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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2015-02-14 17:43
The Mozart Effect: Makes a child smarter and more mathematical along with a higher IQ.
The Haydn Effect: Child is witty and quick on his feet, quite often bringing a grin to the faces of those around him. Despite this he exhibits remarkable humility.
The Bach Effect: Child memorizes Scripture and says his prayers every day; may overwhelm listeners with his speech.
The Handel Effect: Much like the Bach Effect; in addition, the child may exhibit dramatic behavior.
The Beethoven Effect: Child develops a superiority complex and is prone to violent tantrums; is a perfectionist.
The Liszt Effect: Child speaks rapidly and extravagantly, but never really says anything important.
The Bruckner Effect: Child speaks very slowly and repeats himself frequently. Gains a reputation for profundity.
The Grieg Effect: This child is quirky yet cheery. May be prone toward Norwegian folklore.
The Wagner Effect: Child becomes a megalomaniac. May eventually marry his sister.
The Schoenberg Effect: Child never repeats a word until he has used all the other words in his vocabulary. Sometimes talk backwards. Eventually people stop listening to him. Child blames them for their inability to understand him.
The Ives Effect: Child develops the ability to carry on several separate conversations at once.
The Stravinsky Effect: Child is prone to savage, guttural and profane outbursts that lead to fighting and pandemonium in preschool.
The Cage Effect: Child says exactly nothing for 4 minutes and 33 seconds. Preferred by 9 out of 10 classroom teachers.
Ken Shaw
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2015-02-14 20:44
:-)
The one for Unix is something that every programmer using Unix has done at some time in their career ... sometimes even more disastrously with a -r in there ![[whoa]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smilie10.gif)
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Author: WhitePlainsDave
Date: 2015-02-14 21:20
One more instant on the soapbox.
Mr. Charette refers to an example of a command for listing files in the Unix operating system: an often highly cryptic, not for people who like "dragging graphic pictures of files into graphic pictures of garbage cans," type of system, but an otherwise extremely powerful set of tools that integrate beautifully.
The "dash r" option reverses things, and gives rise to the people (present company included) who find humor in this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN3qn92R0SE
Back to clarinets, sorry Ken.
Post Edited (2015-02-14 21:21)
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2015-02-14 21:43
WhitePlainsDave wrote:
> The "dash r" option reverses things,
"Recurses" things.
As in (logged in as root)
rm -rf * .o
rm: .o not found
ls
ls not found
cd ~
cd not found
And then, the curse ...
"dammit, where did everything go?"
And the recurse
"oh j** f** c** no!!!!"
But we digress. Again.
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Author: WhitePlainsDave
Date: 2015-02-15 02:06
I think we're both right Mr. Charette, only further exemplifying the crytic nature of this operating system.
To wit:
I referred to the "ls" command in the original reference for listing files. Dash lower case "r" reverses said listing.
You refer to the rm command in the original reference for removing files. In this command, as you correctly point out, dash lower case "r" recursively removes all files and subdirectories.
Of course if you want to list (as opposed to remove) files in all subdirectories (he says sarcsastically, because there's a bit of lack of conformity in Unix commands) that's the dash upper case R "-R" option in the "ls" command.
(I think I just heard a couple of clarinetists say "nerds," under their breath)
Ken: At least for me, this is textbook Liszt Effect : - )
Post Edited (2015-02-15 02:48)
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