not leaching. Dammit, can someone get Rob a spell checker?
Well, Mr. Nitpicky smarty-pants, a spell checker wouldn't have helped in this case...
Main Entry: leach Function: verb Etymology: leach vessel through which water is passed to extract lye Date: 1796 transitive senses 1 : to dissolve out by the action of a percolating liquid 2 : to subject to the action of percolating liquid (as water) in order to separate the soluble components 3 a : to remove (nutritive or harmful elements) from soil by percolation b : to draw out or remove as if by percolation intransitive senses : to pass out or through by percolation - leachability/"lE-ch&-'bi-l&-tE/ noun - leachable/'lE-ch&-b&l/ adjective - leacher noun
My point? None, really. I just get annoyed with people who always scream "Use a spellchecker, you moron!" I think I need more coffee.
A friend of mine back in junior high had a water shotgun.
YES!! I had one, too. Also had a 9mm. The slide would cock it for a one-shot bolt of water. I loved those things. I can't remember which company it was that made them, though.
Wonder if they're still in the attic somewhere at the folks' place? They didn't have the same firepower as supersoakers, but they were damn cool.
"I should be able to drop my kids off so they can have fun without "dad" tagging along"
I think that you mean, "I should be able to ignore my responsibilities as a parent, and leave it up to strangers to take care of my kids. Sorry, but I'm to busy to care."
Were you ever a kid? Do you remember what it was like to have your parents tagging along when you were out with your friends? It's fine until kids are about 10 or so, and then it becomes uncool to be seen with the 'folks (Fortunately, that stigma passes by about 20 for most people).
All the guy meant was that he wanted to drop his kids off at a theatre and presumably, buy tickets for a film that he approves of or at least give them money to purchase tickets with the assurance that they won't be able to get into films that they shouldn't see. By "films they shouldn't see," I mean that unless a parent explicity gives permission for a 12-year old to see an R-rated film, the kid shouldn't get in. That's not shirking on parental responsibilities.
I don't necessarily agree with the MPAA ratings system, in fact I think that they could be relaxed a bit to make R-rated films 15 and under. (I liked South Park's message about the ratings hypocracy) There should definitely be some sort of guidelines, though.
Incidentally, I don't usually feel too strongly either way about the stuff Katz posts, but this time I think he's goofed. Sneaking kids into films is not the way to change things. If a child wants to see a film that's not been recommended for his or her AGE GROUP, then the child should have a guardian (e.g. someone who knows the child, and can make an informed decision about whether or not the child can handle the film) accompany them at least through the ticket purchasing process.
Have a problem with new versions? I thought the 2.0 Kernel was -the shit-..what's with this 2.2?
The problem with your weak comparison is that there is no marketing machine behind Linux, telling half-truths and making vague promises. Yes, there are a number of misguided zealots pushing Linux when- and wherever they can, but they don't reflect the community as a whole, much less the kernel developers.
If you're going to make an argument, at least make it sensible. Besides, no-one (not anyone with half a clue, anyhow) ever claimed that the 2.0.x series was be-all end-all the best thing to ever grace your machine...
Now I find out that Slashdot was payed to make the post.
Paid, huh? Ok, fruitcake, where is your proof?
Even if/. was given a kickback, so what? There are a lot of us who think that this sort of thing is cool. I ordered two of the kits, and now I'm hooked. Just put in order at www.smarthome.com for a buncha crap.
Just because you're poor, or boring, or just plain paranoid, doesn't mean that the rest of we readers are, so bugger off and go back under your rock.
Sadly, this is no longer the case. Recent surveys have indicated that many people today would utilise genetic modification on their own future children if such techniques were available, and that the traits that they would select for would simply be in accordance with their own particular racial and/or ethnic prejudices.
The difference between genetic diddling and the third reich is that there is no german army and pals making Lebensraum für der Übermenschen.
If people want their kids to look like supermodels and have the intelligence of rocket scientists, why not, as long they can pay for it? Ain't capitalism great?
If you can't afford it, your kids might be ugly and stupid, and they'll get dropped out of the gene pool. Good riddance. If they're ugly but smart enough to get along, great! If they're stupid but pretty enough to be taken care of, great!
The only problem with this scenario is if there isn't enough effort put into getting rid of the need for jobs to keep the ugly and stupid people occupied. Hrm... Brave New World, anyone?
Seriously, though... I don't think that it's anything to worry about. And if it is, what're you going to do about it? Ugly People Unite!? "Morons who stick together, umm... Do stuff together!"
Preferably after the worst of the Man-Kzin wars....
I dunno... The flatlander series was kinda cool. I kinda like the whole idea of a Fertility Board and contract marriages. Mother hunts and the 'recycling' of people who can't work within a society's bounds aren't really such bad ideas (at least in the context of that civilization, with its massive overcrowding and resource shortages), if one can step back and look at them without emotion. The civilization in the flatlander series took the recycling to an extreme, though. I think at its worst you could be executed for jaywalking. Laff.
It's nice to think that maybe we'll get out and explore the outer solar system a bit before first contact.
Downside to that period is that the Gil's time was before the development of the Autodoc (of course, if he'd had an autodoc he wouldn't have become The Arm). With the advent of the autodoc, there was much less incentive to chop up people for their parts. Instead, they just medicated the hell out of people. Remember the guy who went off of his meds so that he could brainstorm a way to fight off the first wave of kzinti?
I have a lot of respect for those who spend the time and effort to become a doctor for the purpose of helping other people (and not just so that they can pad their wallets), but dammit, so much of medicine still seems like guesswork. I want to plug myself into a machine and have it not only tell me what's wrong, but also have it fix me up. I don't entirely trust my financial software today, though. Realistically speaking, it's going to be a good long while before we see anything beyond primitive 'if it hurts there, and it's this color here, then take this' expert systems.
Eh. I'll be dead in 70 years, if not sooner. Hopefully we'll have at least put a colony on the moon by then. Prolly not, though. *sigh*
DHCP is evil!!! it's such a pain. especially when your network is up but the dhcp server running nt is dead.
Good thing for my job that we're running DHCP on something other than NT. "What?" you ask... We don't need NT? Nope.
The sales guys can take notebooks back and forth between offices and all they need to do is plug into the network. They're happy and I don't have to answer questions about how to reconfigure their machines.
For those who are curious, we run dhcpd on linux, but it's been ported to other unices, i'm pretty sure.
In what way "not free"? Free doesn't necessarily == "with source", it just as easily means "no payment" eg freeware.
You've just done a wonderful job of illustrating why we need better terms for describing the two concepts. In Comment 61, Arandir suggested the term "Community Software" for the concept of "free with source." (unless I misunderstood, in which case my apologies to Arandir...) I like it.
I've always been partial to the term "community software". It more accurately describes the software than either open source or free.
I kinda like that, myself. Here's a vote (not that anyone's voting...) for this new moniker.
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Philips' 42" flat screen design uses a Pentium III processor to drive a plasma display using a new digital video interface being defined by the Digital Display Working Group (DDWG)
Is it just me, or does this read like the PIII is embedded in the display, sorta like a 68000 or 6501? Poor wording, I guess, but it was a scary thought.
Saw it this morning at 10am, EST. Went with my boss and coworker (gotta love small shops). We ordered tickets last night by phone, so no line-waiting.
Did it live up to the hype? I dunno, I don't pay attention to such things. It was a cool movie. Was it high cinema? Blah... It never aspired to be.
The F/X knocked my socks off. The story was pithy, but then all of the Star Wars movies were kinda corny. That's OK. If you go to Ringling Brothers expecting Cirque de Soleil, you're going to be disappointed. Otherwise, you'll have a good time.
The pod race was incredible, and I got chills as the battle tanks crested the hill on their way down to the battlefield. Wow. Do not see this film in a theatre that's not equipped with digital sound.
Ok, that's my vent for the day. I'll probably see it at least three or four more times. There's so much to see. It's a visual feast!
I don't think that the system cares about iris color. Have you ever looked at an iris closely? There are all kinds of blobs and squiggles, and those are what the system records.
Incidentally, my eyes change color, as well. It's kinda fun. My eyes are brown or green or somewhere in between, depending on my mood.
Hacking software and hacking an engine are very similar exercises, when you get down to it. It's just that one activity gets your hands dirtier.
Don't look down on blue-collar industry just because you know how to jockey bits around the inside of a computer. There are a lot of so-called blue-collar types who choose non-technology careers because that's what they enjoy doing.
My career is in the IT field, but I did my share of landscaping and labor. You know what? I enjoyed working up a sweat while breaking concrete on a summer day. I enjoyed throwing around trailerfuls of 60lb printer paper boxes while working at a certain package shipping company. I enjoyed soccer while I was in jr. high. Now I enjoy hacking unix as a sysadmin in a large city.
My point is not to chuff myself out, just to illustrate the fact that Academia isn't everything you're cracking it up to be. Who are you going to call when your sink's clogged to hell, or your car won't start? Probably not your PoliSci prof. And if you're a condescending bastard when you do have to call one of those "lowly blue-collars," you deserve whatever screwing-over on prices you get.
I did go to university, btw. It wasn't the most exciting time of my life, but it had its interesting moments.
One of my reasons for wanting to live in Arizona or New Mexico is the geologic and climactic stability. I have to laugh at the idiot who builds his house on a floodplain and then can't understand why his basement floods every spring. Or those who build expensive beach houses only to see them wash away every couple of years when a good hurricane swell eats all the sand out from under them.
What really gets me is the people who do those dumb things and then expect the rescue crews to come pluck them out of the water. *sigh*
I find it fascinating how many people have said that they would enjoy living underground. It's something that I've dreamed about since I was about 12 or so myself.
My vision didn't include a former missile silo, but that's a damn good idea. I've thought about putting my dream home under some arizona or new mexico desert. Hopefully by then I'll have enough to drill down to the water table and not worry much about utilities. Solar/wind power with batteries (fuel cells??) should be enough to keep my electronics happy.
The fiber-optic sunlight transmission is a good idea, too. I was thinking about light wells, but the fiber-optics would probably require less maintenance, and be less expensive to put in.
I think I'd still like to have one room topside, with lots of glass. Imaging lounging around in the sunroom, reading a book, and then going downstairs into the nicely cooled living room to watch TLC. After that, a mosey into the computer den for some slashdot surfing via... Hrm. How do I get my 'net access? Packet radio? heh.
Can't decide if I'd want the bedroom closest to the entrance or furthest away from it. Depends on my level of paranoia, I guess.:)
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Well, Mr. Nitpicky smarty-pants, a spell checker wouldn't have helped in this case...
Main Entry: leach /"lE-ch&-'bi-l&-tE/ noun /'lE-ch&-b&l/ adjective
Function: verb
Etymology: leach vessel through which water is passed to extract lye
Date: 1796
transitive senses
1 : to dissolve out by the action of a percolating liquid
2 : to subject to the action of percolating liquid (as water) in order to separate the soluble components
3 a : to remove (nutritive or harmful elements) from soil by percolation b : to draw out or remove as if by percolation
intransitive senses : to pass out or through by percolation
- leachability
- leachable
- leacher noun
My point? None, really. I just get annoyed with people who always scream "Use a spellchecker, you moron!"
I think I need more coffee.
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YES!! I had one, too. Also had a 9mm. The slide would cock it for a one-shot bolt of water. I loved those things. I can't remember which company it was that made them, though.
Wonder if they're still in the attic somewhere at the folks' place? They didn't have the same firepower as supersoakers, but they were damn cool.
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Do that. Have someone take picures from far away, though. Post said pictures on the 'net somewhere and let us know about 'em.
heh.
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What 'oppression' are you suggesting we fight? No one is being killed. No one is facing terrible hardships.
They're frigging movies, people... Sheesh. If you're not old enough, find someone who is and go with them. This is not rocket science.
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I think that you mean, "I should be able to ignore my responsibilities as a parent, and leave it up to strangers to take care of my kids. Sorry, but I'm to busy to care."
Were you ever a kid? Do you remember what it was like to have your parents tagging along when you were out with your friends? It's fine until kids are about 10 or so, and then it becomes uncool to be seen with the 'folks (Fortunately, that stigma passes by about 20 for most people).
All the guy meant was that he wanted to drop his kids off at a theatre and presumably, buy tickets for a film that he approves of or at least give them money to purchase tickets with the assurance that they won't be able to get into films that they shouldn't see. By "films they shouldn't see," I mean that unless a parent explicity gives permission for a 12-year old to see an R-rated film, the kid shouldn't get in. That's not shirking on parental responsibilities.
I don't necessarily agree with the MPAA ratings system, in fact I think that they could be relaxed a bit to make R-rated films 15 and under. (I liked South Park's message about the ratings hypocracy) There should definitely be some sort of guidelines, though.
Incidentally, I don't usually feel too strongly either way about the stuff Katz posts, but this time I think he's goofed. Sneaking kids into films is not the way to change things. If a child wants to see a film that's not been recommended for his or her AGE GROUP, then the child should have a guardian (e.g. someone who knows the child, and can make an informed decision about whether or not the child can handle the film) accompany them at least through the ticket purchasing process.
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The problem with your weak comparison is that there is no marketing machine behind Linux, telling half-truths and making vague promises. Yes, there are a number of misguided zealots pushing Linux when- and wherever they can, but they don't reflect the community as a whole, much less the kernel developers.
If you're going to make an argument, at least make it sensible. Besides, no-one (not anyone with half a clue, anyhow) ever claimed that the 2.0.x series was be-all end-all the best thing to ever grace your machine...
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Paid, huh? Ok, fruitcake, where is your proof?
Even if /. was given a kickback, so what? There are a lot of us who think that this sort of thing is cool. I ordered two of the kits, and now I'm hooked. Just put in order at www.smarthome.com for a buncha crap.
Just because you're poor, or boring, or just plain paranoid, doesn't mean that the rest of we readers are, so bugger off and go back under your rock.
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The difference between genetic diddling and the third reich is that there is no german army and pals making Lebensraum für der Übermenschen.
If people want their kids to look like supermodels and have the intelligence of rocket scientists, why not, as long they can pay for it? Ain't capitalism great?
If you can't afford it, your kids might be ugly and stupid, and they'll get dropped out of the gene pool. Good riddance. If they're ugly but smart enough to get along, great! If they're stupid but pretty enough to be taken care of, great!
The only problem with this scenario is if there isn't enough effort put into getting rid of the need for jobs to keep the ugly and stupid people occupied. Hrm... Brave New World, anyone?
Seriously, though... I don't think that it's anything to worry about. And if it is, what're you going to do about it? Ugly People Unite!? "Morons who stick together, umm... Do stuff together!"
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Preferably after the worst of the Man-Kzin wars....
I dunno... The flatlander series was kinda cool. I kinda like the whole idea of a Fertility Board and contract marriages. Mother hunts and the 'recycling' of people who can't work within a society's bounds aren't really such bad ideas (at least in the context of that civilization, with its massive overcrowding and resource shortages), if one can step back and look at them without emotion. The civilization in the flatlander series took the recycling to an extreme, though. I think at its worst you could be executed for jaywalking. Laff.
It's nice to think that maybe we'll get out and explore the outer solar system a bit before first contact.
Downside to that period is that the Gil's time was before the development of the Autodoc (of course, if he'd had an autodoc he wouldn't have become The Arm). With the advent of the autodoc, there was much less incentive to chop up people for their parts. Instead, they just medicated the hell out of people. Remember the guy who went off of his meds so that he could brainstorm a way to fight off the first wave of kzinti?
I have a lot of respect for those who spend the time and effort to become a doctor for the purpose of helping other people (and not just so that they can pad their wallets), but dammit, so much of medicine still seems like guesswork. I want to plug myself into a machine and have it not only tell me what's wrong, but also have it fix me up. I don't entirely trust my financial software today, though. Realistically speaking, it's going to be a good long while before we see anything beyond primitive 'if it hurts there, and it's this color here, then take this' expert systems.
Eh. I'll be dead in 70 years, if not sooner. Hopefully we'll have at least put a colony on the moon by then. Prolly not, though. *sigh*
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Good thing for my job that we're running DHCP on something other than NT. "What?" you ask... We don't need NT? Nope.
The sales guys can take notebooks back and forth between offices and all they need to do is plug into the network. They're happy and I don't have to answer questions about how to reconfigure their machines.
For those who are curious, we run dhcpd on linux, but it's been ported to other unices, i'm pretty sure.
So, um, get a clue.
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heh.
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Because the linux community doesn't have the financial clout or the stomach to conduct the same sort of marketing campaign that micros~1 has.
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You've just done a wonderful job of illustrating why we need better terms for describing the two concepts. In Comment 61, Arandir suggested the term "Community Software" for the concept of "free with source." (unless I misunderstood, in which case my apologies to Arandir...) I like it.
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I kinda like that, myself. Here's a vote (not that anyone's voting...) for this new moniker.
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Is it just me, or does this read like the PIII is embedded in the display, sorta like a 68000 or 6501? Poor wording, I guess, but it was a scary thought.
Puzzling over how it would work until I read the article body.
lmao!
Thanks for the laugh.
Did it live up to the hype? I dunno, I don't pay attention to such things. It was a cool movie. Was it high cinema? Blah... It never aspired to be.
The F/X knocked my socks off. The story was pithy, but then all of the Star Wars movies were kinda corny. That's OK. If you go to Ringling Brothers expecting Cirque de Soleil, you're going to be disappointed. Otherwise, you'll have a good time.
The pod race was incredible, and I got chills as the battle tanks crested the hill on their way down to the battlefield. Wow. Do not see this film in a theatre that's not equipped with digital sound.
Ok, that's my vent for the day. I'll probably see it at least three or four more times. There's so much to see. It's a visual feast!
Incidentally, my eyes change color, as well. It's kinda fun. My eyes are brown or green or somewhere in between, depending on my mood.
Argh. I'll be ok.
Don't look down on blue-collar industry just because you know how to jockey bits around the inside of a computer. There are a lot of so-called blue-collar types who choose non-technology careers because that's what they enjoy doing.
My career is in the IT field, but I did my share of landscaping and labor. You know what? I enjoyed working up a sweat while breaking concrete on a summer day. I enjoyed throwing around trailerfuls of 60lb printer paper boxes while working at a certain package shipping company. I enjoyed soccer while I was in jr. high. Now I enjoy hacking unix as a sysadmin in a large city.
My point is not to chuff myself out, just to illustrate the fact that Academia isn't everything you're cracking it up to be. Who are you going to call when your sink's clogged to hell, or your car won't start? Probably not your PoliSci prof. And if you're a condescending bastard when you do have to call one of those "lowly blue-collars," you deserve whatever screwing-over on prices you get.
I did go to university, btw. It wasn't the most exciting time of my life, but it had its interesting moments.
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It... Was... A... Joke...
Didja get that? The original article by Sengan was a joke, too. Funny. Ha-ha. Tee-hee.
Sheesh... *translator burns out*
Had my knickers all in a twist for nothing! Damn. I don't think I've ever been rooked on 4/1 as badly as I was by Illiad, et al.
Hats off to yas, ya schmucks!
One of my reasons for wanting to live in Arizona or New Mexico is the geologic and climactic stability. I have to laugh at the idiot who builds his house on a floodplain and then can't understand why his basement floods every spring. Or those who build expensive beach houses only to see them wash away every couple of years when a good hurricane swell eats all the sand out from under them.
What really gets me is the people who do those dumb things and then expect the rescue crews to come pluck them out of the water. *sigh*
My vision didn't include a former missile silo, but that's a damn good idea. I've thought about putting my dream home under some arizona or new mexico desert. Hopefully by then I'll have enough to drill down to the water table and not worry much about utilities. Solar/wind power with batteries (fuel cells??) should be enough to keep my electronics happy.
The fiber-optic sunlight transmission is a good idea, too. I was thinking about light wells, but the fiber-optics would probably require less maintenance, and be less expensive to put in.
I think I'd still like to have one room topside, with lots of glass. Imaging lounging around in the sunroom, reading a book, and then going downstairs into the nicely cooled living room to watch TLC. After that, a mosey into the computer den for some slashdot surfing via ... Hrm. How do I get my 'net access? Packet radio? heh.
Can't decide if I'd want the bedroom closest to the entrance or furthest away from it. Depends on my level of paranoia, I guess. :)
*sigh* Dream on...