Just because you want and iPhone with no restrictions, doesn't mean that they have to sell you one. I want to have sex with various, unnamed celebrity starlets, but that doesn't mean that they have to let me.
Apparently, explaining to you how to have sex with $celebrity_starlet should you happen to find a willing one would also be illegal according to Apple. And it seems to me that this is quite a bit different from kidnaping one and delivering it bound and gagged to your doorstep (optionally with hot grits).
At least assuming that your analogy was relevant. I'm not really so sure now.
Now go to the forums like a good Windows user would do and ask for help. Your answer will ALWAYS start with "Bring up Bash and....." And it is at THAT moment you have lost.
An awful lot of MacOS fixes also require you to enter stuff in the terminal yet I hardly ever see Mac users complaining about having to learn how to use a command prompt. It's just there if you want or need it.
"We reported that DoD processed $1.1 trillion in unsupported accounting entries to DoD Component financial data used to prepare departmental reports and DoD financial statements for FY 2000."
Yes, much more trustworthy.
I'm not really sure if the US DOD should be lumped with the private sector or the US government.
OS/2 lost the war because of the price of memory in 1993-1995 timeframe. It would have replaced Windows entirely if it could have run in 4MB of RAM.
If it'd had any applications instead of being just a fancy way of running DOS and Windows apps it probably would have helped as well.
However I remember it ran some fairly demanding games of the time just fine *windowed* (like Wing Commander) which I found to be fairly impressive at the time.
Still, running OS/2 to run Windows didn't make much sense.
As usual, it comes down to use cases. Describe the useful things that are done.
Take a naked box and boot it (/etc/init.d/*) ? I know it's a bit trivial but it still qualifies as useful in my book.
Actually/etc is just pretty much a collection a collection of fairly useful shell scripts. I've always found it interesting that Unix was mostly held together by/bin/sh (aka/bin/bash on a lot of systems nowadays) and spit. And that it worked.
To take one of the posts above where the poster had been exposed to DOS. The DOS system (although it wasn't really a system, merely a program loader) was configured by the autoexec script. All the Unix do the same with a number of chained scripts (and their order can even dynamically change nowadays) all running sh (or an extended version of it).
I still wonder at it sometimes. It's simple and accessible on one side. And it can degenerate into an awful mess on the other:) (less so nowadays thankfully)
More ?
Anyway, wanted something useful the shell could do ? How about run the whole operating system (find a service that isn't actually handled by a !#/bin/sh script...).
Whenever you guys talked about "Child Porn" being used as a scare tactic, I didn't believe you. "I never see that."
But this article, the issue which is clearly being fueled by the MPAA and RIAA, mentions Child Porn three times, including the subheading!
I am beginning to believe.
It makes sense that the Michigan Parents Against Abuse would be all over the issue, but the Rowdy Illinois Association of Anglers ? This just doesn't make sense.
Do you hear the sound of the words echo through your head as you read words, like me? Well, as the copyright owner of this comment, I forbid such usage- and deny you the ablity to read this comment out loud to your friends either.
I guess I could if I read at the speed of speech, thankfully I doesn't or else it would take me ages to get through any book...
Anyway I don't really understand the Author's Guild approach.
Shouldn't they really be suing the performer ? Because that's the infringing party, right ?
So the vote is up. Should they sue : - the loudspeaker ? - the electrons making up the software ? - the vibrating molecules of air ?
As part of an engineering education, you take one course in law. Basically, it's an overview of contract law, the legal system, various appeals you can go through, etc.
But do they teach how to make a shiv ? When to pick and when not to pick your soap ? How to dig through 4m of concrete with nothing but shrink wrap and a caramel ? In short anything useful *after* the fact ?
Yeah, well Via's driver support for Linux is horrible, while the Intel Atom stuff just works perfectly with Ubuntu out of the box. That may have something to do with why Intel is preferred.
While that would potentially make me (and possibly a number of others here) prefer the Atom, since in Real Life almost nobody runs Linux on their desktop it doesn't have much impact on anything.
My laptop does run Linux but it's a regular Core2. It's 11" though so I can actually carry it around.
For example, Take a look at the base 24" iMac. [... ]
Nobody bloody cares. People who want a Mac get a Mac, people who want something else get something else. It's all out there in the stores. Nobody's forcing anyone.
And Sony laptops are overpriced too. It's a scandal. What's the government doing about it ?
oh, and for the others, be aware that the grand grand parent post start pro Darwinism and become pro ID the more it goes on, pulling a trick directly from Orwell's 1984.
It's ok, he's allowed to be a religionist and (probably) a christianist (I can make up words that suit me too). Few people will take him seriously since he doesn't really grasp the concepts he throws around anyway.
People who prefer fantasy worlds to real life seem to be getting less traction lately. Our species might still have a chance.
Natural language? Natural for who? Will we have to have versions for the West Coast, East Coast, down South...Ebonics?
Wait, wasn't there some kind of rumour that a number of people worldwide didn't actually speak English ?
What's the status of that real language thingy in German, French, Italian, Croatian, Hindi... How does it work with characters from the depth of Unicode ?
Yes, we should ignore all foreign articles until they've been officially translated, even tho' translation tools are adequate to give you the gist of an article
Quite. After all this being the Internet, it's not like it interconnects any networks all over the planet, or if/. had been around for any amount of time and had drawn English speaking people from all kinds of places.
So let's stick to articles from the US or (very occasionally) Air Strip 1. After all all other people must hate freedom as shown by their willingness of living outside of the US (and speaking funny languages with weird characters that aren't even proper ASCII).
I mean - it's not like there's any Germans who read Slashdot & will translate in the comments or anything is it?
Slashdot Mirror
But it's traditional !
Just because you want and iPhone with no restrictions, doesn't mean that they have to sell you one. I want to have sex with various, unnamed celebrity starlets, but that doesn't mean that they have to let me.
Apparently, explaining to you how to have sex with $celebrity_starlet should you happen to find a willing one would also be illegal according to Apple. And it seems to me that this is quite a bit different from kidnaping one and delivering it bound and gagged to your doorstep (optionally with hot grits).
At least assuming that your analogy was relevant. I'm not really so sure now.
Now go to the forums like a good Windows user would do and ask for help. Your answer will ALWAYS start with "Bring up Bash and....."
And it is at THAT moment you have lost.
An awful lot of MacOS fixes also require you to enter stuff in the terminal yet I hardly ever see Mac users complaining about having to learn how to use a command prompt. It's just there if you want or need it.
"We reported that DoD processed $1.1 trillion in unsupported accounting entries to DoD Component financial data used to prepare departmental reports and DoD financial statements for FY 2000."
Yes, much more trustworthy.
I'm not really sure if the US DOD should be lumped with the private sector or the US government.
OS/2 lost the war because of the price of memory in 1993-1995 timeframe. It would have replaced Windows entirely if it could have run in 4MB of RAM.
If it'd had any applications instead of being just a fancy way of running DOS and Windows apps it probably would have helped as well.
However I remember it ran some fairly demanding games of the time just fine *windowed* (like Wing Commander) which I found to be fairly impressive at the time.
Still, running OS/2 to run Windows didn't make much sense.
As usual, it comes down to use cases. Describe the useful things that are done.
Take a naked box and boot it (/etc/init.d/*) ?
I know it's a bit trivial but it still qualifies as useful in my book.
Actually /etc is just pretty much a collection a collection of fairly useful shell scripts. I've always found it interesting that Unix was mostly held together by /bin/sh (aka /bin/bash on a lot of systems nowadays) and spit. And that it worked.
To take one of the posts above where the poster had been exposed to DOS. The DOS system (although it wasn't really a system, merely a program loader) was configured by the autoexec script. All the Unix do the same with a number of chained scripts (and their order can even dynamically change nowadays) all running sh (or an extended version of it).
I still wonder at it sometimes. It's simple and accessible on one side. And it can degenerate into an awful mess on the other :) (less so nowadays thankfully)
More ?
Anyway, wanted something useful the shell could do ? How about run the whole operating system (find a service that isn't actually handled by a !#/bin/sh script...).
That link should really be
http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Stupid-Coding-Tricks-A-Batch-of-Pi.aspx
(I should write a shell script to correct my comments.)
Bash script, ASPX page, culture clash.
That's nothing! If you boot Windows forwards, it loads Windows!
Woah, now that is scary !
We DON'T want to know what demonic code is stored in the source files on some secure Microsoft server up in Redmond.
Hmmm...
Did you know that if you boot Windows backwards you can hear satanic APIs ?
It's all closed source, so there aren't any real vulnerabilities. Even the certified professionals say so. They're certified what more do you need !
As if you could spread havoc through email on a proprietary system. Bah.
Whenever you guys talked about "Child Porn" being used as a scare tactic, I didn't believe you. "I never see that."
But this article, the issue which is clearly being fueled by the MPAA and RIAA, mentions Child Porn three times, including the subheading!
I am beginning to believe.
It makes sense that the Michigan Parents Against Abuse would be all over the issue, but the Rowdy Illinois Association of Anglers ? This just doesn't make sense.
I for one welcomed our new Democratic overlords, but now I'm not so sure...
That's democracy for you (aka pretty much the worst political system there is, except for the others tried so far).
New *, same as old *.
* : random politician.
Do you hear the sound of the words echo through your head as you read words, like me? Well, as the copyright owner of this comment, I forbid such usage- and deny you the ablity to read this comment out loud to your friends either.
I guess I could if I read at the speed of speech, thankfully I doesn't or else it would take me ages to get through any book...
Anyway I don't really understand the Author's Guild approach.
Shouldn't they really be suing the performer ? Because that's the infringing party, right ?
So the vote is up. Should they sue :
- the loudspeaker ?
- the electrons making up the software ?
- the vibrating molecules of air ?
Dunno, it's tough to get more advanced than "black".
As far as Doom is concerned, "black" is the new b...
Um.
Well, it's not as if I'm going to buy it anyway. I have a colour monitor.
Of course WSJ says this.
I think they're mostly afraid that all that money would plug the tubes and people couldn't get their Internets any more.
Personal PIN Number
what, a Personal Personal Identification Number Number?
Hey ! You got it in one ! Congrats !
As part of an engineering education, you take one course in law. Basically, it's an overview of contract law, the legal system, various appeals you can go through, etc.
But do they teach how to make a shiv ? When to pick and when not to pick your soap ? How to dig through 4m of concrete with nothing but shrink wrap and a caramel ?
In short anything useful *after* the fact ?
Yeah, well Via's driver support for Linux is horrible, while the Intel Atom stuff just works perfectly with Ubuntu out of the box. That may have something to do with why Intel is preferred.
While that would potentially make me (and possibly a number of others here) prefer the Atom, since in Real Life almost nobody runs Linux on their desktop it doesn't have much impact on anything.
My laptop does run Linux but it's a regular Core2. It's 11" though so I can actually carry it around.
Just look at the open encryption standards.
Would anyone argue that closed source encryption is more secure than open source?
I'm pretty sure the same people would make exactly that same claim. I've heard it before.
I've yet to see ignorance about a subject stopping commercial or pointy hair types making definitive claims about pretty much anything.
Reminds me I think I might have to change my pin number when she gets a bit older.
It is supposed to be a Personal PIN Number after all...
[ ... ] and perhaps pay canonical for some support contracts if necessary.
Haha, best Russian joke of the thread !
For example, Take a look at the base 24" iMac. [ ... ]
Nobody bloody cares. People who want a Mac get a Mac, people who want something else get something else. It's all out there in the stores. Nobody's forcing anyone.
And Sony laptops are overpriced too. It's a scandal. What's the government doing about it ?
oh, and for the others, be aware that the grand grand parent post start pro Darwinism and become pro ID the more it goes on, pulling a trick directly from Orwell's 1984.
It's ok, he's allowed to be a religionist and (probably) a christianist (I can make up words that suit me too). Few people will take him seriously since he doesn't really grasp the concepts he throws around anyway.
People who prefer fantasy worlds to real life seem to be getting less traction lately. Our species might still have a chance.
Natural language? Natural for who?
Will we have to have versions for the West Coast, East Coast, down South...Ebonics?
Wait, wasn't there some kind of rumour that a number of people worldwide didn't actually speak English ?
What's the status of that real language thingy in German, French, Italian, Croatian, Hindi... How does it work with characters from the depth of Unicode ?
Yes, we should ignore all foreign articles until they've been officially translated, even tho' translation tools are adequate to give you the gist of an article
Quite. After all this being the Internet, it's not like it interconnects any networks all over the planet, or if /. had been around for any amount of time and had drawn English speaking people from all kinds of places.
So let's stick to articles from the US or (very occasionally) Air Strip 1. After all all other people must hate freedom as shown by their willingness of living outside of the US (and speaking funny languages with weird characters that aren't even proper ASCII).
I mean - it's not like there's any Germans who read Slashdot & will translate in the comments or anything is it?
Now that's just crazy talk.