Did you pick the name ArchieBunker because you always spout off contrary opinions where they're not wanted just to get attention, or is it just a coincidence?
What's the name of the alpha compiler? I used gcc to compile "hello world" in c++ (regular c works fine) and I guess the c++ libraries aren't loaded or something... I get undefined references to cout and ostream etc. in the 'ld' linking phase. Not like it matters much, I just wonder and I have no life.
You don't have to be Anonymous Coward to be anonymous. Ya, I show my email address but that isn't required.
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On an unrelated matter: I met the author briefly at a Barnes & Noble. Very interesting person to talk to. He mentioned a couple things like potential names for the book which he rejected ("The Fishbowl", "Data Rape"), and chapters that were taken out (such as one about GPS).
I'm not sure that virtual machine is the best term for that (despite the term VMware), because Java has a "virtual machine" that doesn't fit that definition....for what it's worth.
This sounds like a good use of the service that they were building offshore in Cryptonomicon. The characters were starting a company that anonymized packets in another country other than the US and then spit them back on the net. Is anyone really doing this in real life?
(Good title. I automatically read any posts that have to do with Cryptonomion.:)
Even though what you are saying isn't accurate to the story (they anonymizer already existed in the book, they were trying to start a bank and ultimately a data haven) here is something to check out:
Freenet http://freenet.sourceforge.net/ I was pretty excited when I saw this because I(prompted by the ideas in cryptonomicon) was thinking about what it would take to set up a kind of "distributed" data haven.
$1 million dollars of something that can be duplicated for 0.05% (1/2000) of its selling price makes for a pretty nice tax deduction. It's like printing money.
I love it. 1 informative (true, weird), 1 insightful, and 1 overrated. Everyone else has posted the same quote but they didn't put the whole thing (the use it in peace stuff). One other guy (post 77) posted the exact same thing, but one post and one minute after I did. I haven't read the book and even if I did all I did was a search on the net for the quote. And I flamed a guy who sarcastically flamed me, so I lost one point for a troll. So I guess it all balances out, except between all the messages we have added about... oh... six extraneous messages and wasted quite a few moderation points.:)
I saw M13 get whittled down to zaroo boogs, then it came out, I assumed the same for M14. Does this have anything to do with Netscape wanting to get a Communicator 6.0 beta out ASAP?
Piers Anthony had a VR world where there was a character who would die if she couldn't beat the game. You see, she was diabetic and for some reason the game was rigged up (don't remember if it was designed that way or if it was sabotaged) that she could not actually be released from the VR equipment to take her medicine without accomplishing something in the real world.
The closest I know of in the real world to compare is when you are mudding, most of the time you have to escape from the dangerous place you are to get back to town and save so you don't lose all your stuff. This causes it to be a game where if you have a lot of yourself tied up in the game you will not want to log out even if it means missing classes and failing out of school (I've seen this happen).:)
Sueing is a perfectly civil remedy to legal problems. Would you prefer if Carmack hired a thug to rough him up instead? Settling issues in court is pretty much equivalent to civilization. Ok maybe that's going a little far.:)
Maybe speed reading is your problem. You don't go for comprehension. They made it clear that two different aspects have been sped up. In fact I thought I made it clear as well. Spindle speed and the thing that moves the drive head were both separately improved. Read the article again. SLOWLY.:)
Try reading the article instead of trying to get a fast post (#6 in your case). Yes, it has a faster actuator/seek time as well as faster spindle speed, 3.9 ms. The spin also brings the latency down from 2.99 ms to 2.0 ms, they said. I am curious how noisy those suckers are going to be.
According to my copy of "How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way" by Stan Lee and John Buscema, comic superheros are drawn at 8 and three-quarters heads tall even though a typical human male is 6 and a half heads tall.
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Sounded pretty damn good to me. Must be my superior sound card. *shrugs*
True, Open Source is not equal to GPL, but it is a superset. If you are going to talk about Open Source on Slashdot, you won't be speaking the same language unless you are talking about the Open Source Definition. If Open Source ever means anything besides this, then I'm going to start only calling it Free Software.
I just tried it (weirdx). I downloaded the 1.2.2 JRE from sunsoft, and uploaded the weirdx-*.html files to an http server, as well as the jar file... got nothing but starting java applet and a white screen.
Java never seems to work right for me.
At work we are using a java program (running through X in this case), and it crashes about 50% of the time when you try to start it. This is running on HP/UX.
In other words, I'm not impressed with Java so far. But that weirdx LOOKS really awesome. What am I doing wrong?
Yes! Glad to see the good old IBM Personal Computer (PC). Not the AT, not the XT, but the original PC. I got one in Dec. 1997 which is pretty sad when you think about it. I was crusing along on an 8-bit bus and 4.77 MHz CPU. CGA (2-bit color) graphics, but I bet the text mode would work just fine in Linux (too bad the shape of the full-length board prevents me from putting it into a 16-bit ISA slot). The one I had, had a (c) 1984 BIOS (probably an upgrade) with a Seagate 20 MB (that's MB, not GB) drive. 6-pack plus card (to bring me up to the max: 640 KB RAM, game, serial, parallel, a clock that kept the time when you turned off the computer (heh)), 8087 Math Coprocessor (i.e. floating point unit on an external chip). Clicky-clacky 83-key keyboard. Cassette port. BASIC in ROM. Full height (think two CDROM drives on top of each other) 360 KB 5.25" floppy drive. I replaced the Intel 8088 with a clone that had fewer clock cylces for some instructions. I used that baby until I got my spanking new 486/66 in 1993. All you Apple II and Amiga fans harassed me all the while, but where is your Apple II and Amiga now? Ha! Now everyone is using glorified x86's and MS-DOS with add-ons. (Just funnin'. No flames please.)
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Did you pick the name ArchieBunker because you always spout off contrary opinions where they're not wanted just to get attention, or is it just a coincidence?
What's the name of the alpha compiler? I used gcc to compile "hello world" in c++ (regular c works fine) and I guess the c++ libraries aren't loaded or something... I get undefined references to cout and ostream etc. in the 'ld' linking phase. Not like it matters much, I just wonder and I have no life.
You don't have to be Anonymous Coward to be anonymous. Ya, I show my email address but that isn't required.
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On an unrelated matter: I met the author briefly at a Barnes & Noble. Very interesting person to talk to. He mentioned a couple things like potential names for the book which he rejected ("The Fishbowl", "Data Rape"), and chapters that were taken out (such as one about GPS).
I'm not sure that virtual machine is the best term for that (despite the term VMware), because Java has a "virtual machine" that doesn't fit that definition. ...for what it's worth.
This sounds like a good use of the service that they were building offshore in Cryptonomicon. The characters were starting a company that anonymized packets in another country other than the US and then spit them back on the net. Is anyone really doing this in real life?
:)
(Good title. I automatically read any posts that have to do with Cryptonomion.
Even though what you are saying isn't accurate to the story (they anonymizer already existed in the book, they were trying to start a bank and ultimately a data haven) here is something to check out:
Freenet http://freenet.sourceforge.net/
I was pretty excited when I saw this because I(prompted by the ideas in cryptonomicon) was thinking about what it would take to set up a kind of "distributed" data haven.
$1 million dollars of something that can be duplicated for 0.05% (1/2000) of its selling price makes for a pretty nice tax deduction. It's like printing money.
Kinda makes you wish for an "unsend" button eh? Pretty funny stuff. :)
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I love it. 1 informative (true, weird), 1 insightful, and 1 overrated. Everyone else has posted the same quote but they didn't put the whole thing (the use it in peace stuff). One other guy (post 77) posted the exact same thing, but one post and one minute after I did. I haven't read the book and even if I did all I did was a search on the net for the quote. And I flamed a guy who sarcastically flamed me, so I lost one point for a troll. So I guess it all balances out, except between all the messages we have added about... oh... six extraneous messages and wasted quite a few moderation points. :)
I am the first one to get the whole quote in. Do not question my authority.
I didn't notice the department line though. Thanks for pointing that out. (Cock.)
Sorry man, I beat you by one post and one minute (see #76). :) No one else had the complete quote before us/me.
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ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS EXCEPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE. USE THEM TOGETHER, USE THEM IN PEACE.
thank you.
But there are still 500 bugs targeted for M14
I saw M13 get whittled down to zaroo boogs, then it came out, I assumed the same for M14. Does this have anything to do with Netscape wanting to get a Communicator 6.0 beta out ASAP?
Piers Anthony had a VR world where there was a character who would die if she couldn't beat the game. You see, she was diabetic and for some reason the game was rigged up (don't remember if it was designed that way or if it was sabotaged) that she could not actually be released from the VR equipment to take her medicine without accomplishing something in the real world.
:)
The closest I know of in the real world to compare is when you are mudding, most of the time you have to escape from the dangerous place you are to get back to town and save so you don't lose all your stuff. This causes it to be a game where if you have a lot of yourself tied up in the game you will not want to log out even if it means missing classes and failing out of school (I've seen this happen).
Sueing is a perfectly civil remedy to legal problems. Would you prefer if Carmack hired a thug to rough him up instead? Settling issues in court is pretty much equivalent to civilization. Ok maybe that's going a little far. :)
Maybe speed reading is your problem. You don't go for comprehension. They made it clear that two different aspects have been sped up. In fact I thought I made it clear as well. Spindle speed and the thing that moves the drive head were both separately improved. Read the article again. SLOWLY. :)
Try reading the article instead of trying to get a fast post (#6 in your case). Yes, it has a faster actuator/seek time as well as faster spindle speed, 3.9 ms. The spin also brings the latency down from 2.99 ms to 2.0 ms, they said. I am curious how noisy those suckers are going to be.
Storm is supposed to be taller than she is
According to my copy of "How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way" by Stan Lee and John Buscema, comic superheros are drawn at 8 and three-quarters heads tall even though a typical human male is 6 and a half heads tall.
Sounded pretty damn good to me. Must be my superior sound card. *shrugs*
WHY IS EVERYONE SO GOD DAMNED NEGATIVE?
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True, Open Source is not equal to GPL, but it is a superset. If you are going to talk about Open Source on Slashdot, you won't be speaking the same language unless you are talking about the Open Source Definition. If Open Source ever means anything besides this, then I'm going to start only calling it Free Software.
Fuck you, I've been running Linux since 1994.
I just tried it (weirdx). I downloaded the 1.2.2 JRE from sunsoft, and uploaded the weirdx-*.html files to an http server, as well as the jar file... got nothing but starting java applet and a white screen.
Java never seems to work right for me.
At work we are using a java program (running through X in this case), and it crashes about 50% of the time when you try to start it. This is running on HP/UX.
In other words, I'm not impressed with Java so far. But that weirdx LOOKS really awesome. What am I doing wrong?
Yes! Glad to see the good old IBM Personal Computer (PC). Not the AT, not the XT, but the original PC. I got one in Dec. 1997 which is pretty sad when you think about it. I was crusing along on an 8-bit bus and 4.77 MHz CPU. CGA (2-bit color) graphics, but I bet the text mode would work just fine in Linux (too bad the shape of the full-length board prevents me from putting it into a 16-bit ISA slot). The one I had, had a (c) 1984 BIOS (probably an upgrade) with a Seagate 20 MB (that's MB, not GB) drive. 6-pack plus card (to bring me up to the max: 640 KB RAM, game, serial, parallel, a clock that kept the time when you turned off the computer (heh)), 8087 Math Coprocessor (i.e. floating point unit on an external chip). Clicky-clacky 83-key keyboard. Cassette port. BASIC in ROM. Full height (think two CDROM drives on top of each other) 360 KB 5.25" floppy drive. I replaced the Intel 8088 with a clone that had fewer clock cylces for some instructions. I used that baby until I got my spanking new 486/66 in 1993. All you Apple II and Amiga fans harassed me all the while, but where is your Apple II and Amiga now? Ha! Now everyone is using glorified x86's and MS-DOS with add-ons. (Just funnin'. No flames please.)
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The Personal Computer (in general) was Time's Man of the Year (called Machine of the Year since it isn't a man) for 1982. http://www.pathfinder.com/time/special/moy/1982.h
There's some really interesting stuff in that article.