Just a couple of weeks ago I submitted a poll suggestion about how long it took people to get through 'Cryptonomicon'.
1) Less than one day.
2) One to two days.
3) Three to seven days.
4) One to two weeks.
5) You mean this thing actually ends?
6) Cryptowhatnow?
Re:I remember something like that...
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I spent the rest of the night rebuilding my partition table by hand.
I, also, once had to edit my partition table by hand. (Though not the hairy experience you went through.) And now I'm wondering how many people out there have done something like this. Less than one thousand? One hundred? How many people know the feeling of watching that computer boot up after having diddled with the partition table?
Ignore the facts of Open Source software and equate it with "overcoming the urge to pay people for their work", completely missing the 'free as in speech' point.
Of course, no one could POSSIBLY be bashing Gates for his reprehensible actions, it MUST be zealotrous reaction to him being a "sellout".
Ignore all those people who freely admit to dual booting Linux and Windows so they can still play their favorite games... pretend that they say they only use Windows on a friends machine.
(Then the guy makes an ass of himself with his AMD 2 gig processor parable, not realizing that early versions of Windows 9x DID have problems with certain non-intel processors...)
maybe i saw another movie... but i saw one with silly graphics, with little kids using macs, and showing unix mainframes as swirling 3d gui's that made noise when you typed commands.
You obviously missed that very important scene in the plane where the kid looks down at NYC and imagines it as computer circuitry. You were supposed to see that as a signal to the audience (you) that complex concepts would be metaphorically represented. Once you realize this the movie is quite enjoyable.
And as for the kids using Macs, real hackers (using the hollywood definition, here) would only need a modem and communications software. Every OS I've seen supports modems and has communications software.
I heard that the only thing standing in the way of posix compliancy is paying for the certification, which is very expensive. No one can claim posix compliancy without the certification, hence 'mostly posix compliant'.
You didn't include it, but everyone knows that this is attributed to Bill Gates. Wrong! If someone actually DID say it (big if!) it was the IBM engineer that put video memory at 0xA0000. Anyway, the 8088/8086 only saw 1024 kilobytes, and they did need some of that space for memory mapping I/O and BIOS.
If they had figured out a way for the entire 1 MB to be used by user programs (like you could with the Commodore 64 with it's 64 KB) would people now be attributing "1 megabyte ought to be enough for anybody." to Bill Gates?
The bare-bones IBM PC only came with 64 KB. No other mass marketed computer at that time came with more than that. It wasn't until many years later that new computers came with all their conventional memory space actually filled with RAM, well into the 80386 run.
Hi, your argument appears to be; Whitney was a bad guy because the history books made him out to be a bad guy, and Franklin was a good guy because the history books made him out to be a good guy.
You are clearly of superior intellect.
What research material would you use? Outside of science and math, at some point we have to agree on some authority... these history books seem OK to me.
Go ask Piers Anthony how diligent the publishers are in making sure the authors get that money. His story is from many years ago, though, so things might have changed since then.
Doesn't it bother anyone that something as complicated as political philosophies are thought of as a 1-Dimension left-to-right line?
It bothered Jerry Pournelle so he came up with a two dimensional plane of political ideology. I'm very sorry that I can't give you a link or any more information on it... I can't even remember in what book I read it in.
But, really, there are enough people out there who admit to being both socially liberal and financially conservative that I think another party/direction would make sense. (Hmm... I wonder who in there right minds would be socially conservative but financially liberal... that doesn't even make sense!)
Hey bozo, I compose and write music that you can only enjoy on _my_ fucking terms. Either you get that through your puny little head or you stew while the world passes you right the fuck by for being the sanctimonious, disingenuous twit that you are.
You are entitled to NOTHING I create. Zero. Nada. Zilch. Nothing unless its on my fucking terms.
The only way you can possibly enforce this is by never releasing your music for public consumption, under any terms. The second the public gets hold of it all bets are off. Contrary to popular opinion, the only laws that mean anything are those that the public agrees with, ex. the prohibition against alcohol.
In the early-mid '80s I followed Robotech all around the schedule trying to catch all the episodes, that were even shown out of order. No wonder it didn't catch an audience in my market. We don't need a dvd release, we need a proper run on the cartoon channel, or something.
Re:Why the preoccupation with "intelligent" animal
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So what about the case when it's a human, but with very low intelligence and very low awareness? Say, less than the average chimp. Do you think it's worse to kill them than to kill a chimp? Just to make it easier, assume they do not have any [close] living relatives, so we're not talking about the amount the killing would upset other people.
Now that sounds reasonable to me. Let's do it. Where do I sign your petition. I suggest changing the wording to exclude TEMPORARILY lowered intellegence, or you'd have scientists trolling bars for their research subjects.
"Texas Instruments invented the integrated circuit, microprocessor and microcomputer. Being first is our tradition."
I read about TI's integrated circuit invention, hand wired components. They totally missed the point about integrated circuits. Others were advancing the technology in ways that we still use today and TI gets the patent using technology that was abandoned before it even got started. Makes sense to me.
For the newbies who can't understand what we're talking about:
'Assembler' used to mean both the mnemonic 'language' that coincided with machine code (the actual ones and zeros that hardware understands -- sort of) and the program that turns that language into a form that the linker needs to produce the executable.
'Compiler' is a program used to 1) scan the source code looking for keywords and other constructs in the language in question, substituting 'tokens' and making entries into a symbol table. 2) produce meaningful error messages concerning syntax. 3) parse the result determining the meaning of the program, sending this information to a 3) code generator and optionally to a 4) code optimizer. That's a very simplistic definition and one that's not necessarily 100 percent correct for all programs calling themselves 'compilers'.
The current trend of calling assemblers 'assembler compilers' grates against my sensibilities too.
>But what seemed strange to me was this comment:
>
> Sony's Urabe set a target of a 10,000-hour life for the screens > and expressed confidence that manufacturing processes would > pose no insurmountable problems.
>10,000 hours is just 417 days. So basically if you use your computer
>8 hours a day, the monitor will be dead in 3 years. Most people
>don't want to fork out ~$1000 for a new monitor that often. I know I
>plan on keeping my CRT for a lot longer than that.
If that's MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures) it's a specific term that statisticians came up with, and what's important is that MTBF assumes regular, scheduled replacements. 100,000 hours MTBF sure sounds like a great number for a hard drive, but if changing out the drive every 12 months is included in that figure it looks a bit less great.
Everytime I see something like this it makes me want to scream. Perl is interpreted! The interpreter must be loaded into memory before perl scripts can be run! That 650 line C program has that 34 line perl script beat.
Please don't compare compiler source code with interpreter source code.
I'm on a very slow connect and they want me to load up all their ads and images for each game when all I want is a list... could someone help out a slow brother?
Before people start posting in panic, even if all the ice at the north pole melted it wouldn't cause sea level to rise... now if the glaciers of Greenland and the south pole all melted, then you can worry.
The reason, of course, is that north pole ice is floating on water so that it's weight is already seen in sea level.
There's a cosmological concept that's been mapped onto socialogical theory that (I think) applies here. When the rules break down, either in physics or in society, you have a singularity... no one knows what's on the other side, what the new rules will be. Whether it's an event horizon or the future in a time of great change, all that you DO know is that things are going to be radically different.
With communication technology practically nullifying all concepts of ownership of information, if we already aren't in a societal singularity, we soon will be.
It's not a Tuvalu matter anymore. The TLD was sold, lock, stock, and key to a Canadian company. Any disputes now fall under Canadian law.
U.S. company, actually. And DotTV is giving all of these companies ample oppourtunity to protect their trademarks and if a company doesn't protect it's trademark it loses it... or so I've heard.
You need to find the contrast knob and turn it down some, the world isn't that black-and-white.
We inherited the Vietnam situation from France through (I'm pretty sure) treaty obligations. A very large segment of our population was totally against it, but an even larger percentage thought we were doing the right thing.
Cambodia... it's not like we were bombing cities, we were after supply routes. Sure it was wrong, but when serious wars are fought these things happen. I'm sure the people responsible for it thought that they were doing the right thing.
I don't know that much about Pol Pot, the first I heard of him he wasn't well liked here in the U.S.
China... we are trying to establish good relations, both economic and political, in order to have better influence over their human rights situation. China is the 400 pound gorilla that we really can't push around so we have to try to 'manage' it.
Every time the intelligence community was caught doing something inappropriate the people responsible (that we could identify) were brought forth and punished... as well as we could manage considering the circumstances. Sure, some things slipped through, that's because the U.S. is made up of falliblemen, not gods.
And I guess we stayed home during the Gulf War... we didn't commit the largest force or spend the most money... Hey, guess what? We did.
If you don't want to give the U.S. credit for the good that it does in international affairs then there's nothing I can do but try to make sure others hear another side of the story.
No one said they would abandon their *.com's in favor of *.tv's. But it's not that difficult to see that people (at least english speakers) would see that.tv just might have something to do with television. The example I provided was to show that promoting the new domain name wouldn't be that difficult or expensive. *.com's are ubiquitous, but so are tv's. T.V. is everywhere and is so ingrained in our culture that I think this is a brilliant move by this company.
T.V. is bigger than Jesus Christ. Respect it or fade away.
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Just a couple of weeks ago I submitted a poll suggestion about how long it took people to get through 'Cryptonomicon'.
1) Less than one day.
2) One to two days.
3) Three to seven days.
4) One to two weeks.
5) You mean this thing actually ends?
6) Cryptowhatnow?
I spent the rest of the night rebuilding my partition table by hand.
I, also, once had to edit my partition table by hand. (Though not the hairy experience you went through.) And now I'm wondering how many people out there have done something like this. Less than one thousand? One hundred? How many people know the feeling of watching that computer boot up after having diddled with the partition table?
Ladies and gentlemen, we have FUD.
Ignore the facts of Open Source software and equate it with "overcoming the urge to pay people for their work", completely missing the 'free as in speech' point.
Of course, no one could POSSIBLY be bashing Gates for his reprehensible actions, it MUST be zealotrous reaction to him being a "sellout".
Ignore all those people who freely admit to dual booting Linux and Windows so they can still play their favorite games... pretend that they say they only use Windows on a friends machine.
(Then the guy makes an ass of himself with his AMD 2 gig processor parable, not realizing that early versions of Windows 9x DID have problems with certain non-intel processors...)
It seems to me that the only publically available encryption schemes that the NSA advocates will be the ones that they've already broken.
maybe i saw another movie... but i saw one with silly graphics, with little kids using macs, and showing unix mainframes as swirling 3d gui's that made noise when you typed commands.
You obviously missed that very important scene in the plane where the kid looks down at NYC and imagines it as computer circuitry. You were supposed to see that as a signal to the audience (you) that complex concepts would be metaphorically represented. Once you realize this the movie is quite enjoyable.
And as for the kids using Macs, real hackers (using the hollywood definition, here) would only need a modem and communications software. Every OS I've seen supports modems and has communications software.
I heard that the only thing standing in the way of posix compliancy is paying for the certification, which is very expensive. No one can claim posix compliancy without the certification, hence 'mostly posix compliant'.
"640 kilobytes ought to be enough for anybody."
You didn't include it, but everyone knows that this is attributed to Bill Gates. Wrong! If someone actually DID say it (big if!) it was the IBM engineer that put video memory at 0xA0000. Anyway, the 8088/8086 only saw 1024 kilobytes, and they did need some of that space for memory mapping I/O and BIOS.
If they had figured out a way for the entire 1 MB to be used by user programs (like you could with the Commodore 64 with it's 64 KB) would people now be attributing "1 megabyte ought to be enough for anybody." to Bill Gates?
The bare-bones IBM PC only came with 64 KB. No other mass marketed computer at that time came with more than that. It wasn't until many years later that new computers came with all their conventional memory space actually filled with RAM, well into the 80386 run.
Hi, your argument appears to be; Whitney was a bad guy because the history books made him out to be a bad guy, and Franklin was a good guy because the history books made him out to be a good guy.
You are clearly of superior intellect.
What research material would you use? Outside of science and math, at some point we have to agree on some authority... these history books seem OK to me.
...potato is the current stable release, woody is the next one. Before Potato was slink and before that was Bo.
I'm really late with this (sometimes I take a day away from Internet) but in case someone is reading this:
release - codename
1.1 - Buzz
1.2 - Rex
1.3 - Bo
2.0 - Hamm
2.1 - Slink
2.2 - Potato
(2.3 or 3.0) - Woody
Cheers
Go ask Piers Anthony how diligent the publishers are in making sure the authors get that money. His story is from many years ago, though, so things might have changed since then.
Doesn't it bother anyone that something as complicated as political philosophies are thought of as a 1-Dimension left-to-right line?
It bothered Jerry Pournelle so he came up with a two dimensional plane of political ideology. I'm very sorry that I can't give you a link or any more information on it... I can't even remember in what book I read it in.
But, really, there are enough people out there who admit to being both socially liberal and financially conservative that I think another party/direction would make sense. (Hmm... I wonder who in there right minds would be socially conservative but financially liberal... that doesn't even make sense!)
"All my base are belong to them!"
Hey bozo, I compose and write music that you can only enjoy on _my_ fucking terms. Either you get that through your puny little head or you stew while the world passes you right the fuck by for being the sanctimonious, disingenuous twit that you are.
You are entitled to NOTHING I create. Zero. Nada. Zilch. Nothing unless its on my fucking terms.
The only way you can possibly enforce this is by never releasing your music for public consumption, under any terms. The second the public gets hold of it all bets are off. Contrary to popular opinion, the only laws that mean anything are those that the public agrees with, ex. the prohibition against alcohol.
In the early-mid '80s I followed Robotech all around the schedule trying to catch all the episodes, that were even shown out of order. No wonder it didn't catch an audience in my market. We don't need a dvd release, we need a proper run on the cartoon channel, or something.
So what about the case when it's a human, but with very low intelligence and very low awareness? Say, less than the average chimp. Do you think it's worse to kill them than to kill a chimp? Just to make it easier, assume they do not have any [close] living relatives, so we're not talking about the amount the killing would upset other people.
Now that sounds reasonable to me. Let's do it. Where do I sign your petition. I suggest changing the wording to exclude TEMPORARILY lowered intellegence, or you'd have scientists trolling bars for their research subjects.
(chanting)Cognitive Rights! Cognitive Rights! Cognitive Rights!
"Texas Instruments invented the integrated circuit, microprocessor and microcomputer. Being first is our tradition."
I read about TI's integrated circuit invention, hand wired components. They totally missed the point about integrated circuits. Others were advancing the technology in ways that we still use today and TI gets the patent using technology that was abandoned before it even got started. Makes sense to me.
A 6502 cannot last a 1020 years
Three possibilities:
1) Hardened militarized versions of the chip were discovered and used in the bender units,
2) The 6502 was reversed engineered from surviving copies of 'Attack of the Mutant Camels'
3) The templates used in the manufacture of 6502s were discovered and reused.
the difference between assemblers and compilers
For the newbies who can't understand what we're talking about:
'Assembler' used to mean both the mnemonic 'language' that coincided with machine code (the actual ones and zeros that hardware understands -- sort of) and the program that turns that language into a form that the linker needs to produce the executable.
'Compiler' is a program used to 1) scan the source code looking for keywords and other constructs in the language in question, substituting 'tokens' and making entries into a symbol table. 2) produce meaningful error messages concerning syntax. 3) parse the result determining the meaning of the program, sending this information to a 3) code generator and optionally to a 4) code optimizer. That's a very simplistic definition and one that's not necessarily 100 percent correct for all programs calling themselves 'compilers'.
The current trend of calling assemblers 'assembler compilers' grates against my sensibilities too.
>But what seemed strange to me was this comment:
>
> Sony's Urabe set a target of a 10,000-hour life for the screens
> and expressed confidence that manufacturing processes would
> pose no insurmountable problems.
>10,000 hours is just 417 days. So basically if you use your computer
>8 hours a day, the monitor will be dead in 3 years. Most people
>don't want to fork out ~$1000 for a new monitor that often. I know I
>plan on keeping my CRT for a lot longer than that.
If that's MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures) it's a specific term that statisticians came up with, and what's important is that MTBF assumes regular, scheduled replacements. 100,000 hours MTBF sure sounds like a great number for a hard drive, but if changing out the drive every 12 months is included in that figure it looks a bit less great.
Everytime I see something like this it makes me want to scream. Perl is interpreted! The interpreter must be loaded into memory before perl scripts can be run!
That 650 line C program has that 34 line perl script beat.
Please don't compare compiler source code with interpreter source code.
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I'm on a very slow connect and they want me to load up all their ads and images for each game when all I want is a list... could someone help out a slow brother?
Before people start posting in panic, even if all the ice at the north pole melted it wouldn't cause sea level to rise... now if the glaciers of Greenland and the south pole all melted, then you can worry.
The reason, of course, is that north pole ice is floating on water so that it's weight is already seen in sea level.
There's a cosmological concept that's been mapped onto socialogical theory that (I think) applies here. When the rules break down, either in physics or in society, you have a singularity... no one knows what's on the other side, what the new rules will be. Whether it's an event horizon or the future in a time of great change, all that you DO know is that things are going to be radically different.
With communication technology practically nullifying all concepts of ownership of information, if we already aren't in a societal singularity, we soon will be.
It's not a Tuvalu matter anymore. The TLD was sold, lock, stock, and key to a Canadian company. Any disputes now fall under Canadian law.
U.S. company, actually. And DotTV is giving all of these companies ample oppourtunity to protect their trademarks and if a company doesn't protect it's trademark it loses it... or so I've heard.
But, IANAL.
You need to find the contrast knob and turn it down some, the world isn't that black-and-white.
We inherited the Vietnam situation from France through (I'm pretty sure) treaty obligations. A very large segment of our population was totally against it, but an even larger percentage thought we were doing the right thing.
Cambodia... it's not like we were bombing cities, we were after supply routes. Sure it was wrong, but when serious wars are fought these things happen. I'm sure the people responsible for it thought that they were doing the right thing.
I don't know that much about Pol Pot, the first I heard of him he wasn't well liked here in the U.S.
China... we are trying to establish good relations, both economic and political, in order to have better influence over their human rights situation. China is the 400 pound gorilla that we really can't push around so we have to try to 'manage' it.
Every time the intelligence community was caught doing something inappropriate the people responsible (that we could identify) were brought forth and punished... as well as we could manage considering the circumstances. Sure, some things slipped through, that's because the U.S. is made up of falliblemen, not gods.
And I guess we stayed home during the Gulf War... we didn't commit the largest force or spend the most money... Hey, guess what? We did.
If you don't want to give the U.S. credit for the good that it does in international affairs then there's nothing I can do but try to make sure others hear another side of the story.
No one said they would abandon their *.com's in favor of *.tv's. But it's not that difficult to see that people (at least english speakers) would see that .tv just might have something to do with television. The example I provided was to show that promoting the new domain name wouldn't be that difficult or expensive.
*.com's are ubiquitous, but so are tv's. T.V. is everywhere and is so ingrained in our culture that I think this is a brilliant move by this company.
T.V. is bigger than Jesus Christ. Respect it or fade away.