Um, it was supposed to mean that Caltech lets in slightly more people than MIT, but those who did get past MIT's slightly higher standards wouldn't go to Caltech, so Caltech just gets the bottom few. However, it was obviously just a lighthearted retort against the AC. I haven't 100% decided to go to MIT, and Caltech is my second choice.
I don't want solutions that entail using the command line.
And this, my friends, is the problem with humanity. This translates to, "I don't want to expend effort; I don't want to leave my comfort zone. I would rather a meaningless statement from Apple saying they're 'working on the problem' than try to figure out and do anything myself. I prefer a broken laptop to learning how to fix it."
"We believe Internet Explorer is a really good browser. Internet Explorer is my browser of choice." -- Steve Jobs
Obviously he was talking about IE Mac. Have you tried it? It was of course the best Mac browser at the time, but if it had been maintained in pace it would still far surpass Safari and Firefox today. There were a lot of good features from browsing tools to CSS that it simply supported well.
Oh, and I think it was a completely different team that built it. The only thing that was similar was the interpretation and design of the rendering software.
Give us a dual-Core machine where we can choose to pay for better screens, better graphics, and perhaps some other internals; like FW800, internal modem, etc. That should not be too difficult and it would allow people to choose a lower cost solution or a maxed out one.
The MBP doesn't have FW800 or an internal modem at all. What you'll get in the MacBook non-Pro (the Intel iBook as opposed to the Intel PowerBook) will be a single-core machine. Note that Core Duo came out first, and then they announced the initial set of machines, and only now Core Solo is coming out.
a) The DNS TLDs shouldn't be changed. b) Not everything in DNS is part of the web. Porn.com could run an rsync mirror of Debian for all you know. c).xxx is a bad name.
So here's my suggestion: instead of changing the suffix from.com to.xxx, change the prefix...from www to ewww.
Then the devil took him to the holy city and had him stand on the highest point of the temple. "If you are the Son of God," he said, "throw yourself down. For it is written:
" 'He will command his angels concerning you,
and they will lift you up in their hands,
so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.' "
Jesus answered him, "It is also written: 'Do not put the Lord your God to the test.' "
Nor out, either. Do you know if I'm straight or gay?
If you met me in real life would you know? (No, I don't have a boyfriend or girfriend, and if I did, they wouldn't be soldered on to me like some people seem to be.)
I've been trying to set up a new web server running in a VMWare instance of Fedora Core 5 on Windows XP Home booting on an Intel Mac. Anyone know if SQL on Rails is compatible with this setup?
Yes. Actually, it's good that you have all this, 'cause SQL on Rails, according to the screencast, only runs on OS X PPC. Now Rosetta has only been out for a couple of months, and it's non-Free, so we can't be sure it works. Within your FC5 on VMWare, launch PearPC (which is thankfully OSS) and get it to run OS X PPC. Then Rails should install immediately. And because you're running on an Intel, you'll probably get more performance than a real PPC would give you - that's why Apple switched.
The problem is, there are plenty of people out there who do care about your race or sexual orientation, and will treat you differently depending on them. To suggest otherwise is rather ridiculous.
No. There aren't. People who would hate you for it are already looking for a reason to hate you, so it doesn't matter if race or sexual orientation is the answer they find. They're probably the same ones who'd accuse the straight WASP of being rich and intolerant.
Race is probably harder to hide, but sexual orientation doesn't have to be obvious to these people. Take it with a less-easily-offended attitude and things will be a lot better.
(No, I'm not a WASP. I've often been on the receiving end of bigotry. I'm not just preaching.)
I'm not sure how the tagging system works, but Slashdot is a moderated site, and the use of the term "gay" in this context arguably should be moderated out.
(First off, it's no more homophobic than "sucks" is oralphobic. But that's another post.)
Tags, as far as I can tell, are only positively moderated. There's no real system for people with mod points to change tags (I know, 'cause I had mod points last week.) Once there's a tag that has made it to the main page, it can't be removed. There's some cutoff for the number of different people who have nominated an article to use that tag - the only way that number could decrease is if people go and clear their tagging lists.
Also, tags aren't viewable by the public. If you can see tags, you can add your own tags. (Notice that everyone who's quoted tags has quoted the "[+]" label also.)
words do not mean anything other than what the speakers of the words think they mean, so if "gay" means "bad" it's not homophobia, it's evolution.
Indeed. Take the word "suck," for example; a person I insultingly call "gay" is no more homosexual than a person I insultingly say "sucks". Or what about "jerk"? A "jerk" was originally someone who...jerked himself. Jerk has become a word accepted in society (its slang status notwithstanding), and "suck" is bordering at least passive acceptance.
What about "SOB"? Do I really insinuate that you are human on your father's side and canine on your mother's? If I call you a "butthead" do you really excrete from your brain? If you're a "booby" do you actually produce milk? If you're a "dirty bastard" are you really someone born out of wedlock who didn't take a shower? All of these are terms that are clearly not taken literally. "Gay" is the same.
At the risk of offending a racial group too in the same post, I'll mention that I think "gay" is like "black"/"nigger": they both refer to groups that are too ready to be insulted. Nobody cares if you're gay or if you're black if you don't care either.
> It's really doubtful that (as Diebold claims) font differences could eat up 20MB.
Just one good unicode font is about that big, actually.
And what do we need one good Unicode font on a voting machine for? In case someone in the middle of casting their ballot decides to see how an alef hamza combined with an integral sign and uppercase rho with zero-width-non-joiners in between would look?
You barely need any more than a handful of buttons on an electronic voting machine. Think of those credit-card scanners at the supermarket, less the credit cards. What the heck do you need bitmapped fonts on a color monitor, let alone different fonts, let alone Unicode fonts for????
Yeah, and there are a lot of hot women out there that I think should go to bed with me -- but that doesn't mean that I'm about to go on a rape spree. Neither is RMS forcing anybody to Open Source anything against their will.
Not quite. If you look at the original quote - way at the beginning of this discussion - he said it would be moral for someone to break an NDA, get proprietary code, and liberate it to the world, because the mere existence of proprietary code is immoral.
This is like saying "Look, all these women are loose, and we have fun." Which is fine, so far (in this context). "Now these other women...if someone could find a way to let us have fun with them, I think that'd be great." That's just barely below inciting rape.
Slashdot Mirror
Um, it was supposed to mean that Caltech lets in slightly more people than MIT, but those who did get past MIT's slightly higher standards wouldn't go to Caltech, so Caltech just gets the bottom few. However, it was obviously just a lighthearted retort against the AC. I haven't 100% decided to go to MIT, and Caltech is my second choice.
Well, you have to ask yourself if it really improves things. I'd say it complicates things a whole lot more.
"Hey, where's that document I just wrote?"
"Oh, I made that in windows, I'll have to reboot"
And why exactly did you format your Windows partition as NTFS and not FAT? At the least, make an additional FAT partition for documents.
Of course I got in. The only people who'd actually go to Caltech are those who didn't get into MIT. Ever wondered why their school is so small?
Respawning in 3 days...2...1....
I don't want solutions that entail using the command line.
And this, my friends, is the problem with humanity. This translates to, "I don't want to expend effort; I don't want to leave my comfort zone. I would rather a meaningless statement from Apple saying they're 'working on the problem' than try to figure out and do anything myself. I prefer a broken laptop to learning how to fix it."
I didn't feel like investing the effort to understand the differences.
And that's the topic sentence of this essay. Class dismissed.
Cygwin.
"We believe Internet Explorer is a really good browser. Internet Explorer is my browser of choice." -- Steve Jobs
Obviously he was talking about IE Mac. Have you tried it? It was of course the best Mac browser at the time, but if it had been maintained in pace it would still far surpass Safari and Firefox today. There were a lot of good features from browsing tools to CSS that it simply supported well.
Oh, and I think it was a completely different team that built it. The only thing that was similar was the interpretation and design of the rendering software.
Give us a dual-Core machine where we can choose to pay for better screens, better graphics, and perhaps some other internals; like FW800, internal modem, etc. That should not be too difficult and it would allow people to choose a lower cost solution or a maxed out one.
The MBP doesn't have FW800 or an internal modem at all. What you'll get in the MacBook non-Pro (the Intel iBook as opposed to the Intel PowerBook) will be a single-core machine. Note that Core Duo came out first, and then they announced the initial set of machines, and only now Core Solo is coming out.
I see three problems with this system:
.xxx is a bad name.
.com to .xxx, change the prefix...from www to ewww.
a) The DNS TLDs shouldn't be changed.
b) Not everything in DNS is part of the web. Porn.com could run an rsync mirror of Debian for all you know.
c)
So here's my suggestion: instead of changing the suffix from
Then the devil took him to the holy city and had him stand on the highest point of the temple. "If you are the Son of God," he said, "throw yourself down. For it is written:
" 'He will command his angels concerning you,
and they will lift you up in their hands,
so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.' "
Jesus answered him, "It is also written: 'Do not put the Lord your God to the test.' "
-Matthew 4:5-7 (NIV)
See? God wins!
OMG! PONYTAILS!
Nobody should be forced into the closet
Nor out, either. Do you know if I'm straight or gay?
If you met me in real life would you know? (No, I don't have a boyfriend or girfriend, and if I did, they wouldn't be soldered on to me like some people seem to be.)
Pity. They should've used SQL on Rails.
Anyway...image, 'cause nothing else is important on the site. Unless you really want to buy one. Has the pink been getting to you?
A unicorn! A unicorn! My kingdom for a unicorn! ...Without a horn, please.
I've been trying to set up a new web server running in a VMWare instance of Fedora Core 5 on Windows XP Home booting on an Intel Mac. Anyone know if SQL on Rails is compatible with this setup?
Yes. Actually, it's good that you have all this, 'cause SQL on Rails, according to the screencast, only runs on OS X PPC. Now Rosetta has only been out for a couple of months, and it's non-Free, so we can't be sure it works. Within your FC5 on VMWare, launch PearPC (which is thankfully OSS) and get it to run OS X PPC. Then Rails should install immediately. And because you're running on an Intel, you'll probably get more performance than a real PPC would give you - that's why Apple switched.
The problem is, there are plenty of people out there who do care about your race or sexual orientation, and will treat you differently depending on them. To suggest otherwise is rather ridiculous.
No. There aren't. People who would hate you for it are already looking for a reason to hate you, so it doesn't matter if race or sexual orientation is the answer they find. They're probably the same ones who'd accuse the straight WASP of being rich and intolerant.
Race is probably harder to hide, but sexual orientation doesn't have to be obvious to these people. Take it with a less-easily-offended attitude and things will be a lot better.
(No, I'm not a WASP. I've often been on the receiving end of bigotry. I'm not just preaching.)
when you think the purple games.slashdot theme is easy on your eyes.
I'm not sure how the tagging system works, but Slashdot is a moderated site, and the use of the term "gay" in this context arguably should be moderated out.
(First off, it's no more homophobic than "sucks" is oralphobic. But that's another post.)
Tags, as far as I can tell, are only positively moderated. There's no real system for people with mod points to change tags (I know, 'cause I had mod points last week.) Once there's a tag that has made it to the main page, it can't be removed. There's some cutoff for the number of different people who have nominated an article to use that tag - the only way that number could decrease is if people go and clear their tagging lists.
Also, tags aren't viewable by the public. If you can see tags, you can add your own tags. (Notice that everyone who's quoted tags has quoted the "[+]" label also.)
This one actually fooled me. Fifteen LOL's and one in normal English - brilliant.
words do not mean anything other than what the speakers of the words think they mean, so if "gay" means "bad" it's not homophobia, it's evolution.
Indeed. Take the word "suck," for example; a person I insultingly call "gay" is no more homosexual than a person I insultingly say "sucks". Or what about "jerk"? A "jerk" was originally someone who...jerked himself. Jerk has become a word accepted in society (its slang status notwithstanding), and "suck" is bordering at least passive acceptance.
What about "SOB"? Do I really insinuate that you are human on your father's side and canine on your mother's? If I call you a "butthead" do you really excrete from your brain? If you're a "booby" do you actually produce milk? If you're a "dirty bastard" are you really someone born out of wedlock who didn't take a shower? All of these are terms that are clearly not taken literally. "Gay" is the same.
At the risk of offending a racial group too in the same post, I'll mention that I think "gay" is like "black"/"nigger": they both refer to groups that are too ready to be insulted. Nobody cares if you're gay or if you're black if you don't care either.
> It's really doubtful that (as Diebold claims) font differences could eat up 20MB.
Just one good unicode font is about that big, actually.
And what do we need one good Unicode font on a voting machine for? In case someone in the middle of casting their ballot decides to see how an alef hamza combined with an integral sign and uppercase rho with zero-width-non-joiners in between would look?
You barely need any more than a handful of buttons on an electronic voting machine. Think of those credit-card scanners at the supermarket, less the credit cards. What the heck do you need bitmapped fonts on a color monitor, let alone different fonts, let alone Unicode fonts for????
Netcraft's Beowulf cluster confirms that all your base are welcoming YOUR evil Soviet overlords.
Yeah, and there are a lot of hot women out there that I think should go to bed with me -- but that doesn't mean that I'm about to go on a rape spree. Neither is RMS forcing anybody to Open Source anything against their will.
Not quite. If you look at the original quote - way at the beginning of this discussion - he said it would be moral for someone to break an NDA, get proprietary code, and liberate it to the world, because the mere existence of proprietary code is immoral.
This is like saying "Look, all these women are loose, and we have fun." Which is fine, so far (in this context). "Now these other women...if someone could find a way to let us have fun with them, I think that'd be great." That's just barely below inciting rape.