I had to read the title five times before I understood it. The use of "term" as a verb here is unusual, probably cruel and definitely punishment - for what, I do not know.
This is such a bad example. On both Debian and Ubuntu if you apt-get remove mono you'll be presented with a list of affected packages. This is the whole idea behind dependencies. You think Debian or Canonical have tested every possible combination of installed packages? Well, they haven't and they don't need to. I'm willing to bet that at least one of my systems' installed packages lists are unique in the world and it didn't need tested by Debian first.
Apparently there are about 20,000 active nuclear weapons, and in 1985 there were 65,000. Only two have ever been used with the intention of destruction, and at that time there were hardly any in existence at all.
I am no fan of nuclear war. The cold war was still in full swing when I was growing up and I used to have nightmares (and indeed daymares) about the possibility of being at the detonating end of a nuclear device. However, I can only conclude from history that the possession of nuclear weapons by a broad spread of military forces has been hugely successful in deterring nuclear attack, and a huge failure at wreaking destruction. If Japan had had deployable nuclear weapons in 1945, my guess is they would never have been used.
Also note the general stability of the world in the last 60 years compared to the previous 60. National borders don't come and go as they once did. I realise I am on shaky ground here and I'm not sure I even agree with myself but the proletariat masses are no longer rounded up and sent to claim the crown of foreign nations in quite as blatant a form as was once commonplace.
You outed my kind. I even have a DLT autochanger, but it sits disused in the shed. Point is, my data is not that important and there are multiple copies of the stuff that is important, in particular my CV, just because I keep switching computers or copying stuff to other machines in the course of normal activity.
Also there's nothing like massive data loss to reduce the time spent managing files.
Do you often spend time typing before you know what you're going to type?
Me, I think about what I'm going type, then I know what I'm going to type, then I type it. Efficiency in completing the typing allows me to get back to thinking.
I wouldn't give up a mouse (unless you're giving me a nipple to replace it), it's handy for many situations, but the less I have to use the mouse, the happier I become.
I hope you don't tell people that survival is all it's good for. I spend much of my working life in vi, and for making ad-hoc changes quickly there is little to match it. Add Firemacs to Firefox and not only does it give you Emacs keybindings, you get vi keybindings for free too! C-x k to close that window, h and j to switch tabs - it's dreamy. Pick the best tool for the job though, sometimes sed is the better tool, sometimes a perl script.
So you're saying that usage of the word Web will expand over time to include lots of other things that aren't really Web? And then the common useage of the word will become accepted? No shit Sherlock. It's not a new phenomenon, but it doesn't actually change anything, and people who understand the difference between Web (HTML/HTTP) and RTSP or FTP will continue to use them appropriately.
No, we're not going back to the dumb terminal days. It's to useful to be able to do stuff without some third party dictating if/when/how we can do it. Some stuff will move but it's going to be the same kind of non-revolution that Web 2.0 has been for normal people.
It's only any good if the other party co-operates. The boss can easily phone you or walk up to you and say "Yes I want you to do it." and you have no record, and for many people this is their default mode of operation because that way no-one can pin anything on them. Unless they're singing their own praises, when everyone gets cc'd in.
I used to find it infuriating but fury gets you nowhere in the workplace.
Spam. That's the answer. If you have some data you want to protect, use strong encryption on it and a spambot network to distribute it to millions of people, including yourself. Make sure it ends up in your spam folder. Make sure you remove any "evidence" of having decrypted it.
Regardless, the bulk of this setup is clustered processing a shitload of data very fast, which is something that COM+ triggers on MSMQ is pretty damn good at. The automation event processing system I work on at the moment can handle a full gigabit eth pipe using MSMQ on my shitty $700 laptop at about 20% cpu, including processing, logging and updating appropriate stuff in a database and HMI app.
...and this is just a bunch of subjective MS fan boy ranting.
What are you talking about? Who cares about practicing scientists? We're talking about what is taught in school. Most kids won't become practicing scientists, but if they can understand the elegance and beauty of science and the type of thought that it arose from, then that at least gives them the opportunity to understand what science is and where it comes from. Which I wager is more than some practicing scientists can lay claim to, if they ignore Popper et al. Disclaimer - IANA(P)S. I am familiar with the philosphy of science, though. Admittedly, lack of falsifiability is not an argument against ID, because ID supporters don't understand the concept and won't.
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I had to read the title five times before I understood it. The use of "term" as a verb here is unusual, probably cruel and definitely punishment - for what, I do not know.
This is such a bad example. On both Debian and Ubuntu if you apt-get remove mono you'll be presented with a list of affected packages. This is the whole idea behind dependencies. You think Debian or Canonical have tested every possible combination of installed packages? Well, they haven't and they don't need to. I'm willing to bet that at least one of my systems' installed packages lists are unique in the world and it didn't need tested by Debian first.
Apparently there are about 20,000 active nuclear weapons, and in 1985 there were 65,000. Only two have ever been used with the intention of destruction, and at that time there were hardly any in existence at all.
I am no fan of nuclear war. The cold war was still in full swing when I was growing up and I used to have nightmares (and indeed daymares) about the possibility of being at the detonating end of a nuclear device. However, I can only conclude from history that the possession of nuclear weapons by a broad spread of military forces has been hugely successful in deterring nuclear attack, and a huge failure at wreaking destruction. If Japan had had deployable nuclear weapons in 1945, my guess is they would never have been used.
Also note the general stability of the world in the last 60 years compared to the previous 60. National borders don't come and go as they once did. I realise I am on shaky ground here and I'm not sure I even agree with myself but the proletariat masses are no longer rounded up and sent to claim the crown of foreign nations in quite as blatant a form as was once commonplace.
You forgot DB2 on iSeries and DB2 on zSeries.
Guidelines do not a system make. There's nothing stopping you putting the Desktops on a server which gets backed up, other than excuses.
You outed my kind. I even have a DLT autochanger, but it sits disused in the shed. Point is, my data is not that important and there are multiple copies of the stuff that is important, in particular my CV, just because I keep switching computers or copying stuff to other machines in the course of normal activity.
Also there's nothing like massive data loss to reduce the time spent managing files.
It's a sequence of 01 repeating. The fact that it comes out as "U" is probably irrelevant.
There, fixed that for you.
Do you often spend time typing before you know what you're going to type?
Me, I think about what I'm going type, then I know what I'm going to type, then I type it. Efficiency in completing the typing allows me to get back to thinking.
I wouldn't give up a mouse (unless you're giving me a nipple to replace it), it's handy for many situations, but the less I have to use the mouse, the happier I become.
Happy workers are productive workers.
I hope you don't tell people that survival is all it's good for. I spend much of my working life in vi, and for making ad-hoc changes quickly there is little to match it. Add Firemacs to Firefox and not only does it give you Emacs keybindings, you get vi keybindings for free too! C-x k to close that window, h and j to switch tabs - it's dreamy. Pick the best tool for the job though, sometimes sed is the better tool, sometimes a perl script.
Firemacs rocks. Look: Firemacs!
s/Touch Point/Trackpoint/
And yes they rock. Every keyboard should have a nipple, so I may twiddle with it.
So you're saying that usage of the word Web will expand over time to include lots of other things that aren't really Web? And then the common useage of the word will become accepted? No shit Sherlock. It's not a new phenomenon, but it doesn't actually change anything, and people who understand the difference between Web (HTML/HTTP) and RTSP or FTP will continue to use them appropriately.
No, we're not going back to the dumb terminal days. It's to useful to be able to do stuff without some third party dictating if/when/how we can do it. Some stuff will move but it's going to be the same kind of non-revolution that Web 2.0 has been for normal people.
You're grasping at straws, like most people I don't have a file named rf in my root directory and if I did I'd rather it was rm'd.
I think not. So I don't get it. Why does greater mass than we thought, mean impact with another object sooner than we thought?
Except:
I'd rather not pay yearly rent on a server or backup/storage solution.
I think this is just a case of "cheap, reliable, easy - choose any two". The problem is we have a refusal to eliminate one of these.
Don't know what anything 101 has to do with it, cars having "faces" is in my file labelled "pretty obvious stuff".
O'bama
I know he's got Irish blood but I don't think he uses an apostrophe.
How can you tell he's an American citizen just by looking at him?
It's only any good if the other party co-operates. The boss can easily phone you or walk up to you and say "Yes I want you to do it." and you have no record, and for many people this is their default mode of operation because that way no-one can pin anything on them. Unless they're singing their own praises, when everyone gets cc'd in.
I used to find it infuriating but fury gets you nowhere in the workplace.
Spam. That's the answer. If you have some data you want to protect, use strong encryption on it and a spambot network to distribute it to millions of people, including yourself. Make sure it ends up in your spam folder. Make sure you remove any "evidence" of having decrypted it.
At last, a use for spam!
English(UK) is a keyboard layout, not a nationality.
Strange post. Maybe I am missing something? For your first paragraph...
Of course there's much more out there.
Regardless, the bulk of this setup is clustered processing a shitload of data very fast, which is something that COM+ triggers on MSMQ is pretty damn good at. The automation event processing system I work on at the moment can handle a full gigabit eth pipe using MSMQ on my shitty $700 laptop at about 20% cpu, including processing, logging and updating appropriate stuff in a database and HMI app.
...and this is just a bunch of subjective MS fan boy ranting.
Since I had kids that developed in me spontaneously.
You're a virgin mother?
I don't know why you call it great. I thought it was a bit shit.
What are you talking about? Who cares about practicing scientists? We're talking about what is taught in school. Most kids won't become practicing scientists, but if they can understand the elegance and beauty of science and the type of thought that it arose from, then that at least gives them the opportunity to understand what science is and where it comes from. Which I wager is more than some practicing scientists can lay claim to, if they ignore Popper et al. Disclaimer - IANA(P)S. I am familiar with the philosphy of science, though. Admittedly, lack of falsifiability is not an argument against ID, because ID supporters don't understand the concept and won't.
Surely the "creation" of money with little effort devalues the cash which I and everyone else have to hand.