It goes back to Agincourt, legend has it that English archers captured by the French had their index and middle fingers chopped off to make it impossible for them to use a bow again. The 2 fingered salute was the English way of saying 'You ain't got me yet!':D
4) Usability is being addressed by both KDE and Gnome. Again, how much maintaining does the average user actually do? As far as software management goes, if RedCarpet or Up2Date is too hard, I honestly don't know how much easier it would need to be.
Two words: command line. Until you can press a button in a pretty window it's not friendly enough for the masses.
80. Any software licensed under the GPL (including Linux) must, by its terms, not be held proprietary or confidential, and may not be claimed by any party as a trade secret or copyright property.
Until they understand the GPL they won't get anywhere. Obviously nothing released under the GPL can be considered a trade secret but their mistake is the same one so many people make, the GPL in not an abbrogation of copyright, that stays with the original author until or unless they choose to reassign it.
The GPL is written in plain English, only a lawyer could misunderstand it.
"Why does anyone write in cursive at all, and what type of communication is cursive better for, if any?"
A major reason is because it looks so much nicer. Let's take a couple of examples...
1. A tax form. Readability is the total purpose of this, no-one is going to be impressed if it's all fancy, all they are interested in is the raw data. Using a cursive script would be silly and annoying to say the least.
2. A love letter. Which would you prefer, a love letter in basic printed handwriting or one in an elegant script, each letter lovingly crafted by an absent heart?
'Real' handwriting is better for personal communications and where an impression is required, printing is better for situations where you simply need to get the facts over. My only regret is I learnt italic script and not Spencerian which really is a beautiful way to write.
As you can see I view writing as creation of a work of art, maybe that's why I'm interested in the form as well as the function (and the content, naturally).
I'm 29 and the idea of a school leaver not being able to write at a level beyond printing is quite worrying. In my day (oh God I feel old now) if our handwriting was not up to scratch (pun not intended) we were given extra lessons to improve it (hence my rather nice italic script as opposed to my one-time scrawl).
No doubt extra lessons to teach handwriting would be seen as an abuse of Human Rights or something nowadays:(
I use PNG as my local format for most images simply because I can then fiddle with layers/text/blending/whatever at some time in the future if need be.
I generally export them to JPG for web use though simply because a quality 80 JPG is STILL smaller than the original PNG by quite some way.
Also means people can't nick my stuff and change the text (not easily) without asking me (in which case I'll happily email them the original PNGs).
...in school and already being turned into fully fledged FTGs (Furry Toothed Geeks).
Watch this get shut down the instant some newly initiiated script kiddie hacks the school computer systems and defaces their website...
The web's greatest game is free again, www.planetarion.com to sign up!
OSS is a legal alternative to high prices and piracy.
Just a thought...if those who are interested in keeping their business software honest move to OSS we would see a big rise in piracy (in percentage terms).
All the people who don't care about the legality will keep copying but the pool of legitimate users gets smaller and smaller as they migrate to OSS. Maybe one day we'll see Windows with an installed userbase of 250 million and total sales of 3 copies:D
Dateline: Slashdot, 16:44 GMT Wednesday 26th March 2003
Today on the popular geek news site slashdot the community was rocked by a post by the well known spammer 'Anonymous Coward'. This person or persons (identity unknown) has a history of posting what is commonly referred to as 'shite' yet a new low was hit today! 'In Soviet Russia...' jokes are a common (one might say overused) form of 'humour' (I use the term loosely) on slashdot and can frequently be classed as 'piss poor' but today's effort took things to a level never seen before.
In Soviet Russia...the lenses refract you!
...cries AC, 'What the fuck was that?' cried the rest of slashdot. One regular poster who wishes to remain anonymous denounced the joke as 'a diabolical attempt by Iraqi terrorists to undermine the morale of coalition forces.' When asked if this was possibly a little paranoid he became agitated and started ranting about tinfoil hats at which point he had to be sedated.
Further reports have come in stating that a suicide hotline has been set up after reports that several slashdotters were driven to attempt strangling themselves with their mouse cords after reading the offending post. For anyone considering suicide or simply needing someone to talk to the Slashdot Suicide Hotline is on 800-SOVRUSS although the lines were apparently (and ironically)overloaded within seconds of opening.
We are going to show you beyond a shadow of a doubt that the non-trivial zeros of the zeta-function are of the form 1/2 +- i*theta_n.
I was with you right up to the point where you started typing.
To do this, we are going to use the operators D^{(k,1)} and their respective vectors \psi_s (t), such that using D^{(k,1)} on \psi_s (t) will produce k*(\psi_s (t)), where k is some non-zero constant. Unfortunately though, we have to show a way to product all of these operators. So the "construction of" the operators will be contained within the proof.
No matter what other faults they may or may not have (fence sitter ahoy \o/) MS spend millions on research into human/computer interaction and user interface design. Occasionally they take ideas from OSS (did I read elsewhere in this thread about virtual desktops and taskbar applets?) if the idea is good and why shouldn't they? We (I use the word 'we' very loosely here, my coding isn't exactly top class) are more than happy to build interfaces based on the results of their millions of dollars worth of research and linux is all the better for it.
Look on the bright side, his fan list is final prrof of what geeks are more interested in. Even the most blatant slashtart(tm) is gonna be hard pushed to beat a real Trek star!
Look on the bright side, I work in tech support but do some (admittedly pretty simple) coding on the side for the boss. Coding ANYTHING is no fun whatsoever when you have a constant barrage of interruptions that you can't ignore because that's your primary job:(
Any gene that prohiited procreation would simply be unable to be perpetuated. It would not become a recessive gene, it would be eliminated very early on in evolution since the gene would never be passed in the first place.
Yet societal pressure has kept gay people 'in the closet' for so long that the hypothetical gene could conceivably be present in 90% of the population. Bring gene sequences into the argument (i.e. a combination of otherwise unrelated genes) and you have a situation where it's more than possible there's a genetic link, as I intimated in my earlier post it's not as simple as dominant/recessive. If it were we'd have mapped the entire human genome years ago.
It's a scientific fact that as of right now no-one/b> knows if there's a genetic link or not. Not me, not you, not anyone. I have an open mind on the subject, I admit I don't know. Your mind is closed, you believe what you want to believe for whatever reasons despite not having any data to backup your beliefs.
I'm sure that one day we'll know but that day sure hasn't arrived yet.
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It goes back to Agincourt, legend has it that English archers captured by the French had their index and middle fingers chopped off to make it impossible for them to use a bow again. The 2 fingered salute was the English way of saying 'You ain't got me yet!' :D
Two words: command line. Until you can press a button in a pretty window it's not friendly enough for the masses.
Until they understand the GPL they won't get anywhere. Obviously nothing released under the GPL can be considered a trade secret but their mistake is the same one so many people make, the GPL in not an abbrogation of copyright, that stays with the original author until or unless they choose to reassign it.
The GPL is written in plain English, only a lawyer could misunderstand it.
A major reason is because it looks so much nicer. Let's take a couple of examples...
1. A tax form. Readability is the total purpose of this, no-one is going to be impressed if it's all fancy, all they are interested in is the raw data. Using a cursive script would be silly and annoying to say the least.
2. A love letter. Which would you prefer, a love letter in basic printed handwriting or one in an elegant script, each letter lovingly crafted by an absent heart?
'Real' handwriting is better for personal communications and where an impression is required, printing is better for situations where you simply need to get the facts over. My only regret is I learnt italic script and not Spencerian which really is a beautiful way to write.
As you can see I view writing as creation of a work of art, maybe that's why I'm interested in the form as well as the function (and the content, naturally).
I'm 29 and the idea of a school leaver not being able to write at a level beyond printing is quite worrying. In my day (oh God I feel old now) if our handwriting was not up to scratch (pun not intended) we were given extra lessons to improve it (hence my rather nice italic script as opposed to my one-time scrawl).
:(
No doubt extra lessons to teach handwriting would be seen as an abuse of Human Rights or something nowadays
I use PNG as my local format for most images simply because I can then fiddle with layers/text/blending/whatever at some time in the future if need be.
I generally export them to JPG for web use though simply because a quality 80 JPG is STILL smaller than the original PNG by quite some way.
Also means people can't nick my stuff and change the text (not easily) without asking me (in which case I'll happily email them the original PNGs).
Oh arse, I should really learn to proof read :(
...in school and already being turned into fully fledged FTGs (Furry Toothed Geeks).
Watch this get shut down the instant some newly initiiated script kiddie hacks the school computer systems and defaces their website... The web's greatest game is free again, www.planetarion.com to sign up!
Just a thought...if those who are interested in keeping their business software honest move to OSS we would see a big rise in piracy (in percentage terms).
All the people who don't care about the legality will keep copying but the pool of legitimate users gets smaller and smaller as they migrate to OSS. Maybe one day we'll see Windows with an installed userbase of 250 million and total sales of 3 copies
Didn't the H&K G-11 have a microprocessor controlling things because that was the only way to deal with the firing speeds of caseless ammunition?
I seem to recall that being one of the problems with it, potential EMP vulnerability.
He could have linked back to El Reg or at least credited them.
While I mostly agree with you I have to say the monkey comment WAS funny :D
This would be the one you want I think :)
Change your first period to a comma and your third to a semicolon if you wish to be pedantic about the grammar of others ;)
Dateline: Slashdot, 16:44 GMT Wednesday 26th March 2003
...cries AC, 'What the fuck was that?' cried the rest of slashdot. One regular poster who wishes to remain anonymous denounced the joke as 'a diabolical attempt by Iraqi terrorists to undermine the morale of coalition forces.' When asked if this was possibly a little paranoid he became agitated and started ranting about tinfoil hats at which point he had to be sedated.
Today on the popular geek news site slashdot the community was rocked by a post by the well known spammer 'Anonymous Coward'. This person or persons (identity unknown) has a history of posting what is commonly referred to as 'shite' yet a new low was hit today! 'In Soviet Russia...' jokes are a common (one might say overused) form of 'humour' (I use the term loosely) on slashdot and can frequently be classed as 'piss poor' but today's effort took things to a level never seen before.
In Soviet Russia...the lenses refract you!
Further reports have come in stating that a suicide hotline has been set up after reports that several slashdotters were driven to attempt strangling themselves with their mouse cords after reading the offending post. For anyone considering suicide or simply needing someone to talk to the Slashdot Suicide Hotline is on 800-SOVRUSS although the lines were apparently (and ironically)overloaded within seconds of opening.
Have you looked at the PATRIOT act recently?
I was with you right up to the point where you started typing.
To do this, we are going to use the operators D^{(k,1)} and their respective vectors \psi_s (t), such that using D^{(k,1)} on \psi_s (t) will produce k*(\psi_s (t)), where k is some non-zero constant. Unfortunately though, we have to show a way to product all of these operators. So the "construction of" the operators will be contained within the proof.
ERROR: STACK OVERFLOW! SYSTEM POWERING DOWN...
To build world knowledge, you need memory approximately the capacity of the human brain: estimated to be the order of a petabyte.
:)
Wouldn't Google be of immense use there? An AI capable of utilising the OED, Britannica, and Google would be impressive indeed
No matter what other faults they may or may not have (fence sitter ahoy \o/) MS spend millions on research into human/computer interaction and user interface design. Occasionally they take ideas from OSS (did I read elsewhere in this thread about virtual desktops and taskbar applets?) if the idea is good and why shouldn't they? We (I use the word 'we' very loosely here, my coding isn't exactly top class) are more than happy to build interfaces based on the results of their millions of dollars worth of research and linux is all the better for it.
When will the madness end?
;)
When you stop making jokes like that! I swear you get more obscure every day
Look on the bright side, his fan list is final prrof of what geeks are more interested in. Even the most blatant slashtart(tm) is gonna be hard pushed to beat a real Trek star!
Look on the bright side, I work in tech support but do some (admittedly pretty simple) coding on the side for the boss. Coding ANYTHING is no fun whatsoever when you have a constant barrage of interruptions that you can't ignore because that's your primary job :(
Apparently it's a French version of Edam. I only found that out while googling for the link and I'm equally gutted :(
My cheese is safe from the clutching grasp of Kansas!
Any gene that prohiited procreation would simply be unable to be perpetuated. It would not become a recessive gene, it would be eliminated very early on in evolution since the gene would never be passed in the first place.
Yet societal pressure has kept gay people 'in the closet' for so long that the hypothetical gene could conceivably be present in 90% of the population. Bring gene sequences into the argument (i.e. a combination of otherwise unrelated genes) and you have a situation where it's more than possible there's a genetic link, as I intimated in my earlier post it's not as simple as dominant/recessive. If it were we'd have mapped the entire human genome years ago.
It's a scientific fact that as of right now no-one/b> knows if there's a genetic link or not. Not me, not you, not anyone. I have an open mind on the subject, I admit I don't know. Your mind is closed, you believe what you want to believe for whatever reasons despite not having any data to backup your beliefs.
I'm sure that one day we'll know but that day sure hasn't arrived yet.