Actually, it wasn't lack of research; it was a simple typo.
I meant "year" and typed "week".
In any event, the comment applies the same whether it's last week, yesterday, last month, last year, or anything else; it took a few seconds to search for the most obvious related terms, to determine that this had been discussed numerous times.
The poster should have done that before he submitted.
His submission was still valid, but it would have been worded differently and probably would have included more useful related links.
Neither was the poor merchant whose tea was thrown in the harbor.
The "poor merchant" was the East India Tea Company, which was a monopoly guaranteed by force of arms.
So, you're wrong; people were indeed being placed in prison for refusing to pay tea taxes, and the East India Tea Company lobbied to get their monopoly status emplaced. They were the only company legally allowed to import tea to the colonies, and they deliberately sold at a loss to drive out the domestic tea production.
McDonald's, on the other hand, does not have a monopoly on bad food in France, and nobody is just going there to eat because it's the only food available. McDonald's is not bribing French officials to outlaw Burger King, and they are selling their food at a profit.
French people are eating at McDonald's by choice. That says something about "community wishes".
Don't they teach American history in schools? What was the Boston Tea Party but an act of vanadalism??
McDonald's isn't going door-to-door confiscating guns, nor are they placing people in prison for refusing to pay taxes.
If you refuse to eat McDonald's food, they don't haul you off at gunpoint.
The Boston Tea Party has *NOTHING WHATSOEVER* in common with this French criminal, and to even imply that it does is to belittle the heroic sacrifices of the men who died securing those rights we hold so dearly.
What's curious is that in the rest of your post, you clearly Get It, but you started with something like this without clarifying it.
More importantly, with a French farmer who vandalized a McDonalds.
Washington, Jefferson, et. al. were fighting a government that offered them no options, and responded to their dissent by threatening their life and liberty.
McDonalds wasn't holding a gun to this guy's head; they were just conducting legal business.
If he had an objection to how the French government allowed them to conduct business, his argument is with the French government.
See, this is why they have to keep their food in those little plastic tubes; crackers are just too dangerous, they get caught up in the communications systems.
I now try to refrane from calling myself a hacker because people automatically assume "wow - you're some script kiddie who breaks into innocent people's computers." - I reply "no...you're thinking of a cracker" and the conversation deteriorates from there.
You shouldn't be saying that.
You should be saying "no, you're thinking of a criminal. I am not a criminal, I am a hacker."
There was already a term for people who commit criminal acts, long before we invented our word "hacker". Do not allow people to link "hacker" and "criminal" by misusing another segment's term.
Criminals are criminals, period. They may or may not also happen to be hackers.
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From the article:
Now NEC is reinvigorating the remnants of the company with cash, new executives and a marketing push planned for later this year, said Steve Boogar, who was appointed chief operating officer two months ago. Boogar, a former NEC employee, had been running his own management consultancy for about ten years, he said in an interview at PC Expo yesterday.
Why is it that alcohol is always involved in such insane experiments??? I mean, Mary Shelly never said that Dr. Frankenstein was blitzed when we was working on the monster...
Yeah, but Mary Shelley was pretty fucked up when she wrote that, so she probably forgot.
Whether the show is managed properly or not, the fact is that a lot of people will go to a show in a popular location because of the other attractions, and a lot of techies nearby will go to a show because it's close.
This show didn't have the first, because there's very little that your average techie wants to do in Kansas City other than the show.
It didn't have the second to the degree that places like Silicon Valley, New York, Austin, Orlando, Atlanta etc. do, because it's freakin' Kansas City.
You can overcome these problems, but only if you don't conflict with any other shows (they did) and put on hellacious advertising (they didn't).
Next time, go in with Chicago or even St. Louis on a joint show, and watch your scheduling.
Or, hell; since you're gonna fly anyway, go in with Orlando.
Excellent support. Just in case you are not a Solaris kernel guru, you can call up Sun and they can get someone who can tell you why your Solaris box crashed. Sort of like getting Linus Torvalds on the phone after your Linux kernel crashed.
Yes, but have you ever had them respond with anything other than "replace the CPU"?
As for Linus; you can't get him on the phone, but you can damn sure send an email that will get response from the appropriate kernel developers, include Linus.
For the smaller stuff, I'd far rather maintain a Linux box.
I've maintained both small Cisco routers (1500, 2501, 4500) and Linux boxen, and the Linux boxen are both more intuitive and easier to troubleshoot.
Granted, they won't handle the throughput of Cisco big iron; but we're not talking about that.
A Linux box will handle a couple T1s with no problems, and I can set up a much nicer firewall, and any other services I might need, with little fuss.
Since you're usually going to need other services anyway, you might as well not spend the extra bucks on a dedicate piece of hardware that's going to gain you nothing but another platform to support.
But people aren't stupid - the history of the US is marked by slavery, injustice, power grabs, and world domination, masked by a thin veneer of ideals to boost national morale and evoke patriotism among the more naive sections of the population.
Whereas the countries they're fleeing are marked by sweetness and light. Shiny happy Socialist dictatorships.
Some even think the Gulf war wasn't about oil.
Of course it was about oil.
But when the price of oil goes up, people die. It's that plain and simple, and I'm not talking about the people killed in the Gulf War.
The areas of this country that don't have abundant supplies of Natural Gas use that oil to heat houses. Every winter, people die because they can't afford to heat their homes.
When the price of gasoline goes up, small towns lose the ability to pay for proper ambulance service. Response times go up, people die.
Americans should realize that universal hatred for them and their government is caused by things like this, and instead of throwing billions into missile "defense" they can just spend some hours thinking how can they incorporate basic respect for sovereignty of other countries -- and yes, that includes ones that do not share any of "American Values".
If we're universally hated, how come we have the highest immigration rate in the world?
Why are one million people a year leaving their countries to come here, if we're universally hated?
The US isn't perfect, by any means; but let's not get off into these stupid "ugly American" stereotypes without examining them a little.
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Actually, it wasn't lack of research; it was a simple typo.
I meant "year" and typed "week".
In any event, the comment applies the same whether it's last week, yesterday, last month, last year, or anything else; it took a few seconds to search for the most obvious related terms, to determine that this had been discussed numerous times.
The poster should have done that before he submitted.
His submission was still valid, but it would have been worded differently and probably would have included more useful related links.
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No one said anything about creating a display on a sheet of paper, or even if the substrate was flexible (which would be a most iteresting feature).
Actually, they did, over a year ago when this was covered in detail in relation to the electronic ink stories here on Slashdot.
Or this one from last week.
Or half a dozen others I found when doing the 30 seconds of research that could have been done before this article was posted as if into a vacuum...
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The researchers say the work "may lead to developing new medicines for the treatment of growth and muscle-wasting disorders."
:-)
As well as exciting new cancers when cells grow out of control without those inhibitors...
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Neither was the poor merchant whose tea was thrown in the harbor.
The "poor merchant" was the East India Tea Company, which was a monopoly guaranteed by force of arms.
So, you're wrong; people were indeed being placed in prison for refusing to pay tea taxes, and the East India Tea Company lobbied to get their monopoly status emplaced. They were the only company legally allowed to import tea to the colonies, and they deliberately sold at a loss to drive out the domestic tea production.
McDonald's, on the other hand, does not have a monopoly on bad food in France, and nobody is just going there to eat because it's the only food available. McDonald's is not bribing French officials to outlaw Burger King, and they are selling their food at a profit.
French people are eating at McDonald's by choice. That says something about "community wishes".
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Don't they teach American history in schools? What was the Boston Tea Party but an act of vanadalism??
McDonald's isn't going door-to-door confiscating guns, nor are they placing people in prison for refusing to pay taxes.
If you refuse to eat McDonald's food, they don't haul you off at gunpoint.
The Boston Tea Party has *NOTHING WHATSOEVER* in common with this French criminal, and to even imply that it does is to belittle the heroic sacrifices of the men who died securing those rights we hold so dearly.
What's curious is that in the rest of your post, you clearly Get It, but you started with something like this without clarifying it.
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More importantly, with a French farmer who vandalized a McDonalds.
Washington, Jefferson, et. al. were fighting a government that offered them no options, and responded to their dissent by threatening their life and liberty.
McDonalds wasn't holding a gun to this guy's head; they were just conducting legal business.
If he had an objection to how the French government allowed them to conduct business, his argument is with the French government.
This guy isn't a hero; he's a vandal.
It's certainly possible to be both, but he isn't.
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See, this is why they have to keep their food in those little plastic tubes; crackers are just too dangerous, they get caught up in the communications systems.
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The learning curve to get into contributing to very complex apps such as XFree is incredibly steep, IMNERHO.
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I now try to refrane from calling myself a hacker because people automatically assume "wow - you're some script kiddie who breaks into innocent people's computers." - I reply "no...you're thinking of a cracker" and the conversation deteriorates from there.
You shouldn't be saying that.
You should be saying "no, you're thinking of a criminal. I am not a criminal, I am a hacker."
There was already a term for people who commit criminal acts, long before we invented our word "hacker". Do not allow people to link "hacker" and "criminal" by misusing another segment's term.
Criminals are criminals, period. They may or may not also happen to be hackers.
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From the article:
Now NEC is reinvigorating the remnants of the company with cash, new executives and a marketing
push planned for later this year, said Steve Boogar, who was appointed chief operating officer two months ago. Boogar, a former NEC employee, had been running his own management consultancy for
about ten years, he said in an interview at PC Expo yesterday.
I'm thinking that he should change his name.
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Why is it that alcohol is always involved in such insane experiments??? I mean, Mary Shelly never said that Dr. Frankenstein was blitzed when we was working on the monster...
Yeah, but Mary Shelley was pretty fucked up when she wrote that, so she probably forgot.
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Whether the show is managed properly or not, the fact is that a lot of people will go to a show in a popular location because of the other attractions, and a lot of techies nearby will go to a show because it's close.
This show didn't have the first, because there's very little that your average techie wants to do in Kansas City other than the show.
It didn't have the second to the degree that places like Silicon Valley, New York, Austin, Orlando, Atlanta etc. do, because it's freakin' Kansas City.
You can overcome these problems, but only if you don't conflict with any other shows (they did) and put on hellacious advertising (they didn't).
Next time, go in with Chicago or even St. Louis on a joint show, and watch your scheduling.
Or, hell; since you're gonna fly anyway, go in with Orlando.
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You are completely misunderstanding what's being asked of them, and thus overreacting to something you don't understand.
He's not saying that providing remote login and file transfer services is bad; he's saying that telnet and non-anonymous FTP are bad.
ssh and scp can completely replace them.
Anonymous FTP can be left for transfer of publicly-accessible files, although HTTP might be better.
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Excellent support. Just in case you are not a Solaris kernel guru, you can call up Sun and they can get someone who can tell you why your Solaris box crashed. Sort of like getting Linus Torvalds on the phone after your Linux kernel crashed.
Yes, but have you ever had them respond with anything other than "replace the CPU"?
As for Linus; you can't get him on the phone, but you can damn sure send an email that will get response from the appropriate kernel developers, include Linus.
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It's a little harsh to criticize the people who fall for such things as the Publishers Clearing House sweepstakes.
No, it's not at all harsh.
Stupidity should be painful, and excessive stupidity should be fatal.
Preferably before reproduction occurs, but unfortunately that isn't the case often enough.
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The Software, Etc. where I picked my game up today (Cedar Falls, Iowa) opened my box in front of me, as they did everyone else's.
I think what I would do in that situation is say:
"You know, I've decided I don't accept the license for this software, so I want to return it since I haven't opened it."
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For the smaller stuff, I'd far rather maintain a Linux box.
I've maintained both small Cisco routers (1500, 2501, 4500) and Linux boxen, and the Linux boxen are both more intuitive and easier to troubleshoot.
Granted, they won't handle the throughput of Cisco big iron; but we're not talking about that.
A Linux box will handle a couple T1s with no problems, and I can set up a much nicer firewall, and any other services I might need, with little fuss.
Since you're usually going to need other services anyway, you might as well not spend the extra bucks on a dedicate piece of hardware that's going to gain you nothing but another platform to support.
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If you want a fast, low power-consumption chip to run Linux, why not a PowerPC?
They've all got one freakin' mouse button, that's way.
I'd buy an iBook in a skinny minute if it had three, or even just two, mouse buttons.
But just one? That's a pain in the ass.
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Torvalds.
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The real questions are whether
1) Crusoe with linux can use x86 linux binaries
That was the real question months ago. Where you been, under a rock?
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You could tear the ass off some RC5 cracking with this beast and the PPC client.
Also, SETI@Home offers a PPC client that would benefit from this.
I may have to get me a couple of these.
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Will the Jackass penguin be the logo for Microsoft's Linux distribution?
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That's because most of the unsuccessful-at-home people who want to immigrate to the US are the most vulnerable to hollywood's propaganda machine.
Then explain why we have one of the lowest EMMIGRATION rates in the world.
They get here, and now they see for themselves how we are compared to where they were.
And they stay. Over 800,000 more per year, and they stay. Even more want in, but are kept out.
Explain how your statement fits in with that fact.
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But people aren't stupid - the history of the US is marked by slavery, injustice, power grabs, and world domination, masked by a thin veneer of ideals to boost national morale and evoke patriotism among the more naive sections of the
population.
Whereas the countries they're fleeing are marked by sweetness and light. Shiny happy Socialist dictatorships.
Some even think the Gulf war wasn't about oil.
Of course it was about oil.
But when the price of oil goes up, people die. It's that plain and simple, and I'm not talking about the people killed in the Gulf War.
The areas of this country that don't have abundant supplies of Natural Gas use that oil to heat houses. Every winter, people die because they can't afford to heat their homes.
When the price of gasoline goes up, small towns lose the ability to pay for proper ambulance service. Response times go up, people die.
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Americans should realize that universal hatred for them and their government is caused by things like this, and instead of throwing billions into missile "defense" they can just spend some hours thinking how can they incorporate basic respect for sovereignty of other countries -- and yes, that includes ones that do not share any of "American Values".
If we're universally hated, how come we have the highest immigration rate in the world?
Why are one million people a year leaving their countries to come here, if we're universally hated?
The US isn't perfect, by any means; but let's not get off into these stupid "ugly American" stereotypes without examining them a little.
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