Not all BASICs require a line number. Besides, "speaking in BASIC" is nonsensical compared to "speaking in Klingon" because Klingon is a language designed to be used to express emotions, actions, people, and such. BASIC is designed to tell you to output characters to a screen and set the values of variables and is a tiny, tiny subset of a regular 'real-life' languages. Speaking in nothing but BASIC would be impossible:
Restaurant server What would you like? Me: CLS: FOR N = 1 TO 10: PRINT: NEXT Restaurant server Huh? Me: RANDOMIZE TIMER: A$ = A$ + CHR$(INT(RND*127)+1) Restaurant server Riiiiiiiight.
I hope I never play a game like that. I'm the kind of person who has nightmares about Protect and Survive booklets and little snippets from the drama show Threads. I saw a clip where a small boy is hiding behind the aviary and then there's a big white flash - I was shitting myself for days after.
Can someone tell me why I need a 3d accelerated desktop?
You don't. But some people, such as myself, are total suckers for eye candy. Given two systems with identical functionality I will be a good deal more impressed by the one with even only a little more eye candy. I'm tempted to upgrade to RH 9 from 8.0 purely for the latest versions of GNOME and KDE.
ReiserFS stores the contents of files in balanced trees instead of just metadata. It was the first journalling fs for which support was included in the Linux kernel (2.4.1) and it fscks pretty damn fast. It can handle having hundreds of thousands of files in one directory and packs as many files as it can into one block.
Just because software is popular doesn't make it noninnovative. Heck, sometimes software becomes popular because it is innovative. And often unpopular software is innovative too. Look at ReiserFS or the Hurd; surely these innovate to some degree, and even if they themselves are not that original they may well be the first to actually implement a radical idea or two. Look at Plan 9; even taking an existing stable paradigm to its illogical limit can produce wonderful results. Linux or GNU may not be that "innovative and edgy" but at the time when they were created they must've been a big blast of fresh air.
"Linux itself is a clone of an operating system that is 20-plus years old. That's what it is. That is what you can get today, a clone of a 20-year-old system."
I often have problems understanding certain types of humour. Literal humour is no problem, but for some reason nonliteral humour - irony, I believe it is known as, though I may be wrong - I have a problem with. Perhaps it is due to my naivete. Since I so rarely utilise this verbal sleight of hand, it sometimes escapes my notice when someone addresses me with it. Thanks for pointing out this usage of irony to me. I hope that I will be better equipped for it in future, courtesy of your advice.
"The Internet was designed to be secure from nuclear attack, not its own users."
The problem is, it's very difficult to protect all of a technology's users from harming themselves with the technology or destroying it all together. Just look at virtually all of our inventions and discoveries: nuclear reactions, cars, CFCs, weapons...you can't generally save people from a technology if a substantial proportion of its users are hellbent on using it to annoy everybody else. I think even an "Internet2" would be unsuccessful unless it was so advanced it could somehow protect itself from its own administrators. But even that has its problems. (Insert Terminator reference here.)
...for the Latin/Classical Civilization ignorant, the parent post is a poorly formatted bastardisation of poem 16 of the poet Catullus. You can find an approximate translation here. The parent has just substituted "Aurelius" and "Furius" in line 2 for "Billy G" and "Microsoft" respectively, and "versiculis" for "software" in line 3.
No, it's not related. One of the developers made a comment on the multi-theft auto forums that he wished people wouldn't post comments about "GGM vs. MTA" and that GGM will probably simply be a competitor to them. The GGM project looks a little inactive, but it's probably not dead since their last release was only about a month ago.
Why so Microsoft centric? does that mean they can use OpenOffice.org "Impress" presentation slides instead? Does that also mean Microsoft can sue the lawers for use of their trademark in their document?
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Not all BASICs require a line number. Besides, "speaking in BASIC" is nonsensical compared to "speaking in Klingon" because Klingon is a language designed to be used to express emotions, actions, people, and such. BASIC is designed to tell you to output characters to a screen and set the values of variables and is a tiny, tiny subset of a regular 'real-life' languages. Speaking in nothing but BASIC would be impossible:
Restaurant server What would you like?
Me: CLS: FOR N = 1 TO 10: PRINT: NEXT
Restaurant server Huh?
Me: RANDOMIZE TIMER: A$ = A$ + CHR$(INT(RND*127)+1)
Restaurant server Riiiiiiiight.
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I'm just not cut out for failing exams.
I hope I never play a game like that. I'm the kind of person who has nightmares about Protect and Survive booklets and little snippets from the drama show Threads. I saw a clip where a small boy is hiding behind the aviary and then there's a big white flash - I was shitting myself for days after.
Can someone tell me why I need a 3d accelerated desktop?
You don't. But some people, such as myself, are total suckers for eye candy. Given two systems with identical functionality I will be a good deal more impressed by the one with even only a little more eye candy. I'm tempted to upgrade to RH 9 from 8.0 purely for the latest versions of GNOME and KDE.
"It was the second-largest onslaught ViaWest had experienced, according to SCO."
The first being the Slashdotting they got?
Say I want to run ls. Then I can just do:
$ man ls | col -b | grep -A1 'AUTHOR' | tail -1 | awk '{print $3" "$4}'
ReiserFS stores the contents of files in balanced trees instead of just metadata. It was the first journalling fs for which support was included in the Linux kernel (2.4.1) and it fscks pretty damn fast. It can handle having hundreds of thousands of files in one directory and packs as many files as it can into one block.
Just because software is popular doesn't make it noninnovative. Heck, sometimes software becomes popular because it is innovative. And often unpopular software is innovative too. Look at ReiserFS or the Hurd; surely these innovate to some degree, and even if they themselves are not that original they may well be the first to actually implement a radical idea or two. Look at Plan 9; even taking an existing stable paradigm to its illogical limit can produce wonderful results. Linux or GNU may not be that "innovative and edgy" but at the time when they were created they must've been a big blast of fresh air.
That business plan breaks down at step 3. As far as I know, most people would want their servers to be able to use a hierarchical file system.
"Linux itself is a clone of an operating system that is 20-plus years old. That's what it is. That is what you can get today, a clone of a 20-year-old system."
If it ain't broke...
That comment wasn't very nice of you. You should mind your ps and qs.
Good luck getting laid.
This coming from Alan Partridge?
Pfft. Does it matter? I got the karma I wanted. And at the end of the day, isn't that what really matters?
It has to be a project at least three years old. Just look at Perl, PHP, Mozilla, Linux, GNU...
Yes.
I often have problems understanding certain types of humour. Literal humour is no problem, but for some reason nonliteral humour - irony, I believe it is known as, though I may be wrong - I have a problem with. Perhaps it is due to my naivete. Since I so rarely utilise this verbal sleight of hand, it sometimes escapes my notice when someone addresses me with it. Thanks for pointing out this usage of irony to me. I hope that I will be better equipped for it in future, courtesy of your advice.
I don't think the problem is with your system. :-)
Where can I download an RPM?
"The Internet was designed to be secure from nuclear attack, not its own users."
The problem is, it's very difficult to protect all of a technology's users from harming themselves with the technology or destroying it all together. Just look at virtually all of our inventions and discoveries: nuclear reactions, cars, CFCs, weapons...you can't generally save people from a technology if a substantial proportion of its users are hellbent on using it to annoy everybody else. I think even an "Internet2" would be unsuccessful unless it was so advanced it could somehow protect itself from its own administrators. But even that has its problems. (Insert Terminator reference here.)
...for the Latin/Classical Civilization ignorant, the parent post is a poorly formatted bastardisation of poem 16 of the poet Catullus. You can find an approximate translation here. The parent has just substituted "Aurelius" and "Furius" in line 2 for "Billy G" and "Microsoft" respectively, and "versiculis" for "software" in line 3.
No, it's not related. One of the developers made a comment on the multi-theft auto forums that he wished people wouldn't post comments about "GGM vs. MTA" and that GGM will probably simply be a competitor to them. The GGM project looks a little inactive, but it's probably not dead since their last release was only about a month ago.
Me. Hammer. Pliers. Every available 3-manifold. Can I have my $1 million please?
(This of course assumes that 3-manifolds are malleable.)
Because they're ignorant. Probably. Yes.
This is a good thing in one respect; it means there's less of a chance of you getting busted seconds after you upload it to Gnutella.