I just want to say Childhood's End is one of my two favorite books (up there with Atlas Shrugged), the only book I read 14 times so far, and also the only book ever assigned to me in highschool that I actually liked!
A while back I was searching the net for stuff on Childhood's End (like lost chapters, commentary from Sir Arthur C. Clark, etc...) In my travels, I found a few rumors of movie plans! Now *that* would be amazing.
What about hardware? I'd say it would make sense (for the government anyway) if they split it between two companies: OS and consumer products & services (which would include browsers, office, internet access, and hardware).
Seriously, I wonder where they generate The List (gawd, kinda sounds like the infamous commie blacklist) from. And at what expense? What *if* they ended up with a host like '10.10.10.1/dvd' on there -- would any lawyers realize the mistake? Or would they spend thousands of dollars trying to track down that ellusive 'unclassed' user?
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//This isn't a differing-opinion-reply, just a convienent place in the conversation to rant and draw some pretty ascii drawings//
Over the weekend I was thinking about how computer users (microsoft, linux, and mac) users fit into bell curves. (Disclaimer, I'm not a statistician, and haven't even read anything like The Bell Curve).
Anyway, rate the population by their ability to use any computer and operating system, ranging from barely being able to power the system on, all the way up to people who could code assembler with their eyes shut. Then figure out the amount of each class of user, and you'll probably end up with a neat bell curve:
...effectivly leaving out the less able users (at least until they learn enough to utilize windows), as well as the high-end users, by not making their os powerful enough. As microsoft evolves, they of course are trying to widen that chunk of users, my making the OS easier to use (adding the start menu, for example), and more attractive to high-end users (directx, for example)
...and are slowly evolving downwards to accommodate the average and below-average user.
My point? For whatever reason (money in microsoft's case, or community fill-the-need purposes in Linux's case), as an OS evolves, it tends to capture more and more of a market. No "we" involved.
Whenever the subject of securing our web servers comes up at work, someone inadvertently says "We should hire one of those L0pht guys." As if you have nothing better to do than to work for a starving second-rate e-commerce IPO. My question is: Do you get job offers like this? If so, how does it feel? Do you refer them somewhere?
What was it that sysadmin said? "It cost us hundreds of thousands of dollars to reboot and repair those servers." Maybe I should hack my own site at work and tell my boss I need $300,000 to reboot the servers. Can you say new house?:)
You know, yesterday I was on the phone trying to help my mom with her windows 95 monitor settings. She works in a library, and someone changed the settings, and "now the icons are smaller". It took a good 15 minutes to clearly explain what fundemental concepts such as resolution and color depth were. Gawd, I wish she had a Mac instead...
Point: Linux is going to have to go really far in making these types of things really simple if it's going to gain acceptance in the home computing world. Let's just hope that when monitor/video card configuration becomes a standard, consistant part of linux, it's not just a mimic of a Windows application (like so many other things are).
(BTW, I censored the subject line 'cause I fear lawyers)
Dumbs users often can't tell a GET URL from a... well, anything. It's even worse on frames based sites where you can't even tell it's using GET unless you look at the source or something.
You know what it really is? Jobs is just trying to protect the feelings and egos of all his programmers. How would you feel if you poured your heart and soul into one of the many ill-fated apple projects (i.e.: Copland), only to have it killed? By taking out the easter eggs and credits, the programmers are less likely to become personally attached to future development projects that get the axe.
Yikes. Does anyone know how much of the URL is being sent to Comet? Is it possible that they are getting entire get strings? What if Comet is getting something like:
Starting with the year 2000, we'll be seeing alot of palendromic dates.. i.e.:
October 2, 2001 (10-02-2001)
of course, if you thing that using zero-padded numbers is cheating, you'll have to wait until 2101 (October 21, 2101). Then there's the eurpoeans who put the day first, but I'm american and I don't feel like figuring out the first european palendromic date.:)
Troll!?! Sheesh! I try to liven up the lives of a few people with a little laugh and what do I get? Damn, I actually thought my post was a little witty. Did someone actually take me seriously?
Is it that sarcasm now frowned upon on slashdot? 'Jeeze, I hope so!' (That was sarcasm)
Or maybe someone of the Jewish persuasion was offended, in which case I have a few things to tell you: I'm Jewish, nazism affected more than just jews, and lighten up!
Keep in mind that not all CPUs run user os's.. Perhaps it's some embedded system that isn't even positioned to compete with Microsoft Windows. (Of course, it would be competing against MS's lame attempts at an embedded os.)
Yeah, but you know what they say about having kids: they never grow up the way you want. Linus's kid will probably be totally anti-drug and work at microsoft (probably writing Windows 2030).
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They could put 2 buttons -- one for meta and one for control. /grin/
Speaking of Simpsons, does anyone know what happened to Futurama? Is it doomed to the same fate as The Critic?
ex: According to the scanner, how much is Maggie worth?
:)
In one of the aniversary episodes Troy McClure ("from such infomercials as...") says what flashes on the register is "NRA".
Grampa: "Kill the boy! Put a stake in his heart!"
Marge: "You knew Bart was a Vamipre?"
Grampa: "A Vampire!?! Ahhhhhhh!" (as he runs away)
I just want to say Childhood's End is one of my two favorite books (up there with Atlas Shrugged), the only book I read 14 times so far, and also the only book ever assigned to me in highschool that I actually liked!
A while back I was searching the net for stuff on Childhood's End (like lost chapters, commentary from Sir Arthur C. Clark, etc...) In my travels, I found a few rumors of movie plans! Now *that* would be amazing.
What about hardware? I'd say it would make sense (for the government anyway) if they split it between two companies: OS and consumer products & services (which would include browsers, office, internet access, and hardware).
Anyone making 40k+ a year ought to be smart enough to close out tags.
Of course anyone making 80k+ a year doesn't have time to close tags... Then again, I wish I was one of them!
I got dibs on the black-velvet painting of the pyramid shaped mightclub in the virtual reality world!
Someone probably left out a /TABLE tag or put a FORM tag in the wrong place.. Netscape usually decides not to draw the page..
Seriously, I wonder where they generate The List (gawd, kinda sounds like the infamous commie blacklist) from. And at what expense? What *if* they ended up with a host like '10.10.10.1/dvd' on there -- would any lawyers realize the mistake? Or would they spend thousands of dollars trying to track down that ellusive 'unclassed' user?
2 pieces of advice:
:)
1) start as a network/sysadmin and prove yourself
2) don't take advice from anyone, especially mine
Luckily for photopiers and books, there are big companies (and big lawyers) keeping them from being banned. I wish we could say the same for DeCSS.
Heh. I think you forgot:
127.0.0.1/dvd
//This isn't a differing-opinion-reply, just a convienent place in the conversation to rant and draw some pretty ascii drawings//
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......***......
.....*****.....
...*********...
.....[.....].....
.....[.***.].....
.....[.***.].....
.....[*****].....
...**[*****]**...
...effectivly leaving out the less able users (at least until they learn enough to utilize windows), as well as the high-end users, by not making their os powerful enough. As microsoft evolves, they of course are trying to widen that chunk of users, my making the OS easier to use (adding the start menu, for example), and more attractive to high-end users (directx, for example)
.[.......].......
.[.....**]*......
.[.....**]*......
.[....***]**.....
.[..*****]****...
...by appealing to the real beginner users, and over time (trying somewhat in vain at) making their OS more appealing to high end users.
.........[......]
......***[......]
......***[......]
.....****[*.....]
...******[***...]
...and are slowly evolving downwards to accommodate the average and below-average user.
Over the weekend I was thinking about how computer users (microsoft, linux, and mac) users fit into bell curves. (Disclaimer, I'm not a statistician, and haven't even read anything like The Bell Curve).
Anyway, rate the population by their ability to use any computer and operating system, ranging from barely being able to power the system on, all the way up to people who could code assembler with their eyes shut. Then figure out the amount of each class of user, and you'll probably end up with a neat bell curve:
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Whatever. Anyway, take Microsoft, who started out by trying to claim the piece of the pie:
*****[*****]*****
Mac on the other hand started low:
*[*******]*******
Linux on the other hand started out years ago by appealing to the high-end users:
*********[******]
My point? For whatever reason (money in microsoft's case, or community fill-the-need purposes in Linux's case), as an OS evolves, it tends to capture more and more of a market. No "we" involved.
Haha. Wow, that good? I wonder how it feels when the stock options kick in. :)
Whenever the subject of securing our web servers comes up at work, someone inadvertently says "We should hire one of those L0pht guys." As if you have nothing better to do than to work for a starving second-rate e-commerce IPO. My question is: Do you get job offers like this? If so, how does it feel? Do you refer them somewhere?
What was it that sysadmin said? "It cost us hundreds of thousands of dollars to reboot and repair those servers." Maybe I should hack my own site at work and tell my boss I need $300,000 to reboot the servers. Can you say new house? :)
You know, yesterday I was on the phone trying to help my mom with her windows 95 monitor settings. She works in a library, and someone changed the settings, and "now the icons are smaller". It took a good 15 minutes to clearly explain what fundemental concepts such as resolution and color depth were. Gawd, I wish she had a Mac instead...
Point: Linux is going to have to go really far in making these types of things really simple if it's going to gain acceptance in the home computing world. Let's just hope that when monitor/video card configuration becomes a standard, consistant part of linux, it's not just a mimic of a Windows application (like so many other things are).
(BTW, I censored the subject line 'cause I fear lawyers)
Dumbs users often can't tell a GET URL from a... well, anything. It's even worse on frames based sites where you can't even tell it's using GET unless you look at the source or something.
You know what it really is? Jobs is just trying to protect the feelings and egos of all his programmers. How would you feel if you poured your heart and soul into one of the many ill-fated apple projects (i.e.: Copland), only to have it killed? By taking out the easter eggs and credits, the programmers are less likely to become personally attached to future development projects that get the axe.
Yikes. Does anyone know how much of the URL is being sent to Comet? Is it possible that they are getting entire get strings? What if Comet is getting something like:
x p=0902
http://blah.com/post.cgi?uid=eyeball&password=xxx
or even worse:
http://blah.com/post.cgi?ccnum=4111111111111111&e
Starting with the year 2000, we'll be seeing alot of palendromic dates.. i.e.:
:)
October 2, 2001 (10-02-2001)
of course, if you thing that using zero-padded numbers is cheating, you'll have to wait until 2101 (October 21, 2101). Then there's the eurpoeans who put the day first, but I'm american and I don't feel like figuring out the first european palendromic date.
Troll!?! Sheesh! I try to liven up the lives of a few people with a little laugh and what do I get? Damn, I actually thought my post was a little witty. Did someone actually take me seriously?
Is it that sarcasm now frowned upon on slashdot? 'Jeeze, I hope so!' (That was sarcasm)
Or maybe someone of the Jewish persuasion was offended, in which case I have a few things to tell you: I'm Jewish, nazism affected more than just jews, and lighten up!
Keep in mind that not all CPUs run user os's.. Perhaps it's some embedded system that isn't even positioned to compete with Microsoft Windows. (Of course, it would be competing against MS's lame attempts at an embedded os.)
Yeah, but you know what they say about having kids: they never grow up the way you want. Linus's kid will probably be totally anti-drug and work at microsoft (probably writing Windows 2030).