That's exactly the kind of check that is harmful, according to the article. Who determines what is "excellent"? Against what benchmark? Who performs the audits? Who checks that you have spelled "lose" correctly?
Re: your comment about lego... I agree. Pipes are probably the best feature. Most people can pipe the output of something through less, occasionally some can manage a 3 stage pipeline. My current record is 37 stages.
And from vi you can pipe a range of lines through a shell pipeline and put the result back where the original lines were. That's neat - I use it frequently, and hardly anyone else knows about it.
But the really nice thing about Unix is that there's always something new to learn. I've been using it in various forms for around 20 years now, and I still discover things I didn't know about.
OK I stand corrected. But there's still a bewildering selection of NFN NF f and N boxes on the market, and I'm pretty sure I saw a box with 2 F's and an N too. In any case, in practice, the boxes in different rooms in a flat or house are typically wired in parallel, thus nullifying any disconnection effect - that only operates locally in the boxes.
I've noticed in the last 10 years that Germany in general is a lot more relaxed about its past in the sense that it is now OK to make jokes about it. Maybe it's a result of reunification, or maybe it's just a demographic thing- fewer people alive who actually remember.
Hell, they're even dubbing 'allo 'allo for TV now. Times change:-)
Doesn't explain why the guy thought the N/F connectors are an anti-nazi measure though.
It's from yesterday. The story you link to is today's and is talking about the Bundesregierung as opposed to the Staatsregierung Bayern. Roughly speaking, it's the equivalent of Federal and State government in the US.
The article says that the law has no chance of survival - it's pretty clearly in violation of the German constitution, and most Germans take their constitution *very* seriously.
My take is that it's a typical "bargaining play": aim for the moon, and if you fall on the clouds, well, it's still better than the hilltop position that you really wanted. Compare the tactic with the *IAA's lobbying. They ask for outrageous new laws, everyone gets upset and writes to their reps, the law eventually gets watered down, and everyone goes home happy, failing to notice that the *IAA have achieved yet another step along the way to their goal of total control.
I moved to Germany 10 years ago, and that confused me too. Some of the multi-way phone sockets have a "priority" system - the rightmost (or leftmost - I forget which) gets the line. If you look inside the box it's a simple break-switch. Also the N and F type connectors are very confusing. But if you take the boxes apart and wire everything in parallel it just works as normal.
I assumed that the system was devised to prevent overloading - most commercial exchanges have some kind of limit on how many phones they can support. In the UK it's called "ringer equivalence number" and if you exceed it they don't guarantee that your phones will work. In practice it's the ringers that fail first.
He could start by explaining why he is using a noun ("Leverage - noun 1. the exertion of force by means of a lever. 2. the power to influence: political leverage." [OED]) as a verb.
That identifies him
straight away as an uneducated moron (or maroon, take your pick).
One of the problems with using "natuaral" energy sources like sunlight is how to get the energy when it is needed and not when nature sees fit to provide it. In short, how do you store the energy? This seems like a reasonable way, assuming the CO can be stored and used to power the same power station. OK, so there are bound to be losses in the system that will have to be made up with fuel from other sources, but the net result should be lower consumption of fossil fuels. and thus lower CO2 emission.
(OK, they're in Australia, which might be a tad far for some... but that was just the first hit.)
Your theory of 6502 assembly language doesn't hold water either. Assembly-language progeamming hasn't died out in the slightest. While as a proportion of all programming done it's certainly much less than it was say 25 years ago, but I'd hazard a guess that there are just as many programmers now who regularly use some assembly-language as there were then, so even if you couldn't find anyone who ever programmed the 6502, you'd have no trouble finding someone who could learn it in a short while. The knowledge hasn't gone - it has just moved a bit.
Well of course. Everyone knows that lolcats is a famous terrorist haunt simply by looking at all the secret messages steganographically encoded in the cute-ickle-puddy pictures.
For all I care, next week Microsoft can go say that Microsoft has produced the best Linux for PalmPilots since George Washington invented the Internet.
What? It isn't true? But only last week someone swore it was so.
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Had to throw in the grammar nazi reference?
Yes, sorry, couldn't resist. :-)
That's exactly the kind of check that is harmful, according to the article. Who determines what is "excellent"? Against what benchmark? Who performs the audits? Who checks that you have spelled "lose" correctly?
Did anyone notice the name of the press officer?
Dr. Henri Boffin.
Nominative determinism in action.
I wouldn't know - I never take a bath.
Your "foom" message could be an email looking something like this:
--- cut here --- cut here ---
Dear Luser,
If you want to reboot your machine, just type
reboot
into a root shell.
Love from Pogue
--- cut here --- cut here ---
(except you wouldn't get that far ;-)
Re: your comment about lego ... I agree. Pipes are probably the best feature. Most people can pipe the output of something through less, occasionally some can manage a 3 stage pipeline. My current record is 37 stages.
And from vi you can pipe a range of lines through a shell pipeline and put the result back where the original lines were. That's neat - I use it frequently, and hardly anyone else knows about it.
But the really nice thing about Unix is that there's always something new to learn. I've been using it in various forms for around 20 years now, and I still discover things I didn't know about.
The C was intentionally wrong. Sorry about the English though - brain not working properly tonight.
Your right, dammit. Should be "NULL && void*".
Looks objective, fair and balanced from where I'm sitting ...
Your kernel is running - better wipe it. Here's a Kleenex.
They're full of helium, man. Even if you manage to set fire to one, it'll crash and go out
OK I stand corrected. But there's still a bewildering selection of NFN NF f and N boxes on the market, and I'm pretty sure I saw a box with 2 F's and an N too. In any case, in practice, the boxes in different rooms in a flat or house are typically wired in parallel, thus nullifying any disconnection effect - that only operates locally in the boxes.
Hell, they're even dubbing 'allo 'allo for TV now. Times change :-)
Doesn't explain why the guy thought the N/F connectors are an anti-nazi measure though.
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Bayerischer-Landtag-setzt-den-Bayerntrojaner-frei--/meldung/110426
It's from yesterday. The story you link to is today's and is talking about the Bundesregierung as opposed to the Staatsregierung Bayern. Roughly speaking, it's the equivalent of Federal and State government in the US.
The article says that the law has no chance of survival - it's pretty clearly in violation of the German constitution, and most Germans take their constitution *very* seriously.
My take is that it's a typical "bargaining play": aim for the moon, and if you fall on the clouds, well, it's still better than the hilltop position that you really wanted. Compare the tactic with the *IAA's lobbying. They ask for outrageous new laws, everyone gets upset and writes to their reps, the law eventually gets watered down, and everyone goes home happy, failing to notice that the *IAA have achieved yet another step along the way to their goal of total control.
I assumed that the system was devised to prevent overloading - most commercial exchanges have some kind of limit on how many phones they can support. In the UK it's called "ringer equivalence number" and if you exceed it they don't guarantee that your phones will work. In practice it's the ringers that fail first.
Try searching for the word and looking at the definition and etymology of the "-age" suffix.
That identifies him straight away as an uneducated moron (or maroon, take your pick).
To paraphrase a sig from groklaw: "It isn't the food that's free: it's you"
Can't you read? [EOM] !!! Nothing to see here. Move along, move along.
Hmm ... lets see now ... Didn't even have to look that far.
(OK, they're in Australia, which might be a tad far for some ... but that was just the first hit.)
Your theory of 6502 assembly language doesn't hold water either. Assembly-language progeamming hasn't died out in the slightest. While as a proportion of all programming done it's certainly much less than it was say 25 years ago, but I'd hazard a guess that there are just as many programmers now who regularly use some assembly-language as there were then, so even if you couldn't find anyone who ever programmed the 6502, you'd have no trouble finding someone who could learn it in a short while. The knowledge hasn't gone - it has just moved a bit.
Nah! You just *think* you are ;-)
Sez Dave, who also hasn't touched coffee for a while but drinks gallons of tea instead.When I first read the headline my addled brain saw "embryonic patents" and thought "Oh no, more IP claims coming to invade us".
What? It isn't true? But only last week someone swore it was so.