I never bought anything of theirs after the Black Album simply because their music after that didn't sound that good. (and I was moderate fan that also attended a concert.) I don't factor what musicians do or say outside of their music into whether I like it. So I think Metallica's decline is mostly due to their music, although the whole "sell-out" thing obviously didn't help.
That reminds me of that lady who had her house vandalized because she was a "paediatrician" because they thought it sounded too much like "paedophile". Some blacklists are based on having letters like "dsl" in your DNS PTR records.:)
I was being more oblique than referring directly to tax credits for yourself. I assumed your reason for wanting to popularize this thing is that you "worked on several" projects doing it - meaning you personally are financially vested in government funding and more widespread use of the tech. Although, now that I know more about "superinsulation", that seems less likely unless you work for a business that provides superinsulation consulting to house builders or something like that. (Superinsulation is somewhat pointless in my consistent climate here.)
I don't need any manifesto, regardless of whether my assumption was wrong or not.:) Thanks.
Well, if peer pressure doesn't work, I guess we just have to filter spamvertisers individually with a foe penalty.:)
(My mistake to post the complaint with a karma bonus, though; I never think to disable it. So I got a well-deserved off-topic mod:)
Can you please put your advertisement in the proper signature field in your preferences instead of pasting it into the body of your message with the fake -- delimiter to fool people(search engines?) into thinking it is a normal sig? Those of us with signature viewing disabled will still see the link to your website above your comment.
This is unfortunately the future of marketing and PR. Corporate advertising people astroturfing with silly comments like this just subtle enough to avoid our filters. 6 calls to support is not good service no matter how much you spin it and denigrate your competitors and use multiple exclamation points to convey fake excitement. (insightful? blech)
Most people - most game players nowadays even - are not computer geeks like many of us here at/. So they are lacking that innate aversion to repetition that we programmers have (we write code to do repetitive stuff for us!). The grind is popular because it actually appeals to a lot of people. Personally, I just try to avoid it with as much variety as possible, taking advantage of the different aspects of the game and simply not participating in things like reputation grinding or re-running instances for rare drops. I managed to play WoW for several months a couple years ago without rep or xp grinding and I never did instances more than 2 or 3 times to explore all aspects of them. (mostly I explored, did all quests involving/leading up to a particular instance so I could complete them all with the instance run when I achieved the right level, contented myself with mostly blue gear and also did a lot of PvP) PvP is saved from being repetitive a bit because you are dealing with human opponents with a wide range of skill and evolving tactics.:)
The last 5k years have also included things such as the bubonic plague wiping out 1/3 of Europe and just leaving the more disease-resistant people. Natural selection is alive and well.:)
But it seems like they're going to be way more open than anyone else, and possibly as open as they can be while still getting FCC approval for the device. How can you possibly say that when http://openmoko.org/ exists? And I don't think openmoko had any problems with FCC approval and are truly open. "free software" is not all that relevant the type of "locked-down chunks" you are talking about - like 911 location service - since they are "locked down" in the hardware chips (by simply not having certain things controllable via serial interface) and not by any software.
The fact that this comment asking about openmoko has not been moderated up yet tells a lot about the sad state of the/. readership these days.:( (sorry, used my last mod points a couple days ago) (p.s. It's the neo1973) It bothers me a bit that companies like Apple and Google are trying to pull developers to their products when those devs could all be building really cool stuff for truly open systems. But hopefully there is enough creativity, experience, and enthusiasm in the world for making these corporations richer as well as making stuff to benefit the people.
"Our CEO wears a T-shirt" was one of their original gimmicks marketing it as a cool place to work when they first moved from google.stanford.edu to google.com.:)
Are you guys looking at *virtual* memory size? Which is somewhat irrelevant? You should look at the resident set size minus the shared memory size to figure out how much memory is really being used.
When looking at RES/SHR in top, I do see the resident set size creep up with successive opening/closing of tabs (to same pages even). My numbers are a lot lower than your examples, though, which is why I wonder if you are looking at virtual mem by accident. i.e. when I started firefox, it's RES is 31MB and SHR is 21MB and it's at 94MB/19MB now after a few cycles of loading 20 tabs/closing them bumped up RES each time(even after clearing cache manually from prefs). iceweasel-2.0.0.8 on debian stable with greasemonkey, adblock plus, and flashblock.:) (oops, this just made me realize maybe you guys aren't using linux at all and can't distinguish between types of memory use as easily.)
Yeah, the president of Iran just gets the executive powers left over that the Supreme Leader does not have. We Americans over-estimate the Iranian president's power out of confusion with *our* definition of job of President.
The Supreme Leader is Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces, controls the military intelligence and security operations; and has sole power to declare war. The heads of the judiciary, state radio and television networks, the commanders of the police and military forces and six of the twelve members of the Council of Guardians are appointed by the Supreme Leader. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran#Government_and_politics
What does guilt have to do with it? I'm just lazy and not the obsessive gamer I once was, so I only boot out of debian into xp once in a while to play a game instead of bothering with often hokey settings to play a game with wine.
I aliased w to north, a to west, s already was south, and d to east when I first played MUDs like MUME in the early 90s.:) I think using WASD was just natural. Also, Doom and Wolfenstein 3d were released a few years (1993-ish) before Quake and Duke Nukem 3d (1996-ish).:)
In Florida, you are 4 times more likely to be struck by lightning than to win the lottery.;) (80-ish people hit by lightning per year. 20-ish lottery winners per year)
The lottery is a tax on people that are bad at math.
Rosencrantz: [flips coin which lands as 'heads'] 78 in a row. A new record, I imagine.
Guildenstern: Is that what you imagine? A new record?
Rosencrantz: Well...
Guildenstern: No questions? Not a flicker of doubt?
Rosencrantz: I could be wrong.
...
Guildenstern: Consider: One, probability is a factor which operates *within* natural forces. Two, probability is *not* operating as a factor. Three, we are now held within un-, sub- or super-natural forces. Discuss.
Rosencrantz: What?
*I* haven't heard of it and I am a well-read, educated person smarter than 99% of the population and a professional software developer so it is even in my area of expertise, therefore, it must not be notable! (That was meant as a sarcastic representation of the guy who speedy deleted it, but it is actually pretty true about me; except that I am experienced enough to know there is a whole lot out there I don't know.:)
At least the mistake was corrected somewhat easily. The advantage of an undo button.:)
Tough one. The sun is certainly a nuclear reactor. Is the defining property of a device that it was created by someone? I guess this is an intelligent design issue.;)
The positive moderation shows that most of us agree with this particular offense being a real offense and not an isolated case of annoying some random guy, though.:) These guys are apparently having a contest to see who can spam links to their site the most(which is why he had a query string with his account id like a lot of spammers): http://www.wulfram.com/top_advertisers.php
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heh, I was just telling a co-worker about Russian Ark, a movie shot in one continuous shot. :) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0318034/
I never bought anything of theirs after the Black Album simply because their music after that didn't sound that good. (and I was moderate fan that also attended a concert.) I don't factor what musicians do or say outside of their music into whether I like it. So I think Metallica's decline is mostly due to their music, although the whole "sell-out" thing obviously didn't help.
That reminds me of that lady who had her house vandalized because she was a "paediatrician" because they thought it sounded too much like "paedophile". Some blacklists are based on having letters like "dsl" in your DNS PTR records. :)
I was being more oblique than referring directly to tax credits for yourself. I assumed your reason for wanting to popularize this thing is that you "worked on several" projects doing it - meaning you personally are financially vested in government funding and more widespread use of the tech. Although, now that I know more about "superinsulation", that seems less likely unless you work for a business that provides superinsulation consulting to house builders or something like that. (Superinsulation is somewhat pointless in my consistent climate here.)
:) Thanks.
I don't need any manifesto, regardless of whether my assumption was wrong or not.
So, basically, you are saying the government should give you money? What a unique perspective.
Well, if peer pressure doesn't work, I guess we just have to filter spamvertisers individually with a foe penalty. :) :)
(My mistake to post the complaint with a karma bonus, though; I never think to disable it. So I got a well-deserved off-topic mod
Can you please put your advertisement in the proper signature field in your preferences instead of pasting it into the body of your message with the fake -- delimiter to fool people(search engines?) into thinking it is a normal sig?
Those of us with signature viewing disabled will still see the link to your website above your comment.
This is unfortunately the future of marketing and PR. Corporate advertising people astroturfing with silly comments like this just subtle enough to avoid our filters.
6 calls to support is not good service no matter how much you spin it and denigrate your competitors and use multiple exclamation points to convey fake excitement. (insightful? blech)
Most people - most game players nowadays even - are not computer geeks like many of us here at /. So they are lacking that innate aversion to repetition that we programmers have (we write code to do repetitive stuff for us!). The grind is popular because it actually appeals to a lot of people. :)
Personally, I just try to avoid it with as much variety as possible, taking advantage of the different aspects of the game and simply not participating in things like reputation grinding or re-running instances for rare drops. I managed to play WoW for several months a couple years ago without rep or xp grinding and I never did instances more than 2 or 3 times to explore all aspects of them. (mostly I explored, did all quests involving/leading up to a particular instance so I could complete them all with the instance run when I achieved the right level, contented myself with mostly blue gear and also did a lot of PvP) PvP is saved from being repetitive a bit because you are dealing with human opponents with a wide range of skill and evolving tactics.
The last 5k years have also included things such as the bubonic plague wiping out 1/3 of Europe and just leaving the more disease-resistant people. Natural selection is alive and well. :)
Do you also think Stephen Colbert is a Bush supporter? :)
And I don't think openmoko had any problems with FCC approval and are truly open. "free software" is not all that relevant the type of "locked-down chunks" you are talking about - like 911 location service - since they are "locked down" in the hardware chips (by simply not having certain things controllable via serial interface) and not by any software.
The fact that this comment asking about openmoko has not been moderated up yet tells a lot about the sad state of the /. readership these days. :( (sorry, used my last mod points a couple days ago) (p.s. It's the neo1973)
It bothers me a bit that companies like Apple and Google are trying to pull developers to their products when those devs could all be building really cool stuff for truly open systems. But hopefully there is enough creativity, experience, and enthusiasm in the world for making these corporations richer as well as making stuff to benefit the people.
"Our CEO wears a T-shirt" was one of their original gimmicks marketing it as a cool place to work when they first moved from google.stanford.edu to google.com. :)
Are you guys looking at *virtual* memory size? Which is somewhat irrelevant? You should look at the resident set size minus the shared memory size to figure out how much memory is really being used. :) (oops, this just made me realize maybe you guys aren't using linux at all and can't distinguish between types of memory use as easily.)
When looking at RES/SHR in top, I do see the resident set size creep up with successive opening/closing of tabs (to same pages even). My numbers are a lot lower than your examples, though, which is why I wonder if you are looking at virtual mem by accident. i.e. when I started firefox, it's RES is 31MB and SHR is 21MB and it's at 94MB/19MB now after a few cycles of loading 20 tabs/closing them bumped up RES each time(even after clearing cache manually from prefs).
iceweasel-2.0.0.8 on debian stable with greasemonkey, adblock plus, and flashblock.
What does guilt have to do with it? I'm just lazy and not the obsessive gamer I once was, so I only boot out of debian into xp once in a while to play a game instead of bothering with often hokey settings to play a game with wine.
I aliased w to north, a to west, s already was south, and d to east when I first played MUDs like MUME in the early 90s. :) I think using WASD was just natural. :)
Also, Doom and Wolfenstein 3d were released a few years (1993-ish) before Quake and Duke Nukem 3d (1996-ish).
kilo, mega, giga, tera, peta are silly, too. You are just used to them. :)
In Florida, you are 4 times more likely to be struck by lightning than to win the lottery. ;) (80-ish people hit by lightning per year. 20-ish lottery winners per year)
The lottery is a tax on people that are bad at math.
Rosencrantz: [flips coin which lands as 'heads'] 78 in a row. A new record, I imagine.
...
Guildenstern: Is that what you imagine? A new record?
Rosencrantz: Well...
Guildenstern: No questions? Not a flicker of doubt?
Rosencrantz: I could be wrong.
Guildenstern: Consider: One, probability is a factor which operates *within* natural forces. Two, probability is *not* operating as a factor. Three, we are now held within un-, sub- or super-natural forces. Discuss.
Rosencrantz: What?
*I* haven't heard of it and I am a well-read, educated person smarter than 99% of the population and a professional software developer so it is even in my area of expertise, therefore, it must not be notable! :)
:)
(That was meant as a sarcastic representation of the guy who speedy deleted it, but it is actually pretty true about me; except that I am experienced enough to know there is a whole lot out there I don't know.
At least the mistake was corrected somewhat easily. The advantage of an undo button.
Tough one. The sun is certainly a nuclear reactor. Is the defining property of a device that it was created by someone? I guess this is an intelligent design issue. ;)
The positive moderation shows that most of us agree with this particular offense being a real offense and not an isolated case of annoying some random guy, though. :)
These guys are apparently having a contest to see who can spam links to their site the most(which is why he had a query string with his account id like a lot of spammers): http://www.wulfram.com/top_advertisers.php