My friend once told me about this time when he made out with a girl who he later found out was his cousin. He tried to explain the feeling to me. He said that his enjoyment made the post-revelation remorse much worse. But I didn't understand.
In related news, Slashdot announced today a change in editorial policy. Starting in December, each Slashdot editor will approve a different version of the same story.
Asked about the decision, CmdrTaco pointed to tension amongst the editors. "ScuttleMonkey was whining about only having a chance to approve **Beatles-Beatles linkwhore articles, while Zonk and others get to approve stuff that matters (sometimes more than once, even). This change in policy will hopefully get rid of this tension, which has distracted all of us lately from our bird watching activities."
Some have speculated that most Slashdot users will notice no difference from their previous site experience.
Um, did you even RTFA you linked to? I would hardly characterize Slyck's position as disagreement. They include quotes from Sloncek that clear up confusion caused by apparent (but not actual) inconsistencies.
As a CS student who has just finished going through senior-year recruiting, I have to second this note. When seeking the "good jobs", I was at a disadvantage because my degree was CS and not MIS (MIS is much much less intense technically). The only thing that saved me was my GPA and the fact that I had Psychology as a second major, which I guess was good enough to substitute for the business training and/or prove that I can be social.
Anymore, programming is a manual labor. Programming is to IT as construction is to architecture. If you want to be an architect, I would suggest something other than CS.
They finally fixed tab chatted, so if someone on your MSN list decides they want a 20 character display name, their tab wont take up 20 spaces on your chat window. Instead it truncates it and evenly spaces the tabs.
They also fixed this in the buddy list. Before, I had one buddy with a name like asdfljasdlkfjasldkfjlaskdfjasdfjklaksdjflkasdjf and I had to have my buddy list really wide or I would get a horizontal scrollbar. Now it will truncate based on your buddy list width.
There's a plugin to control the gtk theme options. I don't know if this is there only for people using gnome, but since it just edits a config file, I don't know why you wouldn't have it under K too.
And what shall I do while I'm spending all of my free time trying to educate a population who is rather uninterested with invasions of privacy? How can I protect myself until enough elections pass to get a critical mass of responsible Congressmen elected?
What's wrong with me? What's wrong is that I realize that when push comes to shove, I have to be able to defend myself, no matter what idiot gets elected (unfortunately, I do not control the entire electorate... yet).
You can't just dismiss the question. That's nearly as bad as accepting the situation. You're obviously opposed to the invasions of privaciy and destruction of liberties. Tell me, how much time to you devote to getting freedom-protecting people elected? How much do you donate to the ACLU? Did you vote for crappy presidential candidate #1 or crappy presidential candidate #2 in the last election (forgive my assumption that you're an American; it's really just rhetorical here).
It doesn't say "You have these rights, as long as you devote all your time to politics" in the Constitution. What's wrong with using legal means as well as reasonable political means to protect one's freedoms and privacy?
By the way, we went to Iraq to liberate its citizens, piracy hurts the artists and stagehands more than the movie execs, those who need privacy have something to hide, rise in global temperature since the Industrial Revolution is just coincidence, and I'm really really good in bed.
Amen. Gaim has a habit of removing the features I like most, and then not offering alternative instructions to still have that setting (surely it still can be managed via a config file somewhere, but I have no idea how). In the changelog, these feature removals are listed as: "Simplified configuration-x interface"
I will try out Gaim2 for myself, but if there truly is no way to set idle reporting to gaim usage, I will revert to 1.x
Making me dig and dig trying to figure out how to use Gaim the way I used to be able to use it is not simplifying the interface.
What the hell is the point of this? Why would someone spend time developing an algorithm that uses budget as one of the variables? Budget is something that would be based on an algorithm like this. So, this is basically saying: some group of people already decided that this movie is a good investment based on a number of factors; based on that,our formula thinks this movie will be successful, and it performs at a whopping 26% higher than chance.
I think a lot of people (including me) will be watching what happens with this very closely. For Google's own sake, I hope they don't do anything stupid, because their 'do know evil' policy is definitely a lot of what's keeping them afloat now that the Big Boys have Google in their sights.
Um, I thought the whole point was that inflammation of the carpal tunnel caused pressure on the nerve. If use isn't causing the inflammation, then what is?
Can anyone track down the actual report? Are they saying that other repetitive stress injuries are misdiagnosed as carpal tunnel, or are they saying that the carpal tunnel is corretly diagnosed but attributed to the wrong things?
Many white dwarfs are approximately the size of the Earth, typically 100 times smaller than the Sun. They may have the same mass as the Sun and so are very compact.
"The core, no longer supported against gravitational collapse by fusion reactions, becomes extremely dense, with a typical mass of about half that of the sun contained in a volume about equal to that of the Earth."
Newsflash, it's a joke. A casual read of the excerpt makes one go "wha?!", until they catch the "from" in "against eight competitors from Hitachi, Maxtor, Seagate, and Western Digital."
I think Google floats these rumors and then reads the related Slashdot discussions. It's like having a million business strategists who have nothing better to do than speculate on where Google is going, except at Slashdot, Google pays no salary.
Seagate to create a 160GB Barracuda 7200.9 hard drive
The Tech Report has an in-depth review of the 160GB Barracuda 7200.9's performance against eight competitors from Hitachi, Maxtor, Seagate, and Western Digital.
My money's on Seagate over Seagate in the 7th round.
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I bet you drafted that comment in MS Office. You should check out OpenOffice.org.
My friend once told me about this time when he made out with a girl who he later found out was his cousin. He tried to explain the feeling to me. He said that his enjoyment made the post-revelation remorse much worse. But I didn't understand.
Jon -- if you're out there -- I get it now.
Maybe we should get the NSA to look into anti-slashdotting high technology.
In related news, Slashdot announced today a change in editorial policy. Starting in December, each Slashdot editor will approve a different version of the same story.
Asked about the decision, CmdrTaco pointed to tension amongst the editors. "ScuttleMonkey was whining about only having a chance to approve **Beatles-Beatles linkwhore articles, while Zonk and others get to approve stuff that matters (sometimes more than once, even). This change in policy will hopefully get rid of this tension, which has distracted all of us lately from our bird watching activities."
Some have speculated that most Slashdot users will notice no difference from their previous site experience.
Um, did you even RTFA you linked to? I would hardly characterize Slyck's position as disagreement. They include quotes from Sloncek that clear up confusion caused by apparent (but not actual) inconsistencies.
As a CS student who has just finished going through senior-year recruiting, I have to second this note. When seeking the "good jobs", I was at a disadvantage because my degree was CS and not MIS (MIS is much much less intense technically). The only thing that saved me was my GPA and the fact that I had Psychology as a second major, which I guess was good enough to substitute for the business training and/or prove that I can be social.
Anymore, programming is a manual labor. Programming is to IT as construction is to architecture. If you want to be an architect, I would suggest something other than CS.
They finally fixed tab chatted, so if someone on your MSN list decides they want a 20 character display name, their tab wont take up 20 spaces on your chat window. Instead it truncates it and evenly spaces the tabs.
They also fixed this in the buddy list. Before, I had one buddy with a name like asdfljasdlkfjasldkfjlaskdfjasdfjklaksdjflkasdjf and I had to have my buddy list really wide or I would get a horizontal scrollbar. Now it will truncate based on your buddy list width.
Yeah, if you use IdleMak'r you can IM while still be idle. But then the jig is up when people get your IM and you're still idle.
Do you have a link to the message (I assume on an email list)?
Yeah, or AT LEAST have a friggin advanced settings mode. Or would that be too Windows-y...
How typical of slashdot that you get modded as flamebait and troll. Ridiculous.
There's a plugin to control the gtk theme options. I don't know if this is there only for people using gnome, but since it just edits a config file, I don't know why you wouldn't have it under K too.
Given the state of your server currently, you might want to put some of those funds towards more bandwidth and hardware.
And what shall I do while I'm spending all of my free time trying to educate a population who is rather uninterested with invasions of privacy? How can I protect myself until enough elections pass to get a critical mass of responsible Congressmen elected?
What's wrong with me? What's wrong is that I realize that when push comes to shove, I have to be able to defend myself, no matter what idiot gets elected (unfortunately, I do not control the entire electorate... yet).
You can't just dismiss the question. That's nearly as bad as accepting the situation. You're obviously opposed to the invasions of privaciy and destruction of liberties. Tell me, how much time to you devote to getting freedom-protecting people elected? How much do you donate to the ACLU? Did you vote for crappy presidential candidate #1 or crappy presidential candidate #2 in the last election (forgive my assumption that you're an American; it's really just rhetorical here).
It doesn't say "You have these rights, as long as you devote all your time to politics" in the Constitution. What's wrong with using legal means as well as reasonable political means to protect one's freedoms and privacy?
Idle reporting is based on the last time you sent an IM.
By the way, we went to Iraq to liberate its citizens, piracy hurts the artists and stagehands more than the movie execs, those who need privacy have something to hide, rise in global temperature since the Industrial Revolution is just coincidence, and I'm really really good in bed.
Amen. Gaim has a habit of removing the features I like most, and then not offering alternative instructions to still have that setting (surely it still can be managed via a config file somewhere, but I have no idea how). In the changelog, these feature removals are listed as: "Simplified configuration-x interface"
I will try out Gaim2 for myself, but if there truly is no way to set idle reporting to gaim usage, I will revert to 1.x
Making me dig and dig trying to figure out how to use Gaim the way I used to be able to use it is not simplifying the interface.
What the hell is the point of this? Why would someone spend time developing an algorithm that uses budget as one of the variables? Budget is something that would be based on an algorithm like this. So, this is basically saying: some group of people already decided that this movie is a good investment based on a number of factors; based on that,our formula thinks this movie will be successful, and it performs at a whopping 26% higher than chance.
Well pop the champagne.
I think a lot of people (including me) will be watching what happens with this very closely. For Google's own sake, I hope they don't do anything stupid, because their 'do know evil' policy is definitely a lot of what's keeping them afloat now that the Big Boys have Google in their sights.
Um, I thought the whole point was that inflammation of the carpal tunnel caused pressure on the nerve. If use isn't causing the inflammation, then what is?
Can anyone track down the actual report? Are they saying that other repetitive stress injuries are misdiagnosed as carpal tunnel, or are they saying that the carpal tunnel is corretly diagnosed but attributed to the wrong things?
Actually, I may have spoken too soon:
Many white dwarfs are approximately the size of the Earth, typically 100 times smaller than the Sun. They may have the same mass as the Sun and so are very compact.
Do they really vary in density that much?
Time to update the Wikipedia entry?
"The core, no longer supported against gravitational collapse by fusion reactions, becomes extremely dense, with a typical mass of about half that of the sun contained in a volume about equal to that of the Earth."
Still probably has less errors than Britannica...
Newsflash, it's a joke. A casual read of the excerpt makes one go "wha?!", until they catch the "from" in "against eight competitors from Hitachi, Maxtor, Seagate, and Western Digital."
I think Google floats these rumors and then reads the related Slashdot discussions. It's like having a million business strategists who have nothing better to do than speculate on where Google is going, except at Slashdot, Google pays no salary.
Seagate to create a 160GB Barracuda 7200.9 hard drive
The Tech Report has an in-depth review of the 160GB Barracuda 7200.9's performance against eight competitors from Hitachi, Maxtor, Seagate, and Western Digital.
My money's on Seagate over Seagate in the 7th round.