Remember that lameass movie Tremors 2. I think Microsoft is hearing the speaker for the trailers..
"Evolution - It's a bitch."
Linux evolves faster and better than closed source companies can engineer. Think they are feeling the tremors of change as all those penguin feet shake the ground?:)
knew she'd be back after SouthPark. Spare me the pain. Next thing you know Bill Gates will buy some small 3rd world country and force it's inhabitants to use Windows and come work for Microsoft. spooky!
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I really don't care if Every claims Unix isn't an OS (sounds like a damn fool but he is free to say it.. certainly doesn't hurt me) but then do I get to claim that Windows is a virus (because it spreads to almsot every PC and crashes it) and MacOS is frosting on a cowpie (Mac's crash almost as often as Windows.. MacOS X does look sweet though.)??? Hrm or that Amiga is the ghost of Christmas past? Silly terms for things we may or may not like are easy to come up with and evidently keep people like Every getting paid. I don't mind as long as the money doesn't put his children through school as computer science students. I'd hate to see their warped idea of what a CPU is. "If it don't have a cable modem, video card, hard drive, and DVD drive it ain't a CPU!"
My baby design is a almost solid metal sphere w/ no external moving parts except for now and then when it shoots one of it's weapons out to attack. I was considering an accelerated spike that'd been ultra-heated. A drill might be kewl too. The benefit of a sphere is it's so solid, nothing to break off and it's stresses all equalize well. Also it's always upright because it has no top or bottom. A shame they don't allow bots to fly or anything awesome like that.
But I wanted a quad! Really though, if they can do a dual how hard is it for them to add more processors? Anyone know? Would the Linux kernel currently handle SMP w/ AMD or do we hafta wait for an updated kernel?
I've had a lot of those shitty jobs and I'm glad to say I finally found a job that is great. I'll probably work here until I save up enough $$$ to start my own company. Between some of the places I've had to work and here I've seen the best and worst of the tech workplace and I know I work harder for this company than for companies that I couldn't stand getting up and going to in the morning.
I'd say if you have a shitty job and your a geek then look for a new job and switch. Keep switching til you find a job you like. If a company can't keep workers they'll either eventually get the message or go out of business. Remember Real Genius -- When you're smart people need you.:)
uhh do they think this would work?
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I don't think this would work. I'd switch carrier for my e-store. If the Net as a whole goes this way I'll join whatever group branches off a 'free' net (generic term, not the software) and just ignore greedy corporate munks like AT&T. As a user of @Home cable modems I'd be really pissed to find out they were doing this to e-stores I used. It'd drive prices up for me.
I'd be able to build robots w/ titanium bodies. It's to expensive for me now. I always wanted to try being in one of those robot battle shows. Not one with remote controls but with AI bots. That'd kick ass.
Ever thrashed a titanium computer? I've seen people popping shots at them from elss than 6 inches (with a shotgun) and lil more than messing up the paint job. Was awesome. Wish they still made those machines. I want a titanium cased laptop now though.:)
Try getting a job at your school. A lot of professors as well as various labs etc tend to look for people to admin their Unix/Linux systems without using up all their grant money. You wouldn't make as much but you'll get to grind your teeth on a lot Unix.:)
Waiting for this movie is right up there on my list w/ the new Star Wars and Matrix movies. 2001 may be a great year for movies much like 1999 was. 2000 has mostly sucked.:)
I've always thought metered plans were stupid. For $40/month I get both a speedy cable modem connection and cable tv. My phone bill was costing me, before I cancled my phone, $50 a month (using a free Internet account I had at the University) and I don't use long-distance. The crap I was getting with the phone was random charges added on overtime for stupid things I didn't even use. That is what metered access gets you. Even if you opt out of long-distance you still pay taxes for it. With my cell-phone I pay $30/month flat fee and get more minutes than I'm likely to ever use, get caller id, voice mail, etc plus the benefit of being able to carry it with me. Oh yeh and free long-distance should I ever want it. If they start metering or taxing the Internet I'm sure myself and others will break away and make our own Internet that is free of government hassles. What they can tax they can track. I don't want any eyes watching me 24/7. The idea of charging for emails sent has always made me laugh. In the days before the Internet where they actually did charge for email I never used it. Now if they tried to charge I'd have to wonder how they'd record my Linux box sending messages. If they decided to monitor and tax just those packets people would simply change protocols. Silly wabbits.
Look at stability and total cost of ownership as well. In my experience NT/IIS go down far more often. Also if they cost you several hundred $'s on top of the price of the hardware you could run that much better hardware w/ Linux/Apache. Kernel versions, driver support for the chosen hardware, filesystems chosen, etc can all play a role in how many hits a machine can take. I'll tell you my favorite test.. pull the plug in the middle of heavy transactions from both machines and plug them back in and see which comes up quickest with least loss of data. Gotta love ReiserFS.:) You also have several alternative webserver choices for Linux is you want speed more than the other features of Apache. *shrugs* I'd never use NT for anything mission critical. To much experience with those issues.;>
3D enviroments, including on the web, won't catch on until they are simple enough for anyone to setup (with a lil work). The first person that stops using geometry modeling and switches to a physics model that can be programmed w/ half a dozen options and selecting default rooms and avatars (which could be modified) from a library and then gives it all a ICQ-like interface will probably find themself very rich. VR-online has been clunky ever since they started trying to switch from text to graphic interfaces. If the world seems paper thin or the controls are hard to use people won't like it even if it wasn't a huge download for them. When 3D websites work as well as Quake then you'll have more people trying it.
Does anyone have any comments on how MacOS X compares to BeOS (one of the alternative OS's that tried for OS X's spot)? I have yet to try OS X but it sounds a lot like BeOS. IMO BeOS is a great OS but unless opensourced will never have a chance of becoming more than a niche player. OS X may be able to do more since it has Apple behind it but they are also a couple years behind BeOS in real-world despazzing. I'll stick to Linux probably.:)
Why put any limit on the number of tld's? If a company or organization or whatever is willing to sponsor a tld and act as the database for looking up tld addresses etc then why not let them? Just make it so one company can't own more than one tld.
Watching the third party debates on tv the other day and then clips from Bore and Gush.. err Gore and Bush.. I think I've decided at least I won't vote for any Democrat or Republican.
If you really want to get rid of stupid government programs then vote Libertarian. They sound like they want to just Nix everything off the list. It's a good plan for getting oneself killed as a newly elected President but other than that it'd get rid of such programs as the NSA and woo even the INS. If there is no INS then it's way to hard to keep people out of our country so you have pretty much open borders.
The USA is a much bigger place. Also a lot of Americans take jobs in foreign countries so the flux is always going on. Open borders make it easier for foreigners to live here and us to live there. Ever been to the midwest? There is plenty of space. I think we should let anyone that isn't a criminal and doesn't have a serious transmitable disease (except for medical care) into this country. Sure we may have to bite the bullet for one generation (worst case) but if our schools are decent then their children will grow up and contribute new ideas and new culture into our country and keep it fresh and alive. Making one person better than another based on where they were born is no better than by gender, race, religion, or sexual orientation.
My highest rent ever was in KC ($1000/month for a shitty apt) and the money wasn't that good. Miami, FL was a pretty good balance (rent $800/month for a nice apt) and I may move back there sometime if a find a job I like there. Right now I live in Columbia, MO (rend is $360/month for decent apt) and I make around $25,000/yr so it isn't horrible. It does make it rather hard to save $ up if I wanted to move to either coast again though. Ideally I'd like to live in the mid-west and get contract work on the coasts.
I usda do some SmallTalk but these days I do mostly PHP as it is more appropiate for web dev which is part of what I'm currently doing. Don't see many places using SmallTalk. I think there are more programmers w/ experience out there than you may realize though. It just isn't a language people usually bother putting on their resume since so few employers know what it is.
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I'd agree. Intel, AMD, etc work on getting the resolution down and making it cheaper to produce the chips and make their profits off of it during the process and then sell the production units to others and turn into raw materials and blueprint providers. It could happen. Woo the future of Tech companies is in mining. Let me call my broker!:)
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Well I suppose I could have worded it better but I didn't think anyone would care exactly how I worded it. I guess I could have said "As the article said this is an advanced step in a long process towards the goal of home fabrication of 3D objects from a descriptor file. As I remember the last time I heard about this was several years ago when Newsweek had an article on the process of printing 3D objects in plastics." Whew.. that's sort of spammy.;>
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Uhh exactly. Duh. I was agreeing that I remember seeing it. I always wonder about people who think every post has to be brilliant. It is only a message board guys. Don't take it so seriously. Only brilliant posts earn karma but that doesn't mean I can't just be chatty in hopes that someone else remembers the same thing. I found the article interesting and in fact did read it before posting. Go spank the people typing 'First Post!!!'.:)
So if I can download a computer and print it out that means we can swap computer plans on Techster (Napster for components you spaz) and never hafta pay some shmuck for the computer. Or even better we can make an entirely GPL'd computer. We're getting into nanotech-age issues here. How do you think laws such as the DMCA will effect us now?
I remember seeing something very similar several years ago that printed 3D objects using plastics. I think I saw it in Newsweek or something way back when.:)
Why not have them opensource all the parts of OS/2 that they legally can do so and the entire API so that Linux can be made to run OS/2 programs the way it is trying to do for Windows with Wine. Of course code from the GUI engine could move towards merging w/ X and/or forming an alternative GUI for Linux.. mmmm OS/2 Tux.. finally a new version of OS/2.:)
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Remember that lameass movie Tremors 2. I think Microsoft is hearing the speaker for the trailers..
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"Evolution - It's a bitch."
Linux evolves faster and better than closed source companies can engineer. Think they are feeling the tremors of change as all those penguin feet shake the ground?
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knew she'd be back after SouthPark. Spare me the pain. Next thing you know Bill Gates will buy some small 3rd world country and force it's inhabitants to use Windows and come work for Microsoft. spooky!
I really don't care if Every claims Unix isn't an OS (sounds like a damn fool but he is free to say it.. certainly doesn't hurt me) but then do I get to claim that Windows is a virus (because it spreads to almsot every PC and crashes it) and MacOS is frosting on a cowpie (Mac's crash almost as often as Windows.. MacOS X does look sweet though.)??? Hrm or that Amiga is the ghost of Christmas past? Silly terms for things we may or may not like are easy to come up with and evidently keep people like Every getting paid. I don't mind as long as the money doesn't put his children through school as computer science students. I'd hate to see their warped idea of what a CPU is. "If it don't have a cable modem, video card, hard drive, and DVD drive it ain't a CPU!"
My baby design is a almost solid metal sphere w/ no external moving parts except for now and then when it shoots one of it's weapons out to attack. I was considering an accelerated spike that'd been ultra-heated. A drill might be kewl too. The benefit of a sphere is it's so solid, nothing to break off and it's stresses all equalize well. Also it's always upright because it has no top or bottom. A shame they don't allow bots to fly or anything awesome like that.
But I wanted a quad! Really though, if they can do a dual how hard is it for them to add more processors? Anyone know? Would the Linux kernel currently handle SMP w/ AMD or do we hafta wait for an updated kernel?
I've had a lot of those shitty jobs and I'm glad to say I finally found a job that is great. I'll probably work here until I save up enough $$$ to start my own company. Between some of the places I've had to work and here I've seen the best and worst of the tech workplace and I know I work harder for this company than for companies that I couldn't stand getting up and going to in the morning.
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I'd say if you have a shitty job and your a geek then look for a new job and switch. Keep switching til you find a job you like. If a company can't keep workers they'll either eventually get the message or go out of business. Remember Real Genius -- When you're smart people need you.
I don't think this would work. I'd switch carrier for my e-store. If the Net as a whole goes this way I'll join whatever group branches off a 'free' net (generic term, not the software) and just ignore greedy corporate munks like AT&T. As a user of @Home cable modems I'd be really pissed to find out they were doing this to e-stores I used. It'd drive prices up for me.
I'd be able to build robots w/ titanium bodies. It's to expensive for me now. I always wanted to try being in one of those robot battle shows. Not one with remote controls but with AI bots. That'd kick ass.
Ever thrashed a titanium computer? I've seen people popping shots at them from elss than 6 inches (with a shotgun) and lil more than messing up the paint job. Was awesome. Wish they still made those machines. I want a titanium cased laptop now though. :)
Try getting a job at your school. A lot of professors as well as various labs etc tend to look for people to admin their Unix/Linux systems without using up all their grant money. You wouldn't make as much but you'll get to grind your teeth on a lot Unix. :)
Web firms also tend to need Unix perople.
Waiting for this movie is right up there on my list w/ the new Star Wars and Matrix movies. 2001 may be a great year for movies much like 1999 was. 2000 has mostly sucked. :)
I've always thought metered plans were stupid. For $40/month I get both a speedy cable modem connection and cable tv. My phone bill was costing me, before I cancled my phone, $50 a month (using a free Internet account I had at the University) and I don't use long-distance. The crap I was getting with the phone was random charges added on overtime for stupid things I didn't even use. That is what metered access gets you. Even if you opt out of long-distance you still pay taxes for it. With my cell-phone I pay $30/month flat fee and get more minutes than I'm likely to ever use, get caller id, voice mail, etc plus the benefit of being able to carry it with me. Oh yeh and free long-distance should I ever want it. If they start metering or taxing the Internet I'm sure myself and others will break away and make our own Internet that is free of government hassles. What they can tax they can track. I don't want any eyes watching me 24/7. The idea of charging for emails sent has always made me laugh. In the days before the Internet where they actually did charge for email I never used it. Now if they tried to charge I'd have to wonder how they'd record my Linux box sending messages. If they decided to monitor and tax just those packets people would simply change protocols. Silly wabbits.
Look at stability and total cost of ownership as well. In my experience NT/IIS go down far more often. Also if they cost you several hundred $'s on top of the price of the hardware you could run that much better hardware w/ Linux/Apache. Kernel versions, driver support for the chosen hardware, filesystems chosen, etc can all play a role in how many hits a machine can take. I'll tell you my favorite test.. pull the plug in the middle of heavy transactions from both machines and plug them back in and see which comes up quickest with least loss of data. Gotta love ReiserFS. :) You also have several alternative webserver choices for Linux is you want speed more than the other features of Apache. *shrugs* I'd never use NT for anything mission critical. To much experience with those issues. ;>
3D enviroments, including on the web, won't catch on until they are simple enough for anyone to setup (with a lil work). The first person that stops using geometry modeling and switches to a physics model that can be programmed w/ half a dozen options and selecting default rooms and avatars (which could be modified) from a library and then gives it all a ICQ-like interface will probably find themself very rich. VR-online has been clunky ever since they started trying to switch from text to graphic interfaces. If the world seems paper thin or the controls are hard to use people won't like it even if it wasn't a huge download for them. When 3D websites work as well as Quake then you'll have more people trying it.
Does anyone have any comments on how MacOS X compares to BeOS (one of the alternative OS's that tried for OS X's spot)? I have yet to try OS X but it sounds a lot like BeOS. IMO BeOS is a great OS but unless opensourced will never have a chance of becoming more than a niche player. OS X may be able to do more since it has Apple behind it but they are also a couple years behind BeOS in real-world despazzing. I'll stick to Linux probably. :)
Why put any limit on the number of tld's? If a company or organization or whatever is willing to sponsor a tld and act as the database for looking up tld addresses etc then why not let them? Just make it so one company can't own more than one tld.
Watching the third party debates on tv the other day and then clips from Bore and Gush.. err Gore and Bush.. I think I've decided at least I won't vote for any Democrat or Republican.
If you really want to get rid of stupid government programs then vote Libertarian. They sound like they want to just Nix everything off the list. It's a good plan for getting oneself killed as a newly elected President but other than that it'd get rid of such programs as the NSA and woo even the INS. If there is no INS then it's way to hard to keep people out of our country so you have pretty much open borders.
The USA is a much bigger place. Also a lot of Americans take jobs in foreign countries so the flux is always going on. Open borders make it easier for foreigners to live here and us to live there. Ever been to the midwest? There is plenty of space. I think we should let anyone that isn't a criminal and doesn't have a serious transmitable disease (except for medical care) into this country. Sure we may have to bite the bullet for one generation (worst case) but if our schools are decent then their children will grow up and contribute new ideas and new culture into our country and keep it fresh and alive. Making one person better than another based on where they were born is no better than by gender, race, religion, or sexual orientation.
My highest rent ever was in KC ($1000/month for a shitty apt) and the money wasn't that good. Miami, FL was a pretty good balance (rent $800/month for a nice apt) and I may move back there sometime if a find a job I like there. Right now I live in Columbia, MO (rend is $360/month for decent apt) and I make around $25,000/yr so it isn't horrible. It does make it rather hard to save $ up if I wanted to move to either coast again though. Ideally I'd like to live in the mid-west and get contract work on the coasts.
I usda do some SmallTalk but these days I do mostly PHP as it is more appropiate for web dev which is part of what I'm currently doing. Don't see many places using SmallTalk. I think there are more programmers w/ experience out there than you may realize though. It just isn't a language people usually bother putting on their resume since so few employers know what it is.
I'd agree. Intel, AMD, etc work on getting the resolution down and making it cheaper to produce the chips and make their profits off of it during the process and then sell the production units to others and turn into raw materials and blueprint providers. It could happen. Woo the future of Tech companies is in mining. Let me call my broker! :)
Well I suppose I could have worded it better but I didn't think anyone would care exactly how I worded it. I guess I could have said "As the article said this is an advanced step in a long process towards the goal of home fabrication of 3D objects from a descriptor file. As I remember the last time I heard about this was several years ago when Newsweek had an article on the process of printing 3D objects in plastics." Whew.. that's sort of spammy. ;>
Uhh exactly. Duh. I was agreeing that I remember seeing it. I always wonder about people who think every post has to be brilliant. It is only a message board guys. Don't take it so seriously. Only brilliant posts earn karma but that doesn't mean I can't just be chatty in hopes that someone else remembers the same thing. I found the article interesting and in fact did read it before posting. Go spank the people typing 'First Post!!!'. :)
So if I can download a computer and print it out that means we can swap computer plans on Techster (Napster for components you spaz) and never hafta pay some shmuck for the computer. Or even better we can make an entirely GPL'd computer. We're getting into nanotech-age issues here. How do you think laws such as the DMCA will effect us now?
I remember seeing something very similar several years ago that printed 3D objects using plastics. I think I saw it in Newsweek or something way back when. :)
Why not have them opensource all the parts of OS/2 that they legally can do so and the entire API so that Linux can be made to run OS/2 programs the way it is trying to do for Windows with Wine. Of course code from the GUI engine could move towards merging w/ X and/or forming an alternative GUI for Linux.. mmmm OS/2 Tux.. finally a new version of OS/2. :)