Um...it's a link to "news.com.com". "com.com" is a domain, and is probably not run by CNet. It's April Fools as much as me faking my own death was. Just remember, if anyone else tries that, not to spend quite so much on the damn coffin.
It's called Safe House, if it's the one I'm thinking of. 1998 film, his character is Mace Sowell. I've only seen the first bit of it, but it sounds like a match.
There is no such word as 'virii'. The plural of 'virus', as in the not-quite-a-life-form-on-its-own virus, is 'viruses'. The word itself is probably not Latin, and if it is, there is no a single grammatical construction in any dialect of Latin that would make its plural be 'virii'.
Re:CSI - Crummy Science for Idiots
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Obviously, Katz is as imperceptive of real science as he is of anything else, including that about 95% of the comments posted to his stories are anti-JonKatz and the other 5% are from people who just happen to agree with his uneducated view of reality. Then again, that's almost every/. discussion.
There are still possible solutions that require only a single communicating station, although its location would now be restricted to the northernmost and southernmost 23.5 degrees of latitude. However, it will still be a long time before this sucker reaches the nearly 2x10^13m range that would cause a 36-hour round-trip communications delay, and that won't even matter if we don't hear back from it this time.
Only a very small portion of the earth's surface is actually covered by skyscrapers. You haven't seen nearly enough of the planet if you honestly believe that there is nowhere left where you can see a 12-hour sky.
What I was saying is that those satellites you mention are a lot newer than this deep space probe is, so it may be that there is only one ground station that can talk to the probe. But note that you can aim radio signals, 15 degrees east or 15 degrees west or whatever it takes, such that at any time within the 12-hour span that you're on the side of the earth that can 'see' the probe, you can beam a signal off to it and listen for one back.
Actually, I'd say they'd probably wait until the transmitter that is still capable of talking to the probe is 1 hour past being lined up with it, send 'PING', and wait for the earth to go around to the 1-hour-short mark. But that's just me and my illusion of a round Earth speaking.
Every other major antitrust case in the US in the past 50 or 60 years has had the same fate: Stalling by the company, change of government, loss of interest, and dropping of charges. IBM notwithstanding.
New Jersey LAW. If you want to go around making exceptions to laws for reasons of hunting suspected criminals down, then feel free to go back to the USSR, Stalin era. For me, I'm proud to be an American, where laws are usually laws until the courts decide otherwise.
What about those Slashdotters in the Frigid South? It gets cold two directions, remember, and fall is upon those down under pretty soon.
Re:Books, VS.NET, .NET FreeBSD
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True, as far as system administration goes. But I'd be reluctant to write too much system administration software, at that level, so portably. Compile-time portability, for example with gtop and the like, is okay, but runtime portability would not be so great, IMHO...what good could come from running the Windows Control Panel "applet" (as it will be sooner or later) on your Linux desktop? I see.NET's strength really being cross-platform goodness at the end-user application level...MS Word, etc. (As slow as that could be, at least you could more readily decompile Clippit and replace it with a dummy Clippit class.;-D) (Yes, I know that my point is partially obsolete. I dare you to even give a damn!;-D)
I don't get your premise, here. You're saying that MacOS X being the most popular Unix on the desktop doesn't mean that BSD is? Given your statement regarding the APSL, it seems that you require an operating system to be released under an OSF-approved license for it to qualify as BSD. This is far from the reality. If I've misunderstood what you mean, I apologize; however, your sentence structure is such that understanding comes with some difficulty to those of us who correctly parse English.;-D
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Unix-specific classes? Doesn't that defeat the entire purpose of.NET?
That said, it's not surprising that they'd try to make it work on FreeBSD...what does Hotmail run on?
No kidding. I spend more time with my advisor discussing page layout and formatting than all other thesis-related topics combined. That said, I see nowhere in "report.pdf" that specifies "Submitted to in partial fulfillment of the requirements for ", so maybe my original post was even an overstatement of what he gets out of this.:)
You're wrong. There are a lot of applications of this kind of data. Obviously, getting a degree is one of the possibilities, but there are others. Virtual reality escapes from real reality are important to people far outside of Slashdot. You should venture out into that world sometime, before you make posts based on assumptions you've made about it.
If a solitary programmer decides Prolog is his favorite language, he is working on his PhD and never intends to leave academia and get a "real job". And your "What if" question is moot: Nobody else does know Prolog.;-D
Those Apple ][ interfaces ruled! I remember playing with them a lot, experimenting with all sorts of things. I had a not-bad little robot driving around. Too bad I wasn't ambitious enough to make it autonomous at the time, or you'd all have something to ph33r!
Slashdot Mirror
Doh. And...doh.
Um...it's a link to "news.com.com". "com.com" is a domain, and is probably not run by CNet. It's April Fools as much as me faking my own death was. Just remember, if anyone else tries that, not to spend quite so much on the damn coffin.
It's called Safe House, if it's the one I'm thinking of. 1998 film, his character is Mace Sowell. I've only seen the first bit of it, but it sounds like a match.
There is no such word as 'virii'. The plural of 'virus', as in the not-quite-a-life-form-on-its-own virus, is 'viruses'. The word itself is probably not Latin, and if it is, there is no a single grammatical construction in any dialect of Latin that would make its plural be 'virii'.
Obviously, Katz is as imperceptive of real science as he is of anything else, including that about 95% of the comments posted to his stories are anti-JonKatz and the other 5% are from people who just happen to agree with his uneducated view of reality. Then again, that's almost every /. discussion.
It seems that some people need a lesson in antecedents more than they do in apostrophes.
There are still possible solutions that require only a single communicating station, although its location would now be restricted to the northernmost and southernmost 23.5 degrees of latitude. However, it will still be a long time before this sucker reaches the nearly 2x10^13m range that would cause a 36-hour round-trip communications delay, and that won't even matter if we don't hear back from it this time.
Only a very small portion of the earth's surface is actually covered by skyscrapers. You haven't seen nearly enough of the planet if you honestly believe that there is nowhere left where you can see a 12-hour sky.
What I was saying is that those satellites you mention are a lot newer than this deep space probe is, so it may be that there is only one ground station that can talk to the probe. But note that you can aim radio signals, 15 degrees east or 15 degrees west or whatever it takes, such that at any time within the 12-hour span that you're on the side of the earth that can 'see' the probe, you can beam a signal off to it and listen for one back.
Actually, I'd say they'd probably wait until the transmitter that is still capable of talking to the probe is 1 hour past being lined up with it, send 'PING', and wait for the earth to go around to the 1-hour-short mark. But that's just me and my illusion of a round Earth speaking.
Granted that the source needs to be disclosed; but Morpheus has no obligation under the GPL to tell the Gnucleus developers about what they're doing.
Every other major antitrust case in the US in the past 50 or 60 years has had the same fate: Stalling by the company, change of government, loss of interest, and dropping of charges. IBM notwithstanding.
New Jersey LAW . If you want to go around making exceptions to laws for reasons of hunting suspected criminals down, then feel free to go back to the USSR, Stalin era. For me, I'm proud to be an American, where laws are usually laws until the courts decide otherwise.
...Dennis Veiren probably designed and built the most beautiful aluminium case ever...
Is he claiming the credit, or is there a general consensus that he is the mostly builder? And who's calling this the most beautiful case ever?
What about those Slashdotters in the Frigid South? It gets cold two directions, remember, and fall is upon those down under pretty soon.
True, as far as system administration goes. But I'd be reluctant to write too much system administration software, at that level, so portably. Compile-time portability, for example with gtop and the like, is okay, but runtime portability would not be so great, IMHO...what good could come from running the Windows Control Panel "applet" (as it will be sooner or later) on your Linux desktop? I see .NET's strength really being cross-platform goodness at the end-user application level...MS Word, etc. (As slow as that could be, at least you could more readily decompile Clippit and replace it with a dummy Clippit class. ;-D) (Yes, I know that my point is partially obsolete. I dare you to even give a damn! ;-D)
I don't get your premise, here. You're saying that MacOS X being the most popular Unix on the desktop doesn't mean that BSD is? Given your statement regarding the APSL, it seems that you require an operating system to be released under an OSF-approved license for it to qualify as BSD. This is far from the reality. If I've misunderstood what you mean, I apologize; however, your sentence structure is such that understanding comes with some difficulty to those of us who correctly parse English. ;-D
Unix-specific classes? Doesn't that defeat the entire purpose of .NET?
That said, it's not surprising that they'd try to make it work on FreeBSD...what does Hotmail run on?
"I went into the woods to front only the essential facts of life..."
No kidding. I spend more time with my advisor discussing page layout and formatting than all other thesis-related topics combined. That said, I see nowhere in "report.pdf" that specifies "Submitted to in partial fulfillment of the requirements for ", so maybe my original post was even an overstatement of what he gets out of this. :)
the people at FOX are smoking something with strong hallucinagenic qualities. What the hell are they going to replace it with?
Acid.
You're wrong. There are a lot of applications of this kind of data. Obviously, getting a degree is one of the possibilities, but there are others. Virtual reality escapes from real reality are important to people far outside of Slashdot. You should venture out into that world sometime, before you make posts based on assumptions you've made about it.
If a solitary programmer decides Prolog is his favorite language, he is working on his PhD and never intends to leave academia and get a "real job". And your "What if" question is moot: Nobody else does know Prolog. ;-D
360-degree aileron rolls
Helicopters generally don't have ailerons. 'Rolls' would have been not only sufficient, but more accurate.
-- Nit Pick Nazi
Those Apple ][ interfaces ruled! I remember playing with them a lot, experimenting with all sorts of things. I had a not-bad little robot driving around. Too bad I wasn't ambitious enough to make it autonomous at the time, or you'd all have something to ph33r!