I think that, just perhaps, your argument is strengthened by the fact that you got the C wrong.
if(strcmp(blah, "bob"))
If I recall correctly (and I *did* just check the man page, just to make sure), strcmp returns 0 if the two strings are equal, not 1 (which indicates that blah is lexicographically "greater than" "bob").
You mention in your explanation of the Solitaire system that, if confronted by the Secret Police, one would have to explain the presence of jokers shuffled into the deck. Are there any games of solitaire that do make use of (both of) the jokers?
I'll volunteer that I certainly found it to be a fairly difficult read. And I read a lot.
Mostly, what made it difficult for me is that I read very quickly (though I don't "speed read"), and Gibson has a rather interesting habit of having massive action happen in one line, sandwiched without fanfare between description that is relatively unimportant to the story.
This isn't a bad thing, but it *does* make it more difficult to read.
William Gibson is, to me, the father of "Cyberpunk" and all of its offshoots. The story he did this with is called "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep," and is a very interesting, if dated, venture into Gibson's depressing vision of the future, which is and was very revolutionary stuff.
You know, the abuse of the TDL.gov rather pisses me off, but once you think about the fact that Freshmeat (no network services, AFAICT) has a.net and Slashdot (for-profit) has a.org, then you realize that the whole thing has been fscked up for a while, now. This is a bit worse, since.gov hadn't been polluted before, but it's just another step along the way.
What really pisses me off is that GOP.gov was written in: [drum roll] FrontPage.
Yes, the all-powerful Grand Old Party, powerful enough to merit its own.gov, can't find a decent web developer.
And, so, I hereby offer my service as web developer for GOP.gov for the low-low price of one (1) cogent.gov, free of charge, forever. Who should I talk to in GOP.gov? (FrontPage put the META NAME="generator" tag in, but the developer didn't put the META NAME="author" tag in.)
Remember a year or so ago (?) when Wang sued Netscape for their ludicrously broadly-stated patent? (They actually claimed to own the hyperlink!) Everyone was wondering why they sued Netscape and not Microsoft until people started going to Wang's site and seeing the press release of a recent partnership with MS.
That one was thrown out of court. My gut reaction is to say this one will be, too.
I've rather noticed the same phenomenon in Cryptonomicon. I read voraciously, and I haven't had to look up words this often since I was preparing for the SAT back in high school.
Quite on the contrary, I'd suspect. My experience with membership organizations such as IEEE has been that they seldom make a decision without contemplating how it will affect recruiting.
Now, they probably want to you *staying* a member...
Oh, man. Can't you just *imagine* the kinds of criticisms we'd get from the FUD-mongers about that? We're complaining about the "fragmentation of Linux" accusations as it is! Can you imagine what it'd be like if people started using names other than "Linux"?
You know, I'm not so sure that you necessarily need to correct "CDE" to "CDA". I mean, sure, the CDA was terrible, and I was gleeful when it was struck down, but after having used Enlightenment, I personally find CDE to be pretty darned oppressive, too.
You know, I'm not so sure that you necessarily need to correct "CDE" to "CDA". I mean, sure, the CDA was terrible, and I was gleeful when it was struck down, but after having used Enlightenment, I personally find CDE to be pretty darned oppressive, too.
For me, geek girls are simply gorgeous by default. There's just something about a woman in front of a Unix box that is just irresistible to me.
And, yes, I knew a geek girl once. A beautiful CS major from Cal Berkeley that hung out with me quite a lot while she and I were both interning with a rather large company that is about to become two rather large companies. She borrowed components from lab stock to make cool, small things like radios in her spare time.
But, alas! She was attached, and rather seriously, to another geek. Dunno if she still is....
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I think that, just perhaps, your argument is strengthened by the fact that you got the C wrong.
If I recall correctly (and I *did* just check the man page, just to make sure), strcmp returns 0 if the two strings are equal, not 1 (which indicates that blah is lexicographically "greater than" "bob").
You mention in your explanation of the Solitaire system that, if confronted by the Secret Police, one would have to explain the presence of jokers shuffled into the deck. Are there any games of solitaire that do make use of (both of) the jokers?
I'll volunteer that I certainly found it to be a fairly difficult read. And I read a lot.
Mostly, what made it difficult for me is that I read very quickly (though I don't "speed read"), and Gibson has a rather interesting habit of having massive action happen in one line, sandwiched without fanfare between description that is relatively unimportant to the story.
This isn't a bad thing, but it *does* make it more difficult to read.
Um, Philip K. Dick wrote Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? , which was later made into the movie Blade Runner . The book in which Gibson coined the term "Cyberspace" was Neuromancer .
Wow. That ranks up with TEOTWAWKI as one of my favorite acronyms. Thank you.
You know, as I was clicking the "submit" button, I realized (too late) that I should have been hitting "preview"...
You know, the abuse of the TDL .gov rather pisses me off, but once you think about the fact that Freshmeat (no network services, AFAICT) has a .net and Slashdot (for-profit) has a .org, then you realize that the whole thing has been fscked up for a while, now. This is a bit worse, since .gov hadn't been polluted before, but it's just another step along the way.
.gov, can't find a decent web developer.
What really pisses me off is that GOP.gov was written in: [drum roll] FrontPage.
Yes, the all-powerful Grand Old Party, powerful enough to merit its own
And, so, I hereby offer my service as web developer for GOP.gov for the low-low price of one (1) cogent.gov, free of charge, forever. Who should I talk to in GOP.gov? (FrontPage put the META NAME="generator" tag in, but the developer didn't put the META NAME="author" tag in.)
linternationalizationux?
Hear, hear!
(Yeah, yeah, this is more-or-les just a me-too posting, but this kind of thing just has to be encouraged.)
Indeed. Would you say we're at stage two or three right now?
I am personally going to resolve, right now, to permanently boycott any company that has the audacity to paint its own image on the Moon.
Thank God[?] that Pizza Hut didn't go through with those plans.
Please keep in mind that AC posts start at 0.
Wait a second, here. You can't just slip something like that in and expect to get away with it. :-)
Can anyone explain this weather futures thing to me? Is it any more respectable, for example, than horseracing?
How would one trade in the weather?
This is one of those things that make me begin to think I'm losing my grip on reality. Is this as bizarre to anyone else as it is to me?
Remember a year or so ago (?) when Wang sued Netscape for their ludicrously broadly-stated patent? (They actually claimed to own the hyperlink!) Everyone was wondering why they sued Netscape and not Microsoft until people started going to Wang's site and seeing the press release of a recent partnership with MS.
That one was thrown out of court. My gut reaction is to say this one will be, too.
I've rather noticed the same phenomenon in Cryptonomicon. I read voraciously, and I haven't had to look up words this often since I was preparing for the SAT back in high school.
(Of course, that was only 4 years ago...)
The elegance of this is just great:
"You can see why Microsoft is interested in robust languages because theirs is not," Adami said.
Tee hee hee!
Matter wins by quite a large margin.
:-)
Quite on the contrary, I'd suspect. My experience with membership organizations such as IEEE has been that they seldom make a decision without contemplating how it will affect recruiting.
Now, they probably want to you *staying* a member...
Oh, man. Can't you just *imagine* the kinds of criticisms we'd get from the FUD-mongers about that? We're complaining about the "fragmentation of Linux" accusations as it is! Can you imagine what it'd be like if people started using names other than "Linux"?
It's really a pity that something that just had to have been intended as humor was marked down as flamebait.
Blargh.
You know, I'm not so sure that you necessarily need to correct "CDE" to "CDA". I mean, sure, the CDA was terrible, and I was gleeful when it was struck down, but after having used Enlightenment, I personally find CDE to be pretty darned oppressive, too.
You know, I'm not so sure that you necessarily need to correct "CDE" to "CDA". I mean, sure, the CDA was terrible, and I was gleeful when it was struck down, but after having used Enlightenment, I personally find CDE to be pretty darned oppressive, too.
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Is there such a thing?
For me, geek girls are simply gorgeous by default. There's just something about a woman in front of a Unix box that is just irresistible to me.
And, yes, I knew a geek girl once. A beautiful CS major from Cal Berkeley that hung out with me quite a lot while she and I were both interning with a rather large company that is about to become two rather large companies. She borrowed components from lab stock to make cool, small things like radios in her spare time.
But, alas! She was attached, and rather seriously, to another geek. Dunno if she still is....
It ends in "x". It's gotta be a new UNIX kernel.
(there are only 4 "letters" in DNA)
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Wait a second!
<Counts one more time./>it sure seems to me that there are only three letters in DNA!
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