Not a day goes by without my reading (me reading?) about x having y% of the z market by the year (2000 + w). I'd love to have the time/inclination to keep a database of these predictions and find out if any of them turned out to be actually true. When was the last time you read a press release that said 'five years ago we said this. We were right'?
Imagine; get rid of your shitbox doorstop, and you'll have a month of calculating seti@home blocks. You'd be unbeatable (until somebody did the same thing with more computers attached)
Given that movies can cost over $100m to make, the only surprise should be that this wasn't on/. years ago. I don't think anyone can have any doubt that the marketing department of the Sirius Cinema corporation are spoofing fan sites for all they're worth. For all the net's wonderfulness, spam has proved that it's just another advertising medium. And, like spam, I'm occasionally impressed by the ingenuity that's used to get me to read the mail/see the film/whatever the whatever. The only reason Harry Knowles is still influential (now that the studios all have him sussed) is that lazy journos couldn't be arsed digging deeper.
I'm all for technology, but I'm buggered if I'm going to use a PC on a chip. The built-in monitor -- even if it's built into the heat sink -- can't possibly have a resolution greater than about 30x30. That's not even enough to play tetris.
Well put. If Michael feels like a sequel, a wee piece on the social aspects of pcoac would be well worth reading. If the author doesn't want to handle it, I'm sure someone else will.
One thing... In the long run the motherboard manufacturers will do fine I respectfully disagree. In the short term they may well survive, but the market for mobos is, I fear, about a decade away from extinction. Elucidation will follow if anyone gives a shit about my opinion (not recommended).
Subjects robert is sick of #99920: Red Hat is not Microsoft. So they release bleeding edge software. Good for them. So their boxed cds are expensive. If they can sell them, good for them. Everything that comes out of Red Had Labs is GPLed. Good for them. I love Red Hat.
That instead of the poncy oedipus.com we can have motherfucker.com? Woohoo! The race is now on, of course. First, there'll be fuck.com then fuckfuck.com then fuckfuckfuck...
I can't find fault with any of his background stuff ("a system your mother could use" is a good yardstick by any standards), but his first law of robo^H^H^H^H linux use -- one distro, one wm -- is just plain not going to happen. We may see a world where people use RedHatLinux as the dominant OS, but there'll always be other flavours.
"Note: This product should not be used by children age 15 or younger. Individuals with eye or heart disease or injury or high blood pressure should consult a doctor prior to use." May cause death, epilepsy, impotence, fondness for Microsoft Works, dislike of Warner Bros. cartoons. But apart from that it's great.
You imply that this is impossible According to the alt.folklore.urban faq (my primary source for such things), it's believed false. And that's good enough for me.
The open source movement is like any other; it has its share of assholes. As was pointed out, the lack of a heirarchy is to blame for the problems mentioned, but that doesn't mean that a heirarchy is necessary, or even desirable. I would like to see the originator of a program decide on his/her successor, should one become necessary. Having said that, if we come up with the ideal solution which everyone agrees on, we'll still have to deal with the assholes of this world. They don't all work in Redmond.
The term "hacker" already passes MomTest v1.0 (i.e. with my mom) That's a good start, but let's face it; a mom is someone who'll tell all her friends that you're a Spacelord if that's what you insist you are.
Sure, it gets tiring, but somebody's gotta do it. Tiring? It's positively Sisyphean. Especially when you consider that a lot of TV editors are fully aware of the difference, but to many people cracker is a fat Scots police psychologist; a hacker is a bad guy. TV time is too precious to waste on corrections, so the error is deliberately perpetuated in the name of advertising space. About the only place you'll see the correct term is where the journo wants to belabour the point.
The distinction between "hacker" and "cracker" is a useful one I'm not saying that the distinction isn't useful, or that there isn't one. I'm saying that "hackers are bad" is one of those facts that Everyone KnowsTM. Toilets flush in the opposite direction down south, bridges collapse if soldiers don't break step, Armageddon is a great movie, hackers are evil bastards. These are truths, they're just not true.
So the original is cracked. BFD.
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Woohoo! The world is safe, unless someone manages to get their hands on the source code and come up with a variant. The report is quite sanctimonious, reflecting Rouland's attitude (I suppose). Dissing crackers in such a manner, though, is just inviting trouble.
Gosh, I suppose that this means that Microsoft are going to try and get involved in some sort of web-based television. It's a great idea; can't possibly fail.
Am I the only one who doesn't give a shit about the difference between a hacker and a cracker? I've been listening to the same sort of thing from trekkies for years ("I'm a trekker"), and I've no more sympathy for hackers than I do for trekkers. Language is a fluid thing, and it's controlled to a major extent by the media. If the TV calls you a hacker, then you're a hacker.
I suspect that our author doesn't know what a.org is; every link listed is www.x.com, and apache is the only one that doesn't have a.com address. I reckon he's a compulsive domain dipper; can't find anything that doesn't fit in the standard www.thingy.com
I order a tonne of stuff over the web, but most of the time the delivery times are pretty long; I suppose this is because of shipment times from the US to Ireland. If I could order my cornflakes over the web and be sure I had them by breakfast, I'd never leave the house again.
This page gets my nomination for worst looking page I've seen in a long time. It's even got blinking text. I suppose I'd also better say something positive. The tutorials look like they could be cool; I particularly like the sound of Physics of Electron Tunneling and Hot Electron Injection. "Hey, baby, fancy some hot electron injection?". I'll be downloading PDFs for the next hour (or at least until the page gets slashdotted).
Hands up everyone out there who wants to pay top dollar for a machine they can't upgrade? When these machines are comparable price-wise with today's vanilla boxes, they'll become viable. But until then? Nah.
I tend to think of Linux as Jet Lee's Wong Fei Hung, an all-powerful, unassuming kind of operating system that kicks ass in a subtle kind of way. Windows is more of the Jackie Chan Wong Fei Hung, arrogant, confident of its ability but ultimately destined to receive a kicking. Will W2K be Drunken Master 2? Only time will tell.
So 10000 MTOPS is the new limit... bfd. It's only going to be a few years before that limit is obsolete, and we've got to go through the same shit again.
Mandating future limits on computers based on their current ability is a waste of time.
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Not a day goes by without my reading (me reading?) about x having y% of the z market by the year (2000 + w). I'd love to have the time/inclination to keep a database of these predictions and find out if any of them turned out to be actually true.
When was the last time you read a press release that said 'five years ago we said this. We were right'?
Imagine; get rid of your shitbox doorstop, and you'll have a month of calculating seti@home blocks. You'd be unbeatable (until somebody did the same thing with more computers attached)
Given that movies can cost over $100m to make, the only surprise should be that this wasn't on /. years ago. I don't think anyone can have any doubt that the marketing department of the Sirius Cinema corporation are spoofing fan sites for all they're worth.
For all the net's wonderfulness, spam has proved that it's just another advertising medium. And, like spam, I'm occasionally impressed by the ingenuity that's used to get me to read the mail/see the film/whatever the whatever.
The only reason Harry Knowles is still influential (now that the studios all have him sussed) is that lazy journos couldn't be arsed digging deeper.
You don't _watch_ your video card to see what's going on with your machine, do you?
/. without a subject of JOKEJOKEJOKEJOKEJOKE.
Nope. And you'd think I'd know better than to post a joke to
I'll learn some day.
I'm all for technology, but I'm buggered if I'm going to use a PC on a chip. The built-in monitor -- even if it's built into the heat sink -- can't possibly have a resolution greater than about 30x30. That's not even enough to play tetris.
Well put. If Michael feels like a sequel, a wee piece on the social aspects of pcoac would be well worth reading. If the author doesn't want to handle it, I'm sure someone else will.
One thing...
In the long run the motherboard manufacturers will do fine
I respectfully disagree. In the short term they may well survive, but the market for mobos is, I fear, about a decade away from extinction.
Elucidation will follow if anyone gives a shit about my opinion (not recommended).
Subjects robert is sick of #99920: Red Hat is not Microsoft.
So they release bleeding edge software. Good for them.
So their boxed cds are expensive. If they can sell them, good for them.
Everything that comes out of Red Had Labs is GPLed. Good for them.
I love Red Hat.
That instead of the poncy oedipus.com we can have motherfucker.com? Woohoo!
The race is now on, of course. First, there'll be fuck.com
then fuckfuck.com
then fuckfuckfuck...
If anyone cares, this is my fuckiest post ever.
I can't find fault with any of his background stuff ("a system your mother could use" is a good yardstick by any standards), but his first law of robo^H^H^H^H linux use -- one distro, one wm -- is just plain not going to happen. We may see a world where people use RedHatLinux as the dominant OS, but there'll always be other flavours.
"Note: This product should not be used by children age 15 or younger. Individuals with eye or heart disease or injury or high blood pressure should consult a doctor prior to use."
May cause death, epilepsy, impotence, fondness for Microsoft Works, dislike of Warner Bros. cartoons.
But apart from that it's great.
You imply that this is impossible
According to the alt.folklore.urban faq (my primary source for such things), it's believed false.
And that's good enough for me.
Slashdotted already.
The open source movement is like any other; it has its share of assholes. As was pointed out, the lack of a heirarchy is to blame for the problems mentioned, but that doesn't mean that a heirarchy is necessary, or even desirable.
I would like to see the originator of a program decide on his/her successor, should one become necessary. Having said that, if we come up with the ideal solution which everyone agrees on, we'll still have to deal with the assholes of this world. They don't all work in Redmond.
The term "hacker" already passes MomTest v1.0 (i.e. with my mom)
That's a good start, but let's face it; a mom is someone who'll tell all her friends that you're a Spacelord if that's what you insist you are.
Sure, it gets tiring, but somebody's gotta do it.
Tiring? It's positively Sisyphean. Especially when you consider that a lot of TV editors are fully aware of the difference, but to many people cracker is a fat Scots police psychologist; a hacker is a bad guy. TV time is too precious to waste on corrections, so the error is deliberately perpetuated in the name of advertising space.
About the only place you'll see the correct term is where the journo wants to belabour the point.
The distinction between "hacker" and "cracker" is a useful one
I'm not saying that the distinction isn't useful, or that there isn't one. I'm saying that "hackers are bad" is one of those facts that Everyone KnowsTM.
Toilets flush in the opposite direction down south, bridges collapse if soldiers don't break step, Armageddon is a great movie, hackers are evil bastards. These are truths, they're just not true.
Woohoo! The world is safe, unless someone manages to get their hands on the source code and come up with a variant.
The report is quite sanctimonious, reflecting Rouland's attitude (I suppose). Dissing crackers in such a manner, though, is just inviting trouble.
Gosh, I suppose that this means that Microsoft are going to try and get involved in some sort of web-based television. It's a great idea; can't possibly fail.
Am I the only one who doesn't give a shit about the difference between a hacker and a cracker? I've been listening to the same sort of thing from trekkies for years ("I'm a trekker"), and I've no more sympathy for hackers than I do for trekkers.
Language is a fluid thing, and it's controlled to a major extent by the media. If the TV calls you a hacker, then you're a hacker.
I suspect that our author doesn't know what a .org is; every link listed is www.x.com, and apache is the only one that doesn't have a .com address. I reckon he's a compulsive domain dipper; can't find anything that doesn't fit in the standard www.thingy.com
I order a tonne of stuff over the web, but most of the time the delivery times are pretty long; I suppose this is because of shipment times from the US to Ireland. If I could order my cornflakes over the web and be sure I had them by breakfast, I'd never leave the house again.
Of course, that could be bollocks.
Only if you paint irises on them. And stand on your tip-toes.
This page gets my nomination for worst looking page I've seen in a long time. It's even got blinking text.
I suppose I'd also better say something positive. The tutorials look like they could be cool; I particularly like the sound of Physics of Electron Tunneling and Hot Electron Injection. "Hey, baby, fancy some hot electron injection?". I'll be downloading PDFs for the next hour (or at least until the page gets slashdotted).
Hands up everyone out there who wants to pay top dollar for a machine they can't upgrade? When these machines are comparable price-wise with today's vanilla boxes, they'll become viable. But until then? Nah.
I tend to think of Linux as Jet Lee's Wong Fei Hung, an all-powerful, unassuming kind of operating system that kicks ass in a subtle kind of way.
Windows is more of the Jackie Chan Wong Fei Hung, arrogant, confident of its ability but ultimately destined to receive a kicking.
Will W2K be Drunken Master 2? Only time will tell.
So 10000 MTOPS is the new limit... bfd. It's only going to be a few years before that limit is obsolete, and we've got to go through the same shit again.
Mandating future limits on computers based on their current ability is a waste of time.