works quite well, thank you, other than the NT 3.51 desktop (won't handle some software that needs NT4). Costs a beejezus. To get a real command line I can work with on NT, I use VNC.
to start crying if you don't buy it the latest cart....
But seriously, a ladyfriend just happens to be in Japan on vacation right now. Would it be possible to beg her to bring (smuggle?) a PS2 back with her? Or would it be confiscated at customs and get her in trouble:(
The thing sounds very streamlined - kinda reminds this old manipulative bastard of the early game consoles - there's the cpu, and the ANTIC chip processing a display list - I'm certain that from there all simularity ceases.
Or at most the sun is scheduled to go into red-giant phase in only 4 billions years. We must act fast. This is no time to get complacent or procrastinate. Eventualy the planet Mercury will be engulfed and the earth burnt to a crisp, if not digested as well. If we aren't planning an escape you may as well give up struggling to survive and reproduce, knowing it is ultimately futile.
It not just a matter of national pride but a biological imperative that we build a kind of 'Noah's Arc' to hold a surviving ecosystem that can travel around collecting energy, mining planets, etc., not just an artificial satellite but an artificial planet for our distant progeny to enjoy.
once again bending the subject - I always thought it would be really neat-o for the former superpowers in the post cold war world to get rid of some nukes by retargetting some ICBM's into space ('downstream' of the earth's orbit naturally) and detonate them there for some really spectacular July 4th fireworks, that is, if they are capable of achieving escape velocity and getting far enough away to be safe.
Seriously - bending the topic from anti or shielded gravity to communications - a real scientist wrote a piece of fiction which (iirc) implied that if gravity could be modulated we would be able to communicate at the speed of light squared. So, if one of a pair of objects could be made to appear to change mass, how long does it take for the other one to 'feel' the change in force??
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What I mean is like this: take several decks of cards, shuffle and deal them all out. Wow! The odds against THAT particular deal happening are tremendous! It's a bloody miracle that, out of all the possible deals, THAT one occurred!
Whenever someone tries to claim that the odds of things turning out the way they are is something like 87,285,253,045,105,111,529,549.5 (or more!) to 1, ergo it MUST HAVE BEEN BY DESIGN, planned, the odds are just to great to have just accidentally happened, I think, B.S. While it's true that THIS particular instantiation is highly improbable, what they don't consider is that maybe gazillions of OTHER possible outcomes are equally viable God-comtemplating conscious life supporting alternatives. That is to say, out of the above number, it could very well be that 293,582,359,248,285,288 of them are just as likely to appear as a 'miraculous' against-all-odds outcome that could never have 'just happened' by itself w/o an outside controlling destiny, and therefore life may be quite common. Whew.
plugging all the 'security' holes and hacks in DVD's those suckers are gonna cost $125 a pop. The movie and music 'industry' should take a clue from the failures of the software industry, in the 80's, to implement hardware copy protection on consumer software: is was an escalating techno-war between producers and consumers that caused so many problems for ordinary users (can't make a backup, original floppys get damaged - well, we aren't buying from THEM anymore) that it is no longer common practice. They really outta get a clue that not everybody buys pirated warez - a vast majority of ordinary movie buyers are above buying zip-lock baggie-ware from some scum pirate operation. If they make a movie viewing experience pleasant they'll make $$$. If they get their undies all wadded up over someone "instantaneously distributing a high quality full length feature film to 6 billion people via the net" (which is BS) it's going to go the way of the laser disk - a very small market techno oddity, not the mass market they'd like to get in a head lock.
that people are happy w/ Msft, once you learn your way around it's basically consistant and other than the little oddities (the freeze's etc that you mentioned) it IS easier for your average non-pro folks to use. If I were giving free help to a Linux newbie and they really didn't seem to be interested I'd heartly recommend, "I think you'd be better off with Win98/2k".
However what *I* want is: leave the rest of us alone! To each his own. A lot of people really ARE better off with the Windows they've learned. I've known many folks that had a painful time transitioning from Win3 to Win95 GUI, and know some that still use the Win3 file manager in '95! GREAT! I'm ALL FOR IT!! Just don't try to force *ME*, who is quite comfortable and in fact enjoys the nitty gritty bit level control over my network, to use nothing but Msft - Have some respect for *MY* point of view, keep Msft OFF MY BACK! That's the whole point of this suit - we DONT want to stop Msft users from enjoying their products (remember, 27% of them aren't even paid for, per Msft) we want to stop Msft from crushing out every product WE enjoy using. The LAST thing we want is to take someone's choice away. What we DO want is a choice ourselves! Not everyone wants proactive handholding help or training wheels welded on, or an annoying Word processor trying to guess what your trying to do and making it twice as hard as just getting out of my way and letting me do it what I know how to do in the first damn place.
Like other 'natural' monopolies ('natural' in that they have successfully established Wintel as the defacto privatized standard of interworking components, and people will continue to want to buy into that standard for compatability, just like settling on a language or system of weights and measurements of conducting business) - I mean, how ELSE are prices going to be settled, just 'trust 'em'? Personally, I can't even SAY 'capitalism' w/o saying 'competition', so if the competition is over, what's the price regulating mechanism? Charge what the market will bear? Hardware just keeps getting better and cheaper, but Msft software seems to be getting better and more expensive. Shouldn't they have to get prices approved like the local power company monopoly does?
Actually there are satellites up there for non-profit Amateur Radio use, don't know anything about how much they cost or where the funding comes from - but it would be a neat idea <FANTASY> if the court just turns the whole thing over to public use untill such time as it fails from lack of maintenance - ok, here it is, here's the freq, here's what you need to access it, go for it, but when it fails, it's over</FANTASY>.
---------------------- 1) A software control structure means comprised of a repeatable code block consisting of a start address, and end address, and a code block variable, said variable alterable by instruction in the code block, said code block terminated by a decision means to test the code block variable for compliance with a preestablished condition, said decision means directing program flow to either repeat the code block at the code block starting address, untill the decision means determins that said preestablished condition has been satisfied, otherwise direct program flow to code following said code block and the code block ending address. ----------------------
That's right, I own the DO...LOOP. If anyone uses a similar control structure in their software projects please contact our licensing office at http://www.doloop.com to arrange for our easy royalty payment plan. This week only we are having a sale; you can get 10 do...loop license-paks for the price of 1. Hurry! Supplies are limited! There may never be an offer like this again!
:)) Imagine HIM delivering a presentation proposing a new ecash network WAN router capital infrastructure to your major SE Banking executive board meeting.
Back on topic - it's clear that consumers are quickly losing ground in the property battle - the i-appliances may be subsidized by the online content they are going to deliver (i.e., ads-to-eyeballs) but this is bound to rub the more do-it-yourself crowd the wrong way - like finding a great deal on a car and having to sign an agreement that "installing a bigger carb is an unauthorized upgrade" and that you can only use one brand of gasoline. I'd love to see some folks get thin, 0 maintenance web browsers but if it comes with these 'bargain with the devil' type restrictions forget it. If I buy something I want to own it outright and not get sucked into a web of 'service agreements' and other methodes of guarenteeing a cash flow. A fellow at work here mentioned what a great deal he got on a PC ($500), then mentioned it came with a 3 year MSN lock in, I guess if you try to install AOL an alarm goes of in Redmond - but that's one more warm body for the minions of targetable marketing to aim at.
I swear, if these guys ran the public libraries, you'd go in and ask for a book on dental hygene, and get a sales pitch for a certain brand of toothpaste.
those quotes on the site from Bungie and EA sound so, so canned - like watching a video tape of captured POWs, scarred, bruised and all doped up, reading a script saying how well they have been treated and how much they are enjoying their stay with the enemy - just robotic verbal buzzword flak with no enthusiasm.
"We, uh, at Electronic Arts, uh, (just read it!) are (yawn) very, uh, yeah - intrigued, (is that what it says?) at the opportunity to, uh, an intriguing - no, were looking forward to an intriguing cutting edge, ummm, we're intriguingly cutting forward..."
(director) CUT! It's "Electronic Arts is intrigued by the opportunity to develop exciting new games for the x-box". Now try it again! Take 27! Camera! Action!!
because Msft has so many people conditioned, like rats in a skinner box. All bg has to do is fart any millions of stock holders and billionair worshippers scramble over each other to get a whif in the hopes that they, too, will be magically transformed into billionaires.
I like the referance on here recently, about people who think Msft *must* make great software because their a multi-billion code shop, must also think McDonalds serves up really great chow because they're the worlds largest restaurant chain.
I see it all the time - all you have to do is upgrade one employee for a valid business reason, and suddenly all the other employees get jealous and feel left out and wanna status symbol too! No doubt Msft has learned to play on peoples petty emotions, like intellectual fashion leaders who can just change this years style to sell a bunch of new clothes when the old one's arent even worn out yet. But that's human nature in the ol' rat race!
Though the banning of CFCs may have something to do with this.
BION, an EEPROM eraser I bought came with a little booklet with some theory about UV light, plus a little blurb stating that the flap about the O3 hole was, well, BS. See (according to the eraser mfg), the ozone layer is created by high energy UV from the sun breaking up O2, which reacts with other O2 to form ozone. But, and he's got a point, during the winter at the poles, there IS NO SUNLIGHT.
I can easily log onto my ISP's very secure FreeBSD box, make a SAMBA build and browse around several business systems that are currently connected with their Win9x or NT shares left open to the world. Except I just don't do that, but Msft has given the keys to THEIR systems to anyone with half a brain to snoop around in.
Read between the lines - the people quoted in the article, a 'network installer' and a Company "Strategy Partners" both probably have a big investment in NT & 2K, and probably are able to setup a secure NT system, but their claims that Linux is somehow inherently less secure and wide open to Linux savvy hackers is just sales FUD. They are Msft 'expurts' in the sense of the old joke: and 'ex' is a has-been, and a 'spurt' is a drip under pressure.
Now I rarely use 'FUD' for any Linux critics, but this is a clear case. I learned long ago how sales/politics works, and you have to build up CONFIDENCE in a system. Just having a working server is not enough, the owners have to BELEIVE in it and get the warm fuzzies as well. That's one thing Msft is good at, getting and keeping big clients happy in the board room, while the McSE's are in the server closet plugging up holes and traipsing around land mines.
You know, film an entirely bogus Mars Mission in some warehouse in the desert SW and show it on the nightly news and news specials as 'real'. A lot of folks would probably fall for it and be a real ratings boost too - heck, even some controversy over whether it was real or not would just attract more attention.
I'm wondering if even the recent March MM (that's 2000 in arabic) issue of Scientific American's article on MM (that's Mission to Mars) was also tied into the M&M movie (sponsored by the 'Mars' candy company) in an attempt to drum up taypayer interest, ala Sputnik in '57 CE. Even the first photo says, "FIRST WALK on Mars would be even more dramatic if dust storms were swirling nearby", which to me sounds dangerous, like saying, "FIRST WALK on the moon would be even more dramatic if Neil Armstrong stepped out and got pelted to death in a meteor shower".
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works quite well, thank you, other than the NT 3.51 desktop (won't handle some software that needs NT4). Costs a beejezus. To get a real command line I can work with on NT, I use VNC.
B.S.E.E., McSE
so you won't be late for work Monday...
This is especially important if you've just moved to Arizona or Indiana
yes, exactely 1 year, oddly, that Microsoft took legal action against segfault and userfriendly.
to start crying if you don't buy it the latest cart....
:(
But seriously, a ladyfriend just happens to be in Japan on vacation right now. Would it be possible to beg her to bring (smuggle?) a PS2 back with her? Or would it be confiscated at customs and get her in trouble
The thing sounds very streamlined - kinda reminds this old manipulative bastard of the early game consoles - there's the cpu, and the ANTIC chip processing a display list - I'm certain that from there all simularity ceases.
Or at most the sun is scheduled to go into red-giant phase in only 4 billions years. We must act fast. This is no time to get complacent or procrastinate. Eventualy the planet Mercury will be engulfed and the earth burnt to a crisp, if not digested as well. If we aren't planning an escape you may as well give up struggling to survive and reproduce, knowing it is ultimately futile.
It not just a matter of national pride but a biological imperative that we build a kind of 'Noah's Arc' to hold a surviving ecosystem that can travel around collecting energy, mining planets, etc., not just an artificial satellite but an artificial planet for our distant progeny to enjoy.
One of these millennia, anyway.
once again bending the subject - I always thought it would be really neat-o for the former superpowers in the post cold war world to get rid of some nukes by retargetting some ICBM's into space ('downstream' of the earth's orbit naturally) and detonate them there for some really spectacular July 4th fireworks, that is, if they are capable of achieving escape velocity and getting far enough away to be safe.
Seriously - bending the topic from anti or shielded gravity to communications - a real scientist wrote a piece of fiction which (iirc) implied that if gravity could be modulated we would be able to communicate at the speed of light squared. So, if one of a pair of objects could be made to appear to change mass, how long does it take for the other one to 'feel' the change in force??
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Person you want to bash: Jon
What I mean is like this: take several decks of cards, shuffle and deal them all out. Wow! The odds against THAT particular deal happening are tremendous! It's a bloody miracle that, out of all the possible deals, THAT one occurred!
Whenever someone tries to claim that the odds of things turning out the way they are is something like 87,285,253,045,105,111,529,549.5 (or more!) to 1, ergo it MUST HAVE BEEN BY DESIGN, planned, the odds are just to great to have just accidentally happened, I think, B.S. While it's true that THIS particular instantiation is highly improbable, what they don't consider is that maybe gazillions of OTHER possible outcomes are equally viable God-comtemplating conscious life supporting alternatives. That is to say, out of the above number, it could very well be that 293,582,359,248,285,288 of them are just as likely to appear as a 'miraculous' against-all-odds outcome that could never have 'just happened' by itself w/o an outside controlling destiny, and therefore life may be quite common.
Whew.
plugging all the 'security' holes and hacks in DVD's those suckers are gonna cost $125 a pop. The movie and music 'industry' should take a clue from the failures of the software industry, in the 80's, to implement hardware copy protection on consumer software: is was an escalating techno-war between producers and consumers that caused so many problems for ordinary users (can't make a backup, original floppys get damaged - well, we aren't buying from THEM anymore) that it is no longer common practice. They really outta get a clue that not everybody buys pirated warez - a vast majority of ordinary movie buyers are above buying zip-lock baggie-ware from some scum pirate operation. If they make a movie viewing experience pleasant they'll make $$$. If they get their undies all wadded up over someone "instantaneously distributing a high quality full length feature film to 6 billion people via the net" (which is BS) it's going to go the way of the laser disk - a very small market techno oddity, not the mass market they'd like to get in a head lock.
that people are happy w/ Msft, once you learn your way around it's basically consistant and other than the little oddities (the freeze's etc that you mentioned) it IS easier for your average non-pro folks to use. If I were giving free help to a Linux newbie and they really didn't seem to be interested I'd heartly recommend, "I think you'd be better off with Win98/2k".
However what *I* want is: leave the rest of us alone! To each his own. A lot of people really ARE better off with the Windows they've learned. I've known many folks that had a painful time transitioning from Win3 to Win95 GUI, and know some that still use the Win3 file manager in '95! GREAT! I'm ALL FOR IT!! Just don't try to force *ME*, who is quite comfortable and in fact enjoys the nitty gritty bit level control over my network, to use nothing but Msft - Have some respect for *MY* point of view, keep Msft OFF MY BACK! That's the whole point of this suit - we DONT want to stop Msft users from enjoying their products (remember, 27% of them aren't even paid for, per Msft) we want to stop Msft from crushing out every product WE enjoy using. The LAST thing we want is to take someone's choice away. What we DO want is a choice ourselves! Not everyone wants proactive handholding help or training wheels welded on, or an annoying Word processor trying to guess what your trying to do and making it twice as hard as just getting out of my way and letting me do it what I know how to do in the first damn place.
Like other 'natural' monopolies ('natural' in that they have successfully established Wintel as the defacto privatized standard of interworking components, and people will continue to want to buy into that standard for compatability, just like settling on a language or system of weights and measurements of conducting business) - I mean, how ELSE are prices going to be settled, just 'trust 'em'? Personally, I can't even SAY 'capitalism' w/o saying 'competition', so if the competition is over, what's the price regulating mechanism? Charge what the market will bear? Hardware just keeps getting better and cheaper, but Msft software seems to be getting better and more expensive. Shouldn't they have to get prices approved like the local power company monopoly does?
Actually there are satellites up there for non-profit Amateur Radio use, don't know anything about how much they cost or where the funding comes from - but it would be a neat idea <FANTASY> if the court just turns the whole thing over to public use untill such time as it fails from lack of maintenance - ok, here it is, here's the freq, here's what you need to access it, go for it, but when it fails, it's over</FANTASY>.
Ok, here's MY claim to fame: Pat.No. 10,385,288:
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1) A software control structure means comprised of a repeatable code block consisting of a start address, and end address, and a code block variable, said variable alterable by instruction in the code block, said code block terminated by a decision means to test the code block variable for compliance with a preestablished condition, said decision means directing program flow to either
repeat the code block at the code block starting address, untill the decision means determins that said preestablished condition has been satisfied, otherwise direct program flow to code following said code block and the code block ending address.
----------------------
That's right, I own the DO...LOOP. If anyone uses a similar control structure in their software projects please contact our licensing office at http://www.doloop.com to arrange for our easy royalty payment plan. This week only we are having a sale; you can get 10 do...loop license-paks for the price of 1. Hurry! Supplies are limited! There may never be an offer like this again!
:)) Imagine HIM delivering a presentation proposing a new ecash network WAN router capital infrastructure to your major SE Banking executive board meeting.
Back on topic - it's clear that consumers are quickly losing ground in the property battle - the i-appliances may be subsidized by the online content they are going to deliver (i.e., ads-to-eyeballs) but this is bound to rub the more do-it-yourself crowd the wrong way - like finding a great deal on a car and having to sign an agreement that "installing a bigger carb is an unauthorized upgrade" and that you can only use one brand of gasoline. I'd love to see some folks get thin, 0 maintenance web browsers but if it comes with these 'bargain with the devil' type restrictions forget it. If I buy something I want to own it outright and not get sucked into a web of 'service agreements' and other methodes of guarenteeing a cash flow. A fellow at work here mentioned what a great deal he got on a PC ($500), then mentioned it came with a 3 year MSN lock in, I guess if you try to install AOL an alarm goes of in Redmond - but that's one more warm body for the minions of targetable marketing to aim at.
I swear, if these guys ran the public libraries, you'd go in and ask for a book on dental hygene, and get a sales pitch for a certain brand of toothpaste.
those quotes on the site from Bungie and EA sound so, so canned - like watching a video tape of captured POWs, scarred, bruised and all doped up, reading a script saying how well they have been treated and how much they are enjoying their stay with the enemy - just robotic verbal buzzword flak with no enthusiasm.
"We, uh, at Electronic Arts, uh, (just read it!) are (yawn) very, uh, yeah - intrigued, (is that what it says?) at the opportunity to, uh, an intriguing - no, were looking forward to an intriguing cutting edge, ummm, we're intriguingly cutting forward..."
(director) CUT! It's "Electronic Arts is intrigued by the opportunity to develop exciting new games for the x-box". Now try it again! Take 27! Camera! Action!!
I like the bit in Hacker Crackdown about a h/cracker with the exaggerated reputation of being able to launch WWIII from a pay fone.... :)
because Msft has so many people conditioned, like rats in a skinner box. All bg has to do is fart any millions of stock holders and billionair worshippers scramble over each other to get a whif in the hopes that they, too, will be magically transformed into billionaires.
I like the referance on here recently, about people who think Msft *must* make great software because their a multi-billion code shop, must also think McDonalds serves up really great chow because they're the worlds largest restaurant chain.
I see it all the time - all you have to do is upgrade one employee for a valid business reason, and suddenly all the other employees get jealous and feel left out and wanna status symbol too! No doubt Msft has learned to play on peoples petty emotions, like intellectual fashion leaders who can just change this years style to sell a bunch of new clothes when the old one's arent even worn out yet. But that's human nature in the ol' rat race!
Jeesh, that's one of the FIRST things I ran on linux, must be 5 or 6 years ago already. Of course it's not as good as the modern one's ....:)
is a derevitive of coal used in the mfg of steel.
Though the banning of CFCs may have something to do with this.
BION, an EEPROM eraser I bought came with a little booklet with some theory about UV light, plus a little blurb stating that the flap about the O3 hole was, well, BS. See (according to the eraser mfg), the ozone layer is created by high energy UV from the sun breaking up O2, which reacts with other O2 to form ozone. But, and he's got a point, during the winter at the poles, there IS NO SUNLIGHT.
like this.
:)
Of course, the last time we saw an Amiga was when Elvis brought one out of a flying saucer.... (there's a UF comic about that somewhere
I can easily log onto my ISP's very secure FreeBSD box, make a SAMBA build and browse around several business systems that are currently connected with their Win9x or NT shares left open to the world. Except I just don't do that, but Msft has given the keys to THEIR systems to anyone with half a brain to snoop around in.
Read between the lines - the people quoted in the article, a 'network installer' and a Company "Strategy Partners" both probably have a big investment in NT & 2K, and probably are able to setup a secure NT system, but their claims that Linux is somehow inherently less secure and wide open to Linux savvy hackers is just sales FUD. They are Msft 'expurts' in the sense of the old joke: and 'ex' is a has-been, and a 'spurt' is a drip under pressure.
Now I rarely use 'FUD' for any Linux critics, but this is a clear case. I learned long ago how sales/politics works, and you have to build up CONFIDENCE in a system. Just having a working server is not enough, the owners have to BELEIVE in it and get the warm fuzzies as well. That's one thing Msft is good at, getting and keeping big clients happy in the board room, while the McSE's are in the server closet plugging up holes and traipsing around land mines.
You know, film an entirely bogus Mars Mission in some warehouse in the desert SW and show it on the nightly news and news specials as 'real'. A lot of folks would probably fall for it and be a real ratings boost too - heck, even some controversy over whether it was real or not would just attract more attention.
I'm wondering if even the recent March MM (that's 2000 in arabic) issue of Scientific American's article on MM (that's Mission to Mars) was also tied into the M&M movie (sponsored by the 'Mars' candy company) in an attempt to drum up taypayer interest, ala Sputnik in '57 CE. Even the first photo says, "FIRST WALK on Mars would be even more dramatic if dust storms were swirling nearby", which to me sounds dangerous, like saying, "FIRST WALK on the moon would be even more dramatic if Neil Armstrong stepped out and got pelted to death in a meteor shower".