"Dutch company called UnifiedRoot has come up with a hair-brained get rich quick scheme"... Send us $1000 and we'll stick you on our own private root name server with about 0.00001% of the coverage the official root name servers have.
*rolls eyes* Common slashdot, news for nerds please, not tripe.
I always hated it when I found other non lego blocks in my bin full of blocks, espically if they fitted with other lego blocks, but not quite perfectly, I'd be happyly looking for the right piece, think Ive found it, and then have it pop off every time I play with my creation, only to find out it's a fake that's slipped under the radar!
Though if megablocks don't fit into lego blocks I'd be happy with it:)
Theve done the figures, and thus chosen the price which generates the maximum revinue, screw sales, it's profit profit profit, any Frengi would be proud of them:)
Democracy (eg republic) is the oposite of autocracy (eg dictatorship) Communism is the oposite of capitalism.
There are capitalist dictatorships, and communist democracys... well in theory at least, unfortunately most communist democracys are horridly corrupt, and you tend to have one party which/always/ gets into power, in the soviet days they even gave out vodka at some polling stations to get people to come along and vote for the only candidate that was standing.
Go on write it out 100 times: "Communism is an economic system not a political system"
And then hope you never live under communist economic system or a in a dictatorship.
The planet will be fine, but if we use up all the planets resources, were gonna have a hard time living here, a 400 Watt server processor doesn't really get me worried though, china's projected oil demands get me worried:)
I love RISC OS, got a machine under my desk which runs version 4.03, yes I couln't justify the cost of Select while unemployed, and now... well it's not really worth upgrading it.
I'd love to have the opertunity to tinker with what makes RISC OS tick, and to see things like ADFS supported on linux properly, which can only come though a open specification or open code.
My worry wouln't be fragmentation, usually one fragment dies off, and effort moves to another when it's proved to be better, or not... and if the community splits and works on two diferent things, then obviously the community was split originally and now at least theve both got the OS they prefer. My worry would be no one picking it up and doing anything with it.
Almost every goverment is throwing new laws at the internet, when there's quite a few good existing laws which relate to the same things but in the real world. Though hopfully they won't make laws regarding the mistreatment of pets relate to tamagotchi's:)
I was a quite happy believer in online advertsing, and would click on the nice little banners provided by companies, and even look at the sites advertised. But alas it wasn't always to be so happy. Adverts slowly became more flashy, larger, obstructive to content, popups became so common it was disgusting... and pretty soon I tared all adverts with the same brush and blocked them all.
Ok 2nd reason, I don't want 'punch the monkey' to be chewing up 50% cpu while I'm playing quake:)
In the UK some games are rated by the official censor, notably those with adult content or excessive violence, which get legally binding age marks on them. But yes the ESRB stuff is all voluntary everywhere I believe.
ok replying to myself, been a long time since I looked at it, from others posts it seems there much more capable these days, though I can't say I trust computers to do much more than turn planes, strange for a geek to be untrusting of technology, perhaps it's just old man syndrome kicking in.
Wish I could, but alas I didn't write down what I did when I did it, mostly it involved quite a lot of effort trying to work out what font server is being used, then installing the various needed fonts for it, then fiddling with the configuration files for that server so that it actually anti-aliased all fonts of all sizes as I think it defaulted to only anti-alias fonts of over a certain size, ergo not normal web fonts.
But it was a long time ago, as my mother says, I've slept since then:)
Everyone seems to have a diferent definition of 'hacking' so lets just say everyones right and everyones wrong.
Ps, why arn't we debating the terms 'art' and 'science', art has come to mean a lot more than paintings on a wall, and is science strictly limited to scientific method...?
It's definately a case of 'Java was slow' for most tasks it's now as fast as any other language, sure it's not the first choice for video codecs, but for any high-level programming job, it's more than fast enough.
You can teach them moral values till the cows come home, but unless you lock your kids up 24/7 there going to try and buy out rated games, pinch dirty magazines and the rest.. afterall that's what we did when we were there age...:)
In the US you can be a todler and go into a games store and buy something like... Vampire Bloodlines (with plotlines involving snuff films, butchering babies, killing police officers...) or some other pleasant game like GTA SA.
But you can't at age 18 walk into a pub and order a pint of beer...
I don't really understand it, computer games are like videos, just so far worse graphics and more interactive, but I'd imagine soon it'll reach video quality. Which begs the question... isn't letting a minor buy a sex-rape-killathon style video game over the counter the same as letting a minor walk into a dirty sex video shop and buy the equliviant video off the shelf?
So I can't spot my own spelling mistakes, people point at words and say that's spelt wrong, and I just look at it blankly, isn't that how it's spelt my brain keeps wondering.
I had a nice spot-bulb desk lamp, and happened to have it bent down at the desk, usually not a problem until I placed my Psion under it, later returning to the scene I found the cover melted horridly, and the screen black... thankfully after cooling down the LCD returned to normal.
Later I sliped on ice, with the psion in my pocket, and sent myself crashing down ontop of it, damage - completely broken hinge which now ment the case opened at an odd angle, but it still worked.
Finally I had it in my jacket pocket of a winter coat, put the coat over the back of a chair, pulled the chair out and sat down *CRACK* the screen was dead.
Slashdot Mirror
"Dutch company called UnifiedRoot has come up with a hair-brained get rich quick scheme"... Send us $1000 and we'll stick you on our own private root name server with about 0.00001% of the coverage the official root name servers have.
*rolls eyes* Common slashdot, news for nerds please, not tripe.
I always hated it when I found other non lego blocks in my bin full of blocks, espically if they fitted with other lego blocks, but not quite perfectly, I'd be happyly looking for the right piece, think Ive found it, and then have it pop off every time I play with my creation, only to find out it's a fake that's slipped under the radar!
:)
Though if megablocks don't fit into lego blocks I'd be happy with it
Theve done the figures, and thus chosen the price which generates the maximum revinue, screw sales, it's profit profit profit, any Frengi would be proud of them :)
Democracy (eg republic) is the oposite of autocracy (eg dictatorship)
/always/ gets into power, in the soviet days they even gave out vodka at some polling stations to get people to come along and vote for the only candidate that was standing.
Communism is the oposite of capitalism.
There are capitalist dictatorships, and communist democracys... well in theory at least, unfortunately most communist democracys are horridly corrupt, and you tend to have one party which
Go on write it out 100 times: "Communism is an economic system not a political system"
And then hope you never live under communist economic system or a in a dictatorship.
The planet will be fine, but if we use up all the planets resources, were gonna have a hard time living here, a 400 Watt server processor doesn't really get me worried though, china's projected oil demands get me worried :)
But Intel released details of there future plans for much lower power processors accross the board earlier in the year, so... what's the big deal?
Not sure, but it was done even on the 8 bit Acorn machines :)
I love RISC OS, got a machine under my desk which runs version 4.03, yes I couln't justify the cost of Select while unemployed, and now... well it's not really worth upgrading it.
I'd love to have the opertunity to tinker with what makes RISC OS tick, and to see things like ADFS supported on linux properly, which can only come though a open specification or open code.
My worry wouln't be fragmentation, usually one fragment dies off, and effort moves to another when it's proved to be better, or not... and if the community splits and works on two diferent things, then obviously the community was split originally and now at least theve both got the OS they prefer. My worry would be no one picking it up and doing anything with it.
Almost every goverment is throwing new laws at the internet, when there's quite a few good existing laws which relate to the same things but in the real world. Though hopfully they won't make laws regarding the mistreatment of pets relate to tamagotchi's :)
I know, I shook a little when I typed it out. Not a huge fan of the censor, but at least they made hardcore porn legal a couple of years back :)
If you abuse a right, it gets taken away.
:)
I was a quite happy believer in online advertsing, and would click on the nice little banners provided by companies, and even look at the sites advertised. But alas it wasn't always to be so happy. Adverts slowly became more flashy, larger, obstructive to content, popups became so common it was disgusting... and pretty soon I tared all adverts with the same brush and blocked them all.
Ok 2nd reason, I don't want 'punch the monkey' to be chewing up 50% cpu while I'm playing quake
In the UK some games are rated by the official censor, notably those with adult content or excessive violence, which get legally binding age marks on them. But yes the ESRB stuff is all voluntary everywhere I believe.
ok replying to myself, been a long time since I looked at it, from others posts it seems there much more capable these days, though I can't say I trust computers to do much more than turn planes, strange for a geek to be untrusting of technology, perhaps it's just old man syndrome kicking in.
You over estimate the power of the auto pilot, from what I remember it can turn the plane to face the right direction and not a lot more.
Wish I could, but alas I didn't write down what I did when I did it, mostly it involved quite a lot of effort trying to work out what font server is being used, then installing the various needed fonts for it, then fiddling with the configuration files for that server so that it actually anti-aliased all fonts of all sizes as I think it defaulted to only anti-alias fonts of over a certain size, ergo not normal web fonts.
:)
But it was a long time ago, as my mother says, I've slept since then
Don't know about you but my firefox looks better on linux than windows, decent GTK theme, good fonts installed with the font server configured etc.
Everyone seems to have a diferent definition of 'hacking' so lets just say everyones right and everyones wrong.
Ps, why arn't we debating the terms 'art' and 'science', art has come to mean a lot more than paintings on a wall, and is science strictly limited to scientific method...?
It's definately a case of 'Java was slow' for most tasks it's now as fast as any other language, sure it's not the first choice for video codecs, but for any high-level programming job, it's more than fast enough.
Not fantastic given it costs $4000 to convert an engine to run LPG.
Or, parents could just do their damn job.
:)
You can teach them moral values till the cows come home, but unless you lock your kids up 24/7 there going to try and buy out rated games, pinch dirty magazines and the rest.. afterall that's what we did when we were there age...
In the US you can be a todler and go into a games store and buy something like... Vampire Bloodlines (with plotlines involving snuff films, butchering babies, killing police officers...) or some other pleasant game like GTA SA.
But you can't at age 18 walk into a pub and order a pint of beer...
I don't really understand it, computer games are like videos, just so far worse graphics and more interactive, but I'd imagine soon it'll reach video quality. Which begs the question... isn't letting a minor buy a sex-rape-killathon style video game over the counter the same as letting a minor walk into a dirty sex video shop and buy the equliviant video off the shelf?
If you'd actually read TFA
Where's that, thres no link in the story as far as I can tell.
So I can't spot my own spelling mistakes, people point at words and say that's spelt wrong, and I just look at it blankly, isn't that how it's spelt my brain keeps wondering.
;)
Perhaps I should sue my schools...
I had a nice spot-bulb desk lamp, and happened to have it bent down at the desk, usually not a problem until I placed my Psion under it, later returning to the scene I found the cover melted horridly, and the screen black... thankfully after cooling down the LCD returned to normal.
:)
Later I sliped on ice, with the psion in my pocket, and sent myself crashing down ontop of it, damage - completely broken hinge which now ment the case opened at an odd angle, but it still worked.
Finally I had it in my jacket pocket of a winter coat, put the coat over the back of a chair, pulled the chair out and sat down *CRACK* the screen was dead.
Hey ho, wonder what will happen to my Zarus
If someone gave me an ibook with the password on the back, I'd asume I'm supposed to use that password, why else would it be on the back?
I hope the students involved get awarded damages against there school for loss of education time due to the schools incompetance.