Yes, because ARMs are used in everything. Cable modems, my old Newton, new PocketPCs and Ipaqs...hell, I think they're using in automotive stuff.
But only the british RiscPC was a true computer that used the arch. I *might* concede the PDA stuff.
But for CPUs that are actually used in computers, they just aren't a viable candidate (yet; who knows if they might be used for that in the future, they are a nice little cpu). Even if they are used someday, that only raises the CPU count to 3: x86, PPC, and ARM.
If you weren't a AC retard, I could tell you how to turn off sigs, and expect you to at least be alerted that someone replied.
By definition, sigs can't be on topic. They're personal, and can be a pun or joke, or, simply because we're allowed to use href's in them, I assume CmdrTaco wants us to be able to link to some site we find interesting. More than a few people link to a homepage of their own, or a project they work on. This is what I'm doing.
My comments are often trollish, even more often sarcastic. Some might find them any of the following: annoying, stupid, offensive, misinformed, irrelevant, hypocritical, brilliant, biased, and/or amusing. They are sometimes long, often only a paragraph or two, and when suited to the article, occassional single sentence. Once, on an "ask slashdot - favorite spreadsheet?" only two letters... 'sc'. The tiny, tiny spreadsheet app for console (which is actually quite cool).
On that comment, people accused me of the same thing, btw, but at least they had an excuse... 2 little letters, I mean, I can see how they'd be easy to overlook. So what's your excuse?
I mean, I did ask a question worth asking, I think. The summary of the article mentioned SGI, and also how they Sun was using commodity CPUs. And not only do I not like the "mass extinction event" of CPUs we're seeing today, I remember in particular SGI's first windows workstation, and how it wasn't a year later we were hearing about all their problems. Maybe it's not causation, but at the very least it might well be an indicator.
I figure I own about 80 computers, I've lost count. 5 amigas, 3 Atari STs, a NeXT, sparcstations, an SGI Indy, a slew of 68k macs, TRS-80 6000, PCs, an alpha multia, vaxstations, and damn near every single home computer of the 80s. I even have a 1975 PDP-11/04. Most of them are connected to my hybrid ethernet/tokenring/arcnet/localtalk/ATM155/corvus/starlan/etc home network. I think I have a right to mention the fact that we've been reduced to just 2 major CPU architectures.
Or maybe you don't like anonymous networks. Or maybe you like freenet to the exclusion of all else. Or even possibly you take issue with my recruitment efforts, on a project that by it's nature has to be invitation only, and invitation to people to a foreign country no less (how many of you have 20+ friends outside your country's borders?). These would at least be valid.
But I take exception to being called a link spammer. If you hate link spammers, pester the editors to stop posting that roland piqueville shit, where every article is a single link to something on his blog. I'm not trying to get a higher rank in google, it's blocked by my robots.txt! I just want a few people to inquire, and help me build another internetwork, for crying out loud! One where we can't be sued for lame shit. And once every few months, someone asks for a connection, and maybe 1 in 5 of those remain for any length of time. I've never seen you bitch at people offering gmail invites, even that asshat that offers them in return for his ipop scheme, which is about as Ponzi as anything I've seen here.
So just lay off it. Or learn to turn sigs off, or at the very least, don't post as a fucking AC coward.
Mips has one foot in the coffin. Every time ultrasparc raises its head, Sun execs are sharpening executioners axes. Arm sees more use in the embedded markets, though has made inroads in the PDA market.
The 32bit pic is just another ARM core, iirc.
So that leaves us 2 viable cpu arches in the PC/workstation arena. Or hell, practically anywhere below the supercomputer/mainframe range.
But go ahead, count $3 microcontrollers that will be put in the next Furby toy, if that makes you feel better.
would notice that's different between an modern X86 CPU and any other modern CPU?
That's my point though, what other modern CPU? PPC is the last major holdout, though someone *might* make a case for ARM. With not many to pick from, I can't tell you any difference. If we had 10 or 12 arch's though, would my answer be different. Likely it would.
And 15 years ago, I had x86, 68k, sparc, mips, parisc, alpha, and quite a few more people probably wouldn't even recognize. Linux is ok, don't get me wrong, but I tolerate anything significantly non-Windows.
No matter how much they tweak it, no matter who takes over making the arch, it's still x86. And x86 isn't bad, in itself... it's bad that it will be one of the few (only?) left. That annoys me. That people think it a good thing, that's plain frightening.
SGI started going downhill about the same time they first offered a WinNT machine. But yeh, it's a good thing to homogenize all our processor architectures, because there is only one perfect CPU, and Intel makes it.
Am I the only one who longs for when we actually had a choice of CPUs?
His username is an identity of sorts, easily subpoenaed. His sentiments are ok, his logic faulty. Free speech *shouldn't* require anonymity. But I live in the real world. If he wants a taste of that world, he oughtta paste scientology texts here as non-AC, and see just how long his free speech rights last...
Translation: I don't want to tell geeks that I have absolutely no intention of changing something I'm quite happy with, when it very well might sway them to vote against me. I'll wrap it in nice terms that sound like I might consider it, but frankly my senatorial bribes were just too big to forget. I'm a billionaire who likes elitist entertainment (duck hunting, golf, etc), so I really don't care about this shit anyway, and even if I did, I could afford whatever fee the intellectual property cartels will put on it anyway.
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Ok, so here's what we have...
1) Guys who build transport protocols at the application layer. 2) Brainless pandering to the P2P crowd 5 years after Napster's death. 3) A protocol that doesn't play nice with other more important, well established protocols. 4) And a slashdotter who looks at it as a "product" rather than as a "solution" or "technology".
No, he thinks he can starve the hardware companies, and take all of that $100 himself, which is more than Microsoft would have gotten out of thirdworlder anyway. Not to mention he'll then have software lockin, when in 50 years the third world is better industrialized and those people have more money to spend (and the police state to enforce infringement).
Freenet had about 200 java processes running. Took 48 hours before a few of the icons on the index pages would load... never got more than that, even a week later. Even assuming it was slightly more usable, it discards everything that was good about the last 15 years of networking. Sorry, but I like my IPv4 (and v6).
Yes, personally I love playing with net protocols. For me, that's one of the purposes of this. But that doesn't have to be *your* purpose. Make up one of your own, or share some of the other dozens I've heard. If it can justly be described as a 'coven', then that is only because I have so much trouble finding people who will invite yet more people. It could be big... I'm not quite sure how big yet, but 10s of 1000s of people, minimum. I don't want exclusivity, I'd like to see everyone there.
As for anonymity, I don't think it can be overrated. How many times have we read about some innocent project or another that was squashed. Devil's advocates have to strain credulity pretty badly to argue that bnetd was primarily about piracy. I don't feel like listing them all, but the examples don't stop there. Wouldn't those sorts of things be better off hosted somewhere other than the internet, somewhere anonymous? I don't feel like waiting for courts and legislators to grow brains or hearts.
If I ever do consider working on such an archive, I could never host it on the internet itself.
Believe what you want, then. The idea is original, in the sense that everyone else dreams up mind-numbing mathematical schemes to hide identity via custom software. The idea is wholly unoriginal in that someone else dreamt up the VPN and routing long before I ever thought this up. I'm somewhat of an anarchist, petulant only to people like yourself, and by definition have been a "kiddy" for many, many years.
Like anything else, the "network effect" is really causing problems. That is, if there is no content on this network, then no one feels the need to join. If no one joins, there won't ever be much content. If even a few of you could see past that, and waste 40 minutes setting up the VPN software to connect, you might see something else.
Would definitely interest the networking geeks more than others I think, you know, the people like myself who have the old token ring mau in the rack, with a few 386s hooked up, just to see what it's like. But really, it should interest anyone with even a little vision, and a fair amount of sense. Our anonymity may not be bullet-proof yet, but even as I'm writing this post here, a discussion rages there on just how to improve it.
If you're bored, and in search of a project to doodle with this evening, why not check it out? If you have friends in another nation, why not bring them along?
That's "crack moderation". "Crackmoderation" (no space) is what you (and millions of other moderators) do with your mod points immediately after lighting the pipe up.
Fact: In most states, I believe only a petition with the signatures of so many registered democrats is necessary to be on a primary ballot.
Only my opinion: No they wouldn't allow him to run in the primary. The DNC would gladly accept any candidate already president either literally, or one soon to become president. Better to have some hooks in such a guy, mind you, than none at all. But besides themselves, only another party has a chance of even creating such a guy, and the GOP sure as hell wouldn't make Nader a president. As far as the DNC is concerned, Nader would be uncontrollable, and that isn't the kind of candidate you want to turn into a winner. Something would have happened, his petitions would have been screwed with so that he couldn't get on primary ballots, or money would have been funneled to another candidate they favored. Some scandal would have been unearthed to sabotage his primary campaign.
Can I prove any of this? Not really. But I offer Howard Dean as what I believe to be another example of this.
Beats me. Argue with the guy that posted the article... because it's asking for an opinion. I gave mine, you're too fucking lame to do that though, it would seem.
Nice try, asshat. Since I've registered my account, I've only posted AC 3 times, 2 of those to avoid embarrassing a former employer who had a nasty habit of suing for such. Once, for personal reasons. I have a habit of bitching about crackmoderation, and I *always* use my account. Once even, the bitch was modded up. I have karma to burn, asshole.
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Does mine count as an internet?
Thanks for the tip. I need to find one of these...
Yes, because ARMs are used in everything. Cable modems, my old Newton, new PocketPCs and Ipaqs...hell, I think they're using in automotive stuff.
But only the british RiscPC was a true computer that used the arch. I *might* concede the PDA stuff.
But for CPUs that are actually used in computers, they just aren't a viable candidate (yet; who knows if they might be used for that in the future, they are a nice little cpu). Even if they are used someday, that only raises the CPU count to 3: x86, PPC, and ARM.
PArisc and Alpha are scheduled for death. Mips is up in the air. Sparc is well, really nervous.
But PArisc will not make a comeback. And I'm not too far off in predicting the death of the other two, I just don't see anyone keeping them alive.
If you weren't a AC retard, I could tell you how to turn off sigs, and expect you to at least be alerted that someone replied.
/corvus/starlan/etc home network. I think I have a right to mention the fact that we've been reduced to just 2 major CPU architectures.
By definition, sigs can't be on topic. They're personal, and can be a pun or joke, or, simply because we're allowed to use href's in them, I assume CmdrTaco wants us to be able to link to some site we find interesting. More than a few people link to a homepage of their own, or a project they work on. This is what I'm doing.
My comments are often trollish, even more often sarcastic. Some might find them any of the following: annoying, stupid, offensive, misinformed, irrelevant, hypocritical, brilliant, biased, and/or amusing. They are sometimes long, often only a paragraph or two, and when suited to the article, occassional single sentence. Once, on an "ask slashdot - favorite spreadsheet?" only two letters... 'sc'. The tiny, tiny spreadsheet app for console (which is actually quite cool).
On that comment, people accused me of the same thing, btw, but at least they had an excuse... 2 little letters, I mean, I can see how they'd be easy to overlook. So what's your excuse?
I mean, I did ask a question worth asking, I think. The summary of the article mentioned SGI, and also how they Sun was using commodity CPUs. And not only do I not like the "mass extinction event" of CPUs we're seeing today, I remember in particular SGI's first windows workstation, and how it wasn't a year later we were hearing about all their problems. Maybe it's not causation, but at the very least it might well be an indicator.
I figure I own about 80 computers, I've lost count. 5 amigas, 3 Atari STs, a NeXT, sparcstations, an SGI Indy, a slew of 68k macs, TRS-80 6000, PCs, an alpha multia, vaxstations, and damn near every single home computer of the 80s. I even have a 1975 PDP-11/04. Most of them are connected to my hybrid ethernet/tokenring/arcnet/localtalk/ATM155
Or maybe you don't like anonymous networks. Or maybe you like freenet to the exclusion of all else. Or even possibly you take issue with my recruitment efforts, on a project that by it's nature has to be invitation only, and invitation to people to a foreign country no less (how many of you have 20+ friends outside your country's borders?). These would at least be valid.
But I take exception to being called a link spammer. If you hate link spammers, pester the editors to stop posting that roland piqueville shit, where every article is a single link to something on his blog. I'm not trying to get a higher rank in google, it's blocked by my robots.txt! I just want a few people to inquire, and help me build another internetwork, for crying out loud! One where we can't be sued for lame shit. And once every few months, someone asks for a connection, and maybe 1 in 5 of those remain for any length of time. I've never seen you bitch at people offering gmail invites, even that asshat that offers them in return for his ipop scheme, which is about as Ponzi as anything I've seen here.
So just lay off it. Or learn to turn sigs off, or at the very least, don't post as a fucking AC coward.
Mips has one foot in the coffin. Every time ultrasparc raises its head, Sun execs are sharpening executioners axes. Arm sees more use in the embedded markets, though has made inroads in the PDA market.
The 32bit pic is just another ARM core, iirc.
So that leaves us 2 viable cpu arches in the PC/workstation arena. Or hell, practically anywhere below the supercomputer/mainframe range.
But go ahead, count $3 microcontrollers that will be put in the next Furby toy, if that makes you feel better.
would notice that's different between an modern X86 CPU and any other modern CPU?
That's my point though, what other modern CPU? PPC is the last major holdout, though someone *might* make a case for ARM. With not many to pick from, I can't tell you any difference. If we had 10 or 12 arch's though, would my answer be different. Likely it would.
Get a fucking brain.
Still x86.
And 15 years ago, I had x86, 68k, sparc, mips, parisc, alpha, and quite a few more people probably wouldn't even recognize. Linux is ok, don't get me wrong, but I tolerate anything significantly non-Windows.
No matter how much they tweak it, no matter who takes over making the arch, it's still x86. And x86 isn't bad, in itself... it's bad that it will be one of the few (only?) left. That annoys me. That people think it a good thing, that's plain frightening.
SGI started going downhill about the same time they first offered a WinNT machine. But yeh, it's a good thing to homogenize all our processor architectures, because there is only one perfect CPU, and Intel makes it.
Am I the only one who longs for when we actually had a choice of CPUs?
His username is an identity of sorts, easily subpoenaed. His sentiments are ok, his logic faulty. Free speech *shouldn't* require anonymity. But I live in the real world. If he wants a taste of that world, he oughtta paste scientology texts here as non-AC, and see just how long his free speech rights last...
Translation: I don't want to tell geeks that I have absolutely no intention of changing something I'm quite happy with, when it very well might sway them to vote against me. I'll wrap it in nice terms that sound like I might consider it, but frankly my senatorial bribes were just too big to forget. I'm a billionaire who likes elitist entertainment (duck hunting, golf, etc), so I really don't care about this shit anyway, and even if I did, I could afford whatever fee the intellectual property cartels will put on it anyway.
Ok, so here's what we have...
1) Guys who build transport protocols at the application layer.
2) Brainless pandering to the P2P crowd 5 years after Napster's death.
3) A protocol that doesn't play nice with other more important, well established protocols.
4) And a slashdotter who looks at it as a "product" rather than as a "solution" or "technology".
Will make copying software harder to do?
No, he thinks he can starve the hardware companies, and take all of that $100 himself, which is more than Microsoft would have gotten out of thirdworlder anyway. Not to mention he'll then have software lockin, when in 50 years the third world is better industrialized and those people have more money to spend (and the police state to enforce infringement).
aka Tubcat.
Freenet had about 200 java processes running. Took 48 hours before a few of the icons on the index pages would load... never got more than that, even a week later. Even assuming it was slightly more usable, it discards everything that was good about the last 15 years of networking. Sorry, but I like my IPv4 (and v6).
Yes, personally I love playing with net protocols. For me, that's one of the purposes of this. But that doesn't have to be *your* purpose. Make up one of your own, or share some of the other dozens I've heard. If it can justly be described as a 'coven', then that is only because I have so much trouble finding people who will invite yet more people. It could be big... I'm not quite sure how big yet, but 10s of 1000s of people, minimum. I don't want exclusivity, I'd like to see everyone there.
As for anonymity, I don't think it can be overrated. How many times have we read about some innocent project or another that was squashed. Devil's advocates have to strain credulity pretty badly to argue that bnetd was primarily about piracy. I don't feel like listing them all, but the examples don't stop there. Wouldn't those sorts of things be better off hosted somewhere other than the internet, somewhere anonymous? I don't feel like waiting for courts and legislators to grow brains or hearts.
If I ever do consider working on such an archive, I could never host it on the internet itself.
Believe what you want, then. The idea is original, in the sense that everyone else dreams up mind-numbing mathematical schemes to hide identity via custom software. The idea is wholly unoriginal in that someone else dreamt up the VPN and routing long before I ever thought this up. I'm somewhat of an anarchist, petulant only to people like yourself, and by definition have been a "kiddy" for many, many years.
Like anything else, the "network effect" is really causing problems. That is, if there is no content on this network, then no one feels the need to join. If no one joins, there won't ever be much content. If even a few of you could see past that, and waste 40 minutes setting up the VPN software to connect, you might see something else.
Would definitely interest the networking geeks more than others I think, you know, the people like myself who have the old token ring mau in the rack, with a few 386s hooked up, just to see what it's like. But really, it should interest anyone with even a little vision, and a fair amount of sense. Our anonymity may not be bullet-proof yet, but even as I'm writing this post here, a discussion rages there on just how to improve it.
If you're bored, and in search of a project to doodle with this evening, why not check it out? If you have friends in another nation, why not bring them along?
So much for the electronic frontier.
If everyone has such a nostalgia for the electronic frontiers, why do I have so much trouble inviting anyone to my own network? Haha.
Everyone's welcome on my own "other internet"...
That's "crack moderation". "Crackmoderation" (no space) is what you (and millions of other moderators) do with your mod points immediately after lighting the pipe up.
I was serious. This is now my favorite VNC. And don't preach to me, I have an OS/2 machine myself, several actually.
Fact: In most states, I believe only a petition with the signatures of so many registered democrats is necessary to be on a primary ballot.
Only my opinion: No they wouldn't allow him to run in the primary. The DNC would gladly accept any candidate already president either literally, or one soon to become president. Better to have some hooks in such a guy, mind you, than none at all. But besides themselves, only another party has a chance of even creating such a guy, and the GOP sure as hell wouldn't make Nader a president. As far as the DNC is concerned, Nader would be uncontrollable, and that isn't the kind of candidate you want to turn into a winner. Something would have happened, his petitions would have been screwed with so that he couldn't get on primary ballots, or money would have been funneled to another candidate they favored. Some scandal would have been unearthed to sabotage his primary campaign.
Can I prove any of this? Not really. But I offer Howard Dean as what I believe to be another example of this.
PS Read my sig and email me about it!
Beats me. Argue with the guy that posted the article... because it's asking for an opinion. I gave mine, you're too fucking lame to do that though, it would seem.
Nice try, asshat. Since I've registered my account, I've only posted AC 3 times, 2 of those to avoid embarrassing a former employer who had a nasty habit of suing for such. Once, for personal reasons. I have a habit of bitching about crackmoderation, and I *always* use my account. Once even, the bitch was modded up. I have karma to burn, asshole.