Wow... mindless games with sub-standard graphics! I'm so impressed!
But wait! They run Linux! Can anyone imagine a Beowulf cluster of these linked together? Think of the FPS we can get in PONG! It'll be so lifelike!
"Evil beware: I'm armed to the teeth and packing a hampster!"
Or you could add to the challenge by running multiple copies of Quake III and frag yourself!
I wonder if one can set it up under X to display a different virtual desktop in each panel...
"Evil beware: I'm armed to the teeth and packing a hampster!"
I believe from my college Operating Systems class, an OS is a piece of software that acts as an interface between hardware (device drivers and other kernel functions), the user (shell), and applications. Hmmm... UNIX fits the bill there. This guy seems to have bought in to the M$ "the talking paper clip is a logical extension of the OS" crap.
"Evil beware: I'm armed to the teeth and packing a hampster!"
How about by DDOSing them back? Slam the crap out of them. Also, thier service providers will complain if they take up too much bandwidth. Besides, do we really care if some big business like Amazon is taken down for a few minutes? It's more important that scholars have net access than big business.
"Evil beware: I'm armed to the teeth and packing a hampster!"
Why do we need laws governing the net? I can't think of any good reason. The first two W's in WWW stand for world-wide... nobody owns it, nobody controls it, and that's the way it should be. The internet is the one true place I at one time thought we could be without shackles, free to do whatever. All we are doing by passing laws is limiting the freedom of the intellectuals of our age, while adding power to the corporations who already controll the masses from outside the net. I honestly can't think of one good reason for passing any laws, by any country, that have ANY jurisdiction on the net. I love my freedom more than anything else in the world, and will die to protect it.
"Evil beware: I'm armed to the teeth and packing a hampster!"
"Criminalize the production, sale, distribution or otherwise making available of devices or computer programs who's primary use is to access, intercept or interfere with computer systems or communications."
This also means many other tools will be illegal, including telnet, ftp, ssh, tcpdump...
"Evil beware: I'm armed to the teeth and packing a hampster!"
Better yet, think of the money you can save on clothing! You can walk around naked, with a hologram of the latest fashions! Your clothing could be updated and upgraded hourly over the net!
This could bring into existance a new type of buisiness... the fashion service provider! But then clothing would probably be covered under the DMCA...
"Evil beware: I'm armed to the teeth and packing a hampster!"
You are forgetting about possible embedded uses for Linux. There are a number of devices with 386 clones in them running Linux in the consumer market with only 2MB of RAM. Soon cellphones, PDA's, etc everywhere will be running Linux.
"Evil beware: I'm armed to the teeth and packing a hampster!"
I recently upgraded from a Matrox Millenium G200... absolutely beautiful card. Wonderful 2D performance. I upgraded to a Creative Labs OEM TNT2, and it actually looks better! And that was before I bumped the refresh rate up from 85hz to 120hz... impossible on the Matrox with my resolution.
In short, the Matrox was the best of the times. In fact, the best looking card I've seen was the Matrox G400.
"Evil beware: I'm armed to the teeth and packing a hampster!"
Did you even read the artical? They don't make money fromt he ads. All the Ads are AOL advertizements. That's why they don't care if the alternative protocol doesn't have support.
Also, the alternative protocol was NOT made to make up for the fact that the UNIX clients won't have ads. It was made for ease of development, and it actually has a few extra features, like saving/loading your buddy list on the AOL servers, rater than on the local machines. It's not specifically crippled, it's simply a version or two behind because less time is spent working on it. I should have been clearer in my earlier post.
"Evil beware: I'm armed to the teeth and packing a hampster!"
My philosophy on geting around ads and such (in services like AIM, NetZero, etc.) is that if you can, there's nothing wrong with it. If AOL wanted to detect the fact that I'm refusing to download ads, and kick me off, it's also thier right to do that. If I can't get around thier protective measures, or just don't care enough to try, good for them! If I can, good for me!
"Evil beware: I'm armed to the teeth and packing a hampster!"
It's not "Stealing from AOL" any more than the UNIX clients are. The UNIX AIM clients (TiK, GAIM, KAIM, etc.) all use the TiK/ToC protocol, which was created by AOL as a slightly feature-crippled protocol (usually a version or so behind the normal one) that is easy to read/implement (it's passed over the wire as plain text). AOL created this protocol, along with the TiK TCL/Tk client, so people could create AIM clients for alternative OS's. NONE of these clients have ads. In fact, there is nothing in the protocol to grab/retrieve ads.
"Evil beware: I'm armed to the teeth and packing a hampster!"
You are correct for the most part... Konquerer is just a web/file browser. News comes from KNode, mail comes from KMail. KMail and KNode can be embedded in Konqeuror. Kmail doesn't even have it's own address book... it uses one of two current address books as options, and can support different ones (like one written to work with an Outlook directory or such). KDE2's goal was to be modular. Netscape/Mozilla's goal was to be the only app you need to take advantage of the internet. They are different paradigms; niether approach is superior or inferior. I personally like the modular approach. In Linux, I use Netscape for mail and WWW, in Windows, I use Netscape for mail and IE for WWW. Opening up Netscape just for mail is a bit of a resource hog, however. I'm looking forward to KDE2, so I can use Konqueror for WWW. I'll be using Netscape for mail, as KMail (AFAIK) doesn't support IMAP yet.
"Evil beware: I'm armed to the teeth and packing a hampster!"
Umm... no! There are MANY other uses for NAT. For instance, I have a DSL account with Verizon (they suck, but are my only option). I can either A) pay lots of cash for multiple accounts and addresses, as the account specifically states it can only be used for 1 PC, or B) set up my spare Linux box to do IP Masquerading (NAT), which makes all my PC's look like one.
Also, what about load balancing?? Load Balancing devices (HydraWEB, F5 BigIP, Cisco LocalDirector, etc.) rely on NAT to make multiple web servers look like one. I'm pretty sure Slashdot has a load balancing pool... it would be pretty expensive to buy a single webserver that could handle the load Slashdot deals with.
"Evil beware: I'm armed to the teeth and packing a hampster!"
Daphne had rich parents... That's why they could roam around the country with no source of income.
Fred was simply Daphne's boy toy. Notice they always split up from Scooby and Shaggy to go out on their own? What do you think they were doing with nobody else around?
Velma was with them because she made the LSD. The Mystery Machine was a drug factory on wheels.
Shaggy was always stoned (like the rest of them), and Scooby was just a normal dog. Everyone just all thought they heard him talk, 'cause they were always stoned. Shaggy was kept around, because he did the actual work while Fred and Daphne (and sometimes Velma - who's obviously bi) were always screwing.
"Evil beware: I'm armed to the teeth and packing a hampster!"
A company I used to work for has written up a patent application, with me as one of the inventors, and has asked me to review it and sign the necessary legal docs.
Umm... a lot of people seem to say "Quit your job" or "don't sign if you don't mind being fired" or such remarks. This guy evidently NO LONGER works for the company, but he signed a contract requiring him to do this while he worked there.
I personally have no advice, as IANAL. I'd personally call my lawyer if I was facing a situation like this.
"Evil beware: I'm armed to the teeth and packing a hampster!"
There's something to be said for mathematical simplicity... if we were to distribute colors on a specified curve rather than uniformly, CRT and video card manufacturers may adjust the curve slightly to make there card look "better" or more "vibrant" or whatever. What's bad about this?? Lack of consistency. Things would look even more different between different monitors and video cards. You'd then start seeing "This site best viewed at 800x600, 24-bit color on a Matrox Millenium series card on a ViewSonic monitor"... that's not cool. Even distributions are simpler to get right across the board.
"Evil beware: I'm armed to the teeth and packing a hampster!"
Your comment is true for Intel brand CPUs, but not X86 in general. The problems with Intel SMP is the use of the Intel GTL+ CPU bus. AMD's Athlon series uses the DEC EV6 bus, which is point-to-point switched, rather than a single chunk of bandwidth shared between CPU's. AMD's 760MP chipset, due later this year, combined with the new Mustang-based CPU's should spank PIII Xeons in SMP.
"Evil beware: I'm armed to the teeth and packing a hampster!"
Bad move... I'm working full time while going to college, and I'm paid less than people who have less experience. Why? Because they have a degree, I don't. Who will be the first one out if layoffs hit? Me, even though I'm the best at what I do here. Besides, college, getting away from home, interacting with other classmates, dorming, etc. are all things everyone should experience for at least a year or two. I got handed my first issue of 2600, got into medieval re-creation, introduced to Japanese animation, experimented with overclocking, learned to live on a $5 a week food budget, and learned a great deal about women at college. Although I'm anxious to graduate, and classes are driving me crazy, I wouldn't have given up this experience for the world.
"Evil beware: I'm armed to the teeth and packing a hampster!"
Have RMS's complaints about different liscences
ever done a damn thing for open source?!
Although I think RMS is a bit much, he has never said he supports the open source movement; he supports the Free Software movement. Free software is a bit more than open source... it involves true freedom to do whatever you want with it once you have it. Open source is just a side effect of his vision of free software. RMS and the FSF don't care at all about pragmatics, just principals.
"Evil beware: I'm armed to the teeth and packing a hampster!"
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Wow... mindless games with sub-standard graphics! I'm so impressed! But wait! They run Linux! Can anyone imagine a Beowulf cluster of these linked together? Think of the FPS we can get in PONG! It'll be so lifelike!
"Evil beware: I'm armed to the teeth and packing a hampster!"
Or you could add to the challenge by running multiple copies of Quake III and frag yourself! I wonder if one can set it up under X to display a different virtual desktop in each panel...
"Evil beware: I'm armed to the teeth and packing a hampster!"
I believe from my college Operating Systems class, an OS is a piece of software that acts as an interface between hardware (device drivers and other kernel functions), the user (shell), and applications. Hmmm... UNIX fits the bill there. This guy seems to have bought in to the M$ "the talking paper clip is a logical extension of the OS" crap.
"Evil beware: I'm armed to the teeth and packing a hampster!"
How about by DDOSing them back? Slam the crap out of them. Also, thier service providers will complain if they take up too much bandwidth. Besides, do we really care if some big business like Amazon is taken down for a few minutes? It's more important that scholars have net access than big business.
"Evil beware: I'm armed to the teeth and packing a hampster!"
Why do we need laws governing the net? I can't think of any good reason. The first two W's in WWW stand for world-wide... nobody owns it, nobody controls it, and that's the way it should be. The internet is the one true place I at one time thought we could be without shackles, free to do whatever. All we are doing by passing laws is limiting the freedom of the intellectuals of our age, while adding power to the corporations who already controll the masses from outside the net. I honestly can't think of one good reason for passing any laws, by any country, that have ANY jurisdiction on the net. I love my freedom more than anything else in the world, and will die to protect it.
"Evil beware: I'm armed to the teeth and packing a hampster!"
"Criminalize the production, sale, distribution or otherwise making available of devices or computer programs who's primary use is to access, intercept or interfere with computer systems or communications."
This also means many other tools will be illegal, including telnet, ftp, ssh, tcpdump...
"Evil beware: I'm armed to the teeth and packing a hampster!"
What kind of framerate would such a thing give me in Quake??
"Evil beware: I'm armed to the teeth and packing a hampster!"
Better yet, think of the money you can save on clothing! You can walk around naked, with a hologram of the latest fashions! Your clothing could be updated and upgraded hourly over the net! This could bring into existance a new type of buisiness... the fashion service provider! But then clothing would probably be covered under the DMCA...
"Evil beware: I'm armed to the teeth and packing a hampster!"
What about other potential uses, like briefing the rouge squadron before they attack the death star?
"Evil beware: I'm armed to the teeth and packing a hampster!"
You are forgetting about possible embedded uses for Linux. There are a number of devices with 386 clones in them running Linux in the consumer market with only 2MB of RAM. Soon cellphones, PDA's, etc everywhere will be running Linux.
"Evil beware: I'm armed to the teeth and packing a hampster!"
I recently upgraded from a Matrox Millenium G200... absolutely beautiful card. Wonderful 2D performance. I upgraded to a Creative Labs OEM TNT2, and it actually looks better! And that was before I bumped the refresh rate up from 85hz to 120hz... impossible on the Matrox with my resolution.
In short, the Matrox was the best of the times. In fact, the best looking card I've seen was the Matrox G400.
"Evil beware: I'm armed to the teeth and packing a hampster!"
Did you even read the artical? They don't make money fromt he ads. All the Ads are AOL advertizements. That's why they don't care if the alternative protocol doesn't have support.
Also, the alternative protocol was NOT made to make up for the fact that the UNIX clients won't have ads. It was made for ease of development, and it actually has a few extra features, like saving/loading your buddy list on the AOL servers, rater than on the local machines. It's not specifically crippled, it's simply a version or two behind because less time is spent working on it. I should have been clearer in my earlier post.
"Evil beware: I'm armed to the teeth and packing a hampster!"
You do know that you can filter out postings about Microsoft...
This kind of news matters to some of us. This post is more humerous than informative, to me. It's entertaining and good reading none the less.
"Evil beware: I'm armed to the teeth and packing a hampster!"
My philosophy on geting around ads and such (in services like AIM, NetZero, etc.) is that if you can, there's nothing wrong with it. If AOL wanted to detect the fact that I'm refusing to download ads, and kick me off, it's also thier right to do that. If I can't get around thier protective measures, or just don't care enough to try, good for them! If I can, good for me!
"Evil beware: I'm armed to the teeth and packing a hampster!"
It's not "Stealing from AOL" any more than the UNIX clients are. The UNIX AIM clients (TiK, GAIM, KAIM, etc.) all use the TiK/ToC protocol, which was created by AOL as a slightly feature-crippled protocol (usually a version or so behind the normal one) that is easy to read/implement (it's passed over the wire as plain text). AOL created this protocol, along with the TiK TCL/Tk client, so people could create AIM clients for alternative OS's. NONE of these clients have ads. In fact, there is nothing in the protocol to grab/retrieve ads.
"Evil beware: I'm armed to the teeth and packing a hampster!"
You are correct for the most part... Konquerer is just a web/file browser. News comes from KNode, mail comes from KMail. KMail and KNode can be embedded in Konqeuror. Kmail doesn't even have it's own address book... it uses one of two current address books as options, and can support different ones (like one written to work with an Outlook directory or such). KDE2's goal was to be modular. Netscape/Mozilla's goal was to be the only app you need to take advantage of the internet. They are different paradigms; niether approach is superior or inferior. I personally like the modular approach. In Linux, I use Netscape for mail and WWW, in Windows, I use Netscape for mail and IE for WWW. Opening up Netscape just for mail is a bit of a resource hog, however. I'm looking forward to KDE2, so I can use Konqueror for WWW. I'll be using Netscape for mail, as KMail (AFAIK) doesn't support IMAP yet.
"Evil beware: I'm armed to the teeth and packing a hampster!"
Umm... no! There are MANY other uses for NAT. For instance, I have a DSL account with Verizon (they suck, but are my only option). I can either A) pay lots of cash for multiple accounts and addresses, as the account specifically states it can only be used for 1 PC, or B) set up my spare Linux box to do IP Masquerading (NAT), which makes all my PC's look like one.
Also, what about load balancing?? Load Balancing devices (HydraWEB, F5 BigIP, Cisco LocalDirector, etc.) rely on NAT to make multiple web servers look like one. I'm pretty sure Slashdot has a load balancing pool... it would be pretty expensive to buy a single webserver that could handle the load Slashdot deals with.
"Evil beware: I'm armed to the teeth and packing a hampster!"
(moderators, read the parent first)
I always saw it like this:
Daphne had rich parents... That's why they could roam around the country with no source of income.
Fred was simply Daphne's boy toy. Notice they always split up from Scooby and Shaggy to go out on their own? What do you think they were doing with nobody else around?
Velma was with them because she made the LSD. The Mystery Machine was a drug factory on wheels.
Shaggy was always stoned (like the rest of them), and Scooby was just a normal dog. Everyone just all thought they heard him talk, 'cause they were always stoned. Shaggy was kept around, because he did the actual work while Fred and Daphne (and sometimes Velma - who's obviously bi) were always screwing.
"Evil beware: I'm armed to the teeth and packing a hampster!"
At my college, "D is for Done"...
"Evil beware: I'm armed to the teeth and packing a hampster!"
- A company I used to work for has written up a patent application, with me as one of the inventors, and has asked me to review it and sign the necessary legal docs.
Umm... a lot of people seem to say "Quit your job" or "don't sign if you don't mind being fired" or such remarks. This guy evidently NO LONGER works for the company, but he signed a contract requiring him to do this while he worked there.I personally have no advice, as IANAL. I'd personally call my lawyer if I was facing a situation like this.
"Evil beware: I'm armed to the teeth and packing a hampster!"
There's something to be said for mathematical simplicity... if we were to distribute colors on a specified curve rather than uniformly, CRT and video card manufacturers may adjust the curve slightly to make there card look "better" or more "vibrant" or whatever. What's bad about this?? Lack of consistency. Things would look even more different between different monitors and video cards. You'd then start seeing "This site best viewed at 800x600, 24-bit color on a Matrox Millenium series card on a ViewSonic monitor"... that's not cool. Even distributions are simpler to get right across the board.
"Evil beware: I'm armed to the teeth and packing a hampster!"
Your comment is true for Intel brand CPUs, but not X86 in general. The problems with Intel SMP is the use of the Intel GTL+ CPU bus. AMD's Athlon series uses the DEC EV6 bus, which is point-to-point switched, rather than a single chunk of bandwidth shared between CPU's. AMD's 760MP chipset, due later this year, combined with the new Mustang-based CPU's should spank PIII Xeons in SMP.
"Evil beware: I'm armed to the teeth and packing a hampster!"
Bad move... I'm working full time while going to college, and I'm paid less than people who have less experience. Why? Because they have a degree, I don't. Who will be the first one out if layoffs hit? Me, even though I'm the best at what I do here. Besides, college, getting away from home, interacting with other classmates, dorming, etc. are all things everyone should experience for at least a year or two. I got handed my first issue of 2600, got into medieval re-creation, introduced to Japanese animation, experimented with overclocking, learned to live on a $5 a week food budget, and learned a great deal about women at college. Although I'm anxious to graduate, and classes are driving me crazy, I wouldn't have given up this experience for the world.
"Evil beware: I'm armed to the teeth and packing a hampster!"
Have RMS's complaints about different liscences ever done a damn thing for open source?!
Although I think RMS is a bit much, he has never said he supports the open source movement; he supports the Free Software movement. Free software is a bit more than open source... it involves true freedom to do whatever you want with it once you have it. Open source is just a side effect of his vision of free software. RMS and the FSF don't care at all about pragmatics, just principals.
"Evil beware: I'm armed to the teeth and packing a hampster!"
Don't fret... there's an easy solution. Just beg RMS for forgiveness :)
"Evil beware: I'm armed to the teeth and packing a hampster!"