Our streamlined procedures took advantage of the fact that officers had a monthly liquor allowance but enlisted men did not. To secure a special slide rule, the requesting officer would pay with two bottles.
At the pilot's insistence (I will not repeat his heated words), I dislodged the target by jumping on it while hanging from a bomb-bay rack and wearing a parachute, just in case.
For those who didn't read the article (after all, if you did, this comment is worthless to you), he's talking about a training "dummy aircraft" for gunners to practice shooting at that didn't drop from the bomber that was carrying, and jammed in the bomb bay, preventing the doors from closing (which meant they couldn't land). Quite a hilarious mental picture if you ask me;)
... maybe slamming into those mountains at high speed won't be such a bad idea with little Billy G's sliding;).
Seriously... the article doesn't say they don't want to closed-source release for Windows only... it says they have no OEM retailers to ship a linux version. They _did_ say they will want to eventually GPL it, as well as ship a CD with Windows, Mac, and Linux ports. Read, people, read!
...What if some clever virus/worm writer put a click through license. Would that be legal? If so, how much "honesty" (obvious, he wouldn't write "this is a virus") is required to ensure that a victim actually agrees?
On another note... are you saying I can't post those so-called confidential emails between Slashdot and goatse.cx paying for click-throughs?
Although I'm normally somewhat of a fan of CPM's articles, I think this one was just a _little_ weird... the Chinese did it to get back at us? It might be the US government trying to frame the Chinese? I know she doesn't
make these claims, just quotes others, but still... not every crackpot idea has to be covered.
Other than that, quite an interesting article;)... I wonder who they'll have write the "more in-depth" article referenced at the bottom of the article. Speaking of which... quick poll.. how many of y'all read that far to see that section?;) (yes, the only way I got this so fast is by reading the article yesterday... if you subscribe to happyhacker@yahoogroups.com, you got this yesterday).
Although I'm normally somewhat of a fan of CPM's articles, I think this one was just a _little_ weird... the Chinese did it to get back at us? It might be the US government trying to frame the Chinese? I know she doesn't make these claims, just quotes others, but still... not every crackpot idea has to be covered.
~sigh~... slashdot, slashdot, slashdot. The article says (for those too lazy/stupid/modemly-impaired) that it links all developed applications to a GPL'ed library, so therefore, under the terms of the GPL, your application must be GPL'ed as well. Short, simple, sweet. Now post away;)
I don't understand the whole distributed login idea (no, this is not a troll... I really just don't get it!). Does each machine have enough information to work on it's own? Or is it like a public key / private key in that each is completely worthless without the other? To my newbie mind, the first seems like it's only as strong as it's weakest link... and I'd rather have one or two systems than one or two thousand if it only takes _one_ to break (open, not down) to release my info to the world. If it's the second... how does reliability factor into this? Anyone care to enlighten me?
Can it: theoretically, yes. Is it: no.
Seriously... I have cable at my parents house (ADSL here), and while I usually average between 50 - 65 K/s on the DSL, and 50 - 100 on cable... I've _never_ seen a website that wasn't slashdotted (or running off another 56K) download slower than about 15 K/sec. Same goes for FTP. It's true that broadband often transfers the bottleneck further upstream... but that just proves that having a bunch of pseudo-T1-capable line accessing a T1 is not a viable long term option
At Princeton (not Main Campus, but the Plasma Physics Lab) we've got one, too... 7 million pixels, but roughly about half the size (7.5' x 10' or so). We just put in a new screen, and we use 9 Proxima 9250+ projectors attached to a beowulf (yeah!) cluster of 11 dual 733's. Unlike many of the other walls, we do not run custom software... instead, we run WireGL (from Stanford, too lazy to post a link), soon to be upgraded to Chromium (again, look on sourceforge), which just alpha-ed 5 days ago. The uses of this thing are amazing. Visualization is the official use, and it does that amazingly well (our resolution is 3072 x 2304). Things like UT or Quake also kick @$$... in fact, one summer student in our lab is designing a walkthough of the reactor space using UT. But the awesomest part-- tuxracer! Talk about immersive... I've often seen people from tours wince if I accidently fly into a wall at 150 km/hr. It rocks;)
We all (well, many of us), got on the internet in an earlier time... and I'm not talking about last century. Originally, the Internet was meant to be about sharing... information, files, whatever... but sharing. That's a cooperative thing. Over the past five years, we've seen (I'd imagine) a decline in non-commercial pages... fewer (percentagewise, at least) people put up useful personal pages, and I don't think even those of us who use the internet for research (either technical or otherwise) really benefitted that much from the boom of the last 3 years. So why shouldn't an internet that's about big companies serving info to people charge? If the people don't give back to the big companies (which they don't) by putting up smaller, useful, web pages, shouldn't they give back money? In the geek circles, we give back to each other by helping each other out... which is why we do it in the first place... but what does a company get out of the internet if not money?
I know someone will post a higher modded response talking about importance of communication, how the companies benefit, etc. etc. etc. But think for a minute... the outside worlds internet is, has been, and always will be a commercial venture. "Our" internet is about IRC, Freenet,.org's, and.edu's which will continue to be a community... I hope;)
Funny... apt-get isn't working. Oh wait, I'm on a windows machine. Let me try my Mac. Nope. Nothing. How about this OpenBSD machine? 'Fraid not. I think my friend has a Red Hat system around here somewhere... argh... still not working. I guess it's a Solaris thing, then...
Yes, I know... I really do use Debian myself... don't mod this as redundant (overrated, maybe, but not troll or flamebait;) )
I don't see the problem here. The company is a software vendor, not a not-for-profit privacy advocate... so why should they support a platform that's not profitable to them? It's very nice to say, "yeah, well, they need to be idealistic," but why? Companies exist today to make money. Foundations exist to be idealistic. Let RMS or the EFF write a nonprofitable linux version... they don't need to make money. Zero Knowledge does. Perhaps, (although I doubt this), if they become big and successful, they'll release a money-losing linux version... but for now... why should we expect them to try and make us happy, if it doesn't help them?
...from this? Seriously... for all their evil, unethical, potentially illegal actions, Microsoft is doing some things _really_ well. Surely there must be some lessons that the OS/FS community can learn (besides from "kill your competitors at dusk with.45's") from this. After all, for all it's flaws, more people like windows than linux. Yes, that's right. More people. And this is despite the fact that Windows (at least 95/98/Me) is still often quite unstable... but then again, so is a poorly configured system, which seems to be the rule these days, rather than the exception. Why?
Let's take a look around at the other big companies. Oracle has an egomaniac for a CEO.
Apple, yeah, ditto for their CEO (or whaver Jobs' title is these days), whom it's apparently
not safe to be with in an elevator.
Whew. Good thing this isn't _our_ company... I mean, everyone knows Linus is perfectly normal, RMS is no longer hyperactive or anally retentive and, and.. ok, I don't know about any other of our leaders;).
The companies that have the biggest following of loyalist fans also have these sort of
banana-republic dictator personalities running the company. In order to gain new territory,
you sometimes have to rally the troops (employees) and your allies (investors) by making
bold, outrageous statements. Usually it's limited to something like, "we're going to make a lot
of money this year," or "our new product is The Next Big Thing."
I've never met a Microsoft user who was passionate about the company. Every single one I know says the same thing, "We use it over because it's {Faster|OutOfBeta|HasMoreSoftware|HasMoreHardwareS upport}. Is this true? Sometimes yes, sometimes no. I personally love linux, but from a realistic standpoint, there are a lot of things it can't do as well as windows (and not just crash;)). For example, my company just bought a couple of new Dell Inspirons 8000's, with NVIDIA's GeForce2 Go chip... well... it's a known bug that X crashes whenever you exit. Period. That's life. Windows runs stably.
I have to wonder what effect this will have on defacements? I know attrition is just "reporting", and not "encouraging", but is it really as much fun for a script kiddie if no one pays any attention? Maybe now we can get back to the serious business of the errata... updated last in which century? Come on, let's try and make fun of JP and CPM (are they even around, still?) some more! Yay!
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Yeah! I was born too late... ~sigh~
At the pilot's insistence (I will not repeat his heated words), I dislodged the target by jumping on it while hanging from a bomb-bay rack and wearing a parachute, just in case.
For those who didn't read the article (after all, if you did, this comment is worthless to you), he's talking about a training "dummy aircraft" for gunners to practice shooting at that didn't drop from the bomber that was carrying, and jammed in the bomb bay, preventing the doors from closing (which meant they couldn't land). Quite a hilarious mental picture if you ask me ;)
News for nerds not news? Oops. I guess I should be more careful what I ask ;)
Seriously... the article doesn't say they don't want to closed-source release for Windows only... it says they have no OEM retailers to ship a linux version. They _did_ say they will want to eventually GPL it, as well as ship a CD with Windows, Mac, and Linux ports. Read, people, read!
Actually, I have no idea if that's true or not... I said it not be funny, not to be trolling, flame-baiting, or whatever.
(+1 Tries to be cute)
(-1 Fails)
(-1 Fails Miserably)
Wait! Does that mean my attempt above was a prime example... trying to get in something good while it's nice and early?
On another note... are you saying I can't post those so-called confidential emails between Slashdot and goatse.cx paying for click-throughs?
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Other than that, quite an interesting article ;)... I wonder who they'll have write the "more in-depth" article referenced at the bottom of the article. Speaking of which... quick poll.. how many of y'all read that far to see that section? ;) (yes, the only way I got this so fast is by reading the article yesterday... if you subscribe to happyhacker@yahoogroups.com, you got this yesterday).
Other than that, quite an interesting article ;).
~sigh~... slashdot, slashdot, slashdot. The article says (for those too lazy/stupid/modemly-impaired) that it links all developed applications to a GPL'ed library, so therefore, under the terms of the GPL, your application must be GPL'ed as well. Short, simple, sweet. Now post away ;)
I don't understand the whole distributed login idea (no, this is not a troll... I really just don't get it!). Does each machine have enough information to work on it's own? Or is it like a public key / private key in that each is completely worthless without the other? To my newbie mind, the first seems like it's only as strong as it's weakest link... and I'd rather have one or two systems than one or two thousand if it only takes _one_ to break (open, not down) to release my info to the world. If it's the second... how does reliability factor into this? Anyone care to enlighten me?
He's an AC... I hope someone sees this to mod it up (or reposts the same message without the fucking for the PC crowd ;) )
Can it: theoretically, yes. Is it: no. Seriously... I have cable at my parents house (ADSL here), and while I usually average between 50 - 65 K/s on the DSL, and 50 - 100 on cable... I've _never_ seen a website that wasn't slashdotted (or running off another 56K) download slower than about 15 K/sec. Same goes for FTP. It's true that broadband often transfers the bottleneck further upstream... but that just proves that having a bunch of pseudo-T1-capable line accessing a T1 is not a viable long term option
At Princeton (not Main Campus, but the Plasma Physics Lab) we've got one, too... 7 million pixels, but roughly about half the size (7.5' x 10' or so). We just put in a new screen, and we use 9 Proxima 9250+ projectors attached to a beowulf (yeah!) cluster of 11 dual 733's. Unlike many of the other walls, we do not run custom software... instead, we run WireGL (from Stanford, too lazy to post a link), soon to be upgraded to Chromium (again, look on sourceforge), which just alpha-ed 5 days ago. The uses of this thing are amazing. Visualization is the official use, and it does that amazingly well (our resolution is 3072 x 2304). Things like UT or Quake also kick @$$... in fact, one summer student in our lab is designing a walkthough of the reactor space using UT. But the awesomest part-- tuxracer! Talk about immersive... I've often seen people from tours wince if I accidently fly into a wall at 150 km/hr. It rocks ;)
We all (well, many of us), got on the internet in an earlier time... and I'm not talking about last century. Originally, the Internet was meant to be about sharing... information, files, whatever... but sharing. That's a cooperative thing. Over the past five years, we've seen (I'd imagine) a decline in non-commercial pages... fewer (percentagewise, at least) people put up useful personal pages, and I don't think even those of us who use the internet for research (either technical or otherwise) really benefitted that much from the boom of the last 3 years. So why shouldn't an internet that's about big companies serving info to people charge? If the people don't give back to the big companies (which they don't) by putting up smaller, useful, web pages, shouldn't they give back money? In the geek circles, we give back to each other by helping each other out... which is why we do it in the first place... but what does a company get out of the internet if not money? I know someone will post a higher modded response talking about importance of communication, how the companies benefit, etc. etc. etc. But think for a minute... the outside worlds internet is, has been, and always will be a commercial venture. "Our" internet is about IRC, Freenet, .org's, and .edu's which will continue to be a community... I hope ;)
Yes, I know... I really do use Debian myself... don't mod this as redundant (overrated, maybe, but not troll or flamebait ;) )
...Jon Katz? Oh... it's just a name... darn.
I don't see the problem here. The company is a software vendor, not a not-for-profit privacy advocate... so why should they support a platform that's not profitable to them? It's very nice to say, "yeah, well, they need to be idealistic," but why? Companies exist today to make money. Foundations exist to be idealistic. Let RMS or the EFF write a nonprofitable linux version... they don't need to make money. Zero Knowledge does. Perhaps, (although I doubt this), if they become big and successful, they'll release a money-losing linux version... but for now... why should we expect them to try and make us happy, if it doesn't help them?
While I agree it's "Stuff That Matters," I fail to see how it's "News for Nerds"
And this differs from a typical slashdot set of comments how?
...from this? Seriously... for all their evil, unethical, potentially illegal actions, Microsoft is doing some things _really_ well. Surely there must be some lessons that the OS/FS community can learn (besides from "kill your competitors at dusk with .45's") from this. After all, for all it's flaws, more people like windows than linux. Yes, that's right. More people. And this is despite the fact that Windows (at least 95/98/Me) is still often quite unstable... but then again, so is a poorly configured system, which seems to be the rule these days, rather than the exception. Why?
55% higher price
43% more heat
142% more FUD
19% more Jon Katz (NOOOO!!!!)
and finally...
29% more made us statistics
Whew. Good thing this isn't _our_ company... I mean, everyone knows Linus is perfectly normal, RMS is no longer hyperactive or anally retentive and, and.. ok, I don't know about any other of our leaders ;).
The companies that have the biggest following of loyalist fans also have these sort of banana-republic dictator personalities running the company. In order to gain new territory, you sometimes have to rally the troops (employees) and your allies (investors) by making bold, outrageous statements. Usually it's limited to something like, "we're going to make a lot of money this year," or "our new product is The Next Big Thing."
I've never met a Microsoft user who was passionate about the company. Every single one I know says the same thing, "We use it over because it's {Faster|OutOfBeta|HasMoreSoftware|HasMoreHardwareS upport}. Is this true? Sometimes yes, sometimes no. I personally love linux, but from a realistic standpoint, there are a lot of things it can't do as well as windows (and not just crash ;)). For example, my company just bought a couple of new Dell Inspirons 8000's, with NVIDIA's GeForce2 Go chip... well... it's a known bug that X crashes whenever you exit. Period. That's life. Windows runs stably.
I have to wonder what effect this will have on defacements? I know attrition is just "reporting", and not "encouraging", but is it really as much fun for a script kiddie if no one pays any attention? Maybe now we can get back to the serious business of the errata... updated last in which century? Come on, let's try and make fun of JP and CPM (are they even around, still?) some more! Yay!
Is that considered audience participation? ;)
Red Hat 7.1 Standard Edition: $39.95
Micro$oft Windows ME: $162.85
RMS, ESR, and Linus agreeing: Priceless