That's okay. I read dyslexically sometimes, and your sentence made sense until you pointed out your own mistake:D My mind seems to look for meaning first and look at what's there second, and the finding-meaning step doesn't necessarily keep things in the correct order. But maybe that's a lookahead cache with poor jump prediction, or some sort of compiler over-optimization. I'll gdb brain later and try to figure it out.
Actually, right now just about everything goes into c:\windows and c:\windows\system32, without much organization for either. I often wish they would organize c:\windows\system32. No directory ANYWHERE should have more than 10-20 files, or at least not without providing some sort of index that describes the purpose of each and every one. On Windows, when the GUI utilities can't fix your problem, you're boned, and Microsoft Tech support can't help you either.
Ah, by that approach, my school could lower tuition and housing costs by eliminating: * Free shows * Student centers * Pianos and pool and ping-pong tables * Clubs and organizations * Sports etc etc.
Just because Internet access is 'technological' seems to make people think it's more sophisticated and academic than everything else. It's not. Internet access is great for education, great for entertainment, and especially great for hobbies. Why even have Internet connections in the dorms?
College is not just a school. It is your life for four years. Forbidding Internet-related entertainment for four years is a very strict punishment.
Really, routers should be able to decide what bandwidth usage is more important and allocate bandwidth to different connection classes accordingly. There ought to be an abundance of higher-latency, less-reliable bandwidth for entertainment uses, too, separate from the low-latency, high-reliability bandwidth reserved for important, academic transactions.
I often feel this way: Why write manuals for XXX, when it's obvious what it does and how to use it?
Fourteen months later...
What the fuck is XXX, what does it do, and why did I write it?!?!;) I don't think there's any harm in spending time on making (at least) simple documentation for anything.
I can vouch for how much fun---errr, how useful Weasels can be. Watchdog, separate CPU with flashable reprogrammable system code, full BIOS access, intelligent serial passthrough, remote reboot! Depending on exactly why you need an LCD, a Weasel might be an alternative. There's a weasel in my server right now. I can see his little tail poking out of the rear case fan.
How about backup CDs? Everybody has their favorite suite of freeware and stuff they use and install on new machines when they buy them. Wouldn't it be great if those TOSHIBA RESTORE DISCS contained your Windows version of gvim, lcc, cygwin, and other personally favored utilities?
Or how about electronic surveys that come in the mail, get the answers recorded in the second half, and get send back in a SASE or postage-paid envelope?
Wow! A real orgy! Now which States, exactly, is this legal in?
I'm all for electron entanglement, as long as Ashcroft doesn't decide it's drug paraphernalia. I mean, after all, if one of those electrons was ever part of 9,1-tetrahydracannabinol (did I get that right?)...
Ah, but we're going to have to wait for the push for "bigger, faster, less efficient, home mini-iron" to finally fizzle out so we can start engineering some *real* modern CPU designs (instead of just shrinking and cooling).
A reconfigurable CPU like that would let computers do all sorts of things amazingly quickly; you can do almost anything in logic and asynchronous calculations run as fast as the signals can move across the chip.
This is fantastic! Once e-mail and electronic documents are unusable, people will go back to writing letters and talking to each other like they did in the good old days to exchange gossip and secrets.
You know, this cheap digital camera I bought takes rather high-quality screen shots of monitors. They might fuck with the signal so cameras get confused but our eyes can understand it just fine, but then you only need a video camera and video processing software.
That's a good point.. Now, if only our country wasn't so damn commercial and consumerist, maybe things wouldn't spin out of control in the first place. But then again, the alternatives to capitolism I've seen are only uglier:-/
This will get my lynched, no doubt, but... Is there a good essay that examines just "what is wrong with child porn?" I keep seeing posts like "Child porn is bad. So bad that..." but nobody has explained the logic behind their position, which is strange to see on slashdot. I understand perfectly well the problems inherent to the creation of child porn and the mental problems associated with the people interested in child porn, but wouldn't it be better to fix the problems, not the symptoms? Or does it depend on context? What about high school yearbooks, where parents often send in "embarassing" naked-little-kid pictures? Isn't that child porn? What about parents who take pictures of their kids in the tub because the kid is doing something cute? That's also child porn... And how does child porn relate to age of consent? In many states, the age of consent is 16, yet you can't take nude photos of someone under 18 (legally, anyway), even if they are begging you to. I've never quite understood this, either. I suppose the lawmakers assume the typical person interested in naked 16-year-olds is a 45-year-old male, but what about other male 16-year-olds who always click the "Yes, I am over 18" button anyway? Bah, OK. I tried to come up with some interesting questions, so I'm expecting some interesting answers (and probably many trolls, too).
You can with HTTP---*if* your server supports it. Apache is good at support Content-Length correctly, resuming transfers, etc. Some other webservers have a history of doing this poorly (and I don't mean just IIS, which AFAIK has been able to do this fairly well for a while)
Of course, I'm probably completely wrong, but I wouldn't be surprised.
I actually really did used to do this. I can't remember now, but it involved some kind of dialup to a shell account. No PPP/SLIP, so to transfer files I used uuencode and cat, and captured to a file and then uudecoded. I was worried about reliability, but the only time it died was when I missed the first two lines somehow.
In Delaware, the busses come sometime within +/-30 minutes of their scheduled time, may or may not stop at scheduled stops, may also stop other places, and only go to/from one place. If you want to go from A to B, you have to take an A bus to inner-city Wilmington (right where all the shootings happen), and then take a B bus back out to your destination.
Ahh, isn't it wonderful. Nobody here really rides the busses, so they won't improve the system. I wonder why nobody rides them... hmmmm.... (wink) Actually, it's probably because this state is very car-oriented, and everybody expects everyone to have a car by the time they hit 16 (even though you can't really drive until you're 17 now!). Of course, this attitude probably stems from the fact that the entire northern third of the state outside of the cities is a giant suburb, and busses don't really go into the suburbs, so nobody could even take a bus if they wanted to. If you're lucky enough to live near a shopping center you can take a bus.
The school shuttles at my University are rather nice, though. Free, clean, and they have a better chance of coming. (Out of the ~20 times I've attempted to take them, though, they drove right by the stop without stopping twice, simply didn't show up three times, and refused to take me all the way to my destination stop (which is a scheduled stop) five times. But, that's probably better than the state busses, and the Uni busses are free...)
I have the pascal version too. That book is a treasure trove. I came across it when I was 10 or so, and I still learn things every time I skim through.
I've always liked minimal spanning tree algorithms myself, but that may just be me;)
But if I upgrade to a fancy new 3.06 Ghz P4, I can emulate that 1Ghz Windows box easily! (well, maybe not quite 1Ghz, but Bochs gets more efficient every day;)
And... upgrade?!?! But I just downgraded so I could play Bouncing Babies at the right pace (never heard of it? It was on some PC GAMES disk set, back for the 286... classic, fun, CGA action game where you had to catch babies jumping from a burning building in a net, and they bounced on the sidewalk) OR: Upgrade?!?! I didn't know they sold upgrades for Sun Sparc IPC's!
How long do patents last, exactly? Something like 30 years?
USPTO: Spreading 30-year-old technology to the masses. This is yet more proof that I would be happier as a farmer.
Something about the act of controlling ideas just really irks me. Like, if you're not on the "inside" or if you don't like to shell out big bucks, then fuck you. Am I the only one who isn't happy about that attitude? I think all IP laws should only extend to let businesses hurt other businesses, if they are to exist at all. That way, only businesses will have to deal with this kind of stuff. Wait a second, that means that if I ever want to start a business, I will need tons, and tons, and tons of money to pay licensing fees, and I will have to hire many full-time lawyers to tell me just which fees I need to pay. Ugh. I don't like a system where one person can screw everyone else over; but then again, I'm not sure I like a system where there's lots of "some other guys" out there preventing me from ever doing anything.
Who remembers seeing all those TV shows as a kid, where the "leader" type of character would be trying to solve some sort of problem between other characters on the show, and would say "I know! Let's....." I should hate every show like that, for filling me with the false hope that if I come up with an idea, it is "mine" and I can use it freely.
Patents keep us from thinking, and deter observing. Copyrights keep us from writing, and deter us from reading and listening. Trade secrets keep us from talking, and deter us from being curious. Trademarks keep us from spelling things correctly, and deter us from complaining.
Yep, they've got about all the bases covered. Maybe I'm just jealous of the 7,223,753 people who already have control of certain ideas, and I'm jealous that I haven't patented something so I make money off of other people with little effort. Oh well.
*post-preview* Wow, this things is so angry, almost flaming. Ah, but I have reason to be angry, in my mind, anyway;)
So why does it do this, exactly... I'm not familiar with using/tmp on swap.
And how about that fully-userland transparent filesystem driver that uses a LD_LIBRARY_PATH hack? =) He could have the tree on a remote linux box, exported over NFS, and "mount" it on the solaris machine. It would be kinda slow, but...
(1) Economies of scale (esp. with chip manufacture!) (2) Spreading the overhead and costs of R+D (which can be *huge*) If everybody went with SGI instead of IBM, we'd all be buying R12K boxes (from clone manufacturers, no less:) for $1500 apiece now. Shop eBay... best UNIX for your dollar.
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That's okay. I read dyslexically sometimes, and your sentence made sense until you pointed out your own mistake :D My mind seems to look for meaning first and look at what's there second, and the finding-meaning step doesn't necessarily keep things in the correct order. But maybe that's a lookahead cache with poor jump prediction, or some sort of compiler over-optimization. I'll gdb brain later and try to figure it out.
Yeah, Roogle sucks. I searched for 'sex' and all I got was articles, no porn. What a cheap search engine. How am I supposed to get my PORssNFeed?
Plumbing is no problem. Just glance down before unloading. Make sure there's no cops or unfriendly neighbors around.
Actually, right now just about everything goes into c:\windows and c:\windows\system32, without much organization for either. I often wish they would organize c:\windows\system32. No directory ANYWHERE should have more than 10-20 files, or at least not without providing some sort of index that describes the purpose of each and every one. On Windows, when the GUI utilities can't fix your problem, you're boned, and Microsoft Tech support can't help you either.
You sir, are a clueless troll of the worst kind.
Ah, by that approach, my school could lower tuition and housing costs by eliminating:
* Free shows
* Student centers
* Pianos and pool and ping-pong tables
* Clubs and organizations
* Sports
etc etc.
Just because Internet access is 'technological' seems to make people think it's more sophisticated and academic than everything else. It's not. Internet access is great for education, great for entertainment, and especially great for hobbies. Why even have Internet connections in the dorms?
College is not just a school. It is your life for four years. Forbidding Internet-related entertainment for four years is a very strict punishment.
Really, routers should be able to decide what bandwidth usage is more important and allocate bandwidth to different connection classes accordingly. There ought to be an abundance of higher-latency, less-reliable bandwidth for entertainment uses, too, separate from the low-latency, high-reliability bandwidth reserved for important, academic transactions.
I often feel this way: Why write manuals for XXX, when it's obvious what it does and how to use it?
;) I don't think there's any harm in spending time on making (at least) simple documentation for anything.
Fourteen months later...
What the fuck is XXX, what does it do, and why did I write it?!?!
I can vouch for how much fun---errr, how useful Weasels can be. Watchdog, separate CPU with flashable reprogrammable system code, full BIOS access, intelligent serial passthrough, remote reboot! Depending on exactly why you need an LCD, a Weasel might be an alternative. There's a weasel in my server right now. I can see his little tail poking out of the rear case fan.
How about backup CDs? Everybody has their favorite suite of freeware and stuff they use and install on new machines when they buy them. Wouldn't it be great if those TOSHIBA RESTORE DISCS contained your Windows version of gvim, lcc, cygwin, and other personally favored utilities?
Or how about electronic surveys that come in the mail, get the answers recorded in the second half, and get send back in a SASE or postage-paid envelope?
VIm?! EMacs?!
My songs are nothing but Ed and Ex and SEd (but QEd on Multics).
Wow! A real orgy! Now which States, exactly, is this legal in?
I'm all for electron entanglement, as long as Ashcroft doesn't decide it's drug paraphernalia. I mean, after all, if one of those electrons was ever part of 9,1-tetrahydracannabinol (did I get that right?)...
Ah, but we're going to have to wait for the push for "bigger, faster, less efficient, home mini-iron" to finally fizzle out so we can start engineering some *real* modern CPU designs (instead of just shrinking and cooling).
A reconfigurable CPU like that would let computers do all sorts of things amazingly quickly; you can do almost anything in logic and asynchronous calculations run as fast as the signals can move across the chip.
This is fantastic! Once e-mail and electronic documents are unusable, people will go back to writing letters and talking to each other like they did in the good old days to exchange gossip and secrets.
You know, this cheap digital camera I bought takes rather high-quality screen shots of monitors.
They might fuck with the signal so cameras get confused but our eyes can understand it just fine, but then you only need a video camera and video processing software.
That's a good point.. Now, if only our country wasn't so damn commercial and consumerist, maybe things wouldn't spin out of control in the first place. :-/
But then again, the alternatives to capitolism I've seen are only uglier
This will get my lynched, no doubt, but... ..." but nobody has explained the logic behind their position, which is strange to see on slashdot.
Is there a good essay that examines just "what is wrong with child porn?"
I keep seeing posts like "Child porn is bad. So bad that
I understand perfectly well the problems inherent to the creation of child porn and the mental problems associated with the people interested in child porn, but wouldn't it be better to fix the problems, not the symptoms?
Or does it depend on context? What about high school yearbooks, where parents often send in "embarassing" naked-little-kid pictures? Isn't that child porn? What about parents who take pictures of their kids in the tub because the kid is doing something cute? That's also child porn...
And how does child porn relate to age of consent? In many states, the age of consent is 16, yet you can't take nude photos of someone under 18 (legally, anyway), even if they are begging you to. I've never quite understood this, either.
I suppose the lawmakers assume the typical person interested in naked 16-year-olds is a 45-year-old male, but what about other male 16-year-olds who always click the "Yes, I am over 18" button anyway?
Bah, OK. I tried to come up with some interesting questions, so I'm expecting some interesting answers (and probably many trolls, too).
You can with HTTP---*if* your server supports it.
Apache is good at support Content-Length correctly, resuming transfers, etc.
Some other webservers have a history of doing this poorly (and I don't mean just IIS, which AFAIK has been able to do this fairly well for a while)
Of course, I'm probably completely wrong, but I wouldn't be surprised.
I actually really did used to do this. I can't remember now, but it involved some kind of dialup to a shell account. No PPP/SLIP, so to transfer files I used uuencode and cat, and captured to a file and then uudecoded.
I was worried about reliability, but the only time it died was when I missed the first two lines somehow.
In Delaware, the busses come sometime within +/-30 minutes of their scheduled time, may or may not stop at scheduled stops, may also stop other places, and only go to/from one place. If you want to go from A to B, you have to take an A bus to inner-city Wilmington (right where all the shootings happen), and then take a B bus back out to your destination.
Ahh, isn't it wonderful. Nobody here really rides the busses, so they won't improve the system. I wonder why nobody rides them... hmmmm.... (wink)
Actually, it's probably because this state is very car-oriented, and everybody expects everyone to have a car by the time they hit 16 (even though you can't really drive until you're 17 now!). Of course, this attitude probably stems from the fact that the entire northern third of the state outside of the cities is a giant suburb, and busses don't really go into the suburbs, so nobody could even take a bus if they wanted to. If you're lucky enough to live near a shopping center you can take a bus.
The school shuttles at my University are rather nice, though. Free, clean, and they have a better chance of coming. (Out of the ~20 times I've attempted to take them, though, they drove right by the stop without stopping twice, simply didn't show up three times, and refused to take me all the way to my destination stop (which is a scheduled stop) five times. But, that's probably better than the state busses, and the Uni busses are free...)
I should know, I'm in the middle of his book right now :) :)
I have the pascal version too. That book is a treasure trove.
;)
I came across it when I was 10 or so, and I still learn things every time I skim through.
I've always liked minimal spanning tree algorithms myself, but that may just be me
But if I upgrade to a fancy new 3.06 Ghz P4, I can emulate that 1Ghz Windows box easily! (well, maybe not quite 1Ghz, but Bochs gets more efficient every day ;)
And... upgrade?!?! But I just downgraded so I could play Bouncing Babies at the right pace (never heard of it? It was on some PC GAMES disk set, back for the 286... classic, fun, CGA action game where you had to catch babies jumping from a burning building in a net, and they bounced on the sidewalk)
OR:
Upgrade?!?! I didn't know they sold upgrades for Sun Sparc IPC's!
How long do patents last, exactly? Something like 30 years?
....."
;)
USPTO: Spreading 30-year-old technology to the masses.
This is yet more proof that I would be happier as a farmer.
Something about the act of controlling ideas just really irks me. Like, if you're not on the "inside" or if you don't like to shell out big bucks, then fuck you.
Am I the only one who isn't happy about that attitude?
I think all IP laws should only extend to let businesses hurt other businesses, if they are to exist at all. That way, only businesses will have to deal with this kind of stuff.
Wait a second, that means that if I ever want to start a business, I will need tons, and tons, and tons of money to pay licensing fees, and I will have to hire many full-time lawyers to tell me just which fees I need to pay.
Ugh. I don't like a system where one person can screw everyone else over; but then again, I'm not sure I like a system where there's lots of "some other guys" out there preventing me from ever doing anything.
Who remembers seeing all those TV shows as a kid, where the "leader" type of character would be trying to solve some sort of problem between other characters on the show, and would say "I know! Let's
I should hate every show like that, for filling me with the false hope that if I come up with an idea, it is "mine" and I can use it freely.
Patents keep us from thinking, and deter observing. Copyrights keep us from writing, and deter us from reading and listening. Trade secrets keep us from talking, and deter us from being curious. Trademarks keep us from spelling things correctly, and deter us from complaining.
Yep, they've got about all the bases covered. Maybe I'm just jealous of the 7,223,753 people who already have control of certain ideas, and I'm jealous that I haven't patented something so I make money off of other people with little effort. Oh well.
*post-preview* Wow, this things is so angry, almost flaming. Ah, but I have reason to be angry, in my mind, anyway
But I can't afford 137 IP's! That's 136 more machines than I'm supposed to have connected!
So why does it do this, exactly... I'm not familiar with using /tmp on swap.
And how about that fully-userland transparent filesystem driver that uses a LD_LIBRARY_PATH hack? =) He could have the tree on a remote linux box, exported over NFS, and "mount" it on the solaris machine. It would be kinda slow, but...
(1) Economies of scale (esp. with chip manufacture!) :) for $1500 apiece now.
(2) Spreading the overhead and costs of R+D (which can be *huge*)
If everybody went with SGI instead of IBM, we'd all be buying R12K boxes (from clone manufacturers, no less
Shop eBay... best UNIX for your dollar.