... I am absolutely intent upon upgrading to a Rancilio Silvia...
i agree with your sentiment but may a suggest a Gaggia machine? you can get a semi-automatic similar to what you linked to, but for half the money. and made in Italy - the angels, they-a sing when you-a open the box
bellisima!
have pulled hundreds of shots without issue
i'd prefer a little less automation, this thing's a work of art - saving my nickels, maybe someday...
demand for sweet crude is outstripping supply. hence the increase in the price of the fuels based on it (you may have noticed it yourself or heard other people talking about it)
sure there may be trillions of barrels locked up in tar sands and oil shale. that's like saying there are plenty of programmers in the USA. true enough, but there is actually a lack of the newly graduated kids who work for peanuts -- they're the sweet crude of the development community
so don't expect prices to drop suddenly. and don't expect the H1B argument to ever end...
yep, that's right. and you could have stopped right there. and, funny enough, it's people that take this mythology too seriously who need a sense of humor
and tangentially calling someone stupid makes you seem, oh, i don't know, unchristian
Are you that petty that the windows logo pisses you off? Jesus H tapdancing Christ.
that windows logo represents a lot of bad vibes. i don't think it's petty to dislike microsoft and want literally nothing to do with them - i think it shows good taste
i wish i could get one with a hammer and sickle -- press it once and keyboard types YOU
There are leagues of reasons to be against guns. This one, however, is so far out there, you MUST be an anti-gun fanatic for some reason or another.
i think the whole point was the theater aspect of it. you have a gun, so you're safe? hell no
whoever's coming in knows whoever's in front of them can be safely shot at. you, on the other hand, are going to have some hesitation. and you'll be scared shitless because it's never happened to you before, but for them it's another day at their job
the last statistics i saw is that your odds of "winning" against a bad guy are 1 in 10 (shoot them before they shoot you) but also keep in mind 400 "accidents" happen for every bad guy taken out
those are shitty, shitty odds
so will you be selfish, wave the gun around next time you hear a noise, blast away and accidentally shoot Aunt Betty who popped over for a visit? or be a nice guy, not shoot at anyone, and lose some of your stuff without anyone getting killed in the case of an actual robbery
i know the answer, you'll be blasting away at anything that moves and then say sorry afterwards. hey Uncle Monty, Aunt Betty had a long life, you'll get over her unfortunate death in no time...
seriously dude, it's just stuff, let the bad guys have it, it's not worth anyone dying over
Large numbers of layoffs What the fuck are you talking about? April 2007 unemployment: 4.73M, March 2008 unemployment: 4.49M, April 2008 unemployment: 4.68M
What large numbers of layoffs?
yep, you're angry all right...
i believe your reply would be more meaningful if it quoted tech-specific unemployment versus general numbers. and if you mentioned which country. perhaps lots of IT people in the US have been losing their jobs? your numbers wouldn't disprove that
of course it would have been nice if the OP would have cited their own numbers - if they do know of a trend towards US IT unemployment, which they're implying, some factual evidence would be noteworthy for the average/. reader
Oracle's procedural language (PL/SQL) is quite similar to ADA, PostreSQL's procedural language is quite similar to Oracle's
so there's some ADA-influenced code out there running in non-military projects
my managers keep trying to put me on the Java bandwagon -- i nod and smile, humor them, laugh at their jokes, slap them on the back, then when they're not looking i jump off and go back to my horrible, obsolete, verbose, backwards, sickly efficient ADA-like PL/SQL. joy
You seriously believe that government intervention was key to the birth and growth of the Web? Honestly, I understand what you're trying to articulate, but it makes as much sense as breaking up AT&T.
The theory is good, if you're a socialist or one of those people who thinks we really need Big Brother to watch over everything.
I think if you looked at the big picture you might find that with less government intervention things would roll a lot smoother.
ask the people who've been harmed or lost loved ones due to funky products coming into the US - should government go away? do we want private industry to sort out all problems? i imagine we all want government to do more to ensure product safety - i know i don't want my safety and health determined by corporate drones looking for the lowest price on goods/sevices and looking the other way on how those goods/services are obtained and delivered
besides safety, are there other areas where public policy might benefit average people? such as do we want the government to allow ISPs to handle traffic however they like? or do we want a policy of neutrality that all ISPs must follow, whether those ISPs feel like it or not?
US federal government blows - granted. do we want better government or to just eliminate government? if you want no government, you could give Somalia a try. maybe you'd make a great Warlord, maybe you'd get shot the first day
wanting a functioning government doesn't make me a socialist, it makes me an overly demanding citizen of a semi-civilized, semi-society. i sure as fuck don't want it less civilized
stop letting Sean and Rush do your thinking for you - government has a role to play, and we the people of the US of A have a role to play - we should be far more demanding when our government fucks up, for example
If developer loyalty is any measure of the present and future success of a (product in a category), then Brand X should be considered a standout among other (products in a category).
...because the evidence that Drupal is developer-loyalty-producing is what?
But most developers would prefer learning XXX from a book...
Really? I'm a developer and I haven't touched a tech book since I graduated college 10 years ago. Welcome to web, folks - books like this are obsolete.
and since i enjoy learning from books and dislike trying to put together a coherent picture from snippets googled from here and there, that would make me, umm, obsolete?
thank god for that - gimme my retirement and free gubment cheese
'By watching an 'unprecedented view' of a black hole in the process of expelling mass, they were able to confirm their theory, predicting where and when bursts of energy would be detected."
Note to all ID supporters, this is how real science works. Propose a theory which can be tested, then go about trying to disprove the theory.
Now go ahead, flame me. My karma can take it.
yeah i'm sure/. is just overflowing with ID supporters
but a black hole is a relatively simple physical phenomenon, pretty simple compared to species and the bioshpere
i think there's still a lot of mystery regarding the origin of species. such as how RNA may be passing as much or more data than DNA
not so easy to test evolution, like set up a bioshpere and let it run for a billion years...
...serious flaws in OpenSolaris. There is a severe lack of developers, for one. Apparently, after 3 years, the OpenSolaris 'developer community' is still struggling to get the proper tools for developers to develop!
No developers or any tools?
At least we won't have to blame another Solaris bomb on George Clooney this time.
okay, you were going for the joke. but to quote Mr. Lem's Website:
Soderbergh's movie belongs to the category of ambitious, artistic cinema - difficult to crack for the mass audience used to Hollywood pap.
Hooray! Apple lowered the price on SOMETHING. Oh, it was the lame shuffle with no screen or any features to it? Who cares?
i care. everyone who is going to buy one at the lower price point cares. it's dead cheap, dead simple, and does exactly what i want it to do (play music/podcasts while i attempt jogging)
better perhaps to say that you don't care, and i'm betting that's not going to rock the foundations of the Apple corporation
MS needs to fire the marketingdroid they have working out the names of things.
From the people who brought you "squirt" as a verb, now you have "mesh"....
i guess it's just me but i was thinking marketing missed the way too obvious pun 'Live Mess' that this "product" _should_ get tagged with
and for this situation i prefer the urban definition of "mess" -- and that would be "shit"
and for any MS fan who'd like to berate me, no i really don't need to try the product first to be critical, MicroMess is guilty till proven innocent
Given physical access to a device, it is very likely that any access control device can be bypassed.
Yes, but these are Montanians we're talking about here. hey, i know people in Montana. goddamn bright and self-reliant is what they are. hacking a nuke can't be easy but given a little time...
so you must live somewhere more urbanized -- this makes you smarter how?
Am I paranoid to think that these hardware companies who are stingy with their drivers are mostly on Microsoft's tit, being subsidized to keep drivers out of the hands of free software developers?
Ballmer's boobs...
Ballmer's boobs...
jiggling as he does a dance, a raving monkey dance. sweaty and jiggly, hairy and flabby...
need.mind.enema
need.thehun.now.net
glassed babe from Boris, pose for me? smile for me?
oh god, i still see his boobs
socialist politicians pushing variations of plans that have already been tried and failed in other places
oh hell, where to start? socialist? are you kidding? have you seen Hillary's plan? her biggest donors, health insurance companies, are enshrined in the plan, to be forever sucking value out of the system while returning nothing
tried and failed? in what sense? in the sense that other countries with socialized medicine (let's use that bullshit term) have citizens with longer life spans? lower infant mortality? lower incidence of heart attack? what failure again?
here's a clue - asking your government to provide something in return for taxes collected doesn't make you a socialist, it makes you a reasonable, non-retarded citizen. why do a hate Bush? not because he's a meanie, it's because he's sending my money out to some shithole desert fuckfest, piling that money up to the sky then lighting it on fire. our money, our kids' money, our grandkids' money, up in smoke. gone. wasted. not coming back. and my benefit? wow, look at that mind-numbing stupidity! this is the stupidest fucking waste anyone has ever manaaged anywhere! that's gotta be worth a few trillion! meanwhile, al Queda is A-OK and the world hates and fears us. super. if this was a movie, i'd be chucking rotten tomatoes[tm]
so, would you go down to the Toyota dealership, slap some money on the desk then walk away without a car? because that's what we have now. we pay our money to Washington DC and they send back nothing. so am i a socialist? what should a government do? protect the little guy? provide a safety net? ensure the safety of citizens? clean up after a disaster? what should it do, if anything? and what does ours do? sits back and laughs while Joe Sixpack drifts into despair - hey, as long as no billionaire is left behind, we're all good, right? your government takes _your_ money and gives it to every billionaire and corporation that can afford a lobbyist. and what do you get? nothing! and you are OKAY with that???
well fuck Washington and fuck you! this movie sucks!!! i want my fucking money back!
Doing drugs doesn't hurt anyone but the user, if even that.
not so fast there, pardner - doesn't it depend on the drug? seen people do violent things while drunk that they'd never do sober. crank makes people, uh, cranky. the victims of violent drug users would say they've been harmed. some drugs just take over - the user isn't even particularly human after a while. that kind of life destruction has a ripple effect, to argue otherwise is just blindness (drug induced, perhaps?)
now if you want to lobotomize yourself with big fat dooby, that's cool. i'll even light you up. but if you're a tweeker i'd prefer you moved into a different neighborhood, preferably one with a kind of San Quentin motif
I am obvioulsy deeply loyal to an independent Yahoo!
i started moving away from Yahoo when they started taking payments for guaranteed delivery of spam, err, "customer outreach emails." i was a little disheartened just last night by Yahoo! spam in my box - at the time i could hear a little voice saying "time to move on monkey-boy" and that voice is louder today (and more snarky)
as you pointed out, it is an exercize of conscience. when dealing with any business, at what point does one complain to the management? ask for a refund? vote with one's feet? if the deal goes through i'll close down my Yahoo accounts ASAP. i've experimented with offerings from Google, another online service that helps me "Get Things Done" (like 'em enough to pay 'em) and then again heaven knows how many alternatives we all have both online and elsewhere
i don't want to do business with Microsoft. i would feel the same if WalMart bought Yahoo. i believe i'm protecting my karma (Cosmic, not./) somewhat by distancing myself. millions of people will continue with MSYahoo and that's cool too - it's not a lot of bad karma, just a smudge. maybe a bit of a stain. not quite a puddle of black evil:^)
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... I am absolutely intent upon upgrading to a Rancilio Silvia...i agree with your sentiment but may a suggest a Gaggia machine? you can get a semi-automatic similar to what you linked to, but for half the money. and made in Italy - the angels, they-a sing when you-a open the box
bellisima!
have pulled hundreds of shots without issue
i'd prefer a little less automation, this thing's a work of art - saving my nickels, maybe someday...
demand for sweet crude is outstripping supply. hence the increase in the price of the fuels based on it (you may have noticed it yourself or heard other people talking about it)
sure there may be trillions of barrels locked up in tar sands and oil shale. that's like saying there are plenty of programmers in the USA. true enough, but there is actually a lack of the newly graduated kids who work for peanuts -- they're the sweet crude of the development community
so don't expect prices to drop suddenly. and don't expect the H1B argument to ever end...
yep, that's right. and you could have stopped right there. and, funny enough, it's people that take this mythology too seriously who need a sense of humor
and tangentially calling someone stupid makes you seem, oh, i don't know, unchristian
that windows logo represents a lot of bad vibes. i don't think it's petty to dislike microsoft and want literally nothing to do with them - i think it shows good taste
i wish i could get one with a hammer and sickle -- press it once and keyboard types YOU
i think the whole point was the theater aspect of it. you have a gun, so you're safe? hell no
whoever's coming in knows whoever's in front of them can be safely shot at. you, on the other hand, are going to have some hesitation. and you'll be scared shitless because it's never happened to you before, but for them it's another day at their job
the last statistics i saw is that your odds of "winning" against a bad guy are 1 in 10 (shoot them before they shoot you) but also keep in mind 400 "accidents" happen for every bad guy taken out
those are shitty, shitty odds
so will you be selfish, wave the gun around next time you hear a noise, blast away and accidentally shoot Aunt Betty who popped over for a visit? or be a nice guy, not shoot at anyone, and lose some of your stuff without anyone getting killed in the case of an actual robbery
i know the answer, you'll be blasting away at anything that moves and then say sorry afterwards. hey Uncle Monty, Aunt Betty had a long life, you'll get over her unfortunate death in no time...
seriously dude, it's just stuff, let the bad guys have it, it's not worth anyone dying over
yep, you're angry all right...
i believe your reply would be more meaningful if it quoted tech-specific unemployment versus general numbers. and if you mentioned which country. perhaps lots of IT people in the US have been losing their jobs? your numbers wouldn't disprove that
of course it would have been nice if the OP would have cited their own numbers - if they do know of a trend towards US IT unemployment, which they're implying, some factual evidence would be noteworthy for the average /. reader
so there's some ADA-influenced code out there running in non-military projects
my managers keep trying to put me on the Java bandwagon -- i nod and smile, humor them, laugh at their jokes, slap them on the back, then when they're not looking i jump off and go back to my horrible, obsolete, verbose, backwards, sickly efficient ADA-like PL/SQL. joy
when i want an actual user's opinion, i'll beat it out of him
come on, every developer's thunk it at least once...
ask the people who've been harmed or lost loved ones due to funky products coming into the US - should government go away? do we want private industry to sort out all problems? i imagine we all want government to do more to ensure product safety - i know i don't want my safety and health determined by corporate drones looking for the lowest price on goods/sevices and looking the other way on how those goods/services are obtained and delivered
besides safety, are there other areas where public policy might benefit average people? such as do we want the government to allow ISPs to handle traffic however they like? or do we want a policy of neutrality that all ISPs must follow, whether those ISPs feel like it or not?
US federal government blows - granted. do we want better government or to just eliminate government? if you want no government, you could give Somalia a try. maybe you'd make a great Warlord, maybe you'd get shot the first day
wanting a functioning government doesn't make me a socialist, it makes me an overly demanding citizen of a semi-civilized, semi-society. i sure as fuck don't want it less civilized
stop letting Sean and Rush do your thinking for you - government has a role to play, and we the people of the US of A have a role to play - we should be far more demanding when our government fucks up, for example
and since i enjoy learning from books and dislike trying to put together a coherent picture from snippets googled from here and there, that would make me, umm, obsolete?
thank god for that - gimme my retirement and free gubment cheese
Note to all ID supporters, this is how real science works. Propose a theory which can be tested, then go about trying to disprove the theory.
Now go ahead, flame me. My karma can take it.
yeah i'm sure /. is just overflowing with ID supporters
but a black hole is a relatively simple physical phenomenon, pretty simple compared to species and the bioshpere
i think there's still a lot of mystery regarding the origin of species. such as how RNA may be passing as much or more data than DNA
not so easy to test evolution, like set up a bioshpere and let it run for a billion years...
okay, you were going for the joke. but to quote Mr. Lem's Website:
Soderbergh's movie belongs to the category of ambitious, artistic cinema - difficult to crack for the mass audience used to Hollywood pap.i care. everyone who is going to buy one at the lower price point cares. it's dead cheap, dead simple, and does exactly what i want it to do (play music/podcasts while i attempt jogging)
better perhaps to say that you don't care, and i'm betting that's not going to rock the foundations of the Apple corporation
other horses, other courses, mate
i guess it's just me but i was thinking marketing missed the way too obvious pun 'Live Mess' that this "product" _should_ get tagged with
and for this situation i prefer the urban definition of "mess" -- and that would be "shit"
and for any MS fan who'd like to berate me, no i really don't need to try the product first to be critical, MicroMess is guilty till proven innocent
oh, then you can't be free to do whatever the hell you want, whenever you want, to whomever you want, regardless of the cost to everyone?
boo frickin' hoo
Given physical access to a device, it is very likely that any access control device can be bypassed.
Yes, but these are Montanians we're talking about here. hey, i know people in Montana. goddamn bright and self-reliant is what they are. hacking a nuke can't be easy but given a little time...so you must live somewhere more urbanized -- this makes you smarter how?
Ballmer's boobs...
Ballmer's boobs...
jiggling as he does a dance, a raving monkey dance. sweaty and jiggly, hairy and flabby...
need.mind.enema
need.thehun.now.net
glassed babe from Boris, pose for me? smile for me? oh god, i still see his boobs
James Earl Jones could read his shopping list with more presence
just saying...
a plague of locusts upon him! may his crops wither and die! may his manhood shrink to an unusable nub the other trolls laugh at in gym class!
[ apologies to God, the Old Testament, SanityInAnarchy, and Two and a Half Men ]
oh hell, where to start? socialist? are you kidding? have you seen Hillary's plan? her biggest donors, health insurance companies, are enshrined in the plan, to be forever sucking value out of the system while returning nothing
tried and failed? in what sense? in the sense that other countries with socialized medicine (let's use that bullshit term) have citizens with longer life spans? lower infant mortality? lower incidence of heart attack? what failure again?
here's a clue - asking your government to provide something in return for taxes collected doesn't make you a socialist, it makes you a reasonable, non-retarded citizen. why do a hate Bush? not because he's a meanie, it's because he's sending my money out to some shithole desert fuckfest, piling that money up to the sky then lighting it on fire. our money, our kids' money, our grandkids' money, up in smoke. gone. wasted. not coming back. and my benefit? wow, look at that mind-numbing stupidity! this is the stupidest fucking waste anyone has ever manaaged anywhere! that's gotta be worth a few trillion! meanwhile, al Queda is A-OK and the world hates and fears us. super. if this was a movie, i'd be chucking rotten tomatoes[tm]
so, would you go down to the Toyota dealership, slap some money on the desk then walk away without a car? because that's what we have now. we pay our money to Washington DC and they send back nothing. so am i a socialist? what should a government do? protect the little guy? provide a safety net? ensure the safety of citizens? clean up after a disaster? what should it do, if anything? and what does ours do? sits back and laughs while Joe Sixpack drifts into despair - hey, as long as no billionaire is left behind, we're all good, right? your government takes _your_ money and gives it to every billionaire and corporation that can afford a lobbyist. and what do you get? nothing! and you are OKAY with that???
well fuck Washington and fuck you! this movie sucks!!! i want my fucking money back!
not so fast there, pardner - doesn't it depend on the drug? seen people do violent things while drunk that they'd never do sober. crank makes people, uh, cranky. the victims of violent drug users would say they've been harmed. some drugs just take over - the user isn't even particularly human after a while. that kind of life destruction has a ripple effect, to argue otherwise is just blindness (drug induced, perhaps?)
now if you want to lobotomize yourself with big fat dooby, that's cool. i'll even light you up. but if you're a tweeker i'd prefer you moved into a different neighborhood, preferably one with a kind of San Quentin motif
just wanted the author to know. humour is rather subjective, don't sweat the mod down clown
i started moving away from Yahoo when they started taking payments for guaranteed delivery of spam, err, "customer outreach emails." i was a little disheartened just last night by Yahoo! spam in my box - at the time i could hear a little voice saying "time to move on monkey-boy" and that voice is louder today (and more snarky)
as you pointed out, it is an exercize of conscience. when dealing with any business, at what point does one complain to the management? ask for a refund? vote with one's feet? if the deal goes through i'll close down my Yahoo accounts ASAP. i've experimented with offerings from Google, another online service that helps me "Get Things Done" (like 'em enough to pay 'em) and then again heaven knows how many alternatives we all have both online and elsewhere
i don't want to do business with Microsoft. i would feel the same if WalMart bought Yahoo. i believe i'm protecting my karma (Cosmic, not ./) somewhat by distancing myself. millions of people will continue with MSYahoo and that's cool too - it's not a lot of bad karma, just a smudge. maybe a bit of a stain. not quite a puddle of black evil :^)
good luck with your crisis
and, as has been mentioned in several other posts, you seem to have gotten your "facts" spectacularly wrong
the funny part? you got modded up! awesome work! i predict your career trajectory in management will be nearly vertical. rock on!