When you said that BM should be ashamed of himself, I thought to myself, "don't I have this on my disk, as 'Bertrand Meyer Bullshit' or similar?".
Looked. The file's bertrand.meyer.sd.bullshit.
And yes, I'd say it's deliberate. Because I can't bring myself to believe that BM is stupid (stupidity vs malice, cf RAH's "don't ascribe to malice", though I don't buy *that* even)
I know I'm risking a punch in the face, but I do it: "I'm sorry".
Well, my own mom died about 4 years ago, shortly after my grandma (who went a little over a year earlier). So I do know how it feels to lose a relative...
But I also know how it feels to be "pseudo-consoled"... the worst thing at my grandma's funeral were all the canned speeches by people who just had to give their speech because of their official function (like the mayor of the little village my grandma lived at)
The only good speech was by a young member of a local "Verein", who called my grandma by the name her friends and relatives knew her by, "Trudl" (short for Edeltraud;-). You felt that he had known her.
And RSM will come to the LSM to talk about the HURD. How's that fit with your implication that the HURD is non-important for GNU?
Also, Debian GNU/Hurd is alive and kicking... okay, the speed of actual development is not as fast as that of Linux, but it *is* being developed.
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Disregarding cost and/or availability (you'd need fiber for transmitting photons, right?), there's still a huge problem here.
If, for example(!), the US government (or rather, No Such Agency), wants to make using crypto impossible (and I mean QC here), they simply install `photon-watchers' in all the main backbone nodes.
So, you get a one-time pad... but you see it was observed. You then either communicate in clear (as the key isn't secure anyway) or you encrypt with the key, full knowing that someone can decrypt it...
Which would imply that quantum computing kills crypto no matter what... I *hope* I'm wrong there!
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Thanks for that comment, it's important to make that as clear as you have.
It obviously works. So, it's more than just "int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { exit(0);}". That's quite enough for most FOSS projects.
And, please take a *real* look at Linux 0.01. It was... apparently not even as far as Fluendo is. Apparently, because I cannot check Fluendo out.
Oh, and my motto when a company promises something? "I believe it when I see it".
Note that the CD isn't actually "copy-controlled" according to EMI. Not the CD that hit the Billboard #1, anyway.
That's spin.
(Damn, I didn't want to post but...)
Of course! Since we all heard George Putsch say that "either you're with us, or your with the terrists".
Weak of mind, aren't we? To quote:
"I'm not going to go quite this far, because the physical experience gives rape an entirely different dimention,"
But then you *do* go quite that far.
I rest my case.
Parent post was good, the ", or else" was great,
but you topped it.
Thank you for giving me a reason to LOL. This world is so fucked up, we need every bit of laughter we can get.
When you said that BM should be ashamed of himself, I thought to myself, "don't I have this on my disk, as 'Bertrand Meyer Bullshit' or similar?".
Looked. The file's bertrand.meyer.sd.bullshit.
And yes, I'd say it's deliberate. Because I can't bring myself to believe that BM is stupid (stupidity vs malice, cf RAH's "don't ascribe to malice", though I don't buy *that* even)
I know I'm risking a punch in the face, but I do it: "I'm sorry".
;-). You felt that he had known her.
Well, my own mom died about 4 years ago, shortly after my grandma (who went a little over a year earlier). So I do know how it feels to lose a relative...
But I also know how it feels to be "pseudo-consoled"... the worst thing at my grandma's funeral were all the canned speeches by people who just had to give their speech because of their official function (like the mayor of the little village my grandma lived at)
The only good speech was by a young member of a local "Verein", who called my grandma by the name her friends and relatives knew her by, "Trudl" (short for Edeltraud
> the development of HURD has essentially halted
And RSM will come to the LSM to talk about the HURD. How's that fit with your implication that the HURD is non-important for GNU?
Also, Debian GNU/Hurd is alive and kicking... okay, the speed of actual development is not as fast as that of Linux, but it *is* being developed.
Disregarding cost and/or availability (you'd need
fiber for transmitting photons, right?), there's
still a huge problem here.
If, for example(!), the US government (or rather,
No Such Agency), wants to make using crypto
impossible (and I mean QC here), they simply
install `photon-watchers' in all the main backbone
nodes.
So, you get a one-time pad... but you see it was
observed. You then either communicate in clear
(as the key isn't secure anyway) or you
encrypt with the key, full knowing that someone
can decrypt it...
Which would imply that quantum computing kills
crypto no matter what... I *hope* I'm wrong there!
Seriously (;-), why can't we just enjoy it.
I don't care whether it is dated or not, or
whether it lacks in `sophistication'. I just
care whether it makes me laugh.
And anyway, taste in humor is very subjective...