I think the interesting part about these "bots" was that they seem more active in defense. Firewalls and tripwire are strictly defense and monitoring. I'll be the second (tbo was 1st) to admit there's some wild ass marketing going on, but it seems to me a bit more interesting than a "smarter firewall".
Interesting points to ponder. So it can detect DDOS and close things down? How? I though the whole idea of DDOS was that at first it just looks like heavy traffic. So how do you tell the difference? Or do you always just shut the box down when the traffic gets heavy (seems kinda stupid) Also, it can keep virii like ILY from entering the system (paraphrased). How? Will it stop all executables from being sent through email? Couldn't that be done by easier means? Please don't tell me they're going to scan email looking for questionable code (and invade my privacy). If anything this is a really cool look at how someone with an imagination can take a security util and bring it to life. Hello agent smith. I am only an egg, be kind... but do reply
Re:More recomendations and Re:I can't believe this
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Yay! Someone finally mentioned my favorite Studio Ghibli. Umi ni kikoeru (I can hear the sea/ocean). It feels much different than the other Miyazaki anime. I've pretty much seen them all (cept the latest). It felt really cool going to kichijoji (the train station from the beginning), standing on the platform, and realizing that I'd seen it in anime a few years before. And no I'm not otaku.:)
If you want to keep women, jews and non-whites in their place
I believe there is a difference between keeping people "in their place" and ensuring that people earn their place. Who thinks that some people (regardless of race, creed, color, blah blah blah) deserve special treatment (to the extent of giving contracts based completely on non intelligence measures)? Especially when so much (oh say the future of space exploration) is at stake. You wanna change the demographics of some field? Start when they're young, teach them right, and make them earn it just like everyone else. Handing out jobs to fulfill a quota isn't going to make minority group X more successful!
Note. I am not bashing Affirmative Action when done right. I'm all for balancing, if you do it the right way. Ie if two people are all but equal and competing for the job (for example in a white male dominated industry), then go for the balancing factor and give the position to the non white male... Make sense?
Won't work. There's always going to be some asshole screwing things up if you try for the "we're all friends here, we don't need rules" approach. And the 15 different check boxes covering everyone's possible mood or preference is too much of a pain. You can't make everyone happy, don't bother trying. Just make as many happy as possible and make sure you do the legal and moral CYA. One checkbox, in user preferences. My two bits.
So the creators of the constitution has so little faith in their own document that they needed to provide a means within that very document to invalidate it? If that's the case then it must be a pretty poor basis for government.
Ahem. *steps up to the podium*
I beg to differ. The framer's of the constitution did indeed have faith in the document they created and endorsed. It is a man with absolute (or even too much) power whom they felt a lack of trust and faith. What they did was provide a means by which the people could keep enough control over personal firearms to make a difference in the event that a tyrannical government should arise. On the 6 o'clock news you have seen what a child can do with a firearm. Now imagine what a few hundred thousand (if not millions) of trained adults can do if their way of life or families were threatened. I assure you that by implicitly giving us the right to own weapons, the framers of the constitution were installing the last, and perhaps most significant of checks and balances in the US Government.
For the sake of argument, let's suppose the federal government did become tyrannical. Then by definition it would not be respecting the constitution, including the second amendment. So whatever rights you had would be moot in just the case where you would need them!
For the sake of argument? We need not argue. It's already happening. The swine are drunk on power while we the majority of the people are content with our bread and circuses. But I do believe that even the most corrupt officials must respect the constitution to a degree. It is that degree of respect which protects us. And if/when they (yes I dare mention the nameless villains) do gain enough power to take away that right (or others) we will be ready to defend ourselves and our freedom.
But only if we can do it all in time to catch the latest episode of -insert tv show-
*steps away from the podium* I mention that last bit as a parting joke, but I am not surfing for a flamewar or trolling. I do believe that Americans live in what is the greatest nation on earth. It is not as great as it once was, but can be again. If only people would turn off the damn television.
I don't know, but if you ask me, thats a pretty F***ing big IF
That aside, who is to decide what is ethical and moral? Remember that whole thing about rights to free speech? Yeah I'm US centric. blow me. (Youch... that'll get a -1 flame bait)
NSI is a US Co, and has probably assigned a US court as the legal battle ground. So my assumtion wouldn't be too far off the mark.
Anyway, I think as a registered domain owner (with those NSI bastards of course) my options have been reduced to something like getting shot in the head or beaten with a baseball bat. Great.
ME: Oh yeah I'm F***ed
NSI: You leave, we take your domain. You stay we take your domain. You want to renew, we take rights to your first born child. Any questions? Talk to the legal department.
YOU AGREE THAT DOTSTER WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY (a) SUSPENSION OR LOSS OF THE DOMAIN NAME REGISTRATION IN YOUR NAME
which later includes
(f) EVENTS BEYOND DOTSTER'S REASONABLE CONTROL; (g) THE PROCESSING OF THIS APPLICATION;
I wonder if NSI would go so far as to revoke domains from people who attempt to change registrars. It would be a hell of a way to keep clients. At least if they do, dotster will be happily protected from liability.
It seems you have an incredibly naive view... blah blah blah... I have a couple myself that I'm very proud of. But patches are extremely rare... blah blah blah... The point of this is: Patches do _not_ happen until there is critical mass.
There is yet another possibility. Perhaps your code does scratch the itches of others to their satisfaction. It might not be that you lack critical mass... you could just have good code:) And if the code is good, why would people want/need to patch it?
because I heard about it on Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell
May I suggest you search for a different information source? Personally I've only listened to the guy for entertainment value. You might want to take anything you hear on the program with a grain of salt (so to speak).
Then again, if you haven't figured that out already...
positively-karma'd, registered users (or some smaller group of slashdot readers)
HELLO! you fucking dumbshit. Free speech == Free speech. Even when you don't agree with it. Once you start limiting things like this, where do you draw the line? Who decides? Next you'll wanna can posts that are anti-redhat, or pro MS... or Maybe Katz will talk the/. geeks into removing posts that he doesnt like... so only "special people" can read them, like his super 31337 karma whore buddies... yeah thats a fucking good idea..
If this is something you don't like to read... you should have seen the first line, realized what it was and skipped it. Truth be told, I didn't even read it til I saw your comment. Yes it is insulting and a crock of shit. But you have to remember. People have the right to speak, even when you don't like what they have to say.
Bruce Sterling writes science-fiction novels. He owns three computers, yet he has never been in a spacecraft. - from the bottom of the page.
I really got the feeling he was just pissed off cause he's never gotten the chance to ride in a shiny rocket. I love the guys cyberpunk lit, but this little article was pretty much trash.
You can add me to the list of people he insulted...
What would be really interesting would be some studies of electron-beam repulsion of incoming supersonic airstreams; anything which can propagate a pressure wave faster than sound (as an electron beam could do) could reduce shockwaves and their consequent drag. I saw something about this once, with a note that the research had been suppressed. Well, it's time to unwrap it.
Interesting. This goes along the same lines as some stuff I had read about a year ago (admittedly some conspiracy theory website I came across while doing leisure reading on the Philadelphia experiment) on propulsion techniques being tested on a modified B2. Something to do with packing electrons on the fore part of the wing and their effects on the airflow...
Not to say its true... just interesting to read. I had initially lumped the ion drive (Nasa DS1) in the same catagory of likelihood though. So we'll just have to wait and see what the G-men decide to let out of the bag.
Well lets see... take a peek at kvoicecontrol for KDE, compliments of Daniel Kiecza. I haven't checked in a while (may a bit outdated), but heres some linux speech apps For those that really wanna play, check out IS IP 's ASR project. For those that are interested in aquiring speech corpa (training data) check out The LDC-online. Get the free guest account, use your perl skills and your imagination, and suddenly the TIMIT corpus is yours:) Granted for non profit use only...
Email me if you're interested in this kinda stuff (or want my timitgrab.pl script)... its not my primary address, but I check it from time to time.
You`d probably be interested in kvoicecontrol for your particular demands. Oh yeah for my email, the 00 in r00t is two zeros.
Well lets see... take a peek at kvoicecontrol for KDE, compliments of Daniel Kiecza. I haven't checked in a while (may a bit outdated), but heres some linux speech apps For those that really wanna play, check out ISIP 's ASR project. For those that are interested in aquiring speech corpa (training data) check out The LDC-online. Get the free guest account, use your perl skills and your imagination, and suddenly the TIMIT corpus is yours:) Granted for non profit use only...
Email me if you're interested in this kinda stuff (or want my timitgrab.pl script)... its not my primary address, but I check it from time to time.
I'm really impress that they got their act together and put forward something to challenge the MS invasion of their school.
But as for the suggestion of a University wide distro, I don't think it would be as easy to implement as a school specific distro. Rather than rallying for an overall solution, why not get some people together at your university and put together a distribution?
I can see it now. Please click here to download the enlightenment theme for [University]
I gathered that the point of these tests was to measure personal qualities that standardized tests tend to miss.
yes but to understand the relevancy of such a battery of tests, shouldn't they use a more "diverse" group? Perhaps one which more closely reflects the overall demographics of the student population? It seems to me that with a biased test group, theres bound to be a number of the test subjects who will do well... but how well would they do in the same tests against a true cross section of the students applying to college?
To go even further... They probably should give these kids the SAT as well, then cross reference who did well on which tests and who ended up succeeding in college. Then I could see some merit in the study. But as I understand the study overall, I disagree that it will actually prove anything.
I didn't get the impression that this was a special test for minority groups
Um... if they are using a largely minority pool of test subjects, the test doesn't accurately reflect the demographics of traditional standardized tests.
And while I'm typing about this... So out of 3500 applicants, 500 get in (stats from the article). With that in mind, I find it interesting that they pushed the leadership aspect so hard. How are 8-10 kids going to work together to build something if every single one of them knows damn well that they have to be a leader in their group to "pass" the test? Especially if only one in seven of them gets in! Apparently someone forgot to tell the designers of this somewhat interesting test that not everyone can be a leader if you want to get a job done.
Decent speeds -> benchmarks, so btw... Did anyone else notice this?
Cut from the second to last page of the Benchmark report file available for dld here
Pentium III data from a commercially available major OEM mobile PC, 64M PC-100 SDRAM, 0.18u integrated L2 Coppermine @ 1.54V core on 440BX mobile module, ACPI power management at maximum power savings.
TM5400 data measured on TM FTM platform, 64M PC-133 SDRAM, 266 MHz @ 1.225V - 533 MHz @ 1.6V, ACPI at maximum power savings, LongRun TM power management enabled.
TM3120 data measured on TM WTM platform, 64M PC-133 SDRAM, ACPI power management at maximum savings.
So from what I read here, they used superior ram for the Crusoe chips, and if you look at the results, they apparently combined the results for the TM5400 at 266MHz and 533MHz in a way that I was not able to figure out by reading the document. ie on their results page they had 3 columns: Mobile Pentium III 500 MHz, TM5400 266-533 MHz LongRun, and TM5400 Mobile Pentium III Ratio.
If it does not seem strange, please grab the doc for yourself and read it before flaming away. tx.
Re: "Young and impatient"
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Warning: You seem to be suffering from a common illness known as "old age". Please refrain from posting til after your midlife crisis is over or unless your postings are previewed by someone who is too young to legally purchase alcohol.
Joking aside. If you want something to happen, there are two things you can do: help make it happen. hope someone else does it.
You seem to be a member of the second group. As you can tell... I want to be part of the first.
And yes if I had the $ I'd be donating cash to NASA or buying stock in a company trying to get into the space business.
Just because your buck rogers fantasy didn't come true, you seem to believe that a revolution in space travel won't be happening anytime soon. But it's comming. Why? Private industry. I doubt Uncle Sam will get us anywhere any time soon, but I think private industry will. Companies are going after the x prize (for the first commerically produced re-usable lauch vehicle) worth $10 Million. The rotary rocket is now in test flight.
Things are happening. And momentum will grow.
But of course, being young and impatient, I of course wish it would happen faster!
It seems that people in growing numbers are idolizing this dude from Finland who had this cool idea. Stop. Thats dumb. Sure, say his idea is neat or say you're impressed by what he has helped accomplish with the help of many talented people. Sure be glad you don't have to use Winblows. But I worry when people start tying someone like Linus (remember the global domination thing?) to their ideals and using him as their representative (people have very different views of what OSS is and what it should be). Then we get all sorts of people who stop thinking whenever someone says bad things about linus or linux, and start saying dumb $h!t. After all, when everything is said and done, he's just some guy from Finland who had a cool idea.
This post will of course be moderated down. It is after all Offtopic, Inflammatory, Inappropriate, Illegal, and Offensive.:)
Disclaimer: Yes I know, not everyone posts dumb shit... I reserve the right to have bad spelling I set my threshold at -1 I do not support anonymous posting. I do not support the use of hot grits for anything other than nourishment. Basically I reserve the right to do whatever pisses you off. Just cause I can.
>(the simple fact that most people were not >fammiliar with it tells me that it wasn't >documented well)
that or people just don't read the docs. And if they don't, thats not Id's fault.
How can you expect a software co. to "overtly" document every single thing their product does? That is what the README file and other such docs are for.
I think that this would be a much more interesting discussion if everyone did a bit more research before flaming (RTFM at least).
Try using bold for emphasis... its much easier on the eyes:)
"Insightful" my arse. Why is it that everyone feels they need to recieve an apology? I think Mr Carmack's message shows that he feels he and/or id did nothing wrong in collecting that info. Especially when such a feature _was_ documented in previous releases. I personally haven't read through all the docs for the latest release, but I'm gonna give it a good look-through before I start wondering (or flaming)...
And that last Hmmmm was a bad cheap shot, and even more so when Mr. AC, you don't even use an account yourself.
I feel your pain. I've basically implemented 90% of the "unmaintainable code" rules. Not because I was trying to, but because of the ever expanding "feature creap". My most favorite scenario:
Friday:
Me: Well I'm done with that latest addition you asked for. I'm going to clean the code up a bit and then head home. PHB: Oh that can wait, can you add -insert feature here- and have it up by the end of the day on monday?
Its so hard to get mad when they're paying you that much. And in the end, it is job security;)
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Interesting points to ponder. So it can detect DDOS and close things down? How? I though the whole idea of DDOS was that at first it just looks like heavy traffic. So how do you tell the difference? Or do you always just shut the box down when the traffic gets heavy (seems kinda stupid) Also, it can keep virii like ILY from entering the system (paraphrased). How? Will it stop all executables from being sent through email? Couldn't that be done by easier means? Please don't tell me they're going to scan email looking for questionable code (and invade my privacy).
If anything this is a really cool look at how someone with an imagination can take a security util and bring it to life. Hello agent smith.
I am only an egg, be kind... but do reply
Yay! Someone finally mentioned my favorite Studio Ghibli. Umi ni kikoeru (I can hear the sea/ocean). It feels much different than the other Miyazaki anime. I've pretty much seen them all (cept the latest). :)
It felt really cool going to kichijoji (the train station from the beginning), standing on the platform, and realizing that I'd seen it in anime a few years before. And no I'm not otaku.
I believe there is a difference between keeping people "in their place" and ensuring that people earn their place. Who thinks that some people (regardless of race, creed, color, blah blah blah) deserve special treatment (to the extent of giving contracts based completely on non intelligence measures)? Especially when so much (oh say the future of space exploration) is at stake. You wanna change the demographics of some field? Start when they're young, teach them right, and make them earn it just like everyone else.
Handing out jobs to fulfill a quota isn't going to make minority group X more successful!
Note. I am not bashing Affirmative Action when done right. I'm all for balancing, if you do it the right way. Ie if two people are all but equal and competing for the job (for example in a white male dominated industry), then go for the balancing factor and give the position to the non white male... Make sense?
Hey looking for a free ssh client?
Fissh
Won't work. There's always going to be some asshole screwing things up if you try for the "we're all friends here, we don't need rules" approach.
And the 15 different check boxes covering everyone's possible mood or preference is too much of a pain. You can't make everyone happy, don't bother trying. Just make as many happy as possible and make sure you do the legal and moral CYA. One checkbox, in user preferences.
My two bits.
Ahem. *steps up to the podium*
I beg to differ. The framer's of the constitution did indeed have faith in the document they created and endorsed. It is a man with absolute (or even too much) power whom they felt a lack of trust and faith.
What they did was provide a means by which the people could keep enough control over personal firearms to make a difference in the event that a tyrannical government should arise. On the 6 o'clock news you have seen what a child can do with a firearm. Now imagine what a few hundred thousand (if not millions) of trained adults can do if their way of life or families were threatened. I assure you that by implicitly giving us the right to own weapons, the framers of the constitution were installing the last, and perhaps most significant of checks and balances in the US Government.
For the sake of argument, let's suppose the federal government did become tyrannical. Then by definition it would not be respecting the constitution, including the second amendment. So whatever rights you had would be moot in just the case where you would need them!
For the sake of argument? We need not argue. It's already happening. The swine are drunk on power while we the majority of the people are content with our bread and circuses. But I do believe that even the most corrupt officials must respect the constitution to a degree. It is that degree of respect which protects us. And if/when they (yes I dare mention the nameless villains) do gain enough power to take away that right (or others) we will be ready to defend ourselves and our freedom.
But only if we can do it all in time to catch the latest episode of -insert tv show-
*steps away from the podium*
I mention that last bit as a parting joke, but I am not surfing for a flamewar or trolling. I do believe that Americans live in what is the greatest nation on earth. It is not as great as it once was, but can be again. If only people would turn off the damn television.
HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHA
okok... MUHAHAHAHAHAHA
*sigh*....
some people.
I don't know, but if you ask me, thats a pretty F***ing big IF
That aside, who is to decide what is ethical and moral? Remember that whole thing about rights to free speech? Yeah I'm US centric. blow me. (Youch... that'll get a -1 flame bait)
NSI is a US Co, and has probably assigned a US court as the legal battle ground. So my assumtion wouldn't be too far off the mark.
Anyway, I think as a registered domain owner (with those NSI bastards of course) my options have been reduced to something like getting shot in the head or beaten with a baseball bat. Great.
ME: Oh yeah I'm F***ed
NSI: You leave, we take your domain. You stay we take your domain. You want to renew, we take rights to your first born child. Any questions? Talk to the legal department.
YOU AGREE THAT DOTSTER WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY (a) SUSPENSION OR LOSS OF THE DOMAIN NAME REGISTRATION IN YOUR NAME
which later includes
(f) EVENTS BEYOND DOTSTER'S REASONABLE CONTROL; (g) THE PROCESSING OF THIS APPLICATION;
I wonder if NSI would go so far as to revoke domains from people who attempt to change registrars. It would be a hell of a way to keep clients. At least if they do, dotster will be happily protected from liability.
Nah... I'd write "First Post!"
It seems you have an incredibly naive view ... blah blah blah ... I have a couple myself that I'm very proud of. But patches are extremely rare ... blah blah blah ... The point of this is: Patches do _not_ happen until there is critical mass.
There is yet another possibility. Perhaps your code does scratch the itches of others to their satisfaction. It might not be that you lack critical mass... you could just have good code :) And if the code is good, why would people want/need to patch it?
May I suggest you search for a different information source? Personally I've only listened to the guy for entertainment value. You might want to take anything you hear on the program with a grain of salt (so to speak).
Then again, if you haven't figured that out already...
HELLO! you fucking dumbshit. Free speech == Free speech. Even when you don't agree with it. Once you start limiting things like this, where do you draw the line? Who decides? Next you'll wanna can posts that are anti-redhat, or pro MS... or Maybe Katz will talk the /. geeks into removing posts that he doesnt like... so only "special people" can read them, like his super 31337 karma whore buddies... yeah thats a fucking good idea..
If this is something you don't like to read... you should have seen the first line, realized what it was and skipped it. Truth be told, I didn't even read it til I saw your comment. Yes it is insulting and a crock of shit. But you have to remember. People have the right to speak, even when you don't like what they have to say.
I really got the feeling he was just pissed off cause he's never gotten the chance to ride in a shiny rocket. I love the guys cyberpunk lit, but this little article was pretty much trash.
You can add me to the list of people he insulted...
Interesting. This goes along the same lines as some stuff I had read about a year ago (admittedly some conspiracy theory website I came across while doing leisure reading on the Philadelphia experiment) on propulsion techniques being tested on a modified B2. Something to do with packing electrons on the fore part of the wing and their effects on the airflow...
Not to say its true... just interesting to read. I had initially lumped the ion drive (Nasa DS1) in the same catagory of likelihood though. So we'll just have to wait and see what the G-men decide to let out of the bag.
Well lets see... take a peek at kvoicecontrol for KDE, compliments of Daniel Kiecza. :) Granted for non profit use only...
I haven't checked in a while (may a bit outdated), but heres some linux speech apps
For those that really wanna play, check out IS IP 's ASR project.
For those that are interested in aquiring speech corpa (training data) check out The LDC-online. Get the free guest account, use your perl skills and your imagination, and suddenly the TIMIT corpus is yours
Email me if you're interested in this kinda stuff (or want my timitgrab.pl script)... its not my primary address, but I check it from time to time.
You`d probably be interested in kvoicecontrol for your particular demands.
Oh yeah for my email, the 00 in r00t is two zeros.
I haven't checked in a while (may a bit outdated), but heres some linux speech apps
For those that really wanna play, check out ISIP 's ASR project.
For those that are interested in aquiring speech corpa (training data) check out The LDC-online. Get the free guest account, use your perl skills and your imagination, and suddenly the TIMIT corpus is yours
Email me if you're interested in this kinda stuff (or want my timitgrab.pl script)... its not my primary address, but I check it from time to time.
I'm really impress that they got their act together and put forward something to challenge the MS invasion of their school.
But as for the suggestion of a University wide distro, I don't think it would be as easy to implement as a school specific distro. Rather than rallying for an overall solution, why not get some people together at your university and put together a distribution?
I can see it now. Please click here to download the enlightenment theme for [University]
yes but to understand the relevancy of such a battery of tests, shouldn't they use a more "diverse" group? Perhaps one which more closely reflects the overall demographics of the student population? It seems to me that with a biased test group, theres bound to be a number of the test subjects who will do well... but how well would they do in the same tests against a true cross section of the students applying to college?
To go even further... They probably should give these kids the SAT as well, then cross reference who did well on which tests and who ended up succeeding in college. Then I could see some merit in the study. But as I understand the study overall, I disagree that it will actually prove anything.
I didn't get the impression that this was a special test for minority groups
Um... if they are using a largely minority pool of test subjects, the test doesn't accurately reflect the demographics of traditional standardized tests.
And while I'm typing about this... So out of 3500 applicants, 500 get in (stats from the article).
With that in mind, I find it interesting that they pushed the leadership aspect so hard. How are 8-10 kids going to work together to build something if every single one of them knows damn well that they have to be a leader in their group to "pass" the test? Especially if only one in seven of them gets in!
Apparently someone forgot to tell the designers of this somewhat interesting test that not everyone can be a leader if you want to get a job done.
Did anyone else notice this?
Cut from the second to last page of the Benchmark report file available for dld here
Pentium III data from a commercially available major OEM mobile PC, 64M PC-100 SDRAM, 0.18u integrated L2 Coppermine @ 1.54V core on 440BX mobile module, ACPI power management at maximum power savings.
TM5400 data measured on TM FTM platform, 64M PC-133 SDRAM, 266 MHz @ 1.225V - 533 MHz @ 1.6V, ACPI at maximum power savings, LongRun TM power management enabled.
TM3120 data measured on TM WTM platform, 64M PC-133 SDRAM, ACPI power management at maximum savings.
So from what I read here, they used superior ram for the Crusoe chips, and if you look at the results, they apparently combined the results for the TM5400 at 266MHz and 533MHz in a way that I was not able to figure out by reading the document. ie on their results page they had 3 columns: Mobile Pentium III 500 MHz, TM5400 266-533 MHz LongRun, and TM5400 Mobile Pentium III Ratio.
If it does not seem strange, please grab the doc for yourself and read it before flaming away. tx.
Joking aside. If you want something to happen, there are two things you can do:
help make it happen.
hope someone else does it.
You seem to be a member of the second group. As you can tell... I want to be part of the first.
And yes if I had the $ I'd be donating cash to NASA or buying stock in a company trying to get into the space business.
Just because your buck rogers fantasy didn't come true, you seem to believe that a revolution in space travel won't be happening anytime soon. But it's comming. Why? Private industry. I doubt Uncle Sam will get us anywhere any time soon, but I think private industry will. Companies are going after the x prize (for the first commerically produced re-usable lauch vehicle) worth $10 Million. The rotary rocket is now in test flight.
Things are happening. And momentum will grow.
But of course, being young and impatient, I of course wish it would happen faster!
It seems that people in growing numbers are idolizing this dude from Finland who had this cool idea. Stop. Thats dumb. Sure, say his idea is neat or say you're impressed by what he has helped accomplish with the help of many talented people. Sure be glad you don't have to use Winblows.
But I worry when people start tying someone like Linus (remember the global domination thing?) to their ideals and using him as their representative (people have very different views of what OSS is and what it should be). Then we get all sorts of people who stop thinking whenever someone says bad things about linus or linux, and start saying dumb $h!t. After all, when everything is said and done, he's just some guy from Finland who had a cool idea.
This post will of course be moderated down. It is after all Offtopic, Inflammatory, Inappropriate, Illegal, and Offensive. :)
Disclaimer:
Yes I know, not everyone posts dumb shit...
I reserve the right to have bad spelling
I set my threshold at -1
I do not support anonymous posting.
I do not support the use of hot grits for anything other than nourishment.
Basically I reserve the right to do whatever pisses you off. Just cause I can.
>fammiliar with it tells me that it wasn't
>documented well)
that or people just don't read the docs. And if they don't, thats not Id's fault.
How can you expect a software co. to "overtly" document every single thing their product does? That is what the README file and other such docs are for.
I think that this would be a much more interesting discussion if everyone did a bit more research before flaming (RTFM at least).
Try using bold for emphasis... its much easier on the eyes :)
And that last Hmmmm was a bad cheap shot, and even more so when Mr. AC, you don't even use an account yourself.
Friday:
Me: Well I'm done with that latest addition you asked for. I'm going to clean the code up a bit and then head home.
PHB: Oh that can wait, can you add -insert feature here- and have it up by the end of the day on monday?
Its so hard to get mad when they're paying you that much. And in the end, it is job security ;)