I have tried oh so many times to reclaim that nostalgia. But telnet just doesn't do it for me. Half the fun of BBSing and playing those games was the sound of the modem dialing and the anxiety of seeing if you will get on or not. My local dialling list was 200+ numbers, and many of the bbs's were run by my friends. I was even a cosysop on one of them. But I fear those days are gone. It has been months since I heard a modem connect, and years since the last BBS died and disapeered in my area. but hey, progress... now we have everquest, and others. We are connected to more people than we ever imagined, and frankly there are days I wish it would all go away!
I never though anyone could out VapourFUD M$, and it's such a shame since the original amiga stuff was great hardware, and a decent OS. But here they go again, new plans, again. You'd think they were an internet startup that plans on ipoing or something. My message to them (if you'lle pardon the cliche..) Show me the money.
but there have been primarily short sighted comments so far.
Forget firewire for a second. What this article is realy saying is that this researcher has come up with a 400mbps over 100M link that was cheap! The technology that he used was described as cheap, and that means that it could be applied to other areas. If it was cheap enough to be come commodity like cat 5, a new breed of 400mbps networking standard could develop.
Considering it's 4 times faster than 100mbps, and 40 times faster than the 10mbps that most of us are still running on, that new signalling/cabling standard may indeed have somewhere to go.
I think they have a little point.. that linux wasn't meant for the home luser market. Linux isn't a swiss army knife that can be jammed into every possible situation, that would be stupid. NetBSD isn't a SAK either, and Windows is like a very blunt hammer that people keep beating their own heads with;) But when you have a nail, sometimes a hammer is just what you need.
Why do we have to sell our brains to companies to use basic services?
The internet has, is, and will continue to degrade into a corparate wasteland of adds.
It's like tv, only on tv you only have to see an add every 15 minutes or so -- a respectable amount of time (if you ignore the product placements,that is...)
But on the web, Everything (why yes, evem this form I fill out now) has an add on it.
And now IRC? it may just be one network, but the point is that just talking to our friends, something we take fro granted is now just one more way to invade our brains and make us but stuff.
Think abaout it. Whats next... free long distance with a commercial break every 2 minutes?
What a wonderful inciteful discussion on something that we all fight about... Free software is fun, and occasionaly useful, commercial software it useful and occasionally fun, and CANT WE ALL JUST GET ALONG!
When I was in Chapters just two days ago, I punched up Diamond Age (also by Neal Stephenson), and the caption beside it said that Snowcrash had been optioned for film. I am glad to hear that it looks like it is going ahead, I haven't laughed so hard in a long time... BTW: Does anyone know when Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game is due out in the theaters? That was another excellent read.
Frankly, I am disgusted by the lot of you. Your all tearing his article apart because: a) You think it's funny and ironic b) becuase you are one of the people that he is pointing out behave like children in disemination your thoughts.
I for one agree with Jon, because it's clear that OUR community has a large problem with respect.
Does anyone here wonder why many companies and goverments have trouble taking US seriously? That may be changing, but the fact of the matter is that it's time we start seeing the mutual respect that people normally show when communicating with each other.
I repsect all of your views, but I strongly disagree that this is some kind of joke. Jon has written a number of wonderful articles exposing and intelligently discussing the problems plauging our community and society in general.
I am sure there was a time when this comment system was a bastion of wonder ideas and communication, but frankly you all might as well be AOLers!
The problem is that people like me don't bother to read or post comments 99% of the time, because I fully expect to be torn apart, insulted, etc.
And attacking his grammar because you didn't like the content? That is the lowest form of insult.
Every single article and comment is written by a real live person. You wouldn't go into a conference or meeting, and tell a perfect stranger "please die" becaause you disagreed with his or her ideas, would you? It's socially unacceptable IRL, and it's just as unacceptable here.
No-one is going to stop you, or take away your precious right to free speech. But with exercising that right, you accept the responsibility of determining how others see you and our community.
Like our mothers have taught us, If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all.
Nice doesn't mean agreeing, but please show some respect for the PEOPLE that make our community what it is.
It would be nice to see this kind of software in linux...
There are a fair number of projects out there. Heck, I even designed a HR system and implemented in VB in 1/2 an hour (after 3 weeks of design work). That was when I thought I had money to buy a uCsimm with and build my own handheld. Since the handheld didn't happen, I left the prototype where it stands, but if anyone wants the system, they are welcome to it. (email me, and I will describe my method and send you the code.)... Anyhow, I think linux is ideal in many way for handhelds, because it can (and has) been implemented on mmuless systems, it's efficient (which is good for small microprocessors, and you can still get lots of full fledged software for it. Keep up the good work everyone.
How about linux on Nintendo's current project dolphin (still under development). It's based on a modified PPC, and I heard that they were able to boot a modified beos kernel that they burnt onto a cdrom...
I mean this sounds too good to be true. And last time I checked, when something sounds like that, it has a good chance of being just that. On the other hand I have heard of rumors of 3D storage for some time...
The question is, when will we have watches that act as personal HD's... If your within 5 ft of the computer, say... it could be automounted over an RF channel... "Quake. Never leave home without it."
Think about it... 180 gigabits = 22.5 giga bytes.. an mp3 player that could hold enough music to play continuously for like a year of non stop music.
Lets say that a grain of sand is about 0.0001 mm in diameter, and for the purposes of this examination it is round and close enough top be flat. Therefore it will cover pi* D^2/4 = 0.00000000785 mm^2 of the disc (Asuming the AFM doesn't push it out of the way.) 400gbits/645 mm^2 (1 inch = 25.4 mm, in^2 = 25.4^2 mm^2) ~= 62015503 bits per mm^2 therefore 1 partical of dust would destroy about ..
Oh hell with it. Alot. These things would need clean room conditions (probably better) to be any good. Which tends to suggest putting them in vacuum sealed containers. But that means the AFM would have to be packaged in there too. Somehow I don't see these being in stores anytime in the next like 10 years anyways.
I can't seem to find a website for it, but I had itin Guelph, Ontario, Canada, at one of the UoGuelph's coffe shops. And if you still want flavour, a) Make coffee with it (guarenteed 3 waking days), or Kool-aid... The possibilities are endless!
I rather like the nostalgic feeling of hacker. But alas the media has taken it and destroyed it.
We do a new name to describe the breed of programmer that many of us are.. artists, in our own sense. Programming just because we can. How else can you describe someone (like myself) that spent 3 hours changing second.S, part of the lilo boot loader, just so I could use a switch attached to a joystick port to choose my bootup?!!? (of course, I should have been doing my homework...)
How can we describe this kind of behavier? I'm no programming star, but I can't resist the alure of code dancing in my head... functions and structures and objects... Oh my!
So far I like coder, but it lacks the right feeling. That's what I would call one of the the people I see entering Comp. Sci, or comp. eng at my university with no clue and no programming experience, that seem to make it through, but not because they have any understanding.
The hacker we know and love is on the next level up.
Code artist sounds as about as fake as Subway ( a canadian sub chain) has Sandwich artists.
But how can we describe that oneness with the code?;) That spark that raises us above the crowd?
I recommend that we arrange a vote. And with the final decision we, the few, the coders, hackers, or whatever we want to call ourselves must rise against the media and proclaim our new name for all to know! FREEEEEDOOOOOMMMMMMM! from the persecution of a misplaced name!
BTW: It had better be something the common folk and PHB's can swear with, because when Y2K roll's over, it's going to be shouted alot!
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I have tried oh so many times to reclaim that nostalgia. But telnet just doesn't do it for me. Half the fun of BBSing and playing those games was the sound of the modem dialing and the anxiety of seeing if you will get on or not. My local dialling list was 200+ numbers, and many of the bbs's were run by my friends. I was even a cosysop on one of them. But I fear those days are gone. It has been months since I heard a modem connect, and years since the last BBS died and disapeered in my area. but hey, progress... now we have everquest, and others. We are connected to more people than we ever imagined, and frankly there are days I wish it would all go away!
I never though anyone could out VapourFUD M$, and it's such a shame since the original amiga stuff was great hardware, and a decent OS. But here they go again, new plans, again. You'd think they were an internet startup that plans on ipoing or something. My message to them (if you'lle pardon the cliche..) Show me the money.
This may offer a great boon to firewire,
but there have been primarily short sighted comments so far.
Forget firewire for a second. What this article is realy saying is that this researcher has come up with a 400mbps over 100M link that was cheap!
The technology that he used was described as cheap, and that means that it could be applied to other areas. If it was cheap enough to be come commodity like cat 5, a new breed of 400mbps networking standard could develop.
Considering it's 4 times faster than 100mbps, and 40 times faster than the 10mbps that most of us are still running on, that new signalling/cabling standard may indeed have somewhere to go.
I think they have a little point.. that linux wasn't meant for the home luser market. Linux isn't a swiss army knife that can be jammed into every possible situation, that would be stupid. NetBSD isn't a SAK either, and Windows is like a very blunt hammer that people keep beating their own heads with ;) But when you have a nail, sometimes a hammer is just what you need.
Why do we have to sell our brains to companies to use basic services?
The internet has, is, and will continue to degrade into a corparate wasteland of adds.
It's like tv, only on tv you only have to see an add every 15 minutes or so -- a respectable amount of time (if you ignore the product placements,that is...)
But on the web, Everything (why yes, evem this form I fill out now) has an add on it.
And now IRC? it may just be one network, but the point is that just talking to our friends, something we take fro granted is now just one more way to invade our brains and make us but stuff.
Think abaout it. Whats next... free long distance with a commercial break every 2 minutes?
What a wonderful inciteful discussion on something that we all fight about... Free software is fun, and occasionaly useful, commercial software it useful and occasionally fun, and CANT WE ALL JUST GET ALONG!
When I was in Chapters just two days ago, I punched up Diamond Age (also by Neal Stephenson), and the caption beside it said that Snowcrash had been optioned for film. I am glad to hear that it looks like it is going ahead, I haven't laughed so hard in a long time... BTW: Does anyone know when Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game is due out in the theaters? That was another excellent read.
Frankly, I am disgusted by the lot of you. Your all tearing his article apart because:
a) You think it's funny and ironic
b) becuase you are one of the people that he is pointing out behave like children in disemination your thoughts.
I for one agree with Jon, because it's clear that OUR community has a large problem with respect.
Does anyone here wonder why many companies and goverments have trouble taking US seriously? That may be changing, but the fact of the matter is that it's time we start seeing the mutual respect that people normally show when communicating with each other.
I repsect all of your views, but I strongly disagree that this is some kind of joke. Jon has written a number of wonderful articles exposing and intelligently discussing the problems plauging our community and society in general.
I am sure there was a time when this comment system was a bastion of wonder ideas and communication, but frankly you all might as well be AOLers!
The problem is that people like me don't bother to read or post comments 99% of the time, because I fully expect to be torn apart, insulted, etc.
And attacking his grammar because you didn't like the content? That is the lowest form of insult.
Every single article and comment is written by a real live person. You wouldn't go into a conference or meeting, and tell a perfect stranger "please die" becaause you disagreed with his or her ideas, would you? It's socially unacceptable IRL, and it's just as unacceptable here.
No-one is going to stop you, or take away your precious right to free speech. But with exercising that right, you accept the responsibility of determining how others see you and our community.
Like our mothers have taught us,
If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all.
Nice doesn't mean agreeing, but please show some respect for the PEOPLE that make our community what it is.
--Colin Peart
It would be nice to see this kind of software in linux...
There are a fair number of projects out there. Heck, I even designed a HR system and implemented in VB in 1/2 an hour (after 3 weeks of design work). That was when I thought I had money to buy a uCsimm with and build my own handheld. Since the handheld didn't happen, I left the prototype where it stands, but if anyone wants the system, they are welcome to it. (email me, and I will describe my method and send you the code.)... Anyhow, I think linux is ideal in many way for handhelds, because it can (and has) been implemented on mmuless systems, it's efficient (which is good for small microprocessors, and you can still get lots of full fledged software for it. Keep up the good work everyone.
How about linux on Nintendo's current project dolphin (still under development). It's based on a modified PPC, and I heard that they were able to boot a modified beos kernel that they burnt onto a cdrom...
As was brought up a long time ago, this system brings rise to "Gibs" being the spoken short form of Gibibytes... Let ut not forget
...
Kibs, Mibs, Tibs,
I think this brings new meaning to "Kibble and bits and bits and bits".
I mean this sounds too good to be true. And last time I checked, when something sounds like that, it has a good chance of being just that. On the other hand I have heard of rumors of 3D storage for some time...
The question is, when will we have watches that act as personal HD's... If your within 5 ft of the computer, say... it could be automounted over an RF channel... "Quake. Never leave home without it."
Think about it... 180 gigabits = 22.5 giga bytes.. an mp3 player that could hold enough music to play continuously for like a year of non stop music.
Lets say that a grain of sand is about
0.0001 mm in diameter, and for the purposes of this examination it is round and close enough top be flat. Therefore it will cover
pi* D^2/4 = 0.00000000785 mm^2 of the disc (Asuming the AFM doesn't push it out of the way.)
400gbits/645 mm^2 (1 inch = 25.4 mm, in^2 = 25.4^2 mm^2) ~= 62015503 bits per mm^2
therefore 1 partical of dust would destroy about
..
Oh hell with it. Alot. These things would need clean room conditions (probably better) to be any good. Which tends to suggest putting them in vacuum sealed containers. But that means the AFM would have to be packaged in there too. Somehow I don't see these being in stores anytime in the next like 10 years anyways.
Who neeeds those flavored cafeine drinks?
Try krank20 -- Cafinated water.
I can't seem to find a website for it, but I had itin Guelph, Ontario, Canada, at one of the UoGuelph's coffe shops.
And if you still want flavour, a) Make coffee with it (guarenteed 3 waking days), or Kool-aid... The possibilities are endless!
I rather like the nostalgic feeling of hacker. But alas the media has taken it and destroyed it.
;) That spark that raises us above the crowd?
We do a new name to describe the breed of programmer that many of us are.. artists, in our own sense. Programming just because we can. How else can you describe someone (like myself) that spent 3 hours changing second.S, part of the lilo boot loader, just so I could use a switch attached to a joystick port to choose my bootup?!!? (of course, I should have been doing my homework...)
How can we describe this kind of behavier? I'm no programming star, but I can't resist the alure of code dancing in my head... functions and structures and objects... Oh my!
So far I like coder, but it lacks the right feeling. That's what I would call one of the the people I see entering Comp. Sci, or comp. eng at my university with no clue and no programming experience, that seem to make it through, but not because they have any understanding.
The hacker we know and love is on the next level up.
Code artist sounds as about as fake as Subway ( a canadian sub chain) has Sandwich artists.
But how can we describe that oneness with the code?
I recommend that we arrange a vote. And with the final decision we, the few, the coders, hackers, or whatever we want to call ourselves must rise against the media and proclaim our new name for all to know! FREEEEEDOOOOOMMMMMMM! from the persecution of a misplaced name!
BTW: It had better be something the common folk and PHB's can swear with, because when Y2K roll's over, it's going to be shouted alot!
Was that dramatic enough?