I am about as big a Linux bigot as anyone, but give me a break. Can't you appreciate innovative devices or new ideas for their own sake? There are some cool devices there and for whatever reason windows CE got the design win.
BTW, I'm pretty much pissed at MS for the fact that I'm 3 hours into a cleaning of my employer dictated development platform right now because of MSIE vulnerabilities. But at least I can look at another engineers work and appreciate the appeal of their product without belittling it just because they didn't use my preferred OS.
would it surprise you that I agree that the fox news people are assholes and that I'd love to see limbaugh go to jail for being a drug addict simply because he preached incarceratioon over treatment?
My use of that phrase was intentional. Most societies view people who commit suicide as victims. A person who straps on explosives and purposely kill others is a murderer, not a victim as the term "suicide bombing" might imply.
I have a pretty firm grasp on reality. Firm enough to recognize that the moderation of this threads ancestor and it's sibling trivialized a brutal act.
You are absolutely right. I am biased. I'm biased against people who intentionally kill civilians and are too much of a pussy to stay alive and accept the consequences of their actions. Blowing yourself up is not brave.
BTW, you might notice that my post didn't imply a particular group of cowards. There have been bombings in spain, russia, greece, and a dozen other places. Is there a prejudice on your part that led you to infer that I was defaming a particular group?
This has a beneficial effect of raising the income of a lower caste individual that her/his family can help expand the middle class, thereby increasing the overall demand for goods and services. The member of the higher caste may have difficulty getting into university, but if you already have wealth, you are not likely to lead a life equivalent to the lower caste.
In response to the snide sibling comment, affimative action in the U.S. is intended to promote minority students in professional fields that will return to their communities and bring those services. That is needed because most skilled white professionals refuse to open a practice in lower income or minority communities.
Except that it won't provide a tool because there are too many legitimte reasons to have email addresses and bulk mailing software. Impotent or unenforcable laws only dilute the power of law as a whole.
The only real solution is to make the use of bulk email costly. Until then, the only response to spam that is likely to help is vigilanteism. My solution: fewer laws, more beatings.
Shell scripting. Pfffft!
My first professional coding gig (right out of high school) was on an NCR machine using NEAT/3 punched onto cards.
We didn't have any fancy pants shell scripting, and we liked it.
Jackson is just an easy target for a gag right now because he's on the news.
I didn't read your previous discussion, but my belief is that we should basicly enforce a rule of law that says "hurt a child, go to your grave". I really don't see any parallel between that and drug issues or spam. With drugs, among the victims are the person who is so addicted that he puts himself and his family or others in harms way. That person can and should be treated. In the case of child pornograpy, you end up with a child that will likely never be whole and will grow up to be an adult that is never "recovered" from the experience. A child pornographer has effectively taken a young life and that act deserves an incredibly harsh punishment in my belief system. I truely believe that we should kill people who sexually abuse children. As I didn't read your previous article, I have to give you the benefit of the doubt. But I think to equate laws against child pornography with those of drugs and spam sort of trivializes the former. And no, I didn't have an uncle Ernie so no disclaimer is forthcoming.
I do agree with you that the spam laws being enacted are going to be about as effective at stopping spam as drug laws stop people from getting high.
What are you people doing that spam is such a big issue for you?
Signup for email lists that have archives online with member email addresses visible. Sign up for any account on any board and fail to check the "do not sell my name" box, or do check it, it does not matter. The problem is that once your email address gets on the list that gets sold and resold, you are hosed. I don't get alot of SPAM, but I get alot more than I did. And I know it's because of a couple of publicly available list archives that got scraped.
I have a feeling that the USA landing on the moon will, in a few decades, be compared to the Vikings landing in North America. Sure they landed first, but it wasn't them who established lasting colonies (or a lasting invasion, depending on your ancestry).
I'm glad Bush has announced a new initiative for the US to return to the moon. We've pretty much run out of places that we haven't already bombed on this planet.
Well, actually I did read the article. I don't agree that the Altair should be included in that list as it was scoped. The fact that Allen and Gates wrote code for the Altair means very little in the scheme of things. The Altair was just a platform to them and they would have chosen another if not that one.
While the Altair machine is very significant in the general scope of micro-computer history, it had almost no significant influence within the context of Personal Computers as they are identified today and within the context of the article. At the time, all those S100 machines were targeted at industrial control and business applications. There was nothing "Personal" about them and they never really made it into the home. I think that the Atari and Commadore machines are way more important simply because they were the machines that broke the barrier to get into the household.
Why Altair? Imsai 8080 was much more prevasive in the home with hobbiests than the Altair. The list in the article was supposed to be specific to computers that affected PCs. I knew lots of people with Commodores and Atari machines. But there were hardly any people really using Altairs or Imsai.
BTW, I still have my Imsai 8080 and also a fully functioning Polymophic 88 with a Northstar Horizon hard sectored controller.
It seems that this system would favor the party with the most resources, those who could afford to appeal indefinitely can until they win or run out of higher venues to seek.
Thats seems wierd to me. I can see the issue with TB. But I was only joking about needing an AIDS test to work Nevada, suggesting that you may have sought a VISA for work in Nevada's legalized prositution industry.
Do they require an AIDS test for a tourist VISA as well? It's not like AIDS is very easy to transmit in passing.
So anyone who works 60hrs a week is writing poor software? Perhaps they are just writing 50% more software of the same quality as you during your 40hr week.
You've not yet heard of the jobless economic recovery that is due in large part to productivity increases? Where do you think that came from?
That really means that salaried employees are working longer for the same amount of money. Given two engineers of equal ability and one must be fired, the guy working 60hrs/wk keeps his job and the guy working 40hrs/wk gets escorted to the door. Now that's what drives productivity increases!
What about guys at start-ups who are chasing funding? I work beyond 60 hours a week not because I'm a dumbass who can't solve problems but because I'm ambitious. And when we secure full funding, I'll work harder and probably more hours. And I'll hire people who do the same. And they won't be dumbasses either, just well rewarded.
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So you have forgotten porn drawn using ASCII characters on a line printer?
I am about as big a Linux bigot as anyone, but give me a break. Can't you appreciate innovative devices or new ideas for their own sake? There are some cool devices there and for whatever reason windows CE got the design win.
BTW, I'm pretty much pissed at MS for the fact that I'm 3 hours into a cleaning of my employer dictated development platform right now because of MSIE vulnerabilities. But at least I can look at another engineers work and appreciate the appeal of their product without belittling it just because they didn't use my preferred OS.
Are the maids hot?
Novell didn't obfuscate anything. Those are clearly derivative works.
would it surprise you that I agree that the fox news people are assholes and that I'd love to see limbaugh go to jail for being a drug addict simply because he preached incarceratioon over treatment?
My use of that phrase was intentional. Most societies view people who commit suicide as
victims. A person who straps on explosives and purposely kill others is a murderer, not a victim as the term "suicide bombing" might imply.
I have a pretty firm grasp on reality. Firm enough to recognize that the moderation of this threads ancestor and it's sibling trivialized a brutal act.
You are absolutely right. I am biased. I'm biased against people who intentionally kill civilians and are too much of a pussy to stay alive and accept the consequences of their actions. Blowing yourself up is not brave. BTW, you might notice that my post didn't imply a particular group of cowards. There have been bombings in spain, russia, greece, and a dozen other places. Is there a prejudice on your part that led you to infer that I was defaming a particular group?
This post's parent was actually funny but does not get modded up while it's sibling makes light of homicide bombings and gets modded funny.
That's just fucking wrong.
There are more of them now. All others must begin to adopt their language.
This has a beneficial effect of raising the income of a lower caste individual that her/his family can help expand the middle class, thereby increasing the overall demand for goods and services. The member of the higher caste may have difficulty getting into university, but if you already have wealth, you are not likely to lead a life equivalent to the lower caste.
In response to the snide sibling comment, affimative action in the U.S. is intended to promote minority students in professional fields that will return to their communities and bring those services. That is needed because most skilled white professionals refuse to open a practice in lower income or minority communities.
Except that it won't provide a tool because there are too many legitimte reasons to have email addresses and bulk mailing software. Impotent or unenforcable laws only dilute the power of law as a whole.
The only real solution is to make the use of bulk email costly. Until then, the only response to spam that is likely to help is vigilanteism. My solution: fewer laws, more beatings.
Hey thats a great idea. It's **really** hard to find weed since they passed prohibition. I almost never smell it at concerts.
Shell scripting. Pfffft! My first professional coding gig (right out of high school) was on an NCR machine using NEAT/3 punched onto cards. We didn't have any fancy pants shell scripting, and we liked it.
Jackson is just an easy target for a gag right now because he's on the news.
I didn't read your previous discussion, but my belief is that we should basicly enforce a rule of law that says "hurt a child, go to your grave". I really don't see any parallel between that and drug issues or spam. With drugs, among the victims are the person who is so addicted that he puts himself and his family or others in harms way. That person can and should be treated. In the case of child pornograpy, you end up with a child that will likely never be whole and will grow up to be an adult that is never "recovered" from the experience. A child pornographer has effectively taken a young life and that act deserves an incredibly harsh punishment in my belief system. I truely believe that we should kill people who sexually abuse children. As I didn't read your previous article, I have to give you the benefit of the doubt. But I think to equate laws against child pornography with those of drugs and spam sort of trivializes the former. And no, I didn't have an uncle Ernie so no disclaimer is forthcoming.
I do agree with you that the spam laws being enacted are going to be about as effective at stopping spam as drug laws stop people from getting high.
Perhaps child pornography is another example where prohibition is arguably the wrong approach.
Jackson, is that you?
And you trust a spammer?
Spammer is only part of it. I don't trust anyone with all that Jesus crap hanging on the walls.
The problem is, we SHOULD be lynching murderers and rapists. That would leave plenty of cells available for the spammers.
What are you people doing that spam is such a big issue for you?
Signup for email lists that have archives online with member email addresses visible. Sign up for any account on any board and fail to check the "do not sell my name" box, or do check it, it does not matter. The problem is that once your email address gets on the list that gets sold and resold, you are hosed. I don't get alot of SPAM, but I get alot more than I did. And I know it's because of a couple of publicly available list archives that got scraped.
I have a feeling that the USA landing on the moon will, in a few decades, be compared to the Vikings landing in North America. Sure they landed first, but it wasn't them who established lasting colonies (or a lasting invasion, depending on your ancestry).
I'm glad Bush has announced a new initiative for the US to return to the moon. We've pretty much run out of places that we haven't already bombed on this planet.
Well, actually I did read the article. I don't agree that the Altair should be included in that list as it was scoped. The fact that Allen and Gates wrote code for the Altair means very little in the scheme of things. The Altair was just a platform to them and they would have chosen another if not that one.
While the Altair machine is very significant in the general scope of micro-computer history, it had almost no significant influence within the context of Personal Computers as they are identified today and within the context of the article. At the time, all those S100 machines were targeted at industrial control and business applications. There was nothing "Personal" about them and they never really made it into the home. I think that the Atari and Commadore machines are way more important simply because they were the machines that broke the barrier to get into the household.
Why Altair? Imsai 8080 was much more prevasive in the home with hobbiests than the Altair. The list in the article was supposed to be specific to computers that affected PCs. I knew lots of people with Commodores and Atari machines. But there were hardly any people really using Altairs or Imsai.
BTW, I still have my Imsai 8080 and also a fully functioning Polymophic 88 with a Northstar Horizon hard sectored controller.
It seems that this system would favor the party with the most resources, those who could afford to appeal indefinitely can until they win or run out of higher venues to seek.
No. The West has evolved beyond the need for any excuses to kill people. We just do it for the money.
Thats seems wierd to me. I can see the issue with TB. But I was only joking about needing an AIDS test to work Nevada, suggesting that you may have sought a VISA for work in Nevada's legalized prositution industry.
Do they require an AIDS test for a tourist VISA as well? It's not like AIDS is very easy to transmit in passing.
a very gruelling year of interviews, forms, fees, AIDS tests....
Were you applying for work in Nevada?
So anyone who works 60hrs a week is writing poor software? Perhaps they are just writing 50% more software of the same quality as you during your 40hr week.
You've not yet heard of the jobless economic recovery that is due in large part to productivity increases? Where do you think that came from?
That really means that salaried employees are working longer for the same amount of money. Given two engineers of equal ability and one must be fired, the guy working 60hrs/wk keeps his job and the guy working 40hrs/wk gets escorted to the door. Now that's what drives productivity increases!
What about guys at start-ups who are chasing funding? I work beyond 60 hours a week not because I'm a dumbass who can't solve problems but because I'm ambitious. And when we secure full funding, I'll work harder and probably more hours. And I'll hire people who do the same. And they won't be dumbasses either, just well rewarded.