I own Red Medicine by Fugazi on cassette. I don't even have a cassette player anymore. I downloaded the songs from Napster and burned my new Red Medicine CD.
Was this bad? I payed for the cassette. Fugazi and Dischord got there money and are happy about it, just as I am sure that they are happy that I am still enjoying their music on my CD players now.
How many times has Rob talked about Diablo II? And then on the front page he starts talking about "if you run Windows." Well, rob, you do too. Sometimes it just gets rediculous with the Linux sensationalism.
Yes I use and Love linux and it's my primary OS on all of my computers (excpet the Mac IIsi (no FPU yet)). but I have windows on my workstation to do things like play games, hard disk multi-track recording, and to view quicktime movies.
Everyone knows and trusts PCs. The apps are already there. This affects Linux also. If there is a cool commercial linux app that you want to try and you have a Sparc, Alpha, PowerPC, MIPS, m68k, etc... you are pretty much screwed. Commercial support, even for Linux, is pretty much locked into x86.
Actually from things that I can't really disclose... The Crusoe is exceptionally fast in it's native instruction set. If you actually run on native hardware it's FPU is supposed to be extremely fast. The catch....
Is that Transmeta does not gaarantee that the instruction set will ever be the same between different revisions ot models. They want to support x86 apps and OSes.
The Crusoe is a strange beast and benchmarks very well against clock equivalent Intel Processors. Actually integer performance is through the roof, sometimes doubled.
This interger performance is exactly what servers need. You think that Apache is doing some heavy fp math? No.
Floating point is great for games and scientists. but it's not always the most important thing to look at... the UltraSPARCII is a good example of FPU not being everything.
Ys... in your example, in the physical world, if you can't find it you cna't have it.
That's also it's weakness. The main point is that there is no way that you would even know. As with most security holes in closed programs, no one knew... or really had the capability to know until that one person found it.
It may have taken a while but things like "Netscape engineers are weenies" do get found.
I do feelsorry for the people that got burned by the Dulux DVD, but seriously, didnt' the PayPal thing signal some warning flags?
If this company had the money to actually develop a DVD player/Game system/Automatic Ass wiper, wouldn't they put a little money into a real e-commerce site?
It's not really that hard or expensive to set up a merchant account and go through a reputable credit card verification company.
So for future reference, don't trust a company that sells really expensive stuff that they make that uses PayPal
(I don't think there is anything wrong with PayPal, I use it a lot, this just screams scam.)
You have obviously not paid attention to most EULA's. They are usually very specific about releasing the company from liability. Couple that with UCITA and that spells disaster.
At least with open source software you "can" crack open the hood and look at it. So can others. And, no, most people do not go through the code line by line. And generally there are enough diverse developers and users on any major project that something like a back door would not go through.
You mentioned no Warranty. Well, going back to my first paragraph, most commercial software doesn't have a warranty that actually does any good.
I've said it here before... If you don't want it on the web don't put it there!!!!
Common sense. The last time I had to point out this rediculously simple concept was about portscanning. If you don't want your box port scanned don't put it on the net. If you don't want your website hit or linked to then don't put it on the net.
As far as I knew the internet was pretty much "public". If you only want certain people to get to your site there are many other ways.
The whole beauty of the web was the links (yes i know about gopher). That's what the big draw was and is.
This reminds me of the computer classes that I had in high school. My school had just gotten our first real computer lab and the teacher was new that year. She knew that I had quite a bit of experience with computers and made a deal that I wouldn't have to do the mindless busy work if I helped her keep things running smoothly.
I did. I ran cable. Upgraded some the the PowerMacs, installed software and helped the other students.
Toward the end of the year we had a "project" that was actually going to be used by a company. Like an advertisement or something. I told her that I disagreed with it, that it was wasting the other students education with this mindless corporate crap.
She got angry and since I hadn't technically done any of the assignments for that year I got an F.
This wasn't a stand out example either. There were quite a few people in other classes with other teachers that had similar occurences. This is precisesly why i dropped out and got my GED and went to college.
I'm not really surprised. While I was growing up my Mom and Grandma would play all sorts of board and crad games (backgammon, hearts, canasta, etc.) At holidays it would always be aunts and female cousins that would play the more social games.
Well now it's almost 2001 and even my grandma has cable modem and one of the first things she did was get on the MSN Game Zone to play with my Mom. It's the same as it's always been it's just going over packets now.
I actually think that it's really good that this is happening. It's easier for everyone to at least stay in touch and do the things that they would have done if they were actuall there in person. If my Mom lived more than a few blocks from my grandma I would think that it is even cooler.
This is going back to some of the things brought up during the "Voices from the Hellmouth" series about the net "alienating" youth. It can only alienate you if you want it to. I'm sure that there are people that this does happen to, but I also know a lot of people that have a richer social life from the net, either clubs (LUGs are good), chatting, emailing, or (on topic) online gaming.
One of these many "linux powered" PDA/Cell phone/mp3/dvd/electric toothbrush devices is actually produced... There's been a lot of vapor lately and the whole damn issue is getting too cloudy.
How long have we been hearing about the YOPY and the Agenda. Everyday there is some linux powered little device that has some nice bullet points on the companie's web page and look good at trade shows... but it's not in my pocket yet.
Usually i find it kind of annoying when people point out that something similar was done a month or more ago.... however this was barely 5 days. That is getting on the bad side.
Memory stick - couldn't use the standard compact flash that everything else uses. They had to make a more expensive version in a different shape.
ATRAC3 and MD - I think we all know about this.
Those are just the ones that have been really annoying me lately. Anyway... I wisht there were some standarsation. It's rediculous that for every single device there is a different peripheral for it. My digital camera uses nice cheap compact flash. Why can't a I get a standard palm top (read: PalmOS) that will use compact flash? You'd think that companies could show that they use the same things as everyone else and push that as a value add, however currently Sony just forces it down your throat that they put a memory stick read in every damn thing they make.
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I own Red Medicine by Fugazi on cassette. I don't even have a cassette player anymore. I downloaded the songs from Napster and burned my new Red Medicine CD.
Was this bad? I payed for the cassette. Fugazi and Dischord got there money and are happy about it, just as I am sure that they are happy that I am still enjoying their music on my CD players now.
Remeber that this "No News" policy was partly based on the fact that the output device was a teletype machine (tty).
How many times has Rob talked about Diablo II? And then on the front page he starts talking about "if you run Windows." Well, rob, you do too. Sometimes it just gets rediculous with the Linux sensationalism.
Yes I use and Love linux and it's my primary OS on all of my computers (excpet the Mac IIsi (no FPU yet)). but I have windows on my workstation to do things like play games, hard disk multi-track recording, and to view quicktime movies.
Everyone knows and trusts PCs. The apps are already there. This affects Linux also. If there is a cool commercial linux app that you want to try and you have a Sparc, Alpha, PowerPC, MIPS, m68k, etc... you are pretty much screwed. Commercial support, even for Linux, is pretty much locked into x86.
Actually from things that I can't really disclose... The Crusoe is exceptionally fast in it's native instruction set. If you actually run on native hardware it's FPU is supposed to be extremely fast. The catch....
Is that Transmeta does not gaarantee that the instruction set will ever be the same between different revisions ot models. They want to support x86 apps and OSes.
The Crusoe is a strange beast and benchmarks very well against clock equivalent Intel Processors. Actually integer performance is through the roof, sometimes doubled.
This interger performance is exactly what servers need. You think that Apache is doing some heavy fp math? No.
Floating point is great for games and scientists. but it's not always the most important thing to look at... the UltraSPARCII is a good example of FPU not being everything.
RocketLogix and FiberCycle are looking at Crusoe in the same way
I'm not posting links... you should be able to figure them out.
Rob, not to be offensive... could you wathc for mistakes on your own site first...
Ys... in your example, in the physical world, if you can't find it you cna't have it.
That's also it's weakness. The main point is that there is no way that you would even know. As with most security holes in closed programs, no one knew... or really had the capability to know until that one person found it.
It may have taken a while but things like "Netscape engineers are weenies" do get found.
In My experience at my last position....
ext3 just feels like a kludge. It's not very elegant, but does offer a simple upgrade and degrades to ext2 when mount as such.
jfs is still having issues (in the latest freshmeat announcement fifos are now working.
Mostly I'm glad that reiser will be in the kernel. It's in my opinion the most stable and elegant so far.
Let's hope this doesn't go the way of OpenSales after they changed their name to something strange (Zelerate).
I do feelsorry for the people that got burned by the Dulux DVD, but seriously, didnt' the PayPal thing signal some warning flags?
If this company had the money to actually develop a DVD player/Game system/Automatic Ass wiper, wouldn't they put a little money into a real e-commerce site?
It's not really that hard or expensive to set up a merchant account and go through a reputable credit card verification company.
So for future reference, don't trust a company that sells really expensive stuff that they make that uses PayPal
(I don't think there is anything wrong with PayPal, I use it a lot, this just screams scam.)
After I got my m100, I was lookign at memory upgrades. One of the sites I found is by an MD.
You have obviously not paid attention to most EULA's. They are usually very specific about releasing the company from liability. Couple that with UCITA and that spells disaster.
At least with open source software you "can" crack open the hood and look at it. So can others. And, no, most people do not go through the code line by line. And generally there are enough diverse developers and users on any major project that something like a back door would not go through.
You mentioned no Warranty. Well, going back to my first paragraph, most commercial software doesn't have a warranty that actually does any good.
Sound like what Corel did, which SGI did many years ago
If you looked at the project at all you would see that if you set it up properly, the boot up messages are still displayed on tty2
I've said it here before... If you don't want it on the web don't put it there!!!!
Common sense. The last time I had to point out this rediculously simple concept was about portscanning. If you don't want your box port scanned don't put it on the net. If you don't want your website hit or linked to then don't put it on the net.
As far as I knew the internet was pretty much "public". If you only want certain people to get to your site there are many other ways.
The whole beauty of the web was the links (yes i know about gopher). That's what the big draw was and is.
This reminds me of the computer classes that I had in high school. My school had just gotten our first real computer lab and the teacher was new that year. She knew that I had quite a bit of experience with computers and made a deal that I wouldn't have to do the mindless busy work if I helped her keep things running smoothly.
I did. I ran cable. Upgraded some the the PowerMacs, installed software and helped the other students.
Toward the end of the year we had a "project" that was actually going to be used by a company. Like an advertisement or something. I told her that I disagreed with it, that it was wasting the other students education with this mindless corporate crap.
She got angry and since I hadn't technically done any of the assignments for that year I got an F.
This wasn't a stand out example either. There were quite a few people in other classes with other teachers that had similar occurences. This is precisesly why i dropped out and got my GED and went to college.
Simple solution... If you don't want your box looked at don't put it on the "public" internet.
Maybe I'm looking at this too simply but that's what makes sense to me.
I'm not really surprised. While I was growing up my Mom and Grandma would play all sorts of board and crad games (backgammon, hearts, canasta, etc.) At holidays it would always be aunts and female cousins that would play the more social games.
Well now it's almost 2001 and even my grandma has cable modem and one of the first things she did was get on the MSN Game Zone to play with my Mom. It's the same as it's always been it's just going over packets now.
I actually think that it's really good that this is happening. It's easier for everyone to at least stay in touch and do the things that they would have done if they were actuall there in person. If my Mom lived more than a few blocks from my grandma I would think that it is even cooler.
This is going back to some of the things brought up during the "Voices from the Hellmouth" series about the net "alienating" youth. It can only alienate you if you want it to. I'm sure that there are people that this does happen to, but I also know a lot of people that have a richer social life from the net, either clubs (LUGs are good), chatting, emailing, or (on topic) online gaming.
One of these many "linux powered" PDA/Cell phone/mp3/dvd/electric toothbrush devices is actually produced... There's been a lot of vapor lately and the whole damn issue is getting too cloudy.
How long have we been hearing about the YOPY and the Agenda. Everyday there is some linux powered little device that has some nice bullet points on the companie's web page and look good at trade shows... but it's not in my pocket yet.
We'll see this story again as the slahdot editors forgot that it had just been posted.
Just a little ribbing... nothing to serious.
2000 - 1991 = 9
Simple math
Usually i find it kind of annoying when people point out that something similar was done a month or more ago.... however this was barely 5 days. That is getting on the bad side.
Sony is really bad about proprietary hardware.
Those are just the ones that have been really annoying me lately. Anyway... I wisht there were some standarsation. It's rediculous that for every single device there is a different peripheral for it. My digital camera uses nice cheap compact flash. Why can't a I get a standard palm top (read: PalmOS) that will use compact flash? You'd think that companies could show that they use the same things as everyone else and push that as a value add, however currently Sony just forces it down your throat that they put a memory stick read in every damn thing they make.
I wouldn't completely bet on this... They will probably be put under a "LOT" of pressure.