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For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn.

"For Sale. Baby shoes. Never worn."

I think this is one of the saddest stories ever.

Then there's the world's shortest horror story: "The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door—"

And of course some science-fiction ones, courtesy of Everything2.

Dunno whether I'm the first person to come up with it, but IMO this is the perfect rebuff to the certainly not untrue, but key-issue-avoiding statement that "Guns don't kill people. People kill people", in the way it's used by "right to bear arms" people. Symmetry is beautiful. If someone replies "But people protect people with guns", you can grin and retort "Well, people kill people with guns".

Actually, it was "Punch the monkey".

Err, *some* drug dealers end up incarcerated.... Others end up in charge of the country.

http://www.serendipity.li/cia/bush-cheney-drugs.ht m
http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1706934

Right now he has a pick-ax handle with a nail in it. But he won't stop there. Soon he will make bigger handles with bigger nails until he makes a handle with a nail in it so big it will destroy us all!

Obscure reference?

"With the BSD license, you retain the rights to your software and you have the right to improve the software. Perhaps you should go read the BSD license agian?"

Perhaps you should read my post again. I specifically didn't say BSD didn't provide you the means to imrpove the software, I said I want my rights to FORCE the improvement of the software. (i.e. if you use it, you can't close it off like you can with BSD and make it proprietary.)

"So taking away certain rights away from those that use your sourcecode is not a form of greed?"

Yes, the right to be greedy is taken away.

Very unpopular conception in this 5th and FINAL AGE of mankind, where there is NO God, life is cheap and morals are those positions best supported when they are most comfortable to do so.

"People every day reap the benefits of BSD software licensing, and fail to make the connection that it the source code and the lack of restrictions that allowed such widespread adoption of the things we takes for granted today."

Yeah, like corporations taking wholesale lots of code BSD style and contributing nothing, and essentially getting free labor.

I understand exactly what sweat shop labor is high tech style, and the BSD license is the best way to get there for corporate empires every where.

"Without that "Intelectualy property B.S.", the GPL would be nothing more than a plea to the people that download your source code."

True, but you quoted out of context. Intellectual property BS as in patents, which the GPL v3 actively seeks to destroy the current patent system for software.

The faster the patent system dies, the more software companies and innovation we will get.

"It's also not stealing because the license allows it. Also, the BSD license prohibits claiming that it's 'all yours'."

What is really the damn diff if a company includes the TCP/IP stack for windows from BSD Unix and doesn't share the source code?

In my opinion, stealing is the profiting of work from others without sharing the revenue or seeking to restrict rights that prevent others from competing.

BSD does this wuite nicely, and is the primary reason why as a license it has failed miserably, while the GPL has become the largest license for software in the world....and the most useful to those in developing countries who couldn't possible compete against corporate empires in the world today on BSD terms.

GPL levels the playing field by insuring everyone plays nice, regardless of the money exchanged for labor or services.

Which in the end, is what computing should be about: People writing great software and not Software Licensing.

"The Windows 2000 IP stack was not based on BSD code. If it was, it probably would have performed better."

tftv256 has pointed out that the winsock.h that comes with VC++6 also contains the Berkeley copyright notice.

http://everything2.com/index.pl?node=BSD%20Code%20 in%20Windows

Me thinks you have more homework to do.

There is BSD code all over the place in Windows, and not for the betterment of BSD the OS that I can assure you.

-Hack

These kids and their parents don't deserve fines or jail time. They should have had their behinds tanned, been grounded for a month or so and have to do some community service.

Why does this woman even care if others think she is a lesbian?

When I was in high school I was a horrible kid and I don't know how many times I said this teacher or principal was gay or a lesbian. It was the normal insult that most of my friends used.

I'm also likely to take the SAT, with the subject tests. A friend who went to America got me Kaplan for the subject tests and Princeton Review for the general test. I'm going to take SAT I, Math II and Physics.

For the math section in the SAT, if you got an A at GCSE that is probably sufficient. As for the english reading section, it's fairly simple.

Princeton Review seems to be the exam technique for idiots. Sentence completion (me):
1) Read the question
2) Read the choices
3) Point to the correct one (in the rare case that I can't work it out, a guess will do if I can eliminate at least one option, see [1])
4) Write that down.

Sentence completion (them):
1) Read the question
2) Identify whether the clauses of the sentence are contradictory ("however", "on the other hand", "but" and many more listed in the book), supportive ("similarly" etc) or neautral
3) Identify the word in the question which the answeer has to support or contradict
4) Identify the answer
5) Write it down

They claim people are suckered into close seconds for sentence completion. Well, I've tried it and I'm not. Those "other people" are just stupid.

More another day (or later today), when I dig out my Princeton Review book to show you how terrible the whole thing is. But meanwhile, consider this:

"Beginning of test => Easy questions => Obvious answer"
"End of test => Hard questions => Obvious answer choices are wrong"

(math): answers which are numbers given in the question are obvious. This means that on many higher questions they are wrong.

[1] http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=109487 9&lastnode_id=0

Does anyone have any estimates of how much Unisys collected in blackmail^Wlicensing fees on GIF? And any analyst estimates on the costs of producing, defending and prosecuting that "submarine patent"?

Is the flagship submarine patent really worth the money Unisys sank into it? Worth the money the US government spent protecting it? Worth it to "the progress of science and useful arts"?

This happens to most communities where people are trying to achieve a goal. Everything2, Wikipedia, et al. It has nothing to do with 'critical thinking' and everything to do with 'appropriateness'. People tried to (and to a lesser extent are trying to, though is seems to have been co-opted into a creative writing site) document "Everything" on E2. Some 'old school' types felt that they had 'earned' frivolity, and such, by virtue of their contributions. They wrote nodes with such stuff as "Lesbians! Monkeys! Soy!" and "Butterfinger McFlurry". The wrote nodes with self-referential garbage such as "Earn Your Bullshit", which they used to justify that "once you have written enough serious stuff, you are entitled to inject a bit of utter crap here and there". They were (correctly) called on it.

You have Jimbo flying around the world, talking about how Wikipedia should be burnt on to discs for children without internet access (replete with all the antics discussed places like here) as a valuable resource, people spouting meta-acronyms like WP:CITE, WP:NPOV, WP:V to chastise others who don't take Wikipedia seriously enough, you have defenders railing that "Wikipedia is not an encyclopedia!" when people query some of the methodology and theorising, although they somehow must have missed that big sentence on the homepage that proudly proclaims, "Welcome to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit."

It has nothing to do with critical thinking and everything to do with this selective deafness when it comes to the pointing out of any hypocrisy in worldview.

Is it wrong to have a sense of humour? No. Are people entitled to do as they wish with their creations? Of course. Is it disingenuous to sweep under the carpet all of the issues inherent, and proclaim that the fault must be in that of the viewer, for "the consensus" knows best? Absolutely (ask yourself about how it is that so much gets deleted in the name of "WP:NOTABILITY", and yet there are literally thousands of articles on manga, and every card in the history of the Magic: The Gathering game has its own individual entry).

I already proposed this earlier this year: Let's buy Sony.

Then we can make our own gaming console / digital camera / MP3 player / laptop / movies / music / DVD player / HDTV.

In a society where all High School teaches you to do is think inside the box and do what teachers/administration say, why the hell would they (the schools) expect anyone to be able to do any kind of work or create something new when all school has become is a baby sitting service?

Learn the rules before you break them. It's a tried and true process, and also the most efficient method of dealing with a large number of students. But if you feel the educational system is truely flawed, then become a teacher, principal, or just join the school board and work to change it. My parents did when I was in school -- although I think their changes were mostly detrimental -- and my girlfriend does it now. Personally I feel that that the schools here are mostly sufficient, and that the most effective use of my time is to augment our kids' education outside of school.

Please, please, please stfu with "anecdotal is not the plural of data". I've seen this 5 times today and it was lame the first time.

Now every time someone tells a story, some dipshit slings out this phrase. Please add it to the closet of phrases never to be uttered again with "strawman" and other neologisms.

Plus, anecdotal evidence can still be useful and it's not like grandparent was trying to disprove some theory just express that "illegal" file sharing might have some value to artists.

http://everything2.com/index.pl?node=the%20plural% 20of%20anecdote%20is%20not%20data

This isn't true.

http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=154301 6

Some people may prefer the sound of vinyl, and that's fine, but it's pretty clear at an objective level that CD audio is 'better'. Any argument made in favor of vinyl is based off of subjective perception, as the signal-processing principles behind CD's are quite sound.

I'm not saying that it's not ok to like it yourself, but stating it as an objective fact is inaccurate.

"Say it's a boring day. You're hanging out with your friends, and none of you can seem to make a conversation interesting enough to stay talking. Do what I do! Drop into pirate-speak!"

Apparently the desire to "talk like a pirate" is a natural human urge even stronger than the desire to "walk like an Egyptian".

"If you want power, you're going to go somewhere else."

Tsk tsk -- thou forgest thy roots:

http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=135530 4

Look at how Everything2 does it. They use an XP system, and don't have messy edit wars. Users learn to trust those with high XP, and it encourages real factual content or creative stuff (poems, stories, etc).

Sounds like looking forward is just like gazing into the past. The system they propose sounds strikingly similar to the now-dated system over at Everything2. This has worked pretty well for this non fact-oriented wiki, I suppose it could also work for a reference piece. How long until they want to start calling it "noding?"

• There's a compass in my nose?
  
  
• All humans have a trace amount of iron in their noses, a rudimentary compass found in the ethmoid bone (between the eyes) to help in directional finding relative to the earth's magnetic field.
  
  
• Studies show that many people have the ability to use these magnetic deposits to orient themselves-even when blindfolded and removed from such external clues as sunlight-to within a few degrees of the North Pole, exactly as a compass does.
  
  
• Though no one knows how this "sixth" sense is processed by the brain more then two dozen animals, including the dolphin, tuna, salmon, salamander, pigeon, and honeybee have been found to have similar magnetic deposits in their brains to help them in navigation and migration.

Please stop perpetuating the myth that corporations are inherently amoral because their shareholders demand nothing less. This is a cop-out that some corporations would like you to believe because it gives them cart blanche to do whatever they want. But it is a dichotomy with no basis in reality.

I challenge you to provide an example where shareholders have sued a corporation because the corporation made a [positive] ethical choice.

I was actually under the impression that compound eyes were poorer than mammalian eyes ins pite of being more numerous, but you are correct. A page from everything2 says:
Compound Eyes:
apposition eye: An eye type consisting of multiple ommatidia (lenses) which are each seperated by pigment cells, which surround them individually. Having the lenses seperate in this way creates the problem of poor photon reception, which led to the development of the superposition eye. The apposition eye is found in diurnal insects, some crabs and lower crustacea.
superposition eye: Found in dipteran insects, crustacea and crabs this eye type is unique because the ommatidia aren't isolated from each other; together they produce a brighter image due to better photon reception.

Even if dark matter exists, there is no reason why it all would add up to (nearly) zero.

For example, if dark matter exists, what if there is just a little more of it than expected? Then the theory of "pushing gravity" http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=Pushing%2 0Gravity would stand a chance.

Car manufacturers do do (haha) this. I know at least the Mazda RX-8 with an automatic transmission has been throttled back significantly.
Wish I could find a better link, but this should work.

not really. as we know it is a place in lancre.

Certainly MPEG over-compression sucks, no matter what resolution you're viewing. But that's a point in favor of BluRay/HD-DVD, because physical media still has more bandwidth than wires.

And certainly one can get too crazy with statistics. But considering that a National Geographic photograph has, what, 10+ megapixels of information, and even cheap cameras have 2+ megapixels... But a 720p frame has 1 megapixel of information, it's hard to say that 720p is at all over-the-top. Sure, comparing motion to still resolution isn't competely fair, but when there's less motion in the video (eg. scenic landscape shots, interviews with sweaty athletes), you can appreciate the somewhat improved resolution.

As for DRM... movie studios realize that the only time they can fix previously hacked DRM is when an obviously improved standard comes out, otherwise consumers would view a change as a net-negative, and won't "upgrade". I don't think the best solution is, in this post-Napster world, to never upgrade again, to always stick with 90's tech. Maybe a more pragmatic approach would be to wait until new DRM is cracked enough so that it's hassle-free to use a neutered player.

The "Moon": A Ridiculous Liberal Myth

And for those of you who are noobs, here is how to install Linux on a dead badger.

Any human with two anatomically correct hands who knows the shape of the letter L and that said letter stands for left should be able to tell left from right.

Does your quaint little ditty hold if we decide to reclassify the stinkhorn under the genus rosa? I think not.

That would be a pretty funny comment if I knew that you were only kidding around...??

Really, if you don't understand how to turn a square wave into a sine wave (by bandlimiting), you should read up on it. You will then understand why 18k in a 22kHz bandlimited encoding system has to be a sine wave.

You could start with Sine Waves. But the really important quote to take away from there is:

Any non-sinusoidal waveforms, such as square waves or even the irregular sound waves made by human speech, are actually a collection of sinusoidal waves of different periods and frequencies blended together. The technique of transforming a complex waveform into its sinusoidal components is called Fourier analysis.

I think the reasoning behind this is that Google is attempting to preemptively stop any possible legal issues with their name. I mean, you run into issues when things are known by a brand name. Take for instance Kleenex, Jell-O, Frisbee & Hoover. You know what all these are and there's a fairly good chance you've called an imposter brand the same name.

What I speculate Google is worried about is that the verb "googled" becomes generic for search as in "I googled it." And the law says you can't trademark something that is generically used. Essentially, if a case occurred with a rival search engine putting "Just google it!" at the top of their page and the court said they could do that because 'google' is a generic term, then you would have precedent for millions of Google imposters seeking to make money off the Google name (since it just means search to the general public).

Google figures it already is a household name. The last thing they need is the media dumping 'google' as a verb in the papers because if they start putting it in headlines and stories--it's a much easier case for another company to claim it is part of the English language. Hell, it's already in two entries in the Oxford dictionary. I think you could already argue a case to use the word "google" to mean search on your site.

I don't need statistics to know that Thinkpads are used in a higher proportion than Vaios by business users. I also don't need statistics to know that ultimate frisbee players are generally less aggressively competitive (probably because they smoke pot) than football players. It's sufficient for someone to say "in my experience" and move on. The poster wasn't characterizing you personally. He was making a collective (and relative) judgement about a group of people with which we all have experience. If you can't smell the elitism in the community of coffee-house art-hipster Mac users, then you probably couldn't detect the elitism of Amiga users, or NeXT users.

I've been part of them all, by the way. I went to the Commodore Amiga user group that met every other Tuesday when I had my Amigas, had a NeXTstation Turbo, and have a Powerbook and iMac. In every case, the percentage of elitist users among the user-base that I interacted with was higher than Wintel users. I don't have to quantify it to be able to make a judgement about it. It could be because these platforms had more enthusiastic users, more willing to jump in to something not in the mainstream, but I tend to think that it's the inverse of Amiga Persecution Complex. Instead of thinking that there is some large conspiracy against the platform, this tone of elitism helps to rationalize the lack of success that the platform sees.

"Those people just aren't cool enough for my platform of choice."

The obvious intent of the Apple ads is to play on the characteristics of the users of the machines, and I think they're very effective ads. Do you really view that shiny new MacBook (which looks arguably more cleanly designed than any other notebook available) as a converse-and-sweatshirt-wearing slacker? Really?

This view of the Mac as a smarter, cooler, computer is probably helping sales, so don't worry about it. If you're not a jerk, just use your computer and continue not being a jerk.

According to the context sensitive help in the DOS version of Borland C++, 7Hz is also the resonant frequency of a chickens skull.

http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=107350 3

Pour hot water over fresh wakame seaweed. Immerse in water and drain. Cut into 1 inch lengths.

Wash the cucumbers then take a fork and run it along the skin from tip to tip on one side and then the other to score it to make a simple pattern. Japanese cucumbers are much more delicate than Western varities. If you cannot find them, use a single English cucumber, slice it in half and seed it. Cut on the bias into thin rounds and sprinkle with salt.

Tear the baby greens into bite-sized pieces and arrange in a bowl.

Mix and stir the dressing ingredients.

Mix seaweed, cucumbers with the dressing and then place them ontop of the greens. Garnish with gomasio (sesame salt).

Not hard to find. Trust Google and keep a well stocked kitchen.

6) Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective - It came with the system, so you are stuck with it.
7) Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch - It was like falling into Hell!

I'm pretty sure there were only 22 wide releases (not counting tech demos or kiosks, if such devices existed). Here's a really good article by one of my favorite Video Game reviewers: http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=138707 4 (By Servo5678: http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=132275 4).

He's also got a review of each individual game if anyone's interested, plus the USA/Japan release status.

One of the interesting tidbits from the article: Nintendo's lawyers required a minimum age of 7 to use the virtual boy. Hmmmm...

I'm pretty sure there were only 22 wide releases (not counting tech demos or kiosks, if such devices existed). Here's a really good article by one of my favorite Video Game reviewers: http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=138707 4 (By Servo5678: http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=132275 4).

He's also got a review of each individual game if anyone's interested, plus the USA/Japan release status.

One of the interesting tidbits from the article: Nintendo's lawyers required a minimum age of 7 to use the virtual boy. Hmmmm...

Like the famous quote, no two countries with a McDonald's in them have gone to war with each other. Democracies don't go war to with each other, because democracies are governed by moderation, and they usually have strong diplomatic ties between them. And McDonald's are ostensibly drawn to stabile governments. The only exception to this is the US and Panama in 1989, which came more because democracy was subverted in the Panamanian elections and Bush was decidedly less lenient with regards to drugs than Reagan had been.

So no, it is not an economic reality, but it is inherently tied to a lack of moderation in one side of the conflict. That is why democracy is so important to the world. It is the one supreme human ideal that must be pushed above all others - not just because it embodies the concepts of freedom, equality, justice, and fairness, but also because it embodies the ideas of moderation, restraint, and deliberation. Which negates the need for nuclear weapons.

Just to document my argument in this thread, here is a sample URL:

http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=150999 0

Actually, all Hollywood has done is added remakes to their repertoire. They haven't shown a real slowdown in original pictures (of blockbuster or indie niche variety) since the 80s, when sequelization and remakes began emerging as a real industry standard.

I wrote a piece about unoriginality in Hollywood for E2, it pretty much has all the numbers.

Back in the 40s and 50s, Hollywood relied on literary adaptations. Today we rely on TV and old movies as our sources. We've just evolved with the culture, that's all. Nothing new. This is just the 21st century version of the "the book was better" argument.

Star Wars is not science fiction it's fantasy. Just because you use swords does not make you fantasy and just because you have a gun does not make you science fiction; personally I'm partial to Phillip K. Dick's definition which I am only able to paraphrase at the moment so I doubt I'll be nearly as succient nor as accurate.

'The Shifting Reality of Phillip K. Dick' contain many different short stories and pieces of speeches he gave throughout his life; in one of those speeches Dick espouses his definition of science fiction which goes something like this: A science fiction story takes place in a world that is not our world, but could be. In other words, the story is grounded in some sort of reality that we know. Star Wars has no such grounding, unless someone knows where I can find me some Ewoks to enslave.

I have only played SWG, and the star wars franchise is the only one mentioned that I have knowledge of so I'll limit my critique to that but clearly it's just shitty fantasy. Star Wars has been shitty fantasy for a long time and has never been science fiction. It's childish and nonsensical... ...disagree all you want but I think I'll stick with PKD on this one.

PS: If you think I've just commited an act that merits hari kari, stand up from your desk walk outside and breath some fresh air...

I seem to remember a site called "Whitehouse.com" (not .gov) that was a porn site whose name was designed to get hits from those who were not looking for porn, especially children.

Seriously, how many adults look for the Whitehouse home page? Who do you think the webmasters of Whitehouse.com were trying to attract with their misleading name?

Fighting fire with fire does work. It's called a backfire, and is used to deprive the main fire of suitable fuel.

That's what continues to irritate me about these discussions -- it's about environment and culture, not about individual gun ownership. Yes, if someone sticks a gun to the back of your head, you have no opportunity to draw your own weapon. On the other hand, the three or four people that see the whole thing and are usually too scared to interfere could instead pull their guns out and contain the criminals until the police arrive.

If that scenario were likely, it would be a powerful deterrent to many "common" criminals. By makin it very risky to commit such crimes, the benefit -- that is, the motivation to commit the crime -- erodes. That leads, in theory, to lower crime. Of course, it's not as easy as "give everyone a gun": people need to be properly trained, required to maintain their training, and a host of other logistical difficulties.

It also wouldn't eliminate the most violent breed of criminal, of course. However, reduction in "routine" crime does free up resources to pursue more dangerous criminals. When did we all become such pansies that we choose to rely solely on the police for protection instead of protecting ourselves and each other?

Well, that was what I was alluding to do as their "clunky approach", in that it offers you a degree of personalization (a plus), but only in the form of past searches (and a weak form of relevance.) It's better than nothing, but just barely.

I have written up my own theory of the ideal Semantic Web search engine at everything2.com, (another link), (and another) (which of course I encourage everyone to read), but here are some ideas a good Semantic Web search engine would obey:

1) If I search for "bank", it should find my bank, and not a bunch of other banks.
2) It should follow the hierachy of personal preference -> local preference -> appeal to authority -> appeal to popularity -> all other results. So if I search for "sofa" it should go:

a) Has he ever searched furniture before? What sites did he visit from that search? Has he given his seal of approval to any sites that sell furniture?
b) What furniture stores are within 20 miles of him?
c) Are there any sites that do serious furniture reviews? Are there any sites that provide consumer reports on furniture?
d) What are the most popular furniture sites? What are the most popular sofas?
e) Any other sofa pages out there? Sofa Kingdom, what's that all about anyway?

And 3) It should have a distinctive "kthejoker" flavor to my searches. How it defines that is entirely up to my history and interaction with it, but the Semantic Web is the easiest way to get this thing done as abstractly and as simply as possible.

Well, that was what I was alluding to do as their "clunky approach", in that it offers you a degree of personalization (a plus), but only in the form of past searches (and a weak form of relevance.) It's better than nothing, but just barely.

I have written up my own theory of the ideal Semantic Web search engine at everything2.com, (another link), (and another) (which of course I encourage everyone to read), but here are some ideas a good Semantic Web search engine would obey:

1) If I search for "bank", it should find my bank, and not a bunch of other banks.
2) It should follow the hierachy of personal preference -> local preference -> appeal to authority -> appeal to popularity -> all other results. So if I search for "sofa" it should go:

a) Has he ever searched furniture before? What sites did he visit from that search? Has he given his seal of approval to any sites that sell furniture?
b) What furniture stores are within 20 miles of him?
c) Are there any sites that do serious furniture reviews? Are there any sites that provide consumer reports on furniture?
d) What are the most popular furniture sites? What are the most popular sofas?
e) Any other sofa pages out there? Sofa Kingdom, what's that all about anyway?

And 3) It should have a distinctive "kthejoker" flavor to my searches. How it defines that is entirely up to my history and interaction with it, but the Semantic Web is the easiest way to get this thing done as abstractly and as simply as possible.

Well, that was what I was alluding to do as their "clunky approach", in that it offers you a degree of personalization (a plus), but only in the form of past searches (and a weak form of relevance.) It's better than nothing, but just barely.

I have written up my own theory of the ideal Semantic Web search engine at everything2.com, (another link), (and another) (which of course I encourage everyone to read), but here are some ideas a good Semantic Web search engine would obey:

1) If I search for "bank", it should find my bank, and not a bunch of other banks.
2) It should follow the hierachy of personal preference -> local preference -> appeal to authority -> appeal to popularity -> all other results. So if I search for "sofa" it should go:

a) Has he ever searched furniture before? What sites did he visit from that search? Has he given his seal of approval to any sites that sell furniture?
b) What furniture stores are within 20 miles of him?
c) Are there any sites that do serious furniture reviews? Are there any sites that provide consumer reports on furniture?
d) What are the most popular furniture sites? What are the most popular sofas?
e) Any other sofa pages out there? Sofa Kingdom, what's that all about anyway?

And 3) It should have a distinctive "kthejoker" flavor to my searches. How it defines that is entirely up to my history and interaction with it, but the Semantic Web is the easiest way to get this thing done as abstractly and as simply as possible.

Ma*roon" (?), n. [Written also marroon.] [F. marron, abbrev. fr. Sp. cimarron wild, unruly, from cima the summit of a mountain; hence, negro cimarron, a runaway negro that lives in the mountains.] In the West Indies and Guiana, a fugitive slave, or a free negro, living in the mountains.

The job of maping C++ code to machine code is trivial.

Oh ,is it?

If computer science isn't about computers, what is it about?

"Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." - - E. Dijkstra