would comprise a truly musical response to this event, should the perps be *DEFINITELY* identified. (very important. DON'T hit the wrong people!)
I hate to say this last bit, as it hurts me.. but..
kill *them*, their *entire families*, their *entire extended families*, and their *ancestors* (defilation of gravesites); ALL of their friends, etc. etc, etc..
Jihad!
Fire with fire.
It worked for the Cosa Nostra, and the KGB.. It'll work for us. Show them we can go absolutely nuts without limit, and make it VERY personal. Throw in some Hannibal shit just to make things interesting.
And no.. this not a joke or a troll.
If they are not discussing shit like this in washington, they just aren't thinking.
I haven't played chess in YEARS, but my assumption about blitz play is that if white goes queen's pawn things get really hairy real fast.
I had a friend who played that way, and it was super difficult to develop strategy, as he had the agressive high ground from the get-go. One mistake as black, and you were dead meat.
I get the notion that Fischer preferred Kings pawn. Are there more opportunities for severe error with a queen's pawn opening?
Let me add that to thoroughly impersonate The Woz, you'd need to know the *very* obscure details of the 82*** Signetics components he used in the Apple II design. IIRC, he used them because they were 'around'. Great parts, though, but DEFINITELY unlike the 74*** series components most TTL and CMOS hackers are used to.
I know, 'cause I've used them. I could spot a faker a mile away.
Some times it's great to be an old codger!
I remember distinctly reading about PPV proposals being proposed and tested as early as 1968. There was one partisan who was particularly vilified for broaching the notion at the time ( can't remember the name ).
IIRC, the entire controversy was covered quite extensively in (wait for it..) TV GUIDE! How's that for prior art, eh?
So.. your @work network is folded into *their* umbrella AS?
This could work, I guess, but geez.. what a bottleneck..
Single point of failure and all that..
What ever happened to professionalism?
You are SOO right!
What we have here is an impulse to tax every goddamned thing in the universe ala britain and france in the 18'th century. Those lusers were taxing WINDOWS (heh), WIND, SUNLIGHT, and myriad other normal natural phenomenon.
I hate to say this, but it won't be long before we'll have to take up the gun (yet again) to rectify this shit.
Oh well. At least I've still got reloading hardware and BIG magazines available in my garage..
Are you a total moron?
Why in hell would a largely SOHO oriented provider even THINK of supporting BGP directly?
Just who the hell do you think you are? Huh?
This post just makes me feel ill...
Maybe it's just the fact that ATT here in the chicago area used to be mediaone, who had fairly good tech support for TV issues, but I've had good experiences with our support people.
They've been fairly clueful, very diligent, and always got our issues resolved in a timely manner.. quite amazing, really, given that they're in the midst of a very aggressive fiber rollout around here.
One funny note though.. when I call them, I always seem to get thickly accented Indian dudes with english names, like Chris or Dave.
Is it just me?
Damn!
I just upgraded to slack 8.0, so I thought.. "hmm. I'll try galeon! If it's lighter than Mozilla, and it incorporates the gecko engine.. well.."
This is such a BRILLIANT browser! I *love* the zoom feature (I'm 46, and need it occasionally). The standards conformance (IMHO) and ability to *actually view* almost every page I encounter makes this thing a real godsend. It's been only two days, and I'm using it almost to the total exclusion of 'scape 4.77, which was a HUGE improvement over 4.73, which is what I was using before.
Yes, it pauses, and lags occasionally, but overall, on my feeble 200(!)mhz system, it's fairly snappy!
It's still buggy, though. Just try to enter a reply to a/. post like I'm doing right now, and you'll encounter several of them.
I am SO tired of distinguished groups softpedaling and using terms like 'distressing' or 'draconian' to describe shit like this.
What would happen if press releases from big time professional and other groups were to just take off the gloves, and brazenly engage in terminology like 'inane', 'stoopid', 'brain-damaged', 'moronic', and 'retarded'?
Methinks that might bring the message home to the public much more effectively.
Seriously, though, can you think of a better environment in which to perfect solar energy gathering and storage technologies?
That's the thing I always loved about MIR.. you just jump in there, see if it floats, runs, whatever, on the leanest shoestring possible, and in the most hostile of conditions, and guess what? The truly good technology eventually wriggles its' way to the top. Very darwinistic.
I'm surprised that many big corps aren't knocking each other over to rush into places like this.. it's the best sort of test bed ever.
If I wanted to be a point and click monkey and use buggy, insecure software (cough! Redhat! Cough!) I'd be running windoze.<br>
I'm starting to somewhat understand where all those *BSD bigots are coming from, having surveyed slack's competition. bleh.
Oh, man, I had that book memorised backwards and forwards as a kid!
If my instincts are correct, I believe the movie 'Explorers', starring a young Ethan Hawke, and River Phoenix, was inspired loosely by that book. There's a dialogue glitch in the soundtrack where one distinctly hears one of the characters referred to as 'Hannibal', an MSC cast member apparently played by Phoenix in the film.
I'd love to see a director's cut of that picture. It was hacked all to hell when it was actually released.
Hear, hear!
The GPL is ultimately valuable for its' darwinistic aspects, in addition to all the aforementioned virtues. It creates the MOST dog-eat-dog software development model that I'm personally aware of.
Code well, and your code (think DNA) survives and evolves. Code badly, and your code (DNA) dwindles and dies.
We can thusly conclude that all that oppose the GPL are weenies that don't 'trust' natural evolutionary forces, and demand protection from them.
Or something like that 8P
The inimitable Rev Bob Crispen, I presume? Interesting how a discussion of stuff like FORTRAN brings us geezers out of the woodork, eh?
IITRAN was a teaching language developed at IIT here in Chicago. Strange hybrid of Basic and Fortran. I played around with it in freshman yr of high school.. around '68.
You'd punch up your program to paper tape on an ASR33, dial into their S/360 RJE system, and if you were lucky, your program would execute properly overnight, when they ran their batch jobs (No multitasking on that puppy, noosssiree), and you'd have results the next day.
Just for the hell of it, we tried calculating the volume of the earth's atmosphere in cubic angstroms 8-P
Can you say 'arithmetic overflow'? I knew you could.
Oh, man, that was a great book!
Strange that one of the most highly regarded scifi tomes of all time gets read so little.
Ironic also that a term lifted from it (hipcrime) has been perverted into the monnikker used by one (some?) of the most obnoxious usenet vandals ever.
Oh well..
Christ, what an imagination I've got!
8-P
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would comprise a truly musical response to this event, should the perps be *DEFINITELY* identified. (very important. DON'T hit the wrong people!)
I hate to say this last bit, as it hurts me.. but..
kill *them*, their *entire families*, their *entire extended families*, and their *ancestors* (defilation of gravesites); ALL of their friends, etc. etc, etc..
Jihad!
Fire with fire.
It worked for the Cosa Nostra, and the KGB.. It'll work for us. Show them we can go absolutely nuts without limit, and make it VERY personal. Throw in some Hannibal shit just to make things interesting.
And no.. this not a joke or a troll.
If they are not discussing shit like this in washington, they just aren't thinking.
I haven't played chess in YEARS, but my assumption about blitz play is that if white goes queen's pawn things get really hairy real fast.
I had a friend who played that way, and it was super difficult to develop strategy, as he had the agressive high ground from the get-go. One mistake as black, and you were dead meat.
I get the notion that Fischer preferred Kings pawn. Are there more opportunities for severe error with a queen's pawn opening?
Just asking.. (grin)
Let me add that to thoroughly impersonate The Woz, you'd need to know the *very* obscure details of the 82*** Signetics components he used in the Apple II design. IIRC, he used them because they were 'around'. Great parts, though, but DEFINITELY unlike the 74*** series components most TTL and CMOS hackers are used to.
I know, 'cause I've used them. I could spot a faker a mile away.
No kidding! The addition of wheels truly polishes off the design. Mucho Elegante! Those Ancient Engineers really knew their sh*t!
I found it amusing how the 'experts' endlessly debated that little detail when it's IOTTMCO how severely it would crank up the performance.
I am SO floored!
As a total GPL'er and Linux advocate, no article I've seen in recent memory truly distills the geek/aristocracy dynamic as well as this one does.
This shit goes back MILLENIUMS, folks! There's nothing new here.
It's, however, ohso nice to see it updated so well. Congrats to all involved.
Just when I think everything k3w1 has already been discovered, I get blindsided by something wonderful!
I remember distinctly reading about PPV proposals being proposed and tested as early as 1968. There was one partisan who was particularly vilified for broaching the notion at the time ( can't remember the name ).
IIRC, the entire controversy was covered quite extensively in (wait for it..)
TV GUIDE! How's that for prior art, eh?
This could work, I guess, but geez.. what a bottleneck..
Single point of failure and all that..
What ever happened to professionalism?
What we have here is an impulse to tax every goddamned thing in the universe ala britain and france in the 18'th century. Those lusers were taxing WINDOWS (heh), WIND, SUNLIGHT, and myriad other normal natural phenomenon.
I hate to say this, but it won't be long before we'll have to take up the gun (yet again) to rectify this shit.
Oh well. At least I've still got reloading hardware and BIG magazines available in my garage..
C++ without discipline is WAY worse than Basic, or Pascal (with extensions) ever were.
Ouch!
Why in hell would a largely SOHO oriented provider even THINK of supporting BGP directly?
Just who the hell do you think you are? Huh?
This post just makes me feel ill...
I ohso hate wannabes.
They've been fairly clueful, very diligent, and always got our issues resolved in a timely manner.. quite amazing, really, given that they're in the midst of a very aggressive fiber rollout around here.
One funny note though.. when I call them, I always seem to get thickly accented Indian dudes with english names, like Chris or Dave.
Is it just me?
We're paying $39.95/mo here in chicagoland. Former Mediaone territory.
Damn! /. post like I'm doing right now, and you'll encounter several of them.
I just upgraded to slack 8.0, so I thought.. "hmm. I'll try galeon! If it's lighter than Mozilla, and it incorporates the gecko engine.. well.."
This is such a BRILLIANT browser! I *love* the zoom feature (I'm 46, and need it occasionally). The standards conformance (IMHO) and ability to *actually view* almost every page I encounter makes this thing a real godsend. It's been only two days, and I'm using it almost to the total exclusion of 'scape 4.77, which was a HUGE improvement over 4.73, which is what I was using before.
Yes, it pauses, and lags occasionally, but overall, on my feeble 200(!)mhz system, it's fairly snappy!
It's still buggy, though. Just try to enter a reply to a
What would happen if press releases from big time professional and other groups were to just take off the gloves, and brazenly engage in terminology like 'inane', 'stoopid', 'brain-damaged', 'moronic', and 'retarded'?
Methinks that might bring the message home to the public much more effectively.
Screw diplomacy, people. This Is War!
That's the thing I always loved about MIR.. you just jump in there, see if it floats, runs, whatever, on the leanest shoestring possible, and in the most hostile of conditions, and guess what? The truly good technology eventually wriggles its' way to the top. Very darwinistic.
I'm surprised that many big corps aren't knocking each other over to rush into places like this.. it's the best sort of test bed ever.
I've tried the others, but slack is *it* for me!
If I wanted to be a point and click monkey and use buggy, insecure software (cough! Redhat! Cough!) I'd be running windoze.<br>
I'm starting to somewhat understand where all those *BSD bigots are coming from, having surveyed slack's competition. bleh.
The database *will* be hacked, and every possible permutation of your scenario *will* occur. Count on it, dude. It's just too tempting.
Ain't synchronicity great? One of the fundamental properties of the universe. I use it all the time. Too bad so many people don't trust it.
If my instincts are correct, I believe the movie 'Explorers', starring a young Ethan Hawke, and River Phoenix, was inspired loosely by that book. There's a dialogue glitch in the soundtrack where one distinctly hears one of the characters referred to as 'Hannibal', an MSC cast member apparently played by Phoenix in the film.
I'd love to see a director's cut of that picture. It was hacked all to hell when it was actually released.
Hear, hear!
The GPL is ultimately valuable for its' darwinistic aspects, in addition to all the aforementioned virtues. It creates the MOST dog-eat-dog software development model that I'm personally aware of.
Code well, and your code (think DNA) survives and evolves. Code badly, and your code (DNA) dwindles and dies.
We can thusly conclude that all that oppose the GPL are weenies that don't 'trust' natural evolutionary forces, and demand protection from them.
Or something like that 8P
The inimitable Rev Bob Crispen, I presume? Interesting how a discussion of stuff like FORTRAN brings us geezers out of the woodork, eh?
IITRAN was a teaching language developed at IIT here in Chicago. Strange hybrid of Basic and Fortran. I played around with it in freshman yr of high school.. around '68.
You'd punch up your program to paper tape on an ASR33, dial into their S/360 RJE system, and if you were lucky, your program would execute properly overnight, when they ran their batch jobs (No multitasking on that puppy, noosssiree), and you'd have results the next day.
Just for the hell of it, we tried calculating the volume of the earth's atmosphere in cubic angstroms 8-P
Can you say 'arithmetic overflow'? I knew you could.
Oh, man, that was a great book!
Strange that one of the most highly regarded scifi tomes of all time gets read so little.
Ironic also that a term lifted from it (hipcrime) has been perverted into the monnikker used by one (some?) of the most obnoxious usenet vandals ever.
Oh well..
Christ, what an imagination I've got!
8-P