Of course I'd be annoyed--but that's because I use Linux, OpenSSH et al. I really don't care if someone releases an exploit for Windows, IE &c. because I don't give two figs for Microsoft or its users. In fact, the sooner people leave that platform, the happier I'll be. In other words, I consider the possible consequences of such an action: in the Linux case, it could hurt me and scares folks away from a platform they should use; in the Windows case, it couldn't hurt me or anyone I care about and it scares folks away from a platform they should abandon.
Yes, a touch pragmatic and not all idealistic, I know--but that's where I stand.
Yeah, it'd also put a lot of good people out of business, like the nice folks at Cornell & Diehl and the good men who man my local tobacconist. It'd also mean that all of us who love a good pipe or a fine cigar would be made to live drab lives.
In short, it'd be an utterly terrible thing to happen.
From what you describe, I should have been seeing incredible passionate romance in the AOTC I saw. But I didn't.
I think you misread. The point is that it's not incredibly passionate romance from the outside--it's just another ridiculous schoolboy crush. We've all had them, and they seemed so real, so vibrant, so powerufl at the time. But in hindsight, and from the outside, they were foolish. I think that Lucas may be one of the few directors (there are several others, of course) who takes some time to show the very real inanity of `romance.'
It took me some thinking to realise it--but I'd figured it out in about 4 minutes during the movie. Heck, that's why Anakin is such a twit: he's a moaning & griping 19 year old. They're not meant to be pleasant!
Sigh. This always comes up. Pinochet was a `relatively benign' dictator. As opposed to the trul malignant ones: Stalin, Pol Pot, Hitler, Mao. Pinochet just a few thousand opponents and collateral damage--those boys killed hundreds of millions. Nowhere near the same league.
The current Egyptian government has less relationship to the pyramid builders than the US government has to the mound builders (or Her Majesty of England has to her own mound builders...). The current government is comprised of Arab usurpers of Arab usurpers of Arab slaves of Arab usurpers of the Copts, who are themselves the descendants and usurpers of the Egyptians proper.
The Arabs never built a pyramid. Nor did they ever build up a great corpus of learning. But, clever as they are, they've taken credit for the last half-millenium. That proves nothing regarding the truth of the matter.
Voting for fringe ideologies just reelects the monsters, as the results of the 2000 elections should have burned into the conscience of every Nader voter.
Just as the results of '92 should be burnt into the conscience of every Perot voter. Face it: neither the Dems nor the Reps support a reasonable government. I happen to prefer the Libertarians, then the Republicans, then the Democrats, then the varous looney-tunes. Heck, were it not for the Libertarian support for infanticide (a most un-libertarian platform), I think I'd probably register as one.
Hell, talkd in most RedHat boxen is completely broken. It's very sad, as it's one of the protocols I most enjoy. Anyone with a fix will be my friend for approximately as long as it takes to pour & drink a beer at the Falling Rock...
He wasn't a maverick--the ship's crew misidentified the plane. It took off from an unfriendly military airfield, so was tagged as a foe. Its transponder responded as a civilian, so Petty Officer Anderson checked the listing of civilian flights. He missed the entry for the plane, and confirmed the flag.
Later, he re-pinged, but without resetting the range. He got back a reply which identified a military plane (sitting on the ground of the airfield).
The captain, who was involved in a sea battle at the time, decided to shoot down any unfriendly aircraft which made it to the 20 mile point. His ship sent out four messages warning the aircraft to stay away. Remember, a year earlier the Stark had been hit by an Iranian missile and many men were killed.
He ended up waiting until it was 11 miles out and then, relying on the information he received from his crew (that it was descending, as an attacker would), ordered that it be shot down.
It was in the middle of wartime, there was a battle going on, and he was informed that his ship was under attack. He attacked quite responsibly--hardly as a maverick.
I love it, but it is not as cross-platform as it pretends to be (it does not perform well on Windows) and it really is not built for speed. If you need these things, you need multithreading, a better abstraction model so you are not assumign POSIX compatibility (and hence emulating it on Windows) etc. This means you break the compatibility. Pure and simple, but in the end, you get a better product.
I'm not so certain that one gets a better product. On well-written OSes, multithreading is really not necessary--forking is essentially as cheap as creating a thread. A better abstraction model will cost in performance. And, really, why bother supporting Windows well? Unix is where it's at, where it's been at and where it'll be at.
The only reason to support Windows is as a migration path to a real platform.
I suspect that a study of the laws of physics would benifit you here. 2 hours of driving is a lot of energy, and it's very unlikely you'll move that much energy, safely, that fast.
That's the beauty of petrol--I can move twice that amount of driving in under five minutes. Electricity just isn't as convenient.
It might work alright in Europe. I understand that they drive much less and more regularly than we do here.
I don't want a car I cannot take a spin down to Florissant, Colo. in...
FYI, the resale value of a 1990 Toyota Tercel versus a 1990 Escort is the same. Both are pretty much worthless.
Hey--I own a '91 Tercel, and last I checked it's worth a bit over $2,000. Loses about $100 a month, though, and it's beginning to misbehave. I'm at that fun stage where I determine if I spend a thousand or so and get it running really well for the next dozen years, or skimp on the maintenance and hope it can last another three years.
Front wheel drive is nice here in Colorado: much more difficult to skid out.
Despite my 4 cylinders, I beat almost everyone off the line--even sports cars. Why? Because their drivers don't really care. Sure, if they applied the gas, they'd leave me miles behind. But they don't, and so I get the joy of seeing a Ferrari 100 yds. in my dust. It's a nice feeling:-)
The vas tmajority of Open Source/Free Software programmers write in C. C is unparalleled in support, portability and speed. C++ and Java are its bastard stepchildren.
As far as pretty languages go, I'm much more fond of the Lisp family: Common Lisp for full-fledged apps, and Scheme for smaller apps (say, extensibility). But C has and will ever have a place which languages such as C++ and Java never will.
Even now, I daresay that most of the real development in the world goes on in C, despite the hype for Java and, once upon a time, C++.
Trekkies were the childish, "Oh, wow, Spock has Pointed Ears!", while Trekkers were the people putting out the fanzines, doing the letter campains, running the conventions and generally doing all the creative stuff.
There's a difference? They're both infatuated with a ridiculous, unbelievable, boring, asinine series.
Calling a Trekkie a Trekker is like calling a Cracker a Hacker.
I mean, think about it. Fuck the airlines, gimme an air-conditioned automobile with a big cushy seat all to myself, an open road, a fresh box of Krispy Kremes, a six-pack of Jolt Cola, a line-out-to-tape adapter, six speakers, and a laptop crammed with MP3s of my favorite road music! Fuck the airlines! All the baggage I can cram into the trunk! Your choice of good eats at any restaurant in any city en route! Door-to-door service from home to hotel! No lineups, no waiting! I say again, Fuck the airlines!
Amen to that. In May I flew out to Annapolis for my brother's commissioning. I will never fly on my own dollar again. The level of `security' is nauseating. This is America, not the Soviet Union. The thugs even broke my shaving mug (made by my father when I was a little boy & he was in the hospital). From then on, I've driven everywhere. And you know something? With a CD player, lots of CDs and Mountain Dew, a good long drive is orders of magnitude more enjoyable than flying. Really a lot of fun, actually. And one gets the opportunity to actually see this great country. No more planes for this boy.
You forgot to mention the typical install using apt:
apt-get <package>
That's it. And when it comes to directory to choose, there should not be a choice in a package system. If it's that important to break things sufficiently that they are not in the standard dirs, then the user should download the package. This is Unix, where we can graft in disk space where we need it, not Windows, where it must be dealt with on a volume level.
3. Remote control explosive devices that could be set off by the intended transmission could also be set off by the jamming, which is
also a transmission of considerable strength on multiple frequencies. Explosive crews use those `Turn off Transmitter next X miles' signs for a reason.
Which theoretically means the bomber is not going to be able to approach or their bomb will be destroyed early or on route..
Alternatively, he places it and sets a timer to make the final connexion at a certain point in time. Or he just uses a timer, period, instead of radio detonation, which is easier and cheaper anyway.
To properly handle footnotes, citations, tables of contents, figures, tables &c, simply use LaTeX. LaTeX documents are simple ASCII files with markup which specifies what is going on. Your footnotes would be marked up as \footnote{\cite{horst-patterns}, pg.~4} or something similar.
I did all my papers my senior year of college in LaTeX. Best decision I ever made.
Rich Dad, Poor Dad is one of the worst books you can read. John T. Reed has devoted an entire page to explaining why. Save your money and follow someone else's advice.
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It is harder for single people, and the reason is that so many women have gone to work. This doubled the supply of labour without affecting the demand for it. Nowadays it is almost necessary for women to work, if a family wishes to live at all decently.
And it means that being single one is completely out of luck. Living for two (or even four) is a lot cheaper than living for one. The most expensive item one has to pay is housing, and that does not increase with the size of the family (my folks had 6 people in a home with a mortgage slightly twice as expensive as my cheap flat). Even food does not quite double in cost (on can buy larger, fresher amounts). There is no way that I as a single man can even hope to achieve those economies of scale.
It's very depressing.
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Perhaps because the New York Times is a good paper? I don't care for its political slant, but it is a well-respected sheet.
Traditional land law states that unowned land can be claimed by holding it. That is, anyone who can start up a colony owns the land on which the colony sits. So to own Mars, Microsoft would have to colonise the entire thing. And if they did that, they'd deserve to own it, don't you think?
The major problem nowadays is that we have huge tracts of owned land in the US which is unused, undeveloped and IMHO unheld. A simple fence with a sign stating `keep out' does not equal a homestead.
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Yes, a touch pragmatic and not all idealistic, I know--but that's where I stand.
In short, it'd be an utterly terrible thing to happen.
I think you misread. The point is that it's not incredibly passionate romance from the outside--it's just another ridiculous schoolboy crush. We've all had them, and they seemed so real, so vibrant, so powerufl at the time. But in hindsight, and from the outside, they were foolish. I think that Lucas may be one of the few directors (there are several others, of course) who takes some time to show the very real inanity of `romance.'
It took me some thinking to realise it--but I'd figured it out in about 4 minutes during the movie. Heck, that's why Anakin is such a twit: he's a moaning & griping 19 year old. They're not meant to be pleasant!
Sigh. This always comes up. Pinochet was a `relatively benign' dictator. As opposed to the trul malignant ones: Stalin, Pol Pot, Hitler, Mao. Pinochet just a few thousand opponents and collateral damage--those boys killed hundreds of millions. Nowhere near the same league.
The Arabs never built a pyramid. Nor did they ever build up a great corpus of learning. But, clever as they are, they've taken credit for the last half-millenium. That proves nothing regarding the truth of the matter.
Just as the results of '92 should be burnt into the conscience of every Perot voter. Face it: neither the Dems nor the Reps support a reasonable government. I happen to prefer the Libertarians, then the Republicans, then the Democrats, then the varous looney-tunes. Heck, were it not for the Libertarian support for infanticide (a most un-libertarian platform), I think I'd probably register as one.
Hell, talkd in most RedHat boxen is completely broken. It's very sad, as it's one of the protocols I most enjoy. Anyone with a fix will be my friend for approximately as long as it takes to pour & drink a beer at the Falling Rock...
Later, he re-pinged, but without resetting the range. He got back a reply which identified a military plane (sitting on the ground of the airfield).
The captain, who was involved in a sea battle at the time, decided to shoot down any unfriendly aircraft which made it to the 20 mile point. His ship sent out four messages warning the aircraft to stay away. Remember, a year earlier the Stark had been hit by an Iranian missile and many men were killed.
He ended up waiting until it was 11 miles out and then, relying on the information he received from his crew (that it was descending, as an attacker would), ordered that it be shot down.
It was in the middle of wartime, there was a battle going on, and he was informed that his ship was under attack. He attacked quite responsibly--hardly as a maverick.
I'm not so certain that one gets a better product. On well-written OSes, multithreading is really not necessary--forking is essentially as cheap as creating a thread. A better abstraction model will cost in performance. And, really, why bother supporting Windows well? Unix is where it's at, where it's been at and where it'll be at.
The only reason to support Windows is as a migration path to a real platform.
That's the beauty of petrol--I can move twice that amount of driving in under five minutes. Electricity just isn't as convenient.
It might work alright in Europe. I understand that they drive much less and more regularly than we do here.
I don't want a car I cannot take a spin down to Florissant, Colo. in...
Hey--I own a '91 Tercel, and last I checked it's worth a bit over $2,000. Loses about $100 a month, though, and it's beginning to misbehave. I'm at that fun stage where I determine if I spend a thousand or so and get it running really well for the next dozen years, or skimp on the maintenance and hope it can last another three years.
Front wheel drive is nice here in Colorado: much more difficult to skid out.
Despite my 4 cylinders, I beat almost everyone off the line--even sports cars. Why? Because their drivers don't really care. Sure, if they applied the gas, they'd leave me miles behind. But they don't, and so I get the joy of seeing a Ferrari 100 yds. in my dust. It's a nice feeling:-)
As far as pretty languages go, I'm much more fond of the Lisp family: Common Lisp for full-fledged apps, and Scheme for smaller apps (say, extensibility). But C has and will ever have a place which languages such as C++ and Java never will.
Even now, I daresay that most of the real development in the world goes on in C, despite the hype for Java and, once upon a time, C++.
There's a difference? They're both infatuated with a ridiculous, unbelievable, boring, asinine series.
Calling a Trekkie a Trekker is like calling a Cracker a Hacker.
No, it's like calling a cracker a script kiddie.
Amen to that. In May I flew out to Annapolis for my brother's commissioning. I will never fly on my own dollar again. The level of `security' is nauseating. This is America, not the Soviet Union. The thugs even broke my shaving mug (made by my father when I was a little boy & he was in the hospital). From then on, I've driven everywhere. And you know something? With a CD player, lots of CDs and Mountain Dew, a good long drive is orders of magnitude more enjoyable than flying. Really a lot of fun, actually. And one gets the opportunity to actually see this great country. No more planes for this boy.
That's it. And when it comes to directory to choose, there should not be a choice in a package system. If it's that important to break things sufficiently that they are not in the standard dirs, then the user should download the package. This is Unix, where we can graft in disk space where we need it, not Windows, where it must be dealt with on a volume level.
Wow--I hope someday I can find the kind of happiness y'all seem to have.
Many of us found that letter to be quite inspiring; that's why it was forwarded so much.
Using the standard measurement system, that works out to .00154 sightings per square mile.
Alternatively, he places it and sets a timer to make the final connexion at a certain point in time. Or he just uses a timer, period, instead of radio detonation, which is easier and cheaper anyway.
I did all my papers my senior year of college in LaTeX. Best decision I ever made.
Rich Dad, Poor Dad is one of the worst books you can read. John T. Reed has devoted an entire page to explaining why. Save your money and follow someone else's advice.
And it means that being single one is completely out of luck. Living for two (or even four) is a lot cheaper than living for one. The most expensive item one has to pay is housing, and that does not increase with the size of the family (my folks had 6 people in a home with a mortgage slightly twice as expensive as my cheap flat). Even food does not quite double in cost (on can buy larger, fresher amounts). There is no way that I as a single man can even hope to achieve those economies of scale.
It's very depressing.
Perhaps because the New York Times is a good paper? I don't care for its political slant, but it is a well-respected sheet.
The major problem nowadays is that we have huge tracts of owned land in the US which is unused, undeveloped and IMHO unheld. A simple fence with a sign stating `keep out' does not equal a homestead.