whitening
Brian Kelsay
Brian.Kelsay at kcc.usda.gov
Thu Mar 17 08:01:32 CST 2005
As always, Gerald puts it succinctly. "I like the way you talk." (Slingblade)
But I find it hard to not agree with Brian and for once with Jonathan Hutchins. I didn't see that one coming. I guess on natural language processing he and I find some common ground. Now if we could just get him to read some manuals. :-) j/k
Gerald, don't forget the band/singer "Uncle Cracker," my 7 yr. old son's current favorite. I'm gonna raise that boy up right.
See you guys at Johnny Dare's in Westport around noon if you have the guts.
Brian Kelsay
>>> Gerald Combs <> 03/16/05 10:37PM >>>
Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
> The term "hacker" includes the concept of "cracker", unless the latter is
> being used to distinguish a subset of the former. "Hacker" and it's meaning
> pre-date computers.
The term "cracker" is next to useless. I'd venture to guess that for
most people the definition of "cracker" is a way, far-off distant fifth
behind:
The flat bread-food
A Caucasian
Something that separates chemical compounds, and
The alterno-college-rock band
Most people simply don't associate it with computing.
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