LinuxOne is out there publicly claiming to be a developer and supplier of valuable Linux applications/tools/utilities/distributions/etc. There are many many people out there who do not have the tools and knowledge necessary to see that this is a blatant lie. When they IPO, many innocent investors will be ripped off. I would say, ha-ha and not care, but this could put a black smear on the Linux community in the minds of some ignorant people. Ignorant people tend to spread their mis-information to each other,..
So that is why LinuxOne needs to be carefully and meticulously dissected, and you need to make sure *everyone* is aware of this. ...dave
what if you don't believe in phones! then you're shafted.
and don't tell me that's a ridiculous argument, it's no more silly than yours. no it isn't strictly required that the source be on the floppy, but that is the general standard. there is room on the floppy, the binary is on the floppy, then the source should be there too.
Who's got a rafter to string these crooks up from? I'd say nail them up by their spines, but i doubt they're strong enough to with-stand it..
i'm sending this article around to everyone i know who will understand it,.. i hope all of you do the same, people need to know about this. the only way to combat LinuxOne's public, out-right lies is to make the truth public as well. ...dave
well, there is that possibility. but see, i tend not to have my own ISP account,.. but we won't get into that:) free net access == good.
still, i'm moving soon and i'll have some kind of high-speed access at the new place (adsl or broadband : the eternal struggle), once i get used to that i don't know how i could deal with a measely 56k modem (which connects at 26k most of the time anyway!) ...dave
i don't, i don't think about it at all.. no more than i do turning a page in a book.
Only when you're doing the most trivial things that are already stored in your cortex's intruction cache", like browsing and clicking around.
not true, not true! i never have to think about doing things on the computer,.. sure when i'm coding i have to think "ok now what do i want to do here,.." etc. etc.. but i mean, even in an xterm, i just think of what i want to do and do it,.. i guess it comes from far too much time spent in front of a CRT,.. but still. for me, it's second nature.
Still, direct neural interfaces are far superior. (Do I hear "mind control"?):) I can see a combination of speech recognition and a better, non-QWERTY keyboard system gaining popularity in the near future.
yes, but i'm not holding my breath.:)
while CRTs are large and cumbersome, once flat-screens become cheaper, using a desktop won't be quite as annoying (or brain-cancer inducing:)
yes and you'll note i prefaced the whole thing with a big IMHO,..:)
The fact that you have to consciously interact with the computer
i don't, i don't think about it at all.. no more than i do turning a page in a book.
and who said i cared about 'most people',.. Joe Q. Public can bite me:) i'm only concerned about me, and geeks like me,....;)
in all seriousness, though, i think you're wrong. keyboards are much more efficient. find me someone who can write graffiti at 100 wpm:) you'd break the li'l palm.
while CRTs are large and cumbersome, once flat-screens become cheaper, using a desktop won't be quite as annoying (or brain-cancer inducing:)
just because you hate desktops don't assume everyone else does:) ...dave
well, i meant colour screens for the Palm, which is the only PDA for me;) heheh,.. i've been a bit of a USR loyalist ever since they gave me a free 56k when they first came out. ok, ok i know Palm isn't owned by USR anymore,.. and all of that but still.
you could do that but then you'd have to know the # for a local ISP which is a little more tedious, but yes, you're right. i just didn't think of it because i don't associate modems with mobile computing (due to the aforementioned limitation.) ...dave
sitting down in front of a nice 17-19" screen, and typing on a responsive keyboard, using a nice, accurate mouse to click on little pictures is just an aesthetic and ergonomically pleasing experience, and i don't think it will ever just go away. (well, at least not for a long while.)
however,.. the use of the PDA (when it is designed correctly) is there, and it's nice to be able to pull out a palm and play rogue or take notes during a meeting. it would be good to be able to send e-mail or check up on slashdot, but right now -- as we all know -- portable 'net access is not too keen. it's both expensive and fairly unwieldy (i haven't seen a cordless modem that is chic.)
so, yes, in a few years when wireless net access (or some other form of mobile net access, like say, ethernet plugs abound like public phones) is a reality, then we'll have that.
right now there is a lot PDAs can do that people don't make full use of, and not everyone uses them (i still haven't bought one, though everyone i know has one just about..) colour screens are coming this year, from all reports... so that will be good.
i really don't see anything "revolutionary" happening any time soon. if i could see something i'd be off getting it developed and making space in my garage for my millions of dollars;) ...dave
first: the post i'm replying to should be marked as flamebait.
second: read the bloody poll, mang. if red hat released a survey saying 80% of people in north dakota loved red hat best of all, i would be skeptical. if they were, at the time, under litigation, i would be even more skeptical. if the true general opinion was that red hat really sucked, i would be yet again, more skeptical.
it's not just the fact that this comes from mikkkrosoft. it's that:
a) they released it under a psuedonym (and if you believe this organization was created for any purpose other than as a MS PR front, you're a fool.) b) the timing of the poll c) the loaded questions in the poll d) the fact that polls in general are easily fabricated and meaningless.
i'm sick of all the karma whores posting anti-slashdot sentiments, if you gimps hate this place and those of us who enjoy it, then go somewhere else. form your own little windoze site using the new release of slash.
while some people (who are as immature and thoughtless as you) do have a knee-jerk, very unwarranted anti-MS sentiment -- many (i would say the majority) of us have very good reasons for it. ...dave (p.s. stop marking each other up just because you agree with each other. this has got to be the fifth or sixth post i have replied to that was marked up far beyond what it deserved.)
it's amazing to me that mikkkrosoft can pull stunts like this without losing credibility with the rest of the world. forward this to your IT folks who still have any respect for bilbo of the gatespeople and his flock of PR demons, if they haven't lost any trust they had, then your next point of business should be having them removed from their position..
imagine ford making a dummy little company to make a fake survey that said most americans love their ford automobiles most of all, and don't want any research into fuel cells, electric/gas hybrids, etc. etc.
talk about flamebait, you obviously totally missed the point of what i was saying.
go jerk off, relax, and then come back and talk to me. until then, you're far too indignant and self-centered for me to even consider trying to talk about anything with you. ...dave
well, the data on the VCR has no encryption or anything to speak of.
the built in copy-protection on VCRs is that they don't record at the quality that they read, so every time you make a copy of a tape it degrades more and more.
if they do it with a digital medium (such as DVD) it's much more obvious that they've done this on purpose (whereas most people don't realize the poor recording quality of most VCRs is completely intentional.) ...dave
i think it's about time all the amateur lawyers on sloth stop trying to tell us how the legal system works, and marking each other up a zillion points.
if the judge thought the DMCA is corrupt and unconstitutional (which it is) it is the duty of his position to kill it. ...dave
this is insanity, next he's going to say outlawing dual-casette recorders, and preventing one VCR's output to be routed into another's input is constitutional..
where's my ice-pick? someone needs a lobotomy. ...dave
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most likely the rumour is false, but going on what was said they were considering other platforms (again, probably nothing of the sort is happening at all.)
actually, they would need to make quite a large and clunky daughter-card for it to work, because it would need to carry the 16mb of flash memory needed to store the code morphing software. since Crusoe is intended for portable (read: small) devices, this is not really an option.
they're not really bending over backwards, i mean, none of us has seen the code morphing software up close and personal, but i would hope that it is fairly modular and can be changed to deal with other instruction sets without rewriting the entire thing.
it has been mentioned many many times that it has this (emulating any platform they wish) capability, and that they have tested it on 30 different OSes (and i can only assume this includes non-x86 as well.)
not releasing the native instruction set prevents people from writing native-coded software, which is *good* because they want to be able to completely change it around without worrying about backwards compatibility. say they did release it, and say someone ported linux to it, and then then this became 100,000 people's favourite version of linux. well, they change the chip around then they've got a ton of annoyed troglodytes ranting and raving about how they're being ignored when they're paying customers who now have obsolete systems.
i'm not even going to grace your final wattage comment with a response because it's obvious you don't want to think about it, and you're just going to shoot off some half-assed rebuttle. ...dave
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well, be careful here because 'bad' is not a very subjective term. the performance can still be acceptable, if not as mind-blurringly fast as on a native chip.
for me, it would be worth the sacrifice if, as i've said in a million other posts, i could use the same machine as if it were other platforms. or even given the low power of the Crusoe, it would be worth it to have the machine in portable form.
so, performance will be worse but not necessarily bad. ...dave
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Nah, the Apple MBs have so much more stuff than the regular PC systems. I don't think it would be feasible to say that one MB would work for both Windoze and Apple.
since Crusoe is going to require a different motherboard than an x86 anyway, why not make them advanced/complicated/kludgey enough to do this? i say do it! have the same machine be able to be a sparc, a mac, a wintel box or an sgi!;)
a boy can dream, can't he? ...dave
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MacOS Rumors is running a blurb that Apple is exploring porting Darwin to other processors (including Transmeta's Crusoe processor)
modify the chip to fit in the sockets of other chips,.. hmm, yes this sounds like a wonderful idea! i mean, the big point of the Crusoe is that it is its own animal and does all the emulation in software,.. but no, you're right! to hell with that! let's start making 300 varieties of Crusoe so that you can plug it into everything from your Miata to your N64! hooray! thank you for this brilliant innovation.
ok, enough sarcasm. right now it seems like it's just a low-power x86? well, no, it doesn't, because you've been told what it will do soon.. right now that's all that is available, but it only seems that way if you manage to consciously block out what you've been told thousands of times.. besides which, the low-itude (new word i guess) of the power consumption is *amazing* for the performance. it's a wonderful chip, a great boon to mobile computing. i may actually buy a lap-top now..
please put some more thought into things before posting, let alone marking things to 2. ...dave
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aye, and they almost certainly will create a G4 emulato-- err, Code Morpher;) but i would think that would require a lot more work (since it has to run spectacularly well, and we're dealing with low-level code here.)
i would like to see it on both, chances are, though, that the x86 port of darwin would be available before the g4 crusoe.
theoretically, since the code morphing software resides in flash memory, once it does happen, all you'd need to do is flash it, and give it a new hdd (or lose your windoze data.)
either way, i wouldn't use darwin as my main os,.. it's cute, it's interesting, but i'm fairly certain it's not going to perform up to my standards (especially on a crusoe.) ...dave
The idea expressed above, that we can all protect our privacy if only we wish it to be so, is definitely junior high level..But I love the name Captain Obvious. It works.
I should expect that you would just dismiss me out of hand and not offer any actual rebuttle.
The fact remains, if you wish to protect your privacy, you can do so. No one is in a black car following you around, sitting outside your house with one of those radiation devices that lets them see whatever is on your monitor (the name of the damn things escapes me.), etc. etc.
Granted this requires a lot of caution (as i said before), but it is entirely possible without holing yourself up in a shack in the Yukon.
If you want the convenience of ordering things on-line, then it's unavoidable that you send your data to the company you're buying goods from,.. if you don't want your info spread around, deal with reputable companies, if you must do it at all.
I really don't care who has my address, phone number, name, et cetera. It's when they can make use of that information in malicious ways that I have a problem, and it's these malicious activities that need to be stopped (ie, telemarketing, e-mail spam, junk mail..)
I'm glad you like the title, if anyone deserved it, certainly, it's you. ...dave
(P.S. to the AC who had this sig in usenet in 1991, I'm not sure where I saw it but it very well could have been you...)
replace computers as primary gaming devices? absolutely.
for 5-6 months, until the PC video cards catch up and surpass the PSX2,.. then, we're back to PCs and the PSX2 is out-dated like my PSX is right now (though, don't get me wrong, there are lots of great games for it, they just don't compare in graphics, sound or complexity.) ...dave
Now when can we see a joyous article about the death of Jon Katz' net access? If I wanted to read drivel like this I would go stop by the local Junior High School.
Privacy is only as dead as you let it be. If you want to keep your life private, make use of IP masquerading. If you are cautious, you can severely limit the amount of data you give away (that's right, you're giving it away, they aren't sneaking into your house and going into your wallet..)
I think we need to form a petition to discontinue Jon Katz' articles on/. -- doesn't he have enough money to run his own site? Oh, that's right, if he were to do so, there would be no traffic, and thus, no sponsor money,.. I'd be happy to see him just disappear altogether.
Am I mistaken or have I seen Senor Katz' articles on Salon in the past? He fits in well there, with the exception of Andrew Leonard, there are nigh-unto zilch in quality articles there.
I wouldn't be so vicious about this but I don't think he (Katz) even tries to write quality articles. If he does, more's the pity. ...dave
This involves one of the internal debates I've had about C for years
the debate here is not about C, it's about hiring nimrods. the problem is that people write bad code, and it's almost unavoidable. no matter how you change the language, there will always be twinks to write bad, unmaintainable, unportable code in it. ...dave
hellooo, mcfly,... the investment firm wasn't angry, the LinuxOne crooks were. if the creeps at LinuxOne get rich off of this scam i swear i'll move to Guam and live like a pygmie for the rest of my days. ...dave
Slashdot Mirror
LinuxOne is out there publicly claiming to be a developer and supplier of valuable Linux applications/tools/utilities/distributions/etc. There are many many people out there who do not have the tools and knowledge necessary to see that this is a blatant lie. When they IPO, many innocent investors will be ripped off. I would say, ha-ha and not care, but this could put a black smear on the Linux community in the minds of some ignorant people. Ignorant people tend to spread their mis-information to each other,..
So that is why LinuxOne needs to be carefully and meticulously dissected, and you need to make sure *everyone* is aware of this.
...dave
what if you don't believe in phones! then you're shafted.
and don't tell me that's a ridiculous argument, it's no more silly than yours. no it isn't strictly required that the source be on the floppy, but that is the general standard. there is room on the floppy, the binary is on the floppy, then the source should be there too.
don't be a troll.
...dave
Who's got a rafter to string these crooks up from? I'd say nail them up by their spines, but i doubt they're strong enough to with-stand it..
i'm sending this article around to everyone i know who will understand it,.. i hope all of you do the same, people need to know about this. the only way to combat LinuxOne's public, out-right lies is to make the truth public as well.
...dave
well, there is that possibility. but see, i tend not to have my own ISP account,.. but we won't get into that
still, i'm moving soon and i'll have some kind of high-speed access at the new place (adsl or broadband : the eternal struggle), once i get used to that i don't know how i could deal with a measely 56k modem (which connects at 26k most of the time anyway!)
...dave
i don't, i don't think about it at all.. no more than i do turning a page in a book.
:) I can see a combination of speech recognition and a better, non-QWERTY keyboard system gaining popularity in the near future.
:)
:)
Only when you're doing the most trivial things that are already stored in your cortex's intruction cache", like browsing and clicking around.
not true, not true! i never have to think about doing things on the computer,.. sure when i'm coding i have to think "ok now what do i want to do here,.." etc. etc.. but i mean, even in an xterm, i just think of what i want to do and do it,.. i guess it comes from far too much time spent in front of a CRT,.. but still. for me, it's second nature.
Still, direct neural interfaces are far superior. (Do I hear "mind control"?)
yes, but i'm not holding my breath.
while CRTs are large and cumbersome, once flat-screens become cheaper, using a desktop won't be quite as annoying (or brain-cancer inducing
Yes, but all the other disadvantages remain...
such as?
...dave
That's your opinion.
:)
:) i'm only concerned about me, and geeks like me,.... ;)
:) you'd break the li'l palm.
:)
:)
yes and you'll note i prefaced the whole thing with a big IMHO,..
The fact that you have to consciously interact with the computer
i don't, i don't think about it at all.. no more than i do turning a page in a book.
and who said i cared about 'most people',.. Joe Q. Public can bite me
in all seriousness, though, i think you're wrong. keyboards are much more efficient. find me someone who can write graffiti at 100 wpm
while CRTs are large and cumbersome, once flat-screens become cheaper, using a desktop won't be quite as annoying (or brain-cancer inducing
just because you hate desktops don't assume everyone else does
...dave
well, i meant colour screens for the Palm, which is the only PDA for me
you could do that but then you'd have to know the # for a local ISP which is a little more tedious, but yes, you're right. i just didn't think of it because i don't associate modems with mobile computing (due to the aforementioned limitation.)
...dave
I M H O...
sitting down in front of a nice 17-19" screen,
and typing on a responsive keyboard, using a
nice, accurate mouse to click on little pictures
is just an aesthetic and ergonomically pleasing
experience, and i don't think it will ever just
go away. (well, at least not for a long while.)
however,.. the use of the PDA (when it is designed
correctly) is there, and it's nice to be able to
pull out a palm and play rogue or take notes
during a meeting. it would be good to be able
to send e-mail or check up on slashdot, but right
now -- as we all know -- portable 'net access
is not too keen. it's both expensive and fairly
unwieldy (i haven't seen a cordless modem that
is chic.)
so, yes, in a few years when wireless net access
(or some other form of mobile net access, like
say, ethernet plugs abound like public phones) is
a reality, then we'll have that.
right now there is a lot PDAs can do that people
don't make full use of, and not everyone uses
them (i still haven't bought one, though everyone
i know has one just about..) colour screens
are coming this year, from all reports... so
that will be good.
i really don't see anything "revolutionary"
happening any time soon. if i could see something
i'd be off getting it developed and making space
in my garage for my millions of dollars
...dave
first: the post i'm replying to should be marked as flamebait.
second: read the bloody poll, mang. if red hat
released a survey saying 80% of people in north
dakota loved red hat best of all, i would be
skeptical. if they were, at the time, under
litigation, i would be even more skeptical. if
the true general opinion was that red hat really
sucked, i would be yet again, more skeptical.
it's not just the fact that this comes from
mikkkrosoft. it's that:
a) they released it under a psuedonym (and if
you believe this organization was created for
any purpose other than as a MS PR front, you're
a fool.)
b) the timing of the poll
c) the loaded questions in the poll
d) the fact that polls in general are easily
fabricated and meaningless.
i'm sick of all the karma whores posting
anti-slashdot sentiments, if you gimps hate this
place and those of us who enjoy it, then go
somewhere else. form your own little windoze
site using the new release of slash.
while some people (who are as immature and
thoughtless as you) do have a knee-jerk, very
unwarranted anti-MS sentiment -- many (i would
say the majority) of us have very good reasons
for it.
...dave
(p.s. stop marking each other up just because
you agree with each other. this has got to
be the fifth or sixth post i have replied to that
was marked up far beyond what it deserved.)
it's amazing to me that mikkkrosoft can pull
stunts like this without losing credibility with
the rest of the world. forward this to your IT
folks who still have any respect for bilbo of
the gatespeople and his flock of PR demons, if
they haven't lost any trust they had, then your
next point of business should be having them
removed from their position..
imagine ford making a dummy little company to
make a fake survey that said most americans love
their ford automobiles most of all, and don't
want any research into fuel cells, electric/gas
hybrids, etc. etc.
they would be crucified.
...dave
talk about flamebait, you obviously totally
missed the point of what i was saying.
go jerk off, relax, and then come back and
talk to me. until then, you're far too indignant
and self-centered for me to even consider
trying to talk about anything with you.
...dave
well, the data on the VCR has no encryption
or anything to speak of.
the built in copy-protection on VCRs is that
they don't record at the quality that they
read, so every time you make a copy of a tape
it degrades more and more.
if they do it with a digital medium (such as
DVD) it's much more obvious that they've done
this on purpose (whereas most people don't
realize the poor recording quality of most
VCRs is completely intentional.)
...dave
i think it's about time all the amateur
lawyers on sloth stop trying to tell us how
the legal system works, and marking each other
up a zillion points.
if the judge thought the DMCA is corrupt
and unconstitutional (which it is) it is the
duty of his position to kill it.
...dave
No, he's going to make MANUFACTURING YOUR OWN VCR (single cassette or otherwise) illegal. In
fact, it probably already is.
i'm not sure what your real intention was
with that post but let me say,..
a) it is not.
b) it should not be.
why would it be? as long as you don't
sell it you can build whatever you want.
...dave
this is insanity, next he's going to say
outlawing dual-casette recorders, and preventing
one VCR's output to be routed into another's
input is constitutional..
where's my ice-pick? someone needs a lobotomy.
...dave
most likely the rumour is false, but going on what was said they were considering other platforms (again, probably nothing of the sort is happening at all.)
actually, they would need to make quite a large and clunky daughter-card for it to work, because it would need to carry the 16mb of flash memory needed to store the code morphing software. since Crusoe is intended for portable (read: small) devices, this is not really an option.
they're not really bending over backwards, i mean, none of us has seen the code morphing software up close and personal, but i would hope that it is fairly modular and can be changed to deal with other instruction sets without rewriting the entire thing.
it has been mentioned many many times that it has this (emulating any platform they wish) capability, and that they have tested it on 30 different OSes (and i can only assume this includes non-x86 as well.)
not releasing the native instruction set prevents people from writing native-coded software, which is *good* because they want to be able to completely change it around without worrying about backwards compatibility. say they did release it, and say someone ported linux to it, and then then this became 100,000 people's favourite version of linux. well, they change the chip around then they've got a ton of annoyed troglodytes ranting and raving about how they're being ignored when they're paying customers who now have obsolete systems.
i'm not even going to grace your final wattage comment with a response because it's obvious you don't want to think about it, and you're just going to shoot off some half-assed rebuttle.
...dave
well, be careful here because 'bad' is not a very subjective term. the performance can still be acceptable, if not as mind-blurringly fast as on a native chip.
for me, it would be worth the sacrifice if, as i've said in a million other posts, i could use the same machine as if it were other platforms. or even given the low power of the Crusoe, it would be worth it to have the machine in portable form.
so, performance will be worse but not necessarily bad.
...dave
Nah, the Apple MBs have so much more stuff than the regular PC systems. I don't think it would be feasible to say that one MB would work for both Windoze and Apple.
;)
since Crusoe is going to require a different motherboard than an x86 anyway, why not make them advanced/complicated/kludgey enough to do this? i say do it! have the same machine be able to be a sparc, a mac, a wintel box or an sgi!
a boy can dream, can't he?
...dave
MacOS Rumors is running a blurb that Apple is exploring porting Darwin to other processors (including Transmeta's Crusoe processor)
modify the chip to fit in the sockets of other chips,.. hmm, yes this sounds like a wonderful idea! i mean, the big point of the Crusoe is that it is its own animal and does all the emulation in software,.. but no, you're right! to hell with that! let's start making 300 varieties of Crusoe so that you can plug it into everything from your Miata to your N64! hooray! thank you for this brilliant innovation.
ok, enough sarcasm. right now it seems like it's just a low-power x86? well, no, it doesn't, because you've been told what it will do soon.. right now that's all that is available, but it only seems that way if you manage to consciously block out what you've been told thousands of times.. besides which, the low-itude (new word i guess) of the power consumption is *amazing* for the performance. it's a wonderful chip, a great boon to mobile computing. i may actually buy a lap-top now..
please put some more thought into things before posting, let alone marking things to 2.
...dave
aye, and they almost certainly will create a G4 emulato-- err, Code Morpher
i would like to see it on both, chances are, though, that the x86 port of darwin would be available before the g4 crusoe.
theoretically, since the code morphing software resides in flash memory, once it does happen, all you'd need to do is flash it, and give it a new hdd (or lose your windoze data.)
either way, i wouldn't use darwin as my main os,.. it's cute, it's interesting, but i'm fairly certain it's not going to perform up to my standards (especially on a crusoe.)
...dave
The idea expressed above, that we can all protect our privacy if only we wish it to be so, is definitely junior high level..But I love the name Captain Obvious. It works.
I should expect that you would just dismiss me out of hand and not offer any actual rebuttle.
The fact remains, if you wish to protect your privacy, you can do so. No one is in a black car following you around, sitting outside your house with one of those radiation devices that lets them see whatever is on your monitor (the name of the damn things escapes me.), etc. etc.
Granted this requires a lot of caution (as i said before), but it is entirely possible without holing yourself up in a shack in the Yukon.
If you want the convenience of ordering things on-line, then it's unavoidable that you send your data to the company you're buying goods from,.. if you don't want your info spread around, deal with reputable companies, if you must do it at all.
I really don't care who has my address, phone number, name, et cetera. It's when they can make use of that information in malicious ways that I have a problem, and it's these malicious activities that need to be stopped (ie, telemarketing, e-mail spam, junk mail..)
I'm glad you like the title, if anyone deserved it, certainly, it's you.
...dave
(P.S. to the AC who had this sig in usenet in 1991, I'm not sure where I saw it but it very well could have been you...)
replace computers as primary gaming devices? absolutely.
for 5-6 months, until the PC video cards
catch up and surpass the PSX2,.. then, we're
back to PCs and the PSX2 is out-dated like
my PSX is right now (though, don't get me
wrong, there are lots of great games for it,
they just don't compare in graphics, sound
or complexity.)
...dave
Now when can we see a joyous article about the death of Jon Katz' net access? If I wanted to read drivel like this I would go stop by the local Junior High School.
Privacy is only as dead as you let it be. If you want to keep your life private, make use of IP masquerading. If you are cautious, you can severely limit the amount of data you give away (that's right, you're giving it away, they aren't sneaking into your house and going into your wallet..)
I think we need to form a petition to discontinue Jon Katz' articles on
Am I mistaken or have I seen Senor Katz' articles on Salon in the past? He fits in well there, with the exception of Andrew Leonard, there are nigh-unto zilch in quality articles there.
I wouldn't be so vicious about this but I don't think he (Katz) even tries to write quality articles. If he does, more's the pity.
...dave
This involves one of the internal debates I've had about C for years
the debate here is not about C, it's about hiring nimrods. the problem is that people write bad code, and it's almost unavoidable. no matter how you change the language, there will always be twinks to write bad, unmaintainable, unportable code in it.
...dave
hellooo, mcfly,... the investment firm
wasn't angry, the LinuxOne crooks were. if
the creeps at LinuxOne get rich off of this
scam i swear i'll move to Guam and live like
a pygmie for the rest of my days.
...dave