In the worlds before Monkey, primal Chaos reigned.
Heaven sought Order, but the Phoenix can fly only when its feathers are grown.
The Four Worlds formed again and yet again, as endless aeons wheeled and passed.
Time, and the pure essences of Heaven, the moisture of the Earth, the powers of the Sun and the Moon, all worked upon a certain rock, old as Creation.
And it became magically fertile. That first egg was named "Thought".
Tapaphuta (sic) Buddha, the father Buddha said "With our thoughts, we make the world".
Elemental forces caused the egg to hatch.
From it then came a stone Monkey! The nature of Monkey was... irrepressable!
Man, this takes me back to 1993, when I was in my final year of university, and logged into this nearly every waking hour. Of course, my grades were nuked.
Gee, I'm glad I got offa that! Eventually. OK, three years later. Kinda. Mostly.
Funny that the author wouldn't mention obsessive offline geeky activities as well. While I was supposed to be in classes in university, there was a period of about three weeks in which I did nothing but sit in my room and code my ass off. I wrote two VGA games in this time and learned more about practical application programming than at any other point previous to that. It was the prime joie du hack and everything else paled into insignificance, including eating. Now I just have smaller hackfests. Eating is good for you.
Not to mention others who mess around with ham radios. They're kind of got their own network, I suppose you could consider them online, and I bet people have been getting addicted to that for decades!
That's your perception, and it's interesting. Different cultures have widely varying perceptions of "time". Most people in Western cultures tend to view time as an axis we are walking along in a forwards direction.
Some tribal societies perceive time in the completely reverse way, e.g. they will view time as a river, and they are on the shore looking in the direction the river is flowing to, and say that if they want to postpone something, they'll put it back, not forward as Westerners would.
as if either of these corporations don't have hordes of programmers at their disposal anyway. Do you think they really give a damn about or trust the code that any Random J Hacker from the Internet is going to submit to them?
That could be an interesting form of compression. Sure the algorithm could be encoded as a big-ass prime number, the nth prime number... but what about if n is also a prime number? That would be altogether more improbable... *ponders*
What I wanna do is block ALL hosts in the doubleclick.net, akamai.net, and any other ad nets. How can one acheive this when one is not running a DNS? On NT and on Linux? Can a wildcard be used? *.blah.net?
(of course at home, I do run a DNS daemon, so that's it's a problem)
Microsoft is directly responsible for the creation of Linux. Because of Microsoft, computer hardware became standardized to the i386 platform and hardware prices dropped to where a young Finnish college student could afford a computer to tinker with.
Um, no. I think the word you are looking for is indirectly. Sure, MS was a major contributing factor, but Linus made Linux. He, obviously, is the only directly responsible party.
*laughs* Imagine trying to get MS to admit that they are responsible for the creation of their most feared competitor;-)
Excuse me? "Real software"? Just because this thing costs thousands of dollars is no excuse for flaky behaviour. Customers paying big dollars should be able to expect exactly the opposite, in my opinion.
Of course, other "real software" like Apache will work on just about anything.
Yeah, I know a working Oracle setup can do some pretty neat things, BUT Oracle itself reeks of complacency. I see them as your typical 900 pound software gorilla. It would not surprise me if some open-source upstart like PostgreSQL or MySQL eventually gets so close to Oracle's functionality that people just don't bother with Oracle anymore.
Of course, I've seen more big installations where Oracle is falling over every other day than medium size ones where open-source alternatives just keep on chuggin' along...
I think what people are failing to recognise here is that Linux does not have a certain critical weakness that was the downfall of OS/2: Linux doesn't have to make money for its creators in order to survive.
So in the interests of encouraging the evolution of humanity, I would like to propose tax breaks in proportion to the intelligence of the individual in question. Make a financial incentive to have a brain!
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So that is what this SIGINT system signal really means!
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Perhaps placebos are becoming less effective over time as more people start to become aware of them. Faith healing is a placebo too.
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In the worlds before Monkey, primal Chaos reigned.
Heaven sought Order, but the Phoenix can fly only when its feathers are grown.
The Four Worlds formed again and yet again, as endless aeons wheeled and passed.
Time, and the pure essences of Heaven, the moisture of the Earth, the powers of the Sun and the Moon, all worked upon a certain rock, old as Creation.
And it became magically fertile. That first egg was named "Thought".
Tapaphuta (sic) Buddha, the father Buddha said "With our thoughts, we make the world".
Elemental forces caused the egg to hatch. From it then came a stone Monkey! The nature of Monkey was... irrepressable!
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If you don't like games with nudity then don't bloody well buy them! Sheesh!
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This stuff works by destroying cell membranes of bacteria.
Would it have the same effect on people?
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Such a beast would be conveniently close to ye olde Siberian missile silos. Hrm.
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Gee, I'm glad I got offa that! Eventually. OK, three years later. Kinda. Mostly.
Funny that the author wouldn't mention obsessive offline geeky activities as well. While I was supposed to be in classes in university, there was a period of about three weeks in which I did nothing but sit in my room and code my ass off. I wrote two VGA games in this time and learned more about practical application programming than at any other point previous to that. It was the prime joie du hack and everything else paled into insignificance, including eating. Now I just have smaller hackfests. Eating is good for you.
Not to mention others who mess around with ham radios. They're kind of got their own network, I suppose you could consider them online, and I bet people have been getting addicted to that for decades!
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Perl is very mungey indeed. Can't think of a language I've found more useful for data format massage.
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That's your perception, and it's interesting. Different cultures have widely varying perceptions of "time". Most people in Western cultures tend to view time as an axis we are walking along in a forwards direction.
Some tribal societies perceive time in the completely reverse way, e.g. they will view time as a river, and they are on the shore looking in the direction the river is flowing to, and say that if they want to postpone something, they'll put it back, not forward as Westerners would.
Bugger. That confused me.
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as if either of these corporations don't have hordes of programmers at their disposal anyway. Do you think they really give a damn about or trust the code that any Random J Hacker from the Internet is going to submit to them?
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Well there's a sure way to encourage innovation... or is microsoft the only one that's supposed to do that? I forget...
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Not as good as this one, though. Oh. My. God.
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They're only cutting one head off the hydra. This really is not worth worrying about.
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Do you prefer OpenNap or Gnutella based leaching clients?
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That could be an interesting form of compression. Sure the algorithm could be encoded as a big-ass prime number, the nth prime number... but what about if n is also a prime number? That would be altogether more improbable... *ponders*
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Can anybody lay out the practical upshots? Are there any practical upshots?
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127.0.0.1 ln.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 ad.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 m.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 doubleclick.net
What I wanna do is block ALL hosts in the doubleclick.net, akamai.net, and any other ad nets. How can one acheive this when one is not running a DNS? On NT and on Linux? Can a wildcard be used? *.blah.net?
(of course at home, I do run a DNS daemon, so that's it's a problem)
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Which in itself is amusing. I love it when people write this.
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Um, no. I think the word you are looking for is indirectly. Sure, MS was a major contributing factor, but Linus made Linux. He, obviously, is the only directly responsible party.
*laughs* Imagine trying to get MS to admit that they are responsible for the creation of their most feared competitor ;-)
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then don't do it :-)
Think about it. If people didn't buy CDs at those prices, do you think they would actually sell them at those prices?
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Of course, other "real software" like Apache will work on just about anything.
Yeah, I know a working Oracle setup can do some pretty neat things, BUT Oracle itself reeks of complacency. I see them as your typical 900 pound software gorilla. It would not surprise me if some open-source upstart like PostgreSQL or MySQL eventually gets so close to Oracle's functionality that people just don't bother with Oracle anymore.
Of course, I've seen more big installations where Oracle is falling over every other day than medium size ones where open-source alternatives just keep on chuggin' along...
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No it's not :-) The entropy's always increasing...
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Thank you for not breeding.
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It could be immortal.
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So in the interests of encouraging the evolution of humanity, I would like to propose tax breaks in proportion to the intelligence of the individual in question. Make a financial incentive to have a brain!
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