Wild cattle (if such things still exist) would be severely hampered by not feeling pain. The thing is, we're not releasing the cattle we manipulate. When we are farming cattle, we don't need the cattle to know they've been injured as it can only make them less cooperative with their handlers and other cattle. In fact, what we plan on doing to cattle (slaughtering them for food) isn't good for their overall safety either.
I had a copy of FreeBSD and Caldera OpenLinux at 13 and a junk computer. Combined with misc breadboards, power supplys, and a myriad of wires and electronics parts I've been entertaining myself ever since (10ish years later). I would say a junk computer or two and maybe a good guide for installing/using a free *nix.
Yeah. For example, my high school did away with the cafeteria staff and started to bring in lunches from local establishments (McDonald's, Subway, some local italian places Alumni owned, that sort of thing) and they set two flat rates. On "A" days it would be $3 and on "B" it would be $4. This included a sandwich of your choice and a bag of chips. This is how it worked out:
You order a plain Double Cheeseburger for lunch. You get your burger, grab a bag of chips from a Sam's club box, and pay $3 for it.
Some simple math here:
Double cheeseburger $1 Bag of Chips $3.99/24 (at the local grocery store, not Sam's club)
So how does this come out to $3? The school claims that McDonald's was charing them more for the large order. Wait a second, has anyone else heard of large orders INCREASING the price? It was my understanding that ordering in bulk made it cheaper. After that excuse was diffused it became a delivery charge. So, McDonald's is getting better than $1.50 over retail PER SANDWICH for about 250 sandwiches? I was arguing about that when I graduated, but last I heard, the program was still in place.
Either McDonald's closed one hell of a deal with my school (and that would mean somebody is getting a kickback off of that) or my school is taking in about $375+ a day in pure profit. The other days of the week were similar ripoffs.
While kids do learn grammar from somewhere, it is not normally their parents. I don't know of any family that regularly leaves complex written communication to each other. From experience, a fourth grade education would do for completely communicating in a written fashion with my parents in quick notes left on the kitchen table.
As far as my English dialect, I had learned four by my eleventh year. My grandma and grandpa speak in a fashion I'd term cornbelt-country for lack of a better term, with any number of specific comparisons, unique words, and a readily different outlook on life expressed in their spoken language. My parents used a vulgar, or common, dialect of midwestern English which was grammatically correct and very specific; including proper tense and unfortunately, a habit towards vulgarity in a low-brow sense as well. My teachers tried to teach me standard English, but I didn't really care a whole lot, even if I picked it up and used it in essays and texts. Even the books I read (Emerson is my favorite author) used a more precise, and predictably archaic form of English, which I found in my work as a tour guide for a local historic site (mid 1850s).
As far as informal, quick, and technologically specific communication goes, precise usage of language may not be required. While I know that even you mean to use a '--', or the equivilent dash symbol--of which, a hyphen is not--for your introduction. Perhaps I should take your stated views on this matter. I could consider your misapplication of punctuation a sign of disrespect, and then throw away this entire post because you are lazy. Fortunately, I am not so precise in my use of informal language. Maybe you shouldn't be either.
My parents taught me English. My grandparents taught me English. My school teachers taught me English. My curiosity taught me English. Now I'm a teenager confused about "English"--with what would be logical quoting, because traditional Standard English rules are boring and unprecise.
Yes, but the idea is to make biodisel replace regular petrol and then we are reducing the amount of CO2 that would be in the air. In effect, we are taking emissions from the Power Plant, and making them useful before they become pollution. We still end up with the pollution, but it was useful, and replaces another commodity that would cause more pollution. Think recycling of energy.
Does google store the buddy lists on their servers? If so, you could implement only allow a message if the sender is a friend, and only allow an add request if that person is your friend's friend.
You could take that out maybe two levels with some security, and anyone who goes evil and starts spamming not only takes them out, but their friends out as well. I worked a little on a trust network like this a few years ago for some third-party Yahoo chat clients. Very little was published because a lot of us lost interest and moved on, but I think the idea is workable.
Yeah, but I'll be running my blog from toaster with Linux(tm) and Toast(no tm, I'm talking about bread) inside. It'll be hot shit./i kill me and you should too for this comment
I'm guessing that KDE or Gnome would work well enough if you turned down all of the eye candy. The last time I used a computer below 1.8Ghz (not including my mac) was two years ago, but it was a celeron 400 Mhz with 256MB of RAM and a 64MB geforce 4mx graphics card that ran KDE (2.x or possibly 3.0) very well. Granted i couldn't keep 10 virtual desktops full of openoffice, gimp, inkscape, kdevelop, but it was responsive and crisp if I had only one of those loaded.
I'm thinking that something like icewm or xfce may get used. Both are easy to teach since they aren't that complicated from a user's prospective. In this case, being only a window manager or a very lightweight desktop has an advantage is the number of possibilities one must learn and the resources needed to run the software. I wouldn't even rule out a highly customized setup of fvwm.
Well, xerces is an xml parser if memory serves and it looks like it either isn't install, or the makefile thinks it's in a nonstandard place. Did you check the documentation?
Actually, the application that keeps my company, or at least my group, on Windows is an industry standard app called CANoe. Basically, there isn't anything for Linux remotely close outside of a C library that I could use to write my own application. Our customers give us files in a binary format native to CANoe and we simply need the program. The program can only be used with proprietary hardware and that hardware only has drivers for Windows.
Btw, I've tried to access Access databases with OO.o 2.0 on Windows and it works just fine. I didn't have a very complicated set of forms, but it was more than sufficient.
This is not only the oldest story in the book, it's the template that all books are written on. I seem to remember that just about every good work of fiction comes down to a derviative of the following:
Boy wants Girl Boy can't have Girl Boy tries to get Girl Boy either does or does not get Girl
(Don't yet all me for objectifying women, but) Replace Girl with another object of desire as needed and Boy with Girl/Group as needed.
As far as I can tell, almost every story breaks down into this replacing Boy and Girl with repitions of various steps. Quick, name ten novels people are likely to have heard of that does not follow this story line. Remember, fiction only.
So, as far as I can tell, the summarians must have a prior art or a patent on this that long expired, as that's the earliest I've seen a story from a culture. Are Shakespeare and an Anonymous Summarian Author listed as owners of prior art?
Well, no. Actually, the exact opposite should happen if you want to increase employment and stop this. For management to choose American worker then American workers must utimately be cheaper for them than non-American workers. One way to be cheaper would be to provide more value. Another way would be to stifle learning enough to create poverty, desperation, and an acceptance of working for less. Of course, this only works so well and leads up to nasty things like what happened in America at the turn of the 19th century, but it would likely work.
Or cause a revolution, but that would set us back further./In history, economies rise and fall. Accept it.
This is a really, really easy one. The government has no copyrights, trademarks, patents, or anything else that could be considered intellectual property. Everything they have is public domain or licensed from a private entity.
Regardless, how much are they worth. If I lose my @gmail.com address I will be very angry. It might be worth it to buy the company, dissolve the company as a lesson, and then continue using the gmail trademark.
I move for -5, Retarded on the whole thread. What's the worst that happens here? I add an extra line to my amazingly complex/etc/resolv.conf to use an extra nameserver? Or worse, I configure bind (or djbdns, what have you) to search yet another nameserver if it doesn't know? How harsh! What a failure! The agony of the potential pain!
This is total crap. Someone with a say in the EU tell their bureacrats to STFU. Mod me down in you want, but this whole thing is Flamebait and screams Attention Whore.
Dude, chill out. Someone attempted to tell you that copyright infringement is not physical theft. It's partially a joke, partially a play on your words.
Soldering iron, ionized water, sponge, tin, book-o-resistors, book-o-capacitors,breadboards, assorted gauge wire, a bin of crimpers, cutters, and strippers, a good-sized chest of random parts, a few good catalogs (in case you happen to destroy your building's electrical and absolutely must have a part by noon tomorrow), a cell phone (see above), a spectrum analyzer, a couple good scopes, a hammer, a rubbe mallet, at least 20 sizes of screw drivers, a dremmel, a larger dremmel, a corded drill, several networked computers with their data mirrored somewhere else on the network, a small generator....
Oh wait, you mean, what would I put on my bench? I currently don't have any glow in the dark thinking putty or nearly enough nerf guns. I'm also missing a mini fridge, though I do have a space heater (and a pentium 4 if it gets really cold).
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Wild cattle (if such things still exist) would be severely hampered by not feeling pain. The thing is, we're not releasing the cattle we manipulate. When we are farming cattle, we don't need the cattle to know they've been injured as it can only make them less cooperative with their handlers and other cattle. In fact, what we plan on doing to cattle (slaughtering them for food) isn't good for their overall safety either.
I had a copy of FreeBSD and Caldera OpenLinux at 13 and a junk computer. Combined with misc breadboards, power supplys, and a myriad of wires and electronics parts I've been entertaining myself ever since (10ish years later). I would say a junk computer or two and maybe a good guide for installing/using a free *nix.
The obvious solution is to make your startup check for X11 and start it if needed.
Yeah. For example, my high school did away with the cafeteria staff and started to bring in lunches from local establishments (McDonald's, Subway, some local italian places Alumni owned, that sort of thing) and they set two flat rates. On "A" days it would be $3 and on "B" it would be $4. This included a sandwich of your choice and a bag of chips. This is how it worked out:
You order a plain Double Cheeseburger for lunch. You get your burger, grab a bag of chips from a Sam's club box, and pay $3 for it.
Some simple math here:
Double cheeseburger $1
Bag of Chips $3.99/24 (at the local grocery store, not Sam's club)
So how does this come out to $3? The school claims that McDonald's was charing them more for the large order. Wait a second, has anyone else heard of large orders INCREASING the price? It was my understanding that ordering in bulk made it cheaper. After that excuse was diffused it became a delivery charge. So, McDonald's is getting better than $1.50 over retail PER SANDWICH for about 250 sandwiches? I was arguing about that when I graduated, but last I heard, the program was still in place.
Either McDonald's closed one hell of a deal with my school (and that would mean somebody is getting a kickback off of that) or my school is taking in about $375+ a day in pure profit. The other days of the week were similar ripoffs.
Go go private catholic high schools.
While kids do learn grammar from somewhere, it is not normally their parents. I don't know of any family that regularly leaves complex written communication to each other. From experience, a fourth grade education would do for completely communicating in a written fashion with my parents in quick notes left on the kitchen table.
As far as my English dialect, I had learned four by my eleventh year. My grandma and grandpa speak in a fashion I'd term cornbelt-country for lack of a better term, with any number of specific comparisons, unique words, and a readily different outlook on life expressed in their spoken language. My parents used a vulgar, or common, dialect of midwestern English which was grammatically correct and very specific; including proper tense and unfortunately, a habit towards vulgarity in a low-brow sense as well. My teachers tried to teach me standard English, but I didn't really care a whole lot, even if I picked it up and used it in essays and texts. Even the books I read (Emerson is my favorite author) used a more precise, and predictably archaic form of English, which I found in my work as a tour guide for a local historic site (mid 1850s).
As far as informal, quick, and technologically specific communication goes, precise usage of language may not be required. While I know that even you mean to use a '--', or the equivilent dash symbol--of which, a hyphen is not--for your introduction. Perhaps I should take your stated views on this matter. I could consider your misapplication of punctuation a sign of disrespect, and then throw away this entire post because you are lazy. Fortunately, I am not so precise in my use of informal language. Maybe you shouldn't be either.
My parents taught me English. My grandparents taught me English. My school teachers taught me English. My curiosity taught me English. Now I'm a teenager confused about "English"--with what would be logical quoting, because traditional Standard English rules are boring and unprecise.
I'm normally that lazy.
I could be wrong but I think I remember having edit on DOS 3.3. I still have the manual to my grandpa's old NEC pc with DOS 3.3 somewhere...
Yes, but the idea is to make biodisel replace regular petrol and then we are reducing the amount of CO2 that would be in the air. In effect, we are taking emissions from the Power Plant, and making them useful before they become pollution. We still end up with the pollution, but it was useful, and replaces another commodity that would cause more pollution. Think recycling of energy.
Does google store the buddy lists on their servers? If so, you could implement only allow a message if the sender is a friend, and only allow an add request if that person is your friend's friend.
You could take that out maybe two levels with some security, and anyone who goes evil and starts spamming not only takes them out, but their friends out as well. I worked a little on a trust network like this a few years ago for some third-party Yahoo chat clients. Very little was published because a lot of us lost interest and moved on, but I think the idea is workable.
Yeah, but I'll be running my blog from toaster with Linux(tm) and Toast(no tm, I'm talking about bread) inside. It'll be hot shit. /i kill me and you should too for this comment
I'm guessing that KDE or Gnome would work well enough if you turned down all of the eye candy. The last time I used a computer below 1.8Ghz (not including my mac) was two years ago, but it was a celeron 400 Mhz with 256MB of RAM and a 64MB geforce 4mx graphics card that ran KDE (2.x or possibly 3.0) very well. Granted i couldn't keep 10 virtual desktops full of openoffice, gimp, inkscape, kdevelop, but it was responsive and crisp if I had only one of those loaded.
I'm thinking that something like icewm or xfce may get used. Both are easy to teach since they aren't that complicated from a user's prospective. In this case, being only a window manager or a very lightweight desktop has an advantage is the number of possibilities one must learn and the resources needed to run the software. I wouldn't even rule out a highly customized setup of fvwm.
Actually, it appears that this is a direct copy from OS X. Good try and thanks for playing though! ;)
Well, xerces is an xml parser if memory serves and it looks like it either isn't install, or the makefile thinks it's in a nonstandard place. Did you check the documentation?
So, who else saw the Red Bull Mini Cooper? I spotted one and received some free cans in Springfield, IL at Best Buy. Anywhere else?
Actually, the application that keeps my company, or at least my group, on Windows is an industry standard app called CANoe. Basically, there isn't anything for Linux remotely close outside of a C library that I could use to write my own application. Our customers give us files in a binary format native to CANoe and we simply need the program. The program can only be used with proprietary hardware and that hardware only has drivers for Windows.
Btw, I've tried to access Access databases with OO.o 2.0 on Windows and it works just fine. I didn't have a very complicated set of forms, but it was more than sufficient.
So, the revolution is here, and after all these years it might be easier to figure out who isn't against the wall first. Any ideas?
This is not only the oldest story in the book, it's the template that all books are written on. I seem to remember that just about every good work of fiction comes down to a derviative of the following:
Boy wants Girl
Boy can't have Girl
Boy tries to get Girl
Boy either does or does not get Girl
(Don't yet all me for objectifying women, but) Replace Girl with another object of desire as needed and Boy with Girl/Group as needed.
As far as I can tell, almost every story breaks down into this replacing Boy and Girl with repitions of various steps. Quick, name ten novels people are likely to have heard of that does not follow this story line. Remember, fiction only.
So, as far as I can tell, the summarians must have a prior art or a patent on this that long expired, as that's the earliest I've seen a story from a culture. Are Shakespeare and an Anonymous Summarian Author listed as owners of prior art?
Well, no. Actually, the exact opposite should happen if you want to increase employment and stop this. For management to choose American worker then American workers must utimately be cheaper for them than non-American workers. One way to be cheaper would be to provide more value. Another way would be to stifle learning enough to create poverty, desperation, and an acceptance of working for less. Of course, this only works so well and leads up to nasty things like what happened in America at the turn of the 19th century, but it would likely work.
/In history, economies rise and fall. Accept it.
Or cause a revolution, but that would set us back further.
This is a really, really easy one. The government has no copyrights, trademarks, patents, or anything else that could be considered intellectual property. Everything they have is public domain or licensed from a private entity.
Regardless, how much are they worth. If I lose my @gmail.com address I will be very angry. It might be worth it to buy the company, dissolve the company as a lesson, and then continue using the gmail trademark.
I move for -5, Retarded on the whole thread. What's the worst that happens here? I add an extra line to my amazingly complex /etc/resolv.conf to use an extra nameserver? Or worse, I configure bind (or djbdns, what have you) to search yet another nameserver if it doesn't know? How harsh! What a failure! The agony of the potential pain!
This is total crap. Someone with a say in the EU tell their bureacrats to STFU. Mod me down in you want, but this whole thing is Flamebait and screams Attention Whore.
Imagine a future where you get one google search after being arrested.
Dude, chill out. Someone attempted to tell you that copyright infringement is not physical theft. It's partially a joke, partially a play on your words.
Any idea if this works under Cedega or Wine?
Soldering iron, ionized water, sponge, tin, book-o-resistors, book-o-capacitors,breadboards, assorted gauge wire, a bin of crimpers, cutters, and strippers, a good-sized chest of random parts, a few good catalogs (in case you happen to destroy your building's electrical and absolutely must have a part by noon tomorrow), a cell phone (see above), a spectrum analyzer, a couple good scopes, a hammer, a rubbe mallet, at least 20 sizes of screw drivers, a dremmel, a larger dremmel, a corded drill, several networked computers with their data mirrored somewhere else on the network, a small generator....
Oh wait, you mean, what would I put on my bench? I currently don't have any glow in the dark thinking putty or nearly enough nerf guns. I'm also missing a mini fridge, though I do have a space heater (and a pentium 4 if it gets really cold).
Oh, wait. You meant capitalists. My bad.
/ex-disgruntled tour guide at a capitol building
//still slightly disgruntled