I've found that most of my OS X complaints with FireFox (mostly that XPFE is very buggy) have been solved by switching to Camino. It's not as feature rich, but I don't need most of it - in fact, my only complaint is that I can't make every new window open in a tab, regardless of how I cause it to happen.
They FF team knows about many of the OS X issues (as a lot of OS X people like to complain instead of making an effort to solve their problem either for themselves or everyone) and they are addressing them.
Other than the XPFE bugginess, the fact that gecko still runs my processor to the ground by processing flash and animated gifs when they're not being displayed on the screen is my only real complaint.
or BIND, or a few other things like init or tcpd. QMail may be famous, but there's a lot of people that need the power of sendmail but do not need the power of BIND or even the full DJBDNS suite - tinydns or dnscache, however are great fits. Same goes for ucspi-tcp and daemontools. I'm looking to eschew qmail personally (8.12 is finally showing that people at sendmail know how to write secure applications - and I have my fair share of issues with postfix and exim to avoid them at this time), but I will not be getting rid of these other tools.
DJB has spent quite a bit of time thinking about these problems, and while his solutions don't jive with everyone, what they do, they do well. I like how the majority of unix revolves around small tools that do a specific thing, and he has paid quite a bit of attention to that for what amounts to rather large architectures. The fact that I can significantly change how a service works with a shell script is a feature - the shell is mature and I'm proficient in it, and don't see the need to go lower for most things.
I actually find it refreshing that there are people that are still out there looking past "ooh, fancy feature" and seeing how it will effect things in the long run. I welcome that - it's also the reason that I follow OpenBSD and FreeBSD closely.
On his ability to be a professor, I find it hard to see this with DJB's temperament being a successful thing for him, even though he has been doing it for a while AFAIK. Then again, my experience in college seems to indicate that my idea of a good professor and their idea are two different things entirely.
An intelligent instructor is not necessarily a good one, but an easy one is of no less criticism. As much as I doubt he would accept such a proposition, I think he would be much more successful hiring people that meet his standards instead of trying to mold them to it. Regarding his failure of an entire class, there should be more presented before anyone here can make a reasonable assessment - notably how the exams met the course description, how people scored on those exams, and whether or not the determination of the passing grade reflects the scores on those exams.
I'm not a dean of students either, but that makes sense to me as a legitimate course of investigation.
Eh, sorry, you tripped over something that's been bugging me all week - this was not the first time I've given this soapbox presentation.:)
I was wondering if you were serious - anyways, yes, I take what some might say are far beyond reasonable attempts to keep you and other non-smokers from sharing anything - after all, I'm paying $5 a pack for it.:P
What I've always found is that either non-smokers use the "it kills!" argument when they fire up their SUV, or the "it smells" argument when they're covered in the latest CK fragrance - something that significantly bothers my nose.. I'm rather sensitive to the chemicals in various perfumes, to the point of actually feeling pain in my nostrils. I find it quite ironic, that in both of these situations, is that's pop culture reigns and the health and/or consideration of others is not even an argument, exemplified by their actions - and yes, I have a significant amount of anecdotes to justify this generalization.:)
I don't care if people don't want to smoke, and I'm trying to quit myself for the obvious health detriments and the fact that while in Greece they're $1.50 a pack, they're $5 over in the U.S. - it has nothing to do with the health concerns, I tell you. Supermom Mary loves to see the "evil smokers" pay more money but doesn't realize that "Sin Tax" has a lot more effect on inflation than one might think. Next time you see a deal on cigarettes at a gas station, realize that the gas has been jacked up to pay for that loss - it's called a "loss leader" and is a simple concept in economics.
You are completely missing the point, but at the same time exemplifying my argument.
You aren't using reason, you're using a blind labeling in your argument - beautiful.
Hey, you do know that your car puts out more CO emissions than my cigarette most likely does, right? I mean, significantly more.
But that's natural, right? Or is it because it's outside? Listen, maybe you don't get this, but you are using something that KILLS! I don't want that shit near me, ever.
Either way, your argument is defeated. Have a nice day.:)
Yes, because smokers already go far out of thier way these days to stay out of your way and you people still have to bitch about it.
A couple of weeks ago, I was 100 feet from the restaurant entrance at a non-smoking restaurant having a cigarette - someone got near my path and I - as usual with all the snide comments non-smokers seem to think they can make from their ivory towers, stepped away.
Ironically enough, that person replied with, "I'm a smoker, I understand and it's ok". We both laughed about it.
She was/heading into my path/ and I got/out of her way/. Because if she wasn't a smoker, I'd get some snide comment regarding the smell, the health, or the wonderful "that boy is doing a bad thing johnny". Even though I am 100 fucking feet from the restaurant entrance, even though that person is heading right for me. I love it! You non-smokers are anal-retentive morons that love to criticize but don't think for yourselves very much - what's funny is the only reason most of you *don't smoke* is because this is the "new millenium", not hundreds of years prior to 1980 when smokers were the rule, not the exception. Maybe you'd understand why I am so damn angry if you tried to quit a couple of times. I really wish you guys would stop wearing cologne and perfume - now that shit stinks, and I imagine is significantly more hazardous considering the chemicals involved.
Now only if I could get you people to buy shoes instead of carpet...
They better have those sky marshals in place before this happens, and on every flight - I see a significant rise in angry, overworked business travelers trying to get some sleep while supermom missy talks to her friend about how Lindsey Lohan's outfit on TRL last week was so great, and her kids are kicking you in the back.
The deal is - I got in and got advertisements anyways... If they're going to bombard me iwth ads (as more page space was taken by ads than navigation and article combined, in what I read), why should I give them any more relevant targetted marketing information? Do I get that when I buy the paper edition?
That worked when word perfect was the big boy, a title it held up until the mid 90's, actually.
Nowadays you'll be happy if OOo is able to export to the most recent Office format.
It's going to take a "killer app" like Word was when the bridge to Windows '95 happened - OOo has to be a little more original than cloning everything MS does and renaming it - sorry.
Only the most pimple-laden geek (mostly due to a lack of experience and/or maturity) will go beyond "have you tried this or that?" these days. That pimple laden geek will either be without a job, or find himself working very hard to get out of direct end-user support if he continues this line of action.
You know, firefox may be better than IE, and those here probably know that or have a good idea.
For some people, they don't care, they want something familiar - no matter how many times they are given the rundown of why it is not a good idea, some people stick to it. That's why we have the QWERTY keyboard, after all - but I imagine most of you don't realize it or will accept that the keyboard design was meant to keep keys on a typewriter from jamming. Likewise, while IE is antiquated, people STILL LIKE IT to the point of avoiding use of anything else. Deal.
OTOH, VoIP specialists with Cisco get to use a thing called Call Manager. Now, while I haven't seen this little application myself, I have heard from people that I think are well-qualified to make this assertion that it is very IE specific - to the point where my friend's only reasoning for disregarding any other unix derivative laptop for a purchase of a new windows one was just that reason - the only reason he boots the thing is to get into call manager remotely. Argue with that - no, "terminal server" is not exactly an option for a variety of reasons.
That, and TCO is too coarse. A homogenous environment means that you are accepting drawbacks, not matter how you like it - Macs are easiest to use, Windows tends to be most flexible for end users and the various unices tend to be the most powerful - use them where appropriate, as most things can interoperate with either the right software or this strange thing called 'market pressure to accept standards' - that's why we have samba, and why windows supports kerberos and LDAP (although you might know it as active directory).
If TCO is even feasible to calculate, it should be done on a scenario-specific basis, not this glorified marketing crap to get name recognition.
I wish the idiots would stop calling themselves smart and educated.
I've seen way too many "smart and educated" parents of completely shitty little brats. If you want an example, find some annoying prick on a CS server, ask him his age, and ask him what kind of machine he has.
Given that I've been doing this for years, my guess is:
15 and has a system that cost more than my first car - 5 years ago, mind you.
Whlie your deadbeat dad example is probably meant well, people still in this modern society raise their children in their own image. And if you haven't looked around lately, there are a lot of people and a lot of different views of the world.
Of course if you want population control - take a look at what good it did in China.
Actually I haven't lifted weights for almost 10 years, but it was more of a health thing, although anyone who "power lifts" will tell you that doing that is the most unhealthy thing you can do for your body.
What I was noting was a side effect, which was a welcome one at the time. You can twist it however you want, however.
Most olympic weight lifters are heavy smokers and shoot for overweight as the momentum of their girth can actually help increase maxes.
Actually, the solution I proposed suggests leaving the current polling system in place and restricting the work to the server.
NAT's, while commonplace, unfortunately are always going to have a problem with IP-based restrictions - vote on a poll here on slashdot and you will know.
Full support of the HTTP standard allows for a lot more flexibility, such as using cookies, but as anyone who works with HTTP knows, Set-Cookie: directives are easily ignored and Cookie: headers are not sent.
So, anything that I did in this regard would amount to, "If you're not getting your feed, sign up for an account and send us cookie headers so we know to send them."
Really though, the problem is that HTTP, in general, is a horrible protocol. It's way too simple for all the things that travel over it nowadays, and it's stateless nature makes it very hard to enforce any kind of access restriction - something like SMTP, which is not much better but *is* stateful, would be a better alternative...
The HTTP/1.2 agenda is supposed to cover stateful transmission and I really, really hope they put a lot more momentum towards getting this out there. They've been futzing around with it for years now.
I never quite got why people equate "fat" women with desperate women. Besides the fact that any woman that actually fits a 'healthy' weight model medically is actually "fat" by most men's terms... I mean, shit, Victorial era England wasn't as draconian as popular society is regarding women's weight these days.
Personally, and this is just my experience, the women who are out working out every day and are constantly making lewd sexual references are the ones that paint "DESPERATE" all over their heads - what I find funny is when I was single and saw that sign, I thought "cool, free, easily attainable sex without strings attached - she'll keep asking for it no matter how I treat her". Most of these women were physically attractive, and beyond their shell of a personality, mostly vapid.
Sure, a fun fuck, but not a "keeper". And the closer you get to 30, the more often "keeper" is used in your vocabulary, if you're still single. I know too many unhappy guys in their 40's that have resorted to the desparity of hitting on "barely legal" girls that have nothing better to do than brag over SMS to their friends that they nailed a really old dude with a lot of dough and a mercedes. Trust me, these older men might be happy for that hour or so, but no man deals with poorly anticipated midlife crisis well - I've seen too many guys fuck this up.
Now, there's a lot of psych which tries to explain this but more or less it revolves around a lack of (percieved possibly) attention.
Most fat women, in my experience, are a heck of a lot stronger minded - often thinking for themselves, and while that may not sound attractive to you - get a girl that knows what she wants in the sack instead of some girl that's out to impress you and compare. I guarantee you'll be happier with the former, and older men will agree that older women, while also not looking like Victoria's Secret models, are also much more entertaining.
19 year old miniskirt hoes think the penis is a toy. 29 year old women know what that thing is for and know how it works, and know how to keep it coming back - that's all I'm saying. Married life does have it's advantages.:)
While I seriously wonder why, so many people here spout off meme's without bothering to at least construct them craftily, that it makes me think someone's contructed a robot to fill in slashdot articles with random fluff ala eliza.
Anyways, "try going outside" can be responded to with "where?" and easily refuting anything that comes up - concerts are loud, the outdoors are cold, bars are stale and have a shitty booze selection and slobbering drunk people - none of this has to be grounded in reality, but personally i'm sick of people that think their way is the only way. I swear I'm going to shoot the next person that gets mad at me when I smoke a cigarette, outside, and even step away when they walk directly in my path only to complain about the smell and "hazardous effects" of the.5 second exposure to a very unlikely high of 13mg of tar. Holy shit, the sky is falling.
You can apply this argument to just about anything these days - the election, windows, mac, linux, air speed velocity of an unladed (european) swallow, etc. People are so polarized and mired in zealotry it makes me sick - either they have religion and need more, or they don't have religion and need some. Get over it. Some of us are trying to actually think our way through life and are sick of you idiots fucking it up.
My perspective on weight lifting is simple, and elegant.
After getting in my fair share of fights over the thickness of my lenses or other silly shit, I had a lot of pent up anger.
Strangely, after lifting for a few years people stopped picking fights - I don't think it was the anger release, either... I think it was the fact that my last name was splattered all over H.S. lifting records for a school that had been around for over 50 years.
I'm a stocky guy and weightlifting is pretty natural for a guy of my stature. Strangely people stop feeling the need to push you around when they push and you don't move.
I'm not saying that's why someone should get involved in any sport - the release and the interest in getting strong for more or less mundane, not vengeful reasons was my intent, but the little unnoticed side effect until much later was nice.
When two line tackles for your varsity team have trouble resetting a squat max you're doing - they don't just stop picking on you, they start backing you up. And it's damn nice when you're in a hick town with a lot of people who have nothing better to do than pick on others.
And to be clear, it was more my build than anything, weightlifting just brought it out - I rarely went to the gym outside of my electives, and nowadays getting close to a gym normally involves passing by in a car. If I wanted to see "exercise", i'd get a gerbil and a wheel or I'd find some outdoor activity that I enjoyed. The people at 24 hour fitness make me laugh - all the mirrors, it's hilarious. I ripped out the seat of a lifting suit once, didn't know it until I went to the locker room.
In other words, if you're lifting to get cut, or impress chicks - work on your personal skills instead of your grip - focus on listening skills.. It's funny, but I guess I have a wierd perspective with so many women in my home - but most men have no fucking clue how to listen to a conversation. Often times, I'll talk for a short while and have to actually confirm the guy on the other end is still listening - no 'uh huh' or anything like that - what's even more funny, is that some men are actually surprised when I do it. Women *really* enjoy hearing that stupid 'uh huh', even if you aren't listening. Married men have known this since the dawn of time.:)
Enjoy lifting weights but it really shouldn't have any agenda tied to it - if you're not overly concerned with how you look, my experience is that more women, not less (and I'm not just talking about desperate women, folks) will find you attractive. It also helps to have sisters so you can see the other side of the equation.:)
Anyways I didn't really intend this to be what it is, but oh well - some of you guys really need to hear it.
Eh, I wouldn't say you were labeled as a geek as much as your obviously outgoing personally trumped it.
Myself, I was not very outgoing until my sophomore year or so, I started powerlifting in seventh grade and got my fair share of similar questions, even though I was also first chair in band and it was a conflict of interest - one that pushed results in a direction which football and wrestling coaches (I am not 6', I am about 5'10" or so and have a little more flexibility between those two sports:) most certainly did not like - I couldn't help cracking a grin.
Regardless, it seemed to have a similar effect, although I never have been able to get used to being bombarded with annoying technical questions. I must have some quality that says, "I will tolerate any inane question" or something.
What's kind of funny is all the, quite literally, 'wannabe" geeks and nerds that are out there these days - i'm talking about the post-college trustafarian latecomers that want to fit in with the guys that were out mowing laws at 10 years of age to pay for a new computer.
When I was a kid, these guys wouldn't have anything to do with me, now I am "interesting" - oh, the irony. Eh, I guess I have an accidental knack for this... I bought an army jacket when I was in elementary school and got repeatedly teased for it, about 2 years later Grunge hit and everyone was wearing them - go figure.
I swear to god, if people start talking about unix like it's the new religion and start wearing shirts with snippets of shell and perl on them I'm going to soil myself.
just do it at the server level - http as a protocol is not meant for access control.
eg, my RSS feed updates, I allow new requests from that IP. Until then, I send 403 responses (or something more exact) and their client can figure it out. mod_access tied to a dbm (or something more customized) should be able to facilitate this rather well.
The fact that clients like Thunderbird allow you to refresh every minute (and don't allow per-feed refresh tuning) really sickens me, as most people aren't manually bombing RSS feeds, it's the client giving them these options which makes it convenient, and they "know not what they do".
I love the fact that despite the fact that I publish an article every couple of days (or sometimes, weeks), people slam my RSS feed sometime every 15 minutes for no reason. Really folks, this isn't a hard problem to solve with the client - those who really like crap like that are going to use some super-powered client that allows them to do it, and probably have a clue of what they're doing.
Maybe it's just me, but a portable device, the hard disk is the last thing I'd be worried about.
The batteries, the screen, the case - these are all things that go much easier than a disk drive, because they're much more sensitive to damage and porting it around easily does that.
I can't tell you how many watches I've broken in my time, and they didn't have batteries...
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I've found that most of my OS X complaints with FireFox (mostly that XPFE is very buggy) have been solved by switching to Camino. It's not as feature rich, but I don't need most of it - in fact, my only complaint is that I can't make every new window open in a tab, regardless of how I cause it to happen.
They FF team knows about many of the OS X issues (as a lot of OS X people like to complain instead of making an effort to solve their problem either for themselves or everyone) and they are addressing them.
Other than the XPFE bugginess, the fact that gecko still runs my processor to the ground by processing flash and animated gifs when they're not being displayed on the screen is my only real complaint.
or BIND, or a few other things like init or tcpd. QMail may be famous, but there's a lot of people that need the power of sendmail but do not need the power of BIND or even the full DJBDNS suite - tinydns or dnscache, however are great fits. Same goes for ucspi-tcp and daemontools. I'm looking to eschew qmail personally (8.12 is finally showing that people at sendmail know how to write secure applications - and I have my fair share of issues with postfix and exim to avoid them at this time), but I will not be getting rid of these other tools.
DJB has spent quite a bit of time thinking about these problems, and while his solutions don't jive with everyone, what they do, they do well. I like how the majority of unix revolves around small tools that do a specific thing, and he has paid quite a bit of attention to that for what amounts to rather large architectures. The fact that I can significantly change how a service works with a shell script is a feature - the shell is mature and I'm proficient in it, and don't see the need to go lower for most things.
I actually find it refreshing that there are people that are still out there looking past "ooh, fancy feature" and seeing how it will effect things in the long run. I welcome that - it's also the reason that I follow OpenBSD and FreeBSD closely.
On his ability to be a professor, I find it hard to see this with DJB's temperament being a successful thing for him, even though he has been doing it for a while AFAIK. Then again, my experience in college seems to indicate that my idea of a good professor and their idea are two different things entirely.
An intelligent instructor is not necessarily a good one, but an easy one is of no less criticism. As much as I doubt he would accept such a proposition, I think he would be much more successful hiring people that meet his standards instead of trying to mold them to it. Regarding his failure of an entire class, there should be more presented before anyone here can make a reasonable assessment - notably how the exams met the course description, how people scored on those exams, and whether or not the determination of the passing grade reflects the scores on those exams.
I'm not a dean of students either, but that makes sense to me as a legitimate course of investigation.
Eh, my point is that "SuperMom" is great at everything but controlling her kids.
I imagine that point's lost on you.
Eh, sorry, you tripped over something that's been bugging me all week - this was not the first time I've given this soapbox presentation. :)
:P
:)
I was wondering if you were serious - anyways, yes, I take what some might say are far beyond reasonable attempts to keep you and other non-smokers from sharing anything - after all, I'm paying $5 a pack for it.
What I've always found is that either non-smokers use the "it kills!" argument when they fire up their SUV, or the "it smells" argument when they're covered in the latest CK fragrance - something that significantly bothers my nose.. I'm rather sensitive to the chemicals in various perfumes, to the point of actually feeling pain in my nostrils. I find it quite ironic, that in both of these situations, is that's pop culture reigns and the health and/or consideration of others is not even an argument, exemplified by their actions - and yes, I have a significant amount of anecdotes to justify this generalization.
I don't care if people don't want to smoke, and I'm trying to quit myself for the obvious health detriments and the fact that while in Greece they're $1.50 a pack, they're $5 over in the U.S. - it has nothing to do with the health concerns, I tell you. Supermom Mary loves to see the "evil smokers" pay more money but doesn't realize that "Sin Tax" has a lot more effect on inflation than one might think. Next time you see a deal on cigarettes at a gas station, realize that the gas has been jacked up to pay for that loss - it's called a "loss leader" and is a simple concept in economics.
Anyways </rant> and all that.
I don't have a problem with non-smokers. I have a problem with people who are the embodiment of this post.
Anyways, I must have missed the irony in the original post - I'm just growing tired of the elitism by non-smokers.
You are completely missing the point, but at the same time exemplifying my argument.
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You aren't using reason, you're using a blind labeling in your argument - beautiful.
Hey, you do know that your car puts out more CO emissions than my cigarette most likely does, right? I mean, significantly more.
But that's natural, right? Or is it because it's outside? Listen, maybe you don't get this, but you are using something that KILLS! I don't want that shit near me, ever.
Either way, your argument is defeated. Have a nice day.
Yes, because smokers already go far out of thier way these days to stay out of your way and you people still have to bitch about it.
/heading into my path/ and I got /out of her way/. Because if she wasn't a smoker, I'd get some snide comment regarding the smell, the health, or the wonderful "that boy is doing a bad thing johnny". Even though I am 100 fucking feet from the restaurant entrance, even though that person is heading right for me. I love it! You non-smokers are anal-retentive morons that love to criticize but don't think for yourselves very much - what's funny is the only reason most of you *don't smoke* is because this is the "new millenium", not hundreds of years prior to 1980 when smokers were the rule, not the exception. Maybe you'd understand why I am so damn angry if you tried to quit a couple of times. I really wish you guys would stop wearing cologne and perfume - now that shit stinks, and I imagine is significantly more hazardous considering the chemicals involved.
A couple of weeks ago, I was 100 feet from the restaurant entrance at a non-smoking restaurant having a cigarette - someone got near my path and I - as usual with all the snide comments non-smokers seem to think they can make from their ivory towers, stepped away.
Ironically enough, that person replied with, "I'm a smoker, I understand and it's ok". We both laughed about it.
She was
Now only if I could get you people to buy shoes instead of carpet...
They better have those sky marshals in place before this happens, and on every flight - I see a significant rise in angry, overworked business travelers trying to get some sleep while supermom missy talks to her friend about how Lindsey Lohan's outfit on TRL last week was so great, and her kids are kicking you in the back.
That's all I'm saying.
The deal is - I got in and got advertisements anyways... If they're going to bombard me iwth ads (as more page space was taken by ads than navigation and article combined, in what I read), why should I give them any more relevant targetted marketing information? Do I get that when I buy the paper edition?
Or it might just be,
"Hey, I bet I can direct a stream of urine in that direction and hit that fence from 10 feet away."
"Can you get off the rollerskates and point at something not down the hill?"
That worked when word perfect was the big boy, a title it held up until the mid 90's, actually.
Nowadays you'll be happy if OOo is able to export to the most recent Office format.
It's going to take a "killer app" like Word was when the bridge to Windows '95 happened - OOo has to be a little more original than cloning everything MS does and renaming it - sorry.
When people are triggering bugs in Word because of saving files too often - when the trigger happens because you've run out of file descriptors...
15 seconds is a long time.
THANK YOU.
I am so tired of seeing these articles.
Only the most pimple-laden geek (mostly due to a lack of experience and/or maturity) will go beyond "have you tried this or that?" these days. That pimple laden geek will either be without a job, or find himself working very hard to get out of direct end-user support if he continues this line of action.
You know, firefox may be better than IE, and those here probably know that or have a good idea.
For some people, they don't care, they want something familiar - no matter how many times they are given the rundown of why it is not a good idea, some people stick to it. That's why we have the QWERTY keyboard, after all - but I imagine most of you don't realize it or will accept that the keyboard design was meant to keep keys on a typewriter from jamming. Likewise, while IE is antiquated, people STILL LIKE IT to the point of avoiding use of anything else. Deal.
OTOH, VoIP specialists with Cisco get to use a thing called Call Manager. Now, while I haven't seen this little application myself, I have heard from people that I think are well-qualified to make this assertion that it is very IE specific - to the point where my friend's only reasoning for disregarding any other unix derivative laptop for a purchase of a new windows one was just that reason - the only reason he boots the thing is to get into call manager remotely. Argue with that - no, "terminal server" is not exactly an option for a variety of reasons.
That, and TCO is too coarse. A homogenous environment means that you are accepting drawbacks, not matter how you like it - Macs are easiest to use, Windows tends to be most flexible for end users and the various unices tend to be the most powerful - use them where appropriate, as most things can interoperate with either the right software or this strange thing called 'market pressure to accept standards' - that's why we have samba, and why windows supports kerberos and LDAP (although you might know it as active directory).
If TCO is even feasible to calculate, it should be done on a scenario-specific basis, not this glorified marketing crap to get name recognition.
And you cannot have this argument under the same premises.
Ain't being a subjectively right person great?
I wish the idiots would stop calling themselves smart and educated.
I've seen way too many "smart and educated" parents of completely shitty little brats. If you want an example, find some annoying prick on a CS server, ask him his age, and ask him what kind of machine he has.
Given that I've been doing this for years, my guess is:
15 and has a system that cost more than my first car - 5 years ago, mind you.
Whlie your deadbeat dad example is probably meant well, people still in this modern society raise their children in their own image. And if you haven't looked around lately, there are a lot of people and a lot of different views of the world.
Of course if you want population control - take a look at what good it did in China.
Actually I haven't lifted weights for almost 10 years, but it was more of a health thing, although anyone who "power lifts" will tell you that doing that is the most unhealthy thing you can do for your body.
What I was noting was a side effect, which was a welcome one at the time. You can twist it however you want, however.
Most olympic weight lifters are heavy smokers and shoot for overweight as the momentum of their girth can actually help increase maxes.
But... what about a beowulf cluster of people thinking for themselves?
It's tired.
Actually, the solution I proposed suggests leaving the current polling system in place and restricting the work to the server.
NAT's, while commonplace, unfortunately are always going to have a problem with IP-based restrictions - vote on a poll here on slashdot and you will know.
Full support of the HTTP standard allows for a lot more flexibility, such as using cookies, but as anyone who works with HTTP knows, Set-Cookie: directives are easily ignored and Cookie: headers are not sent.
So, anything that I did in this regard would amount to, "If you're not getting your feed, sign up for an account and send us cookie headers so we know to send them."
Really though, the problem is that HTTP, in general, is a horrible protocol. It's way too simple for all the things that travel over it nowadays, and it's stateless nature makes it very hard to enforce any kind of access restriction - something like SMTP, which is not much better but *is* stateful, would be a better alternative...
The HTTP/1.2 agenda is supposed to cover stateful transmission and I really, really hope they put a lot more momentum towards getting this out there. They've been futzing around with it for years now.
I never quite got why people equate "fat" women with desperate women. Besides the fact that any woman that actually fits a 'healthy' weight model medically is actually "fat" by most men's terms... I mean, shit, Victorial era England wasn't as draconian as popular society is regarding women's weight these days.
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Personally, and this is just my experience, the women who are out working out every day and are constantly making lewd sexual references are the ones that paint "DESPERATE" all over their heads - what I find funny is when I was single and saw that sign, I thought "cool, free, easily attainable sex without strings attached - she'll keep asking for it no matter how I treat her". Most of these women were physically attractive, and beyond their shell of a personality, mostly vapid.
Sure, a fun fuck, but not a "keeper". And the closer you get to 30, the more often "keeper" is used in your vocabulary, if you're still single. I know too many unhappy guys in their 40's that have resorted to the desparity of hitting on "barely legal" girls that have nothing better to do than brag over SMS to their friends that they nailed a really old dude with a lot of dough and a mercedes. Trust me, these older men might be happy for that hour or so, but no man deals with poorly anticipated midlife crisis well - I've seen too many guys fuck this up.
Now, there's a lot of psych which tries to explain this but more or less it revolves around a lack of (percieved possibly) attention.
Most fat women, in my experience, are a heck of a lot stronger minded - often thinking for themselves, and while that may not sound attractive to you - get a girl that knows what she wants in the sack instead of some girl that's out to impress you and compare. I guarantee you'll be happier with the former, and older men will agree that older women, while also not looking like Victoria's Secret models, are also much more entertaining.
19 year old miniskirt hoes think the penis is a toy. 29 year old women know what that thing is for and know how it works, and know how to keep it coming back - that's all I'm saying. Married life does have it's advantages.
While I seriously wonder why, so many people here spout off meme's without bothering to at least construct them craftily, that it makes me think someone's contructed a robot to fill in slashdot articles with random fluff ala eliza.
.5 second exposure to a very unlikely high of 13mg of tar. Holy shit, the sky is falling.
Anyways, "try going outside" can be responded to with "where?" and easily refuting anything that comes up - concerts are loud, the outdoors are cold, bars are stale and have a shitty booze selection and slobbering drunk people - none of this has to be grounded in reality, but personally i'm sick of people that think their way is the only way. I swear I'm going to shoot the next person that gets mad at me when I smoke a cigarette, outside, and even step away when they walk directly in my path only to complain about the smell and "hazardous effects" of the
You can apply this argument to just about anything these days - the election, windows, mac, linux, air speed velocity of an unladed (european) swallow, etc. People are so polarized and mired in zealotry it makes me sick - either they have religion and need more, or they don't have religion and need some. Get over it. Some of us are trying to actually think our way through life and are sick of you idiots fucking it up.
My perspective on weight lifting is simple, and elegant.
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After getting in my fair share of fights over the thickness of my lenses or other silly shit, I had a lot of pent up anger.
Strangely, after lifting for a few years people stopped picking fights - I don't think it was the anger release, either... I think it was the fact that my last name was splattered all over H.S. lifting records for a school that had been around for over 50 years.
I'm a stocky guy and weightlifting is pretty natural for a guy of my stature. Strangely people stop feeling the need to push you around when they push and you don't move.
I'm not saying that's why someone should get involved in any sport - the release and the interest in getting strong for more or less mundane, not vengeful reasons was my intent, but the little unnoticed side effect until much later was nice.
When two line tackles for your varsity team have trouble resetting a squat max you're doing - they don't just stop picking on you, they start backing you up. And it's damn nice when you're in a hick town with a lot of people who have nothing better to do than pick on others.
And to be clear, it was more my build than anything, weightlifting just brought it out - I rarely went to the gym outside of my electives, and nowadays getting close to a gym normally involves passing by in a car. If I wanted to see "exercise", i'd get a gerbil and a wheel or I'd find some outdoor activity that I enjoyed. The people at 24 hour fitness make me laugh - all the mirrors, it's hilarious. I ripped out the seat of a lifting suit once, didn't know it until I went to the locker room.
In other words, if you're lifting to get cut, or impress chicks - work on your personal skills instead of your grip - focus on listening skills.. It's funny, but I guess I have a wierd perspective with so many women in my home - but most men have no fucking clue how to listen to a conversation. Often times, I'll talk for a short while and have to actually confirm the guy on the other end is still listening - no 'uh huh' or anything like that - what's even more funny, is that some men are actually surprised when I do it. Women *really* enjoy hearing that stupid 'uh huh', even if you aren't listening. Married men have known this since the dawn of time.
Enjoy lifting weights but it really shouldn't have any agenda tied to it - if you're not overly concerned with how you look, my experience is that more women, not less (and I'm not just talking about desperate women, folks) will find you attractive. It also helps to have sisters so you can see the other side of the equation.
Anyways I didn't really intend this to be what it is, but oh well - some of you guys really need to hear it.
Eh, I wouldn't say you were labeled as a geek as much as your obviously outgoing personally trumped it.
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Myself, I was not very outgoing until my sophomore year or so, I started powerlifting in seventh grade and got my fair share of similar questions, even though I was also first chair in band and it was a conflict of interest - one that pushed results in a direction which football and wrestling coaches (I am not 6', I am about 5'10" or so and have a little more flexibility between those two sports
Regardless, it seemed to have a similar effect, although I never have been able to get used to being bombarded with annoying technical questions. I must have some quality that says, "I will tolerate any inane question" or something.
What's kind of funny is all the, quite literally, 'wannabe" geeks and nerds that are out there these days - i'm talking about the post-college trustafarian latecomers that want to fit in with the guys that were out mowing laws at 10 years of age to pay for a new computer.
When I was a kid, these guys wouldn't have anything to do with me, now I am "interesting" - oh, the irony. Eh, I guess I have an accidental knack for this... I bought an army jacket when I was in elementary school and got repeatedly teased for it, about 2 years later Grunge hit and everyone was wearing them - go figure.
I swear to god, if people start talking about unix like it's the new religion and start wearing shirts with snippets of shell and perl on them I'm going to soil myself.
Oh... wait.
just do it at the server level - http as a protocol is not meant for access control.
eg, my RSS feed updates, I allow new requests from that IP. Until then, I send 403 responses (or something more exact) and their client can figure it out. mod_access tied to a dbm (or something more customized) should be able to facilitate this rather well.
The fact that clients like Thunderbird allow you to refresh every minute (and don't allow per-feed refresh tuning) really sickens me, as most people aren't manually bombing RSS feeds, it's the client giving them these options which makes it convenient, and they "know not what they do".
I love the fact that despite the fact that I publish an article every couple of days (or sometimes, weeks), people slam my RSS feed sometime every 15 minutes for no reason. Really folks, this isn't a hard problem to solve with the client - those who really like crap like that are going to use some super-powered client that allows them to do it, and probably have a clue of what they're doing.
Maybe it's just me, but a portable device, the hard disk is the last thing I'd be worried about.
The batteries, the screen, the case - these are all things that go much easier than a disk drive, because they're much more sensitive to damage and porting it around easily does that.
I can't tell you how many watches I've broken in my time, and they didn't have batteries...
I know your comment was in humor, but have you beaten any id Software game before Quake 3?
The "ending" was about a screen full of large text telling you what happened after you unloaded a BFG on a room full of monsters.
Seriously, there's your "plot" to doom, right there - I'll be amazed if this isn't some mishmash of bad John Woo replica crap.