I don't think it's possible to say that "white has a slight advantage". No-one knows if that is true. There is no known way for either player to force a win, but if one were found, perhaps black would have a shorter set of moves than white.
Good comeback. I don't use it much anyway, and to be honest most things can be done in a different (better) way. I have a feeling I would miss it if it were gone.
You mean, just after he fired you, you said "No, I quit" and he said "No, really, I just fired you, you have no job to quit, get the fuck out of the building before I call security. No, wait, Security? Please come up and escort this twat out of the building, and when I say escort, I mean *kick*."
"People are mostly clueless... its like a hand drill, they don't want to know how to build a 110VAC reversable motor (ok.. cordless 18V these days), they just want to drill holes."
I don't want to flame, but come on. Holes have to be drilled. It's not rocket science, but there is a certain art to drilling holes. You want to start with a centre punch, drill a shallow hole with a small bit, finish it off with a bit of the desired diameter, make sure it is perpendicular to the surface. I know because I just put up a curtain rail. I have been using computers since I was about six years old. Writing programs is easy for me. But DIY gives me the fear. Some people are naturally good at it. This illustrates very well something I have been saying for a long time. Geeks think they are so effing clever because they can tell a computer what to do. Well, computers were designed to be told what to do. Some other things in life are hard. Dealing with women is one of them. I know, because she told me to put up the curtain rail. Andrew.
Can I get something straight here, are people writing "cow-orkers" on purpose? Is it a new term for a cross between cows and orcs, or are a lot of people incapable of correct hyphenation?
But you can download Linux for free. You can download anything GPL'd for free. How the fuck can anyone make money from it? Maybe because there are some fucking stupid people out there? But it won't last. You find out the information you want (yeah, get told to RTFM a million times...) Then you download one copy of the shit you want, and duplicate it over your whole organization. Who made any money there? OK, so I saw you and I raised, but now I call. Who is making money from Linux? Who, specifically, is making money from Linux?
Ignoring the fact that the software may or may not have been developed with funding from my government,... GPL is not the appropriate license. The code that has been developed should be free for all to use. But you cannot extrapolate from that to code that has been developed privately. You remind me of Searle's Chinese Room argument, and his anticipation of the "System Reply"... To be frank, bollocks. You are equating one thing with a completely different other thing, with no logic to back it up.
Why should they not be able to try? Especially if they add significant value? If you don't like it, just use the GPL version! Or have I missed something?
The reason "accounting tricks" work is because they are explictly legal. Your problem is not with Microsoft, but with your government. Enron pulled all sorts of stuff that was explicitly illegal. Try to realise the difference.
I don't know about the US of A, but in the UK, the situation is like this: You know the rules, the rules are extremely rigid, but you are absolutely entitled and in fact encouraged to pay as little tax as necessary. It is your prerogative to use any loophole, no matter how slight, to reduce the amount of tax you pay. THIS IS THE RIGHT WAY. If the government feel that someone is taking the piss, it is up to them to close loopholes as necessary. The law is the law, and you are entitled to go as close to the line as possible without crossing it.
Have you read the RFC in question? I suspect that you haven't. The RFC explicitly says that the field in question is for extensions to the protocol. It doesn't say "no proprietary extensions". Read it again. I don't know why *nix systems had a problem with something in a user defined part of the protocol. Perhaps they were all *nix zealots and incapable of ignoring the contents of this field? Do you think Kerberos would have stopped working because of the contents of an explicitly reserved part of the protocol? Do you? Do you know anything? I am going to quote you now: "NOBODY should be allowed to put proprietary extenstions in open protocols. The GPL enforces that." Where does it say in RFC1510 that the user defined field must not be used by "proprietary" extensions? And what the fuck has the GPL got to do with RFC1510? I already said that they shouldn't have put the restrictive license on the change doc. I won't argue with you about that.
Please bear my children. Wow, suddenly I have a great respect for all of those Darwin Award recipients. At least they did something amusing before they failed to reproduce...
And if someone wants me to playtest the first level of the new Tombraider game (unless you can wait a few thousand years for me to finish it) then contact me!!
Sadly I can't contact you because you haven't left an email address... I don't work on the Tomb Raider series any more. I'm working with Toby Gard on Galleon. We don't need any testers right now but I wondered if you would be interested in our new game... It's not square any more!
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I don't think it's possible to say that "white has a slight advantage". No-one knows if that is true. There is no known way for either player to force a win, but if one were found, perhaps black would have a shorter set of moves than white.
The 80286 was a 16 bit processor with a 24 bit address bus. Perhaps you were thinking of the 80386?
Good comeback.
I don't use it much anyway, and to be honest most things can be done in a different (better) way. I have a feeling I would miss it if it were gone.
Err, good comeback, I guess...
Err, is there a fucking echo in here or what?
Like I only pointed that out more than an hour ago...
You mean, just after he fired you, you said "No, I quit" and he said "No, really, I just fired you, you have no job to quit, get the fuck out of the building before I call security. No, wait, Security? Please come up and escort this twat out of the building, and when I say escort, I mean *kick*."
Unless the Pen was HalfWayUp, then it would be neither Up nor Down.
+1 Nursery Rhyme
"fuck" is an expletive, not a superlative. "son of a bitch" is errrm an expletive phrase I suppose.
Wow, he must be great at parties...
That cat's gonna die on stage for sure...
"People are mostly clueless... its like a hand drill, they don't want to know how to build a 110VAC reversable motor (ok.. cordless 18V these days), they just want to drill holes."
I don't want to flame, but come on. Holes have to be drilled. It's not rocket science, but there is a certain art to drilling holes. You want to start with a centre punch, drill a shallow hole with a small bit, finish it off with a bit of the desired diameter, make sure it is perpendicular to the surface. I know because I just put up a curtain rail.
I have been using computers since I was about six years old. Writing programs is easy for me. But DIY gives me the fear. Some people are naturally good at it. This illustrates very well something I have been saying for a long time. Geeks think they are so effing clever because they can tell a computer what to do. Well, computers were designed to be told what to do. Some other things in life are hard. Dealing with women is one of them. I know, because she told me to put up the curtain rail.
Andrew.
Can I get something straight here, are people writing "cow-orkers" on purpose? Is it a new term for a cross between cows and orcs, or are a lot of people incapable of correct hyphenation?
The moderation system cannot work without moderation
So profound...
But you can download Linux for free. You can download anything GPL'd for free. How the fuck can anyone make money from it? Maybe because there are some fucking stupid people out there? But it won't last. You find out the information you want (yeah, get told to RTFM a million times...) Then you download one copy of the shit you want, and duplicate it over your whole organization. Who made any money there?
OK, so I saw you and I raised, but now I call. Who is making money from Linux?
Who, specifically, is making money from Linux?
Ignoring the fact that the software may or may not have been developed with funding from my government,...
GPL is not the appropriate license. The code that has been developed should be free for all to use. But you cannot extrapolate from that to code that has been developed privately. You remind me of Searle's Chinese Room argument, and his anticipation of the "System Reply"... To be frank, bollocks. You are equating one thing with a completely different other thing, with no logic to back it up.
Why should they not be able to try? Especially if they add significant value? If you don't like it, just use the GPL version! Or have I missed something?
The reason "accounting tricks" work is because they are explictly legal. Your problem is not with Microsoft, but with your government. Enron pulled all sorts of stuff that was explicitly illegal. Try to realise the difference.
I don't know about the US of A, but in the UK, the situation is like this: You know the rules, the rules are extremely rigid, but you are absolutely entitled and in fact encouraged to pay as little tax as necessary. It is your prerogative to use any loophole, no matter how slight, to reduce the amount of tax you pay. THIS IS THE RIGHT WAY. If the government feel that someone is taking the piss, it is up to them to close loopholes as necessary. The law is the law, and you are entitled to go as close to the line as possible without crossing it.
Have you read the RFC in question? I suspect that you haven't. The RFC explicitly says that the field in question is for extensions to the protocol. It doesn't say "no proprietary extensions". Read it again.
I don't know why *nix systems had a problem with something in a user defined part of the protocol. Perhaps they were all *nix zealots and incapable of ignoring the contents of this field? Do you think Kerberos would have stopped working because of the contents of an explicitly reserved part of the protocol? Do you? Do you know anything?
I am going to quote you now: "NOBODY should be allowed to put proprietary extenstions in open protocols. The GPL enforces that."
Where does it say in RFC1510 that the user defined field must not be used by "proprietary" extensions? And what the fuck has the GPL got to do with RFC1510?
I already said that they shouldn't have put the restrictive license on the change doc. I won't argue with you about that.
Please bear my children.
Wow, suddenly I have a great respect for all of those Darwin Award recipients. At least they did something amusing before they failed to reproduce...
And if someone wants me to playtest the first level of the new Tombraider game (unless you can wait a few thousand years for me to finish it) then contact me!!
Sadly I can't contact you because you haven't left an email address...
I don't work on the Tomb Raider series any more. I'm working with Toby Gard on Galleon. We don't need any testers right now but I wondered if you would be interested in our new game... It's not square any more!
Thanks!
Did you mean to reply to the parent of my comment? Because I think we are in agreement.