You cannot kill people by destroying computers. There's no reason a dialysis machine or heart monitor needs to be connected to the internet.
You refuse to make the distinction between knowledge, the ability to use that knowledge, and information.
Information: pure stored data Knowledge: data organized into concepts or school subjects The ability to use information: This is why the security by obscurity model fails. You'd have to knife people's eyes out, cut their tongues, chop off their limbs blow their eardrums, or you could just subject them to a weekly frontal labotomy.
To give you an example. As ridiculous as it sounds, a plumber who really knows his work can become a cracker in no time. It's not the information that counts it's not abnout the concept of ports it's about the concept of pipes.
Same for a heart surgeon. You just have to know your shit. Think about it. I don't need to know the source code for an application in order to break it. I only need the source code to fix it.
It as easy to copy as by Xerox. That's the whole point of this case. You don't need DeCSS to copy the same way you don't need the Xerox to understand the Spanish language to copy an article in Spanish.
It as easy to copy as by Xeroc. That's the whole point of this case. You don't need DeCSS to copy the same way you don't need the Xerox to understand the Spanish language to copy an article in Spanish.
As above so below? Several books I've read say things like studying the universe enlightens us about ourselves and it wasn't just a cliched introduction you see in most high-school and freshman college physics texts. The authors actually went into great detail.
Are sciences all the same just different labels? As far as I've seen, they seem to be the same. Someone mentioned reductionism earlier. I'm wondering if perhaps the hierarchy we obsereve in the popular reductionist system of analysis isn't better modeled as a spiral.
I often get the feeling every science goes through several stages of maturity. We used to think knowing where every particle is at all times and the laws of phyasics could help us know the future. Now we have statistics (which also has some reductionist qualities. You really can't escape it completely, but that's not the point.;)). Isn't particle collision sort of a high tech ghost from the past. (I'm aware that statistics and theory are used to study particle traces, but reductionism is the general tactic.)
I think it's akin to the way the Greeks invented a God for every aspect of life that they observed. While it shows intelligence in being able to name the intangible, it's informal and inconsistent. I could say the same about genetics as well. I find it hard to see it as more than the science of scanning human input and output ports.
One of the things I've discovered while workiong on open-source projects, including a CPU project, is a curse:)
Anytime you try to improve the performance you have to do it along invisible lines of logic and theory, otherwise your improvement results in decreasing the performance in another area. Just look at how caches work.
So I guess my question is can we develop a generalized science curriculum that teaches different tactics and so that we can fully understand nature. (Maybe even get the gimmickmongers out of the way as a result:))
Sorry about the cryptic topic, but IE cuts me off beforte the end of the text box. (I have to work on an Access 2K database that is so unsettlingly unstructured to make me wonder if it works as I want it to. Code I can proofread. GUIs I can't.)
But anyway, top sub topics right now, let's get to it comrades (okay so I watched the 1984 movie last weekend.):
MS owning the formats NSI patenting the linking of content owns the protocols
(evil entity could be.org or.com, they're all the same. They're all human. You know what to expect from them. I'm sick and tired of ppl blaming it on inanimate objects like capitalism, communism, and the favorites sex and guns.)
These really are serious subjects, ignore my sarcasm.
We're not going to have a sane society (as in less paranoid and less ignorant of its own flaws and strengths) until we separate advancement from socialization. And yes kids do need to socialize. They're human beings. They're in school so they can someday be successful human beings. They're not there to stroke some teacher's ego. They're not there to become productive members of society. Society is us; get used to it. Our ancestors are responsible for the mess we're dealing with. And we are responsible for the mess our kids will have to deal with. I don't want to even hear about kids saying Sir or Ma'am when they should be asking, "How come the text is so confusing, it says in my Physics book that reflection is caused by a wave reflecting at the other end on a rope." The difference between a kid who can succeed and one who can't is the one who can spot garbage in a page full of text, or even more challenging, a page full of colorful graphs and charts. You can't get that kind of skill if kids don't have the confidence to challenge their teachers. All you get is the fool getting Kool Aid points for saying I love Kool Aid in public five times in a row and then sending a taped recording to the company.
The people calling for the end of recess periods and breaks and the ones segregating kids into different special groups are completely wrong about their approach, and some don't even care.
If we separate advancement from socialization but still need to have it happen in the same place, then one or both of these have to become transparent. The people asking for uniforms, dress codes, and rules on top of rules, aren't just in denial and seriously don't get it, assuming they're not doing it on purpose as some are.
Learning should not stop period. Dividing time for learning and playing is at best masturbation, and at worst a way to keep future generation from being fully aware of their potential.
The goal of education should be to maximise potential, to teach kids individuality, to teach them not only how to fend for themselves but the value of being independent and unchained from the wolves running rampant. Most of all they should be taught how to to recognize those "wolves" and handle them with good judgment, as opposed to the uniqueness crap they sort of teach, but then penalize kids for.
The day a kid says, "I don't care about being special, consoled, comforted, but only somewhat supported and encouraged," is a day you can hope for the world to take a positive turn.
So what's this got to do with computers? Just take a look at the potential kids have when they go exploring the Net learning Java, HTML, C++, MIDI for crying out loud, poetry of all kinds and most important of all, freedom, to kids who only write papers and cut and paste pictures from a degenerate encyclopedia like Encarta which has no more content than to hype up the future which in reality is in dire straits.
The choice you have is: a kid who becomes a CEO at 17 or one who ends up flipping burgers, and if you think a college education prevents that, YOU ARE SERIOUSLY IN D-E-N-I-A-L.
Which one of those kids is more prone to pr0n breaks (pun intended)? And equally important, which one having seen pr0n can behave in a socially responsible manner, and which one will be so media addicted by Encarta, Saturday cartoons, and TGIF, that the sight of a fraction of the explicit content the other kid was exposed to would make them into serial killers?
If that destroys, maligns, or in any other way disturbs your rosy simplistic picture of the world, you're welcome. And as hard as it may be for some to accept, all the above statements are based on the same logic and are consistent.
Enjoy your MSRamen soup, reheating will cost you the price of another license. Someone must pay the lawyers we hired on your behalf to protect you while in your kitchen.
God why is it the world is overrun by unconscious fascists? Why is it so many people just have a need to keep doing shit the way it's always been done. And don't give me that crap about Unix being 30 years old, there's a very good reason for that. It's designed in general terms, not the specific terms Microsoft offers, which become obsolete every 8-12 months. In Unix some things will remain until 2+2=5. Logistical masturbation, GRRRR...
It should be around BUSINESS boundaries. Speed of a connection is determined by the money put into the hardware. Information travels at the speed of light you dork. On this small rock Earth, distance is beautifully negligible, hence. The only thing in the way of fast access is the width of the line, hence the term bandwidth. Being 5 miles away or 5 inches a way isn't going to make a 14.4K, 56K, or T-1 line faster.
Are there any existing business models for Internet "services" that are also compatible with geography?
I can name one, cyberterrorism. Luddites! Virtual reality (as opposed to virtual fantasy) is worlds apart from the way reality as we know it works.
God why is it the world is overrun by unconscious fascists? Why is it so many people just have a need to keep doing shit the way it's always been done. And don't give me that crap about Unix being 30 years old, there's a very good reason for that. It's designed in general terms, not the specific terms Microsoft offers, which become obsolete every 8-12 months. In Unix some things will remain until 2+2=5. Logistical masturbation, GRRRR... It should be around BUSINESS boundaries. Speed of a connection is determined by the money put into the hardware. Information travels at the speed of light you dork. On this small rock Earth, distance is beautifully negligible, hence. The only thing in the way of fast access is the width of the line, hence the term bandwidth. Being 5 miles away or 5 inches a way isn't going to make a 14.4K, 56K, or T-1 line faster. Are there any existing business models for Internet "services" that are also compatible with geography? I can name one, cyberterrorism. Luddites! Virtual reality (as opposed to virtual fantasy) is worlds apart from the way reality as we know it works.
Windows is a modular OS and NT is a modular kernel.
Can you replace the shell? Can you replace the kernel? Does it run on 20+ Architectures? Would 911 run Windows (I do wonder why they run Linux, hmm..)?
The feature set is already richer than Linux/Unix is many areas - anything that's missing - write it yourself
Gee that's original.
Write kernel extensions, drivers, software. I don't really see how what you say is relevant.
Again, how is that better than Linux. Dude man show me a 2000 release that doen't need sound recorder or media player to play a sound file. Only the driver.
cat(concatenate, or just send) sound.au(raw audio) > (to, like DUH!)/dev/dsp (digital signal processor aka sound card)
(for the slow parenthese are not to be typed in.)
I can play a file from a damned one line script.
Second, Kernel extensions that need to be rewritten every few years compared to fully published stable APIs. Nope no thanks.
Sorry but no dice. It's still spit and glue from what I've seen, though it is kind of starting to look like Unix.
You're like one of those people who go and compare Linux + every single piece of unix software created to Windows NT out of the box.)
Nope. Wrong. I compare only the distributions I use to what comes on the Windows CD. I only need to do that. Though Linux still beats Windows in bare bones setup.
In a full install, I get full Internet readiness from using to developing, from small time applications to tools for setting up a major global organization in no time flat. Could Linux distros use some WYSIWYG editors on CD, maybe, but Windows so far doesn't offer me anything to match until I buy separate products. Windows gives me a click and drool universe and oh my god look at the pretty colors euphoria as the only reward. I'm not a kid anymore. It takes power and gunctionality to make me drool. I'm certainly not impressed.
All of 2000 now refers to \Device\Harddisk0\Partition1. All of 2000 will name your hard drives according to what port and channel they're instralled on. Now why didn't we think of that? We did 30 years ago. Letter names will disappear soon. 2000 already has the mount syscall.
2000 Server comes with a (gasp) Mount point manager.
I'm sorry but I have no reason to switch back to Windows.
Is Linux missing some things? Sure. Are the betas of those portions kicking ass already? Most certainly.
1. Read the manuals. The point being made lately about inadequacy is somewhat encouraging. I won't fault anyone for commenting on stuff that needs to be improved, but the fact is if you want to hack ( as in to build something) you have to take some responsibility for gathering information.
2. Forget about learning the whole source. Only a moron would do that. This relates to #1. The manuals were put together for two reasons, to avoid the monstrous stupidity of needing one hacker to accompany every user at all times and to avoid the monstrous stupidity of making people record unnecessary information. You want to be a hacker not a paranoid fascist effiency expert wannabe incapable of accomplishing anything to which you aspire, aka a wanker.
3. Learn how to read source. Applies to #2. This is even more important than fully learning a language. Know how to separate sections so that you can reconstruct them similarly rather than ridiculously attempting to regurgitate them from memory. It's more imprtant to know what a function looks like, what a comment looks like, and how to trace one result from one funtion to the use of that result in another function.
4. Applies to #3. Learn where to put infromation that you find. This is the 3rd most important part. Any project that looks like a black box is intimidating if you don't have an idea what you're trying to solve. For any project, state the obvious, lay it out on paper. Then begin to develop.
5. Applies to #4. (2nd Most important part). Learn to generalize. Remember software is virtual machinery. Virtual physics (somebody needs to write a book on that) is different from real physics. When you move a paperweight everything happens on its own, you don't have to tell the universe to move the image you see of the paperweight along with the paperweight itself. In a 3-D program you have to do that. One of the ways you become aware of this is by understanding the complete meaning of the idea that your screen is just a bunch of colored dots. A hacker gains a lot of freedom from knowing that. The complexity and collapses into simple models, the confusion disappears. An example is the crazy amount of redundancy virtual physics imposes on 3-D programs. Calculating visible areas from every cubic unit of space, takes a lot of time, to prevent that you have to waste a lot of space.. In real life light either reaches your eye or it doesn't. No big deal.
6. Applies to everything, so this is the most important tip. Nothing is simple; virtual physics prevents this. You have to identify extremes in the concept of your project where things either run slowly or take an enormous amount of space. An example is the cellular directory assistance place I work at: Sure type in the query values and presto you get your phone number. simple right? No. If your customer is looking for A & P super food stores, they might as well go out for coffee, cuz a lot of words begin with A + P. Lots of businesses like initials which makes it worse. Then there's things like the fact that Southern States have towns that have 3 or 4 different names plus you have customers that ask for the Police Department in Northern Virginia. Good luck. In CPU design you have CPU caches, It's a matter of balance because when you improve performance by increasing associativity, you screw perfomance because that automatically increases the miss rate.
7. As a result of #6 you need to learn balance. Speed vs space, Cache Hit Wait vs Miss Rate, Power and detail in your project versus deadline.
So you can see it has nothing at all to do with code. It's about your organizational skills. The rest just writes itself.
1. Read the manuals. The point being made lately about inadequacy is somewhat encouraging. I won't fault anyone for commenting on stuff that needs to be improved, but the fact is if you want to hack ( as in to build something) you have to take some responsibility for gathering information. 2. Forget about learning the whole source. Only a moron would do that. This relates to #1. The manuals were put together for two reasons, to avoid the monstrous stupidity of needing one hacker to accompany every user at all times and to avoid the monstrous stupidity of making people record unnecessary information. You want to be a hacker not a paranoid fascist effiency expert wannabe incapable of accomplishing anything to which you aspire, aka a wanker. 3. Learn how to read source. Applies to #2. This is even more important than fully learning a language. Know how to separate sections so that you can reconstruct them similarly rather than ridiculously attempting to regurgitate them from memory. It's more imprtant to know what a function looks like, what a comment looks like, and how to trace one result from one funtion to the use of that result in another function. 4. Applies to #3. Learn where to put infromation that you find. This is the 3rd most important part. Any project that looks like a black box is intimidating if you don't have an idea what you're trying to solve. For any project, state the obvious, lay it out on paper. Then begin to develop. 5. Applies to #4. (2nd Most important part). Learn to generalize. Remember software is virtual machinery. Virtual physics (somebody needs to write a book on that) is different from real physics. When you move a paperweight everything happens on its own, you don't have to tell the universe to move the image you see of the paperweight along with the paperweight itself. In a 3-D program you have to do that. One of the ways you become aware of this is by understanding the complete meaning of the idea that your screen is just a bunch of colored dots. A hacker gains a lot of freedom from knowing that. The complexity and collapses into simple models, the confusion disappears. An example is the crazy amount of redundancy virtual physics imposes on 3-D programs. Calculating visible areas from every cubic unit of space, takes a lot of time, to prevent that you have to waste a lot of space.. In real life light either reaches your eye or it doesn't. No big deal. 6. Applies to everything, so this is the most important tip. Nothing is simple; virtual physics prevents this. You have to identify extremes in the concept of your project where things either run slowly or take an enormous amount of space. An example is the cellular directory assistance place I work at: Sure type in the query values and presto you get your phone number. simple right? No. If your customer is looking for A & P super food stores, they might as well go out for coffee, cuz a lot of words begin with A + P. Lots of businesses like initials which makes it worse. Then there's things like the fact that Southern States have towns that have 3 or 4 different names plus you have customers that ask for the Police Department in Northern Virginia. Good luck. In CPU design you have CPU caches, It's a matter of balance because when you improve performance by increasing associativity, you screw perfomance because that automatically increases the miss rate. 7. As a result of #6 you need to learn balance. Speed vs space, Cache Hit Wait vs Miss Rate, Power and detail in your project versus deadline. So you can see it has nothing at all to do with code. It's about your organizational skills. The rest just writes itself.
Do you have the right to take a car where you want to go and if you disagree with the National Highway Security Measures then they are impeding on your rights?
Talk about offtopic (privacy rights, dumbass, there's no general rights without a context) but anyway. You're confusing rights and measures. (Safety and Security, you're so full of buzzwords you can't tell the difference Safety on road Security in neighborhoods. There's a very important difference.) And to make it worse you're confusing them the same way a lot of boneheads confuse censorship and trashing spam, Only you're doing it in reverse.
Responsibility in no way goes against rights. I can go anywhere, it's just how.
Do you have the right to walk to where you want to go and if you disagree with the Neighborhood Safe Streets Security Measures then they are impeding on your rights?
Mmmmmm, national state of emergency and Martial Law BABY!
Are you getting any of this? I doubt it, it's probably over your head.
You're talking to someone who lived in Romania for the first 8 years of his life with all the dubious benefits of Communism, stool pigeons, and constant gov't inspired paranoia. Go home, suck on a lollipop and fucking wake up.
Slashdot Mirror
No I didn't. But then again maybe you didn't read past it either :)
Irony gives me a headache.
Get wit da program
You cannot kill people by destroying computers.
There's no reason a dialysis machine or heart monitor needs to be connected to the internet.
You refuse to make the distinction between knowledge, the ability to use that knowledge, and information.
Information: pure stored data
Knowledge: data organized into concepts or school subjects
The ability to use information: This is why the security by obscurity model fails. You'd have to knife people's eyes out, cut their tongues, chop off their limbs blow their eardrums, or you could just subject them to a weekly frontal labotomy.
To give you an example. As ridiculous as it sounds, a plumber who really knows his work can become a cracker in no time. It's not the information that counts it's not abnout the concept of ports it's about the concept of pipes.
Same for a heart surgeon. You just have to know your shit.
Think about it. I don't need to know the source code for an application in order to break it. I only need the source code to fix it.
what, are you some kind of fucking communist? monopolies are *GOOD*!!!!!
:)
I see that words mean more than sentences okay, alrighty then:
Monopoly, monarchy, monogamy, mononucleosis, carbon monoxide, monolith, monosodium glutamate, monument, monocle, monotheism, monaural, monolingual, monohumbleness (i've seen it once), monograph, monochrome. That proves it.
Oh yeah monotone
(thanks to all my "pinkos" at #f-cpu, #lamp, and #tunes on irc.openprojects.net and irc.linux.com.)
It as easy to copy as by Xerox. That's the whole point of this case. You don't need DeCSS to copy the same way you don't need the Xerox to understand the Spanish language to copy an article in Spanish.
It as easy to copy as by Xeroc. That's the whole point of this case. You don't need DeCSS to copy the same way you don't need the Xerox to understand the Spanish language to copy an article in Spanish.
you can't get a GUT until you can swallow all the info properly. IMSA sounds like they have a clue.
Is this possible:
;)). Isn't particle collision sort of a high tech ghost from the past. (I'm aware that statistics and theory are used to study particle traces, but reductionism is the general tactic.)
:)
As above so below? Several books I've read say things like studying the universe enlightens us about ourselves and it wasn't just a cliched introduction you see in most high-school and freshman college physics texts. The authors actually went into great detail.
Are sciences all the same just different labels?
As far as I've seen, they seem to be the same. Someone mentioned reductionism earlier. I'm wondering if perhaps the hierarchy we obsereve in the popular reductionist system of analysis isn't better modeled as a spiral.
I often get the feeling every science goes through several stages of maturity. We used to think knowing where every particle is at all times and the laws of phyasics could help us know the future. Now we have statistics (which also has some reductionist qualities. You really can't escape it completely, but that's not the point.
I think it's akin to the way the Greeks invented a God for every aspect of life that they observed. While it shows intelligence in being able to name the intangible, it's informal and inconsistent.
I could say the same about genetics as well. I find it hard to see it as more than the science of scanning human input and output ports.
One of the things I've discovered while workiong on open-source projects, including a CPU project, is a curse
Anytime you try to improve the performance you have to do it along invisible lines of logic and theory, otherwise your improvement results in decreasing the performance in another area. Just look at how caches work.
So I guess my question is can we develop a generalized science curriculum that teaches different tactics and so that we can fully understand nature. (Maybe even get the gimmickmongers out of the way as a result:))
I'm a flamer sometimes I admit it. Maybe this is a good way to take advantage of the slashdot dev/null bug.
unfinished (thank god!) future by many individuals.
sorry.
Sorry about the cryptic topic, but IE cuts me off beforte the end of the text box. (I have to work on an Access 2K database that is so unsettlingly unstructured to make me wonder if it works as I want it to. Code I can proofread. GUIs I can't.)
.org or .com, they're all the same. They're all human. You know what to expect from them. I'm sick and tired of ppl blaming it on inanimate objects like capitalism, communism, and the favorites sex and guns.)
But anyway, top sub topics right now, let's get to it comrades (okay so I watched the 1984 movie last weekend.):
MS owning the formats
NSI patenting the linking of content
owns the protocols
(evil entity could be
These really are serious subjects, ignore my sarcasm.
Moderate this UP.
We're not going to have a sane society (as in less paranoid and less ignorant of its own flaws and strengths) until we separate advancement from socialization. And yes kids do need to socialize. They're human beings. They're in school so they can someday be successful human beings. They're not there to stroke some teacher's ego. They're not there to become productive members of society. Society is us; get used to it. Our ancestors are responsible for the mess we're dealing with. And we are responsible for the mess our kids will have to deal with. I don't want to even hear about kids saying Sir or Ma'am when they should be asking, "How come the text is so confusing, it says in my Physics book that reflection is caused by a wave reflecting at the other end on a rope." The difference between a kid who can succeed and one who can't is the one who can spot garbage in a page full of text, or even more challenging, a page full of colorful graphs and charts. You can't get that kind of skill if kids don't have the confidence to challenge their teachers. All you get is the fool getting Kool Aid points for saying I love Kool Aid in public five times in a row and then sending a taped recording to the company.
The people calling for the end of recess periods and breaks and the ones segregating kids into different special groups are completely wrong about their approach, and some don't even care.
If we separate advancement from socialization but still need to have it happen in the same place, then one or both of these have to become transparent. The people asking for uniforms, dress codes, and rules on top of rules, aren't just in denial and seriously don't get it, assuming they're not doing it on purpose as some are.
Learning should not stop period. Dividing time for learning and playing is at best masturbation, and at worst a way to keep future generation from being fully aware of their potential.
The goal of education should be to maximise potential, to teach kids individuality, to teach them not only how to fend for themselves but the value of being independent and unchained from the wolves running rampant. Most of all they should be taught how to to recognize those "wolves" and handle them with good judgment, as opposed to the uniqueness crap they sort of teach, but then penalize kids for.
The day a kid says, "I don't care about being special, consoled, comforted, but only somewhat supported and encouraged," is a day you can hope for the world to take a positive turn.
So what's this got to do with computers? Just take a look at the potential kids have when they go exploring the Net learning Java, HTML, C++, MIDI for crying out loud, poetry of all kinds and most important of all, freedom, to kids who only write papers and cut and paste pictures from a degenerate encyclopedia like Encarta which has no more content than to hype up the future which in reality is in dire straits.
The choice you have is: a kid who becomes a CEO at 17 or one who ends up flipping burgers, and if you think a college education prevents that, YOU ARE SERIOUSLY IN D-E-N-I-A-L.
Which one of those kids is more prone to pr0n breaks (pun intended)? And equally important, which one having seen pr0n can behave in a socially responsible manner, and which one will be so media addicted by Encarta, Saturday cartoons, and TGIF, that the sight of a fraction of the explicit content the other kid was exposed to would make them into serial killers?
If that destroys, maligns, or in any other way disturbs your rosy simplistic picture of the world, you're welcome. And as hard as it may be for some to accept, all the above statements are based on the same logic and are consistent.
fuckhead? I read the spanish version and I do remember seeing it? hmmm.
Reminds me of a line in a song:
"When innocence cried, NO ONE SAID ANYTHING!"
Enjoy your MSRamen soup, reheating will cost you the price of another license. Someone must pay the lawyers we hired on your behalf to protect you while in your kitchen.
work done. Of course Linus invented Gnome, Window Maker, KDE, blackbox. Everybody knows that.
God why is it the world is overrun by unconscious fascists? Why is it so many people just have a need to keep doing shit the way it's always been done. And don't give me that crap about Unix being 30 years old, there's a very good reason for that. It's designed in general terms, not the specific terms Microsoft offers, which become obsolete every 8-12 months. In Unix some things will remain until 2+2=5. Logistical masturbation, GRRRR...
It should be around BUSINESS boundaries. Speed of a connection is determined by the money put into the hardware. Information travels at the speed of light you dork. On this small rock Earth, distance is beautifully negligible, hence. The only thing in the way of fast access is the width of the line, hence the term bandwidth. Being 5 miles away or 5 inches a way isn't going to make a 14.4K, 56K, or T-1 line faster.
Are there any existing business models for Internet "services" that are also compatible with geography?
I can name one, cyberterrorism. Luddites! Virtual reality (as opposed to virtual fantasy) is worlds apart from the way reality as we know it works.
God why is it the world is overrun by unconscious fascists? Why is it so many people just have a need to keep doing shit the way it's always been done. And don't give me that crap about Unix being 30 years old, there's a very good reason for that. It's designed in general terms, not the specific terms Microsoft offers, which become obsolete every 8-12 months. In Unix some things will remain until 2+2=5. Logistical masturbation, GRRRR... It should be around BUSINESS boundaries. Speed of a connection is determined by the money put into the hardware. Information travels at the speed of light you dork. On this small rock Earth, distance is beautifully negligible, hence. The only thing in the way of fast access is the width of the line, hence the term bandwidth. Being 5 miles away or 5 inches a way isn't going to make a 14.4K, 56K, or T-1 line faster. Are there any existing business models for Internet "services" that are also compatible with geography? I can name one, cyberterrorism. Luddites! Virtual reality (as opposed to virtual fantasy) is worlds apart from the way reality as we know it works.
Windows is a modular OS and NT is a modular kernel.
/dev/dsp (digital signal processor aka sound card)
Can you replace the shell? Can you replace the kernel? Does it run on 20+ Architectures? Would 911 run Windows (I do wonder why they run Linux, hmm..)?
The feature set is already richer than Linux/Unix is many areas - anything that's missing - write it yourself
Gee that's original.
Write kernel extensions, drivers, software. I don't really see how what you say is relevant.
Again, how is that better than Linux. Dude man show me a 2000 release that doen't need sound recorder or media player to play a sound file. Only the driver.
cat(concatenate, or just send) sound.au(raw audio) > (to, like DUH!)
(for the slow parenthese are not to be typed in.)
I can play a file from a damned one line script.
Second, Kernel extensions that need to be rewritten every few years compared to fully published stable APIs. Nope no thanks.
Sorry but no dice. It's still spit and glue from what I've seen, though it is kind of starting to look like Unix.
You're like one of those people who go and compare Linux + every single piece of unix software created to Windows NT out of the box.)
Nope. Wrong. I compare only the distributions I use to what comes on the Windows CD. I only need to do that. Though Linux still beats Windows in bare bones setup.
In a full install, I get full Internet readiness from using to developing, from small time applications to tools for setting up a major global organization in no time flat. Could Linux distros use some WYSIWYG editors on CD, maybe, but Windows so far doesn't offer me anything to match until I buy separate products. Windows gives me a click and drool universe and oh my god look at the pretty colors euphoria as the only reward. I'm not a kid anymore. It takes power and gunctionality to make me drool. I'm certainly not impressed.
I'm soory but you're the one who sounds sore.
Sorry bub but the only thing getting steamrolled is the public's ignorance about Microsoft's originality. Happy New Year.
futile and unlikely.
All of 2000 now refers to \Device\Harddisk0\Partition1. All of 2000 will name your hard drives according to what port and channel they're instralled on. Now why didn't we think of that? We did 30 years ago. Letter names will disappear soon. 2000 already has the mount syscall.
2000 Server comes with a (gasp) Mount point manager.
I'm sorry but I have no reason to switch back to Windows.
Is Linux missing some things? Sure. Are the betas of those portions kicking ass already? Most certainly.
1. Read the manuals. The point being made lately about inadequacy is somewhat encouraging. I won't fault anyone for commenting on stuff that needs to be improved, but the fact is if you want to hack ( as in to build something) you have to take some responsibility for gathering information.
2. Forget about learning the whole source. Only a moron would do that. This relates to #1. The manuals were put together for two reasons, to avoid the monstrous stupidity of needing one hacker to accompany every user at all times and to avoid the monstrous stupidity of making people record unnecessary information. You want to be a hacker not a paranoid fascist effiency expert wannabe incapable of accomplishing anything to which you aspire, aka a wanker.
3. Learn how to read source. Applies to #2. This is even more important than fully learning a language. Know how to separate sections so that you can reconstruct them similarly rather than ridiculously attempting to regurgitate them from memory. It's more imprtant to know what a function looks like, what a comment looks like, and how to trace one result from one funtion to the use of that result in another function.
4. Applies to #3. Learn where to put infromation that you find. This is the 3rd most important part. Any project that looks like a black box is intimidating if you don't have an idea what you're trying to solve. For any project, state the obvious, lay it out on paper. Then begin to develop.
5. Applies to #4. (2nd Most important part). Learn to generalize. Remember software is virtual machinery. Virtual physics (somebody needs to write a book on that) is different from real physics. When you move a paperweight everything happens on its own, you don't have to tell the universe to move the image you see of the paperweight along with the paperweight itself. In a 3-D program you have to do that. One of the ways you become aware of this is by understanding the complete meaning of the idea that your screen is just a bunch of colored dots. A hacker gains a lot of freedom from knowing that. The complexity and collapses into simple models, the confusion disappears. An example is the crazy amount of redundancy virtual physics imposes on 3-D programs. Calculating visible areas from every cubic unit of space, takes a lot of time, to prevent that you have to waste a lot of space.. In real life light either reaches your eye or it doesn't. No big deal.
6. Applies to everything, so this is the most important tip. Nothing is simple; virtual physics prevents this. You have to identify extremes in the concept of your project where things either run slowly or take an enormous amount of space. An example is the cellular directory assistance place I work at: Sure type in the query values and presto you get your phone number. simple right? No. If your customer is looking for A & P super food stores, they might as well go out for coffee, cuz a lot of words begin with A + P. Lots of businesses like initials which makes it worse. Then there's things like the fact that Southern States have towns that have 3 or 4 different names plus you have customers that ask for the Police Department in Northern Virginia. Good luck. In CPU design you have CPU caches, It's a matter of balance because when you improve performance by increasing associativity, you screw perfomance because that automatically increases the miss rate.
7. As a result of #6 you need to learn balance. Speed vs space, Cache Hit Wait vs Miss Rate, Power and detail in your project versus deadline.
So you can see it has nothing at all to do with code. It's about your organizational skills. The rest just writes itself.
1. Read the manuals. The point being made lately about inadequacy is somewhat encouraging. I won't fault anyone for commenting on stuff that needs to be improved, but the fact is if you want to hack ( as in to build something) you have to take some responsibility for gathering information. 2. Forget about learning the whole source. Only a moron would do that. This relates to #1. The manuals were put together for two reasons, to avoid the monstrous stupidity of needing one hacker to accompany every user at all times and to avoid the monstrous stupidity of making people record unnecessary information. You want to be a hacker not a paranoid fascist effiency expert wannabe incapable of accomplishing anything to which you aspire, aka a wanker. 3. Learn how to read source. Applies to #2. This is even more important than fully learning a language. Know how to separate sections so that you can reconstruct them similarly rather than ridiculously attempting to regurgitate them from memory. It's more imprtant to know what a function looks like, what a comment looks like, and how to trace one result from one funtion to the use of that result in another function. 4. Applies to #3. Learn where to put infromation that you find. This is the 3rd most important part. Any project that looks like a black box is intimidating if you don't have an idea what you're trying to solve. For any project, state the obvious, lay it out on paper. Then begin to develop. 5. Applies to #4. (2nd Most important part). Learn to generalize. Remember software is virtual machinery. Virtual physics (somebody needs to write a book on that) is different from real physics. When you move a paperweight everything happens on its own, you don't have to tell the universe to move the image you see of the paperweight along with the paperweight itself. In a 3-D program you have to do that. One of the ways you become aware of this is by understanding the complete meaning of the idea that your screen is just a bunch of colored dots. A hacker gains a lot of freedom from knowing that. The complexity and collapses into simple models, the confusion disappears. An example is the crazy amount of redundancy virtual physics imposes on 3-D programs. Calculating visible areas from every cubic unit of space, takes a lot of time, to prevent that you have to waste a lot of space.. In real life light either reaches your eye or it doesn't. No big deal. 6. Applies to everything, so this is the most important tip. Nothing is simple; virtual physics prevents this. You have to identify extremes in the concept of your project where things either run slowly or take an enormous amount of space. An example is the cellular directory assistance place I work at: Sure type in the query values and presto you get your phone number. simple right? No. If your customer is looking for A & P super food stores, they might as well go out for coffee, cuz a lot of words begin with A + P. Lots of businesses like initials which makes it worse. Then there's things like the fact that Southern States have towns that have 3 or 4 different names plus you have customers that ask for the Police Department in Northern Virginia. Good luck. In CPU design you have CPU caches, It's a matter of balance because when you improve performance by increasing associativity, you screw perfomance because that automatically increases the miss rate. 7. As a result of #6 you need to learn balance. Speed vs space, Cache Hit Wait vs Miss Rate, Power and detail in your project versus deadline. So you can see it has nothing at all to do with code. It's about your organizational skills. The rest just writes itself.
Do you have the right to take a car where you want to go and if you disagree with the National Highway Security Measures then they are impeding on your rights?
Talk about offtopic (privacy rights, dumbass, there's no general rights without a context) but anyway. You're confusing rights and measures. (Safety and Security, you're so full of buzzwords you can't tell the difference Safety on road Security in neighborhoods. There's a very important difference.) And to make it worse you're confusing them the same way a lot of boneheads confuse censorship and trashing spam, Only you're doing it in reverse.
Responsibility in no way goes against rights. I can go anywhere, it's just how.
Do you have the right to walk to where you want to go and if you disagree with the Neighborhood Safe Streets Security Measures then they are impeding on your rights?
Mmmmmm, national state of emergency and Martial Law BABY!
Are you getting any of this? I doubt it, it's probably over your head.
You're talking to someone who lived in Romania for the first 8 years of his life with all the dubious benefits of Communism, stool pigeons, and constant gov't inspired paranoia. Go home, suck on a lollipop and fucking wake up.
Any object not traceable from the ground up to the head is not human end of story.
The computer itself could do the check.