I conclude by saying this: You were truly thinking in the spirit of a Westerner,as referred in the article when Professor Venkatesh Hariharan said:
"The existing user interface paradigm of files and folders evolved because computers were essentially designed for a western audience familiar with real-life files and folders. There is no reason to assume why the same paradigm should apply to a trader in Tamil Nadu or a farmer in Madhya Pradesh. "
lol. Of course, this is right, but it made me think that instead of having the virtual desktop with files and folders as us westerners do, someone like the arabs would possibly have a virtual cammel with bottles and bags.
On the other hand, a magician would have a virtual bag of holding:)
I believe there are similar laws here in NZ and Australia. My bet is this law was pushed for by insurance companies, and I suspect it only applies to insurance claims. ie the thief would'nt get off any lighter if he's caught, just the insurance company doesn't have to pay as much or at all.
In your marriage example, or in any other similar case really, could the claimants (eg mormons) force the government into court by refusing to settle, or does this cause complications? It would be interesting to see what would happen if someone did force the government into court over the silly laws.
Unfortunatly, to many Christians, if it's not Christian, it's Satanism (no offence to Energy Flow, he's just saying he doesn't like the symbols). This is one of the things that put me of Christianity: the sheer intolerance to anything different; if it's not of God/Christ, it's of Satan.
Now, I will admit that this sort of makes sense, as those are the only `creative' entities in their belief system, but still, just because it's not of God, doesn't mean it's of Satan.
For those in the Wellington, NZ region, Quay Computers is taking names of those interested in the Linux Q3A in preparation for when it hits the country. I've put my name down in antisipation (pant, pant, seen the tin box (Win* of course), pant pant).
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Hehe, and I thought I was blessed when Zoid replied to one of my postings. I have a vague inkling of how you feel:).
Yes, but that was more for bus width than bandwidth. This was because memory only came in 8 bit (or 9, but thats irrelevant, the extra bit was for parity) modules and the processors had 16 and 32 bit busses respectively. Pre 72 pin simms, the 486 also needed memory banks. and pre 168 pin simms (dimms?) pentiums also needed banks (64 bit bus).
However, as a side benefit of requiring banks to get the bus width, it was possible to use slower (thus cheaper) memory and still get similar performance so long as the memory was accessed sequentially. Other tricks like row pre-select were also used to increase the effective bandwidth of the memory. It was clever tricks that kept the 60-70ns memory useful for so long.
Artificial Intelligence systems that can figure out the difference between what the user says, and what the user wants.
Um, show me a natural intelligence system that can do that. Those sorts of things have been the root causes of many a fued and war. If anybody ever comes up with such a system, the world will definitly be a better place.
Two banks of memory operating in tandem so that each bank is operating at only 100MHz. Will only give you the performance in burst mode access, but as caches tend to work that way (AIUI), that's not such a bad thing.
I've also found a few river plants that are not y2k compliant. I'm not sure if they'll suddenly die of or have a population explostion on 1/1/00. Fortuanatly, my cabbages are y2k ready.
Sorry, couldn't resist. I miss parsed the article header to read `plants that grow in water and sewers'.
Actually, though I've never tried it, I think rm -rf / might be worse than rm -rf ~, the latter would only nuke your home directory, but if you have files somewhere else (and can delete them) the former will nuke the lot (assuming the OS will allow rm -rf / to work at all for non-root users)
Your comments about Sun, knights in shining armour and Microsoft remind me of a comment about trust made by the moredhel Gorath*: a friend can betray you, but with an enemy, you always know where you stand. Now, admittedly, a true friend will never betray you, but someone who only seems to be your friend can and probably will. Sadly, this is the only effective test of friendship I know of.
I have no real opinion on Perl (don't know it and don't use it, but I've heard things about it (good and bad, but the portability is in the good)), but I would say Python is an equally good candidate as Perl for the cross platform holy grail. In general, a program written in Python will work on any platform, it's only when you get into the nitty gritty OS specific stuff that you encounter problems, and, like you said for Perl, that's mainly for Unix and Windows. Heck, I used Python sockets in DJGPP using the exact sample code that was meant for unix machines. I imagine Perl has no problems in that regard either. Also, like Perl (but unlike Java), there is only one implementation (not counting any Java byte code ports). Perl and Python have much better support on almost all platforms than what seems to be the case for Java.
IMO, Java is pure hype while Perl and Python get the job done (in Python's case, quietly, Perl does get a bit of hype).
Interesting point about RMS and Java, I never knew that, but then, I don't exactly hang off his coat tails either (no offence). I wonder how he feals about Python. I don't think Python has ever been offered for standardisation (CMIIW), and I think Guido maintians fairly tight control, but I've never heard of anyone trying (eg MS) to usurp Python. Hmm, I wonder how aware MS is of Python; it seams to be a fairly low profile language and thus may be under MS's radar for cross platform languages. Python seem to fulfill the promise of Java (write once, ease of programming) without the hype and controversy.
Sorry if that's incoherent, I'm in a distracted mood ATM.
I actually meant to say something like this, but I forgot to. The reason Linux is Intel's worst nightmare is Intel is damned if they do and damned if they don't. With the rising mainstream popularity of Linux, Intel will rapidly loose sales to other chip makers as people realize Linux works well on non-Intel hw, especially if Intel Linux starts to lag. However, many improvements in Linux for Intel hw will, in general, also be benneficial to other platforms.
after all, Linus started by cloning UNIX to run on i386, and look at what Linux has become now.
Yeah, Intel's worst nightmare. Why? Sure, it runs well on Intel chips, which is good news for Intel, but, unlike MS-Windows, Linux also runs well (or is learning to:) on everybody elses chips: not so good for Intel. Due to the nature of Linux (GPL), there is nothing Intel can do to stop Linux from running well on other hardware, other than make it difficult for developers to get hold of alternative hardware. Linux is not as good for Intel as Windows has been.
All that said, I know what you mean. Linux started out as a clone and is now becoming a respected member of the Unix community and one of the few with any real active developement (or so I've gathered).
Yeah, not only would the tides likely be impressive, you would possibly, depends on whether the moon is tidally locked, have sever tide cycles a day, though each of different magnitudes, and you would probably never get the same pattern twice. Lots of calls for `surfs up' during the day. Mind you, I'ld hate to be the oceanographer (is that the right profession?) in charge of the tide tables:).
Even though the planets in the habitable zones are probably gas giants, don't forget that all or our gas giants have at least one moon, or even several in the case of Jupiter and Saturn. Sure, a gas giant would be inhospitable to life as we know it, there's no reason I know of that on of the planets' moons can't be habitable. Yes, there's the radiation, tidal effect and (in Io's case) a nasty current to worry about, but if the moon is in the right place (or the local chemistry is tough enough), there should be at least one moon supporting life arroung one of these planets.
Unfortunatly, it will be a while befor we find out for certain: even 1 light year is a little far to walk (~9e12km):(
are more likely. Those rocks would have to be very hot (maybe even red) for third degree burns. First degree burns are just a reddening of the skin (still hurts:), second is blistering and third is where the skin breaks and bleeding occurs (I think the underlying flesh starts to be burnt).
Hmm, thinking about it, if you leave the rocks there long enough, they probably don't really have to be all that hot, but I can't imagine them staying in anyones pants for very long:).
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On the other hand, a magician would have a virtual bag of holding :)
I believe there are similar laws here in NZ and Australia. My bet is this law was pushed for by insurance companies, and I suspect it only applies to insurance claims. ie the thief would'nt get off any lighter if he's caught, just the insurance company doesn't have to pay as much or at all.
Because not all /. reades read Ars. Also, because posting the article on /. allows /. readers to discuss it.
Still, that brought a smile to my face.
In your marriage example, or in any other similar case really, could the claimants (eg mormons) force the government into court by refusing to settle, or does this cause complications? It would be interesting to see what would happen if someone did force the government into court over the silly laws.
Now, I will admit that this sort of makes sense, as those are the only `creative' entities in their belief system, but still, just because it's not of God, doesn't mean it's of Satan.
For those in the Wellington, NZ region, Quay Computers is taking names of those interested in the Linux Q3A in preparation for when it hits the country. I've put my name down in antisipation (pant, pant, seen the tin box (Win* of course), pant pant).
Hehe, and I thought I was blessed when Zoid replied to one of my postings. I have a vague inkling of how you feel:).
I wouldn't be suprised if the sperm need gravity to know which way is up.
However, as a side benefit of requiring banks to get the bus width, it was possible to use slower (thus cheaper) memory and still get similar performance so long as the memory was accessed sequentially. Other tricks like row pre-select were also used to increase the effective bandwidth of the memory. It was clever tricks that kept the 60-70ns memory useful for so long.
Two banks of memory operating in tandem so that each bank is operating at only 100MHz. Will only give you the performance in burst mode access, but as caches tend to work that way (AIUI), that's not such a bad thing.
For those not in the know, go read Heinlein's The Number of the Beast.
Sorry, couldn't resist. I miss parsed the article header to read `plants that grow in water and sewers'.
Oh, I don't know, su root -c 'rm -rf /' with appropriate password seems fully functional to me ):>
Actually, though I've never tried it, I think rm -rf / might be worse than rm -rf ~, the latter would only nuke your home directory, but if you have files somewhere else (and can delete them) the former will nuke the lot (assuming the OS will allow rm -rf / to work at all for non-root users)
Your comments about Sun, knights in shining armour and Microsoft remind me of a comment about trust made by the moredhel Gorath*: a friend can betray you, but with an enemy, you always know where you stand. Now, admittedly, a true friend will never betray you, but someone who only seems to be your friend can and probably will. Sadly, this is the only effective test of friendship I know of.
IMO, Java is pure hype while Perl and Python get the job done (in Python's case, quietly, Perl does get a bit of hype).
Sorry if that's incoherent, I'm in a distracted mood ATM.
I actually meant to say something like this, but I forgot to. The reason Linux is Intel's worst nightmare is Intel is damned if they do and damned if they don't. With the rising mainstream popularity of Linux, Intel will rapidly loose sales to other chip makers as people realize Linux works well on non-Intel hw, especially if Intel Linux starts to lag. However, many improvements in Linux for Intel hw will, in general, also be benneficial to other platforms.
All that said, I know what you mean. Linux started out as a clone and is now becoming a respected member of the Unix community and one of the few with any real active developement (or so I've gathered).
Yeah, not only would the tides likely be impressive, you would possibly, depends on whether the moon is tidally locked, have sever tide cycles a day, though each of different magnitudes, and you would probably never get the same pattern twice. Lots of calls for `surfs up' during the day. Mind you, I'ld hate to be the oceanographer (is that the right profession?) in charge of the tide tables:).
Unfortunatly, it will be a while befor we find out for certain: even 1 light year is a little far to walk (~9e12km) :(
Hmm, thinking about it, if you leave the rocks there long enough, they probably don't really have to be all that hot, but I can't imagine them staying in anyones pants for very long:).
use -rMesa_3_2_dev (or something similar, can't remember off hand and I'm at work and my checkout tree is at home). Basicly, get Mesa 3.2.