I've read that there's a healthy community of people who still write C64 software both in the US and in Europe.
They get off of work coding on modern computers and then go home and challenge themselves with writing the most efficient code possible -- a novel and comparitively low priority in current software development.
Think of it as building a ship in a bottle. One could build the ship outside the bottle, but where the fun it that?
--Richard
You are obviously a hacker. As long as Linux is the only OS you load on it, go for it, but please don't post the "Mac hardware is expensive" bullshit again. It's been done before and it's tedious for the rest of us.
"BTW: I am pointing at the corps. because it is their lobbiests that are pushing for these rediculous sentences for cyber crimes... everyone else pretty much says "SHIT!... then stomps their feet for a few minutes, laughes when they discover how the hacker got in, then rebuilds their system or patches it, and then moves on with life..."
It sounds as though you think that the work people do recovering their systems is free. Everybody should just have a laugh: "Silly me. What was I thinking? Ha, ha, ha."
I suspect you would have a less cavalier attitude if it was YOUR money. Funny thing, human nature.
Boy, Hemos, you think you incorporated enough of your attitude in your post? Hint: Do not consider a career in journalism.
If a person commits a crime then they should pay. If someone -- even a kid -- causes me to have to spend $1,000 of my money because of a crime they commit, then they should compensate me for it -- above and beyond whatever punishment the legal system assesses. It makes no difference if the crime was committed with a can of paint, baseball bat, or computer keyboard.
Punishment for crime must be consistant or it is unfair and, clearly, wrong.
Somehow, for some reason, some people seem to believe computer crimes and white collar crimes are somehow less wrong.
Mac collectors date all the way back to 1984. It's just their nature, I guess.
There has even been a Mac or two that was released specifically to be collector items (the 20th Anniversary Mac comes to mind).
I can't resist it myself. I've got Mac Plus with a Kensington System Saver fan, exactly like I had back when the computer wars was focused on Macintosh versus DOS.
I've also got a pristine Mac II, completely stock. It is beautiful and built like a rock.
Surely you don't think that the U.S. government, alone, lives by this motto?
Practically every government that exists and has ever existed -- both "good" and "bad" -- abides by this reasoning, city, state, national, et cetera.
In this case, local American government and law enforcement officials had their underwear hoisted up the flagpole, but it could just as easily been any government anyware.
Payphones were very profitable until the government decided to block incoming calls.
Who told you that?
My father worked for SWBell during the 60's and 70's. Back in the 70's he told me that every pay telephone was a losing proposition -- they never made money, even back then.
I was asking about the CPU, not the board (although board-wise you make excellent observations).
Me? The number one feature I want in a workstation is quiet. I'll game on another box whle wearing enclosed headphones, but otherwise, I want freak'n quiet.
It's worth remembering that most of Earth's life mass lives below its surface, not on top of it surface like trees, birds, fish, and people -- all of it in the cracks of rocks.
Hmmm. Usually your ilk post something like "Mac == gay"
I guess to some Windows users, everyone is gay.
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Yes, it scales. They've takes advantage of some great, unanticipated opportunities that have come along, but I don't see how anyone can knock their basic premise.
Even paying full price for the terminals, as I'm sure they cautiously budgeted, it's still cost effective.
You have to know that they didn't cruise eBay, see the thin terminals, and then yell, "Hey, this will work!"
This is probably good thing. They fire test kids pajamas, too, as well the ought. Probably few things made E.M. doctors sicker than trying to peel melted pajamas off of screaming children
Keep in mind that these same guys think Solaris is a good movie, whereas it is arguably the second worst movie ever made. Last Year at Marienbad will forever remain the worst.
You obviously have not seen "Battle Beyond the Stars"
I understand exactly what you're saying...
No matter what I do, I just can't get iTunes to run in Windows XP.
I guess you I sorta see eye to eye on this!
Funny part is: It worked! I have yet to see copies of that stuff distributed.
You're basing your conclusion (that the watermarking process was a deterrent to illicit reproduction) on an ABSENCE of data. By chance, are you employed in the movie industry?
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"I always thought foam to be very light weight and could never damage anything."
Yeah, it wouldn't hurt you to drop a piece of foam on your foot, but imagine having it shot at you at twice the speed of sound.
--Richard
It's not often that I post a response because I like something that somebody wrote. This is a rare pleasure.
Nice to see another thinking person here.
--Richard
You should ask your wife to take your checkbook away from you. You certainly don't know how to use it.
I certainly find that most software customers aren't the least bit interested in efficiency.
;->
They want... FEATURES!!!
I've read that there's a healthy community of people who still write C64 software both in the US and in Europe. They get off of work coding on modern computers and then go home and challenge themselves with writing the most efficient code possible -- a novel and comparitively low priority in current software development. Think of it as building a ship in a bottle. One could build the ship outside the bottle, but where the fun it that? --Richard
You are obviously a hacker. As long as Linux is the only OS you load on it, go for it, but please don't post the "Mac hardware is expensive" bullshit again. It's been done before and it's tedious for the rest of us.
I used to believe that and so did Apple.
No one gives a flying fuck that PC's have higher clock speeds than Macs. Your head is stuck back in the early 90's.
What people care about is not changing.
To quote Steve Jobs at MacWorld 2003 in SF, "People use what they know."
That it. That's all there is to it. All the rest is rhetoric.
I'm cruising Slashdot at this very moment on a G3 300MHz minitower (beige!) in Mac OS X and Safari web browser. This computer is five years old.
It has never needed any repairs. I'm probably going to get a new Mac next year.
--Richard
...with a sprig of parsley.
There's nothing as dangerous for the whole community as an angry young cracker.
There's nothing like being someone's prison bitch for getting a person to re-evaluate their life, too.
"BTW: I am pointing at the corps. because it is their lobbiests that are pushing for these rediculous sentences for cyber crimes ... everyone else pretty much says "SHIT! ... then stomps their feet for a few minutes, laughes when they discover how the hacker got in, then rebuilds their system or patches it, and then moves on with life..."
It sounds as though you think that the work people do recovering their systems is free. Everybody should just have a laugh: "Silly me. What was I thinking? Ha, ha, ha."
I suspect you would have a less cavalier attitude if it was YOUR money. Funny thing, human nature.
Boy, Hemos, you think you incorporated enough of your attitude in your post? Hint: Do not consider a career in journalism.
If a person commits a crime then they should pay. If someone -- even a kid -- causes me to have to spend $1,000 of my money because of a crime they commit, then they should compensate me for it -- above and beyond whatever punishment the legal system assesses. It makes no difference if the crime was committed with a can of paint, baseball bat, or computer keyboard.
Punishment for crime must be consistant or it is unfair and, clearly, wrong.
Somehow, for some reason, some people seem to believe computer crimes and white collar crimes are somehow less wrong.
The original poster's questions are all loaded with the presumption that something is wrong with using graph paper, pens and pencils.
Why on earth do so many people feel all development tools need to be built into a software debugger or they are inferior???
One great tool he did not mentiong is the napkin.
Mac collectors date all the way back to 1984. It's just their nature, I guess.
There has even been a Mac or two that was released specifically to be collector items (the 20th Anniversary Mac comes to mind).
I can't resist it myself. I've got Mac Plus with a Kensington System Saver fan, exactly like I had back when the computer wars was focused on Macintosh versus DOS.
I've also got a pristine Mac II, completely stock. It is beautiful and built like a rock.
Makes my nipples hard just looking at them.
Surely you don't think that the U.S. government, alone, lives by this motto?
Practically every government that exists and has ever existed -- both "good" and "bad" -- abides by this reasoning, city, state, national, et cetera.
In this case, local American government and law enforcement officials had their underwear hoisted up the flagpole, but it could just as easily been any government anyware.
Hate America? Get in line, but get real, too.
Payphones were very profitable until the government decided to block incoming calls.
Who told you that?
My father worked for SWBell during the 60's and 70's. Back in the 70's he told me that every pay telephone was a losing proposition -- they never made money, even back then.
--Richard
I was asking about the CPU, not the board (although board-wise you make excellent observations).
Me? The number one feature I want in a workstation is quiet. I'll game on another box whle wearing enclosed headphones, but otherwise, I want freak'n quiet.
So, about the CPU... what features?
...more functionality for a fraction of the cost.
Like what, specifically?
It's worth remembering that most of Earth's life mass lives below its surface, not on top of it surface like trees, birds, fish, and people -- all of it in the cracks of rocks.
Think about that...
Hmmm. Usually your ilk post something like "Mac == gay"
I guess to some Windows users, everyone is gay.
Yes, it scales. They've takes advantage of some great, unanticipated opportunities that have come along, but I don't see how anyone can knock their basic premise.
Even paying full price for the terminals, as I'm sure they cautiously budgeted, it's still cost effective.
You have to know that they didn't cruise eBay, see the thin terminals, and then yell, "Hey, this will work!"
Why didn't they just condemn matches?
This is probably good thing. They fire test kids pajamas, too, as well the ought. Probably few things made E.M. doctors sicker than trying to peel melted pajamas off of screaming children
Keep in mind that these same guys think Solaris is a good movie, whereas it is arguably the second worst movie ever made. Last Year at Marienbad will forever remain the worst.
You obviously have not seen "Battle Beyond the Stars"
I understand exactly what you're saying... No matter what I do, I just can't get iTunes to run in Windows XP. I guess you I sorta see eye to eye on this!
Funny part is: It worked! I have yet to see copies of that stuff distributed.
You're basing your conclusion (that the watermarking process was a deterrent to illicit reproduction) on an ABSENCE of data. By chance, are you employed in the movie industry?