...how in the hell did this get modded insightful? Books were very, very rare until Gutenberg came along, and that was well after gunpowder was running strong killing people and making pretty colors in the sky.
Besides, not like executions and other violence was public back then. It was an event to go watch someone get their head chopped off.
Not to mention that most people knew what slaughtering an animal was like. They knew what happened, they had other outlets for their violence. What we have is a relatively new trend because people are so sheltered from the processes that keep them alive, and seem to have this mindset that rules will fix everything.
Speech input? I think you're the only person I know that can speak faster than they can type. If that. It's much easier to use a keyboard to input and edit text. Have you ever even listened to a person speak? Totally different thought process than writing/typing.
Yup. And a model T used to the the pinnacle of consumer motoring. Try putting unleaded, high-octane gasoline in one, or try to get it up to 75mph on the highway, and see what happens.
Things change. Deal with it. Or just keep using your ancient distros of Linux... they worked on the hardware, right?
I switched to Kubuntu since it was the first LiveCD that actually worked well as a 64bit distro on my laptop, and I'm a fan of KDE. Haven't looked back.
Yeah... last I heard Moore only talked about transistor counts on chips. Oh well. Not like anoyone would ever take a simple observation and try to extrapolate it into a much larger trend.
"OMG! It was 1 degree hotter on average this summer than last year! Globalwarmingskyisfallingwe'reallgonnadie@!@#$@#$! !"
"Some Americans are pretentious, stupid assholes, so they must all be"
I leave other examples as an exercise for the reader
They're not legally obligated to provide fraud protection for credit, either. Problem with credit is that it's THEIR money, not yours. If you say you didn't buy something, then it's their money that disappeared. Which they thrust back on the merchants.
Hear, hear. I get to train a bunch of forest service people to use our software soon. That's always a trip. "Directory? You mean like a folder? Where's that?"
Not that our software requires that you work with lots of data, and there are sometimes many pathnames and such you have to deal with...
The difference is that our country name has the word "America" in it, hence, the American nomination. People from South America call themselves Brazilians or Columbians, not South Americans. Oh, wait... I forgot. Anything that is against the USA is insightful. Get a life, get a clue.
And your grammatical skills rhyme with "merrible".
What's to stop? It's using the system as it's set up. Enough voters, and things change. See how that works?
Like it matters? As long as it's not orders of magnitude slower, it'll be a win overall. People usually spend more time running software than compiling it. Gentoo users are an exception.
I just gotta give you props for this troll. I mean, sexism, computing, cannabalism and dead babies, all within two sentences. I don't think black holes can approach that density of insensitivity:)
Can anyone say "shill"? Or at least "gross misspellings"? It may have temporarily cooled Linux deployment, but Linux has had itself proven as a solid and legal system to use through this suit. And it brought it to the attention of a lot of people who may have not even known that there was an alternative. What Linux won here was mindshare, not marketshare.
Do as the parent suggests, and mod him down to an optimistic sub-terranian level.
I believe that the word you're looking for is "denial". Look it up sometime. You're justifying your actions by trying to find minute differentiation between YOUR habits and the habits of other people who you consider "addicted". Get some help, man.
djb is a tool. There only haven't been security exploits in half his software because he refuses to change it and make it relevant to the current world. Anyone using qmail has tons of patches on it to make it useful, and according to his license, that makes it no longer a hole in his nearly-useful software.
You can trade features for security, yes. But you end up using non-Internet connected 286's with no removable media drives for the rest of your life then.
should someone who just happens to love shooting games blow a fuse and decide to go on a shooting spree, he will be more accurate than the average crazie
And the weightlifter who decides to go break some arms will have an easier time of it than the average/.'er. What's your point? Practice anything and you get better at it.
Kind of an aside, but I have put my keyboard in the dishwasher. Let it dry for a few days, and it's as good as new. Depends on the keyboard, obviously. And run it without soap. But it works very well at getting the scum out.
WARNING: Laptop users following this advice are the types of people parent is complaining about.
You know, with all those letters and titles in front of your example's names, it makes me think of one thing:
Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach.
Yeah yeah, it's a blanket statement, etc. But I've found that academics tend to have been gifted with a much smaller dose of common sense than the average person.
So how do you propose they recoup their R&D investment? There's a lot more than just production costs going into the processors. They're really freaking reasonably priced, all things considered.
Yeah. But 90% of you are within 100 miles or so of the southern border. Something like that. Doesn't hold up. You still have a denser population than much of the US.
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...how in the hell did this get modded insightful? Books were very, very rare until Gutenberg came along, and that was well after gunpowder was running strong killing people and making pretty colors in the sky. Besides, not like executions and other violence was public back then. It was an event to go watch someone get their head chopped off. Not to mention that most people knew what slaughtering an animal was like. They knew what happened, they had other outlets for their violence. What we have is a relatively new trend because people are so sheltered from the processes that keep them alive, and seem to have this mindset that rules will fix everything.
Speech input? I think you're the only person I know that can speak faster than they can type. If that. It's much easier to use a keyboard to input and edit text. Have you ever even listened to a person speak? Totally different thought process than writing/typing.
Yup. And a model T used to the the pinnacle of consumer motoring. Try putting unleaded, high-octane gasoline in one, or try to get it up to 75mph on the highway, and see what happens.
Things change. Deal with it. Or just keep using your ancient distros of Linux... they worked on the hardware, right?
I switched to Kubuntu since it was the first LiveCD that actually worked well as a 64bit distro on my laptop, and I'm a fan of KDE. Haven't looked back.
Yeah... last I heard Moore only talked about transistor counts on chips. Oh well. Not like anoyone would ever take a simple observation and try to extrapolate it into a much larger trend.
! !"
"OMG! It was 1 degree hotter on average this summer than last year! Globalwarmingskyisfallingwe'reallgonnadie@!@#$@#$
"Some Americans are pretentious, stupid assholes, so they must all be"
I leave other examples as an exercise for the reader
They're not legally obligated to provide fraud protection for credit, either. Problem with credit is that it's THEIR money, not yours. If you say you didn't buy something, then it's their money that disappeared. Which they thrust back on the merchants.
Slackware has no /etc/security/limits.conf file
Hear, hear. I get to train a bunch of forest service people to use our software soon. That's always a trip. "Directory? You mean like a folder? Where's that?"
Not that our software requires that you work with lots of data, and there are sometimes many pathnames and such you have to deal with...
The difference is that our country name has the word "America" in it, hence, the American nomination. People from South America call themselves Brazilians or Columbians, not South Americans. Oh, wait... I forgot. Anything that is against the USA is insightful. Get a life, get a clue.
And your grammatical skills rhyme with "merrible".
What's to stop? It's using the system as it's set up. Enough voters, and things change. See how that works?
Like it matters? As long as it's not orders of magnitude slower, it'll be a win overall. People usually spend more time running software than compiling it. Gentoo users are an exception.
Try make -j5 or -j6. Tends to have better results than the -j4 on my dual Xeon rig. And yes, I have benchmarked it.
I just gotta give you props for this troll. I mean, sexism, computing, cannabalism and dead babies, all within two sentences. I don't think black holes can approach that density of insensitivity :)
Can anyone say "shill"? Or at least "gross misspellings"? It may have temporarily cooled Linux deployment, but Linux has had itself proven as a solid and legal system to use through this suit. And it brought it to the attention of a lot of people who may have not even known that there was an alternative. What Linux won here was mindshare, not marketshare.
Do as the parent suggests, and mod him down to an optimistic sub-terranian level.
I believe that the word you're looking for is "denial". Look it up sometime. You're justifying your actions by trying to find minute differentiation between YOUR habits and the habits of other people who you consider "addicted". Get some help, man.
djb is a tool. There only haven't been security exploits in half his software because he refuses to change it and make it relevant to the current world. Anyone using qmail has tons of patches on it to make it useful, and according to his license, that makes it no longer a hole in his nearly-useful software.
You can trade features for security, yes. But you end up using non-Internet connected 286's with no removable media drives for the rest of your life then.
should someone who just happens to love shooting games blow a fuse and decide to go on a shooting spree, he will be more accurate than the average crazie
/.'er. What's your point? Practice anything and you get better at it.
And the weightlifter who decides to go break some arms will have an easier time of it than the average
"In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!" - Homer S.
As people said above, the language definition dictates that 0 == NULL. Mod parent idiot.
Kind of an aside, but I have put my keyboard in the dishwasher. Let it dry for a few days, and it's as good as new. Depends on the keyboard, obviously. And run it without soap. But it works very well at getting the scum out.
WARNING: Laptop users following this advice are the types of people parent is complaining about.
You know, with all those letters and titles in front of your example's names, it makes me think of one thing:
Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach.
Yeah yeah, it's a blanket statement, etc. But I've found that academics tend to have been gifted with a much smaller dose of common sense than the average person.
Dude, that's so blatantly a rip-off. Where are the gross misspellings? Random capitalizations? Dr. Sven Olafgusten? I call shennanigans!
So how do you propose they recoup their R&D investment? There's a lot more than just production costs going into the processors. They're really freaking reasonably priced, all things considered.
Wouldn't that disclaimer be in fact asking permission, though?
Yeah. But 90% of you are within 100 miles or so of the southern border. Something like that. Doesn't hold up. You still have a denser population than much of the US.