Simple, the majority of people are idiots, and TV networks look to attract as many viewers as possible. If its a well written show with many plot twists and great dialogue, its bound to confuse a significant portion of TV viewers, who find it uncomfortable. The key is to find an acceptable level of mediocrity. If people weren't getting dumber and less literate, there would be no motivation to reduce the reading level of news magazines.
Its swell that you are able to get rid of so many spammails, but to me, my real concern is eliminating false positives. What do you do to ensure that "valid" emails aren't thrown out with the spam?
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vim is an admission that vi is inadequate for word processing or programming.
vi is on every UNIX machine and (MORE IMPORTANT) it uses the same interface on every UNIX machine. Note: vim is not on every UNIX machine. In fact, its on only a few machines, and used by even less people.
Who cares if vim is better than joe? They're just also rans to people who can't stand using vi or emacs. Joe is not worthy of a slashdot article. People who need a real editor should use a real editor (emacs on unix platforms), not some kludge based on a cryptic, user-unfriendly hack.
It been a good three years, and you've been a winning thoroughbred, but now you're too old and slow. I guess I'll keep you around for now, because I'd rather wait for Carmen (San Diego, 939) to move to the neighborhood. She has sisters and cousins already here, but they have *way* too expensive tastes. (But they're all fast...)
For some strange reason, I have a problem finding a real woman to settle down with...
Windows boxes: An incompetent, but a popular incompetent at the office. Mostly you try to avoid it or pacify it and hope it doesn't drop the ball on an important assignment. Takes lots of sick days and breaks. Constant on-the-job training, but doesn't always learn the right things.
Macs: A narcissistic artsy-fartsy fop, who doesn't have the mental horsepower everyone thinks he has. Constantly self-promoting. Great with multimedia, so you stick him with the webdesigners or have them deal with outsiders. Every so often, they go on a retreat and come back with a *new* perspective, but its the same old sh-t.
Solaris box: Oldtimer that may need to be put out to pasture. No, he won't be pulling the all-nighters or up on the latest technology, but runs like a clock. If they take a day, its because they're at the doctor.
Linux box: The new kid. Does some things amazingly well, but may unpredictably choke in unique circumstances. Really difficult to get them to do some simple things, like wear a tie and slacks. They may come in sick, but tend to get over it. You tend to fire them, and get a new guy.
The US Navy has EXCELLENT defenses against high tech weaponery. Feel free to read up on The Aegis Combat System.
Aegis won't do squat when someone fires a tactical nuke at the battlegroup. More likely an ICBM, while the carrier group takes two weeks to get into position. The carrier group of today is the battleship group of WW II. You're just too dim to see it.
If we were to engage France, we'd probably blow the hell out of them with a First Strike policy.
Oh goody. Irradiate the countries friendliest to us (sad, isn't it?), and risk a nuke hitting NYC, LA, or Washington DC. Whoopee, we win... not. Is this the brilliant strategy we're going employ against China?
In my admittedly biased American oppinion, the people who have arrogance problems are the rest of the world.
lol. World, forgive us. Our arrogance problem is based on our stupidity. And everyone knows you can't correct stupidity.
If you aren't being targetted for attacks, if you aren't providing money, and if you aren't powerful enough to have an effect with your own sanctions against us, what gives you the right to dictate policy on how the United States should defend itself.
The same right that had the US attack Serbia. Self interest, and humanitarian concerns.
Spain will most likely learn a painful lesson; they've just demonstrated that it only takes a couple bombs on a train track to derail the entire government. Our government was hit directly, the difference is we hit back.
No, what Spain will learn is that if you avoid confrontation with a bloodthirsty opponent, you won't experience terrorist attacks by them. Who goes around talking about how imperialist the Spanish are today? What motivation will Al-Queda have to instigate another terrorist attack in Spain??? The US, on the other hand, has its hand in every part of the globe. We can't turn the other cheek.
When our gov't gets hit, we sort of hit back, and then use our tragedy to invade a country for its oil. What we will learn is nothing. Its uncanny how many parallels can be made politically and strategically with the Vietnam Conflict and Iraq. (And to a lesser extent, the British & Iraq.) And still, we make every political and strategic blunder.
"with the possible exception that atomic bombs mean a quicker death."
Its only quick if you get hit in the blast zone. Much of the victims will suffer 3rd degree burns over 50% of their bodies. So picture being burned half to death, and then taking 3-5 days to actually croak. Then there are the victims that will be exposed to a leathal does of radiation from the fallout. The radioactive particles kill the cells it comes in contact with, and cause somatic mutation in others. So picture slowly dying of cancer in every part of your body for two weeks to a month. Oh yeah, that includes your outer skin sloughing off, which is a dispassionate way to describe being flayed alive; the result is similar to 3rd degree burns. I assure you all the above deaths are quite excruciatingly painful, as eyewitnesses recounted.
For the record, I believe that the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were no more illegal than any bombing of cities in the war -- and all major combatants bombed cities in World War II
I tend to agree with that. Dresden was a pretty gruesome bombing, the only difference was the absence of radioactive fallout. But historical records show that motivation to nuke Hiroshima and Nagasaki was to limit Russian influence in that part of the world. Military analysts did not believe there would be the level of casualties experienced at Iwo Jima, etc..
You'll get Japanese whining about the inhumanity of dropping the atomic bomb. But if their purpose is only to show that Americans were as premeditated barbaric and inhuman as the Japanese, I'll have to give them that point. So what? They're not telling me or any native American anything new. Odd how some people will try to make other people look like shit and then somehow conclude themselves to be better or that its acceptable to behave in the same manner.
Apparently, you've never lived near an airport. Noise is a big, expensive, hairy deal. You'd go deaf if you worked on a busy commercial airstrip without headsets to protect the ears from the roar of jet engines. That sound carries. I get annoyed by the jets flying overhead 1000 ft. over my apartment.
Just like a Machead to say: "See? It wasn't just me. Linux is too hard. I really am an ubernerd. Only paid professionals can really implement those UI fine touches. Give up on Linux, surrender your wallet, and happily rest your head on the busom of Apple..."
And I say "F**k you, luser."
You think linux is hard now? Try getting crap done on linux back in 1995. I don't think you could even get a working GUI without hand configuring modelines into XF86Config.
Linux is not easy enough for "Aunt Tillie" to use. So what? Linux isn't meant for common lusers today. Eventually, we'd like it to be so smooth that average users could use it -- so they can stop bugging us with their windoze questions. The whole point of ESR's rant was merely to alert and refocus OSS developers. It was not a mea culpa.
And if you're sick and tired of trying to figure out how to make things work in Linux, and you really only use computers for user application X, THEN GO BUY A MAC! I GIVE YOU MY BLESSING! But don't expect me to respect you for it. Or join you in blowing money on your DRM music. Or sympathize that you can't get application X done because Apple doesn't support it yet, or your machine is too old.
They did it because they beleived it would lead to immortality. It certainly has in the sense that humanity thousands of years later still admire the engineering feat that came about from their efforts. Folly is being born, living and dying and showing NOTHING for it. Even if you pop out decendents, it still may mean NOTHING. Vanity is believing otherwise.
The US Republic put forth the Apollo program that put man on the moon. The tangible benefits are quite debatable. Its not much different than building a pyramid. And yet I'm glad they pissed away the money on that purpose, rather than building more bombs, giving people a tax cut, or giving more handouts to unemployed citizens at the time. I don't sneer contemptuously on what those Egyptians did four thousand years ago.
How arrogant can we possibly get as to think that we have even and inkling of understanding into how the planet works on an astronomical scale?
My bio professor made a short convincing argument supporting some form of regulation of fossil fuel consumption back in '83. It boils down to this: Soon, the third world will be hopping onto the industrialization bandwagon (and that included the 1+ billion Chinese). At some point billions of tons of carbon will be added into the atmosphere. How can there NOT be climatic changes when that much chemical material is inserted into the atmosphere? (You can't be a scientist with any understanding of chemistry, physics, or ecology and not realize that.) If you live in the Gobi desert, sure, any change would be an improvement. Do you really think the US is going to improve or even retain its living conditions with global environmental change?
Insightful observation. I suspect its why Star Trek became so popular.
I think too many people read too much science fiction.
Science fiction is not the only way to escape reality. Therefore, cessation of sci-fi reading would only move those people to other forms of escapism. And that's not just limited to romance novels or *gasp* fantasy based crap.
Well, then, let all of those SF fans pay for it themselves, rather than consigning countless people to starvation, lack of education, and lack of proper medical care.
Hell, if we could get them to pay for their transport, that would be awesome! I wonder if they stopped spending money on those crappy Star Trek/Star Wars novellas they could accrue enough money to afford it...
But in an endeavor to improve the human gene pool, I'd be more than willing to help fund rocket launches of sci-fi fans who think they can terraform Mars.
First how about f**king terraforming the Gobi & Sahara desert? You already have three built-in advantages: an atmosphere, water accessible on the planet, and no need to implement spacecraft capable of sustaining humans for a two year voyage.
*I* am a diehard SF fan, and would jump at the chance to go...but I'd rather not go at all if it means taking funds from something as fundamentally useful, important, and morally right as providing for those less fortunate than myself.
And with your kind of thinking, Man literally would have never stepped on the Moon. That was a specific argument made at the time while the Apollo program was in progress. Only wish I could talk you into taking a one-way trip to Mars...
Nuclear power is very safe if you live in a perfect world. Risk analysts hired by the nuclear industry and the federal gov't have determined that nuclear power is very safe when compared to the other rates of fatalities. That doesn't make it "safe". It just may mean that the western world hasn't built enough nuclear reactors to statistically determine that those analysts are correct in their conclusions. Also part of their determination of what is "safe" includes factoring in the probability a nuclear meltdown near a major city, and determining that the fatalities generated would "still" be less than the fatalities generated by other forms of power generation over the same unit of power/time. I'm sorry, my perception of catastophe has not changed if a nuke plant irradiates New York City and it still ends up being less people dead than coal miners in West Virginia per unit of power.
More important, there are numerous reported incidents of the nuclear industry and federal government overtly lying to the public in order to make them more manageable or minimize their exposure to liability. Tragically, its my unshaken faith in the incompetence and venality of human beings that make me conclude nuclear power is unsafe, not the engineering facts.
Nuclear power plants are unsafe, not because of limitations in engineering safety, but because they are implemented and run by human beings.
I hope no one tells them about the Pacific. We could be in serious trouble.
Oh, the Pacific poses less of a threat, because its treated with sodium chloride. Still, it is known to be a hazardous substance, and you wouldn't want to drink a lot of it. (Too much of anything will kill you...)
It can't. SCO owns the sucessors to the SYSV licenses originating from AT&T. BSD's ancestry (& ownership line) is much more clearly established as independent of what SCO currently "owns".
They have just made five customers for life, and they are more than happy to send that gas station a free pack of cigarettes to replace the one that was lost.
And why wouldn't they be happy? 2/3's the cost of that pack is in "sin" taxes. It doesn't cost jack for a cigarette company to produce a pack.
And what 15 year old dork would go to a counter for cigarettes? You can email for cartons from the Indians. All you need is a home that you can use for a package drop. Cigarettes - freaking legal heroin. I'd probably beat the crap out of my kid if I found out they tried smoking, but there's not much you can do once they hit sixteen...
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How do people whatch that dren?
Simple, the majority of people are idiots, and TV networks look to attract as many viewers as possible. If its a well written show with many plot twists and great dialogue, its bound to confuse a significant portion of TV viewers, who find it uncomfortable. The key is to find an acceptable level of mediocrity. If people weren't getting dumber and less literate, there would be no motivation to reduce the reading level of news magazines.
Its swell that you are able to get rid of so many spammails, but to me, my real concern is eliminating false positives. What do you do to ensure that "valid" emails aren't thrown out with the spam?
vim is an admission that vi is inadequate for word processing or programming.
vi is on every UNIX machine and (MORE IMPORTANT) it uses the same interface on every UNIX machine. Note: vim is not on every UNIX machine. In fact, its on only a few machines, and used by even less people.
Who cares if vim is better than joe? They're just also rans to people who can't stand using vi or emacs. Joe is not worthy of a slashdot article. People who need a real editor should use a real editor (emacs on unix platforms), not some kludge based on a cryptic, user-unfriendly hack.
It been a good three years, and you've been a winning thoroughbred, but now you're too old and slow. I guess I'll keep you around for now, because I'd rather wait for Carmen (San Diego, 939) to move to the neighborhood. She has sisters and cousins already here, but they have *way* too expensive tastes. (But they're all fast...)
For some strange reason, I have a problem finding a real woman to settle down with...
Windows boxes: An incompetent, but a popular incompetent at the office. Mostly you try to avoid it or pacify it and hope it doesn't drop the ball on an important assignment. Takes lots of sick days and breaks. Constant on-the-job training, but doesn't always learn the right things.
Macs: A narcissistic artsy-fartsy fop, who doesn't have the mental horsepower everyone thinks he has. Constantly self-promoting. Great with multimedia, so you stick him with the webdesigners or have them deal with outsiders. Every so often, they go on a retreat and come back with a *new* perspective, but its the same old sh-t.
Solaris box: Oldtimer that may need to be put out to pasture. No, he won't be pulling the all-nighters or up on the latest technology, but runs like a clock. If they take a day, its because they're at the doctor.
Linux box: The new kid. Does some things amazingly well, but may unpredictably choke in unique circumstances. Really difficult to get them to do some simple things, like wear a tie and slacks. They may come in sick, but tend to get over it. You tend to fire them, and get a new guy.
The really weird thing is that I've seen this before myself. Ah, coincidences...
The US Navy has EXCELLENT defenses against high tech weaponery. Feel free to read up on The Aegis Combat System.
Aegis won't do squat when someone fires a tactical nuke at the battlegroup. More likely an ICBM, while the carrier group takes two weeks to get into position. The carrier group of today is the battleship group of WW II. You're just too dim to see it.
If we were to engage France, we'd probably blow the hell out of them with a First Strike policy.
Oh goody. Irradiate the countries friendliest to us (sad, isn't it?), and risk a nuke hitting NYC, LA, or Washington DC. Whoopee, we win... not. Is this the brilliant strategy we're going employ against China?
In my admittedly biased American oppinion, the people who have arrogance problems are the rest of the world.
lol. World, forgive us. Our arrogance problem is based on our stupidity. And everyone knows you can't correct stupidity.
If you aren't being targetted for attacks, if you aren't providing money, and if you aren't powerful enough to have an effect with your own sanctions against us, what gives you the right to dictate policy on how the United States should defend itself.
The same right that had the US attack Serbia. Self interest, and humanitarian concerns.
Spain will most likely learn a painful lesson; they've just demonstrated that it only takes a couple bombs on a train track to derail the entire government. Our government was hit directly, the difference is we hit back.
No, what Spain will learn is that if you avoid confrontation with a bloodthirsty opponent, you won't experience terrorist attacks by them. Who goes around talking about how imperialist the Spanish are today? What motivation will Al-Queda have to instigate another terrorist attack in Spain??? The US, on the other hand, has its hand in every part of the globe. We can't turn the other cheek.
When our gov't gets hit, we sort of hit back, and then use our tragedy to invade a country for its oil. What we will learn is nothing. Its uncanny how many parallels can be made politically and strategically with the Vietnam Conflict and Iraq. (And to a lesser extent, the British & Iraq.) And still, we make every political and strategic blunder.
Yeah, its about time we got rid of those troublemaking Israelis! Gee, the nuclear fallout would kill them too, wouldn't it?
"with the possible exception that atomic bombs mean a quicker death."
Its only quick if you get hit in the blast zone. Much of the victims will suffer 3rd degree burns over 50% of their bodies. So picture being burned half to death, and then taking 3-5 days to actually croak. Then there are the victims that will be exposed to a leathal does of radiation from the fallout. The radioactive particles kill the cells it comes in contact with, and cause somatic mutation in others. So picture slowly dying of cancer in every part of your body for two weeks to a month. Oh yeah, that includes your outer skin sloughing off, which is a dispassionate way to describe being flayed alive; the result is similar to 3rd degree burns. I assure you all the above deaths are quite excruciatingly painful, as eyewitnesses recounted.
For the record, I believe that the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were no more illegal than any bombing of cities in the war -- and all major combatants bombed cities in World War II
I tend to agree with that. Dresden was a pretty gruesome bombing, the only difference was the absence of radioactive fallout. But historical records show that motivation to nuke Hiroshima and Nagasaki was to limit Russian influence in that part of the world. Military analysts did not believe there would be the level of casualties experienced at Iwo Jima, etc. .
You'll get Japanese whining about the inhumanity of dropping the atomic bomb. But if their purpose is only to show that Americans were as premeditated barbaric and inhuman as the Japanese, I'll have to give them that point. So what? They're not telling me or any native American anything new. Odd how some people will try to make other people look like shit and then somehow conclude themselves to be better or that its acceptable to behave in the same manner.
Apparently, you've never lived near an airport. Noise is a big, expensive, hairy deal. You'd go deaf if you worked on a busy commercial airstrip without headsets to protect the ears from the roar of jet engines. That sound carries. I get annoyed by the jets flying overhead 1000 ft. over my apartment.
Obviously, you're not a real geek. All real geeks are hackers.
Just like a Machead to say: "See? It wasn't just me. Linux is too hard. I really am an ubernerd. Only paid professionals can really implement those UI fine touches. Give up on Linux, surrender your wallet, and happily rest your head on the busom of Apple..."
And I say "F**k you, luser."
You think linux is hard now? Try getting crap done on linux back in 1995. I don't think you could even get a working GUI without hand configuring modelines into XF86Config.
Linux is not easy enough for "Aunt Tillie" to use. So what? Linux isn't meant for common lusers today. Eventually, we'd like it to be so smooth that average users could use it -- so they can stop bugging us with their windoze questions. The whole point of ESR's rant was merely to alert and refocus OSS developers. It was not a mea culpa.
And if you're sick and tired of trying to figure out how to make things work in Linux, and you really only use computers for user application X, THEN GO BUY A MAC! I GIVE YOU MY BLESSING! But don't expect me to respect you for it. Or join you in blowing money on your DRM music. Or sympathize that you can't get application X done because Apple doesn't support it yet, or your machine is too old.
Actually, it would be obligatory to throw their parents into crappy nursing home oblivion.
Payback's a bitch.
They did it because they beleived it would lead to immortality. It certainly has in the sense that humanity thousands of years later still admire the engineering feat that came about from their efforts. Folly is being born, living and dying and showing NOTHING for it. Even if you pop out decendents, it still may mean NOTHING. Vanity is believing otherwise.
The US Republic put forth the Apollo program that put man on the moon. The tangible benefits are quite debatable. Its not much different than building a pyramid. And yet I'm glad they pissed away the money on that purpose, rather than building more bombs, giving people a tax cut, or giving more handouts to unemployed citizens at the time. I don't sneer contemptuously on what those Egyptians did four thousand years ago.
How arrogant can we possibly get as to think that we have even and inkling of understanding into how the planet works on an astronomical scale?
My bio professor made a short convincing argument supporting some form of regulation of fossil fuel consumption back in '83. It boils down to this: Soon, the third world will be hopping onto the industrialization bandwagon (and that included the 1+ billion Chinese). At some point billions of tons of carbon will be added into the atmosphere. How can there NOT be climatic changes when that much chemical material is inserted into the atmosphere? (You can't be a scientist with any understanding of chemistry, physics, or ecology and not realize that.) If you live in the Gobi desert, sure, any change would be an improvement. Do you really think the US is going to improve or even retain its living conditions with global environmental change?
Science fiction is escapism from reality.
Insightful observation. I suspect its why Star Trek became so popular.
I think too many people read too much science fiction.
Science fiction is not the only way to escape reality. Therefore, cessation of sci-fi reading would only move those people to other forms of escapism. And that's not just limited to romance novels or *gasp* fantasy based crap.
Well, then, let all of those SF fans pay for it themselves, rather than consigning countless people to starvation, lack of education, and lack of proper medical care.
Hell, if we could get them to pay for their transport, that would be awesome! I wonder if they stopped spending money on those crappy Star Trek/Star Wars novellas they could accrue enough money to afford it...
But in an endeavor to improve the human gene pool, I'd be more than willing to help fund rocket launches of sci-fi fans who think they can terraform Mars.
First how about f**king terraforming the Gobi & Sahara desert? You already have three built-in advantages: an atmosphere, water accessible on the planet, and no need to implement spacecraft capable of sustaining humans for a two year voyage.
*I* am a diehard SF fan, and would jump at the chance to go...but I'd rather not go at all if it means taking funds from something as fundamentally useful, important, and morally right as providing for those less fortunate than myself.
And with your kind of thinking, Man literally would have never stepped on the Moon. That was a specific argument made at the time while the Apollo program was in progress. Only wish I could talk you into taking a one-way trip to Mars...
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity!
Nuclear power is very safe if you live in a perfect world. Risk analysts hired by the nuclear industry and the federal gov't have determined that nuclear power is very safe when compared to the other rates of fatalities. That doesn't make it "safe". It just may mean that the western world hasn't built enough nuclear reactors to statistically determine that those analysts are correct in their conclusions. Also part of their determination of what is "safe" includes factoring in the probability a nuclear meltdown near a major city, and determining that the fatalities generated would "still" be less than the fatalities generated by other forms of power generation over the same unit of power/time. I'm sorry, my perception of catastophe has not changed if a nuke plant irradiates New York City and it still ends up being less people dead than coal miners in West Virginia per unit of power.
More important, there are numerous reported incidents of the nuclear industry and federal government overtly lying to the public in order to make them more manageable or minimize their exposure to liability. Tragically, its my unshaken faith in the incompetence and venality of human beings that make me conclude nuclear power is unsafe, not the engineering facts.
Nuclear power plants are unsafe, not because of limitations in engineering safety, but because they are implemented and run by human beings.
This is an attempt at humor, right?
Depends. Do users skip pagefile.sys when backing up? If so, yes.
Replace the floppy icon with a pen. (write to disk)
Replace the floppy icon with a little piggy bank. (save)
Oh, the Pacific poses less of a threat, because its treated with sodium chloride. Still, it is known to be a hazardous substance, and you wouldn't want to drink a lot of it. (Too much of anything will kill you...)
It can't. SCO owns the sucessors to the SYSV licenses originating from AT&T. BSD's ancestry (& ownership line) is much more clearly established as independent of what SCO currently "owns".
They have just made five customers for life, and they are more than happy to send that gas station a free pack of cigarettes to replace the one that was lost.
And why wouldn't they be happy? 2/3's the cost of that pack is in "sin" taxes. It doesn't cost jack for a cigarette company to produce a pack.
And what 15 year old dork would go to a counter for cigarettes? You can email for cartons from the Indians. All you need is a home that you can use for a package drop. Cigarettes - freaking legal heroin. I'd probably beat the crap out of my kid if I found out they tried smoking, but there's not much you can do once they hit sixteen...