All it requires is for about 100 or so people to put a file in a shared
directory called Brittneyspearsbarebreasts.jpg or something along
those lines. But instead of said picture actually being of Miss Spears beare
breats, why not make it something else...such as possibly goatse.cx?
What is interesting to me is that this would be EXACTLY what freeloaders would
do if sharing was required. Just something to think about for people who think
they have the freeloader issue figured out. It's a lot more difficult than it
seems, since file names and file sizes say nothing about the quality of the
content being shared.
Also if current Gnutella clients were simply amended to have the option don't allow people with 0 files in their library to download, how
long would it be before a client was produced which falsely reported files in
it's library, files which didn't exist and you can never download.
Having Valenti as the chairman puts a surprisingly appropriate face on the MPAA, and serves as a symbol of the type of men with whom their interests really lie. I'm surprised they haven't erected a facade instead: some doe-eyed guy or gal to whine about how much money they lose and how they can't feed their families, as opposed to the crazy authoritarian who offers "sweeping proclamations" about how little freedom consumers deserve.
They were discussed in the Slashdot article, not the Salon article. See my reply to the parent of your message for the link. You are absolutely right that the Salon article makes a mockery of the intention of the designers of the monument/warning system. The Salon article makes the specific and (to my mind) valid point that a grand memorial (even a sinister looking one) may only encourage future archeologists. I thought some of the old story was better than nothing, and I didn't have the time to do much searching for the rest; sorry if you don't agree. Michael's comments at the end of the original Slashdot article are well put and in the same spirit as yours: "The report on how to mark the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant... makes chilling, yet somehow inspiring reading, and IMHO is much less deserving of mockery than the Salon author makes it out to be." I think the best summary on the subject, comes from the report and the title of the original Slashdot article: "This Place is Not a Place of Honor". For indeed it is not.
There's no such thing as 'geographically stable'. Maybe you mean 'geologically stable'?
Yes. You are absolutely correct. I was even thinking 'geologically stable'. I had to look back to make sure I had really said 'geographically', and damnit I had. Some part of my brain was asleep at the switch. Despite the marvels the brain is capable of, it is really lacking some basic features: the spell checker sucks, the grammar check is even worse, and occasionally you request the output of a certain word and it substitutes in it's own instead. I want a refund!
This guy found the link! In addition to the Salon article, it also has a link to the government report (summary-complete pdf which is also well worth reading.
There is no location within the continental U.S. that would work politically. And Alaska, Hawaii, or a territory would be too close to other countries: plain bad politics.
Hawaii is not geographically stable. Bury your waste in a mountain and in some time less than 10000 years from now watch the ground spit it out again in a radioactive volcano eruption likely to awaken Godzilla-King of the Monsters: we must never wake the sleeping beast.
Given the recent "Switch" ad campaign by Apple I doubt describing MS as "Mac-friendly" is accurate, if it indeed it ever was. They constantly cited Apple in the antitrust trial (and Linux as well) as proof that competition is alive and well in the OS market. The purchase of non-voting stock to save Apple was no doubt an early calculated measure on their part. Microsoft was already engaged in questionable predatory business practices. If anti-trust charges were ever filed, a bankrupt, liquidated Apple would be far more damning than an ailing but solvent Apple. I think their "saving" of Apple was hardly a selfless act on M$' part, and they did not expect Apple to ever recover from it's slump. If they had guessed Apple with Steve Jobs back at the helm would produce the amazing rebound in the form of the Imac, they never would have done it.
It's still probably helpful to know where you can obtain and learn to use a MIPS VM. Check out the GNU MDK manual Contains the MIX instruction set and a programming tutorial, as well as documentation on using the VM itself.
For the intro:
In his book series The Art of Computer Programming (published by Addison Wesley), D. Knuth uses an imaginary computer, the MIX, and its associated machine-code and assembly languages to ilustrate the concepts and algorithms as they are presented.
The MIX's architecture is a simplified version of those found in real CISC CPUs, and the MIX assembly language (MIXAL) provides a set of primitives that will be very familiar to any person with a minimum experience in assembly programming. The MIX/MIXAL definition is powerful and complete enough to provide a virtual development platform for writing quite complex programs, and close enough to real computers to be worth using when learning programming techniques. At any rate, if you want to learn or improve your programming skills, a MIX development environment would come in handy.
The MDK package aims at providing such virtual development environment on a GNU box. Thus, MDK offers you a set of utilities to simulate the MIX computer and to write, compile, run and debug MIXAL programs.
Now that's irony. You are a troll but this guy is funny? Here's hoping some sane moderators correct this discrepancy and some equally sane meta-moderators penalize the guilty.
When is the last time you bought a server with an OS pre-installed?
Who me? Never, but SOME people must... I don't think Dell and
Gateway offer it because no one buys it. If your next question is When is the last time you bought a server from Dell or Gateway? Well the answer to that question is never as well, but I'm sure some people do that too.
If you have a Windows 2000-Workstation-only lab or office, you will be faced with Windows 2000 problems only. Add more Windows versions and watch the bugs increase exponentially. I think if the OS was bare things would work fine, but most programs (even MS Office) seem to have version specific bugs.
Many suspect incompatibility between versions is intentional on the part of M$ i.e. forced obsolescence; and when M$ makes it harder to get old versions of software, it feels like part of that plan.
Yes they are. Which is why if you are saying something that applies to one of them and not the other you should say so. It's not obvious what he means at all. We're just guessing that's what he means, because otherwise the story is even more unbelievable. The author shows no awareness that there are different products all being classified as "Windows 2000" at all.
So yes I'm aware that they are two different products; the whole point is that the author of the article doesn't seem to be.
Where do you people come from who need the most inane trivialities explained?
Yes Insightful, Interesting, Informative, and not to mention totally false. According to the article ALL OEM shipments stop in 9 months. That effects everybody.
In addition to that they are "pressuring the PC companies to stop offering dual install Win2k/WinXP systems immediately."
Windows 2000 has been given nine months to live, as far as OEMs are concerned, and Microsoft is pressuring the PC companies to stop offering dual install Win2k/WinXP systems immediately.
There are 2 statements there: he says they are stopping OEM shipments altogether in 9 months, and pressuring PC companies to stop shipping dual-boot systems right now.
So hot to spit your comment out that you didn't read the article?
2k is still by far the superior 'service running' machine... and it's not going anywhere anytime soon...
Especially since they don't even have any other OS for server-use yet. But.NET Server is at beta 3.
Since M$ doesn't even have a replacement server product one can assume this is either false, or the reporter is talking about Windows 2000 Pro only (not Server) and failed to get his facts straight.
Interesting bits include managing an off-site database of 45TBs, Linux workstations from IBM, 1400 processors, and the animation methods to be used on Gollum. It's a good thing.:)
Not that I want you all to think I'm a big pothead or something; I always hear potheads saying crap like this, but... I heard it was also DuPont who led the charge to get marijuana listed as a controlled substance, supposedly because their artificial carpet fibers were hopelessly inferior to hemp. Anyone know if this is fact?
Okay spelling it out wasn't good enough for some people.
Money from W3 purchases funds the lawyers they use to attack the bnetd project!
Oh gee. What a newsflash. That still doesn't make Warcraft 3 a bad game. It makes Blizzard a bad company. This article is reporting on the former not the latter; if your brain is too small to allow any separation of the two, you have my pity.
Spelling it out even finer for the garden sloth: "Is Warcraft 3 a 'killer' game?" is one issue. "Does Blizzard suck for what they are doing to Bnetd?" is another. You can answer positively to both these questions, neither of these questions, or one or the other of these questions. Your answer to the first question has no relevence to the second question at all. That's what I meant by "separate issue". Obviously if you believe the answer to the latter question is yes, you should not purchase the game regardless of your answer for the former question. "Should you buy the game?" obviously can relate to either question, but that is a question that was never asked in this article or by the original post. In other words the original post missed the real issue entirely. [Slowly and loudly:] DO...YOU...UNDERSTAND...?
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All it requires is for about 100 or so people to put a file in a shared directory called Brittneyspearsbarebreasts.jpg or something along those lines. But instead of said picture actually being of Miss Spears beare breats, why not make it something else...such as possibly goatse.cx?
What is interesting to me is that this would be EXACTLY what freeloaders would do if sharing was required. Just something to think about for people who think they have the freeloader issue figured out. It's a lot more difficult than it seems, since file names and file sizes say nothing about the quality of the content being shared.
Also if current Gnutella clients were simply amended to have the option don't allow people with 0 files in their library to download, how long would it be before a client was produced which falsely reported files in it's library, files which didn't exist and you can never download.
Finally the time has come for that guy with the Gene Kan comments to be on-topic! But he's nowhere to be found.
In case it's not clear, I'm trying to be funny.
Could there be a more appropriate representative of the MPAA than Jack Valenti!? The guy LOOKS like an oppressive tyrant.
Really! Would you buy a used car from this man?
Having Valenti as the chairman puts a surprisingly appropriate face on the MPAA, and serves as a symbol of the type of men with whom their interests really lie. I'm surprised they haven't erected a facade instead: some doe-eyed guy or gal to whine about how much money they lose and how they can't feed their families, as opposed to the crazy authoritarian who offers "sweeping proclamations" about how little freedom consumers deserve.
They were discussed in the Slashdot article, not the Salon article. See my reply to the parent of your message for the link. You are absolutely right that the Salon article makes a mockery of the intention of the designers of the monument/warning system. The Salon article makes the specific and (to my mind) valid point that a grand memorial (even a sinister looking one) may only encourage future archeologists. I thought some of the old story was better than nothing, and I didn't have the time to do much searching for the rest; sorry if you don't agree. Michael's comments at the end of the original Slashdot article are well put and in the same spirit as yours: "The report on how to mark the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant ... makes chilling, yet somehow inspiring reading, and IMHO is much less deserving of mockery than the Salon author makes it out to be." I think the best summary on the subject, comes from the report and the title of the original Slashdot article: "This Place is Not a Place of Honor". For indeed it is not.
There's no such thing as 'geographically stable'. Maybe you mean 'geologically stable'?
Yes. You are absolutely correct. I was even thinking 'geologically stable'. I had to look back to make sure I had really said 'geographically', and damnit I had. Some part of my brain was asleep at the switch. Despite the marvels the brain is capable of, it is really lacking some basic features: the spell checker sucks, the grammar check is even worse, and occasionally you request the output of a certain word and it substitutes in it's own instead. I want a refund!
This guy found the link! In addition to the Salon article, it also has a link to the government report (summary-complete pdf which is also well worth reading.
There is no location within the continental U.S. that would work politically. And Alaska, Hawaii, or a territory would be too close to other countries: plain bad politics.
Hawaii is not geographically stable. Bury your waste in a mountain and in some time less than 10000 years from now watch the ground spit it out again in a radioactive volcano eruption likely to awaken Godzilla-King of the Monsters: we must never wake the sleeping beast.
Your concerned were discussed in an earlier article. I can't find the /. reference but here is the link to the referenced article. A fun read. Enjoy!
Given the recent "Switch" ad campaign by Apple I doubt describing MS as "Mac-friendly" is accurate, if it indeed it ever was. They constantly cited Apple in the antitrust trial (and Linux as well) as proof that competition is alive and well in the OS market. The purchase of non-voting stock to save Apple was no doubt an early calculated measure on their part. Microsoft was already engaged in questionable predatory business practices. If anti-trust charges were ever filed, a bankrupt, liquidated Apple would be far more damning than an ailing but solvent Apple. I think their "saving" of Apple was hardly a selfless act on M$' part, and they did not expect Apple to ever recover from it's slump. If they had guessed Apple with Steve Jobs back at the helm would produce the amazing rebound in the form of the Imac, they never would have done it.
While we're on the subject of Apple and Microsoft, check out this non-frontpage Slashdot article. Freakin hilarious!
Oops MIPS... MIX... You know what I mean [grins sheepishly].
It's still probably helpful to know where you can obtain and learn to use a MIPS VM. Check out the GNU MDK manual Contains the MIX instruction set and a programming tutorial, as well as documentation on using the VM itself.
For the intro:
In his book series The Art of Computer Programming (published by Addison Wesley), D. Knuth uses an imaginary computer, the MIX, and its associated machine-code and assembly languages to ilustrate the concepts and algorithms as they are presented.
The MIX's architecture is a simplified version of those found in real CISC CPUs, and the MIX assembly language (MIXAL) provides a set of primitives that will be very familiar to any person with a minimum experience in assembly programming. The MIX/MIXAL definition is powerful and complete enough to provide a virtual development platform for writing quite complex programs, and close enough to real computers to be worth using when learning programming techniques. At any rate, if you want to learn or improve your programming skills, a MIX development environment would come in handy.
The MDK package aims at providing such virtual development environment on a GNU box. Thus, MDK offers you a set of utilities to simulate the MIX computer and to write, compile, run and debug MIXAL programs.
He thinks we are way too lazy in this respect! So come on slashdot crowd: Do your homework and get the credit from the grandmaster himself!
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No no no... He's right [yawns, stretches, checks for new
All I could think was who are these losers?!
:)
What's really funny is how well a Bill Gates ad would fit in!
Now that's irony. You are a troll but this guy is funny? Here's hoping some sane moderators correct this discrepancy and some equally sane meta-moderators penalize the guilty.
Cheers.
When is the last time you bought a server with an OS pre-installed?
Who me? Never, but SOME people must... I don't think Dell and Gateway offer it because no one buys it. If your next question is When is the last time you bought a server from Dell or Gateway? Well the answer to that question is never as well, but I'm sure some people do that too.
If you have a Windows 2000-Workstation-only lab or office, you will be faced with Windows 2000 problems only. Add more Windows versions and watch the bugs increase exponentially. I think if the OS was bare things would work fine, but most programs (even MS Office) seem to have version specific bugs.
Many suspect incompatibility between versions is intentional on the part of M$ i.e. forced obsolescence; and when M$ makes it harder to get old versions of software, it feels like part of that plan.
They are separate products, you know.
Yes they are. Which is why if you are saying something that applies to one of them and not the other you should say so. It's not obvious what he means at all. We're just guessing that's what he means, because otherwise the story is even more unbelievable. The author shows no awareness that there are different products all being classified as "Windows 2000" at all.
So yes I'm aware that they are two different products; the whole point is that the author of the article doesn't seem to be.
Where do you people come from who need the most inane trivialities explained?
Yes Insightful, Interesting, Informative, and not to mention totally false. According to the article ALL OEM shipments stop in 9 months. That effects everybody.
In addition to that they are "pressuring the PC companies to stop offering dual install Win2k/WinXP systems immediately."
Windows 2000 has been given nine months to live, as far as OEMs are concerned, and Microsoft is pressuring the PC companies to stop offering dual install Win2k/WinXP systems immediately.
.NET Server is at beta 3.
There are 2 statements there: he says they are stopping OEM shipments altogether in 9 months, and pressuring PC companies to stop shipping dual-boot systems right now.
So hot to spit your comment out that you didn't read the article?
2k is still by far the superior 'service running' machine... and it's not going anywhere anytime soon...
Especially since they don't even have any other OS for server-use yet. But
Since M$ doesn't even have a replacement server product one can assume this is either false, or the reporter is talking about Windows 2000 Pro only (not Server) and failed to get his facts straight.
Interesting bits include managing an off-site database of 45TBs, Linux workstations from IBM, 1400 processors, and the animation methods to be used on Gollum. It's a good thing. :)
A precious thing, one might say...
Does anyone know where I can get a Han Solo Lego figure?
Get your Lego Han Solo here!
No but this sounds a bit like the motto on every soda bottle I have opened in a the last few years:
YOU ARE NOT A WINNER
Geez, and all I wanted was a drink, and they brand me a loser. For all time apparently.... No appeal or anything....
Not that I want you all to think I'm a big pothead or something; I always hear potheads saying crap like this, but... I heard it was also DuPont who led the charge to get marijuana listed as a controlled substance, supposedly because their artificial carpet fibers were hopelessly inferior to hemp. Anyone know if this is fact?
Okay spelling it out wasn't good enough for some people.
Money from W3 purchases funds the lawyers they use to attack the bnetd project!
Oh gee. What a newsflash. That still doesn't make Warcraft 3 a bad game. It makes Blizzard a bad company. This article is reporting on the former not the latter; if your brain is too small to allow any separation of the two, you have my pity.
Spelling it out even finer for the garden sloth: "Is Warcraft 3 a 'killer' game?" is one issue. "Does Blizzard suck for what they are doing to Bnetd?" is another. You can answer positively to both these questions, neither of these questions, or one or the other of these questions. Your answer to the first question has no relevence to the second question at all. That's what I meant by "separate issue". Obviously if you believe the answer to the latter question is yes, you should not purchase the game regardless of your answer for the former question. "Should you buy the game?" obviously can relate to either question, but that is a question that was never asked in this article or by the original post. In other words the original post missed the real issue entirely. [Slowly and loudly:] DO...YOU...UNDERSTAND...?