Darekana was answered well by Cold Fjord, so I'll not reply when unnecessary.
The AC truly has a dizzying intellect, and made an incorrect assumption. I'm not American.
You, sir, I'll answer.
I haven't finished reading the book yet, I'm on with it now. When I've done reading the work of fiction I'll check the references in it and maybe come to a conclusion about the bias that it takes.
The whole point of the footnotes, IMO, is to get the reader thinking about the subject and have him/her check a little further into it. This has been accomplished, I'll be looking further.
Taking facts out of context works both ways, anyone with a bias does it. Who is to say that one person using a fact is right, where another is wrong for using the same fact? Many facts taken together can form a theory, then the theory can be tested. A fact taken out of context doesn't make the fact wrong, does it?
George Bush wasn't even born then. How could there possibly have been hurricanes, or any other evil or dangerous thing?
Silly, God sent us his second son to save us from these terrible things.
With all his recent fervour for the God squad, George might well have his own Book in the "Even Newer Testament", if he gets on and hurries up with allowing himself more time in office...
What, you're never going to see him repeal part of the US Constitution?
Again?
And if you want to read an entertaining book that deals with this and other facts concerning "Global Warming" give Michael Chrichton's State of Fear a go.
I am reading it right now and wondering if half of the information put out by the media on this topic is true or spin.
Things similar to what you have just posted are backed up with footnotes and can be readily checked, plus the storyline (it is a work of fiction) is edge-of-seat in most places.
>> Score one big one for Gaim! That's more than a "don't need", that's a "don't want"
Yeah, I wholeheartedly concur.
Emoticons are the first things to get turned off on any IM client I use. If you can't be bothered to type a "=)" just don't bother with text at all, phone me.
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Filterset.G really gets Adblock to kill all the flash you don't want to see and leave the stuff that's worthwhile
Not really, I dislike Flash menus and forum headers.
I visit rathergood a lot and Weebl, I get a certain satisfaction in being able to start Flash applets when I want, not when the page loads.
As it is, their "watch an ad" is nonintrusive enough (you see the ad before reading the content, not during) and reasonable enough that I do so instead
No. If you don't give me what I want without forcing me into actions that I would prefer not to perform you are bribing me.
I follow Formula 1 and had a favourite site that I used to keep up with the calendar, the TV schedule, a few interesting articles, driver profiles, moves and transfers... You get the picture. I spent a lot of time reading that site, RSS kept me appraised of what they had on offer that day and even if there was nothing in the RSS I would click something in there just to open the site and catch the latest bits they didn't think worthy of the RSS.
Imagine my horror when one day I was reading a two page article and they put a full page ad in between page 1 and page 2.
I closed the site, wrote to the admin@, webmaster@ and editor@ this site.com. I expressed my displeasure and told them I wouldn't be back until this distasteful practice had stopped.
I don't know if they stopped the day after, the week after or the month after.
I didn't check the site for 6 months.
They lost a regular reader and fan for half a year because of one advert.
I don't mind when the adverts are in the same place on every page and don't animate, you can peruse them before closing the page, or you can ignore their existence, it is your choice. When they fit with the general layout and "busyness" of the page they are acceptable.
After all, SciFi writers have been predicting this for many years, haven't they?
I have read many stories where there are generations of knowledge passed down to an elite class of society that are revered by the rest as demigods for their knowledge of how to keep machines running that provide the world with food, air, heating and all the comforts of life.
I'd also say my Leatherman has fixed more than its fair share of VCRs and computers:-)
I have a Leatherman Wave (20th Anniversary, not the 2004 version) and I just can't get on with it. Has anyone else tried the Gerber Legend 800?
Leatherman have the brand recognition, but to my mind they aren't the best in the multitool market.
On a side note, while looking up the link I noticed that Gerber have brought out a new model, so I'll be taking a look at that now instead of reading Slashdot.
Bottom line: He says my system should be crashing all the time. My system does NOT crash like he says it should. Therefore, he's full of shit. Period.
Actually, I'm saying that MY system crashes.
I built it from scratch, I maintain it, I clean, upgrade and secure it.
It crashes.
I built my wife's computer too, AMD/Via/ATI.
It crashes.
I have a Celeron server, two P3 laptops and the old P1 server that I used to use 24/7.
They don't crash. Even the Athlon 1500+ M with ATI mobility that I use in this laptop doesn't crash, but this has an ALi chipset.
To you sir, and Mr Coward I say this; I am not telling you what other people's computers do, I am not an authority on component reliability and compatibility, I am not wishing ill to AMD/Via/ATI.
I am stating my own experience with a particular setup.
Don't take me all that seriously, this is/., everyone has their own opinion and if posts on here were taken seriously none of us would be Windows users, would we?
Why should I pay $1.49 for a song that you bought at 99c? You buying it doesn't make the song any better, it doesn't change the price that it cost to make and it certainly won't increase the percentage that the artist gets from the deal.
What, it costs the record companies more to make a decent song? They have higher overheads to sell more copies?
This is greed, your idea panders to them.
Music is a commodity item now, it doesn't have value in itself beyond that of the time and costs involved in making the recording. The RIAA companies have done this with their musical blueprints and formulaic songs.
If music was priced according to worth, wouldn't Beethoven be sold for far more than Britany Spears based on the complexity of the composition and the fact that one man wrote it as opposed to 20 guys sitting in a sweat box spitting out lyrics and 4 bar riffs to turn into songs?
You're asking for a Linux distribution to do your choosing for you, the way Bill chose what Windows users wanted.
One text editor (Notepad) one paint program (MSPaint) one document editor (Write) etc.
All these programs were dumbed down to fit the brains of the majority of users and the majority of users decided they liked having their choice made for them.
Linux is about choice. If you have ever installed SuSE you will note that there is the facility to pick an choose which packages you want installing, going from default setups for the machine's role down to dependency hell when you want to lose parts of the multimedia system needed for the Window manager.
You already have your wish with SuSE, grab a boot floppy and YaST over FTP to install whichever packages you want.
On my (was 1.5Mb last time I FTP'd an install) connection it took a couple of hours to do the standard KDE installation, and it worked a treat.
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It's a lot of gear so I obviously can't take it all everywhere
This is what the ScotteVest was invented for =)
Darekana was answered well by Cold Fjord, so I'll not reply when unnecessary.
The AC truly has a dizzying intellect, and made an incorrect assumption. I'm not American.
You, sir, I'll answer.
I haven't finished reading the book yet, I'm on with it now. When I've done reading the work of fiction I'll check the references in it and maybe come to a conclusion about the bias that it takes.
The whole point of the footnotes, IMO, is to get the reader thinking about the subject and have him/her check a little further into it. This has been accomplished, I'll be looking further.
Taking facts out of context works both ways, anyone with a bias does it. Who is to say that one person using a fact is right, where another is wrong for using the same fact? Many facts taken together can form a theory, then the theory can be tested. A fact taken out of context doesn't make the fact wrong, does it?
George Bush wasn't even born then. How could there possibly have been hurricanes, or any other evil or dangerous thing?
...
Silly, God sent us his second son to save us from these terrible things.
With all his recent fervour for the God squad, George might well have his own Book in the "Even Newer Testament", if he gets on and hurries up with allowing himself more time in office
What, you're never going to see him repeal part of the US Constitution?
Again?
And if you want to read an entertaining book that deals with this and other facts concerning "Global Warming" give
Michael Chrichton's State of Fear a go.
I am reading it right now and wondering if half of the information put out by the media on this topic is true or spin.
Things similar to what you have just posted are backed up with footnotes and can be readily checked, plus the storyline (it is a work of fiction) is edge-of-seat in most places.
Gaim does not support personalized MSN emoticons,
>> Score one big one for Gaim! That's more than a "don't need", that's a "don't want"
Yeah, I wholeheartedly concur.
Emoticons are the first things to get turned off on any IM client I use. If you can't be bothered to type a "=)" just don't bother with text at all, phone me.
Filterset.G really gets Adblock to kill all the flash you don't want to see and leave the stuff that's worthwhile
Not really, I dislike Flash menus and forum headers.
I visit rathergood a lot and Weebl, I get a certain satisfaction in being able to start Flash applets when I want, not when the page loads.
As it is, their "watch an ad" is nonintrusive enough (you see the ad before reading the content, not during) and reasonable enough that I do so instead
... You get the picture. I spent a lot of time reading that site, RSS kept me appraised of what they had on offer that day and even if there was nothing in the RSS I would click something in there just to open the site and catch the latest bits they didn't think worthy of the RSS.
No. If you don't give me what I want without forcing me into actions that I would prefer not to perform you are bribing me.
I follow Formula 1 and had a favourite site that I used to keep up with the calendar, the TV schedule, a few interesting articles, driver profiles, moves and transfers
Imagine my horror when one day I was reading a two page article and they put a full page ad in between page 1 and page 2.
I closed the site, wrote to the admin@, webmaster@ and editor@ this site.com. I expressed my displeasure and told them I wouldn't be back until this distasteful practice had stopped.
I don't know if they stopped the day after, the week after or the month after.
I didn't check the site for 6 months.
They lost a regular reader and fan for half a year because of one advert.
I don't mind when the adverts are in the same place on every page and don't animate, you can peruse them before closing the page, or you can ignore their existence, it is your choice. When they fit with the general layout and "busyness" of the page they are acceptable.
You forgot to put the colons into those URLs:
http://www.turbogears.org.nyud.net:8090/
http://www.rubyonrails.org.nyud.net:8090/
Couldn't figure out how to get slashdot to keep them
Use <(<) and >(>)
HTH =)
So? What am I? A Geezer or a Young blood
... What is your UserID?
Depends
After all, SciFi writers have been predicting this for many years, haven't they?
I have read many stories where there are generations of knowledge passed down to an elite class of society that are revered by the rest as demigods for their knowledge of how to keep machines running that provide the world with food, air, heating and all the comforts of life.
1: Post funny comment on /.
2: Forget to type "<BR>" after each line
3: ???
4: Profit!
yeah, this means I can stop using MultiIE now.
This is a godsend for us qVGA users.
Thanks guys!
I'd also say my Leatherman has fixed more than its fair share of VCRs and computers :-)
I have a Leatherman Wave (20th Anniversary, not the 2004 version) and I just can't get on with it. Has anyone else tried the Gerber Legend 800?
Leatherman have the brand recognition, but to my mind they aren't the best in the multitool market.
On a side note, while looking up the link I noticed that Gerber have brought out a new model, so I'll be taking a look at that now instead of reading Slashdot.
Bottom line: He says my system should be crashing all the time. My system does NOT crash like he says it should. Therefore, he's full of shit. Period.
/., everyone has their own opinion and if posts on here were taken seriously none of us would be Windows users, would we?
Actually, I'm saying that MY system crashes.
I built it from scratch, I maintain it, I clean, upgrade and secure it.
It crashes.
I built my wife's computer too, AMD/Via/ATI.
It crashes.
I have a Celeron server, two P3 laptops and the old P1 server that I used to use 24/7.
They don't crash. Even the Athlon 1500+ M with ATI mobility that I use in this laptop doesn't crash, but this has an ALi chipset.
To you sir, and Mr Coward I say this; I am not telling you what other people's computers do, I am not an authority on component reliability and compatibility, I am not wishing ill to AMD/Via/ATI.
I am stating my own experience with a particular setup.
Don't take me all that seriously, this is
Try mixing Via chipset/AMD CPU/ATI graphics and see how long you last without a BSOD.
I would prefer value for money components but the BSODs have me back on the more expensive parts.
I didn't get those once I started opening each page in a new tab instead of simply clicking the next page link.
HTH
Heh, doesn't everyone ignore those little speech bubbles? Windows spams me more than the v1@gr@ people
TweakUI is the thing you desire most in life.
All those bubbles can be turned off with one registry key, but TweakUI will do far more than that one incredible fix.
Yes, redundancy is the key.
If they think that is costs too much for 2 ISPs, how much would they lose if their ISP was offline for a couple of days?
Sometimes I think of the word "redundancy" as being almost magical.
Why should I pay $1.49 for a song that you bought at 99c? You buying it doesn't make the song any better, it doesn't change the price that it cost to make and it certainly won't increase the percentage that the artist gets from the deal.
What, it costs the record companies more to make a decent song? They have higher overheads to sell more copies?
This is greed, your idea panders to them.
Music is a commodity item now, it doesn't have value in itself beyond that of the time and costs involved in making the recording. The RIAA companies have done this with their musical blueprints and formulaic songs.
If music was priced according to worth, wouldn't Beethoven be sold for far more than Britany Spears based on the complexity of the composition and the fact that one man wrote it as opposed to 20 guys sitting in a sweat box spitting out lyrics and 4 bar riffs to turn into songs?
You're asking for a Linux distribution to do your choosing for you, the way Bill chose what Windows users wanted.
One text editor (Notepad) one paint program (MSPaint) one document editor (Write) etc.
All these programs were dumbed down to fit the brains of the majority of users and the majority of users decided they liked having their choice made for them.
Linux is about choice. If you have ever installed SuSE you will note that there is the facility to pick an choose which packages you want installing, going from default setups for the machine's role down to dependency hell when you want to lose parts of the multimedia system needed for the Window manager.
You already have your wish with SuSE, grab a boot floppy and YaST over FTP to install whichever packages you want.
On my (was 1.5Mb last time I FTP'd an install) connection it took a couple of hours to do the standard KDE installation, and it worked a treat.
Looking on Google maps there seems to be less than 20 houses on his street. Why is it that American addresses always seem to be in the thousands?
Don't these people know that the numerical "alphabet" starts at 1, not 1,000 and that it increments by 1, not 100?
That aside, he lives in what looks like a nice place =)
They stagger the release times to ease bandwidth. The setup file comes first, then it hits the update servers.
In a couple of days people can autoupdate or use the little blue xmas tree.
Script to recolor Slashdot.
HTH.
I don't care if the majority break, I only use 1 script, and that is the one to get rid of the disgusting color scheme for it.slashdot.org.
That was the only reason I installed the thing.