Re your comment on motorcycles. After 13 years of driving I decided to learn to ride a motorbike to enable a commute from out of town. I've now been commuting a 30 mile round-trip daily for 10 months and have done two or three pleasure trips - about 12,000 miles over the last year. I am so aware of traffic around me now, when I am in a car driven by a "normal" person it scares me how little attention they pay to what's going on around them.
I think it's also made me a much calmer and more considerate car driver. I expect much less from those around me and therefore I am not surprised or angered when they do stupid things. This comes from *having* to accept stupid actions by car drivers when riding the bike; if you don't accept those actions, you could have a faceful of road. I prefer to assume that everyone in a car is an idiot and always will be... I used to get road-rage quite bad, but no longer. Mind you, there are fewer frustrations on a bike. Gliding through miles of car tailbacks gives you a nice smug feeling at the other end!
Actually, just looking at performance figures alone is meaningless anyway. I can give you the fastest filesystem in the world, but it might not hold your data! You have to look at what you want from a filesystem - its limits, reliability, integrity and THEN its speed. As you say it is valid to test for performance of a default configuration but whether something is "valid" or not doesn't say much about how *useful* it is to most people.
Sorry, but how the fuck do you know what this guy's role is in the purchasing decision? He describes himself as "the network administrator" - in a small company this could effectively mean he is CIO. Whatever his nominal job description, if he is in a position of trust he may be asked to provide input to the decision based on his technical expertise or knowledge of the business operations. You come across like you don't have much experience of real-life work places.
I mean, you call yourself a "dev". To me that's short for developer, and says to me you don't get to do *any* techie stuff, because that's done by "admins" and "ops". In your pigeon-holed world, anyway.
DASD (Direct Access Storage Device, pronounced "Dasdy") is just IBM speak for disk as distinct from tape, which is not direct access. I have worked in long-time IBM shops where even the Windows and Unix people call disks DASD. It's quite common.
That's quite right, but the difference between open source and proprietary code is that it's not actually possible to do the work to learn a proprietary code base, because you can't see it. Also, anyone I would call a decent human being doesn't give up on something when their knowledge "ends", they do the learning, because otherwise how can their knowledge ever grow?
No one local (and we're in a city of 1,000,000+) has even as much expertise as we do, and it's terribly frustrating to call someone for support and find out that their knowledge ends about the same time yours does.
Knowledge ends? It's open source. You have the code. If you don't know C (or perl or whatever), find someone who does. There is no such thing as knowledge "ending" with open source, you are limited only by your own ability to read and learn. Certainly, if I was paying for support for open source software, I would expect there to be someone with this ability when the first level runs out of "knowledge". I mean, what if you need a new feature? A proprietary software house will accept feature requests and might code them up. You need this same ability with open source, and the bonus is, you are not at the whim of the software house, because you just need to find someone who can read and write code and understand the problem domain.
Computer programming and robotics should be compulsory on school syllabuses, like Maths, English and real domestic science (electrics, plumbing, plastering, finance).
You're saying that Gates invented the personal computer. You know nothing about the history of computing. He has certainly been hugely influential in the direction of personal computing, but the trend was set before he came on the scene, and there were plenty of others around who would have played larger roles had Gates stayed on at Harvard and finished his studies.
The PC landscape would surely be different without him. Maybe better! I mean, you can hardly call Gates a visionary. Have you read "The Road Ahead"? I've written more insightful Christmas cards.
I don't think that Gates wasn't a guy who was driven by the love of money. He was a guy who wore dirty t-shirts and had tape on his glasses until well after he became the richest man in the world. He was driven by power and control and the riches were just a side-effect of that. Which is why he'll gladly give it all away.
Money is a form of power and control - a liquid form. Wearing dirty t-shirts and broken glasses does not signal a disregard for money. Your opening sentence is confused by a double negative; in the context of your post, it's not clear whar you mean.
Please tell me how I may use regular expressions in Google, because it would certainly be nice. I am highly sceptical of your claim, I think the resource utilisation would be too great to give such a facility to the public.
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Quit whining and use the <b> Preview button </> you damned newbie.
I tried to selectively quote the bits of your post that mean you do not pass the Turing test, but it ended up being your whole post. I call you on it, you're either a salesman or a pisspoor AI program.
Why do you assume that Microsoft maintain spec-quality documentation for their file formats?
Firstly, I didn't say they maintain spec-quality documentation. I suggested that I doubt they keep sparse documentation, which was your claim.
Secondly, I'm sure their documentation is pretty good. Word is a behemoth. If it was not documented then Microsoft would be opening themselves up to all sorts of abuse from their staff, i.e. "you can't sack me, I know Word." Whether they need specs to operate from one day to the next is irrelevant to whether it's sensible to have them, and when it comes to their own interests Microsoft have demonstrated that they are not just sensible, but clever.
Bear in mind that whatever internal documentation Microsoft has may be relatively sparse,
Yeah that's right, the world's dominant word processor is sparsely documented by its fantastically rich developer. I mean, it's only fair that they make it hard on themselves.
The guy needs a good shock; take all his money and make him work. But (we must assume) you only live once, a few years without freedom is a big portion of all you will ever have. I think if you lock people up for too long, your basically saying that society finds them worthless. How do you treat someone who finds you worthless? Without respect, I would imagine.
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Hard left? Your view of politics is very simplistic. What's leftist about the abolition of laws which restrict the operation of the free market?
If the community asked him to step down, would he?
Community: "Please Mr Stallman, stop being yourself."
In other words, step down from what? He does what he does because he is on a mission. People on a mission follow the mission, not the "community".
Re your comment on motorcycles. After 13 years of driving I decided to learn to ride a motorbike to enable a commute from out of town. I've now been commuting a 30 mile round-trip daily for 10 months and have done two or three pleasure trips - about 12,000 miles over the last year. I am so aware of traffic around me now, when I am in a car driven by a "normal" person it scares me how little attention they pay to what's going on around them.
I think it's also made me a much calmer and more considerate car driver. I expect much less from those around me and therefore I am not surprised or angered when they do stupid things. This comes from *having* to accept stupid actions by car drivers when riding the bike; if you don't accept those actions, you could have a faceful of road. I prefer to assume that everyone in a car is an idiot and always will be... I used to get road-rage quite bad, but no longer. Mind you, there are fewer frustrations on a bike. Gliding through miles of car tailbacks gives you a nice smug feeling at the other end!
Carnegie--a man who probably gave so much to charity to improve his image and lighten his conscious because so much of his wealth wasill-gotten
I would be grateful if you would post an explanation as I have neither read nor heard any such claim anywhere other than from you.
Warren Buffet is not a convicted monopolist. Also, he drinks five cans of Cherry Coke a day, and that buys my respect.
Actually, just looking at performance figures alone is meaningless anyway. I can give you the fastest filesystem in the world, but it might not hold your data! You have to look at what you want from a filesystem - its limits, reliability, integrity and THEN its speed. As you say it is valid to test for performance of a default configuration but whether something is "valid" or not doesn't say much about how *useful* it is to most people.
proactively retrieves music from other push enabled music players
Push? Pish. Dated, empty buzzword. What value did it add to your sentence?
Sorry, but how the fuck do you know what this guy's role is in the purchasing decision? He describes himself as "the network administrator" - in a small company this could effectively mean he is CIO. Whatever his nominal job description, if he is in a position of trust he may be asked to provide input to the decision based on his technical expertise or knowledge of the business operations. You come across like you don't have much experience of real-life work places.
I mean, you call yourself a "dev". To me that's short for developer, and says to me you don't get to do *any* techie stuff, because that's done by "admins" and "ops". In your pigeon-holed world, anyway.
DASD (Direct Access Storage Device, pronounced "Dasdy") is just IBM speak for disk as distinct from tape, which is not direct access. I have worked in long-time IBM shops where even the Windows and Unix people call disks DASD. It's quite common.
That's quite right, but the difference between open source and proprietary code is that it's not actually possible to do the work to learn a proprietary code base, because you can't see it. Also, anyone I would call a decent human being doesn't give up on something when their knowledge "ends", they do the learning, because otherwise how can their knowledge ever grow?
No one local (and we're in a city of 1,000,000+) has even as much expertise as we do, and it's terribly frustrating to call someone for support and find out that their knowledge ends about the same time yours does.
Knowledge ends? It's open source. You have the code. If you don't know C (or perl or whatever), find someone who does. There is no such thing as knowledge "ending" with open source, you are limited only by your own ability to read and learn. Certainly, if I was paying for support for open source software, I would expect there to be someone with this ability when the first level runs out of "knowledge". I mean, what if you need a new feature? A proprietary software house will accept feature requests and might code them up. You need this same ability with open source, and the bonus is, you are not at the whim of the software house, because you just need to find someone who can read and write code and understand the problem domain.
Computer programming and robotics should be compulsory on school syllabuses, like Maths, English and real domestic science (electrics, plumbing, plastering, finance).
You're saying that Gates invented the personal computer. You know nothing about the history of computing. He has certainly been hugely influential in the direction of personal computing, but the trend was set before he came on the scene, and there were plenty of others around who would have played larger roles had Gates stayed on at Harvard and finished his studies.
The PC landscape would surely be different without him. Maybe better! I mean, you can hardly call Gates a visionary. Have you read "The Road Ahead"? I've written more insightful Christmas cards.
the very change which is statistically known to reduce poverty; the freeing of markets.
Now, that deserves an attribution. How about it?
I don't think that Gates wasn't a guy who was driven by the love of money. He was a guy who wore dirty t-shirts and had tape on his glasses until well after he became the richest man in the world. He was driven by power and control and the riches were just a side-effect of that. Which is why he'll gladly give it all away.
Money is a form of power and control - a liquid form. Wearing dirty t-shirts and broken glasses does not signal a disregard for money. Your opening sentence is confused by a double negative; in the context of your post, it's not clear whar you mean.
It's OK, they both have whales down as mammals.
Excellent post. I fully agree.
Well, it's not regexp but it's certainly more than I knew you could do. Thanks for that, very useful indeed!
you can use regular expressions in your search strings
e =off&c2coff=1&client=firefox&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen- US%3Aunofficial&q=comp%5Ba-zA-Z%5D*&btnG=Search
I tried one and it didn't work:
http://www.google.com/search?hs=Ja5&hl=en&lr=&saf
Please tell me how I may use regular expressions in Google, because it would certainly be nice. I am highly sceptical of your claim, I think the resource utilisation would be too great to give such a facility to the public.
Quit whining and use the <b> Preview button </> you damned newbie.
I tried to selectively quote the bits of your post that mean you do not pass the Turing test, but it ended up being your whole post. I call you on it, you're either a salesman or a pisspoor AI program.
Why do you assume that Microsoft maintain spec-quality documentation for their file formats?
Firstly, I didn't say they maintain spec-quality documentation. I suggested that I doubt they keep sparse documentation, which was your claim.
Secondly, I'm sure their documentation is pretty good. Word is a behemoth. If it was not documented then Microsoft would be opening themselves up to all sorts of abuse from their staff, i.e. "you can't sack me, I know Word." Whether they need specs to operate from one day to the next is irrelevant to whether it's sensible to have them, and when it comes to their own interests Microsoft have demonstrated that they are not just sensible, but clever.
You're missing a not-so-subtlety.
Here's how to write a valid English sentence:
<pronoun|proper-noun> <verb> <article> <optional-adjective> <noun>
This lets me write valid English sentences like:
"He ate the cheese."
"She opened the blue door."
"Microsoft pulled a fast one."
However it doesn't let you read the sentence:
"Microsoft knows what they are doing and it doesn't involve letting others compete."
Bear in mind that whatever internal documentation Microsoft has may be relatively sparse,
Yeah that's right, the world's dominant word processor is sparsely documented by its fantastically rich developer. I mean, it's only fair that they make it hard on themselves.
The first is common and acceptable. The latter is a deliberate attempt to look good while not being good.
Don't pretend you don't know that.
The guy needs a good shock; take all his money and make him work. But (we must assume) you only live once, a few years without freedom is a big portion of all you will ever have. I think if you lock people up for too long, your basically saying that society finds them worthless. How do you treat someone who finds you worthless? Without respect, I would imagine.