Ithaca is a town of about 40,000, down to about 15,000 when school is out like now. Give us a break, we're ghetto, ok? Besides, I find the site-specific search engines suck (and are more trouble than they are worth to implement). Just use google and restrict the domain (click on the "advanced" tab... does it piss anyone else off that "stuff that will screw you up if you are intent on messing with things that you don't understand" is always called "advanced," at least in the windows (and now the web) world?)
Err he did. Perhaps you are thinking of compilers optimizing the order of instructions? That is not what this is about, this is about the actual hardware taking the instructions and reordering them on the fly. If my memory serves, which it usually doesn't, it requires something on the order of 250,000 transistors, so if you are asking why no one thought of this before 1989, it's because we didn't have 3 fucking billion or whatever transistors on each chip back then, so it would have increased the number of transistors by an order of magnitude. Of course, if you ask me, the compiler should do reordering, but what should I know, I got a big fat C in the *only* low level essentially EE (aka architecture) course I had to take - god bless the old-school theoretical computer-scientists-as-wanna-be-mathemeticians attitude at this school!)
-DH
ps - goddamn just about everything else at this school.
With the market size, that wouldn't be even close to being near being profitable. Joe Schmoe wants an email address. I highly doubt that the cost of serving SMTP is what's making these companies go bankrupt anyway, and I highly doubt that giving everyone a static IP would help.
Incidentally, I've had Roadrunner for almost 3 years now, and never any significant trouble. I wonder why Roadrunner continues while the others fail? Is Roadrunner profitable? Or is Time Warner just stubborn and rich?
How much you wanna bet the Royal Family doesn't give 2 shits how much it costs to run their website. Actually, the netblock changed, my guess is they changed webhosts.
Why would I drool over such a thing? Isn't the whole point of a window so that you can put one on top of the other, and not be confused by what's beneath it? It's great for games, but why on earth would you want to use it in your windowing system? So you can open more porn simultaneously? I don't get it.
Oops, clarification is in order... I meant to append.biz to the end of each of those... Although come to think of it, maybe it would be better without it. The point was instead of having 3 top level domains and 1000000 2nd level domains, it'd be better to have sqrt(3000000) top levels, and sqrt(3000000) or so under each of them.
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The root of the problem is the idea that one level of hierarchization is enough to solve everything down to the institution level. It's the same problem as unix, were you have about 10,000 files in/bin/usr/bin and other choice locales in the namespace.
I guess people just have trouble thinking in two dimensions. But honest, people, its easier...
What I'd like to see is at least a two level hierarchy, so you have institutions organized in to logical groups:
www.ford.cars
www.gm.cars
www.dell.comp
www.gateway.comp
www.yahoo.portal
www.go.portal
www.google.search
www.lycos.search
etc. Makes a lot more sense to me, but the trouble is you have a lot more administrative overhead. It also solves the multiple companies with the same name problem.
Oh yeah, gotta have root. Makes connection speeds sooooooo much faster. Even root on my 486 with a 14.4k modem burns shit up (root is when I'm in c:\ at the dos prompt, right?)
As a "cyber-journalist" I suppose it is understandable that you laud the WWW as the great new thing (TM)... But mainstream WWW sites were totally unreachable (Slashdot was an exception, but most people don't know slashdot, they know msnbc.com and abcnews.com). I would argue that the real landmark was email, which came through and proved its worth that day. When the phone systems collapsed thousands, if not millions of people frantically got in touch with loved ones to inform them of their safety via email (after 4 hours of "circuit not available" messages, I eventually contacted both my sister and my cousin this way).
No... What really is needed is not more bandwidth, but lower latency (more bandwidth IS nice, however)... That way we could have hard real-time distributed supercomputers. Wouldn't mind one or two of those myself...
That's 321-2333, not 312-2333. Unfortunately, if you want to play the whole melody on the phone, there is no way to accurately represent the 5th (the 12th and 13th notes in the melody), but hitting 8 comes close since you hear (the 852Hz component of the 8 is heard as a fifth below the second, which is at 1336Hz - see the DTMF tutorial for where I got this info). Of course, its pointless for someone to waste their valuable time sitting there and trying to figure this stuff out like I just spent the last 20 minutes.
3 2 1 2 3 3 3
Mary had a little lamb
2 2 2
Little lamb
3 8 8
Little lamb
3 2 1 2 3 3 3
Mary had a little lamb
3 2 2 3 2 1 1
Whose fleece was white as snow, and
3 2 1 2 3 3 3
Everywhere that Mary went
2 2 2
Mary went
3 8 8
Mary went
3 2 1 2 3 3 3
Everywhere that Mary went
3 2 2 3 2 1 8 1
Her lamb was sure to go-o-o
What's with the FreeBSD focus of "general" BSD periodicals such as daemon news? 4 out of the 7 articles are primarily focused on FreeBSD (I'm including the TrustedBSD and "Daemon's Advocate" articles)...
Oh yeah you are right, we are so bad, giving jobs to people and selling them shit they don't have to buy.
I don't suppose you've ever been to a sweatshop.
The reason this country has money is because US citizens (free and slave) busted their asses for over two centuries. We eliminated the evils of slavery and became even richer.
Either that, or we had a vast land which we cleared of the native inhabitants and were then free to rape its land and resources to the extent that we are the largest polluter in the world today.
Really, this is the situation everywhere. Everyone hates Americans (or at least American institutions), but everyone realizes that they need to work with them if they want to advance in this world. There are different degrees of this however. Hell, most informed Americans that I know seem to hate American institutions as well...
Wow, one of 3 intelligent replies to my post. I apologize for my lack of sensitivity, but I was trying to rattle people up because I honestly believe the only way to stop more horrible attacks like this is to address the grievances these terrorists are airing - and many of them do have legitimate grievances. I'm not saying Bin Laden has legitimate grievances, but I do know he would have a much tougher time finding support if America didn't act the way they did (Gulf War, Panama, etc.)
You failed to mention that since that time, two US embassies and a US destroyer were bombed, and Islamic extremists were responsible. Heck, the last time the World Trade Center was attacked, it was Islamic militants. It would seem safe to say that OK City was the exception rather than the rule.
I just meant to point out that anything is possible, and it's best not to jump to conclusions about such a horrible tragedy. Civilians lives will certainly be lost in foreign countries, and they deserve it no more than we Americans deserved what happened on Tuesday.
In general, its quite safe to say that the US-haters out there are a very vocal minority. In fact, Americans abroad get a bad rap because we tend to assume that everybody hates us.
Here I must disagree wholeheartedly. Perhaps I should have clarified - what people in other countries hate is the American government, and the American businesses that come to their country. They fail to realize that many if not most Americans are uninformed of world events, and what their governemnt/businesses do overseas. Furthermore, they fail to realize that the average American is not the one benefitting from the exploitation that the gov't and businesses do, and therefore hate Americans. Much the same way that many Americans are voicing their anger with Arabs right now, not realizing that Bin Laden (for example) is a freaking fanatic who has been disowned by his own family, and that most Arabs who live in this country are NOT fanatics.
You describe what they did as "standing up for themselves?"
I just don't think someone in their position has any other option to get attention over here. It was a horrible event, I just think that we are reaping what we sow. And what we are reaping is still nothing compared to the civilian casualties in the Middle East from the Gulf War, to name the most obvious example.
"The money" tends not to work above-ground in the Pentagon. And yet these people saw fit to kill all these incidentals.
Again, I refer you to the civilian casualties in the War for Oil, not to mention Panama, Somalia, Serbia, etc.
THAT justified killing a whole mess of our civilians.
Nowhere did I say this was a justified attack. I realize now that my wording was unclear. Time to stand up for themselves, yes. Time for something of this nature, God no. But what else is there to do against an opponent who has you cornered and totally dominated? You fight.
Where did I say it was justified? Nowhere. The point I was trying to make is that there are people out there who are VERY F*CKING ANGRY with us, and instead of rushing to kill like so many frenzied assholes, maybe we should consider why it is they are angry with us.
My roommate lost 1/10 of his high school class. My best friend's father is dead, he was like a second father to me. My sister was missing for most of the day, and for a horrible moment we worried that she was gone too. Don't accuse me of not realizing the immense gravity of the event.
My only point is this - when people are backed in to a corner for long enough, they end up fighting. And we've been backing all sorts of people in to corners of various shapes and sizes for years. Going out there and exacting revenge will only make more terrorist attacks, if not outright wars, occur.
Yes and no. Are American citizens (such as myself) responsible for the attack? No. Are American politicians, through their history of economic control backed by threats of force across large portions of the world, responsible for the attack? Why yes, in some ways I think they are. And we vote for them.
> In fact, it should be incredibly obvious that
> the concept of a 110-story building even being
> built, much less two, is a clear and obvious
> fraud. No documentation of these "twin towers"
> existed before a "terrorist attack" occured on
> the previously-nonexistent pair of skyscrapers
> on September the 11th.
I guess it's too early for any sort of sense of humor on the subject.
I find it highly ironic that, yet again, everyone instantly jumps to the conclusion that it was Arabs who are behind these tragedies. Does anyone else remember Oklahoma City, and the rush to judgement there, when in the end it was a white hick with a gap tooth. Let's face it, there's a whole lot of people out there that hate the US, and for good reason (I was going to put a list here, but it's really just about everyone except Israel, Japan, Western Europe, and Canada). We've been exploiting these places economically for decades now, and if you ask me, it's about time they stood up for themselves. And, before you say "economic domination does not merit this kind of response" - let me pose this question - what other way is there to respond when you are facing an opponent who has the money, owns the world legal system (has the money), and owns large numbers of world politicians (has the money)? In any event, let's hope that the American government can set an example in not responding with force until it is COMPLETELY positive who it is retaliating against, and let's hope as well that civilian casualties that come from the retaliation are minimal. Furthermore let's hope American citizens wake up to what their government and corporations are doing around the world in time to prevent more of these attacks, before they happen, because that is the only way to eliminate the problem.
What??!? Get the hell out of here, what other than suspicion would lead you to believe that encryption was involved at all? Do you think this kind of coordinated mission could be done entirely through encrypted email, and not as personal meetings, not to mention training missions?
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They won't make any inroads until they support x86, which, considering they make their money on hardware, ain't gonna happen.
Ithaca is a town of about 40,000, down to about 15,000 when school is out like now. Give us a break, we're ghetto, ok? Besides, I find the site-specific search engines suck (and are more trouble than they are worth to implement). Just use google and restrict the domain (click on the "advanced" tab... does it piss anyone else off that "stuff that will screw you up if you are intent on messing with things that you don't understand" is always called "advanced," at least in the windows (and now the web) world?)
-DH
Err he did. Perhaps you are thinking of compilers optimizing the order of instructions? That is not what this is about, this is about the actual hardware taking the instructions and reordering them on the fly. If my memory serves, which it usually doesn't, it requires something on the order of 250,000 transistors, so if you are asking why no one thought of this before 1989, it's because we didn't have 3 fucking billion or whatever transistors on each chip back then, so it would have increased the number of transistors by an order of magnitude. Of course, if you ask me, the compiler should do reordering, but what should I know, I got a big fat C in the *only* low level essentially EE (aka architecture) course I had to take - god bless the old-school theoretical computer-scientists-as-wanna-be-mathemeticians attitude at this school!)
-DH
ps - goddamn just about everything else at this school.
You, sir, kick ass.
With the market size, that wouldn't be even close to being near being profitable. Joe Schmoe wants an email address. I highly doubt that the cost of serving SMTP is what's making these companies go bankrupt anyway, and I highly doubt that giving everyone a static IP would help.
Incidentally, I've had Roadrunner for almost 3 years now, and never any significant trouble. I wonder why Roadrunner continues while the others fail? Is Roadrunner profitable? Or is Time Warner just stubborn and rich?
How much you wanna bet the Royal Family doesn't give 2 shits how much it costs to run their website. Actually, the netblock changed, my guess is they changed webhosts.
Hydrogen fuel in airplanes. Zeppelin meets WTC attacks. Great idea.
Ha ha only serious.
-DH
Why would I drool over such a thing? Isn't the whole point of a window so that you can put one on top of the other, and not be confused by what's beneath it? It's great for games, but why on earth would you want to use it in your windowing system? So you can open more porn simultaneously? I don't get it.
-DH
Oops, clarification is in order... I meant to append .biz to the end of each of those... Although come to think of it, maybe it would be better without it. The point was instead of having 3 top level domains and 1000000 2nd level domains, it'd be better to have sqrt(3000000) top levels, and sqrt(3000000) or so under each of them.
The root of the problem is the idea that one level of hierarchization is enough to solve everything down to the institution level. It's the same problem as unix, were you have about 10,000 files in /bin /usr/bin and other choice locales in the namespace.
I guess people just have trouble thinking in two dimensions. But honest, people, its easier...
What I'd like to see is at least a two level hierarchy, so you have institutions organized in to logical groups:
www.ford.cars
www.gm.cars
www.dell.comp
www.gateway.comp
www.yahoo.portal
www.go.portal
www.google.search
www.lycos.search
etc. Makes a lot more sense to me, but the trouble is you have a lot more administrative overhead. It also solves the multiple companies with the same name problem.
DH
Oh yeah, gotta have root. Makes connection speeds sooooooo much faster. Even root on my 486 with a 14.4k modem burns shit up (root is when I'm in c:\ at the dos prompt, right?)
I'd be very surprised if it modified the original, but instead returned a new one. I suppose you didn't mean that though.
As a "cyber-journalist" I suppose it is understandable that you laud the WWW as the great new thing (TM)... But mainstream WWW sites were totally unreachable (Slashdot was an exception, but most people don't know slashdot, they know msnbc.com and abcnews.com). I would argue that the real landmark was email, which came through and proved its worth that day. When the phone systems collapsed thousands, if not millions of people frantically got in touch with loved ones to inform them of their safety via email (after 4 hours of "circuit not available" messages, I eventually contacted both my sister and my cousin this way).
No... What really is needed is not more bandwidth, but lower latency (more bandwidth IS nice, however)... That way we could have hard real-time distributed supercomputers. Wouldn't mind one or two of those myself...
Agreed, it's straight -1 Redundant.
That's 321-2333, not 312-2333. Unfortunately, if you want to play the whole melody on the phone, there is no way to accurately represent the 5th (the 12th and 13th notes in the melody), but hitting 8 comes close since you hear (the 852Hz component of the 8 is heard as a fifth below the second, which is at 1336Hz - see the DTMF tutorial for where I got this info). Of course, its pointless for someone to waste their valuable time sitting there and trying to figure this stuff out like I just spent the last 20 minutes.
3 2 1 2 3 3 3
Mary had a little lamb
2 2 2
Little lamb
3 8 8
Little lamb
3 2 1 2 3 3 3
Mary had a little lamb
3 2 2 3 2 1 1
Whose fleece was white as snow, and
3 2 1 2 3 3 3
Everywhere that Mary went
2 2 2
Mary went
3 8 8
Mary went
3 2 1 2 3 3 3
Everywhere that Mary went
3 2 2 3 2 1 8 1
Her lamb was sure to go-o-o
DH
"Fsck you dirty hippie!"
What's with the FreeBSD focus of "general" BSD periodicals such as daemon news? 4 out of the 7 articles are primarily focused on FreeBSD (I'm including the TrustedBSD and "Daemon's Advocate" articles)...
-DH
Oh yeah you are right, we are so bad, giving jobs to people and selling them shit they don't have to buy.
I don't suppose you've ever been to a sweatshop.
The reason this country has money is because US citizens (free and slave) busted their asses for over two centuries. We eliminated the evils of slavery and became even richer.
Either that, or we had a vast land which we cleared of the native inhabitants and were then free to rape its land and resources to the extent that we are the largest polluter in the world today.
Really, this is the situation everywhere. Everyone hates Americans (or at least American institutions), but everyone realizes that they need to work with them if they want to advance in this world. There are different degrees of this however. Hell, most informed Americans that I know seem to hate American institutions as well...
Wow, one of 3 intelligent replies to my post. I apologize for my lack of sensitivity, but I was trying to rattle people up because I honestly believe the only way to stop more horrible attacks like this is to address the grievances these terrorists are airing - and many of them do have legitimate grievances. I'm not saying Bin Laden has legitimate grievances, but I do know he would have a much tougher time finding support if America didn't act the way they did (Gulf War, Panama, etc.)
You failed to mention that since that time, two US embassies and a US destroyer were bombed, and Islamic extremists were responsible. Heck, the last time the World Trade Center was attacked, it was Islamic militants. It would seem safe to say that OK City was the exception rather than the rule.
I just meant to point out that anything is possible, and it's best not to jump to conclusions about such a horrible tragedy. Civilians lives will certainly be lost in foreign countries, and they deserve it no more than we Americans deserved what happened on Tuesday. In general, its quite safe to say that the US-haters out there are a very vocal minority. In fact, Americans abroad get a bad rap because we tend to assume that everybody hates us.
Here I must disagree wholeheartedly. Perhaps I should have clarified - what people in other countries hate is the American government, and the American businesses that come to their country. They fail to realize that many if not most Americans are uninformed of world events, and what their governemnt/businesses do overseas. Furthermore, they fail to realize that the average American is not the one benefitting from the exploitation that the gov't and businesses do, and therefore hate Americans. Much the same way that many Americans are voicing their anger with Arabs right now, not realizing that Bin Laden (for example) is a freaking fanatic who has been disowned by his own family, and that most Arabs who live in this country are NOT fanatics. You describe what they did as "standing up for themselves?"
I just don't think someone in their position has any other option to get attention over here. It was a horrible event, I just think that we are reaping what we sow. And what we are reaping is still nothing compared to the civilian casualties in the Middle East from the Gulf War, to name the most obvious example. "The money" tends not to work above-ground in the Pentagon. And yet these people saw fit to kill all these incidentals.
Again, I refer you to the civilian casualties in the War for Oil, not to mention Panama, Somalia, Serbia, etc. THAT justified killing a whole mess of our civilians.
Nowhere did I say this was a justified attack. I realize now that my wording was unclear. Time to stand up for themselves, yes. Time for something of this nature, God no. But what else is there to do against an opponent who has you cornered and totally dominated? You fight.
Where did I say it was justified? Nowhere. The point I was trying to make is that there are people out there who are VERY F*CKING ANGRY with us, and instead of rushing to kill like so many frenzied assholes, maybe we should consider why it is they are angry with us.
My roommate lost 1/10 of his high school class. My best friend's father is dead, he was like a second father to me. My sister was missing for most of the day, and for a horrible moment we worried that she was gone too. Don't accuse me of not realizing the immense gravity of the event.
My only point is this - when people are backed in to a corner for long enough, they end up fighting. And we've been backing all sorts of people in to corners of various shapes and sizes for years. Going out there and exacting revenge will only make more terrorist attacks, if not outright wars, occur.
Yes and no. Are American citizens (such as myself) responsible for the attack? No. Are American politicians, through their history of economic control backed by threats of force across large portions of the world, responsible for the attack? Why yes, in some ways I think they are. And we vote for them.
> In fact, it should be incredibly obvious that
> the concept of a 110-story building even being
> built, much less two, is a clear and obvious
> fraud. No documentation of these "twin towers"
> existed before a "terrorist attack" occured on
> the previously-nonexistent pair of skyscrapers
> on September the 11th.
I guess it's too early for any sort of sense of humor on the subject.
I find it highly ironic that, yet again, everyone instantly jumps to the conclusion that it was Arabs who are behind these tragedies. Does anyone else remember Oklahoma City, and the rush to judgement there, when in the end it was a white hick with a gap tooth. Let's face it, there's a whole lot of people out there that hate the US, and for good reason (I was going to put a list here, but it's really just about everyone except Israel, Japan, Western Europe, and Canada). We've been exploiting these places economically for decades now, and if you ask me, it's about time they stood up for themselves. And, before you say "economic domination does not merit this kind of response" - let me pose this question - what other way is there to respond when you are facing an opponent who has the money, owns the world legal system (has the money), and owns large numbers of world politicians (has the money)? In any event, let's hope that the American government can set an example in not responding with force until it is COMPLETELY positive who it is retaliating against, and let's hope as well that civilian casualties that come from the retaliation are minimal. Furthermore let's hope American citizens wake up to what their government and corporations are doing around the world in time to prevent more of these attacks, before they happen, because that is the only way to eliminate the problem.
What??!? Get the hell out of here, what other than suspicion would lead you to believe that encryption was involved at all? Do you think this kind of coordinated mission could be done entirely through encrypted email, and not as personal meetings, not to mention training missions?
Don't be an idiot.