I say "hey, look at those people bouncing that ball". You say "don't judge people who bounce balls!"
I made no judgement. I gave a representative link.
I'd sure love it if someone gave examples of the troll posts and links and said that that's what all the slashdot posters are like.
You're knocking down a strawman. I never made any such claim. You made me curious, though: are you suggesting those prayers are not heartfelt but are, rather, the work of trolls?
Have you been reading the site? It seems far more monocultural than any other forum I've seen on the web thus far. That link was meant to capture the spirit, not to make a statistical argument. And, for what it's worth, I count 18 sample points on that page, not one.
If Tim really wanted to make the web a better place, he should push to get rid of the requirements for XHTML to be properly nested, well-formed, and closed. It may seem like a good idea to us coders, but a bad idea to people who find HTML confusing enough already.
It seems to me that forcing the nested-container format makes HTML less confusing: one need not memorize the strange exceptions where they don't need closing tags. And it makes it easy for tools to find where the document is malformed. It's a win for novices and coders alike.
I don't have the hardware to try it on, but you can get Debian/SPARC on CD
I've used the Debian/PPC distribution for over a year now, and have been really liking it.
Just so you know, every time in your post where you were "trying to understand" his question, you restated it as a declarative statement. Try rephrasing it as a query. (Just trying to be helpful.)
Be honest, though. If a hypothetical business organized around the idea of building a captive customer base through network-effects of controlling APIs, protocols, and document formats . . . couldn't they call that being "customer oriented" too?
Moving from one distribution to another is not as easy as changing a few files. You will have to install from scratch.
However, you are free to create a tarball of your home directory and bring it with you. You can also tar up your/etc directory, in case you want to remember how some things were configured in your old distribution. (Do NOT use your/etc directory as-is in the new distribution, however -- that would cause a mess.) Anyway, it's not hard. If you want it to be as easy as flipping the "now-be-a-debian-machine" switch, on the other hand, you're screwed.
I've often been curious about the source of the semantic games that Microsoft plays in the course of marketing and public relations. I don't think I need to elaborate on the sense in which you use the word "innovation". Another example is the word "standard", which was redefined from "a shared measurement for interoperability" to mean "a secret measurement made ubiquitous through the force of monopoly." There are others, but I'm more interested in how you feel about bending language in the course of doing your job. Are you even conscious of doing it?
It looks like nobody else has done this yet: CVS is wonderful, but has many quirks and limitations that the developers won't fix. Fortunately, there is a project for a next-generation CVS-like system called SVN (a.k.a. "Subversion") here. That has to be worth a +3 Informative, at least.
5) I've got a G4 under my desk right this very moment, running Debian/PPC. Although I may play with MacOSX out of morbid curiosity about what they did to my old love, NeXTstep, I know that I'll maintain Debian as my primary system for the sole reason that I'm never again going to put myself in the position where I have to wait for my vendor.
I want to be sympathetic, but I can't help thinking that they should have been thinking about name recognition at the outset when they chose to name the product after the protocol. Actually, I'd go so far as to say that they were trying to ride on the inevitable popularity of the protocol's name, and that it came back to bite them in the ass. Now they're doing damage control.
On another note, isn't this the same company that still hasn't implemented scp correctly? Maybe the IETF should have made them a deal in exchange for correctness.
Are there any more modestly-sized racks for rackmount hardware? The only things I've managed to find are huge, ceiling-to-floor things that cost at least a grand. Are there no smaller ones for someone who might want at most 6Us or so?
If it's not available in source-code form, then it is not available "for Linux". It may be available for some subset, like Linux/i386, but not for Linux in its entirety.
None when you get down to it...just wanted to underscore the discrete nature of the function. I hear the term 'exponential' used more often for continuous functions. Maybe that's colloquial?
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If you claim that the link is uncharacteristic of the site, I'll take your word for it.
I made no judgement. I gave a representative link.
I'd sure love it if someone gave examples of the troll posts and links and said that that's what all the slashdot posters are like.
You're knocking down a strawman. I never made any such claim. You made me curious, though: are you suggesting those prayers are not heartfelt but are, rather, the work of trolls?
You've managed to state explicitly what I was illustrating with the link. My post doesn't constitute a judgement unless yours does too.
Have you been reading the site? It seems far more monocultural than any other forum I've seen on the web thus far. That link was meant to capture the spirit, not to make a statistical argument. And, for what it's worth, I count 18 sample points on that page, not one.
Anybody who wants to get a feel for the mindset of the site's inhabitants need only browse one article to understand.
It seems to me that forcing the nested-container format makes HTML less confusing: one need not memorize the strange exceptions where they don't need closing tags. And it makes it easy for tools to find where the document is malformed. It's a win for novices and coders alike.
I don't have the hardware to try it on, but you can get Debian/SPARC on CD I've used the Debian/PPC distribution for over a year now, and have been really liking it.
Just so you know, every time in your post where you were "trying to understand" his question, you restated it as a declarative statement. Try rephrasing it as a query. (Just trying to be helpful.)
Be honest, though. If a hypothetical business organized around the idea of building a captive customer base through network-effects of controlling APIs, protocols, and document formats . . . couldn't they call that being "customer oriented" too?
Only at Total Annihilation...she crushes me at Starcraft.
Ah, slashdot in the spring...
Could it be that those who moderated the second post up are not the same people who moderated his first one down?
The post was about evil empires. Both Microsoft and Monsanto fall under that banner according to many. What makes that difficult to understand?
However, you are free to create a tarball of your home directory and bring it with you. You can also tar up your /etc directory, in case you want to remember how some things were configured in your old distribution. (Do NOT use your /etc directory as-is in the new distribution, however -- that would cause a mess.) Anyway, it's not hard. If you want it to be as easy as flipping the "now-be-a-debian-machine" switch, on the other hand, you're screwed.
I've often been curious about the source of the semantic games that Microsoft plays in the course of marketing and public relations. I don't think I need to elaborate on the sense in which you use the word "innovation". Another example is the word "standard", which was redefined from "a shared measurement for interoperability" to mean "a secret measurement made ubiquitous through the force of monopoly." There are others, but I'm more interested in how you feel about bending language in the course of doing your job. Are you even conscious of doing it?
It looks like nobody else has done this yet: CVS is wonderful, but has many quirks and limitations that the developers won't fix. Fortunately, there is a project for a next-generation CVS-like system called SVN (a.k.a. "Subversion") here. That has to be worth a +3 Informative, at least.
5) I've got a G4 under my desk right this very moment, running Debian/PPC. Although I may play with MacOSX out of morbid curiosity about what they did to my old love, NeXTstep, I know that I'll maintain Debian as my primary system for the sole reason that I'm never again going to put myself in the position where I have to wait for my vendor.
On another note, isn't this the same company that still hasn't implemented scp correctly? Maybe the IETF should have made them a deal in exchange for correctness.
Whenever they're in my current working directory and not in $PATH?
Are there any more modestly-sized racks for rackmount hardware? The only things I've managed to find are huge, ceiling-to-floor things that cost at least a grand. Are there no smaller ones for someone who might want at most 6Us or so?
The author was pulling your leg.
If it's not available in source-code form, then it is not available "for Linux". It may be available for some subset, like Linux/i386, but not for Linux in its entirety.
None when you get down to it...just wanted to underscore the discrete nature of the function. I hear the term 'exponential' used more often for continuous functions. Maybe that's colloquial?