I don't know if you're serious or not, but you may want to take a look at the man-pages of some of your programs...
"Bash is Copyright (C) 1989-2004 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc." "Emacs was written by Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation." "gcc, g++ - GNU project C and C++ Compiler (gcc-3.2.1)"
"Stallman's putting GNU in front of Linux does not count as creating a working GNU operating system"
Your point about the Hurd is valid, but belittling GNU like that is merely trolling. What use is a kernel alone? Linux would be nowhere without GNU.
Linux could, of course, work with BSD utilities, but that would be completely pointless. My OpenBSD firewall already works perfectly even without the glory that is Linux, after all...
Well, I do program, but it's mostly because it's convenient. I hate reading nested quotes anywhere, because you have to keep track of what level you're at, and whether the next symbol terminates the current level or starts a lower one. Escaping them using programming conventions is the simplest way to deal with the problem.
I also do similar things with other stuff, like math. Commenting calculus operations with C++ syntax made my high school homework much more readable.
"\"about four times all the electrical power on Earth\" Wouldn't that be all of the OTHER power on Earth? After all, this test was conducted on Earth, making even this discharge a subset of the \"all the electrical power on Earth,\" but I digress."
Stop spreading that sentence, damnit. My brain overflows its stack every time I try to read it.
"As a parent myself, if a game with Porn is allowed to be rated 17+, I'll probably brush with a broad stroke and not allow any 17+ games in my home because I don't want to do the research on each game my kid brings home."
Perhaps, as a parent yourself, you should be buying your teenagers condoms instead of trying to protect them from titties.
And if your children aren't teenagers, why aren't you more concerned about the violence?
"Considering most people use Windows it makes sense to initially develop a program for Windows."
And what, exactly, would prevent the government from writing it for qt, for example? Not to mention that closed source software is never a responsible use of tax money.
OK, but even so, can't we then consider dictionaries to be a sort of rfc? It's also not possible to prove that GET is the one true way to get information off a server, but that's what rfc2616 specifies, so it is "correct".
At least I myself find it much faster to parse correctly formed sentences in my head.
"Since when has the true geek cared about appearing anything? We tend to wear clothing that is the most convenient (cheapness, comfort, availability, etc). "
The true geek has, however, always cared about being correct.
It is indeed very annoying. I'm Finnish, and almost never had to think about my English spelling, but now the mistakes made by ignorant Americans who just don't care have started sticking to my head. I still rarely make mistakes, but that's just because I spend more time correcting myself.
Needless to say, I hate them with a passion for making me waste my own time.
P.S. As for the situation in Finland, we have the same fishstore-problem stoff3 described. It's very fortunate for posters on some boards that I'm not a homicidal maniac.
Or n-monitor for that matter. Editing a config file was the least of my worries when trying to get three monitors on two cards working.
I now have a low end card instead of my older, better card, and one of my displays still isn't hardware accelerated. I just gave up on that problem. At least I see something (and it's not even corrupted!). Almost makes me want to go back to Windows.
My tv-tuner twitches on an Athlon 2600+, for fuck's sake.
"This makes locks on doors absolutely pointless because you can just remove the pins on the hinges and the door will just fall down."
Doors can be designed to avoid that. I'm not sure what the standard way is, but my apartment's front door, for example, has metal rods embedded next to the hinges. They are virtually unnoticeable to the user, and automatically slide into the wall when the door is closed. This is probably more secure anyway.
"Herbert unlocks the door and the damn thing swings OUTWARDS knocking you back a step or two."
Wtf... Where I live, all doors open outwards. It's much more convenient*. Interesting assumption coming from a UI critic, who should know better than to accept what he has been given as the best alternative.
*-The door swings into the yard, instead of creating an obstruction in the foyer. -You can close the door immediately, instead of having to take off your shoes and get out of the way first. -If a fire breaks out, and a bunch of panicing morons are pushing you from behind, you can still open it.
Since you claim to be a "lighting and electrical systems design student", perhaps you can help me.
I'm currently trying to figure out how to light parts of my apartment using LEDs. Judging by some color charts I found here, however, it seems exceedingly difficult to emulate daylight accurately. So far I'm looking at combining 5 color channels, but I'm not sure if it'll be adequate. Another problem is that they don't all work at the same intensity.
Do you have any suggestions or helpful links? Thanks.
A lot of people have already responded, but I would like to add my experience.
When I was beginning my transition to Unix, I started by trying to install Mandrake on my personal computer. I failed. Then I tried installing FreeBSD on a secondary computer. It sort of worked, but I didn't really know what to do with it.
Then I installed OpenBSD on my file server. It was love at first sight.
The installer was simple, fast. I could boot off the network easier than I could burn a CD. Nothing was running by default. The man-pages were a work of art.
Had it not been for OpenBSD, I'd probably still be running Windows, not having learned enough to successfully configure Linux.
Thank You.
(I now run FreeBSD on my primary computer, having recently dumped gentoo.)
I'm not doubting your claim, but personally I've found that I'm somewhat likely to miss others' errors as my mind seems to do error correction in hardware (or something...).
When I write, however, I rarely make mistakes that survive longer than a few seconds - I virtually always catch them immediately. Has anyone else noticed the same tendency?
P.S. and slightly off topic: I used to be able to spell any word instantly, but am now sometimes confused just because I've seen the wrong spelling on the internet so many times. Annoying as hell.
"On the one hand, people complain about the FCC slapping fines on large corporations for broadcasting media that they deem \"inappropriate\". Then in the very same breath, they complain about the FCC supporting large corporations."
This is not contradictory. The government wants to be able to control things, but it does not want the people to have the same power. How do you think a dictatorship works?
No, that will teach them to abuse any resource they have, as they will have learned to expect a hard limit to always save them. It's the very opposite of being responsible.
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I don't know if you're serious or not, but you may want to take a look at the man-pages of some of your programs...
"Bash is Copyright (C) 1989-2004 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc."
"Emacs was written by Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation."
"gcc, g++ - GNU project C and C++ Compiler (gcc-3.2.1)"
"Stallman's putting GNU in front of Linux does not count as creating a working GNU operating system"
Your point about the Hurd is valid, but belittling GNU like that is merely trolling. What use is a kernel alone? Linux would be nowhere without GNU.
Linux could, of course, work with BSD utilities, but that would be completely pointless. My OpenBSD firewall already works perfectly even without the glory that is Linux, after all...
Well, I do program, but it's mostly because it's convenient. I hate reading nested quotes anywhere, because you have to keep track of what level you're at, and whether the next symbol terminates the current level or starts a lower one. Escaping them using programming conventions is the simplest way to deal with the problem.
I also do similar things with other stuff, like math. Commenting calculus operations with C++ syntax made my high school homework much more readable.
"\"about four times all the electrical power on Earth\" Wouldn't that be all of the OTHER power on Earth? After all, this test was conducted on Earth, making even this discharge a subset of the \"all the electrical power on Earth,\" but I digress."
Stop spreading that sentence, damnit. My brain overflows its stack every time I try to read it.
"As a parent myself, if a game with Porn is allowed to be rated 17+, I'll probably brush with a broad stroke and not allow any 17+ games in my home because I don't want to do the research on each game my kid brings home."
Perhaps, as a parent yourself, you should be buying your teenagers condoms instead of trying to protect them from titties.
And if your children aren't teenagers, why aren't you more concerned about the violence?
"Considering most people use Windows it makes sense to initially develop a program for Windows."
And what, exactly, would prevent the government from writing it for qt, for example? Not to mention that closed source software is never a responsible use of tax money.
OK, but even so, can't we then consider dictionaries to be a sort of rfc? It's also not possible to prove that GET is the one true way to get information off a server, but that's what rfc2616 specifies, so it is "correct".
At least I myself find it much faster to parse correctly formed sentences in my head.
"Since when has the true geek cared about appearing anything? We tend to wear clothing that is the most convenient (cheapness, comfort, availability, etc). "
The true geek has, however, always cared about being correct.
It is indeed very annoying. I'm Finnish, and almost never had to think about my English spelling, but now the mistakes made by ignorant Americans who just don't care have started sticking to my head. I still rarely make mistakes, but that's just because I spend more time correcting myself.
Needless to say, I hate them with a passion for making me waste my own time.
P.S. As for the situation in Finland, we have the same fishstore-problem stoff3 described. It's very fortunate for posters on some boards that I'm not a homicidal maniac.
Or n-monitor for that matter. Editing a config file was the least of my worries when trying to get three monitors on two cards working.
I now have a low end card instead of my older, better card, and one of my displays still isn't hardware accelerated. I just gave up on that problem. At least I see something (and it's not even corrupted!). Almost makes me want to go back to Windows.
My tv-tuner twitches on an Athlon 2600+, for fuck's sake.
Multipurpose portable computing devices with built in clocks already exist. They're called mobile phones, and are a lot lighter than notebooks...
"This makes locks on doors absolutely pointless because you can just remove the pins on the hinges and the door will just fall down."
Doors can be designed to avoid that. I'm not sure what the standard way is, but my apartment's front door, for example, has metal rods embedded next to the hinges. They are virtually unnoticeable to the user, and automatically slide into the wall when the door is closed. This is probably more secure anyway.
"Herbert unlocks the door and the damn thing swings OUTWARDS knocking you back a step or two."
Wtf... Where I live, all doors open outwards. It's much more convenient*. Interesting assumption coming from a UI critic, who should know better than to accept what he has been given as the best alternative.
*-The door swings into the yard, instead of creating an obstruction in the foyer.
-You can close the door immediately, instead of having to take off your shoes and get out of the way first.
-If a fire breaks out, and a bunch of panicing morons are pushing you from behind, you can still open it.
Since you claim to be a "lighting and electrical systems design student", perhaps you can help me.
I'm currently trying to figure out how to light parts of my apartment using LEDs. Judging by some color charts I found here, however, it seems exceedingly difficult to emulate daylight accurately. So far I'm looking at combining 5 color channels, but I'm not sure if it'll be adequate. Another problem is that they don't all work at the same intensity.
Do you have any suggestions or helpful links? Thanks.
A lot of people have already responded, but I would like to add my experience.
When I was beginning my transition to Unix, I started by trying to install Mandrake on my personal computer. I failed. Then I tried installing FreeBSD on a secondary computer. It sort of worked, but I didn't really know what to do with it.
Then I installed OpenBSD on my file server. It was love at first sight.
The installer was simple, fast. I could boot off the network easier than I could burn a CD. Nothing was running by default. The man-pages were a work of art.
Had it not been for OpenBSD, I'd probably still be running Windows, not having learned enough to successfully configure Linux.
Thank You.
(I now run FreeBSD on my primary computer, having recently dumped gentoo.)
" The RIAA is to America what GNAA is to Slashdot"
Not really, the GNAA trolls are sometimes creative and entertaining.
"Only in a Slashdot fantasy can a Slackware install turn into several hours of sex . . . . ."
I was considering inviting a girl over to install FreeBSD. Does this mean I'm a necrophile?
Yes, I was simplifying my statement too much.
"The original poster was fine, though why they converted TFA's Celcius into Kelvin, I'm not sure."
It's better to use K, because you can't perform calculations on the Celsius scale. For example, 20 C + 30 C != 50 C. It is in fact well over 300 C.
20 C + 30 K = 50 C, however.
I'm not doubting your claim, but personally I've found that I'm somewhat likely to miss others' errors as my mind seems to do error correction in hardware (or something...).
When I write, however, I rarely make mistakes that survive longer than a few seconds - I virtually always catch them immediately. Has anyone else noticed the same tendency?
P.S. and slightly off topic: I used to be able to spell any word instantly, but am now sometimes confused just because I've seen the wrong spelling on the internet so many times. Annoying as hell.
Nah, he was probably thinking of the war you'll be having had always against Eurasia.
"On the one hand, people complain about the FCC slapping fines on large corporations for broadcasting media that they deem \"inappropriate\". Then in the very same breath, they complain about the FCC supporting large corporations."
This is not contradictory. The government wants to be able to control things, but it does not want the people to have the same power. How do you think a dictatorship works?
No, that will teach them to abuse any resource they have, as they will have learned to expect a hard limit to always save them. It's the very opposite of being responsible.
That's not a solution. The solution is stop being fucking irresponsible.
"It is the opinion of us and our lawyers that you are (expletive) morons, and that you should please go sodomize yourself with retractable batons."
I salute you, sir, for removing the word "fucking". Your thoughtfulness is a fine example of sensitivity and courtesy at its best.