Hopefully the average tweeter will read multiple sources and think before posting. However, considering that most slashdotters are smarter than the average bear and a lot of the comments here are crap, I suppose I am expecting too much.
Having said that, all of this doesn't mean that Steve Dahl isn't a bonehead; he just happens to be a bonehead with a title.;)
I just had to cleanly install OpenSUSE 11.1 the other day because I was in the middle of patching 10.3 when Novell took down the repositories. I worked on the broken system for a week before making the time to reformat/reinstall. I started patching it by hand to make the 10.3 -> 11.1 dup work, but it was just too time consuming.
But anyway, I'll be running zypper dup in the next few days after demand on the servers dies down. It's about time SUSE users get a clean in-place upgrade process.:-)
The way I see it, Steve Dahl is nothing more than a bonehead with a DS-3 connection. What's the difference other than the number of readers and the username? Isn't Steve Dahl voicing his opinion? Isn't he just a person, and doesn't that mean you or I could post our opinions? What makes him so special?
Sure, there are some brain-dead yokels on both sides of the spectrum. There are the idiots who worship trees and think that trees feel and believe the "global warming" er "global climate change" chant without asking for the evidence and the raw data (okay, I admit I'm a skeptic given the revelation of how temperature sensors are installed now vs. 40 years ago and what the guidelines dictate. Too many are installed over or next to heat sinks). Then, there are those on the right who pick and choose what to believe in Christianity, you know, pick the part about man having dominion over the earth but ignore the part about being good stewards, etc.
Both extremes of the spectrum should be totally ignored. Use your brain people, moonbats and neo-cons alike! We each have the biological equivalent of a cluster of supercomputers in our head for a reason: to use it! THINK! However, that still doesn't mean every moron doesn't have the right to voice an opinion.
That is just the reality of it when you open your news site up to comments. You're going to invite the whole spectrum, and the sad thing is both moonbats and neocons are equally stupid in equally loud ways, so their posts stand out.
See, it's like this: I see strong structures like basalt columns as volkswagons, which as you know, are arch-shaped and therefore strong. Weak structures on the other hand, such as grasses, are more like smart cars: easily crushed and, well, no where to go from here. I got nothin'. Sorry. Ask BadAnalogyGuy.
Breaking the standards to implement policy is a good thing sometimes. Take SPF records for example: if they were to become widespread, then spam could very easily be reduced by probably 99%.
Many of us wish we could forget ever having been exposed to that show as children. I watched an episode on TV Land a few years ago wondering if it really was as good as I thought it was when I was a toddler. Um, no. It ranks down close to the star wars holiday special. Thankfully I grew out of childhood early enough to avoid having ever developed twisted fond memories of Barney, or even Elmo (Elmo ruined Sesame Street).
Another show I am morbidly curious about is "Wizards and Warriors" - is it as horribly bad as I imagine it was? What about Knight Rider? I've tried watching Knight Rider on Hulu. I can't make it through a single episode. It's horrible.
"SHAZAM"! Ugh. Thanks for bringing back repressed memories. Now I'm traumatized and need to find a good shrink.;)
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Anyone who watches Star Trek knows that any time you want to solve technical problems or achieve new developments, all you need to do is reverse the polarity or invert the phase. Why didn't the folks behind the LHC try this? It's have saved billions of dollars and years of delays!;)
I wonder if this would also apply to skin? Think about burn victims, mauling victims, organ recipients, intersexed individuals - all of whom often end up with disfiguring and/or painful scars (scars are relatively inelastic). Could this kind of treatment be used to encourage skin to regenerate properly and prevent scars, or even have old scars removed, being replaced with nice smooth elastic skin? Wouldn't it be great if children who are burn victims don't have to be taunted about facial scars?
Who knows, maybe even Wacko Jacko's nose could have been fixed?;)
He was trying to save precious time so he posted "of" instead, thereby saving two keystrokes. Sadly, being an AT&T customer in a metropolitan area, he still couldn't get it.
It's legally okay when media producers have succeeded in extending copyright so that it's for all intents and purposes infinite. Copyright is defined as having a temporary effect for the good of the people, expressly for the purpose of contributing to the public domain body of arts and sciences. That the law has been extended to be practically infinite is unconstitutional, but no one has successfully challenged it because in modern cases, it's not the law that wins, but who has the deepest pockets and can appeal more times.
When you have an immoral law, it's perfectly fine to break it, IMHO.
The networks run certain ads nationwide; that is true. However, during the course of the day any given local affiliate will have open commercial timeslots (hundreds per day) to enable them to sell ad time. Now, the cable companies do not have control over that; if they want to peddle their wares they have to contact the local stations to insert their ads.
And then, there are the cable-only stations, and the "superstations" (TBS. TNT, WSBK - is WSBK a superstation any more? They're local for me, etc.) will offer their own ads, get paid by the cable companies to be carried, and the cable company will sell their own ads in timeslots the stations allow.
That's why cable companies offer studio time at their offices, and offer advertising services.
He wants to maintain a revenue stream. He wants to cut the cord of "consumers" who actually pay for service. How exactly does that help the bottom line? Does he intend to continue billing after disconnecting those paying customers?
The concept of "slavery" that the Israelites practiced was similar to indentured servitude in early US history; not similar to the slavery the Israelites endured in Egypt or africans endured here in America. If you read leviticus all the way through you'll find that the "slaves"[sic] are to be set free and all debts released after a period of time (7 years IIRC), and also, every 50 years (the year of jubilee) all land should be returned to their original owners (so in effect land wasn't sold, but rather, leased).
So yes, you can have indentured servants (termed slaves in leviticus) but NOT slavery in terms of the horrible American slavery.
Having said that, you can't really enslave Canadians. After all, Canadians aren't really people! *kidding, obviously*
I'd rather deal with the laser etching than adhesives on the fruits - especially since they don't indicate what the adhesives on the labels are. Are they allergens?
It'd also be nice if they'd etch produce such as cucumbers with the type of oil/wax they use to preserve them; is it just paraffin? Is it hypoallegenic, such as canola? Or is it one of the big allergens like peanut or soybean oil? Is it palm oil?
So, what exactly is the problem they're trying to solve?
Things are so shitty right now due to our having outsourced everything offshore and invaded several countries we didn't need to, the lawmakers need to be perceived to be accomplishing something. So why not pass unnecessary laws when there are already laws which cover distracted driving? I.e., failure to maintain control of your vehicle, improper lane changes (failure to check, failure to signal), failure to yield the right of way, "california stops" (failure to come to "complete" stop - never mind that a stop is a stop if your wheels don't cease moving), running red lights, driving too slowly, hindering the flow of traffic, traveling in the breakdown lane, traveling in the passing (far-left) lane, driving left of center, tailgating, and so on and so forth. Because all of those are going unenforced, lawmakers feel the need to pass yet another law because they aren't allowing or requiring the police to do their job, which is enforcing laws already on the books which would solve this problem already.
A "floored" engine can produce more kinetic energy than the braking system can dissipate.
With most cars, and certainly all Toyotas currently sold here, that is not true. What you're saying may be true for some cars, e.g., the ZR1, BMW, Lamborghini, etc.
If the brakes can't hold back the little bit of torque any currently-produced Toyota can muster, the vehicle is probably unsafe to start with. This is most likely going to ultimately be the same cause as the Audi "sudden acceleration" problem: people mashing on the "throttle" pedal rather than the brake, but that won't be proven until Toyota is ripped off to the tune of several million in fraudulent liability cases.
It's really not even that difficult to figure out. Nine times out of ten, the program either wants to write to HKLM\Software\$appname or wants to write to two or three configuration or log files in %programfiles%\$appname. About a quarter of the time (IMX) the documentation contains detailed information about what permissions are necessary. After that it's merely a case of using the various SysInternals monitors to figure out what's causing the problem.
You're conflating difficulty and practicality. I'd love to work for an organization which has the foresight to understand the value of best practices such as that, but it is in my experience that no employer is willing to invest that kind of time when laying out cash for antivirus subscriptions will kill the same bird. The problem with that is they are shortsighted and don't take into consideration they spend a premium for Core 2 Duo systems and are wasting a lot of that processor time (and increased power costs) to work around Windows' inherent problems. It's not the difficulty that blocks one from doing it; it's getting authorization to spend the time, and then dealing with the headache of people whining because they can't change their wallpaper, etc.
But then, most companies with that kind of foresight will be running Linux or Solaris anyhow.
I have had one client authorise it for classroom and lab computers, but staff/faculty "had" to have administrative privileges to avoid the inevitable whining.
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Why stop there? Many people don't trust banks and keep their money in mattresses. Why not withhold as much from paychecks as FICA withholds?
Hopefully the average tweeter will read multiple sources and think before posting. However, considering that most slashdotters are smarter than the average bear and a lot of the comments here are crap, I suppose I am expecting too much.
Having said that, all of this doesn't mean that Steve Dahl isn't a bonehead; he just happens to be a bonehead with a title. ;)
Finally, easy upgrades come to OpenSUSE.
sudo zypper dup !
I just had to cleanly install OpenSUSE 11.1 the other day because I was in the middle of patching 10.3 when Novell took down the repositories. I worked on the broken system for a week before making the time to reformat/reinstall. I started patching it by hand to make the 10.3 -> 11.1 dup work, but it was just too time consuming.
But anyway, I'll be running zypper dup in the next few days after demand on the servers dies down. It's about time SUSE users get a clean in-place upgrade process. :-)
The way I see it, Steve Dahl is nothing more than a bonehead with a DS-3 connection. What's the difference other than the number of readers and the username? Isn't Steve Dahl voicing his opinion? Isn't he just a person, and doesn't that mean you or I could post our opinions? What makes him so special?
Sure, there are some brain-dead yokels on both sides of the spectrum. There are the idiots who worship trees and think that trees feel and believe the "global warming" er "global climate change" chant without asking for the evidence and the raw data (okay, I admit I'm a skeptic given the revelation of how temperature sensors are installed now vs. 40 years ago and what the guidelines dictate. Too many are installed over or next to heat sinks). Then, there are those on the right who pick and choose what to believe in Christianity, you know, pick the part about man having dominion over the earth but ignore the part about being good stewards, etc.
Both extremes of the spectrum should be totally ignored. Use your brain people, moonbats and neo-cons alike! We each have the biological equivalent of a cluster of supercomputers in our head for a reason: to use it! THINK! However, that still doesn't mean every moron doesn't have the right to voice an opinion.
That is just the reality of it when you open your news site up to comments. You're going to invite the whole spectrum, and the sad thing is both moonbats and neocons are equally stupid in equally loud ways, so their posts stand out.
Including this post. ;)
I'll take a shot at it!
See, it's like this: I see strong structures like basalt columns as volkswagons, which as you know, are arch-shaped and therefore strong. Weak structures on the other hand, such as grasses, are more like smart cars: easily crushed and, well, no where to go from here. I got nothin'. Sorry. Ask BadAnalogyGuy.
The current and last three presidential administrations already did!
Well, maybe you don't. ;)
Breaking the standards to implement policy is a good thing sometimes. Take SPF records for example: if they were to become widespread, then spam could very easily be reduced by probably 99%.
Many of us wish we could forget ever having been exposed to that show as children. I watched an episode on TV Land a few years ago wondering if it really was as good as I thought it was when I was a toddler. Um, no. It ranks down close to the star wars holiday special. Thankfully I grew out of childhood early enough to avoid having ever developed twisted fond memories of Barney, or even Elmo (Elmo ruined Sesame Street).
Another show I am morbidly curious about is "Wizards and Warriors" - is it as horribly bad as I imagine it was? What about Knight Rider? I've tried watching Knight Rider on Hulu. I can't make it through a single episode. It's horrible.
"SHAZAM"! Ugh. Thanks for bringing back repressed memories. Now I'm traumatized and need to find a good shrink. ;)
Anyone who watches Star Trek knows that any time you want to solve technical problems or achieve new developments, all you need to do is reverse the polarity or invert the phase. Why didn't the folks behind the LHC try this? It's have saved billions of dollars and years of delays! ;)
I wonder if this would also apply to skin? Think about burn victims, mauling victims, organ recipients, intersexed individuals - all of whom often end up with disfiguring and/or painful scars (scars are relatively inelastic). Could this kind of treatment be used to encourage skin to regenerate properly and prevent scars, or even have old scars removed, being replaced with nice smooth elastic skin? Wouldn't it be great if children who are burn victims don't have to be taunted about facial scars?
Who knows, maybe even Wacko Jacko's nose could have been fixed? ;)
He was trying to save precious time so he posted "of" instead, thereby saving two keystrokes. Sadly, being an AT&T customer in a metropolitan area, he still couldn't get it.
It's advertised as unlimited so they cannot legally cap it. Doing so would be fraud.
Not me, because this growth is what AT&T hoped for and is exactly why they worked hard to gain the exclusive arrangement with Apple.
It's legally okay when media producers have succeeded in extending copyright so that it's for all intents and purposes infinite. Copyright is defined as having a temporary effect for the good of the people, expressly for the purpose of contributing to the public domain body of arts and sciences. That the law has been extended to be practically infinite is unconstitutional, but no one has successfully challenged it because in modern cases, it's not the law that wins, but who has the deepest pockets and can appeal more times.
When you have an immoral law, it's perfectly fine to break it, IMHO.
I don't think you know how it works.
The networks run certain ads nationwide; that is true. However, during the course of the day any given local affiliate will have open commercial timeslots (hundreds per day) to enable them to sell ad time. Now, the cable companies do not have control over that; if they want to peddle their wares they have to contact the local stations to insert their ads.
And then, there are the cable-only stations, and the "superstations" (TBS. TNT, WSBK - is WSBK a superstation any more? They're local for me, etc.) will offer their own ads, get paid by the cable companies to be carried, and the cable company will sell their own ads in timeslots the stations allow.
That's why cable companies offer studio time at their offices, and offer advertising services.
I don't get it.
He wants to maintain a revenue stream. He wants to cut the cord of "consumers" who actually pay for service. How exactly does that help the bottom line? Does he intend to continue billing after disconnecting those paying customers?
If I learned anything from watching TV, it's that Canada is America, Jr. and therefore there is no reason to visit. Homer Simpson taught me that. ;)
The concept of "slavery" that the Israelites practiced was similar to indentured servitude in early US history; not similar to the slavery the Israelites endured in Egypt or africans endured here in America. If you read leviticus all the way through you'll find that the "slaves"[sic] are to be set free and all debts released after a period of time (7 years IIRC), and also, every 50 years (the year of jubilee) all land should be returned to their original owners (so in effect land wasn't sold, but rather, leased).
So yes, you can have indentured servants (termed slaves in leviticus) but NOT slavery in terms of the horrible American slavery.
Having said that, you can't really enslave Canadians. After all, Canadians aren't really people! *kidding, obviously*
I'd rather deal with the laser etching than adhesives on the fruits - especially since they don't indicate what the adhesives on the labels are. Are they allergens?
It'd also be nice if they'd etch produce such as cucumbers with the type of oil/wax they use to preserve them; is it just paraffin? Is it hypoallegenic, such as canola? Or is it one of the big allergens like peanut or soybean oil? Is it palm oil?
Things are so shitty right now due to our having outsourced everything offshore and invaded several countries we didn't need to, the lawmakers need to be perceived to be accomplishing something. So why not pass unnecessary laws when there are already laws which cover distracted driving? I.e., failure to maintain control of your vehicle, improper lane changes (failure to check, failure to signal), failure to yield the right of way, "california stops" (failure to come to "complete" stop - never mind that a stop is a stop if your wheels don't cease moving), running red lights, driving too slowly, hindering the flow of traffic, traveling in the breakdown lane, traveling in the passing (far-left) lane, driving left of center, tailgating, and so on and so forth. Because all of those are going unenforced, lawmakers feel the need to pass yet another law because they aren't allowing or requiring the police to do their job, which is enforcing laws already on the books which would solve this problem already.
Does a catapult launching an elk into the air really qualify as a launch site? ;)
With most cars, and certainly all Toyotas currently sold here, that is not true. What you're saying may be true for some cars, e.g., the ZR1, BMW, Lamborghini, etc.
If the brakes can't hold back the little bit of torque any currently-produced Toyota can muster, the vehicle is probably unsafe to start with. This is most likely going to ultimately be the same cause as the Audi "sudden acceleration" problem: people mashing on the "throttle" pedal rather than the brake, but that won't be proven until Toyota is ripped off to the tune of several million in fraudulent liability cases.
That's even worse because not only do you get only "virtual" mouse buttons, but zero tactile feedback.
On top of that, Macbook keyboards feel. . . weird. Lenovo's and Dell's higher end notebooks are actually enjoyable to type on.
I like the OS. I just don't like the hardware.
You're conflating difficulty and practicality. I'd love to work for an organization which has the foresight to understand the value of best practices such as that, but it is in my experience that no employer is willing to invest that kind of time when laying out cash for antivirus subscriptions will kill the same bird. The problem with that is they are shortsighted and don't take into consideration they spend a premium for Core 2 Duo systems and are wasting a lot of that processor time (and increased power costs) to work around Windows' inherent problems. It's not the difficulty that blocks one from doing it; it's getting authorization to spend the time, and then dealing with the headache of people whining because they can't change their wallpaper, etc.
But then, most companies with that kind of foresight will be running Linux or Solaris anyhow.
I have had one client authorise it for classroom and lab computers, but staff/faculty "had" to have administrative privileges to avoid the inevitable whining.