Sorry to say, but I have a hard time taking anything hosted on geocities seriously (it generally says you don't care enough about the content to shell out five bucks a month for other people to view)
In NYC a cop can stop you for whatever reason, ask for your ID - and if you don't have it, haul you downtown to figure out who you are.
All for prostitute and drug-dealing busting back in the 90's. So yeah, everyone except - probably - bums, in NYC, have IDs. But NYC isn't indicative of the rest of the country to be certain. (Just another indication of 'Papers, Please' here in the beloved US - of - A.)
Yet I get on average 9mbps down and 512kbps up, with spikes up to 10mbps and once - just once - I saw 12mbps on cable. I really don't mind, but for things like streaming near-dvd quality (like netflix)? I don't think 3-6mbps would cut it. Unless you have data that I can't find right now asserting otherwise..
At least (for now) most people have several ISP's to choose from.
Bzzt. Wrong. Most areas have local-government-mandated sole cable ISPs. Ie, this neighborhood is given to TWC, this neighborhood is given to Cablevision, this neighborhood is given to comcast. Sometimes it's more like towns instead of neighborhoods, but the concept remains the same. Your basic choice is: Cable for decent speeds, DSL for shitty speeds. And if you're very, very lucky you can opt for FiOS.
Yeah, if they didn't know what the hell they were doing. For a long time (since IE5 I think) you have been able to use conditional comments to include special IE override stylesheets. This completely takes care of a) making sure your site doesn't dump to quirks mode because you're using IE css parsing error hacks and b) making sure your site looks right in all the major browsers. Not only can you say "IE, parse this code but everyone else ignore it because it looks just like a regular html comment," you can say "IE 6? yeah, you parse this. IE7? Ignore it and parse this instead."
It's a little bit of extra work but it saves so much in headaches that it's not even funny. Oh, yeah, and it's certain to make your site futuresafe. Why the heck don't more people use them? I don't know. Maybe it's an awareness issue; maybe it' s a laziness issue.
It's still "coding around the issue," but it's the safest way to do so. And typically that file will be less than 1kb anyway.
The most likely things to fail in a server are the power supply and hard disks. For not a lot of money, you can buy servers with redundant power supplies and a raid array. You are now protected from the vast majority of hardware failures.
When you're running on anything ginormous-scale, you don't really care about local raid all that much, especially if the data is massively replicated in the datacenter.
In fact, you may not even care if an individual machine breaks down - you just unplug it because it happens so often. When you're dealing with 10's of thousands of machines, that shit just happens constantly. You don't even care until it takes a rack down - at which point you take the rack out, put a new one in, and see if you can create some frankenzombies out of the bits left over to recoup costs.
You'd think hardware designers would build some sort of fault tolerance into the firmware (I'm sure they do already, but it still obviously breaks from time to time. And I don't even want to think about how difficult it is to build firmware..)
Why should a huge scratch in a DVD cause your entire system to lock up?
Why should a bad sector cause your entire system to lock up?
I could see giving you a, "Bad disk error. Abort, Retry, Fail?" type message. But locking up the entire system is something that should not happen in a properly modularized operating system. There's such a thing as try {} catch() {} after all.
I bitch about photoshop's interface, 3ds/maya/modo interface. I also bitch about gimp's interface and blender's interface.
If I didn't spend 10 hours a day making user interfaces for profit, I'd probably be more excited to sit down at night and in my free time to improve the open source interfaces out there.
Of course, as I noted earlier, Silo3D probably has the absolute best interface for modeling out there. It doesn't do animation (yet), but for ease of use and power for strictly modeling and uv mapping tasks, there is none better.
(disclaimer: I don't work for Nevercenter, but back when I thought I wanted to do art for digital animation I did all my classwork in Silo. Exported to Maya for animation. I finished my projects faster and had comparable quality to my classmates. If we had gone into how to get displacement mapping working, I would've had a leg up over the other students - Silo 2.0 has a brilliant displacement mapping interface.)
Use more petroleum products to grow (specialized fertilizers and pesticides and herbicides)
Completely deplete the soil of any nutrients, making traditional crop-rotation useless
Are unable to be harvested for seeding next year's crop
Over time are more expensive per pound even though the initial crop is easier and cheaper
Compared with traditional crop rotations, new fungus-based pesticides being developed that are not reliant upon oil, and other new technologies - growing with GM crops is akin to drowning yourself slowly in debt. It's not a sustainable solution.
There are parts of China that have been farmed for thousands of years. Without nasty pesticides and herbicides that poison the watertable. Wonder what they were doing right?
but it should be statistically significant over a large enough population.
Perhaps, but Darwinism tends to "speed up" in smaller, less diverse populations - you will often see a lower number of generations between major changes in behavior/genetics in a small, isolated population.
Nuts and carbohydrates are much better for quick energy than meat. Meat/protein is good for long term muscle building, but in a pinch it will just slow you down.
Of course, now they make vegan protein powders, so that doesn't even hold true. Try not being ignorant, eh? Just because it's not meat, doesn't mean it's not high energy.
Disclaimer: I had a nice 12oz shell steak, rare, last night. It was delicious.
Used to be they found truffles for us to eat, but now they use trained dogs. Something about the sows wanting to eat the truffles once they find them...
I have the same rule. Windows is for stuff I can't run in Linux, like certain games.
Since I implemented this policy, however, I have booted into windows.. three times in a year and a half. Guess I didn't need those games as much as I thought I did:)
Joomla is great for sites that need to be simple, easy to configure, and easy to update for non techies. For any other CMS application (ie, a complicated corporate site, a news site with many contributors and many categories), use something made to be templated extensively. My favorite is Expression Engine, but there are others out there. (disclaimer: I do not work for CI or EE or whatever their parent company is called, I'm just a happy user)
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Sorry to say, but I have a hard time taking anything hosted on geocities seriously (it generally says you don't care enough about the content to shell out five bucks a month for other people to view)
Wrong band! Heh!
Machine Head is a pretty heavy thrash metal band. Saw them recently at Nokia Theater / Times Square, pretty good. Arch Enemy is better, though.
In NYC a cop can stop you for whatever reason, ask for your ID - and if you don't have it, haul you downtown to figure out who you are.
All for prostitute and drug-dealing busting back in the 90's. So yeah, everyone except - probably - bums, in NYC, have IDs. But NYC isn't indicative of the rest of the country to be certain. (Just another indication of 'Papers, Please' here in the beloved US - of - A.)
Yet I get on average 9mbps down and 512kbps up, with spikes up to 10mbps and once - just once - I saw 12mbps on cable. I really don't mind, but for things like streaming near-dvd quality (like netflix)? I don't think 3-6mbps would cut it. Unless you have data that I can't find right now asserting otherwise..
Yeah, if they didn't know what the hell they were doing. For a long time (since IE5 I think) you have been able to use conditional comments to include special IE override stylesheets. This completely takes care of a) making sure your site doesn't dump to quirks mode because you're using IE css parsing error hacks and b) making sure your site looks right in all the major browsers. Not only can you say "IE, parse this code but everyone else ignore it because it looks just like a regular html comment," you can say "IE 6? yeah, you parse this. IE7? Ignore it and parse this instead."
It's a little bit of extra work but it saves so much in headaches that it's not even funny. Oh, yeah, and it's certain to make your site futuresafe. Why the heck don't more people use them? I don't know. Maybe it's an awareness issue; maybe it' s a laziness issue.
It's still "coding around the issue," but it's the safest way to do so. And typically that file will be less than 1kb anyway.
In fact, you may not even care if an individual machine breaks down - you just unplug it because it happens so often. When you're dealing with 10's of thousands of machines, that shit just happens constantly. You don't even care until it takes a rack down - at which point you take the rack out, put a new one in, and see if you can create some frankenzombies out of the bits left over to recoup costs.
Soccer moms couldn't check their webmail at 3am for the spicy email the man they're having an affair with sent them.
And maybe the son who walked in on her 'preparing' to read it.
Wasn't saying Linux was any better at it :)
You'd think hardware designers would build some sort of fault tolerance into the firmware (I'm sure they do already, but it still obviously breaks from time to time. And I don't even want to think about how difficult it is to build firmware..)
Thanks for enlightening; I'm a business software developer and not an OS developer. Sometime I need to go back and get my full degree...
Why should a huge scratch in a DVD cause your entire system to lock up?
Why should a bad sector cause your entire system to lock up?
I could see giving you a, "Bad disk error. Abort, Retry, Fail?" type message. But locking up the entire system is something that should not happen in a properly modularized operating system. There's such a thing as try {} catch() {} after all.
I bitch about photoshop's interface, 3ds/maya/modo interface. I also bitch about gimp's interface and blender's interface.
If I didn't spend 10 hours a day making user interfaces for profit, I'd probably be more excited to sit down at night and in my free time to improve the open source interfaces out there.
Of course, as I noted earlier, Silo3D probably has the absolute best interface for modeling out there. It doesn't do animation (yet), but for ease of use and power for strictly modeling and uv mapping tasks, there is none better.
(disclaimer: I don't work for Nevercenter, but back when I thought I wanted to do art for digital animation I did all my classwork in Silo. Exported to Maya for animation. I finished my projects faster and had comparable quality to my classmates. If we had gone into how to get displacement mapping working, I would've had a leg up over the other students - Silo 2.0 has a brilliant displacement mapping interface.)
I'm surprised it only took you months to get comfortable. If it's one thing the blender team needs, it's usability engineers.
- Use more petroleum products to grow (specialized fertilizers and pesticides and herbicides)
- Completely deplete the soil of any nutrients, making traditional crop-rotation useless
- Are unable to be harvested for seeding next year's crop
- Over time are more expensive per pound even though the initial crop is easier and cheaper
Compared with traditional crop rotations, new fungus-based pesticides being developed that are not reliant upon oil, and other new technologies - growing with GM crops is akin to drowning yourself slowly in debt. It's not a sustainable solution.There are parts of China that have been farmed for thousands of years. Without nasty pesticides and herbicides that poison the watertable. Wonder what they were doing right?
Or we could teach the people how to farm productively, rotate crops, use non-monsanto corn, etc, and help them become self-sufficient.
But nah, let's just ship em a bunch of food. That'll fix their problem in the long run.
Sounds like you live in a mcmansion in the midst of ugly, disgusting suburban sprawl. I'm sorry!
Yeah, like nobody being able to find the guy's penis in all the folds of fat.
Avoid high energy foods?
Nuts and carbohydrates are much better for quick energy than meat. Meat/protein is good for long term muscle building, but in a pinch it will just slow you down.
Of course, now they make vegan protein powders, so that doesn't even hold true. Try not being ignorant, eh? Just because it's not meat, doesn't mean it's not high energy.
Disclaimer: I had a nice 12oz shell steak, rare, last night. It was delicious.
Used to be they found truffles for us to eat, but now they use trained dogs. Something about the sows wanting to eat the truffles once they find them...
Could be that those unpartitioned sections used to be partitioned and now aren't. *shrug*
I have the same rule. Windows is for stuff I can't run in Linux, like certain games.
.. three times in a year and a half. Guess I didn't need those games as much as I thought I did :)
Since I implemented this policy, however, I have booted into windows
Joomla is great for sites that need to be simple, easy to configure, and easy to update for non techies. For any other CMS application (ie, a complicated corporate site, a news site with many contributors and many categories), use something made to be templated extensively. My favorite is Expression Engine, but there are others out there. (disclaimer: I do not work for CI or EE or whatever their parent company is called, I'm just a happy user)
Never lived in Kansas City, but one of my coworkers here (in NYC) grew up there.
He prefers it here! Go figure. I prefer it here to central NC.