Speech, music, pictures, video, and even smells can be represented digitally.
Is <schwing!>Kathy Ireland</schwing!> not attractive because you only have a digital representation of her and not a Real Live Clone?
Is 'I love you' devoid of meaning if said over a telephone?
Is 'Fuck you, I'm going to kill your dog' not menacing because you got it via ICQ?
No. I must say his post was gay. The poster was as well, but only in the sense that the 'gay' as used in the phrase '<something> is gay' implies nothing about sexual orientation and everything about the user's lack of intelligence.
Exactly!! I have 'lost' to many a 'Vette because the owner was too dumb to know when to stop the game. Owner looks at the speedo, thinks "I've still got 20 to go" and ignores the fact he's already doing 120, and that there is a turn 1/4 mile up, and that there are cars approaching too rapidly to continue the game for any longer.
The TT's are even more funny though. Car is unstable. They've recalled it three times for a mixture of spoiler, brake and front end tweaks to keep it on the road. I've driven the 'stock' model. At 70, they're great. At eighty they act like the road is wet, and at 100 you might as well be on ice. I wasn't willing to go any faster in it.
Exactly!! I have 'lost' to many a 'Vette because the owner was too dumb to know when to stop the game. Owner looks at the speedo, thinks "I've still got 20 to go" and ignores the fact he's already doing 120, and that there is a turn 1/4 mile up, and that there are cars approaching too rapidly to continue the game for any longer.
The TT's are even more funny though. Car is unstable. They've recalled it three times for a mixture of spoiler, brake and front end tweaks to keep it on the road. I've driven the 'stock' model. At 70, they're great. At eighty they act like the road is wet, and at 100 you might as well be on ice. I wasn't willing to go any faster in it.
Actually, I usually don't move. Hurst independant brake lockers, with momentary safety toggles bolted to the shifter. There's a small bit of intentional air in the front circuit, so I can optionally grind the car forward. The only one in danger is the fellow behind me, and even then only from the smoke off the tires. Ruining a pair of cheap Thompson and intentionally smacking into some geriatric in a LeSabre are very different things!
Oh, yeah. My last ticket was in March of 1997. The exhaust on my F-150 was a little loud.
I can see that. When it comes out next year, L&H will change their name to H And L, so that they can call it the 2001 H.A.L. Or, if they chose a more subtle prank, they'll call it the L and H model 1002.
I've got the rusted out Camaro thing. People look at the rust, the dents, and the longhair behind the wheel. Then when you wipe them up, they quit laughing. 6.3 with a driven top speed of 165. A few have taken me off the line, and even to 60, but they NEVER lose me.:) (I love the new TT. It keeps pace to 100, at which time the smart drivers stop accelerating and I stroll by them waving. The dumb ones don't and I have to let off before they kill themselves.)
Does not blare horn 2 seconds after light turns green
I usually wait to the count of one and start turning the tires after that. If seeing a huge chunk of Detroit steel launching itself at your back end, coiled in the dense fumes of burning rubber and redline screaming at the tune of 6000 RPM doesn't get you off the line, you deserve to be roadkill.
If IBM wants it, they can have it! Just gimme a ring when the commercial is going to be shown in my market.. And a check for one dollar, to hang on the office wall next to my autographed Elton John photo.
Taxpayer money?? jools, you should lay off the crack man! Or start paying attention!! IBM did their very own port to 370/390!!! Uncle Sam had less to do with it than the janitor at Parsippany!
True, they're not going to replace 390 with Linux anytime soon. It's a market expansion thing. Buy a single IBM or 5,000 PC's.. IBM sells more iron, their customers save money. IBM keeps the mainframe market healthy.
That would actually make a good sales slogan for Big Blue. Pan the camera over a virtual jungle of CAT5 and RS232 strewn on raised flooring, and up onto a cluttered wall of dilapidated 2U servers. One unit is smoking and sparking foreground right. Announcer: 'Would you rather have 10,000 chickens'. Screen goes black as the camera zooms out of the black background of the IBM logo on a shiny new mainframe. Announcer: 'Or one bull?' Wrap it up with the standard IBM music and blue bar quick scrolling to stop. 'IBM E-Business: A bull in your corner.'
You run a virtual network inside of the machine. You can run thousands of VMs but you're still stuck with only being able to cram five to ten Ethernet features into said box. So you use the gigabit-speed virtual network inside of the box and route em all through the VM's that have been assigned actual Ethernet. Voila! An entire Class B in a single box!
Visit here for a starting point. Remember, any application that will run on Win 3.11 sans 32S will run on Warp 3. You'll probably be limited to an older version of Nutscrape, but one is available. Some applications of note: Gimp, Opera, mpg123, MAME, Doom..
I highly doubt the Patent Office though this upp 'all by themselves'. Some pissed off Senator on the appropriate subcommittee called them.
Senator: What the hell have you boys been doing down there?
USPTO: Ever since the sheep died, it's boring. Steve thought up this great idea for patent approval, though. See, we get this big Wheel of Fortune, and we spin it to see what we do about one of 'em. We're even going to have fire on one of the.....
Senator: Fine, fine, whatever makes you happy. Listen, I just got off the phone with Jeff Bezos. Ya know, that internet book guy. He seemed to be pretty pissed about y'all!
USPTO: So? It may have squeaked through on the line, but we gave him his patent! Think we ought to 'review' it?
Senator: Naw. Normally I couldn't give two shits what you boys are doing, hell, I know y'all play darts for dibs on the funny ones, but if you don't make a token gesture of reform now, Bezos is going to sic the press on me, the subcommittee, and you. I'll be forced to cut your budget again. I'll send over some suggestions for you to look at before you take the morning trip to the bar.
USPTO: Yes sir! One ineffective PR gesture coming up! So, when are you going to bring over the new sheep?
Moral of the story: When introducing yourself, mentioning that you are Time's Man of the Year helps your credibility. Mentioning that you have more money than God helps too.
Florida the eleventh province? You don't want it. Canada's health care costs are burdensome already, and I don't think the infusion of twelve million geriatrics will help it any.
I will give you that Detroit can be, ehrm, rough (I'm a 'local') but it is hardly full of gun-wielding drug-fiend rapists! Really, the only place that fits your description is the district!! I think our perpensity for calling you the 51st comes from the fact that of any country on earth, you are the most like us. As much as you like to pretend you're not, it's the truth. Example, redneck bars. I can walk into any redneck bar in Canada and, with the exception of 'Budweiser' signs being replaced by 'Labatts', and recieving $3.25 in change from a $4 drink I bought with a five, I would find it indistinguishable. The people are pretty homogeneous. You have the sports fans talking shit about how the Wings/Clippers/Leafs bite, the barflies, the clumps of hourly bitching about the boss, and the bartender that sneers whan you want Guinness or Stoli neat.
Having lived in/renovated/torn up several old houses/hotels/barns, I can gleefully tell you that pocket change is always the most exciting find. (Pulling a jar of Flying Eagles out of a plaster wall is bliss!) It may only be three or four bucks now, but to whoever finds it in near-mint 100 years down the road it won't be.
Another good one is 'dated' print. Technical manuals and newspapers. Imagine some tech-head in 2075 finding a book on Unix, or some gear-head flipping through the Detroit Free Press and seeing the 'new 2000' models his father was too young to drive.
If you wanted to put music in there, I'd opt for LP. Speaking as someone with a RCA Victorola in his living room, I don't think the ability to play them will die off anytime soon. It can be reduced to just a pencil, a straightpin, and a rolled up bit of paper, after all. You might consider a set of directions for playing it that way. Or include the items to do it with.
Big Blue made both M and F series (F had a touchpoint) with the correct caps/ctrl/tab/alt configuration. I'm typing on one now. They did manage to put SysReq in an odd place, though.(It's alt-F16, instead of alt-PS). They were used on REAL 52xx terminals.
This is the Age of Microsoft. Hardware vendors HAVE to write their own OS drivers. Ibm could have easily added a routine to their M92G ActiveKeyboard Driver to 'accidentally' redirect me to their site every 100 presses of the 'Internet' button.
What's to say that the PROM/KBC imbedded in their keyboard is actually returning in-range scan codes for those 'AOL keys'?? It would be a plus for them if they could do it otherwise!!
Our Canadian provincials and global regional offices are connected, via dialup, to an ISP in lieu of an actual connection to the corporate intranet. Most of them have Cyber Patrol installed after a porno hungry secretary in Hong Kong got in trouble with the local authorities. During one visit to the Urbana, Illinois office, the software denied me access to 'www.freshmeat.net', 'www.rootshell.com', and to my own website at www.crosswinds.net. Most of Purdue University (including the job-relevant pages about PAPERS/AFAPI, a clustering API) was unavailable to me, as were most of the University of Michigan websites on a similar subject.
But these are just the unfair blocks. It failed to block 'karups.com' a porn site, as well as 'fuckfest.com', whose intent is obvious. I was consistantly able to access porno!!!
I confirmed (with the admin pass I used to finally make it through to FM) that the software was indeed set to 'sex'. Why the hell is this product still on the market? That was six months ago, and I bet I could still make it through to 'hard-core' porn in thirty seconds! So my review is this: It doesn't fucking work. Their blocked list is and has been wrong, C'mon! Freshmeat is going to corrupt me? What, I'm going to feel the power of the source? Is AFAPI really the anal fucking API? The U of M is going to turn me into a boozing sex fiend? I'm going to corrupt myself? CP is just shit. (My employer has realized this; We're switching the regionals over to mandatory VPN, travelling through the 'good' blacklist of the local firewall.)
You can cluster AMD right now! One processor per node, but then again the Intel solutions don't ramp above two/node.
Ah yes, the practical difference between a Beowulf and a supercomputer! Dig in your pocket and pull out some coins. Nickels are commodity clusters, pennies are SGI boxes and dimes are Cray. They are a collection of the same thing, namely coins/supercomputers. But what differentiates a cluster from a Cray? The intended purpose of the components. All the bits of a T3E were designed for it. In a cluster, the parts were designed for (and in most cases are) low cost workstations, hack rigged in software to run as one monster machine.
Dude, that's almost as slanderous as a Microsoft press release! I don't care of it is pro-Linux FUD, it's still FUD, and it isn't welcome. Go play in sid=trolls or sid=trolltalk, or better yet, go play in the street. I'm sure a small city bus will knock the FUD out of you, and if it doesn't, the prolonged hospital stay will keep you away from/. for a while.
I currently use a Hauppage tuner card to capture selected programs for me (Knight Rider, South Park and Red Dwarf) from a cron job, and then when disk space runs low and the cluster is unoccupied it tries to farm them out for MPEG-2 compression. Most of the stuff I record gets seen soon enough it never actually gets farmed out for compression. Granted, I always have 30G of video lying around, but that's acceptable for me..
The biggest bit of the puzzle I see such a project needing is a 'user-freindly' scheduler. Like you said, pull the listing from TV Guide or Preview. As of right now, I need to know when everything I want to tape is on.
Media server? Video, audio, etc? Elaborate, if you will..
Personally, I think they'll be far more interested in the secret society of flap-jack eating nocturnal Ninja frequenting the place. Grits pose no historical mystery; Pouring a warm, grits-like substance down one's clothing has been popular since ancient Greece, where they used warmed mud.
Let's just hope they don't get to see our Karma. Sig 11 may be worshipped as the Oracle of Slash if that happens.. I just hope I end up as one of the demigods..
I'm not. 586 wasn't an Intel reference, I just hit some number keys with my right hand. I was trying to point out that numbers themselves cannot be afforded copyright protection. If the numbers signified the chars in this post, they can be, but the CSS keys are numbers and numbers only. I cannot copyright Pi, no matter how much creative effort went into calculating it out to the 1000^1000000'th digit, I can't copyright it. I can copyright a book on how I did it, or patent the novel time-slice solution I uncovered, but no protection is afforded the number.
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Speech, music, pictures, video, and even smells can be represented digitally.
Is <schwing!>Kathy Ireland</schwing!> not attractive because you only have a digital representation of her and not a Real Live Clone?
Is 'I love you' devoid of meaning if said over a telephone?
Is 'Fuck you, I'm going to kill your dog' not menacing because you got it via ICQ?
No. I must say his post was gay. The poster was as well, but only in the sense that the 'gay' as used in the phrase '<something> is gay' implies nothing about sexual orientation and everything about the user's lack of intelligence.
Exactly!! I have 'lost' to many a 'Vette because the owner was too dumb to know when to stop the game. Owner looks at the speedo, thinks "I've still got 20 to go" and ignores the fact he's already doing 120, and that there is a turn 1/4 mile up, and that there are cars approaching too rapidly to continue the game for any longer.
The TT's are even more funny though. Car is unstable. They've recalled it three times for a mixture of spoiler, brake and front end tweaks to keep it on the road. I've driven the 'stock' model. At 70, they're great. At eighty they act like the road is wet, and at 100 you might as well be on ice. I wasn't willing to go any faster in it.
Exactly!! I have 'lost' to many a 'Vette because the owner was too dumb to know when to stop the game. Owner looks at the speedo, thinks "I've still got 20 to go" and ignores the fact he's already doing 120, and that there is a turn 1/4 mile up, and that there are cars approaching too rapidly to continue the game for any longer.
The TT's are even more funny though. Car is unstable. They've recalled it three times for a mixture of spoiler, brake and front end tweaks to keep it on the road. I've driven the 'stock' model. At 70, they're great. At eighty they act like the road is wet, and at 100 you might as well be on ice. I wasn't willing to go any faster in it.
Actually, I usually don't move. Hurst independant brake lockers, with momentary safety toggles bolted to the shifter. There's a small bit of intentional air in the front circuit, so I can optionally grind the car forward. The only one in danger is the fellow behind me, and even then only from the smoke off the tires. Ruining a pair of cheap Thompson and intentionally smacking into some geriatric in a LeSabre are very different things!
Oh, yeah. My last ticket was in March of 1997. The exhaust on my F-150 was a little loud.
I can see that. When it comes out next year, L&H will change their name to H And L, so that they can call it the 2001 H.A.L. Or, if they chose a more subtle prank, they'll call it the L and H model 1002.
'Holy mirror images, Batman!' -Dick Grayson.
I've got the rusted out Camaro thing. People look at the rust, the dents, and the longhair behind the wheel. Then when you wipe them up, they quit laughing. 6.3 with a driven top speed of 165. A few have taken me off the line, and even to 60, but they NEVER lose me. :) (I love the new TT. It keeps pace to 100, at which time the smart drivers stop accelerating and I stroll by them waving. The dumb ones don't and I have to let off before they kill themselves.)
Does not blare horn 2 seconds after light turns green
I usually wait to the count of one and start turning the tires after that. If seeing a huge chunk of Detroit steel launching itself at your back end, coiled in the dense fumes of burning rubber and redline screaming at the tune of 6000 RPM doesn't get you off the line, you deserve to be roadkill.
If IBM wants it, they can have it! Just gimme a ring when the commercial is going to be shown in my market.. And a check for one dollar, to hang on the office wall next to my autographed Elton John photo.
Taxpayer money?? jools, you should lay off the crack man! Or start paying attention!! IBM did their very own port to 370/390!!! Uncle Sam had less to do with it than the janitor at Parsippany!
True, they're not going to replace 390 with Linux anytime soon. It's a market expansion thing. Buy a single IBM or 5,000 PC's.. IBM sells more iron, their customers save money. IBM keeps the mainframe market healthy.
That would actually make a good sales slogan for Big Blue. Pan the camera over a virtual jungle of CAT5 and RS232 strewn on raised flooring, and up onto a cluttered wall of dilapidated 2U servers. One unit is smoking and sparking foreground right. Announcer: 'Would you rather have 10,000 chickens'. Screen goes black as the camera zooms out of the black background of the IBM logo on a shiny new mainframe. Announcer: 'Or one bull?' Wrap it up with the standard IBM music and blue bar quick scrolling to stop. 'IBM E-Business: A bull in your corner.'
You run a virtual network inside of the machine. You can run thousands of VMs but you're still stuck with only being able to cram five to ten Ethernet features into said box. So you use the gigabit-speed virtual network inside of the box and route em all through the VM's that have been assigned actual Ethernet. Voila! An entire Class B in a single box!
Visit here for a starting point. Remember, any application that will run on Win 3.11 sans 32S will run on Warp 3. You'll probably be limited to an older version of Nutscrape, but one is available. Some applications of note: Gimp, Opera, mpg123, MAME, Doom..
I highly doubt the Patent Office though this upp 'all by themselves'. Some pissed off Senator on the appropriate subcommittee called them.
Senator: What the hell have you boys been doing down there?
USPTO: Ever since the sheep died, it's boring. Steve thought up this great idea for patent approval, though. See, we get this big Wheel of Fortune, and we spin it to see what we do about one of 'em. We're even going to have fire on one of the.....
Senator: Fine, fine, whatever makes you happy. Listen, I just got off the phone with Jeff Bezos. Ya know, that internet book guy. He seemed to be pretty pissed about y'all!
USPTO: So? It may have squeaked through on the line, but we gave him his patent! Think we ought to 'review' it?
Senator: Naw. Normally I couldn't give two shits what you boys are doing, hell, I know y'all play darts for dibs on the funny ones, but if you don't make a token gesture of reform now, Bezos is going to sic the press on me, the subcommittee, and you. I'll be forced to cut your budget again. I'll send over some suggestions for you to look at before you take the morning trip to the bar.
USPTO: Yes sir! One ineffective PR gesture coming up! So, when are you going to bring over the new sheep?
Moral of the story: When introducing yourself, mentioning that you are Time's Man of the Year helps your credibility. Mentioning that you have more money than God helps too.
Florida the eleventh province? You don't want it. Canada's health care costs are burdensome already, and I don't think the infusion of twelve million geriatrics will help it any.
I will give you that Detroit can be, ehrm, rough (I'm a 'local') but it is hardly full of gun-wielding drug-fiend rapists! Really, the only place that fits your description is the district!! I think our perpensity for calling you the 51st comes from the fact that of any country on earth, you are the most like us. As much as you like to pretend you're not, it's the truth. Example, redneck bars. I can walk into any redneck bar in Canada and, with the exception of 'Budweiser' signs being replaced by 'Labatts', and recieving $3.25 in change from a $4 drink I bought with a five, I would find it indistinguishable. The people are pretty homogeneous. You have the sports fans talking shit about how the Wings/Clippers/Leafs bite, the barflies, the clumps of hourly bitching about the boss, and the bartender that sneers whan you want Guinness or Stoli neat.
Having lived in/renovated/torn up several old houses/hotels/barns, I can gleefully tell you that pocket change is always the most exciting find. (Pulling a jar of Flying Eagles out of a plaster wall is bliss!) It may only be three or four bucks now, but to whoever finds it in near-mint 100 years down the road it won't be.
Another good one is 'dated' print. Technical manuals and newspapers. Imagine some tech-head in 2075 finding a book on Unix, or some gear-head flipping through the Detroit Free Press and seeing the 'new 2000' models his father was too young to drive.
If you wanted to put music in there, I'd opt for LP. Speaking as someone with a RCA Victorola in his living room, I don't think the ability to play them will die off anytime soon. It can be reduced to just a pencil, a straightpin, and a rolled up bit of paper, after all. You might consider a set of directions for playing it that way. Or include the items to do it with.
Big Blue made both M and F series (F had a touchpoint) with the correct caps/ctrl/tab/alt configuration. I'm typing on one now. They did manage to put SysReq in an odd place, though.(It's alt-F16, instead of alt-PS). They were used on REAL 52xx terminals.
This is the Age of Microsoft. Hardware vendors HAVE to write their own OS drivers. Ibm could have easily added a routine to their M92G ActiveKeyboard Driver to 'accidentally' redirect me to their site every 100 presses of the 'Internet' button.
What's to say that the PROM/KBC imbedded in their keyboard is actually returning in-range scan codes for those 'AOL keys'?? It would be a plus for them if they could do it otherwise!!
Our Canadian provincials and global regional offices are connected, via dialup, to an ISP in lieu of an actual connection to the corporate intranet. Most of them have Cyber Patrol installed after a porno hungry secretary in Hong Kong got in trouble with the local authorities. During one visit to the Urbana, Illinois office, the software denied me access to 'www.freshmeat.net', 'www.rootshell.com', and to my own website at www.crosswinds.net. Most of Purdue University (including the job-relevant pages about PAPERS/AFAPI, a clustering API) was unavailable to me, as were most of the University of Michigan websites on a similar subject.
But these are just the unfair blocks. It failed to block 'karups.com' a porn site, as well as 'fuckfest.com', whose intent is obvious. I was consistantly able to access porno!!!
I confirmed (with the admin pass I used to finally make it through to FM) that the software was indeed set to 'sex'. Why the hell is this product still on the market? That was six months ago, and I bet I could still make it through to 'hard-core' porn in thirty seconds! So my review is this: It doesn't fucking work. Their blocked list is and has been wrong, C'mon! Freshmeat is going to corrupt me? What, I'm going to feel the power of the source? Is AFAPI really the anal fucking API? The U of M is going to turn me into a boozing sex fiend? I'm going to corrupt myself? CP is just shit. (My employer has realized this; We're switching the regionals over to mandatory VPN, travelling through the 'good' blacklist of the local firewall.)
You can cluster AMD right now! One processor per node, but then again the Intel solutions don't ramp above two/node.
Ah yes, the practical difference between a Beowulf and a supercomputer! Dig in your pocket and pull out some coins. Nickels are commodity clusters, pennies are SGI boxes and dimes are Cray. They are a collection of the same thing, namely coins/supercomputers. But what differentiates a cluster from a Cray? The intended purpose of the components. All the bits of a T3E were designed for it. In a cluster, the parts were designed for (and in most cases are) low cost workstations, hack rigged in software to run as one monster machine.
Dude, that's almost as slanderous as a Microsoft press release! I don't care of it is pro-Linux FUD, it's still FUD, and it isn't welcome. Go play in sid=trolls or sid=trolltalk, or better yet, go play in the street. I'm sure a small city bus will knock the FUD out of you, and if it doesn't, the prolonged hospital stay will keep you away from /. for a while.
Childishly selfish entity, who rarely gives up money, and even when the funds are given, it inevitably sticks to their fingers.
Tightwad.
I currently use a Hauppage tuner card to capture selected programs for me (Knight Rider, South Park and Red Dwarf) from a cron job, and then when disk space runs low and the cluster is unoccupied it tries to farm them out for MPEG-2 compression. Most of the stuff I record gets seen soon enough it never actually gets farmed out for compression. Granted, I always have 30G of video lying around, but that's acceptable for me..
The biggest bit of the puzzle I see such a project needing is a 'user-freindly' scheduler. Like you said, pull the listing from TV Guide or Preview. As of right now, I need to know when everything I want to tape is on.
Media server? Video, audio, etc? Elaborate, if you will..
189..
Slowing down considerably from the early days..
Last I heard Sig 11 was over 200, and that was a while back.
Personally, I think they'll be far more interested in the secret society of flap-jack eating nocturnal Ninja frequenting the place. Grits pose no historical mystery; Pouring a warm, grits-like substance down one's clothing has been popular since ancient Greece, where they used warmed mud.
Let's just hope they don't get to see our Karma. Sig 11 may be worshipped as the Oracle of Slash if that happens.. I just hope I end up as one of the demigods..
I'm not. 586 wasn't an Intel reference, I just hit some number keys with my right hand. I was trying to point out that numbers themselves cannot be afforded copyright protection. If the numbers signified the chars in this post, they can be, but the CSS keys are numbers and numbers only. I cannot copyright Pi, no matter how much creative effort went into calculating it out to the 1000^1000000'th digit, I can't copyright it. I can copyright a book on how I did it, or patent the novel time-slice solution I uncovered, but no protection is afforded the number.