Someone should buy BIOS space so that each time you reboot when installing software under Windows, the BIOS flashes up "seeing this advert too often? Time to upgrade your OS!".
Yeah, Crusoe is a *much* neater solution, you don;t make laptops smaller & cheaper by trying to squeeze in even more stuff. But how much faster would a cooled Crusoe be?
Oh yeah, we had a water cooled laptop ages ago, but it didn't work even after we sloshed all the mud out of the case. Maybe we could have a dedicated Cola intake on computers to divert coke away from the tty?
How long before we start seeing claims such as "She never would have had the idea in the first place if she hadn't seen the format specification while working for my company, therefore it is developed using our comapny's intellectual capital and we're claiming a 30% stake in it. As it violates her employment agreement with this company, it also renders the GPL invalid."
All we need now are NamShubs to stop people dialling up porn/warez/gnu sites before they even *think* about doing it.
Is there anything that can be done about forcing people to include NamShub clauses in their contracts?
Caveat: My schooling was on the whole very enlightened. From what I have seen/heard/read the USA is quite different, much less inspired. Therefore you must use your own judgement.
Substance: If your school has recreational type classes that are designed for students to do short term classes in constructive hobbies like photography, drama, public speaking, try use such a program to your advantage. If not, you might be able to do it outside class hours.
Regardless, we did extremely well in organising intersting stuff (like a genuine Unix class) because we did all the running around and organising. We then just found a sympathetic teacher and presented the whole thing allready running, "Hey, just sign this, and you get more classes listed on your roster and you don't actually have to do anything!". This gave the teachers concerned an easy ride since they knew that we could be trusted not to goof off.
As well as bypassing the bureaucracy, it'll also let you demonstrate that you're not a bunch of delinquent virus coders and pirates. And if they say no, you can always just not associate it with school at all. We ended up doing good and benevolent things to the library's loans computer, such as babysitting backups (onto 40 Mb QIC while playing Rogue/Nethack on a VT-101 as I recall, those were the days... sigh...)
A sequence of carrier molecules that can be used to replicate software through biological life forms.
As a supporting patent, we are also patenting the description of geographical areas by reprenting them in a virtualised form on a compressed cellolose subtrate using a biologically based light sensor descibed in patent 1 as a reader and chemical compounds that rely on the differential reflection of electro-magnetic radiation to encode the virtualised geography onto the substrate.
In regards to patent 1, we intend on charging an imodest royalty whenever licenced users engage in sexual intercourse. Patent 2 will be vigorously enforced, even though our only licenced application for the forseable future is a 1956 AAA roadmap of Bumfukt AZ.
Our ES box is positively aenemic in the clock speed department compared to our desktop intel boxen. And yes, when I do CPU intensive tasks, the desktop intel boxes will cream our rather old 167 MHz Ultra. However: - Our Sun boxes are reliable. - I think there's still a (narrowing) advantage on the IO/throughput side of things. - Other stuff Case point: A map I just did displays allmost instantly off our cruddy old ES box onto my even older Sparc5 desktop. Same map takes several minutes on a PII 300. Yes, I think Sun and SGI's lofty ground is being eroded, but there's more to big computing than clock speed. Xix.
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This is what it used to be like. If someone annoyed you or acted stupidly, you told their SysAdmin and they had their account pulled. People were a little more considerate since the results of trolls would end up in your mailbox.
As nice an idea as this is (I can see a strong case against anonymity), I doubt that it will work. There is just too much scope to circumvent these sorts of measures. For example, how are you going to police who buys pre-paid net access CDs? How about the enterprising people who bought you deCSS and unfuck.exe?
It would have been for more useful to see what the various Big Name Amigoids are doing now. Far example, Carl Sassenrath who wrote chunks of the OS, Dave Haynie their senior engineer (and maker of the hilarious C= Deathbed Vigil video) Fred Fish even. On a tangent, I notice that Jeff Minter is working for/with 3DO.
Ever noticed how Amiga desktop like GNOME can be? Suspiciously so IMHO.:o)
I scored an old Labtam XTerms for $5 AUD (that's about $3.50 USD). It does 8 bit colour at a decent res (1024 x 768 at least) and my plan is to connect all my boxen to the one terminal. The PC which has Windows on it will probably be the only other monitor and run an X server as well. (and I'm going to get a VT-101 because that's what I learnt Unix on).
I like the XTerm because it's a neat solution with no monving parts to break conflict with hardware, I can also put the hardware itself away in another room and it's silent since the Xterm has no fan.:o)
I recall that the major paper pushing the efficiency of Dvorak was done in the 30's or something by the inventor of the Dvorak keyboard. No studies since then have found any major differences between Qwerty/Dvorak AFAIK.
If we were going to do a new keyboard layout, why not loose the hunt'n'peck alltogether and introduce chorded keyboards where you have ten keys giving 2^10 combinations without shifting a single finger from the home row. This is sorta like arguing about what tyres work best on a horse cart.
I remember when I was studying my Prof. used Landsat MSS to demonstrate that a cotton grower was drawing water from a river illegally. He was also scanning the hills for Ganga plants at one stage. MSS was pretty good for irrigation water since you have coverage every 16 days filed away that you can drdge up years after the event. Higher resolution stuff (sub metre) is a bit more difficult since you either have to deliberately scan an area, or have lots of satellites or a lousy revisit time. Never mind the insane volume of data you'd need to store.
The 1010 was the official external floppy drive. One magazine review at the time summarised it as, "If you buy this drive after reading this review, you are profoundly stupid" (or something like that). I had a slim-line RocLite which was v. nice. Wasn't the 510 an A500 add-on of some description?
The longer it takes to crack SDMI, the worse it is going to be for RIAA. Sure, it took two days for MS's format to start leaking. But suppose it was 6 months down the track and lots of people had invested lots of money in making Big Name artists available? Rather than egg on your face, you suddenly find yourself either living with an insecure format and accepting piracy, or taking all your infrastructure down and starting again (read: hose that $$$ up the wall). This'll be a truely amazing risk management exercise for RIAA.:o)
I couldnn't run Minix in a sane fashion on my Amiga, so I did the next best thing and replaced just about everything except the kernel with U*ix like stuff from micro ports of GPL stuff. When I diteched my Amiga (well, it still lurks) Linux was a "not much thought" choice since for what I wanted to do Linux/FreeBSD were much of a muchness and it seemed there were more GPL people on Linux.
My ISP runs on FreeBSD and I'm tempted to find another box so I can play with FreeBSD...
I haven't had a lid on my box for a long time now.
The only noticeable effect is that not one AM radio in the house works when my computer is on. But that also happens when my Win box is swtiched on (and I rarely have the lid off that).
And what do you suppose is going to happen when ISPs start cutting of the alt.pornz feed and www.filthy-perverts.com? People will start by posting to non-porn groups and sneaking stuff in other un-expected places. Far from reducing the odds of kids stumbling onto stuff, it's just as likely to increase the chances of un-intended viewing.
The only way to filter that kind of thing effectively is to filter all sites except those that are acceptable. And I am also reminded of the x-ray crystalographer who was unable to peruse professional sites becuase "x-ra" was enough to trip the [company|university] firewalls (appeared in the "Feedback" column of New Scientist in the last year).
I am amazed. I thought this sort of thing would always happen in the USA, not here.
But what I've seen over the past few days is a huge wave of angst and self pity. And I'm not sure if that's going to achieve anything worthwhile now that people are aware of the problem.
Don't get me wrong. Counselling and suspension for wearing something "different" to school tells me that there are some weird ideas out there. There is definitely something wrong. But simply lamenting your fate will not get you anywhere.
What are people going to do? I'm trying to define what was different between my high school and college (junior & senior high) years. High school sucked, but college was great, even though the types of people were much and the same. The biggest differences I can pinpoint are that in college:
- The staff were happy to let us run amok since we could be trusted to use this privilage constructively (trust was earnt, i.e. when they realised we all had root logins for the library's Xenix system and we hadn't trashed it)
- While animosity did exist between groups, it was not "hostile", this seems to not have been the case in many of my friends schools in the same state even. I suppose that's a culture of tolerance thing.
- Find pockets of support in staff and give them reasons why they should support you. I have a report card for roleplaying because we supported the English with writing and whatnot. Because we were prepared to design it ourselves, and justify the need, we did our own projectile experiment for physics.
I suppose, build benign power bases! Parents, take an active interest in the culture that your child's school is promoting.
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All those bitmap jaggies in the corner of my pants itch like crazy.
I am sure everything in banned *somewhere* in the world. The illogical result of this is that censorship is set by the lowest common denominator.
X.
Someone should buy BIOS space so that each time you reboot when installing software under Windows, the BIOS flashes up "seeing this advert too often? Time to upgrade your OS!".
X.
Yeah, Crusoe is a *much* neater solution, you don;t make laptops smaller & cheaper by trying to squeeze in even more stuff. But how much faster would a cooled Crusoe be?
Oh yeah, we had a water cooled laptop ages ago, but it didn't work even after we sloshed all the mud out of the case. Maybe we could have a dedicated Cola intake on computers to divert coke away from the tty?
X
How long before we start seeing claims such as "She never would have had the idea in the first place if she hadn't seen the format specification while working for my company, therefore it is developed using our comapny's intellectual capital and we're claiming a 30% stake in it. As it violates her employment agreement with this company, it also renders the GPL invalid."
All we need now are NamShubs to stop people dialling up porn/warez/gnu sites before they even *think* about doing it.
Is there anything that can be done about forcing people to include NamShub clauses in their contracts?
X.
Caveat: My schooling was on the whole very enlightened. From what I have seen/heard/read the USA is quite different, much less inspired. Therefore you must use your own judgement.
Substance:
If your school has recreational type classes that are designed for students to do short term classes in constructive hobbies like photography, drama, public speaking, try use such a program to your advantage. If not, you might be able to do it outside class hours.
Regardless, we did extremely well in organising intersting stuff (like a genuine Unix class) because we did all the running around and organising. We then just found a sympathetic teacher and presented the whole thing allready running, "Hey, just sign this, and you get more classes listed on your roster and you don't actually have to do anything!". This gave the teachers concerned an easy ride since they knew that we could be trusted not to goof off.
As well as bypassing the bureaucracy, it'll also let you demonstrate that you're not a bunch of delinquent virus coders and pirates. And if they say no, you can always just not associate it with school at all. We ended up doing good and benevolent things to the library's loans computer, such as babysitting backups (onto 40 Mb QIC while playing Rogue/Nethack on a VT-101 as I recall, those were the days... sigh...)
X.
I have my software patent:
A sequence of carrier molecules that can be used to replicate software through biological life forms.
As a supporting patent, we are also patenting the description of geographical areas by reprenting them in a virtualised form on a compressed cellolose subtrate using a biologically based light sensor descibed in patent 1 as a reader and chemical compounds that rely on the differential reflection of electro-magnetic radiation to encode
the virtualised geography onto the substrate.
In regards to patent 1, we intend on charging an imodest royalty whenever licenced users engage in sexual intercourse. Patent 2 will be vigorously enforced, even though our only licenced application for the forseable future is a 1956 AAA roadmap of Bumfukt AZ.
X.
Our ES box is positively aenemic in the clock speed department compared to our desktop intel boxen. And yes, when I do CPU intensive tasks, the desktop intel boxes will cream our rather old 167 MHz Ultra. However:
- Our Sun boxes are reliable.
- I think there's still a (narrowing) advantage on the IO/throughput side of things.
- Other stuff
Case point: A map I just did displays allmost instantly off our cruddy old ES box onto my even older Sparc5 desktop. Same map takes several minutes on a PII 300.
Yes, I think Sun and SGI's lofty ground is being eroded, but there's more to big computing than clock speed.
Xix.
This is what it used to be like. If someone annoyed you or acted stupidly, you told their SysAdmin and they had their account pulled. People were a little more considerate since the results of trolls would end up in your mailbox.
As nice an idea as this is (I can see a strong case against anonymity), I doubt that it will work. There is just too much scope to circumvent these sorts of measures. For example, how are you going to police who buys pre-paid net access CDs? How about the enterprising people who bought you deCSS and unfuck.exe?
X
Who???
:o)
It would have been for more useful to see what the various Big Name Amigoids are doing now. Far example, Carl Sassenrath who wrote chunks of the OS, Dave Haynie their senior engineer (and maker of the hilarious C= Deathbed Vigil video) Fred Fish even. On a tangent, I notice that Jeff Minter is working for/with 3DO.
Ever noticed how Amiga desktop like GNOME can be? Suspiciously so IMHO.
X
I scored an old Labtam XTerms for $5 AUD (that's about $3.50 USD). It does 8 bit colour at a decent res (1024 x 768 at least) and my plan is to connect all my boxen to the one terminal. The PC which has Windows on it will probably be the only other monitor and run an X server as well. (and I'm going to get a VT-101 because that's what I learnt Unix on).
:o)
I like the XTerm because it's a neat solution with no monving parts to break conflict with hardware, I can also put the hardware itself away in another room and it's silent since the Xterm has no fan.
X
I recall that the major paper pushing the efficiency of Dvorak was done in the 30's or something by the inventor of the Dvorak keyboard. No studies since then have found any major differences between Qwerty/Dvorak AFAIK.
If we were going to do a new keyboard layout, why not loose the hunt'n'peck alltogether and introduce chorded keyboards where you have ten keys giving 2^10 combinations without shifting a single finger from the home row. This is sorta like arguing about what tyres work best on a horse cart.
x.
I remember when I was studying my Prof. used Landsat MSS to demonstrate that a cotton grower was drawing water from a river illegally. He was also scanning the hills for Ganga plants at one stage. MSS was pretty good for irrigation water since you have coverage every 16 days filed away that you can drdge up years after the event. Higher resolution stuff (sub metre) is a bit more difficult since you either have to deliberately scan an area, or have lots of satellites or a lousy revisit time. Never mind the insane volume of data you'd need to store.
X.
The 1010 was the official external floppy drive. One magazine review at the time summarised it as, "If you buy this drive after reading this review, you are profoundly stupid" (or something like that). I had a slim-line RocLite which was v. nice. Wasn't the 510 an A500 add-on of some description?
The longer it takes to crack SDMI, the worse it is going to be for RIAA. Sure, it took two days for MS's format to start leaking. But suppose it was 6 months down the track and lots of people had invested lots of money in making Big Name artists available? Rather than egg on your face, you suddenly find yourself either living with an insecure format and accepting piracy, or taking all your infrastructure down and starting again (read: hose that $$$ up the wall). This'll be a truely amazing risk management exercise for RIAA. :o)
Antti
I couldnn't run Minix in a sane fashion on my Amiga, so I did the next best thing and replaced just about everything except the kernel with U*ix like stuff from micro ports of GPL stuff. When I diteched my Amiga (well, it still lurks) Linux was a "not much thought" choice since for what I wanted to do Linux/FreeBSD were much of a muchness and it seemed there were more GPL people on Linux.
My ISP runs on FreeBSD and I'm tempted to find another box so I can play with FreeBSD...
Antti
I haven't had a lid on my box for a long time now.
The only noticeable effect is that not one AM radio in the house works when my computer is on. But that also happens when my Win box is swtiched on (and I rarely have the lid off that).
xix.
The only way to filter that kind of thing effectively is to filter all sites except those that are acceptable. And I am also reminded of the x-ray crystalographer who was unable to peruse professional sites becuase "x-ra" was enough to trip the [company|university] firewalls (appeared in the "Feedback" column of New Scientist in the last year).
I am amazed. I thought this sort of thing would always happen in the USA, not here.
Antti
Yeah, it sucks being persecuted.
But what I've seen over the past few days is a huge wave of angst and self pity. And I'm not sure if that's going to achieve anything worthwhile now that people are aware of the problem.
Don't get me wrong. Counselling and suspension for wearing something "different" to school tells me that there are some weird ideas out there. There is definitely something wrong. But simply lamenting your fate will not get you anywhere.
What are people going to do? I'm trying to define what was different between my high school and college (junior & senior high) years. High school sucked, but college was great, even though the types of people were much and the same. The biggest differences I can pinpoint are that in college:
- The staff were happy to let us run amok since we could be trusted to use this privilage constructively (trust was earnt, i.e. when they realised we all had root logins for the library's Xenix system and we hadn't trashed it)
- While animosity did exist between groups, it was not "hostile", this seems to not have been the case in many of my friends schools in the same state even. I suppose that's a culture of tolerance thing.
- Find pockets of support in staff and give them reasons why they should support you. I have a report card for roleplaying because we supported the English with writing and whatnot. Because we were prepared to design it ourselves, and justify the need, we did our own projectile experiment for physics.
I suppose, build benign power bases! Parents, take an active interest in the culture that your child's school is promoting.
Any other ideas???