Oh, that would be an inconvenience to you? God forbid you should have to go without Facebook and Twitter for a while, and actually start living life the way it was meant to be lived. God forbid you should actually have to pick up the phone and CALL SOMEONE rather then leaving a message on somebodies virtual wall.
Americans just don't fucking get it...
Offering to make my house payment, are we?
ProTip: This is Slashdot, not Facebook. Many of us not only work from home, we're also employed doing something other than stuffing envelopes.
Is that intended to express some actual point, or is it just your disarmingly cute little way of telling us that Mum let you eat a few too many paint chips?
Back in the day, I used to do lots of system/shell scripting using JScript, and it never slowed anything down. You're telling me that Windows 2000 on contemporary hardware could handle this better than a modern Linux on modern kit?
As someone who works with Indian engineers daily, who lives with (and is about to marry) a Chinese engineer, and who is himself "foreign born"... You are so full of racist crap, I'd be afraid to kick you out my door for fear of ruining the carpet.
I dunno about that... Not only is this an issue in Europe (where I live and buy the honey I eat), but they're also asking each other, "Eat any horseburgers lately?"
Texinfo is is a decent format for writing documentation in - nicer and less verbose than HTML or DocBook.
You have got to be kidding. That's true only in the sense that making the trip from Stockholm to Vladivostok via dogsled might be a "decent" mode of travel.
Aside from the fact that it's Just Plain Horrid(TM) to read or write in source format, TexInfo suffers from the same problem that HTML does: No semantics.
The reason that DocBook is so "verbose" is that it actually indicates what things are.
have you seen the HTML that gets generated from TeXInfo?
(Did they ever figure out how to output *valid* HTML? */me recalls many hours spent looking out over acres and acres of crossed and mismatched tags, and weeping softly to himself...*)
Plain old man pages (especially when nicely rendered in KDE's Konqueror web browser by typing "#program-name" into the URL box)...
Fuck me! Been using KDE since 2004 and I had NO idea you could do that. (Works with Konq in both KDE 3 and 4, BTW.)
Sorry, but the world works the way it works, and does not magickally conform itself to your views on How Things Should Be.
I don't like perl, either. ("Loathe" might not be too strong a term.) But neither am I foolish enough to believe that I am likely to wind up with a usable Linux or FreeBSD system if I try to set one of those up without it.
Hooray. Nice to see they finally got round to supporting Unicode. Structured docs. Woohoo. Multiple formatting backends. Yippee.
DocBook XML has had all these things from the beginning, and thus we (ubiquitous FOSS project) dumped TexInfo in favour of DBXML 6 or 7 years ago as the source format for all our end user docs.
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One of my favourite spontaneous epithets being, "Bite me!"
I'm sure inventive Slashdotters can devise even more entertaining variations.
Cancel your account.
Oh, that would be an inconvenience to you? God forbid you should have to go without Facebook and Twitter for a while, and actually start living life the way it was meant to be lived. God forbid you should actually have to pick up the phone and CALL SOMEONE rather then leaving a message on somebodies virtual wall.
Americans just don't fucking get it...
Offering to make my house payment, are we?
ProTip: This is Slashdot, not Facebook. Many of us not only work from home, we're also employed doing something other than stuffing envelopes.
What's up with the "£inux" bit, anyway?
Is that intended to express some actual point, or is it just your disarmingly cute little way of telling us that Mum let you eat a few too many paint chips?
Shit, they've got their own cult of personality and everything! Colour me impressed.
Except that NK is a country where 'illegal' means 'whatever we happen to feel like punishing people for today'...
On Google when you type the query "corporate executive" or "majority shareholder".
TFTFY.
Back in the day, I used to do lots of system/shell scripting using JScript, and it never slowed anything down. You're telling me that Windows 2000 on contemporary hardware could handle this better than a modern Linux on modern kit?
Think about what you're saying, son.
All out of mod points, but you can haz 10 internets.
"Bar mitzvah", ever heard of it?
Yeah, the house red there is Mogen David. The hostess is Rachel. I get all verklempt just thinking about her.
PGDIAF. Kthxbye.
You forgot to put work in quotes. ;)
As someone who works with Indian engineers daily, who lives with (and is about to marry) a Chinese engineer, and who is himself "foreign born"... You are so full of racist crap, I'd be afraid to kick you out my door for fear of ruining the carpet.
Given your reference to "15 years", it appears that you don't know the difference between Korea and Vietnam.
What if I'm a corrupt drug-taker who likes to fuck but who also bathes regularly?
...can occasionally be heard whimpering in the night--not unlike a cold, wet dog at the door.
I dunno about that... Not only is this an issue in Europe (where I live and buy the honey I eat), but they're also asking each other, "Eat any horseburgers lately?"
Texinfo is is a decent format for writing documentation in - nicer and less verbose than HTML or DocBook.
You have got to be kidding. That's true only in the sense that making the trip from Stockholm to Vladivostok via dogsled might be a "decent" mode of travel.
Aside from the fact that it's Just Plain Horrid(TM) to read or write in source format, TexInfo suffers from the same problem that HTML does: No semantics.
The reason that DocBook is so "verbose" is that it actually indicates what things are.
And knowing what things are can be very helpful.
have you seen the HTML that gets generated from TeXInfo?
(Did they ever figure out how to output *valid* HTML? */me recalls many hours spent looking out over acres and acres of crossed and mismatched tags, and weeping softly to himself...*)
Plain old man pages (especially when nicely rendered in KDE's Konqueror web browser by typing "#program-name" into the URL box) ...
Fuck me! Been using KDE since 2004 and I had NO idea you could do that. (Works with Konq in both KDE 3 and 4, BTW.)
Thanks for the tip!
Sorry, but the world works the way it works, and does not magickally conform itself to your views on How Things Should Be.
I don't like perl, either. ("Loathe" might not be too strong a term.) But neither am I foolish enough to believe that I am likely to wind up with a usable Linux or FreeBSD system if I try to set one of those up without it.
Hooray. Nice to see they finally got round to supporting Unicode. Structured docs. Woohoo. Multiple formatting backends. Yippee.
DocBook XML has had all these things from the beginning, and thus we (ubiquitous FOSS project) dumped TexInfo in favour of DBXML 6 or 7 years ago as the source format for all our end user docs.
I do not miss TexInfo one bit.
OMG, you've found the last website that still uses ColdFusion!
Doesn't change the fact that America sucks, is racist, and kills people.
TFTFY
Good one. A classic.
See also Fredrik Pohl's The Cool War (1981).
Kernel Sanders is alive and well--here, go knock yourself out.
Come write for me, then, and let me retire a few years early.