I'm interested in placing an ad similar to this one for the upcoming release of "The Art of Computer Programming, Volume Four".
Which of your departments at OSDN should I contact to take advantage of this wonderful marketing opportunity? If I wish to purchase more than one article, is there any volume pricing available?
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - GIF patent US4,558,302 was found expired in its patent office filing cabinet this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the internet community will miss it - even if you didn't enjoy the litigation, there's no denying its contribution to bandwidth conservation. Truly a compression icon.
and I would bet my kidneys you WILL have to pay for it (~$129)
I'll take that bet. The market for black market organs is really good right now, and I really need a legal copy of 10.3, lest Fat Steve come and break my legs. You still have both of them?
No, I'm not the real Donald Knuth. Though it amazes me how absolutely gullible most of slashdot really is.
Anyway, I trolled once, with a absolutely insane premise - that I was actually his holiness Donald Knuth, and had graduate students stooping to the level of hacking on fvwm. That post remained at '+5 Insightful' for several hours. I was going for funny, but the slashdot moderators proved once again that I too often overestimate their collective intelligence.
Oh well. It's an internet message board, not to be confused with anything meaningful. Have a cookie.
It just so happens that a largish minority of the readers here seem to have some sort of manic inferiority complex, which drives them to post condesending and uninformed clap-trap unceasingly - mostly about projects and code they've never even bothered to look at.
I imagine it's some sort of piss-poor substitute for feeling good about oneself, though we'd have to ask your parent article's author to be sure.
Why does any software announcement that's posted here always bring out a bunch of elitist trolls? Oh, that's right - because it's not good enough unless it's yours.
Do you know the authors of shfs, their ages, and what classes they're taking? Have you even downloaded the driver? Compiled it? Actually used it? Have you tested it, exprienced crashed, and therefore empirically come to the conclusion that it's "dangerous"? Or do you just like to play the role of Slashdot nanny?
Wait, don't answer that. I really don't care.
*You* should care, however, that you come off looking like a frustrated little prick by shitting on other people's work - for no reason other than to hear your own voice. Nobody wants to read your little pride-ridden, hyper-competitive, and overtly paternalistic little diatribes, no matter how much you think you enjoy writing them.
Anyway, lighten up and take the post for what it is. And in the future, if you can't say at least one reasonably positive thing about someone else's hard work - do the world a favor and just shut the bloody fuck up.
Or transfer an executable over the network. Or even type the machine code directly into `echo -e`.
Disabling editors for "security" has got to be one of the stupidest things I've heard in a while.
I currently have a graduate student who is working part-time on a rewrite of fvwm in CWEB, the literate programming language. It's helped to reveal several bugs and algorithmic inefficiencies in fvwm that would have otherwise remained hidden.
As a followup project, he and a group of fellow graduate students plan to implement the X11 protocol in a similar manner.
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I'm interested in placing an ad similar to this one for the upcoming release of "The Art of Computer Programming, Volume Four".
Which of your departments at OSDN should I contact to take advantage of this wonderful marketing opportunity? If I wish to purchase more than one article, is there any volume pricing available?
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - GIF patent US4,558,302 was found expired in its patent office filing cabinet this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the internet community will miss it - even if you didn't enjoy the litigation, there's no denying its contribution to bandwidth conservation. Truly a compression icon.
Wow. Do let me know what you do with that 9K. May I suggest installing a MMIX virtual machine, and doing all of your work in MMIX assembly?
C TO THA IZZEX (Fo shizzle my nizzle)
You dare call his holiness an assfucker, you dirty cockmaster?
You are the master of the fucking obvious.
and I would bet my kidneys you WILL have to pay for it (~$129)
I'll take that bet. The market for black market organs is really good right now, and I really need a legal copy of 10.3, lest Fat Steve come and break my legs. You still have both of them?
Anybody who writes "you" as "U" should die a horrible and bloody death. Seasoned veteran my ass.
THE GOATSEMAN CAN!
Who can take an anus
And stretch it open wide?
Put it on a website with a penis bird inside?
The GOATSEMAN can
The GOATSEMAN can
Except that for a brief moment I thought that the REAL Donald Knuth was pissed off at me for some reason
... (are you supposed to commend someone on their trolling?)
Enough to strike fear in the heart of any mere mortal.
Good trolling, I suppose
Absolutely. Some of that was serious advice, though - despite it's overworded, forceful, and rather tactless delivery.
No, I'm not the real Donald Knuth. Though it amazes me how absolutely gullible most of slashdot really is.
Anyway, I trolled once, with a absolutely insane premise - that I was actually his holiness Donald Knuth, and had graduate students stooping to the level of hacking on fvwm. That post remained at '+5 Insightful' for several hours. I was going for funny, but the slashdot moderators proved once again that I too often overestimate their collective intelligence.
Oh well. It's an internet message board, not to be confused with anything meaningful. Have a cookie.
It just so happens that a largish minority of the readers here seem to have some sort of manic inferiority complex, which drives them to post condesending and uninformed clap-trap unceasingly - mostly about projects and code they've never even bothered to look at.
I imagine it's some sort of piss-poor substitute for feeling good about oneself, though we'd have to ask your parent article's author to be sure.
--
- M.C. Knuth
Why does any software announcement that's posted here always bring out a bunch of elitist trolls? Oh, that's right - because it's not good enough unless it's yours.
Do you know the authors of shfs, their ages, and what classes they're taking? Have you even downloaded the driver? Compiled it? Actually used it? Have you tested it, exprienced crashed, and therefore empirically come to the conclusion that it's "dangerous"? Or do you just like to play the role of Slashdot nanny?
Wait, don't answer that. I really don't care.
*You* should care, however, that you come off looking like a frustrated little prick by shitting on other people's work - for no reason other than to hear your own voice. Nobody wants to read your little pride-ridden, hyper-competitive, and overtly paternalistic little diatribes, no matter how much you think you enjoy writing them.
Anyway, lighten up and take the post for what it is. And in the future, if you can't say at least one reasonably positive thing about someone else's hard work - do the world a favor and just shut the bloody fuck up.
Or transfer an executable over the network. Or even type the machine code directly into `echo -e`. Disabling editors for "security" has got to be one of the stupidest things I've heard in a while.
I currently have a graduate student who is working part-time on a rewrite of fvwm in CWEB, the literate programming language. It's helped to reveal several bugs and algorithmic inefficiencies in fvwm that would have otherwise remained hidden.
As a followup project, he and a group of fellow graduate students plan to implement the X11 protocol in a similar manner.