As stated below, this is very remniniscent of 1984.
I particulally love the phrase "War is Peace" because it is so true. At a time of war people can be so focused on the current situation, productivity goes up, and nearly all the peoples hate can be directed towards the enemy.
The heading "Your government allows-- no, encourages-- others to spy on you" also reminds me of 1984... the way that the children were given listening-horns for the purpose of listening at their parents keyholes.
I remember that for the last twenty years the novel in question has been dismissed on several occaisions, and indeed in the editorial of the current edition that I have been reading. Could it be true that in thirty years, it won't be Goldstein who is the enemy of the State ? In fact, it is Orwell with 1984 as The Book ?
OK, pessimistic I know, but always a bit thought - provoking nevertheless.
Well... I personally prefered Atari's GEM... it was simple, sure, and you couldn't do anything unless you had any programs, *but* that made it a hell of a lot more accessible when one was programming (in my case) tacky software for it.
I'm sure that there is still a cd with a Linux version that one can use on the ST... Never seen it in the flesh, though... at the time I wasn't interested.
It's about time that Amiga got it's act together in the OS department. I mean who really though that the original Amiga OS was better than the Atari's ? OK so I'm a little bit biased because I did love my Atari ST, but the Amiga... well you had to use a workbench disk... say no more.
This is really *really* bad... I mean, what's to stop the hackers doing stuff to log your ip number, ftp into your machine, find security faults and then screw your machine ???
Even worse, what's going to happen if these hackers happen to find the piece of data that proves that UFOs are out there ??? They could trash it and we would never know !!!
Even worse, the hackers could get a ton of £££ somehow and when the alien data came through, launch a rocket and cause the first war of the worlds !
How far does this bill work... for example, if I knew of a 'security' web site that a particular enemie of mine owned, and on that site had the odd bit of fscking bad language, could I report that site as being offensive and thus have it closed down ?
I didn't quite mean it in the sense of chords I I IV IV I I V V I IV V I being a typical blues chord sequence... more of the sense that if one has composed in the key of A and then writes a new chord sequence around that *but* written using definite chords, eg. Cm7 Fmaj7+9, then one can copyright that.
I have not had any experience of BeOS so I can't comment there.
I have used fvwm95 and whilst there are a couple of dodgy points like to menubar... well only that really, the only *real* point that Microsoft could sue on would be the taskbar on the bottom of the screen... and don't forget KDE whilst you're at it...
Oh yeah, StarOffice must be a prime problem then because it has it's very own start menu... oops;-)
>The Case has nothing to do with the computer, it >is what is inside, and what you do with it that >counts.
Bollocks. Who want's some scabby coloured case for their pc when they could have one which actually looks good. I know that I may be no design guru, but I like to have my house looking nice... not like a technophobe's nightmare...
>Apple is doing nothing but enableing computer >ignonace. "Sure it is ok to be stupid at >computers, here a five year old can use this >computer, with a little help and hard work I bet >even you could use this computer"
Just accept it - some people are better at some things than other people are. I can program and I can play damn fine jazz, *but* I am no sportsman. One of my friends can also use computers and is really sporty, *but* he cannot even count in time (in the musical sense). Then there's my mother who could never use a computer just because... well, I don't know. She's really clever, don't get me wrong, but she has enough trouble using the video player...
Now, you I take it can use computers, and you obviously look down on Macintoshes for being so easy. I personally don't like Macs because in my experience they are just too damn inflexible. My current machine is a SuSE 5.0x box and I like it because I can do anything I want to. However, if I was to sit my mother down in front of it, she'd have a breakdown, I'm sure of it. As it is though, when she does need to word process a document, she can just about do it on a Mac without any help from me.
There are a few people already who are comparing the current lawsuit to Apple suing GEM et al for being too AppleOS-like. I personally feel that Apple has a strong case this time as the design is copyrightable and any opposition has to make their design distint. This is also applicable to the various OS'es, *but* one could not go around copyrighting THE Graphical User Interfaces as an entity on its own. Therefore the GUI must be distinct on its own.
The same applies for the Imac case. I looked at the pretty pictures of both machines mentioned, and if I hadn't been told which was which, I doubt I could say who manufactured which one. This must surely prove that Apple is in the right.
From another point of view, this time music :
Whilst one could not copyright the chord of G, if you write a piece of music then the sequence of chords may not be reused by anyone else (within reason) without the copyright holders permission.
Now compare this to the casing issue.
Whilst one could not copyright a generic black case, if one was to design a stripy black case with a couple of sexy logos then that CAN be copyrighted and no one may use that design without your permission.
Whilst people are always interested in big figures - we can shift 100mb in 1 second - the fact is that these tests between NT and Linux should have taken into account the real-life aspect from the start.
How many people are truly interested in server performance other than sysadmins ? No one, that's who. The original test by Mindcraft was simply a "The Microsoft Way is best" statement. The subsequent tests were more of the same, *but* were not there purely to impress Joe Public.
If the test had been ment seriously Mindcraft should have gone for the real-life aspect rather than large figures. Now that this test has been completed it proves what anyone with two brain cells to rub together already knew.
Please don't get me wrong... I live winding up the Linux Guru at work with tasks along the lines of "Well I had a program in Windows that did xyz. Where can I get that on Linux ?".
Once again, Microsoft finally falls once the truth has come out.
How about if your new PC came with x number of hard drives, say five or six, and then some clever person came across a way of using the drives in parallel... would that help ? The only problem would be the lookup time for reading, but perhaps the index could be stored in the cache or something.
Or then again, how about having a few gigs of memory, and then when shutdown comes, the memory is written to the disk, read again upon bootup. Possible ?
But don't forget that there are limits on this stuff, absurd though they may be. For example, the speed of light (sorry can't remember... somthing about it goes round the Earth eight times per second). Once one approaches the speed of light ( I mean *closely*) the mass of the object increases more and more, and thus eventually you gain so much mass you slow down (you would going up to this, but hey, more POWER!!!) to the point that you can never reach the speed of light... could be a bit of a bugger for all those spacemen...
Well... I know that the first dictionary was written a few centuries after that... I would blame it on a misprint. Maybe 1951 was the date it ment... I'm not sure what dates Dr Who was televised on.
Anyway, could you see the kings of Englad decairing "Exterminate the traitors of this fine country"... I think not, somehow.
I feel that no matter what happens, words will always change meaning and spelling according the the media and also the general public.
Look at the (Brittish) English Language. In America there are few words that have two vowels next to each other compared to the original Enligsh Languae, eg. Anaesthetic, Encyclopaedia, Mediaeval, Colour, etc...
Another example is the word "Exterminate" from the Doctor Who television series. This word was invented and yet became so popular it was eventually acknowledged by the Cambride Dictionary.
So, I would say give up the fight for Hacker, ignore Cracker and let someone with more imagination than myself invent a better word.
>1) It will be quite a while before AOL is the only ISP
Well, I've heard that that around half of the US are currently with them... in ummm under a decade... So, lets give it twenty years and see what happens.
Well... I hope for them that they're not UK residents... here about half of that would go to the taxman... fair enough, but wouldn't it be nice to know where it goes ?
What is this... firstly Microsoft and AOL are best friends... AOL buys Netscape... AOL buys WinAMP... could this be a ploy by Microsoft to force people to use their dire Media Player ?
Just makes you think... how long before the only ISP is AOL and the only browser is IE... need I go on ?
I know that htis isn't exactly to do with the main thread, but could someone please tell me *exactly* how one is to install the realplayer 5 plugin so that it works with Netscape 4.5 ?
I have tried three times now... I'm probably doing something stupid, but if someone could mail me, I would appreciate it (the above email address *does* work).
Why is it that so many people are so quick to put Linus down for his doctrate. Surely if you had managed to create an operating system, for free, and make it good enough and popular enough so that other people freely use it, you would be pretty happy when you got a doctrate for it.
I know that my ambition is to become a major jazz musicien (I'm currently only 17). However, I am aiming to make my money in computing... it's pretty difficult to get into money with music. Anyway, I am aiming to got to university and do computer science. I would ideally like to study further and get a Ph.D. This is going to take a lot of work, *but* a lot less work that Linus has done with Linux.
So, would that make me any less deserving for a doctrate, honerary or other ? I would hope not.
I'm not sure how many people, but for once linux is ahed of the Mac... it seems that whilst the aforementioned mail company's site will work with Windoze and Linux, it's still not working with the Apple Macs...
Slashdot Mirror
But I *liked* Dr Lector.... I want to grow up to be him ;-p
To quote from The Book of 1984, "The sake of Power is to have Power".
As stated below, this is very remniniscent of 1984.
I particulally love the phrase "War is Peace" because it is so true. At a time of war people can be so focused on the current situation, productivity goes up, and nearly all the peoples hate can be directed towards the enemy.
The heading "Your government allows-- no, encourages-- others to spy on you" also reminds me of 1984... the way that the children were given listening-horns for the purpose of listening at their parents keyholes.
I remember that for the last twenty years the novel in question has been dismissed on several occaisions, and indeed in the editorial of the current edition that I have been reading. Could it be true that in thirty years, it won't be Goldstein who is the enemy of the State ? In fact, it is Orwell with 1984 as The Book ?
OK, pessimistic I know, but always a bit thought - provoking nevertheless.
Well... I personally prefered Atari's GEM... it was simple, sure, and you couldn't do anything unless you had any programs, *but* that made it a hell of a lot more accessible when one was programming (in my case) tacky software for it.
I'm sure that there is still a cd with a Linux version that one can use on the ST... Never seen it in the flesh, though... at the time I wasn't interested.
And how much did any size harddisk cost back then... in relation to a student's pocket ?
It's about time that Amiga got it's act together in the OS department. I mean who really though that the original Amiga OS was better than the Atari's ? OK so I'm a little bit biased because I did love my Atari ST, but the Amiga... well you had to use a workbench disk... say no more.
ok, i confess i am a long nosed brown alien, from the planet Melmac. i did this because you found me out and i want privacy :P
OHmyGOD !!! You are !!! I'm so sorry for posting that comment... please spare me my life ? Oh GOD, I'M INNOCENT !!!
Hey all,
This is really *really* bad... I mean, what's to stop the hackers doing stuff to log your ip number, ftp into your machine, find security faults and then screw your machine ???
Even worse, what's going to happen if these hackers happen to find the piece of data that proves that UFOs are out there ??? They could trash it and we would never know !!!
Even worse, the hackers could get a ton of £££ somehow and when the alien data came through, launch a rocket and cause the first war of the worlds !
I'm not sure about you, but this scares me...
Satire - A design for life
Hey all,
How far does this bill work... for example, if I knew of a 'security' web site that a particular enemie of mine owned, and on that site had the odd bit of fscking bad language, could I report that site as being offensive and thus have it closed down ?
>But you can't copyright a sequence of chords.
I didn't quite mean it in the sense of chords
I I IV IV I I V V I IV V I being a typical blues chord sequence... more of the sense that if one has composed in the key of A and then writes a new chord sequence around that *but* written using definite chords, eg. Cm7 Fmaj7+9, then one can copyright that.
I have not had any experience of BeOS so I can't comment there.
;-)
I have used fvwm95 and whilst there are a couple of dodgy points like to menubar... well only that really, the only *real* point that Microsoft could sue on would be the taskbar on the bottom of the screen... and don't forget KDE whilst you're at it...
Oh yeah, StarOffice must be a prime problem then because it has it's very own start menu... oops
>The Case has nothing to do with the computer, it >is what is inside, and what you do with it that >counts.
Bollocks. Who want's some scabby coloured case for their pc when they could have one which actually looks good. I know that I may be no design guru, but I like to have my house looking nice... not like a technophobe's nightmare...
>Apple is doing nothing but enableing computer >ignonace. "Sure it is ok to be stupid at >computers, here a five year old can use this >computer, with a little help and hard work I bet >even you could use this computer"
Just accept it - some people are better at some things than other people are. I can program and I can play damn fine jazz, *but* I am no sportsman. One of my friends can also use computers and is really sporty, *but* he cannot even count in time (in the musical sense). Then there's my mother who could never use a computer just because... well, I don't know. She's really clever, don't get me wrong, but she has enough trouble using the video player...
Now, you I take it can use computers, and you obviously look down on Macintoshes for being so easy. I personally don't like Macs because in my experience they are just too damn inflexible. My current machine is a SuSE 5.0x box and I like it because I can do anything I want to. However, if I was to sit my mother down in front of it, she'd have a breakdown, I'm sure of it. As it is though, when she does need to word process a document, she can just about do it on a Mac without any help from me.
So what's the problem ?
Hey all,
There are a few people already who are comparing the current lawsuit to Apple suing GEM et al for being too AppleOS-like. I personally feel that Apple has a strong case this time as the design is copyrightable and any opposition has to make their design distint. This is also applicable to the various OS'es, *but* one could not go around copyrighting THE Graphical User Interfaces as an entity on its own. Therefore the GUI must be distinct on its own.
The same applies for the Imac case. I looked at the pretty pictures of both machines mentioned, and if I hadn't been told which was which, I doubt I could say who manufactured which one. This must surely prove that Apple is in the right.
From another point of view, this time music :
Whilst one could not copyright the chord of G, if you write a piece of music then the sequence of chords may not be reused by anyone else (within reason) without the copyright holders permission.
Now compare this to the casing issue.
Whilst one could not copyright a generic black case, if one was to design a stripy black case with a couple of sexy logos then that CAN be copyrighted and no one may use that design without your permission.
Hey all,
Whilst people are always interested in big figures - we can shift 100mb in 1 second - the fact is that these tests between NT and Linux should have taken into account the real-life aspect from the start.
How many people are truly interested in server performance other than sysadmins ? No one, that's who. The original test by Mindcraft was simply a "The Microsoft Way is best" statement. The subsequent tests were more of the same, *but* were not there purely to impress Joe Public.
If the test had been ment seriously Mindcraft should have gone for the real-life aspect rather than large figures. Now that this test has been completed it proves what anyone with two brain cells to rub together already knew.
Please don't get me wrong... I live winding up the Linux Guru at work with tasks along the lines of "Well I had a program in Windows that did xyz. Where can I get that on Linux ?".
Once again, Microsoft finally falls once the truth has come out.
Hey all,
I'm no physisist, but hey, kick me if you want..
How about if your new PC came with x number of hard drives, say five or six, and then some clever person came across a way of using the drives in parallel... would that help ? The only problem would be the lookup time for reading, but perhaps the index could be stored in the cache or something.
Or then again, how about having a few gigs of memory, and then when shutdown comes, the memory is written to the disk, read again upon bootup. Possible ?
But don't forget that there are limits on this stuff, absurd though they may be. For example, the speed of light (sorry can't remember... somthing about it goes round the Earth eight times per second). Once one approaches the speed of light ( I mean *closely*) the mass of the object increases more and more, and thus eventually you gain so much mass you slow down (you would going up to this, but hey, more POWER!!!) to the point that you can never reach the speed of light... could be a bit of a bugger for all those spacemen...
>English language around 1591. That predates
Well... I know that the first dictionary was written a few centuries after that... I would blame it on a misprint. Maybe 1951 was the date it ment... I'm not sure what dates Dr Who was televised on.
Anyway, could you see the kings of Englad decairing "Exterminate the traitors of this fine country"... I think not, somehow.
I feel that no matter what happens, words will always change meaning and spelling according the the media and also the general public.
Look at the (Brittish) English Language. In America there are few words that have two vowels next to each other compared to the original Enligsh Languae, eg. Anaesthetic, Encyclopaedia, Mediaeval, Colour, etc...
Another example is the word "Exterminate" from the Doctor Who television series. This word was invented and yet became so popular it was eventually acknowledged by the Cambride Dictionary.
So, I would say give up the fight for Hacker, ignore Cracker and let someone with more imagination than myself invent a better word.
That probably where I got the title from. I believe that it sums up our current state of affairs perfectly.
Flamebait... mmm I like that !
>1) It will be quite a while before AOL is the only ISP
Well, I've heard that that around half of the US are currently with them... in ummm under a decade... So, lets give it twenty years and see what happens.
>2) You are an overreacting idiot.
True, but prevention is the only cure.
Well... I hope for them that they're not UK residents... here about half of that would go to the taxman... fair enough, but wouldn't it be nice to know where it goes ?
Hey all,
What is this... firstly Microsoft and AOL are best friends... AOL buys Netscape... AOL buys WinAMP... could this be a ploy by Microsoft to force people to use their dire Media Player ?
Just makes you think... how long before the only ISP is AOL and the only browser is IE... need I go on ?
I know that htis isn't exactly to do with the main thread, but could someone please tell me *exactly* how one is to install the realplayer 5 plugin so that it works with Netscape 4.5 ?
I have tried three times now... I'm probably doing something stupid, but if someone could mail me, I would appreciate it (the above email address *does* work).
Thanks.
Hi all,
Why is it that so many people are so quick to put Linus down for his doctrate. Surely if you had managed to create an operating system, for free, and make it good enough and popular enough so that other people freely use it, you would be pretty happy when you got a doctrate for it.
I know that my ambition is to become a major jazz musicien (I'm currently only 17). However, I am aiming to make my money in computing... it's pretty difficult to get into money with music.
Anyway, I am aiming to got to university and do computer science. I would ideally like to study further and get a Ph.D. This is going to take a lot of work, *but* a lot less work that Linus has done with Linux.
So, would that make me any less deserving for a doctrate, honerary or other ? I would hope not.
I'm not sure how many people, but for once linux is ahed of the Mac... it seems that whilst the aforementioned mail company's site will work with Windoze and Linux, it's still not working with the Apple Macs...