One - disks die. All your data on a HD has a half life of somekind. I *suspect* that CDRs will last longer (but I could be wrong)
Two - When you move up to 18 GB DVDs your server capacity is now 1.8 Tera bits, which does not suck.
Three - you have lots of data you need but not evry day. It's a waste of capacity to keep it spinning on a HD. You should job it off to the carousel and use your HD for frequent stuff.
I think the big, cheap, long-lasting near-line thing is going to catch on in the near future.
And the reason they're trying to break GPL is that they have nothing to lose.
They're betting the company that their damn expensive lawyers can beat the pro deim people they think the gpl community can throw up, and you know what? They may be right.
I got fingerprinted when I joined the Canadian Militia and it's put a total crimp on my potential career as a felon.
If everyone's DNA was on file it would be hell on crime. The technology is coming where they just run a vacuum all around a crime scene and the computer will match up everyone who shed a skin flake there.
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Damn this is great! The Mad Scientist's Club was one of the best books I read as a kid.
I bought it through school and never regretted it.
One of the things I didn't know about the author is that he was one of the American officers to negotiate with the North Koreans, who were, and are, about the most obnoxious, lying, vicious chicken-shit bastards ever to be brought to the table. THAT must have shaken his faith in humanity.
He ALSO, in The Big Kerplop, (which was on a USENET book group some months ago) answered a question we had debated fiercely among the jr NCOs when I was in the Canadian Militia, which is 'How best to get a section across an open road?'
Turns out the best way is all at once in a rush as Henry Mulligan points out, it only gives them one chance to spot you.
What I remember the most about the C64 was the fact you could do sprite animation in basic and it was easy. I got a little walking man up and running in 2 minutes flat. I've never seen animation implemented so easily before or since.
What I also remember is writing a great game with the excellent Koala pad, backing it up and losing both the original and the backup due to a flaw in the OS, later corrected. You had to put 3 lines of code at the start of each program I found out just AFTER this.
I also remember being literally homicidally angry for three days after this happened. I followed the rules and took precautions and STILL got burned. Today I'd just re-write the program, but THEN I wasn't mature enough.
I never wrote another game for the C64 though. It would be good if the sprite animation thing was re-implicated on a RELIABLE system.
There is NO CURE for rabies. It is ONE HUNDRED PERCENT FATAL when it kicks in. THAT'S why they give the vaccination shot to anyone who's even SUSPECTED of exposure to rabies.
The French guy developed the VACCINE. There is no cure.
What pissed ME off is that they don't do this pro-actively. I'm not vaccinated against rabies and neither are you, probably. Yet, in Canada, where Moose rule, they scatter vaccinated tidbits around the forest to keep it down among raccoons etc.
Apparently a freaking raccoon can get vaccinated and I can't. I hate that.
The reason OS software is good is because when people publish OS software they know thousands of experienced geeks will be perusing their code, and they don't want to look bad.
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Since we all know MS is now targeting Google as it's next sell-out-or-die target.
Lets hope they fail in this one, but you know what? Bill never quits.
My point is three things -
One - disks die. All your data on a HD has a half life of somekind. I *suspect* that CDRs will last longer (but I could be wrong)
Two - When you move up to 18 GB DVDs your server capacity is now 1.8 Tera bits, which does not suck.
Three - you have lots of data you need but not evry day. It's a waste of capacity to keep it spinning on a HD. You should job it off to the carousel and use your HD for frequent stuff.
I think the big, cheap, long-lasting near-line thing is going to catch on in the near future.
(Maybe tape robots are the way to go....)
We really need a cheap CD/DVD jukebox. I've seen them at Comdex etc for $25,000. The hell with that.
Someone get a carousel CD player at Target for $100 and wire it up to a computer. There's 70,200 megs nearline.
Anyone up for that?
As soon as his patents on his excellent e-cash protocols expire we can get down to business.
Corel was doomed from the moment they went into competition with Microsoft with WordPerfect.
And the reason they're trying to break GPL is that they have nothing to lose.
They're betting the company that their damn expensive lawyers can beat the pro deim people they think the gpl community can throw up, and you know what? They may be right.
Lets see if we can use them all...
Freenet is now being 'fixed' like a leaky faucet is fixed.
The RIAA wants the digitial audio/video market 'fixed' like a crooked horse race is fixed.
With the new Freenet the RIAA is about to be 'fixed' like your dog at the vet's is fixed.
I think that about covers it.
Listen, the police are not retards. When they take fingerprints at a public crime scene they already have this problem.
I'm not worried about that so much as the 22nd century Happy Fuhrer deciding to gas everyone with the newly discovered gene for depression....
(Like their not depressed enough as it is...)
I got fingerprinted when I joined the Canadian Militia and it's put a total crimp on my potential career as a felon.
If everyone's DNA was on file it would be hell on crime. The technology is coming where they just run a vacuum all around a crime scene and the computer will match up everyone who shed a skin flake there.
The Brits can take it back with a section of Royal Marines anytime they want.
They're just not motivated to, yet.
Stopgle.
Think how Larry Ellison feels!
So at least they can't breed and take over.
Damn this is great! The Mad Scientist's Club was one of the best books I read as a kid.
I bought it through school and never regretted it.
One of the things I didn't know about the author is that he was one of the American officers to negotiate with the North Koreans, who were, and are, about the most obnoxious, lying, vicious chicken-shit bastards ever to be brought to the table. THAT must have shaken his faith in humanity.
He ALSO, in The Big Kerplop, (which was on a USENET book group some months ago) answered a question we had debated fiercely among the jr NCOs when I was in the Canadian Militia, which is 'How best to get a section across an open road?'
Turns out the best way is all at once in a rush as Henry Mulligan points out, it only gives them one chance to spot you.
What I remember the most about the C64 was the fact you could do sprite animation in basic and it was easy. I got a little walking man up and running in 2 minutes flat. I've never seen animation implemented so easily before or since.
What I also remember is writing a great game with the excellent Koala pad, backing it up and losing both the original and the backup due to a flaw in the OS, later corrected. You had to put 3 lines of code at the start of each program I found out just AFTER this.
I also remember being literally homicidally angry for three days after this happened. I followed the rules and took precautions and STILL got burned. Today I'd just re-write the program, but THEN I wasn't mature enough.
I never wrote another game for the C64 though. It would be good if the sprite animation thing was re-implicated on a RELIABLE system.
Because it put an aircraft carrier in space, as opposed to Star Trek which put a battleship in space.
Give the thing 10 grand US and send it to Binion's for the World Poker Championship...
THEN we'll see how intelligent it is.
(Of course, the computer will probably show up late, hung over and broke, it being his first time in Vegas, after all....)
were going to get into the back-orifice type business for the money, instead of the litterally giggling children we have doing it now for laughs.
This ain't over yet - and what do we NOT know about?
No no NO no.
There is NO CURE for rabies. It is ONE HUNDRED PERCENT FATAL when it kicks in. THAT'S why they give the vaccination shot to anyone who's even SUSPECTED of exposure to rabies.
The French guy developed the VACCINE. There is no cure.
What pissed ME off is that they don't do this pro-actively. I'm not vaccinated against rabies and neither are you, probably. Yet, in Canada, where Moose rule, they scatter vaccinated tidbits around the forest to keep it down among raccoons etc.
Apparently a freaking raccoon can get vaccinated and I can't. I hate that.
The Jet 3d website was /.'d ....
by Heinlein was one of the first ScFi stories I ever read!
Glad to see it coming to fruition!
The reason OS software is good is because when people publish OS software they know thousands of experienced geeks will be perusing their code, and they don't want to look bad.
This is a powerful motiviation.
That's not a real cipher, just a secret writing with it's own font.
r ch ive.php?date=20030514
Here's some crypto on the net that you may find amusing (Note - this page is not work safe)
http://irresponsiblecybernetics.com/latexblue/a
I'd like to see it in another way than jumpy streaming.
Well?