I won't quote - please go back to the parent post and read it in full. It deserves your attention.
Now, the whole problem is precisely this: Affirmative Action. Affirmative Action ensures that blacks will never be treated equally. It's entirely valid for co-workers to suspect you might be in the office because of AA, or for other students to consider whether AA might be what put you in school.
So long as there are government-mandated percentages, no minority will ever have a fighting chance of getting the dignity it deserves.
Is this the Windows9x-on-top-of-DOS Microsoft hack?
Is this the "invent your own language" MS Word Grammar Checker Microsoft hack?
Or is this the mutex display bit "one program freezes your OS" Microsoft 3.1 and 95 hack?
Or is this the web-browser-turned-drive-explorer hack?
Or is this the always-locking-up ftp hack?
Maybe this is the "some versions of Direct 3D render bitmaps upside down, others don't, depending on which version of the interface you probe" Microsoft hack?
No, I'll bet it's the unstable "oversized int destroys your registry and requires reinstall" Microsoft hack.
Nyet. It's got to be the brain dead Outlook stationery format Microsoft hack.
The list is almost painfully incomplete without Worms, Tetris and Magic Carpet. Wolfenstein belonged where Doom is, and like it or not - Windows Solitaire belongs up there as well.
The real news here would be the project's host ISP. All those HUGE screenshots, and not yet slashdotted? They must be screaming out a pipe the size of AOL's.
I'd like to remind all of you who are running various beta releases of 2.4 that it is HIGHLY UNWISE to rely on software which DOESN'T EXIST. I strongly urge you to downgrade to a 2.2.x series kernel. You only believe you're booting successfully. You're only imagining that you see DRI, USB and similar on your desktop. YOU ARE FOOLING YOURSELVES.
I repeat: 2.2.4 is currently for unicorns, fae and hobgoblins only! Do NOT run mythical software!!!
Sonic lives again.:) Is it just me, or has S3 started to remind you of one of those patchwork quilts you sew out of bits of clothing which have worn too thin and useless for anything else?
I'm half-expecting S3 to make the big Atari/Home and Commodore acquisition announcements. I'm eagerly awaiting my new Amiga hardware running TOS 3.5 with ViRGE DirectX 5 3D deceleration and maybe AdLib audio beside, all beautifully orchestrated to support the wonderfully exciting Snork Adventure launch title.* And the scary thing is - it'll work. Like those people with three and four diseases, all holding each other in check, and where if just one thing becomes slightly less horrible they'll topple - it's going to work.
... Information-based monopolies now maintain their markets by controlling the interfaces they have promoted... through
Hence the popular argument that splitting up MS may accomplish nothing. MS is a monopoly, but the solution is not the traditional solution. A new type of monopoly requires a new type of resolution.
It seems like this is the only one of all these phones that makes any sense.
I mean - check it out - everything on that page has a camera and a little screen on it. If those are for video then - what the hell is the point of using a video phone if all you ever see is the side of someone's head, and only if you're not even listening to the conversation?
Sega have let their most valuable franchises die for lack of new titles (Sonic, NiGHTS, etc). A new title in any of their old main lines wouldn't have the brand appeal it did two years ago.
Sega's biggest strength in recent years has been their arcade work. And while leveraging Sega's arcade division to further Nintendo's placement might have made sense a few years ago, the arcade market is on a decline with redemption machines (the games you get tickets/tokens for playing) fast replacing game machines.
Sega also has a foothold in redemption machines, but that's two steps removed from Nintendo's meat and potatos, and that market too is starting to plateau; probably not a direction the big N wants to grow in.
Here are two reasons your employer likely holds - one valid, one not.
Valid: If they hire replacements to work beneath you, with you taking the promotion, they can hire cheap labor. If they need to hire someone qualified to work above you, they need to pay your wage or better up front.
Not Valid: If you don't want to take the promotion, they see you as less than 100% dedicated to your work. A disinterest in becoming more involved with the company's core functioning is seen as an gross manifestation of that lack of dedication and likely a slap in the face to those above you who have worked hard to get there.
If you're lucky, you may be able to work past the second by laying down exactly what you can accomplish in your current capacity that you cannot accomplish in the new position. Making an effort to express your position as concisely and absolutely as possible may save your job.
If the first is more the issue, you may be screwed. If they're trying to turn you from an expensive worker into an inexpensive manager, that's going to be hard to fight.
If you want a CRISP and sharp 2D display and reasonably fast 3D, go with the Matrox G200. You can get these used for next to nothing. I recently got an 8 meg AGP for $20.
The G400 is a step up. It has much better 3D performance than the G200. Matrox 3D is not industry top-of-the-line at current. But like the G200, the G400 has the sharpest display in the business. It also has dual head support, either on the card or as a cheap add-on option, depending on the model. Dual head is great if you can find a second, cheap monitor. Like the G200, you can find G400s cheap. I've seen them go for $60-80 for the 16 meg single head version.
The G450 is pretty much the G400, except that multi-head is the only version sold, and the second display shares the same fast RAMDAC as the first display, meaning you could run two very sharp displays in the 2048x1536 range. (The second display on the G400 multi-head loses significant clarity or refresh rate (your choice) above 1600x1200.) There are, however, some issues with drivers for the second head destabilizing the system. (Hopefully someone knows more about when this may be resolved?)
If you want FAST FAST FAST 3D above all else, are willing to sacrifice a bit of crispness at the higher resolutions, and aren't militant about demanding open source drivers, have a listen to the nvidia and ATI advocates. Both are excellent cards, though ATI's driver support is currently a little behind nvidia's.
So this <fingerquote> motion blur technology </fingerquote> involves a kind of smearing technique? Kind of like you'd get from taking photos of monitors?
I can understand that the demand for increased processing power for CPU's will probably never be sated, but id this true for Graphics cards? Surely once we are in the trillions of polygons per second (at the present rate, soon, probably) and 3d graphics offer photorealism, will there still be a need for better graphics? I would have thought that in 5 or 10 years, Graphics card technology will have got as good as it can usefully get. An example is that we used to judge gaming computers by how many colours they can display, be it 8, 256, or 65536. But once we reached 16 million, there wasn't any further useful improvement that could be made.
Physics is starting to be integrated in graphics hardware.
Accurately resolving collisions between several dozen rigid bodies in real time is a tax on even the most advanced hardware. Most games fudge physics horribly, and real physics just plain doesn't happen in real time for any kind of a complex scene with numerous non-uniform, variable elasticity and independently moving objects.
So long as graphics cards continue to take on real time physics, you can be sure that graphic simulation hardware has barely entered its infancy.
What exactly is the point of this article? And why is Slashdot taking any notice of it? Is it time we install Censorware on the Slashdot editor's PCs so they can't see certain sites which are havens for third-rate writers who can turn any observation into a complaint?
You asked that question after spending a full post refuting the ZDNet article's wildly inaccurate assertions. This got your post moderated upward, and now most of the press who's covering Linux is going to see your counter-points.
How do you attract people to your honeypot system if it's configured just like your other systems, as the article said?
I've read of configurations with all traffic to unsupported ports redirected to a honeypot system: "someone trying to telnet/ftp to my web server? I'll send you to my honeypot for observation instead."
But if you're running a standard, normally configured system as the article mentioned, this doesn't make sense anymore. How's this work?
Uh, Yahoo! Mail does offer POP3 access, and even better, for free.
To enable POP3 access, you have to allow Yahoo to drop advertisements in your mailbox. The paragraph of text you read before clicking to turn on the POP3 access explains this to you.
It's amazing how this "We must force all customers to receive advertising" bullshit is driving the industry. If Yahoo mail would give me POP3 access for a small fee, I'd pay the fee, but instead they force me to download spam. So I don't use it. So I also don't buy the much more valuable "own domain" feature they're offering at the moment. I don't want spam. I have money, I'm willing to pay for things. Why does nobody want my money?
With Yahoo's personal address feature, not only do you pay for the service, but you are required to advertise for them:
If I were to host my snowfox.net domain with Yahoo, every outbound message I send would still have those fucking advertisement footers attached that you get with the free service. They want you to pay to advertise for them. You cannot turn these off.
One of the features I like best about it is that it can block out cookies but lets you define sites from it will allow cookies to be set/sent. It will also remove referrers if you want it to
Yeah. Webwasher also lets you set a maximum expiration date on cookies. I leave -all- cookies on now, but excepting a few preferred sites, I make Webwasher expire all cookies within 48 hours. This makes it impossible for evil companies to do any meaningful analysis of my browsing habits.
That might be their prediction, but I don't see that happening from a content-provider's perspective. I know that on my sites (at least one of my sites gets 2M impressions/month, no small potatoes), I would never subject my users to that. Neither would Slashdot, Wired, Freshmeat, Salon, Macintouch, or any other sites in this vein, I daresay.
Not every site is designed to have constant return visitors like Slashdot, Wired, Salon, etc. Some of the product-oriented web sites are the worst when it comes to throwing up pop-ups and trying to trap you when you mean to leave.
These sites figure they've accomplished what they intended with your eyes once you've come and seen their nifty product spiel. So, once they've finished, why not try and sell your eyes to someone else when they're through with you? What's to lose?
As a plus, if you have a bizarre Microsoft Proxy Server in your office that isn't configured in a Linux-friendly manner, this is an excellent way of helping yourself out.
Food for thought: Debian can be installed/maintained via an http proxy. You can keep a real OS up-to-date for real productivity, even if your sysadmin is of the point-and-click Microsoft Bob Incarnate variety.:)
Slashdot Mirror
Why is it that whenever I send -anyone- on AOL mail, I start getting spam for a few days after?
I've long wondered whether AOL might be selling lists of external e-mail accounts to spammers.
This is ripe for PDA development, of course. And if AbiWord, Gnumeric and all could be run on a palm-sized unit, that'd be nothing to sneeze at. :)
I ain't been this excited since the Fat Boys starred in The Disorderlies and they featured an Amiga 1000 on screen!!!
Of course, it turns out that the Amiga 1000's 5.5v keyboard is explosive when wet, if movies are to be believed.
I won't quote - please go back to the parent post and read it in full. It deserves your attention.
Now, the whole problem is precisely this: Affirmative Action. Affirmative Action ensures that blacks will never be treated equally. It's entirely valid for co-workers to suspect you might be in the office because of AA, or for other students to consider whether AA might be what put you in school.
So long as there are government-mandated percentages, no minority will ever have a fighting chance of getting the dignity it deserves.
It's like - they threw a story and nobody came.
Which Microsoft hack would this be?
Is this the Windows9x-on-top-of-DOS Microsoft hack?
Is this the "invent your own language" MS Word Grammar Checker Microsoft hack?
Or is this the mutex display bit "one program freezes your OS" Microsoft 3.1 and 95 hack?
Or is this the web-browser-turned-drive-explorer hack?
Or is this the always-locking-up ftp hack?
Maybe this is the "some versions of Direct 3D render bitmaps upside down, others don't, depending on which version of the interface you probe" Microsoft hack?
No, I'll bet it's the unstable "oversized int destroys your registry and requires reinstall" Microsoft hack.
Nyet. It's got to be the brain dead Outlook stationery format Microsoft hack.
No wait, I'll bet it's...
The list is almost painfully incomplete without Worms, Tetris and Magic Carpet. Wolfenstein belonged where Doom is, and like it or not - Windows Solitaire belongs up there as well.
The real news here would be the project's host ISP. All those HUGE screenshots, and not yet slashdotted? They must be screaming out a pipe the size of AOL's.
I'd like to remind all of you who are running various beta releases of 2.4 that it is HIGHLY UNWISE to rely on software which DOESN'T EXIST. I strongly urge you to downgrade to a 2.2.x series kernel. You only believe you're booting successfully. You're only imagining that you see DRI, USB and similar on your desktop. YOU ARE FOOLING YOURSELVES.
I repeat: 2.2.4 is currently for unicorns, fae and hobgoblins only! Do NOT run mythical software!!!
I think this was the intended link.
Sonic lives again. :) Is it just me, or has S3 started to remind you of one of those patchwork quilts you sew out of bits of clothing which have worn too thin and useless for anything else?
I'm half-expecting S3 to make the big Atari/Home and Commodore acquisition announcements. I'm eagerly awaiting my new Amiga hardware running TOS 3.5 with ViRGE DirectX 5 3D deceleration and maybe AdLib audio beside, all beautifully orchestrated to support the wonderfully exciting Snork Adventure launch title.* And the scary thing is - it'll work. Like those people with three and four diseases, all holding each other in check, and where if just one thing becomes slightly less horrible they'll topple - it's going to work.
* Sold exclusively at Radio Shack.
The most important point the paper makes is this:
Hence the popular argument that splitting up MS may accomplish nothing. MS is a monopoly, but the solution is not the traditional solution. A new type of monopoly requires a new type of resolution.
It seems like this is the only one of all these phones that makes any sense.
I mean - check it out - everything on that page has a camera and a little screen on it. If those are for video then - what the hell is the point of using a video phone if all you ever see is the side of someone's head, and only if you're not even listening to the conversation?
Buying Sega simply wouldn't make any sense.
Sega have let their most valuable franchises die for lack of new titles (Sonic, NiGHTS, etc). A new title in any of their old main lines wouldn't have the brand appeal it did two years ago.
Sega's biggest strength in recent years has been their arcade work. And while leveraging Sega's arcade division to further Nintendo's placement might have made sense a few years ago, the arcade market is on a decline with redemption machines (the games you get tickets/tokens for playing) fast replacing game machines.
Sega also has a foothold in redemption machines, but that's two steps removed from Nintendo's meat and potatos, and that market too is starting to plateau; probably not a direction the big N wants to grow in.
Here are two reasons your employer likely holds - one valid, one not.
Valid: If they hire replacements to work beneath you, with you taking the promotion, they can hire cheap labor. If they need to hire someone qualified to work above you, they need to pay your wage or better up front.
Not Valid: If you don't want to take the promotion, they see you as less than 100% dedicated to your work. A disinterest in becoming more involved with the company's core functioning is seen as an gross manifestation of that lack of dedication and likely a slap in the face to those above you who have worked hard to get there.
If you're lucky, you may be able to work past the second by laying down exactly what you can accomplish in your current capacity that you cannot accomplish in the new position. Making an effort to express your position as concisely and absolutely as possible may save your job.
If the first is more the issue, you may be screwed. If they're trying to turn you from an expensive worker into an inexpensive manager, that's going to be hard to fight.
If you want a CRISP and sharp 2D display and reasonably fast 3D, go with the Matrox G200. You can get these used for next to nothing. I recently got an 8 meg AGP for $20.
The G400 is a step up. It has much better 3D performance than the G200. Matrox 3D is not industry top-of-the-line at current. But like the G200, the G400 has the sharpest display in the business. It also has dual head support, either on the card or as a cheap add-on option, depending on the model. Dual head is great if you can find a second, cheap monitor. Like the G200, you can find G400s cheap. I've seen them go for $60-80 for the 16 meg single head version.
The G450 is pretty much the G400, except that multi-head is the only version sold, and the second display shares the same fast RAMDAC as the first display, meaning you could run two very sharp displays in the 2048x1536 range. (The second display on the G400 multi-head loses significant clarity or refresh rate (your choice) above 1600x1200.) There are, however, some issues with drivers for the second head destabilizing the system. (Hopefully someone knows more about when this may be resolved?)
If you want FAST FAST FAST 3D above all else, are willing to sacrifice a bit of crispness at the higher resolutions, and aren't militant about demanding open source drivers, have a listen to the nvidia and ATI advocates. Both are excellent cards, though ATI's driver support is currently a little behind nvidia's.
So this <fingerquote> motion blur technology </fingerquote> involves a kind of smearing technique? Kind of like you'd get from taking photos of monitors?
Physics is starting to be integrated in graphics hardware.
Accurately resolving collisions between several dozen rigid bodies in real time is a tax on even the most advanced hardware. Most games fudge physics horribly, and real physics just plain doesn't happen in real time for any kind of a complex scene with numerous non-uniform, variable elasticity and independently moving objects.
So long as graphics cards continue to take on real time physics, you can be sure that graphic simulation hardware has barely entered its infancy.
You asked that question after spending a full post refuting the ZDNet article's wildly inaccurate assertions. This got your post moderated upward, and now most of the press who's covering Linux is going to see your counter-points.
You still want to ask what the point is?
How do you attract people to your honeypot system if it's configured just like your other systems, as the article said?
I've read of configurations with all traffic to unsupported ports redirected to a honeypot system: "someone trying to telnet/ftp to my web server? I'll send you to my honeypot for observation instead."
But if you're running a standard, normally configured system as the article mentioned, this doesn't make sense anymore. How's this work?
To enable POP3 access, you have to allow Yahoo to drop advertisements in your mailbox. The paragraph of text you read before clicking to turn on the POP3 access explains this to you.
With Yahoo's personal address feature, not only do you pay for the service, but you are required to advertise for them:
If I were to host my snowfox.net domain with Yahoo, every outbound message I send would still have those fucking advertisement footers attached that you get with the free service. They want you to pay to advertise for them . You cannot turn these off.
Frankly, if you can't tell, this pisses me off.
Yeah. Webwasher also lets you set a maximum expiration date on cookies. I leave -all- cookies on now, but excepting a few preferred sites, I make Webwasher expire all cookies within 48 hours. This makes it impossible for evil companies to do any meaningful analysis of my browsing habits.
Not every site is designed to have constant return visitors like Slashdot, Wired, Salon, etc. Some of the product-oriented web sites are the worst when it comes to throwing up pop-ups and trying to trap you when you mean to leave.
These sites figure they've accomplished what they intended with your eyes once you've come and seen their nifty product spiel. So, once they've finished, why not try and sell your eyes to someone else when they're through with you? What's to lose?
Food for thought: Debian can be installed/maintained via an http proxy. You can keep a real OS up-to-date for real productivity, even if your sysadmin is of the point-and-click Microsoft Bob Incarnate variety. :)