I don't know why EVERY single time a book is made into a movie there's a grumpy guy going "the movie sucked ass". Is this part of human nature or something? Is there a gene for this? And if there is, can we breed that out because it's frickin' annoying.
I liked the first miniseries a whole lot. Yes, I've read the books, and I know that things were changed. But big deal! What were you expecting from television? Every medium is different, and I hate to break it to you, a TV show is not a book. You can do things in books that you can't do in television. So when you say that the Dune miniseries "sucked ass" were you thinking to yourself "this Dune isn't nearly as good or artistic as 'Golden Girls'?" I can personally think of only a few things that "sucked ass" less than the Dune miniseries, such as Babylon 5. Actually, that's about the only one I can think of.
Remember that the Earth isn't a perfect sphere, so the problem of having each developer being equally spaced might be such an unlikely occurrence that we don't need to write code to handle that special case. Instead we could just put a note in the manual that in the event that the Earth becomes a perfect sphere and all developers are equally spaced, the program will segfault. The workaround would be to take a step to the right, and then restart the program.
If they leave their system for just a minute, first send an e-mail to everyone in the company saying "This is Joe's computer. Joe left me logged in. Joe shouldn't have done that."
Then, type echo "echo sleep 1 >>.profile" >>.profile
Damn this system is getting slower every time I log in!
What's going to stop someone from just putting "exit" into the commands run, thereby hosing your system?
Don't follow his advice. If you must try every prompt here, I recommend gettng VMWare or using a machine that you were going to completely wipe later today anyway.
Seattle, WA (AP) - Microsoft corporation has filed a lawsuit against the distributers of MicrosoftFUD. Claiming that MicrosoftFUD is a cancer, and a blemish against Microsoft's good name, Chairman Bill Gates announced to a packed conference room that this MicrosoftFUD must be stopped. "Second rate open source software must not be allowed to besmirch the good name of Microsoft. MicrosoftFUD is just a poor quality product promoted by a bunch of weed smoking hippies", said Gates, adding that no sane business would consider running on top of the MicrosoftFUD platform.
Let's call it MicrosoftFUD. Won't it be amusing to see press releases from Microsoft denouncing some open source project called "MicrosoftFUD"?
Seattle, WA (AP) - Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said today that MicrosoftFUD was a cancer, and bad for business. After a round of snickers in the conference room, the obviously flustered billionaire shouted "MicrosoftFUD sucks!" loudly and stormed out of the room."
If they aren't expelling mass, they will need to push against something. Perhaps he is suggesting a largish RC circuit that pushes against the earth's magnetic field. This could be interesting, because the power requirements to keep an oscillator going are rather small. But I don't quite understand how resonance would help in that case, since a magnetic field doesn't work the same way as a fluid such as water.
Both databases will do what you want them to do, but DB2 is cheaper than Oracle. If management gives you a choice between the two, and if your requirements are as you specified, then DB2 is probably your best bet.
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Said the supreme court when they decided that the physical mailbox on the curb was part of a man's house, and that man had say over who could send mail to him or not. As a result, there is a Form 1500 that provides official notice to stop sending shit to a certain box, or face criminal penalties.
An e-mail box should be treated the same way, although I expect that a supreme court decision will be required to make this happen.
This isn't censorship, this is cutting through all the marketing bullshit.
I remember the first day that AOL turned on their news gateway. That to me was the death of the "old" Usenet. Instead of useful information, all I could find anyware was "Re: Alyssa Milano Nekkid" containing a single line: "MEE TWO".
Since then, I've imagined a usenet based on the public key infrastructure. Basically you need a signed certificate traceable to a single well known root to post to Usenet. Posts that don't have a valid certificate would not be accepted anywhere along the line.
Spammers would have their certificates revoked instantly. If they continue to get more certificates, then their certifying authority would be revoked.
I can think of two problems with this: first, anonymity would be gone. Second, you'd have to know somebody to get a certificate.
I don't think that a second usenet will every be accepted unless the first one was terminated.
It's the default. The only time that you would NOT want to hit the button to score +1 would be when you are making a particularly useless comment. This is NOT the norm, because if it was, the button would ADD the +1 score.
Obviously, because the +1 score is the default, the vast majority of articles should be posted at +1 unless there's a REALLY GOOD REASON.
This is so obvious I am amazed that I actually have to explain the wisdom of this approach to someone.
(can you tell this is some sarchasm? I'd like to see Taco change the default to post at 1 all the time, and only at 2 if you check the button.)
P.S. I'm posting this one at 2, as a protest against something or other.
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Remember Giordano Bruno as well as Galileo and Copernicus. He was incinerated because he wouldn't back down from the truth.
I hate environment variables, because they're just not as convenient as a config file.
1) A config file can be edited with vi. Environment variables are usually tinkered with at the command line. vi is a better place to do a lot of typing, especially if you're using the Bourne shell.
2)Environment variables are listed with the set command, which dumps them in a particular order, namely alphabetical. Now, lots of config vars are heiarchal in nature, with things like the global dir set first, then some subdirs depending on the global dir variable, and then maybe specific program configs at the lowest level, depending on directory. A config file lets you organize this in a better way, and use format to give the user some clues.
3) All my bad memories of trying to install some massive 5 gigabyte program across several servers with hundreds of files and directories come down to one thing: I had to check every single environment variable by hand and make sure that it was correct. Who feels like finding the mistake in something like PROGRAMDIR=/opts/one/two/three/four/five/zix/seven/eight/nine/ten/oracle/needs/this/special/path/set/right/here/no/maybe/it/is/right/here/yes/i/think/ it/is/definitely/foo
4) lastly, config files can have COMMENTS in them. In fact, you can build your configuration file so that no external documentation is required. Look at the file, read the comments, and make the program work.
The gravity of the universe is just enough to make the universe flat. If there was more mass, the universe would be curved one way (closed), and with less mass, it would be curved the other (open).
You are right, this is a universal flatness, not a local flatness.
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I don't know why EVERY single time a book is made into a movie there's a grumpy guy going "the movie sucked ass". Is this part of human nature or something? Is there a gene for this? And if there is, can we breed that out because it's frickin' annoying.
I liked the first miniseries a whole lot. Yes, I've read the books, and I know that things were changed. But big deal! What were you expecting from television? Every medium is different, and I hate to break it to you, a TV show is not a book. You can do things in books that you can't do in television. So when you say that the Dune miniseries "sucked ass" were you thinking to yourself "this Dune isn't nearly as good or artistic as 'Golden Girls'?" I can personally think of only a few things that "sucked ass" less than the Dune miniseries, such as Babylon 5. Actually, that's about the only one I can think of.
Remember that the Earth isn't a perfect sphere, so the problem of having each developer being equally spaced might be such an unlikely occurrence that we don't need to write code to handle that special case. Instead we could just put a note in the manual that in the event that the Earth becomes a perfect sphere and all developers are equally spaced, the program will segfault. The workaround would be to take a step to the right, and then restart the program.
second verse, same as the first.
It couldn't possibly be that. It's called the XBOX, not the ZBOX.
Xaphod BeeblebrOX
Now, every time you see an XBOX from now until you die, you'll think of your dear friend Xaphod.
You're welcome.
If they leave their system for just a minute, first send an e-mail to everyone in the company saying "This is Joe's computer. Joe left me logged in. Joe shouldn't have done that."
.profile" >> .profile
Then, type echo "echo sleep 1 >>
Damn this system is getting slower every time I log in!
What's going to stop someone from just putting "exit" into the commands run, thereby hosing your system?
Don't follow his advice. If you must try every prompt here, I recommend gettng VMWare or using a machine that you were going to completely wipe later today anyway.
Translated English -> German -> French -> English
Start: All your base are belong to us.
Result: Your whole lower part being to belong us.
Well, in that case...
Seattle, WA (AP) - Microsoft corporation has filed a lawsuit against the distributers of MicrosoftFUD. Claiming that MicrosoftFUD is a cancer, and a blemish against Microsoft's good name, Chairman Bill Gates announced to a packed conference room that this MicrosoftFUD must be stopped. "Second rate open source software must not be allowed to besmirch the good name of Microsoft. MicrosoftFUD is just a poor quality product promoted by a bunch of weed smoking hippies", said Gates, adding that no sane business would consider running on top of the MicrosoftFUD platform.
Let's call it MicrosoftFUD. Won't it be amusing to see press releases from Microsoft denouncing some open source project called "MicrosoftFUD"?
Seattle, WA (AP) - Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said today that MicrosoftFUD was a cancer, and bad for business. After a round of snickers in the conference room, the obviously flustered billionaire shouted "MicrosoftFUD sucks!" loudly and stormed out of the room."
If they aren't expelling mass, they will need to push against something. Perhaps he is suggesting a largish RC circuit that pushes against the earth's magnetic field. This could be interesting, because the power requirements to keep an oscillator going are rather small. But I don't quite understand how resonance would help in that case, since a magnetic field doesn't work the same way as a fluid such as water.
Information is what we pay attention to. Everything else is bullcrap.
>inventory
You have:
a bathrobe
a screwdriver
tea
no tea
>show Marvin tea and no tea
So would this decision imply that ISPs might not be able to fine spammers if they send spam? Seems like it's almost the same thing as fining speeders.
Both databases will do what you want them to do, but DB2 is cheaper than Oracle. If management gives you a choice between the two, and if your requirements are as you specified, then DB2 is probably your best bet.
Said the supreme court when they decided that the physical mailbox on the curb was part of a man's house, and that man had say over who could send mail to him or not. As a result, there is a Form 1500 that provides official notice to stop sending shit to a certain box, or face criminal penalties.
An e-mail box should be treated the same way, although I expect that a supreme court decision will be required to make this happen.
This isn't censorship, this is cutting through all the marketing bullshit.
Your post comes along as so much old-timerism that I can smell the Ben Gay from here.
Damn. I'm 32 years old, but thank you for the compliment.
"And we LIKED it too!"
I remember the first day that AOL turned on their news gateway. That to me was the death of the "old" Usenet. Instead of useful information, all I could find anyware was "Re: Alyssa Milano Nekkid" containing a single line: "MEE TWO".
Since then, I've imagined a usenet based on the public key infrastructure. Basically you need a signed certificate traceable to a single well known root to post to Usenet. Posts that don't have a valid certificate would not be accepted anywhere along the line.
Spammers would have their certificates revoked instantly. If they continue to get more certificates, then their certifying authority would be revoked.
I can think of two problems with this: first, anonymity would be gone. Second, you'd have to know somebody to get a certificate.
I don't think that a second usenet will every be accepted unless the first one was terminated.
It's the default. The only time that you would NOT want to hit the button to score +1 would be when you are making a particularly useless comment. This is NOT the norm, because if it was, the button would ADD the +1 score.
Obviously, because the +1 score is the default, the vast majority of articles should be posted at +1 unless there's a REALLY GOOD REASON.
This is so obvious I am amazed that I actually have to explain the wisdom of this approach to someone.
(can you tell this is some sarchasm? I'd like to see Taco change the default to post at 1 all the time, and only at 2 if you check the button.)
P.S. I'm posting this one at 2, as a protest against something or other.
Remember Giordano Bruno as well as Galileo and Copernicus. He was incinerated because he wouldn't back down from the truth.
Oh, and another thing.
/usr/local/etc where it belongs, and have your program look there and only there.
DON'T make an environment variable that contains the path to the configuration file.
Put the damn config file into
Thank you very much for the opportunity to rant.
I hate environment variables, because they're just not as convenient as a config file.
n /eight/nine/ten/oracle/needs/this/special/path/set /right/here/no/maybe/it/is/right/here/yes/i/think/ it/is/definitely/foo
1) A config file can be edited with vi. Environment variables are usually tinkered with at the command line. vi is a better place to do a lot of typing, especially if you're using the Bourne shell.
2)Environment variables are listed with the set command, which dumps them in a particular order, namely alphabetical. Now, lots of config vars are heiarchal in nature, with things like the global dir set first, then some subdirs depending on the global dir variable, and then maybe specific program configs at the lowest level, depending on directory. A config file lets you organize this in a better way, and use format to give the user some clues.
3) All my bad memories of trying to install some massive 5 gigabyte program across several servers with hundreds of files and directories come down to one thing: I had to check every single environment variable by hand and make sure that it was correct. Who feels like finding the mistake in something like PROGRAMDIR=/opts/one/two/three/four/five/zix/seve
4) lastly, config files can have COMMENTS in them. In fact, you can build your configuration file so that no external documentation is required. Look at the file, read the comments, and make the program work.
cast-iron bitches
You say that like it's a bad thing.
The gravity of the universe is just enough to make the universe flat. If there was more mass, the universe would be curved one way (closed), and with less mass, it would be curved the other (open).
You are right, this is a universal flatness, not a local flatness.
Can we add blinkenlights to the kernel?