Microsoft has solved spam by... erm... recommending all the strategies that people were already using before Microsoft set out to solve spam. A hearty thank you to Uncle Bill, then.
Tesco are also bad for the environment, as trucks delivering to Tesco in a year, which in 2002 stood at 1,150,000 deliveries, clock up a total mileage of 140 million miles (224 million km).
WTF? Even if we shopped in a more diverse range of stores, the produce would still need to be delivered to those stores. You're an idiot.
But the story is not a story of censorship... they just wanted TRONs real name to be abbreviated as Boris F., instead of the full name as it is in the wikipedia right now.
This isn't a story of censorship, they just want the legal power to remove factual information from a website because they don't want it to become known...
Erm... how is that not censorship exactly?
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That's a total bargain compared to the standing charge that BT will charge you, just for the right to make their distinctly-non-free calls.
That's a joke, guys. "Why do you hate America?" is the archetypal ignorant talking-point-fixated Republican response to the slightest criticism of US foreign policy, so that's what I posted. There's an excellent Tom Tomorrow cartoon on the same theme.
Jeez, I somehow got the idea people here were smarter than that. Guess not.
By winning the cold war, the US has made itself a target for every tyrannical regime with something to prove... and it can't cut back very much on defense in such an environment.
Wow, you're really enjoying the Military-Industrial-Bogeyman Kool Aid.
Here's hoping that they have a consultant on the show to make it technically accurate.
Hmm, a program that gets humour out of the common conception and this twat is only interested in whether its technically accurate. The irony is almost overpowering.
Just out of interest, did you complain that Father Ted didn't accurately reflect the teachings of the Catholic Church?
Amazon only use information that I choose to submit to them. Apple just read it off my hard drive. It's the difference between my local DVD shop recommending things based on my past rentals, and them sending a guy round to peer in through my curtains to see what I'm watching on the television.
For old-school Unix hackers, make and sh are better tools to use.
For old-school Unix hackers, make and sh were the only tools widely available. When all you have is a hammer, everything begins to looks like a nail. It's admirable that it was done, but given the Bourne shell's syntax, I'll bet you a dime to a dollar that the python implementation is considerably cleaner, and easier to maintain and extend.
Consider this, old school unix hackers also used ed, the standard editor. I imagine when sed and awk came along, there were old-school Unix hackers complaining about all these extra dependencies people seem to need nowadays.
But you don't need a full blown high level language to manage a tree of ports.
You don't need anything other than a Turing machine. That doesn't mean that a Turing machine is the best option. The portage people think python struck the right balance between ease of coding/maintenance and portability. As I've said, if you think your way is better, you're quite free to implement it.
Instead the portage system pulls in Python for no particular reason.
Portage is a complicated set of programs. Complicated programs are easier to write in python, because of the languages features, and complicated secure programs even more so. They're written in python because the developers consider it (one of) the best solutions to the problem.
If you know better, and think it should have been written in C, I', sure the present developers would be very interested in seeing your port.
Really?!? I gave up on the Independent about the time that they started treating their readers like idiots, prejudging absolutely every issue according to the editor's whim. Oh, and say what you like about Toynbee (and she is god-awful), but she's still better Robert (if you didn't oppose the invasion of Iraq you're a war criminal) Fisk.
The only advantage is, since you know what the Indie's opinion on any issue is going to be (the self-righteous, pathetically ineffective liberal one), it saves you the effort of having to read its shockingly dreary prose.
Eno gives great interview. The BBC ran a show last year (or maybe '04) in which he was interviewed by Alan Moore (Watchmen, V for Vendetta, etc) which was absolutely fascinating. Among the highlights, Eno talked about his relationship with Bowie, and how when then meet they only ever talk like Peter Cook and Dudley Moore / Derek & Clive. Part of it went:
Eno: We hardly ever have a conversation in any other voice in fact... so next time you listen to Heroes... [In Cook's voice] "We could be heroes Dud... just for one day."
Moore: "Funny how the ambiance seems to follow you round the room..."
He who controls the past, controls the future. We are at war with Eurasia. We have always been at war with Eurasia. Eurasia had proven links to the 9/11 evildoers.
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Microsoft has solved spam by ... erm... recommending all the strategies that people were already using before Microsoft set out to solve spam. A hearty thank you to Uncle Bill, then.
Wow! An Apple fan is making apologies for them when they screw up!
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That's a total bargain compared to the standing charge that BT will charge you, just for the right to make their distinctly-non-free calls.
That's what "Too many" means...
That's a joke, guys. "Why do you hate America?" is the archetypal ignorant talking-point-fixated Republican response to the slightest criticism of US foreign policy, so that's what I posted. There's an excellent Tom Tomorrow cartoon on the same theme.
Jeez, I somehow got the idea people here were smarter than that.
Guess not.
Let me guess... Army Brat?
Yeah, nothing has made me feel safer than the US led attack on Iraq...
On no, my mistake, that should read "less safe".
Why do you hate America?
My web apps are crap, because I use JavaServer Faeces
Just out of interest, did you complain that Father Ted didn't accurately reflect the teachings of the Catholic Church?
Drink! Feck! Arse! Girls... sorry, no girls allowed.
Amazon only use information that I choose to submit to them. Apple just read it off my hard drive. It's the difference between my local DVD shop recommending things based on my past rentals, and them sending a guy round to peer in through my curtains to see what I'm watching on the television.
I don't consider it a big deal, but it is rude.
Consider this, old school unix hackers also used ed, the standard editor.
I imagine when sed and awk came along, there were old-school Unix hackers complaining about all these extra dependencies people seem to need nowadays.
If you know better, and think it should have been written in C, I', sure the present developers would be very interested in seeing your port.
Really?!? I gave up on the Independent about the time that they started treating their readers like idiots, prejudging absolutely every issue according to the editor's whim. Oh, and say what you like about Toynbee (and she is god-awful), but she's still better Robert (if you didn't oppose the invasion of Iraq you're a war criminal) Fisk.
The only advantage is, since you know what the Indie's opinion on any issue is going to be (the self-righteous, pathetically ineffective liberal one), it saves you the effort of having to read its shockingly dreary prose.
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That's a very good point; or, rather, it's several very good points.
He who controls the past, controls the future.
We are at war with Eurasia. We have always been at war with Eurasia.
Eurasia had proven links to the 9/11 evildoers.