Well REM happens to be one of my favorite rock bands as well actually. I try really hard to not lock myself into one musical style, so you'll often find me listening to Ravel and Kraftwerk within the same half hour.
There are times when I'm looking for a particular atmosphere, "spacy" is the only way I can describe it, and the best music to create this is electronica. May I suggest this excellent mix album by Sasha and John Digweed, or any work by the mythic Future Sound Of London (any geek simply has to love a band who names one of it's albums ISDN!)...
... Jean Michel Jarre, Banco de Gaia, Earth Nation, Aphex Twin, Yello, etc.
BTW, when I talk about music with my younger brothers, I often feel like an old schumck as well. They're all into Drum&Bass or Big Beats, while I still enjoy classic 170bpm hardtrance alot. Lucky for me, there seems to be some sort of revival going on right now, whith guys like Mauro Picotto having some success.
I sometimes try to imagine how ridiculous I will look like in 20 years (I'm in my early twenties) when I'll still want to go to raves. This annoys me to no end, then again, fuck it.
Dancing all night on trancy sounds, ingesting advanced mind-altering substances. How could one not like electronic dance music (please note: != techno).
I for one love Stanislas Lems work. His books are unconventional, witty, funny at places and always very thought-provoking. I didn't even know there was a movie based on Solaris. Any details?
Boris and Arkadi Strougatsky. Well okay, maybe they're no "monuments" but I liked their War of the Worlds parody anyway (exact title?).
Lem however is an important sf author, he has often treated subjects which would later become fashionable (human-computer interfaces for example) well before everyone else. As such, he would not use the later established and popular conventions (or dare I say clichées?)... cyberpunk anyone?
I think he is a greatly underrated author, but that's just me.
(Incidentaly, I think some of the Big Ones, especially A.C. Clarke, are vastly overrated...*ducks, looking frantically for cover*)
As usual, this is just imho.
But as to your question. I wouldn't know, since I read in french, german, spanish and then english(in that order)(*), and I try to avoid translations as much as my language skills allow me (too bad for Lem, who's polish, so I read the french translations).
(*) I'm sorry if this sounds like I'm boasting. I couldn't claim much merit for it. I'm just the result of a rather adventurous pan-european love story:)
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... And vice versa. There is alot of excellent classic sci-fi from Eastern Europe and Russia. Well known examples: Stanislas Lem, or the Strougatski brothers...
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Oh yeah I'd love to work at Transmeta, count me in!
Now tell me how you're going to get an undergraduate average skilled CS student living in Switzerland into this place... as a janitor?
(just joking, really, but I'd kill someone or sell my vital organs to work there:)
...And it is extremely frustrating to see it at level 1 where it doesn't belong. The moderation system is broken (whine, whine).
This is only a "me too" post but I'd like you to know that I share your opinion and you expressed it far more eloquently than I could ever have. I'd like to thank you for that.
But information really wants to be free, and here's your nickel:)
8465635362 Here is your navigator : Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows 95) Just a security hole of Slashdot. You can find this kind of hole in all sites which has a forum. I think that in site like e-trade you can make some people asks for stocks. You can contact me there : Krakus.Irus à voila.com If you want to retry. If you want to know more.
But of course the great old classic in this category of games is Elite... God did I love that game! Privateer was kinda fun but mainly for the cool graphics.
You know you got the perfect trolling technique? Not that your post is anywhere near a troll, but the way you begin it in a serious tone, with links and details, and then slowly derail into utter nonsense... Brilliant.
Is that only a reference to tweaking the max number of processes in the kernel or did you apply some alien-technology-from-outer-space-experimental kernel patches?
Very interesting post, I'm happy to see it moderated up.
(Usual disclaimer: IANAL, I'm no American, I'm biased towards breaking MS up, but not too well informed about the details of the case)
However, I have two main objections to your argument.
The first one is not exactly relevant to the subject, but here you go anyway: Your signature doesn't jive well with the body of your post. If you don't want to speak for Microsoft, the company you work for, don't use we when you talk about them. Ugh, caught myself nitpicking again.
Second, you state that: When determining monopoly power, the law first defines an applicable market. For the purposes of antitrust, "the market" is the arena in which meaningful competition exists between interchangeable goods. The DoJ insists we have a monopoly in PC Operating Systems, and they further claim that we used that monopoly to defeat Netscape, which we felt might be a threat to that monopoly in the future. And you then propose to define the market in question as application platforms for which you admit Microsoft doen't have a monopoly.
This however justifies the DOJs argument rather than invalidating it. What the DOJ is claiming is that MS leveraged their monopoly on one market (the OS market) to obtain a dominant position in another market (the browser market). In other words, Netscape has to be in a different market for the DOJ to be able to claim unfaire use of monopoly power. Remember, a monopoly in itself is not illegal, it is the attempted use of monopoly power to crush competitor in other markets which poses a problem.
I was going under the false assumption that in order to get a *nix on x86, you need at least a 386 in protected mode to implement the user space/kernel space distinction and an MMU. I only entered the intel world with the 486 and don't know much about the older procesors.
Actually, the iMac has a similarly shaped button used for hard resets. When the damn thing locks up again to the point where the soft-power buttons don't work anymore, it's either that or pull the power cable...
Did I mention I hate soft-power buttons? There you go.
The "antitrust department" (don't know what it's called precisely) of the European Union is investigating this matter. (sorry, in german, run it trough babelfish)
The main allegation is that Microsoft has designed Windows 2000 Workstation in such a way that it only interoperates well (full functionality) in conjunction with Windows 2K server. Basically, that they're trying to leverage their dominance on the desktop to conquer the server rooms (duh).
I thought the article was severly lacking (check out the/. interview for many more interesting words from da man. A couple of blurbs from maddog, and several inacuracies in their relating of computer history, like:
Unix became the system of choice for developers in the flowering of the microcomputer world, partly because much of it could be shared freely between programmers.
This is simply not true. When I was a little geek with my Amiga, me and my friends used to speculate what this fabled UNIX, Internet and TCP/IP was all about. There was no way a small time enthousiast could access a UNIX system outside of academia or business until Linux came along.
This is the real power of Linux to me. It brought the power and complexity of Unix to microcomputers at a *really* low price.
"People come up (at technology seminars) and say, 'It's just like it was back in the early days. This is the way Unix was 20 years ago, and it feels so good. Like something was ripped out of your body 20 years ago and now it's been put back,' " said Hall.
This blurb just made my day. I've read the jargon file, about the feats of the early Unix and internet gurus like Kernigham, Thompson, Vint Cerf, Bob Kahn etc. countless times, and I've always felt a like I had missed the real computer revolution, that it would only settle down from then on. Hearing this from a guy who's been there and seen it is just great. These are great times we live in:)
And I won't spare you with the funniest one I saw:
An ill-structured but worldwide community soon sprang up to write software tools and add-ons that would make Linux useful in the real world, creating a phenomenon so powerful that Microsoft has expressed concern about erosion of its Windows franchise.
ROFLMAO! Ooooh. They expressed concern. Imagine that, a couple hundred crazy bearded programming anarchists are out to create an OS the way they think it should be, giving it away for free and creating a vocal community around it. Some guys even manage to make money out of it. We damn better do something about that, right? Can't let all this unorderly creativity cut into our 5 year plan can we?
Hehe. (Sorry for the "rabid zealotry" at the end...)
So you think the sourceforge guys didn't have to maintain sourceforge.net? Get real...
No what I actually meant was that the sourceforge guys don't have to create/post actual content. There job *is* the maintenance/development of the sourceforge backend. There is a difference here... Maybe I expressed it badly (english is not my native language)
As for the rest of your post: Since I have never worked on a big collaborative OSS project, I guess I'll just have to blindly accept your holy word:)
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Well REM happens to be one of my favorite rock bands as well actually. I try really hard to not lock myself into one musical style, so you'll often find me listening to Ravel and Kraftwerk within the same half hour.
There are times when I'm looking for a particular atmosphere, "spacy" is the only way I can describe it, and the best music to create this is electronica. May I suggest this excellent mix album by Sasha and John Digweed, or any work by the mythic Future Sound Of London (any geek simply has to love a band who names one of it's albums ISDN!)...
... Jean Michel Jarre, Banco de Gaia, Earth Nation, Aphex Twin, Yello, etc.
BTW, when I talk about music with my younger brothers, I often feel like an old schumck as well. They're all into Drum&Bass or Big Beats, while I still enjoy classic 170bpm hardtrance alot. Lucky for me, there seems to be some sort of revival going on right now, whith guys like Mauro Picotto having some success.
I sometimes try to imagine how ridiculous I will look like in 20 years (I'm in my early twenties) when I'll still want to go to raves. This annoys me to no end, then again, fuck it.
Damn, Binary Finary moved (sorry I only noticed it after posting). Anyone knows where their site is now?
In any case, you left out progressive rock.
:)
... And progressive trance...
Ahhh trolling
Dancing all night on trancy sounds, ingesting advanced mind-altering substances. How could one not like electronic dance music (please note: != techno).
Hehe, let's not argue about taste, then again:
:)
I for one love Stanislas Lems work. His books are unconventional, witty, funny at places and always very thought-provoking. I didn't even know there was a movie based on Solaris. Any details?
Boris and Arkadi Strougatsky. Well okay, maybe they're no "monuments" but I liked their War of the Worlds parody anyway (exact title?).
Lem however is an important sf author, he has often treated subjects which would later become fashionable (human-computer interfaces for example) well before everyone else. As such, he would not use the later established and popular conventions (or dare I say clichées?)... cyberpunk anyone?
I think he is a greatly underrated author, but that's just me.
(Incidentaly, I think some of the Big Ones, especially A.C. Clarke, are vastly overrated...*ducks, looking frantically for cover*)
As usual, this is just imho.
But as to your question. I wouldn't know, since I read in french, german, spanish and then english(in that order)(*), and I try to avoid translations as much as my language skills allow me (too bad for Lem, who's polish, so I read the french translations).
(*) I'm sorry if this sounds like I'm boasting. I couldn't claim much merit for it. I'm just the result of a rather adventurous pan-european love story
... And vice versa. There is alot of excellent classic sci-fi from Eastern Europe and Russia. Well known examples: Stanislas Lem, or the Strougatski brothers...
Oh yeah I'd love to work at Transmeta, count me in!
:)
Now tell me how you're going to get an undergraduate average skilled CS student living in Switzerland into this place... as a janitor?
(just joking, really, but I'd kill someone or sell my vital organs to work there
...And it is extremely frustrating to see it at level 1 where it doesn't belong. The moderation system is broken (whine, whine).
:)
This is only a "me too" post but I'd like you to know that I share your opinion and you expressed it far more eloquently than I could ever have. I'd like to thank you for that.
But information really wants to be free, and here's your nickel
Damn. He's right. It works, at least on the type of system you see listed above...
:)
Thank god I don't use e-trade
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Here is your navigator : Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows 95)
Just a security hole of Slashdot. You can find this kind of hole in all sites which has a forum. I think that in site like e-trade you can make some people asks for stocks.
You can contact me there : Krakus.Irus à voila.com
If you want to retry.
If you want to know more.
Interesting links, thanks. Braben shot himself in the foot with Elite 2 anyway :) (I still bought and played it for some time, despite all the bugs...)
Multiplayer Elite and good 3D, count me in! Looks like this Terminus thing might be it.
But of course the great old classic in this category of games is Elite... God did I love that game! Privateer was kinda fun but mainly for the cool graphics.
What's up with David Braben nowadays anyway?
Damn this is funny shit.
You know you got the perfect trolling technique? Not that your post is anywhere near a troll, but the way you begin it in a serious tone, with links and details, and then slowly derail into utter nonsense... Brilliant.
Where are my mod points when I need them?
For the MySQL box you list:
Red Hat Linux 6.2 (final release + tweaks)
Is that only a reference to tweaking the max number of processes in the kernel or did you apply some alien-technology-from-outer-space-experimental kernel patches?
If so, details pleeze!
Very interesting post, I'm happy to see it moderated up.
(Usual disclaimer: IANAL, I'm no American, I'm biased towards breaking MS up, but not too well informed about the details of the case)
However, I have two main objections to your argument.
The first one is not exactly relevant to the subject, but here you go anyway: Your signature doesn't jive well with the body of your post. If you don't want to speak for Microsoft, the company you work for, don't use we when you talk about them. Ugh, caught myself nitpicking again.
Second, you state that: When determining monopoly power, the law first defines an applicable market. For the purposes of antitrust, "the market" is the arena in which meaningful competition exists between interchangeable goods. The DoJ insists we have a monopoly in PC Operating Systems, and they further claim that we used that monopoly to defeat Netscape, which we felt might be a threat to that monopoly in the future. And you then propose to define the market in question as application platforms for which you admit Microsoft doen't have a monopoly.
This however justifies the DOJs argument rather than invalidating it. What the DOJ is claiming is that MS leveraged their monopoly on one market (the OS market) to obtain a dominant position in another market (the browser market). In other words, Netscape has to be in a different market for the DOJ to be able to claim unfaire use of monopoly power. Remember, a monopoly in itself is not illegal, it is the attempted use of monopoly power to crush competitor in other markets which poses a problem.
Or did I miss something obvious here?
Is this what you're looking for?
;)
Very interesting, thanks for the info.
I was going under the false assumption that in order to get a *nix on x86, you need at least a 386 in protected mode to implement the user space/kernel space distinction and an MMU. I only entered the intel world with the 486 and don't know much about the older procesors.
...Now that I think of it, there was Minix too.
iMac owners need not apply.
Actually, the iMac has a similarly shaped button used for hard resets. When the damn thing locks up again to the point where the soft-power buttons don't work anymore, it's either that or pull the power cable...
Did I mention I hate soft-power buttons? There you go.
Uh no:
artificial = manufactured
I think you meant virtual...
Regarding the rest: Please, never accept a position at Microsoft R&D. Distributed Windows Scripting Host anyone? (yeah it's a cheap shot, sorry)
Are you sure you're not talking about minicomputers here?
This guy here clearly lists the PDPs under minicomputers (just the first link I grabbed off google, is he wrong as well?)
..Wait, I found a better link with an actual definition of what a minicomputer is.
The "antitrust department" (don't know what it's called precisely) of the European Union is investigating this matter. (sorry, in german, run it trough babelfish)
The main allegation is that Microsoft has designed Windows 2000 Workstation in such a way that it only interoperates well (full functionality) in conjunction with Windows 2K server. Basically, that they're trying to leverage their dominance on the desktop to conquer the server rooms (duh).
I am. Problem?
I thought the article was severly lacking (check out the /. interview for many more interesting words from da man. A couple of blurbs from maddog, and several inacuracies in their relating of computer history, like:
:)
Unix became the system of choice for developers in the flowering of the microcomputer world, partly because much of it could be shared freely between programmers.
This is simply not true. When I was a little geek with my Amiga, me and my friends used to speculate what this fabled UNIX, Internet and TCP/IP was all about. There was no way a small time enthousiast could access a UNIX system outside of academia or business until Linux came along.
This is the real power of Linux to me. It brought the power and complexity of Unix to microcomputers at a *really* low price.
"People come up (at technology seminars) and say, 'It's just like it was back in the early days. This is the way Unix was 20 years ago, and it feels so good. Like something was ripped out of your body 20 years ago and now it's been put back,' " said Hall.
This blurb just made my day. I've read the jargon file, about the feats of the early Unix and internet gurus like Kernigham, Thompson, Vint Cerf, Bob Kahn etc. countless times, and I've always felt a like I had missed the real computer revolution, that it would only settle down from then on. Hearing this from a guy who's been there and seen it is just great. These are great times we live in
And I won't spare you with the funniest one I saw:
An ill-structured but worldwide community soon sprang up to write software tools and add-ons that would make Linux useful in the real world, creating a phenomenon so powerful that Microsoft has expressed concern about erosion of its Windows franchise.
ROFLMAO! Ooooh. They expressed concern. Imagine that, a couple hundred crazy bearded programming anarchists are out to create an OS the way they think it should be, giving it away for free and creating a vocal community around it. Some guys even manage to make money out of it. We damn better do something about that, right? Can't let all this unorderly creativity cut into our 5 year plan can we?
Hehe. (Sorry for the "rabid zealotry" at the end...)
Incidentally, ArsTechnica did some intersting comparison tests between various MP3-Encoders recently.
Yes, it can affect smb shares connected as drives on windows networks. I've seen it in action.
So you think the sourceforge guys didn't have to maintain sourceforge.net? Get real...
:)
No what I actually meant was that the sourceforge guys don't have to create/post actual content. There job *is* the maintenance/development of the sourceforge backend. There is a difference here... Maybe I expressed it badly (english is not my native language)
As for the rest of your post: Since I have never worked on a big collaborative OSS project, I guess I'll just have to blindly accept your holy word