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Quickie Sunday
Mike Healy writes "Since Steve Blood, our event chairman, is out of the country - he is actually checking out a solar eclipse in Austria - i've taken it upon myself to give you all an update on the Bazaar. I'd wait for steve to get back, all bleary eyed, by i must squelch the rumors being promulgated by certain sales guys for other events, that we folded. This couldn't be further from the truth. Fact of the matter is we are scheduled, locked and loaded and PUMPED for December 14-16 at the javits NYC.
The Bazaar will be the first large scale conference on opensource software to hit the east coast and will stress program, program and program. Our Theory is that if you build it, they will .com
Not only does EarthWeb, by nature of being an IT content HUB have access to the freshest most imperative material, but we have also brought in an indstry expert, lydia Bennett of Dialogos fame, to aggregate and work closely with conference chairs and advisory board to make sure all tracks and tutorials are epic.
Check out the website for more on the program. The exhibit floor will be refreshingly unlike any you have seen in this space being made up of customed designed, turn key demo stations. This not only makes it a breeze for vendors , but also adds integity to the exhibit floor. No huge booths with revolving marquis, No loud PA systems. No freak shows. This is the wrong event to come to if you want to see Trumps daughter in a g string handing out T shirts... This is the right event if you want to meet some of the biggest brains out there and get no nonsense answers regarding opensource free software... Anyway, thats it for now.. More from Steve when he gets back"
no - for some reason all my posts start with a score of '2'. Must be because of my posting history (very few, if any are marked down - quite a few are marked up).
I know that was no pearl of wisdom, but I can't control what my initial score is (usually keeps me from posting this kind of drivel, it was Sunday, tho)
It wasn't moderated up. Once you get moderated up enough, your posts start at 2 autmatically. On the other hand, if you get moderated down enough, your posts start a 0, then I think -1 (I can't think of anyone besides DAVEO who got moderated down enough to get a 0). You can tell this post wasn't moderated because there's no adjective after the score.
For instance, my post will have a score of 2, without moderation. Sometimes I log out and post as an AC because I don't think what I have to say is worth +2. I sort of wish we were given the option of posting with a lower score.
Or maybe you're talking about something else, but as of now nothing in this thread has been moderated.
Why should we take you seriously? If you want to report serious problems on Slashdot, get a login! (j/k)
OFFTOPIC for sure...
Yep, something is screwey. All my slashbox prefs were reset to default. Stories are popping up then dissapearing. I guess they are still recovering from the problem (whatever that was) on Friday.
Anyone have an AdultCheck ID for the hardcore section?
Has anyone seen the new look themes.org... 1) Doesn't render properly in Netscape 4.x... 2) Non-intuitive interface is uneccessarily fiddly to use... BUT EVEN WORSE... Anyone seen the new wm.themes.org section... OH MY GOD WHAT HAVE THEY DONE... 1) The browsing interface is RIDICULOUSLY complicated, you have to go through a ridiculous slow cgi script just to browse categories... 2) All but 18 or so themes have mysteriously vanished and can no longer be obviously got at... I hope this is just a temporary glitch in things, they always seem to be fscking about with theses sites though, which were perfectly good anyway IMHO. Oh well I've probably got much better things to do anyway. Come to think of it I should have much better things to do than write this post too :-) have a good sunday people --Liam
First Post!
(yes i'm being very sarcastic)
If Lucas made the kid that young so that he could be traumatized by leaving his mom behind in slavery, why wasn't it a more traumatic and dramatic scene all around. The kid seems to adjust in just a day or three (nothing like getting to fly a real space ship to perk up your spirits)and two Jedi Knights, the ne plus ultra of good guys in that neck of the universe, seem remarkably unperturbed at the idea of taking her kid and just leaving her there, still owned by a guy who just lost a valuable asset in a wager and who will probably be looking for someone to take it out on. Of course that raises the question of what kind of slaveowner would allow a kid with that much mechanical ability to risk getting killed (and ending his value as a slave) in a race? Or is this George L.'s most subtle racism of all, the "kindly" slaveowner that they were better off being the property of than being free and poor?
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.
All they seem to want to talk about is IA32 and
IA64. Some gurus.
For every problem, there is at least one solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
Somebody's been watching too many budwiser commercials. Norm MacDonald's popularity is yet another red flag signalling the comming apocalypse :)
Anyone else notice on Netscape that the RC camera image does not stay on screen when the site is slow?
I've only seen the movie once, but all I remember was seeing [Darth Maul] stabbed, followed by a fall off-screen.
As my four-year-old says, "He lost his pants." Obi-Wan slashes him across the midsection, and then you clearly see two separate pieces of Darth Maul falling into the obligatory nigh-infinitely deep pit that seems to be required for just about every light saber duel.
I think you're confusing his death with that of Qui-Gon, who was killed with a stabbing thrust.
Ooh, a sarcasm detector. Oh, that's a real useful invention.
My hacking really started when I was at MIT,
there we had this zanny line printer with really cool code,
that we'd hacked up.
A few years later they gave us a lazer,
it printed really fast but the paper kept gettin' jamed,
to fix that was the plan.
But, the software was proprietary,
they didn't supply the source,
the software was proprietary,
and we felt totally screwed.
No-one had the source except for this one guy,
he was old, and had written half of the crappy code,
and man it showed. The guys from MIT went knockin' next mornin',
for the source we asked, he said "no way, I signed an NDA".
The software was proprietary,
they didn't supply the source,
the software was proprietary,
and man that old dude blowed.
How we know is more important than what we know.
Whoah. Reality check: "JAR JAR MUST DIE!" must be written atleast 50 times on any public posting about Star Wars.
It's inscribed on the inside of Rob Malda's magic ring (you know - one ring to rule them all, one ring to bind them..) that he uses to wield control over the 11 major news organizations....
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