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Why Was: US Military Dead during Iraq War 1809
Boyd had this talk called "Patterns of Conflict" ... which was how to deal in a compebreastive situation ... even applied to business ... but most of...
Why Was: US Military Dead during Iraq War 1810
You really should figure out what smoking a doobie involves, because figuratively you're smoking one here. Seriously as an aside, it...
Why Was: US Military Dead during Iraq War 1811
You were there. Strange. I didn't see you. What did you look like...the fly that was on the wall just before I splatted it? I didn't say...
Why Was: US Military Dead during Iraq War 1812
I respect you as a manager. Sadly, this doesn't happen in many large organizations in the US. HPs current problems are largely rooted precisely in that middle managers were and still...
Why Was: US Military Dead during Iraq War 1813
Spellet with two T's in Norwegian. If they go to somewhere else than the account that bought the stuff. The following...
Future Leadership Was: US Military Dead during Iraq War
rpl Not to worry: The "typical" kid may be a doofus, but there are plenty of bright, compebreastive ones. One of them is my daughter. She is getting ready for her senior...
Future Leadership Was: US Military Dead during Iraq War 1815
Charles Richmond) writes: I breezed through math in high school, but halfway through my second year at university I lost it. I think I still have a...
Future Leadership Was: US Military Dead during Iraq War 1816
A significant problem here is that the way a number of college courses are structured, learning and...
Why Was: US Military Dead during Iraq War 1817
A few points I'm not sure anyone else addressed (all "as far as I know", since in this group I...
Why Was: US Military Dead during Iraq War 1818
around Why? You are already teaching us stuff. Except it's use count can go to zero independently of the...
Why Was: US Military Dead during Iraq War 1819
Yipes. Yes, I noticed your other posts about trying to get AOL installed on a different computer. Such fun. Administering one's own machine is something I also (?) am only lately getting much experience with...
Why Was: US Military Dead during Iraq War 1820
I have repeatedly written that I want to grow up to be a newbie. We never knew how good we had it when main frames filled a gymnasium-sized room and needed dozens of babysitters...
Why Was: US Military Dead during Iraq War 1821
snip Sing it. The argument against this sort of centralized scheme was (if I remember right) that it didn't give users enough control over their own environments, but I rarely found that to be...
Why Was: US Military Dead during Iraq War 1822
Me too. Then again, I've seen that particular political thing go both ways. Exactly, I'd say that there's no way to...
Why Was: US Military Dead during Iraq War 1823
And those users of applications are the only ones who are experts of their usage...
Why Was: US Military Dead during Iraq War 1824
snip Off-topic aside: This is strange -- Bernd's post doesn't seem to be available, either from my news server...
Why Was: US Military Dead during Iraq War 1825
a signature at the bottom of a post. I made them up. Think of a family...
Why Was: US Military Dead during Iraq War 1826
snip Well, no. The point of having groups, in this context, is to provide a mechanism for controlling access...
Why Was: US Military Dead during Iraq War 1827
This limitation was removed as posix and 32-bit variables made its way into the *n*x code base; timeframe 1990-1995. I have administered some pretty large *n*x installations; and...
Why Was: US Military Dead during Iraq War 1828
on Ok. That leaves redundancy. Heh. That's why those bit gods earned their money. But...
Why Was: US Military Dead during Iraq War 1829
uses. I used it all the time by invoking the File Daemon. Nobody logged in under 1,2...
Why Was: US Military Dead during Iraq War 1830
I don't think you're understanding how the Unix filesystem works. Attempting to close an already closed file handle will just result in an...
Why Was: US Military Dead during Iraq War 1831
Also, remember that most of the stuff in Tops20 has found its way into *n*x since about a decade ago. snip It provides a...
Why Was: US Military Dead during Iraq War 1832
jmfbahciv) writes: It takes a bit of getting used to, I'll admit. But that's why the system call is named...
Why Was: US Military Dead during Iraq War 1833
Now insert a crash here. I'll repeat {{{{SHUDDER}}}}}. There isn't a I'm now making up a word solid state of the system that...
Why Was: US Military Dead during Iraq War 1834
The user does not have to know. This is program sematics at the core API, so the junior...
Why Was: US Military Dead during Iraq War 1835
part of the issue is that there is a large amount of unix filesystem metadata that is normally cached in processor memory ... and on disk, is...
Why Was: US Military Dead during Iraq War 1836
Thank you for translating for me :-). Did you have to configure a dedicated channel? How did you handle errors in that part of the system? Most of the time I preferred getting...
Why Was: US Military Dead during Iraq War 1837
resources in the particular context were the resources to do the implementation .... aka instead of standard unix port to the real machine interface ... they implemented a VRM abstraction ... which cost resources...
Why Was: US Military Dead during Iraq War 1838
Charlie Gibbs That's what *we* thought when working with DGUX, a SVR4 that ran on DG Aviion workstations. It...
Why Was: US Military Dead during Iraq War 1839
snip i-node filesystem semantics snip This PAITA behaviour is also known from other operating systems. It is "juniks" 1 that stand out as different; although...
US Military Dead during Iraq War 1840
T.M. Sommers Languages where individual glyphs do not directly correspond with words? Well, such as ENGLISH, basically...or any other alphabetical language you care to name... I thought we WERE considering those...
US Military Dead during Iraq War 1841
rpl is This is the standard term used...and, indeed, relates to the grammatical "imperative tense"...one uses "commands" in the imperative tense, you see: "Go forth!", "Sit...
US Military Dead during Iraq War 1842
rpl term look term"): the Possible minor redundency between "artificial" and "programming", in that all programming languages are artificial languages...but nothing serious to warrant confusion, I wouldn't have thought... But...
US Military Dead during Iraq War 1843
Beth Esperanto is an artificial human language. So is ASL-BSL umm, no; if you're referring to computer programming languages the difference is in the recipient. Human languages have imperative constructs. I have...
US Military Dead during Iraq War 1844
rpl Good point! Okay, that's a checkmark in your column and a stike against Beth. Hmmm... could someone tally these up real quick...
US Military Dead during Iraq War 1845
Evenbit in nothing No, it's not...really, it isn't...it's, like, totally backwards and stuff... I said "all programming...
US Military Dead during Iraq War 1846
Beth uhh.. okay, I'll take a look at the instant replay and consider your pebreastion... didn't see the aledged foul myself because I was busy taking bribes from those who have been placing bets... ;) One...
US Military Dead during Iraq War 1847
rpl I Usenet ? Spare time? Hobby? 'Tis not my place to presume what you do or don't do elsewhere... posted Simple answer to that one: This is a public forum...you and I are...
US Military Dead during Iraq War 1848
Beth Well, probably what through the a.f.c people off is that the phrase "natural language" is obviously redundent...
US Military Dead during Iraq War 1849
rpl to Sorry...let me explain... I had written this about 2 weeks ago too...and I'd hit "send" but, due to strange newsreader settings ("do not send immediately"), it went into the...
US Military Dead during Iraq War 1850
rpl Possibly; But he's factually accurate...it was him that started this absrudly long thread initially...his motivations for...
US Military Dead during Iraq War 1851
Larry Elmore Oh, at least unlike the others, you admit that you read it...I'm beginning to warm to you a little...I don't mind "awkward" or "contrary", so long as it's honest with...
US Military Dead during Iraq War 1852
Alan Balmer At the risk of "pantomime", I do not confuse it at all... But you expertly and prefectly demonstrate my point in...
US Military Dead during Iraq War 1853
Charlie Gibbs effort, That's quite a few sentences to simply say "it's the reader's time, so it's the reader's choice", isn't it? I had not yet even...
US Military Dead during Iraq War 1854
Charlie Gibbs gleaning generally the change. Surely you didn't miss the point of my comment? That's EXACTLY what I was doing...I was making a "wisecrack" that, for all your fuss, you...
US Military Dead during Iraq War 1855
Alan Balmer Will some of you people please get brains and use them before opening your mouth? Beth is convinced of no such thing... I was pointing out that a number...
US Military Dead during Iraq War 1856
Nathan Funny...I seem to remember that I might have made that point innumerable times myself...
US Military Dead during Iraq War 1857
bah Oh, right...sorry...as you're making no fracking sense whatsoever, in any regard, it's quite true that I didn't...
US Military Dead during Iraq War 1858
Just go read risks.digest for another opinion. I depend on software that start the engine of my car, control lights and (some) heat in my house, run the traffic lights...
US Military Dead during Iraq War 1859
On 2005-09-10 Kelli Halliburton said: Then the "NNTP parsing" (whatever you think THAT might be) is defective. CR-LFs should...
US Military Dead during Iraq War 1860
I am not very good at compiler thinking. I can see how you build the tree but I don't...
US Military Dead during Iraq War 1861
Robert Redelmeier Same thing... ...unless you're claiming omnipotence, that is... Last time I checked, just because a belief was "personal" didn't automatically make...
US Military Dead during Iraq War 1862
Robert Redelmeier Ah, you're trying to confuse the two, in order to confuse me... The statement of what that personal value is, is, of course...
US Military Dead during Iraq War 1863
I agree that that is how things should be. Not my speculation... observation. The state of affairs...
US Military Dead during Iraq War 1864
bah I agree... But, nevertheless, the TERM for it is "natural language"...I personally did not invent the terminology and I too think it's...
US Military Dead during Iraq War 1865
On Thu, 04 Aug 2005 21:07:45 -0400, rpl Looked at it here once, one of the main characters...
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