Depending on budget, rolling your own cases may be an option as well.
-- LoonXTall
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Grocery stores will be phazed out by online Grocery stores, as will the common Electronics Store, the common Book and Movie Store, and the common Clothing Store.
But can they offer instantaneous delivery to my rural chunk of land? It is more efficient to bring lots of stuff to one spot and let a bunch of little people (consumers) carry little bits of it away.
They're probably distributed as self-extracting (sfx) CAB files with a message, "Did you pay your money?" and buttons for "Yes" or "No"! Just open it with WinZip to bypass potential trojans in the sfx code... but be careful, the movie may be a trade secret.
Then what about the 13-year-long anti-trust lawsuit against IBM? Sorry, no link, but I ran across it in print in a commentary on Jackson's handling of the MS case.
Microsoft's IM client will become an integrated part of all future releases of their OSes
Windows, Inc. will not be allowed to bundle Microsoft applications (such as Microsoft Messenger) as part of the operating system.
To which the obvious answer is, bundle MS Mess with all other MS-Apps offerings (Office, IE). MSA can even use the same licensing tricks: "Want to bundle Office with some of your systems? It'll be $10 per system you don't put it on." So much for the "remedy"...
Alright, if copyright and IP ownership is so useless, why did anyone care about Voices from the Hellmouth?
If copyrights vanish, I will take down my website. Why should my 3 hours with Paint Shop Pro be donated to your 3 minutes of making your website background? Please note: I'm not referring to the site linked to at the top of this post.
So you see, the main point of copyright is to allow free speech (for the rights holder) but not free stealing.
I know that "geeks" tend to prefer the old-fashioned, command-line way of doing things...
No, I prefer the best way. I think icons are worthless... what did MS think we have extensions for? Would you prefer a CLI or GUI for mass changing of file attributes? Would you prefer a GUI or a CLI for running a program with a gazillion options?
I've got netscape, real player, and all the latest plugins. And I think it's a lot better than Lynx!
And I don't. End of discussion.
Would you rather have a dynamic multimedia experience, or use a web browser that has trouble rendering tables?
Large discussions are bad enough in vanilla. Why would I want Flashdot?
Actually, no. Nobody except the/. icon designers can keep them small enough to load before I've read the rest of the page.
Or are you one of those "lets take the Internet back to 1992" people?
I have no idea what the INet looked like than; but I give it a resounding, "YES!" because there were probably less ads. Also, I should point out that the GIF file format is 87a and 89a; and that Unisys got pissy about them ~1995 (so I've heard.) So you can have images in 1992; just try to make them PNGs this time:)
...make everything into bland text.
So/. is bland?
Eagely awaiting Slashdot's new Gopher server
"With the coming of the graphical Web, however, Gopher sites have gone the way of the dinosaurs." (from here) Error: logically inconsistent with the previous three statements.
That 5% of users probably have slow machines with limited RAM and slow links, because they use obsolete text-based web browsers such as lynx. In the next 2-3 years we expect those users to have upgraded...
No. The point of faster connections/processors is NOT to bog them down with more special effects/bloatware. It is to run things faster. I do have a slow (100 MHz Pentium) machine and a slow (14.4 Kbps) link, but if you dropped an SGI Onyx2 with twin processors, 1 GB RAM, and 100BaseT Ethernet onto my desktop, I would still read/. in vanilla. Out of respect for the rest of the world, I will not eat bandwidth simply because I can.
That said, I generally avoid Flash and/or Java whenever possible, because it indicates that the designer was more intent on presentation than interface design. Atomfilms and JoeCartoon may have looked pretty, but 5 minutes of download time just to see 1 page and a poor navigation system is insane. Don't let me get into the number of people that {don't|mis}use ALT tags... especially ads.
My card says right on it, "Not for identification." I can't remember what else it says, but it's somewhere along the lines of "For taxation and collection purposes only."
I want to see whatever information a company has on me, whenever I want to.
(...and postin' "Me too!" like some brain-dead AOL-er...) I'd also like to see laws like "If I ask to be taken off your list, then you have to do it" expanded to cover spam.
Mistakes are fined. If there is a mistake in the information, the information holder has to prove that they are right...
This is a tough one. The burden of proof rests on Security Inc.; too many false claims will raise the cost of business too high. So anybody that makes a false claim needs to be fined. However, since Security Inc. controls the Document(tm), it would be conceivable to run it past the Ministry of Truth and make real accusations look false.
I've also been wondering if there's a way to restrict information to legitimate people. I'm kind of nervous about a 1337 d00d being able to match my e-mail to my real-world location by claiming to do a "background check". That wouldn't work on my Hotmail address, because that was allocated after I got paranoid. (I viewed the HTML source to an ad once. I haven't considered clicking on an ad or giving 100% accurate info since.) But there are enough trusting users out there to be concerned about.
The Linux computers in question are 148 VA Linux 501's in 8 racks, all black. And they're planning on getting more. Then they'll probably be mandating ear protection in that room; with 148 fans, the noise is already up to half-shouting-to-be-heard.
If this is the game I think it is (part of Jewels of Darkness, Amiga 500), the closest thing to an easter egg would be the word "plover". It ran between the Plover Room (with glowing green walls) and the room where a hollow voice would say "plugh" once in a while. From there, "plugh" went to the cabin. Anyway, "plover" was essential for getting the tetrahedron out of the Dark Room attached to the Plover Room. (The Dark Room has a plaque in the wall saying, "Congratulations on bringing light to the Dark Room!")
I'm pretty sure there were at least two other words, "sesame" and "turn". Whenever you used a magic word out of context, it would say "Nothing happens". My brother found sesame when trying to "open sesame" the pirate chest, and I found turn while trying to get the bear out (it breaks the bridge when you try to cross) by "turn bear into frog" or something:)
A side note on the parser: to cross a bridge, it looked for the sub-pattern "cros". And trying to "hit" anything would give a message that violence was not allowed.
How about, during a fight on the Portal stage, hit down+start after an uppercut when Dan's picture is on the screen (for the "Toasty!!") to battle Smoke in Goro's Lair.
Or the one where you defeat the guy below the '?' portrait with only low kicks and fight Jade?
Or Noob Saibot... win 50 consecutive battles in 2 player mode. (I think... been a few years)
In Moria (the Amiga 500 version is the only one I've ever seen, but it was ported from the VAX), go into a shop. If they have exactly one page of items (a-p), purchase item 'q'. Normally, you can buy items a-q if there's two pages, and item q is just from the next page. But with no next page, you get a "nothing" for 1 gold. Nothing too spectacular, though, just a black square. I never did figure out if it did any damage when thrown at an enemy...
Go issue some "funds"... the problem with most EEs is that I don't have time to hunt for them. (Although I did blow an hour or three looking through my A500's ROM once...)
Eye scanners would be cool, cause to crack though, you would have to cut out the users eye, remove your glass eye, insert their's into the empty socket and crack that puppy open like a nice cold beer.
Or just hijack the scan data... it has to be stored somewhere to make a comparison, and it has to be sent there to be stored.
They won't be willing to implement it on too many platforms, either. Then we can have a DeMCS lawsuit (de MP3 Cryptography Scheme) because Linux users want to be able to use their computers.
Wait a sec... what stops me from writing a program (in assembly) to fill the keybuffer at a particular rhythm? I'm not sure about Linux or Win32, but I know it's possible under DOS...
The US dominates far to [sic] much in the Internet space.
If it was your country than started a small network, designing to the needs of the system, funded by your (parents'?) tax dollars... would you feel the same way?
ARPAnet was around in the 1970's. Since it is easier and cheaper to devise a non-scalable system, that's what they made... kind of like FAT12 was "big enough" for a floppy. <arrogance>So quit whining and put up the dollars to fund a better system, or come up with some ideas for (mainly US-based) companies and institutions to throw R&D money at.</arrogance>
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The G4's have been pulling a terraflop for a good time now.
No, a gigaflop.
-- LoonXTall
...at least in the P6 and K6 cores. The CISC instructions are broken down into RISC ones to run through the 6 Intel/7 AMD pipelines.
-- LoonXTall
Depending on budget, rolling your own cases may be an option as well.
-- LoonXTall
Grocery stores will be phazed out by online Grocery stores, as will the common Electronics Store, the common Book and Movie Store, and the common Clothing Store.
But can they offer instantaneous delivery to my rural chunk of land? It is more efficient to bring lots of stuff to one spot and let a bunch of little people (consumers) carry little bits of it away.
-- LoonXTall
They're probably distributed as self-extracting (sfx) CAB files with a message, "Did you pay your money?" and buttons for "Yes" or "No"! Just open it with WinZip to bypass potential trojans in the sfx code... but be careful, the movie may be a trade secret.
-- LoonXTall
gaverment said stop it, or we'll take action.
Then what about the 13-year-long anti-trust lawsuit against IBM? Sorry, no link, but I ran across it in print in a commentary on Jackson's handling of the MS case.
-- LoonXTall
To which the obvious answer is, bundle MS Mess with all other MS-Apps offerings (Office, IE). MSA can even use the same licensing tricks: "Want to bundle Office with some of your systems? It'll be $10 per system you don't put it on." So much for the "remedy"...
-- LoonXTall
Alright, if copyright and IP ownership is so useless, why did anyone care about Voices from the Hellmouth?
If copyrights vanish, I will take down my website. Why should my 3 hours with Paint Shop Pro be donated to your 3 minutes of making your website background? Please note: I'm not referring to the site linked to at the top of this post.
So you see, the main point of copyright is to allow free speech (for the rights holder) but not free stealing.
-- LoonXTall
(biting the troll really really hard)
I know that "geeks" tend to prefer the old-fashioned, command-line way of doing things...
No, I prefer the best way. I think icons are worthless... what did MS think we have extensions for? Would you prefer a CLI or GUI for mass changing of file attributes? Would you prefer a GUI or a CLI for running a program with a gazillion options?
I've got netscape, real player, and all the latest plugins. And I think it's a lot better than Lynx!
And I don't. End of discussion.
Would you rather have a dynamic multimedia experience, or use a web browser that has trouble rendering tables?
Large discussions are bad enough in vanilla. Why would I want Flashdot?
I hear it can't even do JavaScript
Yup. No Hotmail security holes that way.
Do you not like images or something?
Actually, no. Nobody except the /. icon designers can keep them small enough to load before I've read the rest of the page.
Or are you one of those "lets take the Internet back to 1992" people?
I have no idea what the INet looked like than; but I give it a resounding, "YES!" because there were probably less ads. Also, I should point out that the GIF file format is 87a and 89a; and that Unisys got pissy about them ~1995 (so I've heard.) So you can have images in 1992; just try to make them PNGs this time :)
So /. is bland?
Eagely awaiting Slashdot's new Gopher server
"With the coming of the graphical Web, however, Gopher sites have gone the way of the dinosaurs." (from here) Error: logically inconsistent with the previous three statements.
-- LoonXTall
That 5% of users probably have slow machines with limited RAM and slow links, because they use obsolete text-based web browsers such as lynx. In the next 2-3 years we expect those users to have upgraded...
No. The point of faster connections/processors is NOT to bog them down with more special effects/bloatware. It is to run things faster. I do have a slow (100 MHz Pentium) machine and a slow (14.4 Kbps) link, but if you dropped an SGI Onyx2 with twin processors, 1 GB RAM, and 100BaseT Ethernet onto my desktop, I would still read /. in vanilla. Out of respect for the rest of the world, I will not eat bandwidth simply because I can.
That said, I generally avoid Flash and/or Java whenever possible, because it indicates that the designer was more intent on presentation than interface design. Atomfilms and JoeCartoon may have looked pretty, but 5 minutes of download time just to see 1 page and a poor navigation system is insane. Don't let me get into the number of people that {don't|mis}use ALT tags... especially ads.
-- LoonXTall
maybe they should be looking at some of the pump-cooled systems then
Good idea... the Riken supercomputer (doing QCD at 600 Mflops) is liquid-cooled. Too bad I can't pass it on... I was only there for a week.
-- LoonXTall
My card says right on it, "Not for identification." I can't remember what else it says, but it's somewhere along the lines of "For taxation and collection purposes only."
-- LoonXTall
I want to see whatever information a company has on me, whenever I want to.
(...and postin' "Me too!" like some brain-dead AOL-er...) I'd also like to see laws like "If I ask to be taken off your list, then you have to do it" expanded to cover spam.
Mistakes are fined.
If there is a mistake in the information, the information holder has to prove that they are right...
This is a tough one. The burden of proof rests on Security Inc.; too many false claims will raise the cost of business too high. So anybody that makes a false claim needs to be fined. However, since Security Inc. controls the Document(tm), it would be conceivable to run it past the Ministry of Truth and make real accusations look false.
I've also been wondering if there's a way to restrict information to legitimate people. I'm kind of nervous about a 1337 d00d being able to match my e-mail to my real-world location by claiming to do a "background check". That wouldn't work on my Hotmail address, because that was allocated after I got paranoid. (I viewed the HTML source to an ad once. I haven't considered clicking on an ad or giving 100% accurate info since.) But there are enough trusting users out there to be concerned about.
-- LoonXTall
The Linux computers in question are 148 VA Linux 501's in 8 racks, all black. And they're planning on getting more. Then they'll probably be mandating ear protection in that room; with 148 fans, the noise is already up to half-shouting-to-be-heard.
-- LoonXTall
What about "more evil than the devil" at Netscape's home page?
-- LoonXTall
If this is the game I think it is (part of Jewels of Darkness, Amiga 500), the closest thing to an easter egg would be the word "plover". It ran between the Plover Room (with glowing green walls) and the room where a hollow voice would say "plugh" once in a while. From there, "plugh" went to the cabin. Anyway, "plover" was essential for getting the tetrahedron out of the Dark Room attached to the Plover Room. (The Dark Room has a plaque in the wall saying, "Congratulations on bringing light to the Dark Room!")
I'm pretty sure there were at least two other words, "sesame" and "turn". Whenever you used a magic word out of context, it would say "Nothing happens". My brother found sesame when trying to "open sesame" the pirate chest, and I found turn while trying to get the bear out (it breaks the bridge when you try to cross) by "turn bear into frog" or something :)
A side note on the parser: to cross a bridge, it looked for the sub-pattern "cros". And trying to "hit" anything would give a message that violence was not allowed.
-- LoonXTall
How about, during a fight on the Portal stage, hit down+start after an uppercut when Dan's picture is on the screen (for the "Toasty!!") to battle Smoke in Goro's Lair.
Or the one where you defeat the guy below the '?' portrait with only low kicks and fight Jade?
Or Noob Saibot... win 50 consecutive battles in 2 player mode. (I think... been a few years)
-- LoonXTall
In Moria (the Amiga 500 version is the only one I've ever seen, but it was ported from the VAX), go into a shop. If they have exactly one page of items (a-p), purchase item 'q'. Normally, you can buy items a-q if there's two pages, and item q is just from the next page. But with no next page, you get a "nothing" for 1 gold. Nothing too spectacular, though, just a black square. I never did figure out if it did any damage when thrown at an enemy...
-- LoonXTall
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Sorry, we have no idea what you're talking about.
</sarcasm>
-- LoonXTall
Go issue some "funds"... the problem with most EEs is that I don't have time to hunt for them. (Although I did blow an hour or three looking through my A500's ROM once...)
-- LoonXTall
Eye scanners would be cool, cause to crack though, you would have to cut out the users eye, remove your glass eye, insert their's into the empty socket and crack that puppy open like a nice cold beer.
Or just hijack the scan data... it has to be stored somewhere to make a comparison, and it has to be sent there to be stored.
-- LoonXTall
They won't be willing to implement it on too many platforms, either. Then we can have a DeMCS lawsuit (de MP3 Cryptography Scheme) because Linux users want to be able to use their computers.
Wait a sec... what stops me from writing a program (in assembly) to fill the keybuffer at a particular rhythm? I'm not sure about Linux or Win32, but I know it's possible under DOS...
-- LoonXTall
The US dominates far to [sic] much in the Internet space.
If it was your country than started a small network, designing to the needs of the system, funded by your (parents'?) tax dollars... would you feel the same way?
ARPAnet was around in the 1970's. Since it is easier and cheaper to devise a non-scalable system, that's what they made... kind of like FAT12 was "big enough" for a floppy. <arrogance>So quit whining and put up the dollars to fund a better system, or come up with some ideas for (mainly US-based) companies and institutions to throw R&D money at.</arrogance>
-- LoonXTall
Nobody is overthrowing the government with firearms.
Try Scientific American's report on "the new face of war"... specifically, the section "From 100 Men to the Presidency".
-- LoonXTall
I am going to argue infinately that an armed society is a polite one.
To invoke the most basic level of morality: I would not trust myself with a gun, therefore I will not trust you with a gun.
on the job as instantly as a .45.
So when somebody gives my girl a lewd look I can bring "justice" through their chest immediately.
-- LoonXTall