Well if you deem it important to develop superlightspeed flight in order to save mankind/our replacements, then you would acknowledge a much more pressing need to make a lightsaber.:)
you forgot a few things:
1. Cable TV that only tunes in to Cartoon Network
2. Dartboard, everybody needs a sport and the arm muscles required for darts are already in top shape anyway:-)
3. A Coffee Maker in every room (maybe a refrigerator for M.Dew-etc?)
4. and if you want me to visit: a life-size Devil Ducky doll.
The one thing you won't ever need: a stereo, just build a MP3 server:)
That's what I got a few years ago. We were roommates with computers, it made since to set up a network... after the network came the gateway server (a Pentium 90, Red Hat Linux server, on a dial-up, ha!) Then (much later:-( ) came the cable modem. By this time most of us were geeks already (or drunks, or both, but that's another story).
It was just like a geek house: our girlfriends thought we were boring, we had no more friends, the electric meter threatened to explode, Linux outnumbered Windows 4-1 (6-1 if you count my broken laptops), my/. karma grew exponentially, classes were failed, etc.
I forget, is a geek house supposed to be a Good Thing?
If they truly are buying Cobalt to get a jump into the low-end server market then they will stll want to offer these with Linux.
For one they are already tested and configured for Linux. And another thing is that Solaris will add a signifigant price to the machine (Sun Tax?).
So why would they take off a tested OS configuration to replace it with a more expensive alternative? Not because Sun requires you to buy their OS either, they sell many machines with Linux or *BSD already.
After all I have never bought any cookies online, in fact I have never bought any food products online (I barely buy food offline). I get my cookies from my (soon to be) mother-in-law for free. Therefore even if Amazon was changing the prices of cookies it didn't affect me at all.
Yes, you would have to leave your palm plugged into a phone line, or have wireless service and have it connected. I personally am wondering why would someone want to pay to have their palm connected to a line, when they could have their computer connected to the same line for the sem price and then have the palm with them.
The Palm was never meant to replace the PC it is just an addition to it. Adding services such as these, where the only time it is neccessary is when you arre away from your Palm, is simply redundant to services that are/could be available for the PC.
Plus how many of you Palm owners ever leave home without it? I think mine is called a Palm because that is where it always is, in my palm.
Devil Ducky
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I prefer not to. If I had to choose my OS based on what hardware I had I would be stuck with Windows 98 (AMD processor prevents use of Win95).
I could buy hardware from IBM and use AIX, but then I would be stuck wuth expensive IBM hardware upgrades. I could go with the Solaris - SPARC configuration but I have only been annoyed during my experiexnces with both. There's the SGI-IRIX combo, but I certainly can't afford that...
So let's see I can afford common X86/IDE/etc hardware intended for WinUsers. I can afford linux (or FreeBSD, etc.). So I can't choose a vendor that creates the OS and the hardware.
I haven't read the whole article yet, but I was thinking anyway...
Since he is the creator of ethernet, then obviously he has been in the industry for awhile (back to the beginning even). And way back when, most developing (like ethernet) was done in a pretty much open-source enviornment.
I was just wondering if his objections to open-source is only in relation to how it is going now (linux users fighting with *BSD users etc.) or if he doubts all of the open-source ideals (including the time when he used to work under them). And if the latter is true, if he thinks this because he has been at 3COM too long...
I did convince my boss not to buy Microsoft anymore. The problem is there is no way to convince all of the other employees not to buy Microsoft anymore, thus leaving us having to learn the newest mistake^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hoperating system from those lovely people in Redmond while all of the servers are quietly switched to Linux.
I couldn't however convince him not to buy Intel anymore and no one in the company wants Sun... oh well 2 out of 3 at least.
P.S. The servers' best uptimes:
NT: over a year (got shut down for Y2K, never was stable again)
Linux: just over a week (still being tweaked)
As we all know when one builds these types of chips you have to choose your OS very carefully.
Depending on the exact nature of the chip many companies choose PalmOS ( a good, small, low-power OS), a few companies choose WinCE (or whatever that waste of bytes is called now), many (or at least some) companies choose to create a Linux-derivative, and many create a new OS (which usually fails).
To me this symbolizes the place where a court-ordered break-up would actually help Microsoft. If the chip making part of the company was not tied to the OS making part they would be free to choose any of the above solutions. But as it currently is they could only choose one (and it is not a good one).
I've always felt that Microsoft made very good hardware. Whenever I rant about their faults it is only in relation to the software, if it were to become possible to seperate the company into 3 (MicrOS, Microsoft, and Microhard, Look I even gave them names all of the hard work is done) then we could get some good products and a seperate crappy OS.
This could be the perfect opprtunity to fight the silly GIF patent. Since Compuserve claims that they own the GIF format then they must be responsible for it. And I have seen some pretty sick stuff in GIFs (usually worse then the jpgs even).
I am now officially announcing my intent to sue Compuserve for damages done to my frail innocence cause by implicit images compressed using the.GIF format. (It doesn't get much more legalese than that from me)
P.S. Another thought I had is that maybe someone just got confused about GNUtella. They realized that it is really a products of the internet (no matter who wrote the code) and they checked their computer to find out who owns the internet... Voila - AOL is to blame. When you look at it that way Al Gore just barely slipped through this scandal.
I found about GNUtella while I was using Netscape. AOL owns Netscape (as we are all too often reminded of) therefore it is their fault that I know about GNUtella.
Worse yet I downloaded Napster with Netscape as well as many other things I will refrain from mentioning here/now.
But if we really want to get into this, I have used WinAMP to play some of my illegal MP3s (I have also used XMMS, but that doesn't go towards my current point) and AOL owns WinAMP too. Wow, I think we can solve all of the worlds problems with this one.
>I can handle a PDA running Linux. I can even handle a calculator running Linux. But a watch? What's next, a Linux powered hearing aid?
Personally, I'm waiting for a Linux powered toothbrush, just set cron to make it work at night, and I won't have to bother brushing my own teeth anymore, it will all happen while I sleep.
After that I will be waiting for the Linux powered dentures (for those of us who like to eat but chewing is too much work) and the Linux powered Coffee Maker (I'm truly surprised that doesn't exist yet, combining cafeine with Linux seems obvious), the Linux-enabled phone (instead of getting annoying busy signals you would get annoying kernel panics), the Linux powered winmodem (just seems funny), the linux powered webserver (oh wait, nevermind that), the linux powered keyboard, the linux powered walkman, and last and probably least the linux powered lightbulb.
Just call me with any other suggestions, so my linux powered answering machine can automatically ignore them.
Those rules are fine and dandy, but realistically worthless. You can't write an entire site under those standards and honestly expect both Netscaspe and IE to follow them, unless you're not using anything more difficult then .
It's gotten so bad, that I found a protocol that was made it into HTML 4.0, was requested by Netscape, was not supported in Netscape 4.72, but was supported in IE 5+. I don't remember what it was but I do remember it had to do with image maps.
Software as we know it now (for the most part) doesn't care what happens to it's parent company. But as we will see (and help create) software will become more and more network based. What we will find then is that if a company like Microsoft or Slashdotsoft suddenly went out of buisness and didn't take care to have some other company (or individual or community) to take over the maintinance etc. then you're software will quit working.
Kind of reminds me of banks in the '30s. People lost their faith in the stability of the banks, withdrew all of their money. The sudden loss of funds meant the banks weren't stable. When it (almost inevitably) crashed the people who hadn't pulled out lost everything. Then more people felt that their bank wasn't safe (if that one could crash why can't mine?) and withdrew their money...
It is possible to have both IE5 and IE4 installed on the same machine, and it is very easy to install multiple versions of Netscape.
For the site I just finished creating (not allowed to link to it until officially open) the minimum browser requirement ended up being IE4 + Netscape 3, but it also would work in near-perfect fashion on older browsers (no javascript). The testing for the site was done on 3-4 different machines. I had access to a machine with IE 4 + IE 5 + Netscape Latest, another with IE @ (NT), another with IE 3 + Netscape 3.
If you don't have the ability to do this there are general rules to follow as to what version of a browser supports what and how well. Most of that information can be found on the web, if not on netscape.com & microsoft.com.
Another choice people will tell you is that it doesn't matter and that everyone who can't see your site should upgrade to the latest version. But do you really want to turn away the people looking at your site and tell them to upgrade?
I think games are a great idea. Depending on the level of interest and skill of the student, 3D games may not be the best choice.
Why not have the whole class devide into groups where each group builds an entire games from the ground up. The game doesn't have to be as hard a 3D, but it does have to be a game that they feel they know intimately. You can't build a game of Bridge if you do not know the rules of Bridge.
If they're are pretty well rehearsed in the world of programming, have them write a card game even one as semmingly simple as Go Fish, or Old Maid. That way they are pretty much sure to know all of the intricacies of the game, ubt it is complex enough to require various coding skills.
I suggested working in groups because if your school year is any where near as short as mine was in high school they won't be able to complete any interesting project in time by themselves. Plus all of the additional reasons for wanting students to work in groups.
Speaking for myself I can't get any programming done and my wedding is till 10 months away. It's not as though I am burned out though.
When I come home from work (I do minimal coding at work), I'm tired. I spend half an hour changing/relaxing and then I eat supper. By then my fiance is over, and she doesn't want to sit there while I program. So my problem is that there is not enough time in a day.
Oh well, what can you do? I mean other than disrupt the space-time continum with a giant "laser."
Seriously you dont have to get away from computers just away from programming in all of it's forms. You can surf the 'net, read/., laugh at some AOLers. All of these things are done on a computer but should not remind you of programming (unless you start editing the slashcode for some reason).
As for your second suggestion, why not boast? Coders just get made fun of in the "real" world. Why not let someone know exactaly how important what you are doing is.
And if you find some girl who will actually listen to you while you are boasting: Marry her. I'm not kidding about that.
As long as the bacteria are still alive, they would require some sort of substanance. But before any thing if this sort would become truly feasible some sort of atuomatic feeding system would have to be developed. It could be possible that they recieve their food from the air, or from a feeding plate, etc. But I wouldn't want my computer to die just because I have a "black thumb."
Yes, How dare we enslave these bacterium in the name of technology? These microbes have rights too. Now let's all give up on this foolishness of Biotransistors and the like. We should demand that the poor enslaved bacteria be set back into their enviornment where they can fill their lives with hard work making Antibiotics and other medicines.
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Well if you deem it important to develop superlightspeed flight in order to save mankind/our replacements, then you would acknowledge a much more pressing need to make a lightsaber. :)
Devil Ducky
this was in Heritage Oaks. We had 2 EEs, a ME, and one Buisness major/CSE drop-out :)
Devil Ducky
you forgot a few things: :-)
:)
1. Cable TV that only tunes in to Cartoon Network
2. Dartboard, everybody needs a sport and the arm muscles required for darts are already in top shape anyway
3. A Coffee Maker in every room (maybe a refrigerator for M.Dew-etc?)
4. and if you want me to visit: a life-size Devil Ducky doll.
The one thing you won't ever need: a stereo, just build a MP3 server
Devil Ducky
That's what I got a few years ago. We were roommates with computers, it made since to set up a network... after the network came the gateway server (a Pentium 90, Red Hat Linux server, on a dial-up, ha!) Then (much later :-( ) came the cable modem. By this time most of us were geeks already (or drunks, or both, but that's another story).
/. karma grew exponentially, classes were failed, etc.
It was just like a geek house: our girlfriends thought we were boring, we had no more friends, the electric meter threatened to explode, Linux outnumbered Windows 4-1 (6-1 if you count my broken laptops), my
I forget, is a geek house supposed to be a Good Thing?
Devil Ducky
If they truly are buying Cobalt to get a jump into the low-end server market then they will stll want to offer these with Linux.
For one they are already tested and configured for Linux. And another thing is that Solaris will add a signifigant price to the machine (Sun Tax?).
So why would they take off a tested OS configuration to replace it with a more expensive alternative? Not because Sun requires you to buy their OS either, they sell many machines with Linux or *BSD already.
Devil Ducky
After all I have never bought any cookies online, in fact I have never bought any food products online (I barely buy food offline). I get my cookies from my (soon to be) mother-in-law for free. Therefore even if Amazon was changing the prices of cookies it didn't affect me at all.
Oh wait, nevermind...
Devil Ducky
Yes, you would have to leave your palm plugged into a phone line, or have wireless service and have it connected. I personally am wondering why would someone want to pay to have their palm connected to a line, when they could have their computer connected to the same line for the sem price and then have the palm with them.
The Palm was never meant to replace the PC it is just an addition to it. Adding services such as these, where the only time it is neccessary is when you arre away from your Palm, is simply redundant to services that are/could be available for the PC.
Plus how many of you Palm owners ever leave home without it? I think mine is called a Palm because that is where it always is, in my palm.
Devil Ducky
I prefer not to. If I had to choose my OS based on what hardware I had I would be stuck with Windows 98 (AMD processor prevents use of Win95).
I could buy hardware from IBM and use AIX, but then I would be stuck wuth expensive IBM hardware upgrades. I could go with the Solaris - SPARC configuration but I have only been annoyed during my experiexnces with both. There's the SGI-IRIX combo, but I certainly can't afford that...
So let's see I can afford common X86/IDE/etc hardware intended for WinUsers. I can afford linux (or FreeBSD, etc.). So I can't choose a vendor that creates the OS and the hardware.
Devil Ducky
I haven't read the whole article yet, but I was thinking anyway...
Since he is the creator of ethernet, then obviously he has been in the industry for awhile (back to the beginning even). And way back when, most developing (like ethernet) was done in a pretty much open-source enviornment.
I was just wondering if his objections to open-source is only in relation to how it is going now (linux users fighting with *BSD users etc.) or if he doubts all of the open-source ideals (including the time when he used to work under them). And if the latter is true, if he thinks this because he has been at 3COM too long...
Devil Ducky
I did convince my boss not to buy Microsoft anymore. The problem is there is no way to convince all of the other employees not to buy Microsoft anymore, thus leaving us having to learn the newest mistake^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hoperating system from those lovely people in Redmond while all of the servers are quietly switched to Linux.
I couldn't however convince him not to buy Intel anymore and no one in the company wants Sun... oh well 2 out of 3 at least.
P.S. The servers' best uptimes:
NT: over a year (got shut down for Y2K, never was stable again)
Linux: just over a week (still being tweaked)
Devil Ducky
As we all know when one builds these types of chips you have to choose your OS very carefully.
Depending on the exact nature of the chip many companies choose PalmOS ( a good, small, low-power OS), a few companies choose WinCE (or whatever that waste of bytes is called now), many (or at least some) companies choose to create a Linux-derivative, and many create a new OS (which usually fails).
To me this symbolizes the place where a court-ordered break-up would actually help Microsoft. If the chip making part of the company was not tied to the OS making part they would be free to choose any of the above solutions. But as it currently is they could only choose one (and it is not a good one).
I've always felt that Microsoft made very good hardware. Whenever I rant about their faults it is only in relation to the software, if it were to become possible to seperate the company into 3 (MicrOS, Microsoft, and Microhard, Look I even gave them names all of the hard work is done) then we could get some good products and a seperate crappy OS.
Devil Ducky
This could be the perfect opprtunity to fight the silly GIF patent. Since Compuserve claims that they own the GIF format then they must be responsible for it. And I have seen some pretty sick stuff in GIFs (usually worse then the jpgs even).
.GIF format. (It doesn't get much more legalese than that from me)
I am now officially announcing my intent to sue Compuserve for damages done to my frail innocence cause by implicit images compressed using the
Devil Ducky
P.S. Another thought I had is that maybe someone just got confused about GNUtella. They realized that it is really a products of the internet (no matter who wrote the code) and they checked their computer to find out who owns the internet... Voila - AOL is to blame. When you look at it that way Al Gore just barely slipped through this scandal.
Devil Ducky
I found about GNUtella while I was using Netscape. AOL owns Netscape (as we are all too often reminded of) therefore it is their fault that I know about GNUtella.
Worse yet I downloaded Napster with Netscape as well as many other things I will refrain from mentioning here/now.
But if we really want to get into this, I have used WinAMP to play some of my illegal MP3s (I have also used XMMS, but that doesn't go towards my current point) and AOL owns WinAMP too. Wow, I think we can solve all of the worlds problems with this one.
Devil Ducky
>I can handle a PDA running Linux. I can even handle a calculator running Linux. But a watch? What's next, a Linux powered hearing aid?
Personally, I'm waiting for a Linux powered toothbrush, just set cron to make it work at night, and I won't have to bother brushing my own teeth anymore, it will all happen while I sleep.
After that I will be waiting for the Linux powered dentures (for those of us who like to eat but chewing is too much work) and the Linux powered Coffee Maker (I'm truly surprised that doesn't exist yet, combining cafeine with Linux seems obvious), the Linux-enabled phone (instead of getting annoying busy signals you would get annoying kernel panics), the Linux powered winmodem (just seems funny), the linux powered webserver (oh wait, nevermind that), the linux powered keyboard, the linux powered walkman, and last and probably least the linux powered lightbulb.
Just call me with any other suggestions, so my linux powered answering machine can automatically ignore them.
Devil Ducky
You mean that's what those numbers on sign at the bus stop are for? I always thought they were tracking numbers or something
Devil Ducky
>Journaling Filesystem: If my watch goes down, I won't lose my other timezone settings.
That implies that IBM is going to finish the port of JFS to linux so that they can put it on their watch... yeah, that makes sense.
Devil Ducky
Those rules are fine and dandy, but realistically worthless. You can't write an entire site under those standards and honestly expect both Netscaspe and IE to follow them, unless you're not using anything more difficult then .
It's gotten so bad, that I found a protocol that was made it into HTML 4.0, was requested by Netscape, was not supported in Netscape 4.72, but was supported in IE 5+. I don't remember what it was but I do remember it had to do with image maps.
Devil Ducky
Software as we know it now (for the most part) doesn't care what happens to it's parent company. But as we will see (and help create) software will become more and more network based. What we will find then is that if a company like Microsoft or Slashdotsoft suddenly went out of buisness and didn't take care to have some other company (or individual or community) to take over the maintinance etc. then you're software will quit working.
Kind of reminds me of banks in the '30s. People lost their faith in the stability of the banks, withdrew all of their money. The sudden loss of funds meant the banks weren't stable. When it (almost inevitably) crashed the people who hadn't pulled out lost everything. Then more people felt that their bank wasn't safe (if that one could crash why can't mine?) and withdrew their money...
Devil Ducky
It is possible to have both IE5 and IE4 installed on the same machine, and it is very easy to install multiple versions of Netscape.
For the site I just finished creating (not allowed to link to it until officially open) the minimum browser requirement ended up being IE4 + Netscape 3, but it also would work in near-perfect fashion on older browsers (no javascript). The testing for the site was done on 3-4 different machines. I had access to a machine with IE 4 + IE 5 + Netscape Latest, another with IE @ (NT), another with IE 3 + Netscape 3.
If you don't have the ability to do this there are general rules to follow as to what version of a browser supports what and how well. Most of that information can be found on the web, if not on netscape.com & microsoft.com.
Another choice people will tell you is that it doesn't matter and that everyone who can't see your site should upgrade to the latest version. But do you really want to turn away the people looking at your site and tell them to upgrade?
Devil Ducky
I think games are a great idea. Depending on the level of interest and skill of the student, 3D games may not be the best choice.
Why not have the whole class devide into groups where each group builds an entire games from the ground up. The game doesn't have to be as hard a 3D, but it does have to be a game that they feel they know intimately. You can't build a game of Bridge if you do not know the rules of Bridge.
If they're are pretty well rehearsed in the world of programming, have them write a card game even one as semmingly simple as Go Fish, or Old Maid. That way they are pretty much sure to know all of the intricacies of the game, ubt it is complex enough to require various coding skills.
I suggested working in groups because if your school year is any where near as short as mine was in high school they won't be able to complete any interesting project in time by themselves. Plus all of the additional reasons for wanting students to work in groups.
Devil Ducky
Speaking for myself I can't get any programming done and my wedding is till 10 months away. It's not as though I am burned out though.
When I come home from work (I do minimal coding at work), I'm tired. I spend half an hour changing/relaxing and then I eat supper. By then my fiance is over, and she doesn't want to sit there while I program. So my problem is that there is not enough time in a day.
Oh well, what can you do? I mean other than disrupt the space-time continum with a giant "laser."
Devil Ducky
Hobbies away from a computer? Blasphemy!
/., laugh at some AOLers. All of these things are done on a computer but should not remind you of programming (unless you start editing the slashcode for some reason).
Seriously you dont have to get away from computers just away from programming in all of it's forms. You can surf the 'net, read
As for your second suggestion, why not boast? Coders just get made fun of in the "real" world. Why not let someone know exactaly how important what you are doing is.
And if you find some girl who will actually listen to you while you are boasting: Marry her. I'm not kidding about that.
Devil Ducky
As long as the bacteria are still alive, they would require some sort of substanance. But before any thing if this sort would become truly feasible some sort of atuomatic feeding system would have to be developed. It could be possible that they recieve their food from the air, or from a feeding plate, etc. But I wouldn't want my computer to die just because I have a "black thumb."
Devil Ducky
Yes, How dare we enslave these bacterium in the name of technology? These microbes have rights too. Now let's all give up on this foolishness of Biotransistors and the like. We should demand that the poor enslaved bacteria be set back into their enviornment where they can fill their lives with hard work making Antibiotics and other medicines.
Devil Ducky