A girl has to start at some absurd age if she is to really get anywhere. Maybe around age 5 to 9. There are never enough guys to dance with. The competition is fierce.
A boy can start in high school and still become a pro. He gets to spend lots of time with pretty young women, often lifting them up. Even if the boy is really dreadful at dancing, he'll still have plenty of willing partners.
If I'd have known this when I was young, I sure would have signed up. What a deal!
If they are not dangerous, leave them alone. Otherwise... why in Hell are these people running free?
What, we aren't too sure? We'll wait to see how many people they attack? Lovely. I so look forward to being the victim who gets to prove that yes indeed, inmate #5254352 should go back to jail.
Start with a command-line tool. Make it portable plain C99 or even ANSI C, 64-bit clean of course. Write an interface spec describing the grammer of stdin and stdout.
Write some nice front-end wrapper software for GUIs using GTK and Cocoa. The GUI does socketpair, fork, and execve to control the command-line part. If the command-line part needs to keep running as a co-process, use the select or poll call to control it. Most likely, select or poll is built into the GUI event loop of your toolkit.
UNIX is a trademark. It's even a registered trademark. A trademark is not a copyright. (and not a patent either, nor a trade secret)
AT+T's lawsuit ran in to problems becuase they hadn't properly protected their code from unpublished disclosure. At the time, copyright law was very different, so this mattered. The judge indicated that AT+T might not have copyright to some things. AT+T was also caught violating Berkeley's copyright.
On the other hand, the trademark was being violated by BSDI and there may have been some minor problems in the BSD code base.
So the parties agreed to quit and keep things quiet.
If you want to use the trademark, you need a license. Licenses are easy to get, provided that you fully and correctly implement an OS that follows a standard called the Single UNIX Specification. FreeBSD violates this standard in many ways, and is thus inelligible for getting a license to use the trademark.
Linux isn't UNIX either, though it's now close enough that the Open Group can maintain a small list of deviations that need to be voted out of existance.
"FreeBSD is an advanced [we can argue] operating system [duh] for x86 compatible (including Pentium and Athlon) [yeah, a Pentium is x86 compatible, who'd have thought?], amd64 compatible (including Opteron, Athlon64, and EM64T), ARM, IA-64, PC-98, and UltraSPARC architectures. It is derived from BSD, [says that in the name, doesn't it?] the version of UNIX [actually no, this is a trademark reserved for OSes that meet a standard which FreeBSD violates] developed at the University of California, Berkeley. [you no longer need to put that in your advertising] It is developed and maintained by a large team of individuals."
So, as far as we can tell from this ad, nothing has changed other than the version number. I guess that is a sign of life though, kind of, sort of, maybe a bit.
Pigs are smarter than dogs. We roast them whole, and we grind them into sausage.
Dogs are relatively dumb, yet people get all upset if you eat one. WTF?
I think it's the eyes. Little beady pig eyes on the sides of the head just don't look as human as big forward-looking doggie eyes. Aw, such a nice doggie! Gross, a pig!
Really, there's nothing wrong with dog fur or dog meat. The same goes for horses, which are also dumber than pigs.
It's good to get some variety in your diet. I hate my lame corporate supermarket.
First of all, that's a needless operation. It can take time; don't forget the DNS lookup and all.
Second of all, it's not as if you could handle any random DTD. Software doesn't work that way. (this is one of the reasons why XML itself is a mostly-lame idea) If the XML doesn't match expectations, you can't convert it to your own internal representation. You probably have a C struct that you need to fill in. Even in some wild interpreted language like perl, you just won't have any use for unexpected data structures and you damn well need the expected data structures.
Boy did I cringe when Bush suddenly got all excited about hydrogen. I wonder if he believes the nonsense or if he's in on the lie. He's really not dumb; that just plays well to many voters.
Pressured by the Japanese hybrid success and all the environmentalists, the US car industry had to do something. They created a distraction. Hydrogen is something they can research for decades, and probably a great excuse for federal research funding. It's something to keep us from thinking about hybrids and regulations.
Serious electric storage is kind of pointless, as is hydrogen. Hydrogen and stored electricity are both a pain in the ass to deal with, and both generated via coal-fired power plants.
Short-term high-current electrical storage is nice for serial-hybrid designs. (serial hybrids have fuel burning engines without mechanical connection to the wheels) High-current storage lets you get sports car acceleration despite having a fuel-burning engine only big enough for typical use. Use biodiesel if you like.
Size the engine to be just barely big enough to carry a car full of fat people up a mountain pass. Size the electrical storage to be enough to store all the energy generated by the engine and regenerative braking when you slow from 70 MPH to a stop where you wait for a slow freight train or drawbridge. Be sure that the stored energy plus engine-provided energy is enough to keep all 4 wheels at the threshold of losing traction as you accelerate from 0 to 80 MPH, assuming high-traction tires on dry pavement of course.
You pay for the heat. You pay for the cooling. If using plastic bottles, you for any melted bottles. You pay via lower selling price, because overcooked food tastes yucky.
(this ultimately puts you out of business)
Despite being rather science-driven, US food processing plants (canneries and bottling plants) hate metric. Nobody wants to put ".0" or ".5" on the end of every number.
It's not all that esoteric in the US, at least for men's pants. I'm 33x34, marked W33L34 on the pair next to me. The only oddities are that "width" is really the perimeter, and "length" is only from cuff to crotch. No allowance is made for ass height not being proportional to the ass width and/or leg length.
The US uses Queen Anne gallons. This is what Britian used to use. There was no real reason for Britian to change, but I guess the King wanted bigger jugs...
It should have been MGS. (meter-gram-second) The base units should not have prefixes like "kilo" and "centi".
Furthermore, there is nothing nice about the sizes of metric units. Nice units are ones that eliminate pointless numeric constants. Using natural units, e=mc^2 becomes e=m. Using natural units, the ideal gas law loses the R constant. Isn't that way better?
Metric is nothing special. For example, the meter is based on an erroneous measurement across France. This bad measurement was used to estimate the size of the Earth so that the meter could be claimed to have a tie to the size of the Earth. (which isn't unchanging anyway, even if it were perfectly round!) We might as well use a foot defined as the distance traveled by light in a particular amount of time, with that time amount chosen so that a foot just happens to match King George's foot.
Base 10 isn't special either. Binary is special, and trivially convertable to the more-compact hexadecimal.
My wife loves being pregnant, loves having lots of kids, and even sort of enjoys giving birth. I think I'm destined for about 9 kids, assuming we slow down as she gets less fertile. It could work out to a dozen though. She's kind of purposeful in having "accidents".
She's also a moderate CS nerd with an IQ around 130.
I guess evolution favors her, and favors me for picking her.
The cheap places are cheap for a reason. Besides yucky weather and so on, there just aren't many jobs.
Finding a job is bad enough, but what about if you lose a job? You'll have to move to a new house, change careers, wait years, or commute 100 miles. In the expensive areas, you have a new job a week later and you won't have to commute or change careers.
Come on, do you really think people realized how inflation would affect the economy? Regular people say "just print more money" is a good plan.
The question had to be made in a way that normal people could comprehend. For you, imagine it is a fantasy world without inflation.
Perhaps the best way for you to see things: Consider one neighborhood having salary adjustments. This wouldn't greatly affect the larger economy.
People want to look better than their neighbors. This is why people buy such crazy cars and expensive clothes. What matters is being better than others. People are just not satisfied unless others are worse off.
This is natural and should be expected, given that humans compete for mates. We naturally compete for resources, but we need to go far above the minimum so that we win the competition for good mates.
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Ballet is great for men.
A girl has to start at some absurd age if she is to really get anywhere. Maybe around age 5 to 9. There are never enough guys to dance with. The competition is fierce.
A boy can start in high school and still become a pro. He gets to spend lots of time with pretty young women, often lifting them up. Even if the boy is really dreadful at dancing, he'll still have plenty of willing partners.
If I'd have known this when I was young, I sure would have signed up. What a deal!
VT is the vertical tab.
Octal: 013
Decimal: 11
Hex: 0x0B
C escape: \v
It's the Control-K character.
When sent to the console, it seems to go down a line or two.
I can't see much use for VT.
Example: the "df" program reports data in the wrong units.
If they are not dangerous, leave them alone. Otherwise... why in Hell are these people running free?
What, we aren't too sure? We'll wait to see how many people they attack? Lovely. I so look forward to being the victim who gets to prove that yes indeed, inmate #5254352 should go back to jail.
Submit a grant proposal for fixing the problem.
Suggestion:
Start with a command-line tool. Make it portable plain C99 or even ANSI C, 64-bit clean of course. Write an interface spec describing the grammer of stdin and stdout.
Write some nice front-end wrapper software for GUIs using GTK and Cocoa. The GUI does socketpair, fork, and execve to control the command-line part. If the command-line part needs to keep running as a co-process, use the select or poll call to control it. Most likely, select or poll is built into the GUI event loop of your toolkit.
UNIX is a trademark. It's even a registered trademark. A trademark is not a copyright. (and not a patent either, nor a trade secret)
AT+T's lawsuit ran in to problems becuase they hadn't properly protected their code from unpublished disclosure. At the time, copyright law was very different, so this mattered. The judge indicated that AT+T might not have copyright to some things. AT+T was also caught violating Berkeley's copyright.
On the other hand, the trademark was being violated by BSDI and there may have been some minor problems in the BSD code base.
So the parties agreed to quit and keep things quiet.
If you want to use the trademark, you need a license. Licenses are easy to get, provided that you fully and correctly implement an OS that follows a standard called the Single UNIX Specification. FreeBSD violates this standard in many ways, and is thus inelligible for getting a license to use the trademark.
Linux isn't UNIX either, though it's now close enough that the Open Group can maintain a small list of deviations that need to be voted out of existance.
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"FreeBSD is an advanced [we can argue] operating system [duh] for x86 compatible (including Pentium and Athlon) [yeah, a Pentium is x86 compatible, who'd have thought?], amd64 compatible (including Opteron, Athlon64, and EM64T), ARM, IA-64, PC-98, and UltraSPARC architectures. It is derived from BSD, [says that in the name, doesn't it?] the version of UNIX [actually no, this is a trademark reserved for OSes that meet a standard which FreeBSD violates] developed at the University of California, Berkeley. [you no longer need to put that in your advertising] It is developed and maintained by a large team of individuals."
So, as far as we can tell from this ad, nothing has changed other than the version number. I guess that is a sign of life though, kind of, sort of, maybe a bit.
Pigs are smarter than dogs. We roast them whole, and we grind them into sausage.
Dogs are relatively dumb, yet people get all upset if you eat one. WTF?
I think it's the eyes. Little beady pig eyes on the sides of the head just don't look as human as big forward-looking doggie eyes. Aw, such a nice doggie! Gross, a pig!
Really, there's nothing wrong with dog fur or dog meat. The same goes for horses, which are also dumber than pigs.
It's good to get some variety in your diet. I hate my lame corporate supermarket.
Fetching the spec is idiotic.
First of all, that's a needless operation. It can take time; don't forget the DNS lookup and all.
Second of all, it's not as if you could handle any random DTD. Software doesn't work that way. (this is one of the reasons why XML itself is a mostly-lame idea) If the XML doesn't match expectations, you can't convert it to your own internal representation. You probably have a C struct that you need to fill in. Even in some wild interpreted language like perl, you just won't have any use for unexpected data structures and you damn well need the expected data structures.
Boy did I cringe when Bush suddenly got all excited about hydrogen. I wonder if he believes the nonsense or if he's in on the lie. He's really not dumb; that just plays well to many voters.
Pressured by the Japanese hybrid success and all the environmentalists, the US car industry had to do something. They created a distraction. Hydrogen is something they can research for decades, and probably a great excuse for federal research funding. It's something to keep us from thinking about hybrids and regulations.
Serious electric storage is kind of pointless, as is hydrogen. Hydrogen and stored electricity are both a pain in the ass to deal with, and both generated via coal-fired power plants.
Short-term high-current electrical storage is nice for serial-hybrid designs. (serial hybrids have fuel burning engines without mechanical connection to the wheels) High-current storage lets you get sports car acceleration despite having a fuel-burning engine only big enough for typical use. Use biodiesel if you like.
Size the engine to be just barely big enough to carry a car full of fat people up a mountain pass. Size the electrical storage to be enough to store all the energy generated by the engine and regenerative braking when you slow from 70 MPH to a stop where you wait for a slow freight train or drawbridge. Be sure that the stored energy plus engine-provided energy is enough to keep all 4 wheels at the threshold of losing traction as you accelerate from 0 to 80 MPH, assuming high-traction tires on dry pavement of course.
Hey, that would be worth paying a premium for.
If you heat the food more, you lose.
You pay for the heat.
You pay for the cooling.
If using plastic bottles, you for any melted bottles.
You pay via lower selling price, because overcooked food tastes yucky.
(this ultimately puts you out of business)
Despite being rather science-driven, US food processing plants (canneries and bottling plants) hate metric. Nobody wants to put ".0" or ".5" on the end of every number.
It makes a difference when I set the temperature.
It makes a difference when I check a kid's temperature to see if he is ill.
Fahrenheit is accurate enough for food processing temperatures in a cannery. Celsius requires the extra decimal.
With the US units, you don't make that kind of mistake. There is no temptation. You look up the conversion factor in a table.
With metric units, there is a very real temptation to make such errors. Carelessly shifting the decimal point can also get you into big trouble.
The US uses the Queen Anne gallon. Queen Anne was a woman.
Failure to give whole-hearted and unwavering support for the absolute superiority of metric makes you a troll.
It's not all that esoteric in the US, at least for men's pants. I'm 33x34, marked W33L34 on the pair next to me. The only oddities are that "width" is really the perimeter, and "length" is only from cuff to crotch. No allowance is made for ass height not being proportional to the ass width and/or leg length.
Women's clothing is a whole different matter.
The US uses Queen Anne gallons. This is what Britian used to use. There was no real reason for Britian to change, but I guess the King wanted bigger jugs...
A cube-shaped box 10 cm on a side is 1 L.
If the box is 100 cm on a side, 10 times as much, it should be 10 L. Oops...
BTW, do you know the time in kiloseconds? Why not?
There are nearly 2 F degrees for every C degree.
Adding a decimal place is irritating.
Furthermore, there is nothing nice about the sizes of metric units. Nice units are ones that eliminate pointless numeric constants. Using natural units, e=mc^2 becomes e=m. Using natural units, the ideal gas law loses the R constant. Isn't that way better?
Metric is nothing special. For example, the meter is based on an erroneous measurement across France. This bad measurement was used to estimate the size of the Earth so that the meter could be claimed to have a tie to the size of the Earth. (which isn't unchanging anyway, even if it were perfectly round!) We might as well use a foot defined as the distance traveled by light in a particular amount of time, with that time amount chosen so that a foot just happens to match King George's foot.
Base 10 isn't special either. Binary is special, and trivially convertable to the more-compact hexadecimal.
My wife loves being pregnant, loves having lots of kids, and even sort of enjoys giving birth. I think I'm destined for about 9 kids, assuming we slow down as she gets less fertile. It could work out to a dozen though. She's kind of purposeful in having "accidents".
She's also a moderate CS nerd with an IQ around 130.
I guess evolution favors her, and favors me for picking her.
The cheap places are cheap for a reason. Besides yucky weather and so on, there just aren't many jobs.
Finding a job is bad enough, but what about if you lose a job? You'll have to move to a new house, change careers, wait years, or commute 100 miles. In the expensive areas, you have a new job a week later and you won't have to commute or change careers.
Come on, do you really think people realized how inflation would affect the economy? Regular people say "just print more money" is a good plan.
The question had to be made in a way that normal people could comprehend. For you, imagine it is a fantasy world without inflation.
Perhaps the best way for you to see things: Consider one neighborhood having salary adjustments. This wouldn't greatly affect the larger economy.
People want to look better than their neighbors. This is why people buy such crazy cars and expensive clothes. What matters is being better than others. People are just not satisfied unless others are worse off.
This is natural and should be expected, given that humans compete for mates. We naturally compete for resources, but we need to go far above the minimum so that we win the competition for good mates.