I`m not trying to start a flamewar or stir up trouble but there are other ways of protecting your interests without pissing everybody else off in the process.
fair enough, sweden and norway are pretty laid back though, I can`t remember the last time I heard either of those countries getting into a pissing contest with anyone.
The point being that you don`t have to be a slavering animal on the world stage to keep your culture or identity - America are WAY too aggressive and it pisses the rest of the world off, particularly those in the middle east.
Relax ffs and enjoy your "freedom", just don`t ram it down everybody else`s throat.
I`m not talking abouth the bombing - I`m talking about the cheering. While I agree that cheering this act of terrorism, with all the sickening news coverage it has had, is pretty bad, so is cheering the bombing of bagdad - its just the news coverage and the proximity to home (for americans) which brings home the horror of bombing and makes it less believable that someone could find this something to cheer about.
War is war, when your enemy gets bombed you cheer; you don`t get to see the sickening aftermath of the bombings.
Think about that the next time your country bombs the shit out of some city because its leaders didn`t do what they were told.
purely off the top of my head there is switzerland. They haven`t been involved in a war for a couple of hundred years at least. They even managed to stay neutral and unoccupied in both ww1 and ww2.
Granted they have a shitload of money and don`t give a fuck who they do business with but they are still around.
and the crusades and the spanish inquisition and countless other atrocities perpetrated by "christians" throughout history can be conveniently forgotten while you continue your diatribe against islam. I am not a muslim or a christian but I am frankly staggered by your blinkered attitude towards the muslim faith. Christ was no boy scout either by certain accounts but that doen not negate his teachings or the religion which, like islam, preaches tolerance at the core. It is people like you in all religions which cause us problems -the fist step to becoming a "fundamentalist" is to believe that every other religion is fundamentally evil and that you are doing the work of god/allah/ etc by killing their followers.
btw that Nazis were more occultist, but definately had a "christian" basis.
get off your high horse and read the fucking bible, particularly the new testatment, then read the Quran and see if you can spot the bits which tell you to bomb christians.
ahem, there is a small country called britain, just off the western european mainland - you may have heard of it - where stones are still used as a measure of weight as the norm.
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not exactly - pi will contain all information in all bases. any number in base 8 (for example) can be represented by a number in base 10 which you can find in pi as normal. Looking in another base my help you to find a message quicker (or it may not, there is no way of knowing).
as an aside, I was reading this yesterday and the thought struck me that carl sagan was correct, there is a bitmap of a circle, written in base 11 (or any other base), conatined in pi. Anybody fancy encoding that bitmap in base 11, finding it in pi, and posting the results on a number of sci-fi fansites - just to blow their minds:-) A crash reduces Your expensive computer
The Hotel in question is called a Hilbert`s hotel, named after the mathematician who created the concept. For a completely mindblowing read concerning all things infinite aleph 0.. aleph 1 etc, check out Rudy Rucker "White light" - it will blow your mind! A crash reduces Your expensive computer
aipeeangst - n - the obsession with intellectial property and copywrighted works.
Furthermore, I am going to release this new word under the GPL. You are free to use this word in conversations and in written english, however you must make any such conversation or written work freely available to anyone who requests it.
Actually, now that I think about it, if your some_size_vector() returns the number of elements in the list (as I would expect) then the second one (thats you joss) is actually wrong since it works on size()+1 elements (size()..0).
like you said - its kind of a fundamental error, not traversing an array properly:-p
OS/2 could do all this years ago. You had default driver messages printer to the screen at boot time more or less at the delelopers whim but if you needed to you could press alt-F2 (I know its a little obscure) at boot time and it would display the file name of each driver as it loaded so you could quickly work out which driver file was hosing the system and take steps to remedy it.
The point of all this rambling is to suggest that maybe some sort of lilo option for verbosity my be the solution here - the default is a picture of a nice fluffy penguin with a message saying "Loading" (or something) but you can type linux verbose (or something) into lilo to get all the nice driver messages if you need them.
Personally I like the driver messages - it reminds me of OS/2:-) A crash reduces Your expensive computer
I think the point you are missing here is that M$ no longer give a stuff about the OS, that's largely what the shift to the portal strategy is all about - they realise that they will likely get humped by the DOJ in the OS front and are gearing up to move the company in its entirety to another business.
Why the hell do you think M$ would be pushing a new platform if it was going to destroy them? They may be megalomaniacal but they are not stupid. A crash reduces Your expensive computer
ddos is not a weakness of tcpip, it is an unfortunate consequence of the fact that bandwidth is not infinite. You can ddos an ipx server if you particularly want to.
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This sounds to me like a variation of the "no provable causal link" spin so beloved of tobacco companies.
You can`t possibly convince me that having that much concentrated nuclear waste is not going to cause us any problems further down the line (or indeed has not already caused us problems, statistical clustering my ass).
Not to mention the insane foreign policies churned out by our favourite world policemen due to the threat of nuclear war.
This sounds too me like a classic case of shooting yourself in the foot. This is a very bad idea as it limits the development of apps using Open Motif to just Linux/BSD et al. What they are essentially saying is that you can`t compile these libraries on Windows and write code to link to them. I hate Microsoft code as much as anyone here (I have to work with the pile of shite on a daily basis) But I don`t think we should be punishing people for not making the same choice we have by using Linux/BSD.
What this effectively means that people who want to write multi platform code so that anybody can use it will look at Open Motif and say stuff that, I will write code for a library which is supported on all platforms so that I can recompile on each platform.
Like it or not the world still predominantly uses windows and if you want to get people interested in the idea of free software to the point where they might actually want to switch to Linux/BSD then alienting them from the start is not the way to do it.
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I loved all the originals - I even liked the film (if you can forgive all that wierding module cack then it is quite a stylish film and reasonably close to the rest of the dune universe). I have read the two prequels and by then end of the house harkonnen I resolved not to read the next one. The problem is that house harkonen just descended into fantasy "bodice ripper" style drivel. Handsome noble dukes, whiter that white attreides and ugly loathsome harkonnens - Puurleease.
At least FH was fairly sublte about this stuff - baddies aren`t all bad and goodies aren`t complete saints. A crash reduces Your expensive computer
wtf is this offtopic?
it is in response to the core wars post which was related to running linux on the s390 which was the feckin story!
And I thought it was pretty funny too - punch cards, now thats a serious hpb!
But nobody creates a passenger aircraft, or an automobile, or a new, nicer design of personal computer for pure creative self-actualising joy.
actually you will probably find that the people who design the best toys do exactly that - ie for the the pure creative fun of it. Granted they work for companies who will take that work and make money from it, hopefully giving the designer/inventor money to live in the process. IMHO the best toys are made by people who do it for the fun, not the money.
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The following UK newspaper reference explains what I am talking about much more eloquently that I could:
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Link to Guardian Story
(http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604
I`m not trying to start a flamewar or stir up trouble but there are other ways of protecting your interests without pissing everybody else off in the process.
fair enough, sweden and norway are pretty laid back though, I can`t remember the last time I heard either of those countries getting into a pissing contest with anyone.
The point being that you don`t have to be a slavering animal on the world stage to keep your culture or identity - America are WAY too aggressive and it pisses the rest of the world off, particularly those in the middle east.
Relax ffs and enjoy your "freedom", just don`t ram it down everybody else`s throat.
I`m not talking abouth the bombing - I`m talking about the cheering. While I agree that cheering this act of terrorism, with all the sickening news coverage it has had, is pretty bad, so is cheering the bombing of bagdad - its just the news coverage and the proximity to home (for americans) which brings home the horror of bombing and makes it less believable that someone could find this something to cheer about.
War is war, when your enemy gets bombed you cheer; you don`t get to see the sickening aftermath of the bombings.
Think about that the next time your country bombs the shit out of some city because its leaders didn`t do what they were told.
purely off the top of my head there is switzerland. They haven`t been involved in a war for a couple of hundred years at least. They even managed to stay neutral and unoccupied in both ww1 and ww2.
Granted they have a shitload of money and don`t give a fuck who they do business with but they are still around.
and the cheering during the gulf war when bagdad was having the shit bombed out of it was somehow morally right then was it?
and the crusades and the spanish inquisition and countless other atrocities perpetrated by "christians" throughout history can be conveniently forgotten while you continue your diatribe against islam. I am not a muslim or a christian but I am frankly staggered by your blinkered attitude towards the muslim faith. Christ was no boy scout either by certain accounts but that doen not negate his teachings or the religion which, like islam, preaches tolerance at the core. It is people like you in all religions which cause us problems -the fist step to becoming a "fundamentalist" is to believe that every other religion is fundamentally evil and that you are doing the work of god/allah/ etc by killing their followers.
btw that Nazis were more occultist, but definately had a "christian" basis.
get off your high horse and read the fucking bible, particularly the new testatment, then read the Quran and see if you can spot the bits which tell you to bomb christians.
ahem, there is a small country called britain, just off the western european mainland - you may have heard of it - where stones are still used as a measure of weight as the norm.
Oh I see, you meant nobody in the US uses stones...
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not exactly - pi will contain all information in all bases. any number in base 8 (for example) can be represented by a number in base 10 which you can find in pi as normal. Looking in another base my help you to find a message quicker (or it may not, there is no way of knowing).
:-)
as an aside, I was reading this yesterday and the thought struck me that carl sagan was correct, there is a bitmap of a circle, written in base 11 (or any other base), conatined in pi. Anybody fancy encoding that bitmap in base 11, finding it in pi, and posting the results on a number of sci-fi fansites - just to blow their minds
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The Hotel in question is called a Hilbert`s hotel, named after the mathematician who created the concept. For a completely mindblowing read concerning all things infinite aleph 0.. aleph 1 etc, check out Rudy Rucker "White light" - it will blow your mind!
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I have just coined a new word:
aipeeangst - n - the obsession with intellectial property and copywrighted works.
Furthermore, I am going to release this new word under the GPL. You are free to use this word in conversations and in written english, however you must make any such conversation or written work freely available to anyone who requests it.
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Actually, now that I think about it, if your some_size_vector() returns the number of elements in the list (as I would expect) then the second one (thats you joss) is actually wrong since it works on size()+1 elements (size()..0).
:-p
like you said - its kind of a fundamental error, not traversing an array properly
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I must be being thick here but what is the difference?
(apart from the second one counting downwards and using one less variable and one less line)
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OS/2 could do all this years ago. You had default driver messages printer to the screen at boot time more or less at the delelopers whim but if you needed to you could press alt-F2 (I know its a little obscure) at boot time and it would display the file name of each driver as it loaded so you could quickly work out which driver file was hosing the system and take steps to remedy it. :-)
The point of all this rambling is to suggest that maybe some sort of lilo option for verbosity my be the solution here - the default is a picture of a nice fluffy penguin with a message saying "Loading" (or something) but you can type linux verbose (or something) into lilo to get all the nice driver messages if you need them.
Personally I like the driver messages - it reminds me of OS/2
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I think he meant transmitters, not recievers - and they are (relatively) expensive.
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kewl - judge dredd is in france!
speeding - 10 years punk.
:-)
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I think the point you are missing here is that M$ no longer give a stuff about the OS, that's largely what the shift to the portal strategy is all about - they realise that they will likely get humped by the DOJ in the OS front and are gearing up to move the company in its entirety to another business.
Why the hell do you think M$ would be pushing a new platform if it was going to destroy them? They may be megalomaniacal but they are not stupid.
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ddos is not a weakness of tcpip, it is an unfortunate consequence of the fact that bandwidth is not infinite. You can ddos an ipx server if you particularly want to.
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This sounds to me like a variation of the "no provable causal link" spin so beloved of tobacco companies.
You can`t possibly convince me that having that much concentrated nuclear waste is not going to cause us any problems further down the line (or indeed has not already caused us problems, statistical clustering my ass).
Not to mention the insane foreign policies churned out by our favourite world policemen due to the threat of nuclear war.
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This sounds too me like a classic case of shooting yourself in the foot. This is a very bad idea as it limits the development of apps using Open Motif to just Linux/BSD et al. What they are essentially saying is that you can`t compile these libraries on Windows and write code to link to them. I hate Microsoft code as much as anyone here (I have to work with the pile of shite on a daily basis) But I don`t think we should be punishing people for not making the same choice we have by using Linux/BSD.
What this effectively means that people who want to write multi platform code so that anybody can use it will look at Open Motif and say stuff that, I will write code for a library which is supported on all platforms so that I can recompile on each platform.
Like it or not the world still predominantly uses windows and if you want to get people interested in the idea of free software to the point where they might actually want to switch to Linux/BSD then alienting them from the start is not the way to do it.
rant over.
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I loved all the originals - I even liked the film (if you can forgive all that wierding module cack then it is quite a stylish film and reasonably close to the rest of the dune universe). I have read the two prequels and by then end of the house harkonnen I resolved not to read the next one. The problem is that house harkonen just descended into fantasy "bodice ripper" style drivel. Handsome noble dukes, whiter that white attreides and ugly loathsome harkonnens - Puurleease.
At least FH was fairly sublte about this stuff - baddies aren`t all bad and goodies aren`t complete saints.
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wtf is this offtopic?
it is in response to the core wars post which was related to running linux on the s390 which was the feckin story!
And I thought it was pretty funny too - punch cards, now thats a serious hpb!
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We are getting back on the swedish thread again with all this talk of open sandwiches - and its lunchtime...
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wtf rated this as informative?... /. needs some sort of dope test before handing out mod points, sheesh.
:-)
I think
btw I`m still trying to work out if this whole thread is a wind up or not
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You would need space suits and jetpacks for the pigeons!
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But nobody creates a passenger aircraft, or an automobile, or a new, nicer design of personal computer for pure creative self-actualising joy.
actually you will probably find that the people who design the best toys do exactly that - ie for the the pure creative fun of it. Granted they work for companies who will take that work and make money from it, hopefully giving the designer/inventor money to live in the process. IMHO the best toys are made by people who do it for the fun, not the money.
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