The church I went to as a kid was near a bakery, resulting in the wondrous smell of fresh bread on Sunday mornings. I certainly "bought" a lot of things there that I regretted later.
What's worse is that some people actually use Comic Sans to letter comic books. Comics - yes, even self-published superhero comics - deserve more respect than that.
Regardless of if you register 10 times for 1 year or 1 time for 10 years, what does it matter?
Boy, I'd love to be your landlord. How about instead of sending me the rent every month, you just send me the next 10 years' rent now?
For one thing, I merely suggested moving away from.net, not.com, so moving from.net to.com may be all you need to do.
Yeah, because there are just loads of people who registered.net addresses and just skipped.com. As far as I can tell, the only people who register.net domains are A) old-school network providers who remember when that was what the TLD was for, B) people whose choice of.com is already taken, C) people who figure out a play on words using it, and D) the not-very-bright.
Are you inferring that everything other than.net and.com are "third class" domain names?
No, I'm implying it. And they are. Just ask around; the majority of web surfers are only vaguely aware that other gTLDs exist.
country code TLDs are generally considered to be just as good, at least in those countries.... I for one wouldn't mind a nice.ca address.
(I'd love one too, but I'd be more interested in the citizenship.) Y'know, I don't see a lot of people flocking to register.us addresses.
Face it:.com is what most people want;.net is what the second-placers settle for; from there on out, it's all just a bunch of somebodyelseregisteredthisfirst.biz/info/org.
Look, I have.info and.us domains registered to me, and it's not because those were my first-choice TLDs. The bottom line is that, if someone registered example.net, it's because that was the best option available to them; if they'd wanted example.ng or example.biz, or they thought that was "just as good", that's what they would've registered in the first place. Changing TLDs for pricing/policy/bureaucratic reasons will - almost by definition - be a step down.
Not entirely screwed; VeriSlime must give 6 months notice, during which time you can make long many-year registrations.
So instead of facing an x% increase in future registrations, I can write a check now for 1000% of the current annual fee to lock in the price for a decade. How is that not getting screwed? <sarcasm>Yeah, Verisign must hate it when people pre-pay like that.</sarcasm>
you can move to alternate TLDs, because you have enough time to do so.
Yeah, and nothing says "third class" better than a domain name that's not in.com or.net.
And here I thought that getting rid of bugs was a good thing. Coding for portability makes for better code, so code that doesn't port easily is deficient. (Any high school freshling with VisualStudio can write code that works dependably on a single platform.) Ergo, testing on secondary and tertiary platforms makes for better apps and is simply another aspect of QA.
Sorry, but your first statement is a complete non-sequitur. And wrong. There is no reason why one OS should be expected to be the solution to everyone's problems. Would you tell an artist whose studio contains sets of watercolors, oils, and acrylics that this proves that each of these painting media must suck? That's just... absurd. Each has their uses, and what's a "good" feature in one situation can be a "bad" feature in another.
Furthermore, the fact that my needs can only be met by a heterogeneous network of computers doesn't mean that other people need that, and (duh) I'm not suggesting that to them unless they too want to run their own web/mail hosting system, develop crossplatform web sites, work creatively in digital media, and do freelance tech support for Mac, Windows, and Linux users. In that case, yeah, they're gonna need a bunch of stuff. But most people only need one. And which one varies from one person to another. Only an idiot recommends his own medicine to everyone.
And frankly, you're simply incorrect in saying these systems don't work together. Sure, it could be easier, and MS willfully introduces a lot of the difficulties, but my mongrel home network works quite well, thanks.
In the religious wars between Apple believers and Microsoft adherents, I take the role of an ecumenical agnostic.
Neither of them is the perfect solution to every problem (and no, neither is Linux or any other OS). I work for an art and design college, and our labs are split about 50:50 between Windows and OS X, depending on the academic program (interior/industrial/furniture/jewelry design classes use Windows, fine arts/illustration/digital media/print media use OS X). My own home network contains multiple Windows, OS X, and Linux boxes.
So when people come to me with problems or for advice, I don't preach from the Gospel According to Steve or the Revelation to St. Bill (or the Epistles of Linus). I listen to what their needs are, and I suggest whatever offers the best solution for them.
All I'll say is to sit down and think about it a while. Think about the laws of reciprocity. I might mention that I'm a believer in faith and God, and one of the things we're taught is to let this kind of thing go as the perp will get theirs in the end 10 fold, and I; the victim will get mine 10 fold in the end.
If you're talking about the afterlife or karma... maybe. But...
I bet that probably means a whopper of an even better machine or.. machine(s)...:-)
Apparently you're one of the delusional fools who believe - despite ample evidence to the contrary - that this kind of justice is meted out in this life, and people who've been wronged inevitably get good things from God, and that evil people always end up getting caught. No intelligent person over the age of 12 buys that. I mean really. You aren't that bloody naive... are you?
I'm not teaching anyone anything.
Yeah, that would require you having some wisdom to teach.
Thefts go on all the time. The kid(s) that did this will ultimately get caught and have to do some time. Remember that this kind of thing only escalates. They figure hay I got away with this; how much more can I do and get away with. So; like I said, it will eventually catch up to them.
Oh, so your plan is, rather than helping to prevent him from straying off the path of righteousness, you're going to just let him go and get in way over his head, and then gloat when he fucks over someone else so badly that he finally gets fucked over himself. That is so pathetically irresponsible. Those of us who've been around the block more than a dozen times are morally obligated to provide guidance for those with less experience. Those who turn away without doing that... well, you've heard of the "law of reciprocity"?
Do you think that's maybe too inflexible on part of these girls?
So what? The whole point of this is to try to meet these young people "where they live" and show them how software engineering might actually appeal to them, rather than lecturing them pedantically about how their tastes and preferences are incorrect and more close-minded than yours.
It's been my experience that guys vastly overestimate girls' interest in seeing sports on a screen. But let's set aside the Mars/Venus stereotypes and simply acknowledge that a large chunk of the kids (probably mostly girls, but that's not the point) will find something like a football, racing, or shooter game actively disinteresting. You may not be able to find a demonstration subject that'll interest everyone, but try not to pick one that's going to turn a lot of them off.
Pray. Let God run your daily calendar and you'll have time for everything you need to do.
Studies have definitely shown that praying helps people who are genuinely faithful about it. It's probably placebo effect, but whatever works, works. Just don't go the Christian-Scientist [sic] route and count on God to fix it for you without the use of actual medicine, psychology, time management, etc.
Elevators are for the weak/injured, people with large packages, skyscraper-dwellers, and people who hate themselves. People who take elevators down are especially suspect in their common sense; there's a reason they're called "elevators" (or "lifts"), people.
I stopped using elevators a few years ago. I do hands-on tech support in an 8-story building, and the only time I push a button to change floors is when I'm carrying something heavy or pushing a cart. It hasn't turned me into Charles Atlas, but I'm definitely healthier than I used to be.
It even saves time! Like I said, I'm no athlete, but I still find myself passing someone waiting for the elevator on the 1st floor as I go into the stairwell, then see them get off the elevator as I'm sitting at my desk on the 4th floor. They sometimes look at me funny, as if they'd just seen Clark Kent miss the school bus, then he greets them in the parking lot at Smallville High, but it's not my fault they don't understand the concept of "walking" instead of "standing".
My brother-in-law's situation is somewhat similar. In his case, it was a deal he made so he could take a job in another city without relocating his family. Rather than killing himself with a daily commute, he has a tiny apartment in the other city, which is where he stays those three nights each week. It's just a bed, a minifridge, a microwave, a comfy chair, and a TV, but since all he needs is a place to unwind a little, eat, and sleep, it's enough. (For a while he rented a spare room from a coworker who lived nearby.) It means he doesn't get to see the wife and kids for a few days each week, but when he's home he's all theirs, which helps make up for it.
At least that's the story he tells my sister; I don't know what he tells his family in the other city.:)
I wouldn't need the Sun thing. I've got a window seat. Looks out over the Georgia Tech stadium...
I used to work for a college, and managed to finagle things such that my desk faced a window with a good view of one of the main pedestrian routes from one section of campus to another. This ensured that once an hour I'd take my eyes off my monitor and "rest" them on the parade of students commuting between classes. I especially enjoyed the shorts-wearing seasons. {wistful sigh}
My first job out of college I spent the summer in a cubicle that had previously been one of the execs' storage space... basically a closet. I didn't even get a waste paper basket.
The last place I worked had everyone in wall-n-doors offices (which was generally a horridly antisocial environment, IMHO) and there were a few people who'd taken the "living room" approach, with warm incandescent lamps, etc. I found those rooms almost dreary, though; in my office I turned on every fluorescent light I was entitled to. The fact that these were windowless cells, and I crave daylight was part of the reason.
As for personalising one's office... the key word fragment there is personal. I've got Capt. Picard and Superboy action figures, a Macquarium SE (with my fish Point and Click), a miniposter of Michelangelo's David (i.e. it's art not porn), a print of a Frazetta painting of John Carter in a loincloth (i.e. it's pop art not porn), a calendar of Alex Ross watercolors, a sketchpad for taking breaks, an old "I'm not gay but my boyfriend is" tea mug, photos of my nieces and nephew.... because all that's me.
Do we really need to associate free and OSS software with this level of reactionism? It's bad enough when mommy thinks we're some kind of anti-American thought police without also dissing Halloween.
You could definitely use this as your "main" digital camera, and occasionally use the phone functionality, as needed.
I'm sure many people would be happy with it as their main camera, but if I'm going to bother taking and storing 5Mpixel images, I wouldn't want to settle for the optics on this unit. The press release doesn't say anything about the specs of the lens, but that photo shows a slider with icons for "flower", "head shot", and "landscape", which suggests that it uses zone focusing. And if it has any zoom (again, they don't say), I assume it's only digital not optical, which is another way of saying that it doesn't really change magnification. This is just a 5Mpixel Kodak Brownie, which I know I would not be happy with as my main camera.
There are plenty of other options on the ballot. Sure, Nader's been having trouble, but that's because he's trying to do it without a political party behind him (filing as a Reform candidate, or as an independent, or both, or whatever he thinks will work in a given state). In addition to Nader, I'm sure I'll see a Libertarian, Constitution, Green, and probably a Natural Law candidate on my ballot in November, and so will everyone else in my state. Any party that can't get their candidate on the ballot sure as hell isn't going to succeed in getting people to write them in on an open ballot. Yeah, the standards for getting on the ballot are too strict, but the fact that a central agency is putting it together is not the problem. Hell, those government-printed ballots featuring half a dozen different candidates are probably the best publicity some of them will get.
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The church I went to as a kid was near a bakery, resulting in the wondrous smell of fresh bread on Sunday mornings. I certainly "bought" a lot of things there that I regretted later.
Try something from Blambot (Digital Strip and Anime Ace are ones I've used) or Comicraft.
What's worse is that some people actually use Comic Sans to letter comic books. Comics - yes, even self-published superhero comics - deserve more respect than that.
Boy, I'd love to be your landlord. How about instead of sending me the rent every month, you just send me the next 10 years' rent now?
For one thing, I merely suggested moving away from .net, not .com, so moving from .net to .com may be all you need to do.
Yeah, because there are just loads of people who registered .net addresses and just skipped .com. As far as I can tell, the only people who register .net domains are A) old-school network providers who remember when that was what the TLD was for, B) people whose choice of .com is already taken, C) people who figure out a play on words using it, and D) the not-very-bright.
Are you inferring that everything other than .net and .com are "third class" domain names?
No, I'm implying it. And they are. Just ask around; the majority of web surfers are only vaguely aware that other gTLDs exist.
country code TLDs are generally considered to be just as good, at least in those countries .... I for one wouldn't mind a nice .ca address.
(I'd love one too, but I'd be more interested in the citizenship.) Y'know, I don't see a lot of people flocking to register .us addresses.
Face it: .com is what most people want; .net is what the second-placers settle for; from there on out, it's all just a bunch of somebodyelseregisteredthisfirst.biz/info/org.
Look, I have .info and .us domains registered to me, and it's not because those were my first-choice TLDs. The bottom line is that, if someone registered example.net, it's because that was the best option available to them; if they'd wanted example.ng or example.biz, or they thought that was "just as good", that's what they would've registered in the first place. Changing TLDs for pricing/policy/bureaucratic reasons will - almost by definition - be a step down.
How is this news? I've been using Office 12 for months already. You can buy it online right here.
So instead of facing an x% increase in future registrations, I can write a check now for 1000% of the current annual fee to lock in the price for a decade. How is that not getting screwed? <sarcasm>Yeah, Verisign must hate it when people pre-pay like that.</sarcasm>
you can move to alternate TLDs, because you have enough time to do so.
Yeah, and nothing says "third class" better than a domain name that's not in .com or .net.
I recommend the Grown-Up Rules version, where the last one to cum wins.
And here I thought that getting rid of bugs was a good thing. Coding for portability makes for better code, so code that doesn't port easily is deficient. (Any high school freshling with VisualStudio can write code that works dependably on a single platform.) Ergo, testing on secondary and tertiary platforms makes for better apps and is simply another aspect of QA.
Sorry, but your first statement is a complete non-sequitur. And wrong. There is no reason why one OS should be expected to be the solution to everyone's problems. Would you tell an artist whose studio contains sets of watercolors, oils, and acrylics that this proves that each of these painting media must suck? That's just... absurd. Each has their uses, and what's a "good" feature in one situation can be a "bad" feature in another.
Furthermore, the fact that my needs can only be met by a heterogeneous network of computers doesn't mean that other people need that, and (duh) I'm not suggesting that to them unless they too want to run their own web/mail hosting system, develop crossplatform web sites, work creatively in digital media, and do freelance tech support for Mac, Windows, and Linux users. In that case, yeah, they're gonna need a bunch of stuff. But most people only need one. And which one varies from one person to another. Only an idiot recommends his own medicine to everyone.
And frankly, you're simply incorrect in saying these systems don't work together. Sure, it could be easier, and MS willfully introduces a lot of the difficulties, but my mongrel home network works quite well, thanks.
Neither of them is the perfect solution to every problem (and no, neither is Linux or any other OS). I work for an art and design college, and our labs are split about 50:50 between Windows and OS X, depending on the academic program (interior/industrial/furniture/jewelry design classes use Windows, fine arts/illustration/digital media/print media use OS X). My own home network contains multiple Windows, OS X, and Linux boxes.
So when people come to me with problems or for advice, I don't preach from the Gospel According to Steve or the Revelation to St. Bill (or the Epistles of Linus). I listen to what their needs are, and I suggest whatever offers the best solution for them.
If you're talking about the afterlife or karma... maybe. But...
I bet that probably means a whopper of an even better machine or.. machine(s)... :-)
Apparently you're one of the delusional fools who believe - despite ample evidence to the contrary - that this kind of justice is meted out in this life, and people who've been wronged inevitably get good things from God, and that evil people always end up getting caught. No intelligent person over the age of 12 buys that. I mean really. You aren't that bloody naive... are you?
I'm not teaching anyone anything.
Yeah, that would require you having some wisdom to teach.
Thefts go on all the time. The kid(s) that did this will ultimately get caught and have to do some time. Remember that this kind of thing only escalates. They figure hay I got away with this; how much more can I do and get away with. So; like I said, it will eventually catch up to them.
Oh, so your plan is, rather than helping to prevent him from straying off the path of righteousness, you're going to just let him go and get in way over his head, and then gloat when he fucks over someone else so badly that he finally gets fucked over himself. That is so pathetically irresponsible. Those of us who've been around the block more than a dozen times are morally obligated to provide guidance for those with less experience. Those who turn away without doing that... well, you've heard of the "law of reciprocity"?
So what? The whole point of this is to try to meet these young people "where they live" and show them how software engineering might actually appeal to them, rather than lecturing them pedantically about how their tastes and preferences are incorrect and more close-minded than yours.
It's been my experience that guys vastly overestimate girls' interest in seeing sports on a screen. But let's set aside the Mars/Venus stereotypes and simply acknowledge that a large chunk of the kids (probably mostly girls, but that's not the point) will find something like a football, racing, or shooter game actively disinteresting. You may not be able to find a demonstration subject that'll interest everyone, but try not to pick one that's going to turn a lot of them off.
Studies have definitely shown that praying helps people who are genuinely faithful about it. It's probably placebo effect, but whatever works, works. Just don't go the Christian-Scientist [sic] route and count on God to fix it for you without the use of actual medicine, psychology, time management, etc.
I drink water spiked with standard off-the-shelf juice, so it's more like drinking lo-cal fruit juice than drinking Just Plain Water by the quart.
I stopped using elevators a few years ago. I do hands-on tech support in an 8-story building, and the only time I push a button to change floors is when I'm carrying something heavy or pushing a cart. It hasn't turned me into Charles Atlas, but I'm definitely healthier than I used to be.
It even saves time! Like I said, I'm no athlete, but I still find myself passing someone waiting for the elevator on the 1st floor as I go into the stairwell, then see them get off the elevator as I'm sitting at my desk on the 4th floor. They sometimes look at me funny, as if they'd just seen Clark Kent miss the school bus, then he greets them in the parking lot at Smallville High, but it's not my fault they don't understand the concept of "walking" instead of "standing".
At least that's the story he tells my sister; I don't know what he tells his family in the other city. :)
Not totally, but they're getting there. It's something to strive for.
Considering all that "straight" implies...
- straight and narrow is a dreary lifestyle
- straight-jackets are for the insane
- four straight lines make a square
- the straight man in a comedy duo is the one who isn't funny
- in straight poker you're stuck with whatever you're dealt
- straight razors are lethally dangerous
- no one likes to be in dire straits (unless you're Mark Knopfler)
... I'll take "gay" ideas any day.I used to work for a college, and managed to finagle things such that my desk faced a window with a good view of one of the main pedestrian routes from one section of campus to another. This ensured that once an hour I'd take my eyes off my monitor and "rest" them on the parade of students commuting between classes. I especially enjoyed the shorts-wearing seasons. {wistful sigh}
The last place I worked had everyone in wall-n-doors offices (which was generally a horridly antisocial environment, IMHO) and there were a few people who'd taken the "living room" approach, with warm incandescent lamps, etc. I found those rooms almost dreary, though; in my office I turned on every fluorescent light I was entitled to. The fact that these were windowless cells, and I crave daylight was part of the reason.
As for personalising one's office... the key word fragment there is personal. I've got Capt. Picard and Superboy action figures, a Macquarium SE (with my fish Point and Click), a miniposter of Michelangelo's David (i.e. it's art not porn), a print of a Frazetta painting of John Carter in a loincloth (i.e. it's pop art not porn), a calendar of Alex Ross watercolors, a sketchpad for taking breaks, an old "I'm not gay but my boyfriend is" tea mug, photos of my nieces and nephew.... because all that's me.
Will you move with me to a jurisdiction where it's legal, and marry me?
Getting to declare yourself Canadian, but still getting to try to fix things here? Aces! When can I get a bumper sticker?
Do we really need to associate free and OSS software with this level of reactionism? It's bad enough when mommy thinks we're some kind of anti-American thought police without also dissing Halloween.
I'm sure many people would be happy with it as their main camera, but if I'm going to bother taking and storing 5Mpixel images, I wouldn't want to settle for the optics on this unit. The press release doesn't say anything about the specs of the lens, but that photo shows a slider with icons for "flower", "head shot", and "landscape", which suggests that it uses zone focusing. And if it has any zoom (again, they don't say), I assume it's only digital not optical, which is another way of saying that it doesn't really change magnification. This is just a 5Mpixel Kodak Brownie, which I know I would not be happy with as my main camera.
There are plenty of other options on the ballot. Sure, Nader's been having trouble, but that's because he's trying to do it without a political party behind him (filing as a Reform candidate, or as an independent, or both, or whatever he thinks will work in a given state). In addition to Nader, I'm sure I'll see a Libertarian, Constitution, Green, and probably a Natural Law candidate on my ballot in November, and so will everyone else in my state. Any party that can't get their candidate on the ballot sure as hell isn't going to succeed in getting people to write them in on an open ballot. Yeah, the standards for getting on the ballot are too strict, but the fact that a central agency is putting it together is not the problem. Hell, those government-printed ballots featuring half a dozen different candidates are probably the best publicity some of them will get.