The connectors on the IDE cable are completely neutral. I don't know which drive, master or slave, is plugged into which connector (center or end) on the various IDE cables on my various systems. I don't have to know.
Are there people so pedantic that they worry about this?
Historical note- it mattered on floppy drives for IBM compatibles, where both drives were jumpered as 'drive two' and the cable had a section in it twisted to turn the connector on the end into 'drive one.' (now *that* was a screwy twist to things)
If by 'racist' you mean people obsessed with issues of race. The left is chock full of such folk. Most regular folks are 'colorblind' these days. The color of a person's skin isn't a big deal any longer. Now, if a person dressed like a ghetto thug confronts them, it may be another matter, but that's not a racial issue. A well-dressed person of any color is well accepted by most of society.
It's important to sweep out all the awful stuff we said when we were younger. *.advocacy group stuff from USENET in particular needs to be carefully edited. Google.groups makes that possibly, as long as you have a tracable 'identity' to your original posts. Lord help the zealot who ranted about Linux under a College email account he no longer has.
It's refreshing to see someone asserting 'fair use' rights without it just being so they can have pop music running in the background without paying for it.
Well, the concept of 'horse shit' can be defined, it can be memorialized, without the need for there to be a tin of 'horse shit' preserved under ideal conditions so it stays ever moist and fragrant. The Smithsonian doesn't need to commission a hermetrically sealed display case to show future people what 'horse shit' is (I hope).
It's 'ignorance and superstition' to find it repellant that someone has abused their rectum to the point where it's a big pouty thing that bulges out like a set of lips?
Most of the people who I see 'promoting ignorance and superstition' do it under the cover of being 'open minded.' They insist that we view them as being enlighened for embracing arcane flavors of ignorance and superstion. Example: neopaganism.
Do you realize you're playing into the 'let's be an elite and use our own codewords' mentality? You're saying '90% of the people do this and so we should instead do this!!
People who have to use language to feel good about their 'leetness.... ummm.....
Most of the people making the 'UC-B' 'MIT' claim are just hangers-on anyway, people too young to have 'been there.' People like Raymond. Scares the hell out of me to think *I* could be like Raymond, if I'd started earlier. I was 5 years late, too, and only worked with a PDP-8 system for a few years.
There seems to be some need for amateur computer programmers to put up some sort of 'mystique' around themselves. So they appropriate a term that connotes 'computer outlaw' to the mainstream.
Things like this are often used to foster a subculture. And lord knows that amateur computer programmers strive to be a subculture.
People go to 'shows' for enjoyment. Sure, there are geeks (like us) looking behind the curtain, but a whole bunch of the people are there because it's fun. Sometimes people even break out in dancing.
Any composer who is worth his salt can compose a symphony on staff paper anyways, and hear the notes in his/her head. 'Improvisation' is rarely how 'composed' (what is sometimes called 'classical') music is created. Think of it like coding software. The musical notes are the 'source code.' It's somewhat confusing to people who have only been exposed to banal pop music, which is sorta the 'Visual Basic' of music.
Beethoven was completely deaf by the time he completed his Ninth Symphony. It didn't matter, he was able to create his masterpiece and know what it would sound like in his head.
But there is no such commensurability between the false vote tallies that electronic voting systems might yield when things go badly, and the benefits of speed and efficiency that they might offer when things go well.
Why are there benefits to speed and efficiency?
My understanding is that the people who work at the Polls are either volunteers or temporary employees who earn a 'civic duty' stipend for providing their services. Efficiency is something you worry about at a hamburger stand, not at a polling place.
As to speed: why the hell does it matter that we get a 'speedy' result. The whole obsession over 'speed' seems to be driven by the 'news' media and their incessant need to report results. In actuality, it is always weeks or months before the result of the election is put into action.
Screw speed. Screw efficiency. Let a bunch of community volunteers tally the paper ballots. Fine any news organization that 'reports' official results before they're posted by elections officials. The vision I get of a group of old ladies saying 'hold on and we'll have the numbers in a few hours' to some yuppie fuck journalist is wonderful, and should be the reality.
Yes, I remember reading about that Democratic party official who they caught driving around on election day in Florida with a voting machine in his car.
Copper goes for a pretty good price at the recyclers. If the phone company hadn't ripped it, and had just abandoned it, I'm sure some homeless folks would have helped themselves.
As he lives in what I would refer to as a socialist hellhole, the poor suckers who live there with him will have to pay taxes to support the good defense attorney assigned to him free of charge.
I know this confuses you, but someday you'll grow up and pay taxes, too.
Many of us don't have the constraint that Mom won't let us have more than one computer in our 'room.'
The notion of crowding all my operating systems onto one box is ludicrous. I haven't dual booted in probably three or four years.
The 'culture' has tipped the other way. Twenty years ago dozens and dozens of people crowded onto a single time-sharing system. That was the heyday of multi-user UNIX systems, and dumb terminals.
These days, single power users have whole subnets of machines all to themselves. Connected by fast ethernet, with KVM switches, sometimes by both.
Yes, but the power of the Apt tool is reflected in the huge number of packages that have embraced it. Clearly the high volume demonstrates it's scalable.
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The connectors on the IDE cable are completely neutral. I don't know which drive, master or slave, is plugged into which connector (center or end) on the various IDE cables on my various systems. I don't have to know.
Are there people so pedantic that they worry about this?
Historical note- it mattered on floppy drives for IBM compatibles, where both drives were jumpered as 'drive two' and the cable had a section in it twisted to turn the connector on the end into 'drive one.' (now *that* was a screwy twist to things)
There are tons of racists in the 21 to 40 group.
If by 'racist' you mean people obsessed with issues of race. The left is chock full of such folk. Most regular folks are 'colorblind' these days. The color of a person's skin isn't a big deal any longer. Now, if a person dressed like a ghetto thug confronts them, it may be another matter, but that's not a racial issue. A well-dressed person of any color is well accepted by most of society.
You think the Ditzy Chix are in any way similar to Dylan?
Well, I guess they're musical performers...
It's important to sweep out all the awful stuff we said when we were younger. *.advocacy group stuff from USENET in particular needs to be carefully edited. Google.groups makes that possibly, as long as you have a tracable 'identity' to your original posts. Lord help the zealot who ranted about Linux under a College email account he no longer has.
It's refreshing to see someone asserting 'fair use' rights without it just being so they can have pop music running in the background without paying for it.
Well, the concept of 'horse shit' can be defined, it can be memorialized, without the need for there to be a tin of 'horse shit' preserved under ideal conditions so it stays ever moist and fragrant. The Smithsonian doesn't need to commission a hermetrically sealed display case to show future people what 'horse shit' is (I hope).
It's 'ignorance and superstition' to find it repellant that someone has abused their rectum to the point where it's a big pouty thing that bulges out like a set of lips?
Most of the people who I see 'promoting ignorance and superstition' do it under the cover of being 'open minded.' They insist that we view them as being enlighened for embracing arcane flavors of ignorance and superstion. Example: neopaganism.
how about 'computer enthusiast' then? Or 'amateur computer operator'?
Do you realize you're playing into the 'let's be an elite and use our own codewords' mentality? You're saying '90% of the people do this and so we should instead do this!!
People who have to use language to feel good about their 'leetness.... ummm.....
Most of the people making the 'UC-B' 'MIT' claim are just hangers-on anyway, people too young to have 'been there.' People like Raymond. Scares the hell out of me to think *I* could be like Raymond, if I'd started earlier. I was 5 years late, too, and only worked with a PDP-8 system for a few years.
It has to do with more than that.
There seems to be some need for amateur computer programmers to put up some sort of 'mystique' around themselves. So they appropriate a term that connotes 'computer outlaw' to the mainstream.
Things like this are often used to foster a subculture. And lord knows that amateur computer programmers strive to be a subculture.
People go to 'shows' for enjoyment. Sure, there are geeks (like us) looking behind the curtain, but a whole bunch of the people are there because it's fun. Sometimes people even break out in dancing.
Any composer who is worth his salt can compose a symphony on staff paper anyways, and hear the notes in his/her head. 'Improvisation' is rarely how 'composed' (what is sometimes called 'classical') music is created. Think of it like coding software. The musical notes are the 'source code.' It's somewhat confusing to people who have only been exposed to banal pop music, which is sorta the 'Visual Basic' of music.
Beethoven was completely deaf by the time he completed his Ninth Symphony. It didn't matter, he was able to create his masterpiece and know what it would sound like in his head.
Your time is coming to an end
Okay, we're agreed then that the bland drivel music used as background for tee vee programs isn't the result of live musicians anymore.
That's okay.
But there is no such commensurability between the false vote tallies that electronic voting systems might yield when things go badly, and the benefits of speed and efficiency that they might offer when things go well.
Why are there benefits to speed and efficiency?
My understanding is that the people who work at the Polls are either volunteers or temporary employees who earn a 'civic duty' stipend for providing their services. Efficiency is something you worry about at a hamburger stand, not at a polling place.
As to speed: why the hell does it matter that we get a 'speedy' result. The whole obsession over 'speed' seems to be driven by the 'news' media and their incessant need to report results. In actuality, it is always weeks or months before the result of the election is put into action.
Screw speed. Screw efficiency. Let a bunch of community volunteers tally the paper ballots. Fine any news organization that 'reports' official results before they're posted by elections officials. The vision I get of a group of old ladies saying 'hold on and we'll have the numbers in a few hours' to some yuppie fuck journalist is wonderful, and should be the reality.
Yes, I remember reading about that Democratic party official who they caught driving around on election day in Florida with a voting machine in his car.
Cities should do the networks like they do the roads.
Everybody uses the roads. In fact, before roads were maintained, people wore paths where the roads were later established.
Everybody doesn't use the Internet. Many people don't have that much interest in it.
'The Net is inevitable and is taking over everything' is just oh-so 1998.
Copper goes for a pretty good price at the recyclers. If the phone company hadn't ripped it, and had just abandoned it, I'm sure some homeless folks would have helped themselves.
Reminds me of a line from an old song... "You are living in the free world, and in the free world you must stay"
I didn't know Fidel Castro was a songwriter.
I don't see how any comparision can be made.
Hong Kong is tiny and densely populated. How many cell towers are there in the entire city/colony? 30 or 40, maybe?
The United States is a huge diverse place. The Cellphone business in the US can't be operated the same way.
What could be more antisocial than patents?
I dunno. Ummm, maybe.... trade secrets??
(GAFC, dude)
As he lives in what I would refer to as a socialist hellhole, the poor suckers who live there with him will have to pay taxes to support the good defense attorney assigned to him free of charge.
I know this confuses you, but someday you'll grow up and pay taxes, too.
How is a bitmap that anybody could cobble up with a screen capture and the built in Paint program 'concrete evidence'???
Many of us don't have the constraint that Mom won't let us have more than one computer in our 'room.'
The notion of crowding all my operating systems onto one box is ludicrous. I haven't dual booted in probably three or four years.
The 'culture' has tipped the other way. Twenty years ago dozens and dozens of people crowded onto a single time-sharing system. That was the heyday of multi-user UNIX systems, and dumb terminals.
These days, single power users have whole subnets of machines all to themselves. Connected by fast ethernet, with KVM switches, sometimes by both.
Yes, but the power of the Apt tool is reflected in the huge number of packages that have embraced it. Clearly the high volume demonstrates it's scalable.