Well, first he has to find a fool foolish enough to trust him to represent him in that first case. I think the only one fool enough to do that is himself.
Apparently, even a world that believes in the Flat Earth and the birther controversy and flatly refuses to consider AGW, is too smart to fall for his vision of internet-slander-lawsuit riches.
The International Olympic Committee has announced its definitive response to doping, 'roiding, and other "unsportsing" performance enhancements: The All-Drug Olympics.
I don't see anywhere to type in my PIN number on that ATM machine. Hell, I don't even see an LCD Display, so where are my menus? Terrible HMI interface.
But liking to eat doesn't correlate strongly to liking to cook.
Generically, it's not reasonable to assume that someone who likes partaking or consuming a thing will automatically be drawn to preparing or making that thing. Not all drivers are mechanics, not all foodies are chefs, not all gamers are computer nerds.
What makes a chef/nerd/mechanic is the enjoyment of the end product AND curiosity/enjoyment of the process. The latter is the rarer thing, the "nerd spark".
Thanks for mentioning that. Since you've staked your credibility on that misbegotten biased-loaded shill-fest, we know how to assess the rest of your breathless excitement.
I have to ask this. I have wondered about this for as long as I've had mobile phones on a contract-based carrier (versus PAYG carriers).
If you bring your "older unsubsidized phone" to Verizon and say "Hi, I'd like to continue my current contract but switch to using this phone on your fine network", will Verizon really say "Oh, gosh, I wish I could sell you a new phone and put you into one of our draconian plans, but I guess we have to do it your way."?
It doesn't seem like a very Verizon thing to do. Frankly, (and I speak as a current Verizon customer), it seems like their answer will more likely be "Buy one of our new phones and get inside the box, peon."
I got the deal I wanted out of them, but I now they're not gonna give me a second shot at them, so I'm fully expectiong to hop out of their "loving arms" the instant our mutual obligation is satisfied.
If your definition of 'principles' includes the notion that bearing false witness is acceptable then I must question your moral compass as well as Chomsky's.
Actually, the relevant question isn't whether GPP's principles include moral support for truthfulness... the relevant question is whether Chomsky's principles do.
I wonder if "telling a lie to tell a more important truth" isn't the problem. Chomsky's contrafactual take on the argument tells me that he's advocating something more important to him than mere objective history. (Or, obliquely, that there is no such thing as "objective history", and he just wants his lie to win out in the marketplace of lies.)
Not kidding. CentOS 5.8. I think it's the cmipci sound driver. I installed alsa-kmod, which allows me to use the audio subsystem in applications without freezing; I just need to figure out how to configure KDE to take advantage of this.
A real emacs user doesn't "light up emacs" to make trivial changes to configuration files - a real emacs logs directly into emacs as login shell in/etc/passwd
By and large, an MS-DOS computer without a mouse was like a fish without a bicycle. On the Macintosh, the mouse was practically mandatory for getting anything done.
So, yeah, a pointer device on an Intel laptop was a bag on the side (sometimes literally). I have one of those laptops you speak of with the marble trackball on the side: A Toshiba T4600. The trackball was, I believe, a tailored Microsoft OEM one that clipped into an integrated PS/2 mouse port/retention socket thing ("Microsoft Quickport Ballpoint", for those of you with a trademark fetish).
Anyway, credit where credit is due: The powerbook 100 was probably the first with a "modern" placement of the pointing device.
Well, some of the Moto non-lapdock devices like the HD Docks allow you to use Bluetooth mice and USB keyboards, as well as HDMI out for video, so that's kind of standards-based and universal.
But don't kid yourself. No phone maker is going to willingly support interfacing with a dock from another manufacturer, even if it's just a matter of arranging connectors to only fit the layout of your own dock devices. Phone manufacturers are extremely clannish, and consider accessories a cash cow in which they want no competition. It almost took a law to make them standardize on a charger plug. I would not waste any hope on standardization of anything more complicated than +5v.
Why should those of us that choose not to have kids have to support your choice?
Because society is less short-sighted than you. It takes a spectacular kind of myopic selfishness to say "I don't give a rat's ass about the next generation because it won't include my genes. The world ends the moment I die."
Moto's carrying the concept forward with lapdocks for most or their recent multi-core phones. Yeah, underpowered, because of the phone processor, but there are tablets with more anemic processing cores, so as these things go it's not bad.
There were lots of portable computers but nothing like the old 100. It was the first computer that was a true analog to it's desktop counterpart in the now familiar truely portable clamshell formfactor.
Data General One. 1984 (predating Macintosh Portable by 5 years and Powerbook 100 by 7). Precisely equivalent to many desktop systems of the time (IBM PC/XT standard: MS-DOS, Intel 8088 processor, floppy boot) except portable, battery-powered, and clamshell laptop format.
Sorry. The Powerbook 100 represents an incremental evolution of the laptop idea, but it's not really ground-breaking by any unbiased standard.
Well, I felt obligated to follow parent poster's lead, but I will admit that the XKCD's take feels more Right. Except for all the parentheses. Lisp. *shudder*.
If Lisp is right, I'd rather be wrong. I guess I have more kinship to the blaster-waving barbarians.
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Well, first he has to find a fool foolish enough to trust him to represent him in that first case. I think the only one fool enough to do that is himself.
Apparently, even a world that believes in the Flat Earth and the birther controversy and flatly refuses to consider AGW, is too smart to fall for his vision of internet-slander-lawsuit riches.
"A lawyer who represents himself in court has an idiot for a lawyer and a fool for a client."
FTFY. If Microsoft doesn't want Windows hacked, they only have to fix the damn thing.
I wonder if there's something in the Windows EULA that Microsoft should sue the government for violating.
There's this little EULA that says Microsoft can just suck it.
"If you don't eat yer meat, you can't have any pudding! How can you have any pudding if you don't eat yer meat?!"
The International Olympic Committee has announced its definitive response to doping, 'roiding, and other "unsportsing" performance enhancements: The All-Drug Olympics.
I don't see anywhere to type in my PIN number on that ATM machine. Hell, I don't even see an LCD Display, so where are my menus? Terrible HMI interface.
But liking to eat doesn't correlate strongly to liking to cook.
Generically, it's not reasonable to assume that someone who likes partaking or consuming a thing will automatically be drawn to preparing or making that thing. Not all drivers are mechanics, not all foodies are chefs, not all gamers are computer nerds.
What makes a chef/nerd/mechanic is the enjoyment of the end product AND curiosity/enjoyment of the process. The latter is the rarer thing, the "nerd spark".
Great. Let's rephrase GPP's rhetorical question to be precisely on-point to Titan.
But seriously, what chemical reactions actually happen in liquid methane?
Except I'm not being rhetorical. Can we even conceive of biochemistry at -161 C? Or do we have to speculate wildly?
Maybe they'll get some coders who know how to avoid integer overflow in engine control software..
"Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow," right?
Google the "Smoked by Windows Phone" vidoes on YouTube.
You mean this clever little failed marketing exercise?
Thanks for mentioning that. Since you've staked your credibility on that misbegotten biased-loaded shill-fest, we know how to assess the rest of your breathless excitement.
I have to ask this. I have wondered about this for as long as I've had mobile phones on a contract-based carrier (versus PAYG carriers).
If you bring your "older unsubsidized phone" to Verizon and say "Hi, I'd like to continue my current contract but switch to using this phone on your fine network", will Verizon really say "Oh, gosh, I wish I could sell you a new phone and put you into one of our draconian plans, but I guess we have to do it your way."?
It doesn't seem like a very Verizon thing to do. Frankly, (and I speak as a current Verizon customer), it seems like their answer will more likely be "Buy one of our new phones and get inside the box, peon."
I got the deal I wanted out of them, but I now they're not gonna give me a second shot at them, so I'm fully expectiong to hop out of their "loving arms" the instant our mutual obligation is satisfied.
But can you ever really be sure?
If your definition of 'principles' includes the notion that bearing false witness is acceptable then I must question your moral compass as well as Chomsky's.
Actually, the relevant question isn't whether GPP's principles include moral support for truthfulness... the relevant question is whether Chomsky's principles do.
I wonder if "telling a lie to tell a more important truth" isn't the problem. Chomsky's contrafactual take on the argument tells me that he's advocating something more important to him than mere objective history. (Or, obliquely, that there is no such thing as "objective history", and he just wants his lie to win out in the marketplace of lies.)
That's the second stage of most pseudo-intellectual crankjobs: the Conspiracy working to suppress the Truth.
Think of this as Time Cube or Electric Universe, as applied to computer science history.
If Chomsky ever had any credibility, he just flushed it down the crapper for the sake of his anti-corporate anarchist cred. Good play, Professor.
but it keeps freezing the machine.
Not kidding. CentOS 5.8. I think it's the cmipci sound driver. I installed alsa-kmod, which allows me to use the audio subsystem in applications without freezing; I just need to figure out how to configure KDE to take advantage of this.
A real emacs user doesn't "light up emacs" to make trivial changes to configuration files - a real emacs logs directly into emacs as login shell in /etc/passwd
FTFY.
By and large, an MS-DOS computer without a mouse was like a fish without a bicycle. On the Macintosh, the mouse was practically mandatory for getting anything done.
So, yeah, a pointer device on an Intel laptop was a bag on the side (sometimes literally). I have one of those laptops you speak of with the marble trackball on the side: A Toshiba T4600. The trackball was, I believe, a tailored Microsoft OEM one that clipped into an integrated PS/2 mouse port/retention socket thing ("Microsoft Quickport Ballpoint", for those of you with a trademark fetish).
Anyway, credit where credit is due: The powerbook 100 was probably the first with a "modern" placement of the pointing device.
Well, some of the Moto non-lapdock devices like the HD Docks allow you to use Bluetooth mice and USB keyboards, as well as HDMI out for video, so that's kind of standards-based and universal.
But don't kid yourself. No phone maker is going to willingly support interfacing with a dock from another manufacturer, even if it's just a matter of arranging connectors to only fit the layout of your own dock devices. Phone manufacturers are extremely clannish, and consider accessories a cash cow in which they want no competition. It almost took a law to make them standardize on a charger plug. I would not waste any hope on standardization of anything more complicated than +5v.
Because society is less short-sighted than you. It takes a spectacular kind of myopic selfishness to say "I don't give a rat's ass about the next generation because it won't include my genes. The world ends the moment I die."
It's a tax refund. The only way you don't get it refunded is laziness.
Moto's carrying the concept forward with lapdocks for most or their recent multi-core phones. Yeah, underpowered, because of the phone processor, but there are tablets with more anemic processing cores, so as these things go it's not bad.
That's no laptop. Frankly, the idea of the IBM 5100 as a laptop is sustainable only in The Dozens: "Yo momma so fat her laptop's an IBM 5100!"
There were lots of portable computers but nothing like the old 100. It was the first computer that was a true analog to it's desktop counterpart in the now familiar truely portable clamshell formfactor.
Data General One. 1984 (predating Macintosh Portable by 5 years and Powerbook 100 by 7). Precisely equivalent to many desktop systems of the time (IBM PC/XT standard: MS-DOS, Intel 8088 processor, floppy boot) except portable, battery-powered, and clamshell laptop format.
Sorry. The Powerbook 100 represents an incremental evolution of the laptop idea, but it's not really ground-breaking by any unbiased standard.
That has got to be the most ironically long-winded "tl;dr" I may have even seen.
Well, I felt obligated to follow parent poster's lead, but I will admit that the XKCD's take feels more Right. Except for all the parentheses. Lisp. *shudder*.
If Lisp is right, I'd rather be wrong. I guess I have more kinship to the blaster-waving barbarians.