Apple doesn't need the fastest hardware—it only needs hardware that will run its OS fast enough. Because the only thing that matters is if the machine feels responsive enough. If it does, then it works.
How can it be a bad thing for Steve Jobs' death to have brought increased awareness of Dennis Ritchie's contributions? Assuming, that is, that there's ANY connection between the two. It doesn't have to be a competition.
I have to admit I take perverse pleasure in this idea. But I'm not sure how much my own ignorance buttresses that pleasure—hence my reluctance to admit to it.
...it's just plain ugly, and we just don't need it. This begs the question "what is hate speech?," but that's not my department (I am not a SCOTUS Justice).
You don't, you give it the death penalty. Carve it up and [...]
Well, maybe forty years ago... corporations have way too much power & influence now. AT&T, ExxonMobil, GE--they'd never let a precedent like that be set these days.
[originally, someone who makes furniture with an axe]
1. A person who enjoys exploring the details of programmable systems and how to stretch their capabilities, as opposed to most users, who prefer to learn only the minimum necessary. RFC1392, the Internet Users' Glossary, usefully amplifies this as: A person who delights in having an intimate understanding of the internal workings of a system, computers and computer networks in particular.
2. One who programs enthusiastically (even obsessively) or who enjoys programming rather than just theorizing about programming.
3. A person capable of appreciating hack value.
4. A person who is good at programming quickly.
5. An expert at a particular program, or one who frequently does work using it or on it; as in ‘a Unix hacker’. (Definitions 1 through 5 are correlated, and people who fit them congregate.)
6. An expert or enthusiast of any kind. One might be an astronomy hacker, for example.
7. One who enjoys the intellectual challenge of creatively overcoming or circumventing limitations.
8. [deprecated] A malicious meddler who tries to discover sensitive information by poking around. Hence password hacker, network hacker. The correct term for this sense is cracker.
The term ‘hacker’ also tends to connote membership in the global community defined by the net (see the network. For discussion of some of the basics of this culture, see the How To Become A Hacker FAQ. It also implies that the person described is seen to subscribe to some version of the hacker ethic (see hacker ethic).
It is better to be described as a hacker by others than to describe oneself that way. Hackers consider themselves something of an elite (a meritocracy based on ability), though one to which new members are gladly welcome. There is thus a certain ego satisfaction to be had in identifying yourself as a hacker (but if you claim to be one and are not, you'll quickly be labeled bogus). See also geek, wannabee.
This term seems to have been first adopted as a badge in the 1960s by the hacker culture surrounding TMRC and the MIT AI Lab. We have a report that it was used in a sense close to this entry's by teenage radio hams and electronics tinkerers in the mid-1950s.
Note that the perjorative use has been deprecated.
#!/usr/bin/perl ($murderer1, $murderer2) = ('Wolfgang Werlé' , 'Manfred Lauber'); ($guy1, $guy2) = (\$murderer1, \$murderer2); print WIKIPEDIA "$guy1 and $guy2 killed a German actor in 1990";
I just finished watching the second season premiere episode of Fringe. This sounds completely plausible. In fact, I'm surprised they didn't expect this result.
The Mac Box Set, available from the Apple store, costs $169. But keep in mind that for that price you're also getting iWork and iLife, which together cost $158. That's a pretty good deal.
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Apple doesn't need the fastest hardware—it only needs hardware that will run its OS fast enough. Because the only thing that matters is if the machine feels responsive enough. If it does, then it works.
How can it be a bad thing for Steve Jobs' death to have brought increased awareness of Dennis Ritchie's contributions? Assuming, that is, that there's ANY connection between the two. It doesn't have to be a competition.
You're not masturbating nearly enough.
Thank Eris for those last five words.
Overlapping windows were patented by Apple, so they couldn't be implemented.
Unlike, of course, the rest of the Macintosh OS.
Jetpacks coming next year. Warp drive in two, tops.
Right on.
I have to admit I take perverse pleasure in this idea. But I'm not sure how much my own ignorance buttresses that pleasure—hence my reluctance to admit to it.
...it's just plain ugly, and we just don't need it. This begs the question "what is hate speech?," but that's not my department (I am not a SCOTUS Justice).
But we certainly don't need hate speech.
You don't, you give it the death penalty. Carve it up and [...]
Well, maybe forty years ago... corporations have way too much power & influence now. AT&T, ExxonMobil, GE--they'd never let a precedent like that be set these days.
Linux conventions dictate that whole word options be preceded with a double hyphen
Isn't that a GNU convention?
sudo google Skylab -activate -w -terminate "Humans"
Don't forget the -i flag for interactive mode, so you don't accidentally clobber Scarlett Johansson.
No.
Let me know when someone really does build a server with 512 atoms.
"History shows again and again how nature points out the folly of man."
Maybe it's something like:
while (1) {
sleep;
}
"This old saw?" That predates the Jargon File!
from the jargon file:
hacker: n.
[originally, someone who makes furniture with an axe]
1. A person who enjoys exploring the details of programmable systems and how to stretch their capabilities, as opposed to most users, who prefer to learn only the minimum necessary. RFC1392, the Internet Users' Glossary, usefully amplifies this as: A person who delights in having an intimate understanding of the internal workings of a system, computers and computer networks in particular.
2. One who programs enthusiastically (even obsessively) or who enjoys programming rather than just theorizing about programming.
3. A person capable of appreciating hack value.
4. A person who is good at programming quickly.
5. An expert at a particular program, or one who frequently does work using it or on it; as in ‘a Unix hacker’. (Definitions 1 through 5 are correlated, and people who fit them congregate.)
6. An expert or enthusiast of any kind. One might be an astronomy hacker, for example.
7. One who enjoys the intellectual challenge of creatively overcoming or circumventing limitations.
8. [deprecated] A malicious meddler who tries to discover sensitive information by poking around. Hence password hacker, network hacker. The correct term for this sense is cracker.
The term ‘hacker’ also tends to connote membership in the global community defined by the net (see the network. For discussion of some of the basics of this culture, see the How To Become A Hacker FAQ. It also implies that the person described is seen to subscribe to some version of the hacker ethic (see hacker ethic).
It is better to be described as a hacker by others than to describe oneself that way. Hackers consider themselves something of an elite (a meritocracy based on ability), though one to which new members are gladly welcome. There is thus a certain ego satisfaction to be had in identifying yourself as a hacker (but if you claim to be one and are not, you'll quickly be labeled bogus). See also geek, wannabee.
This term seems to have been first adopted as a badge in the 1960s by the hacker culture surrounding TMRC and the MIT AI Lab. We have a report that it was used in a sense close to this entry's by teenage radio hams and electronics tinkerers in the mid-1950s.
Note that the perjorative use has been deprecated.
[...] without wasting money on all the unnecessary parts [...]
Now that's a matter of perspective.
How something like about this:
#!/usr/bin/perl
($murderer1, $murderer2) = ('Wolfgang Werlé' , 'Manfred Lauber');
($guy1, $guy2) = (\$murderer1, \$murderer2);
print WIKIPEDIA "$guy1 and $guy2 killed a German actor in 1990";
I just finished watching the second season premiere episode of Fringe. This sounds completely plausible. In fact, I'm surprised they didn't expect this result.
How is this notable, again?
The Mac Box Set, available from the Apple store, costs $169. But keep in mind that for that price you're also getting iWork and iLife, which together cost $158. That's a pretty good deal.
http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groff_(software)
I think a better requirement would be to prominently display the amount of their and others' money the Scientologists have siphoned off them.
Your argument is flawed. See the following:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selma_to_Montgomery_marches
There are many more examples of the successful employment of satyagraha to effect change.