As far as I can tell, the semantics are like this:
In 1983, the GNU Project was founded to produce an Operating System resembling Unix. This operating system could be called the GNU OS, and has been.
In 1991, Linus Torvalds made the Linux kernel. He then took the Bash shell and some other stuff and managed to make a servicable little OS. Shortly later, Linux distros started to come out.
And then RMS realized that this new Linux-based OS was basically the GNU Operating System, although not really. As such, he considered that people should call it Lignux. When it was realized that that's a terrible name, he tried GNU/Linux.
As the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001 showed us, acronyms have no legal standing, so you have no reason to consider that.
In that spirit, however, I think that the act shall be renamed the Causing Unbridled Treasure for Executives by Providing Useful Power to Promote Intellectual Estate Safely Act.
Dictionary.com is not a single dictionary, rather it is a compilation of dictionaries which offer their contents online. The Jargon File (the compilation of computer folklore and slang currently maintained by ESR) is included.
Cracker is only defined as a malicious computer guy in the Jargon File. Hacker, however, is defined in the "good" way in a few "real" dictionaries, including my favorite dictionary in the world, American Heritage.
Yes, but Biology is cooler than Chemistry, so I suspect the Organic Chemists will like to pretend to be Biologists so they can go to all the cool parties.
Episode 1F13 of the Simpsons, "Deep Space Homer." Homer, alongside Race Banyon and Buzz Aldrin, goes into space in NASA's attempt at boosting their slipping ratings, and in Homer's attempt to boost his popularity above that of an inanimate carbon rod.
Allow me to set the scene. Homer, while floating around in the ship and eating Ruffles, crashes headfirst into an ant farm designed to study whether ants can be used to sort tiny screws in space. The ants fly everywhere.
Kent: We're just about to get our first pictures from inside the
spacecraft with "average-naut" Homer Simpson, and we'd like to
-- aah!
[Camera shows a close-up of an ant floating in front of the
three astronauts]
Ladies and gentlemen, er, we've just lost the picture, but,
uh, what we've seen speaks for itself. The Corvair spacecraft
has been taken over -- "conquered", if you will -- by a master
race of giant space ants. It's difficult to tell from this
vantage point whether they will consume the captive earth men
or merely enslave them. One thing is for certain, there is no
stopping them; the ants will soon be here.
And I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords. I'd like to
remind them that as a trusted TV personality, I can be helpful
in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar
caves.
No, you're confused, although that's understandable.
There are two companies. The old SCO, which is now called Tarantella, which originally sold Xenix, which is, interestingly enough, based on Microsoft's work. They haven't sued anyone recently.
The new SCO: "The SCO Group" was once called Caldera and was a somewhat substantial Linux distro. This is the one who is suing people.
Novell sold Unix to SCO/Tarantella, and DR-DOS to Caldera/SCO. Eventually, SCO/Tarantella decided to sell off their Unix sections to Caldera, who promptly decided to call themselves SCO, to "show off their Unix heritage."
I suppose there might be some people who were transferred from SCO/Tarantella to Caldera/SCO alongside Unix, but technichally they're different companies, and the-company-which-bought-UNIX-from-Novell is not the-company-which-sues-everyone.
Well, actually there's a lot of connections between fish and Jesus, (loaves and fishes, Peter was a fisherman, the pope hat looks a little like a fish head...) so that might've been a backronym.
You're ignoring possibility four, which happens to turn out naturally when you take a cursory look at wormhole based time machines:
You cannot go back to a point in time prior to the date time travel was invented.
I do find it interesting that if time travel became very common and we didn't have to deal with Reason Two, the rise of technology over the years would decrease incredibly, because time travellers would tell people from the past about new technologies. In essence, every time accessable by time travel would be very similar. (I think Douglas Adams touched on this in one of his books.)
^H is the backspace key. In the old days, people connected to the internet through a dumb terminal. Many would merely spit out ^H instead of going through the slightly more difficult task of removing characters from the screen.
That is not a quote by Twain, (or Napoleon, while we're at it) it's "Hanlon's Razor" which is usually attributed to "Anonymous," although the Jargon File suspects Heinlein might've had something to do with it.
Although Hanlon's Razor goes "Never attribute to malice..." which means roughly the same thing.
Different niches, to be fair. Nye took a somewhat broad subject and explained it as in depth as a 30 minutes kids show can offer, whereas Beakman explained two subjects and a random splattering of short questions.
As it happens, Nye is working on a new TV show for slightly older audiences. "Eyes of Nye." As far as I can tell, it's still working its way through development at KCTS/Seattle, but it seems like it has potential if it gets on the air.
Well, geekdom has a rather high correlation with social awkwardness, especially in adolescence. Tallness is often an admired trait, but it can also draw unwanted attention, which can increase social akwardness.
Don't you have a Hard Drive blinkenlight? That's a colored light, and a damned useful one. And then there's the power indicator, and maybe a blinkenlight for your CD drive or floppy, and that's a couple colorful lights right there.
Of course, the reviewer might've been talking about the Neon crap, (when you think about it) but colorful lights have been a serious part of the computer world for decades.
No, we just cyclically get pissed off by very clear promotions of God by the United States government, despite the First Amendment.
I mean, here we are, living in a country which is supposed to have the Government be prevented from establishing religion, and yet our friggin motto is "In God We Trust."
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Yes-and-no.
As far as I can tell, the semantics are like this:
In 1983, the GNU Project was founded to produce an Operating System resembling Unix. This operating system could be called the GNU OS, and has been.
In 1991, Linus Torvalds made the Linux kernel. He then took the Bash shell and some other stuff and managed to make a servicable little OS. Shortly later, Linux distros started to come out.
And then RMS realized that this new Linux-based OS was basically the GNU Operating System, although not really. As such, he considered that people should call it Lignux. When it was realized that that's a terrible name, he tried GNU/Linux.
As the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001 showed us, acronyms have no legal standing, so you have no reason to consider that.
In that spirit, however, I think that the act shall be renamed the Causing Unbridled Treasure for Executives by Providing Useful Power to Promote Intellectual Estate Safely Act.
Dictionary.com is not a single dictionary, rather it is a compilation of dictionaries which offer their contents online. The Jargon File (the compilation of computer folklore and slang currently maintained by ESR) is included.
Cracker is only defined as a malicious computer guy in the Jargon File. Hacker, however, is defined in the "good" way in a few "real" dictionaries, including my favorite dictionary in the world, American Heritage.
Yes, but Biology is cooler than Chemistry, so I suspect the Organic Chemists will like to pretend to be Biologists so they can go to all the cool parties.
"Today on Secrets of the Universe, we are going to teach you how to make Plutonium out of everyday household products." -- Weird Al's UHF
Yes, because the mythical "Mom" changes her screen resolution so often in Windows.
It's entirely logical. Twenty or so years pass between Episode 3 and A New Hope. Things break.
Allow me to set the scene. Homer, while floating around in the ship and eating Ruffles, crashes headfirst into an ant farm designed to study whether ants can be used to sort tiny screws in space. The ants fly everywhere.
No, you're confused, although that's understandable.
There are two companies. The old SCO, which is now called Tarantella, which originally sold Xenix, which is, interestingly enough, based on Microsoft's work. They haven't sued anyone recently.
The new SCO: "The SCO Group" was once called Caldera and was a somewhat substantial Linux distro. This is the one who is suing people.
Novell sold Unix to SCO/Tarantella, and DR-DOS to Caldera/SCO. Eventually, SCO/Tarantella decided to sell off their Unix sections to Caldera, who promptly decided to call themselves SCO, to "show off their Unix heritage."
I suppose there might be some people who were transferred from SCO/Tarantella to Caldera/SCO alongside Unix, but technichally they're different companies, and the-company-which-bought-UNIX-from-Novell is not the-company-which-sues-everyone.
Well, actually there's a lot of connections between fish and Jesus, (loaves and fishes, Peter was a fisherman, the pope hat looks a little like a fish head...) so that might've been a backronym.
You're ignoring possibility four, which happens to turn out naturally when you take a cursory look at wormhole based time machines:
You cannot go back to a point in time prior to the date time travel was invented.
I do find it interesting that if time travel became very common and we didn't have to deal with Reason Two, the rise of technology over the years would decrease incredibly, because time travellers would tell people from the past about new technologies. In essence, every time accessable by time travel would be very similar. (I think Douglas Adams touched on this in one of his books.)
No, but that is how you pronounce the American version of the name.
^H is the backspace key. In the old days, people connected to the internet through a dumb terminal. Many would merely spit out ^H instead of going through the slightly more difficult task of removing characters from the screen.
No, merely lightly steamed with a touch of grilled onions with a side of Asparagus. But that's healthy. Frying is not. All that fat? Really.
He has to think of his health.
Oh, they were giant tacoes.
That is not a quote by Twain, (or Napoleon, while we're at it) it's "Hanlon's Razor" which is usually attributed to "Anonymous," although the Jargon File suspects Heinlein might've had something to do with it.
Although Hanlon's Razor goes "Never attribute to malice..." which means roughly the same thing.
exp(pi*sqrt(163)) is similar to exp(pi*sqrt(-1)) (which is 1) in every way except that it's a completely stupid and arbitrary expression.
A wide majority of products can be only used a rather small number of times, will typically be bought again shortly after that. In particular, food.
Different niches, to be fair. Nye took a somewhat broad subject and explained it as in depth as a 30 minutes kids show can offer, whereas Beakman explained two subjects and a random splattering of short questions.
As it happens, Nye is working on a new TV show for slightly older audiences. "Eyes of Nye." As far as I can tell, it's still working its way through development at KCTS/Seattle, but it seems like it has potential if it gets on the air.
Well, geekdom has a rather high correlation with social awkwardness, especially in adolescence. Tallness is often an admired trait, but it can also draw unwanted attention, which can increase social akwardness.
I know Douglas Adams was pretty tall, anyway.
Don't you have a Hard Drive blinkenlight? That's a colored light, and a damned useful one. And then there's the power indicator, and maybe a blinkenlight for your CD drive or floppy, and that's a couple colorful lights right there.
Of course, the reviewer might've been talking about the Neon crap, (when you think about it) but colorful lights have been a serious part of the computer world for decades.
The list of $BAD_BANDS is arranged in descending order of crappiness. $BAD_BAND[0] is too bad to even be on Napster.
That's probably true, but you can't drink foam very well, so it's a tradeoff.
No, we just cyclically get pissed off by very clear promotions of God by the United States government, despite the First Amendment.
I mean, here we are, living in a country which is supposed to have the Government be prevented from establishing religion, and yet our friggin motto is "In God We Trust."
No, it's utterly fair. You do realize who really put the System V code into Linux, don't you? Xenu.