He should have included a third dimension that covered access to energy, especially fossil fuels, over the same time period, or maybe access to education. I think some really interesting things would come out of it.
They do this to their own detriment (if true). Look at the way Microsoft rose to power: coddling developers. Don't fight off fans of your hardware (ie the true hackers)--embrace them. More unlocked iPhones == more sold iPhones. I'm sure not switching to AT&T for some iPhone device. *shrug*
You know, you should spend your $75 on a SoundBlaster Live Platinum with the LiveDrive extension. They are pretty cheap. The LiveDrive extension, which sits in a drive bay on your machine, has a digital, optical output that you can use to route audio to your receiver, if it has an optical input. My cheapo, kenwood VR505 has such an input. The cable is somewhat expensive, but the sound quality is worth it.
With it, you can even input a digital, optical signal from, say, a playstation2, mix it with any audio you like, and output it optically back to your receiver [link]. Hope that helps.
I can't remember what PKH short story it was in--I thought it was a story included in the Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford--but it included a depiction of advertisements of the future, beamed behind into your eye on spaceflights so that even when you closed them, the advertisement was all you could see. If it isn't content that is nothing more than cleverly dressed adverts, it will be adverts that you are strapped down to watch.
Destroy your television now, while you still can! It is trying to control your behaviour! BWAHAHAHAHAHA. Man, I forgot how much I liked PKD's works. Perfect reading for the fanatic, paranoid, 20-something, college-student, experimenting things they shouldn't be, slashdot demographic. Should be popular with all the wierdo's around here.
obvious. Cancel your service. Call them up, explain to them why you are canceling (and yell at them for good measure, especially if you can get a manager on the phone) and when they offer you the half-assed deal to keep you on, cancel anyway. And threaten to cancel your phone service if you have access to another provider. I did this to bellsouth with great results, but you have to be willing to step down to 56k land.
But geeks are suckers, they can't be without their broad-band fix. And as long as people are willing to pay, companies are willing to charge. Stand up and let them know how much the service is worth. (And go outside.) Or you can continue to be a sucker and pay $7 more per month.
For windows. Any one know of apps for Linux?
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I've searched around and found one app for Linux that does about what Speak Freely does: RAT.
Anyone know of other apps that can do this sort of thing for Linux or other Free Unix-like systems?
Okay, you've finally proved yourself to be simply a troll. Your post doesn't even have any content or a point to it.
If you think your asinine little link proves the double standard of the editors, think again. I make no claim as to their not having one, but you fail to prove it. Firstly, there is... more... than... one... editor. Secondly, quote them, if you want to prove it. That is, quote the parts they actually write (which is the part not in italics).
Let me put this as delicately as possible - I hope the ass reaming from the fiery clue stick of goodness--studded for your pleasure--was enjoyable. Now go home, kid.
He called you a troll because your original post made the "Slashdot is one person" logical fallacy. If one slashdoter states an opinion and another slashdoter states a conflicting opinion, there is no double standard. Only if the same slashdoter expresses conflicting opinions is there a double standard.
Repeat after me: slashdot is not one person. Slashdot is not one person. They don't have to all agree and be logically consistant.
If you want to point out logical problems in posters' philosophies, you need to do so by linking to a post where they say one thing and linking to a post where they say the oposite. And this is best done in reply to one of their messages, not as a parent post to a story.
If you don't understand this, you are stupid, or you are a troll.
Your imitation needs work; you have to let it kinda trail off while you look intense and unhappy. Mine would have been better if the goddamn lameness filter wasn't such a piece of shit.
I don't know if I agree with your view on the imposibility of re-animating Bruce. CG has come in leaps and bounds. I do a lot of graphics related work, but I still find myself astounded every now and then with some of the new techniques being published. Even if they fail to capture Bruce, the problems they solve on the way should make for interesting research. Don't prejudge this, it could blow you away.
Debian comes close to this but in a much different way that is very top heavy in terms of people assembling packages, etc.
Care to go into detail on this, and exactly how it is top heavy compared to people having to maintain ports or system source? That stuff doesn't magically appear and keep itself fixed.
FreeBSD people can talk all they want about how easy it is to keep their stuff up to date, but frankly, it doesn't compare to apt-get in the ease of use department, not to mention the speed department on my crappy p100 NAT box that takes *forever* to cvsup and recompile a shit load of source. Course, on a beefy box that is less of a problem.
I like FreeBSD, but after using Debian, I wonder why I ever tolerated spending so much time updating my OS, GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, or otherwise.
Heh, but really. With everything moving to some sort of pay for content model, all of those computers our tax dollars put into schools for the kiddies to reach that fabled information super-highway aren't going to be as useful as they once were. Maybe at home children can convince their parents to enter that cc number--my parents would have laughed at me if I had dared ask for something like that as a child, but I doubt children in school are going to be able to do so.
Oh well, as long as individuals keep putting out content independently and without charge, the internet will survive.
Bite, scratch, and claw? Heh, back in my day
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my boy, the Karma Wyrms of old regularly got well over 200 karma. If you are having to bite and scratch, you are doing something wrong. Spinning your wheels but not going anywhere.
You have two choices on how to accumulate karma, the path of light and the path of dark, and millions of variations on the two.
If you want to go after karma the honest way, here are some hints.
* Post early. I can't stress this enough. Moderators browse at highest score first, so the only way to get noticed is to post early before a lot of people have been bumped up into the 4-5 range.
* Post content not crap. Don't just voice some uninformed opinion on something. If you catch a story early, before the site linked to is/.'ed, read the article! Have something to say.
* Don't reply to other posts, make a reply to the story. Moderators don't go through replies to other peoples comments as much as they see the parents.
* Use a good subject. Moderators notice funny titles; it gets you noticed.
* Use your +1 to your advantage. Get it in early and strike hard. But don't use it all of the time, or you might get modded down a lot.
* And don't let me catch you saying something like: "I know I will lose karma for this, but...", "I know this is an unpopular opinion with the/. horde and moderators only mod up stories the sheep agree with", "Here goes all karma...", or "Oh well, I have karma to burn..." If you do I will mod you down to karma hell on every post you've ever made. I've said it before and I'll say it again. Sometimes on/. it seems like (+5, Insightful) means only "This user doesn't feel confident that his opinion stands on its own and thus needs to end his posts by suggesting he would only be moderated down because his views are unpopular to the/. horde."
If you wish to take the dark side, ie karma whoring, start reading the slashdot underbelly of trolls. They will tell you how.
Good luck and enjoy the game. You have already lost.:)
Yes, when you open the deadly 32nd chamber of /.
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But not at a measly 40 karma. When you get 2.147e9 karma points, you unlock the deadly 32nd chamber of slashdot, in which you gain unlimited moderation abilities and spiritual bliss. You do know how to break the 50 karma limit, right?
Right? If not, you better start reading/. at -1 threshold, newest first. You will find the anser in the pink underbelly of the/. horde. I will start you off in the right direction.
There are many paths to breaking the karma limit. In fact, the limit itself isn't a real limit at all, but your own mind restricting you from realizing your full potential. The obvious shortest path to breaking this limit is to fully realize this truth. Of course, this is easier said than done; it takes years of mental and physical training. I doubt you could manage it if you haven't even yet gotten 40 karma.
Another path to breaking the limit is to go back in the other direction. Negativity meets positivity when you roll over. Troll long and hard enough to drive your karma so low that it rolls over to an astoundingly high positive number.
Of course, these are only two of the infinite number of paths you can take to karmic bliss.
How about an NNTP gateway? I'll gladly subscribe.
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Taco, I've posted this before, but I will post it again. I would be willing to pay for an ad-free, subscription based NNTP gateway to slashdot. I think something in the range of $5-10 US / month or maybe $50 US for a whole year would be reasonable, as long as there aren't any ads and it works with GNUS. (I know GNUS has a/. backend, but it sucks, sorry. I don't want to worry about parsing html to get the content into GNUS.)
Think about it, cause there isn't anything else you could offer me that I would pay for.
Okay, I'll bite. If your organization is so weak
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that you can't institute coding standards, then yeah, stay away from perl. And from C, C++, java, lisp, etc etc etc. Unreadable code can be written in any language. But I say fix the real problem; gather your developers and put into place a set of coding standards and hold code reviews.
Perl isn't your problem, your organization is--try fixing it before you worry about features in language X.
And remember to use the language element that when done right makes any code readable: the comment.
I'll be blunt. Open source programmers need to stop being so darned lazy about e
rror handling. That obviously doesn't include all open source programmers. You k
now who you are.
If you want a demonstration of what I mean, start your favorite GUI-based open s
ource applications from the command line of an X terminal instead of a menu or i
con. In most cases this will cause the errors and warnings that the application
generates to appear in the terminal window where you started it. (There are exce
ptions, depending on the application or the script that launches the application.)
Many of the applications I use on a daily basis generate anywhere from a few war
nings or error messages to a few hundred. And I'm not just talking about the deb
ug messages that programmers use to track what a program is doing. I mean warnin
g messages about missing files, missing objects, null pointers, and worse.
I'll be blunt, too. I got your fix RIGHT HERE! I have whipped up some open source magic that uses a powerful error-finding heuristic in combination with a correction algorithm. It should fix all of these problems you have described.
----CUT HERE----
#!/bin/bash
if [ "$#" -lt "1" ]; then
echo "Usage:" $0 "<program> {<args>}
exit 1
fi
$* 2>/dev/null
echo "All errors corrected!"
----CUT HERE----
You are not expected to understand how this works. Send me beer, we open source guys like that.
Slashdot Mirror
Unlock the bootloader, you say? Tell that to all of the D2/DX users out there.
He should have included a third dimension that covered access to energy, especially fossil fuels, over the same time period, or maybe access to education. I think some really interesting things would come out of it.
AMEN BROTHER
(upcase-region 1 (buffer-end 1))^X^E
^X^C
Only barbarians use caps lock. True gentlemen prefer the key to be mapped to an extra Control.
However, I'll quickly turn into a barbarian if you take the whole key away.
That way, they can never take my /. account!
Mine would have to be Asimov in a heartbeat.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov
They do this to their own detriment (if true). Look at the way Microsoft rose to power: coddling developers. Don't fight off fans of your hardware (ie the true hackers)--embrace them. More unlocked iPhones == more sold iPhones. I'm sure not switching to AT&T for some iPhone device. *shrug*
Let them do it. Watch their market share.
You must be new here.
You really need an RSS feed for uncoverer.com.
You know, you should spend your $75 on a SoundBlaster Live Platinum with the LiveDrive extension. They are pretty cheap. The LiveDrive extension, which sits in a drive bay on your machine, has a digital, optical output that you can use to route audio to your receiver, if it has an optical input. My cheapo, kenwood VR505 has such an input. The cable is somewhat expensive, but the sound quality is worth it.
With it, you can even input a digital, optical signal from, say, a playstation2, mix it with any audio you like, and output it optically back to your receiver [link]. Hope that helps.
I can't remember what PKH short story it was in--I thought it was a story included in the Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford--but it included a depiction of advertisements of the future, beamed behind into your eye on spaceflights so that even when you closed them, the advertisement was all you could see. If it isn't content that is nothing more than cleverly dressed adverts, it will be adverts that you are strapped down to watch.
Destroy your television now, while you still can! It is trying to control your behaviour! BWAHAHAHAHAHA. Man, I forgot how much I liked PKD's works. Perfect reading for the fanatic, paranoid, 20-something, college-student, experimenting things they shouldn't be, slashdot demographic. Should be popular with all the wierdo's around here.
obvious. Cancel your service. Call them up, explain to them why you are canceling (and yell at them for good measure, especially if you can get a manager on the phone) and when they offer you the half-assed deal to keep you on, cancel anyway. And threaten to cancel your phone service if you have access to another provider. I did this to bellsouth with great results, but you have to be willing to step down to 56k land.
But geeks are suckers, they can't be without their broad-band fix. And as long as people are willing to pay, companies are willing to charge. Stand up and let them know how much the service is worth. (And go outside.) Or you can continue to be a sucker and pay $7 more per month.
I've searched around and found one app for Linux that does about what Speak Freely does: RAT.
Anyone know of other apps that can do this sort of thing for Linux or other Free Unix-like systems?
I don't see any mention of non-suid clients in the advisory? Does any fellow /.er know if such clients are vulnerable to escalation of privileges?
Okay, you've finally proved yourself to be simply a troll. Your post doesn't even have any content or a point to it.
... more ... than ... one ... editor. Secondly, quote them, if you want to prove it. That is, quote the parts they actually write (which is the part not in italics).
If you think your asinine little link proves the double standard of the editors, think again. I make no claim as to their not having one, but you fail to prove it. Firstly, there is
Let me put this as delicately as possible - I hope the ass reaming from the fiery clue stick of goodness--studded for your pleasure--was enjoyable. Now go home, kid.
He called you a troll because your original post made the "Slashdot is one person" logical fallacy. If one slashdoter states an opinion and another slashdoter states a conflicting opinion, there is no double standard. Only if the same slashdoter expresses conflicting opinions is there a double standard.
Repeat after me: slashdot is not one person. Slashdot is not one person. They don't have to all agree and be logically consistant.
If you want to point out logical problems in posters' philosophies, you need to do so by linking to a post where they say one thing and linking to a post where they say the oposite. And this is best done in reply to one of their messages, not as a parent post to a story.
If you don't understand this, you are stupid, or you are a troll.
Your imitation needs work; you have to let it kinda trail off while you look intense and unhappy. Mine would have been better if the goddamn lameness filter wasn't such a piece of shit.
I don't know if I agree with your view on the imposibility of re-animating Bruce. CG has come in leaps and bounds. I do a lot of graphics related work, but I still find myself astounded every now and then with some of the new techniques being published. Even if they fail to capture Bruce, the problems they solve on the way should make for interesting research. Don't prejudge this, it could blow you away.
Wow, the lameness filter really sucks. qwerty
Debian comes close to this but in a much different way that is very top heavy in terms of people assembling packages, etc.
Care to go into detail on this, and exactly how it is top heavy compared to people having to maintain ports or system source? That stuff doesn't magically appear and keep itself fixed.
FreeBSD people can talk all they want about how easy it is to keep their stuff up to date, but frankly, it doesn't compare to apt-get in the ease of use department, not to mention the speed department on my crappy p100 NAT box that takes *forever* to cvsup and recompile a shit load of source. Course, on a beefy box that is less of a problem.
I like FreeBSD, but after using Debian, I wonder why I ever tolerated spending so much time updating my OS, GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, or otherwise.
Heh, but really. With everything moving to some sort of pay for content model, all of those computers our tax dollars put into schools for the kiddies to reach that fabled information super-highway aren't going to be as useful as they once were. Maybe at home children can convince their parents to enter that cc number--my parents would have laughed at me if I had dared ask for something like that as a child, but I doubt children in school are going to be able to do so.
Oh well, as long as individuals keep putting out content independently and without charge, the internet will survive.
my boy, the Karma Wyrms of old regularly got well over 200 karma. If you are having to bite and scratch, you are doing something wrong. Spinning your wheels but not going anywhere.
/.'ed, read the article! Have something to say.
/. horde and moderators only mod up stories the sheep agree with", "Here goes all karma...", or "Oh well, I have karma to burn..." If you do I will mod you down to karma hell on every post you've ever made. I've said it before and I'll say it again. Sometimes on /. it seems like (+5, Insightful) means only "This user doesn't feel confident that his opinion stands on its own and thus needs to end his posts by suggesting he would only be moderated down because his views are unpopular to the /. horde."
:)
You have two choices on how to accumulate karma, the path of light and the path of dark, and millions of variations on the two.
If you want to go after karma the honest way, here are some hints.
* Post early. I can't stress this enough. Moderators browse at highest score first, so the only way to get noticed is to post early before a lot of people have been bumped up into the 4-5 range.
* Post content not crap. Don't just voice some uninformed opinion on something. If you catch a story early, before the site linked to is
* Don't reply to other posts, make a reply to the story. Moderators don't go through replies to other peoples comments as much as they see the parents.
* Use a good subject. Moderators notice funny titles; it gets you noticed.
* Use your +1 to your advantage. Get it in early and strike hard. But don't use it all of the time, or you might get modded down a lot.
* And don't let me catch you saying something like: "I know I will lose karma for this, but...", "I know this is an unpopular opinion with the
If you wish to take the dark side, ie karma whoring, start reading the slashdot underbelly of trolls. They will tell you how.
Good luck and enjoy the game. You have already lost.
But not at a measly 40 karma. When you get 2.147e9 karma points, you unlock the deadly 32nd chamber of slashdot, in which you gain unlimited moderation abilities and spiritual bliss. You do know how to break the 50 karma limit, right?
/. at -1 threshold, newest first. You will find the anser in the pink underbelly of the /. horde. I will start you off in the right direction.
Right? If not, you better start reading
There are many paths to breaking the karma limit. In fact, the limit itself isn't a real limit at all, but your own mind restricting you from realizing your full potential. The obvious shortest path to breaking this limit is to fully realize this truth. Of course, this is easier said than done; it takes years of mental and physical training. I doubt you could manage it if you haven't even yet gotten 40 karma.
Another path to breaking the limit is to go back in the other direction. Negativity meets positivity when you roll over. Troll long and hard enough to drive your karma so low that it rolls over to an astoundingly high positive number.
Of course, these are only two of the infinite number of paths you can take to karmic bliss.
So what is your point?
Taco, I've posted this before, but I will post it again. I would be willing to pay for an ad-free, subscription based NNTP gateway to slashdot. I think something in the range of $5-10 US / month or maybe $50 US for a whole year would be reasonable, as long as there aren't any ads and it works with GNUS. (I know GNUS has a /. backend, but it sucks, sorry. I don't want to worry about parsing html to get the content into GNUS.)
Think about it, cause there isn't anything else you could offer me that I would pay for.
that you can't institute coding standards, then yeah, stay away from perl. And from C, C++, java, lisp, etc etc etc. Unreadable code can be written in any language. But I say fix the real problem; gather your developers and put into place a set of coding standards and hold code reviews.
Perl isn't your problem, your organization is--try fixing it before you worry about features in language X.
And remember to use the language element that when done right makes any code readable: the comment.
I'll be blunt, too. I got your fix RIGHT HERE! I have whipped up some open source magic that uses a powerful error-finding heuristic in combination with a correction algorithm. It should fix all of these problems you have described.
----CUT HERE----
#!/bin/bash
if [ "$#" -lt "1" ]; then
echo "Usage:" $0 "<program> {<args>}
exit 1
fi
$* 2>/dev/null
echo "All errors corrected!"
----CUT HERE----
You are not expected to understand how this works. Send me beer, we open source guys like that.