Actualy, he teaches Elemetary school, out of his garage, and pays for the employment of a few teachers with the little money that he does have(well, I wouldn't call it *little*, at least not for me...)
he does teach on Macs and AOL, though.
he also is one of the best tetris players in the world, Nintendo Power had to stop taking his name, after he consistanly trounced the compition...
They had a pretty big artical about him in a recent issue of wired. He was, and still is, the man:)
_ "Subtle mind control? Why do all these HTML buttons say 'Submit' ?"
Well, that sounds a lot better then ames highschool (the same place neil stephonson went, btw) and our ~300 node Multiuser network based on Mac0s. yep, mac clients, mac servers. it was hell.
The system loaded all your files the first time you logged on. it was great unless you had more then a couple hundred k of stuff, I was in a Media Art Class, and I had 24 megs of video stuff to load each time, it took 7 minutes...
The people running it were amazingly stupid. at the begning of the year they had a 3 gigs of storage... for 1700 students. it overflowed in about a week, and it didn't do it gracefully ether (it randomly deleted files)
One time, near the end of the first semester, the program that loaded all my files from the server crashed on me, and created an empty directory where My files should have been ('User Work') when I loged out, it resored *that* so I lost all my files.
they wern't doing backups
at least NT has *some* multiuser features, but really you can't try and do it without using a true multi user OS... it just shouldn't be done... _ "Subtle mind control? Why do all these HTML buttons say 'Submit' ?"
well, I certanly plan to be using a computer untill I die, (I don't know if I'd *want* to live without one:). I think the first poster was talking about babie boomers. They didn't grow up with them, and they don't relize how cool they really are.(although they are getting on the web more, I think 40% of AOL users use there computers for nothing but )
These are the same people who want to cencor the internet, unfortunetly.... _ "Subtle mind control? Why do all these HTML buttons say 'Submit' ?"
but on the other hand, Open Source would really help BeOS. Most of its apps now are OSS (the good ones anyway) and OSS could really give it the *mindshare* it needs. It dosn't need any developers, what it needs are users.
I would probably download and install it, if I could get my hands on it for free. OSS probably wouldn't cause any great advances in the code, but it would really help them out in terms of marketing. they could protect there intelectual property by doing somthing closer to sun's Comunity licens, I guess _ "Subtle mind control? Why do all these HTML buttons say 'Submit' ?"
You know what really bothers me about GUIs? it's a pain in the ass to tell someone how to do somthing, or help them out online or over the phone. intstaid of saying "type this" you have to say, go there, click that, does it look like this?, ok then click there... type that in on the 3rd drop box... it fucking sucks --------------- Chad Okere
Well, speaking as one of those "child prodigys" I have to say, that windows is a huge pain in the ass to fix.... infact it's imposible to fix, the only thing you can do most of the time is reinstall the OS, if things get weird. --------------- Chad Okere
I don't know why people get so bent out of shape about saying "the millenium starts on 2001" like your better then everyone else or somthing beacuse you know that... woohooo! now you can run home and tell mom how great you are!!! we stupid humans will be celebrating it in 2000. we should be able to celebrate whenever we damn well please!! afterall *wee* came up with the calender to begin with!!
if you want to get really technical, jesus was born in the year 3AD (the people who started all of this screwed up) so the millenium reall starts in in 2k+4. so there:P btw, I like saying 2k+1 2k+2 for years after 2k. does anyone else think that's kind of cool? you don't end up saving any silables or letters though... oh well:) --------------- Chad Okere
Pff, I beat all of you, Im running windows 98... it's based on DOS... that's two decades ahead of your crap:P
anyway, nither Windows or Linux could really be called '60's' technology. Windows was completly recreated, on the same theorys as VMS by the same people, but it didn't use the same code (I don't think)
Linux was completly reacreated by Linus, and used the GNU tools (remember GNU's not unix:)... so... anyway from what I understand (and I may be completly wrong) the *internal* structure of linux is all new, just the libs are standerd, and the old shells are the same, am I wrong? I can't imagen that it woudl be to hard to stick a new interface/object libs on top, would it?
celeron 366 oc'd to 450 (easy, 100% sucess) 64 megs of ram (barely enough for win98) bh6 nVidia TNT card... I've built a whole PC for someone based on this for about $750, but that was a few months ago. it's about as highend as you can get (celerons are faster then pIIs at the same clock rate for most things) it wasn't really that exspensive. installing windows was a bitch, but other then that there was only about 20 minutes of work puting it together. PC retailers charge *way* to much money --------------- Chad Okere
well, I don't know about linux, but my windows98 box with 128 megs of ram hardly every needs the Hard Drive. I'd rather have a 17gig "slow" HD then a a 6gig "fast" one.. "marginal cost" yeh right. Ram's what you really need 80 or 128 at least for win98.. I'm sure linux could use a lot less though. for a home PC, ram and CPU is what you need, and a *NICE MONITOR!* that's really one of the most imporntant things... if your going to spend hours staring at somthing, it should look nice:) --------------- Chad Okere
a pIII with 32 megs of ram!!! what the hell!!! ug, that sounds painfull... but then I'm a windows user, I'd rather have a p75 with 80 megs.... you need at least 64 to get an enjoyable windows session --------------- Chad Okere
99 for a CD+flopy? that's quite a rip off.. you can get a good CD-rom drive for $25 dolars now. flopys might be a little more exspensive (around $35), but still all there boxes run linux I think --------------- Chad Okere
Hrm... it is kind of odd... the whole thing was completly self contained, they could have just left those people alone, it wasn't like the were going to attack the town or somthing... whatever --------------- Chad Okere
it's not the government, its people *in* the government that do illigal things. just look at this crypto bill, as an example of the way things are *supposed* to be. the "cannot force you to decript" is awesom, I mean, how could they force you to do it if you knew your rights? --------------- Chad Okere
the orgional PSX used a Mips 3000 chip... that chip has been included into the bus controler (like a 440bx chip). it was american made. so it does have one american designed component (eventhough it's not the part that makes it a supercomputer) AFAIK, anyway... the PSX two is scedualed to be made in china at the monment... btw, what the hell does IIRC mean? --------------- Chad Okere
Now that I think about it, chess sucks ass... Go is so much cooler. it's amazing simple, and yet a million times more complex a computer cannot *thoreticaly* beat a human in go, I think... --------------- Chad Okere
on the other hand, if we were to play aganst the worst chess player, we would win.... no question, democracy keeps the governement at a compitance/evilness level as the general public, while one person *may* be better, they may also be worse the current system, while horibly broken, is still better then that risk --------------- Chad Okere
Fifty!?! maybe 5 or 6 if any, and it probably dosn't have much to do with intelegence witch OS you use... people who love computers are usualy smart, people who love computers like linux. linux and intelegence are not intrensicacly linked... 50 points is enough to fit almost everyone on earth (between 80 and 130).. I wouldn't be surprized if I was 50 points higher then you (i'm ~146) you seem to be pretty stupid --------------- Chad Okere
well people can "think together" that's the consept behind almost any organization whatsoever... I think. if peopel had a few months to discus things, in threads or somthing, we might have a chance. but voteing? I think you would just end up with an "average" player --------------- Chad Okere
Hrm, this was somewhat sorted out on another Ask Slashdot, about bandwidth of Nerve tissue... they said it transferd "levels" of things based on the "freqency" of the signals... like an FM transmitter, I guess... like taking one form of analog, and converting it to another... the human brain is nothing like a modern computer (other then that it can do math) --------------- Chad Okere
Have you noticed, that things like artifical vision, and robotic motion, still come no where near what an *ant* can do? if we ever get that far, we could use that as a benchmark (our brain has x more volume then an ant's, so we are x more powerfull then computer y) on the other hand, I think it may have more to do with the "coding" in an and, or a human mind.. no one knows what that coding is like, and we have no idea how it works... or maybe soem nural net stuff who knows --------------- Chad Okere
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"Subtle mind control? Why do all these HTML buttons say 'Submit' ?"
Actualy, he teaches Elemetary school, out of his garage, and pays for the employment of a few teachers with the little money that he does have(well, I wouldn't call it *little*, at least not for me...)
:)
he does teach on Macs and AOL, though.
he also is one of the best tetris players in the world, Nintendo Power had to stop taking his name, after he consistanly trounced the compition...
They had a pretty big artical about him in a recent issue of wired. He was, and still is, the man
_
"Subtle mind control? Why do all these HTML buttons say 'Submit' ?"
Well, that sounds a lot better then ames highschool (the same place neil stephonson went, btw) and our ~300 node Multiuser network based on Mac0s. yep, mac clients, mac servers. it was hell.
The system loaded all your files the first time you logged on. it was great unless you had more then a couple hundred k of stuff, I was in a Media Art Class, and I had 24 megs of video stuff to load each time, it took 7 minutes...
The people running it were amazingly stupid. at the begning of the year they had a 3 gigs of storage... for 1700 students. it overflowed in about a week, and it didn't do it gracefully ether (it randomly deleted files)
One time, near the end of the first semester, the program that loaded all my files from the server crashed on me, and created an empty directory where My files should have been ('User Work') when I loged out, it resored *that* so I lost all my files.
they wern't doing backups
at least NT has *some* multiuser features, but really you can't try and do it without using a true multi user OS... it just shouldn't be done...
_
"Subtle mind control? Why do all these HTML buttons say 'Submit' ?"
well, I certanly plan to be using a computer untill I die, (I don't know if I'd *want* to live without one :). I think the first poster was talking about babie boomers. They didn't grow up with them, and they don't relize how cool they really are.(although they are getting on the web more, I think 40% of AOL users use there computers for nothing but )
These are the same people who want to cencor the internet, unfortunetly....
_
"Subtle mind control? Why do all these HTML buttons say 'Submit' ?"
cassette in french is "cassette" how the hell do you get 'k7' from that!?!? (I would want to know, actualy)
anyway, you used to be able to get cassette players or computers, those were the good old days. *sigh*
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"Subtle mind control? Why do all these HTML buttons say 'Submit' ?"
but on the other hand, Open Source would really help BeOS. Most of its apps now are OSS (the good ones anyway) and OSS could really give it the *mindshare* it needs. It dosn't need any developers, what it needs are users.
I would probably download and install it, if I could get my hands on it for free. OSS probably wouldn't cause any great advances in the code, but it would really help them out in terms of marketing. they could protect there intelectual property by doing somthing closer to sun's Comunity licens, I guess
_
"Subtle mind control? Why do all these HTML buttons say 'Submit' ?"
You know what really bothers me about GUIs? it's a pain in the ass to tell someone how to do somthing, or help them out online or over the phone. intstaid of saying "type this" you have to say, go there, click that, does it look like this?, ok then click there... type that in on the 3rd drop box... it fucking sucks
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Chad Okere
Well, speaking as one of those "child prodigys" I have to say, that windows is a huge pain in the ass to fix....
infact it's imposible to fix, the only thing you can do most of the time is reinstall the OS, if things get weird.
---------------
Chad Okere
I don't know why people get so bent out of shape about saying "the millenium starts on 2001" like your better then everyone else or somthing beacuse you know that... woohooo! now you can run home and tell mom how great you are!!!
:P :)
we stupid humans will be celebrating it in 2000.
we should be able to celebrate whenever we damn well please!! afterall *wee* came up with the calender to begin with!!
if you want to get really technical, jesus was born in the year 3AD (the people who started all of this screwed up) so the millenium reall starts in in 2k+4. so there
btw, I like saying 2k+1 2k+2 for years after 2k. does anyone else think that's kind of cool? you don't end up saving any silables or letters though... oh well
---------------
Chad Okere
Pff, I beat all of you, Im running windows 98... it's based on DOS... that's two decades ahead of your crap :P
:)... so... anyway from what I understand (and I may be completly wrong) the *internal* structure of linux is all new, just the libs are standerd, and the old shells are the same, am I wrong?
anyway, nither Windows or Linux could really be called '60's' technology. Windows was completly recreated, on the same theorys as VMS by the same people, but it didn't use the same code (I don't think)
Linux was completly reacreated by Linus, and used the GNU tools (remember GNU's not unix
I can't imagen that it woudl be to hard to stick a new interface/object libs on top, would it?
---------------
Chad Okere
celeron 366 oc'd to 450 (easy, 100% sucess) 64 megs of ram (barely enough for win98) bh6 nVidia TNT card... I've built a whole PC for someone based on this for about $750, but that was a few months ago. it's about as highend as you can get (celerons are faster then pIIs at the same clock rate for most things) it wasn't really that exspensive. installing windows was a bitch, but other then that there was only about 20 minutes of work puting it together. PC retailers charge *way* to much money
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Chad Okere
well, I don't know about linux, but my windows98 box with 128 megs of ram hardly every needs the Hard Drive. I'd rather have a 17gig "slow" HD then a a 6gig "fast" one.. "marginal cost" yeh right. Ram's what you really need 80 or 128 at least for win98.. I'm sure linux could use a lot less though. for a home PC, ram and CPU is what you need, and a *NICE MONITOR!* that's really one of the most imporntant things... if your going to spend hours staring at somthing, it should look nice :)
---------------
Chad Okere
a pIII with 32 megs of ram!!! what the hell!!! ug, that sounds painfull... but then I'm a windows user, I'd rather have a p75 with 80 megs.... you need at least 64 to get an enjoyable windows session
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Chad Okere
99 for a CD+flopy? that's quite a rip off.. you can get a good CD-rom drive for $25 dolars now. flopys might be a little more exspensive (around $35), but still all there boxes run linux I think
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Chad Okere
Just out of curiosity, has the matrix come out in brazil, or have you only seen the pirated version?
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Chad Okere
Hrm... it is kind of odd... the whole thing was completly self contained, they could have just left those people alone, it wasn't like the were going to attack the town or somthing... whatever
---------------
Chad Okere
it's not the government, its people *in* the government that do illigal things. just look at this crypto bill, as an example of the way things are *supposed* to be. the "cannot force you to decript" is awesom, I mean, how could they force you to do it if you knew your rights?
---------------
Chad Okere
the orgional PSX used a Mips 3000 chip... that chip has been included into the bus controler (like a 440bx chip). it was american made. so it does have one american designed component (eventhough it's not the part that makes it a supercomputer) AFAIK, anyway... the PSX two is scedualed to be made in china at the monment... btw, what the hell does IIRC mean?
---------------
Chad Okere
Now that I think about it, chess sucks ass... Go is so much cooler. it's amazing simple, and yet a million times more complex a computer cannot *thoreticaly* beat a human in go, I think...
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Chad Okere
on the other hand, if we were to play aganst the worst chess player, we would win.... no question, democracy keeps the governement at a compitance/evilness level as the general public, while one person *may* be better, they may also be worse the current system, while horibly broken, is still better then that risk
---------------
Chad Okere
Fifty!?! maybe 5 or 6 if any, and it probably dosn't have much to do with intelegence witch OS you use... people who love computers are usualy smart, people who love computers like linux. linux and intelegence are not intrensicacly linked... 50 points is enough to fit almost everyone on earth (between 80 and 130).. I wouldn't be surprized if I was 50 points higher then you (i'm ~146) you seem to be pretty stupid
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Chad Okere
I use windows
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Chad Okere
well people can "think together" that's the consept behind almost any organization whatsoever... I think. if peopel had a few months to discus things, in threads or somthing, we might have a chance. but voteing? I think you would just end up with an "average" player
---------------
Chad Okere
Hrm, this was somewhat sorted out on another Ask Slashdot, about bandwidth of Nerve tissue... they said it transferd "levels" of things based on the "freqency" of the signals... like an FM transmitter, I guess... like taking one form of analog, and converting it to another... the human brain is nothing like a modern computer (other then that it can do math)
---------------
Chad Okere
Have you noticed, that things like artifical vision, and robotic motion, still come no where near what an *ant* can do? if we ever get that far, we could use that as a benchmark (our brain has x more volume then an ant's, so we are x more powerfull then computer y) on the other hand, I think it may have more to do with the "coding" in an and, or a human mind.. no one knows what that coding is like, and we have no idea how it works... or maybe soem nural net stuff who knows
---------------
Chad Okere