These are actual quotes from the article. People who talk like this can only relate to two things: other people who talk like this, and their huge egos. Clearly, Ransom Love has fought no battles, written no code, has not earned any glory for his name. His heart is not truly Klingon.
create a common, best of breed giving developers a global infrastructure local languages and channels sell their products on a global basis Supportable business quality product address a graphical desktop innovations By enabling one certification facilitating a global distribution solution through established global channels hardware and software participants dominant application server platform dominant method for outsourcing IT Internet client interfaces become dominant continue to make inroads ease of management and provisioning peripheral of the business network quality and consistency of the brand quality of support within the business organization a much higher quality combined product to have the upside potential of profits. maintenance deliverable
How about their little shell game with caller ID and related tech?
First, it's we'll sell you caller ID. Then they sell the spammers an anonymous account. Then, they sell you a feature to block anonymous callers. Then they sell the spammers a feature to get through to people that block anonymous callers.
It's a frickin racket. This is what the MOB does. Pay us some money and we'll protect you from spammers. Oh, the protection isn't working? Pay us some more money.
Yes, you're misunderstanding me. A nice simple way of writing an interpreter is to use a parser like Bison. Write Bison rules to recognize all the statements in your language. When you've got a looping construct, just reset your input stream to the top of the loop and continue parsing. Each rule executes code that does something.
Take a look at the ubiquitous calculator example and imagine that expanded to include all the regular language features that you'd expect to see.
That's utter nonsense. The Constitution is what is running our country. If the government is not as free or as liberal as you'd like it to be, then that's a sign that the CONSTITUTION is faulty and needs to be fixed, not a sign that a military coup and military government is required.
Do not mistake the Constitution for a holy document. It's just the product of an immense hack session, and thus qualifies as a pretty successful hack. The founding hackers recognized that the document would require maintenance in the future, and provided a way to dynamically link new code into the running constitutional kernel.
So, stop all this talk of military coups and start pushing for some new ammendments. As Linus said, "show me the code".
When I worked for a month in Sweden, I heard about a concept called "everyman's right" which was basically the right of a person to walk anywhere, if they damaged nothing. Trespassing was not a crime if it was legal to walk anywhere.
I think that the Internet needs and "everyman's right" as well, to link anywhere and everywhere they choose to link, in whatever way they choose to link, provided that they cause no damage. That would mean that I could link to NPR but not from within an advertising frame. The ads could be construed as causing damage. A simple link does not cause damage.
Anyway, I put a nice fat link up on my log, and I didn't ask permission. (I hope they sue me, because my 15 minutes of fame were hogged last week by that bitch Brittany Spears and I am trying to get them back.)
Imagine a program, where there is an embedded scripting language. Imagine that the scripts can be attached to various objects to tie the system together. Imagine that these scripts are interpreted by a parser, and all have to run at once. Imagine that you have just found a use for a reentrant parser.
Gimme a break with that 250 HP stuff. More like 170 probably. If you had 250HP in an MX-3, even the special purple ones, you'd be in the high 5's 0-60.
And yes, I've actually driven one of the purple ones with the special engine, suspension, etc. It's a truly excellent car, but not 250 HP.
In EverQuest one of the biggest problems is finding people to play with
When I played D&D I would just walk into the nearest town, find a place called "Red Dragon Inn", and order a beer. It was never too long before the rest of the adventure team showed up.
I really like this idea. I think that it would work for other systems where cheating is a problem, such as e-mail and Usenet. Basically, someone we trust - let's say GW Bush (haha) - is the top level authority. Every mail or message needs to be signed by someone from that authority, or by someone in the trust network. Someone who spams will have their certificate revoked. Someone who signs too many spammer's certificates will have their signature revoked.
And that's it. The only problem is that anonynimity would go right out the window.
b) I will not NOT believe in a God until it's existance can be disproven.
I guess that I should point out that I have a skeptical side as well. I do not agree to the second statement, for a couple of reasons. First, the burden of proof is on the person making the claim. If a god is claimed, I have no obligation to believe anything without support. Second, I do not think that it's necessary for an open mind. An open mind will conform to A), but I think that a skeptic with an open mind will not conform to B)
Moshe, thanks for your comments on religion, I found them most fascinating, and I hope I can add just a bit to what you said about atheism. I am an agnostic atheist myself, which means that I do not believe in any gods because I have no reason to.
I believe that your comments were referring to what is called "strong atheism" which is an active disbelief in any god whatsoever, something distinct from agnosticism.
But, I think you're incorrect that atheists of any stripe ignore the question of what is divine, and fail to answer it. A strong atheist says that NOTHING is divine, and an agnostic atheist like myself says that nobody can show that anything is divine, so there's no reason to hypothesize it. That's a pretty direct answer to the question.
There's some genetic evidence that humans were reduced in number from 100,000 to 10,000 about 75,000 years ago. Some think that it was because of a major eruption in Indonesia.
Too late. I've said over and over on my web page that John Ashcroft is not a patriot. In fact he's a deadly enemy of the American people. I hope that he gets fired and subsequently cannot fulfil his dream of being a choir director.
Or at least don't disrespect the programmers. Someday when we're all creaky it'll be hard to find a job doing C++ or Java or Perl or C#. Sure, we know those are fine languages for many things, and we've got 40 years of experience using them. Sure we are still sharp and can code rings around almost anybody. We even probably still feel young inside and if we're lucky only need the regular strength viagra. (EXTRA strength viagra is for OLD people).
But there it is on the resume - you did C++ programming 25 years ago, and in the eyes of the young'ins, that makes you unemployable. I've worked with enough people with many decades of experience to know that these people can be the sharpest ones in an organization, even if their experience includes COBOL.
I know this is offtopic, but I can predict what some of the comments are going to say.
Am I really lucky though? I mean, I work so hard and somebody that I don't know is going to think I lost the lottery because I didn't get to see all the cool stuff that they can see.
So, am I lucky to be born now, or really unlucky that I'll never kiss a green chick like Captain Kirk?
And that's why bacteria are so hard to kill - they are moving fast.
Guess I should mention a crazy little thing call sarchasm now...
Nanobots will use those devices anyone who has looked at bacteria has seen. Little spinning appendages, or little waving appendages, or little oscillating appendages, or possibly a gas turbine. Ha ha only serious.
No, the signal is still there, it's just attenuated by the structure of the building. I bet that it's steel, and it's grounded. It may also be due to the fact that antennas are not omnidirectional for commercial broadcast, even AM stations. The antenna just isn't broadcasting in your direction.
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I just my three systems in 30 seconds. I was already logged into each one, so I did
>su -
>apt-get update
>apt-get upgrade
All done.
These are actual quotes from the article. People who talk like this can only relate to two things: other people who talk like this, and their huge egos. Clearly, Ransom Love has fought no battles, written no code, has not earned any glory for his name. His heart is not truly Klingon.
create a common, best of breed
giving developers a global infrastructure
local languages and channels
sell their products on a global basis
Supportable business quality product
address a graphical desktop
innovations
By enabling one certification
facilitating a global distribution
solution through established global channels
hardware and software participants
dominant application server platform
dominant method for outsourcing IT
Internet client interfaces become dominant
continue to make inroads
ease of management and provisioning
peripheral of the business network
quality and consistency of the brand
quality of support within the business organization
a much higher quality combined product
to have the upside potential of profits.
maintenance deliverable
OK, that does it then. We might as well take NASA's budget and just blow it on funny hats. Thanks for saving us the trouble of going to space.
Somebody once said that the only intuitive interface was the nipple. Everything after that had to be learned.
How about their little shell game with caller ID and related tech?
First, it's we'll sell you caller ID. Then they sell the spammers an anonymous account. Then, they sell you a feature to block anonymous callers. Then they sell the spammers a feature to get through to people that block anonymous callers.
It's a frickin racket. This is what the MOB does.
Pay us some money and we'll protect you from spammers. Oh, the protection isn't working? Pay us some more money.
Yes, you're misunderstanding me. A nice simple way of writing an interpreter is to use a parser like Bison. Write Bison rules to recognize all the statements in your language. When you've got a looping construct, just reset your input stream to the top of the loop and continue parsing. Each rule executes code that does something.
Take a look at the ubiquitous calculator example and imagine that expanded to include all the regular language features that you'd expect to see.
That's utter nonsense. The Constitution is what is running our country. If the government is not as free or as liberal as you'd like it to be, then that's a sign that the CONSTITUTION is faulty and needs to be fixed, not a sign that a military coup and military government is required.
Do not mistake the Constitution for a holy document. It's just the product of an immense hack session, and thus qualifies as a pretty successful hack. The founding hackers recognized that the document would require maintenance in the future, and provided a way to dynamically link new code into the running constitutional kernel.
So, stop all this talk of military coups and start pushing for some new ammendments. As Linus said, "show me the code".
When I worked for a month in Sweden, I heard about a concept called "everyman's right" which was basically the right of a person to walk anywhere, if they damaged nothing. Trespassing was not a crime if it was legal to walk anywhere.
I think that the Internet needs and "everyman's right" as well, to link anywhere and everywhere they choose to link, in whatever way they choose to link, provided that they cause no damage. That would mean that I could link to NPR but not from within an advertising frame. The ads could be construed as causing damage. A simple link does not cause damage.
Anyway, I put a nice fat link up on my log, and I didn't ask permission. (I hope they sue me, because my 15 minutes of fame were hogged last week by that bitch Brittany Spears and I am trying to get them back.)
Imagine a program, where there is an embedded scripting language. Imagine that the scripts can be attached to various objects to tie the system together. Imagine that these scripts are interpreted by a parser, and all have to run at once. Imagine that you have just found a use for a reentrant parser.
- YOUR HAVE NOW RECEIVED THE UNIX VIRUS -
This virus works on the honor system:
If you're running a variant of unix or linux, please forward
this message to everyone you know and delete a bunch of your
files at random.
Gimme a break with that 250 HP stuff. More like 170 probably. If you had 250HP in an MX-3, even the special purple ones, you'd be in the high 5's 0-60.
And yes, I've actually driven one of the purple ones with the special engine, suspension, etc. It's a truly excellent car, but not 250 HP.
In EverQuest one of the biggest problems is finding people to play with
When I played D&D I would just walk into the nearest town, find a place called "Red Dragon Inn", and order a beer. It was never too long before the rest of the adventure team showed up.
I really like this idea. I think that it would work for other systems where cheating is a problem, such as e-mail and Usenet. Basically, someone we trust - let's say GW Bush (haha) - is the top level authority. Every mail or message needs to be signed by someone from that authority, or by someone in the trust network. Someone who spams will have their certificate revoked. Someone who signs too many spammer's certificates will have their signature revoked.
And that's it. The only problem is that anonynimity would go right out the window.
Assume that the universe is a formal system.
Go right ahead. I'll stop here until I can get over my skepticism.
b) I will not NOT believe in a God until it's existance can be disproven.
I guess that I should point out that I have a skeptical side as well. I do not agree to the second statement, for a couple of reasons. First, the burden of proof is on the person making the claim. If a god is claimed, I have no obligation to believe anything without support. Second, I do not think that it's necessary for an open mind. An open mind will conform to A), but I think that a skeptic with an open mind will not conform to B)
Moshe, thanks for your comments on religion, I found them most fascinating, and I hope I can add just a bit to what you said about atheism. I am an agnostic atheist myself, which means that I do not believe in any gods because I have no reason to.
I believe that your comments were referring to what is called "strong atheism" which is an active disbelief in any god whatsoever, something distinct from agnosticism.
But, I think you're incorrect that atheists of any stripe ignore the question of what is divine, and fail to answer it. A strong atheist says that NOTHING is divine, and an agnostic atheist like myself says that nobody can show that anything is divine, so there's no reason to hypothesize it. That's a pretty direct answer to the question.
There's some genetic evidence that humans were reduced in number from 100,000 to 10,000 about 75,000 years ago. Some think that it was because of a major eruption in Indonesia.
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Too late. I've said over and over on my web page that John Ashcroft is not a patriot. In fact he's a deadly enemy of the American people. I hope that he gets fired and subsequently cannot fulfil his dream of being a choir director.
Whoops, it was updated on the 6th, apparently just 2 minutes ago. Sorry about the typo.
The DNS record was just created on June 5th. Probably just as well, since they likely haven't had time to load test the server
Or at least don't disrespect the programmers. Someday when we're all creaky it'll be hard to find a job doing C++ or Java or Perl or C#. Sure, we know those are fine languages for many things, and we've got 40 years of experience using them. Sure we are still sharp and can code rings around almost anybody. We even probably still feel young inside and if we're lucky only need the regular strength viagra. (EXTRA strength viagra is for OLD people).
But there it is on the resume - you did C++ programming 25 years ago, and in the eyes of the young'ins, that makes you unemployable. I've worked with enough people with many decades of experience to know that these people can be the sharpest ones in an organization, even if their experience includes COBOL.
I know this is offtopic, but I can predict what some of the comments are going to say.
Am I really lucky though? I mean, I work so hard and somebody that I don't know is going to think I lost the lottery because I didn't get to see all the cool stuff that they can see.
So, am I lucky to be born now, or really unlucky that I'll never kiss a green chick like Captain Kirk?
This makes luck seem a little less lucky to me.
And that's why bacteria are so hard to kill - they are moving fast.
Guess I should mention a crazy little thing call sarchasm now...
Nanobots will use those devices anyone who has looked at bacteria has seen. Little spinning appendages, or little waving appendages, or little oscillating appendages, or possibly a gas turbine. Ha ha only serious.
I hadn't thought of that. Compensate for insecure WEP with a bunch of maple trees. Restrict the signal to your yard.
No, the signal is still there, it's just attenuated by the structure of the building. I bet that it's steel, and it's grounded. It may also be due to the fact that antennas are not omnidirectional for commercial broadcast, even AM stations. The antenna just isn't broadcasting in your direction.