As we all know, Homer's brain was replaced by the "powerful" Intel(r) Pentium(r) II processor about a year ago, hence the creation of the so-called "super" doughnut... Perhaps he's a fatality of the overclocking craze and has a fried core?
I participate in SETI@home because I get off on having more computing power than my friends and relatives, and running a command at "nice -19".:)
There's no need to look in the skies for ET, because there are plenty of aliens here on earth -- I'm certain my ex-boss was one, and my friend Pete's former roommate, who had superhuman abilities (collegiate track champion) would neither confirm nor deny his terrestriality. NO, I don't think it's worthwhile -- it's a big waste of time.
Whatever the licensing issues are, it doesn't give anyone much incentive to include the technology if there is nothing to use with it.
Apple should take a page from their own book and drop the royalty -- the iMac's USB support, followed by Blue and White G3's created an instant explosion of USB devices which at least in theory should work for Macs and PC's.
In case you didn't know, the only difference between Mac modems and hardware PC modems was the serial cable connecting them. With USB, it's standardized -- one size fits all, without hardware/interface modification.
If Transmeta CPU's are parallel in speed to perhaps a K6-2, a 400MHz palmtop should be able to play Quake, but I imagine Diamond is going to set its sights a little lower, and the most interesting thing it will do is play MP3's...
Apple is stupidly demanding a few bucks in royalties for every 1394 controller -- hard to pass that on to the customer, who isn't going to see any benefit in in for another few years, if ever. PC's had USB controllers years before there was anything you could connect to them because it was an inexpensive part, and an open standard.
I wonder if there's any reusable source for it in their Darwin project. If not, they've officialy screwed the technology to a niche that will be acceptably matched with the up and coming and much improved USB 2.0, and a future revision would likely outmatch 1394.
I won't assault Robin this time:), because this time I'm alert to the fact that these aren't his own words -- he just happens to bite on sensationalist articles...
If all other security issues having to do with administration vs. the OS itself could be considered muddy, this one isn't. I don't see how others' bad coding and administration is Microsoft's fault, does anyone else?
Even though the language ultimately corrupts itself, should Larry Wall be the person to blame for shoddy Perl scripts? Should we blame Linus Torvalds if the root password to Slashdot's SQL box is successfully guessed? I don't think so.
Frankly, I think it has more to do with a the fact that Netscape sux rox -- it's not a stability issue. The rendering engine automagically reflows a page when you resize a window, and may be slightly faster overall. Microsoft has also been courteous to offer an interface consistent with other applications in the target OS. Adobe does this, too. Netscape is dumbed down for the lowest common denominator (Windows 3.1), then made to look and feel the same way on OS/2 and various Unices.
It's my understanding that most of the writers of free software do so because they already have jobs and/or other income. Perhaps there are budding developers that need funding more than them?
I'm sure this has good intentions, but will OSS developers of the future have to compete against each other with duplicated efforts to write the best free software, in hopes of winning cash and prizes?
Let me think about this. The Simpsons has/have survived:
Scond-season marketing and hype backlash
Schedule changes, including its spot against The Cosby Show, which at one time was the highest rated television show
Story/concept changes resulting in bad seasons
The death of Phil Hartman - you may remember him from such roles at Troy McClure!
Fox stuck with the show, because it was good, even in its lesser seasons. The most important change was changing the focus from Bart "Underachiever and proud of it" to Homer "doh!" -- we all know Homer is much funnier...
Yoo kare perhapps knot 4 muy gramer ur speling, butt lyten up, justa bitt u shood. I no see nuthing rong wif yoosink "things" tha werd, nata gramer fallt. Shood i spel "rumours" and "favourite" fore yoo, ur muy werd ken yoo taik? People make fun of Hemos and his struggle with the English language every now and again - it's a staple of/. comments, just like "been there, done that" and "bitchin' Beowulf..." Your latter statement is fair, but you don't quite catch the point. I don't have any genuine complaints with regional variations in English (although as a U.S. citizen, I do find those silent u's a litte verbose and Frenchlike), as long as they're kept consistent. The last thing we need is for everyone to have a license/licence to spel werds eny way they wont... - moderate as needed -
Don't get me wrong, I love Hemos just as much as everyone else, but his language dysfunction has grown from simply spelling things like a Canadian to writing sentences like: "Gates will become `Chief Software Architect', and will remain as President.". That sentence by itself is obviously wrong. In context, it's ambiguous at best.
so I'm trolling at Slashdot. Hemos, there are rumours that you're starting to turn Canadian... There's this article today, and yesterday, you asked us to vote for our favourite XMMS plugin.
"I woke up really hungry this morning, but I realised didn't have enough milk for my Shreddies, so I figured: `Why not reheat some Kraft Dinner, eh?' and ate that instead. I sat down to watch Canada A.M., my favourite TV programme on CTV, when the signal got weak and all the colour faded to grey.
This doesn't look like the spelling of someone from Michigan... I expect this archaic, French inhibited language at The Register, since they're British, but not from a real American (someone in the U.S.)...
Moderate as appropriate -- just don't think I'm 100% serious:-)
Windows 95 had "themes" from the very beginning as part of the Plus! pack. It wasn't too long before Free Themes came along, then Internet Explorer 4, when everybody got them. MacOS 8 postdates Windows 95, and copies several M$ "innovations", although by the time Apple got around to it, they were the only ones that weren't allowing people to resize windows from any edge of the window or not requiring that you hold the mouse button down to access application menus...
it looked like the tide was finally going to turn entirely over to "hacker", they have to confuse the issue and use "cracker" instead. People who write software are free to call themselves "hackers", because in a computing context, it originally meant "programmer". Heterosexuals are entitled to describe themselves as "gay", because ~150 years ago, its sole meaning was "happy". If you make either statement, don't be disappointed when someone gets the wrong idea. Besides, "cracker" already has too many connotations -- white people are crackers, people who break software protections are crackers, and then there's the stuff you put into soups or eat with cheese...
I know there's a reason for that lousy Preview button! It's just a bit ironic that if there's anything in this world you can't change or fix, it's a/. post...
When creating a standard or a specification, it's important to make rules and stick to them -- the perils of changing them later are many. However, it's just as important to make rules that don't suck in the first place, because they will get broken.
The mail servers for the ISP I used to work for have dozens of functioning "illegal" usernames that are either longer than eight characters or begin with a numeral. There are even a few with the ampersand character (&) that also work, though they do behave strangely in finger queries. Despite the fact they knew it was technically invalid, being a fledgling company eager to please (times sure have changed there), they let it happen. Future upgrades of Slackware prevented any more invalid accounts from being created, however. I'm of the opinion that it was USERADD acting as the enforcer -- if the kernel does it, wouldn't that mean that it plays with a different set of rules internally than it does externally?
Frankly, I don't care for ICANN's crappy, archaic rules that probably don't matter anymore. It's good to have standards, as long as you stick to them, but they don't do it very well. They've already broken a few of them by allowing numerals as the first character in a domain name (the @ host, e.g. "2600.com" is technically invalid, DNS-wise), as well as single character domain names.
Steadily, all of the rules will erode as the greed of registrars pressures the ICANN for more domains to sell. The "unroutable" Class A netblocks at the upper and lower ends will probably fall sometime soon too, but at least it will be out of necessity. Just like everything else drawn up decades ago, the "impossible" becomes well within reach...
If you've actually read all the way through this, I'm sorry you put up with my rambling for so long...
I'm not interested in this full moon eclipse unless the moon will be big and bright enough that you could drive without headlights. With a fresh coat of snow and a full moon, you can almost do this in Minnesota already, but...
I understand that the Druids used a lunar eclipse to make a sneak attack on Crazy Horse, shortly after he used the light of an unusually bright moon the previous month to defeat George Washington's army at the battle of Waterloo. They went on to build the Great Wall of China, before finally settling in what's now called Venezuela, but I could be wrong -- there seems to be a little too much historical confusion about celestial events as of late... :-)
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There's no need to look in the skies for ET, because there are plenty of aliens here on earth -- I'm certain my ex-boss was one, and my friend Pete's former roommate, who had superhuman abilities (collegiate track champion) would neither confirm nor deny his terrestriality. NO, I don't think it's worthwhile -- it's a big waste of time.
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Ars Technica is cooler than /. anyway. They're interested in technology, not politics.
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Apple should take a page from their own book and drop the royalty -- the iMac's USB support, followed by Blue and White G3's created an instant explosion of USB devices which at least in theory should work for Macs and PC's.
In case you didn't know, the only difference between Mac modems and hardware PC modems was the serial cable connecting them. With USB, it's standardized -- one size fits all, without hardware/interface modification.
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I wonder if there's any reusable source for it in their Darwin project. If not, they've officialy screwed the technology to a niche that will be acceptably matched with the up and coming and much improved USB 2.0, and a future revision would likely outmatch 1394.
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How long is it before there are jokes about Chinese Quake servers that have slow Deng Xiaoping times?
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I won't assault Robin this time :), because this time I'm alert to the fact that these aren't his own words -- he just happens to bite on sensationalist articles...
If all other security issues having to do with administration vs. the OS itself could be considered muddy, this one isn't. I don't see how others' bad coding and administration is Microsoft's fault, does anyone else?
Even though the language ultimately corrupts itself, should Larry Wall be the person to blame for shoddy Perl scripts? Should we blame Linus Torvalds if the root password to Slashdot's SQL box is successfully guessed? I don't think so.
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Maybe I'm just one of those hopeless "function" over "form" people...
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I'm sure this has good intentions, but will OSS developers of the future have to compete against each other with duplicated efforts to write the best free software, in hopes of winning cash and prizes?
Sounds like some kind of game show to me...
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Fox stuck with the show, because it was good, even in its lesser seasons. The most important change was changing the focus from Bart "Underachiever and proud of it" to Homer "doh!" -- we all know Homer is much funnier...
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Thanks for linking to the canonical document!
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"I woke up really hungry this morning, but I realised didn't have enough milk for my Shreddies, so I figured: `Why not reheat some Kraft Dinner, eh?' and ate that instead. I sat down to watch Canada A.M., my favourite TV programme on CTV, when the signal got weak and all the colour faded to grey.
This doesn't look like the spelling of someone from Michigan... I expect this archaic, French inhibited language at The Register, since they're British, but not from a real American (someone in the U.S.)...
Moderate as appropriate -- just don't think I'm 100% serious :-)
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When creating a standard or a specification, it's important to make rules and stick to them -- the perils of changing them later are many. However, it's just as important to make rules that don't suck in the first place, because they will get broken.
The mail servers for the ISP I used to work for have dozens of functioning "illegal" usernames that are either longer than eight characters or begin with a numeral. There are even a few with the ampersand character (&) that also work, though they do behave strangely in finger queries. Despite the fact they knew it was technically invalid, being a fledgling company eager to please (times sure have changed there), they let it happen. Future upgrades of Slackware prevented any more invalid accounts from being created, however. I'm of the opinion that it was USERADD acting as the enforcer -- if the kernel does it, wouldn't that mean that it plays with a different set of rules internally than it does externally?
In the case of Linux, no matter what you do, it's a Bad Thing©. You can continue to use the same standard and allow "fudging" without acknowledging that it seems to work "out of spec", which IMO is the Worst Thing©, you can break compatibility for the sake of a standard, or you can drop the archaic, unpopular rules that don't seem to make a bit of difference -- or do they?
Frankly, I don't care for ICANN's crappy, archaic rules that probably don't matter anymore. It's good to have standards, as long as you stick to them, but they don't do it very well. They've already broken a few of them by allowing numerals as the first character in a domain name (the @ host, e.g. "2600.com" is technically invalid, DNS-wise), as well as single character domain names.
Steadily, all of the rules will erode as the greed of registrars pressures the ICANN for more domains to sell. The "unroutable" Class A netblocks at the upper and lower ends will probably fall sometime soon too, but at least it will be out of necessity. Just like everything else drawn up decades ago, the "impossible" becomes well within reach...
If you've actually read all the way through this, I'm sorry you put up with my rambling for so long...
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I'm not interested in this full moon eclipse unless the moon will be big and bright enough that you could drive without headlights. With a fresh coat of snow and a full moon, you can almost do this in Minnesota already, but...
I understand that the Druids used a lunar eclipse to make a sneak attack on Crazy Horse, shortly after he used the light of an unusually bright moon the previous month to defeat George Washington's army at the battle of Waterloo. They went on to build the Great Wall of China, before finally settling in what's now called Venezuela, but I could be wrong -- there seems to be a little too much historical confusion about celestial events as of late... :-)
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, you could have gotten a numbered list with
(as if we can't count... :-)
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