Powell, who is a decent and devout Christian, probably objected heavily when both Jeanna and President Bush announced their allegiance to Satan during yesterday's ceremony.
Bah, we have plenty of good beer in the States, but it's usually beer brewed in smaller batches and is only available within a small region. Sometimes it is hit and miss with the microbreweriess, but some of them produce great beer.
We also have piss beer: Coors, Budweiser, etc... I guess they are popular because they are dirt cheap...
Dissecting a MiniMac is sort of like ripping the limbs off of your kid sister's Barbie dolls and glueing them back onto your GI Joe action figures... I can imagine the expressions on their face when they see the all the pieces laying there on the table...
Ah, I also had the pleasure at getting yelled at because my boss didn't comprehend that my personal project would work very well in the office. I was trying to automate some really manual processes with a very small shell script, but apparently that threatened their job security... I quit soon afterwards.
Boss: "JENKINS! What are you doing, Why are you goofing around on 'PERSONAL PROJECTS'! GET BACK TO WORK!"
It's a decent version control system, but it has wayyy to many quirks. After using other SCM systems, I'm really suprised at the things that CVS cannot do, and at all the workarounds to get around these quirks...
I used CVS years ago, then used Clearcase for several years, then used SCCS and RCS...
I just came back to CVS, and I'm totally confused what needs to happen now... What do you mean I can't version directories and symlinks. Is renaming a directory really that hard?
Here are 3 easy steps on how to prevent duplicate articles. This is why your employeer pays you money.
1. Use your own search feature to search for the actual hyperlink and/or a few keywords. 2. Scan the article list over the last few days.
This will prevent the vast majority of Dupes, and it won't take too much of your time.
Finally, you should CHECK EMAIL SENT TO DADDYPANTS. Why isn't this done?
Frequently, email to 'daddypants' bounces back. Other times, the email is ignored and the duplicate article is posted. I rarely see a duplicate article get pulled from the queue.
If you actually check email sent to daddypants, it might encourage well-meaning/. readers to use that feature more often.
You have an army of subscribers who are willing to help out AND PAY YOU MONEY TO DO SO.
With my non-troll account, I am actually a subscriber. I like reading the articles before they get slashdotted, sometimes I'll post the text to a/. post, and if I see a duplicate article I send an email. I want to help, and I long for what/. used to be...
but if Rick Berman were to show up on my porch selling Star Trek cookies
Well, that's ok because Rick Berman would simply go back in time to visit your grandmother in the old-west and try to get your grandma hooked on the cookies, but this time he'll summon Brent Spiner and they'll both dress up as cowboys.
So then when he comes to your porch to sell Star Trek cookies, you'll think that they are just like your grandma's cookies and will buy the whole batch!
If there's one thing I hate about Star Trek, it's the overused time-travel episodes. The first 2.5 seasons of Enterprise revolved around the Temporal Cold War-theme. Lame!
Nothing you can tell him here will be a good enough substitute for real hands-on experience.
Actually, we can point him to alot of good books and good reference websites, which is exactly what this thread is doing.
I'm in a similar boat-- relearning CVS so I can fix up our version control system. The Cederqvist is a good reference book, but it isn't a good learning manual, doesn't really talk about best practices.
With google, you still need to have a good idea what you are looking for before you look for it. If you just search for "CVS", you'll end up with alot of crud.
If we want games treated as a hobby that's as much for adults as children, then we should act more adult. Fun, but grown-up.
Well, that is largely because the majority of the male gaming population acts like 13-year-old boys--
You've know who they are: lusting after Lara Croft's boobs, gawking at the booth-babes, treating women like shit, spending most of their time inside playing video games munching on chips instead of getting exercise and meeting people. Look back at any./ conversation where we talk about women and video games, and you'll see plenty of immature posts talking about how the women should shut up, there really isn't a problem, and the incorrect assumption that the big buff, musclebound male-stereotype superhero appeals to the fantasy of the women gamers (wrong!). I keep talking about treatment of women, because that is one of my main measuresments for male maturity.
And these people probably spend the most money on video games.
But there is a substantial mature, adult gaming population out there. But chances are they are pretty busy with their lives, careers, kids, and don't spend nearly as much money on games, and don't always have time to read gaming magazines.
Who is Mark Shuttleworth, and why should I care. Who/what is Ubintu, and why should I care? What's Lugradio? Do I really need to download and listen to a big audio file to find out why I should care?
Anything that Access can do can be done better for free with MySQL
Access the database may suck, but Access the GUI client is pretty nice. Sometimes people don't care about referential integrity, they just want an easy to use tool for organizing data, but want something better then a spreadsheet.
The GUI clients for MySQL are lacking... I'm still confused what cheap/free GUI clients are available for MySQL since MySQL.com abandonded their MySQLGUI project.
When you're creating relations between tables, a graphical table editor and a GUI that lays everything out for you is pretty nice and takes away alot of the eliteness of the DB world. I can get a moderately experienced office worker setup with Access very quickly, but using MySQL requires more experience.
You'd think before they ported Evolution to Windows they would have finalized integration with their own groupware suite.
Or, heaven forbid, they can work on two projects at the same time. Imagine the possibilities!
Look, a big group like Novell (or even the Novell division formally known as Ximian) is more then capable of working on two aspects of the same project at the same time. They don't need to be 100% done with Project A before starting the planning for Project B.
The GroupWise aspect is most focusing on the client-server interactions. Porting to windows is mostly about getting "making Gtk+ and various parts of the Linux desktop stack run better on Windows".
Hrm, what about Subversion, which is the next big thing in the bug/SCM world?
(but yes, props to the Bugzilla team!)
Things have been more violent in the past...
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We as a nation have historically weathered contentious times in relatively peaceful fashion.
While I agree with your fears that this may be the end, contentious times have frequently seen periods marked by violence. There were numerous labor protests in the late 19th century and early 20th century, dozens of people were shot dead by the police during many riots, the crowd's lynched policemen and members of the moneyed class. Not that they teach this stuff in HS History class...
In the 60s and 70s, the President was assinated, we we in a war which was much bigger then the Iraqi conflict as it is today, there were massive race riots, radicals on the left were blowing up banks, radicals on right were burning down Churches, sometimes during Sunday school with children still inside.
I'm not saying everything is better today, but things aren't nearly as violent as they have been during some periods in the past.
I think the real question is, do we still need magazines?
After staring at computers all day at work, I don't want to spend more time staring at a computer screen in the bathroom or on the train commute home... a magazine is perfect for this purpose.
Others will want automotive and others will prefer architecture or explosives or metalwork or hide tanning or alternative energy.
But all that stuff is cool, and I want to do it all! I just don't have enough time...
I don't know if I would actually go about and do these projects, but I'd certainly read about how to make things which are outside my main interest. Heck, I might even expand my interests a bit and try to make some of those other things...
and 3D menus and interfaces that require atleast Shader 2.0 compliant cards
What about the high end audio cards so my computer can say "DooWeeeeeeeeeeooooooooOOOOO! BOOP!" as the cool 3-D Start Menu pops up when I hit the Start button and then another "BOOP! OOOOOooooooooeeeeeeewwwwDooo..." when I close the Start Menu?
Why do I suspect that every time I log into a Longhorn machine, it's going to take me 10 minutes to turn off the green & blue start menu, SHOW all icons on the desktop, turn off personalized menus, and all this other stupid anti-productivity shit... just to get a decent, usable desktop...
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I know that, but it's been recognized in many places as a Satanic Hand Symbol for longer then the Texas Longhorns have been around.
If you flashed that hand symbol people where I grew up, nobody would think "Longhorns", and you might get beat up by some young Christian men.
Of course, those same people yelled at using the Sign Language symbol for "I Love You".
Powell, who is a decent and devout Christian, probably objected heavily when both Jeanna and President Bush announced their allegiance to Satan during yesterday's ceremony.
From These photos, it's quite clear that the most largest contributor to the Presidential Inauguration was Satan, the Dark Lord!
Its close to piss, there is a difference.
.. I guess they are popular because they are dirt cheap...
Bah, we have plenty of good beer in the States, but it's usually beer brewed in smaller batches and is only available within a small region. Sometimes it is hit and miss with the microbreweriess, but some of them produce great beer.
We also have piss beer: Coors, Budweiser, etc.
Does this take into account those of us in the southern hemisphere
Does ANYTHING ever account for those of you in the southern hemisphere?
Where are you guys anyways?
They're taking the raw images and creating a fictional rendering of what they think it'd look like.
...
Isn't that what they did in the movie "White Chicks"?
Those plastic masks were very disturbing
[evil]
... I can imagine the expressions on their face when they see the all the pieces laying there on the table ...
Dissecting a MiniMac is sort of like ripping the limbs off of your kid sister's Barbie dolls and glueing them back onto your GI Joe action figures
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They plan to kill off all of the cast members and replace them with retarded versions of themselves.
I thought they did that in each of the Star Trek numbers with Odd Numbers... and then in the Even Numbered movies things go back to normal...
Ah, I also had the pleasure at getting yelled at because my boss didn't comprehend that my personal project would work very well in the office. I was trying to automate some really manual processes with a very small shell script, but apparently that threatened their job security ... I quit soon afterwards.
Boss: "JENKINS! What are you doing, Why are you goofing around on 'PERSONAL PROJECTS'! GET BACK TO WORK!"
Jenkins: "But it's work related."
It's a decent version control system, but it has wayyy to many quirks. After using other SCM systems, I'm really suprised at the things that CVS cannot do, and at all the workarounds to get around these quirks...
...
... What do you mean I can't version directories and symlinks. Is renaming a directory really that hard?
...
I used CVS years ago, then used Clearcase for several years, then used SCCS and RCS
I just came back to CVS, and I'm totally confused what needs to happen now
And I can't convert us all to SVN now
Dear slashdot editors,
/. readers to use that feature more often.
/. post, and if I see a duplicate article I send an email. I want to help, and I long for what /. used to be...
Here are 3 easy steps on how to prevent duplicate articles. This is why your employeer pays you money.
1. Use your own search feature to search for the actual hyperlink and/or a few keywords.
2. Scan the article list over the last few days.
This will prevent the vast majority of Dupes, and it won't take too much of your time.
Finally, you should CHECK EMAIL SENT TO DADDYPANTS. Why isn't this done?
Frequently, email to 'daddypants' bounces back. Other times, the email is ignored and the duplicate article is posted. I rarely see a duplicate article get pulled from the queue.
If you actually check email sent to daddypants, it might encourage well-meaning
You have an army of subscribers who are willing to help out AND PAY YOU MONEY TO DO SO.
With my non-troll account, I am actually a subscriber. I like reading the articles before they get slashdotted, sometimes I'll post the text to a
but if Rick Berman were to show up on my porch selling Star Trek cookies
Well, that's ok because Rick Berman would simply go back in time to visit your grandmother in the old-west and try to get your grandma hooked on the cookies, but this time he'll summon Brent Spiner and they'll both dress up as cowboys.
So then when he comes to your porch to sell Star Trek cookies, you'll think that they are just like your grandma's cookies and will buy the whole batch!
If there's one thing I hate about Star Trek, it's the overused time-travel episodes. The first 2.5 seasons of Enterprise revolved around the Temporal Cold War-theme. Lame!
Nothing you can tell him here will be a good enough substitute for real hands-on experience.
Actually, we can point him to alot of good books and good reference websites, which is exactly what this thread is doing.
I'm in a similar boat-- relearning CVS so I can fix up our version control system. The Cederqvist is a good reference book, but it isn't a good learning manual, doesn't really talk about best practices.
With google, you still need to have a good idea what you are looking for before you look for it. If you just search for "CVS", you'll end up with alot of crud.
This is fake, right?
Yes, it's fake. You see the padded muscles under the sweater.
If we want games treated as a hobby that's as much for adults as children, then we should act more adult. Fun, but grown-up.
./ conversation where we talk about women and video games, and you'll see plenty of immature posts talking about how the women should shut up, there really isn't a problem, and the incorrect assumption that the big buff, musclebound male-stereotype superhero appeals to the fantasy of the women gamers (wrong!). I keep talking about treatment of women, because that is one of my main measuresments for male maturity.
Well, that is largely because the majority of the male gaming population acts like 13-year-old boys--
You've know who they are: lusting after Lara Croft's boobs, gawking at the booth-babes, treating women like shit, spending most of their time inside playing video games munching on chips instead of getting exercise and meeting people. Look back at any
And these people probably spend the most money on video games.
But there is a substantial mature, adult gaming population out there. But chances are they are pretty busy with their lives, careers, kids, and don't spend nearly as much money on games, and don't always have time to read gaming magazines.
why marketing isn't a good thing
Marketing 101:
Some marketing is a good thing. For example:
Who is Mark Shuttleworth, and why should I care.
Who/what is Ubintu, and why should I care?
What's Lugradio? Do I really need to download and listen to a big audio file to find out why I should care?
Yes, and they can have two priorities at once, and I doubt that the Windows port is going to block the GroupWise project.
Plus, the GroupWise support is in beta testing, wheras the Windows port is still in the planning phases (according to Nat's blog).
Anything that Access can do can be done better for free with MySQL
... I'm still confused what cheap/free GUI clients are available for MySQL since MySQL.com abandonded their MySQLGUI project.
Access the database may suck, but Access the GUI client is pretty nice. Sometimes people don't care about referential integrity, they just want an easy to use tool for organizing data, but want something better then a spreadsheet.
The GUI clients for MySQL are lacking
When you're creating relations between tables, a graphical table editor and a GUI that lays everything out for you is pretty nice and takes away alot of the eliteness of the DB world. I can get a moderately experienced office worker setup with Access very quickly, but using MySQL requires more experience.
You'd think before they ported Evolution to Windows they would have finalized integration with their own groupware suite.
Or, heaven forbid, they can work on two projects at the same time. Imagine the possibilities!
Look, a big group like Novell (or even the Novell division formally known as Ximian) is more then capable of working on two aspects of the same project at the same time. They don't need to be 100% done with Project A before starting the planning for Project B.
The GroupWise aspect is most focusing on the client-server interactions. Porting to windows is mostly about getting "making Gtk+ and various parts of the Linux desktop stack run better on Windows".
Bonsai, LXR and CVS.
Hrm, what about Subversion, which is the next big thing in the bug/SCM world?
(but yes, props to the Bugzilla team!)
We as a nation have historically weathered contentious times in relatively peaceful fashion.
...
While I agree with your fears that this may be the end, contentious times have frequently seen periods marked by violence. There were numerous labor protests in the late 19th century and early 20th century, dozens of people were shot dead by the police during many riots, the crowd's lynched policemen and members of the moneyed class. Not that they teach this stuff in HS History class
In the 60s and 70s, the President was assinated, we we in a war which was much bigger then the Iraqi conflict as it is today, there were massive race riots, radicals on the left were blowing up banks, radicals on right were burning down Churches, sometimes during Sunday school with children still inside.
I'm not saying everything is better today, but things aren't nearly as violent as they have been during some periods in the past.
I think the real question is, do we still need magazines?
...
...
After staring at computers all day at work, I don't want to spend more time staring at a computer screen in the bathroom or on the train commute home... a magazine is perfect for this purpose.
Others will want automotive and others will prefer architecture or explosives or metalwork or hide tanning or alternative energy.
But all that stuff is cool, and I want to do it all! I just don't have enough time
I don't know if I would actually go about and do these projects, but I'd certainly read about how to make things which are outside my main interest. Heck, I might even expand my interests a bit and try to make some of those other things
The sound of the impact is the one I'd like to hear, be it squelch, splash or boom.
Or an "Ouch!"
and 3D menus and interfaces that require atleast Shader 2.0 compliant cards
o oooooOOOOO! BOOP!
... just to get a decent, usable desktop ...
What about the high end audio cards so my computer can say "DooWeeeeeeeeeeooooooooOOOOO! BOOP!" as the cool 3-D Start Menu pops up when I hit the Start button and then another "BOOP! OOOOOooooooooeeeeeeewwwwDooo..." when I close the Start Menu?
Dude! That would be so cool!
DooWeeeeeeeeeeooooooooOOOOO! BOOP!
BOOP! OOOOOooooooooeeeeeeewwwwDooo...
DooWeeeeeeeeeeoo
BOOP! OOOOOooooooooeeeeeeewwwwDooo...
Why do I suspect that every time I log into a Longhorn machine, it's going to take me 10 minutes to turn off the green & blue start menu, SHOW all icons on the desktop, turn off personalized menus, and all this other stupid anti-productivity shit
Q: What's black and brown and looks good on a lawyer?
A: A doberman.