I honestly think there is a huge gap in UIDs. I got my slashdot account around 2000, I can't believe there were 446,162 people before me signing up for some obscure news website. [heck, it's not pop culture now in 2005!!!].
That said, my UID was lower than the person who said "you must be new".
But that's just it. Rewards come in small packages. A thank you email, phone call, free swag, etc. You shouldn't get a free ride because you were a member of a group who produced a buggy piece of software that lets you decode dvds.
Actually I routinely make a parellel comment. When you see the anti-piracy commercials and they're like "I'm a stunt double, piracy hurts my income" I think "then stop doubling for someone making 150x your salary." I dunno, I generally have a few actors I like seeing but I also like a few production companies too [e.g. LGF].
Though in general your point is dead on. It's even worse in music though because not only are they helped via CG they're not even using their own voice.
Check my UID dude. I'm upset specifically because I'm not new around here.
I mean the people I listed [except Jon] have done cool, useful things that impact our lives today. Congrats, thanks for the hard work, etc.
What people are missing though is that Linux is useful because of 1000s of people [more like tens of thousands...]. Linus started it, but imagine today with no GNU CC, no Mozilla, no gnome, no kde, no bash, no etc.... You're sitting a Linux [or BSD or whatever] machine using 100s of pieces of software NOT WRITTEN BY LINUS OR RMS.
The sooner people realize it's a group effort the better.
Poor by choice? Really? How many people have degrees and can't find employment in their field of choice? Sure you can get a loan, but how does that help when your job has been outsourced.
I mean yes, there are a lot of people out there that give up early. For them I say "too fucking bad". I'm with you on that one.
But there are also a lot of people who just didn't get the same chances in life. They didn't go to schools with proper text books, they had problems at home that got in the way of study, whatever. Not everyone can overcome adversity and really it's shouldn't be a life of turmoil and anguish because your boss doesn't think a teller is worth more than 28k/yr.
Now I'm not against sending jobs overseas. What I *AM* against is sending them overseas because they have laxer laws with regards to minimum salaries [or the employees just demand less]. You don't end up with higher or even often equivalent quality products and the customers end up paying the same anyways. You act as if the average corporation operates with even a shred of ethics.
There isn't anything wrong with being a bank teller or cashier or what not. And I agree with you that having kids is something people ought to plan out more than 3 seconds ahead of time.
But to sit there and act all smug like "who cares how they got the money, the fact they gave a bit away makes them generous" is just immature. I mean you can't tell me with a straight face that what Bill Gates does, what Microsoft does, is actually for the good of the customer and not just "the good of the company".
I'll say it again, let me steal 100$ from your pocket and "donate" it to charity. Then you can praise how generous I am.
Why are the kids poor? What are their parents making in terms of salary to support the elites?
When banks and walmarts and mcdonalds and what not post billion dollar profits and pay their employees THE LEGAL MINIMUM they're definitely not poor by choice. I mean someone has to work the stores, you need to get clothes and other household goods from somewhere.
Similarly MSFT extorts a lot of money from schools, students and businesses. They get stuck into Dell, HP, Sony, etc. They use descriminating licensing policies, etc.
Having corporations and the individuals behind them like Microsoft, McDonalds or whatever donating money is not because they want to help. If they wanted to help they'd pay their employees properly. It's solely for the tax-write off and the positive P.R.
I think you'll find brain drain happening from a lot of large corporations as time progresses. Cuz when it comes down to it, money is important, really important, but only if you make it so.
People will find ways to do what makes them happy [being creative] and enough money to sustain a life style.
Of course the best part of smaller businesses starting up is that the suits lose their jobs. Those useless pricks!
Want a cheap XBox 360? Click here [jasonandmary.com]
Want a 360? BUY ONE. Christ almighty a "free" 360 and I say "free" because you're basically ratting out people to spammers in order to maybe, perhaps, in the future, slight chance, get something you were promissed. I mean have you signed a contract? Are you bound to refer people and them to provide renumeration? I don't think so.
That and if you can't afford a 360 how the fuck can you afford the 60$ video games that go with it?
Get a fucking job and buy a fucking xbox. Stop being a two-bit 12 yr old loser and stop spamming people with useless links to spam harvesters.
Subway has their own problems though, like the 50% DV of sodium in their subs bread.
They really should encourage people to have smaller subs (e.g. 6" or 9"), etc... On the whole though I'd rather be at a subway then a mcdonalds, but given the choice I'd rather just make something myself;-)
bah, I'd rather see fat people [myself included there] doing something active then just sitting there getting fatter, taking up more room on public transit.
Only reason I don't play DDR [other than lack of a DDR machine within 30km of my house] is that I suck at it and it's embarassing. If I had an ounce of co-ordination I'd be a DDR master.
While I'm a linux fan, if the summary is accurate, you're comment is off-base.
Layer 3 aliasing is not the same thing as multiple physical/radio connections. If anything it's more like channel bonding than aliasing.
That said, I don't know how useful this would be. I mean for a windows box it is. I could see the usefulness of this for a repeater but in such cases I'd just use linux and save the license fees.
IP itself doesn't have "ports". TCP is just a transport medium. There is no reason why you can't migrate 99.999% of all servers to TCPv2 and not notice a difference.
We could make TCPv2 have 32-bit ports [and/or additional addressing bits]. This would change the servers/browsers but not in a very difficult way [that is the logic behind the connection would be the same from the high level]. With 32-bit ports you can do a NAT like gateway more effectively.
But even that's not required. TCP supports tunneling [iirc via an option]. So there is no reason why you can't have a DNS entry like.com.myhouse. => 192.168.0.15 via 24.69.18.4
Or whatever. That would be annoying because it would require changes to the DNS infrastructure [and IIRC UDP doesn't support tunneling in a standard way, it can be done of course]. I'd do more of an IPIP tunneling that way it does UDP too.
But before we jump to modifying protocols like that we could try to clean up existing mappings. It may mean that not every house in the world can have it's own [or multiple] IPs. Certainly a large majority of users could deal with being behind a NAT. So drop 5$/mo off the net connection if you lose your IP address. That way the people who want to run servers can still do so and the rest save a few bucks, the IP addresses go back to the domain and we're set.
See that's the problem, there is no widely acceptable standard for mapping IPv4 addresses to v6... if there were it would be trivial, you could say "poof" everyone's ipv4 address is now v6 and just start making new v6 addresses...
Of course I don't know why they went to 128-bits for the address... the 32-bits we have now are not being used effectively anyways. We'll find ways of squandering 128 bits [my bet is you'll still see/8's being handed out].
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From the same country that brought you the monopolizing telcos and DMCA? [not to mention crippling patent system]
HAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Tom
Why do they always do gaming as the benchmark? It's a server processor!!! Do some crypto!
:-) Shameless plug but also good numbers when doing RSA work I guess.
Check this out image where "nocona" is a Pentium 820D [dual-core 64-bit P4].
Those are cycle counts for RSA-x private key operations [with padding] on various processors.
TFM == tomsfastmath
LTM == libtommath
DC == dual-core [two threaded] tomsfastmath
Tom
I honestly think there is a huge gap in UIDs. I got my slashdot account around 2000, I can't believe there were 446,162 people before me signing up for some obscure news website. [heck, it's not pop culture now in 2005!!!].
That said, my UID was lower than the person who said "you must be new".
Tom
But that's just it. Rewards come in small packages. A thank you email, phone call, free swag, etc. You shouldn't get a free ride because you were a member of a group who produced a buggy piece of software that lets you decode dvds.
Tom
Actually I routinely make a parellel comment. When you see the anti-piracy commercials and they're like "I'm a stunt double, piracy hurts my income" I think "then stop doubling for someone making 150x your salary." I dunno, I generally have a few actors I like seeing but I also like a few production companies too [e.g. LGF].
Though in general your point is dead on. It's even worse in music though because not only are they helped via CG they're not even using their own voice.
Tom
Well for one, Jon is *NOT* known for any successful software development achievements.
So you can run a disassembler. Big whoop. Doesn't mean you can add value to a software development team.
Tom
Check my UID dude. I'm upset specifically because I'm not new around here.
I mean the people I listed [except Jon] have done cool, useful things that impact our lives today. Congrats, thanks for the hard work, etc.
What people are missing though is that Linux is useful because of 1000s of people [more like tens of thousands...]. Linus started it, but imagine today with no GNU CC, no Mozilla, no gnome, no kde, no bash, no etc.... You're sitting a Linux [or BSD or whatever] machine using 100s of pieces of software NOT WRITTEN BY LINUS OR RMS.
The sooner people realize it's a group effort the better.
Tom
What's with /. and the fuckin hero worship
Jon is a kid hacker, wasn't even the author of DeCSS for crying out loud.
RMS needs a shower and job.
Kevin Mitnick *IS* a criminal.
Linus is not our lord saviour.
etc. etc...
Tom
Not to mention being a text format it works well with CVS and allows you to have ***PROPER*** revision control, not that crap that Office does.
Tom
Poor by choice? Really? How many people have degrees and can't find employment in their field of choice? Sure you can get a loan, but how does that help when your job has been outsourced.
I mean yes, there are a lot of people out there that give up early. For them I say "too fucking bad". I'm with you on that one.
But there are also a lot of people who just didn't get the same chances in life. They didn't go to schools with proper text books, they had problems at home that got in the way of study, whatever. Not everyone can overcome adversity and really it's shouldn't be a life of turmoil and anguish because your boss doesn't think a teller is worth more than 28k/yr.
Now I'm not against sending jobs overseas. What I *AM* against is sending them overseas because they have laxer laws with regards to minimum salaries [or the employees just demand less]. You don't end up with higher or even often equivalent quality products and the customers end up paying the same anyways. You act as if the average corporation operates with even a shred of ethics.
There isn't anything wrong with being a bank teller or cashier or what not. And I agree with you that having kids is something people ought to plan out more than 3 seconds ahead of time.
But to sit there and act all smug like "who cares how they got the money, the fact they gave a bit away makes them generous" is just immature. I mean you can't tell me with a straight face that what Bill Gates does, what Microsoft does, is actually for the good of the customer and not just "the good of the company".
I'll say it again, let me steal 100$ from your pocket and "donate" it to charity. Then you can praise how generous I am.
Tom
How is it generous to "donate" what you're not entitled to? The guy is a crook. He's donating your money [one way or another].
I mean I just stole 100$ from your chequing account and gave it to the cancer society. Am I generous?
Tom
Um, think 10 seconds ahead of the immediate now.
Why are the kids poor? What are their parents making in terms of salary to support the elites?
When banks and walmarts and mcdonalds and what not post billion dollar profits and pay their employees THE LEGAL MINIMUM they're definitely not poor by choice. I mean someone has to work the stores, you need to get clothes and other household goods from somewhere.
Similarly MSFT extorts a lot of money from schools, students and businesses. They get stuck into Dell, HP, Sony, etc. They use descriminating licensing policies, etc.
Having corporations and the individuals behind them like Microsoft, McDonalds or whatever donating money is not because they want to help. If they wanted to help they'd pay their employees properly. It's solely for the tax-write off and the positive P.R.
Tom
I think you'll find brain drain happening from a lot of large corporations as time progresses. Cuz when it comes down to it, money is important, really important, but only if you make it so.
People will find ways to do what makes them happy [being creative] and enough money to sustain a life style.
Of course the best part of smaller businesses starting up is that the suits lose their jobs. Those useless pricks!
Tom
Sorry for replying to your sig...
Want a cheap XBox 360? Click here [jasonandmary.com]
Want a 360? BUY ONE. Christ almighty a "free" 360 and I say "free" because you're basically ratting out people to spammers in order to maybe, perhaps, in the future, slight chance, get something you were promissed. I mean have you signed a contract? Are you bound to refer people and them to provide renumeration? I don't think so.
That and if you can't afford a 360 how the fuck can you afford the 60$ video games that go with it?
Get a fucking job and buy a fucking xbox. Stop being a two-bit 12 yr old loser and stop spamming people with useless links to spam harvesters.
Tom
Subway has their own problems though, like the 50% DV of sodium in their subs bread.
;-)
They really should encourage people to have smaller subs (e.g. 6" or 9"), etc... On the whole though I'd rather be at a subway then a mcdonalds, but given the choice I'd rather just make something myself
But yeah, DDR in subway would be cool too.
Tom
bah, I'd rather see fat people [myself included there] doing something active then just sitting there getting fatter, taking up more room on public transit.
Only reason I don't play DDR [other than lack of a DDR machine within 30km of my house] is that I suck at it and it's embarassing. If I had an ounce of co-ordination I'd be a DDR master.
Tom
No way, I thought the clown was just a tax writeoff :-)
Besides, we all know subway is better... unless you check the sodium in the bread...
Tom
pushing crappy food and inactivity all at once? What a combo!
What they need to sponsor are DDR competitions. Get enough people dancing and bopping, and bipping and hopping and they'll get in shape soon enough.
Tom
Donating ill-gotten-gains isn't what I call selfless.
Now had he made his fortune via proper business ethics and just "being nice" that would be different.
Just because he has acquired a lot of money doesn't mean he's done it in a respectable manner.
I mean, would you applaud a drug dealer or kiddie porn leader who donates to charity?
Tom
Most laptops I see have an ethernet port. I don't care about PDAs and shit.
:-)
And technically it's better to use the switch because it lowers 802.11 traffic.
That said, I usually only opt for that trick at things like conventions or hotels where the net is expensive.
Tom
That's where a NAT, usb-powered etherenet switch and a couple cables come in handy :-)
Tom
While I'm a linux fan, if the summary is accurate, you're comment is off-base.
Layer 3 aliasing is not the same thing as multiple physical/radio connections. If anything it's more like channel bonding than aliasing.
That said, I don't know how useful this would be. I mean for a windows box it is. I could see the usefulness of this for a repeater but in such cases I'd just use linux and save the license fees.
Tom
IP itself doesn't have "ports". TCP is just a transport medium. There is no reason why you can't migrate 99.999% of all servers to TCPv2 and not notice a difference.
.com.myhouse. => 192.168.0.15 via 24.69.18.4
We could make TCPv2 have 32-bit ports [and/or additional addressing bits]. This would change the servers/browsers but not in a very difficult way [that is the logic behind the connection would be the same from the high level]. With 32-bit ports you can do a NAT like gateway more effectively.
But even that's not required. TCP supports tunneling [iirc via an option]. So there is no reason why you can't have a DNS entry like
Or whatever. That would be annoying because it would require changes to the DNS infrastructure [and IIRC UDP doesn't support tunneling in a standard way, it can be done of course]. I'd do more of an IPIP tunneling that way it does UDP too.
But before we jump to modifying protocols like that we could try to clean up existing mappings. It may mean that not every house in the world can have it's own [or multiple] IPs. Certainly a large majority of users could deal with being behind a NAT. So drop 5$/mo off the net connection if you lose your IP address. That way the people who want to run servers can still do so and the rest save a few bucks, the IP addresses go back to the domain and we're set.
Tom
How about the number of /8's and dark-nets out there [spaces with no hosts]?
Tom
See that's the problem, there is no widely acceptable standard for mapping IPv4 addresses to v6... if there were it would be trivial, you could say "poof" everyone's ipv4 address is now v6 and just start making new v6 addresses...
... the 32-bits we have now are not being used effectively anyways. We'll find ways of squandering 128 bits [my bet is you'll still see /8's being handed out].
Of course I don't know why they went to 128-bits for the address
Tom