It's a logical ring, not a physical ring. Uses regular cat5 utp, in most setups. Physical star topology. His whole problem centers around linux barfing on token ring, so building a gateway is only going to move the problem to a new machine (unless he wants an NT gateway, LOL).
If the idea behind the project is still worthwhile, and yet project management is screwed up that it is ruining that idea, can you not fork the project? If what you say is true, then you can't be the only one experiencing it. Create a new version, a new distro, and incorpoarate all the bug fixes that the other project doesn't. You are allowed to do so, you know. Use it as a last resort, but the truth is that open source even has solutions built into the model for this sort of problem.
Yes we lose. Doesn't matter whether I'm at war or not... Microsoft is. And whether we're the enemy, or just the spoils that they hope to loot, is also irrelevant. You don't have to be at war, pacifists can lose to, you know.
This wouldn't even be an issue, if Bush hadn't sold us out. You may have a point, but what other remedies are there? If the states baack off because of such considerations, or if the courts claim that it's unfair to M$, then the last defense has been breached. We lose.
Of course, there is the possibility, that to win, we have to practice scorched earth tactics, as you have pointed out.
I'm glad that Fischer still gets to play chess ...
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But damn, can't he lay off posting goatsex links as Anonymous Coward? Then again, it might be Kasparov trying to discredit Bobby, he's been bitter ever since the Big Blue Fiasco.
What stops them, even if Lego stomps on these hackers? The OS is hardly the crucial linchpin that holds it all together.
Damn Lego! Damn them all... if you people can't come up with a compatible OS, we'll never be able to compete in the lucrative building block robot market!
It's not that simple sir. Sure we can clone the hardware, standard reverse engineering practices made that possible the first 2 weeks. But without a savant like Noga to crack the million bit quantum encryption on the OS, we'll never be able to do it.
Well, that's the one solution we don't have. The FBI still suspects that Lego had Noga assassinated to protect their secrets, but they are getting nowhere. Even the million dollar reward we offer hasn't had any bites...
Damn them!
Abandoning backwards compatibility is often a controversial action, that needs to be carefully considered beforehand. Often, the best course of action is to consult with the Licensing Dept. They've been making great progress in the time it takes to reword licensing so that it is illegal for end users to attempt to use older hardware and/or software, often they can provide a solution in less than 3 months. This provides the Legal Dept. with a steady stream of secondary revenue, when they audit, and sometimes sue those users who call support hotlines. A win-win situation for all of us!
If anything it'd create a cargo cult of the uneducated worshipping the computers, knowing that they will bring prosperity, when in fact they do nothing of the sort.
Is it just me, or does this sound alot like my boss?
The right to a reasonable number of free domains.
The right to choose a domain name without restriction.
The right to not have souless corporations gobble up all the good names, before you are even allowed to register.
The right to not have someone register a domain, just to keep it away from you.
The right to run your nameserver off of any valid IP, not the ridiculous technical restrictions that prevent you from hosting your own site.
Give me a little time, I'm sure I could come up with more.
These brilliant scientists also hope to use their data to answer an age-old question closer to home. In a similar experiment, they'll use the same procedure to try and determine whether there is really life in Nebraska. Asked why, they replied "It is the next logical step. For decades, americans and people elsewhere in the world have wondered whether there is anything there, or if it is just some abysmal pit in the middle of nowhere. We hope to be able to answer that question for everyone." However, the scientific community itself is somewhaat divided over the next endeavor. Dr. James Greely, of the Helsinki Institute of Xenobiology states "Forget the fact that they are wasting precious grant money in an envriroment that has been rather uncommon in the current political enviroment. It's inconcievable that grown men would waste their time seeking life in a place like Nebraska. Of all the unlikely places they might search, this has to top the list, [in] the universe [all] over. They might as well search for intelligent life in the Whitehouse. They've got just as much chance of finding that..." Until they publish their conclusions, though, the world will have to wait. And wonder.
Why the paperless office will always be a myth.
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Boss: Johnny, we're very happy with these new e-papers that you ordered. At first, I thought they were to expensive to justify, but I know now that they worth every penny.
Johnny: Thanks boss!
Boss: You're welcome Johnny. Do you think you'd be able to get the rest of them distributed to the clerks today?
Johnny: Sure no problem.
Boss: One other thing, can you set the network up so that each time someone opens a file on an e-paper, that the Laserjet 10,000 will print it out automatically?
Johnny: I suppose so, but why? *dull look of horro*
Boss: So that they can have a printout too, of course. *silently to himself* "Why do these computer people have to be so dense?!?"
Johnny: *silently to himself* "AAAAAAAAAAAAGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGHHHHHHH!!! *sob* AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGHHH!!!"
That the Clinton administration allowed defense secrets to be leaked or stolen. Next thing you know, there will be a squabble over Hong Kong or Taiwan, and the chinese will jump not for a minute, but for an entire half hour, unleashing a tsunami that will destroy the west coast of the US. This may be your final warning*, evacuate California immediately!!
*Redmond, Washington residents, you have nothing to fear. Don't panic, and don't leave your homes and businesses *cough* to be looted by suicidal vandals and thieves.
We're mewling, because aany conduct remedy Microsoft would abide by, amounts to some low level manager writing up form letter apologies to Netscape and Apple. Oops, let me correct that, they wouldn't abide by that either, the letters would be worded in legalese such that there would be no apology at all.
Microsoft has been put under conduct remedies before, and each time has been found guilty of not abiding by them. They have a history of ignoring this stuff, like some lowlife on probation who continues to shoot up, etc.
The only remedy that has a shot of working, is breaking Microsoft up into not 2 companies, but rather into at least 19 companies. These would consist of...
3 companies, all of which share the rights to dos and the windows 95/98 kernel.
3 companies, that share the rights to windows nt.
4 companies that share M$ office and sql server.
3 companies sharing msie, and all their related internet software (IIS, some of the backoffice suite, etc)
2 companies that share rights to their software development tools.
1 company owning rights to all their game software.
1 company owning rights to all their hardware, from the xbox to ms mouse.
1 company owning all msn assets.
1 company owning all media assets, the msnbc stuff, etc.
Also, it would be a good idea, for the remedy to include a provision forcing all senior management to retire, and become passive stockholders at most. I would like to see, not that it would happen, that reparations would also be forced, amounting to about $20 billion, half of which would go to whatever remnants of the companies M$ squashed, Novell, Be, Netscape, Apple, etc. The other would be issued as refunds to consumers and corporate licensing victims.
Now, while there is no way to repair the damage they have done, that would go a short ways in righting some of it. I might be a bit extreme, but anyone that suggests anything less than a breakup is sadly misinformed.
I must admit that I am extremely apolitical, and that I'm still uncertain about who I hated more, Bush or Gore. Or for that matter, whoever it was that the LP fielded.
Even as much as that is true, I still can't help but feel betrayed. What in the hell is going on? Either the Bush administration believes that M$ isn't guilty of inumerable crimes (impossible?), or that the crimes are so petty that punishment this severe isn't merited (again impossible?). Those are the only 2 possibilities that give Bush any excuse at all, and if they are the explanation for this, then we are all in trouble, because he is an utter retard.
The less benign explanations are that A) Bush is literally being bribed, B) is indirectly being bribed, or C) he is an evil fuck making sure that only the elite are allowed to go into business (and then only safely, if they are on "his side" whatever that is). Since the benign explanations are bullshit, is there any hope?
Until he writes the 64bit 3D gui OS in pure binary (hex is for wimps) machine code. And it fits on a audio cassette tape, to boot.
Congrats to the guy though, this sounds incredibly cool.
And in a suprise move...
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IBM completes a hostile takeover attempt on the newly created Hewlett Compaq, this just 72 hours after buying Gateway outright, in a leveraged stock and options deal. Industry analysts expect that the eventual hyper-merger, to create a single corporate entity (Unicorp), will take less than 24 months at this pace. With the financial industry consolidated last week into "Unibank, the World's Favorite Bank", this editor believes that 24 months is a serious overestimate.
I disagree. I've spent too much of my adult life not really knowing what goes on in the cpu, if you ask me. Not saying I'll beat the compiler, just that the compiler will no longer be this djinni that I pump magic spells into, and out comes the result. Besides, I am a wannabe hardware hacker, and it's essential for what I want to do. I've already started coding a ppp/ip stack for my Apple IIe, and as soon as I can have the boards made, I'll prototype my ethernet card for it (sporting a nifty 65c816 coprocessor). Too many fun things to do, that can't be done if I fall into the "no one needs to learn asm anymore" trap. Why, I've even been toying with the idea of a 68k core emulator for the 604, and if I can do that, I can do anything. Lord knows what, maybe I'll homebrew a quad ppc accelerator for my Amiga 2000, instead of paying $500 for a '040 board on ebay. Maybe I'll say the heck with it, and just design a motherboard outright. Anything is possible.
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At what karma do get I get to post at -1? And is it truly possible to post at -2? Or do I need a moderator's help for that?
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Don't worry. They'll mod you down too, soon enough. The only thing I have to say for myself, is that no one can call me a karma whore. -4 and dropping like a brick, baby.
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My god. I'll never learn assembly on a modern chip. I tried on the 386/486, but gave up, and opted for the 65c02 (a fine little chip). I'm getting to the point where it's time to move on, and I was going to attempt the 68k or even PPC (no altivec though). I think I might actually manage to learn that, but I can't even begin to imagine 328 registers. Especially arranged the way intel tends to arrange them...
Will anyone outside of cpu engineers and compiler authors even learn asm on this monster? Or have we truly moved past the point where programmers understand the cpu?
Sorry, it has to be a comment first. Even a trollish comment might count, but pictures don't.
If someone hacked the index.html, and put a "comment" there, would you heckle them for deleting that? Then why would you for deleting a PICTURE, not a comment, that somehow got snuck into the forums? It has long been acknowledged that their own prohibition against censorship is not absolute. That you would try to use a single example of deletion as proof that they are somehow hypocrites speaks volumes to me. And what an example. How bout this? Obvious to many, is the fact that this "comment" has been posted numerous times, and yet they also have built in mechanisms to prevent duplicates. If the system isn't perfect, they aren't allowed to go back and manually fix such "errors" ? Show me a deleted post that consists of words, of a message that doesn't involve a picture of a man with an asshole bigger than his own head, and I'll be standing right beside you bitching and hollaring. Until then, use your time constructively, like figuring out a fair way to remove that garbage permanently. If you read at +2, you only hear the karma whores, and if you browse at -1 (like I often do) then you get to see that picture way too often.
Personally, I'm all for imposing a ban on duplicate posts across stories, that way the goatsex trolls are gonna have to get busy with a new ascii art each post, or accept that they have already been allowed to make that comment, and that they can't post it again.
Strange that you would get modded -1 for this response. Suppose I will too. Damn, the meta-moderation can't happen quickly enough, as far as I'm concerned.
Hardly. ASCII art isn't "commenting" and besides, when they have the lameness filter working, it isn't even possible to post such garbage. Someone found a loophole or way around the filter, and so they retro-actively filtered it. If someone did mod it up as you claim, that only stands to show how corrupted the moderation system has become.
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It's a logical ring, not a physical ring. Uses regular cat5 utp, in most setups. Physical star topology. His whole problem centers around linux barfing on token ring, so building a gateway is only going to move the problem to a new machine (unless he wants an NT gateway, LOL).
If the idea behind the project is still worthwhile, and yet project management is screwed up that it is ruining that idea, can you not fork the project? If what you say is true, then you can't be the only one experiencing it. Create a new version, a new distro, and incorpoarate all the bug fixes that the other project doesn't. You are allowed to do so, you know. Use it as a last resort, but the truth is that open source even has solutions built into the model for this sort of problem.
Yes we lose. Doesn't matter whether I'm at war or not... Microsoft is. And whether we're the enemy, or just the spoils that they hope to loot, is also irrelevant. You don't have to be at war, pacifists can lose to, you know.
This wouldn't even be an issue, if Bush hadn't sold us out. You may have a point, but what other remedies are there? If the states baack off because of such considerations, or if the courts claim that it's unfair to M$, then the last defense has been breached. We lose.
Of course, there is the possibility, that to win, we have to practice scorched earth tactics, as you have pointed out.
But damn, can't he lay off posting goatsex links as Anonymous Coward? Then again, it might be Kasparov trying to discredit Bobby, he's been bitter ever since the Big Blue Fiasco.
What stops them, even if Lego stomps on these hackers? The OS is hardly the crucial linchpin that holds it all together.
Damn Lego! Damn them all... if you people can't come up with a compatible OS, we'll never be able to compete in the lucrative building block robot market!
It's not that simple sir. Sure we can clone the hardware, standard reverse engineering practices made that possible the first 2 weeks. But without a savant like Noga to crack the million bit quantum encryption on the OS, we'll never be able to do it.
Well, that's the one solution we don't have. The FBI still suspects that Lego had Noga assassinated to protect their secrets, but they are getting nowhere. Even the million dollar reward we offer hasn't had any bites...
Damn them!
Abandoning backwards compatibility is often a controversial action, that needs to be carefully considered beforehand. Often, the best course of action is to consult with the Licensing Dept. They've been making great progress in the time it takes to reword licensing so that it is illegal for end users to attempt to use older hardware and/or software, often they can provide a solution in less than 3 months. This provides the Legal Dept. with a steady stream of secondary revenue, when they audit, and sometimes sue those users who call support hotlines. A win-win situation for all of us!
If anything it'd create a cargo cult of the uneducated worshipping the computers, knowing that they will bring prosperity, when in fact they do nothing of the sort.
Is it just me, or does this sound alot like my boss?
The right to a reasonable number of free domains.
The right to choose a domain name without restriction.
The right to not have souless corporations gobble up all the good names, before you are even allowed to register.
The right to not have someone register a domain, just to keep it away from you.
The right to run your nameserver off of any valid IP, not the ridiculous technical restrictions that prevent you from hosting your own site.
Give me a little time, I'm sure I could come up with more.
These brilliant scientists also hope to use their data to answer an age-old question closer to home. In a similar experiment, they'll use the same procedure to try and determine whether there is really life in Nebraska. Asked why, they replied "It is the next logical step. For decades, americans and people elsewhere in the world have wondered whether there is anything there, or if it is just some abysmal pit in the middle of nowhere. We hope to be able to answer that question for everyone." However, the scientific community itself is somewhaat divided over the next endeavor. Dr. James Greely, of the Helsinki Institute of Xenobiology states "Forget the fact that they are wasting precious grant money in an envriroment that has been rather uncommon in the current political enviroment. It's inconcievable that grown men would waste their time seeking life in a place like Nebraska. Of all the unlikely places they might search, this has to top the list, [in] the universe [all] over. They might as well search for intelligent life in the Whitehouse. They've got just as much chance of finding that..." Until they publish their conclusions, though, the world will have to wait. And wonder.
Boss: Johnny, we're very happy with these new e-papers that you ordered. At first, I thought they were to expensive to justify, but I know now that they worth every penny.
Johnny: Thanks boss!
Boss: You're welcome Johnny. Do you think you'd be able to get the rest of them distributed to the clerks today?
Johnny: Sure no problem.
Boss: One other thing, can you set the network up so that each time someone opens a file on an e-paper, that the Laserjet 10,000 will print it out automatically?
Johnny: I suppose so, but why? *dull look of horro*
Boss: So that they can have a printout too, of course. *silently to himself* "Why do these computer people have to be so dense?!?"
Johnny: *silently to himself* "AAAAAAAAAAAAGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGHHHHHHH!!! *sob* AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGHHH!!!"
That the Clinton administration allowed defense secrets to be leaked or stolen. Next thing you know, there will be a squabble over Hong Kong or Taiwan, and the chinese will jump not for a minute, but for an entire half hour, unleashing a tsunami that will destroy the west coast of the US. This may be your final warning*, evacuate California immediately!!
*Redmond, Washington residents, you have nothing to fear. Don't panic, and don't leave your homes and businesses *cough* to be looted by suicidal vandals and thieves.
We're mewling, because aany conduct remedy Microsoft would abide by, amounts to some low level manager writing up form letter apologies to Netscape and Apple. Oops, let me correct that, they wouldn't abide by that either, the letters would be worded in legalese such that there would be no apology at all.
Microsoft has been put under conduct remedies before, and each time has been found guilty of not abiding by them. They have a history of ignoring this stuff, like some lowlife on probation who continues to shoot up, etc.
The only remedy that has a shot of working, is breaking Microsoft up into not 2 companies, but rather into at least 19 companies. These would consist of...
3 companies, all of which share the rights to dos and the windows 95/98 kernel.
3 companies, that share the rights to windows nt.
4 companies that share M$ office and sql server.
3 companies sharing msie, and all their related internet software (IIS, some of the backoffice suite, etc)
2 companies that share rights to their software development tools.
1 company owning rights to all their game software.
1 company owning rights to all their hardware, from the xbox to ms mouse.
1 company owning all msn assets.
1 company owning all media assets, the msnbc stuff, etc.
Also, it would be a good idea, for the remedy to include a provision forcing all senior management to retire, and become passive stockholders at most. I would like to see, not that it would happen, that reparations would also be forced, amounting to about $20 billion, half of which would go to whatever remnants of the companies M$ squashed, Novell, Be, Netscape, Apple, etc. The other would be issued as refunds to consumers and corporate licensing victims.
Now, while there is no way to repair the damage they have done, that would go a short ways in righting some of it. I might be a bit extreme, but anyone that suggests anything less than a breakup is sadly misinformed.
I must admit that I am extremely apolitical, and that I'm still uncertain about who I hated more, Bush or Gore. Or for that matter, whoever it was that the LP fielded.
Even as much as that is true, I still can't help but feel betrayed. What in the hell is going on? Either the Bush administration believes that M$ isn't guilty of inumerable crimes (impossible?), or that the crimes are so petty that punishment this severe isn't merited (again impossible?). Those are the only 2 possibilities that give Bush any excuse at all, and if they are the explanation for this, then we are all in trouble, because he is an utter retard.
The less benign explanations are that A) Bush is literally being bribed, B) is indirectly being bribed, or C) he is an evil fuck making sure that only the elite are allowed to go into business (and then only safely, if they are on "his side" whatever that is). Since the benign explanations are bullshit, is there any hope?
Until he writes the 64bit 3D gui OS in pure binary (hex is for wimps) machine code. And it fits on a audio cassette tape, to boot.
Congrats to the guy though, this sounds incredibly cool.
IBM completes a hostile takeover attempt on the newly created Hewlett Compaq, this just 72 hours after buying Gateway outright, in a leveraged stock and options deal. Industry analysts expect that the eventual hyper-merger, to create a single corporate entity (Unicorp), will take less than 24 months at this pace. With the financial industry consolidated last week into "Unibank, the World's Favorite Bank", this editor believes that 24 months is a serious overestimate.
I disagree. I've spent too much of my adult life not really knowing what goes on in the cpu, if you ask me. Not saying I'll beat the compiler, just that the compiler will no longer be this djinni that I pump magic spells into, and out comes the result. Besides, I am a wannabe hardware hacker, and it's essential for what I want to do. I've already started coding a ppp/ip stack for my Apple IIe, and as soon as I can have the boards made, I'll prototype my ethernet card for it (sporting a nifty 65c816 coprocessor). Too many fun things to do, that can't be done if I fall into the "no one needs to learn asm anymore" trap. Why, I've even been toying with the idea of a 68k core emulator for the 604, and if I can do that, I can do anything. Lord knows what, maybe I'll homebrew a quad ppc accelerator for my Amiga 2000, instead of paying $500 for a '040 board on ebay. Maybe I'll say the heck with it, and just design a motherboard outright. Anything is possible.
At what karma do get I get to post at -1? And is it truly possible to post at -2? Or do I need a moderator's help for that?
Don't worry. They'll mod you down too, soon enough. The only thing I have to say for myself, is that no one can call me a karma whore. -4 and dropping like a brick, baby.
My god. I'll never learn assembly on a modern chip. I tried on the 386/486, but gave up, and opted for the 65c02 (a fine little chip). I'm getting to the point where it's time to move on, and I was going to attempt the 68k or even PPC (no altivec though). I think I might actually manage to learn that, but I can't even begin to imagine 328 registers. Especially arranged the way intel tends to arrange them...
Will anyone outside of cpu engineers and compiler authors even learn asm on this monster? Or have we truly moved past the point where programmers understand the cpu?
Since lawyers are provably less evolved, maybe "pro bonobo" would be a better term.
Sorry, it has to be a comment first. Even a trollish comment might count, but pictures don't.
If someone hacked the index.html, and put a "comment" there, would you heckle them for deleting that? Then why would you for deleting a PICTURE, not a comment, that somehow got snuck into the forums? It has long been acknowledged that their own prohibition against censorship is not absolute. That you would try to use a single example of deletion as proof that they are somehow hypocrites speaks volumes to me. And what an example. How bout this? Obvious to many, is the fact that this "comment" has been posted numerous times, and yet they also have built in mechanisms to prevent duplicates. If the system isn't perfect, they aren't allowed to go back and manually fix such "errors" ? Show me a deleted post that consists of words, of a message that doesn't involve a picture of a man with an asshole bigger than his own head, and I'll be standing right beside you bitching and hollaring. Until then, use your time constructively, like figuring out a fair way to remove that garbage permanently. If you read at +2, you only hear the karma whores, and if you browse at -1 (like I often do) then you get to see that picture way too often.
Personally, I'm all for imposing a ban on duplicate posts across stories, that way the goatsex trolls are gonna have to get busy with a new ascii art each post, or accept that they have already been allowed to make that comment, and that they can't post it again.
Strange that you would get modded -1 for this response. Suppose I will too. Damn, the meta-moderation can't happen quickly enough, as far as I'm concerned.
Hardly. ASCII art isn't "commenting" and besides, when they have the lameness filter working, it isn't even possible to post such garbage. Someone found a loophole or way around the filter, and so they retro-actively filtered it. If someone did mod it up as you claim, that only stands to show how corrupted the moderation system has become.
How is this a Troll? Wow, they give mod points to anyone these days, I guess.