For the love of god, can you NOT link to sites that blast a video commercial on full blast??? Sound spam! Unsolicited spam! Coworkers disturbed! Nerves jarred! Faith in humanity lost! Pants soiled! Mouse broken due to frantic search for "stop" button!
Whereas KDE policy is "If you disKover some empty spaKe, add an useless feature or somethinK very very irritatinK. The iKon must be shiny, rotatinK, and Kontain at least one K.", the GNOME policy is the opposite: "If you find a feature, it might confuse a user, so remove it." [1]
I am a kickass programmer, that is why I am spending my time writing comments on Slashdot. When I was only 2 years old I had created my first hello world program on a computer I had created using nothing but pinball relays and twine. Did I mention that I invented the first Apple computer? I gave credit to Steve Wozniak because I am a charitable person and I have no qualms about the size of my programming penis.
So, about this assembly language thing. If you want to be a good programmer (like me), you will learn how to do assembly language for every single processor -- including ones that were outdated 30 years ago. Let me put it this way: you are a moron if you don't know assembly, and you are an even bigger moron if you don't write your own webserver, compiler, and quantum computer on a daily basis in assembly -- like I do.
You young whippersnappers don't understand that real programmers carry data between registers in leaky buckets uphill both ways.
Listen, my programming expertise might appear like it is drawn exclusively from reading wikipedia, but I assure you that it is much much greater than that!
Did I mention that I wrote my own webserver in Brain****, it is more secure than OpenBSD and runs in 8k of ram?
Oh, and yes, I am not insecure about my job position, my achievements in life, my salary, or the intelligence of people younger than me. I am most certainly too busy being successful to write this comment on Slashdot to impress other successful people who write thousands of lines of x86 assembly that run missile silos and medical equipment.
Someone once said that on the internet, everyone has a 12-inch constantly hard penis. All of the other suckers have to lie about it -- with me, it's the truth!
By the way, I rock. I am cool. Really, I'm not a loser.
Just my personal preferences, but I imagine lots of people will agree with me.
0. Start Safari, get Firefox, remove Safari from the dock. 1. OS X Developer tools. Going to be compiling lots of stuff. 2. Subversion. 3. VLC 4. TextMate 5. GraphViz 6. Clisp 7. SBCL 8. XWindows
I was so impressed with the compile speed on my new MacBook. I blink and it is done. (Except for compiling Erlang, that took 30 minutes and burned a hole through my desk. Dude.)
>> Perelman, Wiles, and most other serious mathematicians like to be left alone.
>This is hardly the case. Most mathematicians (yes, even "serious" >ones) realize that mathematics is not exclusively writing down a >series of logical statements which prove difficult theorems.
You're certainly correct about this. But I'm talking about non-mathematicians. The mathematicians I've met at MIT do talk frequently and excitedly to other mathematicians and talented students, but they don't have a lot of time for anything else.
I was thinking this: when was the last time you saw a famous mathematician on Nightline or the Today show? They don't go in for that crap.
>> Moreover, the Clay Institute intends to use the $1m dollars to >>promote Mathematics education in Russia. I think all parties are >>winners here.
>I'm not sure where this came from, but this is almost certainly not >the case. The Clay Institute has yet to officially decide how the >prize will be distributed among mathematician(s) (if at all), let >alone a contingency plan for what to do if one of the recipients >declines the award.
You know, I read it on the internet somewhere. That's a flawless standard of evidence. Do you deny what I heard what some other guy heard from some dude might have read on wikipedia?
... to refuse a major math prize. Alexander Grothendieck also won the Fields medal but turned down the Crafoord price, a similar but less prestigious award for mathematical achievement.
John Paul Sartre also turned down a Nobel Prize because he did not want himself associated with institutions or prizes.
I wonder if in the future an individual will turn down one of these major prizes on the grounds that the bulk of his/her knowledge was discovered, developed, and perpetuated by the work of people in society as a whole.
I can see this argument being made in Mathematics, where any serious and insightful contribution is necessarily based on dozens, if not hundreds, of years of complex and insightful mathematical discoveries. During my mathematical education I truly felt like I was a history class and only the insane math olympiad types ever managed to catch up with the present. (This is true except for fluid dynamics and combinatorics -- those fields are still wide open because fluid dynamics is extraordinarily hard and combinatorics is fairly new as a serious mathematical discipline.)
I personally still think that some people deserve special recognition for advancing the whole field as a whole -- I believe the hypothetical argument above is not very compelling.
Perelman, Wiles, and most other serious mathematicians like to be left alone. I'm not sure that Perelman will like it if NPR is calling him for comment about the latest mathematical discovery. I think his argument against becoming a figurehead is fairly sound; it is good that the Clay institute and the Fields people are not taking his refusals as a sign of disrespect.
Moreover, the Clay Institute intends to use the $1m dollars to promote Mathematics education in Russia. I think all parties are winners here.
Scene: A scientist (Albert) and a zero-point-energy fan (Crackpot) are at the bottom of a very deep well.
Albert: Well, it may be cold and wet here, but at least we can't get any lower! I guess that is some sort of consolation. Crackpot: What are you talking about? We're still filled with potential energy! If we could harvest the potential energy we could get from going a foot lower, we could use it to boost our way out of here! Albert: Um... no. Crackpot: What do you mean? Do you work for the oil companies or something?! Albert: The amount of potential energy you have depends on where you define your lowest point. Typically we set the "zero" point to be the point where you can't fall any further. Since you can't obtain any energy by any means at that point, that means there is no potential energy left. Crackpot: But what if we dig down another foot? Albert: Do you have any idea how much energy that would require to do that? Crackpot: Fine, we'll dig down 20 feet to extract more energy, and that will pay for the energy expense of digging.
Albert looks confused. He thinks he might be missing a subtle joke. He decides that he isn't deficient in humor -- his companion is deficient in brainpower. Albert unfurrows his brow and tries to talk some sense into his friend.
Albert: Ok. Let's consider two situations. We've got our situation right now -- we're at the bottom of a well with no way out -- and another situation. In the other situation an evil man is dangling two jet-packs on a fishing line right above our heads. The man will always pull the jet packs out of our reach whenever we try to grab them. The man will never get tired and he will never let us have the jet packs no matter what we do. No matter how long or hard we try, we won't get the jet packs. Question: is it easier to get out of the well in the first situation, or in the second situation? Crackpot: What does this have to do with getting access to our latent potential energy? Albert: (sighs) Crackpot: I have a shovel and some rubber bands. You try to talk to the guy with the jet packs while I dig.
I reject the traditional concepts of maturity. I refuse to spend my life doing things I don't like because of some outmoded notion of 'have to.' The pressure to grow up, to think like an adult, is ridiculous and useless from an objective standpoint.
Good luck with that. I hope you enjoy starving to death.
Dell inside on rice. Very Pleasant! I am beyond also and the to because the of the coulds. Ha! Drivers go ache, modprobe very much, thank you, goodnight.
Red Hat RHEL total is a percentage and that would also be good. Everyday we are working, much of the governments of concern is the base. Is funny, like a GNOME fish.
Among our language, the word is: Tiger! Everyday, we are Linux. Dell sails among the goods every year planting to the ontowards.
25% tells me: women are like that. Ha! Glad male spread on bread gone to Red Hat Linux -- me!
Really, I am sure that is something. For the tommorrow.
At MIT we do something similar. The root password for the machines is known by everybody, but remote login on those machines is impossible. You can do a su command so you can do things like load CDs; all activities performed as root will be traceable to your account. I believe the su commmand has limitations; you can't really change any of the core configurations of the machine.
However, if you login as root, security folks come over in a couple of minutes. It sets off alarm bells.
Slashdot Mirror
For the love of god, can you NOT link to sites that blast a video commercial on full blast??? Sound spam! Unsolicited spam! Coworkers disturbed! Nerves jarred! Faith in humanity lost! Pants soiled! Mouse broken due to frantic search for "stop" button!
Lawsuit!!!
Old! Lame! Unoriginal! Enough with the damned chairs!
Whereas KDE policy is "If you disKover some empty spaKe, add an useless feature or somethinK very very irritatinK. The iKon must be shiny, rotatinK, and Kontain at least one K.", the GNOME policy is the opposite: "If you find a feature, it might confuse a user, so remove it." [1]
oh for the love of god just please shut up!
I can't decide which I hate more: Slashdot, or myself (for reading Slashdot.)
I am a kickass programmer, that is why I am spending my time writing comments on Slashdot. When I was only 2 years old I had created my first hello world program on a computer I had created using nothing but pinball relays and twine. Did I mention that I invented the first Apple computer? I gave credit to Steve Wozniak because I am a charitable person and I have no qualms about the size of my programming penis.
So, about this assembly language thing. If you want to be a good programmer (like me), you will learn how to do assembly language for every single processor -- including ones that were outdated 30 years ago. Let me put it this way: you are a moron if you don't know assembly, and you are an even bigger moron if you don't write your own webserver, compiler, and quantum computer on a daily basis in assembly -- like I do.
You young whippersnappers don't understand that real programmers carry data between registers in leaky buckets uphill both ways.
Listen, my programming expertise might appear like it is drawn exclusively from reading wikipedia, but I assure you that it is much much greater than that!
Did I mention that I wrote my own webserver in Brain****, it is more secure than OpenBSD and runs in 8k of ram?
Oh, and yes, I am not insecure about my job position, my achievements in life, my salary, or the intelligence of people younger than me. I am most certainly too busy being successful to write this comment on Slashdot to impress other successful people who write thousands of lines of x86 assembly that run missile silos and medical equipment.
Someone once said that on the internet, everyone has a 12-inch constantly hard penis. All of the other suckers have to lie about it -- with me, it's the truth!
By the way, I rock. I am cool. Really, I'm not a loser.
Just my personal preferences, but I imagine lots of people will agree with me.
0. Start Safari, get Firefox, remove Safari from the dock.
1. OS X Developer tools. Going to be compiling lots of stuff.
2. Subversion.
3. VLC
4. TextMate
5. GraphViz
6. Clisp
7. SBCL
8. XWindows
I was so impressed with the compile speed on my new MacBook. I blink and it is done. (Except for compiling
Erlang, that took 30 minutes and burned a hole through my desk. Dude.)
When asked about how to improve Pittsburgh, the famous architect had an immediate reply:
"Abandon it."
Cross out 'Pittsburgh', replace with 'COBOL', you get the idea.
Ha! I love it when people copy their comments from this site!
Grand archive of fools and their foolish comments on Gentoo...
Obligatory. It never gets old.
Kale mondo frappe, ale fries airplane, Kelsey Grammar plastic child murder? Aim shellac muffin for peculiar trunk happenings; if cup, then Kant.
Really, correspondence illness on the hole-punch makes coins go, so why the sad face, shovel?
>> Perelman, Wiles, and most other serious mathematicians like to be left alone.
>This is hardly the case. Most mathematicians (yes, even "serious" >ones) realize that mathematics is not exclusively writing down a >series of logical statements which prove difficult theorems.
You're certainly correct about this. But I'm talking about non-mathematicians. The mathematicians I've met at MIT do talk frequently and excitedly to other mathematicians and talented students, but they don't have a lot of time for anything else.
I was thinking this: when was the last time you saw a famous mathematician on Nightline or the Today show? They don't go in for that crap.
>> Moreover, the Clay Institute intends to use the $1m dollars to >>promote Mathematics education in Russia. I think all parties are >>winners here.
>I'm not sure where this came from, but this is almost certainly not >the case. The Clay Institute has yet to officially decide how the >prize will be distributed among mathematician(s) (if at all), let >alone a contingency plan for what to do if one of the recipients >declines the award.
You know, I read it on the internet somewhere. That's a flawless standard of evidence. Do you deny what I heard what some other guy heard from some dude might have read on wikipedia?
... to refuse a major math prize. Alexander Grothendieck also won the Fields medal but turned down the Crafoord price, a similar but less prestigious award for mathematical achievement.
John Paul Sartre also turned down a Nobel Prize because he did not want himself associated with institutions or prizes.
I wonder if in the future an individual will turn down one of these major prizes on the grounds that the bulk of his/her knowledge was discovered, developed, and perpetuated by the work of people in society as a whole.
I can see this argument being made in Mathematics, where any serious and insightful contribution is necessarily based on dozens, if not hundreds, of years of complex and insightful mathematical discoveries. During my mathematical education I truly felt like I was a history class and only the insane math olympiad types ever managed to catch up with the present. (This is true except for fluid dynamics and combinatorics -- those fields are still wide open because fluid dynamics is extraordinarily hard and combinatorics is fairly new as a serious mathematical discipline.)
I personally still think that some people deserve special recognition for advancing the whole field as a whole -- I believe the hypothetical argument above is not very compelling.
Perelman, Wiles, and most other serious mathematicians like to be left alone. I'm not sure that Perelman will like it if NPR is calling him for comment about the latest mathematical discovery. I think his argument against becoming a figurehead is fairly sound; it is good that the Clay institute and the Fields people are not taking his refusals as a sign of disrespect.
Moreover, the Clay Institute intends to use the $1m dollars to promote Mathematics education in Russia. I think all parties are winners here.
Scene: A scientist (Albert) and a zero-point-energy fan (Crackpot) are at the bottom of a very deep well.
Albert: Well, it may be cold and wet here, but at least we can't get any lower! I guess that is some sort of consolation.
Crackpot: What are you talking about? We're still filled with potential energy! If we could harvest the potential energy we could get from going a foot lower, we could use it to boost our way out of here!
Albert: Um... no.
Crackpot: What do you mean? Do you work for the oil companies or something?!
Albert: The amount of potential energy you have depends on where you define your lowest point. Typically we set the "zero" point to be the point where you can't fall any further. Since you can't obtain any energy by any means at that point, that means there is no potential energy left.
Crackpot: But what if we dig down another foot?
Albert: Do you have any idea how much energy that would require to do that?
Crackpot: Fine, we'll dig down 20 feet to extract more energy, and that will pay for the energy expense of digging.
Albert looks confused. He thinks he might be missing a subtle joke. He decides that he isn't deficient in humor -- his companion is deficient in brainpower. Albert unfurrows his brow and tries to talk some sense into his friend.
Albert: Ok. Let's consider two situations. We've got our situation right now -- we're at the bottom of a well with no way out -- and another situation. In the other situation an evil man is dangling two jet-packs on a fishing line right above our heads. The man will always pull the jet packs out of our reach whenever we try to grab them. The man will never get tired and he will never let us have the jet packs no matter what we do. No matter how long or hard we try, we won't get the jet packs. Question: is it easier to get out of the well in the first situation, or in the second situation?
Crackpot: What does this have to do with getting access to our latent potential energy?
Albert: (sighs)
Crackpot: I have a shovel and some rubber bands. You try to talk to the guy with the jet packs while I dig.
Albert drowns himself. Fin.
I reject the traditional concepts of maturity. I refuse to spend my life doing things I don't like because of some outmoded notion of 'have to.' The pressure to grow up, to think like an adult, is ridiculous and useless from an objective standpoint.
Good luck with that. I hope you enjoy starving to death.
Q:How many prolog programmers does it take to screw in a
lightbulb?
A: No.
Enough with the chairs! It's not funny anymore!
If they can make $25 mil with just 21 employees, think how much they could make if they hired 500 employees?
... you work in management at Microsoft, right?
I'm sorry, I needed to say it...
(slashbotting ends now.)
... to read it out loud while the disco accordion is playing in the background. Then you realize it has been a huge joke.
Disco Accordion here
Orderly animate an eck master. Red Hat Gentoo, fellate, implying ectopic pregnancy! (As seen on Digg! Ho Ho!)
Jackson family Beowulf cluster?
Grep like a talking dog say: Worst. RedHat. Ever.
Tiger!
Hello!
Dell inside on rice. Very Pleasant! I am beyond also and the to because the of the coulds. Ha! Drivers go ache, modprobe very much, thank you, goodnight.
Red Hat RHEL total is a percentage and that would also be good. Everyday we are working, much of the governments of concern is the base. Is funny, like a GNOME fish.
Among our language, the word is: Tiger! Everyday, we are Linux. Dell sails among the goods every year planting to the ontowards.
25% tells me: women are like that. Ha! Glad male spread on bread gone to Red Hat Linux -- me!
Really, I am sure that is something. For the tommorrow.
Confuse myself!
I was responding to a racist and immature post that was removed. Now that it is removed, my post makes no sense.
I don't mind now that the post is gone.
I'm assuming this is a joke. It is in very poor taste. Grow up,
you're not shocking anyone.
Nowadays the government doesn't even need to threaten prosecution: they just have to threaten legislation!
"Listen buddy, do what we say, or we'll make it the law of the land that you have to do what we say!"
I doubt I am alone in saying that this disturbs me. I personally will follow the law when it is... actually the law.
At MIT we do something similar. The root password for the machines is known by everybody, but remote login on those machines is impossible. You can do a su command so you can do things like load CDs; all activities performed as root will be traceable to your account. I believe the su commmand has limitations; you can't really change any of the core configurations of the machine.
However, if you login as root, security folks come over in a couple of minutes. It sets off alarm bells.
Is the licensing still restrictive? If that is the case, it doesn't really matter for most of us.