He made it to ESPN and had an article posted about him - baseball claims they will be ready next year, more the reason to prove them wrong and vote someone like Corey Koskie or Todd Pratt in as a starter.
Re:Reason why we dont make noise like Linux people
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Posted by OGL:
It looks bland because I can't change the window manager, and it does nothing useful because there's no point in using it. Basically I scowered the web, and all I could find in terms of useful BeOS software was the web browser, an irc client, and an mp3 player. There aren't any good games as there are in win98, and it doesn't have the programming tools which Linux makes available (including but not limited to the implicit support I get from Linux being an open-source OS). Maybe I could use BeOS as a full-time OS if I was happy playing tetris, and all I needed to do was surf the web and maybe mix audio samples. But in reality I'm a skilled technical user, and I do have other plans for using my computer. Feel free to correct me if you feel I'm off-base.
It's like having a license on the software packaging that says "by reading this license you agree to abide by it"......
good point Come one! Moderate the guy up!!
Maybe we could all submit millions of queries simultaneously to their servers?!
Re:Reason why we dont make noise like Linux people
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Posted by OGL:
dude, chill out
I installed BeOS and it worked fine I suppose (I built this computer out of basically "open" hardware so it works with just about any operating system), but I wasn't too impressed. I'll probably get rid of it when I need the second hard drive for something else. In the meantime it just kind of sits there looking bland and doing nothing useful. As a "pompous jerk" who sits around on IRC all day helping people with Linux, I would have to take offense at your comments; we can't solve every problem on IRC, and sometimes people ask questions when no one is around to help. It happens, we're not getting paid for it, so if you don't get your problems solved for you then don't go on/. and whine about how all Linux users do is hype etc. etc. etc.
Comments like that are ironic because Be has to be the most hyped OS of the century. Contrary to your beliefs, most Be users will reccomend their OS as the _best_ in existence and flame to hell anyone who thinks otherwise (no, I don't feel sorry for any of you people...you can't say anything negative about Be even on/. anymore without being flamed and FUDed, as this message probably will be).
I definitely don't think Linux is overhyped or in a descent. I certainly haven't seen anything else which makes it not worth using.
This presents excellent possibilities. Imagine a distributed.net client, or a game executed on such a machine.
The realism or flight sims and FPS games would be mind boggling. A machine like this would be able to calculate whether a bullet would glance off of a rib and break it or if it would punch straight through. How much blood would be lost, and friction could be calculated to determine how much one would slip on the blood.
This is very cool.
LK
Re:Slashdot has no central authority?
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I would make the following points in rebuttal. CmdrTaco does not have absolute power over what the Slashdot effect hits because:
Slashdot is not the only entity that produces the Slashdot effect, merely the most notable.
CmdrTaco is not the only one with top-level posting privs.
Even second-level posts (by the unwashed masses) can produce the effect if they are sufficiently in tune with the community feeling on the matter.
I'll concede that CmdrTaco has some influence over where traffic goes and what gets reported as news for nerds, but the tsunami level events (like Windows Refund Day, say, or Linux itself) are too big to control. Slashdot itself is an emergent property of the community, and I think the Tacomeister knows it. Sure it's a lot of Rob's hard work that has made it look and work the way it does, but it is immensely popular because the concept strikes a chord in the disorganised masses, not because of the decor.
And as for cats, my cat tells me when it wants to be fed in no uncertain terms. The only power the tin-opener wields is as a projectile for temporary relief of that horrible din.
If you keep playing the rate you do, you will meet Bosox in the first round and get what you did to them last year. And the yanks will beat the tomahawk chopper again, which will probably cause some complaint in baseball and a legitamate soft salary -cap. Yankees fans, the time is NOW, let's do it again! Geroge, do you hear me.
CY, who think Jeter should be casted as the next Anakin, you tell me he can't whip Darth Maul in a lightsaber fight?
Canada rules again!!!-YEAH RIGHT
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Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangster Of Love:
Insulin existed millions if not billions of years before there was a canada.
Maybe the process of extracting it from pig pancreases was developed there, or maybe it was the genetic engineering of e. coli to produce it, but Canadians didn't invent insulin. The best things that come out of Canada are the bacon, and Molson.
I use perl fairly often, and while it can be written in a _highly_ obfuscatory manner, it is just as possible to write very clear code (c.f. English.pm to take care of the $@ phenomenon). IMHO C is a thousand times worse, and I don't see (no pun intended) anyone calling it a sinking aquatic transportation method.:^) Don't get me wrong, the times I've encountered Python I've liked it, and intend to try it more. Language debates are a little pointless in the final analysis for most of us who don't have advanced CS or Linuguistics degrees anyway... ("And just how many EBNF syntax definitions have _you_ written today, schmarty pants?! >:)")
It never pays to assume such things
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Posted by The Famous Brett Watson:
mrgrumpy has engaged in an ad hominem to discredit my views, and has also misrepresented my argument.
The ad hominem part is not only unwarranted, but also inaccurate. I do not come from the geographical area he suggests, although he may consider Epping to be near enough for jazz. I also did not attend a private school (Epping Boys' High is where I earned my emotional scars), and I do not have wealthy parents.
As for never having had a real job, I was briefly in the employ of a certain computer assembler (which shall remain nameless), working on their production line for the paltry sum of $7.50 per hour, so I've had first-hand experience of the kind of dreadful working conditions of which mrgrumpy speaks. Even now that I have risen above that level of employ, I am not immune to the vagaries of the marketplace. I am currently between jobs, having been retrenched by my previous employer as the result of a "restructure".
As I said, I believe mrgrumpy's objections in this area are not only highly irrelevant, but also completely wrong.
It may be that unionism is a necessary thing amongst certain demographics and labour groups. If this is true, then it is proof to me that these marketplaces are very sick indeed. Unionism is an evil, and if it happens to be the lesser evil then the marketplace has some very deep-rooted social problems. I will concede that unionism might be the lesser of two evils, but I will not concede that unionism is itself a good.
As for the specific issue of VSU, I am well familiar with there being no terminals available in the labs at university. One tends to learn these things fairly early on in one's academic career and make allowances for it. I haven't been locked out of a class due to lack of seating, although I've sat in my fair share of asiles.
Once again you assume that unionisation is a fair answer to these sorts of problems, and I simply disagree. The university system is severely broken, and the problems you mention are a demonstration of that fact. That student unionisation must be compulsory demonstrates the severity of the problem, assuming that compulsory unionisation is indeed the lesser evil.
I lack the time and inclination to give a dissertation on the problems with university, but I have no inclination to fight the bureaucracy if they want to make university an unworkable proposition. In short, I agree that university sucks, but I disagree that unionism is a valid answer to the problem. So give me VSU and stop wasting my fees.
IBM's first (?) movable-head disk was called a RAMAC.
Six feet tall, bunch of platters (40?) about six feet across. Hydraulic head drive (rumored to have cut the fingers off a CE who bumped the interlock while the plexiglass cover was off and his fingers in). Motor in the hub (with spare windings so a burnout wouldn't force a disk replacement, which required a second story of clearance and a crane.) Magnetic spots big enough to read with the naked eye (which you could if the heads crashed, filling the enclosure with ground-off iron oxide which then "developed" the medium.
Those were the days.
So why is real-time required?
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Posted by Ungrounded Lightning Rod:
Once it's captured, crunch it up at less than real time and/or throw a bunch of CPUs at it.
Depends on how they did it. If they built in some firmware that assumes an underlying Windows or NT platform and uses hooks it finds there, it might not be compatable with Linux, and might require the driver to upload a replacement version of the firmware, or even a ROM change.
First, while good, your post rambles just as badly as Metcalfe's article. You start off with some good arguments and then veer off into "This is my world".
Second, for your (future) digital camera check out gphoto (search for it on freshmeat.net). --- Put Hemos through English 101!
But isnt that the whole point? Win 3.1 worked on DRDOS but MS made sure that if they knew DRDOS was running, then Win 3.1 would stop dead in its tracks. They are allowed to display a warning message (and rightly too), but not allowing Win 3.1 to run at all is just plain wrong. I bet they know Win 3.1 would run on DRDOS as well.
This type of arguement can be made for any achievement. Of course you Brits were too busy rebuilding after the war to waste your time on space exploration either, and this is why you don't care that only an American flag flies over the moon.
LK
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Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangster Of Love:
It would begin with character assassination before they got as far as physical assassination. This is why I predicted that they'll be labeled as a "techno militia".
In Waco, the Branch Davidians were known as quiet people who kept pretty much to themselves. The FBI enforced a TOTAL media blackout so that they could demonize them without any dissenting information being released.
Why do you think that they'd behave in a different manner when dealing with geeks?
How about one for lwn.net/daily? --- Put Hemos through English 101!
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Posted by dhickman:
I faced something lke this. I was a contractor for a Major Telco and within a division of the company, they had about 200 hp workstations and 7 or 8 servers. the problem was the main sysadmin was a nt freak. So each of the 200 workstations had software installed locally, no dns ( they used host files) and no nis. Basically it was hell. I got in there implemented nfs, nis, and dns and everything started to work perfectly. So the NT admin canned me, for not being productive. To my knowledge the network is still working fine after a year. They now pay a var to install softwre/ user maintenance.
This event pursuaded me to get out of the contracting field. So I have a far better job now:)
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Posted by rederick:
He made it to ESPN and had an article posted about him - baseball claims they will be ready next year, more the reason to prove them wrong and vote someone like Corey Koskie or Todd Pratt in as a starter.
Posted by OGL:
It looks bland because I can't change the window manager, and it does nothing useful because there's no point in using it. Basically I scowered the web, and all I could find in terms of useful BeOS software was the web browser, an irc client, and an mp3 player. There aren't any good games as there are in win98, and it doesn't have the programming tools which Linux makes available (including but not limited to the implicit support I get from Linux being an open-source OS). Maybe I could use BeOS as a full-time OS if I was happy playing tetris, and all I needed to do was surf the web and maybe mix audio samples. But in reality I'm a skilled technical user, and I do have other plans for using my computer. Feel free to correct me if you feel I'm off-base.
-W.W.
Posted by ebenjamin:
Using embeded Quantum Computers to control your nanomachines is it!!!!
Posted by stodge:
It's like having a license on the software packaging that says "by reading this license you agree to abide by it"......
good point
Come one! Moderate the guy up!!
Maybe we could all submit millions of queries simultaneously to their servers?!
Posted by OGL:
/. and whine about how all Linux users do is hype etc. etc. etc.
/. anymore without being flamed and FUDed, as this message probably will be).
dude, chill out
I installed BeOS and it worked fine I suppose (I built this computer out of basically "open" hardware so it works with just about any operating system), but I wasn't too impressed. I'll probably get rid of it when I need the second hard drive for something else. In the meantime it just kind of sits there looking bland and doing nothing useful. As a "pompous jerk" who sits around on IRC all day helping people with Linux, I would have to take offense at your comments; we can't solve every problem on IRC, and sometimes people ask questions when no one is around to help. It happens, we're not getting paid for it, so if you don't get your problems solved for you then don't go on
Comments like that are ironic because Be has to be the most hyped OS of the century. Contrary to your beliefs, most Be users will reccomend their OS as the _best_ in existence and flame to hell anyone who thinks otherwise (no, I don't feel sorry for any of you people...you can't say anything negative about Be even on
I definitely don't think Linux is overhyped or in a descent. I certainly haven't seen anything else which makes it not worth using.
-W.W.
Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangster Of Love:
>>Well.. this seems to be a first...
>>A moron who puts his name behind his work.
Yes, Zack you certainly are an innovator.
LK
Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangster Of Love:
This presents excellent possibilities. Imagine a distributed.net client, or a game executed on such a machine.
The realism or flight sims and FPS games would be mind boggling. A machine like this would be able to calculate whether a bullet would glance off of a rib and break it or if it would punch straight through. How much blood would be lost, and friction could be calculated to determine how much one would slip on the blood.
This is very cool.
LK
I would make the following points in rebuttal. CmdrTaco does not have absolute power over what the Slashdot effect hits because:
- Slashdot is not the only entity that produces the Slashdot effect, merely the most notable.
- CmdrTaco is not the only one with top-level posting privs.
- Even second-level posts (by the unwashed masses) can produce the effect if they are sufficiently in tune with the community feeling on the matter.
I'll concede that CmdrTaco has some influence over where traffic goes and what gets reported as news for nerds, but the tsunami level events (like Windows Refund Day, say, or Linux itself) are too big to control. Slashdot itself is an emergent property of the community, and I think the Tacomeister knows it. Sure it's a lot of Rob's hard work that has made it look and work the way it does, but it is immensely popular because the concept strikes a chord in the disorganised masses, not because of the decor.And as for cats, my cat tells me when it wants to be fed in no uncertain terms. The only power the tin-opener wields is as a projectile for temporary relief of that horrible din.
Posted by My_Favorite_Anonymous_Coward:
If you keep playing the rate you do, you will meet Bosox in the first round and get what you did to them last year. And the yanks will beat the tomahawk chopper again, which will probably cause some complaint in baseball and a legitamate soft salary -cap. Yankees fans, the time is NOW, let's do it again! Geroge, do you hear me.
CY, who think Jeter should be casted as the next Anakin, you tell me he can't whip Darth Maul in a lightsaber fight?
Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangster Of Love:
Insulin existed millions if not billions of years before there was a canada.
Maybe the process of extracting it from pig pancreases was developed there, or maybe it was the genetic engineering of e. coli to produce it, but Canadians didn't invent insulin. The best things that come out of Canada are the bacon, and Molson.
LK
Posted by FascDot Killed My Previous Use:
If you can't figure it out yourself, maybe you deserve to listen to Backstreet Boys...
Besides, what are you going to vote for: Pearl Jam?
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Posted by Volkadav:
:^) Don't get me wrong, the times I've encountered Python I've liked it, and intend to try it more. Language debates are a little pointless in the final analysis for most of us who don't have advanced CS or Linuguistics degrees anyway... ("And just how many EBNF syntax definitions have _you_ written today, schmarty pants?! >:)")
I use perl fairly often, and while it can be written in a _highly_ obfuscatory manner, it is just as possible to write very clear code (c.f. English.pm to take care of the $@ phenomenon). IMHO C is a thousand times worse, and I don't see (no pun intended) anyone calling it a sinking aquatic transportation method.
mrgrumpy has engaged in an ad hominem to discredit my views, and has also misrepresented my argument.
The ad hominem part is not only unwarranted, but also inaccurate. I do not come from the geographical area he suggests, although he may consider Epping to be near enough for jazz. I also did not attend a private school (Epping Boys' High is where I earned my emotional scars), and I do not have wealthy parents.
As for never having had a real job, I was briefly in the employ of a certain computer assembler (which shall remain nameless), working on their production line for the paltry sum of $7.50 per hour, so I've had first-hand experience of the kind of dreadful working conditions of which mrgrumpy speaks. Even now that I have risen above that level of employ, I am not immune to the vagaries of the marketplace. I am currently between jobs, having been retrenched by my previous employer as the result of a "restructure".
As I said, I believe mrgrumpy's objections in this area are not only highly irrelevant, but also completely wrong.
It may be that unionism is a necessary thing amongst certain demographics and labour groups. If this is true, then it is proof to me that these marketplaces are very sick indeed. Unionism is an evil, and if it happens to be the lesser evil then the marketplace has some very deep-rooted social problems. I will concede that unionism might be the lesser of two evils, but I will not concede that unionism is itself a good.
As for the specific issue of VSU, I am well familiar with there being no terminals available in the labs at university. One tends to learn these things fairly early on in one's academic career and make allowances for it. I haven't been locked out of a class due to lack of seating, although I've sat in my fair share of asiles.
Once again you assume that unionisation is a fair answer to these sorts of problems, and I simply disagree. The university system is severely broken, and the problems you mention are a demonstration of that fact. That student unionisation must be compulsory demonstrates the severity of the problem, assuming that compulsory unionisation is indeed the lesser evil.
I lack the time and inclination to give a dissertation on the problems with university, but I have no inclination to fight the bureaucracy if they want to make university an unworkable proposition. In short, I agree that university sucks, but I disagree that unionism is a valid answer to the problem. So give me VSU and stop wasting my fees.
Posted by Ungrounded Lightning Rod:
IBM's first (?) movable-head disk was called a RAMAC.
Six feet tall, bunch of platters (40?) about six feet across. Hydraulic head drive (rumored to have cut the fingers off a CE who bumped the interlock while the plexiglass cover was off and his fingers in). Motor in the hub (with spare windings so a burnout wouldn't force a disk replacement, which required a second story of clearance and a crane.) Magnetic spots big enough to read with the naked eye (which you could if the heads crashed, filling the enclosure with ground-off iron oxide which then "developed" the medium.
Those were the days.
Posted by Ungrounded Lightning Rod:
Once it's captured, crunch it up at less than real time and/or throw a bunch of CPUs at it.
What's a Beowulf cluster FOR, anyhow? B-)
Posted by Ungrounded Lightning Rod:
I think it would be a SCREAM if this version of DVD became the dominant one just BECAUSE:
- they gave a Linux hack a free drive and internals info, and
- this resulted in their drive being the first one usable on Linux, and
- THAT resulted in a bunch of extra sales and
- their drive then became the defacto standard.
B-)
Posted by Ungrounded Lightning Rod:
Depends on how they did it. If they built in some firmware that assumes an underlying Windows or NT platform and uses hooks it finds there, it might not be compatable with Linux, and might require the driver to upload a replacement version of the firmware, or even a ROM change.
Posted by Ungrounded Lightning Rod:
Darn. I was hoping much of the differential between the source and load module increase was more comments.
B-)
Posted by FascDot Killed My Previous Use:
First, while good, your post rambles just as badly as Metcalfe's article. You start off with some good arguments and then veer off into "This is my world".
Second, for your (future) digital camera check out gphoto (search for it on freshmeat.net).
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Posted by stodge:
But isnt that the whole point? Win 3.1 worked on DRDOS but MS made sure that if they knew DRDOS was running, then Win 3.1 would stop dead in its tracks. They are allowed to display a warning message (and rightly too), but not allowing Win 3.1 to run at all is just plain wrong. I bet they know Win 3.1 would run on DRDOS as well.
Posted by Vik Olliver (at home):
:v)
It depends on which country you are in. New Zealand for instance has a per Mb charge for overseas traffic.
Vik
Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangster Of Love:
This type of arguement can be made for any achievement. Of course you Brits were too busy rebuilding after the war to waste your time on space exploration either, and this is why you don't care that only an American flag flies over the moon.
LK
Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangster Of Love:
It would begin with character assassination before they got as far as physical assassination. This is why I predicted that they'll be labeled as a "techno militia".
In Waco, the Branch Davidians were known as quiet people who kept pretty much to themselves. The FBI enforced a TOTAL media blackout so that they could demonize them without any dissenting information being released.
Why do you think that they'd behave in a different manner when dealing with geeks?
LK
Posted by FascDot Killed My Previous Use:
How about one for lwn.net/daily?
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Posted by dhickman:
:)
I faced something lke this. I was a contractor for a Major Telco and within a division of the company, they had about 200 hp workstations and 7 or 8 servers. the problem was the main sysadmin was a nt freak. So each of the 200 workstations had software installed locally, no dns ( they used host files) and no nis. Basically it was hell. I got in there implemented nfs, nis, and dns and everything started to work perfectly. So the NT admin canned me, for not being productive. To my knowledge the network is still working fine after a year. They now pay a var to install softwre/ user maintenance.
This event pursuaded me to get out of the contracting field. So I have a far better job now