...you could buy a Twiddler and relax for 40% of the price. I've rigged the furniture in similar ways back when I played red alert for about twenty hours a day. It fucks your back something awful. A good hard chair is your only man.
Any public company (except Red Hat, of course) is populated by sheep shaggers and well poisoners. This move should surprise no-one. The interesting this is now that the cat's out of the bag, will apple recant and release a firmware patch? My guess is... no.
Having said that, the unfortunate mac user quoted in the article over-reacted; "It's like a computer date rape by slipping a drug in my Mac!" Stupid similes like that do no-one any good.
Tell me, who the hell is going to stand in front of the refrigerator for 2 hours surfing the net If they put the screen on the outside, no-one. But I for one have spent days on end accidentally defrosting the fridge by standing there with the door open wondering what to make for dinner. If I surfed for recipes at the same time, I could not only have used those hours productively, I might even end up eating something else. But damn, I love cheese sandwiches.
I'll concede that two or even three people getting hit by busses is improbable; but meteors do a lot more damage, and can take out a hemisphere or more. I'd suggest to Alan that he and Linus never be in the same hemisphere at the same time, and that at least resources be devoted to a rocket that can take at least one of them to a planet far away in the event of Earth's destruction. Who knows; they may land on a planet whose sun gives them powers such as flight, x-ray vision and the ability to manipulate ip packets by thought.
if he just fixes some bugs (like fixing a typo or changing the name of a function), I think this would not be considered export, since the only things you exported were the cursor movement and character deletion keystrokes In this you'd be safe, imho, only because any anti-crypto prosecutions would be laughed out of court. If you were busted and were forced to use the 'only a few key-strokes' argument, however, you'd be skating on thin ice. After all, all programs could be considered the sum of their key-strokes, and it doesn't matter whether they were written by one person or ten; if you willingly contribute code in a foreign land you're breaking the law.
The new curve is broader and more gently sloping, suggesting that the rarest events occur more often than predicted by the bell-shaped curve. Or, as wizzards have known for years, million to one chances happen nine times out of ten.
But seriously, folks. This reminds me a lot in terms of its applicability to pretty much everything of an article in New Scientist that I also found darn interesting.
Everyone's been assuming that just because the format is crackable, no-one'll pay for it. This is the same argument people used against shareware, and while certainly 90% of people don't pay for shareware, a lot do. Of course, people are more inclined to give money to a struggling programmer than to a monolithic music corporation. However, if we were to wait for an uncrackable format, we'd wait forever. Internet music is very much happening now, and anyone who doesn't release -- in mp3, sdmi or whatever -- will be left behind.
There are ready-made solutions out there such as E-smith; you can download a cd image (or even buy the cd), and it'll install the system with extras built in; it's designed to be an 'out-of-the-box' sorta thing.
The L and X series use an embedded Linux core and include Netscape Navigator for browser-based access to Java programs Oooh, accessing java with Navigator. That'll be successful.
They obviously decided this without researching their destination; did we not see on these very pages a while ago that the reason all these nerds were single is that they're too busy making money and doing hackerish things? "Wanna go to Colonel Sanders?" "Mmmmm... kernel..."
I'd say they found the water pretty immediately; it just took this long to verify that it's wasn't contamination from earth. It was the same with alh84001; the verification (if you consider it to be such) took years.
I think we should ignore this story completely because the author referred to the borg as being in Star Trek: Generations. Pah. Dolts. I'll never read wired again.
If you're going to have to pay more when you buy blank media locally, get 'em on the internet. 'Computer media' are likely to get over the border with little problem.
I've worked on-and-off in tech support for about ten years now, and I've got to say that 'clueless user' stories tend to piss me off. Not that they're false -- I personally had a photocopy of a diskette faxed to me -- but the inherent smugness involved in telling these stories annoys me in a major way. Guess what? Computers aren't easy to use. If a secretary puts the mouse on the floor and tries using it with her foot, it's because she's used to steno equipment that looks remarkably similar. Once the mouse is expained, there's no more problem. Yes, there are a lot of morons out there who refuse to learn, and ten explanations later are still typing in their real name to log on to the computer. But the vast majority of problems are due to unfamiliarity, and are the fault of employers.
Sorry about the rant, but I've spent years grumbling on this very subject.
We've pretty much reached the stage where this is no longer news; the internet is as mainstream as it's possible to get now, and ecommerce is just seen as another option, albeit a handy one. I'm still getting used to this; I occasionally find myself surprised to see the internet mentioned on the tv news.
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The question remains: do we want to slip into our computers the way we slip into our clothing? Well, I know I do. However, this sort of thing is not practical with a keyboard. An alternative is necessary; I'd like to see something along the lines of a cyberglove that's used with a piano-like virtual keyboard; I believe the guy who invented the mouse made one of these (no urls handy, sorry) but it never took off.
I'm sorry but I don't have the time or the bandwidth to follow all of the links in this article. Neither do I. But I still consider this to be the ideal web-based article; links to everything, and you can follow up on whatever you're interested in.
Or should that be 'assimilated'? All these anti-microsoft metaphors can be hard to keep track of. As for 'loyalty'; much as I dislike microsoft, I think I'll have to leap to the poor chap's defense. I wouldn't work for Microsoft (again), neither would a bunch a people on the list, but that doesn't mean everyone feels the same way. Even if he worked for SGI, we can't assume he feels the level of antipathy some of us do. Most ms employees are perfectly decent people (although when I was there, none of them knew how to use windows).
The question has been asked for centuries, about pretty much everything. If a dead sheep in formaldehyde can be considered art (not to mention a crucifix in a tank of piss), then why not code, or even the open source paradigm? (sorry for saying 'paradigm'; it won't happen again). Whether you consider it art is a personal thing. Me? I don't, but I'm willing to listen to people who want to convert me. As for the apotheosis of Linus; every cause needs a figurehead, and it's natural for some to place that figurehead on a pedestal. It's no biggie.
As far as I'm aware, development of IRIX may be slowing, but it's far from stopping. Oh, despite ESR's tendency to assume all things good are a result of open source, it's a damn fine article.
[T]he real steps IMO need to be taken with girls while they are young This is exactly the case, and I suspect that the problem is fixing itself to a certain extent. People entering college now are among the first where female hackers/engineers are perfectly acceptable; the first who grew up where at least some were encouraged as children to take apart toasters when they felt the urge. As this attitude prevails, we'll see greater equality (of gender at least) in engineering schools.
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My gramps has a chair like that, its exactly the same! Even the handle on the side looks the same!
It was probably an analytical engine chair.
...you could buy a Twiddler and relax for 40% of the price.
I've rigged the furniture in similar ways back when I played red alert for about twenty hours a day. It fucks your back something awful. A good hard chair is your only man.
Any public company (except Red Hat, of course) is populated by sheep shaggers and well poisoners. This move should surprise no-one.
The interesting this is now that the cat's out of the bag, will apple recant and release a firmware patch? My guess is... no.
Having said that, the unfortunate mac user quoted in the article over-reacted; "It's like a computer date rape by slipping a drug in my Mac!" Stupid similes like that do no-one any good.
Tell me, who the hell is going to stand in front of the refrigerator for 2 hours surfing the net
If they put the screen on the outside, no-one. But I for one have spent days on end accidentally defrosting the fridge by standing there with the door open wondering what to make for dinner. If I surfed for recipes at the same time, I could not only have used those hours productively, I might even end up eating something else.
But damn, I love cheese sandwiches.
I'll concede that two or even three people getting hit by busses is improbable; but meteors do a lot more damage, and can take out a hemisphere or more. I'd suggest to Alan that he and Linus never be in the same hemisphere at the same time, and that at least resources be devoted to a rocket that can take at least one of them to a planet far away in the event of Earth's destruction. Who knows; they may land on a planet whose sun gives them powers such as flight, x-ray vision and the ability to manipulate ip packets by thought.
Do you want to be the one to tell Linus he can't look at the crypto code?
if he just fixes some bugs (like fixing a typo or changing the name of a function), I think this would not be considered export, since the only things you exported were the cursor movement and character deletion keystrokes
In this you'd be safe, imho, only because any anti-crypto prosecutions would be laughed out of court. If you were busted and were forced to use the 'only a few key-strokes' argument, however, you'd be skating on thin ice. After all, all programs could be considered the sum of their key-strokes, and it doesn't matter whether they were written by one person or ten; if you willingly contribute code in a foreign land you're breaking the law.
The new curve is broader and more gently sloping, suggesting that the rarest events occur more often than predicted by the bell-shaped curve.
Or, as wizzards have known for years, million to one chances happen nine times out of ten.
But seriously, folks. This reminds me a lot in terms of its applicability to pretty much everything of an article in New Scientist that I also found darn interesting.
We truly live in an ideal world when people have nothing better to worry about than whether a university must be acknowledged in some ads.
Everyone's been assuming that just because the format is crackable, no-one'll pay for it. This is the same argument people used against shareware, and while certainly 90% of people don't pay for shareware, a lot do.
Of course, people are more inclined to give money to a struggling programmer than to a monolithic music corporation. However, if we were to wait for an uncrackable format, we'd wait forever. Internet music is very much happening now, and anyone who doesn't release -- in mp3, sdmi or whatever -- will be left behind.
There are ready-made solutions out there such as E-smith; you can download a cd image (or even buy the cd), and it'll install the system with extras built in; it's designed to be an 'out-of-the-box' sorta thing.
The L and X series use an embedded Linux core and include Netscape Navigator for browser-based access to Java programs
Oooh, accessing java with Navigator. That'll be successful.
They obviously decided this without researching their destination; did we not see on these very pages a while ago that the reason all these nerds were single is that they're too busy making money and doing hackerish things?
"Wanna go to Colonel Sanders?"
"Mmmmm... kernel..."
Ah reckon this makes you the Linux-usin'est Slashdot-readin'est deputy in the, uh... damn my knowledge of us geography... mid west?
I'd say they found the water pretty immediately; it just took this long to verify that it's wasn't contamination from earth. It was the same with alh84001; the verification (if you consider it to be such) took years.
I think we should ignore this story completely because the author referred to the borg as being in Star Trek: Generations. Pah. Dolts. I'll never read wired again.
If you're going to have to pay more when you buy blank media locally, get 'em on the internet. 'Computer media' are likely to get over the border with little problem.
I've worked on-and-off in tech support for about ten years now, and I've got to say that 'clueless user' stories tend to piss me off. Not that they're false -- I personally had a photocopy of a diskette faxed to me -- but the inherent smugness involved in telling these stories annoys me in a major way.
Guess what? Computers aren't easy to use. If a secretary puts the mouse on the floor and tries using it with her foot, it's because she's used to steno equipment that looks remarkably similar. Once the mouse is expained, there's no more problem.
Yes, there are a lot of morons out there who refuse to learn, and ten explanations later are still typing in their real name to log on to the computer. But the vast majority of problems are due to unfamiliarity, and are the fault of employers.
Sorry about the rant, but I've spent years grumbling on this very subject.
We've pretty much reached the stage where this is no longer news; the internet is as mainstream as it's possible to get now, and ecommerce is just seen as another option, albeit a handy one.
I'm still getting used to this; I occasionally find myself surprised to see the internet mentioned on the tv news.
The question remains: do we want to slip into our computers the way we slip into our clothing?
Well, I know I do.
However, this sort of thing is not practical with a keyboard. An alternative is necessary; I'd like to see something along the lines of a cyberglove that's used with a piano-like virtual keyboard; I believe the guy who invented the mouse made one of these (no urls handy, sorry) but it never took off.
I'm sorry but I don't have the time or the bandwidth to follow all of the links in this article.
Neither do I. But I still consider this to be the ideal web-based article; links to everything, and you can follow up on whatever you're interested in.
Or should that be 'assimilated'? All these anti-microsoft metaphors can be hard to keep track of.
As for 'loyalty'; much as I dislike microsoft, I think I'll have to leap to the poor chap's defense. I wouldn't work for Microsoft (again), neither would a bunch a people on the list, but that doesn't mean everyone feels the same way. Even if he worked for SGI, we can't assume he feels the level of antipathy some of us do.
Most ms employees are perfectly decent people (although when I was there, none of them knew how to use windows).
The question has been asked for centuries, about pretty much everything. If a dead sheep in formaldehyde can be considered art (not to mention a crucifix in a tank of piss), then why not code, or even the open source paradigm? (sorry for saying 'paradigm'; it won't happen again). Whether you consider it art is a personal thing. Me? I don't, but I'm willing to listen to people who want to convert me.
As for the apotheosis of Linus; every cause needs a figurehead, and it's natural for some to place that figurehead on a pedestal. It's no biggie.
As far as I'm aware, development of IRIX may be slowing, but it's far from stopping.
Oh, despite ESR's tendency to assume all things good are a result of open source, it's a damn fine article.
[T]he real steps IMO need to be taken with girls while they are young
This is exactly the case, and I suspect that the problem is fixing itself to a certain extent. People entering college now are among the first where female hackers/engineers are perfectly acceptable; the first who grew up where at least some were encouraged as children to take apart toasters when they felt the urge. As this attitude prevails, we'll see greater equality (of gender at least) in engineering schools.