It was a " " SPACE that made it happen. And that's exactly what would break 95% of all shell scripts, because most UNIX guys don't expect a space to be in a filename. That's why they'll claim "GUI sux, I can write a shell script in 30 seconds that can do all that." - and then ship that.
When Brian Howard and I were writing the Pascal Manual for Apple Computer, I discovered that the syntax chart that had been published with previous Pascal books was incorrect.
Nothing like posting a web page as proof - that debunks your little story.
With these test shots out of the way, we started to think about burning the cube itself. When I had called NeXT to find out what kind of paint they had used to paint the cube, one of the people I had spoken with told me
that the cube was made out of "magnesium alloy which is specially designed to be difficult to ignite." These words came back to me as I stood in front of the burn chamber at Livermore. What if we couldn't get the cube to ignite? The idea stood out in my mind like a sore thumb.
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We put the rear panel into the burn chamber. The panel is a square piece of metal, 14'' on each side, and roughly half an inch thick. We stood it on end with a pair of bricks. Then we hit it with the MAP gas tource.
Nothing happened.
We kept the torch focused on the rear panel. Slowly it heated up in the spot where the flame lapped. Soon the metal started to melt. Then it puffed up with a white, caky ash.
"What's going on?" somebody asked.
We kept the flame on the spot. After another minute, we saw that same telltale white spark. "It's caught!" somebody said. The person holding the torch backed away.
The flame sputtered for a few seconds, then it went out. Something was clearly wrong.
We tried again with the MAP gas torch, with similar results. "We have problems like this all of the time," Kirk said, trying to reassure me. "Sometimes its really hard to get things burning." He then walked over to a storage shed and wheeled back an oxygen-acetylene torch. "This should set it on fire," he said with a gleam in his eyes.
The acetylene torch bruned a lot brighter than the MAP gas, but the results were similar. The back panel glowed red, burned white, sputtered a little, then went, leaving a caky white residue --- and a hole.
"This is so NeXT," I told Sally. "Everything works great in the tests, then when you try to make it work for real, in the field, nothing works. They build a computer out of magnesium, and it doesn't even burn!"
It's a lot like Karate Kid, where the evil guy tells the fighters from his dojo to injure the hero - even if that gets them disqualified - so the evil dojo wins the tournament. Against the rule? No. Ethical? Well, The Karate Kid won in the end, so it obviously wasn't;-)
Yeah, but that is only the result of one match. The "cheating" part comes in because they entered many "players" which in advance cooperated so that all but a few would a) knowingly lose their match against the "always master", and b) all make sure that against all others players they minimized both their own and the other's score. IOW they played a meta-PD where they knew about the strategy, with the majority not trying to win, but working together to get the chosen few of the group to win. All this only worked because of the way the tournament was played, a KO system, something in rounds with small groups, or just a different way of scoring (not the sum of all points) would have eliminated the "cheaters" pretty fast.
IOW their strategy isn't necesarily the best way to play the (iterated) PD, but the best way to win that tournament.
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It was a " " SPACE that made it happen. And that's exactly what would break 95% of all shell scripts, because most UNIX guys don't expect a space to be in a filename. That's why they'll claim "GUI sux, I can write a shell script in 30 seconds that can do all that." - and then ship that.
So how exactly would the "virus" wait for another program to start installing, if it can't run because it isn't installed yet?
He's just forgetting the country that supported most of those terrorists - probably because he lives there.
"Killing all xxx" is not natural selection.
Not quite
Two words: signed char -Hell yeah, now that makes sense.
[...] If the FCU does not receive an update from the operating system within two minutes, it begins to ramp up the speed of the fans to full speed.
Those uninformed people are already voting anyways.
So what does it give somebody to vote for say Nader. Nothing but probably getting Bush as President. Might as well stay home and save time and money.
Nice idea. Still, the lottery would be cheaper than to get rid of all the people who want to keep things the way they are.
But just because many MP3s on P2P simply don't cut it (too low bitrate/pieces missing/fakes/etc.)
Booby trap them.
This isn't about Criminal Law, but about Contract Law.
Ahh, but in the US you can surely find somebody to sue for your ailment. It may take a few months to get the money however.
80% the speed of an equivalent Mac. Or so the CherryOS dude said a week ago.
Funny how saying GPL is somehow different from saying EULA.
So the GPL license is not just any old EULA you can ignore? Sometimes Slashdot is sooo confusing.
But only when it's GPL'd source code, not when you use your god-given right to copy music.
But stealing from "the Rich" and keeping for yourself isn't Robin Hood at all.
Gee, some people will always blame Apple.
AKA the politicians.
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It's a lot like Karate Kid, where the evil guy tells the fighters from his dojo to injure the hero - even if that gets them disqualified - so the evil dojo wins the tournament. Against the rule? No. Ethical? Well, The Karate Kid won in the end, so it obviously wasn't ;-)
IOW their strategy isn't necesarily the best way to play the (iterated) PD, but the best way to win that tournament.