If you're going to do it, the only way to do it is cold turkey, 100%.
Umm... this may be true when one has a medical condition like the one you mentioned, but to say that in the general case is needlessly "macho" and just wrong. It's generally a bad idea to do things that put your body through a lot of stress, and when pain happens, it's a sign that you're doing it too fast or wrong. As others have mentioned, it is easy enough to cut back slowly, and one can avoid withdrawal.
Its a bloody video player man. It goes without saying that the OUTPUT is GRAPHICAL. Why wouldn't you want to USE a GRAPHICAL user interface to it?
The biggest use case that I can think of is when an option is needed repeatedly, and you do not want to go through the menus to enable it every time. For instance, if a particular anime series encoding is very quiet, then every time someone watches it, they will want to enable software volume amplification. There are plenty of other options that a user might want to enable most or all of the time.
It's really easy to make a wrapper or alias that runs mplayer with these options, so you could use them very easily, but only when needed.
The disadvantage is when you realize you need a certain option after 10 minutes of video, and realize you can't enable it from within the program, so you have to restart it.
Apparently, so is everyone else who is commenting on this.
Well, I primarily use Linux, but I thought the Linux UI was even worse than on Windows. It did not work out of the box (and it wasn't a problem of missing codecs), and I couldn't be bothered to make it work--I just went back to mplayer.
I bet a little web surfing keeps one from getting "too bored". A recent article in the same vein said that doodling helps people pay attention--I don't recall whether that one made slashdot.
Granted this is off-topic, but I take exception to your characterization the anyone who would flag such posts are "PETA assholes".
You're right, I retract that--I did not know that selling animals was against their TOS--I get overly fired up about things that I perceive to be abuses of users by other users. Sorry about that.
I think that a craigs-list moderation style of X spam reports and you're cut off is the way to go. Of course, these reports should only be counted from existing VERIFIED accounts, with the reporting mechanism built into the interface.
That currently gets abused. I have heard that anybody trying to sell an animal, for example, gets flagged as abuse by PETA assholes. Could the same happen to mailing lists? If one wants to sink a mailing list, they subscribe to it with all their e-mail addresses, and tell each e-mail provider that it is spam...
If the wto made a ruling against China which will obviously be ignored what are they going to do. Punitive measures? Oh lets stop trade with China, great idea. Kind of a silly system if you ask me.
If you think the economy is bad now, what do you think it will be like when we hurt every business that deals with china?
In all seriousness: you're never going to be able to catch all errors at compile time. Probably not even most errors.
Fair enough. I can even think of some Qt errors that aren't type errors and wouldn't have been caught at compile time. Even some really nasty ones that cause crashes.
You're always going to need proper testing suites to catch runtime errors; all static verification does, from where I'm standing, is introduce an artificial and confusing split in your debugging, and distract people from writing a good testsuite from day 1.
I do not believe that a short-ish script (100-1000 lines of primarily UI code) would benefit from a test suite. Surely the logic to manipulate a GUI and verify the results would be more complicated than the GUI itself, and who is to say you wrote it correctly, or that it catches even the most trivial of aberations from from the desired behavior? On the other hand, I know that static analysis catches errors that I sometimes would not notice myself. PyLint and PyChecker were quite helpful in this regard, but there is plenty they don't do (checking the types of arguments, for instance).
Truth is, static verification is generally overrated... This topic is hotly debated, but for me the proof is in getting the job done effectively and quickly.
Yes, err... I just spent a month converting a bunch of qt3 python apps to qt4. If it were in c++, there are a bunch of errors that I could have seen at compile time. I think it would have saved me a lot of time, and right now, I would be more sure that those apps worked (there is only so much testing I could do, never having used these programs). In my opinion, static verification, if anything, in underrated.
I can't agree with myself whether I should quit or I should be fired.
There is the obvious caveat that if you look for regular work again in 5 or 10 years, it will be slightly better to have quit your last regular job than to have been fired from it.
Umm, Linux does quite a bit better for graphic design. Especially bigtime movie producers (pixar, etc) don't run Mac. They run linux.
Linux might be better if you're willing to write your own tools, and to pay hundreds(!) of people to work on them. And would you know that Pixar has tons of Macs, as well?
Jeez, when will people accept that Macs are designed by people who themselves are designers and the OS is built around the typical workflow of designers and not that of code geeks and techies?
That's well said--I have had a hard time explaining my dislike of Macs. However, a lot of geek techy coworkers of mine use Macs at home, so I'm not sure it's true.
I'd be perfectly comfortable with a linux powered "nuclear launch workstation" as long as it's not connected to a network.
Well, all it could take is a bored or deranged employee with a lot of time and a terminal. You could try to deny them access to a terminal, but then they would just need to find some other vulnerability that allowed them to run a command. SELinux might help prevent that, but it doesn't have any sort of formally proven safety.
Do you know how to increase the size of the undo buffer? It doesn't seem big enough by default to use it how you're describing... and I would like a bigger safety net.
That's very interesting--I would not have known that.
I would have liked to see a link to the published study, but searching for "opiate blocker pain relief placebo" reveals that this is commonly accepted as true.
I'm not rich. I don't expect to be rich, I don't desire to be rich. To be rich is to stand on the neck of your fellow man and steal his share, and to spend each day ensuring that the exploitation isn't disrupted.
Good god, man. To be rich is to have the freedom to pursue whatever dreams you care about, not worrying that worldly needs will hinder you. To be rich is to be able to influence the world with your pocketbook. And you seem to think that all the rich are evil, having gained their share by evil? I wish I thought you were joking.
I'm not exactly sure why, but a few months ago, I started receiving about 150 spam messages per day. A week ago, this deluge was reduced to its former trickle. When I first saw this article, I thought maybe it had to do with this spam ring being shut down, but the article was only written today. My best theory is that an individual botnet was recently disbanded. Does anybody who's up on internet security know why one person would (almost) just stop receiving spam?
If you had programming and graphic design skills, you could go into game development.
I don't personally know any game developers, but do they really not split that up? My understanding is, the programmers program, and the designers design.
That's in line what I've heard. I interviewed at a gaming company, and my math skills weren't up to snuff. It seemed like they wanted me to have a command of calculus/differential equations and linear algebra, and I just don't. They clearly want someone who can do computer graphics, but that is way different than "design".
At one time I would have been against that, but then I realized that most job postings are primarily a bunch of random bullet points HR tossed in that have little or nothing to do with the actual opening. That is, when they're not just wasting your time to inflate their folder of resumes 'just in case'. Then, of course, there's the postings demanding 5 years of experience in a 3 year old technology...
I'm not qualified to give much advice, besides that that's a dangerous game. Especially if an engineer asks you about something that you put on your resume and you start to flounder. The goal is just to get past HR to people who know what they are talking about. In some companies, you don't even need to have all the qualifications they are demanding--sometimes they know their demands are absurd, and the person going through resumes is not the same person that wrote the job requirements.
Way to offset the expense of gas there, boy genius. ... How about some reasonable and legal tips for hypermiling next time.
I assume speed limits are chosen for worst case or average case scenarios--specifically, a certain amount of cars on the highway. If conditions are optimal (straight stretch of road, sun is bright but not blinding, driver is alert, very few cars are on the road), why would it not be safe to go 85 mph?
Removing swap from the equation simply means that you've made it impossible for the OS to do the best job of optimizing your system's performance if it gets low on free RAM -- instead of keeping stuff in RAM based on what gets used most often, it has to keep stuff in RAM because it has nowhere else to put it.
Right--the reason to go swapless is if one genuinely knows better than their OS does. In this case, I know that I have plenty of memory, and I never want my apps to get swapped out. My OS didn't agree, so I turned off swap.
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If you're going to do it, the only way to do it is cold turkey, 100%.
Umm... this may be true when one has a medical condition like the one you mentioned, but to say that in the general case is needlessly "macho" and just wrong. It's generally a bad idea to do things that put your body through a lot of stress, and when pain happens, it's a sign that you're doing it too fast or wrong. As others have mentioned, it is easy enough to cut back slowly, and one can avoid withdrawal.
Its a bloody video player man. It goes without saying that the OUTPUT is GRAPHICAL. Why wouldn't you want to USE a GRAPHICAL user interface to it?
The biggest use case that I can think of is when an option is needed repeatedly, and you do not want to go through the menus to enable it every time. For instance, if a particular anime series encoding is very quiet, then every time someone watches it, they will want to enable software volume amplification. There are plenty of other options that a user might want to enable most or all of the time.
It's really easy to make a wrapper or alias that runs mplayer with these options, so you could use them very easily, but only when needed.
The disadvantage is when you realize you need a certain option after 10 minutes of video, and realize you can't enable it from within the program, so you have to restart it.
I'm a Windows user
Apparently, so is everyone else who is commenting on this.
Well, I primarily use Linux, but I thought the Linux UI was even worse than on Windows. It did not work out of the box (and it wasn't a problem of missing codecs), and I couldn't be bothered to make it work--I just went back to mplayer.
I bet a little web surfing keeps one from getting "too bored". A recent article in the same vein said that doodling helps people pay attention--I don't recall whether that one made slashdot.
How can the first post be modded Redundant when he says something that is not a meme or a common sentiment?
Granted this is off-topic, but I take exception to your characterization the anyone who would flag such posts are "PETA assholes".
You're right, I retract that--I did not know that selling animals was against their TOS--I get overly fired up about things that I perceive to be abuses of users by other users. Sorry about that.
I think that a craigs-list moderation style of X spam reports and you're cut off is the way to go. Of course, these reports should only be counted from existing VERIFIED accounts, with the reporting mechanism built into the interface.
That currently gets abused. I have heard that anybody trying to sell an animal, for example, gets flagged as abuse by PETA assholes. Could the same happen to mailing lists? If one wants to sink a mailing list, they subscribe to it with all their e-mail addresses, and tell each e-mail provider that it is spam...
We have laws against "disturbing the peace", and I think that making a whole lot of noise without a permit would fall under that category.
If the wto made a ruling against China which will obviously be ignored what are they going to do. Punitive measures? Oh lets stop trade with China, great idea. Kind of a silly system if you ask me.
If you think the economy is bad now, what do you think it will be like when we hurt every business that deals with china?
In all seriousness: you're never going to be able to catch all errors at compile time. Probably not even most errors.
Fair enough. I can even think of some Qt errors that aren't type errors and wouldn't have been caught at compile time. Even some really nasty ones that cause crashes.
You're always going to need proper testing suites to catch runtime errors; all static verification does, from where I'm standing, is introduce an artificial and confusing split in your debugging, and distract people from writing a good testsuite from day 1.
I do not believe that a short-ish script (100-1000 lines of primarily UI code) would benefit from a test suite. Surely the logic to manipulate a GUI and verify the results would be more complicated than the GUI itself, and who is to say you wrote it correctly, or that it catches even the most trivial of aberations from from the desired behavior? On the other hand, I know that static analysis catches errors that I sometimes would not notice myself. PyLint and PyChecker were quite helpful in this regard, but there is plenty they don't do (checking the types of arguments, for instance).
Truth is, static verification is generally overrated... This topic is hotly debated, but for me the proof is in getting the job done effectively and quickly.
Yes, err... I just spent a month converting a bunch of qt3 python apps to qt4. If it were in c++, there are a bunch of errors that I could have seen at compile time. I think it would have saved me a lot of time, and right now, I would be more sure that those apps worked (there is only so much testing I could do, never having used these programs). In my opinion, static verification, if anything, in underrated.
Oops, I missed the joke. I shouldn't be allowed post on slashdot before noon.
I can't agree with myself whether I should quit or I should be fired.
There is the obvious caveat that if you look for regular work again in 5 or 10 years, it will be slightly better to have quit your last regular job than to have been fired from it.
You can't keep anonymous e-mail while preventing spam in this way. Services like gmail and hotmail can theoretically always be used to send spam.
Umm, Linux does quite a bit better for graphic design. Especially bigtime movie producers (pixar, etc) don't run Mac. They run linux.
Linux might be better if you're willing to write your own tools, and to pay hundreds(!) of people to work on them. And would you know that Pixar has tons of Macs, as well?
Jeez, when will people accept that Macs are designed by people who themselves are designers and the OS is built around the typical workflow of designers and not that of code geeks and techies?
That's well said--I have had a hard time explaining my dislike of Macs. However, a lot of geek techy coworkers of mine use Macs at home, so I'm not sure it's true.
I'd be perfectly comfortable with a linux powered "nuclear launch workstation" as long as it's not connected to a network.
Well, all it could take is a bored or deranged employee with a lot of time and a terminal. You could try to deny them access to a terminal, but then they would just need to find some other vulnerability that allowed them to run a command. SELinux might help prevent that, but it doesn't have any sort of formally proven safety.
Do you know how to increase the size of the undo buffer? It doesn't seem big enough by default to use it how you're describing... and I would like a bigger safety net.
That's very interesting--I would not have known that.
I would have liked to see a link to the published study, but searching for "opiate blocker pain relief placebo" reveals that this is commonly accepted as true.
I'm not rich. I don't expect to be rich, I don't desire to be rich. To be rich is to stand on the neck of your fellow man and steal his share, and to spend each day ensuring that the exploitation isn't disrupted.
Good god, man. To be rich is to have the freedom to pursue whatever dreams you care about, not worrying that worldly needs will hinder you. To be rich is to be able to influence the world with your pocketbook. And you seem to think that all the rich are evil, having gained their share by evil? I wish I thought you were joking.
I'm not exactly sure why, but a few months ago, I started receiving about 150 spam messages per day. A week ago, this deluge was reduced to its former trickle. When I first saw this article, I thought maybe it had to do with this spam ring being shut down, but the article was only written today. My best theory is that an individual botnet was recently disbanded. Does anybody who's up on internet security know why one person would (almost) just stop receiving spam?
If you had programming and graphic design skills, you could go into game development.
I don't personally know any game developers, but do they really not split that up? My understanding is, the programmers program, and the designers design.
That's in line what I've heard. I interviewed at a gaming company, and my math skills weren't up to snuff. It seemed like they wanted me to have a command of calculus/differential equations and linear algebra, and I just don't. They clearly want someone who can do computer graphics, but that is way different than "design".
At one time I would have been against that, but then I realized that most job postings are primarily a bunch of random bullet points HR tossed in that have little or nothing to do with the actual opening. That is, when they're not just wasting your time to inflate their folder of resumes 'just in case'. Then, of course, there's the postings demanding 5 years of experience in a 3 year old technology...
I'm not qualified to give much advice, besides that that's a dangerous game. Especially if an engineer asks you about something that you put on your resume and you start to flounder. The goal is just to get past HR to people who know what they are talking about. In some companies, you don't even need to have all the qualifications they are demanding--sometimes they know their demands are absurd, and the person going through resumes is not the same person that wrote the job requirements.
Way to offset the expense of gas there, boy genius.
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How about some reasonable and legal tips for hypermiling next time.
I assume speed limits are chosen for worst case or average case scenarios--specifically, a certain amount of cars on the highway. If conditions are optimal (straight stretch of road, sun is bright but not blinding, driver is alert, very few cars are on the road), why would it not be safe to go 85 mph?
Removing swap from the equation simply means that you've made it impossible for the OS to do the best job of optimizing your system's performance if it gets low on free RAM -- instead of keeping stuff in RAM based on what gets used most often, it has to keep stuff in RAM because it has nowhere else to put it.
Right--the reason to go swapless is if one genuinely knows better than their OS does. In this case, I know that I have plenty of memory, and I never want my apps to get swapped out. My OS didn't agree, so I turned off swap.