"When I rail against the artificial form of government you tell me that it is the abuse, not the system that I have a problem with. But it is the system, the system *itself* that is the abuse."
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TMTOWTDI?
That doesn't spell "Don't do what I say, do what Larry thinks I mean"
The only 'fair use' clause should be, if you've ever heard it or seen it, its yours forever.
I mean, otherwise what are they going to do with people with an eidetic memory? Give them memory suppressing drugs? Lobotomies? Develop a mind wipe ray??
"Tab completion;) Globbing, wildcards, tab completion, and regexes"
Does emacs count as a GUI?
I use dired mode a lot, and being able to mark files for later operations is extremely useful, and far easier to work with than the commandline. Copy, move, rename multiple files based on regex and captures...
"The advantage of car and cdr is that you can compose them into things like cdadr. Not that you should, except when you're in a hurry."
Thats a *disadvantage* as it is encouraging, er, 'wooly thinking'
What does 'contents of decrement address decrement register' mean? Nothing, thats what it means. It doesn't even refer to the way that the old LISP machine hardware worked.
Its a false mnemonic.
Besides which, just look at modern functional languages; its obvious that the excessive parenthisation in LISP is totally uneccesary.
They just couldn't write a parser for shit so they took the old adage "If in doubt, bracket" far too seriously and made it compulsory.
Ok theres also driving the 'everything-as-list' metaphor to absurdity, much as smalltalk did for object orientedness and prolog for logicness.
These were all experimental languages developed at a time when people were learning how to define, design and implement programming languages. This includes C and LISP.
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"The guy uses vegetable oil not mineral oil according to his site."
Should have used extra virgin olive oil. Added lots of anchovies, some garlic and half a pound of butter.
mmmmmmm bana cauda....
Mr. Garibaldi would be proud.
Interesting isn't it?
I've been watching the (cheesy) Andromeda series on DVD, ripping the vob's off just to watch them of course.
There are 4 episodes per disk, yet each disk appears to contain 8 episodes; there are two apparently identical copies of each episode.
With that kind of redundancy they could obviously fit 8 episodes per disk but they don't.
Why not?
Marketting, thats why not. Unit sales.
Don't expect these new high capacity DVDs to change much in the way series are sold on DVD.
Not 'straw man' just facetiousness.
However, that said, if I have ever seen a 'copyrighted' work, I have a copy of it in my memory. In my brain.
Ok its a copy that I probably won't share and may even be inaccurate, but the principle is the same.
So I *promise* I won't share my mp3 rips with anyone else. Is that ok then? Obviously thats not good enough for some people.
When we have technology that can replay my memory of a movie on a screen for other people to watch, *then* do we have to worry about this?
Lets 'worry' about it now and declare fair use to be universal, eh?
Reminds me of a quote I read the other day
"When I rail against the artificial form of government you tell me that it is the abuse, not the system that I have a problem with. But it is the system, the system *itself* that is the abuse."
TMTOWTDI?
That doesn't spell "Don't do what I say, do what Larry thinks I mean"
"Is it really impossible to tape TV shows or rip CDs in Australia without breaking the law?"
Hey, why not?
Its impossible to fail to vote in a general election in Australia without breaking the law.
I guess when your population has (mostly) evolved from criminals who would even steal a loaf of bread, you have to be tough on them, no?
The only 'fair use' clause should be, if you've ever heard it or seen it, its yours forever.
I mean, otherwise what are they going to do with people with an eidetic memory? Give them memory suppressing drugs? Lobotomies? Develop a mind wipe ray??
Next thing you know, she will a news anchor on CNN.
I remember reading about the press conference where the Xbox was being hyped up.
The MS guy said "There will be no blue screen of death on the xbox"
I wish I'd been there, I'd have stuck my hand up and asked "What color will it be instead?"
I was going to say...
"Innocent animals"?
Thats assuming a *lot*!
If only toilets could do that whenever people leave without washing their hands...
Well, google found this, which seems like a good start;t ml
http://jamesthornton.com/emacs/chapter/emacs_31.h
Then this one has some useful tips;
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs/DiredPower
"Tab completion ;)
Globbing, wildcards, tab completion, and regexes"
Does emacs count as a GUI?
I use dired mode a lot, and being able to mark files for later operations is extremely useful, and far easier to work with than the commandline.
Copy, move, rename multiple files based on regex and captures...
"I've said it before, and I'll say it again: when exactly did lack of a survival instinct become hip?"
Well theres certainly evidence that lack of survival instinct was hip when cycling became popular...
'Look at me arnt I cool riding a bike on the road *splat*' sort of thing.
"I don't know many material, even 500x stronger concrete, that can withstand the force of expanding freezing water."
Its flexible.
It doesn't need to withstand the force, it gives a little.
"Drug dealing is it's own worst punishment."
;)
Still, its lucky for some of us that there are those that will rise to the challenge...
"The problem is, who decides who is a sex offender?"
People who find sex offensive?
People who just don't *like* sex?
"Take it from an old guy: CNN et al have tanked and turned into tabloid horsecrap."
Good old 'Chicken Noodle News'?
Surely you jest, sir.
Lets just pray that Dubbya doesn't fall for a Sea People advert.
"Then she would pull out a knife and slice your balls off, laughing and displaying an evil smile while doing so."
Yep, just like Mr.Garrison...
"Don't make China out to be the hero anywhere in this. China respects NO ONES IP law."
Er, that would be *why* they are a hero in this.
IP law is bunk. Pure, unadulterated bunk and bullshit.
"The USA can suck my balls if they want us to adopt the DMCA."
Well you know what Condeleeza Rice would say to that, don't you?
"Present them", thats what she'd say.
"You're right... the rovers could have sex and in time hope to breed a mighty race of rovers which could then pull out the one that's stuck."
Once you start having sex with a counterpart thats stuck in a sand dune you arn't going to *free* them.
Your excellent comparison of the mars rover against the shuttle just makes me want to ask you to do the same comparison between the shuttle and soyuz.
Please.
Perhaps it could shed some light on why, despite the non-reusability of the soyuz launchers components, it seems to be more efficient and reliable?
Thanks!
"The advantage of car and cdr is that you can compose them into things like cdadr. Not that you should, except when you're in a hurry."
Thats a *disadvantage* as it is encouraging, er, 'wooly thinking'
What does 'contents of decrement address decrement register' mean? Nothing, thats what it means. It doesn't even refer to the way that the old LISP machine hardware worked.
Its a false mnemonic.
Besides which, just look at modern functional languages; its obvious that the excessive parenthisation in LISP is totally uneccesary.
They just couldn't write a parser for shit so they took the old adage "If in doubt, bracket" far too seriously and made it compulsory.
Ok theres also driving the 'everything-as-list' metaphor to absurdity, much as smalltalk did for object orientedness and prolog for logicness.
These were all experimental languages developed at a time when people were learning how to define, design and implement programming languages. This includes C and LISP.
We've learned a lot.
Its time to move on.