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[2006-02-21 14:15:05] - mig: I understand, I'm just pointing out the further idiocy of it. I would select Buddhist or Hindu religious figures as well, but I can't think of any that are also in personal names. Judaism would work well though. No more Levi jeans or Abraham. -- Xpovos
[2006-02-21 13:22:14] - xpovos: i think the story is that the are singling out muslims, as even direct christian religious based names are allowed by yahoo. - mig
[2006-02-21 12:55:33] - mig: i knew a guy ross dickinson whose ICQ name showed up as: ross inson (they were sensoring "dick") -amy
[2006-02-21 12:46:36] - mig: I know lots of people with Christ in their names. * Christian, Christopher *, etc. Or how about the more common usage of Jesus in Hispanic cultures. Finally there's a woman I know whose name is Mary Christ. She gets lots of jokes around Dec, 25th. Whee! -- Xpovos
[2006-02-21 12:33:29] - this became an issue when a person with the lastname callahan tried to use it as her yahoo id. - mig
[2006-02-21 12:32:33] - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/02/20/yahoo_upsets_religious/ apparently you can't use the substring 'allah' as your username for your yahoo id. - mig
[2006-02-21 11:28:55] - Amy: Well, I would actually like it to be raining today because my car is filthy and desperately needs to be cleaned.
-Paul[2006-02-21 11:28:26] - Amy: If you read some of the earlier message board stuff, all I pretty much did was fill it up with mundane, personal and unimportant statements. That's why I have such an overwhelming lead in number of posts. -Paul
[2006-02-21 11:27:59] - Paul: Heh, I feel confliced about the weather because my hands are cold .p -amy
[2006-02-21 11:26:57] - Paul: hooray! i feel conflicted about my job, i also feel conflicted about the weather, and i don't have a headache. -amy
[2006-02-21 11:26:16] - -amy
[2006-02-21 11:26:08] - i wouldn't want to flood the board with mundane, personal, or otherwise unimportant statements.
[2006-02-21 11:26:08] - Amy: Does that help?
-Paul[2006-02-21 11:25:53] - Amy: I love my job (and Intwine is hiring, if anybody is interested or knows anybody interested), it's not a bad day outside and I don't have a headache. -Paul
[2006-02-21 11:23:22] - a: yeah i know there are no set rules and stuff... it's just like, usually people post articles and discuss broader issues and refrain from saying things like: "i hate my job" or "what a beautiful day it is outside" or "dear god i have a headache today"... -amy
[2006-02-21 11:21:58] - amy: this message board is the place for anything. ~a
[2006-02-21 11:21:35] - if you're friends with the tech lead, you can casually bring up talking to the mgr in conversation. if you're friends with the mgr, you can casually bring up what you wanted to talk about with the mgr. ~a
[2006-02-21 11:20:40] - heh maybe i shouldn't have brought this up on mboard. i get the feeling that this isn't really the place for personal (or work) drama. sorry -amy
[2006-02-21 11:20:11] - a: the second one for both. -amy
[2006-02-21 11:20:00] - a: the second one. -amy
[2006-02-21 11:19:52] - same question: s/mgr/tech lead/ ~a
[2006-02-21 11:19:37] - how is your relationship with your mgr? is he/she one of your friends or does every conversation you have with him/her revolve around work? ~a
[2006-02-21 11:16:18] - a: i have talked to my tech lead and brought up issues that i am having with the project, but he isn't very receptive to my input. i will prob talk to my mgr about it, but unsure if i should tell the tech lead first or just go straight to the mgr. -amy
[2006-02-21 11:15:03] - amy: depends on the situation. ~a
[2006-02-21 11:11:10] - is it mean/unethical to go straight to the manager with a problem that your tech lead is involved in without first telling the tech lead that you are going to talk to the manager about it? -amy
[2006-02-21 11:09:25] - hmm... apparently the other projects in my group are actually using CVS (as it's intended to be used) for version control... it's just my project that has no version control. -amy
[2006-02-21 10:52:02] - mig: for normal stuff (like co and ci), svn and cvs are the same. even branching and tagging have a simmilar interface. for small projects, svn doesn't offer much. ~a
[2006-02-21 10:09:13] - eclispe also has a plugin for it as well, and things like merges are already built-in to the source control back end. not only that a server is pretty easy to set up. - mig
[2006-02-21 10:08:23] - doh wrong url http://subversion.tigris.org/ - mig
[2006-02-21 10:07:32] - on the subject of version control, if you have a choice i do not recommend CVS if you can avoid it. subversion is the one you want: http://tigirs.subversion.org - mig
[2006-02-21 09:06:07] - i never realized that debit-card-cashback would actually help the supermarkets. . . . but, it helps them offload cash without having to insure or pay for depositing it (some banks require a cut of .5% for depositing cash) ~a
[2006-02-21 07:38:50] - http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060220-6218.html interesting speculation that for the price of a single fab, the tech industry could crush hollywood -dave
[2006-02-21 03:18:21] - fwiw, I found it very intuitive and I'd never really used version control at all prior to it. Then I had a project where the only thing available was wincvs, and started to appreciate how good I'd actually had it. - pierce
[2006-02-21 03:17:32] - amy: http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/ ... you can find information about it on that site too, or google "eclipse cvs tutorial" or some subset or permutation of those words... or you can play around with it and come back with any questions. - pierce
[2006-02-20 21:26:27] - in itunes, how come some songs don't repeat, when i set it on repeat 1 song only? -sam
[2006-02-20 14:35:49] - sam: yeah i figured that out only when you posted the link .) -amy
[2006-02-20 14:26:54] - amy: oh yea i was talking about a different thing -sam
[2006-02-20 14:22:24] - So as I was saying, I don't really care about the location of the branches if I get a debit card, as my main sources of paper bills are Safeway and Wegman's. -amy
[2006-02-20 14:21:36] - "Note that debit card cashback is entirely different from and unrelated to credit card cashback." What a confusing terminology .) -amy
[2006-02-20 14:18:56] - the different kinds of cashback ~a
[2006-02-20 14:16:50] - i suppose this is a name conflict. ~a
[2006-02-20 14:16:17] - amy: oh yes. that's a different kind of cash back. ~a
[2006-02-20 14:08:59] - a/sam: possibly we are talking about two different things here... i'm talking about withdrawing money from grocery or convenience stores when i pay for what i'm buying using my debit or check card. i buy $10 worth of stuff, i get a twenty dollar bill, and they charge $30 to my account... -amy
[2006-02-20 14:05:44] - amy: actually, it's not "cash back." you have to redeem points from certain vendors. -sam
[2006-02-20 14:04:03] - amy: here the website https://www.visaextras.com/-sam
[2006-02-20 14:03:34] - amy: i'm not sure about needing to pay tax... i might be wrong -sam
[2006-02-20 14:01:42] - sam: that doesn't sound like a very good deal... -amy
[2006-02-20 14:01:22] - pierce: actually where can i dl eclipse or find out more about it? -amy
[2006-02-20 13:59:41] - amy: i think it's called visa extras -sam
[2006-02-20 13:58:51] - amy: I think wachovia (my bank) has cash back thru check card also, but i think the percentage of cash back is very low. plus, i think u need to pay tax on it -sam
[2006-02-20 13:56:56] - a: that's weird. i thought all debit cards have that option. i guess not. -amy
[2006-02-20 13:56:41] - sam: it depends on the place. stores usually have their own limits about how much cash back you can get. -amy
[2006-02-20 13:56:26] - pierce: thanks for recommendation -amy
[2006-02-20 13:55:32] - amy: how much cash back do you get? -sam
[2006-02-20 13:55:25] - as I mentioned the other night, eclipse's CVS interface is spectacular, particularly, if you're trying to merge conflicting textual documents (like code). I use it even when my project isn't in java, though of course it's best for java. - pierce
[2006-02-20 13:55:02] - amy: correct. ~a
[2006-02-20 13:35:15] - a: two of the banks i have gotten cashback from are suntrust and pnc, both in VA. also they give cashback at the grocery stores in VA, so that seems to suggest cashback should be avail in VA. You could not get cashback and you had a debit card? -amy
[2006-02-20 13:31:59] - amy: well all three banks i've used didn't give cashback. mabye it's a virginia thing. does anybody else get cashback from their debit cards? ~a
[2006-02-20 13:01:11] - a: oh i thought you could get cashback with any debit or check card. i've been able to do it with at least three different banks. (they were all check or debit cards) -amy
[2006-02-20 12:50:41] - amy: you get cashback from your bank? i don't think boa gives cash back. ~a
[2006-02-20 12:47:11] - amy: Bank of America ++ -Paul
[2006-02-20 11:45:50] - amy: I've been meaning to look into another bank too, but just haven't gotten around to it -dave
[2006-02-20 11:45:37] - amy: i'm a member of a credit union in manassas, but i don't think it has any branches other than in manassas, quite inconvenient. I got into it when my dad worked for IBM -dave
[2006-02-20 11:43:38] - http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/02/17/tiger.poo.reut/index.html tiger poo, the new black gold -dave
[2006-02-20 11:16:46] - aba: yeah i thought so, actually i don't know too much about credit unions, i just have the account because my mom had an account... i should ask her how she got it. it's a "teacher's federal credit union" and neither of us are teachers ^_^ -amy
[2006-02-20 11:16:09] - a: currently i use a bank whose closest branches are hundreds of miles away and i get cashback when i buy groceries .p so ii'm sure any bank in this area will be an improvement -amy
[2006-02-20 11:07:41] - amy: most credit unions require you to be either part of some organization or have some famiyl who was part of it (ie navy federal credit union). it's pretty hard to find a credit union who will accept just anyone. - aba
[2006-02-20 11:05:49] - it also matters what branches and atms are near your apartment (also it matters if any of the branches suck). gurkie has boa, so she might know about them in your area. ~a
[2006-02-20 10:58:54] - i use cvs and svn. the command line version of both. i'll admit the command line versions are very hard to use, so i'm absolutely no help, sorry. ~a
[2006-02-20 10:57:35] - bank of america: very good bank. notes: make sure to get the free version (free bill pay, free checking, no montly fee, no minimums, with direct deposit). also, don't use their savings accounts or money markets (the rates are WAY too low, and the minimums are WAY too high) ~a
[2006-02-20 10:22:48] - also while i'm on the subject of asking random questions, what version control do you use at work? particularly, any recommendations for CVS clients, preferrably open source/freeware type of thing? currently we use wincvs... it makes me ;_; -amy
[2006-02-20 10:08:02] - (oops that was me) so i don't know if anyone is around or even awake, but i was wondering, what bank do you use and would you recommend it? does anyone know of any good credit unions? currently i use suntrust, which i hate, and a credit union on long island, which is obviously inconvenient... -amy
[2006-02-20 10:07:19] - a: yaaaay
[2006-02-20 09:45:23] - amy: actually, some people post even when they're not at work
i have work today, but i just woke up (yawn). maybe i should get moving. ~a[2006-02-20 09:37:37] - dave: oh good. so i'm not alone on the mboard today? .) -amy
[2006-02-20 07:50:12] - amy: actually, I'm the same as you - don't have anything off till memorial day -dave
[2006-02-20 07:49:37] - that's quite the huge hit -dave
[2006-02-20 07:49:14] - http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060219-6216.html Sony might have to take $400 console hit on PS3 if it prices the same as Xbox 360 (as opposed to $126 hit that MS is taking) -dave
[2006-02-19 19:54:09] - sam: get an nvidia card. - mig
[2006-02-19 15:50:01] - wow. that's fucked up. ~a
[2006-02-19 15:08:40] - a: i would like to uninstall the .NET framework, but I need it for the new ATI driver -sam
[2006-02-19 14:07:48] - sam: uninstall the .net framework.
~a[2006-02-19 11:27:10] - aba: thanks for the link. it seems like if you install the .NET framework, it creates a new user called ASPNET. -sam
[2006-02-19 06:47:42] - php
[2006-02-18 15:20:27] - from title: video - german coastguard
[2006-02-18 09:40:11] - here is a link that might help: http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article04-103 - aba
[2006-02-18 09:38:46] - sam: i would guess that .net increased your security and added a feature requiring that you provide your login. i don't use a pc, but i think there should be a way to disable it..... - aba
[2006-02-18 08:54:58] - by the way, i use windows xp -sam
[2006-02-18 08:53:59] - does the .NET framework add an user account that is invisible? -sam
[2006-02-18 08:53:26] - On my computer, I only have 1 user account, and when I start the computer, it doesn't ask me to log in and automatically logs in (I don't have password set for the user acount). After installing the .NET framework, it is taking me to the welcome screen for me to choose the user although there is only 1 user account. Is there a way to by pass this? -sam
[2006-02-18 08:48:57] - paul: i get monday off too -sam
[2006-02-17 20:49:45] - Paul: I have the day off, but cannot do anything, it is priorly engaged for an important event. Whee! Sux t0 b3 m3. -- Xpovos
[2006-02-17 17:19:49] - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11383819/ Cleric offers reward for killing cartoonist -Paul
[2006-02-17 15:40:44] - Amy: I'm very tempted to make a joke in poor taste, but I think I won't.
-Paul[2006-02-17 15:38:17] - Paul: Oh I don't know, on MLKJ day at CMU they'd light candles all around campus. I'm not really sure how else to celebrate the holiday. Maybe make a speech or something. -amy
[2006-02-17 15:24:24] - Amy: What are you lighting a candle for? -Paul
[2006-02-17 15:13:58] - And yes, the almost-weekend giddiness is obviously affecting my brain -amy
[2006-02-17 15:13:47] - Paul: Yeah someday I will take all four off in a row and light a candle, go into D.C. and look at historic stuff, go to Times Square, and then go to the mall. How exciting. -amy
[2006-02-17 15:10:08] - Amy: Wow, that actually seems pretty cool. -Paul
[2006-02-17 15:03:08] - Paul: therefore i can celebrate martin luther king jr. day, president's day, new year's eve, and shopping hell day after thanksgiving ALL IN THE SAME WEEK! -amy
[2006-02-17 15:02:00] - Paul: yes! They are like regular vacation days but they don't roll-over. -amy
[2006-02-17 14:33:02] - paul: I have president's day off - aaron
[2006-02-17 14:15:21] - Amy: Can you use them whenever? -Paul
[2006-02-17 14:14:44] - Paul: Eh, that's okay, I've got 4 floating holidays as a result. -amy
[2006-02-17 13:59:01] - Anybody want to do something on President's Day? -Paul
[2006-02-17 13:58:32] - Amy: Sorry
-Paul[2006-02-17 13:56:51] - i have it off but i might work it anyways. ~a
[2006-02-17 13:46:31] - i do. - mig
[2006-02-17 13:33:18] - *** amy has no holidays between new year's day and memorial day.
[2006-02-17 13:24:06] - So, who here has President's Day off? -paul
[2006-02-17 12:28:30] - http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=851 i always knew there was a reason i stayed away from ati video cards.... - mig
[2006-02-17 11:16:56] - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/16/AR2006021602039.html ugly people more likely to be criminals - vinnie
[2006-02-17 08:15:33] - http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=846 $10k to discover critical Windows flaw -dave
[2006-02-17 07:19:51] - i wonder if the person who designed the logo for Dr. Pepper went to Viginia Tech... i don't think maroon and orange is a common color combination... -sam
[2006-02-16 16:58:59] - aaron: http://download.wikipedia.org/enwiki/20060125/ there's .bz (bzip) .gz (gzip) and .7z (7z) ~a
[2006-02-16 16:57:26] - aaron: yeah. it's what wikipedia uses. ~a
[2006-02-16 16:48:16] - a: Hmm really? That's interesting... compression into what format? its proprietary 7z format? - aaron
[2006-02-16 16:38:53] - although the compression is much better. ~a
[2006-02-16 16:14:26] - aaron: i don't like the command line version. it's pretty crappy. ~a
[2006-02-16 14:40:41] - which comes in handy for those of you still pirating dos games from the 1980s - aaron
[2006-02-16 14:40:27] - http://sourceforge.net/projects/sevenzip/ 7-zip is a pretty great program to anybody wanting an open-source alternative to winzip... it's got a winzipesque gui and it can handle a lot of different compression algorithms, including LZH, ARJ, and RAR - aaron
[2006-02-16 13:45:43] - http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=5541 $1000 reward offered to reporter who ask hard questions to bush. - mig
[2006-02-16 13:13:28] - Vinnie: I actually thought he had done a lot more than just those few things because I saw him in so much stuff. -Paul
[2006-02-16 13:12:01] - Vinnie: Yeah, I remember being surpised too when I saw the actor. -Paul
[2006-02-16 12:46:37] - vinnie: sfm this week, I think - aaron
[2006-02-16 12:46:09] - i love how totally redundant the description is, next to the URL, for all of these wikinews articles - aaron
[2006-02-16 12:45:39] - http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Study_says_people_don%27t_understand_the_emotional_tone_of_emails%2C_but_think_they_do Study says people don't understand the emotional tone of emails, but think they do - aaron
[2006-02-16 12:41:03] - vinnie: that would be ghastly but i think i might enjoy that - aaron
[2006-02-16 12:36:47] - ddr_people: are we going to sfm or nvcc today? - vinnie
[2006-02-16 12:18:07] - paul: he was the one-armed man? :O - vinnie
[2006-02-16 11:52:34] - http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,18364,00.html?fdnews R.I.P. G'Kar. -paul
[2006-02-16 11:45:35] - http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/56311.html pill lets you cope (hm vague choice of word there) on two hours of sleep a night - vinnie
[2006-02-16 09:37:01] - dave: independent artist sales would improve to say the least. that kind of a boneheaded move could really usher in a new age - aaron
[2006-02-16 09:36:20] - dave: ha ha! i think it would be great if they decided to protect all of their CDs from being copied or burned to MP3s. As if the legitimate venues for buying music aren't unpopular enough already! - aaron
[2006-02-16 07:38:08] - the quote i love is this "Even if CDs do become damaged, replacements are readily available at affordable prices" -dave
[2006-02-16 07:37:49] - http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060215-6190.html RIAA says cd ripping, backups not fair use -dave
[2006-02-16 03:12:17] - today, before the day of horror can come, we will attack the innocent as we have done before, again and again, and kill thousands of people. that is the future we choose, and may god continue to use force against Iraq's neighbors, and Iraq's people. <applause> - bush
[2006-02-15 18:42:46] - george bush speech writer ~a
[2006-02-15 16:52:42] - although I suppose casinos would, for obvious reasons. - pierce
[2006-02-15 16:52:24] - a: but why would an arbitrary bet like that persist if it's worse than all other roulette bets? who's spreading the word, and why? - pierce
[2006-02-15 16:48:16] - which of the following fractions is bigger: 5/36 * 6:1 or 15/36 * 2:1... i guess if you are not good at math, it might be a hard problem - aaron
[2006-02-15 16:46:34] - pierce: because you don't know the odds. ~a
[2006-02-15 16:45:55] - why would you bother learning such an arbitrary bet if it actually performs worse than other bets? - pierce
[2006-02-15 12:52:38] - a: not only that in the UK it's also against the law to withhold your encryption key if the authorities ask for it. - mig
[2006-02-15 12:52:01] - a: precisely which is why i wonder why they just go ahead and outlaw the use of encryption... - mig
[2006-02-15 12:34:24] - the second a backdoor is added is the same second that the encryption is rendered useless. ~a
[2006-02-15 12:25:27] - mig: It's the return of the clipper chip. Yay! -- Xpovos
[2006-02-15 11:15:57] - there is one exception, but it's a bet i hadn't even heard of. "five number bet" (pays out on 0, 00, 1, 2, or 3; payout is 6 to 1, odds are 6.6 to 1, average payout is about -$.08 on a $1 bet) ~a
[2006-02-15 11:13:55] - i didn't realize that the average payout on a roulette table is exactly the same on any bet you make. the average payout is about -$.05 on any $1 bet. ~a
[2006-02-15 09:52:09] - http://www.insidebayarea.com/argus/news/ci_3507541 over 20,000 mobile homes meant to house katrina victims are sitting in a cow pasture field in arkansas, and may never be used. $850 million well spent. - mig
[2006-02-15 08:47:37] - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4713018.stm ukgov wants backdoor access to windows vista file system. heaven forbid private citizens have encryption methods that the government can't crack. - mig
[2006-02-14 18:34:23] - oh, aaron already said the second part. ~a
[2006-02-14 18:34:08] - also . . . something that's easier but hurts more: just use the back of your hand because it has fewer nerve endings (so it hurts less) ~a
[2006-02-14 18:33:37] - vinnie/aaron/paul: yes. hold a paperclip (or small amount of metal) and ground yourself using the paperclip. the electric shock will jump from the paperclip to the thing you're grounding yourself with and the shock will be distributed accross your skin where you're holding the paperclip (so it won't hurt you) ~a
[2006-02-14 17:32:32] - vinnie: I don't think so. Your fingertips are like the most sensitive parts of your body... so as a practical solution, try to discharge the electricity with a less sensitive part, and it will hurt less - aaron
[2006-02-14 17:09:48] - Vinnie: What if you tried grounding yourself on something that's not a very good conductor? -Paul
[2006-02-14 16:11:23] - is there a way to discharge static electricity without being shocked? I feel dumb for not knowing this, having taken more electronics courses than probably a lot of you have
- vinnie[2006-02-14 15:28:35] - a: right - aaron
[2006-02-14 15:26:44] - right. Pattern.compile( regex ).matcher( string ).find() instead of string.matches( regex )? ~a
[2006-02-14 15:25:23] - well basically i was trying to do something extremely simple, which is generalize a function where the only difference was sometimes I needed String.startsWith() and sometimes i had to use String.endsWith() and come on, i did not want to have two different functions for that! so this String.matches("^amy.*") (or without ^) works fine -amy
[2006-02-14 15:20:50] - a: the only drawback being that find() isn't provided as a convenience method on String(), so you need to use a few more commands. but it's definitely more natural, I understand the advantages especially if you already have a working regular expression which does what you want - aaron
[2006-02-14 15:17:49] - because it's how regexs are more often used (as subsearches, not as ^...$ entire region matches) ~a
[2006-02-14 15:16:49] - although, i'd probably end up using find() instead of matches(). ~a
[2006-02-14 15:16:16] - or just Pattern.compile("amy.*") ~a
[2006-02-14 15:16:13] - aaaron: yaaaaay!!! a and aaron are my heroes ^_^ it works! thanks guys!! -amy
[2006-02-14 15:15:52] - amy: Yeah, like adrian said, matches() only returns true if the entire region sequence matches the pattern... It's different from the way matchers work with tools like grep, or vi... i'm not sure why they decided to do it that way. I guess it probably makes certain things easier, although I can't figure out what... - aaron
[2006-02-14 15:12:24] - aaron: OK so what you are saying is i need the ".*" afterwards? let me go try that -amy
[2006-02-14 15:12:02] - a: i'm a little confused... i'm using String.matches(). e.g.: String x = "amy hsieh"; boolean y = x.matches("^amy"); ... would like that 2nd line to return true but i am unsure if that regexp means it is looking literally for a string that is "amy" and i need to add something to the end of that to also match with anything that follows the "amy" part of it... -amy
[2006-02-14 15:10:43] - Or Pattern.compile("^amy.*") - aaron
[2006-02-14 15:10:14] - because matches() returns "true if, and only if, the entire region sequence matches this matcher's pattern" whereas find() returns "true if, and only if, a subsequence of the input sequence matches this matcher's pattern" ~a
[2006-02-14 15:07:39] - you want Pattern.compile("^amy").matcher("amy hsieh").find() ~a
[2006-02-14 15:06:30] - Pattern.matches("^amy", "amy hsieh") does Pattern.compile("^amy").matcher("amy hsieh").matches() (which is not what you want) . . . ~a
[2006-02-14 15:05:09] - amy, i might have an answer for you. let me type out an explanation ~a
[2006-02-14 14:59:59] - *** amy goes to look at the wiki
[2006-02-14 14:59:51] - sigh i just realized my link was to the frame... i meant this: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/regex/Pattern.html#sum ...thing is not working. does, for example: "^Amy" mean that it will match the string "Amy" exactly but not "Amy Hsieh"? What about if you want it to match things that start with Amy but can have other things afterwards... -amy
[2006-02-14 14:57:25] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regex
[2006-02-14 14:54:44] - amy: $ will match the end of the string, ^ will match the beginning of the string. - aaron
[2006-02-14 14:41:42] - or, more correctly "amy$" ~a
[2006-02-14 14:40:55] - i'm with aaron, it's /amy$/ even in java ~a
[2006-02-14 14:15:01] - aaron: i was referring to this: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/ ...i guess i don't really know the difference between "line" and "input"... by input do they mean terminal input? i guess that makes more sense. i was thinking... my thing is going to be a string, not necessarily a whole line. (may not end in endline.) is $ still going to work? -amy
[2006-02-14 14:10:58] - amy: ends with amy would be "Amy$", i've never seen the \z format before - aaron
[2006-02-14 14:07:03] - aaron: i'm trying to find a match for, let's say, ends with "Amy". so I have this regexp like "Amy\z". but it won't compile because you can't escape the 'z' character.. so do i put in "Amy\\z"? does that work? -amy
[2006-02-14 14:06:17] - amy: all the time! what about them? - aaron
[2006-02-14 13:52:12] - halp .( does anybody use regexps in java?? -amy
[2006-02-14 12:02:02] - Dave: Wow, funny commentary from somebody other than Bill Simmons.
-Paul[2006-02-14 07:45:54] - http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=greenberg/060213 hehe, commentary on whether guys can say other women are hot in front of their wives -dave
[2006-02-13 19:41:54] - a: I don't understand options at all, I never really got the whole "future" concept. Let me know if you find any info worth reading. -mel
[2006-02-13 19:37:52] - a: wow that is a cool robot!! I wonder how they were able to get that level of control? -mel
[2006-02-13 17:31:54] - sam: I don't think so. I have playlists set up for 3*+ and 4*+ for that reason. - aaron
[2006-02-13 17:09:46] - correction... when it's set on shuffle -sam
[2006-02-13 17:09:00] - in itunes, is it more likely that it will play the songs that are highly rated under "my ratings" when its' set on shuffle? -sam
[2006-02-13 15:39:41] - i'll read up on it later. ~a
[2006-02-13 15:39:36] - i guess i just don't understand options yet. ~a
[2006-02-13 14:46:11] - a: so it just sits in your account as a balance -dave
[2006-02-13 14:44:42] - a: and if you do the options correctly, you never have to actually use your money for anything. just as collateral if you will -dave
[2006-02-13 14:44:23] - a: well they give you 4% yearly interest on your balance -dave
[2006-02-13 14:26:07] - $2k is really dang low if it's your average balance, or if it's your minimum overnight balance (or something). but saying that it's your minimum balance means that you can't use that $2k for anything. it's money that's wasted. immagine how much $2k could make you in the long run. (remember, it only takes 7 or 8 years for money to double). ~a
[2006-02-13 14:08:19] - a: i don't see the montly fee? what's that listed under? -dave
[2006-02-13 14:08:07] - a: first withdrawal per month is free and $4 for each check after that. doesn't seem like i'd ever trigger the fee -dave
[2006-02-13 14:03:43] - a: actually, if you're doing options, a min of $2k is really dang low -dave
[2006-02-13 13:42:20] - i mean . . . a minimum balance of $2000?! omg. ~a
[2006-02-13 13:41:51] - scottrade: withdrawl fee == 0, minimum balance == 0, monthly fee == 0 ~a
[2006-02-13 13:41:07] - dave: interactive brokers sound pretty crappy. withdrawl fees, minimum balances, "miscellaneous fees", and the worst of them all, monthly fees. ~a
[2006-02-13 13:31:51] - dave: hmmm. options sound complicated. i'll have to learn about them. ~a
[2006-02-13 13:21:43] - a: but if you go to like finance.yahoo.com and lookup a stock, there's a link to let you look at the options contracts and what they're going for -dave
[2006-02-13 13:21:16] - a: you have to apply to get options account functionality added to the standard account for scottrade -dave
[2006-02-13 13:20:42] - a: well, I guess stock options is the wrong terminology. options contracts may be more accurate. Puts, Calls, etc -dave
[2006-02-13 13:09:58] - dave: how do you find out what options you can buy? ~a
[2006-02-13 13:09:36] - dave: short of stock options through my company, i've never heard of buying a stock option. ~a
[2006-02-13 13:01:13] - man, scottrade's fees for options stink. They charge $8 base with $1.25 for each additional contract. Interactive Brokers (which is a much bigger broker) charges $.75 per, with no base -dave
[2006-02-13 12:08:55] - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/12/AR2006021200943.html Spotsylvania Deputies Receive Sex Services in Prostitution Cases -Paul
[2006-02-13 09:58:23] - a: I want a giant too, then. -Paul
[2006-02-13 09:57:38] - paul: that is life-sized. the hand you see, placing the vehicle on the road, is that of a giant. ~a
[2006-02-13 09:54:47] - a: I want a life-sized (transformer sized?) one of those. -Paul
[2006-02-13 09:53:37] - sam: Those waves are pretty cool looking. Hopefully they improved some of the other graphics in the game as much as that too. -Paul
[2006-02-13 09:50:15] - coolest robot ever ~a
[2006-02-13 08:54:07] - in fact, the maps (the road locations) are getting pretty old too. the 395S->495E ramp is almost a year old. ~a
[2006-02-13 08:51:55] - sam: not very often. if you look at the springfield interchange, the images are about five years old. ~a
[2006-02-13 08:46:19] - does anyone know how often the sattelite images are updated at google maps? -sam
[2006-02-12 17:51:56] - paul: the water waves look so real! -sam
[2006-02-12 17:51:13] - paul: go here and watch Xbox360 vs. PC Tech Demo (HD version) for Far Cry http://www.gametrailers.com/gamepage.php?id=2412 Far Cry for Xbox360 look amazing... -sam
[2006-02-12 11:00:02] - I think a max of around 10 probably wouldn't make much of a difference to me in terms of my Netflix habits. -Paul
[2006-02-12 10:59:17] - aba: I think if they advertised that there was a max number of rentals per month it probably would be a little less appealing to a lot of people. I don't know if it would make much of a difference with me, though, unless the limit was pretty low. -paul
[2006-02-11 13:13:52] - do you guys think netflix would still be as appealing if they changed their ads from "unlimited rentals" to a max of x number of rentals per month? - aba
[2006-02-11 13:08:27] - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11262292/from/RS.3/ the more dvds you get, the slower netflix delivers stuff to you. - aba
[2006-02-10 12:56:59] - mel: passwords for nytimes ~a
[2006-02-10 12:13:20] - http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/08/politics/08nasa.html?_r=1&oref=login Bush appointee at NASA resigns after people find out he did not have a bachelor's degree as he claimed he did on his resume. sorry anout the login -mel
[2006-02-10 12:02:33] - aba: yay somebody else remembers! thanks ^_^ -amy
[2006-02-10 12:00:31] - dave: i do not belive that it has either the authority to do that, nor will it really help in fighting terrorism. - mig
[2006-02-10 11:13:38] - aba: I could definitely be convinced to see a sequel in the theater, but I likely wouldn't see it by myself, so... -Paul
[2006-02-10 11:07:53] - amy: i remember it happening, but i wouldn't have remembered that he picked rick moranis. - aba
[2006-02-10 11:07:37] - paul: not sure i would pay money to see a sequel in the theater, but i wouldnt be opposed to renting it. - aba
[2006-02-10 11:00:35] - mig: from my perspective - it would seem patently ridiculous to me if some terrorist event happened that could have been picked up from the open net. I'm not talking about hacking encrypted stuff, but on the open net. -dave
[2006-02-10 10:59:04] - mig: or you dont' think the govt has the authority to crawl the web? -dave
[2006-02-10 10:54:23] - mig: so you don't think that it would help fight terrorism? -dave
[2006-02-10 10:46:14] - dave: it's not really a privacy issue for me, it's more of a using my money to do things that government has no authority to do. - mig
[2006-02-10 10:44:25] - dave: yes it is a big deal. If they're going to do something like this (which they have no real constitutional authority to do), then let them do it from their own money and resources, not from ours. - mig
[2006-02-10 10:38:48] - dave: boo i posted that yesterday! - mig
[2006-02-10 10:24:58] - although it does bring up the issue of ease-of-access. Like most personal records are available if you walk into a courthouse and ask for them - but then it's not necessarily a good idea to post them on the web -dave
[2006-02-10 10:23:30] - on the indexing of the internet - I guess i can understand people's anxiety, but for the most part I'm with the guy who posted and said that it's kinda silly to expect things on the internet to be private. So what, everyone can look things up on the internet but the govt? -dave
[2006-02-10 10:21:51] - paul: excellent plan -dave
[2006-02-10 10:21:42] - http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=703 US govt to index the internet -daev
[2006-02-10 10:20:37] - Dave: We should burn their embassy. -Paul
[2006-02-10 09:46:30] - "...The Syrian prime-time TV series that shows rabbis slaughtering a gentile boy to ritually consume his blood? The 41-part (!) series on Egyptian TV based on that anti-Semitic czarist forgery (and inspiration of the Nazis), "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion," showing the Jews to be engaged in a century-old conspiracy to control the world?" -dave
[2006-02-10 09:46:17] - "Have any of these "moderates" ever protested the grotesque caricatures of Christians and, most especially, Jews that are broadcast throughout the Middle East on a daily basis? The sermons on Palestinian TV that refer to Jews as the sons of pigs and monkeys?..." -dave
[2006-02-10 09:46:01] - on the subject of the cartoons that outraged muslims: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/09/AR2006020901434.html -dave
[2006-02-09 16:22:37] - Windows Vista: Aero Glass and the 3D Desktop http://www.gamespot.com/features/6143883/index.html -sam
[2006-02-09 15:54:09] - and it still remains to be seen if the government needed all these gestapo-like powers to nab these guys in the first place. after all, it's pretty well known that they had an inkling of the 9/11 plot before it happened, but just coulnd't connect the dots (which wasn't because they didn't those powers they claim stopped this particular plot). - mig
[2006-02-09 15:43:25] - amy: I don't know if we're necessarily representative of normal people here. -Paul
[2006-02-09 15:41:12] - and the same applies to this war on terrorism. they might've thrawted a terrorist plot here and there, but the war overall is not going very well, given how things are going in the middle east. - mig
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