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2004/2/22 [Computer/SW/Languages/Java, Computer/SW/Languages] UID:12347 Activity:nil |
2/21 http://biz.yahoo.com/bizwk/040220/b3872001mz001_1.html Software War - Deepa Paranjpe vs Stephen Haberman One thing I find funny is how some think the US can keep the design jobs and "people skills" jobs like project management while outsourcing just the boring programming work. I think India will quickly move up the ladder and be able to do everything. \_ pffft, why bother with India? Just take the whole thing to China. Much better trained engineers and they already do all the hardware manufacturing. Add in Taiwanese investment in knowledge and capital into the mix and we'll bury you dot head Indians. \_ you forgot about the language barrier. \_ There's no real language barrier since on the US side we don't talk to the grunt workers, only the 1 project manager. \_ developers that don't talk to each other? you'd better have a fuckin good project manager. \_ The developers talk in mandarin or tamil or whatever. There won't be any developers in the US, they will all be in India or China. |
2004/2/22-23 [Uncategorized] UID:12348 Activity:nil |
2/22 Can someone point me to an RFC that specifies which ascii characters are valid in email addresses? I can't seem to find it in 2821 or 2822. -John \_ It's scattered around RFC 2822. The actual definition of an email address (addr-spec) is section 3.4.1, but it refers to a lot of stuff from earlier in section 3. \_ Cool, thanks. I noticed that a lot of online email address parsers reject 'a+b@domain.com'--was just sort of wondering whether there's anything they're "supposed" to accept. -John The upshot is that nearly any ASCII character is allowed if quoted properly, including whitespace and control characters. The only thing you can't have at all is a NUL character -- and even that used to be permitted, so RFC 2822 still requires you to handle it properly. Non-ASCII characters (anything above 127) are not allowed; RFC 2047 specifies the =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=E9?= syntax for encoding them. Of course, you may not want to send mail to anyone belligerent enough to have control characters in their email address. --mconst \_ ooooh, sweet. I never thought of that. If I had control chars in my email address do you think that would avoid all spam? |
2004/2/22-23 [Health] UID:12349 Activity:nil |
2/22 Dear motd personal trainer: Is using an elliptical machine as effective as a treadmill? (the goal is weight loss and i'm worried about impact on the knees). \_ why are you considering the elliptical machine over treadmill? \_ He said "i'm worried about impact on the knees". \_ I've been losing weight at the rate of about 2lbs per week largely on an elliptical trainer. I work hard, though: 52 minutes/day in 140-150 heart rate range. If you believe the calorie count, it is MORE effective than equivalent time/effort on a treadmill. \_ Elliptical training is for the weak - the numbers make it look far more impressive than it is. Stairmaster creams it by a factor of 2x on a calorie count. \_ ellipticals are not at all for the weak. they're meant to be a very low-impact way of getting aerobic exercise. they work slower than some machines and quicker than others, but it has nothing to do with being weak or not. nice try. \- the stairmasters that have real steps in an infinte loop rather than the pedals that just go up and down seems pretty good to me. i ran up those for a couple of months before heading off to nepal. i also operate those on manual rather than program modes and just always push pretty hard with a sprint at the end and maybe a breather now and then. treadmill with a manually varied slope is also reasonable, --psb \_ Calorie count is worthless. You can't lose significant weight from exercise alone. \_ My 2lbs per week weight loss and I beg to differ. Is 14 lbs "significant"? \_ i've been using the elliptical due to knee problems as well, and it is good at low angle and low resistance, but i have now found that my knees are again the limiting factor, as my cardio conditioning is now good enough that i can't get my heart rate up without causing too much strain on my knees. i've recently added treadmill to my workouts for short periods of time and so far my knees have been okay with it, but we'll see! it's a much more intense cardio workout and if you are interested in training for actual activity like hiking or whatnot, gives a realistic and transferrable muscle workout, unlike the elliptical, which has helped my overall cardio conditioning, but otherwise hasn't really seemed to help my hiking all that much. -lila |
2004/2/22 [Politics/Domestic/Election, Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:12350 Activity:nil |
2/22 It's official. Ralph Nader is running. \_ Read the far far far left debating Nader's presidential bid: http://publish.portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/02/281004.shtml About the same level of dialog as freerepublic, on the other side. \_ God dammit. I hope he runs off the edge of a cliff. It's not worth another 4 years of BushCo just to have a "viable third party" that no one would want in power anyway! \_ Actually, it would be great to have a *viable* third party. One egotistical asshole running as an idependent in a few states and getting about 1% of the vote has no relation whatsoever to establishing a viable third party other than making poeple mistrust future third party attempts, however. \_ Go Ralphie go! Four more years! \_ Whee. I wonder how many states will have <1000 vote margins this year? Freeper and Naderboy should go get drunk together. \_ When is BushCo going to start donating to Nader's campaign? |
2004/2/22-23 [Computer/SW/OS/OsX] UID:12351 Activity:high |
2/22 It seems that iPhoto isn't able to change the resolution of an image. Does anyone know of a good shareware utility for OS X to let me do simple image editing like this? \_ You can crop the photo in Edit mode or do File: Export. \_ I don't want to crop, but rather change the resolution to a lower one. -op \_ **** File: Export. **** \_ I guess I'm not the only one who thinks iPhoto is pretty dumb. Reminds me of some article that said something about OSX making easy tasks easy, but the rest impossible. \_ Dude: it makes stuff easy for non-computer users. What do you expect? GUI blowjobs from your keyboard? It isn't Photoshop light, it is a digital photo album. That's it. \_ weak troll. There are a million ways to do this on a Mac. \_ that is the same philosophy as Microsoft Windows' GUI. Anyway, get FINK installed and then get GIMP installed. Works fine here. \- have you used darwin ports rather than fink? i think ports may have more legs --psb \_ Haven't tried darwin port but when recently I skimmed over its packages it seems that its intersection w. fink << than their union. As for fink, I haven't been able to upgrade it since moving to Panther despite following the "instruction" on fink site. Fortunately, most of the existing packages still works and did not get removed. \- i havent given this tremendous thought but i think the ports system/philosophy is a better approach for packages that need tighter integration with the OS ... say X11 or in my case some networking libraries. it is possible i dont understand all the apple-specific implications, however. --psb \_ I just think it shouldn't be so hard. \_ I use Pixel NHance, which is better than photoshop for a lot of things. Doesn't resize though. Have you tried iResize? \- hey do the "less well known" programs have worse generational loss/re-encoding issues if you rotate/resize/crop etc jpgs or does everyone use standard functions/algorthms so say a 2degree rotation is photoshop vs. "joe's graphics manipulator" will be essentially the same. ok tnx. --psb \_ Try http://www.yellowmug.com There may be a utility there. If not ask the guy to write one for you. He responds to emails and may be willing to. He is a berkeley eecs dude. |
2004/2/22-23 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:12352 Activity:nil |
2/22 Who will Cal Deaniacs support now that Dean is out of the race? \_ I wasn't a Deaniac, but I think most people will do what I do: not necessary get involved in the process, nor donating money, but *WILL* do his/her part cast his/her vote to make sure Bush out of office. \_ oh yeah? which of the half dozen or so states where your vote actually matters are you planning to move to before november? \_ No one can get elected without the support of independent voters. If you put up some zero like Kerry who has no draw from that demographic you're doomed. Instead of worrying about the other guy with that "anyone buy Bush" theme, why don't you support a real candidate that you actually like? Success will follow. \_ I'm not the guy above, but there were two candidates who I actually liked, and they've both left the field before I even had a chance to vote. By super tuesday, it's already become a lesser of evils game. \_ So Deaniacs should just go ahead and vote for Dean in the general election no matter what? I'm sure that will work. \_ no, your party already screwed it up by voting for someone based on their belief about his ability to defeat the other guy as opposed to their faith in him as a person. meaning they think they know how independent voters will vote and tried to second guess them by presenting the candidate they believed would get the most (I) voters, but instead ended up with a passionless elitist cog who is going to get his ass handed to him. as one of those (I) voters you so badly need I assure you that Kerry isn't on my short list. \_ Passionless elitist cog? are you talking about George Bush, who achieved NOTHING on his own? got into Harvard with 1200 on SAT, using family connection to get him out of Vietnam (serving national guard instead), won presidency by asking his brother perform what I considered as vote fraud. \_ Can you please elaborate on what he 'asked' his brother to do? Jeb Bush recused himself from the recount. \_ As an (I) I'm totally turned off by your anti-Bush rhetoric. This is exactly the reason you're going to lose to Bush again. You attack the other guy but say nothing about why I should vote for your guy. As an (I) I prefer the evil I know to the unknown but certain evil of your guy. You don't even like your own guy, so why should I? \_ You don't get it. Most of the time, people vote *AGAINST* someone than *FOR* someone. I have no idea who Kerry is, but I know that 1. He is not Bush, and 2. everyone around me who think like me will vote for him. and that is good enough. For many of us, nothing can be worse than President Bush right now. \_ And your friends are a fair mix of the general voting public? I doubt it. Give people someone to vote *for* and you'll see Bush out of office by a landslide but instead you give us (I) voters no choices. \_ You need to wake up. Everyone is basically an (I). You are obviously liberal, therefore you're stuck with the Democrats. That's the way it is, kid. The conservatives don't all like Bush either. Kerry and Edwards are the candidates the most people are comfortable with. They never act weird like Dean, and have a political history unlike Clark. Sorry the world is too boring for you. If you don't like it, voting for a third party doesn't change anything. It's a lazy way to pretend you actually care while doing nothing. Just stay home. \_ I'm not liberal. I'm also not conservative. I am definitely *not* stuck voting for Kerry. I can stay home or vote for Bush or Nader or anyone else I like. I'm not voting for Kerry if I show up. \_ Go away, Naderboy. \_ whatever, wrong call. \_ I'm a decline-to-state and I hate Kerry and Dean both as well as Bush. If Clark or Kucinich made it I'd probably vote for them, and perhaps for Edwards. I might vote for Kucinich anyway. I despise Bush, but I'm not voting Kerry to keep Bush out of office. \_ why do you "hate" all those guys? |
2004/2/22-23 [Recreation/Activities] UID:12353 Activity:nil |
2/22 I'd like to go backpacking in the Yosemite wilderness in June. Looking for a good 4-5 day hike that preferably loops back to the starting location. Recommendations? tia. --sky \_ maybe you can talk to people at REI? http://www.swsmtns.com/backpacking_and_survival \- how tough of a hike are you looking for and what are your priorities? [avoiding people, seeing the classic views etc]. for classic hike so at hikes out of little ymte valley [tough to get permits]. fewer people in hetch-hetchy, and hikes out or Toulemne Medows. the mosquito sitution in jun may be pretty bad in some higher parts. you will need anti-bear technology--psb \_ I haven't backpacked since cubscouts, but my gf and I aren't in horrible shape, so I'd say a medium difficulty hike. Avoiding people is prolly #1 priority, as well as actually being able to obtain a permit. thx. --sky \- getting a first come first serve permit depends a lot on what day you get there. if midweek, not a problem. otherwise you might need to stay outside the park and then drive to the park at liek 7am and get a backcountry permit for whatever area is avail. rather than loop, you might want to consider the hub-spoke model [hike in and then do some day hikes from base camp] ... like say out of the voglesang area. you may wish to GOOGLE or AMAZONG for "Yosemite Jeffrey Schaffer". toughness not just about what you *can* do but what you *want* to do ... i.e. walk 6+ hrs a day. --psb \_ thanks partha. --sky |