Haha - I hope you are trolling because otherwise you are horribly wrong.
" SVCD which is basically DVD quality" NOT. It's the same video codec (MPG2) but even on 2 discs is about 1/4 the size- hence 4 times more blocky.
"No you won't find it on some assinine p2p.." All the SVCD screeners are available on every p2p.
"And of course you can watch SVCDs on your big TV in your DVD player assuming you burned it properly"
And if you have a tv-out card and a spare pc you can watch divxs on your big TV too.
"As long as the crappy movies on the p2ps stay shitty asfs " There *are* shitty asfs with low bitrates on p2p networks, but if you have even the slightest hint of a clue about you, you can get all the 1 disc, 2 disc, SVCD or avis you want- both telesyncs and proper dvd rips.
Deliver hologramatic mesage to wussy jedi who's been hiding on Tatooine for so long that he's forgotten a) that the force is created by micro-organisms, b) how to fight with a light-sabre and not look like a girl.
?
Or maybe, since these commands at aimed at "older children" it's stuff like beating you off, finding good pr0n you don't need a credit card for, "boosting" cars and getting you good deals on crack.
"I just don't get why people think systems like VMS were ever a good design."
I think once you get used to any OS, unless it really really sucks, you get used to working productively in it and can't see why it should be any other way.
That's if you meant the reaction of users of VMS. If you meant the designers of VMS then, hmm, I don't know. Language and OS designers tend to get a bit carried away with personal preferences and are a bit blind to how users who haven't programmed the system will view it.
A good example is to look at Tanenbaum's Minix and the explanation of design considerations in the book he wrote. Even though it was always designed as a teaching OS some of the design decisions are a bit weird. (Well, that's just my opinion).
At least if nothing else, VMS is fun to use if you never have, because it's different and novel. Also, I do think it's important to preserve computing history. (Even thought that's not their intention).
The main thing that still freaks me out though is how lost I am without familiar unix commands and file paths. Irix to *BSD, there's really little difference, despite everyone's moans to the contrary.
" So, if you want to get that "old VMS feeling", just fire up a Windows NT or XP machine and type at the command line--it's roughly the same."
Beyond 'dir' and 'type' it's very different.
Ha! There's a thought... Maybe all those people who keep on insisting that Linux is not unix should have a go at VMS so they could see exactly how different an OS that's NOT UNIX really is.
Hell, I'd been using it for 5 minutes and managed to 'type' some garbage to the screen, and spent the next 10 minutes trying to figure out how to reset the terminal...
It's good to see that 'basic' still works, though java looks strangely out of place...
A major feature of my logon faker that I wrote in 1988 was that I logged on as myself, ran the program then went away. If the user hit the break key (whatever that was- it's been so long...) they ended up in my account with a prompt.
Just goes to show how elite I was in 1988!
I did steal some passwords from members of staff who logged on though, and nearly got thrown out of university for it. I was only in my 3rd week as a fresher!
I suppose that's what happens when you meet a multi-user system for the first time when you're used to messing about on ZX-Spectrums- there is a desire to do evil!
Whoohoo! Now I can write all them cool apps in VMS Basic like fake logon progs to steal passwords, and leave 'em running on WYSE terminals! Muhahahahah!
I tried to reply to this 10 minutes ago. My post was extremely bitter and angry.
Luckily/. was borken (sic)- saying the post method was not allowed for page index, messed-up cookie-handling, and taking you to the main page with an advert per story.
I have now had the time to reflect on what I was going to post and here is the revised version.
You typify bad management. What do you mean, you have to work over 40 hours a week to change the world ? What kind of sad, dot.bomb era mentality is that ? The only way you'll change the world is by helping to make the stupid number of hours worked per week go down in history for the turn of the millenium period.
"The owner that you're all deriding, its HIS money on the line. He's paying you. "
Yes, but he's now offering the same money but demanding the employees work twice as many hours, which is just plain sick, even if he isn't increasing his own hours in the same ratio.
"If you fail, he loses money. You get unemployment and another job in a few weeks. You don't know what the owner has on the line. "
I think you overestimate the job market in the majority of places. Programmers have as much to lose as managers. If they lose their job they can't pay the mortgage, support their family etc, and getting a new job is very difficult at this time.
You seem to think that programmers are a "human resource". Well wise up, they're real people. You can't just push people to breaking point so you can retire at 40.
If this post has annoyed you- buster, you should have seen the other one.
" Make sure you do it in front of the hub too in some off hour"
Damn straight! I "did it" in front of the hub in the middle of the day and they reported me to the police! Apparently the hub is under-age...
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I found this story very cringe-worthy.
Every couple of lines it reminded me of similar self-indulgent crap I have written myself.
I can see that it is nearly good, but there are too many ideas (as is common in first works, dunno if this is...), the tech-speak sticks out a mile and the particular set of tech-speak chosen makes it look like the author just read the jargon file.
No non-pretentious person uses that much core stuff from the jargon file in everyday speech. Maybe you'd already be using some of it before you read the jargon file, and maybe you'd adopt some more you liked from it, but this stinks of wholesale adoption of a new lingo.
Sorry for being a bit incomprehensible, I am tired and just had to fill in a job application form from hell.
I live in York, (North Yorkshire, England, UK), and the only reason I don't get harmlessly battered by objects of extraterrestrial origin all the time is because I am usually to be found hunched over my computer, coding, instead of outside in that rain of meteorites.
People who go outside tell me that using an umberella is sufficient to protect oneself from the onslaught.
" I think BT frown on you listing your ISP number in friends and family"
Nope, they actually suggest you do it.
What made me laugh was when they ran some competition where you could win a holiday for you and all the people on your friends and family list, and I thought cool, I'm going on holiday with my parents, a couple of friends and Demon Internet...
After visiting Japan and doing research into the possibility of living there I have to agree with the availability of Broadband. It seems to be really patchy unless you live in certain areas of Tokyo.
Mind you, the price is right; unless my memory is fucked-up I saw an ad on the tube for 8Mb DSL for 3000 yen/month, which is 1/2 the price for 16x the speed I am getting in the UK via BT...
As someone else points out, Japanese seem to be out and about a lot, so what zooms forward is the mobile internet access market.
There still is a point to copy-protection. Software companies know that there are 2 kinds of piracy- people who download the cracked version without going anywhere near an original disk, and people who say "That's cool, can I borrow it for the weekend ?" and then burn off a copy.
Copy-protection stops the latter case. They will never stop the former.
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ROTFLMAO!
This exchange of ACs at the top of the posts had made my day- good stuff.
graspee
Haha - I hope you are trolling because otherwise you are horribly wrong.
" SVCD which is basically DVD quality" NOT. It's the same video codec (MPG2) but even on 2 discs is about 1/4 the size- hence 4 times more blocky.
"No you won't find it on some assinine p2p.." All the SVCD screeners are available on every p2p.
"And of course you can watch SVCDs on your big TV in your DVD player assuming you burned it properly"
And if you have a tv-out card and a spare pc you can watch divxs on your big TV too.
"As long as the crappy movies on the p2ps stay shitty asfs " There *are* shitty asfs with low bitrates on p2p networks, but if you have even the slightest hint of a clue about you, you can get all the 1 disc, 2 disc, SVCD or avis you want- both telesyncs and proper dvd rips.
graspee
So what are these secret commands ?
Deliver hologramatic mesage to wussy jedi who's been hiding on Tatooine for so long that he's forgotten a) that the force is created by micro-organisms, b) how to fight with a light-sabre and not look like a girl.
?
Or maybe, since these commands at aimed at "older children" it's stuff like beating you off, finding good pr0n you don't need a credit card for, "boosting" cars and getting you good deals on crack.
graspee
"I just don't get why people think systems like VMS were ever a good design."
I think once you get used to any OS, unless it really really sucks, you get used to working productively in it and can't see why it should be any other way.
That's if you meant the reaction of users of VMS. If you meant the designers of VMS then, hmm, I don't know. Language and OS designers tend to get a bit carried away with personal preferences and are a bit blind to how users who haven't programmed the system will view it.
A good example is to look at Tanenbaum's Minix and the explanation of design considerations in the book he wrote. Even though it was always designed as a teaching OS some of the design decisions are a bit weird. (Well, that's just my opinion).
At least if nothing else, VMS is fun to use if you never have, because it's different and novel. Also, I do think it's important to preserve computing history. (Even thought that's not their intention).
The main thing that still freaks me out though is how lost I am without familiar unix commands and file paths. Irix to *BSD, there's really little difference, despite everyone's moans to the contrary.
graspee
" So, if you want to get that "old VMS feeling", just fire up a Windows NT or XP machine and type at the command line--it's roughly the same."
Beyond 'dir' and 'type' it's very different.
Ha! There's a thought... Maybe all those people who keep on insisting that Linux is not unix should have a go at VMS so they could see exactly how different an OS that's NOT UNIX really is.
Hell, I'd been using it for 5 minutes and managed to 'type' some garbage to the screen, and spent the next 10 minutes trying to figure out how to reset the terminal...
It's good to see that 'basic' still works, though java looks strangely out of place...
graspee
A major feature of my logon faker that I wrote in 1988 was that I logged on as myself, ran the program then went away. If the user hit the break key (whatever that was- it's been so long...) they ended up in my account with a prompt.
Just goes to show how elite I was in 1988!
I did steal some passwords from members of staff who logged on though, and nearly got thrown out of university for it. I was only in my 3rd week as a fresher!
I suppose that's what happens when you meet a multi-user system for the first time when you're used to messing about on ZX-Spectrums- there is a desire to do evil!
graspee
Whoohoo! Now I can write all them cool apps in VMS Basic like fake logon progs to steal passwords, and leave 'em running on WYSE terminals! Muhahahahah!
Oops, sorry, it's not 1988 anymore, is it ?
graspee
" The engineering required to inflate Rob Malda to several kilometers wide must be mind boggling..."
Observe the results of super-secret-special project:
Project CowboyNeal...
graspee
(Apologies to the real dude- he must be sick of these jokes).
"These guys really know how to exploit and squeeze every penny out of the idea."
And despite the first coming out a long time ago and the 2nd nearly here, how many computer games have come out based on The Matrix ?
Meanwhile every other 3d action games rips off the Matrix Effect.
graspee
I tried to reply to this 10 minutes ago. My post was extremely bitter and angry.
/. was borken (sic)- saying the post method was not allowed for page index, messed-up cookie-handling, and taking you to the main page with an advert per story.
Luckily
I have now had the time to reflect on what I was going to post and here is the revised version.
You typify bad management. What do you mean, you have to work over 40 hours a week to change the world ? What kind of sad, dot.bomb era mentality is that ? The only way you'll change the world is by helping to make the stupid number of hours worked per week go down in history for the turn of the millenium period.
"The owner that you're all deriding, its HIS money on the line. He's paying you. "
Yes, but he's now offering the same money but demanding the employees work twice as many hours, which is just plain sick, even if he isn't increasing his own hours in the same ratio.
"If you fail, he loses money. You get unemployment and another job in a few weeks. You don't know what the owner has on the line. "
I think you overestimate the job market in the majority of places. Programmers have as much to lose as managers. If they lose their job they can't pay the mortgage, support their family etc, and getting a new job is very difficult at this time.
You seem to think that programmers are a "human resource". Well wise up, they're real people. You can't just push people to breaking point so you can retire at 40.
If this post has annoyed you- buster, you should have seen the other one.
graspee
There is a law in the UK on the number of hours worked per week but the max is NOT 30, it's higher, though I can't remember what it is.
graspee
Both affect and effect can be a noun or a verb, it's just that effect is more commonly a noun and affect more commonly a verb.
graspee
More like:
Java isn't dead, it's just deprecated.
graspee
"That is by far the most pathetic argument I have ever seen on slashdot."
So, not a regular reader then ?
graspee
Ha. but what is the contention ratio ? 1000:1 ?
With any kind of contention ratio you're not getting the same kind of dedicated service as a leased-line.
graspee
" Make sure you do it in front of the hub too in some off hour"
Damn straight! I "did it" in front of the hub in the middle of the day and they reported me to the police! Apparently the hub is under-age...
graspee
I found this story very cringe-worthy.
Every couple of lines it reminded me of similar self-indulgent crap I have written myself.
I can see that it is nearly good, but there are too many ideas (as is common in first works, dunno if this is...), the tech-speak sticks out a mile and the particular set of tech-speak chosen makes it look like the author just read the jargon file.
No non-pretentious person uses that much core stuff from the jargon file in everyday speech. Maybe you'd already be using some of it before you read the jargon file, and maybe you'd adopt some more you liked from it, but this stinks of wholesale adoption of a new lingo.
Sorry for being a bit incomprehensible, I am tired and just had to fill in a job application form from hell.
graspee
Hehheh, do you see how Trollburger was suddenly inspired to post something sensible there instead of the usual trolls ?
;)
I think someone pushed his button.
Mind you, I have to agree. I'm a convert to FreeBSD since about a year ago. I find it easier to administer and understand the workings of.
graspee
Keystroke loggers ? I'm more afraid of Dickstroke loggers. Now The Man will really know how unproductive I am!
graspee
P.S. This is of course a joke. I am not really employed.
I live in York, (North Yorkshire, England, UK), and the only reason I don't get harmlessly battered by objects of extraterrestrial origin all the time is because I am usually to be found hunched over my computer, coding, instead of outside in that rain of meteorites.
People who go outside tell me that using an umberella is sufficient to protect oneself from the onslaught.
graspee
" I think BT frown on you listing your ISP number in friends and family"
Nope, they actually suggest you do it.
What made me laugh was when they ran some competition where you could win a holiday for you and all the people on your friends and family list, and I thought cool, I'm going on holiday with my parents, a couple of friends and Demon Internet...
graspee
After visiting Japan and doing research into the possibility of living there I have to agree with the availability of Broadband. It seems to be really patchy unless you live in certain areas of Tokyo.
Mind you, the price is right; unless my memory is fucked-up I saw an ad on the tube for 8Mb DSL for 3000 yen/month, which is 1/2 the price for 16x the speed I am getting in the UK via BT...
As someone else points out, Japanese seem to be out and about a lot, so what zooms forward is the mobile internet access market.
graspee
I prefer the Old Republic with all them Jedi Knights and shit. Oh, and Natalie Portman.
graspee
Can I have Halle Berry sucking my cock while I do it ?
graspee
There still is a point to copy-protection. Software companies know that there are 2 kinds of piracy- people who download the cracked version without going anywhere near an original disk, and people who say "That's cool, can I borrow it for the weekend ?" and then burn off a copy.
Copy-protection stops the latter case. They will never stop the former.
graspee