Hoping that I won't screw up again about Solaris 9 on x86 again
Don't know about the Solaris 9 story. And if your previous screwup was about the word again, then this nitpick is in error. But if not, then yes, you did screw up again.
The history of decentralizing power is that little guys win at the expense of the big guys. We may think it's pretty bad now, what with the FBI wanting to search library lending records, DRM isolating and freezing "content", but it was much worse a hundred or thousand years ago. The printing press helped end the Roman church monopoly. Cheap CGI will help end the Hollywood studio monopoly. The result will be lots more small home-grown studios, if you can even call them that, just as blogs and the Net in general are putting an end to big press, radio, and TV monopolies, and MP3 and file sharing will eventually kill off the few record labels and their marketing driven mega-bands in favor of lots of small bands. The so-called small guys will be all that's left.
...if you think RMS is going to storm the M$ booth. Or any of the other self-proclaimed leaders. You might want to do a check on that binary attitude of yours, it seems to be all black or white.
1) How about some references for this, other than just your word?
2) Depending on how one quibbles over the meaning of dehydrated and thirsty, various correlations can be supported.
3) In other words, there are so many variables and exceptions, that dark urine doesn't mean you are dehydrated.
4) In other news, eating 25 pounds of food at one sitting can be hazardous to your health.
5) Further revelations show that alcohol is also a diuretic.
6) Certain myths are not myths as long as you account for the 1001 exceptions and variations that make them hard to pin down.
7) Just because you didn't cite any references other than your self-proclaimed "medical-geekness" doesn't mean there are no references, therefore we should trust you.
And just how much experimentation on your own have YOU done as a medical student?
Nope, not good enough for me. Go exhibit your ego elsewhere.
So when SOME of society organizes itself and points guns at the rest of society, that doesn't count?
Whether it's society backing up laws with collective delegated guns, or individuals backing up their own dictates with guns, it's still authority from the barrel of a gun.
This is no shit. They have budget plans that expect $18 billion from auctioning off the analog spectrum. They can't auction it off if it is still transmitting analog TV. Thus they have to force everybody over to digital.
$18 billion is a lot of money even in these times.
Perfect ingredients for a misidentification. You say it was grey, on its side. I doubt very much you could see enough detail to tell it was on its side. An airliner banking would present a nice planform.
Grey? At night? Colors are notoriously hard to see at night.
200 feet? Depth perception at night is hard, and 200 feet is getting near the limit in daylight for binocular stereo depth perception. Most depth perception is based on the perceived size of a known object; for instance, cars on a highway, or airliners in the sky. It could easily have been thousands of feet away and you wouldn't be able to tell since you didn't know what the object was and thus what it's absolute size was.
Ditto for slow. Anything far away would have a slow angular velocity, and based on your perception of it being only 200 feet away, of course it looked slow. The biggest airliners are twice the size of small ones. Big military cargo planes are many times the size of small fighters, and I have many times marveled at the big cargo planes looking so slow when I drive near the local airbases when it is really just the difference in altitude.
Imagine rope or netting looped around a couple. I doubt they have much power for moving, simply strength for holding up. Think of your own legs when someone tied your shoelaces together. A puny little shoelace and you couldn't break it with your legs! One of the few things I believed in whatever Star Wars episode that was (New Hope?).
The legs need armor, but trying to armor them individually and completely would add way too much weight and bulk.
Consider a tank -- all that armor on the sides and some on the top. Battleships armored the individual turrets, but almost all the rest was on the sides and under the deck. Individual compartments were not armored. Not even magazines had their own armor, they were simply buried as deep as possible within the armor.
My time in Uncle Sam's canoe club was as a keypunch operator / computer operator on USS Midway, CV-41. The computer was a tape system (no disks) with card input. The tape drive had rubber seals around the doors and various parts, and (rumour had it) could operate under water. Now, since we were one deck under the flight deck, I always figured I didn't want to be around when that was necessary.
After the evacuation of Saigon (April 1975), Radio Hanoi called us pirates for not returning all the planes and helicopters flown out of country by the escapees. Our captain promptly broke out the Jolly Riger.
So I am a real high seas pirate, by no less an authority than Radio Hanoi, and we had a computer built to operate under water!
... I'll write a sarcastic letter, asking for more drastic laws, and include a wad of Monopoly(tm)(c) money. Maybe I'll at least get a response!
I wonder if this is worth fighting...
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Don't get me wrong. DMCA, SSSCA, DRM, long copyrights, software patents, the whole kit and kaboodle -- I despise them all. But it seems like such a losing proposition, fighting them. I wrote a nice polite letter against the SSSCA, sent it to all 100 senators two months ago, and I haven't heard back from a single one of them. The only response seems to be ever worse legislation.
I wonder what if, instead of trying to refuse these lemons, we figured out what lemonade to make? Use these stifling constipating laws against those who impose them. Twist them back on the very sponsors.
Sometimes, when I am battling a program, when the code seems to get uglier with every fix, I feel like it's turning into another C++ morass. That's when I try to step back and look at the big picture from a fresh viewpoint, and redesign the whole thing. (If only a certain B.S. had done so with C++...:-)
I wonder if that's possible here. Instead of fighting these ridiculous laws, is it possible to enforce them to such an extreme that the sponsors will be hoisted by their own petards? Seems like there has to be something better than beating heads against every new brick wall, like tunnelling underneath or jumping over them.
I don't know what, it just seems like maybe an idea worth considering.
Speakers don't generate an exact range of sounds, with perfect reproduction inside the range and dead silence outside. You'd have to add some kind of way expensive filter. What would be the use?
We can do it in the polls, but you, his boss -- no fair! Man, if I were CowboyNeal, I'd be thinking of talking to the Labor Commissioner about workplace harassment.
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Tell that to RedHat, IBM, but no need to tell M$ or even yourself, since you and M$ already know so much.
And thank you!
Hoping that I won't screw up again about Solaris 9 on x86 again
Don't know about the Solaris 9 story. And if your previous screwup was about the word again, then this nitpick is in error. But if not, then yes, you did screw up again.
The history of decentralizing power is that little guys win at the expense of the big guys. We may think it's pretty bad now, what with the FBI wanting to search library lending records, DRM isolating and freezing "content", but it was much worse a hundred or thousand years ago. The printing press helped end the Roman church monopoly. Cheap CGI will help end the Hollywood studio monopoly. The result will be lots more small home-grown studios, if you can even call them that, just as blogs and the Net in general are putting an end to big press, radio, and TV monopolies, and MP3 and file sharing will eventually kill off the few record labels and their marketing driven mega-bands in favor of lots of small bands. The so-called small guys will be all that's left.
...if you think RMS is going to storm the M$ booth. Or any of the other self-proclaimed leaders. You might want to do a check on that binary attitude of yours, it seems to be all black or white.
... the airlines is going south, and you should fly it, because Horace Greely said "Go west, young man, go west."
Well, pretty lame, but what the heck, it's only karmakarmakarma.
1) How about some references for this, other than just your word?
2) Depending on how one quibbles over the meaning of dehydrated and thirsty, various correlations can be supported.
3) In other words, there are so many variables and exceptions, that dark urine doesn't mean you are dehydrated.
4) In other news, eating 25 pounds of food at one sitting can be hazardous to your health.
5) Further revelations show that alcohol is also a diuretic.
6) Certain myths are not myths as long as you account for the 1001 exceptions and variations that make them hard to pin down.
7) Just because you didn't cite any references other than your self-proclaimed "medical-geekness" doesn't mean there are no references, therefore we should trust you.
And just how much experimentation on your own have YOU done as a medical student?
Nope, not good enough for me. Go exhibit your ego elsewhere.
So when SOME of society organizes itself and points guns at the rest of society, that doesn't count?
Whether it's society backing up laws with collective delegated guns, or individuals backing up their own dictates with guns, it's still authority from the barrel of a gun.
This is no shit. They have budget plans that expect $18 billion from auctioning off the analog spectrum. They can't auction it off if it is still transmitting analog TV. Thus they have to force everybody over to digital.
$18 billion is a lot of money even in these times.
The dead ones aren't pilots any more...
... piece of shit IPAQ
When flying into the country, and the customs man asks if you have a criminal record, ask innocently, "Is that still a requirement?"
Perfect ingredients for a misidentification. You say it was grey, on its side. I doubt very much you could see enough detail to tell it was on its side. An airliner banking would present a nice planform.
Grey? At night? Colors are notoriously hard to see at night.
200 feet? Depth perception at night is hard, and 200 feet is getting near the limit in daylight for binocular stereo depth perception. Most depth perception is based on the perceived size of a known object; for instance, cars on a highway, or airliners in the sky. It could easily have been thousands of feet away and you wouldn't be able to tell since you didn't know what the object was and thus what it's absolute size was.
Ditto for slow. Anything far away would have a slow angular velocity, and based on your perception of it being only 200 feet away, of course it looked slow. The biggest airliners are twice the size of small ones. Big military cargo planes are many times the size of small fighters, and I have many times marveled at the big cargo planes looking so slow when I drive near the local airbases when it is really just the difference in altitude.
If you've got a current linux source dir, either it's called linux, or linux is a symlink to it. Thus the new tar blows away the old one.
I just about dropped my Jedi training ball when I read that!
Those legs are way too vulnerable.
Imagine rope or netting looped around a couple. I doubt they have much power for moving, simply strength for holding up. Think of your own legs when someone tied your shoelaces together. A puny little shoelace and you couldn't break it with your legs! One of the few things I believed in whatever Star Wars episode that was (New Hope?).
The legs need armor, but trying to armor them individually and completely would add way too much weight and bulk.
Consider a tank -- all that armor on the sides and some on the top. Battleships armored the individual turrets, but almost all the rest was on the sides and under the deck. Individual compartments were not armored. Not even magazines had their own armor, they were simply buried as deep as possible within the armor.
Hell, it was a carrier, 5000 crew, they could tailor uniforms, so a simple jolly roger flag was a piece of cake.
My time in Uncle Sam's canoe club was as a keypunch operator / computer operator on USS Midway, CV-41. The computer was a tape system (no disks) with card input. The tape drive had rubber seals around the doors and various parts, and (rumour had it) could operate under water. Now, since we were one deck under the flight deck, I always figured I didn't want to be around when that was necessary.
After the evacuation of Saigon (April 1975), Radio Hanoi called us pirates for not returning all the planes and helicopters flown out of country by the escapees. Our captain promptly broke out the Jolly Riger.
So I am a real high seas pirate, by no less an authority than Radio Hanoi, and we had a computer built to operate under water!
... I'll write a sarcastic letter, asking for more drastic laws, and include a wad of Monopoly(tm)(c) money. Maybe I'll at least get a response!
Don't get me wrong. DMCA, SSSCA, DRM, long copyrights, software patents, the whole kit and kaboodle -- I despise them all. But it seems like such a losing proposition, fighting them. I wrote a nice polite letter against the SSSCA, sent it to all 100 senators two months ago, and I haven't heard back from a single one of them. The only response seems to be ever worse legislation.
:-)
I wonder what if, instead of trying to refuse these lemons, we figured out what lemonade to make? Use these stifling constipating laws against those who impose them. Twist them back on the very sponsors.
Sometimes, when I am battling a program, when the code seems to get uglier with every fix, I feel like it's turning into another C++ morass. That's when I try to step back and look at the big picture from a fresh viewpoint, and redesign the whole thing. (If only a certain B.S. had done so with C++...
I wonder if that's possible here. Instead of fighting these ridiculous laws, is it possible to enforce them to such an extreme that the sponsors will be hoisted by their own petards? Seems like there has to be something better than beating heads against every new brick wall, like tunnelling underneath or jumping over them.
I don't know what, it just seems like maybe an idea worth considering.
And now I have a good excuse to go rent it :-)
He later mentions Showtime, so I suppose Showgirls may have been some kind of Freudian slip ... so to speak :-)
Speakers don't generate an exact range of sounds, with perfect reproduction inside the range and dead silence outside. You'd have to add some kind of way expensive filter. What would be the use?
We can do it in the polls, but you, his boss -- no fair! Man, if I were CowboyNeal, I'd be thinking of talking to the Labor Commissioner about workplace harassment.
...in which case it will be a pop-under.