mutt can be considered 21st century, for sufficiently large values of 21st century (v 1.0 released October, 1999).
For my part, I suppose that I'm "sick" of people who do not differentiate what is and is not technology based on technology, or who determine the value of a tool by it's birth date.
I do not know if you fall into the former catagory or not (I recognize your name, but can't recall any specific posts I may or may not have taken exception to), but at the moment you are falling into the latter. It is a fetish for the new.
I find screws to be extremely useful objects, especially in combination with a screwdriver. You, of course, may please yourself and it makes no nevermind to me and I have no idea why my use of screws in any way interferes with your use of adhesives. It is likely, however, that I might take exception to a post of yours advising the use of adhesives where a screw is clearly called for.
Windows users asks you to tell him what's the absolutely best email client: "mutt, of course.
I would do nothing of the kind.
Do you know what luddite means in the first place?
Yes. The most clear example of "ludditeism" I've seen on Slashdot are those posts that say, roughly, "Sure, Windows sucks, but I don't want it to go away because it guaruntees me employment."
The fact that most people are disorginized slobs who don't put their toys away, I guess.
On another forum I recently ran across a guy who was wondering what to do when you "run out of space" on your start menu.
I suggested that he keep his socks, WD40, silverware and ratchet set in different drawers.
KFG
Re:Worst idea: Employable Liberal Arts Major, The
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. ..but I don't yet actually have the degree. ..
This simply puts you on track to being the perfect liberal arts major.
You can live off the government basically indefinitely if you go to school.
Have you read Roger Zelazny's Doorways in the Sand? (although in this case he was living off of a trust fund. I know a guy who actually did this, and with the same conclusion as in the novel. The college eventually just gave him a "general studies" degree and graduated him against his will)
I also work for the school, a community college (and for peanuts). ..
Well, at least they feed you, eh?
. ..and have solved a lot of problems that had otherwise stumped the IT staff.
This sounds suspiciously like being usful. You'll have to work on that.
These are all sure signs that I need to own and operate my own business. ..
Think more along the lines of mind your own business, be creative and you'll come out ok, so long as your goal is to have a decent life by your own standards, rather than "get rich" (although even that's been known to happen to people mucking through).
I have a problem with authority.
I have no particular problem with authority, since I rarely even recognize any. This does, however, often seem to give them a problem with me.
Even this is usually no problem for me, per se, since I don't make the mistake of ignoring the fact that some people, for whatever reason, have been invested with some sort of "authority" and I take that into account and simply stay out of their way.
The problem is that authority likes to expand itself beyond the authority that it has been invested with. That's when things can get messy. The rules you can learn to live with or around. Rules being made up as they go along are tricky bastards.
Tristan Jones refered to a class of people who do this as "Jetty Watchers." A jetty is built for boats to dock on. A man is assigned authority over the jetty, who then uses his authority to deny any boat the right to dock.
You might want to read some Tristan Jones. A Welsh ex-merchant marine who ended up spending much of his life cruising in small sailboats, in large part because it was only way for a man of his temperment to fit into the world.
Meaning is a funny thing, and things do not always mean what they mean.
KFG
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The whole point of Liberal Arts education is to produce human beings incapable of doing something worthwhile, thus successfully eliminating them from the work pool. ..
Hey, all I can say is that I'm doing my part to hold up my end of the deal.
Those are learners permits, not licenses. They do not allow the kid to drive alone, but only under the direct supervision of a licensed driver.
I specified "drive alone," which requires a license.
At least one state that I'm aware of doesn't (or at least didn't, the last time I checked) even require a learner's permit, and any person at least 16 years of age can operate a motor vehicle under the direct supervision of any licensed driver. No parental consent required.
Unless you're a complete idiot, you should be able to figure out taht the side iwth the bumps goes up.
Have you actually tried this?
I'll extend the experiment, and my work with the blind and my own native curiosity about things has led to me try it myself:
Tonight, turn out all the lights in the house, now put a good blindfold, and leave it on for half an hour while you try to go about your normal business.
Dealing well with blindness requires a certain amount of discipline (I'm not blind, but I have done volunteer reading (finding engineers/scientists who can read engineering/science texts to blind engineers/scientists seems to be a particular problem) and other services for them).
You can just toss a CD on a table or something and find it. A blind person may not be able to do so, so the blind have places for things, and actually put those things in those places so as to always know where to look for them. Otherwise anything simply put down may be effectively "lost."
A flash card in it's place is no harder to find and handle than a CD.
The problem is the handling, not because of the size, but because of the way blind people have to use their fingers as their eyes, to do things like get the CD into the slot/tray, which can (and does) easily result in scratched CDs.
You can fumble around for the flash slot a bit without worrying about losing your data.
Ahhhhhhh, lighten up. It's a silly dupe, of a silly story, about a silly sport, played on a silly machine by silly people.
It's a perfect opportunity to damn the karma and be silly.
Well, more silly than usual, of course.
KFG
Oh, sure, while idea of playing Segway polo. . .
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and getting to really whack at a Segway with a mallet is appealing, I really don't think it would hold my interest long enough to consider it as a sport.
The trademark protection on the term "Webster's" in connection to dictionaries expired LONG ago.
Trademarks don't expire. Ever. They may become unenforcable.
What currently exists is the ability of ANY publisher to take the term "Webster's", and combine it with their own name, or another term, and THAT term is a trademark, and enjoys trademark protection.
Of course. I said nothing contrary to this.
As to the contents, you'll find that only the unique parts in your "copyrighted" dictionary are covered by copyright. ..
Again, of course, but of course, the issue is left to the courts to decide what is and is not your unique contribution.
. ..the actual list of words and their definitions aren't.
Work; 1. Technically defined as F=wd, but in practice is defined as 2. Something to avoided.
"Work" and "F=wd" I cannot claim copyright protection on. The whole I can.
You'll find that the definitions are often a unique contribution. Read Dr. Johnson's, it's a hoot. Maybe the funniest serious dictionary ever.
That's why most dictionaries include "extra material" - so that they can actually put a copyright notice in the book.
Publishers of almost all public domain works employ this trick, as well as the trick of introducing deliberate mistakes into the work as a watermark.
Next, Coca-Cola will sue Pepsi Cola over the use of the word Cola.
They can't. They already did, and settled. Previous to that suit Coca-Cola made dozens of competing products either change their name or put them out of business.
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XML is not a file format. It is a text markup language.
The file format of OOo XML files is gzipped ASCII.
KFG
I'm posting from Windows.
KFG
mutt can be considered 21st century, for sufficiently large values of 21st century (v 1.0 released October, 1999).
For my part, I suppose that I'm "sick" of people who do not differentiate what is and is not technology based on technology, or who determine the value of a tool by it's birth date.
I do not know if you fall into the former catagory or not (I recognize your name, but can't recall any specific posts I may or may not have taken exception to), but at the moment you are falling into the latter. It is a fetish for the new.
I find screws to be extremely useful objects, especially in combination with a screwdriver. You, of course, may please yourself and it makes no nevermind to me and I have no idea why my use of screws in any way interferes with your use of adhesives. It is likely, however, that I might take exception to a post of yours advising the use of adhesives where a screw is clearly called for.
KFG
Windows users asks you to tell him what's the absolutely best email client: "mutt, of course.
I would do nothing of the kind.
Do you know what luddite means in the first place?
Yes. The most clear example of "ludditeism" I've seen on Slashdot are those posts that say, roughly, "Sure, Windows sucks, but I don't want it to go away because it guaruntees me employment."
KFG
In what way does my "influence" using mutt prevent you from using Thunderbird?
For that matter, in what way does my using mutt make me a Luddite?
KFG
The fact that most people are disorginized slobs who don't put their toys away, I guess.
On another forum I recently ran across a guy who was wondering what to do when you "run out of space" on your start menu.
I suggested that he keep his socks, WD40, silverware and ratchet set in different drawers.
KFG
. . .but I don't yet actually have the degree. . .
.
.and have solved a lot of problems that had otherwise stumped the IT staff.
.
This simply puts you on track to being the perfect liberal arts major.
You can live off the government basically indefinitely if you go to school.
Have you read Roger Zelazny's Doorways in the Sand? (although in this case he was living off of a trust fund. I know a guy who actually did this, and with the same conclusion as in the novel. The college eventually just gave him a "general studies" degree and graduated him against his will)
I also work for the school, a community college (and for peanuts). .
Well, at least they feed you, eh?
. .
This sounds suspiciously like being usful. You'll have to work on that.
These are all sure signs that I need to own and operate my own business. .
Think more along the lines of mind your own business, be creative and you'll come out ok, so long as your goal is to have a decent life by your own standards, rather than "get rich" (although even that's been known to happen to people mucking through).
I have a problem with authority.
I have no particular problem with authority, since I rarely even recognize any. This does, however, often seem to give them a problem with me.
Even this is usually no problem for me, per se, since I don't make the mistake of ignoring the fact that some people, for whatever reason, have been invested with some sort of "authority" and I take that into account and simply stay out of their way.
The problem is that authority likes to expand itself beyond the authority that it has been invested with. That's when things can get messy. The rules you can learn to live with or around. Rules being made up as they go along are tricky bastards.
Tristan Jones refered to a class of people who do this as "Jetty Watchers." A jetty is built for boats to dock on. A man is assigned authority over the jetty, who then uses his authority to deny any boat the right to dock.
You might want to read some Tristan Jones. A Welsh ex-merchant marine who ended up spending much of his life cruising in small sailboats, in large part because it was only way for a man of his temperment to fit into the world.
KFG
Meaning is a funny thing, and things do not always mean what they mean.
KFG
The whole point of Liberal Arts education is to produce human beings incapable of doing something worthwhile, thus successfully eliminating them from the work pool. . .
Hey, all I can say is that I'm doing my part to hold up my end of the deal.
KFG
. . .or in such a way as to give comments under said story the grounds to mock the incompetent discernment exercised by a mod in posting the story.
But, don't we, like, have those grounds for every story?
KFG
or Ingland, or one of another of the variants.
It was also a common surname long before there was ever a country named England, or Angland, meaning, basically, "The Angle."
KFG
Like:
Ok, so what you're telling us that this story is a dupe of a dupe of a dupe?
KFG
Named after its country of origin 'England'. . .
Actually, the country is named after the language. Go figure.
KFG
Those are learners permits, not licenses. They do not allow the kid to drive alone, but only under the direct supervision of a licensed driver.
I specified "drive alone," which requires a license.
At least one state that I'm aware of doesn't (or at least didn't, the last time I checked) even require a learner's permit, and any person at least 16 years of age can operate a motor vehicle under the direct supervision of any licensed driver. No parental consent required.
KFG
. . .as well as the trick of introducing deliberate mistakes into the work as a watermark.
KFG
Anyhow, that seems to make sense to me. . .
That's because it's both obvious and makes sense.
I'm a total dumbass, though, so feel free to point and laugh.
That, too, is both obvious and makes sense. Consider it done.
KFG
Can you spot it and correct me?
Yes, but I'll be damned if I'm able to do it for mysellf.
KFG
No, these kids are only allowed to get their driver's license in the first place with the consent of the parents.
Once given by the state, the kids are free to use it as they will, "parental control" be damned, and the parents cannot "revoke" their consent.
If they wish to drive dad's car, that invokes the "with their consent" clause. The kid may well have to consent to something to obtain the car.
KFG
Unless you're a complete idiot, you should be able to figure out taht the side iwth the bumps goes up.
Have you actually tried this?
I'll extend the experiment, and my work with the blind and my own native curiosity about things has led to me try it myself:
Tonight, turn out all the lights in the house, now put a good blindfold, and leave it on for half an hour while you try to go about your normal business.
It's an, ummmmmmmmm, eye opener.
KFG
Dealing well with blindness requires a certain amount of discipline (I'm not blind, but I have done volunteer reading (finding engineers/scientists who can read engineering/science texts to blind engineers/scientists seems to be a particular problem) and other services for them).
You can just toss a CD on a table or something and find it. A blind person may not be able to do so, so the blind have places for things, and actually put those things in those places so as to always know where to look for them. Otherwise anything simply put down may be effectively "lost."
A flash card in it's place is no harder to find and handle than a CD.
The problem is the handling, not because of the size, but because of the way blind people have to use their fingers as their eyes, to do things like get the CD into the slot/tray, which can (and does) easily result in scratched CDs.
You can fumble around for the flash slot a bit without worrying about losing your data.
KFG
Ahhhhhhh, lighten up. It's a silly dupe, of a silly story, about a silly sport, played on a silly machine by silly people.
It's a perfect opportunity to damn the karma and be silly.
Well, more silly than usual, of course.
KFG
and getting to really whack at a Segway with a mallet is appealing, I really don't think it would hold my interest long enough to consider it as a sport.
KFG
Well, it's an interesting idea, at least. :)
KFG
The trademark protection on the term "Webster's" in connection to dictionaries expired LONG ago.
.
.the actual list of words and their definitions aren't.
Trademarks don't expire. Ever. They may become unenforcable.
What currently exists is the ability of ANY publisher to take the term "Webster's", and combine it with their own name, or another term, and THAT term is a trademark, and enjoys trademark protection.
Of course. I said nothing contrary to this.
As to the contents, you'll find that only the unique parts in your "copyrighted" dictionary are covered by copyright. .
Again, of course, but of course, the issue is left to the courts to decide what is and is not your unique contribution.
. .
Work;
1. Technically defined as F=wd, but in practice is defined as
2. Something to avoided.
"Work" and "F=wd" I cannot claim copyright protection on. The whole I can.
You'll find that the definitions are often a unique contribution. Read Dr. Johnson's, it's a hoot. Maybe the funniest serious dictionary ever.
That's why most dictionaries include "extra material" - so that they can actually put a copyright notice in the book.
Publishers of almost all public domain works employ this trick, as well as the trick of introducing deliberate mistakes into the work as a watermark.
KFG
Next, Coca-Cola will sue Pepsi Cola over the use of the word Cola.
They can't. They already did, and settled. Previous to that suit Coca-Cola made dozens of competing products either change their name or put them out of business.
KFG