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Farewell, 11111010001
Speaking of Stuff, Dave Gould writes: "I have published my picks for the 2001 Stuff of the Year. Here's hoping for lots of neat new stuff in 2002!" I bet high that stuff continues to arrive. Maybe even more IT.
Weedstock writes: "EE Times has a list of 15 interesting articles about technologies to watch in 2002. One of those articles, Software model needs overhaul, explains the current problems with computer processing and describes new technologies (Such as the Reconfigurable Architecture Workstation processor from MIT) that will affect this domain in the next year."
uninet writes: "'Looking back over the past year, I think most people would have to agree it has been a ground breaking time for open source. While it is true that open source companies suffered just like the rest of the tech sector from poor economic conditions, those same conditions have also made open source appear even more attractive.'" Here's the rest of Open For Business' analysis of the year past and coming.
There are plenty more year-end wrap-ups filled with bulleted lists and instant nostalgia, but few can top Llewyn, who writes: "The couple who met on Slashdot two years ago are celebrating their first wedding anniversary! you can email them at scott@asofyet.org and elysse@asofyet.org or visit their reminiscing website." Congratulations!
For those into New Year's festivities of the more athletic (and semi-athletic) variety, burntfungus writes with words on "Security and open 802.11b WLAN Access Points along the Rose Parade route, Pasadena's yearly event that allow anyone to be a street person for two nights a year! If you get cold there are many places to get a hot cup of coffee or hot chocolate. Watch floats (on webcam, blimps and low flying stealth bombers! Find a public WLAN access point or two."
At least partly wrapping up one of this year's oddest stories, several readers have submitted a link to a CNN story which says that Dmitry Sklyarov has returned home to Russia, and has already raised a toast with his wife and children. I hope Dmitry's treated a little differently on his next visit to the U.S. suwain_2 adds a link to this Newsforge story as well.
Are the first post lamers gonna fight over who gets LAST POST?
--Nuintari
slashdot : where an opinion can be wrong.
Read : Infosync.no vividly reminds you of all the cool toys you really wanted to buy in 2001 but couldn't afford, and probably won't be able to afford in 2002 either.
1999 = MCMXCIX
2000 = MM
2001 = MMI
2002 = MMII
If slashdot is run on GMT, then why is that post dated: Monday December 31, @07:59PM. Shouldn't that be 11:59PM if its GMT?
Boy, I'm wondering what the hell didn't happen this year. Terrorist attacks, new prez, cloning, artifical hearts, iPod, 2.4.x, Linux PDA's, Pentium 4, RAM prices fall, RAM prices go up, people born, people die, text Quake II, etc...
Oh what a year it was. Hell, I think the only thing that didn't happen was me getting a girlfriend...
Happy New Year everyone!
Maybe someone in your time zone will use a proxy in North America and get the second first post of 2002 ;-)
To reduce vomiting, and for your own safety's sake, do NOT view this picture of the chick from the 'Slashdot Couple' (linked from the article above) ... Hint: you do not look good in a bathing suit, and rubbing up against a pole doesn't help either, tootsie. Excuse me while I go take half-naked pictures of myself and submit them in a story labled "Hottest new things of 2002"......
I wasn't around time before last; was everyone worrying that their nerdy news site would be toppled by the non-event of Y2K? ;)
Happy New Year to everyone... Even the trolls. Me, I'm on EST. Ain't gonna be there for four more hours. Maybe I'll spend the time on my New Year's resolutions. :D
Pain(n): when you're telnetting into a box doing somethin cool, and some luser calls for help with a 'critical error' ad
The last one was 1991 - now we have 2002.
But we won't have another for 110 years! (and then 110 every time after that one until 2992, after which we'll wait for 3003. But I'll be dead by then. Maybe slashdot won't!)
-Leo
2. Turn off the TV during war/disaster/election controversy.
3. Attend more Free Jazz concerts.
4. Do not boot to Windows once (at home, forced to at work)
5. Take para-gliding lessons.
6. Get a sick stereo (Krell and B&W).
7. Badger slashdot staff until I see a poll without the CowboyNeal option.
8. Knock over the first person I see driving an "IT".
pronoblem
Dave Gould's page (no offense Dave) of the "2001 Stuff of the year" has nothing to do with 2001. How do a 1992 Mazda Miata and a 1984 (!) pickup truck end up as "best vehicles of 2001". Perhaps this page should be best labeled as "Page 'o My Favorite Stuff." "My Dad" and "My Ex," I'm sorry, aren't high-caliber candidates for "Person of the Year." Shit, I could come up with this stuff! Although I'll agree with you on the Art Bell rating -- and the Entertainment page.
Apparently this year is the year of the horse.
http://www.chinesefortunecalendar.com/2002.htm
Of course, it doesn't start until February 12th but since our own calendar system doesn't include fortunes, it might be fun to look at.
My new years resolution is 1024x768 ;)
Posted by timothy on 18:59 31 December 2001
/. will use whatever time zone you want it to.
I'm set up for EST...
I'd like to have the time displayed in seconds since the Epoch. Surely I'm not alone! Everyone knows nothing important happened before 1-1-1970 anyway, no?
The server market continues to improve for Linux with marketshare increasing every quarter, with only MS barely keeping up, and others falling behind. Desktop is harder to judge, but it continues to show progress. Desktops are maturing and stabilizing, as are fantastic development tools like Borland's Kylix rapid application development environment. More apps will follow.
It is going to be a great year for Linux fans!
You all go out and enjoy new year. I'll be stuck inside, by myself. Friendless, relativeless, sober, miserable, whilst everyone else in the world is having a great time. God I hate new year.
Hmmm. I use linux exclusively... I have 3 different digital cameras.... they all work perfectly under linux. my mp3 player. same... in fact the only things that dont wirk under linux are the low grade crap products that only idiots buy anyways.
Your stuff dont work? Need I say more.
Goodbye 2001, you will not be missed. Let's hope 2002 will be the start of the rebound.
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
As the first line states:
:-)
_ gc i213612,00.html
;-)
k b; EN-US;q158588
"As you might know, Slashdot runs on Greenwich Mean Time."
and I have noticed it for a long time, I will now take the opportunity to ask if Slashdot editors wouldn't please enter the new age and use updated acronyms?
A good explanation can be found here:
http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9
Even MS has the following [slightly related] page from 1997 (and we wouldn't wanna be defetaed by MS, would we
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=
Ergo, skip the GMT and start using UTC.
Oh, and I hope all will have a Happy New Year!
Happy GNU Year!
This salutation is a free greeting; you can restate it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This greeting is distributed in the hope that you will have a happy new year, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of HAPPINESS or FITNESS FOR YOUR ROUND GEEK FIGURE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
We all know what 2001 will be remembered for.
One hint, it happened 3 months ago.
Your wife/girlfriend/mistress/mom bugs you with finding at least ONE good resolution for 2002? here's one that will make you happy to follow and shut them off for next year :)
:)
in 2002, my resolution will be 1600x1200x32x75+hz... on a 21+" LCD, playing DOOM III.
Hey, they've asked for it so stop feeling guilty and go buy one with your next (or maybe 10 next) paychecks
--- Metamoderating abusive downgraders since my 300th post.
Love to have a Beamer 2002 in 2002.
An affordable "webpad" like computer running Linux, with a nice bright clear full colour screen, similiar to those things on Star Trek Enterprise. That would be an excellent type of computer, and would likely replace my desktop computer for a lot of stuff.
There is no rule like that...
The only rule that remotely resembles what you're talking about is that you can only put an I in front of V or X, only put an X in front of L or C, only put C in front of D or M. (that's the reason why MIM was invalid for 1999, MCMXCIX was one of the more correct options you had. 2000 was simply MM, 2001 MMI and 2002 MMII..)
Ner lbh sebz gur HFN? Gura lbh'ir whfg ivbyngrq gur QZPN!
I'm hoping to make it to the rollover to the year 100000000000 in 101010 years.
Like its the DotCom stock market in 1999!
WASHINGTON, D.C.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
People are fearing for their lives as they brace for the Y2K2 Bug to strike. Many people are lining up outside of shops like Billy Bob's Survival Bargain Bin in order to buy survival supplies for the new year. When we asked the owner why there there is a sudden boom in sales this year, he said, "Well, this is the Big One. I personally know that on Janurary 1st, 2002 at 12:00 AM, the power grids will do down, computers will blow up, there will be riots, and a new world order of kittens will take over the world. This is survival of the fittest here!!" The US Government refused to comment on the new world order of kittens.
-Valen
2001 in base 7 is 5556.
Uhhh.. I'm working until 11pm--and there's a party AT MY HOUSE. Happy new year.
I don't need large brains to have a good time.
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How about the rest of you Slashdotters? Let's end the year by doing something productive!
from http://slashdot.org/~cmdrtaco:
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I hope everybody remembers to dates their checks properly. It's seems every January some of us tend to make the mistake of writing last year's date. Remember to write "Year of the Horse" instead of "Year of the Snake". ;)
> Friendless, relativeless, sober, miserable...
One of these things can be fixed with just a little bit of money! Which one is it??
Happy new years eve or somting (being drunk as hell)
Not to flame, but I alwyays thought most geeks relized that time is abstract, and isn't relavent past, say, setting an appointment.
It's a link to another parody/satire year-in-review thingy:
l ay=20011231&id=480
http://www.ridiculopathy.com/news_detail.php?disp
Enjoy.
I read someplace (Knuth? Burke?) that this rule was invented long after ancient times. For most of the empire there was only addition - with the symbols often "out of order" to modern eyes, and even after the subtractive rule was introduced there are some truly bizarre constructions found in the ruins. Not only would the ancients use MIM for 1999, they were just as likely to use IMM.
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. -- H L Mencken
The year 2001 had to be the worst year of my entire life. What with dropping out of school for a while, falling greatly in debt, losing a job, and missing several important opportunities, I'm surprised I'm still alive. And to top the whole damn thing off, just near the end of the year, when things are starting to look up again, my girlfriend of 3 years and I break up so badly I went insane for a couple of days. *Sigh* What doesn't kill me can only make me stronger .....
Loban Amaan Rahman ==> Anagram of ==> Aha! An Abnormal Man!
Here is the last memory of the year 2001, after this 2001 will be forever gone and never return back.
find all positive integers a,n such that
a^(n+1)-(a+1)^n=2001
note 1: positive integer is a number in 1,2,3,4,5,6,...,infinity
note 2: a^b means axax...xa (b times), 2^3=2x2x2=8, 2^4=2x2x2x2=16
RIP my mother's father (grandfather-in-law) who dies in 11 September 2001. He fell down from the chair 1 week before 11 September and after 1 week of struggling, he finally goes away. He is a great guy and is nice to me. I like to go to his house during school holidays. I will never see him again. RIP.
The first day of the chinese new year this year will be February 12, 2002, which will be the first year of the year of the Horse (or year 4699).
Why are we saying goodbye to -47? What was so special about it?
Why did they put Microsoft's PocketPC 2002 in Sepetember and not include Windows XP in October or the Linux 2.4 kernel in February?
Call them Americans
Happy Newyear everyone!
-xtype
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UK Government Solicits Advice On Open Source
Posted by timothy on Tuesday January 01, @01:39AM
from the you-have-til-march dept.
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... And we thought the y2k bug would get us and there in the wings was the eeevil of y2k2! =)
I'm betting it's a one-line fix
-- Dan (who spent new years nursing his sick gf back to health - not unlike a lot of others I'm sure...)
2001 is over. 2002 has begun. Lets hope its a lot better than last year
If you don't understand any of my sayings, come to me in private and I shall take you in my German mouth.
>[] Dmitry Sklyarov has returned home to Russia, and has already raised a toast with his wife and children.
:-).
> I hope Dmitry's treated a little differently on his next visit to the U.S.
Frankly if I were him, I would be totally disgusted by the US and would never ever want to go again to the US?
Think of it, as if you were going to a foreign country and has been treated the way he was..
Would you want to go again to this foreign country?
I doubt it, and first you would have to convince your wife to let you go there
1. WIPO Troll hits AC with Fecal Fist. AC takes 10HP damage.
2. AC casts spell "Goatse Redirect". WIPO Troll is blinded.
3. WIPO Troll uses item "ThinkGeek beverage". WIPO Troll is no longer blind.
4. AC casts spell "JonKatz article". WIPO Troll falls asleep.
5. WIPO Troll sleeps.
6. AC casts spell "Goatse Redirect". The URL was malformed! WIPO Troll takes no damage. WIPO Troll wakes up.
7. WIPO Troll summons Scientology Rush. AC takes 54HP damage. AC is mute and cannot cast spells!
8. WIPO Troll casts spell "Comp-u-geek Popups". AC is confused.
9. AC dons armor, "Lame DeCSS T-shirt". Physical damage is reduced by 14%. WIPO Troll masturbates and restores 5HP.
11. AC summons "Moderators on $2 crack". WIPO Troll is hit for 14HP damage. WIPO Troll is hit for 7P damage. WIPO Troll is hit for 11HP damage. Side effect: AC is no longer mute!
12. WIPO Troll casts spell, "Microsoft flame". Environmental effect: +3 positive moderation. Magic damage reduced by 25%.
13. AC is still confused. AC takes off pants.
14. WIPO Troll uses item "Yopy". WIPO Troll gains new spell "Impress Lamers". AC is still confused. AC puts pants back on.
15. AC is still confused. AC takes off pants and burns them.
16. WIPO Troll hits AC with "Furious Masturbation" attack. AC is contaminated with "AIDS jizz". AC is sick! AC takes 63HP damage!
17. WIPO Troll casts spell "FecalJapan hyperlink"! AC is blinded! AC takes 134HP damage from "AIDS jizz"!
18. WIPO Troll hits AC with "mocking laughter"! AC loses self-esteem! AC takes 2HP damage from "AIDS jizz"!
19. AC uses item "AIDS medication". AC is still blind, and cannot properly administer medical treatment. AC takes 43HP damage from "AIDS jizz"!
20. WIPO Troll slips in puddle of jizz. WIPO Troll takes 78HP damage from "floor". AC takes 69HP damage from "AIDS jizz".
21. AC dies from sickness "AIDS jizz".
So there you have it! The WIPO Troll emerges victorious from a vicious street brawl with challenger AC. Congratulations, WIPO Troll! Your prize is a shiny hyperlink. Enjoy!
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I like to watch.
You mean UTC, not GMT.
And by the way: I'd like to select ISO 8601 for displaying the date. Which was possible in the old version of slashcode.
happy fucking new year.
Oops!
...Lots of cool gadgets in there. Samsung 3G prototypes, a car designed by Bella and Nokia, soft hardware by IDEO, Siemens wristphone, Compaq's project Mercury, the Agende VR3 Linux based PDA, the Pogo, Psion's über gadgets, Handspring's Treo, Fathammer's X-Forge, Samsungs YOPY (Linux PDA), Sharp's Zaurus SL-5500 including screenshots. Lots and lots of cool stuff to read."
;)
Why does this sound like a radio commercial?
As you might know, Slashdot runs on Greenwich Mean Time. That means that you're reading the last story posted in 2001, in which we've gathered some more year-end submissions.
Uh-uh! THIS was the last story posted in 2001. Posted by timothy on 21:19 Monday 31 December 2001, to be precise, as opposed to 18:59 Monday 31 December 2001 for this story.
It would be very nice to have the year
in the date field of the article. If
you search the archive there is no
way you can know whether the piece
of information you get is current
or outdated.
rh
Base 2 math and hangover do not mix well... "Does that actually equal 2001? Let me use my feeble brain to... ARHGHGGH!"
>> Lots of cool gadgets in there. Samsung 3G prototypes, a car designed by Bella and Nokia, soft hardware by IDEO, Siemens wristphone, Compaq's project Mercury, the Agende VR3 Linux based PDA, the Pogo, Psion's über gadgets, Handspring's Treo, Fathammer's X-Forge, Samsungs YOPY (Linux PDA), Sharp's Zaurus SL-5500 including screenshots.
Or in other words -- a tribute to vaporware 2001.
(+1 Funny) only if I laugh out loud.
I'm not so sure about that.... I've read that the ancient romans were fairly strict about this particular rule...
(This had some relation with how their abacus [tm] worked IIRC)
But yes, they did use some constructions that look wrong to most people these days.... Generally not using the subtraction rule much for instance.
(eg. Gate 29 on the Colloseum read XXVIIII)
Ner lbh sebz gur HFN? Gura lbh'ir whfg ivbyngrq gur QZPN!
For your information, it is no longer Greenwich mean time (GMT). It has been called Universal Coordinated Time (UTC) for about eight years now...
Actually if you want to be completely accurate, technically, the first day of the Lunar new year is on "First Spring" (La Chun?) which happens to be Feb 3 or 4th.
Well, at least according to serveral sources including this one posted earlier.
Actually I just recently purchased a fairly expensive >$500 digital camera that I could not get to work in linux. The usb-storage driver sees the camera but there is aparent supported filesystem on the card. Oh well, I have my windows boxes that I looked it up to, which work fine. And with my long experience of linux, I have found many many low grade and not so low grade hardware that will just not work on linux for lack of support. Just because you happened to buy 3 digital cameras that work under linux, dosnt mean that all digital camers work in linux. If you want your hardware to work in linux, you must go though the net, and make sure there is full support for the device you buy.
The goal of computer science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it.
Forgive me for not doing a preview first :(
The goal of computer science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it.