'Bat Out Of Hell' would be in 'rock', and no one in their right mind would buy anything newer than that so I simply would'nt stock it. Blondie would be kept out of sight. There has been many a music store visit that nearly involved throwing up as I read through the alphabetic bins: 'Beatles, Beastie Boys, Bee Gees, Blondie.. Gasp.. Hurk.. Someone get me a garbage can! Hurk..'
If you see a good 0 or 1 question down the list, repost the text of the question with a text credit to the original author. A href to the actual comment would be nice, but as it is unlikely to be followed by the readers nor reprinted in the outbound question it is more of a bonus than a prereq..
As for +1's trolling.. We do, but we have the decency to do it at 1 or 0, because otherwise it would be gross abuse of our perks.
Queso still identifies my 2.2.10 boxes as 2.1.xx.. It used to have the habit of calling my 2.0.32ac box 1.2.x as well. TCP fingerprinting is only one step in any effort to identify a box.. I'me behind a firewall here, so my efforts to quantifiably identify algore2000 fail.
I pay for TMC, Showtime, HBO.. If I want to watch them on my PC with this software, I damn well will. My local cable company has had a long standing policy of 'if you pay for it, we don't care', because everytime they tried to seize the descrambler some paying customer was using to watch HBO on another TV elsewhere in the house, they got their ass removed from the property and lost the civil suit. If I want to lease my cable box from the company, fine. If I already own one, or own a cable-ready TV, I will certainly not lease one.
iCrave is doing nothing wrong according to Canadian law, which governs it. Just because it has questionable legal standing in the States doesn't mean it is illegal! Additionally, iCrave has yet to even make it to trial. You cannot say whither or not the first of its kind is illegal before a trrial. Just because paid-corp-puppet Valenti says it's illegal doesn't mean a damn thing.
Why shouldn't the MPAA be able to use these boneheaded measures? Gee, it constitutes illegal restraint of trade, violates any number of goods treaties, elimination of fair use, exercizing a monopoly standing to crush ones opponents. Pick one and run with it.
All of the free Unix run fine in 32, so what? I don't own any Pentium-class machine with less than 128, save perhaps the firewall which runs on a IS MediaGX and 32.
Memory is cheap, and the peak-use performance gain you see from extra memory is more cost effective than a faster processor, especially if you're an Intel fanatic.
Granted, I had a 386's with 128 as play toys back in the days they were current, so I'm a bit spoiled..
CSS: Content Scrambling System. The method DVD manufacturers use to prevent playback on systems that haven't paid a per/disc, per/player 'tax' to the DVD CCA.
DVD CCA: A trade group assigned with licensing of the DVD encryption/decryption keys.
DeCSS: A program written by a Norwegian teenager that 'unlocks' DVD discs without an 'approved' key.
Get involved with protests being organized by 2600. Better yet, organize your own protest!
That is exactly what some of us here in Michigan (the home state of/.)
We'll be handing out flyers and demonstrating a working Linux DVD setup in Ann Arbor tomorrow night. It's only a 1/2 hour drive from Detroit or Flint, and under an hour from Toledo, Ohio.
Because no one in their right mind is going to trust a uninsulated Microsoft box with a pipe big enough to attack over! Linux, BSD, Solaris; They're all just fine in a sea of packets, PIX-less. Windows 98, NT? Better put 'em behind a firewall, or else some three-year old malformed packet bug is gonna get em!
The hackers realized a Win32 client would be useless; Why hasn't this journalist, a so called 'expert' (No doubt in looking like an ass in print)
Hey now! I'm from the US and we are all retarded red-neck idiots! But that doesn't mean you need to call us that to our faces!! You, you, you turd-vacuum! You, you unwashed haggis eating frog lover!
Can't we all just get along?
Just because there is a distasteful troll product of the US public school system in here doesn't mean you need to insult me by proxy as well.
Suit #1: I wonder if France has any of those faulty Minuteman II's left. You know the ones we sold them in the 80's? I wonder what would happen if someone inadvertantly detonated a few in their tubes.
Suit #2: Naw, too messy, what with the fallout and all. Remember the stuff we got from Mitterand's Christmas party? The infrared picture of Maggie Thatcher and old Frankie on the Presidential desk?
Suit #1: Too old! A smear campaign against former heads of state is pointless, and the Brits would get pissy too. Got any embarrasing details on this French lawyer?
Suit #2: Let's see.. He had an extramarital affair with his daughter's roommate, we've got their phone sex tapes. He's got a 1000 franc a week coke habit too!
Suit #1: Think we could con the CIA into putting some added value into his dope, like they did for us with that Mexican fellow?
Suit #2: Not since the FBI busted their Columbian agent, Escobar. Goddamn Justice has been stepping all over their toes!
Suit #1: Oh well. Time to get back to watching that surveillance camera in Natalie Portman's bathroom. See if you can get some wet-work Rangers on this one. Hit him on the limey side of the channel, eh? Mabye we can use that IRA bit one more time...
-Graduation gift computers that look more like a trophy: They'd just languish in the back of the closet with the box of graduation day pen and pencil sets.
-Computer cases that look like furniture: We had these back in the seventies. The PC was the desk, and vice-versa.
-TARDIS cases from Dr Who: Accompanied by the 'Tardis' E theme, no doubt!
-stealth cases: Hide it in the wall, hang a picture over it.
-null case: Drywall screws and a nearby wall. A Beowulf cluster as modern art!
-beer keg computers: The fun part is emptying the case!
-fish aquarium cases: Sealed in resin, you too can forgo the traditional tank heater with this fan-free Xeon. Wait. You'd kill the fish. Too hot.
-Macintosh: Cram an E-Machines Celeron into one of those fishbowls, I dare you!
What happens when those Dual Celerons get hot? Fakin Bacon grease runs into the case! I bet it's conductive too! But you can at least feast after the computer goes up in smoke, er, down in grease?
I'd have no problem with a horse-hide case. I've got a horse-hide chair stuffed with horse-hair already! Hell, I'd probably eat horse as well! I'm sorry, but a horse is a domestic pack animal, not unlike a mule, and not far off-field from a cow. Cats, dogs, rats, etc fall into a seperate category; They were domesticated for pleasure, not food or utility.
The newer LCD/plasma displays are stunning! I've owned an IBM for a few years now with what was the best display offered on any 'light' laptop, and the displays on some of the new top of the line Dell and Compaq offerings are so crisp and so deep I said 'Wow' outloud at the display on the Inspiron 700.. I would take that display over my IBM, Sony and NEC 21's...
bugged Martin Luther King Well, at least King was a private citizen. They snuck bugs into Detroit Mayor Coleman Young's office, pretending to be the janitor. They then proceeded to listen to him for a decade, without ever charging him of a crime. Can you say 'First black mayor of a major US city?'
In the FBI's defense, Mr. Young was engaged in mild corruption, general governmental misuse, AND he owned every nude strip club in Wayne county at a time when it wasn't legal to run those sorts of establishments.
The dressing is a little pricey, (@50 cents more than the 'National Brand') but even the standard oil and vinegar is good enough to make a plain lettuce salad appealing..
I had Windows in mind whan I said that.. I run my display at work at 1600x1200, and have you tried reading the titlebars, at standard '8' font size? Not kind the eyes more than a few feet away. Same with Word. Unless you're print previewing, the font size is never adjusted to screen resolution.. Courier 6 point, is acceptable as printed but illegible on screen!!
1. As far as I know, all of the existant multiprocessor systems rely on the processor^2 scheme. (Well, the 'Amiga' PPC/68K assymetric scheme comes to mind, but that was a trade off) The only scheme I've heard of that can use odd # of processors is probably going to be wasted on the Crusoe II. (Transmeta has a cool arbitrated 'sharing' patent. It's what I was thinking of!) 2. The G400 represents the bleeding edge for 2d cards. It still may suck in terms of upper limit resolution, but it's probably the best we've got. (And it has the odd snafu with anything above 1880x1440, although the stated limit is much higher)
I don't think it's video card technology that will need to improve: It's memory speed! S/D/RDRAM isn't keeping pace with the processor wars. Processor speed almost doubled in the last year, while memory only got 20-30% faster. Don't get me started on the fact I've seen 8 year old SCSI setups toast UDMA/66.
The topic wasn't what was needed to look good, but complete cutting edge redesign
After looking at the interesting stuff Transmeta has patented on round-robin streaming to arbitrated processors, I'd like to see one in action. And what processor would shine the best in an application unconcerned with x86 support? Well, the Sun Ultra or Compaq Alpha, and I just have a Alpha preference.
It was a silly response, granted, but it was a silly idea I was responding to..
Windows tried, at least.. I remember discussion of using an alternate representative unit in Windows95.. They ended up using a modified, braindamaged 'TWIPS' system again..
Doing it wouldn't be hard. Just assume a 800x600 grid, regardless of screen size, and specify coords based on it. You wouldn't break legacy applications, because they'd see a 800x600 screen.
X is even easier! Toss a 'target sized theme' on BlackBox or Enlightenment. Or, better yet, write a userland application that dynamically resets the WM fonts, terminal fonts, and icons based on resolution. You'd have to restart the WM every resolution change to reread the altered settings, but that is a small price to pay for 4000x3000!!
Multiple Alpha processors,(screw that SMP stuff. Three-way!) a G400 and two of these babies? Complete with MD, DVD-R and a *nix kernel with all of the 'legacy' support ripped sound good? We'll hand roll it all in assembler for performance!
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'Bat Out Of Hell' would be in 'rock', and no one in their right mind would buy anything newer than that so I simply would'nt stock it. Blondie would be kept out of sight. There has been many a music store visit that nearly involved throwing up as I read through the alphabetic bins: 'Beatles, Beastie Boys, Bee Gees, Blondie.. Gasp.. Hurk.. Someone get me a garbage can! Hurk..'
Use your +1 for good!
If you see a good 0 or 1 question down the list, repost the text of the question with a text credit to the original author. A href to the actual comment would be nice, but as it is unlikely to be followed by the readers nor reprinted in the outbound question it is more of a bonus than a prereq..
As for +1's trolling.. We do, but we have the decency to do it at 1 or 0, because otherwise it would be gross abuse of our perks.
Queso still identifies my 2.2.10 boxes as 2.1.xx.. It used to have the habit of calling my 2.0.32ac box 1.2.x as well. TCP fingerprinting is only one step in any effort to identify a box.. I'me behind a firewall here, so my efforts to quantifiably identify algore2000 fail.
My best guess would be Linux 2.0.36.
I pay for TMC, Showtime, HBO.. If I want to watch them on my PC with this software, I damn well will. My local cable company has had a long standing policy of 'if you pay for it, we don't care', because everytime they tried to seize the descrambler some paying customer was using to watch HBO on another TV elsewhere in the house, they got their ass removed from the property and lost the civil suit. If I want to lease my cable box from the company, fine. If I already own one, or own a cable-ready TV, I will certainly not lease one.
iCrave is doing nothing wrong according to Canadian law, which governs it. Just because it has questionable legal standing in the States doesn't mean it is illegal! Additionally, iCrave has yet to even make it to trial. You cannot say whither or not the first of its kind is illegal before a trrial. Just because paid-corp-puppet Valenti says it's illegal doesn't mean a damn thing.
Why shouldn't the MPAA be able to use these boneheaded measures? Gee, it constitutes illegal restraint of trade, violates any number of goods treaties, elimination of fair use, exercizing a monopoly standing to crush ones opponents. Pick one and run with it.
All of the free Unix run fine in 32, so what? I don't own any Pentium-class machine with less than 128, save perhaps the firewall which runs on a IS MediaGX and 32.
Memory is cheap, and the peak-use performance gain you see from extra memory is more cost effective than a faster processor, especially if you're an Intel fanatic.
Granted, I had a 386's with 128 as play toys back in the days they were current, so I'm a bit spoiled..
CSS: Content Scrambling System. The method DVD manufacturers use to prevent playback on systems that haven't paid a per/disc, per/player 'tax' to the DVD CCA.
DVD CCA: A trade group assigned with licensing of the DVD encryption/decryption keys.
DeCSS: A program written by a Norwegian teenager that 'unlocks' DVD discs without an 'approved' key.
Get involved with protests being organized by 2600. Better yet, organize your own protest!
/.)
That is exactly what some of us here in Michigan (the home state of
We'll be handing out flyers and demonstrating a working Linux DVD setup in Ann Arbor tomorrow night. It's only a 1/2 hour drive from Detroit or Flint, and under an hour from Toledo, Ohio.
It will be followed up by a Quake LAN party.
Want details?
jim_tuck@newcourt.com
Ask yourself why only Linux or Solaris?
Because no one in their right mind is going to trust a uninsulated Microsoft box with a pipe big enough to attack over! Linux, BSD, Solaris; They're all just fine in a sea of packets, PIX-less. Windows 98, NT? Better put 'em behind a firewall, or else some three-year old malformed packet bug is gonna get em!
The hackers realized a Win32 client would be useless; Why hasn't this journalist, a so called 'expert' (No doubt in looking like an ass in print)
Compuserve. One word of warning; You'll have to send an couple of extra ^M after the connect..
Hey now! I'm from the US and we are all retarded red-neck idiots! But that doesn't mean you need to call us that to our faces!! You, you, you turd-vacuum! You, you unwashed haggis eating frog lover!
Can't we all just get along?
Just because there is a distasteful troll product of the US public school system in here doesn't mean you need to insult me by proxy as well.
Overheard in a hallway at Pershing Field:
Suit #1: I wonder if France has any of those faulty Minuteman II's left. You know the ones we sold them in the 80's? I wonder what would happen if someone inadvertantly detonated a few in their tubes.
Suit #2: Naw, too messy, what with the fallout and all. Remember the stuff we got from Mitterand's Christmas party? The infrared picture of Maggie Thatcher and old Frankie on the Presidential desk?
Suit #1: Too old! A smear campaign against former heads of state is pointless, and the Brits would get pissy too. Got any embarrasing details on this French lawyer?
Suit #2: Let's see.. He had an extramarital affair with his daughter's roommate, we've got their phone sex tapes. He's got a 1000 franc a week coke habit too!
Suit #1: Think we could con the CIA into putting some added value into his dope, like they did for us with that Mexican fellow?
Suit #2: Not since the FBI busted their Columbian agent, Escobar. Goddamn Justice has been stepping all over their toes!
Suit #1: Oh well. Time to get back to watching that surveillance camera in Natalie Portman's bathroom. See if you can get some wet-work Rangers on this one. Hit him on the limey side of the channel, eh? Mabye we can use that IRA bit one more time...
-Designer cases: I need me an eel-skin case!
-Graduation gift computers that look more like a trophy: They'd just languish in the back of the closet with the box of graduation day pen and pencil sets.
-Computer cases that look like furniture: We had these back in the seventies. The PC was the desk, and vice-versa.
-TARDIS cases from Dr Who: Accompanied by the 'Tardis' E theme, no doubt!
-stealth cases: Hide it in the wall, hang a picture over it.
-null case: Drywall screws and a nearby wall. A Beowulf cluster as modern art!
-beer keg computers: The fun part is emptying the case!
-fish aquarium cases: Sealed in resin, you too can forgo the traditional tank heater with this fan-free Xeon. Wait. You'd kill the fish. Too hot.
-Macintosh: Cram an E-Machines Celeron into one of those fishbowls, I dare you!
What happens when those Dual Celerons get hot? Fakin Bacon grease runs into the case! I bet it's conductive too! But you can at least feast after the computer goes up in smoke, er, down in grease?
Apologies. Meant to reply to the parent. My bad..
I'd have no problem with a horse-hide case. I've got a horse-hide chair stuffed with horse-hair already! Hell, I'd probably eat horse as well! I'm sorry, but a horse is a domestic pack animal, not unlike a mule, and not far off-field from a cow. Cats, dogs, rats, etc fall into a seperate category; They were domesticated for pleasure, not food or utility.
Yes. Ever ridden a horse? Cow fur is similar, albeit a bit more coarse. That and cows rarely smell as nice!
The newer LCD/plasma displays are stunning! I've owned an IBM for a few years now with what was the best display offered on any 'light' laptop, and the displays on some of the new top of the line Dell and Compaq offerings are so crisp and so deep I said 'Wow' outloud at the display on the Inspiron 700.. I would take that display over my IBM, Sony and NEC 21's...
bugged Martin Luther King Well, at least King was a private citizen. They snuck bugs into Detroit Mayor Coleman Young's office, pretending to be the janitor. They then proceeded to listen to him for a decade, without ever charging him of a crime. Can you say 'First black mayor of a major US city?'
In the FBI's defense, Mr. Young was engaged in mild corruption, general governmental misuse, AND he owned every nude strip club in Wayne county at a time when it wasn't legal to run those sorts of establishments.
Ironically, I've never had the popcorn!
The dressing is a little pricey, (@50 cents more than the 'National Brand') but even the standard oil and vinegar is good enough to make a plain lettuce salad appealing..
Decent salad dressing too.. ;-)
I had Windows in mind whan I said that.. I run my display at work at 1600x1200, and have you tried reading the titlebars, at standard '8' font size? Not kind the eyes more than a few feet away. Same with Word. Unless you're print previewing, the font size is never adjusted to screen resolution.. Courier 6 point, is acceptable as printed but illegible on screen!!
1. As far as I know, all of the existant multiprocessor systems rely on the processor^2 scheme. (Well, the 'Amiga' PPC/68K assymetric scheme comes to mind, but that was a trade off) The only scheme I've heard of that can use odd # of processors is probably going to be wasted on the Crusoe II. (Transmeta has a cool arbitrated 'sharing' patent. It's what I was thinking of!)
2. The G400 represents the bleeding edge for 2d cards. It still may suck in terms of upper limit resolution, but it's probably the best we've got. (And it has the odd snafu with anything above 1880x1440, although the stated limit is much higher)
I don't think it's video card technology that will need to improve: It's memory speed! S/D/RDRAM isn't keeping pace with the processor wars. Processor speed almost doubled in the last year, while memory only got 20-30% faster. Don't get me started on the fact I've seen 8 year old SCSI setups toast UDMA/66.
The topic wasn't what was needed to look good, but complete cutting edge redesign
After looking at the interesting stuff Transmeta has patented on round-robin streaming to arbitrated processors, I'd like to see one in action. And what processor would shine the best in an application unconcerned with x86 support? Well, the Sun Ultra or Compaq Alpha, and I just have a Alpha preference.
It was a silly response, granted, but it was a silly idea I was responding to..
Windows tried, at least.. I remember discussion of using an alternate representative unit in Windows95.. They ended up using a modified, braindamaged 'TWIPS' system again..
Doing it wouldn't be hard. Just assume a 800x600 grid, regardless of screen size, and specify coords based on it. You wouldn't break legacy applications, because they'd see a 800x600 screen.
X is even easier! Toss a 'target sized theme' on BlackBox or Enlightenment. Or, better yet, write a userland application that dynamically resets the WM fonts, terminal fonts, and icons based on resolution. You'd have to restart the WM every resolution change to reread the altered settings, but that is a small price to pay for 4000x3000!!
I propose
Multiple Alpha processors,(screw that SMP stuff. Three-way!) a G400 and two of these babies? Complete with MD, DVD-R and a *nix kernel with all of the 'legacy' support ripped sound good? We'll hand roll it all in assembler for performance!