... show Minix to be a derivitive of Unix as well? or am I reading the original version's timeline incorrectly? Because in both the original and SCOs version, there's a line from a version of Unix to Minix.
Interesting... it looks kind of like a competitor to Microsoft's IIS server... it's a different direction than I'd expected, but not a bad one. Does it still support BBS doors though? It looks like a lot has changed...
Wow, I didn't know Wildcat was still around... they were definately kings of the BBS realm back when BBSes were real, dial-in BBSes. That was good software...
Is it still pretty expensive though, or have they gone open source too?
Because, quite frankly, Google's "Conversation" interface is unintuitive and clumsy. Or am I the only one that feels that way? I'm a GMail tester, and though I like the size of storage I decisively dislike how all the messages are kept in "conversation blocks". I thought I'd get used to it, but I'm definately not getting used to it. I think with E-Mail comes certain presentation expectations, and like an ideology they're hard to break... at least for me.
I was thinking the same thing! SynchroNET rocks, and I'm glad there's still someone alive other than me that appreciated LORD. =) man, that was one hell of a game.
This is a freeware program, and one of the most robust BBS systems ever... particularily since it's one of the only ones still being developed. The guy who makes it is a really nice fellow too... I'd check it out. It supports making Telnet BBSs with up to (I believe) 255 virtual nodes, and it works perfectly with LORD, Usurper, etc... In fact, not too long ago I ran a BBS at my college. Those were good times... memories... =)
I ran a BBS on the Intranet in my College a few years ago (a quick shout to any residents of Keene State College!). Anyways, it's easy to do. Go to www.synchro.net, they have BBS software that works over Telnet... in other words, it's a BBS that works over TCP/IP instead of over direct modem to modem connection. Then use an IP forwarding service to point a domain name to your IP address on the **local** network. Then everyone on your network, and ONLY on your network, will be able to connect to the BBS.
Oh, and if you want any of that old BBS software, it's still out there! A company named Metropolis now (unfortunately) owns the licenses for the classic game "Legend of the Red Dragon", so you'll have to buy it from them and not Seth Able. Most of the other ones have gone the way of abandonware... I tried to contact the authors of Usurper, Exitilus and so on... and none of them seem to have internet presence anymore. And if you were a Tradewars fan, it not only still exists but at one point they were going to make a new age MMORPG out of it!
Isn't there something better that you and your sig. other could be doing than playing video games? =)
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As someone who did see (unfortunately) the prior G4, I can decisively say that TechTV had more new content. They had a few shows that played over and over, but almost all of G4's content was cycled over and over in an endless tedium of the same thing. It was painful to see, actually. Now I may be mistaken, and perhaps a couple of the shows had new episodes every once in a while... but if they did, I couldn't tell the difference (as most of their shows are just a cycle between showing commentary-devoid clips of games [it's much more eerie than you'd imagine] followed by a brief interlude with some annoying hosts on a butt ugly set). =)
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Why did they keep mostly G4? Am I the only one who believes that TechTV was several orders of magnitude in higher quality than G4? I mean, to me it wasn't even a contest! G4 looked like it was being run out of some 70's revivalist's basement!
It had the ugliest sets, hosts that were more or less inept, and the same boring content played over and over. TechTV always had new content, their sets were professional and made you actually want to watch (as opposed to giving you the feeling that you should be going to a Disco), and their hosts were competent technical experts.
Which brings us to the final question. What sort of drugs were they ON?!?
I was going by the assumption that "Custodial" was referring to the politically correct term for janitor. =) I never realized there was another definition for it. =) I stand corrected.
I was about ready to tear the kid's head off too, and then I read the blurb. Although I don't think he would ever win a lawsuit, I do think that, if they knew that he was plagarizing earlier, they should have kicked him out instead of letting him wade through 3 years of school and then opening up the history of his plagarizing.
The analogy to that would be seeing a burglar in your house, and sitting there as he took almost everything (and he knows that you're there watching and not saying anything about it). When he goes to take the last valuable item in your house, THEN you pull out your gun and shoot him in the face.
Now granted, what the kid did was stupid, and his excuse is lame ("I didn't know it was wrong"). But if they knew that he had been plagarizing the past 3 years (as the article incinuates), then they should have kicked him out immediately. Doing otherwise does kind of look like extortion, or rather making someone pay money under false pretenses.
That being said, I don't feel sympathy for the kid. You lost money? Too bad, you shouldn't have been plagarizing. You're 21 years old, you should know better.
I didn't see this post before I posted, but below I talk about something in the article where the head of Janitorial services has been sentanced to 21 months in prison for accepting a bribe from NEC. Ironic that no one in NEC will ever get a prison sentance for committing the bribe, nor for plotting the conspiracy to defraud the school system or the American taxpayers. It's shameful, actually.
But that should be corrected. Someone is going to jail, but it's no one at NEC (the people who actually COMMITTED the conspiracy to defraud). Nope, it's the head of janitorial services that they supposedly bribed:
"That employee, Desmond McQuoid, was the custodial supervisor of the district. He pleaded guilty to mail fraud last year and was sentenced to 21 months in prison, according to Mr. Havian, the lawyer for the school district. Mr. Havian said the suit against Video Network Communications was still pending."
Pretty brutal, eh? NEC gets away with a fine, while the person that they duped and intentionally threw money at gets sent to prison. And that, my friends, is what's wrong with our justice system. Not that he shouldn't have gone to jail, but I'd like to see some NEC people get sent up the river for this too... after all, the other guy was just duped by money. NEC and this other company they speak of actually planned the fraud and intentionally sought to take taxpayer money by the millions.
I mean, I could see a scenario here where the fellow might not have even realized the scope of what was about to happen. They bribed him so that no other competitive bids would come in: a person who was easily duped might have just assumed that they wanted the business, not that they were planning on bending the school district over if you know what I mean.
See the post below, in reply to my critic (who is definately not a nurse since he/she claims to have gotten Hep-C vaccinations when no such things exists).
Replace the instances above of "Hep-C" to "Meningitis-C", for reasons listed in said post below. The same things still apply, I was just talking about the wrong disease.
Nay, sadly you **CANNOT** get vaccinated for Hep-C, not the last time I checked. I will quote from Hepatitis Resources of California's website:
"There is no vaccine against HCV. Research is in progress but the high mutability of the HCV genome complicates vaccine development."
Now, I need to make a correction to my prior statement, which may have caused to much confusion. I was referring to Meningitis-C and not Hep-C in the above post, that was my mistake. Now, a vaccine for Men-C ***does*** exist in the U.S. (now), HOWEVER it was created by Cuba. In fact, the few relaxations that have occurred in the Cuban embargo took place so that the United States could get access to this vaccine created by the Cuban Biotech industry:
A vaccine for meningitis B--an inflammation of the membranes covering the brain or spinal cord which can be fatal--was developed at Cuba's Carlos Finlay Institute in the 1980s and is now administered to all Cuban infants over three months. This has contributed to a 93% reduction in cases of meningococcal disease on the island. The antimeningitis B vaccine, unique in the world, caught the attention of the pharmaceutical company SmithKline Beecham (now Glaxo SmithKline), which subsequently reached an agreement with the Finlay Institute to market the vaccine globally. The Finlay Institute retains the vaccine patent and control over R&D, production and quality assessment capacities in Cuba.
Given the size of the U.S. market, SmithKline was obviously interested in being able to market the vaccine in the United States, a suggestion that Cuba welcomed. Currently in the United States there are some 3,000 cases of meningitis a year, 300 of them fatal, many of which could be prevented by immunizing children and teenagers, particularly in high risk areas. But export to the United States was initially blocked by the U.S. embargo against Cuba. In 1996, passage of the Helms-Burton Act had further tightened the embargo. U.S.-owned pharmaceutical companies anywhere in the world are prohibited from trading with Cuba, a measure which specifically affects Cuba's biotechnology sector. SmithKline Beecham received a license from the U.S. Treasury Department allowing them to finalize a deal with Finlay and bring the vaccine to the U.S. market, providing these vaccines were produced in SmithKline Beecham facilities. Other conditions were imposed by the U.S. government as well, including minimizing the hard currency that the Finlay Institute could receive: Part of the royalties must be paid in kind, through delivery of medicines and other materials to Cuba."
Aye, I did oversimplify the issue, but the real point I was making was that Xinjiang was definately part of China during the time of WW II. Many places have transitional leaders come and go, and with a history as long as China a transitional phase might be a hundred or more years long... but still simply transitory.
but as explained in a later post, the other countries that they speak about were not independant nations. Manchuria (or, at the time, Manchukuo) was under the soverignty of Japan shortly after the start of WWII. Xinjiang has been under the control of China for just over two millenia.
Anyone who considers themselves a true member of the Left would be opposed to the Chinese occupation of Tibet. Have you not heard of the Tibetan freedom concert, or the numerous "Free Tibet" signs and shirts that are worn even at protests that have nothing to do with Tibet? Tibet is a big, BIG issue for the left. They are consistent.
And as far as Cuba goes, my family comes from Cuba. Cuba is oppressive in terms of free speech, but it is far from the bloodbath that you describe it as. In fact, if you look at the latest U.N. statistics Cuba's quality of life is one of the highest in the world and tops among third world nations: it is close to on par with countries with hundreds of times their GDP, and it is only beneath those nations in quality becuase of embargos that limit their ability to distribute the goods that they have to sell. On TOP of that, Cuba holds one of the leading Biotech industries in the world; their advances rival the United States. They have developed a vaccine for Hepititis-C, a strain that has not been able to be vaccinated in the U.S. and that is not available to Americans because of said economic embargoes. They are also in the testing phases of medicine that cures certain forms of breast cancer without the need for radiation therapy. Cuba would be a highly advanced nation right now, if it weren't for the Communist-fearing embargoes placed upon them. If you want to talk about injustice in Cuba, or starving children, you're going to have to point the finger at the wealthy nations that restrict their trade.
You talk of intellectual honesty: perhaps you should consider that the views you hold about the left and about other countries might not be true after all.
many of those other regions were by no means independant during World War II. Manchuria, for example, was immediately taken by Japan in WWII and became a pseudo-country known as Manchukuo, but was technically a territory of Japan.
And Xinjiang was *CERTAINLY* not an independant nation at any time, ever. It has always been considered an "autonomous region" along with a great portion of that western side of China, but it is by no means independant. It still functions under the rules and mandates of the Chinese government(s), and has done so for the past 2200 years.
So I believe that, although their action because of it was a bit extreme, they were at least correct in their reasoning for two of the states. The first one, Tibet, was indeed an independant soverignty until 1950, and so should not have been on that list. (of course, the propaganda surrounding the Tibetan situation with China is such that they would like people to believe otherwise)
And as a final, humorous note... should the United States censor Risk, that divides our country into five partitions. =)
See, that's exactly why the U.S. is such a big backer of the World Trade Organization. Quite frankly, Globalization is really just a shallow attempt to retain the global dominating power of the United States by imposing our regulations on others, such as Patents for example.
One of the big things that is being pushed by the WTO is global acknowledgement of patents. You can guess who that'll benefit, and who that'll screw over.
Well done! Pack up your stuff, we're going on a road trip. Anyone that wants to join me, start on the list in the closest location to you, and cut a swath to the center of the country. We'll meet in Kansas and down a few cold ones in celebration. The first round's on me.
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Hey, what happens if they go out of business before the court cases clear up? Would they be thrown out of court?
... show Minix to be a derivitive of Unix as well? or am I reading the original version's timeline incorrectly? Because in both the original and SCOs version, there's a line from a version of Unix to Minix.
you insensitive clod!
Interesting... it looks kind of like a competitor to Microsoft's IIS server... it's a different direction than I'd expected, but not a bad one. Does it still support BBS doors though? It looks like a lot has changed...
Wow, I didn't know Wildcat was still around... they were definately kings of the BBS realm back when BBSes were real, dial-in BBSes. That was good software... Is it still pretty expensive though, or have they gone open source too?
Because, quite frankly, Google's "Conversation" interface is unintuitive and clumsy. Or am I the only one that feels that way? I'm a GMail tester, and though I like the size of storage I decisively dislike how all the messages are kept in "conversation blocks". I thought I'd get used to it, but I'm definately not getting used to it. I think with E-Mail comes certain presentation expectations, and like an ideology they're hard to break... at least for me.
I was thinking the same thing! SynchroNET rocks, and I'm glad there's still someone alive other than me that appreciated LORD. =) man, that was one hell of a game.
This is a freeware program, and one of the most robust BBS systems ever... particularily since it's one of the only ones still being developed. The guy who makes it is a really nice fellow too... I'd check it out. It supports making Telnet BBSs with up to (I believe) 255 virtual nodes, and it works perfectly with LORD, Usurper, etc... In fact, not too long ago I ran a BBS at my college. Those were good times... memories... =)
Oh, and if you want any of that old BBS software, it's still out there! A company named Metropolis now (unfortunately) owns the licenses for the classic game "Legend of the Red Dragon", so you'll have to buy it from them and not Seth Able. Most of the other ones have gone the way of abandonware... I tried to contact the authors of Usurper, Exitilus and so on... and none of them seem to have internet presence anymore. And if you were a Tradewars fan, it not only still exists but at one point they were going to make a new age MMORPG out of it!
Isn't there something better that you and your sig. other could be doing than playing video games? =)
As someone who did see (unfortunately) the prior G4, I can decisively say that TechTV had more new content. They had a few shows that played over and over, but almost all of G4's content was cycled over and over in an endless tedium of the same thing. It was painful to see, actually. Now I may be mistaken, and perhaps a couple of the shows had new episodes every once in a while... but if they did, I couldn't tell the difference (as most of their shows are just a cycle between showing commentary-devoid clips of games [it's much more eerie than you'd imagine] followed by a brief interlude with some annoying hosts on a butt ugly set). =)
It had the ugliest sets, hosts that were more or less inept, and the same boring content played over and over. TechTV always had new content, their sets were professional and made you actually want to watch (as opposed to giving you the feeling that you should be going to a Disco), and their hosts were competent technical experts.
Which brings us to the final question. What sort of drugs were they ON?!?
I was going by the assumption that "Custodial" was referring to the politically correct term for janitor. =) I never realized there was another definition for it. =) I stand corrected.
The analogy to that would be seeing a burglar in your house, and sitting there as he took almost everything (and he knows that you're there watching and not saying anything about it). When he goes to take the last valuable item in your house, THEN you pull out your gun and shoot him in the face.
Now granted, what the kid did was stupid, and his excuse is lame ("I didn't know it was wrong"). But if they knew that he had been plagarizing the past 3 years (as the article incinuates), then they should have kicked him out immediately. Doing otherwise does kind of look like extortion, or rather making someone pay money under false pretenses.
That being said, I don't feel sympathy for the kid. You lost money? Too bad, you shouldn't have been plagarizing. You're 21 years old, you should know better.
I didn't see this post before I posted, but below I talk about something in the article where the head of Janitorial services has been sentanced to 21 months in prison for accepting a bribe from NEC. Ironic that no one in NEC will ever get a prison sentance for committing the bribe, nor for plotting the conspiracy to defraud the school system or the American taxpayers. It's shameful, actually.
"That employee, Desmond McQuoid, was the custodial supervisor of the district. He pleaded guilty to mail fraud last year and was sentenced to 21 months in prison, according to Mr. Havian, the lawyer for the school district. Mr. Havian said the suit against Video Network Communications was still pending."
Pretty brutal, eh? NEC gets away with a fine, while the person that they duped and intentionally threw money at gets sent to prison. And that, my friends, is what's wrong with our justice system. Not that he shouldn't have gone to jail, but I'd like to see some NEC people get sent up the river for this too... after all, the other guy was just duped by money. NEC and this other company they speak of actually planned the fraud and intentionally sought to take taxpayer money by the millions.
I mean, I could see a scenario here where the fellow might not have even realized the scope of what was about to happen. They bribed him so that no other competitive bids would come in: a person who was easily duped might have just assumed that they wanted the business, not that they were planning on bending the school district over if you know what I mean.
Replace the instances above of "Hep-C" to "Meningitis-C", for reasons listed in said post below. The same things still apply, I was just talking about the wrong disease.
"There is no vaccine against HCV. Research is in progress but the high mutability of the HCV genome complicates vaccine development."
Now, I need to make a correction to my prior statement, which may have caused to much confusion. I was referring to Meningitis-C and not Hep-C in the above post, that was my mistake. Now, a vaccine for Men-C ***does*** exist in the U.S. (now), HOWEVER it was created by Cuba. In fact, the few relaxations that have occurred in the Cuban embargo took place so that the United States could get access to this vaccine created by the Cuban Biotech industry:
A vaccine for meningitis B--an inflammation of the membranes covering the brain or spinal cord which can be fatal--was developed at Cuba's Carlos Finlay Institute in the 1980s and is now administered to all Cuban infants over three months. This has contributed to a 93% reduction in cases of meningococcal disease on the island. The antimeningitis B vaccine, unique in the world, caught the attention of the pharmaceutical company SmithKline Beecham (now Glaxo SmithKline), which subsequently reached an agreement with the Finlay Institute to market the vaccine globally. The Finlay Institute retains the vaccine patent and control over R&D, production and quality assessment capacities in Cuba. Given the size of the U.S. market, SmithKline was obviously interested in being able to market the vaccine in the United States, a suggestion that Cuba welcomed. Currently in the United States there are some 3,000 cases of meningitis a year, 300 of them fatal, many of which could be prevented by immunizing children and teenagers, particularly in high risk areas. But export to the United States was initially blocked by the U.S. embargo against Cuba. In 1996, passage of the Helms-Burton Act had further tightened the embargo. U.S.-owned pharmaceutical companies anywhere in the world are prohibited from trading with Cuba, a measure which specifically affects Cuba's biotechnology sector. SmithKline Beecham received a license from the U.S. Treasury Department allowing them to finalize a deal with Finlay and bring the vaccine to the U.S. market, providing these vaccines were produced in SmithKline Beecham facilities. Other conditions were imposed by the U.S. government as well, including minimizing the hard currency that the Finlay Institute could receive: Part of the royalties must be paid in kind, through delivery of medicines and other materials to Cuba."
So there you have it.
Aye, I did oversimplify the issue, but the real point I was making was that Xinjiang was definately part of China during the time of WW II. Many places have transitional leaders come and go, and with a history as long as China a transitional phase might be a hundred or more years long... but still simply transitory.
but as explained in a later post, the other countries that they speak about were not independant nations. Manchuria (or, at the time, Manchukuo) was under the soverignty of Japan shortly after the start of WWII. Xinjiang has been under the control of China for just over two millenia.
And as far as Cuba goes, my family comes from Cuba. Cuba is oppressive in terms of free speech, but it is far from the bloodbath that you describe it as. In fact, if you look at the latest U.N. statistics Cuba's quality of life is one of the highest in the world and tops among third world nations: it is close to on par with countries with hundreds of times their GDP, and it is only beneath those nations in quality becuase of embargos that limit their ability to distribute the goods that they have to sell. On TOP of that, Cuba holds one of the leading Biotech industries in the world; their advances rival the United States. They have developed a vaccine for Hepititis-C, a strain that has not been able to be vaccinated in the U.S. and that is not available to Americans because of said economic embargoes. They are also in the testing phases of medicine that cures certain forms of breast cancer without the need for radiation therapy. Cuba would be a highly advanced nation right now, if it weren't for the Communist-fearing embargoes placed upon them. If you want to talk about injustice in Cuba, or starving children, you're going to have to point the finger at the wealthy nations that restrict their trade.
You talk of intellectual honesty: perhaps you should consider that the views you hold about the left and about other countries might not be true after all.
And Xinjiang was *CERTAINLY* not an independant nation at any time, ever. It has always been considered an "autonomous region" along with a great portion of that western side of China, but it is by no means independant. It still functions under the rules and mandates of the Chinese government(s), and has done so for the past 2200 years.
So I believe that, although their action because of it was a bit extreme, they were at least correct in their reasoning for two of the states. The first one, Tibet, was indeed an independant soverignty until 1950, and so should not have been on that list. (of course, the propaganda surrounding the Tibetan situation with China is such that they would like people to believe otherwise)
And as a final, humorous note... should the United States censor Risk, that divides our country into five partitions. =)
One of the big things that is being pushed by the WTO is global acknowledgement of patents. You can guess who that'll benefit, and who that'll screw over.
we have a new winner! Perhaps this news post should be changed and/or appended to reflect this?
Well done! Pack up your stuff, we're going on a road trip. Anyone that wants to join me, start on the list in the closest location to you, and cut a swath to the center of the country. We'll meet in Kansas and down a few cold ones in celebration. The first round's on me.