You may need to do some mknod magic if you want to use some of the newer drivers/interfaces, or you could just switch over to devfs.
That's about all I can think of at the moment; I may well be forgetting something, but it's late. Also keep in mind that I shun RedHat, so I don't really have any distro-specific knowledge for you.
There is no Constitutional "separation of Church and State". This term is taken from a letter Jefferson wrote to a Pastor in Connecticut assuring him that the State would not interfere with nor attempt to control the expression of religion. Exactly the opposite of how it's taken today.
The same Jefferson who wrote this? "The Christian god can easily be pictured as virtually the same god as the many ancient gods of past civilizations. The Christian god is a three headed monster; cruel, vengeful and capricious. If one wishes to know more of this raging, three headed beast-like god, one only needs to look at the caliber of people who say they serve him. They are always of two classes: fools and hypocrites."
The founding fathers were deeply religious, and intended this as a Christian nation. Certainly they never intended this to be an atheistic or nontheistic nation.
"And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerve in the brain of Jupiter. But may we hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away with this artificial scaffolding, and restore to us the primitive and genuine doctrines of this most venerated reformer of human errors."
[Thomas Jefferson, Letter to John Adams, April 11, 1823]
I agree with Martin Colloms. I cannot believe the gall of the record labels to (apparently surreptitiously) deliberately introduce errors and data corruption into music CDs that customers are expected (and "legally required") to purchase with their hard-earned cash.
A question I have is, what if the CD gets scratched? If the error correction is already strained by having to interpolate between their deliberately induced data corruption, will audible distortion occur sooner when the medium is actually damaged? And since you now have no way to make a backup copy.....
Now, say you need to use the government sanctioned books to learn the highway code - you can't use your dad's copy, cos he's not allowed to lend it out. Or you need to look something up in a text book at university, but your friend isn't allowed to lend you his copy and (whoops) you have no money. Put yourself in this situation. You know it's illegal to read your friend's copy... but you need to, to pass your course.
The fact that Windows has scripting is not a problem. Gnus, an Emacs mail/news client, will automatically execute scripts for you if it receives an attachment of the MIME type application/emacs-lisp. These scripts have full access to the entire elisp environment.
The key difference is that Gnus will display the code for the script and ask the user: "do you want to execute this script?". You don't see any Gnus mail virii, do you?
Perhaps you have buggy video drivers? Mozilla might implement scrolling in a slightly different way than other programs and therefore is the only program to trigger this issue for you. Just a thought; if you have a spare video card around it might be worth checking out...
I imagine that CmdrTaco's professional view of the situation is that Gracenote is soulless, a view I happen to agree with in my professional capacity. In fact, my objective professional view is that Gracenote is a vile festering sore upon the world, a horrendous beast that rapes the enthusiasm of volunteers and steals gifts from under the Christmas tree. My assessment is that Gracenote should die very quickly, and preferably in the messiest way possible, with lawsuits and front-page humiliation.
I live in San Francisco, and when wandering about the city last week these icons were still rather boldly painted onto the sidewalks. Guess they don't wash off so well, eh?:-P
Interesting. What do you do, who do you work for, and are they hiring?
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Well, I'd like to thank all of you who replied with comments and/or advice. Even streetlawyer; he had 1 or 2 sentences of thought-provoking value.
I really liked the ideas about making the managers manage (whiteboards and all) and was actually planning to implement such a scheme (well, I was going to make a little HTTP app to do it, but whatever:). I had also decided that it wasn't worth scrounging for respect, and had started checking out other opportunities.
We were pretty much all laid off yesterday. There is some irony in this.
Actually, I paid for a membership. Come on, it's only $2 for a year-long membership; not a big deal. JokeWallpaper and Digital Blasphemy are the only sites I have paid memberships to, and I highly recommend them both.
And incidentally, once you're inside the pay site, the navigation is the same as always. There are a few ads at the sides, but that's the only difference.
If you're at a University that's paying online fees, you can read journal articles that they link to from University IP's as well.
Naw, I got my GED after my junior year of high school. Now I'm just the average working stiff.:-P
I thought about college, but after high school, and with what I've heard about how colleges treat undergrads (required to live on the dorms with crappy Internet access, kicked out if you post Bad Things, no privacy, disinterested professors and dumb students), I have no desire to pay ridiculous amounts of money for college when I'd rather be learning.
It annoys me that it seems to be impossible to do anything between having an extremely casual interest in something and making it your whole career. You can't just go take classes that interest you, because they have prerequisites, and general education requirements, and all sorts of hassle. If I wanted to actually do anything related to genetics, for example, I'd have to spend at least 4 years in school studying it, and then get a low-level job at some place, and then decide that I'm not that interested in it after all, and what then?
(As an aside, why is it that the simplest things are always overlooked by beginner's resources?
Why, for example, don't they introduce all the basic terminology and notation for a topic as soon as the topic appears? I hate having to refer to a portion of the thing I'm working on as "that thingy over there", especially if I'm asking for help. I've seen this in computer science, physics, chemistry, and biology books. They don't even have a "notation" section in the back, or if they do, it's next to useless. (And this problem may be more limited to high school, but when I would ask the teachers, they would actually tell me "don't worry about that". Or they wouldn't know.))
If you know of any entry-level resources for learning various sciences, I'd be most interested. I'll be sure to check out those sites if I'm ever at a computer with Flash, and I may play around with making a Punnetizer Deluxe or something:)
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I worked at Sun for ~1yr, and all I have to say is, "hahahahahahahaha*sob*".
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You will need the latest version of modutils.
You may need to do some mknod magic if you want to use some of the newer drivers/interfaces, or you could just switch over to devfs.
That's about all I can think of at the moment; I may well be forgetting something, but it's late. Also keep in mind that I shun RedHat, so I don't really have any distro-specific knowledge for you.
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The same Jefferson who wrote this? "The Christian god can easily be pictured as virtually the same god as the many ancient gods of past civilizations. The Christian god is a three headed monster; cruel, vengeful and capricious. If one wishes to know more of this raging, three headed beast-like god, one only needs to look at the caliber of people who say they serve him. They are always of two classes: fools and hypocrites."
"And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerve in the brain of Jupiter. But may we hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away with this artificial scaffolding, and restore to us the primitive and genuine doctrines of this most venerated reformer of human errors." [Thomas Jefferson, Letter to John Adams, April 11, 1823]
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A question I have is, what if the CD gets scratched? If the error correction is already strained by having to interpolate between their deliberately induced data corruption, will audible distortion occur sooner when the medium is actually damaged? And since you now have no way to make a backup copy.....
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Jefferson did that.
Anyway, there are a few modern translations which have (among others) the goal of avoiding copyright difficulties: the World English Bible (WEB) (which I prefer) and the New English Translation (NET), for example.
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The key difference is that Gnus will display the code for the script and ask the user: "do you want to execute this script?". You don't see any Gnus mail virii, do you?
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Whether this is a bad thing or not is open to debate.
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I really liked the ideas about making the managers manage (whiteboards and all) and was actually planning to implement such a scheme (well, I was going to make a little HTTP app to do it, but whatever :). I had also decided that it wasn't worth scrounging for respect, and had started checking out other opportunities.
We were pretty much all laid off yesterday. There is some irony in this.
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I like BASIC.
Not true! I said its OO system was a toy!
Probably true.
Hey! Don't insult my BASIC skills!
As for Java, I've been using it since pre-1.0. Make of that what you will.
High-level abstraction of program structure and control flow.
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And incidentally, once you're inside the pay site, the navigation is the same as always. There are a few ads at the sides, but that's the only difference.
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Naw, I got my GED after my junior year of high school. Now I'm just the average working stiff. :-P
I thought about college, but after high school, and with what I've heard about how colleges treat undergrads (required to live on the dorms with crappy Internet access, kicked out if you post Bad Things, no privacy, disinterested professors and dumb students), I have no desire to pay ridiculous amounts of money for college when I'd rather be learning.
It annoys me that it seems to be impossible to do anything between having an extremely casual interest in something and making it your whole career. You can't just go take classes that interest you, because they have prerequisites, and general education requirements, and all sorts of hassle. If I wanted to actually do anything related to genetics, for example, I'd have to spend at least 4 years in school studying it, and then get a low-level job at some place, and then decide that I'm not that interested in it after all, and what then?
(As an aside, why is it that the simplest things are always overlooked by beginner's resources? Why, for example, don't they introduce all the basic terminology and notation for a topic as soon as the topic appears? I hate having to refer to a portion of the thing I'm working on as "that thingy over there", especially if I'm asking for help. I've seen this in computer science, physics, chemistry, and biology books. They don't even have a "notation" section in the back, or if they do, it's next to useless. (And this problem may be more limited to high school, but when I would ask the teachers, they would actually tell me "don't worry about that". Or they wouldn't know.))
If you know of any entry-level resources for learning various sciences, I'd be most interested. I'll be sure to check out those sites if I'm ever at a computer with Flash, and I may play around with making a Punnetizer Deluxe or something :)
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