Sorry if I'm bugging you - I'm always trying to learn new things and to get additional opinions. If it helps, I only ask for such from people who seem intelligent and I value their opinions greatly. Contrary to popular opinion, I do not know everything and there's opinions other than my own that are quite valuable.
I'm not sure if I should think you're still okay in my book because it's past-tence or if you're no longer okay in my good book because you worked there.
Oh, I got it. Still not nice of him. 'Cause, from my understanding, that's exactly why it's so important and what is the major difference between quantum computing and what we have now.
It appears to be the 4. I used the number on the back (which kind of does look like glass with white plastic beneath it). It is: http://www.everymac.com/ultima...
And I don't actually mind what version it is, I paid the total of zero dollars for it and will just end up donating it. The page says it was discontinued in 2013 but she says she bought it about a year ago - which makes it purchased more recently than that and I've some additional personal information that makes me believe that is correct. I suspect that Verizon still had plenty to sell. I dunno?
And nah, I don't dislike OS or iOS. I don't really dislike any OS. I do like to give people shit sometimes but only blind zealots who tie themselves and their identity to an operating system they neither created nor control. I side with Apple in the current debate with the FBI. I don't have a Windows computer but I do have a Windows phone - which is an odd choice but I'm kind of enjoying it. I was quite surprised by how nice it is and there are plenty of apps available. I can do anything I would want to do on a phone on it.
I say that it's probably a good idea if it can be done with reasonable safety. We want these resources - you might even say we need them. We certainly need them if we want to maintain our current lifestyle. I think we need to be pragmatic about things like this. Idealism seldom works in the real world and Mother Nature is both powerful and fairly resilient.
I did some teaching at the university level after I retired. It was basically an introduction into collegiate level mathematics. This was UMF where they generally graduate teachers more than anything else. So, if that happens, I just might be able to get over my loathing of the environment and go back to teaching.
Further down (or up?) in this thread, I mentioned a prof that gave us individualized exams. We were encouraged to take them home as no time was provisioned for them in class. We were encouraged to collaborate, to use any and all resources, and to even use old exams that prior students had left behind or made available. As near as we can tell, no questions were ever repeated. I learned a lot but it really, really sucked. Well, no... Not sucked so much as it was just really hard. I kind of enjoyed it.
That's akin to what I figure. I'm not a collector but I know some people take it seriously. Some of the comics go back to the 60s so I'm guessing that they're of value to someone for reasons other than monetary. I've absolutely no need for money and I am able to appreciate that some people are interested in things that I am not. So, I'd much rather that they end up in good hands than to be locked away or just turned around and sold. Meh, call me weird, I guess.
I don't really "collect" anything but I do end up with collections. I have a huge collection of automobiles, for example. I did not expect to, or intend to, collect them and they're not what other people would necessarily want but I like them. I've invested absurd amounts of money in them. (Like a 1982 Volvo 245 that's fully restored and marginally modified, a '73 Wagoneer, an '88 Honda Accord LX that I sent back to Japan for restoration - strange things like that.) I didn't really start out to collect them. I just somehow did. You could, almost, say I collect old computers but not really - I've just found some neat ones over the years and kept them. However, I can understand the mentality.
I do not have it. Curiouser and curiouser. The email is valid, properly spelled, and is not obfuscated. (I'm not scared!) Another/.er used it just yesterday.
I am not entirely sure why it's not there. It is not in junk nor is it in my inbox. I just checked all the other folders - not there.
It was not *technically* mine but was my older brother's - though I later purloined it, sometime in the mid-1960s. I don't know what ever happened to it. He had (and then I had) a chemistry set or something along those lines. In that set was uranium - I have no idea what for as the manual had long-since been lost. It had a small Geiger counter but I don't think that came with the set.
I'm remarkably healthy for my age but I never developed super-powers. I don't know for certain but, given that we were kids, presumably it was put in a mouth at one point or another. "Here, lick this. I double-dare you!"
Come to think of it, I'm kind of surprised we lived to be adults. I'm pretty sure my parents would be in prison and us kids wards of the State if they let us do some of that stuff today. We distinctly, with concerted effort, tried to make things blow up, be eaten away, smoke, emit fumes, spark, or otherwise frighten our mother.
Yeah, we'd be wards of the State. We used to have molds and melt our own tin soldiers. We had firearms and knives. We climbed to ungodly heights - often jumping off those lofty perches. We broke bones. We actually had a fight with frozen crab apples that had partially thawed out, it was awesome. I got pneumonia and puked in his boot, that was awesome too. Oh, I once beat the ever living hell out of him using nothing but a Queen Anne's Lace (a flower with a vine-like stalk that makes a fine impromptu whip) but that's because he did something to one of my Tonka trucks but I'll be damned if I remember what. Oh, they were made out of metal.
Their statement was patently absurd. There are some gems that are 40 years old, older, or nearing that mark. Pure, unadulterated, hogwash. They should be soundly beaten with a bumper from a '57 Mercury.
It took some work but I read (and properly parsed - I think) their post, not once but twice. I've decided that it has to be trolling. Seriously... It has to be.
I don't know a whole lot about nuclear energy but I've taken the time to learn the basics. I know what to do with the three cookies, I know how safe they are (or can be), I understand the mechanics and process well enough, and I know what half-life means. I'm pretty sure they're intentionally trolling. What's curious is that I'm using an alternative browser at the moment so that I see they're a Facebook user. Who'd tie intentional trolling to their account?
I could have sworn it supported the switches? I know it did the last time I played with it on a Mac? These should work but I've used a real operating system for a while and haven't mucked about on my daughter's Mac for ages:
--proxy-server=[://][:] Set up a proxy server to use. The scheme can be one of http (the default, also supports https), socks, socks4 or socks5.
--proxy-pac-url=URL Set up a proxy server using autoconfiguration. The URL should point to a proxy autoconfiguration URL.
There's an add-on to change the default new tab. There's several, there's a couple from Chrome's extensions. Not that I know of - for the find. I actually prefer it this way. I could have sworn that, at one time, it did do that but it was short lived. It may be me conflating it with a time when I stopped using Opera as my main browser for a little while. (They really, really went off a deep end at about version 15 and it lasted until 23 but that was actually not all that long a time-frame.)
I am thinking life, with its many twists and turns, is going to bring some surprises to a few people in this thread. I really have no idea what would make people think some of the things they think - or believe certain things to be true.
I'm currently having a quite long email exchange with a guy who is attempting to put his brain, and thinking process, into code and is making "the most realistic and powerful AI ever conceived." (His words, not mine.)
The OP's post is an unusual one but in aggregate with the rest of his posts makes me think that we'd have some interesting conversations. And the examples he gave might not be what was requested, they are interesting and tangentially related, at least to some extent, which makes me think there's a deeper conversation involved. Or that there could be...
Nifty, thanks. And yeah, I've not found a script alternative site that does it well. I'm an eternal optimist, sort of, so I'd like to think it can be done. They don't have to be an *exact* match. Maybe I'll take a day or two and see if I can think of a way to knock one out and toss it up for others to maintain.
Either way, thanks for the links. I knew of Linux App Finder but osalt is new to me.
Slashdot Mirror
Alright, now I'm curious... Why elinks for that?
Sorry if I'm bugging you - I'm always trying to learn new things and to get additional opinions. If it helps, I only ask for such from people who seem intelligent and I value their opinions greatly. Contrary to popular opinion, I do not know everything and there's opinions other than my own that are quite valuable.
while I was working at Oracle
I'm not sure if I should think you're still okay in my book because it's past-tence or if you're no longer okay in my good book because you worked there.
You didn't work in sales, did you? Or legal?
Oh, I got it. Still not nice of him. 'Cause, from my understanding, that's exactly why it's so important and what is the major difference between quantum computing and what we have now.
It appears to be the 4. I used the number on the back (which kind of does look like glass with white plastic beneath it). It is:
http://www.everymac.com/ultima...
And I don't actually mind what version it is, I paid the total of zero dollars for it and will just end up donating it. The page says it was discontinued in 2013 but she says she bought it about a year ago - which makes it purchased more recently than that and I've some additional personal information that makes me believe that is correct. I suspect that Verizon still had plenty to sell. I dunno?
And nah, I don't dislike OS or iOS. I don't really dislike any OS. I do like to give people shit sometimes but only blind zealots who tie themselves and their identity to an operating system they neither created nor control. I side with Apple in the current debate with the FBI. I don't have a Windows computer but I do have a Windows phone - which is an odd choice but I'm kind of enjoying it. I was quite surprised by how nice it is and there are plenty of apps available. I can do anything I would want to do on a phone on it.
I say that it's probably a good idea if it can be done with reasonable safety. We want these resources - you might even say we need them. We certainly need them if we want to maintain our current lifestyle. I think we need to be pragmatic about things like this. Idealism seldom works in the real world and Mother Nature is both powerful and fairly resilient.
Then exams will be conducted in the nude.
I did some teaching at the university level after I retired. It was basically an introduction into collegiate level mathematics. This was UMF where they generally graduate teachers more than anything else. So, if that happens, I just might be able to get over my loathing of the environment and go back to teaching.
Further down (or up?) in this thread, I mentioned a prof that gave us individualized exams. We were encouraged to take them home as no time was provisioned for them in class. We were encouraged to collaborate, to use any and all resources, and to even use old exams that prior students had left behind or made available. As near as we can tell, no questions were ever repeated. I learned a lot but it really, really sucked. Well, no... Not sucked so much as it was just really hard. I kind of enjoyed it.
That's akin to what I figure. I'm not a collector but I know some people take it seriously. Some of the comics go back to the 60s so I'm guessing that they're of value to someone for reasons other than monetary. I've absolutely no need for money and I am able to appreciate that some people are interested in things that I am not. So, I'd much rather that they end up in good hands than to be locked away or just turned around and sold. Meh, call me weird, I guess.
I don't really "collect" anything but I do end up with collections. I have a huge collection of automobiles, for example. I did not expect to, or intend to, collect them and they're not what other people would necessarily want but I like them. I've invested absurd amounts of money in them. (Like a 1982 Volvo 245 that's fully restored and marginally modified, a '73 Wagoneer, an '88 Honda Accord LX that I sent back to Japan for restoration - strange things like that.) I didn't really start out to collect them. I just somehow did. You could, almost, say I collect old computers but not really - I've just found some neat ones over the years and kept them. However, I can understand the mentality.
I do not have it. Curiouser and curiouser. The email is valid, properly spelled, and is not obfuscated. (I'm not scared!) Another /.er used it just yesterday.
I am not entirely sure why it's not there. It is not in junk nor is it in my inbox. I just checked all the other folders - not there.
It was not *technically* mine but was my older brother's - though I later purloined it, sometime in the mid-1960s. I don't know what ever happened to it. He had (and then I had) a chemistry set or something along those lines. In that set was uranium - I have no idea what for as the manual had long-since been lost. It had a small Geiger counter but I don't think that came with the set.
I'm remarkably healthy for my age but I never developed super-powers. I don't know for certain but, given that we were kids, presumably it was put in a mouth at one point or another. "Here, lick this. I double-dare you!"
Come to think of it, I'm kind of surprised we lived to be adults. I'm pretty sure my parents would be in prison and us kids wards of the State if they let us do some of that stuff today. We distinctly, with concerted effort, tried to make things blow up, be eaten away, smoke, emit fumes, spark, or otherwise frighten our mother.
Yeah, we'd be wards of the State. We used to have molds and melt our own tin soldiers. We had firearms and knives. We climbed to ungodly heights - often jumping off those lofty perches. We broke bones. We actually had a fight with frozen crab apples that had partially thawed out, it was awesome. I got pneumonia and puked in his boot, that was awesome too. Oh, I once beat the ever living hell out of him using nothing but a Queen Anne's Lace (a flower with a vine-like stalk that makes a fine impromptu whip) but that's because he did something to one of my Tonka trucks but I'll be damned if I remember what. Oh, they were made out of metal.
Yeah, we'd be in foster care today.
Their statement was patently absurd. There are some gems that are 40 years old, older, or nearing that mark. Pure, unadulterated, hogwash. They should be soundly beaten with a bumper from a '57 Mercury.
Someone above told us that we'd have to RTFA. Not worth it. I shall never join the cabal!
It took some work but I read (and properly parsed - I think) their post, not once but twice. I've decided that it has to be trolling. Seriously... It has to be.
I don't know a whole lot about nuclear energy but I've taken the time to learn the basics. I know what to do with the three cookies, I know how safe they are (or can be), I understand the mechanics and process well enough, and I know what half-life means. I'm pretty sure they're intentionally trolling. What's curious is that I'm using an alternative browser at the moment so that I see they're a Facebook user. Who'd tie intentional trolling to their account?
What an odd-ass publication. Thanks! It's remarkably more interesting than it should be. :/
I could have sworn it supported the switches? I know it did the last time I played with it on a Mac? These should work but I've used a real operating system for a while and haven't mucked about on my daughter's Mac for ages:
--proxy-server=[://][:]
Set up a proxy server to use. The scheme can be one of http (the default, also supports https), socks, socks4 or socks5.
--proxy-pac-url=URL
Set up a proxy server using autoconfiguration. The URL should point to a proxy autoconfiguration URL.
Examples
--proxy-server="example.org:8080"
--proxy-server="socks://example.org:1080"
--proxy-server="https=example.org:8080;http=example.net:1080"
Environment variables
_proxy=
http:///:@][:]/
Set up a proxy server. The scheme can be one of http, https or ftp.
Examples
export http_proxy="http://example.org:8080/"
export https_proxy="$http_proxy"
export ftp_proxy="$http_proxy"
Try those.
There's an add-on to change the default new tab. There's several, there's a couple from Chrome's extensions. Not that I know of - for the find. I actually prefer it this way. I could have sworn that, at one time, it did do that but it was short lived. It may be me conflating it with a time when I stopped using Opera as my main browser for a little while. (They really, really went off a deep end at about version 15 and it lasted until 23 but that was actually not all that long a time-frame.)
Off-topic: About the link in your signature, thanks. That'll keep me amused for hours and I'll learn a lot of new things.
Everyone else may now return to your regularly scheduled Friday activities.
I am thinking life, with its many twists and turns, is going to bring some surprises to a few people in this thread. I really have no idea what would make people think some of the things they think - or believe certain things to be true.
If it's an emergency, call 911.
I'm currently having a quite long email exchange with a guy who is attempting to put his brain, and thinking process, into code and is making "the most realistic and powerful AI ever conceived." (His words, not mine.)
The OP's post is an unusual one but in aggregate with the rest of his posts makes me think that we'd have some interesting conversations. And the examples he gave might not be what was requested, they are interesting and tangentially related, at least to some extent, which makes me think there's a deeper conversation involved. Or that there could be...
In case you were curious.
*chuckles* 'Snot very nice of 'em. Now I wanna know what I missed.
Chances are you mistake my reasons for wanting to pick his brain. (I read your reply before typing this.)
Nifty, thanks. And yeah, I've not found a script alternative site that does it well. I'm an eternal optimist, sort of, so I'd like to think it can be done. They don't have to be an *exact* match. Maybe I'll take a day or two and see if I can think of a way to knock one out and toss it up for others to maintain.
Either way, thanks for the links. I knew of Linux App Finder but osalt is new to me.
Directions to reboot a quasi-frozen Linux box:
Press and hold Alt and SysRq keys.
Hold them and press these in order with a pause between each: REISUB
You can but, I should warn you, attempt no landing there.
Hmm... I do not know where but somewhere in there should have been, "Please hold while I do the needful."