He's not going easy. He's focusing his efforts on getting important restrictions in place now instead of spending years and years trying to get them split up (which probably wouldn't have happened anyway)
It seems like Bush, as the head of the
administrative branch, is in no position to
give -any- orders to the judicial branch.
And you'll notice that no article claims he did. It's just the Slashdot editors abusing their power to stir up resentment and further their political views.
Pure genuis, gizmo. Pretend to be an idiot, and get lots of people to flame you for not reading the article before posting.
Then after they post the flames, they finally read the other replies to your post, and realize how redundant they are and, more importantly, that they're guilty of the exact thing that they flamed you for.
while true; do telnet www.hotmail.com 80 </dev/urandom; done
Then just sit back and wait.
On a related note, i'd like to dispel a common myth. Real Programmers don't use 'cat > a.out' or 'cat/dev/audio > a.out' plus some whistling, they type 'chmod +x/dev/urandom' and hope for the best.
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Was this actually more efficient than just doing the calculations on your own system? If you were on a dumb terminal, i might understand the benefit, but you say you wrote a program to hop from one connection to another -- wasn't all this overhead more computationally intensive (even just for your own system) than doing the math yourself?
When i first saw the headline, i thought it said, "Corel May Have A Buyer For Its Linux Distribution" and said to myself, "Woah! They might actually sell their first copy!"
ReplayTV is planning a post-Labor Day introduction of a souped-up DVR that could store as much as 320 hours of TV programming and send programs by email to other DVRs.
Oh, that's just super.
"I send you this episode in order to have your advice"
On a serious note, that feature is going to kick ass, and is much cooler than a couple (hundred) extra hours of storage. Imagine:
- Your favorite team makes an incredible play, but you miss the game. So you hop onto IRC and someone mails you a 60-second clip
- You're flipping channels and come across a show that you really like. So you download every previous episode.
- (I know these things are supposed to come in threes, but that's all i can think of, so use your imagination)
The great thing about this argument is that you can replace "CD-R" with "electricity" or "computers" or "The Internet" and it still holds just as well.
anonymous because of the database crash that wiped out several hours of data today, sigh
That's okay. Losing Slashdot for the day was bad, but it's worth it when you picture all the trolls and karma whores desperately trying to take advantage of the second chance to get first post on the Mac metadata story.
"Gah! I click Reply and it goes back to the main page! But i need to post, it says 0 comments! Reply! Reply! Augghhh!"
Why not make the computer understand me? Probably lots harder, but I sure would like it that why
Let's go back to my example. Pretend you don't speak any language, and you want to convey the command, "Fetch me a nice yet casual shirt for under $45 which matches this belt."
I don't see how it would be possible for someone, no matter how smart, to understand you if you wanted to say that. It's simply not possible to express that idea without the use of language.
Of course, you could point to your shirt, and they could run out and buy a bunch of shirts and you could give thumbs-up and thumbs-down and it could get an idea of the kind of shirt you wanted, but instead of going through that every single day, you'd be better off learning the language.
Well, imagine you occasionally go to a foreign country, like once a year. You can get by without learning the language. If you go to a pastry shop and want a croissant, you can point at it and they'll figure it out.
Or let's say you're a Cuban refugee who now pitches for the Yankees. You don't need to speak much of the language, you just need to know job-related words like "base" and "throw".
However, let's say you're surrounded by people who speak another lanugage, day in and day out. You work with these people and need to express complex ideas to them. You had better learn the language, because pointing and a 30-word vocabulary isn't going to allow you to convey ideas like, "Fetch me a nice yet casual shirt for under $45 which matches this belt."
Similarly, GUIs and simple keystrokes (like Alt-F4 or Ctrl-Esc) may work if you only spend time in ComputerLand occasionally or are willing to only express extremely simple ideas or are willing to take a long time to get something done using a ton of simple words when a few complex ones would suffice.
However, just like you wouldn't move to France without learning the language ASAP, or get a job as a drug cartel kingpin without becoming fluent in Spanish, you should learn to communicate with your computer through "sentences" instead of pointing if you're going to use it for any substantial amount of time at work or elsewhere.
And as computers become more pervasive, people are going to have to understand their language or else they'll be like the current members of society who can't read. (Actually, worse -- they'd be like the members who can't talk)
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The original article said what i quoted. For several hours.
Only recently did they change the wording (without, i might add, the usual "Update" blurb)
1. The DOJ is part of the Executive Branch.
See this comment.
He's not going easy. He's focusing his efforts on getting important restrictions in place now instead of spending years and years trying to get them split up (which probably wouldn't have happened anyway)
See this guy's reply.
It seems like Bush, as the head of the
administrative branch, is in no position to
give -any- orders to the judicial branch.
And you'll notice that no article claims he did. It's just the Slashdot editors abusing their power to stir up resentment and further their political views.
I know a retired Grumman engineer who builds model planes in his basement. Nobody seems shocked.
I've got a friend who builds model trains in his basement -- not for profit! Imagine that!
My sister likes to bake things. And get this -- she does it just for the sheer enjoyment! Can you believe it? The mind boggles!
The U.S. Department of Justice announced that it had been instructed by President Bush...
Funny, i don't see any claims that George W. Bush told anyone to do anything.
Typical Slashdot bias.
P.S. Write your state senators and tell them to press on -- the trial can go on without the DOJ.
Pure genuis, gizmo. Pretend to be an idiot, and get lots of people to flame you for not reading the article before posting.
Then after they post the flames, they finally read the other replies to your post, and realize how redundant they are and, more importantly, that they're guilty of the exact thing that they flamed you for.
Brilliant.
while true; do telnet www.hotmail.com 80 <
Then just sit back and wait.
On a related note, i'd like to dispel a common myth. Real Programmers don't use 'cat > a.out' or 'cat
Was this actually more efficient than just doing the calculations on your own system? If you were on a dumb terminal, i might understand the benefit, but you say you wrote a program to hop from one connection to another -- wasn't all this overhead more computationally intensive (even just for your own system) than doing the math yourself?
Is anyone else reminded of the car Homer designed?
By running Linux, it enables much easier migration and porting of applications into the secure environment than with the current CP/Q operating system
So, um, would CP/Q be the fifth version of CP/M? That would certainly explain why they found it lacking...
When i first saw the headline, i thought it said, "Corel May Have A Buyer For Its Linux Distribution" and said to myself, "Woah! They might actually sell their first copy!"
ReplayTV is planning a post-Labor Day introduction of a souped-up DVR that could store as much as 320 hours of TV programming and send programs by email to other DVRs.
Oh, that's just super.
"I send you this episode in order to have your advice"
On a serious note, that feature is going to kick ass, and is much cooler than a couple (hundred) extra hours of storage. Imagine:
- Your favorite team makes an incredible play, but you miss the game. So you hop onto IRC and someone mails you a 60-second clip
- You're flipping channels and come across a show that you really like. So you download every previous episode.
- (I know these things are supposed to come in threes, but that's all i can think of, so use your imagination)
Not to be a "me too"er, but you're absolutely right. I was about to post a similar message; good thing i read the comments first.
It's like: A cookie goes to he who implements this first.
Not: A cookie goes to him who implements this first.
Funny how everyone wants what they don't have:
"I hate this stupid CRT. I wish i had an LCD monitor. Cheapskate boss."
"I can't wait 'till i get this laptop back to the office so i can plug it into a CRT instead of having to squint at a stupid LCD."
At the risk of being Redundant:
The great thing about this argument is that you can replace "CD-R" with "electricity" or "computers" or "The Internet" and it still holds just as well.
Score: -1, Redundant
So, did he die all at once in a sudden implosion, or gradually fade away over a long period of time?
anonymous because of the database crash that wiped out several hours of data today, sigh
That's okay. Losing Slashdot for the day was bad, but it's worth it when you picture all the trolls and karma whores desperately trying to take advantage of the second chance to get first post on the Mac metadata story.
"Gah! I click Reply and it goes back to the main page! But i need to post, it says 0 comments! Reply! Reply! Augghhh!"
Point taken. But what if there are fifty thousand shirts on the rack?
Why not make the computer understand me? Probably lots harder, but I sure would like it that why
Let's go back to my example. Pretend you don't speak any language, and you want to convey the command, "Fetch me a nice yet casual shirt for under $45 which matches this belt."
I don't see how it would be possible for someone, no matter how smart, to understand you if you wanted to say that. It's simply not possible to express that idea without the use of language.
Of course, you could point to your shirt, and they could run out and buy a bunch of shirts and you could give thumbs-up and thumbs-down and it could get an idea of the kind of shirt you wanted, but instead of going through that every single day, you'd be better off learning the language.
Well, imagine you occasionally go to a foreign country, like once a year. You can get by without learning the language. If you go to a pastry shop and want a croissant, you can point at it and they'll figure it out.
Or let's say you're a Cuban refugee who now pitches for the Yankees. You don't need to speak much of the language, you just need to know job-related words like "base" and "throw".
However, let's say you're surrounded by people who speak another lanugage, day in and day out. You work with these people and need to express complex ideas to them. You had better learn the language, because pointing and a 30-word vocabulary isn't going to allow you to convey ideas like, "Fetch me a nice yet casual shirt for under $45 which matches this belt."
Similarly, GUIs and simple keystrokes (like Alt-F4 or Ctrl-Esc) may work if you only spend time in ComputerLand occasionally or are willing to only express extremely simple ideas or are willing to take a long time to get something done using a ton of simple words when a few complex ones would suffice.
However, just like you wouldn't move to France without learning the language ASAP, or get a job as a drug cartel kingpin without becoming fluent in Spanish, you should learn to communicate with your computer through "sentences" instead of pointing if you're going to use it for any substantial amount of time at work or elsewhere.
And as computers become more pervasive, people are going to have to understand their language or else they'll be like the current members of society who can't read. (Actually, worse -- they'd be like the members who can't talk)
Or, you could actually learn how to use a GUI and not drag every file, one at a time.
Sorry, you missed his point:
You could drag every file, but you would still have to create 26 folders, name them, and then move the appropriate files to the appropriate folders.
Or you could type
for f in *; do x=`echo $f | cut -c 1`; mkdir -p $x && mv $f $x; done
Doug Michels & Ransom Love speak pre-Caldera Forum
That's nice. How about "Hemos speak English"?
But if you look at my past posts (if I get bitchslapped) then they'll all be at -1, regardless of how good they were.
I don't see any -1 posts in your User Info. There are some 0s, but IMHO you deserved them.