think again, those number have nothing to do with the ability of a computer to do work. If you want to talk about executing x86 instructions, your 1994 computer was doing about 27 million of them a second, your 4GHz pentium might be doing 21,000 million a second.
oh, cars can't break down or have collision far from city? trains never get derailed with hours before help arrives? hurricanes can't hit coastal areas and tornadoes don't hit midwest? think again, the chances of using some basic survival skills to help others or yourself aren't exactly zero.
not anymore, Debian is moving along well enough now. I've switched to it for my domains, but it still needs some polish for the desktop (Ubuntu is end-user polished Debian)
but with a slide rule you can see a range of answers around the result for varying the factors. that process is extremely slow on a digital calculator. plus a slide rule forces you to think of the proper magnitude of the answer, with calculator people trust without thinking and "missed decimal point" or just fat-finger error gets believed more readily.
actually, ignorant people in survival situations make all kinds of bad decisions and don't know how to treat or stabilize someone with injury. knowing poisonous from edible plants, cleaning properly cooking an animal without contaminating it, these are all things that people knew in that recent past but you'd better learn now rather than by trial and error (you die or are maimed for life if you're wrong)
and with a circular one you don't have that annoying "overflow from one end so I have to go from the other end" problem, it's actually the circular slide ruler going back to linear who's going to be bitching.
if you were a real fan you'd know that's when the Counts repeats a number and then comments how wonderful the items being counted are.
e.g. five...five *wonderful* vampire bats! mwuhahahahaha!
Explorers looked for northwest passage from 1400s to 1900, mapping the artic area. in 1906 Roald Amunsen navigated the passage in an ice-fortified ship. Been done with other such ships since then.
Linux was the kernel of a fully functional OS distro in less than 3 years. What was the HURD doing after three years (answer, floundering around as a very different piece of software from the present one)
Linux history and also Unix history I know, I was alive during all of it.
Linus started with *one* developer. the Linux kernel project grew and attracted developers. So what's the deal with Hurd? It's a science project, not a kernel for real world use. Has some cool ideas that one day might work its way into a kernel for the real world. If you don't engineer something for the real world, don't be surprised if not too many people can use it.
bah, they only had to say it was released under gpl2 and put a copy of the license right there in their own web page. You're basically telling a story of a group being lazy and stupid and careless.
not to worry, there are horticultural techniques to ensure that the hippie weed stays pure in that scenario. of course, I also wonder if someone somewhere hasn't evolved a giant industrial doobie-weed, good for rope and good for dope.
glad to hear you drive your trash to a remote location and bury it, forage for plants and kill and clean your own meat, generate your own power, and send your comments to slashdot via your own leased point to point frame relay.
you want to hide your little high-htc hemp plants in the big industrial low-thc ones, ya hippie
just do what the immigrant farm workers do, hide your little doobie-factories under legitimate food crops
I read the f'ing thing, and don't see what half the beef is, google sponsored results are clearly enough marked for any one with IQ over 90. Now the other half of the beef was the ranking of sponsored links having placement of competitors mentioning search term superceding the searched paying sponsor!
oxygen has 3 stable isotopes, 16, 17 & 18. There's 14 unstable ones 12-15 and 19-27, but their half-life goes from 2 hours down to very minute fractions of a second, they won't hang around long.
those are all pretty nice next to Sun, with Solaris naming they dropped the leading 2 after a while, Solaris 2.7 became 7 and 2.8 is 8, etc. and don't forget they retroactively called Solaris "SunOS 5", so Solaris 9 is really 2.9 and also known as SunOS 5.9 (which is at the top of the man pages)
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think again, those number have nothing to do with the ability of a computer to do work. If you want to talk about executing x86 instructions, your 1994 computer was doing about 27 million of them a second, your 4GHz pentium might be doing 21,000 million a second.
no, it's not contract, it is copyright law
oh, cars can't break down or have collision far from city? trains never get derailed with hours before help arrives? hurricanes can't hit coastal areas and tornadoes don't hit midwest? think again, the chances of using some basic survival skills to help others or yourself aren't exactly zero.
not anymore, Debian is moving along well enough now. I've switched to it for my domains, but it still needs some polish for the desktop (Ubuntu is end-user polished Debian)
but with a slide rule you can see a range of answers around the result for varying the factors. that process is extremely slow on a digital calculator. plus a slide rule forces you to think of the proper magnitude of the answer, with calculator people trust without thinking and "missed decimal point" or just fat-finger error gets believed more readily.
actually, ignorant people in survival situations make all kinds of bad decisions and don't know how to treat or stabilize someone with injury. knowing poisonous from edible plants, cleaning properly cooking an animal without contaminating it, these are all things that people knew in that recent past but you'd better learn now rather than by trial and error (you die or are maimed for life if you're wrong)
and with a circular one you don't have that annoying "overflow from one end so I have to go from the other end" problem, it's actually the circular slide ruler going back to linear who's going to be bitching.
I was wondering when GW Bush's "genius time" was, yes
you left out what happens to peaceful protesters at a Bush public speaking
that's actually Béla Lugosi's Hungarian accent the Count von Count uses. Listen to some Romanian sound clips, that's a latinate language and accent.
if you were a real fan you'd know that's when the Counts repeats a number and then comments how wonderful the items being counted are. e.g. five...five *wonderful* vampire bats! mwuhahahahaha!
I'm confused, I imagined two nonparallel colinear lines
Explorers looked for northwest passage from 1400s to 1900, mapping the artic area. in 1906 Roald Amunsen navigated the passage in an ice-fortified ship. Been done with other such ships since then.
great, we spend all that money for something that acts exactly like an old shopping cart
Linux was the kernel of a fully functional OS distro in less than 3 years. What was the HURD doing after three years (answer, floundering around as a very different piece of software from the present one) Linux history and also Unix history I know, I was alive during all of it.
Linus started with *one* developer. the Linux kernel project grew and attracted developers. So what's the deal with Hurd? It's a science project, not a kernel for real world use. Has some cool ideas that one day might work its way into a kernel for the real world. If you don't engineer something for the real world, don't be surprised if not too many people can use it.
funny the radio service can get a computer accurate to a millisecond but the public internet with ntp only gets to ten milliseconds.
bah, they only had to say it was released under gpl2 and put a copy of the license right there in their own web page. You're basically telling a story of a group being lazy and stupid and careless.
not to worry, there are horticultural techniques to ensure that the hippie weed stays pure in that scenario. of course, I also wonder if someone somewhere hasn't evolved a giant industrial doobie-weed, good for rope and good for dope.
glad to hear you drive your trash to a remote location and bury it, forage for plants and kill and clean your own meat, generate your own power, and send your comments to slashdot via your own leased point to point frame relay.
you want to hide your little high-htc hemp plants in the big industrial low-thc ones, ya hippie just do what the immigrant farm workers do, hide your little doobie-factories under legitimate food crops
I read the f'ing thing, and don't see what half the beef is, google sponsored results are clearly enough marked for any one with IQ over 90. Now the other half of the beef was the ranking of sponsored links having placement of competitors mentioning search term superceding the searched paying sponsor!
oxygen has 3 stable isotopes, 16, 17 & 18. There's 14 unstable ones 12-15 and 19-27, but their half-life goes from 2 hours down to very minute fractions of a second, they won't hang around long.
forgot the best part, that the old SunOS 4.x was renamed to Solaris 1.x
those are all pretty nice next to Sun, with Solaris naming they dropped the leading 2 after a while, Solaris 2.7 became 7 and 2.8 is 8, etc. and don't forget they retroactively called Solaris "SunOS 5", so Solaris 9 is really 2.9 and also known as SunOS 5.9 (which is at the top of the man pages)