While it's an interesting tale, the blame for Kildall's failure to become a billionaire (as opposed to a mere multimillionaire) seems to rest pretty squarely on himself. He had a company. It made some money but was too slow in bringing out new products, because Gary was more interested in his own life than in making a business empire. So the clients switched to QDOS. Duh. Later he died of something or other 'during a night out'.
Only a true Slashdottva could turn that into 'Bill Gates bears principal responsibility for the suicide of Gary Kildall'. FFS, get a grip.
It's not the overall level of FF users that matters -- that's going to be high on a site like Engadget, low elsewhere. It's the fact that it has increased that matters.
Subjectively, I'm seeing a lot more FF windows around the office than I used to -- which is a pity as I still don't have a clue how to make my Japanese translation plugin work in Mozilla.
I am absolutely amazed that they named it in honest-to-god pseudo-Chinese rather than calling it 'furauaa saundo' or something.
Next, they'll start naming things in actual Japanese. Oh, wait, that would require attention to aesthetics and meaning rather than to sounding cool and vague.
Why, I hear that even a major Internet news organ is giving early warning of changes in the IT environment, including information about bugs and patches, to a shadowy elite of privileged 'subscribers'.
Hrm, well, I'm not particularly skilled in administrating either of them, but I've worked in lots of places with lots of Solaris and if that's 'stable like a plate' then I dread to think what instability must be like. They fill up their disk with logs, and they crash. They run out of swap space, and they crash. They run out of colors (!!!!) and they do something which amounts to crashing in that nobody can use them till they're rebooted. It's freakin' endless.
I'm sure there is some sense in which they are more stable than Linux and XP but in my subjective experience, there are a lot of people who would consider 'stability' an odd reason to keep paying the Sun tax.
The most stable device I can think of is my DSL modem/firewall at home. If they made a version that also acted as a Tibco/MQ router they'd clean up.
'Mono' and '.NET' are not two competing products..NET is a standard.
Mono is an implementation of it, together with some development tools and non-standard libs and bits and pieces.
The MS.NET runtime (bit of a misnomer really) is also an implementation of it, together with some development tools and non-standard libs and bits and pieces.
You cannot 'use Mono instead of.NET'. What you COULD do is port Mono to Mindstorms rather than developing a.NET VM from scratch.
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That was really interesting. It restores my faith in human nature a bit -- said faith having recently been damaged by the slew of ultra-pathetic posts on the mushroom cloud story.
The following antennas or dishes are covered by these rules:
* a "dish" antenna one meter (39.37 inches) or less in diameter (or any size in Alaska) designed to receive direct broadcast satellite service or to receive and transmit fixed wireless signals via satellite;
* an antenna one meter in diameter or less designed to receive wireless cable or to receive or transmit fixed wireless signals other than by satellite; and
* commercially-available analog and digital television antennas.
Antennas used for amateur ("Ham") radio, CB radio, FM or AM radio service, satellite radio or used as part of a hub to relay signals among antennas are NOT covered by these rules.
See how hubs are exempted?
So, in conclusion, I maintain it *does* matter what the lease or other contract between student and uni says.
The distinction between 'data' and 'he-said-she-said' strikes me as a non-obvious one. Presumably you just mean that you prefer the former to the latter.
Offhand, I can't think of any political history that is _not_ connected to social history. I don't think the distinction is very useful, which no doubt is why you didn't follow it:)
Anywhere but on/., the first thing anyone would suggest would be READING THE CONTRACT between the resident and the institution from which they are renting space. As there are no particular laws that prohibit or mandate wireless, it's a matter of what rules the tenants agreed to in their contracts. If the contract forbids Wireless access, or specifies that the tenant shall abide by University rules, then there you go.
Well, okay, I volunteer. The essays I had to write in high school did not conform to the format you give in the first paragraph, and they were not limited to English Lit (we wrote essays for history, biology and philosophy, at least). My experience was typical for the place and time, too, even if not for the students whose papers are on your desk. Counterexample. Thank you, you've been a lovely audience.
There are also some curious 'floating opinions' -- you advise us not to study political history and don't say why not, and your own example (normans) seems to be political history.
However, I don't dislike your essay. In fact I like it, and it makes at least two interesting points:
1 -- The teaching of writing (and language in general) basically died out and what is left of it is carried out by the teachers of literature.
2 -- The more you learn, the more you have a framework to which to attach more facts.
Point 1, while attractive and worthy, isn't really true. If I want to find good writing, or to see good writing being taught, I'll look for good science and law teachers, or (if I'm very lucky) engineering and business teachers. Those are areas in which clarity of expression matters. By comparison, the output of the average Yet Another Jungian English Prof is usually fuzzy at best.
This is a point which I would enlarge on at some length if I thought anyone gave a good gosh damn.
I shouldn't poke fun, but... you realize that the only person in the whole discussion and the article that even thought about upskirt cameras is y-o-u?
These people do not act on behalf of a 'hacker community', they do stuff because they want to. Are you seriously suggesting that someone somewhere should stop their hobby because you are afraid it will somehow, lord knows how, reflect indirectly on _you_?
To be honest, to the extent that there _is_ a 'hacker community' to which you belong, it's more likely to be given a bad image by Slashdot postings from tinfoil hatted eccentrics with extreme self-image issues.
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Unless, of course, you do it properly. But complaining is so much easier, eh?
My, I'm really turning into one of those bitter old posters who just goes around smacking down teenagers
Are crows actually poultry?
Why yes, I _don't_ have anything more worthwhile to say at the moment!
The first link I got for Gary Kildall was this:
http://www.maxframe.com/EUBANKS.HTM
While it's an interesting tale, the blame for Kildall's failure to become a billionaire (as opposed to a mere multimillionaire) seems to rest pretty squarely on himself. He had a company. It made some money but was too slow in bringing out new products, because Gary was more interested in his own life than in making a business empire. So the clients switched to QDOS. Duh. Later he died of something or other 'during a night out'.
Only a true Slashdottva could turn that into 'Bill Gates bears principal responsibility for the suicide of Gary Kildall'. FFS, get a grip.
Haru wa akebono, dude.
Thinks: I didn't even know Akebono was alive back then.
It's not the overall level of FF users that matters -- that's going to be high on a site like Engadget, low elsewhere. It's the fact that it has increased that matters.
Subjectively, I'm seeing a lot more FF windows around the office than I used to -- which is a pity as I still don't have a clue how to make my Japanese translation plugin work in Mozilla.
I am absolutely amazed that they named it in honest-to-god pseudo-Chinese rather than calling it 'furauaa saundo' or something.
Next, they'll start naming things in actual Japanese. Oh, wait, that would require attention to aesthetics and meaning rather than to sounding cool and vague.
Bring back Heian period Japanese, say I.
PS I am not a crank.
In other words, Ishii combines audiophile pretentiousness with arty Japanese guy pretentiousness -- a powerful and deadly blend!
I bet he has a short, neat beard and a black polo neck.
We also assume the prince to be perfectly rigid.
Why, I hear that even a major Internet news organ is giving early warning of changes in the IT environment, including information about bugs and patches, to a shadowy elite of privileged 'subscribers'.
Hrm, well, I'm not particularly skilled in administrating either of them, but I've worked in lots of places with lots of Solaris and if that's 'stable like a plate' then I dread to think what instability must be like. They fill up their disk with logs, and they crash. They run out of swap space, and they crash. They run out of colors (!!!!) and they do something which amounts to crashing in that nobody can use them till they're rebooted. It's freakin' endless.
I'm sure there is some sense in which they are more stable than Linux and XP but in my subjective experience, there are a lot of people who would consider 'stability' an odd reason to keep paying the Sun tax.
The most stable device I can think of is my DSL modem/firewall at home. If they made a version that also acted as a Tibco/MQ router they'd clean up.
Poor baby...fucker tries stealing from me, and he is being coddled while I am being interrogated.
Hey, welcome to a day in the life of a UK citizen.
What you did _was_ dumb though.
There's always the
Wow... do you have photos?
Perhaps Mono would work just as well.
'Mono' and '.NET' are not two competing products.
Mono is an implementation of it, together with some development tools and non-standard libs and bits and pieces.
The MS
You cannot 'use Mono instead of
This has been a public service announcement from the department of Things That The Average Slashdotter Cannot 'Get' No Matter How Often They Are Mentioned (TTTASC'G'NMHOTAM). In next week's exciting episode, we explain the difference between copyright violation and theft, and three posters reply by saying 'you can dress it up in fancy talk all you want but it's still theft!'
That was really interesting. It restores my faith in human nature a bit -- said faith having recently been damaged by the slew of ultra-pathetic posts on the mushroom cloud story.
...which ignores the fact that an equilibrium is often reached around 65-70 degrees.
Or, in the UK, around 15 degrees.
Hm, yes, that does look pretty promising for the tenant.
*awkward pause*
Well, that was interesting.
*further awkward pause*
Well, I guess I'll be off home, then.
There are indeed FCC rules and I quote:
The following antennas or dishes are covered by these rules:
* a "dish" antenna one meter (39.37 inches) or less in diameter (or any size in Alaska) designed to receive direct broadcast satellite service or to receive and transmit fixed wireless signals via satellite;
* an antenna one meter in diameter or less designed to receive wireless cable or to receive or transmit fixed wireless signals other than by satellite; and
* commercially-available analog and digital television antennas.
Antennas used for amateur ("Ham") radio, CB radio, FM or AM radio service, satellite radio or used as part of a hub to relay signals among antennas are NOT covered by these rules.
See how hubs are exempted?
So, in conclusion, I maintain it *does* matter what the lease or other contract between student and uni says.
The distinction between 'data' and 'he-said-she-said' strikes me as a non-obvious one. Presumably you just mean that you prefer the former to the latter.
Offhand, I can't think of any political history that is _not_ connected to social history. I don't think the distinction is very useful, which no doubt is why you didn't follow it
Anywhere but on
Well, okay, I volunteer. The essays I had to write in high school did not conform to the format you give in the first paragraph, and they were not limited to English Lit (we wrote essays for history, biology and philosophy, at least). My experience was typical for the place and time, too, even if not for the students whose papers are on your desk. Counterexample. Thank you, you've been a lovely audience.
There are also some curious 'floating opinions' -- you advise us not to study political history and don't say why not, and your own example (normans) seems to be political history.
However, I don't dislike your essay. In fact I like it, and it makes at least two interesting points:
1 -- The teaching of writing (and language in general) basically died out and what is left of it is carried out by the teachers of literature.
2 -- The more you learn, the more you have a framework to which to attach more facts.
Point 1, while attractive and worthy, isn't really true. If I want to find good writing, or to see good writing being taught, I'll look for good science and law teachers, or (if I'm very lucky) engineering and business teachers. Those are areas in which clarity of expression matters. By comparison, the output of the average Yet Another Jungian English Prof is usually fuzzy at best.
This is a point which I would enlarge on at some length if I thought anyone gave a good gosh damn.
Every field has people who feel the need to pat themeselves on the back for being an elite. It's not _just_ unix.
I have no idea what kind of software that 'Stallman' fellow has written, although I wish him luck -- maybe his project will catch on.
I shouldn't poke fun, but... you realize that the only person in the whole discussion and the article that even thought about upskirt cameras is y-o-u?
These people do not act on behalf of a 'hacker community', they do stuff because they want to. Are you seriously suggesting that someone somewhere should stop their hobby because you are afraid it will somehow, lord knows how, reflect indirectly on _you_?
To be honest, to the extent that there _is_ a 'hacker community' to which you belong, it's more likely to be given a bad image by Slashdot postings from tinfoil hatted eccentrics with extreme self-image issues.