There's 2 forms I have to fill out, the visa waiver form and the customs declaration.
The customs declaration is a complete waste of time. Can't they just filter people into green and red channels like everywhere else in the world? No waste of my time, no waste of paper.
The visa waiver form is slightly less lame. OK, they have immigration controls, fair enough. Just don't ask me the same damn information several times! Don't ask me if I was a member of the Nazi party between 1936 and 1945! If they have to know, why don't they ask the people who are old enough to have been alive back then?
What's the point in asking people if they are members of a terrorist organisation? They're going to lie about it anyway and if they're caught it's not going to make a huge difference, they're off to Gitmo anyway.
I wish the US security apparatus would just use their fscking brains and devise policies that made sense. Better attitude from the security staff would be nice too. Every cop, TSA agent, CBP agent and rent-a-cop I've met in the US seems to think that to be professional you must be stern and utterly humorless. The security folks in London Heathrow have much more reason to be suspicious of me (I'm Irish) but they treat me with a friendliness and respect that I've never seen in the US.
From all of my travels, the US security people are the dumbest, least efficient and least friendly of all. It's time they realised they're the bottom of the pile and tried to dig up.
Well, I for one would rate a 2x2 broom cupboard higher than many Microsoft development tools. But that's just me...
It was fun going to a talk on security by a guy from Microsoft (don't laugh, he actually knew what he was talking about) and watched him demonstrate various attacks coded in Perl using vi on Windows.:-)
Even if all the graphic designers were competent coders (hint: they're almost certainly not), it still wouldn't be a guarantee that they'd actually be able to fix the problem.
My biggest gripe with a lot (read: most) OSS stuff that I've wanted to be able to tweak/fix is that it takes a huge amount of time to figure out what the original coder was doing. Doesn't anyone comment their code properly anymore?
While we're using GIMP as an example, grab the sources and have a look at gimp-2.0.3/modules/colorsel_cmyk.c. Wouldn't it be so nice if you could figure out what's going on without grinding through the code line by line?
Comments in OSS code should be superior to that of non-free software. After all, you expect your code to be reviewed by people you don't know who have different skills. What's the point in having open source software if you treat it as write-once?
It may sound odd, but 1 part red bull and 4 parts vodka is not 1:4 mixing, it's more like 5:3.:-)
1 measure of spirits is 35ml and one can of red bull is (IIRC) 250ml.
140ml vodka + 250ml Red Bull + the ice that comes with two double vodkas = ~568ml (an Imperial pint). It's only now that I've done the figures that I realise how much ice they were giving us.:-/
red bull is btw illegal here if iirc, some people have ended up with blackouts from mixing red bull and alcohol...
News just in: Norway discovers that alcohol causes memory loss! Blames it on Red Bull!
I remember the days of 1 pound (IEP - roughly $1.50 IIRC - year 2000) a drink specials. Some of my classmates discovered that 4 vodkas and 1 Red Bull fit perfectly in a pint glass. Ten pounds and two pints later, the memory losses began.:-)
the FSF is sure to rack up the bills just getting all that material out the door
On the cover note for the subpoena they say: "Boise Schiller and Flexner will reimburse you for all reasonable duplication costs". SCO will end up picking up the bill for the photocopying.
Even if the FSF only give them a fraction of what they're asking for and charge them cost-price bulk copying charges the bill should be quite large.
Where is the PPC port? I am amazed that I can't install freebsd on my mac.
The current status of the FreeBSD on PowerPC is here
Short version: It's a Tier 2 architecture which means it's not quite there yet. According to the project page it's "on the verge of booting to single-user mode".
I DO PAY for incoming messages(10 cents each, can you believe it?)
Holy crap! You're seriously being ripped off. I always knew that US mobile costs were high, but paying for INCOMING stuff? You gotta be joking. How much do you pay for outgoing SMS? Do you pay for incoming calls too?
In the last 6 months I've received about 1000 SMS messages and sent roughly the same. According to the stats on my phone I've clocked about 5 hours outbound calls and double that inbound. I've paid roughly EUR180 (US$210) in that period.
Given the amount of legitimate SMS traffic that I have, an SMS spam problem would annoy me more than e-mail spam. Most of the e-mails I receive are from lists I read, whereas all the SMS messages I receive are personal. It's a private way of getting my attention and I want to keep it that way.
A partial transition could be done in the way it has happened in Ireland:
Speed limit signs: miles per hour
Road signs: some distances are displayed in miles, others in kilometers
Drinks in the pub: pints (Imperial ones!) or 33cl bottles.
Drinks in a shop: metric measurements
Foodstuffs: Metric display of Imperial measures (454g of marmalade anyone?)
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Yeah, and I'm pissed at those too.
There's 2 forms I have to fill out, the visa waiver form and the customs declaration.
The customs declaration is a complete waste of time. Can't they just filter people into green and red channels like everywhere else in the world? No waste of my time, no waste of paper.
The visa waiver form is slightly less lame. OK, they have immigration controls, fair enough. Just don't ask me the same damn information several times! Don't ask me if I was a member of the Nazi party between 1936 and 1945! If they have to know, why don't they ask the people who are old enough to have been alive back then?
What's the point in asking people if they are members of a terrorist organisation? They're going to lie about it anyway and if they're caught it's not going to make a huge difference, they're off to Gitmo anyway.
I wish the US security apparatus would just use their fscking brains and devise policies that made sense. Better attitude from the security staff would be nice too. Every cop, TSA agent, CBP agent and rent-a-cop I've met in the US seems to think that to be professional you must be stern and utterly humorless. The security folks in London Heathrow have much more reason to be suspicious of me (I'm Irish) but they treat me with a friendliness and respect that I've never seen in the US.
From all of my travels, the US security people are the dumbest, least efficient and least friendly of all. It's time they realised they're the bottom of the pile and tried to dig up.
Well, I for one would rate a 2x2 broom cupboard higher than many Microsoft development tools. But that's just me...
:-)
It was fun going to a talk on security by a guy from Microsoft (don't laugh, he actually knew what he was talking about) and watched him demonstrate various attacks coded in Perl using vi on Windows.
Even if all the graphic designers were competent coders (hint: they're almost certainly not), it still wouldn't be a guarantee that they'd actually be able to fix the problem.
My biggest gripe with a lot (read: most) OSS stuff that I've wanted to be able to tweak/fix is that it takes a huge amount of time to figure out what the original coder was doing. Doesn't anyone comment their code properly anymore?
While we're using GIMP as an example, grab the sources and have a look at gimp-2.0.3/modules/colorsel_cmyk.c. Wouldn't it be so nice if you could figure out what's going on without grinding through the code line by line?
Comments in OSS code should be superior to that of non-free software. After all, you expect your code to be reviewed by people you don't know who have different skills. What's the point in having open source software if you treat it as write-once?
It may sound odd, but 1 part red bull and 4 parts vodka is not 1:4 mixing, it's more like 5:3. :-)
:-/
1 measure of spirits is 35ml and one can of red bull is (IIRC) 250ml.
140ml vodka + 250ml Red Bull + the ice that comes with two double vodkas = ~568ml (an Imperial pint). It's only now that I've done the figures that I realise how much ice they were giving us.
News just in: Norway discovers that alcohol causes memory loss! Blames it on Red Bull!
I remember the days of 1 pound (IEP - roughly $1.50 IIRC - year 2000) a drink specials. Some of my classmates discovered that 4 vodkas and 1 Red Bull fit perfectly in a pint glass. Ten pounds and two pints later, the memory losses began.
the FSF is sure to rack up the bills just getting all that material out the door
On the cover note for the subpoena they say:
"Boise Schiller and Flexner will reimburse you for all reasonable duplication costs". SCO will end up picking up the bill for the photocopying.
Even if the FSF only give them a fraction of what they're asking for and charge them cost-price bulk copying charges the bill should be quite large.
The current status of the FreeBSD on PowerPC is here
Short version: It's a Tier 2 architecture which means it's not quite there yet. According to the project page it's "on the verge of booting to single-user mode".
Holy crap! You're seriously being ripped off. I always knew that US mobile costs were high, but paying for INCOMING stuff? You gotta be joking. How much do you pay for outgoing SMS? Do you pay for incoming calls too?
In the last 6 months I've received about 1000 SMS messages and sent roughly the same. According to the stats on my phone I've clocked about 5 hours outbound calls and double that inbound. I've paid roughly EUR180 (US$210) in that period.
Given the amount of legitimate SMS traffic that I have, an SMS spam problem would annoy me more than e-mail spam. Most of the e-mails I receive are from lists I read, whereas all the SMS messages I receive are personal. It's a private way of getting my attention and I want to keep it that way.
A partial transition could be done in the way it has happened in Ireland:
:-)
Speed limit signs: miles per hour
Road signs: some distances are displayed in miles, others in kilometers
Drinks in the pub: pints (Imperial ones!) or 33cl bottles.
Drinks in a shop: metric measurements
Foodstuffs: Metric display of Imperial measures (454g of marmalade anyone?)
That way, there'd be no confusion.