I own a TI-85 because my high school used TIs in their math curriculum.
However, I graduated from an engineering university (read: geek mecca) where HP was the standard. TI owners were teased. (I would have switched, but I was too lazy to learn RPN at that point.:)
I think it's important to point out to the people here that don't read rec.arts.bodyart, that Eric's body modification is an ongoing project, and that he's not quite a lizard yet. He has the forked tongue, but he's getting all of his tribal tattoo work done before he gets his scales. It's an ongoing project. The end result is supposed to be a lizard man with a bunch of tribal tattoos, pretty damn neat.
I use two Apex KVM switchboxes at work. They're awesome! My 4-port box is this model and my 8-port box is this model. They are very high-quality boxes and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend them to anyone looking for a switchbox. The only drawback is that I think they are kinda pricey compared to some other boxes on the market.
I'm really surprised to see so many recommendations for Belkin... I've only heard bad things about their boxes.
I want to know what the hell router they use that is SO affected by thunder. I live on the Oregon coast and our Cisco router has never even blinked, and we get some nasty storms around here.
Nobody's router is affected by thunder, silly. It didn't say 'thunder' anyways. Perhaps you should brush up on your reading comprehension skills....
The Puget Sound area had some pretty violent thunderstorms Tuesday afternoon. We had brownouts all afternoon, and something like 1000 lightning strikes in the area (that'd be air-to-ground strikes, with very little lighting remaining in the clouds), according to the news. Trees exploded from lightning strikes. Potential Darwin Award candidates were taken to the hospital. Alarm clocks were blinking when people got home from work. The W2K test machine was far from the only machine at MS affected by the storms, and MS was far from the only location in the region affected. So, the storm explanation on the status page isn't anything to get worked up about. Calm down and find something else to be picky about.
I suspect ESR was referring not so much to the fairly recent release of the full source code to Doom, but more to id software's reasonable licensing terms (restrictions on "commercial exploitation" but a lot of flexibility otherwise) and the partial "opening of the source" early on that led to the widespread availability of map/game editors and resulted in a mass of maps and mod hacks of all kinds.
Actually, no, ESR was talking about opening a closed-source pieces of software, and when to do it. Doom was his example. He explained the reasons why it was a good idea for them to open the source when they did.
Above all else, Patrick's main goal for slackware is to create a stable distribution. GlibC 2.0 isn't quite stable enough for him to feel good about making a distribution based on it. Yeah, sometimes it might mean that the software isn't the latest version, but I can be reasonably certain that the versions included with the distribution are solid. I know my system will run, without problems.
I've been using slackware for 4 years now, and I don't really see any reason to change. I'm comfortable with it. I've done a couple Redhat installations for friends, and witnessed dozens of others, and I wasn't too impressed (never had an installation crash under slack...). Quite honestly, I find slackware's setup less confusing and easier to understand than Redhat's. I plan to try Debian sometime in the next 6 months when I have the time and HD space, but I will always, always have a slackware box.
Microsoft's Style Sheets Patent (number 5860073 at the USPTO -- coudn't get the hyperlink to work) is on the techniques and technology used in their implementation of style sheets, using the WC3 specification as a guide and reference. They do not hold a patent on the concept of CSS. Another company should be able to follow the specification and come up with their own implementation using different techniques and technology.
Even if 'window' was used in GUI terminology pre-MS, unless a company specifically named their windowing system "Windows" prior to MS, the trademark claim is still valid. Instead, "window" was used to describe one aspect of the GUI, rather than the entire GUI system or the whole OS. Here's an example: the Linux trademark fiasco. Because "Linux" had already been the name of the OS/Kernel for years prior to the guy from NJ trademarking it. This is what proved his claim fraudulent. If you can find a pre-MS GUI product named "Windows", then someone can take MS to court over it.
Anyways, the article itself didn't say anything about trademark. as long as MS doesn't claim "Open Source", they're in the clear. "open source" as a phrase is not trademarked. They may be stupid often enough, but they know well enough that use of a trademarked term will have to go hand-in-hand with complying to the terms of use of said trademark.
IANAL. I am not infallible. I admit that I could be wrong about this. Corrections (with evidence, counterevidence, etc.) Welcome.
Don't forget extreme SW and NW Indiana. Seven counties, in CST, that do not observe DST. Make that 4 sane places in the Americas.
Actually, 77 counties in Indiana do not observe DST, they follow EST year-round. There are 5 by Chicago and 5 by Evansville (both Central, therefore using CST and CDT) and 2 by Cinicinatti and three near Louisville (Eastern, using EST and EDT) that do. See this reference.
Or was your post an april fools too?
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It's a mind-blowing, extremely compelling essay.
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Why do I get the feeling that our Fearless Taco didn't actually *read* the Stephenson essay? I would think that anyone who gave it the time would realize it's importance -- it certainly doesn't belong in the Quickies. It needs it's own/. post, where fruitful discussions can frolic unfettered in the comments. It needs to be posted in a prominent location at the top of the main page where it will persist and permeate the/. consciousness for days, weeks, months to come... Seriously, this essay is incredible, impressive, and *important*. I think the basic, most important thing I got from reading it was _understanding_ of concepts that I already thought I was familiar with. I loved the analogies and the discussions about popular culture. The clear, concise, accurate insights contained within helped crystallize some of my years-old random feelings and thoughts about the computer industry, about operating systems, about how my way of experiencing things appears to differ from most people. I feel like I can share it with anyone with even minimal computer literacy, and not only will they be able to understand the computer-related content, they might gain clear understanding and insight into esoteric aspects of our society and culture. The really *brilliant* aspect is the fact that it's about as objective as an essay discussing MS, Apple, Linux and Be can get. And because of this, much can be learned from it. I think this essay could be a vital piece of literature for anyone wanting understanding of operating systems, interface paradigms, basic computer industry history, and how computing fits into contemporary culture. Ok, so some of the above paragraph seems to ramble and babble a bit. What can I say, it really hit me. Perhaps I'm still a bit dioriented from the impact, and all I can do is gush about how incredible it was.... Anyways, my point is, it's really worth the read. Stephenson struck me as a really good writer -- this is my first time I've read him -- and if I didn't have to work on my senior design, I'd spend the next 2 weeks absorbing his books. I guess they'll have to wait... Ok, enough from me already; sorry for the somewhat disorganized thoughts.
The proposed law defines malicious spamming as any spamming action that causes the victim more than $2500 damage. (i.e., AOL users get mass-spammed, sucking AOL resources... if the cost of handling the spam >$2500, AOL can sue the spammer for punitive damages. Basically.)
There aren't a whole lot of companies that are hiring researchers anymore. MSR is one of the few that is growing. They've attracted hundreds of top, noted researchers from industry and academia to work for them. Not all of the research is targeted -- there are MSR employees that will never produce anything tangible for MS -- they can research things that truly interest them rather than having to research towards a particular goal. (I read this in an MSR article in Fortune.) For the researchers who are working towards a goal, they have the satisfaction of knowing that their work will likely be included in a future product. (Yet another MSR article, this time in Computer.) And then there is the fact that MS fosters an incredibly nice environment for its workers (I know I'm a bit spoiled since my internship)...
Both the Jan 1998 issue of Computer and the Dec 97 (I think) issue of Fortune have very good articles about MSR (as referenced above). They turned alot of my thinking around. I don't agree with a lot of what MS does, but MSR leaves me impressed.
Yeah, linux copies ideas from other systems, but the copying is acknowledged, unlike M$'s tendency to attempt to decieve the consumer, coming off as if all of their "ideas" are original. Also, M$ intends to make money off of the practice of copying other's ideas; linux does not do this. Finally, alot of things linux gets from other systems, it improves upon, while M$ tends to turn good ideas into technological nightmares.
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However, I graduated from an engineering university (read: geek mecca) where HP was the standard. TI owners were teased. (I would have switched, but I was too lazy to learn RPN at that point. :)
So, at least in my experience, geeks prefer HPs.
I think it's important to point out to the people here that don't read rec.arts.bodyart, that Eric's body modification is an ongoing project, and that he's not quite a lizard yet. He has the forked tongue, but he's getting all of his tribal tattoo work done before he gets his scales. It's an ongoing project. The end result is supposed to be a lizard man with a bunch of tribal tattoos, pretty damn neat.
I'm really surprised to see so many recommendations for Belkin... I've only heard bad things about their boxes.
It is true that the NT 4 reskit has some (sketchy) virtual desktop utilities, but Win2K's does not/will not, AFAIK.
Nobody's router is affected by thunder, silly. It didn't say 'thunder' anyways. Perhaps you should brush up on your reading comprehension skills....
The Puget Sound area had some pretty violent thunderstorms Tuesday afternoon. We had brownouts all afternoon, and something like 1000 lightning strikes in the area (that'd be air-to-ground strikes, with very little lighting remaining in the clouds), according to the news. Trees exploded from lightning strikes. Potential Darwin Award candidates were taken to the hospital. Alarm clocks were blinking when people got home from work. The W2K test machine was far from the only machine at MS affected by the storms, and MS was far from the only location in the region affected. So, the storm explanation on the status page isn't anything to get worked up about. Calm down and find something else to be picky about.
Actually, no, ESR was talking about opening a closed-source pieces of software, and when to do it. Doom was his example. He explained the reasons why it was a good idea for them to open the source when they did.
I've been using slackware for 4 years now, and I don't really see any reason to change. I'm comfortable with it. I've done a couple Redhat installations for friends, and witnessed dozens of others, and I wasn't too impressed (never had an installation crash under slack...). Quite honestly, I find slackware's setup less confusing and easier to understand than Redhat's. I plan to try Debian sometime in the next 6 months when I have the time and HD space, but I will always, always have a slackware box.
Even if 'window' was used in GUI terminology pre-MS, unless a company specifically named their windowing system "Windows" prior to MS, the trademark claim is still valid. Instead, "window" was used to describe one aspect of the GUI, rather than the entire GUI system or the whole OS. Here's an example: the Linux trademark fiasco. Because "Linux" had already been the name of the OS/Kernel for years prior to the guy from NJ trademarking it. This is what proved his claim fraudulent. If you can find a pre-MS GUI product named "Windows", then someone can take MS to court over it.
Anyways, the article itself didn't say anything about trademark. as long as MS doesn't claim "Open Source", they're in the clear. "open source" as a phrase is not trademarked. They may be stupid often enough, but they know well enough that use of a trademarked term will have to go hand-in-hand with complying to the terms of use of said trademark.
IANAL. I am not infallible. I admit that I could be wrong about this. Corrections (with evidence, counterevidence, etc.) Welcome.
Actually, 77 counties in Indiana do not observe DST, they follow EST year-round. There are 5 by Chicago and 5 by Evansville (both Central, therefore using CST and CDT) and 2 by Cinicinatti and three near Louisville (Eastern, using EST and EDT) that do. See this reference.
Or was your post an april fools too?
*sigh*
Why do I get the feeling that our Fearless Taco didn't actually *read* the Stephenson essay? I would think that anyone who gave it the time would realize it's importance -- it certainly doesn't belong in the Quickies. It needs it's own /. post, where fruitful discussions can frolic unfettered in the comments. It needs to be posted in a prominent location at the top of the main page where it will persist and permeate the /. consciousness for days, weeks, months to come... Seriously, this essay is incredible, impressive, and *important*. I think the basic, most important thing I got from reading it was _understanding_ of concepts that I already thought I was familiar with. I loved the analogies and the discussions about popular culture. The clear, concise, accurate insights contained within helped crystallize some of my years-old random feelings and thoughts about the computer industry, about operating systems, about how my way of experiencing things appears to differ from most people. I feel like I can share it with anyone with even minimal computer literacy, and not only will they be able to understand the computer-related content, they might gain clear understanding and insight into esoteric aspects of our society and culture. The really *brilliant* aspect is the fact that it's about as objective as an essay discussing MS, Apple, Linux and Be can get. And because of this, much can be learned from it. I think this essay could be a vital piece of literature for anyone wanting understanding of operating systems, interface paradigms, basic computer industry history, and how computing fits into contemporary culture. Ok, so some of the above paragraph seems to ramble and babble a bit. What can I say, it really hit me. Perhaps I'm still a bit dioriented from the impact, and all I can do is gush about how incredible it was.... Anyways, my point is, it's really worth the read. Stephenson struck me as a really good writer -- this is my first time I've read him -- and if I didn't have to work on my senior design, I'd spend the next 2 weeks absorbing his books. I guess they'll have to wait... Ok, enough from me already; sorry for the somewhat disorganized thoughts.
The proposed law defines malicious spamming as any spamming action that causes the victim more than $2500 damage. (i.e., AOL users get mass-spammed, sucking AOL resources... if the cost of handling the spam >$2500, AOL can sue the spammer for punitive damages. Basically.)
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There aren't a whole lot of companies that are hiring researchers anymore. MSR is one of the few that is growing. They've attracted hundreds
of top, noted researchers from industry and academia to work for them. Not all of the research is targeted -- there are MSR employees that will never produce anything tangible for MS -- they can research things that truly interest them rather than having to research towards a particular goal. (I read this in an MSR article in Fortune.) For the researchers who are working towards a goal, they have the satisfaction of knowing that their work will likely be included in a future product. (Yet another MSR article, this time in Computer.) And then there is the fact that MS fosters an incredibly nice environment for its workers (I know I'm a bit spoiled since my internship)...
Both the Jan 1998 issue of Computer and the Dec 97 (I think) issue of Fortune have very good articles about MSR (as referenced above). They turned alot of my thinking around. I don't agree with a lot of what MS does, but MSR leaves me impressed.
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Yeah, linux copies ideas from other systems, but the copying is acknowledged, unlike M$'s tendency to attempt to decieve the consumer, coming off as if all of their "ideas" are original. Also, M$ intends to make money off of the practice of copying other's ideas; linux does not do this. Finally, alot of things linux gets from other systems, it improves upon, while M$ tends to turn good ideas into technological nightmares.
Methinks your comparison is not quite equvalent.
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