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Re: Which one would you hit? Maliah Michel or Miracle | Bossip

hiero2 — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 23:08:24 -0000

Bootay. My heavens, bootay-licious.

Re: Technical FAQ: Follow-up on Shimano shifters

hiero2 — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 10:05:28 -0000

I would expect to use a purchased set for AT LEAST 5 years - a 2 year warranty seems wimpy. Keep in mind, I'm not talking about a guarantee, I'm talking about some sort of replacement value for a failure that would be regarded as unreasonable - for at least a 5 year period. I don't like a "buy it and throw it away, buy another" kind of thinking.

Re: Garmin team’s management says its riders must cooperate with Landis investigation

hiero2 — Fri, 28 May 2010 14:34:50 -0000

I don't agree. It struck me, since very soon after Landis got "caught", starting with his first "story change", that he had started lying. Landis comes from an extremely religious family, and while he decided to live his life outside that, he was still known, I believe, previously, as a real straight-shooter. None of this picture "smelled" right - until this latest confession. However, it also seems apparent to me that Floyd has become a bitter man. It is almost certain, and I think is typical of cases where one person decides to "crash-and-burn" out of bitterness, that while what he is saying is all true, it will also try to "point fingers" where possible. In other words, we need to take the Floyd's revelations with a little salt. I still think this is the truest revelation of dopage to come out today. In 6 months to a year from now, I believe we will all know much more than we did yesterday.

Re: Garmin team’s management says its riders must cooperate with Landis investigation

hiero2 — Fri, 28 May 2010 14:21:06 -0000

@birillothedog: brilliant. I quite agree. One exception tho - there may be no omerta on Garmin, but there does appear to be forgiveness. My optimism that we now have a drug-free peloton, or at least that the influence of doping is greatly reduced, is also much higher now than it was before Landis has added this confession.

Re: Garmin team’s management says its riders must cooperate with Landis investigation

hiero2 — Thu, 27 May 2010 20:44:05 -0000

Bravo! Bravo! This is a wonderfully worded statement. What was -- was. Time to move forward.

Re: Zirbel’s B sample positive

hiero2 — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 09:42:10 -0000

Well, it's been said before, and many times, in many different ways: “The more familiar you are with DHEA and other illegal drugs, you know that DHEA is not something that anyone with half a brain would take, getting tested as much as I do”. But, this time, considering how much attention this is all getting? He might just be telling the truth. Or not.

Re: Coaches Panel: Length-length discrepancy

hiero2 — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:16:50 -0000

My leg length difference is approx 1.5", result of a motorcycle accident. Both answers are excellent, and nobody said about the fitter: "What was that idiot thinking?" I'd guess the fitter hasn't much experience with LLD.

Re: Saranac - Matt Brewing Company - Tell Us What You Think

hiero2 — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:08:56 -0000

Tue Nov-03-2009: Just opened your winter mix. "Big Moose Ale" is a excellent - a lovely and medium bodied English ale type. "Maple Porter" is an excellent porter, but the maple is too strong. The concept is in the right place, it just needs to tone down the maple flavor from a strong flavor to the "hint" that the label copy promises. "Rye IPA" is a good, but mild, IPA. I happen to prefer a mild IPA. The "Black Lager" is a nice lager, but a bit light for a dark lager. All criticism aside, you have one excellent beer here, 2 very good, and one that could be excellent (the Maple Porter). Thanks for an enjoyable variety pack!

Re: Is Linux kernel getting bloated ? Linus Torvalds says Yes!

hiero2 — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:11:52 -0000

Each new version of the kernel has provided markedly better hardware management. Or maybe that is the rest of the stuff you get with the kernel. I'm not sure I know enough to know. However, I DO know that the general usability of Linux has improved light-years over the last several years. And that is mostly to do with stuff "just working" out-of-the-box.

So, if that is causing bloat, which I also can believe (I've been using GIGAbytes for linux installs now, not MB!), then perhaps the only option is the compile-your-own-kernel-on-your-hardware option. But that would mean recompiling every time you swapped a cd drive, or a sound card, wouldn't it?

Re: Haiku - A new Operating System inspired by BeOS

hiero2 — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:02:17 -0000

I would disagree with the commenter about an OS not needing dependencies. Technically, they are correct - however, and this is a big However! - Linux and Window both have dependencies.

In Windows, probably 99% of developers rely on Windows libraries to work. These are dependencies. In Linux, developers do the same thing - they build a program that "calls" system libraries, or other program libraries - i.e. dependencies. It is the same thing, whether in Windows, or Linux.

That said, developers don't HAVE to do this - but apparently it is usually more work to do this, since so few do make fully stand-alone programs. That would be why a package manager would be a must-have for any OS to be ultimately successful. In Macs and Windows, the "package managers" are sufficiently integrated into the OS that the user rarely even recognizes that they are there. To a degree, I suppose, Mac and Windows have simplified their package management environment by setting rules that developers have to follow for their programs to work. Linux developers can rely on distro package writers and the end-users to do some of this work. Maybe Linux could learn something on this score.