I wrote 'majority.' And to my knowledge IRA violence outside of the UK has been very, very limited. FWIW, IMHO for the UK to not profile Irishmen would be just as insane as it is for the US not to profile Middle Easterners.
How's it unreasonable? The majority of terrorists over the last thirty years have been of Middle Eastern extraction; thus if one is looking at a bunch of passengers the odds are better that the Middle Eastern-looking folks are terrorists than that the Swedes are. Now, this might just persuade terrorist organisations to try to recruit blond-haird, blue-eyed agents, but I'm cool with that: it'll make it that much more difficult for them to do their jobs, and then we can quite easily cast our nets further.
Ajax requires JavaScript; it doesn't work in links or w3m (or emacs-w3m). It is, therefor, missing the whole frickin' point of the World Wide Web. A RESTful approach is much better.
besides that, now that it is html/css, this site probably weighs in at near the size of the light version now.
It's not the size so much as the fact that the light version had no colours in the actual comments, no icons, no nonsense. Although the size was also nice.
I want my Slashboxes back in Light mode; I'm stuck with the Heavy, gooey, coloured mode now:-(
Yeah, multi-threading would be nice, particularly since my news server seems to have gotten very slow for some strange reason. But I've yet to find something which does everything gnus does and is usable from the CLI or GUI. I very much like to be able to ssh into my box at home and get work done. I do this every day, so I'm pretty sure that I'd hate the reality of giving it up:-)
Also I tend to do a lot of other things in emacs, and it's nice to be able to switch back and forth between 'em.
...one time I had forgotten the key sequence to quit emacs, and finally had to just abandon the frigging xterm session because I couldn't figure out how to get out of the edit session...
That's not really something vi's any better at--would you have guessed that:q quits?
...the ability of vi/vim to perform everything I needed without the obfuscation factor...
Well, a lot of that is simply the fact that you're used to vi. I used to be like you--vi rox, emacs sux. But I kept on seeing so many folks using it, and one day sat down and forced myself to learn it--and you know what, those folks were right: emacs really is several orders of magnitude more powerful. And the ROI is definitely there. I wouldn't go back now; I'm so much more productive and my text editing is actually fun, if you can believe that.
Emacs is also able to semantically understand source code, provided someone takes the time to write the ability. Remember that Lisp was the mainstay of artificial intelligence for decades.
For example, while Emacs does have the capability to function as an email client, other applications have long superseded its ability.
I'll have the reviewer know that I use gnus for my email and news reading, and it's perfect for the task. I've still yet to find a program which has as many features, and yet to find one which is accessible over a command-line as well as through a GUI.
And presentations are mostly word processor docs with some large fonts and pretty animations. Not much going on there but some macros.
Which is why the LaTeX beamer class is so successful. For those who don't know, LaTeX is a set of structural macros built atop Donald Knuth's superlative TeX typesetting engine; beamer is a set of slide presentation macros built atop LaTeX. It includes some really quite attractive themes, and of course one can create one's own if one so wishes.
The best developer's IDE is emacs, either GNU Emacs or XEmacs. It is extremely customisable and infinitely extensible. The entire thing is written in its own dialect of Lisp (called elisp), and so you can add just about any functionality to it.
There are multiple mail readers written for emacs; there is a news reader; a few web browsers; an interface to IRC (and with bitlbee, AIM/Yahoo/Jabber &c.); music players; calendaring.
The programming modes are excellent; the interface to make and gdb is second to none; the integration with a developer's environment is superb.
If your not smart enough to remember how you file things, how are you going to be smart enough to remember the metadata needed to extract the files out of a database?
One could just as well ask what benefit directories buy one if one can't remember one's flat-file naming conventions.
iTunes provides a rudimentary metadata search which does a decent job; future research will no doubt reveal even better ways to handle it.
Hmmm...I was always of the impression that we sysadmins are outranked by programmers, janitorial staff and strangers who wander in from off the street. But ICBW.
But of course your no-God evolutionary hypothesis isn't scientific because it's not falsifiable: there's no way to test how we got where we've gotten to, and in fact the existence or not of God isn't something science can speak to. Faith and science are different things and speak to different realms. The scientist can tell me how to heal a million creatures or kill a million creatures; the theologian tells me if it's a good idea or not. The theologian can tell me that it's good to provide for the poor; the scientist can tell me the most effective way of so doing (or could, if economics were more rigorous).
There's no way to scientifically distinguish evolution-guided-by-God from evolution-driven-solely-by-nature (and indeed certain religions wouldn't even try in the first place); since there's no way to distinguish them scientifically, science can't do so.
BIG-COMPANY paid me $19.84/hour back in '98 as a college intern. I did deskside, Unix sysadmin and miscellaneous perl scripts & projects. I'd be very surprised if $9.37/hour were the state of things seven years later, even with the tech downturn.
Which Lisp project did you do? I ask 'cause I'm a fellow Lisp fan and am currently playing with implementing GURPS Traveller:First In system generation to the game.
Oh, I thought that The Fantastic Four was a pretty good comic-book flick. Yeah, it wasn't deep, but it was fun. Now if only they'd replaced Alba with Johansson my cup, it would indeed have run over.
But it was a pleasant way to spend an hour and a half. Far better than some flicks in the theatre of late.
What the article doesn't say is that at the low ends of the IQ range there are more men than women, too. This is trivially demonstrable, since we know that the means are very close (within five points of one another, which is pretty damned closed), and that at the high end there are lots of men. If there are lots of men who are above average, that means there must be a fair number who are below average--and since IQ is normally distributed (along a bell curve), then the below-average tail must look like the above-average tail.
What this means is that there are more male eggheads, but only because there are also more male knuckleheads. This shouldn't really be surprising.
For another, I don't think the heads can cut through the platter, the heads would break first.
At the old office, we had a disk whose heads ground the platters to dust: all that was left in the inside was the heads, a small (1/16") stub of platter material and a lot of dust. Very cool.
Those who wrote in to complain are complete and total idiots. The proposed.xxx domain isn't a brand-new conduit of porn; rather, it's a channelling of pornography into an area within which it can be controlled (I'm certain that if.xxx survives then with two dozen years porn will not be allowed in any other domain). Yes, it's kind of like a red light district--a district which anyone can ignore the very existence of. It gives parents, and conservatives, and Christians, and traditionalists, and the really mature ('adult films' being very childish, and 'mature material' most immature) the very tool they desire: the ability to easily filter out pornography.
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I wrote 'majority.' And to my knowledge IRA violence outside of the UK has been very, very limited. FWIW, IMHO for the UK to not profile Irishmen would be just as insane as it is for the US not to profile Middle Easterners.
How's it unreasonable? The majority of terrorists over the last thirty years have been of Middle Eastern extraction; thus if one is looking at a bunch of passengers the odds are better that the Middle Eastern-looking folks are terrorists than that the Swedes are. Now, this might just persuade terrorist organisations to try to recruit blond-haird, blue-eyed agents, but I'm cool with that: it'll make it that much more difficult for them to do their jobs, and then we can quite easily cast our nets further.
Ajax requires JavaScript; it doesn't work in links or w3m (or emacs-w3m). It is, therefor, missing the whole frickin' point of the World Wide Web. A RESTful approach is much better.
What does Ant do that make doesn't? The only bad thing about make that I can see is that tabs are meaningful.
It's not the size so much as the fact that the light version had no colours in the actual comments, no icons, no nonsense. Although the size was also nice.
I want my Slashboxes back in Light mode; I'm stuck with the Heavy, gooey, coloured mode now:-(
Also I tend to do a lot of other things in emacs, and it's nice to be able to switch back and forth between 'em.
That's not really something vi's any better at--would you have guessed that :q quits?
Well, a lot of that is simply the fact that you're used to vi. I used to be like you--vi rox, emacs sux. But I kept on seeing so many folks using it, and one day sat down and forced myself to learn it--and you know what, those folks were right: emacs really is several orders of magnitude more powerful. And the ROI is definitely there. I wouldn't go back now; I'm so much more productive and my text editing is actually fun, if you can believe that.
Emacs is also able to semantically understand source code, provided someone takes the time to write the ability. Remember that Lisp was the mainstay of artificial intelligence for decades.
I'll have the reviewer know that I use gnus for my email and news reading, and it's perfect for the task. I've still yet to find a program which has as many features, and yet to find one which is accessible over a command-line as well as through a GUI.
Which is why the LaTeX beamer class is so successful. For those who don't know, LaTeX is a set of structural macros built atop Donald Knuth's superlative TeX typesetting engine; beamer is a set of slide presentation macros built atop LaTeX. It includes some really quite attractive themes, and of course one can create one's own if one so wishes.
What's offensive about the word 'cripple'? It's a perfectly good word.
There are multiple mail readers written for emacs; there is a news reader; a few web browsers; an interface to IRC (and with bitlbee, AIM/Yahoo/Jabber &c.); music players; calendaring.
The programming modes are excellent; the interface to make and gdb is second to none; the integration with a developer's environment is superb.
emacs is the r0x0r:-)
Not if we make it legal to cut them down where they stand. A few simple tweaks to the law and we'd be free of inane conversations forever:-)
One could just as well ask what benefit directories buy one if one can't remember one's flat-file naming conventions.
iTunes provides a rudimentary metadata search which does a decent job; future research will no doubt reveal even better ways to handle it.
Wow--Apple produces Linux software. Who knew?
Hmmm...I was always of the impression that we sysadmins are outranked by programmers, janitorial staff and strangers who wander in from off the street. But ICBW.
There's no way to scientifically distinguish evolution-guided-by-God from evolution-driven-solely-by-nature (and indeed certain religions wouldn't even try in the first place); since there's no way to distinguish them scientifically, science can't do so.
BIG-COMPANY paid me $19.84/hour back in '98 as a college intern. I did deskside, Unix sysadmin and miscellaneous perl scripts & projects. I'd be very surprised if $9.37/hour were the state of things seven years later, even with the tech downturn.
Which Lisp project did you do? I ask 'cause I'm a fellow Lisp fan and am currently playing with implementing GURPS Traveller:First In system generation to the game.
But it was a pleasant way to spend an hour and a half. Far better than some flicks in the theatre of late.
In real units, that's more than 23 miles/gallon. So my car would need a larger tank to travel as far as it can now.
What this means is that there are more male eggheads, but only because there are also more male knuckleheads. This shouldn't really be surprising.
At the old office, we had a disk whose heads ground the platters to dust: all that was left in the inside was the heads, a small (1/16") stub of platter material and a lot of dust. Very cool.
Idiots.
The only thing I can't figure out is the appropriate IfModule line--mod_deflate.c and deflate.c don't seem to work properly.