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DECnet Isn't Dead
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The OpenVMS implementation of TCP/IP and DECnet must be licensed seperately from the operating system. That is what they mean. The OpenVMS TCP/IP implementation costs less than the OpenVMS DECnet implementation.
Of course it isn't dead!
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DECnet Isn't Dead
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DECnet is often used these days for very mission critical applications. The firm I work for uses DECnet because it is the easiest and most reliable way for us to maintain our VAX and Alpha clusters. Indeed, it is by far the most superior form of networking out there for applications where the uptime must be literally 100%.
We have had sales reps from various vendors come and suggest moving to a Windows 2003/PC setup (HAHA!) or towards a more UNIX/Linux-based setup. But we will stick with our DECnet-based VAX and Alpha clusters because they are known to work, and they work pretty damn well! But that's because it is amongst the finest of DEC engineering. That's the sort of engineering you just don't find these days.
Have you ever actually fucked a fat woman? I can tell you from personal experience (my wife) that fucking a fat woman is amazing. There is vastly increased pressure on the man's penis, and the fat acts as fuck padding. You can ram her harder than you can a skinny woman. Fat women will make you shoot your load within seconds of penetration. So while you can suggest that fat women aren't worthy of a good fuck, I'll always know that you are completely wrong.
Several years back Be, Inc., developers of BeOS, launched a similar lawsuit against Microsoft. While it was touted as the case that would demolish Microsoft, I believe they ended up settling. So I wouldn't be surprised if we saw a repeat in this situation.
Situations like this could lead to very interesting situations involving file sharing lawsuits.
Let us suppose that the man who was arrested was partaking in massive copyright violation (ie. 200000+ songs and movies) over the unsecured Internet connection. When the lawsuits come in, would they be able to target both individuals with lawsuits? Indeed, the person with the unsecured connection may very well not qualify for common carrier status, and thus may be liable for the copyright infringement that occurred over his connection. And then they can yet again sue the man who was using the connection. Indeed, very interesting, indeed.
That's a very interesting quote. I often hear Theo described as a cockfool or a fanatic. But that quote, if he really did say it, proves the opposite. It would suggest that he is one of the few people who truly understands the notion of "freedom", in that true freedom allows one to do anything one wishes. Could you provide a link to the mailing list archive or newsgroup posting or wherever it is that he says that? That quote shows the freedom that every open source developer should drive for.
Either way, it sounds like the shittiest set of forums for online discussion. Even Stalin would look up to their hatred for free speech, it would seem.
Ah, that is interesting! I do not use such forums myself, but I do discuss such matters with my grandson. He said that the same problem happened at the GameSpot forums, but I think he also said that they were run by the GameFAQs people?
I wonder if we'll see freedom fighters in countries like Iraq and Afghanistan start to use robots like these such as weapons (assuming these researchers do succeed in keeping the cost low). Indeed, considering the US military's increased use of drones and unmanned combat vehicles, it is doubtful that those they are fighting against will not soon resort to employing he same methodologies.
This particular device uses Linux, which brings up another question: should developers of open source software license their software so as to prevent it from being used in such killing devices? Or should freedom trump such an argument?
More interesting to me was the reaction at the gaming forums. Indeed, all hell broke loose, literally, at the GameFAQs forums when this fakery was made available. Users were banned outright for suggesting (rightfully so) that the video was a complete forgery, according to my grandson who posts there. But I think that just shows the complete intolerance and stupidity of many of the online gaming forums. They are so closed-minded that they refuse to actually investigate leaks such as this to verify their truthfulness. Instead they'd rather punish those respectable users who do take the trouble to inspect and analyze every such leak that comes their way.
Some very severe problems may require a significant refactoring of a software system's code. Indeed, it would most likely be very counterproductive to try to force such changes that quickly. You may just end up introducing five or six times the number of bug and security issues than had a proper solution, perhaps taking several days, been delivered instead. Quick hackery meant to prevent security violations is itself often a source of massive security hazards in the future.
Actually, The Santa Cruz Organization (ie. "Old" SCO) was considered quite "cool" around 1992. This was when they were still a company actively involved in the development and engineering of high-performance PC-based UNIX operating systems, of course. OpenServer and OpenDesktop were quite revolutionary in the early 1990s. Remember, Linux was in its infancy at this point, as was 386BSD.
Unless you went with Coherent or XENIX (also co-developed by SCO, by the way), your choice for a rock-solid UNIX on Intel PCs was OpenServer. And it did perform and served many companies very well. That is why today's The SCO Group is still able to obtain some revenue from their OpenServer products. While horribly outdated today, they were excellent and innovative products in the early 1990s.
The right and left wings are a myth created by the Old Media to limit thought. You're only given two options: right or left. You're expected to choose only one. And the vast majority of people fall for this. When an intellectual individual suggests that they are neither wing, then the vast majority of people cannot comprehend that. They have had their mental capacity so minimized by the Old Media that they can only comprehend the idea of two choices.
Now on the topic of accuracy, "getting it right" to the Old Media only means presenting information that will benefit their interests in some what, be it political or financial. Wikimedia, on the other hand, is more concerned with discussing the matters as they are. That leads to people considering all sides of an issue, without to define some predetermined "right win" or "left wing" set of views.
Information is a resource, and reliable, valid information is a scare resource. As such, the laws of economics cover the dispersion of information. The forces of the free market will, if they work, prevent Wikimedia from becoming like the Old Media. The individualistic nature resembles economic perfect competition.
Old Media represents a failure of the free market. It is a monopoly over the dispersal of information. Indeed, had it not been for the Internet (and thus a recet decrease in the scarcity of information), then the Old Media's stranglehold on the print, radio and television media would have been more powerful. But now they face competition, and in this case it is from the combined forces of millions of individuals. A very formidable force, I may suggest!
That's not necessary by any means. Remember, while worldwide in scope, the majority of Wikimedia's resources are based in the US. The US has very few major ISPs. Some, such as AOL, are already owned by the Old Media. A lot of the smaller ISPs purchase their bandwidth from the larger ones. With their combined financial resources, it would not be difficult at all to purchase the large ISPs which the Old Media does not already own.
Even then, the blockage does not have to be complete. Even reducing Wikimedia's availability by 50% would be devastating.
No harm done, my good fellow. They are very similar terms.
Indeed, the LA Times recent experiment with wiki-ized editorials shows the true nature of their fear. They realized quite quickly the true power of the wiki, realizing that it was introducing true debate and discussion. It was making people think, and that is something that the Old Media cannot have. Thinking people question what they hear, and that does not benefit the Old Media in any way.
The fact of the matter is that the public trust in Old Media is weakening daily. People everywhere are seeing how they were mislead by the Old Media over Iraq. And that causes most intelligent people to think, "If they lied to us about that, then maybe the lied to us about Afghanistan, and Sept. 11."
Wikimedia has shown that they strive for the truth, even if it is a tumultuous path getting there. People will disagree, but in the end there is true debate on the subject available. That is something that Old Media cannot and will not offer. Massive, widespread debate and discussion will expose their lies. That is why they will need to strike against Wikimedia.
I fear we may witness a major media conflict within the next few years. As organizations like Wikimedia gain strength, power and momentum, the existing corporate media will start to worry.
I see two things happening:
1) Discredition The corporate mass media will try their best to discredit Wikimedia. They will have their pundits (ie. Bill O'Reilly, Ann Coulter, Kudlow & Kramer, etc.) make some outrageous lies about Wikimedia. I wouldn't be surprised if Wikimedia was labelled as "unpatriotic" and declared to be "supporters of terrorism".
2) Financial Cloutery The corporate mass media may instead use their massive financial wealth to purchase Wikimedia out of the picture. They may start by purchasing hosting companies that host Wikimedia servers. Then using their financial clout, they may persuade the backbones and ISPs to limit access to Wikimedia sites.
Regardless of what happens, the upcoming battle between the Old Media and the New Media will be spectacular. But I fear the only victims will be the individuals, who no longer have access to the open-minded, and truly free content that Wikimedia offers.
What is the stance of Japanese anime artists/producers/{insert proper term here} when it comes to the redistribution of their work over networks such as BitTorrent?
Have they taken the stance of their American counterparts, and partaken in massive lawsuits against individuals?
Or are they true artists of the highest class, where they wish their masterpieces to be available to as many as possible, even if that means not making massive financial profits?
Gaming has allowed many children, those typically steretyped as "geeks" or "nerds", to live a far more normal childhood. They can become celebrities in their various online gaming "clans". That can really boost a child's self esteem. I witnessed that first hand through my grandson.
But what bothers me is the gaming community forums. I'm specifically talking about message boards, such as those found at GameSpot and GameFAQs.
The forums at GameFAQs are well known as being, well, a hellhole. The abolishment of freedom of speech is preached there. The moderators are known to practice extreme bias. Part of the problem is that they have selected children to be moderators. You can't have a reasonable, positive community when people with the mentality of 12-year-olds are moderators. My grandson was telling me some of the horror stories from those forums, and they truly made me sick.
The worst part is that the victims have no recourse against their abusers. At least on the playground the bullied children have the chance to fight back, or to otherwise defend themselves. But that is not the case online.
Children need to be able to discuss their ideas freely if they want to socially develop. This often happens in unmoderated IRC channels and during gamechat while playing games like CounterStrike. They shouldn't be belittled and demeaned by fellow children who have been declared moderators, yet lack the basic concepts of respect and friendship.
So while I believe that gaming can be socially helpful for many children, the various Internet gaming communities online are often quite terrible.
I'll admit, I know nothing of anime. I've always heard of it in a very negative light, but perhaps that is because the people I talked to were talking about hentai (which I gather is that tenticle rape anime). Maybe it was a case of the uneducated trying to teach the unlearned.
But back to anime. What is the recommended path for one to take when they begin their journey into the massive world of anime? I don't even know which series or shows or whatever the correct term is I should watch first. Would this be a good series to start with, for somebody who is not Japanese, knows very little about the Japanese culture, and basically nothing about anime?
Will this fusion plant usher in the foretold era of unlimited energy? I remember when those claims were made about nuclear power, about how it would be so cheap that it wouldn't be metered. That didn't happen with fission power, but perhaps it will happen with fusion power.
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The OpenVMS implementation of TCP/IP and DECnet must be licensed seperately from the operating system. That is what they mean. The OpenVMS TCP/IP implementation costs less than the OpenVMS DECnet implementation.
DECnet is often used these days for very mission critical applications. The firm I work for uses DECnet because it is the easiest and most reliable way for us to maintain our VAX and Alpha clusters. Indeed, it is by far the most superior form of networking out there for applications where the uptime must be literally 100%.
We have had sales reps from various vendors come and suggest moving to a Windows 2003/PC setup (HAHA!) or towards a more UNIX/Linux-based setup. But we will stick with our DECnet-based VAX and Alpha clusters because they are known to work, and they work pretty damn well! But that's because it is amongst the finest of DEC engineering. That's the sort of engineering you just don't find these days.
Have you ever actually fucked a fat woman? I can tell you from personal experience (my wife) that fucking a fat woman is amazing. There is vastly increased pressure on the man's penis, and the fat acts as fuck padding. You can ram her harder than you can a skinny woman. Fat women will make you shoot your load within seconds of penetration. So while you can suggest that fat women aren't worthy of a good fuck, I'll always know that you are completely wrong.
Several years back Be, Inc., developers of BeOS, launched a similar lawsuit against Microsoft. While it was touted as the case that would demolish Microsoft, I believe they ended up settling. So I wouldn't be surprised if we saw a repeat in this situation.
Situations like this could lead to very interesting situations involving file sharing lawsuits.
Let us suppose that the man who was arrested was partaking in massive copyright violation (ie. 200000+ songs and movies) over the unsecured Internet connection. When the lawsuits come in, would they be able to target both individuals with lawsuits? Indeed, the person with the unsecured connection may very well not qualify for common carrier status, and thus may be liable for the copyright infringement that occurred over his connection. And then they can yet again sue the man who was using the connection. Indeed, very interesting, indeed.
That's a very interesting quote. I often hear Theo described as a cockfool or a fanatic. But that quote, if he really did say it, proves the opposite. It would suggest that he is one of the few people who truly understands the notion of "freedom", in that true freedom allows one to do anything one wishes. Could you provide a link to the mailing list archive or newsgroup posting or wherever it is that he says that? That quote shows the freedom that every open source developer should drive for.
Indeed, it did. There was flaming, censorship and hatred of the truth galore, much like that of Hell or Stalin's Soviet Union.
Either way, it sounds like the shittiest set of forums for online discussion. Even Stalin would look up to their hatred for free speech, it would seem.
Ah, that is interesting! I do not use such forums myself, but I do discuss such matters with my grandson. He said that the same problem happened at the GameSpot forums, but I think he also said that they were run by the GameFAQs people?
I wonder if we'll see freedom fighters in countries like Iraq and Afghanistan start to use robots like these such as weapons (assuming these researchers do succeed in keeping the cost low). Indeed, considering the US military's increased use of drones and unmanned combat vehicles, it is doubtful that those they are fighting against will not soon resort to employing he same methodologies.
This particular device uses Linux, which brings up another question: should developers of open source software license their software so as to prevent it from being used in such killing devices? Or should freedom trump such an argument?
More interesting to me was the reaction at the gaming forums. Indeed, all hell broke loose, literally, at the GameFAQs forums when this fakery was made available. Users were banned outright for suggesting (rightfully so) that the video was a complete forgery, according to my grandson who posts there. But I think that just shows the complete intolerance and stupidity of many of the online gaming forums. They are so closed-minded that they refuse to actually investigate leaks such as this to verify their truthfulness. Instead they'd rather punish those respectable users who do take the trouble to inspect and analyze every such leak that comes their way.
Some very severe problems may require a significant refactoring of a software system's code. Indeed, it would most likely be very counterproductive to try to force such changes that quickly. You may just end up introducing five or six times the number of bug and security issues than had a proper solution, perhaps taking several days, been delivered instead. Quick hackery meant to prevent security violations is itself often a source of massive security hazards in the future.
Actually, The Santa Cruz Organization (ie. "Old" SCO) was considered quite "cool" around 1992. This was when they were still a company actively involved in the development and engineering of high-performance PC-based UNIX operating systems, of course. OpenServer and OpenDesktop were quite revolutionary in the early 1990s. Remember, Linux was in its infancy at this point, as was 386BSD.
Unless you went with Coherent or XENIX (also co-developed by SCO, by the way), your choice for a rock-solid UNIX on Intel PCs was OpenServer. And it did perform and served many companies very well. That is why today's The SCO Group is still able to obtain some revenue from their OpenServer products. While horribly outdated today, they were excellent and innovative products in the early 1990s.
Can you please explain your insect joke?
Do you mean that you continually "fork" insects, in that you stick a fork in them and eat them?
Or is that code fragment supposed to resemble a bug in some way? Is the brackets portion of the fork() call supposed to represent the insect's head?
The right and left wings are a myth created by the Old Media to limit thought. You're only given two options: right or left. You're expected to choose only one. And the vast majority of people fall for this. When an intellectual individual suggests that they are neither wing, then the vast majority of people cannot comprehend that. They have had their mental capacity so minimized by the Old Media that they can only comprehend the idea of two choices.
Now on the topic of accuracy, "getting it right" to the Old Media only means presenting information that will benefit their interests in some what, be it political or financial. Wikimedia, on the other hand, is more concerned with discussing the matters as they are. That leads to people considering all sides of an issue, without to define some predetermined "right win" or "left wing" set of views.
Information is a resource, and reliable, valid information is a scare resource. As such, the laws of economics cover the dispersion of information. The forces of the free market will, if they work, prevent Wikimedia from becoming like the Old Media. The individualistic nature resembles economic perfect competition.
Old Media represents a failure of the free market. It is a monopoly over the dispersal of information. Indeed, had it not been for the Internet (and thus a recet decrease in the scarcity of information), then the Old Media's stranglehold on the print, radio and television media would have been more powerful. But now they face competition, and in this case it is from the combined forces of millions of individuals. A very formidable force, I may suggest!
That's not necessary by any means. Remember, while worldwide in scope, the majority of Wikimedia's resources are based in the US. The US has very few major ISPs. Some, such as AOL, are already owned by the Old Media. A lot of the smaller ISPs purchase their bandwidth from the larger ones. With their combined financial resources, it would not be difficult at all to purchase the large ISPs which the Old Media does not already own.
Even then, the blockage does not have to be complete. Even reducing Wikimedia's availability by 50% would be devastating.
No harm done, my good fellow. They are very similar terms.
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Indeed, the LA Times recent experiment with wiki-ized editorials shows the true nature of their fear. They realized quite quickly the true power of the wiki, realizing that it was introducing true debate and discussion. It was making people think, and that is something that the Old Media cannot have. Thinking people question what they hear, and that does not benefit the Old Media in any way.
References:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/18/21432
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/21/1
Pardon me, Mr. Coltrane. I believe that you are partaking in trollery. This conference covers Wikimedia, not just Wikipedia.
Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, yes.
But then there is Wikinews that directly challenges the Old Media.
Wikimedia covers all of the new wiki-based, individualistic, non-corproate media.
Indeed, I do. Do you?
The fact of the matter is that the public trust in Old Media is weakening daily. People everywhere are seeing how they were mislead by the Old Media over Iraq. And that causes most intelligent people to think, "If they lied to us about that, then maybe the lied to us about Afghanistan, and Sept. 11."
Wikimedia has shown that they strive for the truth, even if it is a tumultuous path getting there. People will disagree, but in the end there is true debate on the subject available. That is something that Old Media cannot and will not offer. Massive, widespread debate and discussion will expose their lies. That is why they will need to strike against Wikimedia.
I fear we may witness a major media conflict within the next few years. As organizations like Wikimedia gain strength, power and momentum, the existing corporate media will start to worry.
I see two things happening:
1) Discredition
The corporate mass media will try their best to discredit Wikimedia. They will have their pundits (ie. Bill O'Reilly, Ann Coulter, Kudlow & Kramer, etc.) make some outrageous lies about Wikimedia. I wouldn't be surprised if Wikimedia was labelled as "unpatriotic" and declared to be "supporters of terrorism".
2) Financial Cloutery
The corporate mass media may instead use their massive financial wealth to purchase Wikimedia out of the picture. They may start by purchasing hosting companies that host Wikimedia servers. Then using their financial clout, they may persuade the backbones and ISPs to limit access to Wikimedia sites.
Regardless of what happens, the upcoming battle between the Old Media and the New Media will be spectacular. But I fear the only victims will be the individuals, who no longer have access to the open-minded, and truly free content that Wikimedia offers.
What is the stance of Japanese anime artists/producers/{insert proper term here} when it comes to the redistribution of their work over networks such as BitTorrent?
Have they taken the stance of their American counterparts, and partaken in massive lawsuits against individuals?
Or are they true artists of the highest class, where they wish their masterpieces to be available to as many as possible, even if that means not making massive financial profits?
Gaming has allowed many children, those typically steretyped as "geeks" or "nerds", to live a far more normal childhood. They can become celebrities in their various online gaming "clans". That can really boost a child's self esteem. I witnessed that first hand through my grandson.
But what bothers me is the gaming community forums. I'm specifically talking about message boards, such as those found at GameSpot and GameFAQs.
The forums at GameFAQs are well known as being, well, a hellhole. The abolishment of freedom of speech is preached there. The moderators are known to practice extreme bias. Part of the problem is that they have selected children to be moderators. You can't have a reasonable, positive community when people with the mentality of 12-year-olds are moderators. My grandson was telling me some of the horror stories from those forums, and they truly made me sick.
The worst part is that the victims have no recourse against their abusers. At least on the playground the bullied children have the chance to fight back, or to otherwise defend themselves. But that is not the case online.
Children need to be able to discuss their ideas freely if they want to socially develop. This often happens in unmoderated IRC channels and during gamechat while playing games like CounterStrike. They shouldn't be belittled and demeaned by fellow children who have been declared moderators, yet lack the basic concepts of respect and friendship.
So while I believe that gaming can be socially helpful for many children, the various Internet gaming communities online are often quite terrible.
I'll admit, I know nothing of anime. I've always heard of it in a very negative light, but perhaps that is because the people I talked to were talking about hentai (which I gather is that tenticle rape anime). Maybe it was a case of the uneducated trying to teach the unlearned.
But back to anime. What is the recommended path for one to take when they begin their journey into the massive world of anime? I don't even know which series or shows or whatever the correct term is I should watch first. Would this be a good series to start with, for somebody who is not Japanese, knows very little about the Japanese culture, and basically nothing about anime?
Will this fusion plant usher in the foretold era of unlimited energy? I remember when those claims were made about nuclear power, about how it would be so cheap that it wouldn't be metered. That didn't happen with fission power, but perhaps it will happen with fusion power.