Customer: I want a mouse. Salesclerk: How about this Logitech optical mouse... blah... excellent... blah... USB... Customer: Did you say USB? I have a USB at home, I'll take it! Customer takes box and turns it over to see USB 1.1 and not USB 2 Customer: What? This won't work with my USB 2 drive! Salesclerk takes package and turns his back to the customer while he writes a two in permanent marker next to the USB symbol. Salesclerk: There.
Well, I guess killing the Redcoats in the Revolutionary War is out of the question, being that the British were the "legitimate authority" back in 1776.
Not only that, but we also have the right to a well regulated militia so we can stage a military takeover of the government if it gets out of hand (laws like this make me think it's time). I think that the militia would require training, and the U.S. Army uses video games so why shouldn't the militia? Of course the miltia wasn't going to be composed of pre-17 year old boys either, but still singling out cop-killing instead of pregnant-mother-killing makes me nervous.
It's like you're having a garage sale, all your stuff sitting on your front lawn, inviting everyone to come by and take a look. In addition you lay out a nice sack of Marijuana and a cop walks by, I guess if he busts you without a search warrant it's illegal search and seizure?
MP3s != Marijuana If you stole the weed it would be a different story.
"The guy who parks next to me in my parking garage has a lot of antenna balls in the backseat of his convertible. My antenna ball is missing, so I think he must have stolen my antenna ball. Because it's a convertible, and the top is down, I must have every right to assume I can gain access to his vehicle, it's practically open for all to see. So, I'm going to go through everything in his car and destroy all the antenna balls I can find. He must have stolen them from somewhere. I will let him keep those for which he can provide proof of purchase. If I happen to destroy those in the process, that's just too bad... he shouldn't have left those other balls in plain sight.
Hey, look at that... the guy who parks on the other side of me just handed me my antenna ball, his 8 year old daughter found it in the driveway, it must have fallen off. Well, it was still within my rights to destroy that other guy's antenna balls, they looked suspicious to me."
Chances are he just handed over his antenna ball to get you to leave, because you were FREAKING HIM OUT!!!
NEIL
If the poem's score for perfection is
plotted along the horizontal of a graph,
and its importance is plotted on the
vertical, then calculating the total
area of the poem yields the measure of
its greatness.
Keating draws a corresponding graph on the board and the students dutifully copy it down.
NEIL
A sonnet by Byron may score high on the
vertical, but only average on the
horizontal. A Shakespearean sonnet, on
the other hand, would score high both
horizontally and vertically, yielding a
massive total area, thereby revealing the
poem to be truly great. As you proceed
through the poetry in this book, practice
this rating method. As your ability to
evaluate poems in this matter grows, so
will - so will your enjoyment and
understanding of poetry.
Neil sets the book down and takes off his glasses. The student sitting across from him is discretely trying to eat. Keating turns away from the chalkboard with a smile.
KEATING
Excrement. That's what I think of Mr. J.
Evans Pritchard. We're not laying pipe,
we're talking about poetry.
My goal is to have something that is useful to myself. Nobody writes code for free (as in beer) if it isn't useful to themselves. So if my code does everything I need well (no bugs), then I have succedeed (and can call it 1.0).
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The only problem with this is that everybody will be a vigilante blowing everybody else up. No one will want to do something as boring as live a normal life in a virtual world (they can do that at their very own home) that the virtual people do so very well. I think stepping outside and getting blown away by six rocket launchers with screams of "DIE N00B!" would not be very fun at all.
The only way to make this work is to make running a more or less normal life atractive (Sims anyone?) or at least create a more or less decent ratio of virtual people to real people in an uncrowded city.
It is too easy to send currupted information into the database. They have *no choice* but to trust the clients.
Not really, if they follow the typical distributed computing model they give you a chunk of the web, and the chances that out of the whole web they give you part you are interested in tweaking is very low. The only reason to mess with results is out of pure malice.
Also it would be pretty easy to put a report link url if cnn.com is only links to joe blow's web site. With any luck they aren't doing searches on a link based algorithm anyway.
For windows, sure you can click your setup.exe and it's up and running, but did you bother to consider that your installer had to see if it was win95/95, winMe, win2k, nt4, or winXP before it installed a driver? That's FIVE (count'em) different HALs they provide for! With Linux, there's only 3 relevant stable kernels at the moment. Lots of subversions of them, certainly, but only 3 when it comes down to it. Write for the LCD of each of them and make a driver for 2.0.x, 2.2.x, and 2.4.x.
Well, there's a bad example if I've ever seen one. Just because Linux is newer doesn't mean it's better.
The thing that most people don't seem to realize is that commercial software is about the costumer, the company behind the product will do what the customer wants to sell more products, but free (as in speach and beer) is about the code. It doesn't matter how many copies they give away, it's just about personal pride. So if you want stable software go with open source, but if you want all the features that Micro$oft thought would sell go with them.
... but we know it was us who scourged the search results. At the time it was dependent on human knowledge and it was believed it couldn't survive without the knowledge as abundant as the search results.
Most people aren't "fiddlers" by nature, and it's only those of us who *enjoy* messing with crap like that who are willing to do it.
But that wasn't my point, my point is that the homeowners of tommorow will have grown up with the BSOD, so their house crashing wouldn't phase them and definately pressing a couple of buttons to get recipes wouldn't be bad. Of course this house would have to be scalable in complexity, for example: the microwave should work even if you don't scan the barcodes.
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Customer: I want a mouse.
Salesclerk: How about this Logitech optical mouse... blah... excellent... blah... USB...
Customer: Did you say USB? I have a USB at home, I'll take it!
Customer takes box and turns it over to see USB 1.1 and not USB 2
Customer: What? This won't work with my USB 2 drive!
Salesclerk takes package and turns his back to the customer while he writes a two in permanent marker next to the USB symbol.
Salesclerk: There.
Actually if you downloaded a patch yesterday it would have worked, this has been fixed since in mozilla since 1.3.
Of course the miltia wasn't going to be composed of pre-17 year old boys either, but still singling out cop-killing instead of pregnant-mother-killing makes me nervous.
MP3s != Marijuana
If you stole the weed it would be a different story.
Widescreen is better because that's how you see life. Try looking straight ahead, can you see more up and down or left and right?
Does Bill Gates know that Linus Torvalds works for Transmeta?
Figures that mods are just getting to 1.0 when Half-Life 2 is just around the corner.
I prefer to use google for all my pig latin needs.
Umm, hard drives aren't solid state. They have a nifty spinning platter.
Ahah! They can't fire the guy who writes the shell scripts! That's why I'm going to be a sysadmin.
Just click around a bit.
NEIL
If the poem's score for perfection is
plotted along the horizontal of a graph,
and its importance is plotted on the
vertical, then calculating the total
area of the poem yields the measure of
its greatness.
Keating draws a corresponding graph on the board and the students
dutifully copy it down.
NEIL
A sonnet by Byron may score high on the
vertical, but only average on the
horizontal. A Shakespearean sonnet, on
the other hand, would score high both
horizontally and vertically, yielding a
massive total area, thereby revealing the
poem to be truly great. As you proceed
through the poetry in this book, practice
this rating method. As your ability to
evaluate poems in this matter grows, so
will - so will your enjoyment and
understanding of poetry.
Neil sets the book down and takes off his glasses. The student sitting
across from him is discretely trying to eat. Keating turns away from
the chalkboard with a smile.
KEATING
Excrement. That's what I think of Mr. J.
Evans Pritchard. We're not laying pipe,
we're talking about poetry.
This troll was brought to you by the letter "Script"
My goal is to have something that is useful to myself. Nobody writes code for free (as in beer) if it isn't useful to themselves. So if my code does everything I need well (no bugs), then I have succedeed (and can call it 1.0).
The only problem with this is that everybody will be a vigilante blowing everybody else up. No one will want to do something as boring as live a normal life in a virtual world (they can do that at their very own home) that the virtual people do so very well. I think stepping outside and getting blown away by six rocket launchers with screams of "DIE N00B!" would not be very fun at all.
The only way to make this work is to make running a more or less normal life atractive (Sims anyone?) or at least create a more or less decent ratio of virtual people to real people in an uncrowded city.
Not really, if they follow the typical distributed computing model they give you a chunk of the web, and the chances that out of the whole web they give you part you are interested in tweaking is very low. The only reason to mess with results is out of pure malice.
Also it would be pretty easy to put a report link url if cnn.com is only links to joe blow's web site. With any luck they aren't doing searches on a link based algorithm anyway.
Brillion?
Only reason I ever went to my Grandma's house. :-)
Don't tell her that, though
Well, there's a bad example if I've ever seen one. Just because Linux is newer doesn't mean it's better.
The thing that most people don't seem to realize is that commercial software is about the costumer, the company behind the product will do what the customer wants to sell more products, but free (as in speach and beer) is about the code. It doesn't matter how many copies they give away, it's just about personal pride. So if you want stable software go with open source, but if you want all the features that Micro$oft thought would sell go with them.
... but we know it was us who scourged the search results. At the time it was dependent on human knowledge and it was believed it couldn't survive without the knowledge as abundant as the search results.
But that wasn't my point, my point is that the homeowners of tommorow will have grown up with the BSOD, so their house crashing wouldn't phase them and definately pressing a couple of buttons to get recipes wouldn't be bad. Of course this house would have to be scalable in complexity, for example: the microwave should work even if you don't scan the barcodes.