According to #freenode-announce, he wasn't wearing a helmet when he was hit. According to my logs (times in EST (US)):
18:10 <+christel> "was lilo wearing a helmet and was the car driver
responsible? if they are responsible will they be charged?"
18:10 <+christel> lilo was not wearing a helmet, we are unsure at this point
about what will happen wrt the driver of the car
There was a L&O episode that worked off this premise. Guy gets tossed into Rikers for trial for killing an attorney. Guy gives his defense attorney (Melnick, if you want to google the episode), an address for someone who can help with his "alibi" and a phone number for the person who is his helper. Melnick relays information, and someone else winds up dead. No phones involved either since the guy was incommunicado with the outside world.
You, sir, are too kind. I was rather of the opinion that he should be castrated with a dull butter knife and left to bleed out, but was corrected by someone of an environmental persuasion who doesn't want to contaminate the earth.
I've never understood people's bias against it. Which is easier to read?:
if (! $foo)
{
# do stuff
}
- or -
unless ($foo)
{
# do stuff
}
- or in some cases -
do_stuff() unless $foo;
From what I've heard and read, this is a good book, and I'll check it out. I just don't think that one should ignore some of the more useful/human features of the language. Remember, it was designed to be human-idiomatic. unless() is a human-type of thing. if (!...) is a computer (and C programmer) type of thing.
The parent was a troll. Thanks for trying to bring some level of intellectual credit to it:)
As an experienced Perl programmer, I can see deficiencies in the language (my/local, problems with SOAP::Lite's ability to transfer large files, the unfortunate lack of using File::Slurp as a native module, not requiring strict), but it also serves a purpose for more than small utility scripts.
The problems often attributed to Perl are not the fault of the language per se. Rather, they are the result of sloppy programming. To borrow a phrase, Perl doesn't ruin programs, programmers ruin programs.
I've had a part in a several thousand line company-designed CMS written in Perl, Mason, and JavaScript, and a several thousand line company-designed system monitoring tool. From personal experience with both the best of code (OO Perl, well abstracted and well designed) and the worst (implicit $_ everywhere, constructs like $True = (1 == 1); $False = ! $True;) (wth!?)), I know what the language is capable of if misused.
This is where a book like this serves a purpose. Someone recently recommended it to me, and while I haven't read it yet, what I've read about it (including reviews on Amazon) suggests to me that it should be required reading for all Perl programmers.
Perhaps you'd care more if you were the one whose job got outsourced to India?
The fact of the matter is that many, many jobs have been lost. Those jobs translate to real, living people, some of whom you might actually know. It's a lot easier to be detatched about job loss when it doesn't affect you.
Diana Farrell, director, McKinsey Global Institute, said, "People in the US are looking at it as a job issue. They are not economists and therefore, they don't necessarily see the whole picture. What's going to happen is that offshoring is actually going to benefit US businesses even more than India." She said it was a profoundly new way of doing things and would change the structure of organisations. Offshore was about global wealth creation and integrating economies, she explained, adding that it would create more high-value jobs in the US than people could imagine today.
Based on the research that the McKinsey institute had carried out, Ms Farrell said conservatively, for every dollar invested in the offshore space, $0.58 was directly saved. This could be either redistributed to investors or customers. But she added that there were indirect benefits to the US, in terms of the import of US goods and services into India by Indian service providers, and so there was some transfer of profit back to the parent in the US. She pointed out that the Bureau of Labour Statistics was predicting a job gain of 22m in the US by '10, against a job loss of 2m due to offshoring.
I'd like to know what she's smoking. I see a lot of this as someone with a comfortable job spouting off:
Job loss in the last few years has continued unabated in the tech sector. By all reports, the new jobs created have been nontechnical, particularly in construction.
This doesn't account for the fact that many people have dropped out of the labor market altogether (going back to school, early retirement, panhandling).
Economists have a pathetic record for prediction. Right now we're in what's been termed a "jobless recovery." If that's a recovery (I remain unconvinced) then just where does Ms. Farrell see those 22 million jobs coming from in the next 6 years, and just when does she think they'll appear?
Additionally, Ms. Farrell claims that cost savings from shipping jobs overseas will be passed on to the consumer. Ignoring the tendency of corporations to pass cost savings on to executive compensation rather than to stockholders or even (gasp!) consumers, just how would consumer savings help the average unemployed Joe on the street get a new productive job?
On top of this, consider the setting for the comments. Ms. Farrell is telling a group of people in India not to feel bad about taking our jobs because eventually we'll turn out better than we started out. This is yet more bull in an article already reeking of manure. All it is designed to do is assuage someone's conscience.
It's one thing to say something substantive on the subject, but all that's been presented is trite expressions of hope that things will get better. I'm sure I'm not alone in hoping that they do get better, but until something meaningful is said, it's only so much bull.
Dunno if this will help you, but Linksys has a signal booster for your Linksys wireless device. Pop the antennas off the existing one, pop them on the booster, connect the booster to the access point, and (according to Linksys), you're good to go.
I love ESR's comment about "with a screen this big, who needs a pager?" on that tiny little porthole he's got. Me, I have 3200x1200 with two 3x1 pagers in Enlightenment. Screenshots here (the first few are from when I was on solaris or early linux, look at the last few).
Besides which (and I don't have a link handy, sorry), if memory serves, the Bruce Perens analysis of the code samples they did show proved that the samples all came from legitimate sources outside of IBM (one from SGI, which did infringe, was only in the Itanium codebase for the kernel, and was removed because the code was poor quality), so was fair game.
Basically, like everyone else said, SCO is going around threatening everyone and everything for no better reason than to extort money out of them. The problem SCO has is they keep putting a squirt gun to people's heads, not a.45 pistol. Ultimately they're going to be in deep kim-chee for this charade.
I think that's more or less what was said in business-ese:)
The best part is he told them to bug off while looking like he wants to politely resolve the situation. I sure hope Just Sports USA wins BIG if SCO decides to play ball.
I disagree for a couple of reasons (as satisfying as your suggested response sounds). First, from a safety point of view, it's more prudent to deflect SCO's attention. Gavin Roy's response is a model of solicitude in this vein, "Please show us what's wrong and then we'll discuss fixing it." It doesn't reject SCO outright, so they won't reflexively sue (because if they do, all they have in hand is a document that suggests amenability). Second, from a strategic point of view, it makes sense to formulate your strategy without tipping your enemy off. It's easy enough to send a mild letter and then put your own legal department to work on a counter suit (just in case).
It appears that they have both brick-and-mortar stores and an online store. The brick-and-mortar locator is here. The merchandise looks to be sports apparel including "we won" type of shirts, from a cursory glance. I might have to buy something to support them.
Gavin Roy owns the copyright, of course. Oddly enough, he responded to the guy who posted right after you did...you might email him and ask if you can print up t-shirts.
Actually, sounds a lot like today's society;) The only difference, of course, is that right now the marketing industry uses tv and radio. I just dread the day when all media are > 60% advertising.
Oh, great. ext2 and any number of other formats are free. Big deal. It doesn't help people who are trying to sell preformatted media that is compatible with Windows, does it? You think Windows is going to read your preformatted ext2 floppy disks, flash cards, zip disks, etc?
My old Sony Vaio (still have it but it is somewhat deceased) had this neat little suspend-to-disk feature (would write a snapshot of memory to disk and turn off; on waking it would load the memory snapshot). This was handy as I could turn it off for extended periods of time without it consuming battery power. It even worked under Linux!
I had access to a PowerBook G4 TI for some months and while I certainly liked it very much, it seemed like suspend only lasted as long as the battery. Did I miss something, or is the functionality I want (powerless suspend) missing?
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How do you know that inmate #49147 isn't simply showing his appreciation for his...uh...enhancement?
There was a L&O episode that worked off this premise. Guy gets tossed into Rikers for trial for killing an attorney. Guy gives his defense attorney (Melnick, if you want to google the episode), an address for someone who can help with his "alibi" and a phone number for the person who is his helper. Melnick relays information, and someone else winds up dead. No phones involved either since the guy was incommunicado with the outside world.
Pretty slick.
You, sir, are too kind. I was rather of the opinion that he should be castrated with a dull butter knife and left to bleed out, but was corrected by someone of an environmental persuasion who doesn't want to contaminate the earth.
I think if Amazon tried to sue the IRS, the IRS would simply audit Amazon :)
:)
After all, we know Amazon's not really losing money, don't we
That silver can of root beer will get you ejected from the theatre for sneaking food/drink in :)
I agree, I like unless()
...) is a computer (and C programmer) type of thing.
I've never understood people's bias against it. Which is easier to read?:
if (! $foo)
{
# do stuff
}
- or -
unless ($foo)
{
# do stuff
}
- or in some cases -
do_stuff() unless $foo;
From what I've heard and read, this is a good book, and I'll check it out. I just don't think that one should ignore some of the more useful/human features of the language. Remember, it was designed to be human-idiomatic. unless() is a human-type of thing. if (!
The parent was a troll. Thanks for trying to bring some level of intellectual credit to it :)
As an experienced Perl programmer, I can see deficiencies in the language (my/local, problems with SOAP::Lite's ability to transfer large files, the unfortunate lack of using File::Slurp as a native module, not requiring strict), but it also serves a purpose for more than small utility scripts.
The problems often attributed to Perl are not the fault of the language per se. Rather, they are the result of sloppy programming. To borrow a phrase, Perl doesn't ruin programs, programmers ruin programs.
I've had a part in a several thousand line company-designed CMS written in Perl, Mason, and JavaScript, and a several thousand line company-designed system monitoring tool. From personal experience with both the best of code (OO Perl, well abstracted and well designed) and the worst (implicit $_ everywhere, constructs like $True = (1 == 1); $False = ! $True;) (wth!?)), I know what the language is capable of if misused.
This is where a book like this serves a purpose. Someone recently recommended it to me, and while I haven't read it yet, what I've read about it (including reviews on Amazon) suggests to me that it should be required reading for all Perl programmers.
ISP buys media giant. ISP tries to merge businesses. ISP fails. ISP discards its name and adopts media giant's name. Stock plummets.
At the risk of sounding like a troll...
Perhaps you'd care more if you were the one whose job got outsourced to India?
The fact of the matter is that many, many jobs have been lost. Those jobs translate to real, living people, some of whom you might actually know. It's a lot easier to be detatched about job loss when it doesn't affect you.
- Job loss in the last few years has continued unabated in the tech sector. By all reports, the new jobs created have been nontechnical, particularly in construction.
- This doesn't account for the fact that many people have dropped out of the labor market altogether (going back to school, early retirement, panhandling).
- Economists have a pathetic record for prediction. Right now we're in what's been termed a "jobless recovery." If that's a recovery (I remain unconvinced) then just where does Ms. Farrell see those 22 million jobs coming from in the next 6 years, and just when does she think they'll appear?
- Additionally, Ms. Farrell claims that cost savings from shipping jobs overseas will be passed on to the consumer. Ignoring the tendency of corporations to pass cost savings on to executive compensation rather than to stockholders or even (gasp!) consumers, just how would consumer savings help the average unemployed Joe on the street get a new productive job?
- On top of this, consider the setting for the comments. Ms. Farrell is telling a group of people in India not to feel bad about taking our jobs because eventually we'll turn out better than we started out. This is yet more bull in an article already reeking of manure. All it is designed to do is assuage someone's conscience.
It's one thing to say something substantive on the subject, but all that's been presented is trite expressions of hope that things will get better. I'm sure I'm not alone in hoping that they do get better, but until something meaningful is said, it's only so much bull.Dunno if this will help you, but Linksys has a signal booster for your Linksys wireless device. Pop the antennas off the existing one, pop them on the booster, connect the booster to the access point, and (according to Linksys), you're good to go.
No, she probably has lots of icons to pdf files on how to dump imclone stock before the price drops through the basement.
I love ESR's comment about "with a screen this big, who needs a pager?" on that tiny little porthole he's got. Me, I have 3200x1200 with two 3x1 pagers in Enlightenment. Screenshots here (the first few are from when I was on solaris or early linux, look at the last few).
Besides which (and I don't have a link handy, sorry), if memory serves, the Bruce Perens analysis of the code samples they did show proved that the samples all came from legitimate sources outside of IBM (one from SGI, which did infringe, was only in the Itanium codebase for the kernel, and was removed because the code was poor quality), so was fair game. Basically, like everyone else said, SCO is going around threatening everyone and everything for no better reason than to extort money out of them. The problem SCO has is they keep putting a squirt gun to people's heads, not a .45 pistol. Ultimately they're going to be in deep kim-chee for this charade.
Recruit cheerleaders from the Dallas Cowboys, or from their cheerleader squad? There is a difference ;)
I think that's more or less what was said in business-ese :)
The best part is he told them to bug off while looking like he wants to politely resolve the situation. I sure hope Just Sports USA wins BIG if SCO decides to play ball.
I disagree for a couple of reasons (as satisfying as your suggested response sounds). First, from a safety point of view, it's more prudent to deflect SCO's attention. Gavin Roy's response is a model of solicitude in this vein, "Please show us what's wrong and then we'll discuss fixing it." It doesn't reject SCO outright, so they won't reflexively sue (because if they do, all they have in hand is a document that suggests amenability). Second, from a strategic point of view, it makes sense to formulate your strategy without tipping your enemy off. It's easy enough to send a mild letter and then put your own legal department to work on a counter suit (just in case).
:)
Just my thoughts, of course
It appears that they have both brick-and-mortar stores and an online store. The brick-and-mortar locator is here. The merchandise looks to be sports apparel including "we won" type of shirts, from a cursory glance. I might have to buy something to support them.
I'm curious, does SCO's legal department have an @aol.com address?
Gavin Roy owns the copyright, of course. Oddly enough, he responded to the guy who posted right after you did...you might email him and ask if you can print up t-shirts.
Somehow, after working a job in an apartment like that, chili would be the last thing I'd want to eat :)
Actually, sounds a lot like today's society ;) The only difference, of course, is that right now the marketing industry uses tv and radio. I just dread the day when all media are > 60% advertising.
Oh, great. ext2 and any number of other formats are free. Big deal. It doesn't help people who are trying to sell preformatted media that is compatible with Windows, does it? You think Windows is going to read your preformatted ext2 floppy disks, flash cards, zip disks, etc?
My old Sony Vaio (still have it but it is somewhat deceased) had this neat little suspend-to-disk feature (would write a snapshot of memory to disk and turn off; on waking it would load the memory snapshot). This was handy as I could turn it off for extended periods of time without it consuming battery power. It even worked under Linux!
I had access to a PowerBook G4 TI for some months and while I certainly liked it very much, it seemed like suspend only lasted as long as the battery. Did I miss something, or is the functionality I want (powerless suspend) missing?