Right, well, asserting that Knuth's work had absolutely no influence on operating system fonts, as Jobs appears to have done in his statement, seems fishy.
All you need to do is beat the tide of stereotype reinforcing Americans...
You could as easily bail out the ocean with a spoon.
Citizens of the US could perform massive amounts of philanthropy (oh wait: they do), and it wouldn't matter, because all it takes is one moronic incident to blow all of the good will.
The US, just like one of its flagship companies, MicroSoft, is simply going to be hated so long as it exists.
Even in some hypothetical case where the US went away, it would still be hated by governments seeking to distract attention.
Remember all of these TCP/IP packets we're sending/receiving to interact with/.? DARPA project. Thanks, Department of Defense!
Read a couple of his, "Stranger in a Strange Land" is good.
He was an excellent storyteller.
His attempt at theology in "Job: a Comedy of Justice" fell short of exciting me.
Pretty cheap and easy to criticize Christianity. More or less any negative thing you can think of since the Carpenter has historical basis.
Ah, but can you offer an alternative? Heinlein's was about as effective as Ayn Rand's.
He was caught thinking freely, and some bastard monopolist patent-troll threatened him with crucifixion.
"Crucifixion or freedom?" asked the civil servant.
"Freedom. I saw that flick, and I'll just hop the next boat headed for the Seychelles, thanks," replied Hero, demonstrating pragmatism over commitment to art.
Sycophant!
If you really cared about your Slashdotistani brethren, you'd have pasted in the linked data, rather than try to lure them into some infidel trap!;)
Seriously, if you care about Gilliam as an artist, why not go buy a copy? We need to keep that guy supplied with camera lenses.
Indeed.
As with "hate crime" laws, things quickly move into "cure worse than the disease" territory.
Legislation is an unnatural ecosystem, and could use some sort of predator as a feedback loop.
You know how any programming problem can be solved with another layer of indirection?
I'd edit your statement to read "the appearance of voting is for the people".
At least with insurance, you get cartel-lock-in, not government lock-in.
I like the hypthetical possibility of changing insurers, and tweaking the policy.
Somehow elections don't seems to afford hope of improvement.
I, for one, would consider it an improvement if we could just muster the integrity to label a tax a tax.
It could even start a virtuous cycle where we start to fund military adventures through regular appropriations, and not hide the costs as emergency spending.
Yeah, but if you're trying to express a smart-alec joke in code on/., then the explicit conditional seems appropriate, if verbose. Verbosity is the friend of the n00b.
Your response is shortsighted, ignorant, and miserly. Private healthcare insurance is too exhorbitant to be compared to trifling luxuries like cable television or private transportation. Yet, that is the only option for Americans.
Your thesis clearly explains why groups such as the Amish cannot exist: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/genetics/2005 -06-27-amish-genetics_x.htm
This whole socialism thing seems like a big refactorization. The government is the server, and the people are all thin clients.
The good news is that, with 50 states, people that want a thin client know where to go, and those that abhor such know where to avoid.
The only thing not to like is some wrongheaded attempt to refactor the entire country along these lines. Not a terribly OO approach, I daresay.
Hogwash.
Gentoo is a source-based Linux distribution. A package manager.
As far as learning the system components, http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ is a far better tutorial.
But neither is intended to be a kernel introduction.
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Your arguably insightful post was kinda flattend in advance by GKH at OLS:
http://www.linux.com/feature/115767
Subsequent to your port, sure.
Some Lamers Upbraid BLUS
Savvy Llamas Understand Better.
Should Linus Use Buckshot?
Indeed, you are a double pleonasm, and should take pride in your superfluous redundancy.
Right, well, asserting that Knuth's work had absolutely no influence on operating system fonts, as Jobs appears to have done in his statement, seems fishy.
Sure am glad that Donald Knuth poseur got no undeserved credit for TeX and METAFONT.
Admittedly, those tools target publishing, but still...
Mad propz for HTTP. The point of my post wasn't to minimize anyone's effort.
You were off by 19787949 - 1 = 19787948 in your calculation.
However aren't they all integers, and therefore morally equivalent?
Citizens of the US could perform massive amounts of philanthropy (oh wait: they do), and it wouldn't matter, because all it takes is one moronic incident to blow all of the good will.
The US, just like one of its flagship companies, MicroSoft, is simply going to be hated so long as it exists.
Even in some hypothetical case where the US went away, it would still be hated by governments seeking to distract attention.
Remember all of these TCP/IP packets we're sending/receiving to interact with
Yeah, emacs.a llyTheWayToGoEvenThoughItLeadsToSomeRidiculousCode .n Rule
The proponents of this >80 nonsense AreProbablyTheSameOnesTellingYouThatCamelCaseIsRe
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/EightyColum
Given a choice between NH and its southern neighbor, NH in a heartbeat.
Read a couple of his, "Stranger in a Strange Land" is good.
He was an excellent storyteller.
His attempt at theology in "Job: a Comedy of Justice" fell short of exciting me.
Pretty cheap and easy to criticize Christianity. More or less any negative thing you can think of since the Carpenter has historical basis.
Ah, but can you offer an alternative? Heinlein's was about as effective as Ayn Rand's.
He was caught thinking freely, and some bastard monopolist patent-troll threatened him with crucifixion.
"Crucifixion or freedom?" asked the civil servant.
"Freedom. I saw that flick, and I'll just hop the next boat headed for the Seychelles, thanks," replied Hero, demonstrating pragmatism over commitment to art.
So throw a party, have some friends over, show the thing.
Sycophant! ;)
If you really cared about your Slashdotistani brethren, you'd have pasted in the linked data, rather than try to lure them into some infidel trap!
Seriously, if you care about Gilliam as an artist, why not go buy a copy? We need to keep that guy supplied with camera lenses.
The words "penetration, however slight" come to mind.
Indeed.
As with "hate crime" laws, things quickly move into "cure worse than the disease" territory.
Legislation is an unnatural ecosystem, and could use some sort of predator as a feedback loop.
You know how any programming problem can be solved with another layer of indirection?
I'd edit your statement to read "the appearance of voting is for the people".
At least with insurance, you get cartel-lock-in, not government lock-in.
I like the hypthetical possibility of changing insurers, and tweaking the policy.
Somehow elections don't seems to afford hope of improvement.
I, for one, would consider it an improvement if we could just muster the integrity to label a tax a tax.
It could even start a virtuous cycle where we start to fund military adventures through regular appropriations, and not hide the costs as emergency spending.
Yeah, but if you're trying to express a smart-alec joke in code on /., then the explicit conditional seems appropriate, if verbose. Verbosity is the friend of the n00b.
if ((uid>1000000) && RTFA) n00b = true;
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/genetics/200
This whole socialism thing seems like a big refactorization. The government is the server, and the people are all thin clients.
The good news is that, with 50 states, people that want a thin client know where to go, and those that abhor such know where to avoid.
The only thing not to like is some wrongheaded attempt to refactor the entire country along these lines. Not a terribly OO approach, I daresay.
+1 Depressingly True
Hogwash.
Gentoo is a source-based Linux distribution. A package manager.
As far as learning the system components, http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ is a far better tutorial.
But neither is intended to be a kernel introduction.