You think the Republicans will be in power forever?
Do you think the replacements will be any better? Kerry and Edwards both voted for the invasion of Iraq, and for the Patriot act. A lot of what Bush is doing now is just an extension of Clinton's policies.
Somebody had to say it - thank you. That shit's NOT FUNNY! It's annoying as hell! And it's pissing off the French! Just tell me about compiling the kernel module for my toaster, or whataver the article is supposed to be about that week. If I want uninspired ethnic humor I'll go down to the bar.
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Stop thinking like a UNIX programmer and start thinking like a non-technical person.
What are you talking about? CVS isn't meant for non-technical persons. Never has been. It was designed as a tool for UNIX programmers.
Russia has some big problems, but let's keep things in perspective here. Things in Russia are a lot better than they were 20 years ago. People can travel abroad freely, they can read whetever books they want and watch whatever movies they want. It's too easy to take these kinds of things for granted.
Try again. Farsi isn't Arabic, but it is written in the Arabic script, so it does go R to L.
(As does Hebrew... Didn't some Israeli govt dept recently switch to Linux precisely because of poor support for R to L scripts in Windows? I remember reading something about that, but I don't have it in front of me.)
Sad to see, but Iran may be getting ready to take a step backward.
I disagree. From where I'm sitting, politics in Iran today look similar to the Soviet Union just before it collapsed. The people got a little taste of freedom, now they want MORE. The recent crackdowns by the conservatives are acts of desperation. They are rapidly losing control of the situation. If I was a betting man, I'd give them another year or two, maximum.
it can cost up to $750,000 for 500 copies of a Matrix-type blockbuster to be distributed
That's $1500 per copy! How the hell are they delivering these things? Every reel on a giant gold platter, with a 50-piece samba band walking behind it? (Come to think of it, that does sound pretty cool.)
Then again, this is the movie business we're talking about. Their accounting's bound to be a little 'funny'.
At my last job, we had to get rid of a perfectly good Lexmark inkjet printer because the driver wouldn't work with Win XP, and the company was no longer developing new drivers for it. Ironically, I think there was a reverse-engineered Linux driver available (switching to Linux was NOT an option, unfortunately).
Almost all Linux applications work just fine under different kernels. Device drivers are a different story, though. I don't think Linux is much better or worse than Windows in this regard.
Sun allows anyone to use Java for free but nobody can modify the language itself except for Sun.
In the case of Java, that's actually been a good thing. As a Java developer, I'm very grateful for the fact that I can write cross-platform apps without worrying about which kind of class inheritance the end user will have. I like free software too, but I'm not really a purist about it.
thousands will work on improving the language, the virtual machine, the compiler etc.
You can do that right now. There's nothing stopping you from implementing your own compiler or JVM. You still have to stick to Sun's language specs, but see my paragraph above.
Reminds me of a joke... What's the difference between a guitar player and a large pizza?
The pizza can feed a family of four.
I've known quite a few musicians in my life. Some of them pretty damn good. Most count themselves lucky if they can recover the cost of their instruments.
Ween used to do this, too. I saw them sometime in the early 90s - it was just Dean and Gene with their guitars, a tape deck and a cheap drum machine. I liked the honesty of the music; they weren't pretending to have a full band, they were just using cheap technology for what it was.
Tell me about it. Not only is it impossible to export Quickbooks data to anything else, the Mac version can't read files that were made with the Windows version. But thankfully, the good folks at Intuit will convert your files for only $100!
There don't seem to be hardly any choices in software for small business accounting, and that's a damn shame.
Nothing specific to Windows here. If you have a virgin installation of Mac OS 10.2, or Linux, or whatever, you'll still have a bunch of system updates to download.
Not *precisely* the kind of publicity the Mac folks were probably looking for
I saw an ad for Dr. Marten's boots a while ago... it just showed a British skinhead getting chased by a British cop - both of them wearing Doc Martens. It's good to see that some companies acknowledge their roots. Though Apple is probably too uptight to capitalize on that sort of thing.
Perhaps rather than using a captcha in a jpg you could serve it up via an image java applet. I dont believe you'd be able to redirect the applet or its image to a remote server. If the captcha server served up the applet to client on address X if the reply came from address Y you'd know redirection was occurring - perhaps you'd need ssl for the applet.
(So if X is the spammer bot and Y is the pr0n viewer and Z is the legitimate captcha server...) It'd be easy to write the bot in such a way that all data from Y is re-routed through X. Using an applet would solve the problem in the short term, but something like this could still be hacked. There are two ways that an applet could display the image: generate it on the fly, or download it from the server.
In the first case, the applet would have to do its own authentication (since the server has no idea what image is being displayed to the user), and send a code to the server to indicate success or failure. So we just reverse-engineer the protocol, and write a bot that pretends to be the applet, and sends the success signal.
In the second case, we write a bot that pretends to be the applet, and downloads the image from the server, and we're back where we started.
If all else fails: download the applet and run it in a JVM which traps all AWT method calls, and construct the image based on those calls. Tricky, but definitely doable for someone who knows the innards of Java.
Dude, this is the Internet. God won't smite you for using widely known English words like "bitches", "bastards", "bollocks" or whatever the fuck it is you were trying to say.
Using the arrows, you move the lines around until they define exactly where you want the car to be parked. Then you push the "set" button on the display. Keep your foot lightly on the brake pedal, and the car will start backing up, the steering wheel responding to an invisible hand.
At that moment, you realize that someone else has taken your space while you were fiddling with the blinking arrows.
Juan should've been up front with his boss about needing to work so much that his family would have to fill in, and his family should've made sure that they could all get green cards should they be required to work.
Thanks for the input. If I ever meet those folks, I'll be sure to pass your advice along.
As someone who's spent a fair amount of time in the restaurant business, and not just watched it on TV, I can tell you that there IS a difference between working in fast food and working in a more quality-oriented establishment. I'm not talking about the quantifiable stuff like salary and benefits (those usualy suck no matter where you are); if I had to sum it up in one word, it's respect.
If your boss is an actual human being that you talk to every day, and not some giant hydra-like corporation fronted by a scary clown; If you're a skilled professional, and not someone who can be replaced with a half-bright teenager if he makes trouble; If you're at a party, and you mention the name of the place where you work, and the other people get that gooey post-orgasmic look as they reminisce about the goat cheese ravioli that they had there last month - well, you get the idea.
McDonald's has a high turnover because they treat their employees like shit. Somewhere along the line, the executives calculated that they can make more profit by treating the workers like shit and replacing them every few months, than by treating them well and trying to keep them in the company.
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You think the Republicans will be in power forever?
Do you think the replacements will be any better? Kerry and Edwards both voted for the invasion of Iraq, and for the Patriot act. A lot of what Bush is doing now is just an extension of Clinton's policies.
OK, then, how do you spell "uneduated"?
A-M-E-R-I-C-A-N
Somebody had to say it - thank you. That shit's NOT FUNNY! It's annoying as hell! And it's pissing off the French! Just tell me about compiling the kernel module for my toaster, or whataver the article is supposed to be about that week. If I want uninspired ethnic humor I'll go down to the bar.
Stop thinking like a UNIX programmer and start thinking like a non-technical person.
What are you talking about? CVS isn't meant for non-technical persons. Never has been. It was designed as a tool for UNIX programmers.
Russia has some big problems, but let's keep things in perspective here. Things in Russia are a lot better than they were 20 years ago. People can travel abroad freely, they can read whetever books they want and watch whatever movies they want. It's too easy to take these kinds of things for granted.
Try again. Farsi isn't Arabic, but it is written in the Arabic script, so it does go R to L.
(As does Hebrew... Didn't some Israeli govt dept recently switch to Linux precisely because of poor support for R to L scripts in Windows? I remember reading something about that, but I don't have it in front of me.)
Sad to see, but Iran may be getting ready to take a step backward.
I disagree. From where I'm sitting, politics in Iran today look similar to the Soviet Union just before it collapsed. The people got a little taste of freedom, now they want MORE. The recent crackdowns by the conservatives are acts of desperation. They are rapidly losing control of the situation. If I was a betting man, I'd give them another year or two, maximum.
it can cost up to $750,000 for 500 copies of a Matrix-type blockbuster to be distributed
That's $1500 per copy! How the hell are they delivering these things? Every reel on a giant gold platter, with a 50-piece samba band walking behind it? (Come to think of it, that does sound pretty cool.)
Then again, this is the movie business we're talking about. Their accounting's bound to be a little 'funny'.
At my last job, we had to get rid of a perfectly good Lexmark inkjet printer because the driver wouldn't work with Win XP, and the company was no longer developing new drivers for it. Ironically, I think there was a reverse-engineered Linux driver available (switching to Linux was NOT an option, unfortunately).
Almost all Linux applications work just fine under different kernels. Device drivers are a different story, though. I don't think Linux is much better or worse than Windows in this regard.
Sun allows anyone to use Java for free but nobody can modify the language itself except for Sun.
In the case of Java, that's actually been a good thing. As a Java developer, I'm very grateful for the fact that I can write cross-platform apps without worrying about which kind of class inheritance the end user will have. I like free software too, but I'm not really a purist about it.
thousands will work on improving the language, the virtual machine, the compiler etc.
You can do that right now. There's nothing stopping you from implementing your own compiler or JVM. You still have to stick to Sun's language specs, but see my paragraph above.
Reminds me of a joke...
What's the difference between a guitar player and a large pizza?
The pizza can feed a family of four.
I've known quite a few musicians in my life. Some of them pretty damn good. Most count themselves lucky if they can recover the cost of their instruments.
Ween used to do this, too. I saw them sometime in the early 90s - it was just Dean and Gene with their guitars, a tape deck and a cheap drum machine. I liked the honesty of the music; they weren't pretending to have a full band, they were just using cheap technology for what it was.
Tell me about it. Not only is it impossible to export Quickbooks data to anything else, the Mac version can't read files that were made with the Windows version. But thankfully, the good folks at Intuit will convert your files for only $100!
There don't seem to be hardly any choices in software for small business accounting, and that's a damn shame.
Considering IE is here to stay
A few years ago, people were saying the same thing about Netscape. The future is a funny thing, sometimes.
Nothing specific to Windows here. If you have a virgin installation of Mac OS 10.2, or Linux, or whatever, you'll still have a bunch of system updates to download.
Not *precisely* the kind of publicity the Mac folks were probably looking for
I saw an ad for Dr. Marten's boots a while ago... it just showed a British skinhead getting chased by a British cop - both of them wearing Doc Martens. It's good to see that some companies acknowledge their roots. Though Apple is probably too uptight to capitalize on that sort of thing.
Perhaps rather than using a captcha in a jpg you could serve it up via an image java applet. I dont believe you'd be able to redirect the applet or its image to a remote server. If the captcha server served up the applet to client on address X if the reply came from address Y you'd know redirection was occurring - perhaps you'd need ssl for the applet.
(So if X is the spammer bot and Y is the pr0n viewer and Z is the legitimate captcha server...) It'd be easy to write the bot in such a way that all data from Y is re-routed through X. Using an applet would solve the problem in the short term, but something like this could still be hacked. There are two ways that an applet could display the image: generate it on the fly, or download it from the server.
In the first case, the applet would have to do its own authentication (since the server has no idea what image is being displayed to the user), and send a code to the server to indicate success or failure. So we just reverse-engineer the protocol, and write a bot that pretends to be the applet, and sends the success signal.
In the second case, we write a bot that pretends to be the applet, and downloads the image from the server, and we're back where we started.
If all else fails: download the applet and run it in a JVM which traps all AWT method calls, and construct the image based on those calls. Tricky, but definitely doable for someone who knows the innards of Java.
Well, you can go in multiple times and wear a different mustache each time.
Dude, this is the Internet. God won't smite you for using widely known English words like "bitches", "bastards", "bollocks" or whatever the fuck it is you were trying to say.
Circulation numbers? This is /.
Nobody reads the articles.
Using the arrows, you move the lines around until they define exactly where you want the car to be parked. Then you push the "set" button on the display. Keep your foot lightly on the brake pedal, and the car will start backing up, the steering wheel responding to an invisible hand.
At that moment, you realize that someone else has taken your space while you were fiddling with the blinking arrows.
Makes me think of Muppet Labs for some reason.
So what's next? Will people start sharing their money on p2p? I say it's about damn time.
Juan should've been up front with his boss about needing to work so much that his family would have to fill in, and his family should've made sure that they could all get green cards should they be required to work.
Thanks for the input. If I ever meet those folks, I'll be sure to pass your advice along.
As someone who's spent a fair amount of time in the restaurant business, and not just watched it on TV, I can tell you that there IS a difference between working in fast food and working in a more quality-oriented establishment. I'm not talking about the quantifiable stuff like salary and benefits (those usualy suck no matter where you are); if I had to sum it up in one word, it's respect.
If your boss is an actual human being that you talk to every day, and not some giant hydra-like corporation fronted by a scary clown; If you're a skilled professional, and not someone who can be replaced with a half-bright teenager if he makes trouble; If you're at a party, and you mention the name of the place where you work, and the other people get that gooey post-orgasmic look as they reminisce about the goat cheese ravioli that they had there last month - well, you get the idea.
McDonald's has a high turnover because they treat their employees like shit. Somewhere along the line, the executives calculated that they can make more profit by treating the workers like shit and replacing them every few months, than by treating them well and trying to keep them in the company.