...took CS courses from a guy at the University of Ohio-Miami (can't remember his name) who allegedly wrote the control code for the U.S. military's nuclear missiles.
He brought this up in class as an example of why programmers should be aware of the purpose of their code and the consequences if it doesn't work.
His thoughts: "OK, there are five billion people on this planet. If I fuck this up, they're ash."
I don't really see what this has to do directly with spam, except that we'll be able to spam aliens. But we've been doing that for years: all the EM waves we've generated from TV signals to cel phones will exist forever, in theory.
Did anyone think that the SETI program is just a human attempt to understand the spam aliens have been sending us?
Some people have too much money on their hands and an overdeveloped love of technology with no apparent usefulness. How sad that they think American children can create meaningful commentary in less than 1,000 words.
When did Apple have an opportunity to buy BeOS? This is news to me.
Not like they could anyway. The founder of Be, Inc. is none other than the leather-pants wearing former Apple marketing manager Jean-Louis Gassee. This is the guy who about ripped the fool who dared suggest Apple license MacOS way back when a new asshole, according to Jim Carlton's book.
MacOS X has some NeXT technology in it, but it also has a lot of MacOS, hence its name. But NeXT was way past its prime, and Be has hella marketing potential. What would be the point of buying Be just to munge its saleable product with Apple's?
Here's the article the local paper (which I work at) ran on the discovery, and here's what the front page looks like. We've been covering the search and recovery mission, which the Cosmosphere director, Max Ary, was present for.
The Liberty Bell will be in Hutchinson at the Cosmosphere in about a week and will be displayed for the following six months as it's restored. A division of the Cosmosphere, the recently-defunct Space Works, was responsible for several replicas of spacecraft used in movies including Apollo 13 and the HBO series Earth to Moon. Some of the same workers will be restoring the Liberty Bell.
The Cosmosphere recently acquired status as an official branch of the Smithsonian, and remains one of the best aerospace museums in the world. The foyer was built around an authentic SR-17 Blackbird, perched on its nose at an angle.
More info about the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center is here. Friday and Saturday, Apollo 17 astronaut Eugene Cernan will be on hand to sign copies of his book, "Last Man on the Moon."
I agree with the sentiment; 70 fps can cause motion sickness.:o> Reason why some people refuse to play Quake and EverQuest; it's not because they don't like playing games, they just get physically sick of watching those polygons.
18 fps was the quality of most.mov videos when Quicktime 1.5 was the big, big deal. I remember those looking choppy as hell. Maybe different eyes are more or less sensitive than "normal" eyes. I dunno. All I know is that you can't tell geeks they can't use technology if it presents itself, so by next year we all could be convulsing in epilepsy.
I dare you to write a BO-like program that will run on MacOS, and give a remote admin control of my Mac when it's connected to a network.
J.
Maybe they shoulda just released a binary :P
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Hint: if the source code is available, it'll be easier to "crack". Thing is, immediately with its release, ISS would learn just how it worked.
Which reaffirms the point that BO is meant as a means to rub Microsoft's nose in the fact that their products suck. If they wanted to be bastards, they could have kept the source to themselves.
So this pirating Apple's market goes on for a few years, and in comes Steve Jobs, who, after retaking control of HIS company, realizes that the licencees (especially Power) are just killing Apple. They are getting to use Apple's R&D and competitive advantages, and giving little back. The volume isn't high enough that the licensees are paying for what they are taking.
However, Apple has a major new release coming out, OS 8, and the cloners want it -- and the licensing agreement only applied to System 7 and variants. So now Apple has some leverage in the negotiations, Steve starts talking about the terms. He wants to raise the licensing fees, because A) Apple is literally losing money on each motherboard they ship to the licensees, and B) Apple needs to make money, badly. The licensees, (with the exception of Umax, who wasn't stupid, and Daystar, who had such a small niche market anyways, and was about to get out of the business altogether, as it was a money pit for them), start telling Apple that Apple has to drop the OS licence prices, and a lot of other demands, and this is with them about to start making CHRP - based Macs, which will cut Apple out of the hardware licenses completely, and leave them only the software licenses for revenue from this. At this point the writing is on the wall for Jobs, and the licencees. It's dead, the question is just how it is going to happen. All this is happening right into MacWorld Boston of that year, 1997. So far, Apple is trying to be, from their point of view, fairly reasonable, and Power is negotiating a way to end the program in a way that won't drive them out of business.
Which was happening anyways. Only after Power went belly-up did the details on just how badly that company was being run come out. That company had been doomed long before the end of the Mac licenses. But everyone likes to 'forget' that fact, and just blame Apple for it.
Then comes the epic fit. The day before MacWorld opens, Power has a press conference, and basically tries to get the User community riled up by saying, "See how big bad Apple is screwing you? They won't let us build G3 Macs, and they won't let us build laptops, and they just suck. So all of you go tell them they suck until we get our way" Needless to say, this blows up in Power's face, and Steve goes back into the negotiations, and basically dictates terms of surrender to Stephen Kahng, the CEO of Power. Power accepts, the program is shut down, and 'the baby has been knifed'.
There is a difference between having your home searched and not using the Internet as a duck blind to avoid taking responsibility for your exercise of free speech.
Privacy isn't defined by the U.S. Constitution either (it's by statute,) but it's a moot issue, since none of that governs international law, and the Internet is international.
There are always ways to find out who people are on the Internet. SpamCop just makes it easier to find those who abuse it.
The House voted 287-139 today to pass the Consequences for Juvenile Offenders Act, which includes an amendment to require schools and libraries to install technology to screen out material "harmful" to minors as a condition of receiving a federal Net access subsidy, known as the e-rate.
It's just that if they want to get extra federal money, they have incentive to install software barriers.
So even if it doesn't get struck down, librarians will have a choice.
Then again, if you've never used the distribution before, or don't use Macs, it might seem novel and worth reporting about. Macintouch pretty much laid it out earlier, however: the worm is dead and harmless.
It could have also been used as FUD against LinuxPPC.
Macintouch also reported that no user has been infected with the strain. The worm was also present on a Marilyn Manson interactive CD, but it was the "dead" form, incapable of spreading, even though it sets Agax and Early Bird off.
Plus MacOS Rumors already ran this two months ago. Then, it was that Jobs, "real" CEO of Pixar, supposedly wanted Disney to buy Pixar, and "possibly" was interested in selling Apple along with it.
My bets are on Jobs's ego. He has more ego than anyone else in Silicon Valley, and isn't going to sell Apple for anything (unless Jobs has been replaced by a space alien.) Apple is his baby. He almost went shit nuts when Sculley forced him out.
He's not going to let someone else be in charge of Apple. Especially since most companies think using what's most conventional and what's most popular is the way to do business.
Apple's been the biggest innovator in computing for years. If it gets sold to anyone else, it will die.
...don't make sense. Especially multiplayer games.
Game design is a complicated beast. Not only do you have to know how to code, you also have to know how to design a game to be attractive aurally, visually and above all, interest. The OS model is fine for computing utility, but recreation... no.
I fully support the idea of open-sourcing PARTS of games. Like network code. Except that until the code is rock-hard-solid, no one would want to use it. Ways to break and exploit the system would be almost as known as the system itself.
There are some things game players aren't meant to know. Code is #1.
What would have happened if the source of Quake was released before people stopped playing it? There would be 100 times more cheaters than there already are. The ability to play would be subverted by the ability to write code. Diablo could have been a lot more popular than it was if it wasn't for exploiters.
As much as some cr/h/ackers might love the idea, it sucks as a means to have fun.
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Here's a representative sample, featuring Stephan the aardvark geek boy.
J.
...took CS courses from a guy at the University of Ohio-Miami (can't remember his name) who allegedly wrote the control code for the U.S. military's nuclear missiles.
He brought this up in class as an example of why programmers should be aware of the purpose of their code and the consequences if it doesn't work.
His thoughts: "OK, there are five billion people on this planet. If I fuck this up, they're ash."
J.
Sorry about that.
J.
J.
...that the box you'll be getting will more than likely be a ...
...Macintosh.
J.
I don't really see what this has to do directly with spam, except that we'll be able to spam aliens. But we've been doing that for years: all the EM waves we've generated from TV signals to cel phones will exist forever, in theory.
Did anyone think that the SETI program is just a human attempt to understand the spam aliens have been sending us?
Some people have too much money on their hands and an overdeveloped love of technology with no apparent usefulness. How sad that they think American children can create meaningful commentary in less than 1,000 words.
J.
When did Apple have an opportunity to buy BeOS? This is news to me.
Not like they could anyway. The founder of Be, Inc. is none other than the leather-pants wearing former Apple marketing manager Jean-Louis Gassee. This is the guy who about ripped the fool who dared suggest Apple license MacOS way back when a new asshole, according to Jim Carlton's book.
MacOS X has some NeXT technology in it, but it also has a lot of MacOS, hence its name. But NeXT was way past its prime, and Be has hella marketing potential. What would be the point of buying Be just to munge its saleable product with Apple's?
J.
The Liberty Bell will be in Hutchinson at the Cosmosphere in about a week and will be displayed for the following six months as it's restored. A division of the Cosmosphere, the recently-defunct Space Works, was responsible for several replicas of spacecraft used in movies including Apollo 13 and the HBO series Earth to Moon. Some of the same workers will be restoring the Liberty Bell.
The Cosmosphere recently acquired status as an official branch of the Smithsonian, and remains one of the best aerospace museums in the world. The foyer was built around an authentic SR-17 Blackbird, perched on its nose at an angle.
More info about the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center is here. Friday and Saturday, Apollo 17 astronaut Eugene Cernan will be on hand to sign copies of his book, "Last Man on the Moon."
J.
I agree with the sentiment; 70 fps can cause motion sickness. :o> Reason why some people refuse to play Quake and EverQuest; it's not because they don't like playing games, they just get physically sick of watching those polygons.
18 fps was the quality of most .mov videos when Quicktime 1.5 was the big, big deal. I remember those looking choppy as hell. Maybe different eyes are more or less sensitive than "normal" eyes. I dunno. All I know is that you can't tell geeks they can't use technology if it presents itself, so by next year we all could be convulsing in epilepsy.
J.
J.
Which reaffirms the point that BO is meant as a means to rub Microsoft's nose in the fact that their products suck. If they wanted to be bastards, they could have kept the source to themselves.
J.
Here's how David Every explains it:
So this pirating Apple's market goes on for a few years, and in comes Steve Jobs, who, after retaking control of HIS company, realizes that the licencees (especially Power) are just killing Apple. They are getting to use Apple's R&D and competitive advantages, and giving little back. The volume isn't high enough that the licensees are paying for what they are taking.
However, Apple has a major new release coming out, OS 8, and the cloners want it -- and the licensing agreement only applied to System 7 and variants. So now Apple has some leverage in the negotiations, Steve starts talking about the terms. He wants to raise the licensing fees, because A) Apple is literally losing money on each motherboard they ship to the licensees, and B) Apple needs to make money, badly. The licensees, (with the exception of Umax, who wasn't stupid, and Daystar, who had such a small niche market anyways, and was about to get out of the business altogether, as it was a money pit for them), start telling Apple that Apple has to drop the OS licence prices, and a lot of other demands, and this is with them about to start making CHRP - based Macs, which will cut Apple out of the hardware licenses completely, and leave them only the software licenses for revenue from this. At this point the writing is on the wall for Jobs, and the licencees. It's dead, the question is just how it is going to happen. All this is happening right into MacWorld Boston of that year, 1997. So far, Apple is trying to be, from their point of view, fairly reasonable, and Power is negotiating a way to end the program in a way that won't drive them out of business.
Then comes the epic fit. The day before MacWorld opens, Power has a press conference, and basically tries to get the User community riled up by saying, "See how big bad Apple is screwing you? They won't let us build G3 Macs, and they won't let us build laptops, and they just suck. So all of you go tell them they suck until we get our way" Needless to say, this blows up in Power's face, and Steve goes back into the negotiations, and basically dictates terms of surrender to Stephen Kahng, the CEO of Power. Power accepts, the program is shut down, and 'the baby has been knifed'.
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J.
There is a difference between having your home searched and not using the Internet as a duck blind to avoid taking responsibility for your exercise of free speech.
Privacy isn't defined by the U.S. Constitution either (it's by statute,) but it's a moot issue, since none of that governs international law, and the Internet is international.
There are always ways to find out who people are on the Internet. SpamCop just makes it easier to find those who abuse it.
J.
Mea culpa,
J.
This is a bit of annoyance, since so many people seem to think the iMac was such a grand leap forward, that it's entirely unlike other Macintoshes. For a while, the page for Yahoo! Pager referred to "iMac OS 8.5," and the morons at Bell Atlantic tried to tell some poor saps that iMacs were of fundamentally different hardware.
So the better headline would have been "higher-end Macs" rather than "iMacs and G3s."
I guess you could call anything based on more than two standards (DPS and PDF) 'bastardization,' but if it works, that's what matters.
J.
It's just that if they want to get extra federal money, they have incentive to install software barriers.
So even if it doesn't get struck down, librarians will have a choice.
J.
So if you go to one of these sites and someone's griping about how much "OSI sucks," you'll know they're not talking about this OSI.
So did I use enough link references?
J.
Then again, if you've never used the distribution before, or don't use Macs, it might seem novel and worth reporting about. Macintouch pretty much laid it out earlier, however: the worm is dead and harmless.
It could have also been used as FUD against LinuxPPC.
J.
Macintouch also reported that no user has been infected with the strain. The worm was also present on a Marilyn Manson interactive CD, but it was the "dead" form, incapable of spreading, even though it sets Agax and Early Bird off.
J.
My bets are on Jobs's ego. He has more ego than anyone else in Silicon Valley, and isn't going to sell Apple for anything (unless Jobs has been replaced by a space alien.) Apple is his baby. He almost went shit nuts when Sculley forced him out.
He's not going to let someone else be in charge of Apple. Especially since most companies think using what's most conventional and what's most popular is the way to do business.
Apple's been the biggest innovator in computing for years. If it gets sold to anyone else, it will die.
J.
...don't make sense. Especially multiplayer games.
... no.
Game design is a complicated beast. Not only do you have to know how to code, you also have to know how to design a game to be attractive aurally, visually and above all, interest. The OS model is fine for computing utility, but recreation
I fully support the idea of open-sourcing PARTS of games. Like network code. Except that until the code is rock-hard-solid, no one would want to use it. Ways to break and exploit the system would be almost as known as the system itself.
There are some things game players aren't meant to know. Code is #1.
What would have happened if the source of Quake was released before people stopped playing it? There would be 100 times more cheaters than there already are. The ability to play would be subverted by the ability to write code. Diablo could have been a lot more popular than it was if it wasn't for exploiters.
As much as some cr/h/ackers might love the idea, it sucks as a means to have fun.
J.
It's also a ready slur for ignorant white people.
:o>
Of course, if the shoe fits...
J.
Honor is the courage to stand for and defend the truth, at all costs.
J.
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