The speed improvements are great.. WHEN they work. When I click on a story, it only works about a third of the time, usually nothing happens. And occasionally I get a page with no content. I'd report these as bugs but it doesn't seem to have any consistency so there's nothing to report but random errors, and I suspect you guys are already working on these problems..
BTW, I just hit submit and nothing happened. Add that to the bug list.
Hey, if I'm out sailing, the last thing I want to be thinking about is work.
Long ago, before laptops and even cellular phones were available, I recall going out to the beach in Malibu with my girlfriend. I described to her how in only a few short years, I'd be able to do all my work from the beach with a laptop and a cel phone, and I'd rarely have to go into the office again. She totally stunned me with her response. She said, "you're always talking about how stressed out you are from work, and now here you are at the beach sitting next to a woman in a bikini and you're talking about bringing your work with you! Shut UP and let's go swimming!" So we did. And I've never forgotten what she said. She changed my attitude about work permanently.
If you want the ultimate computer geekware, let me clue you in. NOTHING. No phone, no PDA, no other crap. A real geek doesn't need toys. Wherever he goes, people hand him THEIR toys, all he needs is his mind. And besides, a real pro wants to be SHIELDED from all the annoying calls, pages, etc.
I have often tested this principle when I do consulting gigs. I call it the "Naked Consultant Game." Whenever possible, I go in to the site carrying nothing but a pencil. Occasionally a client will be puzzled, asking where's my phone, laptop, etc. I ask them if they want me to fix their stuff, or if they'd rather look at a bunch of cheap plastic toys. I tell them I'd gladly carry a bunch of crap to gawk at, but it will cost them extra, and take me longer to get onsite carrying all that crap.
I have to laugh when I hear people saving Mac SEs and Stinkpads, thinking they'll become collectible. Not a chance in the world. These were mass produced by the hundreds of thousands, and have zero chance of becoming collectible. Scarcity means value, and these machines are too plentiful to be worth anything even as salvage.
On the other hand, I own a Sol-20, which is a true collectible. Now I just wish I could find a buyer, since it is supposedly now worth around $1000-1500.
This isn't a troll. Elcomsoft's major products are spamware. Dmitry and Elcomsoft are not the kind of people worth defending, they are a pox on the whole internet. If you don't believe me, look at THIS web page:
http://www.mailutilities.com/aee/
and then scroll down to the bottom and note the Elcomsoft copyright message. This software is designed to help spammers extract addresses from email and websites. Every copy of this spamware that Elcomsoft sells means you and I get more spam. They should ALL be in jail, if there was any justice on this earth.
The only distro I ever bought was my first distro, MkLinux DR3. Could have downloaded it too. Since the time I figured out what the hell I was doing, it's been strictly FTP installs for me.
I think the problem is not the cost of the distro, but the cost of supporting materials. I am sick of the OS being free, but having to buy $50 O'Reilly books all the time. I must have over 1 kilobuck of books from ORA, Wrox, etc.
Oh yeah, I still have my Sol-20, it's sitting about 4 feet from me right now. I built it from a kit in 1975, it took me months to get it running. I learned programming and assembler in college on this machine, and did some of my first professional programming jobs with it's assistance. I recently fired it up and it still works but the keyboard contacts have rotted away so no kbd input. I contacted a guy who sells keyboard refurbishment kits for the Sol, I've got to order one and get this darn keyboard working again and then it will be 100% operational.
I've been reading some experiments done by old vintage PC users that stored programs on audio tape. One of them recorded the data tapes to CD and burned audio CDRs of the programs. Now you can just hit play on a CD and load the programs like you used to load them from tape. Very convenient. I've got to get the old SOL running and get my old tape library verified and archived on CDs.
I read this before. He makes a convincing argument that the computer industry doesn't have a shortage of workers, it just has a shortage of workers who will work for almost nothing.
This film wasn't just rereleased, it was completely remastered. For some details on the remastering, check out this URL:
http://www.ivchd.com/news.htm
The English dialog was completely redone and the soundtrack was remixed in Dolby Surround Sound. The video was completely remastered and color corrected using high-end SGI machines running Irix using software by Discreet. I had a gig at their facilities, you wouldn't believe the equipment these people have got. And I wish I could tell you all about the company renting a space in their building that I worked for, they have a project in the works that will completely change the cinema experience. But it's top secret for now..
I recall reading an article on this topic long ago in Scientific American's Amateur Scientist column. I believe this was the first paper that advocated the Bernoulli principle. IIRC, they used more primitive apparatus like smoke trails to observe airflow.
But I think I like the new hypothesis. The droplets expand and hit each other, breaking surface tension and becoming a much denser vapor of water and air. This could exert a considerable air pressure.
Oh shoot, I forgot my punchline. For GODs sakes, somebody help port OpenOffice to MacOS X!!! This will box in MS and keep them from opening that other revenue stream.
then MS will just look to another revenue stream. I've been predicting for months that MS will not ship any MacOS X products until after XP ships. MS committed to shippng a carbonized Office and IE at the ship of MacOS X. They could have easily done it, but this would have threatened their Windows monopoly and given the advantage to Apple's new OS. Mark my words, if XP is blocked, they'll miraculously come up with the carbonized Office apps in mere days, and the revenue will continue to roll in.
SGI is notorious for prohibiting the studios (especially ILM, thus the term "the Jedi clause") from mentioning systems other than SGI. I interviewed with Square (alas I didn't get the job) and I assure you they have Macs doing gruntwork too.
I remember reading a story about Bulwer-Lytton, someone criticised his novels as lacking the elements that a serious novel required: sex, violence, royalty, and religion. B-L said he could do that in one sentence, and wrote:
"'Get your hand off my knee or I'll kill you,' said the Duchess to the Bishop."
I remember that case, and I think your description is misleading. Blosser clearly knew he had no permission to run his programs on the telco systems, those systems were support systems for directory assistance. His apps ran in the background, but consumed so much CPU time that the entire directory assistance system slowed down to the point where it was unusable. That's how he was discovered, the 411 system crashed, and sysadmins traced the apps back to him.
This is a classic death spiral. The advertisers are losing the attention of the audience. So they try stupid stunts to grab your attention. All this is going to do is piss off more people to the point where they'll take action against the ads. And the advertisers will try even more stupid stunts. It's futile. Ads will always display on a CPU that is under the user's control, and if you piss them off, they'll exert that control.
My particular favorite way to eliminate ads is to use your hosts file to alias the adserver's domain to 127.0.0.1, here's a web page that explains how to do it:
http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~atman/spam/adblock.s html
I used to sell a similar system for PCs back in the 1980s, but I'm damned if I can recall the product name or mfr. According to their web page (yes I can read japanese) these are infrared optical nets. The one unique property of IR optical nets is that they do NOT require a line of sight. The IR signal can bounce off walls and go right around obstacles. Even if you are completely off of the LOS, you can still get a good signal as long as you have a good bounce.
After looking intensively at products like Slashcode, it does not surprise me one bit that their routers are a snarl of obfuscated tables that nobody understands.
I read a much better summary of this topic, reviewing the same paper, on the NYTimes. Alas, it is now in the paid archives, so if anyone is interested in paying the $2.50 for the article, here it is:
http://search.nytimes.com/plweb-cgi/fastweb?view=s ite&TemplateName=hitlist_MPoff.tmpl&dbname=unify&s orting=BYRELEVANCE&numresults=10&operator=AND&simp lesearch.x=10&simplesearch.y=10&query1=thedbs%3Dpa st365days%26section%3DALL%26fields%3DALL%26thequer y%3Dultimate%2520laptop&query8=from%20the%20past%2 0year&query7=ultimate%20laptop&query=(ultimate%20l aptop)%20AND%20(20000623=pdate)&query_rule=($query )
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Yes, it does function, and yes, I can read Japanese.
/. incapable of doing anything but bashing Apple?
But seriously, WFT is that "Bad Apples" story title? Seems to me this is a GOOD Apple, or is
The speed improvements are great.. WHEN they work. When I click on a story, it only works about a third of the time, usually nothing happens. And occasionally I get a page with no content. I'd report these as bugs but it doesn't seem to have any consistency so there's nothing to report but random errors, and I suspect you guys are already working on these problems..
BTW, I just hit submit and nothing happened. Add that to the bug list.
Hey, if I'm out sailing, the last thing I want to be thinking about is work.
Long ago, before laptops and even cellular phones were available, I recall going out to the beach in Malibu with my girlfriend. I described to her how in only a few short years, I'd be able to do all my work from the beach with a laptop and a cel phone, and I'd rarely have to go into the office again. She totally stunned me with her response. She said, "you're always talking about how stressed out you are from work, and now here you are at the beach sitting next to a woman in a bikini and you're talking about bringing your work with you! Shut UP and let's go swimming!" So we did. And I've never forgotten what she said. She changed my attitude about work permanently.
If you want the ultimate computer geekware, let me clue you in. NOTHING. No phone, no PDA, no other crap. A real geek doesn't need toys. Wherever he goes, people hand him THEIR toys, all he needs is his mind. And besides, a real pro wants to be SHIELDED from all the annoying calls, pages, etc.
I have often tested this principle when I do consulting gigs. I call it the "Naked Consultant Game." Whenever possible, I go in to the site carrying nothing but a pencil. Occasionally a client will be puzzled, asking where's my phone, laptop, etc. I ask them if they want me to fix their stuff, or if they'd rather look at a bunch of cheap plastic toys. I tell them I'd gladly carry a bunch of crap to gawk at, but it will cost them extra, and take me longer to get onsite carrying all that crap.
I have to laugh when I hear people saving Mac SEs and Stinkpads, thinking they'll become collectible. Not a chance in the world. These were mass produced by the hundreds of thousands, and have zero chance of becoming collectible. Scarcity means value, and these machines are too plentiful to be worth anything even as salvage.
On the other hand, I own a Sol-20, which is a true collectible. Now I just wish I could find a buyer, since it is supposedly now worth around $1000-1500.
This isn't a troll. Elcomsoft's major products are spamware. Dmitry and Elcomsoft are not the kind of people worth defending, they are a pox on the whole internet. If you don't believe me, look at THIS web page:
http://www.mailutilities.com/aee/
and then scroll down to the bottom and note the Elcomsoft copyright message. This software is designed to help spammers extract addresses from email and websites. Every copy of this spamware that Elcomsoft sells means you and I get more spam. They should ALL be in jail, if there was any justice on this earth.
Dmitry also writes and sells spamware.
The only distro I ever bought was my first distro, MkLinux DR3. Could have downloaded it too. Since the time I figured out what the hell I was doing, it's been strictly FTP installs for me.
I think the problem is not the cost of the distro, but the cost of supporting materials. I am sick of the OS being free, but having to buy $50 O'Reilly books all the time. I must have over 1 kilobuck of books from ORA, Wrox, etc.
Oh yeah, I still have my Sol-20, it's sitting about 4 feet from me right now. I built it from a kit in 1975, it took me months to get it running. I learned programming and assembler in college on this machine, and did some of my first professional programming jobs with it's assistance. I recently fired it up and it still works but the keyboard contacts have rotted away so no kbd input. I contacted a guy who sells keyboard refurbishment kits for the Sol, I've got to order one and get this darn keyboard working again and then it will be 100% operational. I've been reading some experiments done by old vintage PC users that stored programs on audio tape. One of them recorded the data tapes to CD and burned audio CDRs of the programs. Now you can just hit play on a CD and load the programs like you used to load them from tape. Very convenient. I've got to get the old SOL running and get my old tape library verified and archived on CDs.
I read this before. He makes a convincing argument that the computer industry doesn't have a shortage of workers, it just has a shortage of workers who will work for almost nothing.
This film wasn't just rereleased, it was completely remastered. For some details on the remastering, check out this URL:
http://www.ivchd.com/news.htm
The English dialog was completely redone and the soundtrack was remixed in Dolby Surround Sound. The video was completely remastered and color corrected using high-end SGI machines running Irix using software by Discreet. I had a gig at their facilities, you wouldn't believe the equipment these people have got. And I wish I could tell you all about the company renting a space in their building that I worked for, they have a project in the works that will completely change the cinema experience. But it's top secret for now..
I recall reading an article on this topic long ago in Scientific American's Amateur Scientist column. I believe this was the first paper that advocated the Bernoulli principle. IIRC, they used more primitive apparatus like smoke trails to observe airflow.
But I think I like the new hypothesis. The droplets expand and hit each other, breaking surface tension and becoming a much denser vapor of water and air. This could exert a considerable air pressure.
Oh shoot, I forgot my punchline. For GODs sakes, somebody help port OpenOffice to MacOS X!!! This will box in MS and keep them from opening that other revenue stream.
then MS will just look to another revenue stream. I've been predicting for months that MS will not ship any MacOS X products until after XP ships. MS committed to shippng a carbonized Office and IE at the ship of MacOS X. They could have easily done it, but this would have threatened their Windows monopoly and given the advantage to Apple's new OS. Mark my words, if XP is blocked, they'll miraculously come up with the carbonized Office apps in mere days, and the revenue will continue to roll in.
SGI is notorious for prohibiting the studios (especially ILM, thus the term "the Jedi clause") from mentioning systems other than SGI. I interviewed with Square (alas I didn't get the job) and I assure you they have Macs doing gruntwork too.
I remember reading a story about Bulwer-Lytton, someone criticised his novels as lacking the elements that a serious novel required: sex, violence, royalty, and religion. B-L said he could do that in one sentence, and wrote:
"'Get your hand off my knee or I'll kill you,' said the Duchess to the Bishop."
I remember that case, and I think your description is misleading. Blosser clearly knew he had no permission to run his programs on the telco systems, those systems were support systems for directory assistance. His apps ran in the background, but consumed so much CPU time that the entire directory assistance system slowed down to the point where it was unusable. That's how he was discovered, the 411 system crashed, and sysadmins traced the apps back to him.
The article is pretty specific to the next-generation G4e and not the G4.
This is a classic death spiral. The advertisers are losing the attention of the audience. So they try stupid stunts to grab your attention. All this is going to do is piss off more people to the point where they'll take action against the ads. And the advertisers will try even more stupid stunts. It's futile. Ads will always display on a CPU that is under the user's control, and if you piss them off, they'll exert that control.s html
My particular favorite way to eliminate ads is to use your hosts file to alias the adserver's domain to 127.0.0.1, here's a web page that explains how to do it:
http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~atman/spam/adblock.
I used to sell a similar system for PCs back in the 1980s, but I'm damned if I can recall the product name or mfr. According to their web page (yes I can read japanese) these are infrared optical nets. The one unique property of IR optical nets is that they do NOT require a line of sight. The IR signal can bounce off walls and go right around obstacles. Even if you are completely off of the LOS, you can still get a good signal as long as you have a good bounce.
Yeah, it was over in 1984 when a silent PC was released and the problem was solved. They called it:
Macintosh.
If you want a silent PC, go get yourself a nice iMac or Cube.
After looking intensively at products like Slashcode, it does not surprise me one bit that their routers are a snarl of obfuscated tables that nobody understands.
I read a much better summary of this topic, reviewing the same paper, on the NYTimes. Alas, it is now in the paid archives, so if anyone is interested in paying the $2.50 for the article, here it is: http://search.nytimes.com/plweb-cgi/fastweb?view=s ite&TemplateName=hitlist_MPoff.tmpl&dbname=unify&s orting=BYRELEVANCE&numresults=10&operator=AND&simp lesearch.x=10&simplesearch.y=10&query1=thedbs%3Dpa st365days%26section%3DALL%26fields%3DALL%26thequer y%3Dultimate%2520laptop&query8=from%20the%20past%2 0year&query7=ultimate%20laptop&query=(ultimate%20l aptop)%20AND%20(20000623=pdate)&query_rule=($query )
All these newsgroups are still on my @home server, with the exception of the Hustler newsgroup which apparently has never been on my local server.
Yes indeed that java applet is nifty.. It wouldn't run in Netscape on MacOS X Classic, but it ran nicely in Omniweb and performed quite well.