Also, Java isn't exactly a competitor's product; it's also an attempt at an industry-wide open standard that Microsoft wants to subvert, dominate, and exploit. Hey, they already tried
But it is a competitors product. You want to talk about standards? Read about C# and ECMA. Have Sun turned over control of the Java specification to a neutral standards body? Nope, Sun control it fully.
Make no mistake: Sun don't want to compete with Microsoft, they want to become Microsoft.
I have to disagree with this. The only question I had coming out of the first movie was "Why in the HELL wouldn't they use compost? Humans are about the most inefficient bloody electical generators you could POSSIBLY imagine." Heck, even just grow a human WITHOUT a brain (then elect him... DOH!)... our brains use up something like 60% of our total body nutrients (when at rest).
Definitely. They should have said that the machines needed exotic chemicals that could only be produced by an active brain. I don't know if there even are such chemicals, but it would have been a lot better than the ridiculous humans-as-batteries idea.
Stop living like it's 1993. A website can be anything the owner wants it to be. If it were left up to computer geeks like you, there would be no graphics innovations, because a CLI is "good enough," right?
Not at all; note that I mentioned animated GIF and Java applets.
Too bad for Microsoft that Macromedia documented and made the SWF format open a long time ago now. Even if they pulled the flash player from any platform except IE on Windows, we still have libflash
What do you mean "too bad"? Anything that quickens the demise of Flash is to be welcomed. It fills a useless middle ground between animated GIFs and Java applets, and is only used for particularly irritating ads, and by particularly irritating self-proclaimed "creatives". I can only hope that Bill Gates was surfing the web one day, saw a Flash banner and decided to kill this annoying "technology" once and for all.
Is there going to come a point where we will not actually own anything, merely own a license to use it? Do we really want to owe our souls to the capitalist companies we work for?
I don't see how you get from the first sentence to the second, but that's beside the point for now.
Owning a license is better than owning the real thing, if it's done properly. Think about it. If you lose your bank card, does that mean you've also lost the money in your account? No, because your account is effectively your license, so its physical representation, the card, can easily be replaced.
If you buy a license to a piece of music, then wouldn't it be great if you could trade in your cassette or LP for a SACD or DVD-Audio for just the cost of duplicating the media? Or if you owned a game for PC, you could also get a Mac version for a negligible charge, because what you own is not the CD it came on, but the right to play the game? That's how licensing could and should work.
If enough people believe it, then it happened. If they don't, it didn't.
The vast majority of people once believed that the sun orbited the Earth, which was flat, but that didn't make it any more true. Beliefs in fact have no effect whatsoever on reality. That's why religion isn't taken seriously these days.
You're probably not going to change the mind of someone who is CONVINCED the moon landing was a hoax. I don't see a need to spend money that could go toward research on trying to change people's minds.
It's a very simple calculation, based on how much influence the crackpots have over the Senate appropriations committee (or whoever decides NASA's funding). If the level of influence on NASA's budget >> the expense of convincing the crackpots, then they should do it, and if not, they shouldn't bother.
Exactly right. The whole point of Constitutional rights is that they are inherent, essential rights that must not be abridged. The very idea that there exists a "practical compromise" between then and ANYTHING is offensive.
It's not only offensive, it's treasonous (altho' of course the First Amendment grants him the right to say what he says, just not to do it). A bunch of people - including the President and the Marines - are sworn to protect and uphold the Constitution. That's it. If the former isn't doing the job, the latter should do something about it.
All enemies, foreign and domestic. That's the oath.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Honestly, it's no wonder that it's so easy for Ashcroft and his minions to undo the work of the Founding Fathers when so many people don't even know what's in the fucking Constitution!
That's why it's so important to look at the legal concept of ownership. For instance, if you get free storage from a free hosting site, and you put, say, child porno on that site, do you own the child porno? No. So you can't get busted for posession. The trick is to keep stuff off of your computer and host it on someone else's computer.
Nonsense. If you rent an apartment, does that mean that stuff you put into it is not yours? Of course it is yours, storage is storage whether it is physical or virtual.
What these people need to wise up to is that you should just make yourself a pseudonym, use no personally traceable information
Can you do that? I can't, not with absolute certainty, and I know Unix backwards, frontwards and upside down. It's easy enough to defeat a casual attempt to trace you, but if the FBI subpoena your ISP's billing records and proxy cache logs, what are you gonna do then?
Then it's someone else's problem, not yours, and there are no consequences.
I'll be amused to read about you on the frontpage of/. when the FBI haul you away:-)
However, I was pondering, how are other UNIX consoles doing? Do any of them fully support unicode, even bidirectional characters? shaping? (a great many of today's UNIX applications lack many if not all of these;( ). If you know of such applications or are working on support for a platform, could you give feedback as to your experiences and thoughts on the current state of the UNIX console?"
Whoa there, cowboy. Let's work on getting the delete key to work properly before we try any of that fancy stuff! If I never have to type stty erase again, I'll be a happy bunny!
Apple really tries to control any media exposure to its products with an iron fist.. I'm still kinda wondering if Time Canada (I think that's who leaked the new iMac) every felt Steve's wrath.
I very much doubt it. Publishing is one of Apple's core markets, maybe their most valuable, and the only one in which they hold a real lead. The last thing Apple would want to do is piss off one of the largest content producers and distributors on Earth.
To be fair, I think most foriegners are attractive to most natives of any country.
It's probably hardwired into your DNA. In small communities, those most attracted to breeding partners from outside the community would have a higher probability of producing healthy children than all their inbred cousins.
You would think so. To render correctly, they would have had to model her body, then added her clothes, in order to have the clothes move realistically. So there's probably a flag in the Makefile to render every scene with her in naked. There must have been one in The Spirits Within too, but I couldn't find it on the DVD.
Then you offer praise to whomever you worship that the company you work for didn't use finger print authentication. Its a lot easier to replace a stolen device than a stolen finger.
Any engineer will tell you that a decent fingerprint reader won't be fooled by a dead finger. Temperature, electrostatic properties, lack of a pulse etc - these things are easy to check. But Joe Random Criminal isn't going to know that...
And the fact that we can detect them proves that we have the capability to detect alien civilizations, of a technological sophistication roughly similar to our own, within a relatively small region of neaby space (about 10 parsecs, for those of you who are counting).
A civilization not too much more advanced than our own would have realized that high-power broadcasting is a fairly dumb thing to do, once you have developed something better. Why waste all that energy and possibly more importantly, why tie up all that bandwidth? Even now we are moving to low-powered non-directional devices with optical or directional microwave relays for communications. Keep the range small (cells) and you can reuse the same frequencies a few miles away without interference.
Could be that the reason we have not detected any other civilizations is because the laws of physics and economics universally lead all civilizations to abandon EM broadcasting as soon as they are able to do so.
Building a spacecraft from parts from Radio Shack is like fighting a modern navel battle with bass boats. Though a bass boat and a destroyer both float, have GPS, radios, radar, and sonar, there is a lot of differents in construction. I'd but my money on the destroyer.
Yes, but you're comparing a WW2 destroyer to a modern fishing boat with a Harpoon missile launcher fitted.
Oh well, I'm sure You've Got Mail II will be pretty cool.
I thought You've Got Mail was great! Not as good as Wall Street or The Thomas Crown Affair but I love movies where ruthless businessmen get exactly what they want. One day, I'm going to be just like them.
If you're going to sell out, you could do a lot worse than selling out to Metrowerks. They are a very cool company. I used their flagship product CodeWarrior, a C/C++/Pascal editor/compiler/debugger/class library (later incorporating Java) almost exclusively for development for a few years, and it's superb. Also they were selling Geekware long before any of the Slashbots had even heard of ThinkGeek!
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Also, Java isn't exactly a competitor's product; it's also an attempt at an industry-wide open standard that Microsoft wants to subvert, dominate, and exploit. Hey, they already tried
But it is a competitors product. You want to talk about standards? Read about C# and ECMA. Have Sun turned over control of the Java specification to a neutral standards body? Nope, Sun control it fully.
Make no mistake: Sun don't want to compete with Microsoft, they want to become Microsoft.
I have to disagree with this. The only question I had coming out of the first movie was "Why in the HELL wouldn't they use compost? Humans are about the most inefficient bloody electical generators you could POSSIBLY imagine." Heck, even just grow a human WITHOUT a brain (then elect him... DOH!)... our brains use up something like 60% of our total body nutrients (when at rest).
Definitely. They should have said that the machines needed exotic chemicals that could only be produced by an active brain. I don't know if there even are such chemicals, but it would have been a lot better than the ridiculous humans-as-batteries idea.
Stop living like it's 1993. A website can be anything the owner wants it to be. If it were left up to computer geeks like you, there would be no graphics innovations, because a CLI is "good enough," right?
Not at all; note that I mentioned animated GIF and Java applets.
furthering .NET? Has .NET even left the starting gate in all seriousness?
Sure, you can start developing Web Services(tm) in C# today if you want to.
Too bad for Microsoft that Macromedia documented and made the SWF format open a long time ago now. Even if they pulled the flash player from any platform except IE on Windows, we still have libflash
What do you mean "too bad"? Anything that quickens the demise of Flash is to be welcomed. It fills a useless middle ground between animated GIFs and Java applets, and is only used for particularly irritating ads, and by particularly irritating self-proclaimed "creatives". I can only hope that Bill Gates was surfing the web one day, saw a Flash banner and decided to kill this annoying "technology" once and for all.
Is there going to come a point where we will not actually own anything, merely own a license to use it? Do we really want to owe our souls to the capitalist companies we work for?
I don't see how you get from the first sentence to the second, but that's beside the point for now.
Owning a license is better than owning the real thing, if it's done properly. Think about it. If you lose your bank card, does that mean you've also lost the money in your account? No, because your account is effectively your license, so its physical representation, the card, can easily be replaced.
If you buy a license to a piece of music, then wouldn't it be great if you could trade in your cassette or LP for a SACD or DVD-Audio for just the cost of duplicating the media? Or if you owned a game for PC, you could also get a Mac version for a negligible charge, because what you own is not the CD it came on, but the right to play the game? That's how licensing could and should work.
If enough people believe it, then it happened. If they don't, it didn't.
The vast majority of people once believed that the sun orbited the Earth, which was flat, but that didn't make it any more true. Beliefs in fact have no effect whatsoever on reality. That's why religion isn't taken seriously these days.
You're probably not going to change the mind of someone who is CONVINCED the moon landing was a hoax. I don't see a need to spend money that could go toward research on trying to change people's minds.
It's a very simple calculation, based on how much influence the crackpots have over the Senate appropriations committee (or whoever decides NASA's funding). If the level of influence on NASA's budget >> the expense of convincing the crackpots, then they should do it, and if not, they shouldn't bother.
Am I the only person that thinks this is a massively stupid waste of time?
You're not.
Exactly right. The whole point of Constitutional rights is that they are inherent, essential rights that must not be abridged. The very idea that there exists a "practical compromise" between then and ANYTHING is offensive.
It's not only offensive, it's treasonous (altho' of course the First Amendment grants him the right to say what he says, just not to do it). A bunch of people - including the President and the Marines - are sworn to protect and uphold the Constitution. That's it. If the former isn't doing the job, the latter should do something about it.
All enemies, foreign and domestic. That's the oath.
What about the Constitution?
Honestly, it's no wonder that it's so easy for Ashcroft and his minions to undo the work of the Founding Fathers when so many people don't even know what's in the fucking Constitution!
That's why it's so important to look at the legal concept of ownership. For instance, if you get free storage from a free hosting site, and you put, say, child porno on that site, do you own the child porno? No. So you can't get busted for posession. The trick is to keep stuff off of your computer and host it on someone else's computer.
/. when the FBI haul you away :-)
Nonsense. If you rent an apartment, does that mean that stuff you put into it is not yours? Of course it is yours, storage is storage whether it is physical or virtual.
What these people need to wise up to is that you should just make yourself a pseudonym, use no personally traceable information
Can you do that? I can't, not with absolute certainty, and I know Unix backwards, frontwards and upside down. It's easy enough to defeat a casual attempt to trace you, but if the FBI subpoena your ISP's billing records and proxy cache logs, what are you gonna do then?
Then it's someone else's problem, not yours, and there are no consequences.
I'll be amused to read about you on the frontpage of
However, I was pondering, how are other UNIX consoles doing? Do any of them fully support unicode, even bidirectional characters? shaping? (a great many of today's UNIX applications lack many if not all of these ;( ). If you know of such applications or are working on support for a platform, could you give feedback as to your experiences and thoughts on the current state of the UNIX console?"
Whoa there, cowboy. Let's work on getting the delete key to work properly before we try any of that fancy stuff! If I never have to type stty erase again, I'll be a happy bunny!
Apple really tries to control any media exposure to its products with an iron fist.. I'm still kinda wondering if Time Canada (I think that's who leaked the new iMac) every felt Steve's wrath.
I very much doubt it. Publishing is one of Apple's core markets, maybe their most valuable, and the only one in which they hold a real lead. The last thing Apple would want to do is piss off one of the largest content producers and distributors on Earth.
To be fair, I think most foriegners are attractive to most natives of any country.
It's probably hardwired into your DNA. In small communities, those most attracted to breeding partners from outside the community would have a higher probability of producing healthy children than all their inbred cousins.
I wonder if the girl Tx is anatomically correct.
You would think so. To render correctly, they would have had to model her body, then added her clothes, in order to have the clothes move realistically. So there's probably a flag in the Makefile to render every scene with her in naked. There must have been one in The Spirits Within too, but I couldn't find it on the DVD.
Secondly, they tried to get Linda Hamilton to reprise her role as Sarah, she refused to do it after looking at the script. Not a good sign.
Am I the only person who thought she was cute in both Beauty & The Beast and T2?
Then you offer praise to whomever you worship that the company you work for didn't use
finger print authentication. Its a lot easier to replace a stolen device than a stolen finger.
Any engineer will tell you that a decent fingerprint reader won't be fooled by a dead finger. Temperature, electrostatic properties, lack of a pulse etc - these things are easy to check. But Joe Random Criminal isn't going to know that...
And the fact that we can detect them proves that we have the capability to detect alien civilizations, of a technological sophistication roughly similar to our own, within a relatively small region of neaby space (about 10 parsecs, for those of you who are counting).
A civilization not too much more advanced than our own would have realized that high-power broadcasting is a fairly dumb thing to do, once you have developed something better. Why waste all that energy and possibly more importantly, why tie up all that bandwidth? Even now we are moving to low-powered non-directional devices with optical or directional microwave relays for communications. Keep the range small (cells) and you can reuse the same frequencies a few miles away without interference.
Could be that the reason we have not detected any other civilizations is because the laws of physics and economics universally lead all civilizations to abandon EM broadcasting as soon as they are able to do so.
Building a spacecraft from parts from Radio Shack is like fighting a modern navel battle with bass boats. Though a bass boat and a destroyer both float, have GPS, radios, radar, and sonar, there is a lot of differents in construction. I'd but my money on the destroyer.
Yes, but you're comparing a WW2 destroyer to a modern fishing boat with a Harpoon missile launcher fitted.
They can, you just don't want to pay for it.
I don't know about that. My Octane could double as an anvil!
Oh well, I'm sure You've Got Mail II will be pretty cool.
I thought You've Got Mail was great! Not as good as Wall Street or The Thomas Crown Affair but I love movies where ruthless businessmen get exactly what they want. One day, I'm going to be just like them.
Send them a bill. They are using your airtime, with something you didn't ask for. If they don't want to pay the bill, they will find a way to stop it
Hah, post to Slashdot, we'll flatten their server for you!!
Oh, wait...
It just boggles the mind that they sold out.
If you're going to sell out, you could do a lot worse than selling out to Metrowerks. They are a very cool company. I used their flagship product CodeWarrior, a C/C++/Pascal editor/compiler/debugger/class library (later incorporating Java) almost exclusively for development for a few years, and it's superb. Also they were selling Geekware long before any of the Slashbots had even heard of ThinkGeek!
1 dba, 2 admins... 200+ servers, 2 DS3 lines, 8 T1's, 120 people local 1100 people worldwide.
Aren't the Slashbots always telling us that Unix is so superior because one admin can look after so many more machines that an NT admin?
So which is it? Should the admin/server ratio be low or high? You can't have it both ways my friends.