If I owned a site and my customers complained via other channels, like picking up the phone, sending me e-mail to some other mail-boxes, snail mail or vibes or harmonic resonance, that they couldn't reach me, I'd fix the problem.
Finding a site running DNS and and hacking it to bounce a visitor to a sub-domain host to another destination isn't exactly rocket science.
Its the basis of DynIP. In this case its screwing with the host tables without authorization. If nothing else is done to the system, it would be very hard to detect as it wouldn't really impact the site.
The legitimate site could even be an Australian government site. The IP address can be any unused address and it can be anywhere.
The ONLY way to really cold-cock the kiddy porn bastards is to switch to IPv6. Otherwise, its too spoofable an too many points.
Now THAT might spur on the adoption of IPv6. Someone should suggest it to these government bozos. "Do it for the children."
Those hypocrites might regularly sell their own mothers, wives and kids for whiskey but they couldn't publicly NOT back this.
only to rip it out once the auditors have been and gone and wrote down that they'd been good boys and played nice with the other children.
The ONLY remedy that will work is to simply NAIL 'EM to the X86.
Jobs will just have to push OpenOffice and help 'em out integrating it into OS X.
The remedy and the verification would be extremely simple and cost dick-all to verify.
Any M$ code on another architecture than the X86 and Gates and Balmer get intimate with some new shower mates. And if I was ZMonkey boy, I'd hang on tight to the soap.
Plenty of advice, very little knowledge.
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General IT Books?
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You could read every book on the list and in the threads (I have and many more besides,) and still fuck up when you realize that you're working for people who didn't read any of these books but who got there before you did, haven't learned squat in all the years they've been working there, couldn't manage to find their ass-holes with both their hands and still they have the power (authority is something else,) to TELL you to do your job wrong because they don't know what the fuck you're talking about but they've never done it your way and they're not about to start now, nobody ever went broke buying IBM, yadda, yadda.
I've just tossed in the towel and bought a dog grooming salon.
High-tech businesses and their (mis)managers?
Fuck 'em where they breathe.
A less than satisfied high-tech struggler in the trenches. Make that an EX high-tech struggler in the trenches.
I'll keep reading/. but now I won't give a shit.:-) Man there's NOTHING like walking away!:-)
maybe even less, so its no wonder the Chinese Government is shutting the whole lot down until the Cafe's pass some rudimentary fire instection.
Sorry for the libertarians out there but this is China reacting to a previously unregulated situation where people DIED.Sorry but this is a country which eats what we in the West consider to be pets. Think about that first.
The Chinese have a world-wide long tradition of disregarding safety codes, sanitary codes and would serve "long porc" if they though they could get away with it.
That's like sacking a church "just because you can." Just because you have an idea is a LOUSY reason to waste time on it if there's no demand.
And open the source and welcome people into your consortium rather than pretending that you can do it all and watching your enterprise go tits-up when you find out that you're bad at something or other.
The pension funds of millions of people have been decimated because some moron, or worse some shifty lawyer-type, comes up with "a bright idea" (like an Enron,) without first checking if its a wise idea and people buy into it without first checking if its a wise idea...
Everybody was criticizing Warren Buffett for not rushing into the Web craze. He never saw a business plan he could back or a company management team he could respect.
Do you know how much money Warren buffet lost when it went bust? Zip. Nada nothing.
Do you know how much he didn't lose because it never made sense to him to take Berkshire-Hathaway finds and sink 'em into the dot coms? He's still a billionaire and rock -steady at it.
where it belongs, on the shoulders of the software manufacturer/publisher.
If anyone goes bankrupt or dies from using your code then YOU are responsible for their fiscal or physical death and deserve the fines, jail time or death penalty that a jury will hand you.
If you want software quality, you have to wait because it takes the time it takes. Infact, that is the power and promise of open source. By not being dependent on a single source for the software and not being limited by the same source for product design and evolution, software can develop much more rapidly into much more robust products.
Software created to solve a problem has a chance to evolve into something safe, secure and usable. Software created just to make a killing has a chance of killing somebody.
You'll have quality software when people can't create it to make a quick buck. That's the power of open source.
Regardless of how big a pile Bill Gates amassed unethically, ripping off unsuspecting buyers by arm-wisting and back room dealing with the PC manufacturers.
Cmon. NOBODY WANTS to BUY blue screens of death, no matter how pro-M$ and "Fuck You Steve Jobs and Linus" they might be.
Not even "Manic Monkey Boy," "Barmy" Balmer particularly WANTS to SELL 'em. But he DOES want the money. He does indeed. He gets wet dreams about his stock market share value.
But now, to save our lives, we have to make sure that NOBODY can sell BSsOD.
Frankly, I'm disappointed in the misleading title of this bit/article.
Making a bit copy, complete with the copy protection tracks, is NOT a problem. It NEVER has been. You don't even WANT a PC to do it. You just need one or more writing drives slaved to a read drive and the two are going in synch with each other and bits are flowing from source to destination.
This is a no brainer. This whole pirate off a PC crap is pointless. There's no fuckin' way you can get the volumes you need to do it for real and make a buck off of it. A dedicated device is much better suited to repro and would cost a lot less, like $200 + $cheap / CR-R drive.
I was hoping that somebody had a lead on some open-source software that would let me back-up my LAN multi-host multiple gigabytes of content off my systems' drives.
I KNOW Veritas NetBackup for Linux would do it but it's just my stuff. Its not industrial strength crap.
I was HOPING that somebody somebody out there had a solution for this CR-RW spanning, multi-system (1 linux box & 3 Macs, [2 OS-9 & OS X]) LAN-back up problem.
"the only environment with legal resources adequate to deal with such liability has been the megalithic corporate one."
For "deal with" substitute "avoid"
Watch Tony Robins ads in 3D... Urgh. Puh-leez.
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3D TV For The Masses?
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The content is not worth it.
And besides, there's no need for 3D since, with the problems of IP ownership, all we'll have to watch from now on are reruns. Its just changes of medium for the same content. They're making live-action movies of cartoons based on comic book characters and showing these on TV. No original thought is allowed to intrude.
500 chanels, all showing YESTERDAY. The content as the matrix for the ads. Valenti's victory.
That's a powerful disincentive for any change in the delivery medium.
Think on that next time you're at the mall listening to music written before you were born being played, badly, over the PA system, paid for by the mall owners. (The MP3 format doesn't have enough audio quality? For this?)
Ted Kazinski was wrong in what he did but right in his reasoning behind it. To paraphrase Tim Leary: "Turn off. Unplug. Drop out."
Utter crap. Saying "programming is very individual and specific to the programmer" is spewing TOTAL stupidity!
The problem and the object model created to define it will provide the solution. That's the ONLY way to code it.
The data structure falls out of the object model. The algorighm likewise falls out of the model after performing appropriate optimizations.
Write code so the machine will NEVER do ANYTHING it doesn't need to. Not a extra disk hit, not an extra byte fetched, not a uselessly continued loop, not an instruction executed twice. Code the algorithm to deal with sub-optimal structure for the process that needs to be executed.
Cache every execution result that you will need again. RAM is cheap. Time is not. Not even Bill Gates can buy the user another second.
But RAM is not so cheap that you need to waste money and time filling it unnecessarily. Only cache what you absolutely need again.
If you don't know what the fuck you're dealing with. Don't start writing the fucking code. It'll just be garbage. Worse, it'll be "almost" working and become a sump for development time.
I loathe moron who keep saying that software development is an individual's preference. That a total crock spewed by ignorant ass-holes.
Learn your job and write properly optimized algorithms or sell shoes for a living. I loathe debugging code written by dilletantes and "artistes."
Spreading FUD without regard to reality is easy with M$ products.
I wonder what kind of a sweetheart Linus had to work out with the Anti Virus guys to make M$'s shit sound so fuckin' insecure.
I think that Tom Ridge's new department will definitely be using Linux now. (Remember, statistically speaking, he's no brighter than the average PC owner.)
Would YOU trust the fate of the country and its citizens to a sieve? (Might as well build a center for disease control next to a rat infested landfill. You'll certainly have a lot of diseases. Not sure about control though.)
I can sleep easier at night thinking that...
Oooo. Toggle switches & blinking lights.
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IMSAI Series Two
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Ever had to enter the IPL by entering the boot instructionsn on the front paned?
Back in the days when you'd be able to make sense of the pattern of flashing lights. Now fuggedaboutdid.
The judgement. "You're condemned to the x86."
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That would be trivial to implement and verify. And they would have nothing to complain about since that just enforces the status quo.
Any M$ app/OS on anything BUT an x86 box and Gates and Dancing Monkey Boy kiss their assets good bye and rot in jail for as long as the app/OS is available on anything but the x86.
Steve Jobs will just have to learn to like OpenOffice or StarOffice.
The ONLY way is to put them on a LAN, put a central file server as a shared service with a CVS with copy-out (and it labels the files as.dontsave,) check-out and check-in, and tell them that only the shared drive is backed up and has to be kept virus-free and porn-free.
Tell them their systems can die at any time and they're out a limb for whatever was on there. You don't care, nor does the company. There is no money for data recovery. If their machine dies, its one a one way trip to the toxic waste dump.
Set up a Linux box with a big hard drive (120GB,) a tape drive and a CD-RW burner with plenty of tapes and CD-RWs. Use some form of CVS with check-out, check-in and versioning. You'll be able to save everything that's worth saving and turf the rest.
If you want them to get the point, screw around with the power supply connections every now and then on random machines and random users.
Take the box out, scrub the case clean (repaint a case and keep it handy for exchanging is a good trick,) and put the fear of God into 'em every now and then.
The ones who have been using the shared drive won't care and will make do with whatever you bring'em on the trolley in about ten minutes (just long enough to change the case:-).
The slatterns who didn't use the server will whine and bitch and you just tell 'em to wait a couple of hours or days while you TRY to recover their data.
The server doesn't even need a monitor. Run it headless remote and admin it from your own machine.
Try VisualAge for Smalltalk (runs on Linux)
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Its the IDE that all the other ones are pretending that they can achieve after a few more years in development.
Its friggin' great. It uses XWindow, I run mine on my slackware box in the office and have my GUI on my TiBook so I can wander around with my AirPort and code in the cack yard.
(Okay, I also do that with ZendStudio for php but VisualAge is a lot better in most respect. It just doesn't have the market penetration it deserves.)
Full code check-out, check-in, versioning, releases, dependencies, packaging, built-in GUI (and if you use it for delivering an app, you're a total ass-hole [or a unilingual and very lonely programmer.] but you can build/buy a framework around it to build multilingual, multi-national apps.)
Need to build multi-tasking, multi-threading apps, you can. It has a mature, tested all-to-Hell-and-back, enormous class library that will have you coding-by-exception in no time.
Need to have code that sits on a socket and waits for events? No problem.
Complete, reflexive, extensible and running the debugger in the development environment lets you fix crashes for most things by editing the code and in the runtime environment, the object & stack captures after a crash you didn't plan to recover from are amazing.
If you distribute the tree you can store every possible wining strategy and just store the thing with 128 byte keys. (64 squares & 2 byte piece definition with algorithm to define the next optimal move in black & white.
Chess is an uninsteresting problem when you have a wide enough word length.
Like I want to see this shit?
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DRM Helmet
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Why the fuck would I want my reality mediated by some xxAA hacks?
I'd just take off the fuckin' helmet and go into the world humming my own music and seeing what I want to see.
This attempt to control everything didn't work for the Caesars, Vercingetorix, Bodecia, the Louis, the Plantagenets, Napoleon, Metternicks, Hitler, Stalin [name your tyrant here] and their vision was less metastacized than that of the xxAAs. I've already unplugged and I ain't dead or anything and I ain't paying the xxAAs a fuckin' cent. And I'm neither blind or deaf.
Not the mechanical act. That is now cost free and not sustainable as an economic base (Sorry xxAAs but you're gonna die. There's no reason for you to exist anymore. When I'm picking up the cost for storage on my own box and the cost of transmission to my own, the thing is MINE, not yours.)
Copyright is going to go, uh, right, back to the _person(s)_ who created the work.
Given the economies of scale (the internet makes China look like a local market,) and of distribution, (got a [hosted] server hooked up to a T3 switch? You're a media giant,) and the ability to charge for one-time or subscription access to a web page with content scaled for content (sampling, scaling,) combined with the IPv6 capability to identify exactly where a message or some content originated from, the artists are about to start raking in the money themselves.
I think that the packaged album is going to be a casualty if this shift though. If there's only ONE song you want to listen to, you shouldn't be stuck with the other ones that the company decided they wanted to use to fill out the rest of the CD.
The xxAAs are going to wither on the vine. I don't think that Hillary Rosen could hum anything I'd want to hear. Nor do I want to see Jack Valenti's holiday slides.
Slashdot Mirror
Man, I've found pages from old porn sites I worked on that never made it out of the fuckin' ISP. (Management troubles, A.K.A. intertcine warfare.)
What a STUPENDOUS waste of storage.
Who the fuck paid for all these drives?
Do his doctors know he's off his meds?
Could I get him to donate a few terabytes to my boxen?
If I owned a site and my customers complained via other channels, like picking up the phone, sending me e-mail to some other mail-boxes, snail mail or vibes or harmonic resonance, that they couldn't reach me, I'd fix the problem.
Finding a site running DNS and and hacking it to bounce a visitor to a sub-domain host to another destination isn't exactly rocket science.
Its the basis of DynIP. In this case its screwing with the host tables without authorization. If nothing else is done to the system, it would be very hard to detect as it wouldn't really impact the site.
The legitimate site could even be an Australian government site. The IP address can be any unused address and it can be anywhere.
The ONLY way to really cold-cock the kiddy porn bastards is to switch to IPv6. Otherwise, its too spoofable an too many points.
Now THAT might spur on the adoption of IPv6. Someone should suggest it to these government bozos. "Do it for the children."
Those hypocrites might regularly sell their own mothers, wives and kids for whiskey but they couldn't publicly NOT back this.
Imagine you're eating pussy or sucking dick and your boss calls, during working hours.
Or worse, you mother picks up the line and you've left your tooth "off the hook."
Or worse, your "significant other" calls.
Just because you can do something, like jerking yourself off with sand-paper, doesn't mean its a good idea.
And this is NOT a good idea. In fact this, class, is an example of a BAD idea.
only to rip it out once the auditors have been and gone and wrote down that they'd been good boys and played nice with the other children.
The ONLY remedy that will work is to simply NAIL 'EM to the X86.
Jobs will just have to push OpenOffice and help 'em out integrating it into OS X.
The remedy and the verification would be extremely simple and cost dick-all to verify.
Any M$ code on another architecture than the X86 and Gates and Balmer get intimate with some new shower mates. And if I was ZMonkey boy, I'd hang on tight to the soap.
You could read every book on the list and in the threads (I have and many more besides,) and still fuck up when you realize that you're working for people who didn't read any of these books but who got there before you did, haven't learned squat in all the years they've been working there, couldn't manage to find their ass-holes with both their hands and still they have the power (authority is something else,) to TELL you to do your job wrong because they don't know what the fuck you're talking about but they've never done it your way and they're not about to start now, nobody ever went broke buying IBM, yadda, yadda.
/. but now I won't give a shit. :-) Man there's NOTHING like walking away! :-)
I've just tossed in the towel and bought a dog grooming salon.
High-tech businesses and their (mis)managers?
Fuck 'em where they breathe.
A less than satisfied high-tech struggler in the trenches. Make that an EX high-tech struggler in the trenches.
I'll keep reading
maybe even less, so its no wonder the Chinese Government is shutting the whole lot down until the Cafe's pass some rudimentary fire instection.
Sorry for the libertarians out there but this is China reacting to a previously unregulated situation where people DIED.Sorry but this is a country which eats what we in the West consider to be pets. Think about that first.
The Chinese have a world-wide long tradition of disregarding safety codes, sanitary codes and would serve "long porc" if they though they could get away with it.
That's like sacking a church "just because you can." Just because you have an idea is a LOUSY reason to waste time on it if there's no demand.
And open the source and welcome people into your consortium rather than pretending that you can do it all and watching your enterprise go tits-up when you find out that you're bad at something or other.
The pension funds of millions of people have been decimated because some moron, or worse some shifty lawyer-type, comes up with "a bright idea" (like an Enron,) without first checking if its a wise idea and people buy into it without first checking if its a wise idea...
Everybody was criticizing Warren Buffett for not rushing into the Web craze. He never saw a business plan he could back or a company management team he could respect.
Do you know how much money Warren buffet lost when it went bust? Zip. Nada nothing.
Do you know how much he didn't lose because it never made sense to him to take Berkshire-Hathaway finds and sink 'em into the dot coms? He's still a billionaire and rock -steady at it.
where it belongs, on the shoulders of the software manufacturer/publisher.
If anyone goes bankrupt or dies from using your code then YOU are responsible for their fiscal or physical death and deserve the fines, jail time or death penalty that a jury will hand you.
If you want software quality, you have to wait because it takes the time it takes. Infact, that is the power and promise of open source. By not being dependent on a single source for the software and not being limited by the same source for product design and evolution, software can develop much more rapidly into much more robust products.
Software created to solve a problem has a chance to evolve into something safe, secure and usable. Software created just to make a killing has a chance of killing somebody.
You'll have quality software when people can't create it to make a quick buck. That's the power of open source.
Regardless of how big a pile Bill Gates amassed unethically, ripping off unsuspecting buyers by arm-wisting and back room dealing with the PC manufacturers.
Cmon. NOBODY WANTS to BUY blue screens of death, no matter how pro-M$ and "Fuck You Steve Jobs and Linus" they might be.
Not even "Manic Monkey Boy," "Barmy" Balmer particularly WANTS to SELL 'em. But he DOES want the money. He does indeed. He gets wet dreams about his stock market share value.
But now, to save our lives, we have to make sure that NOBODY can sell BSsOD.
Frankly, I'm disappointed in the misleading title of this bit/article.
Making a bit copy, complete with the copy protection tracks, is NOT a problem. It NEVER has been. You don't even WANT a PC to do it. You just need one or more writing drives slaved to a read drive and the two are going in synch with each other and bits are flowing from source to destination.
This is a no brainer. This whole pirate off a PC crap is pointless. There's no fuckin' way you can get the volumes you need to do it for real and make a buck off of it. A dedicated device is much better suited to repro and would cost a lot less, like $200 + $cheap / CR-R drive.
I was hoping that somebody had a lead on some open-source software that would let me back-up my LAN multi-host multiple gigabytes of content off my systems' drives.
I KNOW Veritas NetBackup for Linux would do it but it's just my stuff. Its not industrial strength crap.
I was HOPING that somebody somebody out there had a solution for this CR-RW spanning, multi-system (1 linux box & 3 Macs, [2 OS-9 & OS X]) LAN-back up problem.
What a gyp.
If they start seeing that this crap COSTS them, THEN they'll get rid of it.
Until then, you're just suckin wind.
One crashes over and over while the other just runs and runs and gets more apps ported to it over time.
Imagine people being able to compare. Imagine them having a comparison running in the palm of their hand.
How long do you think people would put up with M$.
"the only environment with legal resources adequate to deal with such liability has been the megalithic corporate one."
For "deal with" substitute "avoid"
The content is not worth it.
And besides, there's no need for 3D since, with the problems of IP ownership, all we'll have to watch from now on are reruns. Its just changes of medium for the same content. They're making live-action movies of cartoons based on comic book characters and showing these on TV. No original thought is allowed to intrude.
500 chanels, all showing YESTERDAY. The content as the matrix for the ads. Valenti's victory.
That's a powerful disincentive for any change in the delivery medium.
Think on that next time you're at the mall listening to music written before you were born being played, badly, over the PA system, paid for by the mall owners. (The MP3 format doesn't have enough audio quality? For this?)
Ted Kazinski was wrong in what he did but right in his reasoning behind it. To paraphrase Tim Leary: "Turn off. Unplug. Drop out."
Utter crap. Saying "programming is very individual and specific to the programmer" is spewing TOTAL stupidity!
The problem and the object model created to define it will provide the solution. That's the ONLY way to code it.
The data structure falls out of the object model. The algorighm likewise falls out of the model after performing appropriate optimizations.
Write code so the machine will NEVER do ANYTHING it doesn't need to. Not a extra disk hit, not an extra byte fetched, not a uselessly continued loop, not an instruction executed twice. Code the algorithm to deal with sub-optimal structure for the process that needs to be executed.
Cache every execution result that you will need again. RAM is cheap. Time is not. Not even Bill Gates can buy the user another second.
But RAM is not so cheap that you need to waste money and time filling it unnecessarily. Only cache what you absolutely need again.
If you don't know what the fuck you're dealing with. Don't start writing the fucking code. It'll just be garbage. Worse, it'll be "almost" working and become a sump for development time.
I loathe moron who keep saying that software development is an individual's preference. That a total crock spewed by ignorant ass-holes.
Learn your job and write properly optimized algorithms or sell shoes for a living. I loathe debugging code written by dilletantes and "artistes."
I dream of having a job, even if I have to put up with having rats gnaw the flesh off my fingers.
Spreading FUD without regard to reality is easy with M$ products.
...
I wonder what kind of a sweetheart Linus had to work out with the Anti Virus guys to make M$'s shit sound so fuckin' insecure.
I think that Tom Ridge's new department will definitely be using Linux now. (Remember, statistically speaking, he's no brighter than the average PC owner.)
Would YOU trust the fate of the country and its citizens to a sieve? (Might as well build a center for disease control next to a rat infested landfill. You'll certainly have a lot of diseases. Not sure about control though.)
I can sleep easier at night thinking that
Ever had to enter the IPL by entering the boot instructionsn on the front paned?
Back in the days when you'd be able to make sense of the pattern of flashing lights. Now fuggedaboutdid.
That would be trivial to implement and verify. And they would have nothing to complain about since that just enforces the status quo.
Any M$ app/OS on anything BUT an x86 box and Gates and Dancing Monkey Boy kiss their assets good bye and rot in jail for as long as the app/OS is available on anything but the x86.
Steve Jobs will just have to learn to like OpenOffice or StarOffice.
I used to take my dead drives apart (poor free-air circulation killed four one summer,) and hang them from my cubicle wall.
Little shiny reminders to people who walked past my desk of the evenescence of things.
The ONLY way is to put them on a LAN, put a central file server as a shared service with a CVS with copy-out (and it labels the files as .dontsave,) check-out and check-in, and tell them that only the shared drive is backed up and has to be kept virus-free and porn-free.
:-).
Tell them their systems can die at any time and they're out a limb for whatever was on there. You don't care, nor does the company. There is no money for data recovery. If their machine dies, its one a one way trip to the toxic waste dump.
Set up a Linux box with a big hard drive (120GB,) a tape drive and a CD-RW burner with plenty of tapes and CD-RWs. Use some form of CVS with check-out, check-in and versioning. You'll be able to save everything that's worth saving and turf the rest.
If you want them to get the point, screw around with the power supply connections every now and then on random machines and random users.
Take the box out, scrub the case clean (repaint a case and keep it handy for exchanging is a good trick,) and put the fear of God into 'em every now and then.
The ones who have been using the shared drive won't care and will make do with whatever you bring'em on the trolley in about ten minutes (just long enough to change the case
The slatterns who didn't use the server will whine and bitch and you just tell 'em to wait a couple of hours or days while you TRY to recover their data.
The server doesn't even need a monitor. Run it headless remote and admin it from your own machine.
They seem to be real slaves to M$.
Its the IDE that all the other ones are pretending that they can achieve after a few more years in development.
Its friggin' great. It uses XWindow, I run mine on my slackware box in the office and have my GUI on my TiBook so I can wander around with my AirPort and code in the cack yard.
(Okay, I also do that with ZendStudio for php but VisualAge is a lot better in most respect. It just doesn't have the market penetration it deserves.)
Full code check-out, check-in, versioning, releases, dependencies, packaging, built-in GUI (and if you use it for delivering an app, you're a total ass-hole [or a unilingual and very lonely programmer.] but you can build/buy a framework around it to build multilingual, multi-national apps.)
Need to build multi-tasking, multi-threading apps, you can. It has a mature, tested all-to-Hell-and-back, enormous class library that will have you coding-by-exception in no time.
Need to have code that sits on a socket and waits for events? No problem.
Complete, reflexive, extensible and running the debugger in the development environment lets you fix crashes for most things by editing the code and in the runtime environment, the object & stack captures after a crash you didn't plan to recover from are amazing.
There IS NOTHING better.
If you distribute the tree you can store every possible wining strategy and just store the thing with 128 byte keys. (64 squares & 2 byte piece definition with algorithm to define the next optimal move in black & white.
Chess is an uninsteresting problem when you have a wide enough word length.
Why the fuck would I want my reality mediated by some xxAA hacks?
I'd just take off the fuckin' helmet and go into the world humming my own music and seeing what I want to see.
This attempt to control everything didn't work for the Caesars, Vercingetorix, Bodecia, the Louis, the Plantagenets, Napoleon, Metternicks, Hitler, Stalin [name your tyrant here] and their vision was less metastacized than that of the xxAAs.
I've already unplugged and I ain't dead or anything and I ain't paying the xxAAs a fuckin' cent. And I'm neither blind or deaf.
First to go is the definition of Copy.
Not the mechanical act. That is now cost free and not sustainable as an economic base (Sorry xxAAs but you're gonna die. There's no reason for you to exist anymore. When I'm picking up the cost for storage on my own box and the cost of transmission to my own, the thing is MINE, not yours.)
Copyright is going to go, uh, right, back to the _person(s)_ who created the work.
Given the economies of scale (the internet makes China look like a local market,) and of distribution, (got a [hosted] server hooked up to a T3 switch? You're a media giant,) and the ability to charge for one-time or subscription access to a web page with content scaled for content (sampling, scaling,) combined with the IPv6 capability to identify exactly where a message or some content originated from, the artists are about to start raking in the money themselves.
I think that the packaged album is going to be a casualty if this shift though. If there's only ONE song you want to listen to, you shouldn't be stuck with the other ones that the company decided they wanted to use to fill out the rest of the CD.
The xxAAs are going to wither on the vine. I don't think that Hillary Rosen could hum anything I'd want to hear. Nor do I want to see Jack Valenti's holiday slides.