I'll take 'em until the comments are so stale I cease to laugh at them. The comments are still pretty funny; especially the mental picture I got of Whoopi Goldberg singing 'Uncle Fucker'..
There'll inevitably be another two: One when Williams does it, and one when someone makes a MP3 of the joyous event available. Save your wrath for the latter..
Happen to know how much a late night TV spot runs these days? We could do that in five seconds, accompanied by a pretty graphic and pay little. I'll be willing to bet it wouldn't even stretch a single paycheck.. And the singular act of defiance.... Mmmm.. Earning me some useful karma! Far better than the flyer handout I did at the cinema..
Ponzi was a certifiable intellect in comparison to some of the outlandish stuff perpetrated in the name of 'internet-business'.. Postal coupons, a couple of plausible lies, and some investors walked away happy. 'E-Commerce' was a implausible corporate lie based on the lies of it's vendors, further embellished by the lies of the users, and I'm afraid none are going to walk away happy. Except those of us that always believed that 'Eanything' was pure bullshit. Perhaps when all the 'dot-coms' fail, the Internet will return to being a communication medium instead of something that should be 'owned', that requires a 'presence', thqat required a new marteting 'buzzspeak' every week when someone furthered the dot-com game of spam, or invaded the privacy of the global community of users to 'direct-market' them.
Fuck you all. You had a chance to play with our toy, and now that you're out of cash you've got to give it back and go home crying to your investors. Good riddance too..
'Every' was an overstatement. But consider this. How well could the issues be presented in fifteen seconds? We'd be lucky to make it through 'The MPAA and RIAA are per[blip]'. But consider this; if even 1/8 of the people viewing ask someone, and get a minute spiele of the issues, how much airtime is it equivalent to? And how many people is that that are, if anything, better informed? And what about those with no interest? Well, they'd have changed the channel to watch the 'Seinfeld' rerun anyway....
Everyone seems to complain that this isn't an effective way of getting the point across. It is! Every 'innocent' that sees it is going to see the 2600 URL splashed across the last few seconds of the spot, say to him/herself 'What the hell was that? Must be some computer thingie.' and promptly ask the well-informed geek down the street. He/she'll be able to get the message across far more effectivly than the fifteen seconds of airtime they could afford could ever hope..
Mad props to the Aussie hacks! Stealing the mindshare of Mom and Pop Glassteat!!
Nope. Not that bus arch. It wouldn't be terribly difficult, but there aren't too many of the early MCA models out there. Demand for such a 'port' would be exceedingly low. On the upside, MCA on Intel and the RISC arch themselves are supported, so I suppose all it would really take is one moderatly good kernel hacker, two lackeys and a working example.
I wonder how much the company would charge me for a 2xx series? Probably nothing.. Perhaps I've got a project..
Xenix is a pain in the ass. I know, I have one box still running it. (port work)
But that's where reality stops. Commercial unices are very good, moderatly freindly, and for the most part are rock-hard stable. AIX (not A/IX), Irix, Solaris, Tru/64, etc, all kick major ass.
Shortly after going managerial for a large company, I recieved the product release schedule. Not believing my eyes, I asked my supervisor, the lead engineer, when I was supposed to sleep. He looked at me, and with a perfectly straight face, said "What, you were lucky enough to get sleep in your job description? I had to fight for over a year to get bathroom privledges! Davis, the guy with the huge pile of half empty Mountain Dew bottles in his cube, has been whizzing in his empties during compile cycles for a month! You don't even want to know why his filing cabinet is sealed with duct tape.'
Go to bed! This is not a request, mister. Because of you, I'm going to be spending the next hour reading/posting to Slashdot, instead of sleeping. I really should be sleeping. I have to hear the disappointing results of a IS meeting in the morning, and I am far better equipped to do so if I'm not up reading/. all night!
So for God's sake Timothy, and the sake of all those employed individuals operating on EST, please go to bed!
Exactly.. Even after you've hired him, that willingness to learn will make him better than his peers. You can stick that guy in anywhere, and have him swimming in a couple of days. Buy him a book, point him at a test system, and he'll be up to speed before management has sorted out the project specs. Many, many times I've been given the 'fun' stuff to do, not because I knew 'X' intimatly, but because I could learn 'X' well enough in a couple of days. Granted, I've been given some weird stuff 'Jim, you'll be taking over for someone in Marketing this week. Here's the proceedure manual' or 'We know you haven't touched VC++ since 4.0, but we need a.DLL wrapper to let the Unix box screen values coming into the DB', but on the whole it's been great for me and the company..
Cornerstone is still making their page display monochromes, though they are a pretty penny, and IBM's super-crisp monos are available secondary market for a reasonable price.. We had a couple of those gargantuan Blue tubes through here last month off lease from the DoD. The only way text could look any better is if it were Kathy Ireland.
They are specialists not because of the code in the distribution, nor their repackaging of it, but because of their support.. I spent two hours on with one of their techs fighting an UNSUPPORTED AS/400 through IPL of a D-tape, and another hour session helping me through an uncooperative network adapter in a 6000.. They have my vote as the third best support in the industry! (CTC and IBM being 1 and 2. CTC gleefully spent 50 manhours debugging an intermittant failure in a controller based on a vague suspicion, and IBM kicks ass for me every time I have a NON-IBM cmos question!)
Dude, it's the same old race that's been happening since the beginning of moderation.. If the 'management' had decided to slam on him, it would be -5 like all of their other slams! There have been quite a few +6's as well!
Hmm.. Real 'Slack wear'.. The marketing possibilities are endless! You could have SlackWear T's, socks, anything! A pair of boxers would be damn cool..
I'll give you the sharpness, but my frequent use of the Gimp, xawtv and xmms/Blur kinda accentuate the need for colour. Besides, my NEC 6FGp's reasonably sharp, and at 21 each definitly outscore the Radius in desktop real-estate.
I have one of the Radius monitors on a IIFX, and just for a gag I tried it with a patch cable on my Matrox G200. Syncs up nicely at 768x1024 in X, but the annoying fact it is monochrome got to me. I also got my Rage to do it, but I really had to fight with the X server..
Switch to an ultra-cheap brand of bulbs in that lamp. Most are manufactured in the former USSR or Mexico primarily for domestic consumption, but sold relabelled in the US cheap because it is actually profitable. They were designed to run acceptably on dirty power grids, and on a wider range of voltages. You'll never get one to last as long as a standard bulb using clean AC, but on dirty AC they last magnitudes longer.
Don't fret too much about Embedded NT. It's just one of the VMS test kernels they had lying around, with a couple of K in code tweak. In fact, most of the changes they made were to remove the 'Copyright 1989 Digital Equipment Corporation' notices, so you they couldn't have fucked it up too badly..
Janet Reno should be so lucky! That is one ugly she-beast. On the upside, she has cahones bigger than most men and a vindictive nature that makes her just right to be the one going after Bill's ass, both in court and on video..
What about a 'Vaporware Du Jour' Slashbox? Naw, most of the stuff would reflect badly on MS, and everyone knows Slashdot is a huge Microsoft evangelist!
Back to your idea: What about a 'dicksize war' Slashbox containing not only the tops in hard drives, but processors, ram technology, and video cards? It would make for an interesting perspective on the escalation of aggression going on in commodity hardware these days..
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Slash doesn't like much of anything these days, em being a notable example. Especially in extrans mode, which is what the author of the parent used.
Besides, if someone is activly re-reading these posts in late 2055, expecting something of value, then they deserve to be disappointed.
You can't copyright numbers. 586 isn't copyrightable, why should 0xc0 0x00 0x05 0x55.. be??
I'll take 'em until the comments are so stale I cease to laugh at them. The comments are still pretty funny; especially the mental picture I got of Whoopi Goldberg singing 'Uncle Fucker'..
There'll inevitably be another two: One when Williams does it, and one when someone makes a MP3 of the joyous event available. Save your wrath for the latter..
Happen to know how much a late night TV spot runs these days? We could do that in five seconds, accompanied by a pretty graphic and pay little. I'll be willing to bet it wouldn't even stretch a single paycheck.. And the singular act of defiance.... Mmmm.. Earning me some useful karma! Far better than the flyer handout I did at the cinema..
Ponzi was a certifiable intellect in comparison to some of the outlandish stuff perpetrated in the name of 'internet-business'.. Postal coupons, a couple of plausible lies, and some investors walked away happy. 'E-Commerce' was a implausible corporate lie based on the lies of it's vendors, further embellished by the lies of the users, and I'm afraid none are going to walk away happy. Except those of us that always believed that 'Eanything' was pure bullshit. Perhaps when all the 'dot-coms' fail, the Internet will return to being a communication medium instead of something that should be 'owned', that requires a 'presence', thqat required a new marteting 'buzzspeak' every week when someone furthered the dot-com game of spam, or invaded the privacy of the global community of users to 'direct-market' them.
Fuck you all. You had a chance to play with our toy, and now that you're out of cash you've got to give it back and go home crying to your investors. Good riddance too..
'Every' was an overstatement. But consider this. How well could the issues be presented in fifteen seconds? We'd be lucky to make it through 'The MPAA and RIAA are per[blip]'. But consider this; if even 1/8 of the people viewing ask someone, and get a minute spiele of the issues, how much airtime is it equivalent to? And how many people is that that are, if anything, better informed? And what about those with no interest? Well, they'd have changed the channel to watch the 'Seinfeld' rerun anyway.. ..
Everyone seems to complain that this isn't an effective way of getting the point across. It is! Every 'innocent' that sees it is going to see the 2600 URL splashed across the last few seconds of the spot, say to him/herself 'What the hell was that? Must be some computer thingie.' and promptly ask the well-informed geek down the street. He/she'll be able to get the message across far more effectivly than the fifteen seconds of airtime they could afford could ever hope..
Mad props to the Aussie hacks! Stealing the mindshare of Mom and Pop Glassteat!!
Nope. Not that bus arch. It wouldn't be terribly difficult, but there aren't too many of the early MCA models out there. Demand for such a 'port' would be exceedingly low. On the upside, MCA on Intel and the RISC arch themselves are supported, so I suppose all it would really take is one moderatly good kernel hacker, two lackeys and a working example.
I wonder how much the company would charge me for a 2xx series? Probably nothing.. Perhaps I've got a project..
Xenix is a pain in the ass. I know, I have one box still running it. (port work)
But that's where reality stops. Commercial unices are very good, moderatly freindly, and for the most part are rock-hard stable. AIX (not A/IX), Irix, Solaris, Tru/64, etc, all kick major ass.
But then it's not new !!
Shortly after going managerial for a large company, I recieved the product release schedule. Not believing my eyes, I asked my supervisor, the lead engineer, when I was supposed to sleep. He looked at me, and with a perfectly straight face, said "What, you were lucky enough to get sleep in your job description? I had to fight for over a year to get bathroom privledges! Davis, the guy with the huge pile of half empty Mountain Dew bottles in his cube, has been whizzing in his empties during compile cycles for a month! You don't even want to know why his filing cabinet is sealed with duct tape.'
Timothy!
/. all night!
Go to bed! This is not a request, mister. Because of you, I'm going to be spending the next hour reading/posting to Slashdot, instead of sleeping. I really should be sleeping. I have to hear the disappointing results of a IS meeting in the morning, and I am far better equipped to do so if I'm not up reading
So for God's sake Timothy, and the sake of all those employed individuals operating on EST, please go to bed!
Exactly.. Even after you've hired him, that willingness to learn will make him better than his peers. You can stick that guy in anywhere, and have him swimming in a couple of days. Buy him a book, point him at a test system, and he'll be up to speed before management has sorted out the project specs. Many, many times I've been given the 'fun' stuff to do, not because I knew 'X' intimatly, but because I could learn 'X' well enough in a couple of days. Granted, I've been given some weird stuff 'Jim, you'll be taking over for someone in Marketing this week. Here's the proceedure manual' or 'We know you haven't touched VC++ since 4.0, but we need a .DLL wrapper to let the Unix box screen values coming into the DB', but on the whole it's been great for me and the company..
Cornerstone is still making their page display monochromes, though they are a pretty penny, and IBM's super-crisp monos are available secondary market for a reasonable price.. We had a couple of those gargantuan Blue tubes through here last month off lease from the DoD. The only way text could look any better is if it were Kathy Ireland.
They are specialists not because of the code in the distribution, nor their repackaging of it, but because of their support.. I spent two hours on with one of their techs fighting an UNSUPPORTED AS/400 through IPL of a D-tape, and another hour session helping me through an uncooperative network adapter in a 6000.. They have my vote as the third best support in the industry! (CTC and IBM being 1 and 2. CTC gleefully spent 50 manhours debugging an intermittant failure in a controller based on a vague suspicion, and IBM kicks ass for me every time I have a NON-IBM cmos question!)
Next??
Dude, it's the same old race that's been happening since the beginning of moderation.. If the 'management' had decided to slam on him, it would be -5 like all of their other slams! There have been quite a few +6's as well!
Hmm.. Real 'Slack wear'.. The marketing possibilities are endless! You could have SlackWear T's, socks, anything! A pair of boxers would be damn cool..
Ever consider Yellowdog?? They are the PPC specialists... I've got a copy here waiting for a B50 that won't IPL..
I'll give you the sharpness, but my frequent use of the Gimp, xawtv and xmms/Blur kinda accentuate the need for colour. Besides, my NEC 6FGp's reasonably sharp, and at 21 each definitly outscore the Radius in desktop real-estate.
I have one of the Radius monitors on a IIFX, and just for a gag I tried it with a patch cable on my Matrox G200. Syncs up nicely at 768x1024 in X, but the annoying fact it is monochrome got to me. I also got my Rage to do it, but I really had to fight with the X server..
Persistant trouble? Any help from the 'management'?
Switch to an ultra-cheap brand of bulbs in that lamp. Most are manufactured in the former USSR or Mexico primarily for domestic consumption, but sold relabelled in the US cheap because it is actually profitable. They were designed to run acceptably on dirty power grids, and on a wider range of voltages. You'll never get one to last as long as a standard bulb using clean AC, but on dirty AC they last magnitudes longer.
C'mon now! She's not all bad, I mean, she is pretty easy on the eyes.. The mute button is your friend!
Don't fret too much about Embedded NT. It's just one of the VMS test kernels they had lying around, with a couple of K in code tweak. In fact, most of the changes they made were to remove the 'Copyright 1989 Digital Equipment Corporation' notices, so you they couldn't have fucked it up too badly..
Janet Reno should be so lucky! That is one ugly she-beast. On the upside, she has cahones bigger than most men and a vindictive nature that makes her just right to be the one going after Bill's ass, both in court and on video..
What about a 'Vaporware Du Jour' Slashbox? Naw, most of the stuff would reflect badly on MS, and everyone knows Slashdot is a huge Microsoft evangelist!
Back to your idea: What about a 'dicksize war' Slashbox containing not only the tops in hard drives, but processors, ram technology, and video cards? It would make for an interesting perspective on the escalation of aggression going on in commodity hardware these days..