Firstly, not one BSD distro I've ever put to a machine has worked with the ethernet and dhcp right off the bat. Much fiddling and farking was required and accompanied by much cursing of my fellow geeks for still resisting ease of use as if making too much sense, such as it should work the first time as advertised, was an affront against nature.
Secondly, whereas BSD makes itself as hard to use as possible seemingly on purpose (BSDM lifestyle and all), Linux does it through inane obfuscation and willful ignorance of Occam's Razor.
Need the entirety of the Unix would be so oblivious as to why Windows is where it is and Unix isn't?
There's probably new ground in the area of irony being charted by the fact that it took Steve Jobs and Apple to do something easy to use and pleasing to use with BSD in the form of OSX, not the Open Source community, not closed source Unix community, but Steve "I am you Macintosh Overlord" Jobs.
So let me get this straight. If I work hard, charge for the fruits of my labors, I'm the bad guy. Well that just puts every FOSS fan right in the same camp as my less savory former employers. "Why should I pay for what you're doing?"
"Why should I do it?"
"Because I pay you to."
"So your question was again?"
Except in the case of FOSS, the reason I should do it is because the users simply insist I should. WTF have they done for me lately? Stroked my ego? Read the docs I custom tailored to their intelligence level? Nope. "Code should be free!"
Fine, you invent it then. I won't write anything. I'll simply schlep others' code around, fixing your machines instead of improving on them.
No? Well then, pay me what I'm worth.
What I want to know is where did we suddenly decide that shareware should go the way of the dodo, and we instead of being upstanding and honorable decided to go with stingy grubbing, however open and honest the gimme gimme mentality is?
If you like to put out work for free, give it some protection, but otherwise let anyone use it for nothing, that's your right. I would do it myself in some situations. But Free != Good. Sometimes Free == Tyranny of the Mob.
...the cult of Einstein still prevails so all the information will be discarded as inconvenient to their theories. When they get tired of being contradicted by experimental results, they'll download porn and after finally getting some, lose interest in pocket protectors and science freeing up the accellarators for serious usage by junior geeks including impressing girls with "look at the size of my collider" lines, heavy-duty nanowelding, investigating useful things like warp travel, and of course Ghostbusting.
Or not in which case we've got a nifty new thing in the toolbox for science on planet Earth.
Could go either way.
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You really should be using RSA or DSA keys instead of passwords
Exactly right. It's almost trivial even under Windows to do it. Two factor should have been a standard years and years ago but as long as people can have four to eight digit passes which are easy to break, we keep seeing problems that shouldn't be there.
Anyone notice that PGP has passphrases of quite possibly insanely large size? It's hard to remember some farked and leeted phrase chosen to confound brute force and guessing when you have ten different ones. It is not hard to remember verbatim a passage from your favorite book. What's the mathematical difficulty in breaking a password with over one hundred digits? I can type a forty digit pass right 99.9% of the time if it is a passage of meaning to me.
Combine strong passwords and two-factor and you eliminate the bulk of these amature breakers from contention. Now if only end-users couldn't do their work for them by running their trojans from e-mail attachments and bouncing pop-up windows. "Win a compromised box! Click now! Crackers are standing by!"
Been to Borders and seen the honeypot books on the shelves amongst the rest of the become-a-security-guru-in-$29.95-easy-steps books?
Does it prove or disprove simple A==B logic to note that these incidences of spyware and insecurity are growing at the same time as adoption of Linux variants? Just musing on the "l33t win script kiddie finds Linux religion" phenomenon I've been seeing lately.
Anyhow, this does suggest further that security is where it is at for the future skillset of interest at interview time.
Well, you actually do have choice in Windows as there are literally thousands of third party apps ranging from tightly integrated to Windows to stand-alone executable you can keep on a USB drive. Similarly, you have that in Linux.
If you mean that there's multiple flavors of it, then Linux really isn't an OS but a species of OS and of course, there's one exact example of whatever species Windows is, so no competition in that respect.
It is also false to say you're stuck with MS as so many do claim (not necessarily you). I've worked for corporations who had only to sign voluminous contracts and fork over large sums to get the ability to custom build Windows 95 for themselves internally to the point that it was as different from what MS sold as Fedora is from Mepis.
The thing that Open Source gives us which we need so badly is what we don't have with MS unless we give them large sums and that is how the frigging code works to begin with. I agree that people should have the rights to best use of the fruits of their labor and also that open sourcing one's work is one's right if one so chooses, so I won't get into partisanship on it.
However, is doesn't help MS in the slightest to keep such a tight fist wrapped around the code most in need of being fixed to improve the product. For crying out loud, if they just loosened a little, they might find a third party making something with their IP that was insanely good stuff and worth MS buying and making part of the next iteration of Windows. Instead, we have to rely on top down promulgation of advancement solely from Redmond and put up with their insistance on selling beta as finished product.
But unless and until Linux (I won't hold my breath on any variant of BSD other than OSX) becomes fool-proof in installation and basic usage and software addition (rpm? apt-get? make? wtf?) then Windows will remain where it is completely on top. (wtf? should be construed as "prior art" with regard to its usage in relation to app packaging. I openly release it to anyone's use as a name for a Linux app package system. Entirely appropriate as well I think.)
1. Linux still isn't ready for prime time zero hassle common user usage. Install Knoppix from the live cd at 800x600 and oops, now you gotta go to change the config as root to explicitly tell it your card can do 1024x768 because the installer sets as maximum whatever you were using the live cd at. Fedora's installer tries to relax you regarding Grub, but most of the time forcing LBA32 is needed or it sits there doing nothing at boot. Etc. Small potatoes for techs being paid to support it and used to all sorts of crockery, but not for casual users who shouldn't have to read inaccessible man pages because you can't even boot one machine during install.
2. Linux is being adopted and the rise in compromised roots is testament to this. I salute the geniuses who've sold Linux without regard to education of the average business user on security.
3. Windows will not be killed. Not going to happen. We will have competition indefinitely. And this is a good good thing.
Region free DVD players can be easily and legally bought, most heavy ethnic neighborhoods in America have some video store around them supporting such things and also doing PAL and SECAM as well as NTSC. There must be two dozen within thirty miles of my house. There's plenty of web sites too.
If they had hammered a deal to do this with MS back at the time of Warp 4, back when Stardock was still supporting OS/2, it might have gone somewhere and given us essentially three competing systems: Win, Linux, OS/2. Instead, IBM could not find their rear ends with a hunting dog and a copy of Gray's Anatomy, kept with the single worst GUI design this side of the Amiga, and decided obfuscation and counterintuitiveness was superior to ease of use and common sense.
That said, it would be nice to see, but way late. We should be at Warp 7 by now. I doubt the OS/2 fanatics will be able to sufficiently play catch-up even if Redmond is open to open sourcing the thing given how many went to Windows or Linux or both. They ain't getting younger and doing an about face in your coding mindset like that might cause a bump in the number of programmers seeking professional psychiatric help.
Structured: discipline required to remember where what was placed and how it works and where it goes and what it does and so on.
OOP: who cares where what is or how it works or where it goes or what it does or uses.
I used to write programs in old Dartmouth BASIC in a tenth of the time C takes to do the same thing. Then C took a tenth of the time C++ took. I mean, figuring in troubleshooting any and all mistakes and my concepts versus what the machine thought and so on.
The next big OOP language should just be called something honest. Like Obfuscation+. Or TimeWaster.NET.
...is there no end to it? If it isn't news of government idiocy, it's partisan leftist crap here. News flash for the geniuses who can't stop themselves from slamming President Bush and the Republican Party every five nanoseconds: ALL politicians are open to this sort of thing.
Many many years ago, a leftist friend of mine said that liberalism respected rights. So I read him chapter and verse from my own lifetime experiences about how liberalism and the nanny state's substitution of constitutional rights (elimination of gun ownership, taxation become confiscation, speech abridged in the name of political correctness, income redistribution via welfare) with invented rights and the lazy thinking general public's acceptance of this would simply play into his hated opposition's fringe element.
Such has come to pass. We've had decades of subversion of our rights and false basic education on our real rights from the left under the guise of getting something for nothing and now we're getting it from the right and while the right is more hamfisted about it than the left, the people are pretty much way past caring.
They're fat, dumb, relatively happy, and raised on many years of "government is your friend". The noise on the surface is just noise. In the end, their cynicism itself cynically false and the people no longer truly fear the power of the government to remain its vigilant masters rather than the other way around.
If one side can play the game, so can the other. Now we're firmly in an Aliens vs. Predator world: whoever wins, we lose.
or is everything on this site a segue waiting to happen to bash Microsoft?
1. Microsoft is not the government, they are a private civilian business.
2. Gays are not being discriminated against and persecuted nearly as much as some claim, I know, a number of my family and friends are gay and they're not suffering any of these things in the states they live in across the USA. In fact, most have found being gay is considered cool more often than not which they also find creepy and wish you straights would leave them the hell alone.
3. It's the height of hypcrisy to lambaste MS for everything under the sun, then expect them to go to the mat for your pet politics and socialism.
This battle is not going to play out one way or another based on Microsoft. Why don't we just blame them retroactively for the Holocaust because Bill hasn't invented a time machine to send Homeland Security agents back to assassinate Hitler, or blame Bill Gates for proton decay?
Anyone remember when basic knowledge of AND, NAND, OR, etc. logic concepts and binary math ability was a prereq of CS? When I was a kid, we worked in binary, hex, even octal and that was long before hitting CS classes.
A younger friend of mine on the BSCS track complains his prof defines two ways of writing in C:his way and the wrong way. He says that given that the prof's methods aren't even close to C's creators' recommendations and look more like the grudging under protest work of a C++ junkie, it is more like his way and the right way.
Sounds more like teaching arrogance from the top down which would be managerial science, not computer science and firmly puts the BS therefore in BSCS.
It has also spread to porn DVDs. Vivid Video is one of the biggest offenders. As much as fifteen minutes of ads for other flicks you DIDN'T want before you get to watch the one you DID. If even they don't get it, we're soooo screwed.
One of the other tricks is to edit the mpeg video together such that the transition from ad vid to content vid falls in the middle of what would ordinarily be either a content chapter and segment or an ad one. This means you get pieces of ads in the content if you try to rip them.
Making me resent your product by intrusive advertising, what a way to get me to buy it.
Windows inside Linux inside Windows inside MacOSX.
So instead of one cross-platform standards-based language embodying write-one-run-anywhere, we do it the long way around.
Yeah, this is a really great idea. "Our new PCs from Dell can run six different operating systems inside each other right out of the box. We call it the Mental Whiplash System."
Actually, using encryption between two nodes as well as encryption of all containers on every node goes a long way to reducing the physical evidence they need to prove their case in court.
The next stage is to fragment the files, make parity files, replicate them a number of times to various nodes based on usage and traffic and demand statistics such that NO ONE MACHINE EVER held an entire whole assembled plaintext file within the file share system.
You want to sharea file? It gets sliced and diced, parity files generated, all the pieces multiplied a number of times, and then scattered across the sharing net. The original you gave it is not itself shared by you intact. Your original is never actually "on" the system. Just pieces that if you yourself wanted to get back should you lose the original, you'd have to collect from various nodes to which the pieces had been scattered.
Every user would by default share the hd space load of the entire net based on their availible space and connection speed. If they download a file by collecting the pieces and reassembling them all, the reassembled files would go someplace on their drive other than the system. No complete plaintext files hosted on any one person's system ever.
Let the RIAA sue twenty-two thousand six hundred ninety-six people for sharing an encrypted piece of gibberish which may or may not even be property they are claiming was infringed. Prove it.
...so sayeth the idiots who put "family" on every stupid bill that abuses our rights and the even bigger idiots who buy them.
I say the same about pre-releasing. We're saving kids from being exposed to crap without warning. Now you can see in advance the dreadful crud that you would have had to shell out several dollars to suffer with otherwise.
You know, at least with BDSM, you KNOW it's supposed to hurt AND cost. Movies make you pay on the pretext that you'll ENJOY yourself, but evidently they're now redefining pleasure for everyone. Let's see... once small is beautiful Linux is bloating, X is bloating with tinsel-crap further, Microsoft is admitting they sell beta and charge you for it... We're pretty much at the point where all the liars openly say, "yeah, we're full of sh*t, and you've known it for years, and now we're admitting it because there's no longer anything you can do about it.
I weep for the future. We have met the enemy and it is us and we don't seem to care. "It's the end of the world as we've known it, and I feel fine."
"the left hand doesn't know what the right foot is doing". Between OMB and DHS, you'd think, wrongly, that they'd understand not to do this sort of thing. If you did think that, you might also the government exists for your benefit and not the other way around. Silly theorist...
They used to be. The Vogons from Redmond have taken care of that.
Bloat, bloat, bloat, wafer thin mint, splat...
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Imagine if you will combining all of Object Desktop's c00ln3ss with the very heart of Windows XP if you will. Simply imagine a heavily modded cybernetic sloth pumped with downers that's not been on the charger in two days.
Now imagine it can actually be named in the same sentence as the phrase "open source".
Now stop imagining because it's almost here. We've gone from "small is better even if it is not correct" to "small is better and we should be correct too" to "large is okay even if it is not correct". So it's neither small nor correct. The two chief winning attributes over Windows and where we were headed at one point.
Proof that the attitudes of Windows coders and designers and users can also be found in the *nix community: whiz bang flash and glitter over the core tasks at hand is cool and better than making it work solidly and stably as a computer.
Tinfoil hat thought, but are these companies tied financially to the portion of the medical industry that profits from repetitive strain injuries? I also wonder for that matter if all the people who make money from Unix and C/C++ are tied financially to analysts who specialize in neuroses of techies. "I swear doc, I don't have dependency issues!"
Please don't let this involve the use of Tommy Lee. The Pam Anderson video was bad enough, the music video worse. Thank G-d that Durst didn't strip down too.
You think W would have ever even considered this strategy if it wasn't for the education and research that leftie greenie organizations and PhDs have done?
Yes, they would. Weyerhauser is in the business of farming trees essentially and since they own the fields and need to derive income from them, they know they need to take care of them as any farmer would. But if people farm land that doesn't belong to them and can always move on to other lands they aren't responsible for and don't own, they'll just sap it for everything and move on.
I know it is hard to understand, but big business is not necessarily evil and the greenies not necessarily brilliant. Self-preservation is a stronger impulse than what someone else says is right especially when the someone else approaches you from a morally superior holier than thou combative attitude from day one, makes spurious junk science claims salted and peppered with the slight pieces of truth that keeps popular fantasy fueled, and serves it up with a heaping helping of self-righteousness.
More flies with honey than vinegar and all that, you know.
...will be getting CPCI and ATAC systems to come down in price to a truly reasonable level and for drone boards to become commonplace. I don't need every single board computer to come with graphics chipsets beyond basic VGA, with better than old Soundblaster quality audio, etc., etc., etc..
Currently, building a blade server cluster is still an exercise in spending a lot of cash that may not be on hand. The alternative is leashing together multiple white boxes and there's no need for ten or more separate 350+ watt power supplies adding to energy cost and heat output. Wiring with -48VDC telecom style power systems is much easier.
Sure there's plenty of open source and closed source code availble. The hardware end is still lacking if you want to do it for a reasonable cost and without getting stuck with all sorts of things you don't need. Heck, I'd kludge a solution with full size motherboards if I could get recent model processors and memory capacities but lose all the unneeded bundled onboard things I don't need or want. Why should a drone net boot board come with USB2, Firewire, SATA, etc?
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Firstly, not one BSD distro I've ever put to a machine has worked with the ethernet and dhcp right off the bat. Much fiddling and farking was required and accompanied by much cursing of my fellow geeks for still resisting ease of use as if making too much sense, such as it should work the first time as advertised, was an affront against nature.
Secondly, whereas BSD makes itself as hard to use as possible seemingly on purpose (BSDM lifestyle and all), Linux does it through inane obfuscation and willful ignorance of Occam's Razor.
Need the entirety of the Unix would be so oblivious as to why Windows is where it is and Unix isn't?
There's probably new ground in the area of irony being charted by the fact that it took Steve Jobs and Apple to do something easy to use and pleasing to use with BSD in the form of OSX, not the Open Source community, not closed source Unix community, but Steve "I am you Macintosh Overlord" Jobs.
So let me get this straight. If I work hard, charge for the fruits of my labors, I'm the bad guy. Well that just puts every FOSS fan right in the same camp as my less savory former employers. "Why should I pay for what you're doing?"
"Why should I do it?"
"Because I pay you to."
"So your question was again?"
Except in the case of FOSS, the reason I should do it is because the users simply insist I should. WTF have they done for me lately? Stroked my ego? Read the docs I custom tailored to their intelligence level? Nope. "Code should be free!"
Fine, you invent it then. I won't write anything. I'll simply schlep others' code around, fixing your machines instead of improving on them.
No? Well then, pay me what I'm worth.
What I want to know is where did we suddenly decide that shareware should go the way of the dodo, and we instead of being upstanding and honorable decided to go with stingy grubbing, however open and honest the gimme gimme mentality is?
If you like to put out work for free, give it some protection, but otherwise let anyone use it for nothing, that's your right. I would do it myself in some situations. But Free != Good. Sometimes Free == Tyranny of the Mob.
...the cult of Einstein still prevails so all the information will be discarded as inconvenient to their theories. When they get tired of being contradicted by experimental results, they'll download porn and after finally getting some, lose interest in pocket protectors and science freeing up the accellarators for serious usage by junior geeks including impressing girls with "look at the size of my collider" lines, heavy-duty nanowelding, investigating useful things like warp travel, and of course Ghostbusting.
Or not in which case we've got a nifty new thing in the toolbox for science on planet Earth.
Could go either way.
You really should be using RSA or DSA keys instead of passwords
Exactly right. It's almost trivial even under Windows to do it. Two factor should have been a standard years and years ago but as long as people can have four to eight digit passes which are easy to break, we keep seeing problems that shouldn't be there.
Anyone notice that PGP has passphrases of quite possibly insanely large size? It's hard to remember some farked and leeted phrase chosen to confound brute force and guessing when you have ten different ones. It is not hard to remember verbatim a passage from your favorite book. What's the mathematical difficulty in breaking a password with over one hundred digits? I can type a forty digit pass right 99.9% of the time if it is a passage of meaning to me.
Combine strong passwords and two-factor and you eliminate the bulk of these amature breakers from contention. Now if only end-users couldn't do their work for them by running their trojans from e-mail attachments and bouncing pop-up windows. "Win a compromised box! Click now! Crackers are standing by!"
Been to Borders and seen the honeypot books on the shelves amongst the rest of the become-a-security-guru-in-$29.95-easy-steps books?
Does it prove or disprove simple A==B logic to note that these incidences of spyware and insecurity are growing at the same time as adoption of Linux variants? Just musing on the "l33t win script kiddie finds Linux religion" phenomenon I've been seeing lately.
Anyhow, this does suggest further that security is where it is at for the future skillset of interest at interview time.
Well, you actually do have choice in Windows as there are literally thousands of third party apps ranging from tightly integrated to Windows to stand-alone executable you can keep on a USB drive. Similarly, you have that in Linux.
If you mean that there's multiple flavors of it, then Linux really isn't an OS but a species of OS and of course, there's one exact example of whatever species Windows is, so no competition in that respect.
It is also false to say you're stuck with MS as so many do claim (not necessarily you). I've worked for corporations who had only to sign voluminous contracts and fork over large sums to get the ability to custom build Windows 95 for themselves internally to the point that it was as different from what MS sold as Fedora is from Mepis.
The thing that Open Source gives us which we need so badly is what we don't have with MS unless we give them large sums and that is how the frigging code works to begin with. I agree that people should have the rights to best use of the fruits of their labor and also that open sourcing one's work is one's right if one so chooses, so I won't get into partisanship on it.
However, is doesn't help MS in the slightest to keep such a tight fist wrapped around the code most in need of being fixed to improve the product. For crying out loud, if they just loosened a little, they might find a third party making something with their IP that was insanely good stuff and worth MS buying and making part of the next iteration of Windows. Instead, we have to rely on top down promulgation of advancement solely from Redmond and put up with their insistance on selling beta as finished product.
But unless and until Linux (I won't hold my breath on any variant of BSD other than OSX) becomes fool-proof in installation and basic usage and software addition (rpm? apt-get? make? wtf?) then Windows will remain where it is completely on top. (wtf? should be construed as "prior art" with regard to its usage in relation to app packaging. I openly release it to anyone's use as a name for a Linux app package system. Entirely appropriate as well I think.)
1. Linux still isn't ready for prime time zero hassle common user usage. Install Knoppix from the live cd at 800x600 and oops, now you gotta go to change the config as root to explicitly tell it your card can do 1024x768 because the installer sets as maximum whatever you were using the live cd at. Fedora's installer tries to relax you regarding Grub, but most of the time forcing LBA32 is needed or it sits there doing nothing at boot. Etc. Small potatoes for techs being paid to support it and used to all sorts of crockery, but not for casual users who shouldn't have to read inaccessible man pages because you can't even boot one machine during install.
2. Linux is being adopted and the rise in compromised roots is testament to this. I salute the geniuses who've sold Linux without regard to education of the average business user on security.
3. Windows will not be killed. Not going to happen. We will have competition indefinitely. And this is a good good thing.
Region free DVD players can be easily and legally bought, most heavy ethnic neighborhoods in America have some video store around them supporting such things and also doing PAL and SECAM as well as NTSC. There must be two dozen within thirty miles of my house. There's plenty of web sites too.
If they had hammered a deal to do this with MS back at the time of Warp 4, back when Stardock was still supporting OS/2, it might have gone somewhere and given us essentially three competing systems: Win, Linux, OS/2. Instead, IBM could not find their rear ends with a hunting dog and a copy of Gray's Anatomy, kept with the single worst GUI design this side of the Amiga, and decided obfuscation and counterintuitiveness was superior to ease of use and common sense.
That said, it would be nice to see, but way late. We should be at Warp 7 by now. I doubt the OS/2 fanatics will be able to sufficiently play catch-up even if Redmond is open to open sourcing the thing given how many went to Windows or Linux or both. They ain't getting younger and doing an about face in your coding mindset like that might cause a bump in the number of programmers seeking professional psychiatric help.
Structured: discipline required to remember where what was placed and how it works and where it goes and what it does and so on.
OOP: who cares where what is or how it works or where it goes or what it does or uses.
I used to write programs in old Dartmouth BASIC in a tenth of the time C takes to do the same thing. Then C took a tenth of the time C++ took. I mean, figuring in troubleshooting any and all mistakes and my concepts versus what the machine thought and so on.
The next big OOP language should just be called something honest. Like Obfuscation+. Or TimeWaster.NET.
...is there no end to it? If it isn't news of government idiocy, it's partisan leftist crap here. News flash for the geniuses who can't stop themselves from slamming President Bush and the Republican Party every five nanoseconds: ALL politicians are open to this sort of thing.
Many many years ago, a leftist friend of mine said that liberalism respected rights. So I read him chapter and verse from my own lifetime experiences about how liberalism and the nanny state's substitution of constitutional rights (elimination of gun ownership, taxation become confiscation, speech abridged in the name of political correctness, income redistribution via welfare) with invented rights and the lazy thinking general public's acceptance of this would simply play into his hated opposition's fringe element.
Such has come to pass. We've had decades of subversion of our rights and false basic education on our real rights from the left under the guise of getting something for nothing and now we're getting it from the right and while the right is more hamfisted about it than the left, the people are pretty much way past caring.
They're fat, dumb, relatively happy, and raised on many years of "government is your friend". The noise on the surface is just noise. In the end, their cynicism itself cynically false and the people no longer truly fear the power of the government to remain its vigilant masters rather than the other way around.
If one side can play the game, so can the other. Now we're firmly in an Aliens vs. Predator world: whoever wins, we lose.
Vote NONE of the above.
or is everything on this site a segue waiting to happen to bash Microsoft?
1. Microsoft is not the government, they are a private civilian business.
2. Gays are not being discriminated against and persecuted nearly as much as some claim, I know, a number of my family and friends are gay and they're not suffering any of these things in the states they live in across the USA. In fact, most have found being gay is considered cool more often than not which they also find creepy and wish you straights would leave them the hell alone.
3. It's the height of hypcrisy to lambaste MS for everything under the sun, then expect them to go to the mat for your pet politics and socialism.
This battle is not going to play out one way or another based on Microsoft. Why don't we just blame them retroactively for the Holocaust because Bill hasn't invented a time machine to send Homeland Security agents back to assassinate Hitler, or blame Bill Gates for proton decay?
Anyone remember when basic knowledge of AND, NAND, OR, etc. logic concepts and binary math ability was a prereq of CS? When I was a kid, we worked in binary, hex, even octal and that was long before hitting CS classes.
A younger friend of mine on the BSCS track complains his prof defines two ways of writing in C:his way and the wrong way. He says that given that the prof's methods aren't even close to C's creators' recommendations and look more like the grudging under protest work of a C++ junkie, it is more like his way and the right way.
Sounds more like teaching arrogance from the top down which would be managerial science, not computer science and firmly puts the BS therefore in BSCS.
It has also spread to porn DVDs. Vivid Video is one of the biggest offenders. As much as fifteen minutes of ads for other flicks you DIDN'T want before you get to watch the one you DID. If even they don't get it, we're soooo screwed.
One of the other tricks is to edit the mpeg video together such that the transition from ad vid to content vid falls in the middle of what would ordinarily be either a content chapter and segment or an ad one. This means you get pieces of ads in the content if you try to rip them.
Making me resent your product by intrusive advertising, what a way to get me to buy it.
Windows inside Linux inside Windows inside MacOSX.
So instead of one cross-platform standards-based language embodying write-one-run-anywhere, we do it the long way around.
Yeah, this is a really great idea. "Our new PCs from Dell can run six different operating systems inside each other right out of the box. We call it the Mental Whiplash System."
Actually, using encryption between two nodes as well as encryption of all containers on every node goes a long way to reducing the physical evidence they need to prove their case in court.
The next stage is to fragment the files, make parity files, replicate them a number of times to various nodes based on usage and traffic and demand statistics such that NO ONE MACHINE EVER held an entire whole assembled plaintext file within the file share system.
You want to sharea file? It gets sliced and diced, parity files generated, all the pieces multiplied a number of times, and then scattered across the sharing net. The original you gave it is not itself shared by you intact. Your original is never actually "on" the system. Just pieces that if you yourself wanted to get back should you lose the original, you'd have to collect from various nodes to which the pieces had been scattered.
Every user would by default share the hd space load of the entire net based on their availible space and connection speed. If they download a file by collecting the pieces and reassembling them all, the reassembled files would go someplace on their drive other than the system. No complete plaintext files hosted on any one person's system ever.
Let the RIAA sue twenty-two thousand six hundred ninety-six people for sharing an encrypted piece of gibberish which may or may not even be property they are claiming was infringed. Prove it.
...so sayeth the idiots who put "family" on every stupid bill that abuses our rights and the even bigger idiots who buy them.
I say the same about pre-releasing. We're saving kids from being exposed to crap without warning. Now you can see in advance the dreadful crud that you would have had to shell out several dollars to suffer with otherwise.
You know, at least with BDSM, you KNOW it's supposed to hurt AND cost. Movies make you pay on the pretext that you'll ENJOY yourself, but evidently they're now redefining pleasure for everyone. Let's see... once small is beautiful Linux is bloating, X is bloating with tinsel-crap further, Microsoft is admitting they sell beta and charge you for it... We're pretty much at the point where all the liars openly say, "yeah, we're full of sh*t, and you've known it for years, and now we're admitting it because there's no longer anything you can do about it.
I weep for the future. We have met the enemy and it is us and we don't seem to care. "It's the end of the world as we've known it, and I feel fine."
"the left hand doesn't know what the right foot is doing". Between OMB and DHS, you'd think, wrongly, that they'd understand not to do this sort of thing. If you did think that, you might also the government exists for your benefit and not the other way around. Silly theorist...
They used to be. The Vogons from Redmond have taken care of that.
Imagine if you will combining all of Object Desktop's c00ln3ss with the very heart of Windows XP if you will. Simply imagine a heavily modded cybernetic sloth pumped with downers that's not been on the charger in two days.
Now imagine it can actually be named in the same sentence as the phrase "open source".
Now stop imagining because it's almost here. We've gone from "small is better even if it is not correct" to "small is better and we should be correct too" to "large is okay even if it is not correct". So it's neither small nor correct. The two chief winning attributes over Windows and where we were headed at one point.
Proof that the attitudes of Windows coders and designers and users can also be found in the *nix community: whiz bang flash and glitter over the core tasks at hand is cool and better than making it work solidly and stably as a computer.
Tinfoil hat thought, but are these companies tied financially to the portion of the medical industry that profits from repetitive strain injuries? I also wonder for that matter if all the people who make money from Unix and C/C++ are tied financially to analysts who specialize in neuroses of techies. "I swear doc, I don't have dependency issues!"
That was probably courtesy of the OMGWTF working group.
Please don't let this involve the use of Tommy Lee. The Pam Anderson video was bad enough, the music video worse. Thank G-d that Durst didn't strip down too.
You think W would have ever even considered this strategy if it wasn't for the education and research that leftie greenie organizations and PhDs have done?
Yes, they would. Weyerhauser is in the business of farming trees essentially and since they own the fields and need to derive income from them, they know they need to take care of them as any farmer would. But if people farm land that doesn't belong to them and can always move on to other lands they aren't responsible for and don't own, they'll just sap it for everything and move on.
I know it is hard to understand, but big business is not necessarily evil and the greenies not necessarily brilliant. Self-preservation is a stronger impulse than what someone else says is right especially when the someone else approaches you from a morally superior holier than thou combative attitude from day one, makes spurious junk science claims salted and peppered with the slight pieces of truth that keeps popular fantasy fueled, and serves it up with a heaping helping of self-righteousness.
More flies with honey than vinegar and all that, you know.
...will be getting CPCI and ATAC systems to come down in price to a truly reasonable level and for drone boards to become commonplace. I don't need every single board computer to come with graphics chipsets beyond basic VGA, with better than old Soundblaster quality audio, etc., etc., etc..
Currently, building a blade server cluster is still an exercise in spending a lot of cash that may not be on hand. The alternative is leashing together multiple white boxes and there's no need for ten or more separate 350+ watt power supplies adding to energy cost and heat output. Wiring with -48VDC telecom style power systems is much easier.
Sure there's plenty of open source and closed source code availble. The hardware end is still lacking if you want to do it for a reasonable cost and without getting stuck with all sorts of things you don't need. Heck, I'd kludge a solution with full size motherboards if I could get recent model processors and memory capacities but lose all the unneeded bundled onboard things I don't need or want. Why should a drone net boot board come with USB2, Firewire, SATA, etc?
I'll file this under "holding pattern".