Odds are you wouldn't be asking if you knew LaTeX, but you can do some basic-to-intermediate categorization and conditional inclusion of entries with it.
If you use a macro for everything you also get the advantage of being able to easily reformat everything if you decide one format is better than another, or even if you want to format different categories of items differently.
"If you're not pirating anything (software, MP3s, DiVX, et al) then you have nothing to worry about."
Except disk failures and bad blocks - the sort of thing that helldesk workers see about once every hour. Freeware as well. My DOS parition is useful to me ONLY as a Wine resource (it doesn't even boot on its own). If I had a disk with this support it would be useless to me, and a very expensive and crap program (VC++) would be a waste of space.
"work hard and spend a lot of money to bring us high-quality programs"
Just a little of a sweeping generalisation, there, a lot of companies write under-funded, under-scheduled crap. Most, actually. Do you *KNOW* what Microsoft's (as an example) profit margin is? And do you know how many small, hard-working companies they have destroyed? How can you possibly justify their actions in any moral system?
And don't take that moral view, most comporate prorammers don't care about the work, they just want the cheque.
"Even Windows, Slashdot's favorite target, is much better than Linux at this point."
This isn't a religious war, people on both sides have their various feelings, stay on topic. (I, personally, prefer any UNIX, and if Windows is ever all there is I will find a new profession.)
"And when you pirate software"
Who's talking about piracy? I've not got a single pirated data item on this machine, in this country fair use encompasses backups, and RAID arrays are certainly no part of licence conditions.
The main issue is where to draw the line. What if, some day, everything on your hard disk is copy-protected and your install medium was one-time use. Buy another copy? That IS the story with a lot of supposed Windows installation CDs today. My father recently bought a whole new computer because it was only a little more than buying an actual Windows installation CD, he now has two licences for the same computer (but still no actual install medium).
"The spirit of the season is Christmas."
No, the season is winter, the spirit, if it can be said to have one, is being colder than usual. Unless, of course, you're in the tropical area or the southern hemisphere, where it is summer, and probably warmer than usual.
"We should all give thanks to Jesus for dying for our sins"
If you want to believe that crap about your tree-hung godling go ahead, but don't pollute the minds of others, unless, of course, you can offer objective proof to support this view.
Yet another wonderful aspect of this invasion of privacy is that anyone with a clue could frame anyone that person could get a sample doc from. Releasing the Skyrocket address to the net at large was irresponsible behaviour based on what amounts to heresy based on an invasion of privacy.
According to the Portrait of J. Random Hacker (taken on faith as representative, granted) the Slashdot community is the perfect place for Jon to sell his book, since hackers love to read (and not just technical books), and question spiritual matters.
I doubt you'll find many hackers who qualify as materialistic. A hacker is someone who sees beyond the material, questions everything (which is why we tend towards atheism), and does for love what others can't do for money.
Personally, I find a flamer who ignorantly questions the value of philosophical thinking a very repugnant form of person. Don't merely go insulting another for what they do, if you have to question it, do so logically.
I think that is the great loss of what Jon has been talking about... the popularity of the OSS movement and being a hacker in general. Those who more recently integrate into the culture lack the proper perspective on life that being a hacker used to include by default (which is to say, generally shunned).
As Cringley pointed out, we really need to forget Microsoft and chase the dream. When it comes right down to it, the dream is all that separates the hackers from the coders...
Linux and OSS started growing because the hackers did what they wanted, when they wanted, and with an excellence born of love. Watch out that you don't trade in who you are for something as shallow as "winning" against some "great evil", or one day you'll wake up and find that you're really no better than what you replaced.
The point was to make a PR impression, not get money back. If anyone had actually expected money would they have brought signs with them? Going to Microsoft directly was clearly the only way to concentrate the effect.
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Odds are you wouldn't be asking if you knew LaTeX, but you can do some basic-to-intermediate categorization and conditional inclusion of entries with it.
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If you use a macro for everything you also get the advantage of being able to easily reformat everything if you decide one format is better than another, or even if you want to format different categories of items differently.
On the down-side, you'd have to know LateX
"If you're not pirating anything (software, MP3s, DiVX, et al) then you have nothing to worry about."
Except disk failures and bad blocks - the sort of thing that helldesk workers see about once every hour. Freeware as well. My DOS parition is useful to me ONLY as a Wine resource (it doesn't even boot on its own). If I had a disk with this support it would be useless to me, and a very expensive and crap program (VC++) would be a waste of space.
"work hard and spend a lot of money to bring us high-quality programs"
Just a little of a sweeping generalisation, there, a lot of companies write under-funded, under-scheduled crap. Most, actually. Do you *KNOW* what Microsoft's (as an example) profit margin is? And do you know how many small, hard-working companies they have destroyed? How can you possibly justify their actions in any moral system?
And don't take that moral view, most comporate prorammers don't care about the work, they just want the cheque.
"Even Windows, Slashdot's favorite target, is much better than Linux at this point."
This isn't a religious war, people on both sides have their various feelings, stay on topic. (I, personally, prefer any UNIX, and if Windows is ever all there is I will find a new profession.)
"And when you pirate software"
Who's talking about piracy? I've not got a single pirated data item on this machine, in this country fair use encompasses backups, and RAID arrays are certainly no part of licence conditions.
The main issue is where to draw the line. What if, some day, everything on your hard disk is copy-protected and your install medium was one-time use. Buy another copy? That IS the story with a lot of supposed Windows installation CDs today. My father recently bought a whole new computer because it was only a little more than buying an actual Windows installation CD, he now has two licences for the same computer (but still no actual install medium).
"The spirit of the season is Christmas."
No, the season is winter, the spirit, if it can be said to have one, is being colder than usual. Unless, of course, you're in the tropical area or the southern hemisphere, where it is summer, and probably warmer than usual.
"We should all give thanks to Jesus for dying for our sins"
If you want to believe that crap about your tree-hung godling go ahead, but don't pollute the minds of others, unless, of course, you can offer objective proof to support this view.
Segfault should RIP, Tacohell is much funnier than anything I've ever read on segfault... Even with the typeos :)
Yet another wonderful aspect of this invasion of privacy is that anyone with a clue could frame anyone that person could get a sample doc from. Releasing the Skyrocket address to the net at large was irresponsible behaviour based on what amounts to heresy based on an invasion of privacy.
According to the Portrait of J. Random Hacker (taken on faith as representative, granted) the Slashdot community is the perfect place for Jon to sell his book, since hackers love to read (and not just technical books), and question spiritual matters.
I doubt you'll find many hackers who qualify as materialistic. A hacker is someone who sees beyond the material, questions everything (which is why we tend towards atheism), and does for love what others can't do for money.
Personally, I find a flamer who ignorantly questions the value of philosophical thinking a very repugnant form of person. Don't merely go insulting another for what they do, if you have to question it, do so logically.
I think that is the great loss of what Jon has been talking about... the popularity of the OSS movement and being a hacker in general. Those who more recently integrate into the culture lack the proper perspective on life that being a hacker used to include by default (which is to say, generally shunned).
Linux and OSS started growing because the hackers did what they wanted, when they wanted, and with an excellence born of love. Watch out that you don't trade in who you are for something as shallow as "winning" against some "great evil", or one day you'll wake up and find that you're really no better than what you replaced.
Keep on hacking.
The point was to make a PR impression, not get money back. If anyone had actually expected money would they have brought signs with them? Going to Microsoft directly was clearly the only way to concentrate the effect.