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default, n.:
[Possibly from Black English "De fault wid dis system is you,
mon."] The vain attempt to avoid errors by inactivity. "Nothing will
come of nothing: speak again." -- King Lear.
-- Stan Kelly-Bootle, "The Devil's DP Dictionary"
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#define BITCOUNT(x) (((BX_(x)+(BX_(x)>>4)) & 0x0F0F0F0F) % 255)
#define BX_(x) ((x) - (((x)>>1)&0x77777777)
- (((x)>>2)&0x33333333)
- (((x)>>3)&0x11111111))
-- really weird C code to count the number of bits in a word
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Definitions of hardware and software for dummies:
Hardware is what you kick;
Software is what you curse.
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Deliberation, n.:
The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is
buttered on.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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"Deliver yesterday, code today, think tomorrow."
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Demand the establishment of the government
in its rightful home at Disneyland.
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Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than
we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw
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Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder
aloud what the country could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper
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Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the
incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw
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Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you
don't think.
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