I'm seriously curious; if you can't use literary deconstruction to analyze historical writings to determine when and by whom they've been edited, then what tool can you use, assuming that there aren't a lot of verifiable external historical documents to compare against?
There is no tool. You can't determine anything, really.
No offense, but literary deconstruction, while popular, should not be used on historical documents to decide how many writers there were, when the changes were made, or especially what the beliefs of these multiple writers were.
As I assume you're an engineer, I am amazed that you ate up the statistical joke that is deconstructionalism simply because it helped to disprove the historical basis of the bible. There is plenty of evidence for that position already: you don't need to marginalize your intellect to get it.
I can agree with part of what you are saying here, but not all open-book tests are necessarily bad.
The funny part is, I don't think that I ever had a closed-book final exam in engineering school. The problems were just too hard. If you needed the book to do anything other than look for tables, you were screwed. This was eighteen years ago, but the even allowed "anything but another live person" with you. Satelite link-up would've been OK by them. People often brought accordian file folders into the exams.
I see WashU bantered about on Slashdot all the time. As my former Uni, I wonder how many people went there, and how they feel about the education they got.
The year that I applied, they were ranked third in the U.S. and dropped slightly the years I actually attended, but their ranking seems to have fallen to the mid-thirties.
Is engineering at WashU going down the tubes?
In the marriage case, it is hardly without permission to assume the name of ones (sic) spouse.
You yourself stated that taking refers to something physical, and I countered. You yourself were the imprecise one...
In the case of an assumed identity, colloquially referred to as 'identity theft' this would probably legally be fraud if their (sic) was a crime.
While I agree with you that the charge for your "stealing" music in a court of law would be "copyright infringement," we are not in one, and to force the use of legal terms in a common setting like you are doing is ignorant. Recognize it as such.
OT: Be more careful about your choice of words... A sharp tongue requires a sharp mind.
So how 'bout when two folks get married and one of them "takes" the other's name. That first person didn't lose his / her name. If someone "took" my name without permision, that is called, what? Oh, yeah, identity theft. Don't use the dictionary to do your arguing for you. It's sophomoric.
So, anyway. It's fun to beat up on SCO, and McBride. One of the differences between most people who read/. and McBride is that very few/. readers would have the spine to stand up and assert something as outlandish as SCO asserts. To/. folk, the SCO business is all very abstract, there's a billion dollars and a corporation at stake... but it's not our money or our corporation.
I would think that very few slashdotters would be able to imagine what kind of attitude it takes to run even a company the size of SCO, much less one of the larger ones. I know that I can't.
Aw, heck: the last computer software store I went in had the XP Service Pack with the anti-piracy measures hacked out. No one needs the source to do this stuff, do they?
Yeah, here in Thailand, MS lowered their price for MS Windows XP Home and MS Office Standard on the government program computers to something outlandish (1500 Baht?), but still noone bought it... They still got the 150 Baht set at Panthip. Proof is in the pudding, you know!
It will still be a long time before you see consumer level machines roll out with Linux on them.
Oh, I don't know abou that... Over half the machine in any hypermarket I walk into are pre-loaded with Linux, and one manufacturer, Liberta, even has their own branded version, which now stands at version 1.2 and comes with Pladao, the Thai localized version of OO.o. It has been this way for almost two years.
Consumer level Linux is happening, just not in the places you are looking.
Dan
Hey, at my last interview, I met angkor, and we talked about Slashdot for some time. I didn't mention my UID, though, because I lurked from sometime in early 1998 until I registered with this bad boy about ?four years ago?
But probably not by measure of units shipped. The embedded market consumes many many (smaller) CPUs.
I don't know a lot about the embedded market, but I still see Z80s for sale for it. I wonder how many units that chip has sold.
I have been reading/. wayyy too long, because I read If your and immediately tried to translate it to If you're without even reading the rest of the sentence first. I just assumed that it was wrong and started branching.
Yeah, but, wow, you're tarring bzipped files, not bzipping a tarred file. The latter is the standard and what is built into tar, and (I undrstand) will render an archive unreadable pretty easily.
I had never heard of LHA until recently, when my GF started writing "dollz." Gnome KISS is a KISS doll viewer, and they are all the rage in Asia (or were last year, anyway). KISS is like paperdollsthatyoudressup. You can see some of my GFs work at the bottom of this page. There are actually some fairly sexy ones, but I can't find any on a quick google.
Anyway, these dollz sets use LHA compression, and finding a copy that would even compile on my machine took days, and sometimes things still don't work correctly. LHA is a PITA for me.
P.S. A javascript version of a doll is here.
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Yeah, but Debian's version of MyDoom is 1.0.2, while Gentoo's is the current 2.4.6. Or do you want to apt-get 2.4.1 from testing?
I was so bad I had to have LASIC, and now I'm getting glasses again.
I just have to say that whoever though of this workaround is a genius... and evil genius, but still a genius.
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I'm seriously curious; if you can't use literary deconstruction to analyze historical writings to determine when and by whom they've been edited, then what tool can you use, assuming that there aren't a lot of verifiable external historical documents to compare against?
There is no tool. You can't determine anything, really.
No offense, but literary deconstruction, while popular, should not be used on historical documents to decide how many writers there were, when the changes were made, or especially what the beliefs of these multiple writers were.
As I assume you're an engineer, I am amazed that you ate up the statistical joke that is deconstructionalism simply because it helped to disprove the historical basis of the bible. There is plenty of evidence for that position already: you don't need to marginalize your intellect to get it.
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I can agree with part of what you are saying here, but not all open-book tests are necessarily bad.
The funny part is, I don't think that I ever had a closed-book final exam in engineering school. The problems were just too hard. If you needed the book to do anything other than look for tables, you were screwed. This was eighteen years ago, but the even allowed "anything but another live person" with you. Satelite link-up would've been OK by them. People often brought accordian file folders into the exams.
I see WashU bantered about on Slashdot all the time. As my former Uni, I wonder how many people went there, and how they feel about the education they got.
The year that I applied, they were ranked third in the U.S. and dropped slightly the years I actually attended, but their ranking seems to have fallen to the mid-thirties.
Is engineering at WashU going down the tubes?
In the marriage case, it is hardly without permission to assume the name of ones (sic) spouse.
You yourself stated that taking refers to something physical, and I countered. You yourself were the imprecise one...
In the case of an assumed identity, colloquially referred to as 'identity theft' this would probably legally be fraud if their (sic) was a crime.
While I agree with you that the charge for your "stealing" music in a court of law would be "copyright infringement," we are not in one, and to force the use of legal terms in a common setting like you are doing is ignorant. Recognize it as such.
OT: Be more careful about your choice of words... A sharp tongue requires a sharp mind.
So how 'bout when two folks get married and one of them "takes" the other's name. That first person didn't lose his / her name. If someone "took" my name without permision, that is called, what? Oh, yeah, identity theft. Don't use the dictionary to do your arguing for you. It's sophomoric.
So, anyway. It's fun to beat up on SCO, and McBride. One of the differences between most people who read /. and McBride is that very few /. readers would have the spine to stand up and assert something as outlandish as SCO asserts. To /. folk, the SCO business is all very abstract, there's a billion dollars and a corporation at stake ... but it's not our money or our corporation.
I would think that very few slashdotters would be able to imagine what kind of attitude it takes to run even a company the size of SCO, much less one of the larger ones. I know that I can't.
Aw, heck: the last computer software store I went in had the XP Service Pack with the anti-piracy measures hacked out. No one needs the source to do this stuff, do they?
Yeah, here in Thailand, MS lowered their price for MS Windows XP Home and MS Office Standard on the government program computers to something outlandish (1500 Baht?), but still noone bought it... They still got the 150 Baht set at Panthip. Proof is in the pudding, you know!
Over here in Thailand, we have at least one local .Net magazine, but none for Java. Does that indicate anything?
It will still be a long time before you see consumer level machines roll out with Linux on them.
Oh, I don't know abou that... Over half the machine in any hypermarket I walk into are pre-loaded with Linux, and one manufacturer, Liberta, even has their own branded version, which now stands at version 1.2 and comes with Pladao, the Thai localized version of OO.o. It has been this way for almost two years.
Consumer level Linux is happening, just not in the places you are looking. Dan
Wow. Here in Thailand, we have whole malls devoted to such things.
Hey, at my last interview, I met angkor, and we talked about Slashdot for some time. I didn't mention my UID, though, because I lurked from sometime in early 1998 until I registered with this bad boy about ?four years ago?
So, what ever happened to Plex86, the possible replacement to VMWare? Last I heard, it was DOA.
In Soviet India, they send the job to you.
But probably not by measure of units shipped. The embedded market consumes many many (smaller) CPUs.
I don't know a lot about the embedded market, but I still see Z80s for sale for it. I wonder how many units that chip has sold.
I have been reading /. wayyy too long, because I read If your and immediately tried to translate it to If you're without even reading the rest of the sentence first. I just assumed that it was wrong and started branching.
Yeah, but, wow, you're tarring bzipped files, not bzipping a tarred file. The latter is the standard and what is built into tar, and (I undrstand) will render an archive unreadable pretty easily.
I had never heard of LHA until recently, when my GF started writing "dollz." Gnome KISS is a KISS doll viewer, and they are all the rage in Asia (or were last year, anyway). KISS is like paper dolls that you dress up. You can see some of my GFs work at the bottom of this page. There are actually some fairly sexy ones, but I can't find any on a quick google. Anyway, these dollz sets use LHA compression, and finding a copy that would even compile on my machine took days, and sometimes things still don't work correctly. LHA is a PITA for me. P.S. A javascript version of a doll is here.
Yeah, but Debian's version of MyDoom is 1.0.2, while Gentoo's is the current 2.4.6. Or do you want to apt-get 2.4.1 from testing?
The plural for air is "airs." Of course, you have to be referring to different kinds of airs, just like any collective noun, e.g. fishes.
Have you ever gotten bitten by a goatse troll? If so, you obviously clicked on something with out(sic) knowing specifically what it is.
I was so bad I had to have LASIC, and now I'm getting glasses again.
I just have to say that whoever though of this workaround is a genius... and evil genius, but still a genius.
Thanks. I used that idea to open ten new tabs...
You know that gs can do multiple pages like you want, don't you? If it's already in PDF, that's as easy-peasy as piesy, or something.