Like the Finnish "censorship system" — I'm using that term very loosely here. It's mostly DNS-based for god's sakes — started out as "ZOMG CP", then they progressed over to censoring people critical of it. The next step currently in planning is censoring "money laundering websites" (?) and online gambling sites.
Wonder when they'll progress to censoring politically suspicious material...
I have no idea what you're smoking to make you think this was on Tom's Hardware and 26 pages long. Seems that the people who moderated you are stealing from your stash, though. Might want to keep a closer eye on your drugs.
French doesn't really have any cases anymore, if I recall correctly. Subjunctive is a mood, present in both English and French.
Since English doesn't have much of a case system either (just remnants, mostly), people whose native language makes heavy use of cases are actually at a disadvantage. For example, my native language is Finnish which is pretty pathological with cases: it's got 15 noun cases, yonks of verb conjugations and so on, and the language is agglutinative so it doesn't really have prepositions (of, on, from etc.) All in all, I had a hell of a hard time learning English because you people have to use all these little words for things we do just by poking more stuff onto a word. "Not on my table either" comes out as "pöydällänikään." I have no idea which case that word is in, much less what all the other cruft added onto it is called. Just because I speak a language that's laden with cases doesn't mean I'm any better at the grammar than someone who learned English as their native language. I just know them, just like you know how to use deflective verbs and probably don't have a clue what they are called.
I don't know if you've heard, but there's this place called Earth. It's got lots of continents on it, like Africa, Eurasia, the Americas, and Australia. You might have noticed that I put "Americas" in plural as there's actually two of 'em there, North and South. Parts (not all of it) "North America" are covered by Google's Street View.
So he reached forward with one hand, and used the other to steady himself while he was doing the prostrate exam? Since both arms are occupied that must mean that he was doing the prostate exam with... waaaitaminute.
So it's as easy as asking god if he promised the guy the apartment or not? Then if god goes "no fucking way, he's a total liar man" you'll know he was being deceitful. That's ingenious, I tell you! This'll revolutionize the whole legal system: we can just ask god if the accused party is guilty or not.
Proof that you can completely fail to understand the subject, (for some reason) post about it anyway, refer to something completely unrelated, and still get a +5 Insightful.
Could you (or anyone else, for that matter) elaborate on what's wrong with the GP's claim? I don't know much about cryptography and even less computational physics, so I have no idea what's wrong with this guy's statement.
Linux is just an evolution of Minix which is an evolution of SysV which is an evolution of PWB/UNIX and so on. Actually both Linux and OS X can trace their ancestry back to UNICS, so according to your "logic" (and I'm using that term in a very broad sense) both operating systems have had 39 years to "catch up."
The fact is that Linux is distinct from Minix just as much as OS X is distinct from Nextstep and the BSDs.
If by powerful system you mean steam-powered Analytical Engine, yes, it'll take days.
The longest OpenOffice compile I've ever done was something around 5 hours, and that was with the system doing other stuff on the side.
Distcc et al reduce the compile time to around 2h.
Oh yeah? Well I had to ski uphill to school (both ways) while fighting off rabid sabre-toothed tigers with my bare hands, and on top of that I had to work for 25 hours a day at the nuclear asbestos factory.
And our numeral system didn't even have a 0. Damn you youngins and your fancy numbers.
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Like the Finnish "censorship system" — I'm using that term very loosely here. It's mostly DNS-based for god's sakes — started out as "ZOMG CP", then they progressed over to censoring people critical of it. The next step currently in planning is censoring "money laundering websites" (?) and online gambling sites.
Wonder when they'll progress to censoring politically suspicious material...
Yeah. And it's the Year of the Linux Desktop(tm) too, right?
Oh zing. I always count Central America as a part of N. America. I'll use the fact that it is geographically continuous as an excuse.
If you use ReiserFS, won't need a knife. You can chop everything to pieces, including your ...
... carrots?
I have no idea what you're smoking to make you think this was on Tom's Hardware and 26 pages long. Seems that the people who moderated you are stealing from your stash, though. Might want to keep a closer eye on your drugs.
French doesn't really have any cases anymore, if I recall correctly. Subjunctive is a mood, present in both English and French.
Since English doesn't have much of a case system either (just remnants, mostly), people whose native language makes heavy use of cases are actually at a disadvantage. For example, my native language is Finnish which is pretty pathological with cases: it's got 15 noun cases, yonks of verb conjugations and so on, and the language is agglutinative so it doesn't really have prepositions (of, on, from etc.) All in all, I had a hell of a hard time learning English because you people have to use all these little words for things we do just by poking more stuff onto a word. "Not on my table either" comes out as "pöydällänikään." I have no idea which case that word is in, much less what all the other cruft added onto it is called. Just because I speak a language that's laden with cases doesn't mean I'm any better at the grammar than someone who learned English as their native language. I just know them, just like you know how to use deflective verbs and probably don't have a clue what they are called.
I don't know if you've heard, but there's this place called Earth. It's got lots of continents on it, like Africa, Eurasia, the Americas, and Australia. You might have noticed that I put "Americas" in plural as there's actually two of 'em there, North and South. Parts (not all of it) "North America" are covered by Google's Street View.
The more you know!
Actually that's why you never marry models. That way you don't have the pressure to switch to a newer model when the old one goes out of style.
Badum-tshh. Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all night.
So he reached forward with one hand, and used the other to steady himself while he was doing the prostrate exam? Since both arms are occupied that must mean that he was doing the prostate exam with... waaaitaminute.
Because you can't screw up an implementation of an algorithm when you're using functional languages? Man, I must be doing something wrong, then.
So it's as easy as asking god if he promised the guy the apartment or not? Then if god goes "no fucking way, he's a total liar man" you'll know he was being deceitful. That's ingenious, I tell you! This'll revolutionize the whole legal system: we can just ask god if the accused party is guilty or not.
There is no more Soviet Russia.
Stupid geeks.
What? Are you serious? When did this happen?
Seeing "cockpit" hyphenated like that led to some disturbing mental images.
Ah, a fan of Nabokov then?
Proof that you can completely fail to understand the subject, (for some reason) post about it anyway, refer to something completely unrelated, and still get a +5 Insightful.
Could you (or anyone else, for that matter) elaborate on what's wrong with the GP's claim? I don't know much about cryptography and even less computational physics, so I have no idea what's wrong with this guy's statement.
Wait, did you just call your mom a fictitious character?
Don't be silly, they can't patent soup.
Microsoft patented it in 1997.
Or how about just linking to the article (here) instead of making us jump through hoops?
Linux is just an evolution of Minix which is an evolution of SysV which is an evolution of PWB/UNIX and so on. Actually both Linux and OS X can trace their ancestry back to UNICS, so according to your "logic" (and I'm using that term in a very broad sense) both operating systems have had 39 years to "catch up."
The fact is that Linux is distinct from Minix just as much as OS X is distinct from Nextstep and the BSDs.
If by powerful system you mean steam-powered Analytical Engine, yes, it'll take days.
The longest OpenOffice compile I've ever done was something around 5 hours, and that was with the system doing other stuff on the side. Distcc et al reduce the compile time to around 2h.
Oh yeah? Well I had to ski uphill to school (both ways) while fighting off rabid sabre-toothed tigers with my bare hands, and on top of that I had to work for 25 hours a day at the nuclear asbestos factory.
And our numeral system didn't even have a 0. Damn you youngins and your fancy numbers.
They're not mistakes, they're features.
Shh! Don't give the patent trolls any funny ideas.
"If you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you"
How is getting extradited to Guantanamo better than living in the UK? Have you ever actually been anywhere outside the United States?