Yeah! They could implant the system in her butt, 'cause she won't be using it for dancing any more. Of course, they have to provide visuals. think of the wonder of a 3 month, million-degree fart!
Bullshit. Just because you, say, leave your house unlocked doesn't mean it's okay for someone to come in and watch tv, use your phone, and drink your beer. The case is more similar to this than to the "loaded gun" analogy.
Anyone who starts their kids out programming on Lisp or Scheme should be arrested for child abuse. Yuck. You want it easy, and with instant gratification. You don't want them getting bored with the concept of programming 'cause they spend all their time counting freakin' parenthesis. BASIC would be a good start. Just to get them used to the concept of flow and variables but easy enough not to be frustrating. Then onto something procedural so they can understand how to divide a big task into smaller chunks. Then onto something OOPish after they're completely comfortable.
before you run lilo, make sure your new kernel is where lilo expects it to be. my process: make xconfig, then make dep make clean make zImage make modules make modules_install then cp/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/zImage/boot/zImage.new vi/etc/lilo.conf ( add appropriate section for your new test kernel ) lilo tada. One warning: going from using a distro kernel and module set where there's a module and/or kernel support for everything including the Dogzit Zylo MultiGrit Serial Port, to a custom kernel, is that on boot the module utilities may start bitching about missing symbols when it's trying to get the dependencies of all the modules you have. (JESUS that was a runon.) You can ignore the error messages , or you can nuke the modules that are there that you don't need.
Well, actually, there should be a company that handles the one thing Microsoft users are most familiar with : The BSOD. Of course, then that company (BSODSoft? MicroDeath?) would probably integrate IE into it. "A Web Browser is an integral part of the Blue Screen of Death. Users spend so much time looking at it, they want to be able to surf the web from the most familiar part of their Operating System." If they're really ambitious, they can integrate a visual basic interpreter into the BSOD for a more pleasing user experience. OEMs can then have it automatically give advice based on scripts that run under certain situations. For example, instead of "Illegal Page Fault", it could say "Thanks for buying Compaq ! Please press the pretty button below to reboot." Instead of "General Protection Fault", it can have a picture of a naughty process (with long, greasy hair, smoking a cig) and the caption "Your software has misbehaved. Please reboot!", etc. They could also sell advertising space on the BSOD. It'd be a great revenue stream. BSODSoft's stock price would be a real winner!
Yeah. The summbitches have tried to kill me a few times. However, they were not successful:
The first time, the gun refused to fire. The second time, the bullet moved so slow I got out of the way. The third time, it fired okay but the gun was so inaccurate it killed someone standing BEHIND the MS goon. The fourth time, the gun blew up and took out the MS flunky with it.
Now I've heard they're going to try to fire a nuclear missle at me. Since I'm in Minnesota, people in Hawaii should probably start evacuating.
Who gives a crap if they leave junk on the lunar surface? It's not like there's a biosphere to screw up. And besides, leaving stuff on the lunar surface could be a -good- idea. Future missions can use the stuff other missions had left behind, even if it's just scrap metal. If mission planners can land in an area that relatively rich in scrap metal, they don't have to carry as much along with them if they need to build something while they're there.
This is a concern, yes, but I doubt very, very much it's going to happen. Even if you discount people picking up media from machines or newsstands, it'd be waaaay too hard to make sure that paper/mag A got to person B ALL the time and EVERY time. Can you imagine the extra printing and shipping costs? Yowsa. And everytime the presses got jammed up, it'd throw the whole scheme off.
I'd be more concerned with the software itself reporting on you. Say, you get the software that decodes the barcode and you have to register it using your name and/or other personal info. Then usage reporting would be pretty easy... But a workaround for that would be pretty quickly coming. Reverse engineering and a piece of free (speech) software would probably be available shortly thereafter.:)
That'd be kind of dumb. Why not just go hit the newspaper's website? Besides, printed info is a Good Thing. Like when you just want to sprawl out on the floor and read the paper, or go to a coffeeshop and get caffienated, or when yer on the bus...
It'd be pretty funny, tho, if someone managed to crack into the newspaper's printer's control machine and make all the links point to something... unexpected.
Embrace and extend! Imagine this: AOL owns the cablemodem market in an area. Maybe they'll share bandwidth with other ISPs, but of course there's an "access charge" that makes the other ISPs more expensive. Plus, they own the hardware; who do YOU think is going to get repairs first: AOL's customers, or Competitor Z's customers? And, of course, there's the whole media thing. AOL's magazines, movies, tv shows, etc, all can influence the people using them towards one way or another. If AOL wants more people using AOL internet services, the newscasts, movies, magazines, etc, starting proclaiming what a Dangerous Place the internet is. Coincidentally, AOL starts advertising about how Safe they are, and that their proprietary crap protects uses from Evil Hackers. Think of the Children! Protected Yourself! Use AOL! I'm very concerned about one entity controlling TV, magazine, and 'net sources of information. Even if -I- know better, I still have to live and deal with the millions of people who don't. And a lot of these people vote; I don't want them electing people to government who want to censor, de-anonymize, and corporatize the Internet.
Wrong. The average gun owner in the United States is better educated and has a higher income than the average non-gun-owner. At least this was the case several years ago. I haven't seen any stats since the early '90s. But guns in the US aren't any easier to get ahold of now then they were a decade ago, so I doubt the stats have changed much.
The new O'Reilly book. it's got a picture of Hapless Dweeb (tm) on the front picking his nose and having his underwear ride up his crack. It contains useful information, like "How to set Slashdork off on a rampage" and "The meaning of Hot Grits and Natalie Portman," as well as "The Significance of the First Post: How to gain Instant Respect and WorldWide Fame"
Oh Jesus. Is this a joke? The fact that you've identified 4 well-known OSS programmers who are male doesn't mean OSS is a patriarchal system that fears women. It's probably indicative of social training that starts conditioning females away from hard science at an early age. Blame our social structure, not OSS. If I were to be an over-analytical dork, I could even make the claim that OSS is an inherantly "feminine" movement, if we assume that Communication and Cooperation is a feminine attribute, as opposed to hardass competition being a masculine attribute. That characterization of programming languages as being masculine or feminine is really fucking retarded. People generally are going to use a programming language for a purpose for which it's well suited. If you're writing an OS or device driver where speed is essential, are you going to write it in freakin' SMALLTALK? Jesus. I'll also point out that Lisp and Smalltalk are used a lot in academic settings, primarily by MALE researchers. Then you go on to blather about slashdot geeks talking about capitalism as being the way to market linux vs some socialism-related crap. Actually, i'll point out AGAIN that open source and free software is a pretty socialist movement; it's certainly NOT based on a capitalist agenda. However, trying to get commercialware companies to port to Linux may be focusing on the capitalistic tendencies of people, but how ELSE are you going to get broad acceptance? People may be more forgiving of current weaknesses based on the "free" concept, but to get long-term acceptance they're going to have be able to run commercial apps. And how would you suppose we "break through the gender gap?" Affirmative action in kernel hacking? Sheeeit. If a woman wants to contribute to free software, I really do NOT think anyone's going to stop her. Hell, if we're all as geeky and pathetic as you imply, then wouldn't we welcome any and all female contributions?
A Computer Scientist is not the same as a programmer. A good programmer is probably a Computer Scientist, but they're not the same. Computer science deals with information handling; the only reason it's called computer science is that computers make it possible and reasonable to process such large amounts of data that it's practical for many people to study information theory, instead of just math majors. Don't you think there's SOME reason CS departments are usually part of the Math dep't instead of engineering? I know people who can pick up prog. languages and tools quickly because of some natural talent, but they can't design worth a shit and they pick horribly nasty algorithms to do stuff because they don't know any better. Any yahoo can teach themselves how to code in a short timespan. (Months, maybe weeks) But it usually takes formal education to know how to code well. Just wanna code? Go to tech school. Wanna learn how to process information ? Learn Computer Science. The theory you learn can apply to any language you want to code in.
Of course, some people attraced by the $ major in CS, graduate, and are lost. And others don't give a crap about the degree and are motivated enough to do well being self-taught. The best go to school, learn the theory, and have enough drive to learn as many tools and languages as they can.
We need a lobby that can throw $ at the cashvacuums in DC and the state legislatures so they'll listen. (And similar organizations, where applicable, in other countries.) The problem is: how to organize, how to pick who's in charge, etc. Actually, this shouldn't even be just a "geek" lobby, but trying to market it as "The non-morons lobby for common-sense tech-related legislation" may offend the populace at large. "What? The nerds think I'm stupid? I know how to turn on my microsoft and copy my internet!" And of course the media will find a way to spin it. "Tonight at nine: Find out why the geeks are trying to make it easy for your kids to look at pornographic material and steal the hard-earned money from the peace-loving WalTimeWarnerMicroFordMattelMega Corporation! In fact, many of these same geeks have much in common with the COLUMBINE KILLERS! Do you want your children growing up in this environment? Think of the Children!" Maybe we can just throw support behind the ACLU. Hmm. Has the ACLU shown any support towards electronic freedom, other than the typical free-speech issues?
The 'net, along with mass-market digital copying goods, should be stimulating new ideas for these mongo corporations, so that the most imaginative of them could stay alive and do well. But nooo; they can't tear themselves away from their outdated mindset, so they try to force everyone else to play by the old rules even if they don't fit the new technology. Why don't these business geniouses find a way to Leverage the new Paradigm of the Internet to bring Consumer Satisfaction through Innovation, thereby enhancing Shareholder Value? God, that pisses me off. The blood and sweat of net pioneers built the net. Now big money wants to turn it into the World Wide Stripmall. Anything you wanna buy, we got it! Sanitized for your protection! (THINK OF THE CHILDREN!) No discomforting thoughts here; just dotcoms and spam. The electocop will be by shortly; no weirdos allowed. One thing I think is inevitable, and probably not that far away, is Big Business pressure to increase the cost of domain names. "To encourage and stimulate business," of course. Why should we waste neatname.com on some slacker who's not enhancing the economy? Nah, we'll raise the price to 10k a year so the name-pool will be reserved for deserving Legitimate Businesses. Or how about requiring -all- sites to go through security analysis? Why, we don't want to encourage DDOS attacks, so it's only being economically responsible to require all sites be inspected by the FBI. (of course, to save taxpayer's money, we'll have to charge the site owner a reasonable fee; 50k a year should cover it, don't you think?) Bah.
Of course they'll let the chips dribble down just as needed. It makes business sense. They get the most profit from their highend chips, so until they MUST release a faster version,they won't. Intel has been doing this for years.
AMD is currently in the game to capture mindshare, and people's memories are short. They need to be able to one-up Intel every time Intel makes an announcement to keep themselves in the news and in people's minds. The "Ace up their sleeve," so to speak, is more valuable than putting all the cards on the table at once.
I bet you're a ball of fun at parties... Yah, I think we all know about law of supply and demand. However, considering that this market is not perfectly elastic, and mindshare counts quite a lot, Intel is going to set the price for these lower than they -could- . Demand will be much higher than price, and people are just going to Wait instead of buying AMD. Basically, it's pretty crappy for Intel to announce this when they can't really deliver. If AMD, for example, had the business practices of Intel, they could have announced a 1 GHz chip awhile ago. (The small print would've mentioned the need for an active refrigeration unit, tho...)
I thought Intel was having production problems, yet they keep announcing higher clock speeds.
So, what, are they going to have a lottery to decide who gets the few precious chips they can turn out?
Oh! I got it. I bet they'll have competitions as to who gets the chips.
First round elimination: Stupid Bunny Suit dancing competition. Points for garish colors and imaginative dance moves.
Second round elimination: Chili cookoffs, using old P60's as the burner. Is that smoke from the food or the chip? Who cares! It burns, baby!
The PIII Superbowl: The person who actually gets the chip is the person who can come up with the least-stupid-sounding reason why the general public needs to drop 1k on a 1Gz CPU so they can check out porn sites and forward the same retarded joke (headers and all!) to a bazillion people.
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Yeah! They could implant the system in her butt, 'cause she won't be using it for dancing any more.
Of course, they have to provide visuals. think of the wonder of a 3 month, million-degree fart!
Bullshit.
Just because you, say, leave your house unlocked doesn't mean it's okay for someone to come in and watch tv, use your phone, and drink your beer. The case is more similar to this than to the "loaded gun" analogy.
Anyone who starts their kids out programming on Lisp or Scheme should be arrested for child abuse.
Yuck. You want it easy, and with instant gratification. You don't want them getting bored with the concept of programming 'cause they spend all their time counting freakin' parenthesis.
BASIC would be a good start. Just to get them used to the concept of flow and variables but easy enough not to be frustrating. Then onto something procedural so they can understand how to divide a big task into smaller chunks. Then onto something OOPish after they're completely comfortable.
before you run lilo, make sure your new kernel is where lilo expects it to be. /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/zImage /boot/zImage.new /etc/lilo.conf
my process:
make xconfig, then
make dep
make clean
make zImage
make modules
make modules_install
then
cp
vi
( add appropriate section for your new test kernel )
lilo
tada.
One warning: going from using a distro kernel and module set where there's a module and/or kernel support for everything including the Dogzit Zylo MultiGrit Serial Port, to a custom kernel, is that on boot the module utilities may start bitching about missing symbols when it's trying to get the dependencies of all the modules you have. (JESUS that was a runon.) You can ignore the error messages , or you can nuke the modules that are there that you don't need.
Well, actually, there should be a company that handles the one thing Microsoft users are most familiar with : The BSOD.
Of course, then that company (BSODSoft? MicroDeath?) would probably integrate IE into it. "A Web Browser is an integral part of the Blue Screen of Death. Users spend so much time looking at it, they want to be able to surf the web from the most familiar part of their Operating System."
If they're really ambitious, they can integrate a visual basic interpreter into the BSOD for a more pleasing user experience. OEMs can then have it automatically give advice based on scripts that run under certain situations.
For example, instead of "Illegal Page Fault", it could say "Thanks for buying Compaq ! Please press the pretty button below to reboot." Instead of "General Protection Fault", it can have a picture of a naughty process (with long, greasy hair, smoking a cig) and the caption "Your software has misbehaved. Please reboot!", etc.
They could also sell advertising space on the BSOD. It'd be a great revenue stream. BSODSoft's stock price would be a real winner!
The first time, the gun refused to fire.
The second time, the bullet moved so slow I got out of the way.
The third time, it fired okay but the gun was so inaccurate it killed someone standing BEHIND the MS goon.
The fourth time, the gun blew up and took out the MS flunky with it.
Now I've heard they're going to try to fire a nuclear missle at me. Since I'm in Minnesota, people in Hawaii should probably start evacuating.
Who gives a crap if they leave junk on the lunar surface? It's not like there's a biosphere to screw up. And besides, leaving stuff on the lunar surface could be a -good- idea. Future missions can use the stuff other missions had left behind, even if it's just scrap metal. If mission planners can land in an area that relatively rich in scrap metal, they don't have to carry as much along with them if they need to build something while they're there.
I'd be more concerned with the software itself reporting on you. Say, you get the software that decodes the barcode and you have to register it using your name and/or other personal info. Then usage reporting would be pretty easy... But a workaround for that would be pretty quickly coming. Reverse engineering and a piece of free (speech) software would probably be available shortly thereafter. :)
Besides, printed info is a Good Thing. Like when you just want to sprawl out on the floor and read the paper, or go to a coffeeshop and get caffienated, or when yer on the bus...
It'd be pretty funny, tho, if someone managed to crack into the newspaper's printer's control machine and make all the links point to something... unexpected.
Embrace and extend! Imagine this: AOL owns the cablemodem market in an area. Maybe they'll share bandwidth with other ISPs, but of course there's an "access charge" that makes the other ISPs more expensive. Plus, they own the hardware; who do YOU think is going to get repairs first: AOL's customers, or Competitor Z's customers? And, of course, there's the whole media thing. AOL's magazines, movies, tv shows, etc, all can influence the people using them towards one way or another. If AOL wants more people using AOL internet services, the newscasts, movies, magazines, etc, starting proclaiming what a Dangerous Place the internet is. Coincidentally, AOL starts advertising about how Safe they are, and that their proprietary crap protects uses from Evil Hackers. Think of the Children! Protected Yourself! Use AOL! I'm very concerned about one entity controlling TV, magazine, and 'net sources of information. Even if -I- know better, I still have to live and deal with the millions of people who don't. And a lot of these people vote; I don't want them electing people to government who want to censor, de-anonymize, and corporatize the Internet.
Wrong. The average gun owner in the United States is better educated and has a higher income than the average non-gun-owner. At least this was the case several years ago. I haven't seen any stats since the early '90s. But guns in the US aren't any easier to get ahold of now then they were a decade ago, so I doubt the stats have changed much.
The new O'Reilly book. it's got a picture of Hapless Dweeb (tm) on the front picking his nose and having his underwear ride up his crack.
It contains useful information, like "How to set Slashdork off on a rampage" and "The meaning of Hot Grits and Natalie Portman," as well as "The Significance of the First Post: How to gain Instant Respect and WorldWide Fame"
Oh Jesus. Is this a joke?
The fact that you've identified 4 well-known OSS programmers who are male doesn't mean OSS is a patriarchal system that fears women. It's probably indicative of social training that starts conditioning females away from hard science at an early age. Blame our social structure, not OSS. If I were to be an over-analytical dork, I could even make the claim that OSS is an inherantly "feminine" movement, if we assume that Communication and Cooperation is a feminine attribute, as opposed to hardass competition being a masculine attribute.
That characterization of programming languages as being masculine or feminine is really fucking retarded. People generally are going to use a programming language for a purpose for which it's well suited. If you're writing an OS or device driver where speed is essential, are you going to write it in freakin' SMALLTALK? Jesus. I'll also point out that Lisp and Smalltalk are used a lot in academic settings, primarily by MALE researchers.
Then you go on to blather about slashdot geeks talking about capitalism as being the way to market linux vs some socialism-related crap. Actually, i'll point out AGAIN that open source and free software is a pretty socialist movement; it's certainly NOT based on a capitalist agenda. However, trying to get commercialware companies to port to Linux may be focusing on the capitalistic tendencies of people, but how ELSE are you going to get broad acceptance? People may be more forgiving of current weaknesses based on the "free" concept, but to get long-term acceptance they're going to have be able to run commercial apps.
And how would you suppose we "break through the gender gap?" Affirmative action in kernel hacking? Sheeeit. If a woman wants to contribute to free software, I really do NOT think anyone's going to stop her. Hell, if we're all as geeky and pathetic as you imply, then wouldn't we welcome any and all female contributions?
Computer science deals with information handling; the only reason it's called computer science is that computers make it possible and reasonable to process such large amounts of data that it's practical for many people to study information theory, instead of just math majors. Don't you think there's SOME reason CS departments are usually part of the Math dep't instead of engineering?
I know people who can pick up prog. languages and tools quickly because of some natural talent, but they can't design worth a shit and they pick horribly nasty algorithms to do stuff because they don't know any better.
Any yahoo can teach themselves how to code in a short timespan. (Months, maybe weeks) But it usually takes formal education to know how to code well.
Just wanna code? Go to tech school. Wanna learn how to process information ? Learn Computer Science. The theory you learn can apply to any language you want to code in.
Of course, some people attraced by the $ major in CS, graduate, and are lost. And others don't give a crap about the degree and are motivated enough to do well being self-taught. The best go to school, learn the theory, and have enough drive to learn as many tools and languages as they can.
We need a lobby that can throw $ at the cashvacuums in DC and the state legislatures so they'll listen. (And similar organizations, where applicable, in other countries.) The problem is: how to organize, how to pick who's in charge, etc.
Actually, this shouldn't even be just a "geek" lobby, but trying to market it as "The non-morons lobby for common-sense tech-related legislation" may offend the populace at large.
"What? The nerds think I'm stupid? I know how to turn on my microsoft and copy my internet!"
And of course the media will find a way to spin it.
"Tonight at nine: Find out why the geeks are trying to make it easy for your kids to look at pornographic material and steal the hard-earned money from the peace-loving WalTimeWarnerMicroFordMattelMega Corporation! In fact, many of these same geeks have much in common with the COLUMBINE KILLERS! Do you want your children growing up in this environment? Think of the Children!"
Maybe we can just throw support behind the ACLU. Hmm. Has the ACLU shown any support towards electronic freedom, other than the typical free-speech issues?
The 'net, along with mass-market digital copying goods, should be stimulating new ideas for these mongo corporations, so that the most imaginative of them could stay alive and do well. But nooo; they can't tear themselves away from their outdated mindset, so they try to force everyone else to play by the old rules even if they don't fit the new technology. Why don't these business geniouses find a way to Leverage the new Paradigm of the Internet to bring Consumer Satisfaction through Innovation, thereby enhancing Shareholder Value?
God, that pisses me off. The blood and sweat of net pioneers built the net. Now big money wants to turn it into the World Wide Stripmall. Anything you wanna buy, we got it! Sanitized for your protection! (THINK OF THE CHILDREN!) No discomforting thoughts here; just dotcoms and spam. The electocop will be by shortly; no weirdos allowed.
One thing I think is inevitable, and probably not that far away, is Big Business pressure to increase the cost of domain names. "To encourage and stimulate business," of course. Why should we waste neatname.com on some slacker who's not enhancing the economy? Nah, we'll raise the price to 10k a year so the name-pool will be reserved for deserving Legitimate Businesses.
Or how about requiring -all- sites to go through security analysis? Why, we don't want to encourage DDOS attacks, so it's only being economically responsible to require all sites be inspected by the FBI. (of course, to save taxpayer's money, we'll have to charge the site owner a reasonable fee; 50k a year should cover it, don't you think?)
Bah.
AMD is currently in the game to capture mindshare, and people's memories are short. They need to be able to one-up Intel every time Intel makes an announcement to keep themselves in the news and in people's minds. The "Ace up their sleeve," so to speak, is more valuable than putting all the cards on the table at once.
I bet you're a ball of fun at parties...
Yah, I think we all know about law of supply and demand. However, considering that this market is not perfectly elastic, and mindshare counts quite a lot, Intel is going to set the price for these lower than they -could- . Demand will be much higher than price, and people are just going to Wait instead of buying AMD.
Basically, it's pretty crappy for Intel to announce this when they can't really deliver. If AMD, for example, had the business practices of Intel, they could have announced a 1 GHz chip awhile ago. (The small print would've mentioned the need for an active refrigeration unit, tho...)
So, what, are they going to have a lottery to decide who gets the few precious chips they can turn out?
Oh! I got it. I bet they'll have competitions as to who gets the chips.
First round elimination: Stupid Bunny Suit dancing competition. Points for garish colors and imaginative dance moves.
Second round elimination: Chili cookoffs, using old P60's as the burner. Is that smoke from the food or the chip? Who cares! It burns, baby!
The PIII Superbowl: The person who actually gets the chip is the person who can come up with the least-stupid-sounding reason why the general public needs to drop 1k on a 1Gz CPU so they can check out porn sites and forward the same retarded joke (headers and all!) to a bazillion people.