To be honest I kinda lost it when they started adding things like CPAN and changed the syntax to look like C++ (:: instead of `). They seemed to be trying to depreciate the report generator too (which was one of the most used features in my early days).
Untrue.. I've seen code in my lifetime that would turn your hair grey. It's pretty easy to write unreadable junk in most languages. Perl makes it *really* easy (since almost everything you type will compile.. it's making it do anything useful that's the hard bit), and alas a lot of people seem to be churning out the junk daily.
If you haven't got the time to write something properly, forget it - you'll only regret it if you write junk.
The followup books weren't nearly as good as the first one (he got another author involved who basically turned it into a love story/humans are evil plot).
The first book made it plain that humans were too insignificant for Rama to care about us... the (3(?) other books then destroyed that and spend half their time moralising...).
Believe me, I know where you're coming from - I went through a fundy stage myself once.
You could rewrite your sentence
"I have found the theory of creation lacking for scientific reasons. It is a fascinating idea, but far from proven."
Very little in this world is proven absolutely. Scientific theories are only theories. We hang onto them because (a) describe the world as we see it, and (b) can predict things we can't see.
It's not uncommon for one theory to be disproven only to bring others crashing down around it, but then it's always replaced by a better theory that explains more (eg. Newton vs. Einstein). Evolution predicts certain things, and these seem to be accurate, so it's the best model we have at the moment.
Moreover theories aren't 'secular' they're just theories. Imperfect people trying to describe their world. Many of these people are Christians. Don't confuse science with scientism (the idea of science as a kind of religion.. common on trashy TV shows).
btw. the 'passing into being for no reason' betrays a lack of understanding of modern scientific theory (the belief in absolute time for example, has long been debunked, and that argument relies on it.. Hawking is a good read about that kind of stuff).
If any of that code (if it's real) makes it into WINE then that's the end of the project... so yes it'd actually work, for about a day, until the MS lawyers shut it down.
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Think of the butter!!! Won't somebody think of the butter!!!
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Pity MJ isn't addictive, or it'd be a nice analogy:)
Next time steer the car and jump out just before it hits the building. With luck you'll destroy it... (well it works in the movies.. cars *always* explode when they hit things, or fall of cliffs, or when it's convenient).
Last time I tried that id upgraded glibc, screwed it up and I had to fdisk/reinstall to get the damned system back.
My major gripe with portage is it doesn't record USE flags - eg. if you install links with 'USE=-X' to avoid its dependency on XFree (which moron decided that one???) then then next time *anything* decided to upgrade links it'll rebuild all the X dependencies back in.
That's a real pain when you're talking about things like the java depedency to libdb for example, which doesn't actually work...
A friend just bought a radeon SE, got a firmware hack for it and it became a full radeon... Not sure what model, though (I was only half listening at the time) but it seems ATI only produce one board an cripple it for the cheaper end of the market.
Untrue... it's one of the areas that Windows actually makes itself more insecure because of short sightedness.
Because a privileged app can't setuid, they all have to have their own user + a password hardcoded into the binary (or stored in the registry.. same difference) which can be decoded to plaintext (Windows requires the plaintext password of a user to call LogonUser even if you're an admin). This is why there's the IIS_xxx accounts in Windows so IIS can drop privileges (decoding those passwords is trivial and it's quite fun as you can't change them!).
Of course if you're a *legal* app then you need the plaintext password. If you're a *virus* then you don't.. you just need enough social engineering to be able to get either write access to a couple of critical registry keys or CreateToken privilege. If you get access to the registry keys, btw. you can create a delegation level access token and use that access to do a network-wide hack (no I'm *not* going into any more detail... I only got away with it because the net admin at work has a sense of humour... like the day I dumped a list of every password on the network on his desk and said 'it's about time people stopped using their first name/girlfriends name as their password!').
1. He knew there were no WMDs (or there probably weren't - intelligence reports tend not to deal in absolutes). Therefore he lied. 2. He read all the reports, and despite the caveats convinced himself there were definately WMD. Therefore, he's criminally incompetent (this is pre-emptive invasion of a sovereign country we're talking about, not whether to have tea or coffee).
Aargh... That last line give me an image of viagra spam saying things like 'Mariott touched her Berkshires, while the man on the wireless commented about the whather outside'
Have you not seen the 'Amd Me' adversts at train stations, bus stations, etc.? AMD have a very high advertising profile. Intel (at least in the UK) seem to have dropped off the planet since the dancing multi coloured chip-workers adverts. Also most of the cheap clone PCs that you get are AMD, because in that market price matters a lot.
Justify 'been done by every PVR software package I've seen' - You claim to have seen MythTV...? That doesn't even claim to support them - repeated recordings are *not* season passes.
The only package that actually claims season passess is showshifter, and that's expensive, presumably because they had to license the patents to do it.
Then there's wishlists - *nothing* does that because they can't get the guide data for it. Oh, and suggestions...
For 'ordinary users' who haven't got the time to wade through specs, ATX meant:
1. cost (all those old perfectly useful AT cases had to be thrown out) 2. the ability to have a soft power-off 3. connectors built into the case
So what advantage does BTX give for ordinary users? On first glance, none at all. It just has the cost... some of the cases I have set me back $100 a piece, and I'm damned if I'm going to fork out for a BTX PSU and Case just to upgrade/replace a motherboard.
Water expands when frozen. Also when frozen, it rises to the top, rather than sinking (which common sense would have you believe - heat rises, except when it's water, urr....)
I know enough physics to know the two are related (it's expanded therefore of lower density than the water that hasn't frozen) but as to *why* it expands - well time to enlighten the slashdot crowd...!
That's trusting the sender too much - who do you send the VRFY to?
The MX Record of the domain? What if it's a joe-job using an existing account? What if the receiving SMTP server is a relay and has no idea of the users on the machine?
Or the sending server? Under the control of the spammer - that's going to tell you the truth????
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To be honest I kinda lost it when they started adding things like CPAN and changed the syntax to look like C++ (:: instead of `). They seemed to be trying to depreciate the report generator too (which was one of the most used features in my early days).
No *that*'s a disaster waiting to happen.
I guess it's secure if you can predict the disaster early enough and get the hell out of there at the right time (after getting a nice bonus).
Untrue.. I've seen code in my lifetime that would turn your hair grey. It's pretty easy to write unreadable junk in most languages. Perl makes it *really* easy (since almost everything you type will compile.. it's making it do anything useful that's the hard bit), and alas a lot of people seem to be churning out the junk daily.
If you haven't got the time to write something properly, forget it - you'll only regret it if you write junk.
The followup books weren't nearly as good as the first one (he got another author involved who basically turned it into a love story/humans are evil plot).
The first book made it plain that humans were too insignificant for Rama to care about us... the (3(?) other books then destroyed that and spend half their time moralising...).
Believe me, I know where you're coming from - I went through a fundy stage myself once.
You could rewrite your sentence
"I have found the theory of creation lacking for scientific reasons. It is a fascinating idea, but far from proven."
Very little in this world is proven absolutely. Scientific theories are only theories. We hang onto them because (a) describe the world as we see it, and (b) can predict things we can't see.
It's not uncommon for one theory to be disproven only to bring others crashing down around it, but then it's always replaced by a better theory that explains more (eg. Newton vs. Einstein). Evolution predicts certain things, and these seem to be accurate, so it's the best model we have at the moment.
Moreover theories aren't 'secular' they're just theories. Imperfect people trying to describe their world. Many of these people are Christians.
Don't confuse science with scientism (the idea of science as a kind of religion.. common on trashy TV shows).
btw. the 'passing into being for no reason' betrays a lack of understanding of modern scientific theory (the belief in absolute time for example, has long been debunked, and that argument relies on it.. Hawking is a good read about that kind of stuff).
It went through a black hole parket just outside of mars, and rematerialised 150 years ago.
Next we'll here that it picked up a strange alien object on its travels.....
The scary thing is I've actually met people who think like that. A lot of them weren't even religious in any way... just, well, inbred.
If any of that code (if it's real) makes it into WINE then that's the end of the project... so yes it'd actually work, for about a day, until the MS lawyers shut it down.
Think of the butter!!! Won't somebody think of the butter!!!
Pity MJ isn't addictive, or it'd be a nice analogy :)
Try 'crack' or 'linux'.
Next time steer the car and jump out just before it hits the building. With luck you'll destroy it... (well it works in the movies.. cars *always* explode when they hit things, or fall of cliffs, or when it's convenient).
Last time I tried that id upgraded glibc, screwed it up and I had to fdisk/reinstall to get the damned system back.
My major gripe with portage is it doesn't record USE flags - eg. if you install links with 'USE=-X' to avoid its dependency on XFree (which moron decided that one???) then then next time *anything* decided to upgrade links it'll rebuild all the X dependencies back in.
That's a real pain when you're talking about things like the java depedency to libdb for example, which doesn't actually work...
XP tends not to bluescreen (still does, occasionally though) but it does freeze a lot.
It's also got a 'half freeze' mode where the mouse is still working etc. but you can't run any more apps... double clicking does nothing.
Oh and there's the fun when LSASS.EXE falls over ('I'm about to crash.. counting down... 10... 9... 8...')
A friend just bought a radeon SE, got a firmware hack for it and it became a full radeon... Not sure what model, though (I was only half listening at the time) but it seems ATI only produce one board an cripple it for the cheaper end of the market.
Untrue... it's one of the areas that Windows actually makes itself more insecure because of short sightedness.
Because a privileged app can't setuid, they all have to have their own user + a password hardcoded into the binary (or stored in the registry.. same difference) which can be decoded to plaintext (Windows requires the plaintext password of a user to call LogonUser even if you're an admin). This is why there's the IIS_xxx accounts in Windows so IIS can drop privileges (decoding those passwords is trivial and it's quite fun as you can't change them!).
Of course if you're a *legal* app then you need the plaintext password. If you're a *virus* then you don't.. you just need enough social engineering to be able to get either write access to a couple of critical registry keys or CreateToken privilege. If you get access to the registry keys, btw. you can create a delegation level access token and use that access to do a network-wide hack (no I'm *not* going into any more detail... I only got away with it because the net admin at work has a sense of humour... like the day I dumped a list of every password on the network on his desk and said 'it's about time people stopped using their first name/girlfriends name as their password!').
Tony
Minimalist? You need X to run links!!!
(and using USE flags doesn't help either as on the next emerge world it'll pull in all the crap you told it you didn't want next time...)
Really there's a choice:
1. He knew there were no WMDs (or there probably weren't - intelligence reports tend not to deal in absolutes). Therefore he lied.
2. He read all the reports, and despite the caveats convinced himself there were definately WMD. Therefore, he's criminally incompetent (this is pre-emptive invasion of a sovereign country we're talking about, not whether to have tea or coffee).
'Innocent' isn't an option here.
Aargh... That last line give me an image of viagra spam saying things like 'Mariott touched her Berkshires, while the man on the wireless commented about the whather outside'
Have you not seen the 'Amd Me' adversts at train stations, bus stations, etc.? AMD have a very high advertising profile. Intel (at least in the UK) seem to have dropped off the planet since the dancing multi coloured chip-workers adverts. Also most of the cheap clone PCs that you get are AMD, because in that market price matters a lot.
Why not say season passes?
Justify 'been done by every PVR software package I've seen' - You claim to have seen MythTV...? That doesn't even claim to support them - repeated recordings are *not* season passes.
The only package that actually claims season passess is showshifter, and that's expensive, presumably because they had to license the patents to do it.
Then there's wishlists - *nothing* does that because they can't get the guide data for it. Oh, and suggestions...
For 'ordinary users' who haven't got the time to wade through specs, ATX meant:
1. cost (all those old perfectly useful AT cases had to be thrown out)
2. the ability to have a soft power-off
3. connectors built into the case
So what advantage does BTX give for ordinary users? On first glance, none at all. It just has the cost... some of the cases I have set me back $100 a piece, and I'm damned if I'm going to fork out for a BTX PSU and Case just to upgrade/replace a motherboard.
I asked our MCSE about this and he'd never heard of it... went and had a look around then decided we'd never afford it anyway.
Pity as he runs around like a headless chicken every week updating 50 machines.
Water expands when frozen.
Also when frozen, it rises to the top, rather than sinking (which common sense would have you believe - heat rises, except when it's water, urr....)
I know enough physics to know the two are related (it's expanded therefore of lower density than the water that hasn't frozen) but as to *why* it expands - well time to enlighten the slashdot crowd...!
>500 spams this morning (luckily all caught).
2 Legitimate emails.
Yes.
That's trusting the sender too much - who do you send the VRFY to?
The MX Record of the domain? What if it's a joe-job using an existing account? What if the receiving SMTP server is a relay and has no idea of the users on the machine?
Or the sending server? Under the control of the spammer - that's going to tell you the truth????