You paid to get a mIRC script. Wish I had mod points so I could push this up to +5 hilarious. Then again, maybe not. mIRC is so bad in terms of UI and so full of holes it's not even funny.
Yes, but imagine a Beo.... no, I can't do it. I just can't. On a side note, that quantum computer thingy featured earlier might come in handy to solve such problems.
Status symbols exist, function and are just as necessary to an inner-city kid as they are to a corp VP when it comes to gaining and keeping status. Duh. The difference here (and the rub) lies in the fact that in a ghetto status can mean the difference between "alive" and "dead", whereas said corp VP (or most anyone on./) can usually afford to burn a little status/karma on NOT having the latest car or NOT appearing to enjoy the very latest in entertainment.
Yes, and fish can choose to live on dry land. You live in the culture which gave rise to Sturgeon's law and there's no escaping that. Why do you go to wally world for $random_stuff?
Why not $other_megastore, or two different cornershops? Why do you shop (with money, at a shop) at all, instead of, say, bartering for stuff you need or trading in Liberty Dollars or living in an enclosed polis with a gift-based economy with your 200 best friends that acts like a privately-owned corporation when relating to the outside world?
Glasses and a radio? Pah. Oh, what radio stations do you like, btw? Which music touches you the most? Whose commercials are the least obnoxious?
Retaliate by succeeding indeed. Worked my way out of a moron-level job, to find I now had a much harder, if more satisfying one and a bonus PHB. Ok, back to work. Sidestepped said PHB in another year's worth of efforts, finally on the right track to a posting that fits me and executive benefits. Then, just as things started to look up, a reorganisation comes from On High (with no rhyme or reason, as these things usually go). Got sidelined as a result of the fact that the new boss can't trust anyone - that's three years of my life down the drain. Trust me, nothing is worth giving some job more than your cursory interest and whatever effort is needed to get to the next paycheck. Want the satisfaction of growing as a professional? Work freelance.
You don't work much with documents, do you? Any sort of editing that involves more than two people is automatically in need of version control and publishing mechanisms - and this is as true for source code as it is for tomorrow's newspaper.
You must be new here, and so is the guy who modded you insightful:). It's Taco's website (well, not anymore, but he has total editorial control) - dig?
Yes, why don't we? Sounds pretty sane to me. Everything runs virtualized in whatever environment it likes best and the host OS can be anything you like best. That's as modular as you can get, no? At least the OS wars would end with a whimper.
You're overlooking something. Those people had the costs of surgery covered by the Canadian system - they just went to seattle to avoid the overcrowding - a way to "game the system" if you will.
Valid point re maniples, seeing as 150 is two slightly undersized centuriae but... it would make sense that, as cohorts were split into maniples when needed, a maniple would split into smaller units when needed (decuriae, maybe?).
50 different state models, with only a state's resources behind them, is easier to crack than one big national model
Excuse me while I go laugh my arse off. Is the notion of single point of failure familiar to you? The resources of all criminal organizations operating or wishing to operate inside the US would thereafter be focused on compromising ONE database and ONE form of ID, both managed and guarded with all the care and diligence that federal subcontractors have become famous for over the years. In the meantime, everyone and their dog would be relying on that one form of ID, because it's federally mandated and if it's good for the feds, it must be good enough for everyone.
Yes. I can see how that would be harder than having to piece together identities for people from lots of disjointed sources - afaik right now as a citizen of the US you need a ssn, a valid address(though what constitutes a valid address is debatable), a state driver's license, a bank account with a good credit score and possibly a gun permit to be able to pass off as a respectable citizen - that adds up to five different systems to bypass/hijack, of which at least one is run by operators who have real money riding on the correctness and accuracy of their data.
The point you make about vetting is similarly flawed, but I won't bother to elaborate.
Also, please consider that once such a system is deployed, any flaws it may have will tend to persist due to the huge upfront costs of making nationwide changes.
If that part is true (about the chinese describing them as using a "fish scale formation, then yes, they were romans, but the fish-scale thing is not the testudo (+5 Overrated military formation of all time), but rather the standard way that maniples were ordered in a legion deployed to form a line of battle-a checkerboard pattern like this:
# # #
# # # # # #
which indeeed would resemble the staggered pattern of fish scales.
Erm. Actually, if you go to sf.net and grab the latest clean sources, you *should* damn well also roll your own ebuild (adding use flags as needed), instead of just compiling the raw source and flying with it until the next update breaks compat... that way it will be easier to maintain your system from now on.
If you feel particularly graceful, you might even publish your new ebuild for brownie points, but it's not a requisite.
On a side-note, I believe the community is actually made up of people and companies acting in what they believe is their own enlightened self-interest. No-one is asking you to become a commie/hippie/buddhist.
I'm sorry, but, asking as a relative newbie: why would a kernel update require a day of downtime in Gentoo? The last few I went through were pretty smooth, so that's why I ask.
You seem knowledgeable. Fix the darn ebuild and stop whining. Or just post a bug report and continue whining at the package maintainer until it's fixed:).
Your case, as you present it, does nothing to advance the point you're trying to make.
When I made it a requirement that comment-posters need to be registered users, commenting stopped dead in its tracks.
Why would you make registration mandatory? Did you have a comment-spam problem? If not, why require registration?
Drupal is somewhat more confusing in this regard than other CMSes.
No. The defaults it ships with are, though. You did no customization whatosever, did you?
I've got a minimally set up tinymce holding their hand
See above.
Basically, what you've done is take an old crufty working setup that your users were familiar with and replace it with a OTS DIY FOSS POS setup for the sake of your own convenience, neglecting all the while to present said users with the training and/or migration tools they needed. Way to go.
This doesn't mean the users are stupid or that you need whole teams to manage a lil' website or two. It only means that you picked and insisted on using the wrong tools for the job.
Erm. True. Not so true if you stick it to the real originators. Or just convict the white horse AND then charge the other directors with collusion or aiding and abetting or whatnot. Works just as fine.
Erm. I'm not an USian, can't fix what is wrong with that great country. As for Europe, legal drinking age is 18 in many places, prostitution is illegal but "tolerated" (gov't demands income taxes but doesn't recognize the occupation as legal) in yet many more, straight porn isn't a crime but some forms of political expression may be. Seatbelts are mandatory almost all over the place. So is health insurance. Gimme a break.
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You paid to get a mIRC script. Wish I had mod points so I could push this up to +5 hilarious. Then again, maybe not. mIRC is so bad in terms of UI and so full of holes it's not even funny.
Yes, but imagine a Beo.... no, I can't do it. I just can't. On a side note, that quantum computer thingy featured earlier might come in handy to solve such problems.
Status symbols exist, function and are just as necessary to an inner-city kid as they are to a corp VP when it comes to gaining and keeping status. Duh. The difference here (and the rub) lies in the fact that in a ghetto status can mean the difference between "alive" and "dead", whereas said corp VP (or most anyone on ./) can usually afford to burn a little status/karma on NOT having the latest car or NOT appearing to enjoy the very latest in entertainment.
Yes, and fish can choose to live on dry land.
You live in the culture which gave rise to Sturgeon's law and there's no escaping that. Why do you go to wally world for $random_stuff?
Why not $other_megastore, or two different cornershops? Why do you shop (with money, at a shop) at all, instead of, say, bartering for stuff you need or trading in Liberty Dollars or living in an enclosed polis with a gift-based economy with your 200 best friends that acts like a privately-owned corporation when relating to the outside world?
Glasses and a radio? Pah. Oh, what radio stations do you like, btw? Which music touches you the most? Whose commercials are the least obnoxious?
Retaliate by succeeding indeed. Worked my way out of a moron-level job, to find I now had a much harder, if more satisfying one and a bonus PHB. Ok, back to work. Sidestepped said PHB in another year's worth of efforts, finally on the right track to a posting that fits me and executive benefits. Then, just as things started to look up, a reorganisation comes from On High (with no rhyme or reason, as these things usually go). Got sidelined as a result of the fact that the new boss can't trust anyone - that's three years of my life down the drain. Trust me, nothing is worth giving some job more than your cursory interest and whatever effort is needed to get to the next paycheck. Want the satisfaction of growing as a professional? Work freelance.
You don't work much with documents, do you? Any sort of editing that involves more than two people is automatically in need of version control and publishing mechanisms - and this is as true for source code as it is for tomorrow's newspaper.
Heavy-handed attempt at irony duly noted, Citizen.
You must be new here, and so is the guy who modded you insightful :). It's Taco's website (well, not anymore, but he has total editorial control) - dig?
Interestingly enough, antivirus vendors are exempt from this policy and can still hook (signed) components into kernel.
There's more than two companies making antivirus these days. Check out Eset, BitDefender, Kaspersky...
Please push the biggest button on the face of the case of your computer (or close the lid of your laptop), unplug it and step away now. Thank you.
You're overlooking something. Those people had the costs of surgery covered by the Canadian system - they just went to seattle to avoid the overcrowding - a way to "game the system" if you will.
Or perched on a wall, maybe? :).
Valid point re maniples, seeing as 150 is two slightly undersized centuriae but... it would make sense that, as cohorts were split into maniples when needed, a maniple would split into smaller units when needed (decuriae, maybe?).
Yes. I can see how that would be harder than having to piece together identities for people from lots of disjointed sources - afaik right now as a citizen of the US you need a ssn, a valid address(though what constitutes a valid address is debatable), a state driver's license, a bank account with a good credit score and possibly a gun permit to be able to pass off as a respectable citizen - that adds up to five different systems to bypass/hijack, of which at least one is run by operators who have real money riding on the correctness and accuracy of their data.
The point you make about vetting is similarly flawed, but I won't bother to elaborate.
Also, please consider that once such a system is deployed, any flaws it may have will tend to persist due to the huge upfront costs of making nationwide changes.
Erm. Actually, if you go to sf.net and grab the latest clean sources, you *should* damn well also roll your own ebuild (adding use flags as needed), instead of just compiling the raw source and flying with it until the next update breaks compat... that way it will be easier to maintain your system from now on.
If you feel particularly graceful, you might even publish your new ebuild for brownie points, but it's not a requisite.
On a side-note, I believe the community is actually made up of people and companies acting in what they believe is their own enlightened self-interest. No-one is asking you to become a commie/hippie/buddhist.
I'm sorry, but, asking as a relative newbie: why would a kernel update require a day of downtime in Gentoo? The last few I went through were pretty smooth, so that's why I ask.
You seem knowledgeable. Fix the darn ebuild and stop whining. Or just post a bug report and continue whining at the package maintainer until it's fixed :).
Basically, what you've done is take an old crufty working setup that your users were familiar with and replace it with a OTS DIY FOSS POS setup for the sake of your own convenience, neglecting all the while to present said users with the training and/or migration tools they needed. Way to go.
This doesn't mean the users are stupid or that you need whole teams to manage a lil' website or two. It only means that you picked and insisted on using the wrong tools for the job.
Widgets, yes. But video cards?
I wonder how many companies will be imprudent/progressive enough to take up this offer.
Where's my "+1 ironic" when I need it?
Erm. True. Not so true if you stick it to the real originators. Or just convict the white horse AND then charge the other directors with collusion or aiding and abetting or whatnot. Works just as fine.
Erm. I'm not an USian, can't fix what is wrong with that great country. As for Europe, legal drinking age is 18 in many places, prostitution is illegal but "tolerated" (gov't demands income taxes but doesn't recognize the occupation as legal) in yet many more, straight porn isn't a crime but some forms of political expression may be. Seatbelts are mandatory almost all over the place. So is health insurance. Gimme a break.