Not quite the broken window fallacy. The idea of the broken window fallacy is that not everybody wins. The original poster said not everybody wins, just that only one person loses, the owner of the botted computer. Everybody else ends up making a buck off of his misfortune and loss.
To let you know it is trivial to turn off the default mappings, they sit in routes.rb. It explicitly states in that file that it is a default mapping. Just get rid of the appropriate line, and you're good. You will have to add mappings yourself though to re-enable all your controllers.
My trick is to listen to college radio. Sure the DJ's are a little dumber (not by much....) than other DJs, but they aren't obnoxious like the other ones. They play all sorts of interesting music you've never heard before.
I listen to KCSU which has a streaming online feed. Give it a go, you'll like it. They alternate between Emo/Alt-Rock and HipHop styles of music.
So your luggage code is: 4660? Actually, thats a pretty cool way of doing things, come up with a different base and a very simple number, and just convert when you need it.
You're the SUV owner that doesn't piss me off. I hate the people who drive giant SUVs/Trucks and go shopping with them. If you're using the capabilities of the vehicle where others wouldn't be able to, I don't mind. So keep on using it for the weekend adventure, but if you find yourself commuting in it, that's where you are being an ass.
Interestingly enough, I have a Zoology class this semester in college (a 100 level class). It deals extensivly with evolution and as such needed to examine it at the beginning of the course. We were taught about Darwininian evolution and Mendel and such, but also about older failed ideas of how animals became what they were. Anywhere from creationism (ie. as far as we can tell, the earth is much older than 6000 years....) and more scientifically, Lamark's theory of aquired characteristics which was disproved/superceded by Darwin's work, and eventually killed with the advent of genetics.
So take heart, you're ideal of older disproved theories being taught is being done. At least at public colleges in Colorado.
People have been laying out book length writings in TeX for a long time now. If you're doing more than "report writing", why don't you spend a few minutes (or hours dependingo on how fancy) learning TeX and writing some macros for it to do what you want?
You're a libertarian, it's ok. But remember that our government isn't. I wish it was too, but how about instead of the choice that you proposed (money in pocket vs. forced spending on medical research) we talk about (pork vs. spending on medical research). The money isn't going to be in your pocket either way, so might as well go for the medical research since it'll help you in the long run.
I spent 2 weeks getting my mythbox up with gentoo the first time. I spent 30 minutes getting it up with Knoppmyth. 30 minutes is about the same amount of time I'd spend setting up tivo, seems fair to me.
MC Lars is awesome, he's not quite as nerdy as some of what is in the article, but he's still an english major at Stanford. He's on itunes, go check him out, My favorites are UK Visa Versa and Straight out of Stockholm.
Well, when you graduate 40 4.0 students out of a class of 500... which one is the 'best' student. It's a symptom of grade inflation, and there really isn't a solution for it beyond weighted grades which don't really solve the problem either.
Go look up what libertarians actually want/think like. They are not anarchists. The government is a necessary evil to keep people from going wild and killing each other. But it needs to have limited (very limited) power. The government should in my opinion enforce the law (which would be cut down to laws that say "don't hurt people", and fraud) and provide a civil court for contract disputes which people can enter into. The only problem that I haven't worked out for myself (in my ideal world) is how public goods would be handled. How do you have transportation and so on.
Anyway, I'm off topic, go look up what libertarians actually think, and you'll realize that they AREN'T anarchists.
If you think about the hardware you buy, you can have a very nice time setting this up. I had hardware that took 2 weeks getting mythtv on gentoo up and running, took 30 minutes to have knoppmyth up and running. Granted, I knew a little more than I did the first time, but damn, 2 weeks -> 30 minutes.
Learning Curve: The time it takes to get to various points of being able to use a system (ie, can you change directories, can you do a ps, can you do a ps | grep | awk > file)
Ease of Use: How quickly can you do things once you've been trained. This is the more important thing in my opinion in this case. Since the command line won't be used more than a few times by typical users, it is very much an admin/power tool. Things like ps is preferable to 'get-process' once you know whats going on.
Different tools require a different balance between ease of use and usability. I think shells should tilt towards usability rather than an easy learning curve.
HA! Thats exactly what I use my PDA for! Its nice to have your average right there.
The CSU bowling team went to a tournament, and I got everybody's scores, and at the end of the day just by highlighting cells could figure all the averages that would have taken me at least 20 minutes to type into a calculator.
yes java fixes it, and if you are doing hard core math compuations, you probably don't want to use java. But if you're writing generic software for people, java isn't the worst you could do. It can be more productive than C with fewer fatal bugs (simple things like buffer overruns).
And yes, forcing people to accept runtime checks is a good thing if it reduces severe security bugs.
Once again, go program C if thats what you like, the rest of us will keep up with what computers and languages have to offer us.
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I run gentoo (not for performance, but mainly because I am familiar with it, and it is easy), and you know what...I don't bug hunt. And adding -fomitframepointer or whatever the hell the option is (its in my flags somewhere) doesn't cost me anything, makes my system say (made up stat) 5% faster and I am happy. It makes no sense why you should deride me (read: gentooers) as an idiot. We're just end users, and if we can get a little bit of performance for free, well why not.
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Not quite the broken window fallacy. The idea of the broken window fallacy is that not everybody wins. The original poster said not everybody wins, just that only one person loses, the owner of the botted computer. Everybody else ends up making a buck off of his misfortune and loss.
To let you know it is trivial to turn off the default mappings, they sit in routes.rb. It explicitly states in that file that it is a default mapping. Just get rid of the appropriate line, and you're good. You will have to add mappings yourself though to re-enable all your controllers.
My trick is to listen to college radio. Sure the DJ's are a little dumber (not by much....) than other DJs, but they aren't obnoxious like the other ones. They play all sorts of interesting music you've never heard before.
I listen to KCSU which has a streaming online feed. Give it a go, you'll like it. They alternate between Emo/Alt-Rock and HipHop styles of music.
So your luggage code is: 4660? Actually, thats a pretty cool way of doing things, come up with a different base and a very simple number, and just convert when you need it.
You're the SUV owner that doesn't piss me off. I hate the people who drive giant SUVs/Trucks and go shopping with them. If you're using the capabilities of the vehicle where others wouldn't be able to, I don't mind. So keep on using it for the weekend adventure, but if you find yourself commuting in it, that's where you are being an ass.
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I totally read that as polish integration standards (ie poland) and wondered what type of nazi joke you were making and why it wasn't funny.
Interestingly enough, I have a Zoology class this semester in college (a 100 level class). It deals extensivly with evolution and as such needed to examine it at the beginning of the course. We were taught about Darwininian evolution and Mendel and such, but also about older failed ideas of how animals became what they were. Anywhere from creationism (ie. as far as we can tell, the earth is much older than 6000 years....) and more scientifically, Lamark's theory of aquired characteristics which was disproved/superceded by Darwin's work, and eventually killed with the advent of genetics.
So take heart, you're ideal of older disproved theories being taught is being done. At least at public colleges in Colorado.
You can cancel your cable and save that cost of a tivo every month.
You obviously don't work in the IT industry is if you don't know what BO is. You should have first hand knowledge by now.
People have been laying out book length writings in TeX for a long time now. If you're doing more than "report writing", why don't you spend a few minutes (or hours dependingo on how fancy) learning TeX and writing some macros for it to do what you want?
You're a libertarian, it's ok. But remember that our government isn't. I wish it was too, but how about instead of the choice that you proposed (money in pocket vs. forced spending on medical research) we talk about (pork vs. spending on medical research). The money isn't going to be in your pocket either way, so might as well go for the medical research since it'll help you in the long run.
And private libraries are perfectly legal, charging a yearly fee or similar in exchange for access to any given number of books.
Novell supports and develops for gnome primarily. Makes sense that they would fun usability on it.
I use (or have used rather) ratpoison. Worked great as far as focus is concerned.
I spent 2 weeks getting my mythbox up with gentoo the first time. I spent 30 minutes getting it up with Knoppmyth. 30 minutes is about the same amount of time I'd spend setting up tivo, seems fair to me.
MC Lars is awesome, he's not quite as nerdy as some of what is in the article, but he's still an english major at Stanford. He's on itunes, go check him out, My favorites are UK Visa Versa and Straight out of Stockholm.
Well, when you graduate 40 4.0 students out of a class of 500... which one is the 'best' student. It's a symptom of grade inflation, and there really isn't a solution for it beyond weighted grades which don't really solve the problem either.
Go look up what libertarians actually want/think like. They are not anarchists. The government is a necessary evil to keep people from going wild and killing each other. But it needs to have limited (very limited) power. The government should in my opinion enforce the law (which would be cut down to laws that say "don't hurt people", and fraud) and provide a civil court for contract disputes which people can enter into. The only problem that I haven't worked out for myself (in my ideal world) is how public goods would be handled. How do you have transportation and so on.
Anyway, I'm off topic, go look up what libertarians actually think, and you'll realize that they AREN'T anarchists.
If you think about the hardware you buy, you can have a very nice time setting this up. I had hardware that took 2 weeks getting mythtv on gentoo up and running, took 30 minutes to have knoppmyth up and running. Granted, I knew a little more than I did the first time, but damn, 2 weeks -> 30 minutes.
Learning Curve: The time it takes to get to various points of being able to use a system (ie, can you change directories, can you do a ps, can you do a ps | grep | awk > file)
Ease of Use: How quickly can you do things once you've been trained. This is the more important thing in my opinion in this case. Since the command line won't be used more than a few times by typical users, it is very much an admin/power tool. Things like ps is preferable to 'get-process' once you know whats going on.
Different tools require a different balance between ease of use and usability. I think shells should tilt towards usability rather than an easy learning curve.
Just like normal people, just they're easier to catch.
HA! Thats exactly what I use my PDA for! Its nice to have your average right there. The CSU bowling team went to a tournament, and I got everybody's scores, and at the end of the day just by highlighting cells could figure all the averages that would have taken me at least 20 minutes to type into a calculator.
yes java fixes it, and if you are doing hard core math compuations, you probably don't want to use java. But if you're writing generic software for people, java isn't the worst you could do. It can be more productive than C with fewer fatal bugs (simple things like buffer overruns).
And yes, forcing people to accept runtime checks is a good thing if it reduces severe security bugs.
Once again, go program C if thats what you like, the rest of us will keep up with what computers and languages have to offer us.
I run gentoo (not for performance, but mainly because I am familiar with it, and it is easy), and you know what...I don't bug hunt. And adding -fomitframepointer or whatever the hell the option is (its in my flags somewhere) doesn't cost me anything, makes my system say (made up stat) 5% faster and I am happy. It makes no sense why you should deride me (read: gentooers) as an idiot. We're just end users, and if we can get a little bit of performance for free, well why not.