Is just letting that turd Roland Piquepaille get more publicity for his blog. We need a slashdot boycott of these artciles, somehow. While we can't not reply (if we do, some loser or another will just reply anyway), maybe we can drown it out with comments that are uniform enough to get Taco's attention.
I propose everyone comment (whether at thread root or in reply) with a subject of "Stop the Roland Piquepaille assfest now!" and a body of the same. If out of 150 comments, 80 or 90 of them were these, would they not at least give it some consideration?
You're such the wizardly coder. If you're using GDS to search through your source code files, then just what are you using?
Besides, wasn't my original post about "how was this some killer app" ? Great, linux has a version. And I doubt it will popup ads when I use it. Tell me, how can GDS be so cool, so special? I also use "less" and awful lot. Will Yahoo, Microsoft and Apple be competing next year over a utility that lets you scroll through long documents?
Ok so its great. Fuck sliced bread. Where's the linux version? Oh, that's right. You just gave microsoft another way to hold you hostage. Have fun playing with VC++.NET or whatever the hell they call it.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the article refers to "Desktop Search", a term that in this context means something more along the lines of "searching through all your files on your own computer".
Dumbass.
Grep is pretty lean, doesn't have to fuck with the win32 API, and does indeed work on strings hidden in any file. I think it would easily give GDS a run for its money, considering that anyone who deserves to be using a modern computer, has at least the base skills needed to actually organize their damn files. What, you don't know how to name them, or drop them in a dir that organizes like files? I've had a computer since 1994, and I've never once had to search based on actual content.
"Gee, um, I wrote a thesis on roller-coasters 3 years ago, an um, I used the word dorkifier!".
How is this even a viable industry, niche market, killer app, or whatever the hell it is that they seem to think it is.
Maybe they need to teach people how to use a computer... because I can't see this catering to anyone but the "I can't find my files even though Windows XP Retard Edition saves it to My\ Documents by default" crowd.
Can't someone just port grep -r to win32, maybe put a fancy GUI around it? Or is it suddenly innovation to reinvent simple tools unix already invented 30 years ago?
Portions of the internet are themselves capable of doing IPv6 routing, or so I thought. Some of the dns rootservers are accessible via IPv6, and have AAAA records. Those domains with AAAA records are themselves accessible via IPv6, some being webservers, others being (at least one) efnet irc server.
Or so I thought. I may be wrong on any of all of the previous though. It still doesn't seem like I'm imagining it when I thought I read that at least a few backbones were routing IPv6.
Actually, my email is comcast only because im at 21,000ft from the CO. I work for a DSL provider, that hates Verizon pretty vehemently.
We already offer static IP, none of the PPPoE shit that everyone else does. With IPv6, I can imagine handing every customer their own block of v6 (though probably only 1 IPv4 addr). We could truly make it a "no support" service, as in if Joe Sixpack calls up asking for help "configurating his PI version 6 addremess", we say "sorry, we don't support that". (Though, a clueful user reporting a loss of connectivity or routing issues would get support with that).
I know that at least some of the web is accessible, and there are supposedly several EFnet servers you can reach with IPv6. Don't know how useful it would be, but just bragging rights alone have to be worth something, right?
I keep trying to convince my own bosses, to convince their bosses to offer IPv6, as a special package, only to the slashdot-type crowd. (Certainly don't want to support it with the "my win98 no worky" customers). No one takes it seriously.
I do wonder if we'd make the front page here, being the first US company to offer true IPv6 broadband. Would anyone care, would any of you guys sign up, just for that reason alone?
Several problems. Not everyone is you... I use PCMCIA for gps, for a smartcard reader I play with, and for a few weird network cards when I'm playing around (token ring and arcnet... can't find the localtalk one). I'd even like to find a PCMCIA tv tuner someday...
And USB isn't a replacement. For one, it demands 500mA of power, per USB. Most laptops can't promise that, beyond 1-2, or at most, 3 usb ports. And then there is the entire bandwidth thing... USB was truly meant to be for pointers and keyboards, and other low bandwidth stuff. The protocol shows this, anytime you have 2 greedy devices wanting all the bandwidth. Even USB2 suffers from this.
And you'll rethink that integrated wireless, when one day it just stops working because a bad antenna/hinge design (and they're all bad, every single one) chews the antenna in half. And it will likely be 3 hours after the warranty is up.
Not really. Resources are valuable. I suggest doing as Dilbert has shown us, and referring to them as 'livestock'. From now on, refer to it as the HL dept. How many HRdroids already refer to it as a 'stampede' when they post a new job?
You're either a genius, a lunatic, or a troll. Possibly all 3. Just when I think I hate you, you really, really zap Cringley. I am so torn. I'll try to be nicer to you on K5 though, you've earned it. Nearly pissed myself laughing...
So a margin that's only ~20% isn't enough? What's Dell's margin, anyone know? Most manufacturers get by on single digits.
And you want to figure in software costs, when they don't have to license the OS, they own it? I'm sorry, but whatever OS R&D costs they have are going to be figured into the price of Apple's existing product lineup, even if this thing is never made.
BTW, taiwanese motherboards might have a huge market, but they aren't all the same model number. Any single logicboard is produced in numbers comparable to an iMac or an eMac.
My tax dollars pay for their enforcement, unfortunately. Mind you, originally the legal burden would have been on them to sue in civil court. So, I can't not support them. In other countries, they're even allowed to tax blank media and playback devices.
So, there are plenty of laws in place, that let them use my money. Was it not just a few months ago, where we read how the DOJ would even prosecute civil claims on their behalf?
Not to go offtopic, but at what point do you start ignoring laws in a serious way? If it was made law that you have to murder your newborn son, most reasonable people wouldn't even hesitate to (attempt to) evade that law.
Granted, now all the copynazis will jump on me, for "making a comparison that is ludicrous". But I'm not, just illustrating the far extreme end of this spectrum.
Is it right for an IP cartel like the RIAA to lock up all music forever? I mean, even if this falls into the public domain some day, there is nothing to say that they have to release the keys to decode them. But that's just music, nothing art-worthy in a traded Britney Spears mp3, same with movies...
What about books? We're safe for what, the next 30 years, until the big public libraries digitize to save money on storage. Even if they only do so with public domain works, at some point, the publishing industry will want to cash in too, and provide only ebooks. How will that go down?
Us frogs, I fear they're boiling us slowly. And you people sit around arguing that even if it is getting a little warmer, it's not hot at all.
Nope, that's not it. The proper response is something like:
(Cohen) What can I do? Even now, there are evil bittorrent people who have used my software to burn villages to the ground, teach schoolchildren to write with their left hands, sodomize livestock and advocate american usage of the metric system! It makes my skin crawl to hear how it ressurrected Jeffrey Dahmer and caused him to go on a zombie rampage, eviscerating screaming women and devouring innocent children! Stop zombie Dahmer, think of the children! What will we do when the terrorists twist my innocent application into a weapon of mass destruction, simply because Congress couldn't stop the partisan bickering long enough? Bittorrent doesn't even prevent AIDS, let alone cure it!
(Radio host) But, you say this can be used by terrorists, and you still created it? What?
(Cohen) What, does that sound a little ridiculous to you?
(Radio Host) I dunno, can it be used... (Cohen, interrupting) Because it sounds more than a little ridiculous for you to compare Bittorent to nuclear weapons. C'mon, tell us straight. The RIAA didn't put you up to this, but you've been one of their lapdogs so long, they don't have to explicitly tell you to do this sort of character assassination.
(Radio Host) Now wait a minute... (Cohen) No, you wait a minute. Bittorrent doesn't do anything the internet itself doesn't do. Except that if ever the RIAA was so insane to suggest the internet be made illegal, even the most bought senator would laugh. Bittorrent is just a networking protocol, something your mouth-breathing bosses couldn't describe in layman's terms if their lives depended on it. A protocol that makes the internet slightly more efficient, and not much more. It's clever, I like it, and so do quite a few other people. What do you say to that? (stomps out of the booth).
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Is just letting that turd Roland Piquepaille get more publicity for his blog. We need a slashdot boycott of these artciles, somehow. While we can't not reply (if we do, some loser or another will just reply anyway), maybe we can drown it out with comments that are uniform enough to get Taco's attention.
I propose everyone comment (whether at thread root or in reply) with a subject of "Stop the Roland Piquepaille assfest now!" and a body of the same. If out of 150 comments, 80 or 90 of them were these, would they not at least give it some consideration?
You're such the wizardly coder. If you're using GDS to search through your source code files, then just what are you using?
Besides, wasn't my original post about "how was this some killer app" ? Great, linux has a version. And I doubt it will popup ads when I use it. Tell me, how can GDS be so cool, so special? I also use "less" and awful lot. Will Yahoo, Microsoft and Apple be competing next year over a utility that lets you scroll through long documents?
Ok so its great. Fuck sliced bread. Where's the linux version? Oh, that's right. You just gave microsoft another way to hold you hostage. Have fun playing with VC++.NET or whatever the hell they call it.
We could have a java applet, that shows their movements in realtime.
Put it up on www.pigwatchers.org.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the article refers to "Desktop Search", a term that in this context means something more along the lines of "searching through all your files on your own computer".
Dumbass.
Grep is pretty lean, doesn't have to fuck with the win32 API, and does indeed work on strings hidden in any file. I think it would easily give GDS a run for its money, considering that anyone who deserves to be using a modern computer, has at least the base skills needed to actually organize their damn files. What, you don't know how to name them, or drop them in a dir that organizes like files? I've had a computer since 1994, and I've never once had to search based on actual content.
"Gee, um, I wrote a thesis on roller-coasters 3 years ago, an um, I used the word dorkifier!".
I don't think so.
How is this even a viable industry, niche market, killer app, or whatever the hell it is that they seem to think it is.
Maybe they need to teach people how to use a computer... because I can't see this catering to anyone but the "I can't find my files even though Windows XP Retard Edition saves it to My\ Documents by default" crowd.
Can't someone just port grep -r to win32, maybe put a fancy GUI around it? Or is it suddenly innovation to reinvent simple tools unix already invented 30 years ago?
Portions of the internet are themselves capable of doing IPv6 routing, or so I thought. Some of the dns rootservers are accessible via IPv6, and have AAAA records. Those domains with AAAA records are themselves accessible via IPv6, some being webservers, others being (at least one) efnet irc server.
Or so I thought. I may be wrong on any of all of the previous though. It still doesn't seem like I'm imagining it when I thought I read that at least a few backbones were routing IPv6.
What about the Atari Lynx, please tell me they didn't drop it from the charts!
Actually, my email is comcast only because im at 21,000ft from the CO. I work for a DSL provider, that hates Verizon pretty vehemently.
We already offer static IP, none of the PPPoE shit that everyone else does. With IPv6, I can imagine handing every customer their own block of v6 (though probably only 1 IPv4 addr). We could truly make it a "no support" service, as in if Joe Sixpack calls up asking for help "configurating his PI version 6 addremess", we say "sorry, we don't support that". (Though, a clueful user reporting a loss of connectivity or routing issues would get support with that).
I know that at least some of the web is accessible, and there are supposedly several EFnet servers you can reach with IPv6. Don't know how useful it would be, but just bragging rights alone have to be worth something, right?
I keep trying to convince my own bosses, to convince their bosses to offer IPv6, as a special package, only to the slashdot-type crowd. (Certainly don't want to support it with the "my win98 no worky" customers). No one takes it seriously.
I do wonder if we'd make the front page here, being the first US company to offer true IPv6 broadband. Would anyone care, would any of you guys sign up, just for that reason alone?
How else can they enslave us? It's not politically correct to round us all up into concentration camps, after all.
So use one of the 2 mozilla themes. Once I found those, it looks exactly the same.
Several problems. Not everyone is you... I use PCMCIA for gps, for a smartcard reader I play with, and for a few weird network cards when I'm playing around (token ring and arcnet... can't find the localtalk one). I'd even like to find a PCMCIA tv tuner someday...
And USB isn't a replacement. For one, it demands 500mA of power, per USB. Most laptops can't promise that, beyond 1-2, or at most, 3 usb ports. And then there is the entire bandwidth thing... USB was truly meant to be for pointers and keyboards, and other low bandwidth stuff. The protocol shows this, anytime you have 2 greedy devices wanting all the bandwidth. Even USB2 suffers from this.
And you'll rethink that integrated wireless, when one day it just stops working because a bad antenna/hinge design (and they're all bad, every single one) chews the antenna in half. And it will likely be 3 hours after the warranty is up.
Yes, if it's one thing that Hollywood gets right, it's fixing that bad actor problem.
Calling a person a resource dehumanizes them.
Not really. Resources are valuable. I suggest doing as Dilbert has shown us, and referring to them as 'livestock'. From now on, refer to it as the HL dept. How many HRdroids already refer to it as a 'stampede' when they post a new job?
You're either a genius, a lunatic, or a troll. Possibly all 3. Just when I think I hate you, you really, really zap Cringley. I am so torn. I'll try to be nicer to you on K5 though, you've earned it. Nearly pissed myself laughing...
You're possibly involved in a crime. What's your name and social sec. number, citizen?
Actually, the way I would describe it is not censorship, but rather the erosion of our Constitutionally-protected due process rights.
Brazillians and Iranians would both be welcome on my network, any out there that want to try it out?
It's pronounced "diarhea". As in the substance it produces.
So a margin that's only ~20% isn't enough? What's Dell's margin, anyone know? Most manufacturers get by on single digits.
And you want to figure in software costs, when they don't have to license the OS, they own it? I'm sorry, but whatever OS R&D costs they have are going to be figured into the price of Apple's existing product lineup, even if this thing is never made.
BTW, taiwanese motherboards might have a huge market, but they aren't all the same model number. Any single logicboard is produced in numbers comparable to an iMac or an eMac.
My tax dollars pay for their enforcement, unfortunately. Mind you, originally the legal burden would have been on them to sue in civil court. So, I can't not support them. In other countries, they're even allowed to tax blank media and playback devices.
So, there are plenty of laws in place, that let them use my money. Was it not just a few months ago, where we read how the DOJ would even prosecute civil claims on their behalf?
I'm glad that future RMS travelled back in time with a Copy of Fedora 7 and a p4 laptop, so that 1984 RMS had free software on which to write gcc.
And correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the reference implementation in python?
Not to go offtopic, but at what point do you start ignoring laws in a serious way? If it was made law that you have to murder your newborn son, most reasonable people wouldn't even hesitate to (attempt to) evade that law.
Granted, now all the copynazis will jump on me, for "making a comparison that is ludicrous". But I'm not, just illustrating the far extreme end of this spectrum.
Is it right for an IP cartel like the RIAA to lock up all music forever? I mean, even if this falls into the public domain some day, there is nothing to say that they have to release the keys to decode them. But that's just music, nothing art-worthy in a traded Britney Spears mp3, same with movies...
What about books? We're safe for what, the next 30 years, until the big public libraries digitize to save money on storage. Even if they only do so with public domain works, at some point, the publishing industry will want to cash in too, and provide only ebooks. How will that go down?
Us frogs, I fear they're boiling us slowly. And you people sit around arguing that even if it is getting a little warmer, it's not hot at all.
Nope, that's not it. The proper response is something like:
(Cohen) What can I do? Even now, there are evil bittorrent people who have used my software to burn villages to the ground, teach schoolchildren to write with their left hands, sodomize livestock and advocate american usage of the metric system! It makes my skin crawl to hear how it ressurrected Jeffrey Dahmer and caused him to go on a zombie rampage, eviscerating screaming women and devouring innocent children! Stop zombie Dahmer, think of the children! What will we do when the terrorists twist my innocent application into a weapon of mass destruction, simply because Congress couldn't stop the partisan bickering long enough? Bittorrent doesn't even prevent AIDS, let alone cure it!
(Radio host) But, you say this can be used by terrorists, and you still created it? What?
(Cohen) What, does that sound a little ridiculous to you?
(Radio Host) I dunno, can it be used...
(Cohen, interrupting) Because it sounds more than a little ridiculous for you to compare Bittorent to nuclear weapons. C'mon, tell us straight. The RIAA didn't put you up to this, but you've been one of their lapdogs so long, they don't have to explicitly tell you to do this sort of character assassination.
(Radio Host) Now wait a minute...
(Cohen) No, you wait a minute. Bittorrent doesn't do anything the internet itself doesn't do. Except that if ever the RIAA was so insane to suggest the internet be made illegal, even the most bought senator would laugh. Bittorrent is just a networking protocol, something your mouth-breathing bosses couldn't describe in layman's terms if their lives depended on it. A protocol that makes the internet slightly more efficient, and not much more. It's clever, I like it, and so do quite a few other people. What do you say to that? (stomps out of the booth).