...there's way too much information to decode the Matrix. You get used to it, though. Your brain does the translating. I don't even see the code. All I see is blonde, brunette, redhead.
Linux is Unix, and X is a part of any proper Unix.
INVALID
I use Linux exclusively. At work, where I'm required to use Windows, so I run several Linux virtual machines. My kids run Linux. My servers run Linux. 90% of my Linux machines do not have X or any other windowing system. In my previous job, 100% of all Linux systems (several thousand) had no X server, hell, 99.99% of them were headless.
Or use another extremity. Handedness has a counterpart in the lower extremities, called footedness. If he is dexterous enough with his feet (and they weren't damaged too), he might be able to do as well.
Better to let the corporations decide what you need. Besides, Oracle has done a finejob with open source so far.
I doubt ODF and OOo will have 300 variations. Likely 2, the outdated OOo variation that has Oracle's name on it which hasn't received an update since yesterday will fade into obscurity, and the ODF variation that enjoys a healthy development community.
You'll be disturbed to know that the origins of that quote are....wait for it....
The Bible:
John 11:49-50 the Apostle John wrote, "And one of them, named Caiaphas, being the high priest that same year, said unto them, Ye know nothing at all, Nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not."
For those who haven't watched it, it's a distance shot. The person is clearly talking, and has his/her hand in a very familiar phone position. Compelling evidence? Not really.
I suppose that any time traveler would be actively avoiding paradox creating interaction. That would mean that they would need to avoid major historical events. When compared to all of history, a Charlie Chaplin movie premiere would probably be pretty safe.
As far as cell towers go, anyone with sufficient technology to time-travel might very well have sufficient technology to communicate through time. Or, might be equally likely to bring a short range walkie talkie to communicate with traveling companions waiting back at the time machine.
Pardon me for not focusing on what you classify as humor. I've heard of people writing their own name onto a ballot. That isn't a foreign concept to me, nor is it funny (to me) in any way.
I was more interested in:
...automatically... with the voters name and SSN pre-filled...
Something that no voting machine should ever have is the identity of the voter.
Hey, I got some inside information from the brother of a guy who worked for the sister of a tech support reps bosses secretaries gardener who posted on one of the android forums. We're getting updated next week!
"Bushie" isn't the sitting president. You can't continue to blame everything on Bush. For a little while it's cute, but after enough time it becomes pathetic.
God-given mission? No, he claimed to be god....at least his campaign site did.
Do I need to say it? Surely English isn't your first language.
You don't need AJAX
It's an acronym, so....all CAPS. Briefly, I'll explain why AJAX can make your site faster. Properly used AJAX reduces data transfer. Instead of requesting an entirely new page at, lets say 200kB - an AJAX call requests just the data that has changed, formats it and replaces it into the existing page. All of this is done with minimal data transfer - say, 1kB. Another way of looking at it is, non AJAX pages might require 200% or more data transfer than an AJAX call updating a small portion of the page. Yet another way of looking at it, an AJAX call updating only a small portion of a page requires 0.5% or less of the data transfer used by a full page load. That would make it faster.
You don't need...Flash...
I'm not a big fan of Flash, but while I agree with you, you're still wrong....in this context. Flash has nothing to do with speed, it deals with functionality. Specifically, it deals with functionality that is not available in any other single technology. I choose to keep Flash to a minimum, others are not able to do that because of the functionality they want to provide.
You don't need... "Hype du Jour"
Translated, "Stuff I don't have the capacity to learn"
The Web is rapidly going the way of television:
Yeah, in the 70's - that way is UP. Television is now the old media. By your statement, Internet is the old media too. So what's the new-new media?
Get me a bucket, I'm going to hurl...
Interpreting your post as a whole, this is what I'm hearing: You were a "webmaster" back when that was the cowboy thing to do. Days were sunny, nights were for sci-fi and the only tools you needed were Notepad and the HTML 3.2 spec.
Then something happened. Sci-fi left you and changed its name to SyFy. All of your customers wanted to start making money with their websites and you didn't know how to do that. They wanted to be standards compliant and you didn't know how to do that either. Lets just face it, you didn't know how to do shit and now you're bitter.
Some advise: If you don't want to deal with ads, find jobs making tools for companies instead of public sites. Chances are, they don't want their intranet app to have ads - they want it to serve a purpose. When you do decide to take on a web job, make sure it fits your skills and sensibilities.
I don't do porn sites because I don't want to be associated with them. My customers want their sites to be online ads or tools, so they don't want competitive or distracting ads displayed, so I don't have to deal with that either.
The last time I had a stereo stolen, the thief bent the hell out of the door frame to get the window out of track, then used a scissor jack to open the dash up in order to remove the 1 bolt holding the stereo in place.
$1000 damage for a $99 stereo.
Upside was that I got a scissor jack out of the deal.
Someone came back a few months later and busted a window to find that I hadn't put a new stereo in yet. Another $150...
Aside from the previously posted screenshot link of the Obama campaign website that shows an image of graffiti "Obama is God", this would be an short example of my best:
Slashdot Mirror
That would have been moderately cool if it had worked.
Alt+F4 speeds it up considerably, unless it crashes your browser. If you crash, try it again until it works.
I had the same issue for a while this morning. I could get to every other /. article except this one.
Pat for short.
confirm the facts on the ground
Or, make them up.
Oh yeah, the government and media never lie...
Adafruit stipulated that the driver source must be released as open source. I see that happening next Tuesday, when hell freezes over.
...there's way too much information to decode the Matrix. You get used to it, though. Your brain does the translating. I don't even see the code. All I see is blonde, brunette, redhead.
Linux is Unix, and X is a part of any proper Unix.
INVALID
I use Linux exclusively. At work, where I'm required to use Windows, so I run several Linux virtual machines. My kids run Linux. My servers run Linux. 90% of my Linux machines do not have X or any other windowing system. In my previous job, 100% of all Linux systems (several thousand) had no X server, hell, 99.99% of them were headless.
Linux is not Unix, it's LIKE Unix. X is not Linux - X runs in many environments - including OSX and Windows
Or use another extremity. Handedness has a counterpart in the lower extremities, called footedness. If he is dexterous enough with his feet (and they weren't damaged too), he might be able to do as well.
But the ladies are midgets, so the skirts are regular length for them.
Because choice is such a burden.
Better to let the corporations decide what you need. Besides, Oracle has done a fine job with open source so far.
I doubt ODF and OOo will have 300 variations. Likely 2, the outdated OOo variation that has Oracle's name on it which hasn't received an update since yesterday will fade into obscurity, and the ODF variation that enjoys a healthy development community.
You'll be disturbed to know that the origins of that quote are....wait for it....
The Bible:
John 11:49-50 the Apostle John wrote, "And one of them, named Caiaphas, being the high priest that same year, said unto them, Ye know nothing at all, Nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not."
So, it's likely that he wasn't quoting Spock.
Just because they're habitable doesn't mean they're inhabited.
Even if they are inhabited, it's possible that any species living there may have not yet achieved radio communications and would be silent.
Depending on their technological advancement, they may have long outgrown the need for radio communications and have returned to silence.
For those who haven't watched it, it's a distance shot. The person is clearly talking, and has his/her hand in a very familiar phone position. Compelling evidence? Not really.
I suppose that any time traveler would be actively avoiding paradox creating interaction. That would mean that they would need to avoid major historical events. When compared to all of history, a Charlie Chaplin movie premiere would probably be pretty safe.
As far as cell towers go, anyone with sufficient technology to time-travel might very well have sufficient technology to communicate through time. Or, might be equally likely to bring a short range walkie talkie to communicate with traveling companions waiting back at the time machine.
Pardon me for not focusing on what you classify as humor. I've heard of people writing their own name onto a ballot. That isn't a foreign concept to me, nor is it funny (to me) in any way.
I was more interested in:
...automatically ... with the voters name and SSN pre-filled...
Something that no voting machine should ever have is the identity of the voter.
Voting machines are not supposed to have any information about the voter. This is known as Secret Ballot
Hey, I got some inside information from the brother of a guy who worked for the sister of a tech support reps bosses secretaries gardener who posted on one of the android forums. We're getting updated next week!
"Bushie" isn't the sitting president. You can't continue to blame everything on Bush. For a little while it's cute, but after enough time it becomes pathetic.
God-given mission? No, he claimed to be god....at least his campaign site did.
Since you obviously didn't follow the link:
Previously on the Obama campaign site - has since been removed:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3008/2619205229_cc2d84e9c6.jpg?v=0 [flickr.com]
Want to make you site fast?
Do I need to say it? Surely English isn't your first language.
You don't need AJAX
It's an acronym, so....all CAPS. Briefly, I'll explain why AJAX can make your site faster. Properly used AJAX reduces data transfer. Instead of requesting an entirely new page at, lets say 200kB - an AJAX call requests just the data that has changed, formats it and replaces it into the existing page. All of this is done with minimal data transfer - say, 1kB. Another way of looking at it is, non AJAX pages might require 200% or more data transfer than an AJAX call updating a small portion of the page. Yet another way of looking at it, an AJAX call updating only a small portion of a page requires 0.5% or less of the data transfer used by a full page load. That would make it faster.
You don't need ...Flash...
I'm not a big fan of Flash, but while I agree with you, you're still wrong....in this context. Flash has nothing to do with speed, it deals with functionality. Specifically, it deals with functionality that is not available in any other single technology. I choose to keep Flash to a minimum, others are not able to do that because of the functionality they want to provide.
You don't need ... "Hype du Jour"
Translated, "Stuff I don't have the capacity to learn"
The Web is rapidly going the way of television:
Yeah, in the 70's - that way is UP. Television is now the old media. By your statement, Internet is the old media too. So what's the new-new media?
Get me a bucket, I'm going to hurl...
Interpreting your post as a whole, this is what I'm hearing: You were a "webmaster" back when that was the cowboy thing to do. Days were sunny, nights were for sci-fi and the only tools you needed were Notepad and the HTML 3.2 spec.
Then something happened. Sci-fi left you and changed its name to SyFy. All of your customers wanted to start making money with their websites and you didn't know how to do that. They wanted to be standards compliant and you didn't know how to do that either. Lets just face it, you didn't know how to do shit and now you're bitter.
Some advise: If you don't want to deal with ads, find jobs making tools for companies instead of public sites. Chances are, they don't want their intranet app to have ads - they want it to serve a purpose. When you do decide to take on a web job, make sure it fits your skills and sensibilities.
I don't do porn sites because I don't want to be associated with them. My customers want their sites to be online ads or tools, so they don't want competitive or distracting ads displayed, so I don't have to deal with that either.
If that was any more clever, it would have had a hint of clever.
No one except Chuck Norris
They steal data.
They sell data.
I'm sure a significant portion wouldn't be caught dead using stolen identities. It's far safer to sell them.
I wish my experience was as nice as yours.
The last time I had a stereo stolen, the thief bent the hell out of the door frame to get the window out of track, then used a scissor jack to open the dash up in order to remove the 1 bolt holding the stereo in place.
$1000 damage for a $99 stereo.
Upside was that I got a scissor jack out of the deal.
Someone came back a few months later and busted a window to find that I hadn't put a new stereo in yet. Another $150...
Aside from the previously posted screenshot link of the Obama campaign website that shows an image of graffiti "Obama is God", this would be an short example of my best:
A messiah in our midst?
By Jonah Goldberg
Obama's Satyagraha: Or, Did Obama Swallow the Mahatma?
June 27, 2008. (Dinesh Sharma is a marketing science consultant with a PhD in Psychology from Harvard).
Miami Herald March 28, 2006.
Okello Oculi, Daily Monitor
AllAfrica.com. February 20, 2008.
Obama Draws Throngs To Target Center
WCCO.com. February 2, 2008
There you go, 5 non-right-wing articles.
Not my best research, only what I could find in 2 minutes and 1 Google search. I'm just pointing out who gave them the idea.
The Left Wing says:
Our candidate was appointed by God
and the Right Wing responds:
So, he's the messiah
Personally, I think it's funny.
It's much funnier than the left-wingers habit of calling people 'teabaggers'