If it is entertaining, that's great. If it's not, too bad.
Reading or watching responsible, well done journalism is a duty we all have. Without the performance of this duty, we hand over power to those that would do great harm to us.
It would be nice to hear a similary announcement from HP (HP-UX is a pain in the ass). IRIX can't be too long for this world, since SGI can't be long for this world. Of the non-free UNIX offerings that leaves Solaris. It would be a good thing if Linux, BSD and Solaris were the survivors. That would mean enough competition, which is *always* a good thing.
I did what you said before I moved (6/2001), only to find that my ADSL was losing sync from 2-20 times a day (for 1-30 minutes at a time). The noise margins on my line are bad.
I had Earthstink at the time. They did nothing. Wait, let me rephrase that: they would do nothing.
I have speakeasy now, and I've been working with them SINCE 7/2002 TO FIX THIS PROBLEM.
Let's see, recently SBC:
- found and fixed an F2 loop problem - found another issue with the F2 (it was split in a weird way) - replaced my NID
I replaced all my internal wiring with Cat 5 and Cat 3, after purchasing a POTS splitter.
It's been a fucking nightmare. The problem is still going on, and I've been told by Speakeasy that Covad will very soon stop working on the problem.
Speakeasy have been great. Covad have been OK. All are at the mercy of SBC, who have been completely fucking useless.
One SBC guy came out and told me he'd never been trained on the test equipment. Other came out and had been given completely incorrect instructions ("I'm not here to replace your NID" when he was supposed to).
My opinion is that SBC is just playing a waiting game. They know eventually the FCC will bend to the incumbent polititians and inact laws that are in their favor. When that happens, kiss Covad's ass goodbye.
Why is it so hard to understand this: computers are good at math, humans are not so good.
One year, before there was a turbotax, et al, I made a simple math error on my return. It was in my favor, unfortunately. When I got a notice from the IRS that I had made that error, I was complete agast. I had checked it several times and not caught it. I was very worried that they might flag me for a slight ly higher chance of being audited.
I had a couple of Yamaha drives, and I found they were really, really picky about SCSI termination. In fact, I always suspected they caused termination problems. When I removed their drive from my system, I had many fewer SCSI problems. Of course, I'm mostly IDE these days (have an IDE DVD+RW that works fine, and am lusting after the forthcoming Plextor DVD+RW drive).
No I don't feel stupid. Your comment, "I think that's a joke", could reasonably interpreted as "this isn't a real patent, it's a joke". I now understand you meant "it's a joke that the patent office granted it". Had I originally understood, I wouldn't have even posted a reply.
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If it's a joke, why was it approved? Why is it in the US PTO database? I would think a joke would get a good laugh, and then cause a reject letter to be mailed out.
If jokes get into the US PTO database, that makes the system a joke. After all, if it is a joke and not marked as such, how do I tell a joke? Perhaps the patents referenced from the main story are all jokes?
At this point, I hope you see the folly of your comment.
So, I coming into work and after spending an hour, I feel lousy. I've been working hard lately and I don't feel bad about going home and sleeping.
Do I get paid for 1 hour or 8?
Right, 8. The flip side of overtime (because I'm except) is that I get undertime, too.
Btw, don't anyone tell me that if I work 8 hours a day for the rest of that pay period I have to take vacation to fill out that 1 hr day. Any time you work in a given day, you are paid. That's the law regarding exempt employees.
what number should we use? The MSDN # is 800-936-5800, but I'm not sure that's the best #. Since someone pointed out that the MSDN page has similar issues, this might be a good # to call.
Maybe if they get enough phone calls they'll fix it asap.
Whether or not IA64 code is small is stupidly off topic. How much work goes into making the COMPILER that produced that code is on topic. It takes a VERY SMART compiler to produce good IA64 code. Case in point: we talked with Intel and when they found out we could not use their backend (ie, we have a compiler from something all the way to machine code) they very skeptical of our ability to have an IA64 port. Why? Because an amazing amount of effort went into the instruction scheduler they wrote, and they can't imagine other people duplicating that effort.
Your other comment was also irrelevant (that x86-64 is not a clean architecture). So frigging what! Most people have already written their compiler for it! If with small extensions we have an x86-64 compiler, and it runs amazingly fast on an AMD chip, it's all good.
Porting of apps isn't the real issue. The real issue is waiting for GOOD compilers for all the languages that are used by a given app. Only THEN can the app authors recompile and retest and rerelease. If the compilers aren't there, you are SOL, because running IA32 binaries on IA64 will be a dog.
The fact that a good compiler takes an inordinate amount of time to create for Itanium is bad for small businesses and free software developers. It's good for Intel, if they succeed, since it will change the game (no compatibility) and make them top dog. Hmmmm. Where have I seen this before? Oh, right, Microsoft (ie, embrace Java, extend to C#).
x86-64 will be very easy for compiler writers. My company's own compiler would take 6 weeks to port to x86-64, but an IA64 port would take person years.
A trial period that very likely would result in injuries. Not worth it, if you ask me, being someone that walked the streets of Berkeley for 13 years (3 miles a day). There are too many pedestrians in Berkeley for anything but pedestrians!
Motorized skateboards are ILLEGAL on the sidewalk. Call the BPD to check. Here's the tactic I use for people "driving" on the sidewalk: raise your arms perpendicular to your body and become a barrier for the vehicle to pass by you. When the vehicle stops, explain that they should be on the street not the sidewalk. Be polite. No 4-letter words. Sometimes the people riding the things don't know the local laws. Sometimes they're just assholes.
ummmmmmmm, AC, you've completely missed the point. I didn't mention bicycles because they're not SUPPOSED to be on the sidewalk. My point is that because people BREAK THE LAW, my health is at risk if I do the obvious and normal thing (A).
A bunch of poeple here are upset about this ban. Jesus, people, where's your common sense? I've logged a LOT of miles on sidewalks (3 miles per day for 5+ years) and I've been hit twice by bicycles and had countless near misses (read: would have been hits had I not jumped out of the way) with humans operating bicycles, skateboards and rollerblades.
For those that are STILL not with me, take this test:
You are walking on a sidewalk and you are confronted with a slow moving person ahead of you. You:
A. Walk around them!
B. Walk slower so as to not bump into them.
C. Look over your shoulder to make sure you won't be run down when you step around the old lady.
If you said A... bzzzzzzzzt. Because bicycles illegally share our sidewalks, you cannot choose A.
Another test: someone is coming straight for you on a bicycle. Do you step left, right or stay where you are? If you step left, what if they veer right?
People, the word `sidewalk' matches the regexp ".*walk$" for a reason!
Over the years I've read a fair amount about your case. I'm sure some of the coverage was fair and some not. Many of the articles purported to contain quotes from you on various subjects. I have a sense, after reading all this, that while you feel you did something wrong, you are not really that sorry for what you did. Furthermore, I have the feeling that you only regret having been caught and not having done something wrong. Is my sense wrong? If so, please set the record straight.
As a 15 year Sun customer, all the indications I have seen are that Sun is worse than Microsoft when it comes to cut-throat competition and intellectual property, they are simply not as successful.
Care to be specific? As a 17-year Sun customer/user (the group I was in at UCB got one of the early Sun 1's) I have not witnessed anything you allude to.
So what, MS have communicated with Miguel? That doesn't mean they are going to play nice in the future. They might be leading him and the other Mono developers down the garden path, you know. Why? We already know MS and Gates and Balmer HATE open source software. Why not play a little cat and mouse, perhaps to teach all the industry that uses OSS a lesson?
In the US there are double the number of suicides as homicides. (I've seen this reported a few places, most recently on the HBO documentary on suicide.) The predominant instrument of choice, for both types of execution, is a gun.
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If it is entertaining, that's great. If it's not, too bad.
Reading or watching responsible, well done journalism is a duty we all have. Without the performance of this duty, we hand over power to those that would do great harm to us.
Info about DVD+R/W compatibility is here, and it's not nearly as bad as you make it out to be.
My DVD player reads DVD+R and DVD+RW just fine, and it's more than a year old.
It would be nice to hear a similary announcement from HP (HP-UX is a pain in the ass). IRIX can't be too long for this world, since SGI can't be long for this world. Of the non-free UNIX offerings that leaves Solaris. It would be a good thing if Linux, BSD and Solaris were the survivors. That would mean enough competition, which is *always* a good thing.
Not only that, he has used only 33MB of that bitchin' disk array. That is a crime.
will take care of the tail of a log file problem...
You are completely wrong. Witness my case:
I did what you said before I moved (6/2001), only to find that my ADSL was losing sync from 2-20 times a day (for 1-30 minutes at a time). The noise margins on my line are bad.
I had Earthstink at the time. They did nothing. Wait, let me rephrase that: they would do nothing.
I have speakeasy now, and I've been working with them SINCE 7/2002 TO FIX THIS PROBLEM.
Let's see, recently SBC:
- found and fixed an F2 loop problem
- found another issue with the F2 (it was split in a weird way)
- replaced my NID
I replaced all my internal wiring with Cat 5 and Cat 3, after purchasing a POTS splitter.
It's been a fucking nightmare. The problem is still going on, and I've been told by Speakeasy that Covad will very soon stop working on the problem.
Speakeasy have been great.
Covad have been OK.
All are at the mercy of SBC, who have been completely fucking useless.
One SBC guy came out and told me he'd never been trained on the test equipment. Other came out and had been given completely incorrect instructions ("I'm not here to replace your NID" when he was supposed to).
My opinion is that SBC is just playing a waiting game. They know eventually the FCC will bend to the incumbent polititians and inact laws that are in their favor. When that happens, kiss Covad's ass goodbye.
Why is it so hard to understand this: computers are good at math, humans are not so good.
One year, before there was a turbotax, et al, I made a simple math error on my return. It was in my favor, unfortunately. When I got a notice from the IRS that I had made that error, I was complete agast. I had checked it several times and not caught it. I was very worried that they might flag me for a slight ly higher chance of being audited.
I had a couple of Yamaha drives, and I found they were really, really picky about SCSI termination. In fact, I always suspected they caused termination problems. When I removed their drive from my system, I had many fewer SCSI problems. Of course, I'm mostly IDE these days (have an IDE DVD+RW that works fine, and am lusting after the forthcoming Plextor DVD+RW drive).
No I don't feel stupid. Your comment, "I think that's a joke", could reasonably interpreted as "this isn't a real patent, it's a joke". I now understand you meant "it's a joke that the patent office granted it". Had I originally understood, I wouldn't have even posted a reply.
If it's a joke, why was it approved? Why is it in the US PTO database? I would think a joke would get a good laugh, and then cause a reject letter to be mailed out.
If jokes get into the US PTO database, that makes the system a joke. After all, if it is a joke and not marked as such, how do I tell a joke? Perhaps the patents referenced from the main story are all jokes?
At this point, I hope you see the folly of your comment.
So, I coming into work and after spending an hour, I feel lousy. I've been working hard lately and I don't feel bad about going home and sleeping.
Do I get paid for 1 hour or 8?
Right, 8. The flip side of overtime (because I'm except) is that I get undertime, too.
Btw, don't anyone tell me that if I work 8 hours a day for the rest of that pay period I have to take vacation to fill out that 1 hr day. Any time you work in a given day, you are paid. That's the law regarding exempt employees.
what number should we use? The MSDN # is 800-936-5800, but I'm not sure that's the best #. Since someone pointed out that the MSDN page has similar issues, this might be a good # to call.
Maybe if they get enough phone calls they'll fix it asap.
You completely missed the point of my point.
Whether or not IA64 code is small is stupidly off topic. How much work goes into making the COMPILER that produced that code is on topic. It takes a VERY SMART compiler to produce good IA64 code. Case in point: we talked with Intel and when they found out we could not use their backend (ie, we have a compiler from something all the way to machine code) they very skeptical of our ability to have an IA64 port. Why? Because an amazing amount of effort went into the instruction scheduler they wrote, and they can't imagine other people duplicating that effort.
Your other comment was also irrelevant (that x86-64 is not a clean architecture). So frigging what! Most people have already written their compiler for it! If with small extensions we have an x86-64 compiler, and it runs amazingly fast on an AMD chip, it's all good.
Porting of apps isn't the real issue. The real issue is waiting for GOOD compilers for all the languages that are used by a given app. Only THEN can the app authors recompile and retest and rerelease. If the compilers aren't there, you are SOL, because running IA32 binaries on IA64 will be a dog.
The fact that a good compiler takes an inordinate amount of time to create for Itanium is bad for small businesses and free software developers. It's good for Intel, if they succeed, since it will change the game (no compatibility) and make them top dog. Hmmmm. Where have I seen this before? Oh, right, Microsoft (ie, embrace Java, extend to C#).
x86-64 will be very easy for compiler writers. My company's own compiler would take 6 weeks to port to x86-64, but an IA64 port would take person years.
nytimes.com gets around the mozilla blocking of new windows, somehow. I've never seen another site that does.
A trial period that very likely would result in injuries. Not worth it, if you ask me, being someone that walked the streets of Berkeley for 13 years (3 miles a day). There are too many pedestrians in Berkeley for anything but pedestrians!
Motorized skateboards are ILLEGAL on the sidewalk. Call the BPD to check. Here's the tactic I use for people "driving" on the sidewalk: raise your arms perpendicular to your body and become a barrier for the vehicle to pass by you. When the vehicle stops, explain that they should be on the street not the sidewalk. Be polite. No 4-letter words. Sometimes the people riding the things don't know the local laws. Sometimes they're just assholes.
Let me ask you: do you ride your bicycle on the sidewalks in Berkeley?
ummmmmmmm, AC, you've completely missed the point. I didn't mention bicycles because they're not SUPPOSED to be on the sidewalk. My point is that because people BREAK THE LAW, my health is at risk if I do the obvious and normal thing (A).
As I said, I've been hit twice.
A bunch of poeple here are upset about this ban. Jesus, people, where's your common sense? I've logged a LOT of miles on sidewalks (3 miles per day for 5+ years) and I've been hit twice by bicycles and had countless near misses (read: would have been hits had I not jumped out of the way) with humans operating bicycles, skateboards and rollerblades.
For those that are STILL not with me, take this test:
You are walking on a sidewalk and you are confronted with a slow moving person ahead of you. You:
A. Walk around them!
B. Walk slower so as to not bump into them.
C. Look over your shoulder to make sure you won't be run down when you step around the old lady.
If you said A... bzzzzzzzzt. Because bicycles illegally share our sidewalks, you cannot choose A.
Another test: someone is coming straight for you on a bicycle. Do you step left, right or stay where you are? If you step left, what if they veer right?
People, the word `sidewalk' matches the regexp ".*walk$" for a reason!
Over the years I've read a fair amount about your case. I'm sure some of the coverage was fair and some not. Many of the articles purported to contain quotes from you on various subjects. I have a sense, after reading all this, that while you feel you did something wrong, you are not really that sorry for what you did. Furthermore, I have the feeling that you only regret having been caught and not having done something wrong. Is my sense wrong? If so, please set the record straight.
The most interesting article I could find about cold fusion.
Care to be specific? As a 17-year Sun customer/user (the group I was in at UCB got one of the early Sun 1's) I have not witnessed anything you allude to.
So what, MS have communicated with Miguel? That doesn't mean they are going to play nice in the future. They might be leading him and the other Mono developers down the garden path, you know. Why? We already know MS and Gates and Balmer HATE open source software. Why not play a little cat and mouse, perhaps to teach all the industry that uses OSS a lesson?
In the US there are double the number of suicides as homicides. (I've seen this reported a few places, most recently on the HBO documentary on suicide.) The predominant instrument of choice, for both types of execution, is a gun.