by a "gentleman" from the South while having a conversation in a bar about spirituality, etc. He came across the bar and said "Ah accept Jesus Chrast as mah Savioor, ahm in the 82nd Airborne and from North Carolina. What religion are you?". Our offense was we were discussing Buddhism and Hopi Indian beliefs over a fair amount of really good tequila. He got really loud and just stayed in our face for almost an hour. We had to leave the place to get away from him. Isn't religion fun? Israeli's and Arabs, Catholic and Protestant in Northern Ireland.... yeah, it does so much good in the world.
Tell Gateway, not us. Should we refer to it as "the computer formerly known as the Amiga"? If we're all raving idiots, why do you bother to post on the subject? I mean that seriously.
I loved my old Amiga 1000, although it was not the easiest thing to develop for. On the other hand, given that I actually considered buying Microsoft stock at the time instead of the Amiga, that sucker in the living room would be worth a cool $1.5M by now. (And yeah, I hate MS too.)Think about that next time you toss all your dough into a neat new machine!
One would hope that these facts might convince some of the Congress-critters and the FBI's Louis Freeh of the absurdity of their position against encryption, but I wouldn't bet on it.
First, there's a big difference between coding FOR yourself and BY yourself. Doc for anything done just for your own use doesn't matter much to the rest of the world. Assuming it's not really important to you either, don't do any doc. Fine!
If you're programming BY yourself for others they (and the guy who eventually has to maintain your wonderful creation) could use some clues as to how it works, the caveats to using it, why you did this or that, and more importantly why you DIDN'T do this or that. (A little note saying "I wasted three days investigating this other neat -looking alternate design that didn't pan out" can save you or someone else another three days later in life.)
You may even find that mapping it out a little can save you a ton of time and effort later, or assure that it'll also work with XYZ package/file format/etc. When you're working on a big project composed of hundreds of different programs, you'll be screaming for up-to-date doc on them. Given your attitude though, I don't think there's much chance you'll get hired for anything like that in the near future.
You really can't blame Red Hat too much - they were trying to give the little guys a shot at their IPO. The IPO biz is usually kept for a brokerage's big clients and lets them get in and and out and make a good deal of cash. Individual investors seldom get a chance at them.
I just got a dual-LNB RCA setup last week, and I love it. Great picture, tons of channels I never knew existed. (For instance, BBC America plays great stuff. I woke up Sunday morning and found I could watch Dr. Who!)
Pay attention when you set it up so you measure the angle correctly. Once I had that it just took a little nudging to the side to find the satellite. To get network I bought a Terk TV50 antenna. It's good enough to get ABC/CBS/NBC as well as my old cable company ever did.
BTW, DirecTV and USSB are merging, so I expect some better package options will be coming. I had to buy all the Fox sports channels to get SpeedVision (can't miss F! season!). If you're into baseball etc. you'll absolutely love it.
What was that line? Guess it needs a re-write. Home of the beaten-about-the-head-and-neck-by-insurance-compan ies-and-the-morally-righteous, land of the can-i-have-your-permission-before-i-ride-my-bike-n anny?
We all die, and few of us ever choose when. No point in arguing about how.
Hey, is there anywhere I could forward my resume? At least it sounds like you've got a rockin' crowd, y'know?
Just want to comment on that Amiga crack ;-)
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hehe Well I dunno, the Amiga had NO memory protection at all. Guru meditation errors were not unknown. (The Prevue Channel, now TV Guide Channel still uses them. I saw a Guru error on TV the other day. Scared the hell out of me.) I have an A1000 sitting right here; 30M drive, 1.5M ram, pressure-sensitive drawing tablet, compilers, everything. I figure it's worth about $725,000, because that's what the Microsoft stock I was thinking of buying instead would've been worth.
And then I got into OS/2. I guess some people never learn.:-)
A couple of years ago a guy was stopped on the NJ Turnpike for having a taillight out or something. He had $1500 on him. The cops didn't like his explanation, so they took it. No drugs, revoked license, nothing. That's all they needed - the suspicion. Then you get to have a lawyer try to get it back.
Now they target investigations by how much $$$ they'll get in cars and homes instead of by the crime. A local car dealer suspected his half-partner of shady dealings, so he bugged the guys' office. It was found, and he was charged with an illegal wiretap. Then the cops found some pot in a shoebox in his closet at home, and they tried to get him to forfeit his $500K house AND the car dealership that he had run for 20 years. Like he paid for the house by selling pot to his friends, and not from the proceeds of his $2M/mo dealership. When I told this to a Russian friend, he said "But no, that can't be. That's what they did in Russia!"
It's about $1M US, and it's basically a road-going GTP (Grand Touring Prototype) car raced on the sports car (Le Mans, etc) road circuits. Definitely capable of >200MPH. Lot's of people screw up in them because you need to be a serious driver, and they sell them to anyone with the money. Shame.
It just doesn't end with them does it? I can't wait to go somewhere else for registration. I have a transfer pending from February - forget it. I have to tell the guy to leave the site where it is, we can't get it moved. They don't respond to emails or answer the phone. It wasn't always this bad. I think they've gone off the deep end.
Hey, that was quite nice. First I said "what the heck is he talking about?" and then I got to the part about Win 3.1. How about if Bill G. said something like "OS/2 is a great operating system" and stated it would be the successor to Win 3, would that be nasty enough to convince you?:-) Lotus and WordPerfect worked on OS/2 versions of their stuff, MS did Win3, and then said "Whoops! No more OS/2 after all!" BANG. That was the end of Lotus 1-2-3 and WordPerfect. It took so long to re-groove for Windows MS Word and Excel had already taken the field. That was enough for me.
But what is the market level if there's no one else in the market? It's what they say it is.
I think the correction that needed to be done has already occurred because the DOJ did press the case. OEMs and other business partners got a little slack because MS had to play nice, Linux took off, and now we're seeing $500 PCs pre-loaded with a non-MS OS for the first time in many years. But that doesn't excuse them. They ARE a monopoly, and they DO use that power in a way that reduces choice and increases the expense for consumers. Remember a lot of that expense is not just at the point-of-sale, it comes through "required" upgrades and poorer performance from the system.
I hate to say "What he said" but in this case I have to say "What he said"! A nicely reasoned and presented argument from RMS. A contribution from somebody who sounds a hell of a lot more mature than Perens or Raymond. (Sorry, but the recent flamefest really dropped my opinion there.)
My god, what does it mean? I may have to revise my opinion of RMS! Damn!:-)
They used to have a sailplane club, and could fly hotshot physicists right in. Jimmie Carter landed there when he visited. It was also a great place to take a run on a cycle.
So I guess the gun club for skeet shooting is probably history too, eh?:-) It was an old wooden building, small but with a big room and long long table. We used to have chili cook-offs and such there. Sigh.
With all the stuff going on in the world you'd think he could pick some better topics, eh? Maybe the use of Iridium to get messages out of Kosovo or something. His own statistics would indicate to me it's a non-issue. 650 people out of 85000 filter him and he's upset? Sheesh.
I think what's more to the point is that as commerce sites start to personalize more and more you'll only be offered choices that correspond to their profile of you. It's like never getting to see the vegetarian menu because you usually get a burger. That *will* serve to unknowingly restrict your choices. A filter *you* turned on? I don't see the problem. But then again, I've never been published in Wired. (Did you know he was published in Wired?)
Your areas of disagreement seems clear to me. Simply put, you're saying blocking is bad, whether it's a personal choice or not, and they're saying it's a useful technique that helps deal with information overload. As the writer of a public column you have more of an obligation to read what people think about what you write, at least if you want to respond to your audience. As a private citizen attempting to use the net for mostly business purposes, it's up to us to do what we want. That would include being free to not get bogged down with _____. (insert your pet peeve here) Considering the level of flaming you've experienced here in the past, I'd hardly consider this a particularly hostile response to your article.
This article is a good example
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I personally don't block much because you never know when there's a valuable nugget there. This article is a good example. I don't normally bother with Mr. Katz anymore, but I don't filter him either. I can tell from the snippet on the front page if he's going to really annoy me and just don't go there. I think this is one of his better-written pieces in awhile, and if I blocked him entirely I wouldn't have read it. That said, I disagree with his basic premise - people should be free to block out others. They should of course realize that this may dilute their intellectual scope, but given that there are those who we know we don't want to deal with because they inflame or annoy us, it's not unreasonable to filter them out. Most of this is taken care of already by the mere fact that you're not likely to bother visiting a site if you know you don't agree with them. I mean, there's little point in me visiting the Aryan Nation website unless I'm looking to fight with them. I just don't do it; they're idiots and I don't have to bother reading their crap. So we practice self-selection all the time. I don't know what he's so worried about.
If you went to a descent school you'd be going DOWN! Maybe you're making $25K because you CAN'T FREAKING SPELL! EVER THINK OF THAT?! SPELLING FREAKING COUNTS, PEOPLE! Maybe the consultants just don't look like an IDIOT in written communications!
It's been said before that the main problem with having people researching plasma physics is they're researching plasma physics, not building generators. I think there's some truth in that.
was the college girls that would work there during the summer! I was like 21 at the time (1981) and we (the techs) would take half a vacation day on Fridays during the summer, get cases of wine, a keg, setup volleyball nets and have a blast out by the runway. (They have a small airport, dontcha know.) That was when the TFTR was still under construction and not too long after the gas crisis, so it seemed like there was a future in it. Nice to be working on something that was good for the planet, had great tech toys AND babes!
They probably have custom software to run the shop. That's the real benefit of Thompson/Ritchie/Kernighan/Gnu/Linux (just trying to be politcally correct...) to a large segment of middle rung companies who are big enough to write their own systems and don't need to follow Microsoft. They can do whatever they want, and if enough of these success stories happen you'll see a lot of small places willing to switch over. They just want results, and they don't want to be slave to an MS-inspired perennial upgrade. Also, they probably have profit sharing and the cost of all those MS client licenses comes out of that.:-)
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by a "gentleman" from the South while having a conversation in a bar about spirituality, etc. He came across the bar and said "Ah accept Jesus Chrast as mah Savioor, ahm in the 82nd Airborne and from North Carolina. What religion are you?". Our offense was we were discussing Buddhism and Hopi Indian beliefs over a fair amount of really good tequila. He got really loud and just stayed in our face for almost an hour. We had to leave the place to get away from him. Isn't religion fun? Israeli's and Arabs, Catholic and Protestant in Northern Ireland.... yeah, it does so much good in the world.
Tell Gateway, not us. Should we refer to it as "the computer formerly known as the Amiga"? If we're all raving idiots, why do you bother to post on the subject? I mean that seriously.
I loved my old Amiga 1000, although it was not the easiest thing to develop for. On the other hand, given that I actually considered buying Microsoft stock at the time instead of the Amiga, that sucker in the living room would be worth a cool $1.5M by now. (And yeah, I hate MS too.)Think about that next time you toss all your dough into a neat new machine!
One would hope that these facts might convince some of the Congress-critters and the FBI's Louis Freeh of the absurdity of their position against encryption, but I wouldn't bet on it.
First, there's a big difference between coding FOR yourself and BY yourself. Doc for anything done just for your own use doesn't matter much to the rest of the world. Assuming it's not really important to you either, don't do any doc. Fine!
If you're programming BY yourself for others they (and the guy who eventually has to maintain your wonderful creation) could use some clues as to how it works, the caveats to using it, why you did this or that, and more importantly why you DIDN'T do this or that. (A little note saying "I wasted three days investigating this other neat -looking alternate design that didn't pan out" can save you or someone else another three days later in life.)
You may even find that mapping it out a little can save you a ton of time and effort later, or assure that it'll also work with XYZ package/file format/etc. When you're working on a big project composed of hundreds of different programs, you'll be screaming for up-to-date doc on them. Given your attitude though, I don't think there's much chance you'll get hired for anything like that in the near future.
You really can't blame Red Hat too much - they were trying to give the little guys a shot at their IPO. The IPO biz is usually kept for a brokerage's big clients and lets them get in and and out and make a good deal of cash. Individual investors seldom get a chance at them.
No urban legend, it was authorized by Clinton. I read it in the NY Times and other "reputable" places several times.
I just got a dual-LNB RCA setup last week, and I love it. Great picture, tons of channels I never knew existed. (For instance, BBC America plays great stuff. I woke up Sunday morning and found I could watch Dr. Who!)
Pay attention when you set it up so you measure the angle correctly. Once I had that it just took a little nudging to the side to find the satellite. To get network I bought a Terk TV50 antenna. It's good enough to get ABC/CBS/NBC as well as my old cable company ever did.
BTW, DirecTV and USSB are merging, so I expect some better package options will be coming. I had to buy all the Fox sports channels to get SpeedVision (can't miss F! season!). If you're into baseball etc. you'll absolutely love it.
What was that line? Guess it needs a re-write. Home of the beaten-about-the-head-and-neck-by-insurance-compan ies-and-the-morally-righteous, land of the can-i-have-your-permission-before-i-ride-my-bike-n anny?
We all die, and few of us ever choose when. No point in arguing about how.
Hey, is there anywhere I could forward my resume? At least it sounds like you've got a rockin' crowd, y'know?
hehe Well I dunno, the Amiga had NO memory protection at all. Guru meditation errors were not unknown. (The Prevue Channel, now TV Guide Channel still uses them. I saw a Guru error on TV the other day. Scared the hell out of me.) I have an A1000 sitting right here; 30M drive, 1.5M ram, pressure-sensitive drawing tablet, compilers, everything. I figure it's worth about $725,000, because that's what the Microsoft stock I was thinking of buying instead would've been worth.
:-)
And then I got into OS/2. I guess some people never learn.
A couple of years ago a guy was stopped on the NJ Turnpike for having a taillight out or something. He had $1500 on him. The cops didn't like his explanation, so they took it. No drugs, revoked license, nothing. That's all they needed - the suspicion. Then you get to have a lawyer try to get it back.
Now they target investigations by how much $$$ they'll get in cars and homes instead of by the crime. A local car dealer suspected his half-partner of shady dealings, so he bugged the guys' office. It was found, and he was charged with an illegal wiretap. Then the cops found some pot in a shoebox in his closet at home, and they tried to get him to forfeit his $500K house AND the car dealership that he had run for 20 years. Like he paid for the house by selling pot to his friends, and not from the proceeds of his $2M/mo dealership. When I told this to a Russian friend, he said "But no, that can't be. That's what they did in Russia!"
Yeah, we know.
It's about $1M US, and it's basically a road-going GTP (Grand Touring Prototype) car raced on the sports car (Le Mans, etc) road circuits. Definitely capable of >200MPH. Lot's of people screw up in them because you need to be a serious driver, and they sell them to anyone with the money. Shame.
It just doesn't end with them does it? I can't wait to go somewhere else for registration. I have a transfer pending from February - forget it. I have to tell the guy to leave the site where it is, we can't get it moved. They don't respond to emails or answer the phone. It wasn't always this bad. I think they've gone off the deep end.
Hey, that was quite nice. First I said "what the heck is he talking about?" and then I got to the part about Win 3.1. How about if Bill G. said something like "OS/2 is a great operating system" and stated it would be the successor to Win 3, would that be nasty enough to convince you? :-)
Lotus and WordPerfect worked on OS/2 versions of their stuff, MS did Win3, and then said "Whoops! No more OS/2 after all!" BANG. That was the end of Lotus 1-2-3 and WordPerfect. It took so long to re-groove for Windows MS Word and Excel had already taken the field. That was enough for me.
But what is the market level if there's no one else in the market? It's what they say it is.
I think the correction that needed to be done has already occurred because the DOJ did press the case. OEMs and other business partners got a little slack because MS had to play nice, Linux took off, and now we're seeing $500 PCs pre-loaded with a non-MS OS for the first time in many years. But that doesn't excuse them. They ARE a monopoly, and they DO use that power in a way that reduces choice and increases the expense for consumers. Remember a lot of that expense is not just at the point-of-sale, it comes through "required" upgrades and poorer performance from the system.
I hate to say "What he said" but in this case I have to say "What he said"! A nicely reasoned and presented argument from RMS. A contribution from somebody who sounds a hell of a lot more mature than Perens or Raymond. (Sorry, but the recent flamefest really dropped my opinion there.)
:-)
My god, what does it mean? I may have to revise my opinion of RMS! Damn!
They used to have a sailplane club, and could fly hotshot physicists right in. Jimmie Carter landed there when he visited. It was also a great place to take a run on a cycle.
:-) It was an old wooden building, small but with a big room and long long table. We used to have chili cook-offs and such there. Sigh.
So I guess the gun club for skeet shooting is probably history too, eh?
With all the stuff going on in the world you'd think he could pick some better topics, eh? Maybe the use of Iridium to get messages out of Kosovo or something. His own statistics would indicate to me it's a non-issue. 650 people out of 85000 filter him and he's upset? Sheesh.
I think what's more to the point is that as commerce sites start to personalize more and more you'll only be offered choices that correspond to their profile of you. It's like never getting to see the vegetarian menu because you usually get a burger. That *will* serve to unknowingly restrict your choices. A filter *you* turned on? I don't see the problem. But then again, I've never been published in Wired. (Did you know he was published in Wired?)
Your areas of disagreement seems clear to me. Simply put, you're saying blocking is bad, whether it's a personal choice or not, and they're saying it's a useful technique that helps deal with information overload. As the writer of a public column you have more of an obligation to read what people think about what you write, at least if you want to respond to your audience. As a private citizen attempting to use the net for mostly business purposes, it's up to us to do what we want. That would include being free to not get bogged down with _____. (insert your pet peeve here) Considering the level of flaming you've experienced here in the past, I'd hardly consider this a particularly hostile response to your article.
I personally don't block much because you never know when there's a valuable nugget there. This article is a good example. I don't normally bother with Mr. Katz anymore, but I don't filter him either. I can tell from the snippet on the front page if he's going to really annoy me and just don't go there. I think this is one of his better-written pieces in awhile, and if I blocked him entirely I wouldn't have read it. That said, I disagree with his basic premise - people should be free to block out others. They should of course realize that this may dilute their intellectual scope, but given that there are those who we know we don't want to deal with because they inflame or annoy us, it's not unreasonable to filter them out. Most of this is taken care of already by the mere fact that you're not likely to bother visiting a site if you know you don't agree with them. I mean, there's little point in me visiting the Aryan Nation website unless I'm looking to fight with them. I just don't do it; they're idiots and I don't have to bother reading their crap. So we practice self-selection all the time. I don't know what he's so worried about.
Read my lips:
PERFORM PERFORM PERFORM
DECENT DECENT DECENT
If you went to a descent school you'd be going DOWN! Maybe you're making $25K because you CAN'T FREAKING SPELL! EVER THINK OF THAT?! SPELLING FREAKING COUNTS, PEOPLE! Maybe the consultants just don't look like an IDIOT in written communications!
Arrrrrggggggghhhh!!!!
It's been said before that the main problem with having people researching plasma physics is they're researching plasma physics, not building generators. I think there's some truth in that.
was the college girls that would work there during the summer! I was like 21 at the time (1981) and we (the techs) would take half a vacation day on Fridays during the summer, get cases of wine, a keg, setup volleyball nets and have a blast out by the runway. (They have a small airport, dontcha know.) That was when the TFTR was still under construction and not too long after the gas crisis, so it seemed like there was a future in it. Nice to be working on something that was good for the planet, had great tech toys AND babes!
They probably have custom software to run the shop. That's the real benefit of Thompson/Ritchie/Kernighan/Gnu/Linux (just trying to be politcally correct...) to a large segment of middle rung companies who are big enough to write their own systems and don't need to follow Microsoft. They can do whatever they want, and if enough of these success stories happen you'll see a lot of small places willing to switch over. They just want results, and they don't want to be slave to an MS-inspired perennial upgrade. Also, they probably have profit sharing and the cost of all those MS client licenses comes out of that. :-)