Bash tab-completion is fundamentally different; it doesn't complete unless the command or filename is unambiguous. It's entirely unlike the awesome bar, or DOS, IRC, etc. tab-completion, which cycle through the possible choices. It gives you either the only thing possible, or nothing.
Getting a smaller file out of that is more improbable than being attacked by a shark while being struck by lightning while you're holding a winning lottery ticket.
I don't know about gzip, but for a perfect encryption algorithm the chance of getting a smaller file out of that should be 0.5.
Yeah, but it doesn't happen. Like I said, people try to convince _themselves_ they're not racist. They spend their childhoods in mostly-white schools learning about racism and how bad it was, and graduate to adulthood in mostly-white neighborhoods, and just like in school the few black people they meet don't act any different, so they really aren't racist - just unaware of any separate black culture. They're aware that their ancestors oppressed blacks, but because they don't see any causes they don't understand it and work to convince themselves and others that they regret the actions of past whites by overcompensating with PCness. They'll vote for Obama because they've been taught that as white people it's their fault we've never had a black president. These white suburbanites far outnumber rural and inner-city racists.
Obama will get elected specifically because he's not white. Do you know how many suburb-dwellers spend their time desperately trying to convince the world and themselves that they're not racist or sexist or discriminating in any way? Rural racists aren't nearly numerous enough to overcome guilty white people.
Witness the current controversy over the giant confederate flag in Tampa, Florida. Sure, there's black people giving thundering speeches about injustice and threatening to sue the planet, but there are even more white people professing themselves disgusted and distancing themselves from anyone who claims the Confederate flag represents anything other than pure, violent racism.
For my money, though, it doesn't get better than the Encyclopedia Britannica 11th edition. It was written after chemistry was mostly understood, but before the advent of commercial chemical suppliers. Thus, in the nitric acid entry, for example, you'll find instructions for making it from nitre and sulphuric acid. In a modern text it would be described theoretically, and would likely be stated in such a way that you'd start looking for a place to buy sulphuric acid and potassium nitrate without getting on a government watchlist, but with the encyclopedia you go outside and build a nitre-bed, or maybe scrape some saltpeter off your basement wall if you're lucky, and go hunt down some sulphur to make the acid. It doesn't leave out the theory, but it gives you a real sense of how doable most chemical processes are even without a lab or a chemical supplier.
He's not a scientist, you know; he didn't discover all these things himself. Just learn chemistry and electronics (from books or classes), then go work at a semiconductor manufacturing plant on the assembly line for a while to find out how the chips are assembled and what chemicals are used. You should be well able to figure out what solvents to use at each stage to get a chip apart, and you'll be able to recognize the components on the chip from your electronics knowledge. It's not a simple matter, but that's why there's only a few like him. It's well within your reach if you really want it.
Actually, Motley Crue is an interesting case study in the effects of drugs on music. Their two best albums, Girls, Girls, Girls and Dr. Feelgood, were made at the height of their drug abuse and after they went clean, respectively. Both albums are nearly-equally respected, with Dr. Feelgood getting perhaps slightly better reviews.
Have you checked out Movie S1 in the current article? It's an animation of how people moved based on DNA evidence.
Also, the world didn't look any different geologically, if that's what you mean by "what the world looked like back in the ages". The timescales of human migrations are far smaller than those of geological processes.
Knowing the order of the whole Christian Bible, perhaps, but the Pentateuch is a holy text for more than half the world's population. It's only 5 short books, and you'd know the order, I think, after only a single read-through (it's only 5 names), without really needing to think about it.
I should have been more specific: the "most basic knowledge" I meant was knowing what the Old Testament is, and that Christianity, for anyone living in the Western world, isn't just "some religion".
I know you're a troll, but I keep looking back at your post and thinking about all the stupid people who will agree with you, and I have to respond before my teeth start grinding.
Lack of the most basic knowledge about a religion with 2 billion followers, most of whom surround you each and every day, correlates strongly with low IQ, as does any form of deliberate (and nearly-unbelievable in degree) ignorance.
No, it's also the album art. There are plenty of places you can buy frames and racks to display album art on your wall. Covers like Master of Puppets and Who's Next are why.
Sorry, I think they win on this one. You're one of a _very_ few people who pays attention to trademark lawsuits. There are, on the other hand, people who make purchasing decisions by logo.
I have been playing the dreadfully easy, multiple account game.
Incorrect. What you've been doing is demonstrating aptly how dreadfully easy the multiple account game isn't. You've had something like 10 sockpuppets which you've used in the clumsiest of fashions and which have been quickly called out as such. You've shown no ability at all to conceal your intentions, change your writing style, post with different temporal patterns with different accounts, post in separate threads with different accounts, or otherwise in any way avoid notice. You've even had several conversations (that I've seen) with yourself, containing blatant self-promotion despite the fact that several people were actively pointing out that you were conversing with yourself.
You, of all people, should realize how absurd it would be to think all these people responding negatively to your stupidities are the same person.
The problem with twitter, as I see it, is he's not a conventional troll. Behind the troll posts and stupidity I don't see a teenager trying to annoy people or an overzealous OSS supporter, I see someone who genuinely believes the stupid shit he posts, who really doesn't understand why everyone hates him having 10 usernames, who really has no idea how to properly maintain sockpuppets without blatantly self-promoting (and using the same writing style in each), and who really doesn't have much of a grasp on interpersonal skills. I could be wrong, of course, but just from reading his posts he doesn't seem like the type of troll who's deliberately attention-whoring, who'll go away if you ignore him. He seems like an asocial, obnoxious person who needs to be chewed out until he understands what he's doing wrong.
But where was the cow/horse/whatever like animal that was so reproductively successful because its nose was genetically predisposed to be.1 inches longer than the others?
In an environment with the food up in tall trees?
Just a guess.
By the way, it's much shorter to type "eutherian" than "cow/horse/whatever like animal".
Slashdot's not supposed to be interesting to every reader all the time. If you want someone to cater to a least common denominator, you'd be better off somewhere else.
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Bash tab-completion is fundamentally different; it doesn't complete unless the command or filename is unambiguous. It's entirely unlike the awesome bar, or DOS, IRC, etc. tab-completion, which cycle through the possible choices. It gives you either the only thing possible, or nothing.
He's got a point - it can't possible be a frosty, on account of the post made before it.
Yeah, but it doesn't happen. Like I said, people try to convince _themselves_ they're not racist. They spend their childhoods in mostly-white schools learning about racism and how bad it was, and graduate to adulthood in mostly-white neighborhoods, and just like in school the few black people they meet don't act any different, so they really aren't racist - just unaware of any separate black culture. They're aware that their ancestors oppressed blacks, but because they don't see any causes they don't understand it and work to convince themselves and others that they regret the actions of past whites by overcompensating with PCness. They'll vote for Obama because they've been taught that as white people it's their fault we've never had a black president. These white suburbanites far outnumber rural and inner-city racists.
Obama will get elected specifically because he's not white. Do you know how many suburb-dwellers spend their time desperately trying to convince the world and themselves that they're not racist or sexist or discriminating in any way? Rural racists aren't nearly numerous enough to overcome guilty white people.
Witness the current controversy over the giant confederate flag in Tampa, Florida. Sure, there's black people giving thundering speeches about injustice and threatening to sue the planet, but there are even more white people professing themselves disgusted and distancing themselves from anyone who claims the Confederate flag represents anything other than pure, violent racism.
For my money, though, it doesn't get better than the Encyclopedia Britannica 11th edition. It was written after chemistry was mostly understood, but before the advent of commercial chemical suppliers. Thus, in the nitric acid entry, for example, you'll find instructions for making it from nitre and sulphuric acid. In a modern text it would be described theoretically, and would likely be stated in such a way that you'd start looking for a place to buy sulphuric acid and potassium nitrate without getting on a government watchlist, but with the encyclopedia you go outside and build a nitre-bed, or maybe scrape some saltpeter off your basement wall if you're lucky, and go hunt down some sulphur to make the acid. It doesn't leave out the theory, but it gives you a real sense of how doable most chemical processes are even without a lab or a chemical supplier.
He's not a scientist, you know; he didn't discover all these things himself. Just learn chemistry and electronics (from books or classes), then go work at a semiconductor manufacturing plant on the assembly line for a while to find out how the chips are assembled and what chemicals are used. You should be well able to figure out what solvents to use at each stage to get a chip apart, and you'll be able to recognize the components on the chip from your electronics knowledge. It's not a simple matter, but that's why there's only a few like him. It's well within your reach if you really want it.
Walking around a bit and cutting firewood in the modern world is hardly stone age living.
Actually, Motley Crue is an interesting case study in the effects of drugs on music. Their two best albums, Girls, Girls, Girls and Dr. Feelgood, were made at the height of their drug abuse and after they went clean, respectively. Both albums are nearly-equally respected, with Dr. Feelgood getting perhaps slightly better reviews.
You're fucked in the head if you think anything short of what these kids did would get the security hole fixed.
Have you checked out Movie S1 in the current article? It's an animation of how people moved based on DNA evidence.
Also, the world didn't look any different geologically, if that's what you mean by "what the world looked like back in the ages". The timescales of human migrations are far smaller than those of geological processes.
Knowing the order of the whole Christian Bible, perhaps, but the Pentateuch is a holy text for more than half the world's population. It's only 5 short books, and you'd know the order, I think, after only a single read-through (it's only 5 names), without really needing to think about it.
I should have been more specific: the "most basic knowledge" I meant was knowing what the Old Testament is, and that Christianity, for anyone living in the Western world, isn't just "some religion".
I know you're a troll, but I keep looking back at your post and thinking about all the stupid people who will agree with you, and I have to respond before my teeth start grinding.
Lack of the most basic knowledge about a religion with 2 billion followers, most of whom surround you each and every day, correlates strongly with low IQ, as does any form of deliberate (and nearly-unbelievable in degree) ignorance.
A genius who'd be better able than you to gain access to a locked computer.
No, it's also the album art. There are plenty of places you can buy frames and racks to display album art on your wall. Covers like Master of Puppets and Who's Next are why.
Sorry, I think they win on this one. You're one of a _very_ few people who pays attention to trademark lawsuits. There are, on the other hand, people who make purchasing decisions by logo.
You, of all people, should realize how absurd it would be to think all these people responding negatively to your stupidities are the same person.
Where do you live, twitter? I'd love to meet you and see if you're like this in meatspace.
Hah! Kidding, of course. My employer and I know EXACTLY where you live. I'm taking over your file tomorrow; I'll be checking up on you.
The problem with twitter, as I see it, is he's not a conventional troll. Behind the troll posts and stupidity I don't see a teenager trying to annoy people or an overzealous OSS supporter, I see someone who genuinely believes the stupid shit he posts, who really doesn't understand why everyone hates him having 10 usernames, who really has no idea how to properly maintain sockpuppets without blatantly self-promoting (and using the same writing style in each), and who really doesn't have much of a grasp on interpersonal skills. I could be wrong, of course, but just from reading his posts he doesn't seem like the type of troll who's deliberately attention-whoring, who'll go away if you ignore him. He seems like an asocial, obnoxious person who needs to be chewed out until he understands what he's doing wrong.
Just a guess.
By the way, it's much shorter to type "eutherian" than "cow/horse/whatever like animal".
Oh, shut up. Elitism isn't a bad thing, it's the expectation of intelligence from others. It's a tall order, but not an unreasonable one.
If you've talked to many Floridians, you'll know there's not enough money in the world to teach most of them anything at all.
Slashdot's not supposed to be interesting to every reader all the time. If you want someone to cater to a least common denominator, you'd be better off somewhere else.