I just got back from a trip to New Zealand where we visited Hobbiton (Matamata) and the "greens people" had just been there, adding hedges and such. But it was still very early going, and it looked to me like it would take another year of growing before it had the lived-in look of LOTR. The tour guide on site suggested something similar, so the stated July start seems odd to me...
I have killed more people than Hitler. It's true.
I have murdered millions of Nazis and slaughtered as many dragons. I have raped Native Americans and killed hundreds of thousands of cops. I have killed aliens that looked like pigs dressed as cops. I have destroyed feminism by flashing cash at strippers. I have committed genocide. I have wiped the earth clean of barbarians, Romans, Egyptians, Germans, and the Mongols. I have brought sword to creatures great and small because they may be carrying gold. I have killed creatures and then thrown away anything they were carrying because I did not deem it worthy. I have lied, cheated and double crossed denizens of the wasteland, a fairy kingdom, an ancient alien race and time travelers. I have shot mutants and bounty hunters in the groin and face. After killing someone else who I have never met and who had done me no wrong I crouched over his dead body and tea bagged him. I have enslaved a star faring race and then traded those slaves for military secrets. I have spied on other countries, planets and star systems and sabotaged numerous public works to cause strife and disorder. I have starved cities and brought whips down on my workers so that they may finish great works in my name before someone else did the same. I have stabbed kings and rezoned miles of pristine wilderness into ash spewing city hell holes. I have built nuclear reactors and then let them go critical so that I may laugh at the death toll and then, while the people were still putting out the atomic fires, I have unleashed Godzilla and a hurricane onto them. I have built swimming pools and then removed the exit ladders to watch people drown. I have smashed buildings to grab people inside and then eat them.
But I don't expect it will reappear on desktops any time soon. Apparently they have managed to control the alpha radiation to a great extent, and so the actual radiation-caused errors are now occurring at a much lower rate, significantly lower than software-induced BSODs.
vegetarianism and veganism are, for most of the world, unusual.
And by most of the world you mean most of the western world I guess? Go look in Asia, you'll find around a billion people who consider not eating meat very usual (see Hindu).
I love seeing numbers like this attached to a real use case. Have you written this up somewhere, or do you have some links that identify other best practices in Rails? A thought-out, tested look at Rails best practices is sorely missing from the RoR scene.
Don't forget Microsoft's recent acquisition of iView Media Pro (http://www.iview-multimedia.com/), the only photo management/editing software I could find that could handle IPTC metadata in a way that made sense for me. iView has a pretty big following in the Mac community too, but I'm not sure how long the Mac version of iView will last...
So I'm a reasonably smart nerd and as a teenager had hair down to my ass and was a freakin metal-maniac. In my twenties I "grew up" and sold most of my metal and didn't miss it. On a recent plane ride though I saw Metal: A Headbanger's Journey by happy accident. Excellent movie (party on Wayne!). I got all amped up about metal again and went out and bought up all kinds of metal - like 30 cds in two weeks. How I've survived the last 10 years without Master of Puppets I have no idea - fucking fantastic! 3pm rolls around and the ipod almost always creeps to the metal end of the dial and half the time I end up giggling about how good this stuff is.
If you, as consumers of News for Nerds, used to have the black t-shirt and jeans standard issue uniform but have since "grown up", I strongly encourage a revisit to the used bin at your local record store, you won't regret it, and your code will improve! (Ok maybe not, but in the spirit of TFA, my code improved therefore the whole population's will as well Q.E.D.)
You misunderstand the meaning of threat. The US isn't worried about "terrorists" attacking the US or any of its client states. The US is worried about various resource-heavy (read: oil owning) countries developing real democracies, following the will of their people, and therefore stopping following the US marching orders. It isn't even controversial that the US invasion of Iraq would increase terrorism - that was expected. By scanning foreign media the US should be able to pick up on the real threats: people organizing for the purposes of solidarity and democratic rule, wanting to get rid of the US overlords and their mega corporations bent on removing any real threat of democracy.
I should note that by "US" I mean the US executive - Bush, Cheney, Wolfowitz et al. What they want is very different from what the majority of the American people want.
Any of you tried to read Wired magazine lately (as in the paper version)? They changed the layout of the magazine, a bunch of the design (fonts etc) and whaddya know, the ads changed at around the same time. The latest issue is the most inisidious, where an article on fancy gizmos is interspersed every other page with a 10pg GeekSquad ad that looks exactly like the article. It got bad enough that I just said, "Fuck this".
Just like mass transit requires mass, so does getting any kind of reasonable return out of setting up fibre to the door infrastructure. It should come as no surprise that sprawling, sparse North America should be way behind the likes of western Europe.
I guess someone else believes the mac mini-as-dvr rumours then too. Personally, I've been jonesing for a mini since they came out and the dvr/media centre functionality ought to do it - never mind tivo and it's singular focus.
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Anyone else distressed that in order to shoot these things you have to point your gun, you know, up in the air?
No, there's a hefty fuckin' fee.
Aristotle was a student of Plato
Wait a minute, those people were real?
Even more, they were rational!
This kind of shit is why I keep coming back to slashdot. Well played!
You said you, referring to me, which is incorrect. The correct answer is you.
I just got back from a trip to New Zealand where we visited Hobbiton (Matamata) and the "greens people" had just been there, adding hedges and such. But it was still very early going, and it looked to me like it would take another year of growing before it had the lived-in look of LOTR. The tour guide on site suggested something similar, so the stated July start seems odd to me...
This kind of post is exactly why I come to slashdot. Well done.
I have killed more people than Hitler. It's true. I have murdered millions of Nazis and slaughtered as many dragons. I have raped Native Americans and killed hundreds of thousands of cops. I have killed aliens that looked like pigs dressed as cops. I have destroyed feminism by flashing cash at strippers. I have committed genocide. I have wiped the earth clean of barbarians, Romans, Egyptians, Germans, and the Mongols. I have brought sword to creatures great and small because they may be carrying gold. I have killed creatures and then thrown away anything they were carrying because I did not deem it worthy. I have lied, cheated and double crossed denizens of the wasteland, a fairy kingdom, an ancient alien race and time travelers. I have shot mutants and bounty hunters in the groin and face. After killing someone else who I have never met and who had done me no wrong I crouched over his dead body and tea bagged him. I have enslaved a star faring race and then traded those slaves for military secrets. I have spied on other countries, planets and star systems and sabotaged numerous public works to cause strife and disorder. I have starved cities and brought whips down on my workers so that they may finish great works in my name before someone else did the same. I have stabbed kings and rezoned miles of pristine wilderness into ash spewing city hell holes. I have built nuclear reactors and then let them go critical so that I may laugh at the death toll and then, while the people were still putting out the atomic fires, I have unleashed Godzilla and a hurricane onto them. I have built swimming pools and then removed the exit ladders to watch people drown. I have smashed buildings to grab people inside and then eat them.
...but you still haven't gone to college.
But I don't expect it will reappear on desktops any time soon. Apparently they have managed to control the alpha radiation to a great extent, and so the actual radiation-caused errors are now occurring at a much lower rate, significantly lower than software-induced BSODs.
Actually, Mac Pros use ECC, and have for awhile now: http://www.apple.com/ca/macpro/design.html
Nicely done - the more links, the better for all of us.
We do not need more tards in Computer Science.
Don't worry scrote. There are plenty of 'tards out there living really kick ass lives. My first wife was 'tarded. She's a pilot now.
vegetarianism and veganism are, for most of the world, unusual.
And by most of the world you mean most of the western world I guess? Go look in Asia, you'll find around a billion people who consider not eating meat very usual (see Hindu).
"I was elected to lead, not to read." *sigh*
I love seeing numbers like this attached to a real use case. Have you written this up somewhere, or do you have some links that identify other best practices in Rails? A thought-out, tested look at Rails best practices is sorely missing from the RoR scene.
Don't forget Microsoft's recent acquisition of iView Media Pro (http://www.iview-multimedia.com/), the only photo management/editing software I could find that could handle IPTC metadata in a way that made sense for me. iView has a pretty big following in the Mac community too, but I'm not sure how long the Mac version of iView will last...
So I'm a reasonably smart nerd and as a teenager had hair down to my ass and was a freakin metal-maniac. In my twenties I "grew up" and sold most of my metal and didn't miss it. On a recent plane ride though I saw Metal: A Headbanger's Journey by happy accident. Excellent movie (party on Wayne!). I got all amped up about metal again and went out and bought up all kinds of metal - like 30 cds in two weeks. How I've survived the last 10 years without Master of Puppets I have no idea - fucking fantastic! 3pm rolls around and the ipod almost always creeps to the metal end of the dial and half the time I end up giggling about how good this stuff is.
If you, as consumers of News for Nerds, used to have the black t-shirt and jeans standard issue uniform but have since "grown up", I strongly encourage a revisit to the used bin at your local record store, you won't regret it, and your code will improve! (Ok maybe not, but in the spirit of TFA, my code improved therefore the whole population's will as well Q.E.D.)
You misunderstand the meaning of threat. The US isn't worried about "terrorists" attacking the US or any of its client states. The US is worried about various resource-heavy (read: oil owning) countries developing real democracies, following the will of their people, and therefore stopping following the US marching orders. It isn't even controversial that the US invasion of Iraq would increase terrorism - that was expected. By scanning foreign media the US should be able to pick up on the real threats: people organizing for the purposes of solidarity and democratic rule, wanting to get rid of the US overlords and their mega corporations bent on removing any real threat of democracy. I should note that by "US" I mean the US executive - Bush, Cheney, Wolfowitz et al. What they want is very different from what the majority of the American people want.
Any of you tried to read Wired magazine lately (as in the paper version)? They changed the layout of the magazine, a bunch of the design (fonts etc) and whaddya know, the ads changed at around the same time. The latest issue is the most inisidious, where an article on fancy gizmos is interspersed every other page with a 10pg GeekSquad ad that looks exactly like the article. It got bad enough that I just said, "Fuck this".
Just like mass transit requires mass, so does getting any kind of reasonable return out of setting up fibre to the door infrastructure. It should come as no surprise that sprawling, sparse North America should be way behind the likes of western Europe.
I guess someone else believes the mac mini-as-dvr rumours then too. Personally, I've been jonesing for a mini since they came out and the dvr/media centre functionality ought to do it - never mind tivo and it's singular focus.