The parent post is 100% anti-DRM-communist propaganda. None of it is true. There are plenty of things wrong with the audio CDs (mostly the part that it's not the same quality as a physical CD bought in a store), you don't need to make stuff up to make it seem worse.
Ok, some find the 'K' naming thing in KDE offensive, some of us just think it's cute or clever. At least pick a good example. Konsole is not painfully contrived. Akregator is painfully contrived. Incidentally, that's where I'm posting this from, wrapped in a Kontact shell, obviously running the KHTML part used by Konqueror for display...
For a more detailed process than what was outlined in the parent, buy Getting Things Done, a book by David Allen. Or at least google it. 43folders.com is also an interesting place to start.
This stuff can change your life. I'm just starting, but so far so good.
Not so much with police, but soldiers need to think of the enemy as "bad guys". Once a soldier thinks about motives and justifications there's a human face put on them. At that point the enemy is a lot harder to shoot at. A soldier's job is to do what he/she's told, not what they think is right.
Hushed: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
It made the local news last night. Local here meaning NYC, only the largest TV market in the US... I only caught it on the "more news at 10/11" blurb while watching something else. It hit the Star Ledger yesterday according to Google News. It looks like it hit AP. It's all over Google News.
Just at what point would it be not hushed? Perhaps you're waiting for the DHS Threat Level to be raised? No luck yet...
I have successfully used my Vonage line simultaneously with my corporate Cisco VOIP phone over a 3002 hardware VPN box. No dropouts and nothing sounded funny. This was with Comcast's measly 384K upstream at the beginning of this year (or was it 256K then?).
Vonage boxes come with 2 voice ports for simultaneously using 2 lines. You can always tune it to use less upstream. I have voice quality turned up all the way.
What makes you think AT&T doesn't do research? I've been to one of their R&D labs in the last 2 years. Plenty of cool stuff. Much of it telecommunications related, but what do you expect? At one time transistors and Unix were important for telecoms, now they're working on other more current things. One of the systems they had was reliably blocking out American Idol vote stuffers. While that might sound trite at the surface, the work behind it was quite amazing and that was merely one of it's possible uses.
This is barely "research". It's a couple of summer interns messing around with booting off of ipods and other external storage. Don't get me wrong, I think what they are doing is cool, especially if it gets to the point of "easy enough for grandma". It is definitely a useful and intriguing idea. But don't confuse it with actual research.
Being one I won't guess at whether sysadmins are considered thin-skinned or not.
However, your opinion that secretaries are touchy and thin-skinned only shows that your concept of "secretary" comes from 60s sitcoms. Get real. A secretary is the person you go to when you actually want something done. Not talked about endlessly in meetings or pointed to some large bureaucratic process, but just done, now. They certainly have thicker skins than developers.
I have a work-provided Dell D600 from last year. Sticker on the case says it has a Pentium M. It runs at 1.4GHz. Trust me, it fries my lap. Even with the CPU in adaptive speed mode it's unbearably hot unless it's the dead of winter. I shouldn't have to buy an Ergonomic Mobile Cooling Platformto insulate my nuts from a *lap*top. Just sitting here reading and posting to slashdot, the CPU is at a leisurely 37, but the GPU is at 42, the DIMMs at 47 (you can feel an obvious hot-spot at the memory access panel) and the HDD is sitting at 51 (! noticably warming my left hand).
I could live with it in a desktop probably though.
Hmm, yeah, you're a homophobe. Enlightened folk think it's a really stupid idea to get all bent out of shape about where other people stick their dicks. Never mind the fact that you've only explained "THEIR" problem with male homosexuality and completely ignored female homosexuality... typical. And let me give you a clue, homosexuals aren't looking to be treated specially. They are treated specially, and that's the problem. Their biggest problems right now are caused by bigots like you that think it's ok to discriminate against them. It's legal, and it's getting worse, not better.
Homosexuality in and of itself is not particularly unsafe and christian morality does not get to define "natural".
My birth certificate records 2 middle names. Why couldn't Mark Privacy Security West's? Each person in my family has 2 middles.
Not that any other system in the universe allows for it, so I just drop the second. Which creates a collision with my father's name, so I use "Jr.". NJ's MVS felt it necessary to deny my request to use the Jr, since it "wasn't on my birth certificate." The fact that just 1 middle name wasn't on my birth certificate either was lost on the MVS employees. Didn't seem to bug PA where I grew up...
Um, in that it's 8 times faster? And that Cisco seems to have ditched any wireless cards they had 6-7 years ago after the acquisition that gave them the Aironet cards?
At Home Depot I found a Philips compact flourescent that works with dimmers. I even have it on an X10 lamp module for over a year now (used daily for about 4-5 hours under computer control). Seek and ye shall find. I think it was about $2-3 more than the regular CFL bulbs, which isn't a big difference when you're comparing CFL bulb prices.
You didn't get the point. Admittedly, it was a little ambiguous and I didn't get it at first either.
What seems to have been meant IMO, was that gay men successfully lived out gay lives in gay relationships DESPITE laws against being gay, gay-bashing and wacky "therapy" attempts to make them straight. Not that there were no laws, violence or therapy.
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The parent post is 100% anti-DRM-communist propaganda. None of it is true. There are plenty of things wrong with the audio CDs (mostly the part that it's not the same quality as a physical CD bought in a store), you don't need to make stuff up to make it seem worse.
BLASPHEMY!
It's not "amen", it's "Ramen!"
Ok, some find the 'K' naming thing in KDE offensive, some of us just think it's cute or clever. At least pick a good example. Konsole is not painfully contrived. Akregator is painfully contrived. Incidentally, that's where I'm posting this from, wrapped in a Kontact shell, obviously running the KHTML part used by Konqueror for display...
For a more detailed process than what was outlined in the parent, buy Getting Things Done, a book by David Allen. Or at least google it. 43folders.com is also an interesting place to start.
This stuff can change your life. I'm just starting, but so far so good.
And you would call them what instead?
Not so much with police, but soldiers need to think of the enemy as "bad guys". Once a soldier thinks about motives and justifications there's a human face put on them. At that point the enemy is a lot harder to shoot at. A soldier's job is to do what he/she's told, not what they think is right.
Ok, I'll correct myself, free podcasts are in MP3...
They're probably not in MP3 format. Nothing else on the iTunes store is in MP3 format, so why would you think these would be?
I can't even make any sense of the second paragraph...
Hushed: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
It made the local news last night. Local here meaning NYC, only the largest TV market in the US... I only caught it on the "more news at 10/11" blurb while watching something else. It hit the Star Ledger yesterday according to Google News. It looks like it hit AP. It's all over Google News.
Just at what point would it be not hushed? Perhaps you're waiting for the DHS Threat Level to be raised? No luck yet...
I have successfully used my Vonage line simultaneously with my corporate Cisco VOIP phone over a 3002 hardware VPN box. No dropouts and nothing sounded funny. This was with Comcast's measly 384K upstream at the beginning of this year (or was it 256K then?).
Vonage boxes come with 2 voice ports for simultaneously using 2 lines. You can always tune it to use less upstream. I have voice quality turned up all the way.
There's a pretty easy test for that. Would most slashdotters complain if instead of India all these jobs were going to England, Ireland, or .
I believe the answer is yes, we would. There's enough racism in the world, don't make it up where it doesn't exist.
What makes you think AT&T doesn't do research? I've been to one of their R&D labs in the last 2 years. Plenty of cool stuff. Much of it telecommunications related, but what do you expect? At one time transistors and Unix were important for telecoms, now they're working on other more current things. One of the systems they had was reliably blocking out American Idol vote stuffers. While that might sound trite at the surface, the work behind it was quite amazing and that was merely one of it's possible uses.
This is barely "research". It's a couple of summer interns messing around with booting off of ipods and other external storage. Don't get me wrong, I think what they are doing is cool, especially if it gets to the point of "easy enough for grandma". It is definitely a useful and intriguing idea. But don't confuse it with actual research.
Being one I won't guess at whether sysadmins are considered thin-skinned or not.
However, your opinion that secretaries are touchy and thin-skinned only shows that your concept of "secretary" comes from 60s sitcoms. Get real. A secretary is the person you go to when you actually want something done. Not talked about endlessly in meetings or pointed to some large bureaucratic process, but just done, now. They certainly have thicker skins than developers.
I have a work-provided Dell D600 from last year. Sticker on the case says it has a Pentium M. It runs at 1.4GHz. Trust me, it fries my lap. Even with the CPU in adaptive speed mode it's unbearably hot unless it's the dead of winter. I shouldn't have to buy an Ergonomic Mobile Cooling Platformto insulate my nuts from a *lap*top. Just sitting here reading and posting to slashdot, the CPU is at a leisurely 37, but the GPU is at 42, the DIMMs at 47 (you can feel an obvious hot-spot at the memory access panel) and the HDD is sitting at 51 (! noticably warming my left hand).
I could live with it in a desktop probably though.
I highly recommend Greasemonkey and the Slashdot: Add Cache Links script to add Coral Cache and MirrorDot links at the end each slashdot linked page.
Of course, it might lower the flow of karma to those who merely post Coral Cache links. Might slashdot a few less servers though.
Um, carbon monoxide?
Hmm, yeah, you're a homophobe. Enlightened folk think it's a really stupid idea to get all bent out of shape about where other people stick their dicks. Never mind the fact that you've only explained "THEIR" problem with male homosexuality and completely ignored female homosexuality... typical. And let me give you a clue, homosexuals aren't looking to be treated specially. They are treated specially, and that's the problem. Their biggest problems right now are caused by bigots like you that think it's ok to discriminate against them. It's legal, and it's getting worse, not better.
Homosexuality in and of itself is not particularly unsafe and christian morality does not get to define "natural".
My birth certificate records 2 middle names. Why couldn't Mark Privacy Security West's? Each person in my family has 2 middles.
Not that any other system in the universe allows for it, so I just drop the second. Which creates a collision with my father's name, so I use "Jr.". NJ's MVS felt it necessary to deny my request to use the Jr, since it "wasn't on my birth certificate." The fact that just 1 middle name wasn't on my birth certificate either was lost on the MVS employees. Didn't seem to bug PA where I grew up...
or not, musta been somewhere else. I could swear it was /.
Search first next time...
What now? Duplicate book reviews?
my fave...
Um, in that it's 8 times faster? And that Cisco seems to have ditched any wireless cards they had 6-7 years ago after the acquisition that gave them the Aironet cards?
RTFAuction
At Home Depot I found a Philips compact flourescent that works with dimmers. I even have it on an X10 lamp module for over a year now (used daily for about 4-5 hours under computer control). Seek and ye shall find. I think it was about $2-3 more than the regular CFL bulbs, which isn't a big difference when you're comparing CFL bulb prices.
You didn't get the point. Admittedly, it was a little ambiguous and I didn't get it at first either.
What seems to have been meant IMO, was that gay men successfully lived out gay lives in gay relationships DESPITE laws against being gay, gay-bashing and wacky "therapy" attempts to make them straight. Not that there were no laws, violence or therapy.