iDie actually is an reimplementation in Lisp of the popular OS package iKill. It looks like the project owner had a little conceptual misunderstanding of macros and recursion. As nobody yet has found the bug, because everyone who tried to debug it has died misteriously, Sourceforge decided to clone the project and call it iDie.
Your attempt on comedy was not humourous but, rather, flatulent. Maybe you should try something less serious than humour as a career: have you ever considered running for the Senate?
Hacking the braing has nothing of a novelty. Indeed, it's a common practice and have been used for decades with excelent results. The only twist is that we do not call it brain hack. As scientists, we feel it too much a bit on the sensationalistic side of the fense. Indeed, we use the widely academical-safe terms:
-Mass Media -Advertising -Propaganda
And with *Paranoia*(TM) we can even get people to do the job of getting info from their neighbour's mind and fetch us the results. But Paranoia(TM)is currently more being sold at our Federal Systems Division. Our busines customers user prefer tracking their subjects emails and search results.
Prof Dr. DooNooEvil, PhD Researcher with a Larry Brin Fellowship at MIT Distinguished Senior Scientist Google Inc. Also Serving as Chair Member of several of Your Favourites Friendly Media Monsters.
Truth is once you lose the weight the ease of wich you get laid and your relationships with everyone improve and your life becomes 1000x better because the subconscious social prejudice and being ignored is severely reduced if not eliminated completely, people start to approach you of their own volition and smile more, you start getting noticed and you notice it right away, for people that have been overweight for a long time its like entering a completely different world they never knew existed.
Disturbing to see how obese or even overweight people sometimes end up somehow thinking deserve to be treated badly, or that they are some sort of second-class persons.
Even more sad it is to see people, who are not obese and overweight and are, otherwise, sensible persons, treat overweight people badly, just because they are fat.
During ages, being overweight was seen a visual cue of healthiness, and it didn't stopped our ancestors to build a triving civilization. I can even assure that you wouldn't find to much skinny engineers building the LEM and Saturn V. Churchill was, by any acceptable criteria, fat, and had a "unhealthy" diet. Hitler, on the other hand, was pretty much healthy, didn't smoke or drink. Gandhi was skinny as someone can gets skinny, Stalin had a respectable abdomem. All of this is anedoctal "evidence", of course, but these facts are powerful hints that personal weight should not be seen as an indicator of inner values and character.
Telling people to exercise because it's good for their health, is ok. Telling them that they should accept the prejudice as a normal fact of life, and get thin fast in order to overcome it, it's probably as much wrong as suggesting that black people should try to look more "whitey" if they want to work in a investment bank, or even acchieving the modest goal of not being harassed by the police everyday just because they are black.
Truth is, no matter what you do, we are not going to live forever. You can get some 3, 5 or maybe 10 years more out of a healthy lifestile, but you could ruin any of those gains if you become stressed out of the fear of being singled out of society because you're fat or because you smoke. Death is an unavoidable result of being alive, period. You can delay it a little, but you can't escape it, no matter how hard you try. And on light of this, it strikes me as utterly neurotic that people become so obsessed with their bodies that they forget to clean up their minds of prejudice.
Hell would break lose if Microsoft put a highly visible warning sugesting that you could "Browse Hotmail Faster Using Internet Explorer". And that is exactly what google does with Gmail when the user is not using chrome on Windows. As almost none of us ever use IE on windows, it's not surprisingly that nobody at/. is aware that google is using gmail to promote chrome to IE users on Windows.(Said warning does not appear on Firefox running on Linux)
Maybe the proeminent add for chrome on gmail pages stating that you could browse faster using chrome is finally working (It appear randomly when you're using IE on Windows)
To me, it doesn't seem very ethical for google to leverage a strong position on email to promote their browser, but it looks like I am the only one who feels this way, after all nobody from Microsoft, Mozilla, Opera or Apple has complained yet.
Now, imagine the outrage if everytime someone opened their hotmail account using a browser other than IE, they received a message stating something like: "You could browse hotmail faster using Internet Explorer, GET IT HERE"
Tell him to have less meetings, so people won't have to compete for rooms, projectors and so on. Productivity will soar. Give programmers private offices with a part of the profits.
I was going to post it. That's why most core banking still runs on mainframe. The only thing that got close to the reliability of a mainframe during all these times was Tandem, that unfortunately is being neglected by their current owner.
You know what. Andersen Consulting were the greedy guys who didn't want to share their lucrative IT pie (built mainly over the reputation of the older auditing house) with the accountants. And they survived!!! FEAR!
If he is using windows, and doesn't know what the Search Service is, I am pretty sure he is the kind of user who would get infected by malware. He shouldn't be using windows. He should use linux, it's safer for him. Thinking better.... No. He shouldn't use a computer at all. He wouldn't know also what apt-get upgrade is supposed to do.
The way to store tree like structures on a relational database is using nested sets, not pointer-like ids. The main current backslash against databases is that most developers don't have a clue about set theory, relational algebra, let aside the inner workings of a concurrent database system. Many of the problems solved by RDBMS are going to have to be solved again by those new tools that are promised to replace RDBMS.
Those who ignore history, are condemned to repeat it.
Just out of curiousity I would like to know If received the overrated mod because I told the truth about Mac OS, or because I said the truth about Linux. I am far more inclined to think of the second group. Thanks God I am selling my MacBook this week and will buy a Thinkpad. I will keep my old G4, just to remember the Mac experience before all those extreme newbie fanboys came to the camp.
I think it's perfectly rational to let pilots and companies know that there can be a chance of such thing happening, so they can be at least aware of this possibility.
>>Show me one operating system that can run binaries from 15 years. Show me one operating system that can take source code from 15 years ago and compile it unmodified today.
Just out of my head?
Solaris and Windows are the only appreciable examples of this level of compatibility over time outside the mainframe world.
Mac OS is a no for any appreciable span of time, things usually change completely in 4 to 6 years periods, from processor architecture to the OS. but this is fine, as macs were never meant to be business oriented machines.
And for Linux why would you need to run 15 years binaries if you (theoretically, at least) have the sources and (theorethically, at least) can build them again.
Oh really? I didn't know FreeDOS had NTFS support. But it's good to know, knowledge is never too much!!!!
Well, in that case I am not moving away from Linux. I was scared that all I needed to gain access to a machine was booting into single mode, mounting the root partition and changing the root password. I mean, just by powercycling the machine and passing a boot option!!!!
Thanks for your well informed and knowledgeable post!!!
Where you draw the line between what comes preinstalled with the OS or not? Is a Windowing System a legitimate part of an OS? GUI toolkits? Does an OS really need a text editor as powerful as emacs (well, in that case we name the OS an hypervisor that is running the emacs OS)?
Following this logic, ancient computer makers should have been sued years ago for bundling their OS on their mainframes. There could have been an independent market for OSes.
IMHO, EU instance on this is essentialy a non-tarifary barrier on American products. I doubt they would act the same if Microsoft were an European company.
By the way, Don't you think that there could be an independent market for Telnet,SMTP,NEWS and Gopher clients on Unix machines if they didn't bundle that into the OS. Why things should be different with HTTP?
People seems to forget that the real coup for Netscape was that Navigator 4.0 series was really a piece of shit, and their earlier versions for Linux were even worse. Nobody cared about using IE 3, when Navigator was clearly superior. People forget that at that time even Netscape basically gave a finger for W3C Does anyone remembers the Layer element? In the same verge, Javascript was not a de-jure standard before it became de-facto. So all this story about not following standards have to be taken with a grain of salt when we remember those times.
If for some sudden-reason Safari got from night to day 90% of the market share, don't you think that developers would go jumping to use all those -webkit-whatever CSS goodies, being them already standards or not?
IE has been a terrible browser compared with other options. All of my friends use Firefox and Safari, and so do I. We don't need to distorct facts or make that into a black-and-white issue. Power corrupts. Microsoft had power and used it as any major corporation does. But to believe that Netscape Navigator would be alive and well if it were not for Microsoft bundling IE takes a little bit of faith.
(Personally, I wish Microsoft to make a good OS, and Linux to be a good one, and I wish people had freedom to chose the shoes that fit better on their feet, I am not a believer on OS feeble deities and adore them. Rather I follow the True and Only God: The Flying Spaghetti Monster)
Yeah,
I herd from the same guy Judah McIscariotes. I'd stumbled upon him when he was having lunch with some orthodox Microsoft and Redhat executives I know. He was carrying a strange sack, but otherwise he looked a good, even if a little chatty, fellow.
But I refused when he tried to kiss me.
I know about tor, but I was thinking of something more specific to distributing a hierarchy of news and to leverage a vastly bigger network of nodes. Not a solution for the whole problem of anonimity and privacy on all protocols, not trying to be something for everyone, But just some sort of NNTP over a vastly bigger network than tor (That is, Bit Torrent), using the existing tracker structure to keep the hierarchy of news groups and distributing them.
Actually right now I am reading the NNTP RFC to see if I the idea is really worth a look.
Well, there are rumours that the DoD has comissioned for a rewrite of Twitter in ADA with an Oracle backend. And it seems that the programmers already did the code, stress tested it and it could make twitter work. But, the formal review and inspections process will take at least 6 months, that is, 6 months *after* the developers manage to write at least 5000 pages of documents, print them, sign each page and submit the work as done. Reports says the rewrite was really easy, after the 3 programmers learned how to dodge the meetings, by convincing the 230 Program and Project Managers that humble programmers shouldn't be allowed to go to meetings so important to the success of the project.
The sad thing is that I could do the same right now, living from month to month sucks. As a sidenot, I live in Brasil, and yesterday I just found out, that discounting the inflation since 2001 I am barely making no more than 20% of the 2001 earnings today. This, after having being promoted or changing jobs for better positions and bigger companies from year to year.
Because you're using a language where all variables are signed by default? Because the CS course at the prestigious University you attended thought that they should adapt to the market and teach you Java, Python, RUP, Scrum and the PMBOK? And that because of that, you use floats to store money because, well, they have cents....
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iDie actually is an reimplementation in Lisp of the popular OS package iKill. It looks like the project owner had a little conceptual misunderstanding of macros and recursion.
As nobody yet has found the bug, because everyone who tried to debug it has died misteriously, Sourceforge decided to clone the project and call it iDie.
Doing QA with this thing is going to require a lot of patience of the testers.
Sir,
Your attempt on comedy was not humourous but, rather, flatulent. Maybe you should try something less serious than humour as a career: have you ever considered running for the Senate?
Cordially,
Hacking the braing has nothing of a novelty. Indeed, it's a common practice and have been used for decades with excelent results.
The only twist is that we do not call it brain hack. As scientists, we feel it too much a bit on the sensationalistic side of the fense.
Indeed, we use the widely academical-safe terms:
-Mass Media
-Advertising
-Propaganda
And with *Paranoia*(TM) we can even get people to do the job of getting info from their neighbour's mind and fetch us the results. But Paranoia(TM)is currently more being sold at our Federal Systems Division. Our busines customers user prefer tracking their subjects emails and search results.
Prof Dr. DooNooEvil, PhD
Researcher with a Larry Brin Fellowship at MIT
Distinguished Senior Scientist
Google Inc.
Also Serving as Chair Member of several of Your Favourites Friendly Media Monsters.
Sadly, I have to concede you're right on the point.
Truth is once you lose the weight the ease of wich you get laid and your relationships with everyone improve and your life becomes 1000x better because the subconscious social prejudice and being ignored is severely reduced if not eliminated completely, people start to approach you of their own volition and smile more, you start getting noticed and you notice it right away, for people that have been overweight for a long time its like entering a completely different world they never knew existed.
Disturbing to see how obese or even overweight people sometimes end up somehow thinking deserve to be treated badly, or that they are some sort of second-class persons.
Even more sad it is to see people, who are not obese and overweight and are, otherwise, sensible persons, treat overweight people badly, just because they are fat.
During ages, being overweight was seen a visual cue of healthiness, and it didn't stopped our ancestors to build a triving civilization. I can even assure that you wouldn't find to much skinny engineers building the LEM and Saturn V. Churchill was, by any acceptable criteria, fat, and had a "unhealthy" diet. Hitler, on the other hand, was pretty much healthy, didn't smoke or drink. Gandhi was skinny as someone can gets skinny, Stalin had a respectable abdomem. All of this is anedoctal "evidence", of course, but these facts are powerful hints that personal weight should not be seen as an indicator of inner values and character.
Telling people to exercise because it's good for their health, is ok. Telling them that they should accept the prejudice as a normal fact of life, and get thin fast in order to overcome it, it's probably as much wrong as suggesting that black people should try to look more "whitey" if they want to work in a investment bank, or even acchieving the modest goal of not being harassed by the police everyday just because they are black.
Truth is, no matter what you do, we are not going to live forever. You can get some 3, 5 or maybe 10 years more out of a healthy lifestile, but you could ruin any of those gains if you become stressed out of the fear of being singled out of society because you're fat or because you smoke. Death is an unavoidable result of being alive, period. You can delay it a little, but you can't escape it, no matter how hard you try. And on light of this, it strikes me as utterly neurotic that people become so obsessed with their bodies that they forget to clean up their minds of prejudice.
Hell would break lose if Microsoft put a highly visible warning sugesting that you could "Browse Hotmail Faster Using Internet Explorer". And that is exactly what google does with Gmail when the user is not using chrome on Windows. /. is aware that google is using gmail to promote chrome to IE users on Windows.(Said warning does not appear on Firefox running on Linux)
As almost none of us ever use IE on windows, it's not surprisingly that nobody at
Maybe the proeminent add for chrome on gmail pages stating that you could browse faster using chrome is finally working (It appear randomly when you're using IE on Windows)
To me, it doesn't seem very ethical for google to leverage a strong position on email to promote their browser, but it looks like I am the only one who feels this way, after all nobody from Microsoft, Mozilla, Opera or Apple has complained yet.
Now, imagine the outrage if everytime someone opened their hotmail account using a browser other than IE, they received a message stating something like:
"You could browse hotmail faster using Internet Explorer, GET IT HERE"
Hell would break loose for sure.
Tell him to have less meetings, so people won't have to compete for rooms, projectors and so on.
Productivity will soar.
Give programmers private offices with a part of the profits.
I was going to post it. That's why most core banking still runs on mainframe. The only thing that got close to the reliability of a mainframe during all these times was Tandem, that unfortunately is being neglected by their current owner.
You know what. Andersen Consulting were the greedy guys who didn't want to share their lucrative IT pie (built mainly over the reputation of the older auditing house) with the accountants. And they survived!!!
FEAR!
If he is using windows, and doesn't know what the Search Service is, I am pretty sure he is the kind of user who would get infected by malware.
He shouldn't be using windows. He should use linux, it's safer for him.
Thinking better.... No. He shouldn't use a computer at all. He wouldn't know also what apt-get upgrade is supposed to do.
The way to store tree like structures on a relational database is using nested sets, not pointer-like ids.
The main current backslash against databases is that most developers don't have a clue about set theory, relational algebra, let aside the inner workings of a concurrent database system.
Many of the problems solved by RDBMS are going to have to be solved again by those new tools that are promised to replace RDBMS.
Those who ignore history, are condemned to repeat it.
Just out of curiousity I would like to know If received the overrated mod because I told the truth about Mac OS, or because I said the truth about Linux.
I am far more inclined to think of the second group. Thanks God I am selling my MacBook this week and will buy a Thinkpad. I will keep my old G4, just to remember the Mac experience before all those extreme newbie fanboys came to the camp.
I think it's perfectly rational to let pilots and companies know that there can be a chance of such thing happening, so they can be at least aware of this possibility.
Just out of my head?
Solaris and Windows are the only appreciable examples of this level of compatibility over time outside the mainframe world.
Mac OS is a no for any appreciable span of time, things usually change completely in 4 to 6 years periods, from processor architecture to the OS. but this is fine, as macs were never meant to be business oriented machines.
And for Linux why would you need to run 15 years binaries if you (theoretically, at least) have the sources and (theorethically, at least) can build them again.
Oh really? I didn't know FreeDOS had NTFS support. But it's good to know, knowledge is never too much!!!! Well, in that case I am not moving away from Linux. I was scared that all I needed to gain access to a machine was booting into single mode, mounting the root partition and changing the root password. I mean, just by powercycling the machine and passing a boot option!!!! Thanks for your well informed and knowledgeable post!!!
Where you draw the line between what comes preinstalled with the OS or not? Is a Windowing System a legitimate part of an OS? GUI toolkits? Does an OS really need a text editor as powerful as emacs (well, in that case we name the OS an hypervisor that is running the emacs OS)?
Following this logic, ancient computer makers should have been sued years ago for bundling their OS on their mainframes. There could have been an independent market for OSes.
IMHO, EU instance on this is essentialy a non-tarifary barrier on American products. I doubt they would act the same if Microsoft were an European company.
By the way, Don't you think that there could be an independent market for Telnet,SMTP,NEWS and Gopher clients on Unix machines if they didn't bundle that into the OS. Why things should be different with HTTP?
People seems to forget that the real coup for Netscape was that Navigator 4.0 series was really a piece of shit, and their earlier versions for Linux were even worse. Nobody cared about using IE 3, when Navigator was clearly superior. People forget that at that time even Netscape basically gave a finger for W3C Does anyone remembers the Layer element? In the same verge, Javascript was not a de-jure standard before it became de-facto. So all this story about not following standards have to be taken with a grain of salt when we remember those times.
If for some sudden-reason Safari got from night to day 90% of the market share, don't you think that developers would go jumping to use all those -webkit-whatever CSS goodies, being them already standards or not?
IE has been a terrible browser compared with other options. All of my friends use Firefox and Safari, and so do I. We don't need to distorct facts or make that into a black-and-white issue. Power corrupts. Microsoft had power and used it as any major corporation does. But to believe that Netscape Navigator would be alive and well if it were not for Microsoft bundling IE takes a little bit of faith.
(Personally, I wish Microsoft to make a good OS, and Linux to be a good one, and I wish people had freedom to chose the shoes that fit better on their feet, I am not a believer on OS feeble deities and adore them. Rather I follow the True and Only God: The Flying Spaghetti Monster)
Oh. And do you think that the EU would not go chasing after them if they did it?
Yeah, I herd from the same guy Judah McIscariotes. I'd stumbled upon him when he was having lunch with some orthodox Microsoft and Redhat executives I know. He was carrying a strange sack, but otherwise he looked a good, even if a little chatty, fellow. But I refused when he tried to kiss me.
Yeah,
I know about tor, but I was thinking of something more specific to distributing a hierarchy of news and to leverage a vastly bigger network of nodes. Not a solution for the whole problem of anonimity and privacy on all protocols, not trying to be something for everyone, But just some sort of NNTP over a vastly bigger network than tor (That is, Bit Torrent), using the existing tracker structure to keep the hierarchy of news groups and distributing them.
Actually right now I am reading the NNTP RFC to see if I the idea is really worth a look.
Well, there are rumours that the DoD has comissioned for a rewrite of Twitter in ADA with an Oracle backend. And it seems that the programmers already did the code, stress tested it and it could make twitter work.
But, the formal review and inspections process will take at least 6 months, that is, 6 months *after* the developers manage to write at least 5000 pages of documents, print them, sign each page and submit the work as done.
Reports says the rewrite was really easy, after the 3 programmers learned how to dodge the meetings, by convincing the 230 Program and Project Managers that humble programmers shouldn't be allowed to go to meetings so important to the success of the project.
What about using some P2P protocol with encription as the core for a new kind of Usenet specically aimed for privacy?
The sad thing is that I could do the same right now, living from month to month sucks.
As a sidenot, I live in Brasil, and yesterday I just found out, that discounting the inflation since 2001 I am barely making no more than 20% of the 2001 earnings today. This, after having being promoted or changing jobs for better positions and bigger companies from year to year.
Because you're using a language where all variables are signed by default?
Because the CS course at the prestigious University you attended thought that they should adapt to the market and teach you Java, Python, RUP, Scrum and the PMBOK?
And that because of that, you use floats to store money because, well, they have cents....