AI is not AI, only trying to make a simulation so complex that we cannot predict or easily explain the outcome.
It is embarrassing to think otherwise, but doesn't mean it is redundant.
'leant to add'? I will take that with a pinch of salt. You could have someone 'learn to add' in the sims game, just study, and a +10 will come up above thier head, and a message could say 'learnt to add'.
At what level you say they learnt to add is very important.
I mean:
load ax 10 load bx 10 add bx
isn't exactly learning is it? Were they given a dictionary of instrucitons to assimilate? in a higher language?
oh look, source I can read over on a rainy day, nice!
Does anyone subjective view on anything have a place in my life?
I personally thought kill bill 1 and 2 were so pretentious, oh, but they were cool movies, and how dare I speak out against them... people seem to think you are challenging them if you do not agree with thier movie viewing habits.
Look, kill bill(s) were shit IMHO. ok, deal with it, love it. move on.
Game reviews on the other hand, or music reviews. If you look at the Lemon Jelly website they are talking about thier mixed reviews, some say it is thier best, some say it is tripe.
You gotta wonder how much there subjective reviews call for actual thinking, I mean, you can say anything is shit, and back it up with the argument, well I thought it was shit.
Except for kill bill movies, they were shit.
Plus you have the game reviews in 'official' magazines... why did I put official in quotes?
I thoguht about a system, wher eyou decide what is important to you, beforehand, and then each person gets a different game score based on thier profile.
For instance, if you really hate niggles in gameplay, then GTA:VC/SA might have scored less for you in an online mag (or a digital ink mag:-) than someone whos profile was a better match for the score profile awarded to the game (on about 10 categories)
Basically, you are asking does subjectiveness matter... and I can't be bothered to talk about that on slashdot.
... and I wondered how the heck he became the chair of dilberts new ruling class....!!!
OK, off topic, but funny, but on a sibling note to dilbert, what is up with get fuzzy's contact artist page?
Shit, why waste mod points;-) might as well tag one more OT piece in here: Unrelated, I admit, but check out the funniest engadget comment (The last one, long), I read it just now, and I think it is good to see 'weblogs inc' which really is pushing down signal/noise IMHO, getting some of thier own trolling.
Of course, the big N must have something up thier sleeve, they are acting fact on the threat of the PSP, which is using exactly the same 'later to market' tactics as the playstation.. everyone waited for the newer device, which caught the inside hub of innovation.
The PSP will be very nice. I am not a gamer per se, but I will so be pwning one of these devices with some seriously sexy home brew apps.
Unrelated, I admit, but check out the funniest engadget comment (The last one, long), I read it just now, and I think it is good to see 'weblogs inc' which really is pushing down signal/noise IMHO, getting some of thier own trolling.
Opera is an example of pay software that is worth it. It can compete is a market saturated with 101 free browsers, and I am so tempted to pay a license for it.
Why? Question:
What do you spend 3-5 hours a day (or 13-15 hours a day if you are reading this) doing?
Right, so why not have the best browser tool for the job?
It is not as if you cannot afford it. Yeah, OS is a very close runner up, but I say we support OS and those companies giving us the best of something, in the manner in which opera do (no spyware, a free ad supported version, cheap licenses)
This is a semi valid use for a blog. Now I am not saying it is a semi valid use for the technology, but the term blog.
If this was a review site, then fine, if it is a diary of camera related shit, then good, it is in blog territory.
I find googles blog quaint, but I mate microsofts ministry of truth, getting 726385762 people to blog FUD and shit, and then half of it gets posted on/. anyway, and then (as in the case of mozilla should use signed exe's) the fuck monkey replies to all the/. trolls (picking or making up the troll reponses) to make the OS community look bad.
So there, blogging is in a bit of a fuckwad state right now.
Right, +1 insightful for the fact that we can underclock out CPU's.
-1 troll for mentioning moores law.
Why? Read this (oh wait, 503 error from/. [...] still 503 error, been a minute now... [...] If I hold control and hammer the refresh button it will help? Yes!) Journal
Moores law isn't a law, and isn't even applicable in what you are saying, what you are saying it that, CPU's have not been caught up by other IO, which isn't moores law, moores law was just his random diary of interludes between arbitary paramters in CPU transistor density.
Please don't be like a stupid shit microsoft employee and write 'everyone knows what moores law is, oh I am a fag' becuase you think it adds weight to a dumd idea.
Sorry this is a flamebait troll post becuase moores law sucks.
...from many of the other blogs out there? This is why I hate blogs, especially those who validate pyramid free i-pod spamming, but not other forms of spam.
I really think blogging is a bad egg technology, it is a word that shouldn't exist. People keep web based logs, things that you wouldn't really read. If you want to write a review site, write a review site, if you want to use software that managed your posts, and makes comments available and stuff, use it, but don't call it a blog.
This guy gets no kudos for this.
I hope blogs are a fad, and people can stop using them soon. (seeing how google and ask have gone into the forray of blogging, I doubt it)
Why is bloggin good? It lets people author (in the wrong context!) small sites where they can put thier opinion etc.
Why is it bad? Well, the signal:noise suffers. I end up finding the same stories aggregated on 14 sites in one day, ripping content, each one probably has ads, but I adblock everything today.
Is adblocking wrong? I say no, I say if you want to twist and create your own broadcast medium, then fine, don't expect me to watch, I block ads to try and stop people doing exactly what this guy and the engadget guy are doing.
Hackaday and engadget and all his other 11.5 billion blog sites are so fucking gay it hurts more than a pineapple colonic. argh.
Abstract: In the next article, I'll present the results for all six operating systems.
Comment:
Or does that really negate the point of the meandering artcile? I mean, is it so damn hard to say, this article comapred blah foo schmoo and bar and found schmoo to kick ass, but also that foo was fairly good. It is a bad news article
What an annoying whoring article, it promises so much, a delivers so little, I hope thier advertising was worth it.
That is why I fucking hate bloggers who whore themselves out at the expense of my search result time. Whores!!:-) (yeah yeah, mod down for language, but it pisses me off!)
I have not been impressed with EA at all recently, as a games company. Despite thier nfsu series, they are always in the news as a bad company to work for.
I say they are looking at the games industry as a games sweatshop, which is not good for consumers.
About misrepresentation. You cannot have have an advert in an article pretending to be something it isn't.
Now, just because adverts SEEM to be related to you search, it doesn't mean they should be.
What if you were searching for Armani, and Dior just happened to buy an advert, and it wasn't through an adsense?
SO, firstly, google have stated that they do not want people to even misrepresent themselves on adverts.
But the problem is what if you are looking for related companies? I search for dior, looking for competitors because I WANT TO.
But that isnt the purpose of the people doing these googleads, the reason they do this is to try and get a bigger net... it is a grey area of the world, if google had made a stance prior to this ruling I would have felt better because now they seem that they are being pushed around, this isn't what I have expected from google. (perhaps they have grown too fast?)
I have learned many years ago that Carrots and Tomatos share the same anti-carcinogen, anti-oxidant and removal of free radical properties.
Falcarinol, this is new to me, but sounds like a specialisation of known properties. But, bugs bunny eats carrots and he is well over 65 and still a lovable cross-dressing character. So must be good for you!
The judge isn't in danger of doing a MS - his summary statement was well within predefined limits of case judgements. He is a judge, and this is the tail end of the hearings.
I just cannot wait for SCO victory news post about this:
"We can confirm that out lack of evidence and badly planned strategy has given our investors even more oppourtunity to spend thier cash, buy buy buy!"
Then I read his blog. Firstly, is it a style that he cannot capitalise his I's or first letters of a sentence?
I'd call him a fucker just for that. Secondly:
to be honest, when i first got here, i was kind of disappointed that i was put on adsense. i wanted to work on consumer products, where i could focus on coming up with new offerings that would revolutionize the way people use computers and the internet.
Whine whine fucking whine! Seriously, this guy is a loser, probably google execs realised they couldn't face such a loser working for the, it gets worse:
before i left microsoft,
aaaah piss off back to M$, and stop infecting google!!!! go back to msn search why don't you! (you notice how msn search has a topical backdrop to thier search, nothing like googles leet cartoon logos, which dilbert starred in for a WHOLE WEEK!)
Net result: probably blogging is going to be found out to be the dumbest shit of self interest and vanity as I have long thought. Blogs, like, the odd few, are ok, everyone can keep a blog, but it is the wierd incessant self promotion... it is sick.
Outcome: this guy was fired for being a twat, if you are the judge hearing his case when he no doubt tries to cash in, please just shout "hes got a gun!" and let him be mowed down.
As least the world will have a few more lowercase letters to go around.
Where have all the cycles gone And where are all the mod-points? Where's the Slashdot Hermes To fight the rising trolls?
Isn't there a #gentoo @op upon a OC12? Late at night I toss myself off and I dream of what I need...
I need a distro! I'm holding out for a distro 'til the end of the night It's gotta be pwnd And it's gotta be linux And it's gotta be able to play HalfLife2
I need a distro! I'm holding out for a distro 'til the morning light It's gotta be l33t And it's gotta be k3wl And it's gotta be able to play HalfLife2
Somewhere after midtown madness In my wildest WoW Somewhere just beyond my sub-net There's something pinging back to me...
Racing on the penguin and rising with FireFox It's gonna take SCO to sweep me off my feet!
I need a distro! I'm holding out for a distro 'til the end of the night It's gotta be beowulf'd And it's gotta be themed And it's gotta be able to play HalfLife2
I need a distro! I'm holding out for a distro 'til the morning light It's gotta be r00t And it's gotta be secure And it's gotta be able to play HalfLife2!!!!
Up where the mountains meet the heavens above Out where the lightning splits the sea I would swear that there's someone somewhere Watching me Through the wind and the chill and the rain And the storm and the flood I can feel his approach Like a fire in my blood
I need Linus! I'm holding out for Torvalds 'til the end of the night He's sure is strong And he's gotta be fast And he's looks ready to fight
I need Darl McBride! I'm holding out for Darl McBride 'til the morning light He's gotta be gay And he's gonna be out of a job soon And he's gotta even annoy his wife
Me: What is that? Dom: Windows 2-thousand (not 2000, but 2-thousand) Me: Oh, I use 95, can't be doing with that 98 crap Dom: pah, mmm what is that, an animated drum? Me: uuuh, yeah great Dom: I DON'T WANT MY CPU CYCLES WASTED ON AN ANIMATED DRUM!!!
Hhahahah I still momentarily loose bladder control thinking about his antics.
Seriously, programs do some effects in thier startup splash screens that we used to (on a P2) wait for a progress bar to complete, so don't worry about CPU cycles. If you do, run black box or twm or just use a console with 0 buffer and tiny bitmap fonts, and just use cat and echo (with >> > | ) for all your word processing/editing
Also play nethack the reduced character set version.
Mod parent down I think... (unless you make it uninsightful;-)
Sun is placing itself in a very key role, and is expanding its market despite very turbulent times.
Sun has given us many many things, and has scored major victories over MS, far better than MS's current homework assignment to bring an apple to the eu bosses office, and rape windows.
To be honest, the whole anti-competative thing of removing media player was an anti-climax.
They needed to have lasting requirements never to throttle peoples access to technology, or ever block people from using it (net api's (we only want to use them because some clever people have to talk to some stupid people), ui shizzle (there was a time when MS would release how to do some tricks in thier own UI API, and left it only for ms office to use), patents they have on OpenGL)...
If eu. can fend of this maniac (driven by MS? OraSAPcle? IM-we-give-away-patents-for-free-M?)
Sun wasn't the first on the patent rally, but they were right up there, unabashedly, and something like this has to take time to plan (evaluating patents etc).
I see Sun and IBM making a big profit out of the OS oppourtunities, IBM was there first, because Sun left back to make a Java industry develop, doing a very un-microsoft thing and actively not profiting from the adoption of their technologies, because they realised that in the long run, having JBoss, Websphere, Weblogic, Webfoo, Webwhatever from all those vendors (don't forget Macromedia CF!!) is better for us, and therefore better for them.
If savvy developers are jumping into their opteron offerings and making some excellent cutting edge apps, then we will only know that sun has come out on top developer wise when we are playing catch up.
I have to go and put on my Java T-shirt and make a salute for the (almost) 6 figure sum I make from Java each Year.
Thank you sun, and even thank you IBM, I had such fun installing DB2, no really. And thank you Microsoft, my first IT job trying to fix room after room of non compatible office versions... no wonder I found the light (argh, I still get nightmares thinking I am a VB developer)...
Please, if you are going to comment on a Sun/IBM/MS/Apple old skool article, make sure you have stop being breasts feed (unless you can afford those services now;-)
I thought politicians spent thier time trying to do as little as possible aside from helping out thier relatives and donors.
Who is the person pushing them? How can we build a defense? Why do I feel helpless about this?
No doubt this is all funded by the eu, and whoever is behind it has little to pay, but any aim of repealing this would cost a lot.
WHat is the point of having a parliament, and who is putting political pressure on.pl?
How about we stop letting them play behind masks, and make everyone put thier cards on the table for a change. Anyone who opposes a controversial law is always in the lime light, but those pushing it through for thier own gain, you never read about them.
I met a Polish person on a server playing MTA:VC (multi player GTA), I said I loved them, and chased them around trying to hug them. I ended up stealing thier car and running them over with it, but it is the thought that counts.
Whatever happen to just simple gradual mhz improvement. 30mhz to 40mhz to 100mhz to 500mhz works for any consumer.
They were pWnd by physics, they used all kinds of optical tricks to shrink down the details of thier wafers, but then they realised that when it got too small, it got really hot, then the electrons started to orgy, going into each others homes, having car key parties... typical behaviour for your average electron if they can get away with it.
And now have to just sell two computers as one... think of it like SLI for your processor.
Don't worry about marketting to Joe Pubichair, PC World reps know what to do in any case: Hi Joe, this is the one we make the biggest markup from, so it must be good!;-)
Gosling wasn't starting a flamewar. If someones sane ideas on forgetting that unsafe checking ever existed, to try and stop 98.9923% of all problems in the IT world (*cough* those worms that take down the internet in 5 hours).
Do a seach for uncheck buffer, buffer overflow, and sanity check on your average security alert site.
The simple check that stops you going from place to place in memory is available to all. If it is so slow in Microsofts impl, and they have to disable it not necessarily to do unsafe ops, but to optimize xml parsing libraries, then they have a problem.
How do you feel installing something on your new server that has the keyword unsafe on 19 methods running on open ports on your server?
Of course, making sure that they are safe just takes more time and diligence on the part of the programmer. But building in a few security risks always keeps the customer asking for newer versions.
Slashdot Mirror
anti-gay-signature.sf.net was not shut down by the MPAA despite the continued erosion of peopels rights in the US.
The open source software removes the tracking that it says violates peoples rights to copy thier own music around with them using thier own networks.
in a pres release anti-gay-signature.sf.net said:
"Hahaha Pwned! How do you like that MPAA?"
I am glad I am not hooked up to an ipod life support machine 24/7.
AI is not AI, only trying to make a simulation so complex that we cannot predict or easily explain the outcome.
It is embarrassing to think otherwise, but doesn't mean it is redundant.
'leant to add'? I will take that with a pinch of salt. You could have someone 'learn to add' in the sims game, just study, and a +10 will come up above thier head, and a message could say 'learnt to add'.
At what level you say they learnt to add is very important.
I mean:
load ax 10
load bx 10
add bx
isn't exactly learning is it? Were they given a dictionary of instrucitons to assimilate? in a higher language?
oh look, source I can read over on a rainy day, nice!
Does anyone subjective view on anything have a place in my life?
:-) than someone whos profile was a better match for the score profile awarded to the game (on about 10 categories)
I personally thought kill bill 1 and 2 were so pretentious, oh, but they were cool movies, and how dare I speak out against them... people seem to think you are challenging them if you do not agree with thier movie viewing habits.
Look, kill bill(s) were shit IMHO. ok, deal with it, love it. move on.
Game reviews on the other hand, or music reviews. If you look at the Lemon Jelly website they are talking about thier mixed reviews, some say it is thier best, some say it is tripe.
You gotta wonder how much there subjective reviews call for actual thinking, I mean, you can say anything is shit, and back it up with the argument, well I thought it was shit.
Except for kill bill movies, they were shit.
Plus you have the game reviews in 'official' magazines... why did I put official in quotes?
I thoguht about a system, wher eyou decide what is important to you, beforehand, and then each person gets a different game score based on thier profile.
For instance, if you really hate niggles in gameplay, then GTA:VC/SA might have scored less for you in an online mag (or a digital ink mag
Basically, you are asking does subjectiveness matter... and I can't be bothered to talk about that on slashdot.
... and I wondered how the heck he became the chair of dilberts new ruling class....!!!
;-) might as well tag one more OT piece in here: Unrelated, I admit, but check out the funniest engadget comment (The last one, long), I read it just now, and I think it is good to see 'weblogs inc' which really is pushing down signal/noise IMHO, getting some of thier own trolling.
OK, off topic, but funny, but on a sibling note to dilbert, what is up with get fuzzy's contact artist page?
Shit, why waste mod points
Of course, the big N must have something up thier sleeve, they are acting fact on the threat of the PSP, which is using exactly the same 'later to market' tactics as the playstation.. everyone waited for the newer device, which caught the inside hub of innovation.
The PSP will be very nice. I am not a gamer per se, but I will so be pwning one of these devices with some seriously sexy home brew apps.
Unrelated, I admit, but check out the funniest engadget comment (The last one, long), I read it just now, and I think it is good to see 'weblogs inc' which really is pushing down signal/noise IMHO, getting some of thier own trolling.
Opera is an example of pay software that is worth it. It can compete is a market saturated with 101 free browsers, and I am so tempted to pay a license for it.
Why? Question:
What do you spend 3-5 hours a day (or 13-15 hours a day if you are reading this) doing?
Right, so why not have the best browser tool for the job?
It is not as if you cannot afford it. Yeah, OS is a very close runner up, but I say we support OS and those companies giving us the best of something, in the manner in which opera do (no spyware, a free ad supported version, cheap licenses)
This is a semi valid use for a blog. Now I am not saying it is a semi valid use for the technology, but the term blog.
/. anyway, and then (as in the case of mozilla should use signed exe's) the fuck monkey replies to all the /. trolls (picking or making up the troll reponses) to make the OS community look bad.
If this was a review site, then fine, if it is a diary of camera related shit, then good, it is in blog territory.
I find googles blog quaint, but I mate microsofts ministry of truth, getting 726385762 people to blog FUD and shit, and then half of it gets posted on
So there, blogging is in a bit of a fuckwad state right now.
"if you sniff the air, you can just make out the first hints of rot."
No that is just the huge sweat patches on monkey boys shirt.
stinky monkey:
"Developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers *wheeze* developers developers!"
Right, +1 insightful for the fact that we can underclock out CPU's.
/. [...] still 503 error, been a minute now... [...] If I hold control and hammer the refresh button it will help? Yes!) Journal
-1 troll for mentioning moores law.
Why? Read this (oh wait, 503 error from
Moores law isn't a law, and isn't even applicable in what you are saying, what you are saying it that, CPU's have not been caught up by other IO, which isn't moores law, moores law was just his random diary of interludes between arbitary paramters in CPU transistor density.
Please don't be like a stupid shit microsoft employee and write 'everyone knows what moores law is, oh I am a fag' becuase you think it adds weight to a dumd idea.
Sorry this is a flamebait troll post becuase moores law sucks.
...from many of the other blogs out there? This is why I hate blogs, especially those who validate pyramid free i-pod spamming, but not other forms of spam.
I really think blogging is a bad egg technology, it is a word that shouldn't exist. People keep web based logs, things that you wouldn't really read. If you want to write a review site, write a review site, if you want to use software that managed your posts, and makes comments available and stuff, use it, but don't call it a blog.
This guy gets no kudos for this.
I hope blogs are a fad, and people can stop using them soon. (seeing how google and ask have gone into the forray of blogging, I doubt it)
Why is bloggin good? It lets people author (in the wrong context!) small sites where they can put thier opinion etc.
Why is it bad? Well, the signal:noise suffers. I end up finding the same stories aggregated on 14 sites in one day, ripping content, each one probably has ads, but I adblock everything today.
Is adblocking wrong? I say no, I say if you want to twist and create your own broadcast medium, then fine, don't expect me to watch, I block ads to try and stop people doing exactly what this guy and the engadget guy are doing.
Hackaday and engadget and all his other 11.5 billion blog sites are so fucking gay it hurts more than a pineapple colonic. argh.
Abstract: In the next article, I'll present the results for all six operating systems.
:-) (yeah yeah, mod down for language, but it pisses me off!)
Comment:
Or does that really negate the point of the meandering artcile? I mean, is it so damn hard to say, this article comapred blah foo schmoo and bar and found schmoo to kick ass, but also that foo was fairly good. It is a bad news article
What an annoying whoring article, it promises so much, a delivers so little, I hope thier advertising was worth it.
That is why I fucking hate bloggers who whore themselves out at the expense of my search result time. Whores!!
I have not been impressed with EA at all recently, as a games company. Despite thier nfsu series, they are always in the news as a bad company to work for.
I say they are looking at the games industry as a games sweatshop, which is not good for consumers.
About misrepresentation. You cannot have have an advert in an article pretending to be something it isn't.
Now, just because adverts SEEM to be related to you search, it doesn't mean they should be.
What if you were searching for Armani, and Dior just happened to buy an advert, and it wasn't through an adsense?
SO, firstly, google have stated that they do not want people to even misrepresent themselves on adverts.
But the problem is what if you are looking for related companies? I search for dior, looking for competitors because I WANT TO.
But that isnt the purpose of the people doing these googleads, the reason they do this is to try and get a bigger net... it is a grey area of the world, if google had made a stance prior to this ruling I would have felt better because now they seem that they are being pushed around, this isn't what I have expected from google. (perhaps they have grown too fast?)
creative commons license written by yours truly. (see last verse)
I have learned many years ago that Carrots and Tomatos share the same anti-carcinogen, anti-oxidant and removal of free radical properties.
Falcarinol, this is new to me, but sounds like a specialisation of known properties. But, bugs bunny eats carrots and he is well over 65 and still a lovable cross-dressing character. So must be good for you!
The judge isn't in danger of doing a MS - his summary statement was well within predefined limits of case judgements. He is a judge, and this is the tail end of the hearings.
I just cannot wait for SCO victory news post about this:
"We can confirm that out lack of evidence and badly planned strategy has given our investors even more oppourtunity to spend thier cash, buy buy buy!"
SCOX? They SuckCOX!!!
Then I read his blog. Firstly, is it a style that he cannot capitalise his I's or first letters of a sentence?
I'd call him a fucker just for that. Secondly:
to be honest, when i first got here, i was kind of disappointed that i was put on adsense. i wanted to work on consumer products, where i could focus on coming up with new offerings that would revolutionize the way people use computers and the internet.
Whine whine fucking whine! Seriously, this guy is a loser, probably google execs realised they couldn't face such a loser working for the, it gets worse:
before i left microsoft,
aaaah piss off back to M$, and stop infecting google!!!! go back to msn search why don't you! (you notice how msn search has a topical backdrop to thier search, nothing like googles leet cartoon logos, which dilbert starred in for a WHOLE WEEK!)
Net result: probably blogging is going to be found out to be the dumbest shit of self interest and vanity as I have long thought. Blogs, like, the odd few, are ok, everyone can keep a blog, but it is the wierd incessant self promotion... it is sick.
Outcome: this guy was fired for being a twat, if you are the judge hearing his case when he no doubt tries to cash in, please just shout "hes got a gun!" and let him be mowed down.
As least the world will have a few more lowercase letters to go around.
A daemon *wearing* a tux!!! yeah!! ;-)
#for the slashdotteresses#
Where have all the cycles gone
And where are all the mod-points?
Where's the Slashdot Hermes
To fight the rising trolls?
Isn't there a #gentoo @op upon a OC12?
Late at night I toss myself off and I dream of what I need...
I need a distro!
I'm holding out for a distro 'til the end of the night
It's gotta be pwnd
And it's gotta be linux
And it's gotta be able to play HalfLife2
I need a distro!
I'm holding out for a distro 'til the morning light
It's gotta be l33t
And it's gotta be k3wl
And it's gotta be able to play HalfLife2
Somewhere after midtown madness
In my wildest WoW
Somewhere just beyond my sub-net
There's something pinging back to me...
Racing on the penguin and rising with FireFox
It's gonna take SCO to sweep me off my feet!
I need a distro!
I'm holding out for a distro 'til the end of the night
It's gotta be beowulf'd
And it's gotta be themed
And it's gotta be able to play HalfLife2
I need a distro!
I'm holding out for a distro 'til the morning light
It's gotta be r00t
And it's gotta be secure
And it's gotta be able to play HalfLife2!!!!
Up where the mountains meet the heavens above
Out where the lightning splits the sea
I would swear that there's someone somewhere
Watching me
Through the wind and the chill and the rain
And the storm and the flood
I can feel his approach
Like a fire in my blood
I need Linus!
I'm holding out for Torvalds 'til the end of the night
He's sure is strong
And he's gotta be fast
And he's looks ready to fight
I need Darl McBride!
I'm holding out for Darl McBride 'til the morning light
He's gotta be gay
And he's gonna be out of a job soon
And he's gotta even annoy his wife
I need a distro!
Me: What is that?
Dom: Windows 2-thousand (not 2000, but 2-thousand)
Me: Oh, I use 95, can't be doing with that 98 crap
Dom: pah, mmm what is that, an animated drum?
Me: uuuh, yeah great
Dom: I DON'T WANT MY CPU CYCLES WASTED ON AN ANIMATED DRUM!!!
Hhahahah I still momentarily loose bladder control thinking about his antics.
Seriously, programs do some effects in thier startup splash screens that we used to (on a P2) wait for a progress bar to complete, so don't worry about CPU cycles. If you do, run black box or twm or just use a console with 0 buffer and tiny bitmap fonts, and just use cat and echo (with >> > | ) for all your word processing/editing
Also play nethack the reduced character set version.
Mod parent down I think... (unless you make it uninsightful ;-)
;-)
Sun is placing itself in a very key role, and is expanding its market despite very turbulent times.
Sun has given us many many things, and has scored major victories over MS, far better than MS's current homework assignment to bring an apple to the eu bosses office, and rape windows.
To be honest, the whole anti-competative thing of removing media player was an anti-climax.
They needed to have lasting requirements never to throttle peoples access to technology, or ever block people from using it (net api's (we only want to use them because some clever people have to talk to some stupid people), ui shizzle (there was a time when MS would release how to do some tricks in thier own UI API, and left it only for ms office to use), patents they have on OpenGL)...
If eu. can fend of this maniac (driven by MS? OraSAPcle? IM-we-give-away-patents-for-free-M?)
Sun wasn't the first on the patent rally, but they were right up there, unabashedly, and something like this has to take time to plan (evaluating patents etc).
I see Sun and IBM making a big profit out of the OS oppourtunities, IBM was there first, because Sun left back to make a Java industry develop, doing a very un-microsoft thing and actively not profiting from the adoption of their technologies, because they realised that in the long run, having JBoss, Websphere, Weblogic, Webfoo, Webwhatever from all those vendors (don't forget Macromedia CF!!) is better for us, and therefore better for them.
If savvy developers are jumping into their opteron offerings and making some excellent cutting edge apps, then we will only know that sun has come out on top developer wise when we are playing catch up.
I have to go and put on my Java T-shirt and make a salute for the (almost) 6 figure sum I make from Java each Year.
Thank you sun, and even thank you IBM, I had such fun installing DB2, no really. And thank you Microsoft, my first IT job trying to fix room after room of non compatible office versions... no wonder I found the light (argh, I still get nightmares thinking I am a VB developer)...
Please, if you are going to comment on a Sun/IBM/MS/Apple old skool article, make sure you have stop being breasts feed (unless you can afford those services now
I thought politicians spent thier time trying to do as little as possible aside from helping out thier relatives and donors.
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Who is the person pushing them? How can we build a defense? Why do I feel helpless about this?
No doubt this is all funded by the eu, and whoever is behind it has little to pay, but any aim of repealing this would cost a lot.
WHat is the point of having a parliament, and who is putting political pressure on
How about we stop letting them play behind masks, and make everyone put thier cards on the table for a change. Anyone who opposes a controversial law is always in the lime light, but those pushing it through for thier own gain, you never read about them.
I met a Polish person on a server playing MTA:VC (multi player GTA), I said I loved them, and chased them around trying to hug them. I ended up stealing thier car and running them over with it, but it is the thought that counts.
Just copy and past into your hosts file and replace '02-07-2005^' with '127.0.0.1 '
If everyone did that, then... well... yey! bye bye spammers, off the face of DNS.
Whatever happen to just simple gradual mhz improvement. 30mhz to 40mhz to 100mhz to 500mhz works for any consumer.
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They were pWnd by physics, they used all kinds of optical tricks to shrink down the details of thier wafers, but then they realised that when it got too small, it got really hot, then the electrons started to orgy, going into each others homes, having car key parties... typical behaviour for your average electron if they can get away with it.
And now have to just sell two computers as one... think of it like SLI for your processor.
Don't worry about marketting to Joe Pubichair, PC World reps know what to do in any case: Hi Joe, this is the one we make the biggest markup from, so it must be good!
Gosling wasn't starting a flamewar. If someones sane ideas on forgetting that unsafe checking ever existed, to try and stop 98.9923% of all problems in the IT world (*cough* those worms that take down the internet in 5 hours).
Do a seach for uncheck buffer, buffer overflow, and sanity check on your average security alert site.
The simple check that stops you going from place to place in memory is available to all. If it is so slow in Microsofts impl, and they have to disable it not necessarily to do unsafe ops, but to optimize xml parsing libraries, then they have a problem.
How do you feel installing something on your new server that has the keyword unsafe on 19 methods running on open ports on your server?
Of course, making sure that they are safe just takes more time and diligence on the part of the programmer. But building in a few security risks always keeps the customer asking for newer versions.