At one point, while I was working on the last version of TF released for QuakeWorld (remember that?), Robin of TF had me take a look at a first run of TF2 for Quake2. I actually think I have that still laying around here on an old CD somewhere.
Huh. That would actually be a really cool thing to see, if you still have it. If you're still in touch with Robin, could you ask him if he'd mind seeing that released? Q2 is so old, and TF2 so delayed, that I can't imagine it would be at risk of digging into their sales, and I'd be shocked if they're actually still using any of the game elements from the Q2 version...
The early affection of the slashdot crowd for Mandrake was always mystifying to me, and by the looks of the up-modded posts on this thread, it looks like a few of them have finally figured out that they've been had. Pity it didn't happen a few years ago.
Meanwhile, projects that actually contribute something unique to the community, as opposed to Yet Another Goddamn Shoddy Distribution, languish. I've donated to the Ogg project; have you?
Emmett, any timeframe on getting vorbis support into the iPod?:)
No, you don't understand his premise: allowing anti-Americans into the US will contribute to the ruin of American Enterprise.
I understand the premise perfectly well. I also expect him to support the premise with actual facts. And the facts do not support the contention that we are allowing significant numbers of "anti-Americans" into the country at the expense of immigrants who share our values.
The great irony here is that large sections of "American Enterprise" (primarily farming and construction) would completely collapse without both our legal and illegal immigrant populations (especially the illegal ones), but that's a rant for another day.
Trying to type-cast me as someone who is not down to earth is consistent with you response to the article.
Correct. I believe both you and Mr. Stein are ignoring the facts in exactly the same way.
You don't think uneducated immigrants from Mexico hate us?
No, I don't.
Proof's in the pudding: they keep coming here to live, and they don't agitate for subversion, sabotage or armed insurrection in any substantial numbers. (On the rare occasions that they have, largely in CA in the 60s, it's been in the context of much wider unrest: Oscar Acosta and his henchmen vanished as a viable political force with the Black Panthers.)
They may well hate their jobs, the conditions that they work and live in, and the insane laws that keep them trapped in this situation. (All of these things are pretty justifiably hatable.) But I don't believe that they hate us in the way that the Iranians do, or the Bolsheviks did.
They only wanted our money, but didn't give a shit about our cultural and social ideas.
Perhaps this is because Mexico and the US are both Christian, semi-capitalist republics (of varying democratic quality in Mexico, god knows, but then again also here) founded by european conquerers of alternating brutality and idealism?
To put it in a less convoluted fashion: it's easy to not give a shit about the "cultural and social ideas" of your host country when they are in the broad strokes pretty similar to your own.
And besides: what are our cultural and social ideas if not making money? Sounds to me like they assimilated better than you did.:)
I suspect that what you're really aiming at here is that they weren't interested in learning our language. I concede the point, with the proviso that I Just Don't Care. At all. English will always be the language of government and commerce in this country, and no amount of immigration is ever likely to change that: if they don't learn it, their children will.
I don't think it was his intent to single out any particular group, but other people try to single out a group, claim that this is who he was refering to, and use it as proof that he either has his facts wrong, or that he is a bigot.
And thus, the argument departs directly for fantasy-land, all aboard, no stops.
Back here on planet earth, spaceman, immigration is a phenomenon involving actual people from actual countries. Countable people, from countries with readable, verifiable histories. So if you try to purport, in a national forum, that our immigration policy is letting in "hordes" of people who "hate us", it is damn well a relevant counterargument if it turns out that the vast majority of immigrants, legal and illegal, are from countries that most certainly do not in any way systematically "hate us."
The fact that the only supporting argument that anyone in this thread can muster is paranoid idiocy about a Mexican "takeover" of the American southwest speaks volumes about the quality of the original proposition.
Not even close. Whatever grudges the average Mexican might (legitimately, IMHO) harbor over the loss of Texas, the country has been a staunch and consistant ally for longer than you or I have been alive.
Nationalism is a constant, and it's normal to be a bit suspicious of your immediate neighbors: just ask the Germans about the French, or the Canadians about us. The fact remains: as a source of anti-American rhetoric (never mind actual action), Mexico doesn't even come close to Cuba, to say nothing of Pakistan, Iran or China.
Oh wait, you think he was talking about legal immigration? He wasn't, but the arguement isn't any better then: according to the most recent statistics provided by the INS, the top five sources of naturalized citizens are:
9) Develop a suicidal immigration policy that keeps out educated, hardworking men and women from friendly nations and, instead, takes in vast numbers of angry, uneducated immigrants from nations that hate us.
Uh huh.
Whatever you might happen to think about our current immigration policy (I don't like it much myself), there's no getting around the fact that this is hyperbolic bullshit. The vast majority of illegal aliens in the US are migrant workers from Mexico. (Following Mexico are El Salvador, Guatamala and Canada. You have to go all the way down to #17 before you find a country with any substantial terrorist activity: our "ally" Pakistan.) Say what you will about Mexico, but it is not exactly a hotbed of anti-American radicalism.
The rest of this article is exactly the sort of mixture of over-stressed common sense and batshit insanity that I would expect from a former Nixon toady.
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the absence of development on some of the packages (djbdns comes to mind)
If you're going to troll, it would help to even pretend to know what you're talking about. Go away.
An interesting extension of a lousy idea.
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Although it's nice to see people attempting to improve one of the more regularly broken unix core services, I still think that the whole syslog design of a monolithic central multiplexed logging daemon is the Wrong Design.
Dan Bernstein's multilog, from his daemontools package, is, in my opinion, a good example of the correct way to do logging: a single process logs the stdout and stderr of each daemon, goes to great lengths to ensure that no data is lost, and handles logfile rollover automatically. With this tcpserver/tcpclient utilities from his ucspi-tcp package, it can be simply done over a network as well.
Of course, DJB's code, while source-available, is not in any way Free Software, and daemontools in particular currently is inextricably linked into his extraordinarily dubious "slashpackage" system, making it a potentially annoying choice for anyone reselling or distributing systems based on it. Cronolog, which was originally created to manage apache logs, looks like a promising GPLed replacement for multilog, but despite lots of grumbling along those lines, nobody has written a gpl/bsd replacement for daemontools...yet.
Can I have some of that crack you're smoking, please? Unless I am grossly misinformed, there was never a build of BeOS for any architectures other than PowerPC or x86.
IMHO it is atrocious to have humor in any serious work of epic scope.
I agree! I also thought it was just awful the way Shakespeare wasted valuable minutes using Polonius as lame comic relief in Hamlet! What could he have been thinking? Probably some claptrap about epic works needing to engage all of the audience's emotions...
You mean that Donna "Now how many times can I mention that I'm an SM-loving lesbian incest survivor in this article purporting to be about someone else" Minkowitz might have to look elsewhere for work? We might not be treated to weekly updates from Tom "recycled clipart and crack-addled politics -- two great tastes that taste great together" Tomorrow? There will be one less place for Andrew "Power Glutes" Sullivan to toady up to the GOP? Joe Conason will have to go back to sucking Al Gore's dick in the New York Press rather than in a national forum?
What, exactly, is the downside here?
I'll miss Charles Taylor, King Kaufman and Keith Knight, but I doubt they'll have much trouble finding work elsewhere. As for the rest of it, good riddance to bad rubbish. Maybe if Salon had stuck by its original intention of being an interactive Atlantic or Harpers for the web, instead of becoming a mouthpiece for the DNC cum get-rich-quick IPO scheme, it might not be in such dire straits today.
Tenon's Xtools is nothing more than a rebadged version of the original Xdarwin (Xfree86 on MacOS X) release, spiffed up with a rootless patch and a slightly improved control panel. For this, they wanted $200.
Even if the price weren't a ripoff, you don't want it anyway: the current release has a substantial number of showstopper bugs, and they have yet to update to the XFree 4.2.0 codebase. The last update to Xtools was in December of 2001, and they appear to have completely abandoned the product since then. (The support boards on tenon.com are a rather unhappy place as a result; I wouldn't be surprised to see a class-action suit arise out of this.)
FTP seems to be the only file sharing protocol properly implimented into every major OS.
Ugh. I wish. Windows XP still ships with completely broken FTP support, both on the command line and in the Explorer, just like every version since Windows 95. The explorer doesn't support ftp upload at all.
And even if it were properly implemented everywhere, FTP is a horrible protocol. A crufty and overdesigned two-channel connection setup, no security, only one generally supported authentication mode, and terrible error handling. FTP is a relic from the bronze age of the internet, and the sooner it goes away, the better.
NFS: Who uses THAT?
You're kidding, right?
Fortune 1000 companies use NFS. Universities use NFS. The linux kid in the next apartment from you probably uses NFS. I use NFS. We don't necessarily like it, but we use it.
Apple needs more of a unified printer driver architecture similar to the one used in windows.
They have one. Really. It's as unified as it's possible to get. They just need more/better drivers.
HFS+ already maintains data integrity quite well without a journal.
You are a funny, funny man.
Re:Exactly how much space does journaling take up.
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Breathe easy. Filesystem commit logs (aka journals) are generally tiny things: 15-30mb at worst. NetApp, for instance, keeps the filesystem journal for their Filer NAS servers in 32mb of mirrored NVRAM. You'll never notice the lost space.
The single thing which makes anime better than other cartoon styles is their constant willingness to treat it's viewers like adults. There have been other examples of this, such as Heavy Metal and Heavy Metal 2000, but they are rare.
Excuse me, but did you see the same "Heavy Metal" that I did? Unless your definition of "adult" includes stoned 15-year-old boys, there were exactly zero adults being catered to by that movie.
In regular animation, the laws of physics are generally followed
Uh, what the hell are you talking about? Either I missed the section of Newton's laws of motion that concerned coyotes surviving falls from mile-high cliffs and the bit in biology class where they mentioned ducks having detachable (usually via explosives) bills, or you have a very strange notion of what the laws of physics are.
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At one point, while I was working on the last version of TF released for QuakeWorld (remember that?), Robin of TF had me take a look at a first run of TF2 for Quake2. I actually think I have that still laying around here on an old CD somewhere.
Huh. That would actually be a really cool thing to see, if you still have it. If you're still in touch with Robin, could you ask him if he'd mind seeing that released? Q2 is so old, and TF2 so delayed, that I can't imagine it would be at risk of digging into their sales, and I'd be shocked if they're actually still using any of the game elements from the Q2 version...
The early affection of the slashdot crowd for Mandrake was always mystifying to me, and by the looks of the up-modded posts on this thread, it looks like a few of them have finally figured out that they've been had. Pity it didn't happen a few years ago.
:)
Meanwhile, projects that actually contribute something unique to the community, as opposed to Yet Another Goddamn Shoddy Distribution, languish. I've donated to the Ogg project; have you?
Emmett, any timeframe on getting vorbis support into the iPod?
No, you don't understand his premise: allowing anti-Americans into the US will contribute to the ruin of American Enterprise.
I understand the premise perfectly well. I also expect him to support the premise with actual facts. And the facts do not support the contention that we are allowing significant numbers of "anti-Americans" into the country at the expense of immigrants who share our values.
The great irony here is that large sections of "American Enterprise" (primarily farming and construction) would completely collapse without both our legal and illegal immigrant populations (especially the illegal ones), but that's a rant for another day.
Trying to type-cast me as someone who is not down to earth is consistent with you response to the article.
Correct. I believe both you and Mr. Stein are ignoring the facts in exactly the same way.
You don't think uneducated immigrants from Mexico hate us?
:)
No, I don't.
Proof's in the pudding: they keep coming here to live, and they don't agitate for subversion, sabotage or armed insurrection in any substantial numbers. (On the rare occasions that they have, largely in CA in the 60s, it's been in the context of much wider unrest: Oscar Acosta and his henchmen vanished as a viable political force with the Black Panthers.)
They may well hate their jobs, the conditions that they work and live in, and the insane laws that keep them trapped in this situation. (All of these things are pretty justifiably hatable.) But I don't believe that they hate us in the way that the Iranians do, or the Bolsheviks did.
They only wanted our money, but didn't give a shit about our cultural and social ideas.
Perhaps this is because Mexico and the US are both Christian, semi-capitalist republics (of varying democratic quality in Mexico, god knows, but then again also here) founded by european conquerers of alternating brutality and idealism?
To put it in a less convoluted fashion: it's easy to not give a shit about the "cultural and social ideas" of your host country when they are in the broad strokes pretty similar to your own.
And besides: what are our cultural and social ideas if not making money? Sounds to me like they assimilated better than you did.
I suspect that what you're really aiming at here is that they weren't interested in learning our language. I concede the point, with the proviso that I Just Don't Care. At all. English will always be the language of government and commerce in this country, and no amount of immigration is ever likely to change that: if they don't learn it, their children will.
I don't think it was his intent to single out any particular group, but other people try to single out a group, claim that this is who he was refering to, and use it as proof that he either has his facts wrong, or that he is a bigot.
And thus, the argument departs directly for fantasy-land, all aboard, no stops.
Back here on planet earth, spaceman, immigration is a phenomenon involving actual people from actual countries. Countable people, from countries with readable, verifiable histories. So if you try to purport, in a national forum, that our immigration policy is letting in "hordes" of people who "hate us", it is damn well a relevant counterargument if it turns out that the vast majority of immigrants, legal and illegal, are from countries that most certainly do not in any way systematically "hate us."
The fact that the only supporting argument that anyone in this thread can muster is paranoid idiocy about a Mexican "takeover" of the American southwest speaks volumes about the quality of the original proposition.
Mexico doesn't qualify?
Not even close. Whatever grudges the average Mexican might (legitimately, IMHO) harbor over the loss of Texas, the country has been a staunch and consistant ally for longer than you or I have been alive.
Nationalism is a constant, and it's normal to be a bit suspicious of your immediate neighbors: just ask the Germans about the French, or the Canadians about us. The fact remains: as a source of anti-American rhetoric (never mind actual action), Mexico doesn't even come close to Cuba, to say nothing of Pakistan, Iran or China.
They aren't? That's going to come as a huge surprise to the Germans...
Oh, they're only stealing if you lose. I get it now...
Anyway, call me weird, but I'm just not that worried about the Mexican army storming into San Antonio, hell-bent on reclaiming Aztlan any time soon.
- Mexico
- Germany
- Phillipines
- Italy
- Canada
Not exactly Al Qaeda's hordes there.Whatever you might happen to think about our current immigration policy (I don't like it much myself), there's no getting around the fact that this is hyperbolic bullshit. The vast majority of illegal aliens in the US are migrant workers from Mexico. (Following Mexico are El Salvador, Guatamala and Canada. You have to go all the way down to #17 before you find a country with any substantial terrorist activity: our "ally" Pakistan.) Say what you will about Mexico, but it is not exactly a hotbed of anti-American radicalism.
The rest of this article is exactly the sort of mixture of over-stressed common sense and batshit insanity that I would expect from a former Nixon toady.
Geeze Sam, beat me to it by 30 seconds, why don't you? :)
If abandoned subway stations are your thing, you can find plenty of them right here in New York City.
One of them is even a national historic monument.
the absence of development on some of the packages (djbdns comes to mind)
If you're going to troll, it would help to even pretend to know what you're talking about. Go away.
Although it's nice to see people attempting to improve one of the more regularly broken unix core services, I still think that the whole syslog design of a monolithic central multiplexed logging daemon is the Wrong Design.
Dan Bernstein's multilog, from his daemontools package, is, in my opinion, a good example of the correct way to do logging: a single process logs the stdout and stderr of each daemon, goes to great lengths to ensure that no data is lost, and handles logfile rollover automatically. With this tcpserver/tcpclient utilities from his ucspi-tcp package, it can be simply done over a network as well.
Of course, DJB's code, while source-available, is not in any way Free Software, and daemontools in particular currently is inextricably linked into his extraordinarily dubious "slashpackage" system, making it a potentially annoying choice for anyone reselling or distributing systems based on it. Cronolog, which was originally created to manage apache logs, looks like a promising GPLed replacement for multilog, but despite lots of grumbling along those lines, nobody has written a gpl/bsd replacement for daemontools...yet.
Can I have some of that crack you're smoking, please? Unless I am grossly misinformed, there was never a build of BeOS for any architectures other than PowerPC or x86.
IMHO it is atrocious to have humor in any serious work of epic scope.
I agree! I also thought it was just awful the way Shakespeare wasted valuable minutes using Polonius as lame comic relief in Hamlet! What could he have been thinking? Probably some claptrap about epic works needing to engage all of the audience's emotions...
If you're having trouble, read Atlas Shrugged.
Now you have more trouble. Not to mention a hernia.
You mean that Donna "Now how many times can I mention that I'm an SM-loving lesbian incest survivor in this article purporting to be about someone else" Minkowitz might have to look elsewhere for work? We might not be treated to weekly updates from Tom "recycled clipart and crack-addled politics -- two great tastes that taste great together" Tomorrow? There will be one less place for Andrew "Power Glutes" Sullivan to toady up to the GOP? Joe Conason will have to go back to sucking Al Gore's dick in the New York Press rather than in a national forum?
What, exactly, is the downside here?
I'll miss Charles Taylor, King Kaufman and Keith Knight, but I doubt they'll have much trouble finding work elsewhere. As for the rest of it, good riddance to bad rubbish. Maybe if Salon had stuck by its original intention of being an interactive Atlantic or Harpers for the web, instead of becoming a mouthpiece for the DNC cum get-rich-quick IPO scheme, it might not be in such dire straits today.
See here.
Tenon's Xtools is nothing more than a rebadged version of the original Xdarwin (Xfree86 on MacOS X) release, spiffed up with a rootless patch and a slightly improved control panel. For this, they wanted $200.
Even if the price weren't a ripoff, you don't want it anyway: the current release has a substantial number of showstopper bugs, and they have yet to update to the XFree 4.2.0 codebase. The last update to Xtools was in December of 2001, and they appear to have completely abandoned the product since then. (The support boards on tenon.com are a rather unhappy place as a result; I wouldn't be surprised to see a class-action suit arise out of this.)
FTP seems to be the only file sharing protocol properly implimented into every major OS.
Ugh. I wish. Windows XP still ships with completely broken FTP support, both on the command line and in the Explorer, just like every version since Windows 95. The explorer doesn't support ftp upload at all.
And even if it were properly implemented everywhere, FTP is a horrible protocol. A crufty and overdesigned two-channel connection setup, no security, only one generally supported authentication mode, and terrible error handling. FTP is a relic from the bronze age of the internet, and the sooner it goes away, the better.
NFS: Who uses THAT?
You're kidding, right?
Fortune 1000 companies use NFS. Universities use NFS. The linux kid in the next apartment from you probably uses NFS. I use NFS. We don't necessarily like it, but we use it.
Apple needs more of a unified printer driver architecture similar to the one used in windows.
They have one. Really. It's as unified as it's possible to get. They just need more/better drivers.
HFS+ already maintains data integrity quite well without a journal.
You are a funny, funny man.
Breathe easy. Filesystem commit logs (aka journals) are generally tiny things: 15-30mb at worst. NetApp, for instance, keeps the filesystem journal for their Filer NAS servers in 32mb of mirrored NVRAM. You'll never notice the lost space.
Yeah, sadly I agree. Still annoying to see a show that was occasionally excellent killed off in favor of one that was consistantly awful.
Farscape is cancelled, but SG-1 gets another season? Were we all really bad in a past life or something?
The single thing which makes anime better than other cartoon styles is their constant willingness to treat it's viewers like adults. There have been other examples of this, such as Heavy Metal and Heavy Metal 2000, but they are rare.
Excuse me, but did you see the same "Heavy Metal" that I did? Unless your definition of "adult" includes stoned 15-year-old boys, there were exactly zero adults being catered to by that movie.
In regular animation, the laws of physics are generally followed
Uh, what the hell are you talking about? Either I missed the section of Newton's laws of motion that concerned coyotes surviving falls from mile-high cliffs and the bit in biology class where they mentioned ducks having detachable (usually via explosives) bills, or you have a very strange notion of what the laws of physics are.