Actually, Finland had a king for a very short period of time just after the Finnish Civil War (you probably never heard of this - it was basically a whole bunch of capitalist and communist armed cadres fighting for control of the country - it was also very short and wasn't particularly bloody as wars go). The founders of the independant Finnish state temporarily lost faith in the Finnish people and invited a German prince to come to Finland to become the Finnish king. Soon afterwards, the Finnish king was promptly and unceremoniously booted out of power when the Germans lost WWI.
Considering the content of your post, I would have to say that the M-x spook.signature was slightly redundant.
Love,
Jeremy
(a pacifist moderate socialist hacker)
(oh, how boring, I know)
Well, I am a pacifist to a good extent, but I might not be so pacifist if the US becomes a fascist or near-fascist nation (which it is currently heading towards).
Look, I'm not going to start shooting at people. I should have just stated that there are a whole lot of fascist politicians (eg Pat Buchanan, Henry Hyde (the guy who proposed a gov't censorship organization which would make the US look like the Soviet Union when it still existed)), heads of industry (the people who run the companies who exploit people in 3rd world countries and do corporate crime at home (eg HMOs trying to take away your coverage while increasing the costs of your coverage)), priests and ministers (all those creationists, fascists, and anti-abortion people) who I quite thoroughly hate. I stated that I would not mind if they were the targets of a revolution. I didn't say that I'd be shooting at them. I didn't even say that I'd try to start a revolution.
There is going to be no communist revolution in the US. It's more likely that a socialist revolution will occur. And if there is one, we techies won't be the target. The target will be the traditional media, religion, capitalist industry, right-wing politicos, members of the Fascist Party of America (also known as the Republican party), captains of industry, and other things that make up the ruling class. Remember that techies are not the source of the oppression. It is the political and economic system and the people behind it that are the source of the oppression. I'm a hacker, and I'm also a socialist. If the revolution was to happen, I'd probably start intentionally throwing fuel into the flames. Remember that Richard Stallman is not a rich capitalist. Also, you should realize that killing all the hackers and techies in this country would not do anything to help the revolution. On the other hand, there is a good number of politicians, heads of industry, priests, and ministers of which I wouldn't mind their being taken out into the streets and getting shot. Their demise would probably help socialism. There has been cases of leftist intellectuals getting shot in revolutions, but I've not seen any cases in which this has actually helped those revolutions.
Finland isn't a third-world country. Finland is first-world country, and has been for a long time. If you call Finland a third-world country, you might as well say that Sweden and Canada are third-world countries. It would be very hard to say that Finland is a second-world country.
The person's point was that we might have to build entire new networks to get around this censorship. A good example is to try to rebuild the old UUCPNET. Yes, the UUCPNET was slow as hell, but that is better than the Internet if you can't speak freely on the Internet. Or even if you don't recreate the UUCPNET, try to build a new network which is public but is not accessable to the general public so it doesn't catch the government's eye. Slowly transported freedom of speech is better than no freedom of speech at all.
I can't picture it. Sun has made too much of a commitment to Solaris and is still profiting from it. And as much as I like Linux in particular and open source software in general, I must admit that Solaris is a quality product that doesn't need to be abandoned.
But then, you have to remember, IBM ditched its own web server software in favor of Apache, even though it had invested tons of money and resources into its own web server software.
The article is refering to *hardware* multithreading, not software multithreading. The holy grail in the industry is implementing multithreading (not just multiprocessing) in hardware. What they're trying to do is remove the implementation of multithreading from the operating system level and transfer it to the hardware level, which would allow extremely fast thread switching, which would significantly increase speed and efficiency.
AntiSniff detects the *lag* that is produced when packets pass *through* machines which are being sniffed. Any extra processing of packets moving through, such as logging or sniffing adds lag to the amount of lag the machine causes. AntiSniff detects the lag caused by storing sniffed packets.
At least to me, it seems like the standard for GUIs for Linux will just be everything runs things that use pure GTK+, without any GNOME specific stuff like GNOME specific widgets or GUILE. Pure GTK+ is cool, but GNOME tends to get too big and complex when you start going into things like GUILE.
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It's not the things against television that irk most people, it's the idea of a media history record. That I think is just plain evil.
Remote control and disabling of software won't work in the real world because people will just put up programs that will block such remote control or disabling packets, or will simulate their existance if necessary. You'd probably see ISPs start selling blocking services to disable such remote control and/or disabling.
This is not going to really happen. Look at how the NC pretty much failed and how Oracle's predictions of a world of NCs have not turned out at all, even though they have been predicting for the last five years. Remember that people like to own things, not rent things. Corporations won't like such things because of security reasons, higher costs, lack of control, etc. If Micro$oft takes this approach, they'll just lose a *lot* of money and end up helping Open Source Software. Where are people going to get C/C++ compilers for FPGA machines? They won't. Even if Micro$oft can provide office and M$IE for such a machine, where will people get software that Micro$oft doesn't produce if Micro$oft makes all the software? People won't like it when they can't play Quake n (whatever roman numeral you feel is high enough) on their new machine. People won't like it when you can't listen to MP3s while working in 3 documents at once. A little handheld device with an FPGA chip won't be able to do multitasking very well, unless the FPGA chip has some built in mechanism for network swapping. Where will people put the porn that they look at while wanking? This little handheld machine approach won't work in the real world.
Doesn't Micro$oft realize that this will only help open source software because it will make people not want to use Micro$oft software if they have to constantly pay for it. Most people prefer to just pay for a software product once, or even better, not pay for it at all (free software!)! Companies would be much more likely to use open source software or at least non-Micro$oft software because of all the costs incurred by heavy use of the software. Even if the rates were very cheap, the amount of usage would be so high that large costs would add up really fast. That would probably be enough to make the people who run businesses get a clue and only use open source software.
Fox Mulder isn't a Liberal geek, he's a Libertarian geek. But then, the Lone Gunmen are far more geeky than Mulder. Of course, the Fox Mulder and the Lone Gunmen are my favorite characters from the X-Files.
+ Devoutly atheist + Fiscally left-wing, but with libertarian tendencies around things like tariffs which are protective of corporations, but doesn't help labor (Libertarian-leaning Socialist) + Socially left-wing (if people want their pot, they can have the pot - I don't give a shit)
I probably fit the mold of the average geek very well. According to the Libertarian Party's little political quiz, I'm a slightly Libertarian leaning Left-Liberal.
The previous draft versions of HTTP 1.1 are flawed and are not fully standardized. Implementations of draft HTTP 1.1 are inconsistant and partial. The standardization of HTTP 1.1 is the actual full, standard, final version of HTTP 1.1. It addresses many issues ignored by RFC 2068 (draft HTTP 1.1).
MacOS tends to crash a lot, but it usually crashes when the computer does something specific, and if it does not crash the first time it usually doesn't crash the next. It either crashes immediately, or keeps on running. On the other hand, NT has a real tendency to randomly crash here or there. MacOS's crash proneness is do to its lack of memory protection, not its design in general. MacOS crashes because applications running under it crash, taking down the whole system. It is usually not MacOS itself which crashes, and when MacOS itself does crash, it is because a buggy piece of software corrupted the operating system in memory or data the operating system needs.
If Apache is incorporating, it means that it can IPO at a later date. If Apache IPOs, it can be gobbled up by IBM or Microsoft or have itself controlled by its shareholders. Also, Apache incorporating hints to a future time at which Apache won't be free anymore. The Apache Group should be set up as an organization but not as a corporation.
Yeah, the speed of IIS on NT and Apache on Linux doesn't actually matter in reality because the size of the pipe used will limit the speed to a much smaller number anyways, unless you have a ridiculously large pipe (multiple OC3s, anyone?). This difference will only matter if someone sets up a box with a ridiculously large pipe, which most sites don't have. Most sites which host large numbers of other sites don't have that kind of bandwidth. This all really cuts down the significance of the Mindcraft studies, even if they were perfectly legitimate. So what that Apache on Linux was slower than IIS on NT, because that doesn't matter in reality!
There are systems with things like OpenBIOS today. There is Open Firmware, which is on machines sold by Apple and Sun Microsystems. I don't want to mention anything about Open Firmware internals here, but hardware drivers are included on ROMs with Open Firmware, and it is Open Firmware's job to load these drivers and tell them to initialize various parts of the hardware. Open Firmware is not hardware specific. The drivers that it calls, however, are.
It's not Microworkz's fault that they got swamped. Microworkz wasn't anticipating such a large number of orders. You should have wrote this in your post. Did you actually read the article?
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Actually, Finland had a king for a very short period of time just after the Finnish Civil War (you probably never heard of this - it was basically a whole bunch of capitalist and communist armed cadres fighting for control of the country - it was also very short and wasn't particularly bloody as wars go). The founders of the independant Finnish state temporarily lost faith in the Finnish people and invited a German prince to come to Finland to become the Finnish king. Soon afterwards, the Finnish king was promptly and unceremoniously booted out of power when the Germans lost WWI.
Considering the content of your post, I would have to say that the M-x spook .signature was slightly redundant.
Love,
Jeremy
(a pacifist moderate socialist hacker)
(oh, how boring, I know)
Well, I am a pacifist to a good extent, but I might not be so pacifist if the US becomes a fascist or near-fascist nation (which it is currently heading towards).
Look, I'm not going to start shooting at people. I should have just stated that there are a whole lot of fascist politicians (eg Pat Buchanan, Henry Hyde (the guy who proposed a gov't censorship organization which would make the US look like the Soviet Union when it still existed)), heads of industry (the people who run the companies who exploit people in 3rd world countries and do corporate crime at home (eg HMOs trying to take away your coverage while increasing the costs of your coverage)), priests and ministers (all those creationists, fascists, and anti-abortion people) who I quite thoroughly hate. I stated that I would not mind if they were the targets of a revolution. I didn't say that I'd be shooting at them. I didn't even say that I'd try to start a revolution.
There is going to be no communist revolution in the US. It's more likely that a socialist revolution will occur. And if there is one, we techies won't be the target. The target will be the traditional media, religion, capitalist industry, right-wing politicos, members of the Fascist Party of America (also known as the Republican party), captains of industry, and other things that make up the ruling class. Remember that techies are not the source of the oppression. It is the political and economic system and the people behind it that are the source of the oppression. I'm a hacker, and I'm also a socialist. If the revolution was to happen, I'd probably start intentionally throwing fuel into the flames. Remember that Richard Stallman is not a rich capitalist. Also, you should realize that killing all the hackers and techies in this country would not do anything to help the revolution. On the other hand, there is a good number of politicians, heads of industry, priests, and ministers of which I wouldn't mind their being taken out into the streets and getting shot. Their demise would probably help socialism. There has been cases of leftist intellectuals getting shot in revolutions, but I've not seen any cases in which this has actually helped those revolutions.
Finland isn't a third-world country. Finland is first-world country, and has been for a long time. If you call Finland a third-world country, you might as well say that Sweden and Canada are third-world countries. It would be very hard to say that Finland is a second-world country.
The person's point was that we might have to build entire new networks to get around this censorship. A good example is to try to rebuild the old UUCPNET. Yes, the UUCPNET was slow as hell, but that is better than the Internet if you can't speak freely on the Internet. Or even if you don't recreate the UUCPNET, try to build a new network which is public but is not accessable to the general public so it doesn't catch the government's eye. Slowly transported freedom of speech is better than no freedom of speech at all.
I can't picture it. Sun has made too much of a commitment to Solaris and is still profiting from it. And as much as I like Linux in particular and open source software in general, I must admit that Solaris is a quality product that doesn't need to be abandoned.
But then, you have to remember, IBM ditched its own web server software in favor of Apache, even though it had invested tons of money and resources into its own web server software.
Does Red Hat not make its own changes to the kernel distributed with the rest of their distribution?
Also, you can say that each distribution is a fragmentation. You can't run Red Hat programs on Slackware due to libc problems, that sort of thing.
Well, ever heard of *recompiling*?
The article is refering to *hardware* multithreading, not software multithreading. The holy grail in the industry is implementing multithreading (not just multiprocessing) in hardware. What they're trying to do is remove the implementation of multithreading from the operating system level and transfer it to the hardware level, which would allow extremely fast thread switching, which would significantly increase speed and efficiency.
AntiSniff detects the *lag* that is produced when packets pass *through* machines which are being sniffed. Any extra processing of packets moving through, such as logging or sniffing adds lag to the amount of lag the machine causes. AntiSniff detects the lag caused by storing sniffed packets.
At least to me, it seems like the standard for GUIs for Linux will just be everything runs things that use pure GTK+, without any GNOME specific stuff like GNOME specific widgets or GUILE. Pure GTK+ is cool, but GNOME tends to get too big and complex when you start going into things like GUILE.
It's not the things against television that irk most people, it's the idea of a media history record. That I think is just plain evil.
Remote control and disabling of software won't work in the real world because people will just put up programs that will block such remote control or disabling packets, or will simulate their existance if necessary. You'd probably see ISPs start selling blocking services to disable such remote control and/or disabling.
This is not going to really happen. Look at how the NC pretty much failed and how Oracle's predictions of a world of NCs have not turned out at all, even though they have been predicting for the last five years. Remember that people like to own things, not rent things. Corporations won't like such things because of security reasons, higher costs, lack of control, etc. If Micro$oft takes this approach, they'll just lose a *lot* of money and end up helping Open Source Software. Where are people going to get C/C++ compilers for FPGA machines? They won't. Even if Micro$oft can provide office and M$IE for such a machine, where will people get software that Micro$oft doesn't produce if Micro$oft makes all the software? People won't like it when they can't play Quake n (whatever roman numeral you feel is high enough) on their new machine. People won't like it when you can't listen to MP3s while working in 3 documents at once. A little handheld device with an FPGA chip won't be able to do multitasking very well, unless the FPGA chip has some built in mechanism for network swapping. Where will people put the porn that they look at while wanking? This little handheld machine approach won't work in the real world.
Doesn't Micro$oft realize that this will only help open source software because it will make people not want to use Micro$oft software if they have to constantly pay for it. Most people prefer to just pay for a software product once, or even better, not pay for it at all (free software!)! Companies would be much more likely to use open source software or at least non-Micro$oft software because of all the costs incurred by heavy use of the software. Even if the rates were very cheap, the amount of usage would be so high that large costs would add up really fast. That would probably be enough to make the people who run businesses get a clue and only use open source software.
READ THE FUCKING SOURCE!
Fox Mulder isn't a Liberal geek, he's a Libertarian geek. But then, the Lone Gunmen are far more geeky than Mulder. Of course, the Fox Mulder and the Lone Gunmen are my favorite characters from the X-Files.
I'm
+ Devoutly atheist
+ Fiscally left-wing, but with libertarian tendencies around things like tariffs which are protective of corporations, but doesn't help labor (Libertarian-leaning Socialist)
+ Socially left-wing (if people want their pot, they can have the pot - I don't give a shit)
I probably fit the mold of the average geek very well. According to the Libertarian Party's little
political quiz, I'm a slightly Libertarian leaning
Left-Liberal.
Digirati sounds way too elitist.
The previous draft versions of HTTP 1.1 are flawed and are not fully standardized. Implementations of draft HTTP 1.1 are inconsistant and partial. The standardization of HTTP 1.1 is the actual full, standard, final version of HTTP 1.1. It addresses many issues ignored by RFC 2068 (draft HTTP 1.1).
MacOS tends to crash a lot, but it usually crashes when the computer does something specific, and if it does not crash the first time it usually doesn't crash the next. It either crashes immediately, or keeps on running. On the other hand, NT has a real tendency to randomly crash here or there. MacOS's crash proneness is do to its lack of memory protection, not its design in general. MacOS crashes because applications running under it crash, taking down the whole system. It is usually not MacOS itself which crashes, and when MacOS itself does crash, it is because a buggy piece of software corrupted the operating system in memory or data the operating system needs.
If Apache is incorporating, it means that it can IPO at a later date. If Apache IPOs, it can be gobbled up by IBM or Microsoft or have itself controlled by its shareholders. Also, Apache incorporating hints to a future time at which Apache won't be free anymore. The Apache Group should be set up as an organization but not as a corporation.
Yeah, the speed of IIS on NT and Apache on Linux doesn't actually matter in reality because the size of the pipe used will limit the speed to a much smaller number anyways, unless you have a ridiculously large pipe (multiple OC3s, anyone?). This difference will only matter if someone sets up a box with a ridiculously large pipe, which most sites don't have. Most sites which host large numbers of other sites don't have that kind of bandwidth. This all really cuts down the significance of the Mindcraft studies, even if they were perfectly legitimate. So what that Apache on Linux was slower than IIS on NT, because that doesn't matter in reality!
There are systems with things like OpenBIOS today. There is Open Firmware, which is on machines sold by Apple and Sun Microsystems. I don't want to mention anything about Open Firmware internals here, but hardware drivers are included on ROMs with Open Firmware, and it is Open Firmware's job to load these drivers and tell them to initialize various parts of the hardware. Open Firmware is not hardware specific. The drivers that it calls, however, are.
It's not Microworkz's fault that they got swamped. Microworkz wasn't anticipating such a large number of orders. You should have wrote this in your post. Did you actually read the article?