I'd like to have one mounted on my car. Then, when one of those "boom-box cars" rolls up next to me, I'll point my sound cannon at the driver and burst his eardrums.
Good god, man. Don't you realize there is a world wide shortage of parentheses? Entire forests of the things have been clearcut just to supply the few Lisp programmers in the world. Don't encourage waste.
I knew a guy who worked at HP's terminal division about 20 years ago. They developed a "terminal" that ran Basic, had several processors (a 68k and some 8088, if I remember) cassette drives and maybe even a floppy. I think it also had color graphics capability. The small computer division got wind of it and had it killed on the grounds that was encroaching on their territory.
Of course, Klingon software engineers advise that code should not be released. When it is ready, it will escape, leaving a bloody trail of marketing types and QA people.
Since the BSD license is even more open than GPL (i.e. "here's the code, do what you want with it, and now you don't even have to publish any credits"), why not just dump the whole Linux source tree and replace it with FreeBSD? Just get the Linux compatibility stuff working better and no one will ever know.
An acronym (pronounced AK-ruh-nihm, from Greek acro- in the sense of extreme or tip and onyma or name) is an abbreviation of several words in such a way that the abbreviation itself forms a word.
According to Webster's, the word doesn't have to already exist; it can be a new word. Webster's cites "snafu" and "radar", two terms of World War Two vintage, as examples. Implicit is the idea that the new word has to be pronounceable and ideally easy to remember.
Frequently, acronyms are formed that use existing words (and sometimes the acronym is invented first and the phrase name represented is designed to fit the acronym). Here are some examples of acronyms that use existing words:
BASIC....Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
NOW......National Organization for Women
WHO......World Health Organization
Abbreviations that use the first letter of each word in a phrase are sometimes referred to as initialisms. Initialisms can be but are not always acronyms. AT&T, BT, CBS, CNN, IBM, and NBC are initialisms that are not acronyms. Many acronym lists you'll see are really lists of acronyms and initialisms or just lists of abbreviations. (Note that abbreviations include shortened words like "esp" for "especially" as well as shortened phrases.)
Summing up:
An abbreviation is a shortening of a word or a phrase.
An acronym is an abbreviation that forms a word.
An initialism is an abbreviation that uses the first letter of each word in the phrase (thus, some but not all initialisms are acronyms).
Gartner found that Microsoft makes exceptions for its largest customers, those with more than 10,000 desktops, and cried foul that the company would compel others to pay twice for Windows.
I read this as an AND condition, you first have to have more than 10,000 desktops, AND you have to complain to M$FT. Sound like there might be some large customers out there who might be renegotiating their contracts.
You can REALLY get to know the inner workings of a processor and OS by investigating various injection vector options. Of course, if your project escapes to the wild, you can really get to know the inner working of your local penal system.
I mean, will they kill him off in the 11th episode? Most likely he will mysteriously disappear during some kind of alien encounter, so we'll never really know what happened to him. Of course, they could always kill him off, then bring him back next season. Remember Bobby Ewing in Dallas.
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I'd like to have one mounted on my car. Then, when one of those "boom-box cars" rolls up next to me, I'll point my sound cannon at the driver and burst his eardrums.
I'm sure they could get the real specs to the WINE crew and get it finished in a short time.
Hmmm, a test version of a pre-release 2.4 kernel isn't stable? Go figure....
Any shareholders want to join me in a class action? Like Bob Dylan says "You gotta sue somebody".
There is another freeware OS for microcontrollers: uCos. I don't know what they wopuld like it to be called, but everyone I know calls it "mu-cous".
And yet this patent was only recently made public because of "classified" info.
The "classified info" was probably the NSA itself. Until recently, all information about it was classified, including its name and initials.
Kind of like Area 51. It doesn't officially exist, in spite of the signs authorizing use of deadly force on trespassers.
I just received a patent on my encryption engine. It translates plain English into undecipherable Hacklish. For example,
elite script kiddie -> 313373 5cr1pt k1ddi3
got milk? -> g0t 2007?
I'm a uber hacker -> m3 hax0r 0x900d
I'm currently working on the decryption algorithm, anyone wanna help?
Good god, man. Don't you realize there is a world wide shortage of parentheses? Entire forests of the things have been clearcut just to supply the few Lisp programmers in the world. Don't encourage waste.
My first calculator was an HP-25. In fact, I learned programming on it. RPN is superior to the "normal" way (does it even have a name?).
I wrote a cool Fibonacci generator on the HP-25. First you seed the stack with a 0 and a 1. The program is
01 - Push
02 - Push
03 - Pop
04 - Pop
05 - +
06 - Goto 01
I knew a guy who worked at HP's terminal division about 20 years ago. They developed a "terminal" that ran Basic, had several processors (a 68k and some 8088, if I remember) cassette drives and maybe even a floppy. I think it also had color graphics capability. The small computer division got wind of it and had it killed on the grounds that was encroaching on their territory.
Of course, Klingon software engineers advise that code should not be released. When it is ready, it will escape, leaving a bloody trail of marketing types and QA people.
Since the BSD license is even more open than GPL (i.e. "here's the code, do what you want with it, and now you don't even have to publish any credits"), why not just dump the whole Linux source tree and replace it with FreeBSD? Just get the Linux compatibility stuff working better and no one will ever know.
Deposit your resume on the root directory on a server at the NSA. Don't trash any files or do anything malicious, so you don't wind up in prison.
An acronym (pronounced AK-ruh-nihm, from Greek acro- in the sense of extreme or tip and onyma or name) is an abbreviation of several words in such a way that the abbreviation itself forms a word.
According to Webster's, the word doesn't have to already exist; it can be a new word. Webster's cites "snafu" and "radar", two terms of World War Two vintage, as examples. Implicit is the idea that the new word has to be pronounceable and ideally easy to remember.
Frequently, acronyms are formed that use existing words (and sometimes the acronym is invented first and the phrase name represented is designed to fit the acronym). Here are some examples of acronyms that use existing words:
BASIC....Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
NOW......National Organization for Women
WHO......World Health Organization
Abbreviations that use the first letter of each word in a phrase are sometimes referred to as initialisms. Initialisms can be but are not always acronyms. AT&T, BT, CBS, CNN, IBM, and NBC are initialisms that are not acronyms. Many acronym lists you'll see are really lists of acronyms and initialisms or just lists of abbreviations. (Note that abbreviations include shortened words like "esp" for "especially" as well as shortened phrases.)
Summing up:
An abbreviation is a shortening of a word or a phrase.
An acronym is an abbreviation that forms a word.
An initialism is an abbreviation that uses the first letter of each word in the phrase (thus, some but not all initialisms are acronyms).
Gartner found that Microsoft makes exceptions for its largest customers, those with more than 10,000 desktops, and cried foul that the company would compel others to pay twice for Windows.
I read this as an AND condition, you first have to have more than 10,000 desktops, AND you have to complain to M$FT. Sound like there might be some large customers out there who might be renegotiating their contracts.
"IBM" is a trademark of you-know-who.
IBM isn't really an acronym. An acronym must be a word.
For example TLA (Three Letter Acronym) isn't but CAT (Committe to Abolish TLA's) is.
I tried this with some California poppies growing on the on-ramp next to the Interstate where I live. Everything tasted orange for about an hour.
I guess he hasn't heard about Microsoft's internal count of 63000 bugs for Win 2k.
You can REALLY get to know the inner workings of a processor and OS by investigating various injection vector options. Of course, if your project escapes to the wild, you can really get to know the inner working of your local penal system.
Hey, you are not too far off. Scientific American had an article on doing PCR at home last month.
The best part of defcon is Hacker Jeopardy (and BadKitty).
Whatever happened to the TCP/IP drinking game?
Oh, and Uber Haxor wasn't really.
No, he'll become an unpublished SciFi writer, take up chain smoking, and head up an international conspiracy.
I mean, will they kill him off in the 11th episode? Most likely he will mysteriously disappear during some kind of alien encounter, so we'll never really know what happened to him. Of course, they could always kill him off, then bring him back next season. Remember Bobby Ewing in Dallas.
I wonder if they'll kill off the Mulder character, or leave it open for guest appearances. Maybe Mulder will join forces with the Three Geeks.
The FSF Perl/TCL/etc replacement?