Today we come to slashdot not to piss on the memory of appliance designer Steve Jobs but to celebrate a true computer scientist and engineer dmr.
He was not a boisterous man or one too proud and busy to assist various teenagers on the internet who now wish they'd archived those emails. He was able to admit his greatest works were flawed. And perhaps most importantly, the man could create excellent documentation.
To commemorate dmr is to commemorate ourselves as his ideas still hold sway. He lives on in the constantly modified code base. His DNA remaining as his direct additions are slowly dropped from the source while his patterns remain.
ALL HAIL ELDER GOD OF COMPUTING DMR, MAY HIS LANGUAGE AND OS LIVE ON UNTIL WE ADOPT SOMETHING BETTER
If the IT world put as much effort into reforming the system as they have bitching about Star Wars we'd get regular raises periodically instead of having to re-interview every 2 years to keep our old jobs.
I realize the initial request was for large scale cooling options but an affordable equivalent to synthetic cooling towels would help drastically. Draped over the neck, the towels take advantage of evaporative cooling.
Sadly with the lack of foresight there's probably not enough time to organize sponsorship from one of the multiple companies competing for market dominance but I'm sure our resourceful/.ers can recommend an equivalent like say a damp cotton/polyester blend rag.
But Susan Landau, a former engineer at Sun Microsystems, and the author of a new book, âoeSurveillance or Security?,â notes that, in 2003, the government placed equipment capable of copying electronic communications at locations across America. These installations were made, she says, at âoeswitching officesâ that not only connect foreign and domestic communications but also handle purely domestic traffic. As a result, she surmises, the U.S. now has the capability to monitor domestic traffic on a huge scale. âoeWhy was it done this way?â she asks. âoeOne can come up with all sorts of nefarious reasons, but one doesnâ(TM)t want to think that way about our government.
But Susan Landau, a former engineer at Sun Microsystems, and the author of a new book, âoeSurveillance or Security?,â notes that, in 2003, the government placed equipment capable of copying electronic communications at locations across America. These installations were made, she says, at âoeswitching officesâ that not only connect foreign and domestic communications but also handle purely domestic traffic. As a result, she surmises, the U.S. now has the capability to monitor domestic traffic on a huge scale. âoeWhy was it done this way?â she asks. âoeOne can come up with all sorts of nefarious reasons, but one doesnâ(TM)t want to think that way about our government.
You definitely didn't RTFA or RTFSummary. What makes me curious is how you knew it was Germany if you didn't even make it all the way through RTFHeadline.
My guess is it happened like this:
Commenter reads "Police Vulture Training", scans down noticing Germany is mentioned, & quickly comments with the first thing that came to mind with no concern for relevance to the article.
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Today we come to slashdot not to piss on the memory of appliance designer Steve Jobs but to celebrate a true computer scientist and engineer dmr.
He was not a boisterous man or one too proud and busy to assist various teenagers on the internet who now wish they'd archived those emails. He was able to admit his greatest works were flawed. And perhaps most importantly, the man could create excellent documentation.
To commemorate dmr is to commemorate ourselves as his ideas still hold sway. He lives on in the constantly modified code base. His DNA remaining as his direct additions are slowly dropped from the source while his patterns remain.
ALL HAIL ELDER GOD OF COMPUTING DMR, MAY HIS LANGUAGE AND OS LIVE ON UNTIL WE ADOPT SOMETHING BETTER
correction, quote is Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulder to mount on." - Newton
It's doubtful whether most dwarves will see further than this giant but alas he is no more.
'I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out.. I feel something terrible has happened.'
If the IT world put as much effort into reforming the system as they have bitching about Star Wars we'd get regular raises periodically instead of having to re-interview every 2 years to keep our old jobs.
Star Wars edits aren't worth complaining about but millions continue to nerdrage into the net against.
Back in my day, 14.4 kbs was blazing but there were always those malcontents that wanted images too.
Our expectations will probably always outpace available bandwidth.
With this group, I doubt he did something so simple and easily recovered.
Some highly available tools for deletion:
http://linux.die.net/man/1/scrub
http://linux.die.net/man/1/shred
and if it was SD chip he only needed a boot heel.
But we'll still tell the car where to go, so we'll still be free in that respect?
'The idea that a car runs free, those days are about to close.'
Does anyone have a clue what the hell he means by this quote?
I realize the initial request was for large scale cooling options but an affordable equivalent to synthetic cooling towels would help drastically. Draped over the neck, the towels take advantage of evaporative cooling.
/.ers can recommend an equivalent like say a damp cotton/polyester blend rag.
Sadly with the lack of foresight there's probably not enough time to organize sponsorship from one of the multiple companies competing for market dominance but I'm sure our resourceful
AKA: the worst years of my life.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/05/23/110523fa_fact_mayer?currentPage=all/
As I understand it, she left during the Sun/Oracle transition but here's her page there:
https://labs.oracle.com/people/slandau/
You definitely didn't RTFA or RTFSummary. What makes me curious is how you knew it was Germany if you didn't even make it all the way through RTFHeadline.
My guess is it happened like this:
Commenter reads "Police Vulture Training", scans down noticing Germany is mentioned, & quickly comments with the first thing that came to mind with no concern for relevance to the article.
Or..
You could type the story into a text editor, quickly proofread then C+P to the text box.
If I were her I would seek *ahem* penal damages.
Yeah, fucking finally. Now that bin Laden is dead and DNF is out we can leave that era.
If the pilot is reading a manual during take-off, you've got bigger concerns than what happens to Lennie Small.
Good luck handling unintended consequences of complex situations with many actors, Mr. Boyd.
Also, what's the secret to getting your nose so far up your employer's ass that you can smell what he'll have for supper?
no unicode support? assholes.
online translations make this game so much more fun:
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I know, Autopilot!
knowing that legal framework is in place should one of their own rat me out would feel like added insurance.
Lots of hip, important people like me need to know.