Comment Re:Lower Sperm Counts! (Score 1) 634
Correct! There are a number of studies about the effects of bicycle seats, but I find none associated with (directly) lowered sperm count. That's all I was asking.
Comment Re:Lower Sperm Counts! (Score 2, Insightful) 634
need citation!, I know of no study where the cause of lower count is from seat... there are a couple where lower count is theorized to be caused by excess heat from physical exertion of bicycling.
Comment Re:Time to stop relying on Texas... (Score 2, Funny) 895
school days are Monday through Friday, which is a little week. Maybe that's what he meant.
Comment I wonder what theodp thinks? (Score 1) 286
Is this game too hard to play?
Comment sucks to be support (Score 4, Interesting) 388
I'm the guy in our household responsible for applying our patches, being an IT professional and all.
Since we have a "few" computers all around the house, it's pretty much every time I sit down to one I have to apply patches, and usually a reboot to boot. Sometimes, it's a rarely used computer that I grab (laptop) just to get a few quick things done, and it requires multiple iterations of patches and reboots. Sigh.
I find it exasperating that my experience is almost always, "apply these patches", and then you can do some work with Windows. The good news (for me), I'm finally migrating EVERYTHING (as in replacing with) Macs and Linux. Time and money, that's all it takes.
Interestingly the other day... I got in and was productive immediately on a Windows laptop. Wow! C'est vrai? And when I went to shut it down? "Please do not power down your computer. Windows is installing (3 of 10...) updates..." WTH?
Comment nice. reminds me of (Score 1) 6
Nice tune. Reminds me a little of Pat Metheny's Last Train Home. Not sure why. I'd be curious if you liked the one if you also like Metheny's.
Comment congratulations (Score 1) 21
congrats. not only is it cool what you've done, it's inspiring to us who also need to do the same. :-)
Comment ahead or behind? (Score 1) 10
ahead.
:-)
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Submission + - Electronic Bank Run Helped Spark Downturn
Ralph Spoilsport writes: One of the recurring fears in a digitally linked global economy is the scenario where there is an electronic "run on the bank", a scenario that would make the run on banks of the early 1930s look like a pocketful of change. Even Bill Maher in his broadcast of 20.FEB.09 mused to the effect of "What would happen if the Chinese took all their money out?" Well it seems that Doomsday Scenario passed already, on 15.SEP.09. It seems that in a period of minutes, $550 billion dollars disappeared electronically from the Federal Reserve System in the form of liquidated money market funds. This story was told by Rep. Kanjorski (D-PA). Now, whether this was the Chinese doing a panic withdrawal or the major banks pulling out all stops to cover their bad debts is unknown at this time, but it does show one important thing: technology permitted a panic sell-off of unprecedented proportions that could have been completely catastrophic. What is also distressing is that there has been ZERO media coverage on this.
Comment Re:Perl (Score 1) 14
I have to second FroMan's feedback. Shell scripting makes almost anything easy (and usually it can be elegant too). But some of the string wrangling does get trickier, but if you learn to deep corners either sed or awk, you get the power of string stuff too.
A friend and I always faced off, script duels if you will. He writes something in perl, I match him stride for stride. Ultimately we end up turning the challenge into converting our "task" into one line of perl or shell and almost always we succeed.
In depth and breadth perl is always going to win, but there's a tax to pay for it's esoteric side. If you know shell and the Unix suite of commands as deeply as someone knows perl, shell is very competitive in effectiveness (after all, it really was Wall's original intent, to fill in the "shortcomings" of shell by incorporating the suite of Unix functionality directly into the shell).
Comment yes, but... (Score 1) 14
Yes, perl sucks, but it does it in so many different and elegant ways! I think perl is able to suck in more ways than any language I've coded (and I've coded many -- also wrote FORTRAN (and COBOL, AND PL/I) on punch cards long ago).
(for the record, I've written thousands of line of perl also, and I find it to be a fascinating language, and very useful, but it is one of the most abused languages out there, mostly because it's easy to abuse. I always cringe when asked to work on someone else's perl. More likely than not it's someone's self-aggrandized idea of "cool" power programming. Usually that means it's just crap.)
Comment in addition to the new release... (Score 4, Informative) 106
O'Reilly released the latest new version of their vi book, (now "Learning the vi and Vim Editors") last summer with seven new chapters devoted to vim!
