While I love top to death, isn't it a pretty crappy way to measure memory usage? I mean, top is just a quick-and-dirty tool, not one for serious analysis. Of course, the article writer claims that his tests are 'in no way scientific', and yet has no problem concluding his article by recommending against the use of Netscape 6.
The 486SX was just a 486DX with the onboard math-coprocessor disabled. It was the exact same chip. The marketing goons at Intel are very demanding that there be a "high-end" and "low-end" chip at all times, to satisfy their customers need to spend huge amounts of money to get the "best" processor availible. The 386SX however was structually different from the 386DX.
It all comes back to choice. You don't like it, don't use it.
Well, here's the rub. Users very rarely have any choice whatsoever about using a Microsoft product. The user is forced or coerced into using Microsoft software. Whenever Microsoft could succeed in ensuring that they are the only alternative availible, they have done so. Whenever they could use illegal business techniques and marketing muscle to succeed, they have done so (MS-DOS vs. DR-DOS). Whenever they have been forced to rely upon innovation and technical prowess to succeed, they have met with mixed results, at best (WinCE vs. PalmOS).
A few [ten]thousand hits in an hour is a slight push. What's the point of attaching a server to the world-wide web otherwise?
I propose starting the Slashdot Mirror Mafia. A group of people not including myself shall monitor the main page and wget the story URL's as they are posted, placing them on a publically accessible page somewhere. To hell with the legal ramifications, that's why they'll be called 'Mafia'.
Not that this story was particularly interesting...nice lego work but awful photographing. Much ado about nothing.
Re:Saw it on NSF a couple days ago...
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How fast can you type with it? Let me rephrase...how fast is the fastest current typist with this method? Theoretical speed is vaporware as far as I'm concerned. Does it have function keys? What about having to move your hands to use the mouse?
Most importantly, how will this affect playing Quake?
Enquiring minds want to know.
What I don't understand, is why would anyone help the music industry in this fashion? If you break SDMI, the music industry will simply replace it with a stronger, better solution, and we will all lose.
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Godwin's law! You lose the argument!
We now return you to our regularly scheduled slashdot discussion.
No...I don't know what case you're thinking of, but Steve Jackson Games didn't sell little spy objects. They are a legitimate game company, whose products included Car Wars and GURPS. See SJG's wrapup of the whole affair here. I really advise reading the whole thing yourself...there's more than I can place here and it's all relevant to the incident this discussion is about. Namely, the U.S. Government breaking the law in pursuit of parties innocent of any crime.
A few highlights from the judge's decision:
"there has
never been any basis for suspicion that any of the Plaintiffs have engaged
in any criminal activity, [nor] violated any law"
"a reasonable investigation of
only several hours would have revealed Steve Jackson Games, Inc. was, in
fact, a legitimate publisher of information to the public"
"The affidavit and warrant
preparation was simply sloppy and not carefully done."
"In addition, Agent Foley must have known his seizure of computers,
printers, disks and other materials and his refusal to provide copies
represented a risk of substantial harm to Steve Jackson Games, Inc. --
under circumstances where he had no reason to believe the corporation or
its owner was involved in criminal activity."
The Steve Jackson Games case isn't all happy endings...they were illegally raided by the U.S. Government in 1990, had their computer equipment confiscated, and received their equipment back in 1994. By that time the 286s that the government stole were useless. The damages? $300,000, of which $250,000 went to attorney's fees. Who really won this case, I ask?
They don't make money by selling the consoles - they make money off of [selling|licensing] the games. Video game consoles have the same kind of model as shaving razor companies...sell the shavers, but make money off of razor blade refills. HP printer division is like that as well - the only reason they sell printers is to generate sales for ink refills.
Err...no. BoP came out way after WarGames did. And it's "you lose" message was similar to "You have started an accidental nuclear war. You will not be receiving a pretty graphical depiction of a mushroom cloud, or anything else. We do not reward failure".
Still, BoP was kind of fun, but it was one of those games where you really had to have two humans in order to play properly. My favorite was when you elected to go to DefCon 2 and put the ball back in the Soviets' court, and they replied, "Our answer will be arriving via the North Pole", followed by the aforesaid message.
Actually, I believe the "original" turn-of-the-(previous)-century division of languages was:
German, the language of science
English, the language of commerce
French, the language of diplomacy
This is why my (U.S.) passport has French on it. At one time French held the position that English did...the Russian/Prussian/Spanish nobility all spoke French to one another, and anyone who spoke the native language of their country was an uneducated vulgate.
I said what do you want from me furby? And do you know what he
said? Tree fiddy! I said damnit furby, get off my lawn, I ain't giving you no tree
fiddy!
Not only did they lose the laptops, but they lost all the source code to an entire application
that will have to be rewritten from scratch.
Sounds like a blessing in disguise to me...I wish my company's source code could be destroyed so the developers would have to write it over again, and do it right this time.
Then you just type in the IP address to connect. Granted, this is way beyond the ability of anyone who uses the library for web browsing, but I'm sure someone could make a quick buck by providing a "subscriber service" to resolve.xxx and.adult hostnames into IP addresses.
Hear, hear. I hate people misusing dictionary words. "Dictionary word" meaning a word that only appears in print, and is never spoken in conversation. If you're going to use a fancy ten-dollar word like "nonplussed", you better use it right. And if you do hang around people who use words like nonplussed in conversation, all I can say is you and your friends have my pity.
Slashdot Mirror
While I love top to death, isn't it a pretty crappy way to measure memory usage? I mean, top is just a quick-and-dirty tool, not one for serious analysis. Of course, the article writer claims that his tests are 'in no way scientific', and yet has no problem concluding his article by recommending against the use of Netscape 6.
I always wondered why they named a Star Trek spinoff series after the villian from Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
The 486SX was just a 486DX with the onboard math-coprocessor disabled. It was the exact same chip. The marketing goons at Intel are very demanding that there be a "high-end" and "low-end" chip at all times, to satisfy their customers need to spend huge amounts of money to get the "best" processor availible. The 386SX however was structually different from the 386DX.
Well, here's the rub. Users very rarely have any choice whatsoever about using a Microsoft product. The user is forced or coerced into using Microsoft software. Whenever Microsoft could succeed in ensuring that they are the only alternative availible, they have done so. Whenever they could use illegal business techniques and marketing muscle to succeed, they have done so (MS-DOS vs. DR-DOS). Whenever they have been forced to rely upon innovation and technical prowess to succeed, they have met with mixed results, at best (WinCE vs. PalmOS).
Dial-a-song is free when you call from work.
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Florida Voter IQ Test
I propose starting the Slashdot Mirror Mafia. A group of people not including myself shall monitor the main page and wget the story URL's as they are posted, placing them on a publically accessible page somewhere. To hell with the legal ramifications, that's why they'll be called 'Mafia'.
Not that this story was particularly interesting...nice lego work but awful photographing. Much ado about nothing.
Most importantly, how will this affect playing Quake? Enquiring minds want to know.
What I don't understand, is why would anyone help the music industry in this fashion? If you break SDMI, the music industry will simply replace it with a stronger, better solution, and we will all lose.
We now return you to our regularly scheduled slashdot discussion.
Don't have a ~/.netscape/cookies file? Go to hell, don't tell me about it.
The above /. article is the most buzzword-compliant I've seen in weeks. I say just ignore it, and if whatever it is gets big, buy the O'Reilly book.
A few highlights from the judge's decision:
"there has never been any basis for suspicion that any of the Plaintiffs have engaged in any criminal activity, [nor] violated any law"
"a reasonable investigation of only several hours would have revealed Steve Jackson Games, Inc. was, in fact, a legitimate publisher of information to the public"
"The affidavit and warrant preparation was simply sloppy and not carefully done."
"In addition, Agent Foley must have known his seizure of computers, printers, disks and other materials and his refusal to provide copies represented a risk of substantial harm to Steve Jackson Games, Inc. -- under circumstances where he had no reason to believe the corporation or its owner was involved in criminal activity."
Any of this sound familiar yet? Read the whole text of the federal judge's decision here. Enlightening reading, especially if you're a government cheerleader. It could happen to you.
The Steve Jackson Games case isn't all happy endings...they were illegally raided by the U.S. Government in 1990, had their computer equipment confiscated, and received their equipment back in 1994. By that time the 286s that the government stole were useless. The damages? $300,000, of which $250,000 went to attorney's fees. Who really won this case, I ask?
They don't make money by selling the consoles - they make money off of [selling|licensing] the games. Video game consoles have the same kind of model as shaving razor companies...sell the shavers, but make money off of razor blade refills. HP printer division is like that as well - the only reason they sell printers is to generate sales for ink refills.
echo -n "Would you like to play a game? "
/usr/games/$x ] ; then /usr/games/$x
read x
if [ -f
tput clear
exec
else
echo "Funny, the only way to win is not to play at all."
fi
exit 0
Still, BoP was kind of fun, but it was one of those games where you really had to have two humans in order to play properly. My favorite was when you elected to go to DefCon 2 and put the ball back in the Soviets' court, and they replied, "Our answer will be arriving via the North Pole", followed by the aforesaid message.
German, the language of science
English, the language of commerce
French, the language of diplomacy
This is why my (U.S.) passport has French on it. At one time French held the position that English did...the Russian/Prussian/Spanish nobility all spoke French to one another, and anyone who spoke the native language of their country was an uneducated vulgate.
I said what do you want from me furby? And do you know what he said? Tree fiddy! I said damnit furby, get off my lawn, I ain't giving you no tree fiddy!
Sounds like a blessing in disguise to me...I wish my company's source code could be destroyed so the developers would have to write it over again, and do it right this time.
Then you just type in the IP address to connect. Granted, this is way beyond the ability of anyone who uses the library for web browsing, but I'm sure someone could make a quick buck by providing a "subscriber service" to resolve .xxx and .adult hostnames into IP addresses.
Hear, hear. I hate people misusing dictionary words. "Dictionary word" meaning a word that only appears in print, and is never spoken in conversation. If you're going to use a fancy ten-dollar word like "nonplussed", you better use it right. And if you do hang around people who use words like nonplussed in conversation, all I can say is you and your friends have my pity.
An internal exception has occurred
HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
Server: Microsoft-IIS/4.0
Friends don't let friends use Microsoft servers...
What kind of lame-ass "Geek house" has a website that requires frames? It's bitch-ass slow, as well.
**** CBM BASIC V2 ****
3583 BYTES FREE
READY.
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