LinuxMint is stable enough for my purposes --- it's based on Ubuntu, and I can download an ISO at work and take it home to install once every six months when a new version comes out. Between versions, I really only do security updates.
Because if I didn't download 100MB per week, I'd eventually run into a dependency on some important security update, and have to download a couple of gigabytes over my 512kbps DSL line.
I was a die-hard ArchLinux user for a couple of years - but then I got a new generation of hardware that had Windows 7 pre-installed, and found it to be... acceptable. These days I'm in Win7 100% of the time, with a LinuxMint VM for most of what I do.
Rolling release sounds great until you have to download 100MB of updates every week on a shitty "broadband" connection in rural Arkansas. Stability has its place.
Don't get me wrong - I don't arbitrarily dictate every moment of my child's life - but if I want to get out the door and she wants to go change clothes (again), there is a limited tolerance there.
In the end, I am the adult and my preferences supersede those of my child. Again, I don't do this constantly, but I maintain that there is absolutely nothing wrong with it. She may resent me for it momentarily but she'll live. She has plenty of time to be a child and express herself, but there are times where she must defer to the preferences of others.
Learning to balance your own desires with those of the people around you is absolutely a life skill.
Finally, when you are in a position of authority, you *can* dictate how things are done - and sometimes, you should. Would you expect your boss to always let you do what you want?
Intelligent kids are so much more difficult to raise - and I'd wager that there is a disproportionate number of highly intelligent kids of parents who read Slashdot.
I've got a two-year-old, and I always take time to explain why I set boundaries for her, even though she doesn't fully understand all of it yet. "Because I said so" is valid, if and only if you're really setting a boundary only for your own personal preference; that's okay, you're the adult. The same reason shouldn't be given for "why can't I wear my tutu to Walmart?" as "Why can't I put my hand on the top of the stove to see if it's on?".
The only difference of course, is that it is at least physically possible to use a binary explosive to take down a plane or cause a fair-sized blast in the cabin.
I'm active on WarriorForum, and do quite a bit of SEO work.
I don't consider what JCP did to be black hat at all, provided it was done by actual humans. The relevancy of the place where the comment is left... isn't relevant. So long as the comment provides value to the conversation, though, it's fine.
I suspect that what the article didn't say is that these links were auto-generated spam. While I may make 15 or so decent comments with links in an hour on a good day, I could use Scrapebox to generate 150,000 comments, of which 25,000 might be approved and 10,000 actually make it into Google's index.
I'd liken the first method to putting flyers on windshields in a major city. The second method is more like dropping a helicopter full of flyers over the city and hoping some find their way to someone that's interested.
No doubt. I built something like this from an old 8' satellite dish as a science fair project once. I used aluminum foil, and put a black steel tank of water in the middle. Pump water in, water turns to steam, which I used to power a Greek steam turbine (aeolipile) to prove the point.
I'm actually satisfied with AT&T's 3G. I have a grandfathered iPhone plan, and I intend to stay with them. My phone is jailbroken, and I tether to it pretty much daily.
It should be noted, though, that I live in rural Arkansas, and the few times I've taken my phone to a metropolitan area, I noticed a significant decrease is speed.
My research into McVeigh's terrorism shows that he intended until the very last minute to target the federal building in Little Rock, AR, but decided not to due to the fact that non-government employees would be present at the ground floor, where the most fatalities would surely be.
As for research, I've spoken with about a half dozen people who corresponded with him via the 'net before the bombing, and a couple who spoke with him by mail. He was active on several BBSs in the early to mid-90s.
For $5 per cartridge, I can run the blade over my face five times:)
Seriously though - I have a straight razor as well that does the job admirably, but upkeep is a bitch - drying, stropping, honing... No thanks. I use it sometimes, but mostly just use the old British butterfly razor.
I think the idea is that the law says you have to file, but not that you have to pay.
That said, the US tax code is so big, there is no way to make sense of it as an individual person. It's not possible. It all boils down to one thing: The IRS says this is what you need to pay, and if you don't, then they've got people with guns willing to force you to.
I have no idea if the law is internally consistent. The concept of fighting it based on technicalities is a losing one, though. Either try yo organize enough friends to be self-sufficient and hold off the power of the US government, or STFU and pay the tax. There really isn't much else you can do.
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LinuxMint is stable enough for my purposes --- it's based on Ubuntu, and I can download an ISO at work and take it home to install once every six months when a new version comes out. Between versions, I really only do security updates.
Because if I didn't download 100MB per week, I'd eventually run into a dependency on some important security update, and have to download a couple of gigabytes over my 512kbps DSL line.
Nope, CDO. It's like OCD, but the letters are in alphabetical order.
I was a die-hard ArchLinux user for a couple of years - but then I got a new generation of hardware that had Windows 7 pre-installed, and found it to be... acceptable. These days I'm in Win7 100% of the time, with a LinuxMint VM for most of what I do.
Rolling release sounds great until you have to download 100MB of updates every week on a shitty "broadband" connection in rural Arkansas. Stability has its place.
Don't get me wrong - I don't arbitrarily dictate every moment of my child's life - but if I want to get out the door and she wants to go change clothes (again), there is a limited tolerance there.
In the end, I am the adult and my preferences supersede those of my child. Again, I don't do this constantly, but I maintain that there is absolutely nothing wrong with it. She may resent me for it momentarily but she'll live. She has plenty of time to be a child and express herself, but there are times where she must defer to the preferences of others.
Learning to balance your own desires with those of the people around you is absolutely a life skill.
Finally, when you are in a position of authority, you *can* dictate how things are done - and sometimes, you should. Would you expect your boss to always let you do what you want?
For what it's worth, a tutu is part of her daily attire. I was merely stating an example.
Sheesh - I wasn't aware Slashdot was so pro-tutu.
Intelligent kids are so much more difficult to raise - and I'd wager that there is a disproportionate number of highly intelligent kids of parents who read Slashdot.
I've got a two-year-old, and I always take time to explain why I set boundaries for her, even though she doesn't fully understand all of it yet. "Because I said so" is valid, if and only if you're really setting a boundary only for your own personal preference; that's okay, you're the adult. The same reason shouldn't be given for "why can't I wear my tutu to Walmart?" as "Why can't I put my hand on the top of the stove to see if it's on?".
The only difference of course, is that it is at least physically possible to use a binary explosive to take down a plane or cause a fair-sized blast in the cabin.
I could get an accurate number if I had my analytics software in front of me, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say "Thousands. Every day."
I'm active on WarriorForum, and do quite a bit of SEO work.
I don't consider what JCP did to be black hat at all, provided it was done by actual humans. The relevancy of the place where the comment is left... isn't relevant. So long as the comment provides value to the conversation, though, it's fine.
I suspect that what the article didn't say is that these links were auto-generated spam. While I may make 15 or so decent comments with links in an hour on a good day, I could use Scrapebox to generate 150,000 comments, of which 25,000 might be approved and 10,000 actually make it into Google's index.
I'd liken the first method to putting flyers on windshields in a major city. The second method is more like dropping a helicopter full of flyers over the city and hoping some find their way to someone that's interested.
Google Shopping is a vertical, and completely separate from the normal search results.
Nor is there a worry about decompressing an aircraft cabin with gunfire. Seriously, who still believes this?
No doubt. I built something like this from an old 8' satellite dish as a science fair project once. I used aluminum foil, and put a black steel tank of water in the middle. Pump water in, water turns to steam, which I used to power a Greek steam turbine (aeolipile) to prove the point.
I was in fifth grade.
To clarify - current Russian usage of Opera version 9-11 + Opera Mini is at 32.4%, from Jan 2011, per liveinternet.ru: http://www.liveinternet.ru/stat/ru/browsers.html?period=month&id=21&id=20&id=19&id=18&id=checked&show=rebuild+graph&per_page=10&report=browsers.html%3Fperiod%3Dmonth
It's far more popular than most people realize, especially outside the US. Opera 11 accounts for about 15% of all users in Russia, for instance. Add in Opera Mini, and that jumps to nearly 25%: http://my.opera.com/FataL/blog/2007/11/29/russian-internet-runet-browser-statistics
Now granted, I don't know what percentage of nerds use it - but I suspect it is non-trivial, world-wide.
Indent and spacing are off in Opera 11. Still readable.
More of an issue is the fact that I can't log in from the homepage - I have to go into an article, and even then, half the login modal is off-screen.
You would think that a "news for nerds" site would hire better nerds, that actually test in popular browsers other than IE.
In that case, you fact checked by visiting the references on Wikipedia. That's not the same thing at all.
Wait, you fact check by going to Wikipedia?
Browsing tethered - usually updating websites and such, so not too bad - and Netflix, both tethered and on the phone.
While you're right, in theory, in practice I routinely take my iPhone to 8-10GB / month, and have never seen any ill effects.
I'm actually satisfied with AT&T's 3G. I have a grandfathered iPhone plan, and I intend to stay with them. My phone is jailbroken, and I tether to it pretty much daily.
It should be noted, though, that I live in rural Arkansas, and the few times I've taken my phone to a metropolitan area, I noticed a significant decrease is speed.
As opposed to someone who listed Mein Kampf and The Communist Manefesto amongst his favorite books?
You're both wrong, and douchebags for trying to make it political. The dude is a schizophrenic. He is and was fundamentally disconnected from reality.
My research into McVeigh's terrorism shows that he intended until the very last minute to target the federal building in Little Rock, AR, but decided not to due to the fact that non-government employees would be present at the ground floor, where the most fatalities would surely be.
As for research, I've spoken with about a half dozen people who corresponded with him via the 'net before the bombing, and a couple who spoke with him by mail. He was active on several BBSs in the early to mid-90s.
For $5 per cartridge, I can run the blade over my face five times :)
Seriously though - I have a straight razor as well that does the job admirably, but upkeep is a bitch - drying, stropping, honing... No thanks. I use it sometimes, but mostly just use the old British butterfly razor.
I think the idea is that the law says you have to file, but not that you have to pay.
That said, the US tax code is so big, there is no way to make sense of it as an individual person. It's not possible. It all boils down to one thing: The IRS says this is what you need to pay, and if you don't, then they've got people with guns willing to force you to.
I have no idea if the law is internally consistent. The concept of fighting it based on technicalities is a losing one, though. Either try yo organize enough friends to be self-sufficient and hold off the power of the US government, or STFU and pay the tax. There really isn't much else you can do.