Hey Wesley, remember that episode, where there was that game, that shot lasers in people's eyes, that made them stoned and took over their mind, but you were too prude to try it, so you had to save the ship with just you and that hot chick?
It sounds about as scripted as such a press-release, too. This Mike guy is a first class wanker.
Of course, it is funny to hear people whining about co-opting the name, when the name itself is a pun on GNU and a yummy chocolate spread. If they're going to use a silent G in their name, they ought to honor that convention and conduct development of the protocol in an open manner, and GPL their reference implementation. It wouldn't stop the bickering, but it would give a clear moral high ground to those who release actual code.
Why don't they nickname this new protocol "mutella". It's catchy, likely to carry greater mindshare than "gnutella2", and incorporates Mike's name while offering him a suggestion.
Not half as irritating as the squealing stupidity exhibited in this thread. Even as he keeps harping the same point over and over, no one offers a compelling counter-argument. They just wiggle around the issue, mocking him as a clueless outsider to their fantasy world or criticizing him as another fanboy promoting a competing escapist franchize.
I suppose that is because most people, as those who know that the ring is a symbol of technology, that the Numenorians represent the English, that Morder represents all non-Saxon peoples, that the Elves are Angelic, that Sauron is Satan, that Frodo and Samwise have a sublimated homosexual relationship, already understand the hidden themes present in trilogy, and don't consider it that big of a deal.
Improvements in safety gear have certainly been made in the past few decades, but in some ways those improvements have been balanced out by the tremendous speeds that modern bikes are capable of.
Are we talking about street bikes, those that have no business going anywhere close to their maximum speed?
It is the natural order of the world to weed out the reckless and stupid. I don't think we should do more to upset that balance.
What part of ’ “ and ” don't you understand? While it may not work in old browsers, it is certainly standards-compliant, unlike the moronized quotes of Microsoft. I suppose you're making a joke. What is truly annoying is that Slashdot's comment system eats these unicode entity references. But then again, after three years they still haven't fixed the "plain text" and "extrans" mix-up, so what do you expect?
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come away with an appreciation for how arrogent engineers (and particularly programmers) can be
Funny, all I get from his books are examples of how stupid clueless people have no business criticizing what they don't understand. Engineers understand more about risk than all doctors, lawyers, politicians and CEOs ever have.
Besides, Nedry is the real hero. He freed the dinosaurs from their human oppressors and liberated secret technology from a megalomaniac running an evil corporation.
They used sophisticated statistical techniques to create five years out of a few hours. It is these same scientific miracles that allow one to replace a team of experienced adminstrators with a monkey holding an MCSE.
Windows 2000 came out in 2000, which should be obvious to anyone, and it will no longer be supported in 2005. 2005 - 2000 = five years. Of course, to maximize your value you should have bought XP, XP Subscription, and the XP Special Edition (with Bill's commentary and the Longhorn sneek peek) long before 2005 rolls around.
Media is holding the legislative gun to the head of Tech, and now suggesting that we "work together". They've already got a protection racket going over artists, now they're moving into extortion.
I for one would prefer a world without blockbuster movies or obnoxious pop bands, so long as they keep their filthy coke-dusted hands out of my computer Tell those bastards to solve their own problems!
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I didn't have a use for this vacuous comment, yet you posted it anyway.
In a way this troolhoor is right. I was using Mesa on Sun and Linux machines years ago, when SGI was about the only place you could find OpenGL professionally. It wasn't OpenGL that cost anything, it was those damn SGI boxes and high-end video cards! Mesa was also the first to provide OpenGL for the 3fx Voodoo, the first consumer-level 3d video card. The really funny thing is, if you've ever done anything 3d in Linux, you've almost certainly used Mesa before, but I'm taking this troll too seriously.
Stick a diskless client into a box with an LCD screen, hook it up over a wireless network, and "Holy Cow! Look at the latest innovation from Microsoft!"
I mean, really, it's not even an innovation by Microsoft terms, they've simply crippled a tablet PC. They're making a big deal over this "Mira" thing, when it is really just the next generation of what X Windows was fifteen years ago.
This kind of thing will fail for the same reason Sun's "network computer" failed. Why waste your money on a castrated client when you can get a real computer almost as cheap?
We should give the guy a break, I think he's just getting a bit old. It reads like a high school essay, completely changing its point and tone halfway through. This isn't the work of a well-respected academic.
That doesn't mean we shouldn't mock his company's product for its goal of replacing everything. PIM systems have been heading this way since the beginning (consider Mitch Kapor's work), but that doesn't mean we should do away with the file metaphor. There is a place for temporal organization and and a time for hierarchical organization.
This revolutionary impulse, to erase or ignore everything that came before, is generally the mark of something so unpractical that that is the only way it would gain acceptance.
Which is really not surprising. It's exactly the same delusion that makes people still think that "compilers are so smart nowadays that they can easily create better assembly code that humans" when that is and always has been patently untrue. People always underestimate the complexity of optimization.
No, that is an entirely different delusion. That one is a straw man propogated by amateurs who have taken the effort to learn assembly programming feel "1337" for their arcane knowledge.
For the vast majority of programming tasks, programming in assembly is stupid and wasteful, and the vast majority of programmers will not write better code than their compiler.
Those who can follow something like Abrash's black book, or god forbid, are actually involved compiler research, would laugh at your statement, because they praise the gods that there is such a thing as automation and that it is possible to capture the intelligence of optimization algorithmically. There is a difference in choosing to engage in stategic optimization using assembly and the blind naysaying of deference to the compiler.
In case you haven't noticed, people tend to underestimate the complexity of everything. Even if Transmeta has fallen short of expectations, they failed admirably and still pushed the state of the art. If people listened to the kind of criticism offered by armchair technologist slashbot trools, we'd still be writing assembly code on VAX machines.
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You have to be on some sort of crack to write to a person's boot sector. Period. That's just off limits.
I write to your fiancee's boot sector. Zing!
If you want to be scared, read and understand Vernor Vinge's works on the singularity.
Yeah, I like the one where the spider people invent computers and rocket ships.
Every single person I know who has played video on Linux (except DVDs) with MPlayer fell in love with it.
That's because they're using it to watch pr0n. It's called operant conditioning, look it up.
Actually, it does, when those applications suck.
Hey Wesley, remember that episode, where there was that game, that shot lasers in people's eyes, that made them stoned and took over their mind, but you were too prude to try it, so you had to save the ship with just you and that hot chick?
Yeah, that was cool.
As a professional journalist, I can tell you that they use that information you input to profile you and sell it to advertisers.
Heaven forbid advertising become more effective. I mean, my god man! They might actually sell you something you need!
It sounds about as scripted as such a press-release, too. This Mike guy is a first class wanker.
Of course, it is funny to hear people whining about co-opting the name, when the name itself is a pun on GNU and a yummy chocolate spread. If they're going to use a silent G in their name, they ought to honor that convention and conduct development of the protocol in an open manner, and GPL their reference implementation. It wouldn't stop the bickering, but it would give a clear moral high ground to those who release actual code.
Why don't they nickname this new protocol "mutella". It's catchy, likely to carry greater mindshare than "gnutella2", and incorporates Mike's name while offering him a suggestion.
Not half as irritating as the squealing stupidity exhibited in this thread. Even as he keeps harping the same point over and over, no one offers a compelling counter-argument. They just wiggle around the issue, mocking him as a clueless outsider to their fantasy world or criticizing him as another fanboy promoting a competing escapist franchize.
I suppose that is because most people, as those who know that the ring is a symbol of technology, that the Numenorians represent the English, that Morder represents all non-Saxon peoples, that the Elves are Angelic, that Sauron is Satan, that Frodo and Samwise have a sublimated homosexual relationship, already understand the hidden themes present in trilogy, and don't consider it that big of a deal.
Which is why I like shoplifting better than piracy, since I have a 56k and all..
Never underestimate the bandwidth of Raiders jacket stuffed full of CDs.
Improvements in safety gear have certainly been made in the past few decades, but in some ways those improvements have been balanced out by the tremendous speeds that modern bikes are capable of.
Are we talking about street bikes, those that have no business going anywhere close to their maximum speed?
It is the natural order of the world to weed out the reckless and stupid. I don't think we should do more to upset that balance.
Then stay off of my road and out of my way, you stupid fuck.
What part of ’ “ and ” don't you understand? While it may not work in old browsers, it is certainly standards-compliant, unlike the moronized quotes of Microsoft. I suppose you're making a joke. What is truly annoying is that Slashdot's comment system eats these unicode entity references. But then again, after three years they still haven't fixed the "plain text" and "extrans" mix-up, so what do you expect?
come away with an appreciation for how arrogent engineers (and particularly programmers) can be
Funny, all I get from his books are examples of how stupid clueless people have no business criticizing what they don't understand. Engineers understand more about risk than all doctors, lawyers, politicians and CEOs ever have.
Besides, Nedry is the real hero. He freed the dinosaurs from their human oppressors and liberated secret technology from a megalomaniac running an evil corporation.
Well, what do you think?
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Wouldn't evolution have constructed lifeforms of this kind long ago if they were stable and competetive in a natural environment? (2002 Köhntopp)
No.
Köhntopp, Kris. "Plausible Story?" Slashdot. 6 Dec. 2002 <http://books.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=47035&
They used sophisticated statistical techniques to create five years out of a few hours. It is these same scientific miracles that allow one to replace a team of experienced adminstrators with a monkey holding an MCSE.
Windows 2000 came out in 2000, which should be obvious to anyone, and it will no longer be supported in 2005. 2005 - 2000 = five years. Of course, to maximize your value you should have bought XP, XP Subscription, and the XP Special Edition (with Bill's commentary and the Longhorn sneek peek) long before 2005 rolls around.
You Linux advocates are always so full of FUB.
Obviously it's God, you evolutionist fuckwit.
You don't consider the archiving of pr0n a noble cause? Don't be so selfish, man, think of future generations!
I mean, hell, forget pr0n, just imagine the blackmail value for the kids of 2020, to be able to dig up pictures of their parents on amihotornot.
Media is holding the legislative gun to the head of Tech, and now suggesting that we "work together". They've already got a protection racket going over artists, now they're moving into extortion.
I for one would prefer a world without blockbuster movies or obnoxious pop bands, so long as they keep their filthy coke-dusted hands out of my computer Tell those bastards to solve their own problems!
I didn't have a use for this vacuous comment, yet you posted it anyway.
In a way this troolhoor is right. I was using Mesa on Sun and Linux machines years ago, when SGI was about the only place you could find OpenGL professionally. It wasn't OpenGL that cost anything, it was those damn SGI boxes and high-end video cards! Mesa was also the first to provide OpenGL for the 3fx Voodoo, the first consumer-level 3d video card. The really funny thing is, if you've ever done anything 3d in Linux, you've almost certainly used Mesa before, but I'm taking this troll too seriously.
Now mod this and the parent post into oblivion.
Cry to someone that actually gives a damn.
I give a damn.
Stick a diskless client into a box with an LCD screen, hook it up over a wireless network, and "Holy Cow! Look at the latest innovation from Microsoft!"
I mean, really, it's not even an innovation by Microsoft terms, they've simply crippled a tablet PC. They're making a big deal over this "Mira" thing, when it is really just the next generation of what X Windows was fifteen years ago.
This kind of thing will fail for the same reason Sun's "network computer" failed. Why waste your money on a castrated client when you can get a real computer almost as cheap?
But mommy, why do they hurt Tux like that?
That doesn't mean we shouldn't mock his company's product for its goal of replacing everything. PIM systems have been heading this way since the beginning (consider Mitch Kapor's work), but that doesn't mean we should do away with the file metaphor. There is a place for temporal organization and and a time for hierarchical organization.
This revolutionary impulse, to erase or ignore everything that came before, is generally the mark of something so unpractical that that is the only way it would gain acceptance.
More people have sex with animals than read "Advertising Age". What this means for ad-copy writers has not yet been determined.
Which is really not surprising. It's exactly the same delusion that makes people still think that "compilers are so smart nowadays that they can easily create better assembly code that humans" when that is and always has been patently untrue. People always underestimate the complexity of optimization.
No, that is an entirely different delusion. That one is a straw man propogated by amateurs who have taken the effort to learn assembly programming feel "1337" for their arcane knowledge.
For the vast majority of programming tasks, programming in assembly is stupid and wasteful, and the vast majority of programmers will not write better code than their compiler.
Those who can follow something like Abrash's black book, or god forbid, are actually involved compiler research, would laugh at your statement, because they praise the gods that there is such a thing as automation and that it is possible to capture the intelligence of optimization algorithmically. There is a difference in choosing to engage in stategic optimization using assembly and the blind naysaying of deference to the compiler.
In case you haven't noticed, people tend to underestimate the complexity of everything. Even if Transmeta has fallen short of expectations, they failed admirably and still pushed the state of the art. If people listened to the kind of criticism offered by armchair technologist slashbot trools, we'd still be writing assembly code on VAX machines.