Good point. "Spam" tags are usually about spam and not spam themselves, and spam is really email, so this doesn't fit. "Ad" is better, but this isn't an obviously ad, it's an ad dressed up as news.
Shill, while probably technically wrong, gives a better impression that someone's getting paid to advertise and then pretend it's not. Like all that mail you get hawking mortgage payment insurance labeled "FINAL NOTICE: REPLY IMMEDIATELY" with fake stamps on it, or ads with fake post-it notes on it to make me think a friend is sending it to you ("Thought you might be interested -J.") even though the post-it note has has no pen depressions in it and obvious was just printed.
Sorry, not blaming the submitter, or even the editor. The tag is on the story itself. It's an ad. It's paid for. It's not news. What better use for a tag to mark this as such? Certainly better than "yes".
Wow, a study commissioned by support.com says people need support! From a PR newsire, nonetheless. And we're not even people, but "consumers". Come on, if you're going to write fake news reports on fake studies, at give the appearnace of trying by not using marketroid speak.
I ran into an annoying little bug with Perl Win32::SoundRec, figured out how to fix it, patched my own system, and then spent 30 minutes trying to find info on where to submit the fix. I finally emailed the author and got no response. Months later, the bug is still there. The fix is three lines of code and two extra calculations.
Have you ever been on the receiving end of patches?
Nearly all patches are unacceptable because they break something else that the original author does not care about. This patch fixes 64-bit code... at the expense of all 32-bit code. This patch fixes a warning... at the expense of not compiling with anything but gcc. So on and so on.
Now imagine that you have a few hundred of these patches to deal with... on your spare time. Quick: now categorize all those patches in the "good" and "bad" category.
If you just apply it blindly, then the product will suffer. Badly.
A patch flung at you means nearly nothing, unless you already trust the person with the rest of code. You have to reproduce the problem, understand it, and vet the fix. And the time to take to do that really is not that much less with a patch in hand. So, if only one person in the world is effected by your bug (namely, you) then it's a game of prioritization. I'm going to fix the bug that affect lots of people first.
This doesn't just apply to open-source projects, you vet internal bugs the same way. It's just that open-source projects tends to have a larger group of users who now can change code, but only really need to support themselves. That's great. Make your patch for yourself, that's what we want you to do! But getting it accepted upstream is hard, and should be hard, because we are supporting more people than just you.
Probably not. I'd suspect King was probably talking about people's view of the world, not of a single issue. If it was the latter, you can apply that quote to anyone who disagrees with you about anything. It's just flamebait.
Now, apply that quote to some liberal who also demonstrates such willful stupidity on every issue in the world, and I'll mod you up!
You're also ignoring that the leftist point of view permeates most broadcast TV quite thoroughly (Yes, except for Fox).
If leftist point permeates TV so thoroughly, then how come it doesn't count as a left POV enough to balance out the right under the fairness doctrine? It is not permeating thoroughly enough? So, it's there-- but it's not there according to the fairness doctrine?
If that's the case, then shouldn't it be possible to accept the fairness doctrine and still keep Rush because there are vast swathes of broadcast lefties out there?
This is a honest question, not a justification either way.
Tell me where it is, I'm moving to your town. I've never seen any real estate like that, even way out in the boonies *anywhere* here in the Northeast. Is it really that dirt cheap wherever you are?
That's only $42/sq ft. My old house, before the boom, was about $92 and that was a bargain. Current prices are about $180 (cheap town) to $300 (a very nice town) to $1000 (where the rich folks live).
Also note that people are sometimes constrained where they can live by where they grew up and their professional abilities. Similarly, I can't live in Montana because I'm a software developer, so that's not a "lifestyle choice". Maybe if I grew up there and had some family to help get started, I could find a job in that sector, but just relocating there would really be difficult... you know that hot Montana software market. Maybe if I was dentist.
Or is it really that easy? Could you move over here at the drop of a hat, and I'm just missing how obviously easy it is?
That was the very first thing I thought of. The raw amount of money is meaningless, it's what you can do with it. Living in an expensive area (Boston instead of, say, Montana) I'm acutely aware of it.
It's pretty sad the article paints all people feel this way as merely interested in one-upmanship, rather than an better awareness of how money works.
However, I suspect that most people's reason, sadly, really is one-upmanship.
Care to tell me the email address and the magic words? Are you on active support or not? I've been searching their support site for the same thing, and all I get is a "too bad, loser" message.
when I installed my new HDTV last January, my mom commented on how good the picture looked but she tells us that she can't really tell the difference between my sound system (Paradigm speakers with Marantz AVR) and her sub-$200 5.1-in-a-box system at her place.
Not a lot of people can tell the difference between a good EDTV 480p signal and an HD signal. All things considered, there's a huge step-up in quality going from 480i on a flickery CRT to 480p on a steady LCD. From there, it's a bit of an incremental step up going to 720p.
So, put her in front of a 480p signal and she may very well think that's the improvement, not the HD.
Presumably, both the cheap and expensive audio setup are being driven by a good uncompressed, digital signal and not a cassette tape! Audio made their equivalent huge step years ago with CDs and DVDs, and that's where normal people could hear a difference.
Your expensive speakers are matter to geeks like us, who can recognize compression artifacts and scaled pixels.
I have a cheap home stereo system myself. Sony + Bose, terrible I know, but it's better than nothing and nobody besides me cares. But, it's better than the TV speakers and I really don't use it. I'd rather have the good stuff like MB Quart in my car where it's used hours each day.
I've run KDE for years a while in a VNC. If you make sure to turn off opaque window resize and turn on opaque move, VNC does quite well. Go a step further and turn your display depth down to 16 or even 12 (some apps don't like this), and turn off anti-aliases and using regular fonts.
Note you can't do this in GNOME. They have a stupid "reduced resources" which assumes that wireframe move is always faster.
Actually, I've moved over to xfce for VNC sessions. Very nice. Running two copies of KDE one box is tricky; I've never figured out how to make some settings apply to the VNC display but other apply to the real display.
Or, it clearly follows from the names of Iraqis and Pakistanis. Pick your rule.
Still, the -ese suffix applied to a country is usually an adjective, and not a noun unless describing a language itself. You don't say "Fung is a Japanese"... a Japanese what?
Say what you want about Dell... at least they include real windows install disks.
Except where they don't. I bought a Dell last year and no install disk. I have a stupid "restore partition" on the hard drive. Great; no way to reinstall windows from scratch without blowing away everything.
Well, first of all nobody uses it. If it's page-metadata, then how do you rate a single image? Think of a link in a blog that's a direct link to image, movie, or sound hosted somewhere randomly. Maybe there is no page.
Putting this on the outbound side lets the linker make the judgement.
More of a joke with a grain of truth. I've been in a Prius watching the driver do exactly that. It was really unnerving being there, with a train of 25 angry cars bumper-to-bumper behind him. I've been stuck being countless Priuses doing the same thing. This is not on highways, but on back roads.
Also don't forget that a lot of the US has realy crappy winter weather, and nearly all SUVs come with 4WD or AWD standard. 4WD is pretty mandatory here in New England, especially if you live in any hilly areas. My old car was a RWD Thunderbird, and it would constantly get stuck and fishtail in the snow. Not a good family car.
I just had my third kid, and due to the sheer freakin' size of the child seats these days, I can barely wedge the baby in between the two preschoolers. It won't be long until we are forced, yes forced, to upgrade the car to accomodate the gigantic seats.
I wish someone would invent would make a space-efficient "bench" style booster seat. It would basically be two boosters glued together, with all the redundant parts taken out. With the space savings, I bet you could fit an extra kid or two per row. My kids aren't fat, the stupid seats are! (Any of you remember the 70s when we'd fit about 15 kids in Mom's station wagon?)
Hybrids to me is to get decent MPG while not accelerating like a fat kid on a tricycle and not bogging down when you need to move three of your friends somewhere in stop and go traffic.
Not true! Every Prius owner in the world is so obsessed with mileage that they drive slower than that fat kid on a tricycle in the first place. Driving 25 in a 40 and accelerating slower than bicycles. The real-time mileage displays should be banned. Illegal. It makes people drive stupid. I'd rather people use multiple cellphones at once than drive a Prius.
Horrible thought: I haven't run across a Prius driver WITH a cell phone. Yet.
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Shill, while probably technically wrong, gives a better impression that someone's getting paid to advertise and then pretend it's not. Like all that mail you get hawking mortgage payment insurance labeled "FINAL NOTICE: REPLY IMMEDIATELY" with fake stamps on it, or ads with fake post-it notes on it to make me think a friend is sending it to you ("Thought you might be interested -J.") even though the post-it note has has no pen depressions in it and obvious was just printed.
Sorry, not blaming the submitter, or even the editor. The tag is on the story itself. It's an ad. It's paid for. It's not news. What better use for a tag to mark this as such? Certainly better than "yes".
Tag this one as "shill".
Nearly all patches are unacceptable because they break something else that the original author does not care about. This patch fixes 64-bit code... at the expense of all 32-bit code. This patch fixes a warning... at the expense of not compiling with anything but gcc. So on and so on.
Now imagine that you have a few hundred of these patches to deal with... on your spare time. Quick: now categorize all those patches in the "good" and "bad" category.
If you just apply it blindly, then the product will suffer. Badly.
A patch flung at you means nearly nothing, unless you already trust the person with the rest of code. You have to reproduce the problem, understand it, and vet the fix. And the time to take to do that really is not that much less with a patch in hand. So, if only one person in the world is effected by your bug (namely, you) then it's a game of prioritization. I'm going to fix the bug that affect lots of people first.
This doesn't just apply to open-source projects, you vet internal bugs the same way. It's just that open-source projects tends to have a larger group of users who now can change code, but only really need to support themselves. That's great. Make your patch for yourself, that's what we want you to do! But getting it accepted upstream is hard, and should be hard, because we are supporting more people than just you.
There's a strip for that too: the one where the PHB gets mad at the employees for putting up comic strips, and bans them!
Now, apply that quote to some liberal who also demonstrates such willful stupidity on every issue in the world, and I'll mod you up!
If leftist point permeates TV so thoroughly, then how come it doesn't count as a left POV enough to balance out the right under the fairness doctrine? It is not permeating thoroughly enough? So, it's there-- but it's not there according to the fairness doctrine?
If that's the case, then shouldn't it be possible to accept the fairness doctrine and still keep Rush because there are vast swathes of broadcast lefties out there?
This is a honest question, not a justification either way.
That's only $42/sq ft. My old house, before the boom, was about $92 and that was a bargain. Current prices are about $180 (cheap town) to $300 (a very nice town) to $1000 (where the rich folks live).
Also note that people are sometimes constrained where they can live by where they grew up and their professional abilities. Similarly, I can't live in Montana because I'm a software developer, so that's not a "lifestyle choice". Maybe if I grew up there and had some family to help get started, I could find a job in that sector, but just relocating there would really be difficult... you know that hot Montana software market. Maybe if I was dentist.
Or is it really that easy? Could you move over here at the drop of a hat, and I'm just missing how obviously easy it is?
That was the very first thing I thought of. The raw amount of money is meaningless, it's what you can do with it. Living in an expensive area (Boston instead of, say, Montana) I'm acutely aware of it.
It's pretty sad the article paints all people feel this way as merely interested in one-upmanship, rather than an better awareness of how money works.
However, I suspect that most people's reason, sadly, really is one-upmanship.
Care to tell me the email address and the magic words? Are you on active support or not? I've been searching their support site for the same thing, and all I get is a "too bad, loser" message.
So, put her in front of a 480p signal and she may very well think that's the improvement, not the HD.
Presumably, both the cheap and expensive audio setup are being driven by a good uncompressed, digital signal and not a cassette tape! Audio made their equivalent huge step years ago with CDs and DVDs, and that's where normal people could hear a difference.
Your expensive speakers are matter to geeks like us, who can recognize compression artifacts and scaled pixels.
I have a cheap home stereo system myself. Sony + Bose, terrible I know, but it's better than nothing and nobody besides me cares. But, it's better than the TV speakers and I really don't use it. I'd rather have the good stuff like MB Quart in my car where it's used hours each day.
Neither. The stories have now been virtualized.
So true. Someone who took three showers over 20 years would surely bring a tear to my eye... but not because I'm wistful or sad.
I'm going to wash my car... in my shorts!
I've run KDE for years a while in a VNC. If you make sure to turn off opaque window resize and turn on opaque move, VNC does quite well. Go a step further and turn your display depth down to 16 or even 12 (some apps don't like this), and turn off anti-aliases and using regular fonts.
Note you can't do this in GNOME. They have a stupid "reduced resources" which assumes that wireframe move is always faster.
Actually, I've moved over to xfce for VNC sessions. Very nice. Running two copies of KDE one box is tricky; I've never figured out how to make some settings apply to the VNC display but other apply to the real display.
And if you fade out at the end, it's like a lot of time has gone by.
It's Fritalian. Or faux intellectualism, you pick.
Still, the -ese suffix applied to a country is usually an adjective, and not a noun unless describing a language itself. You don't say "Fung is a Japanese"... a Japanese what?
Except where they don't. I bought a Dell last year and no install disk. I have a stupid "restore partition" on the hard drive. Great; no way to reinstall windows from scratch without blowing away everything.
Anyone know how to get one from them?
Putting this on the outbound side lets the linker make the judgement.
More of a joke with a grain of truth. I've been in a Prius watching the driver do exactly that. It was really unnerving being there, with a train of 25 angry cars bumper-to-bumper behind him. I've been stuck being countless Priuses doing the same thing. This is not on highways, but on back roads.
But, I've never been tailgated by one yet!
I just had my third kid, and due to the sheer freakin' size of the child seats these days, I can barely wedge the baby in between the two preschoolers. It won't be long until we are forced, yes forced, to upgrade the car to accomodate the gigantic seats.
I wish someone would invent would make a space-efficient "bench" style booster seat. It would basically be two boosters glued together, with all the redundant parts taken out. With the space savings, I bet you could fit an extra kid or two per row. My kids aren't fat, the stupid seats are! (Any of you remember the 70s when we'd fit about 15 kids in Mom's station wagon?)
Not true! Every Prius owner in the world is so obsessed with mileage that they drive slower than that fat kid on a tricycle in the first place. Driving 25 in a 40 and accelerating slower than bicycles. The real-time mileage displays should be banned. Illegal. It makes people drive stupid. I'd rather people use multiple cellphones at once than drive a Prius.
Horrible thought: I haven't run across a Prius driver WITH a cell phone. Yet.