This is why I just memorize the IP numbers (in 32-bit hexadecimal format, of course...what's up with all those dots anyhow?) of all the sites I ever go to, and avoid any reliance on DNS at all. It also makes thinking of hostnames for my new boxes a lot less complicated...just name them box3C if its last 8 bits are 3C, for example. Why should anything be any more complicated than that?
Actually, the average temperature has been rising steadily since about 10,000 years ago; and before that it had been gradually dropping. I can't say I know when it'll stop rising and begin falling again, but rest assured that your great^400-grand-kids are gonna want to invest in some pretty good coats and mittens come the next ice age.
But those capital letters! And just because most Slashdotters can pronounce every imaginable acronym smoothly doesn't mean anything for other communities...Imagine being an average Joe and driving down the street, seeing a big sign with GEML on it and another one that just says 'bioxml'. I'd think...wow, those idiots don't even have the self-esteem to capitalize their own name, whereas these other guys...wow, they must have a great product if they can handle four capital letters.
GEML just sounds better to the kind of people who would be in charge of this kind of thing. bioxml has no capital letters, is half-pronounceable and half-gotta-be-spelled-out, etc. GEML is all capital letters, can be spelled out or pronounced as a whole, etc. I think that why they chose GEML as a standard is far from unclear; rational is another matter.
In Williston, ND, a park near the downtown area is lit up brightly every December and early January with elaborate designed etched in Christmas lights. However, the city can't afford to run those lights and all its street lights at the same time, so it randomly turns out the lights over a different part of town every night for the whole year to recoup the loss.
The only problem with that is that I jam out to songs and stuff like that, and quote Monty Python and Mel Brooks films at random, so Lord knows what kind of crap the system would pull on me.
Don't forget that you will want all your pieces to work well together. The key to this is a good remote control that will work with every single thing you have and make sense to use. With a DSS system, Magnavox TV and VCR, and Sony tuner and CD changer, the Sony remote was the best; but if you programmed it to work with the Magnavox stuff it would no longer work with the CD player. So we were stuck with the three-remote dilemma many people suffer from every day. Be sure to plan for this.
What rolls down stairs,
Alone or in pairs,
Rolls over your neighbor's dog?
What's great for a snack,
And fits on your back,
It's Log..Log..Log!!
It's Lo-og, Lo-og
It's big, it's heavy, it's wood!
It's Lo-og, Lo-og, it's better than bad, it's good!!!
Everyone want's a Log
You're gonna love it Log
Come on and get your Log
Everyone needs a Log
Get the kid a life. And let him teach himself. If you have to teach him something, he's not really that smart now, is he? Sure, expose him to stuff, but don't tutor him. Spend your time tutoring the people who can use it. If he's smart enough to have a degree at 9, let him figure it out on his own.
And find him something to do for the next 7 years or so so that he doesn't get bored and kill himself. They'll do that on ya.
But do teach him how to post on Slashdot so he can ask his own questions.
... let's spend our lives posting to/. in the general assumption until we die in the sure knowledge that we have made no impact whatsoever on the world as we know it...
Anyone as insightful and observant at the same time as yourself has exactly one effective way to make an impact on the world: Jump from a very high cliff and hope that you hit hard enough to make a dent.
...slightly more happy for a little while...
I'm not even going to comment on the first part of this paragraph, because you'd probably miss important little details such as nonexistant HTML tags that entirely change my meaning. But I will say a few things. If you're homeless, there are better ways out than begging. "Beggars can't be choosers", but they tend to be. And, in general, they continue harrassing anyone that gives them a penny for the rest of the dollar. I wish that this weren't true, but every time I've gone anywhere and tried to be generous to homeless people, it's had the same results. And that penny isn't even tax-deductible. So not only are you paying for someone else to stay too drunk or stoned to feel the cold, you are also paying their taxes for them as well. There are better ways. "Will work for food." Try "will work for money", and carry it over to Job Service. They may be mean, but you'll be inside a warm place where you're welcome for at least an hour, and you'll more than likely end up with a job that can at least keep you in a dry cardboard box, if not someplace better.
Re:consider giving your time, too.
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Oh my God, they're taxing my time, too?
Seriously, though, I strongly agree with this post. Even if you must help out geekish causes, time is the most valuable resource. Isn't that what our whole philosophy is supposed to be, anyhow? If everyone puts in 10 minutes of quality work, then we have everyone * 10 minutes' worth of quality work, right? And if you really need the tax break, you can launder money a lot more easily than you can find a worthwhile charity. Just have your kid or your niece or your cousin paint you something and buy it from him for a huge amount of money; or if it's less than 20 grand, try ye olde cashe gifte.;-D
Step 1: Secure monopoly with the bare minimum requirements; say required installation of your web browser with your operating system
Step 2: Get sued by the DoJ
Step 3: While still under legal fire, do something that will really establish a monopoly if any idiots buy into it (which you know they will because you already have the monopoly over the idiot market)
Since not all people are good, as has been pointed out as a reason that this will fail by other commentators here, you'd figure that some sort of compromise could be reached. Electoral college, anyone?
The last time I checked, 'official' and 'accurate' were very unrelated words. Especially within the Flordia Election Commission. This is the state where they're finding ballot boxes all over the place and finding within them anything from school supplies to drug paraphernilia to actual ballots.
Look at the map right now. Al Gore has the popular vote, but has very little area on the map.
And Gore also has a few more electoral votes going for him right now than Bush does. If he wins Florida, yet another densely populated area compared to Bush's electoral constituency, he wins the office.
I'm not saying that a purely popular vote would be the best. But I am saying that the electoral college system needs to be rethought. I refrain from doing that thinking, though; I'm going to go hide from the world for the next four years, since our nearly evenly divided House and Senate, together with Bush or Gore's influence, probably aren't going to get a lot done.;)
I know, I'm one of them. Does it really appear to you that they're campaigning anywhere else, anyhow? Look at the map. Gore, with only a very small number of states, is ahead of Bush before Florida's results are determined. He is also ahead in the popular vote. Do you think for a minute that any candidate gives a rat's ass about anyone outside of urban areas anyhow? That's where the population is that they need to win the electoral votes for a state.
I've actually been told both ways. The sources that seemed the most intelligent (ie, they got the fact from anywhere but the media) are what I was going on. Most of the sources cited as contradicting me are from the media. But that doesn't make them wrong. It just goes to show that nobody really has a strong clue what's going on.;-D
Everyone needs to be a little more understanding. These people are senior citizens, and that generally means that their vision isn't up to par. Mine isn't so great either and, although I'm not even legally blind, even with correction I had difficulty making out the much simpler ballot in my home state. All the candidates for one position should simply be put in a single column, and their boxes should be heavily drawn to surround their holes.
Slashdot Mirror
Nothing of which I wasn't aware.
But it's simply geekier to say 401C4330, a much more natural format, than to say 64.28.67.48?
I use Hotmail, and I'm not affected.
Are you saying that M$ forgot to pay their $35 this year? And I thought I was cheap!
This is why I just memorize the IP numbers (in 32-bit hexadecimal format, of course...what's up with all those dots anyhow?) of all the sites I ever go to, and avoid any reliance on DNS at all. It also makes thinking of hostnames for my new boxes a lot less complicated...just name them box3C if its last 8 bits are 3C, for example. Why should anything be any more complicated than that?
Actually, the average temperature has been rising steadily since about 10,000 years ago; and before that it had been gradually dropping. I can't say I know when it'll stop rising and begin falling again, but rest assured that your great^400-grand-kids are gonna want to invest in some pretty good coats and mittens come the next ice age.
But those capital letters! And just because most Slashdotters can pronounce every imaginable acronym smoothly doesn't mean anything for other communities...Imagine being an average Joe and driving down the street, seeing a big sign with GEML on it and another one that just says 'bioxml'. I'd think...wow, those idiots don't even have the self-esteem to capitalize their own name, whereas these other guys...wow, they must have a great product if they can handle four capital letters.
GEML just sounds better to the kind of people who would be in charge of this kind of thing. bioxml has no capital letters, is half-pronounceable and half-gotta-be-spelled-out, etc. GEML is all capital letters, can be spelled out or pronounced as a whole, etc. I think that why they chose GEML as a standard is far from unclear; rational is another matter.
In Williston, ND, a park near the downtown area is lit up brightly every December and early January with elaborate designed etched in Christmas lights. However, the city can't afford to run those lights and all its street lights at the same time, so it randomly turns out the lights over a different part of town every night for the whole year to recoup the loss.
In jurisdictions where it has been adopted, I find that I don't have to waste scarce money by contributing to both sides anymore. -- Bill Gates
/make/ money to get his guy in office, instead of paying for it.
Good point; now he's going to
Between Microsoft and Unisys, I'm putting money on a backdoor that gives a vote to Billy-boy Gates for every day of his the Justice Department wastes.
The only problem with that is that I jam out to songs and stuff like that, and quote Monty Python and Mel Brooks films at random, so Lord knows what kind of crap the system would pull on me.
Don't forget that you will want all your pieces to work well together. The key to this is a good remote control that will work with every single thing you have and make sense to use. With a DSS system, Magnavox TV and VCR, and Sony tuner and CD changer, the Sony remote was the best; but if you programmed it to work with the Magnavox stuff it would no longer work with the CD player. So we were stuck with the three-remote dilemma many people suffer from every day. Be sure to plan for this.
What rolls down stairs,
Alone or in pairs,
Rolls over your neighbor's dog?
What's great for a snack,
And fits on your back,
It's Log..Log..Log!!
It's Lo-og, Lo-og
It's big, it's heavy, it's wood!
It's Lo-og, Lo-og, it's better than bad, it's good!!!
Everyone want's a Log
You're gonna love it Log
Come on and get your Log
Everyone needs a Log
Log, from Blamo!
Get the kid a life. And let him teach himself. If you have to teach him something, he's not really that smart now, is he? Sure, expose him to stuff, but don't tutor him. Spend your time tutoring the people who can use it. If he's smart enough to have a degree at 9, let him figure it out on his own.
And find him something to do for the next 7 years or so so that he doesn't get bored and kill himself. They'll do that on ya.
But do teach him how to post on Slashdot so he can ask his own questions.
And the more 3rd party code you accomodate, the more risk there is of unstable code crashing the system, or of security breaches.
;P
Define '3rd party code'. Isn't that what most of Linux is, not to mention about half of all open-source projects?
... let's spend our lives posting to /. in the general assumption until we die in the sure knowledge that we have made no impact whatsoever on the world as we know it...
...slightly more happy for a little while...
Anyone as insightful and observant at the same time as yourself has exactly one effective way to make an impact on the world: Jump from a very high cliff and hope that you hit hard enough to make a dent.
I'm not even going to comment on the first part of this paragraph, because you'd probably miss important little details such as nonexistant HTML tags that entirely change my meaning. But I will say a few things. If you're homeless, there are better ways out than begging. "Beggars can't be choosers", but they tend to be. And, in general, they continue harrassing anyone that gives them a penny for the rest of the dollar. I wish that this weren't true, but every time I've gone anywhere and tried to be generous to homeless people, it's had the same results. And that penny isn't even tax-deductible. So not only are you paying for someone else to stay too drunk or stoned to feel the cold, you are also paying their taxes for them as well. There are better ways. "Will work for food." Try "will work for money", and carry it over to Job Service. They may be mean, but you'll be inside a warm place where you're welcome for at least an hour, and you'll more than likely end up with a job that can at least keep you in a dry cardboard box, if not someplace better.
Oh my God, they're taxing my time, too?
;-D
Seriously, though, I strongly agree with this post. Even if you must help out geekish causes, time is the most valuable resource. Isn't that what our whole philosophy is supposed to be, anyhow? If everyone puts in 10 minutes of quality work, then we have everyone * 10 minutes' worth of quality work, right? And if you really need the tax break, you can launder money a lot more easily than you can find a worthwhile charity. Just have your kid or your niece or your cousin paint you something and buy it from him for a huge amount of money; or if it's less than 20 grand, try ye olde cashe gifte.
Step 1: Secure monopoly with the bare minimum requirements; say required installation of your web browser with your operating system Step 2: Get sued by the DoJ Step 3: While still under legal fire, do something that will really establish a monopoly if any idiots buy into it (which you know they will because you already have the monopoly over the idiot market)
Since not all people are good, as has been pointed out as a reason that this will fail by other commentators here, you'd figure that some sort of compromise could be reached. Electoral college, anyone?
The last time I checked, 'official' and 'accurate' were very unrelated words. Especially within the Flordia Election Commission. This is the state where they're finding ballot boxes all over the place and finding within them anything from school supplies to drug paraphernilia to actual ballots.
Look at the map right now. Al Gore has the popular vote, but has very little area on the map. ;)
And Gore also has a few more electoral votes going for him right now than Bush does. If he wins Florida, yet another densely populated area compared to Bush's electoral constituency, he wins the office.
I'm not saying that a purely popular vote would be the best. But I am saying that the electoral college system needs to be rethought. I refrain from doing that thinking, though; I'm going to go hide from the world for the next four years, since our nearly evenly divided House and Senate, together with Bush or Gore's influence, probably aren't going to get a lot done.
You're right, the electoral college system does make it possible to compare the election process to a tense World Series. 'Nuff said.
I know, I'm one of them. Does it really appear to you that they're campaigning anywhere else, anyhow? Look at the map. Gore, with only a very small number of states, is ahead of Bush before Florida's results are determined. He is also ahead in the popular vote. Do you think for a minute that any candidate gives a rat's ass about anyone outside of urban areas anyhow? That's where the population is that they need to win the electoral votes for a state.
I've actually been told both ways. The sources that seemed the most intelligent (ie, they got the fact from anywhere but the media) are what I was going on. Most of the sources cited as contradicting me are from the media. But that doesn't make them wrong. It just goes to show that nobody really has a strong clue what's going on. ;-D
Everyone needs to be a little more understanding. These people are senior citizens, and that generally means that their vision isn't up to par. Mine isn't so great either and, although I'm not even legally blind, even with correction I had difficulty making out the much simpler ballot in my home state. All the candidates for one position should simply be put in a single column, and their boxes should be heavily drawn to surround their holes.