1. Why do you believe those are screen captures, rather than, say, exported images?
2. How would the data look different it were displayed with BibTeX?
3. How fast is using BibTeX? (I've never used it). I could create those same charts in Excel '97 from a CSV of input points easily; probably in under a minute.
The odd time I have to go into the city to make nice with suits, I make up my slides on my way in on the train (2 hours) while I think about what I want to say. The slides cover the major topic titles.
Then I get in, fire up the projector, and wing it. The slides are great because they keep me on track, and give them impression that I'm doing a well-prepared presentation.
> Too bad each chinese character requires twice as many bits to send as a character of the Latin alphabet...
It's actually slightly worse than that, because the GSM system uses a 7-bit character set.
But, you forget that each chinese character represents an entire *word*. In English, a word averages five characters, plus a space. So six characters. That means that Chinese SMS messages can contain three times the information than one written in English.
Golly, if your initial claim is so easy to refute, I guess that pretty much throws the rest of your garbage out the window now, doesn't it?
> interesting how that rj-11 phone plug goes right into the ethernet jack. I wonder what happens when the phone rings?
Bad example. RJ-45 was designed so that RJ-11 plugs into it correctly; in fact, some vendors no longer make RJ-11 jacks (BIX) and many places just use RJ-45 DVOs even for POTS phones.
Pair one on the RJ-45 standard is reserved for the telephone. So, you can wire up a phone and an ethernet connection (using pairs 2 and 3) on the same jack. Function is then determined by what device you plug into it.
What if you restore old cars for a hobby, have three parts cars, two with mufflers you don't want, and a guy offers you $50 for one.
Should you:
a) recycle it b) pay a $300 license to the city so you can sell it for $50, or c) Just give it to him
Those are the options allowable by the city.
Now, you might say, "But it's better for society if we give away our old stuff anyhow". However, then I would point out to you, that you can't do that legally, either. Because if he EVER gave you anything back -- even a beer -- it could be considered barter, which is a form of income, which requires a business license.
Okay, so how about recycling?
Not so fast, the scrap metal place will give you 5 or 10 bucks for it. That's income, too, so you need to pay for a business license.
So, by defending the city's rules here, then, you believe that it is reasonable for a car-restoring hobbyist to either pay to give away his spare parts to fellow hobbyists, or be forced to save them all in his yard until they rot.
Well, I guess you could send perfectly good stuff to the landfill. That's still legal, isn't it? Viva America!
> Saying you're the fastest at running JavaScript is like celebrating that you came in 1st place in the Special Olympics.
No, it's more like saying you came in first in one event in a triathlon.
Doesn't mean you won, doesn't even mean you finished mid-pack. But it does mean you're really good at at least one thing, meaning maybe you can concentrate a bit more on the others for the next event.
Christopher Blizzard is an Open Source Evangelist working for the Mozilla Corporation and a long-time contributor to Open Source projects, notably with Mozilla, Red Hat, and One Laptop Per Child.
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> Too bad she will still be unimpressed by the hamster-sized organ between your legs.
Wikipedia: the largest is the common hamster (Cricetus cricetus), measuring up to 34 cm (about 13.5 inches) long, not including a short tail
Well, if she is unimpressed by a 13.5-inch penis, then NOTHING will impress her. Time for a Real Doll, I guess.
You know, I'm 99.9999% sure that Y2K-ready patches were on sunfreeware.com as part of the global patch clusters by mid-1999 at the latest. At least for 2.5.1.
> But from there to come and say it's user friendly because you > dont have to use the command line is ridiculous.
I wholeheartedly agree. I also enjoy the fact that the command-line doesn't change willy-nilly from one version to next as GUIs are wont to. For example, ODS^H^H^HSDS^H^H^HSVM administration is still done best with the meta* commands, as has been the case since.... 2.4? Whereas the GUI is totally and completely different. And for no good reason, IMHO.
> And no, I've never had a MAC just to tell that I'm not an apple fanboy.
They're not bad, actually. As long as you want a UNIX box, you can treat it just like one and do all your work from the command line. The hardware/software integration is great, and you go a coherent, polished product. If you're an experienced UNIX guy and don't want to piss around with bullshit -- you should try one. They make a great bedroom workstation.
> if you have an exploit like the PDF exploit and are able to run arbitrary code, > then you can su and the root password is known
Why the hell would you run a copy of su if you had an exploit which can run arbitrary code?
In case you don't understand what su is, it's a program that runs suid root (meaning the program itself has root privileges). It then reads the password file, checks to see if what you typed matches, and if it does, it executes a program (usually a shell) with the user id you've requested.
So, if you can put arbitrary code on the box, asking yourself for a password seems kind of moronic.
MIDI daughterboard -- i.e. the WaveBlaster -- was a good way to play.
That said, I thought the music sounded GREAT the way I played -- with a Yamaha Generai-MIDI capable keyboard right behind my chair. The patches killed the WaveBlaster (or the GUS), and the music behind (in stereo) and killing in front really made for an immersive experience.
The drum parts kicked ass. The guitar solos ROCKED. Whoever wrote that sound track had some chops!
I actually ask for an Apple on my desk because I don't want to piss around with my desktop; I just want to do real work. The Apple is awesome. You just get a great big screen with a CD-ROM hole in the side, a mouse and a keyboard. I actually have mine rigged up to talk to a Sun Type 5C mouse and keyboard so I get a proper layout and a proper key throw. And a middle mouse button.
It's UNIX-with-a-TM, so I can navigate the user interface easily enough (hint: drag terminal from the applications folder to that thing at the bottom of the desktop, then use terminal for everything).
I'm old enough now that I don't want to have to worry about installing device drivers, cleaning viruses, or any of that other bullshit that always seems to accompany a PC. And I don't want anything with CDE on my desktop, it really sucks.
Give me a browser and an ssh client and I can do my job.
Although, I must admit, I like Bill's highlight-with-the-mouse algorithm better. I often miss the first letter on OS/X, I think Steve must want you to pick the first N pixels whereas Bill will let you highlight any part of a character to select it.
> I still do not know any personal friends who actually "program" on an Apple > computer or write apps for it.
Interestingly enough, since I've had an Apple on my desk, I've started to. Since it's UNIX-with-a-TM and ships with GCC, a lot my code will build out-of-the-box on it, and I'm not competing for compile or NFS resources. Better version control than the old days (I love mercurial) makes this a lot easier. And I think OS/X is the only UNIX that Valgrind runs on (although in the past I have simply sshd to a linux box on the local LAN to use Valgrind).
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1. Why do you believe those are screen captures, rather than, say, exported images?
2. How would the data look different it were displayed with BibTeX?
3. How fast is using BibTeX? (I've never used it). I could create those same charts in Excel '97 from a CSV of input points easily; probably in under a minute.
I heard a rumour that BOTH people who speak Klingon are going!
> Want a nightmare? Check out the membrane switches under the motorcycle toy on Harley Davidson.
That was on purpose. It pays homage to the years AMF owned Harley.
Stern originally wanted to make them leak oil too, but their lawyers vetoed the idea since patrons might hurt themselves walking on greasy floors.
Why in God's name would anybody want to do that?
The odd time I have to go into the city to make nice with suits, I make up my slides on my way in on the train (2 hours) while I think about what I want to say. The slides cover the major topic titles.
Then I get in, fire up the projector, and wing it. The slides are great because they keep me on track, and give them impression that I'm doing a well-prepared presentation.
Yes. Before I had a CD burner or a DVD player, I did that regularly. My old Kodak 2 megapixel camera could actually do a slideshow.
> Too bad each chinese character requires twice as many bits to send as a character of the Latin alphabet...
It's actually slightly worse than that, because the GSM system uses a 7-bit character set.
But, you forget that each chinese character represents an entire *word*. In English, a word averages five characters, plus a space. So six characters. That means that Chinese SMS messages can contain three times the information than one written in English.
Golly, if your initial claim is so easy to refute, I guess that pretty much throws the rest of your garbage out the window now, doesn't it?
>> remember ps/2 mouse/keyboard ports?
> Well they didn't blow up, they just didn't tend to work
That wasn't always true. As a PC tech in the early 90s, I replaced many keyboard fuses which were blown because people plugged mouses into them.
One guy was such a tool that I installed an external fuse holder on his chassis so that he could install a fresh bus fuse every time he did that.
> interesting how that rj-11 phone plug goes right into the ethernet jack. I wonder what happens when the phone rings?
Bad example. RJ-45 was designed so that RJ-11 plugs into it correctly; in fact, some vendors no longer make RJ-11 jacks (BIX) and many places just use RJ-45 DVOs even for POTS phones.
Pair one on the RJ-45 standard is reserved for the telephone. So, you can wire up a phone and an ethernet connection (using pairs 2 and 3) on the same jack. Function is then determined by what device you plug into it.
> she's not selling personal property.
> She's selling advertising space.
Is there a definition of what the city considers property?
What if a guy comes over and I fix his muffler for him, and charge him enough money to cover the cost of my welding sticks?
What if you restore old cars for a hobby, have three parts cars, two with mufflers you don't want, and a guy offers you $50 for one.
Should you:
a) recycle it
b) pay a $300 license to the city so you can sell it for $50, or
c) Just give it to him
Those are the options allowable by the city.
Now, you might say, "But it's better for society if we give away our old stuff anyhow". However, then I would point out to you, that you can't do that legally, either. Because if he EVER gave you anything back -- even a beer -- it could be considered barter, which is a form of income, which requires a business license.
Okay, so how about recycling?
Not so fast, the scrap metal place will give you 5 or 10 bucks for it. That's income, too, so you need to pay for a business license.
So, by defending the city's rules here, then, you believe that it is reasonable for a car-restoring hobbyist to either pay to give away his spare parts to fellow hobbyists, or be forced to save them all in his yard until they rot.
Well, I guess you could send perfectly good stuff to the landfill. That's still legal, isn't it? Viva America!
> I don't know if there is such a technology, but you'd need to have some
> reasonable way to find their craft to kill them
Spray Cheese would work. If you had giant spray cheese canons along your borders firing continuously, you would paint the US aircraft in cheese.
Then you could use mouse-guided missiles to take them out.
> Oh, and does it come in menthol flavor?
Making super athletes is hard enough, let's not get bodily-fluid flavour-specifc, okay?
He's too boring. I might steal Lore, though.
Or maybe Tasha Yar. MmMmmMmMMmmmmmm Tasha Yar.... auuruhghglglglgllll
> Saying you're the fastest at running JavaScript is like celebrating that you came in 1st place in the Special Olympics.
No, it's more like saying you came in first in one event in a triathlon.
Doesn't mean you won, doesn't even mean you finished mid-pack. But it does mean you're really good at at least one thing, meaning maybe you can concentrate a bit more on the others for the next event.
Christopher Blizzard is an Open Source Evangelist working for the Mozilla Corporation and a long-time contributor to Open Source projects, notably with Mozilla, Red Hat, and One Laptop Per Child.
> Too bad she will still be unimpressed by the hamster-sized organ between your legs.
Well, if she is unimpressed by a 13.5-inch penis, then NOTHING will impress her. Time for a Real Doll, I guess.
First offense. Second offense, you lose your license for five years.
May I suggest that instead of worrying about preserving your wife's memories, you preserve HER instead?
Get a liver biopsy, and have the sample cryogenically frozen until such a time as she can be cloned from the sample.
Voila: "Hey kids, mommy's back!"
You know, I'm 99.9999% sure that Y2K-ready patches were on sunfreeware.com as part of the global patch clusters by mid-1999 at the latest. At least for 2.5.1.
What were you running?
> But from there to come and say it's user friendly because you
> dont have to use the command line is ridiculous.
I wholeheartedly agree. I also enjoy the fact that the command-line doesn't change willy-nilly from one version to next as GUIs are wont to. For example, ODS^H^H^HSDS^H^H^HSVM administration is still done best with the meta* commands, as has been the case since .... 2.4? Whereas the GUI is totally and completely different. And for no good reason, IMHO.
> And no, I've never had a MAC just to tell that I'm not an apple fanboy.
They're not bad, actually. As long as you want a UNIX box, you can treat it just like one and do all your work from the command line. The hardware/software integration is great, and you go a coherent, polished product. If you're an experienced UNIX guy and don't want to piss around with bullshit -- you should try one. They make a great bedroom workstation.
Accoring to TFS, fibre optic cables can lie around for years collecting data, which is measured by voltmeters sensing magnetically-induced currents.
Since when can you induce measurable currents in glass and plastic this way?
I would find TFS far more believable if this was being done to copper wires.
> if you have an exploit like the PDF exploit and are able to run arbitrary code,
> then you can su and the root password is known
Why the hell would you run a copy of su if you had an exploit which can run arbitrary code?
In case you don't understand what su is, it's a program that runs suid root (meaning the program itself has root privileges). It then reads the password file, checks to see if what you typed matches, and if it does, it executes a program (usually a shell) with the user id you've requested.
So, if you can put arbitrary code on the box, asking yourself for a password seems kind of moronic.
MIDI daughterboard -- i.e. the WaveBlaster -- was a good way to play.
That said, I thought the music sounded GREAT the way I played -- with a Yamaha Generai-MIDI capable keyboard right behind my chair. The patches killed the WaveBlaster (or the GUS), and the music behind (in stereo) and killing in front really made for an immersive experience.
The drum parts kicked ass. The guitar solos ROCKED. Whoever wrote that sound track had some chops!
I actually ask for an Apple on my desk because I don't want to piss around with my desktop; I just want to do real work. The Apple is awesome. You just get a great big screen with a CD-ROM hole in the side, a mouse and a keyboard. I actually have mine rigged up to talk to a Sun Type 5C mouse and keyboard so I get a proper layout and a proper key throw. And a middle mouse button.
It's UNIX-with-a-TM, so I can navigate the user interface easily enough (hint: drag terminal from the applications folder to that thing at the bottom of the desktop, then use terminal for everything).
I'm old enough now that I don't want to have to worry about installing device drivers, cleaning viruses, or any of that other bullshit that always seems to accompany a PC. And I don't want anything with CDE on my desktop, it really sucks.
Give me a browser and an ssh client and I can do my job.
Although, I must admit, I like Bill's highlight-with-the-mouse algorithm better. I often miss the first letter on OS/X, I think Steve must want you to pick the first N pixels whereas Bill will let you highlight any part of a character to select it.
> I still do not know any personal friends who actually "program" on an Apple
> computer or write apps for it.
Interestingly enough, since I've had an Apple on my desk, I've started to. Since it's UNIX-with-a-TM and ships with GCC, a lot my code will build out-of-the-box on it, and I'm not competing for compile or NFS resources. Better version control than the old days (I love mercurial) makes this a lot easier. And I think OS/X is the only UNIX that Valgrind runs on (although in the past I have simply sshd to a linux box on the local LAN to use Valgrind).
Except the Ross CPU is SPARC v8 - even older on the "landscape" than even the chip that shipped on the first PCI card (AMD K6 IIRC).
I'm /really/ curious what OS it can run. Definitely not 10. 8 would be okay, though. Although. SLOW.
If anybody reading this likes v8 CPUs - I have an E3000 you can have, if you pick it up.