Similar experience. The year was 2000, i just got my first job and bought my first ever CD writer (a ~$200 Yamaha unit). After Adaptec Easy CD Creator wasted the 2 premium CD-Rs i got free with the drive, i booted up into Slackware and used cdrecord. Worked flawlessly. And it still does in 2012.
Yeah, it isn't completely random random, because of all the filtering done to ensure the randomly-generated words are part of the original text. Sure the words are generated randomly, but reducing them and checking for membership, and then checking to see if they're in the source kinda ruins the whole point.
I started with Pascal, so the most influential book for me is Walter Savitch's "Turbo Pascal: An Introduction to the Art and Science of Programming."
It's the best book on learning to program that i've ever read and it's still the yardstick by which i compare other entry-level programming books. It's very clear, detailed, informative, and sensible. The fun quotes in every section are an added bonus.
I find their search results annoying a lot of times. For example the engine would insist on a spelling that is different but apparently more well-known than what i typed. I remember in the past it used to search for the actual term and then suggest its alternate spelling. Another example would be when searching for phrases with spaces. Even if i quote the entire phrase the engine would return results with only some of the words in the phrase. Very frustrating.
However, a dentist selling honey as a tooth preservative? Might be a good business plan.
Seems kind of ironic to me. In effect he's killing his market by helping people take better care of their teeth which, if everybody in the world did, would render dentists largely unnecessary in the first place. A better, more evil, if you will, business plan would be to hand out free sweets to patients on their way out. >:-)
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Thank you, Patrick. Slackware changed my life. :-)
Elerium-113.
I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison
Step 2: ??????
Step 3: Profit!
Fixed that for you.
I've been using Nvidia drivers on Slackware with various kernels since 2000. Never had a problem.
The wires connect to this giant turtle...
What the fuck is this shit doing on slashdot?
Hi Neal! :-D
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/04/08/1850249/innocent-or-not-the-nsa-is-watching-you
Could be related, considering they're in the same state. Maybe the attackers wanted to hit home and hit hard.
Similar experience. The year was 2000, i just got my first job and bought my first ever CD writer (a ~$200 Yamaha unit). After Adaptec Easy CD Creator wasted the 2 premium CD-Rs i got free with the drive, i booted up into Slackware and used cdrecord. Worked flawlessly. And it still does in 2012.
Why do these organisms have longer lives than us?
Fewer moving parts?
Or by simply disabling javascript in the browser.
And all he has to do is completely mess up the statistics and he could make a killing!
my fingers are usually pretty damn chewed up from playing guitar
You're doing it wrong.
my head asplode.
Great research.
But this seems to me like overkill. A mosquito net works and is proven and costs very very little.
And hey, there actually already are charitable initiatives for this. http://www.nothingbutnets.net/
1M from the Gates Foundation could probably buy enough mosquito nets to cover the whole of Africa.
Not to split hairs, but that's a genuine off-by-0.01 error right there.
Yeah, it isn't completely random random, because of all the filtering done to ensure the randomly-generated words are part of the original text. Sure the words are generated randomly, but reducing them and checking for membership, and then checking to see if they're in the source kinda ruins the whole point.
I started with Pascal, so the most influential book for me is Walter Savitch's "Turbo Pascal: An Introduction to the Art and Science of Programming."
It's the best book on learning to program that i've ever read and it's still the yardstick by which i compare other entry-level programming books. It's very clear, detailed, informative, and sensible. The fun quotes in every section are an added bonus.
Dear CmdrTaco,
Thank you for slashdot. It is the first site i open when i go online.
And to all the smart nerds who have made me laugh or experienced enlightenment, thank you for making slashdot what it is.
You're talking about DVD discs in the xbox.
I find their search results annoying a lot of times. For example the engine would insist on a spelling that is different but apparently more well-known than what i typed. I remember in the past it used to search for the actual term and then suggest its alternate spelling. Another example would be when searching for phrases with spaces. Even if i quote the entire phrase the engine would return results with only some of the words in the phrase. Very frustrating.
Yo dawg i herd you like searching so i put a google in your google so you can search while you search.
Way offtopic, but hello Cliff! I love your book and re-read it every 2-3 years! You are fucking awesome!
However, a dentist selling honey as a tooth preservative? Might be a good business plan.
Seems kind of ironic to me. In effect he's killing his market by helping people take better care of their teeth which, if everybody in the world did, would render dentists largely unnecessary in the first place. A better, more evil, if you will, business plan would be to hand out free sweets to patients on their way out. >:-)