Obviously he's never been to a trade show... Hell, of any kind.
Scantily clad females are used to sell EVERYTHING. Snowshovels, manure spreaders, video games, even gay porn. If you went to a gay porn trade show, they'd have HALF NAKED chicks pushing gay porn on GAY DUDES.
Just like billboards are used to advertise things that have nothing to do with driving or cars.
# First of all, if you run Linux, you're not booting much. What...rebooting maybe once a month?
Some of us shut our computers off. Not every linux PC is a 24/7 server. People own laptops, shut down desktops when not in use, etc. Plus theres linux' ever-growing embedded segment. Your TiVo never gets shut off? How important is boot-time to a device like TiVo or Zaurus?
# Boot time doesn't have to be an arduous wait. Yes, on out-of-the-box distros it can be incredible, but I blame the distro, not Linux.
Yes, distros are poorly configured, and the userbase is largely stupid. Noone talks about runlevels anymore. Put "basic stuff you need to get the user going" on a lower runlevel, and "more advanced gitchy bullshit like AIM etc" on a higher runlevel. Most linux distros behave by default the way a spyware infected win98 box does, making the user wait while it starts umpteen zillion fringe services.
# If you choose to not fiddle, then you choose to have boot times that are increasing. It takes time to autoprobe everything correctly and get it set up if you're too lazy to do it yourself. Windows does it from the perspective of 'throw everything in there and take up gadzillions of RAM'. Linux says, 'I'll autosetup everything but still keep you lean'. You pay for what you get, folks.
Pure "M$ sucks rolF!" bullshit from the clueless. Windows runs a microkernel, Linux runs a monolithic kernel. They work differently. Windows loads the drivers it knows it needs (the installed ones) at boot time, linux pages the crap in and out of the kernel itself.
This is the quickest part of the boot, really. Delays come when you have dhcpcd timing out while looking for a DHCP server that doesn't exist but yet for some reason runs by default even if you have a statically configured address. Or your waiting for privoxy to load and parse its blacklists, or for squid to primp and preen its caches, etc..
# People who run IIS and then subject it to a/.ing should be drug into the street and shot for being an idiot. T
Most sites that stand up to a/.ing are running IIS from, what I've seen. Ever see Slate or MSN go down when/. links to them?
It has more to do with being able to afford bandwidth than some magical uberneat0 perl script you found on efnet.
No idea why this "everyone must migrate to linux" thing is a stated goal of any CS professional. Linux is not the be-all-and-end-all of OS'es.
It excels in certain niches (server backends and embedded systems), and is woefully inadequate in others (just about anything that requires user interaction).
To me the underlying OS kernel should be irrelevant. I should be able to use KDE on an NT kernel, or a Window's desktop overtop of a linux kernel, etc..
The kernel is just one small piece of software, with a whole bunch of artificial value attached. In the end all it does is send bytes back and forth to the hardware. Only zealots and businessmen cheer for a particular kernel. IBM cheerleads for linux because they plan to make a buck out of it, but frankly, it accomplishes nothing that the NT kernel or BSDs couldn't do.
The applications are what actually does anything. Whether it's Apache or mysql or Tux Racer. Who really gives a shit about the OS? It's about as relevant as the brand of mouse you're using.
I look forward to the day that people dont list experience with "Linux, Windows, OS-X" on their resumes and instead just say "can use computer".
People let goofy ass politics in the way of practicality. There are a lot of great reasons to have OSS running under windows. Cygwin, mysql, X servers and clients..
The underlying OS should be less and less relevant as time goes on. It shouldn't matter whether you're running on Linux, Darwin, NT, BSD.. Well-defined and implemented standard APIs should let you easily recompile and run the same apps anywhere, without some bloated Java runtime or CLR in the way.
But no, we have petty "M$ is teh bad deval!" bullshit further fragmenting what is a relatively small talent pool to begin with. What goal are people working towards? If it's really as simpleminded as "destroy Windows", it'll never be reached.
So keep KDE "GPL OS only", and when the OS itself becomes irrelevant, so will all OS-specific apps.
I'l sum this up by saying that I just wish Sony could build their future players like they used to with the Walkmans: Built to last.
I had a really nifty Walkman my old man got straight from Sony in Japan when he toured their facility for some big B2B deal.
It was no bigger than a cassette tape holder, had built in retractable headphones, one touch fforward and rewind.. Really really slick and packed with features. As high-end a portable product as Sony made at the time.
And it broke into a million pieces when it fell out of my hand into my lap. My lap, not the hard floor, it fell about 8 inches and landed in my lap and fell apart.
Built to last my ass. The two dollar knockoff walkman I got at radio shack ran circles around that high-end piece of shit.
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Is abudious a word?
If so, are you willing to admit you found it on thesaurus.com?
Master of Puppets was their best album, they peaked early. Just like Dark Side of the Moon was Floyd's best album.
Lightning and Justice were good, Black and on were mainstream pop tunes.
Depends on taste, I suppose. But that's the view from an oldschool metalhead.
Just opinions. Some people actually like Load/Reload/Buttload and their current rash of country cover tunes. Those people just aren't me.
I am/was a fan of their music. I don't criticize the directions they wanted to go in musically. I started hating Metallica the day Lars started hating me. I was one of those guys pushing around the bootleg tapes way back when labels wouldn't touch 'em with a 10 foot pole.
Once the guy started getting Jeapordy the kind of ratings that the show had never, ever seen in its 30+ years, it doesn't seem odd to me that they'd "stack the deck", give categories he's good in, and the opponents might not be.
Then again, he just might be that good with absolutly useless knowledge, in which case, good for him for making it pay off. Most know-it-alls I've met worked at McDonalds.
Most ATI cards can, especially older ones based on Rage3D or early Radeons.
Luckily, these are the ATI cards that work well with linux. I'd suggest running linux with advanceMAME, or even X Windows with some custom modelines, because that way you can be sure that Windows won't accidentally try to set it to some bad resolution and as-plode your monitor.
Of course, every modern card comes with TV out, and for a homebuild cabinet, an $20 27" TV from the Sally Ann is as good a choice as a $900 27" monitor. If you have SVideo input, the picture will be just as good.
Frankly, I'd rather rebuild arcade cabinets as they are than shove a MAME box into one. It's just not the same. I'd rather have my dedicated Bad Dudes vs Dragonninja cabinet than something jammed with 2000000 mahjong variants. But then, I'd rather collect SNES carts than download roms. I'm a bit of a purist when it comes to retro-gaming.
Basically he's pissed because he got there the hard way, and in the future people will be able to just drive.
Sir Edmund also chastised the UK for neglecting the historic huts used by Britain's Robert Falcon Scott - who died on his way back from the South Pole in 1912 - and other early explorers.
The huts are being threatened by advancing glaciers.
Huh? So what are they supposed to do? Melt or stop the glaciers somehow?
Is this guy for preserving nature, or preserving his own glory?
As one of those vendors for governments, I have to constantly deal with some moron admins who refuse to give me any access to the machine, yet CONSTANTLY call for support.
I don't generally need superuser access on the machine, since generally the only thing that gets screwed up is the data in the RDBMS (you know, user error).
I had one propellerhead go around in my database deleting tables and columns he felt they didn't need. He told me on the phone "we don't use timestamps here". One of those slam your head on the desk conversations. These are civil servants with lifetime jobs, and maybe they knew all about VAX in 1970, but goddamn if they aren't dense.
They tend to think that RAID is a magical "never need to backup ever" solution. I just love it when they call me up after their second RAID-5 drive failed, and I ask them when they last did a backup - and they go "uhhhh we don't need to backup we gots RAID".
Then I explain how RAID has nothing to do with archival or backups, etc, etc.. And I pull out the backup I made last time they had a major upgrade and tell them they have to reenter every parking ticket for the last 8 months, and they threaten and bitch how it's my fault and I tell them I'm not their admin, and if they really want to go to their bosses and fess up how incompetent they are they can go ahead.
Frankly, I'd love for some more competent clients. Of all of them, I can think of one who has any clue what to do with a computer.
But then sometimes they call with a problem that requires fixing on the machine. I'm not going to sit on the phone talking them through shit, I'm not going to email them scripts or code, etc. More than once I've had to tell them that if they don't give me access it wont get fixed.
If it's a problem for you, give them superuser rights when they need it, when they're done doing maintainance, take it away.
Have been lining their purses/trenchcoats/whatever with foil for years to avoid those little tag detectors at the door.
I was watching it on TV, you saw this lady open up her purse and could see the tinfoil.. She shoved a waffle iron or some such thing in there and out she went.
If I crapflood you with my wimpy Comcast cablemodem, I'm still trying to deny service, the fact that I can't or don't is irrelevant.
Try defending yourself against an assault charge by saying "your Honor, I did push him on the ground and kick his ribs, but I was being careful not to kick him hard enough to injure him, so it's not an assault."
Comcast and all the other big ISPs pay for their upstream bandwidth, not downstream. It will cost them, and their customers. They'll be the ones doing the suing.
Drunks are more of a threat on the road than me throwing rocks at cars. So I should be free to do so, right?
I hope lycos gets sued out of existence when Comcast et al see how much all the extra upstream bandwidth is costing them. Of course, they'd just turn around and get the cash from me.
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Obviously he's never been to a trade show... Hell, of any kind.
Scantily clad females are used to sell EVERYTHING. Snowshovels, manure spreaders, video games, even gay porn. If you went to a gay porn trade show, they'd have HALF NAKED chicks pushing gay porn on GAY DUDES.
Just like billboards are used to advertise things that have nothing to do with driving or cars.
Noone in the world takes the "spike video game awards" seriously.
I saw no boxes on the shelves at Best Buy proudly proclaiming "Winner of 18 spike video game awards".
They have nothing to do with the industry. They're like the Blockbuster awards or the results of the Nickelodeon Kids election.
You're frankly a moron for wasting the time watching, let alone writing about it.
# First of all, if you run Linux, you're not booting much. What...rebooting maybe once a month?
/.ing should be drug into the street and shot for being an idiot. T
/.ing are running IIS from, what I've seen. Ever see Slate or MSN go down when /. links to them?
Some of us shut our computers off. Not every linux PC is a 24/7 server. People own laptops, shut down desktops when not in use, etc. Plus theres linux' ever-growing embedded segment. Your TiVo never gets shut off? How important is boot-time to a device like TiVo or Zaurus?
# Boot time doesn't have to be an arduous wait. Yes, on out-of-the-box distros it can be incredible, but I blame the distro, not Linux.
Yes, distros are poorly configured, and the userbase is largely stupid. Noone talks about runlevels anymore. Put "basic stuff you need to get the user going" on a lower runlevel, and "more advanced gitchy bullshit like AIM etc" on a higher runlevel. Most linux distros behave by default the way a spyware infected win98 box does, making the user wait while it starts umpteen zillion fringe services.
# If you choose to not fiddle, then you choose to have boot times that are increasing. It takes time to autoprobe everything correctly and get it set up if you're too lazy to do it yourself. Windows does it from the perspective of 'throw everything in there and take up gadzillions of RAM'. Linux says, 'I'll autosetup everything but still keep you lean'. You pay for what you get, folks.
Pure "M$ sucks rolF!" bullshit from the clueless. Windows runs a microkernel, Linux runs a monolithic kernel. They work differently. Windows loads the drivers it knows it needs (the installed ones) at boot time, linux pages the crap in and out of the kernel itself.
This is the quickest part of the boot, really. Delays come when you have dhcpcd timing out while looking for a DHCP server that doesn't exist but yet for some reason runs by default even if you have a statically configured address. Or your waiting for privoxy to load and parse its blacklists, or for squid to primp and preen its caches, etc..
# People who run IIS and then subject it to a
Most sites that stand up to a
It has more to do with being able to afford bandwidth than some magical uberneat0 perl script you found on efnet.
No idea why this "everyone must migrate to linux" thing is a stated goal of any CS professional. Linux is not the be-all-and-end-all of OS'es.
It excels in certain niches (server backends and embedded systems), and is woefully inadequate in others (just about anything that requires user interaction).
To me the underlying OS kernel should be irrelevant. I should be able to use KDE on an NT kernel, or a Window's desktop overtop of a linux kernel, etc..
The kernel is just one small piece of software, with a whole bunch of artificial value attached. In the end all it does is send bytes back and forth to the hardware. Only zealots and businessmen cheer for a particular kernel. IBM cheerleads for linux because they plan to make a buck out of it, but frankly, it accomplishes nothing that the NT kernel or BSDs couldn't do.
The applications are what actually does anything. Whether it's Apache or mysql or Tux Racer. Who really gives a shit about the OS? It's about as relevant as the brand of mouse you're using.
I look forward to the day that people dont list experience with "Linux, Windows, OS-X" on their resumes and instead just say "can use computer".
People let goofy ass politics in the way of practicality. There are a lot of great reasons to have OSS running under windows. Cygwin, mysql, X servers and clients..
The underlying OS should be less and less relevant as time goes on. It shouldn't matter whether you're running on Linux, Darwin, NT, BSD.. Well-defined and implemented standard APIs should let you easily recompile and run the same apps anywhere, without some bloated Java runtime or CLR in the way.
But no, we have petty "M$ is teh bad deval!" bullshit further fragmenting what is a relatively small talent pool to begin with. What goal are people working towards? If it's really as simpleminded as "destroy Windows", it'll never be reached.
So keep KDE "GPL OS only", and when the OS itself becomes irrelevant, so will all OS-specific apps.
have to do with the MPAA and online filesharing?
Nothing?
Do you even know the difference between the MPAA and a local movie theater?
Is the popcorn girl part of the conspiracy too?
(apropos of nothing, you fat dope)
I'l sum this up by saying that I just wish Sony could build their future players like they used to with the Walkmans: Built to last.
I had a really nifty Walkman my old man got straight from Sony in Japan when he toured their facility for some big B2B deal.
It was no bigger than a cassette tape holder, had built in retractable headphones, one touch fforward and rewind.. Really really slick and packed with features. As high-end a portable product as Sony made at the time.
And it broke into a million pieces when it fell out of my hand into my lap. My lap, not the hard floor, it fell about 8 inches and landed in my lap and fell apart.
Built to last my ass. The two dollar knockoff walkman I got at radio shack ran circles around that high-end piece of shit.
Is abudious a word?
If so, are you willing to admit you found it on thesaurus.com?
Well thats OK it was already accepted twice last week.
Trupe!
Master of Puppets was their best album, they peaked early. Just like Dark Side of the Moon was Floyd's best album.
Lightning and Justice were good, Black and on were mainstream pop tunes.
Depends on taste, I suppose. But that's the view from an oldschool metalhead.
Just opinions. Some people actually like Load/Reload/Buttload and their current rash of country cover tunes. Those people just aren't me.
I am/was a fan of their music. I don't criticize the directions they wanted to go in musically. I started hating Metallica the day Lars started hating me. I was one of those guys pushing around the bootleg tapes way back when labels wouldn't touch 'em with a 10 foot pole.
I'd say the 70 matches before that were a throw.
Once the guy started getting Jeapordy the kind of ratings that the show had never, ever seen in its 30+ years, it doesn't seem odd to me that they'd "stack the deck", give categories he's good in, and the opponents might not be.
Then again, he just might be that good with absolutly useless knowledge, in which case, good for him for making it pay off. Most know-it-alls I've met worked at McDonalds.
Yeah, we'd much rather all be under IBM's thumb again.
Hoorah! Can't wait.
It's no biggie, Macs will never replace x86, simply because x86 is an open architecture.
IBM doesn't care, they stole the SysV code for linux, why not steal ATi and nVidias?
Heh, I knew a guy who stole a canoe from a big Sears-like store (can't remember which one).
The employees saw him walking towards the door with a canoe and held it open for him, after all, who's going to walk out with a canoe?
Here's the punchline... Dude got busted the next day when he returned to steal the paddles.
I'm not kidding, I couldn't make something like that up.
Wow, a keyboard encoder. Those have been around for what, decades?
Admit it, you posted this just for the sake of linking to your goofy homemade MAME cabinet.
BTW, there are many, many, many better homebuilt cabinets out there than yours. Why not throw a few more links in?
Most ATI cards can, especially older ones based on Rage3D or early Radeons.
Luckily, these are the ATI cards that work well with linux. I'd suggest running linux with advanceMAME, or even X Windows with some custom modelines, because that way you can be sure that Windows won't accidentally try to set it to some bad resolution and as-plode your monitor.
Of course, every modern card comes with TV out, and for a homebuild cabinet, an $20 27" TV from the Sally Ann is as good a choice as a $900 27" monitor. If you have SVideo input, the picture will be just as good.
Frankly, I'd rather rebuild arcade cabinets as they are than shove a MAME box into one. It's just not the same. I'd rather have my dedicated Bad Dudes vs Dragonninja cabinet than something jammed with 2000000 mahjong variants. But then, I'd rather collect SNES carts than download roms. I'm a bit of a purist when it comes to retro-gaming.
Basically he's pissed because he got there the hard way, and in the future people will be able to just drive.
Sir Edmund also chastised the UK for neglecting the historic huts used by Britain's Robert Falcon Scott - who died on his way back from the South Pole in 1912 - and other early explorers.
The huts are being threatened by advancing glaciers.
Huh? So what are they supposed to do? Melt or stop the glaciers somehow?
Is this guy for preserving nature, or preserving his own glory?
OH MY FUCKING GOD
Moving snow!
They've gone too far.
I sure hope greenpeace doesn't catch me shovelling the walk this winter.
As one of those vendors for governments, I have to constantly deal with some moron admins who refuse to give me any access to the machine, yet CONSTANTLY call for support.
I don't generally need superuser access on the machine, since generally the only thing that gets screwed up is the data in the RDBMS (you know, user error).
I had one propellerhead go around in my database deleting tables and columns he felt they didn't need. He told me on the phone "we don't use timestamps here". One of those slam your head on the desk conversations. These are civil servants with lifetime jobs, and maybe they knew all about VAX in 1970, but goddamn if they aren't dense.
They tend to think that RAID is a magical "never need to backup ever" solution. I just love it when they call me up after their second RAID-5 drive failed, and I ask them when they last did a backup - and they go "uhhhh we don't need to backup we gots RAID".
Then I explain how RAID has nothing to do with archival or backups, etc, etc.. And I pull out the backup I made last time they had a major upgrade and tell them they have to reenter every parking ticket for the last 8 months, and they threaten and bitch how it's my fault and I tell them I'm not their admin, and if they really want to go to their bosses and fess up how incompetent they are they can go ahead.
Frankly, I'd love for some more competent clients. Of all of them, I can think of one who has any clue what to do with a computer.
But then sometimes they call with a problem that requires fixing on the machine. I'm not going to sit on the phone talking them through shit, I'm not going to email them scripts or code, etc. More than once I've had to tell them that if they don't give me access it wont get fixed.
If it's a problem for you, give them superuser rights when they need it, when they're done doing maintainance, take it away.
Have been lining their purses/trenchcoats/whatever with foil for years to avoid those little tag detectors at the door.
I was watching it on TV, you saw this lady open up her purse and could see the tinfoil.. She shoved a waffle iron or some such thing in there and out she went.
Chill out, it's just another 5 foot nothing internet "tough guy".
The dude's probably too scared to answer the door with the Girl Scouts come selling cookies.
What the fuck ever. You're splitting hairs.
If I crapflood you with my wimpy Comcast cablemodem, I'm still trying to deny service, the fact that I can't or don't is irrelevant.
Try defending yourself against an assault charge by saying "your Honor, I did push him on the ground and kick his ribs, but I was being careful not to kick him hard enough to injure him, so it's not an assault."
Comcast and all the other big ISPs pay for their upstream bandwidth, not downstream. It will cost them, and their customers. They'll be the ones doing the suing.
Drunks are more of a threat on the road than me throwing rocks at cars. So I should be free to do so, right?
I hope lycos gets sued out of existence when Comcast et al see how much all the extra upstream bandwidth is costing them. Of course, they'd just turn around and get the cash from me.
It doesn't have to be successful to be a DDoS attack.
It's like saying a rapist didn't commit rape because he didn't ejaculate.
BOYCOT LYCOS. This is wrong, more wrong than spam.