First off, pursuing. Perusing is leisurely looking at. Which is more or less what they're doing.
Anyway, there are significant hurdles that need to be overcome with light based processing... not the least of which are the equivalent of light transistors, as well as just the optics involved in moving the signals. And all that research costs money... your processor isn't wearing out now. Chip companies like Intel and AMD sell upgrades, not straight replacements.
Besides, quantum computing has a much more promising outlook.
Most software CLAIMS to be exempt. There are cases where it can be liable, especially when it's marketed to a specific purpose and fails. Kinda like those "Not responsible for broken windshields" signs on the back of dump trucks... they may say they aren't responsible, but at least in my state, they're responsible if they didn't secure their load correctly and a rock comes off and breaks my windshield.
I'd get a free iPod if I didn't have a moral issue with fucking other people over. Same as with Ponzi schemes, and all other multi-level marketing scams. Someone is making money, and it usually isn't you.
I hate when people assume they're smarter than I am. I hate those "For Dummies" and "For Idiots" books, because I am in no way a dummy nor an idiot. I simply don't have the same information.
Tell me I'm misinformed, tell me I don't know everything, I'll agree with you. Tell me that some hacker is smarter than I am, and I'll tell you that you need to find a new definition of smarter. The only thing that hacker might have on me is knowledge of a few things I don't.
Anyway, rant over, and this actually sounds like a good book otherwise. I'll probably pick it up.
You know what I found to be really effective? Ignoring the bullies. Agree with them. It'll throw them off-balance.
"You scrawny little dweeb!"
"Yup. Not much I can do about it, though."
Usually leaves them baffled enough that you can just walk away.
That said, I HAVE been in one fight. Some guys caught me beside the school, wanted to play "beat the nerd." As soon as they realized that I would hit them (after doing so), they backed off. I didn't want to pursue an altercation, but if they forced my hand, I would respond in kind.
The main trick is to be secure with who you are, and never take other people's opinion's to heart. Listen to them, don't depend on them being a certain way. Much harder to do than it is to say I realize, but still a good way to get through life as someone who's different than the rest of the sheep.
First off, it's jerry-rigged, not jury-rigged. There are places that will say that jerry-rigged is incorrect or a secondary form of jury-rigged, but they're wrong. A slang word for Germans used to be "jerries", and hence, something that was shoddily done was "jerry-rigged". Jury-rigged has no real etymological meaning.
Anyway, he hasn't ever really had a choice. Some companies like NVidia compile a kernel interface for a specific kernel, but use the same object code for their drivers, and don't release their source.
And yes, I concur. Hardware manufacturers are more in the dark ages than many software companies as far as open specs. The hardware interface aren't your crown jewels hardware guys... you can infer a certain amount from it, but not everything. Please, just release specs... we just want to make it work.
I'll bite:
a) It's not an MS crash if the hard drive fails, now is it?
b) You're saying you're just sticking with what you're used to, rather than learning something new, which may potentially be better, but you don't know yet?
c) Complex upgrades? Replacing the executable? That's all I've had to do for the last few versions of Firefox.
d) HTML in the taskbar? Does ANYONE who uses MS software ever read interface specs? They should be regular, predictable. Say, like the bit in the taskbar matching what's in the title bar. Who'd a thunk it.
e) Bookmarklets? Done. Works in Firefox, last I checked. Gets rid of the awful IT theme for me.
f) Flexible toolbars? Again, done. Keep the basic interface static, but you can do a lot with the favorites bars in Firefox.
g) File-system-based favorites: To each his own, but I feel that an HTML based one is easier. I mean, I can just open the file in the browser and boom, all the links work, everything's there.
Anyway, you're holding onto IE/MS for all the wrong reasons, mainly the fact that you're afraid of change. I wish you many painful virus and trojan infections.
Wait... did you say EASE of use on the Mac? That's why they ship with one button mice, right? And take 15 clicks to do anything? Get info about a file? Wade through dialogs. Eject a disk? Drag it to the trash! That's intuitive... anyway, no one has it 'right' yet. There are big inroads in many places, and OSX does have some nice things about it. But it's not the panacea that so many people seem to think it is. Hell, I can't even get the virtual desktop manager to start up when the system boots. Can't figure out where it is in any intuitive way.
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What about all the computers you don't see? Any of your servers running Linux? I know my school (admittedly an engineering school) had hundreds of computers, but we had a few labs of alternative machines. Maybe 10 Macs altogether, and at least one Oxygen group, but we Comp. Sci. people had our own Linux cluster, desktop system, and a Windows network too. But they were both run/authenticated from a Linux machine running Samba. The rest of the students weren't allowed to use our labs, though.
Anyway, the point is that there are a lot of inroads made, they're just sometimes hidden from the "common" folk;)
All of our email, web and other services ran on Linux and AIX...
Diplomacy is the art of telling someone to go to hell so that they look forward to the trip
Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggy" while looking around for a rock
Any others? I'm sure there are more...
I'll walk you through it:
Master slave describes a relationship in very concrete terms.
The comment about asshole is that context matters. If I say "slave", I am implying nothing. If I say "Black people ought to be a slaves" everyone in their right mind should be offended. Context. Sinking in yet? You shouldn't take assumed/emotional meanings attached to the words master and slave out of the context they are used in. The word asshole was my attempt at an orthogonal example.
I can see how a blind person may not appreciate it, but guess what? Blindness is a disability. The inability to see. That means it is also descriptive of other conditions, used in contexts that do not relate to 'offending' blind people. Japanese are not pleased with jap because it has no other meaning than as an insult to the Japanese people. It's cultural progandism from the WWII era, and hence, it's not used in polite company any more. Mongoloid is another word whose only meaning is cultural derision, so is not used. Same with the word nigger.
My main point is that Master and Slave are NOT synonymous with Primary and Secondary. A secondary need not be subject to the whims of the primary, where a slave is subject to the whims of a master. Hence the cylinder comparisions. And maybe, just maybe, people should just stop taking things out of context and realizing what is really being said, and get the hell over themselves.
So, we should abolish the idea of Masters and Slave's from the english language? What about master and slave cylinders in a hydraulic system? They have a very specific meaning, and relationship, and guess what? Master and slave pretty much perfectly describe how they interact. Maybe people should start worrying more about CONTEXT, rather than the actual word.
If I say "asshole", are you offended? Just offhand? I wouldn't be. As soon as I say "You asshole", you should be offended. Context.
Get the chip off your shoulder, the bug out of your ass, and stop acting like anyone has anything against you. The only thing I see you guilty of is adherence to blind rhetoric. (Oops, I said blind... maybe I should say sight-impaired...)
Are you one of those who thinks Thunderbird is a browser, too, or are you just a troll?
I'd guess either troll, or illiterate. Not like it had the words "calendaring application" right in the/. blurb...
Ok, I really hope that was tongue-in-cheek. Otherwise, it's laughable that you're complaining about spelling errors.
*engineer
*actually
*ready (though you did spell it right later one... I'll let it slide)
*response
*something (again, probably just a typo)
*measurements
*poorly
*spelled (spelt isn't a word)
*providing
*sentence
I think your writing speaks for itself.
The world works better when knowledge is shared. Knowledge is a nearly infinitely replicable resource. If I tell you something I know, I still retain it, yet you also now have it. I believe that's a paraphrase of something Thomas Jefferson said...
Everything else, that gets into communism, which is basically a discounting of human nature. Great idea, impossible to pull off.
Just because I haven't written an exploitable product doesn't mean that the flaws don't exist, nor that I am unable to succumb/exploit them.
This is stuff that people need to know about, one way or another.
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First off, pursuing. Perusing is leisurely looking at. Which is more or less what they're doing.
Anyway, there are significant hurdles that need to be overcome with light based processing... not the least of which are the equivalent of light transistors, as well as just the optics involved in moving the signals. And all that research costs money... your processor isn't wearing out now. Chip companies like Intel and AMD sell upgrades, not straight replacements.
Besides, quantum computing has a much more promising outlook.
Most software CLAIMS to be exempt. There are cases where it can be liable, especially when it's marketed to a specific purpose and fails. Kinda like those "Not responsible for broken windshields" signs on the back of dump trucks... they may say they aren't responsible, but at least in my state, they're responsible if they didn't secure their load correctly and a rock comes off and breaks my windshield.
I'd get a free iPod if I didn't have a moral issue with fucking other people over. Same as with Ponzi schemes, and all other multi-level marketing scams. Someone is making money, and it usually isn't you.
I hate when people assume they're smarter than I am. I hate those "For Dummies" and "For Idiots" books, because I am in no way a dummy nor an idiot. I simply don't have the same information.
Tell me I'm misinformed, tell me I don't know everything, I'll agree with you. Tell me that some hacker is smarter than I am, and I'll tell you that you need to find a new definition of smarter. The only thing that hacker might have on me is knowledge of a few things I don't.
Anyway, rant over, and this actually sounds like a good book otherwise. I'll probably pick it up.
You know what I found to be really effective? Ignoring the bullies. Agree with them. It'll throw them off-balance.
"You scrawny little dweeb!"
"Yup. Not much I can do about it, though."
Usually leaves them baffled enough that you can just walk away.
That said, I HAVE been in one fight. Some guys caught me beside the school, wanted to play "beat the nerd." As soon as they realized that I would hit them (after doing so), they backed off. I didn't want to pursue an altercation, but if they forced my hand, I would respond in kind.
The main trick is to be secure with who you are, and never take other people's opinion's to heart. Listen to them, don't depend on them being a certain way. Much harder to do than it is to say I realize, but still a good way to get through life as someone who's different than the rest of the sheep.
I thought a gram was defined as the amount that a cubic centimeter of (totally pure) water weighs?
First off, it's jerry-rigged, not jury-rigged. There are places that will say that jerry-rigged is incorrect or a secondary form of jury-rigged, but they're wrong. A slang word for Germans used to be "jerries", and hence, something that was shoddily done was "jerry-rigged". Jury-rigged has no real etymological meaning.
Anyway, he hasn't ever really had a choice. Some companies like NVidia compile a kernel interface for a specific kernel, but use the same object code for their drivers, and don't release their source.
And yes, I concur. Hardware manufacturers are more in the dark ages than many software companies as far as open specs. The hardware interface aren't your crown jewels hardware guys... you can infer a certain amount from it, but not everything. Please, just release specs... we just want to make it work.
I'll bite:
a) It's not an MS crash if the hard drive fails, now is it?
b) You're saying you're just sticking with what you're used to, rather than learning something new, which may potentially be better, but you don't know yet?
c) Complex upgrades? Replacing the executable? That's all I've had to do for the last few versions of Firefox.
d) HTML in the taskbar? Does ANYONE who uses MS software ever read interface specs? They should be regular, predictable. Say, like the bit in the taskbar matching what's in the title bar. Who'd a thunk it.
e) Bookmarklets? Done. Works in Firefox, last I checked. Gets rid of the awful IT theme for me.
f) Flexible toolbars? Again, done. Keep the basic interface static, but you can do a lot with the favorites bars in Firefox.
g) File-system-based favorites: To each his own, but I feel that an HTML based one is easier. I mean, I can just open the file in the browser and boom, all the links work, everything's there.
Anyway, you're holding onto IE/MS for all the wrong reasons, mainly the fact that you're afraid of change. I wish you many painful virus and trojan infections.
Same reason you'd use ASP and other MS abominations like that instead of open source offerings?
I remember getting hit by that because I had a pretty low number. I just said "fuck it" to the service after that.
Wait... did you say EASE of use on the Mac? That's why they ship with one button mice, right? And take 15 clicks to do anything? Get info about a file? Wade through dialogs. Eject a disk? Drag it to the trash! That's intuitive... anyway, no one has it 'right' yet. There are big inroads in many places, and OSX does have some nice things about it. But it's not the panacea that so many people seem to think it is. Hell, I can't even get the virtual desktop manager to start up when the system boots. Can't figure out where it is in any intuitive way.
What about all the computers you don't see? Any of your servers running Linux? I know my school (admittedly an engineering school) had hundreds of computers, but we had a few labs of alternative machines. Maybe 10 Macs altogether, and at least one Oxygen group, but we Comp. Sci. people had our own Linux cluster, desktop system, and a Windows network too. But they were both run/authenticated from a Linux machine running Samba. The rest of the students weren't allowed to use our labs, though. ;)
Anyway, the point is that there are a lot of inroads made, they're just sometimes hidden from the "common" folk
All of our email, web and other services ran on Linux and AIX...
49% of Americans, or 49% of American Internet users? It's a big, big difference ;)
Same kinda thing we're yelling at the MPAA/RIAA/whoever about.
You should have told the manager why you were leaving. They'll never learn otherwise.
Diplomacy is the art of telling someone to go to hell so that they look forward to the trip
Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggy" while looking around for a rock
Any others? I'm sure there are more...
I'll walk you through it:
Master slave describes a relationship in very concrete terms.
The comment about asshole is that context matters. If I say "slave", I am implying nothing. If I say "Black people ought to be a slaves" everyone in their right mind should be offended. Context. Sinking in yet? You shouldn't take assumed/emotional meanings attached to the words master and slave out of the context they are used in. The word asshole was my attempt at an orthogonal example.
I can see how a blind person may not appreciate it, but guess what? Blindness is a disability. The inability to see. That means it is also descriptive of other conditions, used in contexts that do not relate to 'offending' blind people. Japanese are not pleased with jap because it has no other meaning than as an insult to the Japanese people. It's cultural progandism from the WWII era, and hence, it's not used in polite company any more. Mongoloid is another word whose only meaning is cultural derision, so is not used. Same with the word nigger.
My main point is that Master and Slave are NOT synonymous with Primary and Secondary. A secondary need not be subject to the whims of the primary, where a slave is subject to the whims of a master. Hence the cylinder comparisions. And maybe, just maybe, people should just stop taking things out of context and realizing what is really being said, and get the hell over themselves.
Have you even been reading these posts? Almost all of them come in DEFENSE of Microsoft. We do have a sense of fairness.
I'm offended! You misspelled Illinois! Arrest him, boys!
So, we should abolish the idea of Masters and Slave's from the english language? What about master and slave cylinders in a hydraulic system? They have a very specific meaning, and relationship, and guess what? Master and slave pretty much perfectly describe how they interact. Maybe people should start worrying more about CONTEXT, rather than the actual word.
If I say "asshole", are you offended? Just offhand? I wouldn't be. As soon as I say "You asshole", you should be offended. Context.
Get the chip off your shoulder, the bug out of your ass, and stop acting like anyone has anything against you. The only thing I see you guilty of is adherence to blind rhetoric. (Oops, I said blind... maybe I should say sight-impaired...)
Didja also notice that Airdnocopyh is 'hypochondria' backwards? Well, almost...
Are you one of those who thinks Thunderbird is a browser, too, or are you just a troll? /. blurb...
I'd guess either troll, or illiterate. Not like it had the words "calendaring application" right in the
Konqueror allows you a per-site UserAgent string.
Ok, I really hope that was tongue-in-cheek. Otherwise, it's laughable that you're complaining about spelling errors.
*engineer
*actually
*ready (though you did spell it right later one... I'll let it slide)
*response
*something (again, probably just a typo)
*measurements
*poorly
*spelled (spelt isn't a word)
*providing
*sentence
I think your writing speaks for itself.
The world works better when knowledge is shared. Knowledge is a nearly infinitely replicable resource. If I tell you something I know, I still retain it, yet you also now have it. I believe that's a paraphrase of something Thomas Jefferson said...
Everything else, that gets into communism, which is basically a discounting of human nature. Great idea, impossible to pull off.
Just because I haven't written an exploitable product doesn't mean that the flaws don't exist, nor that I am unable to succumb/exploit them.
This is stuff that people need to know about, one way or another.