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Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd:11888 comp.os.386bsd.development:539 Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!paladin.american.edu!news.univie.ac.at!scsing.switch.ch!bernina!neptune!/dev/null From: /dev/null Subject: Re: Ramblings about the Convention Message-ID: <1993Apr23.143834.27653@neptune.inf.ethz.ch> Followup-To: /dev/null Keywords: rambeling convention Sender: news@neptune.inf.ethz.ch (Mr News) Nntp-Posting-Host: antares.inf.ethz.ch Reply-To: /dev/null Organization: none References: <jmonroyC5tv90.791@netcom.com> Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1993 14:38:34 GMT Lines: 145 In article <jmonroyC5tv90.791@netcom.com>, jmonroy@netcom.com (Jesus Monroy Jr) writes: > > [Deleted.] > > But the truth does not evade us, we speak in argots. Sometimes I wonder what your peculiar idioms are... > (Wow, hold on. The popsicle truck just went by!) Each of us pictures > the "int" in just slightly, a different manner. Semantically, it is > just 16-bits signifying a value with a range of about 32k. > Owww.... I said about?!? About is correct, because some people are > still discoursing whether 32k is 32,000 _or_ 32,768. Silly, huh?!? > So, what is an "int"? Well, should we now talk about signed or > unsigned? Did I mention some people think an "int" should be > 32-bits? Does this make it different if it is public or private? > What about near or far? (OOPs, Sorry, that's only for MS-DOZ.) > > How do we assign a value to this "int"? Do I use 128? > or 0x80? or 1000 0000 (binary)? or 200 (octal)? and where's > the 0x0beef? Die qual der Wahl... > What's all this leading to? Certainly, I must have some > information to present? Yes, Mocha Java is a coffee bean blend > without chocolate. Mocha is a port, and Java is a country. Man dude, this info I could scarceley do without in comp.unix.bsd, comp.os.386bsd.development, not to mention some of the other groups you posted to. If I wanted to listen to stuff like this, I'd subscribe to alt.talk.*! [Deleted.] > You've gone beyond! There is no need to look at your left > foot and your right foot when you walk; it's all autonomous now. > Isn't it? Yeah, and for some of us using all ten fingers is autonomous too... [Deletd.] > Wait, I'm starting to diverge again. Please, save us from mass histeria! > "Hello, World!". > > Recanting foundations is our method of debugging. I don't > own a CRAY II, or an HP Spectrum Analyzer. My resort is to make sure > I know what I am doing, to write it down so I know it happened, and > to be able to read it again after that second pint. > > Do they make wheat (weat?) beer down under? > And will she let me down under? I personally think you are over-ripe for a psychiatrist. > Dinner time. A burrito sounds good.MMMMMMMMM. If you have been here as long as I have... PIIIIZZZZAAAAA!!!! ;) [Deleted.] > Oh yeah, survival! Survival may call to mind some notion > of an ending (like we are hoping for this talk), but hundreds of > thousands of years have passed, with us humans intending to influence > future generations only to be confounded by fire, quake, water, > or a UFO landing. Ending? He says ending! [Deleted.] > To make it short, we need convention, a means to reference > each other's symbolism in a concise manner. Even shorter, > let's start some header files. Short? You aint short winded in a long shot. > (WOW, multiple head!) You obviously need it. > (I could be happy with her for 10 minutes, OK, 20... Scratch that- > she just talked.) I don't think you could keep HER interested for even 2. [Deleted.] > I propose we use comp.periphs for our discussions _or_ > cross post & label all articles: [QIC-40/80]. I'd rather you use alt.back.of.the.moon! Or how about alt.ego.jmonroy? > While (!convention) > convention = articles ( > comp.os.os2.programmer > comp.os.coherent > comp.os.linux.announce > comp.os.mach > comp.os.minix > comp.periphs > comp.unix.bsd > comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit > comp.os.386bsd.development > ) ? x-post : comp.periphs; How about: while( author(article) == jmonroy ){ flame(article); delete(article); } > IS THIS ALL CLEAR? Yep, all clear. However, you mind if I ask you a question or two? 1.) What do you get off on? I have read (for better or worse) most of your posts in *bsd* groups, and have found a rather tiring attitude in all of them. I think whoever named you did it most apropriately. 2.) I can't believe that you have an ego as large as it looks. Please set me straight. Tell me that you have a non-american background, or something, anything, to make me understand your views. 3.) Why do you insist on posting totally unrelevant (like this post) things to the newsgroups? I don't mind the odd diversion of topic, but please keep it short. (100+ lines is not short. Some people PAY for news.) Sorry dude. Some of the things you say are ok. However, unless your aditude improves a bit, I am gonna stick you in my kill file. Be a pitty, since that file is right now still empty. Please don't make me make you be the first to go in there. Hoping that things will improve with your mind, --Toby.