Thanks for the address.
FWIW, I wrote the following:
After reading this article
http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/columnists/dave_li eber/7643262.htm
which you've no doubt received tons of email about,
I think it's sad that this kid was suspended three days
to cover up the incompetence of the network administrator;
but, on the other hand, at least for three days he will
be free to learn, rather than struggle with a broken
school system.
This is exactly what I was going to say. I think people have the impression that Iraq is all sand and camels, but if more people saw pictures like this, I think more people would be pissed off about invading Iraq and less talking about
using nukes to make glass deserts.
One of the things I've noticed since living in Europe
(France/Switzerland), is there seem to be more documentaries / news items on TV about life in places like Turkey or Iraq,
where people are acting normally (as opposed to bombing
things or chanting death to the USA, etc).
This might be because I hardly ever watched TV in the US
(now I have motivation to learn French), or because I
wasn't in the US for the last year, so they actually
do show more shows like that, but I'm guessing there are
actually fewer shows.
And if so, it probably goes toward explaining why places like France are more anti-war, as the people can more easily
identify with the Iraqis, Afghans, etc., here than they
can in the US.
Like others, I used Knoppix when I went to buy a new laptop.
One problem, which the store-owner was insightful enough to
point out, is that because Knoppix is intended to be a general
distribution (though it supports a lot of different hardware),
it might be somewhat "dumbed down" so that, although you couldn't get an ultra-new system to work immediately by sticking a Knoppix CD into it, you might be able to if you
googled a bit to find the problem. In fact, though I went
in the store determined not to get an HP laptop (which I had
very bad experience with before), that was the only one with
my desired specs which would boot immediately from the
Knoppix CD (some Sony Vaio and another brand didn't boot).
It might be that I saved myself a lot of trouble by avoiding
those machines, but then it might just be a simple problem
with Knoppix itself not yet supporting the hardware.
I think "stable" is often not really meaningful
as people using stable branches want new features
backported and this introduces instabilities.
Who wants to work on a stable branch when they
can develop "sexy" new features.
In practice it seems that "unstable" just means
you get to use the newer features, while "stable"
is just a lagging-behind, second-thought version.
"The LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/PERL/Python) environment will become more recognized as a foundational solution in 2004." -John M. Weathersby
I think PostgreSQL is more likely than MySQL, although
I understand that leaves a less cool acronym
(though I've seen 'linux apache mod_perl postgres').
I don't think it has more umph, but it's different at least
since the government modus raperandi is to steal production (http://www.mises.org/easaran/chap3.asp ).
Islam might be in principle opposed to putting
obstacles to reading/learning, but in practice
it seems to me that the opposite happens. You
can't even learn what a woman's face looks like.
I suppose this is more a result of dictators
than Islam itself, though.
> I think this is more hype than something > practical, at least for the time being. It might > be different in a while after they've developed it > (and done lots and lots more human trials.)
The article mentions on page two that it has only been done on rats and won't go into FDA testing for five years.
Since there are several people in the thread interested in LEDs, look at ixbiff. It blinks LEDs when you have new mail.
Re:Go ask a Korean where science development occur
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The same holds true for Japan, China, and other Asian countries. It probably holds true for most of Africa, Australia, and even pre-1800's North and South America.
They literally contributed very, very little to humanity while the West was changing the world every 50 years or so. This is not racism, or me being and egotistical white male American, this is solid fact.
This is not factual at all. It's just shows that
your viewpoint is self-centered and ignorant.
For example, there were advanced African
civilizations while Europe was a bunch of "savages". You can't ignore all other civilizations and then use your
ignorance to proclaim your own accomplishments to
be superior.
Not to mention, your idea
of "contribution to humanity" comes from
a western perspective. Abducted Africans
would not have considered advancements in shipbuilding and weaponry to be a contribution
to humanity. People in Hiroshima wouldn't've
considered (if they could've lived) atomic developments an advancement of humanity.
And in the end, we all end up dead anyway,
so what does any "advancement" accomplish?
From the article: "But before it would be freed, it would become part of an experiment that could someday help suppress human appetites, or even save lives on the battlefield."
In other words, we torture the squirrels so that fatass armchair-Schwartzkopfs can get thinner with no effort while watching the USA shock and awe people on CNN and FOX.
Re:My personal vote for industry flavors of the we
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It might be that some day most people will wear virtual reality equipment in the same way that many people wear/carry cellphones now.
There's a book I'm reading now called 'The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language' which I recommend if you're interested in languages but not a linguist.
emacs has had 'ange-ftp' for a long time now.
We even have 'tramp' for scp.
Not to mention mpg123-mode for playing mp3s.
Nyah nyah.:)
I'd like to point out that one of the
big pro-vi arguments in the vi vs. emacs
holy war is that vi is a text editor, and only
a text editor. (That's about the only argument
in favor of vi that I accept.) So any
self-respecting vi user surely wouldn't be
caught dead using vim if it has FTP capabilities.
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Thanks for the address. FWIW, I wrote the following:
This is exactly what I was going to say. I think people have the impression that Iraq is all sand and camels, but if more people saw pictures like this, I think more people would be pissed off about invading Iraq and less talking about using nukes to make glass deserts.
One of the things I've noticed since living in Europe (France/Switzerland), is there seem to be more documentaries / news items on TV about life in places like Turkey or Iraq, where people are acting normally (as opposed to bombing things or chanting death to the USA, etc). This might be because I hardly ever watched TV in the US (now I have motivation to learn French), or because I wasn't in the US for the last year, so they actually do show more shows like that, but I'm guessing there are actually fewer shows. And if so, it probably goes toward explaining why places like France are more anti-war, as the people can more easily identify with the Iraqis, Afghans, etc., here than they can in the US.
I have heard this of Switzerland also, though I didn't find a reference offhand.
Like others, I used Knoppix when I went to buy a new laptop. One problem, which the store-owner was insightful enough to point out, is that because Knoppix is intended to be a general distribution (though it supports a lot of different hardware), it might be somewhat "dumbed down" so that, although you couldn't get an ultra-new system to work immediately by sticking a Knoppix CD into it, you might be able to if you googled a bit to find the problem. In fact, though I went in the store determined not to get an HP laptop (which I had very bad experience with before), that was the only one with my desired specs which would boot immediately from the Knoppix CD (some Sony Vaio and another brand didn't boot). It might be that I saved myself a lot of trouble by avoiding those machines, but then it might just be a simple problem with Knoppix itself not yet supporting the hardware.
I think "stable" is often not really meaningful as people using stable branches want new features backported and this introduces instabilities. Who wants to work on a stable branch when they can develop "sexy" new features. In practice it seems that "unstable" just means you get to use the newer features, while "stable" is just a lagging-behind, second-thought version.
"The LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/PERL/Python) environment will become more recognized as a foundational solution in 2004." -John M. Weathersby
I think PostgreSQL is more likely than MySQL, although I understand that leaves a less cool acronym (though I've seen 'linux apache mod_perl postgres').
It seems planet Klandathu hasn't perfected its technique yet.
I don't think it has more umph, but it's different at least since the government modus raperandi is to steal production (http://www.mises.org/easaran/chap3.asp ).
Seriously, there is like a small kernel of tutorial there surrounded by fluffy popcorn.
Islam might be in principle opposed to putting obstacles to reading/learning, but in practice it seems to me that the opposite happens. You can't even learn what a woman's face looks like. I suppose this is more a result of dictators than Islam itself, though.
$20,000 is not "SO much money". I'd guess
that the time put into adminning the servers,
let alone the hardware itself, quickly burns
through $20,000.
How many birds are flying around outside the galaxy anyway?
Good reading on this is the CIA Factbook:c tbook/geos/ ch.html#Econ
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/fa
> Why hasn't email threading been done up until now?
`pine` does, among others.
> I think this is more hype than something
> practical, at least for the time being. It might
> be different in a while after they've developed it > (and done lots and lots more human trials.)
The article mentions on page two that it has only
been done on rats and won't go into FDA testing
for five years.
Since there are several people in the thread
interested in LEDs, look at ixbiff.
It blinks LEDs when you have new mail.
This is not factual at all. It's just shows that your viewpoint is self-centered and ignorant. For example, there were advanced African civilizations while Europe was a bunch of "savages". You can't ignore all other civilizations and then use your ignorance to proclaim your own accomplishments to be superior. Not to mention, your idea of "contribution to humanity" comes from a western perspective. Abducted Africans would not have considered advancements in shipbuilding and weaponry to be a contribution to humanity. People in Hiroshima wouldn't've considered (if they could've lived) atomic developments an advancement of humanity.
And in the end, we all end up dead anyway, so what does any "advancement" accomplish?
I'm stealing that one.
> @companies = ("Microsoft", "IBM", "Oracle","SCO");
>
> foreach (@companies) {
> $quote =~ s/Free Software Foundation/$_/g;
> }
'Free Software Foundation' won't match after
'Microsoft' gets substituted for it.
From the article:
"But before it would be freed, it would become part of an experiment that could someday help suppress human appetites, or even save lives on the battlefield."
In other words, we torture the squirrels
so that fatass armchair-Schwartzkopfs
can get thinner with no effort while
watching the USA shock and awe people
on CNN and FOX.
It might be that some day most people will wear
virtual reality equipment in the same way that
many people wear/carry cellphones now.
I'll be waiting for a mod_perl/Mason version. :)
Thanks, that was very interesting. :)
I like the part near the end where he's talking
about paging memory out over satellite calls.
There's a book I'm reading now called
'The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language' which I recommend if you're interested in
languages but not a linguist.
emacs has had 'ange-ftp' for a long time now. :)
We even have 'tramp' for scp.
Not to mention mpg123-mode for playing mp3s.
Nyah nyah.
I'd like to point out that one of the
big pro-vi arguments in the vi vs. emacs
holy war is that vi is a text editor, and only
a text editor. (That's about the only argument
in favor of vi that I accept.) So any
self-respecting vi user surely wouldn't be
caught dead using vim if it has FTP capabilities.