a pretty nice one, and a great gift, but then the netbooks came out and being huge fan of small, light, and not needing a built-in cd writer (more small & light), and not having picked out the notebook myself, I decided to get another one, this one I picked myself, and I'm very happy with it. And I take it with me most of the time so I can work wherever. My wife also had this huge, old Dell piece of crap, so she got a netbook, which got sat on, so she got another one, which was stolen when our house got broken into (again, I had mine with me, so it wasn't lost). The insurance money brought her the one she has now. So after 5 or so notebook-style computers, yes; I got pretty tired of the damn stickers. Sometimes people buy a bunch of laptops.
"...That's why I buy Apple, I hate branding so much that I am happy to report it came out of the package without..."
Wow, some one drank an extra helping of Jobs' kool-aid this morning. I don't suppose that huge monochrome apple-shaped bit of branding that you can see on almost every block of San Francisco, Chicago, and New York gave you pause before you started typing that little message in, did it?
I'd rather spend the 20 minutes removing a bunch of crap off a machine that I can really use rather than marvel at how clean my shiny, overpriced, and useless Mac is.
You could always do what a lot of people do; just ignore them. I admit it looks a little amateurish when your rig is covered with those damn stickers, but a lot of people just don't let it bother them and move on. As far as removal goes; anything with acetate will dissolve those adhesives quick. Nail polish remover == acetone. Of course if your a geek guy w/no gf, I guess your sol...
"It's people like YOU who are a good part of the problem with this planet..."
Assuming there is a problem. But how could I fight it? Who would dare oppose your viewpoint- even if you and your posse were wrong?
Never saw this coming.
"What sucks about this is this guy has got a point..."
What, that the earth's human population is supposedly unsustainable, or humans are mucking up the planet, that rubbish? Here's the thing, weather or not you subscribe to such views, its definitely NOT up to such wackos to make such decisions. This guy is a perfect illustration of why western civilization doesn't allow theocracies; its a little difficult to swallow what God has to say about things when he's only talking to "His" (supposed) mouthpiece, or a small group, of "holy" men. Or if your perfectly ok with letting some crazy assh*les tell you that God has another plan for you and your children, hey, lets all party like its 1999, because it will be if these assh*les have their way.
Yep...
The USPTO was able to write that only after a 5-hour seminar on what the internet was, what computers were, and how electricity worked.
"...harmful and contrary to the fundamental principles of the Internet."
And war is peace and freedom is slavery. Shame on AT&T.
What he's saying is regardless of the encrypted status of the carrier/protocol that you are using; encrypt your data on your own; in other words, say you want to send an email or an IM, before sending the message, encrypt it, and make sure your recipient has the same encryption tools.
I've been surprised (pleasantly or not I'll leave as an excersize for the reader) by the number of American female friends & acquaintances who have been quite excited and even proud to announce that they are "gettin' hitched." I say that with some surprised as in my 47+ years of life It seems to me that I've actually noticed the number of American females happy at the prospect of marriage fall off somewhat, un-scientific a survey as my life has been. Never-the-less, I seem to note an elevated sense of happiness and expectation in women, generally, when they are about to be wed, in the last few years. /egregious political rant follows: P'raps its Obamanomics.
I'm going to miss the deluxe boxed editions that are over 12 pounds of dead tree plus a little drawer complete with magnifying glass. I'm not kidding, I once saw one a book shop that had a little compartment that held a magnifier.
We're going to make a functioning Hellraiser's Puzzle Box, a TRON light cycle out of real light, and with this box of dehydrated air I'm going to make a bucket of water.
I rather think Hamlet in Sindarin might be quite nice.