I hate to ruin it for the guy on Drivl.com, but some machines do make a "blip" noise when you press a key. When I first popped up a DECterm from my simulated VMS machine, I found that every keystroke made a gentle beeping noise. I think Solaris might be able to do it to.
"Fire" is a much better action book, in my opinion, but I believe that "Deepness" is the overall superior book *because* of the obsession over details you mention. Now, if you were going to suggest which book someone should read first, "Fire" is definitely the one.
I'm pretty sure that it is Deepness that details Pham Nuwen's work in code archaeology. I suppose this would have something to do with Slow Zoners not having AI to handle code for them, the way the Beyonders of "A Fire Upon the Deep" would.
Yeah, if you want to hear from people incredibly lacking in testosterone, just listen to This American Life. You don't even have to pick a specific show, just tune in any time to hear effeminate men whining.
Funny, those (british?) keyboards piss/me/ off. I continually hit the wrong damn key, because you chopped off the part of the Enter key I always hit and replaced it with something stupid. Suit yourselves, I guess.
According to a reliable friend of mine, the starting salary for IT jobs in Iraq is around $100,000 a year. He says you don't really need much training, you just need to be good with computers and willing to take risks. Of course, working in Iraq is pretty certain to end up more unpleasant than working in Idaho or Arkansas.
Re:I'm a "Plan 9 from Bell Labs" user
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Bingo. If one wants a sample of people who hurt by their presence, search the 9fans list for posts by uriel. That guy is definitely setting the plan9 cause back every time he opens his mouth on that list...
Seconded. However, Uriel appears to have been banned from the list for poor behavior, so perhaps it will be better.
You probably already know this, and I do appreciate the joke, but for the enlightenment of everyone else:
An aircraft's attitude is the way it is oriented--pointed down, pointed up, leaning to one side, etc. Unless I'm gravely mistaken, the instrument which has a small airplane represented on it and an artificial horizon is called an "attitude indicator", because it allows the pilot to see his plane's attitude even when flying through thick, disorienting clouds/fog.
Copying a 20-30 year old work does not deprive the artist of that work. They've had plenty of opportunity to sell it & can continue to sell it.
If our copyright terms hadn't been extended so many times, the movies could very well be in the public domain already; Lucas could keep selling them, but others would be free to distribute them as they please.
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Well, when I recently saw Ultraviolet (yes, it was a horrible movie, I know), there was one scene with a rather FPS-esque viewpoint. The camera was situated at eye-level; an arm was out front holding a gun. Of all the parts of the movie, it was the one that stuck out most--not because it was good, just because it was weird. I enjoy FPS games, but I think a movie like that would get annoying. Maybe it would be doable in something better than Ultraviolet, though. Who knows.
Between jsm's fascination with the word "f**k" (edited for those who find it offensive) and linuxbabe's lack of spelling/grammar/knowledge about anything, that conversation was indeed horrible. We've got an incredibly hostile user who apparently doesn't even know what printer he has, and a completely clueless Linux fanboy/fangirl who can't keep on topic.
Something I've noticed about channels: The bigger they get, the more jerks/idiots there are, and the more they talk. #debian (on Freenode) is really big, and as a result it has plenty of vocal jerks who are quick to refer you to a bot's not-overly-helpful info, while berating you for not intuiting the correct keyword and asking the bot yourself. #emacs and #linux are also like this to some extent (from my experience), but are not nearly as bad. #splack, and #sparc are quite nice because the topics generally seem to bring people with decent computer knowledge; as small channels, they have politer people, too.
I've had really good experiences getting help from IRC and mailing lists, but then again, I've had really bad experiences too. Politeness and patience (on your part) go a long way towards getting a good answer. If that doesn't work, it's time to give up and move on. Besides, you don't expect the people who hang out on IRC all day (people like me) to be the most socially well-adjusted, do you?
According to top500.org, the fastest computer is an IBM Blue Gene/L with 280 TeraFlops. This Japanese team would have been #1 about a year ago.
What?!?!111one It's from JAPAN, it must be the fastest! Don't tell me your evil lies, Japan is the land of super technology, games, and girls with cat ears! NIHON BANZAI!
You can avoid all of these problems by shunning graphical file manager stuff in favor of the command line. That file that was supposed to be a jpeg--try opening it with "display suspiciousfile" and you'll get an error. The only way to run it from the command line would be to explicitly say "./suspiciousfile", probably only after changing permissions so it becomes executable.
I'm not sure that's how it works, but here's something interesting:
As I understand it, if an object was somehow traveling faster than the speed of light, an observer at the end of its flight would see the object arrive, and then see what appears to be the object retreating very very quickly away. That is because the light that was reflected from the object at a certain point in its flight takes longer to reach the observer than the actual object does, thus the reversed motion effect. Of course, this is taken from my memories of a layman-style physics book I read a few years back, so you may need to take it with a grain of salt.
Heh, the only programming books in my high school library were essentially BASIC for 10-year-olds (this was still the case when I graduated last year, although the new math teacher had brought in some Logo texts, and I did see a FORTRAN book once). Yes, I read those books and wrote out programs on paper--these books were written for stuff like the C64, and the only machine I had with BASIC on it was a 486 running DOS, so a lot of functions didn't translate well. Ah well, now I'm at school, and although they make us use Java for first-year CS, I'm actually learning programming. I'm looking forward to the classes where they teach us assembly and C/C++.
To all the people talking about how dangerous a private piston plane is, let's remember what it takes to fly one:
-Regular physical checkups
-Testing far more exhaustive than for a driver's license
-Checkout flights if a pilot has gone for more than two years
Also, compare an airport to say any part of the road system. An airport has real people directing each plane to a specific altitude to hold until they are allowed to land at a specific runway. All pilots are in communication with each other, so even at tiny airports without an ATC, landing can be coordinated. Compare this to the relative chaos of roads, where thousands of (barely-trained) drivers are all going along with only their own direction to guide them.
My father is a pilot; as a result, I've seen hundred of takeoffs and landings and nary an accident. According to the FAA and NTSB, there appear to have been about 25 General Aviation (non-commercial) accidents reported in January in the U.S. See http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/query.asp for information of this type. I would feel safer flying in a private airplane than driving in a car almost any time--a good pilot (and most private pilots are good) will not fly in dangerous conditions and is a lot better trained than your average driver.
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I hate to ruin it for the guy on Drivl.com, but some machines do make a "blip" noise when you press a key. When I first popped up a DECterm from my simulated VMS machine, I found that every keystroke made a gentle beeping noise. I think Solaris might be able to do it to.
"Fire" is a much better action book, in my opinion, but I believe that "Deepness" is the overall superior book *because* of the obsession over details you mention. Now, if you were going to suggest which book someone should read first, "Fire" is definitely the one.
I'm pretty sure that it is Deepness that details Pham Nuwen's work in code archaeology. I suppose this would have something to do with Slow Zoners not having AI to handle code for them, the way the Beyonders of "A Fire Upon the Deep" would.
Yes, because it was only about the 4th reference so far.
Yeah, if you want to hear from people incredibly lacking in testosterone, just listen to This American Life. You don't even have to pick a specific show, just tune in any time to hear effeminate men whining.
Funny, those (british?) keyboards piss /me/ off. I continually hit the wrong damn key, because you chopped off the part of the Enter key I always hit and replaced it with something stupid. Suit yourselves, I guess.
According to a reliable friend of mine, the starting salary for IT jobs in Iraq is around $100,000 a year. He says you don't really need much training, you just need to be good with computers and willing to take risks. Of course, working in Iraq is pretty certain to end up more unpleasant than working in Idaho or Arkansas.
Seconded. However, Uriel appears to have been banned from the list for poor behavior, so perhaps it will be better.
You probably already know this, and I do appreciate the joke, but for the enlightenment of everyone else:
An aircraft's attitude is the way it is oriented--pointed down, pointed up, leaning to one side, etc. Unless I'm gravely mistaken, the instrument which has a small airplane represented on it and an artificial horizon is called an "attitude indicator", because it allows the pilot to see his plane's attitude even when flying through thick, disorienting clouds/fog.
If you watch FLCL, you'll see that the code displayed on the screens in the control room is just HTML--at least, everything I saw was.
"Excel Saga" is the full name
Copying a 20-30 year old work does not deprive the artist of that work. They've had plenty of opportunity to sell it & can continue to sell it.
If our copyright terms hadn't been extended so many times, the movies could very well be in the public domain already; Lucas could keep selling them, but others would be free to distribute them as they please.
Well, when I recently saw Ultraviolet (yes, it was a horrible movie, I know), there was one scene with a rather FPS-esque viewpoint. The camera was situated at eye-level; an arm was out front holding a gun. Of all the parts of the movie, it was the one that stuck out most--not because it was good, just because it was weird. I enjoy FPS games, but I think a movie like that would get annoying. Maybe it would be doable in something better than Ultraviolet, though. Who knows.
It would have been subtler and funnier if you had left out the parenthetical note.
Yeah, I quoted the wildcard. I just copy-pasted the thing in. However, no results for me. Oh well.
I think "apt-cache search mailman" would do the trick too. In fact, your command didn't return anything on my Debian system.
Between jsm's fascination with the word "f**k" (edited for those who find it offensive) and linuxbabe's lack of spelling/grammar/knowledge about anything, that conversation was indeed horrible. We've got an incredibly hostile user who apparently doesn't even know what printer he has, and a completely clueless Linux fanboy/fangirl who can't keep on topic.
Something I've noticed about channels: The bigger they get, the more jerks/idiots there are, and the more they talk. #debian (on Freenode) is really big, and as a result it has plenty of vocal jerks who are quick to refer you to a bot's not-overly-helpful info, while berating you for not intuiting the correct keyword and asking the bot yourself. #emacs and #linux are also like this to some extent (from my experience), but are not nearly as bad. #splack, and #sparc are quite nice because the topics generally seem to bring people with decent computer knowledge; as small channels, they have politer people, too.
I've had really good experiences getting help from IRC and mailing lists, but then again, I've had really bad experiences too. Politeness and patience (on your part) go a long way towards getting a good answer. If that doesn't work, it's time to give up and move on. Besides, you don't expect the people who hang out on IRC all day (people like me) to be the most socially well-adjusted, do you?
You're a Plan 9 fan, aren't you? :-)
According to top500.org, the fastest computer is an IBM Blue Gene/L with 280 TeraFlops. This Japanese team would have been #1 about a year ago.
What?!?!111one It's from JAPAN, it must be the fastest! Don't tell me your evil lies, Japan is the land of super technology, games, and girls with cat ears! NIHON BANZAI!
To jump on the bandwagon with all the ACs...
It's just so much easier to unquestioningly accept anything at face value.
That explains much of the socialist/green/libertarian/ part these days.
Especially the socialists. Those guys annoy the hell out of me.
You can avoid all of these problems by shunning graphical file manager stuff in favor of the command line. That file that was supposed to be a jpeg--try opening it with "display suspiciousfile" and you'll get an error. The only way to run it from the command line would be to explicitly say "./suspiciousfile", probably only after changing permissions so it becomes executable.
Ah, the joys of xterm.
I'm not sure that's how it works, but here's something interesting:
As I understand it, if an object was somehow traveling faster than the speed of light, an observer at the end of its flight would see the object arrive, and then see what appears to be the object retreating very very quickly away. That is because the light that was reflected from the object at a certain point in its flight takes longer to reach the observer than the actual object does, thus the reversed motion effect. Of course, this is taken from my memories of a layman-style physics book I read a few years back, so you may need to take it with a grain of salt.
Heh, the only programming books in my high school library were essentially BASIC for 10-year-olds (this was still the case when I graduated last year, although the new math teacher had brought in some Logo texts, and I did see a FORTRAN book once). Yes, I read those books and wrote out programs on paper--these books were written for stuff like the C64, and the only machine I had with BASIC on it was a 486 running DOS, so a lot of functions didn't translate well. Ah well, now I'm at school, and although they make us use Java for first-year CS, I'm actually learning programming. I'm looking forward to the classes where they teach us assembly and C/C++.
To all the people talking about how dangerous a private piston plane is, let's remember what it takes to fly one:
-Regular physical checkups-Testing far more exhaustive than for a driver's license
-Checkout flights if a pilot has gone for more than two years
Also, compare an airport to say any part of the road system. An airport has real people directing each plane to a specific altitude to hold until they are allowed to land at a specific runway. All pilots are in communication with each other, so even at tiny airports without an ATC, landing can be coordinated. Compare this to the relative chaos of roads, where thousands of (barely-trained) drivers are all going along with only their own direction to guide them.
My father is a pilot; as a result, I've seen hundred of takeoffs and landings and nary an accident. According to the FAA and NTSB, there appear to have been about 25 General Aviation (non-commercial) accidents reported in January in the U.S. See http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/query.asp for information of this type. I would feel safer flying in a private airplane than driving in a car almost any time--a good pilot (and most private pilots are good) will not fly in dangerous conditions and is a lot better trained than your average driver.
Jet fuel is pretty much just kerosene with some additives.