I'm replying to my own message as it is 4 in the morning and I am all alone in this cold, cold world.
What the hell was I on?! lol...I was looking for some content describing a smart guy or something and bammo! Nothing! I never look over images because I know they will suck and I prefer to not be disappointed, so I had no idea wtf was going on.
Of course lack of sleep encourages said behaviour. Now I'm uncontrollably giggling like a school girl as my 3rd wind begins to kick in.
I think this story is a goof. The submitter of the story, Gushi, appears to be the geek in question. Visiting his site, and more specifically, his work page, you'll see:
I make myself a not bad living as a system administrator and general techie for hire when the need dictates. I know basic HTML (I truly believe it's become an artists medium, and haven't bothered to learn more than the basics). I can code if four or five of the popular languages, as well as being good enough with most of the common OSes you might find, including several shades of Windows, several flavors of unix (free and commercial), and the macOS. I love this line of work.
I use amazon's featured
The Page You Made for possible books. Or (inefficiently) pickup random books at the library and thumb through them (not good for recent books).
You might even be able to pick up some tips from that code generation book.
tongue-in-cheek...very funny:)
Doesn't sound like my rant is good for anything, eh? Actually, I believe/. to be an untapped resource for this kind of stuff...if only there was a better way...a better system...a better...I'll stop before you regurgitate your previous meal;)
[rant]
What the hell is up with these book reviews? I equate book reviews with SCO. All I see is a large body of reviewers making unsubstantiated claims to a book that tickled their fancy in a personal sort of way. They say basically, "this book tickled a nerve, but I will not say what I already know that led to that nerve being in place already." Of course it turns out then to be some haphazard therapy session where the reviewer begins to delve into themselves while completely ignoring their audience!!!
OK, I know/. may not be extremely high with the English majors, but how about we don't post such things submitted by such arrogant posters? (is it possible?) I don't claim myself as being a master of prose, but you won't see me trying to do something I knowingly can't.
One more point, the reviews most commonly given are little more then amazonian reviews. They rave about how great something is, realize that only constitutes of 2 senteces, and proceed with immediately filling in the blanks with worthless prose to create content.
And lastly, I don't receive book reviews on my main page because of their vapid nature. This means that/. is losing on my potential business. I would love to see them prosper, but they have to create something that is interesting. Slashdot is all about bringing the obscure to the masses, but I hardly see that through their book reviews. What is the freakin deal with OReilly's cookbooks? Are there any really, really bad OReilly books at all? We all have hordes of them or wish we had complete collections. We know what a cookbook is and they don't really differ that much between subject.
I am trying to prove a point here, that reputation and common sense through the title allow for little differentiation between your preconceived notions about the book and what the book is realistically about. I want books to come to the forefront from the dirges, such as the recent classic The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
(Feb 2000) by Brian Greene, or "been around the block more then once" Men of Mathematics (June 1937) by Eric Temple Bell. My point being, either book is known to those in the "know," but is rare to be known by budding scientists (high school students) and younger folk. I won't let this branch off into a rant in poor public schooling and child upbringing. I only want to see objective viewpoints of why the book may be helpful to me, not why it made you change your perspective on life! FSCK!
[/rant]
I distinctly remember reading about this on slashdot, oh, in fact, here it is.
I think what is paramount with new technology is the people's condition of willingness to try new things. Many hold the viewpoint, "why fix what isn't broken?" More specifically, why require people to adjust to something radically different for the sake of menial efficiency improvement?
That is the viewpoint from them. It should be noted that I would break and sprain my foot a few times for the sake of new technology. It is the technologies that can be built from those primitive first few steps that is the real important factor. I think sacrifice isn't as popular since the Incas and Mayans all dispersed those years ago.;)
I wasn't shocked; and, I understood it. I knew the world was this screwed up...
I'm not sure if this was intended to be a joke, but have solace in knowing I agree with the literal statement. Hell, it's a feat I can even describe myself coherently using this symbolism so many others out there have mastered.
It's also read predominently by people who use Windows - despite the open source slant.
Yeah, because they access from work. You drive a piece of shit pinto, but that don't mean just cause you use it your all about supporting the company who provided it to you. Managers may here about this, drop in, see the advertisements and think, hell if the nerds will have at it it must be good. They won't read the comments full of blatant MS bashing so they don't see the truth. Managers are paid to look at the bigger picture anyway, they can't waste time with all the small details. I have 10 boxen, and only an old Pentium 166 running win98 for some games that are way old school and cannot be wined and aren't worth slowing down a faster machine by emulating...and yes, that IS a legitimate full version of Windows. Back then it seemed worth it, after that investment I expected free upgrades for life...or at least $20 upgrades.
Berkeley, finds that most of those who earn a PhD are relatively satisfied with their career 10 to 13 years later.
That's probably because by then, most PhDs have accepted there is no escape from the drudgery they have imposed on themselves. And thus, the cycle continues...
+1 funny -1 setting up your own joke.
On a serious note, another study done by Stanford and RAND has concluded that there are too many PhDs produced in the US, and that graduate schools continue to admit students to satisfy their need for teaching and research assistants, not because there are jobs waiting for graduates. Unemployment among persons with PhDs is low but, it is asserted, the reason for low unemployment is because many persons with PhDs are underemployed or employed in jobs that do not use the research skills they acquired.
The Stanford-Rand study concluded that there are, in fields such as computer science, 50 percent too many PhDs being produced, 44 percent too many mechanical engineering PhDs, and 30 percent too many physics, chemistry, and mathematics PhDs. The report concluded that increased federal funding for science and engineering will only aggravate the situation by delaying the needed shrinking of PhD programs.
Then of course you have Philip Greenspun's site which provides interesting content in regards to PhDs, specifically the bit about No PhDs need apply.
...of course they are biased, but it makes for a good read in your situation. Basically they say that you will be better off in the long run. Maybe not more money, but happier.
Despite tales of English PhDs driving taxis and science PhDs endlessly bouncing from one postdoctoral position to another, a new survey by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, finds that most of those who earn a PhD are relatively satisfied with their career 10 to 13 years later.
However, why not the Moon? Habitants of Earth have been on the Moon how many times? and when was the last time? And without further missions to the moon we propose venturing to MARS!?! Sheesh... Let's try some practical work on the moon before we invest the ~.5 a year to get there for mere bragging rights. I commend the efforts of the Russians for their work, however what are there real intentions of such a mission? A political blow? Being a genuine United Statein, I could care less for patriotic bragging rights...I propose instead maybe doing something because we can learn so much more from small progressive changes rather then throwing ourselves into the tub headfirst and allowing the first crew to be guinea pigs.
I did read the article and it basically is working on the idea of maintaining a manned presence on Mars.
It will produce enough power for future Russian missions to the planet to be fully self-contained and will not need more than six engineers to maintain.
OTOH, this can pump some added fuel into the space race again. I digress (sorry) for what? To make another political leap and bound for bragging rights only to not go back again for another 50 years.
I propose the following.
learn to survive extreme levels of radiation (underground bases?)
build construction facilities on moon
serve moon as launching platform (1/6 (16%) the gravity)
THEN go to mars
...
build lunar whore motels
PROFIT!!
Of course there are manyother potential uses of moon.
I just checked and it looks like they pulled the sponser document as demonstrated at http://www.caldera.com/2003forum/sponsors.html. However, the google cache is out there. This is golden as you can see other sponserships (gone south?) and potential candidates you can contact.
As sites may be removedfrom google's cache, here's a listing of the companies that were listed
Silver and Bronze Sponsors
Microlite Corporation
Rasmussen Software Inc.
Equinox Systems
Century
Digi International
TeleVideo
Multi-Tech Systems
InoStor
TelSoft Solutions
Open Systems Lone Star Software
DTR Business Systems
Maxspeed Corporation
Tarantella
Basis International
Vultus Inc.
SDSI
fp Technologies
TAKgroup
NextAxiom
Now all those sites reference a site, but that has been taken down too...OR HAS IT!!! mwaHAHAHAHA!!
I wasn't trying to kick you. It was supposed to be more of a goof then anything. I was hoping people would realize that AMD was nothing more then a knockoff and quietly subverting the masses to the prowess of Intel. Their innovations are truly captivating whereas AMD gives best bang/buck. I realize it's all ia32 arch so I guess it was kind of stupid of me to post that. It is interesting AMD is offering a book on their new AMD Athlon XP 64.
In summary, it was quiet subversion and a chance to double the freebies!;)
BTW, a tip for you. You can order bound manuals for the Pentium I/II/III/4 directly from Intel's website AT NO COST. Apparently, this is a result of their deal with the justice department to resolve possible anti-trust charges. They take a month or two to get, but they are nice manuals with plenty of detail.
PUUHHleeasse. Why bother with Intel when AMD offers the same deal? Quit obscuring the truth!!! Surely any company who can deliver a superior,innovative,reliable product has something to hide!
I'm not buying it...
p.s. If you must belong to the dark side, follow along with that other sheep.
Sir Clive's C5 was "Driven by a combination of battery and pedal power, the C5 was declared a death trap by the Automobile Association because it was too small to be seen by lorry drivers."
If it isn't safe, it fails for practical use. The segway circumvents this as being reliable sturdy (heavy) US alteration it seems. Of course I'm merely a young chap[sic] residing in the US who has never heard of it before now.
Before I depart, I was wondering just how dangerous it was. Proceeding to google it, I found an interesting interview that appears to have taken place August 1986.
Of course relational interests are too much so I had to look into the Clive Computer. I came across some interesting information since my inception was the NES;-]
You should also check your hard disks, they could be bottling up. hdparm seems to be all too often overlooked. hdparm/dev/hda would let you see set parameters and hdparm -tT/dev/hda would run it through a test. Obvious warning...the command can be hazardous to data when setting your system to unsupported schemes.
from man:
hdparm provides a command line interface to various hard disk ioctls
supported by the stock Linux ATA/IDE device driver subsystem. Some
options may work correctly only with the latest kernels. For best
results, compile hdparm with the include files from the latest kernel
source code.
OPTIONS
When no flags are given, -acdgkmnru is assumed.
You mean Zachary T Welch? If we are talking about the same guy he did indeed follow through with his fork Zynot. It was discussed on slashdot on the 26th of June.
Slashdot Mirror
What the hell was I on?! lol...I was looking for some content describing a smart guy or something and bammo! Nothing! I never look over images because I know they will suck and I prefer to not be disappointed, so I had no idea wtf was going on.
Of course lack of sleep encourages said behaviour. Now I'm uncontrollably giggling like a school girl as my 3rd wind begins to kick in.
You might even be able to pick up some tips from that code generation book.
[rant]
What the hell is up with these book reviews? I equate book reviews with SCO. All I see is a large body of reviewers making unsubstantiated claims to a book that tickled their fancy in a personal sort of way. They say basically, "this book tickled a nerve, but I will not say what I already know that led to that nerve being in place already." Of course it turns out then to be some haphazard therapy session where the reviewer begins to delve into themselves while completely ignoring their audience!!!
OK, I know /. may not be extremely high with the English majors, but how about we don't post such things submitted by such arrogant posters? (is it possible?) I don't claim myself as being a master of prose, but you won't see me trying to do something I knowingly can't.
One more point, the reviews most commonly given are little more then amazonian reviews. They rave about how great something is, realize that only constitutes of 2 senteces, and proceed with immediately filling in the blanks with worthless prose to create content.
And lastly, I don't receive book reviews on my main page because of their vapid nature. This means that /. is losing on my potential business. I would love to see them prosper, but they have to create something that is interesting. Slashdot is all about bringing the obscure to the masses, but I hardly see that through their book reviews. What is the freakin deal with OReilly's cookbooks? Are there any really, really bad OReilly books at all? We all have hordes of them or wish we had complete collections. We know what a cookbook is and they don't really differ that much between subject.
I am trying to prove a point here, that reputation and common sense through the title allow for little differentiation between your preconceived notions about the book and what the book is realistically about. I want books to come to the forefront from the dirges, such as the recent classic The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (Feb 2000) by Brian Greene, or "been around the block more then once" Men of Mathematics (June 1937) by Eric Temple Bell. My point being, either book is known to those in the "know," but is rare to be known by budding scientists (high school students) and younger folk. I won't let this branch off into a rant in poor public schooling and child upbringing. I only want to see objective viewpoints of why the book may be helpful to me, not why it made you change your perspective on life! FSCK!
[/rant]
Thank you for being patient.
I think what is paramount with new technology is the people's condition of willingness to try new things. Many hold the viewpoint, "why fix what isn't broken?" More specifically, why require people to adjust to something radically different for the sake of menial efficiency improvement?
That is the viewpoint from them. It should be noted that I would break and sprain my foot a few times for the sake of new technology. It is the technologies that can be built from those primitive first few steps that is the real important factor. I think sacrifice isn't as popular since the Incas and Mayans all dispersed those years ago. ;)
I'm not sure if this was intended to be a joke, but have solace in knowing I agree with the literal statement. Hell, it's a feat I can even describe myself coherently using this symbolism so many others out there have mastered.
Yeah, because they access from work. You drive a piece of shit pinto, but that don't mean just cause you use it your all about supporting the company who provided it to you. Managers may here about this, drop in, see the advertisements and think, hell if the nerds will have at it it must be good. They won't read the comments full of blatant MS bashing so they don't see the truth. Managers are paid to look at the bigger picture anyway, they can't waste time with all the small details. I have 10 boxen, and only an old Pentium 166 running win98 for some games that are way old school and cannot be wined and aren't worth slowing down a faster machine by emulating...and yes, that IS a legitimate full version of Windows. Back then it seemed worth it, after that investment I expected free upgrades for life...or at least $20 upgrades.
+1 funny -1 setting up your own joke.
On a serious note, another study done by Stanford and RAND has concluded that there are too many PhDs produced in the US, and that graduate schools continue to admit students to satisfy their need for teaching and research assistants, not because there are jobs waiting for graduates. Unemployment among persons with PhDs is low but, it is asserted, the reason for low unemployment is because many persons with PhDs are underemployed or employed in jobs that do not use the research skills they acquired.
The Stanford-Rand study concluded that there are, in fields such as computer science, 50 percent too many PhDs being produced, 44 percent too many mechanical engineering PhDs, and 30 percent too many physics, chemistry, and mathematics PhDs. The report concluded that increased federal funding for science and engineering will only aggravate the situation by delaying the needed shrinking of PhD programs.
Then of course you have Philip Greenspun's site which provides interesting content in regards to PhDs, specifically the bit about No PhDs need apply.
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/99lega cy/9-2-1999.html
I did read the article and it basically is working on the idea of maintaining a manned presence on Mars.
OTOH, this can pump some added fuel into the space race again. I digress (sorry) for what? To make another political leap and bound for bragging rights only to not go back again for another 50 years.I propose the following.
- learn to survive extreme levels of radiation (underground bases?)
- build construction facilities on moon
- serve moon as launching platform (1/6 (16%) the gravity)
- THEN go to mars
- ...
- build lunar whore motels
- PROFIT!!
Of course there are many other potential uses of moon.As sites may be removed from google's cache, here's a listing of the companies that were listed
Premier Sponsor
HP
Gold Sponsor
CRN
Silver and Bronze Sponsors
Microlite Corporation
Rasmussen Software Inc.
Equinox Systems
Century
Digi International
TeleVideo
Multi-Tech Systems
InoStor
TelSoft Solutions
Open Systems
Lone Star Software
DTR Business Systems
Maxspeed Corporation
Tarantella
Basis International
Vultus Inc.
SDSI
fp Technologies
TAKgroup
NextAxiom
Now all those sites reference a site, but that has been taken down too...OR HAS IT!!! mwaHAHAHAHA!!
But, yeah, that page is much more informative. Also for those interested on what the diff sponsorships mean[pdf]...
I wasn't trying to kick you. It was supposed to be more of a goof then anything. I was hoping people would realize that AMD was nothing more then a knockoff and quietly subverting the masses to the prowess of Intel. Their innovations are truly captivating whereas AMD gives best bang/buck. I realize it's all ia32 arch so I guess it was kind of stupid of me to post that. It is interesting AMD is offering a book on their new AMD Athlon XP 64.
;)
In summary, it was quiet subversion and a chance to double the freebies!
PUUHHleeasse. Why bother with Intel when AMD offers the same deal? Quit obscuring the truth!!! Surely any company who can deliver a superior, innovative, reliable product has something to hide!
I'm not buying it...
p.s. If you must belong to the dark side, follow along with that other sheep.
If it isn't safe, it fails for practical use. The segway circumvents this as being reliable sturdy (heavy) US alteration it seems. Of course I'm merely a young chap[sic] residing in the US who has never heard of it before now.
Before I depart, I was wondering just how dangerous it was. Proceeding to google it, I found an interesting interview that appears to have taken place August 1986.
Of course relational interests are too much so I had to look into the Clive Computer. I came across some interesting information since my inception was the NES ;-]
from man:
from version: /sbin/hdparm -V
$
hdparm v5.2
tutorial @ http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2000/06/29 /hdparm.html
You mean Zachary T Welch? If we are talking about the same guy he did indeed follow through with his fork Zynot. It was discussed on slashdot on the 26th of June.