The 10th Amendment says that all powers not explicitly given to the federal government and not explicitly forbidden to the states are granted to the people. Considering that corporations are not a government, this amendment has no affect on them.
Baking bread isn't the point. Or rather, it is. ^_^ Incidentally, I heard this same debate many years ago regarding Ultima 9. In... rec.games.computer.ultima.dragons (among the names it's owned over the years...) Baking bread itself is not the point. The many ways the player and world could interact was. For example, I'll take the game Worlds of Ultima: Savage Empire. You can use the traditional weapons you find... or you can make your own ^_^ Saltpeter + Charcoal + sulfur = gunpower. Bamboo + flint + steel = rifle (really!). Rifle + gunpowder + rocks = bang! Gunpowder + clay jar + cloth strips + tar = fuse bomb (and grenade!). You could do anything with anything. There's More Than One Way To Do It. (woah.) By concentrating on the bread, you're missing the big picture. Incidentally, baking bread rocked as it could save you money. (1) Get wheat from field (2) Grid wheat (3) Put meal in oven (4) eat bread - mmm
I presume they stripped the OS down so that booting Linux will only take a few seconds -- instead of the 2+ minutes for Windows.
Funny, the roles are reversed in my household. The Windows box takes about 10 seconds to boot (and 3 of those seconds are that boot menu -- just in case:). The SuSE box, on the other hand,...
YMMV, of course;)
instead. For me, single-line if clauses get put the other way around. This is to prevent ambiguity and because I was tired of putting braces around a single line:) The indention ideal that Python uses just doesn't work with my style at all - I've tried the language and put it back.
Funny.. I don't have to reboot to play it. Perhaps it is because I run Windows Me on my primary machine and the Linux box is (literally) shoved into the back of the closet.
Where I work, we use perl for just about everything - and almost none of it is web work. We use perl for most of our database stuff (I just wrote a simply badarsed little program, too.. happy sigh..) using oraperl and it's sweet loving. Frankly, ever since I started using perl for non-web stuff, I can't even imagine using perl for the web. I suppose it's nice, but it just has so much more potential uses.
Diablo 2 can connect anywhere. If you're running on Battle.net (closed), then it's different because everything is being saved online. However, you can also connect to any valid IP address for open games.
The -1 world! Oh man.. okay, it was tough, but here it goes:
On level 1-2 (the first underground level), keep going until the end. Now, don't go down the final pipe and don't go over the top to the warp zone. Instead, kinda inch over until you can just barely see the first warp zone pipe. Break the bricks over the exit pipe and until you've got 1-2 left and then edge the screen over until there's just a tiny gap. Takes a lot of work to get it right. Now, you have to jump/backwards/ so the back of Mario's head goes through the bricks. If you do it right, Mario will go all the way through to the warp zone. Go down the first pipe without scrolling the screen and you'llve in the -1 world!
People only think they are too stupid to use powerful command line tools, but in fact with a little help almost everyone can use it and can be more productive with it. Most are too lazy though, and thus because they don't want to spend the initial 30 minutes, they loose 30 minutes each day.
Oh, I know I'm not too stupid to use the command line. I just have no need at home. At work, I do lots of wacky things with find and grep and ls and mix them in unnatural combinations. At home, I copy files. Sometimes I delete them. Every now and then I have to search for files, but that's pretty rare.
For example... Try creating a directory. To a complete newbie, "mkdir" is some cryptic command. But with the slightest knowledge of the command line, it becomes evident that it's better. "mkdir foo" is a *lot* easier than starting Windows Explorer, navigating to the folder you want, and then right clicking, and renaming "New Folder".
But I never need to make a directory unless I'm already doing some file operations. Thus, I already have Explorer open and in the right spot. And if it's during a save file, the common dialog boxes also let you create, remove, etc. in the cute little file box. I think this is an example of poor use of the GUI and not a problem with GUIs in general.
Man, you're a lucky one. Linux must have a personal dislike for me, since I can usually kill it pretty easily. I've had X applications totally lock up the system on many occasions.
What if there are a dozen files you need to delete, and all the files in the directory (say, 100) have names that are similar, but not close enough for any regex guruism to save your skinny arse. It'd be sweet to point and click those things. And I've been in situations like that >_<
The daughter of someone I know was kidnapped. By her mother. The father went out and when he came home, there was nothing but a note accusing the father of abuse, etc. She disappeared pretty well. Didn't come back for her last paycheck, friends, mail, anything. But her little addiction did her in. She had her internet access. The father's attorney made some requests (I don't know the details) and her phone number was supplied to him (or the police?). The mother was apprehended and the daughter returned to her father. The accusations of abuse were quite false >_<
Storekeeper: The monkey's paw comes with a curse!
Homer: That's bad.
Storekeeper: But it also comes with a free fruit yogourt. I call it frogourt.
Homer: That's good.
Storekeeper: But the frogourt is also cursed!
Homer: That's bad.
Storekeeper: But it comes with your choice of topping.
Homer: That's good.
Storekeeper: The topping contains sodium benzonate.*
Homer:...
Storekeeper: That's bad.
Homer: Can I go now?
* I can't remember the name of the chemical. That's close enough.
And I like it, dammit! I've got a Palm IIIxe as well. I like the Cybiko a lot more than the palm for a lot of subjective reasons. I like the interface a/tad/ more. I like the keyboard. I was punching out poetry and stories like a madman (bus trips to/from work are boring:) once I broke down and used the little pointer thingie instead of my finger. I've not had a chance to try out the wireless networking, yet. The SDK is downloadable and apparently they're using gcc for it. I can't remember offhand. I got mine at Wal-Mart for $99.
Ripping off? I see a conflict of idealogy. If you put it into the public domain, you want people to use it. You have given permission for anyone to use it in any manner they want. How can that be ripping off? Oh, I know - you've got that strange notion that freedom only comes through forcing others to conform to your licensing ideas...
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On the other hand, a mostly idle Windows system will usually become unusable within a week.
Depends on the system, I guess. I have a box running ICS. It's also a file and printer server. That's all it does. Well, except for some copying, since my ME and NT boxes can't seem to see each other (I blame NT - it's my work laptop and it can't even see the other network at work - bad install on my part, probably). Anyway, it's been up for.. oh.. two, three months? Some ungodly long time. The only time it ever has any problems is when I accidentally hit the power switch.
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Hey now, I actually use perl/tk for real work. Really :) (we do all of our work in perl and I needed a cross-platform GUI.. soo...)
The 10th Amendment says that all powers not explicitly given to the federal government and not explicitly forbidden to the states are granted to the people. Considering that corporations are not a government, this amendment has no affect on them.
Now now, let's not make assumptions on what might have happened at the meeting. Seems rather like an ad hominim attack as well.
Baking bread isn't the point. Or rather, it is. ^_^ Incidentally, I heard this same debate many years ago regarding Ultima 9. In... rec.games.computer.ultima.dragons (among the names it's owned over the years...) Baking bread itself is not the point. The many ways the player and world could interact was. For example, I'll take the game Worlds of Ultima: Savage Empire. You can use the traditional weapons you find... or you can make your own ^_^ Saltpeter + Charcoal + sulfur = gunpower. Bamboo + flint + steel = rifle (really!). Rifle + gunpowder + rocks = bang! Gunpowder + clay jar + cloth strips + tar = fuse bomb (and grenade!). You could do anything with anything. There's More Than One Way To Do It. (woah.) By concentrating on the bread, you're missing the big picture. Incidentally, baking bread rocked as it could save you money. (1) Get wheat from field (2) Grid wheat (3) Put meal in oven (4) eat bread - mmm
There's a certain irony in complaining about media bias on slashdot....
Woah.. you've been reading a different Slashdot than I have, then. People wanted blood long, long before Indrema and Eazel shut down.
I presume they stripped the OS down so that booting Linux will only take a few seconds -- instead of the 2+ minutes for Windows. :). The SuSE box, on the other hand, ... ;)
Funny, the roles are reversed in my household. The Windows box takes about 10 seconds to boot (and 3 of those seconds are that boot menu -- just in case
YMMV, of course
I do! :)
A few months back I got really guilty and registered/deleted all of the software on my machine.
as instead. For me, single-line if clauses get put the other way around. This is to prevent ambiguity and because I was tired of putting braces around a single line
An openly unpopular opinion without any reasons behind it is just a troll.
:)
What would be an openly popular opinion without any reasons behind it? Sheepism?
Funny.. I don't have to reboot to play it. Perhaps it is because I run Windows Me on my primary machine and the Linux box is (literally) shoved into the back of the closet.
Where I work, we use perl for just about everything - and almost none of it is web work. We use perl for most of our database stuff (I just wrote a simply badarsed little program, too.. happy sigh..) using oraperl and it's sweet loving. Frankly, ever since I started using perl for non-web stuff, I can't even imagine using perl for the web. I suppose it's nice, but it just has so much more potential uses.
Diablo 2 can connect anywhere. If you're running on Battle.net (closed), then it's different because everything is being saved online. However, you can also connect to any valid IP address for open games.
The -1 world! Oh man.. okay, it was tough, but here it goes: /backwards/ so the back of Mario's head goes through the bricks. If you do it right, Mario will go all the way through to the warp zone. Go down the first pipe without scrolling the screen and you'llve in the -1 world!
On level 1-2 (the first underground level), keep going until the end. Now, don't go down the final pipe and don't go over the top to the warp zone. Instead, kinda inch over until you can just barely see the first warp zone pipe. Break the bricks over the exit pipe and until you've got 1-2 left and then edge the screen over until there's just a tiny gap. Takes a lot of work to get it right. Now, you have to jump
People only think they are too stupid to use powerful command line tools, but in fact with a little help almost everyone can use it and can be more productive with it. Most are too lazy though, and thus because they don't want to spend the initial 30 minutes, they loose 30 minutes each day.
Oh, I know I'm not too stupid to use the command line. I just have no need at home. At work, I do lots of wacky things with find and grep and ls and mix them in unnatural combinations. At home, I copy files. Sometimes I delete them. Every now and then I have to search for files, but that's pretty rare.
For example... Try creating a directory. To a complete newbie, "mkdir" is some cryptic command. But with the slightest knowledge of the command line, it becomes evident that it's better. "mkdir foo" is a *lot* easier than starting Windows Explorer, navigating to the folder you want, and then right clicking, and renaming "New Folder".
But I never need to make a directory unless I'm already doing some file operations. Thus, I already have Explorer open and in the right spot. And if it's during a save file, the common dialog boxes also let you create, remove, etc. in the cute little file box. I think this is an example of poor use of the GUI and not a problem with GUIs in general.
Man, you're a lucky one. Linux must have a personal dislike for me, since I can usually kill it pretty easily. I've had X applications totally lock up the system on many occasions.
For real Linux "buffness", you should use the command-line only. ALL THE TIME. No silly widgets and GUI Netscape. Terminals and Lynx for everyone.
Lynx? Lynx? If you're a real man, you telnet to port 80, dammit, and do things the HARD WAY.
I find the Hit/Miss ration for BearShare to be quite pathetic. I get maybe.. 5%, tops 20%, of my downloads working.
What if there are a dozen files you need to delete, and all the files in the directory (say, 100) have names that are similar, but not close enough for any regex guruism to save your skinny arse. It'd be sweet to point and click those things. And I've been in situations like that >_<
The daughter of someone I know was kidnapped. By her mother. The father went out and when he came home, there was nothing but a note accusing the father of abuse, etc. She disappeared pretty well. Didn't come back for her last paycheck, friends, mail, anything. But her little addiction did her in. She had her internet access. The father's attorney made some requests (I don't know the details) and her phone number was supplied to him (or the police?). The mother was apprehended and the daughter returned to her father. The accusations of abuse were quite false >_<
Storekeeper: The monkey's paw comes with a curse! ...
Homer: That's bad.
Storekeeper: But it also comes with a free fruit yogourt. I call it frogourt.
Homer: That's good.
Storekeeper: But the frogourt is also cursed!
Homer: That's bad.
Storekeeper: But it comes with your choice of topping.
Homer: That's good.
Storekeeper: The topping contains sodium benzonate.*
Homer:
Storekeeper: That's bad.
Homer: Can I go now?
* I can't remember the name of the chemical. That's close enough.
And I like it, dammit! I've got a Palm IIIxe as well. I like the Cybiko a lot more than the palm for a lot of subjective reasons. I like the interface a /tad/ more. I like the keyboard. I was punching out poetry and stories like a madman (bus trips to/from work are boring :) once I broke down and used the little pointer thingie instead of my finger. I've not had a chance to try out the wireless networking, yet. The SDK is downloadable and apparently they're using gcc for it. I can't remember offhand. I got mine at Wal-Mart for $99.
Ripping off? I see a conflict of idealogy. If you put it into the public domain, you want people to use it. You have given permission for anyone to use it in any manner they want. How can that be ripping off? Oh, I know - you've got that strange notion that freedom only comes through forcing others to conform to your licensing ideas...
On the other hand, a mostly idle Windows system will usually become unusable within a week.
Depends on the system, I guess. I have a box running ICS. It's also a file and printer server. That's all it does. Well, except for some copying, since my ME and NT boxes can't seem to see each other (I blame NT - it's my work laptop and it can't even see the other network at work - bad install on my part, probably). Anyway, it's been up for.. oh.. two, three months? Some ungodly long time. The only time it ever has any problems is when I accidentally hit the power switch.