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Anyone who makes a product to tolerate this sort of egregious unforeseen abuse is overbuilding it. This adds significant cost without adding value for 99.99999% of the users. If it wasn't for the general insanity of Mac users, who pay an extra slug of pure cash profit just to spite Microsoft and Intel, there's no way Apple would still be in business.
In addition to the logistical problem of keeping a really old satellite with little fuel left in a stationary orbit, it's tying up a geostationary slot that could be used for a new satellite with some real profit margin.
It is obvious that you don't have any proof that I don't know what I am talking about. Select scales to the scale it needs to scale to. Async disk I/O is implemented as well as it can be on a multitasking system. UNIX was a clean, extensible, understandable system and VMS was a hulking beast that was nearly impossible to modify without the involvement of DEC. And by the time I got to both, the documentation for UNIX was online, searchable, and tractable, while that for VMS was still 80 lbs of fat, orange, vinyl binders. Olsen's faint praise for VMS was all he had left to market it with, because he saw the flood of UNIX users coming to push it away.
That's been done for quite some time as well. The town of Modena is famous for vinegars that are 100-200 years old, which are designated for sipping rather than cooking.
Sometimes, humorists attempting to comment on tragic events have made serious mis-steps.
Steve Benson's cartoon of a fireman with a baby in his arms after the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma, for instance. (N.B., The former Pulitzer winner was caricaturing a famous photo from the event.) But, as an editorial cartoonist, he often goes looking for trouble and finding it, so his relationship with the edge of taste is rather intimate.
Have you ever had a piece that seemed right go horribly wrong when the public read it?
"That trick was old three days after Marconi invented the fucking thing." -spake by the great Warren Oates in Blue Thunder
Many shell servers now run process scavengers that cull for all processes running without a user logged in, or running at high cpu for more than a few minutes. It's a security and reliability measure, killing runaway processes as well as service hogs. There are obviously ways to spoof interactive use, but probably not reliable ones, making your backdoor webserver no kind of server at all.
The enormous racks of PS2 games pretty much make it certain that PS2 will be the leader in this generation forever.
Next generation will likely continue Sony's dominance, as they're already making the PS2 networkable, thus removing one of Xbox's innate advantages.
And it'll probably have enough extra power that you could use PS3 as a PVR, but that would imply that they include a tuner section, which isn't as likely as you'd think. Maybe as a USB2.0 peripheral...
It's a volkswagen with plastic body panels. It looks a little like a Stutz if you squint and laugh, but otherwise, what sort of "hobby" is that supposed to be?
Scaling to thousands of network connections? You mean like the Internet? You're right...no UNIX machines on the Internet. None at all. Not a one. And none of them with namespace for 65K open ports. Per protocol.
Frankly, there's nothing VMS can do internally that UNIX can't do with a little middleware, and lots that UNIX can do that VMS didn't have designed into itself by the company that went broke trying to keep it up with UNIX.
Anyone familiar with italian cuisine (not "Hospitaliano", which pretty much describes all of American-Italian cuisine) knows that strawberries go well with good balsamic vinegar.
It doesn't take "Bio-Psyc...scientist-types". It tastes good.
There is no legal requirement for commercial software to adhere to any sort of standard for quality in implementation, and the economics of software are still based on hyping a few selling points and delivering those fillets swimming in shit gravy.
And, as everyone everywhere has always been told,
"The Internet Is Not Secure."
Anyone wringing their hands over it now might as well be worrying that the redcoats are coming.
One of the questions that comes up all the time is: How enthusiastic is our
support for UNIX? Unix was written on our machines and for our machines many
years ago. Today, much of UNIX being done is done on our machines. Ten percent
of our VAXs are going for UNIX use. UNIX is a simple language, easy to
understand, easy to get started with. It's great for students, great for
somewhat casual users, and it's great for interchanging programs between
different machines. And so, because of its popularity in these markets, we
support it. We have good UNIX on VAX and good UNIX on PDP-11s. It is our belief,
however, that serious professional users will run out of things they can do with
UNIX. They'll want a real system and will end up doing VMS when they get to be
serious about programming. With UNIX, if you're looking for something, you can
easily and quickly check that small manual and find out that it's not there.
With VMS, no matter what you look for -- it's literally a five-foot shelf of
documentation -- if you look long enough it's there. That's the difference -
- the beauty of UNIX is it's simple; and the beauty of VMS is that it's all there.
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Anyone who makes a product to tolerate this sort of egregious unforeseen abuse is overbuilding it. This adds significant cost without adding value for 99.99999% of the users. If it wasn't for the general insanity of Mac users, who pay an extra slug of pure cash profit just to spite Microsoft and Intel, there's no way Apple would still be in business.
In addition to the logistical problem of keeping a really old satellite with little fuel left in a stationary orbit, it's tying up a geostationary slot that could be used for a new satellite with some real profit margin.
And XM is overrated.
I won't go out of my way to get into the IPO.
No, I'm comparing his popularity to Saddam Hussein's.
It's ersatz, but ersatz is all it takes, when there's dopes who think the man is the message.
Why is Saddam Hussein the beloved elected leader of 99.8% of the Iraqi people?
You don't just load a big tube with dynamite and barcaloungers and expect to land on the moon.
When do we see the first Lava Lamp mod?
D'oh!
(That sound effect you hear is my geek points being teleported into Wil's tricorder...)
(I think I just got a couple back, in another category.)
I wonder how many mod points I've nullified this way. Probably 50%. No wonder my moderator privs went away for a year...
"several hours a week in a studio in his Manhattan apartment, reading scripts"
You can just bet that, for 3/4ths of the shows, he's naked.
Well, I was going to burn my mod points in this thread, but I'll give it a shot:
Mod first, post after.
(Just in case you really didn't know.)
It is obvious that you don't have any proof that I don't know what I am talking about. Select scales to the scale it needs to scale to. Async disk I/O is implemented as well as it can be on a multitasking system. UNIX was a clean, extensible, understandable system and VMS was a hulking beast that was nearly impossible to modify without the involvement of DEC. And by the time I got to both, the documentation for UNIX was online, searchable, and tractable, while that for VMS was still 80 lbs of fat, orange, vinyl binders. Olsen's faint praise for VMS was all he had left to market it with, because he saw the flood of UNIX users coming to push it away.
That's been done for quite some time as well. The town of Modena is famous for vinegars that are 100-200 years old, which are designated for sipping rather than cooking.
Sometimes, humorists attempting to comment on tragic events have made serious mis-steps.
Steve Benson's cartoon of a fireman with a baby in his arms after the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma, for instance. (N.B., The former Pulitzer winner was caricaturing a famous photo from the event.) But, as an editorial cartoonist, he often goes looking for trouble and finding it, so his relationship with the edge of taste is rather intimate.
Have you ever had a piece that seemed right go horribly wrong when the public read it?
"That trick was old three days after Marconi invented the fucking thing."
-spake by the great Warren Oates in Blue Thunder
Many shell servers now run process scavengers that cull for all processes running without a user logged in, or running at high cpu for more than a few minutes. It's a security and reliability measure, killing runaway processes as well as service hogs. There are obviously ways to spoof interactive use, but probably not reliable ones, making your backdoor webserver no kind of server at all.
The enormous racks of PS2 games pretty much make it certain that PS2 will be the leader in this generation forever.
Next generation will likely continue Sony's dominance, as they're already making the PS2 networkable, thus removing one of Xbox's innate advantages.
And it'll probably have enough extra power that you could use PS3 as a PVR, but that would imply that they include a tuner section, which isn't as likely as you'd think. Maybe as a USB2.0 peripheral...
Coconuts? Oh, man...can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of those?
It's a volkswagen with plastic body panels. It looks a little like a Stutz if you squint and laugh, but otherwise, what sort of "hobby" is that supposed to be?
Asynchronous events? You mean like signal(2)?
Parallel async I/O? You mean like select(2)?
Scaling to thousands of network connections? You mean like the Internet? You're right...no UNIX machines on the Internet. None at all. Not a one. And none of them with namespace for 65K open ports. Per protocol.
Frankly, there's nothing VMS can do internally that UNIX can't do with a little middleware, and lots that UNIX can do that VMS didn't have designed into itself by the company that went broke trying to keep it up with UNIX.
Someone mod-1:troll the previous post...
Is that a hoax?
A molecular substance that when purified is 14% some other substance?
Isn't anyone examining doctoral candidates anymore?
Huh?
Anyone familiar with italian cuisine (not "Hospitaliano", which pretty much describes all of American-Italian cuisine) knows that strawberries go well with good balsamic vinegar.
It doesn't take "Bio-Psyc...scientist-types". It tastes good.
And, as everyone everywhere has always been told,
"The Internet Is Not Secure."
Anyone wringing their hands over it now might as well be worrying that the redcoats are coming.
Publicity is significant to Janis Ian's case.
She is famous among the "filesharing" community because she is on their side.
Drawing the conclusion that "filesharing promotes sales" from her case is drawing a false conclusion.
Drawing the conclusion that "filesharing reduces sales" is also false, but that's not the point, here.
One of the questions that comes up all the time is: How enthusiastic is our support for UNIX? Unix was written on our machines and for our machines many years ago. Today, much of UNIX being done is done on our machines. Ten percent of our VAXs are going for UNIX use. UNIX is a simple language, easy to understand, easy to get started with. It's great for students, great for somewhat casual users, and it's great for interchanging programs between different machines. And so, because of its popularity in these markets, we support it. We have good UNIX on VAX and good UNIX on PDP-11s. It is our belief, however, that serious professional users will run out of things they can do with UNIX. They'll want a real system and will end up doing VMS when they get to be serious about programming. With UNIX, if you're looking for something, you can easily and quickly check that small manual and find out that it's not there. With VMS, no matter what you look for -- it's literally a five-foot shelf of documentation -- if you look long enough it's there. That's the difference - - the beauty of UNIX is it's simple; and the beauty of VMS is that it's all there.
Ken Olsen, Chmn&CEO, DEC, 1984
What makes you think that you need anything resembling a college education to do computer work?
To launch soon.
Nobody is making new ones and selling them to hobbyists.