I believe the proper term is "jawas." You know, sand people.
/Eric Cartman
In all honesty, I've never heard anyone in the US use the term "sand niggers." We're just not a hateful people. Of course, my 90 year old grandmother thinks we are at war with the "ay-rabs," but she doesn't hate anyone, she just can't understand the world political state these days.
Customizing handhelds? You have a fundamental misunderstading of the engineering involved. A well-designed PDA has NO EMPTY SPACE in it. Customizability would require empty space if you don't want all the features. That's very bad.
Linux systems play games better than windows, there just aren't as many of them. Try playing America's Army, Unreal 2k4, or WolfET on both windows and linux (on the same hardware) and you will see that performance under the 2.6 kernel kicks the shit out of the Win2k kernel. Graphics and gameplay is so much smoother... I have no reason to reboot into windows now.
I don't think slashdotters even know what funny is anymore. They just think whatever got modded as +5 Funny must be funny. This joke may have been worth a chuckle the first time, but timing is important in humor, and it isn't repeatable. But people still think it should be funny, because it was modded as funny every time in the past.
We would still have to worry about global warming. While CO2 likely contributes to it, it would be happening even if no humans existed. Global warming, which changes the enviornment and kills many things, is a natural process. Damn dirty hippies think that humanity left the world alone, it would remain in a constant state of utopia. Boy are they clueless.
SYNOPSIS ed [ - ] [ -x ] [ name ] DESCRIPTION Ed is the standard text editor. ---
Computer Scientists love ed, not just because it comes first alphabetically, but because it's the standard. Everyone else loves ed because it's ED!
"Ed is the standard text editor."
And ed doesn't waste space on my Timex Sinclair. Just look:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 24 Oct 29 1929/bin/ed -rwxr-xr-t 4 root 1310720 Jan 1 1970/usr/ucb/vi -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 5.89824e37 Oct 22 1990/usr/bin/emacs
Of course, on the system *I* administrate, vi is symlinked to ed. Emacs has been replaced by a shell script which 1) Generates a syslog message at level LOG_EMERG; 2) reduces the user's disk quota by 100K; and 3) RUNS ED!!!!!!
"Ed is the standard text editor."
Let's look at a typical novice's session with the mighty ed:
golem$ ed
? ? !!FIX THE LAMENESS FILTER!!! eat flaming death ^C ? !!FIX THE LAMENESS FILTER!!! ^D ? !!FIX THE LAMENESS FILTER!!!
--- Note the consistent user interface and error reportage. Ed is generous enough to flag errors, yet prudent enough not to overwhelm the novice with verbosity.
"Ed is the standard text editor."
Ed, the greatest WYGIWYG editor of all.
ED IS THE TRUE PATH TO NIRVANA! ED HAS BEEN THE CHOICE OF EDUCATED AND IGNORANT ALIKE FOR CENTURIES! ED WILL NOT CORRUPT YOUR PRECIOUS BODILY FLUIDS!! ED IS THE STANDARD TEXT EDITOR! ED MAKES THE SUN SHINE AND THE BIRDS SING AND THE GRASS GREEN!!
When I use an editor, I don't want eight extra KILOBYTES of worthless help screens and cursor positioning code! I just want an EDitor!! Not a "viitor". Not a "emacsitor". Those aren't even WORDS!!!! ED! ED! ED IS THE STANDARD!!!
TEXT EDITOR.
When IBM, in its ever-present omnipotence, needed to base their "edlin" on a UNIX standard, did they mimic vi? No. Emacs? Surely you jest. They chose the most karmic editor of all. The standard.
Ed is for those who can *remember* what they are working on. If you are an idiot, you should use Emacs. If you are an Emacs, you should not be vi. If you use ED, you are on THE PATH TO REDEMPTION. THE SO-CALLED "VISUAL" EDITORS HAVE BEEN PLACED HERE BY ED TO TEMPT THE FAITHLESS. DO NOT GIVE IN!!! THE MIGHTY ED HAS SPOKEN!!!
Holy shit! I had to cut out a lot to get around that damn lameness filter. We have moderation for a reason. We shouldn't need lameness filters! Let people post whatever they want and let the moderation sort out the crap! [from http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed.msg.html]
There are actually women who don't do oral? I thought those types died out with my grandparent's generation. I've never met one, anyway (and no lame jokes, I've probably had more than you).
I think some people (maybe most?) join the military because they are poor and have no good career options at home. This man gave up a successful career that paid millions of dollars per year for one that doesn't pay jack. He joined the military soely to help his country. That's why it's newsworthy. Point to other people who would give up multi-million dollar contracts willingly to fight.
I have never worked with a spanish-speaking engineer in the US. Of course, Ohio is a long way fro Cali. But I can assure you, speaking Spanish would be a worthless skill for an engineer here to have. It would be useful for tech support, though, which is even more outsourced than engineering.
Actually, windows does copy linux designs. Consider cmd.exe on Win2k and BASH. Up arrow goes through history, and tab does auto-completion (though you have to flip a bit in the registry for this).
"Right. I mean, campus networks are for educational purposes, not for the mere entertainment of students"
If you are FORCED to live in a dorm, and your ONLY internet access is available through the campus network (due to the school's monopoly), and you are the one paying for this internet connection anyway (it is included with your outragous dorm fees), then you should be able to do whatever you damn well please with your net connection, including entertainment. Computer labs could be used for education only, but the only connection you are allowed to have to your own home is yours and not the school's. Nice troll, though.
What's great about this post, is that a question about how a Virtual Church affects the rules of Highlander was moderated as 5, Interesting. I love you people.
On our team, there is NO corporate sponsorship. All of the mentors are from college, and we work closely with the kids. There are no professional engineers in it. And the kids have learned a LOT about engineering. They help with designs and run the machine shop.... This is not at all what you are talking about. Oh, and at our regional of 30 teams, only 6 went on to nationals. It had nothing to do with paying and everything to do with winning. And we qualified for nationals, and went, with a bot built and designed entirely by students. So I guess things have changed since 1997, and what you have to say no longer applies.
To be offended by simple words is a pathetic human weakness. Haven't we evolved past the need for taboos to keep our societies together? Can't we think and communicate with our brains instead of our emotions? Saying fucktard to my mother is not cool. The fact that she doesn't feel mentally injured due to hearing a particular sound wave pattern makes her cooler than you and your weak-minded mother.
You've made one of the three classic blunders, the most famous of which is "never start and land war in Asia." But only slightly less well-known is this: "Never go against a Sicilian when death is on the line!"
You know, if you play modern games on Linux and Windows, the Linux versions always look and perform much better. Take, for example, Win and Lin versions of America's Army and UT2k4.
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I believe the proper term is "jawas." You know, sand people.
/Eric Cartman
In all honesty, I've never heard anyone in the US use the term "sand niggers." We're just not a hateful people. Of course, my 90 year old grandmother thinks we are at war with the "ay-rabs," but she doesn't hate anyone, she just can't understand the world political state these days.
Perhaps it is because startrek fans make more money on average than the people who watch that other junk?
A moose once bit my sister...
"And it failed too, remember free dialup? Free internet access for looking at ads. Where did they all go? Out of business."
Actually, no, they coverted to $10/month internet and are still going.
Customizing handhelds? You have a fundamental misunderstading of the engineering involved. A well-designed PDA has NO EMPTY SPACE in it. Customizability would require empty space if you don't want all the features. That's very bad.
Linux systems play games better than windows, there just aren't as many of them. Try playing America's Army, Unreal 2k4, or WolfET on both windows and linux (on the same hardware) and you will see that performance under the 2.6 kernel kicks the shit out of the Win2k kernel. Graphics and gameplay is so much smoother... I have no reason to reboot into windows now.
I don't think slashdotters even know what funny is anymore. They just think whatever got modded as +5 Funny must be funny. This joke may have been worth a chuckle the first time, but timing is important in humor, and it isn't repeatable. But people still think it should be funny, because it was modded as funny every time in the past.
We would still have to worry about global warming. While CO2 likely contributes to it, it would be happening even if no humans existed. Global warming, which changes the enviornment and kills many things, is a natural process. Damn dirty hippies think that humanity left the world alone, it would remain in a constant state of utopia. Boy are they clueless.
ED(1) UNIX Programmer's Manual
/bin/ed /usr/ucb/vi /usr/bin/emacs
NAME
ed - text editor
SYNOPSIS
ed [ - ] [ -x ] [ name ]
DESCRIPTION
Ed is the standard text editor.
---
Computer Scientists love ed, not just because it comes first
alphabetically, but because it's the standard. Everyone else loves ed
because it's ED!
"Ed is the standard text editor."
And ed doesn't waste space on my Timex Sinclair. Just look:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 24 Oct 29 1929
-rwxr-xr-t 4 root 1310720 Jan 1 1970
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 5.89824e37 Oct 22 1990
Of course, on the system *I* administrate, vi is symlinked to ed.
Emacs has been replaced by a shell script which 1) Generates a syslog
message at level LOG_EMERG; 2) reduces the user's disk quota by 100K;
and 3) RUNS ED!!!!!!
"Ed is the standard text editor."
Let's look at a typical novice's session with the mighty ed:
golem$ ed
?
? !!FIX THE LAMENESS FILTER!!!
eat flaming death
^C
? !!FIX THE LAMENESS FILTER!!!
^D
? !!FIX THE LAMENESS FILTER!!!
---
Note the consistent user interface and error reportage. Ed is
generous enough to flag errors, yet prudent enough not to overwhelm
the novice with verbosity.
"Ed is the standard text editor."
Ed, the greatest WYGIWYG editor of all.
ED IS THE TRUE PATH TO NIRVANA! ED HAS BEEN THE CHOICE OF EDUCATED
AND IGNORANT ALIKE FOR CENTURIES! ED WILL NOT CORRUPT YOUR PRECIOUS
BODILY FLUIDS!! ED IS THE STANDARD TEXT EDITOR! ED MAKES THE SUN
SHINE AND THE BIRDS SING AND THE GRASS GREEN!!
When I use an editor, I don't want eight extra KILOBYTES of worthless
help screens and cursor positioning code! I just want an EDitor!!
Not a "viitor". Not a "emacsitor". Those aren't even WORDS!!!! ED!
ED! ED IS THE STANDARD!!!
TEXT EDITOR.
When IBM, in its ever-present omnipotence, needed to base their
"edlin" on a UNIX standard, did they mimic vi? No. Emacs? Surely
you jest. They chose the most karmic editor of all. The standard.
Ed is for those who can *remember* what they are working on. If you
are an idiot, you should use Emacs. If you are an Emacs, you should
not be vi. If you use ED, you are on THE PATH TO REDEMPTION. THE
SO-CALLED "VISUAL" EDITORS HAVE BEEN PLACED HERE BY ED TO TEMPT THE
FAITHLESS. DO NOT GIVE IN!!! THE MIGHTY ED HAS SPOKEN!!!
Holy shit! I had to cut out a lot to get around that damn lameness filter. We have moderation for a reason. We shouldn't need lameness filters! Let people post whatever they want and let the moderation sort out the crap!
[from http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed.msg.html]
There are actually women who don't do oral? I thought those types died out with my grandparent's generation. I've never met one, anyway (and no lame jokes, I've probably had more than you).
I think some people (maybe most?) join the military because they are poor and have no good career options at home. This man gave up a successful career that paid millions of dollars per year for one that doesn't pay jack. He joined the military soely to help his country. That's why it's newsworthy. Point to other people who would give up multi-million dollar contracts willingly to fight.
My guess is, the employers you talked to wanted Classics majors because they could a lot less money :-)
Maybe you didn't go to college? At many schools, you are forced to live in the dorms, so getting an appartment is not an option.
I have never worked with a spanish-speaking engineer in the US. Of course, Ohio is a long way fro Cali. But I can assure you, speaking Spanish would be a worthless skill for an engineer here to have. It would be useful for tech support, though, which is even more outsourced than engineering.
Actually, windows does copy linux designs. Consider cmd.exe on Win2k and BASH. Up arrow goes through history, and tab does auto-completion (though you have to flip a bit in the registry for this).
"Right. I mean, campus networks are for educational purposes, not for the mere entertainment of students"
If you are FORCED to live in a dorm, and your ONLY internet access is available through the campus network (due to the school's monopoly), and you are the one paying for this internet connection anyway (it is included with your outragous dorm fees), then you should be able to do whatever you damn well please with your net connection, including entertainment. Computer labs could be used for education only, but the only connection you are allowed to have to your own home is yours and not the school's. Nice troll, though.
What's great about this post, is that a question about how a Virtual Church affects the rules of Highlander was moderated as 5, Interesting. I love you people.
On our team, there is NO corporate sponsorship. All of the mentors are from college, and we work closely with the kids. There are no professional engineers in it. And the kids have learned a LOT about engineering. They help with designs and run the machine shop.... This is not at all what you are talking about. Oh, and at our regional of 30 teams, only 6 went on to nationals. It had nothing to do with paying and everything to do with winning. And we qualified for nationals, and went, with a bot built and designed entirely by students. So I guess things have changed since 1997, and what you have to say no longer applies.
To be offended by simple words is a pathetic human weakness. Haven't we evolved past the need for taboos to keep our societies together? Can't we think and communicate with our brains instead of our emotions? Saying fucktard to my mother is not cool. The fact that she doesn't feel mentally injured due to hearing a particular sound wave pattern makes her cooler than you and your weak-minded mother.
You've made one of the three classic blunders, the most famous of which is "never start and land war in Asia." But only slightly less well-known is this: "Never go against a Sicilian when death is on the line!"
I have no problem saying 'fucktard' to my mother... guess she's just cooler than yours.
Thanks you, fellow slashdotters, for modding this post as informative instead of funny.
You know, if you play modern games on Linux and Windows, the Linux versions always look and perform much better. Take, for example, Win and Lin versions of America's Army and UT2k4.
If Pb is outlawed, only the outlaws will have Pb.
You stole my sig!