Does the site get paid for this? Or is are the owners true believers on all this? Can't we go back to talking about Microsoft, or something interesting?
Try to change something. Maybe try to fix a bug, something repeatable, but non-cosmetic. Guess names and grep for objects that look like they have about the right name, put in a lot of 'log print' statements and run the thing, adding more log printing as needed. Repeat this every day of your life for about a year.
Maybe they're just shocked at finally finding out who the core market for ketchup really is. It's not those thin and toned muscular people like on TV. That's a rare breed, I've never even met one myself, though I see them on TV and in the movies. It's your good ole' fat, diabetic, round-bellied, yellow-toothed American. Slaving away at some crappy job, coming home exhausted, and collapsing with the TV and Jim Beam. That's who is guzzling down those giant Walmart-sized ketchup bottles. More power to 'em!
Become a lawyer. Then find some IT people, sue them and take their stuff. Then you'll have all the rewards of working in IT, without the hassle And those poor suckers who went into IT will be working for you!
"Management didn't want 'geeks' asking questions on our show anymore. I had to become more judicial with the people we put on our show. Producing a live call isn't as bad as it may seem. They're still genuine questions from real people. Since the show was taking on more of an entertainment-value format, it only makes sense to find people who speak eloquently and have not as technical of questions (at least for the A block). But this is where the problems started. For five to six years TSS has groomed its audience to be geeks, they encouraged it. When we moved to L.A. that all changed."
No 'geek' question? Dudes, you have a TV networked packed with Anime and babes babbling on about video games. Who exactly do you think is watching out there?
"Pass on what you have learned!" Luke/Hammil story
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"Pass on what you have learned." Luke, played by an older Hammil, needs to train the next round of Jedi. Here's the key to the next arc. Aunt Beru gave the clue -- "Luke just isn't a farmer!"
Luke restarts the Jedi in the 'big city' -- but the recruits are too distracted. They're picking fights using Jedi mind tricks to get women to have sex and causing other dark side trouble. A couple recuits go dark-side and run off. Luke has a vision from Yoda. Take the Jedi training back home, back to the farm.
To fulfill Yoda's quest, Luke has to become a farmer -- exactly what he isn't. That's it. Bring Luke back, have him do the 'Green Acres' thing for a little bit, teach the recruits a little bit of work and discipline, make buddies with the sand people and Jawas after a few conflicts, and halfway into the season work in the next story, bring back the recuit who went dark-side before the move back to the farm.
In the season finale, resolve the Luke as farmer arc completely, and link that up with the battle with the neo-dark side guys.
What time do you show up in the morning, and what time do you leave at night? What's the worst, death march type project you've heard of? What are some typical salary ranges, do you guys work in cubicles?
What kind of car do you drive? Do you own your own house? If you work long hours, has this affected your relationships?
Well, there's your media monopoly for you. The government puts webcasters out of business -- and then political cover from the media. What a deal!
What we should do is, like, send a letter to the media about this mess -- and then they'll print a story so people will know what's going on and then... Ooops. Never mind.
Webcaster now know how David Koresh felt when he saw the child molestation story in the paper. Tubby, Bye bye.
Is this just me? When I upgraded my.99 to 1.0pre2, the Back button and the Forward button became permanently unhighlighted. Nothing I do seems to bring them back or make them show up.
>THE FBI'S National Infrastructure Protection >Center said that, in addition to installing a >free software fix offered by Microsoft on the >company's Web site, consumers and corporations >using Windows XP should disable the >product's "universal plug and play" features >affected by the glitches.
If the FBI wants universal plug and play off, it sounds to me like there's another security hole there. Why else would they request this? Isn't Microsoft policy to keep these things quiet until they are fixed? They depend on no one knowing about the problem to keep machines safe. But, maybe for the FBI, especially with the terrorism situation, who might have critical data on XP machines, this thin line of defense isn't quite good enough.
Exactly. If we could get the Xfree guys fixing bugs in the Xserver rather than supporting all the oddball features of all the oddball cards on the planet, we'd be ahead in this game. Then, it'd be much easier for video card companies to come out and support Linux. And, we'd get fast games as a plus.
Does the interface export a super-set of the most common 2D acceleration features. A thin interface, would be the best for this.
QUOTE>>I think they should get into the business
crashing space stations into the Pacific, and bringing tourists on boats to watch the fireworks.
If space is ever to be a real business, rather than a gold-plated, national vanity project, the craft are going to have to be built cheaply, and last a long time. And, to ME, all the MIR experience of trying to keep an old craft in the air, with repairs, and fungus and all that will be invaluable in the future. That is to avoid new stations with the same problems, and to develop a sense of how to deal with these problems.
I say, the Russians should go for it. This is a big project and expensive and ambitions, but I think it might be just what they need -- to get a little sense of national pride back. And, it's a way to build some national pride, without building bombs and armys. It is just what they need.
Just hire an expensive contractor -- who will then, essentially blow all the money on office space or going to tahiti or schoozing up or printing brocures. And, then when the 6 months come around, you'll be off the hook. Since you tried to find a way to fix it, but the contractor failed. The guys you hired have skipped to Nasau or something, so they can't be found. And, the whole thing doesn't even make the press and just gets forgotten.
Well, I'm totally horrified. Not. Really, I don't expect much different at all, for the most part. I would say the big negative that Clinton Gore had, was that the media just gave them too much slack. And, that when Clinton could slip through crap like Carnivore and all that, without much of a peep. But, the media, being Big D Democrats for the most part, will be gunning for Bush. And, that this kind of stuff would be less likely to sneak in under the radar.
Really, the web is mostly untouchable, politically. I mean, even napster, which is blatantly illegal, and has maybe 5% of the size or less -- I don't think the politicians even want to touch that.
I attribute most of the whining to adolescent left-wing paranoia. And, that they've been feeding into each other's nuttiness, and buying into their own bullshit. Now, all the blacks will be now murdered and dragged behind pickup trucks, and women will be self-aborting their babies with bug zappers, now that Bush is elected. Right, so give me a break. Take a Valium, or smoke a refreshing marijuana cigarette, guys. That'll make it all better.
Well, I'm totally horrified. Not. Really, I don't expect much different at all, for the most part. I would say the big negative that Clinton Gore had, was that the media just gave them too much slack. And, that when Clinton could slip through crap like Carnivore and all that, without much of a peep. But, the media, being Big D Democrats for the most part, will be gunning for Bush. And, that this kind of stuff would be less likely to sneak in under the radar.
Really, the web is mostly untouchable, politically. I mean, even napster, which is blatantly illegal, and has maybe 5% of the size or less -- I don't think the politicians even want to touch that.
I attribute most of the whining to adolescent left-wing paranoia. And, that they've been feeding into each other's nuttiness, and buying into their own bullshit. Now, all the blacks will be now murdered and dragged behind pickup trucks, and women will be self-aborting their babies with bug zappers, now that Bush is elected. Right, so give me a break. Take a Valium, or smoke a refreshing marijuana cigarette, guys. That'll make it all better.
If he's interested in electronics, and you want to get him building things, that is hardware, you might get him 'Circuitmaker' http://circuitmaker.com or something else like it. You can drag and drop your components right into a your circuits and test them on the computer. And, the program can design printed circuit boards also. So, he can either etch his own cards, or pay someone to do this, and actually build stuff. They have demos and educational versions.
I heard a story about Nolan's last company. And I'd give you the name if I could remember it. They had a similar product. It was a little set top box, that was meant to be located in bars
around the country. They had cute little trivia games and some simple reflex games on it. Basic stuff, but seemed like a reasonable concept.
The machines had some networking support, so they could download new trivia questions and software updates and high scores and things. So, every gamebox shipped with Windows NT on it. They had
a custom touch screen driver so you could tap on
the screen to push buttons.
As I heard it, everything was going okay,
until they got hit by two things. First Microsoft announced some kind of Microsoft based coin-op box. I don't know what ever happened to this. But, it was big competition. Now, the venture capital was a little harder to find.
The second problem they had was that the game machines were all working fine -- that is until
Daylight savings time changed. On that day every machine out in the field popped up a dialog box from some driver in Windows NT. Which for some weird reason crashed the machines, and they were no longer able to talk to the central servers. They had to ship out new hard drives to every one they had sold. Ooops.
And it's not just the OS. My understanding
is that all the applications have to be rewritten
to accomodate the bigger ip addresses. Most
programs store ip addresses in an unsigned long,
they'll have to be fixed.
Come to think of it, it'd be nice, if the OS did
support IPV6, and somehow we could write our applications now for longer ip addresses, and have them run either way. Even on Linux, switching to IPV6 requires recompiling or recoding all your net applications. (Last I looked.)
" I don't know what he's been smoking, but Intel is bound contractually not produce chipsets for memory that transfers data at over 1GB/second, like DDR. So, next year when everyone's after that hot new DDR, Intel will come out with a lame PC133
chipset for the Pentium 4, and we'll all be saddened by its performance.
---- End of Quote ----
This sounds pretty grim to me. Is it possible Intel may never catch up with AMD -- ever? That is if they've got some contract with Rambus to limit which way they go memory-wise? Looks like
their options now are either to just cheat and
do what they gotta' do, and then fight it in the
courts down the line, pay Rambus a pile of cash
to get out of this, muddle along, and perhaps fall further behind AMD, or maybe buy Rambus out.
Seems like the main asset the Amiga guys have
is the old OS roms, and the ability to make
a legal emulator that can still run all the old
software. I don't see the point without 68xxx
emulation, though when I browsed the site,
I didn't see anything about this.
Well, I think a computer would ultimately have
one advantage, that would be difficult to resolve,
and that would be that it'd be simply unafraid
of death. And, that if you could send a computer
car, barreling through a race, slightly clueless,
but unconcerned about it's own mortality, then
I think the human racers would just have to get
out of the way.
With live drivers, isn't there a slight matter
of 'how much do you want to win' versus, 'how
close are you willing to go to the edge' that
doesn't quite translate when machines are involved.
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Does the site get paid for this? Or is are the owners true believers on all this? Can't we go back to talking about Microsoft, or something interesting?
And are afraid to tell anyone. Another possibility is they fired 'the guy' who knows how everything works and now they can only make cosmetic changes.
Try to change something. Maybe try to fix a bug, something repeatable, but non-cosmetic. Guess names and grep for objects that look like they have about the right name, put in a lot of 'log print' statements and run the thing, adding more log printing as needed. Repeat this every day of your life for about a year.
Maybe they're just shocked at finally finding out who the core market for ketchup really is. It's not those thin and toned muscular people like on TV. That's a rare breed, I've never even met one myself, though I see them on TV and in the movies. It's your good ole' fat, diabetic, round-bellied, yellow-toothed American. Slaving away at some crappy job, coming home exhausted, and collapsing with the TV and Jim Beam. That's who is guzzling down those giant Walmart-sized ketchup bottles. More power to 'em!
Become a lawyer. Then find some IT people, sue them and take their stuff. Then you'll have all the rewards of working in IT, without the hassle And those poor suckers who went into IT will be working for you!
I don't know if I could make it. I'm just worried my digestive system would never be able to handle South Asia.
"Management didn't want 'geeks' asking questions on our show anymore. I had to become more judicial with the people we put on our show. Producing a live call isn't as bad as it may seem. They're still genuine questions from real people. Since the show was taking on more of an entertainment-value format, it only makes sense to find people who speak eloquently and have not as technical of questions (at least for the A block). But this is where the problems started. For five to six years TSS has groomed its audience to be geeks, they encouraged it. When we moved to L.A. that all changed."
No 'geek' question? Dudes, you have a TV networked packed with Anime and babes babbling on about video games. Who exactly do you think is watching out there?
"Pass on what you have learned." Luke, played by an older Hammil, needs to train the next round of Jedi. Here's the key to the next arc. Aunt Beru gave the clue -- "Luke just isn't a farmer!"
Luke restarts the Jedi in the 'big city' -- but the recruits are too distracted. They're picking fights using Jedi mind tricks to get women to have sex and causing other dark side trouble. A couple recuits go dark-side and run off. Luke has a vision from Yoda. Take the Jedi training back home, back to the farm.
To fulfill Yoda's quest, Luke has to become a farmer -- exactly what he isn't. That's it. Bring Luke back, have him do the 'Green Acres' thing for a little bit, teach the recruits a little bit of work and discipline, make buddies with the sand people and Jawas after a few conflicts, and halfway into the season work in the next story, bring back the recuit who went dark-side before the move back to the farm.
In the season finale, resolve the Luke as farmer arc completely, and link that up with the battle with the neo-dark side guys.
Piece of cake. Also huge nostalgia force...
Are there plans for Mozilla to support common binary file formats, like yEnc, I guess?
What time do you show up in the morning, and what time do you leave at night? What's the worst, death march type project you've heard of? What are some typical salary ranges, do you guys work in cubicles?
What kind of car do you drive? Do you own your own house? If you work long hours, has this affected your relationships?
Well, there's your media monopoly for you. The government puts webcasters out of business -- and then political cover from the media. What a deal!
What we should do is, like, send a letter to the media about this mess -- and then they'll print a story so people will know what's going on and then... Ooops. Never mind.
Webcaster now know how David Koresh felt when he saw the child molestation story in the paper. Tubby, Bye bye.
Is this just me? When I upgraded my .99 to 1.0pre2, the Back button and the Forward button became permanently unhighlighted. Nothing I do seems to bring them back or make them show up.
>THE FBI'S National Infrastructure Protection >Center said that, in addition to installing a >free software fix offered by Microsoft on the >company's Web site, consumers and corporations >using Windows XP should disable the >product's "universal plug and play" features >affected by the glitches.
If the FBI wants universal plug and play off, it sounds to me like there's another security hole there. Why else would they request this? Isn't Microsoft policy to keep these things quiet until they are fixed? They depend on no one knowing about the problem to keep machines safe. But, maybe for the FBI, especially with the terrorism situation, who might have critical data on XP machines, this thin line of defense isn't quite good enough.
Exactly. If we could get the Xfree guys fixing bugs in the Xserver rather than supporting all the oddball features of all the oddball cards on the planet, we'd be ahead in this game. Then, it'd be much easier for video card companies to come out and support Linux. And, we'd get fast games as a plus.
Does the interface export a super-set of the most common 2D acceleration features. A thin interface, would be the best for this.
QUOTE>>I think they should get into the business
crashing space stations into the Pacific, and bringing tourists on boats to watch the fireworks.
If space is ever to be a real business, rather than a gold-plated, national vanity project, the craft are going to have to be built cheaply, and last a long time. And, to ME, all the MIR experience of trying to keep an old craft in the air, with repairs, and fungus and all that will be invaluable in the future. That is to avoid new stations with the same problems, and to develop a sense of how to deal with these problems.
I say, the Russians should go for it. This is a big project and expensive and ambitions, but I think it might be just what they need -- to get a little sense of national pride back. And, it's a way to build some national pride, without building bombs and armys. It is just what they need.
Just hire an expensive contractor -- who will then, essentially blow all the money on office space or going to tahiti or schoozing up or printing brocures. And, then when the 6 months come around, you'll be off the hook. Since you tried to find a way to fix it, but the contractor failed. The guys you hired have skipped to Nasau or something, so they can't be found. And, the whole thing doesn't even make the press and just gets forgotten.
Well, I'm totally horrified. Not. Really, I don't expect much different at all, for the most part. I would say the big negative that Clinton Gore had, was that the media just gave them too much slack. And, that when Clinton could slip through crap like Carnivore and all that, without much of a peep. But, the media, being Big D Democrats for the most part, will be gunning for Bush. And, that this kind of stuff would be less likely to sneak in under the radar.
Really, the web is mostly untouchable, politically. I mean, even napster, which is blatantly illegal, and has maybe 5% of the size or less -- I don't think the politicians even want to touch that.
I attribute most of the whining to adolescent left-wing paranoia. And, that they've been feeding into each other's nuttiness, and buying into their own bullshit. Now, all the blacks will be now murdered and dragged behind pickup trucks, and women will be self-aborting their babies with bug zappers, now that Bush is elected. Right, so give me a break. Take a Valium, or smoke a refreshing marijuana cigarette, guys. That'll make it all better.
Same as before but with breaks.
Well, I'm totally horrified. Not. Really, I don't expect much different at all, for the most part. I would say the big negative that Clinton Gore had, was that the media just gave them too much slack. And, that when Clinton could slip through crap like Carnivore and all that, without much of a peep. But, the media, being Big D Democrats for the most part, will be gunning for Bush. And, that this kind of stuff would be less likely to sneak in under the radar. Really, the web is mostly untouchable, politically. I mean, even napster, which is blatantly illegal, and has maybe 5% of the size or less -- I don't think the politicians even want to touch that. I attribute most of the whining to adolescent left-wing paranoia. And, that they've been feeding into each other's nuttiness, and buying into their own bullshit. Now, all the blacks will be now murdered and dragged behind pickup trucks, and women will be self-aborting their babies with bug zappers, now that Bush is elected. Right, so give me a break. Take a Valium, or smoke a refreshing marijuana cigarette, guys. That'll make it all better.
If he's interested in electronics, and you want to get him building things, that is hardware, you might get him 'Circuitmaker' http://circuitmaker.com or something else like it. You can drag and drop your components right into a your circuits and test them on the computer. And, the program can design printed circuit boards also. So, he can either etch his own cards, or pay someone to do this, and actually build stuff. They have demos and educational versions.
I doubt they'd bother fixing the bugs. But likely, they'll be looking for buffer overflows.
The geniuses at Microsoft can rest safely, though, knowing that normal puny brains are too tiny to understand their brilliantly obfuscated code.
I heard a story about Nolan's last company. And I'd give you the name if I could remember it. They had a similar product. It was a little set top box, that was meant to be located in bars around the country. They had cute little trivia games and some simple reflex games on it. Basic stuff, but seemed like a reasonable concept.
The machines had some networking support, so they could download new trivia questions and software updates and high scores and things. So, every gamebox shipped with Windows NT on it. They had a custom touch screen driver so you could tap on the screen to push buttons.
As I heard it, everything was going okay, until they got hit by two things. First Microsoft announced some kind of Microsoft based coin-op box. I don't know what ever happened to this. But, it was big competition. Now, the venture capital was a little harder to find.
The second problem they had was that the game machines were all working fine -- that is until Daylight savings time changed. On that day every machine out in the field popped up a dialog box from some driver in Windows NT. Which for some weird reason crashed the machines, and they were no longer able to talk to the central servers. They had to ship out new hard drives to every one they had sold. Ooops.
Maybe they'll have better luck with Linux.
And it's not just the OS. My understanding is that all the applications have to be rewritten to accomodate the bigger ip addresses. Most programs store ip addresses in an unsigned long, they'll have to be fixed.
Come to think of it, it'd be nice, if the OS did support IPV6, and somehow we could write our applications now for longer ip addresses, and have them run either way. Even on Linux, switching to IPV6 requires recompiling or recoding all your net applications. (Last I looked.)
I just wonder if Intel, might be deeply, deeply fucked by their contracts with Rambus.
I was reading this page.
www.ugeek.com/procspec/blurb/archive072000.htm>
" I don't know what he's been smoking, but Intel is bound contractually not produce chipsets for memory that transfers data at over 1GB/second, like DDR. So, next year when everyone's after that hot new DDR, Intel will come out with a lame PC133 chipset for the Pentium 4, and we'll all be saddened by its performance.
---- End of Quote ----
This sounds pretty grim to me. Is it possible Intel may never catch up with AMD -- ever? That is if they've got some contract with Rambus to limit which way they go memory-wise? Looks like their options now are either to just cheat and do what they gotta' do, and then fight it in the courts down the line, pay Rambus a pile of cash to get out of this, muddle along, and perhaps fall further behind AMD, or maybe buy Rambus out.
Seems like the main asset the Amiga guys have
is the old OS roms, and the ability to make
a legal emulator that can still run all the old
software. I don't see the point without 68xxx
emulation, though when I browsed the site,
I didn't see anything about this.
Well, I think a computer would ultimately have
one advantage, that would be difficult to resolve,
and that would be that it'd be simply unafraid
of death. And, that if you could send a computer
car, barreling through a race, slightly clueless,
but unconcerned about it's own mortality, then
I think the human racers would just have to get
out of the way.
With live drivers, isn't there a slight matter
of 'how much do you want to win' versus, 'how
close are you willing to go to the edge' that
doesn't quite translate when machines are involved.