The lesson is clear: stay out of movie theaters and you won't get arrested.
The real lesson is, 99% of Hollywood-spawned movies are sugar coated crap anyway, so save yourself 10-20 bucks and retain the 2 hours you would wish you could have back after seeing "The Alamo".
That was "literally" a great interview. I spent, "literally", 5 minutes reading it. And "literally", I spent another 1 minute determining just "literally" how many times he used the word "literally" in the interview.
I once bought a Linksys network card that had a bright penguin sticker on the front proclaiming that it was Linux compatible. It used the Tulip driver, and came with a supposed driver on a floppy that of course didn't work. I battled with that thing for at least 40 hours, pouring over HOWTO's, web pages, re-compiling the friggin' kernel. I learned a lot, but I think the biggest lesson I learned was not to believe the "Linux Compatible" proclamations.
Good call - the Vapor Trails tour was my 3rd Rush concert and without a doubt the best. I've noticed with most of their alternating between studio and live albums, that once I hear the live version of their songs I can't listen to the studio version any more. It just sounds to clean and wimpy. My take on it is that they were shooting for that "Live" feel on Vapor Trails - and they came pretty close.
Baaah. Pooh pooh! Sounds like a bunch of pretentious nerds discussing news about Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Anime, and D&D. How lame! And yet, how vaguely familiar.........
I know this is not feasible, and with the relatively tiny population of Slashdot wouldn't even make a dent - but if people want the likes of the MPAA to listen, then stop buying their DVD's. If people are tired of bizarre CD encryption that disallows a person to play a CD on a computer - stop buying CD's.
Again, I know it would never work, but it's the most effective way to get corporate attention. Their sole objective is, understandibly, money. So if you take that away from them and tell 'em why - THEN maybe they'll listen. Until that happens ~ good luck BRUCE!
Actually, there's so much competition in the DRAM industry that DRAMs are a commodity like wheat and pork bellies. They sell on a 'spot market' as well as through contracts.
Actually, just 2.5 years ago there were only 2 or 3 books on the subject.... and they SUCKED! I bought one, I know. So I'm pleased to see lots of GOOD books coming out on the subject!
Would you, in an effort to create an atmosphere of cooperation and unity, ever consider merging your name with that of the beloved Linux mascot and call the NEW Unified Linux......... Penguin Love?
I think the BSA should team up with the Boy Scouts of America. They could share an acronym, and add a few lines to the scout law:
A scout is- Trustworthy Loyal Not a software pirate Helpful Friendly Courteous Willing to abide by legal licensing agreements Kind Obedient to the will of Microsoft Cheerfully paying outrageous prices for MS Office Thrifty Brave Clean - Hard Drive Reverent
Your point is well taken - I like the series too. But the strength of Beginning Linux Programming is that it doesn't try to cover the world of programming. It covers fewer topics but gives more than just a cursory glance at what xyz can do, and subsequently gives you enough to get you started and also keep you going for quite a while.
The Beginning Linux Programming book has a nice section covering Perl. But as far as I can tell, the Professional book covers mostly topics that weren't covered in the Beginning book. Such as MySQL, PHP, Qt, etc.
The Beginning book has great chapters on Shell script, C, Terminals, Curses, Semaphores, Pipes, GTK, Tk, Perl, and some other goodies.
I own Beginning Linux Programming 2nd ed. and think it's great for reference and instruction. I really wanted to get the Professional book. But after spending about 30 minutes at Borders looking through it, I found that it covered a lot of subjects but it didn't seem to go in any significant depth in any one of them. I think maybe the scope was a bit too big and they should have covered fewer subjects in greater detail.
This just got me thinking about some of my most memorable Christmas gifts. In 1978 we got Pong and played that thing to death. And then in 1982 we got my favorite computer of all time - the TI/99 4A. That's when I really got interested in programming. Thanks again Dad!
I am certainly not an anti-social, egotistical, nit-picking nerdy geek, so I would have to say that all this....
HEY - wait minute!!!! You moron!!! You said while((beer = buy_rounds(beer))) when it should be while((beer == buy_rounds(beer))). Get your crap together.
As I was saying, I'm not anti-social, I just find that other people don't have my interests.
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The lesson is clear: stay out of movie theaters and you won't get arrested.
The real lesson is, 99% of Hollywood-spawned movies are sugar coated crap anyway, so save yourself 10-20 bucks and retain the 2 hours you would wish you could have back after seeing "The Alamo".
.. yawn ... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
That was "literally" a great interview. I spent, "literally", 5 minutes reading it. And "literally", I spent another 1 minute determining just "literally" how many times he used the word "literally" in the interview.
The number is, "literally", 7.
A more informative article here [news.com.com.com.com.com]
I once bought a Linksys network card that had a bright penguin sticker on the front proclaiming that it was Linux compatible. It used the Tulip driver, and came with a supposed driver on a floppy that of course didn't work. I battled with that thing for at least 40 hours, pouring over HOWTO's, web pages, re-compiling the friggin' kernel. I learned a lot, but I think the biggest lesson I learned was not to believe the "Linux Compatible" proclamations.
Good call - the Vapor Trails tour was my 3rd Rush concert and without a doubt the best. I've noticed with most of their alternating between studio and live albums, that once I hear the live version of their songs I can't listen to the studio version any more. It just sounds to clean and wimpy. My take on it is that they were shooting for that "Live" feel on Vapor Trails - and they came pretty close.
The OS is Linux. The Windows CD is for connecting it to a PC.
Baaah. Pooh pooh! Sounds like a bunch of pretentious nerds discussing news about Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Anime, and D&D. How lame! And yet, how vaguely familiar .........
Using biometrics (or bioinformatics - I can never keep the two straight) for profiling or matching facial images with those of known criminals.
I know this is not feasible, and with the relatively tiny population of Slashdot wouldn't even make a dent - but if people want the likes of the MPAA to listen, then stop buying their DVD's. If people are tired of bizarre CD encryption that disallows a person to play a CD on a computer - stop buying CD's.
Again, I know it would never work, but it's the most effective way to get corporate attention. Their sole objective is, understandibly, money. So if you take that away from them and tell 'em why - THEN maybe they'll listen. Until that happens ~ good luck BRUCE!
Actually, there's so much competition in the DRAM industry that DRAMs are a commodity like wheat and pork bellies. They sell on a 'spot market' as well as through contracts.
Actually, just 2.5 years ago there were only 2 or 3 books on the subject .... and they SUCKED! I bought one, I know. So I'm pleased to see lots of GOOD books coming out on the subject!
Would you, in an effort to create an atmosphere of cooperation and unity, ever consider merging your name with that of the beloved Linux mascot and call the NEW Unified Linux ......... Penguin Love?
I think the BSA should team up with the Boy Scouts of America. They could share an acronym, and add a few lines to the scout law:
A scout is-
Trustworthy
Loyal
Not a software pirate
Helpful
Friendly
Courteous
Willing to abide by legal licensing agreements
Kind
Obedient to the will of Microsoft
Cheerfully paying outrageous prices for MS Office
Thrifty
Brave
Clean - Hard Drive
Reverent
I wish I had some mod points to give you. Nice one!
What considerations have you given to changing your music format from the current "total crap" to something along the lines of "less than total crap".
Thank you.
Oh man ... we are never gonna live that down.
I'd like to see more books that give a great explanation on very narrow subjects:
Programming a CD Writer app.
Audio Player programming
Ogg Vorbis programming
Using 'make'
Programming P2P apps.
etc..etc..etc.....
Your point is well taken - I like the series too. But the strength of Beginning Linux Programming is that it doesn't try to cover the world of programming. It covers fewer topics but gives more than just a cursory glance at what xyz can do, and subsequently gives you enough to get you started and also keep you going for quite a while.
The Beginning Linux Programming book has a nice section covering Perl. But as far as I can tell, the Professional book covers mostly topics that weren't covered in the Beginning book. Such as MySQL, PHP, Qt, etc.
The Beginning book has great chapters on Shell script, C, Terminals, Curses, Semaphores, Pipes, GTK, Tk, Perl, and some other goodies.
I own Beginning Linux Programming 2nd ed. and think it's great for reference and instruction. I really wanted to get the Professional book. But after spending about 30 minutes at Borders looking through it, I found that it covered a lot of subjects but it didn't seem to go in any significant depth in any one of them. I think maybe the scope was a bit too big and they should have covered fewer subjects in greater detail.
This just got me thinking about some of my most memorable Christmas gifts. In 1978 we got Pong and played that thing to death. And then in 1982 we got my favorite computer of all time - the TI/99 4A. That's when I really got interested in programming. Thanks again Dad!
Kind of weird reading an interview expressed in 3rd person. It just doesn't pack the same punch. But I guess Bruce is cool ... may I call him Bruce?
Touche! Sorry - I was just being smarmy.
I am certainly not an anti-social, egotistical, nit-picking nerdy geek, so I would have to say that all this ....
HEY - wait minute!!!! You moron!!! You said while((beer = buy_rounds(beer))) when it should be while((beer == buy_rounds(beer))). Get your crap together.
As I was saying, I'm not anti-social, I just find that other people don't have my interests.