Folks! Joke! Sarcasm! HAHA! Definitly not as funny as the Grits Guy, and possibly not as apparent (seeing as how everyone missed the real point like a MX missile.). I suppose I should really try to stay away from the humor, though. I'm never funny until I'm drunk, and even then I only think I am.
All sufficiently complex copiers require manufacturer service, as the manufacturers are loathe to give up the lucrative service contracts. The owner of a particular ID is therefore known to the manufacturer by-way of the machine serial number. Even if the manufacturer can't tell you who currently owns the machine (if it is not being serviced) they can tell you the serial number of the machine that produced the copy.
Allrighty then.. I'm going to form a company to make a competing plug-in, and then haul Macromedia into court. I'll say that Macromedia made an exclusive deal with Microsoft to distribute their product, and since Microsoft was illegally using its O/S monopoly to corner the browser market Macromedia directly liable for the prohibitive cost of entry for my plug-in.
Any of the screwed-up courts here in the US will give me a pile.
They have ther finger on the pulse of the digital economy? Puhleese! They've got one hand in the pockets of corporate America and the other is busy thumbing their, ehrm, hindquarters. CNet is much like Microsoft: Depending on either for comprehensive objectivity is less crazy than your dog learning conversational Spanish in a weekend.
On the other hand, the commercials weren't that bad.
a hundred twenty gates at a note let me give you every moment in your life right we've got we've got that word the key guess like thirty five to defend the trees now we don't like pancakes free
Methinks a lexical generator produces better speech than the triumvirate of./
I had one of the first CDROM drives produced, a Sony (produced for the domestic market) that didn't even carry a rated speed. While it didn't have the four-pin soundcard connector we are familiar with today, it did have the capability to play audio discs through the included headphone jack.
Perhaps the restriction was placed on US equipment only?
My usual choices are band names, song names, and album names. I rarely forget that, say, 'battery' is a member of 'masterOfPuppets'. Of course, I still occasionally use something meaningful, but I love the looks produced when people read code like
Whoa! Coppermine is a NEW CPU CORE. Katmai (read: Pentium Pro) core based PII's and PIII's have been around a while, and are really good chips. The Coppermine based PIII's are newer then the Athlon, rushed to market! Release wasn't scheduled for almost eight months. Coppermine != Katmai, much in the way K6-III != Athlon.
All this accomplishes lost revenue on the new product and an tapped R+D budget. Even if they use a key four times larger than the last, it is still only a matter of months before someone manages to unlock them. Then we have the MPAA and the RIAA screaming again, and the cycle repeats.
There are millions of brains and PC's out here waiting to beat the system that only a dozen of them engineer. Who do you think wins? Not Matsushita and certainly not the RIAA!
It's Boston slang. On top of the fact that they user 'copper', they mispronounce it 'cawppeh'. I'm not so sure it is pecular to MA; for all I know the entire eastern seaboard is using it..
Amazon wasn't lying. Below you will find an excerpt from Jeff Bezos' own notes
25 manhours Implementing the system 25 manhours Debugging the new system 118 manhours Time (Jeff Bezos) spent on the golf course thinking about Amazon 480 manhours Touchy-feely focus group to evaluate the emotion evoked by the square button. 162 manhours Spent preparing Powerpoints to illustrate the new feature to Marketing 416 manhours Marketing has stuck their collective heads in their collective arses. 14 manhours (Bezos) Got blazingly drunk at a bar, spent the night in the drunk tank 480 manhours Marketing, who didn't like the Powerpoints, orders another 'focus group' They request chimpanzees this time, citing them as smarter than most AOL users. 90 manhours Marketing likes the new focus group results, takes the afternoon off to visit a strip club. 2 manhours (Bezos) Fired the entire Marketing department, and replaced them with the chimpanzees. 20 apehours The chimps have a meeting over brunch to discuss patenting their new business model. 100 manhours Time billed by patent laywer for an afternoon visit from the chimps. 275 manhours Time billed by patent attorney whilst in the Bahamas on vacation. 600 manhours The lawyer spends an evening drafting the patent documents. Goes back to the Bahamas, taking a friend with him. 50 manhours Time spent by the laywers secretary completing the patent documentation, filing them, calling the Patent Office, etc. The only real work in the patent process occured in this step. 170 apehours Patent was approved! (Bezos) Called a press conference, shmoozed the media, and had the marketing chimps call and harass our competitors. ------------------------------- Tot al: 3,027 man/apehours
The bug was found in the Optiplex series, Dell's high end desktop machines. The article states that the bug WAS NOT found in the portable chips. Additionally, these processors are also offered in their server line. I hope a few made it out the door, too. Intel needs a spanking for a stupid bug.
Not a big deal? These new Coppermine processors are to be installed in servers. What happens when you have a power 'blink' just too long for the UPS, or you're remote administering the machine and force a reboot? THE SERVER DOESN'T COME BACK UP. The system not coming up is FAR more tragic than a non-fatal fdiv bug. Why? I have to get out of bed in the wee hours of the morning, drive an hour, drink lots of coffee on the way, and press the power button again. All because some idiot paid a premium for on Intel's rushed-to-market 2nd place processor instead of buying a Athlon. If the system doesn't reliably power up, I don't want it or any of it's like brethren.
Geez.. We have a few of those over in Legal still. I always wondered why they had scorch marks on the etching!
Olivetti/AT+T used to make one based on a Herc chip that was infamous for going up in smoke. The manual for the 3836-16 even has a step in the setup proceedure where you pop the case open and check for smoke. Thankfully, they only ever shipped 'em on Unix boxes, so the operator was a little more prepared to deal with a flaming computer than most.
I feel bad to see Apple pulling all the 'fun' out of their products. But if the eggs and the credits have to go, I feel it is only fitting for the man who started them, Jobs, to hand down the decree.
Let's all power up the old LC or IIfx we have in the closet and hit it one more time for the guys and gals at Apple. We appreciate your effort, even if you don't get your name etched in.
Both ATAPI and SCSI cdrom drives can be root mounted like regular media, I believe. If for some reason you need a module, you can use the excellent init.rd mechanism Linux provides as a high-level bootstrap for the real root media.
A simple way to determine which files need RW access would be to snapshot a RW HD partition of 640M, use it in a relitivly static way for a few days, and then compare the file checksums against the snap. (OC, there is probably a file monitor that does it too, I just don't know of one!)
Then the real question is how to provide for the RW space; Do we use symlinks, or a hybrid overlay mechanism?
1. The maximum is 18 Gb, though you'd be pressed to find a DVD-ROM that actually used it.
2. While they are physically identical in size, there are numerous differences, the largest being their use of the UFS and micro-UFS filesystems on the discs instead of the standard ISO. DVD also uses a slightly different plastic, can support multiple data layers on a single DVD, and has a much higher data density.
3. The speed is nearly identical. I beleive a 6X DVD-ROM device is comparable to a 48X CDROM in terms of speed, but I may be off a little.
Corrections? Please do!
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A 140GB CD-ROM?
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I already went through that with 'CD-Caddies' back in the eighties, and I don't want to go through it again, thank you. Drives that require not only media but mamby-pamby media enclosures SUCK. Media enclosures are an environmental condom for AOL lusers who can't figure out that you PUT THE CD BACK IN THE CASE AFTER USING IT. You all know the AOL mentality! They look at the 'Magic Space Age Disc' and assume 'Well, it LOOKS indestructable' and proceed to use it as a coaster, a chew toy for their mongrel child or as a mirror to pop pimples. Then, when the disc is greasy, scratched, mauled and/or in little bitty bits, they call up the company and bitch that their copy of 'Ascii Spelunker 1.0' stopped working for no good reason and that they should get another copy because 'Ima good Windas user. Ah even knows how to make it do that pretty blue 'an yella screen where it makes sure ahl my disk thingies ahr spinnin' and as such know more than the company whose disc got mangled ever could, and as the superior being DESERVE the FREE disc.
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Folks! Joke! Sarcasm! HAHA! Definitly not as funny as the Grits Guy, and possibly not as apparent (seeing as how everyone missed the real point like a MX missile.). I suppose I should really try to stay away from the humor, though. I'm never funny until I'm drunk, and even then I only think I am.
All sufficiently complex copiers require manufacturer service, as the manufacturers are loathe to give up the lucrative service contracts. The owner of a particular ID is therefore known to the manufacturer by-way of the machine serial number. Even if the manufacturer can't tell you who currently owns the machine (if it is not being serviced) they can tell you the serial number of the machine that produced the copy.
Allrighty then.. I'm going to form a company to make a competing plug-in, and then haul Macromedia into court. I'll say that Macromedia made an exclusive deal with Microsoft to distribute their product, and since Microsoft was illegally using its O/S monopoly to corner the browser market Macromedia directly liable for the prohibitive cost of entry for my plug-in.
Any of the screwed-up courts here in the US will give me a pile.
...will be viewable using Macromedia's Flash software, which the company says is already on 200 million computers.
What, did they get it in the bundle of useless plug-ins included with IE?
They have ther finger on the pulse of the digital economy? Puhleese! They've got one hand in the pockets of corporate America and the other is busy thumbing their, ehrm, hindquarters. CNet is much like Microsoft: Depending on either for comprehensive objectivity is less crazy than your dog learning conversational Spanish in a weekend.
On the other hand, the commercials weren't that bad.
Since when would I trust CNet to rate Linux distros? That's like trusting your six-year old kid to rate German sports cars!
But the newbies the article is targeted at probably trust them, and any exposure is welcome, so I'll shut up now..
My little way of starting a flame war: SuSe rocks!
If I had a T2S that could reproduce that garbled mess as understandable speech, I could make a pile of cash turning Marketing Speak into English.
Might make IBM manuals more friendly too!
a hundred twenty gates at a note let me give you every moment in your life right we've got we've got that word the key guess like thirty five to defend the trees now we don't like pancakes free
./
Methinks a lexical generator produces better speech than the triumvirate of
I had one of the first CDROM drives produced, a Sony (produced for the domestic market) that didn't even carry a rated speed. While it didn't have the four-pin soundcard connector we are familiar with today, it did have the capability to play audio discs through the included headphone jack.
Perhaps the restriction was placed on US equipment only?
Just a test to prove my understnding of how Slash works.. Methinks I will next grab the old 0.3 Slash code and pry about in admin.pl...
So it keeps chopping em, eh?
My usual choices are band names, song names, and album names. I rarely forget that, say, 'battery' is a member of 'masterOfPuppets'. Of course, I still occasionally use something meaningful, but I love the looks produced when people read code like
if(!instantkarma){
jhn_cgr_mlncmp::elton_john(temp,"Connection down", theWho.megaDeth(instantkarma),"Ok",0);
if(temp){
beatles::come_together(instantkarma, alicecooper->default_device());}
else {
jhn_cgr_mlncmp::crumbling_down("Operation cancelled",alicecooper.max_wait());}
}
Whoa! Coppermine is a NEW CPU CORE. Katmai (read: Pentium Pro) core based PII's and PIII's have been around a while, and are really good chips. The Coppermine based PIII's are newer then the Athlon, rushed to market! Release wasn't scheduled for almost eight months. Coppermine != Katmai, much in the way K6-III != Athlon.
All this accomplishes lost revenue on the new product and an tapped R+D budget. Even if they use a key four times larger than the last, it is still only a matter of months before someone manages to unlock them. Then we have the MPAA and the RIAA screaming again, and the cycle repeats.
There are millions of brains and PC's out here waiting to beat the system that only a dozen of them engineer. Who do you think wins? Not Matsushita and certainly not the RIAA!
It's Boston slang. On top of the fact that they user 'copper', they mispronounce it 'cawppeh'. I'm not so sure it is pecular to MA; for all I know the entire eastern seaboard is using it..
If you don't mind answering, what exactly does Rational produce? Has there been any buzz about the aquisition of J++?
Amazon wasn't lying. Below you will find an excerpt from Jeff Bezos' own notes
t al: 3,027 man/apehours
25 manhours Implementing the system
25 manhours Debugging the new system
118 manhours Time (Jeff Bezos) spent on the golf course thinking about Amazon
480 manhours Touchy-feely focus group to evaluate the emotion evoked by the square button.
162 manhours Spent preparing Powerpoints to illustrate the new feature to Marketing
416 manhours Marketing has stuck their collective heads in their collective arses.
14 manhours (Bezos) Got blazingly drunk at a bar, spent the night in the drunk tank
480 manhours Marketing, who didn't like the Powerpoints, orders another 'focus group' They request chimpanzees this time, citing them as smarter than most AOL users.
90 manhours Marketing likes the new focus group results, takes the afternoon off to visit a strip club.
2 manhours (Bezos) Fired the entire Marketing department, and replaced them with the chimpanzees.
20 apehours The chimps have a meeting over brunch to discuss patenting their new business model.
100 manhours Time billed by patent laywer for an afternoon visit from the chimps.
275 manhours Time billed by patent attorney whilst in the Bahamas on vacation.
600 manhours The lawyer spends an evening drafting the patent documents. Goes back to the Bahamas, taking a friend with him.
50 manhours Time spent by the laywers secretary completing the patent documentation, filing them, calling the Patent Office, etc. The only real work in the patent process occured in this step.
170 apehours Patent was approved! (Bezos) Called a press conference, shmoozed the media, and had the marketing chimps call and harass our competitors.
-------------------------------
To
The bug was found in the Optiplex series, Dell's high end desktop machines. The article states that the bug WAS NOT found in the portable chips. Additionally, these processors are also offered in their server line. I hope a few made it out the door, too. Intel needs a spanking for a stupid bug.
Not a big deal? These new Coppermine processors are to be installed in servers. What happens when you have a power 'blink' just too long for the UPS, or you're remote administering the machine and force a reboot? THE SERVER DOESN'T COME BACK UP. The system not coming up is FAR more tragic than a non-fatal fdiv bug. Why? I have to get out of bed in the wee hours of the morning, drive an hour, drink lots of coffee on the way, and press the power button again. All because some idiot paid a premium for on Intel's rushed-to-market 2nd place processor instead of buying a Athlon. If the system doesn't reliably power up, I don't want it or any of it's like brethren.
Geez.. We have a few of those over in Legal still.
I always wondered why they had scorch marks on the etching!
Olivetti/AT+T used to make one based on a Herc chip that was infamous for going up in smoke. The manual for the 3836-16 even has a step in the setup proceedure where you pop the case open and check for smoke. Thankfully, they only ever shipped 'em on Unix boxes, so the operator was a little more prepared to deal with a flaming computer than most.
I feel bad to see Apple pulling all the 'fun' out of their products. But if the eggs and the credits have to go, I feel it is only fitting for the man who started them, Jobs, to hand down the decree.
Let's all power up the old LC or IIfx we have in the closet and hit it one more time for the guys and gals at Apple. We appreciate your effort, even if you don't get your name etched in.
Both ATAPI and SCSI cdrom drives can be root mounted like regular media, I believe. If for some reason you need a module, you can use the excellent init.rd mechanism Linux provides as a high-level bootstrap for the real root media.
A simple way to determine which files need RW access would be to snapshot a RW HD partition of 640M, use it in a relitivly static way for a few days, and then compare the file checksums against the snap. (OC, there is probably a file monitor that does it too, I just don't know of one!)
Then the real question is how to provide for the RW space; Do we use symlinks, or a hybrid overlay mechanism?
Answers:
1. The maximum is 18 Gb, though you'd be pressed to find a DVD-ROM that actually used it.
2. While they are physically identical in size, there are numerous differences, the largest being their use of the UFS and micro-UFS filesystems on the discs instead of the standard ISO. DVD also uses a slightly different plastic, can support multiple data layers on a single DVD, and has a much higher data density.
3. The speed is nearly identical. I beleive a 6X DVD-ROM device is comparable to a 48X CDROM in terms of speed, but I may be off a little.
Corrections? Please do!
I already went through that with 'CD-Caddies' back in the eighties, and I don't want to go through it again, thank you. Drives that require not only media but mamby-pamby media enclosures SUCK. Media enclosures are an environmental condom for AOL lusers who can't figure out that you PUT THE CD BACK IN THE CASE AFTER USING IT. You all know the AOL mentality! They look at the 'Magic Space Age Disc' and assume 'Well, it LOOKS indestructable' and proceed to use it as a coaster, a chew toy for their mongrel child or as a mirror to pop pimples. Then, when the disc is greasy, scratched, mauled and/or in little bitty bits, they call up the company and bitch that their copy of 'Ascii Spelunker 1.0' stopped working for no good reason and that they should get another copy because 'Ima good Windas user. Ah even knows how to make it do that pretty blue 'an yella screen where it makes sure ahl my disk thingies ahr spinnin' and as such know more than the company whose disc got mangled ever could, and as the superior being DESERVE the FREE disc.
No thank you! I'm not into that sado-masochistic 'Let Bob Young spank the HD with packages' thing..