Linux-Advocacy Digest #799, Volume #34 Sun, 27 May 01 03:13:03 EDT
Contents:
Re: ease and convenience ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: How to hack with a crash, another Microsoft "feature" ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: Time to bitc__ again ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: Time to bitc__ again ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: Why Linux Is no threat to Windows domination of the desktop ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: Microsoft - WE DELETE YOU! ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: Linux beats Win2K (again) (Pete Goodwin)
Re: Just when Linux starts getting good, Microsoft buries it in the ("Aaron R.
Kulkis")
Re: Linux beats Win2K (again) ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: Linux beats Win2K (again) (Pete Goodwin)
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From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ease and convenience
Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 02:37:03 -0400
Todd wrote:
>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:yAHP6.22323$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> Not sure why you chose to do it the hard way...
>
> Windows:
>
> 1) Start->Windows Update
> 2) Download your browser of choice IE 5.5 or 6.
Only if you're a fucking MORON
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
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K: Truth in advertising:
Left Wing Extremists Charles Schumer and Donna Shalala,
Black Seperatist Anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan,
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.
------------------------------
From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to hack with a crash, another Microsoft "feature"
Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 02:43:10 -0400
Charles Lyttle wrote:
>
> The Ghost In The Machine wrote:
> >
> > In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Edward Rosten
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote
> > on Sun, 13 May 2001 23:46:14 +0100
> > <9dmvak$de5$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > >>> That is not true. If you took 500 cats in boxes and lookes at them all
> > >>> at once, n would be dead and 500-n would be alive. You would have no
> > >>> way of predicting in an individual case whether the cat would be dead
> > >>> or alive, thus the observation does not stop it being random, it merely
> > >>> forces it in to a random (but observable) state.
> > >>
> > >> If you take a random number, then modify it, it's no longer random. If
> > >
> > >That is not true. I can take a random number and multiple it by two, the
> > >result still being random.
> >
> > But with different characteristics.
> >
> > Take a random number, uniformly distributed from 0 to 1 [*], and multiply
> > by 2. One gets a random number, uniformly distributed from 0 to 2.
> >
> Notice also that as computers do not generate the entire real number
> line, the resulting distribution is less random due to all the mantissas
> ending in an even number. Many machines/compilers do not get the "add 1
> to the exponent" correct. For some multiplication, rounding/trucation
> makes it even worse. So doing any math on a random number can reduce the
> "randomness" quiet a bit..
This can be corrected by using a 2nd random number to randomize
the low-order bit (through bit-wise functions).
>
> > It gets worse.
> >
> > Take two random numbers which are both uniformly distributed from
> > 0 to 1 and add them together. One gets a "tent"-distributed random
> > number, which starts at 0, peaks at 1, and ends at 2.
> >
> > Take two uniformly-distributed random numbers from 0 to 1 and multiply them
> > together -- one would probably get a weird-looking thing. I'd have
> > to work out what it looks like, but it would still be random -- just
> > not uniformly-distributed.
> >
> > And then there's the bell curve... :-)
> >
> > This is admittedly leading to an interesting, if slightly goofy, utility,
> > just to check my statements... :-)
> >
> > [rest snipped]
> >
> > [*] to be precise, the area under the range (x, x+Dx) would be the
> > probability that a random number would fall in that range. This
> > means that the area under (-oo,+oo) has to have area 1. For
> > a uniformly-distributed random number from 0 to 1, this isn't
> > much of an issue as the curve is 1 from [0,1] and 0 everywhere else.
> >
> > --
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- who knows just enough statistics to be dangerous
> > EAC code #191 24d:19h:53m actually running Linux.
> > I am, you are, he, she, and it is, but they're not.
>
> --
> Russ Lyttle
> "World Domination through Penguin Power"
> The Universal Automotive Testset Project at
> <http://home.earthlink.net/~lyttlec>
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
L: This seems to have reduced my spam. Maybe if everyone does it we
can defeat the email search bots. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
K: Truth in advertising:
Left Wing Extremists Charles Schumer and Donna Shalala,
Black Seperatist Anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan,
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.
------------------------------
From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Time to bitc__ again
Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 02:44:51 -0400
drsquare wrote:
>
> On Sat, 26 May 2001 01:58:06 -0400, in comp.os.linux.advocacy,
> ("Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
>
> >chrisv wrote:
>
> >> >Huhh?
> >> >
> >> >What a convoluted mess of a reply....
> >> >
> >> >Have you been drinking?
>
> >> You would to, if you had to fight with Linux every day.
>
> >Linux is the epitomy of grace compared the the fucked-up shit
> >produced by Mafia$oft
>
> Why do you keep using queer terms like "Mafia$oft" and "LoseDOS"?
Why does Microsoft keep calling everything "WinBlah" when
choosing Win[anything] makes you a fucking LOSER?
> How do you ever expect to be taken seriously?
Anybody with a brain already does.
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
L: This seems to have reduced my spam. Maybe if everyone does it we
can defeat the email search bots. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
K: Truth in advertising:
Left Wing Extremists Charles Schumer and Donna Shalala,
Black Seperatist Anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan,
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.
------------------------------
From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Time to bitc__ again
Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 02:46:37 -0400
flatfish+++ wrote:
>
> On Sat, 26 May 2001 01:58:06 -0400, "Aaron R. Kulkis"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >chrisv wrote:
> >>
> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >>
> >> >On Fri, 25 May 2001 03:58:56 +0100, Steve Campbell
> >> ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >>I dont normally use this kind of tone but
> >> >>would you PLEASE fuck off back to windows and give our heads peace. (
> >> >>flatfish mrore than daniel)
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >Huhh?
> >> >
> >> >What a convoluted mess of a reply....
> >> >
> >> >Have you been drinking?
> >>
> >> You would to, if you had to fight with Linux every day.
> >
> >Linux is the epitomy of grace compared the the fucked-up shit
> >produced by Mafia$oft
>
> Linux is a convoluted mess of half done programs most trying in vain
> to be Windows equivalents and in general, failing miserably at it.
That must be why Mafia$oft keeps stealing ideas from Linux.
>
> I agree with the drinking comment. Every time I try out a new Linux
> version I head for the local alcohol dispensary and load up on a case
> of Becks. It helps keep my nerves in check as I navigate through the
> minefield we all know and love as Linux.
That's because you're a fucking alcoholic..
worse yet, an alcoholic who can't deal with shit that works properly.
Apparently, you thrive on chaos....like an old Operations Officer
I knew back in Indiana...he was never happy unless shit was fucked up.
>
> flatfish+++
> "Why do they call it a flatfish?"
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
L: This seems to have reduced my spam. Maybe if everyone does it we
can defeat the email search bots. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
K: Truth in advertising:
Left Wing Extremists Charles Schumer and Donna Shalala,
Black Seperatist Anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan,
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.
------------------------------
From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: soc.men,soc.singles,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
Subject: Re: Why Linux Is no threat to Windows domination of the desktop
Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 02:48:18 -0400
Ray Fischer wrote:
>
> Aaron R. Kulkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Rule #1: never underestimate your opponent.
>
> Tough to do in your case.
Spot the irony.
>
> --
> Ray Fischer When you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] into you -- Nietzsche
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
L: This seems to have reduced my spam. Maybe if everyone does it we
can defeat the email search bots. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
K: Truth in advertising:
Left Wing Extremists Charles Schumer and Donna Shalala,
Black Seperatist Anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan,
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.
------------------------------
From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Microsoft - WE DELETE YOU!
Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 02:51:29 -0400
"." wrote:
>
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy JS \ PL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Aaron R. Kulkis wrote:
>
> >> Most commonly used desktop OS in General Motors is the Unix family.
>
> > That's a little hard to independently verify isn't it?
>
> Its a little hard, but thank goodness I know a guy who currently works
> for ford in detroit, and has more than a couple of GM friends...
>
> Who all say that the unix family is NOT the most commonly used desktop
> at GM, as a company. The most commonly used desktop os at GM is windowsNT.
>
> The most commonly used desktop OS among GM engineers and development staff,
> however, is UNIX, specifically Solaris and IRIX.
And these people make up the MAJORITY of desktops within GM.
one Window-running manager, 50 engineers (or CAD operators,
die designers, detailers, checkers.....)
EVERY building at GM and Ford that I've ever been in is like
90% Unix, 10% Windows.
>
> Just like at Ford and just about every other car company on the planet.
>
> -----.
>
> --
> "George Dubya Bush---the best presidency money can buy"
>
> ---obviously some Godless commie heathen faggot bastard
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
L: This seems to have reduced my spam. Maybe if everyone does it we
can defeat the email search bots. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
K: Truth in advertising:
Left Wing Extremists Charles Schumer and Donna Shalala,
Black Seperatist Anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan,
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.
------------------------------
From: Pete Goodwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux beats Win2K (again)
Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 06:52:07 GMT
In article <9epars$glt$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> You did it to me several times. You did it earlier in this thread. I
> can't be bothered with this anymore.
I'm getting tired of your lies. Either post an example or shut up!
--
Pete
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From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Just when Linux starts getting good, Microsoft buries it in the
Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 02:53:19 -0400
Chad Myers wrote:
>
> "Nigel Feltham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:9ejrhe$37uhh$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > JS \\ PL wrote:
> >
> > > I have to say, Linux Mandrake 8 was looking real damn good. Support for
> > > all my hardware (for once) easy set-up, even seting up networking and
> > > connection sharing was painless. Good newsreader - Knode, pretty stable
> > > OS. I even liked the fact that it stayed connected to the Internet when
> > > switching users (unlike Win2K) I was actually contemplating using it much
> > > more often and only using Windows for apps I need to use that aren't
> > > available on Linux. But....
> > > Well after half a day checking out the new XP OS, I have to say IT KICKS
> > > MANDRAKE ASS!!
> > > Internet connection stays when switching users! And get this -
> > > Applications even stay open and are there (still open) when returning to
> > > that user.
> > > That's just the tip of the iceberg. Of course the browser still kicks
> > > ass, and copy and paste is still much much better between apps, as opposed
> > > to the hit and miss copy/paste support in Linux. Ohh I could go on and
> > > endlessly list how much better XP is than Mandrake. Once again the Linux
> > > community is playing catch up to the industry leader. Competition at it's
> > > finest! Thank You.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > That will be the OS that's not released until october at the earliest -
> > What's the point of comparing something unreleased and not legally
> > obtainable to 99% of the population with a rival product that's available
> > now - don't forget that by the time it's released Mandrake will probably be
> > on at least version 8.2 and will have had plenty of time to improve the
> > system. Mandrake Kicks Win2000 SP2's ass now
>
> BS.
>
> and will kick XP's ass by the time it's released too
Chad now works for the "non-Psychic Friends Network"
>
> Hardly. XP already is way ahead of it just in beta.
cue the theme from Twilight Zone.
>
> Not to mention Mandrake probably won't be around by then anyhow.
>
> >(with none of the authentication bullshit designed
> > to piss users off - If my PC dies and I upgrade why should I have to buy
> > new copies of the OS and Office suite I already own).
>
> Complete FUD.
>
> -c
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
L: This seems to have reduced my spam. Maybe if everyone does it we
can defeat the email search bots. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
K: Truth in advertising:
Left Wing Extremists Charles Schumer and Donna Shalala,
Black Seperatist Anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan,
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.
------------------------------
From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,sci.physics
Subject: Re: Linux beats Win2K (again)
Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 02:54:38 -0400
Vincent Maycock wrote:
>
> Aaron R. Kulkis wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>
> snip
>
> >> One of the lovely things is that in many things there seem to be two
> >> enirely different explanations for the same thing that are both correct.
> >
> >Duality only kicks in at short wavelengths.
> >
> >At least, i've never heard anybody discuss photons which correspond
> >to radios in the 300m wavelength region.
>
> No, EM radiation of all wavelengths is composed of photons. It is true that
> people tend to think of high-energy photons (like gamma "particles") as
> particles, though, more so than radio photons. It's just a question of
> context, though. When you're dealing with gamma rays or x-rays, you're more
> likely to be dealing with situations where the wavelike characteristics of
> the photon are not as noticeable.
I should have said that the duality model is only useful at
short wavelengths.
>
> --
> Vince
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
L: This seems to have reduced my spam. Maybe if everyone does it we
can defeat the email search bots. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]
K: Truth in advertising:
Left Wing Extremists Charles Schumer and Donna Shalala,
Black Seperatist Anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan,
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: Pete Goodwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux beats Win2K (again)
Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 06:55:07 GMT
In article <9ep88o$bj1$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, don'[EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> The next one /is/ .NET, but C++ is (the only one) still capable of going to
> native code directly, and not map to IL first.
C#, the one that is designed by the guy who helped creat Delphi, is not?
That's the one that interests me... along with it's class library, which
I haven't seen yet.
--
Pete
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