When i worked at a Air Force base - and we had perfectly good Sun Sparc20's running as our servers (mail, dns, SQL, etc)...
my boss told me that because we were upgrading to Windows 95.. that it was time to ditch all those servers and get Windows servers with Exchange, et al...
i asked him why should we get rid of our perfectly running servers which had given us no trouble at all just to move to Microsoft? "Because, we're getting in contractors now, and they only know Windows Nt 4.0."
Later on, it was then decided that instead of bases having their own servers and their own email systems, that now that we'd all moved to Exchange, that we'd all put our GALs together (Global Address List - the list that Outlook/Exchange VBScripts use as their distro lists to replicate themselves), then we'd really kick ass.. no more joe.blow@otherairforcebase.af.mil...
my reply was - um... LDAP servers? open Source? Hello? Anyone?
well, skip ahead to today - the US Air Force (and soon all of DoD) is going to be moving from its now Air Force-wide GAL (why we just pull the plug now during virus scares and why we were down for weeks during Melisa) to Active Directory.
back when i shut down all my Sun boxes.. i told my boss that this was just stupid.. why should we give up on what works just to buy what Microsoft is giving us? Their goal was not to give us good products, but to get us to buy their products... and things like Exchange, with its GAL, are just the first protocols that they are trying to hijack and take back on the internet... eventually, all the open ones would be overthrown by the new default MS proprietary ones that would ship someday with newer versions of Windows.
I thought it might end with email.. but i see that i'm wrong.. i agree with Cringley... its going to go all the way.. and we have no way to stop it..
MS will take over the internet.. they are already took over filesharing with SMB, they are taking over email with Exchange, they have taken over HTM L with Explorer, they are trying to take over java with.NET.. why should we think that they will stop there?
If someone writes software that is in violation of someone else's inane 1-Click-esque patent - and then that software gets put out there - a la DeCSS, SDMI crack whitepaper, etc - what the hell are they going to do? Sue every website with the software?
Sure, they'll go after 2600.com's copy of it.. but there'll be freenet copies... copies on sealand...geocities.com/groomlake/aliengoatse.cx.. . etc.etc.etc....
software patents are totaly useless against the internet... at least ones that really don't warrant such a thing.
the only problem is going to be the cddb.com-like server necessary to have the programming listed...
that is, i have no idea how Tivo, DirecTV or TV Guide, for that matter, know what's going to be on.. and how can the free TV listing database get the programming. Can anyone elaborate?
(But let me clarify....I am not a monger, i am not uber - i'm just the only guy that knows enough unix here to be the one who's job it is to set things up.
I'm as geek as you get here, so please don't shoot me down if i use incorrect terminology or say something stupid... because i know a lot of people like me who are sysadmins not by choice.. and have not done it for years...
i am the result of people like you who say that using free software is better - so *please* bear with me as i try to understand this so i don't fuck it up and have everyone say "Damnit, someone install Windows on it and just pirate some software")
2.9's biggest feature is its improved filesystem speed... which, i guess, isn't that big of a deal if i'm only setting up a firewall..
except that i was also going to set it up as a backup mail server and VPN server as well.
and now, if i go to install under 2.9, i'm fucked because all my previous ipf settings files will be worthless if i don't do a 2.8 install..
So - wtf do i do? Do i stick with 2.8 and not worry about it - or do i go with 2.9?
And - as a point of clarification - is ipf taken out of 2.9? I mean, if the CD's are available... Friday.. then how the hell could they not have ipf on them? This all went to shit - not that long ago.. and apparently after the CD's were burned. SO - will the 2.9 CD ship with it or not.. cause i can't sodding tell.
damnit.. am i going to have to install a Mac with IPNetRouter or some Windowz box with Norton Firewall? (ha ha only serious)
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Alec Baldwin's a communist for saying that he'd leave the country if Bush got elected?
No.. you said that... i didnt' say anything like that.
His Communism, his hatred of military members, his selective support of the Bill of Rights, and his comment that he would leave the country if Bush was elected - while all go to the root that he is a liar, a hypocrite, inconsistent, and basically an asshole - are all independant comments about the man. Not one of those truths is causal to any of the other truths.
If anything.. him being a selfish, wife-beating asshole who cares only to save his public persona, and cares little for anything or anyone besides him would be the cause of all the facts i listed in this post and my previous post.
Your comments about Bill Clinton are a red herring.. don't change the fucking subject.
My comments that he is communist fall back on the fact that he is actively supportive of near total confiscation of the money made by people to be given to others in the society - he is not a friend of private property, but believes that the Federal government ought to be able to take care of the gerneal populus with more compassion and fairness than the open market and individual responsibility and rugged individualism.
Jesus - he actively called for the execution and murder of a member of congress and his family... and you'd call me a candiate of criminal insanity because i own a fucking gun?
but since my beilef is in the minorty (Bush really lost and the Congress is lead by liberals), we should just shut the fucking minority view up... lets call it political correctness.. or lets say that they want to starve kids... or maybe say that they want to poison people with arsnic... yeah yeah.. that's a good idea.
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.. the only thing we walked away with from that movie was all the wincing and uncomfortable feeling in our stomachs at the thought that that Anti-American, communist, military hating asshole playing the all time greatest Hero Of the Air Force - General James H. Doolittle.
The worst part is now that whenever i think about or hear about the great things that General Doolittle did - i will have a mental image of that whining tree-hugging loser in my mind.
I wonder - he *HAS* to know that we all know that he HATES us.... and so i can't help but believe that in playing this role is a way to just piss the hell out of us.. every time we see the movie....
...is that someone in here has found a way to squish their computers into a 8 inch by 8 inch by 8 inch cube!
Speaking for the Mac users...we all thought that it wasn't a real need to have a computer run silent? No, sorry let me rephrase that..
We had it jammed down our pieholes that when Apple started making fanless computers, that it "was no big fucking deal, bitches" and why don't you worry about getting 3-fucking button mice instead and you Mac users give a shit about the stupidest things...blah blah blah
Jessis - get your stories straight... i mean, if the poster wants a silent computer so that he doesnt have to hear the fan blowing all the time.. they call them iMacs and fucking Jobsian G4 Cubes... there's no need to bother with some weird ass hydro-powered case like it was a fucking Russian sub with James Bond at the tiller.
I don't recall you beating your chest when this happened to a TEST MODEL that never left the lab of the subcontractor that made the batteries for Apple.
The hypocracy is so glaring, i'm putting on my sunglasses.
Dell should take as much shit as Apple had to take... for once in their lives.
Since "machine" is a rather silly notion, I can't understand how the concept of site licenses not being tranferrable to different machines is even relevant.
Its like "race". Define race - what is the legal basis of race (other than Native American). There is none. I am as black as James Brown on paper and as white as his toothpaste IRL.
if America had the "loser pays" system of justice - whomever loses the case must pay the lawyer bills of the other side - then this would not be a problem.
Unfortunately, the extremeist radical Democrats and the lawyer lobby have their deep pockets to keep funding the Clintons and Kennedys of America so that no such system of justice will ever happen.
Imagine if the RIAA had to pay for the court costs of these researchers if they lost in court...they would never threaten them with such harassment.
F the lawyers.. lawyers will bring down this country faster than a nuclear bomb.
Yes, you are the only person who is wondering how much "bullying" Sean was subjected to..
I for one was 5'1", glasses, no style, acne, and puny in high school.
I was in the band, played a number of instruments, was into electronic music, and was (is?) a computer geek from the first time I played a Vectrex.
Besides the constant - i mean _every_ _fucking_ day in at least one class per semester, if not more - verbal harrassment...
such as "Hey, fuck face... what did you and your little band nerds do this weekend? Blow each other on the bus?"
physical harrassment....
such as pushing, slapping on the head, punching in the arm, getting cross-checked (sorry for the hockey term, but I play hockey (now) and upon reflection, its was a lot of that) in the back, and then, for fun, during PE it would be tripping, elbowing, slapping (a lot of slapping to the back of the head IIRC) while running... and during sports, generally them taking out their agressions on me in the form of tackling during soccer (once got a broken nose) by guys that would one day be d-line for the football team...
it was frowned upon to even bring it up.. and any action by the teachers was limited to "hey, leave him alone" and a finger wag.
This is because they almost never outright beat the shit out of me, but would constantly (i mean every time you saw them) be something along the lines of a quick verbal along with a physical abuse - nothing dangerous - the teachers either had to see it (which they never did because kids are not stupid) or they had to just wag their finger because they all know how to pull an Eddie Haskel.. that is, they all KNEW that they were doing it and their fake "Gee Miss Walters" bullshit wasn't believed, but what could they do?
Can you see suspending a kid for "picking" on another kid? Give me a break.... Eddie Haksels father is either a lowlife or a rich guy (as was the case at my school) and so all they had to do was say "lawyer" and that would be the end of that idea.
Looking back at it over 13 years ago, i can now, of course, see that being a highly-paid professional and they are most likely either working in a surf shop or at Pup-n-Taco, I can live with it. I have a incredibly gorgeous wife, drive a nice sled, and have 2 G4's at home with 1.5 gigs of memory and a gigEthernet switch between them.
But back then, the concept of bringing a gun to school was just not contemplated.. yet i did snap.. on a number of occasions..
One time, a kid that had given me an elbow to the face - i went up to him in the locker room and beat the shit out of him with my cleete.
Another time, I took my trumpet and hit a guy in the head with it because he had backed me into a corner.
My father could have done precious little for me because, hell, he had a job. He did bring me up right.. and he did instil in me self worth and the ability to see a brighter day (because my dad was a nerd and he does just fine as i saw).... so i _knew_ it would get better, but not for years.
What was my dad going to do? Yell at the school? What is he going to say "the kids are picking on my kid"... and? suspend them? How? They were never seen, and they almost never left any permanent marks. And kids have been picking on other kids for years.
The problem is that people are reducing the options available for the weaker, geekier kids to retaliate... i'd get taken out of school for years now if i hit a guy in the head with a cleete... yet then, nothing happened to me. And the guy that i smacked with a trumpet so hard he had to get stiches? Hell - he wasn't about to tell anyone that a band geek beat him.
I don't know about how YOU had it in school, but personally, I think its about time the geek kids got back at the other guys in better ways... with their means.. making websites of the bullies engaged in sex with goatse.cx, having adult toys sent to their houses and such.. you know, harmless, but effective ways of tormenting them back.
If you discount the shit that Sean had to put up with.. and believe that his dad could have taken any real action against kids who, basically, didn't cause any provable damage - then you're a fool, or you were a jock.
If you think that you can have a kid kicked out for bullying your kid - then you're mistaken about your power as a father.
Unless you have the guts/ability|desire to play their game - by saying that the bully said he was going to kill everyone or say that you saw the bully groping a 12 year old girl - then there's nothing you can do about kids picking on other kids.
Apparently, we'll have to run down the list - AGAIN - of who's trying to censor us...
Lets try Lieberman ("Friends is EVIL and should not be on prime time TV", McCain (he's trying to stop groups like EFF from having a voice in the political world by not allowing them to contribute to politicians who are pro-rights, like Orin Hatch - Republicans can't stand McCain)
Al Gore, Mrs Al Gore (CD warning labels), Barbara Boxer, John D. Rockefeller (leaders of the anti-Hollywood movement in Congress along with Lieberman)
And if i'm to listen to jamie, it appears that it was then Republican President Bill Clinton that started the most recent act of, essentially, putting a gun (if you'll pardon the expression) to the head of Hollywood?
far be it from me to also bring up who are the ones that want to stop people from exercising their rights to talk about religious matters at every turn - oh yeah.. those darn Republicans...
Instead of just toting the line of HOW the media would like you to think, Jamie, why don't you open your mind and get a clue to who the true anti-1st Amendment legislators are...
We went to a small small school, and so we got the same teacher all the time, and this guy had a total hard on for two things in life.. addition chains and sorting algorithms
well, after writing bubble sort in our 15th language, my friend gracefully went up to the VT101 which was hooked to a BarfoVision, and fired up his new, totally original sorting program..
the bars just kept flying across the screen.. and after about 15 seconds of this (it should have taken not much longer than a hit of the return button) he informed us that bogosort, while not efficient in the execution phase, was very efficient in the coding phase and theoretically would sort any array in n!/150 seconds...
randomizing is a cool way to cut down coding time.
I can't stand how Apple keeps on insisting that they have to do everything in house and everything proprietary... instead of using cheap, standard parts
they keep on using proprietary things like
ATA
PCI and AGP
USB
IEEE 1394
PC-100 and 133 RAM
15 pin VGA ports
1/8" audio Jacks
1000/100/10bT or 100/10bT Ethernet on every machine
PCMCIA, S-Video, and VGA outputs on thier laptops
The comical thing is that it is often the radical religious-right wing Christians who are blamed for this stifeling of speech.
Being one myself - okay, Libertarian, which is farther to the right - I'd like to remind folks who exactly it was that..
wanted (and got) warning labels on records.... a liberal Democrat (Al Gore's wife)
wants to shut down shows like MTV's Jackass... a liberal Democrat (Lieberman)
backs the RIAA in their persuit of Napster... a liberal Democratic appointed DoJ
led the charge to have the government shove its nose into Microsoft's business... a liberal Democratic appointed DoJ
gave out private information from people's FBI files because they were political enemies... the liberal Democrat White House
now.. who is it that...
is backing Napster in their fight against the RIAA... a right wing religious nutball, Orin Hatch
against censorship of library and school computers... every Libertarian i know
while i'm not saying that the right-wing is right - and they are certainly not when it comes to things like drugs....
lets not be quick to believe that its going to be the right wing religious nuts who take away your freedoms.. it is, and will always be the liberal Democrats..
They talk over you if they dont like what you're saying and say that you should not be saying things like nigger, faggot, or Jew bastard... that's just not allowed and should never be allowed...(unless you meet their criteria.. which is, you're one of them)
they are the ones who take your freedoms away from you - in the name of "The Children(tm)" - and tell you to just eat the shit sandwich because your going to eat it and if you don't you'll be called a racist, a bigot, or a child molester.
or even worse..
they'll call you a conservative Republican.. the worst name of all to be called.
Hell, install your programs on bootable DOS 3.3 floppies, and have them autoexec to launch your own damn app, Jeff..
Raskin... shut up.
How in the hell do you choose what you want to do on your computer? Hitting the keyboard? That sounds like how a 4 year old child uses a computer.. it just starts batting the keyboard. That is not a useful way to get things accomplished, and i pray we can ask more of the user than cavemen-like antics to operate their machine.
And i know that this doesn't track with Raskin, but many people want to do more than word processing or drawing on their Koala Pads. But in Raskin's mind.. that's all anyone does. And never more than one at a time.
And however you go between the two apps, its going to have to have some kind of means by which to separate the two applications.. else your 3D models would get all mixed up with your emails.. and that means will ALWAYS be an Operating System...
For Godzakes... even Palm has an OS.. which has a UI, which you have to go to choose what app you want to run.
Unless he wants every keyboard to have a button for every possible app your going to install, then you're going to have to have a way to choose what to do via software..... and that way - be it an "application" - whatever the hell that means - is the Operating System, stupid.
And while i'm talking about it.. a buddy of mine at Apple got to see Raskin's post-apple project - and it was basically a pice of shit, useless overpriced Casio-pocket organizer.
His big chance to poke his finger in Apple's eye, and not 1 in 1000 people (okay, 1 in 10/.ers) could tell you the name of it because it was so useless.
There will always be OSes.. they will just get better. That persuit is being taken on by Apple, Microsoft, the Open Source community, Be, and others... and either you're trying to be part of the solution..
or just a has-been hack whiner who's not doing anything to put up...
Space is not peacful. It has not been for 50 years.
The Russians (FSU) have gone far beyond simple "spy satellites" - they have gone far beyond SIGINT and ELINT birds...
You have no concept of the shenanigans that they have tried.
And no - i'm not talking about that stupid movie Space Cowboys. I'm talking real world.
As for the Chinese - well, lets just say that they are not (yet) as brazen about this as the FSU has been... in fact the ROW (rest of world) is pretty tame comparitively.. however, its mostly because they have gotten into the game late, and I give the Chinese only a few years before they are right there with us.
The Air Force's mission inculdes the exploitation of air and space (not bounded) to further the interests of the United States... and to protect our interests against all enemies, foreign and domestic. No use of space would be outside the scope of the AF.
There may be one or two of you reading this like i am.. behind a couple of X-07's... And if you are, you know what I'm talking about.
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Not only does it run on NT, Linux, Solaris, Free BSD and anything else you decide to compile it for....
its open source.
Oh, and did i mention that its free?
I mean - what else could you want (other than Linux clients with Sorenson)
but i guess that the LOTR guys can't seem to find it in their busy schedule to take 5 minutes with Cleaner 5 and make a desently compressed video.
it physically looked horrible... bad pixelation, no blacks, runny colors...
QuickTime and Sorenson might be NURV products, but at least they look good.
At least Lucas thought so.
>> It seems that the players will be >= 80% black, but certain roles are almost always white, quaterbacks, are almost always white, coachs seem to be nearly 95% white. owners are probably 100% white.
Tell that to Jordan, Isaiah, Magic, Culpepper, King, Banks, Batch, Cunningham, Moon...
>>unfortantly, there arn't to many rich black folks out there.. huh, does this sound racist?, naww, must be my white liberal guilt
no.... its your lack of understanding that in black culture, its more important to play ball, wear the right shoes, and get phat props than to study, work hard, learn to code, build networks, read O'Riley books or other Oreo type things.
Its more important to "be real" than to "act white" for many young blacks.
Fortunately, that stereotype is starting to break down... the kinds of today of all races are starting to see that the mantra of their predesessors is bogus, that its not "selling out" to not gang bang, make babies at 14, and instead stay in school, work hard, and be responsible.
No thanks to the likes of Jessie Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Louis Farakhan...
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i got a long email back from my provider - linkline communications (www.linkline.com).
this link takes you to the email he sent me back...
http://www.gsf.org/linklineemail.txt
in short.. he is looking for people to help fight back against the SBC on this one....
when apple wouldn't let you change the theme of Mac OS X?
ah...the days of installing whatever drivers we felt like installing...make us sound like the "I actually USED punchcards!" guys, don't it?
When i worked at a Air Force base - and we had perfectly good Sun Sparc20's running as our servers (mail, dns, SQL, etc)...
.NET.. why should we think that they will stop there?
my boss told me that because we were upgrading to Windows 95.. that it was time to ditch all those servers and get Windows servers with Exchange, et al...
i asked him why should we get rid of our perfectly running servers which had given us no trouble at all just to move to Microsoft? "Because, we're getting in contractors now, and they only know Windows Nt 4.0."
Later on, it was then decided that instead of bases having their own servers and their own email systems, that now that we'd all moved to Exchange, that we'd all put our GALs together (Global Address List - the list that Outlook/Exchange VBScripts use as their distro lists to replicate themselves), then we'd really kick ass.. no more joe.blow@otherairforcebase.af.mil...
my reply was - um... LDAP servers? open Source? Hello? Anyone?
well, skip ahead to today - the US Air Force (and soon all of DoD) is going to be moving from its now Air Force-wide GAL (why we just pull the plug now during virus scares and why we were down for weeks during Melisa) to Active Directory.
back when i shut down all my Sun boxes.. i told my boss that this was just stupid.. why should we give up on what works just to buy what Microsoft is giving us? Their goal was not to give us good products, but to get us to buy their products... and things like Exchange, with its GAL, are just the first protocols that they are trying to hijack and take back on the internet... eventually, all the open ones would be overthrown by the new default MS proprietary ones that would ship someday with newer versions of Windows.
I thought it might end with email.. but i see that i'm wrong.. i agree with Cringley... its going to go all the way.. and we have no way to stop it..
MS will take over the internet.. they are already took over filesharing with SMB, they are taking over email with Exchange, they have taken over HTM L with Explorer, they are trying to take over java with
sigh.. oh well..
Doesn't SmartTags open MS up to the type of harassment that 2600 got just for having links to stuff that pissed off the MPAA?
What if a mp3 link went somewhere that pissed off the RIAA?
I don't think they are thinking this thru...
Because smoke detectors don't track my movement through the hotel, nor do they report back to my wife if I bring a girl back to my room.
>Good. And neither does this device.
um.. yes it does. It told ACME exactly where he went and how long he was at said locations...
If he went to a strip club, that information was easily gained via the data that ACME picked up.
If someone writes software that is in violation of someone else's inane 1-Click-esque patent - and then that software gets put out there - a la DeCSS, SDMI crack whitepaper, etc - what the hell are they going to do? Sue every website with the software?
. . etc.etc.etc....
Sure, they'll go after 2600.com's copy of it.. but there'll be freenet copies... copies on sealand...geocities.com/groomlake/aliengoatse.cx.
software patents are totaly useless against the internet... at least ones that really don't warrant such a thing.
the only problem is going to be the cddb.com-like server necessary to have the programming listed...
that is, i have no idea how Tivo, DirecTV or TV Guide, for that matter, know what's going to be on.. and how can the free TV listing database get the programming. Can anyone elaborate?
next week.
(But let me clarify....I am not a monger, i am not uber - i'm just the only guy that knows enough unix here to be the one who's job it is to set things up.
I'm as geek as you get here, so please don't shoot me down if i use incorrect terminology or say something stupid... because i know a lot of people like me who are sysadmins not by choice.. and have not done it for years...
i am the result of people like you who say that using free software is better - so *please* bear with me as i try to understand this so i don't fuck it up and have everyone say "Damnit, someone install Windows on it and just pirate some software")
2.9's biggest feature is its improved filesystem speed... which, i guess, isn't that big of a deal if i'm only setting up a firewall..
except that i was also going to set it up as a backup mail server and VPN server as well.
and now, if i go to install under 2.9, i'm fucked because all my previous ipf settings files will be worthless if i don't do a 2.8 install..
So - wtf do i do? Do i stick with 2.8 and not worry about it - or do i go with 2.9?
And - as a point of clarification - is ipf taken out of 2.9? I mean, if the CD's are available... Friday.. then how the hell could they not have ipf on them? This all went to shit - not that long ago.. and apparently after the CD's were burned. SO - will the 2.9 CD ship with it or not.. cause i can't sodding tell.
damnit.. am i going to have to install a Mac with IPNetRouter or some Windowz box with Norton Firewall? (ha ha only serious)
Alec Baldwin's a communist for saying that he'd leave the country if Bush got elected?
No.. you said that... i didnt' say anything like that.
His Communism, his hatred of military members, his selective support of the Bill of Rights, and his comment that he would leave the country if Bush was elected - while all go to the root that he is a liar, a hypocrite, inconsistent, and basically an asshole - are all independant comments about the man. Not one of those truths is causal to any of the other truths.
If anything.. him being a selfish, wife-beating asshole who cares only to save his public persona, and cares little for anything or anyone besides him would be the cause of all the facts i listed in this post and my previous post.
Your comments about Bill Clinton are a red herring.. don't change the fucking subject.
My comments that he is communist fall back on the fact that he is actively supportive of near total confiscation of the money made by people to be given to others in the society - he is not a friend of private property, but believes that the Federal government ought to be able to take care of the gerneal populus with more compassion and fairness than the open market and individual responsibility and rugged individualism.
Jesus - he actively called for the execution and murder of a member of congress and his family... and you'd call me a candiate of criminal insanity because i own a fucking gun?
but since my beilef is in the minorty (Bush really lost and the Congress is lead by liberals), we should just shut the fucking minority view up... lets call it political correctness.. or lets say that they want to starve kids... or maybe say that they want to poison people with arsnic... yeah yeah.. that's a good idea.
.. the only thing we walked away with from that movie was all the wincing and uncomfortable feeling in our stomachs at the thought that that Anti-American, communist, military hating asshole playing the all time greatest Hero Of the Air Force - General James H. Doolittle.
The worst part is now that whenever i think about or hear about the great things that General Doolittle did - i will have a mental image of that whining tree-hugging loser in my mind.
I wonder - he *HAS* to know that we all know that he HATES us.... and so i can't help but believe that in playing this role is a way to just piss the hell out of us.. every time we see the movie....
oh well.
...is that someone in here has found a way to squish their computers into a 8 inch by 8 inch by 8 inch cube!
Speaking for the Mac users...we all thought that it wasn't a real need to have a computer run silent? No, sorry let me rephrase that..
We had it jammed down our pieholes that when Apple started making fanless computers, that it "was no big fucking deal, bitches" and why don't you worry about getting 3-fucking button mice instead and you Mac users give a shit about the stupidest things...blah blah blah
Jessis - get your stories straight... i mean, if the poster wants a silent computer so that he doesnt have to hear the fan blowing all the time.. they call them iMacs and fucking Jobsian G4 Cubes... there's no need to bother with some weird ass hydro-powered case like it was a fucking Russian sub with James Bond at the tiller.
And yes, it can run linux
I don't recall you beating your chest when this happened to a TEST MODEL that never left the lab of the subcontractor that made the batteries for Apple.
The hypocracy is so glaring, i'm putting on my sunglasses.
Dell should take as much shit as Apple had to take... for once in their lives.
define "machine".
Since "machine" is a rather silly notion, I can't understand how the concept of site licenses not being tranferrable to different machines is even relevant.
Its like "race". Define race - what is the legal basis of race (other than Native American). There is none. I am as black as James Brown on paper and as white as his toothpaste IRL.
if America had the "loser pays" system of justice - whomever loses the case must pay the lawyer bills of the other side - then this would not be a problem.
.they would never threaten them with such harassment.
Unfortunately, the extremeist radical Democrats and the lawyer lobby have their deep pockets to keep funding the Clintons and Kennedys of America so that no such system of justice will ever happen.
Imagine if the RIAA had to pay for the court costs of these researchers if they lost in court..
F the lawyers.. lawyers will bring down this country faster than a nuclear bomb.
Yes, you are the only person who is wondering how much "bullying" Sean was subjected to..
I for one was 5'1", glasses, no style, acne, and puny in high school.
I was in the band, played a number of instruments, was into electronic music, and was (is?) a computer geek from the first time I played a Vectrex.
Besides the constant - i mean _every_ _fucking_ day in at least one class per semester, if not more - verbal harrassment...
such as "Hey, fuck face... what did you and your little band nerds do this weekend? Blow each other on the bus?"
physical harrassment....
such as pushing, slapping on the head, punching in the arm, getting cross-checked (sorry for the hockey term, but I play hockey (now) and upon reflection, its was a lot of that) in the back, and then, for fun, during PE it would be tripping, elbowing, slapping (a lot of slapping to the back of the head IIRC) while running... and during sports, generally them taking out their agressions on me in the form of tackling during soccer (once got a broken nose) by guys that would one day be d-line for the football team...
it was frowned upon to even bring it up.. and any action by the teachers was limited to "hey, leave him alone" and a finger wag.
This is because they almost never outright beat the shit out of me, but would constantly (i mean every time you saw them) be something along the lines of a quick verbal along with a physical abuse - nothing dangerous - the teachers either had to see it (which they never did because kids are not stupid) or they had to just wag their finger because they all know how to pull an Eddie Haskel.. that is, they all KNEW that they were doing it and their fake "Gee Miss Walters" bullshit wasn't believed, but what could they do?
Can you see suspending a kid for "picking" on another kid? Give me a break.... Eddie Haksels father is either a lowlife or a rich guy (as was the case at my school) and so all they had to do was say "lawyer" and that would be the end of that idea.
Looking back at it over 13 years ago, i can now, of course, see that being a highly-paid professional and they are most likely either working in a surf shop or at Pup-n-Taco, I can live with it. I have a incredibly gorgeous wife, drive a nice sled, and have 2 G4's at home with 1.5 gigs of memory and a gigEthernet switch between them.
But back then, the concept of bringing a gun to school was just not contemplated.. yet i did snap.. on a number of occasions..
One time, a kid that had given me an elbow to the face - i went up to him in the locker room and beat the shit out of him with my cleete.
Another time, I took my trumpet and hit a guy in the head with it because he had backed me into a corner.
My father could have done precious little for me because, hell, he had a job. He did bring me up right.. and he did instil in me self worth and the ability to see a brighter day (because my dad was a nerd and he does just fine as i saw).... so i _knew_ it would get better, but not for years.
What was my dad going to do? Yell at the school? What is he going to say "the kids are picking on my kid"... and? suspend them? How? They were never seen, and they almost never left any permanent marks. And kids have been picking on other kids for years.
The problem is that people are reducing the options available for the weaker, geekier kids to retaliate... i'd get taken out of school for years now if i hit a guy in the head with a cleete... yet then, nothing happened to me. And the guy that i smacked with a trumpet so hard he had to get stiches? Hell - he wasn't about to tell anyone that a band geek beat him.
I don't know about how YOU had it in school, but personally, I think its about time the geek kids got back at the other guys in better ways... with their means.. making websites of the bullies engaged in sex with goatse.cx, having adult toys sent to their houses and such.. you know, harmless, but effective ways of tormenting them back.
If you discount the shit that Sean had to put up with.. and believe that his dad could have taken any real action against kids who, basically, didn't cause any provable damage - then you're a fool, or you were a jock.
If you think that you can have a kid kicked out for bullying your kid - then you're mistaken about your power as a father.
Unless you have the guts/ability|desire to play their game - by saying that the bully said he was going to kill everyone or say that you saw the bully groping a 12 year old girl - then there's nothing you can do about kids picking on other kids.
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Apparently, we'll have to run down the list - AGAIN - of who's trying to censor us...
Lets try Lieberman ("Friends is EVIL and should not be on prime time TV", McCain (he's trying to stop groups like EFF from having a voice in the political world by not allowing them to contribute to politicians who are pro-rights, like Orin Hatch - Republicans can't stand McCain) Al Gore, Mrs Al Gore (CD warning labels), Barbara Boxer, John D. Rockefeller (leaders of the anti-Hollywood movement in Congress along with Lieberman)
hell, Hollywood was warned not to back the Democrats because they are clearly out to censor movies
And if i'm to listen to jamie, it appears that it was then Republican President Bill Clinton that started the most recent act of, essentially, putting a gun (if you'll pardon the expression) to the head of Hollywood?
far be it from me to also bring up who are the ones that want to stop people from exercising their rights to talk about religious matters at every turn - oh yeah.. those darn Republicans...
Instead of just toting the line of HOW the media would like you to think, Jamie, why don't you open your mind and get a clue to who the true anti-1st Amendment legislators are...
We went to a small small school, and so we got the same teacher all the time, and this guy had a total hard on for two things in life.. addition chains and sorting algorithms
well, after writing bubble sort in our 15th language, my friend gracefully went up to the VT101 which was hooked to a BarfoVision, and fired up his new, totally original sorting program..
the bars just kept flying across the screen.. and after about 15 seconds of this (it should have taken not much longer than a hit of the return button) he informed us that bogosort, while not efficient in the execution phase, was very efficient in the coding phase and theoretically would sort any array in n!/150 seconds...
randomizing is a cool way to cut down coding time.
I can't stand how Apple keeps on insisting that they have to do everything in house and everything proprietary... instead of using cheap, standard parts
they keep on using proprietary things like
ATA
PCI and AGP
USB
IEEE 1394
PC-100 and 133 RAM
15 pin VGA ports
1/8" audio Jacks
1000/100/10bT or 100/10bT Ethernet on every machine
PCMCIA, S-Video, and VGA outputs on thier laptops
Jeezz.. if they ever got a clue, *maybe* I could upgrade a Mac with a good gaming video card, cheap RAM, cheap IDE hard drives, use my regular PC monitor, use a cheap USB scanner, speakers and networking gear.. much less there's no way to install Windows or Linux on their computers
fuckin Apple.
The comical thing is that it is often the radical religious-right wing Christians who are blamed for this stifeling of speech.
... a right wing religious nutball, Orin Hatch
... every Libertarian i know
....
Being one myself - okay, Libertarian, which is farther to the right - I'd like to remind folks who exactly it was that..
wanted (and got) warning labels on records.... a liberal Democrat (Al Gore's wife)
wants to shut down shows like MTV's Jackass... a liberal Democrat (Lieberman)
backs the RIAA in their persuit of Napster... a liberal Democratic appointed DoJ
led the charge to have the government shove its nose into Microsoft's business... a liberal Democratic appointed DoJ
gave out private information from people's FBI files because they were political enemies... the liberal Democrat White House
now.. who is it that...
is backing Napster in their fight against the RIAA
against censorship of library and school computers
while i'm not saying that the right-wing is right - and they are certainly not when it comes to things like drugs
lets not be quick to believe that its going to be the right wing religious nuts who take away your freedoms.. it is, and will always be the liberal Democrats..
They talk over you if they dont like what you're saying and say that you should not be saying things like nigger, faggot, or Jew bastard... that's just not allowed and should never be allowed...(unless you meet their criteria.. which is, you're one of them)
they are the ones who take your freedoms away from you - in the name of "The Children(tm)" - and tell you to just eat the shit sandwich because your going to eat it and if you don't you'll be called a racist, a bigot, or a child molester.
or even worse..
they'll call you a conservative Republican.. the worst name of all to be called.
Hell, install your programs on bootable DOS 3.3 floppies, and have them autoexec to launch your own damn app, Jeff..
... and that way - be it an "application" - whatever the hell that means - is the Operating System, stupid.
/.ers) could tell you the name of it because it was so useless.
Raskin... shut up.
How in the hell do you choose what you want to do on your computer? Hitting the keyboard? That sounds like how a 4 year old child uses a computer.. it just starts batting the keyboard. That is not a useful way to get things accomplished, and i pray we can ask more of the user than cavemen-like antics to operate their machine.
And i know that this doesn't track with Raskin, but many people want to do more than word processing or drawing on their Koala Pads. But in Raskin's mind.. that's all anyone does. And never more than one at a time.
And however you go between the two apps, its going to have to have some kind of means by which to separate the two applications.. else your 3D models would get all mixed up with your emails.. and that means will ALWAYS be an Operating System...
For Godzakes... even Palm has an OS.. which has a UI, which you have to go to choose what app you want to run.
Unless he wants every keyboard to have a button for every possible app your going to install, then you're going to have to have a way to choose what to do via software..
And while i'm talking about it.. a buddy of mine at Apple got to see Raskin's post-apple project - and it was basically a pice of shit, useless overpriced Casio-pocket organizer.
His big chance to poke his finger in Apple's eye, and not 1 in 1000 people (okay, 1 in 10
There will always be OSes.. they will just get better. That persuit is being taken on by Apple, Microsoft, the Open Source community, Be, and others... and either you're trying to be part of the solution..
or just a has-been hack whiner who's not doing anything to put up...
so i'd ask him to shut up.
Space is not peacful. It has not been for 50 years.
The Russians (FSU) have gone far beyond simple "spy satellites" - they have gone far beyond SIGINT and ELINT birds...
You have no concept of the shenanigans that they have tried.
And no - i'm not talking about that stupid movie Space Cowboys. I'm talking real world.
As for the Chinese - well, lets just say that they are not (yet) as brazen about this as the FSU has been... in fact the ROW (rest of world) is pretty tame comparitively.. however, its mostly because they have gotten into the game late, and I give the Chinese only a few years before they are right there with us.
The Air Force's mission inculdes the exploitation of air and space (not bounded) to further the interests of the United States... and to protect our interests against all enemies, foreign and domestic. No use of space would be outside the scope of the AF.
There may be one or two of you reading this like i am.. behind a couple of X-07's... And if you are, you know what I'm talking about.
Not only does it run on NT, Linux, Solaris, Free BSD and anything else you decide to compile it for....
its open source.
Oh, and did i mention that its free?
I mean - what else could you want (other than Linux clients with Sorenson)
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(i'm not biased, i just know 3 guys that work in QTSS)
but i guess that the LOTR guys can't seem to find it in their busy schedule to take 5 minutes with Cleaner 5 and make a desently compressed video. it physically looked horrible... bad pixelation, no blacks, runny colors... QuickTime and Sorenson might be NURV products, but at least they look good. At least Lucas thought so.
>> It seems that the players will be >= 80% black, but certain roles are almost always white, quaterbacks, are almost always white, coachs seem to be nearly 95% white. owners are probably 100% white.
Tell that to Jordan, Isaiah, Magic, Culpepper, King, Banks, Batch, Cunningham, Moon...
>>unfortantly, there arn't to many rich black folks out there.. huh, does this sound racist?, naww, must be my white liberal guilt
no.... its your lack of understanding that in black culture, its more important to play ball, wear the right shoes, and get phat props than to study, work hard, learn to code, build networks, read O'Riley books or other Oreo type things.
Its more important to "be real" than to "act white" for many young blacks.
Fortunately, that stereotype is starting to break down... the kinds of today of all races are starting to see that the mantra of their predesessors is bogus, that its not "selling out" to not gang bang, make babies at 14, and instead stay in school, work hard, and be responsible.
No thanks to the likes of Jessie Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Louis Farakhan...
sorry - there aren't tons of black people moving up in droves to places where its always raining, cold, and dank... like Seattle.
I was there a bunch a few years ago, and i'm sorry, but there just weren't that many there.. and i doubt that its changed in a couple of years.
All whites are racist... i guess that's just what blacks want us to believe.