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| 2006/10/31-11/1 [Computer/SW/Security, Computer/SW/Languages/Java] UID:45045 Activity:moderate |
10/31 Mainframes are back!
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/biztech/10/30/reviving.mainframes.ap
\_ Mainframes never left.
\_ There are big differences between 1) X is here, 2) X is coming
back, and 3) X left. Fucking dumb shit, how did you even
get into Cal?
\_ I didn't get into Cal. I dropped out of college so I could
spend more time on the motd and wall hanging out with smart
people like you hoping one day I can learn to comprehend
English as well as you. No, wait, you are a babbling fool
who wrote something completely off topic and non-responsive
because you can't understand basic English.
\_ Bwaaahhhhhhh!!1! You are teh suck!!!!1!!!!!!!!1!!
\_ "The university saved money upfront by selecting a mainframe that
runs at less than top capacity. Then on days when computing loads
are heavier, the school can buy a short-term boost of extra
processing power. Network managers call IBM, which remotely tunes
the mainframe to deliver better performance." Interesting.
\_ *laugh*. This is how the IBM mainframe division has always
worked except in the 'old days' they sent a tech out at some
outrageous hourly rate who opened the back, hit a button to turn
on the extra cpus+planes+memory/etc that was already in the box.
So now they just remotely login and tweak some software variable
limit like "max speed = max speed + 50", logout and send a bill.
This is almost as good a scam as MS making their money on CALs. |
| 2006/10/31-11/1 [Computer/Rants] UID:45046 Activity:nil |
10/31 Good ol' Bill Nye puts the Pluto thing into perspective.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pu2KLUzHbQ&eurl= |
| 2006/10/31 [Health] UID:45047 Activity:nil |
10/31 I went to my chiropractor appointment Tuesday and the doctor said
"I don't think I'm helping you, so I don't think you need to
come anymore." Which I guess is nice of him to say rather than
just taking my money for a service that is basically useless.
And I got my three months of chiropractic and physical therapy
care done, so now I have to gather up all the necessary
information to send to appeal them. Which got me thinking that
if I get okayed by the end of November, I may end up leaving my
internship (which I love dearly) early to get the surgery done
because my school is screwing everyone over by making winter
break 2 1/2 weeks long. Of course, that's assuming they cover my
surgery. Which means I've been more seriously considering size
(would I look right as a 34D? I've had large breasts relative to
my size since I first developed them, so normal-sized ones are
incredibly hard to fathom). And how the hell I would get back to
school in January (get my sister to drive me and recruit friends
to help me unpack my car?) and how I would be able to do gym
classes (I need two to more to graduate; would I be able to
start late in the term? would I be able to just do walking?).
I'm so sick of the insurance company bullshit. 34K's are not
"normal breasts" and I'm not looking to get this surgery for
cosmetic reasons.
\_ Amazing. The b word doesn't appear until line 13. |
| 2006/10/31 [Uncategorized] UID:45048 Activity:nil 57%like:45049 |
10/31 FightAIDS@Home in BOINC now works on Windows, besides Linux. |
| 2006/10/31-11/1 [Computer/SW/OS/Windows] UID:45049 Activity:nil 57%like:45048 6504%like:45066 |
10/31 FightAIDS@Home in BOINC now works on Windows, besides Linux. I can
finally run two instances of it on my XP machine. |
| 2006/10/31-11/1 [Politics/Domestic/California, Finance/Shopping] UID:45050 Activity:high |
10/31 10 part "Economics for the Citizen." (very basic)
http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0503g.asp
\_ My summary from reading the intro and the last paragraph-- there
is a cost of doing something, and there is a cost of not doing
something. In most cases one will be more costly than the others,
but it is often not so clear which one is cheaper/costlier at the
time that you needed to make a decision.
\_ The long version (by Sowell)
http://csua.org/u/hbx
\_ The short version: "THE INVISIBLE HAND IS ALL-POWERFUL!
LALALALALA!"
\_ Let me guess, you like big government beauracracy and wastage?
\_ Let me guess, you like knocking down straw men?
\_ Fuck you talking 'bout? --Da Invisible Hand
\_ He's a bit of a male chauvinist, isn't he?
\_ You mean how he beliddles his wife, something else? |
| 2006/10/31-11/1 [Computer/SW/Languages/Java] UID:45051 Activity:nil |
10/31 @Override in Java, why/why not?
\_ Handy warning when your base class changes on you. Not a perfect
guard against sloppy refactoring.
\_ Why not? If you change your base class you probably want to know
if your overrides aren't going to work the way you want them to.
\_ Isn't it true that if you use @Override (or other annotations)
that you can't compile to a a bytecode which will be garanteed
to run on pre-1.5 implementations of the JRE? |
| 2006/10/31 [Uncategorized] UID:45052 Activity:nil |
10/31 So, does nayone read USA today by choice, or do people just read it
because it shows up in their hotel rooms?
\_ I sometimes buy it at the airport.
\_ They stock copies at our work cafeteria.
\_ I read the sports section online almost every day. -ausman |
| 2006/10/31-11/1 [Uncategorized] UID:45053 Activity:nil |
10/31 Can an alphanumeric pager, receive email (or at least
the first 80 characters of an email) sent from soda or similar
account?
\_ Yes, if you pay for that. |
| 2006/10/31 [Politics/Domestic/California] UID:45054 Activity:nil |
10/31 http://vbg.spreadshirt.com/?p=4849 |
| 2006/10/31 [Uncategorized] UID:45055 Activity:nil |
10/31 Cap'n She can't handle the SPAM, you have got to Do som.th.. |
| 2006/10/31-11/2 [Recreation/Shopping] UID:45056 Activity:low |
10/31 Someone was asking a while ago about a good first suit for job
interviews. October's GQ had a good selection of the 10 best suits
under $500 (from $125 to $500) on page 324. Link is here:
http://men.style.com/gq/fashion/landing?id=content_5008
Also, if you're not 100% sure of what to look for, this is a good
starter:
http://men.style.com/gq/fashion/landing?id=content_4800 -- thought
this might be of use to people graduating and doing job interviews
soon. -John
\_ I've never had need for a good suit, but I always figured that
if I seriously needed to spend over 1000$ on suits for some reason
I could also pay someone to solve the problem of what suit to
wear for the application at hand. Don't good taylors do this?
\_ Sorry John but both you and GQ have a pretty bad sense of style
if you think these suits look stylish. I feel like I've been
transported back into the 70's. Think the movie "Catch Me If
You Can"
\_ Says you. YMMV, I was trying to provide an aid, no more. If
you're you don't like for a particular reason, good--the main
you don't them like for a particular reason, good--the main
idea is to get people away from shit Nordstroms suit salesmen
or Men's Wearhouse and its ilk. Do whatever works for you, but
reading up on reasonable quality materials and stitching is
always worth your while. And anonymous troll coward bitch, post
all you want as me, but leave my posts the fuck alone. -John
\_ Man, those dudes are SKINNY.
\_ They're models. Get a suit cut generously and go to Ernesto's
Tailoring, 860 Market, 5th floor, secret tip. If you go before
buying a suit, he'll give you some good advice (he's a 5'3"
chubby El Salvadoran dude who knows his stuff.) There are
plenty of pointers online for what body type goes well with
what cut (i.e. # buttons, length, etc.) -John
what cut (i.e. # buttons, length, etc.) -Gay John
\_ I'm glad I have no reason to own $1000+ shoes. And, I dunno if
it's just me, but most of those guys look kind of ridiculous.
I literally get an urge to laugh at some of them.
\_ If you had a reason to own $1000+ shoes then owning $1000+
shoes wouldn't be a problem.
\_ I don't think anyone really has a reason to. It's just to
show, hey look I have $1000 shoes. They don't look any
better.
\_ Exactly.
\- if you are going to buy your first and only suit for the
moment, i dont think you should get a brown one. blue
or maybe charcoal/dark grey/black. and of course dont get
the corduroy one. pinstripes are also not for everyone.
also different combos work for large white people vs
thin people of various racial groups. if you want to
buy a suit, maybe learn a little bit about how to
"think about the problem" and then either go with a
friend/associate who can give you good advice or get
a recommendation for a good establishment where they
will give you enough attention and have a good attitude.
a list of 10 suits is just not that helpful for the
"first time suit buyer".
\_ First suit should be solid, not pinstripe (which seems to be
really popular at Macy's and Nordstrom's). I got a dark gray suit
as my first business suit but here in business school navy and
black seem to be the standard. I'd avoid Macy's and wait for the
Nordstrom's semi-annual sale or try Nordstrom rack. |
| 2006/10/31-11/2 [Computer/SW/OS/Windows] UID:45057 Activity:moderate |
10/31 A friend of mine said he's loving Microsoft again because Bill G
is starting to donate all of his money to charity. He's boycotting
Google, Yahoo, and other mega companies because they're too big and
too power and thinks they're all becoming the old Microsoft, whereas
Microsoft has recently done a lot of good things like investing in
education and charity. He just paid for a copy of Microsoft Windows
and he's pretty darn smug about it. How about you guys? Have you
paid for your copy of Microsoft product recently and feel good about
it because of their new image?
\_ Your friend sounds like an insufferable bore. I hope you have
other, more interesting friends. Seriously, who cares
about the legal status of your copy of Windows? And tells
other people about it? Argh.
paid for your copy of Microsoft product recently and feel good about
it because of their new image?
\_ Google makes products I use. Microsoft doesn't. Not sure what's
so great about this "new Microsoft" because they still make
crappy products and their "donations" are in the form of MS
products which are kind of crappy anyway. Bill Gate's own
personal charity, on the other hand, is a different story.
\_ wtf?
\_ the new image won't be complete till they start giving out the
Gates Peace Prize
\_ the new microsoft is just like the old microsoft, only wealthier.
\- GATES != MSFT. i think gates as been very smart about how he
donates. i dont mean "smart" cynically. i have a lot of respect
for how he has thought this through. msft is still a sleazy
company buy i generally refer to specific sleazy practices ...
like claiming credit for stuff they didnt really invent or
\_ usually we call what they've done "theft".
\- copyright/trademark etc is different from
physical expropriation. this is more of a
cause of pushing the U in FUD rather than
actually stealing a patented idea etc.
for example the "Digital Nervous System".
gee, was it coincidence that they were
affiliating them selves with the letters DNS?
and of course claiming lost of "innovations"
when it comes to file systems by giving
some long existing feature a new name etc.
\_ When I said theft. I meant theft. They are
thieves. Cutesy shit like calling something
DNS is childish but mostly harmless and among
the least of their crimes.
\_ what is an example of something that
can be considered "property" that thay
stole and why weren't they sued?
\_ They have been. It has cost them
billions of dollars over the years
but that's still chicken feed compared
to their monthly take. And btw, in this
country, copyright/etc *is* property
even if you disagree with the law in
that area.
\- yes i am aware that in cases of IP
theft that is property and they can
and have been held liable. however
this kind of thing is quite common
for businesses and msft isnt
especially unique here [intel].
what i personally find more offensive
is the sleazy stuff they do for
which it is difficult to hold them
liable [like having the published
specs != implementation, which makes
it hard for other to be msft compat
since now you may have to be "bug
for bug" compatible. second thing i
find obnoxious is their terrible
protocols ... like the insane way
they used to do discovery of various
services or "op locks" [jesus!].
and of course there is coercive
contracts ... like forcing people
who bought intel hardware which never
used windows to pay msft. these were
the things more difficult to hold
them accoutnable for ... not the
run of the mill IP encroachments ...
do you consider every company that
loses or settles an IP or copyright
case to be a theif? how about the
woman who ran a restaurant called
"sony"? BTW, i think a lot of MSFT's
conduct makes formerlly evil IBM
look much better. what is offensive
is not always illegal. what is
offensive doesnt always have the
biggest business impact [i realize
the DNS example is minor, but i
thought it was illustrative. there
is also an interesting "inside"
story about MSFT, Paul vixie and
DNS/bind ... i think it is in the
wall archive if you are interested].
\_ Other companies steal also. The
difference is the degree. Without
theft MS would likely not exist
today. On IBM: they have an
equally ugly and evil history
but the bulk of it is in the
pre-90s mainframe world and the
pre-computer typewriter world.
After the Feds tried to break them
up, they turned chicken and
ceased doing anything interesting
either legally or technically.
look much better.
\- 1. IBM has not generally been
a prick about using their
patents ... although it's
\_ This is such a
mind-numbingly stupid
statement that it
invalidates everything
else in your post(s).
a great defensive arsenal
because everybody is
violating ibm patents
(or if not, they dont
want to face ibm in
litiagation ... one
reason why it was great IBM
too the lean in the SCO
case)
\_ Neither is Microsoft.
2. based on your chicken
comment you clearly dont
know anything about IBM.
\_ except for years of
inside information.
which 'chicken comment'
are you refering to?
[see patent applications,
see list of top 500
unclassified computers,
see ibm's work in storage
and material science (they
got out of the storage
business more recently due
to margins, not inability
to compete).
to compete) have you heard
of the CELL processor?
http://home.lbl.gov:8080/~psb/Articles/Computer/IBM_Patent_Stats.2004
http://top500.org/stats/27/vendors
\_ Yes, IBM has done some
good work in non-CS
fields. And can hook
up a room full of
x86 boxes together really
well. And?
3. can you sign your future
posts with some kind of uniq
hash so tyou can not be
hash so you can not be
taken seriously?
\_ Rudeness and personal
attack is neither clever
nor makes a point. It
says a lot about you and
nothing about me.
4. YBHBCA:S
\_ See above about personal
attack. In the future
I'll sign as "years of
high up inside IBM info"
and you can sign as "IBM
is good because they're
just like Microsoft and
don't abuse their
patents". Whatever.
Your logic is somewhat
twisted and lacking in
substance. By your
logic, Microsoft is a
Good company because they
don't sue people over
patent violations. It
was nice chatting with
you. Maybe next time
you'll have a point and
back it with evidence
reason and logic instead
of personal insult. Or
not.
deliberately sowing confusion [like when they came uo with
something called DNS.]. on the other hand a lot of other
companies would no doubt do eqqually fiucked up things if they
were in the position to do so ... like apple banning all books
by john wiley&sons ... on the other hand, i think apple has
done more legitimate innovation than msft.
\_ why do you hate teh INVISIBLE HAND?
ould no doubt do eqqually fiucked up things if they
were in the position to do so ... like apple banning all books
by john wiley&sons ... on the other hand, i think apple has
done more legitimate innovation than msft.
\_ why do you hate teh INVISIBLE HAND? |
| 2006/10/31-11/1 [Politics] UID:45058 Activity:nil |
10/31 Wiki used to share information between U.S. intelligence agencies,
and to create National Intelligence Estimates.
Top-secret wiki has 28,000 pages, 3,600 users. Also wikis for
secret and sensitive material. Duh.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15503834 |
| 2006/10/31-11/2 [Recreation/Computer/Games] UID:45059 Activity:nil |
10/31 Pretty interesting article in the New Yorker about the guy
who invented SimCity and The Sims:
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/061106fa_fact - danh
\_ That was interesting. Thanks for the link!
\_ I have this lurking suspicion that Spore will bomb. (Well, sell
moderately well, but barely make back it's development costs.) |
| 2006/10/31-11/2 [Recreation/Dating, Academia/Berkeley/CSUA/Troll] UID:45060 Activity:moderate |
10/31 motd boob guy says Happy Halloween:
link:www.dailymotion.com/swf/3EA96xGDJWpn834gX
\_ NSFW (did I really need to add that???)
\_ Gee, she's nice. Slender, sexy, and seemingly natural.
\_ seemingly? It's kinda weird. Is that some soldier's wife
sending him a 'reminder' video?
\_ Seemingly, as in I can't say for sure whether she has
had implants. However, if I had to guess I'd say she
has not. If they are, then they were done very well.
\_ Either they are real or they are implants done in Japan.
Only Japanese implants look so realistic. American ones
are hemisphere-shaped.
\_ "Honey, I'll keep posting videos like this on the internet
until you come home. Tomorrow's will feature a dildo."
\_ HOT!
\_ Is there a URL for a parent page that contains this video? I want
to read the description, if any.
\_ I'm willing to trade five years of my lifespan for a wife with a
body like this.
\_ Are you married now?
\_ Go sign up for one of those $300k/yr jobs in Iraq and when
you come back, you will be able to acquire one. |
| 2006/10/31-11/2 [Politics/Domestic/Election, Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:45061 Activity:kinda low |
10/31 Looks like the October Surprise was Kerry being an incredible
dumbass.
\_ Heh. link:csua.org/u/hcc
\_ He certainly didn't sound good, did he.
\_ I wish he had STFU until Nov 8th.
\_ Uh, for botching a joke about the president, and then having
it taken out of context?
\_ Excuse me but "bullshit!". He meant it exactly the way it was
said. He's an idiot.
\_ Have you read the transcript? It followed another Bush joke.
The audience got the joke, even as mangled. You're either
lying or stupid.
\_ I read it. The motd is the only place on the planet that
agrees with you. Maybe you're right and the entire world
is wrong. He certainly needs to STFU and stop trying to
play tough guy in some lame attempt to make up for the
way he allowed himself to be run over in 2004. "Oh, I'm
a tough guy now, vote for me in 2008, no apologies for
being a moron, rah rah rah!"
\_ The whitehouse, rushlimbaugh, and freerepublic are the
only others who believe as you do. And the whitehouse
is already backing off their stridency on this, likely
because of Kerry's press conference. I now must put you
in the "stupid" column.
\_ Which is why officials and elected leaders in his
own party have asked him to *not* show at Dem
rallies this week and said he should apologise.
If being aware of current events is your stupid
column then please put me firmly on that side.
\_ Tester, Casey and Ford do indeed have a bit
of the stupid in them.
\_ Yes, he meant that you can either work hard and study or you
can end up getting your country's military stuck in a bloody
quagmire.
\_ I think that Kerry is just as good at flubbing public speeches
as Bush is, and this is a typical example. I think Kerry was
making a jab at Bush just as he said, but he should have done
what a normal person would with an apology, rather than
preemtively attacking Rush Limbaugh. /That/ showed his lack
of character more than the original comment. -emarkp
\_ I vote based on a person's character. -Average American
\_ From http://RushLimbaugh.com, from yesterday's show:
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_103106/content/and_along_comes_lurch_2.guest.html
With the cute little comment "Watch the video, and see if
Kerry or anyone else laughs as if it's a joke at Bush's
expense." along with a video clip with the laughter (that
is indeed there on the live feed) is cut. Preemptive, my
foot. Fuck you, and fuck Rush.
\_ I don't give a rip about Rush Limbaugh. Kerry slammed
him before his show even aired. -emarkp
\_ And to think this arrogant moron was almost elected....
\_ Yeah, good thing the other arrogant moron was elected.
\_ Actually, yes, it is. There are worse things than GWB. Such
as John Kerry. He flubbed the joke before he made the joke.
Or did he make the joke before he flubbed the joke. Or maybe
the joke was just nuanced and he's the only one smart enough
to understand it. Or he flubbed the nuancing of the apology
before making the joke about the soldier's apology to him.
Or something like that.
\_ Or maybe he was making a joke about the President partying
too much in college instead of learning that you don't get
to invade countries just because you're the President. I
know, it's not really funny because the results of Bush's
Folly have been so painful, but do try to see the irony.
Frankly, I'm having a really hard time trying to imagine
anyone doing worse than Bush. [Edit: Of course that's
immediately not true. Lyndon Larouche, Ross Perot, Dan
Quayle, Dick Cheney, Gary Bauer, Alan Keyes... hell, the
list is long and varied. It's also populated by the lower
5% of the pool.]
\_ How weird that you only mention right wingers as people
who could be worse. I'm sure you're not allowing your
personal bias to color your thinking. Carry on,
Comrade! The fact is both parties are corrupt and this
whole "your party is teh suxx0r but my party is teh
r0xx0rz!@1" thing is truly moronic. If you can't see
the flaws in one party while being able to see the same
flaws in the other, you are truly hopeless. Vote third
party.
\_ Oh, sorry: Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Kim Jong Il, Joe
Lieberman, James McGreevey. Find me corrupt Dem
chickenhawks, and I'll add them to the list.
\_ So you think Dan Quayle belongs on the same list
as Stalin? Whatever. Vote third party.
\_ No, I think DQ would have made a worse Pres.
than Bush. I think Stalin would make a worse
Pres. than Bush. I think 95% of the pool would
make a better Pres. than Bush. Did you flunk
reading comprehension?
\_ What third party? Libertarian? Green?
Communist? A more reasonable response is that
people need to get away from parties, and we
need to find ways to get higher quality
individuals into politics. The solution of
the problem of political parties is not
more political parties.
\_ HALP US JON CARRY!
http://www.620wtmj.com/images/uploaded/Help%20Photo20061101105508.JPG
\_ So I am really trying to figure this one out: why does a toungue
tied has-been washed up second rate politician rate so much
attention? Is this just an effort by the GOP to change the subject
off of Iraq? Do they think this is going to work for them, or is
\_ Not to state the obvious, BUT YES, OF COURSE.
this one of those "Hail Mary" situations, like in the WSU vs. Cal
game last week? |
| 2006/10/31-11/2 [Politics/Domestic/Abortion, Politics/Domestic/President/Clinton] UID:45062 Activity:nil |
10/31 "Now the government is targeting unmarried adults up to age 29 as part
of its abstinence-only programs, which include millions of dollars in
federal money that will be available to the states under revised
federal grant guidelines for 2007."
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-10-30-abstinence-message_x.htm
Goddamn tax-and-spend liberals, always spending money on utopian
social...err, oh.
\_ Well, the government provided subsidised loans for me to be in
Berkeley studying science for four years, which clearly furthered
the abstinence-only agenda--and that was during the Clinton
administration.
\_ As a conservative I no more approve of this than the billions of
dollars of liberal waste in the yearly budget.
\_ There already is a program for astinence for young adults: it\
s called marriage after the first 10 years or second kid.
\_ There already is a program for astinence for young adults: its
called marriage after the first 10 years or second kid.
\_ Abstinence before age 29 isn't the kind of utopia I want to live in. |
| 2006/10/31-11/1 [Politics/Domestic/California] UID:45063 Activity:kinda low |
10/31 The GOP strategory for the 2006 general election:
- Allow only the slimmest of a Dem majority in the House.
- Prevent Dems from obtaining six Senate seats, since just five will
result in a 50-50 tie, giving the nominal majority to the GOP because
of the inherent VP swing vote, and thus, 1-vote majorities on all
(except Ethics) Senate committees. If Dems get six, negotiate with
Lieberman until he aligns his independent vote with GOP, which gets
them back to a 50-50 tie.
- Whip up the base as much as possible, so they'll be primed to blame
the Dem-controlled House as much as possible through 2008.
\_ Lieberman doesn't have a rat's ass chance of getting re-elected.
\_ Polls show him leading Lamont by more than
what could be called statistical error. I think he's going
to win. - danh
\_ ??? Is there no GOP candidate here?
\_ http://www.schlesinger2006.com
Consistently polling in the single-digit percents. Not
a serious candidate. Judging from the above website, he
is not considering himself to be a seroius candidate either.
\_ I like how you make such a solid statement with no facts, just
your own emotions and desires to base it on.
\_ Well, if you like that one, you'll love this one: you're a
dick, and you fill a place in my life as someone worthy of
trolling.
- Whip up the base as much as possible, so they'll be primed to blame
the Dem-controlled House as much as possible through 2008.
\_ Unless you have special inside information, please don't waste
precious motd bits with either the obvious (Keep control of
Congress) or the inane (whip up the base blah blah blah). |
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