i would have to say that vi is clearly better than mac os, because it has a better flavor and is less filling, and a 3.5 liter v6 (naturally aspirated) so it really gets around. sure, with solaris you can store more music, but the battery life is not secure by default. and who wouldn't want gnome server edition in their pocket anyway? but i think we all agree that competition increases the throughput of my bluetooth until it reaches a 90nm process and plays ogg vorbis. and nobody wants that.
i work at a company that makes embedded devices using linux, and i'll tell you why. the real advantage is that we give up relatively little. sure, we have to give out the kernel source, but it's not like we ever owned that in the first place. we have to share most of our custom driver code, which arguably has some value, but we make our money selling hardware, not writing drivers. the advantage, however, is that we can grab patches and drivers from dozens of other companies that use the same cpu/flash/dac/video chip/... as we do. the gpl forces everyone to share their code, so we can take advantage of work done by other companies (and they can benefit from ours). for the "cost" of giving out a bit of our in-house code, we get the benefit of using the code from all those other companies for free. while i'm a big supporter of the bsd license, there's no way all these companies (many of them our competitors) would release this code if they didn't have to, and our work would be much harder.
simple. sit on it kinda like a racebike. knees forward, bent, your feet on the little pegs at the back of the wheel (bottom of feet facing rearward). lean forward, forearms rest on the pads in front of the display panel, hands gripping the handles under the windshield.
what's really going to be weird is that in harsh braking, the gyroscopes are going to tilt the whole unit backwards (opposite the direction of the force being applied to you). if you slam on the brakes, you'll probably be almost upright. similarly, when you floor it, you'll be tilted forward. just the opposite of a motorcycle.
as for where the babe goes, uh, the seat looks too small to me. but you're probably not going to get any chicks with this thing anyway.
> did u see teh story about wathcing less tv??/ > Terrorists Win > gg > wtf! > camping fag > 0vRl0rd-[WFX]- is cheating > fuck yuo!!!!!1 > gg > your jus pissd cuz i shot yuor head > 0vRl0rd-[WFX]- is cheating > 0vRl0rd-[WFX]- is cheating > 0vRl0rd-[WFX]- is cheating > stfu > 0vRl0rd-[WFX]- is cheating > no flash grnades retard > cover me! > HOW DO I PICK UP TEH WAEPONS??? > im swtiching sides > wtf? > gota go, homework
findstr is useful when i need to go to another machine. but i live by cygwin on my windows work machine. if you're the type of person who's looking for grep, it's definitely for you. note that the cygwin installer is horrible. it will crash. it will stop working and make you have to re-select the million or so packages you've already chosen. but once it's done, you're golden.
so, the critical question is, what is their commandline text editor? i can't imagine them including anything useful. and if they do include it, it's bound to be hidden (like ms's findstr, aka grep) let's imagine a typical user session:
Microsoft Windows XP Advanced Server Pro Champion Edition [Version 5.2.3915] (C) Copyright 1985-2006 Microsoft Corp.
M$ vi test.txt 'vi' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
M$ emacs test.txt 'emacs' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
M$ pico test.txt 'pico' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
M$ joe test.txt 'joe' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
M$ xemacs test.txt 'xemacs' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
M$ ex test.txt 'ex' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
M$ edlin test.txt New file *quit Abort edit (Y/N)? y
hackers are almost entirely male. about 10% of males are colorblind. however, in the hacker population, it's more like 25%. i've taken surveys at a few places i've worked and i've been surprised by the number (not being colorblind myself). i've read that colorblindness often leads to a better concept of depth and spatial understanding, and that leads to a more mathematical/engineering oriented mind. seems like a valid explanation to me.
err, point is, it doesn't need color. but it does need to print well in ascii.
TI has not kept up with product milestones. If they had met all of their deadlines, right now Sun's servers would have UltraSparc IVs running at 2Ghz+. Instead they have not kept up in the mhz. race and have been dragging Sun's overall performance down.
texas instruments is truly fucked recently. the sun deal is a big one. the other big loss for them is the OMAP and DM310 processors (arm9 + dsp). neither has been able to meet promised performance benchmarks. their biggest customer for these, palm (palmsource, palmone, wtf is their name now?), has abandoned the omap (which was in the first tungsten palms) and switched to intel xscale processors. the biggest customer for their big core processors is nokia. and if t.i. keeps failing to deliver, i don't see how long they'll be able to keep them much longer.
Yes. But how is the manager to know whether or not someone he's hiring is knowledgeable in the field without having at least some knowledge of the field himself?
well, that's the real trick, isn't it? i'm not a physicist, but i can recognize people who have a better understanding of physics than i. if i were hiring physicists, i'd have my staff of physicists interview that person and advise me on what to look for. so, if i were trying to build a nuclear reactor (which i'm not, for you feds in the crowd), i could bootstrap myself with one physicist to build a whole staff.
similarly, my boss doesn't write device drivers. but he can hire people who know how to. and if he needs to evaluate a device, he will give it to the people who will be working with it, and ask their opinion of it.
if you believe the peter principle, an employee gets promoted until he has surpassed his level of competency. then he's stuck. that means that your boss can probably do your job better than you can. if you believe the dilbert principle, an incompetent employee gets moved to where he can do the least damage, middle management. this means that your boss is probably a moron.
i don't subscribe to either of those. i believe that management, in an ideal situation, promotes people who know how to lead and leverage the skills of those below them. if your boss is not leveraging your skills in making decisions, and instead referring to outside sources to get educated in your core business, then there is something seriously wrong with your organization.
a good manager hires people that are knowledgeable in the field that they work. very likely, they will be more knowledgeable than the manager himself. the manager must then rely on input from these skilled people to make informed decisions. that is, if the boss doesn't know if A is better than B, he should ask the employees and find out.
if the boss does not know anything, and is embarrassed to ask more knowledgeable employees, that boss should be fired. making decisions based on your secretly-aquired knowledge that may be incomplete, wrong, or totally inappropriate for the given situation, is probably the worst thing you can do.
now, if the boss is an idiot, and the employees are idiots, well, you're probably going to be seeing some blood sucking consultants eating your company's money pretty soon.
wow, the same kibo of usenet fame now graces slashdot. for those of you not familiar with one who has been once declared a "USENET Deity", here's a brief article describing the man, the myth, the legend.
how about a phatbox car mp3 player. it plugs into your stock stereo and emulates a cd changer with voice feedback. linux software is here. up to 60 gigs.
wow. an impressive array of typos by me (thanks to the ac's above for pointing out my errors). let's try that again:
neither theo de raadt, the openssh developers, nor openbsd have anything to do with openssl. openssl is a separate library, developed by an external group, that is relied upon by many applications (including openssh).
neither theo de raadt, the openssh developers, nor openbsd have anything to do with openssh. openssh is a separate library, developed by an external group, that is relied upon by many applications (including openssh).
i didn't write this the post above, but it is definitely not offtopic. here's a brief rundown of what it does:
generates a random string of characters. performs a "wget" to look up that string as a domain name, and fetch the url returned and dump contents to/dev/null. obviously, this string (with appended.com) resolves to verisign's search page.
this accomplishes two things. first, or course, is wasting verisign bandwidth. more interestingly, however, it causes dns servers upstream from you to cache the address of all these garbage domains. when their dns cache fills up, they start discarding older entries they have had in there. basically, this is forcing dns servers to constantly flush their caches of any useful data. this, in turn, makes every valid dns query have to cascade all the way down to the root servers. that is, "slashdot.org" is no longer cached in your isp's dns cache, so every user on you isp trying to get to slashdot is contributing to a DDOS of verisign's root servers.
Slashdot Mirror
i would have to say that vi is clearly better than mac os, because it has a better flavor and is less filling, and a 3.5 liter v6 (naturally aspirated) so it really gets around. sure, with solaris you can store more music, but the battery life is not secure by default. and who wouldn't want gnome server edition in their pocket anyway? but i think we all agree that competition increases the throughput of my bluetooth until it reaches a 90nm process and plays ogg vorbis. and nobody wants that.
they may have a lot of balls at Western Washington University, but apparently they're a little short in the fat pipe department.
i work at a company that makes embedded devices using linux, and i'll tell you why.
the real advantage is that we give up relatively little. sure, we have to give out the kernel source, but it's not like we ever owned that in the first place. we have to share most of our custom driver code, which arguably has some value, but we make our money selling hardware, not writing drivers. the advantage, however, is that we can grab patches and drivers from dozens of other companies that use the same cpu/flash/dac/video chip/... as we do. the gpl forces everyone to share their code, so we can take advantage of work done by other companies (and they can benefit from ours). for the "cost" of giving out a bit of our in-house code, we get the benefit of using the code from all those other companies for free.
while i'm a big supporter of the bsd license, there's no way all these companies (many of them our competitors) would release this code if they didn't have to, and our work would be much harder.
simple. sit on it kinda like a racebike. knees forward, bent, your feet on the little pegs at the back of the wheel (bottom of feet facing rearward). lean forward, forearms rest on the pads in front of the display panel, hands gripping the handles under the windshield.
what's really going to be weird is that in harsh braking, the gyroscopes are going to tilt the whole unit backwards (opposite the direction of the force being applied to you). if you slam on the brakes, you'll probably be almost upright. similarly, when you floor it, you'll be tilted forward. just the opposite of a motorcycle.
as for where the babe goes, uh, the seat looks too small to me. but you're probably not going to get any chicks with this thing anyway.
dental plan
sure, but does it come with an optional anti-tank cannon?
awesome. now linux too can have buggy drivers!
gotta wonder, did they implement the bluescreen feature?
> did u see teh story about wathcing less tv??/
> Terrorists Win
> gg
> wtf!
> camping fag
> 0vRl0rd-[WFX]- is cheating
> fuck yuo!!!!!1
> gg
> your jus pissd cuz i shot yuor head
> 0vRl0rd-[WFX]- is cheating
> 0vRl0rd-[WFX]- is cheating
> 0vRl0rd-[WFX]- is cheating
> stfu
> 0vRl0rd-[WFX]- is cheating
> no flash grnades retard
> cover me!
> HOW DO I PICK UP TEH WAEPONS???
> im swtiching sides
> wtf?
> gota go, homework
findstr is useful when i need to go to another machine. but i live by cygwin on my windows work machine. if you're the type of person who's looking for grep, it's definitely for you.
note that the cygwin installer is horrible. it will crash. it will stop working and make you have to re-select the million or so packages you've already chosen. but once it's done, you're golden.
let's imagine a typical user session:
you will notice that the slashdot "editors" now refrain from calling gator/claria spyware. say it with me now:
gator is spyware!
GAIM is spyware!!
claria is spyware!!!
1) it needs color
hackers are almost entirely male. about 10% of males are colorblind. however, in the hacker population, it's more like 25%. i've taken surveys at a few places i've worked and i've been surprised by the number (not being colorblind myself). i've read that colorblindness often leads to a better concept of depth and spatial understanding, and that leads to a more mathematical/engineering oriented mind. seems like a valid explanation to me.
err, point is, it doesn't need color. but it does need to print well in ascii.
#|O|#
-+-+-
O|#|#
-+-+-
O|O|O
TI has not kept up with product milestones. If they had met all of their deadlines, right now Sun's servers would have UltraSparc IVs running at 2Ghz+. Instead they have not kept up in the mhz. race and have been dragging Sun's overall performance down.
texas instruments is truly fucked recently. the sun deal is a big one. the other big loss for them is the OMAP and DM310 processors (arm9 + dsp). neither has been able to meet promised performance benchmarks. their biggest customer for these, palm (palmsource, palmone, wtf is their name now?), has abandoned the omap (which was in the first tungsten palms) and switched to intel xscale processors. the biggest customer for their big core processors is nokia. and if t.i. keeps failing to deliver, i don't see how long they'll be able to keep them much longer.
Yes. But how is the manager to know whether or not someone he's hiring is knowledgeable in the field without having at least some knowledge of the field himself?
well, that's the real trick, isn't it? i'm not a physicist, but i can recognize people who have a better understanding of physics than i. if i were hiring physicists, i'd have my staff of physicists interview that person and advise me on what to look for. so, if i were trying to build a nuclear reactor (which i'm not, for you feds in the crowd), i could bootstrap myself with one physicist to build a whole staff.
similarly, my boss doesn't write device drivers. but he can hire people who know how to. and if he needs to evaluate a device, he will give it to the people who will be working with it, and ask their opinion of it.
if you believe the peter principle, an employee gets promoted until he has surpassed his level of competency. then he's stuck. that means that your boss can probably do your job better than you can.
if you believe the dilbert principle, an incompetent employee gets moved to where he can do the least damage, middle management. this means that your boss is probably a moron.
i don't subscribe to either of those. i believe that management, in an ideal situation, promotes people who know how to lead and leverage the skills of those below them. if your boss is not leveraging your skills in making decisions, and instead referring to outside sources to get educated in your core business, then there is something seriously wrong with your organization.
a good manager hires people that are knowledgeable in the field that they work. very likely, they will be more knowledgeable than the manager himself. the manager must then rely on input from these skilled people to make informed decisions. that is, if the boss doesn't know if A is better than B, he should ask the employees and find out.
if the boss does not know anything, and is embarrassed to ask more knowledgeable employees, that boss should be fired. making decisions based on your secretly-aquired knowledge that may be incomplete, wrong, or totally inappropriate for the given situation, is probably the worst thing you can do.
now, if the boss is an idiot, and the employees are idiots, well, you're probably going to be seeing some blood sucking consultants eating your company's money pretty soon.
wow, the same kibo of usenet fame now graces slashdot.
for those of you not familiar with one who has been once declared a "USENET Deity", here's a brief article describing the man, the myth, the legend.
But does it support OGG?
yes.
http://phatbox.sixpak.org/phatbox/ogg.phtml
and flac, too.
how about a phatbox car mp3 player. it plugs into your stock stereo and emulates a cd changer with voice feedback. linux software is here. up to 60 gigs.
or a kenwood music keg.
or a vw/audi phatbox.
can you tell i love this product? works with the audio controls on my steering wheel. no need to look down at an ipod screen while speeding.
wow. an impressive array of typos by me (thanks to the ac's above for pointing out my errors). let's try that again:
neither theo de raadt, the openssh developers, nor openbsd have anything to do with openssl. openssl is a separate library, developed by an external group, that is relied upon by many applications (including openssh).
neither theo de raadt, the openssh developers, nor openbsd have anything to do with openssh. openssh is a separate library, developed by an external group, that is relied upon by many applications (including openssh).
i indemnify all slashdot users by this first post
i didn't write this the post above, but it is definitely not offtopic. here's a brief rundown of what it does:
/dev/null. obviously, this string (with appended .com) resolves to verisign's search page.
generates a random string of characters.
performs a "wget" to look up that string as a domain name, and fetch the url returned and dump contents to
this accomplishes two things. first, or course, is wasting verisign bandwidth. more interestingly, however, it causes dns servers upstream from you to cache the address of all these garbage domains. when their dns cache fills up, they start discarding older entries they have had in there. basically, this is forcing dns servers to constantly flush their caches of any useful data. this, in turn, makes every valid dns query have to cascade all the way down to the root servers. that is, "slashdot.org" is no longer cached in your isp's dns cache, so every user on you isp trying to get to slashdot is contributing to a DDOS of verisign's root servers.
well done.
oh yeah. eat more chicken!
unaffiliated trolling.
what the original poster had works correctly. i-- returns the value i (pre-increment), and satisfies the end condition when i is zero.