very good point. One key feature
missing from almost all man pages
is just this: examples. Pretend
you don't know how to use find, but
wanted to look for a file. Type
"man find" and try to figure that out:)
Some examples of basic usage are always
helpful.
they are always fancying that by legislation they will make
an end of frauds in contracts, and the other rascalities which I
was mentioning, not knowing that they are in reality cutting off
the heads of a hydra?
We had two of these quite lovely machines
in 1984: 256kb memory, two 5.5 floppy disk
drives, 8 mghz processor, dos 2.11 (a vintage
release) and wordperfect 4 (iirc). Built in
Kanata, Ontario by Dynalogic.
You could max out the memory to 640kb (and
no one would ever need more we were told).
There was a even a guy in Toronto who put
together a hard drive that you could plug
into the expansion port. What a bargain:
20 megs for $700.
Had an Osborne before that too. Like an idiot,
I sold the Osborne but still have the
hyperions. For some more info on this negelected
classic, see
this site.
when I clicked the link for "origin of
species" the google-book results are
links to books you can **buy** with a
small number of sample pages to look at.
After the google-books results, you get
the ordinary google results, some of
which *do* link to online texts.
To find Darwin's book on line to read,
rather than buy, just use regular google.
Book search seems to be just a commercial
venture.
Read and profit, infidel, from the Great
Book (Matthew 6:5-6):
And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
seen Matt 6:1, Matt 6:16, Matt 23:5
6
But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
tell Rutan to call NASA when he knows how
to put something into orbit (there is a
difference between 100 km up and mach 2
and 500 km up and around and mach 25)
wordperfect import is supported via the
libwpd project. This evidently still needs
some work (although wpd2sxw does a good
job for me). As the OO people acknowledge
(in a linked document):
"the filter needs continuous development to arrest bit-rot, and to improve it's capabilities. Many such developments have already taken place, but are not merged/proposed due to the voracious demands of bureaucratic process, and the commensurate stifling of the will-to-live."
priorities are a funny thing: America evidently
prefers to be bogged down in a long and
intractable war in Iraq rather than securing
exclusive and complete control of the
Solar System!
yes; go read the judge's decision. IBM's
claims are denied. However, the judge
explicitly says IBM can refile later
and the judge has pointedly indicated that
if SCO doesn't come up with something
good this time, they are toast.
the big difference is that your passenger
is driving with you and will stop talking
when something important is happening on
the road. Your phone mate has no idea
that the semi has just blown a tire...
If something seems outrageous, we might look for some corroboration,
I would have to say that the claims here
look pretty outrageous (magic nano material
from a natural stone ??). And the worry
is that a pattern of shoddy editor-ship is
becoming apparent.
no, relativity teaches us there are no
rigid objects. Consider a 12 inch ruler
sliding along a long table with a 10 inch
hole in it. If the ruler moves fast enough
it will shrink (in the table's frame)
enough to fall through the hole. But now
consider the ruler's frame of reference.
It is still 12 inches long and the diameter
of the hole has shrunk. So how does it go
through. By bending as it goes over the lip
of the hole. (this can be worked out precisely
and it *all works*)
"If every company needed the public to vote on whether to let them do their thing, we'd be where the USSR is. Oh yeah, they don't exist anymore."
funny thing though -- the legacy of the ussr
in this domain is the safest, cheapest and
best "big rockets" in the world, while in
America they can't remember how to build a
Saturn V anymore:(
"Achievements like this reaffirm my belief that the human race will indeed be able to pull through any hardships we will face in the days to come."
Much as I would like to agree with you, the
scale of achievement in Cassini/Huygens is
minute compared to our coming problems. This
is a small (yes, it is not that many human
beings) team effort of people who share
one goal and have been given sufficient
reources to achieve that goal. They have built
on proven technology in the time honored
tinkering humans are so good at.
The problems we will face over the next
century as oil becomes scarce, water becomes
scarce, power becomes scarce and political
tolerance becomes extremely scarce are orders
of magnitudes more difficult than sending
a robot to Saturn.
If I say I'm going to build a machine to
fly to mars and I am tinkering around,
but you build the machine first, then I
guess everyone would say that you were
copying me. Is that what you meant?
I say if MS shoots its mouth off about some
little OS feature, fails to deliver it, and
Apple beats them to releasing it then Apple
gets credit. When MS finally releases it,
they aren't copying Apple but they are not
releasing anything new or exciting. So Apple
wins, like I said.
Do you have reference for confirmation of
the hard to believe claim about contrails.
It's not that I don't trust you of course... I just want to follow this up.
Slashdot Mirror
... Jethro Tull ...
:)
I thought copyright only lasted 75 years
right on ... copyright was only allowed
to promote the arts and sciences, not
to promote money-making
very good point. One key feature missing from almost all man pages is just this: examples. Pretend you don't know how to use find, but wanted to look for a file. Type "man find" and try to figure that out :)
Some examples of basic usage are always
helpful.
as Plato said:
they are always fancying that by legislation they will make an end of frauds in contracts, and the other rascalities which I was mentioning, not knowing that they are in reality cutting off the heads of a hydra?
Republic, Book 4
We had two of these quite lovely machines in 1984: 256kb memory, two 5.5 floppy disk drives, 8 mghz processor, dos 2.11 (a vintage release) and wordperfect 4 (iirc). Built in Kanata, Ontario by Dynalogic.
You could max out the memory to 640kb (and no one would ever need more we were told).
There was a even a guy in Toronto who put together a hard drive that you could plug into the expansion port. What a bargain: 20 megs for $700.
Had an Osborne before that too. Like an idiot, I sold the Osborne but still have the hyperions. For some more info on this negelected classic, see this site.
when I clicked the link for "origin of species" the google-book results are links to books you can **buy** with a small number of sample pages to look at.
After the google-books results, you get the ordinary google results, some of which *do* link to online texts.
To find Darwin's book on line to read, rather than buy, just use regular google. Book search seems to be just a commercial venture.
Or am I missing something?
back to the closet with you, false Christian:
Read and profit, infidel, from the Great Book (Matthew 6:5-6):
And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. seen Matt 6:1, Matt 6:16, Matt 23:5 6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
tell Rutan to call NASA when he knows how to put something into orbit (there is a difference between 100 km up and mach 2 and 500 km up and around and mach 25)
"I've given it a decent try for several days now, and it keeps screwing up tables when it imports them from MS Word."
How do you find word does importing openoffice spreadsheets (or text documents for that matter) ??
wordperfect import is supported via the libwpd project. This evidently still needs some work (although wpd2sxw does a good job for me). As the OO people acknowledge (in a linked document):
...
"the filter needs continuous development to arrest bit-rot, and to improve it's capabilities. Many such developments have already taken place, but are not merged/proposed due to the voracious demands of bureaucratic process, and the commensurate stifling of the will-to-live."
I know the feeling
>> try ripping the dvd to your hard drive first. that greatly reduces power consumption
:)
actually I find ripping a dvd just plays hell with my battery life
capitalism assumes that the consumer has enough knowledge to compare products. Last I looked, HP's cartridges didn't give a "won't work after" date ...
this isn't captitalism -- it's known as sharp practice
priorities are a funny thing: America evidently prefers to be bogged down in a long and intractable war in Iraq rather than securing exclusive and complete control of the Solar System!
yes; go read the judge's decision. IBM's claims are denied. However, the judge explicitly says IBM can refile later and the judge has pointedly indicated that if SCO doesn't come up with something good this time, they are toast.
the big difference is that your passenger is driving with you and will stop talking when something important is happening on the road. Your phone mate has no idea that the semi has just blown a tire ...
actually, what the FAQ says is this:
If something seems outrageous, we might look for some corroboration,
I would have to say that the claims here look pretty outrageous (magic nano material from a natural stone ??). And the worry is that a pattern of shoddy editor-ship is becoming apparent.
no, relativity teaches us there are no rigid objects. Consider a 12 inch ruler sliding along a long table with a 10 inch hole in it. If the ruler moves fast enough it will shrink (in the table's frame) enough to fall through the hole. But now consider the ruler's frame of reference. It is still 12 inches long and the diameter of the hole has shrunk. So how does it go through. By bending as it goes over the lip of the hole. (this can be worked out precisely and it *all works*)
"There's a lot more to being a soldier than combat"
...
like the torturing
"If every company needed the public to vote on whether to let them do their thing, we'd be where the USSR is. Oh yeah, they don't exist anymore."
:(
funny thing though -- the legacy of the ussr in this domain is the safest, cheapest and best "big rockets" in the world, while in America they can't remember how to build a Saturn V anymore
and it does not compress into small packages
"I would love to hear details on how water will become scarce across the globe."
.... but it's potable water that's
at issue.
maybe you're just joking about the size of the oceans
The BBC has a nice introductory overview here.
It notes that "already one person in five has no access to safe drinking water".
"Achievements like this reaffirm my belief that the human race will indeed be able to pull through any hardships we will face in the days to come."
Much as I would like to agree with you, the scale of achievement in Cassini/Huygens is minute compared to our coming problems. This is a small (yes, it is not that many human beings) team effort of people who share one goal and have been given sufficient reources to achieve that goal. They have built on proven technology in the time honored tinkering humans are so good at.
The problems we will face over the next century as oil becomes scarce, water becomes scarce, power becomes scarce and political tolerance becomes extremely scarce are orders of magnitudes more difficult than sending a robot to Saturn.
But good luck to us.
If I say I'm going to build a machine to fly to mars and I am tinkering around, but you build the machine first, then I guess everyone would say that you were copying me. Is that what you meant?
I say if MS shoots its mouth off about some little OS feature, fails to deliver it, and Apple beats them to releasing it then Apple gets credit. When MS finally releases it, they aren't copying Apple but they are not releasing anything new or exciting. So Apple wins, like I said.
Do you have reference for confirmation of the hard to believe claim about contrails. It's not that I don't trust you of course ... I just want to follow this up.
it's the one who *releases* the feature first who wins not the one who *announces* the feature