Which is why I have stuck with AMD since the Socket A days...
Sure, I don't get as quite as good performance but I use it for programming and web servers (development and live). When I order dedicated hosting, it has to be AMD... I _do not_ want to see them flop. I think they are doing an awesome job but every 16-year-old seems to think that spending $900 on a processor for that 4 FPS gain is worth it.... I don't understand it.
The only Intel parts in my home is the girlfriends Mac mini.
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I'm not sure why you are preaching security and recommending NoScript.
NoScript is a bandage solution. It offers no real Security or Privacy. If anything, I feel that Adblock Plus does more to protect you... without breaking the internet.
Yes. We do need better security in JavaScript, I completely agree... but NoScript is NOT the answer.
NoScript exclaims to be the best security feature in the world.... but think about it like this:
- You are using Firefox 3 with NoScript - You are browsing around the net with default settings - You come across a page that has some nifty features you want to give a try, but oops! You need Javascript. - You decide to Enable JS on the page for a temporary session (or whatever it's called) - Site contains some form of malware and infects your computer.... how did NoScript protect you? If you answer honestly, it didn't.
What we need is on-the-fly analysing of code to determine if it may potentially be insecure or malware encrusted. If this were implemented right (although I know it would be quite difficult), it should look for external scripts and ask to block them if they don't come from a trusted site. It should also check for overflows or things that may crash your browser and warn you (this is semi implemented -- if the script goes off it's rocker Firefox will tell you it's about to freeze/crash). And so on and so forth...
I am not that kind of programmer... if I was I'd have started on a plugin ages ago. Needless to say I am a web developer and the only real JS I use is within custom content management systems.
I know this post may get overlooked.... but I'll try anyway.
I am in a very similar situation. We've been together for 3 years, living together for a little over a year and a half.
We are both very geeky. I am a programmer/web developer/fiddler in electronics/robotics. Needless to say, she is interested in these area's too... Although I think it's because I am and she wanted to spend some more time with me.
When it all boils down to it, girls are still girls. They don't care where it came from, they don't care what it's made of. They just want a ring that is pretty and can show off to their friends.
That's it.
It can be $200 or $20,000... she'll love the ring all the same because it came from you.
As an aside: Just this past Thursday (Aug. 28th) was our 3 years together. I organized a night in a nice hotel in 'The City' (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada) and purchased a Promise Ring. Not an Engagement Ring... just a Promise Ring. It cost me about 2/3 of a weeks salary (needless to say I make about $800/week). She had to go back to work today, and I can tell you she is probably all giddy showing off her ring to her friends at this very moment.
I'm frustrated about the number of SDKs to pick up, Symbian, Windows Mobile, now iPhone SDK.. Google's Android and then this!
It should be noted that this has been around longer than the iPhone/SDK as well as Google Android. The OpenMoko project was announced January 20th, 2007.
I _like_ the point and click functionality of the Wiimote. I do not like waving my hand in the air in every other direction to try and click on something.
The new Provincial Gov't appears to be selling it and making use of this natural resource (which is now worth a fortune) whereas previous Provincial Gov't had some ridiculous rules and regulations to companies buying/selling SK oil. I understood to a point... but their (major) demands were that they had to be SK owned companies. No companies from other provinces or even the U.S. could come and buy it from us.
The AB Gov't decided years ago that they would let anyone come and drill the oil and just pay a nice big tax to export it. Their plan was to get out of debt with the Federal Gov't in 10 years... they did it in 3. They are the only province that does not have a Provincial Goods/Service Tax. All while little ol' SK was sitting here on top of more oil than AB.
Now the rules have changed I think and we are doing as AB is... but I don't remember. Politics bore me... although I do understand the importance of keeping up.... and that's my story.
No, they are not alive even if they can get sick. Viruses, even infected ones, cannot self-replicate as they require the use of a host and host machinery.
So we don't live off our host (earth)?
We breathe the air around us, eat the plants/animals that surround us, make use of all the resources around us... I'd say the earth is, in a way, hosting us. Isn't it?;-)
Living in the Canadian Prairies, we have more oil than a lot of places in the world. Considering it's 'winter' here for 9 months of the year (according to Californian standards).
Despite what others have written in reply, I completely agree with you.
Sure, people need to make money. That's fine. I found my niche, and I make a good living.
That being said, I also contribute to a few open source projects and am in the process of preparing my projects (including my money-maker) for release under the GNU GPL. Essentially it's a web CMS platform... I run some private servers and build sites/e-stores/etc for local businesses. There's a few projects where I cannot release specific parts of the code (built as modules for easy separation) as I've promised exclusivity for those specific projects (nothing signed as I live in a relatively small demographic -- trust is more important here than a fancy contract).
I feel that if I release my code for free, everybody that uses it will get something out of it. Wether it be a functional website, a chance to make a bit of cash off it or a chance to learn some new tricks I've used in the code... I attract a following that helps with testing and bug fixing... everybody benefits. I'll still make money doing what I'm doing. I don't see how I could lose money by releasing it as my market is businesses that don't have the time or patience to deal with it... As well, who better to hire to use the code to make something for you than the original developer?
Worst comes to worst, people don't use my code. Best case scenario, everybody uses and benefits from it.
Without full inclusion in the major browsers though it can scare off customers if you have an online store of sorts... so buying a cert is probably your best bet in the first place.
For closed/controlled use (eg: offices intranet) either self signed or CAcert if you don't know how would be fine.
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Obviously you missed the last line of my comment.
I converted the direct prices that I am paying into US Gallons worth and Imperial Gallons worth... I DID NOT CONVERT CURRENCY.
Absolutely not.
I live in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. My day job consists of travelling all over the province. Prices are consistant all over SK.
Here in my area in Canada our gas prices are as follows:
Regular: $1.46 / Litre
Diesel: $1.19 / Litre
For the Americans:
Regular: $5.53 / US Gallon
Diesel: $4.50 / US Gallon
For the Europeans:
Regular: $6.64 / Imperial Gallon
Diesel: $5.41 / Imperial Gallon
Keep in mind this is ignoring currency conversion... all prices are in Canadian Dollars.
In the words of Cartman:
"No Clippy it's my chicken pot pie!! ^W^W^W churro!"
I agree.
Which is why I have stuck with AMD since the Socket A days...
Sure, I don't get as quite as good performance but I use it for programming and web servers (development and live). When I order dedicated hosting, it has to be AMD... I _do not_ want to see them flop. I think they are doing an awesome job but every 16-year-old seems to think that spending $900 on a processor for that 4 FPS gain is worth it.... I don't understand it.
The only Intel parts in my home is the girlfriends Mac mini.
I'm not sure why you are preaching security and recommending NoScript.
NoScript is a bandage solution. It offers no real Security or Privacy. If anything, I feel that Adblock Plus does more to protect you... without breaking the internet.
Yes. We do need better security in JavaScript, I completely agree... but NoScript is NOT the answer.
NoScript exclaims to be the best security feature in the world.... but think about it like this:
- You are using Firefox 3 with NoScript ... how did NoScript protect you? If you answer honestly, it didn't.
- You are browsing around the net with default settings
- You come across a page that has some nifty features you want to give a try, but oops! You need Javascript.
- You decide to Enable JS on the page for a temporary session (or whatever it's called)
- Site contains some form of malware and infects your computer.
What we need is on-the-fly analysing of code to determine if it may potentially be insecure or malware encrusted. If this were implemented right (although I know it would be quite difficult), it should look for external scripts and ask to block them if they don't come from a trusted site. It should also check for overflows or things that may crash your browser and warn you (this is semi implemented -- if the script goes off it's rocker Firefox will tell you it's about to freeze/crash). And so on and so forth...
I am not that kind of programmer... if I was I'd have started on a plugin ages ago.
Needless to say I am a web developer and the only real JS I use is within custom content management systems.
just wanted to point this out.... they did mention the domain name in the e-mail. It was blanked out with '---'
I know this post may get overlooked.... but I'll try anyway.
I am in a very similar situation. We've been together for 3 years, living together for a little over a year and a half.
We are both very geeky. I am a programmer/web developer/fiddler in electronics/robotics. Needless to say, she is interested in these area's too... Although I think it's because I am and she wanted to spend some more time with me.
When it all boils down to it, girls are still girls. They don't care where it came from, they don't care what it's made of. They just want a ring that is pretty and can show off to their friends.
That's it.
It can be $200 or $20,000... she'll love the ring all the same because it came from you.
As an aside: Just this past Thursday (Aug. 28th) was our 3 years together. I organized a night in a nice hotel in 'The City' (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada) and purchased a Promise Ring. Not an Engagement Ring... just a Promise Ring. It cost me about 2/3 of a weeks salary (needless to say I make about $800/week). She had to go back to work today, and I can tell you she is probably all giddy showing off her ring to her friends at this very moment.
If only the licensing issues could be resolved over ZFS.
I mean, what's the problem? There is obviously no benefit to anybody by not allowing it to be ported over to Linux.
I know it's available to the BSD's... but I don't use BSD and I think that Linux is more widely used anyway.
Yeah, yeah. I've heard about ZFS under FUSE. It's slow and not feature complete... nor is it recommended for 'real' use at the moment.
It should be noted that this has been around longer than the iPhone/SDK as well as Google Android. The OpenMoko project was announced January 20th, 2007.
...for living in a suburb with no alley ways (aka. backroads)
I already do. I push the button to turn on my Monitor.
Easy as that!
There is no *nix about that... it was pulled from BSD.
The BSD stack is different than the Linux/Unix Stack.
I rip the whole disc to the HDD via AnyDVD HD in a Windows XP VirtualBox envrionment.
I then just delete all files (.m2ts or what-have-you) except the largest file (generally 20GB or so) and play in an SVN build of Mplayer.
All is well on my end. AnyDVD HD can take every disc I've thrown at it so far.
LG GGC-H20L + AnyDVD HD + Blockbuster is your friend. ;-)
It's an air mouse with extra buttons.
I _like_ the point and click functionality of the Wiimote. I do not like waving my hand in the air in every other direction to try and click on something.
What I had meant was that Californians come up here and are bundled up 'freezing' during SK's non-summer months.
Just this past week I met a Californian woman who was in town for a Bike Show who thought it was cold out. It was somewhere around 20C.
Our temperatures vary from -45 Celsius (-49F) to +45 Celsius (113F).
Both! :-D
But seriously we do have oil.
The new Provincial Gov't appears to be selling it and making use of this natural resource (which is now worth a fortune) whereas previous Provincial Gov't had some ridiculous rules and regulations to companies buying/selling SK oil.
I understood to a point... but their (major) demands were that they had to be SK owned companies. No companies from other provinces or even the U.S. could come and buy it from us.
The AB Gov't decided years ago that they would let anyone come and drill the oil and just pay a nice big tax to export it. Their plan was to get out of debt with the Federal Gov't in 10 years... they did it in 3. They are the only province that does not have a Provincial Goods/Service Tax. All while little ol' SK was sitting here on top of more oil than AB.
Now the rules have changed I think and we are doing as AB is... but I don't remember. Politics bore me... although I do understand the importance of keeping up. ... and that's my story.
I'm in SK.
We have more than AB... much more.
So we don't live off our host (earth)?
We breathe the air around us, eat the plants/animals that surround us, make use of all the resources around us... I'd say the earth is, in a way, hosting us. Isn't it? ;-)
Dunno what that has to do with it...
Living in the Canadian Prairies, we have more oil than a lot of places in the world. Considering it's 'winter' here for 9 months of the year (according to Californian standards).
My response to you is: what? *blink*
Despite what others have written in reply, I completely agree with you.
Sure, people need to make money. That's fine. I found my niche, and I make a good living.
That being said, I also contribute to a few open source projects and am in the process of preparing my projects (including my money-maker) for release under the GNU GPL. Essentially it's a web CMS platform... I run some private servers and build sites/e-stores/etc for local businesses. There's a few projects where I cannot release specific parts of the code (built as modules for easy separation) as I've promised exclusivity for those specific projects (nothing signed as I live in a relatively small demographic -- trust is more important here than a fancy contract).
I feel that if I release my code for free, everybody that uses it will get something out of it. Wether it be a functional website, a chance to make a bit of cash off it or a chance to learn some new tricks I've used in the code... I attract a following that helps with testing and bug fixing... everybody benefits. I'll still make money doing what I'm doing. I don't see how I could lose money by releasing it as my market is businesses that don't have the time or patience to deal with it... As well, who better to hire to use the code to make something for you than the original developer?
Worst comes to worst, people don't use my code. Best case scenario, everybody uses and benefits from it.
I think slashdot killed it...
It's the Bad Ass Gravity Pump from Futurama.. Episode Time Keeps on Slippin'.
... and I thought it would be more like this.
Not that I know of... no.
Without full inclusion in the major browsers though it can scare off customers if you have an online store of sorts... so buying a cert is probably your best bet in the first place.
For closed/controlled use (eg: offices intranet) either self signed or CAcert if you don't know how would be fine.