oh, it has all the things you need for a good bullshit press story: controversy, hegelian dialectics (Sony vs. Microsoft), etc.
this isn't news. its PR-bot press-release limelighting. big deal. get over it.
(oh, wait.. people don't know what hegelian dialectics is, and certainly have no ease in recognizing it in their media... never mind. move along citizen.)
.. it wouldn't be American if people didn't despise their Presidents... its not supposed to be a glory position. that fact has been politically exploited of course, the general publics 'disinterest in the lameness of things' i mean... democracy, the fickle nature of mans interest, etc.
point is: i don't know why you have to 'give up on Bush and move on'. you need to 'deal with', as in, investigate, this administration. charge it at all costs. if a cigar blowjob is worth one mans balls, economy-blundering war-mongering failure-to-protect ought> to be worth a few more..
With this technique, 'any' light source can function as a point of view. This has outstanding implications to the field of surveillance.. wherever the camera, its now the light source one needs to be shrouding against, not just the optics...
Computer competency does not come from learning one app, and one app alone. It does not come from restrictive interface to a single tool.
Computers are utterly arbitrary machines.. software only works when people agree on the way software should work, and then use it.
For schools to be shifting focus from Microsft to OSS is a good thing, because it highlights, yet again, the reality of computers, in that they are only as good as the things you use them for.
I for one welcome our future generations of computer-using students whose competence on computers will have been refined as a result of the shift as much as the actual software used.. anyone who has been in the computer realm longer than a couple of decades should surely know, by now, that computers are a rapidly spinning barrel upon which no man should try to stand.. true competence comes from the ability to learn AND USE X, and/or Y, and/or Z to get some computing job done, not from 'having learned A, and only A, and very rarely B to do only one particular job, ever'...
i mean, i don't think its 'The Whole Net', but it sure feels like i only get to know most of it, through google..
USENET is a pale shanty town of what it once was. RSS and blogs are the new gophers. and so it goes, round and round.. so what does Google do, but of course go on inventing services and protocols to glue on top of it.
beh. its the internet, choose a protocol and enjoy the namespace.
The problem is that the concept of a supernatural being begets far more questions than it answers.
God is not an answer, God is not a question. God is All.
That is, the unanswered, unasked questions, all the way over to the other side, to the answered, asked ones. The space in between, outside, inside, whateversidewehavenotevennoticedyet, and all of it.
As well as none of it (by definition).
So, to assume that God is the answer to anything, or can be described, is to presume the non-existence of anything at all, ever.
I mean, OpenSolaris is intended to compete with Linux.
So, putting a lot of extra-legal work into the codebase prior to release, and polishing all licensing issues with dilligence, at whatever 'yapping dog heels' cost, is actually going to put OpenSolaris at a distinct advantage over Linux.
So, all you 'OSS defenders' might want to think twice about making such a fuss about this, and instead take a look at your own backyard.
Sun will trump Linux on this issue, upon its release.
What interests me is the response to the Darwin crew. If Sun put out a laptop, its all on, baby..
the fact you can't see it and don't know much about it means that its doing its job.
zeroconf (the IEEE name for bonjour, which is just an implementation of the standard, Apple-extended...) means zero configuration. the user doesn't need to know how to connect to a device, she just uses it.
this is one of those technology's which, if used properly, won't get much notice. its not supposed to.
There's a big difference between inventing something and using something.
yes, its called implementing something.
standards are where its at. would you say i'd be rigorously copying you, if i were to implement a TCP/IP stack for which we both knew about, protocol and design-wise/
microsoft know two things which conform to each other to create a twisty infinite mess: big things happen only when lots of humans agree with each other, and this is a slippery slope because we can agree about, pretty much, anything we want to.
throwing the 'embrace and extend' spanner into the works of such reality, is one thing microsoft is good at.
plummeting to earth in the soyuz is a terrifying experience. imagine the worst roller-coaster ride you ever took, with the chance of definite death.
this thing is designed to at least space-flight comfortable, that it may be done relatively frequently, and thus promote the experience to not just a few brave enough, or with balls of steal enough, to strap one on and go from zero-g to.. well, you get the point.
space isn't like you see it on the telly. all that training is for good reason, you know..
Lets do it the other way: the "de-OSS'ifier"...
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Just today on the way to work I was wondering what it would take to write a C pre-processor which takes as input a set of.c and.h files, and spits out a re-formatted, 'changed' version of the same sort of code.. effectively 're-writing' the OSS into something still functional, but unrecognizable from the original.
This would be an interesting challenge, and not entirely above the capabilities of most compiler writers. With such a tool, the motivation for releasing OSS software would be decreased; OSS writers would be de-moralized, since their original code isn't being used, only the outline/framework..
I'm a big fan of OSS, really. Have been for years. But I think tools such as these loom on the horizon.. and if I had the spare time (I don't), I'd make one myself, and.. of course.. release it under the GPL.
I mean, does Blender run on it at least? Can I do anything interesting from an 'immediate-personal' perspective with 96 nodes, and I don't just mean run Quake, or fire up "make -j 96" and such things..
What sort of interesting modelling software is around? Could I use it to design stuff on a personal, non-hard-core science perspective? What are the practical uses for personal cluster computing?
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... and not in a 'good huge' way, but definitely in a 'this was designed by a fat American slob in Arkansas' kind of way.
fer sure i won't be getting one.
.. and release your own 'news' about it.
oh, it has all the things you need for a good bullshit press story: controversy, hegelian dialectics (Sony vs. Microsoft), etc.
this isn't news. its PR-bot press-release limelighting. big deal. get over it.
(oh, wait.. people don't know what hegelian dialectics is, and certainly have no ease in recognizing it in their media... never mind. move along citizen.)
.. i've always considered Melbourne to be the 'city of superheroes', and well .. now its supported in print.
horrible place.
.. it wouldn't be American if people didn't despise their Presidents ... its not supposed to be a glory position. that fact has been politically exploited of course, the general publics 'disinterest in the lameness of things' i mean ... democracy, the fickle nature of mans interest, etc.
..
point is: i don't know why you have to 'give up on Bush and move on'. you need to 'deal with', as in, investigate, this administration. charge it at all costs. if a cigar blowjob is worth one mans balls, economy-blundering war-mongering failure-to-protect ought> to be worth a few more
oh, wait. its made by Microsoft. WTF??!?!
Because then it would look like a camera.
.. wherever the camera, its now the light source one needs to be shrouding against, not just the optics ...
With this technique, 'any' light source can function as a point of view. This has outstanding implications to the field of surveillance
Computer competency does not come from learning one app, and one app alone. It does not come from restrictive interface to a single tool.
.. anyone who has been in the computer realm longer than a couple of decades should surely know, by now, that computers are a rapidly spinning barrel upon which no man should try to stand .. true competence comes from the ability to learn AND USE X, and/or Y, and/or Z to get some computing job done, not from 'having learned A, and only A, and very rarely B to do only one particular job, ever' ...
Computers are utterly arbitrary machines.. software only works when people agree on the way software should work, and then use it.
For schools to be shifting focus from Microsft to OSS is a good thing, because it highlights, yet again, the reality of computers, in that they are only as good as the things you use them for.
I for one welcome our future generations of computer-using students whose competence on computers will have been refined as a result of the shift as much as the actual software used
to me, it sorta looks like a pippin.
.. not .. sure thats a good thing though .. and isn't this supposed to have PPC's in it? sooooper weird ..
reeallly
hey, the Alto had invaders and Galaxian? Anyone know what these looked like .. i'd love to find out ..
off to find an Alto emulator, if there is one..
i mean, i don't think its 'The Whole Net', but it sure feels like i only get to know most of it, through google..
USENET is a pale shanty town of what it once was. RSS and blogs are the new gophers. and so it goes, round and round.. so what does Google do, but of course go on inventing services and protocols to glue on top of it.
beh. its the internet, choose a protocol and enjoy the namespace.
The problem is that the concept of a supernatural being begets far more questions than it answers.
God is not an answer, God is not a question. God is All.
That is, the unanswered, unasked questions, all the way over to the other side, to the answered, asked ones. The space in between, outside, inside, whateversidewehavenotevennoticedyet, and all of it.
As well as none of it (by definition).
So, to assume that God is the answer to anything, or can be described, is to presume the non-existence of anything at all, ever.
Since: God is All.
I mean, OpenSolaris is intended to compete with Linux.
..
So, putting a lot of extra-legal work into the codebase prior to release, and polishing all licensing issues with dilligence, at whatever 'yapping dog heels' cost, is actually going to put OpenSolaris at a distinct advantage over Linux.
So, all you 'OSS defenders' might want to think twice about making such a fuss about this, and instead take a look at your own backyard.
Sun will trump Linux on this issue, upon its release.
What interests me is the response to the Darwin crew. If Sun put out a laptop, its all on, baby
in my head, all users are women, and all developers are men.
stupid isn't it, but i've met, like, one female developer, ever.
the fact you can't see it and don't know much about it means that its doing its job.
zeroconf (the IEEE name for bonjour, which is just an implementation of the standard, Apple-extended...) means zero configuration. the user doesn't need to know how to connect to a device, she just uses it.
this is one of those technology's which, if used properly, won't get much notice. its not supposed to.
The number one source (and, these days, usually the only source) of spyware is user action.
.. like I haven't, in .. oh .. almost 5 years now ..)
oh, thats rich. okay, don't use it then, for any action. (Windows, i mean
There's a big difference between inventing something and using something.
yes, its called implementing something.
standards are where its at. would you say i'd be rigorously copying you, if i were to implement a TCP/IP stack for which we both knew about, protocol and design-wise/
microsoft know two things which conform to each other to create a twisty infinite mess: big things happen only when lots of humans agree with each other, and this is a slippery slope because we can agree about, pretty much, anything we want to.
throwing the 'embrace and extend' spanner into the works of such reality, is one thing microsoft is good at.
fight back, build your own local personal search engine?
riiight.... good thing we already have people stealing the.. ahem
so hows' it feel to be a war child, anyway, mr. AC?
ermm.. you mean robots, not contractors.
...
and anyway both the robots and the 'other' beings on death star 1 belonged to the empire, right down to the trash compactor digestion units
At $100,000 I wouldn't call this personal.
..
If I could do something interesting with it, I would. Better than a car
ummm ... yeah.
.. well, you get the point.
..
plummeting to earth in the soyuz is a terrifying experience. imagine the worst roller-coaster ride you ever took, with the chance of definite death.
this thing is designed to at least space-flight comfortable, that it may be done relatively frequently, and thus promote the experience to not just a few brave enough, or with balls of steal enough, to strap one on and go from zero-g to
space isn't like you see it on the telly. all that training is for good reason, you know
Just today on the way to work I was wondering what it would take to write a C pre-processor which takes as input a set of .c and .h files, and spits out a re-formatted, 'changed' version of the same sort of code .. effectively 're-writing' the OSS into something still functional, but unrecognizable from the original.
..
.. and if I had the spare time (I don't), I'd make one myself, and .. of course .. release it under the GPL.
This would be an interesting challenge, and not entirely above the capabilities of most compiler writers. With such a tool, the motivation for releasing OSS software would be decreased; OSS writers would be de-moralized, since their original code isn't being used, only the outline/framework
I'm a big fan of OSS, really. Have been for years. But I think tools such as these loom on the horizon
(Just coz.)
.. Computing?
I mean, does Blender run on it at least? Can I do anything interesting from an 'immediate-personal' perspective with 96 nodes, and I don't just mean run Quake, or fire up "make -j 96" and such things..
What sort of interesting modelling software is around? Could I use it to design stuff on a personal, non-hard-core science perspective? What are the practical uses for personal cluster computing?
Without copyright, you wouldn't get the quality of books you get now.
so you're saying wikipedia happened because of copyright?
Ask a professional writer or a product development researcher if they make money on ideas sometime.
lazy bums, all of them.
ooooh ... well in that case that makes a looot more sense. MSX, Atmos, etc. were definitely 'post-PC' in that sense, then.