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Linux Kernel 2.6.0-test10 Released
antrix angler writes "Linus Torvalds released the 2.6.0-test10 Linux kernel today, tentatively calling it the "stoned beaver" release. Linus plans to hand the kernel over to Andrew Morton in a few weeks, and then it will be up to Andrew to decide when we see the final 2.6.0 stable kernel. Download it from a mirror."
Nobody else has a dorky hostname like 'aragorn'.
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
- Machines do not know how to build tall towers for solar panels.
- Lasers only work on short range, and even then only when it doesn't endanger humans.
- Being impaled by 4 inch thick spikes allows you to continue talking about what you really wanted to do, but didn't have time for the other day, but really regret, so I'll say it now, because the other day I should have said and done this, but I said something else, and did I mentions I regret not doing that? Oh and Aaarrgh.
- Super-duper-hi-tech robotsuits come without ANY armor for the driver.
- Super-duper-hi-tech walking robotsuits have to be reloaded by clumsy teenagers with wheelbarrows.
- Super-duper-hi-tech squidlike robots forget to attack said clumsy teenagers reloading the walking robotsuits.
- Robots dig through 5 miles of bedrock, instead of going in throught a scrummy steel gate held shut by a single chain.
- No spare EMP parts are kept in ZION.
- The middle of Machine City has an operational interface into the matrix for humans, although no human is ever supposed to be there in the first place.
- 5.000.000.000 tons of steel robots hurled at your ship is not a problem, but the sight of a few sentinels, who suddenly lost their lasers, is somehow relevant and terrifying.
I could go on.
Damn, I wanted my money and time back after that movie.
I could care less, but not without a lobotomy
They don't call it 'stoned beaver' for nothing. Talk about odd problems...
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A couple of points on this:
1.) Solar panels - I read this as a subtle point of design: The machines haven't the imagination to look up and see beyond the clouds.
2.) matrix interface in Machine City - you don't think they can manufacture one quickly? Perhaps the interface itself is actually standard machine IO, and the modules embedded in people are to make the people compatible with the machine IO?
Now some more details:
- Why do machines need any towers at all? They don't have petrified grits, er, I mean, they don't have to impress any neighbors with their wealth and power. Do you really think there is any other reason to build a tower today?
- 5 miles of bedrock... and they decided to go through the front entrance instead of going around to where the soft squishy bits were?
- Multiple boring machines but they all decided to come into one spot instead of a multi-front attack?
- Humans have the tech to restart/reset their ship by pumping what looks a lot like a handbrake mounted on the ceiling... but they somehow can't figure out how to wind up a mechanical spring when they have power to spare and then just have a pushbutton restart? Especially since pumping too fast causes it to fail.
- One woman working on her own can make at least 6 rockets in a few hours. From what I can tell, there was only one other woman willing to do this.
- Their infantry consists of a hallway of maybe a dozen people. And only two teams actually make an effort. "Where's my infantry" indeed.
- After the pep-talk/APU rally - some number of the APUs seem to have gone off to take a coffee break, as there seem to be a lot fewer of them when it comes time to actually shoot the guns.
Anyway... I'm a fool cause I went to see it a second time.
Oh, and my comment is off-topic to the article, but not off-topic to the parent. Guess that makes me doubly-evil, huh?
GIMP 1.3.23 is also out today.
It is expected to be the last release before the 2.0 pre-release cicle starts (and strings are frozen for translators to work on them)
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Yeah, and at least fifteen slashdotters told me that my problems with the second movie would "all be answered by the third." Guess they were wrong, huh? The series reminds me a lot of Star Wars (The real one, not the second series), which was good when I was ten, but kind of sits on my shelf as a DVD now that I am older. The second and third weren't even any good when I was a teen. Enough ranting...
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