From _your own link_: Light is composed of photons so we could ask if the photon has mass. The answer is then definitely "no": The photon is a massless particle.
You should really license out the technology that lets you break the encryption on all those SSH/SSL connections so quickly.
Hmm...maybe people are dumb enough to not check key fingerprints when they know these devices are in place? Come to think of it, how would one work around a network device that automatically did a man-in-the-middle attack?
And just think, _if_ innocent people are getting tossed in the slammer, they'll be relieved to know that your worrying is going to free them; your subsequent arrival in the slammer will all be part of your master plan.
Where do I get them free in hardcopy form? Wikipedia has pointers to PDF versions at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_assembly_language, but those sure aren't as useful as hardcopy (at least not without a second monitor to read them on).
When I was a kid, I was actually subjected to sitting in a dentists chair for 15 minutes while a mould with a concentrated fluoride gel where held against my teeth.
They, um, still do that? I'm 18 and I've had fluoride gel within the past year, though it's actually 1 minute, not 15. I remember when I was a young'un they just gave me fluoride sol'n in a cup to rinse and spit, and I know that the solution was used at this free dental care for inner city kids thing (Give Kids a Smile) that I volunteered at a year ago.
Actually, I thought the GGP was saying that OmniGraffle _was_ a Visio equivalent for Linux, since the GGGP was scoffing at how Visio would never be ported. Responses longer than one word would've helped this situation.
10 points for trying to sound like an old-timer, -20 points for speaking about the TI-92 in the past tense and showing your lack of age (correction: you're probably at least 5 years out of school; nobody buys a 92 anymore). All my whiny peers in the Honors College here have the TI-89, which is the 92 without the giant-ass keyboard; fortunately, calculators haven't been allowed on tests for the math classes I've taken. That said, it's a nice tool when you want to check your answer.
With an EPROM containing your OS kernel, you're out of luck - you're going to have a boat load of fun getting your machine back up. If your kernel is on storage (like a hard disk) like everything else is, in the worst possible case scenario you have to reinstall your OS (which I bet a lot of people here do routinely anyway).
Maybe I'm ignorant of some property of EPROM, but why couldn't one just boot the OS from a CD and reprogram the EPROM that way?
So, no, there is no reason for your fatalistic attitude. *Will* it pan out? Who knows, but it is definitely worth investigation, just like the concept of fission criticality was early this century.
You mean last century?
>>I don't know... it seems pretty easier to balance various small trees than balancing a gigantic one...
>I have no idea what that's supposed to mean, but it doesn't matter.
ReiserFS (and probably XFS and ext3, all filesystems used on Linux) does something with balancing trees (a kind of data structure) in the way that they store files on disk. This increases performance (relative to FAT, at least) and removes the need to defragment. Thus, the GP was suggesting that, because of the filesystems used, several small partitions might offer better performance than one big one. I'm not qualified to state whether that's true, so I won't, and I don't know how NTFS works, so I won't comment on it either. I can say that one can check partitions that have been split off from / without rebooting by unmounting them, which is a convenience a single partition can't offer.
BTW, when you say "fancy allowing standard operators to be overloaded" I think you mean "overrided". C has overloaded operators (+ is defined for int, char, short, long, float, double, etc). overriding lets you tell the compiler how to do addition for your custom bigint library, or whatever. You can misuse operator overriding, or you can misuse macros, each are there for a purpose, and each get misused by bad programmers.
No, the GP ws perfectly correct - it's called "operator overloading" (see the title of the chapter on operator overloading in Stroustrup's The C++ Programming Language). Amusingly, it just so happens that the word "overload" and its derivatives are themselves overloaded; in C++, overloading refers both to operator overloading and to function overloading, which refers to creating multiple functions with the same name that are distinguished by their parameters (which is what you were thinking of when you made the comment about the + operator, though + really is an operator, not a C++ function).
I did the exact same thing very recently...at least I'm losing hearing on both sides evenly. I bet the left earphone corresponds to the bottom section of the miniplug.
The LUG at the University of Michigan (university policy says we can't call it "The University of Michigan Linux Users Group) revived very recently. At U of M, ResComp (the residential computing service) doesn't support Linux at all, so we're getting ready to provide full support for Linux on campus, hopefully by move-in 2006. The idea is to provide information to the campus community about switching and accomplishing common tasks such that if Joe Frat Boy wanted to use Linux, he'd have as much or more support as he does with Windows.
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Yes, but does Ctrl-Alt-Backspace work? You still recover much faster from that kind of lockup on Linux.
From _your own link_: Light is composed of photons so we could ask if the photon has mass. The answer is then definitely "no": The photon is a massless particle.
Hmm...maybe people are dumb enough to not check key fingerprints when they know these devices are in place? Come to think of it, how would one work around a network device that automatically did a man-in-the-middle attack?
And just think, _if_ innocent people are getting tossed in the slammer, they'll be relieved to know that your worrying is going to free them; your subsequent arrival in the slammer will all be part of your master plan.
You can put whatever filesystem you want on a floppy; ext2 works just fine, for example.
Very good, except a catalyst isn't changed by the reaction for which it is a catalyst.
Smash Brothers was on the N64 and Gamecube, silly. =P
Where do I get them free in hardcopy form? Wikipedia has pointers to PDF versions at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_assembly_language , but those sure aren't as useful as hardcopy (at least not without a second monitor to read them on).
I would've guessed Harlan McCraney.
Perl doesn't do games? Really?
When I was a kid, I was actually subjected to sitting in a dentists chair for 15 minutes while a mould with a concentrated fluoride gel where held against my teeth.
They, um, still do that? I'm 18 and I've had fluoride gel within the past year, though it's actually 1 minute, not 15. I remember when I was a young'un they just gave me fluoride sol'n in a cup to rinse and spit, and I know that the solution was used at this free dental care for inner city kids thing (Give Kids a Smile) that I volunteered at a year ago.
Actually, I thought the GGP was saying that OmniGraffle _was_ a Visio equivalent for Linux, since the GGGP was scoffing at how Visio would never be ported. Responses longer than one word would've helped this situation.
Omnigraffle is for OS X; the article is about Linux.
Doesn't everyone have excellent karma by now?
10 points for trying to sound like an old-timer, -20 points for speaking about the TI-92 in the past tense and showing your lack of age (correction: you're probably at least 5 years out of school; nobody buys a 92 anymore). All my whiny peers in the Honors College here have the TI-89, which is the 92 without the giant-ass keyboard; fortunately, calculators haven't been allowed on tests for the math classes I've taken. That said, it's a nice tool when you want to check your answer.
You just pegged my ad hominem meter.
I thought you could still do it - that's how rescue mode works. You just append "single" to the boot line.
With an EPROM containing your OS kernel, you're out of luck - you're going to have a boat load of fun getting your machine back up. If your kernel is on storage (like a hard disk) like everything else is, in the worst possible case scenario you have to reinstall your OS (which I bet a lot of people here do routinely anyway).
Maybe I'm ignorant of some property of EPROM, but why couldn't one just boot the OS from a CD and reprogram the EPROM that way?
How can adrenaline sober you up? It's not going to react with the alcohol in your blood and make it go away; you'll just be an unusually alert drunk.
So, no, there is no reason for your fatalistic attitude. *Will* it pan out? Who knows, but it is definitely worth investigation, just like the concept of fission criticality was early this century.
You mean last century?
>>I don't know... it seems pretty easier to balance various small trees than balancing a gigantic one...
>I have no idea what that's supposed to mean, but it doesn't matter.
ReiserFS (and probably XFS and ext3, all filesystems used on Linux) does something with balancing trees (a kind of data structure) in the way that they store files on disk. This increases performance (relative to FAT, at least) and removes the need to defragment. Thus, the GP was suggesting that, because of the filesystems used, several small partitions might offer better performance than one big one. I'm not qualified to state whether that's true, so I won't, and I don't know how NTFS works, so I won't comment on it either. I can say that one can check partitions that have been split off from / without rebooting by unmounting them, which is a convenience a single partition can't offer.
BTW, when you say "fancy allowing standard operators to be overloaded" I think you mean "overrided". C has overloaded operators (+ is defined for int, char, short, long, float, double, etc). overriding lets you tell the compiler how to do addition for your custom bigint library, or whatever. You can misuse operator overriding, or you can misuse macros, each are there for a purpose, and each get misused by bad programmers.
No, the GP ws perfectly correct - it's called "operator overloading" (see the title of the chapter on operator overloading in Stroustrup's The C++ Programming Language). Amusingly, it just so happens that the word "overload" and its derivatives are themselves overloaded; in C++, overloading refers both to operator overloading and to function overloading, which refers to creating multiple functions with the same name that are distinguished by their parameters (which is what you were thinking of when you made the comment about the + operator, though + really is an operator, not a C++ function).
No, an external fan set next to a 360 wouldn't do much except cool the case itself.
I did the exact same thing very recently...at least I'm losing hearing on both sides evenly. I bet the left earphone corresponds to the bottom section of the miniplug.
The LUG at the University of Michigan (university policy says we can't call it "The University of Michigan Linux Users Group) revived very recently. At U of M, ResComp (the residential computing service) doesn't support Linux at all, so we're getting ready to provide full support for Linux on campus, hopefully by move-in 2006. The idea is to provide information to the campus community about switching and accomplishing common tasks such that if Joe Frat Boy wanted to use Linux, he'd have as much or more support as he does with Windows.