Yes there is: an email client that does not even have to option to do so, and the need for an execute permission. This way, you have to detach the binary, make it executable and then run it. This prevents a lot of stupidity
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Read it aloud if it helps:) The auto-generator takes old (supposedly human-written)/. comments on SCO and combines them with other stuff. E.g., "It just goes to show that whether it's object-oriented programming or contract law, multiple inheritance is likely to be hard to understand" is taken verbatim from an old posting (I know, I read it). Seems as if copyright issues come up here (considering how/. posters [sadly, IMO] reacted when the Hellmouth book was discussed, I think it's strange nobody takes offence with this
In some way, yes. Like someone who has had some exposure to latin, but uses it way more than he is capable of. Like some palestinian peasant under roman government, or like some mediaevel peasant in Europe. Or like some guy who dropped out of school at 16:) (we still have latin in many higher educational branches)
You are right in many cases. E.g., "23". Numbers are everywhere, and if you start to single out one, you start to see it. In my case, or in the "mystery tile" case, your comment does not apply. It's not as if the types of tiles are everywhere, and you start to see them. They are actually put there. Same with latin translations in pencil of everyday stuff.
I had a similar experience in Vienna/Austria. One day by accident I saw the words on an ad poster translated to latin (or some warped form of it), in pencil, all caps, about 0.7 mm high. I thought nothing of it. But having seen this one item, I suddenly saw them everywhere. I realized that in my neighborhood nearly all the names of the residents were translated (pencil, caps,...) on the front doors. I saw timetables on bus stops translated. I started to open my eyes to it in other districts of the city. Bingo, there they were - names, ads, traffic signs, basically everything on the streets you could translate and write on had a good chance to carry them, and I kept seeing them for 12 years all over the city, until I moved away (no, not for this reason:) There were times when I thought of charting them and trying to find out who the guy is (yes, I had nothing much to do), but I reminded myself of what can happen when one goes overboard with those things and thought better of it;o) A crackpot, sure, but one with a hell of a determination
Laptops are famous for being a pig to install Linux onto
You are right, but I'd like to add that installing Windows from anything else than the vendor-supplied so-called "Recovery CD" (those would be more aptly called "Trash it completely CD") which has all the strange drivers and hacks for buggy hardware included is not piece of cake either
Are you sure? Have you timed it (and I'm not talking about time to the login screen, but to a fully loaded Desktop)? I just ask because the company I work at is in the process of migrating to XP, so it's the first time I get to play with it. And from my experience on my laptop (Mobile P3, 1.2ghz) it sure is fast as hell at the login screen, but after that it takes forever until it has reached a usable state. So I wonder if that's just another MS trick again
The world's real problem is overpopulation of human beings
The world's real problem is not even the overpopulation with human beings having the resource consumption of the average north american. But it's already a lot nearer to the truth.
They're reasonably durable (obviously nothing compared to that of a CD)
Of my several 100 LPs I can still play every single one (granted, some do have clicks&pops). Of my ~ 100 CDs (which I handle as I did my LPs - carefully) at least 5 have degraded to the point of not being able to be played completely. Some have developed holes in the medium, you can literally see through if you hold them up against the light. Don't tell me anything about CD durability. If you ask me, it's all a plot by the RIAA to force me to pay the license fees more than once (only half joking)
Not only has everyone seen TV shows and movies illustrating that, but it happens in everyone's brains all the time. Go read #5 of the Reith Lectures 2003 by Vilayanur S Ramachandran. Zen Buddhism's claim to enable the practitioner to "live in the present" seems to be connected with these phenomena, and seems to have actual foundations in the material phenomena in the brain. Everybody interested, go read Zen and the Brain by James H. Austin
My Momma always said life is like a box with a cat in it, you never know if it is alive or dead...
Impressive. My mum never quoted Schrödinger to me
yeah, great. I've got some patent ideas too
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Prince of Pop-ups
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Shuster has a long list of pending patents, including one for pop-up audio ads that cannot be turned off.'
I think I'll file for a patent on "Honking a truck's horn in a residential area from 1 a.m. to 5 a.m., advertising a sale of one or more goods". I think I could get some license fees for that. To up my income, I will also file for "Yelling at a carefully chosen target group of people at prominent city places until they agree to buy one or more goods".
Jeez. Indeed, leaving the oceans was a bad idea, after all.
It bothers me that a company takes work that is done gratis by the community and then patents it to claim authorship. StarOffice is this.
Bull. Sun bought StarOffice from the German company StarDivision, improved it, gave it as a gift to the community and in return bases its future StarOffice version on the OO code. Sounds like fair deal to me. Java is another matter, but then, they wrote it and it's theirs and they can do whatever they want with it.
the act if kiddie porn is in itslef an act of violence
Sure
and each transfer of that file furthers this.
Open to discussion. 60% of child abuse cases (like most other violence) happen within the family or close friends Whether those cases are furthered or not (or the opposite) by consumption of child porn I dare not judge. The copying of a file is not child abuse (however, the child's human and personal rights are further violated)
I've seen this claim lots of times and I don't buy it. Free vs. proprietary is a way of life. Don't worry, you will discover that when you're 0wn3d by Palladium
Correct. You don't get a reasonably working machine if you only do the install stage and leave out setup. I just tried Gentoo for a week. It's interesting, but lots of things aren't there that on Debian I take for granted, like that an app comes with some sensible default cron job if it makes sense. Like, fileutils set up a periodic updatedb run.
Then, there is the quite incomprehensible runlevel mechanism. Maybe I wasn't with it long enough to judge, but to me the concept looked interesting, but the implementation lacking. I mean, runlevel-related files in/mnt/.forgotthename ?? And not documented in the bootprocess documentation doc either? WTF are they not at least in/etc/runlevels/thename?!? And then you're confronted with a crowd on IRC that constantly discusses the merits or not of -fomit-frame-pointer and is it included in -O3 or not. But know nothing about the basic skills to run their distro.
Don't know, but have you ever seen a company being nicer to potential (well) customers than this?
We compiled, tested, packaged, compiled, tested, packaged, compiled, tested, packaged. Until one of you actually tries it how can you even start talking. It is a complete new Linux not based on anything else, targetting the i686 business market. You nerds arenot our business. You nerds are no ones business and this is the reason why as a community we fail to fight M$ properly. After years of dev you could have actually given it an objective go instead of slagging it off and blindly comparing it to slackware only because it was posted on/. in the same article as slackware. Ignorance is bliss. Stay in your matrix and stay blind. This is a business and not a charity organization for brainless and gutless chickens that fill a forum up with junk.
Stay with your Linux and leave us alone. Business users need us, since they are sick of YOU. We do not need brainless nerds with too much time on their hand. We need businesses who want to save time and money and save their behind from having to hire you.
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Yes there is: an email client that does not even have to option to do so, and the need for an execute permission. This way, you have to detach the binary, make it executable and then run it. This prevents a lot of stupidity
I thought so :) I probably should have replied to the parent of your post, who is still +4 Interesting. Way to go, Moderators. Not.
Disclaimer: This generator generates a random number of sentences from old slashdot comments randomly thrown together with random topics
:) The auto-generator takes old (supposedly human-written) /. comments on SCO and combines them with other stuff. E.g., "It just goes to show that whether it's object-oriented programming or contract law, multiple inheritance is likely to be hard to understand" is taken verbatim from an old posting (I know, I read it). Seems as if copyright issues come up here (considering how /. posters [sadly, IMO] reacted when the Hellmouth book was discussed, I think it's strange nobody takes offence with this
Read it aloud if it helps
If they are still there, have a look around 18., Kreuzgasse/Lacknergasse
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=77642&cid=6901 941
Somehow I had to think of Schill and how OZ seems to have a point
+1 Funny, +1 Insightful
:) (we still have latin in many higher educational branches)
In some way, yes. Like someone who has had some exposure to latin, but uses it way more than he is capable of. Like some palestinian peasant under roman government, or like some mediaevel peasant in Europe. Or like some guy who dropped out of school at 16
You are right in many cases. E.g., "23". Numbers are everywhere, and if you start to single out one, you start to see it. In my case, or in the "mystery tile" case, your comment does not apply. It's not as if the types of tiles are everywhere, and you start to see them. They are actually put there. Same with latin translations in pencil of everyday stuff.
uh, typo. cm
I had a similar experience in Vienna/Austria. One day by accident I saw the words on an ad poster translated to latin (or some warped form of it), in pencil, all caps, about 0.7 mm high. I thought nothing of it. But having seen this one item, I suddenly saw them everywhere. I realized that in my neighborhood nearly all the names of the residents were translated (pencil, caps, ...) on the front doors. I saw timetables on bus stops translated. I started to open my eyes to it in other districts of the city. Bingo, there they were - names, ads, traffic signs, basically everything on the streets you could translate and write on had a good chance to carry them, and I kept seeing them for 12 years all over the city, until I moved away (no, not for this reason :) ;o)
There were times when I thought of charting them and trying to find out who the guy is (yes, I had nothing much to do), but I reminded myself of what can happen when one goes overboard with those things and thought better of it
A crackpot, sure, but one with a hell of a determination
Laptops are famous for being a pig to install Linux onto
You are right, but I'd like to add that installing Windows from anything else than the vendor-supplied so-called "Recovery CD" (those would be more aptly called "Trash it completely CD") which has all the strange drivers and hacks for buggy hardware included is not piece of cake either
that's because you have the docbook stuff not installed correctly.
Are you sure? Have you timed it (and I'm not talking about time to the login screen, but to a fully loaded Desktop)? I just ask because the company I work at is in the process of migrating to XP, so it's the first time I get to play with it. And from my experience on my laptop (Mobile P3, 1.2ghz) it sure is fast as hell at the login screen, but after that it takes forever until it has reached a usable state. So I wonder if that's just another MS trick again
The world's real problem is overpopulation of human beings
The world's real problem is not even the overpopulation with human beings having the resource consumption of the average north american. But it's already a lot nearer to the truth.
They're reasonably durable (obviously nothing compared to that of a CD)
Of my several 100 LPs I can still play every single one (granted, some do have clicks&pops). Of my ~ 100 CDs (which I handle as I did my LPs - carefully) at least 5 have degraded to the point of not being able to be played completely. Some have developed holes in the medium, you can literally see through if you hold them up against the light. Don't tell me anything about CD durability. If you ask me, it's all a plot by the RIAA to force me to pay the license fees more than once (only half joking)
Not only has everyone seen TV shows and movies illustrating that, but it happens in everyone's brains all the time. Go read #5 of the Reith Lectures 2003 by Vilayanur S Ramachandran.
Zen Buddhism's claim to enable the practitioner to "live in the present" seems to be connected with these phenomena, and seems to have actual foundations in the material phenomena in the brain. Everybody interested, go read Zen and the Brain by James H. Austin
My Momma always said life is like a box with a cat in it, you never know if it is alive or dead...
Impressive. My mum never quoted Schrödinger to me
Shuster has a long list of pending patents, including one for pop-up audio ads that cannot be turned off.'
I think I'll file for a patent on "Honking a truck's horn in a residential area from 1 a.m. to 5 a.m., advertising a sale of one or more goods". I think I could get some license fees for that. To up my income, I will also file for "Yelling at a carefully chosen target group of people at prominent city places until they agree to buy one or more goods".
Jeez. Indeed, leaving the oceans was a bad idea, after all.
consider that most albums only have like 3 songs worth listening too
you clearly listen to the wrong music
It bothers me that a company takes work that is done gratis by the community and then patents it to claim authorship. StarOffice is this.
Bull. Sun bought StarOffice from the German company StarDivision, improved it, gave it as a gift to the community and in return bases its future StarOffice version on the OO code. Sounds like fair deal to me. Java is another matter, but then, they wrote it and it's theirs and they can do whatever they want with it.
the act if kiddie porn is in itslef an act of violence
Sure
and each transfer of that file furthers this.
Open to discussion. 60% of child abuse cases (like most other violence) happen within the family or close friends
Whether those cases are furthered or not (or the opposite) by consumption of child porn I dare not judge. The copying of a file is not child abuse (however, the child's human and personal rights are further violated)
Unix is the way of my computer, that doesn't make it the way of my life.
When computers control your life, it does
it's just an operating system, not a way of life
I've seen this claim lots of times and I don't buy it. Free vs. proprietary is a way of life. Don't worry, you will discover that when you're 0wn3d by Palladium
Correct. You don't get a reasonably working machine if you only do the install stage and leave out setup. I just tried Gentoo for a week. It's interesting, but lots of things aren't there that on Debian I take for granted, like that an app comes with some sensible default cron job if it makes sense. Like, fileutils set up a periodic updatedb run.
/mnt/.forgotthename ?? And not documented in the bootprocess documentation doc either? WTF are they not at least in /etc/runlevels/thename?!?
Then, there is the quite incomprehensible runlevel mechanism. Maybe I wasn't with it long enough to judge, but to me the concept looked interesting, but the implementation lacking. I mean, runlevel-related files in
And then you're confronted with a crowd on IRC that constantly discusses the merits or not of -fomit-frame-pointer and is it included in -O3 or not. But know nothing about the basic skills to run their distro.
Well, back to Debian and love it
this?