Plan 9 does distributed processing inherintley - the planned Plan 9 network topology had the idea of 'CPU Servers' analoguous to File Servers, which would make thier CPU time available for other hosts to use.
This would kick ass.... I loved Plan 9, and would love it more if I could use it on a regular basis. Such a wonderful interface...
One tetris variant I played (I think it was Magical Tetris Challenge on the GBC) had a multiplayer mode in which the challenge was to remove rows in tandem with your partner.
There are all sorts of cooperative games, as well.
Unfortunately, most board games rely on pieces of paper or cards to represent things, and by physical restrictions there are only so many 'things' one can package with the game, making it zero sum in practice.
Your commandline does not solve the problem that the original invocation of xargs was intended to solve - passing a *huge* number of files to grep on the commandline (grep * in a directory with a ton of files) causes it to break.
xargs works two different ways depending on how you invoke it.
I still remember watching my first few Sailor Moon episodes at an anime showing. I thought it was crap compared to the other stuff (Totoro, BGC) that was played that night, but it wasn't horrible. Then I saw DIC's dub... *shudder*. The mutilation was horrible. I've sworn off broadcast anime since then. I don't even want to go near WB's CCS, as I quite enjoy the original.
As for recent anime, I've been fond of Furi Kuri lately (watched a few of the discs at an anime show. Ordered 2 discs from CD japan. Now I'm trying to solve the Region 2 problem:-( ). Also Studio Ghilbi (?sp)'s recent release The Yamada Neighbours (or something like that) is a wonderful movie.
Most people have noted that the anime trend began with 'nerds'. This is true, but they forget that it began with (physically =) adult, universtiy-aged nerds. Those nerds who would max out thier credit cards, and do things like spend $1000 cdn. on the KOR LD boxed set.
Whereas suit-boy is talking about grade school nerds.
I'm not saying he has a point or anything, but just pointing out a problem with most people's jerking knees.
It appears in a distinct theme, because GTK and Gnome apps read thier local.gtkrc to decide what theme to render themselves in. Configuration for that is not stored in, or controlled by, the X server.
I'm an @home customer, and *I* can't connect to thier SMTP servers.
At one point a few months ago, thier mail servers started terminating my connections on port 25. Even if I open a telnet session on port 25, I get disconnected before I do anything. Since I don't even mention my login/password to it, it's clearly not that - it must be denying me based on IP or whatever.
I called thier useless tech support people, which of course forced me to set up outlook (twice) just so they could be shown that it wasn't *my* problem. They also made me unplug my firewall, and plug my windows box into the network directly, and I was still getting the same error (I had no problem with this, unlike the Outlook fiasco - if telnet doesn't work...).
I got escalated to level 2, and then they sent a notice or whatever out to @home people (this was a Rogers tech support centre I think), and then the ticket got closed, apparently my 'problem solved'. Which, of course, it wasn't. Did that again. Then again. Every time, they were telling me the problem had been fixed when it hadn't been.
I gave up and am using a friend's mail server he has set up on DSL.
Imagine is being sued over a printed strategy guide - direct competition for Nintendo's product, and using thier trademarks and copyrights (without permission) to do it.
Imagine needs to bitchslap whichever of thier laywer drones that gave that project the green light.
Do you think you could hammer home your dislike of advertising any more? Just a bit? Are you going to tell me how much you don't watch TV now?
Now, for those that do want to generate money, hey, like you I say go for it. But don't expect that people are going to go out of their way to hand you their wallet.
What aren't you understanding? The problem that all of these advertising networks, and any future ppv stuff are made to address is that it's too expensive to run a popular, content-driven site out of your own pocket.
Can you respond to that point, or are you going to constantly attack the straw man of "...owed a living just because you put up a web site..." ?
Apologies for the typo. I had just finished sending an email to someone named Holly.
As for your point about Molly in the film, I know that - the poster I was replying to was complaning that the female lead in the film wasn't modified like she was in the book, hence my reply, which was a roundabout way of saying that Gibson didn't want to use Molly because of overlapping rights with Neuromancer.
I even found the interview that I was too lazy to look for before. To add to the irony, it was from a link here
To quote:
Q. Well, it will be nice to see the Molly character [a total she-badass character that Trinity from "The Matrix" is clearly modeled on, and who appears in the original "Johnny Mnemonic" and "Neuromancer" stories] actually show up.
A. Yeah. See, that was one of the things with "Johnny Mnemonic," was that I never WANTED the Molly character to show up, because if she HAD shown up she'd be part of the "Johnny Mnemonic" franchise. That's why Molly wasn't Molly.
Q. [sarcastically] Yes, that highly lucrative "Johnny Mnemonic" franchise....
A. Yeah. Well, you know, that was always a possibility, too -- so I'm very glad that we kept her.
Where, exactly, is the promise to anyone that creates a web site that they should be able to "make a return on their investment", especially a monetary return?
No one's saying that. But if they don't, thier site ceases to exist, regardless of how much people liked it or visited it.
Are you saying that's a good thing?
I'm working with a group that has put up a site purely for the hope of getting our work out there.
That implies that you're running a website simply as a hook to get you a higher paying job. And for what traffic you're going to get, a geocities site would give the required bandwidth (not that I'm saying use them - they suck now worse than ever - but if all you're worried about is getting your work out there, you don't need to pay for a colocation service because your website takes up too much bandwidth). When/if your site gets too many visitors for your current setup to handle, what do you do? High bandwidth colocation can cost anywhere from $2000-$4000 a month, and that's at the low end. Do you propose to pay that out of your own pocket(s)?
The web started as a medium with relatively free information dispersal.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, and when I was young a bag of chips cost $0.35, and arcade games still cost $0.25, and video games were *real* video games, and you could still play Pac-man ripoffs in the arcade instead of todays street fighter ripoffs.
Get over it.
Web hosting *costs money* today. And there are *alot* more people on the net now than there were 10 years ago. A moderately successful site can suck up alot of bandwidth. The money to pay for that has to come from *somewhere*. If ads don't work, what does? Or should the site like somethingawful simply cease to exist when it gets too big?
There seems to be this overwhelming mentality anymore that just by having a web presence you should be entitled to make money. It doesn't matter if your site sucks. It doesn't matter if you have absolutely no clue how to attract people.
This isn't about.com's trying to make money and go public. This is about people who set up a website, and are simply trying to break even to ensure it's continued existence. If they can make money doing it, go for it - but how do you propose these web sites pay for thier own existence? As you said, they're run "purely for the hope of getting our work out there." - well, that costs money. Where does it come from?
Of course, having said all that I would say it is just a matter of time before the government cracks down on all this illegal software that blocks web ads.
Hardly. Sites will just go pay per view. Internet advertising can work - it just doesn't right now because not enough effort or research is done into it.
Of course, targetted advertising on the net is taboo here, which puts internet advertising further behind television.
I just don't quite get why it's so important that when you pay for your web connection, some people are even paying for bandwidth, you should still have to pay for content.
So, run this by me again - because I pay for my car to drive to the store, and I pay for the shoes I use to walk into the store, then I shouldn't have to pay for anything in the store?
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I was wondering what all that green pasta was at the supermarket....
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Actually, with Plan 9 it's even better.
Plan 9 does distributed processing inherintley - the planned Plan 9 network topology had the idea of 'CPU Servers' analoguous to File Servers, which would make thier CPU time available for other hosts to use.
This would kick ass.... I loved Plan 9, and would love it more if I could use it on a regular basis. Such a wonderful interface...
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Your comment makes no sense.
He is playing Quake 3, not watching it....
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that would be
/dev/null > /proc/kcore
cat
under Linux, at least...
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One tetris variant I played (I think it was Magical Tetris Challenge on the GBC) had a multiplayer mode in which the challenge was to remove rows in tandem with your partner.
There are all sorts of cooperative games, as well.
Unfortunately, most board games rely on pieces of paper or cards to represent things, and by physical restrictions there are only so many 'things' one can package with the game, making it zero sum in practice.
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They got addicted to Everquest.
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Your commandline does not solve the problem that the original invocation of xargs was intended to solve - passing a *huge* number of files to grep on the commandline (grep * in a directory with a ton of files) causes it to break.
xargs works two different ways depending on how you invoke it.
is the equivilant to
or
Whereas invoking xargs like this :
is congruent to :
So, umm, there, and such.
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actually, most people will need to run it as so :
the xargs you provided will act the same as grep * - passing all of the files as parmaters instead of each in turn.
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That's planned.
One of the uses of the 'dreamcast on a chip' concept that this story is an example of is the idea of a 'dreamcast on a PCI card'.
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Tell me about it.
I still remember watching my first few Sailor Moon episodes at an anime showing. I thought it was crap compared to the other stuff (Totoro, BGC) that was played that night, but it wasn't horrible. Then I saw DIC's dub... *shudder*. The mutilation was horrible. I've sworn off broadcast anime since then. I don't even want to go near WB's CCS, as I quite enjoy the original.
As for recent anime, I've been fond of Furi Kuri lately (watched a few of the discs at an anime show. Ordered 2 discs from CD japan. Now I'm trying to solve the Region 2 problem
And I'm still looking for Ranma on DVD =)
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Most people have noted that the anime trend began with 'nerds'. This is true, but they forget that it began with (physically =) adult, universtiy-aged nerds. Those nerds who would max out thier credit cards, and do things like spend $1000 cdn. on the KOR LD boxed set.
Whereas suit-boy is talking about grade school nerds.
I'm not saying he has a point or anything, but just pointing out a problem with most people's jerking knees.
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DBZ has always sucked, though....
Why would you watch it to begin with?
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Actually, playing Quake 3 online is a service.
It's a free service, but you do need to check in at id in order to play (cd key, et al).
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You seem to think that there's some nessecary relation to programming and graphic design because they're both expressed on computers...
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Yes, but convergence also gave us a touch screen on our fridge with the intention of having us surf the net in our kitchen while we cook.
Do you have any idea how much I'd love that?
So I'm lazy, but printing those things out just annoys me...
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I think you mean snprintf().
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duh...
because teenagers want to be cool.
adults want to play good games.
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It appears in a distinct theme, because GTK and Gnome apps read thier local
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I'm an @home customer, and *I* can't connect to thier SMTP servers.
At one point a few months ago, thier mail servers started terminating my connections on port 25. Even if I open a telnet session on port 25, I get disconnected before I do anything. Since I don't even mention my login/password to it, it's clearly not that - it must be denying me based on IP or whatever.
I called thier useless tech support people, which of course forced me to set up outlook (twice) just so they could be shown that it wasn't *my* problem. They also made me unplug my firewall, and plug my windows box into the network directly, and I was still getting the same error (I had no problem with this, unlike the Outlook fiasco - if telnet doesn't work...).
I got escalated to level 2, and then they sent a notice or whatever out to @home people (this was a Rogers tech support centre I think), and then the ticket got closed, apparently my 'problem solved'. Which, of course, it wasn't. Did that again. Then again. Every time, they were telling me the problem had been fixed when it hadn't been.
I gave up and am using a friend's mail server he has set up on DSL.
I should pursue this, I guess...
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If it helps, I'm one of them...
:-P
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Off the net?
Imagine is being sued over a printed strategy guide - direct competition for Nintendo's product, and using thier trademarks and copyrights (without permission) to do it.
Imagine needs to bitchslap whichever of thier laywer drones that gave that project the green light.
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Innovative?
It's a direct ripoff of the Final Fantasy Legend series.
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Do you think you could hammer home your dislike of advertising any more? Just a bit? Are you going to tell me how much you don't watch TV now?
Now, for those that do want to generate money, hey, like you I say go for it. But don't expect that people are going to go out of their way to hand you their wallet.
What aren't you understanding? The problem that all of these advertising networks, and any future ppv stuff are made to address is that it's too expensive to run a popular, content-driven site out of your own pocket.
Can you respond to that point, or are you going to constantly attack the straw man of "...owed a living just because you put up a web site
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Apologies for the typo. I had just finished sending an email to someone named Holly.
As for your point about Molly in the film, I know that - the poster I was replying to was complaning that the female lead in the film wasn't modified like she was in the book, hence my reply, which was a roundabout way of saying that Gibson didn't want to use Molly because of overlapping rights with Neuromancer.
I even found the interview that I was too lazy to look for before. To add to the irony, it was from a link here
To quote:
Fucking happy now?
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Where, exactly, is the promise to anyone that creates a web site that they should be able to "make a return on their investment", especially a monetary return?
No one's saying that. But if they don't, thier site ceases to exist, regardless of how much people liked it or visited it.
Are you saying that's a good thing?
I'm working with a group that has put up a site purely for the hope of getting our work out there.
That implies that you're running a website simply as a hook to get you a higher paying job. And for what traffic you're going to get, a geocities site would give the required bandwidth (not that I'm saying use them - they suck now worse than ever - but if all you're worried about is getting your work out there, you don't need to pay for a colocation service because your website takes up too much bandwidth). When/if your site gets too many visitors for your current setup to handle, what do you do? High bandwidth colocation can cost anywhere from $2000-$4000 a month, and that's at the low end. Do you propose to pay that out of your own pocket(s)?
The web started as a medium with relatively free information dispersal.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, and when I was young a bag of chips cost $0.35, and arcade games still cost $0.25, and video games were *real* video games, and you could still play Pac-man ripoffs in the arcade instead of todays street fighter ripoffs.
Get over it.
Web hosting *costs money* today. And there are *alot* more people on the net now than there were 10 years ago. A moderately successful site can suck up alot of bandwidth. The money to pay for that has to come from *somewhere*. If ads don't work, what does? Or should the site like somethingawful simply cease to exist when it gets too big?
There seems to be this overwhelming mentality anymore that just by having a web presence you should be entitled to make money. It doesn't matter if your site sucks. It doesn't matter if you have absolutely no clue how to attract people.
This isn't about
Of course, having said all that I would say it is just a matter of time before the government cracks down on all this illegal software that blocks web ads.
Hardly. Sites will just go pay per view. Internet advertising can work - it just doesn't right now because not enough effort or research is done into it.
Of course, targetted advertising on the net is taboo here, which puts internet advertising further behind television.
I just don't quite get why it's so important that when you pay for your web connection, some people are even paying for bandwidth, you should still have to pay for content.
So, run this by me again - because I pay for my car to drive to the store, and I pay for the shoes I use to walk into the store, then I shouldn't have to pay for anything in the store?
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