In common usage, hacker means what it means to commoners. This is not necessarily the same as the meaning to an elite club of people who use the term their own way.
I have my own meaning when I use the word to describe myself. http://fatphil.org/me/hacker.html
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Thanks for the recommendation. I've encountered Lua occasionally, and it does look as if it has a lot of potential. Have you actually used Lua and LuaJIT for much yourself - if so, what kinds of things?
Are you really unable to tell the difference between a computer club that has Corel Draw, Digital Scrapbooking, Digital Video, Family Tree Maker, FrontPage, Hardware Repair, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Quickbooks, and Web Design special interest groups, and the Linux special interest group within that club?
Egregious fallacy of composition.
Twitter may run, own, finance, organise, and be the only fucking member of the Linux SIG, but that doesn't mean he has any influence over how the entire computer club organises itself and its internet connection. Unless you have evidence to the contrary. However, as when I probed you for this mythical evidence already you responded with none, I can only conclude that basically you're just an ignorant vapid fuck.
When something doesn't quite work, don't be tempted to strip the training filename off a URL in the address bar, as that's been proven in the US courts as _hacking_.
There was fairly high profile case of this - ending in conviction - about 2 years ago IIRC. It was considered to be "unauthorised access to someone else's machine". The defence of "I only issued a GET request - the server quite voluntarily served me the response" didn't wash with the court or the jury.
It's fucked. If you have brains, leave the US now, before you get arrested for pinging or doing a whois.
Nitpicking is supposed to be accurate. You've not demonstrated that ability yet.
Do you have any evidence that someone who publicises a website hosted by an ISP in Atlanta Georgia <<< Cox Communications 1400 Lake Hearn Dr. Atlanta GA US 30319 68.15.174.183 Linux Apache/1.3.26 Unix Debian GNU/Linux PHP/4.1.2 8-Jan-2007 >>> was in anyway involved with the setting up of the hosting of a webserver administered by people in Louisiana <<< Domain Name:CLICKERS.ORG Registrant Name:Cajun Clickers Computer Club Registrant City:Baton Rouge Registrant State/Province:LA >>> ?
Because without that evidence, it looks like you're just full of hot air.
"The website twitter links to in his profile (clickers.org) is powered by Windows and ASP.NET."
He's linking to lists.clickers.org, not clickers.org. They're different.
Quoth Netcraft: """ Site report for lists.clickers.org
Site http://lists.clickers.org Last reboot 158 days ago Uptime graph
Domain clickers.org Netblock owner Cox Communications IP address 68.15.174.183 Site rank 2087841 Country US Nameserver a.ns.interland.net Date first seen August 2004 DNS admin hostmaster@interland.net Domain Registry unknown Reverse DNS office.clickers.org Organisation unknown Nameserver Organisation Interland, Inc., 303 Peachtree Center Ave., suite 500, Atlanta, 30303, United States Check another site:
Hosting HistoryNetblock Owner IP address OS Web Server Last changed Cox Communications 1400 Lake Hearn Dr. Atlanta GA US 30319 68.15.174.183 Linux Apache/1.3.26 Unix Debian GNU/Linux PHP/4.1.2 8-Jan-2007 Cox Communications 1400 Lake Hearn Dr. Atlanta GA US 30319 68.15.174.183 Linux Apache/1.3.26 Unix Debian GNU/Linux PHP/4.1.2 8-Sep-2006 Cox Communications 1400 Lake Hearn Dr. Atlanta GA US 30319 68.15.174.183 Linux Apache/1.3.26 Unix Debian GNU/Linux PHP/4.1.2 17-Jun-2004 """
No irony. Simply you shooting yourself in the foot.
If you call yourself a writer, which you do, then please do not bastardise the Emerson quote thus: "Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds" as you have done.
The correct quote is: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds[...]" where I've elided ", adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.". There's nothing negative being said about foresightful or wise consistency.
It's almost as bad a misquote as "money is the root of all evil".
"I never see them flash by long enough to get a positional feel for them at all."
From a human computer interface viewpoint, that statement makes very little sense. If you're selecting them quickly, then you must know in advance where they will be. Motor memory is more effective than you think. It could be that you're actually using motor memory, but just don't realise it. Are your menus regularly juggling themselves around? (Which, as GPP says, is a UI no-no.)
Did WP4 support OLE (or whatever it was first called)? I remember a shareware package called WordArt which could create rotated (and all kinds of fancy effects) way back in the days of Win3.1, and if WP4 supported OLE, then it supported WordArt. Note - this was in the Word 2.0 days or earlier - ages before MS included 'WordArt' in MS Word, presumably by innovating a large cheque in the direction of the original authors.
Caching indeed is the sensible thing to do. But what do you do when the original disappears? Should you remove your local copy? Caching simply moves the problem through time.
FUD? Yet you just _corroborated_ my story. Just because Apple changed their vendor-tie-in policy later doesn't mean that they didn't once hold that policy. They tried it, they didn't get away with it as it was so fundamentally stupid, they recanted. Not FUD, fact. A fact that you yourself have confirmed above.
The reason we were looking at this was purely for advertising, not for anything actually informative. There's basically nothing advertisers won't look at as being a potential placard.
When I was at a Cambridge IT consultancy, back in 1997, we were working on technology like this to print designs onto condoms. No-one expects a message on the head of a guinness to stick, but the requirements were that the printing on the condom had to stay no matter what. In particular, the design must come off neither upon your snow-inscribing device, nor the vessel within which you frot with it. That was at least an attempt at real engineering, even if it never reached the market.
This is just an ink-jet printer without the printer. The transit vans which could do the same on roads, circa early this century, were much more impressive.
Unless you have a Mac, and your friend has a PC. When you plug your iPod into the PC, it will ask you if you want to format the device. An iPod ownig mate told me this, and I didn't believe him, but he demonstrated it to me, and it did precisely that - I was gobsmacked at how crazy the OS tie-in was. Bad Apple, bad, bad Apple.
If you take a copy, no-one can guarantee the two are identical. If you don't take a copy, no-one can guarantee that the remote one is always accessible.
But DTD's were designed to be precisely that. Likewise class paths in java. Unnecessary hard coding of something that's not necessarily non-ephemeral. I never liked the idea, I'm glad to see that some of my worries are well-founded.
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That's a shame, as Delphi's nothing to do with VB.
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Precisely which bit of my post do you think is incorrect?
If Kool Herc's stuff was called hip-hop at the time, then your argument definitely convinces me. And yes, your statement is not absurd - I retract that. However, the hip-hop and rap story are so closely intertwined that it's probably as futile trying to separate them and order them as it is to discuss the equivalent differences between doom/death/black metal. (Which is closer to my scene, and I refuse to partake in such discussions because of their futility.)
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I'm a striaght down the line Perl guy when it comes to scripting. Yet recently I've noticed that each new version of Perl is slower than the previous one. I want to do complicated things in my scripts (I've written web servers in Perl for example), and speed, when you notice that you're losing it, is important.
However, Ruby's not the one to replace Perl in that regard: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/debian/benchmark .php?test=all&lang=ruby&lang2=perl
So I'm still looking for something to depose Perl...
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Bollocks.
2+w and 9+w.
Arse.
"Now try finding two primes whose difference is 7."
4+w and 11+w in the Eisenstein Integers. (so w is the primitive cube root of unity)
In common usage, hacker means what it means to commoners. This is not necessarily the same as the meaning to an elite club of people who use the term their own way.
I have my own meaning when I use the word to describe myself.
http://fatphil.org/me/hacker.html
Thanks for the recommendation. I've encountered Lua occasionally, and it does look as if it has a lot of potential. Have you actually used Lua and LuaJIT for much yourself - if so, what kinds of things?
Christ, you're as thick as pigshit, aren't you?
Are you really unable to tell the difference between a computer club that has Corel Draw, Digital Scrapbooking, Digital Video, Family Tree Maker, FrontPage, Hardware Repair, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Quickbooks, and Web Design special interest groups, and the Linux special interest group within that club?
Egregious fallacy of composition.
Twitter may run, own, finance, organise, and be the only fucking member of the Linux SIG, but that doesn't mean he has any influence over how the entire computer club organises itself and its internet connection. Unless you have evidence to the contrary. However, as when I probed you for this mythical evidence already you responded with none, I can only conclude that basically you're just an ignorant vapid fuck.
When something doesn't quite work, don't be tempted to strip the training filename off a URL in the address bar, as that's been proven in the US courts as _hacking_.
There was fairly high profile case of this - ending in conviction - about 2 years ago IIRC. It was considered to be "unauthorised access to someone else's machine". The defence of "I only issued a GET request - the server quite voluntarily served me the response" didn't wash with the court or the jury.
It's fucked. If you have brains, leave the US now, before you get arrested for pinging or doing a whois.
Nitpicking is supposed to be accurate. You've not demonstrated that ability yet.
Do you have any evidence that someone who publicises a website hosted by an ISP in Atlanta Georgia
<<<
Cox Communications 1400 Lake Hearn Dr. Atlanta GA US 30319 68.15.174.183 Linux Apache/1.3.26 Unix Debian GNU/Linux PHP/4.1.2 8-Jan-2007
>>>
was in anyway involved with the setting up of the hosting of a webserver administered by people in Louisiana
<<<
Domain Name:CLICKERS.ORG
Registrant Name:Cajun Clickers Computer Club
Registrant City:Baton Rouge
Registrant State/Province:LA
>>>
?
Because without that evidence, it looks like you're just full of hot air.
You're alluding to "ignorance of the law is no excuse".
This was not ignorance of the law.
This was ignorance of human physiology or biochemistry.
One should not expect the whole planet to know about salt pumps.
The radio station is certainly in part culpable in the death, IMO.
Your newspapers are too wide. "Dying for a Wii!" is all it would say in UK greats like /The Sun/.
"The website twitter links to in his profile (clickers.org) is powered by Windows and ASP.NET."
He's linking to lists.clickers.org, not clickers.org. They're different.
Quoth Netcraft:
"""
Site report for lists.clickers.org
Site http://lists.clickers.org Last reboot 158 days ago Uptime graph
Domain clickers.org Netblock owner Cox Communications
IP address 68.15.174.183 Site rank 2087841
Country US Nameserver a.ns.interland.net
Date first seen August 2004 DNS admin hostmaster@interland.net
Domain Registry unknown Reverse DNS office.clickers.org
Organisation unknown Nameserver Organisation Interland, Inc., 303 Peachtree Center Ave., suite 500, Atlanta, 30303, United States
Check another site:
Hosting HistoryNetblock Owner IP address OS Web Server Last changed
Cox Communications 1400 Lake Hearn Dr. Atlanta GA US 30319 68.15.174.183 Linux Apache/1.3.26 Unix Debian GNU/Linux PHP/4.1.2 8-Jan-2007
Cox Communications 1400 Lake Hearn Dr. Atlanta GA US 30319 68.15.174.183 Linux Apache/1.3.26 Unix Debian GNU/Linux PHP/4.1.2 8-Sep-2006
Cox Communications 1400 Lake Hearn Dr. Atlanta GA US 30319 68.15.174.183 Linux Apache/1.3.26 Unix Debian GNU/Linux PHP/4.1.2 17-Jun-2004
"""
No irony. Simply you shooting yourself in the foot.
If you call yourself a writer, which you do, then please do not bastardise the Emerson quote thus:
"Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds"
as you have done.
The correct quote is:
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds[...]" where I've elided ", adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.". There's nothing negative being said about foresightful or wise consistency.
It's almost as bad a misquote as "money is the root of all evil".
"I never see them flash by long enough to get a positional feel for them at all."
From a human computer interface viewpoint, that statement makes very little sense.
If you're selecting them quickly, then you must know in advance where they will be.
Motor memory is more effective than you think. It could be that you're actually
using motor memory, but just don't realise it. Are your menus regularly juggling
themselves around? (Which, as GPP says, is a UI no-no.)
Did WP4 support OLE (or whatever it was first called)? I remember a shareware package called WordArt which could create rotated (and all kinds of fancy effects) way back in the days of Win3.1, and if WP4 supported OLE, then it supported WordArt. Note - this was in the Word 2.0 days or earlier - ages before MS included 'WordArt' in MS Word, presumably by innovating a large cheque in the direction of the original authors.
"Sorry you were using windows".
Don't make me laugh. Learn to read.
Caching indeed is the sensible thing to do. But what do you do when the original disappears? Should you remove your local copy? Caching simply moves the problem through time.
FUD? Yet you just _corroborated_ my story. Just because Apple changed their vendor-tie-in policy later doesn't mean that they didn't once hold that policy. They tried it, they didn't get away with it as it was so fundamentally stupid, they recanted. Not FUD, fact. A fact that you yourself have confirmed above.
The reason we were looking at this was purely for advertising, not for anything actually informative.
... less filling." hahahahahah
There's basically nothing advertisers won't look at as being a potential placard.
"Tastes better
When I was at a Cambridge IT consultancy, back in 1997, we were working on technology like this to print designs onto condoms. No-one expects a message on the head of a guinness to stick, but the requirements were that the printing on the condom had to stay no matter what. In particular, the design must come off neither upon your snow-inscribing device, nor the vessel within which you frot with it. That was at least an attempt at real engineering, even if it never reached the market.
This is just an ink-jet printer without the printer. The transit vans which could do the same on roads, circa early this century, were much more impressive.
Unless you have a Mac, and your friend has a PC. When you plug your iPod into the PC, it will ask you if you want to format the device. An iPod ownig mate told me this, and I didn't believe him, but he demonstrated it to me, and it did precisely that - I was gobsmacked at how crazy the OS tie-in was. Bad Apple, bad, bad Apple.
If you take a copy, no-one can guarantee the two are identical.
If you don't take a copy, no-one can guarantee that the remote one is always accessible.
Catch-22.
But DTD's were designed to be precisely that. Likewise class paths in java.
Unnecessary hard coding of something that's not necessarily non-ephemeral.
I never liked the idea, I'm glad to see that some of my worries are well-founded.
That's a shame, as Delphi's nothing to do with VB.
Precisely which bit of my post do you think is incorrect?
If Kool Herc's stuff was called hip-hop at the time, then your argument definitely convinces me. And yes, your statement is not absurd - I retract that. However, the hip-hop and rap story are so closely intertwined that it's probably as futile trying to separate them and order them as it is to discuss the equivalent differences between doom/death/black metal. (Which is closer to my scene, and I refuse to partake in such discussions because of their futility.)
I'm a striaght down the line Perl guy when it comes to scripting.
k .php?test=all&lang=ruby&lang2=perl
Yet recently I've noticed that each new version of Perl is slower than the previous one.
I want to do complicated things in my scripts (I've written web servers in Perl for example),
and speed, when you notice that you're losing it, is important.
However, Ruby's not the one to replace Perl in that regard:
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/debian/benchmar
So I'm still looking for something to depose Perl...