I did, like most people living outside of Disneyl^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hthe US. Twelve years ago, they buried alive iraqi soldiers, why would they change their ways?.
Most of us thought that the original trilogy was great making use of special effects, and that better special effects would make a better movie, int he "amazing" department. The problem is that AOTC and Phantom Menace are not amazing, you know? like Matrix I, that feeling that you can't close you mouth? A new hope is not good, but it was cool. I was not hoping for good movies, I was hoping for cool movies, and they are lame.
In the case of your post, HTML-hating people would read something like this, according to lynx:
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I totally agree!!!
It seems to me that converting HTML to plain old text should be a
perfectly fine choice for those who don't want to read your
dumbass, pointless markup.
; Some people really like using HTML, and everybody should respect
that.
Those who read this hoseshit from the command line can just suck it up
and deal with it.
-- Anyway, in this particular case, I would just mark your mail as junk in mozila thunderbird, but that's just me.
(I was going to mod you down, but I understood that its a good comment, I just think you are wrong)
Nonsense. HTML mail should be rendered as HTML. If you want to see text-only, or something, you can just read mail as text-only, in your client. If I send mail with baloons, it is because I want people to see my beautiful baloons and gothic handwriting. Messing with that is mangling communication, the other person thinks you saw something you didn't.
No one I know abuses HTML mail to the extent of making it hard to read. If I had friends like that, they wouldn't know my email address.
Maybe you just need to be more picky about giving your address to people.
It is and interesting number, twelve, it would be nice to use base-12 everywhere, even taking into account that we have only 10 fingers, so counting with fingers would become harder.
The fact is that we use base 10 everywhere, so base-12 or base-60 is difficult. Even if we used base 7 for regular math, it would be better to use it everywhere.
Again, 80 times the size of a part of my thumb is a hard way to know the heigth of a person. I understand that you know your measure in feet and inches, calculate the difference and compare, but I was just saying that that comparison is easier when you are using base ten, because math is usually in base ten, so it's easier to know that a person 1,50m is 25% shorter than a person 2m tall, so you can instantly have an idea of a comparison, while 6'8" compared to 5' needs two calculations, 5-6, then 8-0, then i get 1'8", which I need to put in feet or inches to compare to 6'8". I understand that those are easy operatios when you learn them at school, but my point is that there is no need to learn a way to use arithmetics in the real world different than the one we use for regular mathematics. Unless you use base 12 for science too, which would explain the space shuttle, for example.
Thanks, that must be the explanation, I am on the wrong side of the bell curve.
Anyone who doesn't find the lenght of 80 thumb portions useful to estimate the height of a person must be on the other side of people from the US.
Taking into account that your elected leader is a person with below than average IQ, I must assume that you mean "IQ graph" by "bell curve", and that I have too high an IQ to understand the US feet - inches system. Thanks, I get that all the time, being a nerd and all, everybody thinks I have a high IQ but nobody had told me I had too high an IQ to understand something. It makes sense now, thanks.
Screw it, the thickness of the blade is more than a milimeter, so you will break the meter into parts of more or less 33,3 cm (that's the measure we use for that kind of measures, mostly because a cm is about the width of a finger). Anyway, the real advantage or the metric system, is that we have ten fingers, and we can count with them, and adding is easy, while adding inches, and calculating how tall is a person who is 6'8" is very difficult without pen and paper, meters and cm and mm are just base 10, like regular mathematics.
In my country (Uruguay), we get most of our energy from the rivers, and could take the rest from the wind, if it were cost-efficient. Weel, _right_now_ we are having a kind of a hidroelectric power shortage, but anyways the average pollution throughout the year is much lower than burning coal, so at least here electric cars would be much cleaner.
That's not piracy. Piracy is killing, robbing, raping, like pirates did. Unauthorized copying of copyrighted works is not killing, raping, or robbing. Calling someone a killer because he copies CDs is not fair, although he might be coing comething worng, it has nothing to do with killing, robbing or raping. That comparison is funded by big media companies that try to make everybody thing that people who copy CDs are reaaaaaaally baaaaaad, and should be shot or hanged, and their belongings given to these companies. Don't buy it, please.
Isn't capitalism just an economic anarchy? I believe that capitalism is just the failure of the humanity to provide a just way of distributing wealth. For example, the USSR tried communism, failed, and what is left is capitalism. But I don't think of capitalism as a way to organize, just the lack of a system. Free for all is what you have when you have no system at all. When ou look at it, or al least when I look at it, it can be found that most of the laws in a capitalistic country go _against_ the basis of capitalism, they are in place just to amminorate the damage that the concentration of capital can do (for example, work hours, minimum wage, welfare, retirement, income taxes ). To my belief, capitalism is just a name for anarchy economics, what happens naturally when the government does nothing, and that's why nobody implements true capitalism, even the most capitalistic societies.
Microsoft has no obligation whatsoever to provide any freebies to folks with illegally copied (the P word - "pirated" - seems to be politically incorrect here at Slashdot) versions of Windows.
The word you are looking for is "copy". Every copy is illegal to the eyes of MS.
Anyway, "pirate" is a stupid word to use for someone who copies a piece of software. Pirates attacked ships, robbed, raped, killed. There is a difference. Using the word "pirate" is making the assumption that making unauthorized copies of software is equivalent to killing, raping and robbing. It's just a marketing thing that was used by record companies, and it just worked. Now we are using a word that describe a killer, to talk about a person who copies a CD. Think "diamonds are forever", that's a marketing thing that just worked, even though it's not true. It sounds good, and most people who don't know better, believe it's true, while it's just a marketng thing. The problem with the "P" word is that if we keep saying that copying CDs is as bad as raping, killing and robbing, people who don't know better start to believe it's true. That's the power of the language. In Uruguay, my country, people who don't know what they are buying, get a computer with a copy of Windows preinstalled (that trend is changing), for which Microsoft gets no money, and know nothing about licenses. I'd rather not call them pirates, just stupid.
Sorry, I learned Java, and never looked back. I hate pointers, and I don't think my time, or my mind should be wasted testing for that kind of thing. Especially with the newest CPUs, there is a need for automated memory managing, think multiple pipelines, multiple caches, you shouldn't handle that kind of thing from the programmers perspective, unless you are writing a OS kernel or an optimizing compiler.
Kind of like how Pong was so popular because of its story? Then Ms. Pac-Man totally had a better story, which is why it was so popular.
Well, one of the reasons why I kept on playing Ms Pac-Man for hours was the story, I thought it was fun, and wanted to know what happened next. Not to say the game itself wasn't fun.
I know that there is more than one way to do it, but when it comes to a programming language and such a simple structure, I think it would be better to have separate while and for constructs. (Pascal rulz (or is that ruld?)!:)
I am from Uruguay, you insensitive clod! (where we speak Spanish, which is not at all like English)
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That I heard lotsa times. I have seen people editing with vi, and it even looks painful!! I know that maybe you type less keystrokes or something, but in human-computer interaction, it's not the most important measure. What could help you much more is if you didn't have to think about your editing. I can see that vi has shorter replace commands, but the problem is that you have to stop your editing to issue them, and on Joe, or any other not-so-modal editor, you don't, and that means speed. I, for one, use Joe just because I like it, and don't like Emacs keystrokes, and half of my day I edit config files and SQL queries on Joe.
I don't think that "it's a steep curve, but once you learn it it's powerful" statement is true, I have coworkers who use vi from as long as I have been using Linux, and it's painful to watch them do it. Maybe if you are fast you will be fast, even with vi, but that talks good about your speed, and wpm, but not about vi.
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I did, like most people living outside of Disneyl^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hthe US. Twelve years ago, they buried alive iraqi soldiers, why would they change their ways?.
I believe it's relevant to the topic. The human genome is not patentable, at least in most countries.
I renamed my firefox start script to "firefox.sh", and recated a new script
slapt-get --upgrade
Most of us thought that the original trilogy was great making use of special effects, and that better special effects would make a better movie, int he "amazing" department.
The problem is that AOTC and Phantom Menace are not amazing, you know? like Matrix I, that feeling that you can't close you mouth?
A new hope is not good, but it was cool.
I was not hoping for good movies, I was hoping for cool movies, and they are lame.
It asks to come back to ripping off Akira Kurosawa, who did the same to Shakespeare, who did the same to many people.
In the case of your post, HTML-hating people would read something like this, according to lynx:--
Anyway, in this particular case, I would just mark your mail as junk in mozila thunderbird, but that's just me.
(I was going to mod you down, but I understood that its a good comment, I just think you are wrong)
Nonsense. HTML mail should be rendered as HTML. If you want to see text-only, or something, you can just read mail as text-only, in your client. If I send mail with baloons, it is because I want people to see my beautiful baloons and gothic handwriting. Messing with that is mangling communication, the other person thinks you saw something you didn't.
No one I know abuses HTML mail to the extent of making it hard to read. If I had friends like that, they wouldn't know my email address.
Maybe you just need to be more picky about giving your address to people.
LCD monitors emit polarized light, if you use polarized glasses, it will be black, not dark, at least most of the times.
It is and interesting number, twelve, it would be nice to use base-12 everywhere, even taking into account that we have only 10 fingers, so counting with fingers would become harder.
The fact is that we use base 10 everywhere, so base-12 or base-60 is difficult. Even if we used base 7 for regular math, it would be better to use it everywhere.
Again, 80 times the size of a part of my thumb is a hard way to know the heigth of a person. I understand that you know your measure in feet and inches, calculate the difference and compare, but I was just saying that that comparison is easier when you are using base ten, because math is usually in base ten, so it's easier to know that a person 1,50m is 25% shorter than a person 2m tall, so you can instantly have an idea of a comparison, while 6'8" compared to 5' needs two calculations, 5-6, then 8-0, then i get 1'8", which I need to put in feet or inches to compare to 6'8". I understand that those are easy operatios when you learn them at school, but my point is that there is no need to learn a way to use arithmetics in the real world different than the one we use for regular mathematics. Unless you use base 12 for science too, which would explain the space shuttle, for example.
Thanks, that must be the explanation, I am on the wrong side of the bell curve.
Anyone who doesn't find the lenght of 80 thumb portions useful to estimate the height of a person must be on the other side of people from the US.
Taking into account that your elected leader is a person with below than average IQ, I must assume that you mean "IQ graph" by "bell curve", and that I have too high an IQ to understand the US feet - inches system. Thanks, I get that all the time, being a nerd and all, everybody thinks I have a high IQ but nobody had told me I had too high an IQ to understand something. It makes sense now, thanks.
Screw it, the thickness of the blade is more than a milimeter, so you will break the meter into parts of more or less 33,3 cm (that's the measure we use for that kind of measures, mostly because a cm is about the width of a finger). Anyway, the real advantage or the metric system, is that we have ten fingers, and we can count with them, and adding is easy, while adding inches, and calculating how tall is a person who is 6'8" is very difficult without pen and paper, meters and cm and mm are just base 10, like regular mathematics.
In my country (Uruguay), we get most of our energy from the rivers, and could take the rest from the wind, if it were cost-efficient. Weel, _right_now_ we are having a kind of a hidroelectric power shortage, but anyways the average pollution throughout the year is much lower than burning coal, so at least here electric cars would be much cleaner.
Zinc Air??
That's not piracy. Piracy is killing, robbing, raping, like pirates did. Unauthorized copying of copyrighted works is not killing, raping, or robbing. Calling someone a killer because he copies CDs is not fair, although he might be coing comething worng, it has nothing to do with killing, robbing or raping.
That comparison is funded by big media companies that try to make everybody thing that people who copy CDs are reaaaaaaally baaaaaad, and should be shot or hanged, and their belongings given to these companies. Don't buy it, please.
Isn't capitalism just an economic anarchy?
I believe that capitalism is just the failure of the humanity to provide a just way of distributing wealth. For example, the USSR tried communism, failed, and what is left is capitalism. But I don't think of capitalism as a way to organize, just the lack of a system. Free for all is what you have when you have no system at all. When ou look at it, or al least when I look at it, it can be found that most of the laws in a capitalistic country go _against_ the basis of capitalism, they are in place just to amminorate the damage that the concentration of capital can do (for example, work hours, minimum wage, welfare, retirement, income taxes ).
To my belief, capitalism is just a name for anarchy economics, what happens naturally when the government does nothing, and that's why nobody implements true capitalism, even the most capitalistic societies.
Microsoft has no obligation whatsoever to provide any freebies to folks with illegally copied (the P word - "pirated" - seems to be politically incorrect here at Slashdot) versions of Windows.
The word you are looking for is "copy". Every copy is illegal to the eyes of MS.
Anyway, "pirate" is a stupid word to use for someone who copies a piece of software. Pirates attacked ships, robbed, raped, killed. There is a difference. Using the word "pirate" is making the assumption that making unauthorized copies of software is equivalent to killing, raping and robbing. It's just a marketing thing that was used by record companies, and it just worked. Now we are using a word that describe a killer, to talk about a person who copies a CD. Think "diamonds are forever", that's a marketing thing that just worked, even though it's not true. It sounds good, and most people who don't know better, believe it's true, while it's just a marketng thing. The problem with the "P" word is that if we keep saying that copying CDs is as bad as raping, killing and robbing, people who don't know better start to believe it's true. That's the power of the language.
In Uruguay, my country, people who don't know what they are buying, get a computer with a copy of Windows preinstalled (that trend is changing), for which Microsoft gets no money, and know nothing about licenses. I'd rather not call them pirates, just stupid.
Sorry, I learned Java, and never looked back. I hate pointers, and I don't think my time, or my mind should be wasted testing for that kind of thing. Especially with the newest CPUs, there is a need for automated memory managing, think multiple pipelines, multiple caches, you shouldn't handle that kind of thing from the programmers perspective, unless you are writing a OS kernel or an optimizing compiler.
And many customers would demand that the parts be made in North America - they wouldn't accept made in China or Taiwan.
Sigh. I miss working at JDS.
I guess they accept parts from China or Taiwan now : )
Kind of like how Pong was so popular because of its story? Then Ms. Pac-Man totally had a better story, which is why it was so popular.
Well, one of the reasons why I kept on playing Ms Pac-Man for hours was the story, I thought it was fun, and wanted to know what happened next. Not to say the game itself wasn't fun.
not a marketing term , although moronic
"for" loops are _too_ versatile.
I know that there is more than one way to do it, but when it comes to a programming language and such a simple structure, I think it would be better to have separate while and for constructs. (Pascal rulz (or is that ruld?)!:)
I am from Uruguay, you insensitive clod!
(where we speak Spanish, which is not at all like English)
That I heard lotsa times. I have seen people editing with vi, and it even looks painful!!
I know that maybe you type less keystrokes or something, but in human-computer interaction, it's not the most important measure. What could help you much more is if you didn't have to think about your editing. I can see that vi has shorter replace commands, but the problem is that you have to stop your editing to issue them, and on Joe, or any other not-so-modal editor, you don't, and that means speed. I, for one, use Joe just because I like it, and don't like Emacs keystrokes, and half of my day I edit config files and SQL queries on Joe.
I don't think that "it's a steep curve, but once you learn it it's powerful" statement is true, I have coworkers who use vi from as long as I have been using Linux, and it's painful to watch them do it. Maybe if you are fast you will be fast, even with vi, but that talks good about your speed, and wpm, but not about vi.