Once again, go do research; time-sharing systems are not the same as server OS's. Unix was designed for users to, given a terminal, be able to do their daily work. That's not a "server OS" thing.
Unix is *NOT* a "server OS". Unix is a text processing system. Do your research.
Unix has "high overheads"? Compare it to MacOS or Windows, and laugh.
Why do I run NetBSD on my laptop, instead of Windows? Because it's a more flexible desktop platform. Why would I run Linux on a PDA, instead of Windows CE? Because it would be a more flexible platform - to say nothing of "more stable".
But mostly, you're just plain wrong about a "server OS". Unix isn't a server OS, it's a desktop/workstation OS that happens to scale well. MVS is a server OS.
1. You still get soaked for the additional cost of the infrastructure to pay for all that mail with ADV: in the subject. 2. There's insufficient teeth to even make that predicted outcome happen, whether or not you would find it acceptable.
Why allow them to send you ads at your expense in the first place?
That said, I'm never switching back. If you want USB, they sell a USBPS/2 adapter, which works fine on my box. Mac versions are available. I've had very little trouble, and what trouble I've had, they've been very good about fixing.
I recommend getting the programmable model; it really is that much better.
I've been using these for a few years now, and I have had much better results with them than I ever had with other keyboards. No failures from old age per se; the one that did start acting up was diagnosed as a hardware problem, and Kinesis shipped me replacement circuit boards and new ROMs.
Great keyboards. I bought mine through DMG ergonomics; I think it was 'www.dmb-ergonomics.com'. 10% off list price.:)
You still missed the point. "Can say whatever you want" has *NOTHING* to do with *WHERE* you say it.
You don't get to talk on someone else's dime. Period. End of story.
Spam is speech at someone else's expense. That's wrong, and it's *NOT* related to free speech.
Free speech means you can say whatever you want *ON YOUR OWN TIME AND MONEY*, and no one can tell you to stop just because they don't like what you have to say. It doesn't mean you can force them to subsidize you.
Junk email has the same problems that postage-due snail mail would have, or that junk faxes and pre-recorded phone calls have.
I defy you to do a good job as a responsible network admin without an email address that is *EASY* for people to find.
Hint: To be doing a good job, you must be easy to contact, even for users who can't figure out how to unmung your address.
Sorry, but anything that requires me to take action to avoid getting spam is a broken solution. Yes, my address is easy to find. It's my goddamn *JOB* to have an email address that is easy to find!
The solution is for people to bugger off and stop spamming addresses without prior express permission.
Freedom of speech *NEVER* meant you had to pay for it.
Is it really a "nice" way to handle it? Remember, you still have to pay the costs of maintaining a mail server that can receive the mail. No one is required to *accept* your opt-out requests. Mailers can use a 1-900 number for opt-outs, or an address which is cancelled by the time you see your spam. If you don't *successfully* opt out, it's *your* problem. Every marketer can send spam to every address at least once, even if the opt-out works.
This is a *bad* law.
And you are a *bad* person, for continuing to perpetuate the myth that spam is any kind of speech.
Free speech means you can say anything, not that you can say things anywhere. Spam has *never* been a kind of protected speech.
This is an *awful* law, and you're clearly new to the spam issue if you think it'll help.
Yes, spam should be a criminal offense, just like any other destructive means of consuming other people's resources at their cost for your own ends without their permission.
It doesn't really provide for any kind of opt-out that works, it doesn't mandate opt-in, it asserts that you have the right to send the messages until someone tells you otherwise, it prohibits you from sharing opt-out requests in any way - even to let other people also avoid spamming the victims, it doesn't provide for domain-wide opt-out, it doesn't provide for central opt-out, and it requires your mail server to accept the entire message before filtering it.
In summary, it sucks; almost everything you can get wrong with a spam law is wrong in it.
This man has no comprehension. Users should be prepared to spend a week or two to learn how to boot a machine for the first time, or they're weak, and will only hurt us. We must cater to our strength, which is the well-informed user base - we preserve this by not letting ignorant people get involved.
Well, for one thing, anyone who'd say "second generation internet" and not talk at some length about "Internet2" is crazy.
But even with things like "The GNU public license, the open source license", Katz reveals that he's a buzzword junkie, not a part of this community, not a person who cares about this community.
I don't think everyone has to be a techie. But I do think we need to expect pundits to have a basic understanding of what they're talking about.
Katz, spend a while thinking about what you want to say. Come up with a thesis statement. Come up with support for it. Then come back.
So, the legos are the interesting part.
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If a reporter were covering us (actually, one is), I wonder if it would figure in the article that, for all our interest in impassioned debate about education, the education story doesn't come back, but the legos get more coverage.
What's your evidence that this is "intentionally engineered"?
For that matter, I *really* doubt that the statistical dispersion is an "engineered" effect. It's simply too widely observed in sources other than the test.
It's popular to claim that a given measurement was rigged; it's very hard to find evidence.
Actually, no. If it's time critical, it should *NOT* be in assembly, in all probability, because the chances are that the compiler will outsmart you or the chip will change.
Assembly is like saying "Moore's Law doesn't apply to me".
Take your pick: Hand-optimized Pentium assembly, or EGCS code tuned for the Pentium II.:)
1. It can't be strictly conforming code, it assumes ASCII. 2. It's 5 lines, which is pretty long for "short" code.;-) 3. Even if you think you can assume ASCII, you *CANNOT* have literal newlines in strings.
Try "-ansi -pedantic -Wall". It won't warn about the ASCII thing, but it'll catch the string with newlines.
I generally find you need something equivalent to char b='\\',q='"',s='\'',n='\n'; to be able to reproduce all the stuff you end up needing.;)
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Not VMS, MVS.
Once again, go do research; time-sharing systems are not the same as server OS's. Unix was designed for users to, given a terminal, be able to do their daily work. That's not a "server OS" thing.
The clients were users, not other computers.
Unix is *NOT* a "server OS". Unix is a text processing system. Do your research.
Unix has "high overheads"? Compare it to MacOS or Windows, and laugh.
Why do I run NetBSD on my laptop, instead of Windows? Because it's a more flexible desktop platform. Why would I run Linux on a PDA, instead of Windows CE? Because it would be a more flexible platform - to say nothing of "more stable".
But mostly, you're just plain wrong about a "server OS". Unix isn't a server OS, it's a desktop/workstation OS that happens to scale well. MVS is a server OS.
You missed the point.
1. You still get soaked for the additional cost of the infrastructure to pay for all that mail with ADV: in the subject.
2. There's insufficient teeth to even make that
predicted outcome happen, whether or not you would find it acceptable.
Why allow them to send you ads at your expense in the first place?
Plusses: Awesome keyboard.
:)
Minuses: Costs money.
That said, I'm never switching back. If you want USB, they sell a USBPS/2 adapter, which works fine on my box. Mac versions are available. I've had very little trouble, and what trouble I've had, they've been very good about fixing.
I recommend getting the programmable model; it really is that much better.
I've been using these for a few years now, and I have had much better results with them than I ever had with other keyboards. No failures from old age per se; the one that did start acting up was diagnosed as a hardware problem, and Kinesis shipped me replacement circuit boards and new ROMs.
Great keyboards. I bought mine through DMG ergonomics; I think it was 'www.dmb-ergonomics.com'. 10% off list price.
You still missed the point. "Can say whatever you want" has *NOTHING* to do with *WHERE* you say it.
You don't get to talk on someone else's dime. Period. End of story.
Spam is speech at someone else's expense. That's wrong, and it's *NOT* related to free speech.
Free speech means you can say whatever you want *ON YOUR OWN TIME AND MONEY*, and no one can tell you to stop just because they don't like what you have to say. It doesn't mean you can force them to subsidize you.
Junk email has the same problems that postage-due snail mail would have, or that junk faxes and pre-recorded phone calls have.
Think again. AOL went from $19.95 to $21.95 because of the cost of the *SERVER* filtering all that spam.
If you wanna pay a 10% tax forever, go right ahead.
In practice, filtering is *WAY* too late, and too expensive, and it's not a *solution*.
(Also, do you honestly believe spammers will comply? I don't.)
I defy you to do a good job as a responsible network admin without an email address that is *EASY* for people to find.
Hint: To be doing a good job, you must be easy to contact, even for users who can't figure out how to unmung your address.
Sorry, but anything that requires me to take action to avoid getting spam is a broken solution. Yes, my address is easy to find. It's my goddamn *JOB* to have an email address that is easy to find!
The solution is for people to bugger off and stop spamming addresses without prior express permission.
Freedom of speech *NEVER* meant you had to pay for it.
Is it really a "nice" way to handle it? Remember, you still have to pay the costs of maintaining a mail server that can receive the mail. No one is required to *accept* your opt-out requests. Mailers can use a 1-900 number for opt-outs, or an address which is cancelled by the time you see your spam. If you don't *successfully* opt out, it's *your* problem. Every marketer can send spam to every address at least once, even if the opt-out works.
This is a *bad* law.
And you are a *bad* person, for continuing to perpetuate the myth that spam is any kind of speech.
Free speech means you can say anything, not that you can say things anywhere. Spam has *never* been a kind of protected speech.
This is an *awful* law, and you're clearly new to the spam issue if you think it'll help.
Yes, spam should be a criminal offense, just like any other destructive means of consuming other people's resources at their cost for your own ends without their permission.
It doesn't really provide for any kind of opt-out that works, it doesn't mandate opt-in, it asserts that you have the right to send the messages until someone tells you otherwise, it prohibits you from sharing opt-out requests in any way - even to let other people also avoid spamming the victims, it doesn't provide for domain-wide opt-out, it doesn't provide for central opt-out, and it requires your mail server to accept the entire message before filtering it.
In summary, it sucks; almost everything you can get wrong with a spam law is wrong in it.
No, I'm *JOKING*.
Good God, you'd think no one on Slashdot had ever seen sarcasm before!
For what it's worth, my mom uses a NetBSD laptop, which I built and continue to support.
This man has no comprehension. Users should be prepared to spend a week or two to learn how to boot a machine for the first time, or they're weak, and will only hurt us. We must cater to our strength, which is the well-informed user base - we preserve this by not letting ignorant people get involved.
Well, for one thing, anyone who'd say "second generation internet" and not talk at some length about "Internet2" is crazy.
But even with things like "The GNU public license, the open source license", Katz reveals that he's a buzzword junkie, not a part of this community, not a person who cares about this community.
I don't think everyone has to be a techie. But I do think we need to expect pundits to have a basic understanding of what they're talking about.
Katz, spend a while thinking about what you want to say. Come up with a thesis statement. Come up with support for it. Then come back.
If a reporter were covering us (actually, one is), I wonder if it would figure in the article that, for all our interest in impassioned debate about education, the education story doesn't come back, but the legos get more coverage.
Wow! 2 cards, 2 ISA adapters, $140 at CompUSA, and they even work with NetBSD and Linux.
This looks like a pretty good deal. They're not as good as the higher-end cards, I'm told, but they still seem pretty neat.
Currently setting up my NetBSD gateway machine to be a gateway to one more network...
Get current. Modern games are mostly C++. Ick. But it's not assembly, because it doesn't matter.
Look at kernel code. Lots of it. Across a number of OS's and platforms.
Assembly is *rare*, and for good reasons.
Very clever, I like it.
Also incorrect.
MAIN RETURNS INT YOU SIMPERING FOOLS!
:)
(No, really, it does. "void main" is Just Plain Wrong.)
What's your evidence that this is "intentionally engineered"?
For that matter, I *really* doubt that the statistical dispersion is an "engineered" effect. It's simply too widely observed in sources other than the test.
It's popular to claim that a given measurement was rigged; it's very hard to find evidence.
Actually, no. If it's time critical, it should *NOT* be in assembly, in all probability, because the chances are that the compiler will outsmart you or the chip will change.
:)
Assembly is like saying "Moore's Law doesn't apply to me".
Take your pick: Hand-optimized Pentium assembly, or EGCS code tuned for the Pentium II.
1. It can't be strictly conforming code, it assumes ASCII. ;-)
;)
2. It's 5 lines, which is pretty long for "short" code.
3. Even if you think you can assume ASCII, you *CANNOT* have literal newlines in strings.
Try "-ansi -pedantic -Wall". It won't warn about the ASCII thing, but it'll catch the string with newlines.
I generally find you need something equivalent to
char b='\\',q='"',s='\'',n='\n';
to be able to reproduce all the stuff you end up needing.
Actually, that one isn't a "correct" quine, because printf takes variable arguments, and thus requires a prototype to be strictly correct.
It's hard to do a short quine which is also strictly-conforming.
>being itself an ascii pig comprised of >pig-latin'ed code.
"comprising" or "composed of".
And yes, we're late. Sorry! It takes some coordination getting things set up.
We've already got a number of entries. Remember, you can enter as often as you like.
Many will enter! Some will win! Some will elicit reactions of abject terror!
>The term "disadvantaged" refers to a lack of
>finances, not mental acuity.
That's still insulting, to claim that being non-white has the same effect on your college preparations that not having books as a kid does.
>The color of one's skin certainly has nothing to
>do with how intelligent one is.
We'd better hope so. If it *does* matter, there will be riots.
On the other hand, let's try a few variants on that statement:
>The color of one's skin certainly has nothing to
>do with how tall one is.
Any takers?