Does Usenet even still exist for non-piratical uses? I subscribe to a half-dozen groups that used to get decent traffic, but for the past couple years all but one has been dead save for spam, and the remaining one gets maybe a dozen articles a week.
Gah. Yahoo's news site is so unusable (for me, at least) that I quit reading it after the most recent redesign; endless scrolling is bad design. Prior to this I'd been using their service for... fourteen years?, starting with Lynx on a Linux console over dial-up.
There's plenty of ARM and MIPS machines out there, yes, but today generally in the embedded space (although this may change), and the remaining architectures are statistical noise. IA64 is dead, SuperH is dead, Power is irrelevant for OpenBSD's use cases, Sparc is nearly irrelevant period outside of Oracle servers.
The picture changes when you consider older machines like Sparcstations, PPC Macs, etc., that aren't supported by their mfrs anymore, yes, but there's a world of difference, performance and utility-wise, between a Power Mac G5 and a MicroVAX.
On the gripping hand, it's their hobby and it's not hurting anyone besides their ability to pay for electricity.
One wonders if simply compiling and running on a SimH virtual machine might be a better use of electricity, especially considering that even an Atom-powered server is going to be much faster than a real VAX.
Only if they have probable cause to compel you to supply the password. Have you ever used Truecrypt in disk mode? You have to enter the volume password first thing after the BIOS.
At least have the honesty to admit you'd rather the conversation be about the bad things the Other Team are doing rather than what Your Team is doing wrong.
There is that, but maybe he doesn't have any devices that will use 802.11n or ac.
I just recently retired my 54GL because I wanted 802.11n, gigabit Ethernet, and IPv6 support; the latter could be done in software but I didn't see any third-party firmwares that could do this with the 54GL's 4MB of flash while doing other things I wanted.
the summary is inflammatory and seemingly written by someone who didn't read or understand the article.
Or, more likely, has an axe to grind and isn't interested in facts. I recall the libertarian idiot (but I repeat myself) who posted a month or two ago about how the EPA was coming to take away everyone's woodstoves... except they weren't.
Pfft. Don't blame Dice for this, Slashdot's been a haven for crap articles like this since almost the beginning. Bitching about the editors not editing has been a pastime here forever.
Yes, let the NSA spy on Congressweasels, but only if their findings are made public. I want to know who my "representatives" have been meeting with, what was said, and why they're really going to vote a certain way.
OTOH this still runs into a who-watches-the-watchers problem, because how do we know that NSA will release everything and not hold back to get a vote to go a certain way? Hmm.
There's always the Dunning-Kruger idiots who think their inexperienced-but-smart selves know more about engineering than people who've been doing it for thirty years. And then they fill up Internet fora with their foolishness.
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Does Usenet even still exist for non-piratical uses? I subscribe to a half-dozen groups that used to get decent traffic, but for the past couple years all but one has been dead save for spam, and the remaining one gets maybe a dozen articles a week.
Gah. Yahoo's news site is so unusable (for me, at least) that I quit reading it after the most recent redesign; endless scrolling is bad design. Prior to this I'd been using their service for... fourteen years?, starting with Lynx on a Linux console over dial-up.
There's plenty of ARM and MIPS machines out there, yes, but today generally in the embedded space (although this may change), and the remaining architectures are statistical noise. IA64 is dead, SuperH is dead, Power is irrelevant for OpenBSD's use cases, Sparc is nearly irrelevant period outside of Oracle servers.
The picture changes when you consider older machines like Sparcstations, PPC Macs, etc., that aren't supported by their mfrs anymore, yes, but there's a world of difference, performance and utility-wise, between a Power Mac G5 and a MicroVAX.
On the gripping hand, it's their hobby and it's not hurting anyone besides their ability to pay for electricity.
One wonders if simply compiling and running on a SimH virtual machine might be a better use of electricity, especially considering that even an Atom-powered server is going to be much faster than a real VAX.
Because some OpenBSD neckbeard or another thinks it's cool to keep compatibility with '80s hardware and probably has such a computer or three at home.
IMO it's nice in a "hey, your code has great platform independence" way, but I don't see much point in it either.
Only if they have probable cause to compel you to supply the password. Have you ever used Truecrypt in disk mode? You have to enter the volume password first thing after the BIOS.
It's nonsensical anyway, it's Congress that sets spending.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. As if Republicans would ever allow taxes to be raised.
Sir, I object strenuously! This is a political wharrgarbl, your facts are unneeded and most unwelcome. Good /day/, sir.
Also BENGHAZI BENGHAZI BENGHAZI amirite?
At least have the honesty to admit you'd rather the conversation be about the bad things the Other Team are doing rather than what Your Team is doing wrong.
He can't get intelligent girls, is what he's saying.
You ought to learn correct grammar before pronouncing someone else an idiot.
Almost nobody RTFAs and would rather wharrgarbl, especially about hot-button topics like guns, government, and marijuana legalization.
Slashdot is not a place for intelligent conversation of anything remotely controversial... but then again, almost no place on the Internet is.
Spot the guy who doesn't understand statistics.
There is that, but maybe he doesn't have any devices that will use 802.11n or ac.
I just recently retired my 54GL because I wanted 802.11n, gigabit Ethernet, and IPv6 support; the latter could be done in software but I didn't see any third-party firmwares that could do this with the 54GL's 4MB of flash while doing other things I wanted.
the summary is inflammatory and seemingly written by someone who didn't read or understand the article.
Or, more likely, has an axe to grind and isn't interested in facts. I recall the libertarian idiot (but I repeat myself) who posted a month or two ago about how the EPA was coming to take away everyone's woodstoves... except they weren't.
Pfft. Don't blame Dice for this, Slashdot's been a haven for crap articles like this since almost the beginning. Bitching about the editors not editing has been a pastime here forever.
You're bringing facts into a thread dedicated to foaming about a flamebait[1] summary and how the government is inherently evil.
[1] I almost wrote "clickbait", but clearly hardly anyone's clicked it.
Don't bring facts into this discussion; it's strictly foaming about the statists in here.
Yes, let the NSA spy on Congressweasels, but only if their findings are made public. I want to know who my "representatives" have been meeting with, what was said, and why they're really going to vote a certain way.
OTOH this still runs into a who-watches-the-watchers problem, because how do we know that NSA will release everything and not hold back to get a vote to go a certain way? Hmm.
Why don't they buy from Apple's website?
Here you are:
https://sites.google.com/site/nimey5/home/archive-org-mame-rom-listing/Archive.org%20MAME%20ROM%20listing?attredirects=0&d=1
Sorry about the formatting, but I'm not going to fix tabdamage on 28740 lines.
There's always the Dunning-Kruger idiots who think their inexperienced-but-smart selves know more about engineering than people who've been doing it for thirty years. And then they fill up Internet fora with their foolishness.
INT != WIS.
Expect new and exciting patent/copyright laws when that starts to become a reality.
In other words, "fuck you, I've got mine".