Thank you for that. I still have the Sybex version around here somewhere too, but it's nice have it in PDF. Not that I'll ever use either one again, but still...
Then again, there's still an MDS-235 and an unopened box of Dysan 8" floppies in the basement...
DB9 is an abomination. If God had meant for there to be only 9 pins on a serial connector, he would have put that in the ADM3a. This also explains why the control key goes next to the "a" key, and not the goddam "Caps Lock" key.
Actually, it's pretty brilliant marketing by Tostitos. They've decided to NOT advertise during the Super Bowl (TM), but instead came up with this gimmick. Hell, by the time the Big Game is actually on-the-air, you've already bought the Tottitos (or whatever). So they've come up with this drinking game/Uber tie-in instead.
Indeed. When I'm debugging a program and feed it new data and something completely unexpected (and obviously off-the-wall) comes out the other side, I always ask myself "Wait, what am I assuming?". This is what drives me absolutely batshit about modern cosmology:
1) The speed of light is constant, everywhere and everywhen.
2) The gravitational constant is the same, everywhere and everywhen.
3) The shape of space is uniformly flat, everywhere and everywhen.
4) Please don't get me started about standard candles.
5) Or cosmological inflation.
6) Or the (luminiferous) aether. Sorry, the Higgs field/particle/whatever.
new data
Therefore: Dark Matter!!! Dark Energy!!! QED!
Picture a boulder embedded on a steep hillside. We say it wants to roll downhill, but it really wants to fall to the center of the earth, it's just the shape of its local space that constrains it to roll downhill. Now picture a pebble sitting on top of the boulder. It's attracted to the center of the earth, but also (yes, yes, weakly) gravitationally attracted to the center of the boulder. It wants to roll down (two!) hills. Actually, it's also attracted to the Sun, and Jupiter, and the Milky Way black hole, and Andromeda; a zillion other force vectors get simplifyingly assumed away. And we're in the position of being an ant sitting on top of the pebble, making local observations and universal assumptions.
To my way of thinking, modern cosmology has posited a spherical cow of uniform density, and is baffled about where milk comes from.
Well, the green energy doesn't contribute ongoing greenhouse gasses the way coal/oil/natural gas do, and of course, methane (natural gas) is a much more powerful greenhouse gas than CO2, so watch those wellhead and pipeline leaks! Meanwhile, the efficiency of PV solar panels has been getting steadily better. Yes, storage for wind and solar is currently an issue. And last time I looked, coal and natural gas generators needed transmission lines, too, so let's call that a wash, eh?
"Obama was doing spying, a lot of spying, and it's been a disaster. We're gonna do spying, they'll be so much spying, you'll be saying "Can we stop some of the spying, just for a change of pace?", but no, we're gonna keep spying, wonderful spying, the best spying you've ever seen"...
Just how many 5-to-10 dollar-a-month streaming services do these content providers think the average demographic slice (in this case, I'm thinking 18-34 year-old males) is going to sign up for? In the first place, these guys aren't "content providers" any more than the ultra-rich are "job creators" -- CBS All Access and their ilk are simply middle men bundling/packaging content, no different than music publishers. The music industry is starting to show that people are no longer willing to pay for a full album to get a single song, and yet here's the TV industry trying to start a model to get you to buy an album (the streaming subscription service) rather than a single song (a particular series). These fractured/factionalized services might work for sports, where old content is almost valueless, but I don't see how forcing people to sign up for an ongoing subscription service in an age of binge-watching is going to work.
And as long as I'm ranting, can we please please please stop having spaceships with 15 and 20 foot ceilings and plumbing-free 12 foot wide hallways? Watch The Last Ship if you want to see what a hallway in a ship is supposed to look like.
[W]hereas Clojure is dynamically typed, as many Lisp-like languages have been, Lux is statically typed to reduce bugs and enhance performance
"Kill it, kill it! Burn it with fire! Stop it before it breaches quarantine!"
Shoot it with silver bullets, drive a wooden stake through its heart, burn the body, sprinkle the ashes with salt and holy water, seal the ashes into an iron urn covered with runes, weld it shut and bury it at a crossroads under the full moon. Then dust off and nuke the site from orbit. Even after that, I'm going to have a hard time falling asleep.
Oh, I'm well aware of that: the only time a lawyer isn't being disingenuous is when his lips aren't moving - even when he's talking about his fee, he's undoubtedly lying. I'm just pointing out the legal notion they're advancing of an "illegal product".
I think what's really interesting here is that the keylogger is described as an "illegal product" in a United States Attorney's Office press release. Those guys are lawyers, and they know the product itself is NOT illegal.
I absolutely LOVE the speed that this is picking up "Troll" and "Flamebait" mods.... Apparently there are a lot of mods here who've never watched the news.
You fraudulently bundle thousands of worthless loans together and sell them as Grade AAA investments to the unsuspecting. Millions of hoi polloi lose their homes and retirements, and the country's economy is almost destroyed. Collect 10 Billion Dollars and stay out of jail.
And:
You purchase a thriving, cash-rich company with borrowed money. Use the company's cash to institute a stock-buyback plan to increase the value of the stock options you've given yourself. Ship most of the company's jobs to overseas sweat-shops, further increasing the short-term value of your stock. Sell at the peak, rinse, repeat.
And:
You inherit 20 billion dollars. Use your pocket change to buy a few U.S. Senators and get them to change the inheritance laws.
And:
You run a large corporation. Strong-arm local and state politicians with threats to move your facilities to another state or out of the country. Get out of taxes free.
Not sure what you're talking about, OP was snarking that his washing machine hasn't exploded (yet) - as if it would simply because it's made by Samsung. This wasn't Apple saying "you're not holding it right", Samsung fessed up that their state-of-the-art engineering was a little too overoptimistic.
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Thank you for that. I still have the Sybex version around here somewhere too, but it's nice have it in PDF. Not that I'll ever use either one again, but still...
Then again, there's still an MDS-235 and an unopened box of Dysan 8" floppies in the basement...
chmod 755 a.out
chmod 644 foo.txt
DB9 is an abomination. If God had meant for there to be only 9 pins on a serial connector, he would have put that in the ADM3a. This also explains why the control key goes next to the "a" key, and not the goddam "Caps Lock" key.
Actually, it's "Floridiots".
I head Redmond, Oregon is almost completely infested with Windows 10.
This "ban" is just a half-assed stopgap. I'm waiting for him to announce his Final Solution to the Muslim Problem.
Actually, it's pretty brilliant marketing by Tostitos. They've decided to NOT advertise during the Super Bowl (TM), but instead came up with this gimmick. Hell, by the time the Big Game is actually on-the-air, you've already bought the Tottitos (or whatever). So they've come up with this drinking game/Uber tie-in instead.
"-1 Flamebait". Yeah, I get that. Kinda sad, you used to be able to have decent conversations here.
Indeed. When I'm debugging a program and feed it new data and something completely unexpected (and obviously off-the-wall) comes out the other side, I always ask myself "Wait, what am I assuming?".
This is what drives me absolutely batshit about modern cosmology:
1) The speed of light is constant, everywhere and everywhen.
2) The gravitational constant is the same, everywhere and everywhen.
3) The shape of space is uniformly flat, everywhere and everywhen.
4) Please don't get me started about standard candles.
5) Or cosmological inflation.
6) Or the (luminiferous) aether. Sorry, the Higgs field/particle/whatever.
new data
Therefore: Dark Matter!!! Dark Energy!!! QED!
Picture a boulder embedded on a steep hillside. We say it wants to roll downhill, but it really wants to fall to the center of the earth, it's just the shape of its local space that constrains it to roll downhill. Now picture a pebble sitting on top of the boulder. It's attracted to the center of the earth, but also (yes, yes, weakly) gravitationally attracted to the center of the boulder. It wants to roll down (two!) hills. Actually, it's also attracted to the Sun, and Jupiter, and the Milky Way black hole, and Andromeda; a zillion other force vectors get simplifyingly assumed away. And we're in the position of being an ant sitting on top of the pebble, making local observations and universal assumptions.
To my way of thinking, modern cosmology has posited a spherical cow of uniform density, and is baffled about where milk comes from.
Well, the green energy doesn't contribute ongoing greenhouse gasses the way coal/oil/natural gas do, and of course, methane (natural gas) is a much more powerful greenhouse gas than CO2, so watch those wellhead and pipeline leaks! Meanwhile, the efficiency of PV solar panels has been getting steadily better. Yes, storage for wind and solar is currently an issue. And last time I looked, coal and natural gas generators needed transmission lines, too, so let's call that a wash, eh?
Yup. The petro-oligarchs are in charge, and the 2/3 of the peasants can go fuck themselves.
"Obama was doing spying, a lot of spying, and it's been a disaster. We're gonna do spying, they'll be so much spying, you'll be saying "Can we stop some of the spying, just for a change of pace?", but no, we're gonna keep spying, wonderful spying, the best spying you've ever seen"...
Just how many 5-to-10 dollar-a-month streaming services do these content providers think the average demographic slice (in this case, I'm thinking 18-34 year-old males) is going to sign up for? In the first place, these guys aren't "content providers" any more than the ultra-rich are "job creators" -- CBS All Access and their ilk are simply middle men bundling/packaging content, no different than music publishers. The music industry is starting to show that people are no longer willing to pay for a full album to get a single song, and yet here's the TV industry trying to start a model to get you to buy an album (the streaming subscription service) rather than a single song (a particular series). These fractured/factionalized services might work for sports, where old content is almost valueless, but I don't see how forcing people to sign up for an ongoing subscription service in an age of binge-watching is going to work.
And as long as I'm ranting, can we please please please stop having spaceships with 15 and 20 foot ceilings and plumbing-free 12 foot wide hallways? Watch The Last Ship if you want to see what a hallway in a ship is supposed to look like.
No. Parthenogenesis (and Gynogenesis) means two X chromosomes, meaning only females can be produced.
In other news, my insurance salesman says I need more insurance.
Absolutely. Because Caesar's Fucking Palace was built so the hoi polloi could win and retire in luxury beyond the dreams of avarice.
Shoot it with silver bullets, drive a wooden stake through its heart, burn the body, sprinkle the ashes with salt and holy water, seal the ashes into an iron urn covered with runes, weld it shut and bury it at a crossroads under the full moon. Then dust off and nuke the site from orbit. Even after that, I'm going to have a hard time falling asleep.
Oh, I'm well aware of that: the only time a lawyer isn't being disingenuous is when his lips aren't moving - even when he's talking about his fee, he's undoubtedly lying. I'm just pointing out the legal notion they're advancing of an "illegal product".
I think what's really interesting here is that the keylogger is described as an "illegal product" in a United States Attorney's Office press release. Those guys are lawyers, and they know the product itself is NOT illegal.
Horseshit. This "act" is Rent-seeking at its most basic and obvious, and all the Free Market evangelism in the world won't change it.
I absolutely LOVE the speed that this is picking up "Troll" and "Flamebait" mods.... Apparently there are a lot of mods here who've never watched the news.
The new cards would say stuff like:
You fraudulently bundle thousands of worthless loans together and sell them as Grade AAA investments to the unsuspecting. Millions of hoi polloi lose their homes and retirements, and the country's economy is almost destroyed. Collect 10 Billion Dollars and stay out of jail.
And:
You purchase a thriving, cash-rich company with borrowed money. Use the company's cash to institute a stock-buyback plan to increase the value of the stock options you've given yourself. Ship most of the company's jobs to overseas sweat-shops, further increasing the short-term value of your stock. Sell at the peak, rinse, repeat.
And:
You inherit 20 billion dollars. Use your pocket change to buy a few U.S. Senators and get them to change the inheritance laws.
And:
You run a large corporation. Strong-arm local and state politicians with threats to move your facilities to another state or out of the country. Get out of taxes free.
I could (and might) go on...
But I use Gentoo. How does this affect me? (Since I'm not running systemd.)
Not sure what you're talking about, OP was snarking that his washing machine hasn't exploded (yet) - as if it would simply because it's made by Samsung. This wasn't Apple saying "you're not holding it right", Samsung fessed up that their state-of-the-art engineering was a little too overoptimistic.
Good grief. The 7 was too thin and too flexible by NANOMETERS - some battery fires resulted. Get over it.