>It is certainly a criminal offense in the UK,
>and I'd be most surprised if it isn't in other
>common law jurisdictions such as the USA.
Be surprised, then.
In the US, traffic offenses like speeding and running a stop sign are not criminal offenses.
Driving while intoxicated, reckless driving, and possession of illicit drugs or prohibited weapons in your car certainly ARE criminal offenses, but
violations of the traffic code itself are not.
>When you consider the electricity cost over time
>it almost always makes sense to trash those
>systems and just buy a new high-end athlon or
>P3/P4 to replace all of the existing systems.
Especially considering how cheaply you can build a fast machine these days.
We just got a new Fry's in Austin, and they had an advertised special the other day - Athlon 900 with motherboard (built in video and sound), case, floppy, and 128 megs of RAM. Just drop in your hard drives and network card, plug in a keyboard and mouse, and you've got a VERY capable Linux/*BSD firewall, router, mail/web/name server.
Cost for the CPU/MB/case/memory? $149.
How much does it cost to run four or five 486's or low-end Pentiums for a few months?
Unfortunately, you could save money (and be more environmentally friendly) in the long run by replacing all these boxes with a single P2-class box.
Bear in mind that running those machines 24/7 uses a fair amount of electricity, and this adds up pretty fast.
I've got an old Mac IIci at home that I've been meaning to do a project NetBSD box on, but have just never gotten around to it because I don't relish the idea of yet another machine I don't need running all the time.
-l
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>So Todd, what is the conversion factor between
>assload (Al?) and, say, gigabytes?
Are we talking about metric assloads, or american?
>Hopefully the cheaper AMD's in this case wont suck as bad.
Nah, AMD has gotten their act together on the FPU front.
I had a P150+ as well, saved a ton of money over a real Pentium 150, worked like a champ on everything except the first few games that used floating point (ie Quake).
>Almost everything from ep4/5/6 is lifted from
>some other classical piece
In particular, Holst's "The Planets".
Once in a while they'll do a projection screen show with the local symphony and various plane arium style shots and stuff around here, it's kinda cool, and you'll sometimes hear kids talking about the Star Wars music afterwards.
>But I saw plenty of businessmen and secretarial
>types using MS-DOS, Lotus 123, WordPerfect and
>TurboTax (remember them?) to get their jobs done
>just fine, char-mode and all. True, they knew
>just those commands that they used every day:
They memorized those three commands because they *had to* to do their work.
>Yes we will see more of them, but at least we
>try to build systems that will fight them, not
>welcome them with open arms.
Unfortunately, you also build systems that are completely unusuable to 90% of the population.
When I have to explain to people what the pretty graphical username and password screen is on a Windows box, I shudder to think how they'd react to a text-mode "login: " prompt.
Sure, you can set up a number of things to produce a graphical login screen, but don't even try to suggest to me that your beloved *nix home boxes never require maintenance that takes you to a command prompt.
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>We should strike, or perform some equivalant
>that cripples the software and internet
>infrastructure that runs this economy.
You first.
There are far too many hungry geeks out there that have gotten laid off ready to take whatever job they can find.
I imagine most companies would have no problem with this - fire the strikers that got hired during a job-seeker's market and hire qualified staff at half the price.
Most of the people *I* know are quietly and dilligently doing their jobs and praying the market turns around so we CAN have that power again.
Sure, but back in '93-'94 we also didn't have Quicktime/AVI/RealVideo, MP3, or Flash, so aside from downloading your latest Linux distribution, your v.32bis modem should be just fine.
>I don't think I'm imagining a new conspiracy, I
>think I'm just seeing vapor trails of an older
>one.
While the cases of MS only documenting certain API calls internally are reasonably well documented by this case, they were never API calls as simple and integral to the appeal of the interface-as-OS approach as cut and paste.
>Besides, it's up to that same.com whether to go
>the microsoft way or another way, no? Of course,
>that's where antitrust comes in.. because there
>may be no other choice.
I REALLY don't mean this as a troll or anything, but do what you gotta do...
Doesn't this mostly depend on an MS competitor (proprietary or otherwise) to come up with an equally viable product for a non-tech industry...?
If all it takes for Joe's Photo Lab of some town of 6000 in central Kansas to offer this service is a single phone call to an 800 number in the back of an own-your-own-business wanna-be entrepeneur magazine, yeah, MS is probably gonna win...
>Well, there's a program called Visual Pinball
>Toolkit or something. It allows you to build
>your own tables and set the rules and whatnot.
The point is not the reproduction of the table layout or the physics of the ball moving around, it's the FEEL.
I have yet to see a computer simulation of pinball that accurately models the tactile sensations of a real mechanical bumper or responds to the nudges or even feels right when putting a right flipper shot up the left orbit...
Some things computers are very very good at. Pinball is not one of those things.
>The machines were expensive, not prone to
>upgrading, and had hellish maintenance
>requirements
Actually, there were some machines that made upgrading a little easier.. The Pinball 2000 system.
This was a Bally/Williams system that was basically a modular cabinet with monitor / pseudo-hologram system. You could swap out the playfield and backglass in just a few minutes with practice.
Unfortunately, this meant the games were depressingly similar (if you're good at Phantom Menace, chances are you're not bad at Revenge From Mars).
This also didn't address the maintenance issues, and the initial cash outlay was still pretty high.
Check out http://www.pinball.wms.com/pinball2000/home.html for more info on the Pinball 2000 system.
Main Entry: window
Pronunciation: 'win-(")dO
Function: noun
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: Middle English windowe, from Old Norse vindauga, from vindr wind (akin to Old English wind) + auga eye; akin to Old English Eage eye -- more at EYE
Date: 13th century
1 a : an opening especially in the wall of a building for admission of light and air that is usually closed by casements or sashes containing transparent material (as glass) and capable of being opened and shut b : WINDOWPANE c : a space behind a window of a retail store containing displayed merchandise d : an opening in a partition or wall through which business is conducted
2 : a means of entrance or access; especially : a means of obtaining information
3 : an opening (as a shutter, slot, or valve) that resembles or suggests a window
4 : the transparent panel or opening of a window envelope
5 : the framework (as a shutter or sash with its fittings) that closes a window opening
6 : CHAFF 4
7 : a range of wavelengths in the electromagnetic spectrum to which a planet's atmosphere is transparent
8 a : an interval of time within which a rocket or spacecraft must be launched to accomplish a particular mission b : an interval of time during which certain conditions or an opportunity exists
9 : an area at the limits of the earth's sensible atmosphere through which a spacecraft must pass for successful reentry
10 : any of the areas into which a computer display may be divided and on which distinctly different types of information are displayed
- windowless/-dO-l&s, -d&-/ adjective
- out the window : out of existence, use, or consideration
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>It is certainly a criminal offense in the UK,
>and I'd be most surprised if it isn't in other
>common law jurisdictions such as the USA.
Be surprised, then.
In the US, traffic offenses like speeding and running a stop sign are not criminal offenses.
Driving while intoxicated, reckless driving, and possession of illicit drugs or prohibited weapons in your car certainly ARE criminal offenses, but
violations of the traffic code itself are not.
-l
>When you consider the electricity cost over time
>it almost always makes sense to trash those
>systems and just buy a new high-end athlon or
>P3/P4 to replace all of the existing systems.
Especially considering how cheaply you can build a fast machine these days.
We just got a new Fry's in Austin, and they had an advertised special the other day - Athlon 900 with motherboard (built in video and sound), case, floppy, and 128 megs of RAM. Just drop in your hard drives and network card, plug in a keyboard and mouse, and you've got a VERY capable Linux/*BSD firewall, router, mail/web/name server.
Cost for the CPU/MB/case/memory? $149.
How much does it cost to run four or five 486's or low-end Pentiums for a few months?
-l
>getting a speeding ticket. After all, you
>committed a crime
IANAL, but this is (to my understanding) incorrect.
A speeding ticket is not a criminal offense (in most jurisdictions, I'm sure there's an exception out there to make me wrong).
Traffic law is distinctly different from criminal law. If you get a ticket and fail to appear, THEN you may be charged with a crime.
-l
>If you've been convicted of a felony, you no
>longer have constitutional rights.
Incorrect.
If you've been convicted of a felony, you lose your second amendment right to bear arms and the right to vote.
You do NOT lose your first or fourth amendment rights.
-l
Unfortunately, you could save money (and be more environmentally friendly) in the long run by replacing all these boxes with a single P2-class box.
Bear in mind that running those machines 24/7 uses a fair amount of electricity, and this adds up pretty fast.
I've got an old Mac IIci at home that I've been meaning to do a project NetBSD box on, but have just never gotten around to it because I don't relish the idea of yet another machine I don't need running all the time.
-l
>So Todd, what is the conversion factor between
>assload (Al?) and, say, gigabytes?
Are we talking about metric assloads, or american?
-l
>The P150+ was actually a 133Mhz chip
Actually, I'm wrong. The P150+ was a 120, the P166+ was a 133.
>Hopefully the cheaper AMD's in this case wont suck as bad.
Nah, AMD has gotten their act together on the FPU front.
I had a P150+ as well, saved a ton of money over a real Pentium 150, worked like a champ on everything except the first few games that used floating point (ie Quake).
-l
>Nothing used the floating-point processor in those days
Bets?
Ever heard of a little game called Quake?
-l
This is an old trick.
Remember the Cyrix Pentium-class CPU's?
The P150+ was actually a 133Mhz chip that performed (in integer comparisons anyway) like an actual Pentium at 150Mhz.
Their floating point sucked, though...
-l
>No doubt with particular attention to such
>groundbreaking authors as Merceded Lackey...
You give him too much credit.
I would expect him to focus more on such "authors" as Terry Brooks.
>heave
-l
>Almost everything from ep4/5/6 is lifted from
>some other classical piece
In particular, Holst's "The Planets".
Once in a while they'll do a projection screen show with the local symphony and various plane arium style shots and stuff around here, it's kinda cool, and you'll sometimes hear kids talking about the Star Wars music afterwards.
-l
Yaknow, if they just call it "Send in the Clones" they can fire John Williams and use pre-existing music...
-l
>But I saw plenty of businessmen and secretarial
>types using MS-DOS, Lotus 123, WordPerfect and
>TurboTax (remember them?) to get their jobs done
>just fine, char-mode and all. True, they knew
>just those commands that they used every day:
They memorized those three commands because they *had to* to do their work.
Now they don't.
You think they're gonna go BACK?
Now who's spinning?
-l
>Yes we will see more of them, but at least we
>try to build systems that will fight them, not
>welcome them with open arms.
Unfortunately, you also build systems that are completely unusuable to 90% of the population.
When I have to explain to people what the pretty graphical username and password screen is on a Windows box, I shudder to think how they'd react to a text-mode "login: " prompt.
Sure, you can set up a number of things to produce a graphical login screen, but don't even try to suggest to me that your beloved *nix home boxes never require maintenance that takes you to a command prompt.
-LjM
>Granted, I would have /. withdrawls, but still.
Yeah, but it'd come up just like *THAT* for me!
-l
>We should strike, or perform some equivalant
>that cripples the software and internet
>infrastructure that runs this economy.
You first.
There are far too many hungry geeks out there that have gotten laid off ready to take whatever job they can find.
I imagine most companies would have no problem with this - fire the strikers that got hired during a job-seeker's market and hire qualified staff at half the price.
Most of the people *I* know are quietly and dilligently doing their jobs and praying the market turns around so we CAN have that power again.
-l
>How do do hit the ball and not smash the machine
>throwing it?
I'd assume it's somewhat like a regular batting machine and sits behind a shield of some kind.
Not exactly rocket science...
-l
?Would you drink free beer that somebody had
>already used?
Of course not, that's a good way to get a nasty virus.
-l
>No Cable Modem, no DSL, No thanks.
Sure, but back in '93-'94 we also didn't have Quicktime/AVI/RealVideo, MP3, or Flash, so aside from downloading your latest Linux distribution, your v.32bis modem should be just fine.
-l
>I don't think I'm imagining a new conspiracy, I
>think I'm just seeing vapor trails of an older
>one.
While the cases of MS only documenting certain API calls internally are reasonably well documented by this case, they were never API calls as simple and integral to the appeal of the interface-as-OS approach as cut and paste.
-l
>Besides, it's up to that same .com whether to go
>the microsoft way or another way, no? Of course,
>that's where antitrust comes in.. because there
>may be no other choice.
I REALLY don't mean this as a troll or anything, but do what you gotta do...
Doesn't this mostly depend on an MS competitor (proprietary or otherwise) to come up with an equally viable product for a non-tech industry...?
If all it takes for Joe's Photo Lab of some town of 6000 in central Kansas to offer this service is a single phone call to an 800 number in the back of an own-your-own-business wanna-be entrepeneur magazine, yeah, MS is probably gonna win...
-l
>Well, there's a program called Visual Pinball
>Toolkit or something. It allows you to build
>your own tables and set the rules and whatnot.
The point is not the reproduction of the table layout or the physics of the ball moving around, it's the FEEL.
I have yet to see a computer simulation of pinball that accurately models the tactile sensations of a real mechanical bumper or responds to the nudges or even feels right when putting a right flipper shot up the left orbit...
Some things computers are very very good at. Pinball is not one of those things.
-l
>The machines were expensive, not prone to
>upgrading, and had hellish maintenance
>requirements
Actually, there were some machines that made upgrading a little easier.. The Pinball 2000 system.
This was a Bally/Williams system that was basically a modular cabinet with monitor / pseudo-hologram system. You could swap out the playfield and backglass in just a few minutes with practice.
Unfortunately, this meant the games were depressingly similar (if you're good at Phantom Menace, chances are you're not bad at Revenge From Mars).
This also didn't address the maintenance issues, and the initial cash outlay was still pretty high.
Check out http://www.pinball.wms.com/pinball2000/home.html for more info on the Pinball 2000 system.
FWIW, I miss the original High Speed. >sigh
-l
It being a real word means nothing.
Main Entry: window
Pronunciation: 'win-(")dO
Function: noun
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: Middle English windowe, from Old Norse vindauga, from vindr wind (akin to Old English wind) + auga eye; akin to Old English Eage eye -- more at EYE
Date: 13th century
1 a : an opening especially in the wall of a building for admission of light and air that is usually closed by casements or sashes containing transparent material (as glass) and capable of being opened and shut b : WINDOWPANE c : a space behind a window of a retail store containing displayed merchandise d : an opening in a partition or wall through which business is conducted
2 : a means of entrance or access; especially : a means of obtaining information
3 : an opening (as a shutter, slot, or valve) that resembles or suggests a window
4 : the transparent panel or opening of a window envelope
5 : the framework (as a shutter or sash with its fittings) that closes a window opening
6 : CHAFF 4
7 : a range of wavelengths in the electromagnetic spectrum to which a planet's atmosphere is transparent
8 a : an interval of time within which a rocket or spacecraft must be launched to accomplish a particular mission b : an interval of time during which certain conditions or an opportunity exists
9 : an area at the limits of the earth's sensible atmosphere through which a spacecraft must pass for successful reentry
10 : any of the areas into which a computer display may be divided and on which distinctly different types of information are displayed
- windowless
- out the window : out of existence, use, or consideration