"The dispute has been over whether or not the ice was composed of all CO2, largely of CO2 (like the Martian ice we have found elsewhere), or of the hydrogen variety."
You missed "The only ice is in my martini, you insensitive clod!" and "Cowboy Neal deals with the ice, ask him".
"but I don't know of anyone who would rather watch a pirated movie or download a DivX for their PC instead of buying a DVD and watching it on their TV"
WTF is an "enterprise" anyway? Oooooh, a really big and important company with really important computer needs...?
"Enterprise" is the edition of Microsoft you buy if you've got far too much money and you want all the features enabled, I know that much.
But "Enterprise" ? WTF? And SME- small to medium enterprise ? Whoah, it's like a really big company except it's small... What?!
Oh, I've got it now- "Enterprise" is a way of describing computer systems or companies so I know in advance that they're really boring and have nothing to do with flashy graphics or fun technologies. It's an enterprise-ready mail-server! (Yawn).
"that runs on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SuSE Linux Enterprise Server distributions"
Kids! Never trust any product with Enterprise in the title unless it comes with batteries and has a light up deflector array and real torpedo and phaser sounds.
On a similar note, if a website ever uses the acronym "SME" even semi-seriously then you should avoid that assiduously too.
This kind of thing is great for "real" internet users, by which I mean people paying for broadband and just surfing web pages.
The rest of us have already got however much bandwidth we have pretty much saturated with p2p clients. If we had more bandwidth we'd just download more p2p stuff and faster.
I know that I personally am not going to have loads of bandwith just sitting there waiting to be used for video surfing, it'll be being used for p2p.
Ok, it is at this point that someone is going to suggest traffic (bandwidth) shaping so that your p2p is using all the bandwidth, but it gives way to your video web surfing thing when you use it.
So, I want to ask if anyone knows of a bandwidth shaper, software solution for Win32 that works at the application level ??????
Yesterday I owned the rights to Wireless Toasters, and the day before it was me who invented a certain sort of plastic sheathing suitable for undersea cables, tomorrow it may be me who invented tcp/ip!
Yeah, at least mplayer will play xvid and divx "out of the box", while media player will attempt to contact its mystrious (sic) codec server and THEN refuse to play the file.
Yes, the LCC guy did respond. I tried to find both my email and his reply but they're archived off on some CD somewhere (off topic observation- I may have everything backed up, but when I need it I can't find it- but lots of people find this...).
Anyway, in his response he partially agreed with my points, and seemed warmer and more receptive to ideas than the rant on his webpage.
I think people put things like this on their webpages at the height of their bad mood, and then they somewhat mellow with each passing moment, so that if you subsequently talk to them they seem a lot more reasonable and willing to listen to good suggestions.
Of course if one responds with the same fury seen on the original rant, the author of the rant will likely be kicked back into the same state of mind as when they originally wrote it, which is counter-productive...
Somebody has already ported an older version of gnugo to pocketpc. You might want to google to see if the latest version has been done by anyone yet. Basically the only hard part is doing the gui for it, which is tedious rather than hard.
My favourite Windows go game is David Fotland's "The Many Faces of Go". It has a lot of features for learning to play go, and you can play online, though I prefer the kiseido go server for that, which has a nice java client. (It works so well you forget it's java, believe me!).
I agree with nearly everyone here. It's time for the Hackers quote:
"Yak, yak, yak. Get a job!"
It reminds me of the developer of the compiler LCC who got really pissed off that no-one was buying his pay-for version. I emailed him, and pointed out that either he was doing LCC because he loved to write it, in which case money was a bonus, not a necessity even if that meant writing it in his spare time, OR he was just writing it to make money, in which case: deal with the harsh reality, you can't make a living off it, do something else.
I belive that advice would serve this guy well too.
Regarding your sig. I checked out/. japan a while ago but I thought I'd take another look. My limited Japanese got me nowhere-babelfish got me further, but still wouldn't translate a whole page of comments.
What struck me, as I read a freeBSD post, was the complete lack of trolls and crapflooders. Everything was like "Score: 3 it is interesting". The lowest was 0 for all the AC posts.
In a way it was both refreshing and disappointing. I had been looking forward to babelfish trying to cope with goatse and "is dying" posts...
Yes, I know this is offtopic. (sarcasm) Forgive me, oh fascist moderators. (/sarcasm)
Is it just me, or is the price of PDAs creeping up and up?
It doesn't affect me because I stopped using PDAs some time ago because of issues with battery life. I'd sooner trust my notes, addresses etc. to paper these days than an electronic device- and I'm a geek!
That explains why I debug so fast! I have many eyes. At last count I had 27! (Some of them are in the back of my head though, which means they can only debug things behind me).
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Udon noodles are horrible and slimy, like Cthulhu's tentacles. I prefer Yakisoba.
graspee
The Trust ErgoTrack keyboard. Best keyboard I have ever used. It's split like the MS Natural but it feels a lot better.
I've had it about 5 years- sprayed it all black.
It's full of memories!
(And crumbs and hair, and dust and countless other, more dubious substances).
graspee
" In something of a departure, Harry's Belarussian clone wields a grenade launcher and re-fights the White Russian wars"
Now that's a Harry Potter I can identify with more!
graspee
"The dispute has been over whether or not the ice was composed of all CO2, largely of CO2 (like the Martian ice we have found elsewhere), or of the hydrogen variety."
You missed "The only ice is in my martini, you insensitive clod!" and "Cowboy Neal deals with the ice, ask him".
graspee
"but I don't know of anyone who would rather watch a pirated movie or download a DivX for their PC instead of buying a DVD and watching it on their TV"
Congratulations. You do now.
graspee
WTF is an "enterprise" anyway? Oooooh, a really big and important company with really important computer needs...?
"Enterprise" is the edition of Microsoft you buy if you've got far too much money and you want all the features enabled, I know that much.
But "Enterprise" ? WTF? And SME- small to medium enterprise ? Whoah, it's like a really big company except it's small... What?!
Oh, I've got it now- "Enterprise" is a way of describing computer systems or companies so I know in advance that they're really boring and have nothing to do with flashy graphics or fun technologies. It's an enterprise-ready mail-server! (Yawn).
graspee
Shareaza is closed-source. I don't trust it. Use emule instead:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/emule/
graspee
"that runs on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SuSE Linux Enterprise Server distributions"
Kids! Never trust any product with Enterprise in the title unless it comes with batteries and has a light up deflector array and real torpedo and phaser sounds.
On a similar note, if a website ever uses the acronym "SME" even semi-seriously then you should avoid that assiduously too.
graspee
I didn't want to have to make the insanely obvious post to this story but you have forced me to:
"I have used FLAC for years. It's fantastic except that the input plugin for FLAC doesn't work in winamp 3.x, you have to use 2.8."
Thank you for making me say that. Not.
graspee
This kind of thing is great for "real" internet users, by which I mean people paying for broadband and just surfing web pages.
The rest of us have already got however much bandwidth we have pretty much saturated with p2p clients. If we had more bandwidth we'd just download more p2p stuff and faster.
I know that I personally am not going to have loads of bandwith just sitting there waiting to be used for video surfing, it'll be being used for p2p.
Ok, it is at this point that someone is going to suggest traffic (bandwidth) shaping so that your p2p is using all the bandwidth, but it gives way to your video web surfing thing when you use it.
So, I want to ask if anyone knows of a bandwidth shaper, software solution for Win32 that works at the application level ??????
graspee
Ha, I pity SCO with their static IP!
I have dynamic IP.
Yesterday I owned the rights to Wireless Toasters, and the day before it was me who invented a certain sort of plastic sheathing suitable for undersea cables, tomorrow it may be me who invented tcp/ip!
Oh the excitement of dynamic IP...
graspee
Sorry, I misread your post. I thought you said you were "planning a port of gnugo", not "playing a prot of gnugo".
graspee
Yeah, at least mplayer will play xvid and divx "out of the box", while media player will attempt to contact its mystrious (sic) codec server and THEN refuse to play the file.
graspee
Yes, the LCC guy did respond. I tried to find both my email and his reply but they're archived off on some CD somewhere (off topic observation- I may have everything backed up, but when I need it I can't find it- but lots of people find this...).
Anyway, in his response he partially agreed with my points, and seemed warmer and more receptive to ideas than the rant on his webpage.
I think people put things like this on their webpages at the height of their bad mood, and then they somewhat mellow with each passing moment, so that if you subsequently talk to them they seem a lot more reasonable and willing to listen to good suggestions.
Of course if one responds with the same fury seen on the original rant, the author of the rant will likely be kicked back into the same state of mind as when they originally wrote it, which is counter-productive...
graspee
Somebody has already ported an older version of gnugo to pocketpc. You might want to google to see if the latest version has been done by anyone yet. Basically the only hard part is doing the gui for it, which is tedious rather than hard.
My favourite Windows go game is David Fotland's "The Many Faces of Go". It has a lot of features for learning to play go, and you can play online, though I prefer the kiseido go server for that, which has a nice java client. (It works so well you forget it's java, believe me!).
graspee
I agree with nearly everyone here. It's time for the Hackers quote:
"Yak, yak, yak. Get a job!"
It reminds me of the developer of the compiler LCC who got really pissed off that no-one was buying his pay-for version. I emailed him, and pointed out that either he was doing LCC because he loved to write it, in which case money was a bonus, not a necessity even if that meant writing it in his spare time, OR he was just writing it to make money, in which case: deal with the harsh reality, you can't make a living off it, do something else.
I belive that advice would serve this guy well too.
graspee
Regarding your sig. I checked out /. japan a while ago but I thought I'd take another look. My limited Japanese got me nowhere-babelfish got me further, but still wouldn't translate a whole page of comments.
What struck me, as I read a freeBSD post, was the complete lack of trolls and crapflooders. Everything was like "Score: 3 it is interesting". The lowest was 0 for all the AC posts.
In a way it was both refreshing and disappointing. I had been looking forward to babelfish trying to cope with goatse and "is dying" posts...
Yes, I know this is offtopic. (sarcasm) Forgive me, oh fascist moderators. (/sarcasm)
graspee
I am a go player. When I play chess I raise the pieces high in the air then slam them down on whatever grid intersection I feel like.
I am not popular at chess clubs.
graspee
Is it just me, or is the price of PDAs creeping up and up?
It doesn't affect me because I stopped using PDAs some time ago because of issues with battery life. I'd sooner trust my notes, addresses etc. to paper these days than an electronic device- and I'm a geek!
graspee
"start thinking towards the post-SCO world"
"post-SCO world" ?
Have you been taking writing lessons from Jon Katz?
graspee
No problem. Oh how I like to post at +1 in long-forgotten stories, as I see you do too. Let's just keep quiet and hope no-one notices us! ;)
graspee
"Mod parent and grandparent and great-grandparent down.
Also, mod parents children down.
Also, mod great-great-grandparents great-great-granddaughters down"
You remind me of the Emperor in Episode 1:
"Mod them down. All of them."
graspee
That explains why I debug so fast! I have many eyes. At last count I had 27! (Some of them are in the back of my head though, which means they can only debug things behind me).
graspee
You obviously didn't notice my ";)" in there. I was making fun of your "no offense" comment; I wasn't being offended by you, or trying to offend you.
graspee
"No offense, but what a stupid mentality to have."
;)
No offense, but fuck you, motherfucker!
graspee