And I think the author whom you stole it from was not the original author. Not the original author of the concept anyway. Scott Adams (the Dilbert creator) wrote a "thought experiment" which espouses this very concept, and he wrote it a number of years ago.
After they killed the best character in the series, Wash, in the movie, I suddenly stopped caring about firefly altogether. I even gave away my DVDs of the original series because I was so disgusted.
Well said, and I'm conflicted, because this almost seems worthwhile.
Whoever modded you as a troll probably doesn't quite know who or what the ACLU is.
Ah yes, this argument. A state of emergency does not take the authority away from the local government, it just gives them easier access to funds.
I can't even imagine the backlash we'd be seeing if Bush had jumped in on day one, taking over an operation the feds had no business in. It boggles the mind.
Don't think you imagined it, but it appears that you didn't read it too closely.
The official statement is littered with phrases like "protect the lives of all civilians" and such. What the statement conveniently sidesteps is the fact that under strict Islamic law, almost anyone living in America (or most western nations) are not civilians. They (or we) are considered "infidels".
I've found that it's not wise to take everything at face value, especially from religious figures whose belief states that we should killed.
Interesting idea, but everything I see is pointing to IBM getting out of the server market. They've got a real cash cow in their business consulting, and they don't seem to be pushing their hardware all that hard anymore. Just my $0.02
I've made the rounds with distributions, and I'd honestly have to say slackware is still the way to go.
I was going to do some hosting for a friend, so I figured it was a good excuse to do some benchmarking between my then two favorite ditros: slack and gentoo. I did a base slack install, compiled mysql, php, and apache from source, then ran apache's benchmarking tool. Next, I did a stage 1 gentoo installation, complete with compiler optimizations, and installed the exact same version of the three aforemention packages.
Results? Slackware, hands down. Slackware was approximately 10% more effecient taking things into consideration such as load, memory usage, and processor usage. (yes, both tests happened on the same server and sorry, I don't have exact numbers handy)
I just thought this information might be useful to anyone considering spending a week of their life watching 'make' do its thing.
Does anyone really care? Honestly?
Most people here will never use Windows again if they can avoid it, so what's the point of always trash talking it? As someone who wants Microsoft to actually raise the bar a little and see them succeed again, I'dve liked these to be "cooler", but I don't see the point in yet another MS bashing post, aren't there enough of these already on/.?
Like I said, just my $0.02
I'm sitting on a brand new beautiful ipod, and all thanks to gratis. Me and five friends even made some money on it.
As of a month ago, they had an offer for circuit city's rewards program or something like that. I honestly don't know what it was for sure, but they gave everyone who signed up for a $1 trial offer a $20 gift card. So here's how it worked:
1. Sign up for freeipods.com, make sure to UNCHECK all checkboxes regarding additional email. 2. Spend literally two minutes clicking no to all of their questions 3. Click on the link for circuit city, fill in legitmate information. 4. Tell a bunch of friends about it, and ONLY EXPLAIN TO THE ONES WHO ARE INTERESTED how they can get $19 at circuit city. (Note: I'm not ruining friendships this way) 5. Cancel the circuit city offer after the gift card comes. 6. Wait a month 7. I'm listening to music on my ipod, shall we say, "profit"
I made money, (at circuit city), so did my friends, and now I have a free ipod. I NEVER spammed my referral link, it was only word of mouth. Things like this can be a problem, but only for those of us without scruples.
FWIW, I've got very little spam, and I really didn't give away much personal info.
I think most of the reason people pay for tunes is because of locked phones.
Most people that will pay for ring tunes (in my experience) seem to go for the cheap phones that their providers give them. 99% of the time, these phones are fairly locked down, and its impossible to get a MIDI on them.
Coffee roasting at home using one of these popcorn poppers is a great idea, and anyone serious about having access to good coffee should look into it.
Personally, I got completely sick of the taste of Starbucks, so I started looking online for some better beans. Coming accross some newsgroups, I found that many people would buy unroasted beans online, then simply roast them at home with a crude device, such as a popcorn popper. People were reporting tremendous results, and I just had to give it a shot
Truth be told, the worst tasting coffee that I have ever roasted by myself tasted leaps and bounds better than what I could get at my local startbucks. Not to mention that its the absolute cheapest way to get coffee.
I know this is going to sound like flaimbait, but I beg of you, hear me out on this one.
In windows, its a known fact that very few people know how to use the automatic updates. Thankfully, when SP2 came around it became much easier. Now, whenever security holes are found, they eventually find their way onto a windows user's machine and thus patching IE.
Now, lets take it for granted that there WILL be, at some point in the future, an exploit for firefox. Maybe not a huge one, but we all know that no program is perfect. How many people, when this bug comes out, will know to update firefox? I would venture to say that the same people who had troubles with windows's automatic updates are going to have a much more difficult time getting firefox to update.
For the record, I use firefox exclusively, but I'm a bit cautious about switching my clients over for this very reason.
Just my $0.02
This is a SONY computer, and sony is renound for putting so much crap on their computers, they don't work out-of-the box. This is hardly an unbiased review. ANY operating system preloaded with crap like this would come to a halt when actually used.
I don't buy music because it all sounds packaged and the same to me. I'll buy a CD when something good ocmes out. I'm sick of the labels blaming the internet for their crappy products not doing well.
All Canadians are praying and crossing their fingers, hoping that Kerry wins the election. We all know that if Bush loses, we're going to have a massive influx of the smartest and brightest Americans up here.
So, while Kerry's plans will utterly decimate the US's economy, us Canadian's will certainly benefit.
The way I see it, spam in email causes such a problem because SMTP is an antequated technology that has very little security. (I know SPA, yada yada yada...)
However, SPIM *shouldn't* be a problem. Seems like AOL could implement a whilelisting system. Since they're a propriety network, there should be a solution they could implement. Be it more strict checking on account creation or something like that. And since the network is proprietary, they wouldn't have to get buy-in from any other company for the solution they implement.
I do think that they should keep pushing the lawsuit, but seems like they could do more on the technology end too.
Just my $0.02
IANAL, but I'm curious what right this guy has to think he can just turn any TV off that he finds annoying. If he's in a public place and a TV is being a nuissance, find somewhere else to sit.
However, if the idea behind this is just to be annoying, then I'm all for it.
I find it ironic that half of the stuff that Dell ships on their prebuilt computers makes computers run ust as slow as a lot of spyware. I know that when clients of mine buy a new Dell computer, they're disappointed at how slow it runs. Reformatting the HD always makes the computer run 10 times+ faster.
I find it hilarious that if a know-nothing computer user buys a network card, plugs it in to their computer, accidentally connects to the "default" network, they are actually guilty of tresspassing...
Does anyone have any reccomendations on a good online reference to learn PHP aimed at proficient programmers? I have a lot of experience in general coding (C, C++, Java, etc) as well as server side programming, in most languages except PHP. (ASP, coldfusion, lasso)
I'm curious if there is somewhere online that can get me up and running in a shorter timeframe, a resource that doesn't have to explain to me what a for loop is and why I should use it.
Thanks
Slashdot Mirror
And I think the author whom you stole it from was not the original author. Not the original author of the concept anyway. Scott Adams (the Dilbert creator) wrote a "thought experiment" which espouses this very concept, and he wrote it a number of years ago.
If anyone's interested, he gives it away as a free eBook.
And of course, Google's cached version
After they killed the best character in the series, Wash, in the movie, I suddenly stopped caring about firefly altogether. I even gave away my DVDs of the original series because I was so disgusted.
Just my $0.02.
Well said, and I'm conflicted, because this almost seems worthwhile.
Whoever modded you as a troll probably doesn't quite know who or what the ACLU is.
Or, I can use Yahoo!'s competitors to get away from all of the cruft.
Last time I checked, there weren't any sweeping SWFs Google's homepage.
Ah yes, this argument. A state of emergency does not take the authority away from the local government, it just gives them easier access to funds.
I can't even imagine the backlash we'd be seeing if Bush had jumped in on day one, taking over an operation the feds had no business in. It boggles the mind.
Don't think you imagined it, but it appears that you didn't read it too closely.
The official statement is littered with phrases like "protect the lives of all civilians" and such. What the statement conveniently sidesteps is the fact that under strict Islamic law, almost anyone living in America (or most western nations) are not civilians. They (or we) are considered "infidels".
I've found that it's not wise to take everything at face value, especially from religious figures whose belief states that we should killed.
Interesting idea, but everything I see is pointing to IBM getting out of the server market. They've got a real cash cow in their business consulting, and they don't seem to be pushing their hardware all that hard anymore. Just my $0.02
I've made the rounds with distributions, and I'd honestly have to say slackware is still the way to go.
I was going to do some hosting for a friend, so I figured it was a good excuse to do some benchmarking between my then two favorite ditros: slack and gentoo. I did a base slack install, compiled mysql, php, and apache from source, then ran apache's benchmarking tool. Next, I did a stage 1 gentoo installation, complete with compiler optimizations, and installed the exact same version of the three aforemention packages.
Results? Slackware, hands down. Slackware was approximately 10% more effecient taking things into consideration such as load, memory usage, and processor usage. (yes, both tests happened on the same server and sorry, I don't have exact numbers handy)
I just thought this information might be useful to anyone considering spending a week of their life watching 'make' do its thing.
Does anyone really care? Honestly? /.?
Most people here will never use Windows again if they can avoid it, so what's the point of always trash talking it? As someone who wants Microsoft to actually raise the bar a little and see them succeed again, I'dve liked these to be "cooler", but I don't see the point in yet another MS bashing post, aren't there enough of these already on
Like I said, just my $0.02
I'm sitting on a brand new beautiful ipod, and all thanks to gratis. Me and five friends even made some money on it.
As of a month ago, they had an offer for circuit city's rewards program or something like that. I honestly don't know what it was for sure, but they gave everyone who signed up for a $1 trial offer a $20 gift card. So here's how it worked:
1. Sign up for freeipods.com, make sure to UNCHECK all checkboxes regarding additional email.
2. Spend literally two minutes clicking no to all of their questions
3. Click on the link for circuit city, fill in legitmate information.
4. Tell a bunch of friends about it, and ONLY EXPLAIN TO THE ONES WHO ARE INTERESTED how they can get $19 at circuit city. (Note: I'm not ruining friendships this way)
5. Cancel the circuit city offer after the gift card comes.
6. Wait a month
7. I'm listening to music on my ipod, shall we say, "profit"
I made money, (at circuit city), so did my friends, and now I have a free ipod. I NEVER spammed my referral link, it was only word of mouth. Things like this can be a problem, but only for those of us without scruples.
FWIW, I've got very little spam, and I really didn't give away much personal info.
YMMV.
I think most of the reason people pay for tunes is because of locked phones. Most people that will pay for ring tunes (in my experience) seem to go for the cheap phones that their providers give them. 99% of the time, these phones are fairly locked down, and its impossible to get a MIDI on them.
Coffee roasting at home using one of these popcorn poppers is a great idea, and anyone serious about having access to good coffee should look into it.
Personally, I got completely sick of the taste of Starbucks, so I started looking online for some better beans. Coming accross some newsgroups, I found that many people would buy unroasted beans online, then simply roast them at home with a crude device, such as a popcorn popper. People were reporting tremendous results, and I just had to give it a shot
Truth be told, the worst tasting coffee that I have ever roasted by myself tasted leaps and bounds better than what I could get at my local startbucks. Not to mention that its the absolute cheapest way to get coffee.
Looks like the server is a bit slashdotted, lets hope he's not hosting this site from the cat feeder, or his cats could go a little hungry
I know this is going to sound like flaimbait, but I beg of you, hear me out on this one. In windows, its a known fact that very few people know how to use the automatic updates. Thankfully, when SP2 came around it became much easier. Now, whenever security holes are found, they eventually find their way onto a windows user's machine and thus patching IE. Now, lets take it for granted that there WILL be, at some point in the future, an exploit for firefox. Maybe not a huge one, but we all know that no program is perfect. How many people, when this bug comes out, will know to update firefox? I would venture to say that the same people who had troubles with windows's automatic updates are going to have a much more difficult time getting firefox to update. For the record, I use firefox exclusively, but I'm a bit cautious about switching my clients over for this very reason. Just my $0.02
This is a SONY computer, and sony is renound for putting so much crap on their computers, they don't work out-of-the box. This is hardly an unbiased review. ANY operating system preloaded with crap like this would come to a halt when actually used.
I don't buy music because it all sounds packaged and the same to me. I'll buy a CD when something good ocmes out. I'm sick of the labels blaming the internet for their crappy products not doing well.
All Canadians are praying and crossing their fingers, hoping that Kerry wins the election. We all know that if Bush loses, we're going to have a massive influx of the smartest and brightest Americans up here. So, while Kerry's plans will utterly decimate the US's economy, us Canadian's will certainly benefit.
The way I see it, spam in email causes such a problem because SMTP is an antequated technology that has very little security. (I know SPA, yada yada yada...) However, SPIM *shouldn't* be a problem. Seems like AOL could implement a whilelisting system. Since they're a propriety network, there should be a solution they could implement. Be it more strict checking on account creation or something like that. And since the network is proprietary, they wouldn't have to get buy-in from any other company for the solution they implement. I do think that they should keep pushing the lawsuit, but seems like they could do more on the technology end too. Just my $0.02
/me makes some random obligatory comment about a beowulf cluster...
IANAL, but I'm curious what right this guy has to think he can just turn any TV off that he finds annoying. If he's in a public place and a TV is being a nuissance, find somewhere else to sit. However, if the idea behind this is just to be annoying, then I'm all for it.
I find it ironic that half of the stuff that Dell ships on their prebuilt computers makes computers run ust as slow as a lot of spyware. I know that when clients of mine buy a new Dell computer, they're disappointed at how slow it runs. Reformatting the HD always makes the computer run 10 times+ faster.
Google labs http://labs.google.com/ shows all kinds of interesting stuff Google is cooking up.
I find it hilarious that if a know-nothing computer user buys a network card, plugs it in to their computer, accidentally connects to the "default" network, they are actually guilty of tresspassing...
Does anyone have any reccomendations on a good online reference to learn PHP aimed at proficient programmers? I have a lot of experience in general coding (C, C++, Java, etc) as well as server side programming, in most languages except PHP. (ASP, coldfusion, lasso) I'm curious if there is somewhere online that can get me up and running in a shorter timeframe, a resource that doesn't have to explain to me what a for loop is and why I should use it. Thanks
And thatnks to firefoxie, you web developers never need to load IE again, just let firefox do the rendering... http://fishbulb.info/index.php?p=4