I herebu suggest a method for measuring "used" or "useful" calories in food:
1. Have one volunteer starve for a few days (make sure there's nothing in his stomach or his intestines before the experiment); 2. Burn a portion of the food we want to measure, measure its calories. Feed another, equal portion, to the volunteer; 3. Wait a few more days (or hours) 4. Burn volunteer's poop (sorry, English is not my native language, so I use this rather vulgar term) and measure the given calories. 5. Subtract the value obtained in step 4 from the value obtained in step 2. 6....? 7. Profit!
Interesting indeed, since I find that, in a pure biologic level, we're nothing but apes with a conscience. Where does your affirmation that we're herbivore/bug eaters? Does your source explain why some of us have such an aversion for bugs (I understand some of it is cultural, but not all... we have some basic instinct that say that some bugs [roaches, flies] are truly nasty indeed)? Thanks for an answer.
Don't know whether this is relevant, but being a long time vi/vim user myself, I can't get used to the arrow keys. Nethack movement uses vi keys: H for left, J for down, K for up, L for right. In addition to that, we have the diagonals: Y for left-up, U for right-up, B for left-down, N for right-down. By no means intuitive, but once you get used to it, it becomes a hard to break habit.
And do you think that posting anonymously will keep you anonymous? They know about everything you write, They know about everything you do, They know when you log into the Internet, They read your e-mails, They intercept your phone calls, They trace your travels and your expenses. You might think I'm joking, but I'm not, this is serious. You, sir, are in deep trouble.
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For that I befriended you.
Hey mods, parent isn't a troll, he speaks only the truth, if a little bit more vehemently than your politically-correct minds can tolerate.
The funny thing with those who say that "if my favorite game ran on Linux, I'd be there" is that their favorite game is never one of those that already runs on Linux; I won't enumerate the quality commercial games that run natively on Linux, it's getting old already. But the thing is, you want support, put your money where your mouth is, as the parent said.
I believe the real problem isn't the climate, or the high carbon dioxide atmosphere; the real problem is that Mars's atmosphere is very low density. The air pressure in Mars (less than 1% of that on Earth according to Wikipedia) won't be sufficient for us earthlings to breathe comfortably if at all.
Hum, lately I've seen much of that (no freedom) in the UK. The V for Vendetta movie seems creepingly more prophetic every day. US comes in a very close second place, but they don't need a cheap computer to distract the masses, just Superbowl will do for the time being, with the occasional Iraq bombings on CNN.
I wish you hadn't posted anonymously, so I would mod you informative. Here are, however, a couple of links (secretly hoping to get modded informative myself) about creeping [by our favourite OSS writer] featuritis. Might as well post about second-system effect, but it would be modded offtopic, even though it isn't, if we assume that Linux 2.6 is a second system if compared to Linux 2.x where x = 4.
Yeah, the usual ones: all the stuff from Id Software (Quake 1-4, Doom 1-3, Wolfenstein), UT2k3, Neverwinter Nights (the original, and its expansions), Darwinia and Uplink, and the run-off-the-mill patience, majhongg, tetris, sokoban &c., besides the ones ported by Loki (Soldier of Fortune, Kohan I [GREAT RTS], Rune &c.) and by Icculus (America's Army up to version 2.5.0 among others).
I volunteer to provide the balance for that crew - enough to colonize Mars with a race of supermen.
C'mon, you're a Slashdotter as good as any of the rest of us. Do you think you'll have sex with all those geeky toys (computers, buttons, knobs, displays and whatnot) onboard?
Thanks for the hint! It must be a new distro, I've never heard about it before. For those who want to try it out, here is the link. I'll install it over the next weekend (although I'm a little old [25, but I've seen quite a lot distros] to test new Linux distros, I've got a brand new 250 gig HDD just screaming to be ext3fsed (heh... English is a nice language to make new verbs...)
Exactly my thought. There should be a system with the Linux kernel and the FreeBSD userland (ports mainly, but rc.conf and init scripts would be nice as well). I've heard that pkgsrc is a ports look-alike, designed to be portable across many operating systems, including Linux, but I haven't seen any Linux distro using it. The closest seems to be ArchLinux (which uses BSD-style init), but they have their own, incompatible, package management tools.
Gentoo's portage would be nice if it weren't so damn slow...
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"It's crappy Microsoft technology, one API to bring them all and in darkness bind 'em".
Shows API code
"Oooh, shiny!"
Don't you mean Nelson Rodrigues, when he said "Toda unanimidade é burra" (All unanimity is dumb)?
You obviously have never worked at a helpdesk in I.T.
Good ideas; I still hate your sig, though!
I herebu suggest a method for measuring "used" or "useful" calories in food:
...?
1. Have one volunteer starve for a few days (make sure there's nothing in his stomach or his intestines before the experiment);
2. Burn a portion of the food we want to measure, measure its calories. Feed another, equal portion, to the volunteer;
3. Wait a few more days (or hours)
4. Burn volunteer's poop (sorry, English is not my native language, so I use this rather vulgar term) and measure the given calories.
5. Subtract the value obtained in step 4 from the value obtained in step 2.
6.
7. Profit!
Interesting indeed, since I find that, in a pure biologic level, we're nothing but apes with a conscience. Where does your affirmation that we're herbivore/bug eaters? Does your source explain why some of us have such an aversion for bugs (I understand some of it is cultural, but not all... we have some basic instinct that say that some bugs [roaches, flies] are truly nasty indeed)? Thanks for an answer.
Don't know whether this is relevant, but being a long time vi/vim user myself, I can't get used to the arrow keys. Nethack movement uses vi keys: H for left, J for down, K for up, L for right. In addition to that, we have the diagonals: Y for left-up, U for right-up, B for left-down, N for right-down. By no means intuitive, but once you get used to it, it becomes a hard to break habit.
Besides, there's no "unmount" command in Linux, unless you aliased it. I think you mean "umount".
And do you think that posting anonymously will keep you anonymous? They know about everything you write, They know about everything you do, They know when you log into the Internet, They read your e-mails, They intercept your phone calls, They trace your travels and your expenses. You might think I'm joking, but I'm not, this is serious. You, sir, are in deep trouble.
For that I befriended you.
Hey mods, parent isn't a troll, he speaks only the truth, if a little bit more vehemently than your politically-correct minds can tolerate.
The funny thing with those who say that "if my favorite game ran on Linux, I'd be there" is that their favorite game is never one of those that already runs on Linux; I won't enumerate the quality commercial games that run natively on Linux, it's getting old already. But the thing is, you want support, put your money where your mouth is, as the parent said.
I believe the real problem isn't the climate, or the high carbon dioxide atmosphere; the real problem is that Mars's atmosphere is very low density. The air pressure in Mars (less than 1% of that on Earth according to Wikipedia) won't be sufficient for us earthlings to breathe comfortably if at all.
Hum, lately I've seen much of that (no freedom) in the UK. The V for Vendetta movie seems creepingly more prophetic every day. US comes in a very close second place, but they don't need a cheap computer to distract the masses, just Superbowl will do for the time being, with the occasional Iraq bombings on CNN.
If your terminal background is black, instead of turning off the syntax highlighting you might want to try
set bg=dark
on your ~/.vimrc
Nah, it must be a trap. And it's microsoft, so defectivebydesign also applies.
Thank you for this brilliant comment on God's nature.
I wish you hadn't posted anonymously, so I would mod you informative. Here are, however, a couple of links (secretly hoping to get modded informative myself) about creeping [by our favourite OSS writer] featuritis. Might as well post about second-system effect, but it would be modded offtopic, even though it isn't, if we assume that Linux 2.6 is a second system if compared to Linux 2.x where x = 4.
Yeah, the usual ones: all the stuff from Id Software (Quake 1-4, Doom 1-3, Wolfenstein), UT2k3, Neverwinter Nights (the original, and its expansions), Darwinia and Uplink, and the run-off-the-mill patience, majhongg, tetris, sokoban &c., besides the ones ported by Loki (Soldier of Fortune, Kohan I [GREAT RTS], Rune &c.) and by Icculus (America's Army up to version 2.5.0 among others).
Give my sig back!
Nokia's N800 is almost there... except the hardware is a rather underpowered ARM with little RAM and no internal HD (which even Palm's LifeDrive has).
For all its failings, though, if it weren't so goddamned expensive here in Brazil I'd have already have gotten one.
Well, once you burn the grass for... eh... medicinal purposes, the carbon will be re-released into the atmosphere
C'mon, you're a Slashdotter as good as any of the rest of us. Do you think you'll have sex with all those geeky toys (computers, buttons, knobs, displays and whatnot) onboard?
You must be new here.
Don't forget Quake 2, which run on our crappy hardware in the office!
Thanks for the hint! It must be a new distro, I've never heard about it before. For those who want to try it out, here is the link. I'll install it over the next weekend (although I'm a little old [25, but I've seen quite a lot distros] to test new Linux distros, I've got a brand new 250 gig HDD just screaming to be ext3fsed (heh... English is a nice language to make new verbs...)
Thanks again from Brazil!
Exactly my thought. There should be a system with the Linux kernel and the FreeBSD userland (ports mainly, but rc.conf and init scripts would be nice as well). I've heard that pkgsrc is a ports look-alike, designed to be portable across many operating systems, including Linux, but I haven't seen any Linux distro using it. The closest seems to be ArchLinux (which uses BSD-style init), but they have their own, incompatible, package management tools.
Gentoo's portage would be nice if it weren't so damn slow...