Re: Honest inquiry
Frankly, I don't see systemd solving any problems. It doesn't actually fix anything. I do see it adding complex code unnecessarily, which is totally against the entire design philosophy of un*x.
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I was a big John Peel fan, starting with the last couple years of "Top Gear" (no, not that one!). I was listening the first time he played "Teenage Kicks" ... I never did understand his fascination with the song, I thought (and still think) it is simple dreadful pop. Just goes to show, if we all liked the same thing the world would be an awfully boring place!
RIP, John. This round is on me.
Bad advice, Bernard M. Orwell. The post office will not pass along obvious abuses of the system ... and in fact has been known to prosecute people who won't knock it off. A friend of mine was fined around $3,500 for this practice (in 1998ish), and had to pay all the court fees. (I'm in the US, other jurisdictions may vary, check your local laws etc. etc.)
Dave 126 scrive: "It's just not ideal for all users though."
That, my friend, is reality. Because NOTHING, that's NOTHING! made by mankind is "ideal for all users".
And that's precisely where Redmond, Cupertino and London are going wrong ... They are trying to be all things to all people. The result, as we can see, is nothing short of a clusterfuck. It's also why I don't use or recommend Redmond, Cupertino or London products. KitchenSinkWare wastes disk, burns CPU, eats bandwidth and frustrates the user.
Tom, if you have enough energy to boil your blood & yell at DearOldTelly, you'd probably be better off spending your copious free time educating the voters in your neighborhood. If we all did, something might actually get done.
(Can you imagine fifty people a day? I said FIFTY people a day walkin' in, singin' a bar ... Oh, wait, that was a different protest entirely. But it just might work ... )
Fear of the unknown on a societal level can be a very ugly thing.
Out of curiosity, has anybody put these politicians on the spot and asked them point-blank to define exactly what they mean by "algorithm"? The answer (or lack thereof) might be amusing ...
He was one of the folks that kept Ken Olsen off the backs of those of us who were working on BSD ... Ken was a un*x hater, Bob saw it as a useful tool,
He was a really good guy, totally down to earth, despite his ability to envision the future. No reality distortion field, he didn't need one. One of the best people I've ever had the pleasure of working with.
On a personal note, he is the person who brought what would become my house to my attention after seeing the for sale sign go up while on a walk during his lunch break (we worked at DEC SRC on Lytton in Palo Alto).
Old Silly Con Valley is much smaller with his passing.
RIP, Bob. You'll be missed by many.
Yeast will NOT raise a loaf in the absence of simple sugars. In proper bread, the simple sugars are made by enzymes in the yeast and the flour causing large starch molecules to break down. Adding to this with the addition of table sugar (or other sucrose) makes for a one-dimensional end product. If you must add simple sugars, use honey. Sometimes I'll spike the honey with unsulfered molasses. (The sulfured stuff is bad for yeast.) ... if you go the honey/molasses route, pay attention to pH if you want proper browning.
You do NOT need to add sugar to ferment a loaf of bread. Flour, water, yeast (or starter culture) and salt are all that is needed. You can do without salt if you like flat tasting bread ... but you'll have to watch it so it doesn't over-proof. Salt helps slow down the yeast.
amfM, I know I can't speak for anybody but myself, but speaking as a sysadmin I'm not "in terrified crisis", nor am I "terrorising all and sundry" around me. Perhaps you could elucidate why you feel this way?
I think most of us, if pressed, would cop to "in their own little compartmented spaces with limited place and a distinct lack of novel vital intelligence." ... at least to one degree or another.
As for: "The BBC has lost the global plot and the lead initiative, has it not? What a sad relic and blunt useless lick spittle tool it has become."
Oh, I dunno ... With all the advertising revenue they get from BBC America, I rather suspect they are a pretty happy and sharp organization, overall. They are certainly paying their own way, and probably turning a handsome profit!
Feynman was at Caltech.
However, he did speak at both Stanford and Berkeley occasionally. I saw him a couple of times at both schools. One of the talks was his take on Cargo Cult Science, or maybe it was two of them a year or so apart. It was forty years ago, and he was a guest speaker, I'm surprised I remember that much ... my major(s) occupied most of my thought processes at the time.
During the meanwhile ...
... my wife just came back in after spelling me walking a horse that we board that tends towards colic. I'll be out again after the foreman's 20 minute shift. She has shit on her paddock boots, horse snot on her shoulder & hay in her hair. She is the most beautiful woman in the world. The whippets & greyhounds agree with me, so we must be right :-)
"Plastic People" --Frank Zappa
(First posted June of 2013)
"The mean age of those who provided Facebook data was 48 – an age at which people have spent over half their adult lives without the pervasive influence of the internet."
Implying that people aged 48 have been online less than 15 years? I doubt it.
And, of course, anything referencing "BMI" is always pure bullshit.
Enjoy the research dollars while you can, folks, methinks it ain't gonna last.
"Luddite" is used by people infatuated by a technological fad to describe other people who see the fad as just that, a passing fad. I was called a luddite many times when I referred to the iPad as an iFad. Strangely enough, I haven't seen a personal iPad in use in public for several years.
That said, I'll cop to being a neoluddite.
Twentieth century. That's when they became as common as muck.
All of you who feel a compelling need to know exactly what time it is, several tens or perhaps a couple hundred times per day, to the point of having anxiety attacks if your watch isn't instantly available ... WHY? What good does it do you? It's not like it's even interactive or anything ... One wonders what would happen if you lost access to TehIntraWebTubes for a day or three ...
Here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/Profile/about_the_register/
And here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/Profile/terms_and_conditions_of_use/
Seems to be no commentary as to why these were posted at this time, and no place to ask other than here ... so what's up, ElReg? Anything we need to know? Care to share? Can you share? Inquiring minds and all that.