And, you know, this could do wonderful things for TV broadcasting. The only point of commercials is a smoking/bathroom/food/beverage break, but now that TVs are portable, commercials can be eliminated once and for all. Right?
How about they just call it something like: * EverybodyHasIssues * EverybodyHatesThisBrowser * LegalBattlesSuck * StopSpammingMeAsshole * TrulyUniqueNamesAreNearlyImpossible * UIHFIUEWHFAWIMEHCIXFUHAEOFAWECIFOECFIOAHFMUCWEHCUI F
Or, if they name it something dirty, chances are, even if there are similar names, none of the owners would complain... maybe like HappyEndingFlumpkin?
I seem to recall HPUX doing something like this. On my 512MB HPUX machine, the kernel only maps something like 64MB of ram, leaving the rest for primary swap (Secondary swap is a disk partition). Weird! Is this just my type of machine, or is this normaly behavior for HPUX? Do most people change this?
Your position is quite understandable, but the world of industry just plain scares me. Computers have always been more open, like the world of math. I think software licensing should be a minor payoff in the computer industry, and limited to specialized areas where tons of R&D and expertise is truly vital.
I think one of the main points of school is to lock kids up and keep them out of (most) trouble. But anyway...
Banning reverse engineering?!?! What's NEXT?! I bet they're going to rule against literary analysis in English! Reading too far into something would endanger the author's critical intellectual property---if we knew *how* he (or she, of course) wrote what he wrote, there would be countless knock-offs and imitators! Oh wait, there already are..... so?
I think I'm too damn evil to understand anything on that page. Of course, maybe that's because I worship a monofaced evil integrated academic racist Word God.
Potential problem: SPDIF has a "don't-copy" bit. Of course, you can get players which let you disable it, and recording cards which let you ignore it...;)
Did anyone besides me see the story title and think: Wow, straight out of Ghostbusters!
I think the best place to look for life "out there" is wherever there's dryers that eat socks, because that's a sure sign of intelligent life.
I hold a similar semi-religious viewpoint, but sometimes my views are more along the lines of... God == Universe. Makes religious ideas different in interesting ways...
Vulture 1: Hey, look, free cow! Vulture 2: Dude---haven't you heard? Vulture 1: What? Vulture 2: Aliens touched that cow! Vulture 1: Huh? Vulture 2: Aliens. They're these short, smart humans who make guest appearances in X-files episodes. Vulture 1: X-files? I saw that once! There was some guy, and everybody thought he was a Fox or something but he didn't even have a tail, and then there was some lady named Scully, and she kept getting taller and then shorter. Vulture 2: Yeah, that's the one. Anyway--- Vulture 1: Oh, yeah, and there was some conspiracy episode once, with this old guy who put little fires in his mouth, and they kept talking about some black oily stuff that makes people sew their eyeholes shut. Vulture 2: Yes! That's alien blood. I bet that cow is full of it. Vulture 1: Wow... let's steer clear, then. My sewing machine is broken. Vulture 2: Yeah, and I don't have any thread to match my feathers, anyway.
Rocky's Boots did wonders for my understanding of computers, logic, and programming. I would definitely start with Rocky's Boots on an Apple II emulator. There are disk images floating around the net.
Actually, an alternative my roommate is using successfully is the cheap fan controllers ($25 or so online) that fit in a 5.25" bay and let you turn your fans gradually from 12V to off and back again. This doens't help with the power supply issue, but if you ever needed a high-end machine in your dorm but needed to sleep, you could turn the fans down when the machine was idle.
Eh, I tested my server, and it was fine. Then suddenly, email wasn't going or coming, and my mail spooler kept filling up it's filesystem... turned out to be a combination of firewall and squid settings (the *default* settings for squid, though... !!!!) that was being exploited to send spam through my server. I sent lots of complaints to the people responsible after I fixed everything; when that didn't work, I kept going upstream until I found an ISP that cared about the millions and millions of spam that these guys were pushing through my server.
But don't forget doing the job is only half the work. It's really important in most jobs to be a people person, to be able to communicate well, respect your boss's opinion, be open to your underlings' opinions, prioritize well, manage your time effectively, and all the other things that companies are always talking about. Now, you may call these "doing the job", but many computer programmers probably think that being a good programmer is about all they need. Your black lesbian Muslim cripple may bring valuable things to the workplace that a fit Aryan male would not provide. If you're only concerned about individual efficiency, hire the faster worker, but if you're interested in overall company productivity, a healthy work environment, and company morale, you might have to turn down the better programmer on occasion.
Copyright infringement is not as serious of a crime as politicians, the RIAA, and the MPAA would like people to think. If I cross the street at crosswalks 100 times, and I jaywalk 99 times, should I get jailed? Who has been hurt?
Jails are for extremely violent or disorderly people who have the potential to ruin others' lives and do not care what happens to others. Most college students (except for some of the frat boys around here) do not fit into this category (not even close!). Jails are for dangerous crimes; violent crimes are dangerous, drugs are considered dangerous (perhaps if you are a pusher, but what about the rest of the people in jail for drug dealings and possession?), and cheating the (economic) system in grandiose ways is sometimes considered dangerous.
How is file sharing, something that has been going on for years and years *anyway* (ever copied a tape or CD? recorded something off the radio kept it? recorded something off TV and kept it?), suddenly such a grandiose crime that it is ruining others' lives in such a serious way?
Jails are designed to hurt and punish people who haven't learned not to hurt and punish others. By not buying a CD, who am I hurting? If I like an artist enough, I will by their CD. If I don't consider it worth my money, I won't. In the past, I would just tape songs I liked off of the radio to make mix tapes. How is this different? Let's start turning in powerful people for making mix tapes with songs off the radio, shall we? I do believe that qualifies as an "illegal download." Then maybe people will realize how ridiculous this whole business is (in most cases, anyhow).
Piracy? Theft? Hahahahahahaha. I guess "copyright infringment" isn't scary enough of a word. If I go to jail for piracy, I better have looted and pillaged. If I go to jail for theft, I better have acquired lots of new physical possessions from a store, defeating store security.
Wow. Someone who uses 'disinterested' correctly. AlexeisKai, you're my new best friend. =)
As for news sources... thank God we have the Internet. I'm willing to bet some European or South American news sites ought to have a fairly unbiased coverage.
Ah, believe me, I've read through that document many times:) but I've never been able to create a non-trivial program... I'm just wondering how the proper Hello World one was done?
How was this done?!?! I am truly stumped.... Advanced translation system? That's my best guess. I doubt a human could code in Malbolge in a reasonable amount of time...
A little googling yielded Video Cam Inc., Media Technologies, and Unigraf, not to mention others. I found searching for videowall products was more productive than just searching for videowall (no pun intended).
Oh, and for God's sake, whatever you do, PLEASE do not use the Goatse man as your test image. Thank you.
Damn... I thought this was X(11) vs. XP, not (OS)X vs. XP.
I wanna see a good X vs. X vs. XP shootout. Everybody always talks about the right tool for the job; I want to see a good analysis and adaptable scoring system that shows which is really the best for which jobs.
But, for this particular thing, my vote's for (OS)X.
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And, you know, this could do wonderful things for TV broadcasting. The only point of commercials is a smoking/bathroom/food/beverage break, but now that TVs are portable, commercials can be eliminated once and for all. Right?
*cough* Right?
Shit.
How about they just call it something like:I F
* EverybodyHasIssues
* EverybodyHatesThisBrowser
* LegalBattlesSuck
* StopSpammingMeAsshole
* TrulyUniqueNamesAreNearlyImpossible
* UIHFIUEWHFAWIMEHCIXFUHAEOFAWECIFOECFIOAHFMUCWEHCU
Or, if they name it something dirty, chances are, even if there are similar names, none of the owners would complain... maybe like HappyEndingFlumpkin?
This was posted because, in 0208scc_scared12_zoom.jpg, a sign says "KING TACO" in the background.
I seem to recall HPUX doing something like this. On my 512MB HPUX machine, the kernel only maps something like 64MB of ram, leaving the rest for primary swap (Secondary swap is a disk partition). Weird! Is this just my type of machine, or is this normaly behavior for HPUX? Do most people change this?
Your position is quite understandable, but the world of industry just plain scares me. Computers have always been more open, like the world of math. I think software licensing should be a minor payoff in the computer industry, and limited to specialized areas where tons of R&D and expertise is truly vital.
But just my $.02.
I think one of the main points of school is to lock kids up and keep them out of (most) trouble. But anyway...
Banning reverse engineering?!?! What's NEXT?! I bet they're going to rule against literary analysis in English! Reading too far into something would endanger the author's critical intellectual property---if we knew *how* he (or she, of course) wrote what he wrote, there would be countless knock-offs and imitators! Oh wait, there already are..... so?
Anyway.
I think I'm too damn evil to understand anything on that page. Of course, maybe that's because I worship a monofaced evil integrated academic racist Word God.
Huh?
Potential problem: SPDIF has a "don't-copy" bit. Of course, you can get players which let you disable it, and recording cards which let you ignore it... ;)
Did anyone besides me see the story title and think: Wow, straight out of Ghostbusters!
I think the best place to look for life "out there" is wherever there's dryers that eat socks, because that's a sure sign of intelligent life.
I hold a similar semi-religious viewpoint, but sometimes my views are more along the lines of... God == Universe. Makes religious ideas different in interesting ways...
Hah, the only buttons on our TV are Power, Vol+, and Vol-. You can't even change the channels without the remote (!).
Vulture 1: Hey, look, free cow!
Vulture 2: Dude---haven't you heard?
Vulture 1: What?
Vulture 2: Aliens touched that cow!
Vulture 1: Huh?
Vulture 2: Aliens. They're these short, smart humans who make guest appearances in X-files episodes.
Vulture 1: X-files? I saw that once! There was some guy, and everybody thought he was a Fox or something but he didn't even have a tail, and then there was some lady named Scully, and she kept getting taller and then shorter.
Vulture 2: Yeah, that's the one. Anyway---
Vulture 1: Oh, yeah, and there was some conspiracy episode once, with this old guy who put little fires in his mouth, and they kept talking about some black oily stuff that makes people sew their eyeholes shut.
Vulture 2: Yes! That's alien blood. I bet that cow is full of it.
Vulture 1: Wow... let's steer clear, then. My sewing machine is broken.
Vulture 2: Yeah, and I don't have any thread to match my feathers, anyway.
Well of course Windows XP is a fungus, what did you *think* it was? ;)
But anyway, here's another story, seemingly on the same growth:
Armillaria in Oregon
Here's some information about this type of fungus:
Armillaria tree growth
Rocky's Boots did wonders for my understanding of computers, logic, and programming. I would definitely start with Rocky's Boots on an Apple II emulator. There are disk images floating around the net.
Actually, an alternative my roommate is using successfully is the cheap fan controllers ($25 or so online) that fit in a 5.25" bay and let you turn your fans gradually from 12V to off and back again. This doens't help with the power supply issue, but if you ever needed a high-end machine in your dorm but needed to sleep, you could turn the fans down when the machine was idle.
Does this mean I can't open up my most recent venture, www.hairypotter.com ?
Eh, I tested my server, and it was fine. Then suddenly, email wasn't going or coming, and my mail spooler kept filling up it's filesystem... turned out to be a combination of firewall and squid settings (the *default* settings for squid, though... !!!!) that was being exploited to send spam through my server. I sent lots of complaints to the people responsible after I fixed everything; when that didn't work, I kept going upstream until I found an ISP that cared about the millions and millions of spam that these guys were pushing through my server.
But don't forget doing the job is only half the work. It's really important in most jobs to be a people person, to be able to communicate well, respect your boss's opinion, be open to your underlings' opinions, prioritize well, manage your time effectively, and all the other things that companies are always talking about. Now, you may call these "doing the job", but many computer programmers probably think that being a good programmer is about all they need. Your black lesbian Muslim cripple may bring valuable things to the workplace that a fit Aryan male would not provide. If you're only concerned about individual efficiency, hire the faster worker, but if you're interested in overall company productivity, a healthy work environment, and company morale, you might have to turn down the better programmer on occasion.
Just my two Euros.
Copyright infringement is not as serious of a crime as politicians, the RIAA, and the MPAA would like people to think. If I cross the street at crosswalks 100 times, and I jaywalk 99 times, should I get jailed? Who has been hurt?
Jails are for extremely violent or disorderly people who have the potential to ruin others' lives and do not care what happens to others. Most college students (except for some of the frat boys around here) do not fit into this category (not even close!). Jails are for dangerous crimes; violent crimes are dangerous, drugs are considered dangerous (perhaps if you are a pusher, but what about the rest of the people in jail for drug dealings and possession?), and cheating the (economic) system in grandiose ways is sometimes considered dangerous.
How is file sharing, something that has been going on for years and years *anyway* (ever copied a tape or CD? recorded something off the radio kept it? recorded something off TV and kept it?), suddenly such a grandiose crime that it is ruining others' lives in such a serious way?
Jails are designed to hurt and punish people who haven't learned not to hurt and punish others. By not buying a CD, who am I hurting? If I like an artist enough, I will by their CD. If I don't consider it worth my money, I won't. In the past, I would just tape songs I liked off of the radio to make mix tapes. How is this different? Let's start turning in powerful people for making mix tapes with songs off the radio, shall we? I do believe that qualifies as an "illegal download." Then maybe people will realize how ridiculous this whole business is (in most cases, anyhow).
Piracy? Theft? Hahahahahahaha. I guess "copyright infringment" isn't scary enough of a word. If I go to jail for piracy, I better have looted and pillaged. If I go to jail for theft, I better have acquired lots of new physical possessions from a store, defeating store security.
Wow. Someone who uses 'disinterested' correctly. AlexeisKai, you're my new best friend. =)
As for news sources... thank God we have the Internet. I'm willing to bet some European or South American news sites ought to have a fairly unbiased coverage.
Ah, believe me, I've read through that document many times :) but I've never been able to create a non-trivial program... I'm just wondering how the proper Hello World one was done?
How was this done?!?! I am truly stumped....
Advanced translation system? That's my best guess. I doubt a human could code in Malbolge in a reasonable amount of time...
try this link..
Well, I meant by X the Unix/X way of approaching interfaces and systems. Mac OS X / Aqua is notably different. :)
A little googling yielded Video Cam Inc., Media Technologies, and Unigraf, not to mention others. I found searching for videowall products was more productive than just searching for videowall (no pun intended).
Oh, and for God's sake, whatever you do, PLEASE do not use the Goatse man as your test image. Thank you.
Damn... I thought this was X(11) vs. XP, not (OS)X vs. XP.
I wanna see a good X vs. X vs. XP shootout. Everybody always talks about the right tool for the job; I want to see a good analysis and adaptable scoring system that shows which is really the best for which jobs.
But, for this particular thing, my vote's for (OS)X.