Disinformation from the media amongst other things.
As every good Daily Mail reader has been informed by that rag, illegal immigrants are the cause of all evil and ID cards will fix them good. Also, terrorists are bad and ID cards will fix them good too (gloss over the fact that suicide bombers don't seem to mind using their real legitimate identities). Also if you have got an internet in your house, it must be because you are a paedophile and you use it for downloading porn all day long. Internets are the cause of all evil so they must be stopped.
I have no idea why the current Labour government is doing these things. If the Conservative government of 20 years ago had tried to pull any of these stunts, the then opposition Labour party (including many of the current cabinet in their younger days) would have been screaming "fascist police state" at them. The only answer I can think of is that these measures are headline grabbing ideas that resonate with a certain section of the British media. The proper answer to the problems they allegedly address is careful, diligent, well funded police work but that's not something the government can broadcast to say "look we're doing something".
It's probably worth writing anyway. If your MP has a stack of letters from unhappy constituents, it's amunition for him in his opposition to the plans.
In a speech earlier this week, Jacqui Smith claimed that people were generally enthusiastic about ID cards and that people were coming up to her in the street asking when they could have one of those lovely new cards (that's obviously a lie - anybody approaching the home secretary would be quickly bundled into a police van and taken away as a possible threat to her). Your MP needs all of the real evidence he can get that actually people do not like what the government is doing.
Well I upgraded to firmware version 1.21 and now, every time I try to access Google, a Boeing 767 flies in through the window, bursts in to flames and causes my house to collapse.
I see. Can you try switching the router off, waiting for five seconds, switching it on again and then retrying the URL.
OK..... [five seconds elapses]. Accessing Google now... It's done it again!
Right. While you were doing that, did you notice any CIA agents in your living room carrying demolition charges?...
"publicity stunt". I think the correct phrase is "confidence trick".
There should be a law to prevent bookmakers from accepting bets on events where they already know the result. There will be no scientific proof of God by the end of 2009 or even 20009.
They're probably slack jawed and astonished at how primitive and slow it is compered with a remote desktop connection.
And let's be honest, the real good bit is not that you can forward X but that you can forward anything you want, for instance, I will ssh into our gateway server and forward the RDC port from our Exchange server because it's quicker and easier than our VPN connection. RDC runs much faster over ssh than X does, btw.
Since Commodore Basic was originally written by Microsoft, that seems almost approriate. However, I learned to program using PET Basic and it didn't seem that bad to me at the time. It least you could do lower case characters with it.
Can you point out where the poster to whom you responded said that it was the ethical duty of the lawyer to tell lies on behalf of the client?
In fact I would have thought it was the ethical duty of the lawyer to point out to the client that lying in a court of law is a serious criminal offence. IANAL but I would have thought the rules of the client attorny relationship do not extend to the point where they force the laweyer to break the law.
I'm quite certain America's enemies in the middle east will be routing for an Obama victory -- say what you like about Dubya, but those bad guys are scared pissly of him because he's a cowboy that'll bomb the crap out them without blinking -- Obama appears to be more of a lefty peace-nik. I hope him winning doesn't rally the spirits of the bad guys for another attack
George W Bush certainly scares me but I doubt if he scares the Al Qaeda nut jobs. From their point of view he has been a triumph of public relations. Consider that GWB's foreign policy has taken a situation where he had all the sympathy and Al Qaeda attracted the condemnation of just about everybody on the planet just after 9/11 to the point where the USA has the condemnation of just about everybody on the planet for being the bully boy of World politics. Way to go George!
What scares me about McCain is not McCain but his age. If he gets elected, the chance of him dying in office has got to be quite high. If that happens, the leader of the free world with the biggest guns and bombs is another religious person with a proven tenuous grasp on reality. I'll have to spend another four years hoping she doesn't get a message from God telling her it's time for the Apocalypse.
No, the underlying point is not valid. Just because the surge was an "unmitigated" success (I thought failures were unmitigated and successes were unqualified), does not mean things are good now, only that they are better than they were before.
Not a theory, a theorem. In mathematics, a theorem is a statement that has been rigorously been proven to be true. A theory is the body of work associated with a particular mathematical subject e.g. number theory, group theory, set theory. Thanks to Andrew Wiles, Fermat's Last Theorem is a theorem of number theory.
Before Andrew Wiles proved it, it was technically a conjecture. However, it became known as Fermat's Last Theorem because of the way Fermat worked. It wasn't unusual for Fermat to write down mathematical statements and then claim to have a proof without actually stating the proof. In fact, at the time of Fermat, it was quite common for mathematicians generally to keep their discoveries secret.
Over the years since his death, proofs were discovered for all of the other statements that Fermat made. Therefore, they turned out to all be theorems. It was thus natural to assume that he wasn't lying when he wrote the infamous marginal note and Fermat's Last Theorem was so-called because it was the last one left without a proof.
By the time it became clear that a proof was not going to be easily forthcoming, the tradition of calling FLT FLT had already set in. Wiles' proof is certainly not the proof that Fermat said he had - it builds on far too much maths that was discovered after Fermat's death. I think the consensus is that Fermat thought he had a proof but there was an error in it.
The basic principles are the same (it's all Objective-C and Cocoa), but the GUI SDK for the iPhone is not the same as that of a normal OS X GUI application.
Seriously, what is the point of replacing a reliable system just because it is written in an unfashionable language?
And I think you grossly underestimate the cost of "just" replacing these systems. I have heard of hundreds of cases where people have tried to replace legacy systems with the latest whizzy technology du jour and ended up spending a fortune in development costs only to have the technology go obsolete before the project is finished. for instance, in the 80's it was fashionable to pick a relational database from one of the major database vendors and redevelop your COBOL applications in the vendor's proprietary "4GL" language. If you did that, you almost certainly experienced huge pain at the time with bugs and performance issues and now you still have an application in obsolescent technology and no chance of finding people to maintain it. COBOL programmers may be rare, but that's nothing: try to find somebody who remembers how to code in Ingres 4GL.
You can argue that many species have evolved to use a tribal (or herd or pack system) but city and space faring civilisations are not anything to do with evolution. The city stage is part of human social development and we still don't know if space faring is anything more than fiction.
Honey bees, by the way, are exactly as evolved as humans. Perhaps more so - there are seven extant species of honey bee.
Early versions of Unix ran on PDP-11 minicomputers. The maximum size of the virtual address space on one of those was 64Kb although you could install up to 256Kb RAM. Even in those days you got virtual memory, disk caching, UFS file system, pre-emptive multitasking, multiple users etc.
If anyone remembers what the name of that book was, I'd be in your debt. I think it had a red cover, and it had great little illustrations of a robot that made it very kid-friendly. That book launched me on my current career path. I now program games for a living, and would love to find an old copy.
Why? So you can find out who the author is and go and burn his house down because he forgot to put any mention in his so called programming book about the way numerical data is stored in computers? That was rather an important section to miss out, don't you think?
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Disinformation from the media amongst other things.
As every good Daily Mail reader has been informed by that rag, illegal immigrants are the cause of all evil and ID cards will fix them good. Also, terrorists are bad and ID cards will fix them good too (gloss over the fact that suicide bombers don't seem to mind using their real legitimate identities). Also if you have got an internet in your house, it must be because you are a paedophile and you use it for downloading porn all day long. Internets are the cause of all evil so they must be stopped.
I have no idea why the current Labour government is doing these things. If the Conservative government of 20 years ago had tried to pull any of these stunts, the then opposition Labour party (including many of the current cabinet in their younger days) would have been screaming "fascist police state" at them. The only answer I can think of is that these measures are headline grabbing ideas that resonate with a certain section of the British media. The proper answer to the problems they allegedly address is careful, diligent, well funded police work but that's not something the government can broadcast to say "look we're doing something".
It's probably worth writing anyway. If your MP has a stack of letters from unhappy constituents, it's amunition for him in his opposition to the plans.
In a speech earlier this week, Jacqui Smith claimed that people were generally enthusiastic about ID cards and that people were coming up to her in the street asking when they could have one of those lovely new cards (that's obviously a lie - anybody approaching the home secretary would be quickly bundled into a police van and taken away as a possible threat to her). Your MP needs all of the real evidence he can get that actually people do not like what the government is doing.
The Judean People's Front?
Hello is that D-Link customer support?
Yes, how can I help you?
Well I upgraded to firmware version 1.21 and now, every time I try to access Google, a Boeing 767 flies in through the window, bursts in to flames and causes my house to collapse.
I see. Can you try switching the router off, waiting for five seconds, switching it on again and then retrying the URL.
OK..... [five seconds elapses]. Accessing Google now... It's done it again!
Right. While you were doing that, did you notice any CIA agents in your living room carrying demolition charges? ...
"publicity stunt". I think the correct phrase is "confidence trick".
There should be a law to prevent bookmakers from accepting bets on events where they already know the result. There will be no scientific proof of God by the end of 2009 or even 20009.
Your example is not proof that God exists. How do we know that this beardy man in a white robe is not merely a psychotic alien with a destructor ray?
ls -lrS
Also for finding recently modified files
ls -lrt
They're probably slack jawed and astonished at how primitive and slow it is compered with a remote desktop connection.
And let's be honest, the real good bit is not that you can forward X but that you can forward anything you want, for instance, I will ssh into our gateway server and forward the RDC port from our Exchange server because it's quicker and easier than our VPN connection. RDC runs much faster over ssh than X does, btw.
Your first command can be shortened:
find . -exec grep -l pattern {} \;
although I tend to put "-type f" in before the "-exec"
Since Commodore Basic was originally written by Microsoft, that seems almost approriate. However, I learned to program using PET Basic and it didn't seem that bad to me at the time. It least you could do lower case characters with it.
You got any evidence that's less than 14 years old?
Can you point out where the poster to whom you responded said that it was the ethical duty of the lawyer to tell lies on behalf of the client?
In fact I would have thought it was the ethical duty of the lawyer to point out to the client that lying in a court of law is a serious criminal offence. IANAL but I would have thought the rules of the client attorny relationship do not extend to the point where they force the laweyer to break the law.
George W Bush certainly scares me but I doubt if he scares the Al Qaeda nut jobs. From their point of view he has been a triumph of public relations. Consider that GWB's foreign policy has taken a situation where he had all the sympathy and Al Qaeda attracted the condemnation of just about everybody on the planet just after 9/11 to the point where the USA has the condemnation of just about everybody on the planet for being the bully boy of World politics. Way to go George!
What scares me about McCain is not McCain but his age. If he gets elected, the chance of him dying in office has got to be quite high. If that happens, the leader of the free world with the biggest guns and bombs is another religious person with a proven tenuous grasp on reality. I'll have to spend another four years hoping she doesn't get a message from God telling her it's time for the Apocalypse.
No, the underlying point is not valid. Just because the surge was an "unmitigated" success (I thought failures were unmitigated and successes were unqualified), does not mean things are good now, only that they are better than they were before.
Not a theory, a theorem. In mathematics, a theorem is a statement that has been rigorously been proven to be true. A theory is the body of work associated with a particular mathematical subject e.g. number theory, group theory, set theory. Thanks to Andrew Wiles, Fermat's Last Theorem is a theorem of number theory.
Before Andrew Wiles proved it, it was technically a conjecture. However, it became known as Fermat's Last Theorem because of the way Fermat worked. It wasn't unusual for Fermat to write down mathematical statements and then claim to have a proof without actually stating the proof. In fact, at the time of Fermat, it was quite common for mathematicians generally to keep their discoveries secret.
Over the years since his death, proofs were discovered for all of the other statements that Fermat made. Therefore, they turned out to all be theorems. It was thus natural to assume that he wasn't lying when he wrote the infamous marginal note and Fermat's Last Theorem was so-called because it was the last one left without a proof.
By the time it became clear that a proof was not going to be easily forthcoming, the tradition of calling FLT FLT had already set in. Wiles' proof is certainly not the proof that Fermat said he had - it builds on far too much maths that was discovered after Fermat's death. I think the consensus is that Fermat thought he had a proof but there was an error in it.
Tobias? Is he any relation to James Tiberius Kirk?
Wrong.
The basic principles are the same (it's all Objective-C and Cocoa), but the GUI SDK for the iPhone is not the same as that of a normal OS X GUI application.
I don't know, I'd prefer to develop for a phone that people are using.
Developing for the iPhone or J2ME means at least you have quite a large installed base for selling your software.
But the old system (that includes the human element) got the paychecks right.
Ever heard of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it"?
Seriously, what is the point of replacing a reliable system just because it is written in an unfashionable language?
And I think you grossly underestimate the cost of "just" replacing these systems. I have heard of hundreds of cases where people have tried to replace legacy systems with the latest whizzy technology du jour and ended up spending a fortune in development costs only to have the technology go obsolete before the project is finished. for instance, in the 80's it was fashionable to pick a relational database from one of the major database vendors and redevelop your COBOL applications in the vendor's proprietary "4GL" language. If you did that, you almost certainly experienced huge pain at the time with bugs and performance issues and now you still have an application in obsolescent technology and no chance of finding people to maintain it. COBOL programmers may be rare, but that's nothing: try to find somebody who remembers how to code in Ingres 4GL.
Spore feels like it takes a billion years to play.
You can argue that many species have evolved to use a tribal (or herd or pack system) but city and space faring civilisations are not anything to do with evolution. The city stage is part of human social development and we still don't know if space faring is anything more than fiction.
Honey bees, by the way, are exactly as evolved as humans. Perhaps more so - there are seven extant species of honey bee.
Dammit. Nobody could have thought of that one before me, or so I thought.
However, I propose Dark night Squandering Time. It has the benefit of not requiring us to s/DST/NWT/g
Early versions of Unix ran on PDP-11 minicomputers. The maximum size of the virtual address space on one of those was 64Kb although you could install up to 256Kb RAM. Even in those days you got virtual memory, disk caching, UFS file system, pre-emptive multitasking, multiple users etc.
Why? So you can find out who the author is and go and burn his house down because he forgot to put any mention in his so called programming book about the way numerical data is stored in computers? That was rather an important section to miss out, don't you think?