Your decision as to when what should be acronymed and not is bizarre, so I thought I'd tidy it up a bit more for you:
PERFECTED "In addition to other activities like FOSCON happening outside of the "official" OSCON this week in Portland, OR, N4N.org is running a story and photos of the OSU/OTBC/POSSE party Thursday night. From Linus and IBM's Dan Frye to the OSU's OSLD and OTBC founder LaVonne Reimer - Bar 71 was hopping as the N4N coverage details in word and images. The event was a joint effort by local OSS organizations POSSE (Portland OSS Entrepreneurs), the OTBC and OSU's OSL"
ORIGINAL "In addition to other activities like FOSCON happening outside of the "official" OSCON this week in Portland, Oregon, N4N.org is running a story and photos of the OSU/OTBC/POSSE party Thursday night. From Linus and IBM's Dan Frye to the OSU's Open Source Lab director and Open Technology Business Center founder LaVonne Reimer - Bar 71 was hopping as the N4N coverage details in word and images. The event was a joint effort by local OSS organizations POSSE (Portland OSS Entrepreneurs), the OTBC (Open Technology Business Center) and Oregon State University's OSL (Open Source Lab.)"
The best thing about Portland is that it has virtually no nightlife. Hang out in the very heart of downtown after about 10:00PM on most any day of the year and all you'll run across is the random shopper wrapping things up for the evening or the Blazer fan heading home on MAX. By about 11:00PM, the cleaning trucks come out and hose everything down and empty all the trash and it's dead silent. The very VERY best things are the annual Governor Tom McCall Waterfront Park Pepsi Rose Festival killings that invariably pop up from all of our local thugs and wannabe gangbangers.
Of course, there's state tax and county tax. Gas is expensive. Businesses get it in the ass from the business-unfriendly city hall. And don't even get anyone started talking about "the fourth layer of government" (aka METRO).
A Native, but by no means suffering from the delusion that it's a wonderful magical place. Especially when those fucking Critical Mass assholes decide it's time to cause trouble, some fucking hippy wanted by the FBI makes his own on a downtown city billboard and the mayor is too wussy to do anything about it or the freaks decide to block the bridges for whatever random protest has their ADHD riddled minds occupied for the rest of this day.
Then there's the traffic and the awful cost of housing. And don't forget the cobs that tazer old blind women and knock them over when they're not busy shooting minorities.
A television show that appeal to the scientifically curious and intellectual is not the same as a television show that will create scientifically curious and intellectual people.
As long as parents and schools and towns rally around the sadistic brain-dead jocks (of which I used to be one, but I was not one of the sadistic asshole types) and ignore the intellectual achievments and competitions within the same schools and communities, people will never aspire to be scientists.
Even then, it might not matter. Whatever a community things, the women will go for the jocks and the guys with loads of cash (which means the salesmen, marketing guys and businessmen) and men will go into what will get them in the good graces of females.
Trying to make science interesting and sexy and appeal to people as a career is like trying to convince people to be attracted to fat, slothy, ugly, wimpy guys who can't provide physical security or financial stability or produce desirable offspring. It'll never happen. Nature has a specific type of desirable mate in mind and that's what people want. Likewise, you'll never convince most people to be attracted to the chess player with the chemistry set over the guy with the letterman jacket, nice car and school pep rallies thrown to cheer him on.
That's life. Deal with it. Nobody wants to be a scientists because there ISN'T any glamour in it. If you want to be celibate and considered the bore at parties, go for it.
So does this mean that people who work for Nextel are no longer allowed to fraternize with those who work for Sprint after the merger if that new labor law proposal passes? Or do they get some sort of grandfathered in "friendship/buddy" clause that allows them to still retain friendships and acquaintances in such an occurrence?
Because people don't become obsessive or compulsive over Tetris or Scrabble or reading or writing or drawing or music or television or movies or comic books or religion.
The critical and key aspect of the ruling was that it allowed for the prevention of such inappropriate fraternization while in Guardsmark uniform.
And you think that's okay? If I own the uniform, I will do what I want outside of work. Are you telling me I have to change my clothes before I can sit at the bar and have a beer? Are you telling me that I can't fraternize with a customer? You do realize that - especially in the tech industry - a lot of people have prior relationships, friendships and experience with other people they work with in the industry either at work, at a customer's site or at a provider's site.
Just because you're wearing a jacket that says PEPSI on it does not mean that Pepsi should have the right to dictate what you can do in it outside of work hours when you're done making your vending machine runs.
Only an idiot gets involved with people in the office. Remember, if a woman says something negative about you to HR - you're history. Period. And as fickle as they are, it's just a matter of her finding out she isn't in an exclusive relationship or you say the wrong thing and your nuts are in a vice.
But if you want to get laid more than you care about your job - whatever.
As far as this law . . . Holy shit . . . I thought the PATRIOT act, DMCA and COPPA were stupid and infringed on people's rights beyond anything that could be accepted in a society labeling itself as "free" and "democratic". I thought the right of eminent domain where cities could force you to give up your property if there was a business interest in taking it from you was draconian. But dictating your live outside of work like this? This is honestly a scarier idea than all of the above combined.
If they are able to do this, why not dictate what education you can seek outside of work? Why not dictate where you can travel outside of work? Why not allow the employer to have veto rights on who you marry and how many children you are allowed to have and what school you can send them to?!
I know this is a capitalist society. That's great. But I thought I lived in a democratic country not a corporation.
So you'd spend five years in prison - mostly in solitary confinement in a little box the size of a small bathroom with five hours outside per week - in return for a book and a career as a security consultant?
I don't condone pot or alcohol (but I don't particularly even care, either), but as long as they're not stoned or drunk when they come to work, I couldn't really care less. You can either perform your job well or you are incompetent. That's all there is to it.
Such behavior may point to a longer term and more serious problem of responsibility that I, as an employer, would be concerned about even if it was just on your own time, but I'm talking in those cases about driving a bus working in a hospital or doing maintenance on military machinery.
If you do your job well and your job doesn't involve serious risk to other people, I don't really care what you do on your off time.
You know... as much as it sucks, you have to admit that if people weren't pirating things, there'd be no need for DRM.
That's the same way I feel when a cop wants to search me illegally or otherwise hassles me. Or when my employer wants to make me take a drug test even though I don't even so much as smoke cigerettes or drink alchohol and my job involves me sitting at a desk reading and writing things of little consequence.
Yep. I just think to myself "This sucks, but I don't need to be angry at the police or employers for violating my rights or my privacy. I need to be angry at the weekend pot smokers who make it necessary for people to infringe on my privacy or violate my constitutional rights".
And when the cops shoot a black man for having a candybar in his pocket or shoot an unarmed non violent black man four dozen times at close range, I just think "It sucks, but if black people weren't out there killing every person they come across, these police wouldn't have to senselessly murder any of them".
My 102 year old aunt (well, about a decade ago) actually asked us if you crawl into the TV some how to play the game. Our parents swear she was kidding, but my little brother and I were not so sure. After all, she is the same woman that we would annoy by shouting loudly "I'm a homosapien - I'm a homosapien!" and then she would gasp and say "oh my word - YOU ARE NOT! Don't say such a filthy thing!".
In my case, I'm running ATI because that's what the laptop came with. It was originally intended to be a quick and dirty Windows laptop for watching videos remotely and doing a little surfing and music listening. But now its purposes has been shifted a bit and I've put Ubuntu on it for my friend (she wanted linux, I love Debian and had never tried Ubuntu before).
I've had lots of problems in the past, which I've mentioned on Slashdot, getting videocards that are identified and in the select list of a linux install to work with my large (and now several years old) Apple Cinema Display, which is itself also identified and in the select list of the same linux installer.. to work together. No such luck.
But I think with more typical cards and more generic monitors, it shouldn't be a problem. I've been really frustrated with that aspect of linux and that's why the only linux systems I have running (other than that laptop, which I'm giving to my friend) are headless systems (like my production server across the country).
And no, I'm not saying that companies should be forced to build drivers for an operating system that can't possibly be profitable for them - but who what where and why doesn't matter. Either it works or it doesn't.
500 years ago, people weren't reading, they weren't really doing much of anything productive.
Yeah, that's why bibles have been around for centuries and people have been writing and reading them - among other things. And the whole discovering new lands thing (Columbus was about 500 years ago)... totally nothing.
Yep. People just sat around. Never invented anything. Just stared at walls waiting for jesus to save them.
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Your decision as to when what should be acronymed and not is bizarre, so I thought I'd tidy it up a bit more for you:
PERFECTED
"In addition to other activities like FOSCON happening outside of the "official" OSCON this week in Portland, OR, N4N.org is running a story and photos of the OSU/OTBC/POSSE party Thursday night. From Linus and IBM's Dan Frye to the OSU's OSLD and OTBC founder LaVonne Reimer - Bar 71 was hopping as the N4N coverage details in word and images. The event was a joint effort by local OSS organizations POSSE (Portland OSS Entrepreneurs), the OTBC and OSU's OSL"
ORIGINAL
"In addition to other activities like FOSCON happening outside of the "official" OSCON this week in Portland, Oregon, N4N.org is running a story and photos of the OSU/OTBC/POSSE party Thursday night. From Linus and IBM's Dan Frye to the OSU's Open Source Lab director and Open Technology Business Center founder LaVonne Reimer - Bar 71 was hopping as the N4N coverage details in word and images. The event was a joint effort by local OSS organizations POSSE (Portland OSS Entrepreneurs), the OTBC (Open Technology Business Center) and Oregon State University's OSL (Open Source Lab.)"
The best thing about Portland is that it has virtually no nightlife. Hang out in the very heart of downtown after about 10:00PM on most any day of the year and all you'll run across is the random shopper wrapping things up for the evening or the Blazer fan heading home on MAX. By about 11:00PM, the cleaning trucks come out and hose everything down and empty all the trash and it's dead silent. The very VERY best things are the annual Governor Tom McCall Waterfront Park Pepsi Rose Festival killings that invariably pop up from all of our local thugs and wannabe gangbangers.
Of course, there's state tax and county tax. Gas is expensive. Businesses get it in the ass from the business-unfriendly city hall. And don't even get anyone started talking about "the fourth layer of government" (aka METRO).
A Native, but by no means suffering from the delusion that it's a wonderful magical place. Especially when those fucking Critical Mass assholes decide it's time to cause trouble, some fucking hippy wanted by the FBI makes his own on a downtown city billboard and the mayor is too wussy to do anything about it or the freaks decide to block the bridges for whatever random protest has their ADHD riddled minds occupied for the rest of this day.
Then there's the traffic and the awful cost of housing. And don't forget the cobs that tazer old blind women and knock them over when they're not busy shooting minorities.
You're confusing two things.
A television show that appeal to the scientifically curious and intellectual is not the same as a television show that will create scientifically curious and intellectual people.
As long as parents and schools and towns rally around the sadistic brain-dead jocks (of which I used to be one, but I was not one of the sadistic asshole types) and ignore the intellectual achievments and competitions within the same schools and communities, people will never aspire to be scientists.
Even then, it might not matter. Whatever a community things, the women will go for the jocks and the guys with loads of cash (which means the salesmen, marketing guys and businessmen) and men will go into what will get them in the good graces of females.
Trying to make science interesting and sexy and appeal to people as a career is like trying to convince people to be attracted to fat, slothy, ugly, wimpy guys who can't provide physical security or financial stability or produce desirable offspring. It'll never happen. Nature has a specific type of desirable mate in mind and that's what people want. Likewise, you'll never convince most people to be attracted to the chess player with the chemistry set over the guy with the letterman jacket, nice car and school pep rallies thrown to cheer him on.
That's life. Deal with it. Nobody wants to be a scientists because there ISN'T any glamour in it. If you want to be celibate and considered the bore at parties, go for it.
PrixTel
So does this mean that people who work for Nextel are no longer allowed to fraternize with those who work for Sprint after the merger if that new labor law proposal passes? Or do they get some sort of grandfathered in "friendship/buddy" clause that allows them to still retain friendships and acquaintances in such an occurrence?
Simple solution:
If they insist on teaching creationism in school, they must provide equal time by teaching evolution in church.
Because people don't become obsessive or compulsive over Tetris or Scrabble or reading or writing or drawing or music or television or movies or comic books or religion.
Shareaza has had this built in for quite a long time and it works fairly well.
I've switched to Apple, so I use aMule, Azeurus and SoulSeekX now, but . . .
The critical and key aspect of the ruling was that it allowed for the prevention of such inappropriate fraternization while in Guardsmark uniform.
And you think that's okay? If I own the uniform, I will do what I want outside of work. Are you telling me I have to change my clothes before I can sit at the bar and have a beer? Are you telling me that I can't fraternize with a customer? You do realize that - especially in the tech industry - a lot of people have prior relationships, friendships and experience with other people they work with in the industry either at work, at a customer's site or at a provider's site.
Just because you're wearing a jacket that says PEPSI on it does not mean that Pepsi should have the right to dictate what you can do in it outside of work hours when you're done making your vending machine runs.
Only an idiot gets involved with people in the office. Remember, if a woman says something negative about you to HR - you're history. Period. And as fickle as they are, it's just a matter of her finding out she isn't in an exclusive relationship or you say the wrong thing and your nuts are in a vice.
But if you want to get laid more than you care about your job - whatever.
As far as this law . . . Holy shit . . . I thought the PATRIOT act, DMCA and COPPA were stupid and infringed on people's rights beyond anything that could be accepted in a society labeling itself as "free" and "democratic". I thought the right of eminent domain where cities could force you to give up your property if there was a business interest in taking it from you was draconian. But dictating your live outside of work like this? This is honestly a scarier idea than all of the above combined.
If they are able to do this, why not dictate what education you can seek outside of work? Why not dictate where you can travel outside of work? Why not allow the employer to have veto rights on who you marry and how many children you are allowed to have and what school you can send them to?!
I know this is a capitalist society. That's great. But I thought I lived in a democratic country not a corporation.
What am I missing here? I went to the start.com page and here is what I got:
- In the upper left corner in blue writing it says "START".
- Below that is a text field.
That's it.
Yes, because it's the consumers who have damaged music. It couldn't possibly be damaged by all the crappy artists they've promoted the last decade.
The grass is really green in India.
So you'd spend five years in prison - mostly in solitary confinement in a little box the size of a small bathroom with five hours outside per week - in return for a book and a career as a security consultant?
# In Soviet Russia, code comments YOU!
# In Korea, only old people comment code!
I don't condone pot or alcohol (but I don't particularly even care, either), but as long as they're not stoned or drunk when they come to work, I couldn't really care less. You can either perform your job well or you are incompetent. That's all there is to it.
Such behavior may point to a longer term and more serious problem of responsibility that I, as an employer, would be concerned about even if it was just on your own time, but I'm talking in those cases about driving a bus working in a hospital or doing maintenance on military machinery.
If you do your job well and your job doesn't involve serious risk to other people, I don't really care what you do on your off time.
but it does create a hassle for the vast numbers of us who want to work and like poppy seed muffins.
:)
You spelled "crack" wrong.
You know... as much as it sucks, you have to admit that if people weren't pirating things, there'd be no need for DRM.
That's the same way I feel when a cop wants to search me illegally or otherwise hassles me. Or when my employer wants to make me take a drug test even though I don't even so much as smoke cigerettes or drink alchohol and my job involves me sitting at a desk reading and writing things of little consequence.
Yep. I just think to myself "This sucks, but I don't need to be angry at the police or employers for violating my rights or my privacy. I need to be angry at the weekend pot smokers who make it necessary for people to infringe on my privacy or violate my constitutional rights".
And when the cops shoot a black man for having a candybar in his pocket or shoot an unarmed non violent black man four dozen times at close range, I just think "It sucks, but if black people weren't out there killing every person they come across, these police wouldn't have to senselessly murder any of them".
Seriously man... Get real.
Um. No, more like CPAN.
You listed languages and products. We're talking about a software archive.
More importantly - why do Python people choose such stupid names for this stuff?
My 102 year old aunt (well, about a decade ago) actually asked us if you crawl into the TV some how to play the game. Our parents swear she was kidding, but my little brother and I were not so sure. After all, she is the same woman that we would annoy by shouting loudly "I'm a homosapien - I'm a homosapien!" and then she would gasp and say "oh my word - YOU ARE NOT! Don't say such a filthy thing!".
In my case, I'm running ATI because that's what the laptop came with. It was originally intended to be a quick and dirty Windows laptop for watching videos remotely and doing a little surfing and music listening. But now its purposes has been shifted a bit and I've put Ubuntu on it for my friend (she wanted linux, I love Debian and had never tried Ubuntu before).
I've had lots of problems in the past, which I've mentioned on Slashdot, getting videocards that are identified and in the select list of a linux install to work with my large (and now several years old) Apple Cinema Display, which is itself also identified and in the select list of the same linux installer.. to work together. No such luck.
But I think with more typical cards and more generic monitors, it shouldn't be a problem. I've been really frustrated with that aspect of linux and that's why the only linux systems I have running (other than that laptop, which I'm giving to my friend) are headless systems (like my production server across the country).
And no, I'm not saying that companies should be forced to build drivers for an operating system that can't possibly be profitable for them - but who what where and why doesn't matter. Either it works or it doesn't.
Well, my fantasies might involve midgets and horses, but my ambitions sure don't.
500 years ago, people weren't reading, they weren't really doing much of anything productive.
Yeah, that's why bibles have been around for centuries and people have been writing and reading them - among other things. And the whole discovering new lands thing (Columbus was about 500 years ago)... totally nothing.
Yep. People just sat around. Never invented anything. Just stared at walls waiting for jesus to save them.