I know you're being sarcastic, but I think some of us around here really do look forward to a non-functioning twitter. Maybe, if it's down long enough, everyone will take a step back and realize what a complete tool they've been, telling the world how their last coffee was, where the Best Place to Buy Things is, or some other third thing equally mundane and self serving.
Initially it's ok, but then it all starts sounding a little bit desperate, and by the end it's demanding and almost threatening. Imo.
Agreed. It has the same tones that I find in religious/political propaganda. I support the FSF in their initiatives, but there are more polite ways to get the point across.
Utah Legislative Session, or "Why I drink more in January and February"
This is just one bill in a flurry of anti-federal government blathering coming from Utah's capitol hill this session. We also decided we don't want any type of federal health care unless we OK it first, we're going to be able to make our own guns without federal regulation (so long as it can be carried by only one person), and issue guns to Utah residents without any sort of firearm license, and we want to do away with the twelfth grade to save some dough.
I saw a commenter here that said they sympathize with the desire for more scientific evidence. You're giving them far too much credit. Allow me to be clear that these people don't care about scientific data. Rep. Noel has stated publicly that he doesn't trust the federal government due to the death of his cousin in war; he is convinced that any sort of initiative to regulate air quality is a control tactic on the part of the federal government. I'm giving Utah another decade before it secedes from the Union and makes polygamy legal again.
I tend to use a pen and paper, unless the meeting/lecture is a hands-on course involving software. My reasoning goes like this: I only want a note taker/diagram editor, so given the weight and the probability of failure for the device, I choose a couple of pens and some paper over a computer.
Yes, but it usually involved getting them into bed. And if you're talking about his convincing debating skills, you'll notice it's always in ear shot of some hottie he's after.
"Time Warner is inching closer to untangling one of the worst mergers in American corporate history that began with the merger of Time Warner with America Online, a deal that has resulted in the evaporation of more than $100 billion of shareholder value."
This sentence deserves some untangling of its own...
"But I don't really see what this particular dispute over trademarks has to do with Mormonism. "
The dispute itself doesn't. The dispute's debate floor, in the Mormon capitol of the world, is where the correlation is drawn.
For example, they got the LDS leadership's advice before introducing a bill to reform alcohol laws. Everything short of requiring baptism to be in the senate here:)
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No Digg, Huffington Post, Gawker... Twitter, Facebook...
Am I the only one who finds such a world very comforting? Give me LORD, a 14.4 modem, and possibly let me keep SSH, and I'd feel like I'm on top of the world. I could probably even go without slashdot for a while... but don't bet on it.
NO! Dammit! I refuse to let you retroactively coin a phrase for an era in which all of the damned rabid PHP weasels had no part!
You can have your blogosphere, twitter, all those lame-ass social networking sites that do nothing for the good of mankind; but I have to draw the line when you reach into the past and blaspheme the good old days of gopher, FTP, and just reading the web page for the content and not the blinking god damned gnome game!
It was NOT web 1.0. It was an era of purity of information and good porn the likes of which will never grace your browser again!
Now, take your PHP for weasels book and get off my lawn!
I suppose we're different, then, but we forgot wedding rings until our parents begged both of us to do it, for tradition's sake. So, we ordered them online (we didn't care for the expense of the jewelers in town) for around $150 and had them arrive just two days before we were married. We haven't worn the rings since.
Fast forward many years, and around me are young couples who get married early, fast, and who do financing at the jewelery store to be able to afford their $5,000 rings. To me, marriage shouldn't start out with the strife of a huge debt that has no purpose other than to look good, and if it does, you can plan on some nice superficial moments during your marriage.
Want to be geeky? Ditch the norm - do your own thing, cheaply, and show her you love her even if you can't afford expensive crap. Save that kind of thing for your 50 year anniversary, when you're the retired CEO of Google or some nonsense.
In addition, maybe the guy who set up the live streaming for this convention talked with the guys over the Olympic streaming.
Frankly, if I were over a live broadcast that would receive much less than half the coverage of a more popular broadcast, I would take the easy way out and imitate the more popular one.
Yeah, we just keep waiting, waiting for things to get worse. And they do. And nothing happens. So we wait longer- and things do get worse.. But it gets worse a little at a time, and we keep procastinating. We need to revolt before it's too late..
Reminded me of the mouth of Sauron, in Jackson's Return of the King, in the issue of something wasn't right. Granted, her mouth wasn't that big, but it was floaty.
Firstly, why the hell would you stick something important to you off site? We do our web development through an external agency, not only because people just aren't impressed with text editors anymore, but because it's not that mission critical to our business. Communication over e-mail is, and you would have better luck trying to remove our mail admin's comb-over than putting his servers in off-site care.
Secondly, anyone who thinks two to three hours of productivity downtime per quarter are that extreme should go visit the helpdesk in their company sometime. Microsoft Office installs that went bad, crappy hardware, a smart phone that won't cooperate, Windows Vista: these things disable my cow orker's productivity just as effectively, and in most OS or Office cases for two to three hours. I know, it's different when the whole company is on it's knees, which brings us back to my first issue with these cloud demands.
Slashdot Mirror
I know you're being sarcastic, but I think some of us around here really do look forward to a non-functioning twitter. Maybe, if it's down long enough, everyone will take a step back and realize what a complete tool they've been, telling the world how their last coffee was, where the Best Place to Buy Things is, or some other third thing equally mundane and self serving.
Here's to them royally screwing up!
Initially it's ok, but then it all starts sounding a little bit desperate, and by the end it's demanding and almost threatening. Imo.
Agreed. It has the same tones that I find in religious/political propaganda. I support the FSF in their initiatives, but there are more polite ways to get the point across.
Utah Legislative Session, or "Why I drink more in January and February"
This is just one bill in a flurry of anti-federal government blathering coming from Utah's capitol hill this session. We also decided we don't want any type of federal health care unless we OK it first, we're going to be able to make our own guns without federal regulation (so long as it can be carried by only one person), and issue guns to Utah residents without any sort of firearm license, and we want to do away with the twelfth grade to save some dough.
I saw a commenter here that said they sympathize with the desire for more scientific evidence. You're giving them far too much credit. Allow me to be clear that these people don't care about scientific data. Rep. Noel has stated publicly that he doesn't trust the federal government due to the death of his cousin in war; he is convinced that any sort of initiative to regulate air quality is a control tactic on the part of the federal government. I'm giving Utah another decade before it secedes from the Union and makes polygamy legal again.
Oh my, you've been modded "5, informative" for that. I've obviously not programmed enough Perl...
I tend to use a pen and paper, unless the meeting/lecture is a hands-on course involving software. My reasoning goes like this: I only want a note taker/diagram editor, so given the weight and the probability of failure for the device, I choose a couple of pens and some paper over a computer.
I just happen to keep such a USB key on a shelf next to my beaker of acid that will eat through anything.
"[Fawaz] likens IT's proper role to that of an engineer designing a car."
Dammit!
"A technique that is well known, such as MapReduce, is the property of the general public and is unpatentable."
Someone should really let the patent clerks in on that secret...
Seems creepy to me that anyone could imagine any sort of innuendo while discussing Steve Ballmer. That's just wrong.
Yes, but it usually involved getting them into bed. And if you're talking about his convincing debating skills, you'll notice it's always in ear shot of some hottie he's after.
Pretend to be stuck behind a glass wall to initiate an nmap scan...
Who names their daughter Isa when their last name is Dick? Honestly.
I have to say 'thanks for the light show'. That's the most unusual thing I've seen in the sky!
"Time Warner is inching closer to untangling one of the worst mergers in American corporate history that began with the merger of Time Warner with America Online, a deal that has resulted in the evaporation of more than $100 billion of shareholder value."
This sentence deserves some untangling of its own...
egrep 'name|MHz' /proc/cpuinfo; grep MemTotal /proc/meminfo
model name : Celeron (Coppermine)
cpu MHz : 631.295
MemTotal: 509424 kB
Well, I'm off a generation or so, but I'd have to agree...
"My point is that like Richard Stallman who is a rabid GPL advocate, vegans are rabid food people."
I read this as "vegans are rabid people food", which brings to imagination a much livelier discussion than the one at hand.
Ah well!
"But I don't really see what this particular dispute over trademarks has to do with Mormonism. "
The dispute itself doesn't. The dispute's debate floor, in the Mormon capitol of the world, is where the correlation is drawn.
For example, they got the LDS leadership's advice before introducing a bill to reform alcohol laws. Everything short of requiring baptism to be in the senate here :)
No Digg, Huffington Post, Gawker... Twitter, Facebook...
Am I the only one who finds such a world very comforting? Give me LORD, a 14.4 modem, and possibly let me keep SSH, and I'd feel like I'm on top of the world. I could probably even go without slashdot for a while... but don't bet on it.
Web 1.0
NO! Dammit! I refuse to let you retroactively coin a phrase for an era in which all of the damned rabid PHP weasels had no part!
You can have your blogosphere, twitter, all those lame-ass social networking sites that do nothing for the good of mankind; but I have to draw the line when you reach into the past and blaspheme the good old days of gopher, FTP, and just reading the web page for the content and not the blinking god damned gnome game!
It was NOT web 1.0. It was an era of purity of information and good porn the likes of which will never grace your browser again!
Now, take your PHP for weasels book and get off my lawn!
I suppose we're different, then, but we forgot wedding rings until our parents begged both of us to do it, for tradition's sake. So, we ordered them online (we didn't care for the expense of the jewelers in town) for around $150 and had them arrive just two days before we were married. We haven't worn the rings since.
Fast forward many years, and around me are young couples who get married early, fast, and who do financing at the jewelery store to be able to afford their $5,000 rings. To me, marriage shouldn't start out with the strife of a huge debt that has no purpose other than to look good, and if it does, you can plan on some nice superficial moments during your marriage.
Want to be geeky? Ditch the norm - do your own thing, cheaply, and show her you love her even if you can't afford expensive crap. Save that kind of thing for your 50 year anniversary, when you're the retired CEO of Google or some nonsense.
In addition, maybe the guy who set up the live streaming for this convention talked with the guys over the Olympic streaming.
Frankly, if I were over a live broadcast that would receive much less than half the coverage of a more popular broadcast, I would take the easy way out and imitate the more popular one.
Yeah, we just keep waiting, waiting for things to get worse. And they do. And nothing happens. So we wait longer- and things do get worse.. But it gets worse a little at a time, and we keep procastinating. We need to revolt before it's too late..
Believe me, I'm already revolting.
Reminded me of the mouth of Sauron, in Jackson's Return of the King, in the issue of something wasn't right. Granted, her mouth wasn't that big, but it was floaty.
Firstly, why the hell would you stick something important to you off site? We do our web development through an external agency, not only because people just aren't impressed with text editors anymore, but because it's not that mission critical to our business. Communication over e-mail is, and you would have better luck trying to remove our mail admin's comb-over than putting his servers in off-site care.
Secondly, anyone who thinks two to three hours of productivity downtime per quarter are that extreme should go visit the helpdesk in their company sometime. Microsoft Office installs that went bad, crappy hardware, a smart phone that won't cooperate, Windows Vista: these things disable my cow orker's productivity just as effectively, and in most OS or Office cases for two to three hours. I know, it's different when the whole company is on it's knees, which brings us back to my first issue with these cloud demands.
Don't worry, there won't be much of a fight from the US citizens!