I use Apple Mail at home (and used to use Mail.app), and Thunderbird at work. I've found Thunderbird slightly more exasperating than Apple Mail. (And a hell of a lot less exasperating than Outlook, Eudora, KMail, Pine, and Elm).
There are always only two Sith in the whole universe: the Master, and the Apprentice. That's how Anakin/Vader "restored the balance of the Force" - because after Vader was done, there were *only two Jedi* as well, a Master (Yoda) and an "apprentice" (Kenobi). When Kenobi died, Luke became the apprentice; when Yoda died, he identified Luke's most likely apprentice, Leia. At the very end of the film, Vader "restores the balance of the Force" in another way: by destroying the last two Sith (Palpatine and himself), he made it possible for the Jedi to incorporate aspects of the force that they had not previously had access to, and so balanced the force.
Of course, this is just a bullshit movie, so your interpretation may vary.
Well, they would certainly be free to do that, but if their business was predicated on a guarantee of security, it wouldn't be a very rational thing to do.
That's the problem with libertarian utopianism - the same as the problem with communism. "Very rational" is not a phrase I associate with human beings.
Mohammed Yukos has been evangelizing a number of ideas about entrepreneurial businesses whose primary motive is helping their communities, and who only make enough "profit" to build their businesses and help more people. If this means that Gates is buying into those ideas, with Gates's resources, and the commitment to philanthropy he's always shown (outside his day job as the Satanic Overlord of the information economy, obviously), this might lead to good things.
Doesn't mean I'll be buying a copy of Windows any time soon, of course; and I'd still like to see the DOJ actually investigate some of Microsoft's shenanigans, but give the man credit where it's due.
The root of all evil [things] is the love of money.
The word kakon (kakw=n) is a plural adjective converted to a substantive by the article ton (tw=n). ton kakon is the usual phrase for "bad stuff". The single word for love of money is philarguria. Another translation might be "The root of all evil things is avarice." It most certainly is NOT "all kinds of evil" in a sense that would be distinguisable from "all evil". By the way, it is 1 Timothy 6.10, and the Greek in this case almost certainly is the original language (unlike the Gospels, which probably incorporate material originally composed in Aramaic).
"The remarkable fact is that the values of these numbers seem to have been finely adjusted to make possible the development of life."
--Stephen Hawking
Personally, "govern", "known", "adjusted", and "intelligence" seem like appropriate terms to me.
In those quantum realities where you don't exist, those words are not quite so appropriate.
On a MacBook, if you hold two fingers on the track pad and click, you get the equivalent of a right click. Middle click is not so useful on a Mac running OS X, though it does have a use (it opens Dashboard), while fourth button click goes to Expose' - but neither of those work on the track pad.
To better capture the full flavor of the "I'm such a 1337 hax0r" attitude, you should have said that you had installed Gentoo or Debian, not Ubuntu, and on the Mac first before "giving up in disgust" and buying the Linux laptop. As for me, I'd rather spend my time programming new software than tweaking my window manager, though I do keep a Linux distribution handy under Parallels, side by side with Solaris and WinXP (couldn't wait for VMWare to come out with their product when I first got my MacBook, and haven't needed to upgrade to VMWare yet).
"Decimated" means "killed every tenth," in other words, "lined everyone up and killed every tenth person in line." I suppose you could argue that $1M equals 90% of the actual total received, but I wouldn't use that particular metaphor myself.
A good chunk of the stuff on iTunes is basically DRM free - it's tagged, but that's it. All EMI, gradually a lot of independents, too. And if you can burn a CD (as you can with DRMed stuff in iTunes), and what you are burning to CD is lossless, well, I don't see the problem here.
It's more a matter of principles and parameters that every language chooses from: there's a universal set of principles and a universal set of parameters, and every language is built up on a general structure developed from a combination of several of the first set plus several of the second set. One could imagine that a new language invented ex nihilo would begin by assign signs (usually phonemes) to signifieds (objects in the real world, concepts, processes, etc.) and relate them to one another by means of these principles and parameters in ways that would generate a system of morphology and syntax. This kind of structure holds for all languages, no matter how far they are from e.g. the IE languages (by the way, English is NOT a latinate language - it is a Germanic language that has acquired a great deal of secondary latinate vocabulary). The problem is working out what all the principles and parameters are (we only know some of them) and seeing how they are instantiated in various natural languages.
The local library will likely sell most of them at a book sale, and then he'll be stuck without being able to reference them again. I have a comparable number of books, and I refer to at least 3 of them on an average day (and never the same 3). I'd say that in 5 years, I've referred to 85% of my books.
I knew a guy like you a long time ago - when confronted for the first time with the concept of people purchasing VHS tapes of movies, he said "why would you want to buy something like that if you're only going to watch it once." The point is that a very good book is enjoyable even when you know how it's going to end, even if you have read the whole book before, because you enjoy the way in which the writer narrates the story and the way in which he has the characters speak to one another.
Actually, programming *is* math. Always; even HelloWorld is math. You just don't really understand what math is. And while it's false to claim that no program can be 100% bug free - you can certainly write a bug-free FSM to do something simple, and maybe even implement it in electronics - all code that's an order of magnitude more complicated than HelloWorld has some bad choices in *somewhere* the high-level code, the compiler that's used to turn it into executable code, or in the instruction set that compiled code runs against that may not lead to logic errors, but do lead to imperfections in execution.
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You know you are WAY too much of a geek when you get that joke.
I use Apple Mail at home (and used to use Mail.app), and Thunderbird at work. I've found Thunderbird slightly more exasperating than Apple Mail. (And a hell of a lot less exasperating than Outlook, Eudora, KMail, Pine, and Elm).
There are always only two Sith in the whole universe: the Master, and the Apprentice. That's how Anakin/Vader "restored the balance of the Force" - because after Vader was done, there were *only two Jedi* as well, a Master (Yoda) and an "apprentice" (Kenobi). When Kenobi died, Luke became the apprentice; when Yoda died, he identified Luke's most likely apprentice, Leia. At the very end of the film, Vader "restores the balance of the Force" in another way: by destroying the last two Sith (Palpatine and himself), he made it possible for the Jedi to incorporate aspects of the force that they had not previously had access to, and so balanced the force.
Of course, this is just a bullshit movie, so your interpretation may vary.
Always look on the bright side of life ...
de doo, de doo de doo de doo
There, took care of that.
Excellent posting. I didn't realize that the West Wing had its own domain.
Well, they would certainly be free to do that, but if their business was predicated on a guarantee of security, it wouldn't be a very rational thing to do.
That's the problem with libertarian utopianism - the same as the problem with communism. "Very rational" is not a phrase I associate with human beings.
Yeah, it's Yunus, not Yukos. Too tired to spell.
Mohammed Yukos has been evangelizing a number of ideas about entrepreneurial businesses whose primary motive is helping their communities, and who only make enough "profit" to build their businesses and help more people. If this means that Gates is buying into those ideas, with Gates's resources, and the commitment to philanthropy he's always shown (outside his day job as the Satanic Overlord of the information economy, obviously), this might lead to good things.
Doesn't mean I'll be buying a copy of Windows any time soon, of course; and I'd still like to see the DOJ actually investigate some of Microsoft's shenanigans, but give the man credit where it's due.
Yes, Ms. Richards played the "I know this - it's UNIX" girl.
Using the usual transliteration method for Greek in an ASCII environment:
r(i/za ga\r pa/ntwn tw=n kakw=n e)stin h( filarguri/a ...
The root of all evil [things] is the love of money.
The word kakon (kakw=n) is a plural adjective converted to a substantive by the article ton (tw=n). ton kakon is the usual phrase for "bad stuff". The single word for love of money is philarguria. Another translation might be "The root of all evil things is avarice." It most certainly is NOT "all kinds of evil" in a sense that would be distinguisable from "all evil". By the way, it is 1 Timothy 6.10, and the Greek in this case almost certainly is the original language (unlike the Gospels, which probably incorporate material originally composed in Aramaic).
You are subtracting aleph null from aleph null; I was under the impression that subtraction is undefined at this cardinality.
"The remarkable fact is that the values of these numbers seem to have been finely adjusted to make possible the development of life."
--Stephen Hawking
Personally, "govern", "known", "adjusted", and "intelligence" seem like appropriate terms to me.
In those quantum realities where you don't exist, those words are not quite so appropriate.
Very well said. For a bit more academic piece of advice: get all the math you can handle.
You mean St. Joe??? (Ok, I know, I am the only one who actually saw Waterworld.)
If Sony wins a video format war, Duke Nukem Forever goes GM, and E17 is released as "stable", THEN you should move into your underground bunker.
The sec was otherwise somewhat like a PDA or iPhone.
On a MacBook, if you hold two fingers on the track pad and click, you get the equivalent of a right click. Middle click is not so useful on a Mac running OS X, though it does have a use (it opens Dashboard), while fourth button click goes to Expose' - but neither of those work on the track pad.
To better capture the full flavor of the "I'm such a 1337 hax0r" attitude, you should have said that you had installed Gentoo or Debian, not Ubuntu, and on the Mac first before "giving up in disgust" and buying the Linux laptop. As for me, I'd rather spend my time programming new software than tweaking my window manager, though I do keep a Linux distribution handy under Parallels, side by side with Solaris and WinXP (couldn't wait for VMWare to come out with their product when I first got my MacBook, and haven't needed to upgrade to VMWare yet).
The veil of maya. Exactly.
"Decimated" means "killed every tenth," in other words, "lined everyone up and killed every tenth person in line." I suppose you could argue that $1M equals 90% of the actual total received, but I wouldn't use that particular metaphor myself.
A good chunk of the stuff on iTunes is basically DRM free - it's tagged, but that's it. All EMI, gradually a lot of independents, too. And if you can burn a CD (as you can with DRMed stuff in iTunes), and what you are burning to CD is lossless, well, I don't see the problem here.
It's more a matter of principles and parameters that every language chooses from: there's a universal set of principles and a universal set of parameters, and every language is built up on a general structure developed from a combination of several of the first set plus several of the second set. One could imagine that a new language invented ex nihilo would begin by assign signs (usually phonemes) to signifieds (objects in the real world, concepts, processes, etc.) and relate them to one another by means of these principles and parameters in ways that would generate a system of morphology and syntax. This kind of structure holds for all languages, no matter how far they are from e.g. the IE languages (by the way, English is NOT a latinate language - it is a Germanic language that has acquired a great deal of secondary latinate vocabulary). The problem is working out what all the principles and parameters are (we only know some of them) and seeing how they are instantiated in various natural languages.
The local library will likely sell most of them at a book sale, and then he'll be stuck without being able to reference them again. I have a comparable number of books, and I refer to at least 3 of them on an average day (and never the same 3). I'd say that in 5 years, I've referred to 85% of my books.
I knew a guy like you a long time ago - when confronted for the first time with the concept of people purchasing VHS tapes of movies, he said "why would you want to buy something like that if you're only going to watch it once." The point is that a very good book is enjoyable even when you know how it's going to end, even if you have read the whole book before, because you enjoy the way in which the writer narrates the story and the way in which he has the characters speak to one another.
Actually, programming *is* math. Always; even HelloWorld is math. You just don't really understand what math is. And while it's false to claim that no program can be 100% bug free - you can certainly write a bug-free FSM to do something simple, and maybe even implement it in electronics - all code that's an order of magnitude more complicated than HelloWorld has some bad choices in *somewhere* the high-level code, the compiler that's used to turn it into executable code, or in the instruction set that compiled code runs against that may not lead to logic errors, but do lead to imperfections in execution.