When it's 8 pm in California, and you think your UKian friend that you 've chatted with on IRC might appreciate a free phone call using this technology, please consider the time difference.
A 3 am wazzup will not go very far in improving international relations.
If you buy coffee in one of the hundreds of Starbucks in Boston (there are lots, and very convenient when you have to go potty), you're supporting the New World Order.
"Just how many root DNS server's does the US Supreme Court have?"
And I suppose the US Supreme Court is going to tell root DNS servers hosted overseas how to run them? Maybe in your USian-centric wet dream.
The decision is obvious, different buyers targeted
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I can see why the two decisions are obviously different; your average Guinness buyer is a very different sort than your average LockheedMArtin buyer.
A Guinness buyer is usually an impluse buyer, who buys this overpriced luxury beer to be perceived as a snob, an Irish fanatic or to piss off his friends. Really, there are many other, better, cheaper stouts out there, if you don't want to make your own. Might I suggest Youngling, or even Murphys (and when you buy Murphy's you're not supporting the IRA).
A LockheedMartin uyer is usually acting as an agent of government, with millions to spend on expensive airplanes, and they won't be swayed by a false web page, unlike the drunken sot of a Guinness buyer.
I think Salon just ran a piece where they were saying that 30 year old CEO's were out, and VC's are looking for a CEO's with grey hair. Perhaps it was reading business2.com on the exercycle that I read this, whatever.
Too many programmers and/.'ers are myopic, they think computer skills are all that matters, when in the real world, people skills, marketing skills, finance skills and networking (not LAN, people to people) skills are just as important, if not more. With just a little reflection, I can list tens of companies that have advanced, technically wonderful ideas that have failed or are failing, ie. Amiga, FreeBSD and even Apple, while companies that have less trendy technologies, but better marketing, are still beating the world, ie. Microsoft.
So, even if your clueless, gray haired manager may not know Perl or PHP, they've been competing in the junglel of business for decades longer than you have, and no a few survival tricks that you don't. Learn from them, respect them and eventually replace them, but if you try to replace them too early, well, look up something called the Children's Crusade, or look up the history of NeXT.
I fear that this harassment will worsen as 4/20 approaches. Student athletes and popular kids may increase their harasssment of geeks and nerds, and geeks and nerds will come under increased surveillance, one needs only to think about the copy cat crime committed on 4/18 (worst act of terrorism against Americans ever) to realize how serious law enforcement will be taking the threat of another Columbine.
I see a few solutions, fighting the power, quietly drawing attention to oppressed geeks, or integrating into society.
While fighting the power that is oppressing us geeks may seem the fun thing to do, let's not forget what happens to other oppressed groups that try to fight the entrenched powers that be, can we forget MOVE, WACO, Wounded Knee or Ruby Ridge? I'm not sure about you, but I certainly don't want to die in a geek compound surrounded by Federal Storm Troopers intent on killing us. True, we do have a second amendment, but you need a whole nation to support that, not just a few gun owning geeks, ESR not withstanding.
A second option is quietly drawing attention to oppressed geeks. Since the rainbow is taken, perhaps we can think of another symbol for geek-pride, perhaps the Penguin? We can also convince the do-gooders at Amnesty Internaitional to write letters to various school administrators letting htem know that their oprression and silent co-operation in this geek pogrom will not go undetected, indeed, for some geeks, silence == death.
The best option might be to integrate oneself with society at large, following the model of America's most successful minorities, the Jews. Perhaps we geeks can learn a little about American culture at large,a nd fit in better with our non-geek neighbors. LEt's appreciate football as examples of Newtonian physics, let's appreciate loud fast cars, and maybe we can all jsut get along.
Yeah but, chip making isn't as easy as writing cod
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You can learn to be an adequate coder by reading a few books, trying something, changing the code, trying something, heck, this is how both MS and the open source world started.
This doesn't scale well to actual chip making though. You really need a thorough grounding in digital logic before you start throwing ands, nands, xors and ors around. There are no higher language equivalents like Perl or VB for chip making, it's just tedious gate and run after gate and run.
Plus, there isn't as much room for self expression in chip making either. Taking the Perl example again, using hte language and reading the Camel book you get a good idea of Larry Wall's mindset. Can you get this from a cip? No?
But, if you're a geek with delusions of grandeur and have a few thousand dollars to throw away in a fab, don't let me stop you.
Seriously, is there a better way to lost lots of money at a casino than a slot machine? I guess if you're too brain dead to run a simple progressive scheme at the roulette wheel, or do some simple card counting at blackjack, you might as well while away your money at the slot machines.
And now MS is getting into the act, hmm, they're getting involved with gambling, they're becoming more like the Mafia every day now. They've already got a handle on the racketeering, I guess other vices are next. I can't wait for compatible for Windows heroin and whores in Seattle.
I'll forgot the obvious joke about SA's using NT already gambling with their work.
I think Malda needs to get a liaison with oxygen.com or something and start advertising News for Nerds, and for Aerobics fans to even up the gender dichotomy here.
It seems to have a lot of the same qualities that made Linux so popular with geeks.
Most of the players are in it for the love of the game, not the money.
The XFL pays very little, so the players are motivated by the desire to play football.Many have probably even taken a pay cut to allow them to play football, much like Linux hackers a few years back (and even the future, unless the RHAt shares go up.
The XFL embraces technology.
Katz already covered all the camera tricks.
One note, Jon, teh NFL has been using a ref-cam this year for roving images, this is where the XFL got the idea from.
The XFL is about openness, you can hear the player's comments in the locker room, in the huddle.
Similary, Linux and Open Source software is about openness.
Woman in the XFL are used to sell product, much more so than in the NFL. In the NFL, you might see 2 minutes of cheerleaders in a televised game.
This too is reminiscent of Linux and Open Source software. Who can forget all the posts about the young woman in latex acting as mascots for FreeBSD (and where were the shapely young men in tight latex)? Who can forget the hue and cry that prompted segfault closing their dicussion board after it was discovered that a female system administrator was quite attractive (and you trolls think Natalie-Portman naked and petrified was first).
Contrast this with MS, who rarely capitalizes on sex appeal to sell their products.
So, it won't suprise me is the XFL becomes and underground geek hits, like Junkyard Wars or Battle bots or Scrap Heap challenge.
I know how up in arm the European privacy adovacates get about personal information being harvested from web browsing, I wonder how they will react to robots with spying capability that are smaller than an insect?
I hope they prefer technological solutions, ie. killer anti-spy bot bots, but a part of me fears that some European countries will attempt to legislate them out of existence, a method that works about as well as legislating popular national culture into existence.
Quick, name a French rock star (no, Jean Luc-Ponty does not count). See what I mean?
The original poster asked for a game that his kids could play. Although it is considered a game by game theorists, prisoner's dilemna is more of a PUZZLE than a GAME because it has zero replay value and no kid would be interested in playing it.
Ok, which one of you kids broke the lamp?
You're both going to your rooms while I question you separately.
Now, I am not a lawyer, but very few implies at least one, right?
More from the article:
By no means do I wish to belittle the stature of Mark Twain as a major figure in the history of SF. Indeed, it seems to me that Ketterer if anything is too defensive and timid in presenting his subject. Part of his problem here may lie in the simple fact that Twain's importance in SF comes almost entirely from a single work, a work that towers as perhaps the greatest achievement of l9th-century American SF: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.
Now I'd ask you if creating just one work allows one to be known as the father of the field, but you probably don't know your father, indeed, calling a lawyer a bastard is redundant.
and American, though Samuel Clemens' pro-American Anti-European themes (cf. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, the Prince and the Dauphin episode) may cause European critic to give him short shrift.
It's not surprise that Mark Twain has not been mentioned yet, as he's basically become a non-person thanks to the overwhelming political correctness movement on high school and college campuses (sorry, there were slaves, they were called the n-word, if you would read Huck Finn you would see that n-word Jim is perhaps the most moving, fully fleshed and capable character in the book, but capable black people are shunned by the PC movement, look at the tarring of C. Thomas 10 years ago), though in defense of/.'s own resident attorney, his education probably has huge holes in it due to the extensive studying in law that his curriculym demanded, to the disclusion of humanities, an all to similar fate affects most/.er's, sadly.
For a good appreciation of the debt SF owes Mark Twain, try a search engine, or here.
A 486/66 running SCO/Unix speaking XNS out the network card. Is there an open source package that speaks XNS?
A Novell 3.12 box the speaks XNS, and decomposes PS and PCL into bitmaps courtesy of a closed source propietary board.
Many very high speed printers that use propietray sbric cards.
Also, I support customers printing from a heterogenous environment, Mac, Windows, Solaris, AS/400, assorted other mainframes.
I don't have the luxury of refusing business from non-Linux customers. If it's on a network or outputs data, I'll work with it. I doubt that an SA advocating Linux only is going to get many second looks in the job market.
Here's an idea, why don't you take all that money you're making and buy a Porsche only gas station, and see how long you stay in business.
Some hackers come by late in night with a wireless set up.
They hack into your car stereo, delete all your mp3's and replace them with Britney, insync and backstreet boys.
Or even worse, they set up a script to replace them as you're driving to work.
Oops I did it again
Ahhhhh!
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When it's 8 pm in California, and you think your UKian friend that you 've chatted with on IRC might appreciate a free phone call using this technology, please consider the time difference.
A 3 am wazzup will not go very far in improving international relations.
anymore, as most porn starlets are shaven, or maybe have a thin, sleek landing strip.
If you buy coffee in one of the hundreds of Starbucks in Boston (there are lots, and very convenient when you have to go potty), you're supporting the New World Order.
To paraphrase Hitler talking about the Pope
"Just how many root DNS server's does the US Supreme Court have?"
And I suppose the US Supreme Court is going to tell root DNS servers hosted overseas how to run them? Maybe in your USian-centric wet dream.
I can see why the two decisions are obviously different; your average Guinness buyer is a very different sort than your average LockheedMArtin buyer.
A Guinness buyer is usually an impluse buyer, who buys this overpriced luxury beer to be perceived as a snob, an Irish fanatic or to piss off his friends. Really, there are many other, better, cheaper stouts out there, if you don't want to make your own. Might I suggest Youngling, or even Murphys (and when you buy Murphy's you're not supporting the IRA).
A LockheedMartin uyer is usually acting as an agent of government, with millions to spend on expensive airplanes, and they won't be swayed by a false web page, unlike the drunken sot of a Guinness buyer.
Pretty simple, when you think about it.
Even in the dotcom world, age does matter.
/.'ers are myopic, they think computer skills are all that matters, when in the real world, people skills, marketing skills, finance skills and networking (not LAN, people to people) skills are just as important, if not more. With just a little reflection, I can list tens of companies that have advanced, technically wonderful ideas that have failed or are failing, ie. Amiga, FreeBSD and even Apple, while companies that have less trendy technologies, but better marketing, are still beating the world, ie. Microsoft.
I think Salon just ran a piece where they were saying that 30 year old CEO's were out, and VC's are looking for a CEO's with grey hair. Perhaps it was reading business2.com on the exercycle that I read this, whatever.
Too many programmers and
So, even if your clueless, gray haired manager may not know Perl or PHP, they've been competing in the junglel of business for decades longer than you have, and no a few survival tricks that you don't. Learn from them, respect them and eventually replace them, but if you try to replace them too early, well, look up something called the Children's Crusade, or look up the history of NeXT.
I fear that this harassment will worsen as 4/20 approaches. Student athletes and popular kids may increase their harasssment of geeks and nerds, and geeks and nerds will come under increased surveillance, one needs only to think about the copy cat crime committed on 4/18 (worst act of terrorism against Americans ever) to realize how serious law enforcement will be taking the threat of another Columbine.
I see a few solutions, fighting the power, quietly drawing attention to oppressed geeks, or integrating into society.
While fighting the power that is oppressing us geeks may seem the fun thing to do, let's not forget what happens to other oppressed groups that try to fight the entrenched powers that be, can we forget MOVE, WACO, Wounded Knee or Ruby Ridge? I'm not sure about you, but I certainly don't want to die in a geek compound surrounded by Federal Storm Troopers intent on killing us. True, we do have a second amendment, but you need a whole nation to support that, not just a few gun owning geeks, ESR not withstanding.
A second option is quietly drawing attention to oppressed geeks. Since the rainbow is taken, perhaps we can think of another symbol for geek-pride, perhaps the Penguin? We can also convince the do-gooders at Amnesty Internaitional to write letters to various school administrators letting htem know that their oprression and silent co-operation in this geek pogrom will not go undetected, indeed, for some geeks, silence == death.
The best option might be to integrate oneself with society at large, following the model of America's most successful minorities, the Jews. Perhaps we geeks can learn a little about American culture at large,a nd fit in better with our non-geek neighbors. LEt's appreciate football as examples of Newtonian physics, let's appreciate loud fast cars, and maybe we can all jsut get along.
You can learn to be an adequate coder by reading a few books, trying something, changing the code, trying something, heck, this is how both MS and the open source world started.
This doesn't scale well to actual chip making though. You really need a thorough grounding in digital logic before you start throwing ands, nands, xors and ors around. There are no higher language equivalents like Perl or VB for chip making, it's just tedious gate and run after gate and run.
Plus, there isn't as much room for self expression in chip making either. Taking the Perl example again, using hte language and reading the Camel book you get a good idea of Larry Wall's mindset. Can you get this from a cip? No?
But, if you're a geek with delusions of grandeur and have a few thousand dollars to throw away in a fab, don't let me stop you.
Seriously, is there a better way to lost lots of money at a casino than a slot machine? I guess if you're too brain dead to run a simple progressive scheme at the roulette wheel, or do some simple card counting at blackjack, you might as well while away your money at the slot machines.
And now MS is getting into the act, hmm, they're getting involved with gambling, they're becoming more like the Mafia every day now. They've already got a handle on the racketeering, I guess other vices are next. I can't wait for compatible for Windows heroin and whores in Seattle.
I'll forgot the obvious joke about SA's using NT already gambling with their work.
I think Malda needs to get a liaison with oxygen.com or something and start advertising News for Nerds, and for Aerobics fans to even up the gender dichotomy here.
Props to Dilbert's Douglas Adams, of course.
The XFL pays very little, so the players are motivated by the desire to play football.Many have probably even taken a pay cut to allow them to play football, much like Linux hackers a few years back (and even the future, unless the RHAt shares go up.
Katz already covered all the camera tricks.
One note, Jon, teh NFL has been using a ref-cam this year for roving images, this is where the XFL got the idea from.
Similary, Linux and Open Source software is about openness.
This too is reminiscent of Linux and Open Source software. Who can forget all the posts about the young woman in latex acting as mascots for FreeBSD (and where were the shapely young men in tight latex)? Who can forget the hue and cry that prompted segfault closing their dicussion board after it was discovered that a female system administrator was quite attractive (and you trolls think Natalie-Portman naked and petrified was first).
Contrast this with MS, who rarely capitalizes on sex appeal to sell their products.
So, it won't suprise me is the XFL becomes and underground geek hits, like Junkyard Wars or Battle bots or Scrap Heap challenge.
I know how up in arm the European privacy adovacates get about personal information being harvested from web browsing, I wonder how they will react to robots with spying capability that are smaller than an insect?
I hope they prefer technological solutions, ie. killer anti-spy bot bots, but a part of me fears that some European countries will attempt to legislate them out of existence, a method that works about as well as legislating popular national culture into existence.
Quick, name a French rock star (no, Jean Luc-Ponty does not count). See what I mean?
The original poster asked for a game that his kids could play. Although it is considered a game by game theorists, prisoner's dilemna is more of a PUZZLE than a GAME because it has zero replay value and no kid would be interested in playing it.
Ok, which one of you kids broke the lamp?
You're both going to your rooms while I question you separately.
I know, I've worked on a software hotline, and as long as those customers can get $3 crack on the street corner, they'll be messing with the software.
Now, I am not a lawyer, but very few implies at least one, right?
More from the article:
By no means do I wish to belittle the stature of Mark Twain as a major figure in the history of SF. Indeed, it seems to me that Ketterer if anything is too defensive and timid in presenting his subject. Part of his problem here may lie in the simple fact that Twain's importance in SF comes almost entirely from a single work, a work that towers as perhaps the greatest achievement of l9th-century American SF: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.
Now I'd ask you if creating just one work allows one to be known as the father of the field, but you probably don't know your father, indeed, calling a lawyer a bastard is redundant.
and American, though Samuel Clemens' pro-American Anti-European themes (cf. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, the Prince and the Dauphin episode) may cause European critic to give him short shrift.
/.'s own resident attorney, his education probably has huge holes in it due to the extensive studying in law that his curriculym demanded, to the disclusion of humanities, an all to similar fate affects most /.er's, sadly.
It's not surprise that Mark Twain has not been mentioned yet, as he's basically become a non-person thanks to the overwhelming political correctness movement on high school and college campuses (sorry, there were slaves, they were called the n-word, if you would read Huck Finn you would see that n-word Jim is perhaps the most moving, fully fleshed and capable character in the book, but capable black people are shunned by the PC movement, look at the tarring of C. Thomas 10 years ago), though in defense of
For a good appreciation of the debt SF owes Mark Twain, try a search engine, or here.
such as...
A 486/66 running SCO/Unix speaking XNS out the network card. Is there an open source package that speaks XNS?
A Novell 3.12 box the speaks XNS, and decomposes PS and PCL into bitmaps courtesy of a closed source propietary board.
Many very high speed printers that use propietray sbric cards.
Also, I support customers printing from a heterogenous environment, Mac, Windows, Solaris, AS/400, assorted other mainframes.
I don't have the luxury of refusing business from non-Linux customers. If it's on a network or outputs data, I'll work with it. I doubt that an SA advocating Linux only is going to get many second looks in the job market.
Here's an idea, why don't you take all that money you're making and buy a Porsche only gas station, and see how long you stay in business.
Yeah, that will appease him when his fallen arches and aching back makes him come after you with an AK-47.
So what are the advantages os using 36 bit instead of 32 or 64? It sounds like a lot of confusion for a little better performance.
Some hackers come by late in night with a wireless set up. They hack into your car stereo, delete all your mp3's and replace them with Britney, insync and backstreet boys. Or even worse, they set up a script to replace them as you're driving to work. Oops I did it again Ahhhhh!
and my typing is much more legible than my handwriting.
Doesn't this remind you of the pen based 486's that were being sold at a big discount in 1994, maybe $300 for a 486/25 with 4/80?
and they can signal us by rotating the solar cell arrays back and forth in case they get in trouble.
short flash, short flash, short flash
long flash, long flash, long flash
short flash, short flash, short flash
Quick, to the space shuttle!
Invent recliner that appeals to geeks and is easily modified to keep geeks in a reclined position for hours at time.
Watch as geeks' weight increases, heart rate increases and general health decreases.
Geeks no longer have stamina to code all night long, Linux development slows down.
Microsoft vanquishes another competitor.
Whatever we do, don't let Linus or Alan Cox get one.
They sound kind of like this;
na-fa-lo-ba-nu-ki-li ta-la-ba-ba-fa-to-pu
ro-lu-fa-ti
Anyone know where I can get a surplus aircraft carrier?
not Americium.
Thank you.