as all analog based media are being converted to digital format exactly for the sake of preservation, this disseration sounds like a total bullshit to me. but then of course there are still people who claim that LPs have a greater dynamic range than CDs, so this whole 'analog vs digital' is not technical but a religious issue.
so what's wrong if someone causes the downfall of music industry?
May be after it happens, we can finally can listen a real music, not the one prepared for us by 'music industry'.
we need EMACS for GTK/GNOME ...
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like fish needs an umbrella. EMACS has its own - albeit - very simple - GUI interface, and that's sufficient enough. If you want all the bells and whistles, use XEMACS.
not sure about Zimmerman, but here is a brief list of those who should be overwhelmed with a feeling of guilt:
1. Those responsible for making the american foreign policy. Seems like we are fighting with monsters we've created in a first place (bin Laden and Saddam Hussein). Clearly this policy has no long-term strategic goals.
2. CIA and FBI. I'm not going to comment a lot on this item.
3. Those responsible for Airtravel security. Airport facilities at Logan are complitely inadequate. Apparently the rules of engagements with hijackers aren't adequate either. What amazes me is that the possibility of such events was considered a long time ago, and yet the old outdated rules were kept in place.
Now suddenly cryptography and Zimmerman are scapegoats. Give me a break.
I bet 'religion' should be part of the mandatory ID card. The appropriate points will be given to each religion. Atheists will get 0 points. The less points the more security risk.
As long as there is an issue of compatibility with MS, all non-MS word-processing packages will be inferior (by definition, if you wish). We need to define some open word-processing and spreadsheet standards and start relying on them. I know it is a chicken and an egg situation, but you have to start somewhere, haven't you? Semething HTML-based probably. So format compatibility should never be an issue. Only GUI, how user friendly is this.
(personally I got tired of fighting with WYSIWYG type of software, so I'm learning LATEX which appears more to my liking)
Let me elaborate on this point - as a former VM programmer. Mainframes are certainly not designed for number crunching or graphics. what they are good for is a mix of data intensive and cpu intensive load. mainframe architecture is such that all data-related activites are completely offloaded into the 'channels'. so once data transfer is requested, cpu simply sends the command SIO (start io) to channel and does something else while data are being moved. Now most of the commercial application do give such a mix of data intensive and cpu intensive load, so mainframe is alive and kicking.
On a related note, VM overhead is minimal (most of the logic is in a microcode) so overhead from runing VM and switching from one virtual machine (with a single copy of Linux) to another one is also trivial.
I've got IBM T20 which worked fine and then suddenly died on me. Then support told me they had the WHOLE BATCH of T20s with defected motherboards. Just imagine that! Got a replacement, and it rocks. Literally rocks. I just love this box. As of now I"m runing Win2000 but will be putting SUSE soon as well. The bottom line - don't give up on IBM.
once I was working on network performance monitor (written in C). Once I had a 'basic proof of concept' (quick and dirty, but mostly functional), I've told the interested parties I would have to re-write it so it would be modular, easy to read and understand and of course easy to debug. To my surprise those jerks gave me a hard time (noone gives a shit about your 'aesthetical feelings'). Well I did make some minimal changes and left the company soon after that. Hope someone is still struggling maintaining the code. The bottom line is that 'inner beauty' of any software is not a luxory item.
On a subject of Mozilla (how to deal with pop-ups)
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since we are on a subject of Mozilla: I've tried 0.93 on Win98, and just loved it. But - there is a problem. How to deal with pop-ups? I am using Pow! which works great with both IE and Netscape, but it is not compatible with Mozilla. I've found some threads on 'how nice would it be to be able to control javascripts from Mozilla', but that's about it. Pop-ups are getting more and more obnoxious and so - very unfortunately - I had to revert back to IE.
TIA.
A cable-based network is similar to a shared ethernet. Multiple shared segments (that is users coming to the same headend device) used to be called NAN (neighborhood area network), don't know how it's called now. In any case, if overprovisioned, you effective speed may become very low and in a worst case practically come to the standstill, again, just like on shared ethernet.
Don't see any problems with high cost
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There is enough super-rich idiots who don't know how to spend their money. Next, just think about it: 'EXPERIENCE LOW-GRAVITY SEX'. A major tourist attraction.
I always connect to INTERNET from my work, and we have DS3, but connection is so shitty (thanks to AT&T, a premier Internet Service Provider) that for all downloads I indicate dial-in 56K. Otherwise I get congestion, rebuffering and other shit.
when a tension arises in a group of bonobos, it is normally resolved by having a group sex. I wish GNOME developers would have followed this fine example.
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as all analog based media are being converted to digital format exactly for the sake of preservation, this disseration sounds like a total bullshit to me. but then of course there are still people who claim that LPs have a greater dynamic range than CDs, so this whole 'analog vs digital' is not technical but a religious issue.
so what's wrong if someone causes the downfall of music industry?
May be after it happens, we can finally can listen a real music, not the one prepared for us by 'music industry'.
like fish needs an umbrella. EMACS has its own - albeit - very simple - GUI interface, and that's sufficient enough. If you want all the bells and whistles, use XEMACS.
not sure about Zimmerman, but here is a brief list of those who should be overwhelmed with a feeling of guilt:
1. Those responsible for making the american foreign policy. Seems like we are fighting with monsters we've created in a first place (bin Laden and Saddam Hussein). Clearly this policy has no long-term strategic goals.
2. CIA and FBI. I'm not going to comment a lot on this item.
3. Those responsible for Airtravel security. Airport facilities at Logan are complitely inadequate. Apparently the rules of engagements with hijackers aren't adequate either. What amazes me is that the possibility of such events was considered a long time ago, and yet the old outdated rules were kept in place.
Now suddenly cryptography and Zimmerman are scapegoats. Give me a break.
what'd ya mean 'beast'? It is 560 processors short of being one.
I bet 'religion' should be part of the mandatory ID card. The appropriate points will be given to each religion. Atheists will get 0 points. The less points the more security risk.
ever since I saw 'Larry Ellison piloting MIG-21', the diagnose was clear.
As long as there is an issue of compatibility with MS, all non-MS word-processing packages will be inferior (by definition, if you wish). We need to define some open word-processing and spreadsheet standards and start relying on them. I know it is a chicken and an egg situation, but you have to start somewhere, haven't you? Semething HTML-based probably. So format compatibility should never be an issue. Only GUI, how user friendly is this.
(personally I got tired of fighting with WYSIWYG type of software, so I'm learning LATEX which appears more to my liking)
Let me elaborate on this point - as a former VM programmer. Mainframes are certainly not designed for number crunching or graphics. what they are good for is a mix of data intensive and cpu intensive load. mainframe architecture is such that all data-related activites are completely offloaded into the 'channels'. so once data transfer is requested, cpu simply sends the command SIO (start io) to channel and does something else while data are being moved. Now most of the commercial application do give such a mix of data intensive and cpu intensive load, so mainframe is alive and kicking.
On a related note, VM overhead is minimal (most of the logic is in a microcode) so overhead from runing VM and switching from one virtual machine (with a single copy of Linux) to another one is also trivial.
I've got IBM T20 which worked fine and then suddenly died on me. Then support told me they had the WHOLE BATCH of T20s with defected motherboards. Just imagine that! Got a replacement, and it rocks. Literally rocks. I just love this box. As of now I"m runing Win2000 but will be putting SUSE soon as well. The bottom line - don't give up on IBM.
once I was working on network performance monitor (written in C). Once I had a 'basic proof of concept' (quick and dirty, but mostly functional), I've told the interested parties I would have to re-write it so it would be modular, easy to read and understand and of course easy to debug. To my surprise those jerks gave me a hard time (noone gives a shit about your 'aesthetical feelings'). Well I did make some minimal changes and left the company soon after that. Hope someone is still struggling maintaining the code. The bottom line is that 'inner beauty' of any software is not a luxory item.
Oh my God! Linux in non-public school! What the world is coming to?
how 'bout virgin sacrifices?
Well, then you suck.
since we are on a subject of Mozilla: I've tried 0.93 on Win98, and just loved it. But - there is a problem. How to deal with pop-ups? I am using Pow! which works great with both IE and Netscape, but it is not compatible with Mozilla. I've found some threads on 'how nice would it be to be able to control javascripts from Mozilla', but that's about it. Pop-ups are getting more and more obnoxious and so - very unfortunately - I had to revert back to IE. TIA.
In other news: Conditt denies he had any affairs with the ancient iceman, willing to take another lie detector test.
call this Monkey 'Miguel' and it will be selling like hot cakes.
A cable-based network is similar to a shared ethernet. Multiple shared segments (that is users coming to the same headend device) used to be called NAN (neighborhood area network), don't know how it's called now. In any case, if overprovisioned, you effective speed may become very low and in a worst case practically come to the standstill, again, just like on shared ethernet.
There is enough super-rich idiots who don't know how to spend their money. Next, just think about it: 'EXPERIENCE LOW-GRAVITY SEX'. A major tourist attraction.
I always connect to INTERNET from my work, and we have DS3, but connection is so shitty (thanks to AT&T, a premier Internet Service Provider) that for all downloads I indicate dial-in 56K. Otherwise I get congestion, rebuffering and other shit.
Yes!
when a tension arises in a group of bonobos, it is normally resolved by having a group sex. I wish GNOME developers would have followed this fine example.
wouldn't you like this on-line story? its url is http://news.lycos.com/news/story.asp?section=Break ing&storyId=187072
and then here goes Eric with his gun.
if I can only figure out which part of DNA makes me 'full of shit' ... I woulnd't mind to send it to aliens.