A further weirdness to the whole situation is the crap that Bush Sr. got from the military when he didn't push back until we got Saddam. I remember reading about middle ranking officers griping that we could have destroyed the special republican guard if Bush let the war go on just a few hours longer.
Not to mention the public. Americans thought he was weak for not following through. What a load of crap. The only reason any Arab states even began to trust us and work with us is that we didn't persist any further in Gulf War I. We said we were only pushing Saddam out of Kuwait, and we did so and we stopped. (Well. Plus a few hours to incinerate retreating soldiers maybe.) My understanding is that this restraint was not what the majority of the American public wanted.
Ok. Well maybe I'm not familiar enough with Asimov to comment. However, I can't defend any old writer's view of technology. I totally forgive that sort of error. The realization machines can represent a unified other world (the computer side of a video game console could be one with the computer side of your walkman) is the best thing that ever happened to Gibson. I don't expect anyone to have that kind of technological premonition.
The part that feels dated about PKD and Heinlein to me (and I do feel familiar enough to comment) is their ideology and worldview. They discuss interesting ideas, but they are not new ideas. It is clear that these ideas feel fresh to the authors, because their worldview is treated as a major achievement by their own novels, and it thus falls flat to me. When PKD illustrates a point about religion, it's usually something that I've heard elsewhere or realized myself. Maybe PKD started it, but it's still dated. Mercerism is... not that interesting. Move the fuck on. Man In The High Castle isn't so dated, though. He had the good fortune to set it in the present day (at the time). It suffers for other reasons, imho.
Bradbury focuses so cleanly on telling a story that even though his first full length work (Farenheit 451) was heavily influenced by the cold war, it still works for me. The Martian Chronicles still work too. I guess the pace of his books are dated. That can't be helped. He's an awfully slow read now.
They're all corny and dated. Arguably Asimov or Bradbury kindof stand the test of time without become quite as dated.
Gibson seems to understand that about his own work. Each book is a time capsule not from the future, but for the future. If you want to remember what our collective unconscious was like in 1988, read Mona Lisa Overdrive.
Pattern Recognition is very dated - it is set around the first half of 2002, and reflects a sentiment that is gone from our world already.
I think Heinlein's stuff should have been embarassingly corny even when it wasn't dated. He was still writing the same crap in the eighties, when the rest of the world had moved on completely. The Cat Who Walks Through Walls was a fun book, but get over the free love and underage girls and self-made-man bullshit already. Published in 1985. Jesus.
Sure, it's free, but it's Java.
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I guess if they use GCJ it would be all free.
Fortunately, a million people have already written Java Lander programs, so it was probably very little new programming involved.
Light on details, but cool photo in the Reg article!
It'd be a cooler photo if the dude spent an extra 15 minutes in 3DS Max. That is approximately the least realistic product pre-viz I've ever seen. I don't hold it against the Reg, because it probably never occured to them that someone would begin to think that it was supposed to be a photo.
I am losing more faith in the elected officials of Florida.
That's a joke, right? The mob stays out of Miami because the elected officials have all the lucrative territory pretty much wrapped up. All they have to do to stay elected is keep the AARP card holders scared about black people carjacking them. Woo, negroes! (Vote incumbent.)
Yes, yes there is a difference. I exaggerated. Still, if Darl thinks the shareholders can get more bang for the buck by offering up 20% of the company in a specific outcome, rather than plain old leveraged debt, that's exactly the kind of choice he's supposed to make.
If a company decides to do a new issuance of stock in order to raise more funding, it will dilute the existing shareholder's stake in the company. However, their stakes will be increased in value by the amount of funding that they raise. It is OK for a CEO to decide to dilute the shareholder's interest in the company if it will ultimately be in their best interest, and such cases exist. SkipperDarl thinks this is one of those cases.
So yes, a company does sell itself. All the damn time.
Ah, you're a jackass;) I said originally "Especially given that line noise will autoformat and compile under VB, " and he said perl counted too.
EMACS doesn't fix your capitalization and correct typos for you. It'll autoindent and do keyword completion, and I know how bloated it is, but it's still not quite as clippified as Visual Studio.
1. Spurious characters due to electrical noise in a communications link, especially an EIA-232 serial connection. Line noise may be induced by poor connections, interference or crosstalk from other circuits, electrical storms, cosmic rays, or (notionally) birds crapping on the phone wires.
2. Any chunk of data in a file or elsewhere that looks like the results of electrical line noise.
3. Text that is theoretically a readable text or program source but employs syntax so bizarre that it looks like line noise. Yes, there are languages this ugly. The canonical example is TECO, whose input syntax is often said to be indistinguishable from line noise. Other non-WYSIWYG editors, such as Multics "qed" and Unix "ed", in the hands of a real hacker, also qualify easily, as do deliberately obfuscated languages such as INTERCAL.
(I'll point out that VB is nothing like those languages. But if you type gibberish, it will autocorrect until you've got a running program. Almost.)
I've spent 10+ years writing VB code, and I'm sure everyone will agree that there's a difference -- even in "high level" languages -- between throwing together something that will compile vs. designing a tool that does what your client needs done.
Especially given that line noise will autoformat and compile under VB.
This would, however, imply that the legal victory is damaging to SCO in a way that was unanticipated, and should cause a larger decrease in share price. If IBM's legal victory was expected, then SCO's share price would have already taken it into account.
I see your point though. I think it's less a case of bias, and simply a mild error. We know all the technical issues like the back of our hand after reading all these articles and comments. It's unsurprising that a reporter would make a few screwups.
While this particular arrangement is uncommon, your objections to it would apply in any case of a stock issuance. Whether SCO's lawyers are paid in cash or in stock makes no difference to the shareholders.
Yes, of course the CEO can do this. If it is obviously not in the best interest of the shareholders they can sue him, but it could easily be in the best interest of the shareholders.
This deal was disclosed in exactly the fashion that it should have been as far as I can tell. And it was a judgment call on the part of the CEO. Exactly the type of thing he's paid for.
Also, if spammers are using distributed networks of hijacked computers, you might get the same spam from two different systems. It might be worthwhile to collect the full text of the spam you get on your tarpit machine so that you can use the hashes to identify spam sent via other methods.
According to this dude's travelogue in North Korea, the majority of the Pachinko parlors in Japan are owned by Korean Japanese folks, and they send a bunch of their profits off to the DPRK. While the bulk of their money may go to basic human services, and I don't necessarily have a problem with this relationship, it's still interesting. Does anyone know if Sammy is one of these North Korea supporting companies? Does anyone know if they're sending money off to the Dear Leader, or how much?
Please, don't quote me on this. I have no idea if the above link is accurate or not. If someone else out there has any specific information, then I'll be a little more confident in that travelogue source.
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IBM should comply with discovery by giving SCO a text file containing binary code converted to ascii "i" and "o".
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A further weirdness to the whole situation is the crap that Bush Sr. got from the military when he didn't push back until we got Saddam. I remember reading about middle ranking officers griping that we could have destroyed the special republican guard if Bush let the war go on just a few hours longer.
Not to mention the public. Americans thought he was weak for not following through. What a load of crap. The only reason any Arab states even began to trust us and work with us is that we didn't persist any further in Gulf War I. We said we were only pushing Saddam out of Kuwait, and we did so and we stopped. (Well. Plus a few hours to incinerate retreating soldiers maybe.) My understanding is that this restraint was not what the majority of the American public wanted.
Ok. Well maybe I'm not familiar enough with Asimov to comment. However, I can't defend any old writer's view of technology. I totally forgive that sort of error. The realization machines can represent a unified other world (the computer side of a video game console could be one with the computer side of your walkman) is the best thing that ever happened to Gibson. I don't expect anyone to have that kind of technological premonition.
The part that feels dated about PKD and Heinlein to me (and I do feel familiar enough to comment) is their ideology and worldview. They discuss interesting ideas, but they are not new ideas. It is clear that these ideas feel fresh to the authors, because their worldview is treated as a major achievement by their own novels, and it thus falls flat to me. When PKD illustrates a point about religion, it's usually something that I've heard elsewhere or realized myself. Maybe PKD started it, but it's still dated. Mercerism is... not that interesting. Move the fuck on. Man In The High Castle isn't so dated, though. He had the good fortune to set it in the present day (at the time). It suffers for other reasons, imho.
Bradbury focuses so cleanly on telling a story that even though his first full length work (Farenheit 451) was heavily influenced by the cold war, it still works for me. The Martian Chronicles still work too. I guess the pace of his books are dated. That can't be helped. He's an awfully slow read now.
The one year chart is so much more convincing.
They're all corny and dated. Arguably Asimov or Bradbury kindof stand the test of time without become quite as dated.
Gibson seems to understand that about his own work. Each book is a time capsule not from the future, but for the future. If you want to remember what our collective unconscious was like in 1988, read Mona Lisa Overdrive.
Pattern Recognition is very dated - it is set around the first half of 2002, and reflects a sentiment that is gone from our world already.
I think Heinlein's stuff should have been embarassingly corny even when it wasn't dated. He was still writing the same crap in the eighties, when the rest of the world had moved on completely. The Cat Who Walks Through Walls was a fun book, but get over the free love and underage girls and self-made-man bullshit already. Published in 1985. Jesus.
I guess if they use GCJ it would be all free.
Fortunately, a million people have already written Java Lander programs, so it was probably very little new programming involved.
Light on details, but cool photo in the Reg article!
It'd be a cooler photo if the dude spent an extra 15 minutes in 3DS Max. That is approximately the least realistic product pre-viz I've ever seen. I don't hold it against the Reg, because it probably never occured to them that someone would begin to think that it was supposed to be a photo.
Scuze me.
I am losing more faith in the elected officials of Florida.
That's a joke, right? The mob stays out of Miami because the elected officials have all the lucrative territory pretty much wrapped up. All they have to do to stay elected is keep the AARP card holders scared about black people carjacking them. Woo, negroes! (Vote incumbent.)
I really couldn't say.
Yes, yes there is a difference. I exaggerated. Still, if Darl thinks the shareholders can get more bang for the buck by offering up 20% of the company in a specific outcome, rather than plain old leveraged debt, that's exactly the kind of choice he's supposed to make.
If a company decides to do a new issuance of stock in order to raise more funding, it will dilute the existing shareholder's stake in the company. However, their stakes will be increased in value by the amount of funding that they raise. It is OK for a CEO to decide to dilute the shareholder's interest in the company if it will ultimately be in their best interest, and such cases exist. SkipperDarl thinks this is one of those cases.
So yes, a company does sell itself. All the damn time.
Ah, you're a jackass ;) I said originally "Especially given that line noise will autoformat and compile under VB, " and he said perl counted too.
EMACS doesn't fix your capitalization and correct typos for you. It'll autoindent and do keyword completion, and I know how bloated it is, but it's still not quite as clippified as Visual Studio.
From the Jargon File: Line Noise
1. Spurious characters due to electrical noise in a communications link, especially an EIA-232 serial connection. Line noise may be induced by poor connections, interference or crosstalk from other circuits, electrical storms, cosmic rays, or (notionally) birds crapping on the phone wires.
2. Any chunk of data in a file or elsewhere that looks like the results of electrical line noise.
3. Text that is theoretically a readable text or program source but employs syntax so bizarre that it looks like line noise. Yes, there are languages this ugly. The canonical example is TECO, whose input syntax is often said to be indistinguishable from line noise. Other non-WYSIWYG editors, such as Multics "qed" and Unix "ed", in the hands of a real hacker, also qualify easily, as do deliberately obfuscated languages such as INTERCAL.
(I'll point out that VB is nothing like those languages. But if you type gibberish, it will autocorrect until you've got a running program. Almost.)
I don't know of an IDE that autoformats perl. Otherwise, yeah, totally.
And I'm a VB guy. I kid because I care.
I've spent 10+ years writing VB code, and I'm sure everyone will agree that there's a difference -- even in "high level" languages -- between throwing together something that will compile vs. designing a tool that does what your client needs done.
Especially given that line noise will autoformat and compile under VB.
IBM scored a surprise legal victory...
This would, however, imply that the legal victory is damaging to SCO in a way that was unanticipated, and should cause a larger decrease in share price. If IBM's legal victory was expected, then SCO's share price would have already taken it into account.
I see your point though. I think it's less a case of bias, and simply a mild error. We know all the technical issues like the back of our hand after reading all these articles and comments. It's unsurprising that a reporter would make a few screwups.
Sure, a -$2 week. But keep it in perspective. This has still (so far) been a profitable endeavor on their parts.
While this particular arrangement is uncommon, your objections to it would apply in any case of a stock issuance. Whether SCO's lawyers are paid in cash or in stock makes no difference to the shareholders.
Yes, of course the CEO can do this. If it is obviously not in the best interest of the shareholders they can sue him, but it could easily be in the best interest of the shareholders.
This deal was disclosed in exactly the fashion that it should have been as far as I can tell. And it was a judgment call on the part of the CEO. Exactly the type of thing he's paid for.
In retrospect, if I wanted to get modded down, I should have acted more idiotic. Something like, "Hey, dudes, mod this comment up too!"
Nothing works like reverse psychology.
Is the typo in your sig a joke or an example?
Don't drop the connection. Tarpit.
Also, if spammers are using distributed networks of hijacked computers, you might get the same spam from two different systems. It might be worthwhile to collect the full text of the spam you get on your tarpit machine so that you can use the hashes to identify spam sent via other methods.
(None of these are new ideas of course.)
A lot of the 409 scammers employ people for very little money to manually copy and paste scam email text into hotmail and yahoo accounts.
So it's just fine for sending bulk when people only cost $5/day.
Ok. Whoever modded my comment up is a jackass too.
Whoever modded parent down is a jackass.
And I don't mind taking the karma hit to say so.
According to this dude's travelogue in North Korea, the majority of the Pachinko parlors in Japan are owned by Korean Japanese folks, and they send a bunch of their profits off to the DPRK. While the bulk of their money may go to basic human services, and I don't necessarily have a problem with this relationship, it's still interesting. Does anyone know if Sammy is one of these North Korea supporting companies? Does anyone know if they're sending money off to the Dear Leader, or how much?
Please, don't quote me on this. I have no idea if the above link is accurate or not. If someone else out there has any specific information, then I'll be a little more confident in that travelogue source.
IBM should comply with discovery by giving SCO a text file containing binary code converted to ascii "i" and "o".