Lemmee see if I understand this... Google brought out an IPO where a number of fat cats who are determined to buy low from Google and sell high to the rest of us bought up all the stock. Now the public price is plunging because Google users aren't stupid? Heh heh heh. Let 'em hold those shares until they get radiation sickness for all I care.
Try to get the SDK's for Nintendo GameCube. (Ha!) Try to get a G5 development system for XBox. (YeeHa!) Bill Gates may be debugging Basic bugs in his sleep, but some of those other Joltheads understand the buzz biz.
One bad Friday afternoon in 1986, I wouldn't sell a guy a null modem cable for use on the Kaypro II, because I was tired of trying to support people who expected it to work. He went ballistic, not surprisingly. Later, our hardware guy and I put the the Kaypro on the bench and put an oscilloscope on its modem UART -- and discovered that one of the inputs had an opposite polarity to its published spec! I think we were the only shop in North America possibly the world that could make the Kaypro's internal modem whine and snarl pretty without crashing.
Reinstalling is too complex. I keep a battery of little Firewire external hd's and a set of system image backups. Much quicker, and reformatting-restoring has the added benefit of defragging as a side effect.
This is an old, old issue. Kodak used to sell a long life CD-R, recognizing a shelf life difference of decades between "blue" dyes and "gold" dyes. Apparently, these older (and good) dyes have been retired in favor of "optimized" shelf lives. IMHO, the issue is not technology, but planned obsolescence. What good does it do Disney (e.g.) to sell a CD (or a DVD, for that matter) thats lasts longer than 2 or 3 years? As K (MiB) says, "We'll all have to buy the White Album again."
Military tested, motha approved. It's a heckuva endorsement, from which Open Source Software will never make a dime. If you don't like it, fork the kernel.
I agree,/usr,/opt, etc. is a helluva way to run a railroad. The OS should roll in, set up its big top and get out of the way of the actual circus - composed of primadonnas who won't be happy without their own vans and three feet of grass to tan on. Mac OS X does a fair job of this, but the underlying BSD Unix stuff is not safe to wander through without a guide. The fact that we're still using Unix twenty years after the Apple Lisa came out should tell us something about what sysops want. The fact that Bill Gates made billions with a cheesy product like Windows should tell us something about what users who pay for this stuff want. The rest is just friction.
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Could be Art! Calder-style wooden mobile made of exploded iBook parts endlessly running Red Pill.... Or stuffed into a mockup of Woz's original Apple I plywood case... Hmmmm....
iPod is like an expensive prototype for the $25 mass market version that comes out next year (eventually? whenever!). Long on frangibles, very, very short on promises delivered in spacetime continua.
The predominant fluid on Mars today is the thin electrodynamic particle storm that kicks up and covers the planet from pole to pole at intervals, not water. With the kind of electrical hoohah you'd get in those storms, you'd expect to melt sand in midair and precipate silicate sleet as... mysterious spherules. Martian dust in suspension probably behaves more like a plasma, in other words a "fourth state of matter."
What's a "good Star Wars movie"? Is it true that Princess Amidala takes refuge from Asinine Skywokker among the Ewoks? The only class act in the last movie was the diner wheelie waitress. That would make a great Saturday morning.
Open Source is funded by IBM and a few other large companies with a powerful vested interest in non-proprietary operating systems. The lack of interest in writing for scads of worthy projects at Sourceforge.net kinda demonstrates that. E.g., what Mac OS X version of OOo?
For that matter, what about the so-called alleged putative "Big Bang," huh? Doesn't "the beginning of Time" make your skin crawl? Keep tripping the Rift, phlogiston buffs!
Doesn't matter. The point is, with a modicum of exposure to ANY assembler code AT ALL, a good if fatuous MFC nerd can avoid looking like an idiot just because somebody's string is stored backwards in core. This actually happened. One of those famous, "Aha! What's THIS?" great moments in paranoia. I have felt for years that Microsoft inherited IBM's old penchant for buzzspeak, confusing solid code with dense handwaving -- can institutional Linux be far behind? Maybe the requirement should be to master Don Knuth's arbitrary-machine Mix language.
Is there a defense fund for Linus Torvalds? Is there a defense fund for Monty Widenius when SCO decides to get into the MySQL business? Is there in truth no sanity clause?
Why don't nine-foot seams of Ordovician or Silurian coal exist below Carboniferous strata then? Also, why does Pennsylvanian coal contain carbonized Lycopodium stumps a yard wide? There are brown coal seams from the Cretaceous, and pre-coal deposits from relatively Recent peat bogs. The four cuckoos this one deserves will outlast the funerals of Western Civ.
True, so far. The problem is, CD is not likely to be the archival medium of choice in 5 years, let alone 50. If I had to guess... Terabyte optical flakes the size of a wheatie? Quantum pools in gallium borate thinbooks? Whatever it is, they'll still be storing FORTRAN programs in it.
There are better ways to get Monte Carlo sequences. Here's my recipe:
Download 5000 images from alt.binaries.playboy newsgroup. Do NOT use penthouse or hustler images -- the backgrounds tend to be excrutiatingly uninteresting and non-random. Playboy's backgrounds, on the other hand, tend to include a high-quality, military grade of random textile folds, random foliage, random architectural decay, random reflections in windows, etc.
Archive the images using tar and gzip.
Encrypt the resulting archive using ccrypt, which employs the AES encryption standard (Rijndael).
The resulting file is effectively random, and should be several megabytes long.
What about implementing nutch as a distributed effort, with spiders patiently covering a thousandth of the web per install, and reporting to a consortium of active servers? You could cover the web in hours, not days, the way SETI covers its search space. Also, if each node agrees to mirror its logically closest neighbor's small dataset, the odds are a search launched from Tanzania could see results posted by the colloquium from anywhere on the 'net -- Thousand Oaks, Cedar Rapids, Mexico City, Oslo -- in seconds, regardless of who is on the web or when.
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Lemmee see if I understand this... Google brought out an IPO where a number of fat cats who are determined to buy low from Google and sell high to the rest of us bought up all the stock. Now the public price is plunging because Google users aren't stupid? Heh heh heh. Let 'em hold those shares until they get radiation sickness for all I care.
Try to get the SDK's for Nintendo GameCube. (Ha!) Try to get a G5 development system for XBox. (YeeHa!) Bill Gates may be debugging Basic bugs in his sleep, but some of those other Joltheads understand the buzz biz.
One bad Friday afternoon in 1986, I wouldn't sell a guy a null modem cable for use on the Kaypro II, because I was tired of trying to support people who expected it to work. He went ballistic, not surprisingly. Later, our hardware guy and I put the the Kaypro on the bench and put an oscilloscope on its modem UART -- and discovered that one of the inputs had an opposite polarity to its published spec! I think we were the only shop in North America possibly the world that could make the Kaypro's internal modem whine and snarl pretty without crashing.
Reinstalling is too complex. I keep a battery of little Firewire external hd's and a set of system image backups. Much quicker, and reformatting-restoring has the added benefit of defragging as a side effect.
Any idea what symbol Google plans to trade under? Is Google-IPO.com the best source for news?
Enjoy the stress while you can. When you finally crack under the strain, they'll drop you like a charred koala.
This is an old, old issue. Kodak used to sell a long life CD-R, recognizing a shelf life difference of decades between "blue" dyes and "gold" dyes. Apparently, these older (and good) dyes have been retired in favor of "optimized" shelf lives. IMHO, the issue is not technology, but planned obsolescence. What good does it do Disney (e.g.) to sell a CD (or a DVD, for that matter) thats lasts longer than 2 or 3 years? As K (MiB) says, "We'll all have to buy the White Album again."
Military tested, motha approved. It's a heckuva endorsement, from which Open Source Software will never make a dime. If you don't like it, fork the kernel.
I agree, /usr, /opt, etc. is a helluva way to run a railroad. The OS should roll in, set up its big top and get out of the way of the actual circus - composed of primadonnas who won't be happy without their own vans and three feet of grass to tan on. Mac OS X does a fair job of this, but the underlying BSD Unix stuff is not safe to wander through without a guide. The fact that we're still using Unix twenty years after the Apple Lisa came out should tell us something about what sysops want. The fact that Bill Gates made billions with a cheesy product like Windows should tell us something about what users who pay for this stuff want. The rest is just friction.
I vote yes.
Could be Art! Calder-style wooden mobile made of exploded iBook parts endlessly running Red Pill.... Or stuffed into a mockup of Woz's original Apple I plywood case... Hmmmm....
iPod is like an expensive prototype for the $25 mass market version that comes out next year (eventually? whenever!). Long on frangibles, very, very short on promises delivered in spacetime continua.
The predominant fluid on Mars today is the thin electrodynamic particle storm that kicks up and covers the planet from pole to pole at intervals, not water. With the kind of electrical hoohah you'd get in those storms, you'd expect to melt sand in midair and precipate silicate sleet as ... mysterious spherules. Martian dust in suspension probably behaves more like a plasma, in other words a "fourth state of matter."
What's a "good Star Wars movie"? Is it true that Princess Amidala takes refuge from Asinine Skywokker among the Ewoks? The only class act in the last movie was the diner wheelie waitress. That would make a great Saturday morning.
Open Source is funded by IBM and a few other large companies with a powerful vested interest in non-proprietary operating systems. The lack of interest in writing for scads of worthy projects at Sourceforge.net kinda demonstrates that. E.g., what Mac OS X version of OOo?
For that matter, what about the so-called alleged putative "Big Bang," huh? Doesn't "the beginning of Time" make your skin crawl? Keep tripping the Rift, phlogiston buffs!
Doesn't matter. The point is, with a modicum of exposure to ANY assembler code AT ALL, a good if fatuous MFC nerd can avoid looking like an idiot just because somebody's string is stored backwards in core. This actually happened. One of those famous, "Aha! What's THIS?" great moments in paranoia. I have felt for years that Microsoft inherited IBM's old penchant for buzzspeak, confusing solid code with dense handwaving -- can institutional Linux be far behind? Maybe the requirement should be to master Don Knuth's arbitrary-machine Mix language.
I'll bet it's not as cute as Linda Vester, though.
Is there a defense fund for Linus Torvalds? Is there a defense fund for Monty Widenius when SCO decides to get into the MySQL business? Is there in truth no sanity clause?
Why don't nine-foot seams of Ordovician or Silurian coal exist below Carboniferous strata then? Also, why does Pennsylvanian coal contain carbonized Lycopodium stumps a yard wide? There are brown coal seams from the Cretaceous, and pre-coal deposits from relatively Recent peat bogs. The four cuckoos this one deserves will outlast the funerals of Western Civ.
He is simply suggesting that software patent advocates be wrapped in rayon and faxed to Galileo before it pollutes Jupit... Oops! Too late.
- Embrace the standard
- Hijack the standard
- Crush the competition
Good ol Microsuck!True, so far. The problem is, CD is not likely to be the archival medium of choice in 5 years, let alone 50. If I had to guess... Terabyte optical flakes the size of a wheatie? Quantum pools in gallium borate thinbooks? Whatever it is, they'll still be storing FORTRAN programs in it.
- Download 5000 images from alt.binaries.playboy newsgroup. Do NOT use penthouse or hustler images -- the backgrounds tend to be excrutiatingly uninteresting and non-random. Playboy's backgrounds, on the other hand, tend to include a high-quality, military grade of random textile folds, random foliage, random architectural decay, random reflections in windows, etc.
- Archive the images using tar and gzip.
- Encrypt the resulting archive using ccrypt, which employs the AES encryption standard (Rijndael).
The resulting file is effectively random, and should be several megabytes long.What about implementing nutch as a distributed effort, with spiders patiently covering a thousandth of the web per install, and reporting to a consortium of active servers? You could cover the web in hours, not days, the way SETI covers its search space. Also, if each node agrees to mirror its logically closest neighbor's small dataset, the odds are a search launched from Tanzania could see results posted by the colloquium from anywhere on the 'net -- Thousand Oaks, Cedar Rapids, Mexico City, Oslo -- in seconds, regardless of who is on the web or when.