...but I did see Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan - and on the whole, those were optomistic films, all about the triumph of the human spirit over adversity. In SPR, all these guys, who have slogged through crap, seen their comrades blown to hell, and being stuck in a horrible situation give themselves in order to save the life of one man, so that his family can go on.
Schindler's List, well, if you didn't cry tears of pride for Oscar Schindler in that last little bit, when they bring him the ring they made, then you have no heart. The waterworks didn't really start for me until the survivors started putting stones on his grave, but that film was all about Redemption, not the Fall.
Much as I hate to admit it, I've been using the 'web for a looooong time, as you can probably tell from my low UID here.:P
There's not much more out there I'm interested in online any more. Back when I had a 14.4 dialup line, I was all over USENET, but these days, I hit/., a couple news pages, get some patches, then check up on some friends, and I'm done for the day. I've stayed away from USENET ever since The September That Never Ended. Pretty much the only reason I still have broadband is because of three things:
1) Speed of software downloads 2) Ping times for games (I'm a bit of a Day of Defeat junkie) 3) Always on convenience.
Something I have noticed is that as the speed of my connection has increased, my interest in the web has decreased.
...in his book "Earth." Admittedly there wasn't much dedicated to it - one of the characters, Jen Wolling (IIRC) had a program written for her by a hacker that randomized her news input so that a certain percentage of her news would be drawn in from random sources, as opposed to her preselected resources.
Said hacker was in jail at the time for doing this for a bunch of other people, without their consent!
Supposedly it will be attached to the Cuban missile crisis film "Thirteen Days in October" with Kevin Costner - I don't have a link handy, but the rumor has been on a bunch of different web sites such as theonering.net and darkhorizons.
When working on your graduate projects, make sure to link GPL code into the project. Use some GPL'ed library for something or another (I was going to use the Mersenne Twister code as an example, but I realized it's LGPL. Oops.) and then if the college ever wants to profit from your code, they have to make the source availible. Doesn't give you any profits from your code, but it effectively sticks a poison pill in it so that the College doesn't get all that much either.
but I'm pretty certain XML has actually been around for a while. Isn't XML the format used to define HTML, or am I thinking of some parent format that I can't remember?
...but Creative Labs is one of the crappiest companies out there, to the point where I'd call a general boycott for their totally unethical behavior. Look at how long they basically sold the same equipment (SoundBlaster 16 ISA series) until Ensoniq brought out their hardware, at which point Creative just BOUGHT them, then re-released their hardware at a higher price point. Oh, and look at how they handled a company that offered better sound and performance - Aureal, and their A3D 2.0. After suing Aureal and forcing a developing company to spend all it's finances on litigation, they lost the suit, but ended up buying Aureal in bankruptcy proceedings.
(I know that the Diamond Monster MX300 caused a performance hit, but apparently that was caused by a poor implementation of the Vortex2 chipset by Diamond - apparently the later versions put out by Aureal actually offered a smaller performance hit than the Sound Bastard Dead! card did.)
Creative Labs is just about as bad as Microsoft in my book.
First off, as some people have pointed out, the P4 is running slower than the P3, clock for clock. In addition, by the time the P4 is due out, at current ramp-up for the Athlon, we should be seeing eqivalent-speed Athlons running on DDR 133mhz system busses, or roughly eqivalent to 266mhz. In addition, we're looking at using DDR SDRAM on the 266mhz system bus, which should give it a nice little kick in the pants versus RAMBUS, which probably won't even be able to fill half of the 400mhz system bus of the P4.
Now, Intel might still have some tricks up their sleeves, but IMO they've just plain dropped the ball. The Athlon came out of nowhere, kicked them in the pants, and they just weren't ready for it. They were investing major money in the Merced chip program, trying to milk some more money out of the P6 core, and so little RnD went towards upgrading their Pentium line.
Me? I'm bullish on AMD, bearish on Intel. I doubt that Intel is going to go out of business, but I can see a reversal of position and popularity in the cards if AMD doesn't fumble and Intel keeps on their current chosen path.
Check out this link: http://pub4.ezboard.com/fiwetheyopenforumiv.showMe ssage?topicID=656.topic&index=7
This points to the thread we're discussing about Ed right now - there are some transcripts of what he originally posted in the Infoworld Electric forum.
The main problem is since he never took legal action against Microsoft, most of his allegations don't have much documentation. But I can attest to reading his posts over a several year period as his finances slipped and fell apart due to the situation we've been talking about.
Well, the original forums, on Infoworld Electric, were taken down. There are archives there, but they are not currently searchable. You can also do a Google search on Ed Curry, and come up with a bunch of relevant documents. I had some set up in a post, but my browser dumped on me, so the only pointer I have right now is
While I did not chat with him extensively, I did see him on the forums, and watch as he attempted to salvage his career and finances from the savaging Microsoft gave him. I also read the report of his death, and grieved with the rest of the IWETHEYers.
You can find us at IWETHEY
Excuse me, that was not flamebait. It was a valid criticism of a viewpoint I see far too often in the U.S. (of which I am a citizen) - that we view 3rd world "terrorists" as Evil People, yet judge our own as above and beyond reproach. How is it flamebait to point that out?
Actually, the sample Tom got WAS multiplier locked. The thing is, the chip just tells the motherboard it's "requested" multiplier, and then the motherboard decides whether or not to follow this. According to Tom's review, it IS possible to override the multiplier lock, at least on the Asus motherboard he had.
...got bought out by VIA, who has been trying to roll some all-in-one chipsets with their processors. I seem to remember something about a bunch of Cyrix engineers getting really upset and taking a hike, though.
The project manager for the Bob project was nobody other than Melinda Gates herself. It was the only project she ever headed at M$. Oh, and she was billg's SO at the time, too.
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...was the sound of a joke going right by your head.
Think about it. Think about it long and hard. Pun intended.
...but I did see Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan - and on the whole, those were optomistic films, all about the triumph of the human spirit over adversity. In SPR, all these guys, who have slogged through crap, seen their comrades blown to hell, and being stuck in a horrible situation give themselves in order to save the life of one man, so that his family can go on.
Schindler's List, well, if you didn't cry tears of pride for Oscar Schindler in that last little bit, when they bring him the ring they made, then you have no heart. The waterworks didn't really start for me until the survivors started putting stones on his grave, but that film was all about Redemption, not the Fall.
IIRC, isn't that Larry Niven's Law of Freedom? I seem to remember reading it in some of his stories, did he lift it from somewhere?
Didn't you hear, he comes in six-packs?
Microsoft most likely is doing code reviews OF FUTURE PRODUCTS, I.E. .NET, .NET Server, Windows XP, Office NGO, etc.
You want security? Fine, buy our subscription products.
Much as I hate to admit it, I've been using the 'web for a looooong time, as you can probably tell from my low UID here. :P
/., a couple news pages, get some patches, then check up on some friends, and I'm done for the day. I've stayed away from USENET ever since The September That Never Ended. Pretty much the only reason I still have broadband is because of three things:
There's not much more out there I'm interested in online any more. Back when I had a 14.4 dialup line, I was all over USENET, but these days, I hit
1) Speed of software downloads
2) Ping times for games (I'm a bit of a Day of Defeat junkie)
3) Always on convenience.
Something I have noticed is that as the speed of my connection has increased, my interest in the web has decreased.
it wasn't Interplay that got it nixed - it was Infogrammes and Hasbro's deal. Interplay had nothing to do with that.
...in his book "Earth." Admittedly there wasn't much dedicated to it - one of the characters, Jen Wolling (IIRC) had a program written for her by a hacker that randomized her news input so that a certain percentage of her news would be drawn in from random sources, as opposed to her preselected resources.
Said hacker was in jail at the time for doing this for a bunch of other people, without their consent!
Someone posts a story to /. about Undernet being dDoS'ed, and the site gets slashdotted.
Is it just me, or is this rather ironic?
Supposedly it will be attached to the Cuban missile crisis film "Thirteen Days in October" with Kevin Costner - I don't have a link handy, but the rumor has been on a bunch of different web sites such as theonering.net and darkhorizons.
IANAL, so this might not work:
When working on your graduate projects, make sure to link GPL code into the project. Use some GPL'ed library for something or another (I was going to use the Mersenne Twister code as an example, but I realized it's LGPL. Oops.) and then if the college ever wants to profit from your code, they have to make the source availible. Doesn't give you any profits from your code, but it effectively sticks a poison pill in it so that the College doesn't get all that much either.
Never mind, open mouth, insert foot.
but I'm pretty certain XML has actually been around for a while. Isn't XML the format used to define HTML, or am I thinking of some parent format that I can't remember?
...but Creative Labs is one of the crappiest companies out there, to the point where I'd call a general boycott for their totally unethical behavior. Look at how long they basically sold the same equipment (SoundBlaster 16 ISA series) until Ensoniq brought out their hardware, at which point Creative just BOUGHT them, then re-released their hardware at a higher price point. Oh, and look at how they handled a company that offered better sound and performance - Aureal, and their A3D 2.0. After suing Aureal and forcing a developing company to spend all it's finances on litigation, they lost the suit, but ended up buying Aureal in bankruptcy proceedings.
(I know that the Diamond Monster MX300 caused a performance hit, but apparently that was caused by a poor implementation of the Vortex2 chipset by Diamond - apparently the later versions put out by Aureal actually offered a smaller performance hit than the Sound Bastard Dead! card did.)
Creative Labs is just about as bad as Microsoft in my book.
First off, as some people have pointed out, the P4 is running slower than the P3, clock for clock. In addition, by the time the P4 is due out, at current ramp-up for the Athlon, we should be seeing eqivalent-speed Athlons running on DDR 133mhz system busses, or roughly eqivalent to 266mhz. In addition, we're looking at using DDR SDRAM on the 266mhz system bus, which should give it a nice little kick in the pants versus RAMBUS, which probably won't even be able to fill half of the 400mhz system bus of the P4.
Now, Intel might still have some tricks up their sleeves, but IMO they've just plain dropped the ball. The Athlon came out of nowhere, kicked them in the pants, and they just weren't ready for it. They were investing major money in the Merced chip program, trying to milk some more money out of the P6 core, and so little RnD went towards upgrading their Pentium line.
Me? I'm bullish on AMD, bearish on Intel. I doubt that Intel is going to go out of business, but I can see a reversal of position and popularity in the cards if AMD doesn't fumble and Intel keeps on their current chosen path.
Basically, it distorts your viewpoint into something resembling a fishbowl.
http://www.were-wolf.net/politics/ed_curry/
This is a history of pretty much exactly what happened to him, and why.
Check out this link: http://pub4.ezboard.com/fiwetheyopenforumiv.showMe ssage?topicID=656.topic&index=7
This points to the thread we're discussing about Ed right now - there are some transcripts of what he originally posted in the Infoworld Electric forum.
The main problem is since he never took legal action against Microsoft, most of his allegations don't have much documentation. But I can attest to reading his posts over a several year period as his finances slipped and fell apart due to the situation we've been talking about.
Ed was a Good Man.
Well, the original forums, on Infoworld Electric, were taken down. There are archives there, but they are not currently searchable. You can also do a Google search on Ed Curry, and come up with a bunch of relevant documents. I had some set up in a post, but my browser dumped on me, so the only pointer I have right now is
l arlist.html
http://foundation.geneseo.edu/scholarships/scho
which points to a $500 scholarship established in his memory.
Most of the relevant Ed Curry posts occured in the old Infoworld Electric forums, which, unfortunately, aren't easily searchable any more.
While I did not chat with him extensively, I did see him on the forums, and watch as he attempted to salvage his career and finances from the savaging Microsoft gave him. I also read the report of his death, and grieved with the rest of the IWETHEYers. You can find us at IWETHEY
Excuse me, that was not flamebait. It was a valid criticism of a viewpoint I see far too often in the U.S. (of which I am a citizen) - that we view 3rd world "terrorists" as Evil People, yet judge our own as above and beyond reproach. How is it flamebait to point that out?
Please respond.
Actually, the sample Tom got WAS multiplier locked. The thing is, the chip just tells the motherboard it's "requested" multiplier, and then the motherboard decides whether or not to follow this. According to Tom's review, it IS possible to override the multiplier lock, at least on the Asus motherboard he had.
Tasty, eh?
...got bought out by VIA, who has been trying to roll some all-in-one chipsets with their processors. I seem to remember something about a bunch of Cyrix engineers getting really upset and taking a hike, though.
I worked at Microsoft. It was fairly common trivia over there.
Oh, and before you call me a traitor, I was a contractor and I didn't know any better at the time. I've gotten better since.
The project manager for the Bob project was nobody other than Melinda Gates herself. It was the only project she ever headed at M$. Oh, and she was billg's SO at the time, too.