You're going to have a tough time as a consumer, then. Staples has a similar policy. They get notified that certain items are to be destroyed, and they are then destroyed. Right down to the furniture items and books.
It happens. I don't understand it, either. But it happens.
Yes... exactly... the recording industry will stop making music. And leave music to the musicians... the people who do it because they love it. The people who will make their money doing live performances because that's how they started out, and how they'd probably stay happiest anyway (money != happiness, although it sure does help).
That's exactly what we need... the GPLL, the GPL License... they license you use for the GPL and any derivative license. That's the most absurd thing I've heard. We have GPL, we have LGPL, and we have GPL for documentation (don't remember what it's called), and now we in all our arrogance have to make a license for licenses. Absolutely absurd.
Exactly. It's brilliant in it's simplicity and subtlety. It's something you probably wouldn't think of unless you had an absolutely brilliant mind and were trying really hard to do that. I applaud their genius if nothing else.
Paranoid? Or are they really out to get us?
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Did anyone else get really paranoid about that ACK packet from a hotmail server that returns traceroute type information that would pierce most stateful firewalls?
"This packet arrived from www.law10.hotmail.com, one of web servers handling Hotmail traffic...
But unlike standalone traceroute packets, this legitimate traffic will be forwarded thru most of stateful firewalls, allowing you to obtain a valuable information about their internal network structure, distance and such - and all this with virtually no possibility to be detected. Well done - this covert packet looked so innocent... "
Ummmmm... You might want to take your own advice...
according to Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language:
jihad, n.: 1. a holy war undertaken as a sacred duty by Muslims. 2. any vigorous, often bitter crusade for an idea or principle.
that's it's meaning in the english language.
the etymology is Arabic, jihad, meaning strife or struggle.
I think something similar to the current naming scheme would continue. There's very likely a few numbers on those processors that are indicative of speed. Clockless just means that it doesn't force operations to fit into a specified amount of time. So you take the smallest unit of operation, or the shortest processing path, and call that length of time a cycle, then state how many of those it can perform each second. It doesn't sound terribly useful as a benchmark, but then, MHz isn't really very useful. With pipelining and so forth, it doesn't give you a precise metric, but compared to other processors of the same model, for example, it's very indicative of it's relative processing power.
Besides that, overclockers, speed demons, and wannabe's are going to want to have some concrete numbers to brag about.
Re:It means the US has taken over the world
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A good argument, but there are a few weak points that you may want to shore up.
Shortly after the attack on the WTC, before any presidential statement on the issue of miliatry action came out, other countries were suggesting to us that they would back us up if we were to engage in military action. The UN had basically already given us the go ahead.
On your example of France bombing our cities to find a fugitive - a bit extreme. The US would likely cooperate in finding the fugitive. Law enforcement agencies would be notified, the FBI would be brought in.
The Taliban is not recognized as a national government by an but three countries. The US made efforts to bring them to the bargaining table. They refused.
Oh yeah... and "state sponsored terrorism" is more commonly called "war."
I'm actually trying to think of what the difference would be between actual war, and terrorism. War is open, you generally select military targets, avoiding civilians as possible. Guerrilla warfare is more covert, and they're a little less picky about targets. Terrorism is usually either 1) non-representative of governments, but fundamentalist groups, or 2) government sponsored, and could probably be considered guerrilla warfare taken to an extreme.
great... the single greatest magnet for spam is also an open book to your credit cards. I can see it now: "Hot dirty sex... you've paid for it already, so you might as well cum see!"
"You've already paid the fee to get in on our bogus pyramid scheme, so now it's YOUR turn to go steal from someone else!"
Well, things changed enough between the 2.2 series kernels and the 2.4 series kernels that a change in the way of thinking MIGHT make things better. Someone came up with a different way of doing things... The debate between which VM could be compared to the Vi vs. Emacs debate. The "which is better" debate isn't always an objective thing. You can't simply say Emacs is better or Vi is better. The question becomes "what direction do we want to take the kernel." No only that, but Linus was butting in a bit on Alan's territory, which added some heat to the debate. In the middle of a stable tree isn't necessarily the best place to add a completely new VM subsystem. Linus thought it was important enough to add now. Linus'll do anything to squeeze out a few more points on the Infinite Loops Per Second benchmark.
It's hard to say if the VM subsystem has been completely reworked in the MS operating systems. It's all closed source. But I think it's a fair guess that NT and 9x had completely different VM subsystems, and in addition, that the Win2k VM subsystem is likely a complete rework of the NT 4 VM. I guess it's something that happens from time to time... someone thinks of a different way of doing things that changes how everything works together, and it makes something faster, something slower.
Wouldn't want a woman with a chest smarter than she is, would we? Or would we...? Boy... that'll be the day... when IQ is proportional to chest size (does that mean we'll measure chest size in MHz?)
Excuse me... my underwear crashed. *grumbling* Stupid MS Underwear 2.1... I really need to jack in... er, uhhhhh... I mean, connect to the update server to get those bugs fixed. Give me a minute while I reboot.
Evolution is the next step... it takes something from where it is to a higher level.
Revolution is a drastic change... different from everything before it.
So while Civ III has some new features added on, it's nothing completely new and novel.
Re:I remember the day...
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The whole thing about "we had to use the letter 'O'" reminds me of Gore saying he invented the internet... those people who insist that they did these things that simply couldn't have happened. "You started on a TRS-80? I built my own TRS-50 YEARS before the TRS-80 ever came out."
Now, as you said, it's a lot easier for CompSci/CompEng students to make the leap...
But my experience does identify what real changes it can take (I don't mean this would be true for any situation).
I'm taking a computer science class aimed at teaching students how to develop large programming projects (30,000 lines of code). The development environment is Linux/g++. Most of the students have zero experience with Linux, let alone the boring Linux command line compiler.
There were several scheduled student orientations to teach them how to use Linux and get them started with g++. Some well trained TAs can eliminate the need for any special training staff in many situations.
Why... you guys have it easy these days with windows and icons and stuff.
Why, when I was your age, we had to program in 1's and 0's, and sometimes we didn't even have 0's!
I can see it now... Silicon Valley Jones, whipping people with his coil of network cable, stumbling over broken bridges and routers, fending off the mad Manager with his cult of marketing flunkees, trying to restore the 5 magic goose eggs to his paycheck. So remember... next time your manager calls you into his office, be sure to bring your coil of network cable and your own theme music.
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You're going to have a tough time as a consumer, then. Staples has a similar policy. They get notified that certain items are to be destroyed, and they are then destroyed. Right down to the furniture items and books.
It happens. I don't understand it, either. But it happens.
No, it means that one company will be charging all the rest to use DRM, which, if it becomes legally mandated, is the purest definition of madness.
Yes... exactly... the recording industry will stop making music. And leave music to the musicians... the people who do it because they love it. The people who will make their money doing live performances because that's how they started out, and how they'd probably stay happiest anyway (money != happiness, although it sure does help).
That's exactly what we need... the GPLL, the GPL License... they license you use for the GPL and any derivative license. That's the most absurd thing I've heard. We have GPL, we have LGPL, and we have GPL for documentation (don't remember what it's called), and now we in all our arrogance have to make a license for licenses. Absolutely absurd.
I remember playing Return to Wolfenstein on the Atari. Kickin game... 80x40 resolution, more in depth, and harder without being impossible.
Just wait until you can plug your IO port into your girlfriend and do some distributed computing. Humans as self-replicating computers...
Exactly. It's brilliant in it's simplicity and subtlety. It's something you probably wouldn't think of unless you had an absolutely brilliant mind and were trying really hard to do that. I applaud their genius if nothing else.
"This packet arrived from www.law10.hotmail.com, one of web servers handling Hotmail traffic... But unlike standalone traceroute packets, this legitimate traffic will be forwarded thru most of stateful firewalls, allowing you to obtain a valuable information about their internal network structure, distance and such - and all this with virtually no possibility to be detected. Well done - this covert packet looked so innocent... "
Ummmmm... You might want to take your own advice...
according to Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language:
jihad, n.: 1. a holy war undertaken as a sacred duty by Muslims. 2. any vigorous, often bitter crusade for an idea or principle.
that's it's meaning in the english language.
the etymology is Arabic, jihad, meaning strife or struggle.
I think something similar to the current naming scheme would continue. There's very likely a few numbers on those processors that are indicative of speed. Clockless just means that it doesn't force operations to fit into a specified amount of time. So you take the smallest unit of operation, or the shortest processing path, and call that length of time a cycle, then state how many of those it can perform each second. It doesn't sound terribly useful as a benchmark, but then, MHz isn't really very useful. With pipelining and so forth, it doesn't give you a precise metric, but compared to other processors of the same model, for example, it's very indicative of it's relative processing power.
Besides that, overclockers, speed demons, and wannabe's are going to want to have some concrete numbers to brag about.
A good argument, but there are a few weak points that you may want to shore up.
Shortly after the attack on the WTC, before any presidential statement on the issue of miliatry action came out, other countries were suggesting to us that they would back us up if we were to engage in military action. The UN had basically already given us the go ahead.
On your example of France bombing our cities to find a fugitive - a bit extreme. The US would likely cooperate in finding the fugitive. Law enforcement agencies would be notified, the FBI would be brought in.
The Taliban is not recognized as a national government by an but three countries. The US made efforts to bring them to the bargaining table. They refused.
Oh yeah... and "state sponsored terrorism" is more commonly called "war."
I'm actually trying to think of what the difference would be between actual war, and terrorism. War is open, you generally select military targets, avoiding civilians as possible. Guerrilla warfare is more covert, and they're a little less picky about targets. Terrorism is usually either 1) non-representative of governments, but fundamentalist groups, or 2) government sponsored, and could probably be considered guerrilla warfare taken to an extreme.
sometimes it's hard to say with MS
that's why I said it's a fair guess.
:)
That's highly unlikely since he alerted Microsoft, and waited for them to patch it before he announced it.
great... the single greatest magnet for spam is also an open book to your credit cards. I can see it now: "Hot dirty sex... you've paid for it already, so you might as well cum see!"
"You've already paid the fee to get in on our bogus pyramid scheme, so now it's YOUR turn to go steal from someone else!"
Well, things changed enough between the 2.2 series kernels and the 2.4 series kernels that a change in the way of thinking MIGHT make things better. Someone came up with a different way of doing things... The debate between which VM could be compared to the Vi vs. Emacs debate. The "which is better" debate isn't always an objective thing. You can't simply say Emacs is better or Vi is better. The question becomes "what direction do we want to take the kernel." No only that, but Linus was butting in a bit on Alan's territory, which added some heat to the debate. In the middle of a stable tree isn't necessarily the best place to add a completely new VM subsystem. Linus thought it was important enough to add now. Linus'll do anything to squeeze out a few more points on the Infinite Loops Per Second benchmark.
It's hard to say if the VM subsystem has been completely reworked in the MS operating systems. It's all closed source. But I think it's a fair guess that NT and 9x had completely different VM subsystems, and in addition, that the Win2k VM subsystem is likely a complete rework of the NT 4 VM. I guess it's something that happens from time to time... someone thinks of a different way of doing things that changes how everything works together, and it makes something faster, something slower.
I kept hearing soup was a free replacement for soap, so I tried it...
First we'd need a smart woman.
*duck*
Wouldn't want a woman with a chest smarter than she is, would we? Or would we...? Boy... that'll be the day... when IQ is proportional to chest size (does that mean we'll measure chest size in MHz?)
*grin*
Excuse me... my underwear crashed. *grumbling* Stupid MS Underwear 2.1... I really need to jack in... er, uhhhhh... I mean, connect to the update server to get those bugs fixed. Give me a minute while I reboot.
Evolution is the next step... it takes something from where it is to a higher level.
Revolution is a drastic change... different from everything before it.
So while Civ III has some new features added on, it's nothing completely new and novel.
The whole thing about "we had to use the letter 'O'" reminds me of Gore saying he invented the internet... those people who insist that they did these things that simply couldn't have happened. "You started on a TRS-80? I built my own TRS-50 YEARS before the TRS-80 ever came out."
Yeah, you know those guys.
Nope... but it sparks like crazy in water. (Cesium reacts like crazy with water, strongly bonding with the oxygen in a combustive reaction)
Now, as you said, it's a lot easier for CompSci/CompEng students to make the leap...
But my experience does identify what real changes it can take (I don't mean this would be true for any situation).
I'm taking a computer science class aimed at teaching students how to develop large programming projects (30,000 lines of code). The development environment is Linux/g++. Most of the students have zero experience with Linux, let alone the boring Linux command line compiler.
There were several scheduled student orientations to teach them how to use Linux and get them started with g++. Some well trained TAs can eliminate the need for any special training staff in many situations.
Why... you guys have it easy these days with windows and icons and stuff.
Why, when I was your age, we had to program in 1's and 0's, and sometimes we didn't even have 0's!
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I can see it now... Silicon Valley Jones, whipping people with his coil of network cable, stumbling over broken bridges and routers, fending off the mad Manager with his cult of marketing flunkees, trying to restore the 5 magic goose eggs to his paycheck. So remember... next time your manager calls you into his office, be sure to bring your coil of network cable and your own theme music.
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