A book I might just buy after reading about it on Slashdot.
I like the Advanced Bash Scripting Guide quite a bit, but I'd also like to learn about other shells, without reading through a mountain of manpages, nor reading through webpages, and just for general interest while riding the El (not because "I need to do x!").
No... in fact, after all the flak that was thrown in the uproar over when MS starting saying, "We're not announcing security leaks until we've patched them," I don't recall hearing anything about self-propogating, bandwidth-sucking worms anymore. Heck, not even anything like Melissa or "I love you" lately. No zero-day exploits. Nothing.
Maybe it wasn't such a bad idea after all... or maybe users are learning how to be halfway competent?
We've been conductorless for as long as I can remember, and almost as long as my parents can remember -- just a motorman at the lead car. So maybe since the days of the tokens, or 1978.
Prior to 2000, the motorman had a microphone into which he announced, "Doors closing." (He or she still does that sometimes at busy stops.) Around 2000, the CTA implemented a computerized voice-over-speaker system to announce this stop, and the next stop, and when the doors were closing (along with a friendly chime), which comes in handy for out-of-towners. The doors must be closed for the train to move. The conductor must verify the doors are closed and no one is stuck before moving the train. If all else fails, above the doors on the inside, there's an "emergency release" that people on the inside sometimes use to get out in case they're about to miss their stop and the train hasn't moved yet.
I'm sure it's not as extravagant as Tokyo, or as overengineered as some other solutions I've read in this thread, but it works well for the 200,000 passengers that use it every day.
I've heard this argument before... it's interesting, but it's not what's been shown to be true. I'll need to reach for some sources here...
There are 5,000+ unique manuscripts of the new testament, dated to between 50 to 225 years after the NT was written. So no, it wasn't spread by word of mouth for 1,000 years and got corrupted that way. According to this source and numerous studies, based on just the new testament, 5,000 different (greek!) manuscripts corroborate to an accurancy of 99.5%. (Strobel, Lee. The Case for Christ (Zondervan Publishing House, 1998), p. 83-85). Feel free to take an issue with that.
They were also men, bound by the weaknesses of men.
Agreed, of course. Men aren't perfect. But the book of Mary wasn't even written by Mary, nor could it have been proven to be true. All of the books in the modern bible have been corroborated -- hundreds of separate manuscripts... not decided by committee. See The Da Vinci Deception by Erwin W. Lutzer.
Each translation was an attempt to make a bible for the local population, written with the current environment in mind. If the exact same people were to sit down and do a translation today, it would be vastly different.
It would only be different in the sense that the words they would come out with from the original Greek translations would be different. There are a few dozen different versions of the Bible out right now. Some a sixth grader could read. Some I can't read aloud. Some have had the modern language applied to them. When you have greek words that can turn in ways more subtle than the modern English language (you know, like how eros, agape, and philia all mean "love", but agape is far more encompassing), that's going to happen.
It scares me that most religious people aren't open to the fact there are several hundred different versions of the bible. The one their church uses is the correct one, and that's the end of the discussion as far as they are concerned.
I have a preferred version, but I have a couple of others as well. Yes, the Wisconsin Synod of the Lutheran Church uses solely the King James Bible, as far as I know. There's no biblical precedent for that, nor do I recommend it, and it is dangerously narrow-minded.
But there is also a difference between using just one Bible and going to another source (the Book of Thomas, the Book of Mary, the Apocrypha) that may not be as "proven" (through the manuscripts of old) as the 62 books that are there.
Keep in mind there is nothing banning you from reading any of those books. There may even be parts that are helpful to you in the study of 1st century Judaism! They just aren't counted as "the inspired Word of God", given that some of the parables related in those books are clearly unbelievable (as opposed to the corroborated (I cannot emphasize that enough) miracles in the Gospels).
I was volunteering my services at church yesterday untangling a mangled Norton installation from a previously unknown (now known!) Symantec install that caused no Word documents to be opened. Searching for some of the utilities I needed online through IE was impossible because Hotbar, WeatherBug, and all other sorts of adware kept triggering pop-ups, pop-unders, and all other sorts of crap while I worked.
My next task was to download FireFox and tell the user to use that instead of IE from now on (don't know if that's going to work. Couldn't remove the adware because, heaven forbid, I think some of it was "useful" to the user, but at what cost!
I think I'm going to write a letter to the church office and tell them why they need to uninstall that stuff ASAP... and how to go about it.
If they'd have spelled "digital" right, this story had been posted earlier in the day, and the specs were more reasonable, this one coulda been a contender.
As it is, I think an iPod-like scroll wheel on the front side of a receiver-like thing makes for a poor input device for something that is more complex than an iPod... but I could be completely wrong.:-) What features do you guys use on your receivers?
BTW, did anyone notice that Microsoft's "cross-platform" versions of IE disappeared shortly after the Feds found them to be a monopoly?
Thank God IE 5.5 for Mac died a swift death. Now if only we could tell the rest of the Mac users that they really, really shouldn't be using that thing...
Regarding SQL Server... no idea about how good or bad it is vs. other databases (though if you want a legit 4/1 laugh, read this for an explanation of how SQL Server and Oracle might be equal in the "you get what you pay for" area) but it "does the job" here... in a relatively mission-critical financial business situation.
By "does the job", I mean that it hasn't crashed or failed in the 4 months I've been here. But I'm a developer, so what do I know? I'm sure PostgreSQL would be cheaper, more effective, more efficient, and faster... but we don't have anyone to administrate such a server.
Second of all... this is a difficult question to answer without knowing where she is right now. Many people that have strokes do not recover -- my grandfather died of one at 69 (or thereabouts). I get the impression that when the doctor said that it depends how hard she works towards her recovery, it's not so much what she is working on, more that it is how she works on it. So this is how both electronic and non-electronic board games came to mind.
If you're too busy with school / work to be able to do multiplayer games / activities, I have to imagine basic solitaire with cards is a good starting point. Scrabble probably falls on the far end of the spectrum. I get the impression Risk is good for recovery as well -- all these games have a different twist on the strategy required to win them. Which game really depends on where she's at right now in the eyes of your doctor and yourself.
So long as she's trying to use her mind, and working past the initial frustration of being a stroke victim, and not sitting watching TV all day not engaging her mind... I think the road to recovery might be a bit easier.
It's not 'bitching' -- it's an argument that this status quo we've gotten ourselves into isn't good enough.
Taxes in my tax bracket approach 35% of income. In lower brackets, it's 20% or less. This is a concept I'm sure most currently illegal aliens would be willing to accept in exchange for the current illegal immigrant exploitation that takes place now.
Start a program, increase the penalties of illegal immigrant exploitation ten-fold to discourage the now-common practice, and stop trading the lives of low-wage workers in an excuse to justify the current conditions of workers that risk more than they have to. That's all.
When it comes down to how I feel about everyone entering this country, they are all at the very least hard-working, and how they get into this country at least implies creativity bordering on self-sacrifice (read the biyearly stories about Mexican thieving 'coyotes').
It just so happens Americans (and thus, politicians) need to figure out what the policy is going to actually be regarding illegal immigrants. Because at some point, all of the following are true:
1.) they don't generate tax revenue for the services they are receiving... and what they are paid is woefully inadequate by U.S. standards 2.) they are generally capable workers 3.) they are generally putting themselves at great bodily danger to risk later eviction 4.) most states have stopped servicing immigrants.
In spite of the fact that in those same states, the immigrants are doing the jobs that Americans won't take.
So we have demand for work that goes undone, supply in the form of willing workers, and ridiculous policies in the middle that reinforce all four points above.
Can you tell I'm in favor of a cross-border working program?
Yeah, that happened to me the first time. Kill the window (Win2k, use the x in the top right corner since the Cancel button is greyed out) and try again. Worked fine the second time.
I've had Camino 0.8 on my PB for a bit... it's been relegated to my 3rd browser, though. It's not a bad browser by any means.
Camino:
+Nicer tabs
+Better scrolling
+Better integration
-No Mozilla extensions.:-(
-So no way to block Flash or images natively
+Much better preference panel
+Pretty close functionality to Safari.
+Fastest of the three, it seems.
Firefox:
-A little glitchy at times
+Very good extensions support
+Works mostly the same as Firefox on other platforms
-Integration with OSX not so good, nor is it supposed to be.
-Slow at times.
Safari:
+Just works
-No way to block annoying Flash popups
Safari works for most things, Firefox works for the rest, and Camino sort of just ends up out there in case the first two don't work.
No it's not. They made the electric cars. No one was interested in something that plugs in... which apparently has such a negative connotation that Toyota specifically advertised on their Super Bowl commercial for the Prius that you don't have to "plug in" their car into the wall. (In spite of the fact that other Prius owners are modifying their batteries so that they can plug it in, which to me seems pointless and a waste of resources.)
So GM scrapped them. That was probably unfortunate for the company, as people no longer are buying GM's trucks and SUVs, which they made the highest profits off of... and people aren't buying them thanks to Big Oil's Big Prices.
It's okay... I look forward to the next innovations from Honda and Toyota... and I never considered buying American automobiles anyway. The world hasn't really changed.
While most web developers already love Mozilla because of its better adherence to web standards, how much will the Mozilla Foundation actively promote, support, and mature the XUL standard for web applications in the future?
Is mentioning porn = good and fundamentalist religion = bad the way to get modded up here now? Odd. Allow me to balance this rant.
Sex is good. Frankly, sex is great. Honestly, it's one of the best things that I've ever experienced.:-) And since it is great, these vague notions of "fundamentalist religions" that you cite never actually say "sex is bad". They do put conditions on sex, but it's up to the individual to follow them and I get the impression you aren't bound by these conditions in any event.
Porn is porn. I'm not really going to put any moral value to it, but if you can watch it without unhealthily raising your expectations for real world women, or if you can be with real world women at that point without thinking of the porn... more power to you. Some couples say it helps their sex life, but then who are you really making love to? Your spouse or your fantasy?
There are a couple thousand different ways this conversation can go from here (including offtopic:-) but I'll quit for now.
The translation was ?????? and didn't really tell me more than I could've figured ??????, but I do have to say that the picture of the cable in the window was ?????? cool... although I'm not sure what happens to ?????? when you start running cat-5 cable outside. Could I use it to theoretically hook up a weather station outside to my ?????? inside?
People started to do strange things in the market in the early 2000's. They bought just before the bubble popped, thinking Pets.com, Seagate, Ebay and Yahoo would keep going up forever. Then a book came out that was titled, "Dow 12,000? Yes!". Then more people bought into the market in the months and days leading up to the... ahem... correction. This was about when my dad pulled away from mutual funds because they were too high.
Then the market corrected to 7,500... from 11,000. At least the Dow did, I didn't really pay attention to the Nasdaq too much. People started selling at 7,500. The market was going to go down to 5,000, so on and so forth. Now that we're back at 10,600, some people still haven't ever let their money see the stock market again, because their retirement funds evaporated.
In the meantime I get a job and I'm throwing money at my 401(k), watching it grow 12% last year.:-) Before that I sort of watched the numbers go up and down, thinking, "That's nice."
I'd like to look at the correction and think to myself... maybe we can just call this natural selection of the financially inept.
GP made a good catch -- I remember about 400 comments being posted on the story, which would probably put it in the upper 70% of all stories.
Most were reflections about whether or not D&D induces a subversive influence into the armed forces of any given country. It may have turned into an Israel vs. Palestine flamewar, per usual.
Or it might just be that mySQL (or whatever runs this site) mangled and mashed the story on an update. You never know.:-p
No, I can definitely reproduce this bug. If I leave GMail open overnight, for whatever reason, when I get in the office the next day, Firefox consistently has sprawled into a 120-150 megabyte process. Ouch!
Fortunately, I don't see much need in keeping tabs or browsers open for that long, so I just restart the browser. Even now, I'm using up 57 megabytes of memory (7 tabs, 7 extensions).
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I like the Advanced Bash Scripting Guide quite a bit, but I'd also like to learn about other shells, without reading through a mountain of manpages, nor reading through webpages, and just for general interest while riding the El (not because "I need to do x!").
Maybe it wasn't such a bad idea after all... or maybe users are learning how to be halfway competent?
We've been conductorless for as long as I can remember, and almost as long as my parents can remember -- just a motorman at the lead car. So maybe since the days of the tokens, or 1978.
Prior to 2000, the motorman had a microphone into which he announced, "Doors closing." (He or she still does that sometimes at busy stops.) Around 2000, the CTA implemented a computerized voice-over-speaker system to announce this stop, and the next stop, and when the doors were closing (along with a friendly chime), which comes in handy for out-of-towners. The doors must be closed for the train to move. The conductor must verify the doors are closed and no one is stuck before moving the train. If all else fails, above the doors on the inside, there's an "emergency release" that people on the inside sometimes use to get out in case they're about to miss their stop and the train hasn't moved yet.
I'm sure it's not as extravagant as Tokyo, or as overengineered as some other solutions I've read in this thread, but it works well for the 200,000 passengers that use it every day.
Shh... shh... you're ruining Microsoft's moment of true innovation! :-)
There are 5,000+ unique manuscripts of the new testament, dated to between 50 to 225 years after the NT was written. So no, it wasn't spread by word of mouth for 1,000 years and got corrupted that way. According to this source and numerous studies, based on just the new testament, 5,000 different (greek!) manuscripts corroborate to an accurancy of 99.5%. (Strobel, Lee. The Case for Christ (Zondervan Publishing House, 1998), p. 83-85). Feel free to take an issue with that.
They were also men, bound by the weaknesses of men.
Agreed, of course. Men aren't perfect. But the book of Mary wasn't even written by Mary, nor could it have been proven to be true. All of the books in the modern bible have been corroborated -- hundreds of separate manuscripts... not decided by committee. See The Da Vinci Deception by Erwin W. Lutzer.
Each translation was an attempt to make a bible for the local population, written with the current environment in mind. If the exact same people were to sit down and do a translation today, it would be vastly different.
It would only be different in the sense that the words they would come out with from the original Greek translations would be different. There are a few dozen different versions of the Bible out right now. Some a sixth grader could read. Some I can't read aloud. Some have had the modern language applied to them. When you have greek words that can turn in ways more subtle than the modern English language (you know, like how eros, agape, and philia all mean "love", but agape is far more encompassing), that's going to happen.
It scares me that most religious people aren't open to the fact there are several hundred different versions of the bible. The one their church uses is the correct one, and that's the end of the discussion as far as they are concerned.
I have a preferred version, but I have a couple of others as well. Yes, the Wisconsin Synod of the Lutheran Church uses solely the King James Bible, as far as I know. There's no biblical precedent for that, nor do I recommend it, and it is dangerously narrow-minded.
But there is also a difference between using just one Bible and going to another source (the Book of Thomas, the Book of Mary, the Apocrypha) that may not be as "proven" (through the manuscripts of old) as the 62 books that are there.
Keep in mind there is nothing banning you from reading any of those books. There may even be parts that are helpful to you in the study of 1st century Judaism! They just aren't counted as "the inspired Word of God", given that some of the parables related in those books are clearly unbelievable (as opposed to the corroborated (I cannot emphasize that enough) miracles in the Gospels).
I was volunteering my services at church yesterday untangling a mangled Norton installation from a previously unknown (now known!) Symantec install that caused no Word documents to be opened. Searching for some of the utilities I needed online through IE was impossible because Hotbar, WeatherBug, and all other sorts of adware kept triggering pop-ups, pop-unders, and all other sorts of crap while I worked.
My next task was to download FireFox and tell the user to use that instead of IE from now on (don't know if that's going to work. Couldn't remove the adware because, heaven forbid, I think some of it was "useful" to the user, but at what cost!
I think I'm going to write a letter to the church office and tell them why they need to uninstall that stuff ASAP... and how to go about it.
As it is, I think an iPod-like scroll wheel on the front side of a receiver-like thing makes for a poor input device for something that is more complex than an iPod... but I could be completely wrong. :-) What features do you guys use on your receivers?
Come on guys! Test, build, *then* refactor...
Thank God IE 5.5 for Mac died a swift death. Now if only we could tell the rest of the Mac users that they really, really shouldn't be using that thing...
Regarding SQL Server... no idea about how good or bad it is vs. other databases (though if you want a legit 4/1 laugh, read this for an explanation of how SQL Server and Oracle might be equal in the "you get what you pay for" area) but it "does the job" here... in a relatively mission-critical financial business situation.
By "does the job", I mean that it hasn't crashed or failed in the 4 months I've been here. But I'm a developer, so what do I know? I'm sure PostgreSQL would be cheaper, more effective, more efficient, and faster... but we don't have anyone to administrate such a server.
We shall stand back in awe at this article from The Mysterious Past...
As for the "story" itself, I wouldn't particularly mind if it were true... but then again, I didn't RTFA.
Second of all... this is a difficult question to answer without knowing where she is right now. Many people that have strokes do not recover -- my grandfather died of one at 69 (or thereabouts). I get the impression that when the doctor said that it depends how hard she works towards her recovery, it's not so much what she is working on, more that it is how she works on it. So this is how both electronic and non-electronic board games came to mind.
If you're too busy with school / work to be able to do multiplayer games / activities, I have to imagine basic solitaire with cards is a good starting point. Scrabble probably falls on the far end of the spectrum. I get the impression Risk is good for recovery as well -- all these games have a different twist on the strategy required to win them. Which game really depends on where she's at right now in the eyes of your doctor and yourself.
So long as she's trying to use her mind, and working past the initial frustration of being a stroke victim, and not sitting watching TV all day not engaging her mind... I think the road to recovery might be a bit easier.
Taxes in my tax bracket approach 35% of income. In lower brackets, it's 20% or less. This is a concept I'm sure most currently illegal aliens would be willing to accept in exchange for the current illegal immigrant exploitation that takes place now.
Start a program, increase the penalties of illegal immigrant exploitation ten-fold to discourage the now-common practice, and stop trading the lives of low-wage workers in an excuse to justify the current conditions of workers that risk more than they have to. That's all.
It just so happens Americans (and thus, politicians) need to figure out what the policy is going to actually be regarding illegal immigrants. Because at some point, all of the following are true:
1.) they don't generate tax revenue for the services they are receiving... and what they are paid is woefully inadequate by U.S. standards
2.) they are generally capable workers
3.) they are generally putting themselves at great bodily danger to risk later eviction
4.) most states have stopped servicing immigrants.
In spite of the fact that in those same states, the immigrants are doing the jobs that Americans won't take.
So we have demand for work that goes undone, supply in the form of willing workers, and ridiculous policies in the middle that reinforce all four points above.
Can you tell I'm in favor of a cross-border working program?
It is duly noted that Jesus is therefore the only one that qualifies... but I believe that he has since declined the offer. :-)
Yeah, that happened to me the first time. Kill the window (Win2k, use the x in the top right corner since the Cancel button is greyed out) and try again. Worked fine the second time.
Camino: :-(
+Nicer tabs
+Better scrolling
+Better integration
-No Mozilla extensions.
-So no way to block Flash or images natively
+Much better preference panel
+Pretty close functionality to Safari.
+Fastest of the three, it seems.
Firefox:
-A little glitchy at times
+Very good extensions support
+Works mostly the same as Firefox on other platforms
-Integration with OSX not so good, nor is it supposed to be.
-Slow at times.
Safari:
+Just works
-No way to block annoying Flash popups
Safari works for most things, Firefox works for the rest, and Camino sort of just ends up out there in case the first two don't work.
So GM scrapped them. That was probably unfortunate for the company, as people no longer are buying GM's trucks and SUVs, which they made the highest profits off of... and people aren't buying them thanks to Big Oil's Big Prices.
It's okay... I look forward to the next innovations from Honda and Toyota... and I never considered buying American automobiles anyway. The world hasn't really changed.
While most web developers already love Mozilla because of its better adherence to web standards, how much will the Mozilla Foundation actively promote, support, and mature the XUL standard for web applications in the future?
Sex is good. Frankly, sex is great. Honestly, it's one of the best things that I've ever experienced. :-) And since it is great, these vague notions of "fundamentalist religions" that you cite never actually say "sex is bad". They do put conditions on sex, but it's up to the individual to follow them and I get the impression you aren't bound by these conditions in any event.
Porn is porn. I'm not really going to put any moral value to it, but if you can watch it without unhealthily raising your expectations for real world women, or if you can be with real world women at that point without thinking of the porn... more power to you. Some couples say it helps their sex life, but then who are you really making love to? Your spouse or your fantasy?
There are a couple thousand different ways this conversation can go from here (including offtopic :-) but I'll quit for now.
The translation was ?????? and didn't really tell me more than I could've figured ??????, but I do have to say that the picture of the cable in the window was ?????? cool... although I'm not sure what happens to ?????? when you start running cat-5 cable outside. Could I use it to theoretically hook up a weather station outside to my ?????? inside?
But not too long... a tipped tinfoil hat does absolutely no good for anyone...
Then the market corrected to 7,500... from 11,000. At least the Dow did, I didn't really pay attention to the Nasdaq too much. People started selling at 7,500. The market was going to go down to 5,000, so on and so forth. Now that we're back at 10,600, some people still haven't ever let their money see the stock market again, because their retirement funds evaporated.
In the meantime I get a job and I'm throwing money at my 401(k), watching it grow 12% last year. :-) Before that I sort of watched the numbers go up and down, thinking, "That's nice."
I'd like to look at the correction and think to myself... maybe we can just call this natural selection of the financially inept.
Most were reflections about whether or not D&D induces a subversive influence into the armed forces of any given country. It may have turned into an Israel vs. Palestine flamewar, per usual.
Or it might just be that mySQL (or whatever runs this site) mangled and mashed the story on an update. You never know. :-p
Fortunately, I don't see much need in keeping tabs or browsers open for that long, so I just restart the browser. Even now, I'm using up 57 megabytes of memory (7 tabs, 7 extensions).
But don't play it by yourself. That's depressing. And a little creepy.