Can't help but notice that anytime Karateka's spar (on the rare occasions they do) all the katas go out the window and it devolves into some weird kickboxing match.
... I didn't have a computer at the time (1982-ish) so I read the BASIC code and tried to figure out how the program worked, what the statements did, and how the program managed to put up the animation of a burning cigarette (yes, leave it to a teenage boy to be curious about smoking, among other things).
I'd say, find something that's likely to spark his interest and get him started with interpretive language. Instant gratification is important in early stages. I'd get him to try these:
Bash scripting, quick and dirty, use with sed / awk to get going quickly with text-based problems (ciphers, puzzles, etc.)
Logo for quick romp around with the turtle... and recursion of course
BASIC for a little bit more control
Avoid the nitty-gritty details in the beginning. A lot of tools and practices today require a whole bunch of magic incantations at the beginning before you get to do anything fun at all...
comes to mind. THX was fiddling around with radioactive pellet when he was targeted for "mind block" for some offense or other, this made him drop the radioactive pellet and nearly caused an explosion that would kill nearby workers.
I can see how there would be no such problem activating such a "kill switch" on a jumbo jet carrying 130+ passengers over urban area, no sir... no problem at all.
I served on a jury once before and the selection process was anything but "select the compliant ones". There was no way to evaluate how compliant one can be, although it was evident that all parties were looking for common traits. The trial involved a gentleman and a minor, and the selection of the jury made it clear that they were looking for parents, possibly with children in the same age group, so that they would better identify with the issues at trial.
I was most impressed by the way the judge and lawyers went through the selection process and impressing upon us the basic points, and explaining the meaning of various words and phrases as thoroughly as they can, trying to dispel the myths the potential jurors may have seen on television, etc. They must have done this a thousand time and they still take the care and time to treat each selection with the attention it deserves.
I don't think that my experience was unique to that courtroom. It's much more likely that this is how it generally works, and that what you see on television, as is the case for most things, do not reflect reality.
As examples of where that "stockholder" mentality shows up:
"man syseventadm", -v vendor The string specifying the vendor defining the event. Events defined by third-party software should use the company's stock symbol. Sun-defined events use SUNW.
"man pkginfo", PKG* Abbreviation for the package being installed. All characters in the abbreviation must be alphanumeric and the first may not be numeric. The abbreviation is limited to a maximum length of 32 characters. install, new, and all are reserved abbreviations. It is customary to make the first four letters unique to your company, such as the company's stock symbol.
I hope Sony has the foresight to make it easy to stream video to this thing via the wireless interface. This would make a KICK-ASS in-vehicle monitor for watching movies. No need to modify the backrest or use cumbersome headrest mount...
That's what really matters. If/when drives with CPRM or similar mechanisms are released, don't buy them, and advise your friends and associates against buying them as well. They shouldn't last long in the kind of market where consumers are more informed about their choices.
(as well as yggdrasil, slackware, and redhat) I'd like to offer the following to SuSE:
First of all, my gripe was the sudden increase in the cost of distribution. Where once I paid $30 to get X amount of software, I was expected to pay $80 for the same set of software for the privilege of upgrade. Why do I feel I'm getting screwed? The cost of the distribution would at least be understable if the users only purchase one version every year or two, like Windows users would do. However, since many (most?) Linux users update their distribution much more frequently, the higher price tag of the newer SuSE distributions make it more expensive to run Linux!
Secondly, I was getting rather fed up with the way SuSE writes its RPM spec files. Up to version 6.4 (I can't speak for later version -- I jumped ship, remember?), they have always relied upon in-place installation. That is, they install all binaries and config files in-place on to the machine which compiled the packages. Well, this is bad for two reasons: I might not wish to use the package I just compiled on this very same machine, and in the event that I want to use the package well the new config files already overwrote my existing config files!
All I can say is that after I've made the switch to Debian a few months ago, life has been easier for me.
but too bad they made it difficult to find out about configurations and pricing. Why couldn't they have made the pricing information available on their website and print advertisements? I was in the market for some 1U/2U servers last month and I really would prefer *not* to have to call some salesdroids to get quotations. You just know that as soon as you're in a salesdroid's database you'd never get them to leave you alone. I wonder how much this drove away potential sales for them.
I know it turned me away...
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Can't help but notice that anytime Karateka's spar (on the rare occasions they do) all the katas go out the window and it devolves into some weird kickboxing match.
Might as well take up Kyukushin or Sanshou ...
Please ... no LARPing ... being geeky is bad enough without throwing in LARPing "martial" arts.
... I didn't have a computer at the time (1982-ish) so I read the BASIC code and tried to figure out how the program worked, what the statements did, and how the program managed to put up the animation of a burning cigarette (yes, leave it to a teenage boy to be curious about smoking, among other things).
I'd say, find something that's likely to spark his interest and get him started with interpretive language. Instant gratification is important in early stages. I'd get him to try these:
Bash scripting, quick and dirty, use with sed / awk to get going quickly with text-based problems (ciphers, puzzles, etc.)
Logo for quick romp around with the turtle ... and recursion of course
BASIC for a little bit more control
Avoid the nitty-gritty details in the beginning. A lot of tools and practices today require a whole bunch of magic incantations at the beginning before you get to do anything fun at all ...
Of course you can use consolas under Linux. You can either set your terminal program to use consolas, or tell gvim to use it.
For .gvimrc:
set guifont=Consolas\ 11
comes to mind. THX was fiddling around with radioactive pellet when he was targeted for "mind block" for some offense or other, this made him drop the radioactive pellet and nearly caused an explosion that would kill nearby workers.
... no problem at all.
I can see how there would be no such problem activating such a "kill switch" on a jumbo jet carrying 130+ passengers over urban area, no sir
Where do Jeeps fit in your world view?
I don't know, but I sure do. Gimme a light off-road electric vehicle to replace my porky 4800 pound Liberty and I'll be happy.
Go cry to somebody who cares, will you? Many people will be happy to earn $100k for a few month's work.
The first part of the code reads:
"frank shoemaker would call this noise" (after fixing one line continuation)
"employee number base sixteen" (removing one sequence of ||| || | ||)
The substitution cipher is:
"abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz " ->"mnlp.o.ki.wuy.xstrdec.hfab "
Since the "S" could be one of the two missing hex digits from the Rosetta Stone in the middle: 1, or A, then the employee number is either
1FC = 508
or
AFC = 2812
Shoot, I meant to say "mark = number of 1 bits" and "space = 0"
If I take the 4th stanza as mark/space with the mark=1 and space=2 I get
AB5AB5AD6B56B5AD56B56AB56AD6AB5AB55AD5AAD5555AD6AD5AD56B5AD56AB56AB5\
AB56AB55AAD56AB55AB56AB55AD5AAD6DAAD6AB5AB55AAD5AB55AD6AB55AB56AB56A\
B56AB5AB55AD5AD6A
Does that resemble anything to anyone?
http://www.schlaupelz.de/SZ42/SZ42_software.html
I'd start to worry when the population reaches approximately 9 billion people ... all Borg!
I served on a jury once before and the selection process was anything but "select the compliant ones". There was no way to evaluate how compliant one can be, although it was evident that all parties were looking for common traits. The trial involved a gentleman and a minor, and the selection of the jury made it clear that they were looking for parents, possibly with children in the same age group, so that they would better identify with the issues at trial.
I was most impressed by the way the judge and lawyers went through the selection process and impressing upon us the basic points, and explaining the meaning of various words and phrases as thoroughly as they can, trying to dispel the myths the potential jurors may have seen on television, etc. They must have done this a thousand time and they still take the care and time to treat each selection with the attention it deserves.
I don't think that my experience was unique to that courtroom. It's much more likely that this is how it generally works, and that what you see on television, as is the case for most things, do not reflect reality.
As examples of where that "stockholder" mentality shows up:
"man syseventadm", -v vendor
The string specifying the vendor defining the event. Events defined by third-party software should use the company's stock symbol. Sun-defined events use SUNW.
"man pkginfo",
PKG* Abbreviation for the package being installed. All characters in the abbreviation must be alphanumeric and the first may not be numeric. The abbreviation is limited to a maximum length of 32 characters. install, new, and all are reserved abbreviations. It is customary to make the first four letters unique to your company, such as the company's stock symbol.
And your account keeps getting debited, and debited, and debited, and debited .... thanks to bluetooth sniping.
16:9 aspect ratio, MPEG4 codec, Wifi ...
...
I hope Sony has the foresight to make it easy to
stream video to this thing via the wireless interface. This would make a KICK-ASS in-vehicle monitor for watching movies. No need to modify the backrest or use cumbersome headrest mount
Bionic Bunny!
Remember the iLoo concept from Microsoft UK? This is THE perfect input device. :-)
What better place to get air support for your ground troops than:
Interactive Toy Concepts
This company has everything from blimps to B2 bomber, and more.
That's what really matters. If/when drives with CPRM or similar mechanisms are released, don't buy them, and advise your friends and associates against buying them as well. They shouldn't last long in the kind of market where consumers are more informed about their choices.
Try SW34T SH0P ... works for me
First of all, my gripe was the sudden increase in the cost of distribution. Where once I paid $30 to get X amount of software, I was expected to pay $80 for the same set of software for the privilege of upgrade. Why do I feel I'm getting screwed? The cost of the distribution would at least be understable if the users only purchase one version every year or two, like Windows users would do. However, since many (most?) Linux users update their distribution much more frequently, the higher price tag of the newer SuSE distributions make it more expensive to run Linux!
Secondly, I was getting rather fed up with the way SuSE writes its RPM spec files. Up to version 6.4 (I can't speak for later version -- I jumped ship, remember?), they have always relied upon in-place installation. That is, they install all binaries and config files in-place on to the machine which compiled the packages. Well, this is bad for two reasons: I might not wish to use the package I just compiled on this very same machine, and in the event that I want to use the package well the new config files already overwrote my existing config files!
All I can say is that after I've made the switch to Debian a few months ago, life has been easier for me.
but too bad they made it difficult to find out about configurations and pricing. Why couldn't they have made the pricing information available on their website and print advertisements? I was in the market for some 1U/2U servers last month and I really would prefer *not* to have to call some salesdroids to get quotations. You just know that as soon as you're in a salesdroid's database you'd never get them to leave you alone. I wonder how much this drove away potential sales for them. I know it turned me away...
so which p*rson at Yahoo can I p*tition to r*mov* all instanc*s of the off*nding vow*l from th*ir w*bsit*?