What I *DO*NOT* get:
1. This is NOT fast enough. 800 MHz is better, but why not 1 GHz? The Wintel portables are up there and Apple is too far behind the P.R. curve on this one. I know, I know: Heat and Supplies. But this is simply not enough of a speed increase.
Actually, it's part of a special in-store promotion. When you visit your local Apple retailer, and provide proof that you understand that MHz ratings on G4s cannot be comapred to MHz ratings on Pentiums without annoying technical people, they'll upgrade your system to a 1GHz G4 pro bono.:-)
So in fact a stricter language would fix this problem.
And, since by this point, Nybblebyte the magical hardware fairy has made sure that everybody's running a quad-processor, 2.2Ghz system with 4Gb RAM as their firewall, the bounds checks won't have any noticeable effect on performance.
Would you want to be personally responsible for any GPL'ed code you wrote?
Well, I'm more than willing to refund the purchase price of any of my GPLed code. Remember: a warranty does not necessarily mean that they get to sue you.
I can tell you right now that if you go to work for Intel, but don't have an EE, you're...
...involved in the design of the Pentium floating-point units? ...proud of a chip that gets the same performance as a G5, with a mere four times the clock speed of a G5? ...convinced that large register files are the work of the devil?
Folks, I write assembly code for a living. I got a million of 'em...
Make the decision now to wait until
after this Christmas to buy an Xbox. It'll still be there, and it's still be as good or as bad as it is on the day it ships.
Actually, Service Pack 1 should be out by then...
Re:Spelling/Grammer Nazis...
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How bored do I have to be to be doing this...
Don't you think that learning the basic, grade-school-levels skills like spelling and grammer would be a more appropriate reaction than this whining?
I believe the word you were looking for there is ``grammar''. Oh, and it's normally ``grade-school level skills,'' but then, I'm sure you knew that. (Fish. Barrel. Railgun.)
If you don't like being accused of bad grammer, learn to use good grammer. If you don't like constructive criticism about your spelling, learn to spell. No, a spelling checker won't help... did you really want to say affect or effect?
All other things aside, I suspect Eugenia wanted to write in Greek just so people would stop pestering her because she hasn't mastered a second language yet. Of course, then she'd have to put up with people who have forgotten that The World Is A Very Big Place.
Harry Braun of the Phoenix Project said that a hydrogen-powered airplane would not have produced the fire and intense heat that brought down the World Trade Center towers.
Well, that makes perfect sense. After all, hydrogen is a perfectly safe thing to put in a flying machine...
i don't know.... my brother just made a bumper sticker as a spoof of the "my kid beat up your honor student"....
"my kid shot your bully in the head"
with a doom background.:)
Hello, Copyleft? I would buy a vehicle, just for the chance to put that bumper sticker on it these days. Get in touch with jmahler's brother, and tart printing these.
Finally---the FUD factor: Multiple "snake-oil crypto" signs are here... "11 different layers", as though that makes it more secure than, say, 10 different layers? More layers mean more security, right? I mean, there are more of them!
ITYM:
``But, ours go to eleven.''
Personally, I suspect it's probably undecuple ROT-13.
This whole thing is nothing more than a disgruntled freenet developer trying to impose his notions of "freedom to steal the legitimate work of others" on the entire Debian community. Debian should NOT incorporate this patch.
This whole thing is nothing more than a disgruntled control freak trying to impose his notions of ``Fair Use doesn't legally matter, 'cause Valenti and Rosen said so'' on the entire Slashdot community. Slashdot should NOT incorporate this troll.
What many folks may not realise is that Inferno was in fact written in answer to Java. Development started more than 6 years back when the first Netscape browsers were released with Java support.
The first Netscape with Java embedded came out a year before Java was released? Yowza.:-)
Or were you saying that Bell Labs is so danged advanced, they had a competing product out before there was anything to compete with?
Or were you choosing to ignore Bell Labs'own documents, which say that they were trying to extend Plan 9 to network devices, and were unaware of the Java work?
Hello? You're testing censorware! I don't believe for a second that this company wouldn't be sleazy enough to hand-check the emails getting sent through the account. All they have to do is open the emails, look at them, and (inserting a few false-positives and negatives) manually tell the software whether or not to filter the image.
Considering the no-brainer false negatives and false positives, I doubt very much that they were BSing. A red truck (from certain angles) is bad, but a blowjob is acceptable? The Mona Lisa is bad at 745 pixels across, but okay at 100 pixels across? Shrub and the Shrubette are obscene, but blatant penetration is okay?
Instead, we're so imbued with certain stereotypes that we even let The Phantom Menace's "midiclorians" - the "tiny organism that inhabit every cell in your body and channel the Force" - slip by with little complaint.
Personally, I let ``midichlorians'' be, since it could be a linguistic drift from (to?) ``mitachondria'', which are (drum roll) ``Tiny organisms that inhabit every cell in our body.'' (With their own DNA and everything.) Admittedly, they don't seem to be channeling the Force anymore, but I suspect that's Florida's fault.
For CLI there should be a program ("drag"?) that takes it's arguments and puts them all as URLs into the clipboard for dropping, and a program ("drop"?) that prints the URL's (with proper quoting) to stdout. This requires a method for a CLI program to identify the X server, I hope this can be done without too much ugliness.
/* Behold, a quickie rough draft of drop. */
/* This does nothing but copy Cut Buffer 0 of X display $DISPLAY to * stdout. Adding the ability to select display, cut buffer, and * encoding of the output has been left as an exercise for the reader. * * I can't be bothered to think licenses today, so this is public domain. */
I mean, didn't they just call it? Shouldn't it take a few months?
They never have before... Our elections are always approximately a month in duration.
I thought the CRAP (Combined Reform and Alliance Party) just elected their leader -- how's he supposed to compete when he hasn't even had a chance to settle into the job?
<ding> congratulations for figuring out why Chretien called the election right about now.:-)
I did overhear something about Stockwell Day saying he was going to legalize marijuana. I'm not a drug user (save caffeine), but I'll vote for him without hesitation if he really means it. I'd really like the cops to go back to doing something more useful than busting small-time users.
He may have, but with his track record on anti-semitism (Keegstra considers him ``good people''. Be afraid. Be very afraid.), and his intention to place ``God's Law'' ahead of our Constitution and Charter of Human Rights, he's probably the most frightening candidate we've had in a while.
Re:Novell ain't dead, but on the back burner
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I work in a Netware 5 environment and we have run Netware here since v3.11 and they have absolutely no intentions of ever switching to Linux, NT, or any other OS.
I think the fact that you're the exception to the rule is probably the easiest reason to say ``Yes''.
Most people I've talked to stopped upgrading at 3.11. Novell put out a product so well-done, they didn't see any reason to upgrade. So they didn't. So they stopped sending Novell money.
The simple fact of the matter is: Perfect Software is Bad for Business. That's why we have managers: to screw up the software development just enough that upgrades and support calls can become a revenue stream.:-)
True, in America this might be considered "child porn" -- but the canonized status of "Shakespeare" (and all that falls under category "Shakespeare") would probably pass a "censorware" test,...
This is the same censorware that blocked the Vatican for a while because it had a Latin phrase with the word ``cum'' in it on their webpage, yes? The ones that block the writings of St. Thomas of Aquinas in their original Latin because he liberally sprinkles ``cum'' throughout, yes? Censorware authors don't care about context. They probably block ``Shakespeare'' as a euphemism for masturbation.
According to the credo posted in blood-red lettering on Nullsoft's Web site, they consider themselves ``legitimate nihilistic media terrorists'' whom history will ``no doubt canonize''.
Speaking of journalistic integrity, somebody needs to show these people what colour blood is, because unless they've been seriously abusing their bodies, that ain't blood-red.
``We made a big bet on Rambus and it did not work out,'' Craig Barrett, Intel chief executive admitted. ``In retrospect, it was a mistake to be dependent on a third party for a technology that gates your performance.''
This is obviously some usage of the phrase ``In retrospect'' I was previously unaware of... Where I come from, ``In retrospect'' implies that it wasn't intuitively obvious in the first place.
Now, how long do you think it'll take Mr. Barrett to completely forget this fact?
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Actually, it's part of a special in-store promotion. When you visit your local Apple retailer, and provide proof that you understand that MHz ratings on G4s cannot be comapred to MHz ratings on Pentiums without annoying technical people, they'll upgrade your system to a 1GHz G4 pro bono. :-)
And, since by this point, Nybblebyte the magical hardware fairy has made sure that everybody's running a quad-processor, 2.2Ghz system with 4Gb RAM as their firewall, the bounds checks won't have any noticeable effect on performance.
Nope. None.
Well, I'm more than willing to refund the purchase price of any of my GPLed code. Remember: a warranty does not necessarily mean that they get to sue you.
...involved in the design of the Pentium floating-point units?
...proud of a chip that gets the same performance as a G5, with a mere four times the clock speed of a G5?
...convinced that large register files are the work of the devil?
Folks, I write assembly code for a living. I got a million of 'em...
Actually, Service Pack 1 should be out by then...
How bored do I have to be to be doing this...
I believe the word you were looking for there is ``grammar''. Oh, and it's normally ``grade-school level skills,'' but then, I'm sure you knew that. (Fish. Barrel. Railgun.)
All other things aside, I suspect Eugenia wanted to write in Greek just so people would stop pestering her because she hasn't mastered a second language yet. Of course, then she'd have to put up with people who have forgotten that The World Is A Very Big Place.
But that's just my opinion, yadda yadda yadda...
Well, I have been trying to seduce women with my 733t 5ki775, but so far it's not working...
Well, that makes perfect sense. After all, hydrogen is a perfectly safe thing to put in a flying machine...
I'm sorry, Citizen, you are not authorized to view the modem status.
I could tell you if your memory is bad, but then I'd have to kill you. Trust the Computer. The Computer is your friend.
...
Erm... Isn't this what we're trying to get away from by moving to Linux? :-)
Hello, Copyleft? I would buy a vehicle, just for the chance to put that bumper sticker on it these days. Get in touch with jmahler's brother, and tart printing these.
ITYM:
``But, ours go to eleven.''
Personally, I suspect it's probably undecuple ROT-13.
This whole thing is nothing more than a disgruntled control freak trying to impose his notions of ``Fair Use doesn't legally matter, 'cause Valenti and Rosen said so'' on the entire Slashdot community. Slashdot should NOT incorporate this troll.
The first Netscape with Java embedded came out a year before Java was released? Yowza. :-)
Or were you saying that Bell Labs is so danged advanced, they had a competing product out before there was anything to compete with?
Or were you choosing to ignore Bell Labs'own documents, which say that they were trying to extend Plan 9 to network devices, and were unaware of the Java work?
From his homepage:
Ahem. We do have a few cities, you know. Admittedly, they're on average about six hours apart by automobile, but they do exist. :-)
Considering the no-brainer false negatives and false positives, I doubt very much that they were BSing. A red truck (from certain angles) is bad, but a blowjob is acceptable? The Mona Lisa is bad at 745 pixels across, but okay at 100 pixels across? Shrub and the Shrubette are obscene, but blatant penetration is okay?
Never attribute to malice...
Personally, I let ``midichlorians'' be, since it could be a linguistic drift from (to?) ``mitachondria'', which are (drum roll) ``Tiny organisms that inhabit every cell in our body.'' (With their own DNA and everything.) Admittedly, they don't seem to be channeling the Force anymore, but I suspect that's Florida's fault.
/* Behold, a quickie rough draft of drop. */
/* This does nothing but copy Cut Buffer 0 of X display $DISPLAY to
* stdout. Adding the ability to select display, cut buffer, and
* encoding of the output has been left as an exercise for the reader.
*
* I can't be bothered to think licenses today, so this is public domain.
*/
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <X11/Xlib.h>
int main(int argc, char** argv) {
char* buf;
int buflen;
Display* disp;
disp = XOpenDisplay(0);
if (disp != 0) {
buf = XFetchBuffer(disp, &buflen, 0);
if (buf != 0) {
write(1, buf, buflen);
}
XCloseDisplay(disp);
} else {
fprintf(stderr, "%s: Could not open display.\n", argv[0]);
exit(1);
}
return 0;
}
They never have before... Our elections are always approximately a month in duration.
<ding> congratulations for figuring out why Chretien called the election right about now. :-)
He may have, but with his track record on anti-semitism (Keegstra considers him ``good people''. Be afraid. Be very afraid.), and his intention to place ``God's Law'' ahead of our Constitution and Charter of Human Rights, he's probably the most frightening candidate we've had in a while.
I think the fact that you're the exception to the rule is probably the easiest reason to say ``Yes''.
Most people I've talked to stopped upgrading at 3.11. Novell put out a product so well-done, they didn't see any reason to upgrade. So they didn't. So they stopped sending Novell money.
The simple fact of the matter is: Perfect Software is Bad for Business. That's why we have managers: to screw up the software development just enough that upgrades and support calls can become a revenue stream. :-)
This is the same censorware that blocked the Vatican for a while because it had a Latin phrase with the word ``cum'' in it on their webpage, yes? The ones that block the writings of St. Thomas of Aquinas in their original Latin because he liberally sprinkles ``cum'' throughout, yes? Censorware authors don't care about context. They probably block ``Shakespeare'' as a euphemism for masturbation.
Speaking of journalistic integrity, somebody needs to show these people what colour blood is, because unless they've been seriously abusing their bodies, that ain't blood-red.
This is obviously some usage of the phrase ``In retrospect'' I was previously unaware of... Where I come from, ``In retrospect'' implies that it wasn't intuitively obvious in the first place.
Now, how long do you think it'll take Mr. Barrett to completely forget this fact?
ITYM: Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. HTH. HAND.
Well, it's tea-time here (and a long, dark one to boot), so I'll bite...
ObDouglasAdams: With a time machine, obviously.