Of course, you can use KDE on Linux; it lets you "disguise" your browser as whatever-browser, whatever-version-you-need-to-pretend-to-be and works just dandy. With better font support.
If MS was really smart, they'd release a Linux version of IE. This would, of course, mean releasing the source code (not likely) and also would probably only serve to make Linux more attractive to newbies. Goodness knows, no experienced Linux user would use it...
"penguins would eat butterflies for breakfast, if there were any butterflies alive in the harsh environments penguins thrive in" -- I.M. Lemur
The only time I allow IE to run on my Windows box is for my regular McAfee updates and Windows Update. They're the only things I haven't been able to break of the IE habit (so far).
I run Mozilla and Mozilla Firebird on Windows, Mozilla/Mozilla Firebird/Konqueror/Lynx on Linux (depending on my mood). Got no use for IE, except as a bug collector. I have Netscape 7.x on my Win box, but why bother? I never use it.
AOL killed Netscape just by buying it. AOL=newbies=bye bye, Netscape. It's sad to see that Spry Mosaic (my first real browser, and the ancestor of Netscape) has ended this way.
What bothers me the most about this news is that the boat was named after that hack. Until Dubya came along, Reagan was the president who had done more damage to the U.S. economy since Hoover.
Of course, Dubya has already surpassed Reagan and is on his way to beating Hoover.
The naming of this carrier just makes me ill. It was bad enough when they renamed an airport in his "honor." There are already "Ronald Reagan Memorial Highways" - in fact, a couple of years ago some troglodyte in the Florida Legislature tried to get a stretch of highway (over a hundred miles outside of his own district) renamed as such. Fortunately, his measure was defeated.
Oh, don't worry, I'll vote in the next "election." But, I'll also be ready for a revolution. Already am, in fact.
Remember what Thomas Jefferson said about occasional bloodshed being good for true Democracy. He never advocated withholding your vote, though, as far as I know.
And that europeans could not care less witch "free" it is.
A witch?! If she weighs the same as a duck, I suppose we should burn her... don't set her free!
OK, I did hear of it - I thought they said "LAN Warrior." I figured it for another Ashcroft initiative.
"Land Warrior?" No, I am not disposed to discuss anything vaguely resembling that description. Furthermore, if I were so disposed, I would deny any knowledge of such a program. Sir.
Hear, hear. I've been saying essentially the same thing for a while now.
How could a proportion of them not hate us, after the "original" Crusades? And then we have the audacity to name a motorized Howitzer the "Crusader"...
I find it exceedingly difficult to believe that the programmers Microsoft employs in India are paid anywhere near the rate their U.S. counterparts receive.
Even if there are "only" 500 programmers in India working for Microsoft, I'd wager that MS saves one heck of a lot of money by employing them. One must remember the many ways MS is working to preserve and increase its "capital".
Even when you're the richest man in the world, you don't want to fall behind.
Well, here in Florida bike lanes are ubiquitous in the urban areas I've lived in. They are wide enough for Segways. That's not to say I'd rent a Segway on a regular basis, but at least I know I'd have a place to ride one if I did.
In my experience, the "normal means of obtaining a warrant" is to make a phone call to a friendly judge, whereupon whatever search the police desire is granted. Drug-sniffing dogs, search the trunk, tear up the seats and speaker covers, pull out the radio, impound the car for months as "evidence" even if nothing is found to support whatever the hell they thought was there. This has happened to me - they found nothing; there was nothing to find. I had to sell my car to pay the three month's worth of impound fees after the case was settled. All they got me for was DWI, which I admit is a reason to pull my license, but not to rape my car without probable cause.
Yes. I am writing this on a yellow legal pad purchased from Staples. It is embedded with a microchip that can read the ink from PaperMate(r) pens, and requires neither software nor hardware for transmission.
Eat my shorts, BillG.
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emacs: the dead armadillo in the *nix road
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The "lisp factor" is a big part of the problem. As an earlier poster pointed out, emacs is a lisp engine.
Lisp, for all its supposed power (I can't abide it, myself) is just not up to the task of being an OS, even if it has a C-based engine running it. Hey, I remember Apollo workstations running Pascal-based OS's. Or so they were said to be. The shell scripts certainly had a Pascallian feel to them. When the whole thing was redone in C, bang! zoom! Same box, incredible improvement. And, Pascal is a compiled language. Lisp, as far as I know, is interpreted. Bog city. Get out the winch.
An OS should be based on a lower level language like C. No, you don't need to get down to assembly (sure it would be faster - maybe - but how often would you come out with new releases of X, Winblows, etc.); so don't bother with the flames, don't waste your breath.
As a text editor, I always found emacs about as enjoyable as... oh, what's the phrase... pickin' up roadkill armadillos. If that don't scare you - imagine roadkill skunks. They stop smelling so bad after a few days; which is about when armadillos start to get really rank, and they stay that way for weeks. Nobody picks up roadkill armadillos, not even buzzards. That's how bad they are, and that's how much I dislike emacs. It's the dead armadillo in the middle of the *nix road.
I don't like vi, but I'll use it in a second if it's the only choice other than emacs. If emacs is all that's available, I use cat, sed, and awk.
BTW, I don't want to hear any RTFM flak. Worthless. Why bother? I might as well learn Wordstar and get my carpal tunnel that way.
Programming is an art; but then, so is CAD, and really, when you get to the heart of it, electrical engineering is as well.
There is an old saying: talent does what it can, genius does what it must.
To me, the product of genius is art, regardless of the forum. Software is engineered, sewer systems are engineered, electronics are engineered. If they are done well, they are art first and engineering second - though they must meet engineering principles to be considered well designed. Does that mean we need to be licensed artists as well?
I also doubt that this law would make Texas the "laughingstock of the global high-technology community." While there are certain high-technology firms in Texas that deserve great respect, on the whole Texas is already a laughingstock on the scientific and technical fronts.
I'm a Code Monkey, and proud of it. I'd be happier if I were a fully-fledged programmer, but I do what I need to do. Yup, that's a Code Monkey.
I'm also a CAD Monkey. I coined the term long ago (I twisted the term "CAD jockey"), and it's proliferating nicely. The difference between my Code Monkey and CAD Monkey status is this: a Code Monkey does what he can, to make his life easier. He's not a professional programmer. A CAD Monkey, however, is very likely highly experienced and knowledgeable, willing and able to correct the EEs when they SNAFU on a design, but the CAD Monkey gets no respect from anybody. We gladly wear the Monkey banner, because if we took ourselves seriously we'd have gone nuts years ago. Or maybe we already did; we're all insane.
By the way, I own a T-shirt that proclaims me as a "Code Monkey." I wear it with pride.
Whether you like it or not, the fact is that the process of the post-election events entirely abided to the US Constitution
Hmm... except for the fact that disputed elections are to be decided by Congress, not the Supreme Court. This was an extreme derailment of the Constitutional doctrine.
OK, so I bit the troll bait. Couldn't resist. It was such an obvious morsel...
I don't mean to demean MSCE-holders in general, but that alone is no real qualification deserving the title "engineer." An MSCE in addition to oh, say, 5+ years (minimum) real-world experience, and maybe a "real" CS degree would help. "Nimrod," the guy I mentioned above, is best known for fscking up anything he tries to debug. This guy refused to replace a hard drive that gave "no boot device found" errors three times a week for a month; he'd come down, run ScanDisk (which found so many errors that it took 4 hours to run, and trashed data and install info - requiring reinstalls of software every time) and tell us "it's probably just a software problem." I told him the first day that it was a bad drive (seen enough of them to be able to tell, but "no MSCE, so who the hell am I to judge.")
All he's qualified for is installing software, and he even manages to fsck up that on a regular basis, leading to one of his (non-MSCE but capable and knowledgable) co-workers wasting their time fixing his mistakes. But, he has that MSCE, so management figures he's OK. WTF?
Engineering axiom #1: there's nobody as dangerous as a nimrod with a degree.
Engineering axiom #2: nobody listens to the guys with experience, if there's a nimrod with a degree spewing nonsense in the area. Nimrod w/degree trumps experience, according to the suits.
That's too bad, it would be an interesting comparison.
Especially since the percentage of SUVs (i.e. fuel-inefficient vehicles) in the U.S. has increased continually since 1999.
I don't drive a vehicle. I don't even own a lawnmower (I pay somebody to do that chore - petroleum fuels are still burned, of course). I sold my car in 1997, and ride my bicycle or take public transportation. This is not purely for environmental reasons, but I am so used to it that I see no reason to change. I do, however, recognize that I am not only saving money by doing this, but I am also helping to minimize the environmental impact I necessarily create.
I sit upon no high horse. This is simply the way I live.
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Of course, you can use KDE on Linux; it lets you "disguise" your browser as whatever-browser, whatever-version-you-need-to-pretend-to-be and works just dandy. With better font support.
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If MS was really smart, they'd release a Linux version of IE. This would, of course, mean releasing the source code (not likely) and also would probably only serve to make Linux more attractive to newbies. Goodness knows, no experienced Linux user would use it
"penguins would eat butterflies for breakfast, if there were any butterflies alive in the harsh environments penguins thrive in" -- I.M. Lemur
The only time I allow IE to run on my Windows box is for my regular McAfee updates and Windows Update. They're the only things I haven't been able to break of the IE habit (so far).
I run Mozilla and Mozilla Firebird on Windows, Mozilla/Mozilla Firebird/Konqueror/Lynx on Linux (depending on my mood). Got no use for IE, except as a bug collector. I have Netscape 7.x on my Win box, but why bother? I never use it.
AOL killed Netscape just by buying it. AOL=newbies=bye bye, Netscape. It's sad to see that Spry Mosaic (my first real browser, and the ancestor of Netscape) has ended this way.
Mosaic is dead. Long live Mozilla!
What bothers me the most about this news is that the boat was named after that hack. Until Dubya came along, Reagan was the president who had done more damage to the U.S. economy since Hoover.
Of course, Dubya has already surpassed Reagan and is on his way to beating Hoover.
The naming of this carrier just makes me ill. It was bad enough when they renamed an airport in his "honor." There are already "Ronald Reagan Memorial Highways" - in fact, a couple of years ago some troglodyte in the Florida Legislature tried to get a stretch of highway (over a hundred miles outside of his own district) renamed as such. Fortunately, his measure was defeated.
Ugh.
Lisa Simpson: "Bart, do you know what this means?"
Bart: "The dead have risen and they're voting Republican?!"
Oh, don't worry, I'll vote in the next "election." But, I'll also be ready for a revolution. Already am, in fact.
Remember what Thomas Jefferson said about occasional bloodshed being good for true Democracy. He never advocated withholding your vote, though, as far as I know.
Well, if you can't fathom the joke, I suppose that you can always make a grammatical ass of yourself.
... but do they have hot grits?
Well, as long as they'll have hot grits, I'm there!
... grits ...
Mmmm
And that europeans could not care less witch "free" it is. A witch?! If she weighs the same as a duck, I suppose we should burn her ... don't set her free!
Hard to say. We do know, however, that Apophus is vulnerable to low-velocity weaponry.
OK, I did hear of it - I thought they said "LAN Warrior." I figured it for another Ashcroft initiative.
"Land Warrior?" No, I am not disposed to discuss anything vaguely resembling that description. Furthermore, if I were so disposed, I would deny any knowledge of such a program. Sir.
Hear, hear. I've been saying essentially the same thing for a while now.
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How could a proportion of them not hate us, after the "original" Crusades? And then we have the audacity to name a motorized Howitzer the "Crusader"
I find it exceedingly difficult to believe that the programmers Microsoft employs in India are paid anywhere near the rate their U.S. counterparts receive.
Even if there are "only" 500 programmers in India working for Microsoft, I'd wager that MS saves one heck of a lot of money by employing them. One must remember the many ways MS is working to preserve and increase its "capital".
Even when you're the richest man in the world, you don't want to fall behind.
Follow the butterfly! It is the reincarnation of the Mohatma - let it guide you! It can do no evil!
Well, here in Florida bike lanes are ubiquitous in the urban areas I've lived in. They are wide enough for Segways. That's not to say I'd rent a Segway on a regular basis, but at least I know I'd have a place to ride one if I did.
In my experience, the "normal means of obtaining a warrant" is to make a phone call to a friendly judge, whereupon whatever search the police desire is granted. Drug-sniffing dogs, search the trunk, tear up the seats and speaker covers, pull out the radio, impound the car for months as "evidence" even if nothing is found to support whatever the hell they thought was there. This has happened to me - they found nothing; there was nothing to find. I had to sell my car to pay the three month's worth of impound fees after the case was settled. All they got me for was DWI, which I admit is a reason to pull my license, but not to rape my car without probable cause.
Welcome to Amerika. Big Brother is watching you.
Yes. I am writing this on a yellow legal pad purchased from Staples. It is embedded with a microchip that can read the ink from PaperMate(r) pens, and requires neither software nor hardware for transmission.
Eat my shorts, BillG.
Doones
The "lisp factor" is a big part of the problem. As an earlier poster pointed out, emacs is a lisp engine.
... oh, what's the phrase ... pickin' up roadkill armadillos. If that don't scare you - imagine roadkill skunks. They stop smelling so bad after a few days; which is about when armadillos start to get really rank, and they stay that way for weeks. Nobody picks up roadkill armadillos, not even buzzards. That's how bad they are, and that's how much I dislike emacs. It's the dead armadillo in the middle of the *nix road.
Lisp, for all its supposed power (I can't abide it, myself) is just not up to the task of being an OS, even if it has a C-based engine running it. Hey, I remember Apollo workstations running Pascal-based OS's. Or so they were said to be. The shell scripts certainly had a Pascallian feel to them. When the whole thing was redone in C, bang! zoom! Same box, incredible improvement. And, Pascal is a compiled language. Lisp, as far as I know, is interpreted. Bog city. Get out the winch.
An OS should be based on a lower level language like C. No, you don't need to get down to assembly (sure it would be faster - maybe - but how often would you come out with new releases of X, Winblows, etc.); so don't bother with the flames, don't waste your breath.
As a text editor, I always found emacs about as enjoyable as
I don't like vi, but I'll use it in a second if it's the only choice other than emacs. If emacs is all that's available, I use cat, sed, and awk.
BTW, I don't want to hear any RTFM flak. Worthless. Why bother? I might as well learn Wordstar and get my carpal tunnel that way.
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Nimrod!
I agree on a gut level.
Programming is an art; but then, so is CAD, and really, when you get to the heart of it, electrical engineering is as well.
There is an old saying: talent does what it can, genius does what it must.
To me, the product of genius is art, regardless of the forum. Software is engineered, sewer systems are engineered, electronics are engineered. If they are done well, they are art first and engineering second - though they must meet engineering principles to be considered well designed. Does that mean we need to be licensed artists as well?
I also doubt that this law would make Texas the "laughingstock of the global high-technology community." While there are certain high-technology firms in Texas that deserve great respect, on the whole Texas is already a laughingstock on the scientific and technical fronts.
I'm a Code Monkey, and proud of it. I'd be happier if I were a fully-fledged programmer, but I do what I need to do. Yup, that's a Code Monkey.
I'm also a CAD Monkey. I coined the term long ago (I twisted the term "CAD jockey"), and it's proliferating nicely. The difference between my Code Monkey and CAD Monkey status is this: a Code Monkey does what he can, to make his life easier. He's not a professional programmer. A CAD Monkey, however, is very likely highly experienced and knowledgeable, willing and able to correct the EEs when they SNAFU on a design, but the CAD Monkey gets no respect from anybody. We gladly wear the Monkey banner, because if we took ourselves seriously we'd have gone nuts years ago. Or maybe we already did; we're all insane.
By the way, I own a T-shirt that proclaims me as a "Code Monkey." I wear it with pride.
Whether you like it or not, the fact is that the process of the post-election events entirely abided to the US Constitution
... except for the fact that disputed elections are to be decided by Congress, not the Supreme Court. This was an extreme derailment of the Constitutional doctrine.
...
Hmm
OK, so I bit the troll bait. Couldn't resist. It was such an obvious morsel
Our resident MSCE is better known as "Nimrod."
I don't mean to demean MSCE-holders in general, but that alone is no real qualification deserving the title "engineer." An MSCE in addition to oh, say, 5+ years (minimum) real-world experience, and maybe a "real" CS degree would help. "Nimrod," the guy I mentioned above, is best known for fscking up anything he tries to debug. This guy refused to replace a hard drive that gave "no boot device found" errors three times a week for a month; he'd come down, run ScanDisk (which found so many errors that it took 4 hours to run, and trashed data and install info - requiring reinstalls of software every time) and tell us "it's probably just a software problem." I told him the first day that it was a bad drive (seen enough of them to be able to tell, but "no MSCE, so who the hell am I to judge.")
All he's qualified for is installing software, and he even manages to fsck up that on a regular basis, leading to one of his (non-MSCE but capable and knowledgable) co-workers wasting their time fixing his mistakes. But, he has that MSCE, so management figures he's OK. WTF?
Engineering axiom #1: there's nobody as dangerous as a nimrod with a degree.
Engineering axiom #2: nobody listens to the guys with experience, if there's a nimrod with a degree spewing nonsense in the area. Nimrod w/degree trumps experience, according to the suits.
That's too bad, it would be an interesting comparison.
Especially since the percentage of SUVs (i.e. fuel-inefficient vehicles) in the U.S. has increased continually since 1999.
I don't drive a vehicle. I don't even own a lawnmower (I pay somebody to do that chore - petroleum fuels are still burned, of course). I sold my car in 1997, and ride my bicycle or take public transportation. This is not purely for environmental reasons, but I am so used to it that I see no reason to change. I do, however, recognize that I am not only saving money by doing this, but I am also helping to minimize the environmental impact I necessarily create.
I sit upon no high horse. This is simply the way I live.