*Sigh*. I guess what distresses me the most is how people like this can spout all kinds of things that 90% of mainstream folks wouldn't even begin to agree with (and some of the things said in just this thread are pretty damn scary), resort to ad hominem attacks against anyone who disagress with them, and then claim that "God is on my side." This kind of stuff, along with the abdication of rational thinking that people like this seem to advocate ("The world is 6000 years old, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding."), and it's no wonder I've renounced religion. Notice that I did not say I've renounced God. I choose to have my own conversations with Him, in my own way, in my own time. I also don't think the Bible is a very good science text. But people like the ones who got a hold of the Kansas Board of Education insist on using it as such.
Anyway, I'm just rambling. This kind of attitude makes me one very distressed feline....
Having just gotten 2010 on DVD for Christmas (boy, it's a good thing they don't actually touch anything while playing; I'd have worn grooves into it by now!), the computer that Chandra has in his office is the SAL9000. Just like HAL, but with a blue vision sensor and a female voice (and no, I don't know what SAL stands for. Any guesses?). I really liked how Chandra asked for SAL's permission to perform the shutdown experiments. And I thought I was bad for talking to my computers!
At the risk of getting flamed to a Krispy Kitty...
The way I read the request, the gentleman assumes that just because it runs under Linux, it has to be GPL'd. While this is true for changes to the kernel code, didn't Linus say that binaries linked against the kernel did NOT have to be GPL'd? Maybe I didn't read the request closely enough, but it didn't sound like they were making changes to the kernel, so there would be no requirement for releasing the product under the GPL.
Usually I listen to a lot of Rush (~10 hours of Rush CDs ripped to MP3 for those long hacking runs), with a little bit of Yes, Boston, and J.S. Bach thrown in for good measure. If I'm in a really weird mood, "Weird Al" Yankovic or Tom Lehrer fit the bill. Lately, I just acquired the "Matrix" soundtrack and have been burning grooves into a couple of tracks off from playing them so much, specifically Rammstien's "Du Hast" (German rock is just so...so...German!) and Rob Zombie's "Dragula" track. Spoooooky!
Gawd. Now I really have to dig my old CoCo 1 (64K, 2 floppy, OS/9 and a CoCo 3 keyboard) out of the garage and set it up. Sounds like I've been out of the loop for a helluva long time. Where is there more information about this kinda stuff?
Nope. When you consider that the period of Halley's Comet is 76 years (and that's one of the quicker ones), that doesn't seem like it'd be real practical to me.
Web JetAdmin 5.5 runs on Linux (RedHat 5.2, I believe). As for the 10/100TX JetDirect box, there is an LPD daemon running on them, so you can hook up to them. Just specifiy the IP name of the JD box as the machine and either "raw" (for PostScript, etc.) or "text" (for ASCII text w/o "stairsteps") as the queue.
Watching the NBC stuff tonight got me thinking. So, I grabbed my copy of _Moving Pictures_ by Rush and popped it into my CD player. One of the tracks is entitled "Witch Hunt (part III of 'Fear')". I hit play and really listened to the lyrics. Yowch. Neal Peart really hit the nail on the head with that one.
"Those who know what's best for us must rise and save us from ourselves." - Rush, "Witch Hunt", _Moving Pictures_
I'm sitting in a hotel room watching Dateline Tuesday on NBC, and sure as hell, there's a segment on this horrible tragedy on. Of course, they're doing the funerals of the victims. Understandable. However, the two that I just saw were for the basketball coach and one of the football players that was killed. My question is this: how much coverage has the funerals of the two alleged perpetrators get?
Update: Oh, s**t, they're now asking "who's to blame?" again. Crud. They just showed about some parents who tried to "get through" to their kids (who had problems, don't ya know) by shipping them off to a bootcamp in a foreign country. Yowch. Talk about alienating your kid just when they need you the most.
Still more. Now they're bringing the old "nature vs. nurture" question into it. Ye gods!
Sorry, gang, but this part of Idaho is not quite the high-tech wasteland that is portrayed in the article. I live (and work) in Boise, which is 15 or so miles from Caldwell. There are high tech firms running the gamut from small, 50-person software shops (where I used to work) to huge multinational high-tech firms that have been around for 50+ years (where I currently work) here. Not to mention other large coroprations, such as Albertson's and Boise-Cascade, that have huge IT departments that need people. Add to that the fact that BSU has one damn fine CS program. The result? Boise is one happenin' high-tech town (of course, US West needs to get of its ass and get more complete DSL coverage, but that's another story).
Many people are drawn to hackerdom through alienation from society. Though this is probaly true, I find that "society" sometimes requires too much processing to deal with (and besides, the rules are too arbitrary, damnit!), so we voluntarily withdraw so that we can spend more time hacking. Purrr.
"University Developers"? Excuse me? Somehow I don't think that the folks in HP, IBM, etc., who are writing stuff for Linux are exactly "university developers". Hello, Bill! Wake up! Time to smell the coffee! It's gone mainstream!
Oh, where to start, where to start? First off, the "idea" of a personal computer was around for one helluva lot longer than Microsoft. In fact, the first mass-marketed PC was a little box called the Altair, which a young Harvard student named William Gates wrote a BASIC interpreter for. _Not_, as you would have us believe, for the IBM PC. Secondly, it is true that QDOS was the basis for MS-DOS. However (and someone out there please back me up on this, my memory is admittedly shaky here), the company and code was swallowed up by MS. Thirdly, my 64K OS/9-based Color Computer (yes, I said Color Computer) whomped on the original IBM-PC's with MS-DOS. It even had some productivity software, though it was pretty awful. Most of what I used, I wrote! Finally, having used Linux, WordPerfect, etc., as well as Microsoft products, well, I don't call it Microsoft LookOut for nothing!
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Paranoid? Ya think?
*Sigh*. I guess what distresses me the most is how people like this can spout all kinds of things that 90% of mainstream folks wouldn't even begin to agree with (and some of the things said in just this thread are pretty damn scary), resort to ad hominem attacks against anyone who disagress with them, and then claim that "God is on my side." This kind of stuff, along with the abdication of rational thinking that people like this seem to advocate ("The world is 6000 years old, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding."), and it's no wonder I've renounced religion. Notice that I did not say I've renounced God. I choose to have my own conversations with Him, in my own way, in my own time. I also don't think the Bible is a very good science text. But people like the ones who got a hold of the Kansas Board of Education insist on using it as such.
Anyway, I'm just rambling. This kind of attitude makes me one very distressed feline....
Meow.
Truth is fiction, black is white, freedom is slavery...need I continue?
Hiss.
Having just gotten 2010 on DVD for Christmas (boy, it's a good thing they don't actually touch anything while playing; I'd have worn grooves into it by now!), the computer that Chandra has in his office is the SAL9000. Just like HAL, but with a blue vision sensor and a female voice (and no, I don't know what SAL stands for. Any guesses?). I really liked how Chandra asked for SAL's permission to perform the shutdown experiments. And I thought I was bad for talking to my computers!
Meow
Um, dude, I think Nickelodeon beat you to it...
Meowp!
At the risk of getting flamed to a Krispy Kitty...
The way I read the request, the gentleman assumes that just because it runs under Linux, it has to be GPL'd. While this is true for changes to the kernel code, didn't Linus say that binaries linked against the kernel did NOT have to be GPL'd? Maybe I didn't read the request closely enough, but it didn't sound like they were making changes to the kernel, so there would be no requirement for releasing the product under the GPL.
Or did I get into a bad batch of catnip?
...diving into his asbestos covered kitty-condo.
Meow.
Usually I listen to a lot of Rush (~10 hours of Rush CDs ripped to MP3 for those long hacking runs), with a little bit of Yes, Boston, and J.S. Bach thrown in for good measure. If I'm in a really weird mood, "Weird Al" Yankovic or Tom Lehrer fit the bill. Lately, I just acquired the "Matrix" soundtrack and have been burning grooves into a couple of tracks off from playing them so much, specifically Rammstien's "Du Hast" (German rock is just so...so...German!) and Rob Zombie's "Dragula" track. Spoooooky!
OK, maybe I need to go lie down now...
Meow.
Deus yes, I remember that! I also seem to remember that in subsequent episodes, you could still see the letters burned into the moon. Brilliant!
Hm... Blue, white and red flag topped by a red Pizza Hut roof painted on the side of a rocket...? Why not?
Mrow?
Amen, brother!
Meow!
Gawd. Now I really have to dig my old CoCo 1 (64K, 2 floppy, OS/9 and a CoCo 3 keyboard) out of the garage and set it up. Sounds like I've been out of the loop for a helluva long time. Where is there more information about this kinda stuff?
Meow-wow!
Nope. When you consider that the period of Halley's Comet is 76 years (and that's one of the quicker ones), that doesn't seem like it'd be real practical to me.
Meow
>It isn't a kid's show! Does animation==kid's show still prevail?
'Fraid so.
>Do you think the Christian folks reading this stuff would let their kids see the TV episodes of South Park?
"Avert your eyes, children! He may assume other forms!" Personally, I can't wait to go see it this weekend. Woo-hoo!
Meow
> I want one, but I want to know why I want one.
:-( ).
You need a reason for neat toys? I know I don't (OTOH, convincing my wife that I need on is a totally different story
Meow-wow!
Web JetAdmin 5.5 runs on Linux (RedHat 5.2, I believe). As for the 10/100TX JetDirect box, there is an LPD daemon running on them, so you can hook up to them. Just specifiy the IP name of the JD box as the machine and either "raw" (for PostScript, etc.) or "text" (for ASCII text w/o "stairsteps") as the queue.
Have fun!
Meow
to that article how?
Mrow?
Watching the NBC stuff tonight got me thinking. So, I grabbed my copy of _Moving Pictures_ by Rush and popped it into my CD player. One of the tracks is entitled "Witch Hunt (part III of 'Fear')". I hit play and really listened to the lyrics. Yowch. Neal Peart really hit the nail on the head with that one.
"Those who know what's best for us
must rise and save us from ourselves."
- Rush, "Witch Hunt", _Moving Pictures_
I'm sitting in a hotel room watching Dateline Tuesday on NBC, and sure as hell, there's a segment on this horrible tragedy on. Of course, they're doing the funerals of the victims. Understandable. However, the two that I just saw were for the basketball coach and one of the football players that was killed. My question is this: how much coverage has the funerals of the two alleged perpetrators get?
Update: Oh, s**t, they're now asking "who's to blame?" again. Crud. They just showed about some parents who tried to "get through" to their kids (who had problems, don't ya know) by shipping them off to a bootcamp in a foreign country. Yowch. Talk about alienating your kid just when they need you the most.
Still more. Now they're bringing the old "nature vs. nurture" question into it. Ye gods!
Whups, just forgot to say...
Meow. Purrrrrrrrr...
Sorry, gang, but this part of Idaho is not quite the high-tech wasteland that is portrayed in the article. I live (and work) in Boise, which is 15 or so miles from Caldwell. There are high tech firms running the gamut from small, 50-person software shops (where I used to work) to huge multinational high-tech firms that have been around for 50+ years (where I currently work) here. Not to mention other large coroprations, such as Albertson's and Boise-Cascade, that have huge IT departments that need people. Add to that the fact that BSU has one damn fine CS program. The result? Boise is one happenin' high-tech town (of course, US West needs to get of its ass and get more complete DSL coverage, but that's another story).
> The latter two sites are business as usual for the moment.
Not any more. I just checked User Friendly, and it's been closed, too. Damn. My question is, WTF is going on here?!?
Hisssssss....
Many people are drawn to hackerdom through alienation from society. Though this is probaly true, I find that "society" sometimes requires too much processing to deal with (and besides, the rules are too arbitrary, damnit!), so we voluntarily withdraw so that we can spend more time hacking. Purrr.
"University Developers"? Excuse me? Somehow I don't think that the folks in HP, IBM, etc., who are writing stuff for Linux are exactly "university developers". Hello, Bill! Wake up! Time to smell the coffee! It's gone mainstream!
Rowr! Hiss!
Well, does anyone know if Apollo is available, seeing as how the old Apollo got swallowed up by HP? How 'bout Dionysus? (OK, OK, just kidding...)
Oh, where to start, where to start? First off, the "idea" of a personal computer was around for one helluva lot longer than Microsoft. In fact, the first mass-marketed PC was a little box called the Altair, which a young Harvard student named William Gates wrote a BASIC interpreter for. _Not_, as you would have us believe, for the IBM PC. Secondly, it is true that QDOS was the basis for MS-DOS. However (and someone out there please back me up on this, my memory is admittedly shaky here), the company and code was swallowed up by MS. Thirdly, my 64K OS/9-based Color Computer (yes, I said Color Computer) whomped on the original IBM-PC's with MS-DOS. It even had some productivity software, though it was pretty awful. Most of what I used, I wrote! Finally, having used Linux, WordPerfect, etc., as well as Microsoft products, well, I don't call it Microsoft LookOut for nothing!
Meow.