Truly, the world would be a better place if he had picked another career, like dentistry, if he had to be born at all.
Sweeping statements like that are patently absurd. To assert such a thing you'd first have to analyse the benefit those technologies had on humanity as well. Refrigerator is a very important part modern society and Freon let that happen arguably sooner than it would have otherwise.
I don't propose anything will be solved by creating more parties. I don't even propose fixing anything at all. As far as I am concerned, shit will always be broken and I don't believe there is any sort of silver bullet.
All I'm saying is that a system that encourages voters to not vote for who they think will be the best candidate, in a so called democracy, sickens me.
I can't speak for Canada, but "Voting for the lesser evil so that 'The Other Guy(tm)' doesn't get elected" is half the reason the US political system is the shithole it is right now. Nothing saddens me quite like people dredging up this tired old line to oppose the formation of new political parties, and getting modded up for their trouble.
Hmm, this fits into that "bikers are fags" theory from South Park disturbingly well...
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Well that is what I get for composing posts in a webbrowser and not a real text editor I suppose.
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Your so called technical argument is the equivalent of calling an old a bicycle and not an automobile, simply because they both happen to lack power steering. Is power steering better? Sure. Is it an essential part of what makes an automobile and automobile? Of course not. Calling convention is not such a central area of UNIX design that saying "Linux is just DOS" is justified. There is a shitton of more important things that make a unix-like a unix-like, take a look at POSIX some time. Your "classification scheme" is fundamentally flawed because you are unable to look past your own fanboism and see larger pictures.
What I was expecting however was response to however was my statement pointing out that I never made any claims about the merits of any sort of calling convention, but your retort was to call me an idiot for advocating passing arguments in parameters. Something that I never did. You seem to be under the mistaken assumption that because I object to your conclusion, I must also object to your methods.
Reading comprehension fail. You go away troll.
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Ah yes, the good old "I'm rubber, you're glue" comeback. A favourite among small children who are unable to otherwise defend themselves.
Nice how you completely avoid the issue I was actually presenting. You aren't even worth insulting, much less conversing with.
In the strict economics definition of the term 'overpriced', perhaps. However I, and most people here, do not have degrees in economic theory. For all intents and purposes, in a discussion among laymen, they are exactly the same.
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Nowhere in my post did I mention anything about the merits of any calling convention.
This folks, is a fine example of why women should not drink while pregnant.
Something can only be considered overprice if there is no easy alternative.
Huh? If there are 3 brands of cola: A, B and C, and cola A cost several orders of magnitude more than colas B or C, then I am going to buy colas B or C. Why am I going to buy colas B or C? Because cola A was overpriced.
Things don't cease to become overpriced just because there is competition. In fact, competition has very little to do with whether or not I am going to consider something to be overpriced. I don't have a problem with colas B or C, I'm going to buy them and be perfectly happy with them. That doesn't mean I shouldn't make snide remarks about how absurdly overpriced I believe cola A to be.
SCO is in the UNIX business and that is about it. They can't afford to effectively cease all of their traditional commerce and become a failed litigation house instead, dragging their name through the mud and trying to burn the industry to the ground.
I never trust companies to do the right thing, no matter how insane they'd have to be to do otherwise.
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And once upon a time there was much less land above water. Specifically this was back when the Earth had a far warmer climate and no permanent ice caps. For that matter, Mars, Earth, and Venus all have wildly different topographies, chemical compositions, rotational rates, and natural satellites. I'd imagine that we'd really have to fuck the Earth up hardcore to make it entirely uninhabitable and worthless and to force us to consider colonizing Mars or Venus.
Thanks for rehashing my point.
global warming is here, and is already lowering your quality of life
huhwhat? How so? My life is pretty damned grand right now. I'm enjoying living in a global society with the longest average lifespan the human species has ever known, and I don't have to worry about how I'm going to find food to eat tomorrow, or if my family is going to be eaten by lions. How could an absence of global warming possibly increase the quality of life I am experiencing right now? Give me free blow, blackjack, and hookers?
You may have to be willing to buy the car that handles 95% of your car related needs that uses a quarter the gas as one that fills all your needs. For the other 5%, renting a vehicle may help.
Whatever, I ride a bike. Love the exercise and increased mobility it gives me (I live in a city)....hmm, you know what would reduce my quality of life though? Buying a more expensive hybrid car that I may not be able to afford, instead of just getting some clunker off of craigslist.
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What is baffling me is how you somehow think that how a system passes around it's arguments is really what makes it either UNIX, or DOS. UNIX was designed with portability taken into account practically from day one. They created a whole new damned language just to see that goal through. What this means is that implementation details like this mean absolutely jack shit.
Really though, you have no fucking idea what you are talking about. But what the hell, it's making for some good comedy. I'm tempted to adopt that little gem of a quote as my sig too.
I just checked wikipedia's article on this thing and it is worse than it sounds. The thing is absolutely and completely worthless for any sort of authentication.
The resident registration number consists of 13 digits, with each block serving a certain function, as illustrated below:
yymmdd-sbbbbnc
The first six digits signify the person's date of birth. For example, a person born on September 1, 1946, such as former President Roh Moo-Hyun, would have 460901 for the first six digits.
s, the seventh digit, indicates the sex and the century in which the person was born. The code used for each category follows:
* 9: male born 1800 - 1899
* 0: female born 1800 - 1899
* 1: male born 1900 - 1999
* 2: female born 1900 - 1999
* 3: male born 2000 - 2099
* 4: female born 2000 - 2099
* 5: foreigner male born 1900 - 1999
* 6: foreigner female born 1900 - 1999
* 7: foreigner male born 2000 - 2099
* 8: foreigner female born 2000 - 2099
bbbb, the eighth through eleventh digit, signify a code for the person's place of birth:
n, the 12th digit, is a sequential number used to differentiate those of the same sex born on the same day in the same location.
c, the 13th digit, is a check digit, used to verify that the number has been transcribed correctly. It is generated from the rest of the digits.
You could generate a list of these things no problem. Want a new identity? Just calculate yourself one!
Because then instead of simply buying a segway and stripping it down to the essential parts, you are rigging up a completely new and untested platform, and needing to built it yourself. The segway's "gyros and all that crap" are indeed complicated, but somebody else already did that part for you...
And that is a reason to not use it after it had been introduced why? It's not like M$ wasn't developing the shit the whole time, it just took them over an entire fucking decade to start taking advantage of the hardware that was available to them.
Sometimes history is a tad uncomfortable because it makes the target of your fanboi-ism look bad, but that doesn't make it any less a part of history. IBM could and did use those chips after they were created, the 'operating system of choice' on the IBM compatible PCs did not.
Once upon a time in Earth's history, Antarctica was a grassland. We are hardly in any danger of going the Mars route anytime soon, as far as geological history goes, Earth is still pretty damned cold. (and who cares about what happens after that, the rate of change in technology is so great that looking too far into the future is absolutely meaningless).
Now, show me how any conceivable change in our biosphere will be beneficial to HUMANITY.
If you want to take a nihilist stance, then who cares about what happens to humanity.
If you don't want to take a nihilist stance, then please show me one instance in which humanity has faltered for more than a few generations. We are one resilient and resourceful species, I wouldn't be concerned about us. If anything, I think other species are more in danger than we are.
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Hell, KDM in Fedora even has a menu entry that allows you to restart X, I imagine GDM does as well. Restarting X is a really braindead task, even for my mother.
If this is the kind of complexity that gets your panties all in a twist, then I advise that you slowly step away from the computer.
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If ubuntu is asking you to reboot after mere video driver upgrades, then it is doing it in error. Simply restarting X will suffice, and you can put off doing that as long as you like. The only thing that you need to restart for is kernel upgrades.
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Customer services doesn't have headphones? Here they have those telephone headset things. In any event what a silly rule.
As an American, I can say it too because I have that right.
I'd just be wrong ;)
Sweeping statements like that are patently absurd. To assert such a thing you'd first have to analyse the benefit those technologies had on humanity as well. Refrigerator is a very important part modern society and Freon let that happen arguably sooner than it would have otherwise.
I don't propose anything will be solved by creating more parties. I don't even propose fixing anything at all. As far as I am concerned, shit will always be broken and I don't believe there is any sort of silver bullet.
All I'm saying is that a system that encourages voters to not vote for who they think will be the best candidate, in a so called democracy, sickens me.
I can't speak for Canada, but "Voting for the lesser evil so that 'The Other Guy(tm)' doesn't get elected" is half the reason the US political system is the shithole it is right now. Nothing saddens me quite like people dredging up this tired old line to oppose the formation of new political parties, and getting modded up for their trouble.
I know people that have been using various IM protocols on their phones for years.
Very very very non-technically inclined people.
Hmm, this fits into that "bikers are fags" theory from South Park disturbingly well...
*...calling an old car a...
Well that is what I get for composing posts in a webbrowser and not a real text editor I suppose.
Your so called technical argument is the equivalent of calling an old a bicycle and not an automobile, simply because they both happen to lack power steering. Is power steering better? Sure. Is it an essential part of what makes an automobile and automobile? Of course not. Calling convention is not such a central area of UNIX design that saying "Linux is just DOS" is justified. There is a shitton of more important things that make a unix-like a unix-like, take a look at POSIX some time. Your "classification scheme" is fundamentally flawed because you are unable to look past your own fanboism and see larger pictures.
What I was expecting however was response to however was my statement pointing out that I never made any claims about the merits of any sort of calling convention, but your retort was to call me an idiot for advocating passing arguments in parameters. Something that I never did. You seem to be under the mistaken assumption that because I object to your conclusion, I must also object to your methods.
Reading comprehension fail. You go away troll.
Ah yes, the good old "I'm rubber, you're glue" comeback. A favourite among small children who are unable to otherwise defend themselves.
Nice how you completely avoid the issue I was actually presenting. You aren't even worth insulting, much less conversing with.
In the strict economics definition of the term 'overpriced', perhaps. However I, and most people here, do not have degrees in economic theory. For all intents and purposes, in a discussion among laymen, they are exactly the same.
Nowhere in my post did I mention anything about the merits of any calling convention.
This folks, is a fine example of why women should not drink while pregnant.
Huh? If there are 3 brands of cola: A, B and C, and cola A cost several orders of magnitude more than colas B or C, then I am going to buy colas B or C. Why am I going to buy colas B or C? Because cola A was overpriced.
Things don't cease to become overpriced just because there is competition. In fact, competition has very little to do with whether or not I am going to consider something to be overpriced. I don't have a problem with colas B or C, I'm going to buy them and be perfectly happy with them. That doesn't mean I shouldn't make snide remarks about how absurdly overpriced I believe cola A to be.
I never trust companies to do the right thing, no matter how insane they'd have to be to do otherwise.
This:
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There, whatcha gonna do about that?
Thanks for rehashing my point.
huhwhat? How so? My life is pretty damned grand right now. I'm enjoying living in a global society with the longest average lifespan the human species has ever known, and I don't have to worry about how I'm going to find food to eat tomorrow, or if my family is going to be eaten by lions. How could an absence of global warming possibly increase the quality of life I am experiencing right now? Give me free blow, blackjack, and hookers?
Whatever, I ride a bike. Love the exercise and increased mobility it gives me (I live in a city). ...hmm, you know what would reduce my quality of life though? Buying a more expensive hybrid car that I may not be able to afford, instead of just getting some clunker off of craigslist.
What is baffling me is how you somehow think that how a system passes around it's arguments is really what makes it either UNIX, or DOS. UNIX was designed with portability taken into account practically from day one. They created a whole new damned language just to see that goal through. What this means is that implementation details like this mean absolutely jack shit.
Really though, you have no fucking idea what you are talking about. But what the hell, it's making for some good comedy. I'm tempted to adopt that little gem of a quote as my sig too.
I just checked wikipedia's article on this thing and it is worse than it sounds. The thing is absolutely and completely worthless for any sort of authentication.
You could generate a list of these things no problem. Want a new identity? Just calculate yourself one!
Because then instead of simply buying a segway and stripping it down to the essential parts, you are rigging up a completely new and untested platform, and needing to built it yourself. The segway's "gyros and all that crap" are indeed complicated, but somebody else already did that part for you...
And that is a reason to not use it after it had been introduced why? It's not like M$ wasn't developing the shit the whole time, it just took them over an entire fucking decade to start taking advantage of the hardware that was available to them.
Sometimes history is a tad uncomfortable because it makes the target of your fanboi-ism look bad, but that doesn't make it any less a part of history. IBM could and did use those chips after they were created, the 'operating system of choice' on the IBM compatible PCs did not.
Apparently we are also very quick to poke holes in other peoples comments ...OH SHI-[infinite recursion]
Once upon a time in Earth's history, Antarctica was a grassland. We are hardly in any danger of going the Mars route anytime soon, as far as geological history goes, Earth is still pretty damned cold. (and who cares about what happens after that, the rate of change in technology is so great that looking too far into the future is absolutely meaningless).
If you want to take a nihilist stance, then who cares about what happens to humanity.
If you don't want to take a nihilist stance, then please show me one instance in which humanity has faltered for more than a few generations. We are one resilient and resourceful species, I wouldn't be concerned about us. If anything, I think other species are more in danger than we are.
Hell, KDM in Fedora even has a menu entry that allows you to restart X, I imagine GDM does as well. Restarting X is a really braindead task, even for my mother.
If this is the kind of complexity that gets your panties all in a twist, then I advise that you slowly step away from the computer.
If ubuntu is asking you to reboot after mere video driver upgrades, then it is doing it in error. Simply restarting X will suffice, and you can put off doing that as long as you like. The only thing that you need to restart for is kernel upgrades.