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.