From what I can see through the war-haze of./ing these articles are more like a blog. Are we confusing "essay" and "like a textbook" with some random ideas?
I really like this guys comments, but would not confuse them with a textbook.
Favorite idea: 'Turn on Search' built-in to Apache. This should be a standard feature.
Of course, the real issue here is ongoing updates for software bugs - most of which are security patches.
In the absence of Microsoft providing these patches for Windows 98, the community has released a series of patches for Windows 98 that are not available from Microsoft.
These critical patches are available from http://linuxiso.org/
Self checkout kiosks appear to be taylor made for fraud and promote a simple two step procedure:
Steal credit card
Shop where no teller will verify card
Of course, Home Depot has built in fraud protection; they have self checkout lanes that require each item purchased to be registered by weight after scanning. Of course my 4x8 plywood, 5 bags of mulch, and 10' PVC pipe are difficult to balance on the scale after scanning so a teller must assist me (and check my card/id in the process.)
I only hope that my story about finding the severed finger near the power saw will fly when they install those readers...
On a similiar note, Walmart seems to have no problem searching every person who leaves the store / counting everything in your cart. This would make sense if it were not for the teller that just did the same thing 20 seconds before. It seems odd to me that this annoyance is somehow acceptable? Some people have supplied good and back feedback over here. Lower prices appear to calm such complaints.
If I could only point-up this post! Well said.
We should be so arrogant to generalize the behavior of other species (even modern ones.) Today, we understand that even in the population of the common fly the variety of food and habitat varies from salt marsh to cow dung. Some flies even swim and harvest algae from wet sand. Flies exist that do not have wings but walk instead. In some twisted way we find that an animal that can float must be interesting just because is lived a long time ago.
What is odd here is our thinking process not the animals we study.
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Truth is stranger than fiction. The equality operators in perl:
This is called the spaceship operator:
I really like this guys comments, but would not confuse them with a textbook.
Favorite idea: 'Turn on Search' built-in to Apache. This should be a standard feature.
Of course, others have already started working on a flash version before this blog was written.
Of course, the real issue here is ongoing updates for software bugs - most of which are security patches. In the absence of Microsoft providing these patches for Windows 98, the community has released a series of patches for Windows 98 that are not available from Microsoft. These critical patches are available from http://linuxiso.org/
- Steal credit card
- Shop where no teller will verify card
Of course, Home Depot has built in fraud protection; they have self checkout lanes that require each item purchased to be registered by weight after scanning. Of course my 4x8 plywood, 5 bags of mulch, and 10' PVC pipe are difficult to balance on the scale after scanning so a teller must assist me (and check my card/id in the process.)I only hope that my story about finding the severed finger near the power saw will fly when they install those readers...
On a similiar note, Walmart seems to have no problem searching every person who leaves the store / counting everything in your cart. This would make sense if it were not for the teller that just did the same thing 20 seconds before. It seems odd to me that this annoyance is somehow acceptable? Some people have supplied good and back feedback over here. Lower prices appear to calm such complaints.
If I could only point-up this post! Well said. We should be so arrogant to generalize the behavior of other species (even modern ones.) Today, we understand that even in the population of the common fly the variety of food and habitat varies from salt marsh to cow dung. Some flies even swim and harvest algae from wet sand. Flies exist that do not have wings but walk instead. In some twisted way we find that an animal that can float must be interesting just because is lived a long time ago. What is odd here is our thinking process not the animals we study.