Moron? You really expected to call up first line support at Compaq and have the guy say "Was that a 5 or 10 microfarad capacitor? We'll send your capacitor out FedEx today" Please.
No you would be very very rouge, like third degree red (as opposed to, say, second degree red?), for critiquing someone's spelling while talking about "chron jobs"
Beware of statistics on children killed by guns. Usually they don't differentiate between the 10-year old who accidentally shoots his sister with daddy's pistol and the 17-year old gang banger who gets shot by the owner of a liquor store while attempting an armed robbery.
Neither do their parents.
You made it his business
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Why was the sales rep "told of your decision" at all? I don't buy a new car and then call and tell the car salesman that I'm lowering the suspension, adding a NOX system and that I'll be listening to Dirty Vegas in the CD player. Sounds like you have a political issue you're trying to push to someone who couldn't pass his/her calculus class and became a "sales rep". Just buy the box and skip the whining.
I browsed your all of your sites (even the abandoned ones) and since my browser cache is set to 782TB (and I'm still running Netscape 1.0N), your sites are still there. And my cache is publically accessible via my webserver. Yet another way you're being violated. Ah, the risks and perils of publishing on a public network.
Calling NBC competition for NPR is like calling triple fudge ice cream competition for a nice salmon steak with steamed asparagus and new potatoes. Depends on how you define competition, I suppose.
To paraphrase Karl Marx: "Television is the opiate of the masses." Now that's a drug war we really need to fight. Pimps and pushers, that's what the TV execs are. Terrorists.
That's a screaming endorsement. I'm critically ambivalent about whether to follow it. I'm bristling with excitement that it may be somewhat non-boring.
Depending on how you define "computer", this is wrong. I can have a hardware RNG in my pc (say, plugged into a PCI slot) that generates random numbers from thermal noise of a diode. Generally accepted in the crypto community as random. Not that I'm defending the app described in the article (sounds mighty shaky to me).
For storing CDs - mediazone cases. Very slim. I hold over 400 CDs in the shelves of my regular-sized (for a 27" TV) entertainment center.
For flexible listening solution - rip with EAC and encode with LAME at 192 or 256 vbr. Unless you spent over, say, 20 grand on your stereo, you simply will be unable to hear the difference. Store them on a modest 30-40 GB hard drive and access them via Netjuke, sending digital outputs of your sound card to your receiver.
The OS in *very* closed. The *OS* runs at a layer below NewtonScript. The NewtonScript layer has a very fixed number of APIs available, period. Hardly a hacker's OS. The NS interpreter runs as a thread in the OS, with the digitizer running in another and the HWR in another (there are a few others as well, IIRC). If you want to do any hacking at all (i.e. outside the box that Walter Smith and friends decided you should live in), you have to break out to a god-forsaken, highly limited C environment (global vars not allowed, for example) which *requires* a Mac and MPW (and resembles no C environment any self-respecting hacker could love).
I was an early Newton adopter, a member of the dev program. I had the Apple Newton Toolkit (and even beta tested NTK for Win, complete with NDA) a registered Newt's Cape and Newt user and even had a semi-functional PGP implementation which will never see the light of day. I still have emails I exchanged with Walter Smith, designer of the Newton OS and Newtonscript begging for some low level APIs and him explaining how they decided not to allow any real low level programming whatsoever to prevent developers from hurting themselves (not exactly a hacker's heaven here). Many things about the Newton were great and NewtonScript was elegant in many ways. But let's face reality - The Newton is dead. The heart stopped beating years ago. Steve killed it in a jealous rage, laughing at Gil Amelio as he crushed the Newton division. I sold all my Newton hardware and software (and the obligatory McKeehan & Rhodes books) in disgust shortly after it got Steved.
Let's not fool ourselves into thinking that your MP2100 is anything but an Osborne at this point. Dynapad sounds cool, and Squeak is sweet, no doubt. But bragging about the Newton is kinda like doing donuts in the parking lot in you DeLorean. No offense - just stick to that iPaq.
The only reason Rob, et al has to do this is to cover the costs of tons of bandwidth and hardware. If he could do it for little or nothing, I'm sure he would. So let's build a Distributed Slashdot client. Spread the load around via mirrors to everyone's web space and bandwidth that they're not using. The hits to slashdot.org go way down, everyone gets their News for Nerds.
We may do a fair amount of harm to the average Chinese person indeed. The Chinese government, however, has done far worse in Tibet than we've done in China. Not that we haven't done it elsewhere (Central America, to say the least).
PYONGYANG, NORTH KOREA -- Following closely on the heels of the recent successes in the Chinese information industry, known to have invoked advanced commands such as:
cd/ find . | sed -e s/Hat/Flag/g
the North Korean Ministry of Information and Technology has announced its own groundbreaking Linux distribution bearing the state's official endorsement - Plebian GNU/Linux.
Also believed to be in the pipeline are other state sponsored distributions, including Yellow Snake, Handbrake, RuSE, and Blackware Linux.
If they are willing to buy it, then it has to be for sale. If it is for sale, then the source is (usually) closed. If it is closed, we have no idea what it's written in. For all we know, MS Office XP is written in a combination of Scheme, Haskell, and Mondrian.
I was wrong about The Gimp. Not written in Scheme. Script-Fu uses Scheme. My bad.
You'll note that none of my comments included the words 'off-the-shelf.' Nor did they include the words 'shrink-wrapped'.
I can give you the number of Fortune 500 companies that use 3rd party (i.e. not developed in house) packages for ERP (i.e. "database applications," in your terms, i.e. The Big Corporate App That Runs The Whole Show): 500. SAP, Peoplesoft, Oracle Apps (not the Oracle database server). How do I know this? I've worked in the Fortune 500. How many Unix workstations did they have to support with their ERP client (SAP, in my case) - very few - 5% in my estimate (which should be fairly accurate - I was responsible for packaging and rolling out the SAP client).
Not sure what other *facts* you may need about the Fortune 500, but let me know and I'll be glad to provide them.
Don't get me wrong. I love Unix. I use it every day and depend on it. I also know it's not for consumer desktops (now that's opinion - not fact - in case you're keeping track)
While software developers may or may not be easy to find on a given platform, I wasn't talking about hiring software developers, young padawan. I was talking about using/licensing software available today to solve today's business problems
Company A takes the author's suggestion and puts in a Sun/Sunray system. Company B, next door, detects the slightest amount of bias in the article and goes with a Windows system.
Now both companies discover that Peoplesoft doesn't include a sales force automation system. The sales department needs some way to track leads, follow up on potential clients and their golf handicaps, finalize orders.
Each company sends out an RFP for an SFA system. Company B gets proposals from a dozen vendors and picks one that may not be perfect, but seems to fit the needs and culture of the company. Company A gets a single proposal for a half-assed piece of shit that was bought out from another company that went out of business 6 years ago. The system was never really completed and only has 3 other companies that use it currently, one in chapter 13. Source code is somewhere in a box of 9 track tapes in Brussels, Belgium.
Company B starts selling more widgets while company A is trying to find a consultant to add a cell phone field to their SFA system. Company B makes a lot more money, uses some of it to pay for the inordinate number of clueless MCSEs in the basement, and uses the rest of it to buy company B. Four long haired, bearded fat guys are on monster.com looking for Solaris admin jobs, the rest of Company A is retrained on Windows. Ob la di, ob la da, life goes on.
(for god's sake, the author can't even spell NetBEUI)
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Moron? You really expected to call up first line support at Compaq and have the guy say "Was that a 5 or 10 microfarad capacitor? We'll send your capacitor out FedEx today" Please.
No you would be very very rouge, like third degree red (as opposed to, say, second degree red?), for critiquing someone's spelling while talking about "chron jobs"
Neither do their parents.
Why was the sales rep "told of your decision" at all? I don't buy a new car and then call and tell the car salesman that I'm lowering the suspension, adding a NOX system and that I'll be listening to Dirty Vegas in the CD player. Sounds like you have a political issue you're trying to push to someone who couldn't pass his/her calculus class and became a "sales rep". Just buy the box and skip the whining.
Just have your company relocate to Indiana. We don't need no steenking daylight savings.
I browsed your all of your sites (even the abandoned ones) and since my browser cache is set to 782TB (and I'm still running Netscape 1.0N), your sites are still there. And my cache is publically accessible via my webserver. Yet another way you're being violated. Ah, the risks and perils of publishing on a public network.
Calling NBC competition for NPR is like calling triple fudge ice cream competition for a nice salmon steak with steamed asparagus and new potatoes. Depends on how you define competition, I suppose.
Who needs messy electrodes to fall in love when there's alt.binaries.nospam.*
To paraphrase Karl Marx: "Television is the opiate of the masses." Now that's a drug war we really need to fight. Pimps and pushers, that's what the TV execs are. Terrorists.
That's a screaming endorsement. I'm critically ambivalent about whether to follow it. I'm bristling with excitement that it may be somewhat non-boring.
And if you live in central Indiana, there's
lafayettemusic.net
indianapolismusic.net
Both of which are invigorating and recharging the local music scene(s).
Sign me up!
Depending on how you define "computer", this is wrong. I can have a hardware RNG in my pc (say, plugged into a PCI slot) that generates random numbers from thermal noise of a diode. Generally accepted in the crypto community as random. Not that I'm defending the app described in the article (sounds mighty shaky to me).
For storing CDs - mediazone cases. Very slim. I hold over 400 CDs in the shelves of my regular-sized (for a 27" TV) entertainment center.
For flexible listening solution - rip with EAC and encode with LAME at 192 or 256 vbr. Unless you spent over, say, 20 grand on your stereo, you simply will be unable to hear the difference. Store them on a modest 30-40 GB hard drive and access them via Netjuke, sending digital outputs of your sound card to your receiver.
The OS in *very* closed. The *OS* runs at a layer below NewtonScript. The NewtonScript layer has a very fixed number of APIs available, period. Hardly a hacker's OS. The NS interpreter runs as a thread in the OS, with the digitizer running in another and the HWR in another (there are a few others as well, IIRC). If you want to do any hacking at all (i.e. outside the box that Walter Smith and friends decided you should live in), you have to break out to a god-forsaken, highly limited C environment (global vars not allowed, for example) which *requires* a Mac and MPW (and resembles no C environment any self-respecting hacker could love).
I was an early Newton adopter, a member of the dev program. I had the Apple Newton Toolkit (and even beta tested NTK for Win, complete with NDA) a registered Newt's Cape and Newt user and even had a semi-functional PGP implementation which will never see the light of day. I still have emails I exchanged with Walter Smith, designer of the Newton OS and Newtonscript begging for some low level APIs and him explaining how they decided not to allow any real low level programming whatsoever to prevent developers from hurting themselves (not exactly a hacker's heaven here). Many things about the Newton were great and NewtonScript was elegant in many ways. But let's face reality - The Newton is dead. The heart stopped beating years ago. Steve killed it in a jealous rage, laughing at Gil Amelio as he crushed the Newton division. I sold all my Newton hardware and software (and the obligatory McKeehan & Rhodes books) in disgust shortly after it got Steved.
Let's not fool ourselves into thinking that your MP2100 is anything but an Osborne at this point. Dynapad sounds cool, and Squeak is sweet, no doubt. But bragging about the Newton is kinda like doing donuts in the parking lot in you DeLorean. No offense - just stick to that iPaq.
The only reason Rob, et al has to do this is to cover the costs of tons of bandwidth and hardware. If he could do it for little or nothing, I'm sure he would. So let's build a Distributed Slashdot client. Spread the load around via mirrors to everyone's web space and bandwidth that they're not using. The hits to slashdot.org go way down, everyone gets their News for Nerds.
Anyone?
We may do a fair amount of harm to the average Chinese person indeed. The Chinese government, however, has done far worse in Tibet than we've done in China. Not that we haven't done it elsewhere (Central America, to say the least).
Major Linux Innovations in Communist Asia
/
PYONGYANG, NORTH KOREA -- Following closely on the heels of the recent successes in the Chinese information industry, known to have invoked advanced commands such as:
cd
find . | sed -e s/Hat/Flag/g
the North Korean Ministry of Information and Technology has announced its own groundbreaking Linux distribution bearing the state's official endorsement - Plebian GNU/Linux.
Also believed to be in the pipeline are other state sponsored distributions, including Yellow Snake, Handbrake, RuSE, and Blackware Linux.
If they are willing to buy it, then it has to be for sale. If it is for sale, then the source is (usually) closed. If it is closed, we have no idea what it's written in. For all we know, MS Office XP is written in a combination of Scheme, Haskell, and Mondrian.
I was wrong about The Gimp. Not written in Scheme. Script-Fu uses Scheme. My bad.
The Gimp
DSSSL
Both developed in Scheme
Or you just go to memepool
Cygwin will indeed let you ssh (dunno about telnet) to your 2k box and grep to your heart's delight (and much more).
You'll note that none of my comments included the words 'off-the-shelf.' Nor did they include the words 'shrink-wrapped'.
I can give you the number of Fortune 500 companies that use 3rd party (i.e. not developed in house) packages for ERP (i.e. "database applications," in your terms, i.e. The Big Corporate App That Runs The Whole Show): 500. SAP, Peoplesoft, Oracle Apps (not the Oracle database server). How do I know this? I've worked in the Fortune 500. How many Unix workstations did they have to support with their ERP client (SAP, in my case) - very few - 5% in my estimate (which should be fairly accurate - I was responsible for packaging and rolling out the SAP client).
Not sure what other *facts* you may need about the Fortune 500, but let me know and I'll be glad to provide them.
Don't get me wrong. I love Unix. I use it every day and depend on it. I also know it's not for consumer desktops (now that's opinion - not fact - in case you're keeping track)
While software developers may or may not be easy to find on a given platform, I wasn't talking about hiring software developers, young padawan. I was talking about using/licensing software available today to solve today's business problems
That's FACT spreader to you, buddy.
Company A takes the author's suggestion and puts in a Sun/Sunray system. Company B, next door, detects the slightest amount of bias in the article and goes with a Windows system.
Now both companies discover that Peoplesoft doesn't include a sales force automation system. The sales department needs some way to track leads, follow up on potential clients and their golf handicaps, finalize orders.
Each company sends out an RFP for an SFA system. Company B gets proposals from a dozen vendors and picks one that may not be perfect, but seems to fit the needs and culture of the company. Company A gets a single proposal for a half-assed piece of shit that was bought out from another company that went out of business 6 years ago. The system was never really completed and only has 3 other companies that use it currently, one in chapter 13. Source code is somewhere in a box of 9 track tapes in Brussels, Belgium.
Company B starts selling more widgets while company A is trying to find a consultant to add a cell phone field to their SFA system. Company B makes a lot more money, uses some of it to pay for the inordinate number of clueless MCSEs in the basement, and uses the rest of it to buy company B. Four long haired, bearded fat guys are on monster.com looking for Solaris admin jobs, the rest of Company A is retrained on Windows. Ob la di, ob la da, life goes on.
(for god's sake, the author can't even spell NetBEUI)