I'll bite. You, sir, are an idiot. Leaving aside the vast philosophical differences between anarchist, Marxists and socialists, most OSS people actually seem to be Libertarians, which is different again (and fundamentally a pretty naive way of looking at the world, imo).
A major reason that price and quality are both dropping for consumer goods is that most of them are made by slave labour in China or Burma or somewhere. I mean, face it, if you were earning the local equivalent of $5 per day, for an 18 hour shift, would _you_ have any commitment to quality? I didn't think so.
The original article quoted whatsisname (the microsoft shill) as saying that the only two major differences left between Windows and Linux are how windowing is handled, and security issues. I'd regard both of these as critical, and they are precisely why I prefer to use Linux. I could go on at great length about what's wrong with the way Windows does windowing, but I can't be bothered. And you're absolutely correct (if I understand you) about that oxymoron, Windows (tm) security.
The VIN is put on the vehicle at several points including (where I work) being stamped directly into the cowl (part of the body). It's a bit hard to grind-and-restamp sheet steel in an undetectable fashion.
Yeah - I just did a comparison between this and Google, searching for "mud brick house". The Google search returned _only_ relevant hits on the first page, but with the ms search, only about the first half dozen were relevant. About half-way down the page, I got a winery called Brick House, whose page had something about mud on it. (I only bothered to look at the first page in each instance). I daresay any other search comparison will give similar results...
Fortunately, flying insects are more likely to creep on all _sixes_, so we don't have to abominate them. I guess the bloke who wrote Leviticus couldn't count (or maybe the god who was dictating it into his ear couldn't).
You'd never fit the array into memory. Unless it was an indexed virtual array, of course. Data General shipped a bunch of FORTRAN subprograms for using these with AOS/VS - sweet.
When I was young, I worked on a small sheep station for a while. The powerplant for the shearing shed was this (even then) _really_ ancient single cylinder diesel engine which ran on used sump oil (or probably any other liquid that would sort-of burn). You had to tip about half a bottle of ether into the carburettor to start it up, but then it just thumped away all day.
I haven't voted Labor since Hawke's first term (and naturally I've never voted Liberal - the bastards wanted to conscript me for the Great Military Adventure in Vietnam 35 years ago), but since I think my local member (so to speak) is the current Minister for Foreign Affairs (gak!) my lower house vote is basically wasted whatever I do with it. I'll probably vote Labor anyway, because it'll send some sort of message to the conservatives, but I think I'll just concentrate on helping to elect a hostile Senate for whoever wins.
> Do any other non-Americans find this as hilarious as I do ?
Yep. I also don't quite understand why Americans use "liberal" as a term of abuse. Of course, as an Australian, I use "Liberal" as a term of abuse, but in Australia, our Liberal Party is anything but. They're more like Republicans (ie, right-wing, bible-bashing arseholes who want the poor people kept in their place).
I really enjoyed GEB, although I have to confess it took me months to finish it. It's rare that you find a book whose title refers to three of your heroes.
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I'll bite. You, sir, are an idiot. Leaving aside the vast philosophical differences between anarchist, Marxists and socialists, most OSS people actually seem to be Libertarians, which is different again (and fundamentally a pretty naive way of looking at the world, imo).
A major reason that price and quality are both dropping for consumer goods is that most of them are made by slave labour in China or Burma or somewhere. I mean, face it, if you were earning the local equivalent of $5 per day, for an 18 hour shift, would _you_ have any commitment to quality? I didn't think so.
I have no hair left to turn grey, you insensitive clod.
> "Commonly accepted" does not mean "correct."
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Correct. After all, it's commonly accepted that the world was created in 4004 BCE
> ... there are governments and criminals that do.
You write as though there's an important distinction. Surely one is merely a subset of the other, at least in America and Australia.
The original article quoted whatsisname (the microsoft shill) as saying that the only two major differences left between Windows and Linux are how windowing is handled, and security issues. I'd regard both of these as critical, and they are precisely why I prefer to use Linux. I could go on at great length about what's wrong with the way Windows does windowing, but I can't be bothered. And you're absolutely correct (if I understand you) about that oxymoron, Windows (tm) security.
The VIN is put on the vehicle at several points including (where I work) being stamped directly into the cowl (part of the body). It's a bit hard to grind-and-restamp sheet steel in an undetectable fashion.
Just allow the last 6 digits (the serial number) to be hex instead of decimal.
Yeah - I just did a comparison between this and Google, searching for "mud brick house". The Google search returned _only_ relevant hits on the first page, but with the ms search, only about the first half dozen were relevant. About half-way down the page, I got a winery called Brick House, whose page had something about mud on it. (I only bothered to look at the first page in each instance). I daresay any other search comparison will give similar results ...
Fortunately, flying insects are more likely to creep on all _sixes_, so we don't have to abominate them. I guess the bloke who wrote Leviticus couldn't count (or maybe the god who was dictating it into his ear couldn't).
no.
You'd never fit the array into memory. Unless it was an indexed virtual array, of course. Data General shipped a bunch of FORTRAN subprograms for using these with AOS/VS - sweet.
Mount Fujiyama ... shitake mushroom ... nashi pear ...
When I was young, I worked on a small sheep station for a while. The powerplant for the shearing shed was this (even then) _really_ ancient single cylinder diesel engine which ran on used sump oil (or probably any other liquid that would sort-of burn). You had to tip about half a bottle of ether into the carburettor to start it up, but then it just thumped away all day.
I haven't voted Labor since Hawke's first term (and naturally I've never voted Liberal - the bastards wanted to conscript me for the Great Military Adventure in Vietnam 35 years ago), but since I think my local member (so to speak) is the current Minister for Foreign Affairs (gak!) my lower house vote is basically wasted whatever I do with it. I'll probably vote Labor anyway, because it'll send some sort of message to the conservatives, but I think I'll just concentrate on helping to elect a hostile Senate for whoever wins.
> Do any other non-Americans find this as hilarious as I do ?
Yep. I also don't quite understand why Americans use "liberal" as a term of abuse. Of course, as an Australian, I use "Liberal" as a term of abuse, but in Australia, our Liberal Party is anything but. They're more like Republicans (ie, right-wing, bible-bashing arseholes who want the poor people kept in their place).
Cardinal Fang, bring in ... THE COMFY CHAIR!
I really enjoyed GEB, although I have to confess it took me months to finish it. It's rare that you find a book whose title refers to three of your heroes.
> I only need to be able to spell "if", "then", "while" and "return" (I know I missed a few there!)
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Yep. You forgot GOTO
Yeah, but those 8" floppies are a bitch to put in your shirt pocket ...
Bullshit. I _hate_ Word, and I hate to admit that it definitely loads heaps quicker than Open Office, but it does.
What's wrong with FORTRAN?
> ... it was the first moderm programming language ...
No it wasn't, it was BASIC. Even, what, 25 years ago, BASIC was not a modern language.
'Clans of the Alphane Moon' is pretty good. \spoiler It's about psychosis \end spoiler
> ... allowing mega-corporations that determien every aspect of life and that are unchallangable.
And this is different from our present situation how?
Maybe he just hasn't been forced to use Windows for the last 4 years. I certainly wish I hadn't.