Re:How's he going to know who to sue?
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HOWTO: Annoy a Spammer
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The _only_ use for this information should be to write a single personal letter expressing your opinion of the guy he's representing and why you think that he shouldn't represent such slime. Or make a single personal telephone call similarly.
""" $ uname -a Linux Tellus 2.2.19 #1 Sat Aug 25 15:38:03 EST 2001 alpha EV56 GNU/Linux """
For a couple of years, Debian has been as stable as a rock on alpha. My last 2 uptimes were 300 days and 180 days caused only by (i) a power cut to whole building and (ii) me blowing a fuse by turning on too many things simultaniously.
It could also run BSD variants.
I think everyone I know who's used alphas loves them. I'd love another one, certainly!
Indeed. I have an article here written by one of the original guys from MIT who referred to it with the..ing, and I always felt that that rolled off the tongue better than without the...ing. (It is, after all, a windowing system, a system for windowing applications.)
My memory thus became clouded by personal preference.
Ooops.
Haha - I read your first line as if it were: Nah, man! "X"
I think many people think like you. I do. However I think this is more aimed at the "I want a _computer_ with a preinstalled OS-X-alike" crowd. For commodity hardware (PCs, i.e. x86s), there's next to nothing that satisfies that want (that's "want" the way ecomomists define it) because system vendors have their hands tied by Micro$haft, and daren't sell such a system.
However, this is a half-way point. No you _can't_ buy a preinstalled system from us, but you can buy a system and then simply add a hard disk with the desired system preinstalled.
It's quite clever, if that's the case.
No doubt M$ will come up with some description o it as some kind of theft by the end of the week.
Try again, this time try to include some knowledge of special relativity in your post. Trying to pretend that mass is constant is a dead give-away that you're not speaking from a position of knowledge.
You could also learn something about the strong nuclear force and before you talk about 'quarks' as if they exist as independent particles.
Oh, man! I bought my girlfriend a pen (one of those NASA space pens) a few weeks back - does that make me an importer and trafficker of illegal circumvention devices?
""" And remember there was an old technology from the last century it's called "transcription". This amazing technology is very flexible, it involves one up to two eyes, and 2 up to 10 fingers. """
No, no, no. I couldn't disagree more. You see this "transcription" is nothing more than a method of _stealing_ other people's intellectual property, and is quite evidently illegal under the DMCA.
I personally think that the ability to type what I want is quite important, and I will therefore happily pay for a license to type, which can be purchased in a deluxe professional edition (plus+) such that transcription will also be permitted, although still at a per-character surcharge.
Good points. Taking your alien point further, when cinematographers wanted to make aliens more frightening they made the aliens look weirder - and so they made them look like things that biologists had been studying for centuries - Insects/lizards/etc.
It's a half-man-half-fish lizard bird!
(My point is that they actually used nothing novel, they simply recycled prior-known forms)
If I had a cent for every badly researchedpiece of journalism... "Jules Verne's descriptions of submarines"
They _demonstrated_ submarines under the Thames in London in the 1600s. They took a boat, and covererd in leather. Sure it wasn't practically useful for anything, but it was self-contained and did travel underwater. And that makes it a submarine 200 years before some Frenchman's "predictions".
There is a model of how other objects near things that behave like black holes behave.
They have detected something that behaves how the model that predicts how other objects near things that behave like black holes behave precicts.
They have concluded this it must therefore be a thing near a black hole.
They have concluded that there must be a black hole.
As "proof" goes, that's fairly feeble. It's a demonstration of, and provides evidence for, but it doesn't constitute a proof unless it would have been possible to set up an experiment where the result might not have occured. Given that they didn't set up this experiment at all, they're well short of the mark. The web page you direct us towards doesn't even use the word "proof". It says "provides overwhelming evidence", which I completely agree with. But to a scientist it's not a proof yet.
The _reasons_ you give are bogus. I'm sure you know where to put an apostrophe, but you either don't know the reasons or don't want to make them known to others.
Apostrophisation represents the elision of one or more letters. Period. The genetive form on OE used to have a vowel, almost always an "e", before the final "s" in the words that we now spell with "'s".
Bloke named John. Well it used to be "Johnes cloak". And just like "John is fat" becomes "John's fat", "Johnes cloak" becomes "John's cloak". Missing letters; apostrophisation.
Pronouns are somewhat of a red herring, alas. I kind of agree with you about pronouns, but look at "ones". "Ones" never had an apostrophisation, but over the years (centuries), an apostrophe was put in, so people with no respect for logic now think the correct third person neutral singular peronal pronoun's genetive form is "one's".
Following the same pattern of language change, there's no reason to not fear that in 200 years the/correct/ form of the posessive "its" will be "it's".
The original question was "where should someone in the UK get one, given the £/$ price disparity?", so there will be no tax issues as you "re-enter the country".
However, I looked at apple.fr, apple.nl, apple.co.uk, apple.it etc. (every code I could think of) and the Euro/$ disparity is _nearly_ as bad as the UKs £/$ disparity, so most of Europe is basially all in the same basket. However, I think that the UK was at the top (bottom) of the heap.
It's not just Apple though, if anything some of their prices are fairer than some of the bigname PC vendors (Dell etc.).
Actually in Calais, Bordeaux, and their immediate hinterlands, everyone speaks English. They know that numbnut Brits will come over not knowning much French, and it's just so much easier for transactions to be performed in English rather than their native French.
However, if you want to be served by far more polite natives, then head over to Amsterdam rather than Calais. The Dutch on the whole all speak far better English that the French, and the environs is far more enjoyable. IMHO. Add to that the fact that Amsterdam trips are similarly cheap, barely more than ones to France if you're prepared to rough it a bit (the 20 hour coach trips, for example).
Sorry to be thick, but that means that it's cheaper for Limeys to head off to France, say, to buy their Mac stuff, as it's only 10% over the US price rather than 30%?
(A trip UKFr is still dirt cheap, IIRC)
Sounds good for the Eurozone if people catch on to that. Remember to buy 12 bottles of LBV and a couple of crates of Champagne too while you're there.
THL.
Re:Since the author didnt mention it...
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Design Patterns
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I have seen design patterns do more harm than good. I've seen people suddenly feel like they were able to design and code complicated systems because they were armed with this book. And I've thence seen them churn out a complete pigs ear.
It's only a good book in the hands of a decent coder.
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The _only_ use for this information should be to write a single personal letter expressing your opinion of the guy he's representing and why you think that he shouldn't represent such slime.
Or make a single personal telephone call similarly.
Stop carpet-bombing, and start thinking.
THL.
"""
$ uname -a
Linux Tellus 2.2.19 #1 Sat Aug 25 15:38:03 EST 2001 alpha EV56 GNU/Linux
"""
For a couple of years, Debian has been as stable as a rock on alpha. My last 2 uptimes were 300 days and 180 days caused only by (i) a power cut to whole building and (ii) me blowing a fuse by turning on too many things simultaniously.
It could also run BSD variants.
I think everyone I know who's used alphas loves them. I'd love another one, certainly!
THL.
Indeed. I have an article here written by one of the original guys from MIT who referred to it with the ..ing, and I always felt that that rolled off the tongue better than without the ...ing. (It is, after all, a windowing system, a system for windowing applications.)
My memory thus became clouded by personal preference.
Ooops.
Haha - I read your first line as if it were:
Nah, man! "X"
Sure thing, dude, "X" it is!
THL.
Pedantically, it's "the X windowing system".
THL.
Oh man - it's still on the front page too (with my settings).
I thought I'd been drinking too much and had double vision!
THL.
I think many people think like you. I do. However I think this is more aimed at the
"I want a _computer_ with a preinstalled OS-X-alike" crowd.
For commodity hardware (PCs, i.e. x86s), there's next to nothing that satisfies that want (that's "want" the way ecomomists define it) because system vendors have their hands tied by Micro$haft, and daren't sell such a system.
However, this is a half-way point. No you _can't_ buy a preinstalled system from us, but you can buy a system and then simply add a hard disk with the desired system preinstalled.
It's quite clever, if that's the case.
No doubt M$ will come up with some description o it as some kind of theft by the end of the week.
THL.
BZZZT!
Try again, this time try to include some knowledge of special relativity in your post.
Trying to pretend that mass is constant is a dead give-away that you're not speaking from a position of knowledge.
You could also learn something about the strong nuclear force and before you talk about 'quarks' as if they exist as independent particles.
THL.
Oh, man! I bought my girlfriend a pen (one of those NASA space pens) a few weeks back - does that make me an importer and trafficker of illegal circumvention devices?
Shit, I'd better destroy my Bic collection...
THL.
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And remember there was an old technology from the last century it's called "transcription". This amazing technology is very flexible, it involves one up to two eyes, and 2 up to 10 fingers.
"""
No, no, no. I couldn't disagree more.
You see this "transcription" is nothing more than a method of _stealing_ other people's intellectual property, and is quite evidently illegal under the DMCA.
I personally think that the ability to type what I want is quite important, and I will therefore happily pay for a license to type, which can be purchased in a deluxe professional edition (plus+) such that transcription will also be permitted, although still at a per-character surcharge.
THL.
And add one little sprinkle of DNS poisoning to prove my point. Thank you.
THL.
Good points. Taking your alien point further, when cinematographers wanted to make aliens more frightening they made the aliens look weirder - and so they made them look like things that biologists had been studying for centuries - Insects/lizards/etc.
It's a half-man-half-fish lizard bird!
(My point is that they actually used nothing novel, they simply recycled prior-known forms)
THL.
If I had a cent for every badly researchedpiece of journalism...
"Jules Verne's descriptions of submarines"
They _demonstrated_ submarines under the Thames in London in the 1600s. They took a boat, and covererd in leather. Sure it wasn't practically useful for anything, but it was self-contained and did travel underwater. And that makes it a submarine 200 years before some Frenchman's "predictions".
THL.
There is a model of how black holes behave.
There is a model of how other objects near things that behave like black holes behave.
They have detected something that behaves how the model that predicts how other objects near things that behave like black holes behave precicts.
They have concluded this it must therefore be a thing near a black hole.
They have concluded that there must be a black hole.
As "proof" goes, that's fairly feeble. It's a demonstration of, and provides evidence for, but it doesn't constitute a proof unless it would have been possible to set up an experiment where the result might not have occured. Given that they didn't set up this experiment at all, they're well short of the mark. The web page you direct us towards doesn't even use the word "proof". It says "provides overwhelming evidence", which I completely agree with. But to a scientist it's not a proof yet.
THL.
pooh-pooh v.t. dismiss
Would you rather they put 'dismissed'?
Precisely how is dismissed a more "technical term"?
Just because your active vocabulary is poor don't judge others for their choice of words.
THL.
I don't want to get squeezed in the middle, so I'll work _downwards_ from you.
#else
Well, I'm assuming you want it to work in both Windoze and lunix. I just got the feeling that what you were writing wouldn't be portable.
THL.
his, hers, theirs, yours
its ain't so special.
The _reasons_ you give are bogus. I'm sure you know where to put an apostrophe, but you either don't know the reasons or don't want to make them known to others.
/correct/ form of the posessive "its" will be "it's".
Apostrophisation represents the elision of one or more letters. Period. The genetive form on OE used to have a vowel, almost always an "e", before the final "s" in the words that we now spell with "'s".
Bloke named John. Well it used to be "Johnes cloak". And just like "John is fat" becomes "John's fat", "Johnes cloak" becomes "John's cloak". Missing letters; apostrophisation.
Pronouns are somewhat of a red herring, alas.
I kind of agree with you about pronouns, but look at "ones". "Ones" never had an apostrophisation, but over the years (centuries), an apostrophe was put in, so people with no respect for logic now think the correct third person neutral singular peronal pronoun's genetive form is "one's".
Following the same pattern of language change, there's no reason to not fear that in 200 years the
Sad but true.
THL.
The original question was "where should someone in the UK get one, given the £/$ price disparity?", so there will be no tax issues as you "re-enter the country".
However, I looked at apple.fr, apple.nl, apple.co.uk, apple.it etc. (every code I could think of) and the Euro/$ disparity is _nearly_ as bad as the UKs £/$ disparity, so most of Europe is basially all in the same basket. However, I think that the UK was at the top (bottom) of the heap.
It's not just Apple though, if anything some of their prices are fairer than some of the bigname PC vendors (Dell etc.).
THL.
Quelle domage.
Actually in Calais, Bordeaux, and their immediate hinterlands, everyone speaks English. They know that numbnut Brits will come over not knowning much French, and it's just so much easier for transactions to be performed in English rather than their native French.
However, if you want to be served by far more polite natives, then head over to Amsterdam rather than Calais. The Dutch on the whole all speak far better English that the French, and the environs is far more enjoyable. IMHO.
Add to that the fact that Amsterdam trips are similarly cheap, barely more than ones to France if you're prepared to rough it a bit (the 20 hour coach trips, for example).
Remember to come back though!
THL.
"1Ghz G4 is about the same as a 4Ghz P4 in speed"
u 2000.ht ml
You certainly can't prove that using the stats on this page:
http://www.spec.org/osg/cpu2000/results/cp
What are Apple afraid of?
THL.
Sorry to be thick, but that means that it's cheaper for Limeys to head off to France, say, to buy their Mac stuff, as it's only 10% over the US price rather than 30%?
(A trip UKFr is still dirt cheap, IIRC)
Sounds good for the Eurozone if people catch on to that. Remember to buy 12 bottles of LBV and a couple of crates of Champagne too while you're there.
THL.
I have seen design patterns do more harm than good.
I've seen people suddenly feel like they were able to design and code complicated systems because they were armed with this book. And I've thence seen them churn out a complete pigs ear.
It's only a good book in the hands of a decent coder.
THL.
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If it's open then let it fight, by all means, on pure merit with PDF, and let the better format win.
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Have you no memory of history? _Better_ formats _rarely_ win. Merit doesn't count in the world of commerce. (VHS/Beta blah blah blah)
THL.
It's not a bargain until you've proved that there's a recovery.
Here are some interesting links that will now probably get you arrested:
The admins who work at Intentia are completely useless twonks !
For fucks sake don't up-mod me, I'm capped - thank me by _clicking the freaking links_, all of them!
THL