I have one domain that has had the same three pages on the website for years. That domain is used for mail and DNS and other services. I recieve purchase offers all the time, and they invariably say "since you're not using it". Everyone seems to forget that the web is not the internet; the web is a part of the internet.
Does this mean that if I register kinkajous.com and use it only for ftp and gopher that the Professional Curling Association's Toronto Kinkajous can take it away because I'm not using it? That's ludicrous.
I have nothing useful to add except that I'd also like to see God Loves, Man Kills. But there isn't enough "action" in it for it to ever make the screen.
Sadly, I didn't properly store it and my copy is now a bit worm-eaten.
Yup. I got my first credit card when I was 16. I even gave my monthly income as less than $100 (allowance) on the application, and the company still thought I was a good credit risk. They were sadly mistaken.
Of course, as a consequence, I didn't get my second credit card for another 10 years.
Outrage is to be expected. The Swedish Chef is a highly controversial figure, what with his well-known views on abortion, animal rights and the designated hitter rule.
Re:"Perl myths" -- what a fucking crock . . .
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it's perfectly possible to write programs in Perl that are absolutely crystal clear
Yeah, that's true: All you have to do is ignore every single common Perl coding idiom and 90% of the features of the language.
No, that's how you make Perl programs clear to C programmers; Perl programmers understand Perl idioms.
There are also plenty of people named Coke. I'm one of them.
If Coca-Cola is coming down on coke.ch, image how rabid they would've been over one of us registering coke.com--which Coca-Cola was in no hurry to get when it first registered cocacola.com and coca-cola.com.
Every how-to type bulletin board has the exact same problem. Newcomers invariably fail to read/search past postings or FAQs, even when there are clearly defined links that say "READ THIS BEFORE YOU POST".
Assuming you meant s/<(\/){0,1}\s*b\s*>/<$1b>/gi so that the tags are properly closed, then <b> becomes . How can I type a b between angle-brackets then?
Nitpicks aside, you're right. Most people have been handling crap like that since Netscape thought up <BLINK>
If I choose to make my binary distribution available only through ftp, I still have to provide mail-order source code? Section 1 states that I may distribute copies in any medium, and 3b itself says "on a medium customarily used for software exchange." Or am I to understand that only actual objects such as CD's, floppies and punch cards qualify as media? In that case, every ftp site with GPL'd software is in violation of the GPL.
What constitutes physical transfer of data is not clear. Apparently downloading is less physical than copying from a CD. Had the wording in 3b been "on a physical medium," then perhaps the snailmail interpretation would be the obvious one.
Perl's fine for programs around 50-100 lines or so, but larger than that and it starts to be come really messy.
If your Perl programs are unreadable after 100 lines, you're doing something very wrong.
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Ender's Shadow, in and of itself, is a good book. However, I can't help but feel it undermines the power of Ender's Game. While I enjoy seeing Bean's influence on many of the events, Card stepped over the line by allowing this mutant Über-child the credit for a couple of Ender's biggest victories. So much of the power of Ender's Game comes from the Ender's actions in the face of despair. If we're then told that either he didn't actually do anything himself or that there was someone ready to take his place, where's the beauty in that?
It could be argued that since Ender knows none of this himself, his actions are no less heroic. Unfortunately, I'm judging a book, not Ender, and so it still bugs me. I welcome future tales of the battle school students, but not without some anxiety. By the time Card's done with the Shadow books, will there be any greatness left in Ender himself?
That's a lovely communist approach to things, but you're deceiving yourself if you think that your local LUG would rather hear your ideas about the tcp stack--no matter how valid--over Alan Cox's.
Anonymous posters choose to remain anonymous and are thereby ceding a certain amount of credibility in the process. Registered posters only need to give up a small amount of their anonymity, an email address, which is available to the/. staff but not regular users.
They're more than happy to run ISDN or a fscking T1 to a site with no Windows machines, so why should DSL be any different? Just give me something to plug into a router and leave me alone.
Every once in a while I'd like to see an American institution reward knowledge instead of forcing everyone to walk through the muck with the lowest common denominator.
As someone mentioned above, StarDivision used functions from glibc 2.0 that weren't meant to be public and are not available with glibc 2.1. It's SO that is/was broken.
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Drake is a songwriter, so we'll chalk that up to poetic license. He's comparing hunger for an apple with an orange tree. Er...or something.
I have one domain that has had the same three pages on the website for years. That domain is used for mail and DNS and other services. I recieve purchase offers all the time, and they invariably say "since you're not using it". Everyone seems to forget that the web is not the internet; the web is a part of the internet.
Does this mean that if I register kinkajous.com and use it only for ftp and gopher that the Professional Curling Association's Toronto Kinkajous can take it away because I'm not using it? That's ludicrous.
IIRC, they were generally described as beams of "force".
Sadly, I didn't properly store it and my copy is now a bit worm-eaten.
Yup. I got my first credit card when I was 16. I even gave my monthly income as less than $100 (allowance) on the application, and the company still thought I was a good credit risk. They were sadly mistaken.
Of course, as a consequence, I didn't get my second credit card for another 10 years.
Outrage is to be expected. The Swedish Chef is a highly controversial figure, what with his well-known views on abortion, animal rights and the designated hitter rule.
Yeah, that's true: All you have to do is ignore every single common Perl coding idiom and 90% of the features of the language.
No, that's how you make Perl programs clear to C programmers; Perl programmers understand Perl idioms.
There are also plenty of people named Coke. I'm one of them.
If Coca-Cola is coming down on coke.ch, image how rabid they would've been over one of us registering coke.com--which Coca-Cola was in no hurry to get when it first registered cocacola.com and coca-cola.com.
It's all Peter Jennings' doing. Now that David Brinkley has retired, Peter can get away with pushing his Canadiocentric viewpoint on the US.
Don't be silly.
Every how-to type bulletin board has the exact same problem. Newcomers invariably fail to read/search past postings or FAQs, even when there are clearly defined links that say "READ THIS BEFORE YOU POST".
The web is just more idiot-friendly than usenet.
Nitpicks aside, you're right. Most people have been handling crap like that since Netscape thought up <BLINK>
I imagine Futurama would have the same impact on preserved heads that SST had on the term "buggers."
Oh, yeah. Everyone in comp.lang.perl loves Matt Wright's work.
Buy an O'Reilly book.
If I choose to make my binary distribution available only through ftp, I still have to provide mail-order source code? Section 1 states that I may distribute copies in any medium, and 3b itself says "on a medium customarily used for software exchange." Or am I to understand that only actual objects such as CD's, floppies and punch cards qualify as media? In that case, every ftp site with GPL'd software is in violation of the GPL.
What constitutes physical transfer of data is not clear. Apparently downloading is less physical than copying from a CD. Had the wording in 3b been "on a physical medium," then perhaps the snailmail interpretation would be the obvious one.
Indeed. Stephenson's stuff is good, but I certainly wouldn't place him above Jeff Noon. Enough plugs already.
Perl's fine for programs around 50-100 lines or so, but larger than that and it starts to be come really messy.
If your Perl programs are unreadable after 100 lines, you're doing something very wrong.
Ender's Shadow, in and of itself, is a good book. However, I can't help but feel it undermines the power of Ender's Game. While I enjoy seeing Bean's influence on many of the events, Card stepped over the line by allowing this mutant Über-child the credit for a couple of Ender's biggest victories. So much of the power of Ender's Game comes from the Ender's actions in the face of despair. If we're then told that either he didn't actually do anything himself or that there was someone ready to take his place, where's the beauty in that?
It could be argued that since Ender knows none of this himself, his actions are no less heroic. Unfortunately, I'm judging a book, not Ender, and so it still bugs me. I welcome future tales of the battle school students, but not without some anxiety. By the time Card's done with the Shadow books, will there be any greatness left in Ender himself?
That's a lovely communist approach to things, but you're deceiving yourself if you think that your local LUG would rather hear your ideas about the tcp stack--no matter how valid--over Alan Cox's.
/. staff but not regular users.
Anonymous posters choose to remain anonymous and are thereby ceding a certain amount of credibility in the process. Registered posters only need to give up a small amount of their anonymity, an email address, which is available to the
Woe is me. How terribly unfair.
Maybe it's trying to do an APM power-down and the BIOS freaks?
"Working on getting Linux support"?
They're more than happy to run ISDN or a fscking T1 to a site with no Windows machines, so why should DSL be any different? Just give me something to plug into a router and leave me alone.
Every once in a while I'd like to see an American institution reward knowledge instead of forcing everyone to walk through the muck with the lowest common denominator.
If you don't upgrade your MP3 player software you won't be able to play legal songs in any format.
So I just have one upgraded player and one non-upgraded player. Now I can play legal and illegal mp3's. Big deal.
As someone mentioned above, StarDivision used functions from glibc 2.0 that weren't meant to be public and are not available with glibc 2.1. It's SO that is/was broken.
Don Jones says "...the last thing I want to do is spread fear, uncertainty and doubt in their minds."
Perhaps he meant to say "the first thing I want to do...." Electronic Data Systems, it seems, was full of uncertainty and doubt on the matter.
They want to be cool like Douglas Coupland.
Er. Or something.
I like any character with floating eyebrows.