Linux-Advocacy Digest #693, Volume #32 Wed, 7 Mar 01 23:13:03 EST
Contents:
Re: NT vs *nix performance (.)
Re: NT vs *nix performance (.)
Re: What does IQ measure? ("Paolo Ciambotti")
Re: GPL Like patents. (Bob Hauck)
Re: Sometimes, when I run Windows... (Bob Hauck)
Re: I am looking for a newsreader ("Paolo Ciambotti")
Re: NT vs *nix performance ("Paolo Ciambotti")
Re: How Microsoft Crushes the Hearts of Trolls. ("LShaping")
Re: Sometimes, when i run Windows (Michael Vester)
Re: What does IQ measure? (Brock Hannibal)
Re: Linux on it's way back to (CR Lyttle)
Re: What does IQ measure? (Aaron Kulkis)
Re: How Microsoft Crushes the Hearts of Trolls. (.)
Re: Linux Joke (CR Lyttle)
Re: What does IQ measure? (Aaron Kulkis)
Re: What does IQ measure? (Aaron Kulkis)
New European language domain name land grab?? ("Hahn Roberts")
Re: Things Linux can't do! (Dominic Vernius)
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From: . <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: NT vs *nix performance
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 15:12:35 +1300
> I cannot, however, make copies and distribute them to my friends. Most
> people do, and it's rather like speeding, it's not a big deal and most
> people (even the RIAA) don't worry about it much. They're much more
> worried about the people who make a business out of selling these
> copies to their friends.
That would be believable if, and only if, the RIAA and MPAA were trying
to do ANYTHING to stop big scale pirates. They're not. I would say,
they're not because they can't. All copy protection can be circumvented,
and possibly even duplicated perfectly.
All their latest endeavours have been aimed towards stopping ordinary
people copying/recording things, legally OR illegally. They want you to
pay every time you watch a movie. They want you to pay every time you
listen to music.
I'm seriously surprised they haven't created a credit-card mp3-player -
ie: a player that automatically deducts a small amount from your credit
card...
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From: . <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: NT vs *nix performance
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 15:16:56 +1300
> Well, I have had four different linux distros install flawlessly on my
> machine until I bought OpenLinux
> 2.4 from Caldera. I popped in the CD and all I got was a kernel panic! I
> was glad I had the manuals
> that came with it and finally had to use the old Lizard install program to
> get things going again.
I'll be honest with you: Caldera didn't last 30 minutes in our house.
We tried to install and just encountered issue after issue. So I would
have to say, not all distributions are created equal.
> The best distro I liked was from a book that had slackware linux 3.5 with
> it. The book was most
> educational and explained quit a bit about how things worked together. It
> was an M & T book.
If I'd had a book when I tried slackware, I think I would have liked it
more. For some reason, linux basics isn't really that big a candidate
for free web pages and stuff. There's no nice 'how to use the shell'
type tutorial for linux (man bash REALLY doesn't cut it if you haven't
got the concepts down beforehand).
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From: "Paolo Ciambotti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What does IQ measure?
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 19:46:13 -0800
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Donovan Rebbechi"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Give some examples of highly intelligent people like this.
>
> I'd give myself as an example. But then, I didn't score poorly on the IQ
> test I took. I suppose some speedier types may have scored slightly
> higher.
>
> It may be possible that there are people who are statistical anomolies
> (for example, maybe someone with a learning disability takes twice as
> long, but produces accurate answers) and anyone who believes a single
> number to be a comprehensive measure of man needs to have his IQ
> tested(-;
I guess I'm one of those anomolies. I have a disability call Asperger's
syndrome. I got tested three times in school between the fifth grade and
graduation because of my learning problems. My Stanford-Binet varied
between 148 and 166, but according to my SAT scores I couldn't even
spell my name right. Go figure.
Actually, it's sort of a neat disability. A lot of Asperger's sufferers are
inclined toward the computer industry. For instance, if I'm programming
an application that requires an N-dimensional array, I can actually
visualize such an array in my mind where non-sufferers are stuck with
only two or maybe three dimensions. I think in pictures, everything is
graphically represented. Verbal communications sucks, and writing
something like this is a chore you wouldn't believe because I've already
multitasked to the end of this document and I have no idea how to accurately
convey my thoughts in such a dimensionless medium as sequential text.
See what I mean?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Hauck)
Subject: Re: GPL Like patents.
Reply-To: bobh = haucks dot org
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 02:43:52 GMT
On Wed, 07 Mar 2001 16:09:52 +0000, Donal K. Fellows
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>And what is it with you GPL people anyway? Why do you object so much to
>other people incorporating it as a part of what they are doing? Commercial
>projects and the people who work on them are not universally evil, you know.
I think mlw has already said that he would be willing to license his GPL
code under other terms if you pay him money. What's unfair about that?
--
-| Bob Hauck
-| To Whom You Are Speaking
-| http://www.haucks.org/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Hauck)
Subject: Re: Sometimes, when I run Windows...
Reply-To: bobh = haucks dot org
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 02:43:54 GMT
On Wed, 07 Mar 2001 22:48:20 GMT, Pete Goodwin
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>OK vector graphics I might accept, but... (and a package called Xara X
>comes to mind which is a vector package but entirely GUI based).
Most accomplished AutoCad users I've worked with use the CLI at least
part of the time.
>... thank you, editing pixels with a CLI is down right difficult.
Unless you want to do the same transform on lots of images. That's why
Gimp has script-fu, and why ImageMagick can be run from the command line.
--
-| Bob Hauck
-| To Whom You Are Speaking
-| http://www.haucks.org/
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From: "Paolo Ciambotti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I am looking for a newsreader
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 19:51:24 -0800
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Frank Crawford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Brad, I don't know if you're picking up a pattern here ; ), but pan is:
>
> excellent!
>
> IMHO it's the best. v. good indeed.
Yup. Posting with "pan" here. I've tried everything else, and "pan"
came out on top.
And I'm a command-line junkie.
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From: "Paolo Ciambotti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: NT vs *nix performance
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 19:57:53 -0800
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Well, I have had four different linux distros install flawlessly on my
>> machine until I bought OpenLinux
>> 2.4 from Caldera. I popped in the CD and all I got was a kernel panic!
I've installed Caldera on several different machines without a problem.
Caldera, as a matter of fact, has one of the best installers around.
I've been able to install Caldera on systems that choke and die on a
Win98 install. To paraphrase the Winvocates, you must have had bad
hardware.
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From: "LShaping" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: How Microsoft Crushes the Hearts of Trolls.
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 02:41:16 GMT
"Giuliano Colla" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
> More seriously: powerful instruments are very good to save time and to
> provide a cleaner and re-usable code, but you can't use successfully a
> high level instrument if you don't have a good knowledge of the low
> level ones. OOP is very good, but when you need to create a new object,
> or to derive another from an existing one, you aren't programming with
> objects, you're programming objects instead, and you need a good
> knowledge of the language objects are written into. And you can't have a
> good knowledge of a language if you don't know the sort of machine code
> which will be produced. Usually program bottlenecks are very few and
> very limited. For 95% of the code you don't care. But the residual 5% is
> the one which affects overall performance. You can't ignore the
> resulting machine code.
That is a wild generalization which suggests that a high level programmer
must not only know the machine language but also be able to redefine
functions using machine language. Strange, that coming from someone who
probably is multilingual. Obviously, Giuliano is assuming that there will
never be progress in programming languages, that all "good" programmers will
always be stuck messing with machine language. Or he is assuming that
machine language will always stay in step with high level languages. The
more likely scenario, if this is not already the case, it that high level
programmers must leave the details to low level programmers. Human
languages certainly do not require the user to know every detail, heaven
help us if they did.
LShaping
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From: Michael Vester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sometimes, when i run Windows
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 12:27:07 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> "Marada C. Shradrakaii" wrote:
> >
> > >Aaron, try simply rebooting a windows machine every 30 seconds, it very
> > >rarely has time to crash :)
> >
> > Ironically, my Windows install often crashes WHILE rebooting. Two rapid
> > control-alt-deletes should reboot, but I get a BSOD perhaps 5% of the time. I
> > suspect it's the mainboard, as it has only happened with this particular
> > board/CPU combonation.
>
> I sadly have to work with windows. In 9 hours today, it crashed over 10
> times.
> Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
> --
> http://www.guild.bham.ac.uk/chess-club
I am getting a bit better performance, 2 crashes a day running losedos2k,
bug fix 1. Lookout and/or Access are usually involved. No BSOD, just
freezes. Losedos could not even make it to a BSOD. My Linux computers
are perfect. Only the lack of electricity threatens their stability.
--
Michael Vester
A credible Linux advocate
"The avalanche has started, it is
too late for the pebbles to vote"
Kosh, Vorlon Ambassador to Babylon 5
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Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 19:19:39 -0800
From: Brock Hannibal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,soc.singles
Subject: Re: What does IQ measure?
Brent R wrote:
>
> Donovan Rebbechi wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 07 Mar 2001 15:08:45 GMT, Brent R wrote:
> > >Anonymous wrote:
> > >>
> >
> > I'll butt in here and say that IQ is certainly not a terribly reliable measure
> > of anything, but it's true that it correlates with a "intelligence", no matter
> > how you define "intelligence".
> >
> > Note that the fact that it correlates doesn't mean it's accurate. There could
> > exist a genius (however you want to define that) with an IQ of 75, and it would
> > still be true that the median IQ of your group of "geniuses" is 150 (or
> > whatever).
> >
> > In practice, it's unlikely that you'll find any sort of "genius" with an IQ
> > of under 100.
> >
> > --
> > Donovan Rebbechi * http://pegasus.rutgers.edu/~elflord/ *
> > elflord at panix dot com
>
> JD Salinger had an IQ score of 115, still above average but not showing
> his true ability.
On what combinations of tests? Obviously there was a problem in
either the test itself or the administration of the test. No one who
could write "Happy Day for Bananafish" would only have an IQ of 115.
There are many IQ tests, some of which are not very good at all. The
Stanford-Binet and Weschler tests are two that give reliable and
repeatable results.
> To some the man is a complete genius.
Read "Five Stories" and I'm sure you'll agree.
> I also so a show
> where a man with an IQ of 75 (he's mentally disabled) could craft
> picture perfect animal replicas out of clay in very short time. His
> pieces sell for millions at some art galleries. He's also considered a
> genius.
The idea of the idiot savant is well documented. There are many
cases of people with specific special talents that don't score very
high at all on IQ tests. That doesn't prove much. Exceptions to
averages are always present.
--
Brock
"Put a $20 gold piece on my watch chain so the boys'll know I died
standin' pat"
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From: CR Lyttle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux on it's way back to
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 03:20:19 GMT
Donovan Rebbechi wrote:
>
> On Wed, 07 Mar 2001 03:43:53 GMT, CR Lyttle wrote:
> >Donovan Rebbechi wrote:
> >>
> >> On Tue, 06 Mar 2001 20:18:22 GMT, The Ghost In The Machine wrote:
> >> >In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Bloody Viking
> >> ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>
> >> >If Microsoft develops the next "killer app" (parse that any way you
> >> >like :-) ), Linux may run into major problems. Even now, things like
> >> >DeCSS have been thrown into a gray legal area, which means Linux may
> >> >have problems playing DVDs --
> >>
> >> No, it doesn't. It means that Linux needs to play by the same rules as
> >> everyone else.
> >>
> >You forget that Linux is a revolution. Linux is creating a whole new
> >game with a whole new set of rules. Let everyone else play by *our*
> >rules.
>
> I have no problem with Linux being a revolution, but I have a problem
> with it being a lawless mob.
>
> As for writing the rules, it's not for "The Linux Movement", Microsoft,
> or anyone else to do this -- it's a job for the legislature.
^^^^^^^^^^^
As with all good revolutions, we intend new legislatures! NO more CSS,
no more DMCA, WORLD DOMINATION THROUGH PENGUIN POWER!
>
> --
> Donovan Rebbechi * http://pegasus.rutgers.edu/~elflord/ *
> elflord at panix dot com
--
Russ
<http://home.earthlink.net/~lyttlec>
Home of the Universal Automotive Test Set
Linux Open Source (GPL) Project
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From: Aaron Kulkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,soc.singles
Subject: Re: What does IQ measure?
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 22:41:50 -0500
Brent R wrote:
>
> Donovan Rebbechi wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 07 Mar 2001 15:08:45 GMT, Brent R wrote:
> > >Anonymous wrote:
> > >>
> >
> > I'll butt in here and say that IQ is certainly not a terribly reliable measure
> > of anything, but it's true that it correlates with a "intelligence", no matter
> > how you define "intelligence".
> >
> > Note that the fact that it correlates doesn't mean it's accurate. There could
> > exist a genius (however you want to define that) with an IQ of 75, and it would
> > still be true that the median IQ of your group of "geniuses" is 150 (or
> > whatever).
> >
> > In practice, it's unlikely that you'll find any sort of "genius" with an IQ
> > of under 100.
> >
> > --
> > Donovan Rebbechi * http://pegasus.rutgers.edu/~elflord/ *
> > elflord at panix dot com
>
> JD Salinger had an IQ score of 115, still above average but not showing
> his true ability. To some the man is a complete genius. I also so a show
> where a man with an IQ of 75 (he's mentally disabled) could craft
> picture perfect animal replicas out of clay in very short time. His
> pieces sell for millions at some art galleries. He's also considered a
> genius.
Either your powers of observation are deficient, or your memory
sucks, or you're deliberately witholding certain details:
The man in question was identified as intellectually gifted as a
child. He then suffered a high fever during childhood, which damaged
part of his brain, specifically, that area which controls speech.
>
> IQ measures logic and does, in general, represent how far a person will
> go in society. However I don't think that anyone should be held back by
> anything, with just a little intelligence and enough hard work you can
> accomplish anything. Don't dream it, be it.
>
> Also, it seems I have been dealt several hands of bad karma today after
> making that unwarranted attack on Aaron. I guess I will apologize now, I
> wasn't in the best of moods at the time.
> --
> Happy Trails!
>
> -Brent
>
> http://rotten168.home.att.net
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
K: Truth in advertising:
Left Wing Extremists Charles Schumer and Donna Shelala,
Black Seperatist Anti-Semite Louis Farrakan,
Special Interest Sierra Club,
Anarchist Members of the ACLU
Left Wing Corporate Extremist Ted Turner
The Drunken Woman Killer Ted Kennedy
Grass Roots Pro-Gun movement,
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall....
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
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From: . <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: How Microsoft Crushes the Hearts of Trolls.
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 16:43:20 +1300
> That is a wild generalization which suggests that a high level programmer
> must not only know the machine language but also be able to redefine
> functions using machine language. Strange, that coming from someone who
> probably is multilingual. Obviously, Giuliano is assuming that there will
> never be progress in programming languages, that all "good" programmers will
> always be stuck messing with machine language. Or he is assuming that
> machine language will always stay in step with high level languages. The
> more likely scenario, if this is not already the case, it that high level
> programmers must leave the details to low level programmers. Human
> languages certainly do not require the user to know every detail, heaven
> help us if they did.
I take a not-quite-so-extremist point of view... knowing lower levels,
and understanding (at least in a superficial way) what the compiler is
actually trying to create can make you a much better programmer. I fully
recommend every single programmer learn/be taught one flavour of
assembler (it doesn't matter what flavour... the concepts are the
important thing).
I've met a lot of bright programmers who actually knew sod all about the
COMPUTER. They get taught some logic, and a language, and they start
programming. I don't believe it makes them BAD programmers, just
ignorant of some important aspects.
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From: CR Lyttle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux Joke
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 03:42:47 GMT
Dave wrote:
>
> On Wed, 07 Mar 2001 13:56:35 GMT, "Chad Myers"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >I've always maintained that Linux must have an EZ-HACK feature, judging
> >by the ease in which "hackers" compromised entire university computer
> >labs for their DDoS assault on Ebay, Amazon, Microsoft and several
> >others last summer. It was reported that a large majority of the
> >machines used in the attack were compromised Linux boxes.
>
> I once heard a university sysop say on the firewalls group that he had
> so many "wannabe hacker brats" (his term) INSIDE the network, that the
> firewall was more a way to protect the Internet from the students than
> vice versa. He said everyone had just given up on security because
> they had so many users and rather than hiring permanent professionals
> the university got computer science students to do short stints.
>
> Not even linux is secure if you don't make an effort.
I think every thing you say is very true. The real difference with
Linux, and *nix in general, is that a cracker has to have at least
*some* computer abilities. If a person has reached the maturity level
required to survive a year or so at a university, the script kiddie
stuff is no longer interesting interesting. Students at that level tend
to go for subtilities. Besides, robbing banks without being detected
pays lots better.
If you were to turn cracker which would you do :
a) send out an e-mail with subject "Naked Wife" and crash 10,000 Win2k
machines, or
b) set yourself up with an interest paying bank account such that all
Federal money transfers to the state of Kansas spent 24 hours in your
account.
FYI, I once detected a scheme similar to (b), but when I reported it, no
one was intersted. Car payments to GMAC were being held for 24 hours in
an intermediate account when transfered between banks.
--
Russ
<http://home.earthlink.net/~lyttlec>
Home of the Universal Automotive Test Set
Linux Open Source (GPL) Project
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From: Aaron Kulkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,soc.singles
Subject: Re: What does IQ measure?
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 22:43:31 -0500
Interconnect wrote:
>
> > BULLSHIT.
> >
> > There is are VERY strong correlations between doing well on a
> well-designed
> > IQ test, and the ability to quickly learn and perform well at any other
> > randomly selected task. (Quickly as compared to the rate at which
> > an IQ 100 person [statistical mean] would learn).
> >
>
> To me IQ tests can only measure a *certain* current level of education /
> knowledge.
>
> I don't believe they can fundamentally measure the capacity of an individual
> to
> 1. be creative
> 2. measure the potential of that creativity.
>
> Which of course explains why some extremely High IQ individuals are complete
> morons with attitude problems in the sense of being a person.
There are a number of IQ tests which rely very minimally on prior education.
Read The Bell Curve.
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
K: Truth in advertising:
Left Wing Extremists Charles Schumer and Donna Shelala,
Black Seperatist Anti-Semite Louis Farrakan,
Special Interest Sierra Club,
Anarchist Members of the ACLU
Left Wing Corporate Extremist Ted Turner
The Drunken Woman Killer Ted Kennedy
Grass Roots Pro-Gun movement,
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall....
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
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From: Aaron Kulkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,soc.singles
Subject: Re: What does IQ measure?
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 22:44:03 -0500
Ian Davey wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Aaron Kulkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Edward Rosten wrote:
> >>
> >> > A true IQ test would have to
> >> > involve pictures and patterns, and perhaps have some mathematical
> >> > basis, because these are the only ideas that translate well all over
> >> > the world.
> >>
> >> I don't believe there is a true IQ test. People are good at different
> >> thing.
> >
> >BULLSHIT.
> >
> >There is are VERY strong correlations between doing well on a well-designed
> >IQ test, and the ability to quickly learn and perform well at any other
> >randomly selected task. (Quickly as compared to the rate at which
> >an IQ 100 person [statistical mean] would learn).
>
> There was an interesting series on in the UK a while back when they discussed
> this. There has been some research done that developed a test that was aimed
> at a different area of intelligence. People that have a low IQ did better in
> it than those with a high IQ. If I remember rightly it was something to do
> with problem solving, where people with a lower IQ were found to be highly
> adept at solving certain kinds of problems.
Could you be more...specific...
>
> ian.
>
> \ /
> (@_@) http://www.eclipse.co.uk/sweetdespise/ (dark literature)
> /(&)\ http://www.eclipse.co.uk/sweetdespise/libertycaptions/ (art)
> | |
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
K: Truth in advertising:
Left Wing Extremists Charles Schumer and Donna Shelala,
Black Seperatist Anti-Semite Louis Farrakan,
Special Interest Sierra Club,
Anarchist Members of the ACLU
Left Wing Corporate Extremist Ted Turner
The Drunken Woman Killer Ted Kennedy
Grass Roots Pro-Gun movement,
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall....
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
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Reply-To: "Hahn Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Hahn Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: New European language domain name land grab??
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 22:49:25 -0500
I recently registered a whole bunch of domain names in German character set.
These domain names are $25 per year when registered at register.com. The
current DNS servers cannot resolve these domain names, but that
functionality might be added in the next few years.
The encouraging sign is that these domain names are being registered in
droves. My question is what is the possibility of making money on these
domain names?
Hahn Roberts
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From: Dominic Vernius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: Things Linux can't do!
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 21:54:58 -0600
BSOD...
Like 64Forth used to do on my lit'll C64.
Charlie Ebert wrote:
> "Donal K. Fellows" wrote:
> >
> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > Charlie Ebert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > http:\\www.freebsd.org
> > ^^
> > *snort*
> >
> > Donal.
> > --
> > Donal K. Fellows http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~fellowsd/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > -- I may seem more arrogant, but I think that's just because you didn't
> > realize how arrogant I was before. :^)
> > -- Jeffrey Hobbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> HA HA!
>
> Thanks!
>
> Charlie
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