I have no moral problem with cloning as long as they do it right which obviously takes some scientific experimentation to get to the point where it does work 99% of the time. No other way to become expert at a new technology. But for the couples I don't see why they bother. I'd just adopt. What you put in a kids head does at least as much to shape who they are as your genetics so why risk all kinds of medical problems in your child due to mistakes in the experimental cloning process? Let them perfect it on sheep first.:)
I try to rewrite individual sections to make them easy to reuse should the entire project need to be rewritten. So I can fix just the area I'm fixing now but do it in such a way that will work just as easily if I do get to redesign the whole thing. Eventually everything needs a fix or a new feature so you'll get to gradually redesign. This slow process also gives you time to come to your senses if your doing something weird.:)
Also I often write my own versions in my spare work time or in my own time and make my own version. Then you can compare the two versions and if yours is better offer it to your boss to try. If he doesn't want it then keep it for later, he may want it eventually or you can reuse parts. If you wrote it in your spare time then you can make it opensource and/or sell it yourself.:)
Exactly right. Don't get me wrong I do think promotion on who's been loyal to the company longest can be a good system but only provided they have equal skills for the job.
I'd say a college degree now has no real value. The only difference is who has parents that can afford to send them to college and who can't. I personally can do circles around a lot of friends with college degrees even though I haven't one. The push for everyone to need to go to college has already been made so we may as well make it so everyone can go to college. I also think we need third party certifications to get a college degree - the school teaching you should not be able to just give you a degree or claim you have a degree in such and such unless you pass the same certifications every other student in the country has to pass. Just because you give everyone a fair chance to go to college doesn't mean you have to promise they'll pass. The military already gives most people the chance to go to college but it really leaves out those of us who don't believe in violence or have to many responsibilities to dedicate anymore of our time. This would just be shifting the costs onto companies rather than the military (they could still offer their own programs) and giving the rest of us the same chance. Myself I have no complaints as I'm doing pretty well for myself but I think the road would have been easier with a degree and I know many friends that really need the degree. I won't argue that our K-12 needs major work too though. In poor areas (such as where I lived) the schools were nasty/old, the textbooks outdated, etc.
Unions are horrible things. They only make sense for people to stupid and unimaginative to know they can walk away from a job and join a competing company or start their own company if they don't like where they are. I remember my father working years going to night school after work so that he could progress in the world. Finally after a decade or more of special school and training he got a promotion to a job that was much better and paid better. The union sued him and the company and won. He was forced to train someone (without extra pay for doing so) else at the job when they had no prior experience in that field and honestly really couldn't do the job. That person got to take the job while my father was forced to go back to being a grunt worker. The company still arranged so he ended up doing most the work for that position but he couldn't get the promotion or the raise because the union always complained whenever he tried. To top it off the union often strikes forcing him and others who just want to make a living from being able to so that some idiots can fight over if they get 7 or 8 vacation days a year. Luckily now that his kids are moved out and he doesn't have so many responsibilities he is looking for a better job but it was enough to teach me my lesson. I've quit jobs before for organizing and I'd do it again. If I don't like where I'm at I can easily find a new job.
I'd somewhat agree but I think it's important to provide oppurtunities. The whole thing about being able to open the door but not being able to push them through. I don't know if I'd put the computers in schools to be used for lame ass stuff like most public schools choose though. Outreach centers would probably be more effective. If all books were in school libraries many people couldn't access them afterall. I also think college should be free (I suggest being paid for by taxing businesses based on number of college graduated employees) as long as it is required to get a job better than working at Burger King or Blockbuster. Luckily as a geek I didn't really need college tog et a decent job but it would have helped and would help people enter professions with more strict requirements (like medicine).
Could be smart and write a small helper-application that is completely open sourced and then use that application to do what you like. Given the likely uses of SSH I doubt anyone would be pissed if you wrote a program to simplify tunneling protocols (even more) that was opensourced and then just passed your data to that in the background. It's no different than a commercial program that runs a bash shell script to do something so it should be okay. If the program happens to be tuned for what you need then oh well - if it's opensource and useful others will tune it to their needs too.
Who cares about revenge or remorse as long as you get the desired outcome? We don't want to scare companies away from using GPL'd code, we only want to make them return their changes. Now if they do it again we bust their kneecaps and take crowbars to their car windows..:)
I doubt there are any good arguments for your side. The best I've seen might have been Metallica's response here on Slashdot but that might not be exactly what you want.
*shrugs* Anyone who says they don't break laws is either a liar or stupid. Look at all the dumb laws still on the books from way back when. Look how many people speed just a little or run a yellow light as the situation is useful to them. Surely breaking basic saftey laws like those are much more dangerous that people who share MP3's. I agree that the ebst place to win the battle is to change copyright laws but honestly big businesses control the government to well for us to easily fight back and the big media companies control what goes into the average persons mind to well to wage a public relations war. Let them fight the criminals in court and not remove whole categories of technology just because they have the ability to be abused. There are some points you can argue.;>
XHTML is easy to generate and work with from an object oriented structure so I'd have to give it my thumbs up. Recently been experimenting with how to render XHTML into Postscript (for local printing) and rendering into Latex would be interesting also. Know of any really good books on xhtml? Most of the ones I've seen were to technical to be useful to the average developer.
I think these lists combined together include about every thing I care about except flexible schedules and vacation times. Also I feel I'm friends with everyone in the company to some extent so I'd not be likely to want to move somewhere I don't know anybody just for a little extra cash. I'm very pleased with my job currently even if the pay isn't that great yet. I'm willing to wait for the company to grow before I make a lot more $.
This is one reason why I never host my web sites on my ISP. That and I can run PHP and SQL in my backend with whatever extensions etc I need on my own computer. I know an ISP that lost 50,000 commercial web-hosting customer accounts because a key harddrive crashed and they only backed up once every 6 months. This for a cost of hundreds of dollars per account per month!
IMO ISPs have no business deleting a users files without warning. It'd be reasonable to move them out of the html tree and send a notice that they'll delete the files in a week but to just destroy data, even seemingly useless data like MP3's, could destroy years of work in some cases. ISPs also tend to make it against their TOS to run personal servers which is impossible to comply with as every second rate program opens services up. If you've used ICQ or a similar program you're guilty of breaking your TOS most likely. Luckily most ISPs don't pull your account unless they feel you're a security risk, your eatting to much bandwidth, or your a commercial server so we're probably safe.
I've also seen ISPs with TOS that said you had to use Wintel. I'm sure a lot of people on here would be rbeaking that lil rule. If you wouldn't like your service disconnected for running non-Wintel then don't claim that anyone that breaks their TOS deserves what they get. I understand ISPs have to cover their ass but some of their TOS's are just unfair and often users have little in the way of alternatives.
People won't take the IP protection crap and once it leaves the protected lands for the real world they'll rip it to bits.
The idea of content objects with unique ID's isn't at all new but is a good one. I always liked the idea of using encryption signatures as the keys. give it sig for itself and one for it's owner and build a simple search engine mechanism into the Net itself and you have a nice lil system. An important note might be that such a system does not need to, and possibly should not, replace TCP/IP or even rely on TCP/IP as it's only supported carrier. It should be as agnostic about transports as possible for the most flexibility.
Jabber might be a good start for this layer since it is a very flexible system for transporting XML-ized content and contact-type information. I really expect something like this to assimilate the web in a couple years. Maybe Jabber merged w/ FreeNet.
Someone who doesn't know the resource they want could search for it by known facts just as they do now at Yahoo, Google, etc.. once they find it they could store the objects unique id and then every time they needed that object again they could ask the net for it and the closest copy found would be returned.
I see average semi computer literate sit down and use all of the above on a frequent basis so I'd say they are all fairly usable.
KDE is the better UI for recent converts to Linux I think but Gnome is better for die hard geeks (not that it's non-appropiate to non-geeks, it's just more flexible and less Win/Mac like). I update my versions of each nightly and both are very good and improving quickly. Part of KDE/Gnome's strength comes from their Linux-basis which lets me mingle GUI and CLI as needed so I can apply whatever is most effective to solve the given job. OS X is a large improvement in this area but still isn't as good at it as Linux/KDE/Gnome. Windows trails heavily in this area as do older MacOS and even BeOS. KDE/Gnome really need some standard on how icons and menus are laid out by default. Going between distributions can be annoying and confussing even to advanced users. Helix Gnome solves this problem nicely. KDE needs something similar.
OS X and BeOS both have their strong points but lack the growth rates and flexibilty of KDE/Gnome and the resource Windows has backing it. Despite this I like using both on occassion.
MacOS in general is pretty good though I'd argue with anyone that says it is the crown of GUI's. Somethings about it are just confussing by nature and it's over-simplification gets in the way of serious work.
Win95 w/ Internet Explorer had some nifty features and was really easy to setup desktop features. However it was fairly unstable and when IE or Windows crashed it tended to bring thw whole thing down.
Other versions of Windows before and after Win95/IE have some serious problems with usability and being plastered in so many logos and over-simplified crap that they are a serious problem to anyone trying to do real work. The fact that some buttons/options still don't have online help, but often offer it anyway, still irks me.
DOS/Win 3.x were fairly good. In some ways they were better than current versions of Windows. I think the only real failure was the trouble of setting up Internet access. This of course is due to the lack of the Internet when they were designed.
Now I'm not saying which is best for total clueless newbies but for anyone who has been working on any of the above for a while, already has it set up, and just wants to get their work done this is how I'd order things.
Very true. I've noticed when I say anything everyone will agree with my karma goes up but if I an express an opinion outside the flock my karma goes down. It doesn't matter how valid or invalid my posts are. I've always wondered if it was just me or if everyone is moderated that way.
Also it seems people near the top of the list get moderated a lot more than the people further down, especially for positive points. Would be interesting to see what solutions there could be for that problem.
Mozilla is not like Netscape 6. Anyone that says it is obviously do not follow it very closely. Very few things, none that I can think of but I'm sure some are there, take you to nasty Netscape/AOL banners and it is much more stable, speedy, and full of features. A lot of the developers of Mozilla do of course work for Netscape but many also do not and as time goes on more people get involved around the edges and even now and then deep into the core.
I guess my only point is to not tie Mozilla in with the Netscape crowd. The first is made by many fine engineers and the later by many fine engineers forced to add stupid crap by stupid managers. At this point even if Netscape stopped supporting Mozilla it'd doubtlessly stay alive. Some of the Netscape engineers would still work on it in their own time and other companies would be bound to try to take over. I'd most like to see a Linus like leader emerge from the non-commercial ranks but that has yet to be seen. All we can do is watch and see.
I'd rather have a Linux-based firewall built into my cable modem or whatever other means my network is connecting the the Net. It'd just simplify the number of devices chained together for me.
What I'd really like as a PCI card capable of doing encryption for standard things like SSL and PGP (GPG for me actually) so it wouldn't hit my CPU so hard serving https pages etc. gzip/bzip/etc compression would be another dandy thing to build into the card. If they could fit several such functions onto a single PCI card for a decent price I'd probably add one to every computer I have. Even my dual PIII 800Mhz box soon bogs down under heavy compression or encryption tasks and the P100's just choke along painfully.:)
This and that stupid map of the Internet that was on/. the other day are more amusing than not. I have gigs of MP3's and various other files that are probably questionable and I certainly haven't seen anyone that shouldn't be there in my iplogs scanning those files. People scp the files from me all the time so it does make me wonder what exactly they are tracking.
I for one learned to program with Linux rather than Windows because all the tools were free under Linux. Is one of the things that first brought me to Linux. I started w/ BASIC and Batch files and quickly got bored of their limited appeal and I certainly couldn't afford M$ tools so I started C w/ some free mini-compilers included with some learn C books and then I figured out that the Unix systems my university had had C compilers on them so I started programming using them. Then I started using my friends Linux boxes that were online to code and finally switched to my own Linux box when my parents were done with our first PC. Then I got into web programming, databases, objects oriented and logic oriented programming and at every turn my Linux box did more for less (for free actually) than Windows could so I've never looked back. If Microsoft wants a chance of keeping Linux from killing them they should make all their developer tools free. Otherwise the smart kids are going to slowly leak out into the Linux world.
Couldn't you do like an MP3 player and rip the carts to files and then have it able to upload those images to flash memory on the unit and thus save a shit load of space and having to carry carts? You don't really even need to have a PC for this. Just give the unit a way to plug into the cart-upload unit and manage the carts you have uploaded w/ some simple interface like the savegame manager on the PSX. It could be quite interesting.
Am I wrong or might not programmers and hardware designers take the new experiences they get from the PS2 and use these experiences to build better next generation engines/libs and hardware? I know whenever I write a program that is different from what I'm used to I learn new things and the experience relates back to everything else I do making me a better programmer in general.
And as the PS2 will still play PS games I have plenty to keep me busy while waiting for all the awesome new PS2 titles to come out. Some of the games already out, or scheduled, look pretty impressive though. Can't wait.:)
I wish Sega, Nintendo, Playstation, etc would work together more though. I'd love to be able to play Mario, Zelda, and Sonic on the PS2.:)
The only way out of this problem in my experience is to remove all the floppy drives from the computers and let users login to their accounts via NFS/NIS or similar technology. If you try going with something non-standard people will bitch and you'll still have various issues. As long as your school offers a way to connect home computers and laptops to the network so that the files are instantly available you shouldn't have any problems. I've seen so many students loose term papers and other critical documents due to floppy disks and shaving on lab computer hdd's. The school officially didn't support restoring these files so unless one of us geeks felt like bending the rules the students were just out of luck. Depending on what happened it can take hours to restore the files. A major pain.:)
Or use your brain and realize Plex86 is still a work-in-progress (and progressing at a rather nice speed) so it isn't meant to compare - yet. VMWare is a fine piece of software, and I use it sometimes when I really need to. But I persoannly don't use commercial software so I don't use VMWare on any of my machines and I wouldn't use Windows either. I am interested in using Linux to boot test copies of other kernels and FreeDOS etc but I don't give a freak about running crap like Windows. All the software I like runs under Linux anyway these days.:)
Does anyone know if there is sucha thing as a fully anonymous smart card that identifies a person uniquely. So I could say scan the card into a computer terminal and buy/sell with the money I have on the card and build something similar to a trust rating (karma points) based on the id I had on the card but there'd be no way to track my identity back to who I was irl from that card even if I had done business with you in person? (ie you'd of course know my id for this transaction which would let you look up information about me as of that transaction but you could not check out any other transactions I'd made or learn anything about me you didn't learn in person).
Dunno. It just seems to me there are benefits of being known and anonymous both so I'd like to be able to do both at the same time. This sounds unlikely but if you think about it you do this when you go to a costume party to some extent. You can become known within the limited confines of the costume but unless you offer your real identity you will again be unknown when you switch costumes (unless you have a lame costume of course). Would this be something like American Expresses's one use credit cards?
Anyone know a good C64 emulator for Linux and where to get ROM's? I have a bunch of C64 games I'd like to be able to play again but my disks are probably all dead by now and years ago I sold off some of my C64 hardware to buy PC parts. Could probably still put together at least one machine that was bootable but it'd be better to run them in an X window.:) I remember this one chess-like strategy game where your pieces were shapeshifters and their properties would change as the game went on. I loved that game. Mmmm and Wishbringer, my original Infocom games, etc.:)
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I have no moral problem with cloning as long as they do it right which obviously takes some scientific experimentation to get to the point where it does work 99% of the time. No other way to become expert at a new technology. But for the couples I don't see why they bother. I'd just adopt. What you put in a kids head does at least as much to shape who they are as your genetics so why risk all kinds of medical problems in your child due to mistakes in the experimental cloning process? Let them perfect it on sheep first. :)
I try to rewrite individual sections to make them easy to reuse should the entire project need to be rewritten. So I can fix just the area I'm fixing now but do it in such a way that will work just as easily if I do get to redesign the whole thing. Eventually everything needs a fix or a new feature so you'll get to gradually redesign. This slow process also gives you time to come to your senses if your doing something weird. :)
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Also I often write my own versions in my spare work time or in my own time and make my own version. Then you can compare the two versions and if yours is better offer it to your boss to try. If he doesn't want it then keep it for later, he may want it eventually or you can reuse parts. If you wrote it in your spare time then you can make it opensource and/or sell it yourself.
Exactly right. Don't get me wrong I do think promotion on who's been loyal to the company longest can be a good system but only provided they have equal skills for the job.
I'd say a college degree now has no real value. The only difference is who has parents that can afford to send them to college and who can't. I personally can do circles around a lot of friends with college degrees even though I haven't one. The push for everyone to need to go to college has already been made so we may as well make it so everyone can go to college. I also think we need third party certifications to get a college degree - the school teaching you should not be able to just give you a degree or claim you have a degree in such and such unless you pass the same certifications every other student in the country has to pass. Just because you give everyone a fair chance to go to college doesn't mean you have to promise they'll pass. The military already gives most people the chance to go to college but it really leaves out those of us who don't believe in violence or have to many responsibilities to dedicate anymore of our time. This would just be shifting the costs onto companies rather than the military (they could still offer their own programs) and giving the rest of us the same chance. Myself I have no complaints as I'm doing pretty well for myself but I think the road would have been easier with a degree and I know many friends that really need the degree. I won't argue that our K-12 needs major work too though. In poor areas (such as where I lived) the schools were nasty/old, the textbooks outdated, etc.
Unions are horrible things. They only make sense for people to stupid and unimaginative to know they can walk away from a job and join a competing company or start their own company if they don't like where they are. I remember my father working years going to night school after work so that he could progress in the world. Finally after a decade or more of special school and training he got a promotion to a job that was much better and paid better. The union sued him and the company and won. He was forced to train someone (without extra pay for doing so) else at the job when they had no prior experience in that field and honestly really couldn't do the job. That person got to take the job while my father was forced to go back to being a grunt worker. The company still arranged so he ended up doing most the work for that position but he couldn't get the promotion or the raise because the union always complained whenever he tried. To top it off the union often strikes forcing him and others who just want to make a living from being able to so that some idiots can fight over if they get 7 or 8 vacation days a year. Luckily now that his kids are moved out and he doesn't have so many responsibilities he is looking for a better job but it was enough to teach me my lesson. I've quit jobs before for organizing and I'd do it again. If I don't like where I'm at I can easily find a new job.
I'd somewhat agree but I think it's important to provide oppurtunities. The whole thing about being able to open the door but not being able to push them through. I don't know if I'd put the computers in schools to be used for lame ass stuff like most public schools choose though. Outreach centers would probably be more effective. If all books were in school libraries many people couldn't access them afterall. I also think college should be free (I suggest being paid for by taxing businesses based on number of college graduated employees) as long as it is required to get a job better than working at Burger King or Blockbuster. Luckily as a geek I didn't really need college tog et a decent job but it would have helped and would help people enter professions with more strict requirements (like medicine).
Could be smart and write a small helper-application that is completely open sourced and then use that application to do what you like. Given the likely uses of SSH I doubt anyone would be pissed if you wrote a program to simplify tunneling protocols (even more) that was opensourced and then just passed your data to that in the background. It's no different than a commercial program that runs a bash shell script to do something so it should be okay. If the program happens to be tuned for what you need then oh well - if it's opensource and useful others will tune it to their needs too.
Who cares about revenge or remorse as long as you get the desired outcome? We don't want to scare companies away from using GPL'd code, we only want to make them return their changes. Now if they do it again we bust their kneecaps and take crowbars to their car windows.. :)
I doubt there are any good arguments for your side. The best I've seen might have been Metallica's response here on Slashdot but that might not be exactly what you want.
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*shrugs* Anyone who says they don't break laws is either a liar or stupid. Look at all the dumb laws still on the books from way back when. Look how many people speed just a little or run a yellow light as the situation is useful to them. Surely breaking basic saftey laws like those are much more dangerous that people who share MP3's. I agree that the ebst place to win the battle is to change copyright laws but honestly big businesses control the government to well for us to easily fight back and the big media companies control what goes into the average persons mind to well to wage a public relations war. Let them fight the criminals in court and not remove whole categories of technology just because they have the ability to be abused. There are some points you can argue.
XHTML is easy to generate and work with from an object oriented structure so I'd have to give it my thumbs up. Recently been experimenting with how to render XHTML into Postscript (for local printing) and rendering into Latex would be interesting also. Know of any really good books on xhtml? Most of the ones I've seen were to technical to be useful to the average developer.
I think these lists combined together include about every thing I care about except flexible schedules and vacation times. Also I feel I'm friends with everyone in the company to some extent so I'd not be likely to want to move somewhere I don't know anybody just for a little extra cash. I'm very pleased with my job currently even if the pay isn't that great yet. I'm willing to wait for the company to grow before I make a lot more $.
This is one reason why I never host my web sites on my ISP. That and I can run PHP and SQL in my backend with whatever extensions etc I need on my own computer. I know an ISP that lost 50,000 commercial web-hosting customer accounts because a key harddrive crashed and they only backed up once every 6 months. This for a cost of hundreds of dollars per account per month!
IMO ISPs have no business deleting a users files without warning. It'd be reasonable to move them out of the html tree and send a notice that they'll delete the files in a week but to just destroy data, even seemingly useless data like MP3's, could destroy years of work in some cases. ISPs also tend to make it against their TOS to run personal servers which is impossible to comply with as every second rate program opens services up. If you've used ICQ or a similar program you're guilty of breaking your TOS most likely. Luckily most ISPs don't pull your account unless they feel you're a security risk, your eatting to much bandwidth, or your a commercial server so we're probably safe.
I've also seen ISPs with TOS that said you had to use Wintel. I'm sure a lot of people on here would be rbeaking that lil rule. If you wouldn't like your service disconnected for running non-Wintel then don't claim that anyone that breaks their TOS deserves what they get. I understand ISPs have to cover their ass but some of their TOS's are just unfair and often users have little in the way of alternatives.
People won't take the IP protection crap and once it leaves the protected lands for the real world they'll rip it to bits.
The idea of content objects with unique ID's isn't at all new but is a good one. I always liked the idea of using encryption signatures as the keys. give it sig for itself and one for it's owner and build a simple search engine mechanism into the Net itself and you have a nice lil system. An important note might be that such a system does not need to, and possibly should not, replace TCP/IP or even rely on TCP/IP as it's only supported carrier. It should be as agnostic about transports as possible for the most flexibility.
Jabber might be a good start for this layer since it is a very flexible system for transporting XML-ized content and contact-type information. I really expect something like this to assimilate the web in a couple years. Maybe Jabber merged w/ FreeNet.
Someone who doesn't know the resource they want could search for it by known facts just as they do now at Yahoo, Google, etc.. once they find it they could store the objects unique id and then every time they needed that object again they could ask the net for it and the closest copy found would be returned.
As an advanced user I'd rank them:
KDE/Gnome
Max OS X
BeOS
Other recent Mac OS's
Win 95 w/ Internet
Win 95/98/NT
DOS/Win 3.x
I see average semi computer literate sit down and use all of the above on a frequent basis so I'd say they are all fairly usable.
KDE is the better UI for recent converts to Linux I think but Gnome is better for die hard geeks (not that it's non-appropiate to non-geeks, it's just more flexible and less Win/Mac like). I update my versions of each nightly and both are very good and improving quickly. Part of KDE/Gnome's strength comes from their Linux-basis which lets me mingle GUI and CLI as needed so I can apply whatever is most effective to solve the given job. OS X is a large improvement in this area but still isn't as good at it as Linux/KDE/Gnome. Windows trails heavily in this area as do older MacOS and even BeOS. KDE/Gnome really need some standard on how icons and menus are laid out by default. Going between distributions can be annoying and confussing even to advanced users. Helix Gnome solves this problem nicely. KDE needs something similar.
OS X and BeOS both have their strong points but lack the growth rates and flexibilty of KDE/Gnome and the resource Windows has backing it. Despite this I like using both on occassion.
MacOS in general is pretty good though I'd argue with anyone that says it is the crown of GUI's. Somethings about it are just confussing by nature and it's over-simplification gets in the way of serious work.
Win95 w/ Internet Explorer had some nifty features and was really easy to setup desktop features. However it was fairly unstable and when IE or Windows crashed it tended to bring thw whole thing down.
Other versions of Windows before and after Win95/IE have some serious problems with usability and being plastered in so many logos and over-simplified crap that they are a serious problem to anyone trying to do real work. The fact that some buttons/options still don't have online help, but often offer it anyway, still irks me.
DOS/Win 3.x were fairly good. In some ways they were better than current versions of Windows. I think the only real failure was the trouble of setting up Internet access. This of course is due to the lack of the Internet when they were designed.
Now I'm not saying which is best for total clueless newbies but for anyone who has been working on any of the above for a while, already has it set up, and just wants to get their work done this is how I'd order things.
Very true. I've noticed when I say anything everyone will agree with my karma goes up but if I an express an opinion outside the flock my karma goes down. It doesn't matter how valid or invalid my posts are. I've always wondered if it was just me or if everyone is moderated that way.
Also it seems people near the top of the list get moderated a lot more than the people further down, especially for positive points. Would be interesting to see what solutions there could be for that problem.
Mozilla is not like Netscape 6. Anyone that says it is obviously do not follow it very closely. Very few things, none that I can think of but I'm sure some are there, take you to nasty Netscape/AOL banners and it is much more stable, speedy, and full of features. A lot of the developers of Mozilla do of course work for Netscape but many also do not and as time goes on more people get involved around the edges and even now and then deep into the core.
I guess my only point is to not tie Mozilla in with the Netscape crowd. The first is made by many fine engineers and the later by many fine engineers forced to add stupid crap by stupid managers. At this point even if Netscape stopped supporting Mozilla it'd doubtlessly stay alive. Some of the Netscape engineers would still work on it in their own time and other companies would be bound to try to take over. I'd most like to see a Linus like leader emerge from the non-commercial ranks but that has yet to be seen. All we can do is watch and see.
I'd rather have a Linux-based firewall built into my cable modem or whatever other means my network is connecting the the Net. It'd just simplify the number of devices chained together for me.
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What I'd really like as a PCI card capable of doing encryption for standard things like SSL and PGP (GPG for me actually) so it wouldn't hit my CPU so hard serving https pages etc. gzip/bzip/etc compression would be another dandy thing to build into the card. If they could fit several such functions onto a single PCI card for a decent price I'd probably add one to every computer I have. Even my dual PIII 800Mhz box soon bogs down under heavy compression or encryption tasks and the P100's just choke along painfully.
This and that stupid map of the Internet that was on /. the other day are more amusing than not. I have gigs of MP3's and various other files that are probably questionable and I certainly haven't seen anyone that shouldn't be there in my iplogs scanning those files. People scp the files from me all the time so it does make me wonder what exactly they are tracking.
I for one learned to program with Linux rather than Windows because all the tools were free under Linux. Is one of the things that first brought me to Linux. I started w/ BASIC and Batch files and quickly got bored of their limited appeal and I certainly couldn't afford M$ tools so I started C w/ some free mini-compilers included with some learn C books and then I figured out that the Unix systems my university had had C compilers on them so I started programming using them. Then I started using my friends Linux boxes that were online to code and finally switched to my own Linux box when my parents were done with our first PC. Then I got into web programming, databases, objects oriented and logic oriented programming and at every turn my Linux box did more for less (for free actually) than Windows could so I've never looked back. If Microsoft wants a chance of keeping Linux from killing them they should make all their developer tools free. Otherwise the smart kids are going to slowly leak out into the Linux world.
Couldn't you do like an MP3 player and rip the carts to files and then have it able to upload those images to flash memory on the unit and thus save a shit load of space and having to carry carts? You don't really even need to have a PC for this. Just give the unit a way to plug into the cart-upload unit and manage the carts you have uploaded w/ some simple interface like the savegame manager on the PSX. It could be quite interesting.
Am I wrong or might not programmers and hardware designers take the new experiences they get from the PS2 and use these experiences to build better next generation engines/libs and hardware? I know whenever I write a program that is different from what I'm used to I learn new things and the experience relates back to everything else I do making me a better programmer in general.
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And as the PS2 will still play PS games I have plenty to keep me busy while waiting for all the awesome new PS2 titles to come out. Some of the games already out, or scheduled, look pretty impressive though. Can't wait.
I wish Sega, Nintendo, Playstation, etc would work together more though. I'd love to be able to play Mario, Zelda, and Sonic on the PS2.
The only way out of this problem in my experience is to remove all the floppy drives from the computers and let users login to their accounts via NFS/NIS or similar technology. If you try going with something non-standard people will bitch and you'll still have various issues. As long as your school offers a way to connect home computers and laptops to the network so that the files are instantly available you shouldn't have any problems. I've seen so many students loose term papers and other critical documents due to floppy disks and shaving on lab computer hdd's. The school officially didn't support restoring these files so unless one of us geeks felt like bending the rules the students were just out of luck. Depending on what happened it can take hours to restore the files. A major pain. :)
Or use your brain and realize Plex86 is still a work-in-progress (and progressing at a rather nice speed) so it isn't meant to compare - yet. VMWare is a fine piece of software, and I use it sometimes when I really need to. But I persoannly don't use commercial software so I don't use VMWare on any of my machines and I wouldn't use Windows either. I am interested in using Linux to boot test copies of other kernels and FreeDOS etc but I don't give a freak about running crap like Windows. All the software I like runs under Linux anyway these days. :)
Does anyone know if there is sucha thing as a fully anonymous smart card that identifies a person uniquely. So I could say scan the card into a computer terminal and buy/sell with the money I have on the card and build something similar to a trust rating (karma points) based on the id I had on the card but there'd be no way to track my identity back to who I was irl from that card even if I had done business with you in person? (ie you'd of course know my id for this transaction which would let you look up information about me as of that transaction but you could not check out any other transactions I'd made or learn anything about me you didn't learn in person).
Dunno. It just seems to me there are benefits of being known and anonymous both so I'd like to be able to do both at the same time. This sounds unlikely but if you think about it you do this when you go to a costume party to some extent. You can become known within the limited confines of the costume but unless you offer your real identity you will again be unknown when you switch costumes (unless you have a lame costume of course). Would this be something like American Expresses's one use credit cards?
Anyone know a good C64 emulator for Linux and where to get ROM's? I have a bunch of C64 games I'd like to be able to play again but my disks are probably all dead by now and years ago I sold off some of my C64 hardware to buy PC parts. Could probably still put together at least one machine that was bootable but it'd be better to run them in an X window. :) I remember this one chess-like strategy game where your pieces were shapeshifters and their properties would change as the game went on. I loved that game. Mmmm and Wishbringer, my original Infocom games, etc. :)