coz assembly on a shell account, for a student, is going to be stable as hell.
not the best suggestion so far, i think. you know how easy it is to crash x86 with assembly?
what i do: use VirtualPC. like the article submitter, i am 100% devoted to my powerbook.. but there are definitely times when i need to run PC software. i have a WinXP image i regularly boot into to do compiles, and it works fine.. it may not be the fastest system around, but it sure gets the job done, and leaves me to my powerbook in peace.. in fact, i've never been such a happy windows user as i am, now able to freeze a machine and restore it to its 'last known working state'.. running winXP in a VM seems to be the only way to maintain sanity, anyway...
Well, the aforementioned laws aren't merely for the convenience of LEOs. They are there to help apprehend criminals, including those who have arrest warrants, those who attempt to fraudulently obtain a license in another state when their original license had been suspended, and those who enter the country illegally. In other words, the laws are for the greater public good, not simply for the good of the police.
umm... no. the laws are there to make the police officers job easier. who is doing the apprehending of criminals, after all?
Knee-jerk???? If any regime on Earth really deserves to be invaded and dismantled by the civilized nations of the world it is North Korea. And not because it has atomic weapons, no, but because it is the worst place on this planet since Auschwitz crematoriums ceased to work and Stalin died. Even Cuba is a paradise both in terms of economy (haven't heard of people dying from hunger there) and freedoms (on Cuba you are for example free to choose your profession and you don't have to worship whole family of Fidel three generations back). In North Korea people have 200 grams / 8 ounces food ration to survive on. Their kids are raised from the age of 4 in worship of the Dear Leader and his f**king, fortunately now dead, father. Everyone is a secret police informer. There is no private possessions or privacy of any kind - at least not for general population. They have no access to Internet, satellite TV or even foreign radio. Their nice capital is amazing because... there are no old people there (they get deported so that they don't spoil the looks). Hell, they even have concentration camps out there complete with gas chambers operating right now, in the 21st century. It is impossible for normal people to imagine the misery of people living there...
You know all this through your own propaganda machine.
Do you *REALLY* trust it that much to be calling for invasion?
Really?
Sure nobody else (weapons mfr's, military-industrial-complex, Southern Baptists Convention) won't stand to benefit from this?
Sure?!?? Really, really sure?!
I'm not. I don't trust American intelligence. Not one bit.
Another America: (Let's ignore the human rights issues at the moment) A country that has the ability to obliterate one of it's neighbors and uses that fact for negotiations.
Good for the goose, good for the gander. Bad for everyone.
(And if you don't think the U.S. has its own problems with human rights abuses, you haven't been paying attention to your prisons...)
Your 60$ cell phone was probably sold at a loss, in the hope they'll recoup it from the monthly service fee.
they have. no question about that.
And anyway, MS would have to have someone build the hardware. If you were buying just the hardware, who's price would be lower, the maker or the reseller?
the point is, microsoft have the capital to do this. they can push their brand into a hardware product, get it manufactured inexpensively (with their assets) and away they go..
they should 'do an apple', in other words... apple don't make their own powerbooks, but they sure as hell profit from them.
as for the benefits.. they'd sell more software if they had their own hardware. just look at XBox for an example of that...
ditto on my pbg4 1.5ghz.. though i can't honestly say i see any graphics improvements, i guess i should go find something to 'test' it out with, heh heh...
umm.. yeah. i caution you to not to worry about my ass too much. mate.
software - when it sells - is of course high profit. but when you have such crap systems as microsoft currently has in place, for protecting the software market, you have to look at your options. its fine to say 'software margins are so high', to which you will hear the cry 'when you actually sell any' in retort.
bare, physical reality still is rule #1. you still need hardware to run. and my point is: hardware is cheap. effective, productive hardware is real, real cheap. the average PC is waaaaaay over-engineered for its actual needs. bogus-ly so. blame microsoft.
What consumer hardware you know that commands gross margins higher than 50%?
you really want me to make a list? heck, my $60 cell phone, which i pay a monthly service fee for, can do word processing. it can do games. it can do e-mail. and it has zero microsoft software on it. it has a far better software-delivery paradigm, and generalized operating system environment, than what windows offers. and if cell phone keeps growing, it'll be all the computer i'll need, soon enough, to get my computing done.
look, within 4 to 6 years, mass manufacture of purpose-built (embedded, if you will) hardware is going to hit the big time. it already has, in huge, huge ways. that word processor you buy will be physical; hardware costs are coming way, way down. it'll be 'almost' as costly for microsoft to print their word processor 'software asset' directly into their own PCB than it would for them to manufacture a CD-ROM. the distinction between 'hardware' and 'software' assets is becoming irrelevant.
microsoft has the muscle to give itself massive hardware assets. its already doing it. they should lead a new hardware revolution by good investment in this realm, in my opinion...
Put all that money, straight away, into hardware, Billy-boy.
Its getting so that any $10k-startup or so can print their own boards and get their apps out there, sub-$500 like, and this means that the division between soft and hard-ware is fading. Hardware prices are matching 'software prices'.. when you can get a $99 PDA with its own C compiler, you've got a totally different computing market than it was in the 70's, 80's, and 90's...
Xbox2^H360^H^H^HWhatever, XBox-Portable, XBox-Handy, XBox-Roomba.. 'tis the only path.
It seems every other day a new live-cd is announced, and I don't get it. What's so interesting about them?
In terms of 'what it should mean to us geeks', I think that it means you can now treat your average PC like an average Playstation or XBox, same level of ease-of-use, same degree of utter simplicity: put it in, turn it on, it works, predictably, the same way every time.. only with all the stuff you really, really need to get work done, on one CD, leaving disks and removable media/personal storage devices in the consumer realm where they belong..
I believe that the Live-CD'athons we're seeing these days are more a reflection of how easy it is to roll your own linux box, and of how many people are consequently coming to understand that, and jump on the band-wagon. Never under-estimate the 'oh, look what I can do' factor of Linux, either.. its pretty much just a dog and pony show. Anyone can make their own Live-CD, truth be known, or distro too..
And it seems, the days of the crufty OS are over. A user-made/configured LiveCD is a god-send for anyone wanting to use their computer to get work done, and not have to maintain the tyrrany of a disk-based OS/App-base install.
if Microsoft don't start giving folks easy ways to move C:\WINDOWS\ off to a bootable CD, and start playing in this particular arena of 'user-built OS for the job they intend', they're going to miss an interesting technological development. Maybe there is already a way to take a user-created system+apps install in Windows, and put it on a CD, I don't know.. haven't used Microsoft products in years... but I can say fairly comfortably that Linux Live-CD's are a reliable way to get a very stable system running, tailored to your computing environment.
It seems that the 'Read Only OS Image Days of Stability' are upon us, fairly and squarely.. roll on '-ro' flag, ho ho..
..ade of Whatever Wondrous Bits and Bobs from Around The Globe You Could Find.
as a linux application developer, 'linux' to me represents a wonderous toolset of marvel.
much as it may pain to state the obvious, the joy to be had in building your own entire OS; literally choosing only the bits you need for your application, cannot be under-valued.
weird to think of it (its gone so fast) but for 10 years i've been designing and building custom linux systems for a living.. and most of them are still running, doing the specific job they were built for. custom applications abound!
[all the linux press/hooplah these days does tend to overlook the customer-built installs of linux, i think.. distro war or none, linux is involved in running a lot of the empire of man, i would say..]
.. and I use that term, "3rd World", cautiously, because I fear that it is a product of imperialist culture.. but anyway, what you miss about this is:
Once affordable power is available in so-called "3rd World" regions, they will develop fairly rapidly. Its the US' management and USE of its energy infrastructure which puts it in such high 'standards of living'.
Point is, with small, safe reactors around like this, "3rd World" countries won't be that way for long. And I say, bring it on.. there are fantastic parts of the world to live in, which aren't on the American continent, if only there were reliable power around to support industry, agriculture and production.. and I for one am all for it.
Bundle that with the general despisement of "Western Management" and smart new 'developing nation brainpools', maybe the waste management issue won't be as poorly represented as it has been by "the Americans", so far...
i remember in the good old days of MIPS RISCos, every system shipped with a complete 3-ring binder set of man pages, and every few months or so, MIPS would send us new packages of pages to be replaced in the manuals (as bugs were fixed/apps upgraded).. at first it always seemed cool that we'd get these 'revised docs', but as the ops-room flunky i do remember groaning about having to 'update deadtree manuals' all the time, for each system (the ops director was anal about each machine having its own doc shelf...)
So let's be totally clear here: None of the graphics on your Mac are represented internally in PDF format until your program explicitly requests that a display list be saved in PDF format. /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemStarter/QuartzD isplay.bundle/Resources/BootPanel.pdf
.. the most interesting part of this story to me is not that there's a "leaked list of polish spies" on the internet, it is the fact that there are 240,000 people out there willing to live covert and dishonest lives 'in the name of something'.
how many 'spies' are there in the american homelands? will we ever know? just yesterday i had a drink with someone i suspected, pretty much within 5 minutes, of being a CIA agent.. and what do you know, they were...
You get entertainment which is soemthing that is very important to people.
yeah, right. people whose lives have been rendered absolutely irrelevant by their de-humanizing culture. no thanks.
There is something about those themes that historically draw people, ultimately we as a society have chosen to "enjoy" those primal interests through virtual methods, movies, games, even books.
whether you have 'chosen' or not, its still a complete and utter waste of time. decadence, consumerican style.
And restaurants want you to eat your life away, and cell phone companies want you to chat your life away, and hotels/airlines want you to travel your life away with their services/products.
you get nothing out of video games.
you gain sustenance from restaurants, and shelter from hotels. airlines physically move you from one place to the other.
"games as entertainment" is only selling you the chance to wander mentally in a realm of little more than smoke and mirrors, nothing less..
as for whether its entertainment, i dunno. i consider the mass-popularization of idealized death, mayhem, and destruction, to be relatively fascist, no matter what 'pretty stories' and 'well-described pixelry' its dressed up in.. but i guess it is entertainment, in the same way the colloseums of rome were entertaining too, yeah..
For sake of argument, I'll accept your correlation, but I find it very hard to accept your causation. I think divorce rose merely because (a) women became more financially independent and (b) it became more acceptable.
look, having the government involved in the 'establishment of marriage' is what has 'cheapened the marriage promise', is what i'm talking about.
people don't take marriage so seriously, because the government does. see that causal relationship?
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coz assembly on a shell account, for a student, is going to be stable as hell.
.. but there are definitely times when i need to run PC software. i have a WinXP image i regularly boot into to do compiles, and it works fine .. it may not be the fastest system around, but it sure gets the job done, and leaves me to my powerbook in peace .. in fact, i've never been such a happy windows user as i am, now able to freeze a machine and restore it to its 'last known working state' .. running winXP in a VM seems to be the only way to maintain sanity, anyway ...
not the best suggestion so far, i think. you know how easy it is to crash x86 with assembly?
what i do: use VirtualPC. like the article submitter, i am 100% devoted to my powerbook
if you can't tell the difference between an object and an oppressive law, then ...
Well, the aforementioned laws aren't merely for the convenience of LEOs. They are there to help apprehend criminals, including those who have arrest warrants, those who attempt to fraudulently obtain a license in another state when their original license had been suspended, and those who enter the country illegally. In other words, the laws are for the greater public good, not simply for the good of the police.
... no. the laws are there to make the police officers job easier. who is doing the apprehending of criminals, after all?
umm
North Korea is a black hole.
.. the humanitarian thing to do would be to let them finish their reactor.
so
but no: America is a millitant police state, too. they see only the military option, and risks.
well, fair enough. but i work for a hardware manufacturer .. and as far as i can see, microsoft could do it, with their capital and resources.
bundle their software in the box, and oila: captive customer.
Have you ever in your life spoken to a North Korean?
Yes.
Have you ever talked with someone who was there?
Yes. Why else do you think I don't believe your American bullshit propaganda machine?
Knee-jerk???? If any regime on Earth really deserves to be invaded and dismantled by the civilized nations of the world it is North Korea. And not because it has atomic weapons, no, but because it is the worst place on this planet since Auschwitz crematoriums ceased to work and Stalin died. Even Cuba is a paradise both in terms of economy (haven't heard of people dying from hunger there) and freedoms (on Cuba you are for example free to choose your profession and you don't have to worship whole family of Fidel three generations back). In North Korea people have 200 grams / 8 ounces food ration to survive on. Their kids are raised from the age of 4 in worship of the Dear Leader and his f**king, fortunately now dead, father. Everyone is a secret police informer. There is no private possessions or privacy of any kind - at least not for general population. They have no access to Internet, satellite TV or even foreign radio. Their nice capital is amazing because... there are no old people there (they get deported so that they don't spoil the looks). Hell, they even have concentration camps out there complete with gas chambers operating right now, in the 21st century. It is impossible for normal people to imagine the misery of people living there...
You know all this through your own propaganda machine.
Do you *REALLY* trust it that much to be calling for invasion?
Really?
Sure nobody else (weapons mfr's, military-industrial-complex, Southern Baptists Convention) won't stand to benefit from this?
Sure?!?? Really, really sure?!
I'm not. I don't trust American intelligence. Not one bit.
Good damn point. I think George W. Bush is at least as mad as Kim. If not worse.
No thank you, "Kingdom Warriors". No thank you "FAITH Force Multipliers". No thank you, Southern Baptists invading the military.
Get your damned fatal religion away from Americas' arsenal!
Americans: DO SOMETHING ABOUT YOUR CORRUPT HELL-RAISING GOVERNMENT. It is *NOT* serving your interests!!!
Another America: (Let's ignore the human rights issues at the moment) A country that has the ability to obliterate one of it's neighbors and uses that fact for negotiations.
...)
Good for the goose, good for the gander. Bad for everyone.
(And if you don't think the U.S. has its own problems with human rights abuses, you haven't been paying attention to your prisons
You cannot separate science and religion. Stop trying, you'll hurt yourself.
Your 60$ cell phone was probably sold at a loss, in the hope they'll recoup it from the monthly service fee.
..
.. they'd sell more software if they had their own hardware. just look at XBox for an example of that ...
they have. no question about that.
And anyway, MS would have to have someone build the hardware. If you were buying just the hardware, who's price would be lower, the maker or the reseller?
the point is, microsoft have the capital to do this. they can push their brand into a hardware product, get it manufactured inexpensively (with their assets) and away they go
they should 'do an apple', in other words... apple don't make their own powerbooks, but they sure as hell profit from them.
as for the benefits
ditto on my pbg4 1.5ghz .. though i can't honestly say i see any graphics improvements, i guess i should go find something to 'test' it out with, heh heh ...
umm
software - when it sells - is of course high profit. but when you have such crap systems as microsoft currently has in place, for protecting the software market, you have to look at your options. its fine to say 'software margins are so high', to which you will hear the cry 'when you actually sell any' in retort.
bare, physical reality still is rule #1. you still need hardware to run. and my point is: hardware is cheap. effective, productive hardware is real, real cheap. the average PC is waaaaaay over-engineered for its actual needs. bogus-ly so. blame microsoft.
What consumer hardware you know that commands gross margins higher than 50%?
you really want me to make a list? heck, my $60 cell phone, which i pay a monthly service fee for, can do word processing. it can do games. it can do e-mail. and it has zero microsoft software on it. it has a far better software-delivery paradigm, and generalized operating system environment, than what windows offers. and if cell phone keeps growing, it'll be all the computer i'll need, soon enough, to get my computing done.
look, within 4 to 6 years, mass manufacture of purpose-built (embedded, if you will) hardware is going to hit the big time. it already has, in huge, huge ways. that word processor you buy will be physical; hardware costs are coming way, way down. it'll be 'almost' as costly for microsoft to print their word processor 'software asset' directly into their own PCB than it would for them to manufacture a CD-ROM. the distinction between 'hardware' and 'software' assets is becoming irrelevant.
microsoft has the muscle to give itself massive hardware assets. its already doing it. they should lead a new hardware revolution by good investment in this realm, in my opinion...
Put all that money, straight away, into hardware, Billy-boy.
.. when you can get a $99 PDA with its own C compiler, you've got a totally different computing market than it was in the 70's, 80's, and 90's ...
.. 'tis the only path.
Its getting so that any $10k-startup or so can print their own boards and get their apps out there, sub-$500 like, and this means that the division between soft and hard-ware is fading. Hardware prices are matching 'software prices'
Xbox2^H360^H^H^HWhatever, XBox-Portable, XBox-Handy, XBox-Roomba
It seems every other day a new live-cd is announced, and I don't get it. What's so interesting about them?
..
.. its pretty much just a dog and pony show. Anyone can make their own Live-CD, truth be known, or distro too ..
.. haven't used Microsoft products in years ... but I can say fairly comfortably that Linux Live-CD's are a reliable way to get a very stable system running, tailored to your computing environment.
.. roll on '-ro' flag, ho ho ..
In terms of 'what it should mean to us geeks', I think that it means you can now treat your average PC like an average Playstation or XBox, same level of ease-of-use, same degree of utter simplicity: put it in, turn it on, it works, predictably, the same way every time.. only with all the stuff you really, really need to get work done, on one CD, leaving disks and removable media/personal storage devices in the consumer realm where they belong
I believe that the Live-CD'athons we're seeing these days are more a reflection of how easy it is to roll your own linux box, and of how many people are consequently coming to understand that, and jump on the band-wagon. Never under-estimate the 'oh, look what I can do' factor of Linux, either
And it seems, the days of the crufty OS are over. A user-made/configured LiveCD is a god-send for anyone wanting to use their computer to get work done, and not have to maintain the tyrrany of a disk-based OS/App-base install.
if Microsoft don't start giving folks easy ways to move C:\WINDOWS\ off to a bootable CD, and start playing in this particular arena of 'user-built OS for the job they intend', they're going to miss an interesting technological development. Maybe there is already a way to take a user-created system+apps install in Windows, and put it on a CD, I don't know
It seems that the 'Read Only OS Image Days of Stability' are upon us, fairly and squarely
..ade of Whatever Wondrous Bits and Bobs from Around The Globe You Could Find.
.. and most of them are still running, doing the specific job they were built for. custom applications abound!
.. distro war or none, linux is involved in running a lot of the empire of man, i would say ..]
as a linux application developer, 'linux' to me represents a wonderous toolset of marvel.
much as it may pain to state the obvious, the joy to be had in building your own entire OS; literally choosing only the bits you need for your application, cannot be under-valued.
weird to think of it (its gone so fast) but for 10 years i've been designing and building custom linux systems for a living
[all the linux press/hooplah these days does tend to overlook the customer-built installs of linux, i think
.. and I use that term, "3rd World", cautiously, because I fear that it is a product of imperialist culture .. but anyway, what you miss about this is:
.. there are fantastic parts of the world to live in, which aren't on the American continent, if only there were reliable power around to support industry, agriculture and production .. and I for one am all for it.
...
Once affordable power is available in so-called "3rd World" regions, they will develop fairly rapidly. Its the US' management and USE of its energy infrastructure which puts it in such high 'standards of living'.
Point is, with small, safe reactors around like this, "3rd World" countries won't be that way for long. And I say, bring it on
Bundle that with the general despisement of "Western Management" and smart new 'developing nation brainpools', maybe the waste management issue won't be as poorly represented as it has been by "the Americans", so far
yo, then you can be all "bugger you moon-bitch, where my cheese at?!"
and then bugger her ye shall!
i remember in the good old days of MIPS RISCos, every system shipped with a complete 3-ring binder set of man pages, and every few months or so, MIPS would send us new packages of pages to be replaced in the manuals (as bugs were fixed/apps upgraded) .. at first it always seemed cool that we'd get these 'revised docs', but as the ops-room flunky i do remember groaning about having to 'update deadtree manuals' all the time, for each system (the ops director was anal about each machine having its own doc shelf...)
what part of "none of the graphics in your mac are represented as PDF" ... do you not understand?
.. there are more. the 'poof' explosion-cloud for example, is PDF. the window-dressing is PDF.
not to mention, thats just the obvious example
So let's be totally clear here: None of the graphics on your Mac are represented internally in PDF format until your program explicitly requests that a display list be saved in PDF format. /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemStarter/QuartzD isplay.bundle/Resources/BootPanel.pdf
.. the most interesting part of this story to me is not that there's a "leaked list of polish spies" on the internet, it is the fact that there are 240,000 people out there willing to live covert and dishonest lives 'in the name of something'.
.. and what do you know, they were ...
how many 'spies' are there in the american homelands? will we ever know? just yesterday i had a drink with someone i suspected, pretty much within 5 minutes, of being a CIA agent
You get entertainment which is soemthing that is very important to people.
yeah, right. people whose lives have been rendered absolutely irrelevant by their de-humanizing culture. no thanks.
There is something about those themes that historically draw people, ultimately we as a society have chosen to "enjoy" those primal interests through virtual methods, movies, games, even books.
whether you have 'chosen' or not, its still a complete and utter waste of time. decadence, consumerican style.
And restaurants want you to eat your life away, and cell phone companies want you to chat your life away, and hotels/airlines want you to travel your life away with their services/products.
.. but i guess it is entertainment, in the same way the colloseums of rome were entertaining too, yeah ..
you get nothing out of video games.
you gain sustenance from restaurants, and shelter from hotels. airlines physically move you from one place to the other.
"games as entertainment" is only selling you the chance to wander mentally in a realm of little more than smoke and mirrors, nothing less..
as for whether its entertainment, i dunno. i consider the mass-popularization of idealized death, mayhem, and destruction, to be relatively fascist, no matter what 'pretty stories' and 'well-described pixelry' its dressed up in
For sake of argument, I'll accept your correlation, but I find it very hard to accept your causation. I think divorce rose merely because (a) women became more financially independent and (b) it became more acceptable.
look, having the government involved in the 'establishment of marriage' is what has 'cheapened the marriage promise', is what i'm talking about.
people don't take marriage so seriously, because the government does. see that causal relationship?