Are pipes even significant in Windows? Are they used in any significant manner? Seems to me like comparing something one OS was designed around to something another OS just tacked on as an afterthought. Was anybody surprised that Windows pipes are not as efficient/nice/whizbang as any *nixes pipes? Next: let's compare COM+ performance between Linux and Windows!
You need to know how to partition/factor conceptually distinct parts of a problem, define interfaces/APIs between those parts, and then all go to your own caves and write the implementation. When you come back, you should all be able to work together to fit those pieces together. One strategy is for the professor to have a design in his head, and give certain groups a chunk of the solution. Then the class as a whole should be able to all come together, and form a complete solution.
Yeah, to undo all the damage of high school. Unfortunately a lot of big schools only want you to think what they want you to think for yourself. It's mostly cog-building and "preparation" for your place in society. It used to be that you could go to college to encounter a diversity of people and ideas...now it seems the nation as a whole is a lot more diverse than the academic and socioeconomical inbreeding at these schools.
Attorney General Ashcroft: You are in violation of the Anti-Terrorism Act. Go directly to jail. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200. Hacker bastard. By the way, please work with us against terrorism.
I believe they are part of the "Gamespy Network" which means that you can use your Gamespy id to login. It's probably just to integrate the various aspects of gaming and foster a "community" (which they oversee of course). Really I don't give a damn if I have to register, and it's only an annoyance the first time. What the hell are they going to track anyway? I don't participate in any of their other services (if there are any).
Yeah, I hate when corporations complain to government that profits have been *STOLEN* from then. When the fsck did profit become a *right*?? Oh no, technology is outmoding your business - run to government and cry. Oh no, every person in America is depriving you of profit - get Congress to call them "criminals". And now we're giving how many millions or billions just to "bail out" airlines?? Just as a gift? (ok, in that case it could be argued that airlines provide a greater public infrastructure good, but it's not like we don't bail all sorts of other things). Corporate profit is now becoming a right in this country, and new laws are being invented (*cough* Anti-Terrorism Act *cough*) to criminalize and harshly penalize any behavior which seems to go against the "American Way". Granted that this guy was probably some freeloading fool, but what's next? If I circumvent television ads am I now depriving corporations of their right to mindshare?
No but you can sell the LICENSE...that is if it isn't explicitly prohibited *in* the license...which it looks like it is. So do licenses deserve the same status as property? I mean, do I *own* the license, or am I just a party to it??
Do you know what this **means**? They kidnapped Zimmerman and replaced him with a robot (Carnivore-enabled of course)!! I bet the Post and CIA are in some sort of wicked wicked collusion!! Fire up those mail bombers!
So then why isn't the "structure" the intellectual property of the drive manufacturers? After all, *they* were the ones who originally envisioned those "structures".
Ok, so now all we have to fear is a strange planet passing within our solar system, causing all mechanical and electrical devices to develop free will...
I read the article and am very excited about "componentizing" Unix...so has work been dropped on this front or is it still ongoing? I find this approach, and HURD's, very elegant and better in the long run. Unix is way to complex as it is will hundreds of libraries, independent executables, and configuration files strewn all over. We need to move to a higher level of abstraction, a component model. It looks like Ximian is going even further and embracing.NET, although I doubt that this will ever be useful at the system level. A "native" RPC mechanism like CORBA is probably required (um, we can't exactly be sending gigantic SOAP requests around to read a block from a device). So, is there any Bonobo work being done outside Gnome, at the system level?
"Component architectures may be fascinating for engineers, but they don't deliver an enhanced experience for the user by themselves."
Yes they do. If it means much less time wrangling over obscure technical hacks, that's all the more time programmers can spend on "user" issues. So yes, good user-agnostic technical design can lead to good end-user experience. Contrast that with having a horrible mess of infrastructure painted over by a GUI which has had lots of time and money thrown at it.
"I don't believe that our definition of terrorism is so broad," said Ashcroft. "It is broad enough to include things like assaults on computers, and assaults designed to change the purpose of government."
Immediately after the bill was passed Ashcroft was arrested under terrorist charges under the very same bill, for "changing the purpose of government".
Well said. Jews, Christians, and Muslims have lived peacably together for long periods of time. Every group has it's fanatic wing, and this wing gains predominance when people are poor, hopeless, and desperate. It's no surprise that fundamentalists have so much power in countries that have been ravaged by war, in which generations of people know nothing but miserable existences. This is why it is so ludicrous that our solution to the problem of terrorism is to just go bomb the "bad guys". The bad guys are bad guys because they have no hope. There is *nothing* we could do to make this worse. It's like jailing a blind, mute, starving, paralytic beggar. There is nothing worse you could possibly do. We need to get out of the mind set of good guys and bad guys. There are situations, circumstances, opinions, emotions. There isn't a class of sub-humans we can hunt down. People are people, and just because they do things we cannot comprehend does not make them "crazies", or any less human. It's like the force - killing the enemy only makes them stronger.
I swear, if another jingo waves a garish flag in my face, or somebody sings one more melodramatic rendition of the national anthem or battle hymn, I'm going to puke.
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"to put limits on that power - something the americans do very well"
;)
No, Americans are good at giving the perception of limits on power. It really just shifts around in the same old circles
Perhaps that's where all this 'grit' is coming from...
Are pipes even significant in Windows? Are they used in any significant manner? Seems to me like comparing something one OS was designed around to something another OS just tacked on as an afterthought. Was anybody surprised that Windows pipes are not as efficient/nice/whizbang as any *nixes pipes? Next: let's compare COM+ performance between Linux and Windows!
Please, this is a good thing - STOP PEOPLE FROM COPYING NYSYNC.
You need to learn how to "work alone together" ;)
You need to know how to partition/factor conceptually distinct parts of a problem, define interfaces/APIs between those parts, and then all go to your own caves and write the implementation. When you come back, you should all be able to work together to fit those pieces together. One strategy is for the professor to have a design in his head, and give certain groups a chunk of the solution. Then the class as a whole should be able to all come together, and form a complete solution.
"Schools should teach you to think for yourself."
Yeah, to undo all the damage of high school. Unfortunately a lot of big schools only want you to think what they want you to think for yourself. It's mostly cog-building and "preparation" for your place in society. It used to be that you could go to college to encounter a diversity of people and ideas...now it seems the nation as a whole is a lot more diverse than the academic and socioeconomical inbreeding at these schools.
Ebert and Roeper: two thumbs down
'nuff said
(sorry Ben)
Attorney General Ashcroft: You are in violation of the Anti-Terrorism Act. Go directly to jail. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200. Hacker bastard. By the way, please work with us against terrorism.
I believe they are part of the "Gamespy Network" which means that you can use your Gamespy id to login. It's probably just to integrate the various aspects of gaming and foster a "community" (which they oversee of course). Really I don't give a damn if I have to register, and it's only an annoyance the first time. What the hell are they going to track anyway? I don't participate in any of their other services (if there are any).
"no go, the satellites don't get taxed"
...but they do get their own DVD zone. Can't have astronauts "pirating" DVDs (would that make them Space Pirates?).
From where did you glean that? If you made it up, perhaps it should be Moofie's Corollary...
Yeah, I hate when corporations complain to government that profits have been *STOLEN* from then. When the fsck did profit become a *right*?? Oh no, technology is outmoding your business - run to government and cry. Oh no, every person in America is depriving you of profit - get Congress to call them "criminals". And now we're giving how many millions or billions just to "bail out" airlines?? Just as a gift? (ok, in that case it could be argued that airlines provide a greater public infrastructure good, but it's not like we don't bail all sorts of other things). Corporate profit is now becoming a right in this country, and new laws are being invented (*cough* Anti-Terrorism Act *cough*) to criminalize and harshly penalize any behavior which seems to go against the "American Way". Granted that this guy was probably some freeloading fool, but what's next? If I circumvent television ads am I now depriving corporations of their right to mindshare?
No but you can sell the LICENSE...that is if it isn't explicitly prohibited *in* the license...which it looks like it is. So do licenses deserve the same status as property? I mean, do I *own* the license, or am I just a party to it??
Do you know what this **means**? They kidnapped Zimmerman and replaced him with a robot (Carnivore-enabled of course)!! I bet the Post and CIA are in some sort of wicked wicked collusion!! Fire up those mail bombers!
archives.nytimes.com
'nuff said
So then why isn't the "structure" the intellectual property of the drive manufacturers? After all, *they* were the ones who originally envisioned those "structures".
Ok, so now all we have to fear is a strange planet passing within our solar system, causing all mechanical and electrical devices to develop free will...
I read the article and am very excited about "componentizing" Unix...so has work been dropped on this front or is it still ongoing? I find this approach, and HURD's, very elegant and better in the long run. Unix is way to complex as it is will hundreds of libraries, independent executables, and configuration files strewn all over. We need to move to a higher level of abstraction, a component model. It looks like Ximian is going even further and embracing .NET, although I doubt that this will ever be useful at the system level. A "native" RPC mechanism like CORBA is probably required (um, we can't exactly be sending gigantic SOAP requests around to read a block from a device). So, is there any Bonobo work being done outside Gnome, at the system level?
"Component architectures may be fascinating for engineers, but they don't deliver an enhanced experience for the user by themselves."
Yes they do. If it means much less time wrangling over obscure technical hacks, that's all the more time programmers can spend on "user" issues. So yes, good user-agnostic technical design can lead to good end-user experience. Contrast that with having a horrible mess of infrastructure painted over by a GUI which has had lots of time and money thrown at it.
Any luck on a p100 48 mb RAM yet?
Hey look - they have an 'arm' clock. That sounds cool. They should put in an analog clock also though.
"I don't believe that our definition of terrorism is so broad," said Ashcroft. "It is broad enough to include things like assaults on computers, and assaults designed to change the purpose of government."
Immediately after the bill was passed Ashcroft was arrested under terrorist charges under the very same bill, for "changing the purpose of government".
...and what's with all these pictures of little pigs??
Well said. Jews, Christians, and Muslims have lived peacably together for long periods of time. Every group has it's fanatic wing, and this wing gains predominance when people are poor, hopeless, and desperate. It's no surprise that fundamentalists have so much power in countries that have been ravaged by war, in which generations of people know nothing but miserable existences. This is why it is so ludicrous that our solution to the problem of terrorism is to just go bomb the "bad guys". The bad guys are bad guys because they have no hope. There is *nothing* we could do to make this worse. It's like jailing a blind, mute, starving, paralytic beggar. There is nothing worse you could possibly do. We need to get out of the mind set of good guys and bad guys. There are situations, circumstances, opinions, emotions. There isn't a class of sub-humans we can hunt down. People are people, and just because they do things we cannot comprehend does not make them "crazies", or any less human. It's like the force - killing the enemy only makes them stronger.
I swear, if another jingo waves a garish flag in my face, or somebody sings one more melodramatic rendition of the national anthem or battle hymn, I'm going to puke.