>I'd rather have Billy C. declare martial law than some crackpot militia with a thinly veiled racial agenda.
Racial agenda? There are a few out on the extreme right who have a racial agenda, the vast majority do not. J.J. Johnson is a very bigwig in the "militia community".
>Whenever I read some redneck gun nut ranting about jack-booted thugs and black helicopters I always wonder if perhaps he's only jealous.
Do you call a black man who says the same things a redneck? Other than jackbooted thugs, what do you call it when government agents kick in someone's front door, stomp on their pet kittens, slam pregnant women into walls, and beat unarmed men?
Jackbooted thugs sounds rather accurate to me.
I live in an area where about 2 years ago there were black helicopters flying about and there were widespread reports of gunshots. Later the Army claimed that during a training excersize they played the sounds of machineguns firing through loudspeakers to add realism. I have no idea what they're doing but they are doing SOMETHING.
I enjoyed it - but it did rub a current sore spot...when the hell is Real going to get G2 working on Linux - Thank god CDNOW now offers MP3's but I miss having RealAudio/Video.
Well i think that the only way that you can legally reverse engineer software is if you use publicly posted information. No SDK's No Searching through DLL's.
The only example i can think of is between 3DFX and about a million glide wrappers. All those people with TNT'S want to play Glide only games.(TNT's use Direct3d&opengl) Glide was made by 3DFX. And so their stopping all the glide wrappers.
*Except* Creative which made Unified a wrapper made from publicly availible information. Granted it only plays a few games but its an ongoing project.
But, not many more games are going to be glide only so its only for old games& N64 emulators!
They'd tax the air we breathe if they could... They always argue that "oh, but it's only one cent per 100 emails... that's not that much..." and try to instill some sort of guilt about being greedy.
As soon as there's a tax in place, it'll just go up and up, always with the same argument - it's incrementalism at is best (worst).
I DO have some problems that could be HTML related. For instance:
EXTREMELY long rendering times (sometimes several minutes)
Inaccurate page placement when using "back" (i.e. I'm not taken back to where I was scrolled to, although this works at other sites.
Too-often refresh. Every page I load is loaded dynamically. I can't think of a reason this would be HTML related, yet it doesn't happen at any other site. Given the slowness of/. and the rendering time mentioned above, I get extremely frustrated trying to do the simplest things here.
-- "Please remember that how you say something is often more important than what you say." - Rob Malda
I have talked to some people here at Unisys (where I work) about this. They certainly don't see it as a very big issue at all. There idea is that we invented, we can do with it what we want.
I just want to say that anything here is not representative of company policy. It is just my personal opinion.
Looker scared the poop out of me when I was a kid.
Not so much because of the murders, but because of that light pulse gun. I believe it was Albert Finney who was in that movie.
Anyway, I also believe that before George Burns died he agreed to have is likeness digitally recorded so that after he was gone they could make a 3rd "Oh God" movie.
While I'm at it, does anyone remember that episode of tales from the crypt where they tried to re-creat Humphrey Bogart through CGI?
So that's the stuff their putting on the 4 color glossies (technical specs). Well, your technically correct in that aspect. Now the trick is - could they fix all the short-comings in NT to even have that impressive system architecture make a difference?
I may have gotten this wrong, but last year (october orso) I had some conversations with some BeOS represtatives at a fair and from what they demonstrate and what they where telling me, I got the impression that BeOS has is dedicated purpose for being a creative multimedia platform (OS) just like Novell has it's purpose of being a Networking plantform (OS). I thought BeOS was no match for Linux( being a multi-purpose OS), did I get it wrong?
While the ire against yet another ill-conceived attempt to "tax" the Internet is warranted, my concerns regarding this issue lie in the assumption that the United Nations has the authority to "tax" or even suggest a "tax" to any sovereign government. No one is a citizen of the United Nations. Therefore, even the presumtption that the UN has "taxing" powers or even "suggestive" powers is a dangerous precedent.
While the ire against yet another inconceived attempt to "tax" the Internet is warranted, my concerns regarding this issue lie in the assumption that the United Nations has the authority to "tax" or even suggest a "tax" to any sovereign government. No one is a citizen of the United Nations. Therefore, even the presumtption that the UN has "taxing" powers or even "suggestive" powers is a dangerous precedent.
Linux has broght back power to developers and techys. I now don't have to discuss with a power user how the system is configured and he will not dare to mess around with my configurations. He still uses windows, and he can still mess his computer up, but not the server. This is to point out that for me linux has a server role, or better, a back end role, the foundation of an information system, and that role must be supported by developers and system admins, not users! regards
Well, I hate to be the one to bring this up, but does anyone really think that governments are going to ignore the billions of dollars of e-commerce? That's the current cash flow, and we all know that it soon will be hundreds of billions.
We're going to get taxed. What we need to try to do is make that tax non-content based (bandwidth, maybe?) so that the aforementioned governments do not have control over any of the content.
Of course, we may get lucky and have this medium spell an end to government as we know it. Think, though, that this just might mean the coronation of the likes of Bill Gates.
Linux was never designed to run the kind of hardware that the Cray and Origin SuperComputers run as standard equipment. We're talking a million dollar+ machine here, why run an OS that's free. As I recall of hand, UNICOS is free with the computer. Companies that spend that much on hardware aren't going to abandoned a tried and true platform for an upstart on which NONE of their modeling software, code, or simulations will run without extensive rewrites.
I'm not bashing Linux here - but I really doubt that Linux was ever intended to compete with a SuperOS. Linux is pretty powerful, but your talking a total rewrite of the entire system to even get it to boot one of those bad-boys.
If you have the millions to get your hands on the machine, and the time to port the system - be my guest. I'm just saying that you'd have a lot of catch-up pedalling to do to even get in the same league as UNICOS...
They HAVEN'T Abandoned IRIX. You can still buy IRIX stations, and they are on par with the NT workstations.
I was in the market for an SGI box - but their VAr jerked me around with inaccurate information, and flat out lies, I had no choice but to get a Macintosh to do my high-end graphics with.
Their NT workstations are nice, but they aren't anything you couldn't build with the proper knowledge in hardware, and a good cheap supplier.
SGI pretty much forced their position on themselves when they forcefully aquired Cray Research (a purchase they even STATED they couldn't afford - but went ahead with anyway). Poor marketing decisions and bad VARS will do this to a business...
In a course I took that emphasized having machines understand the big picture of what's being said (e.g. figuring out the context and leaning on a large set of rules about the real world beyond just basic vocabulary), it was apparent that you could have a voice synth put an appropriate emphasis on the right words. The problem with doing that is that it would be much more difficult to do in real time unless you gave the machine a while to hear the entire phrase before it attempts to say anything, after running everything through yet another complex rule engine which figures out points of emphasis. I've done enough English ->Spanish and Spanish->English translations on the fly (myself, not a machine) to know how difficult it can be for even a person, let alone software.
The Day the U.N. or any larger power enforces this succesfully is the day I auction off my soul, limbs, and various "personal organs" on eBay. (Should I have made that plural or is it as a whole an individual organ?)
For those interested, I will donate all proceeds to the Free Software Foundation. Mmmmmkay?
Any word on when they're going to publish the results of this? Some of the questions were really interesting (for example, what % of Linux developers do GUI work, and what % of those use GNOME or KDE?). But as for Borland porting their products...I don't know. I sure as hell would never use Delphi, and an IDE that uses the GNU tools seems like it would be pretty easy just to write (I did it myself in Windows for DJGPP, in my pre-Linux days).
i think this is just downright wrong, no matter how little the amount is. i don't want my government taxing my internet activities. why not have a telnet tax? every time i telnet to a computer, i have to give them a cent. or how about a pop3 server tax? i have to pay $.05 to check my pop3 mail. or what if the government wants a dollar for every individual web page i look at? even if it's only $.0001 or so, it's just icky.
I hate to be the big skeptic, but I kinda doubt that this is true. Although according to USWestDex both businesses exist in the greater Fairfield Ohio area, a quick map check indicates that these two places are 11 miles (or so, depending on how you trust MapInfo) apart. Now that is a damn long way for a little tyke to be traveling (before he got the car, if you will remember).
Adult legs moving at a good clip put in about 4 miles an hour... which puts it at an almost three hour journey to the store. Frigging amazing kid, let me tell you --- and a pretty blind day care.
All through school I too remember having to teach my teachers how to use the equipment in class.
"No Mrs. Watson*, you're trying to plug the projector in upside-down, you do it like this."
Children do often have a greater understanding of the technlogy than the adults who depend on it.
I think radio crap is up to 400-in-1 kits now. I remember I was digging through my grandparent's garage and I found my uncle's only 75-in-1(or whatever it was) kit. I was enthralled. I probably gained about 10 pounds that summer because I never left the house, between my (once again mentioned) atari, and building solar powered lie detecting, light activated, alarm sounding am radios and the like I almost never saw the light of day.
I haven't looked in years, but I think that they still make them. That is unless they've been forced to stop by anti-terrorism activism, after all teaching kids how technology works will only give them the power to make better bombs.
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Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangst:
>I'd rather have Billy C. declare martial law than some crackpot militia with a thinly veiled racial agenda.
Racial agenda? There are a few out on the extreme right who have a racial agenda, the vast majority do not. J.J. Johnson is a very bigwig in the "militia community".
>Whenever I read some redneck gun nut ranting about jack-booted thugs and black helicopters I always wonder if perhaps he's only jealous.
Do you call a black man who says the same things a redneck? Other than jackbooted thugs, what do you call it when government agents kick in someone's front door, stomp on their pet kittens, slam pregnant women into walls, and beat unarmed men?
Jackbooted thugs sounds rather accurate to me.
I live in an area where about 2 years ago there were black helicopters flying about and there were widespread reports of gunshots. Later the Army claimed that during a training excersize they played the sounds of machineguns firing through loudspeakers to add realism. I have no idea what they're doing but they are doing SOMETHING.
Your ignorance and apathy are astounding.
LK
Posted by Ronin_Kitsune:
I enjoyed it - but it did rub a current sore spot...when the hell is Real going to get G2 working on Linux - Thank god CDNOW now offers MP3's but I miss having RealAudio/Video.
Posted by Napalm4u:
Well i think that the only way that you can legally reverse engineer software is if you use publicly posted information. No SDK's No Searching through DLL's.
The only example i can think of is between 3DFX and about a million glide wrappers. All those people with TNT'S want to play Glide only games.(TNT's use Direct3d&opengl) Glide was made by 3DFX. And so their stopping all the glide wrappers.
*Except* Creative which made Unified a wrapper made from publicly availible information. Granted it only plays a few games but its an ongoing project.
But, not many more games are going to be glide only so its only for old games& N64 emulators!
Posted by patg:
They'd tax the air we breathe if they could...
They always argue that "oh, but it's only one cent per 100 emails... that's not that much..." and try to instill some sort of guilt about being greedy.
As soon as there's a tax in place, it'll just go up and up, always with the same argument - it's incrementalism at is best (worst).
I DO have some problems that could be HTML related. For instance:
--
"Please remember that how you say something is often more important than what you say." - Rob Malda
Posted by kewlmann:
I have talked to some people here at Unisys (where I work) about this. They certainly don't see it as a very big issue at all. There idea is that we invented, we can do with it what we want.
I just want to say that anything here is not representative of company policy. It is just my personal opinion.
Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangst:
Looker scared the poop out of me when I was a kid.
Not so much because of the murders, but because of that light pulse gun. I believe it was Albert Finney who was in that movie.
Anyway, I also believe that before George Burns died he agreed to have is likeness digitally recorded so that after he was gone they could make a 3rd "Oh God" movie.
While I'm at it, does anyone remember that episode of tales from the crypt where they tried to re-creat Humphrey Bogart through CGI?
LK
Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangst:
/. refer to the SILICONE breast implants as silicon?
Why is it that so many here on
Remember boys and girls
silicone == fake boobs
silicon == computer chips
Sorry about the rant, but I'm sick of this.
LK
Posted by La Bola:
Roy Batty's wisdom.
GIF: BEER
PNG: SPEECH
Lend me your ears !
Posted by rdobbs:
So that's the stuff their putting on the 4 color glossies (technical specs). Well, your technically correct in that aspect. Now the trick is - could they fix all the short-comings in NT to even have that impressive system architecture make a difference?
Posted by MaverickPl:
What is it??
Posted by SmashPHASE:
I may have gotten this wrong, but last year
(october orso) I had some conversations with some BeOS represtatives at a fair and from what
they demonstrate and what they where telling me,
I got the impression that BeOS has is dedicated purpose for being a creative multimedia platform
(OS) just like Novell has it's purpose of being a Networking plantform (OS).
I thought BeOS was no match for Linux( being a multi-purpose OS), did I get it wrong?
Posted by ShannonBrown:
While the ire against yet another ill-conceived attempt to "tax" the Internet is warranted, my concerns regarding this issue lie in the assumption that the United Nations has the authority to "tax" or even suggest a "tax" to any sovereign government. No one is a citizen of the United Nations. Therefore, even the presumtption that the UN has "taxing" powers or even "suggestive" powers is a dangerous precedent.
Posted by ShannonBrown:
While the ire against yet another inconceived attempt to "tax" the Internet is warranted, my concerns regarding this issue lie in the assumption that the United Nations has the authority to "tax" or even suggest a "tax" to any sovereign government. No one is a citizen of the United Nations. Therefore, even the presumtption that the UN has "taxing" powers or even "suggestive" powers is a dangerous precedent.
Posted by Barbas:
Linux has broght back power to developers and techys.
I now don't have to discuss with a power user how the system is configured and he will not dare to mess around with my configurations.
He still uses windows, and he can still mess his computer up, but not the server.
This is to point out that for me linux has a server role, or better, a back end role, the foundation of an information system, and that role must be supported by developers and system admins, not users!
regards
Posted by Reitzel:
Well, I hate to be the one to bring this up, but does anyone really think that governments are going to ignore the billions of dollars of e-commerce? That's the current cash flow, and we all know that it soon will be hundreds of billions.
We're going to get taxed. What we need to try to do is make that tax non-content based (bandwidth, maybe?) so that the aforementioned governments do not have control over any of the content.
Of course, we may get lucky and have this medium spell an end to government as we know it. Think, though, that this just might mean the coronation of the likes of Bill Gates.
Posted by rdobbs:
Linux was never designed to run the kind of hardware that the Cray and Origin SuperComputers run as standard equipment. We're talking a million dollar+ machine here, why run an OS that's free. As I recall of hand, UNICOS is free with the computer. Companies that spend that much on hardware aren't going to abandoned a tried and true platform for an upstart on which NONE of their modeling software, code, or simulations will run without extensive rewrites.
I'm not bashing Linux here - but I really doubt that Linux was ever intended to compete with a SuperOS. Linux is pretty powerful, but your talking a total rewrite of the entire system to even get it to boot one of those bad-boys.
If you have the millions to get your hands on the machine, and the time to port the system - be my guest. I'm just saying that you'd have a lot of catch-up pedalling to do to even get in the same league as UNICOS...
Posted by rdobbs:
They HAVEN'T Abandoned IRIX. You can still buy IRIX stations, and they are on par with the NT workstations.
I was in the market for an SGI box - but their VAr jerked me around with inaccurate information, and flat out lies, I had no choice but to get a Macintosh to do my high-end graphics with.
Their NT workstations are nice, but they aren't anything you couldn't build with the proper knowledge in hardware, and a good cheap supplier.
SGI pretty much forced their position on themselves when they forcefully aquired Cray Research (a purchase they even STATED they couldn't afford - but went ahead with anyway). Poor marketing decisions and bad VARS will do this to a business...
Posted by 2B||!2B:
In a course I took that emphasized having machines understand the big picture of what's being said (e.g. figuring out the context and leaning on a large set of rules about the real world beyond just basic vocabulary), it was apparent that you could have a voice synth put an appropriate emphasis on the right words. The problem with doing that is that it would be much more difficult to do in real time unless you gave the machine a while to hear the entire phrase before it attempts to say anything, after running everything through yet another complex rule engine which figures out points of emphasis. I've done enough English ->Spanish and Spanish->English translations on the fly (myself, not a machine) to know how difficult it can be for even a person, let alone software.
Posted by BrainMold:
The Day the U.N. or any larger power enforces this succesfully is the day I auction off my soul, limbs, and various "personal organs" on eBay. (Should I have made that plural or is it as a whole an individual organ?)
For those interested, I will donate all proceeds to the Free Software Foundation. Mmmmmkay?
Posted by OGL:
Any word on when they're going to publish the results of this? Some of the questions were really interesting (for example, what % of Linux developers do GUI work, and what % of those use GNOME or KDE?). But as for Borland porting their products...I don't know. I sure as hell would never use Delphi, and an IDE that uses the GNU tools seems like it would be pretty easy just to write (I did it myself in Windows for DJGPP, in my pre-Linux days).
-W.W.
Posted by Justin:
thankfully.
i think this is just downright wrong, no matter how little the amount is. i don't want my government taxing my internet activities. why not have a telnet tax? every time i telnet to a computer, i have to give them a cent. or how about a pop3 server tax? i have to pay $.05 to check my pop3 mail. or what if the government wants a dollar for every individual web page i look at? even if it's only $.0001 or so, it's just icky.
Posted by FreeGestalt:
... which puts it at an almost three hour journey to the store. Frigging amazing kid, let me tell you --- and a pretty blind day care.
I hate to be the big skeptic, but I kinda doubt that this is true. Although according to USWestDex both businesses exist in the greater Fairfield Ohio area, a quick map check indicates that these two places are 11 miles (or so, depending on how you trust MapInfo) apart. Now that is a damn long way for a little tyke to be traveling (before he got the car, if you will remember).
Adult legs moving at a good clip put in about 4 miles an hour
Skeptometer = Redline
Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangst:
>>So why aren't you out distrusting all authority? Time's a-wastin' LK. Get on the ball!
You just don't get it huh? Political activism is similar to hacking in this respect.
This kid is a great example of what I mean. It's a part of your nature. It's something that you do all of the time whether you're aware of it or not.
LK
Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangst:
All through school I too remember having to teach my teachers how to use the equipment in class.
"No Mrs. Watson*, you're trying to plug the projector in upside-down, you do it like this."
Children do often have a greater understanding of the technlogy than the adults who depend on it.
I think radio crap is up to 400-in-1 kits now. I remember I was digging through my grandparent's garage and I found my uncle's only 75-in-1(or whatever it was) kit. I was enthralled. I probably gained about 10 pounds that summer because I never left the house, between my (once again mentioned) atari, and building solar powered lie detecting, light activated, alarm sounding am radios and the like I almost never saw the light of day.
I haven't looked in years, but I think that they still make them. That is unless they've been forced to stop by anti-terrorism activism, after all teaching kids how technology works will only give them the power to make better bombs.
LK