Duh. There is no such thing as bit-rot. The only thing that can rot is the physical medium. DivX compression isn't protecting the data magically, the data is fine because its not stored on a faulty medium (in this case certain DVD discs). It has nothing to do with whatever is on these faulty discs and everything to do with the discs themselves. Your theory, no offense, is completely wrong.
Um, UML is User-Mode Linux not User-Mode BeOS. And it doesn't emulate the processor. It provides virtualized instances of the OS, not an entire emulated virtual machine. You want UML Ultra5, you have to be on an Ultra5 machine in the first place. Ditto for RS/6000 or any other architecture.
Because kazaalite isn't developed from source. They "crack" kazaa to remove spyware and add some functionality in very specefic ways. They don't have the source to KaZaA and i seriously doubt the KaZaA-lite guys know the protocol well enough to develope and add features to a full fledged client.
Nobody ever told me we were at war. Everybody seems to think it will be the end of the world if Linux doesn't work as Mom's desktop. Guess what, I love the "Don't complain, do something about it" attitude. It is great, and it will get things done. Frankly I could care less if Linux gets adopted as a mainstream desktop, it works for me.
The funny thing to me is that I can draw a lot more parrallels between Dune and WoT then I can between WoT and SoT. But what do I know? Frankly I really don't think Jordan is plagairising Herbert or Goodkind is plaigarising Jordan. I think the genre has been played out. I think everybody is running out of ideas, because the fantasy genre itself has certain expected precepts. You can only do so much if it has to be in a pseudo-medieval swords and sorcery magic setting. My problem is I like it anyway. There are a lot more creative fantasy genres out there, but I like this crap:).
Yeah but I thought after he was bitten his DNA was recombinant (is that even a word? I dunno) with that of a spider. I would think that would make him inhuman. At least in the sense of homo sapiens.
well if someone's going mention wheel of time I might as well chime in with the Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind. Unfortunately it has been goign downhill lately but the first 2 books are kind of like the free crack hit. You get hooked and everytime you read the next book you hope, well maybe the next one will be better. Actually, don't read the sword of truth. It's the literary equivalent of a cock tease.
I love how he claims that fact that you can get a command prompt in XP means dos must be underneath still. Call me crazy but I thought the NT series emulated dos for backwards compatibilty. I didn't think NT was just hacked on to DOS like Win9x, 3.11 , etc. were. He seems to think if someone tried REALLY hard they could still get XP to run on top of DR-DOS instead of...well instead of the imaginary DOS that isn't there now. Then there's the whole micro vs monolithic kernel thing. I hope no one reads this article and think, "Yeah! Why don't they?" There's a reason Apple had to provide the classic environment after they released OS X, and it ain't because some people prefer the old widget style.
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Duh. There is no such thing as bit-rot. The only thing that can rot is the physical medium. DivX compression isn't protecting the data magically, the data is fine because its not stored on a faulty medium (in this case certain DVD discs). It has nothing to do with whatever is on these faulty discs and everything to do with the discs themselves. Your theory, no offense, is completely wrong.
Would doses of cyber-warfarin cure it?
Actually the preferred medication for e-thrombosis is warchalkin.
Well I dunno about you, but since I never leave uptime works fine for me.
Um, UML is User-Mode Linux not User-Mode BeOS. And it doesn't emulate the processor. It provides virtualized instances of the OS, not an entire emulated virtual machine. You want UML Ultra5, you have to be on an Ultra5 machine in the first place. Ditto for RS/6000 or any other architecture.
Because kazaalite isn't developed from source. They "crack" kazaa to remove spyware and add some functionality in very specefic ways. They don't have the source to KaZaA and i seriously doubt the KaZaA-lite guys know the protocol well enough to develope and add features to a full fledged client.
screw seaquest! where's Hagbard Celine at?
Oh and just to head it off at the pass, yes I meant to say "couldn't care less", sorry.
Nobody ever told me we were at war. Everybody seems to think it will be the end of the world if Linux doesn't work as Mom's desktop. Guess what, I love the "Don't complain, do something about it" attitude. It is great, and it will get things done. Frankly I could care less if Linux gets adopted as a mainstream desktop, it works for me.
Oh, I'd kill for some mod points. Maybe we can /. the root DNS servers.
Your grasp of the obvious is astounding. I applaud you.
Judging by the slashdotting, he could probably get enough votes to win.
I'm waiting for RC2. You know, Rain Coat 2...nevermind.
bits D9 and D8 of the 16-bit register at 0x04000130
Where's the -1, Too Informative mod? :)
My god, faith of the fallen was horrible. The second was high quality good old fashioned high fantasy. One fantasy novel please, hold the politics.
The funny thing to me is that I can draw a lot more parrallels between Dune and WoT then I can between WoT and SoT. But what do I know? Frankly I really don't think Jordan is plagairising Herbert or Goodkind is plaigarising Jordan. I think the genre has been played out. I think everybody is running out of ideas, because the fantasy genre itself has certain expected precepts. You can only do so much if it has to be in a pseudo-medieval swords and sorcery magic setting. My problem is I like it anyway. There are a lot more creative fantasy genres out there, but I like this crap :).
Well I was basing my comment on the (apocryphal?) cartoon...I know he doesn't shoot web out of wrists in the canon.
Yeah but I thought after he was bitten his DNA was recombinant (is that even a word? I dunno) with that of a spider. I would think that would make him inhuman. At least in the sense of homo sapiens.
well if someone's going mention wheel of time I might as well chime in with the Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind. Unfortunately it has been goign downhill lately but the first 2 books are kind of like the free crack hit. You get hooked and everytime you read the next book you hope, well maybe the next one will be better. Actually, don't read the sword of truth. It's the literary equivalent of a cock tease.
IIRC I read in the NYT that its his girlfriend's blog actually.
we must remove all references to your e-mail address on the web
How kind of you! Maybe I'll stop getting all this spam...
What's with the sudden upsurge of Australian related stories? And people say slashdot is too US-centric. bah!
all over again. Watch this be arson as well.
BSD is dying...but with 10x the efficiency!
I love how he claims that fact that you can get a command prompt in XP means dos must be underneath still. Call me crazy but I thought the NT series emulated dos for backwards compatibilty. I didn't think NT was just hacked on to DOS like Win9x, 3.11 , etc. were. He seems to think if someone tried REALLY hard they could still get XP to run on top of DR-DOS instead of...well instead of the imaginary DOS that isn't there now. Then there's the whole micro vs monolithic kernel thing. I hope no one reads this article and think, "Yeah! Why don't they?" There's a reason Apple had to provide the classic environment after they released OS X, and it ain't because some people prefer the old widget style.