I will now take the opportunity to ask if Slashdot editors wouldn't please enter the new age and use updated acronyms?
Maybe it's because the stupid committe that picked the UTC acronym wasn't man enough to duke it out to the end. By all rights, it should be UCT (English) or TUC (French). But in some feel-good mishmash compromise, they agreed on an acronym that doesn't make sense in any language.
I say until they finish the fight, we use the old school terminology.
Now, you know that's not true. I'm sure at least one broadcast of WWF Smackdown was preempted by 9-11 news coverage.
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Textmode Quake 2
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This is perhaps the biggest ever display of time-wasting I have ever seen.
So, you're saying that the original Quake in graphics mode is not a waste of time? Hasn't this one family of programs been one of the biggest drains of people's productivity, educational potential and physical health since the introduction of TV and alchohol?
I cringe when I think of how much more I could have accomplished by now using the time I've wasted playing computer games.
At least this hacker probably learned something new by doing this.
Can I get this for my Linksys hardware in a firmware update?
I'd like to know that too, but for my WaveLan cards. And if it can't be upgraded, I want a refund on the $20 extra per card I paid to get "128-bit" (yeah, as if) encryption.
Well, its going to be hard to sell pure number crunching at high prices when you can get a 1GHz PC at Best Buy for $599. (Imagine a you-know-what of those.) It's kind of like selling $18 CDs after Napster.
Anyway, I hope they stay in business. Their web site is the easiest place to remember when you need to look up something in the STL Programmer's Reference.
I just loaded the latest 'familiar' distro onto my iPAQ pocket PC, and it came with a cool web browser I'd never heard of named dillo.
I don't know much about it, but it is fast, even on a handheld. It left Pocket IE in the dust.
(BTW, I ran some Python-based benchmarks the iPAQ and it seems to have horsepower similar to that of a 66-MHz 486.)
'This is the last remaining communications medium that allows the small person to participate,'
But isn't this also the first communications medium that allows the small person to participate? (Other than largely ineffective channels such as pamphlets and megaphones.) Maybe things are just returning to the way they were prior to 1994.
You can easily crank out as many lines of code
as you want using automatic code generation. That
will leave more time to spend with your family and friends.
Here's how to generate 1 million lines of code in just
a few seconds:
#!/usr/bin/python print "#!/usr/bin/python" print "h = open('/dev/null', 'w')" print "for x in range(1, 1000000):" print " h.write('All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.\\n')"
I'll leave it to others to debate the utility of
my program vs. recreating the.NET framework:).
The SETI@blofg project has finally hit paydirt after many stellar orbits of work by countless 7777s of computers. Dr. Bglorf has spotted an unmistakeable radio emmission in the microwave band coming from near the edge of an average spiral galaxy. By ffdki, we are not alone in the universe!!
Dr. Bglorf's analysis shows that the radio transmission seems to be a digital encoding of an advanced temporal image compression algorithm, using discrete cosine tranforms and dictionary-based compression. He and his associates reverse engineer the alien protocol to find what messages it contains.
Finally, with the entire planet watching, the message is decoded and played. It is a strange alien greeting: two pinkish creatures, one on top of the other, bouncing up and down rythmically for several 77s of cycles. Finally, the top creature expels some kind of white fluid onto the lower one. At this point the alien transmission ends.
Many other transmissions were detected from the same area, but they were all very similar to the first one.
The perplexed Dr. Bglorf begins to suspect that this transmission was not an intentional attempt to contact his civilization, after all.
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It seems to me that its too easy to make a mistake when your projects get large.
Let it go, man. Go ahead and make the mistake. Run your program. It will show you a stack frame dump and you'll have the problem fixed in 15 seconds. Life's too short obsess over parameter types.
Python, Perl, Ruby, etc. have huge library collections that are easier to use and understand than most of those from strongly typed languages. Lack of strong typing is not holding them back. (You won't find many unchecked buffers, either.)
Do your memories continue to evolve? If not, then I guess you could say you have a static ROM memory, but I'd surmise that you have a problem with short term memory aquisition and you should see a doctor. Of course, you will never remember having read this post.
If your memories continue to evolve, are you saying your static ROM memory is replaced on a regular basis? Wouldn't there be some rather high costs associated behind that?
The whole point, Mr. Anonymous Fscking Moron, is that you can't prove that your memory evolves because you can't prove that your past experience isn't fake, nor can you prove that you will have any future experiences. Try to find some imagination, loser.
I think you're a fucking lunatic who doesn't know a god damned thing about industry terms (otherwise you'd be saying EPROM or something, not a static ROM chip -- a ROM chip by definition IS static, you stupid fuck...once you're written to it, you can never write to it again)
It's an image that statically placed in a ROM, not an image in a "static ROM". Your anal retentive rant is nothing more than a figment of your inability to comprehend a simple sentence.
Well, I would pay good money for OS X if it ran on X86 (assuming it could emulate old Mac SW at some speed). This is because I could run Mac apps, Unix apps, and any new OS X apps that were compiled cross platform (including, I assume, MS Office). It would also by supported by large, established company with some influence on hardware driver writers.
BeOS had few if any of these advantages; I have never been tempted to either buy it or use it for free.
Another thing: the MS settlement might hopefully give hardware vendors the freedom to preinstall OS X along with windows. It would be nice to have the option to unlock either Windows or OS X on a freshly purchased machine. I'd choose OS X.
Unless and until all this comes to pass, I continue to fill my brain with Linux minutia.
He also touches on the perennial "I'll run it on my Athlon or not at all" mindset of current Lintel hardware owners.
Well, I might consider OS X if Steve Jobs didn't have a perennial "You'll run it on our overpriced, single-sourced, proprietary, artsy-fartsy hardware or not at all" mindset.
I meant the second interpretation, they should
bill the original TV advertisers. Yes, it is
obviously a ridiculous idea; the irony of the whole situation
is just funny.
The entire media industry is supported by ads.
Giant corporations like AOL Time-Warner have
made buckets of money for decades by making the
public watch ads only 10% or 20% of the time.
Here we have a company that had people look at ads 100%
of the time. But they couldn't stay afloat even though they were sitting on top of a huge gold mine. Why?
It's because they didn't bother to send a bill
to the advertisers.
If they would just hire an administrative assistant to print
out invoices, they would be in the black in no time!
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some people just love using guns to force others to support their theory of "good".
That surprises you? That is the reason guns were invented, and it is their primary purpose. The government has always had and is always going to have more and better guns than you. That's why they collect taxes and you don't.
Anyway, if IBM and other private research institutions didn't already have a cozy relationship with the government, they'd use their large budgets to buy their own guns and collect taxes from you themselves.
For the pedantic, my argument rests on the fact that in 1992, a 100 megabyte HD cost about $200, and today, a 100 gigabyte HD costs about the same (give or take). At the same rate, we'll have 100,000 gigabyte in ten years, and 100,000,000 gigabyte in 20. Physics blah blah blah.)
However, there's no guarantee that this will come to pass. You could make the same argument circa 1960 about airplanes: it was amazing how far they had progressed since 1903. As it happens, the exponential progress of aviation technology hit a limit about that time, and only linear improvements have occurred since. The same could happen at any time for any aspect of computer technology.
The real question for storage is can they come up with any new tricks to get 1000X more density in a hard drive, or will they have to switch to attempt new and untested concepts like 3D holographic crystal storage.
By contrats, today women and men meet, date, then marry, and most of the people they meet work in similar professions and therefore have similar interests and if those interests are determined genetically, similar genes. It's like a mild, remote form of inbreeding.
That's an interesting point. I can imagine that in the worst case, the geeks will evolve to look something like chimpanzees, the jocks will become more like gorillas, and the politicians will begin to resemble orangutans.
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Maybe it's because the stupid committe that picked the UTC acronym wasn't man enough to duke it out to the end. By all rights, it should be UCT (English) or TUC (French). But in some feel-good mishmash compromise, they agreed on an acronym that doesn't make sense in any language.
I say until they finish the fight, we use the old school terminology.
Niether of things affected me at all.
Now, you know that's not true. I'm sure at least one broadcast of WWF Smackdown was preempted by 9-11 news coverage.
So, you're saying that the original Quake in graphics mode is not a waste of time? Hasn't this one family of programs been one of the biggest drains of people's productivity, educational potential and physical health since the introduction of TV and alchohol?
I cringe when I think of how much more I could have accomplished by now using the time I've wasted playing computer games.
At least this hacker probably learned something new by doing this.
Actually, landing is always easy. For example, NASA has landed several spacecraft on Mars in the last few years.
The difficult part is managing to keep your vehicle in one piece as you land.
In fact, if you wrote Parrot in a different language, what would that language most likely be implemented in? Most likely ... C.
I'd like to know that too, but for my WaveLan cards. And if it can't be upgraded, I want a refund on the $20 extra per card I paid to get "128-bit" (yeah, as if) encryption.
Actually:
Or maybe not, according to this article: CD prices set to take a plunge
Anyway, I hope they stay in business. Their web site is the easiest place to remember when you need to look up something in the STL Programmer's Reference.
(BTW, I ran some Python-based benchmarks the iPAQ and it seems to have horsepower similar to that of a 66-MHz 486.)
But isn't this also the first communications medium that allows the small person to participate? (Other than largely ineffective channels such as pamphlets and megaphones.) Maybe things are just returning to the way they were prior to 1994.
for x in range (1, 1000000):
print "h.write...
#!/usr/bin/python
print "#!/usr/bin/python"
print "h = open('/dev/null', 'w')"
print "for x in range(1, 1000000):"
print " h.write('All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.\\n')"
I'll leave it to others to debate the utility of my program vs. recreating the .NET framework :).
The SETI@blofg project has finally hit paydirt after many stellar orbits of work by countless 7777s of computers. Dr. Bglorf has spotted an unmistakeable radio emmission in the microwave band coming from near the edge of an average spiral galaxy. By ffdki, we are not alone in the universe!!
Dr. Bglorf's analysis shows that the radio transmission seems to be a digital encoding of an advanced temporal image compression algorithm, using discrete cosine tranforms and dictionary-based compression. He and his associates reverse engineer the alien protocol to find what messages it contains.
Finally, with the entire planet watching, the message is decoded and played. It is a strange alien greeting: two pinkish creatures, one on top of the other, bouncing up and down rythmically for several 77s of cycles. Finally, the top creature expels some kind of white fluid onto the lower one. At this point the alien transmission ends.
Many other transmissions were detected from the same area, but they were all very similar to the first one.
The perplexed Dr. Bglorf begins to suspect that this transmission was not an intentional attempt to contact his civilization, after all.
Let it go, man. Go ahead and make the mistake. Run your program. It will show you a stack frame dump and you'll have the problem fixed in 15 seconds. Life's too short obsess over parameter types.
Python, Perl, Ruby, etc. have huge library collections that are easier to use and understand than most of those from strongly typed languages. Lack of strong typing is not holding them back. (You won't find many unchecked buffers, either.)
If your memories continue to evolve, are you saying your static ROM memory is replaced on a regular basis? Wouldn't there be some rather high costs associated behind that?
The whole point, Mr. Anonymous Fscking Moron, is that you can't prove that your memory evolves because you can't prove that your past experience isn't fake, nor can you prove that you will have any future experiences. Try to find some imagination, loser.
I think you're a fucking lunatic who doesn't know a god damned thing about industry terms (otherwise you'd be saying EPROM or something, not a static ROM chip -- a ROM chip by definition IS static, you stupid fuck...once you're written to it, you can never write to it again)
It's an image that statically placed in a ROM, not an image in a "static ROM". Your anal retentive rant is nothing more than a figment of your inability to comprehend a simple sentence.
BeOS had few if any of these advantages; I have never been tempted to either buy it or use it for free.
Another thing: the MS settlement might hopefully give hardware vendors the freedom to preinstall OS X along with windows. It would be nice to have the option to unlock either Windows or OS X on a freshly purchased machine. I'd choose OS X.
Unless and until all this comes to pass, I continue to fill my brain with Linux minutia.
Well, I might consider OS X if Steve Jobs didn't have a perennial "You'll run it on our overpriced, single-sourced, proprietary, artsy-fartsy hardware or not at all" mindset.
"Over four hours without a remote hole in the default install!"
(4) Say that you're a management consulting firm (310% payrate)
I meant the second interpretation, they should bill the original TV advertisers. Yes, it is obviously a ridiculous idea; the irony of the whole situation is just funny.
Here we have a company that had people look at ads 100% of the time. But they couldn't stay afloat even though they were sitting on top of a huge gold mine. Why? It's because they didn't bother to send a bill to the advertisers.
If they would just hire an administrative assistant to print out invoices, they would be in the black in no time!
That surprises you? That is the reason guns were invented, and it is their primary purpose. The government has always had and is always going to have more and better guns than you. That's why they collect taxes and you don't.
Anyway, if IBM and other private research institutions didn't already have a cozy relationship with the government, they'd use their large budgets to buy their own guns and collect taxes from you themselves.
However, there's no guarantee that this will come to pass. You could make the same argument circa 1960 about airplanes: it was amazing how far they had progressed since 1903. As it happens, the exponential progress of aviation technology hit a limit about that time, and only linear improvements have occurred since. The same could happen at any time for any aspect of computer technology.
The real question for storage is can they come up with any new tricks to get 1000X more density in a hard drive, or will they have to switch to attempt new and untested concepts like 3D holographic crystal storage.
That's an interesting point. I can imagine that in the worst case, the geeks will evolve to look something like chimpanzees, the jocks will become more like gorillas, and the politicians will begin to resemble orangutans.