I grew up playing on my Atari Video Computer System (It wasn't until years later when it was released with new packaging that I heard it called 2600 - maybe around the time of the 5200 introduction) and kick much butt on my PS2 at my favored console games (usually polygon fighters when it's time for head to head competition).
Kudos, but just a quick bit of input for any who don't realize it: Snail mail is much more effective than email when contacting your government representatives.
Maybe you're trying to be funny (it's hard to tell tone in text) but visudo calls the editor you've specified in your environment variables ($VISUAL or $EDITOR). If it's the name you're objecting to, make an alias.
Among the many things wrong in your post, let me point out that disabling root does not imply giving all users full sudo access. In Ubuntu, your example distro, only the first user created has sudo privileges, unless they are specifically added to another account.
Insightful and well said. I only disagree with one small part:
"The industry HAS to reduce the price of this format, or it's doomed to obscurity, just like MiniDisc and BetaMax."
Tbhe industry doesn't HAVE to do anything - they don't care if the format is doomed to obscurity. Sony cares, and maybe there's something they have to do, but I'm not sure what that would be, or even if there is something they can do to save the format at this late stage.
As a related aside, I am a PSP owner who owns no UMD movies and has no interest in owning any.
I was going to post the Malbolge "Hello world" for entertainment value, but there was no way to get it past the lameness filter. It's on the linked wikipedia page.
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That's the first time I've ever seen or heard anyone say that Lisp didn't have enough parentheses!
Works fine for me, but I have scripts disabled as well as adblock with a pretty thorough blocklist on my Firefox. (Adblock shows subdocuments amd images from doubleclick.net, oreillynet.com and googlesyndication.com blocked, Noscript shows 8 scripts from perl.com and oreillynet.com blocked, but there probably would be more scripts if adblock hadn't prevented the subdocuments from loading)
Umm, you're on slashdot now. This is a place where geeks hang out. These are the people who also know that Capcom produced the SF2 line, because a large percentage of us also played a bunch of those games.
What I'm trying to say is, you don't have to explain what's a geek joke here, and the parentheticals in your post ruined your delivery - while I appreciate the 20 points, I would rather have given you +1 funny.
"(originally posted as AC because I'd moderated; however, even posting as an AC, the code retroactively undid my moderation. Didn't know that would happen. A little warning, Slashcode?)"
I believe that's intentional. I think some people get around it by either logging out and posting AC logged out or by using a whole 'nother browser, again, not logged in. Can't really say for sure, I haven't tried it.
I probably should post this AC, since it's pretty far from on-topic for the story, but I prefer to be able to know if someone replies to my posts, even if they're OT.
Well if that's an essential element to "staying objective," then you're absolutely right - There is no justification at all for calling ID religion that doesn't also apply to any branch of science.
However (and I may be risking losing my objectivity here, but) to most people, when trying to determine whether something is science or not, the scientific method is not moot. That "finickiness" is the very thing that means we don't have to take believe it just because some guy with a tall pointy hat says so.
...And while I'm here, let me be the brazilianth person to point out to you that evolution is not about the origin of the universe.
I don't care what you or any other christian believes. I did my time living as a christian and found it to be not right for me. It's what you want to believe? Fine. Good for you.
What does bother me is christians trying to disguise their religion as science and force it into public schools.
Science is not tested in public schools, it's taught there.
Wait a minute! First we're taking it all literally, then we're assuming it doesn't mention all of the children? Genesis 4 mentions Adam "laying with his wife" (NIV phrasing) exactly 3 times. The third time, Eve even says "God has granted me another child in place of Abel, since Cain killed him." Obviously, this is all of the children she had, or else the Bible would say so.
As in aside, I'd say we all turned out incredibly well, considering how horribly inbred we are!
The thing you seem to not realize is that "intelligent design" (ID) is a very specific creationist pseudo-science which claims that evolution is false based on the idea that living things are too complex to have evolved.
Umm, that was forgotten long ago - it was one of the main reasons why I didn't go from Apple//e to Mac back in 84.
Not that I can claim my way would have been more successful than Steve's - I was a command line guy all the way - that gui was just stupid fluff that made it harder to get to the useful stuff that could be done with a computer.
I think that was an attempt to be funny. The way I read it, the AC was saying it's an engineer's job to know the required limits, and get as close as possible to them - for maximum efficiency, you know.
I agree with most of your comment, but another of the deciding advantages of Ubuntu for me is that it's more up-to-date than stable and more tested than testing.
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I present myself as evidence against your theory.
I grew up playing on my Atari Video Computer System (It wasn't until years later when it was released with new packaging that I heard it called 2600 - maybe around the time of the 5200 introduction) and kick much butt on my PS2 at my favored console games (usually polygon fighters when it's time for head to head competition).
Kudos, but just a quick bit of input for any who don't realize it: Snail mail is much more effective than email when contacting your government representatives.
Maybe you're trying to be funny (it's hard to tell tone in text) but visudo calls the editor you've specified in your environment variables ($VISUAL or $EDITOR). If it's the name you're objecting to, make an alias.
Among the many things wrong in your post, let me point out that disabling root does not imply giving all users full sudo access. In Ubuntu, your example distro, only the first user created has sudo privileges, unless they are specifically added to another account.
Insightful and well said. I only disagree with one small part:
"The industry HAS to reduce the price of this format, or it's doomed to obscurity, just like MiniDisc and BetaMax."
Tbhe industry doesn't HAVE to do anything - they don't care if the format is doomed to obscurity. Sony cares, and maybe there's something they have to do, but I'm not sure what that would be, or even if there is something they can do to save the format at this late stage.
As a related aside, I am a PSP owner who owns no UMD movies and has no interest in owning any.
Probably not, this article was posted by Zonk too.
Ahh, you want Malbolge!
I was going to post the Malbolge "Hello world" for entertainment value, but there was no way to get it past the lameness filter. It's on the linked wikipedia page.
That's the first time I've ever seen or heard anyone say that Lisp didn't have enough parentheses!
Works fine for me, but I have scripts disabled as well as adblock with a pretty thorough blocklist on my Firefox. (Adblock shows subdocuments amd images from doubleclick.net, oreillynet.com and googlesyndication.com blocked, Noscript shows 8 scripts from perl.com and oreillynet.com blocked, but there probably would be more scripts if adblock hadn't prevented the subdocuments from loading)
Umm, you're on slashdot now. This is a place where geeks hang out. These are the people who also know that Capcom produced the SF2 line, because a large percentage of us also played a bunch of those games.
What I'm trying to say is, you don't have to explain what's a geek joke here, and the parentheticals in your post ruined your delivery - while I appreciate the 20 points, I would rather have given you +1 funny.
"(originally posted as AC because I'd moderated; however, even posting as an AC, the code retroactively undid my moderation. Didn't know that would happen. A little warning, Slashcode?)"
I believe that's intentional. I think some people get around it by either logging out and posting AC logged out or by using a whole 'nother browser, again, not logged in. Can't really say for sure, I haven't tried it.
I probably should post this AC, since it's pretty far from on-topic for the story, but I prefer to be able to know if someone replies to my posts, even if they're OT.
"Are there any examples of similar situations?"
Galileo comes to mind.
"The scientific method is moot."
...And while I'm here, let me be the brazilianth person to point out to you that evolution is not about the origin of the universe.
Well if that's an essential element to "staying objective," then you're absolutely right - There is no justification at all for calling ID religion that doesn't also apply to any branch of science.
However (and I may be risking losing my objectivity here, but) to most people, when trying to determine whether something is science or not, the scientific method is not moot. That "finickiness" is the very thing that means we don't have to take believe it just because some guy with a tall pointy hat says so.
Even moreso than the ones the previous reply mentioned, all those hunting and fishing titles sell like crazy and all get horrible reviews.
So what do you call them? (I'm honestly curious)
I don't care what you or any other christian believes. I did my time living as a christian and found it to be not right for me. It's what you want to believe? Fine. Good for you.
What does bother me is christians trying to disguise their religion as science and force it into public schools.
Science is not tested in public schools, it's taught there.
Wait a minute! First we're taking it all literally, then we're assuming it doesn't mention all of the children? Genesis 4 mentions Adam "laying with his wife" (NIV phrasing) exactly 3 times. The third time, Eve even says "God has granted me another child in place of Abel, since Cain killed him." Obviously, this is all of the children she had, or else the Bible would say so.
As in aside, I'd say we all turned out incredibly well, considering how horribly inbred we are!
I play poker with a bunch of chemists regularly. I just sent them a link to the GP post, hopefully one of them will jump in.
The thing you seem to not realize is that "intelligent design" (ID) is a very specific creationist pseudo-science which claims that evolution is false based on the idea that living things are too complex to have evolved.
For more on ID, see the wikipedia article on it.
Umm, that was forgotten long ago - it was one of the main reasons why I didn't go from Apple //e to Mac back in 84.
Not that I can claim my way would have been more successful than Steve's - I was a command line guy all the way - that gui was just stupid fluff that made it harder to get to the useful stuff that could be done with a computer.
I think that was an attempt to be funny. The way I read it, the AC was saying it's an engineer's job to know the required limits, and get as close as possible to them - for maximum efficiency, you know.
Apt-get is a debian creation, it does use it.
I agree with most of your comment, but another of the deciding advantages of Ubuntu for me is that it's more up-to-date than stable and more tested than testing.
Wrong. Look it up.
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