That's what I was going to post. And yes, AFAICT it *is* feasible - just convert the binary to unary (for example, 1 = ' ', 10 = ' ', 11 = ' ', 100 = ' ') and there you have it, a whitespace programming language. Useful if you use \0 as whitespace and your filesystem supports sparse files;).
Posted as code since/. squeezes whitespace in Plain Old Text mode...
One other thing - I am pretty sure I read somewhere that the Receiver runs Linux. Did anyone else see this too? The only other thing about it I didn't really like was the lack of a reset button. There is a power button, but it didn't reset the device when I pushed it, so I had to unplug it once.
Why in the world would anyone want to reboot it if it runs Linux;) ?
Home users may (I stress, may... I am always surprised at how many individuals and home user's are sick of Microsoft yanking their chains, so there is no guarantee Palladium and their so-called "trusted" computing is going to fly there, either) be willing to put up with crippled products in order to cling to the familiar (Microsoft Windows), but businesses aren't going to be at all inclined to do so. Sun (and Apple) could, if they play their cards right, absolutely wipe the floor with the encumbered hardware the Wintel platform is poised to begin foisting upon us.
Sorry, not quite. Remember how Palladium's designed. There will be two sorts of platforms, crippled and non-crippled ones; The crippled ones will be the ones that do not have Palladium. After all, if a thing isn't secured, Palladium won't say a thing, and if a thing is secured, those with Palladium might or might not be able to access it, but those without will definitely not be able to access it. Thus, in the short run, it will seem that Palladium grants people more freedom. It's a very devious plan.
Why the heck is this story so weird. Is it Mozilla? Every other 4th paragraph seems to be duplicated. It made reading a nightmare.
Happened to me, too. But it wasn't a Mozilla problem - just check the source, it's all there quite clearly. Opera shows it just like Mozilla does. Dunno how inebriated the guy who laid this out was, but probably... very.
I guess it was inevitable. Be happy for being the first one to post that, fredrikj, because the joke of the reliability of this laptop being compromised by it running Windows will be reiterated here approximately... hm... * glances at the clock * 1716 times.
Oh, and to the mod who just said that the parent was overrated... it started at 1 and wasn't moderated yet. Redundant, perhaps, troll, yes, but it's not really overrated yet:p.
Because we're everywhere. You can't escape the horde of the Gentoo users. Just give up and in - one day you, too, shall love Gentoo... why not start today?
-revision-
We are Locutus of Gentoo. Binary distribution is futile. Your sources will be assimilated.
-revision-
In A.D. 2003 Distro-War was beginning. Red Hat: What happen ? Mandrake: Somebody set up us the shiznit Debian: We get signal Red Hat: What ! Debian: Main irssi screen turn on Red Hat: It's You !! Gentoo: How are you gentlemen !! Gentoo: All your sources are belong to Portage Gentoo: You are on the way to irrelevancy Red Hat: What you say !! Gentoo: You have no chance to survive make your time Gentoo: HA HA HA HA.... Red Hat: Take off every 'rpm' Red Hat: You know what you doing Red Hat: mv 'rpm' Red Hat: For great justice
That would start playing almost immediately and not leave any files laying around. On my computer, the product of that is only white noise and not too soothing... however, your HD's swap space often holds interesting secrets, and listening to them is only one dd away (well, one su or sudo, too).
Linux does certainly support hot swap PCI, I don't know since when, though. Compaq PCI hotplug has been in since 2.4.16. Also, a press release from Pigeon Point Systems says that "any device drivers that implement Linux 2.4's new PCI device driver model are inherently hot swap capable".
Not only MS, but also LBT endorses using x86-64 instead of IA-64. I'm in the "Kill x86 and bring back Alpha!" boat myself, and am only waiting for the day when open-source has taken over the world and hardware companies can actually design some senseful new ISA's instead of just building more and more kluges on top of x86. Ah well. Wishful thinking.
However, I subvert your development team from under you. Good luck trying to release a new version without any developers!
(truly, few people if any have a sense of humour nowadays)
The idea of someone who's been doing programming as his main job for a few years suddenly going for a male stripper's job is rather... disturbing. But I guess there are some very weird fetishists in this world...;)
Actually it will be more like this: One day a bright college kid is going to come up with a completely different style of computer language and interface and push that idea for 20 years, slowly getting people on his side and fighting against a huge amount of resistance. His idea will be called "only a fad" by most everyone (except, of course, if he's an open-sourcer, in which case he will be loved at Slashdot), but eventually it will be taken up by everyone - although at that part it will be a given to everyone anyway. Then, 50 years later, the young of the future will collectively laugh at us for not figuring out that idea right at the beginning.
Well, that, or it will be like what you described. Both ways are known to have been walked in history.
Moreover, as far as I know most of us, when teaching our relatives to use e-mail (hey, the revolution has to propagate somehow) we also teach them how to quickly spot and delete spam. That is, we teach them to think "Joe Computer Professional said it would be better for all of us if I just ignored spam". But if filters are installed everywhere, spam will become a different beast - spammers will write message that get through filters and are thus inevitably also harder for himans to distinguish as spam. Because of this more people will read it and also more people will buy things from spammers. Ergo, spam will become more profitable because filters will force spammers to be less stupid.
And I know that this is not an impossible prediction. Thanks to a little care with my e-mail address (and I mean a little - I don't even have a scratch account for use at the less reputable parts of the 'net I visit), the fact that my main account is not with a big provider and probably most importantly SpamAssassin, I receive very little spam - less than one messsage a month. But I once got a rather long message that I had to read through twice and visit the URLs given in the message because I couldn't figure out whether it was a legitimate mail, bogus randomness by an insane businessman or true spam. I wouldn't want to have more of those taking my time.
You know, I was going to comment on this with something like "Well, it's Linux and the software in it is the same we all use - Mozilla, xfree86, KDE, et friends, and its maker doesn't do tech support. What else would it be but free?"... Then I remembered that a better comment would be "Holy mother of God and her bastard son! You can get two gigabytes of really good, up-to-date, reliable software for free, with no strings attached, and it all works when you just pop in a CD! FOSS is something that doesn't need to be believed in, it's already proven itself..."
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That's what I was going to post. And yes, AFAICT it *is* feasible - just convert the binary to unary (for example, 1 = ' ', 10 = ' ', 11 = ' ', 100 = ' ') and there you have it, a whitespace programming language. Useful if you use \0 as whitespace and your filesystem supports sparse files ;).
/. squeezes whitespace in Plain Old Text mode...
Posted as code since
Why in the world would anyone want to reboot it if it runs Linux ;) ?
Sorry, not quite. Remember how Palladium's designed. There will be two sorts of platforms, crippled and non-crippled ones; The crippled ones will be the ones that do not have Palladium. After all, if a thing isn't secured, Palladium won't say a thing, and if a thing is secured, those with Palladium might or might not be able to access it, but those without will definitely not be able to access it. Thus, in the short run, it will seem that Palladium grants people more freedom. It's a very devious plan.
I guess it was inevitable. Be happy for being the first one to post that, fredrikj, because the joke of the reliability of this laptop being compromised by it running Windows will be reiterated here approximately... hm... * glances at the clock * 1716 times.
:p.
Oh, and to the mod who just said that the parent was overrated... it started at 1 and wasn't moderated yet. Redundant, perhaps, troll, yes, but it's not really overrated yet
Because we're everywhere. You can't escape the horde of the Gentoo users. Just give up and in - one day you, too, shall love Gentoo... why not start today?
....
-revision-
We are Locutus of Gentoo. Binary distribution is futile. Your sources will be assimilated.
-revision-
In A.D. 2003
Distro-War was beginning.
Red Hat: What happen ?
Mandrake: Somebody set up us the shiznit
Debian: We get signal
Red Hat: What !
Debian: Main irssi screen turn on
Red Hat: It's You !!
Gentoo: How are you gentlemen !!
Gentoo: All your sources are belong to Portage
Gentoo: You are on the way to irrelevancy
Red Hat: What you say !!
Gentoo: You have no chance to survive make your time
Gentoo: HA HA HA HA
Red Hat: Take off every 'rpm'
Red Hat: You know what you doing
Red Hat: mv 'rpm'
Red Hat: For great justice
BadRAM patch.
klasikahl, wouldn't it be much simpler to just
/usr/src/linux/* > /dev/dsp
tar -cvj
That would start playing almost immediately and not leave any files laying around. On my computer, the product of that is only white noise and not too soothing... however, your HD's swap space often holds interesting secrets, and listening to them is only one dd away (well, one su or sudo, too).
Well, this far they haven't shown signs of surrendering, which, I guess, is rather strange for the French...
At least we got a new link.
Linux does certainly support hot swap PCI, I don't know since when, though. Compaq PCI hotplug has been in since 2.4.16. Also, a press release from Pigeon Point Systems says that "any device drivers that implement Linux 2.4's new PCI device driver model are inherently hot swap capable".
You can fuck all you want in my porn, though.
WTF is Enterprise-Class Print Management supposed to mean? Is it a big ship that moves print jobs around in a network?
... but we're already planning to fight back! :P
Not only MS, but also LBT endorses using x86-64 instead of IA-64. I'm in the "Kill x86 and bring back Alpha!" boat myself, and am only waiting for the day when open-source has taken over the world and hardware companies can actually design some senseful new ISA's instead of just building more and more kluges on top of x86. Ah well. Wishful thinking.
However, I subvert your development team from under you. Good luck trying to release a new version without any developers! (truly, few people if any have a sense of humour nowadays)
You needed a digest?
0 029253&mode=nested&tid=99"|md5sum6 2e870c1b9045a164b -
ari@creideiki bin $ wget -q -O - "http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/10/
d82f1910bf6d01
The idea of someone who's been doing programming as his main job for a few years suddenly going for a male stripper's job is rather... disturbing. But I guess there are some very weird fetishists in this world... ;)
Yeah, the biggest aid to programmers today... ... Especially if they want to watch pr0n or read /. when they should be coding :).
Well, that, or it will be like what you described. Both ways are known to have been walked in history.
All the +5 funny responses about digging up +5 insightful and +5 informative responses that have already been posted on repeat stories!
How ignorant these mehums be...
* shouts *
Heute die Welt, Morgens das Sonnensystem!
Moreover, as far as I know most of us, when teaching our relatives to use e-mail (hey, the revolution has to propagate somehow) we also teach them how to quickly spot and delete spam. That is, we teach them to think "Joe Computer Professional said it would be better for all of us if I just ignored spam". But if filters are installed everywhere, spam will become a different beast - spammers will write message that get through filters and are thus inevitably also harder for himans to distinguish as spam. Because of this more people will read it and also more people will buy things from spammers. Ergo, spam will become more profitable because filters will force spammers to be less stupid.
And I know that this is not an impossible prediction. Thanks to a little care with my e-mail address (and I mean a little - I don't even have a scratch account for use at the less reputable parts of the 'net I visit), the fact that my main account is not with a big provider and probably most importantly SpamAssassin, I receive very little spam - less than one messsage a month. But I once got a rather long message that I had to read through twice and visit the URLs given in the message because I couldn't figure out whether it was a legitimate mail, bogus randomness by an insane businessman or true spam. I wouldn't want to have more of those taking my time.
You know, I was going to comment on this with something like "Well, it's Linux and the software in it is the same we all use - Mozilla, xfree86, KDE, et friends, and its maker doesn't do tech support. What else would it be but free?"... Then I remembered that a better comment would be "Holy mother of God and her bastard son! You can get two gigabytes of really good, up-to-date, reliable software for free, with no strings attached, and it all works when you just pop in a CD! FOSS is something that doesn't need to be believed in, it's already proven itself..."