While we are at it, why don't we check athletes at the airport for doping drugs before they compete in important sporting events. Maybe take away their plane ticket if the detector smells the synthetics from their sweat glands.
You know, kill two birds with one stone. Heck, I bet that this machine could establish paternity as well.
It's true the early bounties were for pennies, I believe raisng the amount by a power of two every so often, undoubtedly to protect his (probably limited at the time) bank account. He was first to make a notable stand on being responsible for the code you make.
It's also true that TeX is a typesetting program and that the code was not explicity used in wordprocessors per se'. But the important algorythms he developed were used (and I'm sure that the developers of wordperfect even admitted it) in the word processors that followed.
TeX was certainly not a WYSIWYG, and while that was important innovation for the mac, that did not stop wordstar/wordperfect 5.1 from selling a millions of copies before the mac came along.
Even though TeX was not a wordprocessor, it still provided a watershed moment for the wordprocessors that followed that any system specific text entry method earlier could not provide.
First, TeX addressed a very important need for typesetting that was not being met at the time. But more importantly it was accessible, put in the public domain to promote the public interest (before gnu was even known widely, if at all), used key algorythms that would be incorporated in other programs that followed, and meaningful effort was made to make the code error free - all combine to make TeX truly great software. Outside of all the other huge contributions that Knuth has made.
I guess the question remains is which wordprocessor. While there's Wordstar, Wordperfect, and Word that might be worthy, clearly TeX should be in first place and mentioned on his list. TeX is the father of all wordprocessors that followed, and the author Donald Knuth had such firm belief that programmers should be responsible for what they create that he paid for each bug found in the code.
This produced a completely error free program, and started a generation of programs that followed that would drive mechanical typewriters to extinction practically everywhere, and changed how we get printed text onto paper. Hence this is truly great software.
So TeX is a glaring ommission for this list, and probably should have been close to the top, if not number one.
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(still doesn't hide my downloads from other users, however)
Isn't that the point of a torrent - not being a one way leech. Am I missing something?
but what about SNAKES on a plane, ever thought of that?
Maybe that's why they won't allow rubber snakes on airplanes anymore.
Plus, with the proclivity of Greeks to be naked, you could end up with:
Greeks gifting bears bearing Greeks being bare bearing gifts.
You mean that the Greeks would be in the buff and not have any buffering?
Thanks, I'll be here all week. Back on topic now.
While we are at it, why don't we check athletes at the airport for doping drugs before they compete in important sporting events. Maybe take away their plane ticket if the detector smells the synthetics from their sweat glands.
You know, kill two birds with one stone. Heck, I bet that this machine could establish paternity as well.
It's true the early bounties were for pennies, I believe raisng the amount by a power of two every so often, undoubtedly to protect his (probably limited at the time) bank account. He was first to make a notable stand on being responsible for the code you make.
It's also true that TeX is a typesetting program and that the code was not explicity used in wordprocessors per se'. But the important algorythms he developed were used (and I'm sure that the developers of wordperfect even admitted it) in the word processors that followed.
TeX was certainly not a WYSIWYG, and while that was important innovation for the mac, that did not stop wordstar/wordperfect 5.1 from selling a millions of copies before the mac came along.
Even though TeX was not a wordprocessor, it still provided a watershed moment for the wordprocessors that followed that any system specific text entry method earlier could not provide.
First, TeX addressed a very important need for typesetting that was not being met at the time. But more importantly it was accessible, put in the public domain to promote the public interest (before gnu was even known widely, if at all), used key algorythms that would be incorporated in other programs that followed, and meaningful effort was made to make the code error free - all combine to make TeX truly great software. Outside of all the other huge contributions that Knuth has made.
I guess the question remains is which wordprocessor. While there's Wordstar, Wordperfect, and Word that might be worthy, clearly TeX should be in first place and mentioned on his list. TeX is the father of all wordprocessors that followed, and the author Donald Knuth had such firm belief that programmers should be responsible for what they create that he paid for each bug found in the code.
This produced a completely error free program, and started a generation of programs that followed that would drive mechanical typewriters to extinction practically everywhere, and changed how we get printed text onto paper. Hence this is truly great software.
So TeX is a glaring ommission for this list, and probably should have been close to the top, if not number one.
FTA A major problem is that the view is so powerful that an individual's private parts can be seen
So the x-ray glasses advertised in comic magazines really do work. I was always wondering about that. How is this a problem?
Are you glad to see me or is that a tube of toothpaste in your pocket that you're gonna use to blow the plane??
What brand of air freshener do you use? Do you like incense? Have you ever experienced Febreze scentstories?
My thoughts exactly. I also bet they scraped penicillin off the aliens found at Roswell too.
Dear aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all.
Does that mean I should try harder until they buy me dinner?
What it means is Dear Aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all.
The laptops are part of Nigeria's "leave no scammer behind" initiative.
Where are they going to move the Stargate to then?
They have to write this into the Stargate plot somehow. Otherwise the Stargate program then would be fiction. Oh, wait.
But correct me if I'm mistaken, isn't this supposed to be "Your rights online"
All cell phones that can take a picture are capable of accessing the internet, and hence it is online.
Disagree with me, and I'll call the cops on you.
crap
Worse, it's mobile crap.
Noooooooooooooooo!!!! WHY, God, WHY!?!
Don't worry, there's always Linuxinternals. Microsoft actually loves you and wants you to use it.
It's the "Brotherhood of Linux" that prevents malware being written for Linux computers and why there are no Linux zombie botnets.
capital magically comes to you with the Capitalism Fairy or something.
Well I do know that the Capital Fairy at one time liked a cute sock puppet and the word "synergy" a lot. It seemed pretty magical to me.
...or is it? MWAHAHAHA!!!
...as he washes his hands with anti-bacterial soap.
I want inside the google party plane!!
Looks like they could use a bit more cash to keep their site up and running.
Actually their servers cashed out.
It's just pulp to get people riled up and screaming.
It's not pulp, but small reusable pellets. Remember that slashdot is green.
What's this?!?! A bluescreen?!?! I'M AIRBORN AAAAARRRRRRrrrrgghh!!....