Re:What's with the quotes?
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At least we know how to laugh at ourselves. Give us that, at least.
Also, I think "culture" is overrated. I'm creating beautiful disarray, ejaculate meaningless drivel. I like doing whatever the fuck I want when I want, all of the time.
For example, I like saying fuck. FUCK FUCK FUCK!!! Try it, feels gooooood
Generators don't create charge. They seperate them.
You can run a generator all you like but you won't change the overall charge of an airship. You could do something like make the skin have a different charge than the interior, if that's what you mean. That could have some effect in the clouds, but it sounds like it would be unpredicatable and dangerous.
If a sufficiently high acceleration was applied to a target for a very short period of time, and then reversed, you can vaporize an object by the liberation of kinetic energy (this implies a large jerk). HOWEVER we assume that the gravitational ray doesn't somehow absorb the kinetic energy of the decelerating object, which may be moot if this is all happening in the atmosphere. The atmosphere is what the object collides into converting kinetic energy into heat.
The way this gets resolved (at least it in a perfect world) is that new devices that users can touch get created so you can do things that normally would require root access./dev/fb based Xservers replace the run-as-root Xserver,etc.
then again, this sort of comes out as kernel patch to create these new interfaces.
Concerning the kernel issue: No, I don't think so.
It's actually much nicer than any other OS that I'm aware of. It's more intuitive than Solaris, and there is nothing that NT can do driver-wise that you can't do in Linux.
Examples of drivers that "just work" when you download them and run the installer:
The recompile-the-kernel thing is something you and I do because we can (Windows users don't have this luxury). I like building the stuff I don't plan on taking out of the box into the kernel (and disabling the hardware probes). You don't have to. You could wait for the next Mandrake-approved kernel RPM and install that, with all the bazillions of modules included that pick up any new hardware you bought.
I mean, the architecture and infrastructre is there. The module utilities and the kernel are tightly bound. They have a sane layout (/lib/version/purpose/name.o). Modules can look for and request the loading of other modules to make sure nothing breaks. Version number ranges are checked and reported. Kernel will automatically load and unload modules as usage permits.
Basically, just drop a recent enough version (w.r.t to the kernel) of the driver in the right directory, run the depmod -a to cache all the salient information, and enjoy.
One issue is that sometimes a kernel feature is missing or enabled that you didn't expect (SMP, Netfilter, SMALL_RAM, ACPI). So the driver writer expects the linux guy to compile it from scratch or integrate into the kernel build to fix this problem. This is usually remedied by packaging the driver by distro or having multiple precompiled versions and only installing the one that matches the required features of the kernel. It's not hard to get the info you need with more than grepping/proc/ksyms in a shell script.
My point is, it's there. Of course it's easier to hand you the source and say rebuild ther kernel. But for those parties who spend the time, they make the driver installation painless, because it is quite possible (and I've seen it!) Someone should write a HOWTO on this so that hardware manufacturers can see how to handle it in the future.
The example for programming is not the norm, but an extreme case your friend told you to impress you. In my experience, if you're working on a program for some DoD project, you're either cleared and mired in it or your uncleared and stay 100 feet away from it. In the few cases where it's possible, you could be doing something like what you mentioned, working with the parts that seperate are unclassified until they are brought together. I've done that once, but not because I wasn't cleared. I just didn't understand it.:-D
Or maybe that's just with the FFRDCs... but I thought they did the majority of the DoDs engineering work.
But anyway, yeah most code doesn't see the light of day not so much because the DoD is involved but that it is "owned" by the RDC or the group within the DoD that was responsible for it. In the case of the RDC, there's no legal requirement to disclose the code at all to the public, but the sponsor (DoD) can still check it out.
It's too bad that product is craptacular. It begs anyone with two brain cells to rub together to get the full version of PS because it's so crippled. And of course, if you actually made the mistake of spending $100 on that, you then hit yourself in the head for even wasting the hard drive space for it.
I think it's a good idea except that the container could take a long time to be subducted and in the process could be damaged before being safely in the mantle. It could contaminate the ocean, and that'd stink.
... if you have the where-with-all to bind it that way in the cmd tool config. And big deal, because the cmd shell has little to offer in the default install. (but you can beef it up with an array of little unofficial tools and the cygwin stuff)
What I would love is if the cmd shell liked to be resized and stay that way. WHY GOD WHY?!
I think the point everyone here is circling around but not touching upon is that in the US, you can say pretty much anything you want, but you have to live up to the consequences of what you say. That is, if I claim you're a child molester, and it causes you to lose your job, I'd better have evidence or you can sue. But no one can prevent me from making that claim unless they take out a gag order (and that would be after the fact).
In any case, I think the billboard is a bad example because the local authorities would never approve something so offensive being displayed in public. It would be in the municipalities interest to not insult everyone that drives by. It's bad for tourism.:-P
Well, I can construct an angle of exactly 1 radian to the precision I can construct an angle of 37 degrees...:-)
Semicircles are a good measurement too. It is much easier to visualize.
I tend to like radians because it makes rotation of vectors and stuff easy with matricies. It's an unscaled rotational unit that can be used in trig functions, etc. just as you might expect.
I don't find the pi cumbersome, I think of it as meaning I want semicircles when describing my angles! Notice you don't notate radians with the word "radians" because it's assumed. (How big is that angle? Pi/2 ) Hence the pi is a replacement for the word semicircle when you would otherwise have to indicate that. It's not much more writing than a degree symbol either.
No really, it takes slightly more energy to remove the covalent bonds from hydrogen then the energy released when it forms those bonds (though the difference is tiny). I think the reason is buried in quantum mechanics. Anyone care to correct me?
Hint, you don't actually use an approximation for pi to get the angle measurement, there are 2 pi radians in one circle. So 5/6 pi (W) is 5/12 the way around the earth from the Standard Meridian
Video game and other programmers that use 2-d and 3-d tend to express rotations in units where there are 256 degrees in a circle (2 ** 8). This comes out to pi/128 radians. I forget if that unit had a name.
More important than the sloshing around of the earth's oceans is the motions of the magma in the mantle, and even the plasticy crust. The constant deformation of the earth's parts takes energy out of the rotation in the moonearth system. Also, the moon is receding from the earth (we're pretty sure it's earth debris from a plantery collision), and like an ice skater when they stick their hands out, their rotation slows.
It was more than a year before I got the chance to moderate. Just chill out. Besides, now that I've got it, I loathe to use the points sometimes. I keep wanting to post replies, and can't. I need a second account, I guess:-)
Absolutely. It seems that's the only reliable way of doing it anyway. If two nodes behind the firewall both open connections to a web server with the same ISN, whats the firewall to do? Actually, since it's the firewall that opens the connections on the behalf of the nodes behind it, surely code reuse dictates the packet headers have OpenBSD ISNs. Finally, the FAQ on the Netcraft Survey talks about this to explain why some webservers are "Microsoft IIS" running on Linux; what it's really seeing is the ISN characteristics of a linux firewall or load balancer in front of the webserver.
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At least we know how to laugh at ourselves. Give us that, at least.
Also, I think "culture" is overrated. I'm creating beautiful disarray, ejaculate meaningless drivel. I like doing whatever the fuck I want when I want, all of the time.
For example, I like saying fuck. FUCK FUCK FUCK!!!
Try it, feels gooooood
Moot in NT based systems, AFAIK
To clarify, the verb address means use any X amount of memory in a random-access fashion by a single process.
I think it's obvious he meant in a single process... even with PAE you can have 36GB but you can only address 4GB of it.
Generators don't create charge. They seperate them.
You can run a generator all you like but you won't change the overall charge of an airship. You could do something like make the skin have a different charge than the interior, if that's what you mean. That could have some effect in the clouds, but it sounds like it would be unpredicatable and dangerous.
If a sufficiently high acceleration was applied to a target for a very short period of time, and then reversed, you can vaporize an object by the liberation of kinetic energy (this implies a large jerk). HOWEVER we assume that the gravitational ray doesn't somehow absorb the kinetic energy of the decelerating object, which may be moot if this is all happening in the atmosphere. The atmosphere is what the object collides into converting kinetic energy into heat.
This is the best available solution I have heard so far.
He's right though. It used to be called Mocha.
The way this gets resolved (at least it in a perfect world) is that new devices that users can touch get created so you can do things that normally would require root access. /dev/fb based Xservers replace the run-as-root Xserver,etc.
then again, this sort of comes out as kernel patch to create these new interfaces.
Sigh
::shrugs::
Doesn't even come with it.
Concerning the kernel issue: No, I don't think so.
/proc/ksyms in a shell script.
It's actually much nicer than any other OS that I'm aware of. It's more intuitive than Solaris, and there is nothing that NT can do driver-wise that you can't do in Linux.
Examples of drivers that "just work" when you download them and run the installer:
NVidia kernel video drivers
4Front Tech. OSS
Netgear Ethernet card drivers
The recompile-the-kernel thing is something you and I do because we can (Windows users don't have this luxury). I like building the stuff I don't plan on taking out of the box into the kernel (and disabling the hardware probes). You don't have to. You could wait for the next Mandrake-approved kernel RPM and install that, with all the bazillions of modules included that pick up any new hardware you bought.
I mean, the architecture and infrastructre is there. The module utilities and the kernel are tightly bound. They have a sane layout (/lib/version/purpose/name.o). Modules can look for and request the loading of other modules to make sure nothing breaks. Version number ranges are checked and reported. Kernel will automatically load and unload modules as usage permits.
Basically, just drop a recent enough version (w.r.t to the kernel) of the driver in the right directory, run the depmod -a to cache all the salient information, and enjoy.
One issue is that sometimes a kernel feature is missing or enabled that you didn't expect (SMP, Netfilter, SMALL_RAM, ACPI). So the driver writer expects the linux guy to compile it from scratch or integrate into the kernel build to fix this problem.
This is usually remedied by packaging the driver by distro or having multiple precompiled versions and only installing the one that matches the required features of the kernel. It's not hard to get the info you need with more than grepping
My point is, it's there. Of course it's easier to hand you the source and say rebuild ther kernel. But for those parties who spend the time, they make the driver installation painless, because it is quite possible (and I've seen it!) Someone should write a HOWTO on this so that hardware manufacturers can see how to handle it in the future.
The example for programming is not the norm, but an extreme case your friend told you to impress you. In my experience, if you're working on a program for some DoD project, you're either cleared and mired in it or your uncleared and stay 100 feet away from it. In the few cases where it's possible, you could be doing something like what you mentioned, working with the parts that seperate are unclassified until they are brought together. I've done that once, but not because I wasn't cleared. I just didn't understand it. :-D
Or maybe that's just with the FFRDCs... but I thought they did the majority of the DoDs engineering work.
But anyway, yeah most code doesn't see the light of day not so much because the DoD is involved but that it is "owned" by the RDC or the group within the DoD that was responsible for it. In the case of the RDC, there's no legal requirement to disclose the code at all to the public, but the sponsor (DoD) can still check it out.
It's too bad that product is craptacular. It begs anyone with two brain cells to rub together to get the full version of PS because it's so crippled. And of course, if you actually made the mistake of spending $100 on that, you then hit yourself in the head for even wasting the hard drive space for it.
I think it's a good idea except that the container could take a long time to be subducted and in the process could be damaged before being safely in the mantle. It could contaminate the ocean, and that'd stink.
Quick, what's the difference between beta decay and gamma emission?
Why are only elements heavier than iron capable of having fissionable isotopes?
What nuclear forces are responsible for the binding energy released by induced nuclear fission?
Don't know? Then how do you know nulcear power is NOT safe?
... if you have the where-with-all to bind it that way in the cmd tool config.
And big deal, because the cmd shell has little to offer in the default install.
(but you can beef it up with an array of little unofficial tools and the cygwin stuff)
What I would love is if the cmd shell liked to be resized and stay that way. WHY GOD WHY?!
I think the point everyone here is circling around but not touching upon is that in the US, you can say pretty much anything you want, but you have to live up to the consequences of what you say. That is, if I claim you're a child molester, and it causes you to lose your job, I'd better have evidence or you can sue. But no one can prevent me from making that claim unless they take out a gag order (and that would be after the fact).
:-P
In any case, I think the billboard is a bad example because the local authorities would never approve something so offensive being displayed in public. It would be in the municipalities interest to not insult everyone that drives by.
It's bad for tourism.
Well, I can construct an angle of exactly 1 radian to the precision I can construct an angle of 37 degrees... :-)
Semicircles are a good measurement too. It is much easier to visualize.
I tend to like radians because it makes rotation of vectors and stuff easy with matricies. It's an unscaled rotational unit that can be used in trig functions, etc. just as you might expect.
I don't find the pi cumbersome, I think of it as meaning I want semicircles when describing my angles! Notice you don't notate radians with the word "radians" because it's assumed. (How big is that angle? Pi/2 ) Hence the pi is a replacement for the word semicircle when you would otherwise have to indicate that. It's not much more writing than a degree symbol either.
No really, it takes slightly more energy to remove the covalent bonds from hydrogen then the energy released when it forms those bonds (though the difference is tiny). I think the reason is buried in quantum mechanics. Anyone care to correct me?
Please mod up funny. CHRIST
How is 3/2 pi by 5/6 pi not exact?
Hint, you don't actually use an approximation for pi to get the angle measurement, there are 2 pi radians in one circle. So 5/6 pi (W) is 5/12 the way around the earth from the Standard Meridian
Video game and other programmers that use 2-d and 3-d tend to express rotations in units where there are 256 degrees in a circle (2 ** 8). This comes out to pi/128 radians. I forget if that unit had a name.
More important than the sloshing around of the earth's oceans is the motions of the magma in the mantle, and even the plasticy crust. The constant deformation of the earth's parts takes energy out of the rotation in the moonearth system. Also, the moon is receding from the earth (we're pretty sure it's earth debris from a plantery collision), and like an ice skater when they stick their hands out, their rotation slows.
It was more than a year before I got the chance to moderate. Just chill out. Besides, now that I've got it, I loathe to use the points sometimes. I keep wanting to post replies, and can't. I need a second account, I guess :-)
Absolutely. It seems that's the only reliable way of doing it anyway. If two nodes behind the firewall both open connections to a web server with the same ISN, whats the firewall to do? Actually, since it's the firewall that opens the connections on the behalf of the nodes behind it, surely code reuse dictates the packet headers have OpenBSD ISNs. Finally, the FAQ on the Netcraft Survey talks about this to explain why some webservers are "Microsoft IIS" running on Linux; what it's really seeing is the ISN characteristics of a linux firewall or load balancer in front of the webserver.
:-D
So I think you're safe