In past 10 years, I bought a total of just a dozen PCs. Every one of them is now running Linux, completely eliminating all brands of Windowses bought with them.
That's 100% of current userbase over past 10 years now. And 6 of the 12 are actually desktops. That's 100% of my desktops running Linux.
Well, within above I do not count Linux replaced a toy WinCE in iPaq PDA, gaining a desktop capability in my pocket too.
But a paper and ink will be illegal too under this bill, by definition.
I still remember the times, when in deep communism it was illegal to own a private or non-registered typing machine (or is it typewriter in english?). At more relaxed times later, the same rule was about photo-copiers.
So many blacklisted books were copied hand-written. You can't imagine what a breaktrough in totalitarian regime mind control was made with early 8-bit computers with dot-matrix printers.
It seems, America is suddenly jumping backwards some 60 years of world political culture. What I cannot understand is which economy motives are driving such trend.
... it can run any Linux on 2.6 kernel as well. So I can't see any real problem in your naive question "Is everyone else completely locked into Microsoft like we are?" You are limited only with your own imagination.
...of the proprietary technology lockdown. Please, all you who understand negative consequences of proprietary technologies for yourself in the future, consider switching to open technologies instead.
Because in the long time scale, all this stuff is not about technology or so called intellectual property or simple capitalised greed. It is about rulership and power.
Random intervals. I already patched my desktop RSS reader to request new feed every 73+-13 minutes.
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Ultima - Labyrinth of Worlds: what about eight virtues of avatar?
Sacrifice: Gods are entities evolved to immortality, but without worlds they can control they are nothing
Planescape-Torment: Do not trust the angels. Do not trust yourself if your soul is divided.
All these messages *are* highly spiritual and connected to ancient traditions of mysticism. I mean the mysticism of supreme emancipation and freedom, not the religion.
Looking back at the history of mankind, the greatest sin ever done to humanity was the introduction of monotheism. Don't you see it is the main source of warring for past 3000 years? Up to date?
Because the purpose of religion is to deny what is most sacred to all humans: the Free Will.
Let the games help to grow free decisioning in childs. Their responsibility will follow the experience. Picture totality, authoritarian hierarchism and brute force as inferior, as it is where it belongs in the society of true freedom.
So that old dosish Duke Nukem 3D is now outlawed in WA. That is, if only a mutant alien pigcop counts as depicting a law enforcement officer. If so, minors can't play and vice versa.
I am not sure about it. Is there some government directive about it?
Many young men are so naive about social power hierarchy.
Please, all future kiddie hackers, realise that people at power are *always* more concerned about their power than about technology flaws or productivity/effectiveness of systems they control. And showing their failure in public makes them very angry, because it can endanger their image of power control the most.
Next time, if you do it for sport, do it quiet. Make yourself an outer image of a complete moron. Enjoy your insight. A fame is without purpose for you.
NYT with is quite happy making itself irrelevant in this age of information exchange boot. Should we care? Probably not. The future of humanity depends on diversity of information resources, making all propaganda monopoly obsolete.
If I were a major press industry shareholder today, I would be *very* afraid of the future.
Consider, a free news networks using torrent technology will outperform any press distribution model, including web sites.
The security problem is not with the network. The real problem is there is a security procedure for VIP transportation activity in all countries, which dictates switching off a local pieces of the cell networks when a VIP car is going nearby. It helps to prevent phone activation of boobytraps.
If the outage is reported by civilians, in case of public access to these reports there is a possibility to analyze and reconstruct path and timing patterns of such security procedures, without need of a large grid of measure equipment or observation.
Of course, real terrorists will probably resort to real measure equipment, because of public database could be easily falsified by spooks, but for government a more useful effect of such denial of information is keeping population in fear.
That lovely BIOS error message, "Keyboard not found, press [F1] to continue" is sitting in many BIOSes since the PC-XT times up to this day. Perhaps, because it is copyrighted?
It is written: Verily the magic is a mother of all science.
Actually, I am a co-founder and chairman of Sovereign League of Chaos Magicians. We are quite a liberal club, being opened to all sentient entities from any possible dimension.
However, entry level skill requirements for an entity to be recognized as sentient is currently set so high, that even after 11 years of league persistence I am still the one and only member.
Before I sign to OnlineRegistry, I need to verify that Neil Gunton is a real and believable person. This 'project' may as well be a spammer's (or scammer's or CIA's or whoever's) clever method of harvesting identities.
Any ideas how to verify a real identity of Neil Gunton?
I do all coding at night for more than 25 years, both commercial and open source. Of course I do not make any differences in code quality. Code quality is a matter of honor, not of the money.
The real reason for why I work mostly at night is I have inherited bad eyes condition and in midday, I can't see anything on screen.
So technically, for me, Mr. Gates *is* just an insensitive clod, yes.
To me, ARM instruction set looks simple and elegant and completely in the spirit of John von Neumann's original idea how an universal computing device should be designed.
Comparing to it, x86 architecture evolves for 30 years like a deseased mutant infected with cancer. Backward compatibility on instruction set is a total nonsense from engineering point of you. You do not feed hay or put a saddle on your today's car either.
Yes, but does anyone do anything serious in standard Prolog?
Yes, in past I did some commercial app for large data classification/consistency analysis, for cleanup before migrating between incompatible sql backends. Necessary before putting huge data into datawarehouse.
Classifier part was worth to be a tiny expert system. Much cleaner code and more effective using prolog then SQL. Actually, my prolog solution was a winner because an SQL based project failed fatally under the weight of it's one unmanagable complexity.
I think logic programming will make a comeback in near future, because with today's hardware it is fairly sufficient even for non-trivial logic problems;-).
Probably, the haskell will be the favourite before prolog
Oddly there were many extra things in the film I saw (in the uk) that i didn't see in the cam-divx version from the us - anyone?
It would be a great event if you could elaborate, then make some press affair out of it. At least, a web site pin pointing those differences.
Posting UML poetry contest on Slashdot...
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...is a witty method of increasing traffic on site which's only content are ads for UML products, in a plain hope some contesters will massively buy those products to help them in the contest itself.
That's about how a markets for completely useless products create themselves.
If someone believes UML itself is not an idle idea just for morons, please enlighten me. And yes, I was forced to use Jackson's Structured Diagramming at work some twenty years ago or so. Those days, we wrote poetry in Cobol.
Slashdot Mirror
In past 10 years, I bought a total of just a dozen PCs. Every one of them is now running Linux, completely eliminating all brands of Windowses bought with them.
That's 100% of current userbase over past 10 years now. And 6 of the 12 are actually desktops. That's 100% of my desktops running Linux.
Well, within above I do not count Linux replaced a toy WinCE in iPaq PDA, gaining a desktop capability in my pocket too.
But a paper and ink will be illegal too under this bill, by definition.
I still remember the times, when in deep communism it was illegal to own a private or non-registered typing machine (or is it typewriter in english?). At more relaxed times later, the same rule was about photo-copiers.
So many blacklisted books were copied hand-written. You can't imagine what a breaktrough in totalitarian regime mind control was made with early 8-bit computers with dot-matrix printers.
It seems, America is suddenly jumping backwards some 60 years of world political culture. What I cannot understand is which economy motives are driving such trend.
...is very practical for doing your work in bed or at beach.
... it can run any Linux on 2.6 kernel as well. So I can't see any real problem in your naive question "Is everyone else completely locked into Microsoft like we are?" You are limited only with your own imagination.
...of the proprietary technology lockdown. Please, all you who understand negative consequences of proprietary technologies for yourself in the future, consider switching to open technologies instead.
Because in the long time scale, all this stuff is not about technology or so called intellectual property or simple capitalised greed. It is about rulership and power.
...including Sourceforge, Slashdot, Freshmeat and others OSDN. I often click them. Guess why.
Some mozilla plugin to do it automagically on the backgrounded tab would come handy.
Random intervals. I already patched my desktop RSS reader to request new feed every 73+-13 minutes.
Ultima - Labyrinth of Worlds: what about eight virtues of avatar?
Sacrifice: Gods are entities evolved to immortality, but without worlds they can control they are nothing
Planescape-Torment: Do not trust the angels. Do not trust yourself if your soul is divided.
All these messages *are* highly spiritual and connected to ancient traditions of mysticism. I mean the mysticism of supreme emancipation and freedom, not the religion.
Looking back at the history of mankind, the greatest sin ever done to humanity was the introduction of monotheism. Don't you see it is the main source of warring for past 3000 years? Up to date?
Because the purpose of religion is to deny what is most sacred to all humans: the Free Will.
Let the games help to grow free decisioning in childs. Their responsibility will follow the experience. Picture totality, authoritarian hierarchism and brute force as inferior, as it is where it belongs in the society of true freedom.
George Bush saying "I can't do my job"
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So that old dosish Duke Nukem 3D is now outlawed in WA. That is, if only a mutant alien pigcop counts as depicting a law enforcement officer. If so, minors can't play and vice versa.
I am not sure about it. Is there some government directive about it?
Many young men are so naive about social power hierarchy.
Please, all future kiddie hackers, realise that people at power are *always* more concerned about their power than about technology flaws or productivity/effectiveness of systems they control. And showing their failure in public makes them very angry, because it can endanger their image of power control the most.
Next time, if you do it for sport, do it quiet. Make yourself an outer image of a complete moron. Enjoy your insight. A fame is without purpose for you.
NYT with is quite happy making itself irrelevant in this age of information exchange boot. Should we care? Probably not. The future of humanity depends on diversity of information resources, making all propaganda monopoly obsolete.
If I were a major press industry shareholder today, I would be *very* afraid of the future.
Consider, a free news networks using torrent technology will outperform any press distribution model, including web sites.
With this enormous experience with networking as comodity, perhaps Novell should made multiplayer games? Like Microsoft.
...I am looking forward to run linux on it.
The security problem is not with the network. The real problem is there is a security procedure for VIP transportation activity in all countries, which dictates switching off a local pieces of the cell networks when a VIP car is going nearby. It helps to prevent phone activation of boobytraps.
If the outage is reported by civilians, in case of public access to these reports there is a possibility to analyze and reconstruct path and timing patterns of such security procedures, without need of a large grid of measure equipment or observation.
Of course, real terrorists will probably resort to real measure equipment, because of public database could be easily falsified by spooks, but for government a more useful effect of such denial of information is keeping population in fear.
That lovely BIOS error message, "Keyboard not found, press [F1] to continue" is sitting in many BIOSes since the PC-XT times up to this day. Perhaps, because it is copyrighted?
It is written: Verily the magic is a mother of all science.
Actually, I am a co-founder and chairman of Sovereign League of Chaos Magicians. We are quite a liberal club, being opened to all sentient entities from any possible dimension.
However, entry level skill requirements for an entity to be recognized as sentient is currently set so high, that even after 11 years of league persistence I am still the one and only member.
Before I sign to OnlineRegistry, I need to verify that Neil Gunton is a real and believable person. This 'project' may as well be a spammer's (or scammer's or CIA's or whoever's) clever method of harvesting identities.
Any ideas how to verify a real identity of Neil Gunton?
I do all coding at night for more than 25 years, both commercial and open source. Of course I do not make any differences in code quality. Code quality is a matter of honor, not of the money.
The real reason for why I work mostly at night is I have inherited bad eyes condition and in midday, I can't see anything on screen.
So technically, for me, Mr. Gates *is* just an insensitive clod, yes.
To me, ARM instruction set looks simple and elegant and completely in the spirit of John von Neumann's original idea how an universal computing device should be designed.
Comparing to it, x86 architecture evolves for 30 years like a deseased mutant infected with cancer. Backward compatibility on instruction set is a total nonsense from engineering point of you. You do not feed hay or put a saddle on your today's car either.
Microsoft?
Yes, but does anyone do anything serious in standard Prolog?
;-).
Yes, in past I did some commercial app for large data classification/consistency analysis, for cleanup before migrating between incompatible sql backends. Necessary before putting huge data into datawarehouse.
Classifier part was worth to be a tiny expert system. Much cleaner code and more effective using prolog then SQL. Actually, my prolog solution was a winner because an SQL based project failed fatally under the weight of it's one unmanagable complexity.
I think logic programming will make a comeback in near future, because with today's hardware it is fairly sufficient even for non-trivial logic problems
Probably, the haskell will be the favourite before prolog
Oddly there were many extra things in the film I saw (in the uk) that i didn't see in the cam-divx version from the us - anyone?
It would be a great event if you could elaborate, then make some press affair out of it. At least, a web site pin pointing those differences.
...is a witty method of increasing traffic on site which's only content are ads for UML products, in a plain hope some contesters will massively buy those products to help them in the contest itself.
That's about how a markets for completely useless products create themselves.
If someone believes UML itself is not an idle idea just for morons, please enlighten me. And yes, I was forced to use Jackson's Structured Diagramming at work some twenty years ago or so. Those days, we wrote poetry in Cobol.
And why aren't we running browsers in jails yet, anyway?
Last time I asked THAT on slashdot, I got modded flamebait troll insightful. It's funny to see you got the same.
So, what exactly prevents you from running browser under very very limited user?