Oddly enough, I remember that after the Sept. 11 attacks I read a story about Majestic shutting down. Basic point being "Government Conspiracies and terrorism are not appropriate subject matter in light of the attacks."
I was actually considering playing the game, and with that announcement gave up on it. From reading the other posts, I'm glad I didn't.
I could mention millions of things that have bandied about the moniker of "Just choose a different runtime assembly". One was Java, and that has been a nightmare.
The problem comes with inexperienced or lazy programmers. Most of the.NET programming will come from Windows programmers who will read this line in their book: "While it is easy to make C# code work across many different implementations, 90% of your user base is running Windows, so just comment out those lines about "if (OS != Win) {};".
Even if 90% of.NET services are written properly, the other 10% still stands a pretty good chance of alienating less technical users.
Microsoft is not the one making technology a pain in the buttinski, it's the legions of "Web Developers" who learned everything from two Sybex books and a weekend class at Comp USA.
MS never put a gun to your head and made you include that marquee tag did they??
Jason
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A CD Drive is $300?? I just bought a cd-re-writer for $84.00. Give me your address, and I'll send one to you half price, only $150. Whatta Deal.
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Locked into Linux?? You flash the EEPROM to load Linux BIOS, flash it back to OEM for Windows... What's the problem again??
The biggest problem I could even forsee would be boards with an integrated RAID controller. The OEM updates contain the RAID bios updates and can wipe your RAID settings. Use RAID 1 and select rebuild, problem solved.
Since when should the BIOS not be optimized for the software?? The x86 BIOS has been the bitch of Windows ever since they started making plug-n-pray a part of it. ACPI was supposed to implement the "Instant On" feature in Win98. (Which still doesn't work in XP.)
The reality of it is that the BIOS should be flexible enough to be modified to run what you need. The open source nature of this BIOS may eventually provide a "royalty-free" product that doesn't force manufacturers to pay BIOS licensing. In addition, manufacturers also have the option of modifying the BIOS to do more than fix bugs.
Friends, there are more BIOSes out there than the x86, and everything doesn't "work like Windows". I can't friggin' stand this new generation of "geeks" who think the computer began and ended with Wintel. Same wackos who have never seen a board with jumpers, think VB is a kick-ass lang., and think the DOS prompt is what causes crackers to attack people. The x86 for the most part is a cheap kludge swimming in a sea of cruft.
The real question is this.... When will we get past 15 IRQ's??
~Hammy
"I write the mooky, my verse is Xtra spooky"
MR. Xcitement
nothing4sale.org
Of course, inorder to get that $30 cable modem, you have to get the digital cable. Which means you must purchase "Music Choice", the hispanic transsexual channel, and CSPAN 1&2. Sounds like that friggin' X-box deal to me.
Letting the phone companies and cable companies "Own" the telephone and cable infrastructure would be like letting GM "Own" the roads. You can still drive on them with a Honda, but GM gets 50% of Honda's profit when they sell you that car. (Road licensing fees)
Microsoft is an active monopolist for the simple reason that the price of entry for a competitor is so small. They control the OEM channels which are the roads to the average consumer. The phone companies don't have to stifle competition, because not only do they own the lines, but a competitor would probably never even be able to run lines even if he could afford it.
This is the main reason that so many companies are finding the wireless option so attractive, even though the reality is that wireless sucks for anything beyond hooking up a laptop to the company hub.
I personally believe that all critical infrastructure should be the property of the people. The roads, the electric wires, the plumbing, Mae east and west, all of it. The government paid for most of it to begin with.
I also believe that proprietary software has no place in our govt.
~Hammy
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I have personally had miserable experiences with the Archos MP3 recorder. I am still awaiting shipment of my #4, after a poor history.
I purchased directly from Archos.
#1: Charging Jack on the unit was loose and finally shorted completely. Took Archos a month to get on the ball and issue an RMA.
#2: Badly beaten refurb was sent out. HD errors out the wazoo, caused a bus storm if hooked to the computer.
#3: Slightly bruised refurb. Played for 5 minutes (exactly) and locked up. Every time.
Aside from the poor reliability, the jukeboxes have problems with large directories, playlists, etc. The random function can only be applied to one directory, and has a poor randomizing algorhythm.
Example: My daughter's christening, I filled a directory with 300 songs and put them on random. The jukebox would play one song and then choke on the directory while looking for the next random song to play.
Recording is VBR ONLY, and I often had trouble with recorded tracks playing back.
Archos will be toast if they ever get some real competition. But heck, that's what I said about Microsoft.
The right car makes for better hacking. Old BUGs were the best, because you can find all of this great stuff for them. The modern equivalent would be a PT Cruiser. Check out ptcruiserlinks.com and see for yourself.
On a side note, car hacking has in many ways become easier than ever. Readily available and easy-to-operate sign making equipment has led to a much greater availability of vinyl graphics and bumper stickers. The internet has you connected to many smaller artisans who truly make some impressive car accessories. (Check out flameball.com)
For performance modding, the new and better manufacturing techniques make for parts that fit without adjustment, and again at a greater availability. Combine that with a wealth of information at your fingertips via Google, and voila!
'80's cars (american) were designed not to be modded. This led to the modern rice rocket, and the decline of American cars. The Detroit (OK, Toluca Mexico) auto makers are reversing that trend.
"It's impossible" is always the matra of the man who didn't try hard enough.
The banner ad died, we cheered. Then came the pop-under, the flash ad between pages, etc.
Yes, perhaps the idea of putiing commercials into breaks in the programming so that it does not interfere with the content is over. Commercials will be integrated into the program so that it cannot be skipped without skipping the program.
Yes, we now get to see a station badge in the lower right corner, and now we will have a marquee running across our shows too. "Make 7 Up Yours!"
I also wonder how this might affect my website since I use an Australian host provider. EEEK!
Actually, when the host provider gets a few e-mails cancelling accounts because of the new law, they might just be interested in doing something substantial about stopping this law. You know what they say, you want to affect politics, affect commerce.
You outlaw marajuana and hate speech, but with me you get one or the other....
One could simply look at Grc.com and read Steve's account of his DDOS attack. They were able to contain the attack by only allowing Port 80 traffic.
Hmmm, I think around here it takes a couple of weeks to get your Security ID, and you can't get around the building. Maybe we should just have one security ID and let everybody use it. That would be alot simpler.
Desiging poor protocols to combat poor management is a lose/lose situation.
This would be like saying that all users should be administrators so they can access the CD-ROM because it takes forever for the SA to change the mount permissions. Actually that's just the solution Microsoft took in Windows XP.
The sad thing is, SOAP will be used because it's easy, it will be insecure as heck, and it will stay around for years even though we know it should not be used on our network. Sounds like IIS don't it??
One poster pointed out that a POST request is not much more secure because there is usually not much security checking in the CGI scripts, and that XML programmers will do a better job.
Problem one: These uber-programmers cannot work with a non-standard port, but have the wherewithall to properly secure their scripts?? Problem Two: Who will these XML programmers be?? The same ones who are writing cgi scripts today.
This is just another case of creating tomorrow's problems today!
Jason Maggard
Shakespearian Monkey
Nothing4sale.org
Security How-TO:
Find the telephone cable in the back of your computer and remove it.
Smallpox was a terrible epidemic here in the states when it wqs used as a biological agent against the aboriginal populations in this country.
The Conneticut Indians saw Smallpox decimate 90% of their population. The effect of Smallpox on New England was more drastic than a Nuclear Weapon.
In a nuclear attack, you would lose 70-75% of the populated area, Smallpox killed at least 80% of the Native American population living in New England.
The vistory over smallpox came about because we used it against our old enemies and now our new ones are using it against us.
A tip for the Newbies, this is not the first time... Alan has left the project before, generally around the same time in the development cycle. I think Alan is really into the "Cutting edge" features, and once kernel development slows to the quibbling about minutae, as it has now, I really think it takes alot out of him.
Alan also seems to work on HIS kernel, and then let everybody use it. He never intended to be such a dominant voice, no matter how strong his opinions. I think when good technical discussions between he and Linus get publicized as being interminable rifts (which believe me they are not) he tends to step back, being the less media visible member and wanting to avoid the appearance of a disastrous controversy.
And quite frankly, how many of us work 6 months on our hobby and then take some time off?? I sure do...
Wait until the Kernel gets exciting again, AC'll be back.
~Hammy
nothing4sale.org
WindowsXP was crashing like a monkey driving a Pinto.
A few points. I work for a smaller newspaper. We are not the post or the times, we're more like the Bloom Picayune....
Our photographers have 1 GB microdrives in their cameras. They don't cull. They want to archive every last one of them in the newsroom system. We burn them to sepaprate CD's instead, 2 copies, one off-site, one on, also a copy for the photographer if he/she desires.
The true impact is not to journalism, at best, families will lose their histories much quicker. Will a guru be on staff at your home to find a JPG viewer 30 ears from now?? Add that to some of the proprietary formats used on some of these devices that will be far too obscure in 10 years to worry about. ".fpx" anyone??
This same logic must have deterred people from drawing on paper instead of cave walls. But that paper won't last more than 100 years or so...
Besides, now that we have 300 news people at every event, each taking a couple of rolls, do we really need to be archiving all of this drek?? A quick search of the newsroom system, (the one we keep lean and mean...) shows 330 photos of Monica Lewinsky.
That lady is off her friggin' rocker, or she's to damn cheap to get enough flash memory to get the job done. Wha has time to cull when you are covering the event, and if you cull afterwards (just like most do with film) it's because you're too lazy or cheap to archive it. (Yep, just like film)
Hammy
http://nothing4sale.org
Making our billions in the ".org" boom.
I had a guy tell me that on my Linux box!!!! No crap. I called up, and told the guy I was running Linux, and just needed him to put my MAC addy in the system.
Why, dear god, can't someone stop these minimum wage screen readers from trying to re-invent the wheel??
Me: Hi, I just got a new machine and I need you to put my MAC address in the system so I can connect to the network.
Weasel: What seems to be the problem??
Me: I can't get an IP because the new Mac address isn't in your system.
Weasel: Are you running Windows??
Me: Die Infidel!!!
Generally by the time I'm at the "Tier 3 tech", I've already scanned their network (Class B) Twice! And he goes... "Oh, you need your Mac addy entered into the system?? No problem..."
I don't believe that ISP's need to support home computers. It should be like the phone, we get it to the house, after that it's your baby.
Get a good firewall/router and spoof everything. And then run your own warez site. Rave on cats!
Hammy
http://nothing4sale.org - Corporations are just better organized thieves.
(Our scene opens in a conference room at the W3C standards meetings. Reps from Microsoft (Ms) and Netscape (NS) are in attendance.)
Ms Guy: We ned colored scrollbars in the standard.
NS Guy: But we need themes... We don't force folks to use our boring scrollbars.
Ms Guy: Yeah, but we force 90% of the world to use boring scrollbars, it should be in the standard.
NS Guy: Jerk.
Ms Guy: Hey, like it or not, IE 5.5 will support colored scrollbars, and you'll implement them eventually because you have to, standard or not.
NS Guy: Like hell.... We still haven't implemented the marquee tag. Or page transitions.
Ms Guy: Wow, people actually use your piece of crap???
NS Guy: Look here Monopoly boy, if you've ever read Slashdot you know these people want to be reading ASCII in Lynx. You can tempt them with your "eye-candy" and "formatting", but if it ain't Courier New, it just plain blew.
Ms Guy: Yeah, whatever, Nutscrape. Aren't you glad we don't make IE for Linux?
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The sad fact of it is that Microsoft can and will set the standards for a while now. It didn't occur to me until 2 days ago that colored scrollbars are not supported. Not that it makes that big of a deal, but it can help the look of your pages if you use alot of inline frames.
Microsoft already sets the font standards. (Because it's what you can expect to be on the client machine)
Netscape has to go out and do everything MS can do, and then some. Linux has to do everything Windows can do and then some.
When MSIE 1.0 came out.... But they caught up. Then they did everything Netscape could do, then they did more.
P.S. Mozilla still takes too damn long to load up.
The final aspect is the one of trust towards me. Since all traffic goes through my servers, and all e-mail is stored in my computers, etc. the Freenet members need to trust me. If they just slightly mistrust me, they would start using conventional dial-up connections to send more intimate or secret messages. This shows again the limited application scope of Freenets.
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Why don't they worry about this kind of stuff with their own ISP?? "I connect to AOL because I want someone I don't know reading my e-mail."
Granted, it's a bit more embarassing when the guy down the street reads your love letter to Celine Dion, but why not balk when it's Earthlink, the FBI, or anybody freakin' else. Hey, I presonally would rather know who is reading my mail, so I can walk down the street and give him a PHP tutorial. (Pretty Humongous Pain)
But the reality that this should bring home to everyone, is this: Do you trust your upstream providers?? (Say at least as much as the Post Office?)
~Hammy (The unbeliever)
"When a government of the people, by the people, and for the people is attacked, which people are innocent again??"
7.5 IPS is far more common. 30 IPS players had too much trouble with Wow and Flutter. Plus the trade off between resolution and capacity is too drastic. It's like the difference between encoding at 360Kbps and 160. For reference, the average car casette is 1.875 IPS.
It is far more common to improve resolution by writing fewer tracks. Also, the tape manufacturing has come a long way...
BTW, The real problem with digital is it's unnatural reaction to saturation. They try to combat this with the High and Low pass filters, but the result is not satisfactory.
The history of music signal processing is all about trying to re-create the limitations of earlier equipment. Your distortion pedal mimics an overheated tube, compressor mimics less than ideal tape media.
Digital Mixing is the most popular form of music editing. It is so much more flexible than good old analog. Even those who still use the analog processes do it either in a "studio-live" environment where no extensive editing will need to be done after, or mix the tracks digital to get a final draft, and then mix the final track from the analog.
This is why the first Kent State memorial song came out almost 2 months later, while Tom Petty's Rondney King riot song only took 9 days. On a side note, they sang about the terrible riots, but not about the savage beating he recieved at the hands of some overzealous cops.
Since July 27??? You can't get by for 2 months of unemployment?? First of all, you should be getting 60% unemployment insurance, or you didn't work there long enough. Unemployment will cover even droppage in wages. I am sure you have not investigated this thoroughly enough. Second, you should have at least 2 months in savings.
Now, can I talk about what you purchased in July?? Here you are without the cash reserves to make it 2 months of unemployment, but you still have cable and a cell phone?? Where is your personal responsability??
You lived from paycheck to paycheck, and so did your company apparently. Also, when did you figure out he was a conman.
As someone who turned down $90,000+ salaries and stock options for $60,000 at a company that will be around in two years, I feel no sympathies for the get rich not-commers. They forgot the first rule, go to work for a good company.
He who cast stones shall die from a rock to the temple. ~BOB
Sounds familiar. I hate to say it, buy that guy needs to prune his resume. Don't apply as a Senior Sys Admin and put MCSE certified on your resume. I have 8 different resumes for NT Admin, Unix Admin, Network Engineer, Programmer....
Emplyess need to know how to sell themselves. If you're working with a recruiter who hasn't demanded a more focused resume, find a better recruiter.
For my e-company, I have made some mods to MySQL to provide some other features I need. I then install this modded version for my team of programmers to work with. Is it distribution?? What if they want a copy for their home machine so they can work from home? Is it distribution then?
Furthermore, If I consider these mods to MySQL as a buisness asset, and did not want them re-distributed, could I enforce this in the building?? Company is code modifier, machine is owned (controlled) by the company. If one of my programmers takes a copy home (without my knowledge) does it become distribution??
Assumng a court case based on the last scenario, I have my own mods for use in my buisness, employee takes a copy of the mods without permission. But wait, he does have permission.... The GPL has provided it. Or has it?? And I am now "distributing" said software.
These guys flew under their own names! They purchased the tickets as themselves.
So, the FBI/CIA/UJA cannot cross-index airline ticket purchases for names of possible terrorists, but you want to allow them to do facial recognition?? Think about how silly this is...
What happens when they hijack an armored car and run it into a building?? Will we then pass laws that require a blood sample before turning on the ignition.
Another overlooked piece of info is this: By law, even if they had advance notice that something like this was planned, they could not have held the would-be attackers because they had not committed a crime yet. Should we push for the right of police to hold citizens without charges??
First they came for the Jews, and I did nothing, because I wasn't Jewish.
The NAZI's set fire to the Reichstag and used this as an excuse for decimating personal liberties. Makes me wonder who destroyed the WTC and used it as an excuse for decimating personal liberties.
~Hammy
"By clicking I agree, you consent to sex with Bill Gates at any time, any place... Click it baby, you know you want it."
~Microsoft's first EULA
Slashdot Mirror
Oddly enough, I remember that after the Sept. 11 attacks I read a story about Majestic shutting down. Basic point being "Government Conspiracies and terrorism are not appropriate subject matter in light of the attacks."
I was actually considering playing the game, and with that announcement gave up on it. From reading the other posts, I'm glad I didn't.
~Hammy
Nothing4sale.org
I could mention millions of things that have bandied about the moniker of "Just choose a different runtime assembly". One was Java, and that has been a nightmare.
.NET programming will come from Windows programmers who will read this line in their book: "While it is easy to make C# code work across many different implementations, 90% of your user base is running Windows, so just comment out those lines about "if (OS != Win) {};".
.NET services are written properly, the other 10% still stands a pretty good chance of alienating less technical users.
The problem comes with inexperienced or lazy programmers. Most of the
Even if 90% of
Microsoft is not the one making technology a pain in the buttinski, it's the legions of "Web Developers" who learned everything from two Sybex books and a weekend class at Comp USA.
MS never put a gun to your head and made you include that marquee tag did they??
Jason
A CD Drive is $300?? I just bought a cd-re-writer for $84.00. Give me your address, and I'll send one to you half price, only $150. Whatta Deal.
Locked into Linux?? You flash the EEPROM to load Linux BIOS, flash it back to OEM for Windows... What's the problem again??
The biggest problem I could even forsee would be boards with an integrated RAID controller. The OEM updates contain the RAID bios updates and can wipe your RAID settings. Use RAID 1 and select rebuild, problem solved.
Since when should the BIOS not be optimized for the software?? The x86 BIOS has been the bitch of Windows ever since they started making plug-n-pray a part of it. ACPI was supposed to implement the "Instant On" feature in Win98. (Which still doesn't work in XP.)
The reality of it is that the BIOS should be flexible enough to be modified to run what you need. The open source nature of this BIOS may eventually provide a "royalty-free" product that doesn't force manufacturers to pay BIOS licensing. In addition, manufacturers also have the option of modifying the BIOS to do more than fix bugs.
Friends, there are more BIOSes out there than the x86, and everything doesn't "work like Windows". I can't friggin' stand this new generation of "geeks" who think the computer began and ended with Wintel. Same wackos who have never seen a board with jumpers, think VB is a kick-ass lang., and think the DOS prompt is what causes crackers to attack people. The x86 for the most part is a cheap kludge swimming in a sea of cruft.
The real question is this.... When will we get past 15 IRQ's??
~Hammy
"I write the mooky, my verse is Xtra spooky"
MR. Xcitement
nothing4sale.org
Of course, inorder to get that $30 cable modem, you have to get the digital cable. Which means you must purchase "Music Choice", the hispanic transsexual channel, and CSPAN 1&2. Sounds like that friggin' X-box deal to me.
Letting the phone companies and cable companies "Own" the telephone and cable infrastructure would be like letting GM "Own" the roads. You can still drive on them with a Honda, but GM gets 50% of Honda's profit when they sell you that car. (Road licensing fees)
Microsoft is an active monopolist for the simple reason that the price of entry for a competitor is so small. They control the OEM channels which are the roads to the average consumer. The phone companies don't have to stifle competition, because not only do they own the lines, but a competitor would probably never even be able to run lines even if he could afford it.
This is the main reason that so many companies are finding the wireless option so attractive, even though the reality is that wireless sucks for anything beyond hooking up a laptop to the company hub.
I personally believe that all critical infrastructure should be the property of the people. The roads, the electric wires, the plumbing, Mae east and west, all of it. The government paid for most of it to begin with.
I also believe that proprietary software has no place in our govt.
~Hammy
http://www.epanorama.net/documents/pc/3dglass.html
Here you go, all the links you need and instructions on how to make your own.
Hoobalicious.
~Hammy
nothing4sale.org
I have personally had miserable experiences with the Archos MP3 recorder. I am still awaiting shipment of my #4, after a poor history.
I purchased directly from Archos.
#1: Charging Jack on the unit was loose and finally shorted completely. Took Archos a month to get on the ball and issue an RMA.
#2: Badly beaten refurb was sent out. HD errors out the wazoo, caused a bus storm if hooked to the computer.
#3: Slightly bruised refurb. Played for 5 minutes (exactly) and locked up. Every time.
Aside from the poor reliability, the jukeboxes have problems with large directories, playlists, etc. The random function can only be applied to one directory, and has a poor randomizing algorhythm.
Example: My daughter's christening, I filled a directory with 300 songs and put them on random. The jukebox would play one song and then choke on the directory while looking for the next random song to play.
Recording is VBR ONLY, and I often had trouble with recorded tracks playing back.
Archos will be toast if they ever get some real competition. But heck, that's what I said about Microsoft.
~Hammy
nothing4sale.org
The right car makes for better hacking. Old BUGs were the best, because you can find all of this great stuff for them. The modern equivalent would be a PT Cruiser. Check out ptcruiserlinks.com and see for yourself.
On a side note, car hacking has in many ways become easier than ever. Readily available and easy-to-operate sign making equipment has led to a much greater availability of vinyl graphics and bumper stickers. The internet has you connected to many smaller artisans who truly make some impressive car accessories. (Check out flameball.com)
For performance modding, the new and better manufacturing techniques make for parts that fit without adjustment, and again at a greater availability. Combine that with a wealth of information at your fingertips via Google, and voila!
'80's cars (american) were designed not to be modded. This led to the modern rice rocket, and the decline of American cars. The Detroit (OK, Toluca Mexico) auto makers are reversing that trend.
"It's impossible" is always the matra of the man who didn't try hard enough.
~Hammy
The banner ad died, we cheered. Then came the pop-under, the flash ad between pages, etc.
Yes, perhaps the idea of putiing commercials into breaks in the programming so that it does not interfere with the content is over. Commercials will be integrated into the program so that it cannot be skipped without skipping the program.
Yes, we now get to see a station badge in the lower right corner, and now we will have a marquee running across our shows too. "Make 7 Up Yours!"
Hammy
I was actually looking into emmigrating to Aussieland in the next couple of years.....
Does Australia even have a Libertarian Party or it's equivalent??
I also wonder how this might affect my website since I use an Australian host provider. EEEK!
Actually, when the host provider gets a few e-mails cancelling accounts because of the new law, they might just be interested in doing something substantial about stopping this law. You know what they say, you want to affect politics, affect commerce.
You outlaw marajuana and hate speech, but with me you get one or the other....
Hammy
Nothing4sale.org
Making our billions in the ".org" boom.
One could simply look at Grc.com and read Steve's account of his DDOS attack. They were able to contain the attack by only allowing Port 80 traffic.
Hmmm, I think around here it takes a couple of weeks to get your Security ID, and you can't get around the building. Maybe we should just have one security ID and let everybody use it. That would be alot simpler.
Desiging poor protocols to combat poor management is a lose/lose situation.
This would be like saying that all users should be administrators so they can access the CD-ROM because it takes forever for the SA to change the mount permissions. Actually that's just the solution Microsoft took in Windows XP.
The sad thing is, SOAP will be used because it's easy, it will be insecure as heck, and it will stay around for years even though we know it should not be used on our network. Sounds like IIS don't it??
One poster pointed out that a POST request is not much more secure because there is usually not much security checking in the CGI scripts, and that XML programmers will do a better job.
Problem one: These uber-programmers cannot work with a non-standard port, but have the wherewithall to properly secure their scripts?? Problem Two: Who will these XML programmers be?? The same ones who are writing cgi scripts today.
This is just another case of creating tomorrow's problems today!
Jason Maggard
Shakespearian Monkey
Nothing4sale.org
Security How-TO:
Find the telephone cable in the back of your computer and remove it.
Smallpox was a terrible epidemic here in the states when it wqs used as a biological agent against the aboriginal populations in this country.
The Conneticut Indians saw Smallpox decimate 90% of their population. The effect of Smallpox on New England was more drastic than a Nuclear Weapon.
In a nuclear attack, you would lose 70-75% of the populated area, Smallpox killed at least 80% of the Native American population living in New England.
The vistory over smallpox came about because we used it against our old enemies and now our new ones are using it against us.
Jason Maggard
Proud to be Miami
Nothing4sale.org
I thought Prince was his real name.... How can they stop him from using his own name??
Let's hope they never sign "John Doe" to a recording contract....
JMan
A tip for the Newbies, this is not the first time... Alan has left the project before, generally around the same time in the development cycle. I think Alan is really into the "Cutting edge" features, and once kernel development slows to the quibbling about minutae, as it has now, I really think it takes alot out of him.
Alan also seems to work on HIS kernel, and then let everybody use it. He never intended to be such a dominant voice, no matter how strong his opinions. I think when good technical discussions between he and Linus get publicized as being interminable rifts (which believe me they are not) he tends to step back, being the less media visible member and wanting to avoid the appearance of a disastrous controversy.
And quite frankly, how many of us work 6 months on our hobby and then take some time off?? I sure do...
Wait until the Kernel gets exciting again, AC'll be back.
~Hammy
nothing4sale.org
WindowsXP was crashing like a monkey driving a Pinto.
A few points. I work for a smaller newspaper. We are not the post or the times, we're more like the Bloom Picayune....
Our photographers have 1 GB microdrives in their cameras. They don't cull. They want to archive every last one of them in the newsroom system. We burn them to sepaprate CD's instead, 2 copies, one off-site, one on, also a copy for the photographer if he/she desires.
The true impact is not to journalism, at best, families will lose their histories much quicker. Will a guru be on staff at your home to find a JPG viewer 30 ears from now?? Add that to some of the proprietary formats used on some of these devices that will be far too obscure in 10 years to worry about. ".fpx" anyone??
This same logic must have deterred people from drawing on paper instead of cave walls. But that paper won't last more than 100 years or so...
Besides, now that we have 300 news people at every event, each taking a couple of rolls, do we really need to be archiving all of this drek?? A quick search of the newsroom system, (the one we keep lean and mean...) shows 330 photos of Monica Lewinsky.
That lady is off her friggin' rocker, or she's to damn cheap to get enough flash memory to get the job done. Wha has time to cull when you are covering the event, and if you cull afterwards (just like most do with film) it's because you're too lazy or cheap to archive it. (Yep, just like film)
Hammy
http://nothing4sale.org
Making our billions in the ".org" boom.
I had a guy tell me that on my Linux box!!!! No crap. I called up, and told the guy I was running Linux, and just needed him to put my MAC addy in the system.
Why, dear god, can't someone stop these minimum wage screen readers from trying to re-invent the wheel??
Me: Hi, I just got a new machine and I need you to put my MAC address in the system so I can connect to the network.
Weasel: What seems to be the problem??
Me: I can't get an IP because the new Mac address isn't in your system.
Weasel: Are you running Windows??
Me: Die Infidel!!!
Generally by the time I'm at the "Tier 3 tech", I've already scanned their network (Class B) Twice! And he goes... "Oh, you need your Mac addy entered into the system?? No problem..."
I don't believe that ISP's need to support home computers. It should be like the phone, we get it to the house, after that it's your baby.
Get a good firewall/router and spoof everything. And then run your own warez site. Rave on cats!
Hammy
http://nothing4sale.org - Corporations are just better organized thieves.
(Our scene opens in a conference room at the W3C standards meetings. Reps from Microsoft (Ms) and Netscape (NS) are in attendance.)
Ms Guy: We ned colored scrollbars in the standard.
NS Guy: But we need themes... We don't force folks to use our boring scrollbars.
Ms Guy: Yeah, but we force 90% of the world to use boring scrollbars, it should be in the standard.
NS Guy: Jerk.
Ms Guy: Hey, like it or not, IE 5.5 will support colored scrollbars, and you'll implement them eventually because you have to, standard or not.
NS Guy: Like hell.... We still haven't implemented the marquee tag. Or page transitions.
Ms Guy: Wow, people actually use your piece of crap???
NS Guy: Look here Monopoly boy, if you've ever read Slashdot you know these people want to be reading ASCII in Lynx. You can tempt them with your "eye-candy" and "formatting", but if it ain't Courier New, it just plain blew.
Ms Guy: Yeah, whatever, Nutscrape. Aren't you glad we don't make IE for Linux?
_END_
The sad fact of it is that Microsoft can and will set the standards for a while now. It didn't occur to me until 2 days ago that colored scrollbars are not supported. Not that it makes that big of a deal, but it can help the look of your pages if you use alot of inline frames.
Microsoft already sets the font standards. (Because it's what you can expect to be on the client machine)
Netscape has to go out and do everything MS can do, and then some. Linux has to do everything Windows can do and then some.
When MSIE 1.0 came out.... But they caught up. Then they did everything Netscape could do, then they did more.
P.S. Mozilla still takes too damn long to load up.
~Hammy
http://www.nothing4sale.org
From the article:
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The final aspect is the one of trust towards me. Since all traffic goes through my servers, and all e-mail is stored in my computers, etc. the Freenet members need to trust me. If they just slightly mistrust me, they would start using conventional dial-up connections to send more intimate or secret messages. This shows again the limited application scope of Freenets.
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Why don't they worry about this kind of stuff with their own ISP?? "I connect to AOL because I want someone I don't know reading my e-mail."
Granted, it's a bit more embarassing when the guy down the street reads your love letter to Celine Dion, but why not balk when it's Earthlink, the FBI, or anybody freakin' else. Hey, I presonally would rather know who is reading my mail, so I can walk down the street and give him a PHP tutorial. (Pretty Humongous Pain)
But the reality that this should bring home to everyone, is this: Do you trust your upstream providers?? (Say at least as much as the Post Office?)
~Hammy (The unbeliever)
"When a government of the people, by the people, and for the people is attacked, which people are innocent again??"
7.5 IPS is far more common. 30 IPS players had too much trouble with Wow and Flutter. Plus the trade off between resolution and capacity is too drastic. It's like the difference between encoding at 360Kbps and 160. For reference, the average car casette is 1.875 IPS.
60 Minute tape @ 1.875 IPS =
15 Minute tape @ 7.5 IPS =
2 Minute tape @ 30 IPS.
It is far more common to improve resolution by writing fewer tracks. Also, the tape manufacturing has come a long way...
BTW, The real problem with digital is it's unnatural reaction to saturation. They try to combat this with the High and Low pass filters, but the result is not satisfactory.
The history of music signal processing is all about trying to re-create the limitations of earlier equipment. Your distortion pedal mimics an overheated tube, compressor mimics less than ideal tape media.
Digital Mixing is the most popular form of music editing. It is so much more flexible than good old analog. Even those who still use the analog processes do it either in a "studio-live" environment where no extensive editing will need to be done after, or mix the tracks digital to get a final draft, and then mix the final track from the analog.
This is why the first Kent State memorial song came out almost 2 months later, while Tom Petty's Rondney King riot song only took 9 days. On a side note, they sang about the terrible riots, but not about the savage beating he recieved at the hands of some overzealous cops.
~Hammy
They are prevented from playing on computer CD-ROM drives. Not even SPDF output.
Since July 27??? You can't get by for 2 months of unemployment?? First of all, you should be getting 60% unemployment insurance, or you didn't work there long enough. Unemployment will cover even droppage in wages. I am sure you have not investigated this thoroughly enough. Second, you should have at least 2 months in savings.
Now, can I talk about what you purchased in July?? Here you are without the cash reserves to make it 2 months of unemployment, but you still have cable and a cell phone?? Where is your personal responsability??
You lived from paycheck to paycheck, and so did your company apparently. Also, when did you figure out he was a conman.
As someone who turned down $90,000+ salaries and stock options for $60,000 at a company that will be around in two years, I feel no sympathies for the get rich not-commers. They forgot the first rule, go to work for a good company.
He who cast stones shall die from a rock to the temple. ~BOB
~Hammy
Jack of all trades and master of none....
Sounds familiar. I hate to say it, buy that guy needs to prune his resume. Don't apply as a Senior Sys Admin and put MCSE certified on your resume. I have 8 different resumes for NT Admin, Unix Admin, Network Engineer, Programmer....
Emplyess need to know how to sell themselves. If you're working with a recruiter who hasn't demanded a more focused resume, find a better recruiter.
~Hammy
You should never let people look at your source code...
~Hammy
Possible scenario:
For my e-company, I have made some mods to MySQL to provide some other features I need. I then install this modded version for my team of programmers to work with. Is it distribution?? What if they want a copy for their home machine so they can work from home? Is it distribution then?
Furthermore, If I consider these mods to MySQL as a buisness asset, and did not want them re-distributed, could I enforce this in the building?? Company is code modifier, machine is owned (controlled) by the company. If one of my programmers takes a copy home (without my knowledge) does it become distribution??
Assumng a court case based on the last scenario, I have my own mods for use in my buisness, employee takes a copy of the mods without permission. But wait, he does have permission.... The GPL has provided it. Or has it?? And I am now "distributing" said software.
Think it over...
~Hammy
These guys flew under their own names! They purchased the tickets as themselves.
So, the FBI/CIA/UJA cannot cross-index airline ticket purchases for names of possible terrorists, but you want to allow them to do facial recognition?? Think about how silly this is...
What happens when they hijack an armored car and run it into a building?? Will we then pass laws that require a blood sample before turning on the ignition.
Another overlooked piece of info is this: By law, even if they had advance notice that something like this was planned, they could not have held the would-be attackers because they had not committed a crime yet. Should we push for the right of police to hold citizens without charges??
First they came for the Jews, and I did nothing, because I wasn't Jewish.
The NAZI's set fire to the Reichstag and used this as an excuse for decimating personal liberties. Makes me wonder who destroyed the WTC and used it as an excuse for decimating personal liberties.
~Hammy
"By clicking I agree, you consent to sex with Bill Gates at any time, any place... Click it baby, you know you want it."
~Microsoft's first EULA