Latin: vir, viri, a second-declension masculine noun meaning 'man'. 'viri' would mean either 'of {the,a} man' or 'the men'. 'virus', in the sense that we're talking here, is poorly-documented in the Latin at best. The Oxford English Dictionary gives its plural simply as 'viruses'. For more on this subject, check out this research into this very topic. I haven't read the entire page, but it seems to be well-documented and ready for consumption.
Still not quite correct.
An anonymous reader's submission linked to a PC which fits in your car's stereo slot. It's a bit spendy at $1k, but it has CD/DVD, PCMCIA, USB, Keyboard, Mic, Headphones, VGA, and more. Beside being powered by your car, it also has built-in GPS. Lots of interesting hacking ideas for people who prefer to spend more time in their cars than I.;)
As bad as the spelling is here, do note that every spelling is just a transliteration from that gibberish that the terrorists are calling a language. It's not even written left-to-right, for crying out loud!
That is not yikesworthy. What scares me is that playing Civ III apparently takes away the ability to add mod 12. 5 + 8 = 1 (mod 12) but 3 - 5 = 10 (mod 12) Scary.
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It won't take long. Back during the election, some non-front-page article in the North Dakota State University student newspaper included the sentence "I advocate the killing of whoever wins the election.", justifying his statement by claiming that the vice presidential candidates were both better presidential candidates than either of the actual presidential candidates were. The next morning, the SS paid him a pretty nice visit. And only the three literate students at NDSU even read that paper; this is Slashdot.
I wrote a text-based Yahoo! Messenger client several years ago, because I wanted to be able to talk to my friends around the world while using computers that were not my own without having to install any software; so I'd telnet to a shell account I had and run my text-based client. Just this summer, I received a very appreciative e-mail from a blind user who finds that the text-based interface makes it easier for his text-to-speech software to work with Yahoo! Messenger. It was at that particular moment that I felt just this utterly touching thrill, as I realized I had personally done something, small though it may be, that benefits other people and therefore the world. Take that feeling times a thousand, and I'm sure that's what it feels like to be the original author of an amazingly popular piece of software, such as the Linux kernel, the Apache web server, or the various parts of GNOME and KDE, which make it so much easier for more people to have access to an alternative to Windows and MacOS.
In summary, we do it because we are a part of humanity.
Has anyone here read The Prince? Machiavelli lays out the strategy for gaining power, and it applies as much in the business world of the 21st century as it did in the political world of the 15th.
You must side with every lesser state which you can, and you must immediately attack and destroy every greater state. The less powerful ones can help you take on the more powerful ones, and by siding with them you give them a sense of security such that they will not aspire to grow beyond your power, and you can crush them once they are your strongest remaining neighbor. The more powerful ones will only become greater with time, and siding with them will only act to crush your own power. Therefore, your best chance, no matter how small it may be, to destroy your strongest enemies is immediate action against them.
Will it do Klingon? Those bastards at that last convention seemed to be laughing pretty hard about something or other they said to me in Klingon, and I'm not sure if it was "He has a tall leanness." or something else...I just can't keep up with these professionals.
I'm in the middle of nowhere and all I have to blame for bad viewing of this kind of thing, not to mention the Northern Lights or the sun, is God. When you yell at society for polluting your air, at least it won't get you on the early train to hell.
An antichrist is someone who doesn't believe in the bible (old testament only).
Huh? I can only picture two real definitions of the term 'antichrist':
1. Satan
2. Someone who doesn't believe in the New Testament of the bible
Christos (I like using Greek names because it makes people sound like OS's;) wasn't introduced until the New Testament. Just like Q wasn't until the Next Generation and Lameness until the second incarnation of Viper.
A lot of comment-posters are missing the point. How much do you know about how DSL works? How much hands-on experimentation have you done with emulating hardware using barely-related hardware and some software?
We make advances in technology because people either invent new technology or improve on existing technology. True, this is not an improvement on any kind of technology that we have right now. It's using a Sound Blaster and a very expensive CPU to create a DSL modem, whereas a 'real' DSL modem would give better performance for less money. But what this is, is someone learning a great deal about how something works and using that knowledge to build an unlikely device. DSL exists in the first place because some genius took the knowledge of how POTS works and realized a way to make use of the filtered-out bandwidth.
This person was not trying to create something useful. He may tell you or even himself that he was, but in his heart he knows that he's just a hacker (true to the word, see previous paragraph) who is learning about the system. Who knows, maybe this augmented knowledge of DSL and broadband-over-analog technology in general will allow him to be a significant part of the next step upward in broadband. He certainly knows more than I do about how DSL works, and the same probably goes for the rest of us. Don't knock the guy because he's a hacker.
I got a Sparcstation IPX a few years back, and it included Slowaris 2.5.1. Unfortunately,/usr was on the external drive and I didn't have the necessary SCSI cable to hook that up and, in my impatience, I decided to just throw OpenBSD on it.
Having run OpenBSD 2.4 and RedHat Linux (using the 2.2.x kernel if I remember right), I would definitely say that OpenBSD is much quicker than Linux on the Sparc platform. (Tiny factors get multiplied on that speed of a box.;) OpenBSD is also fairly simple to administer and maintain, but Linux is definitely the more 'compatible' operating system if you're looking to run lots of software on your box. I just ran fvwm, GTKYahoo, TinyFugue, and ircII on it for the most part, but even Netscape with Solaris compatibility was acceptable. Even KDE (back in the pre-1.0 days;) ran at a usable pace.
If you have a fast enough box, though, and don't need the level of security and stability that OpenBSD provides (Linux may or may not be as stable as OpenBSD on sparc, but I have not used it enough to know for certain; and it's definitely easier to make OpenBSD secure than to make a typical Linux distribution that way), then Linux is the way to go. As to Slowaris, why bother when it's easier to make the fun applications (from GNOME or KDE to pingus to Mozilla to whatever) run under Linux and they run faster anyhow? Use Solaris if it's the right choice for your application, but don't use it if it's not.
This is only made worse by the knowledge that the suit against Microsoft will most likely be dropped. Look at what's happened in the past when an antitrust suit has been going on at the time that a Republican entered office. (Not to mention that Shrub has already left the tobacco suit(s) out of the budget, so whether we're even choosing to continue to afford the Microsoft case is up for grabs.)
How do you make a bug-free Hello World program? I'm a senior in Computer Science and have yet to hear any credible evidence of such a program existing.
1. FreeBSD is not mostly GNU. Install it sometime, and scan through either/usr/src for a copy of the GPL or the entire system for a program whose source is not there.
2....run of the mill Linux box -- This should be reversed...FreeBSD boxes are, given the same list of packages to install, identical upon installation. Linux-based systems are rarely anywhere near identical. Therefore, it would be more 'accurate' to build a Linux distribution whose userland looks very similar to a FreeBSD environment.
Frankly, for someone who is not interested in hacking, these system [sic] are pretty much the same.
Wrong. For someone not interested in hacking, that someone is still interested in using their computer for something, and what it is in particular they want to use it for is what determines which they should use. For the ultimate in stability, use a BSD (with very heavy use for very many things on a very underpowered system, OpenBSD was more stable than my power company, with uptimes in excess of a year without any glitches nor any responsiveness complaints from me; try actually/using/ your computer for 365 days straight without a reboot). For compatibility with the biggest load of... user applications, go with a Linux distribution, probably Red Hat just because that even further increases your 'compatibility'. But ease of hacking is not the only difference between the two.
Are you kidding? Lack of skill at billiards is a sign of a wasted adolescence. What the hell did you do with your adolescence that was less wasteful than billiards? I'm not really good at pool or anything, but it's still one of the absolete best pastimes for the disgruntled student.
Back in my college years ... computer program I created to solve for the table of values required for problem 5.6
If you went to college at a time when computers were that available, it doesn't quite qualify as "back in the day" material just yet. And I am in fact ruling out that you wrote the program on punch cards, because given the condition of your pool physics book, I can just imagine the punch cards by the time you got 'em ready to run.;-D
People, don't complain about the size of the database, and don't you dare say that Slashdot should have held back posting this until there were a few hundred points indexed. This place is community-supported. So after this article was posted on Slashdot, the number of access points started going up immediately. Look through the idiotic comments on this...there are a few saying 16, then 19, then 22. Hell, at this time there is even one in North Dakota listed. Being mentioned on Slashdot's front page is the genesis of any community-supported nerd-oriented database like this. So if you know of an access point, go there and check if it's listed and, if it's not, add it yourself. If you don't know of a nearby access point, check if any are listed every once in awhile, because sooner or later somebody will get to adding one near you...there's one a few blocks from me, even, and I'm only a hundred miles or so from the Geographical Middle of Nowhere (and North America;).
I don't know too much about.NET in general, because I choose not to. But from the comments I've read here, let's just assume that.NET lets an appropriate virtual machine run code written in any language supported by.NET. And now let's throw in that the virtual machine runs on Windows on PC's, because that's where Microsoft will realize the greatest profit, because it forces everyone to run Windows on a PC in order to take advantage of.NET. What's the difference between running a program written in any language that Microsoft condones so that it will run on.NET-enabled systems, also a Microsoft-controlled market, and running a program written in any language the developer pleases on whatever platform you choose? Basically, the difference is performance and choice. Logic says that either the original assumption about what.NET is is wrong, or that Microsoft is creating.NET solely to unfairly exploit its monopoly status. (Note that I used 'or' and not 'xor'.;-D)
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Latin: vir, viri, a second-declension masculine noun meaning 'man'. 'viri' would mean either 'of {the,a} man' or 'the men'. 'virus', in the sense that we're talking here, is poorly-documented in the Latin at best. The Oxford English Dictionary gives its plural simply as 'viruses'. For more on this subject, check out this research into this very topic. I haven't read the entire page, but it seems to be well-documented and ready for consumption.
Touche. (Note that your point is the one I was trying to make, although a bit less succinctly, I might say.)
Still not quite correct. An anonymous reader's submission linked to a PC which fits in your car's stereo slot. It's a bit spendy at $1k, but it has CD/DVD, PCMCIA, USB, Keyboard, Mic, Headphones, VGA, and more. Beside being powered by your car, it also has built-in GPS. Lots of interesting hacking ideas for people who prefer to spend more time in their cars than I. ;)
As bad as the spelling is here, do note that every spelling is just a transliteration from that gibberish that the terrorists are calling a language. It's not even written left-to-right, for crying out loud!
At 5pm last night ... 3am 8 hours later...yikes
That is not yikesworthy. What scares me is that playing Civ III apparently takes away the ability to add mod 12. 5 + 8 = 1 (mod 12) but 3 - 5 = 10 (mod 12) Scary.
It won't take long. Back during the election, some non-front-page article in the North Dakota State University student newspaper included the sentence "I advocate the killing of whoever wins the election.", justifying his statement by claiming that the vice presidential candidates were both better presidential candidates than either of the actual presidential candidates were. The next morning, the SS paid him a pretty nice visit. And only the three literate students at NDSU even read that paper; this is Slashdot.
I wrote a text-based Yahoo! Messenger client several years ago, because I wanted to be able to talk to my friends around the world while using computers that were not my own without having to install any software; so I'd telnet to a shell account I had and run my text-based client. Just this summer, I received a very appreciative e-mail from a blind user who finds that the text-based interface makes it easier for his text-to-speech software to work with Yahoo! Messenger. It was at that particular moment that I felt just this utterly touching thrill, as I realized I had personally done something, small though it may be, that benefits other people and therefore the world. Take that feeling times a thousand, and I'm sure that's what it feels like to be the original author of an amazingly popular piece of software, such as the Linux kernel, the Apache web server, or the various parts of GNOME and KDE, which make it so much easier for more people to have access to an alternative to Windows and MacOS.
In summary, we do it because we are a part of humanity.
Has anyone here read The Prince? Machiavelli lays out the strategy for gaining power, and it applies as much in the business world of the 21st century as it did in the political world of the 15th.
You must side with every lesser state which you can, and you must immediately attack and destroy every greater state. The less powerful ones can help you take on the more powerful ones, and by siding with them you give them a sense of security such that they will not aspire to grow beyond your power, and you can crush them once they are your strongest remaining neighbor. The more powerful ones will only become greater with time, and siding with them will only act to crush your own power. Therefore, your best chance, no matter how small it may be, to destroy your strongest enemies is immediate action against them.
Will it do Klingon? Those bastards at that last convention seemed to be laughing pretty hard about something or other they said to me in Klingon, and I'm not sure if it was "He has a tall leanness." or something else...I just can't keep up with these professionals.
I'm in the middle of nowhere and all I have to blame for bad viewing of this kind of thing, not to mention the Northern Lights or the sun, is God. When you yell at society for polluting your air, at least it won't get you on the early train to hell.
Dammit...I was only 23 hours late because of that EST bullshit. Still not close enough.
An antichrist is someone who doesn't believe in the bible (old testament only). ;) wasn't introduced until the New Testament. Just like Q wasn't until the Next Generation and Lameness until the second incarnation of Viper.
Huh? I can only picture two real definitions of the term 'antichrist':
1. Satan
2. Someone who doesn't believe in the New Testament of the bible
Christos (I like using Greek names because it makes people sound like OS's
A lot of comment-posters are missing the point. How much do you know about how DSL works? How much hands-on experimentation have you done with emulating hardware using barely-related hardware and some software?
We make advances in technology because people either invent new technology or improve on existing technology. True, this is not an improvement on any kind of technology that we have right now. It's using a Sound Blaster and a very expensive CPU to create a DSL modem, whereas a 'real' DSL modem would give better performance for less money. But what this is, is someone learning a great deal about how something works and using that knowledge to build an unlikely device. DSL exists in the first place because some genius took the knowledge of how POTS works and realized a way to make use of the filtered-out bandwidth.
This person was not trying to create something useful. He may tell you or even himself that he was, but in his heart he knows that he's just a hacker (true to the word, see previous paragraph) who is learning about the system. Who knows, maybe this augmented knowledge of DSL and broadband-over-analog technology in general will allow him to be a significant part of the next step upward in broadband. He certainly knows more than I do about how DSL works, and the same probably goes for the rest of us. Don't knock the guy because he's a hacker.
I got a Sparcstation IPX a few years back, and it included Slowaris 2.5.1. Unfortunately, /usr was on the external drive and I didn't have the necessary SCSI cable to hook that up and, in my impatience, I decided to just throw OpenBSD on it.
;) OpenBSD is also fairly simple to administer and maintain, but Linux is definitely the more 'compatible' operating system if you're looking to run lots of software on your box. I just ran fvwm, GTKYahoo, TinyFugue, and ircII on it for the most part, but even Netscape with Solaris compatibility was acceptable. Even KDE (back in the pre-1.0 days ;) ran at a usable pace.
Having run OpenBSD 2.4 and RedHat Linux (using the 2.2.x kernel if I remember right), I would definitely say that OpenBSD is much quicker than Linux on the Sparc platform. (Tiny factors get multiplied on that speed of a box.
If you have a fast enough box, though, and don't need the level of security and stability that OpenBSD provides (Linux may or may not be as stable as OpenBSD on sparc, but I have not used it enough to know for certain; and it's definitely easier to make OpenBSD secure than to make a typical Linux distribution that way), then Linux is the way to go. As to Slowaris, why bother when it's easier to make the fun applications (from GNOME or KDE to pingus to Mozilla to whatever) run under Linux and they run faster anyhow? Use Solaris if it's the right choice for your application, but don't use it if it's not.
if(url.count.visited_by(kid[n]).today > attention_span(kid[n])) {
filter.block(url);
}
This is only made worse by the knowledge that the suit against Microsoft will most likely be dropped. Look at what's happened in the past when an antitrust suit has been going on at the time that a Republican entered office. (Not to mention that Shrub has already left the tobacco suit(s) out of the budget, so whether we're even choosing to continue to afford the Microsoft case is up for grabs.)
In Australia or the US?
No wonder you got 12 when taking 2 to the third power...don't worry, your other countryman (yep, singular ;) would have made the same mistake. :)
How do you make a bug-free Hello World program? I'm a senior in Computer Science and have yet to hear any credible evidence of such a program existing.
1. FreeBSD is not mostly GNU. Install it sometime, and scan through either /usr/src for a copy of the GPL or the entire system for a program whose source is not there.
...run of the mill Linux box -- This should be reversed...FreeBSD boxes are, given the same list of packages to install, identical upon installation. Linux-based systems are rarely anywhere near identical. Therefore, it would be more 'accurate' to build a Linux distribution whose userland looks very similar to a FreeBSD environment.
2.
Frankly, for someone who is not interested in hacking, these system [sic] are pretty much the same.
/using/ your computer for 365 days straight without a reboot). For compatibility with the biggest load of ... user applications, go with a Linux distribution, probably Red Hat just because that even further increases your 'compatibility'. But ease of hacking is not the only difference between the two.
Wrong. For someone not interested in hacking, that someone is still interested in using their computer for something, and what it is in particular they want to use it for is what determines which they should use. For the ultimate in stability, use a BSD (with very heavy use for very many things on a very underpowered system, OpenBSD was more stable than my power company, with uptimes in excess of a year without any glitches nor any responsiveness complaints from me; try actually
Are you kidding? Lack of skill at billiards is a sign of a wasted adolescence. What the hell did you do with your adolescence that was less wasteful than billiards? I'm not really good at pool or anything, but it's still one of the absolete best pastimes for the disgruntled student.
Back in my college years
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;-D
computer program I created to solve for the table of values required for problem 5.6
If you went to college at a time when computers were that available, it doesn't quite qualify as "back in the day" material just yet. And I am in fact ruling out that you wrote the program on punch cards, because given the condition of your pool physics book, I can just imagine the punch cards by the time you got 'em ready to run.
People, don't complain about the size of the database, and don't you dare say that Slashdot should have held back posting this until there were a few hundred points indexed. This place is community-supported. So after this article was posted on Slashdot, the number of access points started going up immediately. Look through the idiotic comments on this...there are a few saying 16, then 19, then 22. Hell, at this time there is even one in North Dakota listed. Being mentioned on Slashdot's front page is the genesis of any community-supported nerd-oriented database like this. So if you know of an access point, go there and check if it's listed and, if it's not, add it yourself. If you don't know of a nearby access point, check if any are listed every once in awhile, because sooner or later somebody will get to adding one near you...there's one a few blocks from me, even, and I'm only a hundred miles or so from the Geographical Middle of Nowhere (and North America ;).
I don't know too much about .NET in general, because I choose not to. But from the comments I've read here, let's just assume that .NET lets an appropriate virtual machine run code written in any language supported by .NET. And now let's throw in that the virtual machine runs on Windows on PC's, because that's where Microsoft will realize the greatest profit, because it forces everyone to run Windows on a PC in order to take advantage of .NET. What's the difference between running a program written in any language that Microsoft condones so that it will run on .NET-enabled systems, also a Microsoft-controlled market, and running a program written in any language the developer pleases on whatever platform you choose? Basically, the difference is performance and choice. Logic says that either the original assumption about what .NET is is wrong, or that Microsoft is creating .NET solely to unfairly exploit its monopoly status. (Note that I used 'or' and not 'xor'. ;-D)