Agreed - it IS true, not troll. Yesterday my joke was modded 'insightful'. Moderation isn't working, meta-moderation isn't weeking out the bad moderators - we need meta-meta-moderation to weed out the bad meta-moderators NOW!
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I used to be really good at Atari Asteroids. The trick is to take out all the little debris bits before blasting another large one, otherwise you end up fighting off a swarm of tiny ones.
[the product] is sold upon the condition that it shall not be re-sold to or by any unauthorized dealer or used for duplication, and that it shall not be sold, or offered for sale, by the original, or any subsequent purchaser (except by an authorized jobber or factor to an authorized retail dealer) for less than [price] in the united states, nor in other countries for less than the price given in the current [manufacturer] catalogues of the country in which it is sold. Upon any breach of said condition, the license to use and vend this [product], implied from such sale, immediately terminates.
That's off a 1900 Edison blue amberol cylinder record.
that it is imposible to create a fully human clone based on mathematical logic, no matter how vast or fast it is. Life just isn't based on a 'rational', fully knowable universe. Any universe where such basic geometry like the diagonal of a square or ratio of circumference to diameter of a circle are neverending numbers just isn't a rational universe!
Oddly enough, I just checked out the Star Trek TOS "What are Little Girls Made Of" DVD last night, which deals with the exact same subject, very realistic robot machine 'clones' of humans, that have no emotions.
most people swallow them whole is because people believe what they hear from figures deemed "in authority", such as politicians, CEOs, doctors, and the mainstream media.
NAPOLEON: What shall we do with this soldier, Guiseppe? Everything he says is wrong. GUISEPPE: Make him a general, Excellency, and then everything he says will be right. -- G. B. Shaw, "The Man of Destiny"
What you get during the morning sysadmin appreciation day cake and ice cream when you realize you forgot to reset the software dead man's switch for that day.
of one of his travelling sideshows and proclaim, "It's not all that bad George, not/everyone/ uses your Microsoft products"
Actually, it's not suprising, from the usual myopic brainwashed Msft employee mentality of "we are the computer industry", for such a person to think all computers are hopelessly screwed beyond hope.
Remember - Msft controls the browser
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That's also another working strategy - get mass market penetration with the computer illiterate, in this case IE (The Easy Choice®). Apache may be the server of choice amongst educated server operators, but if Msft can get an inch, they'll take a mile, if they can get a foot in the door, make a power grab, suddenly the closed proprietary bits of Apache don't work with the IE client and millions of zombie users suddenly start clammoring for IIS. Game over, Bill wins again.
Yeah, but the objective was to take Minux from educational to professional levals, quote from http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~echi/technolog/techno log.html
" Linus took a course on UNIX and C in the fall of 1990. One of the textbooks during the course was "Operating Systems, Design and Implementation" by Tanenbaum. Minix, another 386 Unix operating system, is written by Tanenbaum. He wanted a machine at home to be similar to the Sun Workstations at the university, and Minix seemed like a good idea.
When he had scrounged up enough money, he bought an 386 compatible machine to run Minix. However, Minix was not even available in Finland. So he played the popular game called "Prince of Persia" while he waited for the Minix disks to arrive in the mail. Getting Minix was not altogether a pleasant experience for him, because it did not exactly act like the Suns. It lacked various features, such as job control and fpu support. It's memory management was also lacking."
But the person who wrote that might be a moron too.
Well, you can't trust what they say but Msft claims: On November 10, 1983, Microsoft announced Microsoft Windows, an extension of the MS- DOS® operating system that would provide a graphical operating environment for PC users.
Notice that's the announce date, usually way ahead of anything remotely useable, plus Win1.0 would likely only be loved by a DOS user on dope who had never seen anything else, let along inspire an educated code slinger to create a clone.
Linux started out as a home version of Sun OS on a 386(486). Linus sees a SparcStation at school, wishes for one on ordinary common PC's, makes kernel, adds gnu tools, Internet developer community, viola.
that very right to hack, which is so quickly disappearing.
Isn't some of that disappearing due to progress and integration and not just evil corporate intent? Once upon a time you could hack on logic cards with discreet resistors, diodes and transistors, often get schematics for maintenance. Now you just get a 74xx IC and use it, if it malfunctions you toss it out. You can't fix it or alter it. Once upon a time car engines were fairly simple and easy to work on with a complement of common tools - now with EFI etc you need expensive equipment to 'hack' on one. Part of the price of 'progress' is loss of fine grained techno-control and dependance on factory service, special tools and unique parts, which most people don't mind at all, other than the monopolistic price gouging it give them.
Thought this might be the last gasp of a distressed company, but Forgent Networks (NASDAQ:FORG) isn't doing too bad stock wise, for the year it's up 250%, down 12% for the month and up 12% for the week, currently 4.385; 52 week high 5.67, low 0.80.
You obviously don't have to manage two offices of Win98 pcs like the 42 YO writer of this comment. At least I have all my users trained to just reboot and get back to work, there's nothing I can do about it. "Yeah, Win98 does that! Just reboot and carry on. If you don't like it, join the line to sue Msft".
Plus you have to keep gas purchase receipts in case of a random audit by the Petroleum Business Alliance (PBA) highway patrol - "This is a receipt for single occupant MSgas and you have 3 people in the car. I'll have to ask you to step back to the squad car sir..."
The developer failed to realize the code was licensed under the GPL and would therefore require NVIDIA to release the source code
Tsk, tsk - must have just clicked on 'OK' w/o reading the text like everyone in MS world does. But seriously, couldn't NVIDIA have just removed the GPL code and be in compliance? That's what BSD (1995 article) had to do early in the 90's to assuage whoever owned Unix at the time, remove some proprietary code. They didn't have to start all over from scratch. Did the developers forget, "There's some GPL code in there but we can't recall which part!". I'll even bet there's plenty of closed source binaries out there with code 'borrowed' from GPL stuff, as it would be very difficult to discover, was deemed worth the risk.
That's my strategy - I learn on Linux/BSD, then I know what's really going on. After that, running a Windows NT system ('cause that's what they pay me to do) is just a pretty gui over a lousy implementation of the same damn thing, usually.
Actually, I use command prompt to edit lmhosts and nbtstat a lot, usually to see distant machines over routers out of broadcast name resolution range. If Citrix ever delivers to my vendor I'll finally get an LDAP network.
My fave McSE story (I'm only NT4 certified, probably defrocked by now) was taking the Exchange 4 exam, last elective needed, 4 days after starting to study, feeling like I didn't really know the material, but passed anyway!
murder through a computer - new form of the 15 yo phear of a hacker launching WWIII by whistling into a payfone.Great hacker cracker revisited. Actually the guys at theregus.com have been making fun of various reports in, e.g., USA Today about hackers lauching viruses to open dam flood gates, breaking into power system to cut electricity, and other products of the overactive imagination of the illinformed.
However, in a climate where software is free of all legal liability for anything, and where 'Trusted Computing' is a vapid marketing phrase, it's no wonder they want to get legislation in place to get some teeth into enforcement, instead of all the usual spineless disclaimers of any responsibility for security.
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Agreed - it IS true, not troll. Yesterday my joke was modded 'insightful'. Moderation isn't working, meta-moderation isn't weeking out the bad moderators - we need meta-meta-moderation to weed out the bad meta-moderators NOW!
I used to be really good at Atari Asteroids. The trick is to take out all the little debris bits before blasting another large one, otherwise you end up fighting off a swarm of tiny ones.
[the product] is sold upon the condition that it shall not be re-sold to or by any unauthorized dealer or used for duplication, and that it shall not be sold, or offered for sale, by the original, or any subsequent purchaser (except by an authorized jobber or factor to an authorized retail dealer) for less than [price] in the united states, nor in other countries for less than the price given in the current [manufacturer] catalogues of the country in which it is sold. Upon any breach of said condition, the license to use and vend this [product], implied from such sale, immediately terminates.
That's off a 1900 Edison blue amberol cylinder record.
that it is imposible to create a fully human clone based on mathematical logic, no matter how vast or fast it is. Life just isn't based on a 'rational', fully knowable universe. Any universe where such basic geometry like the diagonal of a square or ratio of circumference to diameter of a circle are neverending numbers just isn't a rational universe!
Oddly enough, I just checked out the Star Trek TOS "What are Little Girls Made Of" DVD last night, which deals with the exact same subject, very realistic robot machine 'clones' of humans, that have no emotions.
"We're the dot in .NET"
NASDAQ:MSFT is currently 43.86, new lows if anyone thinks a company with that much cash and captive customers is undervalued and has a future.
most people swallow them whole is because people believe what they hear from figures deemed "in authority", such as politicians, CEOs, doctors, and the mainstream media.
NAPOLEON: What shall we do with this soldier, Guiseppe? Everything he says is wrong.
GUISEPPE: Make him a general, Excellency, and then everything he says will be right.
-- G. B. Shaw, "The Man of Destiny"
What you get during the morning sysadmin appreciation day cake and ice cream when you realize you forgot to reset the software dead man's switch for that day.
Man, that's great. But isn't this backwards:
"whichever computer gets a blue screen of death first will win the fortune for its owner."
To work, shouldn't it be "whichever computer gets a BSOD first will lose the fortune for it's owner." ??
If it was patented in, what, 1987, won't it expire shortly anyway, like the RSA patent, in, what, 17 years? 2004?
"It's not all that bad Howard...
of one of his travelling sideshows and proclaim, "It's not all that bad George, not /everyone/ uses your Microsoft products"
Actually, it's not suprising, from the usual myopic brainwashed Msft employee mentality of "we are the computer industry", for such a person to think all computers are hopelessly screwed beyond hope.
That's also another working strategy - get mass market penetration with the computer illiterate, in this case IE (The Easy Choice®). Apache may be the server of choice amongst educated server operators, but if Msft can get an inch, they'll take a mile, if they can get a foot in the door, make a power grab, suddenly the closed proprietary bits of Apache don't work with the IE client and millions of zombie users suddenly start clammoring for IIS. Game over, Bill wins again.
Yeah, but the objective was to take Minux from educational to professional levals, quote from http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~echi/technolog/techno log.html
" Linus took a course on UNIX and C in the fall of 1990. One of the textbooks during the course was "Operating Systems, Design and Implementation" by Tanenbaum. Minix, another 386 Unix operating system, is written by Tanenbaum. He wanted a machine at home to be similar to the Sun Workstations at the university, and Minix seemed like a good idea.
When he had scrounged up enough money, he bought an 386 compatible machine to run Minix. However, Minix was not even available in Finland. So he played the popular game called "Prince of Persia" while he waited for the Minix disks to arrive in the mail. Getting Minix was not altogether a pleasant experience for him, because it did not exactly act like the Suns. It lacked various features, such as job control and fpu support. It's memory management was also lacking."
But the person who wrote that might be a moron too.
(when did windows 1.0 come out anyway?).
Well, you can't trust what they say but Msft claims:
On November 10, 1983, Microsoft announced Microsoft Windows, an extension of the MS- DOS® operating system that would provide a graphical operating environment for PC users.
Notice that's the announce date, usually way ahead of anything remotely useable, plus Win1.0 would likely only be loved by a DOS user on dope who had never seen anything else, let along inspire an educated code slinger to create a clone.
Linux started out as a home version of Sun OS on a 386(486). Linus sees a SparcStation at school, wishes for one on ordinary common PC's, makes kernel, adds gnu tools, Internet developer community, viola.
that very right to hack, which is so quickly disappearing.
Isn't some of that disappearing due to progress and integration and not just evil corporate intent? Once upon a time you could hack on logic cards with discreet resistors, diodes and transistors, often get schematics for maintenance. Now you just get a 74xx IC and use it, if it malfunctions you toss it out. You can't fix it or alter it. Once upon a time car engines were fairly simple and easy to work on with a complement of common tools - now with EFI etc you need expensive equipment to 'hack' on one. Part of the price of 'progress' is loss of fine grained techno-control and dependance on factory service, special tools and unique parts, which most people don't mind at all, other than the monopolistic price gouging it give them.
Thought this might be the last gasp of a distressed company, but Forgent Networks (NASDAQ:FORG) isn't doing too bad stock wise, for the year it's up 250%, down 12% for the month and up 12% for the week, currently 4.385; 52 week high 5.67, low 0.80.
You obviously don't have to manage two offices of Win98 pcs like the 42 YO writer of this comment. At least I have all my users trained to just reboot and get back to work, there's nothing I can do about it. "Yeah, Win98 does that! Just reboot and carry on. If you don't like it, join the line to sue Msft".
Plus you have to keep gas purchase receipts in case of a random audit by the Petroleum Business Alliance (PBA) highway patrol - "This is a receipt for single occupant MSgas and you have 3 people in the car. I'll have to ask you to step back to the squad car sir..."
Interesting - wondering how everyone else could see the hackumentary "Owned" ?
Hey, it's also on shortwave , for anyone into dead media.
The developer failed to realize the code was licensed under the GPL and would therefore require NVIDIA to release the source code
Tsk, tsk - must have just clicked on 'OK' w/o reading the text like everyone in MS world does. But seriously, couldn't NVIDIA have just removed the GPL code and be in compliance? That's what BSD (1995 article) had to do early in the 90's to assuage whoever owned Unix at the time, remove some proprietary code. They didn't have to start all over from scratch. Did the developers forget, "There's some GPL code in there but we can't recall which part!". I'll even bet there's plenty of closed source binaries out there with code 'borrowed' from GPL stuff, as it would be very difficult to discover, was deemed worth the risk.
That's my strategy - I learn on Linux/BSD, then I know what's really going on. After that, running a Windows NT system ('cause that's what they pay me to do) is just a pretty gui over a lousy implementation of the same damn thing, usually.
Actually, I use command prompt to edit lmhosts and nbtstat a lot, usually to see distant machines over routers out of broadcast name resolution range. If Citrix ever delivers to my vendor I'll finally get an LDAP network.
My fave McSE story (I'm only NT4 certified, probably defrocked by now) was taking the Exchange 4 exam, last elective needed, 4 days after starting to study, feeling like I didn't really know the material, but passed anyway!
Here's proof that it does matter too.
murder through a computer - new form of the 15 yo phear of a hacker launching WWIII by whistling into a payfone.Great hacker cracker revisited. Actually the guys at theregus.com have been making fun of various reports in, e.g., USA Today about hackers lauching viruses to open dam flood gates, breaking into power system to cut electricity, and other products of the overactive imagination of the illinformed.
However, in a climate where software is free of all legal liability for anything, and where 'Trusted Computing' is a vapid marketing phrase, it's no wonder they want to get legislation in place to get some teeth into enforcement, instead of all the usual spineless disclaimers of any responsibility for security.