From the F*cking article, Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks, The F*cking article, Commercial Off-The-Shelf, Central Processing Unit, Fiber Channel, Gigabit Ethernet, Fry's Electronics (not an acronym), Just a Bunch Of Disks, Caching File System, Common Internet File System, Electro-Magnetic Compatibility, DataMining Extensions, Hierarchical Data System, International Business Machines, Fiber Channel (again), FIber CONnectivity.
Didn't Read The F*cking Article (RTFA) yet, so some acronyms with more than 1 definition may be using the wrong one....
I recently got a Unicomp model M. Same as the IBM ones, since IBM sold them the designs/manufacturing rights.
Not only can the keyboard be put through the dishwasher, severe damage can be fixed by replacing the individual keyswitches, something that is impossible in a membrane keyboard. I also suspect there is enough room in it for a small compressed air dart gun, thus providing the possibility of piercing chemical weaponized keyboards, instead of simple 4-5 pound bludgeoning weapon keyboards. This could be of great utility in the event of a zombie attack.
I don't use IE7 for one, and only one reason:
It turns on ClearType. Globally. It can't be turned off (well, without a lot of work.) ClearType anti-aliases fonts. I want fonts without anti-aliasing. Therefore, I am stuck with not using IE7. Happily, I can use Firefox and Opera for everything I need.
Funny does not give karma.
Informative does.
People mod things infomative/insightful/interesting to give the poster karma that they otherwise miss out on by being funny.
He has a point. He just didn't know it.
The point is that the net amount of USEFUL human knowledge increases at a much slower rate than the total amount of human knowledge. Most inventions and discoveries improve upon something existing or replace something existing. Electric lights largely replaced candles, & near totally replaced oil lamps. Cars replaced horses & carriages. Etc, etc. While some of the old remains, it is not nearly as large a sample as what there was before the replacement came in. But people haven't forgotten how to make candles, oil lamps, or carriages. Anyone can go to a library or search engine and find the knowledge. Because of the invention of writing the total amount of human knowledge is much larger than the amount in use at any given time.
This web browser (Firefox) seems to be that stupid. The spaces I see are measurably exactly the same. True, I don't need two spaces when writing a document with LaTeX, but that's typesetting software. Even MS word requires either 2 manual spaces or turning on auto-correct, it does not easily allow for variable-width spaces.
The following is inexact, but illustrative.
FireGPG just calls GPG. You click encrypt, it sends the text to be encrypted to GPG, you enter your passprhase in GPG, and GPG encrypts it and returns it to FireGPG, which puts it into the e-mail in place of the plaintext.
Enigmail for Thunderbird works the same way.
CMqQPBYBITAhITAhLb2NXg/cQq0hMTEhITQ1Ifyc6SE5IXYbWS1WDsGDxSCJZqau625lKBSJLbCk YnbO57RvKwPwZ21LITMzIY8tITQ1Iahegx9gcAYhMTMh82gQdJ05Sy2Ra16Hva4OuneJFdrg/iE5 IactaBfpzcSLOJaW/uQu4SI02C3msBhTyREPjvyoOQEiwYOJLfpwaJXA1W6JuGHmgNVIIFQtRDdg G+oFjiqxmfcSqJ8x9C19ejqjyj+X2Y0aSHc1rb+WLX6OnX9wLgE+v/5a55T1Lw==
Well, it's not the Riemann Zeta function, or randomly generated numbers, but it'll do.
I think it's more like the airline charging the receiving hotel to take you. If they don't pay to get you off the plane, you sit there for eight hours.
I do eat them plain. They're good. After a while of eating lots of Indian food I got used to it, Jalepenos are barely spicy to me. Habaneros have an excellent flavor, most people are just unable to taste it properly due to the spice.
(Define (Lambda (Native (Lisp (speakers (love (parentheses.)))))))
(Yes, I know, I should have used Cons to build the sentence as a list and output that...)
Bull. Google runs a customized version of Linux and only uses it internally, they aren't required to give the source to people who visit their website. Plenty of people/companies go to the expense of building internal-only software.
I find it somewhat sad that VI/EMACS would be associated with hardcore developers only.
I don't use VI much, but EMACS is one of the most powerful editors for any kind of text around. And it is FREE!
Watts per MFLOP. Or MIPS. Or Watts per Point, where point is an average on some benchmarking system.
Just giving watts for a computer is like just giving gallons for a car. You don't know how many miles it can go on those gallons, and so the figure is useless.
Try Wubi, it lets you mount Ubuntu from your windows NTFS hard drive. If it works, it works, if you have issues you can just boot to windows, go to Add & Remove Programs, and remove it.
I'd recommend a normal install for actual use though.
Vectored thrust & computer control.
"Computer capacity has reached the stage where we could even make the Statue of Liberty fly!" -- Ben Rich, former head of Lockheed's Skunk Works.
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From the F*cking article, Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks, The F*cking article, Commercial Off-The-Shelf, Central Processing Unit, Fiber Channel, Gigabit Ethernet, Fry's Electronics (not an acronym), Just a Bunch Of Disks, Caching File System, Common Internet File System, Electro-Magnetic Compatibility, DataMining Extensions, Hierarchical Data System, International Business Machines, Fiber Channel (again), FIber CONnectivity. Didn't Read The F*cking Article (RTFA) yet, so some acronyms with more than 1 definition may be using the wrong one....
I recently got a Unicomp model M. Same as the IBM ones, since IBM sold them the designs/manufacturing rights. Not only can the keyboard be put through the dishwasher, severe damage can be fixed by replacing the individual keyswitches, something that is impossible in a membrane keyboard. I also suspect there is enough room in it for a small compressed air dart gun, thus providing the possibility of piercing chemical weaponized keyboards, instead of simple 4-5 pound bludgeoning weapon keyboards. This could be of great utility in the event of a zombie attack.
I don't use IE7 for one, and only one reason: It turns on ClearType. Globally. It can't be turned off (well, without a lot of work.) ClearType anti-aliases fonts. I want fonts without anti-aliasing. Therefore, I am stuck with not using IE7. Happily, I can use Firefox and Opera for everything I need.
Funny does not give karma. Informative does. People mod things infomative/insightful/interesting to give the poster karma that they otherwise miss out on by being funny.
You want PwdHash for Firefox. It hashes your password with the site domain (though not with subdomains.) This makes phishing very, very hard.
He has a point. He just didn't know it.
The point is that the net amount of USEFUL human knowledge increases at a much slower rate than the total amount of human knowledge. Most inventions and discoveries improve upon something existing or replace something existing. Electric lights largely replaced candles, & near totally replaced oil lamps. Cars replaced horses & carriages. Etc, etc. While some of the old remains, it is not nearly as large a sample as what there was before the replacement came in. But people haven't forgotten how to make candles, oil lamps, or carriages. Anyone can go to a library or search engine and find the knowledge. Because of the invention of writing the total amount of human knowledge is much larger than the amount in use at any given time.
This web browser (Firefox) seems to be that stupid. The spaces I see are measurably exactly the same. True, I don't need two spaces when writing a document with LaTeX, but that's typesetting software. Even MS word requires either 2 manual spaces or turning on auto-correct, it does not easily allow for variable-width spaces.
The following is inexact, but illustrative. FireGPG just calls GPG. You click encrypt, it sends the text to be encrypted to GPG, you enter your passprhase in GPG, and GPG encrypts it and returns it to FireGPG, which puts it into the e-mail in place of the plaintext. Enigmail for Thunderbird works the same way.
CMqQPBYBITAhITAhLb2NXg/cQq0hMTEhITQ1Ifyc6SE5IXYbWS1WDsGDxSCJZqau625lKBSJLbCk YnbO57RvKwPwZ21LITMzIY8tITQ1Iahegx9gcAYhMTMh82gQdJ05Sy2Ra16Hva4OuneJFdrg/iE5 IactaBfpzcSLOJaW/uQu4SI02C3msBhTyREPjvyoOQEiwYOJLfpwaJXA1W6JuGHmgNVIIFQtRDdg G+oFjiqxmfcSqJ8x9C19ejqjyj+X2Y0aSHc1rb+WLX6OnX9wLgE+v/5a55T1Lw== Well, it's not the Riemann Zeta function, or randomly generated numbers, but it'll do.
This is all converging towards the worm described in the Curious Yellow whitepaper from back in 2004. I'm frankly surprised it took this long.
I think it's more like the airline charging the receiving hotel to take you. If they don't pay to get you off the plane, you sit there for eight hours.
Yes, but this picture password doesn't make it that much harder to shoulder-surf, or penlog, or social engineer, or...
I do eat them plain. They're good. After a while of eating lots of Indian food I got used to it, Jalepenos are barely spicy to me. Habaneros have an excellent flavor, most people are just unable to taste it properly due to the spice.
(Define (Lambda (Native (Lisp (speakers (love (parentheses.))))))) (Yes, I know, I should have used Cons to build the sentence as a list and output that...)
I'm pretty sure I can do all that in EMACS, and that isn't slow (anymore.) So if it is slow, there is a problem.
High concentrations of lawyers cause destroy goodness. A bit like higher and higher concentrations of people decrease the average IQ of the mob.
Bull. Google runs a customized version of Linux and only uses it internally, they aren't required to give the source to people who visit their website. Plenty of people/companies go to the expense of building internal-only software.
The cake is a lie. Pie doesn't lie.
Yes, but everyone knows one-in-a-million chances come up nine-times out of ten.
Bah, Who needs OO.o for that? You can embed video in a presentation using EMACS.
I find it somewhat sad that VI/EMACS would be associated with hardcore developers only. I don't use VI much, but EMACS is one of the most powerful editors for any kind of text around. And it is FREE!
Watts per MFLOP. Or MIPS. Or Watts per Point, where point is an average on some benchmarking system. Just giving watts for a computer is like just giving gallons for a car. You don't know how many miles it can go on those gallons, and so the figure is useless.
Try Wubi, it lets you mount Ubuntu from your windows NTFS hard drive. If it works, it works, if you have issues you can just boot to windows, go to Add & Remove Programs, and remove it. I'd recommend a normal install for actual use though.
Vectored thrust & computer control. "Computer capacity has reached the stage where we could even make the Statue of Liberty fly!" -- Ben Rich, former head of Lockheed's Skunk Works.
That may be one of the only times that site is, in any way, on topic.