I'd suspect natto is called "field meat" because it literally smells like meat that has been left out in a field for several days. It doesn't taste much better, if you can keep yourself from gagging on it. If you brought that on a spaceship most non-Japanese would shove your ass out an airlock. Everyone claims it has health benefits, mostly because there seems to be no other reason why one would feed someone the stuff. But you can get the same from just eating unfermented soybeans, which don't stink and actually taste pretty good.
Trust me, there's not even a valid comparison between kimchi and natto. Uncooked kimchi smells slightly of vinegar, and the inoffensive varieties have the taste and texture of slightly spicy pickles. It won't offend anyone else at the table. Natto (ALL natto) smells like a foot taken out of a 6 week plaster cast, tastes about the same as it smells, and has the texture of chunky snot. Its odor is overwhelming and spreads through the room. You'd have to have a malfunctioning olfactory nerve to eat that stuff. Sorry, man, but I think you're crazy.
Ah, I just thought of something to make your comment even better! Next time, try "I'm going to _secure my windows_ so those flying pigs..." Same meaning, slightly rearranged, infinitely more Slashdot appeal!
Heh, if you ever go to a foreign country memorize the PIN before you arrive. The order of the keys on the keypad is not the same in every country.
Recently my bank here randomized the number rows on the touchscreen to prevent attacks like hiding a camera and watching the person's hand movements to scope their PIN. It threw me off; the first time I saw it I thought the ATM had been hacked!
Very little data can leak out to non-encrypted space (yeah,/var/tmp is one).
Just curious; if you have a separate/tmp partition, is there a reason you can't symlink/var/tmp to/tmp? Or more accurately, is there a reason one shouldn't?
I don't know if English is your first language, but whether you like it or not people will judge your writing by its spelling and grammar. When you use them properly it shows that you've read your post before hitting submit and that you pay attention to details. One typo is generally excusable; everyone makes mistakes. On the other hand, multiple errors in capitalization, punctuation, and spelling make you look ignorant, regardless of the content of your post. Syntax mistakes also make your post confusing and difficult to read. At the worst it can change the meaning of your post. "Threw out" and "throughout" mean two completely different things.
You might make good points, but if you don't show enough respect to proofread your own posts then many people will simply not take the time to decipher them. If you don't take your own writing seriously, why should I read what you wrote? This is the Internet, and the only thing we have to judge you by are your words. Make them good.
I agree that calendars are necessary for corporate deployment. But while you mentioned other stand-alone clients, where are they? I need something that doesn't suck security-wise (*cough* Outlook Express), is supported on multiple platforms (sorry KMail), isn't packaged with a bunch of other stuff I don't need (no thanks, Seamonkey), is full-featured and graphical (I love you pine and mutt, but most users won't deal with a CLI), and doesn't have annoying interface bugs (Thunderbird, you are really on the edge here). First and foremost, I want a program that does email perfectly. A stand-alone client like that currently does not exist. (And don't tell me to go to webmail, I'm not going to put up with waiting several seconds between each email, and I need to be able to read my old mail and compose new mail on an airplane.)
Corporate users should have a "corporate plugin" with all the calendaring and shared address book stuff in there. Have it as an option during install, sure, but if I'm a home user I don't want the clutter of Outlook and I certainly don't want the bloat.
Right now I'm looking for entry level positions doing embedded systems work. This is what I want to do. The problem is that every job position I've looked at wants at least 2 years of professional experience. If you look up the article author's company, his most basic level positions say "The candidate should have a minimum of 2-5 years experience of embedded software development" and their FAQ page says "We are pretty fussy about who we hire. That is to say that if you are a true real-time, or embedded, engineering professional with 5+ years of experience, with any RTOS..." In that context, his article reads like a whine-fest. Everybody has to start somewhere. If nobody offers entry level positions, how do they expect to hire people into the field?
Either he can offer entry level jobs and bitch that nobody can do them, or he can shut up. Seriously. Take a risk or two. Start offering newbies jobs, Mr. Anderson, and then you'll have room to complain.
Try Korea. In terms of infrastructure it's much like Japan, but everything costs less. The food from restaurants and street vendors is great and people seem more open than in Japan. Oh, and Korean is a hell of a lot simpler to read. I spent a week in Seoul and it was fantastic.
I don't know if you know about this, but all the OLPC XOs I've seen are BRIGHT GREEN. If you're trying to keep a low profile, nothing screams "look at me" like neon green anything. Sure, nobody will know about it if it's in a bag, but you do intend on using it eventually, right?
Its not like you have to reach anywhere. stick your finger out and flip it up or down. pretty easy.
Indeed, I've seen that many drivers seem to have already mastered half of that equation, sticking their middle finger out the window and flipping it up.
Storage is getting so cheap now that it's going to be trivial for the ISP to cache upstream, assuming the protocols are smart enough. Hell, give every customer a box with a terabyte drive and have it autocache whatever is piped to your neighbors. When you select a program, if it's cached close enough to you (or in the process of being cached), then it's no problem. At that point it effectively uses no extra bandwidth, and you could play it at the same time as your neighbor or staggered 6 hours or however you wanted. It would be the ultimate time-shifting device! The point is, how many different programs or movies are people really going to be watching? I'd bet the variety isn't as much as you'd think.
If everybody picked from a menu a few days before and the movie was dribbled over the network in time to be cached and ready to go, that'd be one thing. But that's not the vision. The vision is, "You've never seen Gone with the Wind? Let's watch it now."
I've got 100MBps fiber straight into my apartment in Japan, in what I'd consider to be a rural area. My bandwidth is good enough to grab a torrent of a 2 hour xvid compressed movie in one hour. And then while I'm watching that, I can queue up two more. If the video were streamed beginning to end instead of piecemeal, I could hit play and watch the movie without stopping, but even having to wait an hour it's trivial to invite some friends over, pick a couple movies to queue up, go out to eat somewhere, and have the movies ready to go when we return. The tech is already there, the bandwidth is fine; but the US needs to catch up to the rest of the civilized world.
We'll get some ISS launches and some wind tunnel tests oh yeah (Keep talking whoa keep talking) A mach 10 liftoff and special coated paper oh yeah (I'll get the money I'll kill to get the money) With a paperclip on the tail, out the airlock it'll bail To be completely fair, we'll be catchin lots of air In Creased Lightning Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go Go creased lightning you're burning up on reentry (Creased lightning go creased lightning) Go creased lightning you're coasting through the atmosphere You are supreme the chicks'll cream for creased lightning
CRTs have better contrast. Try doing serious photo editing on an LCD sometime. They've gotten better, but I still have to screw with gamma to be able to see detail in shadows on my laptop LCD, while the same details are perfectly visible on my old beater CRT.
Very good idea. One possible problem: if the shutdown is canceled once, the computer will not shut down the next day either if the user remains logged in. You can use the/every flag to have the job automatically repeat itself. If you remote ran that as network admin, and if you have your security set up properly, nobody else will be able to delete that AT job. But they can still abort the individual shutdown if they need to.
They could have solved this entire issue by making consoles that aren't region locked. There are dozens of Wii consoles sitting at my local game shop here in Japan, and there's no big Christmas rush here. Since you're probably making the consoles in China or Malaysia and have to ship them anyway, and if there is a surplus in Japan, you'd say, why doesn't Nintendo just ship the extra units from Japan to the U.S.? Well they can't, because they've factory-locked the console to only play discs from Japan. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
The way to design a product you're selling internationally is to prompt the user for a language on first boot-up (I think the iPod does this), package in a regionalized manual or a universal manual with just pictures of how to set it up, and include a localized power cord. Of course, you have to design the console to operate in either PAL or NTSC. But a nice perk of this is that you don't piss off the few customers who want to play games released only in another region. Of course, that means you won't be able to charge twice as much for games sold in the UK and Australia anymore, but you'll more than make up for it in volume.
Nintendo really shot themselves in the foot with this. They got it right with the DS and fucked it up with the Wii. It was completely avoidable.
Which is great, except that they're all streaming sites, and usually in some Flash container. On top of that the video and audio quality are absolute crap compared to the equivalent xvid or H.264 torrent. The proprietary flash containers I've seen still don't let me watch it in fullscreen (or if they do the blocking artifacts are abysmal), and I still can't pause or skip the commercials in the middle of the shows. Oh, and if my internet connection or their server has a hiccup the stream breaks. If I reload the page I can't start off where I stopped, because God forbid, if they gave me the ability to fast forward I might skip their irrelevant commercials. On the other hand, when I hit "play" on a local video file I know it will play until it reaches the end. And I can watch it on overseas flights.
Apart from the legal end, I'm not seeing any advantage to streaming off the official site versus downloading the entire season off a torrent and watching it when and where I please. And even for the legal aspect: where you can convince people it's wrong to download a movie instead of purchasing it, most regular folks have trouble seeing why it would be illegal to download something you can get for free off the airwaves. I don't think backchannel TV distribution is going anywhere, even with legitimate streaming. In that sense, It's good the networks are seeing the relation between torrents and watching it on a normal TV.
Actually, I think he could do it equally well in C++, following some special guidelines. Within a given program, either all loops would either begin with "do", or none of them would. In addition, Yoda's code would never use exception handling.
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Close only counts with... approximation algorithms? I think you're pushing the limits of this joke...
I'd suspect natto is called "field meat" because it literally smells like meat that has been left out in a field for several days. It doesn't taste much better, if you can keep yourself from gagging on it. If you brought that on a spaceship most non-Japanese would shove your ass out an airlock. Everyone claims it has health benefits, mostly because there seems to be no other reason why one would feed someone the stuff. But you can get the same from just eating unfermented soybeans, which don't stink and actually taste pretty good.
Trust me, there's not even a valid comparison between kimchi and natto. Uncooked kimchi smells slightly of vinegar, and the inoffensive varieties have the taste and texture of slightly spicy pickles. It won't offend anyone else at the table. Natto (ALL natto) smells like a foot taken out of a 6 week plaster cast, tastes about the same as it smells, and has the texture of chunky snot. Its odor is overwhelming and spreads through the room. You'd have to have a malfunctioning olfactory nerve to eat that stuff. Sorry, man, but I think you're crazy.
Ah, I just thought of something to make your comment even better! Next time, try "I'm going to _secure my windows_ so those flying pigs..." Same meaning, slightly rearranged, infinitely more Slashdot appeal!
Heh, if you ever go to a foreign country memorize the PIN before you arrive. The order of the keys on the keypad is not the same in every country.
Recently my bank here randomized the number rows on the touchscreen to prevent attacks like hiding a camera and watching the person's hand movements to scope their PIN. It threw me off; the first time I saw it I thought the ATM had been hacked!
Very little data can leak out to non-encrypted space (yeah, /var/tmp is one).
/tmp partition, is there a reason you can't symlink /var/tmp to /tmp? Or more accurately, is there a reason one shouldn't?
Just curious; if you have a separate
I don't know if English is your first language, but whether you like it or not people will judge your writing by its spelling and grammar. When you use them properly it shows that you've read your post before hitting submit and that you pay attention to details. One typo is generally excusable; everyone makes mistakes. On the other hand, multiple errors in capitalization, punctuation, and spelling make you look ignorant, regardless of the content of your post. Syntax mistakes also make your post confusing and difficult to read. At the worst it can change the meaning of your post. "Threw out" and "throughout" mean two completely different things.
You might make good points, but if you don't show enough respect to proofread your own posts then many people will simply not take the time to decipher them. If you don't take your own writing seriously, why should I read what you wrote? This is the Internet, and the only thing we have to judge you by are your words. Make them good.
I agree that calendars are necessary for corporate deployment. But while you mentioned other stand-alone clients, where are they? I need something that doesn't suck security-wise (*cough* Outlook Express), is supported on multiple platforms (sorry KMail), isn't packaged with a bunch of other stuff I don't need (no thanks, Seamonkey), is full-featured and graphical (I love you pine and mutt, but most users won't deal with a CLI), and doesn't have annoying interface bugs (Thunderbird, you are really on the edge here). First and foremost, I want a program that does email perfectly. A stand-alone client like that currently does not exist. (And don't tell me to go to webmail, I'm not going to put up with waiting several seconds between each email, and I need to be able to read my old mail and compose new mail on an airplane.)
Corporate users should have a "corporate plugin" with all the calendaring and shared address book stuff in there. Have it as an option during install, sure, but if I'm a home user I don't want the clutter of Outlook and I certainly don't want the bloat.
I say we launch it into orbit, and nuke it from the surface. It's the only way to be sure.
What do you think this is, Soviet Russia?
Right now I'm looking for entry level positions doing embedded systems work. This is what I want to do. The problem is that every job position I've looked at wants at least 2 years of professional experience. If you look up the article author's company, his most basic level positions say "The candidate should have a minimum of 2-5 years experience of embedded software development" and their FAQ page says "We are pretty fussy about who we hire. That is to say that if you are a true real-time, or embedded, engineering professional with 5+ years of experience, with any RTOS..." In that context, his article reads like a whine-fest. Everybody has to start somewhere. If nobody offers entry level positions, how do they expect to hire people into the field?
Either he can offer entry level jobs and bitch that nobody can do them, or he can shut up. Seriously. Take a risk or two. Start offering newbies jobs, Mr. Anderson, and then you'll have room to complain.
Try Korea. In terms of infrastructure it's much like Japan, but everything costs less. The food from restaurants and street vendors is great and people seem more open than in Japan. Oh, and Korean is a hell of a lot simpler to read. I spent a week in Seoul and it was fantastic.
I don't know if you know about this, but all the OLPC XOs I've seen are BRIGHT GREEN. If you're trying to keep a low profile, nothing screams "look at me" like neon green anything. Sure, nobody will know about it if it's in a bag, but you do intend on using it eventually, right?
How appropriate.
You fight like a cow?
Wow. That reads like a curse from Harry Potter fan fiction.
Its not like you have to reach anywhere. stick your finger out and flip it up or down. pretty easy. Indeed, I've seen that many drivers seem to have already mastered half of that equation, sticking their middle finger out the window and flipping it up.
Is that an African or a European MAX_INT?
Basically, if it wasn't for the fire-hazard sodium would be close to an ideal reactor coolant.
So in other words, a sodium-cooled breeder reactor would be ideal in places where liquid water doesn't naturally exist... like Mars, or the moon?
I've got 100MBps fiber straight into my apartment in Japan, in what I'd consider to be a rural area. My bandwidth is good enough to grab a torrent of a 2 hour xvid compressed movie in one hour. And then while I'm watching that, I can queue up two more. If the video were streamed beginning to end instead of piecemeal, I could hit play and watch the movie without stopping, but even having to wait an hour it's trivial to invite some friends over, pick a couple movies to queue up, go out to eat somewhere, and have the movies ready to go when we return. The tech is already there, the bandwidth is fine; but the US needs to catch up to the rest of the civilized world.
"odd things like Li-Po batteries"
First thought: Geez, they're putting Polonium in batteries now?
After a quick googling: Nevermind.
Please don't call it that. Li is an element, and readers will assume Po refers to the element as well. Li-Poly is much less misleading.
We'll get some ISS launches and some wind tunnel tests
oh yeah
(Keep talking whoa keep talking)
A mach 10 liftoff and special coated paper oh yeah
(I'll get the money I'll kill to get the money)
With a paperclip on the tail, out the airlock it'll bail
To be completely fair, we'll be catchin lots of air
In Creased Lightning
Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go
Go creased lightning you're burning up on reentry
(Creased lightning go creased lightning)
Go creased lightning you're coasting through the atmosphere
You are supreme the chicks'll cream for creased lightning
CRTs have better contrast. Try doing serious photo editing on an LCD sometime. They've gotten better, but I still have to screw with gamma to be able to see detail in shadows on my laptop LCD, while the same details are perfectly visible on my old beater CRT.
Very good idea. One possible problem: if the shutdown is canceled once, the computer will not shut down the next day either if the user remains logged in. You can use the /every flag to have the job automatically repeat itself. If you remote ran that as network admin, and if you have your security set up properly, nobody else will be able to delete that AT job. But they can still abort the individual shutdown if they need to.
Since when was E3 held in Louisiana?
They could have solved this entire issue by making consoles that aren't region locked. There are dozens of Wii consoles sitting at my local game shop here in Japan, and there's no big Christmas rush here. Since you're probably making the consoles in China or Malaysia and have to ship them anyway, and if there is a surplus in Japan, you'd say, why doesn't Nintendo just ship the extra units from Japan to the U.S.? Well they can't, because they've factory-locked the console to only play discs from Japan. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
The way to design a product you're selling internationally is to prompt the user for a language on first boot-up (I think the iPod does this), package in a regionalized manual or a universal manual with just pictures of how to set it up, and include a localized power cord. Of course, you have to design the console to operate in either PAL or NTSC. But a nice perk of this is that you don't piss off the few customers who want to play games released only in another region. Of course, that means you won't be able to charge twice as much for games sold in the UK and Australia anymore, but you'll more than make up for it in volume.
Nintendo really shot themselves in the foot with this. They got it right with the DS and fucked it up with the Wii. It was completely avoidable.
Which is great, except that they're all streaming sites, and usually in some Flash container. On top of that the video and audio quality are absolute crap compared to the equivalent xvid or H.264 torrent. The proprietary flash containers I've seen still don't let me watch it in fullscreen (or if they do the blocking artifacts are abysmal), and I still can't pause or skip the commercials in the middle of the shows. Oh, and if my internet connection or their server has a hiccup the stream breaks. If I reload the page I can't start off where I stopped, because God forbid, if they gave me the ability to fast forward I might skip their irrelevant commercials. On the other hand, when I hit "play" on a local video file I know it will play until it reaches the end. And I can watch it on overseas flights.
Apart from the legal end, I'm not seeing any advantage to streaming off the official site versus downloading the entire season off a torrent and watching it when and where I please. And even for the legal aspect: where you can convince people it's wrong to download a movie instead of purchasing it, most regular folks have trouble seeing why it would be illegal to download something you can get for free off the airwaves. I don't think backchannel TV distribution is going anywhere, even with legitimate streaming. In that sense, It's good the networks are seeing the relation between torrents and watching it on a normal TV.
Actually, I think he could do it equally well in C++, following some special guidelines. Within a given program, either all loops would either begin with "do", or none of them would. In addition, Yoda's code would never use exception handling.