Mensa Babe:
One word: prior art. And one link: su(1).
Rip!ey:
Hey, Menstrual Babe, 'prior art' is two words.
azzy:
'prior art' is two words
Thank you very much indeed.
We might need people like you here in Mensa.
Smart, eloquent, individualistic, always meritoriously getting straight to the point
and saving the day just in time.
You are a tribute to human kind.
Second of all--you don't make your point sound any more valid (and you don't sound any more intelligent, for that matter) by calling me
"Menstrual Babe."
Besides, I find it offensive.
I hope your post will be moderated down, because I don't want people see how you embarass yourself calling me that way.
It could be summarized as:
"Myth #1: IA32 is good."
All in all, a great article.
Speaking about myself I might add that for me MMIX is the perfect processor
(at least the most perfect designed so far)
and I always look at every CPU architecture with the most important factor being how close it is to MMIX in certain aspects. I wonder what is the perfect processor for other people here on Slashdot. I bet for most of you it is Alpha, but I may be wrong.
First of all double-check the contract
with your lawyers.
And I don't mean just reading the preamble.
Concentrate especially on the parts and the exact phrasing about copyright holders.
You need a good copyright law and
contract lawyer. A good one may not be cheap but trust me, this is the most important single point of failure, so it pays off to hire an expert.
Second of all make sure no one of your current people can be fired no matter what.
From my experience this is the most common mistake made by small companies being bought by larger ones. They sign a great contract, everyone is great, until people start getting fired and being replaced by workers of the buying company. Be careful. Be very careful. Remember that they are bigger and you must take care about your own best interest. I wish you good luck.
I really hope you will not end up like most of the small companies I have done business with.
for every member of open source community. I do really hope there soon will be an equivalent site for members of free software movement, which I am sort of into.
Great news though.
Yes, but that is funny. I wonder if it might also be a forced grasp for karma. Do such things work (asks the karmaless n00b)?
Well, actually, to be honest, I am not quite sure what does "n00b" mean (in fact, I am not very fluent in all of this "leat" and "cool" lingo)
but I can assure you that no matter what some people might have told you about some of my posts
(especially about
this one in particular)
I, as a matter of fact,
do not really care much about this so called "Karma" thing.
Actually I'm interested in SCO too. Having had the misfortune being an admin for a SCO system for 2 months (before we switched to Linux) I wonder if anyone seriously would use SCO as a webserver. If s o I'd really like to hear about their experiences =P
Exactly. I personally haven't used SCO OS's too much, well not as a sysadmin at least, and I'd like to hear about people who have.
But I don't think we should talk about it, because apparently Slashdot administrators find it "Offtopic."
Other "news" more than 8 months old
The Atari 10-in-1 isn't exactly news - it's been released last year, and the games are changed in subtle ways - it's possible that the games have been re-coded or ported rather than emulated or running on identical hardware.
Please don't ruin the nostalgia for others, just becuase this game is not new enough for you. I for one am glad this news was posted on Slashdot, as I am sure most of Slashdot users are.
The game does not have to be new to be great. For example, I am playing The Day Of The Tenticle right now, which is probably the latest game I find well made. Every newer game I have seen was not even worth the bits it was made of.
If you don't like it, than you are free not to read it, but please don't ruin it for other people who might enjoy it.
I have been already sick of people with whom I tried to talk about computers only to discover after two hours of conversation that they in fact have no idea what SCSI means for gods' sake, let alone ZBR.
I do really hope there will be more introductory papers for beginners like this one, to which I could point people before another time I answer their question: "What computer should I buy?"
I think Dave Anderson once again has done a great job. Thanks!
And, of course, MS can take any criticism of its software and use that to better its software. When confronting an opponent, you don't tell him of all the weaknesses you see, do you?
An "opponent"?
Well, I don't actually know you,
you are apparently a CEO of Apple, I don't know,
if Microsoft is your "opponent." This, or you are one of those "leat" Linux cheerleaders I've been hearing so much about.
No, Microsoft is not an "opponent" for free software movement. In fact,
look at where Microsoft was back in 1971-1983.
It is not "coolness" (or "leatness" if you will) competition. I want to make it clear: If Microsoft suddenly patches every flaw, including the EULA, and releases a great free software project, I will tell everyone to use it. Period
public beta of steam?
oh, it's a game! When I first read the title I thought they were using a euphemism for "vaporware"...
That is a great pun indeed. However I would like to point out that anyone who is thinking about unbreakable copy protection, digital content delivery system sending binary digits (bits) which are impossible to copy,* or other perpetum mobile for that matter, might consider getting a clue and educating oneself.
Crypto-Gram and some books could be a good start.
Of course I am not talking to anyone from the Slashdot community, as I am sure everyone of us is perfectly aware of everything I am talking about. I am saying it in case someone from this steampowered dotcom is listening.
__________
*) also acceptable would be: a lossless compression of random data, a one-time-pad cryptography without key distribution problem or with reused keys or keys shorter than cleartext, immortality drug, perpetual motion machine,
prove of the existence of omnipotent superbeing,
strong artificial intelligence on Turing machine,
homeopathy, magic,
multilevel marketing that works,
et cetera ad infinitum, ad nonsensum... I think you get the point already.
Why are we doing MS' work for them? Pointing out these flaws only helps MS to fix them.
You don't understand.
Here on Slashdot we all understand
those issues and we all know that we shouldn't use any software written by Microsoft.
But that's not the point. Unfortunately Slashdot is not the whole world.
There are people who use this software and they would have no idea about those flaws if we didn't talk about them.
We cannot ignore people just because they are uneducated or incompetent, because they are the majority of our society.
Do you think Microsoft would tell those poor people that there are flaws in their software if we didn't find and try to exploit them?
I don't really think so.
If anything, we should be pointing out flaws in FS/OSS software so that we can make that better.
O course we do. Free software has just much less flaws than the proprietary counterpart and that is why you can see much more Slashdot articles about fatal flaws in Microsoft Office than any flaws in TeX. The same is true with ISS and thttpd, et cetera.
Now was it the drug use that caused those deaths or the use of the car?
I am just sick of such pointless discussions!
Drug has not caused the deaths.
Neither has car.
It was the unimaginably stupid person
who used the car after taking drugs who caused the death,
for gods' sake!
I have no idea why people refuse to
understand the most simple facts.
Specifically, I would like to point out that marijuana has never (as far as I know) caused a single fatality as a direct result of its consumption (Discounting lung-disease as a result of combustion, et cetera; combustion is not the only means of consumption.), while alcohol-poisoning deaths are extremely common by comparison.
Are you serious?
If you were right indeed why on Earth alcohol would be legal, while hemp illegal in the UN international-law-wise sense?
I mean, there were young men in the US being put to jail for time longer than their age just for possessing a "joint" for god's sake! I won't believe that it was purely anti-mexican propaganda. If hemp is not deadly then why all of the farms were destroyed? It was a great industry after all, even the first jeans was made from hemp.
I just don't see any other rational explanation.
What could possibly make hemp illegal
if not high deadlibility?
Maybe it was some conspiracy from cotton farmers or textiles producers? That's the most stupid thing I've ever heard.
No. The wolf was tamed. Tamed, not hamed. And since you are not the first person to ask about this very matter,
I must say that
if I had only known how many controversies this little story would have introduced, I would have more deeply considered never posting it in the first place.
you're just too clever, insta-sussed me out
and, tbh, I'm not in a discussion
You are right.
Calling the childish argument in the lines of:
-- Mensa is for dorks!
-- No, it is not!
-- Yes, it is!
-- No, it is not!
-- Yes, it is!
... ad nonsensum a "discussion" was indeed quite an intellectual exaggeration on my behalf,
which I believe I am obligated to
sincerely apologize for.
Thank you very much indeed for
pointing this mistake out.
Dear Dr. Skwid (if that is your real name),
please don't post anonymously. It is cowardly childish, to say the very least,
and will only make our discussion
not interesting any more to any one who might read it.
Thank you.
Alcohol has killed many, many more people than marijuana and its derivatives ever have.
I am terribly sorry, but your logic makes no sense whatsoever.
I have no idea who could possibly moderate it to Score:1.
I just don't know where to start from.
Arsenic kills much less people than pork meat. But does it mean it is less deadly? No.
It just means that fortunately much less people take arsenic than abuse eating pork fat.
We have to look at two factors here:
the raw deadlibility (D) and the average usage of LD50 dose (U). Number of deaths caused by the substance we are experimenting with (N) is notN=f(D) as you imply, but N=f(D,U) where f->DU/2 to be more precise.
And for that reason I will never agree that arsenic is less deadly than pork.
What's vulgar about "ass"? I thought that was a kind of pack animal.
Exactly. And assassin? Even more so.
Assassin is just a Muslim who,
under the influence of deadly hashish,
terrorized and insanely murdered
Christian Crusaders.
Of course I perfectly realised that "assassin"
means hashish addicted person in
Medieval Latin and Arabic, but
I couldn't believe they could have considered it vulgar at all. I can understand it is related to violence and drugs, but vulgar? No way.
Especially before the September.
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Thank you very much indeed. We might need people like you here in Mensa. Smart, eloquent, individualistic, always meritoriously getting straight to the point and saving the day just in time. You are a tribute to human kind.
First of all--well, duh...
Second of all--you don't make your point sound any more valid (and you don't sound any more intelligent, for that matter) by calling me "Menstrual Babe." Besides, I find it offensive. I hope your post will be moderated down, because I don't want people see how you embarass yourself calling me that way.
It could be summarized as: "Myth #1: IA32 is good." All in all, a great article. Speaking about myself I might add that for me MMIX is the perfect processor (at least the most perfect designed so far) and I always look at every CPU architecture with the most important factor being how close it is to MMIX in certain aspects. I wonder what is the perfect processor for other people here on Slashdot. I bet for most of you it is Alpha, but I may be wrong.
One word: prior art. And one link: su(1).
First of all double-check the contract with your lawyers. And I don't mean just reading the preamble. Concentrate especially on the parts and the exact phrasing about copyright holders. You need a good copyright law and contract lawyer. A good one may not be cheap but trust me, this is the most important single point of failure, so it pays off to hire an expert. Second of all make sure no one of your current people can be fired no matter what. From my experience this is the most common mistake made by small companies being bought by larger ones. They sign a great contract, everyone is great, until people start getting fired and being replaced by workers of the buying company. Be careful. Be very careful. Remember that they are bigger and you must take care about your own best interest. I wish you good luck. I really hope you will not end up like most of the small companies I have done business with.
for every member of open source community. I do really hope there soon will be an equivalent site for members of free software movement, which I am sort of into. Great news though.
Well, actually, to be honest, I am not quite sure what does "n00b" mean (in fact, I am not very fluent in all of this "leat" and "cool" lingo) but I can assure you that no matter what some people might have told you about some of my posts (especially about this one in particular) I, as a matter of fact, do not really care much about this so called "Karma" thing.
Exactly. I personally haven't used SCO OS's too much, well not as a sysadmin at least, and I'd like to hear about people who have. But I don't think we should talk about it, because apparently Slashdot administrators find it "Offtopic."
Please don't ruin the nostalgia for others, just becuase this game is not new enough for you. I for one am glad this news was posted on Slashdot, as I am sure most of Slashdot users are. The game does not have to be new to be great. For example, I am playing The Day Of The Tenticle right now, which is probably the latest game I find well made. Every newer game I have seen was not even worth the bits it was made of. If you don't like it, than you are free not to read it, but please don't ruin it for other people who might enjoy it.
...SCO?
I have been already sick of people with whom I tried to talk about computers only to discover after two hours of conversation that they in fact have no idea what SCSI means for gods' sake, let alone ZBR. I do really hope there will be more introductory papers for beginners like this one, to which I could point people before another time I answer their question: "What computer should I buy?" I think Dave Anderson once again has done a great job. Thanks!
An "opponent"? Well, I don't actually know you, you are apparently a CEO of Apple, I don't know, if Microsoft is your "opponent." This, or you are one of those "leat" Linux cheerleaders I've been hearing so much about. No, Microsoft is not an "opponent" for free software movement. In fact, look at where Microsoft was back in 1971-1983. It is not "coolness" (or "leatness" if you will) competition. I want to make it clear: If Microsoft suddenly patches every flaw, including the EULA, and releases a great free software project, I will tell everyone to use it. Period
That is a great pun indeed. However I would like to point out that anyone who is thinking about unbreakable copy protection, digital content delivery system sending binary digits (bits) which are impossible to copy,* or other perpetum mobile for that matter, might consider getting a clue and educating oneself. Crypto-Gram and some books could be a good start.
Of course I am not talking to anyone from the Slashdot community, as I am sure everyone of us is perfectly aware of everything I am talking about. I am saying it in case someone from this steampowered dotcom is listening.
__________
*) also acceptable would be: a lossless compression of random data, a one-time-pad cryptography without key distribution problem or with reused keys or keys shorter than cleartext, immortality drug, perpetual motion machine, prove of the existence of omnipotent superbeing, strong artificial intelligence on Turing machine, homeopathy, magic, multilevel marketing that works, et cetera ad infinitum, ad nonsensum... I think you get the point already.
You don't understand. Here on Slashdot we all understand those issues and we all know that we shouldn't use any software written by Microsoft. But that's not the point. Unfortunately Slashdot is not the whole world. There are people who use this software and they would have no idea about those flaws if we didn't talk about them. We cannot ignore people just because they are uneducated or incompetent, because they are the majority of our society. Do you think Microsoft would tell those poor people that there are flaws in their software if we didn't find and try to exploit them? I don't really think so.
O course we do. Free software has just much less flaws than the proprietary counterpart and that is why you can see much more Slashdot articles about fatal flaws in Microsoft Office than any flaws in TeX. The same is true with ISS and thttpd, et cetera.
Am I the only one who thought about "ldgp $gp, 0($27)" after reading about "assembly line"?
I am just sick of such pointless discussions! Drug has not caused the deaths. Neither has car. It was the unimaginably stupid person who used the car after taking drugs who caused the death, for gods' sake! I have no idea why people refuse to understand the most simple facts.
Are you serious? If you were right indeed why on Earth alcohol would be legal, while hemp illegal in the UN international-law-wise sense? I mean, there were young men in the US being put to jail for time longer than their age just for possessing a "joint" for god's sake! I won't believe that it was purely anti-mexican propaganda. If hemp is not deadly then why all of the farms were destroyed? It was a great industry after all, even the first jeans was made from hemp. I just don't see any other rational explanation. What could possibly make hemp illegal if not high deadlibility? Maybe it was some conspiracy from cotton farmers or textiles producers? That's the most stupid thing I've ever heard.
No. The wolf was tamed. Tamed, not hamed. And since you are not the first person to ask about this very matter, I must say that if I had only known how many controversies this little story would have introduced, I would have more deeply considered never posting it in the first place.
You are right. Calling the childish argument in the lines of:
... ad nonsensum
-- Mensa is for dorks!
-- No, it is not!
-- Yes, it is!
-- No, it is not!
-- Yes, it is!
a "discussion" was indeed quite an intellectual exaggeration on my behalf, which I believe I am obligated to sincerely apologize for. Thank you very much indeed for pointing this mistake out.
Then why on Earth are you cowardly hiding behind the facade of anonymity? Why indeed.
Please take no offense if I take the liberty to not comment this childish remark.
Dear Dr. Skwid (if that is your real name), please don't post anonymously. It is cowardly childish, to say the very least, and will only make our discussion not interesting any more to any one who might read it. Thank you.
I am terribly sorry, but your logic makes no sense whatsoever. I have no idea who could possibly moderate it to Score:1. I just don't know where to start from. Arsenic kills much less people than pork meat. But does it mean it is less deadly? No. It just means that fortunately much less people take arsenic than abuse eating pork fat. We have to look at two factors here: the raw deadlibility (D) and the average usage of LD50 dose (U). Number of deaths caused by the substance we are experimenting with (N) is not N=f(D) as you imply, but N=f(D,U) where f->DU/2 to be more precise. And for that reason I will never agree that arsenic is less deadly than pork.
How incredibly intelligent argument of yours... I have no questions.
Oh, I see, another "troll" feeling insecure while interacting with intelligent women. Enjoy my "freak" list then.
Exactly. And assassin? Even more so. Assassin is just a Muslim who, under the influence of deadly hashish, terrorized and insanely murdered Christian Crusaders. Of course I perfectly realised that "assassin" means hashish addicted person in Medieval Latin and Arabic, but I couldn't believe they could have considered it vulgar at all. I can understand it is related to violence and drugs, but vulgar? No way. Especially before the September.