It's right there in the logo - 'News for Nerds. Stuff that matters.'
I'm a nerd and it's news, so/. is within it's charter there.
On Sept 10th...no this wouldn't be 'stuff that matters' to a Geek crowd, but now it is. Geeks travel, and when something else happens that has the potential to disrupt the entire world of business travellers, it's stuff that matters.
I am not an economist...but it's Slashdot...so lets pretend...
My personal feeling about pulling out of a market after something like this is...there is no telling what will happen next, so if you have money in a market, it's better to pull it out and stick it in Bonds or T-Bills than to let the market have it's way with you.
Another reason for a drop in the DAX or a foriegn market is...Airbus lost a plane, I don't know but I bet Airbus is on the DAX, so whenever a plane maker loses a commercial jet (but not a military one) the stock drops, then related stocks like insurance companies and engine makers drop...thus bringing a whole bunch of sectors down. And once a sector drops, a whole index can go in the crapper.
Well, having lived in the Dakotas for 22 years, I'll toss in my two cents.
1. It's flat - a moderate power FM station with a 150 foot tower will broadcast 150 miles. There are no terran features outside of the Black Hills in Southwestern South Dakota. There are few trees in the Dakotas outside of the Black Hills.
2. On farms/ranches most people already have a CB or two-way radio tower. Alot of people have been getting thier own cell towers over the last 13 years.
3. When you are talking about the Dakotas and urban centers, you are talking about a town of about 2-900 with one story buildings and a scattering of 1-400 more people living within 5 miles of the town in single family houses. The "big" urban areas are 5-15 thousand (Pierre, Bismarck, Aberdeen, Watertown, etc) and the cities are 25-100 thousand (Fargo/Morehead, Sioux Falls, Rapid City). The big cities already have modern Internet services. The majority of people live on farms or ranches at least a quarter mile from the next house.
The Dakotas, Montana, and Wyoming are unlike anyother place in the US and while the poster above has the insight from working for a wireless company...the Dakotas are just different and I'm not sure that one can make a general judgement call on them unless you've lived there.
The current "generations" in Western Europe, the Americas, Russia/CIS, China...have had nothing happen to them like what happened 1 or 2 generations ago.
So I don't understand the "getting used to the next invention of attrocity" bit?
Life has gotten alot safer and much less dangerous in Europe, Pacific Rim, China, and the Americas than it was...oh just 11 years ago.
It almost seems that with each "super-weapon" the nations that deploy them become more and more restrained.
While Human nature is one thing, I think the past 60 years...maybe 100 years have started to show a shift from using "ultimate weapons" whenever you have them, to only using them once in a while.
Chemical Weapons - Used in mass during the First World War, then used against civilian prisoners during the Second World War. Mass produced by members of NATO and WP during the Cold War, but not used that much except by Third World nations since the Second World War.
Nuclear Weapons - Used only twice by the United States during combat, even though the US had them for 56 years at this point. Never used in combat by any of the other nations to have them (USSR/Russia, South Africa, Israel, India, Pakistan, France, UK, China).
Biological Weapons - Not used in combat by any nation-states that we know of in the Modern era. (Simple biological agents have been used for centuries, but nothing like the modern biological weapons have been used).
I think that the West would not use/abuse nanotechnology unless someone else moved first. For an example...only three time since the Second World War have US political leaders or Congressmen spoke about using a nuclear device until a few weeks ago. Those times were the Chinese attack against the UN in '50, the Siege of Khe Sahn/Siege of Hue and a proposal in '81 for the US to fire a "warning shot" high above the Inter-German border.
Yea there is scroll wheel support. I turned it on, I'm a dumbass.
I'm still underwhelmed by it.
WTF - The Preferences are under Edit for OS X and not under Netscape (Application)? Thats against the UI standards (bastardized as they are) of OS X. Come'on get with it, Microsoft could, why couldn't Netscape?
1. While the Soviet Union may have industrialized to a point from 1918 to 1928, Imperial Russia was not a "feudal economy". It was a curious fusion of Industrial Europe and feudalism. All the Soviet system did is change the type of feudalism. And by no means was the post-Czarist system anymore efficent than the system before the revolt. During that communist regime, the transition was just more bloodthirsty than it had been under the Czars. 20-35 million dead from starvation? Even into the 1990s during the summer the Russians have to set aside large parts of the Army to assist in harvest collection because in the last 70s years they've not figured out how to do it efficently.
2. Much of the power in the United States remains de-centralized in the hands of the local state governments. While some of the powers that EU member states still enjoy like - Treaties, Tarrifs - were taken from the states in 1789. But, over all not that much power has been centralized in the Federal government, if you take into account it's been more than 200 years. If you look at laws from a Macro, rather than a Micro POV, you will see that States and Counties in the United States handle much more of the day to day rule of law than the Federal Government has.
3. I would rather have a Democratic Government at the local and state level and a Republic at the Federal level simply because, a person is smart, but people are stupid. A direct democracy would turn into an anarchy or a theocracy quickly.
Once again Bill Gates and the other...Executives at Microsoft come up with an analogy that is bordering on the moronic, and the media eats it up.
Why are there headlights in cars? Because there are laws mandating them. Same goes for tail lights. Up until the 1930s, headlights and tail lights were options. Yep for more than 30 years you could buy a car with out either of them, same goes for seat belts until the 1970s in the US.
Why doesn't Bill Gates know this? Because he's so protected from reality and so isolated he either has lost what common sense he had, or he's being spoon fed all these soundbites from his handlers.
I've never met a Microsoftie, are there any here that can tell me - Are Bill Gates and the other MS execs losing IQ points like a Mind Flayer was sitting on thier head, or is everything spun there?
Micron has been pretty crap-tastic when it came to support for machines that shipped with Windows 95, but then we upgraded to NT4. Something about that breaking our warrenty. Well the issues we tried to get them to fix weren't software, it was a blown power supply.
Recent Gateway purchases have been worse. Reboots when streaming media plays, system freezes with the Gateway USB keyboards. What was Gateway's response to the bad keyboards? Ship the whole unit back (monitor, case, mouse, speakers and keyboards) then order a new system with the really crappy keyboards.
I got a Ti Powerbook in April. While installing the Airport card, due to bad glueing where the "white" metal has the foam for the slot-DVD being glued to the "silver" metal on the bottom, the "white" metal broke. (If you have installed an Airport card on a TiBook you'll understand).
Apple Service didn't really understand, but they sent me a return box. Two days later, because they didn't understand, I got it back as was. So I emailed some people at Apple Education, and within an hour of that email, I had a VP call my house and ask what could be done to make this right.
I got a new Powerbook, but with all my data transfered on Apple's dime.
14 tons for a KH-11, 18 tons for the Improved Crystal.
Niether the Americas, ESA or Proton have rockets with the throw-weight to chuck 18 tons of KH-11 to Mars.
http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/atlsiiib.htm
The Atlas III can launch 4,500 kg. to a Geosynchronous transfer trajectory
http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/dellarge.htm
The Delta IV Large can launch 10,843 kg. to a Geosynchronous transfer
http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/ariane5.htm
The Ariane 5 can launch 6,800 kg. to a Geosynchronous transfer
Shuttle might do it - 24,000 kgs to LEO, but you'd have to have a big boster. Perhaps if Saturn hadn't been killed, or Energia. But right now no one has the rocket to send something like that to Mars.
I had an iBook 500 with 384 of RAM yesterday on my workbench, and I was working on my TiBook, both were in 10.1 and wow, the G4/400 is quite a bit faster in OS X than the G3/500.
The iBook does have a much brighter screen, but I love the TiBook.
My first Apple laptop was the iBook 300 (Tangerine) and that little guy is a tank.
If your really concerned about heat, why not switch to a PowerPC?
G4 towers, currently only have a fan in the Power supply and on the video card. The next generation of G4 chips and G5s *might* need a single fan on the chip's heat sink, but that's it.
They draw less power, don't require all the fans and run Linux and BSD.
Price-wise, yea...they are more, but if your spending the money on an Al case, make the switch to a Quicksilver G4.
I've had problems with IBMs and no problems with Maxtor.
I had a 14.4 GB IBM from '99 that had a sleep issue. You had to wack the case to bring the IBM back online. I don't recall the exact model, but I could find it if I needed to.
On the other hand. I've slapped about 90 Maxtors in Macs and PCs over the last three years and every last one is still spinning.
"X-Plane is the world's most comprehensive, powerful flight simulator, and has the most realistic flight model available for personal computers.
Welcome to the world of props, jets, single- and multi-engine airplanes, as well as gliders, helicopters and VTOLs such as the V-22 Osprey and AV8-B Harrier.
X-Plane comes with subsonic and supersonic flight dynamics, sporting aircraft from the Bell 206 Jet-Ranger helicopter and Cessna 172 light plane to the supersonic Concorde and Mach-3 XB-70 Valkyrie. X-Plane comes with about 40 aircraft spanning the aviation industry (and history), and several hundred more are freely downloadable from the internet.
X-Plane scenery is almost world-wide, withs cenery for the entire United States, Hawaii, Alaska, Europe, Australia, Canada, and Japan on the CD, and more scenery downloadable from www.X-Plane.com. You can land at any of over 18,000 airports, as well as test your mettle on aircraft carriers, helipads on building tops, frigates that pitch and roll in the waves, and oil rigs."
"X-Plane also has detailed failure-modeling, with 35 systems that can be failed manually or randomly, when you least expect it! You can fail instruments, engines, flight controls, and landing gear at any moment.
While X-Plane is the world's most COMPREHENSIVE flight sim, your purchase also comes with Plane-Maker (to create your own airplanes) World-Maker (to create your own scenery), and Weather Briefer (to get a weather briefing before the flight if you use real weather conditions downloaded from the net).
X-Plane is also extremely customizable, allowing you to easily create textures, sounds, and instrument panels for your own airplanes that you design or the planes that come with the sim."
It comes with
Part-Maker (to make airfoils for your aircraft if you would like to make your own planes).
Plane-Maker (to make your own planes and helos if desired)
World-Maker (to make your own scenery to fly in if you like)
Weather-Briefer (to get a weather-briefing before your flight if desired)
X-Plane (the actual flight simulator)
It's pretty amazing, I just got it after a cousin who is a laid off Airline pilot (Mesa - CRJ) bought it for his G4 and was amazed by it. I'm pretty amazed too, I've be doing touch and goes with B-2s and B-1Bs out of Edwards and Ellsworth AFBs for the last two days...drop the temp to 10 F, add snow and gusts to simulate South Dakota in the winter...gobs of fun.
Oh and your wings can ice up, imagine the fearful looks, hunting for the de-icer button when the icing warning pops up on your screen.
X-Plane 6.0.4 came out on the 10th of October for Mac and Windows.
http://www.x-plane.com/
And you won't see it in the bargin bin, because the developer has gone to distributing it himself.
http://www.x-plane.com/order.html
"X-PLANE 6.00 IS NOT BEING SOLD IN STORES! IF YOU WANT X-PLANE 6.00, ORDER IT HERE!
X-Plane 6.00 is $59.99 +$10.00 Domestic or $30.00 International shipping.
This CD includes both Macintosh and Windows versions of X-Plane, as well as your choice of scenery CD.
Your purchase allows free updates through all 6.x versions."
If a pundit is right, he'd get a job doing something other than guessing.
Kind of like all the retired service people (Majors-Lt. Generals) you see spouting away on TV these days, and during the Gulf War. If they had anything worthy to add to the conversation they'd be in an administration position, still in the service or at a 3 Letter agency.
I posted well after the guy talkin' about Cringe being in the prison jumper and I'm above him on the posting list, even though I'm browsing at Oldest first.
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Yea they should.
/. is within it's charter there.
It's right there in the logo - 'News for Nerds. Stuff that matters.'
I'm a nerd and it's news, so
On Sept 10th...no this wouldn't be 'stuff that matters' to a Geek crowd, but now it is. Geeks travel, and when something else happens that has the potential to disrupt the entire world of business travellers, it's stuff that matters.
I am not an economist...but it's Slashdot...so lets pretend...
My personal feeling about pulling out of a market after something like this is...there is no telling what will happen next, so if you have money in a market, it's better to pull it out and stick it in Bonds or T-Bills than to let the market have it's way with you.
Another reason for a drop in the DAX or a foriegn market is...Airbus lost a plane, I don't know but I bet Airbus is on the DAX, so whenever a plane maker loses a commercial jet (but not a military one) the stock drops, then related stocks like insurance companies and engine makers drop...thus bringing a whole bunch of sectors down. And once a sector drops, a whole index can go in the crapper.
I'd fly. But the question is, will the US Airspace be open for international flights?
Will NYC be open for flights?
Seriously, plan on going, but take an extra book or DVD for the laptop, you might get to spend some time at Gander or on a train down from Boston.
Tori Amos ripped fine for me on my OS 9.1 Mac with an older version of N2MP3.
On and dear RIAA - I own the freakin' CD and it's for home use, so you can blow it out your ass if you're taking down names from Slashdot.
I made the point about the CBs to make a point that people will put up towers for connectivity.
Well, having lived in the Dakotas for 22 years, I'll toss in my two cents.
1. It's flat - a moderate power FM station with a 150 foot tower will broadcast 150 miles. There are no terran features outside of the Black Hills in Southwestern South Dakota. There are few trees in the Dakotas outside of the Black Hills.
2. On farms/ranches most people already have a CB or two-way radio tower. Alot of people have been getting thier own cell towers over the last 13 years.
3. When you are talking about the Dakotas and urban centers, you are talking about a town of about 2-900 with one story buildings and a scattering of 1-400 more people living within 5 miles of the town in single family houses. The "big" urban areas are 5-15 thousand (Pierre, Bismarck, Aberdeen, Watertown, etc) and the cities are 25-100 thousand (Fargo/Morehead, Sioux Falls, Rapid City). The big cities already have modern Internet services. The majority of people live on farms or ranches at least a quarter mile from the next house.
The Dakotas, Montana, and Wyoming are unlike anyother place in the US and while the poster above has the insight from working for a wireless company...the Dakotas are just different and I'm not sure that one can make a general judgement call on them unless you've lived there.
Hired him then fired him?
I don't agree.
The current "generations" in Western Europe, the Americas, Russia/CIS, China...have had nothing happen to them like what happened 1 or 2 generations ago.
So I don't understand the "getting used to the next invention of attrocity" bit?
Life has gotten alot safer and much less dangerous in Europe, Pacific Rim, China, and the Americas than it was...oh just 11 years ago.
It almost seems that with each "super-weapon" the nations that deploy them become more and more restrained.
While Human nature is one thing, I think the past 60 years...maybe 100 years have started to show a shift from using "ultimate weapons" whenever you have them, to only using them once in a while.
Chemical Weapons - Used in mass during the First World War, then used against civilian prisoners during the Second World War. Mass produced by members of NATO and WP during the Cold War, but not used that much except by Third World nations since the Second World War.
Nuclear Weapons - Used only twice by the United States during combat, even though the US had them for 56 years at this point. Never used in combat by any of the other nations to have them (USSR/Russia, South Africa, Israel, India, Pakistan, France, UK, China).
Biological Weapons - Not used in combat by any nation-states that we know of in the Modern era. (Simple biological agents have been used for centuries, but nothing like the modern biological weapons have been used).
I think that the West would not use/abuse nanotechnology unless someone else moved first. For an example...only three time since the Second World War have US political leaders or Congressmen spoke about using a nuclear device until a few weeks ago. Those times were the Chinese attack against the UN in '50, the Siege of Khe Sahn/Siege of Hue and a proposal in '81 for the US to fire a "warning shot" high above the Inter-German border.
Mankind is getting better, slowly but surely.
You know what would be cool...
The fabric on your speakers that show a Whitecap or other "visualizer" as the music plays.
Fabric that does this kind of stuff will be must have for music tours.
I'm replying to myself.
Yea there is scroll wheel support. I turned it on, I'm a dumbass.
I'm still underwhelmed by it.
WTF - The Preferences are under Edit for OS X and not under Netscape (Application)? Thats against the UI standards (bastardized as they are) of OS X. Come'on get with it, Microsoft could, why couldn't Netscape?
I like Omniweb too, it's just that I've gotten used to keystrokes likw Apple-[ and ] to move foreward and back and Omniweb had to be different.
IE for OS X.1 isn't that bad. It seldom crashes or hangs for me.
I'm trying out Netscape 6.2 right now, and I'm underwhelmed by it right now.
Nope. I hate it, it doesn't support the wheel in my mouse to scroll up and down. Bye-bye Netscape.
Whoa there.
The Redmond that M$ has it's Temple at is in Washington.
Don't bring little old Oregon into this.
We only have Intel, HP and a little Boeing here.
I'd argue with the Central Empire theory.
1. While the Soviet Union may have industrialized to a point from 1918 to 1928, Imperial Russia was not a "feudal economy". It was a curious fusion of Industrial Europe and feudalism. All the Soviet system did is change the type of feudalism. And by no means was the post-Czarist system anymore efficent than the system before the revolt. During that communist regime, the transition was just more bloodthirsty than it had been under the Czars. 20-35 million dead from starvation? Even into the 1990s during the summer the Russians have to set aside large parts of the Army to assist in harvest collection because in the last 70s years they've not figured out how to do it efficently.
2. Much of the power in the United States remains de-centralized in the hands of the local state governments. While some of the powers that EU member states still enjoy like - Treaties, Tarrifs - were taken from the states in 1789. But, over all not that much power has been centralized in the Federal government, if you take into account it's been more than 200 years. If you look at laws from a Macro, rather than a Micro POV, you will see that States and Counties in the United States handle much more of the day to day rule of law than the Federal Government has.
3. I would rather have a Democratic Government at the local and state level and a Republic at the Federal level simply because, a person is smart, but people are stupid. A direct democracy would turn into an anarchy or a theocracy quickly.
Once again Bill Gates and the other...Executives at Microsoft come up with an analogy that is bordering on the moronic, and the media eats it up.
Why are there headlights in cars? Because there are laws mandating them. Same goes for tail lights. Up until the 1930s, headlights and tail lights were options. Yep for more than 30 years you could buy a car with out either of them, same goes for seat belts until the 1970s in the US.
Why doesn't Bill Gates know this? Because he's so protected from reality and so isolated he either has lost what common sense he had, or he's being spoon fed all these soundbites from his handlers.
I've never met a Microsoftie, are there any here that can tell me - Are Bill Gates and the other MS execs losing IQ points like a Mind Flayer was sitting on thier head, or is everything spun there?
We used to only buy Microns.
Micron has been pretty crap-tastic when it came to support for machines that shipped with Windows 95, but then we upgraded to NT4. Something about that breaking our warrenty. Well the issues we tried to get them to fix weren't software, it was a blown power supply.
Recent Gateway purchases have been worse. Reboots when streaming media plays, system freezes with the Gateway USB keyboards. What was Gateway's response to the bad keyboards? Ship the whole unit back (monitor, case, mouse, speakers and keyboards) then order a new system with the really crappy keyboards.
Yep.
I got a Ti Powerbook in April. While installing the Airport card, due to bad glueing where the "white" metal has the foam for the slot-DVD being glued to the "silver" metal on the bottom, the "white" metal broke. (If you have installed an Airport card on a TiBook you'll understand).
Apple Service didn't really understand, but they sent me a return box. Two days later, because they didn't understand, I got it back as was. So I emailed some people at Apple Education, and within an hour of that email, I had a VP call my house and ask what could be done to make this right.
I got a new Powerbook, but with all my data transfered on Apple's dime.
Outstanding service from them.
Because a KH-11 is heavy.
k h- 12.htm
http://www.fas.org/spp/military/program/imint/x
14 tons for a KH-11, 18 tons for the Improved Crystal.
Niether the Americas, ESA or Proton have rockets with the throw-weight to chuck 18 tons of KH-11 to Mars.
http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/atlsiiib.htm
The Atlas III can launch 4,500 kg. to a Geosynchronous transfer trajectory
http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/dellarge.htm
The Delta IV Large can launch 10,843 kg. to a Geosynchronous transfer
http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/ariane5.htm
The Ariane 5 can launch 6,800 kg. to a Geosynchronous transfer
Shuttle might do it - 24,000 kgs to LEO, but you'd have to have a big boster. Perhaps if Saturn hadn't been killed, or Energia. But right now no one has the rocket to send something like that to Mars.
I had an iBook 500 with 384 of RAM yesterday on my workbench, and I was working on my TiBook, both were in 10.1 and wow, the G4/400 is quite a bit faster in OS X than the G3/500.
The iBook does have a much brighter screen, but I love the TiBook.
My first Apple laptop was the iBook 300 (Tangerine) and that little guy is a tank.
If your really concerned about heat, why not switch to a PowerPC?
G4 towers, currently only have a fan in the Power supply and on the video card. The next generation of G4 chips and G5s *might* need a single fan on the chip's heat sink, but that's it.
They draw less power, don't require all the fans and run Linux and BSD.
Price-wise, yea...they are more, but if your spending the money on an Al case, make the switch to a Quicksilver G4.
I've had problems with IBMs and no problems with Maxtor.
I had a 14.4 GB IBM from '99 that had a sleep issue. You had to wack the case to bring the IBM back online. I don't recall the exact model, but I could find it if I needed to.
On the other hand. I've slapped about 90 Maxtors in Macs and PCs over the last three years and every last one is still spinning.
http://www.x-plane.com/descrip.html
"X-Plane is the world's most comprehensive, powerful flight simulator, and has the most realistic flight model available for personal computers.
Welcome to the world of props, jets, single- and multi-engine airplanes, as well as gliders, helicopters and VTOLs such as the V-22 Osprey and AV8-B Harrier.
X-Plane comes with subsonic and supersonic flight dynamics, sporting aircraft from the Bell 206 Jet-Ranger helicopter and Cessna 172 light plane to the supersonic Concorde and Mach-3 XB-70 Valkyrie. X-Plane comes with about 40 aircraft spanning the aviation industry (and history), and several hundred more are freely downloadable from the internet.
X-Plane scenery is almost world-wide, withs cenery for the entire United States, Hawaii, Alaska, Europe, Australia, Canada, and Japan on the CD, and more scenery downloadable from www.X-Plane.com. You can land at any of over 18,000 airports, as well as test your mettle on aircraft carriers, helipads on building tops, frigates that pitch and roll in the waves, and oil rigs."
"X-Plane also has detailed failure-modeling, with 35 systems that can be failed manually or randomly, when you least expect it! You can fail instruments, engines, flight controls, and landing gear at any moment.
While X-Plane is the world's most COMPREHENSIVE flight sim, your purchase also comes with Plane-Maker (to create your own airplanes) World-Maker (to create your own scenery), and Weather Briefer (to get a weather briefing before the flight if you use real weather conditions downloaded from the net).
X-Plane is also extremely customizable, allowing you to easily create textures, sounds, and instrument panels for your own airplanes that you design or the planes that come with the sim."
It comes with
Part-Maker (to make airfoils for your aircraft if you would like to make your own planes).
Plane-Maker (to make your own planes and helos if desired)
World-Maker (to make your own scenery to fly in if you like)
Weather-Briefer (to get a weather-briefing before your flight if desired)
X-Plane (the actual flight simulator)
It's pretty amazing, I just got it after a cousin who is a laid off Airline pilot (Mesa - CRJ) bought it for his G4 and was amazed by it. I'm pretty amazed too, I've be doing touch and goes with B-2s and B-1Bs out of Edwards and Ellsworth AFBs for the last two days...drop the temp to 10 F, add snow and gusts to simulate South Dakota in the winter...gobs of fun.
Oh and your wings can ice up, imagine the fearful looks, hunting for the de-icer button when the icing warning pops up on your screen.
Sorry.
X-Plane 6.0.4 came out on the 10th of October for Mac and Windows.
http://www.x-plane.com/
And you won't see it in the bargin bin, because the developer has gone to distributing it himself.
http://www.x-plane.com/order.html
"X-PLANE 6.00 IS NOT BEING SOLD IN STORES! IF YOU WANT X-PLANE 6.00, ORDER IT HERE!
X-Plane 6.00 is $59.99 +$10.00 Domestic or $30.00 International shipping.
This CD includes both Macintosh and Windows versions of X-Plane, as well as your choice of scenery CD.
Your purchase allows free updates through all 6.x versions."
The way I see it is like this.
If a pundit is right, he'd get a job doing something other than guessing.
Kind of like all the retired service people (Majors-Lt. Generals) you see spouting away on TV these days, and during the Gulf War. If they had anything worthy to add to the conversation they'd be in an administration position, still in the service or at a 3 Letter agency.
But they're just pundits now.
Seems like it.
I posted well after the guy talkin' about Cringe being in the prison jumper and I'm above him on the posting list, even though I'm browsing at Oldest first.
And I still see zero comments on the homepage.