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>>open hardware MIPS netbook made in China More specificly, the Lemote Yeelong, which is not only made in China (like most hardware I guess), but also designed there. It's neat eno…

For a moment there one might have been thinking he meant atrocious actions with high death tolls against a civilian population, in which case the OP is definitely failing to unders…

>>There is no shame in asking for someone to pay for what they have purchased. True, but what have they purchased ? >>Safeway is not greedy, begging or anything of the sort when th…

Not silly. It's supposed to be this way. And don't skip out on the angst. A starting businessman should be apprehensive of sending out invoices and questioning himself. Yes, it doe…

>>Oracle is just a business. It's just that it's the kind of business that makes me glad kitten stomping doesn't have an appreciable ROI .

Well, price dumping, I would say. Normally centos users would "grow into" payed support from RH. Now Oracle claims to give them that support without cost. Unbreakable Linux was nev…

Thanks for the brtfs, but no thanks. I'll only touch your stuff with a GPL pole and with a non-oracle maintainer. If you want support for Centos, please consider redhat * I'm sure …

And once again, by your proposed model to fund science. How are we even going to know there's a comet hurling towards earth ? Gazing out there for neat stuff in the cosmos isn't ev…

>>if the problem cannot be addressed than why even bring it up? Because an engineer ( not a research scientist) somewhere , given the right model, and access to the right informati…

>>Take special note of my words above, particularly "DEEP DOWN" Especially DEEP DOWN, that's where the problem lies. It's called "Appeal to nature", and it consists of explaining o…

>If a male were to sexually harass a female, it would not be sexism because he is not giving males special preference over females Well, seeing how he's not sexually harassing the …

>>you know what I mean I'm afraid not. Your implication does not really define anything. >>If you want to argue I don't. But I'd like to impart the following. >>If you maybe you ar…

I'm sorry. I meant "the business" as in "the business you're representing", not the "business" as in suits. So in this case dressing in wacky t-shirts and mohawks. Actually, as you…

It's not that I disagree with the general sentiment, but there's an undertone of self-righteousness there. " I was already thinking about what clothes I would avoid taking to Las V…

the git dcvs has a git-blame feature. I guess it depends on the right environment for such a feature to be productive, which would basically mean an environment where "Blame Jim" m…

Because when programming in any language, you can't rise above your own proficiency in C. That is my observation anyway. I think it has something to do with the deeper understandin…

Raymond, as is his wont, sets up a strawman and proceeds to set it on fire pitching himself as a champion of "the just side". It's a strawman, because in truth the only important p…

Ah. I guess I didn't express myself very clearly. I'm not advocating starting with 'ed' and transitioning to 'vi'. I'm an emacs user myself. But as you know, emacs is not always in…

not a joke at all. A regex you use in 'ed' command mode, you can use directly in vi after typing ':' I never made any heavy use of 'vi', but I can use it because I know a little 'e…

well, if he was referring to 'unix' as specified in the Single Unix Specification (which incorporates IEEE Std 1003.1) then all unix systems have 'ed' http://pubs.opengroup.org/onl…

It's not whether 'vi' is available (it usually is), but whether it is behaving properly. Situations do occur where any fullscreen editor will fail and where 'ed' will work as expec…

Even today 'ed' has practical uses apart from being the default emergency backup of the backup editor. One situation where I always use 'ed' is when I reinstall a machine (with the…

I think I see your point, and it has merit ... but ... :) in a way, the 'find' program is like what you envision, except it's just for files. That means that someone somewhere alon…

>>Let me ask you this; how would you do the equivalent of this hypothetical command? >> $ ls | structured-grep 'file.size > 1M' # find . -maxdepth 1 -size +1M really, flat text is …

GNU's a little more than some userland tools thrown in for good measure. It is actually an operating system. If you look at the posix spec, which defines what a real "unix" should …