Well I just thought I would beat any smart ass bastard to the punch since people actually think we walk around without shoes here (well maybe we do in the summer..).
No seriously. We're not ALL hillbillies (although its against the law in the state to make fun of hillbillies).
Southwestern bell operates in other states besides MO and KS, including a large part of Arkansas.
Not that I'm defending them. They're good intentioned, customer service is very polite (my company leases about 8 voice T1s), but man they sure are slow to bring services to us (at least in AR).
We just now got ISDN in my home town. THIS YEAR, 1999. xDSL probably won't be here for a decade. *sigh*
WOW, this is a good idea. I won't be able to attend this year, as college classes start for me 18 August. But we really ought to do this next year. Wow i hope someone can organize this thing, that woudl be amazing. Not a lot of linux action in Arkansas (where I live) and Mississippi (where i go to school. *sigh*. James
Knuth's idea for MMB and GGB, along with this guys idea for "long" and "short" is great. We, the slashdot community, need to start using them EVERY DAY. That is how things change, and we can make it happen
Well I'm a virgin until marriage type of guy.. and my girlfriend is.. well, not necessarily begging for it, but she is convinced that she wouldn't stop me if I wanted it from her. There are plenty of things we can do to stay occupied, however, and there is certainly nothing wrong with waiting for marriage.
Does anyone know where the word Bletchley comes from in Bletchley park? It is very similar to my last name, and my ancestors came from England about 250 years ago and changed our name (to "Blachly"). Even now there are less than 400 Blachlys in the United States (according to the Census beurau(sp)), and looking through historical records (you know those giant books that list every last name in the world supposedly, and tell its history) "Blachly" isn't in there. I think my surname was at one time "Blachleigh" "Blatchley" or "Bletchley" and I'm attempting (not very successfully, I am busy with college:) to investigate the history.
Thanks if anyone happens to know anything.
hehe look at his other auctions.
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read this sellers comments. and look at his other auction:
Anyway I think that your idea sounds quite reasonable, granted that developers of X and developers of proggies that use the new X extensions can cooperate (additionally, authors of different x programs need to cooperate in case a user somehow invokes two programs which directly map the framebuffer at the same time:), as of course they have a history of doing.
Making suggestionslike this is a good first step to gettinga formal proposal, and then to getting something/done/.
Sounds like a good idea to me (and yes of course I realise the implications of complication wrt other programs, but it CAN be worked out and if linux is to gain any marketshare amongst the gamers of the coming years as games get more and more complex, then this is somethign that would definately be quite useful:)
>psychology - practice in speculation admittedly there are some flaky psychologists and some pretty stupid ones at that;). There are actualy quite a few disciplines of psychology, and I planned to focus on biopsychology which is quite concrete and ahhh.. howt o put it "chemical". anyway I guess i get that desire from my dad, an M.D.:)
>math - now there is something academic (how far >do you actually go to get a minor, btw) Cal I, II, III, and IV, plus two more 300 level math classes. I will probably take more than that. One reason I am not getting a math MAJOR here is because the math major here involves SEVERAL "education" courses in the school of education.. like.. the math major for people who are going to teach high school (and admittedly college for some). We don't have an Analytical Math degree (or whatever) like some schools where you just take hard core math (which i would love mmmmmm:)
There are thousands of geeks out there like me. 19 years old, freshman in college. Already know more than most CS degree graduates do at graduation. What's the point in taking four years of stuff you already know?
Instead, I am getting a double major in Banking & Finance (finance is an amazing subject believe it or not, and it has lots of yummy math in volved:) and Administrative Management. I am also pursuing a minor in Math and psychology (or psychopharmacology haven't decided yet).
With the resume' i created for myself in High School in the computer field, I don't need a CS degree. With a Banking and Finance degree I can get a job in a financial institution. With a management degree I can perhaps run the IT department with HALF A CLUE UNLIKE MOST FREAKING MORON IT MANAGERS OUT THERE IN LARGE CORPORATIONS (oops sorry spontaneous rant against moron IT managers with no real computer experience). With a minor in math there will be no doubt as to my possesion of an analytical mind, and with a minor in psychology I will make myself, purely for my own personal satisfaction, a very well rounded person.
I imagine I am not the only computer geek in a situation like this; that is, one where I already KNOW computer science and want to learn something new (and before you blast me about me not knowing all the theoretical stuff you learn in college, I've read every college text book I could get my hands on that the university in my hometown used in the CS department so I *do* know the not-quite-as-practical-as-wed-wish things like big o and obscure sort techniques).
I look forward to being able to pursue a career in both business and technology, and hopefully with my skill set and creativity I will be able to combine the two beautifully:)
>Degrees such as CS, MIS, and engineering, will >never lead to an executive postion.
Hmm let me check my empirical-fact-o-meter. BZZT Judges say you're wrong.
My Uncle Peter and his brothers (croation immigrants if I may add) all went to college to become engineers.
Pete (my uncle) went to Stanford and got a degree in some kind of engineering.. aerospace maybe? His brother (name escapes me)went to Cal Tech and got an engineering degree, and their third brother went some where else in California. All three became engineers for Hughes Aerospace in Los Angeles. I can't off the top of my head think of any of the accomplishments of my Uncle's brothers, but my uncle pete was cheifly responsible for the radar on the weapons systems of the Stealth Bomber (please anti-war people leave me alone i'm just leading up to a bigger point). The three brothers worked, and worked HARD, for years and years as engineers. Management realized that they were VERY very smart, and very good people, uh people, and the got promoted. One of the brothers, who recently died, was President of Hughes. Pete and his remaining brother are vice presidents.
Moral of the story? The talented, the visionaries, the creative, the intelligent, the leaders are the ones who become executives. Unfortunately, the fact is that most programmers today (PLEASE do not flame me for this because the truth sometimes hurts, and yes I am a programmer) are not (as) creative, (as) visionary, or even (imagine this) as intelligent as the true intelligentsia (sp). There are thousands of programmers in this country who simply slave away doing what they're told, writing programs for commercial SW houses. There are of course talented creative programmers out there, and plenty of them. Perhaps many of them will be officers in their company one day just as my uncle pete was. But for the most part, the army of programmers in this country won't be executives in this lifetime.
So I guess I was kind of arguing for- and against-you by the end. I just wished to point out that your statement is not true in all cases.
>I think we can congratulate 12 years of conservativism (1980-1992) for this little nugget. Yes that is overly simplistic, but it's a serious contributor.
And I think you're wrong:) Seriously though, just because one thing follows another does not imply causation. We certainly did have a Republican President between 1980 and 1992, but as you will remeber we had a DEMOCRAT RULED HOUSE. Which according to my own argument means nothing. And I agree (with myself?:).
And say you're correct about your high school having shrinking budgets (as you most probably are!):
>My high school, suffering from shrinking >budgets, eventually cut it's higher level >classes (just after I left). The tax-cut fever >finally swept even recession-proof Long Island >(at least undil the cold war ended - oops) and >frivolous programs like AP Math were gone!
Well I'm sure they stopped buying your football team their steak dinners and cut back the amount of equipment they bought for them and made them provide their own transportation to games, right?
See where I'm headed?
And if I may, I would like to point out a final fallacy in your argument: Even though your school DID face budget cuts, it was not the conservative president who decided the budget. Tax cuts may or may not have been responsible in small or large part, but it sounds to me like you have some jerk ass moron school district administrators deciding that AP Math is not important.
Hehe, acutally, hang around any Physician for any length of time (and listen to him talk to other doctors) and you will see that they have more abreviations than any other group or profession on this planet. I mean its unreal. The sentences don't sound like english:)
(of course the abbreviations and acronyms could be because they routinely and regularly have to say 3 words that are 30 letters long just to describe a test or drug:)
Up until 1993, the murder rate in england was 7.4 per 100,000, compared to 9.3 per 100,000 in the US (according to the Economist). After 1993 both countries murder rates dropped.
I'd say the difference in the murder rates is more likely a historical / cultural one than a "gun" issue.
My brother's hobby is audio, and I will ask him about it and search the net a little bit; my hobby is electronics, we make a good combination:)
Anyways waht kind of digital audio in does minidisc accept? S/PDIF ? Fiber? if you can tell me what it is called I will ask my bro and look around the internet and electronic catalogs I have.
Straight from Microvision's 1998 SEC form 10-K (the annual report):
"The Company has incurred substantial losses since its inception and expects to continue to incur significant operating losses over the next several years."
Maybe one ought to look at fundamentals before randomly investing in a company who MIGHT develop a cool product 5 years away:)
For one, NT used 1Gb of ram will Linux used only 960MB. Surely they could have passed the parameter MEM=1024M to the kernel...
Additionally they tuned tcpwindowsize under NT to 65536, and adjusted buffers on the network card to 200 (from 32).
They made no TCP/IP stack adjustments OR adjustments to the netcards under linux.
Just look at the sections explaining the myriad of things they did to "tune" NT. Then look at linux. Enable NFS. The following daemons were run. blah blah. Didn't bother to work on anything.
The guns were in a locked gun cabinet, in his locked house. The guns *WERE* locked away properly.
And you know what? Even if he didn't lock them away properly, and someone BROKE INTO HIS LOCKED HOUSE and STOLE the guns from him, he still does not deserve to be sued. I cannot believe ANY reasonably logical human being could think such a thing.
If I stole your pistol from your nightstand and shot someone with it, there is no way in HELL you deserve to be sued.
Hey, I'm from Jonesboro, Arkansas, where the school shooting immediately before the Paducah shooting was.
The perpetrators were aged 11 and 13 at the time, I believe.
Just as in this case, it is the families of the victims that are suing. But get who they are suing.
They are suing Remmington, the manufacturer of the hunting rifles, simply because the made the weapons which the boys stole from one of the boys' grandfather.
They are suing the gradfather, who had the guns, in a locked gun cabinet, in his locked house. They claim the grandfather shouldn't have had guns. The gradfather IS AN ARKANSAS GAME AND FISH AND WILDLIFE OFFICIAL. IT IS HIS JOB.
They are also considering suing the store which sold the guns to the grandfather, claiming that they never should have sold the guns to him.
I'm sorry, but this won't solve anything; it is utter ridiculousness. Perhaps they should sue the school for not having had gunfire drills (some schools in Los Angeles acutally have these). Things like this make me sick. They are simply taking advantage of their bad situation by exploiting unrelated (realistically) entities which they think they could get something from.
It is a disrespect to the dead, in my humble opinion.
This is the SINGLE MOST level headed, un-emotional, un-biased, LOGICAL response I have seen to this whole article, and in fact this may be one of the most logical responses I've seen to a "controversial" article on slashdot.
I think its sad to see that it is still at Score: 1 because Mr. Moderator(s) probably don't agree with him. That is NOT how it is supposed to work, but unfortunately that is how it does:(
Maybe you should do some investigation. Ask all the little girls at a college or university why they have an iMac and I'm sure they won't tell you because of features. They like the pretty colors.
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You mean you have TELEPHONES in arkansas??
Well I just thought I would beat any smart ass bastard to the punch since people actually think we walk around without shoes here (well maybe we do in the summer..).
No seriously. We're not ALL hillbillies (although its against the law in the state to make fun of hillbillies).
Have a good one:)
James
Southwestern bell operates in other states besides MO and KS, including a large part of Arkansas.
Not that I'm defending them. They're good intentioned, customer service is very polite (my company leases about 8 voice T1s), but man they sure are slow to bring services to us (at least in AR).
We just now got ISDN in my home town. THIS YEAR, 1999. xDSL probably won't be here for a decade. *sigh*
James
WOW, this is a good idea. I won't be able to attend this year, as college classes start for me 18 August. But we really ought to do this next year. Wow i hope someone can organize this thing, that woudl be amazing. Not a lot of linux action in Arkansas (where I live) and Mississippi (where i go to school. *sigh*. James
Knuth's idea for MMB and GGB, along with this guys idea for "long" and "short" is great. We, the slashdot community, need to start using them EVERY DAY. That is how things change, and we can make it happen
blach
Well I'm a virgin until marriage type of guy .. and my girlfriend is .. well, not necessarily begging for it, but she is convinced that she wouldn't stop me if I wanted it from her. There are plenty of things we can do to stay occupied, however, and there is certainly nothing wrong with waiting for marriage.
Does anyone know where the word Bletchley comes from in Bletchley park? It is very similar to my last name, and my ancestors came from England about 250 years ago and changed our name (to "Blachly"). Even now there are less than 400 Blachlys in the United States (according to the Census beurau(sp)), and looking through historical records (you know those giant books that list every last name in the world supposedly, and tell its history) "Blachly" isn't in there. I think my surname was at one time "Blachleigh" "Blatchley" or "Bletchley" and I'm attempting (not very successfully, I am busy with college :) to investigate the history.
Thanks if anyone happens to know anything.
read this sellers comments. and look at his other auction:
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http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewIt
Quizbekistan, a former province of canada hehe
James
Hey its been awhile x86, how are ya?
:), as of course they have a history of doing.
/done/.
:)
Anyway I think that your idea sounds quite reasonable, granted that developers of X and developers of proggies that use the new X extensions can cooperate (additionally, authors of different x programs need to cooperate in case a user somehow invokes two programs which directly map the framebuffer at the same time
Making suggestionslike this is a good first step to gettinga formal proposal, and then to getting something
Sounds like a good idea to me (and yes of course I realise the implications of complication wrt other programs, but it CAN be worked out and if linux is to gain any marketshare amongst the gamers of the coming years as games get more and more complex, then this is somethign that would definately be quite useful
James
I cannot get it to work! it runs ..
./cord.pl > test.txt
:(
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beta:/usr/home/jblachly$
369
7
369
2
quit
quit
^C
beta:/usr/home/jblachly$ cat test.txt
beta:/usr/home/jblachly$
:(
any idea what the problem might be? I cutnpasted from slashdot
James
>psychology - practice in speculation ;). There are actualy quite a few disciplines of psychology, and I planned to focus on biopsychology which is quite concrete and ahhh .. howt o put it "chemical". anyway I guess i get that desire from my dad, an M.D. :)
.. like .. the math major for people who are going to teach high school (and admittedly college for some). We don't have an Analytical Math degree (or whatever) like some schools where you just take hard core math (which i would love mmmmmm :)
admittedly there are some flaky psychologists and some pretty stupid ones at that
>math - now there is something academic (how far
>do you actually go to get a minor, btw)
Cal I, II, III, and IV, plus two more 300 level math classes. I will probably take more than that. One reason I am not getting a math MAJOR here is because the math major here involves SEVERAL "education" courses in the school of education
James
My take on this situation:
:) and Administrative Management. I am also pursuing a minor in Math and psychology (or psychopharmacology haven't decided yet).
:)
There are thousands of geeks out there like me. 19 years old, freshman in college. Already know more than most CS degree graduates do at graduation. What's the point in taking four years of stuff you already know?
Instead, I am getting a double major in Banking & Finance (finance is an amazing subject believe it or not, and it has lots of yummy math in volved
With the resume' i created for myself in High School in the computer field, I don't need a CS degree. With a Banking and Finance degree I can get a job in a financial institution. With a management degree I can perhaps run the IT department with HALF A CLUE UNLIKE MOST FREAKING MORON IT MANAGERS OUT THERE IN LARGE CORPORATIONS (oops sorry spontaneous rant against moron IT managers with no real computer experience). With a minor in math there will be no doubt as to my possesion of an analytical mind, and with a minor in psychology I will make myself, purely for my own personal satisfaction, a very well rounded person.
I imagine I am not the only computer geek in a situation like this; that is, one where I already KNOW computer science and want to learn something new (and before you blast me about me not knowing all the theoretical stuff you learn in college, I've read every college text book I could get my hands on that the university in my hometown used in the CS department so I *do* know the not-quite-as-practical-as-wed-wish things like big o and obscure sort techniques).
I look forward to being able to pursue a career in both business and technology, and hopefully with my skill set and creativity I will be able to combine the two beautifully
Respectfully
James
>Degrees such as CS, MIS, and engineering, will
.. aerospace maybe? His brother (name escapes me)went to Cal Tech and got an engineering degree, and their third brother went some where else in California. All three became engineers for Hughes Aerospace in Los Angeles. I can't off the top of my head think of any of the accomplishments of my Uncle's brothers, but my uncle pete was cheifly responsible for the radar on the weapons systems of the Stealth Bomber (please anti-war people leave me alone i'm just leading up to a bigger point). The three brothers worked, and worked HARD, for years and years as engineers. Management realized that they were VERY very smart, and very good people, uh people, and the got promoted. One of the brothers, who recently died, was President of Hughes. Pete and his remaining brother are vice presidents.
>never lead to an executive postion.
Hmm let me check my empirical-fact-o-meter. BZZT Judges say you're wrong.
My Uncle Peter and his brothers (croation immigrants if I may add) all went to college to become engineers.
Pete (my uncle) went to Stanford and got a degree in some kind of engineering
Moral of the story? The talented, the visionaries, the creative, the intelligent, the leaders are the ones who become executives. Unfortunately, the fact is that most programmers today (PLEASE do not flame me for this because the truth sometimes hurts, and yes I am a programmer) are not (as) creative, (as) visionary, or even (imagine this) as intelligent as the true intelligentsia (sp). There are thousands of programmers in this country who simply slave away doing what they're told, writing programs for commercial SW houses. There are of course talented creative programmers out there, and plenty of them. Perhaps many of them will be officers in their company one day just as my uncle pete was. But for the most part, the army of programmers in this country won't be executives in this lifetime.
So I guess I was kind of arguing for- and against-you by the end. I just wished to point out that your statement is not true in all cases.
Respectfully,
James
>I think we can congratulate 12 years of conservativism (1980-1992) for this little nugget. Yes that is overly simplistic, but it's a serious contributor.
:) :).
And I think you're wrong
Seriously though, just because one thing follows another does not imply causation. We certainly did have a Republican President between 1980 and 1992, but as you will remeber we had a DEMOCRAT RULED HOUSE. Which according to my own argument means nothing. And I agree (with myself?
And say you're correct about your high school having shrinking budgets (as you most probably are!):
>My high school, suffering from shrinking
>budgets, eventually cut it's higher level
>classes (just after I left). The tax-cut fever
>finally swept even recession-proof Long Island
>(at least undil the cold war ended - oops) and
>frivolous programs like AP Math were gone!
Well I'm sure they stopped buying your football team their steak dinners and cut back the amount of equipment they bought for them and made them provide their own transportation to games, right?
See where I'm headed?
And if I may, I would like to point out a final fallacy in your argument: Even though your school DID face budget cuts, it was not the conservative president who decided the budget. Tax cuts may or may not have been responsible in small or large part, but it sounds to me like you have some jerk ass moron school district administrators deciding that AP Math is not important.
Or was it ole Ronnie Regan that decided that?
touche'
James
Hehe, acutally, hang around any Physician for any length of time (and listen to him talk to other doctors) and you will see that they have more abreviations than any other group or profession on this planet. I mean its unreal. The sentences don't sound like english :)
:)
(of course the abbreviations and acronyms could be because they routinely and regularly have to say 3 words that are 30 letters long just to describe a test or drug
James
Up until 1993, the murder rate in england was 7.4 per 100,000, compared to 9.3 per 100,000 in the US (according to the Economist). After 1993 both countries murder rates dropped.
I'd say the difference in the murder rates is more likely a historical / cultural one than a "gun" issue.
My brother's hobby is audio, and I will ask him about it and search the net a little bit; my hobby is electronics, we make a good combination :)
Anyways waht kind of digital audio in does minidisc accept? S/PDIF ? Fiber? if you can tell me what it is called I will ask my bro and look around the internet and electronic catalogs I have.
James
hahaha i love your comment
Straight from Microvision's 1998 SEC form 10-K (the annual report):
:)
"The Company has incurred substantial losses since its inception and expects to continue to incur significant operating losses over the next several years."
Maybe one ought to look at fundamentals before randomly investing in a company who MIGHT develop a cool product 5 years away
James
Can you adminster a linux box? BSDI is not that difficult.
James
Look at the OS Configurations:
...
For one, NT used 1Gb of ram will Linux used only 960MB. Surely they could have passed the parameter MEM=1024M to the kernel
Additionally they tuned tcpwindowsize under NT to 65536, and adjusted buffers on the network card to 200 (from 32).
They made no TCP/IP stack adjustments OR adjustments to the netcards under linux.
Just look at the sections explaining the myriad of things they did to "tune" NT. Then look at linux. Enable NFS. The following daemons were run. blah blah. Didn't bother to work on anything.
James
The guns were in a locked gun cabinet, in his locked house. The guns *WERE* locked away properly.
And you know what? Even if he didn't lock them away properly, and someone BROKE INTO HIS LOCKED HOUSE and STOLE the guns from him, he still does not deserve to be sued. I cannot believe ANY reasonably logical human being could think such a thing.
If I stole your pistol from your nightstand and shot someone with it, there is no way in HELL you deserve to be sued.
Respectfully,
James Blachly
Hey, I'm from Jonesboro, Arkansas, where the school shooting immediately before the Paducah shooting was.
The perpetrators were aged 11 and 13 at the time, I believe.
Just as in this case, it is the families of the victims that are suing. But get who they are suing.
They are suing Remmington, the manufacturer of the hunting rifles, simply because the made the weapons which the boys stole from one of the boys' grandfather.
They are suing the gradfather, who had the guns, in a locked gun cabinet, in his locked house. They claim the grandfather shouldn't have had guns. The gradfather IS AN ARKANSAS GAME AND FISH AND WILDLIFE OFFICIAL. IT IS HIS JOB.
They are also considering suing the store which sold the guns to the grandfather, claiming that they never should have sold the guns to him.
I'm sorry, but this won't solve anything; it is utter ridiculousness. Perhaps they should sue the school for not having had gunfire drills (some schools in Los Angeles acutally have these). Things like this make me sick. They are simply taking advantage of their bad situation by exploiting unrelated (realistically) entities which they think they could get something from.
It is a disrespect to the dead, in my humble opinion.
James Blachly
Yes, I cannot believe it!
:(
This is the SINGLE MOST level headed, un-emotional, un-biased, LOGICAL response I have seen to this whole article, and in fact this may be one of the most logical responses I've seen to a "controversial" article on slashdot.
I think its sad to see that it is still at Score: 1 because Mr. Moderator(s) probably don't agree with him. That is NOT how it is supposed to work, but unfortunately that is how it does
James
Just as was previously mentioned, you're thinking PATENT's are unregisterable with prior art.
Maybe you should do some investigation. Ask all the little girls at a college or university why they have an iMac and I'm sure they won't tell you because of features. They like the pretty colors.
...
I swear I've seen more girls here with iMacs