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>> removing all windows from future planes
That's not a big change.
Most of the actual planes use Linux already
http://www.anvari.org/db/fun/C...

A hammer purchased today still looks like a hammer from a millennia ago for a reason.

"If you go through a lot of hammers each month, I don't think it necessarily means you're a hard worker. It may just mean that you have a lot to learn about proper hammer maintenance."

- Jack Handey

Except that Joel thinks that he knows better the Fred Brooks

The management question, therefore, is not whether to build a pilot system and throw it away. You will do that. [...] Hence plan to throw one away; you will, anyhow.

It is interesting to note that Brooks recants this in the latest version of MythicalManMonth, where he says "This I now perceived to be wrong, not because it is too radical, but because it is too simplistic. The biggest mistake in the 'Build one to throw away' concept is that it implicitly assumes the classical sequential or waterfall model of software construction." -- The Mythical Man-Month, 20th Anniversary Edition, pg. 265 ISBN 0201835959

The problem is that the 1st version has so many hacks that it becomes unmaintainable.

Meskimen's Law

There is never time to do it right, but there is always time to do it over.

The only conclusion I can come to is that you are Timmmmah in disguise (albeit a bad one). So quit making a fool of your self and just leave well enough alone.

Maybe he recently joined the American Non Sequitur Society.

ice cream has no bones.

The only conclusion I can come to is that you are Timmmmah in disguise (albeit a bad one). So quit making a fool of your self and just leave well enough alone.

Maybe he recently joined the American Non Sequitur Society.

AIX is UNIX Done Right. It's the kind of UNIX that doesn't fuck around. It just goddamn works, and it works really well.

Unless much has changed with AIX, this quote still applies. I used to coddle some AIX servers in the 4.2-4.3 timeframe, and can vouch for the truthfulness of the quote. AIX is... strange. Though, in fairness, they did have LVM done right.

The link you provided was of very little use. If you want to refer to a specific article, give an explicit link, not just a link to their home page.

In other words, I couldn't find the quote you referenced. But I suspect that it uses italics for words that are the object of discussion. If you don't have italics, the standard is to use quotes around the words.

For example, the word "facetious" has all 5 vowels, in alphabetical order. The contractions "it's" is short for "it is," while the work "its" is the possessive form of the word "it".

Next time take a little more care, especially when discussing language. It can be confusing if you aren't careful to differentiate between the words that are the object of discourse, and the words used in that discourse.

I'd give you an F in 8th-grade English, based on oyur submission.

Oh and despite the fact that you're being rather obnoxious, I'm big on cites myself so here you go. Perhaps you should lay off the coffee?

In Oklahoma it is illegal to get a fish drunk. Now, work on the morality aspect of that one if you will.

TFA is a cynical jest, or worse. Heinlein's definition of a committee comes to mind: a beast with no brains and a hundred bellies. Congress has got all the stomach it would take, and then some.

I do know that ciphertext is usually written in groups of five letters to provide spacing without giving clues about the spacing of the plaintext.

Exactly! It's extremely far-fetched that all of the acronyms would be 5 letters long (unless the intent was to make the Germans spend countless hours trying to break a cipher which wasn't a cipher at all! Doh, you meddling kids!)

Also, if you're going to assert that it's all acronyms, then each of us could decide it comes out to something else. In fact, when I read his "crack" of the code, I immediately thought of this perfectly apropos, albeit terribly off-color, joke. Here's the setup, and here's the punchline.

I do know that ciphertext is usually written in groups of five letters to provide spacing without giving clues about the spacing of the plaintext.

Exactly! It's extremely far-fetched that all of the acronyms would be 5 letters long (unless the intent was to make the Germans spend countless hours trying to break a cipher which wasn't a cipher at all! Doh, you meddling kids!)

Also, if you're going to assert that it's all acronyms, then each of us could decide it comes out to something else. In fact, when I read his "crack" of the code, I immediately thought of this perfectly apropos, albeit terribly off-color, joke. Here's the setup, and here's the punchline.

... who said this while reporting on the first landing of space shuttle Columbia.

It's also like the not so distant past where you take aptitude tests to see what you're good at and then select from those the field you like best (or hate least). Lots of countries used to do that, either as a recommendation or as a requirement. The requirements can be physical (e.g. you can't teach 7 foot or mental (ignorance is curable, stupid is forever) or both.

Not character assassination. Actions speak louder than words. If any president wanted to get things done, he could have the Attorney General champion for the oil industry in court. He could tell congress that he wants a bill on his desk that has drilling in it in the next 3 months. Instead he formed a task force. To quote from one of my favorite poems. To DECIDE means to take action, MAKING A DECISION does not change a thing, but makes people happy.

http://www.anvari.org/shortjoke/Miscellaneous_Jokes/32095_nay-lad-deciding-s-not-your-ploy-for-that-s-a-risky-game.html

And I did not comment on how good of a policy it is. I just commented on the fact that he is not serious about making it happen. I am willing to admit if I am a small and bitter man. But I think you will have to mark your calendar. If any place he recommended to be studied is actually cleared for drilling (not including court battles by environmental groups) before 2020, I can admit I have unfairly impugned his character.

On the other hand, it will be 10 years before I can be proved right, and in 2020 empty promises of drilling 6 to 8 years ago won't really matter.

Nobody can prevent war, famine and suffering.
Nobody can save the economy.
Nobody can brush your teeth for you.

Vote for Nobody!

Unfortunately, it's also true that "nobody has access to your fingerprints". :-O

See Ivan Sutherland's Wheel of Reincarnation. The idea is that CPUs get faster and graphics move there; then busses get faster and graphics moves to dedicated hardware; rinse and repeat. http://www.anvari.org/fortune/Miscellaneous_Collections/56341_cycle-of-reincarnation-coined-by-ivan-sutherland-ca.html

Building a self-consistent rule set as complex as a parser/compiler combination takes years and years of work to get it right. And you're saying leave that to the programmer??? That's the biggest maintenance nightmare I have EVER heard of.

It's bad enough that a new programmer has to learn the application idiosyncrasies; throwing in the fact that every instance of the language is fundamentally different would at least double the length of the learning curve.

I do however see the appeal of having a common syntax for several different styles of programming schema. Imagine having one punctuation set and operator set for a language that can be either script-like (no typing system), strongly typed, garbage collected, etc, and have it all inter-operate. I just don't think it should be left to the whims of some dude in the back room that would never document his intent and execution properly.

If you do go ahead and write it, I nominate Female+- as the name (see http://www.anvari.org/fun/Gender/17_Female_Rules.html )

Ms Barbara Walters...

BW: You oughtta be HUNG!

Seq: You DAMNED RIGHT me hung... Like a BUFFALO!

For details:

http://www.anvari.org/shortjoke/Best_Jokes/950_barbara-walters-was-doing-a-documentary-on-the-customs-of-the-american-indians.html

I wonder if "Sequoia" "pines" to be the lone "supplier" to the governments...

Exactly. I've always wondered if the people that get really annoyed with spelling errors have some fault in the error correction in their brains. It's sort of plausible, some autistic spectrum people are annoyed inordinately by inconsistency.

So when they see someone misspell something they get angry whereas normal people just filter it out subconsciously. If some aspie points it out, us neurotypicals can see it too, but up to that point it was forward error corrected away beneath our conscious processing level so we don't need to worry about them.

Which would mean that grammar Nazis are actually cognitively challenged as well as pendantic. Yeah, I just said pendant. Hurts don't it?

"more PCs running Windows in the world than there are automobiles"

soon to be

"more automobiles running Windows in the world, not just PCs"

and don't forget boats for that matter: Windows for Warships (not a joke)

luckily, even though one of microsoft's original software hits in the early 1980s was a flight simulator, this is still a joke... for now

someone else can find the reality/ joke based depiction of windows running submarines, or spacecraft... or donkey mule carts... (mind numbing complete)

>>Hell, quote me a source that quoted him as saying it, in the year that he said it.

> http://www.anvari.org/fortune/Quotations_1/366.htm l

> Bill Gates has a selective memory. It's easy to forget anything that makes you look less that intelligent.

You're an idiot. "Bill Gates, Microsoft boss, 1981" is not a source.

>Hell, quote me a source that quoted him as saying it, in the year that he said it.

http://www.anvari.org/fortune/Quotations_1/366.htm l

Bill Gates has a selective memory. It's easy to forget anything that makes you look less that intelligent.

He had another zinger about OS/2 being the most important OS in the 1990's decade, soon followed by his brush-off of the Internet.

I'm not a hard-core computer geek but I "got" the joke. Very funny.

Someone with all the political motivation of a jellyfish or someone who firmly believes money is the root of all evil?

Girls are evil.

It was in the Linux kernel source. See here.

Being an old fart who so desperately wants to be hip, I'm always checking out "what the young people are up to".

I know how you feel. I used to be with it, but then they changed what "it" was. Now, what I'm with isn't it, and what's "it" seems weird and scary to me.

--Abe.

As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny.

The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism.

Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.

-- Commissioner Pravin Lal, "U.N. Declaration of Rights"

Source.

Clowns are the ones who read books upside down

Either information exists or it doesn't.

Say that we have evidence that information does not exist. Then, it can only be expressed through information.

However, if there is evidence that information doesn't exist, then the only real explanation is that we lack the proper language to express that information. Thus, with no proper language to adequately express itself, information appears to not exist.

This reminds me of an anecdote about the famous mathematician G. H. Hardy (it's been credited to others as well):

Hardy once said that he could prove anything if it given a contradiction to begin with. McTaggart denied the consequence: "if 2+2=5, how can you prove that I am the pope?" Hardy replied: "if 2+2=5, 4=5; subtract 3; then 1=2; but McTaggart and the pope are two; therefore McTaggart and the pope are one."

In other words, Hardy argued, and most philosophers would agree, given one false idea or inconsistency you can prove anything.

there you go

It has a cousin in the US.

Well, according to this page, a rod can also be 512 yards. And that 63 gallons is a bit nebulous as well.

Still, he must drive an SUV to get gas mileage like that.

Yeah, I did that. This is the picture I got. Seems to work fine to me - what's your issue?

...for years

Well
Nearly

You got drunk off 9 bottles of Coors Light? Do you have a liver disorder or something?

There's only one reasonable explanation I can think of: He must have funnelled all nine of them at once while spinning around and around right after hanging inverted for 30 minutes on a ship in rough seas.

Of course, he could have miscounted. I took out my calculator and _still_ got it fsckin wrong!

(Who's G.W.?)

Here's a list of pictures of this ape compared to other species. The new ape is the one on the left.

"Woot," an adjective? I thought it was one of those words that could be a variety of parts of speech, like "fuck."